1992's Live Wire stars Pierce Brosnan as a bomb expert with two big problems: someone's using explosive water to blow up senators, and one of those senators is f**king his wife. Johnny Knoxville (Jackass: Best and Last) and Nicole Byer (Nailed It!) join Paul and Jason at Largo in L.A. to break it all down, including actor/activist Ron Silva's wild hair, Madonna the bomb robot, the exploding clown and exploding judge scenes, the multiple up-skirt bomb defusal situations, the bathtub sex scene, and so much more. Plus, Nicole reveals her very limited knowledge of actors who played James Bond.
1992's Live Wire stars Pierce Brosnan as a bomb expert with two big problems: someone's using explosive water to blow up senators, and one of those senators is f**king his wife. Johnny Knoxville (Jackass: Best and Last) and Nicole Byer (Nailed It!) join Paul and Jason at Largo in L.A. to break it all down, including actor/activist Ron Silva's wild hair, Madonna the bomb robot, the exploding clown and exploding judge scenes, the multiple up-skirt bomb defusal situations, the bathtub sex scene, and so much more. Plus, Nicole reveals her very limited knowledge of actors who played James Bond.
[00:00:00] Paul Scheer: Next time, put on some underwear. We saw Live Wire, so you know what that means.
[00:00:11] Music: [Intro Song]
[00:00:12] Paul Scheer: Hello people of Earth, and hello people of Los Angeles! We're live at Largo to talk about the 1992 Pierce Brosnan classic Live Wire, a movie that I didn't know existed until today. And boy, oh boy, I regret that. Now, if you've not seen Livewire, what do you need to know? Well, Pierce Brosnan stars as Danny, a bomb expert who's got two big problems. Someone's blowing up senators and one of those senators is fucking his wife.
[00:01:48] Also, the bomb is kind of just something that you ingest and I guess you become the detonator. I don't know. And a lot of the times in this movie, they just go, yeah, yeah, yeah, we don't, we can't figure it out either. It just happens. Go with it. And we do and it's great. And we are gonna break this down for you.
[00:02:08] It's got a great cast, of course, actor activist Ron Silva. I'm still committing to the Silva. Is in this film. Great, great performance by him. Oh, so many great people. So many bombs, so many outskirt shots. Weird. But let's break it down with the best. Please welcome my co-host tonight. Mr. Jason Mantzoukas.
[00:02:41] Jason Mantzoukas: What's up, jerks? Let's go. Let's go, Largo. Ha. Ooh, we got a good one. We got a good one. Pierce Brosnan's so angry. He's getting cucked. He's got to save the guy who's fucking his wife. Holy shit.
[00:03:04] Paul Scheer: I'm so. Like into this version of Pierce Brosnan because it's like he was trying to do something.
[00:03:11] Jason Mantzoukas: Imagine a world in which you're like, I am Pierce Brosnan. My wife is fucking actor activist Ron Silva?
[00:03:21] Paul Scheer: And.
[00:03:21] Jason Mantzoukas: What's hap, what world am I living in?
[00:03:24] Paul Scheer: We'll break it down in just a bit, but just kissing is what he says. At one point.
[00:03:30] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh my God, when he comes back out of the elevator to tell the security guard, they weren't fucking, they were just kissing.
[00:03:37] Paul Scheer: Just kissing.
[00:03:37] Jason Mantzoukas: The, the security guard should have killed him.
[00:03:42] Paul Scheer: And the way that he says, like, they were just kissing.
[00:03:44] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh.
[00:03:45] Paul Scheer: It was like they weren't even using tongue. I, I, it was a very polite kiss.
[00:03:49] Jason Mantzoukas: I lost respect for him in that moment immediately. Ron Silver is Alpha ing James Bond. What planet are we on?
[00:03:59] Paul Scheer: This is a year after Mrs. Doubtfire and a year before James Bond. A weird outlier in the Pierce Brosnan catalog, but boy oh boy, you know. When there's a bomb movie, we call a How Did This Get Made expert. She's joined us before on such, uh, films as The Specialist. You also know her from her amazing podcast, uh, and the show Nailed It. Please welcome Nicole Byer!
[00:04:45] Nicole Byer: So nice. Oh my goodness.
[00:04:48] Paul Scheer: Nicole. Nicole. Nicole. Nicole.
[00:04:52] Jason Mantzoukas: You're welcome.
[00:04:55] Paul Scheer: I feel like this movie has got a lot of things that you might like.
[00:04:57] Nicole Byer: Hey, I loved it.
[00:04:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:04:58] Nicole Byer: Okay. I will say this. I've never seen James Bond and I probably won't now.
[00:05:02] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:05:03] Nicole Byer: Um.
[00:05:04] Jason Mantzoukas: By the way, that's fine.
[00:05:06] Paul Scheer: By the way.
[00:05:06] Nicole Byer: Oh, okay.
[00:05:07] Paul Scheer: He only represents a small part of the James Bond story, but.
[00:05:09] Jason Mantzoukas: And I would probably argue one of the weaker parts.
[00:05:13] Paul Scheer: Sure.
[00:05:13] Nicole Byer: Oh dang. He's the whole thing though.
[00:05:15] Jason Mantzoukas: No.
[00:05:17] Paul Scheer: Well.
[00:05:17] Jason Mantzoukas: I love that you think that.
[00:05:20] Paul Scheer: We can break down James Bond later, but Yeah, so go ahead.
[00:05:23] Nicole Byer: Also, I like the Senator because it looked like somebody just placed that wig on his head.
[00:05:28] Paul Scheer: Yeah. That wig never fit right.
[00:05:31] Jason Mantzoukas: That hair was wild.
[00:05:33] Nicole Byer: It, it looked like a Fisher Price person.
[00:05:35] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, yeah. Where they swap out the hair.
[00:05:38] Nicole Byer: Yes, yes. It was wild.
[00:05:39] Paul Scheer: It had a weird, weird heart to it, and it was like he allowed that to happen.
[00:05:44] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:05:44] Jason Mantzoukas: It's also a period that we've talked about this before, before hair product could hold things in place. So during the action set piece, his hair is doing this. It's like flouncing.
[00:05:57] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:05:57] Jason Mantzoukas: Around in a way that is like terrible looking.
[00:06:01] Nicole Byer: It looked like a hair commercial.
[00:06:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:06:03] Nicole Byer: It was just like flowing.
[00:06:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:06:05] Nicole Byer: It was stiff.
[00:06:05] Paul Scheer: I wonder if that was his own piece. We had a caller call into last looks who talked about working on Al Pacino's hair. And um, when he sat in the chair, he had already done it and then she like went to go touch it.
[00:06:18] He's like, I think it's great. And she was like, oh. And, and, and then, and she was, oh, okay. He is like, yeah, it looks great, but she never touched it. And then the producers came in and were like, what, what is did you do, Al Pacino's hair, it looks terrible. And she's like, he likes it. And they're like, okay, we won't say a word.
[00:06:38] So I do feel like there is a, a world in which Ron Silver was like, I think it looks fantastic.
[00:06:43] Jason Mantzoukas: I think it looks great.
[00:06:44] Nicole Byer: We gotta keep men away from hair.
[00:06:47] Paul Scheer: I've been saying that for years.
[00:06:53] Jason Mantzoukas: I think most men have a fundamental misunderstanding of how hair works, unless they're going to Turkey to get it. In which case, they're obsessed with how their hair works.
[00:07:04] Paul Scheer: Oh. And they will tell you about it.
[00:07:06] Jason Mantzoukas: They would love to talk to you about it.
[00:07:08] Paul Scheer: And then pretend like they never went to Turkey four months later. I've always had this head of hair. What?
[00:07:14] Jason Mantzoukas: What do you mean? There was this couple of months where I only wore a fedora.
[00:07:18] Nicole Byer: I feel like you're talking about someone very specific.
[00:07:22] Paul Scheer: It's really everyone. There are pictures of men coming back to the states from Turkey and it's whole. They're all wearing the same fedora.
[00:07:30] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:07:30] Paul Scheer: And they're all slightly damaged.
[00:07:31] Jason Mantzoukas: You get it in Turkey. Turkey fedora market is off the charts.
[00:07:36] Paul Scheer: You get a free fedora with every hairdresser.
[00:07:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:07:39] Paul Scheer: Um.
[00:07:40] Jason Mantzoukas: The follicle fedora.
[00:07:43] Paul Scheer: You know.
[00:07:46] Jason Mantzoukas: I've missed you.
[00:07:47] Nicole Byer: I like that alliteration. It was nice. Thank you. And they did not appreciate it.
[00:07:51] Jason Mantzoukas: These fuck these fucking idiots don't even get it.
[00:07:54] Paul Scheer: They will learn.
[00:07:55] Jason Mantzoukas: I don't even understand alliteration. They're dumb.
[00:07:58] Paul Scheer: You'll learn.
[00:07:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Clowns.
[00:08:00] Paul Scheer: When you drink your water tonight. You'll fucking learn.
[00:08:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Nicole. Nicole has clocked Jafar.
[00:08:09] Nicole Byer: I thought that was hyperbole that I was like, ha ha. No.
[00:08:14] Paul Scheer: So Nicole, if you're just listening, has I realized at the top of the show, uh, you know her as Jafar Jafar is in the crowds, and I dressed as a full clown from the film. And when you see her, it is shocking because outta the corner of your eye, you're like, oh God.
[00:08:29] Nicole Byer: Also that was, you know her as Jafar?
[00:08:31] Paul Scheer: Yeah. It's a longer story. Oh, I could tell you a lot I know about Jafar.
[00:08:38] Jason Mantzoukas: I'll be honest, I wish I knew less about Jafar.
[00:08:42] Paul Scheer: Jafar has been around. We know a lot.
[00:08:44] Nicole Byer: Wait, is Jafar your government name?
[00:08:47] Paul Scheer: Jafar was the first costume that she ever had and she's never lost that name. But it's not Jafar. Even from Aladdin. It's Jafar from a, a bad of these movie.
[00:08:56] Jason Mantzoukas: We gotta get, we got it. We got it. The show's over.
[00:09:00] Paul Scheer: Okay. So. Tonight we have a very special guest, uh, you know him, uh, from such things as the Jackass franchise, also from the brand New Fear Factor. Please welcome Johnny Knoxville!
[00:09:33] Johnny Knoxville: I have to say, just kissing better than getting effed. But just by a little.
[00:09:39] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, yeah. But I mean, like, we're not, he does, it does, do we think he really thinks. They just kissed? Then he sees Ron Silver, it's Ron Silver's bedroom later and is like, come on. I mean, he's got like some sort of fuck den.
[00:09:54] Paul Scheer: I will.
[00:09:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Not to jump ahead, but like it's clearly.
[00:09:57] Nicole Byer: It's a fuck den.
[00:09:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Some sort of fuck den.
[00:09:59] Paul Scheer: I do. Well if we're jumping there, I do need to ask a question. It's great. This is the first time my son has come to see a show and we started, uh, started with this. Um, he puts his hand in the jar of Vaseline.
[00:10:14] Jason Mantzoukas: I mean, I've al already. Get tested, Pierce. What are we doing?
[00:10:20] Paul Scheer: He puts it all in there and I wrote this down because he says, um, he, I wanna make sure I have it right. He goes, planning a party? Now, planning a party would mean. I, well, I, I couldn't figure out was there not enough petroleum jelly in there or there too much? Or was?
[00:10:39] Jason Mantzoukas: I felt like that was a bad joke because like planning a party suggests like Diddy level lube.
[00:10:44] Paul Scheer: Right. That's what I thought.
[00:10:46] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:10:46] Jason Mantzoukas: AKA DLL Um, but this just was a slightly used normal tub of Vaseline.
[00:10:55] Paul Scheer: Well, it should have been like how was the party like? He should have said it like it already had happened, right?
[00:10:59] Nicole Byer: Well, I just thought it was very full. 'cause what he splatted out was a lot, so I feel like he was like, oh, there's still a lot of Vaseline. Maybe.
[00:11:07] Jason Mantzoukas: I like the word splattered. I just really wanna highlight it because boy, it's dynamite.
[00:11:14] Nicole Byer: Well, if that's what it was, literally it was splats. Splatted. I feel like he saw all of it and he was like, well, maybe he'll have a fisting party soon.
[00:11:21] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:11:21] Johnny Knoxville: Wow.
[00:11:22] Paul Scheer: Look, this is where his money goes.
[00:11:24] Nicole Byer: Your son likes that joke, right?
[00:11:26] Johnny Knoxville: This movie is the master of the non joke joke.
[00:11:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:11:29] Paul Scheer: Oh, yes. There are so many. Now, Johnny, you also love bad movies. I know we've talked about this a little bit.
[00:11:35] Johnny Knoxville: Yes.
[00:11:35] Paul Scheer: Uh, have you ever heard of Live Wire before today, before it was assigned to you?
[00:11:40] Johnny Knoxville: I was elated and, uh, also upset that I'd never seen it because it is magical. Wow.
[00:11:48] Paul Scheer: The premise of the movie, and I know I said this in the beginning, but it like basically water, it's a water bomb that when it goes in your stomach, the person explodes and it's deadly serious.
[00:11:59] Jason Mantzoukas: And, and, and also I loved it.
[00:12:02] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:12:02] Jason Mantzoukas: I loved the how clean it was.
[00:12:04] Paul Scheer: Yep.
[00:12:05] Jason Mantzoukas: That there, he's a bomb diffuser, but the bomb is just a glass of water. Now, you are really fucked.
[00:12:13] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[00:12:14] Nicole Byer: It also was only, I think an hour and a half. Real quick. Yeah.
[00:12:17] Jason Mantzoukas: You're welcome.
[00:12:17] Johnny Knoxville: Flew by.
[00:12:18] Nicole Byer: I loved it.
[00:12:19] Paul Scheer: Quick question. The movie starts off with Pierce with a bandaid on the bridge of his nose. That is never spoken about. Justified. I was like, oh, at one point we're gonna find out, oh, Ron Silva punched him in the face or something.
[00:12:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, no.
[00:12:33] Johnny Knoxville: Nope. They bring up a lot of things once that never figure into the movie ever again.
[00:12:39] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Like there also is a world that is like it's DC it takes place in DC a a city that seems to have nonstop bombs. Yeah. There are both the bombs you would anticipate that might be part of the, the, the nation's capital. Okay. Attacks on the infrastructure or something like that. But then there are also bombs just for cheating wives. These guys are fucking busy.
[00:13:06] Johnny Knoxville: Yes.
[00:13:07] Jason Mantzoukas: They're booked and busy, these bomb diffusers.
[00:13:10] Johnny Knoxville: And everyone's, all the other bomb diffusers are in full gear except for Pierce Brosnan. He's in skinny jeans diffusing bombs.
[00:13:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, I think we're meant to believe he has nothing left to live for.
[00:13:22] Johnny Knoxville: Oh, okay. Yeah.
[00:13:22] Jason Mantzoukas: So he is like, fuck it, I'm going in raw.
[00:13:26] Paul Scheer: But he also, it's like no one, no one ever takes a beat to. This is crazy that this woman has a bomb under her seat. Yeah. Like and how did she find it? It seems like in the middle of the ride you're like, oh, wait a second.
[00:13:40] Jason Mantzoukas: And her bomb. Her bomb was a classic sticks of dynamite ACME level bomb.
[00:13:48] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah. And spread your legs. Spread your legs.
[00:13:50] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:13:53] Nicole Byer: Mm-hmm.
[00:13:53] Johnny Knoxville: He's diffusing. So he's diffusing the bomb like this.
[00:13:58] Nicole Byer: Uhhuh.
[00:13:59] Johnny Knoxville: Yes.
[00:13:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:14:00] Nicole Byer: Yep.
[00:14:00] Johnny Knoxville: It's insane.
[00:14:02] Nicole Byer: And he's staring at her naked pussy the whole time because he was like, next time wear some underwear.
[00:14:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:14:09] Nicole Byer: And I was like, God, she must have been dripping wet. She was either like.
[00:14:13] Jason Mantzoukas: There it is. I just now also wanna call attention to her necklace.
[00:14:21] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:14:24] Jason Mantzoukas: 'Cause this is some next level nonsense. This is the only person who's dressed like this in the whole movie. Is she? She appears to twice drive into this movie from another movie.
[00:14:39] Paul Scheer: And, and I'm realizing, like I'm realizing that now, like when we meet him, he is self-destructive. I think they're trying to capture like a little lethal weapon energy.
[00:14:50] Johnny Knoxville: Yes. Yes.
[00:14:51] Paul Scheer: But at the end of the movie, he seems exactly the same.
[00:14:54] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:14:54] Nicole Byer: Yeah.
[00:14:55] Johnny Knoxville: He's. He's hyper aggressive. He gets hit with a restraining order right off the bat. I'm like, that's a really aggressive.
[00:15:01] Nicole Byer: Yeah. And then it proves why there's a restraining order.
[00:15:03] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:15:04] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:15:05] Nicole Byer: I'm still fucking married to you and this is my fucking garbage can. And then, and then they're like my dead daughter.
[00:15:15] Jason Mantzoukas: I did not see that flashback coming me at all. Brosnan is racking up Ls over and away. He has almost no wins in this movie.
[00:15:27] Paul Scheer: But the way that they like, it's so funny 'cause the wife seems to be over the dead daughter is like, look, it wasn't your fault. And he is like, it kinda was, oh yeah, it really was very much. One second. And then she, but I don't know why that daughter just jumped in the pool in the back either.
[00:15:42] Nicole Byer: Well, the wildest part was he had the dog with him, but not his daughter. So he was playing with the dog as she's dying.
[00:15:51] Paul Scheer: He left her there for a long time.
[00:15:54] Jason Mantzoukas: It's hard because like, I think the movie wants him to be like a complicated.
[00:15:59] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[00:15:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Like he fucked up. He's like, like Riggs and Lethal Weapon, but Pierce Brosnan is just too Pierce Brosnan.
[00:16:05] Paul Scheer: Oh, but there's multiple scenes where he is just like. Like just staring at the city of DC like, I can't get over this, but he is. Yeah.
[00:16:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Paul, as we get into it, could you, would you mind, I think you have the, the, uh, the text that opens the movie?
[00:16:20] Paul Scheer: I would, yes, of course.
[00:16:22] Jason Mantzoukas: Only because I think this is imperative that for people who may not have watched the movie, you understand how this movie starts. Because I saw just this text and it was like, oh no, this movie, here we go. This movie. You ready?
[00:16:39] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:16:39] Jason Mantzoukas: "Over the last decade, more than 3,600 lives worldwide have been lost as a direct act of terrorism. Nearly every country on the globe has its share of political, kidnappings, hijackings, and fire bombings, with one notable exception, the United States of America."
[00:16:58] This movie came out in 1992. I've got an update. I'm, I'm, I'm going back to the text.
[00:17:09] "Due to a stable political system and the difficulty of smuggling easily detectable, incendiary devices into the country."
[00:17:16] Paul Scheer: This is my. Easily detectable. Like, alright, well yeah, sure.
[00:17:20] Jason Mantzoukas: "The United States has been relatively safe, dot dot dot until now."
[00:17:25] Paul Scheer: Boom.
[00:17:26] Johnny Knoxville: And then cut to this.
[00:17:30] Paul Scheer: Wear some fucking underwear.
[00:17:33] Jason Mantzoukas: And her line, when she, when he's between her legs, your line is like, you have one affair and your husband puts a bomb under your chair.
[00:17:42] Paul Scheer: And again, it's not, it's like, yep. All on a workday. 'cause then he jumps on a helicopter, flies to another bomb scene. These motherfuckers do not care about crime scenes at all.
[00:17:52] They're just no gloves. Smoking in explosion crime scene seems bad. Yeah, they are. Multiple times. Cigarettes are like, yeah, what happened over here? The thing is still smoking. They're sitting in a smoking car like. It's fucked up. It's like, well, yeah. Get out of the car.
[00:18:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Was anybody else obsessed with Chekov's bomb robot?
[00:18:13] Paul Scheer: Oh, Madonna.
[00:18:14] Johnny Knoxville: Madonna.
[00:18:15] Jason Mantzoukas: There's a fucking robot in this movie that they never use.
[00:18:20] Nicole Byer: No.
[00:18:21] Paul Scheer: They use it a couple times. They open up its stomach and they put stuff in there.
[00:18:24] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, they, yeah, they, they use it like they never, it never, you, they keep foregrounding it in these scenes where you like, what'd you get your robot outta my way or Fuck your robot, or whatever. And I'm like, you know what, this robot's gonna come in handy. And I think I'm so fucking clever thinking this movie. Nope. The movie's like, no, fuck the robot. We, we don't see it again.
[00:18:41] Johnny Knoxville: But he got that one good line in. Oh, I feel like I'm in Lost In Space.
[00:18:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:18:46] Paul Scheer: Well this is it. Like, I feel like they gave him like all these things that you would never say. It's like, what'd you see that on CNN? Yeah. What am I on Ed McMahon's celebrity. Like what, what is this? He always was like cracking these jokes, like, uh, but then when there's a perfect moment to crack a joke, he doesn't. What are you a boy scout? And he is like, yeah. Like wait. A perfect opportunity for a joke. Yeah. And I got America guys are kicking ass. Yeah.
[00:19:14] Jason Mantzoukas: He also tries to sell jokes that aren't jokes when they're like, Hey, when he helps the woman between her legs, then they're like, okay, there was an explosion in a restaurant. We're gonna put you on a chopper and get you over there. He goes, I love Mondays.
[00:19:26] Johnny Knoxville: Oh yeah.
[00:19:28] Jason Mantzoukas: And a big smile. Like, I just like crack. These guys are gonna go home and be like the, Dan said the funniest thing today.
[00:19:35] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[00:19:35] Jason Mantzoukas: He's like, basically my buddy Dan at work is like the anti Garfield.
[00:19:43] Paul Scheer: I do feel like he was like, I just need to be everything. I need to be like he's, he's angry, right? And he's got all these witticisms, but he also comes off super weak. Like when he does come outta the elevator. Oh and tell again, we, I know we are gonna harp on this a few times, but that there's just kissing, there's no weaker thing to say. It's not cool, it's not clever.
[00:20:02] Jason Mantzoukas: I mean, inarguably, the movie is about a man who is being cuckolded.
[00:20:09] Nicole Byer: Mm-hmm.
[00:20:10] Jason Mantzoukas: By the, by the man he's trying to save.
[00:20:12] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:20:13] Jason Mantzoukas: And that is the story. Like the bad guys are so not really like delved into very much. 'Cause we spend so much of the time with Ron Silver. That is the story. Right?
[00:20:26] Paul Scheer: And yeah, and I, and I would also say, you know, like if he would be so much happier if we just kind of embraced the robot who was a little bit of a per then the robot was pinching his ass and they go, I don't know, the robot has a mind of its own. Does the robot have a mind of its own? Because the movie doesn't like wink and say it doesn't. It's like, I think the robot is sexually attracted to Pierce Bros.
[00:20:48] Nicole Byer: Oh, who isn't?
[00:20:49] Jason Mantzoukas: I would love that.
[00:20:50] Paul Scheer: Wolf.
[00:20:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:20:51] Nicole Byer: Can we go back to the elevator for once? So the doors closed. Is this man's ear pressed up against the door being like, are they gonna say something about my wife fucking that man?
[00:21:02] Jason Mantzoukas: What? What? Here we go. Watch.
[00:21:03] Movie Audio: That's what I found senator's fucking his wife.
[00:21:07] No shit.
[00:21:09] Paul Scheer: That's a long.
[00:21:10] Jason Mantzoukas: Excuse me. Okay.
[00:21:14] Movie Audio: Weren't fucking. Kissing.
[00:21:16] Okay. So the next time you go spreading rumors about my wife, check the facts with me first.
[00:21:23] Yes, sir.
[00:21:24] No. Thank you.
[00:21:30] Jason Mantzoukas: What, how can I root for this guy? He's in there so long, so we're to believe he goes in the elevator, pushes one. Does he go up a floor and come down a floor? Like I wish, I almost wish he'd come out the stairs door. Hey, hey, hey. I, I heard what you said, I emergency stopped on three and ran down. Just a heads up, it was just kissing. No tongue and some light over the shirt stuff.
[00:22:03] Paul Scheer: I do just, I mean, but again, why would they know this? Like Ron Silva is a low level like senator. He's a lower level cop. It's like this would not be the talk of anyone.
[00:22:14] Jason Mantzoukas: But yet it is the talk of the town.
[00:22:17] Paul Scheer: Everyone knows that.
[00:22:18] Jason Mantzoukas: FBI bombed diffuser. Dan, what's his last name? O'Neill. O'Neill's. Danny O'Neill.
[00:22:25] Paul Scheer: Danny O'Neill.
[00:22:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Danny O'Neill's wife is fucking senator, actor activist, Ron Silva. Uh, um, in a way that it really is, it, it made me laugh and I was like, oh, I wish that they had known. And so that later when people are saying, 'cause this continues, everybody is, is, is gossiping that they're fucking, I wish people would be like, oh no, I heard it was just kissing. I wish that it had like a cumulative effect and it had continued to radiate out like that.
[00:22:58] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh. Uh, so he, I mean, I wanna go back to what Nicole was saying. He deserves a restraining order.
[00:23:04] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:23:04] Paul Scheer: He is abusive to his wife.
[00:23:07] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:23:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:23:07] Paul Scheer: When he comes in, I'm like, yeah, get away. Yeah, he's a bad dude 'cause he is like, this is still my house. And I don't know when they were divorced 'cause he says it's his wife. He's wearing the wedding ring. They're not divorced. Right.
[00:23:18] Nicole Byer: They're just, I think they're separated, but he does have a whole other apartment.
[00:23:21] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:23:22] Johnny Knoxville: Which is awesome. The house is amazing. Yeah. The apartment, amazing.
[00:23:26] Paul Scheer: Oh yeah. Apartment though. It's like he's complicated because one of the pieces of furniture is just a, a wood box.
[00:23:32] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah. But it was a really nice apartment. Yes. And they made it, tried to make it look tough by when he opened the front door, you saw graffiti on the outside wall.
[00:23:40] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:23:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Like how much does he make as a bomb diffuser?
[00:23:45] Paul Scheer: And by the way, he's not even a bomb. He works for the FBI, he's carrying a gun. Right. He is like, what is he, 'cause he's not like a bomb diffuser, I don't think is going on stakeouts. He's staking out.
[00:23:55] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[00:23:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Well they keep saying to him too, like, you don't have to do this anymore. You basically, that's why we made you an FBI agent, so you cannot do this. And he's like, I wanna die. He's, I mean, he basically is like, I wanna die. Do go in a, in a bomb. Like.
[00:24:11] Paul Scheer: Uh, the movie also very confused about when it's night and when it's day.
[00:24:14] Nicole Byer: Mm-hmm.
[00:24:15] Paul Scheer: Um. The bad guys are talking to, uh, Ron Silva, and they're, it's thunderstorm, it's dark, it's night. They cut to Ron Silva, he's in an office during the daylight, and then at the end of the scene walks to the window is like, oh, it's about to rain.
[00:24:31] So then I'm like, where the fuck, how are they that far away from each other?
[00:24:36] Jason Mantzoukas: It, it's that DC weather. If you want it to change, give it five minutes.
[00:24:40] Paul Scheer: But then, but then, then they also have the scene at the end where it's like the radio DJ's like it's four in the morning, so if you're up, just stay up. But then the scene before the mom is still over the wife's house and you're like. What's been going on? You're up at, you're like at three in the morning, you're hanging out?
[00:24:56] Jason Mantzoukas: When they, when they pistol whipped that elderly woman, I have never been so turned on in my life.
[00:25:07] Paul Scheer: This movie is not afraid to make wild choices. Like they're still whipping a woman.
[00:25:12] Nicole Byer: My god. She flies.
[00:25:14] Jason Mantzoukas: She oh.
[00:25:15] Nicole Byer: And falls so hard.
[00:25:17] Jason Mantzoukas: I was really looking at it to be like, is that a stunt? Did they swap it out because.
[00:25:21] Nicole Byer: They killed a woman.
[00:25:22] Jason Mantzoukas: They, that it's, it's executed well. I think they might have killed that old woman.
[00:25:28] Paul Scheer: Well, she also had, she actually had the same backstory as Danny and she said she wanted to die on film. And so they let her, they let her do it. Um, they also throw a kid out of a wheelchair in this movie.
[00:25:38] Johnny Knoxville: That was the high, that was one of the highlights.
[00:25:40] Nicole Byer: It's so unnecessary.
[00:25:42] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, I'm so sorry to disagree with you, Nicole. It was so necessary so that they could load the clown into the wheelchair and wheel him away.
[00:25:53] Nicole Byer: What? The way they do it, no one is hustling and they're like.
[00:25:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Dump. Yeah. Oh yeah. At this kid center. We need, we need get this, get, dump the kid. Dump the kid. Get the chair.
[00:26:05] Paul Scheer: Uh, when that kid hits dirt and it doesn't seem like anybody like, is like, oh no, the kid, they're like, we gotta go. Like that kid would be dead. That kid is as rust as trampled at the end there.
[00:26:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, absolutely.
[00:26:17] And that's the thing is like the stakes are so high because the, we, we've barely talked about the bad guys, which is very interesting.
[00:26:24] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[00:26:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Because who, I don't know who they are.
[00:26:28] Paul Scheer: They all look alike.
[00:26:30] Jason Mantzoukas: I don't know where they're from or what their agenda is. It seems to just be revenge because he's owed $10 million.
[00:26:38] Which I mean is yes, a lot of money, but like he's blowing up like children's events. I don't know if it's that much.
[00:26:47] Nicole Byer: And they, weren't they mad about a bill being passed or something?
[00:26:50] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:26:51] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:26:51] Paul Scheer: They, they wanted to pass a bill 'cause if they pass the bill or they don't pass the bill, they get money. But then at the end of the movie, it's like, well, you have $10 million.
[00:26:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Isn't just what's happening right now?
[00:27:02] Paul Scheer: This movie, movie is timeless.
[00:27:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Is this ripped from that?
[00:27:03] Paul Scheer: This movie is time.
[00:27:04] Jason Mantzoukas: A very prescient movie.
[00:27:06] Paul Scheer: But then it feels like at the end of the movie, he's like, you got $10 million right here. So it's like, wait, did Ron Silva was gonna pay the 10 million? Like I didn't understand.
[00:27:15] Johnny Knoxville: I was like, I'm a little punchy. And I was about halfway through the movie before I realized that wasn't Timothy Dalton. I referenced Timothy to my wife. She's like, what are you talking about? That's Pierce Brosnan.
[00:27:27] Paul Scheer: Pierce Brosnan. Who did wax himself.
[00:27:29] Nicole Byer: Who's Timothy Dalton?
[00:27:30] Jason Mantzoukas: The bat.
[00:27:31] Paul Scheer: Another.
[00:27:32] Jason Mantzoukas: I love this.
[00:27:34] Paul Scheer: Another James.
[00:27:35] Jason Mantzoukas: Dalton is another actor who played James Bond.
[00:27:38] Nicole Byer: Huh?
[00:27:39] Jason Mantzoukas: Would you, would you, Nicole?
[00:27:43] Nicole Byer: Wait, how many?
[00:27:44] Jason Mantzoukas: Nicole, would you?
[00:27:46] Paul Scheer: Wait, what were you gonna say?
[00:27:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Would you be surprised to find out multiple people played James Bond?
[00:27:50] Nicole Byer: I thought it was just two.
[00:27:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay.
[00:27:52] Paul Scheer: Who are the two?
[00:27:53] Nicole Byer: Daniel Craig.
[00:27:54] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:27:54] Nicole Byer: And Pierce Brosnan.
[00:27:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay.
[00:27:56] Nicole Byer: Oh, wait.
[00:27:56] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, wow.
[00:27:57] Nicole Byer: And then, um, that man,
[00:28:01] Johnny Knoxville: Timothy Dalton.
[00:28:02] Jason Mantzoukas: That man.
[00:28:02] Nicole Byer: No, I don't know that man.
[00:28:03] Jason Mantzoukas: That man, the se the sequel to the Marlo Thomas show.
[00:28:06] Nicole Byer: He talk like this.
[00:28:08] Jason Mantzoukas: I love it. I love it. Let's see, what else do you know? What else do you know him from? And please keep doing the impression.
[00:28:20] Nicole Byer: What do I know him from? I have seen a movie with him. Someone say a movie. Nope.
[00:28:29] Paul Scheer: The Rock. Untouchables. Finding Forester.
[00:28:33] Nicole Byer: Nope.
[00:28:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Whose movie is Finding Forester? Get that person out.
[00:28:42] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:28:43] Paul Scheer: Indiana Jones. And the Last Crusade.
[00:28:45] Nicole Byer: Yes, because I date a straight man. He was like, you gotta watch Indiana Jones.
[00:28:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait, because you, you have to, you have to do.
[00:28:55] Nicole Byer: He keeps showing me these movies that he's like, I like them.
[00:28:58] Jason Mantzoukas: And you're, and you're blaming this as for, because you're dating a straight man.
[00:29:03] Nicole Byer: Yep. A gay man would never.
[00:29:10] Jason Mantzoukas: So I guess it's a real toss up. What are you gonna choose? You have to watch Indiana Jones movies, but fuck a straight man.
[00:29:26] Nicole Byer: That was my choice.
[00:29:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes. Or watch what you wanna watch, but not fuck a gay man.
[00:29:30] Nicole Byer: I don't think he'd fuck me. I think.
[00:29:33] Paul Scheer: And this is the dilemma. This is, this is it?
[00:29:35] Jason Mantzoukas: This dilemma of our time?
[00:29:37] Nicole Byer: Yeah.
[00:29:37] Paul Scheer: Oh, um, there. Oh, I love that you thought it was Timothy Dalton and it could have been Timothy Dalton. Uh, there is something really interesting with him, which is like, he shaved his body for this movie. Pierce Brosnan.
[00:29:51] Johnny Knoxville: Right. Poorly.
[00:29:52] Paul Scheer: Yeah. 'Cause he's a, he's a hairy man and he wanted to be a sexy guy. But that's what I think it is. Like, he's trying very hard to figure out what that sex appeal is.
[00:30:01] Nicole Byer: Wait, is that trivia or do you, do you just know that?
[00:30:04] Paul Scheer: It is trivia, but then when I realized, I was like, oh, he is a hairy guy. Cause. He's like, well take like, and Mrs. Dfi, he takes off his shirt. He's very hairy guy. And as somebody who has hairy chest, I'm always clocking that too. I'm like, great, good on you. And this guy was like, wait, what happened to that hairy chest? I already saw Mrs. Doubtfire And then I read that this part, he wanted to create the sex appeal.
[00:30:23] Jason Mantzoukas: Where'd you read that?
[00:30:24] Paul Scheer: What?
[00:30:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Where did you, where did you read that?
[00:30:29] Nicole Byer: What's the source?
[00:30:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Because you said, I read that he said that he, he wanted.
[00:30:33] Nicole Byer: Cite your source.
[00:30:33] Jason Mantzoukas: And I'm just wondering.
[00:30:34] Paul Scheer: Probably on, um.
[00:30:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Where is he talking about that?
[00:30:36] Paul Scheer: Playgirl.com.
[00:30:37] Johnny Knoxville: A Honcho Magazine
[00:30:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Honcho.
[00:30:41] Paul Scheer: Uh, it is on IMDB as, as Jafar has told me. Um, there are the.
[00:30:47] Nicole Byer: I can't believe there's a clown named Jafar here.
[00:30:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, we are, we're through the looking glass. This is.
[00:30:56] Paul Scheer: My favorite part is when Tavaris is like the Ron Silva was like yelling at him and he goes, you know, if you need to leave, I can separate you from this. Uh, Pierce Brosnan goes, I'll separate you from your fucking life. And then, and then Shane is in the background, his buddy. He's like, ha ha ha. You get him Danny. He's like, not a, that not, it's not a joke. It's a real threat. And it's not even like.
[00:31:22] Jason Mantzoukas: He frequently, frequently is begging Ron Silver to stop fucking his wife. He says it both to Ron Silver in person and then also tells people who know Ron Silver. You tell him he better stop fucking my wife.
[00:31:41] Nicole Byer: He also broke into his home while his wife was there. It was like, Hey.
[00:31:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. And it was basically like, just so you know, I can get in here.
[00:31:53] Paul Scheer: This is, this is him begging, this is him kind of begging for it here.
[00:31:56] Movie Audio: O'Neil. This is business and you better learn to separate it from the other problems in your life.
[00:32:08] You touch my wife again, I'll separate you from the rest of your life.
[00:32:13] Johnny Knoxville: Face.
[00:32:17] Jason Mantzoukas: It's also a very clumsy line.
[00:32:19] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:32:20] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. I'll separate you from the rest of your life. Okay.
[00:32:25] Paul Scheer: Well, the whole, the whole movie, the whole movie feels like that level of like first draft. It's like, oh yeah. Well's placeholder for a, a more, a more exciting comeback.
[00:32:35] Jason Mantzoukas: It is almost like he should have been a nerd who diffuses bombs.
[00:32:40] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:32:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Who doesn't quite have it all together. Who doesn't have clever comebacks, who's kind of just like failing and flailing, but it's again, Pierce fucking, it's never more clear than when you're cutting between Pierce Brosnan and and Ron Silver, and you're like, what on earth is happening?
[00:33:00] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah. The only thing worse than, uh, uh, Ron Silver doing the box trot with your wife is doing it with that haircut, which I had the same exact haircut at that time.
[00:33:12] Jason Mantzoukas: Please provide pictures.
[00:33:14] Johnny Knoxville: I tried to find them.
[00:33:16] Paul Scheer: I do think if your, I think you should let her go. I think if, if your wife is fucking Ron Silver, you be, you know, she's got bad taste. She, she's gone now. Um, I don't understand why they're separated. It's because he can't get over the death of their daughter.
[00:33:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:33:32] Paul Scheer: But then when he saves the day, she's like, well, now I'm back in love with him. Oh, okay.
[00:33:37] Johnny Knoxville: When she hears about him saving the day, she's like on the fence. She comes to his apartment. But when she sees them saving the day, then the next thing you know, they're in the bathtub together in like a cinema sex scene.
[00:33:49] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh.
[00:33:50] Nicole Byer: I couldn't believe that woman got in the tub with all her clothes on. I said, this is not reality.
[00:33:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, the minute I saw her fully clothed on the edge of the tub, I was like, she's going in.
[00:34:02] Paul Scheer: But also.
[00:34:02] Jason Mantzoukas: Even though this movie isn't in the eighties, there's a saxophone that's about to start playing. It does.
[00:34:09] Paul Scheer: But also.
[00:34:10] Jason Mantzoukas: And they have tender slow sex for about 30 seconds.
[00:34:16] Paul Scheer: But it's also like a weird thing that's like. Well, he saved the day. I better put him in the bath and give him a massage. It's also like not sexy to be like, oh, I gotta give my man a bath. Oh, like work into the bath. Do something else, but just don't give him a bath. Behind him, like I'll scrub you out.
[00:34:35] Nicole Byer: I also love that it was a reveal.
[00:34:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:34:37] Nicole Byer: Like they panned to him and then they kept going and I was like, oh no. Why isn't she in the tub with him naked?
[00:34:45] Paul Scheer: Right, right. Just cut to that scene. It's weirder. They have a weird relationship.
[00:34:48] Nicole Byer: And then her clothes come off slowly. Then you see her fucking tit.
[00:34:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Here's, here's what I'll say. Also, like I'm not rooting for them at all.
[00:34:57] Johnny Knoxville: No.
[00:34:58] Paul Scheer: No.
[00:34:58] Jason Mantzoukas: I'm not invested in their relationship and I think they're better apart.
[00:35:02] Paul Scheer: It's weird. It's weird to me that their daughter died by drowning and the first time they're getting back together is in a body of water.
[00:35:10] Jason Mantzoukas: Also. Also not for nothing. And I don't know how much time has passed. Where's the dog? Where's the dog?
[00:35:21] Johnny Knoxville: It's the dog's fault.
[00:35:22] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait. The dog is the one that tries to save the little girl.
[00:35:26] Nicole Byer: Maybe they fuck in the bathtub 'cause it's exposure therapy.
[00:35:31] Paul Scheer: Now he is finally healed.
[00:35:34] Nicole Byer: They didn't like that.
[00:35:37] Johnny Knoxville: Is this thing on?
[00:35:40] Paul Scheer: But I was like, it It is the promise of the pre like the premise. Right? It's like, it's like if you established that there's a gun, it has to go off in the third act. So if you establish that he, he.
[00:35:49] Jason Mantzoukas: That there's a robot, it needs to.
[00:35:51] Paul Scheer: Well, I was gonna say, I was gonna say, if you establish that he wants to fuck his wife again, he's gotta fucking like that scene feels like, oh yeah. He's back. He's back. Like we needed to see him fuck his wife. Uh, and I never would say that about any other movie, but I think you did need to see him, uh, do it all. And then.
[00:36:07] Nicole Byer: I just don't get why she does it, because he's so mean to her. And then when he, when she goes to his apartment, he's drunk, his tongue is literally out of his mouth. He's like, slurring. And then she's like, better fuck him. Like.
[00:36:25] Paul Scheer: What I also think about this, like they, they're trying so hard to up the stakes. Yes, the senators are blowing up, everything's blowing up. And then at one point, like, Senator, will you be at the, uh, the, the event? He is like, yes, hundreds of children from all around the country have raised money for the DC Kids Center. Why would the kids from around the country, the country be we gotta help those kids in DC It was such a weird thing.
[00:36:49] Jason Mantzoukas: That's a complete waste of time. Also, let me ask you this about the bad guys, is there headquarters, the Washington DC Department of Water? When they drive into their abandoned warehouse headquarters. It appears as though it's the Department of Water, and I was like, oh, smart. They're putting their bomb water in the water supply.
[00:37:13] Paul Scheer: Nope.
[00:37:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Of DC. No, not, that's not it.
[00:37:16] Nicole Byer: Nope.
[00:37:16] Jason Mantzoukas: That's not what they're doing.
[00:37:17] Nicole Byer: Just one fountain.
[00:37:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, just one, one fountain. Who's gonna drink from the fountain?
[00:37:24] Nicole Byer: So funny. What was the plan?
[00:37:26] Jason Mantzoukas: What's the plan?
[00:37:27] Paul Scheer: Oh, wait, I thought, wait, I thought that it was in the lemonade.
[00:37:30] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah, I did too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:37:32] Nicole Byer: Oh, my bad.
[00:37:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait a minute. There's, I think it's the fountain. This guy's flipping out.
[00:37:40] Paul Scheer: Because this is, we gotta get to Yeah, yeah. Okay. I, I'll hold the mic.
[00:37:43] Jason Mantzoukas: Can we get house lights?
[00:37:43] Audience Member: So basically the stuff was in the water and he was gonna put the lemonade in and it was gonna make the water and the fountain explode because the lemonade is acidic and he.
[00:37:53] Johnny Knoxville: Oh, oh, yes, yes. It's like the only thing the only thing that neutralize it was Alka Seltzer, which you heard once. Never heard again.
[00:38:02] Paul Scheer: And they never did it.
[00:38:03] Jason Mantzoukas: They never did that.
[00:38:04] Paul Scheer: Why would I wanted him to shove an Alka Seltzer to somebody's mouth.
[00:38:07] Jason Mantzoukas: I thought, I thought the clown. When he is got the clown and he sees the guy's going red, he goes, Hey, to the guy who's got the robot, Hey, we, he's gonna blow. And I was like, the robot's gonna come in and put Alka Seltzer into this motherfucker's mouth. No.
[00:38:21] Nicole Byer: Nope.
[00:38:22] Jason Mantzoukas: No robot, no Alka Seltzer. Nobody.
[00:38:25] Nicole Byer: Wait. Out of everyone who has seen this movie, did one person understand that the the acid from the lemonade.
[00:38:32] Oh. Oh, okay. Show off. Yeah, right.
[00:38:36] Jason Mantzoukas: All these, all these assholes think they're so smart.
[00:38:39] Paul Scheer: I, I do love the bad guys lair because. It's very furnished office, but it's also like in the basement of like a water dis. It's like you have a nice desk and, and file guest.
[00:38:50] Jason Mantzoukas: What do they stand for? What is their agenda? What is their message?
[00:38:55] Paul Scheer: It's business, Jason.
[00:38:55] Jason Mantzoukas: I understand he wants 10 million, but there's so many other people that are dying for the cause. What's the cause?
[00:39:03] Paul Scheer: I, I don't know.
[00:39:07] Jason Mantzoukas: The kid doesn't know.
[00:39:08] Paul Scheer: Answer that. Yeah. Oh, the, another great move of not being a cool superhero is when he is trying to go to Traverer's house. There's a speed bump right before the house. So he's like, presuming he is like, slow down, go over the speed bump, and then he. I'm like, you can't look cool driving up and hitting a speed bump slowly. Like, well, I will slow down. This is gonna fuck up my engine. Uh.
[00:39:29] Jason Mantzoukas: The fact that they made, so the two bad guys are like the, the guy in a suit, you know, like the, the guy that's like, you better gimme my 10. Mikel, I think is his name. You better gimme my $10 million. I mowed $10 million. And then his enforcer, who Jafar is dressed like, why?
[00:39:44] Paul Scheer: With the earing.
[00:39:44] Jason Mantzoukas: Why they thought that he needed to dress up, like, they were like, well, he'll dress like a clown. For the kids thing. We'll dress him like a clown. There's people doing all sorts of shit at this thing. This guy doesn't need to be dressed like the most chilling, upsetting clown.
[00:40:02] Paul Scheer: Wait a second. Wait, I wanna go back to that. So the clown was serving up lemonade. So was the idea, like, so no one had taken lemonade until that point?
[00:40:10] Jason Mantzoukas: Nobody had mixed lemonade with the fountain.
[00:40:12] Paul Scheer: Yeah. No, no. But it would be your body.
[00:40:14] Nicole Byer: No. So.
[00:40:15] Audience Member: The, the lemonade, the acid, and the lemonade. Because it's cynic.
[00:40:18] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:40:18] Audience Member: Cause it to explode.
[00:40:19] Nicole Byer: So it's, the lemonade, but the fountain is the bomb.
[00:40:23] Paul Scheer: So the okay. No, I understand. And, and I understand everybody's saying it's stomach acid or lemonade, but. Was the plan to always just drive the lemonade cart into the fountain?
[00:40:31] Jason Mantzoukas: They were gonna, yes.
[00:40:32] Paul Scheer: I think that's a bad plan. I mean.
[00:40:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[00:40:35] Paul Scheer: They could have done that at any point.
[00:40:37] Jason Mantzoukas: They, this was an instance where they didn't need someone to ingest the bomb. They just needed to mix the ingredients in the fountain and it would've blown the whole, whole thing.
[00:40:44] Paul Scheer: But it seemed like they could have just done that right away in the beginning.
[00:40:46] Jason Mantzoukas: They 100 pre they, yes, in, in fact, they should have.
[00:40:49] Paul Scheer: Like, because he goes, because the clown's, like, I'm gonna go back in. And then the clown takes off his nose and hat, like, now I'm, now I'm not fucking around. Like, but you are undercover as a clown. Now you've like, I love that he took off his nose to do the final.
[00:41:04] Jason Mantzoukas: What was interesting to me is so much is made of, uh, uh, you know, uh, a la the Hurt Locker, you know, Pierce Brosnan's ability to know and clip the right wires and all this bomb diffusion kind of stuff.
[00:41:18] He's so, he's the best. They keep telling us he's the best at this. He's so good, he's in demand, blah, blah, blah. But then they have invented a bomb he cannot do. He is powerless to the bomb.
[00:41:30] Paul Scheer: The only thing he could do is give it a tums. Which he does not do.
[00:41:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Which he doesn't do. His, his pliers should be Tums by the end of the movie, but all he can do is put a clown on a wheelchair and roll him away. That's like, he's doing the best that any of us would.
[00:41:45] Paul Scheer: That's why the third act is like, he just becomes MacGyver. He is like, here's a nail gun and I'll use this.
[00:41:50] Johnny Knoxville: Oh my gosh.
[00:41:50] Paul Scheer: But he is making.
[00:41:51] Johnny Knoxville: Who has that much acetone at their house?
[00:41:54] Nicole Byer: Well, he's getting ready for a, a party.
[00:41:57] Paul Scheer: Here's some fertilizer in the kitchen.
[00:41:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, he makes, oh, he makes electricity bombs. Uhhuh, he makes a pipe bomb. He shoots nails.
[00:42:04] Nicole Byer: Right into someone's neck. Also, that man had fertilizer in his kitchen.
[00:42:09] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah, yeah.
[00:42:14] Paul Scheer: My, my favorite line is when he goes, you insured? And he goes, no. What?
[00:42:20] Johnny Knoxville: Exactly. His accent is all over the place.
[00:42:23] Nicole Byer: Yeah. All over the place.
[00:42:24] Johnny Knoxville: It's like English, it's New York. It's.
[00:42:26] Nicole Byer: Also you don't have homeowners insurance?
[00:42:29] Paul Scheer: That's what I was like, what? How could you not have homeowners insurance?
[00:42:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Also, and also like, does Pierce Brosnan care?
[00:42:38] Paul Scheer: That's the joke. Like he needs the other, like, that's the thing, like when he goes, the Boy Scout was the same thing. It's like, it's like, it's like, oh yeah, we'll put that in later.
[00:42:46] Jason Mantzoukas: If I'm Pierce Brosnan and I'm in the guy's house that's fucking my wife and he says his house is not insured. I am as quickly as possible destroying the house to the maximum ability that I have.
[00:42:58] Nicole Byer: I agree. Also.
[00:42:59] Johnny Knoxville: Can we talk, oh, oh, go ahead. Go ahead.
[00:43:01] Nicole Byer: Well, I was just gonna say they painted over all that beautiful dark wood in that house, and I was genuinely pretty upset about it.
[00:43:10] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah. Oh no. They ruined a lot of original details.
[00:43:14] Nicole Byer: They did. Yeah. That white banister. I said, why?
[00:43:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah. I mean.
[00:43:20] Nicole Byer: All of the casings on the door, I said, why.
[00:43:24] Jason Mantzoukas: I would love this. I would love for this. This is your new podcast. Were you watch movies and critique the interior design and the choice, the design choices they've made.
[00:43:35] Johnny Knoxville: Can we talk about Gwen? That was her mom, right?
[00:43:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:43:37] Paul Scheer: Oh yes.
[00:43:38] Johnny Knoxville: She is such a social climber.
[00:43:40] Paul Scheer: Oh, she wants her to be with that guy.
[00:43:42] Johnny Knoxville: Oh my God.
[00:43:43] Paul Scheer: You should go, you should go to this weird man's house at three in the morning.
[00:43:49] Jason Mantzoukas: Her reward is to be pistol whip, which is crazy. But yeah, she wants, and I mean like the, her daughter, I mean, how these are adult people. These are people who are very capable of making their own decisions, but she's like, you should go do this. Yeah, you should. If your, if your old senator boyfriend sends a man to come get you, without telling you, you gotta go.
[00:44:12] Nicole Byer: Well, the other alternative is a man who's mad at her and yells at her.
[00:44:16] Jason Mantzoukas: I guess so. I mean, like, here's the deal. Choose neither. Choose yourself.
[00:44:24] Paul Scheer: She needs, she needs, I mean, she does. There's moments.
[00:44:27] Jason Mantzoukas: She's also in a very similar situation in Beverly Hills Cop.
[00:44:31] Paul Scheer: Yes. Well, yeah. Then she's literally being held by the villain at the end.
[00:44:34] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:44:34] Paul Scheer: Um, I do just wanna, we'll get to the audience here in a second. I, I wanna talk about the explosions. The first two explosions of the film.
[00:44:41] Jason Mantzoukas: They're dynamite.
[00:44:41] Paul Scheer: Right? They're. What I love.
[00:44:44] Johnny Knoxville: Hey ho.
[00:44:46] Paul Scheer: What I love about them is, yeah, the explosions are big, but they also felt like we do need to put a person right outside of it too. We gotta kill that person too. Like, there's a guy like, huh, I'm standing in front of a rest -- Oh, god. But then the other guy goes to the car. This is this guy.
[00:45:00] Jason Mantzoukas: I love this.
[00:45:00] Paul Scheer: He blow up.
[00:45:01] Jason Mantzoukas: I love it.
[00:45:02] Paul Scheer: And now look at his hand. There's a hand, can you see that hand? I don't even know where that hand is coming from.
[00:45:10] Nicole Byer: But the best part is he gets up after it.
[00:45:12] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes. Yes.
[00:45:14] Nicole Byer: He's absolutely fine.
[00:45:16] Jason Mantzoukas: He's fine.
[00:45:16] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah. And, and never do your, uh, stunts in slowmo if your stunt double looks like shaky green. Cause he looked nothing like Pierce Brosnan.
[00:45:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, no.
[00:45:26] Paul Scheer: Oh, there is this one shot that I pulled. Uh, this is when they're falling at the end.
[00:45:31] Johnny Knoxville: This is what I'm talking about.
[00:45:32] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Yeah. Let's see if I can zoom in here.
[00:45:34] Nicole Byer: Oh, that's, I didn't even clock that. That's so funny. That's neither of them. Also is that Steve Carrell?
[00:45:47] Paul Scheer: This looks like when you go to like, uh, universal Studios for the Water World Stunt show and the guy's like, I'm Kevin Costner.
[00:45:54] Jason Mantzoukas: Honestly.
[00:45:55] Nicole Byer: That's Steve Carell.
[00:45:58] Jason Mantzoukas: I'd rather watch this movie that stars these two guys. Look, I love that they were like, yeah, that wig will work.
[00:46:07] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:46:07] Jason Mantzoukas: It works enough.
[00:46:08] Nicole Byer: It's so funny. It's like an Elvis wig from Party City.
[00:46:13] Paul Scheer: And by the way, they do kill Traveres and he is not that bad. I mean, I guess he's a bad guy. I mean, his biggest crime, I, I don't know. I guess.
[00:46:21] Jason Mantzoukas: He seems to be somehow the villain of the, the arms deal.
[00:46:26] Paul Scheer: I guess.
[00:46:27] Jason Mantzoukas: You know?
[00:46:27] Paul Scheer: He goes, I just was trying to get in a high profile vote.
[00:46:30] Jason Mantzoukas: No, I don't think we're meant, I, I don't think that's true. I think he's trying to talk his way out of it.
[00:46:34] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:46:34] Nicole Byer: I think he was laundering money.
[00:46:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:46:36] Nicole Byer: He was refurbishing his whole home to hide money.
[00:46:39] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:46:39] Paul Scheer: But then, but then that woman who wanted to fuck Pierce Brosnan too, she was like, it, there's nothing on him.
[00:46:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, yeah.
[00:46:45] Paul Scheer: There's nothing there.
[00:46:46] Nicole Byer: Wait, that lady was so sad.
[00:46:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:46:48] Nicole Byer: She was like, well, I guess she won't fuck me.
[00:46:51] Jason Mantzoukas: She was like, I got, she was like, I got tired of waiting for you.
[00:46:56] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:46:56] Jason Mantzoukas: What, how long was she waiting? He's been married until just recently when his daughter died, and then she was like, what are we up to here?
[00:47:08] Paul Scheer: The timeline.
[00:47:08] Jason Mantzoukas: I heard Mandy RIP'd, let's do this.
[00:47:12] Paul Scheer: The timeline of this movie might be three months from when the daughter drowned in the pool to now it's very short.
[00:47:18] Jason Mantzoukas: I don't, and the journalist is like, let's do this.
[00:47:20] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah. I I was kind of pulling for her, a, him and the journalist or the, the bomb girl.
[00:47:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Any, anybody.
[00:47:27] Paul Scheer: By the way, the, the, uh, bomb lab is in a, an office building with all windows.
[00:47:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:47:33] Paul Scheer: Like there's like, the full laboratory is like, I don't think this is healthy for like, the specimens or anything. And then they're showing him, he's like, I'm gonna show you how this bomb works. Pierce Brosnan puts his fucking face up to the test tube. Let mean look like you work with bombs, like don't do it.
[00:47:50] Nicole Byer: But also he saw what the bombs do.
[00:47:53] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:47:53] Nicole Byer: They turn you into the devil.
[00:47:55] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[00:47:56] Nicole Byer: And then you explode.
[00:47:58] Jason Mantzoukas: I thought this was a great special effect. The people turning into the box. Right. Bloodshot eyes, the bleed. Like, I thought this was great as a, because like the idea being like, oh, this is explosive, this is crazy. But that it is inside of people. It looked terrific. The, the, my favorite one was the judge.
[00:48:17] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:48:18] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:48:18] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:48:19] Jason Mantzoukas: The judge was great.
[00:48:20] Nicole Byer: Yes. 'cause her back, like rips open a little, like pre-cum and then, and then it's like.
[00:48:26] Jason Mantzoukas: And you can still get pregnant then.
[00:48:29] Paul Scheer: It's very good.
[00:48:30] Jason Mantzoukas: So you just are starting to leak A little bomb pre-cum. You can still get pregnant.
[00:48:35] Paul Scheer: I literally. I literally said to somebody backstage, you're like, is it okay for your son to watch a show? I go, we never talk about dirty stuff in this show. There you go.
[00:48:46] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, so many questions to answer on the ride home.
[00:48:51] Paul Scheer: But, um, but what I do love, I wanna show the judge exploding. But what I do also love is like they run back into that courthouse and he is like, oh, there's still water in the jug. Really? Like, he's like, oh, here it is. The jug is still full of water, like the whole fucking courtroom. It didn't.
[00:49:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, that's the thing is it's very good because each human body. Oh, do, is this the explosion?
[00:49:13] Paul Scheer: This is it. Yeah.
[00:49:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, fuck yeah. Vera Blair. Blair fuck, I love her.
[00:49:17] Movie Audio: Proceedings.
[00:49:18] Jason Mantzoukas: So hot.
[00:49:19] Movie Audio: Having said that, this is case 7 4 8 7 dash four.
[00:49:24] Jason Mantzoukas: Johnny, I wanna see you with that hair.
[00:49:25] Movie Audio: People in the District of Columbia against Savio Capelli.
[00:49:35] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, uh oh.
[00:49:36] Paul Scheer: Uh oh.
[00:49:37] Movie Audio: Since the defendant does not have a lawyer, the court has appointed Mr. Lewis. Mr. Lewis, are you ready to enter a plea on the charges of mis? Mr. Lewis, are you ready to enter a plea on the charges?
[00:49:50] No.
[00:49:51] No.
[00:49:51] Plea on the.
[00:49:55] Jason Mantzoukas: That looks great. I love it.
[00:49:57] Movie Audio: No!
[00:49:59] Get the senator out of here now. Right now.
[00:50:01] Right now. Move.
[00:50:04] Nicole Byer: That floppy hair.
[00:50:39] Jason Mantzoukas: That's from her.
[00:50:42] Paul Scheer: He stayed in front of that door for way too long.
[00:50:45] Jason Mantzoukas: It's so much damage.
[00:50:47] Nicole Byer: So much damage. And I've been to court. Why was there a partition?
[00:50:52] Paul Scheer: I, I, I mean, I guess like to stop assassinating. I've never seen that.
[00:50:56] Nicole Byer: Me either.
[00:50:56] Jason Mantzoukas: Supposed to be bulletproof glass. It's not good.
[00:50:59] Paul Scheer: It melted very quickly.
[00:51:01] Jason Mantzoukas: It melted immediately.
[00:51:03] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh. I love that everyone also checks their watch. I got it. 30, 30 seconds. 30 seconds is quick. Like just go like, yep, she drank it. I'm out.
[00:51:10] Jason Mantzoukas: And Pierce Brosnan clocks that he clocks the guy getting nervous. He clocks her drinking the water. And he's still like.
[00:51:17] Paul Scheer: Here. Here's the thing, if you're an accomplice to a villain, don't wear identifying earring. I am like, you never took it out. Never. Let's go to the crowd here. Let's talk to you all. I'm sure that you all have points of view, ideas, questions. Obviously you knew how the thing worked. All right, so we're gonna go to you because you actually understood the evil plan. So what's your name?
[00:51:39] Audience Member: Uh, Alex.
[00:51:40] Paul Scheer: Okay. And Alex, and what's your question?
[00:51:42] Audience Member: So I reached out to my science teacher about, uh, bombs being ingested.
[00:51:47] Paul Scheer: How old are you?
[00:51:48] Audience Member: Uh, 15.
[00:51:48] Paul Scheer: Love it. You're as old as this show.
[00:51:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Which is, which is true. And chilling.
[00:52:03] Audience Member: Um, so basically it's kind of a summary of what he said. So he said, the human body is mostly water, so it's not good for explosives. Explosives require fuel, oxygen, and ignition, and the stomach doesn't have any of these.
[00:52:15] Paul Scheer: And you're writing him on spring break. He must think you're the coolest. He is like, wow, all right. Yeah.
[00:52:20] Audience Member: I didn't tell him it was a movie.
[00:52:21] Paul Scheer: Yeah, yeah. No, I love that. I love that you just ask, you're just asking the question.
[00:52:23] Nicole Byer: You didn't tell him it was a movie? You were just like thinking about bombs. See you next week.
[00:52:30] Paul Scheer: You're gonna get arrested.
[00:52:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Super quick Q. Vis-a-vis school. Can a body be a bomb? Wow.
[00:52:46] Paul Scheer: Alright. So yes, so basically can't work. Can't work. Okay. That's good. Alright. Yes. Hi. What's your name and question?
[00:52:53] Nicole Byer: Uh, my name is Sam. Assuming this bomb technology is real.
[00:52:57] Paul Scheer: Which we know it can't be.
[00:53:00] Nicole Byer: The villain was so upset about this deal in his $10 million, why didn't he just sell this technology to another country?
[00:53:07] Jason Mantzoukas: I mean, he's obsessed with revenge.
[00:53:09] Paul Scheer: Yeah, right, because he didn't care. He just wanted, I mean, his word is more important than, yeah.
[00:53:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, he wants to get $10 million off of an arms deal. He's sitting on like a gangbusters bomb technology.
[00:53:21] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[00:53:21] Jason Mantzoukas: That he could sell for tens of millions of dollars, if not more.
[00:53:25] Paul Scheer: But yet he kills the poor scientist. Scientists like, Hey, I would love it if you gave me a check. I've been working real hard. He is like, I'll fucking kill you. It's like, why him?
[00:53:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Do you have a pen? And then stabs him with his own pen.
[00:53:36] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[00:53:36] Nicole Byer: And then, then the other guy cleans it off like he's gonna use it later.
[00:53:40] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:53:41] Jason Mantzoukas: As if he's like, Hey, this is a good pen.
[00:53:45] Paul Scheer: But but also leaves him in the doorframe of the elevator. So no one, every day is like, people are just like, click, click, click, click. Why is this elevator not coming? 'cause it's this hitting that dead body just boom. Boom, boom.
[00:53:56] Jason Mantzoukas: A lot of elevator work in this movie.
[00:53:59] Paul Scheer: Um, uh, yes. Hi. What's your name and your question?
[00:54:01] Audience Member: Uh, my name is Dan. I just wanna know the, the lady in the car. What is her dating pool? Because this was pre-internet, so there's not a lot of instructions on how to make bombs, but those were relatively sophisticated bombs from both.
[00:54:12] Jason Mantzoukas: How do you know?
[00:54:12] Audience Member: Husband.
[00:54:14] Jason Mantzoukas: How do you know? Busted.
[00:54:15] Audience Member: I, I asked my science teacher.
[00:54:16] Jason Mantzoukas: Everybody look under your seats. He's back.
[00:54:21] Paul Scheer: But she learned her lesson. She didn't leave her husband, but she's still dating like, 'cause it's her boyfriend.
[00:54:28] Jason Mantzoukas: But she said, this one's my boyfriend.
[00:54:30] Paul Scheer: So she's still cheating on.
[00:54:31] Jason Mantzoukas: She still cheating on the husband.
[00:54:32] Nicole Byer: Yeah.
[00:54:33] Jason Mantzoukas: But the husband's not upset about it? The boyfriend is. I do, I also wanna know her story.
[00:54:38] Nicole Byer: I, yeah, I wanna see her.
[00:54:40] Jason Mantzoukas: She's a more compelling character.
[00:54:41] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:54:42] Paul Scheer: Well, I also love in that final scene where they're like, he's doing it. And then you're like, Hey buddy, you're gonna be a dad. Your wife just gave birth. And he is like, oh, I gotta leave now. It's like he seems surprised that he's a dad. Like it was delivered. Like, Hey, you wouldn't have guessed it, your brother just came in from Cincinnati.
[00:54:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:54:59] Nicole Byer: And then he runs to the hospital.
[00:55:03] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:55:04] Nicole Byer: You don't see him get in a car, get on the bus, nothing.
[00:55:06] Johnny Knoxville: No. Yeah.
[00:55:07] Jason Mantzoukas: It, it is confounding that he.
[00:55:11] Paul Scheer: And again, that woman's car in the middle of a street, like, just like she was driving her tick, tick, tick and called.
[00:55:17] Jason Mantzoukas: I mean like when she goes home and her husband is like, how was your day? Is she like, there was a bomb in the car. Like is she's talking about it?
[00:55:27] Paul Scheer: Is she dating Dennis Hopper from Speed? Oh. And it's like the origin story.
[00:55:32] Jason Mantzoukas: I wish that was a movie.
[00:55:33] Paul Scheer: Uh, yes. Uh oh. Yes. Hi.
[00:55:34] Audience Member: Uh, Adam. And, uh, did you catch what Pierce said to her when, uh, he goes, your husband really knows what he's doing, this bomb is really cute. Was he talking about her pussy when he said that? Like, what was he like?
[00:55:47] Paul Scheer: Well, I don't.
[00:55:48] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[00:55:49] Paul Scheer: You know what? Yeah. No further. Uh, all right. Hey, what's up?
[00:55:55] Jason Mantzoukas: So you're saying her pussy is the bomb?
[00:55:58] Nicole Byer: Yeah. All that and a bag of chips.
[00:56:01] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, salt and viney? Oh wow.
[00:56:16] Nicole Byer: That really.
[00:56:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Whoa.
[00:56:20] Johnny Knoxville: It's got a wang to it.
[00:56:21] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow. That is sharp.
[00:56:25] Nicole Byer: If someone ever ate me out and went, Hmm, salt and vinegar, I would walk into traffic.
[00:56:32] Jason Mantzoukas: That.
[00:56:33] Paul Scheer: By the way.
[00:56:33] Jason Mantzoukas: That or see salt and cracked pepper.
[00:56:36] Paul Scheer: By the way, that's the way that the sex scene originally ended. Yes. Okay. Again, my children are here tonight. Um, by the way, so, uh, we all have talked about Jafar and dressing the clown costume, but we have, uh, yet to notice, uh, the person that she's sitting next to, can you please also stand up? He is, uh, wearing a shirt that says, Jafar's boyfriend, please help me.
[00:57:05] Johnny Knoxville: Wow.
[00:57:06] Nicole Byer: That's funny, 'cause if you guys weren't walking together, someone would be like, I knew Jaffar from Aladdin was gay.
[00:57:13] Audience Member: That happened, that happened to us at the Santa Monica Pier earlier.
[00:57:16] Nicole Byer: That did happen?
[00:57:16] Audience Member: The lady operating the carousel at the pier was like, I love your shirt. I love Jafar in Aladdin.
[00:57:22] Johnny Knoxville: You dressed like this all day?
[00:57:22] Jason Mantzoukas: Were you dressed like that?
[00:57:23] Audience Member: No. God no. We went and had dinner down the street and then I put this makeup on in the car at like 6:30. What do you think I am?
[00:57:30] Nicole Byer: Well, Jafar, I don't know.
[00:57:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Imagine, imagine you're walking by a car. And this is being assembled.
[00:57:39] Nicole Byer: Also. That's so funny. Jafar's like, what do you take me as as you're sitting here like a clown.
[00:57:45] Jason Mantzoukas: What do you take?
[00:57:47] Nicole Byer: I love you, Jafar.
[00:57:48] Jason Mantzoukas: All right, Jafar, what do you got?
[00:57:49] Nicole Byer: So, um, we did not have director's commentary on this DVD, and I'm sad about it. But we did have a, uh, eight minute long extended sex sequence.
[00:57:59] Paul Scheer: Oh, eight minutes?
[00:58:00] Nicole Byer: It's eight minutes? Homina homina..
[00:58:03] Johnny Knoxville: It's like a samurai. It's like the samurai cop sex scene. It's just awful.
[00:58:09] Nicole Byer: There were six position changes.
[00:58:12] Johnny Knoxville: There's six positions?
[00:58:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait a minute.
[00:58:16] Did this movie invent five positions?
[00:58:24] Paul Scheer: To be honest, to be honest, five of them was him finding bombs on her body and diffusing them.
[00:58:31] Audience Member: But so the caveat to all of that fucking is that this movie was in pre-production when Pierce Brosnan lost his wife at a very young age from ovarian cancer.
[00:58:42] Paul Scheer: I was gonna keep this part a little bit out of the show, but ah, we go ahead. We may just edit this Jafar.
[00:58:49] Audience Member: Fair. They had production meetings because Pierce Brosnan was upset about like having to have such intimate scenes, and they were like, if you wanna be James Bond, you'd better like whip your butt out.
[00:59:01] Nicole Byer: Wait a minute.
[00:59:02] Jason Mantzoukas: Where comedy goes to die?
[00:59:03] Nicole Byer: Wait.
[00:59:04] Audience Member: He was in talks already.
[00:59:05] Nicole Byer: So. He was sad about his wife who passed away. They shoot a eight minute sex scene and then cut it from the movie?
[00:59:14] Paul Scheer: Well, Nicole, here's the thing that's gonna really boggy your mind. This movie never came out in theater.
[00:59:18] Nicole Byer: What?
[00:59:20] Johnny Knoxville: No.
[00:59:21] Paul Scheer: This movie was a TBS like TNT. Not even a like showtime.
[00:59:27] Johnny Knoxville: That doesn't make sense.
[00:59:29] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:59:31] Nicole Byer: Oh, HBO Thank you.
[00:59:32] Paul Scheer: Oh, alright. Here we go. This is, it's a very odd story. Uh, so basically.
[00:59:37] Johnny Knoxville: Do people have sex for eight minutes?
[00:59:42] Jason Mantzoukas: Eight minutes, six positions? I mean, that is like.
[00:59:46] Johnny Knoxville: I'm out.
[00:59:47] Jason Mantzoukas: That's if you add them together, that's double digits. I'm pretty sure that's not how sex works.
[00:59:55] Paul Scheer: So this is what they say. The film was being prepped as a summer blockbuster when New Line Cinemas trying to diversify its films. And then, um. It just never made it to the, it just never made it to the theater. Wait, where's I have the reason why.
[01:00:10] Jason Mantzoukas: Did it go? So.
[01:00:11] Johnny Knoxville: You have the reason why.
[01:00:12] Paul Scheer: I have the reason why.
[01:00:14] Johnny Knoxville: They watched it.
[01:00:15] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:00:17] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow. That's incredible. That it.
[01:00:23] Johnny Knoxville: Like, there's a reason.
[01:00:24] Jason Mantzoukas: For all Because this is not a cheap mo. Like this is, that's a huge hit.
[01:00:29] Paul Scheer: Yeah, it was $9 million.
[01:00:31] Jason Mantzoukas: That's a lot of money. 1992. That's like $10 million.
[01:00:38] Paul Scheer: Um.
[01:00:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Can I ask you a question very briefly?
[01:00:40] Johnny Knoxville: Yes sir. Yes sir.
[01:00:41] Jason Mantzoukas: What, how did our main bad guy, when did he swallow the liquid?
[01:00:47] Nicole Byer: Oh, when he's got the gun to that lady's head, he has a little vial and he went gobble gobble. He does. And then does.
[01:00:52] Jason Mantzoukas: I missed that. I missed that. Sorry. Okay. Thank you.
[01:00:54] Paul Scheer: Yeah, because he knows it's over from, by the way, we have been talking the entire time about what, what the reason is, like why, why did they do it? And this is the closest that we have is this scene here.
[01:01:03] Movie Audio: That fool was right. It's completely undetected.
[01:01:06] Jason Mantzoukas: This looks like how the joker is made.
[01:01:08] Movie Audio: The formula can give us, nothing will stand in our way. Nothing.
[01:01:13] Sometimes I wonder what's it all for?
[01:01:29] No.
[01:01:34] Paul Scheer: It's a fun.
[01:01:35] Jason Mantzoukas: I would believe you if you told me they improvised those lines, you know, like, that makes no sense.
[01:01:42] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[01:01:43] Paul Scheer: Why would you even, why would you keep that in?
[01:01:45] Jason Mantzoukas: That's like, that adds up to zero.
[01:01:48] Johnny Knoxville: Yeah.
[01:01:48] Nicole Byer: There was also a weird gay joke at one point.
[01:01:51] Paul Scheer: Oh yes, I have that one too.
[01:01:52] Nicole Byer: Okay. Thank you.
[01:01:53] Paul Scheer: Um, I was, because it came so late, the movie, it's like, wait, we're doing, it was in like the middle of the, the third act like thing. Uh, yeah, this is it. Uh, I got it right here. Hold on. Uh, okay, so this is.
[01:02:08] Movie Audio: Guess who.
[01:02:13] Look, I've alerted my security. I've also got a man in the house.
[01:02:16] Your sexual preferences don't interest me.
[01:02:20] Could have killed hundreds of missing people today.
[01:02:23] Well, only because they matter to you.
[01:02:25] Now, I'm not in the mood to wait any longer.
[01:02:27] I have a life, you know?
[01:02:29] But if you kill me, you won't get anything.
[01:02:31] Not true. I get to kill you.
[01:02:36] Okay. You'll get you 10 million.
[01:02:38] Paul Scheer: Again. No, no plot.
[01:02:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, what's weird, what's weird too is if he, if you kill me, you won't get anything. That's not true. I get to kill you. It's so weirdly done. Like it's as if he's clarifying, but he is just restating what Ron Silver said.
[01:02:55] Paul Scheer: It's a.
[01:02:57] Jason Mantzoukas: It's really weird. It's, and so much of the threat. Is all phone based. The bad guy's always calling the senators to be like, I'm gonna get you. And they're like, you can't touch me. I'm Philip Baker Hall, I'm immune to that. And then next thing you know, his guy's like, glug glug glug. I love this water. Boom.
[01:03:18] Paul Scheer: I do think I'm, I'm just thinking back to that robot was the robot's name Madonna? The robot.
[01:03:22] Johnny Knoxville: Madonna, yes.
[01:03:22] Paul Scheer: Yeah, Madonna. And they just pour stuff into the robot's belly at a certain point. And the ro I just, it just seems like they're very unsafe with like, explosives, liquids and everything. 'Cause that could just blow up the robot too. The robot, at one point they say, uh, it's napalm, it's TNT, it's dynamite, it's everything. It's like, it's everything?
[01:03:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Boy, we didn't know how good we had it.
[01:03:49] Paul Scheer: Obviously we had opinions about this film, but now it is time for second opinions.
[01:03:55] Audience Member: Hello, my name's Anna.
[01:04:00] Gotta get that. Run. Silva hit that. Then he went, splat. Gotta get that, that that five star review. View, view, filmed. Watch by few. Few, few bad guys. Confused, fused. Fused. That judgey. Flu. Flu, flu. Yo, I got that. Five star review as pension robots. That's newar. Get blue up from the inside. Ew, that clown outfit. Knock a kid out a wheelchair. Shit, these bodies, boom, boom, boom. Live Wires doom, doom, doom. These bombs go. Boom, boom. Pow. Brosnan's a cuck somehow. Second opinion swagger. How Did This Get Made? Like how? Handcuffed to the guy that I hate, but he met his rot, iron fate. So no more. Boom, boom, boom. Don't drink the water in the room, room, room. Everybody now. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom.
[01:04:53] Paul Scheer: Wow, wow, wow. Now that was amazing. You did not know that Johnny was gonna be here.
[01:05:01] Johnny Knoxville: Do you vet these people before? They're amazing.
[01:05:03] Paul Scheer: No, they're amazing. That is amazing. Oh my. But that's like, that's, that's an Irving Ziman song.
[01:05:11] Johnny Knoxville: Yes, it was. I was trying to remember the dance steps, but I couldn't even remember Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan..
[01:05:18] Paul Scheer: Um.
[01:05:19] Jason Mantzoukas: You're saying you don't have good, very good long-term memory. Do you think?
[01:05:22] Johnny Knoxville: It it's been, it's been altered.
[01:05:23] Jason Mantzoukas: Can you attribute that to anything?
[01:05:27] Johnny Knoxville: Live Wire.
[01:05:29] Paul Scheer: Um, here we go. Uh, there are 523 total reviews of Live Wire on Amazon, and, uh, 63% are five star reviews. Here's a sample.
[01:05:39] Johnny Knoxville: What?
[01:05:40] Paul Scheer: Yep. 63%. Uh, and this one is from Jerry.
[01:05:44] " What's not to like Nude Pierce Brosnan. I mean, not through the whole movie, of course."
[01:05:56] Which I would've liked to have seen that. Uh.
[01:05:59] "Pretty good story. I liked it. I mean, I liked it years ago when I first saw it, and I, I still like it. I mean, I must like it. I bought it right? Kind of improbable, but I like that. Five Stars, great Pierce Brosnan movie."
[01:06:20] Then it goes to Kimberly Hatch. Uh, she did this in 2020.
[01:06:25] "I like Amazon. They always deliver my items on time. Five stars."
[01:06:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Can you imagine writing a review for your experience on Amazon? Somehow on the page for Live Wire?
[01:06:44] Paul Scheer: I'm sure they said review your purchase and she was like, oh, my purchasing experience. Got it. Um.
[01:06:50] Jason Mantzoukas: What a life for Kimberly Hatch.
[01:06:55] Paul Scheer: Uh, this one in 2014 was written by Joe and goes,
[01:06:59] "Although very entertaining, this movie should be viewed as a warning of what could happen across the globe. Very sick people out there that want to exact hurt on Western societies, another wake up movie, five stars."
[01:07:15] Nicole Byer: He needs to email his high school science teacher. Because it's not possible.
[01:07:26] Paul Scheer: And then, uh, this one from Jonathan Fritz who writes, um,
[01:07:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Jonathan Fraeks from Star Trek?
[01:07:32] Paul Scheer: Sorry, Jonathan Fritz. Jonathan Fritz did love this film. Uh, he goes,
[01:07:35] "At first he was doing bomb stuff. Then he turned into a spy. Loved when he got back to his roots of doing bomb stuff. Great performance by the robot. Five stars."
[01:07:45] Jason Mantzoukas: I agree. I agree.
[01:07:47] Paul Scheer: And the final review, uh, just, and this might be, uh, I fear this is somebody that is a fan of ours who saw that we were doing this, but I'll read it anyway. Uh, they wrote.
[01:07:57] Jason Mantzoukas: Don't reward them.
[01:07:59] Paul Scheer: "Pierce Brosnan has a girly ass. Five stars."
[01:08:04] Jason Mantzoukas: Has a girly ass.
[01:08:05] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[01:08:06] Jason Mantzoukas: What does that mean?
[01:08:06] Paul Scheer: Like, his ass.
[01:08:07] Jason Mantzoukas: What does that mean, do we think?
[01:08:07] Johnny Knoxville: Is that an insult?
[01:08:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[01:08:10] Paul Scheer: I mean, they did give it five stars, but I, I feel like they wanted a more masculine ass.
[01:08:13] Nicole Byer: Maybe they knew he was deeply hairy. And went to the same source you went to.
[01:08:17] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[01:08:18] Nicole Byer: And said.
[01:08:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[01:08:19] Nicole Byer: This too girly. Where the hair at?
[01:08:20] Jason Mantzoukas: Did you write it?
[01:08:22] Paul Scheer: Whatever. Shut up. Anyway, we have a lot of great reviews. Uh, um, yeah. And, uh Right, right, right. Uh, okay. Um, there, uh, in addition to the eight minute sex scene, there is, the UK version is highly edited because you cannot show making bombs. And apparently this movie is very explicit and correct about making bombs. So, uh, that was pretty good. Um, yeah. And then, um, and then there's a special thanks at the end of the film to Julia Child and the Ladies Pro Bowler tour.
[01:09:00] Nicole Byer: Because that's, yeah, that's what he's watching on tv.
[01:09:03] Paul Scheer: Oh, oh, oh.
[01:09:04] Nicole Byer: He watches Julia Child and then there's bowling and.
[01:09:06] Paul Scheer: Oh, okay. I thought this is a joke.
[01:09:08] Johnny Knoxville: You are super perceptive. I thought he was Timothy Dalton through half of the movie and you're noticing this shit.
[01:09:18] Paul Scheer: And if you are wondering, yes, there was a Live Wire 2 Human Time Bomb. Um.
[01:09:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Human Time Bomb?
[01:09:30] Paul Scheer: Ah, it says it has very little correlation to this movie.
[01:09:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.
[01:09:36] Paul Scheer: Sounds like the plot. The title seems right on the money. Um.
[01:09:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Human Time. We gotta do it.
[01:09:42] Paul Scheer: And it says.
[01:09:43] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait. Has anybody seen it? No. Okay.
[01:09:45] Paul Scheer: It says, uh, it says, uh, a computer chip turns an FBI agent into a lethal weapon. Uh, and it reuses scenes from another film called Cyborg Cop. So, uh.
[01:09:59] Jason Mantzoukas: I think we got, I think we gotta do 'em all.
[01:10:01] Nicole Byer: Yeah.
[01:10:02] Paul Scheer: Yeah. So that is this.
[01:10:03] Nicole Byer: Who's in it?
[01:10:04] Paul Scheer: Um, I don't know.
[01:10:06] Nicole Byer: Another James Bond.
[01:10:09] Paul Scheer: Timothy Dalton, as a matter of fact.
[01:10:13] Jason Mantzoukas: You know what I loved? I just wanna say.
[01:10:14] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[01:10:15] Jason Mantzoukas: We talked about the fact that early in the movie, Pierce Brosnan is served a restraining order for his wife, from his wife, rather that happens on the highway that is blocked off from everything where he is diffusing a car bomb. The between the leg scene, the guy manages to get all the way through to serve him a restraining order. That was wild to me.
[01:10:39] Johnny Knoxville: And she completely ignores it the whole movie.
[01:10:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Yeah. He keeps saying, you shouldn't be here, you're violating your own restraining order. Here in this tub.
[01:10:51] Nicole Byer: We also didn't talk about how Pierce Brosnan handcuffed himself to that man.
[01:10:56] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[01:10:56] Nicole Byer: And I was like, well, you're gonna slow yourself down?
[01:10:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Right? Yeah. That's why. Why not just handcuff him to anything else?
[01:11:01] Nicole Byer: Well, he did handcuff him to a pillar in the middle of the bedroom and then unhandcuffed him and then handcuffed him to him.
[01:11:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Like, did you think they were gonna fuck?
[01:11:10] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[01:11:12] Johnny Knoxville: Hoping.
[01:11:14] Nicole Byer: Yes.
[01:11:15] Paul Scheer: That's on your dvd.
[01:11:15] Jason Mantzoukas: When they were in the bedroom, weren't you like, like maybe this is gonna jump off.
[01:11:19] Nicole Byer: Yeah, I thought Pierce was gonna be like, lemme suck your dick.
[01:11:22] Jason Mantzoukas: For 30 seconds. Apologize and leave.
[01:11:26] Paul Scheer: That's the only way you could get back at him. Uh, or just gentle kissing. Okay. So final thoughts? Anything that we haven't covered anything before? Would you recommend this movie, Jason?
[01:11:35] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, I actually would. Yeah. This was fun as hell. Yeah. I mean, it's absolutely nuts. It makes no sense, but it's a blast. Um, very, and it helps that I do, I feel, everybody in it is throwing themselves all the way in, in, in service of absolute dog shit. Which is one of the, one of my favorite things for our movies. You know, like they're, they're going for it and it's not working and it's wonderful and they're all good. That's the thing is it's Pierce Brosnan, it's Ron Silver, like these are good people.
[01:12:08] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[01:12:08] Jason Mantzoukas: But the movie is dog shit.
[01:12:11] Johnny Knoxville: How dare you.
[01:12:13] Paul Scheer: I mean, it does feel like a point, it's like, are they making fun of this or are they.
[01:12:17] Johnny Knoxville: Oh, no.
[01:12:18] Paul Scheer: Because it's like, yeah, because it, and they're not, and that's what's kind of like, so it's, the earnestness really does work for me.
[01:12:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Imagine if instead of Pierce Brosnan, not to make it too much of a callback, but it was Jean Claude Van Dam.
[01:12:33] Paul Scheer: I don't think it would've worked as good.
[01:12:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Really?
[01:12:35] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[01:12:35] Jason Mantzoukas: Interesting.
[01:12:36] Paul Scheer: I think he's like, got more of like a, well, I'm gonna say he's a good actor. So he's actually.
[01:12:40] Johnny Knoxville: Who is?
[01:12:40] Paul Scheer: Pierce Brosnan?
[01:12:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[01:12:41] Johnny Knoxville: Oh, okay.
[01:12:42] Paul Scheer: John. John. Yeah. Sorry. Didn't want, okay. It's almost like he's playing things too heavy. Like, it, it, it causes an unbalance.
[01:12:50] Jason Mantzoukas: I kind of wanted Pierce brazen to be replaced by someone who was in Ron Silver's movie.
[01:12:56] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[01:12:57] Jason Mantzoukas: You know, which would've been like a, a Segal. A Chuck Norris.
[01:13:02] Paul Scheer: Oh, it's great Segal movie. Like, I'll fucking separate you from your life.
[01:13:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[01:13:05] Paul Scheer: Like, that's, that's. Yeah. It's like, yeah.
[01:13:07] Jason Mantzoukas: There it is.
[01:13:09] Paul Scheer: Uh, Nicole, any final thoughts on uh, Live Wire?
[01:13:12] Nicole Byer: Oh, what a treat. Um, I am gonna rewatch it 'cause I do wanna see that eight minute sex scene.
[01:13:18] Jason Mantzoukas: I think we're all gonna go home tonight and rewatch the eight minute sex scene.
[01:13:22] Nicole Byer: But do I have to buy the DVD?
[01:13:24] Audience Member: Do you want mine?
[01:13:28] Paul Scheer: Alright. There it is. Nicole. Jafar.
[01:13:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.
[01:13:36] Nicole Byer: I can't wait to get home to that nice man in my life and go, Jafar gave me Live Wire and not explain a thing.
[01:13:46] Jason Mantzoukas: We get to watch the eight minute sex scene, babe.
[01:13:49] Paul Scheer: You made me watch Indiana Jones. I'm gonna make you watch Live Wire.
[01:13:56] Jason Mantzoukas: He's like, Live Wire made me gay.
[01:14:01] Nicole Byer: Thank you Jafar.
[01:14:03] Paul Scheer: Johnny, it's been um, amazing to have you here. And, and what do you think? Any final thoughts on Live Wire?
[01:14:09] Johnny Knoxville: I realized I miss so much and I have to go rewatch as soon as I get home.
[01:14:15] Paul Scheer: It's, it's really, it's one that just keeps on giving. Um, thank you. Oh wait, well, sorry I forgot this. Anyone have anything they wanna plug? Uh, Jason, Nicole, or Jason? You have anything you wanna plug?
[01:14:24] Jason Mantzoukas: No. Not really.
[01:14:25] Paul Scheer: Great. Nicole, anything?
[01:14:26] Nicole Byer: I'm in the world.
[01:14:27] Paul Scheer: Alright, great. Johnny?
[01:14:29] Johnny Knoxville: Nope.
[01:14:30] Paul Scheer: Alright, great. Got nothing here. Um, thank you, Largo. Give up for Largo. Jason Mantzoukas! Nicole Byer! Johnny Knoxville! I'm Paul Scheer!
[01:14:42] We'll be back. Make sure you come check out Dinosaur. See you all later. Bye-bye.
[01:14:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Eat shit, LA!
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