EP. 374.5 — Last Looks: Oscar w/ Nick Kroll & Rob Huebel

[00:00:00] Paul Scheer: The Sylvester Stallone podcast back from the Dead. Gabriel Luna reveals a secret and some very good news about our amazing movie picking producer. All this and more on today’s, How Did This Get Made Last Looks. Hit the theme!

[00:00:20] Music: [Last Looks Intro]

[00:00:31] Paul Scheer: Hello all my gallery urchins. I’m your host, Paul Scheer and welcome to How Did This Get Made Last Looks on location. That’s right. I’m recording this from a laundry room in Vancouver because I can’t stop working. That’s right. I’m on vacation. They say you got to do another Last Look.

[00:00:50] So I get in a laundry room, I get my stuff together. Why? Because I don’t stop. Just like you. Don’t stop. You the listener. You are gonna get a chance today to voice your issues on Oscar, a movie where “The character Oscar was absent. Just like this movie was absent from the Oscars.” Bam. Thank you Sean McBee for that alt movie tagline.

[00:01:14] I don’t know if that’s a tagline as much as is a a movie burn. We should maybe open it up, Scott. It shouldn’t just be taglines. Let’s get the roast jokes going. I love this. Uh, big shout out to the Action Jackson Five, they always bring the heat and they’re helping us kick off Stallone Summer with a Sly centric opening theme song.

[00:01:32] I love that. That was awesome. And you know what? I don’t think it can be displaced, but if you think, oh, I’m better than the Action Jackson Five, well, guess what? Take your shot. See if you have what it takes to create a, How Did This Get Made Last Looks theme song. Just go to HDTGM.com and click the submit a song button on our homepage.

[00:01:52] Remember, keep ’em short. 15 to 20 seconds is best, and if you need to talk Stallone, if you need to get out your concerns, your worries about anything in the How Did This Get Made world, will you just go to Discord, at Discord.gg/HDTGM. We got so much on today’s show, but first, some very good news. Um, our friend Andrew, who is Avaryll’s partner on Movie Bitches, wrote us this week and actually posted on the movie Bitches Instagram account about Avaryll. A little update.

[00:02:24] Avaryll just got some amazing MRI results that showed no more tumors or growth. She is recuperating really, really well, and I just wanna say thank you so, so much to our entire, How Did This Get Made audience from all around the world who have reached out and brought some joy into Avaryll’s Day. It has meant the world to her.

[00:02:48] It has meant the world to us. For the people who have gotten up at the live shows and dedicated songs to Avaryll, it has been incredibly overwhelming. When I got this news the other day, I was just overjoyed. So I wanted to say thank you so much for everyone sending her good wishes. We can continue sending her good wishes.

[00:03:07] She has a long road to recovery, but it has made a giant, giant, uh, difference. I said difference twice, but it’s made a giant difference. Um, so we really appreciate that. Now, we also today are going to, uh, talk about some other stuff. That’s right. We’re gonna be talking about Oscar. We’re gonna really get into this film.

[00:03:29] We’re really gonna dive into what it got wrong. And there are so many things. My friend, uh, Drew, uh, reached out to me this week and said he worked in a theater in, uh, in LA or in the La outskirts where they were testing this movie and he saw a cut that was 20 minutes longer. So how about that? So at the end of this episode, we will, of course, announce our next film, but to start Stallone Summer off with a bang,

[00:03:56] I have a very special treat to share. About 10 years ago, uh, I started a podcast called the Sylvester Stallone podcast. It’s a mini series with the goal of talking to Sylvester Stallone about all of his amazing work. It was something that was, uh, really hard to do, but I was so happy that I got to, you know, get inside the mind of one of our greatest actors.

[00:04:21] And I’ve edited some highlights right now of the Sylvester Stallone podcast. It has not been available anywhere in many, many years. I have unearthed it from the Wolf Pop Vault. Now, Wolf Pop was a failed podcast network that was launched in tandem with Earwolf, uh, that had some amazing shows on it, but.

[00:04:41] I can talk about that later. Anyway, what you’re gonna hear now is a selected bunch of highlights from the Stallone podcast. You’re also gonna hear from people like Nick Kroll, Rob Huebel, and of course, the one and only June Diane Raphael. So stick around ’cause you don’t want to miss it. Now, uh, I wanna thank everybody for buying tickets for How Did This Get Made and Dinosaur, uh, people have been

[00:05:06] so amazing. I know times are tight right now. You guys have been supporting us so, so much. Um, so I just wanna say thank you. I have nothing to plug, but I just wanna say you are all absolutely amazing and if you are still looking for an address for Avaryll. If you still wanna send her something, you can always email her at Andrew@MovieBitches.Xyz.

[00:05:27] Uh, he will give her anything that you send and you can always send her something at PO Box. 6 4 1. Agora Hills, California 9 1 3 7 6. Okay, so send her a message. Tell her congratulations. Keep her spirits up. You’ve done an amazing job and I think that it really, really is helping. Alright, let’s get into it.

[00:05:48] Last week we talked at length about Oscar. Well, we had questions and we might’ve even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set a straight fact check us, if you will. It is now time for corrections and omissions.

[00:06:01] Music: [Corrections and Omissions Song]

[00:06:07] Paul Scheer: Thank you, Ilan Osborne for that short but sweet theme song.

[00:06:11] Let’s go to The Discord. Rob from Long Island writes,

[00:06:14] “In response to the idea that sex cures pimples. It was cliche for a long time that having pimples is an indication that you’re not having sex. There’s even a line from a song in Little Shop Horrors that says a little nookie can clean up those zits.”

[00:06:27] Wow. It’s really catchy. Catchy little phrase.

[00:06:30] ” However, according to the Google machine, the notion that sex cures pimples is a common myth that is not supported by scientific evidence. While sexual activity does have several positive effects on the body that might indirectly improve skin health, it doesn’t directly treat or prevent acne.”

[00:06:47] Okay. Interesting. I mean, yeah, sure. That all makes sense. Um, now Dr. Guts 10 0 3 adds

[00:06:54] “I assumed the implication was that teenagers get pimples and that once you have sex, you become a man.”

[00:07:00] Or Dr. Gut’s a woman.

[00:07:02] ” Which would mean that your pimples vanish at that point.”

[00:07:05] Okay. Very interesting. I like it. I get it. But you know, for all those people out there that are doing hardcore fucking to get rid of their pimples, you gotta stop. You gotta just take care of it. You just can’t 69, the pimples outta there. Uh, Johnny Unusual writes

[00:07:18] “In talking about how weird it is to keep the Claymation Opera singer in the corner of the screen for most of the credits I’d like to add. It’s also weird to pay that much for animation, to have no jokes or anything exciting for him to do. What was the point? They don’t even bring ’em back for the end of the film as a bookend, even though the end credits feature more of that same singer, you probably could have had that same effect with an opera singer doing it for less money. Now, I love animation and rarely asked for less of it in the films, but it’s confounding to have no funny business nor exciting visual flair.”

[00:07:47] You know, here’s what I thought, I, I didn’t bring this up in the show. I feel like. This was a friend of the production, right? Stallone met a, a guy in France who does Claymation.

[00:07:58] I don’t know why. It was France. And he’s like, oh, you got, you got makeup from a movie. It’ll be great to have you in a movie. Claymation guy. Or like, he saw the California Raisins and was like, oh, uh, maybe I could be a Raisin. Maybe he was a raisin. Was he a Raisin? I think he was in that puppet show where they all looked like they had melted faces.

[00:08:14] Anyway, that was a favor. I know it was a favor, but what was so weird was. Like as an animator, you’re right. You would think maybe you could put a joke in there. I don’t know. We need to get to the bottom of that. That’s what I need somebody to figure out. Uh, Cash Money Coward writes,

[00:08:30] “You talked about how weird it was for the guy who wanted to convert the cash into jewels. This made me think about how pimps and gang members often flaunt the jewelry, which is seen as a sign of opulence. But actually it stems from the thought that if arrested by police, the cops can take your cash, but they have to give your jewelry back.”

[00:08:49] Wow. All right. Cash Money Coward bringing in some very important information.

[00:08:54] By the way, uh, my grandfather was involved in a very, uh, serious, um, money laundering scheme, which is a whole other story that I can’t get into. But, uh, the person above him, the, the real guilty person who did jail time, um. All of his assets were in things like gold pens and, uh, he had like a vintage phonograph record.

[00:09:15] So that does make sense. And it’s just not, uh, for, for pimps and gang members. It’s for the, uh, white collar criminals as well. Uh, SS lizard writes

[00:09:25] “In the older French version of the movie, the daughter actually gets with Oscar in the end, and the accountant in the French movie steals 60 million francs, which is equal to $1 million. So the $50,000 seems measly in comparison.”

[00:09:38] Wow. SS lizard. Yeah. Why would they lower the money? Why make it a lot more money? Oh wait. You know what? I think that the French version was in modern times. I think that that’s the difference. I think, I’m not sure. Dr. Guts is chiming in again, not just an acne expert, but also wants to say,

[00:09:58] “In the episode, they lament over the fact the film is lacking in stakes. A glaring example of this to me is the fact that Snaps never seems concerned or even aware of the fact the police have staked out his house, given how many people are going in and out of his house in just a span of a few hours, it would’ve made the film so much better if Snaps had been either worried or strategic about who was seen coming and going, or at the very least, having acknowledged that they’re watching by waving to them or taunting them.”

[00:10:24] Oh, Dr. Guts. You just came up with a great set piece, just how do the people get in and outta the house? I love that. But again, it feels like that might’ve been added at the very end. Oh, oh. I guess it couldn’t have been, I don’t know. This movie is, this movie is bad, right? It is. It is legit bad. And we always talk about this like, it’s so easy to, you know, make

[00:10:45] light of, you know, plot holes. But these are giant plot holes. These are plot holes that are, these are not like the microscopic plot holes that when you see people like talking about the new James Gunn Superman. So, well, technically, no, this is like right in front of your face, Danny the Wall writes,

[00:11:01] “The original Danny DeVito version of the movie would’ve been great, but my first round draft for an alternate to Sly would be Nathan Lane.

[00:11:07] Oh, that’s great. I, you know, by the way, maybe even like a, a more modern, like a Bird Cage era, Nathan Lane.

[00:11:14] “Although I think Lane was still doing Broadway at that time. And I’m sure the studios would’ve wanted a name with a bigger draw. Maybe Kevin Klein then, or if we couldn’t get him. Michael Keaton. ’cause he’s the best.”

[00:11:22] Whoa. Michael Keaton. Johnny Dangerously. I know we talked about that. Um, by the way, if you wanna know more about Johnny Dangerously. Blank Check is doing a great series on Amy Heckerling and it’s, it’s awesome. Um. Okay. I like Michael Keaton. I think that that’s really funny. Uh, and, but I, I guess he doesn’t like read Italian.

[00:11:40] I guess he could been like Irish mob. Uh, anyway, lastly, we have a phone call about this week’s matinee episode on Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot. Why? Because it’s Stallone Summer and we open it up about this. Okay.

[00:11:51] Listener: Hey Paul, this is Andrew. I’m a long time listener. First time caller. I was just listening to your Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot, uh, matinee.

[00:11:59] And, uh, you guys asked why Stallone would’ve possibly done this movie. I’m sure this has been discussed by now, and you already know this, but just in case you didn’t, Arnold Schwarzenegger really needed a, a hit, uh, and he wanted, uh, to catch up to Stallone and he said the only way I can catch up with Stallone is if he has to stumble.

[00:12:19] So, uh, being the prankster that he is, he told his agent to tell Stallone’s agent that he was really interested in Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot because they had both received the script. So his agent put the word out and pretended that they were talking to the film’s director Spottiswoode. Stallone freaks out, says, gimme the movie, gimme the movie.

[00:12:36] And uh, they, yeah, they let him get the movie ’cause they knew it was gonna tank. So. Yeah. You know, go Arnold. Uh, yeah, that’s about it.

[00:12:44] Paul Scheer: Yes, that is true. Uh, and here’s the best part about it. After that show, Gabriel Luna came backstage, you know Gabriel Luna, he’s a fantastic actor, we love him, and so many things from The Last of Us. Terminator, uh, Dark Fate, you know, he’s in Fubar, he’s the best, right? Uh, he’s on the Terminal List right now and he was up shooting Terminal List while we were doing our show. And he came backstage and he called Schwartzenegger to verify that story in front of us. Schwarzenegger agreed to it immediately. It was truly one of the best How Did This Get Made moments to be talking to Arnold Schwarzenegger to get that, that rumor completely verified. Now it’s not the first time, uh, about three years ago. Arnold had verified this, uh, telling the Hollywood reporter, it’s a hundred percent true, and there’s a great book called The Last Action Hero, where he talks about it even more.

[00:13:34] Uh, but all I’m gonna say is Andrew, I’m glad you brought that up. Uh, and I’m glad that Gabriel Luna is a friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger, so we got to hear it from the horse’s mouth. Okay. So many great corrections and omissions this week, but we can only pick one that is the best and the best one. From this week, oh boy, this is gonna be really good, right?

[00:13:54] I mean, there’s so many good ones in here, but I have to say, the one that kind of opened my eyes, I, uh, many things here, but Dr. Guts, you hit the nail on the head, the movie sets up the cops, and we don’t really ever pay them off in a meaningful way. So Dr. Guts 10 0 3, you are this week’s winner, and what do you get?

[00:14:14] Nothing. But actually it’s something. You get this amazing song from Sean Fogel. Hit it.

[00:14:23] Music: You win. Nothing. You win.

[00:14:32] Paul Scheer: Alright, if you wanna chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up our Discord or call us at 619 P-A-U-L-A-S-K. And once again, you can find our new song submission link at HDTGM.com uh, right there on the front page. Uh, alright, coming up after the break, you’ll hear from June, Nick Kroll, Rob Huebel, and more as I bring in some clips from the long forgotten Sylvester Stallone podcast. Alright, we’ll be right back. And then after all that, we’re gonna tell you what we’re watching next week.

[00:15:03] Welcome back. By now. I’m sure you’ve noticed that every Tuesday we re-release Classic How Did This Get Made episodes. We are kicking off our Stallone summer and making everything about Stallone. So last week we did Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. Now where are we going? Well, to another classic Over The Top with guest Bobby Moynihan. So keep on checking out all of our replays of classic episodes every Tuesday and now.

[00:15:27] Here is the Sylvester Stallone podcast. I made it 10 years ago, right when I had my first son. That’s why I made it. I was stuck at home and I was like, well, let me talk to Stallone. Uh, all you need to know is. I did book Stallone, but there was a small issue. Alright, here we go.

[00:15:52] So obviously, um, we haven’t been able to contact Sylvester Stallone, but um, I actually am here with, uh, a good friend of mine, Nick Kroll. And, uh, how are you Nick?

[00:16:01] Nick Kroll: Uh, great, Paul. How you doing?

[00:16:03] Paul Scheer: Great. You know, we actually did, um, Frank Stallone and Sly Stallone on Comedy Bang Bang, and it was really well received and I thought maybe, you know. You might know Sly Stallone ’cause your impression was so good. Do you know him?

[00:16:14] Nick Kroll: I, I don’t know him personally, but I feel like I know him having done an impression of him on Comedy Bang Bang.

[00:16:19] Paul Scheer: That’s great. That actually is great. I think you’re very much, uh, able to answer a question as Sly Stallone then.

[00:16:24] So, uh, this one is from, uh, Jeremy Lockhart. Uh, what is a writing day like and how do you come up with some of your great catchy lines?

[00:16:35] “Sly Stallone”: Uh, yeah, Jeremy, you know, it’s a great question. I mean, you know, obviously every, most people know me as an action star. You know, every guy who makes pictures, you know, I, I love to work making show business, making pictures, man, you know, every day there’s a star, you know, being star movie, you gotta get it there and write it out.

[00:16:57] You know what I’m, yeah, I gotta write it, do writing. So I, I wake up about 4:00 AM. Uh, I go out, I, I go, I go drink like, uh, 12 eggs and then, uh, I come home and do three hours of biceps and now it’s, you know, about 7:30 and I, I sit down and write.. You know, the problem is I can’t write so good. ’cause my biceps are throbbing at this point.

[00:17:25] ’cause I’ve done three hours of biceps so I do triceps and when I’m done with tris, then I feel like I’m really ready to sit down at the keyboard and, and write now, you know, whatever I’m gonna come up with, you know, it’s, could be, you know, kind of another part of it. Being able show me making a picture so that one I sit down, write.

[00:17:48] And then, uh, you know, I could, my, my legs start to hurt. ’cause I haven’t started to work on any legs. And so there’s tiny pickle legs I got tiny little pickle legs you know, so I, I, uh, so, you know, and then I called over my, uh, my brother Frank Stallone, he come down and we, we talked out a couple different lines. I actually got Frank still here right now.

[00:18:10] “Frank Stallone”: Ain’t your bullshit. I a really big fan. Yo. He writes great. I write too.

[00:18:14] “Sly Stallone”: That’s right. Me and Frank, you know, we’re like the Cohen brothers, you know, the Stallone Brothers people don’t know that man. You know,

[00:18:20] “Frank Stallone”: I write down the lines that people say, he writes all the stage direction.

[00:18:24] “Sly Stallone”: Yeah, that’s right. You know, he gets good with dialogue. He is not so good with, you know, stage writing. So, so like I said, guy crosses, you know, Art Schwartzenegger, you know. Uh, you know, the Governator, that’s what I call him. I still, I still joke around with him ’cause you know, you left the business.

[00:18:42] “Frank Stallone”: Yeah. And I go, Hey, that’s a good one doing. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:18:45] Nick Kroll: So I go, I go, so the Governnator crosses, uh, out of the jungle, it’s on fire. And, uh, he sees a beautiful looking lady and uh, and, and then I’ll have him say something like, uh, she’s the one on fire.

[00:19:00] “Frank Stallone”: Yeah, I quit. I I picked the wrong time to quit smoking. ’cause you’re smoking hot.

[00:19:05] “Sly Stallone”: That’s right. It’s Frankie’s good with the catch phrase that the guy he one who’s good with the catch phrase.

[00:19:11] So that’s all right. Some of the, you know, I can’t through without my brother Frankie, without ripping my biceps, torching my triceps. And then, uh, and then I go out for suits. I go out to buy a suit, though. Looks like a, it makes me look like a triangle so it. All angles. I want everything I said in my tailor. I said, what?

[00:19:31] You know, gimme a suit. That’s all like, uh, 35 degrees, not quite 45 degrees, not a right angle, you know what I mean? 35.

[00:19:39] “Frank Stallone”: Yeah, he looks good. He looks like a, like a rhombus.

[00:19:43] “Sly Stallone”: Yeah, that’s what I say. He is. You know, I don’t wanna look like a rhombus so, you know, you know, people don’t think the Stallone brothers are s smart, but we know, we know things like rhombus, you know?

[00:19:53] So, so then I, and then I go, I go to my shine guy, I take it from the suit guy, the tailor it, and then I go to another guy who’s on a lacquer guy and he lacquers up the suit. He makes extra shit, you know? And then I go, uh, and then I go get a new penis pump. And, uh, fill up that penis pump and, uh, you know, I go to my trailer and tell, you know, a couple the balls.

[00:20:15] “Frank Stallone”: And then, then, you know, we got a 90 script. And we shoot it.

[00:20:19] “Sly Stallone”: And we go shoot it. We get a bunch of international stars and get, raise the money, and we go make a movie. You know, we go make a movie and it’s a great time every time, you know, good business making pictures.

[00:20:28] “Frank Stallone”: Those guys what time help me outside a window by my feet. See, he was gonna drop me on my head. I said do late.

[00:20:34] “Sly Stallone”: Yeah. Unfortunately, Frankie’s uh, pawn in the bigger chess match. But he is a good sporter, but I love the kid. He’s a good kid. Anyway, so that’s what I do to, you know, film for the day. So thank you. Uh, you know, if, if anybody, if anybody can get in touch with Brian Bosworth, I’m trying to get him in the next movie. So let me know.

[00:20:53] “Frank Stallone”: We love the Bos..

[00:20:55] “Sly Stallone”: I love the Bos. Anyway, sign off. Sly Stallone, Frank Stallone, you know, never quit. Follow your dreams. Torch your triceps out here.

[00:21:03] “Frank Stallone”: Bye.

[00:21:07] Paul Scheer: I like it. Uh, that was fun. And, uh, so we got a little, uh, we got, uh, Frank and we got Sly in that one. Uh, together buddies, uh, forever. Brothers. Buddies. Um, man, I cannot get that, uh, that the theme to Staying Alive outta my head. I love Frank Stallone is talented. He is a talented, a talented guy, not as talented as his brother, which we based an entire.

[00:21:28] Uh, podcast around. So that is, um, that’s that.

[00:21:35] I’m here with Rob Huebel uh, a good friend of mine. He works all the time in a million different TV shows and movies and I, I’m sure that Rob, you have met Sylvester Stallone right?

[00:21:46] Rob Huebel: Uh, have I, what? Have I met him? Yeah.

[00:21:48] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sly?

[00:21:50] Rob Huebel: No, of course not. He’s a, he’s a major, uh, major celebrity and you know that I have not met him. I mean, you and I are friends, and I would’ve told you if I’d ever met him.

[00:21:58] Paul Scheer: Well, I mean, but maybe like, I don’t know, like a premiere or something like that?

[00:22:02] Rob Huebel: No, I would’ve fucking just mentioned it. Just now we’re talking about Sylvester Stallone. I don’t have time. What are we talking about?

[00:22:08] Paul Scheer: Just, just bear, just gimme a couple more minutes. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to bother you, but like, just think like, you ever, like, like how about like, was there like a, I don’t know, like

[00:22:16] Rob Huebel: Oh, oh, oh, yeah.

[00:22:17] Paul Scheer: Like I like, yeah.

[00:22:18] Rob Huebel: I remember. Uh, I mean, yeah, I mean I’ve seen his, like in a video store. I remember seeing like movies of his on the shelf.

[00:22:25] Paul Scheer: You saw, okay, so you saw a movie, you saw like VHS boxes with.

[00:22:29] Rob Huebel: Sure I can remember, yeah. In like the, uh, late eighties or mid nineties, seeing things like Rambo and First Blood and, uh, yeah. Even renting those movies. So yeah, sure. I guess if you think that that means that I’ve met him, then yes, I met him.

[00:22:43] Paul Scheer: I think it’s really, I mean, I think it seems like it, it really affected your life in a major way, right? That brought, because you, would you say that.

[00:22:49] Rob Huebel: No, I would absolutely not. Let’s be very clear about this. It, I couldn’t, I couldn’t be more clear. He has not affected my life at all. I know who he is because he’s a movie star.

[00:22:59] Paul Scheer: Right.

[00:23:00] Rob Huebel: I don’t. Stop saying right. I don’t, I don’t.

[00:23:02] Paul Scheer: I just, I just feel like when someone is a movie star, we kind of know who they are and I feel like that makes you able to answer a question. I, I feel like you could answer this question in the mindset of Stallone, right?

[00:23:13] Rob Huebel: No, stop saying right. No, I’m, uh, I mean.

[00:23:17] Paul Scheer: Just, just, just answer, just answer a question. All right. Just here. Uh, okay. Uh, great. Uh, with this one’s from Nick Bolton, he wrote, what role took the largest physical toll on your body during filming?

[00:23:31] Rob Huebel: Well, first of all, who’s Nick Bolton?

[00:23:33] Paul Scheer: He’s a, a super fan. That’s Stallone super fan, and he wants to know what, what movie took the most toll on Sly Stallone. So, you know, what do you think as a, as a, the biggest Sly Stallone fan?

[00:23:45] Rob Huebel: Uh, again, I’m not the biggest Sly Stallone fan. I told you up front, I know that he’s a, I know who he is.

[00:23:52] Paul Scheer: You did a movie with John Claude Vanda. True or false?

[00:23:55] Rob Huebel: It’s not pronounced John Claude Van Damm. It’s pronounced John Claude Van Damm. Yes. I did a movie called Welcome to the Jungle, with Jean Claude Van.

[00:24:01] Paul Scheer: And he was an Expendable. So by, by, I mean by the Kevin Bacon Method, you are almost like best friends with Sylvester Stallone.

[00:24:08] Rob Huebel: Okay, fine. What is the question? Which movie that I did took?

[00:24:12] Paul Scheer: No. Yeah. Not you, Stallone. But you’re answering as Stallone.

[00:24:15] Rob Huebel: That’s why I said, that’s why I said which movie that I did.

[00:24:18] Paul Scheer: Well, you didn’t do a voice.

[00:24:20] Rob Huebel: I have to do a fucking voice of Stallone?

[00:24:22] Paul Scheer: I’m just saying. All right, well, all right. So which movie took the largest physical toll on your body during filming?

[00:24:27] “Sly Stallone”: Yo, I mean, it’s gotta be like fucking Over The Top, that arm wrestling movie and shit. Yeah, because, uh.

[00:24:36] Rob Huebel: I feel like an idiot. I don’t.

[00:24:37] Paul Scheer: That was great. That was great. Like we, I feel like we really got some insight to Stallone. I feel like you really, you see, you do know him. You were great. That was great.

[00:24:45] “Sly Stallone”: Uh, uh, any anyways. Um, yeah, it was Over The Top because it was arm wrestling and I only used one of my arms, so it got.

[00:24:54] Paul Scheer: Maybe you shouldn’t use the voice. Don’t do the voice.

[00:24:56] Rob Huebel: Fuck man. Why. Alright.

[00:24:58] Paul Scheer: I think we got it. I think we.

[00:24:59] Rob Huebel: Lemme just explain why over, Over The Top.

[00:25:01] Paul Scheer: Sure.

[00:25:01] Rob Huebel: Because I only used one of my arms and so obviously that arm would get really outta proportion with the rest of my body and I look like a, like a fucking crab, you know, with a giant arm and then one little tiny claw on the other.

[00:25:13] Paul Scheer: Alright. Great. That sounds great. I, I like it. Great answer. See you do know more than you. This is great. This, I think the fans wanna know this kind of stuff. Crab arms. Thank you Rob Huebel.

[00:25:24] Rob Huebel: You’re gonna get in a lot of trouble for this podcast.

[00:25:25] Paul Scheer: No, I won’t.

[00:25:28] Fuck. Uh, did not, didn’t think he wouldn’t. I didn’t know him.

[00:25:36] Yeah. I, I thought, you know, I mean, well, what positives, the positives of that? Did a great impersonation of Stallone. That was a positive, but you couple, you probably tuned in late. On. I don’t even know how you can turn in late to a podcast ’cause you gotta start it, that thing. But, but it may be like, if, if a friend walked into the room, you’re like, oh, is that Stallone?

[00:25:56] No, no it’s not. It’s, but it’s Rob Huebel doing Stallone. Uh, okay. No, you know what? Positive energy, positive vibes. I’m keeping it going. Stallone podcast is a success. Uh, it is going to be a success. Sylvester Sloan will be here, and if he is not here by Friday. I don’t know what, I don’t know what I’m gonna do.

[00:26:22] I don’t know what I’m gonna do.

[00:26:25] Hello people of Earth and welcome to the Stallone podcast. I am your host, Paul Scheer and, um, oh, you might notice that, uh, it sounds a little bit different. Well, that’s because today I am recording the podcast from my home. Um, they wouldn’t allow me in the studio because I didn’t have Stallone as a guest. So I want What, what are you doing? I’m recording the podcast.

[00:26:43] June Diane Raphael: Give it to me.

[00:26:43] Paul Scheer: No, don’t give it to, no, I’m just doing it.

[00:26:46] June Diane Raphael: I don’t want you recording it in here.

[00:26:47] Paul Scheer: Why?

[00:26:49] June Diane Raphael: Please just give me the.

[00:26:50] Paul Scheer: I’m just doing my po I’m just doing the podcast. Just let me be all right.

[00:26:54] June Diane Raphael: It’s really embarrassing me. Please.

[00:26:55] Paul Scheer: Why am I embarrassing?

[00:26:56] June Diane Raphael: You really embarrassing me.

[00:26:59] Paul Scheer: I’m not embarrassing you.

[00:26:59] June Diane Raphael: He’s not coming. What’s like, seriously, what’s going on?

[00:27:02] Paul Scheer: Nothing is going on. No, I’m doing this. I have to do this. They want, the fans want to hear this.

[00:27:09] June Diane Raphael: What fans, Paul? Nobody cares. People, people are emailing me and texting me. They’re worried. I’m sorry.

[00:27:15] Paul Scheer: I, I’m fine, I’m fine. Don’t Who’s texting you? Who the fuck is texting you?

[00:27:20] June Diane Raphael: A lot of our good friends.

[00:27:21] Paul Scheer: Alright. You know what, why then, why aren’t you telling me this? I, I, I’m supposed, I’m doing this podcast because you know what? It’s popular and people want to hear it. And, and what? And we’re gonna get Stallone we’re gonna get Stallone.

[00:27:32] And then you could tell all your friends like that bitch, Brianna, you could tell her, you could tell her that.

[00:27:38] June Diane Raphael: First of all.

[00:27:38] Paul Scheer: What?

[00:27:39] June Diane Raphael: I cannot believe you just said that about Brianna.

[00:27:41] Paul Scheer: You know, she’s a bitch.

[00:27:44] June Diane Raphael: This isn’t recording, is it? You stopped it?

[00:27:46] Paul Scheer: What? I don’t get. Look, I have to do this. Please. Lemme do this.

[00:27:48] June Diane Raphael: She’s gonna freak out. You call her a bitch on your podcast.

[00:27:52] Paul Scheer: Um, this is not for air.

[00:27:54] June Diane Raphael: Oh, so none of this is air?

[00:27:56] Paul Scheer: No.

[00:27:56] June Diane Raphael: What are you doing?

[00:27:57] Paul Scheer: What do you mean what?

[00:27:58] June Diane Raphael: This is so strange. Like, seriously, I don’t know. I know we just had a baby. Like, I don’t know if this is you freaking out.

[00:28:05] Paul Scheer: I’m not freaking out. I’m fine. I’m fine.

[00:28:08] June Diane Raphael: Well, he’s not coming on the show.

[00:28:11] Paul Scheer: You don’t know that? Do you know him? Do you actually have a Stallone story?

[00:28:14] June Diane Raphael: No, I don’t have a Stallone story, Paul. It’s a baby sleeping in the other room. You honest? Are you seriously, you having like a, like a, like a, a meltdown? Like you’ve just become a dad and you’re having a meltdown.

[00:28:26] Paul Scheer: I’m not having a.

[00:28:26] June Diane Raphael: You’re manifesting in this way where you’re.

[00:28:28] Paul Scheer: No, I’m a podcast. I’m a podcaster. Okay. Yeah.

[00:28:31] June Diane Raphael: First of all, you’re an actor on a highly rated cable show. This is’ embarrassing what you’re doing.

[00:28:37] Paul Scheer: This is about me connecting with people. Okay? You know what? And if I can’t connect with you, I’ll connect with somebody else. And everyone likes this. I don’t know why you don’t like this, and you never support me. You never get behind my ideas.

[00:28:47] June Diane Raphael: I really resent that you’re saying that. I actually really resent that. I’ve gotten behind every, every.

[00:28:53] Paul Scheer: Oh bullshit. Bullshit bull. I don’t care. Oh.

[00:28:57] June Diane Raphael: The dick face fairy in Human Giant.

[00:28:59] Paul Scheer: Great.

[00:28:59] June Diane Raphael: I was a series regular. I’m, I have believed in every single thing that you have done. I just did a guest star on The League on FXX. I played nurse Pam. Paul. I have been a huge supporter.

[00:29:10] Paul Scheer: Fine. You win, you win, you win.

[00:29:12] June Diane Raphael: I’m a huge supportive, and I’m telling you as your wife. As your lover, as your friend, as your your coworker.

[00:29:18] Paul Scheer: Lemme tell you a story, lemme tell you a story.

[00:29:19] June Diane Raphael: Podcast with you. This is not a podcast. I don’t even know what this is. This is like.

[00:29:23] Paul Scheer: Breaking Bad, Breaking Bad. No one bought, Breaking Bad, no one brought Breaking Bad. And then, and then AMC was the last one to buy it, and everyone said no. Okay, so.

[00:29:32] June Diane Raphael: You’re, you’re gonna wake the baby. You need to lower your voice.

[00:29:35] Paul Scheer: I’m not gonna lower my voice. I just.

[00:29:37] June Diane Raphael: You’re gonna wake.

[00:29:38] Paul Scheer: I have to do this. I have to do, I’m, I, I have a half an hour material to get through tonight.

[00:29:42] June Diane Raphael: No.

[00:29:42] Paul Scheer: I have a.

[00:29:42] June Diane Raphael: The answer is no.

[00:29:43] Paul Scheer: What do you mean the answer is no?

[00:29:44] June Diane Raphael: In my house.

[00:29:45] Paul Scheer: I’ll do it in the car. I’ll do it in my car. Gimme back that microphone.

[00:29:50] June Diane Raphael: Give it to me. Give it back to me. Where are your keys. Gimme your keys. Your keys. You’re not going anywhere with this, Paul. You’re not going in. No. This is an intervention. This is an inter No. You Well, for what purpose. So he does.

[00:30:01] Paul Scheer: People wanna know this.

[00:30:02] June Diane Raphael: Okay. So he does come out. So he does. Come on. Does it end then? Does it end there? Does it start with someone else?

[00:30:10] Paul Scheer: I would like to do like a Daniel Day Lewis podcast.

[00:30:12] June Diane Raphael: Oh my god.

[00:30:14] Paul Scheer: ‘Cause I think people are interested in him.

[00:30:18] June Diane Raphael: So let their interest be, let it be, let it be out there. Let someone else take this torch.

[00:30:24] Paul Scheer: You know what I, I’m gonna go to bed. I’m tired.

[00:30:26] June Diane Raphael: All right.

[00:30:27] Paul Scheer: I’m going to bed.

[00:30:27] June Diane Raphael: Fine.

[00:30:28] Paul Scheer: Okay.

[00:30:28] June Diane Raphael: I’m, I’m keeping this here. You’re not taking to me, you’re not taking it. Paul, what’s going on? Hey, hey, hey.

[00:30:37] Paul Scheer: I’m fine. I’m fine. I’m fine. Just please, can you leave me alone? Please Leave me alone. Please leave me alone now. Thank you. I just, are you proud of me?

[00:30:55] June Diane Raphael: Of course I am.

[00:30:57] Paul Scheer: Let me do this. Let me do this podcast. Just let me do it.

[00:31:04] June Diane Raphael: I can’t.

[00:31:08] Paul Scheer: You know, I, I have been, um, I’ve been taking heat, uh, in my home life. I’ve been taking heat, uh, obviously, uh, on the boards. But you know, the people who don’t take heat from are the people that come out to see live shows. And I figured, you know what, when you get a room.

[00:31:21] I think there’s an old saying that if in a room of a hundred people, at least five of them have met Sylvester Stallone. I, I remember, I, I think I read that somewhere or I don’t know if I, that was in my meeting with Leonard Mal. He said that, or, or someone, someone has definitely said that. And so I decided to take that, uh, out, uh, to see if that actually works.

[00:31:38] So I brought us to the UCB theater to find out. Who has met Sylvester Stallone? So take a listen. Alright, here I am at the UCB Theater and I, I am convinced that someone in this crowd has met Sylvester Stallone. Let me, let me go out here and see. Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:03] Listener: No.

[00:32:03] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:05] Listener: Not that I can remember.

[00:32:06] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:08] Listener: I have not.

[00:32:09] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:11] Listener: No.

[00:32:11] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:13] Listener: No.

[00:32:13] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:15] Listener: No.

[00:32:15] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:17] Listener: No.

[00:32:18] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:19] Listener: No, I haven’t.

[00:32:20] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:22] Listener: No.

[00:32:22] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:24] Listener: No.

[00:32:24] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:26] Listener: No.

[00:32:26] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:28] Listener: No.

[00:32:28] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:30] Listener: Not yet.

[00:32:31] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:32] Listener: No.

[00:32:33] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:34] Listener: No.

[00:32:35] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:36] Listener: Only in my dreams.

[00:32:37] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:38] Listener: No.

[00:32:39] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:40] Listener: No.

[00:32:40] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:42] Listener: No.

[00:32:42] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:45] Listener: No.

[00:32:46] Paul Scheer: Hold on. Going around with this side of the audience. Have you, everyone, hold on. Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:51] Listener: No.

[00:32:51] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:53] Listener: No.

[00:32:53] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:55] Listener: No.

[00:32:55] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:56] Listener: No.

[00:32:57] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:32:58] Listener: No.

[00:32:59] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:33:00] Listener: No.

[00:33:00] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:33:02] Listener: No, I have not.

[00:33:03] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:33:05] Listener: No.

[00:33:06] Paul Scheer: Have you ever met Sylvester Stallone?

[00:33:07] Listener: No.

[00:33:08] Paul Scheer: I’m just kidding. Yes or no?

[00:33:10] Listener: No.

[00:33:10] Paul Scheer: Yes or no?

[00:33:11] Listener: Yes.

[00:33:12] Paul Scheer: Yes. When, how, what?

[00:33:14] Listener: The Broadway opening of Rocky, the musical.

[00:33:16] Paul Scheer: He was there. And what were you doing there?

[00:33:18] Listener: I was just there ’cause my friend worked on it.

[00:33:21] Paul Scheer: Okay. Did he talk to you?

[00:33:23] Listener: I shook his hand.

[00:33:24] Paul Scheer: Did he look you in the eye?

[00:33:25] Listener: Yeah.

[00:33:26] Paul Scheer: And what and what did he say?

[00:33:28] Listener: He just patted me on the back.

[00:33:30] Paul Scheer: How did it feel?

[00:33:35] Listener: It was a little jarring.

[00:33:37] Paul Scheer: Jarring. Alright, so I think you’re qualified to answer a question as Sylvester Stallone. Okay. Okay. This is sent in by a fan. Okay. What was it like working on Cobra?

[00:33:51] Listener: Yeah. Life changing.

[00:33:53] Paul Scheer: Great. That works. Woo. Well proved my point. Uh, they’re in a room of a hundred people. At least one of them has met and had an interaction with Sylvester Stallone.

[00:34:02] Thank you.

[00:34:05] Hot damn. What do you think? Haha. I told you that that phrase is right. In a room of a couple hundred people, at least five of them have met Sylvester Stallone. And what a great story. I mean, I feel we, we, we got for the first time I feel like reinvigorated that we’ve, we’ve figured this out and I’m going into the weekend, happy and purposeful, and I just feel really good about all of this.

[00:34:27] Um, I’m so happy that we are, we’re moving forward with the Sylvester Stallone podcast, uh, I am living in a hotel now, and I’m able to focus so much more on this, and I don’t need, uh, I don’t need, uh, the nagging wife. I don’t need the comment boards. What I need is to go on this journey by myself, like Jack Car, like, fuck, like Jack Kerouac.

[00:34:51] That’s his name, Jack. So fucking dumb. Paul. You’re fucking dumb. I need to go about this. I’m, I’m going on the road. I’m going on the road, I’m going to find him. And, and, and, um, I am, you know what? And I don’t know the difference between a hotel and a motel, but I never stayed at a motel before. And I gotta say it is like a hotel.

[00:35:10] Um, this is the Sylvester Stallone podcast. I am Paul Scheer. I’m reading the tools and I feel great.

[00:35:25] Alright, welcome back. I hope you enjoyed that piece of podcast history. And don’t worry, there is more Sylvester Stallone podcast coming up. Uh, on Last Looks, on next time’s Last Looks because, uh, maybe Stallone will eventually show up. Alright, it is now time to announce our next movie. We are going from a Stallone comedic bomb to a Stallone Box office bomb.

[00:35:47] Uh, come on. I don’t have, I’m, I’m on vacation mode here. I’m doing the best with my puns. That’s right. We’ll be continuing Stallone Summer with 2023’s Expendables 4, which was meant for Stallone to pass the franchise off, but guess what? He couldn’t do it. Uh, the movie is great. It’s stars Megan Fox, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Cher.

[00:36:08] Uh, Tony Ja. 50 cent and Andy Garcia. Rotten Tomatoes gives this movie a 14% on the tomato meter. And Adam Graham of the Detroit News says

[00:36:18] “This dumb as rocks exercise in violence and stupidity represents a low for the franchise that was already scraping at the bottom of the barrel.”

[00:36:26] Well, Adam, yes, but also. Cool? Anyway. Listen to the trailer.

[00:36:33] Trailer Audio: Time to make arrangements. Enjoy the show.

[00:36:38] Terrorists have taken possession of nuclear missiles.

[00:36:40] Rally up

[00:36:44] To choose this life over friends, over family. We never quit.

[00:36:53] Hold on.

[00:36:56] You almost killed me.

[00:36:58] You’re welcome.

[00:36:59] Expendable s rated R in theater. September 22nd.

[00:37:02] Paul Scheer: You can stream Expendables 4 on Stars and Philo and rented on Apple tv, Amazon, and the Microsoft store, which wow. Okay. Um, never really plugged the Microsoft store. And on a totally unrelated note, I encourage you to keep on checking out Hoopla, Canopy and Libby.

[00:37:18] They are digital media services offered by your local public library, which allow you to consume movies, music, tv, and more. And when you use them, you actually help funding of your local public library. So get an account, get on there. Important that we keep our libraries open. Um, all right, that is it for Last Looks.

[00:37:36] If you listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please rate and review us. Please make sure you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on. It helps us show and we appreciate it. Visit us on social media @HDTGM and a big thank you to our producers, Scott Sonne, Molly Reynolds, and our movie picking producer Avaryl Halley.

[00:37:51] And our engineer, Casey Holford, will see you next week for Expendables 4.