xXx: Return of Xander Cage LIVE! w/ Adam Scott (HDTGM Matinee)

Summary

Podcast Summary: How Did This Get Made? – Episode: xXx: Return of Xander Cage LIVE! w/ Adam Scott (HDTGM Matinee)
Release Date: April 29, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of the award-winning comedy podcast How Did This Get Made?, hosts Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas delve into the convoluted action film xXx: Return of Xander Cage. Joined by special guest Adam Scott, the trio dissects the film's plot, characters, and over-the-top action sequences with their signature humor and critical insight. Recorded live at their favorite venue, Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles, this matinee edition offers listeners a front-row seat to the hosts' unfiltered reactions and entertaining banter.

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Overview of xXx: Return of Xander Cage

The episode begins with Paul Scheer introducing the film:

"[00:43] Jason Mantzoukas: I absolutely love it."
"[00:45] Paul Scheer: You can dominate demon-infested battlefields with bone-crunching tools of mayhem."

The hosts humorously highlight the film's extravagant nature, emphasizing its blend of extreme sports, over-the-top action, and the return of Vin Diesel's character, Xander Cage, in a sequel that seemingly ignores previous installments.

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Plot and Character Analysis

Xander Cage and the Triple X Program

Jason Mantzoukas provides an enthusiastic yet critical overview of Xander Cage's role within the Triple X program:

"[03:47] June Diane Raphael: What up, jerks?"
"[04:03] June Diane Raphael: I went to Burbank..."

The discussion pivots to Xander Cage's recruitment and his seemingly inconsistent portrayal as an extreme sportsman-turned-spy. The hosts question the logic behind his abilities and the Triple X organization's recruitment criteria:

"[31:22] Jason Mantzoukas: And by the way, the whole opening title sequence was just every detail of a saddle."
"[37:16] Adam Scott: So he was like, oh, the only movies that make money for me are Fast and Furious. How can I do the exact same thing but just not call it Fast and Furious?"

Action Sequences and Special Effects

The hosts express both awe and skepticism toward the film's action sequences, questioning their plausibility and execution:

"[56:27] Adam Scott: Did you say Chico? Chico State."
"[59:55] Jason Mantzoukas: It's like getting a James Bond car, and you're not James Bond, and you know every feature of the car without anyone explaining it to you."

Jason Mantzoukas humorously critiques the unrealistic gadgets and stunts, comparing them unfavorably to the Fast and Furious franchise's more grounded approach.

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Humorous Critiques and Observations

Continuity and Plot Holes

The episode is rife with humorous observations about the film's continuity and plot inconsistencies. For instance, June Diane Raphael points out:

"[58:39] Jason Mantzoukas: All right, here we go."
"[58:40] Adam Scott: I had no idea why they were chasing each other or mad at each other."

The hosts mock the film's abrupt scene transitions and lack of coherent storyline, highlighting moments where characters inexplicably appear or disappear.

Character Portrayals and Casting Choices

The casting of actors like Donnie Yen and Nina Dobrev is both praised and parodied. The hosts joke about the characters' motives and interactions:

"[64:37] Adam Scott: Like, in your scenario, Vin Diesel's, like, around for the editing process."
"[64:46] June Diane Raphael: Like, and stuff that people thought was cool, basically is like the guy that I feel like is like, cool isn't cool."

Jason Mantzoukas continues with sarcastic admiration:

"[65:02] June Diane Raphael: I wonder if the guy was a dick. And then Vin was, like, you know what? Put in, like, him being, like, embarrassing or something."
"[75:42] June Diane Raphael: I agree. A long time."

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Audience Interaction and Questions

A significant portion of the episode involves audience engagement, where listeners submit their extreme facts and questions about the film. These segments are marked by lively exchanges and further comedic critique:

"[62:30] June Diane Raphael: I've been skydiving."
"[73:27] Guest Speaker: I went to Chico, so we know."

June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas navigate through audience questions, maintaining the comedic momentum while providing insightful commentary on the film's absurdities.

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Notable Quotes with Attribution and Timestamps

• "[17:25] June Diane Raphael: I had never seen in Nina Dobrev in anything. And I think she's wonderful."

• "[35:07] Adam Scott: That's right. And then he gets up and starts following her up. It's just they're in, like, the tropics right there in South America."

• "[44:04] Jason Mantzoukas: Every one of these decisions, it is like if no one else weighed in on a Fast and Furious script. He's like, it is."

• "[71:20] Paul Scheer: Ever wonder what happens when two college best friends become finance experts?" (Note: This is part of an advertisement segment and should be excluded from content summary.)

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Concluding Remarks

The episode wraps up with the hosts continuing their humorous take on the film, blending in promotions for various sponsors seamlessly into the discussion. They reflect on the movie's impact and their own entertainment value derived from dissecting its flaws:

"[89:23] June Diane Raphael: Like he was like angry at cool stuff."
"[90:34] Adam Scott: It's the most insulting scene to the military in any movie ever."

Despite their criticisms, the hosts acknowledge the entertainment factor of xXx: Return of Xander Cage, concluding that while the film is rife with inconsistencies and over-the-top action, it serves its purpose as an amusing cinematic experience.

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Conclusion

This episode of How Did This Get Made? delivers a comprehensive and entertaining critique of xXx: Return of Xander Cage through the dynamic interactions of its comedic hosts. By blending sharp observations with humorous commentary, Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas provide listeners with both laughs and thoughtful insights into the film's eccentricities. Special guest Adam Scott adds another layer of humor and perspective, making this matinee edition a standout episode for fans of bad movies and great comedy.

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Note: Advertisements and non-content segments within the transcript were excluded from this summary to maintain focus on the core discussions and analyses related to the film.

Transcript

[Paul Scheer]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

I absolutely love it.

[Paul Scheer]

You can dominate demon infested battlefields with bone crunching tools of mayhem. You can take flight atop of a fierce mecha dragon or pummel enemies in a 30 story tall Atlan neck. It is grand. It is great. Stand and fight starting May 15th on Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5 and PC. Pre order now. Rated M for Mature. It's starting to sound like spring, but it's not official till you've lit up the grill with Kingsford Original Charcoal. This time of year as we break in the backyard with friends and family, everything tastes better cooked with authentic wood fired barbecue flavor. Thanks to Kingsford. Welcome spring. Visit kingsford.com for charcoal and more from America's grilling expert.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

More fancy footwork than La La Land. More emotional residents than moonlight. And it too is based on a true story. Like Hidden Figures we saw the return of the extreme James Bond XXX the return of Xander Cage so you know what that means. How did Schwarzenegger grow a baby in his belly? Rock a Ronstone vest while ripping Justin the Kelly? Or maybe see a burlesque show with Nick Crowe and take a boat with speech 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 help to blow off steam just a suc punch the odd life of Timothy Green Sharknado 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 Bonnie looking kind and nice Paul and June getting literal Jason is getting laid June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid they judge a bunch of movies while they making the grade Here's a real question for you. How did this get made? What's up? Hello people of Earth and hel people of Largo. We are live here in Los Angeles at our favorite place Largo if you're ever in la, come, come see a show here at Largo, at the Coronet. We have a great show for you tonight. It is the Return of Xander Cage. A movie that doesn't even use a number because it's trying to ignore that there was a second one. It is the third in a series that does not acknowledge that there were any before. To join me tonight to dissect this amazing piece of film is the one, the only, Jason Mantzoukas.

[June Diane Raphael]

What up, jerks?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Welcome, welcome, Jason.

[June Diane Raphael]

Paul. I saw this movie too today.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I was talking to you. I was talking to the audience. You must have driven far to go see it, right?

[June Diane Raphael]

I went to Burbank, so.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, all right, I got it.

[June Diane Raphael]

I went to Burbank.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, good.

[June Diane Raphael]

It was Wowzerinos. Way more people than I thought would be there and they did not appreciate me laughing. I. I was in fact shushed alone.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I. If you're wondering, I saw this film in an empty theater on a Tuesday night. I laughed so hard, like gut belly laughed, like, holy shit. I haven't had that experience. I felt like Robert De Niro in Cape Fear.

[Adam Scott]

I could.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. Which I 100% get. Because you also got to the theater underneath someone's car.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I gotta save my gas money, right? This economy. This economy.

[June Diane Raphael]

I would do this movie every month for a year.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It should never be. I will not do that. Please also welcome my other co host, the lovely, the talented June Diane Rayf. Welcome, welcome, June.

[Guest Speaker]

Hi, Paul. How are you?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Good. We spoke today. I saw you earlier today, a peek.

[June Diane Raphael]

Behind the curtain.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And you are a little nervous because we saw this movie on Tuesday.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah. So I don't remember cooking. I brought my phone out. Cause I took notes in the theater. I hate when people take their phones out in the theater.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You're the only ones there, though.

[Guest Speaker]

We're the only ones there. And I realized, oh, I'm gonna go back to those notes and really have an understanding of what happened. And I feel like I've forgotten more after reading them.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because we try to time this podcast out so almost the minute the movie ends, you're in a car going to.

[June Diane Raphael]

Record because it is not watching it in the car.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It is leaving you. It's like memento. It is coming.

[Guest Speaker]

It's going out, this movie. As I'm watching it, I'm forgetting it. It's the craziest experience where June just.

[June Diane Raphael]

Found out while you were introing the show that there was a second triple.

[Guest Speaker]

X. I had no idea. I thought this was.

[June Diane Raphael]

And her mind. Her mind was blown because I was like, well, didn't you understand? That's why Ice Cube came in. And she was like, no, no, no.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, no, no.

[Guest Speaker]

Paul said. When Ice Cube came in at the end, Paul said to me, oh, he was in the other movie. So I just assumed that was the first. I thought this was the return.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, okay. I see what you're saying. So you are kind of the perfect Vin Diesel audience member because you just disregarded the second one entirely.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, well, I had never seen it. I mean. Or maybe I have.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Who knows?

[Guest Speaker]

Who can say I didn't? I did feel, though, when we were.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's the title of your memoirs, right?

[Guest Speaker]

Who can say? Who can say I did feel. When we were in that theater, we had a really terrible. What I do remember about this night was the theater going experience that we had.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, it was a pretty bad one. Yeah, we don't do that. We could. Yeah, let's lay it down. Yeah. You know what?

[Guest Speaker]

What I realized tonight was that I think we had a bad experience at this theater. And I'm not gonna name it, but it wasn't great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's like one of those places where they serve you food and liquor, but they don't serve you food and liquor.

[Guest Speaker]

But there was nobody there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Literally serve us. Like, literally. There wasn't a single person in the theater. You had to leave.

[June Diane Raphael]

Were you encouraged to get your own?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You had to leave the theater and.

[Guest Speaker]

Go across the street to go outside in the rain.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In the rain.

[Guest Speaker]

A beverage where? It was insane.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The guy ran the bar and then he was like, well, do you need help carrying up these beverages and snacks?

[Guest Speaker]

Like, whatever. There are bigger problems in the world right now, you guys. But I will say I recognize that. But I will say I walked into the theater thinking, I gotta get water. I gotta get water immediately. And the server's gonna be over any minute. No server. No server.

[June Diane Raphael]

Was it because you were worried about your mouth having enough moisture to water at the sight of Vin Diesel?

[Adam Scott]

Were you?

[June Diane Raphael]

Like, I know I'm gonna see a real hunk, so I gotta have that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That was great.

[Guest Speaker]

And I enjoyed him. I really did. But then I realized it was a terrible theater going experience. But then I realized it was actually payback for a theater going experience. We had, I think, in that theater where we ate a plate of sushi at a screening of House Bunny.

[June Diane Raphael]

What are you talking about? What are you even talking about? Because you're telling me I've saladed sushi movie. That's like Rite Aid sushi.

[Guest Speaker]

No, that's like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Guest Speaker]

It wasn't served at the place. It was brought in and we brought it in.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay, okay. I thought it was like, you can get like a pub burger or sushi.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, no. We were more disgusting in the fact that we brought in hot food and weird food and we're eating it and smells are coming out of the back of the House Bunny theater now.

[Guest Speaker]

There weren't many people in the theater, but I've. I've lived with that shame for many, many years.

[June Diane Raphael]

Do you feel better?

[Guest Speaker]

No. But when that happened with the whole water situation at Return Center Cage, where I had a sip of water all day. Again, so many bigger problems right now.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, but your hydration is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You didn't have a sip of water all day.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't think I had.

[June Diane Raphael]

Are you on a water fest?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We have nine swell bottles in our house. I know. They're all the big ones. They're all the, like, the ones that don't fit.

[June Diane Raphael]

We get it. You guys have a lot of double walled water bottles.

[Guest Speaker]

Anyway, I think that I've done my penance and the house bunny situation. I've done my mic penance and the house bunny situation is, you know, I'm absolved of it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, well, we do have another guest.

[June Diane Raphael]

By the way, though, if one of the recurring segments is how is the movie theater you saw this in? I'm not upset with it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

People are always begging us to do movies that are in the theater. Well, this is. You're gonna hear this now too.

[Guest Speaker]

I love seeing movies in the theater.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Chryslers.

[Guest Speaker]

I really do. I'm really ashamed of what happened at House Bunny. I really.

[June Diane Raphael]

Because house Bunny is also a while ago. You've carried this for this long?

[Guest Speaker]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like, free yourself. Sorry.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, you are free.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, no.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because this movie bears so much similarity to Fast and the Furious, we have brought an expert in Vin Diesel. Please welcome from the upcoming HBO show Big Little Lies from the current show on Netflix, Michael Bolton's big sexy Valentine's Day special. And you can see him on season one of the Good Place, Adam Scott.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's good to have this family back together.

[Adam Scott]

It sure is. I want to hear more about this movie theater where you have to cross the street to get a Coke. That sounds awesome.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It really. It was like they were trying to go for, like, the Alamo Drafthouse, but instead they were going bankrupt instead.

[June Diane Raphael]

Were they? Like, we honestly did not think anybody was coming tonight because of this movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, like, There is not like a single person there. And there was one guy. One guy manning the bar and he seemed surprised to see us.

[Guest Speaker]

There was not a. There's not a single person there. He means not just in the theater. We saw it at. In the entire movie theater. We walked into a ghost town.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like 8.

[June Diane Raphael]

8.

[Guest Speaker]

There was not a single person there.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And they did a weird thing. Like, you know when you walk in the theater, they have the posters of all the movies, but, like, the poster for this wasn't high enough resolution, so it was like really, like, pixelated.

[June Diane Raphael]

What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I've never even seen the poster that they had. It was like. It was real, like low level.

[Adam Scott]

We're all eight screens showing Triple X. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

They were like, if I ran that company, they would be.

[Adam Scott]

I agree with Jason. I would watch this movie again.

[June Diane Raphael]

Boom.

[Adam Scott]

Right now.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

So let's do it.

[Adam Scott]

Yep.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Roll it.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, this is a different. Let's come straight out and say, I fucking had a great time watching this movie.

[Adam Scott]

Great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is, to me like a. Thank God this got made.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Awesome. It essentially is Vin Diesel fanfic written by Vin Diesel. Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. It feels, looks and sounds like it was made up as it went along.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Adam Scott]

And the Return of Xander Cage. Meaning he just skipped the middle one. And he did the same thing with Fast and Furious. That means he's created a subgenre of multi billion dollar franchise. Well, not in this case, but franchises that he skips over one mov because he thinks he's too awesome, but then comes back to he's.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's. He's never has stepped away from Riddick, has he?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No.

[Adam Scott]

He will.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But you know what?

[June Diane Raphael]

But he's always like, I'm gonna let this one rest.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I will say, while not a success here in the United States, this is why Vin Diesel's a genius. He cast it with one giant celebrity from every continent.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So the movie does become successful. It was 80.

[June Diane Raphael]

I knew that Penguin was in it for a reason.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It was. It was 80. 80. I mean, they haven't done a mov since then.

[June Diane Raphael]

Morgan, for you really like that?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It was made for 85 million, but already made 131 million. It's like it is a worldwide.

[Adam Scott]

That doesn't surprise me.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, it's the number one movie in the world, just not here in the continental United States. Everyone here was like that. No. Sorry.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, not only.

[June Diane Raphael]

This movie makes, like $280 million internationally. It's going to be massive.

[Adam Scott]

Well, yeah, because they have like the cameo from the soccer star at the beginning. And then, like, seven minutes later, another reference to soccer and how awesome it is. And like, oh, this is for the world. This is not for us.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

His entire team. There's no one on his team, really, that is American at all. He's the only guy. And I bet you if you cornered him, he'd say, he's not American either. Just because he likes to keep the allure up about himself.

[Adam Scott]

Well, I like him to keep that allure up. I don't know about you guys.

[Guest Speaker]

I love him.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, I love him. Is what you just said, like love.

[Guest Speaker]

I mean, I don't know. I think he's very sexy.

[June Diane Raphael]

What now?

[Guest Speaker]

Ah, I've said it before.

[Adam Scott]

So does he.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I think he's very sexy guy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In the world of June, arguably, it would be me, Earnest, and Vin Diesel as your top three.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

How many. How many Ernest movies have you guys done?

[June Diane Raphael]

One.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, you just did.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We should revisit.

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't know if you could handle it.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, no, the only Ernest I like is.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, evil Ernest.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. I think that may be a trope of every Earnest movie. I think there might be an evil version of it.

[Guest Speaker]

The crazy thing about the opening of this movie is when I saw him flying down the hills on skateboards and such. How is he on a skateboard?

[June Diane Raphael]

He's.

[Guest Speaker]

It doesn't seem physically possible for him to skateboard.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, I can explain how. Yeah, they put his face on a person's skateboard.

[Guest Speaker]

What? What?

[Adam Scott]

That's.

[June Diane Raphael]

What?

[Adam Scott]

In my notes. I have a note here that says, can then do any of these things.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I wrote down the same thing. I was like.

[Adam Scott]

Because he's. He jumps off of a tower and he has skis on. Lands on a hillside. Not snow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, no.

[June Diane Raphael]

Jungle.

[Adam Scott]

Jungle and skis down a mountain.

[June Diane Raphael]

There are poles, right?

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Right where he lands in the spot where he lands so he can grab the poles and go.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I was actually thinking to myself, I was like, the thing that's so funny about that is picturing him, like, in the jungle before he did this, going, put the poles here.

[Adam Scott]

And then. Yeah, this is him doing all of these things is absolutely impossible.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I wrote that down, too. I was like, I feel like if you said Vin Diesel's never driven a motorcycle, I'd be like, yeah, totally. I believe that you've never been near one at all. But it's funny that he is associated himself as the extreme sports star, but doesn't do any of nothing.

[June Diane Raphael]

No.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Bizarre. My favorite scene is coming up right in the top of the movie, which is where he, I thought, met his girlfriend, but apparently seems to be a stranger.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, Somebody bones. And then it's like, you can have that shirt, baby.

[Adam Scott]

And then it's like, I don't know, four minutes into the introduction of his character, and he is fucking.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes. But then. Okay, so let me ask you this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is my thing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Let me ask you this, because I felt this way because then he fucks that woman. Then Tony Collette comes in, he's like, you gotta come back to Triple X. And he's like, fine, I'm in. And then they go. And then he's flirting with Nina Dobrev, I guess. And I'm like, hey, man, don't you have a girlfriend? He doesn't, No. I was like, oh, man, don't be such a dick to your girlfriend.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, when you find out that Vin Diesel is doing all this extreme sports stuff just to bring soccer to a small island of villagers.

[June Diane Raphael]

A small island of villagers?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Salt mine.

[June Diane Raphael]

We measure this gripping of villages as an island.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But like, he. He basically, girls like, great job. And you're like, oh, they like they know each other. They don't. And that's the thing. It's like. And it's.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, I felt like they knew each other, but she was his island gal. Well, and that he can't be tied down, you know?

[Adam Scott]

But then he leaves her a skateboard with a note on it that says, don't hurt yourself.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Don't fall.

[Adam Scott]

Don't fall.

[June Diane Raphael]

I assume, don't fall for me. Don't fall in love. Don't fall for me. I thought, I don't know, maybe he's not that smart.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I thought he. I thought he was literally like, don't fall. I thought he was like, here, the first rule of skateboarding. Don't fall.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, no, no.

[June Diane Raphael]

Because no subtext. This movie is no subtext. All text.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And. And I will underline it with my favorite scene in the movie, which is when Vin Diesel comes. In this movie, you cut to a salt plant where, like, salt is coming out of a tractor.

[June Diane Raphael]

Couple of very vocal audience members, like, yes.

[Adam Scott]

It just confirms for once and for all that Vin Diesel shoots salt out of his penis.

[June Diane Raphael]

Can you imagine?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Just burning their vagina.

[June Diane Raphael]

Someone came inside you and it just was rock salt. Like what you would put out after an ice storm is what they were like. Well, cut to that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I just also love. It's not even, like, sexy or romantic. Just a salt dump.

[Adam Scott]

Just a solid white dump, like super dusty and dry. And shitty.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm gonna drop a bunch of particles on you. I'm gonna fill you full of crystal.

[Paul Scheer]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Adam Scott]

Does anyone else think that the. The, like, I. I don't remember the first one super well, so I didn't know if. Did the first one, the Vin Diesel one, have this, like, weird comedy tone? They were trying to.

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't think, because.

[Adam Scott]

Definitely.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A little bit more. He. It was a lot of, like, that Vin Diesel smirk where it was like. Like, some. He walks out of a restaurant, some guy throws him his keys. He's like, park it for me. And he's like. And then, like, just takes the Ferrari and then, like, drives off a cliff and then parachutes out of it. And he's like, I parked it. You know, like that. Like, it was like.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

So I feel like that's classic, like, rap rock time.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So there was like. Like, zingers.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But it wasn't like, Nina Dobrev, who I think, honestly was one of my favorite characters, 100%.

[Adam Scott]

She did a great job. Yeah, she did.

[Guest Speaker]

She's awesome. She's great.

[June Diane Raphael]

But we're all in on Nina Dopa.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I do think that they added some of her stuff in afterwards, though, because I was watching this before the show and I was like, it looks like they're like, you know, we need to add some, like, comedy here. So watch this scene. And you at home listen to it. They don't share the screen at all. So here we go.

[June Diane Raphael]

Xander Cage.

[Adam Scott]

This is crazy.

[June Diane Raphael]

I was at Coachella and Guns N Roses got back together, but this is way cooler.

[Adam Scott]

Breathe. Take your time.

[June Diane Raphael]

I know.

[Adam Scott]

Mouth to mouth if necessary.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's nowhere to go. Oh, there it is. Cleeridge worked closely with Gibbons.

[Paul Scheer]

She'll handle support for the operation.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I bet a guy like you.

[June Diane Raphael]

Needs a lot of support. What are you, like, 222?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

30 be honest. 250 is like the hard max for my swing.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, come on.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm kidding.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's not like I have a safe word or anything.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's kumquat. Kumquat. Well, she was very good. Maybe I didn't watch it.

[June Diane Raphael]

I loved it. Yeah, I loved it. I loved every minute of.

[Adam Scott]

Was also like, it's been a while since the first one and so scenes like that. I was like, why is this like 48 year old man hitting on this little girl? It's kind of weird.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, if you're a woman in the world of this movie, you so want to fuck Vin Dylan.

[Adam Scott]

That's all you want to do.

[June Diane Raphael]

So much so that you will put your job in jeopardy to sexually harass him in front of your boss.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, that's.

[Guest Speaker]

I can understand it. But I did feel like the women in the movie. Now this is the first time I've really seen in Nina Dobrev in anything. And I think she's wonderful. And so for me, the movie was a nice introduction to Nina Dobrev. But. But the other scene, not to jump ahead. Who cares about jumping ahead?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But basically five scenes in the movie.

[Guest Speaker]

The other scene where he meets that hacker, whoever that young woman is. Those girls seemed underage.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, that girl.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

No, seriously, grandma.

[Adam Scott]

But he seems underage.

[June Diane Raphael]

The orgy that happened to him. Yeah, you mean the. The orgy.

[Guest Speaker]

That is very uncomfortable.

[Adam Scott]

They did basically force themselves. He's like, okay. And they all just like decided on.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My country in a jacket that looks like only what I can describe as a woolly vagina. Like, it looks like that jacket.

[June Diane Raphael]

It looks like he's being born out of a 70s bush.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It really does.

[Adam Scott]

But was that jacket like a huge, huge thing in the first. Because he goes to London to get the jacket in this movie.

[June Diane Raphael]

Might be there.

[Adam Scott]

And then they have this whole entrance for him in this jacket.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes. Then he's weirder.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Rain. The worst jacket to wear in the rain.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, they're terrible.

[June Diane Raphael]

He then also has like three other very weird jackets.

[Guest Speaker]

Yes, they're coats, you guys. They're all coats.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, a whole like, like suitcase full of douchey jackets. Right from the.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, the jacket. The jacket is kind of like his Aston Martin. The director was like, we needed to put this jacket back into it.

[Adam Scott]

Really? Really.

[June Diane Raphael]

I have an update. DJ Caruso. You did not.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because Vin Diesel's like, people respond to the jacket so much. So because Mark Zuckerberg bought the jacket from the first triple F. What? And gave it to his like best Friend, what on earth are you talking about?

[June Diane Raphael]

So, like, why wasn't that in the Social Network?

[Adam Scott]

Because they couldn't get the jacket.

[June Diane Raphael]

Sorkin rewrite, Fincher reshoots.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So they were like, this is the quote. It says, mark Zuckerberg bought that jacket and gave it to his right hand man. Because one of their mantras was, I live for this shit. Right? Which. Okay, so realizing that that jacket has this.

[June Diane Raphael]

How does that come into context at Facebook? I get it. When you're about to do some sort of extreme sport. I love live for this shit. Right? Let's jump off this, whatever. But, like, at Facebook, let's add emoticons to these comments. I live for this shit.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So Mark, Buck Zuckerberg bought the jacket. There was such folklore built around the jacket. And Vin loved the idea of the jacket. He said, you gotta find a way to get that jacket back in the movie. It wasn't even in the script. It was on a whim. So the day.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, no way.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We just threw this. Exactly what you said. They just were making it up as they went along, man. Oh, my God. I like that in this movie, though, Xander Cage, which was definitely not in the first movie, also was a little bit like Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock. Like when they capture him in that little square. I knew because you were this. Oh, my God, his fingernail had a thing on it, and her eyebrow was cocked up, and his shoe had no scruff on it. And that guy was buying a magazine. And that bust us.

[June Diane Raphael]

Here's the thing.

[Adam Scott]

None of that stuff that he observed, none of it made sense.

[June Diane Raphael]

None of it.

[Adam Scott]

And I. After he said each one and they showed them, I still didn't understand.

[June Diane Raphael]

And by the way, all he needed to say, which was obvious, was the guy, the most important person, the guy that sat next to him, basically gave the whole thing away. Like, don't say I didn't warn you or what? Like, he was terrible, so why even bother selecting a bunch of other stuff? Like, oh, no, that guy was terrible. It was obvious it was fake.

[Adam Scott]

And also when Toni Collette comes up to him and. And. And tells him, okay, we need you, and. And he's like, okay. And he gets up and starts following her up. It's just they're in, like, the tropics right there in South America. Is that where they are? So he's wearing. He's wearing. He has, like, raw denim that's been rolled up to his knee with big boots. But it looked, like, so uncomfortable, you know, how raw denim and, like, Tightly rolled up against your skin.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, yeah. It's like. It's like 80 grit sand.

[Adam Scott]

It's terrible.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, and then. Well, okay. And then he's got a. He meets his team and I love that. They pair him up with the squares, the military guys.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, man, this is the most insulting scene to the military in any movie ever.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He ejects them out of a plane.

[Adam Scott]

Like seal team 6 basically is there to help him get the bad guys. I still don't know who the bad guys were.

[June Diane Raphael]

They have to Send Seal Team 6 in. They have to send this fucking asshole a 53 year old.

[Guest Speaker]

And by the way, that's the thing I did not understand about this movie because I didn't see the other exes. But so what is so special about them?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is it they're extreme?

[June Diane Raphael]

Yep.

[Guest Speaker]

They're just extreme in every way.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't he recruited in the first one because he's good at extreme sports?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Well, you guys saw. You guys saw the opening of this movie with Sam Jackson giving a powerful monologue which, by the way, kills it always.

[June Diane Raphael]

So they put the hair on him in that first scene. And then at the end he's like, no hair. Yeah, like on day two of shooting, he was like, you know what? I don't want to do that hair thing anymore. So I'm gonna come an hour and a half later and we're gonna just shoot me without the hair. It doesn't matter. By the way, also, I'm gonna wear my own glasses. Cause I don't wanna do that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I'll wear an eye patch. Cause I'm just coming from the set of the Avengers movie.

[Adam Scott]

I feel like the next step for Sam Jackson is for his role in the movie to literally just be footage of him going to the bank and depositing a check.

[June Diane Raphael]

And it will. It will still on many occasions be the best scene in the movie.

[Adam Scott]

Absolutely. I mean, that opening monologue is great.

[Guest Speaker]

It was amazing. But this is what I don't understand about the Triple X team. So are they all athletes? No. Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They're all extreme. Some are athletes, some are extreme sports stars. And some people just like to crash cars. And some are DJs.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. One of them literally is a DJ.

[Guest Speaker]

Never.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

His special skill is people like him.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

He knows when to drop that beat.

[Adam Scott]

Every time a new character is introduced, there's a freeze frame and Chiron comes up and they say, like, special skills. Favorite karaoke. Go to Call of Duty, Handle and. And When. When. What's his name? From Game of Thrones? The.

[June Diane Raphael]

The Hound.

[Adam Scott]

The Hound. He's in it.

[June Diane Raphael]

It says Sander Claugen.

[Adam Scott]

His longest relationship was his rugby mouthpiece.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes. That's what he keeps putting in his mouth.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. Wait, that was super fun.

[June Diane Raphael]

I thought that was. I'll be honest, I thought that was the best romance of the movie.

[Adam Scott]

Mouthpiece.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The best romance was the unseen romance. This guy dated Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga in the same night.

[Adam Scott]

In the same night.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It should say this guy fucked them in the.

[Adam Scott]

Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Dated. Seems like he courted them. They were relationship. And that means that's the. I like that.

[June Diane Raphael]

Two very nice first dates with those women.

[Adam Scott]

That means he had access to a time pocket and he was able to go in and date in court.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I want to see that movie. Just running from table to table at a restaurant, Brady Bunch style.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, no. I made two dates. Lady Gaga and Taylor's Swift.

[Adam Scott]

Did you guys catch the joke when after these guys come in and assassinate a whole room full of people and they're kind of assessing the damage afterwards, somebody says, these a holes came in here, took out the best of the best, like it was Sunday brunch. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm. I'm almost positive that was Toni Colette, wasn't it?

[Adam Scott]

Did she say that? She said Tony Collette was fantastic.

[June Diane Raphael]

Tony, Toni Collette is the bad guy in this movie. Or the not quite bad guy, but the.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She delivered the shittiest lines with such authority. I was like, fuck, yeah. Like, she was the best.

[June Diane Raphael]

I feel like they were like, oh, Tony. So your part was written horribly, so you are going to have to chew the scenery like nobody else can. And she's like, I got this. And scene after scene, scene. Crushes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

The best.

[June Diane Raphael]

She was one of my favorite parts of this episode.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I wrote down some of her lines too. She wrote, we need someone who can walk into a tornado and come out like it was a gentle breeze.

[Adam Scott]

That's right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She also. She also said. And I've never seen anyone say this in a serious way, Ollie, Ollie, oxen free.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Scott]

Wow. Yeah. That's the denim rolled up scene. Yeah, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She killed it.

[Adam Scott]

Killed it. Great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I don't even think that she understands the plot because the plot was. Let me ask this.

[Guest Speaker]

Where. Where had Xander Cage been that he's returning from?

[Adam Scott]

Well, he was going around getting soccer on TV for people.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, he's some sort of Robin Hood character in the Dominican Republic, second movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The way that we're to believe it in the world is in the second movie. Cause he was such a dick about.

[June Diane Raphael]

This is in our world. That girl went to Coachella. So this is not a.

[Adam Scott]

That kind of tethered it to the.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. So that means the Triple X program must be somewhat real, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, it's happening.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, 100% Jason.

[June Diane Raphael]

Good. I'm just glad that I got that clear.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. Stop being so fucking stupid.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So he. In the second movie, Vin Diesel was such an ass in dropping out and wanting to get so much money that the directors or whatever decided they were gonna make sure that he can never come back. So they spend the first five minutes of the movie killing Xander Cage, which is just a bald guy running around that. You never see his face. You go, he's in there, he's in there, he's in there. And you just see the. You know, just, like, quick moves and never see his face. And then they blow up a building. And then from the building, like, you know, like, debris comes down, but his face, not his head. Like, as if you ripped off, like, Westworld, like, front of face, like, hits the pavement. The bad guy picks it up like a pancake and dangles Vin Diesel's face. He goes, that's the end of the Triple X program. And then that's it, like, done.

[June Diane Raphael]

So do you think that in this movie it's that guy wearing Vin's face?

[Adam Scott]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Is that what we are to believe, is that that guy puts Vin's face on, becomes the Robin Hood of the Dominican Republic just so that the Triple X program will invite him back and then he, a bad guy they now think is Xander Cage, can come back in. Wow, I love that better movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And also, I had a question. Cause his name. Well, I guess he has Triple X tattooed on the back of his neck, which is a tough thing if you're like, FBI, you don't want to tattoo that on your body. That's what you're doing undercover.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

Not only. Sorry. Not only is it, like, blows your cover, but also he quit the Triple X program years ago. He still has a stupid fucking tattoo.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Right on the back of the neck.

[June Diane Raphael]

And like, people like. Like the woman who's the. We haven't identified any of the characters.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well. Oh, he's got. It's Toni Collette, Vin Diesel, then Vin Diesel as his team, which is.

[June Diane Raphael]

But then there's the team of bad guys, which is Donnie Yen's team. Donnie Yen. Just unstoppable.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love this.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, he's great.

[June Diane Raphael]

Just unstoppable fault. I wish Tony Ja had done more. I'm a big Tony Ja fan. I wish he had done more.

[Adam Scott]

The bad guys had like their headquarters on a beach.

[June Diane Raphael]

It was. It was referred to some kind of jungle rave.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, absolutely.

[June Diane Raphael]

Described in the movie. It's apparently some kind of jungle rave and that's where they go.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And it was populated of beautiful women. Bad guys hang out at like. That's it.

[June Diane Raphael]

So it's like bad guy island.

[Adam Scott]

But then all of a sudden in the movie, I. I did eventually. I have to say, I did eventually fall asleep for a while.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, okay.

[Adam Scott]

Because I went to a 10pm show last night.

[June Diane Raphael]

We will act it out.

[Adam Scott]

And. But before that happened, the, the. Either. Yeah, it was one. Oh, I fell asleep in theaters all day.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's. Yeah, we were in those.

[Guest Speaker]

We were in those two.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, it's hard.

[Guest Speaker]

And then I have to say, danger to them.

[Adam Scott]

I have to say, after the movie ended, I woke up, saw the last half hour or so, then got up. It was about midnight. I was walking out and I was like, oh, Rogue One's playing. Maybe I'll go in and watch like 15 minutes. Because it had just started. So I went in and sat down, woke up an hour later freezing. Like, what am I doing here? I have to get out.

[June Diane Raphael]

So somebody, they're like, oh, hang on a second. Yeah, lion. This plane. Oh, wow.

[Adam Scott]

Lego Batman.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Someone needs to bring Adam home.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hey.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, but, but I.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hey, something weird happened the other night. Adam Skull wandering around sleeping in theaters. Yeah. I think he might be celeb homeless.

[Adam Scott]

Before I fell asleep, it did happen that Vin Diesel and his crew just all of a sudden they're at the headquarters for the bad guys. They just show up there.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes, yes.

[Adam Scott]

I didn't get like how they got.

[Guest Speaker]

Their location from those young women.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah, no, because he goes, I know a ghost hunter.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And he goes to Amy, who's from the first movie. That's the girl who like gets out of the pool and it's the crotch shot.

[Adam Scott]

She's in the first movie.

[June Diane Raphael]

Was she a 10 year old?

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, she seemed. She's literally 10 years old.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Double check. But I'm pretty sure that that was her whole thing, is that she's like the connection to the first movie.

[Adam Scott]

That's the thing. There were lots of references as if we had all seen the move. The first movie. 10 minutes ago.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And by the way. Yeah, it was. It was. It was almost a decade ago. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. All right, so Triple X. I'm going to look for Ainsley.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, it was two that came out in 2000.

[June Diane Raphael]

Anyway, so the hackers give him the names of the. The. Of Donnie Yen's team, and then they find that they're in the Philippines, and that's when Vin assembles his team. And they're like, we're going to the Philippines. And then they drive up in a boat and people are like, who the fuck are you? He has XXX tattooed on himself.

[Adam Scott]

Right.

[June Diane Raphael]

He could not be also a more famous person.

[Adam Scott]

Right?

[June Diane Raphael]

He's like a famous extreme sportist.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, that's right. Sportist.

[June Diane Raphael]

So mustn't people be like, oh, fuck, Xander Cage. I saw you fucking flip over a bunch of buses. I don't know.

[Adam Scott]

I don't know if there's a crowd that knows the extreme sports world. It's definitely this crowd. So they would know him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They're in. Yeah, they're. Oh, I don't know if she was in the first movie. Maybe. Wow. I thought they made some sort of connection.

[Adam Scott]

I mean, it was gross. Like, he walked in these birds.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She was in Rogue Nation. She was in Mission Impossible. I was wrong. Yeah, so she was. I thought that maybe it's a crossover. Look, basically, this movie has.

[June Diane Raphael]

And one of the other people is Ethan Hunt in one of his masks, right?

[Adam Scott]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's Philip Seymour Hoffman.

[Adam Scott]

This.

[June Diane Raphael]

This is. This is Xander Triple X. The Return of Xander Cage, colon, Mission Impossible 7.

[Adam Scott]

But then ice Cube too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So that, like, I was psyched when Ice Cube came in.

[Adam Scott]

Me too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That was great because it showed me that Vin respected the franchise.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, yeah, Let bygones be bygones, bro.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But it wasn't your fault.

[June Diane Raphael]

But he still made Ice Cube say, like, an incredibly sycophantic line to him at the end of the movie, which is like, I couldn't believe I was gonna work with the legend Xander Cage or whatever. Whatever line he had that was meant to explain his utter reverence for Vin Diesel.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And he gives him back his car. He's like, yeah, and here's your car, man.

[Adam Scott]

He drives up in Vin Diesel's car. He's like, okay, nice ride. He's like, yeah, I kept it for you.

[June Diane Raphael]

Where are they? They're in Detroit, right?

[Guest Speaker]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Where is Ice Cube? When they call nine and they're like, we're in trouble. We're in Detroit. He just is there. Like, he does. He must live in Detroit.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No. He probably has his own little plane, too, that he.

[June Diane Raphael]

Does the car fly?

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. By the way. By the way, that scene with the Nina Debreve scene we watched earlier that Takes place on an airplane that's flying in the air.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So a giant.

[Adam Scott]

One giant airplane with a control room. And they're all walking around and with a great set piece later when they're all flying, like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But by the way, I'm talking about that. These guys in the airplanes, when he knocks out. We talked about how he knocks out Seals Team 6. Then, like, later on in the movie, they're back on that plane.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And they're not like, hey, man, you tried to kill us.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, how. Why would you. You re up for that assignment. And by the way, I thought they were going to be dead. They weren't wearing parachutes. They were just attached to a large box.

[Adam Scott]

But certainly seemed like he murdered them.

[June Diane Raphael]

They are all. Yes. Then they are all killed.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But they came back and they were.

[Guest Speaker]

Like, well, they're still Teamsigs. I trusted they would be okay.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Scott]

Then they're okay. What happened was they're on the airplane and Toni Collette's like, these are the guys who are going to help us out. These are the best and the brightest. The guys, you know, the SEAL Team 6 or whatever. And he's like, oh, yeah, what's. And he starts asking them dumb questions, I guess, to trick their mind into things. And then he hooks them onto a big piece of freight and then just pushes a button and they all fly out of the airplane.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, they all were attached to that big thing already.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, he's walking behind them.

[Adam Scott]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hooking them.

[Adam Scott]

Hooking them onto it. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Because.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because Team six is not too sweet.

[June Diane Raphael]

I feel like they tried to. Greedo shot first this. Because as he's walking up, you hear the tall guy go say something like, oh, what's he gonna do? Like, show us how to, like, kickflip on a skateboard or something? He, like. There's an ADR line that you see Vin be like, okay. And then he, like, boots them all out of there. So it's justified, by the way, again.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Every one of these decisions, it is like if no one else weighed in on a Fast and Furious script. He's like, it is. It's like, then I knock them all out of plane. Then that girl, me. And then the younger girl, she, like, wants me. Then my motorcycle turns into a boat, and then I'm flying. And then we're in outer space and we're. And the satellites are blowing up and, like.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then he's back, and the whole opening title sequence is looking at every detail on a satellite. Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

That was the best.

[June Diane Raphael]

It was the whole Whole opening credit sequence was just every detail of a saddle.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And a very, like. It was so shitty. It was like the most uninteresting opening.

[June Diane Raphael]

Pointless, by the way.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

One of the facts in the plane was it could circumnavigate the globe three times.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yep.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Without being refueled. I was like, cool, that makes sense.

[June Diane Raphael]

I would like to point out something that is now a frequent occurrence. This is the second time in a movie where the hero has been given a gun that is full of blanks that he shoots at all the people. It happened in Escape From LA and here, where he gets the gun and is, like, knowing or knowing or not knowing that it's blanks. Like, who continues to put blanks in guns that people. The planning would be insane in both cases. It's pointless to fill a gun full of blanks and then give it to.

[Adam Scott]

Someone and just to prove a point, he just fires it into a crowd of civilians, like kids and scrollers.

[June Diane Raphael]

He was wrong.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

No, I had a hard time, honestly. And I said this to you, Paul, while we were watching it. I found that scene to be socially really irresponsible. I had a lot of trouble with that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I will say, though, that the people in that town had supreme confidence in him because they didn't seem to flinch when he fired.

[Adam Scott]

Not one flinch.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. No one died for fire.

[June Diane Raphael]

Maybe they're positing the idea that every single person in that square but him is with them.

[Adam Scott]

That is exactly what they were trying to say. That is exactly what they were trying. Yes, it is. Really? Absolutely.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Every.

[Adam Scott]

And it's bonkers.

[June Diane Raphael]

Wow.

[Guest Speaker]

Insane.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, that is. This movie just got better.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. Because she's like, how did you know it was fake? And he's like, that guy over there, and it's all the way across the square, some guy buying a magazine. He's like, he's not using the right type of pesos or whatever.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, he thought he literally saw a teaser trailer for the BBC Sherlock. He's like, I want to do that.

[Adam Scott]

So true.

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is the scene that made June upset because you got upset. Then you look down and you miss the thing that's gonna really get you upset. So I'm gonna not even set it up. I'll just play. This is kind of the meet cute of the movie. A little bit. All right, let me guess.

[Adam Scott]

Gibbons to the rescue.

[Guest Speaker]

Yep. He said a lion like me doesn't belong in any kind of cage.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She shows off her tattoo. What about that one on your wrist?

[Guest Speaker]

London 2009. Climbed the Millennium Wheel.

[Adam Scott]

Naked.

[June Diane Raphael]

Naked.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

High school. Oh no. We all have our embarrassing moments.

[Adam Scott]

Okay, first of all, I was asleep during that scene because I don't remember that at all. I have never seen that before.

[June Diane Raphael]

You are welcome.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, thank you.

[Guest Speaker]

I just watched that with fresh eyes.

[June Diane Raphael]

For sure. That's your boys nip.

[Adam Scott]

Why would you climb that thing naked?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's what it feels. That's why it feels like a 12 year old road. Like I climbed it naked. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Now. Now let's go look at my dad's Playboys. I can't believe Uncle Vin's paying us to write this movie.

[Guest Speaker]

By the way. I'm really just putting some things together as I've been sitting here.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh yeah. Again, I'm gonna say this may be the first time we have to redo a movie.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I'm really putting some things together. And the main one is that I did not realize he was an extreme sport.

[June Diane Raphael]

What?

[Guest Speaker]

I didn't. Now look, you have to imagine.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't.

[Guest Speaker]

I. I really didn't.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay?

[Adam Scott]

What?

[Guest Speaker]

Look at this. Please look at this the way I'm looking, looking at it. Just for a second. You know nothing about this movie. When I mean, when I say nothing, I mean you Know nothing.

[Adam Scott]

Well, you have a point.

[Guest Speaker]

Thank you.

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't know. Introducing extremes.

[Adam Scott]

Not. Not really.

[June Diane Raphael]

And forest skiing, skateboarding.

[Guest Speaker]

Not in a competitive way. I just see a guy.

[Adam Scott]

Exactly.

[June Diane Raphael]

I guess so. I guess so, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Footage of him on ESPN Extreme Games.

[Guest Speaker]

All I'm saying is I see a gentleman who starts skateboarding and then could.

[June Diane Raphael]

Be a James Bond type person.

[Guest Speaker]

You don't know what I'm saying. I was just like, oh, I guess this is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's extreme James Bond.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

There was nothing that. I just never thought this was his thing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't know if he was professionally ranked.

[Adam Scott]

Like, I think.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think he's just a guy who does.

[June Diane Raphael]

But I feel like he was sponsored.

[Adam Scott]

In the first movie. As far as I remember, it starts with him, like winning a championship on ESPN2 or whatever it was. So, you know, I didn't see that. June's right. They don't establish it at all. It's the most presumptuous movie in the sense that they're just assuming we all know everything about this guy.

[Guest Speaker]

So he doesn't really refer to himself. Like the scene we were just talking about in the. You know, when he goes into the middle of that village and knows everything about everyone. I just think he's a very skilled guy, you know, There was nothing specific about it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What makes it even further confusing is Samuel Jackson is recruiting a soccer player, which is not extreme sports, just sports.

[Guest Speaker]

That's why I asked before, are they all athletes?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then the guy from Game of Thrones. But wait, he's not also extreme sports. He just is a guy who crashes cars. And further to go, the guy who's a dj. This is a dj. So these are just people who like, may go to a rave. Like, that's what the triple X program.

[Adam Scott]

How about the way in which Sam Jackson recruits the soccer gentleman at the beginning? You have that?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I have just the end of that scene.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, great. That's. That's all we did.

[June Diane Raphael]

You guys. Did you guys know this was a real soccer player?

[Adam Scott]

I assumed when he couldn't act, I.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Was like, you know, this is amazing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Wow. Putting that guy on blast.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

When you watch this opening scene, first of all, Sam Jackson does like a full, like three page monologue straight to camera.

[June Diane Raphael]

By the way, it is all to care.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

And I'll bet you that was max. Two takes and he was out of there. He's a badass.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then. And then he's like. The guy's like, I don't want to join. I don't want to Join.

[Paul Scheer]

And he's like, okay, bye.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, this is him down on the ground now.

[June Diane Raphael]

Give me no money. Don't move. Hurry up.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You say you're no hero. The soccer player picks up a napkin to dispenser, kicks it a little bit to then get a really good kick to then knock it in that guy's head.

[June Diane Raphael]

Do you think his whole approach is soccer based to being, like, a triple X member?

[Adam Scott]

Yes. That's, like, precisely what they're saying.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's crazy. Yeah, I can understand, like, you're a peak athlete. We will train you in all this other stuff. But no, what we need from you is legs. We need you to. We've got a bunch of guys who do shooting and punching. We need a bunch of guys who can do, like, the dj.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The dj, when he does his battle, strangles someone with headphones. Yeah, like. Like he's within his.

[June Diane Raphael]

This is what I do.

[Adam Scott]

It's very similar to Fast and the Furious in that it's a very narrow application of, like, Fast and Furious. They saved the world, literally, with cars.

[Guest Speaker]

And that's why the whole movie. I mean, even though I had seen some of Extreme Sporting earlier on, I didn't see. Well, I guess he was on that Jet Ski thing. I don't know. I kept on wondering, well, what's his skill?

[Adam Scott]

But the Jet Ski thing was like, an imaginary thing that isn't real.

[June Diane Raphael]

It doesn't exist.

[Adam Scott]

I don't know. I hope so.

[June Diane Raphael]

I was gonna order one. It looked like fun.

[Adam Scott]

You have footage?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I. I do have the footage of them on the. Yeah, the. The motorcycles that just are built to transform into waveriders, which would be hell on an engine.

[Adam Scott]

And it seemed like both of them were aware that this is what they were gonna do.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. And by the way, the one thing to point out in this scene, you can't see it if you're at home, is it starts at night.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh. And ends. And ends. I wrote that, too. Ends in full daylight. And I was like, are we to presume that they've been driving for hours around Jungle Rave Island? What is happening? I think we don't notice that it started at night during a rave, so not even that late. And is now in full daylight.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, here we go.

[Adam Scott]

I had no idea why they were chasing each other or mad at each other.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes. I also thought that, like, aren't you guys his friends?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, after the grenade scene. Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

Wow. What happened?

[June Diane Raphael]

Sunlight, full day.

[Adam Scott]

You want to play?

[June Diane Raphael]

Like, it's not even dawn. It's not even, like, the sun is moon.

[Adam Scott]

I got one of those motorcycles, too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And they ride into waves.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then Vin Diesel goes underwater with a motorcycle, and. And it still runs. And I get it. The motorcycle's got jet Ski skis on it, so maybe it's got some sort of waterproof motor, but, like, I don't think so. And he seems to be unfazed that that capability is built into it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's like getting a James Bond car, and you're not James Bond, and you know every feature of the car without anyone explaining it to you.

[June Diane Raphael]

Totally.

[Adam Scott]

You know, I think the whole thing about every single girl in the movie wanting to have sex with him is completely just a carryover from, like, Bond. Like, this is a James Bond trope that we're gonna comment on in our new extreme sports way. And. But it just. It just comes off as so gross that. That every girl is. He's like, oh, let's do it.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, he is Stallone.

[Guest Speaker]

I mean, look, they were just very young. Like, they should give those opportunities to women, you know, who are in their 30s or, like, they should just open up that. And they were just very young.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What are you saying?

[Guest Speaker]

No, I'm just saying, like, if they're gonna cast someone, like, they should let.

[June Diane Raphael]

Me happier than if you got cast as Vin Diesel's love interest.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, they should just, like, open it up a little bit in the next triple. I would have loved to play that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Nina Jobrev character, but I wish I had the scene. And this is what I was talking about before, like, where. Because it, like, James Bond, he has his little witty things, and, like, there was, like, there was a line, and it's gonna be me and my bad memory of it. But it's like, he's like, I thought I got rid of you guys to the army guys. Right? And he's like, oh, how many flushes does it take to get you guys out of here? Something. And then, like, he. What is it? Got to.

[June Diane Raphael]

Two flushers.

[Adam Scott]

A.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Two. Oh, yeah.

[Adam Scott]

Two shushers. Oh, man. So you're talking about your shits?

[June Diane Raphael]

No, he says. He says if. If I was to. To stuff you in the toilet, you know, like, the maximum velocity of something, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And so what he does, though, is he gets that guy in the toilet, and he says the line before the guy is jettisoned out. But, like, that's the wrong time to say that line. Like, you flush him out, and then you finally figured it out. Two flushes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Bam. But he's like, he gets them in there. He's like, I figured it out. Two flushes. As if it was like, ha, ha. I did do the math, but it was written like. Like in a funny aside. But he made it a logical aside.

[Adam Scott]

Again, no idea what you're talking about. I'm pretty sure I missed this scene.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You shove the guy in the toilet.

[June Diane Raphael]

When he has his fight with the guy wearing robot gloves.

[Adam Scott]

I guess I did.

[June Diane Raphael]

You know this movie was four hours long, right?

[Adam Scott]

I do remember thinking, this is a pretty short movie, but.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, let's go to the audience. Let's see what things that you guys want to talk about. About. All right, I'm sure there's a lot. All right, I'll start down here with you, sir. What would be one extreme fact about you? My name's Tim.

[June Diane Raphael]

I've been skydiving.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Great. You got to say it like, skydived. You got.

[June Diane Raphael]

I've been skydived.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. I think someone made you do it. I love it.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay, so I. I wrote down what.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He said about the math problem. He said, I'm trying to figure out a math problem.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm calculating air speed and wind velocity to figure out where between China and North Korea. I should tell the NSA to pick you up. The answer to that is not two flushes. That's amazing. I think Vin on the day was like, I'm gonna save two flushes. The line is different because we've already shot the other side of it. He's like, nah, two flushes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, so, Vin, can you please.

[June Diane Raphael]

Stop putting the word family? This is not one of those movies.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, so your extreme fact and your question. I live my life a quarter mile at a time. And in the end fight scene in the lovely Detroit finale sequence, what was the Hound doing when his plan was to, like, bum rush a bunch of dudes shooting at him? He's like, I got a plan. He puts in his mouth guard, and then he just, like, gets shot a bunch. And then at, like, the end of the movie, he's just fine, like, hanging out with everybody.

[June Diane Raphael]

Didn't he and Donnie Yen both get shot? Yeah, they are 100% fine.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I mean, I saw what he. I thought he had a suicide wish and was, like, planning to sacrifice himself.

[June Diane Raphael]

I thought he was trying to draw for them or something.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I think that that guy does have a suicide wish. He. In the beat. We're introduced to him. Literally just getting in a car and crashing through a building for no reason.

[Guest Speaker]

No, he's not.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, yeah, he's not well.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, I was very happy we got to be there for his 200th crash. I mean, I guess I could tell that was meaningful.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I guess he fulfills the. It's the good, the bad and the insane. So I guess he's the insane part of the equation. That's what Vin calls him.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, is that right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The good, the bad and the insane. That was his.

[Adam Scott]

Who's. Who do you think?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, I think the insane is the guy who crashes his car.

[June Diane Raphael]

Sure is the good.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The dj.

[June Diane Raphael]

The good.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The dj. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

The bad is real. Ruby Rose.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

Okay, who is the. The girl, the sniper. Who. Who? Ruby Rose. She murdered someone who was about to shoot a lion.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, yeah, no, she shot. She just injured those people. So the lion eats them. Yeah, she said she's just evening the odds.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, but wait, but then the lion off screen sounds like he's eating there.

[Adam Scott]

Absolutely. For sure.

[Guest Speaker]

And by the way, I understood her point there.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, no, I get it, I get it. I mean, yeah, for sure.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But June. And now I'm even finding June's point more valid because she's not extreme sports either. She's just a sniper.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, I had no idea what this is about. Extreme sports.

[June Diane Raphael]

We find out that all of Donnie Yen's team is also Triple X and none of them are sports people either.

[Adam Scott]

Right.

[Guest Speaker]

Thank you.

[Adam Scott]

I think the extreme sports thing is just. They just took a way backseat.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I feel like extreme sports was popular 10 years ago.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And they're like, that's a fun idea for a movie. And then now they're like, but like.

[June Diane Raphael]

Why have Vin Diesel still participate in so much extreme sporting in the movie? Just have him be a badass ass kicker or whatever. Why have to have him ski in the forest and do all this nonsense?

[Adam Scott]

By the way, Triple X came out 15 years ago. Isn't that great? Wow. 15 years.

[June Diane Raphael]

What is happening?

[Adam Scott]

I know, I know. That's one year less than between Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace. So.

[June Diane Raphael]

Wow.

[Adam Scott]

Wow. Blow your mind. Wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right. Your extreme fact and your question. My extreme fact is I'm the June of my group and my question is. So Neymar is Brazilian soccer player. He shows the game the World cup final, which is the most embarrassing defeat of the Brazilian team of all time. You think Vin Diesel just insists to like degrade his fellow co stars, the people who actually have skills. That's amazing. So they picked the worst first clip of him. Yes. Like, it's monumentally embarrassing. Defeats the Germany team in the World cup final there. Wow. Yeah, I bet you wait, the guy.

[June Diane Raphael]

That he put in the movie?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

That they also humiliated him, so. Wow. We. I wonder what that movie.

[Guest Speaker]

Do you think he was trying to, like, redeem him in this movie or.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, because he's great, right? Yeah, he's great. They just picked a shitty clip. It's like. It's like, we got the best basketball player. And then you show him, like, missing a dunk normally. Always dunking.

[June Diane Raphael]

I wonder if the guy was a dick. And then Vin was, like, you know what? Put in, like, him being, like, embarrassing or something.

[Adam Scott]

I. Like, in your scenario, Vin Diesel's, like, around for the editing process.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, please.

[Guest Speaker]

He is 100% believe that this movie.

[June Diane Raphael]

Was edited in his for sure. Pool house by, like, two kids on each other's shoulders wearing a trench coat. What's that character's name from?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

BoJack, sir, your extreme fact, Your question.

[June Diane Raphael]

I can't live for this shitty movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, great. All right, yeah, I'll hold the mic. Okay. Especially at the lackluster way you delivered your extreme line. I'm definitely gonna hold the mic.

[June Diane Raphael]

Did you guys notice how when he goes to the super spy in London.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

To get the information, and when she comes out of the pool, she's got an ankle bracelet on, she's on house arrest.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then after he blasts the seven teenage girls to sleep, he meets her, like, in a restaurant the next day.

[Adam Scott]

To get the right.

[June Diane Raphael]

I have a theory. I have a theory about that. And this is. I don't know if I'm right, but this was my justification of that, which was she says to him, you know, I can't touch any kind of computer or something like that. She is, like, a hacker who's been removed from hacking. So I was like, does the bracelet pick up computer activity?

[Adam Scott]

Oh, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like, could it be related to things like. Like, there are blood alcohol bracelets that if you are legally not allowed to drink, they will put a bracelet on you that, like, it has a Bluetooth in it. Yeah. Is that the. The implication is, like, there's a bracelet that'll know if you're emailing so she.

[Adam Scott]

Can go to a restaurant, but if there's someone on a laptop in the restaurant, it's all over for her?

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, no, because all of her lady hackers are, like, hacking away.

[Adam Scott]

That's right.

[June Diane Raphael]

Right next to her.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So she really skirting the law.

[Adam Scott]

I think we may have found a hole.

[Guest Speaker]

Just the one. Just the one.

[June Diane Raphael]

You know What?

[Adam Scott]

In Triple X3, I don't know if.

[June Diane Raphael]

I like this movie anymore.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I want to Get a woman that has a question. All right. Yeah. Because we have a lot of dudes have questions I want to hear from.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. Dude movie.

[Adam Scott]

No girls allowed.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Boys club.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Just by round of applause. Get to your question, too, but by round of applause. Who, if you're a lady or dude, who here finds Vin Diesel to be as sexy as June is making him out to be?

[Adam Scott]

I'm trying to find my wife who's out there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then.

[Adam Scott]

That's right. Sit on your hands, honey. God damn it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And just for. And just to hear the other side of it.

[June Diane Raphael]

And I'd also like to just tell a couple of girls in the audience to sit on their hands as well, if that's not weird.

[Guest Speaker]

It is weird.

[June Diane Raphael]

Sit on your hands, honey. Same line, different intent, actually.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, ma'am, your extreme factor in your question.

[Guest Speaker]

I live every day like it's my last.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Great.

[June Diane Raphael]

And I'm wondering what tagline is better.

[Guest Speaker]

We'Re family or X takes care of its own?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Ooh.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, shit.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like the sentiment. The sentiment is very similar.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, it sure is. It's like Sophie's Choice.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

I feel like if I knew what X was, I'd have an easier time with this.

[June Diane Raphael]

We. Oh, I will say we have now reached the point in the podcast where June has forgotten the entire movie.

[Guest Speaker]

I have.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If you are curious what the tagline of the movie actually is. It is kick some ass, get the girl, and try to look dope while you're doing it.

[Adam Scott]

That's what he says to him at the end, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

The observation you made, Paul, that, like, extreme sports isn't as much of a thing anymore is just one of many indications that they just shouldn't have. Like, why Extreme sports is just, like, not.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I feel like, honestly, he was like, oh, the only movies that make money for me are Fast and Furious. How can I do the exact same thing but just not call it Fast and Furious?

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah. On a different mode of transportation.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He doesn't get a car until the end.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No. And by the way, when he drives, he's gonna drive it. Great.

[June Diane Raphael]

But if these two things could merge. Courage.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They're both universal. Right?

[June Diane Raphael]

That could be amazing. Here's the movie. Vin Diesel is both Dominic Toretto. Is that why he's bad? Yes. He's his own evil twin brother that he doesn't know exists.

[Adam Scott]

I swear to God. I swear. I can see that happening.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes. It's definitely been talked about.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, absolutely.

[June Diane Raphael]

By Vin Diesel. I would go see that in the mirror.

[Adam Scott]

Like, how quickly Would you buy a ticket to that?

[June Diane Raphael]

I would buy a ticket. I would. I would finance the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, but by the way, I would.

[June Diane Raphael]

I would make myself poor. I would take out irresponsible.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You would make it. You would make it back. Because that's the thing. It's like Vin D is the Last Witch Hunter. Who cares? I would see this movie a million times. Great. It's super fun. All right, Here. Yes. Your question. All right, Coming over here. Here we go. All right. Yes. Your extreme fact. Here you go. Extreme fact.

[Guest Speaker]

I went to Chico, so we know.

[June Diane Raphael]

How to drink, Right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right. All right. That's extreme.

[Adam Scott]

Did you say Chico? Chico State.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay.

[Guest Speaker]

Anyways, my question is they had this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Supreme accuracy with the satellites when they fell.

[June Diane Raphael]

How the heck did they do that?

[Guest Speaker]

It was like a bullseye with Samuel Jackson.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The first scene.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like, how does that. Well, same thing. Yeah, same thing at the end where they're sending the satellite to kill them in the factory. Why not just leave the factory?

[Guest Speaker]

Well, I know, but I do hear what you're saying, though.

[June Diane Raphael]

Guys, get out of there.

[Guest Speaker]

It does.

[Adam Scott]

All right.

[Guest Speaker]

It does seem odd because it would seem like the satellites had been made to become weapons.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

At a certain point when they were really ever only satellites.

[June Diane Raphael]

And the accuracy, you're right. Is impossible.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

That was the whole thing. The whole movie, if I'm correct. Let me know if I'm. If I'm wrong. But the whole thing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Slept through most of it. Yes. Go ahead.

[Adam Scott]

Is them trying to stop satellites from falling out of the satellites from hitting targets.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And here's. Here's the real bummer of that. Satellites are not designed to withstand the friction of reentering the atmosphere. And any satellite that would fall would be burnt up.

[Guest Speaker]

I'm glad to know that because I did walk out of the movie feeling a little nervous about all them satellites.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, my gosh. You know what the other little interesting fact was? The girl, the one who was showing his tattoo to. She turned down a part in Fast and Furious.

[June Diane Raphael]

Whoa.

[Adam Scott]

How dare she.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then she jumped on board for this one. She's a Bollywood star. Yeah. So she. She knew your name. Come on, come over here a little bit. Your extreme fact. What do you got, Seth? Extreme fact is I love to moped. Awesome. All right. Love it.

[June Diane Raphael]

Did you ever get it out there on that sweet, sweet water? Oh, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In the satellite realm, when they disclose the fact there's like 250,000 satellites orbiting Earth and they're going to drop one a day. So how long would this plot Take to happen. Like it.

[June Diane Raphael]

I agree. A long time. And he even says at one point, he's like, I'm not gonna stop. I wouldn't stop anyway.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The amount of destruction seems like. Like you wouldn't even need 250,000. You could probably really do all the damage you need in probably about 10, 15 days. Right? I mean, knocking all the major places.

[Adam Scott]

All this space junk they showed at the beginning of the movie, floating through space. It didn't seem accurate to me. It seemed.

[June Diane Raphael]

I agree.

[Adam Scott]

Thanks, Jason.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, one. One more question.

[June Diane Raphael]

I got you back on there.

[Adam Scott]

Thank you.

[June Diane Raphael]

All right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What do you think? Your Extreme Factor question. I teach middle school.

[Guest Speaker]

That is fucking extreme. I feel like now I have an understanding of those exes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Towards the end of the movie, Toni.

[Adam Scott]

Collette is arresting Donnie Yen and what's his name? Dom Toretto. He says.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He says, hey, he's not really a bad guy.

[Adam Scott]

Except for he smashed through the window.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And murdered the National Security Council at.

[June Diane Raphael]

The beginning of the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Kind of a bad guy. Oh, yeah, he did.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, no, he's like a chill bad guy.

[Adam Scott]

Straight up. Murdered a room full of government employees.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And he slid for like a second.

[June Diane Raphael]

Everybody slides.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, he slid. He slid so far. Like, I was laughing so hard at that. Cause he slid across the table, then, like, down the hall through the door.

[Adam Scott]

Like, shot out a big plate glass window and slid through.

[June Diane Raphael]

That takes his jacket on and off four times during the fighting.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. Oh, totally.

[June Diane Raphael]

A full disrobe row.

[Adam Scott]

And it was awesome. Every time.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, Donnie Yen is a fucking monster, dude. He is fantastic in this movie. I just wanted more. Tony Jaa.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's great. Okay. Oh, here's some interesting facts about xxx. Just as people are at home not to be too upset about it, there is no Vin Diesel is the first Triple X. There is no organization or team before him. So he was like. So when Triple X started, it was.

[Guest Speaker]

Formed it around him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, so if we met, like, if they would be similar. If, like, you met CIA, like, you know, like, whoa, you're CIA? I heard about you.

[Adam Scott]

You spawned CIA tattooed on his neck.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then. And the gun with the full of blanks is a callback to the first film where Gibbons puts him into a fake diner and then he has guns with bullets in there.

[Adam Scott]

And then again, these callbacks to something that no one knows anything about.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And here's the best one, the original. Fifteen years ago, who was the original choice to play Xander cage?

[Adam Scott]

Oh, shit.

[Guest Speaker]

15 years ago.

[June Diane Raphael]

Relax, everybody. Let's not get too crazy. Okay.

[Adam Scott]

Jeez.

[Guest Speaker]

Keanu.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Interesting, Interesting.

[Adam Scott]

Keanu Reeves is a really good.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm going to also say Keanu, although I don't know if you would have done it. It's point breaky.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, well, you know, he turned it down.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Clearly.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Turned it down.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, he turned it down.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This person turned it down.

[Adam Scott]

I'm gonna say Bruce Willis. Probably. Probably not, because. Yeah, I don't know.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm gonna say think out of the box.

[Adam Scott]

Out of the box. Will Smith.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

These are all great. These are all great.

[Adam Scott]

But that's in the box.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Maybe.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, maybe Helena Bonham Carter.

[Guest Speaker]

That is out of the box.

[June Diane Raphael]

HBC.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Eric Bana, 15 years ago. Yeah, I guess right after it, like. I guess it was like, you're like, this is guy. He's like, I stream because it gets that movie.

[Adam Scott]

You know, why wouldn't he.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I guess he was like, I don't like the script.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, I mean, why?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He clearly is chosen right across the board.

[June Diane Raphael]

My favorite Eric Bana piece of trivia is that he was on Australia's version of Saturday Night Live as a cast member.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, he's very funny.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's hilarious. But I'm like, also, like, I want. I want him now to be Triple X.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

By the way, if they make another movie, I'm sure they'll bring it that too. They're like, they're doing callbacks to the original casting session.

[Adam Scott]

That makes sense because that Hulk that he did was like 15 years ago.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Right. So probably picked between the two. All right, so clearly we had an opinion about this film, but there are other people out there with a different opinion. It is now time for second opinions.

[June Diane Raphael]

Vin Diesel is a cool rider. A cool rider. He was so damn cool. He risks his life to make soccer free.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Whoa.

[June Diane Raphael]

His motorbike's a jet ski and he's also in an orgy. He has a nipple tattoo and he knows how to flex them guns. This is second. Second opinion.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Good for you. Thank you, Tim. Amazing, Tim.

[June Diane Raphael]

Returning how it's done.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Tim, a returning champion of the second opinion theme. He's walking away with a Street fighter encyclopedia book. He will now know once and for all what a street fighter is.

[June Diane Raphael]

And by the way, people, you have the audio track. Now put beats behind it and let's make it a song.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We literally have 40 second opinions. Themes that we are like, on track 16 of. We need to do more.

[June Diane Raphael]

I love.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Now, these are culled from different sources, not because Amazon was not right up to the challenge yet, but they're nonetheless fun.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

As A matter of fact, this one is titled Fun Fun Fun Fun. And the amount of stars they gave it are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 10 stars. All right.

[Adam Scott]

Where did you find these?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If they were, this is from IMDb and one is from a Christian website.

[Adam Scott]

Great.

[June Diane Raphael]

Ooh, I hope they liked it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So this is from. All right, this one. Get ready. All right. I won't read this guy's name because I think he'll kill. Triple X are great action movies. I like them very much. And this XXX is not different. I love it. But allow me to write this few words. An outstanding XXX movie will have this title. XXX Julian assange.

[Adam Scott]

Whoa.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Imagine CIA, NSA, Hollywood loves movies. But no one in the U.S. or out of the U.S. modern colonies even published what the Empire did wrong in the secret wars USA is fighting under orders of the Nobel Peace Prize, the USA news media and the USA movie industry. Really to do I I will stop.

[Guest Speaker]

XXX Korean fake news, fake news.

[Adam Scott]

I feel like this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That and it goes on. I just stopped before it gets really racist.

[Adam Scott]

Was he just confirmed for Secretary of Labor?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This guy also gave it 10 stars. This is another IMDb review from Tiger Hen and Tiger Hen clearly likes Donnie Yoon. Donnie Yoon stole this movie with his role. His screen presence is extraordinary and the audience cannot wait for the next scene with him. His acting is on point. His action scenes are so fast. That is as fast as 8 years ago when he was IP man. Flashpoint SLP. It doesn't take much time before you start cheering for the villain, which is him, by the way.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I agree.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm not disagreeing, but you'll see. And then he talks about the Bollywood star Deepika De Pica's accent was a little out of place, but her performance was okay. All the female characters, Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose, performed the best and overshadowed Deepika, just like Donnie Yen overshadows Vin Diesel every time he is on screen together. Overall, a good movie with interesting dynamics and a storyline that does not have much flaw. 10 stars.

[Adam Scott]

Wow. For a minute there I thought Jason wrote that review.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Now this is a little bit of a longer review. It is from faithbasedreviews.com so they ask a lot of questions at the top. Like, did you like it? Should I see it in imax? One of the questions are there any phobias to be aware of? There are some heights early on, but nothing close to the edge. There are some scenes of bad driving if you have a fear of auto accidents.

[June Diane Raphael]

By the way, a lot of civilian deaths in this movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Does it contain strong Christian values? No, it does not. And here we go. You all know that chick flick that has a lot of stuff that appeals to women and makes the average man wanna spew. Now I present for you.

[June Diane Raphael]

Makes the average man wanna spew. This is overtly sexual at sentence one.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Now I present for your enjoyment, the adolescent fantasy. This has a lot of stuff that a preteen will think is cool, but your average adult will wanna blow chunks.

[Adam Scott]

This guy's into barfing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The movie is the argument that every awesome skateboarder team presents when an adult asks him or her if they'll get a real job. Yeah, man. I'm gonna be a super cool Vin Diesel when I grow up. Like some super secret spy people are gonna recruit me to save the world. It will be totally righteous. I'll be super cool and I'll be super rich and it will be like, totally radical. I'm sorry I'm not hip to the latest jive talk.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hey. Hey, Gary. So we just. We read your review of the new XXX movie and we're not changing anything. It's gold, buddy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But there will be a lot of hip talk involved. Do you dig? The whole movie is full of people being really, really cool. There's Vin Diesel standing there. He looks cool. Now there's Samuel L. Jackson standing there and he's saying something. I didn't quite remember it, but it was cool.

[Adam Scott]

Oh, my God.

[Guest Speaker]

I feel like a very old nun is writing this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Now there's some cool kung fu with that Donnie Yen dude. You know, he's the go to kung fu guy now that Jackie Chan isn't doing movies really. So he's cool and they're just blowing stuff up. Cool. Wouldn't it be cool if someone could wreck a car? Uh, they just wrecked a car. Each of the team is recruited for having a special skill. The woman is a really good sniper. All right, I can see that being useful. The guy is really good at crashing cars. That's a little less useful. Maybe the entire movie is a long. No, it's really not. His usefulness is just dropped. He's like taking Aquaman with you to Iraq.

[Guest Speaker]

Good point.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Finally, there's a guy who's a really good dj. Seriously, are we planning on having a raging party until the bad guys surrender? Yeah, if it was my team, I'd go fish.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like the card game, I guess.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The movie, like you're pulling your guy. The movie proves that you can't display a bunch of rapid fire cool Stuff and be left with a movie. The Fast and Furious franchise has more of a plot and that's saying something.

[Adam Scott]

Burn.

[June Diane Raphael]

Wait, does it end? Five stars.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, sorry, I forgot to. That is what star? I'm sure that's a zero star. Oh, sorry. This is a third.

[Paul Scheer]

Opinions?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It is a. A base score of a two that he adjusted to a 1.5. I don't understand how the one point. How he knocked it down 0.5. But yeah, two out of ten. I would.

[Adam Scott]

Why would the. Why would the lowest score you can give be a two?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. It seems like he kind of is envious that he wasn't in them. It seems angry for sure.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like he was like angry at cool stuff.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like, and stuff that people thought was cool, basically is like the guy that I feel like is like, cool isn't cool. You know?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Raising a family is cool. All right. That's what's cool. Yeah. And have. And being a middle school teacher. That's what's cool.

[June Diane Raphael]

That is very cool. That is very cool.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And you know what's really cool? Paying for your own HBO now account and not stealing your parents password. That's cool, dude. Or am I not speaking your lingo.

[June Diane Raphael]

Brah, so you can watch your. Not anymore Jackie Chan. Gotta be Donnie Yen movies.

[Adam Scott]

Just pissed that Jackie Chan's not working, apparently.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, I think we've said everything we need to say about the Return of Xander Cage. Adam, you got a bunch of cool stuff right now. Obviously. The Michael Bolton's big sexy Valentine's Day special.

[Adam Scott]

It's so funny. That Lonely Island Scott and Comedy Bang Bang Scott Arkerman. It's so funny. It's so good. I'm in it for like one second. But the. It itself is great and really funny.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then you're in the Prestige. Big Little Lies. This HBO show.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

How is that? Is that fun?

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. I haven't. I saw. The first one is great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That starts February.

[Adam Scott]

Seven of them. Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right. What else? Anything else you want to plug? I have a bunch of things I could keep on telling.

[June Diane Raphael]

Is this a spin off series from Pretty Little Liars?

[Adam Scott]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

It's like all the Liars grown up.

[Adam Scott]

All the.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Adam Scott]

It's a time machine. Kind of a time machine.

[June Diane Raphael]

So Shailene, Nicole Kidman.

[Adam Scott]

They grow into Nicole Kidman. Reese Witherspoon years.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You'll revisit it. You'll do another seven episodes in about 15. Fifteen years, give or take. They'll probably make a sequel without you guys. And then you'll come Back.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, they're gonna get some actors that are right in between our ages.

[June Diane Raphael]

Do you play one of the lies?

[Adam Scott]

I play one of the littles.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Are you tiptoeing it? You are on your knees like Gary Oldman is. And that's right.

[Adam Scott]

That's right. Wait, you guys did tiptoes?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, we did. Classic.

[June Diane Raphael]

Come on.

[Adam Scott]

I know. Sorry. The stupidest question of all time.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Anything else? Anything else?

[Adam Scott]

No, no. That sounds pretty good, June. I'm just gonna keep going.

[Guest Speaker]

The third season of Grace and Frankie comes out March 24th, so that's really exciting. And then Paul and I on Instagram are working on a campaign called at the Big hundred, which is 100 days of actions for the first hundred days of this administration. And if it's something you're into it, definitely check it out. Cause it's pretty. Been pretty amazing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's a little doable action that is just. That are good. Like good little small actions, bite sized actions that you can do that are nonpartisan and just make you a better citizen.

[Guest Speaker]

They're kind of partisan, but anyways, go on.

[Adam Scott]

Yeah, seriously, fuck those assholes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, you know, I do a small thing, a small part of a wonderful new podcast that Seth Morris put out called the Seth Morris Radio Project. And it is on.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's on Stitcher Premium.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's on Stitcher Premium. And it is. Or Howl Crazy funny. Or the how is it on the Howl app.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, great.

[June Diane Raphael]

So if you're on the Widow Howell app, get on that, go through with that. It's super funny. Kind of parody of radio, basically. It's really fantastic.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But you're really dropping the lead. Jason, you're in the animated Batman movie.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, yes.

[Adam Scott]

Are you so excited to see that?

[June Diane Raphael]

I am Scarecrow in Lego Batman.

[Adam Scott]

That's awesome.

[June Diane Raphael]

But I will say lower your expectations. It's very few lines, but very exciting.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I will say you can check out this new series that Rob Huebel and I created called DriveShare. It is an episode a day for 30 days. It's on go 90. It's totally free. It's not an app. You don't have to pay for anything. It's a website and an app. It's called DriveShare on the Go90, Verizon Go90. Jason's in an episode. It's super, super fun.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's really funny.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. It's so many different people. 120 different rides.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, and I'll also say this just because I still want people to watch it. Paul and I did an episode of the Chris Gethard show on fusion that's on YouTube and if you have not watched it, please find it and watch it. It's called One Man's Trash and it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is one of the best things.

[June Diane Raphael]

If you want to see Paul and I torture our friend Chris Gethard for 45 minutes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's amazing.

[June Diane Raphael]

It is worth it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well I guess that is it. Well if you had anything that you wanted to say you can give us a call at 619 Paul asks us P A U L A S K 619 Paul ask. You can leave it on a message and then we will play it on our mini episode. A big thank you to Avril Halley who cuts all of our clips. July Diaz, Nate Kiley, Marisa Zeitz, Leanna Waldron, everybody here at Largo and everybody at Earwolf. Thank you so much for coming. Bye bye Ear Love.

[Paul Scheer]

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