How Did This Get Made?

The 3rd "Annual" Howdie Awards (Part 1)

63 min
Dec 30, 20255 months ago
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Summary

The hosts of How Did This Get Made present the third annual Howdy Awards, celebrating the best moments from nine years of podcast episodes (episodes 139-376). The awards feature arbitrary selections across categories including best catchphrase, most bonkers flying entity, June's most savage dislikes, best second opinion review, and most baffling choices by first responders, with humorous commentary on the selections and the corrupt nature of the awards organization.

Insights
  • Long-form podcast content creates memorable cultural moments that resonate with audiences years later, as evidenced by street encounters referencing 'Geostorm'
  • Audience engagement and emotional investment in podcast communities can be intense and lasting, particularly around controversial episodes like Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • Amazon product reviews reveal authentic consumer behavior and emotional states, providing unexpectedly compelling narrative content when curated
  • Bad movie analysis creates stronger community bonding than traditional entertainment criticism, with audiences becoming invested in recurring jokes and catchphrases
  • Podcast awards and recognition structures, even when arbitrary and self-aware, serve as meaningful markers for long-term listener engagement and community identity
Trends
Podcast clip curation and 'best of' compilations as sustainable content strategy for long-running showsAudience-generated content (Amazon reviews, social media reactions) as primary source material for entertainment podcastsGenerational shifts in podcast listenership with new audiences discovering archived content years after original publicationCommunity-driven award systems and in-jokes as mechanisms for listener retention and parasocial relationship buildingCross-generational appeal of bad movie criticism as accessible entertainment formatPodcast hosts leveraging self-deprecating humor about industry recognition (Golden Globes) to build authenticity with audiencesRecurring catchphrases and memes from podcast episodes becoming real-world cultural referencesLive podcast events as opportunities to deepen community connection and address audience grievancesPodcast production challenges (time constraints, resource limitations) becoming transparent and relatable to audiencesNostalgia-driven content strategy capitalizing on listener attachment to specific episodes and moments
Topics
Podcast Awards and Recognition SystemsLong-Form Entertainment CriticismBad Movie Analysis and AppreciationAudience Engagement and Community BuildingCatchphrase Creation and Viral MomentsAmazon Product Review CurationPodcast Production EconomicsLive Event Execution for PodcastsContent Archival and Retrospective ProgrammingParasocial Relationships in PodcastingGenerational Audience ShiftsPodcast Merchandising and BrandingGolden Globe Industry RecognitionMovie Criticism MethodologyAudience Retention Strategies
Companies
Golden Globe Organization
Criticized for not nominating How Did This Get Made for best podcast award despite hosts' expectations
Best Buy
Referenced in 'Geek Squad' discussion as the retail location where young actors help older people with technology
Amazon
Source of product reviews that are curated and read on the podcast as entertainment content
eBay
Mentioned as marketplace where Howdy award sacks are being sold by hosts
Sirius
Provided $9 budget for the Howdy Awards special production
People
Paul Scheer
Co-host presenting awards and accumulating Howdy sacks; frequently winning awards throughout the ceremony
Jason Mantzoukas
Co-host who has never won a Howdy award despite years of participation; expresses frustration about the corrupt system
June Diane Raphael
Co-host who missed previous Howdy ceremonies; provides commentary on awards and audience reactions
Jeremy Allen White
Referenced as member of the 'Geek Squad' generation of young actors; noted as being 'old'
Jenna Ortega
Listed as member of the 'Geek Squad' generation of young actors
Margot Qualley
Listed as member of the 'Geek Squad' generation of young actors
Sydney Sweeney
Listed as member of the 'Geek Squad' generation of young actors
Austin Butler
Listed as member of the 'Geek Squad' generation of young actors
Jacob Elordy
Listed as member of the 'Geek Squad' generation of young actors
Timothy Chalamet
Listed as member of the 'Geek Squad' generation of young actors
Gerard Butler
Noted as first person to yell 'Geostorm' in reference to the movie title
Jessica St. Clair
Special guest appearing on the Howdy Awards episode to discuss Geostorm
Steve Agee
Special guest credited with asking 'Where does the butt start?' during Mannequin 2 discussion
Cody
Former producer who made Howdy awards time-intensive; no longer involved in current production
Molly
Current producer working overtime on Howdy Awards; curates Amazon reviews for second opinion category
Scott
Producer working overtime on Howdy Awards production; has own Howdy sack
Adam Scott
Could not attend but sent message about responsibility and power to Paul Scheer
Quotes
"I would like for people to just start screaming Geostorm in public. And then not answering questions as to why you did it."
Jason MantzoukasEarly in awards ceremony
"Where does the butt start?"
Paul ScheerBest Catchphrase category
"Democracy is dying everywhere. Like why should the howdies be any different?"
Jason MantzoukasAwards explanation
"I miss the moments that matter."
June Diane RaphaelOpening remarks
"If you're mad at the howdies, unsubscribe from the podcast. You've fundamentally misunderstood what we're here doing."
Jason MantzoukasAwards methodology discussion
Full Transcript
Hello and welcome to the third annual How Did This Get Made Howdy Awards. Join us as we present the finest moments from the last nine years of the How Did This Get Made podcast. So brace yourselves and welcome your hosts for this star-studded event. Tall John Shear, Jason Manzuchus and June Diane Raefiel. Hello people of Earth and welcome to the third annual Howdy Awards. I am joined as always by my two amazing co-hosts, Jason June. How are you? Great to be back nine years later. Thrilled to be here, but I'm so sorry. Did you say the third annual? Yes. Third annual Howdies? Yes. So we've been doing How Did This Get Made for 15 years and this is the third annual Howdies where we round up the best of the year. Okay, but the annual suggests yes best of the year like you just said, Paul, but we've been doing the podcast for 15 years. So we miss like maybe one or two. I think we've missed quite a few. You know what? I'm not going to poke too many holes in this. I'm wearing my tuxedo. I couldn't be more excited to be here. Listen, the pandemic, the fires, a lot of things happened. So I mean, now, you know, you bring up a good point. People out there may not even understand what we're talking about because it has been so long since we have done. There's a good chance that a lot of our audience have never heard of Howdies. Yeah, we haven't done this since 2016. I mean, children have been born. Oh, children are... They're probably now listening. The stars of films. I mean, this is, I was shall we even alive at the first Howdies? I don't know. Yes. I mean, who knows who amongst the Geek Squad was alive when the Howdies began? That's what I'd love to see the Venn diagram. We know Jeremy Allen White was because that motherfucker's old. June, you haven't, we haven't talked to you about the Geek Squad at all. I've heard rumblings. Oh, you have. Okay. I was going to ask if you knew anything about it. No, it was like Geostorm. I had to kind of put it together for myself. Isn't that fun? Yeah, it's like we have to make meaning always everywhere. And I sort of had to do that on my own from any clue I got. Just to be super quick, June, Geek Squad is to us like Brat Pack was our generation. And these are young people who are, I mean, we're using the term Geek Squad not to imply they are Geeks, but more they are the people helping old people with technology. Like they're bringing the past and the future together, right? Like so it's sort of like the Geek Squad originally was helping people get like a Blu-ray player. You know, so this is kind of what they're doing. They're helping bring entertainment to the masses. And those people are, and this is an old list potentially, Jenna Ortega, Margot Qualley, Jeremy Allen White, Sydney Sweeney. Jacob Elordy, Austin Butler, Elvis. Timothy Shalem. To me, Elvis is a quintessential one. If you have played a Boomer icon, you're in the Geek Squad. Got it. Is there any difference between like, is anybody at the Genius Bar or it's all that everybody's just... Oh, now that's interesting. Geek Squad. I love, first of June, welcome. Welcome, welcome to the dialogue. Welcome to the debate. Thank you for introducing a new tier. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba! Boo-boo-boo! Genius Bar. In the Geek Squad, as we know them, like, they're already kind of outdated. So, like, I don't know who's next. We did just so you know, the lore was that the Geek Squad was meeting in an abandoned Best Buy because that's the only place they could kind of hang out without being, like, attacked by throngs of people trying to get something from them. Wow. You've missed a lot, June. You missed a lot. I know, I know. I mean, all of this happened in, to be clear, I believe one episode. Wow. I do feel like I missed the moments that, like, you know, matter. I miss the moments that matter. Oh, wow. That's a... What a sad thing to say at the beginning of the howdy. I know, it's not the energy that usually kicks off in a word. That's... Everybody gets a t-shirt. Each of us gets to have our own t-shirt. June's, right now, might be I miss the moments that matter. And you know what? So have our audience because we have not done this show in a very long time. 2016 was the last time that we did a howdy. And I just want to say, just to, like, truly, was there a reason we stopped doing the howdy? Yes, because the reason was, at the time, our producer, Cody. We love Cody, still with us in, you know, in the grander scheme of how did this get made? But it was so time intensive to get all these clips, find these clips. And the reason why it was even instituted in the first place at a certain point was to give us a little bit of breathing room when we had our first and second child. I believe that those two howdies... Those were the first sets of howdies. Yes. Two of the howdies were done in concordance with the birth of our children. That I'm remembering, Paul. That I'm remembering. So I was trying not to miss moments that matter. Right. Here we are doing the third howdies. Is there something you guys would like to announce? June? Here's what I will say. Normally, we would be covering just a... Like, if the howdies worked, it would be the year from January to December. That would be it. But instead, this howdies is covering anything mentioned between episode 139, which is Sarah Michelle Geller in Simply Irresistible, all the way through episode 376. Wow. Sylvester Stallone's Driven. So 139 to 376. It's a wide berth. A wide berth. Oh my God. Of best of moments. So you can imagine a lot of best of moments on the floor. A lot of stuff is included in that 10-year span. Yes. And I will say, keeping in tradition, no one has voted on this. We have picked the winners arbitrarily on a whim. So don't get mad. You didn't miss the voting because that would again be time intensive for us to do. Again, we don't have the time. Also, who cares? That part too. Not everything. Listen, democracy is dying everywhere. Like why should the howdies be any different? If you're mad at the howdies, unsubscribe from the podcast. You've fundamentally misunderstood what we're here doing. Well, now, Jason, I will say, though, while you say that with such a full voice, you have still never won a howdy. I have not. I have not. And please don't take that as an example of why I am. I think the howdies are a corrupt organization. Oh, got it. That's what it is. Yes. Wait, are we giving a peace prize to our president? Are we awarding a peace prize to the president, just like the other corrupt organization known as FIFA? We are giving out an award to our president. We are also going to spend a majority of this episode railing against the Golden Globe Organization for not nominating us for the best podcast. Yes. I just heard they nominated podcasts. And not only were we not nominated, I assumed we would have already won. No, yeah. No, that's what I thought, too. But no, apparently not nominated did not win. God. Yeah, those awards are bought and sold. Yeah. But anyway. It's disappointing. And if you are angry about it, go somewhere else and tell them. Don't tell us you're angry about it. We're angry, too. We couldn't afford it. We couldn't do it. We couldn't even afford interns to figure out these howdies. We had to make Scott do it. Scott working overtime for this. Molly working overtime. So anyway, let's get into it. First out of the night. We have a lot to get through, obviously. First out of the night is best catchphrase. The nominees for best catchphrase are Putter in a Bra from episode 162, My Stepmother is an Alien. Have you ever ripped a negligee open? No. And I just put her in a bra. By the way, she's practically, I mean, you're seeing a lot in that scene. Anyway, just put her in a bra. Like, and then I loved what she wore. Keep saying putter in a bra, you weirdo. Just like putter in a bra. Stop saying it. What? This is how this is. Stop saying it right now. Like, why don't you just like putter in a bra? But get really specific. It's not a bra. Like why don't they just like Just like a Like a You know, real black, lazy. Just throw her in a bra. Can we get wardrobe over here with some bra options? We're gonna put her in it. Put her in it. Put her in a bra. Put her in a bra. I like, I like what you said, throw her in it. That was more final. Just get a chucker in a bra. First of all. Just put her right in it. That's a t-shirt. Put her in a bra. Put her in a bra. It's the new get her done. Put her in a bra. Put her in a bra. That's just a great thing to end sentences. And I told him to fuck up. Put her in a bra. $90 for cable. Put her in a bra. Hey, use your blinker asshole. Put her in a bra. I don't need four gelato shops on my block. Put her in a bra. Geostorm. From episode 186, Geostorm. I love this movie. I love Geostorm. Geostorm! This is a, it's a great movie especially. Geostorm! I would like for that to become a thing. I would like for people to just start screaming Geostorm in public. And then not answering questions as to why you did it. I feel like the proper response would be to yell that kumite. I feel like that would be the call and response. Perhaps. We are very excited to bring, I think one of our favorite people on the show. Speak for yourself. Please welcome Jessica St. Clair! Welcome Jessica. Thank you. So exciting to have you here and to put you through this. Yep. Well, the only thing that makes me more sick than a post-apocalyptic future movie is one about a natural disaster. That takes place in the future. That's right. One year in the future, right? Well. Uh oh. Geostorm! I say Geo, you say storm. Geo! Storm! Storm! That's great. Where does the butt start? From episode 140, Mannequin 2, On the Move. We have lost our minds. We are just passing around a computer looking at naked dolls for sale on eBay. Guys, what is happening? There is a cleft there. Yeah, I see it. Nothing's there. There is a completely smooth. There's a little camel tongue. There's a cloven. There's a little, there's a suggestion of an opening. There's a hint of a lift. Well, because her butt has to start. Yep. Her butt has to start. Where does that start? That brings up a good question. Not in the front, dude. That brings up a question. Where does the butt start, Paul? Well, I was saying that's a great idea. Where does the butt start? Do me a favor, look up naked Barbie ass or butt. All right, so this is our, this is the naked Barbie butt right here. And then, there we go. Yeah. Okay, so she's got genitals. That's fun. And it goes underneath. You see it goes in between. Oh my God. What? But that's the same thing. The Ken was an old one that had that underwear. Yeah, we're going to be putting on all of that. Guys, what is this? This is throw up. Guys, I love that this is where this butt has gone. You guys need a how did this get made t-shirt that's just a Barbie crotch. Yep. And then it says where does the butt start? How did this get made? Where does the butt start? Well, here's a comparison. Where does the butt start? Oh, this is interesting. 90s Barbie has underwear. Really? But 2000s Barbie doesn't. What about earlier? Well, that's like, that's the same as pubic hair. That's the same as pubic hair because 90s Barbie had a landing strip in 2000s Barbie had nothing. Oh my gosh. Oh boy. This is pretty great. I love it all. Well, I think we've talked about everything in this movie that I did want to say. So when that guy, when the bad guy is now re put back together. I love it. We're not going to recover from this. We're never going to recover. This is what these show is about. Fuck the moon from episode 294 moonfall. What's up, Juerks? Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon. Fuck the moon. That's what I'm talking about, LA. When every time they showed the space shuttle said, fuck the moon, I was like, this is the best. Wow. I mean, these are all bangers. These are all bangers. Really? I mean, when you look at back, it's like mannequin two on the move. I believe we were still in the year wolf studio. Oh, I guess for sure with AG. I remember. I remember. Gosh. See, I'm getting a little confused because where does the butt start? It sort of reminds me of when Paul had to draw out the picture of the sex pillow. Yes, that's a different. Yeah, we looked it up. I think we looked it up online. We were looking at pictures of Barbies online or something. So we don't know where the butt starts. I mean, put her in a bra so good. So funny. Geostorm, though, to me is has taken over. People yell it to me all just recently in New York, multiple people yelled it to me on the street. It is so it looms so large. Gerard Butler yelled Geostorm first. I mean, it's kind of the name of the podcast in many ways. And maybe we should have submitted that for Golden Globe. It's blowing my mind that three of the howdy eligible catchphrases all came within the same 40 episodes. Episode 140, episode 162 and episode 186. Wow, what a time. So they're all clear that what a fertile era. Yeah. Yeah. The golden age of how did this get made? If we were to have gone all the way to contemporary current time, I do think brace yourself would be. Brace yourself would be in the mix. But I appreciate that we don't chase it. It happens. It happens organically. It happens. It happens. We don't chase it. We brace it. That amen. Well, it's also like I just don't, I don't want us moving forward to start pandering to the howdies. Right. We don't want to be creating catchphrases willy-nilly. Really, really, I want us to be just really rigorous and really have, each of us have our own standards. Like it's not about the howdies. Now look, we don't know what the arbitrary win will be here. Obviously, we all believe it's Geostorm. But the howdies. I never said I did. Okay. June, would you like to guess? You know, I have a special place in my heart for where does the butt start, because what I want us to remember about it is that it was said it wasn't delivered as a joke. Not it. It was in the spirit of inquiry. He was trying to really understand the anatomy of the mannequin and where the butt started. It's also for me. I still don't know. One of the very, I remember, very memorable times when the entire podcast stopped down for minutes so that we could just laugh. We just, this caught us and tickled us so much where does the butt start, that it was, as did putter and abroad, to be honest, two things that were said that were so, that were seized upon. I'm laughing again, yeah. Seized upon and just excavated until we were just dying laughing. Because I think the problem with, I don't know if we ever came to a conclusion of like, where does the butt start? I don't think we have that. Does it start on top or does it start below? Yeah, does it depend where you are when you're looking at it? I'm going to, I feel like it's the kind of thing that we need to, the mistake we made was going to the internet. I feel like we need to consult like a medical textbook. I mean, we will see. But again, it may be all for naught because we don't know who the winner is, but I will open up this fake envelope now and say that the howdy for best catchphrase goes to, oh my gosh, where does the butt start from episode 140 mannequin to on the move? Wow. There it is. Special guest Steve Agee on the episode from Peacemaker. Yes. And you know, I was the one, you're right, that to wonder where the butt starts. I still don't know. And because you just wait, wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why do you have to say that you were the one to wonder where does the I'm just saying that I'm credit. Why do you need to credit? Like, where does the butt start? Why I'm just throwing this in the back. So why do you have to take it? I'm throwing it in my, I'm throwing it in my sack of howdy's. I just want to, if we're keeping track at home, I'm throwing one. Why do you have all the old howdy's at this howdy's? You know, I just bring them all out because it's, it's nice because I get on the stage at the end for the listener. Paul has produced his howdy set, which we all have one. Well, yours is empty. Mine is empty as it always is. And yours still has all the old howdy's in it. I mean, June did not want me to bring them to the next plus that we moved to after we had our children and I brought them. They're taking up a lot of room next to my Christmas village. The howdies are huge. What a lot of people don't know is the howdy statue is quite large. Yeah, because we only do it a couple of times. Like we really needed to make an impact one way. And look, I don't want to take anything away from my win here, but I'm going to think of another one that didn't take on, but should have maybe been a very important catchphrase, Alan. Remember Alan? No. No. You guys don't remember Alan? Who was it in character? In Ireland? Remember in Ireland, they kept on yelling out Alan? Oh, I do. That's not a catchphrase. That's not a catchphrase. All right. Not a catchphrase. That's not a catchphrase. That's a someone's name. All right. Well, anyway, I can't go back. We've already got the winner from episode 140. That's a good one. I guess congratulations Paul. That's ag... I hesitate to say that. Well, hold on, but here's the thing. You both just asked a very important question. Where does the butt start? So we here at How Did This Get Made, we used our hard-earned money that we did not use to bribe the people of the Golden Globe Organization. We used $9 of our money. An organization that until very recently was incredibly bribeable. Oh, very bribeable. But you know what? We took our $9. That's what Sirius gave us to produce this special. We took that full $9 and we gave it to a doctor on cameo to answer the question, where does the butt start? Finally. Hey Paul, June, Jason. So the question is, where does the butt start? The problem is the butt is not an anatomic term. Oh boy, here. I already know it's going to be disappointing. So that's why there's confusion about this. It's a bit nebulous, but if you want an anatomic definition, as you're working down the torso, it would start at the origin of the gluteus maximus. Why is he so put out by this? You can now Google image that anatomy of the gluteal region and you'll see where the butt starts. Hope that answers your question. Take care. Have a great day. I hope you have a remaining week filled with fluids and secretions. What? Untainted by human pathogens. Oh God. Oh well, I mean, I guess the, I appreciate those well wishes, but I'm even more confused to be quite honest. I am too. And I feel like we must have doctors. Must there be doctors who are listeners and not just absolute lunatics who are our listeners? Must there be doctors? $9. I want to have a little bit more of a smile on his face for that answer. Yeah, please weigh in fans of the podcast who are doctors. In fact, who might. Yeah, I just feel like he gave us an anatomical word and said Google image it. He just, and he said gluteus region. Here, I just did a quick Google and I got an answer. What did you get? What do you got? Your butt starts at the pelvis. Wow. Hang on. We should have paid you $9. That's a better answer if you just said that. The pelvis. Your butt starts at the pelvis from the bones, your coccyx. But like. No, no. Now I just Googled it June and it said the butt starts at the iliac crest, the top of the hip bone. Oh, well, then maybe this is like, I don't know. These are these are the topics that we are getting into here at the howdy's. Now, perhaps you're thinking you're still only awarding the first howdy. If every howdy takes as long as we got to move it along, we are a tremendous amount of time. Don't go anywhere because after the break, we'll find out whose howdy sack will be filled with the awards for most bonkers flying entity and June's most savage dislike. Be right back. All right. So let's let's move it on. Let's move it on. Category two is most bonkers flying entity and the nominees are the face in the hurricane from episode 190, the hurricane heist. But what makes this movie stand out more than anything in any movie they've ever seen in this a movie of this caliber is in the opening sequence when the boys are running away from the hurricane, the house, the roof is ripped off and what do we see? A fulking face of death skeleton in the clouds. The hurricane is personified as evil. Holy shit. More of that, please. That was a promise that went undelivered. I know. Although the face does reappear at the end of the movie, but I was like, sentient storm. Don't mind if I do. The face in the clouds had more acting range than the faces of some of the people in this movie who will remain unnamed because I don't remember their names. What was really strange was that so the face appears the first time over a terrible tragedy where these two boys watch their father get run over by a silo. Run over, yeah. I mean, the poor guy. The poor guy run over by a silo in the middle of a cat. The poor guy can't even go out like a hero trying to like fix his truck or whatever. He has to get run over by a rolling silo. Like he's like some ball of dough and it's the rolling pin. It was horrible. He should have been like trying to help the boys and then get sucked up into the hurricane. I love it. Face. But what's so strange is so that face appears when the dad gets run over and then but it appears again. Not when. I'm just pulling out the face. Don't worry. At the end, you mean? At the end, but not in really a critical moment. It appears after all is I think all is well and good. And they're just sort of driving away. It's almost like the face is like you got me. Yeah. That was the energy of like first time I got you this time you got me. Dominic Toretto's rope swinging dodge charger from episode 271 F9 the fast saga. The that move where Dom the bridge is out and Dom drives at the out bridge. Okay. That and and manages to hook a cable against the car and swing the car across the chasm and and kind of like it swings and lands on the other side of the chasm in another country in a safe country on like and they they survive effortlessly. Wait, is that the same sequence though? Is that the bridge sequence? Because then there's the other the other car that drives straight off the bridge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's just not that's the other car. Yes. Yes. Same sequence. So they they hit the bridge. Tyrese hits the bridge as it's falling apart like Indiana Jones temple doom style and they're getting across it. But by the time they get to the other edge, the most of the bridge has fallen down, but they were able to defy gravity and and we're going to just drive up the and he Vin Diesel sees this as he's rushing driving towards it and you see him realize, oh, I know what I'll do. And he does what Jason just described and it's absolutely insane and makes zero sense. And he's shifting. He's shifting a little bit in there too, like not his body, but like literally the car shifter. And when that car jumps on the bottom ledge of that other mountain on the other side, it flips boom, boom, boom, boom, boom doesn't explode like the dad's car. They're not wearing seatbelts. They're not wearing seatbelts. The car like flip, flip, flip, flip, all the windows are broken. And when you look in the inside, Dom and Letty look like they are ready to go out on the night on the town. There's not a not a mark on them. Not a they are not a scratch. Jonathan Livingston Siegel from episode three 28. Jonathan Livingston Siegel. How does Jonathan know anything about miles per hour? Yes. Great question. Not only how does he know? My first standing ovation for an observation. Not only that, but he knows innately the speed he's going. Why can't I fly faster than 62 miles an hour? He gets, he says he wants to achieve perfect speed. It was like this. Like I feel like Jonathan Livingston Siegel is going to be the next cast member of the Fast and Furious. Put him in. Put him in. I would have loved it if he had a little nozz button. Come on. Boom. Boom. So hard to because we're hearing those words. But when we're cutting to the close ups of the Siegels, the they're the least expressive animal you can cast. There's nothing going on behind the eyes. There's no need for speed. Q the winged serpent from episode 358. Q the winged serpent. I and listen Q is a winged serpent and I'm certain and it's seemingly immortal. I'm not sure. But I'm going to find out what a serpent is to have the ability to swoop in. Like having that much momentum. Winged span too. Yes. That much momentum, that much weight to come in by just his head off. It is so delicate. Surgeical. It is so delicate. Q the winged serpent isn't interested in eating your whole body. No. Although there are times where he'll he'll just pick a motherfucker up. Yeah. Fly away. I was so excited when he finally grabbed somebody in his claw. I'm like, you got the claws. Use them. It's the guy in the pool. It's the guy in the pool. I think is the first claw grab. There are a couple times in the movie. Like yes, he does pick up. Look at that winged serpent by the way. Oh, in all of its glory. I really don't like seeing that big muscle over there. It looks like I'll be honest, a thin dick. I was going to say it looks like it looks like someone. It looked the winged serpent looks like someone who ate a Tootsie roll and then tried to make it like a dick. And it's like, but it's yeah, I wish you were a little bit more talented. I got to tell you, I don't remember a single one of these. Except for the seagull obviously. Yeah. Jonathan Livingston seagull was, I will say, a really, and that's episode 328. You know, as opposed to the last category, a lot of these are from recent episodes. Well, more recent. June, I'm surprised that you don't remember Q, the winged serpent, as that this was a movie that gave you a real shock and scare. You got scared from a kite in that movie. Just like one of the actor, you know, like the Q, the winged serpent definitely scared you. For me, the face in the hurricane and Hurricane Ice was very interesting because it's a movie about a hurricane, but then all of a sudden we've, you know, anthropomorphized it like and made it human. That was odd. I remember that. That seemed crazy. I agree that seemed crazy, but the experience just from the experiential level, doing the Jonathan Livingston seagull show to easily, easily the most combative audience we've ever performed to that audience was furious that they have watched this. Well, by the way, I did not begrudge them that that reaction. I was also furious and I was a host. So it's like we were all locked in a hostage situation. And we were all together and we were all mad at each other and turning on each other. Yeah. Yeah. It felt it was a it was that episode was was very energized. Everything it felt like every it feels like every time we go back to New York, we are somehow either reigniting or trying to cool down the temperatures that New York still feels for having been put through this. And yes, Giorgio, I honestly think what we might need is some sort of a separate from the podcast, to be quite honest, some sort of a healing, sort of sacred saging. I don't know what, but it does feel like a lot is sort of unsettled. You know what we I think we should probably do maybe next time we're in New York, we should sacrifice a seagull. You know what? I'm glad you brought that up. We should sacrifice a seagull on stage. One that's willing. Drink of its blood. A willing seagull. You know, we did play we when you were not there, but we did kind of goose the audience a little bit by playing a clip that Averill Halley made for us about Jonathan Livingston's seagull ended. It did irritate them again in New York just very recently. We are we are definitely putting our fingers in that in that wound. You know, we are going to, you know, I don't know. I don't know if I want to give it. We're fingering your wound, New York. Fingering your wound. Is that a catchphrase? All right, let's see what the winner is. The Howdy for the Most Bonkers Flying Entity goes to, oh my gosh, Jonathan Livingston's seagull. Oh, wow. From episode 328. And oh my gosh, this is actually very exciting. This is not a category I won. No, Jonathan Livingston's seagull won it. And we actually have Jonathan Livingston's seagull here. Jonathan, take it away. Oh, there we go. Wow. Wow. Wow. I mean, I would, you know what we need? And this is just because I don't need to listen to seagulls talk like that all day. We need music to play the winners off. Yeah, we do. You know, thank you, Jonathan. You can take that, put that in your sack. It's the last one you're going to get. Now, this next category is near and dear to my heart. It is a Howdy for... June's Most Savage Dislike and the nominees are... Breakdancing from episode 188, Body Rock. I'm going to say something that's going to be really harsh. But whenever I see someone breakdancing, I feel embarrassed for them. Oh, wow. Did you feel embarrassed for that breakdancer I just showed you? Wow. What's that? Did you feel embarrassed for them breakdancing? No, I don't define what he was doing as breakdancing. Okay, what is he doing? I define breakdancing as like getting on the floor like a turtle. Like you're a turtle that can't flip over and just spinning around. So you equate breakdancing... It's harder than it looks. You equate breakdancing with helplessness? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I do. And it's not... I'm stuck down here. I can't turn over. I want to make this clear. It's not that I don't... You know, I'm not someone who loves like high art and ballet and all that stuff. I see where this is going. And I wanted to spell that myth right away. Like there's... I love where breakdancing came from and all that. I just... I find it unpleasant to watch. Oh, how is your breaking in season two? It's not very good. And that's where I want to say that when you try to learn stuff like this, then you realize the value because it's very difficult. So just because something is difficult doesn't mean that it's good. Men who drink tea from episode 255 of Very Nutty Christmas. Well, I will tell you, Jessica, I also... I don't like a man who drinks tea. Sorry, Jason. I don't want to see a man drinking tea. I don't! I don't want to see a man drinking tea! I want a man drinking a black cup of coffee. So, June, but no, you get angry at me when I drink a black cup of coffee. You're not going to put anything in it. Well, because you already get too much energy. I'm sorry, June. I don't want to hear the word sleepy time. Can I ask a question? So, June, you think hot beverages are gendered. Yeah. Not very gendered. Coffee is a good idea when it comes to beverages. Coffee is boys, tea is girls. For me as a heterosexual woman, I'm sure, like, I don't think it's about gender necessarily, but I don't want to see my partner drinking tea. Oh, interesting. I, as a heterosexual woman, I don't want to see a man drinking tea. Here's what I'll say. Even if you respect your self. I don't want to see you drinking it. Here's what I'll say. I am so comfortable in my sexuality that I will crush. Here, I'll show you. Oh my gosh, you're going to make him drink tea on camera? Listen, I've done live shows with Jason. I've seen him drink. I've seen him drink a cup of tea before. Soothing caramel bedtime. Wow. Take an ambient, like a real man. Paul's thoughts on Phoebe Cates's sexual awakening from episode 219, Drop Dead Fred. She is sexually repressed. Yes. Phoebe Cates is a grown woman is sexually repressed. Yes. So she never touched his dick. I think she's touched his dick. Because he's like, oh, look at that. By the way, Paul, is that your definition of a woman telling a girl what's so dramatic? What is happening? I'm not getting it. What are we doing? What is this? I'm not getting it. What are we doing? My dad is bleeding. This is irresponsible. This is outrageous. I'm so disturbed that you just said that. We can't live like this. What I was saying was Fred seems so shocked at seeing a penis. But Paul, no. What you're saying, what you just said. Yes, Jude. Is that? Yes, Jude. What you just said and implied is that for her to be fully sexually awakened her own body. Yes. The only way we would know that is if she touched a dick or not? Yes. No, no, no. Do not put Team Fred in my mouth. Wow. Wow. Wow. Do you remember any of that? Wow. I do. I do remember that. I do remember that. And looking back, you know, by the way, I'm not afraid to evolve. I love that. You know, the way I felt in some of these moments may not be the way I feel now in terms of break dancing, in terms of men, especially men who drink tea. I've come around on it quite a bit. But I absolutely 100 percent today feel the same way about what Paul said about Phoebe Cates. I agree. I feel the same way today as I did on that day. Yeah. It's not anger. And I support you just as much today as I did then. Thanks, Jason. Wow. Okay, well, look, I don't want to. I will always have your back on this. And I feel like here's what I'm saying. I'm willing to say to you, Paul. Yes, please. Get fucked, buddy. No. Okay, okay, okay. This is I feel like Drop Dead Fred is an episode that we should is maybe the only movie we should ever redo. Well, I think it's a very misunderstood movie by the both of you. So or or we do an episode where Casey comes on and the four of us listen to the episode and react to the episode. God, that's something I've never done. I've never listened. Of course, experienced the episode, but I've never listened to it. So I wonder if there would be value in recording an episode or doing like one of these live streams or or something where the show is just an analysis of the episode. Oh, that's. And I'd love to see how we film now. I mean, I would hope you and Casey would have evolved. Got it. If not, you should be locked up. Yeah. And it's so interesting, Jason, because I think for a long time I was very aware like, Paul and I are married in real life. And, you know, I don't ever want to feel kind of like excluded because we have our own thing. I don't ever want him to feel like we're getting up on him. And after Drop Dead Fred, I actually then worried about Paul being so separate from us. Of course. Of course. So different. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So alone. And and and aligned with Casey. You know what I mean? Like just knowing like when when when in his darkest moment, all he has Casey to cling to, not either of us. Yeah. And this kind of speaking that you guys are both doing this man woman speaking that you guys are having is to me indicative of very much a team sanity point of view, not a free loving free wheeling discussion, very pointed, very much coming with consequence. And so I do think you've evolved. You've evolved to team sanity. You don't tell us we evolved. Hey, you don't tell us we evolved. Anyway, the Howdy for June's most savage dislike goes to Paul's thoughts on Phoebe Kate's sexual awakening from episode 219, Drop Dead Fred. So I'm going to take that one here. This is not for you. Again, I'm going to put it in my sack. How does that not go to June? And these are June's most savage dislikes. Yes, I assisted that one. Well, we all assisted all of these, first of all. Okay, sure. I can tell you we all led you into the catchphrase. I said my thoughts, my thoughts assisted that. So I want to split. So like if it was if men who drink tea had won, I would get it because I was the tea drinker in question. Well, I would have to talk to them. I got him. I fucking got him. I would have to talk to the judge about that. Look at him squirm. Because I believe that June was basing that men���������� Paul's name is on that. No June is on that award. If you look at the- He did engrave his own name on this. Paul's thoughts on Phoebe Kate's second- Wait, how are the winners already engraved before the envelopes have even been opened? Again, this is serious trying to get ahead of the curve. They were, if we could- I just want to say this organization is corrupt. I don't believe in it. I think, I'm willing to say now I bet I'm going to win none again. You know what? Don't think that, Jason. Don't think that for a second. All right. I'm trying to go in with an open mind, but I don't like how this is going. Kids, tell your parents you're staying up late tonight, because there are plenty more Howdy's up for grabs after this brief word from our sponsors. Well, now this is a category that's near and dear to my heart. Announce, sir, which Howdy is it? Best Second Opinion Review and the nominees are Chieftain's review of The Phantom from episode 142, The Phantom. This movie rocks. And yes, I'd say that into anyone's face, because this guy taught me to stand up to bullies. And to do what was right when I saw something going on that was wrong. Sure, it got me punched by a few- Oh, sorry. Sure, it got me punched a few times, but it's movies and ideas like this that make a person stronger than he or she thinks that they are. And it creates something that I like to call character. The one thing that's actually lacking in the things that most kids see nowadays, besides respect. Wow. So call me an old crab, Apple. Say that I'm over the hill and even laugh at me as I walk past you. But God, I'll be right there saving you when you need me to. So go ahead and put this movie down as a flop. Go right ahead and listen to that idiot friend of yours that smokes that crap and tries to turn you to his side by putting guys like this down. See how far you'll get listening to him. Or rent this or Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino and sit down with your kids and teach them a thing or two about how a person should react in the face of danger. How respecting another person can make people proud because that's what this world needs now. Kids that we can be proud of. Enough said. Five stars. Wow. That's amazing. Rush and Schill's review of Ronald the Barbarian from episode 341, Ronald the Barbarian. Get ready for this next one. Just want to kind of lay the groundwork with this. Rush and Schill in November of 2013 wrote a review titled Great Movie. And here we go. The Young Mariner Society is a small nautical league of aspiring seafaring boys that I run from my boat here in Iowa. Hang on a second. This is a confession. I'm so sorry. True or false, Iowa landlocked. We spend countless nights on my boat just a few yards from the lake. Is this admissible in court? I'll turn it over to Lockhart and Gardner to figure out if they can figure it out. That's right. I'm into season five of The Good Wife, everybody. Get ready. When I show up, who am I? Oh, I'm a lawyer. Okay. I love that show. Eventually, when the repairs are complete, we'll take the boat out on the water. I know I worked those boys hard this summer, but it was the only way I knew how to prepare them for manhood. Much of their training was based off the television show Deadliest Catch, along with movies Cabin Boy and Down Periscope. What? Kids should not watch some of those. Upon graduation, several of my well-instructed little seamen have taken upon themselves. Little seamen have taken upon themselves the distinguished title of Mariner. Winning the rope swinging competition this past summer with my boys, I gave them a night off from our rigorous activities. I just got to remind everyone, this is an Amazon review. Yeah. I just don't want to get lost in the sauce. Someone wrote this. This isn't an article where they're like, we uncovered this journal entry from the most prolific Iowan pedophile in history. This is an Amazon review. Okay. Winning the rope swinging competition this past summer with my boys, I gave them a night off from our rigorous activities to enjoy a little R&R with a movie night. Without a doubt, they earned it. This movie was selected for its theme of maturation from boy to man. To everyone's delight, this movie was a hit. Family values galore and no home should be complete without it. Five stars. I don't know what's going on. Unless that has been written from jail, I am flummoxed by that. Jay's review of 50 shades of gray from episode 338, 50 shades of gray. This movie was very hot and steamy. I am very happy with the purchase of this movie. It was definitely worth the buy. It made me all tingly inside. The actors were quality actors. Anna was a little annoying, but I would buy the movie again. I mean, I would recommend buying this movie for a little bit of romance in your life. The movie was definitely hardcore and I think I would buy the movie again. I even bought the sequel to the book and I'm super excited for 50 Shades Darker to come out in theaters. I have a whole year to wait, but I'm really excited for it to come out. I love the movie so much that I can't wait. I watched it again last night before I went to bed. And then I woke up and watched it again and I started thinking about it. You should totally buy this movie and you should buy the book. It will make you feel hot. I will definitely need a napkin after watching this movie. Christian is an amazing actor and he is so hot. I would buy this movie. Christian is an amazing actor. I would buy this movie 904 million more times. Purchase this. This story is well written and whenever I was watching this movie it put me in an amazing mood. I was always better after reading these novels and watching this movie. I would say buy it and I would say watch it alone. And then read the book alone too. And then you will be feeling like a million bucks in no time. That guy died in an ocean of his own gin. Hold on. R.I.P. Hold on. Hold on. We should come back. I am a mom. R.I.P. And my kids drive me absolutely crazy. They yell all the time and whenever I get them down for naps I pull out my Kindle and I start reading this book or I bring on my iPad and I watch it. I forget about being a mom for a few minutes and I can actually fantasize about being the character and then I snap back into reality when they wake up and I wait for them to sleep. I start counting the minutes until they are sleeping so I can read my book and watch my movie. I even pull it out while the kids are watching TV or my husband is watching the game. I would recommend this movie to all my girlfriends. It is a hot read and definitely something I would watch again. I already have. These kind of movies are my favorite. I love the dominance of the male character and I'm very pleased with my purchase. Buy this movie for a bit of hot and heavy romance. You will not be dissatisfied. Happy watching ladies and gentlemen. I am very happy with the purchase of this movie, Five Stars. Wow. Again, another category where I am serving up some great... Can I just say one thing? You didn't write these reviews. Okay. So anyone could have read them. You read them. That's it. You always read the Amazon. You didn't write this. Okay. Sure. Sure. Here's what I will... I actually got a couple of times, Jason, where I've said to him, we can read them too. Yeah. Scott, cut this part out. Cut this part out. No, leave it in. We could read them. Cut this part out. You read them. Or cut this out. But any one of us could. We all read them. And the reality is that the people that wrote these reviews are deserving of the award. You are the middleman in this thing. Okay. All right. Sure. I know. I'm gonna say one other thing, Paul, and I don't want to do this. I want this to be a night of celebration. Yeah, I would love it to be like that. I don't. But you don't even cure it. You don't even go through and look at all the reviews and pick them. You are handed a packet from the producers. Yeah. What if I got handed the packet? You know, Molly. Yeah, Molly. She'd probably get the award. Well, Molly definitely gives me a list that I then curate. So again, it is. You go through a couple that she gives because she's gone through all of them. Hmm. Interesting. Here's what I'll say. I bet Molly doesn't even have a Howdy sack. Molly, do you have a Howdy sack? I have an off-brand Howdy sack. I made it myself. Wow. I love all of your fancy Howdy sack. By the way, Jason, do you see how big Paul's Howdy sack is? Well, it's, you know what? It's got to hold all of them. Well, it's bigger than the one I was given 10 years ago. So that means Paul has had new Howdy sacks made and he has the one that he made for himself is bigger than the one. I never even got this new one. You know, look, look, I didn't have time to get it in the mail. He took all the sheets off of our bed and sewed them together. Yes. So you're at home and you want to make yourselves a Howdy sack and show it off. Paul, where should they send the pictures? They should send the pictures. Put it on the discord, the disconnected discord. God damn it. Sorry. All right. Well, you know what? All of that to be said, whether I'm deserving of this or Molly is or Scott, who cares? Well, let's not argue about it. Let's just say that the winner for the best second opinion review goes to, oh, this is a good one, Jay's review of 50 Shades of Grey from episode 3399. 50 Shades of Grey. I this this is honestly, I have to say, all kidding aside, I want to be very serious. One of the best five star reviews ever. It it is. This is an unraveling. It is a woman on the verge. Yes. And in the honesty in which they can reveal themselves in the five star review. And we know we're weeding out the people who are trying to just get on the show. This is not someone trying to get on the show. This is somebody who is very much into 50 Shades of Grey. Oh, yeah. No, the the earnestness and the revelatory confessions inside of it are pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. Now, moving on, you know, our movies tend to have a lot of heroic first responders, but thankfully those first responders don't always make the smartest decisions. Most baffling choice by a first responder and the nominees are the paramedic who used her hair clip as a clamp from episode 315. Ambulance. Jake and and Will and Cam are sweating and then they open this poor dude up. Oh, yeah. His hair. Blin explodes. They use a hair clip as a clamp. And it works. And she I mean, she takes it from her disgusting, dirty hair. Doesn't you know, like normally in a movie, like when they're doing like fake surgery, like in a restaurant with a pen knife, she'll take some vodka and pour it on the knife. She did not even bother to take any rubbing alcohol in the back of this rig to fix her disgusting hair clip. She puts it in there and then closes him up. And he's fine by the end of the movie. He's fine. Oh, my God, it's just so great. He's in better shape than everybody else in the movie. He's like, I saw everything. I know what's up. And they're like, my guy, you have a banana clip in your body. And then he's like, you've got a scrunchie in your body. Did you have your hand in me? And she's like, oh, yeah, I was way in there. And she said, I'm up in his guts. She said, he's like, he's coming to, he's coming to. I'm up in his guts. What? It's interesting, because in these movies, I did have the thought at one point, like, oh, Michael Bay is going to want her hair down. He's going to want to get her hair down. Oh, and the way he did it. I love. I love this. It's successful. It was successful. And it was also like, wow, could not have imagined that. Oh, my God. You know what? The way you can read these. 10. Thank you. She really is going deep. I respect the shit out of this. The Lady Cop who cooked latkes from episode 343, Samurai Cop. And I'll talk about this. They pour hot oil on the Lady Cop. And I kept on thinking, what is she making French fries? Oh, OK, hang on. So much hot oil in there. Hang on. She is at the, she's at the stove, right? She takes the thing, frying pan off the stove, goes to the freezer. She goes to the freezer, opens it, bends down to do. I don't know what. Cool it off. Comes back up and is back up at the thing. I was haunted by. Doing what? She also has a large bandage on her calf. I didn't see that. Which I was unsettled by. I didn't see that. Maybe Joe Samurai tried to put it in the wrong place. He drove right here. Yeah. With his little dick. I. I really wonder. So when she went to the freezer, I was like, is she cooling off the oil? Like, did it get too hot? But that amount of oil. Just business. What was she doing with it? Lockas. I mean, how does she? I had to make sense of it. Sunday is Locka Day. Frozen lockas. Of course, it's the only thing that makes sense. She's preparing frozen lockas. By the way, can we just talk about the timeline of that day? Holy shit. That that should be that should be the shirt Lady Cop lockas. Oh, my God. I love that. The paramedics who treat all wounds with chest compressions from episode three forty six, Madame Webb. Thank God. She has taught all three girls the only piece of health, the only piece of life saving. She's taught them all CPR. Chest compressions are good for everything. Every single call she goes on is a paramedic chest compressions. You would think from this movie because there's somebody, the EMT, who gets injured in the ambulance and he's covered in blood. He's clearly has injuries and she's just giving him chest. I believe he would have lived if she had treated. She if she treated his actual injury. She pushed his heart out of his body. He had open wounds and she just was like chest compressions. I will say this. One of the cool things that they do in that sequence is how they have to work together to do a chest compression, because, you know, sometimes you get like tired and you're like, so they get in here, finish my chest compression after minutes. Well, that's after a minute, they switch after every after like five seconds. But yes, but I was, I was actually glad as somebody who's always up to date on her CPR. I was glad. Thank you so much. I was glad to see like, yeah, people do get tired. If you're doing it correctly, you do tire out pretty quickly. And so it is important for other people to come in on the beat. Absolutely. And by the way, I agree with all this, but it would also lead me to believe that at the end they would all take turns to revive only to do. They do switch once. Why? After like two pumps. You're calling them a two pump chump. You're calling these teenage girls. Paul Shear is calling these teenage girls two pump chumps. Wow. And the howdy for most baffling choice by a first responder goes to Yes, the paramedics who treat open wounds with chest compressions from episode 346, Madame Web. I mean, from one of our absolute favorite Madame Web. I mean, love it. Really wonderful stuff. We love, we love to be able to visit again to step foot in the web of her. I love that. And also, I remember, I think I'm correct in this, that we do have a shirt with bloody hand prints on it that says like, I went to Madame Web's CPR school, which I do, I do enjoy. Madame Web, the gift that keeps on giving really like something that will, I think, live on for a long time. It is, it's a special one more so than Morbius, more so than a lot of the other ones in this world that we did. This one is this one's pretty spectacular. Oh, unfortunately, Adam Scott could not be here tonight. Yes. But he did want me to say something. Share it with you all. Paul, when you take on the responsibility, great power will come. Wow. Pretty solid words. And you know what? I will just accept this award on his behalf. I'm going to take the responsibility here. So this is how you win. Let me just put that in my sack and say, thank you. This should go. Molly, thank you Scott. See, there's a lock on there. How do you have a, you have a luggage lock on your howdy bag? Of course. I, these are hot items. I mean, you know, you see some of these on eBay, June. June. Yes. So some of them on eBay. Have you been selling your howdy? There's only, I haven't been selling. I've been selling Paul's howdy sacks. Oh, smart. Cause there've been so many years. There was a couple left in that one. That last one, there's a couple left in there. But please don't. I didn't know. Okay. Please. Anyway, I'll take this award. I'm throwing it in my sack. Congrats to Paul on another howdy added to his sack. Will Jason finally win his first howdy award? Find out this Friday in part two of the third annual, How Did This Get Made Howdy Awards? See you then.