Podcast: Guns (1990)

Your Stupid Minds returns to the world of Andy Sidaris in 1990's Guns, with all your favorite Sidaris tropes: babes, hunks, Hawaii, remote control boats, regular sized boats, backwards planes, rocket launchers, motorcycles inside vans, poor marksmanship, helicopters, and so on. Starring Dona Speir, Erik Estrada, Phyllis Davis, Danny Trejo, Amon-Ra St. Brown's dad, and about 14,000 other people. With the return of special guest Nico Mesa!

International criminal the Jack of Diamonds (Estrada) concocts a convoluted plan to kill off secret agent Donna Hamilton's (Speir) friends to distract her from noticing a Chinese gun smuggling operation he's at the center of (you know they're Chinese guns because each one has a red star sticker printed off of their home inkjet printer).

Despite his cross-dressing hitmen killing the wrong person, the plan works and Donna and her team of bodacious 80s agents descend on Las Vegas (and, when they feel like it, Lake Havasu City, Arizona) to shoot guys with bazookas, copulate on top of motorcycles, and rotate through a menagerie of exotic vehicles to catch this bad guy who they haven't even identified. Also, Jack kidnaps ADA Kathryn Hamilton (Davis), who happens to be... Donna's mom?

Will Donna stop the bad guy? Will she save her mom? Will she blow up Erik Estrada with four bazooka blasts? Is there any of Danny Trejo's famous dummy work? You'll have to listen to find out!

Notent Notables: 

• The best kill is easily the remote control boat murder, available here.
• Taryn (Hope Marie Carlton) is replaced as Donna (Dona Speir)'s partner without explanation. Her comic relief duties are delegated to two clownish hitmen and a magician.
• We joke about the character Donna being someone who would go insane in the social media age, particularly as she survived in the world of master criminals that is Molokai, Hawaii. The real Dona Speir is much more normal, as she is now a recovery coach who is three decades sober and wrote an autobiography about her addictions and recovery in 2019.
• Rodrigo Obregon, one of the few returning actors from Hard Ticket, is back for the third time in our series, playing a third different character. He is not done being in these movies by a long shot.