Are Zouks and Tall John changing this podcast's name to "How Did This Ass Get Eaten?" Find out in this week's Just Chat, where Jason and Paul also recommend TV shows/movies they're currently loving and discuss an amazing script about the ghost in Three Men and a Baby written by Severance creator Dan Erickson. But first, Paul answers a slew of A+ corrections & omissions on last week's Shoot 'Em Up episode. And as always, we announce next week's new movie. Hint: It's a Gerard Butler gem... PAUL & JASON'S RECS: Project Hail Mary Sentenced to Be a Hero The Muppet Show (2026 Special) Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal Shoresy The Office
Are Zouks and Tall John changing this podcast's name to "How Did This Ass Get Eaten?" Find out in this week's Just Chat, where Jason and Paul also recommend TV shows/movies they're currently loving and discuss an amazing script about the ghost in Three Men and a Baby written by Severance creator Dan Erickson. But first, Paul answers a slew of A+ corrections & omissions on last week's Shoot 'Em Up episode. And as always, we announce next week's new movie. Hint: It's a Gerard Butler gem...
PAUL & JASON'S RECS:
The Muppet Show (2026 Special)
[00:00:00] Paul Scheer: It's a Cinderella story. Yucking people's yums and finding out a little bit about that ghost in Three Men and a Baby, all this and more on today's How Did This Get Made Last Looks, hit the theme.
[00:00:15] Music: [Last Looks Intro Song]
[00:00:15] Paul Scheer: Hello to all my nuns out there wearing thongs. I'm your host Paul Scheer and welcome to How Did This Get Made Last Looks where you, the listener, get to voice your issues on the classic Discord pick, Shoot 'Em Up. A movie that Discord user Ghost Bag thinks, should have had the tagline,
[00:00:33] "Shoot 'em up. Let the bodies hit the floor."
[00:00:36] Thank you. Ghost bag for that alt movie tagline does not sound as good without hearing it with that music behind it. Let's try it one more time.
[00:00:45] "Shoot 'em up. Let the bodies hit the floor."
[00:00:49] There we go a little bit better. Thank you, Scott. And a big shout out to Latex Drool for that opening theme song. Remember, if you have an alt movie tagline or a title, submit it to us on the discord at Discord.gg/HDTGM
[00:01:01] And if you have a Last Looks theme song, go to HDTGM.com and click on the submit a song button on our homepage. Remember, keep 'em short people. Brevity is the soul of wit. Uh, coming up on today's episode, we'll be hearing all your corrections and omissions on Shoot 'Em Up, and hopefully some apologies as well.
[00:01:20] Then Jason will stop by for Just Chat, where we will talk about a ton of fun stuff like this amazing script read that I did written, uh, by Dan Erickson, the creator of Severance about the ghost. From Three Men and a Baby. Yeah, we'll talk about that. We will also talk about some crazy Dinosaur shows where the audience members got a little bit outta control.
[00:01:43] And I will give my spoiler free review of the new Ryan Gosling movie Project Hail Mary. Uh, Lord Miller, you did it again. Uh, then we recommend movies, and TV shows we are currently loving. Uh, and lastly, as always, I will reveal the movie for next week's episode. By the way, How Did This Get Made is coming back to Largo on April Fools. That's right. 4/1 we'll be there. Jason and I, maybe June, possibly not. Uh, Jason and I and a special guest is how we're billing it. You can get tickets right now. Uh, there's also a Dinosaur show me, Jason, Rob Huebel uh, a bunch of really funny people. Uh, on 3/26. It's a Thursday. We've been selling out all these Dinosaur shows in Los Angeles at Largo.
[00:02:27] It has been so much fun. And, uh, just a shout out to myself. Uh, the New York Times wrote about that documentary I made about Taylor Swift, which was a real treat. Uh, honestly, uh, I geeked out about it. It was really awesome. So, um, if you have not watched that, it's on my website. Just PaulScheer.com. And remember, people were always putting up new merch in the shop, so go get it.
[00:02:51] Alright, let's get into it. Uh, last week, we talked about a movie that you selected, Shoot 'Em Up. We had questions, I think, or we really just had a lot of flowers to throw at it. Um, but maybe we missed a couple things. Maybe there are a couple things that we didn't quite get. Here is your chance to set us straight. Fact check us if you will. Tell us why you thought this was a good How Did This Get Made movie. It is now time for Corrections and Omissions.
[00:03:23] Music: [Corrections and Omissions Song]
[00:03:25] Paul Scheer: Thank you John Cohen for that theme song. Let's go to the Discord,
[00:03:30] "Monica Bellucci's character's full name is Donna Quintano, which seems ordinary on the surface, but I noticed that the movie's subtitles shortened her name to DQ, which is the same abbreviation for Dairy Queen. I feel like this has to be another tongue in cheek reference made by the writer about all the lactation in the movie."
[00:03:51] Oh, wow. Fun Facts 47. I know I didn't give you credit at the top, but I'm giving you credit now. What a great find. Uh, also,
[00:03:58] "The ice cream parlor at the end of the movie is called Dream Queen, which is another DQ."
[00:04:04] Holy shit, FunFacts. Nailing it right outta the gate. Grayest Hound writes,
[00:04:08] "Not only did MythBusters test the bullets firing between the finger scene, they also tested if you could shoot a merry-go-round to make it move."
[00:04:16] I love MythBusters and I love that they focused on this movie in particular. Uh,
[00:04:21] "Big surprise, it did not work."
[00:04:23] Yeah, of course not. The bullets are not gonna make a merry-go-round. Go around. Uh, the MythBusters found the bullets went right through the handles, and the team had to add heavy duty plates. As a surface for the bullets, and even then it didn't work really well. Well, thank you Gracetown, uh, for letting us know a little bit more of Myth Busters lore, but that must mean that the Myth Busters are in the Discord, uh, because they, uh, they selected that movie to focus on out of all the movies.
[00:04:50] They've only focused on a handful. That's one they picked. Uh, Unevolved Panda wrote
[00:04:55] "Regarding the baby, uh, carrot tangent. Baby carrots are carrots harvested before reaching maturity and sold at a smaller size. However, Jason was correct that what we mostly see in grocery stores are baby cut carrots. They are marketed as baby carrots, but are actually just full grown carrots cut down to the smaller size. They were developed as a way to sell broken or misshapen carrots that were previously being thrown away in order to prevent food waste. I have no idea if that's still true though, especially as they seem to have taken over the carrot market."
[00:05:25] Well look, I'm gonna tell you that I saw some really baby uh, corn the other day. Uh, some I don't. I think on another show we were talking about baby corn, so let's get into the baby fruit and vegetable market. I need to find out more, but I understand it the way that you understand it. Unevolved Panda that is just a big carrot cut down to a smaller one. Makes more sense. Alright. For more carrot talk.
[00:05:47] Oh, can't have enough carrot talk. Let's go to the phones with Ryan from Houston.
[00:05:53] Listener: Hey Paul, long time listener. Love the show I was calling about, uh, Shoot 'Em Up episode. Just wanted to let y'all know with the recurring carrot gag. The fact that carrots improve your eyesight is actually just a myth. Uh, it comes from World War Ii.
[00:06:10] Uh, British pilots were shooting down, uh, German aircraft, uh, bombers in the middle of the night, and it was because of radar and it was a technology that the British wanted to keep a secret from the Nazis. So they spread the word through propaganda that their pilots were just really good at seeing in the dark because of all the carrots that they were eating.
[00:06:32] Um, anyways, just thought that that would be a fun fact to share. Um, keep up the good work. Bye.
[00:06:38] Paul Scheer: Oh my God, Ryan, I, I love this story. This is why, uh, history is just fascinating. What a beautiful and crazy lie. Uh. Really, really, uh, I'm just, you know what? I'm impressed that you knew it. Now I feel like I can share that at a dinner party and not give you any credit for it. Ryan, I'm sorry. Uh, thank you Ryan for that, but Scott, our producer does wanna note. That while carrots don't improve eyesight, they are rich in betacarotene, which helps people maintain good eyesight as they age. Now, it sounds to me like Scott's just watched too many, uh, you know, Centrum commercials, but Scott, I don't know if you are Overcorrecting Ryan, but I, I, I feel like we're working together.
[00:07:23] I'm gonna say that Scott and Ryan worked together to give us some more information about carrots. Okay. When I saw this next person on the list, I was excited. And you know what? Uh, it's, it's, it was worth it. Uh, Jafar, what do you got?
[00:07:36] Listener: Hey Paul, it's Jafar. I'm at the risk of attracting even more freaks on Discord.
[00:07:41] I just wanted to call in with a few notes on lactation kinks. Um, first of all. We don't kink shame, we kink wonder why. Um, it did skew a little towards kink shaming, it felt like. So what's depicted in the movie, um, is more of like an age play thing with a lactation dynamic. You have the guy wearing a diaper, you have the big crib, um, you have the, the bottles.
[00:08:09] Um, and that fetish can kind of exist with or without the lactation element. Um, it really just kind of, um, mostly depends on if lactation is, um, happening with the woman. Um, you guys were also like wondering how the lactation occurs. Um, a lot of times it is a woman who's had a baby recently or who like maintains lactation by, um, regularly expressing or having, um, the milk expressed.
[00:08:35] You can also induce lactation just kind of by, um, using pumps and or other. Types of suction, um, to kind of maintain a regular schedule with that until milk comes in, um, with or without hormonal supplements. Um, yeah, so like on the other end of the spectrum without the age play element, there are adult nursing relationships, which is kind of more of a like bonding sort of thing.
[00:09:00] Um, it doesn't have as much of like a maternal, uh, child element to it. And is more of just kind of like setting aside time for like bonding one-on-one, that sort of thing. Um, why I know this isn't important, also not for nothing. I'm the one who nominated The Core in the movie recommendation thread, um, because someone made me watch it on a second date a few months ago and, uh, I still think you guys should do it.
[00:09:26] Okay, take care. Bye.
[00:09:27] Paul Scheer: First of all, great to hear your voice, Jafar. Second of all, I am fascinated with your dating life and weren't we engaged at a certain point? Now we're on a date. I don't know, I, maybe I'm messing up the timeline here. Um, you might not have been engaged. Maybe you were, I don't remember. I know we left you off at one point, but, uh, no one should ever make you watch The Core.
[00:09:49] Um, I say that, uh, you know. If you are out there on, uh, hinge, uh, Tinder, you know, whatever you're doing, plenty of fish. Is that a Christian mingle? Only Farmers? But don't make me watch The Core ever. Um. First of all, I want to get out in front of this and say, yes, I am sorry if we yucked anyone's yum. Not about that.
[00:10:13] We're not about that. And uh, I think that what we were saying was the way it was depicted in the film was border lining on grotesque. So, uh, that. You know, it wasn't the base level idea of it as much as it was the way that it was is being portrayed, but maybe, honestly, again, maybe that is yucking someone's yum.
[00:10:34] So Jafar, you've given me way more information than I ever needed, but honestly now. I think I did need it. I did. Uh, so I appreciate you chiming in with that and I appreciate you leading the charge with The Core and one time when we watch a two hour, uh, movie, it might be it. Um, alright. Next from Indianapolis, we have Lindsay.
[00:10:56] Listener: Hi Paul. I am a pediatric oncologist and I was calling, uh, I'm just listening to the Shoot Em Up episode. So funny. Um, but I wanted to offer some insights about bone marrow transplant in pediatrics. Um, so you are correct that a newborn baby would not be a viable bone marrow donor. Um, I have seen children donate, actually not uncommonly matched sibling donation is often the best possible option for a kiddo with cancer. Um, and so I think probably the youngest donor I personally have known was maybe around six. Uh, the procedure is somewhat painful. Kids are put to sleep for it, um, with some sedation or anesthesia, but typically you go home the same day and only need something like acetaminophen for pain management.
[00:11:46] Um, but the other thing that I think is interesting from the perspective of Shoot Em Up is that umbilical cord blood can be used as, uh, as a donation for a patient who needs a bone marrow transplant. There are cord blood transplants, so maybe Clive Owen shouldn't have shot that cord. Um, anyway, those are my insights.
[00:12:07] Uh, love the show. Love you all, and thanks for making my road trip more fun this time. Take care.
[00:12:13] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh, Lindsey Pediatric Oncologist. Uh, thank you for all the work that you did. Do. And whenever I now hear pediatric oncologist, I think of that hilarious episode in The Studio, which if you've not seen, uh, watch that episode, I believe it is called, uh,
[00:12:29] Pediatric Oncologist, uh, one of my favorite ones from season one. Um, okay. First of all, thank you, uh, for this is crazy and you know, this is another reason to maybe, uh, store, uh, cord blood. We did that with our kids. We have a, we had a cord blood thing. Uh, so great. Uh, and, and you know what, I'm glad Lindsay, you brought some attention to Clive Owen wasting that cord blood. Oh man, he should have kept it in his pocket and chewed on that all movie, uh, beef jerky. Anyway, what a, this has been a wildly lovely bunch of people. Let's see if Jay continues the trend.
[00:13:06] Listener: Hey Paul. Maybe Jason, uh, this is just something for the Shoot Em Up episode. You guys just did. Uh, actually work for a certain federal agency that regulates firearms, and, uh, had been doing that for a better part of a decade.
[00:13:17] Uh, obviously this movie wasn't interested in making a ton of sense, obviously, which is part of its charm, but I can tell you that Jason was absolutely correct about their not being ammunition present in a firearms manufacturer. Uh, while many do actually make ammunition addition, they that these factories actually as well as major distributors, are very strict about an anti ammunition policy, all in the presence of firearms, obviously with good reason, as you can imagine.
[00:13:39] And again, considering they're a dirty manufacturer, I guess they don't care. So I guess that's one we're, you know, just something to notice. Anyway, thanks, uh, thanks for everything. Your podcast always cheers me up and makes me laugh. Thanks you guys. Bye.
[00:13:50] Paul Scheer: Ah, Jay. I love it. Yes. You all have brought so much to the table.
[00:13:55] Actually more than I've ever expected. And this maybe is why the Discord is great because when you select a movie, you bring in the facts. Jay, thank you for your work. Uh, and yeah, I think we, we feel like we've now got all of our questions answered by the nicest group of people, so thank you, Ryan, Jafar, Lindsay, and Jay.
[00:14:16] Now back to the Discord Jenin ABQ writes,
[00:14:20] "Tall John must have been mistaken about Paul Giamatti accepting an Oscar for Sideways with his Shoot Em Up character's disheveled hair, and goatee. He did not win an Oscar for Sideways and wasn't even nominated for that role. He's never won an Oscar, but was nominated for Cinderella Man and The Holdovers. He has won Golden Globes SAG Awards, critics Choice Awards, and an. Emmy."
[00:14:39] Okay, so, look, I'm only as good as the notes in front of me when we're doing the show, uh, as we found out with, uh, Hard Target. But Scott clarifies, I did some digging and Shoot Em Up, was filming during the 2006 Oscars where Giamatti was nominated for Cinderella Man, and his hair at the ceremony matches. So the gist of the story is true, but the details are wrong. But it, it's the same story. He went to the Oscars, uh, dressed as his character and there's pictures of him. He didn't win, but he was on stage. He got pictures. I am gonna say Scheer, your story checks out. Thank you, Paul.
[00:15:19] Um, Repo Man Ish writes,
[00:15:21] "Omission. Perhaps it's worth noting that the cinematographer of this film was Hong Kong veteran Peter Paul, who lensed John Woo's classic, The Killer, Ronnie Yu's cult favorite Bride of Chucky, and then rightly won best cinematography Oscar for his breakthrough work on Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and according to Wikipedia, there's even an asteroid named after him."
[00:15:45] Wow. Repo Manish. You know what I'm gonna say this. Every single one of you came to play. You didn't pick weird details. You, you found the real stuff. And you know what? Discord, you picked this movie and this week there isn't gonna be one winner. It is gonna be all of you because the power of you all is great.
[00:16:06] That's right. So Repo Mannish, Jenin ABQ, Jay, Lindsay, Jafar, Scott. Unevolved Panda Grayest Hound. Fun facts. You are all winners, and for that, you get this song by John Winzel. Hit it.
[00:16:22] Music: You win.
[00:16:23] Paul Scheer: Thank you John, for that song. And remember, if you wanna chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up our discord or call us at six one nine P-A-U-L-A-S-K. Stick around because after the break Jason will pop in for a chat and just a warning, uh, things are gonna get raunchy.
[00:16:37] Yeah, actually. It's surprisingly so.
[00:16:41] Welcome back everybody. As you know, every week we go into the vault to pull out a classic episode. This past week we pulled out John Carpenter's Escape from LA with Darcy Cardin and Dan Levy. If you've not listened, it's a great one, and coming up next week, it will be the Avengers that's 1990's Avengers with Uma and Raf. Uh, and we have a special guest, Tom Sharping. We did that live at the New York Comedy Festival, I think. Uh, I love Tom, love The Best Show. If you've not heard of The Best Show, look it up. You will, uh, you will enjoy it. If you're a fan of Comedy Bang Bang, you will love Tom Sharpling's The BestShow.
[00:17:15] Alright, without any further ado, it is now time to welcome Jason to Last Looks for little Just Chat. Alright, John Cohen play us in.
[00:17:33] Music: [Just Chat Intro Song].
[00:17:35] Paul Scheer: Jason. How are you?
[00:17:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Paul. Boy, so thrilled to be talking to you from the confines of my closet once again, my cozy closet.
[00:17:43] Paul Scheer: Yes, you are back.
[00:17:46] Jason Mantzoukas: We're back baby.
[00:17:46] Paul Scheer: In undisclosed location.
[00:17:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Yep.
[00:17:49] Paul Scheer: Uh, happy to have you.
[00:17:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Thrilled to be here.
[00:17:52] Paul Scheer: How was the end of your Broadway run?
[00:17:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh boy. You know what it was, I was really sad at the end because I had a blast.
[00:18:01] Paul Scheer: Seems like such a fun time.
[00:18:02] Jason Mantzoukas: I had so much fun. There were, um, uh, some, How Did This Get Made fans absolutely came out. Somebody yelled Geo Storm, uh, at one of the shows. Uh.
[00:18:13] Paul Scheer: Okay. So how do you react to that?
[00:18:14] Jason Mantzoukas: I could hear it.
[00:18:15] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:18:16] Jason Mantzoukas: I could hear it. I react a little bit, but not, you know, it wasn't overwhelming. I will say. No, it's not like somebody was trying to do it in the middle of the show or something. It was, it was at an appropriate time and I just let it be.
[00:18:28] Paul Scheer: I, I told you, I think about the time I went to go see Glen Garry, Glen Ross, and it was the last version of it where it was all stars.
[00:18:37] Not the one that just happened with Kiernan Culkin, but this is one with Alan Alda that was in it.
[00:18:42] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes. I remember this.
[00:18:43] Paul Scheer: And uh, you know, a handful of other people. And in the middle of that, in a moment of silence, someone yells out, Hawkeye.
[00:18:53] Jason Mantzoukas: What? Wow.
[00:18:56] Paul Scheer: Like, so like someone yelled out a mash reference in the middle.
[00:19:01] Jason Mantzoukas: That's incredible. That's, nobody did that. Thank God nobody did that. It was at like the, so I heard it when, so when I was introduced and like at the end, the, the, the, the, the times when it would be appropriate.
[00:19:13] Paul Scheer: I, I like that. I like that.
[00:19:14] Jason Mantzoukas: But it was a blast. The show was so fun. I will say the event of doing it every night of the week made me want us to do like a residency somewhere, you know? Like wanted me.
[00:19:27] Paul Scheer: I know, I know. That's what seems so fun.
[00:19:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Made me wanna do our show night after night after night without having to travel. Like we go on tour and do the show night after night, but it's, there's always a tremendous amount of travel and.
[00:19:39] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:19:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Packing and unpacking and repacking in new hotels. I was like, wow, I'd love to be walking into this theater and doing, How Did This Get Made every night for a week.
[00:19:48] Paul Scheer: Oh, well, you know what? I actually had a similar experience of doing a show night after night, which was, I was in Telluride. We often go together to Telluride to do these shows, and I gotta tell you, this Telluride Comedy Festival is a blast.
[00:20:02] It is, uh, a group of us. We're all friends. Jason's normally there, and we do different kind of shows every single night to this town that is just a fun ski town on President's Day weekend. But the problem with Telluride this year was there was no snow.
[00:20:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Ugh.
[00:20:19] Paul Scheer: So people were getting antsy. It's like the entire town is an alcoholic waiting for that. Like, when is it five o'clock so I can actually have my, my drink.
[00:20:32] Jason Mantzoukas: No, it's so true. We have been going to the, we've been doing this festival. Our friend Jeb Berry shouts to Jeb Berry.
[00:20:38] Paul Scheer: Love Jeb.
[00:20:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, a real legend. Started this festival. You know, I'm in the early two thousands. We've been going for the better part of 20 plus years.
[00:20:46] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:20:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Every President's Day weekend we do it. And when there is not snow, the town is cranky. And that means the audience is not psyched.
[00:20:58] Paul Scheer: And you think the opposite because it's like, well we are giving you something to actually do. Like no.
[00:21:04] Jason Mantzoukas: No. We are just, no, they are, their whole life is snow dependent.
[00:21:09] Paul Scheer: And I don't know if I told you this, but we got lucky. Snow hit and it, it was a nice snow and then.
[00:21:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh good.
[00:21:15] Paul Scheer: Everyone got extremely happy.
[00:21:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:21:19] Paul Scheer: And then that became the other half of these nights there because we're doing.
[00:21:24] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, I'm so jealous.
[00:21:25] Paul Scheer: And the, the last night we were there. I was talking to the audience, it was like we're doing like a, essentially what we do for Dinosaur, uh, you know, what's new, what's this? And before I could even get out, like, what's something exciting that happened to you? Someone yells out, I got my ass eaten on Valentine's Day. And when I tell you, Jason, I looked at this young woman, I was like. If she was 22, I would've been shocked.
[00:21:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Sure, sure.
[00:21:52] Paul Scheer: And, and I was like, okay, let's hear about it.
[00:21:56] Jason Mantzoukas: Let's get into it.
[00:21:56] Paul Scheer: Then I heard so much about Hinge and then the town started, everyone in this theater, and this is like, like is a Sunday night show, an earlier show. Everyone weighed in on getting their ass eaten. It was the funniest, funniest thing to me that this one guy I spoke to in the very beginning, I said, what do you do, sir?
[00:22:16] He is like, I'm a fireman. And I was like, okay, great. You see, I would ask that kind of question.
[00:22:21] Jason Mantzoukas: Mm-hmm.
[00:22:21] Paul Scheer: And then, and then this woman's talking about getting her ass eaten and uh, and then the fireman's like. I do it. What? I was like.
[00:22:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Amazing. Was the handsome cop there?
[00:22:30] Paul Scheer: The handsome cop was not there. He was talked about.
[00:22:32] He was, yeah.
[00:22:33] Jason Mantzoukas: He was uh, he was referenced. Okay.
[00:22:34] Paul Scheer: He was referenced. But it was, it was one of.
[00:22:36] Jason Mantzoukas: My god.
[00:22:37] Paul Scheer: The funniest things. 'cause it felt like we went from this town that was angry and like a little on edge to all of a sudden this entire audience all celebrating getting laid.
[00:22:48] Jason Mantzoukas: The, the catharsis of the snow brought about people getting laid.
[00:22:53] Paul Scheer: And it was wonderful. And then when I tell you, when I looked at that fireman, the last thing, if you would've given me a list of all the things he could have chimed in on. Getting, eating ass was not gonna be in the top 100.
[00:23:05] Jason Mantzoukas: It's such a, I think this is a real, like there is some sort of age, uh, demarcation line for eating ass. 'Cause I feel like the younger generation is all about eating ass and the older generation is like, I don't know what you're talking about. It has the, it has re, and I'm saying this because recently it has been a very big topic of conversation on the Howard Stern Show.
[00:23:29] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:23:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Because a bunch of the younger staffers, the writers and the producers and so forth are saying, no, no, this is normal. This is a normal thing. And all of the older people are like, are you kidding? That is not at all a, one of the normal components of hooking up. What, what are you talking about? And, and they have been talking about it in this same kind of, uh, uh, hilarious way.
[00:23:55] Paul Scheer: Well, this is like, it, it was amazing to watch everybody chime in. And again, this is not the show where you come to hear Jason and I talk about like the, uh, ass eating culture, but I was, it was just one of those things that just like, it, like.
[00:24:10] Jason Mantzoukas: I love it.
[00:24:10] Paul Scheer: And hearing that on Stern was just making me laugh. I was like, wow. It's a, it's a different.
[00:24:14] Jason Mantzoukas: It's a, it is the con this is the conversation that people want to be having about modern sexual moors. And what are the, and because I think like when you talk about like, what are the bases. You know, like, yeah, when we were kids, first base was like kiss. French kissing.
[00:24:29] Paul Scheer: Yeah exactly.
[00:24:29] Jason Mantzoukas: I think first base is like, like full penetrative sex now. You know? Like I think, I think.
[00:24:35] Paul Scheer: Oh, I mean, I remember a time.
[00:24:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Eating is second base.
[00:24:37] Paul Scheer: I remember like a time when you would say you hooked up with somebody and that just meant that you like.
[00:24:42] Jason Mantzoukas: Fooled around.
[00:24:42] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Fooled around.
[00:24:43] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:24:43] Paul Scheer: Like now it's like.
[00:24:44] Jason Mantzoukas: And fooled around just meant like first and second base.
[00:24:47] Paul Scheer: A hundred percent.
[00:24:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Which was all like kissing and over the shirt stuff.
[00:24:51] Paul Scheer: I mean, this is, this is, we've lived through a lot and that's, uh, why I do wanna announce to our audience that, uh, How Did This Get Made is changing its title to How Did This Ass GetEaten.
[00:25:00] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:25:01] Paul Scheer: Uh, and we.
[00:25:02] Jason Mantzoukas: And every episode we're gonna seek to get to the bottom of it.
[00:25:06] Paul Scheer: Uh.
[00:25:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Sadly, the only episode, we can only do that one episode of Girls.
[00:25:13] Paul Scheer: Now, I, I wanna apologize to you,Jason. I know that you've been, uh, working really hard to buy, uh, Warner Brothers, and I know that that felt through for you.
[00:25:21] Jason Mantzoukas: It's such a bummer.
[00:25:23] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:25:23] Jason Mantzoukas: So bummed. I've been really working hard to buy, uh, Warner Brothers on the cheap, you know, uh, Zuccs and Zaz. You know, we go back, we go way back. You know.
[00:25:31] Paul Scheer: You guys are great.
[00:25:32] Jason Mantzoukas: We we're, we're the best, uh, together, you know, and I'm, so, I'm super bummed. I was wanting to get that Warner Brothers purchase. I'm wanting to grab it up, but, you know, I get it. You know, uh, Netflix was in the mix for a while, and then the Ellisons, and they swooped right in, you know?
[00:25:47] Paul Scheer: And I mean, when people were saying your offer was very low, I mean, you were saying.
[00:25:51] Jason Mantzoukas: My offer was very low.
[00:25:52] Paul Scheer: Yeah. You were. Yeah. It was like a couple thousand bucks you were saying.
[00:25:54] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. And, and quite a bit of it was, um, was funny money.
[00:25:58] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:25:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Was, was, was, was was old funny money from strip clubs that have long closed.
[00:26:04] Paul Scheer: All the Scores dollars.
[00:26:06] Jason Mantzoukas: I've got so many Scores funny monies.
[00:26:10] Paul Scheer: I used to work next to Scores.
[00:26:12] Jason Mantzoukas: Really?
[00:26:12] Paul Scheer: And Oh yeah, I worked next to Scores, uh, which was a, a very famed and popular.
[00:26:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Again, Howard Stern show reference.
[00:26:20] Paul Scheer: Yes. Uh, but in, but in New York City at that time, it was like the creme de la creme of strip. It was like a.
[00:26:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:26:29] Paul Scheer: Quote unquote classy Strip club. And I was working at a comedy theater right around the corner, but the common denominator was, uh, you know, 25 feet from where I was working. And 25 feet from where Scores was, was a pizza place on the corner. And we went and, and so
[00:26:43] Jason Mantzoukas: I love it.
[00:26:43] Paul Scheer: It, and because we were all just working, like you would see all the people in there.
[00:26:48] Jason Mantzoukas: For sure.
[00:26:48] Paul Scheer: And, uh, I remember one time, uh, one of the bouncers was trying to pay for his pizza and did accidentally give funny money.
[00:26:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, I love it. I love it.
[00:26:57] Paul Scheer: And they're like, oh wait, what's this? He is like, oh, I'm so sorry buddy. I, I, I gotta take that back.
[00:27:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Amazing.
[00:27:04] Paul Scheer: Uh, 'cause you could only spend funny money inside, uh.
[00:27:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Of course.
[00:27:07] Paul Scheer: Scores. That was the that was the, uh, that was the, that was the real, the, the thing.
[00:27:11] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh god.
[00:27:12] Paul Scheer: Um, well, well, well, there has been, been.
[00:27:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, well, what, what has been happening with you, Paul?
[00:27:18] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh. You know, so much.
[00:27:19] Jason Mantzoukas: While I have been on the road, what has been happening?
[00:27:22] Paul Scheer: Oh, my, you know, there, I, I will tell you this much. I got to see Project Hail Mary.
[00:27:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh.
[00:27:28] Paul Scheer: I've seen it twice.
[00:27:28] Jason Mantzoukas: So jealous.
[00:27:29] Paul Scheer: I've seen it twice now. Uh, I saw it.
[00:27:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Did you read the book?
[00:27:33] Paul Scheer: I did not read the book.
[00:27:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay, great.
[00:27:35] Paul Scheer: But the Audible book is fantastic, and they're a great sponsor for us.
[00:27:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay. I'll read the, I'll do the audio book then. Great.
[00:27:41] Paul Scheer: But. I saw the movie in a rougher state.
[00:27:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay.
[00:27:45] Paul Scheer: No special effects done. The music wasn't perfect and it was running a little bit longer than it was. And I went into that theater going, oh, I gotta pee. You know what, I'll just hold it. I can always get up in the middle of the movie.
[00:27:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.
[00:27:58] Paul Scheer: And I had to pee a lot. The movie, when I saw it was like almost three hours.
[00:28:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:28:03] Paul Scheer: And. I watch that movie and I forgot that I had to pee.
[00:28:07] Jason Mantzoukas: That's incredible. There is no way at 53 now that I could go three hours if I went in knowing I had to pee. I don't know if that I could make it 15 minutes.
[00:28:17] Paul Scheer: I was, I was having a freak out because then all of a sudden, yeah. Uh, Lord and Miller, uh, I love those guys. They came down and they were talking. I was like, maybe I should pee now. But I had worked myself too far into a row to casually get up, and I was like, and then I was like, oh, uh, and then the movie started and I forgot. So That's that's great. That is my highest level of.
[00:28:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:28:35] Paul Scheer: And that was the rough cut.
[00:28:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:28:37] Paul Scheer: And I brought my sons to go see at, at Imax, uh, for another little special screening and, um. I will tell you this. Without, I don't wanna spoil anything about the movie. I want everyone to enjoy it and make their own opinions of it. Uh, Gus, my oldest son, looked over to me at one point and said, this is my favorite movie ever.
[00:28:57] Jason Mantzoukas: Whoa.
[00:28:57] Paul Scheer: And I was like, whoa. And then as we were leaving, Sam said, that was the funniest movie I've ever seen and it made me cry five times.
[00:29:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.
[00:29:08] Paul Scheer: And I was like.
[00:29:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Now I will say they have not yet seen Infinite. So.
[00:29:11] Paul Scheer: Right. So, yes, that might, we are gonna, we are gonna, and I was waiting.
[00:29:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Might change.
[00:29:15] Paul Scheer: I didn't wanna Gil the Lily and, and show it to them first so they'd have a letdown.
[00:29:19] Jason Mantzoukas: But I love that. I love this.
[00:29:21] Paul Scheer: And on the way home and on the way home, they said, what was your, like, who's your favorite person?
[00:29:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:29:26] Paul Scheer: And they go, well, Glen Powell. Uh, and then they list off two other characters, and I won't tell you 'cause it would be spoilers. And they go, well, Glen Powell's not in it. And they're like, what? I was like, that's Ryan Gosling. And they're like, oh, oh, I thought that was Glen Powell. Now.
[00:29:41] Jason Mantzoukas: This whole time. Oh my God.
[00:29:43] Paul Scheer: Now the funnier part of that is, oh, throughout the whole summer whenever we saw a poster for Running Man, they're like, I wanna see that Ryan Gosling movie.
[00:29:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, weird. They've got, they've flipped them.
[00:29:53] Paul Scheer: They've flipped the two guys.
[00:29:57] I'll tell you one other thing that I think you'll enjoy, so, last night I was asked to, uh, do this live table read. Um, and I can talk about it. 'cause it's, it's, it's out in the open for Dan Erickson. Darren Erickson is the, the guy who wrote Severance, created Severance.
[00:30:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Great.
[00:30:15] Paul Scheer: Uh, great. Very talented guy. And he'd written this script about 10 years ago. And I don't know if you know about this, but you know about the, um, The Baby, like the ghost baby in Three Men and a Baby. You ever hear that rumor?
[00:30:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, um. No. Yes, but I don't know this story.
[00:30:30] Paul Scheer: Alright, so basically there was a thing when I was a kid that you could see a ghost in the reflection of a window in Three Men and a Baby. And this is the time before the internet. And you know, you couldn't like screen grab and it was, you know, so this rumor of there's a baby and there was then, then you would see it. Oh my gosh, I see it, I see it, I see it. Now, the conventional wisdom is, it is a standi Ted Danson that was, uh, put behind a set, but, but the window was an exterior window, so the Standi was misplaced. The light hits it. It's Ted Danson. But.
[00:31:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, it's a, there is something there, but it's not a ghost. It is just this piece of like a marketing material that inadvertently gets reflected. Right.
[00:31:13] Paul Scheer: So, yes. Yeah. So Dan has written this script about. Three Men and a Baby, uh, where the leads are Steve Gutenberg, Ted Danson, and uh, and, uh, Tom Selleck on top of a Hell Mouth in Hollywood.
[00:31:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Great.
[00:31:27] Paul Scheer: And this baby is real.
[00:31:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Great.
[00:31:30] Paul Scheer: And this story is real. It is a very, very funny script. Funny. And so last night we did a read and, uh, I got to play Leonard Nemoy, the director of Three Men and a Baby.
[00:31:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Great.
[00:31:39] Paul Scheer: And Randall Park played, uh, Ted Danson. Kumil played, uh, Tom Sellek. Steve Gutenberg played Steve Gutenberg.
[00:31:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Amazing.
[00:31:48] Paul Scheer: Gutenberg came in to reprise his role.
[00:31:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's great.
[00:31:52] Paul Scheer: Not even reprise his role, to play Steve Gutenberg. And it was.
[00:31:55] Jason Mantzoukas: That's great.
[00:31:56] Paul Scheer: Truly one of the most bananas funny things I have ever. 'Cause it's like, it's like one of those scripts that you write to be like, oh, Dan's great. He's funny and he can write a horror and he could do whatever. And to have Steve Gutenberg reading the most, I mean, it's heightened characters. And it was, it was a, it was a real. Real, real treat. It's a crazy.
[00:32:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's so cool.
[00:32:19] Paul Scheer: Movie. I think you could probably even find it out online. 'cause I, I don't know even how this got out.
[00:32:24] Jason Mantzoukas: The, the, the live read?
[00:32:25] Paul Scheer: No, the, the actual script.
[00:32:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, the script.
[00:32:27] Paul Scheer: If you wanna find the, the script.
[00:32:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay, cool.
[00:32:28] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Uh, because it was not taped. It was a benefit.
[00:32:31] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:32:31] Paul Scheer: Uh, but it was, it's public, so I could, I could talk about it in that way. I don't think anyone's making.
[00:32:35] Jason Mantzoukas: Sure. Sure.
[00:32:36] Paul Scheer: I, I would hope they would, but I, I think a lot of issues would come into play.
[00:32:41] Jason Mantzoukas: I think that's, well, it reminds me of the Fast Nine.
[00:32:45] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:32:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Read we did.
[00:32:46] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:32:46] Jason Mantzoukas: And that script, you know that, that taking a funny, weird lateral thinking idea and treating it like a real thing. I'm, this is a, and then doing it. I love that.
[00:32:58] Paul Scheer: It's really, it was really fun and I was enamored to see him.
[00:33:02] Jason Mantzoukas: I love that.
[00:33:02] Paul Scheer: One of the best, uh, moments of it was, you know, Steve was so nice and so funny.
[00:33:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:33:06] Paul Scheer: And he played the parts, so the parts really written perfectly for him. And he's like, you guys really captured our voices. And I was laughing 'cause I think he really just thought the script was really funny and it felt like it was this thing. But in the, in the script, Tom Selleck is just snorting cocaine all the time and fucking anything.
[00:33:24] Jason Mantzoukas: Everybody.
[00:33:25] Paul Scheer: And it's like,
[00:33:26] Jason Mantzoukas: I love this.
[00:33:26] Paul Scheer: And then I was like, and then part of me was like, did it, are they?
[00:33:30] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:33:30] Paul Scheer: Because maybe they are. No, but I think he was just, it was just being, uh, so appreciative of, uh, of everybody take the time out to do this thing. Oh, maybe me, I, I was like, but I thought of you because. It's so few people that, I mean, that movie burned is burned in my brain in a, in a way where it's like, oh yeah, that was the biggest hit.
[00:33:46] Jason Mantzoukas: A big movie movie.
[00:33:46] Paul Scheer: It was like a number one big movie.
[00:33:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Such a big movie. Such a big movie to have it spawn sequels for something that was not like, um, an action adventure, like a, it didn't, it was like such a small stake slice of life type of movie.
[00:34:03] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:34:03] Jason Mantzoukas: That was such a massive hit, you know.
[00:34:05] Paul Scheer: And, and, and also just like, really based on like, uh, like, just like, here's three cute guys.
[00:34:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:34:13] Paul Scheer: Like, what if they were, uh, taking care of baby?
[00:34:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Like a what if they had to take care of a baby?
[00:34:18] Paul Scheer: Oh my.
[00:34:18] Jason Mantzoukas: And they're men. That's like impossible.
[00:34:22] Paul Scheer: I mean, they, they're not gonna figure that out. No way.
[00:34:25] Jason Mantzoukas: No way. A baby will die, right?
[00:34:28] Paul Scheer: Oh my God.
[00:34:30] Jason Mantzoukas: It's really funny. I love that as an idea. I think that's great.
[00:34:33] Paul Scheer: Now I know that you've been, uh, doing some, shooting a little bit, uh, away doing some shooting.
[00:34:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:34:37] Paul Scheer: I don't know if you talk about it, but, uh, were you able to be catching up on anything, watching things?
[00:34:42] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, I've caught up on some stuff, but I'm behind on some stuff as well.
[00:34:45] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:34:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, I was doing, I was doing the play and then I was doing Percy Jackson, uh, finishing up season three of Percy Jackson, which I think is gonna be gangbuster stuff. Um. Uh, but, but it's interesting. While I was away, I think I talked about this actually when we last spoke.
[00:35:02] I've gotten like deep in, I got a Crunchy Roll subscription and I've gotten deep
[00:35:07] Paul Scheer: Oh yeah.
[00:35:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Into anime. Um, so like I was saying, I think the last time The Apothecary Diaries is a show that I like very much became obsessed with. Freiren season two is happening right now, week to week and is easily immediately, the best season of television this year. Will be number one on my list. Uh, it's incredible. Um, but then I've also been watching a couple of other shows that I think are fantastic, one of which is also happening week to week right now, and it's called Sentenced to Being a Hero, which is, so this falls into the category of, this is like action adventure. This isn't like fantasy character building. This is action adventure. Like fighting like a demon hoard and like being a hero is like the lowest of the low.
[00:35:58] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:35:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Like the, like it's a criminal sentence is to be, is to be told you're a hero. And the heroes ha are being sent into ba It's almost like suicide squad.
[00:36:06] Paul Scheer: Okay, got it.
[00:36:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Like, you know what I mean? The heroes are oftentimes bad guys or people who did bad things, but they have to then go and be, do acts of heroism, and it's fantastic and it's visually very cool and beautiful.
[00:36:22] Paul Scheer: I, I am, uh, I am psyched. I, I have to get into this and maybe I have to find my kids way into it, because I may have talked about this before, but my kids are very much into Jackass right now.
[00:36:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Great.
[00:36:33] Paul Scheer: So we are watching
[00:36:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's great.
[00:36:35] Paul Scheer: So much Jackass. They still have not like crossed over to thinking that things are, that are not animated. Like, they're like, it's animated. It's for kids. We're not kids. We watch adult stuff.
[00:36:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Got it.
[00:36:47] Paul Scheer: But they understand like my youngest son wanted like a Naruto sweatshirt.
[00:36:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Sure.
[00:36:52] Paul Scheer: But he is never watched an episode.
[00:36:54] Jason Mantzoukas: That's interesting.
[00:36:55] Paul Scheer: And Gus loves wearing his like One Piece t-shirt, but is no clue what that is.
[00:37:00] Jason Mantzoukas: But no interest in One Piece that, that's so curious. But I under, I do understand. 'cause I remember feeling this way too, like, oh, cartoons are for kids. I don't do that anymore.
[00:37:08] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:37:08] Jason Mantzoukas: I watch, I watch MASH now. You know what I mean?
[00:37:11] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:37:12] Jason Mantzoukas: Speaking of Hawkeye. You know, um, I don't watch, uh, cartoons anymore.
[00:37:16] Paul Scheer: Yeah, and that's, and like I feel like that was, like for me when I was a kid, there were, cartoons weren't even on the table as like, it was like Saturday morning cartoons. That was it. You're not like, really? Yeah.
[00:37:24] Jason Mantzoukas: That was, there was no such thing. Even, I will say, I remember very vividly in college having a reaction to The Simpsons. Oh yeah. And being like. Well, I don't understand. Why would I be watching a cartoon in like prime time? Like that even for me was like, whoa, whoa, what's going on? And then I was like, oh wait, this is incredible. But my first instinct was to be like, why is Fox this new channel trying to push cartoons on us in, in prime time?
[00:37:49] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:37:49] Jason Mantzoukas: That felt strange, you know?
[00:37:51] Paul Scheer: And then I would argue that we were the beginning of that like new cartoon generation that has just grown and grown and grown. Yeah.
[00:37:57] Jason Mantzoukas: But yeah, built off of The Simpsons and then, you know, Family Guy and all the, and, and all the way through.
[00:38:03] Paul Scheer: Family Guy now has become another, we are watching really at random any Family Guy episode. Oh, wow. Which I've really not sat down and watched that many of, uh, yeah. And I've been enjoying those. And The Office, which I may have talked about last time, we were watching a lot of The Office.
[00:38:20] Jason Mantzoukas: Fun. That's a good one.
[00:38:21] Paul Scheer: Great. And as I said to Rob Huebel about it, I was like, it's a pretty funny show. I didn't like. Uh, and I, you know, like, I like, and I think The Office came out at a time where I just wasn't watching 22 episodes of television.
[00:38:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Same.
[00:38:37] Paul Scheer: A season. So I've watched a. Know all the dynamics. I know where the show goes, but, I guess, I don't know. I, there's so many holes in my office knowledge.
[00:38:46] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh no, there's, I'm, there are dozens and dozens of episodes of The Office that I've never seen for sure. It is not, it is not a show that I at all was completionist on.
[00:38:56] Paul Scheer: No.
[00:38:57] Jason Mantzoukas: You know?
[00:38:57] Paul Scheer: No. And it's been.
[00:38:58] Jason Mantzoukas: I think maybe I watched the first three seasons and then stopped.
[00:39:01] Paul Scheer: Well, and, and people say that season four is the best.
[00:39:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay, so maybe I watched the four seasons, but.
[00:39:06] Paul Scheer: You may not have.
[00:39:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Made something like that. I don't even know.
[00:39:09] Paul Scheer: I remember.
[00:39:09] Jason Mantzoukas: That's such a good point.
[00:39:10] Paul Scheer: Actually being mad at the first season of The Office because I love the British office so much and they copied the, the British office for the first six episodes.
[00:39:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Mm-hmm.
[00:39:19] Paul Scheer: And I was like, this is not the same. And I went back and watched it. I was like, holy shit, I can't believe they got this on network.
[00:39:24] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:39:25] Paul Scheer: Television. Like, because Michael Scott changes drastically between season one and season two.
[00:39:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:39:29] Paul Scheer: But wow. I was like, there. Like they, and they still push in different places that they, yeah. It just kind of makes you realize like how safe, uh, television has gotten in a weird way.
[00:39:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, it's crazy.
[00:39:41] Paul Scheer: And I know a lot people, people complain about that, but it's like, oh, I was like, oh, but you, this was done really, really well and really funny and it really holds up.
[00:39:49] Jason Mantzoukas: Like, oh yeah, well, remember, like there was a period there where like they were really loosening things up a little bit and you could even like going back to showing butts and calling people assholes on NYPD Blue in the late nineties. Like yeah, the early two thousands, like there was a certain sense of like pushing things and things evolving and not being so safe and puritanical. And we have really rebounded the other way now. Um, and everything feels much safer and much, much more bland and not interesting. Uh, shows without conflict, shows without, you know, that, that really don't at all come close to representing the world we live in.
[00:40:32] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:40:32] Jason Mantzoukas: You know?
[00:40:32] Paul Scheer: Yeah. You know, I thought to myself, I was like, oh, my kids aren't gonna like this show because they've never worked in an office. Yeah. And then I realized, oh, it's characters.
[00:40:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:40:42] Paul Scheer: And it, I know it's so silly to say, but it's like, oh, and that's something that we always are missing. It's like what we like, what we respond to are just characters. It doesn't make, like, at one point, uh, Gus turned to me, it was like. What do they do? I was like, they sell paper. Great. Like, what do you mean?
[00:40:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Who cares?
[00:40:55] Paul Scheer: Who cares? Doesn't make a difference.
[00:40:56] Jason Mantzoukas: And that's it. Yeah. You know, like, that's it. It's, it really is, even if we were to say like, oh, what are like the paper specific storylines of The Office? Almost none.
[00:41:06] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:41:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Like, that's genuinely not what it's about. Which is great.
[00:41:09] Paul Scheer: I know. It's such an interesting thing and it's like, and I, and I held off showing it to him for that reason alone.
[00:41:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:41:15] Paul Scheer: And, uh, yeah, so it's like, it's fun. It's fun to watch. This stuff, uh, through their eyes and what they are like, I, I just like, it gives you the different life.
[00:41:24] But it also is like, like I told you, They made the promise, so we couldn't watch anything before 2000 with them. Uh, which, but last night they broke their promises. They watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off and they enjoyed it.
[00:41:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Great.
[00:41:35] Paul Scheer: Yeah. So every now and then we get sneak one, sneak one down.
[00:41:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's a great one. Uh, I'll throw in a couple of more please. Uh, just 'cause I'm wondering if you guys watched, um. One of my favorite things for the year is gonna end up being the New Muppet Show. Did we talk about this?
[00:41:51] Paul Scheer: We, I don't think that we have. I think we may.
[00:41:53] Jason Mantzoukas: I don't think so.
[00:41:53] Paul Scheer: Teased it.
[00:41:54] Jason Mantzoukas: The New Muppet show that our friend Seth Rogan did that Alex Timbers directed who I, who just directed the play that I was in in New York. Um.
[00:42:02] Paul Scheer: My, uh, my cousin, uh, Muppeteer on.
[00:42:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Whoa.
[00:42:06] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:42:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Incredible.
[00:42:06] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:42:07] Jason Mantzoukas: And it is in every way, shape and form, the old seventies, eighties era Muppet Show of our childhood. It is a straight variety show, Muppet show. That is terrific.
[00:42:19] Paul Scheer: It's so good. And what I love about it is I think they didn't change anything and there's nothing dated about it. Muppet show was SNL, like for all intents and purposes it was SNL with a backstage component.
[00:42:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:42:33] Paul Scheer: And And the writing is really funny. It's not a kid thing. And that's the thing, it wasn't a kid show, and it is the first time my kids actually liked the Muppets because it felt like it was not a kid show.
[00:42:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes. Yeah, it's, it's great. Uh, Sabrina Carpenter is the guest. There's one episode of it up and I'm genuinely, I'm hoping this is a regular thing that they do more of these 'cause it's absolutely fantastic.
[00:42:58] Paul Scheer: I mean, it's built ready to go.
[00:43:00] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah. Um, there's a new season of Gendry Tartakovsky's show Primal.
[00:43:05] Paul Scheer: Oh yeah.
[00:43:05] Jason Mantzoukas: That is I think, a visual masterpiece that is absolutely incredible and goes absolutely crazy places. Um, Shoresy season four is up and out. The whole season is incredible.
[00:43:17] Paul Scheer: Did, did we talk?
[00:43:17] Jason Mantzoukas: Came out this week. We haven't talked about it, I don't think, because it only has just come out.
[00:43:21] Paul Scheer: Well, but I heard that you were at the hockey game.
[00:43:25] Jason Mantzoukas: I went to the hockey game.
[00:43:26] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:43:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes. I went to the hockey game, which was absolutely insane.
[00:43:31] Paul Scheer: So yeah, tell everybody about this. 'Cause this is.
[00:43:33] Jason Mantzoukas: So, the Shoresy Show, which I absolutely adore, um, I think is one of, you've heard Paul and I talk about it.
[00:43:39] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:43:39] Jason Mantzoukas: You've heard Paul and I talk about Letterkenny, which is the show that Shoresy grew out of. Um, Shorsey is the hockeys. The Canadian hockey sitcom with a heart of gold. So funny joke machine, but also a heartwarming story of like, like a, a grown men's hockey league, right? Recreational hockey league. And there did, they did a tour around promoting the new season, that was just them playing a hockey game.
[00:44:04] And so I went and watched them play a hockey game against the LA Kings, like seniors or whatever they're called, uh, just an exhibition game. And that was the show. It was just a h an afternoon hockey game. It was crazy. An absolute blast. Nobody talked, there was no performance element of it. It was just a, a hockey game.
[00:44:25] Paul Scheer: I was , that happened. And then people were asking me about it because we saw Jason and we saw Jason there. I was like, I, I, and I was like, and that I was like, and that to me solidified everything I needed to know about you and your fandom of this.
[00:44:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh my God.
[00:44:36] Paul Scheer: Because I was like, oh.
[00:44:37] Jason Mantzoukas: My God, that I would go to a sporting event.
[00:44:39] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:44:39] Jason Mantzoukas: Like, like I am so uninterested in sports. But I was like, this is, I'm just so curious what it is they're doing. 'Cause I was like, oh, are they gonna have microphones on? So, and they'll be trash talking. Nope. None of that. It was just, hockey game.
[00:44:54] Paul Scheer: Okay. Well then let me ask you this, 'cause this blew my mind as well and I'm a little behind.
[00:44:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:44:59] Paul Scheer: On a few things, but I did not realize that one of the writer directors
[00:45:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:45:07] Paul Scheer: Of Letterkenny.
[00:45:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:45:08] Paul Scheer: Created Heated Rivalry.
[00:45:10] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah. Jacob Tierney. Um, who is also Glenn on Letterkenny.
[00:45:15] Paul Scheer: Right. Yeah.
[00:45:15] Jason Mantzoukas: The, the, the priest, the pastor, uh, he, that is Jacob Tierney, who writes and directs Letterkenny, writes and directs Shorsey and then created Heated Rivalry.
[00:45:26] So Heated Rivalry and Shoresy are coming out of the same hockey, which. Like. Yeah. Pressure cooker.
[00:45:33] Paul Scheer: Blew my fucking mind. I was.
[00:45:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Incredible.
[00:45:37] Paul Scheer: Wait a second. And it was, I, I guess I just wasn't looking at any, 'cause he is not on Heated, I, I, I haven't seen Heated. I like, that's the other part of it I haven't seen heated Rivalry.
[00:45:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:45:46] Paul Scheer: So I was talking to a friend who went to the Olympics and he was like, oh yeah, I was with Jacob Tierney and I was like, oh, I like, I love, I, I love Letterkenny, I love Shoresy. He is like, oh. I go, well, why was he there though? And they, he did Rivalry. I was like, what? Wait, I, my jaw.
[00:46:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.
[00:46:03] Paul Scheer: I was like, on a hike and I had to like stop.
[00:46:04] Jason Mantzoukas: Right. Oh no. When I found that out too, I was like, oh, whoa. That's wild.
[00:46:08] Paul Scheer: And of course, and uh, and somebody like the, the story that I heard, I know of, I'm not talking outta school 'cause I think it's, it's a fine enough story is they're like, did you know that this is gonna be successful? He is like, oh, my gay hockey show? No.
[00:46:23] Jason Mantzoukas: Well that, that and, and like especially the gay hockey show that barely had like an American profile.
[00:46:29] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:46:29] Jason Mantzoukas: It was like a Canadian show. It was, it's so funny. It's so great.
[00:46:34] Paul Scheer: It, uh, really, uh, really wild. Uh, now that I went to an exhibition of that it was different. It was different.
[00:46:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Very different.
[00:46:42] Paul Scheer: No talking to the audience either. Uh, a lot of action. And it was beau, it was beautiful.
[00:46:46] Jason Mantzoukas: Beautiful. Beautiful.
[00:46:47] Paul Scheer: And so, I mean, who would've guessed people are going hockey games now. It's it's a, it's a thing.
[00:46:52] Jason Mantzoukas: I love it.
[00:46:52] Paul Scheer: It's great.
[00:46:52] Jason Mantzoukas: I love that hockey's taken off.
[00:46:54] Paul Scheer: Let's, let's do.
[00:46:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Let's, let's, let's make hockey our, our new national sport.
[00:46:58] Paul Scheer: I'm in. I'm all on board. Well, well then we have the issue with the men's hockey team. There's some issues there.
[00:47:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah, that's right. Get rid of it. Hockey's out.
[00:47:07] Paul Scheer: Alright, Jason, it's so good talking to you. We'll talk to you soon. That is a wrap on this week's Just Chat and if you want more recommendations, don't worry, jason will be back next Last Looks and we will run through a whole new slew of TV shows, movies, and books that we are currently loving. But enough about the Last Looks because right now we need to get first looks right. We're getting a brand new movie next week and it is time to announce what that movie is.
[00:47:30] That's right. Next week we are going from kidnap moms to Jerry Butler bombs. That's right. We'll be watching the 2009 action thriller, Law Abiding Citizen starring friend of the pod, Gerard Butler, Jamie Fox, Leslie Bibb, and Viola Davis. Here's a short breakdown of the plot.
[00:47:45] "After a plea bargain sets free one of the men who killed his family, a man unleashes vengeance on the killers, and the legal team responsible for the deal manipulating events, from his jail cell to expose the system's flaws."
[00:47:58] This was a fun episode and I gotta say, Rotten Tomatoes may have its head up its ass a little bit because they gave this film a 26% score on the tomato meter. And Robbie Collin from News of the World says,
[00:48:11] "If you want a crazy mix of Saw and Shawshank, where a lot of people get killed in nasty waves, and Gerard Butler gets his bum out, then this is a decent bet."
[00:48:20] You know what, Robbie Collin, I agree with you. It is a decent bet. Let's take a listen to the trailer.
[00:48:25] Trailer Audio: The Shelton case. Where are we?
[00:48:26] Let's make the deal.
[00:48:27] They killed a little girl.
[00:48:28] Some justice is better than no justice at all.
[00:48:30] You need to tell the husband.
[00:48:32] Now I don't understand.
[00:48:33] With Darby's testimony, Aims will go to death row.
[00:48:36] What?
[00:48:37] The jury's gonna believe me.
[00:48:38] But a deal was done.
[00:48:39] This is just how the justice system works.
[00:48:42] He killed my wife and child.
[00:48:44] What was supposed to be a painless execution has turned into something out of a horror film.
[00:48:49] The machine was corrupted.
[00:48:50] Who could have done this?
[00:48:52] I killed your friend Ames in prison, but I wanted to keep you all for myself.
[00:48:56] Paul Scheer: You can stream Law Abiding Citizen on AMC Plus and Philo, or you can rent it, really, uh, this is the way it works now. Everywhere. You could just rent it. I don't have to list it out anymore. We're like, we're not in the old days of like, where do I find it?
[00:49:11] Everywhere. Uh, alright. People, that's it for Last Looks. If you listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please rate and review us. Make sure that you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on. It helps to show and we appreciate it. Visit us on social media @HDTGM and a big thank you to our producer, Scott Sonne, Molly Reynolds, our engineer, Casey Holford, our social media manager, Zoe Applebaum, our intern Quinn Jennings. And of course, we will forever be thankful to the one and only Avaryl Halley. We will see you next week for Law Abiding Citizen. Bye for now.