Jason & Paul gab about all the TV, documentaries, books, and music they're currently loving (scroll down for a list of all their recs!). But first, Paul answers all your Corrections & Omissions on Merry Kissmas before we announce next week's new movie! PAUL & JASON'S TV RECS: SNL's Calculator Christmas Gift Death By Lightning Fisk Landman The Lowdown PAUL & JASON'S DOCUMENTARY RECS: Corey Feldman vs the World It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between The Hobby: Tales From The Tabletop The Land of Giants PAUL & JASON'S AUDIOBOOK RECS: I Blame Dennis Hopper by Illeana Douglas The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir by William Friedkin Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV by Warren Littlefield In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch JASON'S COMIC BOOK RECS: Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3: The Secret of the Saucer Matt Fraction's Batman #1 Bowling with Corpses by Mike Mignola Johnny Ryan JASON'S MUSIC RECS: Snocaps by Snocaps Resonance by Bill Fox Touch by Tortoise Tragic Magic by Marry Lattimore & Julianna Barwick PAUL & JASON'S BAG RECS: Tom Binh's Marathon Messenger Bag
Jason & Paul gab about all the TV, documentaries, books, and music they're currently loving (scroll down for a list of all their recs!). But first, Paul answers all your Corrections & Omissions on Merry Kissmas before we announce next week's new movie!
PAUL & JASON'S TV RECS:
SNL's Calculator Christmas Gift
PAUL & JASON'S DOCUMENTARY RECS:
Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between
The Hobby: Tales From The Tabletop
PAUL & JASON'S AUDIOBOOK RECS:
I Blame Dennis Hopper by Illeana Douglas
The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir by William Friedkin
Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV by Warren Littlefield
In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch
JASON'S COMIC BOOK RECS:
Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3: The Secret of the Saucer
Bowling with Corpses by Mike Mignola
JASON'S MUSIC RECS:
Tragic Magic by Marry Lattimore & Julianna Barwick
PAUL & JASON'S BAG RECS:
Tom Binh's Marathon Messenger Bag
[00:00:00] Paul Scheer: Someone's watched the entire elevator trilogy, Kay Jeweler speaks, and I share a story about Billy Bob that's right. All this and more on this week's episode of How Did This Get Made Last looks. Hit the theme.
[00:00:21] Music: [Last Looks Intro Song]
[00:00:21] Paul Scheer: Ho, ho, ho. And a Merry Kissmas and a happy blow year to you all. Yes. Hey everybody. It's me, Paul Scheer and welcome to How Did This Get Made Last Looks where you, the listener, get to voice your issues on Merry Kissmas. A movie the Discord user, Corgi Herder thinks should have had the tagline
[00:00:43] "In an elevator no one can hear you decline an unwanted sexual advance."
[00:00:49] Okay. I like it. I like it. Corgi. A little lengthy but not bad. Uh, thank you for that alt movie tagline and a big shout out to our pal, Rob from Long Island for that opening theme song, which was a cover of a previous theme done by the great Devin Helmer. So. We're doing stuff here, people, we really are, we're referencing ourselves and we get it.
[00:01:10] Uh, remember, if you have an alt movie tagline, submit it to us on our discord at Discord.gg/HDTGM And if you have a Last Looks theme song, go to HDTGM.com and click submit a song on our homepage. Remember, just keep 'em short. 15 to 20 seconds is best. Now coming up on today's episode, we'll be hearing all of your corrections and omissions on Merry Kissmas, and I will share an exclusive, deleted scene from that episode.
[00:01:34] That's right. And if you want to watch the full episode in all of its video glory, it is still available for you to watch. Just go to HDTGM.com and you just click on the link and you can watch that. You could also watch the Deep Dive Holiday Special. It's, it's a great bargain and that show was incredibly, uh, visual, so I think you will enjoy it.
[00:01:51] Uh, and just a little bit. Jason and I will talk about some of our favorite TV shows, documentaries, and albums. Plus I will reveal my number one artist on Spotify Wrapped for the first and last time. And lastly, as always, I'll reveal the movie for next week's episode. But if you watched last week's episode, I think you know what it is.
[00:02:11] Uh, people we're so excited that you are with us. So let's get into it. We're gonna break down everything we might have missed from Merry Kissmas. We had questions. We might have even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set us straight. Fact check us, if you will. It's now time for corrections and omissions.
[00:02:32] Music: [Corrections and Omissions Song]
[00:02:33] Paul Scheer: Thank you Chris Purcell for that theme song. Okay, let's go to the Discord. Fun Facts 47 writes,
[00:02:39] "At the end when Kayla arrives at the lobby of frustrated residents waiting to take the elevator. One of them says, the elevator stuck for good this time, and it hasn't moved in 30 minutes. Now, all of these people seem mobile enough to just take the stairs, but instead they decide that they'd rather stand outside just to use the elevator. I mean, any scene person wouldn't wait that long for an elevator if it regularly breaks down. I think they're just all waiting for the elevator since there's mistletoe in it, and they just want to have their own Kissmas miracle?"
[00:03:14] Fun Facts, I I like that. Yeah. That was an odd choice. 'Cause it's also like a residential apartment building.
[00:03:20] It didn't seem like everyone would be in the lobby in that moment. Uh, it didn't look like a giant building. But again, you're right. People are lazy and this movie isn't afraid to show it. Uh, Lee Black writes,
[00:03:33] "During the first scene that we see, Dustin, his cousin, is using a rolling pin on a pile of flour, not dough. Flour."
[00:03:43] Now you're right about that. I, I am looking at this image that is pulled, uh, it's on the discord and it is, it is shocking. Yeah. That is just, there's no nothing underneath it. It is just a rolling pin on flour and that ain't gonna turn into dough. Uh, wow. I guess they didn't have it that day and they just, they needed to close up with something.
[00:04:05] Um, Dove writes,
[00:04:07] "We all know this is shot in Riverside, not Palo Alto, even the deep side part, Joshua, is wearing a T-shirt that says Department of Animal Services, Riverside County, California. But it was also shot in the summer, as people can probably guess from all the background folks wearing t-shirts. The animal shelter is decorated with red, white, and blue stars and flags in the door of Mrs. Joiner's gift shop has posters on the door promoting 4th of July fireworks and summer concerts."
[00:04:36] Wow. This fucking movie was lazy. I mean, so lazy. I again. Thanks to Brant, we know why. This director did not give a shit and he didn't give a shit like in a little way.
[00:04:49] He aggressively didn't give a shit. Uh, by the way, can we just say how great Brant is? Uh, you can watch Brant on the live stream. He can listen to Brant, but uh, you'll see he's an attractive man and, uh, only better served by the fact that he was the most honest person that we've ever had on How Did This Get Made when talking about one of these films.
[00:05:08] Let's go to the phones. Beverly.
[00:05:11] Listener: Hi Paul. I wanna thank you for introducing me to these absolutely delightful Christmas movies, the last three years. Each one has been worse than the last, and they've brought me so much joy for the holiday season. My question for you, do you think Merry Kissmas and 12 pups of Christmas are happening in the same cinematic universe?
[00:05:29] They're both set in Silicon Valley for some reason. The protagonists have an extremely awkward elevator meet cute in both. They feature totally irresponsible dog adoptions. And in both movies people are acting like they are totally detached from reality, especially the sister and cousin characters. So I'd love to hear your thoughts and if you agree, do you think we're going to get a crossover anytime soon?
[00:05:51] Thanks so much, Paul, Jason, and June. Oh, and Jessica, I can't forget her.
[00:05:55] Paul Scheer: Beverly. I'm gonna say absolutely yes. I believe there is a 12 Pups of Christmas connection. There's definitely a puppy connection. I think it was that movie with Kevin James' brother, I'm not quite sure. But yes, this is in the same universe.
[00:06:09] I would like there to be a, uh, an Ion original universe. Um. We should start having these characters bump into each other. I think it would be great. Let's see how, how it all worked out. Like why don't we do, oh, I got a great idea, a sequel to one of these, and check in a year later, is it working out or was it just a Christmas hookup?
[00:06:29] Um, next on the phones we have Stoddard.
[00:06:32] Listener: Hi guys. Uh, first time, a long time here. Reason I'm calling today is because of your discussions about the Nutcracker and why it would be such a big deal and have the guy's name above there, and I think that's based on a New York production of the Nutcracker that was referred to as George Balanchine's Nutcracker, he was like a famous choreographer that made the Nutcracker more American and more palatable to modern audiences in the fifties. And most Nutcracker versions today, all over the world, uh, still use his choreography. And I think that was kind of the, what they were aiming for was because, uh, there was a nineties version movie of that with, uh, Macaulay Culkin actually in it that, uh, was called George Balanchine's, the Nutcracker. And uh, also I wanted to point out that, uh, the woman who ran the gift shop is on the other then Brenda from Highlander. So it surprised me that Jason did not catch that because he seems like he probably would've seen Highlander at least as many times as I did, which is about a million times.
[00:07:42] Thanks you guys.
[00:07:43] Paul Scheer: Okay. Okay. First of all, I like this. I'm not gonna shit on this. I think you are absolutely right. So he's like George Balanchine. Okay. Uh, well, lemme tell you that Scott looked up the poster, uh, for the Macaulay Culkin movie, and then they put George's name in the tiniest font imaginable and did not include his headshot.
[00:08:05] So Carlton must be way bigger, but, you, I will say this, Scott's looking at the movie poster, right? We're not looking at the, the Broadway posters. If we can find a Balanchine poster with a, a headshot, I mean, maybe this guy is even bigger than him. Uh, great call on the Highlander thing. I know that Jason has not seen that many Highlanders.
[00:08:26] I have. I had that information. I didn't bring it out because I was not wanting to get ridiculed by, uh, Jessica and June. Next up, Ashley from Ohio.
[00:08:35] Listener: Hi Paul. I recently listened to your Merry Kissmas episode and you guys had mentioned really quickly about the Leo Diamond and what was that? So I used to work for the headquarters of um, K Jewelers who funded this movie.
[00:08:52] I worked there from 2005 to 2012 and I had hands-on experience with said diamond. Uh, Leo Diamond is a cut, specifically made by Leo Schacker, and it's only sold in the US at, um, K Jewelers and Jared locations. Um, I just wanted to share that with you. I left in 2012, obviously before this movie came out, but it still made me mad that they funded this shitty movie instead of paying their employees more money. Um, but I just wanted to share that little fun fact with you. Thanks. Bye.
[00:09:26] Paul Scheer: Oh, Ashley, I'm so happy that you called in. Leo. Uh, Leo Diamond is cut by this guy. Like that's what we want. We want him to cut our diamond, I mean. So are we saying that like McDonald's burgers are off of the cut or the style of burger that he, uh, the, the founder, Ray Crock, uh, made?
[00:09:47] I don't know. I, I love all of this and yeah, f**k K Jewelers pay your workers K Jewelers, until then, we ain't buying any of your rings, your necklaces, whatever, yourself. f**k K Jewelers, f**k K Jewelers. Do we have to bleep all those f**ks? Think maybe, but you get the idea. And finally someone who doesn't even leave a name.
[00:10:08] Listener: Hey Paul, I was calling in and to Jason if you were there as well, uh, about this Mary Kissmas movie that just happened. As I have had the luck to have seen all of this trilogy, uh, is that I would call in and give some additional information on what is really a bizarre set of three films. Uh, so you have
[00:10:31] A Christmas Kiss. Another Christmas Kiss or Christmas Kiss 2. And then Merry Kissmas. Uh, so the first two are directly connected. The evil character from the first one comes back to be a, I don't know, you wanna say an Obi-wan, like presence in the second film, uh, has a, a turn for the good. So the, the common line is of course, that every single one of these movies involves a mistletoe in an elevator.
[00:10:58] Uh, there is one of the people who is kissing, the other person is always in a relationship. It was the dudes in the first two, and then, you know, the, the woman in the third one, uh, trend as a magazine and or company as a common theme as existing in all of these universes. Uh. The first movie there is the whole mystery.
[00:11:21] Somehow someone has body glitter on their face, and then someone can't tell who it is. Uh, so it's a bit odd after to that. It just settles into this whole idea of people kissing in an elevator. Uh, one of them is in a relationship. There is always the, uh, the female character is always a workaholic type who has too much on their plate and is being underappreciated.
[00:11:42] Uh, and eventually has to, uh, you know, stand up for themselves. Uh, I did not actually finish the third one. I couldn't do it. I caught the first two years ago when I, before I had streaming, if I'm honest, and they were just kind of on cable and I was randomly looking for a Christmas movie. So, yeah. That is, uh, a quick rundown on the bizarre trilogy of, uh, elevator kissing, uh, adultery movies. Uh, thank you. Appreciate all that you do, uh, all of you on the podcast and have a great day.
[00:12:12] Paul Scheer: First of all, I want you to tell us who you are because I love that you have watched all of these. The body glitter? That's wild. Uh, this is great. I mean.
[00:12:23] Man. Oh man. All this makes me wanna do is watch more Christmas films and guess what? If you want to do that with us, you're in luck. Alright. Uh, just stay tuned for a second. Uh, back to the Discord, Unevolved Panda writes,
[00:12:37] "Was anyone else bothered by the fact that the first conversation between Carlton and Kayla is about how much Carlton loves Christmas and how he's overcompensating for childhood trauma? And then Carlton never discusses Christmas again. Also what Hotel decorates customers rooms for Christmas? Is this something that I could also demand if I was producing slash directing slash choreographing a local production of the Nutcracker?"
[00:13:01] Well, here's the thing, uh, Panda, that hotel, no, that hotel looks like, you know. A mid-range hotel. You know, it's definitely not the fanciest, and I believe that like, probably the Four Seasons, they have some decorations in the lobby and they probably will put like a little thing in your room, maybe a little mini tree or something, like a mini, I'm talking like, you know, one that could sit on a table or, or you know, like merry, you know, like happy holidays or something.
[00:13:26] Some bullshit, but not like decorate, like decorate. But look, you know, Carlton is coming in. I would say his assistant would be responsible for that. And guess what? We've already established that his assistant Kayla, is terrible at her job. She should have done it. Justice for Carlton and f**k Kay Jewelers. Alright, uh, Ari Medi writes, uh,
[00:13:48] "Why wasn't the Aerosmith song Love in an Elevator discussed?"
[00:13:52] Well, look. We didn't directly discuss the song, uh, but we did have a second opinion review that included the phrase Soppy, soppy, gush, gush, which is I think, the unofficial title of love in an elevator. Am I right? I think so. So I think that that counts and it wasn't love in an elevator. 'cause I think Love in Elevator is about, you know, coitus.
[00:14:17] Am I right? I think I am. You Squared writes
[00:14:19] "Jason, folks, the Bell sound in the scene with the whisper singing carolers was coming from Santa. Who was standing around the corner."
[00:14:30] I don't buy it. I don't buy it, You Squared. I don't buy that. That bell was like, so is that bell coordinating with the cha? First of all, what are we arguing about?
[00:14:40] Clearly it was dubbed, so then they also had to add in the bell. And I don't think that Santa was dinging that bell. You squared. I don't agree with you. I don't agree with you. But here's what I'm gonna say. Just 'cause I don't agree with you doesn't mean it's a great point. Uh, so many great corrections and omissions this week, and I gotta tell you, there can only be one.
[00:15:03] One that is the best and the one that I think is the best one. I I, I think it has to go to the person who spent the most time in this world. And yes, while Lee Black pointed out a very beautiful idea of you can't make flower into dough and Dove revealed all the Riverside connections, I believe that I wanna give it to our anonymous caller who has watched all of the elevator movies.
[00:15:29] You have spent the most time in this world, and for that we are grateful and you get this theme from Rob from Long Island, hit it.
[00:15:39] Music: [Winner's Song]
[00:15:41] Paul Scheer: Now if you wanna chime in with your own thoughts, you can.
[00:15:43] Every single episode is your chance to come in here and yell at us, tell us that we're wrong, add a piece of information, bring up your job. Like our friend from K Jewelers, uh, anything at all. We welcome it. We love it. Oh, by the way, you know what? Uh, we should send Ashley something. I mean, 'cause Ashley got stiffed by K Jewelers.
[00:16:00] Oh man. Alright. Anyway, coming up next, you don't wanna miss my chat with Jason, where I share a great story from when I worked with Billy Bob Thornton on School for Scoundrels. And, uh, as we talk about our favorite show, Landman, stick around after the break.
[00:16:14] Alright people, you know that every week we release an old, How Did This Get Made episode into our feed.
[00:16:19] Um, I love these episodes. Uh, we recently released the Star Wars holiday special. Next week we are closing out our holiday matinee with the Keanu Reeves Drew Barmore remake of Babes in Toyland with a very special. Message from Drew Barrymore herself. Make sure you're hitting that. Uh, like and subscribe.
[00:16:38] You're following us on Apple Podcasts. It really does help the show. It really, really does. Uh, we can't say it enough, so just do that and that's your gift to us. Alright, without any further ado, let's welcome Jason to a little Just Chat. Action Jackson Five play us in.
[00:16:53] Music: [Just Chat Song]
[00:16:53] Paul Scheer: Jason, I am about 19 days into my Task Master Advent calendar.
[00:17:00] Jason Mantzoukas: I love it.
[00:17:01] Paul Scheer: It's so much fun.
[00:17:02] Jason Mantzoukas: I love it.
[00:17:02] Paul Scheer: It is really perfect. I've called numbers. I've had to solve puzzles. I've done charades.
[00:17:09] Jason Mantzoukas: It's so good.
[00:17:10] Paul Scheer: It is really, uh, a perfect encapsulation. And I will say, I know we haven't talked about the show, um, but my kids are, are talking all the time about you talking about this pervert bear. In the last episode you were looking at a bear and they, now, this is like a running joke around my house, that the bear is a pervert. The pervert bear.
[00:17:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's great.
[00:17:32] Paul Scheer: And no one understands exactly what it means because I under. Like my kids have been doing two things, referencing pervert bear, which isn't the finale of your taskmaster.
[00:17:43] Jason Mantzoukas: Season 19.
[00:17:44] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:17:44] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:17:44] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:17:44] Jason Mantzoukas: And it is a true throwaway.
[00:17:47] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:17:47] Jason Mantzoukas: It's like, it's not a, it's not a focal point of the episode at all.
[00:17:50] Paul Scheer: Not at all.
[00:17:50] Jason Mantzoukas: All it is, as I'm running by a person dressed in a bear costume who's reading a magazine, I just call them a pervert.
[00:17:57] Paul Scheer: Yep. Nope. It, this has become a, a rallying cry in the house.
[00:18:01] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's so funny.
[00:18:02] Paul Scheer: And the other thing that has been nonstop is they watched a sketch on SNL, like an old season, a season that Casey Wilson was on.
[00:18:11] Jason Mantzoukas: Uhhuh.
[00:18:12] Paul Scheer: Where, uh, Fred Armisen and Andy Sandberg are two kids who are excited to get a calculator for Christmas. So my entire house for the last two weeks, like, ma, ma, can we get a calculator for Christmas?
[00:18:25] Oh, ma, I want a calculator for Christmas. So my kids are just doing bits that no one knows. And then people are like, do they want a calculator? I'm like, no. They're just, they're doing Fred Armisen. It's. I sent it to Fred. I sent Fred just, I was making them breakfast and I just recorded on my phone just to get their voices going ma ma, we get calculator ma? Uh, Texas Instruments cal. I don't even think they know what a Texas instruments calculator is, but.
[00:18:49] Jason Mantzoukas: Abso they certainly don't. And if you handed it to them, they'd be like, what is this antique? You might as well hand them an abacus.
[00:18:57] Paul Scheer: It's so like, that's happening. And then last night I was looking at my phone. I was like, whatcha, are you looking at pervert bear in there? Some bear looking at some like. Guys I'm like, I just love, oh, that's, they've attached themselves to these small, the smallest things.
[00:19:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Whatever those things are that just really get them.
[00:19:11] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:19:11] Jason Mantzoukas: And it's, it's fun to, I'm sure you remember this as well, although when we were kids it was so much more of a monoculture, like.
[00:19:19] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:19:19] Jason Mantzoukas: They are obsessed with things that not everybody else is saying. No, not everybody else is referencing those things. They are. They are, they have, they have good taste.
[00:19:28] Paul Scheer: What. Whatever they find funny. I think that's the interesting thing is like they, they, it's just funny to them and they assume that everyone has seen the finale of Taskmaster and that one. Again, like you said, moment, it's not the show. It's not, it is.
[00:19:44] Jason Mantzoukas: Even you saying pervert bear to me, I like as if I was gonna be like, well of course pervert bear. I had to be like, wait a minute, Task Master. Oh, I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:19:54] Paul Scheer: Um, but uh, I know that you and I, this is a good month. I love catching up in December, watching a bunch of stuff and like loving.
[00:20:02] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, I will say last year you gave me an incredible present, which was the Gilmore Girls Advent calendar.
[00:20:09] Paul Scheer: Oh yeah.
[00:20:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Which which made last year. I still have some of those little tchotchkes and stuff that came in the, in there, like propped around the house. See, like that was such a big hit.
[00:20:20] Paul Scheer: And when I saw that I was so excited. I was, uh oh. And we are, you know, we're coming off our live stream, which I believe, uh, you might be able to still watch. I know we have like a seven day window, but we might have extended it there. We'll see. We'll see. So check it out if you've missed the last.
[00:20:36] Jason Mantzoukas: If you didn't watch it, you missed. You, uh, obviously you've heard the chatter. Yeah. It was a, it was an explosive episode. Nobody, nobody saw coming the stuff that happened and you know, like we're prepared to talk about it right now, but we're not gonna.
[00:20:51] Paul Scheer: That's a new year thing. Yeah. Here's the thing, Jason, I wanna say, 'cause I did watch the Deep Dive Holiday Special. Okay. And you know, I'm not allowed to listen to The Deep Dive. That is a rule that I've been given. I can be on the Deep Dive. I'm not allowed to listen to the deep dive.
[00:21:03] Jason Mantzoukas: I just choose not to listen.
[00:21:04] Paul Scheer: Yeah, there you go.
[00:21:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:21:05] Paul Scheer: Now, um. I did not realize that Jessica St. Clair is so filthy. Like she really like, and, and from, I guess we, I see elements of it in our show, but man, when she has left her own devices, just her and June, I'm like, whoa.
[00:21:21] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah. No. St. Clair. St. Clair. I think, 'cause you know, Jess and I used to be comedy partners.
[00:21:26] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:21:27] Jason Mantzoukas: And I think there was a real, um, uh, a real misunderstanding that it was a beauty and the beast scenario.
[00:21:33] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:21:33] Jason Mantzoukas: I, um. Uh, um, and in fact if it was, it just maybe was in the opposite direction. I, and, and maybe, perhaps I am the beauty and she is the beast.
[00:21:43] Paul Scheer: I, I look after watching that special, I was like, I think you are right.
[00:21:46] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, I gotta watch it now. Oh, that's hilarious.
[00:21:49] Paul Scheer: Just saying things.
[00:21:50] Jason Mantzoukas: St. Clair can go toe to toe. She is, she's an absolute monster.
[00:21:54] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh. Uh, what have you been watching? What have you been up to in like your media consumption this week?
[00:22:00] Jason Mantzoukas: You know, I am, I'm watching a bunch of stuff. I'm watching and I'm like reading. I've got a list of stuff to go through.
[00:22:07] Paul Scheer: Yeah, I would love to hear it.
[00:22:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, I mean, our Spotify wrappeds have come out. I don't know if you are, if your kid's ruin yours, perhaps.
[00:22:15] Paul Scheer: No. You know, I feel like every now and then I accidentally put my phone or my phone starts playing Spotify and it's screwed up. 'Cause it never feels to enc like encapsulate what I'm listening to. My number one artist this year, uh, you know, maybe surprised was Teddy swims. Which I'm surprised.
[00:22:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Who's Teddy Swims?
[00:22:33] Paul Scheer: Like? He, uh, like, it's just like a, like this is.
[00:22:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Like a pop, like a pop act?
[00:22:38] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Like, he's like a, like a, like, I, this is like a, um, I'm, I don't know. I mean.
[00:22:43] Jason Mantzoukas: We've got a Teddy Swims and a Billy Strings?
[00:22:46] Paul Scheer: Yeah. I mean, he's like.
[00:22:47] Jason Mantzoukas: This is, what are we doing? I, I'm con. Boy. This is an old man thing. Well, who? We got a Teddy Swims and a Billy Strings? Ooh, what's everybody doing? What happened to Led Zeppelin?
[00:22:58] Paul Scheer: Like Teddy Swims to me, like this is like, I'm having a hard time even describing him because.
[00:23:04] He's kind of R and B, Soul, Country, Hiphop. Guy.
[00:23:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay.
[00:23:08] Paul Scheer: Yeah. A lot of tattoos on the face, but I can't tell you. I know a single song of his like.
[00:23:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Sure.
[00:23:13] Paul Scheer: Well, and I'm like, how did that become my number one listened to track? I don't know. And I'm like, is someone broken into my account? And I've like looked back and I think I've just accidentally hit it while it's in my pocket. Yeah. Teddy swims.
[00:23:23] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. And it's just like auto play or something. Alright.
[00:23:25] Paul Scheer: I'm mad. I'm mad at Teddy Swims. Mad at it.
[00:23:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Have you watched any of Death by Lightning?
[00:23:31] Paul Scheer: No. What is that?
[00:23:32] Jason Mantzoukas: The Netflix show that, um, that our friend Nick Offerman is on, along with a lot of other great people.
[00:23:38] Paul Scheer: Oh yes.
[00:23:38] Jason Mantzoukas: It's the show about the Garfield assassination, the President Garfield assassination. Not Garfield the cat.
[00:23:45] Paul Scheer: Right. Oh my gosh. Well, I mean, he has it coming.
[00:23:47] Jason Mantzoukas: I mean like, Hey, how about try loving Mondays buddy?
[00:23:51] Paul Scheer: Uh, exactly.
[00:23:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Super fun. Death by Lightning, uh, on Netflix. Um, uh, our friend Danielle Schneider, who we did our Dinosaur improv tour with.
[00:24:00] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:24:01] Jason Mantzoukas: Recommended the Australian Sitcom, Fisk.
[00:24:05] Paul Scheer: Oh, yes. Right.
[00:24:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Also on Netflix and is fantastic. Like we loved Calling from Accounts. I feel like we talked about it before.
[00:24:12] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:24:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, but, and Fisk scratches that same itch. It's a great, hard, funny jokes, comedy sitcom.
[00:24:20] Paul Scheer: It's so funny. It's about this like, lawyer who has to work at like this, like suburban law firm and it's an Australian show.
[00:24:27] It's, it's very, I don't know. She recommended to me a while ago and I watched it. So fun. I wanna get more into finding these like other, other country's comedy shows. 'cause it's like they can kind of be a little hidden, I feel like. Yeah, you can't come out.
[00:24:42] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, that's how I felt about Calling from Accounts at the time.
[00:24:45] I was like, this should be a gigantic show. This is a, yeah. Absolutely gangbusters. Hilarious. Such a great rom-com setup. Such great jokes. Um, I thought they were fantastic. The two leads, uh, Patrick and I think her name is Harriet. Um, great show. Calling from Accounts still available, but yeah, like what are those other shows, those other sitcoms?
[00:25:06] I feel like we know a lot about them when they come out of England, but less so if it's Australia, New Zealand, places like that.
[00:25:13] Paul Scheer: I agree.
[00:25:14] Jason Mantzoukas: So if you've got a good one to, to recommend to us.
[00:25:17] Paul Scheer: Oh yeah. Discord. Yeah.
[00:25:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh God. Do we have to?
[00:25:20] Paul Scheer: Well, I know, I know. Well, it's gonna have to be, it'll have to be there. It'll have to be there. Um. You know, here's the thing, uh, I wanted to talk about just for a second, because I feel like you're the only person that I know that watches it, but holy shit. Landman.
[00:25:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, dude.
[00:25:38] Paul Scheer: Landman.
[00:25:40] Jason Mantzoukas: I could talk, I could talk about Landman. Landman is the best, the greatest show of our time.
[00:25:46] Paul Scheer: I, I'm, I'm truly like, I need to get everyone together on this because it is great.
[00:25:53] And Andy Garcia.
[00:25:54] Jason Mantzoukas: So far this season there have been four episodes.
[00:25:57] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:25:57] Jason Mantzoukas: Of, of Landman this season and all of them, together, feel like one big just montage. Like, I don't know what's happening in this show, but I am captivated by everybody gets to monologue all the time.
[00:26:15] Paul Scheer: Oh, and, and here's the thing, it's, is this the season where they open up on the lawyer that he is got that, that kind of repart with where she's just like, benching like, a lot of weight. Like I was like, whoa. Did not expect.
[00:26:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Three plates.
[00:26:27] Paul Scheer: Yeah, three plate.
[00:26:28] Jason Mantzoukas: She squatting three plates.
[00:26:29] Paul Scheer: I was like, yeah. And the only issue that I had right out of the gate, and I was a little bit nervous, season two starts off and I really love the mother and daughter in the show.
[00:26:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh God.
[00:26:38] Paul Scheer: Alia Larder is fantastic. Uh, but I thought they made the daughter, like aggressively, like, almost like sketch comedy show dumb. Like, like.
[00:26:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, she's like, they're giving her lines that are real dumb.
[00:26:51] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Like, it, like she went from being like, just like a, a young high school. Like, like not, I wouldn't just, I wouldn't use dumb as the first thing. And now I'm like, oh, now. She a dummy.
[00:27:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, it's shocking.
[00:27:05] Paul Scheer: I mean, I enjoy it. I enjoy the hell out of it. But what a choice to be like we're just gonna write comedy here.
[00:27:10] Jason Mantzoukas: The show careens from mother and daughter, getting elderly people at the nursing home drunk to like group of hunters dying from toxic gases leaking out of the earth.
[00:27:23] Paul Scheer: Like Andy Garcia with a cigar and a whiskey Monologuing beau, I mean, oh, Andy Garcia and monologuing.
[00:27:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Everybody monologues all the time and every now se in season two. And did you see it's gotten picked up for season three?
[00:27:36] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:27:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Thank God.
[00:27:37] Paul Scheer: I mean, by the way, Billy Bob has said he sees it, a five season show and I'm like, great, great.
[00:27:43] Jason Mantzoukas: It is. He is having. A blast. It is. All he does is react to circumstances in his life and world.
[00:27:52] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:27:53] Jason Mantzoukas: That are so enormous and all of it is like, oh God.
[00:27:58] Paul Scheer: Honey, I gotta go.
[00:27:59] Jason Mantzoukas: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta hang up. It's as if, but he's juggling like such gigantic things that, but so casually.
[00:28:09] Paul Scheer: I love him in this. One of the things that's so special about this show is that his, when his wife calls him, she has a special ring.
[00:28:17] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:28:18] Paul Scheer: Uh, for his phone. And the show will build up to a stress point. And then you hear that ring and you also feel like, oh God, damnit, like now, like he's doesn't have time for this. But he always picks up. He never lets it go of voicemail.
[00:28:31] Jason Mantzoukas: He never does. It's incredible. He always picks up, he always picks up and he picks up when, like someone else is in the car that shouldn't hear this call.
[00:28:41] Paul Scheer: Oh yeah.
[00:28:41] Jason Mantzoukas: He still picks up.
[00:28:42] Paul Scheer: And she's always on, uh, FaceTime. She's never just calling, she's never gonna get that.
[00:28:47] Jason Mantzoukas: I cannot recommend Landman enough. Everybody needs to be watching Landman.
[00:28:52] Paul Scheer: It is so, so fun.
[00:28:53] Jason Mantzoukas: Landman the lowdown. Um, incredible.
[00:28:56] Paul Scheer: Again, another show where it's just like, oh, I'm just watching someone who is very good. Ethan Hawk and the whole cast is too, but just kind of dance through this show in a way. It's like there's an ease to it. Yes. Like Billy Bob is like, oh, just an ease to his performance.
[00:29:12] Jason Mantzoukas: Exactly. And it's such a great juxtaposition because, um, Landman the stakes are so gigantic. Yeah, like huge.
[00:29:20] Paul Scheer: Oh yeah.
[00:29:20] Jason Mantzoukas: And The Lowdown, it's so much more personal. It seems so much smaller stakes, but nonetheless, Ethan Hawk's character is just going for it so hard. I love that show.
[00:29:31] Paul Scheer: I think I could tell you this story publicly because it doesn't paint anyone in a bad light.
[00:29:35] I had done this movie with Billy Bob back in the day, uh, the, the hit classic, uh, School for Scoundrels, as I always say.
[00:29:43] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, of course.
[00:29:43] Paul Scheer: The only Todd Phillips movie that didn't make a billion dollars.
[00:29:46] Jason Mantzoukas: Yep.
[00:29:46] Paul Scheer: Uh, and, um. It was really interesting because he was exceptionally playful and fun and wanted to hang out.
[00:29:54] Like would be a guy that would like sit on the stairway to his trailer and just be like, Hey, what's up? What's up? And I remember, man, this is my favorite story of him. Like he we're like hanging out in his trailer, just talking whatever it is. Chill time. Right? He's a very chill guy. And uh, it was like around Christmas, he's like, you know, we should uh, everybody come over to the house this weekend and we have like a, a thing and invited everyone to come and hang.
[00:30:21] And I would say maybe there was about a 15 second pause where like, no one just like jumped in. Like yeah, great idea. He is like, ah, fuck it. Nah, I don't want, no, you know what? I'm not by any of you like a guy like. Just got, just got him like, felt that pressure of, I invited everyone. No one jumped at it.
[00:30:37] And I'm like, nah, I've taken it back. No, no one can come. I'm not having it now. I'm not, I'm not having it.
[00:30:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's so funny.
[00:30:44] Paul Scheer: Oh, and it was like such a sweet thing. Like, and then it was like, oh, I didn't, I should have said yes, should have said. Then I, I think I was like, I think all of us were nervous. Like, yes. What is that gonna be like to go over to Billy Bob's house.
[00:30:54] Jason Mantzoukas: And also like, is this a real offer? Is this, is he being polite? Is, you know, yes. Yeah, I don't, you never wanna be like, and now I'm at like the Star's house. Does he want me here? You know?
[00:31:04] Paul Scheer: It felt to me like it was just like an open thing. Like, Hey, you should all come over to my house on Saturday. And we didn't have to agree to it in the moment, but we, and then we all missed our opportunity to go to his house, man. He was fucking cool.
[00:31:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's cool.
[00:31:18] Paul Scheer: I know I've talked about this with you a little bit, but right now it is streaming. You can get it, uh, hopefully it's not shut down by a cease and desist.
[00:31:25] There's a great documentary called, uh, Cory Feldman Versus the World, uh, directed by Marcy Hume. Uh, it was a documentary, 10 years in the making, uh, about. Well, uh, this documentary filmmaker is embedded with Cory Feldman at a time in his life where he performs in the Today Show with a group of female musicians who are all dressed like angels, scantily clad angels.
[00:31:49] The clip goes absolutely viral. Everyone's like, this is one of the worst album songs I've ever seen. And because it's going viral and it gets in the top 40 because people are trying to find it, he decides it's a great time to go on tour. People want this. He doesn't see why the virality is happening. He just sees that it's going viral.
[00:32:08] So he goes out on tour and this director embeds herself on this eight city tour of, uh, Corey Feldman and the Angels, and I will just tell you I was not expecting, I did not know where it was gonna go. I don't want to tell you where it's gonna go, and it is fascinating. Fascinating.
[00:32:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's great. Yeah, we talked about it the other night. Yeah. And it sounds absolutely incredible. I cannot wait to watch this.
[00:32:32] Paul Scheer: I mean, 10 year, and that's the other thing too. It's 10 years old. Like, it's like and, and, uh, the real labor of love. Uh, but yeah, so that's a little, little bit That's.
[00:32:41] Jason Mantzoukas: I'm excited for that. I'll shout out a couple of other documentaries.
[00:32:44] I think the last time we spoke, I, I think I talked, I, I, I, I mentioned the Jeff Buckley documentary.
[00:32:50] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:32:50] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, the Garland Jeffries documentary, both terrific.
[00:32:53] Paul Scheer: How's the Jeff Garland documentary?
[00:32:55] Jason Mantzoukas: All black and white. It's a, it's it all, it's stills that are in black and white from a Leica camera. Um, um, there's a documentary called Hobby.
[00:33:05] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:33:05] Jason Mantzoukas: That is about board games.
[00:33:07] Paul Scheer: Oh wow.
[00:33:08] Jason Mantzoukas: That is fantastic. That I absolutely love.
[00:33:12] Paul Scheer: Ooh, I love that.
[00:33:12] Jason Mantzoukas: It's called Hobby. Um, the artist Greenhouse, who I've also mentioned on the podcast before, does the music, which is just, uh, an aside. Um, and it's beautiful. But the, it's a, it's great. It's about how big, uh, board games, the explosion in board games.
[00:33:28] They talk to different people who are, uh, you know, go to conventions who are making the board game makers, the all the. All the explosion in tabletop gaming that has happened Yeah. In the last chunk of years, um, is what this documentary is about.
[00:33:43] Paul Scheer: Do you do that at all? Like, because like that's a thing that I was actually literally had this idea the other day. I was like, I think it would be fun to get a group of people together to do like a board game night every like two or three months. 'cause it's like I would love to play more games. It's just hard to a, get everybody on the same page and then also have somebody to let you in. Like how do you play these games? What do you do? Fun.
[00:34:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. I feel like I used to have a group, um, that that exactly was that. It was, you know, and it was just, it wasn't like all different games. It was kind of the same couple of games rotated through. Um, and I. Think that post pandemic, that group has kind of gotten scattered.
[00:34:22] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:34:22] Jason Mantzoukas: You know, it just doesn't exist the same way anymore.
[00:34:25] Um, so, so the answer is no. But it was like that era of playing Catan or playing some of these large group games that are not party games that are you know, that are board games, you know, um.
[00:34:38] Paul Scheer: Well Rich, you know, Rich Summer, who, uh, always was like this man who has a great actor, obviously. We love Rich.
[00:34:46] Um, had this great podcast for a while, uh, actually on the old, uh, Wolf Pup. But this idea of like, he, he has this like, I, I hate the term mancave, but I can use that here. He's a mancave where it's wall to ceiling games. Yeah. And he knew all these games, and he would, and he was a great like host because I think part of that is like, you can get on, you can get on board.
[00:35:06] All these games are relatively easy. You just need somebody to be like. Here's how you do it. Yeah. Like you just need some of the, because sometimes you look at these things and you're like, I don't know. I don't know how to even begin here.
[00:35:16] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, well, and 'cause some of them are, I, I don't buy games that have a million little pieces.
[00:35:22] Paul Scheer: No.
[00:35:23] Jason Mantzoukas: Because I'm like, oh, I don't, this looks like it's gonna be too difficult. I don't, I can't go more than like three levels into a game's strategy. Right? Like, I can't have big, gigantic tons of little stuff. I, I, I'm out now. You know? Especially if it's like, oh fuck, we lost the thing. We lost that one thing. Right?
[00:35:41] Paul Scheer: Oh, well then you're done.
[00:35:41] Jason Mantzoukas: That now is, oh, okay. Forget about it. No, I wanna play games that it's like, part of it is, yes, we're playing the game, but part of it is also we're hanging out. I wanna, yes. I don't want the hang to be superseded by the rules. You know?
[00:35:54] Paul Scheer: I agree. I, I think like it's, well, this is why Mahjong has been a big.
[00:35:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:35:58] Paul Scheer: The big thing that we have been doing here in our household. I love Mahjong. It's a very, it's just that right middle ground of I have to pay attention, but I also can have a good time and we can switch partners. Yeah. And it feels like the games are going, it's like poker or something like that. I love, I, I don't know, I just, games.
[00:36:14] Jason Mantzoukas: It's great's a great documentary. I think you'll really dig it. And I'll shout out one more documentary that is the opposite of tabletop gaming, which is the ski documentary Land of Giants.
[00:36:25] Paul Scheer: Ooh.
[00:36:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, I am a real sucker, especially as we get into the winter for just very beautifully shot, um, ski movies.
[00:36:34] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:36:34] Jason Mantzoukas: That are just people getting dropped out of helicopters on top of mountains and then skiing down like avalanches that are chasing them.
[00:36:42] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh. That is, I, oh, I gotta, I'm looking at some of the footage of this right now. That looks really, really good.
[00:36:47] Jason Mantzoukas: It's a good one. Every year I feel like a new great ski movie comes out. This one is terrific. It's a great, have a gummy late at night. Just like watch, watch people just challenge nature in every way, shape, or form. It's absolutely stunning.
[00:37:03] Paul Scheer: Have you ever seen that footage on TikTok where, uh, a skier is like coming down the hill? He is got like a GoPro on his helmet and he sees just a, like the little, like a little image of like a board in the ground and then realize it's the guy who who went head first and is like, upside down in the snow, I'll send it to you.
[00:37:21] Jason Mantzoukas: No.
[00:37:21] Paul Scheer: And you watch him dig this guy out who just was like, oh. Boom. Just comically upside down.
[00:37:28] Jason Mantzoukas: That's terrifying.
[00:37:29] Paul Scheer: Also amazing for that skier to see just a sliver of a board and be like, oh wait, hold on.
[00:37:35] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:37:35] Paul Scheer: Let me get this guy out.
[00:37:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, there is some video I just watched that Red Bull puts, red Bull puts out a ton of this stuff. Yeah. And I was, I'm so susceptible to like the, uh, it was on YouTube and it was like, um, it's a guy who climbs up Mount Everest and skis down.
[00:37:51] Paul Scheer: Whoa.
[00:37:52] Jason Mantzoukas: And that was crazy too. Um, like no oxygen assist, like crazy. Um, super interesting. Um, you know what, I think you would very much enjoy in a very si Yeah. Now I'm switching to audio books.
[00:38:03] Yeah. 'cause we also, yeah. Uh, we're talking about audio books recently. Um, the audio book, this is a, this is a book that the Action Boys have talked about multiple times on their podcast. So I got it. And it's Ileana Douglas' book, I Blame Dennis Hopper.
[00:38:19] Paul Scheer: Whoa, wait a second. That did not know about.
[00:38:22] Jason Mantzoukas: This is so fantastic and so funny and interesting and Ileana Douglas has just such an, such a hilarious, uh, her, her writing is great.
[00:38:33] She reads it herself. Her voice, her vocal performance is fantastic. This, and it's all stories that are based ba The reason it's called I Blame Dennis Hopper is, is she starts out the book by saying. When the movie Easy Rider came out, her father basically had like a, um, not a midlife crisis, but basically turned into Dennis Hopper's character from Easy Rider.
[00:38:57] Paul Scheer: Oh my God.
[00:38:58] Jason Mantzoukas: And started hanging around with other Dennis Hopper esque guys.
[00:39:02] Paul Scheer: Oh, that's great.
[00:39:02] Jason Mantzoukas: And like started living that life, man. And this man and, and she does the voice. So funny.
[00:39:08] Paul Scheer: Oh, wow.
[00:39:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Her life kind of spirals out of control. They were like a, an upper middle class family, and they like just completely lose everything.
[00:39:17] And the chapters that are about this part of her life are fascinating. But then she becomes an actor. Um, she's in, you know, all these movies. So then the, the majority of the book is just a, her experience, her life in Hollywood or, or in, you know, in film and tv.
[00:39:32] Paul Scheer: Right, right, right.
[00:39:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Which is also super interesting.
[00:39:35] Paul Scheer: Great. Oh, I gotta get that.
[00:39:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Great, great. Listen.
[00:39:37] Paul Scheer: Okay. Um, that's, that is going on my list.
[00:39:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, I think you'll like it. I've been listening to a lot of, like tho like a lot of, like the, the Freed Can audio book. The Yes. The, a lot of like, those, the, the Warren Littlefield one, like all these audio books about the business that are just great listens.
[00:39:54] Paul Scheer: They're fun. Like, you know, they're always like, they go down so smooth. I'm listening to the Walter Merch book on tape, which is really.
[00:40:02] Jason Mantzoukas: Another one that Ben Rogers on Action Boys is very positive on.
[00:40:06] Paul Scheer: It's a very like technical in certain degrees, but then he's worked on so many things, so it's sort of like, oh, it's a technical book where a guy who has worked on Star Wars and and worked on, like worked with the greatest directors and it's a book for editors to a certain extent, but at the same time it's very entertaining. So, you know.
[00:40:22] Jason Mantzoukas: I love it.
[00:40:23] Paul Scheer: Alright, so.
[00:40:24] Jason Mantzoukas: Can I give a couple?
[00:40:25] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:40:25] Jason Mantzoukas: I'm just gonna shout out a couple of other things just because we're coming into the holiday season. So sometimes people are like, what can I buy the person that I love?
[00:40:33] Paul Scheer: Oh yeah.
[00:40:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Why not buy them comics? Ah, there is a new Hob Town Mysteries book.
[00:40:38] It is called The Secret of the Saucer. This is an my, maybe my favorite, uh, ongoing series of graphic novels, the Hop Town Mysteries, um, the, the Cursed Hermit, the Case of The Missing Men. These are like, what if David Lynch wrote Nancy Drew Hardy boy's books?
[00:40:56] Paul Scheer: Ooh, I love that.
[00:40:57] Jason Mantzoukas: I cannot recommend these enough. These are, there's three of them. All three of them are five stars, incredible, uh, books. Beautifully drawn. Um, incredibly written. These are some of the best, uh, graphic novels of the last 10 years. I cannot recommend them enough. Uh, get that. Um, our buddy Matt Fraction's new Batman book is fantastic.
[00:41:19] Paul Scheer: I gotta say he did, he did a solid for me. We were talking the other day and he sent my kids some Batman books and I, I got They are si I was as excited as they were. It was great. He, I love his Batman. It's a great book.
[00:41:31] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:41:31] Paul Scheer: I think you're right. It's like, and it's, you know, I say go to that. Find your local comic book shop. Get in there. Support.
[00:41:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:41:37] Paul Scheer: It's really important. It really is.
[00:41:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. It's such a good way to support local stores is to buy these books there. The, the Mike Manola book from last year, Bowling with Corpses is fantastic. Johnny Ryan has a new book. Great. Um, I'm just shouting some stuff out because people are buying stuff.
[00:41:54] Paul Scheer: I, I, you know, I have a, a full, uh, three part, uh, list on my substack where I just kind of, I normally would go on Kulaps, uh, Add to Cart Oh yeah. And, and do a little, uh, Christmas gift recommendation. And I did a, I got three part thing, uh, there, so you could check that out. It's totally free. Um, and Jason, I'll tell you, I don't know if you were a part of this, but Tom Bin sent me their messenger bag.
[00:42:16] Jason Mantzoukas: Great me as well, and it's fantastic. I think it's called the marathon Messenger bag.
[00:42:20] Paul Scheer: I have signed off Messenger bags and I was like, I don't do it anymore. And then I got that and I went on the trip with it and I was like, this rules, it's great. Yes, it really is good.
[00:42:29] Jason Mantzoukas: If you love a shoulder bag, if you love a Messenger bag, yes. The new Tom Bin bag is incredible. Fantastic.
[00:42:35] Paul Scheer: I love it.
[00:42:35] Jason Mantzoukas: I'm, if you don't mind, I'm just gonna shout out Yeah. The new Snow Caps album, the new Bill Fox album Resonance, the New Tortoise album, Touch. And, our friend Mary Latimore, has a new album with the incredible singer, Juliana Barwick. Uh, that record I cannot recommend enough.
[00:42:51] I think it is incredible. So that's a little bit of music. So that's.
[00:42:55] Paul Scheer: And again, Teddy Swims. Make sure you're listening. Uh, just like me. Just like me. You know me, me and Teddy swims. Alright. Uh, Jason, so great to chat with you. We will, uh, catch up again, uh, potentially in the new year.
[00:43:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Can't wait.
[00:43:10] Paul Scheer: That is a wrap on Just Chat, which means it is finally time to announce our next movie.
[00:43:15] Next week we'll be going from a Santa who's unwise to a Santa in disguise. That's right, Jason called it. We are gonna be watching the brand new 2025 Netflix romcom, my Secret Santa starring Alexandra Breckenridge and Ryan Echold. For those of you who watched our holiday live stream, Jason demanded we cover this movie, so we decided to cave to his demands and give you one last holiday gift this year.
[00:43:40] So instead of playing the trailer, listen to this deleted scene in which Jason describes the plot and why he's obsessed with it.
[00:43:47] Jason Mantzoukas: I will say I have now seen about 15 to 20 minutes of a movie that. If we don't do it, A-S-A-P-I think.
[00:43:54] Paul Scheer: You were telling me about this.
[00:43:55] Jason Mantzoukas: So there's a movie on Netflix. It is a kind of reverse Mrs. Doubtfire, where a, a single mom dresses up as Santa Claus, uh, in the course of dressing up like Santa Claus meets and falls in love with the man who owns this. Ski resort that she is now portraying Santa Claus at. And they become best friends because the guy thinks she's ano a man weird as Santa Claus and they are now bros.
[00:44:21] June Diane Raphael: And so she has a crush on him?
[00:44:22] Paul Scheer: Wow.
[00:44:23] June Diane Raphael: Wow.
[00:44:23] Jason Mantzoukas: And so she is constantly dressed as full Santa, not just like that, I'm in a beard. And now
[00:44:30] Jessica St. Clair: there's some kinks there.
[00:44:31] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, she is in a full, she has a full face mask. That is Santa Claus and she does a deep voice. It is absolutely mental.
[00:44:40] Paul Scheer: Now will Jason regret this choice?
[00:44:42] Well, I know the answer to that. Uh, but you don't, you have to tune in next week. Now, Rotten Tomatoes does rate this movie at a 77% fresh, and Eddie Harrison from Film Authority says,
[00:44:52] "Fusing Mrs. Doubtfire in Tootsie, my secret Santa is a laughable Netflix ripping off the Hallmark movie about a single mom passing herself off at Santa that passes this so bad. It's good test. It's so silly. You literally won't believe what you're seeing."
[00:45:06] Now, I gotta tell you, they're not wrong. I enjoyed the hell out of it. The only place to watch it though is on Netflix, so there you go. Now, unrelated to this movie. Uh, you can always find movies that are available outside of Netflix, uh, through your local public library, but we don't have to worry about that this week.
[00:45:21] What I do wanna tell you though, is have a very happy holiday season. Thank you for following us on social media. Thank you for listening to us. Thank you for recommending us to all of your friends. It means a lot. Seeing you put us on your Spotify end of year playlist is amazing. I wish we recorded a video for you, but um, we forgot.
[00:45:41] Uh, that's the kind of things that we gotta be more on top of in the new year. Uh, anyway. Uh. Thank you to our producers, uh, who pull this show together every week. Scott Sonne, Molly Reynolds, our engineer, Casey Holford, and our social media manager, Zoe Applebaum. We will forever be thankful to the one and only Avaryl Halley.
[00:46:01] We think of her a lot during this holiday season and, uh, we miss her. Uh, we'll see you next week for Secret Santa.