Ultraviolet LIVE! w/ Nick Wiger & Mike Mitchell (HDTGM Matinee)

Summary

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How Did This Get Made? – “Ultraviolet LIVE!” w/ Nick Wiger & Mike Mitchell (HDTGM Matinee)

Release Date: January 6, 2026
Hosts: Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas
Guests: Nick Wiger & Mike Mitchell (The Doughboys)

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Episode Overview

In this live Largo episode, Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas, and guest hosts Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell (of the Doughboys podcast) take on the 2006 Milla Jovovich sci-fi disaster, Ultraviolet. With their trademark comedic bewilderment, the panel attempts to untangle its confounding plot, lambaste its shoddy CGI, and parse its failed world-building—while reveling in the collective confusion that makes such bad movies worth celebrating.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Initial Impressions: Whose Movie Is This Anyway?

• The hosts express near-unanimous unfamiliarity with Milla Jovovich’s filmography (aside from The Fifth Element), and are unsure whether Ultraviolet even qualifies as a legitimate film (03:00).
• Jason Mantzoukas: "Watch this movie. Did not care for it. I felt watching this movie as if I was a video game. Poorly." [03:47]
• The film’s comic book-style opening is discussed, with the hosts questioning if it’s adapted from actual comics (it isn’t) (06:21).
• Nick Wiger: "The opening credits are a comic book montage because the director always wanted to make a comic book movie. And that, by the way, is why this movie is on this show." [07:06]

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2. CGI Catastrophe, Sega CD Aesthetic, and Video Game Vibes

• Universal agreement that Ultraviolet boasts “the shittiest CGI I’ve ever seen.”—Mike Mitchell [07:33]
• Comparison to ’90s video game cutscenes and even General Insurance TV commercials
• “It looks like a cut scene.”—Mike Mitchell [07:41]
• Jason: “I would be more on board if the General and Shaq were in this movie.” [07:50]

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3. World-building and (Absence of) Plot Clarity

• Complaints about rushed world-building: the movie offers exposition both too fast and not enough.
• “Give me backstory. I need, like, back it up, slow it down.”—Paul Scheer [08:05]
• The group laments that the film’s rules, stakes, and terminology (like “hemophages” instead of vampires) are unclear for most of the movie (09:01).
• Mike Mitchell: “I was like, it’s a fucking vampire movie. I did not know for 46 minutes.” [09:29]
• Conflation of ‘hemophage’ disease and vampire lore; “Is it an AIDS allegory?” they jokingly muse, referencing the blood, the camps, and the 12-year death sentence (09:59–10:00).

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4. Ultraviolet's Powers and Bizarre Technology

• Powers and gadgets are introduced with no rules or reason, e.g. Fitbits that generate guns, “flat space” backpacks and briefcases holding people (13:16).
• Jason Mantzoukas: “Why does the Fitbit also have to load it single bullet at a time?” [15:20]
• The group is mystified by ‘practical’ gadgets, and Paul quips, “if you put all the dialogue together, it’s like what, eight, nine minutes maybe.” [13:02]

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5. Pinball Bad Guys & Action Set Pieces

• Scene breakdowns are frequently interrupted by the hosts’ expressions of confusion and amusement at absurd visuals, such as the pinball henchmen who are shot out of a spaceship (17:26–18:00).
• “Those pinball guys were amazing.”—Jason Mantzoukas [17:26]

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6. Failed Allegory? The Movie’s AIDS Subtext

• Recurrent audience and host speculation that the “hemophage” plot is a muddled allegory for HIV/AIDS discrimination (24:05):
  • Mike Mitchell: “I knew it was an AIDS thing... it’s kind of good if you think about it that way.” [23:58]

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7. The Kid in the Briefcase and (Absence of) Motivation

• Extended struggle to determine what the “boy in the briefcase” actually is (digital? real?), why anyone cares about him, or what he represents (24:22–25:36).
• Paul Scheer (on the film’s world building): “It’s like the opposite of world building.” [25:13]
• The plot is so sparse with information that 25 minutes go by with almost no dialogue (28:24).

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8. Director's Vision & Gunkata: Ambition Gone Off Rails

• The director, Kurt Wimmer, invented “gunkata”—a blend of gunplay and martial arts—but the hosts question its originality (and effectiveness), especially given The Matrix's pre-existence (29:21).
• Mila Jovovich reportedly punched Wimmer in the face after he doubted her intensity (30:04).
• Wimmer's reboots and flops are cataloged ("He does all the reboots of these movies—all bad," says Mike Mitchell [31:18]).

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9. Motherly Love, Dubious Child Relationships, and Plot Potholes

• Unintended creepy overtones are noticed in the mother-son dynamic between Ultraviolet and the boy (31:48–32:18).
• Jason Mantzoukas: “There were times where I felt as though she was about to kiss him.” [31:48]
• The group attempts to reconstruct the film’s narrative logic—continually getting derailed by inconsistencies (34:03–37:22).

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10. Blood Chinois and Other Nonsense

• The mention of "Blood Chinois" (a rival gang/caste?) offers no narrative payoff beyond confusion (39:49–40:49).
• “They’re just all dead and that’s it.” – Nick Wiger [40:38]

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11. Audience Q&A: Unanswerable Questions

• Live attendees ask about disease transmission, world rules, the time frame (does the movie take place over just nine hours?!), and why the boy is pixelated (51:58–64:05).
• Jason Mantzoukas: “I feel like every scene was from a different movie. Every scene followed different rules.” [59:00]

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12. Comedy Tangents: Pixels, Q*Bert, and Video Game Baby Gestation

• The panel derails into a hilarious digression about Adam Sandler’s Pixels and QBert’s implied sex life (64:13–68:34), riffing on absurd intertextuality and the tragic life of QBert.

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13. Critical Consensus: None of It Works

• Repeatedly, the hosts emphasize that the movie is not fun-bad but joyless, incoherent, and interminable despite its short runtime (88:49–91:02).
  • Paul Scheer: “I'm glad that we watch it and this conversation is better than the movie, but you shouldn't subject yourself to that.” [89:02]
  • Nick Wiger: “It's joyless... there’s nothing fun about this. It’s just a slog.” [89:11]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I felt watching this movie as if I was a video game. Poorly.”—Jason Mantzoukas [03:47]
• “This movie is like the opposite of world-building.”—Paul Scheer [25:13]
• “I’m a vamp nut…at 46:20, I was like, it’s a fucking vampire movie. I did not know for 46 minutes.”—Mike Mitchell [09:29]
• “She’s pissed off. That’s her superpower.”—Paul Scheer [50:00]
• “It's joyless. There's nothing fun about this. It's just a slog.” – Nick Wiger [89:11]
• “Mila Jovovich is so, so pretty, and it was so nice to see her all the time. She really helps this movie a lot. But I guess it helps if a person is a guy and single…” (Second Opinion Amazon review, read by Paul Scheer) [80:21]
• “There were times where I felt as though she was about to kiss him (the little boy).”—Jason Mantzoukas [31:48]
• “Every week, you guys go to a different chain restaurant... you feel physically ill after doing the episode because the food you're eating is bad. And I feel like you guys are poisoning yourselves.” —Paul Scheer on the Doughboys [93:37]

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment | Highlights | |-----------|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:00 | Opening thoughts on Milla Jovovich | Hosts’ unfamiliarity, intro of guests | | 07:06 | Comic book montage critique | Not a real adaptation; “shitty CGI” | | 09:29 | "Vampire" realization | Mike’s delayed discovery of the film’s premise | | 13:02 | Lack of Dialogue | “Put all the dialogue together…eight, nine minutes, maybe.” | | 25:13 | World-building confusion | “It’s the opposite of world-building.” | | 28:24 | Dialogue drought | Nearly 25 minutes without significant dialogue | | 31:48 | Ultraviolet's relationship with the boy| “She was about to kiss him…” | | 39:49 | “Blood Chinois” discussion | Gang/caste with unclear role | | 51:58 | Audience Q&A | Rules of transmission, logic holes | | 59:00 | Every scene from a different movie | Montage of inconsistencies | | 64:13 | Pixels / Q*Bert tangent | Hilarious non-sequitur riff on video game babies | | 88:49 | Final recommendations | Unanimous “Do not watch!” |

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Tone & Language

Throughout the episode, the cast mixes deadpan incredulity with sharp, exasperated wit. Inside jokes and recurring bits (Mike’s recumbent bike, Nick and Mike’s self-loathing on Doughboys, audience Q&A chaos) mix with direct readings of baffling Amazon user reviews—emphasizing just how incomprehensible yet compellingly awful Ultraviolet is as a “bad movie night” misfire.

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Conclusion & Final Recommendations

All panelists strongly advise against watching Ultraviolet, branding it “joyless,” “confusing,” and “not even fun-bad.” The episode, however, stands as a celebration of befuddling, failed cinema and the camaraderie of figuring out how, exactly, this got made.

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For more off-the-rails movie breakdowns, subscribe to “How Did This Get Made?” and check out the Doughboys for their chain-restaurant misadventures.

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Transcript

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Paul Scheer]

Time in how did this get made history? I can honestly say I'm not sure if this is actually a movie. We saw Ultraviolet so you know what that means. How did Schwarzenegger grow a baby in his belly? Rock a rhinestone vest while ripping just in the Kelly or maybe see a burlesque show with Nick Crowe and take a boat with speed to hitting cruise control J Man Big Paul in the Beautiful June Gonna take you from the goob all the way to the room Ran the games in Street Fighter Hope to blow off steam just to sucker punch the odd life of Timothy Green Sharpnado the birdemic how we staying alive they call it in the badass and he's on the line cranking 88 minutes cause they cool as ice cause the bad Jim Barney looking kind and nice. Paul and June getting literal. Jason is getting laid.

[Mike Mitchell]

June is making sure all the monkey shots gettin.

[Paul Scheer]

They judge a bunch of movies while.

[Mike Mitchell]

They making the grade.

[Paul Scheer]

Here's a real question for you. How did this get made? Hello people of Earth and hello people of Largo. We are live at the Largo at the Coronet Theater in Los Angeles, our LA home. And we are so happy to be here at this amazing theater. If you're ever in la, please come by, check it out.

We're.

We may not be here, but there are great shows here all the time. We have a very interesting show. I'm just gonna come out and admit it. I think this is the first Milla Jovovich movie I've ever seen. So maybe you're with me in that camp. Besides Dazed and Confused, this is. I mean, I'm talking about like post 2000 mila. But to help me dissect this and get to the bottom of it, my co host, Jason Mantzoukas.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What's up, jerks?

[Paul Scheer]

Jason. Jason, how are ya?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know Paul. Doing great. Doing great. Watch this movie. Did not care for it. I felt watching this movie as if I was a video game. Poorly.

[Paul Scheer]

Like the points to actually play the game never happened.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You just watch it. I was missing a couple of buttons.

[Paul Scheer]

I felt like I was watching like one of those Sega CD games. I was like, hey, Corey Haim's in it and it's a video game. But not really.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like as if one of the buttons I keep pushing just changes her outfit. And that's apparently one of the buttons that it works the best. Oh, I think I hit that button again.

[Paul Scheer]

I will just. I will ask this question because I realized watching it, I said it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Please, please, Paul, ask the questions that you want to ask.

[Paul Scheer]

Have you seen a lot of Milla Jovovich movies?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, I can't say that I have.

[Paul Scheer]

I've never seen like Resident Evil, Fifth Element. Right, right. Fifth Element.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, okay, creeps. There was a lot of like. Yeah, yeah, he said the one that. Cause she's almost naked in it. Remember, this is a podcast recording. Right, creeps?

[Paul Scheer]

So tonight is how did this get made All Stars? Which means we bring a guest from the past. We also bring a new guest. But tonight what we're doing is something a little bit different. I will introduce them together only because it is a official podcast crossover episode here right now. You know these guys as connoisseurs of fine fast food. They are together, the Doughboys, but individually, Nick Weiger, Mike Mitchell, welcome them right now.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Welcome, welcome, gentlemen, welcome. Nice.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

But I also know that you guys are, you know, you like nerdy shit and, like, I do, and. And this movie is trying for so many things in that world, and it's not there to me. First of all, the first thing I did is the minute this movie opens and you see these almost like a comic book opening, I'm like, oh, is this based on a comic?

[Nick Wiger]

Right?

[Paul Scheer]

It's not.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No.

[Nick Wiger]

Not an adaptation. And also, too, on the comic book covers, I wrote down the very first one. This movie came out in 2006. The first comic book cover says, enjoy the Amazing Japanimation starring Milla Jovovich. Were people saying Japanimation in 2006? Doesn't that feel like a quaint, like, 20th century term?

[Mike Mitchell]

I still use it. Is it bad?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And this is not Japanimation.

[Nick Wiger]

No, it's not.

[Paul Scheer]

No.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And nor is it, I believe, based on anything that.

[Paul Scheer]

No, it's based on nothing. The reason why the comic book thing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is there because I was partially like, did Rob Liefeld trick us into this somehow?

[Paul Scheer]

There's a great. He goes. The opening credits are a comic book montage because the director always wanted to make a comic book movie. And that, by the way, is why this movie is on this show. Because that mentality is throughout. Like, because you think, like, oh, they're aping some sort of style, like, because it's very blown out, and it's very, like, almost like it's shitty cgi, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

The shittiest CGI I've ever seen. I think when you guys are saying, like, Sega cd, we were talking backstage. It's like, it looks like a cut scene.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I don't know. I don't know if it's intentional.

[Nick Wiger]

They got the team behind the General TV commercials.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But by the way, I'm. I would be more on board if the General and Shaq were in this movie. Oh, man.

[Nick Wiger]

A General Shaq, buddy comedy would be, like, an A plus next to this and the movie.

[Paul Scheer]

You know, this movie is. I'm. I guess this is what I feel like, too. Like, I'm always like, I want. You know, I don't. Why do any backstory? I just want to jump in, like, give me this. The thing. And then this movie does exactly that. I'm like, whoa, whoa. Give me backstory. I need, like, back it up, slow it down.

[Nick Wiger]

Right.

[Paul Scheer]

Deal it out a lot slower.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Maybe those. Those scenes where S.H.I.E.L.D. is just, like, having a conversation in a conference room aren't that bad? Because it kind of gives you some context for the world you're seeing.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Like, I just need to understand why a motorcycle can drive on the side.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Of a building and why everything is radioactive.

[Nick Wiger]

Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why is everything radioactive? Or in the insignia of radioactivity that I couldn't figure out.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't even know who these characters are. There's some that are vampires, some that are not vampires.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Vampires. Are they really vampires, Jason?

[Nick Wiger]

No, they're not vampires. They're Hemophages.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank you, Nick.

[Paul Scheer]

Some have teeth. Like, vampire teeth?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Nikki doesn't have vampire teeth.

[Nick Wiger]

But she does.

[Mike Mitchell]

But she does.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

At 4620 into the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, Mitch, just to be clear, you keep a Mr. Skin style website that is strictly where vampire teeth. Where vampire teeth appear in movies, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm a vamp nut, and I. At 4620, I was like, it's a fucking vampire movie. I did not know for 46 minutes.

[Paul Scheer]

That's what I wrote down. I wrote vampire.

[Mike Mitchell]

And Garth. Garth has the. Garth. You see Garth, he first, he says vampire, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. And it was. It blew my mind. I had no idea it was a. I thought it was like a. Like a. This is a tale about HIV and how we shouldn't be afraid of people who have aids. I truly thought it was.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That was an AIDS allegory.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was an AIDS allegory. They're throwing the blood at each other.

[Nick Wiger]

You are mentally putting this in the same category as, like, Philadelphia. This is like a morality tale.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Angels in America. Ultra violet.

[Paul Scheer]

And the movie does something like, right off the bat, which is such a fuck you. It's like, hey, I live in a world that you won't understand.

[Nick Wiger]

Right?

[Paul Scheer]

It's like. That's the biggest cheat I've ever seen.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes. It's. It's. It's delivered in vo. Yes. I was born into a world you may find hard to understand. And my reaction was, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Very confused.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Barely explains it, right? The world is almost never explained what it is.

[Nick Wiger]

Well, see, so there. There's the flashback, right? Where she was pregnant with a kid, and then she got the virus that turns you into a vampire. She had a. She miscarried. I guess her husband died. And then. And now this world, like. But that was like our reality.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Was that what it was like, an ascent?

[Nick Wiger]

Was it? Here's. Here's what I'm saying.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Nick. Nick. Someone out there. Hold on.

[Paul Scheer]

Someone really took you to task.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Who is mad at you?

[Nick Wiger]

Ma'?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Am? Ma', am, are you okay? Do you have a problem with.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't know if I said something problematic. Let me, Let me just take it back.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Single voice.

[Paul Scheer]

What with such.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Such.

[Paul Scheer]

By the way, she understood it more than anyone else. Everyone else. He's right. She's like, no.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Ladies and gentlemen, Mila Jovic.

[Paul Scheer]

She found out about the show, came here.

[Nick Wiger]

But no, what I. What I meant by that is it felt like it was. Saying it was basically the flashback. Felt like it was kind of in our reality. Like it was kind of like. Like what we consider present day. Yeah. And then we flash forward to the future and I couldn't tell. So it's like so much happened in.

[Paul Scheer]

Like 10 years then it's like a. I mean, it's like a blood holocaust, Right? I mean, it's like. So they take all the people with bad blood and they kind of put them in these like camps and then they get killed or something like that. Or they're trying to capture them and eliminate this race of bad blooded people.

[Nick Wiger]

Sure.

[Paul Scheer]

But then there are these good blooded people that have like the nose purifiers and the weird masks.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We find out spoiler at the end. What we find out is that he is himself a hemophage.

[Paul Scheer]

Right.

[Nick Wiger]

So why.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So why is he even wearing the nose plugs?

[Paul Scheer]

And by the way, let's. Let's just even. Let's even just show you.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's gonna be uncomfortable.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I feel like by the way, he. I guarantee he was like, you want me to wait? What am I wearing? Wait. But only in like one scene when I'm outside or something. All the scenes like this.

[Paul Scheer]

Are you sure this is like the type?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is that from the comic book? It's not based on a comic book. Wait, what. What is this?

[Paul Scheer]

I thought I was doing Aeon Flux. Right, Right here. This is like just the kind of shitty, bad future dialogue that is throughout. Well, I shouldn't say throughout because I think if you put all the dialogue together, it's like what, eight, nine minutes maybe.

[Nick Wiger]

Right?

[Paul Scheer]

Here we go.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hemophages.

[Paul Scheer]

No surprise.

[Nick Wiger]

Flat space technology. Dimension compressing.

[Paul Scheer]

Very rare.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's.

[Paul Scheer]

What was their exit strategy? How'd they expect to transport the blood out of here? Unless there was no exit strategy. Then what's the point?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, what if they didn't come to take the blood out?

[Nick Wiger]

What if they came to infect it?

[Paul Scheer]

My God, Ross.

[Mike Mitchell]

Poor bastard.

[Paul Scheer]

That's the opening scene of the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are able to hypothesize plot points. That would be almost impossible.

[Mike Mitchell]

You never see Lewyn Davis ever again. He's gone. He just. That is the only thing.

[Paul Scheer]

He's Oscar Isaac.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is he in this and that. He goes away for the entire movie. You don't see after that point where he says, the poor bastard, he's gone.

[Paul Scheer]

It literally. I don't even like watching that again. It's like, oh, yeah, that wasn't the beginning of the movie. And it's not that the movie is long. It's not, it's like an hour and 22 minutes. But that scene seems so inconsequential to.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Me and it seems to induce important people, I would think.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know? Nope, I don't. Here's the thing. I don't know what or who Milla Jovovich works for, period.

[Paul Scheer]

Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't know what she's.

[Paul Scheer]

Does she work for those dreadlock dudes?

[Nick Wiger]

No, no. Well, yes, she did.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She works and raised them.

[Nick Wiger]

I think so, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Does she work for William Fickner?

[Paul Scheer]

No, William Fickner is like her cue in James Bond. Like he has her weapons, but she produces the weapons out of thin air.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Don't understand why he has flats.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's interdimensional technology. It's very rare apparently.

[Paul Scheer]

So.

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, this had, this movie had some big ideas. Fitbits that generate guns was a big idea.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why not generate a gun that is loaded?

[Nick Wiger]

Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why does the Fitbit also have to load it single bullet at a time?

[Nick Wiger]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

You see, you see her like moving, putting her wrists, like filling the gun with bullets from her wrist. So many times.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So many times.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's just, it's not. Yeah, it's. I, I today practical. Yeah, it was, it's very impractical. And I, I was getting a, I got a recumbent bicycle. I don't mean to brag.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, yeah, an exercise or an outdoor exercise.

[Mike Mitchell]

Recumbent bicycle.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Just for. So people know that's a sit down bike.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's, it's a, it's, it's, it's a sit down bike. It's just, it's the laziest exercise bike that there is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Sure, sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think you gain. We work out on it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's also the kind of bike that when you're riding it out in the world, people are like, what an.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You might as well be the guy that's walking around like a snake on your shoulders.

[Paul Scheer]

Is this sitting in your house? So this is like. So this is like exercise in the house?

[Mike Mitchell]

So, yeah, it's an exercise bike in the house. So I got this and a guy was Setting it up today and Ultravio.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You've got a exercise bike guy?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I got.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Sets up all your exercise.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's an option where you can get a guy to come over and he'll fix up the bike for you. If you're a pathetic man who can't put it together.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Mitch, are you lonely?

[Mike Mitchell]

I am. That's besides the point. But this guy came over and Ultraviolet was on pause and he said, what are you watching? And I lied.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because you didn't want to be judged.

[Mike Mitchell]

I didn't want to be.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Exercise bike, Set her upper.

[Mike Mitchell]

That I was going to get on my exercise bike and watch Ultraviolet. I was just like, oh, it's just something. I turned it on. I don't know. I lied. Even though it was Apple tv, it was very clear.

[Paul Scheer]

That's Ultraviolet. This movie is going to change your life, man.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's like, man, you're at the beginning too. Fire it up.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'll hang out.

[Paul Scheer]

All the routines are like. You do one rotation of Ultraviolet, then you get. And you watch. Just until the pinball guys get in. And then that's a workout right there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Those pinball guys were amazing.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why? Made out of bad guys. Yeah. Were they real glass chest plates, but.

[Paul Scheer]

That seemed to break them.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. I was confused because I was like, are they vampire? Why are they exploding? Because they're not like humans.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then the ball technology. They have ball. They have ball technology where they fly around in a ball.

[Paul Scheer]

They're literally shot out of. They're shot out of a spaceship that has like a. A pinball machine. Kind of like steel bar. Like, and there's shot kind of like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

[Paul Scheer]

And that I will say that that opening sequence was kind of. I was like, oh, this is interesting.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, you are wrong.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, but I like the pinball guys. But then again, you don't know. There's no stakes because they don't even understand what the world is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I didn't understand, not until the police said it, that they might have been there to contaminate the blood or that they. The blood, because. And again, vampires don't come in by name until much later. Blah, blah, blah. And nobody ever seemed to want to. None of like Milla Jovovich or the rest of them wanted to drink blood or is that not part of this version of vampires mythology? They just need.

[Nick Wiger]

I couldn't tell because they also talk about at one point, she doesn't have the mutation to see in the dark. Like that becomes a plot Point.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And she can go out in the light.

[Nick Wiger]

And she can go out in the light.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

So what was the. But she has that one thing where it goes inside her ear or what was that? Like that one moment when everyone's on the roof gonna shoot at her.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

And it was like. Did it. Was it like.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, you're talking about the sunglasses scene.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like what? Like she had some power there. But it was as an audience member. I don't know what it was.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I felt like it was super listening.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I felt like she was listening to, like where everybody was in the geography.

[Paul Scheer]

So she had some good powers and not.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Is that a vampire specific?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's the thing. Is a bat.

[Paul Scheer]

A bat can heal.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, a bat can. Okay. That's what it is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is that it Were her powers?

[Paul Scheer]

We're guessing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We're guessing is her powers is what makes her a badass. Her power set. Vampire related or training related or what's the deal?

[Nick Wiger]

I think what makes her a badass is that all of her enemies like to stand around her in a circle always and then just set up their firing lines where they can take each.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Other out, by the way, that's all they do is shoot each other in every fight.

[Paul Scheer]

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Qualifying credit required. I will also say that the interesting thing about this movie is that there's never a challenge to anyone that she's fighting. Whether it's 700 people or like or a dozen of them on the roof. She seems to equally dispatch them all with it's not like oh shit how am I gonna get out of this one? It's like all right let's do just.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Seems well that's why it felt to me like I was playing a video game.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like it's all lateral fights. There's no I guess there's a boss battle at the end. But even that is also why did there were the whole time there were swords in the gun hilts the whole time. She only used it in that one fight I'd be using I'd be activating sword hilt immediately. Why is everybody using swords too?

[Paul Scheer]

I'm sorry Nick, did I cut you off about the vampire? So she misses that one mutation but do we Know anything else about.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I don't know what her liability. Like, I know she. Apparently she's dying, but I don't know what her liabilities are in terms of, like, what she loses from being dying, though.

[Paul Scheer]

Because everyone has a 12 year, like, life sentence when you get this. Right. That was one thing I remember. I think I remember hearing that once you get this bad blood, you got 12 years and then you're done.

[Nick Wiger]

So it is kind of an AIDS thing. Mitch was right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I knew it. I knew it was an AIDS thing. And it's kind of good if you think about it that way.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm just thinking about this other thing, like when they tell her not to look in the package because she's got. She sneaks into this place and gets a package under false pretenses. We can get into that, too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But by the way, I thought the real courier looked like a way bigger badass. Yeah. Than Milla Jovovich.

[Paul Scheer]

I would've liked to seen her do some fight scenes. She opens up the case and there's like a torso of a digital boy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In there and then looks like a very small book bag.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. Well, by the way, not a book bag. A briefcase.

Yes.

And, like, because it's small and. And then the boy is out of it. But it seemed, at a point, it seemed like he was like, digital. Right. It didn't seem like that was a real boy. Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

But he really was in there. I think he. Right. I mean, I don't know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He definitely came out of there. Wait, I don't mean.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't mean like, in the future, can you put real people in flat, like, in. In the size of, like, a computer laptop? It would be like putting me in there. It would be like. Like that. That is like, they don't describe, like, anything about that. You could put people like Jetsons.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, I feel like this movie does a thing which is. It establishes a bunch of, like, future tech and future stuff, but explains none of it, which is what movie? It's like. It's like the opposite of world building. It's like they don't build a world that you understand the rules of. They're just like, this is there. And also this.

[Paul Scheer]

Don't stress it, but I would argue that without even having seen it, if you were to walk into that new Avengers movie that's gonna come out, Infinity wars, which is the culmination of 20 Marvel movies, you would go like, I get what's going on here. I understand on some level. Right. That's the hero that person can fly. That person can shoot lasers. That's a green dude. Like, you would. On a base level, you'd understand it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Here, understanding of the Avengers. I'm thinking if you've never seen any.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm saying, if you're a person who's ever seen any of them, you would under. Like, this felt like, I'm up for it. Like, I don't need that much rope. Just give me a little. Like, let me come with you a little bit. And they don't do anything.

[Nick Wiger]

It was like you were watching, like, the seventh and final part of a series, and you hadn't seen the previous six movies, so you didn't have any context for what was happening.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And also, it's a bad series of movies.

[Nick Wiger]

Right, Right.

[Paul Scheer]

And a lot of the series in between, it's. As Ted talks about the technology in.

[Mike Mitchell]

The next series, not only did it not describe new tech, but then it also confused, like, vampire. Like, the vampire world. Because the thing about vampires is they're immortal. And I was like, why were you afraid? Like, they're afraid of bullets. I don't understand why they're afraid of bullets.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. It seems like the vampires can be killed as easily as a man.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

So, yeah, why even be a vampire?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And also, what's the problem with the vampires, exactly? They don't seem to be attacking people or feasting on human blood or any of that. It seems like they just maybe want to tamper with the blood supply also. What's the blood supply? Why is there a building wherein all of our blood is kept?

[Paul Scheer]

The clean blood?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Federal Blood Reserves.

[Paul Scheer]

Why would you need blood if you had clean blood? Why would you need clean blood?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why do we need that?

[Paul Scheer]

Because it doesn't seem like you could uninfect yourself. Right.

[Nick Wiger]

You have to receive continual transfusions to not catch the virus. Is that kind of thing then that.

[Paul Scheer]

I was gonna say that that guy should get it, but that guy was like, no, I need to become a vampire to become a super great scientist. I don't know. I did write down, just to write down this thing, that scene that we played earlier where they talked there. I would say that's the most dialogue you're gonna get for 25 solid minutes. I wrote it down. Like, when dialogue continued again, it was 25 minutes into a movie. And if a movie has an hour and 22 minutes, that's bold to almost go a half hour without any dialogue.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I wonder if they sh. Shot dialogue scenes. And we're like, this isn't working. You know what's working the very slow, plotting fight scenes.

[Paul Scheer]

I do have some. Some information about it. Oh, thank God.

So.

The studio did not like the first version of the film.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would argue I did not like the final version of the film.

[Paul Scheer]

The studio. The studio said the.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I am in agreement with the studio.

[Paul Scheer]

The original version was too emotional and they wanted more action. So they took a 120 minute movie and cut it down to 88 minutes and. Yeah, and that's what we do know. There was a 120 minute cut. And then they reached a compromise, which was an extended version of the film which added five minutes.

[Mike Mitchell]

What studio was this?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Screen Gems.

[Paul Scheer]

It's Green Gems.

[Mike Mitchell]

Screen Gems.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, there's a lot of, I think a lot of interesting things here. The director of this movie created something called Gunkata, which is not a real thing. It's a unique blend of fighting with guns and martial arts. And that's what he developed. And that's. And apparently, like, he didn't think that Mila was bringing it and so he wanted to. He's like, you got to show me your intensity. So she just punched him in the face. And he directed with a black eye for quite some time. So that's a little background of what was going on.

[Nick Wiger]

So wait, is he saying. Because when I think of Gunkata like that, to me sounds like that's probably something that originated like, in Hong Kong in the 90s and then it was brought stateside in like the Matrix. Right? Like, is he claiming credit for that?

[Paul Scheer]

He says he has created Gunkata.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, so he's saying in this movie, this is something new.

[Paul Scheer]

He.

Well, he directed another film called Equilibrium.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

The one with Christian Braille, with kung fu and guns. So he's like, gunkata, I've created this. Even though the Matrix has been out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Right after this movie, this person made more movies. You're telling me that Christian Bale watched this movie and I was like, yeah, I'll do the next one. I'm in.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, this guy has written a lot of movies and I'll give you the rundown of them. Sphere, Thomas Crown Affair, the Recruit Law Abiding, Citizen, Salt, Total Recall, Point Break, the new one, and a movie called Double Trouble, which I remember as a kid starring the Barbarian brothers. Do you remember the Barbarian brothers?

[Mike Mitchell]

Did he do the new. Oh, yes. Verhoeven did the old one.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

So these are all the ones he basically reboots. He does all the reboots of these movies.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, they're all bad. That makes sense.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Yeah. I Mean boy.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was just. I was thinking of that little kid and I was six. Yeah. And I was just like, remember how, like, hard it was for, like, Jake Lloyd with, like, episode one or something? I just can't imagine what world this boy lives in now, being six from this movie. Like, do you think that would, like, fuck with you, or do you just not care at all that you were in this movie?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

There were times where I felt as though she was about to kiss him. Anybody else with me on that? Didn't you feel like this is like she's about to make out with this kid? And I felt like the kid knew it.

[Nick Wiger]

Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Do you think that would really mess with you?

[Paul Scheer]

Do you think that she confused, like, when they're like, you love him like a mother. She's like. Like, love him, like, kiss him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love him like that.

[Paul Scheer]

She just couldn't get that, like, that subtle distinction. All right.

[Nick Wiger]

This is a romantic thing.

[Paul Scheer]

Got it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is that what they meant, like, too emotional in the two hour cut? Because there were sex scenes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Nick Wiger]

Jesus Christ.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Did I. Did I lose you guys?

[Mike Mitchell]

I honestly, it would be interesting if they did hook up. Kind of. There was nothing going. Like, they sell. They give a boy in a suitcase in the beginning, and then he almost killed. He commit. He almost commits suicide.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's standing on a round railing. Yes, he's just, like, standing upright on a round railing. I was like, does the kid have superpowers?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, the kid is revealed to have nothing at the end of the day.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, remember when she walks away from the kid in, like, the mall or whatever, and then she hears a single gunshot? She comes back and they're scanning a dead kid body that looks like him. They're like, it's not him.

[Paul Scheer]

So did he kill a kid?

[Nick Wiger]

Did he kill a random kid?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A kid who looks exactly like him?

[Nick Wiger]

No, I think someone else. I think another kid was given the coat that he had. Cause the coat was taken off.

[Paul Scheer]

Right.

[Nick Wiger]

And then that kid was mistaken as the kid by security. Security. And security killed him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But they got an innocent child.

[Nick Wiger]

Innocent child was killed. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. I cared more for the kid who was killed.

[Nick Wiger]

I know weirdo for him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I wanted the weirdo kid to die before the innocent boy. They.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't think it was tough to tell what Mila's position was on whether the kid lived or died because she. She saved him from the suicide attempt. But then she abandons him in the store. And then at one point. Or in the mall. And then at one point, she turns to him and says to the bull boy, she's protecting. If we're cornered, I will kill you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, it's like, wait, you're gonna.

[Nick Wiger]

We're protect. You're escorting this guy to keep him from being captured. You're gonna kill him instead of handing him over.

[Paul Scheer]

And again, I want to just parse out the plot as I understand it. Please correct me where I'm wrong. She infiltrates the. The company that is trying to eliminate people like her. Right. The home Hemophages.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I am going to disagree for a moment. I don't know that it's a company. I think it's the government.

[Nick Wiger]

I think it is. Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But I think it is religious in. Because it is, like, almost like papal. And it's like. It's like the Vatican in its modeling.

[Nick Wiger]

There's a very subtle thing you may have missed, where the architecture of the building is constructed in the shape of a crucifix, which, yeah, I think gives some. Some credence to your theory.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something.

[Paul Scheer]

It feels coincidental. I feel like that I think you guys are reading into it already.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And there's also a moment near the end where she gets stigmata in front of a glowing cross. I was like, what the fuck is this movie doing?

[Paul Scheer]

All right, so she is. Well, basically, we can all agree. Because let's try to walk it through and see it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

We can all agree that she is. She is going there to stop the government from releasing this. A weapon.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A weapon is all she knows.

[Paul Scheer]

A weapon that will kill all the people like her infected with the Hemophages.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

So that's the first part of it. She gets it. She opens it up, realizes a boy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They tell her, under no circumstances is she to open the package, right? Which she does immediately.

[Paul Scheer]

She sees the boy, and then she's like, oh, this reminds me of the son that I never had. Because when I was pregnant, I got this and I lost my baby. So then she's like, you're gonna be my son. Now, that's a.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

These are not lines of dialogue.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, this is an easier to understand version of the film.

[Paul Scheer]

So she's like, that's her runner. So then she goes back to her bosses, and she's like, I'm not giving you this kid, because what were her bosses gonna do?

[Nick Wiger]

Her bosses were the dreadlock vampires, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So they were gonna kill the handsome man who drops down from the vent at one point and gets the kid, like, perfectly, right. So they knew the kid would be, like, wandering by that one spot where he could be like, boo, Boo.

[Paul Scheer]

Sometimes I wanted to. To see, like, that movie where it's like, all right, so I'll go up in the vent and I'll wait. Just try to get the kid, like, roughly in this area, and I'll drop. And then he's up there waiting. I think I hear him.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think.

[Paul Scheer]

But all right, so she's like, I'm not going to give him to my bosses because they're going to kill him. Okay. So then the government is chasing after her to get him back because they want to kill everybody. But then the head bad guys, like, don't kill him. He's my clone.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And it's the opposite of what you thought.

[Paul Scheer]

Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's not going to kill all the vampires. It's going to kill all the humans unless they get. They line up to buy the antidote that we have made.

[Paul Scheer]

Right?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

From the baby boy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Also, it is an AIDS parable. It is in a lot of ways.

[Paul Scheer]

But she's often.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is she Martin. Is the government Martin Shkreli, who's jacking up the price of an anti AIDS drug?

[Paul Scheer]

This movie is really ahead of its time. Did you guys see that testimony this week? So he's on trial, and they were interviewing jurors, and they're like, oh, what do you know about that guy? And they're like, oh, I know he jacked up the price of the Wu Tang album. And they're like, could you judge this guy fairly? It's like, I don't know. He looks like a dick. Like one of the jurors.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That is a fair assessment.

[Mike Mitchell]

There is. There is some, like, weird, like, like Trumpian. Like, she's like, I could never give you this world. And they're looking, like, at, like, a 1950s picture. Do you know what I'm talking about? Right. It's like a 1950s, like, old fort. I'm like, what? Why do they care about. I don't know how far in the future is, but why do they want to go back to a time when, like, it was like. Like there were Model Ts and. And like, sock hops. It seems like that world is so far removed from what they want.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, they're in a CGI world.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're in a CGI world. Like, 1950s is where they want to go back. It doesn't. It didn't make any sense.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why do they go to the playground.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then they go to a playground. They ride a merry Go round.

[Paul Scheer]

I thought off for sure that was a fantasy sequence. I thought it was a fantasy. They're really in a playground, like on a. On a Tilta Whirl or whatever it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is, which is very romantic.

[Mike Mitchell]

He falls off and she, like, falls on top of him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Tussles his hair.

[Nick Wiger]

I thought it was a flashback. I thought it was a flashback to a scene that they had decided to cut from the movie. Like, they were just, like, trying to flat, like, flashback. By implication, this happened earlier, but it's like, no, wait, this is crying a lot. Logically is this is in sequence. So then how did they get to this playground? There's. I couldn't figure it out.

[Paul Scheer]

It didn't seem like that was a world where playgrounds even happened. Right. I didn't see any green grass areas.

[Mike Mitchell]

They were, I think, on top of a building. It zooms out and they're on top of a building.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, on the playground?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Isn't. Isn't the playground on top of a building?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is that right? It might.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think it was on top of. I think it was, like, a building.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't understand what this was.

[Paul Scheer]

Wait, guys, I just looked at one of my notes. We haven't even talked about the Blood Chinois or.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah, people applaud for the Blood Chinois.

[Paul Scheer]

So there is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They control the top 10 floors of this building from what? What do you mean? That building is basically a gangster's building. Hemophages on the first few floors and the Blood Chinois above. What's happening?

[Paul Scheer]

And Blood Chinois are different than Hemophages.

[Nick Wiger]

Right.

[Paul Scheer]

And not all Hemophages are vampires. Right. I feel like there is some, because they were like, you're not like us. So I don't.

[Mike Mitchell]

She seems. She seems to kind of like them. Like, she's like, don't do, like. She's kind of like, don't do this.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. She doesn't want to kill the Blood Chinois.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

And then she does, and she kills all of them, right?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

They're just all dead and that's it.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, again, you pointed it out. Their formation was shit. They literally got in a circle and.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All started firing dances in the middle of a party circle.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

While they all try and shoot her and shoot each other. So it's like a dance at a bar mitzvah, only she's, like, jumping around in the middle and they're all like, bang. Oh, no.

[Paul Scheer]

I feel like this movie is, like, people trying to read. Like, oh, what is that?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That.

[Paul Scheer]

That all everyone like, reads that book that he wrote, Infinite Chest. Yeah. Infinite Chest. Yes. I feel like. And everyone's like, I get it. But no one, no one wants to admit, like, I don't. I don't know what I just said. And everyone's like, I'll do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Blood Chinois, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I'm mad at them.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, I'm.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, to them. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. I get.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No one wanted to look stupid on set. So we're always like, oh, yeah, okay.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, it's really.

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[Mike Mitchell]

The blood chinois comes up again too. Like right. They come back. The blood chinois the most they're just mentioned thing.

[Nick Wiger]

They're mentioned on the subway at one point there's blood chinois but I think that's the only other they just mentioned on the subway.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think so a passerby or does like who mentions them? It's just a. I see the blood.

[Paul Scheer]

Chinois game last night.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was my favorite. The head of the blood chinois stands there and she moves out of the way and he screams and gets shot in the face.

[Paul Scheer]

By the way, that was my favorite thing about this movie. When people got killed. It was so like they were all upset about it. They're like, oh, it was so like they really took in their death. Like they're like fuck. Like it was really. You really felt like it was. They were upset. It was not their times. They were abrupt and reactionary.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's body count in this movie. Cause a number of times they tell us how many soldiers are on site.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And she appears to kill everyone. I'm gonna guess her. She is responsible for 1500 deaths in this movie.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, doesn't she go like this? Like, she goes, if you're gonna come here, you gotta fight 700 guards. And she's like, all right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's like. She's like, I'm on my way. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

She gets there, and they're. She's like, it's too many guards. And then a minute later, she's like, no, I'll do it.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

There's zero tension about any of that because she's just invincible. She just got God Mode turned on.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I don't know why. That's the thing is, I never could figure out why she was invincible. What was making her better at fighting than any of the other people.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, she didn't seem to have. She wasn't like, the One.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. She wasn't like, Neo or something. She didn't have access to a greater consciousness or a greater understanding of or better fight programming. I don't know what.

[Mike Mitchell]

Can I go to bat for one thing in the movie?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, please.

[Mike Mitchell]

The paper phones were kind of cool.

[Paul Scheer]

I love that.

[Mike Mitchell]

The paper phones were nice, and I feel like they could be something someday.

[Paul Scheer]

Or the paper phone was really cool. And what I really liked in the paper phone was, like, when she could talk to people, if you're talking to them, you could pull your own zoom. So she's talking to a guy. He's normal size. And then, like, the guy clearly hit a button on his end, and his face was like, ram. And.

[Nick Wiger]

Right.

[Paul Scheer]

A giant face. Like, it could be a little bit more intimidating. And I was like, oh, I like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was. That was head villain Daxis that. His head got very big, but he could tell.

[Paul Scheer]

He was like, oh, yeah, I'll hit this for emphasis. That's a good moment. It was like, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was a Force Awakens. Like, we. Nick and I have argued in Force Awakens. There's a bad guy named Snoke.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. I was gonna say it's Snow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, it's Snoke. Like, and. And we don't know if Snoke is big or small, which I think will be revealed in the newest one.

[Paul Scheer]

I realized after I sent it to you, I should have, like, maybe told you it could have been. Spoiler.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, I don't care.

[Paul Scheer]

But there was a new toy released where they put Snoke next to a few different people, and he just seems to be, like, 8ft tall.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Like, yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Just, like, above average.

[Mike Mitchell]

Eight feet tall.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's the worst. That's the worst answer of all.

[Nick Wiger]

It's kind of the. It's kind of the least interesting choice I was using.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It would be fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

He was tiny or like legitimately 8 inches tall.

[Paul Scheer]

I wanted him to be tiny, too. I wanted him to be a little.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That would be amazing if he's like super, super uncomfortable about how tiny he is. That's why in Force Awakens. He's gigantic.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, there was one thing I wanted to play here.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Was it the ponytail dreadlocks fight?

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. Oh, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Here's the thing. If you're gonna be some sort of martial arts, like, Hemophage fighter, like, keep your hair in check.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Dreads are not good in a fight. So this is.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're as fast as you.

[Paul Scheer]

We're as strong as you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, but.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are you 1 10th as pissed off as I am?

[Paul Scheer]

That was the sound of opponent. That was a sound of dreadlocks being ripped out of someone's head after she took someone else's, like, rat tail and choked them with it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know, the screenwriter is like, I fucking nailed it to you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Babe, babe, you gotta read these pages I wrote today. This is fucking great shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's. It's also. It seemed like the. The dreadlock man was trying to whip his dreadlocks at her as if.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

As if it was a weapon of some kind.

[Nick Wiger]

Right.

[Paul Scheer]

I just realized her superpowers. She's pissed off off, right? Because like, we're as fast as you and she's like, yeah, but you're not as pissed. So, like, that's. That's her. She's a pissed off vampire.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why does everybody know who she is? She's like the. She's like. Everybody calls her Violet or V. Everybody knows her by name. Some people call her her full name, which is like four different names.

[Paul Scheer]

Violet, Song, Jet Sheriff.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Great.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's her full name. Song Jet.

[Paul Scheer]

Song, Jet Sheriff of.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Everybody seems to know her. But why? What? Why what? What role or place does she hold in this society?

[Paul Scheer]

She doesn't. Seeming like she should have been like, the one. Like, she should have been, like, working. We should have just established she worked for the government. She killed like Hemophages and now she's.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, against them or she's sure herself is a Hemophage.

[Nick Wiger]

She's kind of established as like this chameleon. Like, she can change her hair color and clothes color at will. And then she goes. She info. I don't know. I don't know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. It doesn't make sense.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why can she do that?

[Nick Wiger]

I. She Can. I don't know.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, there's no reason. Well, she changes, like, her form the same way like in the X Men. You know, it's like. Like, why am I forgetting that character's name?

Mystique.

Mystique, yeah. Like, and that's interesting because she could be Professor Xavier. She could be Wolverine, but she doesn't, like, Mystique doesn't just go, like, from. From blue to, like, purple or to pink hair. That would be the answer.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's all hair and clothes.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's not her skin. She can't look like anybody else. She always has her bangs, and she always has the same format of hair and clothing. It just changes color. I really did not care for this.

[Paul Scheer]

Let's go to the audience here and see if you guys have any questions. All right, let's see. All right, sir, your name and your question. Go ahead.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My name is Andrew.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay. Checks out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. So my big question is just like. Okay, so the guy, like, he cuts.

[Paul Scheer]

His hand on the thing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

How is this disease, like, transmitted? Because none of the protective equipment makes any sense in this movie. The dude has, like, the nose.

[Paul Scheer]

That would be, like, an air thing, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, but he's breathing through his mouth, right? If it's airborne, he's getting it. Yeah, but, Andrew, I think you're forgetting the nose thing is cool. Question mark. Oh, oh, and it's from the comic book. But even then. Okay, yeah, even then. There's that one guy with. With the Sizzler fucking sneeze guard thing.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No news thing. He's just breathing in whatever's there.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. It lives in a world where oxygen can be blocked by, like, plastic. That's not necessarily, like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, well, I feel like what you don't want is to get the blood on you, but. Okay, yeah, here's the thing. Don't point at me. I apologize. I don't know what podcast you think you're at. Do not point at me, Andrew.

[Paul Scheer]

Sorry.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If they're afraid of, like, the blood thing, why do they make her sign in blood to pick up the package and then, like, you know, stab a garden hose? That was a really wide thing they shoved into both of her wrists. Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

After having things shoved into her eyeball, they're basically, like, sticking her. Like they're sucking blood out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They're basically like clockwork, oranging her. But if it's, like, it's all blood transmitted, why would you sign in blood for things? Why not just. I think that's the point. They want access to your blood so they can tell you're not a hemophage.

[Paul Scheer]

But when that other guy has, like a little bit of blood, they shoot him in the head.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why would you ever be like.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, it's. It's like, you bet, you better sign a contract or get shot. Like that's it. Like, that's the only two. There's no contracts around. You're gonna get killed.

[Nick Wiger]

I think Andrew's point. Yeah. If you had, you would think that a company or organization that has a building in the shape of a biohazard symbol would know what a biohazard suit was.

[Mike Mitchell]

They might have had the guard. They might have had the nose guards in the mouth, like in their throats. Because we never see inside their mouths. To be fair. We never see inside their mouth.

[Paul Scheer]

So say. I could honestly say that we. That's true for most movies.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love, I love that you are giving them the benefit of the doubt.

[Mike Mitchell]

This movie specifically, you don't see inside anyone's mouth. And there could be a throat. There could be a throat filter of some sort. Like the nose filter. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, fuck you, Andrew.

[Paul Scheer]

All right. Your name, your question.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My name is Anna. And I was kind of confused as to why the briefcase was so important, but they were gonna blow it up in nine hours, right.

[Paul Scheer]

So I guess they needed to bring the briefcase to a place, but if it didn't get there, it would've blown up.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This reminded me a little bit of Escape from la. Like the. When they give him the flu or whatever and it's like. Well, it seems like an arbitrary clock on this. Wait, is the kid gonna die?

[Nick Wiger]

The kid is gonna die. They do, they do say Wilk Victor says that. And he says it in a way because this is a.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's.

[Nick Wiger]

He's revealing the news that this child is going to die in eight hours. So like, just like the, like gravest emotional card you can play in a work of fiction. And the way he says it, the line he says to deliver this news to Ultraviolet is, kids toast. To be. This nine year old boy is going to die in eight hours. Kids toast.

[Mike Mitchell]

V, can I quickly go back to the hair fight for a second?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, of course.

[Mike Mitchell]

I just thought it was. So it's the first. It's a heavily Jamaican accent Jamaican man.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And there was.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, no, no, this is a good point.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Cut his mic, get rid of him.

[Mike Mitchell]

We had never met a Jamaican man before. Right. In the movie. And then it's a heavily accent Jamaican man just so they can have the dreadlocks Fight. I feel like never before. Like, you never meet a Jamaican man, and then he's like, v. And then, of course, it's a dreadlock. I just thought it was kind of racially insensitive, I guess, is what I'm trying to say.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I agree. I agree. I agree.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, sir, your name? Your question.

[Mike Mitchell]

My name's Jonathan. I was kind of alluding to what they were saying. Is this movie supposed to take place in the span of, like, nine hours.

[Paul Scheer]

Or something like that?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, generally, she built a bond with this kid. And, like, all this stuff happened is.

[Paul Scheer]

Flashbacks, all this weird shit happening.

[Mike Mitchell]

And it's like, nine hours.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You built this bond.

[Mike Mitchell]

All this happened in nine hours.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She kills 1500 people. There was no nighttime.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, no nighttime pass. Like, they never.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, the kids slept for, like, two hours.

[Paul Scheer]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

That cuts down on the time.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's like, what are they doing?

[Paul Scheer]

Like, I feel like she's like a psycho mom. Like, she's like, you're my child now. Like, and. And. And it. And I guess, like, if I was to just give it one small note, I would say she should have had a child that looked like this kid, and then at least you could understand, like, oh, she's, like, putting that on it. But she was just pregnant. She never even.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I thought it was gonna be revealed to be her kid. Anybody else think that?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, man. So badly.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I thought that was gonna be the reveal was that somehow she had given birth to this very important child and they had told her that it had died and they had given her this disease and blah, blah, blah. That's structurally worked for me. But that's not what this was. No. And you could argue that she should have let him jump off of the railing. The kid's life would have been easier.

[Paul Scheer]

But yet they're just gonna keep on going, and that's how the movie ends. Like, we're gonna continue to fight.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, the kid dies.

[Paul Scheer]

I thought the kid.

Wait, does he die?

[Nick Wiger]

I thought he lived.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He dies. But then she goes back. Remember, the Draxus is about to saw into the kid's head.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But because her tear dripped on him, she turned him into a hemophage, which.

[Mike Mitchell]

Apparently does make you immortal in some way.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Somehow allows him to be, quote, unquote, reborn. And on the third day, he rose.

[Paul Scheer]

There's a typical Christmas aid story. Yes. Who had the question here?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Matt?

[Paul Scheer]

Good question.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I feel like every scene was from a different movie. Every scene followed different rules. And my main point is, when they were fighting the blood Chinois, she could Avoid every bullet. And then a few scenes later, she's in a mall and bumping into people left and right. Whichever way she walked in the mall, all foot traffic was going the opposite way. A, B, she is the only person in this society not wearing a face mask. C, she is the only person wearing sunglasses. She's visible constantly, no matter what she changes about her hair or her clothing color.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, no, she's just a girl with orange hair. We were going after a girl with peach hair.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Look for the woman in sunglasses. There she is.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Your name, your question?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My name's Lauren. My question is, is half of this movie, like, out of focus?

[Paul Scheer]

Everyone?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It looks like a melting wax figure the whole time. Like she doesn't have a nose for half the movie.

[Paul Scheer]

It is a good point. I wrote down like it felt like someone saw Sin City and was like, I want to do that, but I'll worse. Yeah, like, but it feels like it was a choice. But it was like they didn't have the technology right. Or something. It's airbrushed. That's what it feels like. Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They made it.

[Mike Mitchell]

They made a really strong choice. When she catches the rope and then rope burn. Like fire comes out of her hand. Yeah, her hand. Like, like that doesn't happen, does it?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, it would.

[Mike Mitchell]

The smoke. The smoke comes out of your hand like that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, I just think blood and flesh would shoot out.

[Nick Wiger]

Also an. Also an indoor well.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, that's the future for you.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. There's a stained glass room with a well inside.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A well that is incredibly deep.

[Paul Scheer]

Alright, sir, your name? Your question?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My name is Tom. Jason's. Kind of right. About Six. Fuck yeah, I am. According to Kurt Wimmer. I'd like to share a little trivia. He has stated the film was directed in such a way as to allow for an alternative theory about the story. In this theory, the character of Six is actually Violet from the future who comes back after a cure for hemophagia has been developed. This explains how Six has has the cure and nobody else does. It also explains why Violet is so adamant about protecting a human, despite her goal in life being to kill them all. From the trailer.

[Mike Mitchell]

What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The theory also explains why Six often disobeys Violet and leads where they go being violent. From the future. Yes. Six remembers how things happen in the original timeline and can prevent them from occurring this time around.

[Mike Mitchell]

Six is very much a boy. Right.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow, that's a real.

[Nick Wiger]

Wait, does that presuppose that Daxus is lying when he says it's his Clone or that Daxus is mistaken.

[Paul Scheer]

I think that Daxus is always lying. I think this boy just show if that's true, this boy showed up from the future. What? Fuck.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Now listen, believe me, you had me at Jason was right. But, but where you lost me was everything you said afterwards.

[Paul Scheer]

But by the way, he's just reading. I like that it said like the director says, open to interpretation. This fucking giant theory that's so complex. It's like, it's not like, like oh yeah, in Breaking Bad like maybe Walter White died when the keys came down from the thing at the end. No, it's like that, that's like a small moment. This is like oh yeah. If you just, just revamped the whole thing and fan fictioned it, it could be something.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, that's like the director being like, oh no. There are people who have theories that make sense of this nonsense. And I left the movie purposefully open to that by making it make no sense.

[Paul Scheer]

Your name and your question.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hi, I'm Carly. So you were wondering why when he was taken out of the suitcase, why he was all like pixely or whatever. She had put like a projector thing on him like for safe. Then when she ran out and grabbed him, I was like, what?

[Paul Scheer]

And she goes, I'm taking you with me. Don't think about it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then, and I felt like she was saying that to the audience just like.

[Paul Scheer]

But that's okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

See, I felt like that, I felt like that in the exact, in the scene, a couple of scenes earlier where she says, you might as well turn this off.

[Paul Scheer]

Stop watching this movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Don't bother.

[Paul Scheer]

No, but I, I hear what you're saying. But she did open it before she brought it to the bad guys and he was pixelated there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Right. So do you remember earlier when they were taking the sword out of that guy, it was all kind of pixely as it was coming out. So maybe when things are like in the dimensional compression or whatever, they're pixelated.

[Paul Scheer]

Got it. I, I had a. I, I know the movie is also open to a shared interpretation that it's a shared universe. Universe with the Adam Sandler movie. Pixels.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Sure.

[Paul Scheer]

And so there is a little thing like a big giant pac man running around.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, that explains the post credit scene where Josh Gad Qbert. It happens in pixels. See pixels for that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Josh Gad bucks Cuber in pixels and then he has like, he has Qbert baby. They have Cubert babies.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So wait, they are genetically compatible.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cubert Hubert takes on the form of a woman.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, go Ahead, Cubert takes on the form of a, of a sexy video game babe. And then.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, what? Cuz, cuz wait a minute. Cubert is also already sexy as. So he's becomes even sexier. Or she.

[Mike Mitchell]

He becomes like a blonde babe, like warrior lady.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Cubert does.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cubert does like as a gift for Josh Gaffer, helping like defeat the aliens. Why would the aliens help him? Whatever. And then, then Qbert changes into this woman and they get, I guess get married and they have Qbert babies together. Like, the weird thing is, is that when they fuck, the babies that come out of the woman.

[Paul Scheer]

Wait, they come out immediately?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Do you watch them fuck?

[Mike Mitchell]

You don't want to fuck.

[Nick Wiger]

It's implied.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's implied.

[Paul Scheer]

And I'm sorry. And not to. Not to beat a dead horse here, but Q Bert is still in the shape of Qbert.

[Mike Mitchell]

So the babies look like Q Bert.

[Nick Wiger]

The babies are half Q bad.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Looks like a hot lid.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, Qbert.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, so no, wait, that's not real, is it?

[Nick Wiger]

Cubert, Hubert has the genetic. Qbert is in the physical form of a hot lady, but still has the genetic material.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hubert, size wise, Qbert is little.

[Nick Wiger]

He's like Qbert size versus human proportions, but can like grows to giant size.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So guys, Hubert, he's somebody of equal stature.

[Nick Wiger]

He's a lady that's the same size as him.

[Paul Scheer]

Is that a cameo or is it just a attractive lady?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's just. It's just an attractive lady.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, but it's still an.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hubert is the cameo.

[Nick Wiger]

No, it's a. It's a Cuban actor.

[Paul Scheer]

And so, so he has sex with a normal lady and then she immediately like gives birth to Cubert baby.

[Nick Wiger]

There's a. There's a time jump.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You're saying the gestation period for a Gad Kubert baby is moments?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, there's a time jump there. Time jump.

[Mike Mitchell]

I want to discuss Qbert and at. Until everyone just leaves the theater.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh my God, I gotta watch Pixels.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, she was in the script and people were like, we're gonna make this. We get. You guys have to come back when we do that movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

They all. And the Cuberts are wearing diapers, right?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, they're like baby Cuberts.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're baby Q Berts. So she kept this DNA of Q Bert, which is weird if you think about it, because then, like, he is fucking cute. Like, it is Cubert.

[Paul Scheer]

It's just Q Bert in disguise.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, does Gad fall in love with Q Bert? No, no.

[Nick Wiger]

He's attracted to the video game leash.

[Mike Mitchell]

He falls in Love with the video game leash. She gets killed and then they win. Like, they beat the Pixel aliens. And then as a gift, they transferred Qbert, who was kind of like the funny sidekick this entire time, into the form of that attractive woman so that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Gad can get his dick wet.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then Gadget, I guess, marries her, has sex with her, and has gives birth to Q. Bert babies.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's troubling on many. Does Qbert want any of this? What? The picture you.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yeah, you're right. I didn't even think about that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Aliens come down and are like, you're a lady now. He loves the lady. You gotta do this, Qbert. Like, is this. Does Qbert want any part of this?

[Mike Mitchell]

You can actually. I don't know. That's a great question.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't know what Qbert's agency is exactly.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, he might be stuck in, like, a hell where Josh Gad is him.

[Nick Wiger]

Do you think they. Like, how many different video game companies do you think they went to to make that? Ask, like, do they start with, like, Donkey Kong? And they're like, like, oh, yeah, we're open to it. Okay, he turns into a lady. And then Gad, Donkey Kong's like, no.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, what? Okay, Sonic the Hedgehog starts to. Sonic.

[Paul Scheer]

The makers of Joust are even like, you know what? We want to keep Joust pure.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, we're gonna. We're pretty proud of the burger Time Chef. He's off the table for this.

[Mike Mitchell]

Was that. Is it Namco? Is that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He came this close to getting dig dug, but we lost him at the last minute.

[Mike Mitchell]

Let us guess.

[Paul Scheer]

Gad's gonna figure out get his dick past that. That very airtight costume that he's wearing in Dick Duck.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wasn't Qbert also like a homeless degenerate in Wreck It Ralph?

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, right.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, that's right.

What?

Qbert.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Qbert.

[Paul Scheer]

In all.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All senses of like, like representation, Cubert lives a harrowing existence.

[Paul Scheer]

Like I was going to say, Cubert is like the Vanilla Ice of the video game where, like, yeah, I'll do it. Home Improvement Joe, you got it. What do you got?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is a scene where Vanilla Ice and Cubert are probably in frame together in the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Really?

[Mike Mitchell]

I. I think Vanilla Ice is in it, right?

[Paul Scheer]

I think Vanilla Ice and more Sandler movies.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What's happening, sir?

[Paul Scheer]

Your name, your name and your question.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, Luke, So in movie, it explains that Daxus is the Vice cardinal. Where's the cardinal? Interesting. Like, are they. Are they setting up for a sequel?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, they clearly are setting up for a sequel. I mean, and that the one thing about this, like, movie poster is it looks like all of her movies too. Like, they're like. She's been in a lot of movies, I feel like, where she's just got swords or guns.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's. Final Death. No, not final.

[Paul Scheer]

Resident Evil.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Resident Evil. Thank you. I love all of those Resident Evil movies.

[Paul Scheer]

Cool, man.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What's happening right now? Are we just hanging out now? Are we just having, Having a cool. Are we broing out?

[Paul Scheer]

What's happen?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Nothing.

[Paul Scheer]

So maybe that's a good call. That is a good. That is a good call. There might be a, A.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What else are you up to, bro?

[Mike Mitchell]

I, I kind, I kind of like the Resident Evil movies too. I'm with you.

[Paul Scheer]

I've never seen one. I, I, I mean, they're not great.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're bad, but they're, they're so much better than Ultraviolet. They, I mean, they're fun. They're fun.

[Nick Wiger]

It's easier to wrap your mind around because there's at least an existing property you can kind of like. Okay. Even though this doesn't have much to do with the video games. Umbrella Corporation, Resident Evil. This is like something I know. This is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, I would even, I would even, like, hearken to guess that there's like, a plot, like, these things are out and she's got to kill him, and then it'll be okay, right? Like, like, like here. I don't even know what. I don't even really understand what's going on. We, we tried to, like, go from A to B. I don't know. I don't know what's happening here.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. On. On the way to the theater tonight, I ran a stop sign and I almost got into a terrible car accident. And I didn't tell you this before the show because I wanted to surprise you that I nearly died.

[Nick Wiger]

Cool. Thanks.

[Mike Mitchell]

And literally the last thing I would have done has, was to see Ultra.

[Paul Scheer]

Violet on the recumbent bike.

[Mike Mitchell]

On a recumbent bike. That didn't work. The guy put the seat on upside down.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What?

[Mike Mitchell]

He put, he put the, he put the back of the seat on upside down. Yeah, he put it on upside down. Also. I paused this movie so many times. It's 120. It's an hour and 20 minutes. And I paused it so many times. I finished right before I left. And I would have. The last thing I. You would have to lie to my mom or something and tell her I was doing something different.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, he was he died jacking off.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's less embarrassing.

[Paul Scheer]

I. I fell asleep five times in the. In. In the final 10 minutes. Like, I was like, what is going on with me? Like, I was like, once the lights went out and they got into, like, the flaming swords, I was like. And I was like, oh, who cares? I couldn't keep my eyes open. And it was early. Like, June was having some sort of meeting in the living room. And I'm watching it, and I'm like. And I'm like, I feel like it was like 8:30.

[Nick Wiger]

I watched it in the morning. I watched it Friday morning. And when I got up and I was. I was kind of like. When you told me what the movie was, I was like, oh, this. You know what?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's.

[Nick Wiger]

I like dumb action movies.

[Mike Mitchell]

This will be.

[Nick Wiger]

I like Mila Jovic. This will be fun. And eight minutes in, I said aloud to nobody, this movie sucks.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, let's hear what the actors have to say about it. This is. This is, I think, will give us a little bit of insight on this. Here we go. Who's this guy? I think this is the inventor of gunkata. The writer can't think of a better person to direct the movie because it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Clearly is so in his head.

[Paul Scheer]

From the beginning to end, Kurt managed.

[Mike Mitchell]

To combine the underlying story, which has multiple things.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And he did it in.

[Mike Mitchell]

In a way which breaks the convention of the genre.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's all in his vision. Just everything, Every set piece, costume, everything.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, you wrote it. It's very specific of what.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What it is, what his intention is.

[Paul Scheer]

The story that he wants to tell. I heard that Kurt actually wrote the script for me, which was really flattering and exciting. So it was like, you know, shook.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hands and said, all right, see you in Shanghai.

[Paul Scheer]

So it's been over a year now that I've been preparing.

[Nick Wiger]

The way William Fichner was describing that of, like, it's all. His vision was so clearly placing the blame on him.

[Paul Scheer]

He's like, yeah. And even the producers, like, you know, he's got it in his head. Everything is in his head. And we were improvy to it. Please, please. I feel like everyone makes a gamble on people like this because they're like, could be the next Matrix. I don't know. I don't fucking know. Like, you know, everyone thinks that they have the next Matrix when they can't understand it. But what you forget to realize is the Matrix made total sense. Like, it was cool ideas, very simple storytelling, you know, with the cool ideas around it. It was never like, Wait, so the baby and what. And the. But like, it's like, it's. You can describe the Matrix so simply.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Matrix one.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, Matrix two and three. Once we get to the rave. I genuinely don't know up from down. What.

[Nick Wiger]

What happens at the test screening of a movie like this. Like, do they test it?

[Paul Scheer]

And that's. That's when they went from 120 minutes to 88.

[Nick Wiger]

So that's all the notes of the comment cards they were getting back or is, like, too easy to follow. Makes too much sense.

[Paul Scheer]

Whatever. Shoot a frame of this to make sense. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I show her reloading more.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And also shooting a gun. Like she's throwing stuff.

[Paul Scheer]

This is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You're not throwing the bullets out of the gun.

[Paul Scheer]

This is another little thing here that I thought was interesting. The film creates a fictional Asian race that speaks a fictional language called Thalandi, which is just Vietnamese.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

These. So it. It's a fictional language that is only the actual language. Vietnamese.

[Paul Scheer]

Yep.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Which.

[Mike Mitchell]

Which people speak that.

[Paul Scheer]

I think that may be the.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

But that, to me is the shittiest thing of all time. Like. Yeah, it's a fictional language.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would like a prequel movie. I want a prequel movie that is just the blood Chinois.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, wait, there's one thing I just remembered.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is there. Does. Does she have inner dialogue just once in the entire movie when she drops.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The end as well.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, okay. Halfway through the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Over at the end, too, Right?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Because when she drops off the kid in the mall, she's like, wait, what am I doing? And you're like, what? I was. I had to be like, did her mouth move or.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Am I having a stroke on this recumbent bike?

[Paul Scheer]

Obviously, we had an opinion about.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Are you. Were you upset that you would die on the. Die in your car wreck and instead of at the hands of Nick Weger?

[Mike Mitchell]

I'd much rather have Weger kill me at some point. Which you will.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I went easy on you tonight. I was going to talk about how you would have loved those briefcases that had children in them and stuff.

[Nick Wiger]

Jesus Christ.

[Mike Mitchell]

You would.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

As an easy way to transport a little.

[Mike Mitchell]

Speak a little boy around. I went easy on you specifically to not say that.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I would. I was going to say this to say thank you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thanks, Mitch.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was. I was gonna try to be like. I was gonna try to be like, the movie's actually good, but the movie's so bad and I'm mad you could. Like. It was like. I try. I, like, would try to go find the. I Try to find the good. There's no. There's l no good in it. It is such garbage. It's the worst. It's. It is, like, maybe the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You're welcome.

[Paul Scheer]

Obviously, we have opinions about this movie, but there are people out there with a different opinion. It is now time for second opinions, as sung by our friend Ted.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hey, I have an opinion, and you have one too. Let's go to Amazon for a second opinion review.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, give it up for Ted.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Great work, Ted.

[Paul Scheer]

Great work. Well, I will say these are some of the best second opinions I've ever read. I had a very, very hard time cutting them down, so I'm gonna read a couple of them. I will say that it is amazing to read these because they all share one thing, which is is people are hot and horny for Milla Jojovich. Like, and it comes through in these reviews. And then. All right, so this one is like, this one just. All right. Oh, man, where should I start? This one is easy from Dave T. I haven't watched it yet, but anything Milla Jovovich is in has to be good. She's generally a tough girl, but she's not the villain. Not sure, though, about Resident Evil. Haven't seen that one either. Five stars. This one from John N. Yup. Body. Okay. She's just hot. Five stars.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's one of those people. Even we saw it or heard it earlier tonight. That just brings out the creeping guy.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. This one from Mike. People seem to be pretty divided about how they like this movie, but I liked it. Mila is so, so pretty, and it was so nice to see her all the time. She really helps this movie a lot. But I guess it helps if a person is a guy and single that that means they're really gonna enjoy this movie. There was good photography, good sets, and good music. I like it when a movie has good music, and I like the way it didn't become night whenever there was a battle scene. There's plenty of light so people could see what was going on. Five stars. Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

As a single guy.

[Paul Scheer]

This one is from Forward observer, and the title is Runway modeling in our 21st century. And I'm just picking up in the middle here because that's had to do with a couple of these. They're long. We are sometimes lulled and more often enlivened by the sensuous and sultry sound of her voice. Ew. Mesmerized and transfixed by the resolute regard of her eyes, her mouth, and her face. Face I don't like. And alerted and attracted to her youthful grace, her confident pop and all else. The amazing martial arts, the exceptional motorcycle stunts, the thoroughly surprising architectural elements of Shanghai, China, and the ever more alluring sequence of lush costumes and lavish sets. Though beautifully choreographed, vibrantly hued and fascinatingly textured.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Whoa.

[Paul Scheer]

It's really reassuring to know such a creature as Mila inhabits our planet. Five stars.

[Mike Mitchell]

Creature. Oh, God.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

There's also something about reading these with that frozen image behind, right? As if she doesn't like it.

[Paul Scheer]

She's like, this is. This is from Lori. I love this movie so much. So much that I had to rent it twice. Then I bought it, and now it's going on my ipod. If you watch it from the beginning, don't be high. Pay attention.

[Mike Mitchell]

What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But if you're watching it from the end, be high as you are.

[Paul Scheer]

It's got a cool, futuristic lifestyle going on, and I like that. I mean, who knows where our future will bring us? I wonder about stuff like that a lot. I mean, is it possible for some of these things to happen one day? I don't know. Watch it and be prepared for pure entertainment. Five stars. And then I will go to the last two. This one short one from Stephanie E. Who we've read before, where Jason said that you thought this woman was pretty horny. She said, is that the same person? Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

How are we trapped?

[Paul Scheer]

That's Nate. This is Nate Kiley's research. He has a good memory. Okay, what do we got? I wish I could change my hair color that easy. Five stars.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Still sounds horny.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, so this one's a little long. Just bear with me because I think it's interesting. Okay, It's Michael, and the title is what you may not know about Mila Jojovich. Okay, I'm reviewing another movie featuring the phenomenal Ms. Judgevich because beside the fact that I thought this was another killer movie by mj, but also because of the trivia I read going along with this one, I always knew MJ was bad to the bone, but I had no idea what she accomplished at this point. And far earlier in her career, this lady was modeling, acting, dancing, and an established fashion designer. She's immensely wealthy before she was even in her teens. Throughout her early life, where most child prodigies crash and burn, she created an empire and drove forward the market herself onto an astonishing, successful, and extremely wealthy individual. Her workout regimen is uncompromising and would kill a lesser person. By the time she became by the time she began acting more or less full time, she could speak a dozen languages. Her IQ is off the charts. She amassed a huge fortune while most young adults, adults are still struggling to quote unquote, find themselves.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's 415 years old. She invented fireworks.

[Paul Scheer]

She can act as well as perform her own superhuman stunts. Yes, folks, she does her own stunts. Though Ultraviolet didn't do as well at the box office, some of her more popular films, like Fifth Element, it's an amazing accomplishment nonetheless. And the list keeps growing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Paul Scheer]

Five stars.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I feel like that review could grant her a restraining order.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't know who he's fighting. Like, who, Like, I mean, that is like a, that's like a biography that you would read in like a fifth grade class.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Before she was in her teens, she was one of the most well respected fashion designers in the world. She speaks high Valerian.

[Paul Scheer]

There are literally pages and pages and I'm not gonna bore you with it, they're fascinating. Just backstory on IMDb, trivia about all the technology in the movie that it feels that the director got on there and was like, let me lay it out for you in very long wordy passages. I mean, it's a sort of like, you know. The technology mainly takes form of an easily overlooked wristband, although 1 inch scabbards holding 42 inch swords are also seen. Handguns with 18 inch bayonets are also stored in the 6 inch grips. And ammunition is also hidden in this manner. The bolts flying from the wristbands into the magazines on command. And it's like, it's like the technology is also used to create, create habitable pocket dimensions such as a briefcase, backpack. Oh, that's what it is. Okay. Yeah, so there it is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, now it makes sense.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. And like Garth's whole research lab is just in a different dimension. Yeah, we didn't know any of that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, Garth is in another dimension the entire movie? Really?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, that's why his truck can be like a big giant lab, I guess. Oh. Cause it's like, it's kind of like Hermione's purse.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Or it's like the tents in Harry Potter. Like it might look like a little pup tent, but when you get in, it's like a whole big thing.

[Nick Wiger]

So that, so the final shot, which is the red Mack truck coming at the camera, that's his lab.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Okay. So when they're inside his world, they're inside his truck. It's just enormous because it's in a pocket dimension.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

So where's the little boy when he's in the backpack, suitcase? What. What dimension is he in?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Who knows, man?

[Paul Scheer]

He's in some dimension. He's. With the bullets. He's like. All these bullets.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Just clanging around in here.

[Paul Scheer]

Bayonets are stabbing. Get out of here. Well, before. Before. Before I ask you guys if you'd recommend this movie, because I think it's a real question. Here's what the end vo is.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, I was born into a world.

[Paul Scheer]

You might not understand, but a world has a turn.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's a romantic shot.

[Paul Scheer]

And my body. Would Garth be able to fix the.

[Mike Mitchell]

Way another had cured my soul?

[Paul Scheer]

Maybe, maybe not.

[Mike Mitchell]

But this I do know.

[Paul Scheer]

All those still out there who spread oppression, injustice, and hatred, they better hope not. The end.

It's.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's even comic book font, which is annoying.

[Paul Scheer]

There should have been a question mark at the end there, too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I thought for sure there was gonna be a post credit. Sequen. Nothing.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, nothing really puts an exclamation point on a film like Bold Comic Sans.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, man. Well, Jason, would you recommend.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No. No. This movie is legitimately bad, and it's not fun enough to get to. Worth it for me, I don't think.

[Paul Scheer]

No, it's not.

[Mike Mitchell]

No.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm glad that we watch it and this conversation is better than the movie, but you shouldn't subject yourself to that, Nick.

[Nick Wiger]

No. Fuck, no. I mean, it's. It's joyless. That's the thing. There's. There's some. You know, like a bad movie song is like, oh, this is fun. You guys know, sometimes there's. It's a blast. There's nothing fun about this. It's just a slog. And. And the fact that it makes no sense makes it feel. It's 88 minutes and it feels interminable.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, it really.

And it.

I feel like there was. It's almost like an overloading of ideas in a way, because it's like, oh, these are all. Any of these things would be interesting if it wasn't all just jammed in there. It was like just closing that closet door. Enjoy. It was almost like, if there's enough stuff, you'll like it, but it just. Yeah, it just falls apart. Mike, I know you like this.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I liked it. No, I mean, I think it is maybe one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. I'm not even kidding around. I thought I was going to try to be contrarian in some way, but. But Force Awakens is much better than it Every. Any movie is much better than. I think Nick's right. It's just is. It's. It's like. It doesn't do bad fun. Like, there's no. Like, you can't have fun with the badness of it. Like, what was the truck at the end? It wasn't. I don't even know what the truck was. And the truck is coming out. It doesn't make any sense.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, Basically the last 40 seconds of this movie is all CGI. Like, shitty, shitty CGI.

[Mike Mitchell]

And she doesn't even seem to care. She's like, will I get fixed? Maybe. Maybe. No. And you're like, well, if you, like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Happy with the fact that she turned that kid into a vampire. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Which is 12 years. He'll be dead when he's like, 16 or he's not 4, but he'll be.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, I mean, she won't because he won't be dead because he's her.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, but he's a. He is a. He is a. He's a little boy. Right?

[Paul Scheer]

Happens, man.

[Mike Mitchell]

But, yeah. No, yeah, no, it's. It's bad. It's. Yeah, it was depressingly bad.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, I. I feel the exact same way. I echo everything that everybody says. It was interesting that a movie that seemingly like. That seems like it cost a lot of money would be like, no one stopped it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

How much did it. I'm curious how much it cost.

[Paul Scheer]

It was. Oh, not that bad. See, that's why I feel like she's the biggest.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's all cgi, so I feel like. And it's not well done, so I'm gonna say like, 22 million.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, anybody else want to take any guesses on the budget of the movie?

[Nick Wiger]

40 million.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, I'm going to say. God, 15 million. I'll go low.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, it's $30 million. Budget opening weekend was $9 million. In the United States, it made 18 million, and in the world, it made $31 million. So it made back its money and.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, we don't know what they spent.

[Paul Scheer]

On the rest, but, yeah. Yeah, I guess you're right. The P and A on this is probably 50 cents.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wasn't there some sort of. Wasn't Ultraviolet the name of some sort of other DVD thing they were doing?

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, it was a Blu Ray HD dvd. But, oh, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Somebody explained it very quickly. Quick year. Digital code.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, right. It was the digital code. Like the. Like, you would get the. You could put the thing in.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But was it named after this movie?

[Paul Scheer]

ITunes. Right. Free download when you bought the DVD, free download. When you. Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Was it based on this movie? No, no. I mean, like, was it related to this movie somehow?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, I will tell you the one interesting spinoff of this movie was it made a. He finally did get to make a comic or a cartoon because it was spun off into an animated series two years later called. It was called. Sorry, I'm finding it right here.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Family Guy.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It was turned into the show Bob's.

[Paul Scheer]

Burger is for family. It's called ultraviolet code 44. So if you guys want to find ultraviolet code 44, you get deeper into the world, you can get your answers about the Grandmaster, whoever that person was, the Archduke, whatever his name was. So that's that. And let me just say, just so I can plug it so you guys don't have to. The Doughboys is one of my favorite podcasts.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I will second that.

[Nick Wiger]

God bless you. Thank you.

[Paul Scheer]

Every. Every week, you guys go to a different chain restaurant. Whether it's something as simple as a Starbucks to a Red Lobster to In n Out. And you're connoisseurs of this food.

[Mike Mitchell]

Can we counter you? Yeah, it's bad. It's really bad.

[Paul Scheer]

It's terrible.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Here's what I like about it, because, yes, it is. It is. You guys. And a guest reviewing and talking about a meal you've had at a fast food restaurant, you ranking the restaurants, et cetera. For me, it is a story of two men who are growing to loathe each other. It is a journey from friendship to murder suicide. And that's what I find compelling, for sure.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, and I will then jump on that. And I think I understand, though, why it's happening because I have done one of these episodes. You feel physically ill after doing the episode because the food you're eating is bad. And I feel like you guys are poisoning yourselves. And then that's it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I texted John Gabris when you guys did the thing where he ate a hundred chicken wings or something.

[Mike Mitchell]

He ate a hundred chicken.

[Nick Wiger]

He ate 100 chicken McNuggets.

[Mike Mitchell]

Two chicken nuggets. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

60 chicken McNuggets.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, 60 died. I was like, I'm concerned for his safety.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah. No, that's why I got this recumbent bicycle.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Good. Cause this show is killing.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's killing us.

[Paul Scheer]

I did. I did a high end restaurant with you guys. We did a tie in with had at this game. Maybe we did the Bubba Gump restaurant. And I thought that was going to be fine. And I wasn't even.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was really bad. Yeah, no, we're going to die at some point soon. But we kind of both.

[Nick Wiger]

We welcome death.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

And. And Mike, when is love coming back up?

[Mike Mitchell]

Love comes back in February, I think around Valentine's Day. Season three comes out.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Tune in.

[Paul Scheer]

Very good.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Nick, anything else you want to plug?

[Nick Wiger]

Nah, I'm good.

[Paul Scheer]

Jason?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm okay, thanks. There's a fucking bug plugging that bug.

[Paul Scheer]

And I will just plug Wet out. American Summer 10 years later on Netflix. I have a small part in that. And then this movie opening night that I did also. That's, I think, is that actually pretty funny? Also on Netflix. And there's two. Watch the one that looks like I would be in it. All right, big thanks to Avril Halley, who cut all these clips. Nate Kiley did all of her research. Kelly Alto, who puts this whole thing together. July Diaz up in the booth. Alec up in the booth. Everybody here at Largo, thank you guys so much for coming out.

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Paul Scheer]

I love working with Jason.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I loved working with him in the Good Place. And most recently on season two of.

[Paul Scheer]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Mike Mitchell]

So don't wait. Listen to this episode of Where Everybody.

[Paul Scheer]

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