Jason & Paul have a classic Just Chat where they recommend all the TV shows, movies, and comics they're currently loving (picks listed below!). But first, Paul answers all your Corrections & Omissions on Ice Cube's War of the Worlds and shares a bonus deleted scene from the episode. And as always, Paul announces next week's movie! Order Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon at: www.chroniclebooks.com/products/podcast-pantheon Attend a book signing in LA here: https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-09-25/sean-malin-podcast-pantheon-101 PAUL & JASON'S TV/MOVIE PICKS Andor (Season 2) Dark Winds Brooklyn 99 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Ballard The Naked Gun (2025) Ludwig The Comeback The Pitt Sherwood Wolf Hall MobLand Digman South Park King of the Hill (Season 14) Weapons Alone (Season 12) Étoile Killer of Killers JASON'S BRITISH PANEL SHOW PICKS Last One Laughing (UK Version) Would I Lie To You 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Big Fat Quiz of the Year PAUL'S COMIC BOOK PICKS Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King Helen of Wyndhorn by Tom King
Jason & Paul have a classic Just Chat where they recommend all the TV shows, movies, and comics they're currently loving (picks listed below!). But first, Paul answers all your Corrections & Omissions on Ice Cube's War of the Worlds and shares a bonus deleted scene from the episode. And as always, Paul announces next week's movie!
Order Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon at: www.chroniclebooks.com/products/podcast-pantheon
Attend a book signing in LA here: https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-09-25/sean-malin-podcast-pantheon-101
PAUL & JASON'S TV/MOVIE PICKS
Andor (Season 2)
Dark Winds
Brooklyn 99
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Ballard
The Naked Gun (2025)
Ludwig
The Comeback
The Pitt
Sherwood
Wolf Hall
MobLand
Digman
South Park
King of the Hill (Season 14)
Weapons
Alone (Season 12)
Étoile
Killer of Killers
JASON'S BRITISH PANEL SHOW PICKS
Last One Laughing (UK Version)
Would I Lie To You
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Big Fat Quiz of the Year
PAUL'S COMIC BOOK PICKS
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King
Helen of Wyndhorn by Tom King
[00:00:00] Paul Scheer: Okay, let's see here. Time to record today's Last Looks episode. Alright, on War of the Worlds. Okay. Yeah. Let's see here. I'm gonna open up my Dropbox folder. Download my script. Voicemail messages. The theme songs, wait, what the hell? Everything's gone. The corrections, the omissions, all the listener submitted theme songs, all of it's been erased.
[00:00:28] Oh man. If producer Scott accidentally deleted the Dropbox again, I'm gonna fire his hairy little ass.
[00:00:35] Scott. What's going on?
[00:00:37] Scott Sonne: Paul? Thank God.
[00:00:38] Paul Scheer: Where did all the Last Looks data go?
[00:00:41] Scott Sonne: I don't know. There's a fricking alien invasion, and I think they ate all our data.
[00:00:47] Paul Scheer: Aliens invading earth to eat data? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
[00:00:51] Movie Audio: I know it's stupid, Paul, but think about it. What better place to hunt for beloved data than 15 years worth of podcast assets in the How Did This Get Made Dropbox folder?
[00:01:02] Paul Scheer: I don't care. Scott, just get me the Last Looks data now.
[00:01:05] Movie Audio: The aliens are eating her and then they're going to eat me. Oh my God.
[00:01:11] Paul Scheer: Scott, move Scott. Get outta there. Run, run. Scott, get outta there.
[00:01:18] Scott Sonne: Ah, I'm dead.
[00:01:20] Paul Scheer: Oh, that didn't look good. Well, I mean, I really never liked Scott. I mean, everyone knows producer Molly's like the real backbone of the show anyway, so. Oh, and the trouble is without all the Last Looks data, am I supposed to respond to the listener corrections and omissions on War of the Worlds? A movie that Discord user Vinod S thinks should have had the tagline, "War of the Worlds: Straight Outta Comp-uters" Vinod.
[00:01:49] That's good. And how am I supposed to play my prerecorded Just Chat with Jason where we talk about all the TV and movies that we're currently obsessed with? And how am I supposed to end the episode by announcing next week's new movie? Oh, if only I could simply fix everything by saying, Hey, Amazon Alexa, recover all of the last looks data.
[00:02:13] Alexa: Last Looks, data recovered. Oh, I also destroyed all the aliens. Hooray, Amazon.
[00:02:19] Paul Scheer: Whoa. Thanks Alexa. I guess I can start doing the episode again. Alexa play opening theme to How Did This Get Made Last Looks.
[00:02:28] Alexa: Playing the How Did This Get Made opening theme song now.
[00:02:42] Music: [Last Looks Opening Song]
[00:02:50] Paul Scheer: Oh, yes. Thank you Tom McWaters for that opening theme song and RIP to our producer, Scott, but I'm glad the show will go on. It's all due to Alexa. You know, for a long time I thought War of the Worlds didn't make any sense, but now that I've lived through it, it makes every bit of sense.
[00:03:11] Now remember, if you have an alt movie tagline like Vinod S did, submit it to us on our discord at Discord.gg/HDTGM, and if you have a Last Looks episode theme song. Go to H-D-T-G-M and click submit a song. It's super easy. Now remember, keep these songs short. 15 to 20 seconds is best. Before we dive into corrections and omissions, just a heads up, How Did This Get Made is returning to Largo in Los Angeles on the 22nd and 23rd. There are still a few tickets available, but get 'em fast because they sell out. Quickly, dinosaur improv. Also be at Largo on the 18th with Jack McBrayer. That's right. Danielle Schneider from Bitch Sesh. Uh, Corinne Wells and Rob Riggle. It's going to be a fun one, so get your tickets, LA.
[00:03:58] I also wanted to shout out an awesome new book called Podcast Pantheon by culture critic Sean Mallon. It's a comprehensive canon of podcast history told through the perspective of 101 different shows, and there's an entire chapter in the book covering How Did This Get Made, which, I am honored to be a part of.
[00:04:19] Uh, the book comes out on September 16th, and we will drop a link in the episode description if you are interested in checking it out. Um, I like Sean a lot. I think this book is going to be great for all you podcast nerds. I will say slightly offended that How Did This Get Made did not make the top 100 podcasts that kind of covered the scope of podcast and we've been around for 15 years.
[00:04:44] There's another list we weren't on. I'm, I was a little bummed, but lists aren't everything, you're everything. People who listen to the show, make the show and you know what, I'm just gonna focus on that. I don't need those damn accolades. Yeah, sure. I was bummed about it, but I don't need them. And you know what?
[00:05:04] I'm not gonna stop it from putting on a great show, so let's get into it. Last week we talked about War of the Worlds. Well, we had questions and we might have even missed a few things. Here's your chance to set us straight. Fact check us, if you will. It is now time for corrections and omissions.
[00:05:20] Music: [Corrections and Omissions Song]
[00:05:36] Paul Scheer: Thank you Carlo T Filo. I hope I'm pronouncing it right, for that theme song. Let's go to the Discord. Soap Trail writes,
[00:05:44] "Are we to believe that Ice Cube, a hacker who regularly checks his daughter's fridge. Cam, I should add, because he has no boundaries of his kid's privacy, would've not accepted a Facebook friend request from his daughter's baby?"
[00:05:59] Daddy, I think you're missing.
[00:06:01] "For several years he would've accepted it instantly to snoop on this guy from day one."
[00:06:06] Soap Trail. You are right. You left out a couple of key words, but yes. Uh, it feels to me more like Ice Cube hasn't checked Facebook in a long time after his wife died. That, that to me is where I feel like, look, I wanna agree with you, but I also wanna pay homage to the great writing of War of the Worlds.
[00:06:25] Uh, Dove writes,
[00:06:26] "The chiron on the TV over the footage of a plane crashing said passenger jets are falling to their death. Um, I'm pretty sure that planes aren't alive."
[00:06:37] Yeah, dove, you're right. But you know what? When the aliens are attacking that person who has to come up with those graphics, they're going too quick.
[00:06:44] Too much news is happening. By the way. I would love that. Should be a show, right? People who just had to put up news chirons. I mean, I guess that's not a show. I had a great show with Adam McKay. Oh, it was so good. Andrew Guest, one of the greats. I had a good show. And then pandemic killed it. Uh, anyway, uh, it was about the cable news anyway.
[00:07:06] Uh, Johnny Unusual writes,
[00:07:08] "There are six camera angles in the Amazon delivery truck. Is that the case with actual Amazon trucks? I mean, it wouldn't surprise me, but that is terrible."
[00:07:17] Uh, Scott, our producer who is deceased did say, uh, although six cameras seems excessive according to Vice, Amazon does use AI enabled cameras to monitor driver's speed, location, and actions on the road.
[00:07:32] Wow. Wow. Uh, that's scary to me. Um, but I'll tell you one thing. My Amazon packages come on time. Um, although occasionally I'll get something from UPS, like, oh, we couldn't make it out today. Or there's some sort of obstruction. It just seems like they didn't get to it, but they make it like it's your fault and then when you kind of follow up on it, it was their fault.
[00:07:58] Anyway. Let's go to the phones Riley from New York. What do you say?
[00:08:02] Listener: Hey, Paul, I just finished listening to the, uh, War of the Worlds episode, and I wanted to comment as a, uh, a volunteer EMT on your discussion about first aid. Um, first of all, uh, um, Jason was completely right that if you have a foreign body embedded in you, like, uh, a shard of something, you do not want to take it out.
[00:08:22] Um, that thing is probably keeping pressure in your blood and taking it out will, will release that pressure and also maybe rupture an artery. Um, but however, your discussion about tourniquets wasn't exactly right. Um, so, applying a tourniquet does not mean that you are gonna lose that limb. Um, the science has changed and there's been a lot of, uh, uh, progress made, um, in aftercare of applying tourniquets.
[00:08:47] And the general consensus is if you apply a tourniquet and then seek hospital care within six hours, um, there won't be any lasting damage. After six hours, um, there's the potential for nerve damage and necrosis, and maybe you'll lose the limb. Um, but it's not guaranteed. But you know, for, in the case of this movie, if, if the character had gone to the hospital within six hours of the tourniquet, then they, they would not have lost that limb.
[00:09:16] Hope that's interesting to you. Alright, bye.
[00:09:18] Paul Scheer: Riley, thank you for this. Thank you for your service, but also, uh, for opening my mind about a tourniquet. I first of all didn't even know that that was a possibility. A tourniquet meant you're gonna lose a limb. So when Jason said that, I took it at face value and now you have disputed it and I appreciate it.
[00:09:36] Oh my gosh. Uh, and look at that medicine, science all working together to make us live longer. Um. But great to know that if you apply a tourniquet, someone's not gonna be like, you're making me lose a limb. So I, I feel like, you know, 'cause I, I imagine when you're tying it off. If you were to have that in your head, you're like, wait, wait, can I just see a doctor before you just do this action?
[00:10:02] This is probably, 'cause Jason's watching that show, it's like a battlefield show that he likes to watch. Uh, and I'm sure he's probably equating the two things. Thank you, Riley from New York. Simon, what do we got?
[00:10:14] Listener: Hi Paul. I wanted to talk about something you touched on in the War of the World's episode. There are multiple ways that people were saying data or data, and as June says, there's only one way of saying it, right, which is data.
[00:10:25] I thought you might find it interesting to give a little background of how that became the standard pronunciation as it could be due to one of my British countrymen. The story that Brent Spiner tells, who of course plays Commander Data in Star Trek is that there was at the first ever table read for the first ever episode of Star Trek, the Next Generation, Patrick Stewart announced something like Mr. Data, please scan that wall signature. Everyone there assumed this new character was pronounced Data, but Gene Roddenberry had a rule that the first person to say the name of a character or an alien or whatever major word they needed in that show, that becomes the way that you say it. So Mr. Data became set in stone and because everyone pronounced data that way of where they used to say data, but they were saying data on a primetime TV show, that became the standard way to say it in general.
[00:11:15] Anyway, love the show. Saw you in London last year and it was wild. And I hope you come back here soon. Thanks very much. Bye.
[00:11:21] Paul Scheer: Oh, Simon. I love anyone who comes on with a Star Trek anecdote, and that is a great one. Um, I actually always like that Data or Yeah, Lieutenant Data, uh, data, data. I, I felt like it was a more formal name because why would you name a robot, Data? You know, that that would be a weird data Lieutenant data.
[00:11:47] Weird. It's weird. Data is a much more sophisticated way of kind of handling it. It's a funny play on words in, in my opinion. So, uh, uh, hats off to Patrick Stewart for, for creating the confusion, but also for creating a longer lasting legacy of a great character, uh, by not just naming him data. Alright, uh, thank you Simon, by the way, for all the shout outs.
[00:12:11] Amy from Baltimore.
[00:12:13] Listener: Hi Paul, longtime listener and third time caller. Calling about War of the Worlds. It's kind of a small thing. Um, but you guys touched on the difference in the relationship between Ice and his daughter and Ice and his son, and I also thought that was crazy. Um, I was also flabbergasted by the fact that he seemed to hate his son so much that he didn't even add his name to that email until, like, almost the end of the movie. Um, well after he found out that his son was The Disruptor. So I'm not really sure what that was about. Um, was that a choice to show that he had grown? I don't know. I thought it was wild. Um, and then super quick side notes. I started watching Taskmaster for the very first time that I could catch Jason in series 19.
[00:12:57] And I am hooked. I'm loving it. It's so fun. Jason is hilarious. Um, it's great. And I went to the movie theater to see Weapons upon your recommendation, which is not a movie I would normally see in the theater. And I loved it. And June was incredible. Um, and not to leave you out, Paul, we saw Dinosaur when you guys came to the DC. To DC.
[00:13:17] Um, and it was great. We had an amazing time. It was so much fun. We missed Jason of course, but you guys were all incredible. So I'm actually going to see some improv back in DC tonight. So thank you for continuing to broaden my horizon, both in the worst ways and the best ways, and can't wait till you guys come to the DC area again. Better yet, come to Baltimore, hun. All right, take care. Bye.
[00:13:39] Paul Scheer: Amy from Baltimore. Great catch there. You know, I didn't even put that together, but yeah, I'm thinking about it now and it's all kind of circling in my head and I'm realizing, you know what? He didn't even seem that upset when his son almost got killed. This guy is, is bad news.
[00:13:55] Maybe he thinks, uh oh, maybe my son killed my wife. If that, I mean, I want to get into that kind of drama of Ice Cube's world. Um, by the way, thank you for coming out. Thank you for supporting that. DC show was a weird one. Uh, I remember that in our run of shows, we're gonna be back in DC in November. Yeah.
[00:14:17] Uh, it's not been announced yet, but we will bring you a much more controlled show. We got mics now. We got a lot of things under control. Uh, that one, that, that story, the, the woman in the audience kept on taking us on these detours. It was. It was horrific for us, but we figured it out. Um, all right people, let's go next to David.
[00:14:38] Listener: Hey Paul. Uh, you're talking about Ice Cube being on Facebook all the time, and my friend works for a defense contract company that makes one small component of some sort of military technology, and he's not allowed to have any social media accounts at all. So the fact that Ice Cube has Facebook and is going on some of these sites, is apparently a big no-no in, you know, defense and government, um, circles. Uh, thank you. Have a great day.
[00:15:08] Paul Scheer: Yes, exactly David. My son's computer from school has more restrictions than Ice Cubes does. Now you could say, well, he's a hacker. He hacked into it. No, no, no, because they would keep that shit at the door.
[00:15:23] It's like the old west. You put your guns in the front when you go in to have a drink. How do I know? Time travel. Anyway. Yes. This movie falls apart with any hard research as John from Minnesota brings forth.
[00:15:37] Listener: Hey Paul. I've been listening since the first episode. This is my first time calling, um, love you guys. I'm calling about the War of the World's episode. Um, I am confused about the data or data that these aliens are consuming. Um, I assume it's, let's call it records in a database. I'm a system developer. I've built many, uh, systems that contain databases, large data systems, big data, things like that. Often what we will do is we will create programs that generate dummy data to simulate user data.
[00:16:08] So my question is, does the data need to be user generated? It's extremely confusing to me why an interplanetary species, that figured out how to travel between planets to consume other species data. Uh, can't write a very simple program to generate enough data or food for themselves and never have to worry about this again.
[00:16:27] Yeah, that's my question. I have more questions, but, uh, I'm not sure the writers were too concerned about these types of, uh, problems. Um, love you guys. Paul, love the Dark Web. Um, Jason, your season of Taskmaster was absolutely the best. June, Weapons. Loved it. Uh, excited to see you guys and more. Alright, that's it.
[00:16:45] Love you guys. Bye.
[00:16:46] Paul Scheer: Exactly, John. Exactly. And you know what? With any amount of research, this movie falls apart. Yes. John and I, I like that you even know how to generate dummy data. I, I didn't even know that was a thing. You can generate dummy data, but yes. Uh, and Caroline from Texas, what do we got?
[00:17:05] Listener: Hi Paul.
[00:17:06] I just was wondering if you guys had noticed, uh, his shout out to Ludacris when he says, move bitch, get out the way. When, uh, he's get going around the, uh, the snake things that go into the data center. I just thought that was kind of funny. Thanks.
[00:17:26] Bye.
[00:17:27] Paul Scheer: You know what I did, but the way that he said it was, it wasn't in the spirit of Luda and it sounded more aggressive and misogynistic in a weird way, like it didn't come across as planned.
[00:17:40] I think you're right. It was there, I felt it, but it didn't feel like an homage as much as. He's just angry. Um, thank you everybody for all the support. Uh, so much love coming at us. Thank you for listening to the show. Thank you for calling in multiple times. Thank you for, uh, calling him first times. Uh, we love it.
[00:17:58] We love y'all. Uh, and uh, yeah. And Taskmaster and Weapons is great. Uh, it's so, so good.
[00:18:06] Alright, let's go back to the Discord to Sean McBee.
[00:18:08] "The government has known since 1948 that these things feed on data, yet just decided to roll the dice with the creation rollout and exponential growth of the internet? No matter how invasive Goliath is, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the data footprint of the entire internet. The idea that Goliath is what rang the dinner bell is absurd."
[00:18:33] Sean. Yeah, it is. I have nothing to add, but yes. Well researched, well thought out. Easy point.
[00:18:43] The Mighty Beard writes,
[00:18:45] "I think there was an interview with the director or producer where they said that the reason they chose Mark to be an Amazon driver is because during COVID, Amazon drivers were out there delivering all of our stuff and they were heroes. And this is why Amazon had such a big role in the movie versus Amazon forcing them to put a bunch of product placement in the movie."
[00:19:01] And you know what, I read that too Mighty Beard, and I actually don't disagree with this. This is a movie made in COVID, the people that were out there on the trucks delivering the things, whether it was DoorDash.
[00:19:12] So I appreciate that. And I don't understand, I mean, I think when Amazon bought it, it feels a little bit weighted, frankly. I, I, yeah. Look, I can als, I could understand this guy being like, Amazon's saving my ass. By the way, Amazon saved my ass during COVID. Uh, it saved my ass many times as a new parent, you know, moving.
[00:19:34] There's so many things, so I get it. Amazon workers are heroes. You heard it here first. By the way. Uh, we have created a shirt for this show. Yes. You asked for it. We made it. Check it out. Right now at TeePublic. It is the, uh, the Grandpa shark shirt. So get that Grandpa Shark. It's a little Ice Cube face on a shark.
[00:19:55] It's pretty great. Uh, Permutator,
[00:19:58] "I don't think you mentioned a possible connection between his kids' names and the Goliath program. Ice Cube was afraid of losing Faith, but then regained it by becoming David's sling to take down Goliath."
[00:20:14] You know what? Congratulations Permutator. You've done more thinking than the writer of this film, and no offense to the writer of this film, and that's why you are the winner of this week's Corrections and Omissions, and you get this song by Chris Finke.
[00:20:32] Hit it.
[00:20:32] Music: [Winner's Song]
[00:20:50] Paul Scheer: Alright. If you wanna chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up our discord, or leave us a message by calling 6 1 9 P-A-U-L-A-S-K. That's Six One Nine Paul Ask, call it anytime. It's a Google voicemail, so wherever you are, whenever you wanna call it, you leave a message, we'll get it.
[00:21:07] We'll play it on the show. Anyway, coming up after the break, Jason and I will catch up about all the TV and movies that we are currently loving. But first, let's close out our War the Worlds episode by listening to this bonus deleted scene where we learn how June can actually relate to Ice Cube. Here, take a listen.
[00:21:24] Jason Mantzoukas: How much the movie exists on a cluttered computer screen is a scathing indictment of how we live. And also quite stressful. Like how many open windows he had active. How much clicking around he, I did not like it because of how much like the world it looked.
[00:21:43] Paul Scheer: I, I mean, occasionally I will see June's computer screen and it gives me an anxiety attack because there's too many files on that desktop. There's too many things open. And that's a world in which I like, I like to keep a nice and tidy workspace. I gotta know what's up.
[00:21:57] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, yeah.
[00:21:57] Paul Scheer: I, I can't, I can't take it. I can't do it. Now, June, were you comforted by his work screen?
[00:22:02] June Diane Raphael: I wasn't comforted by it, but I understood. Like.
[00:22:04] Paul Scheer: Did you feel validated?
[00:22:06] June Diane Raphael: Well, I just was like, he's got a lot going on. You know, and he's a working dad.
[00:22:11] Paul Scheer: A lot of it is his own stuff. Like a lot of it is.
[00:22:13] June Diane Raphael: That's what I'm saying though, and a lot of, a lot of my workspace is, is my own stuff, like my personal stuff too. Mm-hmm. So it's the struggles of a working parent.
[00:22:25] Paul Scheer: Welcome back.
[00:22:26] By now. I am sure you've noticed that every Tuesday we re-release Classic How Did This Get Made episodes back into our feed. This week's matinee covered a very different alien movie that's uh, 2016's Great Wall, which was a movie about the Great Wall of China and yes, aliens and has one of our most infamous, uh, shirts, designs, stickers, whatever you wanna call it, where it's just aliens fucking each other. Uh, and it spells out the Great Wall. Uh, I love that shirt. And it has sold like gangbusters. It's like, uh, one of those like senior frogs, sexual position shirts. Uh, so keep on. So there's a tie in that I haven't really talked about on this show in a long time, but, uh, our replays always kind of bring back those kind of beautiful memories to me.
[00:23:08] Um, without any further ado, it is time for Jason and I to catch up on all of our favorite TV shows and movies, which we have not done in a very long time. And to play us in, we have a theme from Sweden. That's right. Anton Wellen. Please play the theme.
[00:23:24] Music: [Just Chat Song]
[00:23:25] Paul Scheer: Jason, it's just you and me back, baby.
[00:23:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, it feels good to be back. Ah.
[00:23:31] Paul Scheer: We are gonna do a straight up, uh, recommendation segment, but I know a lot of people have been asking questions about Taskmaster and we will, we will do a special Last Looks chat about Taskmaster. Now that it's completed, the season is over. You have invaded the Uk.
[00:23:46] Jason Mantzoukas: We did it. I've got a foothold over there.
[00:23:49] Paul Scheer: You're finally in. You got in.
[00:23:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, it wa it wa I am, I will say it's been incredible finally getting to see these episodes air.
[00:23:59] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:23:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Has been awesome. And it, uh, I really, it, I'm loving that people are loving it. Just being out in the streets. People are talking to me about Taskmaster, which is delightful.
[00:24:09] Paul Scheer: Got it.
[00:24:10] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, so great. So great.
[00:24:12] Paul Scheer: Alright, well let's, uh, let's get into what you have been watching and doing, because I know you've had some time to, to watch, to read, to get into stuff. So. Where are we at?
[00:24:22] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh man, I've been pretty prolific. I've watched quite a bit, um, and, and listened to a lot. I've got a big list. So, and, and also part of it is my list includes stuff that, like, we haven't done one of these in a while, so.
[00:24:36] Paul Scheer: Yeah, I know.
[00:24:36] Jason Mantzoukas: You know, we never talked about Andor. Which, and.
[00:24:39] Paul Scheer: Oh my god.
[00:24:39] Jason Mantzoukas: The last season, which.
[00:24:40] Paul Scheer: I can't believe we didn't do that. Oh my, yeah.
[00:24:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Absolutely. Um, must see TV. Like maybe the best show of the year.
[00:24:47] Paul Scheer: One of my favorites.
[00:24:48] Jason Mantzoukas: I'm, I'm willing to say at this point, um, just an incredible season of television. Um, I'm gonna shout out, I, I don't even know where to start. I mean, I think I talked about it in the past, but I'm gonna keep talking about it. I think maybe the best show on television right now, the best continuing show on television is Dark Winds.
[00:25:07] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:25:08] Jason Mantzoukas: The, the Zahn McClarnin,George RR Martin. Robert Redford produced adaptation of the, uh, I think Tony Hillerman novels, which are just banger, uh, uh, police procedurals that take place on a, on a reservation. It is, uh, tribal police every season are these big, beautiful, sprawling cases. Uh, the characters are incredible.
[00:25:31] The, the stories are fantastic, but there's nobody better right now than Zahn McClarnin in this show, you know? And it is so incredible to watch, uh, Dark Winds. There's three seasons of it. It's fantastic.
[00:25:44] Paul Scheer: I, I am, I'm right there with you. I've been, uh, I've been watching, I told you we've been watching a Brooklyn Nine nine. That's what we have been doing as a family all summer.
[00:25:52] Jason Mantzoukas: I love it.
[00:25:53] Paul Scheer: And watching that show. In beginning to, we are in almost at season six, so we've been really just chunking along.
[00:26:00] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, wow.
[00:26:01] Paul Scheer: But, you know, we're going and, and this has been a, a summertime show and it's, I gotta just say, uh, one of the, the best shows. I mean, really one of the best shows. Uh, it was so funny. So good. You're so good on it.
[00:26:12] Jason Mantzoukas: A fantastic sitcom. Like one of a show that, you know, before I was able to be on it. I was a rabid fan of.
[00:26:20] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:26:20] Jason Mantzoukas: I love that show.
[00:26:22] Paul Scheer: They really, really, really nail it. Um, and I was gonna tell you the other thing that I kind of missed my radar early on, and I'm reading Tom King's Super Girl right now in the World of Tomorrow.
[00:26:34] I did not read that book and wow, it's great.
[00:26:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Great.
[00:26:37] Paul Scheer: Wow. Wow, wow. Like I am actively, whenever I have a chance running to, uh, yeah. Continue reading that.
[00:26:44] Jason Mantzoukas: I love that book. I think that book is absolutely fantastic. Um, you know, and, and that's like applicable to almost every Tom King.
[00:26:51] Paul Scheer: Yeah. We love.
[00:26:51] Jason Mantzoukas: To, you know, like, like I think from, from the beginning, uh, Sheriff of Baghdad, all you know?
[00:26:57] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:26:57] Jason Mantzoukas: To, uh, to now like all of the, the books that he's been doing, the Rorschach book, the, um, the, uh, Mr. Miracle book, the, and this book especially, I think is just phenomenal.
[00:27:09] Paul Scheer: I really, I mean, there, there's certain ones that you miss. I, we were talking about the Helen of Wind Horn too, which is another.
[00:27:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Great one.
[00:27:15] Paul Scheer: Alright, so what else have you been watching? Because I, I wanna give you some wide berth here.
[00:27:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. I'll shout out some returning stuff that I thought was great. Um, this new season of Star Trek, Strange New Worlds. I'm having a blast watching.
[00:27:28] Paul Scheer: Ooh. I'm so excited.
[00:27:29] I love that show and I feel like it's getting, some of its just deserve at this point. Like, I feel like it's, it really is, uh, is kind of. Like, I feel like people are coming around to it in a great way.
[00:27:39] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, I love it. I'm, I'm having a blast with it, as I always do. It is a super fun, super silly at times show that I just really enjoy and I think the dude that plays Spock I think is just fantastic.
[00:27:53] Paul Scheer: So good.
[00:27:53] Jason Mantzoukas: Really great. Um, I can't recommend enough what will be one of my favorite shows at the end of the year. Is the, uh, Amazon Prime Show, Ballard, which is a, an adaptation of the Michael Connolly Ballard book. So it is a Bosch spinoff technically, and don't you worry, Bosch is in the mix. Bosch is in for a couple of episodes.
[00:28:16] Um, it's great. It's better than Bosch legacy. It's better than, it's better than late season Bosch. I think Maggie Q is fantastic as Renee Ballard. I think having John Car Lynch in there is so smart and so great. He is such an incredible grounding element to the team. Um, I think it's fantastic. I think the cases are great. She is a terrific lead and I love Ballard. I'm. I'm, this is my, my begging to please let me be on season two of Ballad.
[00:28:46] Paul Scheer: I've been working on trying to get on Ballard, uh, at Amazon. 'Cause we have a, I have a show over at Amazon. I'm like, get me, let's get on this. Come on. I need to get in that Bosch universe.
[00:28:56] Uh, you know, it's such a good show. She's great and I do hope that, uh. You know, look like I, I, I had issues with Bosch, slight issues, but this.
[00:29:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:29:07] Paul Scheer: Is bringing me back to what I fell in love with, uh, original Bosch.
[00:29:10] Jason Mantzoukas: For sure. Oh, it's great. It is unimpeachably, I think, a fantastic season of television.
[00:29:15] And it is. It's long too. It feels like a season.
[00:29:18] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:29:18] Jason Mantzoukas: It's not six episodes. It's not eight episodes, it's longer. It luxuriates in it, which I had a blast with.
[00:29:24] Paul Scheer: Now.
[00:29:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, go ahead.
[00:29:25] Paul Scheer: Can I just say too, I know that I was, I just deferred the floor to you, but I wanna also say like, if you've not gone out to the theater and seen Naked Gun.
[00:29:31] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:29:33] Paul Scheer: Uh, go, go do yourself a favor. I saw it for a second time last Wednesday. It was packed on a Wednesday night. It is a movie to see in a theater. Bring some friends, have a, a, it. It's, it's just very good. Very, very good.
[00:29:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, yeah.
[00:29:49] Paul Scheer: And worth, uh, worth going out and seeing. I just wanna support our friends, uh, Dan Gregor and Doug Mann, who, uh, who wrote that.
[00:29:54] Jason Mantzoukas: With Akiva schaffer, who, who is a Lonely Island, um, director. Incredible. It's so funny. Great director.
[00:30:01] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:30:02] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, yes. Uh, great shout out. And, and also I have now gone back and rewatched, uh, the Naked Gun, the original Naked Gun movies.
[00:30:11] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:30:12] Jason Mantzoukas: The, a bunch of Police Squad, um, which is so funny. The original TV show.
[00:30:17] Paul Scheer: Great.
[00:30:17] Jason Mantzoukas: Incredible.
[00:30:17] Paul Scheer: The TV show incredible is so good. It like.
[00:30:19] Jason Mantzoukas: So good.
[00:30:20] Paul Scheer: It like, you know, and the reason they canceled that TV show was because, and this is at the time, the president of ABC said, well, you have to pay attention to it. That was the reason for cancellation. You have to pay attention to it.
[00:30:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, we gotta get rid of that.
[00:30:33] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Gotta get rid of that show. Gotta get it off the air. I will say this, I find the police squad movies, as I've watched over the naked gun movies, they really degrade quickly.
[00:30:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:30:40] Paul Scheer: Like and to a point where I'm like, wow. What happened? But I guess what really what happened was the less and less of the guys who created the original were there and that and that.
[00:30:49] Jason Mantzoukas: I think that's it. Yeah. Um, I can't recommend enough now that I'm, um, so British because of Taskmaster.
[00:30:57] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:30:57] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, there's a couple of shows that I will shut out, some of which are, if you liked Taskmaster, I can't recommend enough. Past seasons of Taskmaster.
[00:31:06] Paul Scheer: Mm-hmm.
[00:31:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Including if you watched Taskmaster as a family, Taskmaster Junior.
[00:31:10] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:31:11] Jason Mantzoukas: Great stuff. But, um, other similar shows that will scratch that itch. There's a show called Last One Laughing, um, LOL, um, there's a UK version of it. There's an Australian version of it that I believe there's a Canadian version of it. Uh, the UK version is the one that I watched. It's. Six episodes and it is just six comedians in a room together.
[00:31:31] Um, and you cannot laugh and, uh, for six hours. And that's the challenge. And each episode is one of the hours and it's just them fucking with each other.
[00:31:42] Paul Scheer: Wow.
[00:31:43] Jason Mantzoukas: In a way that is so funny because two of the people on the, there's only one season of it. And it is all banger. The cast is bangers. Almost everybody is a Taskmaster alum.
[00:31:53] But the two, except for the two geniuses they have are Richard Ayoade.
[00:31:58] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:31:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Who is just such an icon of British panel shows from Would I Lie to You, to um, uh, eight out of 10 cast does count, countdown, all that stuff. Um, but the true legend, Bob Mortimer, who is absolutely one of the funniest people on the earth currently.
[00:32:15] They are both in this season of Last One Laughing and it, I cannot recommend it enough. Um, it is so fucking funny. Um, and then as well, Would I Lie to You as well. Uh, Eight Out of 10 cats does count, countdown or big fat quiz of the year. These are all British panel shows that incorporate all many of the same cast of comedic, uh, of comedians who are just on this circuit of shows where they are just constantly roasting each other and being funny. Where, where are you?
[00:32:46] Paul Scheer: Where, where do you find all these shows though?
[00:32:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, they're all over the place.
[00:32:49] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:32:50] Jason Mantzoukas: A lot you can find on YouTube.
[00:32:51] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:32:51] Jason Mantzoukas: A lot of them you can find on YouTube. Last One Laughing is on Amazon.
[00:32:54] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:32:55] Jason Mantzoukas: It's just, it's, it's licensed to Amazon. I subscribe to Brit Box, not to brag.
[00:33:00] Paul Scheer: Right. Um, well, you know, I didn't know Brit Box had comedy on there.
[00:33:04] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, it does. It does.
[00:33:05] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:33:05] Jason Mantzoukas: It's got sitcoms and it's got panel shows.
[00:33:07] Paul Scheer: Oh, great.
[00:33:08] Jason Mantzoukas: So I think that's, I think Britt Box has Would I lie to you.
[00:33:10] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:33:11] Jason Mantzoukas: And I think Eight Out of 10 cats is on YouTube.
[00:33:13] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:33:14] Jason Mantzoukas: I think I just found it on YouTube. Also on Brit Box is one of my favorite shows of the year. It is the David Mitchell show, Ludwig, which is a. This is the setup of the show. He is a character who is a kind of shut in, who is a puzzle maker. He com, he makes puzzles, blah, blah, blah. His twin brother, who is a police detective, goes missing.
[00:33:37] So he, in an effort to try and figure out what's happened to his twin brother, he pretends to be his twin brother, who is a homicide detective, and inexplicably starts solving cases because of his puzzle expertise.
[00:33:52] Paul Scheer: Oh wow.
[00:33:52] Jason Mantzoukas: And gets embroiled in this much larger criminal story. But it is a very light one hour police procedural. There's only one season of it. It's a blast. I'm, the way I'm explaining it is a little bit convoluted. So.
[00:34:07] Paul Scheer: Gimme the title again.
[00:34:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Ludwig.
[00:34:09] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:34:09] Jason Mantzoukas: It's just called Ludwig. It's on Brit box. I can't recommend it enough. It's fantastic.
[00:34:14] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:34:14] Jason Mantzoukas: And again, a show that I'm dying to be on. In that way, like, there's a lot of shows right now. Elsbeth. High Potential. Poker Face. That are that kind of case of the week show.
[00:34:26] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:34:27] Jason Mantzoukas: That also has a larger in the background macro storyline.
[00:34:31] Paul Scheer: I, yeah. Yeah.
[00:34:31] Jason Mantzoukas: And this is one. This fits right in with those and is maybe a little better than all of them, I think.
[00:34:37] Paul Scheer: Oh, I'm so, this is right up my alley.
[00:34:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Very well done.
[00:34:39] Paul Scheer: I'm so excited about this.
[00:34:40] Jason Mantzoukas: I think you'll really like that. I think that's great. Um. Because they announced it's coming back. Um, I am rewatching The Comeback. The Lisa Kudrow, Michael Patrick King show the Comeback, which is.
[00:34:51] Paul Scheer: Talk about a show. I want to be on that show. My God.
[00:34:54] Jason Mantzoukas: Dying to be on it, but the rewatch is a blast. The show is so funny. So funny and still so savage and so brutal and such an indictment of, of our world.
[00:35:08] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:35:08] Jason Mantzoukas: And TV and everything. It's great.
[00:35:11] Paul Scheer: It's, and you know, I was talking to certain people behind there and, you know, as of all good things, based in some reality, some things that are
[00:35:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:35:18] Paul Scheer: Some dark moments that people have experienced, especially at a time when sitcoms were a lot, uh, more, uh, produced.
[00:35:24] Jason Mantzoukas: So that first season. You know, there is a pretty savage takedown of a network sitcom.
[00:35:31] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:35:32] Jason Mantzoukas: And when you're and, and some, and Jimmy Burrows is in there as the director and blah, blah, blah. What you are watching, this is one year after Friends ended, and you cannot help but see it through the lens of
[00:35:44] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:35:44] Jason Mantzoukas: All of these people have just made Friends and Sex in the City, and this is the show they're making now. You know?
[00:35:51] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:35:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Super interesting. Great, great, great stuff.
[00:35:55] Paul Scheer: I, I, I totally agree. Um, have you watched The Pit?
[00:35:59] Jason Mantzoukas: You know. Yes and no. I watched the first like three or four episodes of the Pit.
[00:36:04] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:36:04] Jason Mantzoukas: Loved it, but it stressed me out so much. Um, medically.
[00:36:10] Paul Scheer: Yes. I, I agree.
[00:36:12] Jason Mantzoukas: That I, that I had to stop watching it simply because it was giving me like I was, I, it was giving me sympathetic health, uh, anxiety.
[00:36:22] Paul Scheer: Jason, I'm right with you. I was, I watched the majority of the show through. A book that I was sitting next to June while she was watching it because it was. I don't, the gore is, the gore is one thing, which I, I am. Uh, but I'm also like, I don't wanna start to think about diseases.
[00:36:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. That's it. And it, it kind of, the same thing happened to me. I loved and watched all of, but the last few seasons of House.
[00:36:45] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:36:45] Jason Mantzoukas: I was like, I'm just too suggestible.
[00:36:48] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:36:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, right now I'm just too suggestible and it, I don't wanna then be thinking about like, well actually I have that.
[00:36:55] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:36:55] Jason Mantzoukas: I have a little bit of that.
[00:36:56] Paul Scheer: Yeah, this, this is, I don't need it. That's why it was kind of fun. June was watching it hardcore and I could sit on the side and like pay attention to the plotting and then when it got into the sick, I would like, now I'm not into this anymore. There's an episode with the testicle turn that really got me.
[00:37:12] Jason Mantzoukas: I'll just shout out some other shows that I think are fantastic. Uh, Sherwood season one, the British Crime Drama Sherwood was one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. It's, it's not a new show. It's maybe from four or five years ago.
[00:37:25] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:37:26] Jason Mantzoukas: But I just watched it now and thought it was incredible. Um, in my pursuit of watching everything that Leslie Manville does, who I think is just absolutely incredible, um, she's fantastic in this, she's fantastic in all the, the magpie murders.
[00:37:40] Um, I've now, if, if you're wondering if I've subscribed to every single subscription service there is.
[00:37:47] Paul Scheer: I think, I mean, the answer is yes.
[00:37:49] Jason Mantzoukas: I now subscribe to Britt Box, Britt Box, Acorn tv, and the PBS app just to get.
[00:37:55] Paul Scheer: Wow. You're on the PBS app.
[00:37:57] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, the PBS app, just for, um, Wolf Hall, season two of Wolf Hall fame.
[00:38:02] Paul Scheer: Oh my god. How did I forget about that? I didn't even watch it.
[00:38:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Season two of Oh, oh yeah. Season two of Wolf Hall again. A masterclass in watching someone act. Uh, in that Mark Rylance is just full stop. Unreal.
[00:38:15] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:38:16] Jason Mantzoukas: In this show. Um, just next level stuff, um, Mob Land, the Guy Richie, uh, Mob Land, Tom Hardy, Helen Marin Pierce Brosnan, um, British Gangster, uh, TV series that's on, uh, Paramount. I'm having a blast watching that. Um, the new season of Digman is out.
[00:38:37] Paul Scheer: Oh, I love that show.
[00:38:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Andy Sandberg. Andy Sandberg, our friend, uh, Neil Campbell Campbell show, uh, Mitra Johari's on it. And it is so fucking funny.
[00:38:47] Paul Scheer: It's a really funny show and it's, it's one of those shows that I think unfortunately is, uh, is sidelined by.
[00:38:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:38:55] Paul Scheer: Look, this is the thing.
[00:38:56] Jason Mantzoukas: It's, it's trapped, right? It's trapped in Comedy central.
[00:38:58] Paul Scheer: Yeah. And it sucks that that sucks. It's like there are these shows you just can't get out of the, you know, it's like, it's hard to find 'em. You're not specifically looking for them. And that's, it's a bummer. It's a bummer.
[00:39:08] But that show is very good. Seek it out.
[00:39:09] Jason Mantzoukas: It's that that show should be a massive hit that everybody should be talking about.
[00:39:14] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:39:14] Jason Mantzoukas: But because it's stuck on Comedy Central right now, in a way that is not advantageous for the common viewer to come across, I think it is. It needs the love. So if you are listening to this, go and find it. Find a way to watch Digman. Tell people about Digman. I think it's one of the funniest pound for pound joke machine shows that's on television.
[00:39:36] Paul Scheer: I mean, and uh, and I will say that, you know, we've, obviously everyone else has been talking about, but South Park this season has already just, uh, like just killing it in what it's doing. And I've watched the New King of the Hill, which I really enjoyed.
[00:39:50] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, I haven't, I haven't watched that. Oh, great, great.
[00:39:52] Paul Scheer: Yeah, so it's really, there's a lot of fun, good animated things, uh, right now that I am, uh, that I am enjoying. The other thing that we did is a, my, my kids have finally, we've past the Marvel threshold.
[00:40:07] I didn't know when it was gonna happen, but, uh, we saw Superman in the theater, then we saw, but that's not Marvel, obviously, but that was the first superhero movie that they saw. Then we saw Fantastic Four.
[00:40:17] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:40:17] Paul Scheer: And now, and now I'm doing something that you're gonna be very upset with. I think. I was like, all right. My son's like, I wanna watch a, a Marvel. And I was like, all right, well.
[00:40:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Having watched none?
[00:40:27] Paul Scheer: None.
[00:40:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Great. Okay.
[00:40:28] Paul Scheer: So I started them with Guardians of the Galaxy one.
[00:40:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Sure. Great.
[00:40:33] Paul Scheer: And, and, and that has been a huge hit in the house.
[00:40:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Great.
[00:40:36] Paul Scheer: And we went on to Guardians of Galaxy two and then, uh, and now we are in the super, uh, sorry, it's the Spidermans, which rewatching these have been a blast. Fantastic. Oh man, I forgot how good that first spider, the John Watt Spider-Man is so good. The original Guardians is so great. Uh, and, and I like, you know, it's tricky because. You know, we've been watching these movies, we're all caught up to date and it's like, I wanted to bring Gus in. I'm like, he's not, he's not gonna make it. He's not gonna get there.
[00:41:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Through all that, all the, all the medium stuff, all the, all those mid movies, you don't want them to lose sight of it. You know.
[00:41:11] Paul Scheer: I kind of was like, if you get really into this, we can go back and you can watch 'em as prequels, but like, let right now let's, fine, let's figure out a way to kind of get you in.
[00:41:18] So I'm, I am creating some sort of, uh, weird back doorway. Yeah. Into the thing. Because I think, I think what I'm gonna do next after the Spider-Man, because I have to watch out for the, I have to watch out for when we get to, uh, the Big Avengers End Game and all that, you know?
[00:41:35] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, I almost feel like at a certain point you're gonna need to do the Ironman like the early
[00:41:42] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:41:43] Jason Mantzoukas: Ironman one. Captain America one. I don't think you need to do Thor one, if I'm honest.
[00:41:49] Paul Scheer: Well, they he's very first in Ironman. He gets it, yeah. From Spiderman. Yeah. And, uh, and so then I'm gonna get him into Thor Ragnorok. So I, I kind of feel like I might be, I might be outfitting it in such a way where he might not know everybody, but he's seen enough of these other ones and he kind of context gets it.
[00:42:06] Yeah. Right, exactly. I'm just like, let's. Let's just go this way because I want to keep 'em watching.
[00:42:10] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.
[00:42:10] Paul Scheer: And that's the tricky thing. It's hard. You can't, eh, you know, these kids, they get this, they get, uh, they get upset, you know?
[00:42:16] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, they, and there's so much, they have so much.
[00:42:18] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:42:19] Jason Mantzoukas: That's available so that they don't have to suffer through bad, uh, origin story movies. They don't have to suffer through all those early, all, all that nonsense.
[00:42:28] Paul Scheer: Yeah.
[00:42:28] Jason Mantzoukas: I just watched, I don't know, maybe there wouldn't be into, oh, maybe they would be, I've just rewatched the Nolan Batman trilogy.
[00:42:36] Paul Scheer: Ooh.
[00:42:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, which is absolutely fantastic.
[00:42:40] Paul Scheer: Um, yeah.
[00:42:41] Jason Mantzoukas: I'm, and all I want now is there to be extended cuts of these. I would like the way that, like, I think the, the Lord of the Rings trilogy really benefit from those extended cuts. I think Nolan's Batman, trilogy, longer, would be incredible. Um, and so that I want, I want that.
[00:42:58] Paul Scheer: I wonder if there is any extra meat on those bones. 'cause it feels like he is taping maybe or, yeah, getting, I mean, now I will say this, uh, if you've not seen Weapons, you gotta go see Weapons in the theater. It's fantastic.
[00:43:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Haven't, haven't seen yet. Very excited.
[00:43:09] Paul Scheer: June is obviously in Weapons and, uh, I won't say anything about it, but I will say.
[00:43:15] Jason Mantzoukas: And if you don't know, weapons is the new movie from Zach Cregger who made the movie Barbarian.
[00:43:21] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:43:21] Jason Mantzoukas: So a lot of people have, a lot of people have seen that. So this is the next movie from, and the same creator.
[00:43:25] Paul Scheer: This says, and you don't need to know anything about Barbarian to watch this one, but the way I've been describing it to people is it's like Paul Thomas Anderson meets, uh, John Carpenter.
[00:43:32] There's a, there's a, a fun.
[00:43:34] Jason Mantzoukas: So cool, right.
[00:43:34] Paul Scheer: It's fun. It's really well done. And um, uh, my point on that was a lot of people have asked June like, oh, well the script must have so much more crazier stuff in it. And she's like, no. It was what it was. And it like, and I think that when you have a filmmaker, especially, uh, at least the way that Zach approached this movie, he knew what he wanted.
[00:43:55] He got what he wanted, and that was it. There was no, there was no confusion on what he was getting.
[00:43:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Right.
[00:43:59] Paul Scheer: And, uh, and so, you know, uh, so I, it's always interesting, like those filmmakers seem like there's a lot less, although I will say. I can share a little story outta school. Oh, uh uh this is good. I was on the Universal lot last week, and if you've online at all, you'll see that they have been shooting the Odyssey Nolan's new movie, the Odyssey on the back lot at Universal, and apparently from the ET parking lot at Universal Studios, you can watch them shoot the Odyssey.
[00:44:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Funny.
[00:44:27] Paul Scheer: It's a boat out on the water during thunderstorms, and then there's another grouping of houses. On the other side of the lot that can also watch it. Now what can you see? You see a boat in the water with rain and thunder. You're not really seeing anything. And it's the boat that we already saw in the IMAX commercial.
[00:44:43] Uh, and apparently they are pissed. Like Nolan is
[00:44:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh wow.
[00:44:48] Paul Scheer: furious that anyone is seeing a boat in the water from hundreds of yards away. Like it, like when I say you don't even see people or cameras, you are just wa you are just watching like,
[00:45:00] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that's so funny.
[00:45:00] Paul Scheer: Big overhead lights. And I, and I was talking to one of my, my friends there at universities, like you cannot imagine the amount of phone calls that we have gotten that there is.
[00:45:08] Uh, se there there's essentially like bad security footage of a boat that has already been revealed in the preview in water. And I was like, that is a filmmaker that like, you could spend that much time being mad. That nothing is revealed. No, it's not like, oh, you got the costume. Yeah, yeah. Nope, no, no possibility for anything.
[00:45:26] Jason Mantzoukas: That's so funny. That's great. But yeah, but I mean like also like shooting it on Universal a lot that's very public.
[00:45:33] Paul Scheer: Uh, yeah.
[00:45:33] Jason Mantzoukas: That's very funny. Great. I love it. Um, I'll just shout out at the very end here. Alone season 12, uh, is airing it's alone in Africa for the first time.
[00:45:44] Paul Scheer: Ooh.
[00:45:44] Jason Mantzoukas: They're in a desert climate. It is incredible. Um, the Amy Sherman Paladino Ballet Show. A 12 has already been canceled, but don't worry, I watched every episode and it was great.
[00:45:55] Paul Scheer: Right.
[00:45:56] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, and insane. Um, uh, the Predator animated movie Killer of Killers.
[00:46:02] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:46:02] Jason Mantzoukas: Incredible. Absolute blast.
[00:46:05] Paul Scheer: Oh, that's amazing. I love that.
[00:46:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Absolute, absolute blast.
[00:46:07] Paul Scheer: Yes. Fantastic.
[00:46:08] Jason Mantzoukas: And I'm very excited for Dan Trachtenberg's new, uh, Predator movie, Dan Trachtenberg, who did
[00:46:13] Paul Scheer: Yes.
[00:46:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, Prey, uh, some years ago. Just absolutely fantastic. Um, anyway, uh, I've got a bunch of other stuff I can shout out. Um, but, but, uh, for another time.
[00:46:23] Paul Scheer: Yes. We'll do it. We have so much more to talk about.
[00:46:26] Great to finally get back to just us.
[00:46:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Just us. Just chatting.
[00:46:30] Paul Scheer: Alright, that's enough of me and Jason gabbing about tv. I wanna remind you that if you go to our Dashery store, that's our new store. If you go to HDTGM.com, it's run by Teepublic. I don't know the difference ultimately, but, uh, it's better for the artist.
[00:46:43] It's better for us. Uh, you can get any design from the show in a sticker, on a coffee mug, on a laptop sleeve, on a sweatshirt, on a onesie. You could do whatever you want so you don't just have to get t-shirts if that's not your thing. Wearing like. T-shirts, just get a sticker. I've got some. Great, How Did This Get Made stickers also wanna let you guys know, um. That and just to bring it back up, that Grandpa Shark sticker is gonna look pretty badass on anything you wanna put it on. Uh, alright, uh, let's talk about next week. Next week we'll be going from a guy who hacks to Jack, who's back. All that's right. We'll be covering the 1988 serial killer thriller Jack's Back starring James Spader, Cynthia Gibb, and Robert Picardo.
[00:47:26] IMDB calls this film
[00:47:28] "A movie where a serial killer is in Los Angeles celebrating Jack the ripper's hundredth birthday by committing similar murders."
[00:47:36] But here's the twist people. Has nothing to do with that. Rotten Tomatoes rates. This film a 71% Fresh, what? Roger Ebert wrote, what makes Jack's Back worth seeing is the work of Spader as a young actor who I believe has much promise as anyone in his generation, that is true. Spader is great. This film is worth the watch. Take a listen to the trailer.
[00:47:58] Trailer Audio: 100 years ago, there was a series of murders, so grizzly.
[00:48:04] Some theorize that Jack the ripper was a medical man. I believe that would also apply in this case.
[00:48:08] Human mutilations so meticulous.
[00:48:12] My brother didn't kill anybody.
[00:48:14] That an entire city was paralyzed in fear.
[00:48:21] Now, 100 years later to the day, the Ripper has returned. Jack's Back.
[00:48:30] Paul Scheer: You can stream Jack's Back on Hoopla, Amazon Prime Video, Tubi, the Roku Channel, Fubu, Pluto TV and Fawesome. In addition to Hoopla, I also encourage you to check out Canopy and Libby, which are digital media services offered by your local public library that allow you to consume movies, tv, music, audiobooks, eBooks, and comics for free. That's it for Last Looks. If you listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please rate and review us. Please also make sure that you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on. Say that again. Make sure you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on.
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