How Did This Get Made? - xXx LIVE! w/ Rob Huebel

Episode Date: August 14, 2026

Welcome to the Xander Zone! Vin Diesel stars in 2002's xXx—a movie that answers the question, "What if James Bond was a dickhead?" LIVE from Largo in LA, HDTGM all-star Rob Huebel joins Paul and June to discuss Samuel L. Jackson's fake diner budget, the solar-powered submarine, using X-ray glasses to look at skeletons, the logic behind killing guys via avalanche, and so much more. Plus, June tries to remember if she's seen any other movies in the xXx franchise. • Go to hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, FAQs, and more• Leave us a voicemail at speakpipe.com/hdtgm• Submit your Last Looks theme song here• Join our Discord at discord.gg/hdtgm• Buy merch at howdidthisgetmade.dashery.com/• Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of Trauma• Shop our new hat collection at podswag.com• Paul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheer• Paul’s YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheer• Follow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer• Subscribe The Dark Web w/ Paul & Rob Huebel: youtube.com/@enterthedarkweb• Listen to Unspooled with Paul & Amy Nicholson: unspooledpodcast.com• Listen to The Deep Dive with June & Jessica St. Clair: thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcast• Instagram: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & @junediane• Twitter: @hdtgm, @paulscheer• Jason is not on social media• Episode transcripts available at how-did-this-get-made.simplecast.com/episodesGet access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using the link: siriusxm.com/hdtgm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When you need to kill a snake in a snake pit, you better drop in a mouse. Right? I think that sounds cool. I'm not sure. We saw Triple X, so you know what that means? Talking about Triple X, a movie that was a dickhead. Talking about Triple X, a movie that answers the question, what if James Bond was a dickhead? Well, well, well, this movie, you know, there was a time on this show where we can't do Triple X.

That's a good movie. Well, we all make mistakes. If you've not seen Triple X, what do you need to know? Well, it's about a Russian terrorist group called Anarchy 99, led by a guy named Yorgie who plans to unleash a biochemical weapon via solar-powered submarine. When do you find that out in the last 10 minutes? So what does the NSA do? Well, Sam Jackson with a scarred face done by a teenager who worked in a Halloween store, decides to recruit the only man capable of stopping this plan. That is, right, Extreme Sports Star, Zander Cage.

Zander goes undercover with Anarchy 99, where he gets the hots for Yorgie's girlfriend and attempts to stop the terrorist plot. boy oh boy and that doesn't even touch the surface this movie is over two hours holy cow and it spawned three films three films only two with vindiesel but oddly it's the first and the third one so that's even more bizarre tonight we're going to break down everything about this film it is our last film of Extreme Summer. And we have an extreme sports expert with us tonight. She is my co-host. Please welcome June.

Diane Refield. Oh, my word. I'm upset. I just talked to our other special guest that's coming out about how long this movie was. And I watched it in 1.25. Wow. Okay. And that's something that I recommend to everybody.

I know. How did you enjoy it? I started listening to you after 20. Some 20 odd years. You know what? I'll take it. Well, it's so funny, listening to Vin in the trailer,

I was like, oh gosh, of course, this is his cadence, which is right here. Thank God. It was so much more palatable. He was great. He was really good at my speed. Just speed him up a little bit.

Well, you know what, June? I'm so excited to end tonight's extreme summer with this film, but more importantly with this guest, Now, if you are a fan of how did this get made, you know that this guest is How Did This Get Made All Star?

But he also loves when the bodies hit the floor. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Rob Hewball. Welcome, Rob. Wow. Good to be in the Xander zone. The only place I want to be in summer is in the Zander zone.

You know, can we start with... Let's start with Xander first. And I'm sorry if you said this. And Rob and I were talking back. So I'm sorry if you said this. But about five minutes into the movie, I was like, oh, Xander's an extreme sports addict. This is, well, I don't know. I think they all are, all extreme sports people are.

But I don't know. They're addicted to the thrill. Yeah. Okay. All right. I don't know. I mean, this part seems like it was written for an 18 year old. Yes.

And I genuinely don't think you can compete in extreme sports past the age of 20? No, not even 20, I don't think. Yeah, it's for tweens. It's for kids. It's for little kids. Yes. It also posits a world in which if you are good at one extreme sport, you're good at them all of them. Like it's like, yeah, he is good at skateboarding, snowboarding, car racing, parachuting.

Like, it's like he bought the full package. which I do think is weird, but to your point about the youth of it all, when he goes back to his house after the party, he is met by men, old men. Sports stars, yes, but they are old men. It doesn't feel youthful at all. Besides, in the car, well, I don't want to jump ahead, but in that car, Tony Hawk is in the car. Yeah.

And then are the other guys also famous people? There are a handful of famous people. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's Tony Hawk, Colin McKay, and Mike. Val-Aet and Matt Hoffman and Rick Thorne. They're at the party and they're all over the place.

Wow. Yeah, and that's great. I'm glad there. That's great. It's great for them. I just... Now, do you think those guys in their lives have an addiction problem to adrenaline and... I'm going to be so for real.

I find people who are interested in extreme sports to be very strange. I find Alex... Wait, interested in it or doing it? doing it. I find the free solo guy to be very strange. That's not nice. That's not nice. I think this is weird.

I think it's weird. And by the way, can I say because it happened in the opening frames of the movie, when he's parachuting off the bridge on the car, I don't even, but nobody looks cool parachuting. Honestly, unless you're like

liberating Europe from the knock. Right. I think you look foolish. I think that... Yeah. I'm going to say... It's hard. It's hard to look cool.

There's no way. Like snowboarding, all the other stuff. I guess... I'm also imagining that... It's a real glide. There seems to be too many parachutes, like too much safety in those parachutes. I feel like in the 1940s when you're parachuting in,

it's like, we don't know if we'll make it to the ground. This... It's too safe. It's too safe. Well, that was the famous L.A. Bridge. That was the L.A. Bridge, the L.A. Gorge. That he's jumping off. Now, so Zanderkage, not only extreme athlete, but also a YouTube star.

They don't say YouTube, but they recognize him from his videos, I guess. And the Internet is alive and well, I think, according to Eve. The Internet is a thing. Yes. It's 2003. So there is the Internet. But why are the cameras on the car? this big? I don't know. The rigs on the cameras.

There's something so funny. That car, so Zander Cage rips off a car from, and this is what I was writing about. There's some choices in the city. They're so fucking dumb. It's like... A senator's a state senator who's not even state senator he's running for it because when the state senator's car is stolen, he goes,

he says his name. It's like, Dick Butterfield. And then he goes, I'm running for state senators. His bumper sticker on his car says, skateboarding is a crime. So you know, he's not cool. It's like, so you have a guy who's not even fully even elected, but he is running for state senator. His car gets stolen. They rig it with all these cameras. The car crashes into the ravine. He parachutes out. And then they have to do the most weird editing where his buddies in the

other car, the follow car, like oddly have gotten the cameras off the crashed car within seconds. And then they ADR in a line where Vindee's is like, you guys get the cameras? Like, no, the car fucking blew up. It didn't make sense. The cameras didn't, like, the camera needed their own little parachutes. But the cameras, I actually thought for sure. Okay, so it's 2003, you said, or 2000? I thought for sure those camera boxes, boxes.

Like, when Christopher Nolan talks about filming the Odyssey and that big box they had to put around it, they were using mirrors to do coverage because the other actors, that's what those cameras looked like. They were, I was like, oh, sure. Surely they must be doing something else other than filming. Well, here's the thing. Zander has not only set up a camera to record the fall, but he set up two cameras so he could have a different, like a cut two.

Like, because it's like, one camera is like from the passenger seat and one is this hitting him from the driver's seat. So like neither of them are getting the action of the stunt. It's only for him to narrate the stunt. There's no wide shot. I mean, the wide shot is by the friends on the bulls. bridge, but I'm like, if you're going to rig up your car, you don't need two, you don't need to be like, I'm going to jump this off, Dick.

Anyway, so let me tell you, Dick. Like, we don't need the turn. Like, you know. They, um, you told me to watch this movie like an hour ago, which was very stressful, very stressful. And it's so, it's the longest action movie I've ever seen. It's the longest movie I've ever seen. I haven't seen the Odyssey, but this is certainly longer than the Odyssey.

You should see, you got to see this in 70s. millimeter i max but um but i but i but i was watching it on uh amazon no big deal i can afford it and um and it kept it does a thing where it kept popping up like fun facts about like well you got it you have to initiate it it doesn't do it but i would click on it and um but for the bridge thing it said they used 18 cameras to film that crash over the bridge and like that seems excessive to me 18 cameras But yeah I mean like

So he is a cool dude Who's known for not only Extreme sports But extreme pranks That's and this is the problem I had Tricks Is it tricks? Oh yeah tricks

If the state senator was up to something Like truly nefarious And like truly harming communities We're two minutes into the movie We have fucking so far to go But I know But it's the interesting introduction of Xander.

If they had introduced him as somebody who, like, doesn't always go about it the right way, but whose heart is always in the right place, I would have been on board for this guy. But he is so upset about skateboarding and what the senator said about violent video games, which I was like, I do think this day's senators right. I worry about violent video games, actually. So I was on his side. You put a problem, June. You're part of a fucking problem.

Why do you care about what's going on with this? The senator. It felt so strange. Like I feel like it's, this is a movie that comes out in 2002 that feels like it's attacking Al Gore and Tipper Gore era like thing. Remember when they put on like CDs? That's how old I, like, where it was like parental advisory lyrics. Like that was a big thing that like Tipper Gore.

This is how old it is. Like that the audience is like, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I don't. That is like. I vaguely remember that. He is like attacking something that feels like in 2002. I don't think we were talking about skateboarding his. a crime. Nobody has ever

said skateboarding is a crime. That's never happened. But he goes, you say that we're learning the wrong things and vying the video games. But where else are we going to learn? I guess, yeah, sure, say that, Ben. But he just comes off as such an asshole. It's also

like so lame that they, I mean, I guess I get it. They name him dead. But can you explain to me? Because now this is minute three, Rob. So we are moving forward to it. Can you explain to me? I'm just exhausted. No, I know. There's ways to go. Eve runs this underground And I was happy to see her

Oh, I forgot she was in there. Very brief. Very brief. Very brief role. You know, Eve runs an underground video platform service. I don't know. She's running like an independent YouTube.

But she's this girlfriend, question mark. Because she says, after this, go to Bora Bora, get some girls, do whatever you want. want with them, I don't care. Well, I think she's saying that, Rob, not because she wants to be with him, but because she wants him to get her, those videos. Now,

yesterday. In fact, and then after that, he can go relax. I didn't, but what is her service? What is her service? I mean, look, I've got a lot of questions about who's paying rent in this house, because at this point, I don't think there were ads on

videos. So, I mean, like, this is, by the Do you think she's just handing out DVD? and getting paid for them. I'm serious. So she's like a person out on 42nd Street being like, extreme stunts, extreme stunts. No, no. I can tell what.

What is her business? I don't know the business model. I don't know the business model. But here's the thing, again, it's this to me is the same problem that Euphoria has, which is like a 40-year-old man writing about like high school kids.

This feels like a guy who saw kids skateboarding once. Like, I got it. Like, I understand this one. world because this is like one of the first lines that he says like listen to vin diesel describe his trick or they ask him about his trick. Oh, yo, yo, what is up with that crazy trick that we've been hearing about? Pull that? Like Superman's seat grab barrel roll?

Word. Yo, yo, yo, what's up with that crazy trick? We've been here. Superman, Superman speed bag, whatever. I didn't know. Speed bag barrel roll? So he does get found by the NSA. Now, the NSA in this movie, I'm fascinated by.

Yes, they live in a, we have an establishing shot of D.C. And then quickly leave D.C. To go to a weird mountain range that, so it's a secret base, but they also do have like a nice observation deck built into the side of the mountain. So it seems a little, it doesn't seem intuitive to have a secret base that also has a deck and a patio. They then take an elevator down. Do we ever find out how Samuel Jackson knows about him?

He's watching the Eve's videos. Is he getting them from Eve? He may have bumped it to her in the street one time, got one of those DVDs. But are all the other guys that are being recruited by the NSA? Are they also extreme athletes? Great question. Thank you. Thank you.

Great question. I think some of them are, like, some of them just straight. Like, he is grouped as, like, a thug and a ne'er-do-well. Because when he gets sent on that first mission, those two dudes... To Columbia. Right. Where the one guy starts pulling cocaine off the bush. He goes, cocaine, do you know how much is his worth on the street?

He's just packing his pockets with leaves from the cocoa plant. And the next thing you see, they both are carrying giant sand. bags of cocaine. Like, it's like rice bags of it over their arms. Like, even if you got out of this situation, how would you transport it? Like, it's too much cocaine. Here's my big issue, though.

Like, I didn't feel like we saw enough extreme sports. Oh. Call this X, X, X, X, X. First of all, I don't consider driving even fast driving extreme sports. I agree. That's a different category. What is my point? Let's break down.

it down. When he grabbed that waiter's giant silver tray, the sort of banquet tray. Wait a second. And he he skateboarded down the railing. Snowboarded! Well, you can't snowboard when it's a... That wasn't snow.

Yeah. That was like, okay, that's extreme. That's extreme. No. When he snowboarded. First of all, it's not an extreme sport. It's an interesting way of using a silver tray. Because it's not like, no one is like, the silver trade games it's like well i didn't know though i was like oh are we going to see the triple barrel

is that that move i think that that's when his motorcycle jumps uh 155 feet in the air with no ramp and then he's able to slide off the back of it grab its tail end take a gun out and shoot and then get back on the seat of the motorcycle i think that's well that motorcycle work that's Superman wait are we allowed to just jump around wherever we want you're allowed to do whatever we fucking want want. What are the rules? This is extreme podcasting. It's so extreme.

We don't follow pop, man. We follow vibe. Well, I skipped over something I wanted to ask a question about, which is, does the NSA have the budget for fake diners? Okay. Well, I'm going to do. Because he wakes up in a fake diner. Love this. I love this.

But does some detectives. work, he clocks a waitress wearing high heels. Yes. And they weren't that high. They were not that high. And I will say it felt to me like when you first see it, it's like, oh, is this a fat joke? I don't like this.

Yeah. And then they're like justified it's not a fat joke. Actually, jokes on you. Yeah, you're the asshole. You're a fucking asshole, not. Danger Cage is cool, man. But I'm like, no, I think you made that joke. I don't know.

I didn't like that. I felt like he was sizing her up a little bit weird looking at. at those ankles. But that's a very dangerous scenario for the NSA a government agency to construct.

I mean like they don't know that Xander is not going to kill the guy he happened to smash the guy his head into a coffee pot. Which is going to fuck up his face like who's that guy?

It's like how did you do this? How did you get your face on messed up? Sweetheart, what happened? Well, you know that fake dinery belt at work? I would was used as a criminal. I got my face bashed. Oh, you didn't even, like, it's the worst injury to get. He didn't even get it in service of anything. That was just like you passed the test.

And it seems like there's a lot of tests. There's a lot of tests. There's a lot of tests. So many tests. I mean, I even have a thing about the NSA before that, which is the NSA, when you go down that elevator, a lot of CGI, great CGI, right out of your favorite. Early CGI. Right out of your favorite Sega Genesis games, CGI. The NSA seems to be broken up into four distinct doors that highlight different areas of the map. So whatever room you go in,

that's what you're dealing with. So it's like, I'll go in the Russia room. And that's what they're dealing. And I was like, do they separate it by region like that? The NSA's like, yeah, that's our Russia room. We have an Australia room. It's not very busy. We can't even afford a diner. We get a hot dog stand. But they seem to have a big budget. They're also hiring James Bond.

I mean, that's the joke. The opening joke is James Bond gets killed. Because James Bond, he's not a superhero for our time. He fucking wears a tux, that turd. And it's like, well, I don't think that James Bond's like, he's not like Superman. He doesn't wear tucks everywhere. He wears a tux to play like Baccarat at a casino.

Yeah, places that are appropriate to wear a tux. Yeah. They make it like, this guy. And I don't know. I said they did James Bond dirty. Well, I have another quick question, and I don't know if anyone would have the answer to this in this room.

But how many times do they cut to the fucking neck tattoo as a way into the next segment? Like, what are we doing? Every segment is like, close up on his neck. Pull out,

now we're in Columbia. Like, I know what movie is, but literally they do it like seven or eight times. It's to remind the audience, this guy is extreme. By the way, the title of this movie, Triple X, what a terrible title for anyone who has to ever Google anything. You're telling me. You're telling me?

I had to Google this an hour ago and I'm like, Triple X movie. I got very distracted. That's why I'm sitting cross-lux. Legged. By the way, eagle-eye people will point out that that tattoo disappears quite a bit in the film. Amazon kept telling me that. They're like, here's a goof. The neck tattoo disappears.

That's a big fucking goof when it's the only way to describe your character. I liked when this guy is an extreme sports addict, as June would say. He is brought to Columbia. He's never done a secret mission. He's seemingly never been tortured. never used a gun, but now he is hanging up by his hands, getting tortured by Danny Trejo, and this guy doesn't miss a fucking beat.

Not at all. He's doing stand-up, he's doing insult comedy. This guy is Matt Rifing Danny Trejo right out of the gate. Danny Trejo also holds up the dullest blade in the world. It's like clearly a rubber blade, and then he punches him and Zander spins around. He punches him so hard. Does Zander say

it smells like blood? He does. He does. He does. I think he does. I mean, this guy is not afraid of anything. And I like him. I like him a lot. But then he breaks out of that place, and this is where we

find his special motorcycle that I literally was like, how high can it jump? Because it jumps over fences. It jumps over watch towers. Oh, it hit a little incline. like secret like bridge and went fucking over a barn. It went so vertical as the three or four helicopters shot up the barn and exploded all of the cocaine in the world.

Well. That's why cocaine is so expensive. It also, that motorcycle also lifted up with no incline many times. Just no ramps. Just lifted up and then went sideways through again. gap in the barbed wire and then landed down. It is a, I was playing it as you were talking so we could just see how much he is jumping. And that's, and that's a motorcycle left at a cartels, like the exterior of a cartel.

Like there's not like, that's just for them to ride around in the fields. At one point didn't you think, I couldn't understand the geography of this cocaine compound, but it seemed like he was driving away from it and then just turned to, and came right on back. What was the mission? The mission is to go there and do cocaine? The mission was to get out of there and then get back in if you could. It seemed like they kept on

testing them on things that would never come up on the mission that he was sent off to do. I think there they were testing, will you go back to get your fallen Oh, comrades. Comrades, I think. But is that a part of it? He doesn't need to get. Oh, you're right. Because he does go back for his friend that he met on the C-17 on the way there. By the way, why did they have them exit the plane that way?

I live for this shit. Like, they get pulled out like a, it's a bungee cord that leads directly to land. It's like, it says like, bam. There's no air that they go into. Like, why don't they, by the way, just push them out of the plane. Yeah. Like, make it like, make it an extreme sport. They don't.

It's like, the plane seems very low. Put them on roller blades. Let them rollerblade out. the back. Okay. I guess he is in a motor. I guess that motorcycle work was pretty extreme. And obviously the snowboarding.

I'm jumping ahead. Rob, don't freak out. The snowboarding, like, trying to out snowboard an avalanche. And I know you, well, you ski, Rob. Do you snowboard? I don't snowboard.

Okay. Please don't hold that against me. Okay. But Rob, I just, you know, you didn't say anything, but Rob is a parachutist. I did, I did skydive. I did.

You did? In college, I was a member of the skydiving club. Oh, that's... Until my parents found out. Wow. Did you consider yourself extreme? This was before extreme was even a word.

Got it. Got it. Well, I'm so sorry if I offended you before by what I said. I've been sitting here seething. Wait, what were you going to say about the snowboarding or the avalanche? Well, okay, so when he's snowboarding, that's pretty extreme, okay? It's a death wish. I mean, what he does is...

He makes it. Extreme. It makes it extreme. It's insane. And by the way, my favorite part of this movie is he does all these things and none of them work. And after every sequence, there's some of the bad guys are there like, we're right here. And he's like, I laughed so hard. But other than that, and when he goes down the railing on the caterer's silver platter, the catering platter, the catering platter, driving is not extreme.

Okay. I'll give you that. What other ways? I would argue that. With that GTO? Well, we're skipping head again. I don't want to break the rules. But there's no other way. This is my main complaint with the movie. Otherwise, it was perfect. There's no. He doesn't use any of his skills to solve this, honestly, like a crisis that's about to hit humanity. It could end the world.

There were going to be poison gas bombs missiles shot at every big city. Hamburg. I'm so upset about the... When I finally figured out what the mission was, I was so angry. But I do have one thing that you haven't talked about. That's extreme. What's extreme? We'll take a look.

Yes. Oh, extreme fucking. Oh. Look at his tongue. This poor actress. the things I'm going to do from our country. Extreme sex. He's such a gentle kisser.

That's the one thing that made me laugh. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. We need to talk about these kissing scenes. We need to talk about what is happening between these two actors. He kisses, is it Asia Argento? Yes.

The first time he kisses her when she says, I hope you liked it, that will never happen again. It was so gross. It was so gross. He takes his fucking huge mouth and like shoves it on her, but then like just kind of smears her face. You know, you know.

Paul said it was gentle. I think he is gentle because he's got such a hard edge, but gentle lips. Like, there's a moment. Gentle lips, slow tongue. Because he is, they're both, they're both kissing different parts of each other's mouth. It's. Extreme kissing, man. By the way, I was so just, I'm, I'm still caught in the first scene.

where girls like, you should come work for me. He's like, all right, I will. And he kisses a stranger. A stranger. On the lips. She loves it. In front of his girlfriend. Is that in girlfriend?

Eve is his wife. I think they're in a situation. No. His wife of... He is a business affiliate. Affiliate. He's just doing business. It's a multi-level marketing operation.

But yeah, his... I did. did feel bad for that actress who has no lines. I did too. They're in the world's biggest Airbnb. They're just moving around from Fortress to Fortress in the movie. They're in a fucking castle. And the main bad guy, what's his name?

A Yorgie. Yorgie is like, yes, the previous owners decided to move out. Okay. information that plays no part of anything. I know. I mean, later on, I was like, are they dead? Are they, you know, I don't know. What happened?

There's so many, like, little facts like that. And at one point, there's such a treasure trove of information that Zander finds out about, like, his whole crew, where their ranks were, what their birthdays are, what cars they drive. And they go, how do you get this information? He's like, you'd be surprised so much luck. We'll get these guys talking.

And it's like, so wait, did you, like, did you, did this guy do a shot of tequila? And you're like, give me that guy's birthday. What's that guy's birthday? What's that guy's birthday? All right, and he was in the what army? What's his mother's, the fucking computer program shows their parents' names? And then, and then he goes home. He's like, tech, tech, tech, tech, tech, bank, bank account, bank account.

Like, like, that is, like, he has banking numbers. He has been numbers. But that's where, as we were saying over there, I thought that was the end of the movie. When he goes to meet Sam Jackson at the opera rehearsal, the NSA has a front row seat to any opera rehearsal. But, Rob, you know that if half of your face is a scar, you have to love opera.

I love that also it's like, Why do I have to come in earlier? We don't have a matinee today. It's a Tuesday. Well, the NSA's here. We got to just, we got to do the full opera. That reeked to me of like they couldn't afford all the extras. So they were like, well, just shoot it.

No one will be there. All the extras were in that club. The Tesla coil club? The club that is made of Tesla coils. Like, I love it. Give me a cool club. But those Tesla coils are too big and it feels very dangerous. Did we also, this is going way back.

I'm so sorry. This is an extreme narration. But this is the whole plot of the movie. Extreme border sky gets recruited, saves the world. That's it. We can go back and forth all night. I did love seeing Romstein perform live. That was in the opening thing at his party.

That was Romstein. I don't know who the Tesla coil guys were. I'm sure that someone famous Czechoslovakia or whatever. Okay. Here's my. my main issue. So we move away from extreme sports and he sort of becomes like a gadget guy, which seems not totally in line of this character.

But I guess he was into tricking out his car and the other. Remember those great cameras he built? That's true. That's true. Fine, fine, fine. But then at a certain point, he, he is outside the compound, one of the compounds, the basement area. And he sees what they are doing, which is creating a missile that's,

going to drop some sort of poisonous gas and kill 10 million people. And he is watching through his x-ray classes. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And we'll talk about those x-ray glasses. The penetrators. The penetrators. But instead of, because, of course, Yorgie then keeps all the scientists inside.

And I know, by the way, that these scientists were planning on killing people. It's like, these aren't great people, fine. but Vin Diesel, these are elderly men. Watches. They're not elderly. They had white hair. Some people with white hair are fucking cool. It's a room full of Steve Martins. That's all.

He watches them die. A group of them. The most miserable deaths. And does nothing. But June, I couldn't believe it. My favorite, my favorite part of that was, yes. Yes, he's doing all of that.

But the way it is shot is he is having those binoculars in front of a brick wall. So he is like, so the wide is just him on his knees staring at a brick wall. He's watching this. And we already know that he has the option of seeing them naked. He could have watched their like. naked dongs die. Why doesn't he do anything? I mean, this man is really,

I really had a problem with that. He stands by and watches them all die. He could make a move. He was out in number, June. He's out in number. It's also a pretty ballsy move by the bad guy to shoot off the toxic gas missile in the laboratory.

But wait, now, this is what I was so confused by. It seemed like it went out or like it shot into the roof and then I thought oh did it go out into the world? No, it just kind of crashed into the roof. Yeah. And then it was slippery stuff.

It can only be a dissolved by water. It has to go deep underwater. Deep water. Deep water. Deep water. And by the way, as deep as whatever that river is, that apparently

there's a lot of deep rivers in Czechoslovakia. By the way, he definitely swallowed a lot of, he swallowed a lot of, of that poison. Like, because you're telling me he's going underwater, he took a little bit of a gulp of that poison. Oh, he sure did. That's why when he got out, he was so kind of

borah, borah, and so kind of, like, he was so out of it. I thought it was the funniest thing, like, you know, your James Bond moment, like, he comes up from the water, he's like, ugh, brr, blah, I'm so cold, I'm don't cold, I'm not cold. I'm not cold.

He was shivering, he was also shivering so loud, and I'm jumping ahead, but she heard him. she was on the other side of the bridge. Sam Jackson is consoling her on the death of her boyfriend of two days telling her that she can now come to America because he's a man of his word.

Shishish, shish, shish, shish. I hear... I think I hear some shivering. I know that shiver. Here's what's so weird. Because, okay, there's so many... weird, the sexuality of this movie is very disturbing. Thank you.

Okay. It's very strange. And when they first introduced those x-ray glasses and he sees one of the NSA agents, like getting ready to target shoot. The lady. The lady, lady agent. He, what's so strange about this film is that they stay on the skeleton. Thank you.

for so for saying that for so long like oh baby after i your exoskeleton after i googled triple x movie i was so ready to see a naked lady you're not going to they showed like four frames of her buttocks and then they go to a dead skeleton lady it was so strange like and they were Here it is. I'm just going to go back. That's Melania, right? There she is.

I'm almost certain that's Melania. Well, here's the other thing, too. You would see under the bra, right? It wouldn't be like, oh, yeah, this has one function that just gets you to underwear. And then one function that gets below underwear. And then one function that's fucking skeleton, maybe. Like, it's like, I don't even understand how technology would even work to be like. You want the underwear mode?

We got the PT-13 version of these goggles out there, too. It's so strange. And he just seemed so into the skeleton version of her. Oh, nice femur. So weird. I clocked out also. I want to kiss it with my big lips. Yeah.

Oh, she's got osteoporosis. There is something very strange about. I can't remember the character's name who comes up with all the guys. gadgets. Whoever that guy was. Shavers. Shavers. I'll tell you why I remember that. That's a part that I would want.

A thousand. Me too. I was so jealous of Shavers. I was like, who the fuck is this guy? Yeah. What happened to Shavers? But Shavers has to be more annoying than Xander. And I feel like Zander is really like abrasive. So it's like, we got to make this guy more of an asshole.

And he's like, yeah, dude, you fucking love this man. Check out this. Cool bullets, dude. He's yelling. He's like, and like, he compliments Zander by going like, oh, Zander is more palatable based on Shavers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you got to jack it up, buddy. So we like our lead more.

Also, Shavers spent way too much time developing such an assortment of different types of tranquilizer darts. So many. There's like six different kinds. There's one that just has red paint or as Zander says, mostly red paint. and then there's like one that's like knocks you out and then there's a couple they're like hollow tip like cop killer bullets like all of them were odd though

and especially when they're the sequence where he's leaving one of the compounds and he's like blowing up all of their motorcycles in their cars so they can't find him and he puts on the band-aids it's supposed to be so cool you know what I mean like we're going to blow

some shit up and I'm like I have I have those band-aids. Doesn't he also go like this? He goes, these band-aids, man, they're fucking C-4. He's fucking band-aid. He goes, Band-Aids.

Like, no, they're not, they're not band-aids. He just told you they're fucking C-4. But, fucking don't need band-aids. Like, it's like... But why were they... Why were they band-aids, though?

Because, like, and this is how I thought of it. Like, he's like, oh no, Yorgie, you got a paper. cut, let me put this on you. And then, boom. There's never a reason to surprise someone with a bandaid. No adult needs a bandaid put on very quickly. It's not asked for, no.

I also feel like this is just a very small detail, but there was another bad guy that said that he likes smoking so much that he, you know, because Xander is very pro-health for some reason, even though he's into extreme sports. and risking his life for dumb reasons all the time. The guy that smokes, as everyone does in Europe, he shits on that guy really hard a couple times, and the guy goes like,

I love smoking so much. I would smoke in my sleep, which, of course, comes back to buy them later with the heat-seeking missile. And we all know that heat-seeking missiles are picking up the intense heat-signature of a cigarette. But is a heat seeking... All right.

Do heat seeking missiles? It posits that they just want to seek the hottest thing around. Is that how they work? Again. Right. Is that how they work? And that other guy programmed it for him. He's like, program it.

And he programs it. I'm like, to what setting? I also like, the movie is... The movie is like... They make them... Yeah, there's like a... Cigar? Pro cigar.

I only have cigar. on here. It's a cigarette, man. Also, that smoking guy looks so much like Elon Musk. That when he got killed, I was like, yeah. It was crazy. Crazy stuff. Oh, my God.

I also just think, like, it was like, are we that dumb? They really drove it in. Because even with the cigarette thing, doesn't he go, like, I told you that would kill you? Like, you're like, keep on smoking. It would kill you. Huh? I did it.

You see, I am. the one who killed you for smoking. Also, this is another just small detail, but like the solar-powered submarine was the ricketyest fucking prop. Like, there's one point where they get on it and you're like, they just spray-painted that.

Like, it's like so wobbly. When it was solar-powered? But it was in a basement the entire time. It's solar-powered. Ahab. You make it solar powered when your entire plan for world domination is relying on. He says all it has to do is go on underwater, come up to get some sun and do its business. Which sounds like it takes big shits.

Like a dog. What? I also like, look, I'm not going to be here to poke holes in this movie. No, let's not do that. Let's not do that. But the bad guy's plan is to launch one of these all over the. the world. So everything goes away.

But it doesn't like, at least in gold finger, it's like, oh, I'm going to wreck the world's gold supply. And then I'm the only person who has gold. So I will become super rich. Oh,

I'm going to do this one thing and then I will benefit. But what he creates is just a world of like chaos and. Anarchy 99. I think that's the idea. And by the way, I do think that they, once your villain is like an anarchist, it's like we don't have to fucking tell you.

You anything about anything. We're so extreme. It's just like whatever. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I also was thinking in my head that this plan is a couple years behind schedule because they were Anarchy 99 and it's Anarchy 2002. Like I'm like, we had big plan.

99 was supposed to be. We're working on it. Y2K kind of set us back. Like we didn't update the year. Okay. because anarchy 03 doesn't sound cool O2 sounds weird Energy 2 is not cool

Can I ask a question about the extent of the love affair between Zander and Yelaina Like why? Why do we give a shit about their When did she at all

indicate that she was into this? Well, he can see what's going on in her eyes. And that's what out the bonoculars. From when she drove by when he shot the guy. She could see a look cross. And it was so quick. You are so smart. That is.

That's exactly what it was. We were told that. So the whole movie is based on their love and commitment because of that. That one glance that he saw. and he saw her humanity. Did you find it romantic and he goes, want you chisel a little bit off your heart?

Like that was one of his like go-to lines. It's like, we could chisel off your heart. I just wrote down chisel off your heart, but I think that is. She was eating some ice and there was some sort of ice reference there. Yeah. And he goes, why don't you chisel? Like that's a pretty good way to attract ladies.

It's like, like, put them down. You put them down. They love it. By the way, I did. laugh at the very end when our main bad guy, Irgy, gets away on a speedboat. And Vin is, Xander's shooting at him with like a big,

a big gun. And he is a terrible shot. And I mean, not that, I'm sure it's hard to do that. But after we've been told over and over that he's amazing at everything, it was so satisfying to see, like, no, except that. And by the way, For all the tests that Gibbons are going to give him, like, why don't we give him a gun on one of the tests? Like, why don't we like, that might come up on a speaker.

It's by mission, the gun, maybe. It's also like, it felt like the day they shot that. How did you pronounce the bad guy's name? Yergy. You put a little bit more Y in it before. Oh, did I? But they, he gets shot and he bites down on like a blood capsule. And there's just like a dribble of blood.

But then his motorboat hits a mountain. with the instantaneous explosion, like the biggest explosion I've ever seen in my life. Like, I don't know if a boat explodes that quickly. It was carrying only gasoline. It was just a boat full of gasoline.

Let's go to the crowd here because obviously you might have some questions. All right. All right. Well, Pete, you brought the notebook. So let's see. Oh, you have a, how did this get made notebook? No less.

No book. Oh, yeah. All right. So, what do you got, Pete? Oh. So I kind of go back to the villain's plan. And he talks about how that when they're going to be setting off this, no country's going to know and they're all going to attack each other.

But the Czech and the Americans both know this is going down. So then in theory, everybody knows. So what is the point? Anarchy, baby. Anarchy 99. All right. Tim, how are you doing? I'm doing great.

I wanted to talk about the nature of the program. The nature of the extreme sports. Okay. Or this podcast. This podcast. What we do is we make fun of bad movies. Samuel Jackson's idea has nothing to do with extreme sports. He goes into that big room and they say nothing's working.

And he says, that's because they can smell the training on these guys a mile away. We need the bottom of the barrel. We need the disreputables. And even though we don't know everything about all of them, I pulled five their dossiers. Wow. Where did you find this? It's, they're the ones that they do a close-up on on the screen. They're on for like 0.5 seconds.

So you pause that. Where does they come from? Wow. Okay. This is amazing. Hold that up just so the audience can see. Oh, he has copies. Oh, wow. Tim has brought copies. Wow. Can I have one just a look at? Do you work for the NSN?

He has QR codes. They can pass out. All right, so Tim, Tim, by the way, I was going to give out a prize tonight. I'm going to give you the prize. Paul, do you know everyone's name in the audience? Sometimes I do. Sometimes I do.

All right. So you tell me, you are here. All right. So I'm not going to read the whole thing, but you've got five. Go ahead and read the whole thing. You've got five candidates. One of them is an unemployed drifter

who's known for armed robbery and he was arrested in 85. for selling doses at a Grateful Dead concert. So not extreme. Not extreme. Also, in the other category, one of his details is that, according to his sister, he is a coward.

Please go to the top guy. Please go to the top right guy from whose last known location was Lake Peru. Please. Well, this guy is kind of extreme. He's a disgraced former stuntman. He's been blackballed by every major film studio for his unpredictable onslaughtable,

behavior and violent tirades against film directors. I would watch this movie about him. I would. So you've got a stunt man. Another guy is a heroin peddler. You've got... Yeah. This one, this guy...

Are you asking him if you can... I know. Tim, would it be cool if I borrowed the microphone and never let anyone take the mic? But I trusted you. This one where it just says there's like things about them and goes, hates to spend money.

And this one owes the Dallas district attorney a big favor. So you got four guys, maybe one of them is kind of extreme. But Samuel Jackson's plan is not to get extreme guys. It's to get like violent criminals who he can quote, unquote, program. Who have... Who on strike three.

Yeah. So this... On this other guy's other, one of his details, is that he is, quote, unquote, very programmable. So, Vin Diesel, out of all of the guys, is the only one that works. He's got Triple X tattooed on his neck for the three strikes. They call him X. The whole reason the triple X program exists,

and the reason why it's based in extreme stunts is Zander Cage. Wow. All right, Tim. You're going to get a prize. That's great. All right. Hi. How are you?

Hi. Okay. The thing is with E. because you guys were wondering what she did. That era was the time when like all of the like Bam Margera was selling his own tapes and stuff like that. So they would have recorded their own stuff and then sold it on like the black market and also at like Best Buy. That's fine. I know that.

And I understand that they would sell their own DVDs. Is she their manager? What is she? She seems to be compiling all of them or create. So she's like the female version. of the guy who did the girls gone wild. She's Joe Francis?

She is the action version of Joe Francis. By the way, no further questions. I love it. Now I understand. I'm like, got it. Thank you. So much. Rob Hewbel and I have a picture with Joe Francis. Paul, don't say that.

We both We didn't know. We did not want to be in that picture. We also have a picture with Spencer Pratt. I know. Yeah. But when Joe Frans... Francis, like, bombarded us, put his hands around us and said, take a picture. I said, we're going to regret this for decades.

And, yeah, I said, hopefully no one will announce it in a crowded theater. All right, what is your question, sir? I'm wondering, because we see that Samuel Jackson does a lot of tests for Vin Diesel. He puts it together elaborate things. At the end of the movie, when he's on the beach, gently kissing the woman, he says, well, you pass the Gibbons test. Are we to believe that the test was just saving the world? or was this whole Yorgie thing maybe an elaborate ruse?

And that's what the given sense was. Great question. Well, wait, so then... There is a sequel. There's two. Two? Yeah, one. So the second movie, which we did hear on the show,

and you were here for... Did I do... Was I here? You were not here for that. I was not here. This is the first time I've met Sander Kate. Well, technically... It doesn't sound like it.

We did a whole... whole other movie with this man with this not me thank you oh wait she wasn't there oh thank you tim i was feeling really crazy was that tim that was tim who was there tim you remember tim i want to go to like a party with you okay so it was me jason and adam scott i wasn't there and he's saying that's the second of it of course oh okay wow look at that great memory tim tim tim do you have my home address. I hope no. All right. Hey, what's your name? What's your question? My name's Jared

and I'm curious about the potato village. Yes. Like, those people had no reaction to the potatoes blowing up. They were just casually walking down the street going like... Thank you. Like, who are those hardcore guys? Harvest of potatoes. How are we going to get around this potato cart?

I know what we'll do. We'll shoot the rocket launcher out of the GTO, blow up all all the potatoes. And when he's driving away, the potatoes kept coming down. Those potatoes, like, I was like, oh, that was the whole years worth of potatoes right there. Check fries.

All right. Son of Pete. Is this son of Pete? Yes, this is son of Pete. I would just like to, can we talk about the amount of people that were fit into that tiny box on the mountain that he was trying to destroy with the avalanche?

Like, there were like 20 people on, like, those snowmobiles that just like kept on just going, going, going. Yeah, he got that little box, and then he hangs on. Again, Zander Kage doesn't look cool a lot because he hangs on to that little. That was fucking so cool. That was extreme, babe. Paul.

Whoa! There we go. He just, that was so extreme. That was so extreme. Very extreme. For the listener, Paul just hopped up on the stage. Fucking do push-ups. I'll do anything.

I'm ready for it. Yeah, we haven't really talked about the Avaland. the self-induced biggest avalanche ever, which... No, because, okay, so there's no way you could ever... You're never able to train for a situation like that. I don't think so. Well, maybe sometimes you have a little silver tray. You can practice.

You can practice your snowboarding. But he takes two grenades. Also, I should point out that Amazon told me that when he's snowboarding, sometimes he's snowboarding goofy and sometimes he's snowboarding not goofy. I guess two different stuntmen. So he throws

the grenades behind him, very casually, causes the fucking biggest avalanche ever made to take out an antenna which is sitting by a road.

Drive your car up to the antenna and push the antenna over it. I thought he was trying to get away from those guys. That's what he was doing. I don't know. As you say it, I'm like, it does seem like...

Son of Pete. Sorry, whose son are you? Son of Pete. Sorry, I don't know the family. I don't know everybody's name, I'll be honest. I know Tim because he knows where I live, but son of Pete, wasn't he trying to take out that radio

tower? The communications building. The youth are going to save us. The youth will save us. The son of Pete says, shouldn't he have just thrown the grenades at the building? No reason to skydive out of a plane flown by the skeleton lady. The skeleton lady can fly up C-17. He skydives out of the plane.

that on a snowboard and then lands on top of the mountain goes all the way down the mountain and then stops on a cliff causes a giant avalanche to take out the communications bunker that he could have just... Communications and quotes. We don't know.

Yeah, what was... Here's another question. Why not if you did want to create an avalanche? Why not throw it forward? Right. Right. Right. Let... Throw it forward.

so you don't go, you don't have to chase you. You get off to the side, but you go. You can let it clear all of the snow from the last thousand years, and then you safely walk down. That's what James Bond would do, that fucking wimp, that nerd. Oh, man. I'm going to get into some specifics about this movie in a second, but I will tell you this much.

Obviously, we have an opinion about this movie. There are people out there with a different opinion. It is now time for, Second opinions. Hello, I am Jennifer. Yes. Bear with me, since this is Acapella. He's on a snowboard.

He's sliding down. Samuel L. Jackson is watching. All the explosions won't take off the coat because fur is awesome. It's awesome What is so fire

This is why people move to L.A. I love it They want to get into the biz By the way We didn't talk about the coat We didn't talk about the coat We didn't talk about the coat. We should have fucking started with the coat

We really should have Was that his coat that he brought to the Czech Republic Or did they give that to him To go undercover? Well, I don't think he packed anything for this trip So But he looks at it looks at It looked so right on him, and it looked, he felt, it looked like he felt so himself in it that I, I don't know.

I can promise you that Vin Diesel has that coat in his home right now and probably wears it out like five nights a week. Well, to me, what I think happened in that that coat is like, he was in that movie and be like, that coat is fucking ridiculous. And, and then he was like, oh, people like my coat. And then because then we came back at Triple X3, he's like, I got to bring back the coat. And people are like, no, no, no, people didn't like, he wasn't because it was cool. It was, it didn't work. But he embraced it in a weird way. But I honestly think it looks good.

I thought it looks great on him. Now, at one point she's also, absolutely. At one point, she's also wearing a crazy coat that I thought that's a robe. But it wasn't, it was a coat. Sometimes. And it was wild to see them. But isn't, isn't a coat? a robe?

No. So a coat can't be a robe. A coat isn't like an outdoor robe. No? Is a coach... Is a coat... Is it a coach...

Is it a trench coat an outdoor robe? Wait. Hold on, Tim. Oh, Tim. Tim has something to say. I'm sorry, we've had this conversation. She was totally there. I got confused. She wasn't there on Hobbs and Shaw.

You guys have had this coat conversation. She said... She said it's a coat like ten times and everyone ignored her. She's like, it's a coat, you guys. It's a coat. And you guys wouldn't listen to her. And then they have this whole entrance for him

in this jacket. Then he's weirder. It's a coat. It's a coat. It's a coat. The worst jacket to wear in the rain. It's terrible. He then also has like three other very weird

jackets. Yeah. They're coats. You guys. They're all coats. Oh my God. Tim. Tim.

Tim. Tim. Tim, nobody likes a time traveler. Wow. I have to admit, Tim, I was a little worried because when I saw the title X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X. I thought, this seems familiar. But I didn't question it further. And, um, but when Paul said we did it on the podcast just now, I thought, uh-oh, Piscadio.

And, but, but then you said, you said, and. it's so confidently that I wasn't there. I'm looking right here on Reddit. Yep. You were here, June. The return of Sander Cage with Paul June, Jason and Adam Scott. Well, Tim didn't remember. And I didn't either.

He's a time traveler. Oh, my gosh. All right. Well, let's get back to Amazon reviews here. This movie gets an average rating of 4.5. out of five stars. What? 78% of the reviews are five star reviews. And they're not ironic.

Patricia O writes, Vin Diesel, Triple X, is the newest action star of the millennium. To me, Triple X is the man, women want to be with. Me especially. He's muscular, handsome.

Knows how to kick some serious, in quotes, heinie, and drives cool cars like a GTO, snowboard, and et cetera. I'm going to read that sentence

one more time. Drives cool cars like a GTO, snowboard, and et cetera. Vin Diesel is the total package. Vin Diesel, you are the best.

Keep making these movies. They're so hype and they're fun to see. Title, Ben Diesel is the hottest man, five stars. Whoa. How, how, do we know, how old was Vin Diesel when he made this movie? Um, I, I think he's, I think that Vin Diesel, 34.

34. Thank you, Tim. Tim, you can't just say shit and everyone's going to believe you. Everyone's just like buying whatever Tim says. Oh, okay, yeah, 34. Okay, yeah, Tim knows. L.M. Rodriguez from the Bronx in 2003 writes, Yes, it copies bond cliches. Yes, it's confusing at the beginning. Yes, the plot is irrelevant.

Yes, it's loaded with stupid jokes. So what? It's an action thriller of first class. It moves. It sizzles. It flies through the air and the rooftops. Low points should have been made for adult audiences. They should have suppressed the stupid jokes.

At the beginning, when Vin Diesel is racing on the highway pursued by California police, he talks to the audience. Ah, please. This technique is called, quote-unquote, comic relief, and it was, in quotes, bad. Another low point, too bad they had to get that stupid PG-13 rating, so what if kids hear F-words and see some naked woman?

They will not be perverted forever, and their souls will be safe as yours and mine. If you're a parent and believe your kid or kids don't use harsh language ever? Well, then you're living on another planet. By the way, I'm sure the Russian mafia and all the crooks in the world use plenty of F words

and its endless variations on a daily basis. Not in this film. It's as clean as the Council of Churches had produced it. High points. Stunts were unbelievable, especially the avalanche sequence, which is the best ever.

I didn't know that, Vin is such an accomplished snowboarder. He is great. He did his own stunts to perfection. By the way, all the stunts in this movie were superb. Another high point, the movie improves as it progresses towards the end. James Bond should go home and cuddle with his cat. Five stars.

This James Bond's from the Bronx. you can't really top that but I will say that I like this one just from a Kindle customer the title is an honest film and the review is simply a film that accomplishes everything it sets out to do

five stars and I do believe that to be true well Sam Sam Jackson at the very end of the movie when he's in Bora Bora and Yelena is slathering then with sunscreen.

But not on that head. As a bald man, I want... Get it on the top. You don't need it just on the chest. So he calls him and he goes, hey, call me. We got a whole new thing to talk about. That's what the NSA leaves on your voicemail?

He is as specific as Matt Hoffman. Yo, dude, tell me about that cool stunt you were talking about. Everyone is a little vague in this. movie. I'll tell you this. You know, people think, oh, actors don't prepare. Well, Vin Diesel did prepare.

He did two weeks of rock climbing training to get his body in shape. Rock climbing, not featured in the film. Also, two weeks seems like something you might do on a vacation. It's like, I got certified on Scoobo on Hawaii. I wouldn't say I was training

to do underwater stunts. You know, two weeks feels like he kind of quit. First choice to play this, Eric Banna. He said no. And the first choice for Yorgie was Yerne McGregor. Interesting side. Interesting side notes, Sony put up a billboard for this in Hollywood before the script had been written.

I don't think that's, I think that is a first. Okay. So, final thoughts. Any final thoughts? Gosh. I mean, I feel like we did it. I feel like we've seen all of them now. What's your favorite? Like, when you see all three now, you've seen the whole thing. What do you think? Well, it was really nice. Which one? But which one is your favorite? If you had to narrow it now. Think about it for a second. I think because this is really where his story starts. You know, where we get to meet him and then to, like, you know,

remember where he goes is so crazy by the end of the third one that I think probably I like this on the best but they all have highs and lows high points and low points but um I will just say that I'm so glad that the world was saved uh from a solar submarine I mean it's the I go I can't sleep at night I'm always worried about being attacked by a solar submarine um I will say the one thing we didn't talk about, but one thing worth noting is, yes, the cue in this movie Shavers did something interesting, which is this is supposed to be a spy movie. He's supposed to fit in, but he did give him an American flag parachute.

So when he does parachute at the end, it's like, well, we know that that's the enemy. Right? If we want to aim at that guy, he is basically wearing who he is on a parachute right there. I guess I'm also just like, we can wrap it up. But I'm just like, Anarchy 99. Yerke's plan to deliver this gas via submarine is so strange. Like, that has to be the hardest way to drop a... What about when Zander takes the missiles, picks them up, and points them down?

He takes them out of the missile launcher, just turns them down. That's what he does when he has an erection. He doesn't want people to see. Pushes it down. But also, he could have just, I don't know, couldn't he have just put it, well, first of all, just taking it out of the power source? Sure, dumped it out. But just put it down also just on the side of the summer. Yeah.

So he didn't have to go down with it. I still think he gulped a lot of that water and all those fish are dead. I think the reason of the movie is so loose and fast with like the Czech Republic is because. You mean fast and furious. Whoa, yeah. Is because they asked the Czech Air Force to loan two of their jets for the film. And the Czech Republic said, why too? Take the entire fleet.

And they said, all we want is $50,000 to donate to the pilots hospital. And can you buy beer for everybody here? And they said, yep. Wow. Whoa. The Czech Republic gave up their entire Air Force for the, this movie. Was it worth it? Absolutely. I saw the like, I think the, which I find this hard to believe, but Amazon doesn't lie. It said the budget for the movie was 70 million, which...

70 million, made 40 million opening weekend, made 142 million, and the states made 277 overseas. That's crazy. I mean, I think that's pretty good 70 million dollars. I do too actually. It's not bad. All those explosions? All that snow? All that snow? All those tranquilizer notes.

All those kisses? That fucking jacket, bro? That's $20 million right there. All right. So would you recommend this movie? I would start and say absolutely, but on 1.5 speed. By the way, why didn't you tell me that that was?

an option. Sorry, Rob. I didn't know that that was an option. Sorry, Rob. Sorry, Rob. Next time. Yeah, I would, I would recommend it. If you've seen the other ones,

you'll probably love to go back and enjoy this one, too. Yeah, it's a real official of the franchise. Rob. Was there a question? Would you recommend the movie? Would you recommend it to who? I guess listeners

is a podcast, really. I would recommend this to assholes. Okay. That's what I feel. That's what I feel. No offense. No offense. If you like the movie at all, like I think you're probably an asshole, though. All right. June, anything you want to plug? I'll plug L, which is on Prime Video, also on Prime Video. Are there any fun facts about you? Do you go from Ollie or Goofy?

I haven't had that setting on where you can find fun facts, but now I'll watch it tonight and put that out. I watch it a lot of times. I'm like, who is that person? June, Diane Rayfield. That's disturbing. Rob, anything you like to plug? What should I plug? I'll plug our show, Dark Web.

We do a show on YouTube together. So fun. I'll plug that. And I'll plug, this is way in advance, but I'll plug the Rumi and Michelle. Can't wait for it. So exciting. I just can't wait for it.

All right. Thank you, Los Angeles. You've been an amazing. That is a wrap on extreme summer, but you know what? We'll always have our time in the Xander zone. Thanks as always to our pals at Largo. I'm talking about Flannie, Griffey, and Skills in the Booth. And guess what?

Next week, we are taking an August vacation. Yep, just like your favorite therapist, we are taking a week off. And in place of last looks, we will be re-releasing one of our favorite episodes on the movie Little Italy. If you're like, Paul, how will I know which movie you're covering, you know, on the next episode? If there's no last looks, well, you're in luck because at the beginning of that Little Italy re-release, I'm going to record a new intro announcing our next movie title. And don't worry, we're still going to talk more about Triple X on a future supersized last looks. So don't forget to send us your Triple X corrections and omissions by leaving a voicemail at speakpipe.com slash hd-ttgm or by writing to us on our.

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our engineer Casey Holford, and our social media manager, Zoe Applebaum, and our intern, Emily Gelbert. and we will forever be thankful to the one and only April Hally. That's all I got for now. Bye-bye.