Comedian Eliot Glazer joins Jason and Paul to talk traumatic Long Island stories, sports fandom, his new book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay, and much more. But first, Paul responds to your Fall corrections & omissions on Danger D's illogical nickname, justice for vultures, the movie ripping off the plot of The Descent, and much more. Plus, Paul plays a bonus deleted scene from our Fall episode and at the end of the show we announce next week's new movie! Buy our "1 4 3" Fall shirt in dark colors or light colors
Comedian Eliot Glazer joins Jason and Paul to talk traumatic Long Island stories, sports fandom, his new book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay, and much more. But first, Paul responds to your Fall corrections & omissions on Danger D's illogical nickname, justice for vultures, the movie ripping off the plot of The Descent, and much more. Plus, Paul plays a bonus deleted scene from our Fall episode and at the end of the show we announce next week's new movie!
Buy our "1 4 3" Fall shirt in dark colors or light colors
[00:00:00] Paul Scheer: Australian checkout times, justice for vultures, and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad gay. That's right, all this and more on today's How Did This Get Made Last Looks. Hit the theme
[00:00:18] Music: [Last Looks Intro Song]
[00:00:19] Paul Scheer: Hello, people 2,000 feet above the Earth. It's me, your adventure vlogger, Paul Scheer, AKA Peril P, and welcome to How Did This Get Made Last Looks, where you, the listener, get to voice your issues on Fall, a movie that Discord user Ghost Bag thinks should have had the tagline, "Fall: a breakup's ladder scenario."
[00:00:39] You get it? Do you see what I'm doing there? Thank you, Ghost Bag, for that alt movie tagline, and a huge shout-out to Yakez for that opening theme song. That was awesome. I loved that. Remember, if you have a short theme song for any Last Looks segment, just click on Submit a Song. It's right there on our How Did This Get Made page at HDTGM.com, and you can also submit an alt movie tagline to us on our Discord at Discord.gg/HDTGM.
[00:01:09] Now, coming up in today's episode, we'll be hearing all your corrections and omissions on Fall. I'll even play a bonus deleted scene from that episode. Then Jason and I will chat with comedy writer Eliot Glazer. Eliot's worked on some of the funniest shows, like New Girl, Broad City, Billy on the Street, and we're gonna talk to him about fandom.
[00:01:28] We're gonna swap some Long Island stories, plus we're gonna get into his hilarious new book, The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay, which comes out August 11th. Plus, as always, at the end of the show, I will reveal the movie that we will be covering on next week's episode. Now, just a little bit of a heads-up.
[00:01:48] Our T-shirt from the Fall episode is on sale now. The shirt just says 143, which was, of course, Dan's secret code meaning I love you. I love this design. I love the simplicity of it. You can put it on a sticker, you can put it on a mug, you can put it on a laptop case or even a sweatshirt, whatever you want.
[00:02:06] And how do you do all that? Well, simple. You just go to HDTGM.com, and you click on, uh, Merch. That's it. It's easy. Uh, if you haven't checked out Elle on Amazon Prime, I urge you to check out June. She is fantastic in it. Plus, Dark Web. We're doing some crazy stuff over there. Um, just a little heads-up. In a couple of weeks, Mastodon will be joining us on the Dark Web.
[00:02:31] But catch up right now for free by going to YouTube.com/@enterthedarkweb. Uh, I've been loving these episodes that have been coming out. All right. That is all that I got, so let's get into what you got. Of course, we just examined the film Fall, and we had a lot of questions, and we might have even missed a few things, which is why I now turn the mic over to you all, because now it is time for Corrections and Omissions.
[00:03:06] Music: Corrections and omissions.
[00:03:13] Paul Scheer: Thank you, Chris Finke, for that theme song. Let's go to the Discord. Del Preston writes,
[00:03:19] "Do you think that the D in Danger D is for Dan? Her name is Shiloh Hunter, no Ds, and she admits later she became Danger D, the adventure vlogger, because of Dan's death. But she was also in love with him. I'm calling it the D is an homage to Dan."
[00:03:44] Del. My mind has been blown. Oh my... What? What? I don't even know how to, to take this in. That is truly wow. Wow, wow, wow, Del, you got me. You got me right out of the gate. That makes no sense at all, and I would have loved for that to be a reveal. Anyway, um, I must just pull myself together and get into some more corrections and omissions, this one from Noob Noob.
[00:04:19] "So I worked in broadcast TV news for a number of years, and this movie basically wouldn't happen. The tower itself in the movie would never get that rusted because it's made out of reinforced steel and concrete, and once a tower is decommissioned, they cut it down the three wires holding it to let it crash down safely in a controlled demolition. Why? To prevent everything that happens in this movie. They don't want people climbing on these old towers. But this is the level of detail about journalism and television I would expect from a BuzzFeed movie."
[00:04:57] Noob Noob, I love it. Yeah, I, I don't know how many non-working towers are out there, and again, you're bringing home some details, some simple, simple details that, um, I mean, I guess would just unpack the entire film. I mean, if th- there's no tower, there's no movie. But get ready because someone in our phone calls is gonna show you how it's really just a rip-off of another movie that we all love. Uh, Hornachek writes,
[00:05:27] "After they got the backpack, the reason Hunter refused to drink any water is because Hunter was already dead, so there was no need for her to drink anything. Another sign that Hunter was already dead was when Becky is climbing for the light bulb and drops the backpack. Hunter doesn't even try to catch it when it falls right past her because she can't catch it."
[00:05:48] Oh, Hornachek, now I feel like a fucking dummy. That was my Sixth Sense moment, right? Those are the, "Oh my God, she was dead the entire time," and they should have replayed them for people like me. I get it. I like it. All right. One thing that this movie did great is this. Hornachek, point for supporting the movie, and now I believe that you might be a part of the movie. Um, all right, let's go to the phones. This one is the one I was talking about. Uh, our friend Mark makes a very interesting observation about this film and another one.
[00:06:24] Listener: Hey, Paul. Two things. First, I- I was wondering if anyone else felt that the premise for Fall was a complete rip-off of The Descent. A movie about a group of thrill-seeking female friends, one of whom's husband dies in a car accident after a white water rafting trip. Then a year later, one of the friends organizes a cave diving trip to try to cheer her up, at which point they end up getting stranded and stuck in the caves.
[00:06:46] Much like Fall, spoiler alert, we find out that one of the main character's friends was having an affair with the husband, which is identified through a piece of jewelry that had LED engraved on it, which signified the husband's favorite phrase, love every day. So basically it felt like someone saw The Descent and said, "Hey, let's make the same movie, but instead of underground, they should be stuck in the air."
[00:07:04] My second thing, I, I can't believe how incomprehensibly stupid it is for Hunter to get a tattoo on her ankle of 143, which is just a dead giveaway to Becky that she was having an affair with her husband. She would have to hide that tattoo constantly to make sure Becky never saw it, to the point that it makes absolutely no sense that she would ever get it to begin with. Thanks.
[00:07:25] Paul Scheer: Yes. Yes. Yes. Wow. Uh, first of all, if you've not seen The Descent, it is great, um, and scary and s- oh, I love it. I love The Descent. But, um, you're right, this is exactly The Descent, and now I'm also realizing that that 143 tattoo was very... What is going on? Why? Why do we even need that clue when she's gonna reveal it anyway, unless our main character put it together?
[00:07:56] Oh, boy, this movie is getting more rickety than an old TV tower. Um, thank you, Mark. Great points all around. And just a reminder, watch The Descent. If you people have not checked out The Descent, you might be like, "Well, do I need to watch it 'cause I just saw Fall?" Yeah, it's good. Um, all right, John Steele coming up next.
[00:08:18] What do you got?
[00:08:19] Listener: Hi, Paul. Just a quick question about the end of the movie. Uh, when the dad tells her, like, "Let's go home," uh, shouldn't she be arrested? She climbed something on private property that had a very blatant no trespassing sign, which we saw a thousand times throughout the movie. So I just thought maybe, you know, the police would wanna talk to her. Thanks
[00:08:44] Paul Scheer: Oh, all right, John. You know what? At a certain point, I feel like when they rescue someone after they might've just, you know, had a traumatic moment, they're gonna let you go home, right? I, I, I think it's like Die Hard. At the end of Die Hard, they kinda let John McClane just walk on out of there. So, uh, I agree with you.
[00:09:02] Yes, she would've gotten a very firm talking to about trespassing, but, but the fact that her bone was sticking out of her leg and her friend was dead, I feel like they're like, "You know what? We can maybe hold back on the jaywalking ticket." Um, but I appreciate your vulture-like honing in on the details.
[00:09:20] And now our friend Steve from Oklahoma City has a point that I thought we made on the show, but I guess we didn't.
[00:09:28] Listener: This is Steve from Oklahoma City, and you guys were talking about how a lot of the dialogue sound like either a much older person or AI had written it, and I have some fuel to add to that fire involving a scene you guys didn't talk about.
[00:09:38] So there's a moment where Becky talks about watching WWE with her dad, and then talks about Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, and Mankind as her favorites. And the wrestling nerd in me is gonna come out, because if this movie is set in 2022, all these guys have been retired or making extremely rare appearances for almost 20 years by this point.
[00:09:53] Austin retired in 2003. The Rock left for Hollywood in, like, 2004, and Mankind left for another organization in 2006. So all these references are extremely dated. And Hunter says something to the effect of, "I can't believe you still watch that," which implies she's a fan right now, not when Becky was a child growing up, which at least would've been a little more accurate.
[00:10:12] To put it in perspective, it would be the equivalent of if she said how much she loves watching the NBA and then started talking about how her favorite players were Shaq and Kobe. The whole scene just felt like something ChatGPT spat out. Been a fan for 12-plus years now. Thank you guys for bringing us so much joy for so many years.
[00:10:26] Paul Scheer: Okay. Now, Steve, I'm not gonna go back and watch this movie. I, I, I agree with you, but I also disagree in saying that I believe she was saying, "I watched these wrestlers with my dad when I was growing up." Now granted, she's like 19, so to your point, they would've been retired. So yeah, you're right. And I guess she still watches it, but yeah, she should've been talking about like AEW, right?
[00:10:51] She should've been like, "Oh, CM Punk, he's the new Mankind. Oh man, the, the, the Bullet brothers, the, you know, Cody Rhodes." You know, that's what I would've liked, a little AEW, um, mention in there. Aaron from Vermont, what do you got?
[00:11:08] Listener: Hi, Paul. Calling to talk about the, um, extreme anti-vulture and actually anti-bird messaging in the movie Fall.
[00:11:15] Why do the people who made this movie hate birds so much? I think it's unspoken, but Becky blames the bird that flies out of that hole in the beginning for Dan's death. So at the outset, this appears to be a tale of revenge. Vultures are villainized throughout the movie, when in fact they would never attack a living human being.
[00:11:33] Vultures are actually pretty timid and will vomit or defecate on an attacker to escape. The vultures in the movie also appear to be white-headed African vultures, which as you can probably guess, uh, by the name, do not live in North America This aside, vultures are extremely beneficial in that they clean up putrid, rotting stuff that no one else wants to deal with.
[00:11:53] They are the garbage men of their ecosystems, and I mean that in a way that should be flattering for both vultures and for garbage men. Their bodies are uniquely adapted to neutralize all sorts of pathogens, and their stomach acid is extremely corrosive. So you were correct to point out that eating raw vulture would make you very, very ill.
[00:12:12] It's actually probably the riskiest thing that anyone does in this whole movie. Anyway, I thought it was my duty to speak out against this anti-bird propaganda. Love the show. #JusticeForVultures.
[00:12:23] Paul Scheer: Yes, justice for vultures, Aaron. I knew that fact, and I wasn't gonna bring it into this because there was so much to unpack, and I mean, why don't you just have a fucking hawk just go after him?
[00:12:37] A vulture, I get it, it eats the dead, but I also just kind of feel like a hawk would be scarier in a way. A vulture just seems like it's waiting for you to die. Hawk would be fucking attacking you. Um, I also feel like it's easier to beat up a vulture. And when she ate that stomach, uh, according to you, that acid would have maybe, like, burnt her or destroyed her stomach.
[00:12:59] So what about that? So yes, justice for vultures, and she should add a burned belly. Next one. What do we got? Natalie from Australia.
[00:13:08] Listener: Hi, Paul. This is Natalie calling from Australia, uh, about the most recent episode, Fall. Uh, well, actually, I'm calling with a comment about hotel checkout times because you guys all had a very passionate discussion about appropriate check-in, checkout times.
[00:13:26] Uh, and I just want to share, I guess, a fun little fact, uh, which is all the way down here in Australia, your standard checkout time, wherever you are, hotel, motel, Holiday Inn, is 10:00 AM. Always 10:00 AM, and your check-in is 3:00 at the earliest. Sometimes it's gonna be 4:00. Big town, small town, wherever you are.
[00:13:51] And so genuinely, I think when Australians go overseas on holidays, one of the real pleasures and joys is hotels allowing you to stay past 10:00 AM, um, because it feels like you're really doing something sort of cheeky and naughty. Uh, so as much as we would very much love one day to have you guys in Australia, I feel I've probably pushed you and especially June even further away from this.
[00:14:23] But, um, just a fun little fact from, uh, the land down under. Thanks very much, guys. Bye.
[00:14:28] Paul Scheer: Oh, Natalie, this has been an interesting point of contention here. Many people have written in like, "Hey man, let me tell you what it's really like." And what I found out was, yes, many of our checkout times and check-in times were changed post-COVID, but the way that you just described Australia, fuck that noise.
[00:14:49] 10:00 AM? 10:00 AM? I'm just gonna have to buy extra days. I'm gonna have to buy extra days so I can leave like a civilized human fucking being. All right, everybody, it is now time for a quick break, but when we come back, we will have more corrections and omissions coming your way, including some inside info from a crew member who worked on the movie, so stick around.
[00:15:14] Welcome back. Before we hear more of your thoughts on Fall, I must remind you all to tune into our classic episode re-release every Tuesday. This week's classic episode was the movie Gooby with guest Nathan Fielder. Next week we'll be revisiting an oldie but a goodie on the Vanilla Ice cinematic masterpiece, Cool as Ice.
[00:15:33] We should, uh, pair it up with the interview with Vanilla. Uh, pretty crazy interview 'cause I don't think he knew why he was there. Um, oh, look at this. Scott's telling me we are gonna include that little section there. Yeah. Vanilla Ice did not know what the premise of the show was. He just showed up, and he was a nice guy, but remembered nothing about the movie.
[00:15:51] But it's still a fun interview because I believe he talks extensively about being a Juggalo, and I think now that is over. Uh, so we can look back at the good times when Vanilla Ice was a Juggalo, and now look forward to him being the only person who didn't cancel out on the Trump 4th of July party, and then they canceled on him.
[00:16:11] Anyway, check out our replays, uh, every Tuesday. But I say, like, tune in. Subscribe. You're-- If you're subscribed, it will just pop up. You don't have to do anything, right? It's easy. And if you're following us, even better. It helps us. It really does. Anyway, back to the Discord. Sean McBee writes,
[00:16:27] "Think how much more quickly Becky could have gotten a text out if she had just strapped her phone to the drone and let it drift gently down to ground level instead of trying to fly it all the way to the motel with a dumb note."
[00:16:43] Oh, boy. Sean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, all that drama. I, and I still don't believe it would've gotten that far. I knew it went out of range, but I still think that was a real, a real long shot. All right, next up, Dove writes,
[00:16:58] "Director Scott Mann felt the need to add himself to the return address label on the box of Dan's ashes, where you can see the funeral home is on Scott Avenue in Mann, Arizona. Sadly, you can't see Becky's address since her last name and address are covered by the red cremated remains sticker on the box. No idea how it would've made it to her."
[00:17:20] Yeah. You know what? I, I, I don't blame this on, uh, Scott Mann. I, I say this is the production department trying to have some fun and, you know, impress the, uh, the good old director, and I think the director would've been like, "Oh, that's good. That's fun. I like that."
[00:17:33] Uh, but yeah, but the, they should've been more concerned about making the package actually be something that could've been delivered. Uh, that image is even funnier when you see it covering it up. It just says Beck. Um, not, not even the last name. FunFacts47 writes,
[00:17:51] "When it's revealed that Shiloh has been dead, we see a vulture feasting on a corpse. Later, Becky kills the same vulture and eats it for sustenance. Does this make Becky a cannibal since she's getting nutrients from her friend's remains?"
[00:18:05] Oh, boy. You know what? You, you, you, you. Y- y- I, I gotta sick Erin from Vermont on you, okay? FunFacts47, come on. Let's not shit on the vultures. SneakyZebra writes,
[00:18:21] "New here, but longtime listener. I worked on The Fall and the upcoming Fall 2."
[00:18:26] Wait, what? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[00:18:28] "And as the director knows, I did find one plot hole that didn't get brought up by anyone. So Hunter's phone is at the bottom of the tower in pieces after the unsuccessful shoe drop. Then they use Becky's phone to fly the drone. But why would Becky have the drone app on her phone when the drone belongs to Hunter?"
[00:18:52] You know, here's what I'm gonna say. Why is the D in her name? Is that the one? That's the one that I really feel like we need the answer on, Sneaky Zebra. Yeah, I'll buy that, but I mean, yes, that's a nitpicky note, but there are so many other grand details that were left on the table. Anyway, um, Sneaky Zebra continues to write,
[00:19:14] "I'm glad you enjoyed it. Fall was a pandemic-made movie with a low budget, and I think the team did an incredible job filming it, and the post-production was crazy. I'm reminded of this every day at work since the tower platform, stunt vulture, and backpack still sit in our office. Just to let you know, I sent the episode to Scott Mann."
[00:19:31] No, no, Sneaky Zebra, we're not supposed to do that. Um,
[00:19:34] "The writer and director of Fall and the writer and producer of Fall 2, and he said this was very funny. Loved it. Scott is really awesome, so I'd love to see him get even more success. Uh, cheers, Gary, the guy who sent the Jason X posters to you many, many years ago."
[00:19:51] Well, I appreciate the posters, but Sneaky Zebra Don't do that. Don't, don't send anything to the writers and directors of this stuff. We don't wanna do that. We like Scott Mann. Scott Mann did a great job. You know, um, I, I think that honestly, like we said, it is a fun movie and with all these inside, uh, pieces of info, you gave us nothing about Fall 2 that I wanna know more about.
[00:20:16] Anyway, wow. You know, write in about that, Sneaky Zebra. Don't go in here and bust our, our game by sending it to one of the people out there. That, that's... I don't know. I don't like it. I don't like it when people go, "I told them what you said." Not to say that's an impression of Sneaky Zebra, but uh, yeah, leave it.
[00:20:34] Uh, Mart, you know what? There's only one winner here today and, and I, and I apologize because it came up so early, but yeah, Del Preston, you are the winner. The Danger D connection is bigger than anything at all and uh, you know, Del, since we talked a lot about hotel checkout times, I wanted to make sure that you wake up on time whenever you have to leave a hotel.
[00:20:57] So your prize is I am gonna give you a personalized wake-up message. All you gotta do is save this audio and set it as your alarm clock ringtone. Pretty good, right? Here we go. Ready.
[00:21:12] Good morning, Del. This is your hotel concierge, Peril Paul, telling you it is time to wake up and get your little butt out of bed. You heard me, Del. Wake up now because there are some girls stuck on a tower and they're sending a drone right to your room. Don't hit that snooze button, okay? Don't be a fucking asshole. This hotel has to change over and you gotta save some girls' lives, so you think about that when you say just five more minutes. Oh, I know you're tired. I know you need to shower and eat your continental breakfast. It's just a waffle. It's not that great of a deal, okay? It's a fucking toaster waffle, man. So get packed, get your ass out of there. Don't try to go swimming 10 minutes before checkout time, okay? Save those girls and help a hotel. All right. Wake up, wake up, wake up.
[00:22:05] There it is. What a prize. And for all you losers out there jealous that you didn't get your own wake-up message, just delete the part where I say Dell. Um, but you can also try to win a brand-new prize next episode by leaving us a voicemail at Speakpipe.com/HDTGM or by writing us on our Discord.
[00:22:22] All right, coming up after one last break, Jason and I will just chat with Eliot Glazer. But first, here's a bonus deleted scene of our Fall episode where June, Jason, and I try to figure out more ways that Becky and Hunter could have gotten down from the tower. Take a listen.
[00:22:39] Jason Mantzoukas: When Hunter goes down to the satellite dish to retrieve the backpack, why doesn't she bring Becky's phone?
[00:22:46] June Diane Raphael: That's what I'm saying.
[00:22:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Hoping, hoping... Okay, so that is what you're saying.
[00:22:49] June Diane Raphael: Or, or bring Becky down, which still seems a lot safer than sending Hunter back up.
[00:22:54] Jason Mantzoukas: Like- Well, I think that they can't st- like, the, the satellite dish is not a safe place to s- to be. I think they wanna be on the platform. Uh, but I agree with you. Moving down has got to be the priority. What-
[00:23:08] June Diane Raphael: It has to be.
[00:23:09] Jason Mantzoukas: I, what I could-
[00:23:10] June Diane Raphael: It has to be.
[00:23:10] Jason Mantzoukas: I mean, like, I, I, I really was like, they don't try and fashion any kind of tension thing.
[00:23:17] June Diane Raphael: Nope.
[00:23:17] Jason Mantzoukas: Like, they could... I was like, wrap the rope around the post-
[00:23:21] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:23:21] Jason Mantzoukas: So that it is tense. Because they've got climbing harnesses. They've got, like-
[00:23:26] June Diane Raphael: Yes, they do.
[00:23:26] Jason Mantzoukas: ... they've got some gear so that you can... The way that, um, guys, um, sh- do the telephone pole.
[00:23:35] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Right, right, yeah. That, that kind of-
[00:23:36] Jason Mantzoukas: ... kind of what you're talking about earlier, June, where they lean-
[00:23:38] June Diane Raphael: Yes.
[00:23:38] Jason Mantzoukas: ... back into it. But you can create tension around the r- around the pole-
[00:23:43] June Diane Raphael: Right.
[00:23:43] Jason Mantzoukas: With a... They've got 50 feet of rope. One of them-
[00:23:46] Paul Scheer: We saw that on the lumberjack show, June.
[00:23:48] June Diane Raphael: That seems like a lot.
[00:23:48] Paul Scheer: We saw the guys do that.
[00:23:49] Jason Mantzoukas: I think one of them could have, using some sort of tension and release, tension and release, gotten themselves at least somewhere down the pole to get a signal ...
[00:24:01] Paul Scheer: Well, they keep on saying-
[00:24:02] Jason Mantzoukas: Just, just to get a signal.
[00:24:03] Paul Scheer: They keep on saying, like, "We're as high or higher than the Eiffel Tower," and I think that's meant to tell you that there's no signal. But I, but, and correct me if I'm wrong, that's where signal would be, right? 'Cause it's satellites in the sky. Like, it seems like by going higher-
[00:24:18] June Diane Raphael: It seems like they're, they're going higher. Well, I don't know. I mean, you don't get signals on planes without Wi-Fi up there.
[00:24:22] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, no, they, they're, they're-
[00:24:23] Paul Scheer: But that, but isn't it satellite?
[00:24:24] Jason Mantzoukas: I think they're trying to tell us that they are above- Satellite ... the towers ... or, or s- something like- Above cell towers, you know?
[00:24:32] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Okay, got it.
[00:24:32] Jason Mantzoukas: I, I, I mean, I agree. I, this, this mo- this is a problem that all modern movies have, is how do we kill the cellphones?
[00:24:39] Paul Scheer: Right. Yeah, I mean, and, and look, and, uh, again, I will, I will buy, I will buy... The, uh, according to online, which I'm not gonna go deeper in, it says about 2,000 feet above the ground you will not be able to get cellphone service.
[00:24:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay, and that's where they are.
[00:24:52] Paul Scheer: So that, that, they're fine, yeah.
[00:24:53] Jason Mantzoukas: They're like 2,600 feet above, so.
[00:24:55] Paul Scheer: Uh, but okay. So-
[00:24:58] All right, welcome back everybody. Without any further ado, it is now time for Jason and I to chat with Eliot Glazer. Eliot's hilarious essay collection called The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay comes out August 11th, and we're gonna talk about that and so much more.
[00:25:13] I love Eliot. So, uh, take a listen right now. Midwest Shakes, hit the theme.
[00:25:20] Music: [Just Chat Song],
[00:25:21] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh, Eliott, we are so excited to have you here. Uh, what, what a treat.
[00:25:27] Eliot Glazer: Thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to actually be here.
[00:25:31] Jason Mantzoukas: I mean, can you believe it? Right here on Zoom. I mean- ... heartbreaking, heartbreakingly, uh, Paul and I were just in New York. We could have all hung out together.
[00:25:39] Eliot Glazer: Oh, I'm, I'm in LA.
[00:25:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait, what?
[00:25:41] Eliot Glazer: Yeah, I'm in LA.
[00:25:42] Jason Mantzoukas: Hold on. Stop this recording. We're, we're all meeting in person.
[00:25:46] Eliot Glazer: I think everyone just assumes I'm in New York from my work and-
[00:25:50] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:25:50] Eliot Glazer: ... looking at my face.
[00:25:51] Jason Mantzoukas: I think I, I think I thought you were a, still a New York person. W- have you-
[00:25:54] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:25:55] Jason Mantzoukas: ... always been an LA person and I just didn't know, or is this a recent?
[00:25:57] Eliot Glazer: No, I've just, I've been here for, well, I've been here for, like, 10 years now.
[00:26:00] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah, what the fuck am I talking about?
[00:26:01] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:26:02] Paul Scheer: But here's what I'm gonna say.
[00:26:03] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:26:03] Paul Scheer: It's good to have people assume that you're in New York. Like, that's not a bad assumption.
[00:26:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Yep.
[00:26:08] Paul Scheer: Right? Like, you know, it, it kind of makes you cooler. I mean, I still have a 917, uh, phone number, and I feel like that-
[00:26:14] Eliot Glazer: Yeah, same.
[00:26:14] Paul Scheer: Establishes me in some... Yeah.
[00:26:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, the 917 boys? I love this.
[00:26:17] Paul Scheer: Oh, I love that.
[00:26:18] Eliot Glazer: Oh my god. I got that as soon as I could when I, 'cause you're from Long Island too, Paul.
[00:26:21] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:26:21] Eliot Glazer: I mean, I, I had wanted to get rid of my 516 as-
[00:26:24] Paul Scheer: I hate that 516 ...
[00:26:25] Eliot Glazer: As soon as I possibly could, yeah.
[00:26:26] Paul Scheer: Hate that 516. Can't, can't, ugh. Disgu- what, what part of Long Island are you from?
[00:26:30] Eliot Glazer: I'm from Smithtown, where- didn't you work at the Blockbuster there?
[00:26:34] Paul Scheer: I worked at the Blockbuster in Syosset. Uh-
[00:26:37] Eliot Glazer: Oh, okay
[00:26:37] Paul Scheer: ... but Smithtown was, uh, was a place that I hung out and had a lot of acclaim. The Smith Haven Mall was in Smithtown.
[00:26:43] Eliot Glazer: Of course. Yes, of course.
[00:26:44] Paul Scheer: Yes, of course. You know, a lot, like, there's a lot of time I spent in Smithtown. Uh, you know-
[00:26:47] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:26:47] Paul Scheer: ... we're, we're Suffolk boys. I mean, Suffolk boys-
[00:26:49] Eliot Glazer: That's true.
[00:26:50] Paul Scheer: ... is a, is a whole different thing.
[00:26:52] Jason Mantzoukas: And that was a gang you guys belonged to?
[00:26:54] Paul Scheer: Yeah, the Suffolk boys, come on.
[00:26:55] Jason Mantzoukas: The Suffolk boys.
[00:26:57] Paul Scheer: Uh, no-
[00:26:58] Eliot Glazer: Syosset is where my gr- is where my grandma lived, and so we would go to the Picket Lane, like, pool and tennis club, which was basically-
[00:27:05] Paul Scheer: Oh, wow.
[00:27:05] Eliot Glazer: Just, like, a country club for Jews.
[00:27:07] Paul Scheer: I, I-
[00:27:09] Eliot Glazer: We were not invited anywhere else.
[00:27:10] Paul Scheer: I mean, look, at least you got to a country club. My, my family, we did nothing like that. There was no, there was no even knowledge that there were camps going on in the summer for kids. Like-
[00:27:21] Eliot Glazer: Oh, really?
[00:27:21] Paul Scheer: ... That just stopped early on, and I was like, "You're at home all the time." And I was like, "Okay." And I actually loved it. I mean, I, I didn't like my camp experience early on, but then it was just, like, home with no options. None.
[00:27:34] Eliot Glazer: Right. Of course. Well, for me, I mean, I, you know, so many Jews go to sleepaway camp, but I was so neurotic, and remain, I would say remain so, but I was so neurotic that I was just like, "I'm not leavin' ho- leaving home? Are you kidding me?"
[00:27:47] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:27:47] Eliot Glazer: Like, that wasn't even on the table. Sleepaway? I'm gonna sleep somewhere else?
[00:27:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Ugh.
[00:27:51] Eliot Glazer: Oh, what's sleepaway?
[00:27:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Ugh. I had the exact opposite. I was the exact opposite. I was, my parents made me stay home and wouldn't allow me to go to camp. And so the only thing I dreamt of was getting to go to sl- having the independence of going to sleepaway camp. Ugh.
[00:28:06] Eliot Glazer: I, I was such a, I mean, honestly, I was such a nervous wreck as a kid, that there was one summer... A- actually, Paul, do you know what Usdan is?
[00:28:13] Paul Scheer: No.
[00:28:14] Eliot Glazer: Ustand is this, like, arts camp, like a summer camp on Long Island in, like, Wyandanch or something.
[00:28:20] Paul Scheer: Okay, sure.
[00:28:21] Eliot Glazer: That's super-duper artsy. It's all art. It's like creative arts for kids And I went there one summer. Um, I think I was, like, eight years old, and that summer I watched something on TV that was, like, a shitty tabloid show where they did a whole thing about these aliens that came down to Earth and, like, s- essentially crashed a bunch of friends, like, a c- on a, in a camping, a weekend camping in the woods. And, like, from what I remember, the big green aliens, like, molested these nude people from behind.
[00:28:54] Paul Scheer: Oh, what?
[00:28:54] Eliot Glazer: And it destroyed my brain. Oh my God. And so that whole summer I was in crippling fear of being abducted or at least, like, molested by aliens.
[00:29:02] Paul Scheer: Oh my.
[00:29:02] Eliot Glazer: So -
[00:29:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Ugh.
[00:29:04] Eliot Glazer: Usedom was a nightmare ...
[00:29:04] Jason Mantzoukas: I think the sad news for you is that our listeners are absolutely gonna figure out what that was that you watched.
[00:29:10] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:29:11] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:29:11] Jason Mantzoukas: And they're gonna start sending you stills from that image.
[00:29:13] Eliot Glazer: From that movie.
[00:29:14] Paul Scheer: We will- Yes. We will-
[00:29:15] Eliot Glazer: Oh my God.
[00:29:15] Paul Scheer: ... cure you of this by exposure therapy.
[00:29:18] Eliot Glazer: Yes. Yes.
[00:29:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Next year you're going to camp.
[00:29:21] Eliot Glazer: Going to Usedom.
[00:29:22] Paul Scheer: I went to LaSalle Military School camp. That was the one-
[00:29:27] Eliot Glazer: Oh my God.
[00:29:27] Paul Scheer: ... that I went to. And, uh, military school camp, uh, doesn't really feel like it works, in very incongruous terms, right?
[00:29:34] 'Cause it's like... And it was very organized and very, uh, you know, a lot of authority. But I remember that my parents did take me out when I said, "They, the men, uh, that are watching us, like, stand in the bathroom while we pee." Now, I don't think it was sexual- but I do feel like it was like, it was like they were making sure there was no tomfoolery going on.
[00:29:53] But there were... Just to have, like, to be peeing in front of your counselors, it, it struck me as weird. And I, I'm a big believer in this with my own kids where I'm like, "Just tell us what's on your mind." Like, w- don't-
[00:30:03] Eliot Glazer: Of course.
[00:30:03] Paul Scheer: ... Don't, i- like, and if it, it hits you as weird, we may not be able to label it. We'll get you out of there. Like, and that was it.
[00:30:09] Eliot Glazer: Wait, why, why, why were you at military camp? Were you a bad kid?
[00:30:11] Paul Scheer: No, I just, I mean, look, I, I believe that my parents were ill-equipped to make smarter decisions about, like, they didn't think like, "Oh, military school, that won't be fun." Like, you know-
[00:30:22] Eliot Glazer: Right.
[00:30:22] Paul Scheer: That like- you know, it's like, or like, "What is he into?" Like, I was just-
[00:30:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, man.
[00:30:25] Paul Scheer: ... forced into camps where it was like, "You're gonna be doing sports all the time." Which is-
[00:30:30] Eliot Glazer: Right.
[00:30:30] Paul Scheer: ... for me it was like, "No, I didn't wanna do that."
[00:30:33] Eliot Glazer: Absolutely.
[00:30:33] Jason Mantzoukas: You needed the arts camp.
[00:30:34] Paul Scheer: I did. I just needed-
[00:30:35] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:30:35] Paul Scheer: ... something. I look at-
[00:30:36] Eliot Glazer: Usedom.
[00:30:37] Paul Scheer: Yes. I should've gone there and gotten abducted. Um, no, but it's, it's a funny thing, 'cause now I look at camps for my kids and it's like Star Wars camp and, you know- Mm ... uh, you know, it's, it's every, it's everything, magic camp, all this stuff. I think back in Long Island it felt like kickball, baseball.
[00:30:51] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:30:52] Paul Scheer: That was it. You, like, you just, it was this, it was this sports separated by bug juice.
[00:30:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Was the military, was the, was the military school camp anything like, um, like, was it just normal camp activities, or were you doing, like, boot camp kind of stuff? Were you doing military stuff?
[00:31:06] Paul Scheer: Um- I remember that it was just a lot of, we had to march on lines. There were painted lines-
[00:31:12] Eliot Glazer: Oh my God.
[00:31:12] Jason Mantzoukas: No.
[00:31:12] Paul Scheer: ... Around the entire camp. Oh, yeah. And we had to, like, stay on a line.
[00:31:16] Jason Mantzoukas: You did, your, so your summer was spent marching?
[00:31:18] Paul Scheer: Marching on lines.
[00:31:20] Jason Mantzoukas: And- And, and doing, like, like, marching call-outs like, "I don't know what I've been told."
[00:31:24] Paul Scheer: Yeah, essentially.
[00:31:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Whoa.
[00:31:26] Paul Scheer: And, and I, and I believe that there were, like, some sports in there, but the sports were not even, like, the sports that I hated. These ones I hated even more. It was, like, fencing. Like, you know- it was like, uh, you know, it was like, like, things that were not fun as a kid. I, I, no offense to people out there who love fencing, but, you know, you don't wanna be putting on that-
[00:31:41] Jason Mantzoukas: By the way, good for you, Paul, for saying that, because those-
[00:31:45] Eliot Glazer: And it just sounds like the whole camp was a punishment.
[00:31:47] Paul Scheer: Yes, and I'm sure it might have been. Like, and that's the other thing. That's where my parents didn't probably go, like, a, a, like, a, a smidge deeper into it. Like-
[00:31:55] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:31:55] Paul Scheer: ... what is this? And they probably just heard, "Oh, yeah, LaSalle Military School Camp. That, that'll be fun."
[00:31:59] Eliot Glazer: Where, is that, is that in, like, Stony Brook or something? Am I making that up?
[00:32:01] Paul Scheer: Gosh, you know, I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna Google it as we are talking about it. By the way, let me just tell you, your book, which i- you know, uh, which I, I, I t- say to everybody, uh, pre-order that stuff now. That makes a very big difference, uh, in, in book sales and everything like that. It, it's coming out next week.
[00:32:17] You can maybe, uh, see Eliot out there. But I love your book. I am such a fan of this kind of writing, like, uh, the, it, I, I, I... Look We all love David Sedaris. I feel like you are not David Sedaris, but it's, and if you like David Sedaris, you will like this book. I, like, I think you have your own style- That's- that's beautiful and funny and dirtier-
[00:32:35] Eliot Glazer: Oh, thank you.
[00:32:36] Paul Scheer: And awesome. It just, I'm just saying, like, but this is like, if you like books like this, you're gonna love it. It's a great collection of essays.
[00:32:42] Eliot Glazer: Uh- Well, thank you. I, and I feel kind of like a dumber David Sedaris. I mean, my, my publishers were very kind initially when, like, when, um, when I signed on with them, and they're like, "It is, it's very David Sedaris adjacent."
[00:32:55] And I would never, I would never be compelled to compare myself to him. I like to think that, you know, I think the goal for me in this being my first, you know, book of comedic essays-
[00:33:06] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:33:06] Eliot Glazer: ... was essentially to sort of strike that balance between, like, l- normal, like, LOL, dumb conversational comedy, and then also attempting to be a little bit more literate, which is unique because as you guys I'm sure are aware, it's like comedy is different in different mediums.
[00:33:23] So it, on the paper, you know, like if I'm reading something that's really funny like a memoir, there are times when I actually laugh, but something can be hilarious on the paper with me just, you know, a, a small smirk-
[00:33:36] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:33:36] Eliot Glazer: ... which feels more literary than, like-
[00:33:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:33:39] Eliot Glazer: ... you know, hard comedy. So I'm tr- I really tried to balance the two.
[00:33:42] Paul Scheer: Yeah, one of the most fun things I learned in my, in the process of writing my book too is I would sometimes just to get my, like, motor going in the beginning, I would say a story out loud and record it, and then be like-
[00:33:54] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:33:54] Paul Scheer: ... and I found out very quickly, oh, that doesn't work because it's n- it's two very different types of things.
[00:34:01] Like, you are-
[00:34:01] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:34:01] Paul Scheer: ... and it, and it's about the turn of phrase. It's about the way that these words are. It, it, it gives you such a element of craft. Uh, and I feel like you have that in spades. It's great. By the way-
[00:34:10] Eliot Glazer: Thank you.
[00:34:11] Paul Scheer: ... Le Salle Military Camp in Oakdale, Oakdale, Long Island.
[00:34:13] Eliot Glazer: Oakdale. Still active?
[00:34:15] Paul Scheer: Um, it looks like it's closed down.
[00:34:17] Eliot Glazer: Okay.
[00:34:17] Paul Scheer: And here's what I will say. There's a lot of kids on Reddit, or a lot of, uh, people on Reddit going, "My mom threatened to send me there." Um-
[00:34:23] Eliot Glazer: Oh, my God.
[00:34:24] Paul Scheer: ... Oh, my God. Yeah, it was like, um, and then, like, yeah. And so there's a lot of, a lot of bad memories here.
[00:34:30] Jason Mantzoukas: Holy shit.
[00:34:30] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Uh-
[00:34:31] Eliot Glazer: I've never even heard of Oakdale.
[00:34:33] Paul Scheer: You know, that's the beauty of Long Island.
[00:34:35] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:34:35] Paul Scheer: I will meet so many people from Long Island. They're like, "Oh, yeah, I grew up here," and I'm like, "Okay. Sure." Yeah. Like, I, it was a train stop-
[00:34:41] Eliot Glazer: Where?
[00:34:41] Paul Scheer: ... But I don't, I don't know. I don't even, I'm not familiar with it. It makes me feel like I didn't explore any of Long Island. I knew my five stops about it.
[00:34:48] Eliot Glazer: Sure. I mean, I ex- I certainly explored, but, you know, I think ev- you know, youth is different for everybody where they grow up. I'm sure ev- you know, everybody has their own take on where they grew up. But I have always thought, especially in comparison to, like- quote-unquote, "normal people," like Long Island is one of the weirdest places I, I could possibly imagine because it has so many different personalities and different places.
[00:35:10] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:35:10] Eliot Glazer: But it's all sort of soaked in the stink of, like, toxic masculi- toxic masculinity-
[00:35:17] Paul Scheer: Oh, yeah.
[00:35:18] Eliot Glazer: ... and ostentatiousness.
[00:35:19] Paul Scheer: It is just, there is some moments where I'm like, "Whoa." I mean, uh, there was a, I don't know if you ever got this too, and not to make this all about my dumb stories, I'll just tell one more and then...
[00:35:28] Uh, where I got put in a headlock at an Italian restaurant one time-
[00:35:32] Eliot Glazer: Oh, of course.
[00:35:33] Paul Scheer: ... because I was told, like, "Oh, you think you're funny? You think you're funny?" And then- Oh ... all of a sudden, the fucking owner of the Italian restaurant had me in a headlock, and I'm, I don't even know how I, that happened. But that-
[00:35:43] Jason Mantzoukas: See, that feels very Boston to me. 'Cause I grew up in sub- I grew up in suburban Boston, which-
[00:35:48] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:35:49] Jason Mantzoukas: ... also feels Long Island adjacent in its attitudes.
[00:35:53] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:35:53] Jason Mantzoukas: Like, it's kind of-
[00:35:53] Eliot Glazer: Yes, and I would totally agree with that ...
[00:35:55] Jason Mantzoukas: a lot of meathead, crazy aggro. Like, like half of my high school, um, football team did steroids for no reason. They were not- They were not gifted athletically. They just thought that if they did steroids, they'd get into the NFL, you know? And it was ridiculous. So-
[00:36:14] Eliot Glazer: Yeah, yeah ...
[00:36:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Lots of crazy aggro energy.
[00:36:17] Eliot Glazer: Yeah, I mean, I could, this, the, like, the, I can sm- still smell, like, the body spray and the, the bad, you know, the hairspray and the c- Like, it, it's just, it was so weirdly ostent- It's a very tasteless, you know?
[00:36:28] Paul Scheer: Right. I wanna, 'cause this is one part of Long Island that I don't know that much about, and it's one, again, it, it's a closed window that I have in my experiences there, but there's a great chapter in your book about Fire Island. And that's a whole-
[00:36:41] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:36:41] Paul Scheer: ... other side of Long Island that I'm just very un-
[00:36:43] Eliot Glazer: Fire island- Yeah in particular, I didn't really take advantage of until I was an adult. And when I say- Right ... take advantage of, mean, I mean I was dragged into a timeshare-
[00:36:53] Paul Scheer: Right ...
[00:36:53] Eliot Glazer: In a, in a gay party fantasia that I found really, um, nerve-wracking, and that's what the chapter's all about. But even so, to be a closeted kid knowing that-
[00:37:03] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:37:03] Eliot Glazer: Or knowing now, like, whoa, I could have, like, taken a ferry to f- Right. You w- ... to Pines and Fire Island and, like, figured shit out. Like, like, there's so much that could have happened, and that is crazy that even though I was, like, wracked with fear as a, you know, closeted kid in this super macho place, 20, 25 minutes away was a ferry ride to, like, gay fantasia. That's wild.
[00:37:27] Paul Scheer: Well, it's so funny, and I, I feel dumb for saying this and, but I guess I can feel okay about it. Like, I didn't grow up in the '50s. I didn't grow up in the '40s.
[00:37:34] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:37:34] Paul Scheer: And when I tell you that I didn't understand that there were, like, gay people in the world- because of my, like, there, my, had an uncle, uh, or a c- a cousin who was gay, and it felt like and he is gay, and we like him, and that's-
[00:37:48] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:37:48] Paul Scheer: And that's where we are. But, like, it, I remember when I moved into New York, I was like, "W- oh, wait, hold on." Like, I just, it wasn't in, in the cards. And I think back on that so much 'cause I'm like, wow, I was sheltered in a way where I'm so close to the city. I'm so close to-
[00:38:03] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:38:03] Paul Scheer: ... so many different things, but it was not in my purview at all.
[00:38:07] Eliot Glazer: Exactly, yes. And that's what's s- that's another part of living there that's wild is you're in the shadow of a metropolis. So you have access-
[00:38:14] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:38:14] Eliot Glazer: To worldliness, and, and you have access to, like, like, a, you know, the, the, a cosmopolitan wonderland, but there is such a small-mindedness that happens. Even, even, and not even just that. Like, you're talking about, like, just kind of growing up n- not ignorant, just, like, unaware. But then you have the idea of people who are like, "The city, I don't do the city."
[00:38:34] Paul Scheer: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:38:34] Eliot Glazer: You know? Like, "I don't go anywhere." And it's like, wait, why? Then why do you live he- like it's so expensive. It makes no sense.
[00:38:41] Jason Mantzoukas: And that's, that's similar to where I grew up in Boston. It felt very similarly. Like, people, why would you go to Boston?
[00:38:47] Eliot Glazer: Which is crazy.
[00:38:48] Jason Mantzoukas: You know? And it's seven miles away. It's just right there.
[00:38:50] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:38:50] Jason Mantzoukas: We can see.
[00:38:50] Eliot Glazer: It's right there. You can do so many things there. You can meet different people there.
[00:38:54] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, what are you talking about? We got movies here. We got... What are you, what are you doing?
[00:38:58] Eliot Glazer: It's so, it's so w- also, uh, to your point about Boston, what's also interesting is that you're talking about how it feels so, you know, rough and, like, you know, scrappy. But at the same time, you're amidst, like, academia.
[00:39:12] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh my God.
[00:39:12] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:39:12] Eliot Glazer: How those two things can coins- coexist is wild.
[00:39:15] Jason Mantzoukas: In a city that is, like, full of the most students in the country, it is also full of meatheads who are like, "You think you're smarter than me?"
[00:39:24] Eliot Glazer: Exactly.
[00:39:24] Jason Mantzoukas: "Hey, you think you're fucking smarter than me?"
[00:39:27] Eliot Glazer: I can't believe those two things coexist, but they do.
[00:39:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, yeah. And it's just that, it just means that there are fights every night at every subway shop.
[00:39:34] Eliot Glazer: Correct. That's right.
[00:39:35] Paul Scheer: There, there is a piece of footage that I absolutely loved, um, from the Knicks win. So they won in San Antonio, and there's a video called, like, uh, w- like, uh, One Versus 500, and it's, like, one San Antonio fan just taking on every Knicks fan in a fight. And there was something about that wat- watching that piece of footage, which surprisingly the San Antonio guy did pretty well.
[00:40:00] Um, but the other piece of footage that got me was another San Antonio fan standing out on his, uh, balcony in Brooklyn, right? Like, out there and kinda t- like, yelling at the crowd down below who was celebrating the Knicks' victory. And then these motherfucking Knick fans cl- scaled the building to get up on the fire escape and fight this guy.
[00:40:21] Eliot Glazer: Whoa.
[00:40:21] Paul Scheer: Like, and I was like... And seeing them scale a building like Spider-Man to get into this fight over, like, the Knicks w- like, it just, there is that thing where, like, that was-
[00:40:32] Jason Mantzoukas: I walked past, I walked past a group of Knicks fans. It was like 3:00 in the morning, uh, on the streets of New York. Like, a, a group of, like, young guy, guys all, like, hyped up. And one of them was like, "Let's go find that guy who wanted to fight us."
[00:40:45] Paul Scheer: I love it.
[00:40:45] Jason Mantzoukas: And, and his buddy was like, "Oh, I think he took off, man." Like, like, like, "Oh, man, we can't fight anybody."
[00:40:51] Paul Scheer: It's, that's the thing. Like, I didn't understand that fighting was not normal. Like, I fought so much as a kid.
[00:40:56] Eliot Glazer: Exactly.
[00:40:56] Paul Scheer: It was like, "Yeah, this is what we do." There's always fights going on.
[00:40:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Every night ended in a... In, in Massachusetts, every night ended in a fight.
[00:41:02] Paul Scheer: Oh my God.
[00:41:03] Jason Mantzoukas: For sure. That would be the, uh, the end of the party.
[00:41:05] Eliot Glazer: But even the idea of, like, people being like, you know- flagpole, 3:00 PM or whatever. Like, setting a time to, to hit each other seems so strange to me. And, but even on, like, in terms of the, like, cl- scaling the walls of it all, I'm very happy to see the Knicks win, and I'm very happy to see the city be so caught up in it. I think that's wonderful. But at a certain point, I'm always just like, "What, what is it about sports that makes people lose their..."
[00:41:33] Like, to climb buildings, to... Like, in Philly it's even, I mean, in Philly it's like, oh-
[00:41:37] Paul Scheer: Eating horseshit.
[00:41:38] Eliot Glazer: ... forgetting
[00:41:38] Jason Mantzoukas: In Philly, yeah, they have to grease the-
[00:41:40] Eliot Glazer: And greasing poles.
[00:41:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:41:41] Eliot Glazer: But if you're not on the team, like, h- how can you be- I- I don't know why one gets so, like, it- I- It changes their brain chemistry.
[00:41:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, it's, it really gives, I feel like, and, and we talked a little bit before we started the show, Eliot, you're a, a tremendous presence on the Howard Stern Wrap Up show whenever you're on there.
[00:41:58] Paul Scheer: So funny.
[00:41:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Both Paul and I have done the show many times. But, um, it's interesting to w- listen to the, to the grown men on the Howard Stern Show talk about the Knicks-
[00:42:07] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:42:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Because it's one of the only instances I feel like where men allow themselves to feel emotions.
[00:42:14] Eliot Glazer: Yes. That's so true.
[00:42:15] Jason Mantzoukas: It, it's, it's this kind of thing which is like we can be emotional and let our emotions run wild when it's about our team.
[00:42:23] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:42:23] Jason Mantzoukas: Then it's okay, like, then it's okay to cry, or then it's okay to be on the rollercoaster of emotion or, or care about something like this, you know?
[00:42:32] Eliot Glazer: Yeah, even, even, like, um, Howard and, and John Heine, they were talking the other day, the whole group, they were talking about the, the curses and the, the, um-
[00:42:40] Jason Mantzoukas: The jinxes.
[00:42:41] Eliot Glazer: And all that ... the jinxes. Yeah. Uh, that one, that happens when, like, Howard's wife is on her phone or someone's not in the room- or they are in, they're, they're in the room. And, and these people who are so reas- especially Howard, who's so practical and so reasonable-minded and so science-based, was really allowing himself to have fantastical thoughts.
[00:42:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, yeah.
[00:43:00] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:43:00] Eliot Glazer: And that never happens. Yeah. But it's like, wow, basketball, a, a game really takes hold of these, of men's emotional states in a way that I can't, I, I don't know what else would.
[00:43:11] Jason Mantzoukas: It's, I think it's, it's the stories that they let themselves get caught up in. I think th- that sports are the stories that men are like, "I get invo- invested in this narrative, and it's full of ups and downs, and it gives me... I, I, I think I'm rooting for these characters." And it's a way that, that, that...
[00:43:29] These are some of the only narratives that I feel like men can get involved in that have emotional stakes for them.
[00:43:34] Eliot Glazer: Mm. Yeah.
[00:43:35] Jason Mantzoukas: 'Cause I don't think otherwise they participate in behavior that allows themselves to exercise their emotions that way.
[00:43:42] Paul Scheer: Um- Look, let me, let me tell you, I am somebody who I think has a foot in either side.
[00:43:46] I am somebody who I believe is in touch with my emotions. I am not perfect. I try to be, you know, I, I'm always trying to learn and be open. But I can get myself locked into some superstitions. Like I, I wore a pair of shoes one time to a Clippers game and I was like, "Okay." Uh, and they lost and I was like, "Can't wear those shoes again or until it gets a far, far enough away that I feel like the stank is off those shoes."
[00:44:13] Like, you know, there, there are certain things and I found myself. This season, if you follow basketball at all, the, the Clippers had a decidedly awful, one of the worst, um, openings of an NBA season in history, and then had w- one of the most tremendous comebacks. Like, they went from a, a unbelievable losing season to a winning season, and, and no one has ever done that, uh, in, in NBA history, what they did.
[00:44:39] That first half of the season, I was miserable. I was miser- I was... And I was like, "Why am I upset?" Like, what am I pissed off at? Is it my career? Is it my f- my wife? Is my... No, it was my basketball team. And, and I, and I had to then say to myself, "I am checking out. I am gonna take off the alerts on my phone. They're losing, and I'm not watching." I didn't go to any of the games 'cause I was like, like, I have a season's tickets, and I was like, "I'm not, uh, I can't. I can't support this because it's destroying me. Like, it's not fun for me."
[00:45:08] Eliot Glazer: Well, I have to say, as, as hard as that sounds when it's, when the season is not going well-
[00:45:14] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:45:14] Eliot Glazer: I am genuinely envious that you have this external thing, this, like, f- ongoing-
[00:45:22] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:45:22] Eliot Glazer: ... you know, sport with le- players and stats and-
[00:45:25] Paul Scheer: Oh, the draft is coming up. I'm excited.
[00:45:28] Eliot Glazer: ... Content and friends and text chains. That to me, I'm like, "God, I wish I were passionate about something like that, that I followed closely and had..."
[00:45:35] I mean, the only thing that gets... The only two things that get remotely close to that for me are very much opposite ends, ends of the spectrum. One is Stern, like- Yeah ... the Stern universe.
[00:45:46] Paul Scheer: Yep.
[00:45:46] Eliot Glazer: And the other is RuPaul's Drag Race.
[00:45:48] Paul Scheer: Oh, my gosh.
[00:45:49] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:45:49] Eliot Glazer: Both things ca- like, sort of traffic in that, um-
[00:45:52] Paul Scheer: Have you, by the way, seen Stop That Train?
[00:45:54] Eliot Glazer: Not yet. You're in it.
[00:45:55] Paul Scheer: Oh, my gosh. I, I'm in it for about 25 seconds, and-
[00:45:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.
[00:45:59] Paul Scheer: ... thrilled to be in it. Uh- but it is, it is, uh, it is great. But no, but, but I, I think it's all the same thing, right? It is. It's like these are, like, we're on the side... Like, Howard Stern, and I know Jason and I have been there together, like, there's something magical about it.
[00:46:12] It's like, where I don't wanna mess it up, but I, I wanna just be around it. I also don't wanna like-
[00:46:18] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:46:18] Paul Scheer: ... Y- for lack of a better term, I, like, when I go, when I've gotten a few chances of, uh, being around Clippers players and talking to them, I don't wanna m- I don't want to fan out. I, but I also wanna be there. Like, it, it's a very hard thing to kind of find that emotional place, but I'm so ex- I'm like a kid. Like, I'm, I'm... And we did the league, and I, I, I like-
[00:46:37] Eliot Glazer: And that's the j- that's the joy of it, though, I imagine.
[00:46:38] Paul Scheer: Yes. Yes. That's what it is 'cause, like, you can... And that's why I'll say, like, going to the Stop That Train premiere, um, there's so many people there that just were fans of Drag, Drag Race. And my-
[00:46:50] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:46:50] Paul Scheer: ... And my good friend, uh, a dad out here that I am friends with, like, that's his show. He's been making Drag Race forever. He's the best. He... But it's sort of like that fandom is It i- like, it's, it is sports. You're rooting for your people, and then they're, you know, and it's like, and you wanna see them. It's like I, I, I think we all have it, you know? And it's like, but I think I always go back to Howard Stern as being like the ultimate parasocial relationship because-
[00:47:12] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:47:12] Paul Scheer: ... you have opinions about these people. It's like ev- I think reality TV is on the format of what we-
[00:47:17] Jason Mantzoukas: I was just, uh, exactly gonna say, like, I don't watch any reality TV. I don't watch any, any of the Housewives or anything like that. But Stern is unequivocally a reality show-
[00:47:29] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:47:29] Jason Mantzoukas: ... that I've been tuned into for 25 years now.
[00:47:32] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:47:32] Jason Mantzoukas: That I'm so invested in. And I'm serious when I say I believe I've asked w- for one selfie with someone in my entire life. In my entire life, I've asked for one selfie, and that person was Marianne from Brooklyn.
[00:47:46] Eliot Glazer: Oh, my god.
[00:47:47] Paul Scheer: Oh, my God.
[00:47:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Who Paul and I saw, Eliot, you will be jealous of this. Paul and I saw because we went to the Howard Birthday Bash.
[00:47:54] Eliot Glazer: Oh, wow.
[00:47:54] Paul Scheer: Was one of the best nights. One of the best nights.
[00:47:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Which was incredible.
[00:47:56] Eliot Glazer: Oh, my God.
[00:47:57] Jason Mantzoukas: And she walked by, and I heard her voice only. And I was like, "That's Marianne from Brooklyn," and I ran up to get a selfie, and I could not be more excited.
[00:48:05] Eliot Glazer: Well, it's just so interesting 'cause these people are all, like, peripheral characters on an, you know, in a mostly audio format, you know? But you're so invested in them. You know so much about them. I mean, that's just so unique and so, I don't know, it's just so rare.
[00:48:21] Paul Scheer: It's fun. I think- Yeah ... like, like I think we should all be fans.
[00:48:24] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:48:25] Paul Scheer: I think that we are in this business, we should have things that we just absolutely love, and, and love with no other reason than just like, "I'm into this. I want to embrace this." I think it's good for... I think it's as good-
[00:48:36] Jason Mantzoukas: I think so much of this show is about promoting our own individual fandoms.
[00:48:40] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:48:41] Jason Mantzoukas: You know? Fandoms for bad movies, fandoms for stuff that we talk about on here that we-
[00:48:45] Paul Scheer: Actors, whatever it is.
[00:48:46] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:48:46] Paul Scheer: It, it, it, I think it's... And I think that that's the thing that is maybe lost and, and is viewed as being childish, but when it's put in sports with men, or men that are not in touch with other things where they can't fan out, where they can't be like, "I love Widows Bay," like, you know, like, you know, like they're not, like they may like it, but they're not gonna love it, but they can love a sport.
[00:49:04] Jason Mantzoukas: I love that meatheads love Widows Bay as well. Because boy, it's terrific.
[00:49:08] Paul Scheer: But you know what I'm saying? It's like I think that sports allows them because it's real. Yeah. Right? It's not fake. The writing, it's not fake.
[00:49:14] Eliot Glazer: Right.
[00:49:14] Paul Scheer: But there is that Howard, they, they're macho, not macho, but like more alpha guys like Howard. "Hey, Howard, I gotta tell you," you know, it's like, but-
[00:49:22] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, there's this funny thing that happens on Stern almost every year around the time of Comic-Con where they will pull up pictures of either out of shape people dressed as Captain America-
[00:49:35] Paul Scheer: Oh, yeah.
[00:49:35] Jason Mantzoukas: ... Or out of shape people dre- You know, they basically are making fun of people who are cosplaying but don't have the superhero bodies. And I'm like, what's the difference between that and you wearing a jersey of somebody that you-
[00:49:47] Paul Scheer: 100%
[00:49:47] Jason Mantzoukas: ... you, you, you don't play basketball or you don't, you're not an elite athlete, but you still dress up in their uniforms. What's the difference?
[00:49:54] Paul Scheer: I know. It's, it's, it's so, I mean... by the way, that's my dumbest bit that I do with my kids, is like whenever I see anybody in a jersey, I'm like, "Guys, guys, Jalen Brunson's over there." That's- I do it all the time. It's my dumbest bit.
[00:50:06] Jason Mantzoukas: While we're promoting fandom, Eliot, your book of course, but is, do, is there anything you are very passionate about right now that you would like to pr- that you would like to just-
[00:50:14] Paul Scheer: Like beyond the Drag Race or like shows or a movie or anything like that.
[00:50:18] Eliot Glazer: Um, well, I mean, I mean, it, I have the book coming out in, uh, soon, in August.
[00:50:23] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:50:23] Eliot Glazer: The, The, The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay. Um, and then I, but then I'm also- I mean, I'm interested in talking about sports because I have a, an, a video podcast coming out in the-
[00:50:34] Paul Scheer: With Charles barkley?
[00:50:35] Eliot Glazer: Fall. Yeah, with Charles Barkley.
[00:50:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, I didn't know that.
[00:50:37] Paul Scheer: So this is amazing.
[00:50:38] Jason Mantzoukas: That's amazing.
[00:50:39] Paul Scheer: So you and Charles Barkley, like, y- uh, you are going to be... You basically are coming in from the point of view of, like, I don't know much about sports, and you're gonna be able to sit down with Charles, and I forget the third person who's involved in it.
[00:50:49] Eliot Glazer: Oh. Well, so it's, it's, it's just me. Charles is executive producing it-
[00:50:53] Paul Scheer: Okay, got it.
[00:50:53] Eliot Glazer: ... but I'll be, but I'll be interviewing different, like, world star athletes in each episode.
[00:50:57] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh.
[00:50:58] Eliot Glazer: And so Charles will be in our pilot-
[00:51:00] Paul Scheer: Got it.
[00:51:00] Eliot Glazer: ... Um, with me interviewing him about sports. And it's not that I know little about sports. I know nothing about sports.
[00:51:05] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:51:06] Eliot Glazer: Like-
[00:51:06] Jason Mantzoukas: So good. What a great idea.
[00:51:07] Eliot Glazer: ... so it, it's a little bit turn- it's me turned up, like, uh, just turned up a little bit in how not just illiterate I am when it comes to sports, but how it's almost like I don't under- like, almost like I'm an alien who just landed on Earth and is just, doesn't even understand, like, balls and gravity and physics and-
[00:51:22] Paul Scheer: I love this.
[00:51:23] Eliot Glazer: Uh, like, all, like, just taking it to that approach where it's like I just, it's not just not being a sports fan. It's just not even understanding why. Like, what's the deal with any of this?
[00:51:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Eliott, if you ever need a co-host for an episode-
[00:51:37] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:51:37] Jason Mantzoukas: I am similarly sports ignorant and sports agnostic. I don't-
[00:51:42] Eliot Glazer: Oh my god.
[00:51:43] Jason Mantzoukas: I'm, I have no frame of reference. I'm not engaged in, in, ever.
[00:51:48] Eliot Glazer: Well, yeah, I mean, that's, that's, that's the- but that's sort of what I found has already-
[00:51:50] Jason Mantzoukas: But your natural curiosity for stories-
[00:51:52] Eliot Glazer: Exactly.
[00:51:53] Jason Mantzoukas: ... and for stories and people is essential.
[00:51:55] Eliot Glazer: Yes. It's not coming from a shady place. It's coming from a place of curiosity and baffling ignorance.
[00:52:01] Paul Scheer: Well, this is what I'll tell you, that the coolest thing about sports in many respects is exactly what we're all talking about, which is the story, right?
[00:52:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:52:09] Paul Scheer: The story of these players. Like, Jalen Brunson, you know, and his dad is a, is a story that was part of this, you know, of, of this championship.
[00:52:17] And there's all these, like, little things. Like, there's a great, um, one of the great guys on the Spurs, Champagnie, he was cut from the 76ers to make room for Mac McClung. Mac McClung is just an amazing dunker, like, and he, but he's not a great basketball player. But they had to pick him up so they could put him in the All-Star Game for the, the dunk weekend. So they got rid of this guy Champagnie. He's awesome, but they just did it to have, like, representation in the All-Star game.
[00:52:43] Jason Mantzoukas: Cham- Champagnie sounds like, uh, one of the new guys on Jackass.
[00:52:47] Paul Scheer: I mean, I would love to see Champagnie out there.
[00:52:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, man. Uh. It's Poopies. It's Champagnie. And they're in with Preston and Wee Man.
[00:52:54] Paul Scheer: I like Cha- Champagnie should be in there. Um, Eliott, I, we're gonna listen to your podcast. We're gonna more importantly buy your book. We're gonna pre-order your book even though it comes out next week. Just order it now. Get it done now because honestly, uh, just to say, I just wanna make sure that people know this if you, if you like Eliott.
[00:53:10] Uh, where you're gonna help him the most is by getting this book before the book comes out because, uh, that helps to all the, the, the, it makes other bookstores order them, it made the New York Times bestseller list, all those sort of things. So this is where you can do it, and you can order it in many different spots.
[00:53:25] You don't have to feel like, "Well, I'm not gonna go through Amazon." You can. But you can also-
[00:53:29] Eliot Glazer: You can if you want.
[00:53:29] Paul Scheer: ... there's a, there's g- there's many places that you can find a book. You can support independent bookstores by pre-ordering. It actually does help, too. Uh, but anyway, uh, so I just wanna make sure everyone hears.
[00:53:38] Jason Mantzoukas: And you're gonna be, you're gonna be doing some live book promotion in New York and LA and-
[00:53:43] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:53:43] Jason Mantzoukas: ... maybe some other spots.
[00:53:44] Eliot Glazer: Yeah, hopefully some other smaller cities, too.
[00:53:46] Jason Mantzoukas: Is the book available in an audiobook? Do you read the audiobook?
[00:53:50] Eliot Glazer: It will be, yes.
[00:53:50] Jason Mantzoukas: Do you do the audiobook?
[00:53:50] Paul Scheer: And that's gonna be-
[00:53:50] Jason Mantzoukas: Because I feel like your, I feel like you reading this book-
[00:53:54] Paul Scheer: Yes, it's gonna be great.
[00:53:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Is gonna be, uh, like, like I listened to Paul's book as the audiobook because I wanna hear that.
[00:54:00] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:54:01] Jason Mantzoukas: Like, I wanna hear you tell me these stories in my ears.
[00:54:04] Paul Scheer: And, and I think that, yeah.
[00:54:04] Eliot Glazer: Well, honestly, it was so cath- I don't, and I don't-
[00:54:06] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:54:06] Eliot Glazer: ... I don't know about you, Paul, but it was so cathartic to actually do the audiobook because, you know, in trying to s- like, in trying to hit the right note between, like, literary and, like, stand-up-ish-
[00:54:18] Paul Scheer: Mm-hmm.
[00:54:18] Eliot Glazer: Observational performative comedy, getting to do it on the audiobook and getting to bring those words to life and put it in, like, actual voice was so special.
[00:54:26] Paul Scheer: You know what was so interesting was I listened to Kevin Hart's, one of Kevin Hart's books on tape, and he really, I mean, and this, uh, there could be multiple reasons for this, but he basically was like, "I'm just gonna do it my way."
[00:54:37] And, uh, and kinda, and it was fun. It's like, yeah, you can make it your own and it's your own voice and the inflections change. It's, I, I love it. I, uh, I, I recommend that everybody, uh, listen to the audiobook. B- buy any, buy any version of it you can.
[00:54:49] Eliot Glazer: Yes.
[00:54:50] Paul Scheer: And if you can't buy it, then make sure you reserve it at the library. Uh, it is The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay, Eliot Glazer. You can check out, uh, Eliot on his podcast. You can also check him out on social media. This has been great. Uh, come back again. We should have you on the episode-
[00:55:04] Eliot Glazer: Oh, I'd love to.
[00:55:04] Paul Scheer: ... one time as well and, uh-
[00:55:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, please.
[00:55:06] Paul Scheer: ... yeah.
[00:55:06] Eliot Glazer: Oh, I would love it.
[00:55:07] Paul Scheer: Congrats.
[00:55:07] Eliot Glazer: Yeah.
[00:55:07] Paul Scheer: Congrats on this. Uh, the book comes out next week.
[00:55:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Think of, think of any, uh, favorite bad movies you might have-
[00:55:12] Eliot Glazer: Oh, I have plenty.
[00:55:12] Jason Mantzoukas: ... uh, that you might wanna discuss with us.
[00:55:14] Eliot Glazer: Okay, just two questions very quickly. Do you remember ever doing Theodore Rex or-
[00:55:19] Paul Scheer: Yes ...
[00:55:19] Eliot Glazer: The Fanatic?
[00:55:21] Paul Scheer: Oh, The Fanatic would be great.
[00:55:22] Eliot Glazer: The Fanatic.
[00:55:23] Paul Scheer: Let's mark that up.
[00:55:23] Jason Mantzoukas: Done. You got it.
[00:55:24] Paul Scheer: Scott will mark it in.
[00:55:25] Eliot Glazer: That is one that I, my friend and I watched in amazement. Like he and I wa- love to watch these movies and, and they're, a lot of them have showed up on your on, obviously on, on, um, How Was, How Did This Get Made? But Theodore Rex, we talk, we still talk about The Fanatic, and, um, we watched Reagan, which was wild.
[00:55:42] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:55:43] Eliot Glazer: Huh.
[00:55:44] Paul Scheer: Wait, is that- I've heard Reagan is, is-
[00:55:45] Jason Mantzoukas: ... that Dennis Quaid-
[00:55:45] Paul Scheer: Right, yeah ...
[00:55:46] Jason Mantzoukas: As Reagan? Is that-
[00:55:47] Eliot Glazer: Dennis Quaid as Reagan.
[00:55:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:55:48] Eliot Glazer: It is a wild movie.
[00:55:50] Jason Mantzoukas: Ooh.
[00:55:50] Paul Scheer: I, I mean, I will tell you that-
[00:55:52] Jason Mantzoukas: That would be fun, too.
[00:55:52] Paul Scheer: ... I was in the place where they shot Reagan in Oklahoma City- Oh ... uh, after they had wrapped, and the stories that I had heard about the shooting of that thing- Ugh
[00:56:02] was mind-blowing. Like in a way that I was like-
[00:56:05] Eliot Glazer: Yes, I'd love to hear those.
[00:56:05] Paul Scheer: ... "Whoa." And for a long time I was like, "When is that ever gonna come out?" And then it did come out, but there, they, it seemed, somebody said to me, "It can never be released." Uh, and -
[00:56:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Right, right.
[00:56:16] Paul Scheer: A- and, and they did, and then some of the reviews are like, "This shouldn't have been released."
[00:56:21] Eliot Glazer: Exactly.
[00:56:21] Paul Scheer: So it, yeah, so it, it does hit some nice moments there.
[00:56:23] Eliot Glazer: It's nuts, yeah.
[00:56:24] Paul Scheer: Uh, all right. Great. Well, great. Eliott, thank you so much.
[00:56:26] Eliot Glazer: Thank you.
[00:56:26] Paul Scheer: Oh, Eliott, the best. Thank you for stopping by, and if you wanna order Eliott's book, just check out the show notes at the link. By the way, I believe his book is 40% off on Audible right now, as is mine.
[00:56:40] Well, mine is until the 10th, so, uh, get your books, and Eliott reading it is gonna be a treat. Um, anyway, now is the moment that you've all been waiting for so patiently. It is time to announce our next film. Next week, the D in Danger D doesn't stand for Dan, it stands for Diesel. That's right, we will be closing out our extreme summer with 2002's xXx starring How Did This Get Made All-star Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, and Samuel L. Jackson. IMDb breaks down the plot like this,
[00:57:15] "The US government recruits extreme sports athlete Xander Cage to infiltrate a Russian criminal ring which is plotting the destruction of the world."
[00:57:24] Rotten Tomatoes rates this film a 48%, and critic Desson Thomson from The Washington Post wrote, "xXx is essentially a dumb guy's day in heaven."
[00:57:35] And you know what? I'm a dumb guy, and I loved it, and it's terrible, and you'll enjoy it. Listen to the trailer.
[00:57:49] Trailer Audio: Revolution Studios presents the new breed of secret agent.
[00:57:51] I want all of that in here.
[00:57:54] Director of The Fast and the Furious.
[00:57:56] This summer.
[00:57:58] Dangerous, uncivilized.
[00:58:00] I love his attitude.
[00:58:03] Vin Diesel is xXx.
[00:58:09] I'm untouchable.
[00:58:12] Paul Scheer: Now, in case you're nervous about adult websites appearing when googling where to watch a xXx movie, I'll let you know that xXx is available to stream for free on Canopy, Hoopla, and Tubi. That is it for Last Looks, everybody. If you listen to us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please rate and review us.
[00:58:30] Also, make sure you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on. It helps the show, and we appreciate it. Visit us on social media @HDTGM, and a big thank you to our producers Scott Sonne and Molly Reynolds, our engineer Casey Holford, and our social media manager Zoe Applebaum, and our intern Emily Gelbard.
[00:58:47] And of course, we will forever be thankful to the one and only Avaryl Halley. We'll see you next week for xXx. Bye for now.