How Did This Get Made? - Last Looks: Absolution

Episode Date: August 4, 2023

Paul & Jason chat about books & podcasts they're currently loving, and Paul digs into corrections & omissions from Absolution, shares a bonus scene from the Absolution live show, and announces next week's movie. Go to www.tusctogether.com to donate to The Union Solidarity Coalition and to bid on auction items that support striking crew members who have lost their health insurance. PAUL'S PICKS:Don't Panic with Anthony Atamanuik Harlem Shuffle by Colson WhiteheadLight the FuseCelebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez Tom Bihn Shadow Guide Backpack JASON'S PICKS:The Last Action Heroes by Nick de SemlyenOne By WillieStrong SongsThe Rodge TapesDrifting Off with Joe Pera HDTGM is going on tour this August! Buy tix at hdtgm.comFollow Paul on Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/HDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: https://discord.gg/paulscheerCheck out Paul and Rob Huebel live on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/friendzone) every Thursday 8-10pm ESTSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael here: listen.earwolf.com/deepdiveSubscribe to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson here: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledCheck out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.comCheck out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmWhere to find Jason, June & Paul:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on Twitter

Arctic Death, Harlem Crime, and Sunsets. All this and more on today's How Did This Get Made? Last Looks. Hit the theme! This is your chance to watch you want to say it But the horrible willy they watched the other day Will it make you some kind of you shot on a plane About to close, now I was taking it away

This is the last look For the love of Pete. Hello, my extra long boxer brief buddies. I'm your Paul Sheer and welcome. Tadda's get made last looks where you the listener get to voice your issues on absolution aka the journey colon absolution Jason and I chat about some books and podcasts that we're currently loving and I will reveal next week's Movie at the end of the show. I will also share an exclusive bonus scene from our last episode something that we couldn't keep in But it's still damn good But first things first a big shout out to Quinn for that amazing theme song. Thank you Quinn We love these songs. They're fantastic.

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if you bid on an auction. You ever wanna have me pick your fancy football draft? I'll do it. But anyway, go there, look at it, get your bids in, and let's get into absolution because absolution is an interesting film. I mean, I wouldn't even really call it a movie, I would call it like a telemovie,

but Danny the Wall on Discord thought the film should have been titled a few good hymbeos. Damn, Danny, coming at us with the hymbeos, I haven't heard that since the 80s, and oddly enough, hymbeos sounds more aggressive than the word it's replacing. Anyway, we had questions about absolution, but we didn't hear all of your questions. We might have even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set us straight.

Fact check us if you will. It is now time for corrections and omissions. Hit the theme! them. Ah, great song by the great Francis Rizzo. And you know, if you've been listening to this show, you know that Francis has sent in so many great themes over the years. And before we get into corrections and omissions, I just wanted to relay a message that Francis left for us on the helpline. See, Francis called him to say that he unfortunately has end stage kidney failure. And he is doing everything he can to try to find a match for a kidney transplant. And the more potential donors he can reach, the greater chance he has to find a match. So if there are any potential donors out there listening right now, you can go to kidneyregistry.org

or call 516-562-0550 or email, transplant surgery at northwell.edu and mention the name Francis Rizzo. Francis, thank you for all the great themes. And we all here at How To This Get Made are pulling for you. And we hope that you find a donor. And we just we're sending you prayers. Now, I recognize that making a transition in this moment might be tough, but I'm just going to have to lean into it and say, let's go to the discord. Sean McBeer writes, I'm pretty surprised that no one mentioned at the end our protagonist are left stranded outside in the Arctic while wearing essentially tank tops with the only shelter having just blown up and with no indication that any sort of rescue is coming. They will absolutely freeze to death before the day is out.

Sean holy shit. How do we not pick up on that? Our heroes are left for dead. I mean, at least at the end of the thing, at least he was wearing a jacket. Oh brother, wow, wow, wow. No one question that. They should have just put in the sound of a chopper or something. All right, good eyes, Sean McBeat.

Danny the wall writes, was there actually a journey somewhere? I mean, was anything to be absolved? The obvious question remains unanswered. Why is this titled The Journey Absolution? Danny, these are the simple questions that we missed. I can't believe that we missed these. All right, let's, let's, let's break it down. Absolution, what does absolution mean?

A release from guilt, obligation, or punishment. I mean, I guess they got released from being under the tyranny of Richard Greco, but from Mario Lopez, he just got there. But journey, now there is something. Journey is the act of traveling from one place to another. So Mario Lopez did journey to a place where he then freed himself from the tyranny of Richard Greco. Anyway, I'm going to go with that. So I think the title makes perfect sense. GT 75 writes, I think part of why it's so hard to figure out the plot of this film is because the protagonist, Mario Lopez, fails every

step of the way. His attempt to find his friend, slash fellow agent, consists of just name-dropping him a couple of times. So it's just kind of sheer luck that he gets imprisoned with him. He's realiant, fully unliased, telling him what Richard Rico's plan is, then he can't escape without Jamie Presley randomly shown up. So even when he has to save the world from aliens, he doesn't because Griko's efforts seem to be thwarted by just shoddy craftsmanship in building the portal.

Guys, it really is amazing. Like it takes so much hard work to make a movie and then you see these and you wonder like when I get notes on something I'm like, oh yeah, it's a good note or oh that they're over thinking it or whatever These movies got made these are not scripts like how how How let's go to the phones. Rachel from Chicago. Hi, Paul. This is Rachel from Chicago. I'm calling about absolution. I want to talk about the timer at the end of the movie where Richard Greco is wrestling with Jamie Presley or something. And they keep cutting between a wide shot where you can see the countdown timer,

and then a close-up shot of it, and they're never the same time. At one point, the wide shot shows eight seconds less, and they feel a close-up of the timer, and then it's 13 seconds, and they go back to the wide shot again in a big second. So it's just, you know, I don't know what is going on, maybe bad alien technology, but I feel like someone should have had that. Anyway, love the show. Thanks, Bob. They couldn't even fix it.

That's something you can actually do in post. They probably just have a close up of the stopwatch, the watch, whatever, and they can do that in post. You don't have to do that live. Why is that so dumb? That's an editor mistake there but you editors are mad for this person to come out of the editing guild whoever this person is all right let's go to sam from tenisee

hey Paul this is Sam from tenisee listen to the episode about absolution the only thing that comes to mind when you all is describing that thick thing and the underwear the mormon they're not moving because they're just soaking that's probably not fixing and the underwear is the Mormon. They're not moving because they're just soaking. They have their big, don't be underwear on because that's the magic underwear.

So there you go. They're just soaking. Then it is somebody to rock the bed form so they can move. Oh, please don't, I don't wanna talk about soaking. I don't like soaking. One of my favorite, I listened to the Pat Bev podcast with Ron. I love Pat Bev and Ron explaining soaking to Pat Bev is pretty amazing here. Actually, take a listen to him tell you what soaking is because I don't even want to get

into it. You know what soaking is? Soking? Yeah. Like, if I was to... Dude, I don't think you do know what it is. Can I guess? Do you want to? I don't have a problem embarrassing myself. Okay, I guess. If I'm soaking in like in the bathtub, soaking in my own tears.

Dude, it's a thing that's specific to Utah. And it's a thing that goes on at like BYU and Mormon schools where they're not allowed to have premarital sex. And so what they do is the guy kind of takes the car and parks it in the garage and just lets it idle there and it just sits there. I don't understand what you're making because you kind of tell it to me like I'm a three-year-old. He, a guy puts his, you know what I mean? Well, I don't. His dick in there and just leaves it there. And it just soaks.

And he just leaves it there to soak. And it's the thing that goes on in Utah. I didn't know that. Yeah, dude, that's a real thing, dude. I did a video on it. Soaking. Soaking. So you meet a nice young lady,

hey, I like you, that's soak. Yeah. Do they move around or like they'll have their friends Either jump up and down on the bed or I talk to people who said that They'll have two mattresses standing up and their friends will wave them back and forth But they're not doing the action moving right so there's there though. They can they're the ones that are just soaking there Has anyone ever got pregnant up? I'm sure they have. I'm sure they have. That's why.

Isn't that wild, dude? We didn't have sex. Yeah, exactly. They can be like in the eyes of God, I'm still a virgin. Thank you, Ron. Thank you, Pepev. And there you go. All right, finally Morgan from Chicago,

what do we got, Morgan? Hey, Paul, this is Morgan and Chicago. I was just calling with a little thing about absolution or, yes, the journey absolution. So at a minute, or at an hour and 29 minutes and 40 seconds about that time, the scene where Mario Lopez and Janie Prusley are running away from the explosion. If you look at the very bottom of the screen,

you'll notice that the track marks in the snow are already laid down, and then as they're running on the snow, it like fills in the track marks, almost like they had reversed the footage. But they're very clearly running towards us. So really not too sure what's happening there. I just wanted to get your thoughts and see if you had any idea what was going on there. All right, cool. Thanks, Fall. Bye.

OK, so here's the thing. We did delete a portion of the show where we did talk about the snow. I thought it was potato in a box kind of shavings, but Scott, our producer, he thinks the footprints were already there due to earlier takes and they shot them and just kind of too lazy to smooth over the footprints after every take.

And honestly, it's not like they're disappearing as they run over them. It's just like the clouds of dust of whatever that is. If it's flower or something, look, Shoddy filmmaking is the answer. That's all. I mean, if you were to tie all these questions together, the answer would be, oh, because of Shoddy filmmaking.

Back to the Discord, rocket Wesker writes, during the final showdown, Greco activated the teleporter to escape from Earth. Why didn't he just use the teleporter to send his people to Earth, overwhelming Mario Lopez with the alien army and starting the invasion? I mean, that would solve all of Griko's problems,

but by doing the opposite, he would have taken Jamie Presley to his dying home planet and left the only device that can transport the alien army to Earth for the humans to destroy. Oh my God, first of all, rocket Wesker. Again, good eyes. I didn't even get that his planet was dying. And yes, they should be coming through. I thought maybe it was a transfer. And it's like, he needed some human DNA to go back there. It was like, ET needed to bring a plant.

Did ET need to bring a plant back to his planet? Or is it planet? I think his planet was doing fine. I think in the book, or like a sequel, his planet was dying. But that's just that. I mean, technically that's fanfiction. Why do I know about ET fanfiction that's just that I mean technically it's fanfiction. Why do I know about ET fanfiction? I don't even think it's ET fanfiction. I think I read a book that's even Spielberg like said was officially an ET sequel. Why do I know so much about ET? I mean because it's a great movie.

It's a solid movie. I'll tell you ET. Don't knock it. I didn't watch it for years. A rewatcher. It's like fucking good. I mean everything Steven it for years. A rewatcher. It's like, it's fucking good. I mean, everything Steven Spielberg makes is like the worst Spielberg is really good. Like I rewatched Crystal Skull.

And maybe it's just years of being battered by these, you know, new sequels and new people in bad CGI that it didn't hit me as hard this time. I mean the first 40 minutes are pretty good. There are some things that are bad. I talk about this a little bit on my letterbox, but Shyla Booth, Joseph for Shyla, he's good in that. He is actually good. The CGI is terrible. Like, why would they take an Indiana Jones movie and then like really just put it on green screens. It's so shlocky and I think that's what they were going for. Anyway, in that movie, which is bad, but not as bad as I remember it,

it's still really good. Spielberg, on the movies that you don't love, still have like great sequences. And I would say the first 40 minutes is pretty flawless in that one. Okay, spoon rise, right? It's just a brief correction to the Olive Garden Gorilla marketing team contrary to Sinclair

shutting out. You can't get that dressing. It's a secret in what was no doubt a yes and a heightening fugue state. You actually can buy the Olive Garden salad dressing at Costco. Okay. Wow. Hashtag makes salads unhealthy somehow. Hashtag MSUS.

Yes, to Olive Garden. Sneaky linear, add free. Oh my gosh, well, I'm gonna go to, I'm a Costco member. I'm gonna go there and buy that salad dressing. It's good. Okay, and lastly, this is something that was important. In our last corrections on emissions, I told Dr. Guts, 1003, he was incorrect for suggesting that there still should have been

sunlight out when Jane Lynch leaves her house around 9.930 pm. And I said, fact check me, people make sure I'm right. And by the way, I've been actually watching this. I was on vacation, I was watching this. But anyway, Corgi Herter stepped up to the plate with actual real facts. Corgi Herter writes, this is for Paul in a sunlight question, your latitude or how close you are to the equator changes when the sun sets. This is due to the axle tilt. The earth doesn't spend perfectly up and down. It's tilted, so sometimes

the North Pole is pointed at the sun and sometimes away. So, Paul was correct in saying that sunlight depends on where you live. Yes, that's how the poles get endless nights in the winter. The sunset for the summer solstice in LA is listed at 8.08. by contrast for Seattle. It's an hour later. There we go. Now look, so many great corrections and emissions. Do I want to give it to court? You heard it for proving me right? Of course I do.

I want to say you're the winner this week, but technically it's not a correction and emission for this week's movie, but let me tell you. Yeah, my vote. Then I want to go to spoon rise because you snuck in a little ad for Costco and Olive Garden, but the truth is, the real truth is there are so many great questions here. So many things going on.

But to me, I really believe that Sean McBeat asked the question that was the most obvious question that no one answered. How are these people going to survive in the Arctic? And you know what, Sean McBee? You are the winner and you get this amazing song from Francis Day. Hit it! You win. I think I win. Alright, if you want to submit an alt movie tagline or maybe a new title for a movie that

we do, every week we're going to pull one of those from the Discord. You can go to our discord at discord.gg-hdtgm or call us at 619-Paulask. Now, coming up Jason and I are going to chat about all the things that we are currently into. We're going to reveal next week's movie and at the end of the show I will share an exclusive deleted scene from our absolution episode. So stick around. Well, every Monday we are re-releasing older episodes back into the rotation because St. Papyrium is no longer we don't have a place you can access our back catalog. We are working on a fix. It's not going to be soon, but we're figuring it out. And in the meantime, what we're going to be doing is asking you for suggestions about what to re-release on Mondays, Matt named Mondays, but the next two weeks, we got to cover

because the Meg is out and we re-released the Meg one with all stars Nicole Byron, Adam Scott. And next week, because another, how did this get made all star Seth Rogen has made a genius, amazing Teenage Mutantigurals movie. We're going to go back to talk about teenage minigurals to with Adam Pally. So keep on checking out these replays of classic episodes every Monday and let's get into just chat.

We're going to do just chat a little bit differently. We do want you guys to be calling us at 619 Paul Ask because as long as the strike goes on, we're not going to be talking about streamers. We're not going to be talking about streamers. We're not going to be promoting different things. We're going to try to keep it off center. So we want to hear your questions. We want to get into your piece of advice.

So Jason and I will be diving into that a little bit more. I just want to give you a heads up. The phone lines are open. They're always open. But now, with that out of the way, let's get into just chat and Seth Chatfield. Take it away. Jason, I saw you recently just got back from Washington, DC doing some improv. Yes, Paul. I was at the Kennedy Center where I was doing an improv show.

I was meant to do a week's worth of shows. And on night three, I got COVID again on the road. And was again, once again, stuck in a hotel with COVID for a week just out of my entire mind. Now wait, let me ask you a question about this. Were there any babies in that Kennedy Center audience? Only the baby that is Anthony Atamineck who fully gave me COVID. I know it. I know it because he was sick.

He was sick. And then the next day he was out with COVID. I know it. I know because he was sick. He was sick. And then the next day he was out with COVID, then the next day, Neil Casey was out with COVID, and then the next day, I got COVID. So between the two of those guys who I was doing shows with, that's got to be how I got it. Or we were all exposed at the same time. And I just was the last person who developed the symptomatic case of it. Well, I have to say that I'm glad that you got COVID before we go out on the road for how did this get made. I feel like that was the only silver line. You know, is that I can now be pretty carefree on this tour.

Right. Just be a little, I mean, it's a quick tour. We'll be out there next week. Make sure you get your tickets tickets are still available. We're almost sold out everywhere. We have a surprise coming to you. The first night in Boston, which we won't tell you yet. And we also have a surprise coming to you in New Jersey. We think we think, but that's a maybe.

We'll see. That's a maybe. I will say though, when you talk about Anthony, Atomic, I think about his brand new podcast, which I don't know if you've heard it yet, it's great. I have. I've only heard one episode. I heard the John Gemberling episode, which is fantastic. I did an episode too. I did his first episode.

We recorded it a while ago. And the whole idea is, how would you survive something insane? Our premise was... Something that you fear. Something that you fear, what if it came true? Right. So ours was, well, mine was something that you fear something that you fear what if it came true right? So ours was well Mine was not positioned to me like that. I was just given

What would you do if your car? I see skidded off into the road and into like a river or a body of water What would you do and we and he was testing me on what I thought I would do and we had a great conversation about it so much so that after our conversation, I did buy one of those, um, a window breakers, which I have already in my car, already have one in my car, but this one goes around my visor because I was realizing, oh, my window breaker is low. I have to go dig for it. This would be really smart. I would want one to cut my seatbelt and break the window right by my head. I know travel with one.

Wow. So I have one in my little kit that has like a little tiny roll of duct tape, a little, like I've got one of those now just, so if I'm in a rental car, I have one of those things. That's probably even smarter. Because, yes, because I don't know

when this shit's gonna be down. So I know I'll bring you one, because I have that experience. I bought like five of them. And you get that through airport security. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I tried to bring some hot sauce back. I was so bummed, Jason, I gotta tell you.

I went on this trip with, I think you know, or June my wife. And we were on this small island in the West Indies. It was an amazing trip. The hotel that we were staying at is known for their hot sauce. This chef at the hotel makes own hot sauce, and you can order it whatever.

It is become a bigger thing, but I was there. The hot sauce is great. I bought a small bottle of her hot sauce so happy to have it Now coming back from the West Indies you have to go through Miami or we did and then Get another flight to go to wherever you're going What happened was our flight got delayed? So I got it after I went through security. I bought the hot sauce at the duty free shop.

Cause I was like, I'm gonna get this, this is great. But then I had to go back through security and they confiscated my fucking hot sauce. I was so bombed, I was halfway there. It was really, and I, they did it in the place where you have to re-enter the airport via like when you go through customs, you go get your bags and then you have like exit to the outside world or exit back to the airport to get a connecting flight. And when you go back to the airport, you still go through the security machines. So I had not left an airport,

but yet it was confiscated. And I was trying to explain to them, but I was like, but I bought it at the duty free shop. That's the whole idea in the airport. I'm still the airport. Yeah. No. It was really frustrating.

It was really frustrating. It was maddening. I hate when they basically don't play by the rules. You know what I mean? It's like, listen, I'm doing this the way you want me to. I bought it in the duty free sports. Yes. After I did, and you're telling me that your system now can strip this away from me.

That seems like some sort of racketeering. You know, that seems like that. You want that hot sauce. Like you're getting, you're getting. It was hilarious though, because I couldn't, you know, I'm a pretty good traveler and I couldn't figure out why my bag was being stopped and like you have liquid in there. Yeah.

And I was like, it's hot sauce. And to tell someone I have hot sauce in my bag, I mean, I know Hillary Clinton says it all the time and says it to Beyonce, but besides it do it, it was, it did feel like the best thing to say that, no, no, no, that's hot sauce. I did. Guys, no, don't worry guys. It's just hot. I know. He wanted a thing that I hated about this travel day. That was so upsetting. Our connecting flight to get us from Miami back to where we needed to go

sat on the tarmac for two hours without air conditioning. Yeah, that happened to me trying to leave. And the woman next to me ate three hot dogs. Three of these and Nathan hot dogs. No, Paul. It was an older lady. And that was like, no, no, no, no. And I was just trying to be kind because she was older and I wanted to just be sweet.

But three. So for the rest of the plane, I plane, we were there and I was it never went away. The smell never dissipated. And then here's insult injury. I was like, at least I'll be home soon after two hours of being on the tarmac. Let me get this voice over the intercom, attention ladies and gentlemen. So due to FAA regulations, we've reached our 12 hour shift,

so we have to go back to the airport now and we're gonna delay this flight. No. We were on the tarmac. That's, we got to go back. I hate that. That's, come on now. No?

No, we went back and then it's hard to go. I was interested, I said, oh, was there a travel voucher for food or something They said no flights not canceled. It's just delayed It's like so my eight o'clock flight Which now it's 12 30 at night is delayed until seven in the morning So for like they're yeah, no you only get a food voucher if it's canceled So I was like so I got a pen for myself for this next seven hours, and then that flight was then pushed from 9.30

then to 12.30. What? So did you have to stay in the airport that whole time? No, no, no, I'm with my wife. My wife was like, I said, we can manage seven hours. I mean, it's not gonna be that big, because if we get to the hotel by the time we check in,

it's gonna be like, 1.130, then we're gonna have to leave it like five, like, yeah, we should just stay in the airport's gonna be like, 1-130, then we're gonna have to leave it, like five, which is just in the airport. She's like, I want a hotel. Yeah. And I was like, okay. I can't argue with that. And she was right, she was right. It was better to be in a hotel for a few hours,

then just be uncomfortably laying somewhere in the Miami airport. Oh boy. Anyway, I did get to do some good reading while I was on my trip. And I would dream. Oh my gosh. I read this book called Harlam Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Okay, sure.

He won the Pulitzer for the Underground Railroad, and this is his crime novel. I think you would actually love it. It's, it is a fact-based fiction. It's about a small furniture dealer in Harlem, in the 50s and 60s. And he kind of has a toe in crime, not that he commits crimes,

but he interacts with elements or like, Sure. It's a little shady, but the book is three short stories of capers that this guy is involved in. And the new book just came out this week. It's about him trying to get Jackson five tickets for his daughter. Wait, same character.

It's another installment of this character. Oh, cool. Okay. Yeah. So, and he's written a ton of books, Colson Whitehead. This is the first time I believe he's revisited a character. Like this is like, this is his Bosch. This is his Bosch or he, yes, exactly.

And the new one is called Crook Manifesto. Crook Manifesto. Oh, I'll get both of these. Oh, that's a great one. But Harlem Shuffle is very akin to this, we talk about with Bruce Baker and stuff. It's a real, I don't know. I just love the tone and the style of it.

He's a great writer. Oh, that's great. Oh, I like that. I was gonna recommend a book to you I just love the tone and the style of it. He's a great writer. Oh, that's great. Oh, I like that. I was going to recommend a book to you that I was listening to and really enjoying only to look at it and see that you had blurbed it. Which is the last action heroes book. Dude, this is the book I've been loving. Yes, you are blurred on the book, right? Yes, I am. Because I was like, oh, I gotta tell Paul about this book because I've been listening to the audio book

and I looked it up unaudible to make sure I knew all the information. And you're first up on the quotes list. And I was like, oh, she already knows about this. I love this book. I heard about it from, which if Greg gave the action voice podcast. The wrecked.

To them. Yep, great. So they've been listening to it and talking about it on their podcast. They're wrecked to them. Yep. Great. So they've been, they've been listening to it and talking about it on their podcast. So I started listening to it. And it is a fantastic peak behind the curtain of the 80s and 90s. It starts with like the low action boom. The short, short and egg are always through like the end of Segal. Yes, exactly. Like the end of Segal. It's even Segal.

So fun. The stories are so fucking funny. And it's written in such a conversational way. Like I actually found myself slowing down reading it because I just enjoyed it so much. I was like, oh, these are fun. I just want to like, but like listening to Chuck Norris and I bought a Chuck Norris movie. I bought code of Silence because I wanted to like because of this. Oh, that's funny. It's great. You know, I'm really enjoying, it's also a very good

audio book, Bronson Pinchot. Oh, I love him. I love the audio book. It's so it's in, it's very digestible. Greats, you know, behind the scenes stories of the makings of a movies that we've talked about on this podcast. But they're also like all these movies that are so baked into like our life. You know, all these from the Jean-Claude Van Dames to like we said, shorts and egg are in Dolph Lungren and Segal and Chuck Nor all of them.

It really is interesting, because you get like, I actually have such a appreciation for Lungren now. I mean, I've always, I think he is, I don't know. I think that people have no ego about it besides Stallone, surprise, surprise. So everyone talks pretty openly. I will tell you that another kind of behind the scenes podcast like that's that I think you and I both love, which now has kind of become a little bit more ensconced as an official podcast is the Light the Fuse podcast, in sconce as an official podcast is the light the fuse podcast which is the two these two guys great guys basically tackle all the mission

impossible movies and they go oh you oh Jason let me open your mind to this they've done like 300 episodes on the mission impossible movies what and oh it like light the fuse you're saying like the season they've now become the official podcast of mission Impossiles, okay, but it is basically these two guys who Love love mission possible. It's a Drew Taylor who is a reporter for the rap he wrote for New York Times Vulture Vanity Fair the playlist collider so we know him Charles Hood who is a writer director who co-wrote night owls You know, Ed great right writer, director, who co-wrote Night Owls. You know,

it's great, right? So two guys who just love these movies. Yeah. They go in exacting detail. They will interview everybody from special effects coordinators to people who wrote scripts who were accredited on the movie. Yeah. Yeah. They go deep on everyone and you hear these amazing stories. And they get Chris McQuarrie on there, which by the way, if you're fan Empire podcast, just really. Yeah, those I've listened to the Empire podcast. Did you listen to the brand new one?

No, I haven't because I still haven't seen the movie. Oh, okay, okay. Well, then, but I will. But I will. I will just say if you are a mission impossible fan, I just recently watched them. These guys are fantastic. They're a little independent podcast. They have that now is kind of getting a lot more attention,

but they go deep in a way that just because they are critics and filmmakers, they uncover things in such a great way. I love it. You have to dig for some of the old episodes now, but you can, they're still out there. Yeah, great. I'll check that out. Oh, that sounds great. Excellent. I'll throw in a couple of other podcasts just since we're talking about podcasts. I've been listening to a bunch of pretty good music podcasts. Like I love dissect and song-exploder, cocaine and rhinestones. But

couple of, and I've mentioned Objective Sound before, which is great, but there's one called One by Willie, that every episode is about, is people talking about Willie Nelson songs, or other songs that are impactful, but through a Willie Nelson lens. Also, a podcast called Strong Songs is a guy who breaks down all of the kind of Strong songs is a guy who like breaks down all of the kind of Theory and lyrics behind behind a single song and talks about it and deconstructs it and it's and it's so far Great. I've only listened to a handful of episodes one of which was about Joni Mitchell's help me So it was great to hear he's talks about all the musicians who were on it and then he himself is a musician So he'll break down like the guitar line or the why this interesting drum beat is, you know, it's very, it's both technical

but also like a really interesting examination of an entire song for an episode and they're a blast. Oh, I love that. And you know, we talked about Johnny Mitchell for a long time on one of the last, last looks we did. And that album from the Newport Festival finally has been released like a remastered or just a mastered version. Not so you don't have to watch it on YouTube. Yeah. Which I am excited about. But as you and I shared, more excited to see the one that we went to. Oh my God, I'm so excited for that. I will also shut out. You were also

on a podcast that I've been listening to a lot lately, which is The Rodge tapes, which is Ben Rodgers is Ben Rodgers from the action boys, Lower Dex writer, Old UCB guy, really funny, super funny dude, has a great podcast, really great podcast where it is a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, he drives around with a van. Yeah, full of movies that you've never really seen that you can't get anywhere. Yep, like make one of a kind movies. Yes.

And you have to watch people to come in, talk, and it's a movie. It's a, if you like this show, I think you will love the Rodge tapes. And that's RODGE tapes. And it's, he's got great guests, but he also, it's, it's funny, but it's also like in the inside baseball world of like the Quentin Tarantino podcast, you know video archives If these are movies that you don't know about and I think it will make you just be searching eBay up at night to try to find

Yeah, all these turning you on to stuff. That's really good. I'll also throw out Drifting off with Joe Perra. Joe Perra's podcast is absolutely stunning. So far only six episodes, but every one of them a home run. Can't recommend it enough. What I was gonna ask you about as well was, you know, obviously we are on strike right now as active writers.

I've been involved with this organization that I helped found called Tusk, which is a union solidarity coalition, and we have done some events. We raised like $195,000 in one of our events, and now we're doing this celebrity auction, which is really fun. We have two.

We're wrapping up one, and we're going off and doing another one as well, but you can do really fun stuff. Like I will pick your fantasy draft order. Brett Gellman will eat corn dogs with you. Oh my God. June will take a hike with you. Just will take a hike.

Incredible. You can have a lunch with Justin Halpern who is the showrunner of Abbot Elementary and the co-creator of Harley Quinn. There are just great packages in there, but the one that is really fun, if you are Woody Harrelson fan and you like to smoke, you can just smoke weed with Woody. Ha! Amazing.

You can hang out at his dispensary for an hour and just, you know, get it done. I also brought cities, dress and stuff. If you go to Tusk together, that's TUSC together.com, you can just go to the auction, you can see what we got going on. And like I said, that auction auction's ending and a little bit And then we're starting even a bigger auction with I mean Jason

Meg Jill in halls can be doing a zoom with somebody wow just just chill and I've been talking with her She'll talk to you about anything and you got like weird alie ink of a con Daniel ragcliff signing shirts We got the two weird house the two out my My two favorite, they can call me owls. Oh my gosh, I gotta remake that video. That would be funny. And oddly late. So yeah, but I mean, that's what I've been up to. I've been up to.

That's incredible. I want to bid on some of these things. Yeah, there's some cool stuff. The want to bid on some of these things. Yeah. There's some cool stuff. The one that I help put together that I love is I'm a big fan of Chelsea Devantes' celebrity book club where she only talks about celebrity autobiographies. It's a great podcast because I read a lot of those. What I did was I reached out to so many of our friends from Tignitaro, to Danny Pellagrino,

John Bowie, Whitney Cummings, Mindy Kaling, Jesse Klein, Sarah Silverman, Betty Gilpin, Brian Leo Malley, so many people, Casey Wilson, and had them autograph their books. So you're going to get like 12 autographed books, and you're going to get a year subscription to her podcast, which is, I just love it. I think it's a great gift. Yeah, start your little celebrity library. I love that, that's incredible. So fun stuff all around.

And you signed all? I signed them all. Yeah, that was the funniest thing is like, I asked you to do, Judy can you sign a book? And she's like, sure, and then she wrote back to me. She's like, Paul, I don't, can't find my book. She's so funny. I did was, she got a to me, she's like, Paul, I don't, can't find my book. She said so funny.

I did was, she got a copy of Kathleen Turner's book, signed it and put a $20 gift card in there for Starbucks. Oh, that's really funny. That's very funny. I love that. Yeah, it's really great. I really love it. And I'm gonna just shut out as this trip

was a hellish nightmare. I will be so happy and I was so happy to have my Tom bin bag, my big bag, my like the one that doesn't have the new pocket. It's a shadow guide pack is my guess. It's a bucket with a lid at the top. Yes. Yes. Shadow guide pack. Okay, yeah. It's a bucket with a lid at the top. Yes, yes. Shadow guide pack.

Okay. And that's where I forget the names of these things, but I gotta tell you, that thing came in so handy because. That's my main backpack when I'm talking. Okay. That's a beast. Because it holds a lot.

I miss the pockets, but then doing your job, which is I get the little pouches, and then you're good. Oh yeah, gotta get your pouches going, gotta get your pouch game going. I use the thing that you gave me for my birthday, a little mini-packer, and I put all my electronics

in there perfectly. Oh yeah, that's great, that's the best. Perfect. Oh, nothing makes me happy. Thank goodness to Tom Bin for that, because I felt like I never was overwhelmed, because I was trying to travel light. June made fun of me my entire trip,

because I travel with two small Vicarion, like she travels with this monster beast and I'm always like, I can't fit anything in my carry. You mean the roller bag or your backpack? My roller bag. And she finally saw it. She's like, that's way too small. I go, it's regulation.

She's like, you don't have to do regulation. Oh. And yeah, so, yeah. So I'm learning, I'm learning how to get a roller bag, but that I have a small version of an away bag that was not, it was very tough. Oh, yeah, that's, though, the small version of those, which is basically the regular in like Europe and some other countries, that's the only size, right, is the small bag. That's all you can take on a plane. Yeah, it's only really here domestically that you can,

that you can have like the cabin plus, or whatever it's called, you know, that's a little bit bigger. Yeah, otherwise they're gonna make you check it. So big, they're back so big. Yeah. She's got, you know, she's all excited about it, like, fit everything in this bag.

I'm like, yeah, because it's a fucking full suitcase. That's why I fit everything in. Too much, too heavy. All right, well, Jason, great to chat with you. Oh my God, because it's a fucking full suitcase. That's why I fit everything in. That's too much. Too heavy. All right. Well, Jason, great to chat with you. We'll be back. We're going to be on tour.

Paul head out way to howtodisketmay.com, hdtgm.com to see the movies that we're doing. Come, see us. We're going, we're traveling around on the east coast. We're not going far. You could go see two shows in Boston. Get on a train. Go see two shows in New York. Get on a train.

Train. Go see us in Philly, get on a train, go see two shows in New York, get on a, another train, go see us in Philly, we're, we're a train tour. These are, you could, you could travel with us like you are following on this one or a fish because these shows are close to each other. So, you know, get tickets, get tickets for multiple cities, check them out. Come on, everybody. And I'll tell you this much. I am aware that people might do that. So I am actually trying to keep it a little bit different things that the people to see different things every night.

So, and I have heard and have it on good authority that the air conditioning at the chivalry is absolutely needed to hear. All right. That's the info that I've been waiting to hear. All right, everybody, we will see you next time. Thanks for joining me, Jason. This is Jess Chatt. Now that we got the solution out of the way,

let's talk about next week's movie, oh boy, this is great. We're going from a sci-fi flop to an Al Pacino cop. It's all right, next week we are watching the 2017 Crime Mystery Hangman, starring Al Pacino, Carl Urban and Brittany Snow boy You're in for a treat a short breakdown of the plot is simply this a homicide detective brings his partner out of retirement to help catch a serial killer Whose crimes are based on you guess it the children's game hangman rotten tomatoes gives us film a 4% score on tomato meter and Craig D. Lindsey from the Village Voice says

You may not take a single frame of this movie seriously, especially when ever Pacino is shuffling around Waving a gun and talking like he's desperately in need of a mint julep. Oh people listen to this trailer. We're not gonna let you down We got a serial killer Listen to this trailer. We're not gonna let you down. We got a serial killer. If you notice anything out of the ordinary, there's a letter called, be not just, game of having that. He's killed four people, and four days, one every 24 hours. He doesn't stop, that's probably the game.

Catching by the game board, he's gonna kill seven more people. Because of me, this whole game is taking place. We'll be fine this guy. All right, we are almost to the end of this episode. But before we go, check out this bonus scene from our Absolution show, where we answer a couple of extra audience questions. All right, so your name is for best Pete Sake in your question.

Okay, my name is Christy. For Pete Sake in your question. Okay, my name is Kristi for Pete Sake. Oh, I like it. I'm surprised that you guys didn't clock that, and maybe it's only listed on IMDB. It looks like actually in the movie, that Mario Lopez's character's full name is Ryan Murphy. Yes, I actually have a picture of that. His name is Ryan Murphy when he signs in its Ryan Murphy. I did, I did clock it actually, I just haven't shared it. I thought we, we really left her out in the cold for that one. I thought it was Ryan Murphy. All right, your name and your best Pete's taking your question.

My name is Mike. For the love of Pete, right. My question is, do you think that the casting director thought that the Christian from Clueless would be a perfect military man? You know, I was wondering where he was from, and I didn't Google it, but yeah, Christian from Clueless, like, eh, Christian from Clueless. Who does he play in Clueless?

Oh, that's Dallas, okay. Yeah, the one who likes loves, yeah. Oh, of course. So he's gay in Clueless, and she initially has her crush on him, right? He's wonderful, you know. He's great, he's great. I did like him in this.

I like him a lot. I mean, I don't think he's Z team material. Well, he's got. What I was on the wheel. I mean, what I will say about this movie too, and I always feel this as someone who is not a cut, you know, absentric person. Paul, tell me.

Thank you about yourself, I love you. Come on, Paul, you take care of me. Yeah, you know, absentric person. Paul, tell me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Paul. You take care of me. Yeah, you take care of my friends. What are you talking about? Don't care about me. What is the nature of this relationship?

Come on, you take such good care of me. Don't get me wrong. I take care of my body. I am drawing my body, but I'll tell you this. I always feel for the two or three people who are a little bit more deep background who aren't as cut, and it's always like, cut, cut, cut, cut, and this is one guy's like,

hi. You're like, yeah. Even if that person's in good shape, you don't look, like you just, there's a little look. I know this is a good one. Yeah, it's upsetting. It's like, and there's that one guy who really like,

in that standing room, he's like, belly is out a little bit more belly. Belly, I did notice that. Well, he also had kind of a farmer's town. Yes. You know, I'd love to give him a little free time. Think about it, yeah, how? How?

How? They make a point to say the sun doesn't come out. What? OK, so when Jessica and I said, we are in bad, we are this movie, put us in bad moods. I really think it was also because there's not any natural light in the movie. Yes.

Yes, you're right. And I started to feel crazy. I was like, get me out of this bumper. It's all over heads. All fluorescence. It felt echaematic. Me too. Maybe also just the fact that I shot on videotape.

Yeah. Well, no, I feel like it was shot like on the stages next door to save by the bell. I felt like Mario was like, shit, I gotta go do a sexy and I'll be right back. Yeah. Yeah. Start.

Yeah. Start. He was like doing Mr. Miyagi wax on wax off his style. So good. Thank you for coming out to Largo. We'll see you on the How To Discontinue made summer tour. It's this week people come out. Come out with your second opinions. Come out with your questions.

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