June 1, 2023
EP. 320 — Fast X LIVE! (w/ Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg)
Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg join the HDTGM Fast Family to break down Fast X, LIVE from Largo in LA. They discuss the Jason Momoa corpse scene, Pete Davidson controlling the London Underground, the Vatican bomb ball, the confusing Toretto family tree, and much more. Plus, an audience member’s name shocks everyone and special guest Jon Lajoie performs a live family-centric rendition of his Second Opinions theme.
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Transcript
Paul Scheer [00:00:00] You can take away my freedom. But you can never take away my car! We saw Fast X. So you know what that means.
Music [00:00:15] [Intro Song]
Paul Scheer [00:01:04] Hello, Family! Largo, welcome to How Did This Get Made live for Fast X, a movie that is just the beginning of the end. A movie that Vin Diesel compared to the Lord of the Rings. He did it in seriousness. A movie in which the bad guy is mad at the wrong guy. You forget for the entire movie that he killed his dad. Someone else killed his dad. Why is he going after him first? But we don’t care. There are 45 people in this movie. If you’ve never seen the Fast and Furious, guess what? It doesn’t make a difference. You’ll figure it out. And if you don’t? They’re just fun characters. So tonight, to break down this movie, to look at it from every different angle, because I can’t really break down the plot more than just saying this. You have to know a little bit of fast five, but if you don’t see Fast five, that’s okay because the first 20 minutes of this movie are Fast Five. So that’s okay. And then everything else happens in a world in which everyone speaks English. Everyone’s able to travel around the world within minutes. This movie makes so much sense, but I will never attempt to break down the plot more than Jason Momoa is mad. But we’re going to break it all down tonight, and I’m going to do it with my co-hosts. Now, let me tell you something about my co-hosts. They’re excited to be here and I want to welcome them out to the stage. So please welcome to the stage, my co-host Jason Mantzoukas.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:03:21] What’s up, Jerks?! What’s up, family?! Family. Family. Family. Family. Family. All right, buckle up, assholes. This show’s going to be conservatively three and a half hours long. We can not shut up in the back.
Paul Scheer [00:03:43] We had to stop multiple text chains. Here’s the thing.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:03:48] We’ve had. We’ve had people unsubscribe from the text chains because we’re talking too much about the movie.
Paul Scheer [00:03:56] I told Jason I saw this movie alone in a theater in the middle of Ohio, an IMAX theater. I yelled at the screen, I got up, I changed seats. It was the best movie experience I’ve ever had in my entire life. You and I saw it first, right? You and I saw it first. We knew. We knew the fun.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:04:17] We knew what was up.
[00:04:18] We knew. You’ve seen it twice.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:04:20] Yes, I have seen. I’m going to be honest with you guys. In the last three and a half years, I’ve been in a movie theater three times. Two of them were Fast X, baby. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ll go again.
Paul Scheer [00:04:43] Now, I will say that this week was a sad week because normally I would accompany our next host to a theater to see the show.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:04:53] Aw. People are like to invest it. “Oh they had to go separate?” Some of us have to go alone.
Paul Scheer [00:05:04] But I will tell you this. I didn’t mind the thought of you going alone. But I did love the thought of my co-host going alone at 11 a.m. with a cup of coffee in her hand.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:05:19] I just love “Leaving the house.” “Where are you going?” “The Theater to see Fast X at 10am.”
Paul Scheer [00:05:25] I’ll be done by 12:30. And now.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:05:29] Life changed by noon.
Paul Scheer [00:05:32] I’ll play it one more time. June Diane Raphael!
June Diane Raphael [00:05:54] Okay. Hi, Paul.
Paul Scheer [00:05:56] Hi, June. How are you?
June Diane Raphael [00:05:56] I’m well. How are you?
Paul Scheer [00:05:58] Very good. You saw the movie? In the AM. When the time still says AM on the clock. You were in a seat.
June Diane Raphael [00:06:07] I was. And I told the text chain we were on that I was going with. I had a coffee in hand. There were no early showings of this movie. This was the earliest I could go. And I thought, Well, I’m going to get some work done in there. I’ll watch, but I’ll be doing some emails.
Paul Scheer [00:06:23] Work done?
June Diane Raphael [00:06:24] Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:06:26] What work did you think you’d get done? I would love it if you did like a self tape with Fast X in the background.
June Diane Raphael [00:06:31] You know, I had this book to jot down notes, but then I had another book to just because I thought, I’m going to go through some to do lists, I’m going to get some bullet journaling done. I really was like, I’m going to get a lot of good get a lot of admin done during this movie. Some life admin. I was riveted to the screen.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:06:48] Yes!
June Diane Raphael [00:06:48] I couldn’t take my eyeballs off what was happening. At one point, I will tell you I had to get up and dance.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:06:56] Yes.
Paul Scheer [00:06:57] That’s what I’m talking about. This movie gets you out of the seat.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:07:01] The movie demands it.
Paul Scheer [00:07:04] Now, we have two guests tonight. One has joined us to talk about Fast and Furious the past. The other is a How Did This Get Made allstar. Been here before. Talked about a great film but came to this fully prepared. Watched all the films. And Hobbs and Shaw.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:07:24] Yeah.
Paul Scheer [00:07:27] To be ready for tonight. So he will have the most information because I can’t even remember what I just saw. So to know the full 11, 11, 11 movies.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:07:41] Over the course of 22 years.
Paul Scheer [00:07:44] With this roughly the same cast, this is a feat. So, ladies and gentlemen, you know this person as a director, as a producer, he is from our Deep Blue Sea episode. Here we go. Evan Goldberg!
Evan Goldberg [00:08:08] Hello!
Paul Scheer [00:08:09] Evan welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:08:11] To many sleeves.
Evan Goldberg [00:08:14] I told you already. This is my favorite shirt and I’m not cutting the fucking sleeves off.
Paul Scheer [00:08:18] You offered to wear anybody who had an extra shirt you would cut off those sleeves.
Evan Goldberg [00:08:22] If someone will give me a shirt, I will gladly put it on right now.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:08:25] You also generously offered to come out shirtless, wearing everyone else’s sleeves.
Evan Goldberg [00:08:30] And the offer stands, my friend.
Paul Scheer [00:08:33] But Evan, welcome back. The last time we saw you, we talked about Deep Blue Sea, a movie that really, if you look at the both of them, they both are in a heightened world, right? I mean, they’re like, I would believe that there’s a shark in this movie. If you told me there’s a shark in this movie.
Evan Goldberg [00:08:49] I feel very comfortable saying deep blue sea is far less heightened than this film.
Paul Scheer [00:08:54] Yeah, I guess you’re right. I will say that the director of this movie said that what he brings to the franchise is grounding.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:09:03] Thank God.
Paul Scheer [00:09:04] Multiple times. When interviewed about this film, he says, Justin Lin let it get too far out there. I wanted to ground it in reality. So mission accomplished.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:09:20] But in the past, like we’ve seen them drive cars out of airplanes, into space. This one had the very grounded element of driving down a damn.
June Diane Raphael [00:09:33] To be honest, I have to say, though, Jason, at points, I did think, Oh, the physics of this film make more sense to me. They did.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:09:40] I have to agree.
June Diane Raphael [00:09:42] They made more sense.
Evan Goldberg [00:09:44] Do you remember when Vin used a car to smash two helicopters together?
June Diane Raphael [00:09:47] I do. And I still think.
Evan Goldberg [00:09:49] I think that might disagree with your theory.
June Diane Raphael [00:09:51] In comparison to the others.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:09:53] Once again, cars are the hands of these movies. They are used to grab, save, catch, throw, swing. Anything you can do with a hand and an arm, that’s the car. Think about it. Jack off.
June Diane Raphael [00:10:10] Anything.
Evan Goldberg [00:10:13] What do you think the Nas is?
Paul Scheer [00:10:16] Anyone who can change their own oil can also bring down the helicopters with grappling hooks. That’s fine. He’s just. He’s a car guy. He knows what they do. And this is actually the first movie with electric cars. That’s a big a big thing in this movie. I don’t know. I don’t know when they ever drove one, But it’s in a lot of the press materials that a lot of electric cars are. They’re never highlighted if they are.
June Diane Raphael [00:10:38] Do you mean the actors were just driven in vans to set that were electric? Yeah. I did not see an electric car in this movie.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:10:45] I didn’t either.
Paul Scheer [00:10:46] I am sure they’re in there, but they make a big deal. Like I’m sure.
Evan Goldberg [00:10:50] The Canon Car that John Cena had. That was electric.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:10:52] Oh, I bet that’s it.
Evan Goldberg [00:10:53] Yeah. Every rocket was electric and very carbon neutral.
Paul Scheer [00:10:58] But quickly, what what’s your takeaway? You’ve watched them all recently. You’ve seen all 11 recently. What do you fall, where do you fall in this franchise like? Any just overview thoughts?
Evan Goldberg [00:11:10] I mean, I feel like you guys might disagree, but this is where it went fucking insane.
Paul Scheer [00:11:14] This movie?
Evan Goldberg [00:11:15] This is the movie where it went to fucking like madness levels. It was teetering on insanity the whole time and this has like, gone over the edge into, like, the depths of madness.
Paul Scheer [00:11:25] I’m not going to talk about it now because I would like to talk about it when we have everybody out here. But there’s a scene with Momoa where I was like, Oh. Now we’ve passed reality. And for me to even have that thought in this movie that really went far. Like it, it goes really far. So anyway, we will. This movie may have been the one that broke it. Maybe we’re going to get even more in the next two. But you know what? Let’s talk about this one tonight with our final guest of the night. He was here for Fast and Furious. You know him as a How Did This Get Made all star? He also has his introduction right here. Here we go. Let’s get it out. Seth Rogen! Yeah.
June Diane Raphael [00:12:11] Wow.
Paul Scheer [00:12:12] Welcome back. Welcome, fast family. Seth, it was only a few weeks ago in which we saw fast one, and I’m so glad that we saw fast one, to then look at Fast X, because it’s wild. The differences.
Seth Rogan [00:12:29] It’s come a long way.
June Diane Raphael [00:12:33] It really has. Like they were drag racers and they’re now superheroes. Really.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:12:40] I think they’re immortal?
Seth Rogan [00:12:41] Yeah. Yeah.
Paul Scheer [00:12:43] I mean, they’re running a spy shop from their house, like they like they are fully giving out missions.
Seth Rogan [00:12:49] We have to talk about the fact that he just lives in his house for an hour. But like, did I miss something? Like they’re looking for him. He’s at home.
Paul Scheer [00:13:03] Yep. He never leaves home. He only leaves home for a couple of days every few years.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:13:11] And what we have to assume is that Momoa has been there the whole time for the last ten years. Momoa has been just, like, watching everything.
Evan Goldberg [00:13:23] And he’s, like, seen the house blow up, be rebuilt. Repopulated. He knew the contractor they had. Saw the floorboards getting installed.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:13:34] He’s like, it’s good they’re putting a sauna in, they need it.
Evan Goldberg [00:13:38] I like how they’re doing everything the same, just like last time.
Seth Rogan [00:13:41] And Chalize shows up and she’s like, They’re coming for you. He’s like I’m at home.
Paul Scheer [00:13:45] Yeah, it’s like neutral ground. It’s like an embassy. He lives in the and that that’s the Fast and Furious embassy where everything else circle that.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:13:54] But it is the Echo Park. They live in Echo Park.
Paul Scheer [00:14:00] What I love, though, about it is from the first movie, you know, clearly they had a house in Echo Park. They didn’t think this is going to be going around for 20 years. And don’t forget their sandwich shop. Where’s the sandwich shop?
Seth Rogan [00:14:12] Where’s the cafe? Where’s the tuna sandwiches?
Paul Scheer [00:14:16] We need it! Somebody hypothesize that that was just a cover for the DVD, VCR sales. But I don’t think so because I don’t think that you could write off that many sandwiches. That would be a hard way to launder money. We yeah, we sold 4000 sandwiches this month.
June Diane Raphael [00:14:31] But one point in the movie we do get into how much money they have.
Paul Scheer [00:14:36] Oh, right.
Seth Rogan [00:14:36] Money is a big plot lin in the movie.
June Diane Raphael [00:14:40] And I was so fascinated by that. I’m like, okay, so they’ve been making money per job.
Paul Scheer [00:14:46] Assignment.
June Diane Raphael [00:14:47] Right? But we’ve had no sense of like any real upward mobility. There’s stations in life also, which is why.
Seth Rogan [00:14:53] He lives in the same house.
June Diane Raphael [00:14:55] Yeah, it’s the same house.
Paul Scheer [00:14:56] Well he’s able to like, redo it to its exact specifications every time. That’s like, that’s really rich shit. It’s like, make it again, but don’t change a goddamn thing. Yeah, I want the exact floorboard. I want the tiny bedroom.
Seth Rogan [00:15:09] The same cobwebs in the garage on the window.
Paul Scheer [00:15:13] This is what I was thinking of that when they first shot that movie, their next door neighbor. It’s just a side view, but it’s fully caged in like shit’s gone down and the neighbor’s like, I’m putting a cage here, because I don’t want anyone in my backyard. Now, first of all, you live next to them. I think you’re very safe. But I love.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:15:31] I disagree. I disagree. If you live next door to the Torettos you’re fucked. There’s so much heat on that. That house has exploded at least once.
Paul Scheer [00:15:45] I think they backed themselves into a corner by having Paul Walker’s character still be alive, but being completely absent. But the audience knows he has past. So we look at him with reverence like you have past. But then we also treat him like a deadbeat dad because that opening family picnic, his wife is there and he’s not.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:16:10] And his son is not.
Paul Scheer [00:16:12] Right.
June Diane Raphael [00:16:13] Wait. I’m sorry. Who’s its child?
Seth Rogan [00:16:17] You’re going to ask whose child is little B.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:16:21] Who do you think are little B’s parents?
June Diane Raphael [00:16:27] I thought that little B’s dad is Vin Diesel.
Paul Scheer [00:16:32] Yes.
June Diane Raphael [00:16:32] Okay. And then Michelle Rodriguez is little B’s mom.
Seth Rogan [00:16:35] No.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:16:36] No.
June Diane Raphael [00:16:36] What?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:16:36] It’s happening! All of our dreams have come true.
June Diane Raphael [00:16:52] Who’s little B’s mom?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:16:53] Elaina. The woman who was killed by Charlize on the plane in eight.
Paul Scheer [00:17:02] How about this? You could say the daughter.
Evan Goldberg [00:17:04] She was the Rock’s right hand woman in five?
Seth Rogan [00:17:07] The Brazilian cop.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:17:12] Okay. Remember when Vin Diesel goes to Brazil in this movie.
June Diane Raphael [00:17:16] I don’t remember.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:17:17] In this movie. He goes to Brazil and he races against a young Brazilian racer.
June Diane Raphael [00:17:22] Yes and actually, at one point I thought. Is he her dad?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:17:26] No. By the way, legitimate question.
June Diane Raphael [00:17:30] Or does she want to fuck her?
Seth Rogan [00:17:33] Both. The answered is both.
Everyone [00:17:41] [Indiscernible].
Jason Mantzoukas [00:17:42] There’s an incredible line in the movie where she says, “You go save your son. My nephew.” She. They have to explain. They have to. There’s no subtext. There is just text in this movie of let me tell you. So she is the sister of the dead mother.
June Diane Raphael [00:18:02] That’s little B’s Mom?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:04] That’s a little B’s mom.
Paul Scheer [00:18:06] Now little B, little B.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:10] Now that does open a lot of questions.
Paul Scheer [00:18:13] Now, by the way, here’s what I’ll bring up about little B, that’s also problematic.
Seth Rogan [00:18:17] Wait, so that’s Elena Neves and Dom Toretto made little B?
Paul Scheer [00:18:21] Yes.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:22] Yeah.
Seth Rogan [00:18:23] And Isabelle is, okay, Elena’s sister.
Paul Scheer [00:18:26] Yes.
Seth Rogan [00:18:27] I love it.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:27] But there is definitely chemistry.
Seth Rogan [00:18:30] And Letty is okay, Letty kind of, Elena stepped away when Letty’s amnesia went away?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:37] Little B calls Letty, mom.
Seth Rogan [00:18:39] Yeah, right.
Paul Scheer [00:18:40] Because the baby was just a baby when Shaw saved the baby.
Seth Rogan [00:18:45] Which Shaw, Dude?
Paul Scheer [00:18:46] Oh, yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:47] Statham. Statham. That little B is the baby that Statham put headphones on and jumped out of an airplane.
Paul Scheer [00:18:53] Now, but wait.
Seth Rogan [00:18:54] That’s little B?
June Diane Raphael [00:18:55] Yes, That’s little B.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:58] This is why we’re here. We’re doing the work. This is why I went twice.
Paul Scheer [00:19:06] Now to bring it all the way back. To bring it all the way back. I will say this. Why is little B interesting? Well, he’s named Brian. After Paul Walker.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:19:16] Right.
Paul Scheer [00:19:16] Huh. Why would you name your son after your best friend who’s still alive?
Seth Rogan [00:19:23] And not the son’s mother who is dead at this point.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:19:27] At this point in time, Brian, Paul Walker’s character is a dick for not coming and helping ever. Like by keeping him alive, they are now creating a situation where he seems like he doesn’t care about any of them.
Paul Scheer [00:19:45] And his wife’s who’s main move is hitting people with a frying pan, goes deep into the action while he’s just out and he’s the best fighter in the whole thing.
Paul Scheer [00:19:53] Yeah, well, it’s like Brian has an unnamed daughter. That is true. They have two kids. One is just “daughter” and the other one.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:20:02] Named after the Pearl Jam song.
Paul Scheer [00:20:05] And the other one is Jack. But it seems like he has just wimped out or because it’s like they’re all fighting these missions.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:20:14] That is slander against that kid.
Seth Rogan [00:20:15] Do they show Jack?
Paul Scheer [00:20:16] No.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:20:19] We only see Mia as the Auntie to little B. We never see her as the mom to her to her own children. And sadly, she’s like, I have to go to Brian and the kids. And Cena is like, okay, you go to them and she’s like, okay, got to go. I got to go be with them. And then she goes away in the movie because they’re not there. There are no people to go to.
Seth Rogan [00:20:40] And then goes me and Brian are safe at one point.
Paul Scheer [00:20:44] That’s right. That’s that was the only line to just say, hey, but yet we have this moment where he stares at pictures of people who are dead, including his father. And we the audience are like, yeah, but he’s not dead. But he is dead.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:21:05] They also put the music in that is the song that was the end of.
Seth Rogan [00:21:09] The Wiz Khalifa song.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:21:10] The Wiz Khalifa song. That’s the end of episode seven, Right?
Seth Rogan [00:21:14] Just so you know, if you’re trying to clear that song for a joke, they won’t do it.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:21:24] And if you’re confused, don’t worry, there is 2 to 3 “Previously on” in the movie. Reacher does one that’s very long.
June Diane Raphael [00:21:32] I was, I loved Reacher. The whole movie is really like it is just a playground for enormous men to get together and be together in community with each other.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:21:44] And you’re absolutely right.
June Diane Raphael [00:21:46] In affinity with. Yes.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:21:48] And what’s amazing is that all of these gigantic men have gotten together in one single movie to traumatically destroy the life of a child, so profoundly turning him into when Letty goes, we have an unwanted visitor. You know what to do. And little B has to be like, okay, okay. Little B, we are watching little B be so traumatized. This kid will never feel safe anywhere ever again. We watch little B murder people for the first time and high five his uncle. This we are giving birth to. If they’re not making a Patrick Bateman style psycho killer with little B later, I don’t know what’s up.
June Diane Raphael [00:22:38] The training of little B for one of his big moments at the end was really flawed. Like there’s a whole sequence in the beginning where little B Vin tells him to just like, feel the car and feel the rhythms of the car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then what he is required to do at the end of the movie, that skill set has nothing to.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:23:01] Nope.
Seth Rogan [00:23:01] He’s, he’s required to leap, fling his tiny little body.
Evan Goldberg [00:23:06] And find the line of the other car.
Paul Scheer [00:23:10] The driving lesson. Surprise. Turns out to be a flying lesson. Yeah. Like that is. That’s the twist of the movie. Like he was never teaching him how to drive. He was teaching him how to fly.
June Diane Raphael [00:23:23] Okay, So I was early on, I got really excited. And I do think this movie, there are some improvements there. When Rita Moreno.
Seth Rogan [00:23:32] We have not even started talking about the movie.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:23:35] I want to just say the line was, “Find the line. Feel the car. And let it ride.”.
Paul Scheer [00:23:42] If you told me that and then told me to jump, I would say, I don’t understand that.
Seth Rogan [00:23:49] When do I jump?
Paul Scheer [00:23:51] What’s the line? What line?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:23:52] And when Little B says you’re not afraid of anything, Vin Diesel does not refute that. He lets his son believe that.
Seth Rogan [00:24:02] There was the other there was a few great lines in the movie that me and Evan were marveling over. The the best line in the movie “Game recognizes game.”.
Evan Goldberg [00:24:11] If you’re not using that in your day to day life, you’re fucking up. Yeah, you need to be using that as much as possible.
Seth Rogan [00:24:16] Michelle Rodriguez says that, like with I don’t like with so little irony. I like I’ve never said anything with that little irony. Like, it is very it is so pure. Like.
Evan Goldberg [00:24:27] I’m going to say that to you when we’re writing from now on.
Seth Rogan [00:24:30] Game, recognizes the game, recognizes game. As game, I recognize your game.
Paul Scheer [00:24:41] And it still to me unclear why they have such an adversarial relationship, which is like Letty and Charlize.
Seth Rogan [00:24:48] It makes no sense.
Paul Scheer [00:24:49] It makes no sense.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:24:50] She killed Elena.
Seth Rogan [00:24:54] Ex-wife.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:24:55] She killed little B’s mom. One of the only deaths that I believe will never be undone.
Paul Scheer [00:25:02] Okay.
Evan Goldberg [00:25:03] Are you crazy? Are you out of your mind?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:07] That would be amazing.
Evan Goldberg [00:25:08] Everyone’s coming. Their immortal joke was no joke.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:11] John Cena has to come back.
Paul Scheer [00:25:12] Well, John Cena is coming back.
Seth Rogan [00:25:14] Oh, he’s coming back.
Paul Scheer [00:25:15] Because of the power of God. Like Christ is going, because he grabbed that cross.
Seth Rogan [00:25:21] Yeah, as Jewish people. I got. We got real weird throughout this movie.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:26] Vin Diesel is on a Christ-like journey in this.
Seth Rogan [00:25:33] I’m okay with a Christian subtext. Don’t get me wrong. Don’t fucking wave a cross in my face.
Evan Goldberg [00:25:38] I hope I hope you like resurrection because that’s a nonstop. They keep coming back.
Seth Rogan [00:25:44] There was so much. Like a cross?
Paul Scheer [00:25:47] Letty gets crucified by a cross, right? Because Brie Larson stabs her through like this. She, she stabs her through the cross.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:54] And the whole thing is all about faith.
Evan Goldberg [00:25:56] Which happens in deep blue sea.
Paul Scheer [00:25:59] I like this.
Evan Goldberg [00:26:00] They stab a shark with a cross.
Seth Rogan [00:26:01] Both religious allegories.
Paul Scheer [00:26:05] And that’s how it’s a little bit more grounded. Speaking of great lines, the other line, I guess another one good line that I love they keep on thinking about is Ramsay, who originally here.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:26:15] Oh, I wrote this line down too.
Paul Scheer [00:26:18] Ramsay, who is just like a hacker and kind of shy. She just says, “Yeah, I know stuff now.”
Jason Mantzoukas [00:26:24] Yeah, She goes. She says. She says a bunch of car jargon.
Seth Rogan [00:26:29] Yeah, I know stuff. Yeah, yeah. Just so, you know, I got some rewrites.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:26:32] She goes, Oh, that. Oh, that’s right. I know stuff now.
Evan Goldberg [00:26:36] What I like about that is like stuff like hacking the world’s greatest security systems is below stuff that is engines.
Seth Rogan [00:26:43] Yeah, exactly.
Evan Goldberg [00:26:44] About a 40 year old car? Cool.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:26:47] I think when I was shocked to figure out this late in the series is that these are faith based movies. These are truly movies that worship a God, this God, this Christ is Dominic Toretto. It’s not Jesus Christ. This is the church of Dom.
Evan Goldberg [00:27:09] Can you believe he hasn’t been crucified in the film? It’s coming. Oh, he was coming, I believe.
Paul Scheer [00:27:14] I believe. And we can get into specifics of it, but Charlize, Brie Larson and Jason Momoa bring a likeness to this franchise that I felt like.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:27:26] Cena as well. Cena.
June Diane Raphael [00:27:27] I don’t forget Cena. Put some respect on his name.
Paul Scheer [00:27:30] Is on a next level because Cena is like it seems like.
Seth Rogan [00:27:33] Cena gets it.
Paul Scheer [00:27:34] I will be a fucking idiot and he embraces it and it’s like.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:27:38] He’s not afraid to look dumb, stupid, not cool.
June Diane Raphael [00:27:41] It’s so refreshing.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:27:42] He takes. He’s the only person that takes L’s in this movie.
Evan Goldberg [00:27:47] We made Blockers with him and we did a butt chugging scene and.
Seth Rogan [00:27:50] He was cool with it.
Evan Goldberg [00:27:51] Very cool.
Seth Rogan [00:27:51] But he does like to wear shorts. And I saw him in the movie and I was like, He got his shorts. Good for him.
Paul Scheer [00:27:59] It’s tough to fit that body into pants.
Seth Rogan [00:28:00] Yeah, He’s like, I got big calves, man. What do you want?
Paul Scheer [00:28:04] But what’s so crazy to me about Cena in this movie. Because I love him in this movie. And it’s like and again, it’s like a breath of fresh air. And that’s how I feel about, like, that first scene with Momoa and Charlize. I’m like, Oh, this is not like the tone that I’m used to and I love it.
June Diane Raphael [00:28:19] But this is what this is what Vin doesn’t understand. And I love Vin, and let me just say that clearly and loudly. But what he doesn’t understand is, like John Cena does look ridiculous for a lot of the movie. At his death scene when he blew up in that car. I was devastated.
Seth Rogan [00:28:37] He’ll be back.
June Diane Raphael [00:28:38] Don’t worry.
Paul Scheer [00:28:39] I mean, how, he’ll be the most. I mean, look.
Seth Rogan [00:28:43] It doesn’t matter how.
Paul Scheer [00:28:44] I mean, the fact that Gizelle is back. I mean. Oh, in the best, in the best reveal ever. Like, obviously she’s not there. No one’s there. Like, they got her on a green screen, like one day at her house in our backyard and.
Seth Rogan [00:28:59] We dug a hole in your yard. Will you pop out it?
Paul Scheer [00:29:02] Fact that she pops out of that fucking submarine with binoculars like.
June Diane Raphael [00:29:10] She’s on a zoom for sure.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:29:12] Oh, yeah. Yeah. That is iPhone footage.
Paul Scheer [00:29:18] Oh, but I was going to say with John Cena. What I love about John Cena is that John Cena is not the character that he was in the last movie.
Seth Rogan [00:29:27] No.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:29:28] Not at all.
Seth Rogan [00:29:29] Not at all. You know, objectively, right? Oh, my god.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:29:33] He’s I mean, he’s basically like Peacemaker. He’s doing like a funny character riff.
Paul Scheer [00:29:39] It’s like the last movie that shut the fuck up on, like, I’m going to fucking kick your ass. And now he’s like, I’m chill, I’m cool, dude.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:29:46] He’s like, I’ve got mixed tapes.
Evan Goldberg [00:29:48] I think it’s like. It’s like he’s like, This is what therapy does. You go from that guy and you become this guy.
Seth Rogan [00:29:54] He also, like, I love one of the things is how incongruent the wardrobe is in general throughout the movie, like John Cena’s, like in like a future vest. It’s like, yes, like going to the fucking gas station like, Well, I hope no one finds us. Like, in a future vest. Like if you saw a guy in that vest, you’d be like that, that man’s from the future.
Evan Goldberg [00:30:14] You would, you would just call the cops immediately.
Seth Rogan [00:30:17] And then Jason Statham the whole time is in like sweats and a hoodie and like, that’s his whole. And you’re like, that’s his outfit? Like, that’s it? He’s just it sweats in a hoodie.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:30:30] I feel like his storyline is dangerous for children.
Seth Rogan [00:30:33] Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:30:34] I feel like there’s a lot of creeps that are like, You want to go on an adventure? Get in quick, your uncle wants where we’re going. There’s something. There is. I could not help but look through the eyes of Little B at all times in a way that was truly shattering for that child.
Evan Goldberg [00:30:52] I mean, the filmmakers were like, This is how you become a Toretto.
June Diane Raphael [00:30:56] Absolutely.
Paul Scheer [00:30:57] There is something so funny about that character as the loser uncle who also, like, took down a house of 40 dudes by himself with his bare fists.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:31:09] No, Mia kicked some ass.
Paul Scheer [00:31:11] Oh, yeah, she does. Yeah.
Seth Rogan [00:31:12] Frying pan.
Evan Goldberg [00:31:12] With her patented frying pan. I watched every film in the last month with my wife, whose birthday’s here, and she’s in the audience. And. And Mia Toretto uses a frying pan as a weapon. Eight times.
Paul Scheer [00:31:24] You would think they’d give her a gun by now.
Seth Rogan [00:31:27] It’s the same with the grappling hooks. It’s like there’s certain things that they do it every movie, but nobody fucking knows it. And like, do you know, grappling hooks are in every Fast and Furious movie? No!
Evan Goldberg [00:31:41] I think what it is, it’s if it’s in the first one they like reverse canonize it. Like, I don’t know how, but we got to get these grappling hooks in.
Seth Rogan [00:31:47] People are going to want these grappling hooks. And as you’re watching it, you’re like, why are they using fucking grappling hooks all the time?
Evan Goldberg [00:31:52] Because it’s what they do.
Seth Rogan [00:31:54] Their grappling hook oriented.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:31:57] These movies are underwritten by big grappling.
Paul Scheer [00:32:00] I also like that, like we got to get into Momoa because I.
Seth Rogan [00:32:07] I think we’re mixed on Momoa over here. He gave it his all.
Paul Scheer [00:32:15] This is the thing too is that I also feel like if you watch this movie with the thought of I’m trying to make Vin Diesel laugh in every scene, like that’s the only goal. It’s like you got to see the off camera Jason Momoa as the fully on camera because it’s like, Let me get this guy to fucking laugh. And Vin Diesel never broke so he’s like I got to turn it up. Gotta gotta, now I gotta dance. I gotta like, like I feel like it’s everything was at the.
Seth Rogan [00:32:44] There was a point where he just danced in every shot. Yeah, he was just like he was literally pirouetting through it.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:32:48] And then there’s the scene, the scene where he’s got the two corpses.
Paul Scheer [00:32:52] That’s the scene.
Evan Goldberg [00:32:53] We’re getting into that?
Seth Rogan [00:32:56] I have a theory on that scene and we were talking about it’s like I think they watched a cut and were like, he just seems like flamboyant and not and that’s it.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:05] And not crazy enough?
Seth Rogan [00:33:06] Not crazy. And they’re like, we need to make him flamboyant and crazy, so he should be hanging out with corpses.
Paul Scheer [00:33:13] Yeah, that is the scene to me that I was saying to you in the beginning. That’s where the reality of this film broke. I’m like, This guy is having a moment to paint the toenails of people that he’s killed and serve them margaritas.
Seth Rogan [00:33:28] Where’s everyone else? Like, where, what is happening?
Evan Goldberg [00:33:30] Like on a time management level.
Paul Scheer [00:33:32] Yes.
Seth Rogan [00:33:34] He’s just in like some backyard somewhere. Where is he?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:38] What’s incredible about all of it, though, is he’s talking to the two corpses and they each get reaction shots.
Paul Scheer [00:33:44] Yes.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:45] So the filmmakers shoot it and edit it like it’s a conversation.
Seth Rogan [00:33:50] Cut to corpse 2.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:51] And that’s where this movie goes to the next level.
Seth Rogan [00:33:53] Like legitimately horrific.
June Diane Raphael [00:33:56] Yeah.
Paul Scheer [00:33:57] Yeah.
Evan Goldberg [00:33:58] My wife, like, was traumatized.
June Diane Raphael [00:34:00] I was as well.
Seth Rogan [00:34:03] Lisa screamed, No, thank you.
June Diane Raphael [00:34:07] I do think you’re right, though, that this movie is, you know, obsessed with masculinity, Christianity, all of it. And and they have this man, this this man who was playing very feminine. And so they had to make him a serial killer.
Seth Rogan [00:34:21] Yes. Yes.
June Diane Raphael [00:34:22] Like there was no other way to justify his presence in this movie.
Seth Rogan [00:34:25] If he’s wearing blouses, he’s psycho.
June Diane Raphael [00:34:27] He’s Yeah, psychotic.
Paul Scheer [00:34:29] And what I wanted so much and I said it to Jason before, I want him to kiss Dom. Yeah. Like, let’s race. And then he pulls them in and they kiss for like 30 seconds and it’s like, and we just hold and like, a first Vin Diesel’s, like, not into it. And then he’s like, All right, I’m into it.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:34:46] But wouldn’t it be great if during, like, a brutal fight, Momoa just leans in and smooches him?
Paul Scheer [00:34:52] Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:34:54] I know that when I can tell sometimes in my notes I’m just going through them. I can tell sometimes in my notes how stoned I was when I watched the movie because of the jokes that I write, one of which is in the Rome scene when Momoa shows up, I wrote down, “Uh oh-a, momoa.” Nope. Not great.
Paul Scheer [00:35:17] By the way.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:35:19] But I thought so funny. I got to write that in my notes.
Paul Scheer [00:35:23] By the way, I mean, that should have been in the movie because they also take a 25 second detour to make Han get high on like a pot brownie.
Seth Rogan [00:35:34] And then it doesn’t pay off at all.
Paul Scheer [00:35:37] There’s no reason for it. Why?
Seth Rogan [00:35:39] He’s going to be stoned now and you’re like, Oh, no, he’s not. Pete Davidson was in this movie.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:35:43] Yeah.
Evan Goldberg [00:35:44] I, I would like to argue that point. What’s he in this movie?
Paul Scheer [00:35:49] Ha, ha. Okay, first of all, this is the guy who was in control of the London Underground? No offense to Pete Davidson, but I don’t think that like.
Seth Rogan [00:36:00] He’s not British.
Paul Scheer [00:36:01] Yes, put McKayla Cole in there. But Richard Ayoade in there, like, give me somebody who’s British. Don’t put, why is he in control of the London Underground?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:36:13] Give us a reason why he is or build something out. To have neither.
June Diane Raphael [00:36:19] Put one of us in there.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:36:23] Put June in. Doing the British accent.
Seth Rogan [00:36:29] And that’s where they kick off the storyline, where it’s all about just how Tyreese is spending more of his personal money than he would like to be spending.
Evan Goldberg [00:36:41] His vest of money. If every one of those bills was a $10,000 bill, he still couldn’t afford the shit they’re buying.
Seth Rogan [00:36:46] Yeah, it’s like. It’s like you’re buying tanks.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:36:50] He’s got max. Like Max, he’s got $15,000.
Evan Goldberg [00:36:55] It was played as though it’s like a fanny pack. We all have them. Everyone’s got a vest filled with money that they have sometimes. One of their buddies, at least.
Paul Scheer [00:37:02] Well, but he also, like, what’s so crazy about that scene is Roman is revealed to be the largest idiot of all time because they are trying to buy tanks. He’s like, Here’s 100 bucks. Like, wait a second. You’ve been in all these movies. You understand that that’s not even gas like.
Evan Goldberg [00:37:20] But he’s also like, I think the third best driver in their logic.
Paul Scheer [00:37:24] Yeah, right.
Evan Goldberg [00:37:25] Yeah. He’s a real car guy.
Paul Scheer [00:37:26] And they don’t like, the fact that he I mean, I get it’s a joke, but it’s also at a level of like stupidity that is really at a certain point concerning. Like I, I’m concerned about the well-being and welfare of these people have been hit in the head. They have a lot of trauma.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:37:45] In the beginning, they have to set it up where Dom’s like to Han, he’s like, eh, Roman wanted to do this mission, so I couldn’t tell him no. But so you know, he’s an idiot, So I need you to do it. I need to make sure you go on this trip because I can’t leave him in charge of it. And I’m like, What is? And then they are constantly selling Tyrese out over and over again. So much so that he and Ludacris have to get into like a slap fight with each other, which is.
Paul Scheer [00:38:14] That was also not good.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:38:15] Not good.
Evan Goldberg [00:38:17] It’s also not like the mission is like throw a brunch like it is life or death.
Seth Rogan [00:38:21] Yeah. What is the mission?
Paul Scheer [00:38:26] There is no mission.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:38:27] They’re supposed to steal, they think a computer chip or something. But it turns out to be the Gilligan’s Island bomb.
Evan Goldberg [00:38:35] But they need God’s eye for something.
Seth Rogan [00:38:37] What are they trying to do in the second half of the movie? Just get back to the rest of the group?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:38:44] It depends on who you’re talking about. This is an interesting movie because this movie allows for Dom.
Paul Scheer [00:38:51] The movie ends on the first act.
Seth Rogan [00:38:53] We all screamed like what? I have never been like.
Evan Goldberg [00:38:56] It would be like if this show ended now.
Seth Rogan [00:38:59] The finale of The Sopranos was less shocking of an ending than when this movie says, The End.
Paul Scheer [00:39:05] If it’s if it’s a true three part movie, the end of the movie is the end of the first act. So we have so much more.
Evan Goldberg [00:39:12] Back to it. This is exactly like when Legolas goes down the river. Fucking Isengard or whatever. No difference.
Paul Scheer [00:39:20] It is unfulfilling to end the movie where it ends, because it’s like, okay, well like, wouldn’t you like you, even if you cut with the him just going down. Like cut out there.
June Diane Raphael [00:39:33] Here’s the thing. I think it’s very I think it’s very troubling to be like, oh, it’s three movies. It’s like it’s been ten movies. It’s been, you can’t tell us that this is one of three. It’s like we’re in number, We’re in X. You know, there’s already been so many parts.
Paul Scheer [00:39:52] Right. This should be the natural conclusion. It’s not like. It’s like, it’s like a K turn of an ending. It’s like, Oh, to get in this spot. We got a real we got pull out, pull in.
Evan Goldberg [00:40:03] I want to call this now. After the third one of these, this trilogy, it’s going to end and then there’s gonna be a mid-credits sequence and it’s going to fucking start up all over again for fucking sure.
Paul Scheer [00:40:13] You cut back to little Bow Wow from two. Yeah. He never did race me. So Vin actually gets quieter in this movie and more stoic than he’s ever been.
Evan Goldberg [00:40:26] He shows some vulnerability in this one.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:40:28] A little weird.
Seth Rogan [00:40:30] I love Vin Diesel.
June Diane Raphael [00:40:31] I do too.
Seth Rogan [00:40:33] I actually think he’s the thing that makes these like, I like Hobbs and Shaw, but I think, like, his absence is what makes that movie feel like, the thing is, like, as many tones as there are in the movie. He works in every one because he takes them all so seriously. Yeah, like, and he’s never winking at the camera. He’s never, in his head, you see he’s like, These are the best fucking movies ever made.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:40:58] Yes.
Seth Rogan [00:40:59] I have to take them as seriously as anything.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:02] I need you to understand that he, Vin Diesel, in this movie, Dom is alone on a solo Christ-like journey in the desert. He saves the Vatican.
Paul Scheer [00:41:20] By playing pinball with a giant nautical bomb that everyone is familiar with. Oh, it’s that. You got it.
Evan Goldberg [00:41:27] Ludacris knows every bomb on earth and all their spec.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:30] Oh my God. He identifies it immediately.
June Diane Raphael [00:41:33] This is interesting though, that the threat of the bomb is not that it’s going to be detonated.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:36] Nope.
June Diane Raphael [00:41:37] It’s just that the size of it rolling around is going to hurt people and then.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:42] It is. It literally is. I feel like it’s inspired by a pinball game.
June Diane Raphael [00:41:48] Absolutely.
Paul Scheer [00:41:48] Also, he goes downstairs on the side in that car. That car still has no problem with traction.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:55] He uses the car to shield the restaurant people from the fire.
Paul Scheer [00:41:58] Oh, well, that’s the other thing. So many people get killed in this movie.
Seth Rogan [00:42:03] No!
Paul Scheer [00:42:05] I know, but they don’t show it. But they have to, right?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:42:07] The collateral damage.
Seth Rogan [00:42:09] There was no fatalities.
Paul Scheer [00:42:09] No, fatalities? That’s bullshit. When that bomb goes off, it shoots cars forward by 100 feet. There was somebody walking around the Vatican that day.
Seth Rogan [00:42:23] People would have died just naturally in that area.
Evan Goldberg [00:42:27] This is how I know you’re not, you are not men of faith, because if you were, you would understand.
Paul Scheer [00:42:32] Would it be great if they said 150 people died but then mysteriously resurrect.
Seth Rogan [00:42:36] Resurrected. Yeah.
Evan Goldberg [00:42:37] I have a question I’m dying ask. There are 12 main characters up until this film. Then they introduce five more main characters. Do we think they’re going to add five more in every subsequent film?
Paul Scheer [00:42:50] Well, there’s more characters to bring back, right? Because, like, I mean, we go back to if we go back on the charts, this is our simple cast of Fast X. It’s two, four, six, eight, ten, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 20, 27 characters with then 28, 29 characters that pop up.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:43:09] Not enough.
Paul Scheer [00:43:10] Right. And by the way, one of them one of them is Paul Walker’s daughter. Yes, she is the flight attendant. She’s the flight attendant.
Seth Rogan [00:43:17] But she was like a spy flight attendant.
Paul Scheer [00:43:19] Yes. The spy flight.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:43:20] Yes. She’s helping Uncle Jacob out.
Paul Scheer [00:43:22] I also felt bad for Diego or Diageo for who really sticks up for Vin Diesel, protects him from getting killed. And then Vin Diesel has no hesitation to let him die.
Evan Goldberg [00:43:33] He thinks he’s he thinks he’s like, oh, I’m going to win. And that’s like being Judas, like he has to cross Jesus and must die for his choice.
Paul Scheer [00:43:41] Okay, So that. Okay, so then that makes sense.
Evan Goldberg [00:43:43] That was very clear.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:43:44] Hubris. He’s guilty of hubris.
Seth Rogan [00:43:47] Are John Cena and Jortana Brewster siblings?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:43:49] Yeah.
Evan Goldberg [00:43:50] I didn’t realize that until 20 minutes ago.
Seth Rogan [00:43:52] And Rita Moreno is all of their mothers?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:43:56] Yes.
Evan Goldberg [00:43:57] Should we talk about Rita Moreno or just stay away from it?
Paul Scheer [00:44:00] I mean, the fact that they bring her into this. I mean, she hasn’t even really.
Evan Goldberg [00:44:07] Unless this next one opens with her killing, like 20 motherfuckers.
Paul Scheer [00:44:10] Here’s what I think. I think they’re setting up Rita Moreno to fight Queenie.
June Diane Raphael [00:44:14] Well, interesting, though, because the whole all of these movies are based on like the patriarchy of the Toretto family and passing along, like the legacy of what it is to be a man in this family. And so when she arrived, I was like, I didn’t know they had a mom. I just have never met her.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:44:32] She’s the grandmother, Grandma.
Seth Rogan [00:44:36] She’s the grandma. So they do not have a mom.
Paul Scheer [00:44:41] Until the next movie.
June Diane Raphael [00:44:43] Oh, so it is still about the men in the family.
Paul Scheer [00:44:46] Wait a second. I just realized.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:44:48] Moreno says to Dom, you honor his name. When he’s looking at pictures of his dead father. Her dead son.
Paul Scheer [00:44:56] Jack Toretto. Jack is his name.
Evan Goldberg [00:44:59] Don’t bother about my name.
June Diane Raphael [00:45:02] But where is his mom?
Paul Scheer [00:45:03] So Jack Toretto had. Jack had Mia Toretto, Jakob Toretto and Dom Toretto.
Seth Rogan [00:45:10] His dad birthed him. Every Toretto was sqozed from a penis.
Evan Goldberg [00:45:17] Born in the back of a car.
Paul Scheer [00:45:19] Was born in a muffler.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:45:23] He was born out of a nas container. His dad fucked a NAS container.
Evan Goldberg [00:45:29] And the only way to indicate the birth is you have to go 120 miles an hour and hit the nas.
Seth Rogan [00:45:34] It looks like when a snake eats a person, but in reverse.
Paul Scheer [00:45:38] And I think that Vin Diesel was born the same way that we saw the birth of that guy who was in Shaw’s punching bag. Jim Brewer? I don’t know.
Seth Rogan [00:45:48] That was jim Brewer.
Paul Scheer [00:45:49] Like, I think that that’s how everyone’s born in here. It’s like they get punched up by Shaw and they birth out of there. Who was that guy? Shaw feels like he should be fighting guys in shape like that just feels like easy pickings.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:45:59] He was just punishing that guy.
Seth Rogan [00:46:01] That’s from another movie.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:46:02] That’s from Hobbs and Shaw.
Seth Rogan [00:46:04] What? But that gag is from another movie where it introduces someone punching a punching bag.
Evan Goldberg [00:46:12] I don’t give a shit. That gag was great, and I loved it.
Seth Rogan [00:46:14] It was a good gag.
Paul Scheer [00:46:15] I didn’t like. Well, I guess again, there’s some big comedy.
Seth Rogan [00:46:22] There was only, like, 20 people in our theater. And that bit killed.
Paul Scheer [00:46:25] Oh, I can imagine. Maybe that’s where, like, this director understands how to, like, kind of let that valve out, because I was going to say, like, we see Vin so serious in the movies. But then look at him in an interview like this.
Interviewer [00:46:37] Fast X. Is this going to be the biggest and best one yet?
Vin Diesel [00:46:42] It’s going to be the biggest and best one yet. And in so many ways, it’s going to be the biggest. But in some ways, it’s just the fact that we’re continuing. In some ways, the fact that we’re continuing a saga. And we have incredible talent lik Tyrese Gibson that live and breathe the role of Roman. And because of Roman, we decided to do eour premier in Rome. Get it? Rome. Roman. Rome, Roman.It’s all because of Roman. We’re going to go to Rome. I got an idea. I got an idea. Let’s do the world premiere in Rome. Roman.
Tyrese Gibson [00:47:22] Decisions being made in rooms that I’m not in. Give me a hug, man. I love you, man. I love you. That’s all you need to know. You know, I’m sorry to interrupt.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:47:33] What is this? We shouldn’t be allowed to see this.
Vin Diesel [00:47:37] All part of the same miracle.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:47:40] That was amazing. What’s amazing is that that gets at one of the things that’s like, this movie is so, like, I love when this movie tries to do jokes, and one of them is the Roman play on Roman’s name, which is then they go, The only Roman you know is ramen noodles.
Seth Rogan [00:48:03] I like that joke.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:48:05] That’s a huge joke in the movie.
Seth Rogan [00:48:08] That was a good joke.
Paul Scheer [00:48:09] I mean, I was actually thinking like the opening of this movie also because I saw the trailer for Oppenheimer before that.
Evan Goldberg [00:48:17] Very similar. Yeah, very similar.
Paul Scheer [00:48:19] Right. And I thought, like with that bomb, that’s kind of what was going on as like, he’s like, “I heard they’re making Oppenheimer and I will fucking do it in the first 20 minutes of our movie and better.” Because it’s like there’s the bomb look exactly the same when they’re launching it up in the trailer before. I think it’s the same bomb. I think it’s the Oppenheimer bomb.
Seth Rogan [00:48:35] I want the Oppenheimer bomb. Roll it through Rome.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:48:41] All of the all of the flaming pinball Rome stuff ending in Dom hitting a crane that comes around like a flipper in pinball.
Seth Rogan [00:48:52] And then he keeps driving.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:48:53] Yes. He keeps driving. He drives it. He’s, it is, it’s so fun to watch someone just exist as an immortal on earth. Unfazed. As long as he’s in a car from beginning to end. In the end is like the only mistake you made was not taking away my car. And that’s it. That’s it. As long as he’s got a car, he can do anything.
Paul Scheer [00:49:16] It’s also, I believe, the first time we ever see him buckle up. The first time seatbelts have ever been used.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:49:22] In the van. He’s like in the van with Reacher. He’s like, hey, you should buckle up.
Paul Scheer [00:49:27] By the way, Jack Reacher. He’s great. He’s great. He’s great. And shot an alt scene there at the end. They’re like, You know what? Why don’t you just be in cahoots with Jason Momoa? He’s like, Yeah, and they did it. And that was it. Like he didn’t know it. He wasn’t playing it that way. That was not in the script. Like, Yeah, yeah, you’re, you guys are in cahoots.
June Diane Raphael [00:49:45] Now, can I ask you a question? What is the agency?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:49:50] Great question.
June Diane Raphael [00:49:51] Is it tax funded?
Seth Rogan [00:49:56] What are they trying to do?
Evan Goldberg [00:49:57] It’s like Shield in the Marvel movies.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:49:59] Yes.
Seth Rogan [00:50:00] They’re not trying to do anything.
Evan Goldberg [00:50:01] Oh, aren’t they? They’re trying to do everything.
Paul Scheer [00:50:03] Well, they also have like, a like. Like he basically has like a John Wick system is like, who wants to be like, who wants to kill Dom toretto, and is like I do. I do. It’s like. It’s like a Who Wants to be a millionaire gamer or some weird like everyone’s some sort of.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:50:17] Like Illuminati, Kingsman style, like independent agencies.
Evan Goldberg [00:50:23] Well, it feels like it used to be the CIA. And they were like, This is too heady for people. We need to simplify this shit.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:50:28] Also feels like they answer to no government. They answer to a shadow government.
Evan Goldberg [00:50:33] Yeah.
Seth Rogan [00:50:33] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Evan Goldberg [00:50:39] Yeah, that’s very interesting.
Paul Scheer [00:50:42] This is a movie where the entire time you are believing this makes sense. Jason Momoa is after Vin Diesel because Vin Diesel did something bad until at the end you realize, Oh, no, no, the Rock killed his dad. Like, again. Like, they don’t want you to think that hard.
Evan Goldberg [00:50:56] Wel he put the bullet in him. But did he really kill him? I mean, the way that they show that, first of all, that was a surprise to me. And I leapt for joy that the rock is back.
Evan Goldberg [00:51:07] I legitimately.
June Diane Raphael [00:51:08] Love the rock.
Evan Goldberg [00:51:09] I 100% thought it was going to be a CG construct of Paul Walker.
Paul Scheer [00:51:14] Me too.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:51:15] Oh, wow.
Seth Rogan [00:51:15] Oh, they’re saving Paul Walker, will be in these movies.
Paul Scheer [00:51:20] They’re waiting for the technology to get there. That’s why they need three.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:51:22] Already basically written by AI.
Evan Goldberg [00:51:25] Midjourney was only designed to create Paul Walker CGI. So he will be in these films. Another cameo I lightly thought was going to happen is when the two semi-trucks pulled up at the end, I half thought one of them was going to turn into Optimus Prime. Oh, I like legitimately though one of them was just going to (transformer noises) “Humans.”. We are family. You and us, Autobots.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:51:52] Dom, we have to find the AllSpark.
Paul Scheer [00:51:55] The AllSpark and the Gods Eye. When they get together, we will rule the world.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:01] Where is Sam Wicwicky? Wait, he’s not here? We can’t have him here? Okay.
Paul Scheer [00:52:08] And then John Cena plays his character in Bumblebee and that’s how he comes back.
Seth Rogan [00:52:12] I’m actually the guy from Bumblebee.
Paul Scheer [00:52:13] The end of the movie should be like Pee-Wee’s Adventure, and they run into every other movie and just collect all the stuff.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:19] I know Louis Leterrier is coming back to make these movies. But is it, you know, yeah, the way to really dial in the next two movies is to put Michael Bay in charge.
Evan Goldberg [00:52:31] I had a very different opinion, which is there’s these two fucking guys named Seth and Evan who I think could crush a couple Fasts.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:39] Absolutely. Do it.
Seth Rogan [00:52:40] We want to.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:41] I dare you.
Evan Goldberg [00:52:43] We don’t give a shit about our careers. We’re in.
Paul Scheer [00:52:44] This movie cost $400 million.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:50] Not enough.
Seth Rogan [00:52:51] Not enough.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:53] $400 million.
Seth Rogan [00:52:55] That is too much money.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:58] And the digital fire looks like dog shit.
Seth Rogan [00:53:01] Yeah. The visual effects in general are not.
Paul Scheer [00:53:04] I mean, honestly, like, truly, if you have 30 main characters who’ve been in this franchise for a decade, you got to pay them. I mean, at that point too, it’s like just in the slightest of raises, they’re all probably making so much money. But yeah, I do think it’s on the screen.
Evan Goldberg [00:53:21] You blew my. I thought it was like 250 million.
Paul Scheer [00:53:23] The Rock got a million bucks just for the close up of him grabbing a phone.
Seth Rogan [00:53:29] He actually deserves that. I love that. They should’ve just done that 400 times.
Paul Scheer [00:53:36] Did you write down that last line? Because it was a great line.
Seth Rogan [00:53:38] “You son of a bitch.” And then he crushed the phone. I love the rock.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:53:43] I love the length.
Seth Rogan [00:53:44] I was so glad Black Adam tanked. Oh, that was like, good. Yeah. We get the rock back in Fast and Furious.
Paul Scheer [00:53:50] So I think, yeah. And I think now he feels safe because he’s like, Oh, I can be in a whole different movie. I’ll never interact with 90% of the cast like he can be in his solo movie. I think most of these people do not share screen time.
Seth Rogan [00:54:04] That was a genuine bummer for me was how little they were together.
Paul Scheer [00:54:07] Yeah.
Evan Goldberg [00:54:07] Like what do you think any of it is? Like, I hate her, she hates me, I hate him. Not going near that motherfucker.
Paul Scheer [00:54:12] So I know this. I know that. Or this is what the internet tells me.
Seth Rogan [00:54:17] So you know this.
Paul Scheer [00:54:17] I know it for true. Dom and obviously the Rock, they don’t like each other. So Vin and the Rock don’t like each other. But then I heard that because of the shooting of Hobbs and Shaw, the Rock and Statham don’t like each other, so they need to be separated. So. Which is a bummer. I don’t want to believe that to be true, but someone said that they also need to be separated.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:54:38] Dom seems to only be able to be in scenes with Michelle Rodriguez.
Paul Scheer [00:54:43] Yes.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:54:43] And I’d love to talk about how the only the the their sexual chemistry is predicated on his ability to lift her up and then fetishize whether she’s pregnant yet. Their sex scene is like, I lift you up, I put you down, and then I listen at your belly and I say, Is he in there yet?
Seth Rogan [00:55:08] Did I put a baby in there?
Jason Mantzoukas [00:55:11] When she says, No. He’s like, I’m not interested then. He only wants to fuck her if she’s pregnant.
Paul Scheer [00:55:17] If you’re not going to give birth to my kid, I’ll give birth to my kid. Like my dad did to me.
Seth Rogan [00:55:23] My dad squeezed me out his peehole.
Paul Scheer [00:55:25] I will say that when Charlie shows up to his house and they don’t know why.
Seth Rogan [00:55:29] That was the electric car I think the Delorean, she was in. Because I was like a fucking DeLorean?
Paul Scheer [00:55:35] That was awesome.
Seth Rogan [00:55:36] That was cool.
Evan Goldberg [00:55:37] That was the one legit thing that was just awesome.
Paul Scheer [00:55:39] I love that. And she put blood all over his mailbox, which is a pain, you know, to clean that up. But when when she goes there, like, Vin Diesel’s like, Goddamn it! And he hits the wall and the entire house shakes.
June Diane Raphael [00:55:55] I really wanted to see the Charlize and Michelle Rodriguez adventures together.
Seth Rogan [00:55:59] We’re going to. And Gizelle in a tank.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:02] Yeah, we are getting that.
Paul Scheer [00:56:04] A sub. A nuclear submarine. I mean, again, and just to remind you, Gizelle died in a horrific plane explosion. Like, there was no way.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:14] And she looks great.
Paul Scheer [00:56:15] Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:16] And I love to. They blew up the last nuclear sub. But since then, Charlize has managed to get her hands on a second nuclear sub.
Evan Goldberg [00:56:26] I did not realize that that was a new sub.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:27] Oh, yeah.
Seth Rogan [00:56:29] There is also there’s no bad movie with, like, a future prison.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:33] You could make a whole movie about Charlize getting that sub.,.
Evan Goldberg [00:56:39] They fucking might be doing that.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:40] I hope so.
Paul Scheer [00:56:41] Charlize also has a computer system where it’s like, Take this one thing out. Got it. That’s the hard part.
Seth Rogan [00:56:48] When she hacked, when she made gas, like in a movie full of the silliest shit ever again at our theater, which had 20 people in it, when the gas came out and she’s like, I made the gas go to the other room. You could feel these 20 people be like, This is fucking stupid.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:57:04] For people who haven’t seen the movie. She is in shackles in a face off style room with Michelle Rodriguez. Boy, did I want them to face off. Please. This is, by the way, the introduction into the fast world of science. This is the first time we’ve been in a laboratory where science happens.
Evan Goldberg [00:57:28] And there was that, like, contraption with five lasers, and it powered up, and then it started, and you were like, Oh, there’s gonna be a big action sequence. And then it just went away.
June Diane Raphael [00:57:36] Yeah. Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:57:38] Charlize and Michelle Rodriguez are, are stuck in, you know, beds like, you know, with their legs and arms bound. And Charlize is able to tip, tap, tip, tap on the screen on the bed she’s trapped on, and that she’s somehow able to do a series of things that are like disable the alarms, she undoes her cuffs.
Paul Scheer [00:58:01] Why would they even have ventilation where that pipe would even work the opposite direction? Like, why would you even have that? But she does it.
Seth Rogan [00:58:09] They should have left it in.
Paul Scheer [00:58:10] Oh, yeah, right. Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:58:11] Also that fight is great.
Seth Rogan [00:58:12] Oh, it’s amazing. When she slams her against the wall it’s fucking great.
Jason Mantzoukas [00:58:16] Charlize fights. Both of them are absolutely the most interesting and compelling action sequences in this movie, and they are to Louis Leterrier’s a point more grounded than anything in the last five movies, I feel like.
Seth Rogan [00:58:32] And they are objectively pointless to the plot story and progression of events in the film.
Paul Scheer [00:58:39] This movie is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. It’s like, Hey, look, we know that you got the main plot. Let’s just show you cause like, this guy’s getting a sandwich. These people are on a helicopter. Jack Reacher is on an airplane. Like, we don’t care. Like, it doesn’t feed into the main story. It’s just for you to see.
Evan Goldberg [00:58:56] Paul, Paul. Can I just say one quick story before we go to the audience? I showed my son, who is six years old, the trailer. And he just went, This makes me feel really strange. That that’s my story.
Paul Scheer [00:59:08] He gets it.
Paul Scheer [00:59:10] All right, here we go to the audience. Everyone’s in these amazing costumes. And I’m going to I’m going to err on the side of picking somebody in the great costume first. A tuna sandwich is getting up. Tuna sandwich and wedding and wedding Vin. Yeah, we got a fish hand and. And the sandwich head. Okay, so your name and your question.
Audience Member [00:59:29] I’m Alan. My big question is there’s two big mysteries of the series. There’s the lineage Dominic Torreto’s parents, especially the mom, also who are the faceless shadow people running the agency? I’m starting to think that maybe they’re connected, especially since we don’t know where his mom is. Like, Do you think that they would be revealed to be the people in charge of the agency?
Paul Scheer [00:59:52] Good question. Cool. I like that question. You see, I had a theory. I pulled the clip, but I won’t play it right now that the end of Hobbs and Shaw, there’s a voice. All right. And. And this voice is like, Oh, who is that? Like, this is like a who has been behind this the entire time, and I’m afraid they’re going to retcon it and make it Jason Momoa Oh yeah, but I feel they’re bringing it because it originally was supposed to be Keanu Reeves. Yeah, it was just announced this week.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:00:16] Do we know who he was meant to play?
Paul Scheer [01:00:18] Oh yes, the bad guy. And then they went back to him to be the bad guy for this, and then he couldn’t do it. So. Jason Momoa. So I still believe there’s a better chance we get.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:00:29] I love that.
Paul Scheer [01:00:30] I mean, it would be great to get Keanu in this because then we get great fights.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:00:33] I was going to say, then you really can dial in great fight sequences, not just big car set pieces. You get good hand-to-hand stuff. Go ahead.
Paul Scheer [01:00:42] This gentleman right here.
Seth Rogan [01:00:43] They’re not putting nearly that much thought into these things. Just so you guys.
Paul Scheer [01:00:46] That is probably true. They’re like ah we don’t care. This guy actually revealed the Keanu fact to us. It was confirmed to me this weekend, confirmed online as well. All right. Your name and your question.
Audience Member [01:00:55] My name is Rich.
Paul Scheer [01:00:56] And you are in a?
Audience Member [01:00:58] I am the runway from Fast six.
Paul Scheer [01:01:00] Whoa.
Seth Rogan [01:01:02] Amazing. So I would have said Giselle’s corpse is somewhere on you. But it’s not.
Paul Scheer [01:01:10] Amazing. Full explosion. We have the cars racing. Great, great costume. Full runway. It goes on forever.
Audience Member [01:01:21] It’s 15 more feet.
Paul Scheer [01:01:23] It’s 15 feet of runway.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:01:25] This is like what you would wear to the Met Gala.
Paul Scheer [01:01:29] We’re going to go down. Look at this. Look it goes down. It does. It’s 15 feet because the runway was supposed to be 28.5 miles.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:01:35] Anybody here dress like Giselle who would like to lie down on this runway? Real question. Any Giselles? You know what? I’d like to see a few more Giselles next time.
Audience Member [01:01:49] I’ll pick it up for the next show. Do any of you. Can you think of another actor who had as much fun in their role as Momoa did, like since Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder?
June Diane Raphael [01:01:59] Yeah, John Cena.
Seth Rogan [01:02:02] I don’t know. I don’t know if that’s a good thing. I don’t want to eat a meal and be like this Chef had a lot of fun making this thing. Yeah, he went crazy in there.
Audience Member [01:02:15] That’s what dessert’s for Seth.
June Diane Raphael [01:02:16] What about us, the audience having fun?
Seth Rogan [01:02:18] He threw everything at this plate, he just went for it.
Paul Scheer [01:02:21] I said to one of our producers, Molly, I said, That’s Captain Jack Momoa. That kind of is the vibe we’re getting. It’s a big swing that I think works, and I feel like people like that.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:02:33] I will say I was really after. So John Cena was the big bad of the last movie and I did not enjoy that as much. I enjoyed Cena in this movie so much more than I enjoyed him as the villain in the past.
Paul Scheer [01:02:48] You need a yin and yang when the villains are too serious. It’s not fun.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:02:51] Which is why I loved. I loved Momoa simply because it least was something, something just different, you know, a different flavor. And I was like, Great, give me all of that.
June Diane Raphael [01:03:02] It was a different texture.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:03:04] Again, I wrote “Uh oh-a, Momoa.” So I’m on board.
Evan Goldberg [01:03:07] I wanted a third Shaw. Other Shaw siblings.
Seth Rogan [01:03:12] To quote Evan’s son. It made me feel strange.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:03:15] You mean don’t you mean isn’t it a Fourth Shaw sibling? Isn’t Vanessa Kirby the third Shaw? Oh, give me a movie that’s just the Shaws of London.
Paul Scheer [01:03:31] I love that. Or a reality show.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:03:35] Let Guy Ritchie direct it. Sorry, Paul, What did you say?
Paul Scheer [01:03:38] No, I said just a reality show, even. But the Guy Ritchie directing the shots of London, I’m in. That’s a great spin off. But I will also say we didn’t get enough of him. And I guess the whole series or for a long time has been building to what’s going to happen when Han and Shaw get together. How can we like Shaw? Because he killed Han, and I didn’t feel like they really paid that one off too well. It’s like he saves and is like “We’re even.”.
Evan Goldberg [01:04:03] Especially because the last film ended with, like, the two of them face to face and we’re like, Oh shit. And then it’s just like 3 minutes, not even a minute and a half of fighting. And it’s like, we’re cool.
Seth Rogan [01:04:12] Yeah, we’re good.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:04:12] And it was like you made me lose my snacks. Han loves snacks.
Seth Rogan [01:04:19] Was he still stoned? All of Han’s jokes is he likes snacks.
Evan Goldberg [01:04:22] No, no, it’s Roman is always hungry and never satisfied. And Han eats small things.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:04:27] Yes. Han’s like Brad Pitt. He’s like, and whenever I’m doing, it’s little business with food.
Paul Scheer [01:04:33] I will say that I felt like when Han gets into a fight with Shaw, he drops a bag of little Cheetos. And I was like, Oh, I didn’t like that he’s that carrying around a bag of little Cheetos. Like anything else.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:04:45] What do you want him to have?
Paul Scheer [01:04:47] Anything but a bag, a little Cheetos, Like that’s like all you put in the kid’s lunchbox. Like. Like I don’t like, I’m like, give me like you have a good n plenties, a mike n ikes.
June Diane Raphael [01:04:57] Nobody likes good n plenties but you, Paul.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:04:59] Yeah.
June Diane Raphael [01:05:00] Not a single other person.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:05:01] By the way, your references.
Paul Scheer [01:05:06] He could have some circus peanuts. Some Werther’s Originals.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:05:07] Good n Plenties and Mike n Ikes? He could have had a can of moxie.
Paul Scheer [01:05:22] And got some Necco wafers.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:05:24] A bitter root.
Paul Scheer [01:05:26] A pack, a big league chew.
Evan Goldberg [01:05:28] Artichoke with some aioli.
June Diane Raphael [01:05:33] Deviled eggs in a ziploc.
Paul Scheer [01:05:36] So June, you don’t like a candy covered black licorice candy?
June Diane Raphael [01:05:40] Disgusting.
Evan Goldberg [01:05:41] I like them, Paul.
Paul Scheer [01:05:43] All right. Thank you. Hi. Who are you dressed as?
Audience Member [01:05:47] I am Letty inspired.
Paul Scheer [01:05:49] Letty Inspired. I like that. You can come Letty inspired. What’s your question?
Audience Member [01:05:53] Given everything that we have seen Dominic Toretto survive out of mostly nine films, and he has survived a lot. Do you feel like John Cena’s sacrifice was kind of unnecessary? I feel like can he could survived.
Evan Goldberg [01:06:09] 4,000,000,000% yes.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:06:10] Only if you believe he’s dead.
Seth Rogan [01:06:12] He’s not dead.
Paul Scheer [01:06:12] I have a theory. I have a theory on this. I think that the Rock wouldn’t come back until John Cena died.
Seth Rogan [01:06:18] Woah, he’s like there’s only room for one of us. And he sings.
Paul Scheer [01:06:23] John Cena was brought in to replace the Rock. And he’s like, You kill off that motherfucker. Then I’ll come back in, like. And I feel like they had to get him in by saying that he’s dead.
June Diane Raphael [01:06:33] But how can anyone trust that anyone’s dead?
Seth Rogan [01:06:37] No one dies in these movies.
Seth Rogan [01:06:38] No. I mean, I don’t know how you could, look.
Evan Goldberg [01:06:40] Unless you see their heads split open with their brains on the ground, they’re not dead.
Seth Rogan [01:06:46] Not only does no one die in these movies, you can die in real life and still be movies.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:06:50] And if you die in real life you are thriving in the movie.
Paul Scheer [01:06:56] Yes. Your name. You’re dressed as Dom. You look great as Dom. You got no sleeves. Your question?
Audience Member [01:07:03] Pete. And one I hope the shirt is Uh oh-a Momoa with, like, the guy’s face with all taped up. But I was so frustrated was is that staying on the topic of all like they come back from you know assume dead is at the end of the movie when the plane of everybody and they crash in the side of the mountain but you don’t see anything. It’s like you might as well just say, yeah, they parachuted out. It’s like it was so ypsetting that like they’d even just show the plane actually crashing to the mountain. Put another, what, $10 million on the film?
Paul Scheer [01:07:33] Well they have to like. They had to make it dramatic, but they didn’t make it that dramatic because, yeah, they would have killed the entire franchise that if plane carried majority of the cast. Yeah.
Seth Rogan [01:07:43] It’d be so funny if they died. Like in the next room. He’s like they blew up.
Paul Scheer [01:07:50] And to Evan’s point, they’ll have another 20 people ready to go. And here’s the other 20 people we didn’t bring back. So it’s fine.
June Diane Raphael [01:07:56] What I would give. What I would give to see just like a travel day for the team. What I would give to see them packing.
Seth Rogan [01:08:06] Getting their itineraries.
June Diane Raphael [01:08:09] Do they have cleared do they have TSA pre?
Seth Rogan [01:08:15] Gotta bring cars everywhere.
Paul Scheer [01:08:15] Cars have to get on planes.
Seth Rogan [01:08:17] Planes are as much of their deal as cars because cars need planes.
Paul Scheer [01:08:20] And they need big planes and that means it’s airfield. So they’re getting airfields.
Seth Rogan [01:08:24] Pilots. Pilots are a part of it.
Paul Scheer [01:08:26] And they don’t seem that they’re are rushing to get to Rome. So they’re probably casually leaving 8:00 L.A. to Rome to get there for the next morning. That was like a 10 a.m. mission.
Seth Rogan [01:08:37] They never seem jetlagged. They seem well-rested. They take a day. If the mission starts Friday, we got to get there Wednesday because we got to take a day. Yes.
Paul Scheer [01:08:47] You have a great costume. You’re dressed as Nas. Amazing. It looks.
Seth Rogan [01:08:51] Nas itself.
Paul Scheer [01:08:52] Oh, they’re Nas. What are they called?
Audience Member [01:08:53] Molecules.
Paul Scheer [01:08:55] Nas molecules.
Audience Member [01:08:58] Oxygen and nitrogen.
Paul Scheer [01:08:59] Oh, oh, like real molecules. I thought that was like on a can of Nars. Now I understand what you’re saying, okay, great.
June Diane Raphael [01:09:04] This really is our Met gala, huh?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:09:07] This is the Met gala we deserve.
Seth Rogan [01:09:11] This is this is the Met Gala, but not revolving around a fucking Nazi racist.
Paul Scheer [01:09:23] She is a chemistry teacher, so she made these molecules especially for the show. Please, if you have a great costume, stick around. We want to get some pictures of you too. All right. Your question?
Audience Member [01:09:32] I have two.
Paul Scheer [01:09:34] You can do it.
Audience Member [01:09:35] Yes. Do you feel like they push the envelope with the racial ambiguity of Vin Diesel and his child?
Seth Rogan [01:09:43] Yes. Also, can we say the name of the production company that was the first title called One Race Productions.
Paul Scheer [01:09:56] We went from race wars, which we know is a Vin Diesel thing. He wanted it to be race wars to one race.
Seth Rogan [01:10:04] We started with race wars and wound up with one race. There was a winner.
Paul Scheer [01:10:09] And his and his first short film was multi facial about how, as someone corrected me, he had a hard time being cast because people were like, We don’t know what race you are.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:10:22] Listen, okay. I get it. But also Mark Sinclair. Okay, let’s be cool about this. That’s Vin Diesel’s name. Mark Sinclair.
Paul Scheer [01:10:37] Yes.
Seth Rogan [01:10:37] In real life?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:10:39] In real life.
Seth Rogan [01:10:40] Mark Sinclair?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:10:41] Vin Diesel’s name.
Evan Goldberg [01:10:43] And it’s it’s always been that?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:10:45] Vin Diesel’s name is Mark Sinclair.
June Diane Raphael [01:10:49] Yes. Yes.
Evan Goldberg [01:10:55] Is his middle name diesel?
Seth Rogan [01:11:00] Mark Sinclair?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:11:02] I’ve been sitting on that so long.
Paul Scheer [01:11:06] Okay. What’s your second question?
Seth Rogan [01:11:08] What a bombshell.
Audience Member [01:11:09] This is something that I’ve really been pondering. So they. They pop out of Antarctica, and then they walk a small amount and then a submarine bust out of the ice. But Antarctica is a land mass.
Seth Rogan [01:11:23] Oh, yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:11:27] Prove it.
Paul Scheer [01:11:29] Who’s actually been there? No one.
Evan Goldberg [01:11:33] No. Antarctica is an agency base that masquerades as a land mass so that people don’t know what’s going on.
Paul Scheer [01:11:40] We got another Dom Toretto over here. Okay. Your name and your question.
Audience Member [01:11:42] My name is Storm. My question is, do you guys think that we’re going to get.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:11:46] I’m sorry. I’m not going to let you get to your question, Storm. He already has his license out to show proof.
Paul Scheer [01:12:00] It’s proven.
Seth Rogan [01:12:01] Proven storm.
Audience Member [01:12:03] My name is Mason Storm Bird, and unfortunately, I’m actually named after a Steven Seagal character.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:12:08] What? No.
Seth Rogan [01:12:13] You’re named after a Steven Seagal.
Paul Scheer [01:12:16] Which one?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:12:17] Call your parents right now. Get your parents on the phone. His name is Mason Storm.
Seth Rogan [01:12:27] Mason, he was he was in a coma for 17 years and woke up trying to good to kill the Rastafarians who put him there.
Paul Scheer [01:12:34] And Kelly Lebrock like looks in his dick when he’s in the coma, like, wow, he’s got big dick. Like,.
Seth Rogan [01:12:39] Oh, yeah, yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:12:39] What are you talking about?
Paul Scheer [01:12:41] In the movie.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:12:42] No, I know. I’m asking.
Seth Rogan [01:12:43] Your parents saw that and they were like, We have to name our son after this.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:12:47] Were you conceived during that movie?
Audience Member [01:12:50] I was born, like, right around the time the movie came out. Also, at the same time Desert Storm was going on. So my parents only wanted me storming.
Paul Scheer [01:12:58] So Desert Storm and Steven Seagal, wow.
Seth Rogan [01:13:00] So you’re named after both the war and Steven. That’s cool. Yeah.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:13:06] You are blowing my mind. Your name is preposterous.
Evan Goldberg [01:13:17] But deadly. But very deadly.
Seth Rogan [01:13:19] And fucking cool.
Paul Scheer [01:13:20] And patriotic.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:13:21] Oh, wow.
Audience Member [01:13:23] So do you guys think maybe in the next movie we’re going to get an answer this tags along with the previous question to maybe who knew little B’s father actually is. There was a huge gap from Elena and Vin being together. Elena and Dom, all of a sudden, boom, she has a child. And this child looks nothing like either one of them. Are we going to maybe find out who his real dad is?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:13:41] His real dad is Vin Diesel. Mark Sinclair.
Paul Scheer [01:13:44] I do believe I do believe that he loves racial ambiguity across the board. Like I feel like he’s.
Seth Rogan [01:13:52] Yeah.
June Diane Raphael [01:13:53] Mark Sinclair.
Paul Scheer [01:13:55] It’s like I remember reading about the Black Eyed Peas and, like, we could travel the world because anywhere we go, we could put a different person as our front man. Because that’s the way. Yeah, that was.
Seth Rogan [01:14:05] So we got the Fergie version?
Paul Scheer [01:14:06] Yeah. That who we identify with. Taboo plays big in different areas.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:14:14] You know so much about the Black Eyed Peas. Why do you know so much?
Seth Rogan [01:14:19] Countries where that other dude whose name. I don’t know, that’s not Will.i.am or Fergie.
Paul Scheer [01:14:24] Taboo.
Seth Rogan [01:14:26] Taboo is the most Famous Black Eyed Pea in other countries?
Paul Scheer [01:14:29] You go to France, Taboo is like, ladies and gentlemen, Taboo and the Black Eyed Peas.
Seth Rogan [01:14:33] Bonjour!
Paul Scheer [01:14:39] Oh, my gosh. So we have been doing a very long show. But, you know, we want to keep.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:14:44] Let’s keep it going, though.
Paul Scheer [01:14:47] Lisa has got a birthday, but more importantly, we want to do something special. You see, every time we talk about a movie, we want to give a chance for a second opinion. We want to do something little bit different. And, you know, oftentimes we say to you, the audience, like, hey, does somebody have a second opinion song? But tonight we have a special guest. That guest is John LaJoie, ladies and gentlemen.
John LaJoie [01:15:12] Hello, everyone.
Paul Scheer [01:15:15] John, welcome you. Did you see fast? I know that you love these movies as much as we love these movies.
John LaJoie [01:15:20] I’ve only seen Hobbs and Shaw. Saw it on a plane, Loved it.
Paul Scheer [01:15:27] See, I’m into it. I’m into Hobbs and Shaw.
John LaJoie [01:15:29] I’ve listen to every episode that you’ve done about the fast movies, so I feel like I get it.
Paul Scheer [01:15:34] Yeah. And by the way, there we are, the companion piece to it. But John, this is awesome. So you often hear John singing the song on the show here tonight for the first ever live performance.
John LaJoie [01:15:44] Yeah. Thank you.
Paul Scheer [01:15:47] You brought, you brought a guest.
John LaJoie [01:15:49] Yes. This is my friend John Titterington, and he’s going to help me out. Audience, I’m going to need your help as well. Yes. Give it up for John. I was going to do my normal second Opinions theme song. However, since I’ve listened to the podcasts about these movies, not seen the movies, I know that these movies are not pieces of shit. And so I had to tweak it just a little bit. Also, there’s a cumate chant going in my second Opinions theme song. However, this is Fast and the Furious, so if you will help me out, I’d love to get a family chant. Go. So.
Everyone [01:16:28] Family. Family. Family. Family.
John LaJoie [01:16:38] (Singing) The movie was fantastic. That’s why these people recommend this. Tell me, what is the message. Maybe some art is objectively good. I need a second opinion.
Paul Scheer [01:17:08] Ladie and gentleman, John LaJoie. John LaJoie. John Titterington, again, thank you, guys. Well, obviously people love this movie. It’s hard to find reviews on Amazon. So I had to go to our friends over at Letterbox to get some, and I love Letterbox. It’s my favorite social media site, and here’s how we got here. All right. So from Letter Box, this is written by Alex Dhiraj and he writes it in French. “Ooh, resume pupu. Vroom, vroom, Bang, bang! Aussie Jason Momoa version. Jay du Tempo sur Le Crack.” So, I don’t know, but that’s five stars. This one is R just says, “Okay. But if Jason Statham aggressively pulled me into his house and locked the door, I’d hear him out. Five stars.” We went to Rotten Tomatoes as well. And from Fast X, that’s the user they wrote “Was a pretty good movie. The sound could be a little lower. Five stars.”
Seth Rogan [01:18:18] It was too loud for fast X.
Paul Scheer [01:18:19] Yeah. Kenneth Pullum gave it a one star review, and he wrote this. “Hated the ending. Cliffhangers are great for TV, but not for movies. When you have to wait two years to see what happens. Lord of the Rings was one of the few exceptions, and even they wrapped up every installment so you left the theater with anticipation rather than frustration. Plus, that franchise is one movie broken into multiple parts in theaters only one year after the last one. Disappointed with whoever made this decision. Will not refer to this movie. Will wait for the next installment and then I’ll update you on this one.”
Seth Rogan [01:19:02] It’s true. I have to say, like from like a structural standpoint, yes, this is the craziest movie ever made.
Paul Scheer [01:19:10] Yeah. Yeah, right. Because it’s like, what is the plot of it? Like, if we if we really pared it down.
Seth Rogan [01:19:16] And generally, like, truthfully, like when you’re writing a movie, you’re like, if this scene doesn’t need to be in there, like, if you can cut it. You do.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:19:22] Yeah, well, if that were the case, this movie wouldn’t exist.
Seth Rogan [01:19:25] Exactly.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:19:27] This would be a non movie. Because none of it is necessary. I will say that. I will say one of the things that I really appreciated about the movie was tethering the stakes of the movie to in arguably the greatest action set piece of the series, which is the Brazil vault heist, Right.
Evan Goldberg [01:19:50] So the best part of the movie is when they reused footage for the other movie. Yeah.
Paul Scheer [01:19:54] The first 20 minutes is just the fifth movie.
Seth Rogan [01:19:57] From other angles.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:19:58] So smart to be like, Oh, let’s give a different vantage point on our favorite series of events, and that’s going to start us off. Great. And then from then on, it’s like (fart noise).
Evan Goldberg [01:20:08] I also I do wonder if they were like or if we’re at 400 million, they legit won’t let us go over. We got to figure something out here.
Seth Rogan [01:20:17] Use the fifth one.
Paul Scheer [01:20:18] It is the eighth most expensive film ever made.
Seth Rogan [01:20:22] That’s crazy.
Paul Scheer [01:20:23] And if you adjust movies for inflation, it would be Star Wars, The Force Awakens, Jurassic World. Star Wars. The Rise of Skywalker, Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides, Avengers, Age of Ultron, Avatar, The Way of Water and Fast X.
Seth Rogan [01:20:40] Those are all movies that take place like on other planets. Like with other creatures. Like other worlds. With other like. Yeah, like it’s about a car. Yeah. 1970.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:20:59] Dom seems to have a never ending. It’s like an access to a never ending amount of exactly his car. It gets destroyed in every city he’s in. His car gets destroyed. And in the next moment, hours later, he’s jumping out of a plane in another exact same car.
Paul Scheer [01:21:19] He’s fixing it on those long plane rides. All right. So this has 70% more budget than fast nine, 70%. And a $100 million just went to cast. Oh, yeah, a hundred million just to cast. So it’s.
Seth Rogan [01:21:35] I see that.
Paul Scheer [01:21:36] Yeah. So it’s $300 million movie.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:21:37] We will all say, put us in these movies we will work for scale. We are cheap.
Paul Scheer [01:21:44] Now, I will say this. We talked a little bit about that scene where Momoa. What did you say Jason? Momoa.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:21:52] Uh oh-a, Momoa. Still works, that’s the T-shirt.
Paul Scheer [01:21:57] When. Well, that’s what he said with the face of the dead security guard. So that dead security guard scene.
Seth Rogan [01:22:03] One of the security guard faces, you’re like, that was okay. The other one, that’s too much.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:22:09] And especially when you cut to it for reaction shots.
Paul Scheer [01:22:11] Because the blood the blood was coming in weird spots, it was like.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:22:16] And it’s all taped up like Amy Sedaris. Yeah, it’s like an Amy Sedaris character.
Paul Scheer [01:22:21] So this is the interesting thing about that scene. And I thought and again, this is all stuff that.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:22:26] Wait, you’re about to tell us the interesting thing about this scene, because it’s already very interesting.
Paul Scheer [01:22:31] Well, so it says.
Seth Rogan [01:22:32] There’s documented information.
Paul Scheer [01:22:35] Oh, I have a lot of information about this. So basically this scene. Everyone wanted to cut.
Seth Rogan [01:22:42] I could see why.
Paul Scheer [01:22:45] And. And. And the. The person who fought for it is the head of Universal, Donna Langley. She said no, that scene must stay. And so the head of Universal gets it. Like, in a way, that’s the weirdest choice. Because, like, she makes, she’s the one who’s like, no. And that’s her stand was he’s got to paint the toenails and get those faces like that. And I think she might have been right.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:23:16] That that’s his Hannibal, hannibal Lecter turn. That’s where he seems to be not just another villain in the Fast and Furious pantheon, but a true psychopath.
Seth Rogan [01:23:28] But that’s what’s so funny about that scene is like and if you took it out, he’d just be a goofy dude who dances around.
June Diane Raphael [01:23:33] I think there’s I also think there’s something to just like there’s so many of these movies. I mean, I can’t remember any of them, but I do think I will remember that scene as a part of this movie.
Seth Rogan [01:23:43] That they were that that’s like a scene from like a michael Haneke movie. Like, it’s truly one of the most disturbing scenes I’ve ever seen.
Paul Scheer [01:23:54] We know enough about those guys.
Seth Rogan [01:23:56] All we know is they have a family, right?
Paul Scheer [01:23:58] That’s what he does. He gets recon on children. Like that’s another moment that it’s worthwhile looking at. Like the way that he betrays her.
Seth Rogan [01:24:06] That was cool I thought.
Paul Scheer [01:24:07] I thought was awesome. He’s like, I am, you know, like he says, like, he’s like, I’m just like little Jared and little Mikey. And then all these security guys all answer their phone mid hostage.
Seth Rogan [01:24:17] Have their phones, like on during missions.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:24:21] It’s a great move because Charlize shows up. She’s like, I met the devil tonight. And then the whole cold open is the scene where Momoa is shows up and he’s like, I wasn’t talking to you. I was talking to this guy and that guy. And then all their phones go off and all of their loved ones have been taken hostage.
Seth Rogan [01:24:37] I liked that.
June Diane Raphael [01:24:38] Great.
Seth Rogan [01:24:38] Yeah, but I’m on a podcast and I don’t have my phone on me. Those guys were like killing people and all their phones were just on on.
Paul Scheer [01:24:46] But also they were in the middle of a hostage standoff that.
Evan Goldberg [01:24:51] Were they on vibrate? Or did he say, pull out your phones.
Seth Rogan [01:24:54] No, they just did it.
Paul Scheer [01:24:55] Yeah, they all pull out their phones and maybe they have a special.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:24:57] You hear like a buzz buzz. Everybody’s phones start going off.
Seth Rogan [01:25:01] Wait a minute.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:25:03] I love when that scene when he when he’s like, oh, you know, and he’s like, has everybody’s loved one, all the mercenaries, loved ones in a thing. And then he kills that one guy, licks the knife. We we talked about it. That was crazy. And he’s like, he kills the only guy who didn’t have a family he could leverage against him.
Evan Goldberg [01:25:24] In this movie, if you don’t have a family, you deserve to die.
Seth Rogan [01:25:26] You worthless.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:25:27] You’re worthless.
Paul Scheer [01:25:32] And that really is. I mean, that’s that’s way. That’s our guiding light from the beginning to the end. No family. You deserve to die.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:25:39] We didn’t talk about Cena and little B dropping out of an airplane in a micro jet. And Little B is like, Yay!
Seth Rogan [01:25:51] In the in like a micro jet that he carried through airport. Checked.
Evan Goldberg [01:25:56] Yeah, I thought. I thought it was a kayak.
Seth Rogan [01:25:59] Yeah. And when he checked it, they hug it in the belly of the plane.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:26:06] And they somehow have access to cargo doors? In a commercial airliner.
Paul Scheer [01:26:12] And by the way, no other luggage in that commercial airliner either. I will say this. Obviously, we all recommend the movie, I imagine.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:26:19] Oh, my God.
Evan Goldberg [01:26:20] If you don’t see this movie. You should fucking kill yourself. This is it’s the cut. That’s the only way to put it.
Seth Rogan [01:26:25] No reason to go on. This is it.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:26:27] It’s the kind of movie where people can be in multiple life or death, fistfights, car crashes, all the rest. They can walk through sewers full of, like a city’s absolute filth and look perfect. They look perfect.
Evan Goldberg [01:26:45] Just like all of us.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:26:45] Yeah, just exactly. Just like all of us here today. Nothing ever. There’s no consequences for anything in any way.
Paul Scheer [01:26:54] I mean, Rome is pretty much destroyed. Everywhere they go is pretty much destroyed. They go back to fast five and destroy that bridge again. Like they are menaces. They are they are bad people. Like, I mean, they are. They are equally bad villains wherever they go. They are hurting people. They’re creating multiple Jason Momoass. You could continue the franchise for decades because of all the children of people who are killed. My dad was at that Italian cafe.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:27:25] And that’s the thing. And that’s like the bummer. Not the bummer. But what’s great is Momoa is part of this crime family. But like the collateral damage of just civilians that died over the course of the events of all of these movies is in the thousands. And all of those people have a real case against our heroes.
Paul Scheer [01:27:45] Yeah.
June Diane Raphael [01:27:45] You mean like a class action type situation?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:27:48] Class action lawsuit. Fast 12 courtroom drama
Evan Goldberg [01:27:53] I’m picturing that that is the end of the last one. It’s like 10,000 people face Vin Diesel in hand-to-hand combat.
Seth Rogan [01:28:00] You’ve killed all of our families. Oh no.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:28:02] Oh, God.
Paul Scheer [01:28:04] And it goes to this. It goes back to his other movie, Find Me Guilty, which is Vin Diesel with.
Seth Rogan [01:28:11] Sidney Lumet’s last film, the greatest filmmaker of all time, arguably.
Paul Scheer [01:28:16] Oh, my.
Seth Rogan [01:28:17] He made 12 Angry Men and this.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:28:20] The verdict and this.
Paul Scheer [01:28:23] Oh, my gosh. Any final thoughts as we go around?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:28:26] Oh, I love the in the scene we were talking about where Momoa is with the corpses. Incredible Foley work of just the buzzing of flies around the corpses. Yeah, there’s such. There is really. This movie is flawed, but, like, really great compared to the last few. This one really went for it. I feel like. There is a bunch of stuff.
Evan Goldberg [01:28:50] My. My last thing is just and maybe this is an unpopular comment. I hope they reel it back a little moving forward.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:28:57] Disagree.
Seth Rogan [01:28:59] I would say I would go full like RRR with it. Like I was like.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:29:03] Yes.
Seth Rogan [01:29:04] I’d like to go crazy. Like Vin Diesel should be throwing cars at people like.
Paul Scheer [01:29:09] Riding a dragon.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:29:10] 5 minutes after Vin Diesel chastises Reacher for not listening to him say, Buckle up because there’s a drone attack coming.
Seth Rogan [01:29:18] Which which he knows about. Which he knows because he’s on his team.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:29:23] Vin Diesel is distracted and doesn’t hear a helicopter approach and shoot that when the sniper comes. Like there is such crazy dissonance between what everybody wants and has.
June Diane Raphael [01:29:38] Also this movie, I really I was dropped into like the reverence the family has for law enforcement and also the hatred for cops. But also cops will flip. And also cops are criminals, and they’re one of us and we hate them. But they are us and they are our family and we love them.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:29:56] And John Cena has a bat cave.
Seth Rogan [01:29:58] John Cena has it. Evan literally turned to me and said, John Cena has a bat cave.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:30:06] I wrote it. John Cena…Bat cave?
Evan Goldberg [01:30:11] Maybe even the bat cave.
Seth Rogan [01:30:13] This is the bat cave and.
Paul Scheer [01:30:14] This is the place where they’re all going to meet. They’re all trying to get to John Cena’s Bat Cave. And meanwhile, Jason Momoa has a really sad bat cave.
Seth Rogan [01:30:22] Yeah, it’s a sad cave. Yeah.
Paul Scheer [01:30:24] I think it looks like it’s all like it is all full of flies.
Seth Rogan [01:30:28] And then he calls. He’s like, You found my sad cave. The funniest when we were in the theater. Like the people behind us who I feel so bad for.
Evan Goldberg [01:30:38] They enjoyed the film.
Seth Rogan [01:30:41] Eventually, but at first it was rocky. But at the there’s like the credits and they were like packing their shit up and the like Rock, the sequence with the Rock started at the lady behind me just went, What now?
June Diane Raphael [01:30:57] That’s the t shirt.
Paul Scheer [01:31:00] By the way. That’s the title of Fast 11. What now?
Jason Mantzoukas [01:31:07] More of this? I loved the moment that when Little B jumps into Dom’s car and Louis Leterrier does like it. Like it ramps into, like the muscles of Dom’s body turns into the elements of the car, like the visuals. Basically, the visuals posit that Dom is the car and that the car is an outgrowth of Dom.
June Diane Raphael [01:31:38] Well, a car was his mother.
Jason Mantzoukas [01:31:43] I think Rita Moreno fucked a car.
Paul Scheer [01:31:46] Oh, my gosh. All right, let’s wrap it up here. All right. Thank you, everybody for a very long show. Thank you so much. Good night. And that brings us to the end of another live episode from Largo. If you want to see what our Fast X T-shirt is. Head on over to Teepublic.com/stores/HDTGM and a big thank you to Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Seth Rogen’s brand new show, Platonic airs on Apple TV. Plus Seth and Evan partner combine and make some of the best movies and TV shows out there. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is coming to a theater near you very soon. Check out the amazing trailer. Plus, if you’re not watching The Boys on Amazon, get to it. The show fuckin rules. Plus, June, Jason and I will be on tour this August. Tickets go on sale next week. That’s right. The first week of June. Head to HDTGM.com to find out more about tickets and movie information. But we’ll be in the northeast and we want to see you there. And if you are a member of SAG, I’m just going to say to you right now. Think about voting yes on the strike authorization. It’s not that we want to strike. It’s just that we want to give the people in power the chance to call a strike if our demands are met. We are a giant union and we need to get the word out about this strike authorization vote. We only have until June 5th. So get on it, people. All right. We will see you next time. For our Last Looks, hosted by Jason Mantzoukas. But this show, what you’re listening to right here, couldn’t be done without a couple of things. First of all, you listening. But more importantly, I’m talking about the amazing producer real work of Scott Sonne, Molly Reynolds, and our movie picking producer, Avril Halley. Our engineer, Alex Gonzalez, and our publisher, July Diaz. People. They make the trains run and we love them. So we will see you next week for Last Looks. And until then, bye for now.
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