How Did This Get Made?

Last Looks: Shoot 'Em Up

51 min
Mar 6, 20263 months ago
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Summary

This episode of How Did This Get Made features a "Last Looks" segment where listeners provide corrections and additional insights about the film Shoot 'Em Up, followed by a casual chat between hosts Paul Scheer and Jason Mantzoukas discussing recent entertainment projects, streaming recommendations, and cultural observations about modern television and sexual mores.

Insights
  • Engaged fan communities can provide valuable factual corrections and specialized knowledge that enhances media analysis and credibility
  • Streaming platforms and anime content are reshaping how audiences consume entertainment across age groups and traditional genre boundaries
  • Television production quality and creative risk-taking have become more conservative compared to early 2000s standards
  • Live event experiences (hockey games, theater residencies) create unique fan engagement opportunities beyond traditional media formats
  • Character-driven narratives transcend genre and subject matter specificity, making content accessible regardless of viewer familiarity with depicted professions
Trends
Younger generations normalizing sexual practices (e.g., oral sex) that older generations view as non-standardAnime and international streaming content gaining mainstream American viewership and cultural relevanceVariety show format revival through prestige creators (Seth Rogen's Muppet Show) appealing to adult audiencesLive exhibition events as promotional strategy for streaming series (Shoresy hockey game tour)Nostalgia-driven content recreation maintaining original tone without modernization or dated elementsMulti-platform creator success (Jacob Tierney: Letter Kenny, Shoresy, Heated Rivalry)Recreational sports entertainment gaining cultural prominence through streaming series adaptationPrestige television moving toward safer, less conflict-driven narratives compared to 2000s eraCross-generational family viewing of previously age-gated content becoming normalizedSpecialized fan knowledge communities providing expert fact-checking and supplementary information
Topics
Film Analysis and CorrectionsStreaming Content RecommendationsAnime and International TelevisionTelevision Production Quality TrendsLive Event Marketing StrategiesCharacter-Driven Narrative DesignGenerational Differences in Sexual NormsNostalgia-Driven Content CreationFamily Media Consumption PatternsFan Community EngagementComedy Theater and Live PerformanceDocumentary FilmmakingVariety Show Format RevivalSports Entertainment AdaptationPrestige Creator Portfolios
Companies
Netflix
Mentioned as potential bidder in Jason's humorous story about attempting to purchase Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers
Subject of Jason's comedic anecdote about attempting to purchase the studio with low offers
Crunchyroll
Streaming service Jason subscribed to for anime content including The Apothecary Diaries
AMC Plus
Streaming platform where Law Abiding Citizen can be streamed or rented
Filo
Streaming service offering rental access to Law Abiding Citizen
Apple Podcast
Platform where listeners can rate and review the How Did This Get Made podcast
Spotify
Platform where listeners can rate and review the How Did This Get Made podcast
Howard Stern Show
Referenced for recent discussions about generational differences in sexual practices
Scores
Famed New York strip club mentioned in Paul's anecdote about working nearby a comedy theater
People
Paul Scheer
Host of How Did This Get Made podcast; discussed recent projects including Taylor Swift documentary
Jason Mantzoukas
Co-host of How Did This Get Made; recently completed Broadway run and discussed streaming recommendations
Dan Erickson
Creator of Severance; wrote script about Three Men and a Baby ghost story that was performed as live table read
Ryan Gosling
Star of Project Hail Mary; Paul provided spoiler-free review praising the film highly
Glen Powell
Actor Paul's sons initially confused with Ryan Gosling when discussing Project Hail Mary
Steve Gutenberg
Original Three Men and a Baby actor who reprised his role in Dan Erickson's script table read
Ted Danson
Three Men and a Baby actor featured in Dan Erickson's script; standee appeared in ghost reflection scene
Tom Selleck
Three Men and a Baby actor featured in Dan Erickson's script about the film's production
Leonard Nimoy
Director of Three Men and a Baby; Paul played this character in the live table read
Randall Park
Actor who played Ted Danson in the Three Men and a Baby script table read
Jacob Tierney
Writer-director of Letter Kenny and Shoresy; also created Heated Rivalry hockey series
Seth Rogen
Producer of new Muppet Show variety series that Jason praised as capturing original 1970s-80s format
Alex Timbers
Director of new Muppet Show and the Broadway play Jason recently completed
Genddy Tartakovsky
Creator of Primal animated series that Jason described as a visual masterpiece
Gerard Butler
Star of Law Abiding Citizen, the film selected for next week's How Did This Get Made episode
Jamie Foxx
Co-star of Law Abiding Citizen alongside Gerard Butler
Viola Davis
Cast member in Law Abiding Citizen
Jeb Barrier
Founder of Telluride Comedy Festival where Paul performs annually on President's Day weekend
Quotes
"We don't kink shame, we kink wonder why."
Jafar (Discord caller)Corrections and Omissions segment
"This is my favorite movie ever."
Gus (Paul's son)Project Hail Mary discussion
"That was the funniest movie I've ever seen. And it made me cry five times."
Sam (Paul's son)Project Hail Mary discussion
"You guys really captured our voices."
Steve GutenbergThree Men and a Baby table read discussion
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
Paul ScheerOpening segment
Full Transcript
It's a Cinderella story, yucking people's yums and finding out a little bit about that ghost and three men in a baby. All this and more on today's How Did This Get Made? Last Looks Hit The Fame! Last Looks, Last Looks, Time to Start The Last Looks, Paul. Shit you can't make me a langer, sit me to get. Last Looks, Last Looks, Time to Start The Last Looks, Paul. Shit you can't make me a langer, sit me to get. Last Looks, Last Looks, Paul. You can't sit no, I'm gonna block you some of the books. Hello to all my nuns out there wearing thongs. I'm your host, Paul Sheer, and welcome to How Did This Get Made. Last Looks, Where You The Listener Get To Voice Your Issues On The Classic. Discord Pick, Shoot em Up, A Movie That Discord User Ghostbag. Thanks, should've had the tagline. Shoot em up. Let the bodies hit the floor. Thank you, Ghostbag, for that alt movie tagline. It does not sound as good without hearing it with that music behind it. Let's try it one more time. Shoot em up. Let the bodies hit the floor. There we go, a little bit better. Thank you, Scott. And a big shout out to Latex Drill for that opening theme song. Remember, if you have an alt movie tagline or a title, submit it to us on the discord at discord.gg-htgm. And if you have a last Looks, theme song, go to hdtgm.com and click on the Submit, a song, button on our homepage. Remember, keep them short. People, brevity is the soul of wit. Coming up on today's episode, we'll be hearing all your corrections and omissions on Shoot em Up. And hopefully some apologies as well. Then, Jason will stop by for a just chat where we will talk about a ton of fun stuff. Like this amazing script read that I did written by Dan Erickson, the creator of Severance, about the Ghost from Three Men in a Baby. Yeah, we'll talk about that. We will also talk about some crazy dinosaur shows where the audience member has got a little bit out of control. And I will give my spoiler free review of the new Ryan Gosling movie, Project Hail Mary. Lord Miller, I did it again. When we recommend movies and TV shows, we are currently loving. And lastly, as always, I will reveal the movie for next week's episode. By the way, how did this get made is coming back to Largo on April Fool's. That's right. For one, we'll be there. Jason and I, maybe June, possibly not. Jason and I, and a special guest is how we're billing it. You can get tickets right now. There's also a dinosaur show. Me, Jason Rob Hubel, a bunch of really funny people on 326. It's a Thursday. We've been selling out all these dinosaur shows in Los Angeles at Largo. It has been so much fun. And just a shout out to myself. The New York Times wrote about that documentary I made about Taylor Swift, which was a real treat. Honestly, I geeked out about it. It was really awesome. So if you have not watched that, it's on my website, just PaulSherr.com. And remember, people were always putting up new merch in the shop. So go get it. All right. Let's get into it. Last week, we talked about a movie that you selected. Shoot them up. We had questions, I think, or we really just had a lot of flowers to throw at it. But maybe we missed a couple things. Maybe there are a couple things that we didn't quite get. Here is your chance to set a straight fact check us if you will tell us why you thought this was a good How did this get made movie? It is now time for Corrections and omissions. Thank you, John Cohen for that theme song. Let's go to the Discord. Monica Baluchee's character's full name is Donna Quentano, which seems ordinary on the surface, but I noticed that the movie's subtitle shortened her name to DQ, which is the same abbreviation for Dairy Queen. I feel like this has to be another tongue-in-cheek reference made by the writer about all the lactation in the movie. Oh wow, fun facts, 47. I know it didn't give you credit at the top, but I'm giving you credit now. What a great find. Also, the ice cream parlor at the end of the movie is called Dream Queen, which is another DQ. Holy shit, fun facts, nailing it right at the gate. Greyest town writes not only did Mythbusters test the bullets firing between the finger scene. They also tested if you could shoot a merry-go-round to make it move. I love Mythbusters and I love that they focused on this movie in particular. Big surprise, it did not work. Yeah, of course not. The bullets are not going to make a merry-go-round go around. The Mythbusters found the bullets went right through the handles and the team had to add heavy duty plates as a surface for the bullets and even then it didn't work really well. Well, thank you, Greyest Town, for letting us know a little bit more of Mythbusters lore. But that must mean that the Mythbusters are in the discord because they selected that movie to focus on. Out of all the movies, they've only focused on a handful. That's when they picked. Unevolved panda wrote regarding the baby carrot tangent. Baby carrots are carrots harvested before reaching maturity and sold at a smaller size. However, Jason was correct that what we mostly see in grocery stores are baby cut carrots. They are marketed as baby carrots but are actually just full grown carrots cut down to the smaller size. They were developed as a way to sell broken or misshapen carrots. They were previously being thrown away in order to prevent food waste. I have no idea if that's still true though, especially as they seem to have taken over the carrot market. Well, look, I'm going to tell you that I saw some really baby corn the other day. I don't think on another show we were talking about baby corn. So let's get into the baby fruit and vegetable market. I need to find out more but I understand it the way that you understand it. Unevolved panda. That is just a big carrot cut down to a smaller one. It makes more sense. All right, from more carrot talk. Oh, can't have enough carrot talk. Let's go to the phones with Ryan from Houston. Hey Paul, long time listener. Love the show. I was calling about shoot them up episode. Just wanted to let you all know with the recurring carrot gag. The fact that carrots improve your eyesight is actually just a myth. It comes from World War II. British pilots were shooting down German aircraft bombers in the middle of the night. And it was because of radar. And it was a technology that the British wanted to keep a secret from the Nazis. So they spread the word through propaganda that their pilots were just really good at seeing in the dark because of all the carrots that they were eating. Anyways, just thought that that would be a fun fact to share. Keep up the good work. Bye. Oh my god, Ryan, I love this story. This is why history is just fascinating. What a beautiful and crazy lie. Really, really. I just, you know what? I'm impressed that you knew it. Now I feel like I can share that it had an appartee and not give you any credit for it. Ryan, I'm sorry. Thank you, Ryan, for that. But Scott, our producer does want to note that while carrots don't improve eyesight, they are rich in beta-carotene, which helps people maintain good eyesight as they age. Now it sounds to me like Scott has just watched too many, you know, centrum commercials. But Scott, I don't know if you are overcorrecting Ryan, but I feel like we are working together. I'm going to say that Scott and Ryan worked together to give us some more information about carrots. Okay. When I saw this next person on the list, I was excited. And you know what? It's, it was worth it. Jafar, what do you got? Hey Paul, it's Jafar. I'm at the risk of attracting even more freaks on Discord. I just wanted to call in with a few notes on lactation tanks. First of all, we don't kink shame, we kink wonder why. It does skew a little towards kink shame and it felt like. So what's depicted in the movie is more of like an age placing with lactation dynamics. You have the guy wearing a diaper, you have the big crib, you have the bottles. And that status can kind of exist with or without the lactation element. It really just kind of mostly depends on if lactation is happening with the woman. You guys are also like wondering how the lactation occurs. A lot of times it is a woman who's had a baby recently or who like maintains lactation by regularly expressing or having the milk expressed. You can also induce lactation just kind of by using pumps and or other types of suction that kind of maintain a regular schedule with that until milk comes in with or without hormonal supplements. Yeah, so like on the other end of suspect and without the age play elements, there are adult nursing relationships, which is kind of more of a like bonding sort of thing that doesn't have as much of like a maternal child element. To it and is more of this kind of like setting aside time for like bonding one on one that sort of thing. Why I know this is an important also not for nothing. I'm the one who nominated the core in the movie recommendations read because someone made me watch it on a second date a few months ago and I still think you guys should do it. Okay, take care. Bye. First of all, great to hear your voice too far. Second of all, I'm fascinated with your dating life and weren't we engaged at a certain point. Now we're on a date. I don't know. Maybe I'm messing up the timeline here. You might not have been engaged. Maybe you were. I don't remember. I know we left you off at one point, but no one should ever make you watch the core. I say that, you know, if you are out there on hinge, Tinder, you know, whatever you're doing plenty of fish is that Christian mingle only farmers, but don't make me watch the core ever. First of all, I want to get out in front of this and say, yes, I am sorry if we yucked anyone's yum. Not about that. We're not about that. And I think that what we were saying was the way it was depicted in the film was borderlining on grotesque. So that, you know, it wasn't the base level idea of it as much as it was the way that it was is being portrayed. But maybe, honestly, again, maybe that is yucking someone's yum. So, Jafar, you've given me way more information than I ever needed. But honestly, now I think I did need it. I did. So I appreciate you chiming in with that. And I appreciate you leading the charge with the core in one time when we watch a two hour movie. It might be it. All right. Next from Indianapolis. We have Lindsey. Hi, Paul. I am a pediatric oncologist and I was calling just listening to the shoot-em-up episode. So funny. But I wanted to offer some insights about bone marrow transplant in pediatric. So you are correct that a newborn baby would not be a viable bone marrow donor. I have seen children donate, actually not uncommonly. Match sibling donation is often the best possible option for a kiddo with cancer. And so I think probably the youngest donor I personally have known was maybe around six. The procedure is somewhat painful. Kids are put this week for it with sedation or anesthesia. But typically go home the same day and only need something like a speed of medicine for pain management. But the other thing that I think is interesting from the perspective of shoot-em-up is that those core blood can be used as a donation for patient who needs bone marrow transplant. There are core blood transplant. So maybe five on shouldn't the shop that cord. Anyway, those are my insights. Love the show. Love you all. And thanks for making my road trip more fun this time. Take care. Oh my gosh. Lindsey, pediatric oncologist. Thank you for all the work that you did. Do. And whenever I now hear pediatric oncologist, I think of that hilarious episode in the studio, which if you've not seen, watch that episode. I believe it is called pediatric oncologist. One of my favorite ones from season one. Okay. First of all, thank you for this is crazy. And you know, this is another reason to maybe store a cord blood. We did that with our kids. We have a we had a cord blood thing. So great. And you know what? I'm glad Lindsey you brought some attention to Clive Owen wasting that cord blood. Oh man, he should have kept it in his pocket and chewed on that all movie. Beef jerky. Anyway, what this has been a wildly lovely bunch of people. Let's see if Jay continues the trend. Hey Paul, maybe Jason. This is just something for the shoot-em-up episode you guys just did. I actually worked for a certain federal agency that regulates firearms and had been doing that for a better part of the decade. Obviously, this movie wasn't interested in making a kind of sense. Obviously, which is part of the charm. But I can tell you that Jason was absolutely correct about they're not being any munition president and a firearms manufacturer. While many do actually make ammunition addition, they fact these factories actually as well as many distributors are very strict about the anti ammunition policy on the presence of firearms. Obviously, good reason as you can imagine. And again, considering their dirty manufacturer, I guess they don't care. So I guess that's one where you know, just going to notice. Anyway, thanks. Thanks for everything your podcast always cheers me up and miss me last. Thanks you guys. Jay, I love it. Yes, you all have brought so much to the table. Actually, more than I've ever expected. And this maybe is why the discord is great because when you select the movie, you bring in the facts. Jay, thank you for your work. And yeah, I think we we feel like we've now got all of our questions answered by the nicest group of people. So thank you. Ryan Jafar, Lindsay and Jay. Now back to the discord. Jenin, AB Q writes tall john must have been mistaken about Paul, Jim, Adi accepting an Oscar for sideways with his shoot him up characters, dishevelled hair and go T. He did not win an Oscar for sideways and wasn't even nominated for that role. He's never won an Oscar, but was nominated for Cinderella man and the holdovers. He has won golden globe, sag awards critics, toy towards and an Emmy. Okay. So look, I'm only as good as the notes in front of me when we're doing the show. As we found out with our target, but Scott clarifies I did some digging and shoot him up was filming during the 2006 Oscars where GMati was nominated for Cinderella man and his hair at the ceremony matches. So the gist of the story is true, but the details are wrong, but it's the same story. He went to the Oscars. Dressed as his character and there's pictures of him. I didn't win, but he was on stage. He got pictures. I'm going to say, sheer your story checks out. Thank you, Paul. From Reep Oh man, a Shrite's omission, perhaps it's worth noting that the cinematographer of this film was Hong Kong veteran Peter Paul, who lends John Woo's classic the killer, Ronnie use cult favorite bride of Chuckie and then rightly won best cinematography Oscar for his breakthrough work on Ang Lee's crouching tiger hidden dragon. And according to Wikipedia, there's even an asteroid named after him. Wow. Reep Oh man. As she know what, I'm going to say this. Every single one of you came to play. You didn't pick weird details. You, you found the real stuff. And you know what, this court, you picked this movie. And this week, there isn't going to be one winner. It is going to be all of you because the power of you all is great. That's right. So repo man. Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jenner Jen our discord our call set 619 P.A. U.L. ASK stick around because after the break Jason will pop in for a chat and just a warning. Things are gonna get raunchy. Yeah, actually it's surprisingly so. Welcome back everybody. As you know, every week we go into the vault to pull out a classic episode this past week we pulled out John Carpenter's escape from L.A. with Darcy Cardin and Dan Levy to not listen to it's a great one. Coming up next week it will be the Avengers that's 1998's Avengers with Uma and Rafe and we have a special guest Tom Sharplin. We did that live at the New York comedy festival I think. I love Tom. Love the best show. If you've not heard of the best show, look it up. You will enjoy it. If you're a fan of comedy bang bang, you will love Tom Sharplin's The Best Show. All right, without any further ado it is now time to welcome Jason to last looks for a little just chat. All right, John Cohen, play us in. What's up jerks? It's time for just chat with Paul Sheer and Jason Mann Sukus. Jason, how are you? Paul, boy, so thrilled to be talking to you from the confines of my closet. Once again my cozy closet. Yes, you are back in the undisclosed location. Yep. Happy to have you thrilled to be here. How was the end of your Broadway run? Oh boy, you know what? It was, I was really sad at the end because I had a blast. It seemed to be so much fun. I had so much fun. There were some, how did this get made fans? Absolutely came out. Somebody yelled Gio Storm at one of the shows. Okay, so how do you react to that? I could hear it. Okay. I could hear it. I react a little bit, but not, you know, it wasn't overwhelming. I will say no, it's not like somebody was trying to do it. Putting the middle of the show or something. It was, it was at an appropriate time and I just let it be. I told you, I think about the time I wanted to go see Glen Gary Glen Ross and it was the last version of it, where there was all stars, not the one that just happened with Kieran and Colken, but this is one with Alan Alde was in it. Yes, yes, I understand. And, you know, a handful of other people. And in the middle of that, in a moment of silence, someone yells out, Hawkeye, what? Wow. Like someone yelled at a mass reference in the middle. Incredible. Nobody did that. Thank God. Nobody did that. It was like the, so I heard it when I was introduced and like at the end, the times when it would be appropriate. I like that. I like that. The show was so fun. I will say the event of doing it every night of the week made me want us to do like a residency somewhere, you know, like I wanted me to make fun. I know that seems so fun. I want to do our show night after night after night without having to travel. Like we go on tour and do the show night after night, but it's, there's always a tremendous amount of travel and packing and unpacking and repacking and new hotels. I was like, wow, I'd love to be walking into this theater and doing how to just get made every night for a while. Oh, well, you know what? I actually had a similar experience of doing a show night after night, which was I was in Telluride. We often go together to telluride to do these shows. And I got to tell you this Telluride Comedy Festival is a blast. It is a group of us. We're all friends. Jason's normally there. And we do different kind of shows every single night to this town that is just a fun ski town on President's Day weekend. But the problem with Telluride this year was there was no snow. So people were getting antsy. It's like the entire town is an alcoholic waiting for that. Like, when is it five o'clock so I can actually have my, no, it's so true. We have been going to, we've been doing this festival. Our friend, Jeb Barrier, Shouts to Jeb Barrier, a real legend started this festival. You know, in the early 2000s, we've been going for the better part of 20 plus years. Yeah. Every President's Day weekend, we do it. And when there's not snow, the town is cranky. And that means the audience is not psyched because it's like, well, we are giving you something to actually do. No. No, they are. Their whole life is snow dependent. I don't know if I told you this, but we got lucky. Snow hit and it was a nice snow and then everyone got extremely happy. And then that became the other half of these nights there. I'm so jealous. And the last night we were there, I was talking to the audience. It was like we're doing like essentially what we do for dinosaur. You know, what's new? What's this? And before I could even get out, like what's something exciting that happened to you? Someone yells out, I got my ass eaten on Valentine's Day. And when I tell you Jason, I looked at this young woman. I was like, if she was 22, I would have been sure. And I was like, okay, let's hear about it. And I heard so much about hinge. And then the town started everyone in this theater. And this is like, like is a Sunday night show, an earlier show. Everyone weighed in on getting their ass eaten. It was the funniest thing to me that this one guy has spoken to in the very beginning. I said, what do you do, sir? He's like, I'm a fireman. And I was like, okay, great. You see, I would ask that kind of question. And then this woman's talking about getting her ass eaten. And then the fireman's like, I do it. What? I was like, amazing. Was the handsome cop there? The handsome cop was not there. He was talked about. He was referenced. He was referenced. But it was, it was one of the funniest things because it felt like we went from this town that was angry and like a little on edge to all of a sudden this entire audience, all celebrating getting laid. The catharsis of the snow brought about people getting laid. And it was wonderful. And then when I tell you, when I looked at that fireman, the last thing, if you were to give me a list of all the things he could have tried, you know, getting eating ass was not going to be in the top 100. It's such a, I think this is a real like, there is some sort of age demarcation line for eating ass because I feel like the younger generation is all about eating ass and the older generation is like, I don't know what you're talking about. It has, it has, it has, and I'm saying this because recently it has been a very big topic of conversation on the Howard Stern show. Yes. Because a bunch of the younger staffers, the writers and the producers and so forth are saying, no, no, this is normal. This is a normal thing. And all of the older people are like, are you kidding? That is not at all a one of the normal components of hooking up. What are you talking about? And they have been talking about it in this same kind of hilarious way. Well, this is like, it was amazing to watch everybody chime in. And again, this is not the show where you come to hear Jason and I talk about like the ass eating culture. But I was, it was just one of those things that just like, it like, and I hearing that on Stern was just making me laugh. I was like, wow, it's a, it's a different. It's a cut. It is the comment. This is the conversation that people want to be having about modern sexual mores. And what are the, and I think like when you talk about like, what are the bases? You know, like when we were kids, first base was like kid French kissing. Yeah, exactly. First base is like like full penetrative sex now. You know, like I think, I mean, I remember a second base. I remember like, at time when you would say you hooked up with somebody, that just meant that you like, like, pulled around, get pulled around. Yeah. Like now it's like, and pulled around just meant like first and second base. And a hundred percent. Which was all like kissing and over the shirt stuff. I mean, this is, this is, we've lived through a lot. And that's why I do want to announce to our audience that how did this get made is changing its title to how did this ask get eaten? Yes. And we, and every episode we're going to seek to get to the bottom of it. Sadly, the only episode, we can only do that one episode of girls. Now I want to apologize to Jason. I know that you've been working really hard to buy Warner brothers. And I know that that felt through for you. It's such a bummer. Yeah. So bummed. I've been really working hard to buy Warner brothers on the cheap, you know, Zooks and Zaz, you know, we go back, we go way back. You guys are great. We were the best together, you know, and I'm so, I'm super bummed. I was wanting to get that Warner Brothers purchase. I'm wanting to grab it up. But, you know, I get it, you know, Netflix was in the mix for a while. And then the Ellison's, they swooped right in. You know, I mean, people were saying your offer was very low. I mean, you always say, yeah, you are, yeah, it was. Like a couple thousand bucks. You're right. And quite a bit of it was, um, it was funny money. Yeah. It was, it was, it was, it was old funny money from strip clubs that have long clothes. All those scores dollars. I've got so many scores, funny money. I used to work next to scores. And oh, yeah, I worked next to scores, which was a very famed and popular Howard Stern show reference. Yes. But in, but in New York City at that time, it was like the crem de la crem of strip. It was like a quote unquote classy strip club. And I was working at a comedy theater right around the corner. But the common denominator was, you know, 25 feet from where I was working in 25 feet from where scores was, was a pizza place on the corner. And we were, and it's so, I love it. And because we were all just working, like you would see all the people in there. For sure. And I remember one time one of the bouncers was trying to pay for a pizza and did accidentally give funny money. Oh, I love it. I love it. And they're like, Oh, what's this? He's like, Oh, I'm so sorry, buddy. I got that. That's amazing. Because you could only spend funny money inside scores. That was the, that was the, that was the, that was the, the, the, the thing. Well, well, well, there has been, well, well, well, what has been happening with you, Paul? Oh my gosh. You know, well, I have been on the road. What has been happening? Oh my, you know, there, I will tell you this much. I got to see Project Hail Mary. Oh, I've seen it twice. I've seen it twice now. Uh, I saw it. Did you read the book? I did not read the book. Okay. Great. But the audible book is fantastic in their rate sponsor for us. Okay. I'll read the, I'll do the audiobook then. Great. But I saw the movie in a rougher state. No special effects done. The music wasn't perfect. And it was running a little bit longer than it was. And I went into that theater going, I got a pee. You know what? I'll just hold it. I can always get up in the middle of the movie. And I had to pee a lot. The movie when I saw it was like almost three hours. Yeah. And I watch that movie and I forgot that I had to be. That's incredible. There is no way at 53 now that I could go three hours. If I went in knowing I had to pee, I don't know. That I could make a 15 minutes. I was, I was having a freak out because in all of a sudden, Lord Miller, I love those guys. They came down and they were talking. I was like, I should pee now, but I had it worked myself too far into a road to catch the get up. And I was like, and then I was like, and then the movie started and I forgot. So that's, that is my high level of, and that was the rough cut. Yeah. And I brought my sons to go see it at IMAX for another little special screening. And, and I will tell you this without I don't want to spoil anything about the movie. I want everyone to enjoy it and make their own opinions of it. Gus, my oldest son looked over to me at one point and said, this is my favorite movie ever. And I was like, whoa. And then as we were leaving, Sam said, that was the funniest movie I've ever seen. And it made me cry five times. Wow. And I will say they have not yet seen infinite. So right. So yes. And that change we are going to we are going to wait. I didn't want to kill the Lillian and joke the person they'd have to let them. But I love that. I love this. And on the way home, I don't know the way home they said, who was your like, who's your favorite person? Yeah. And they go, well, Glen Powell. And then they list off two other characters. And I won't tell you because it would be spoilers. I think well, Glen Powell's not in it. They're like, what? I was like, that's Ryan Gosling. And they're like, oh. That was Glen Powell. Now, the funnier part of that is throughout the whole summer, whenever he saw a poster for running man, they're like, I want to see that Ryan Gosling movie. Oh, weird. They've got to flip them. They've flipped the two guys. I will tell you one other thing that I think you will enjoy. So last night, I was asked to do this live table read. And I can talk about it because it's out in the open for Dan Erickson. Dan Erickson is the guy who wrote severance, created severance. Great. Very talented guy. And he'd written this script about 10 years ago. I don't know if you know about this, but you know about the, the baby, like the ghost baby in three men and a baby. You ever hear that rumor? No, it's me. Yes. But I don't know this story. All right. So basically, there was a thing when I was a kid that you could see a ghost in the reflection. Of a window in three men and a baby. And this is the time before the internet. And you know, you couldn't like screen grab and it was, you know, so this rumor of there's a baby. There was, and then you would see it. Oh my gosh. I see it. I see it. I see it. Now, the conventional wisdom is it is a standee of Ted Danson that was put behind a set. But the window was an exterior window. So the standee was misplaced. The light hits it. It's Ted Danson. But yeah. It's, there is something there, but it's not a ghost. It is just this piece of like a marketing material that inadvertently gets reflected, right? So yes. Yes. So Dan has written this script about three men and a baby where the leads are Steve Gutenberg Ted Danson and Tom Seleck on top of the hell mouth in Hollywood. Great. And this baby is real. Great. And this story is real. It is a very, very fine script. Thank you. And so last night we did a read and I got to play Leonard Nimoy, the director of three minute baby and Randall Park played Ted Danson. Camille played Tom Seleck and Steve Gutenberg played Steve Gutenberg. Amazing. Steve Gutenberg came in to reprise his role. That's great. And that even reprise his role to play Steve Gutenberg. And it was truly one of the most bananas, funny things I have ever, because it's like one of those scripts that you write to be like, oh, yeah, Dan's great. He's funny and he can write R and he could do whatever. And to has Steve Gutenberg reading the most, I mean, it's heightened characters and it was, it was a, it was a real, real real treat. It's a crazy movie. I think you could probably even find it out online because I don't know even how this got out. Delive read? No, the actual script that you want to find it out. Okay. Yeah, because it was not taped. It was a benefit. But it was, it's public. I could, I could talk about it in that way. I don't think anyone's making. Sure. I would hope they would, but I think a lot of issues would come in the play. I think that's, well, it reminds me of the fast nine. Yes, we did. Yes. And that script, you know, that, that taking a funny, weird, lateral thinking idea and treating it like a real thing. I'm, this is, and then doing it. I love that. It's really, it was really fun. And I was enamored to see him. One of the best moments of it was, you know, Steve was so nice and so funny. And he played the part, so the part's really written perfectly for him. And he's like, you guys really captured our voices. And I was laughing because I think he really just thought the script was really funny. And it felt like it was this thing. But in the, in the script, Tom Salk is just snorting cocaine all the time and fucking anything that moves. And it's like, I don't know. I don't know. And then I was like, then part of me was like, did it? Are they? Maybe they are. No, but I think he was just, it was just being so appreciative of, of everybody, take the time out to do this thing. Oh, made me, I was like, but I thought of you because it's so few people that, I mean, that movie is burned, is burned in my brain in a way where it's like, oh, yeah, that was the biggest hit. It was a number one movie. Such a big movie, such a big movie to have it spawn sequels for something that was not like an action adventure. Like a, it didn't, it was like such a small, steak slice of life type of movie that was such a massive hit, you know? And, and also just like, really based on like, like just like, here's three cute guys. Yeah. Like, what if they were, uh, taking care of baby? What the heck? What the heck? Take care of a baby. Oh, and they're men. That's like impossible. I mean, they, they're not going to figure that out. I don't know. No way, baby. I'm not going to be able to die, right? Oh, my God. It's really funny. I love that. As an idea, I think that's great. And now I know that you've been doing some shooting, a little bit away doing some shooting. I don't know if you talk about it, but were you able to be catching up on anything watching it? Yeah. I've caught up on some stuff, but I'm behind on some stuff as well. Okay. I was doing, I was doing the play and then I was doing Percy Jackson finishing up season three of Percy Jackson, which I think is going to be gangbusters stuff. Um, but, but it's interesting. While I was away, I think I talked about this actually when we blast spoke. I've gotten like deep, I got a crunchy roll subscription and I've gotten deep into anime. Um, so like I was saying, I think the last time the apothecary diaries is a show that I like very much became obsessed with. The pre-run season two is happening right now, week to week and is easily immediately the best season of television this year will be number one on my list. It's incredible. Um, but then I've also been watching a couple of other shows that I think are fantastic. One of which is also happening week to week right now and it's called Sentenced to being a hero, which is this falls into the category of this is like action adventure. This isn't like fantasy character building. This is action adventure like fighting like a demon hoard and like being a hero is like the lowest of the low. Like that like it's a criminal sentence is to be is to be told you're a hero and the heroes are being sent into. But it's almost like suicide squad. Okay. You know what I mean? Like the heroes are oftentimes bad guys or people who did bad things, but they have to then go and be do acts of heroism and it's fantastic and it's visually very cool and beautiful. Um, I am, uh, I am psyched. I have to get into this and maybe I have to find my kids way into it because I may have talked about this before, but my kids are very much into jackass right now. So we are watching so much jackass. They still have not like crossed over to thinking that things that that are not animated are fr... Like they're like it's animated. It's for kids. We're not kids. We watch adult stuff. Yeah. But they understand like my youngest son wanted like a Naruto sweatshirt, but he's never watched an episode and Gus loves wearing his like one piece t-shirt but is no clue about it. No, I just did one piece. That was so cute. But I do understand because I remember feeling this way too like oh cartoons are for kids. I don't do that anymore. Yeah. I watch, I watch mash now. You know what I mean? I watch 18 of Hawkeye. You know, I don't watch cartoons anymore. Well, yeah. And I feel like that was like for me when I was a kid, cartoons weren't even on the table. I was like it was like Saturday morning cartoons. That was it. That was really, yeah. There was no such thing even I will say. I remember very vividly in college having a reaction to the Simpsons and being like, I don't understand why would I be watching a cartoon in like prime time? Like massive. Even for me was like, what's going on? And then I was like, oh wait, this is incredible. But my first instinct was to be like, why is Fox this new channel trying to push cartoons on us in prime time? Right. That felt strange. You know? And then I would argue that we were the beginning of that like new cartoon generation that has just grown and grown and grown. Yeah. Built off of the Simpsons and then, you know, family guy and all the way through. Family guy now has become another. We are watching really at random any family guy episode, which I really not set down and watched that many of. And I've been enjoying those and the office, which I may have talked about last time we were watching a lot of the office, which that's a good one. Great. And as I said to Rob Hubel about it, I was like, it was a pretty funny show. And I think the office came out at a time where I just wasn't watching 22 episodes of television. Same. A season. So I've watched, I know all the dynamics. I know where the show goes. But I guess I don't know. There's so many holes in my office knowledge. I'm there are dozens and dozens of episodes of the office that I've never seen for sure. It is not, it is not a show that I at all was completionist on. No. And it's been, maybe I watched the first three seasons and then stopped. And you know, say that season four is the best season. Okay. So maybe I watched the four seasons. But you may not have liked that. I don't even know. I remember actually being mad at the first season of the office because I love the British office so much. And they copied the British office for the first six episodes. And I was like, this is not the same. And I went back and watched it. I was like, holy shit, I can't believe they got this on net. Oh, yeah. Television. Like because Michael Scott changes drastically between season one and season two. But wow, I was like, they're, like, they, and they still push in different places. I think it just kind of makes you realize like how safe television has gotten in a weird way. And I know a lot of people can claim about that. But it's like, oh, I was like, oh, but you, this was done really, really well and really funny. And it really holds up as a remember. Like there was a period there where like they were really loosening things up a little bit. And like going back to showing butts and calling people assholes on NYPD blue in the late 90s, like yeah, early 2000s, like there was a certain sense of like pushing things and things evolving and not being so safe and puritanical. And we have really rebounded the other way now. And everything feels much safer and much, much more bland and not interesting shows without conflict shows without, you know, that really don't at all come close to representing the world we live in. Right. Yeah. You know, I thought to myself, I was like, oh, my kids aren't going to like this show because they've never worked in an office. And then I realized, oh, it's characters. And I know it's a silly to say, but it's like, oh, and that's something that we always are missing. It's like what we like, what we respond to are just characters. It doesn't make, like a one point Gus turned to me and was like, what do they do? I was like, they sell paper. Right. Who cares? Who cares? The mega-deversed. And that's it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like that's it. It really is. Even if we were to say like, oh, what are like the paper specific storylines of the office, almost none. Like that's genuinely not what it's about, which is great. I know it's such an interesting thing. And it's like, and I held off showing it to him for that reason alone. And yeah, so it's like, it's fun. It's fun to watch this stuff through their eyes and what they are. Like I just like, it gives you the different life, but it also is like, like I told you, I made that promise so we couldn't watch anything before 2000 with them. Which, but last night they broke their promises. They watched Ferris Bueller's Day off and they enjoyed it. Right. Yeah. So every now and then we get sneak one, sneak one down. Oh, that's a great one. I'll probably in a couple of more just because I'm wondering if you guys watched one of my favorite things for the year is going to end up being the new Muppet Show. Did we talk about this? I don't think that we have anything. I think so. He's the new Muppet Show that our friend Seth Rogan did that Alex Timbers directed who I, who just directed the play that I was in in New York. My, my cousin Muppetier on. Whoa. Yes. Incredible. Yes. And it is in every way, shape and form the old 70s, 80s era Muppet Show of our childhood. It is a straight variety show Muppet Show. That is terrific. It's so good. And what I love about it is I think they didn't change anything and there's nothing dated about it. The Muppet Show was SNL. Like for all intents and purposes, it was SNL with a backstage component. Yes. And, and the writing is really funny. It's not a kid thing. And that's the thing. It wasn't a kid show. And there's the first time my kids actually liked the Muppets because it felt like it was not a kid show. Yes. Yeah. Sabrina Carpenter is the guest. There's one episode of it up and I'm genuinely, I'm hoping this is a regular thing that they do more of these because it's absolutely fantastic. I mean, it's built ready to go. Oh, yeah. There's a new season of Gendi Tartakovsky's show Primal. Oh, yeah. That is, I think a visual masterpiece that is absolutely incredible and goes absolutely crazy places. Shorzy season four is up and out. The whole season is incredible. Did we talk about this? This week we haven't talked about it. I don't think because it only has just come out. Well, but I heard that you were at the hockey game. I went to the hockey game. Yes. I went to the hockey game. Which was absolutely insane. So yeah, tell everybody about this because this is a show which I absolutely adore. I think is one of, you've heard Paul and I talk about it. You've heard Paul and I talk about Letter Kenny, which is the show that Shorzy grew out of. Shorzy is the hockey, the Canadian hockey sitcom with a heart of gold, so funny joke machine, but also a heartwarming story of like a grown men's hockey league, recreational hockey league. And they did a tour around promoting the new season that was just them playing a hockey game. And so I went and watched them play a hockey game against the LA Kings, like seniors or whatever they're called, just an exhibition game. And that was the show. It was just a hockey and afternoon hockey game. It was crazy. An absolute blast. Nobody talked. There was no performance element of it. It was just a hockey game. I was very fond of it. Very fond of it. And then people were asking me back and we saw Jason, we saw Jason there. I was like, and I was like, and that is like, and that to me, Salif, I'd everything I needed to know about you and your fandom of this. Oh my god. Because I was like, that I would go to a sporting event. Yes. Like, I am so uninterested in sports. But I was like, this is, I'm just so curious what it is they're doing. Because I was like, oh, are they going to have microphones on? So, and they'll be trash talking. Nope. None of that. It was just a hockey game. Okay. Well, then let me ask you this because this blew my mind as well. And I'm a little behind on a few things. But I did not realize that one of the writer directors of Letter Kenny created heated rivalry. Oh, yeah. Jacob Tierney. Also Glenn on Letter Kenny. Right. The priest, the pastor. He, that is Jacob Tierney who writes and directs Letter Kenny writes and directs Shorzy and then created heated rivalry. So heated rivalry and Shorzy are coming out of the same hockey which like, yeah, pressure cooker blew my fucking mind. I was like, wait a second. And it was, I guess I just wasn't looking at any because he's not on heated. I haven't seen heated rivalry. Like that's the other part of it. I haven't seen heated rivalry. So I was talking to a friend who went to the Olympics and he was like, oh, yeah, I was with Jacob Tierney. And I was like, oh, I love Letter Kenny. I love Shorzy. He's like, oh, I go, well, why was he there though? He did rivalry. I was like, what? Wait. I was like on a hike. I had to like stop. Oh, no. When I found that out too, I was like, oh, whoa. It was like, wow. And of course, and somebody like the story that I heard out talking to school because I think it's a fine enough story is there. Did you know that this is going to be successful? And he's like, oh, my gay hockey show. You know, well that and like especially the gay hockey show that barely had like an American profile. Right. It was like a Canadian show. It was, it's so funny. It's so great. It really, really wild. Now that I went to an exhibition of that. Yeah. Different. It was very different. No talking to the audience either. A lot of action. And it was beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful. It's, I mean, who would have guessed people are going hockey games now? It's a thing. I love it. I love that hockey's taken off. Let's do it. Let's, let's make hockey our new national sport. I'm in. I'm all on board. Well, then we have the issue with the men's hockey team. There's some issues there. Oh, yeah. That's right. Get rid of it. All right, Jason. It's a good talking to you. We'll talk to you soon. That is a wrap on this week's Just Chat. And if you want more recommendations, don't worry. Jason will be back next last looks. And we will run through a whole new slew of TV shows, movies, and books that we are currently loving. But enough about the last looks because right now, we need to get first looks, right? We're getting a brand new movie next week. And it is time to announce what that movie is. That's right. Next week, we are going from Kidnap moms to Jerry Butler to Kidnap moms. That's right. We'll be watching the 2009 action thriller Law Abiding Citizen Starring, Friend of the Pod, Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, and Viola Davis. Here's a short breakdown of the plot. After a plea bargain sets free one of the men who killed his family, a man unleashes vengeance on the killers and the legal team responsible for the deal, manipulating events from his jail cell to expose the system's flaws. This was a fun episode. And I got to say rotten tomatoes may have its head up its ass a little bit because they gave this film a 26% score on the tomato meter. And Robbie Collin from News of the World says if you want a crazy mix of saw and Shawshank, where a lot of people get killed in nasty ways and drug butler gets his bum out, then this is a decent bet. You know what, Robbie Collin? I agree with you. It is a decent bet. Let's take a listen to the trailer. This is a shelter case where I was. This makes a deal. They killed a little girl. Some justice is better than no justice at all. You need to kill those with it. Yeah, I don't understand. With Robbie's testimony, things will go to death row. What? The jury's going to believe me. The guilty's done. This is just how the justice system works. You kill my wife and John. What was supposed to be a painless execution has turned into something out of a horror film. The machine was corrupt. Who could have done this? I killed your friend, Ames, and the prison. But I wanted to keep you all for myself. You can stream law abiding citizen on AMC Plus and Filo, where you can rent it. Really, this is the way it works now. Everywhere, you could just rent it. I don't have to list it out anymore. We're not in the old days of like, where do I find it everywhere? All right, people, that's it for last looks. If you listen on Apple Podcast or Spotify, please rate and review us. 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