How Did This Get Made? - Last Looks: Fifty Shades Freed & Ronal the Barbarian

Episode Date: April 12, 2024

Jason and Paul are back from the UK to gab all about the tour, the new Road House movie, their favorite new stand-up specials, and much more. But first, on this super-sized Last Looks Paul answers corrections and omissions from both Fifty Shades Freed AND Ronal the Barbarian. Plus, as always, Paul reveals next week's movie. Vote here for our Fast X episode to win a Webby Award! PAUL & JASON'S PICKS:Road House (2024)Posh NoshThe SmileMary Lattimore"Harold" by Steven Wright STAND-UP SPECIAL PICKS:Rory Scovel: Religion, Sex, and a Few Things In BetweenKyle Kinane: Dirt NapJames Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999Ed Gamble: Blood Sugar PODCAST PICKS:Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James AcasterDissectThings Fell Apart  Go to hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, and more.Pre-Order Paul’s book about his childhood, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, wherever books are soldFor extra Matinee Monday content, visit Paul's YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheerHDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerFollow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer/Check out Paul and Rob Huebel live on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/friendzone) every Thursday 8-10pm ESTSubscribe to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson here: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael here: www.thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcastCheck 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

What's the deal with Danish asses? Finally, we'll figure out what topping the bottom means, and you guessed it, we're going to find out about that duplicitous maid. But before I can get into that, I must tell everyone, places, people, places! It's time for Last Looks. Both in Bop EDSM, but Paul didn't think that either one went far enough. Corrections and omissions, and just chat with Jason and Zoots. And probably some other stuff, I'm really not sure, but here's last loot. Hello all you big bald barbarians who love topping from the bottom.

I'm your host Paul Scheer and welcome to this special super size BDSM themed edition of how did this get made? Last looks. That's right because we took a little vacation from last looks last week while we were on tour in the UK and on this episode I will finally address your issues on both Ronal the Barbarian and Fifty Shades free plus later in the show Jason will join me and we're just gonna you know shoot the brace it's gonna be a lot of fun and as always I will reveal next week's movie which I'm actually interested in I don't

know what it's gonna be and I think you got a good one in store because I know why we picked it so then would you know the movie? Anyway, I don't want to let you in on all the magic here, but I kind of think I do, but I'm going to let myself be surprised. Anyway, first things first, a big shout out to you. Guessed it. Rob from Long Island for that opening song. Wow. I love that you made it especially for this special episode.

I love Rob. I love you. You are great. I love that you're out there. You know that we're going to give you a big episode and you give me a super-sized theme. Anyway, we love these songs. We love Rob. If you have a Last Looks theme song, if you want to cater it to what you think I might say or do in an episode, please do and send it to how did this get made at earwolf.com. But keep them short. Yeah. Previties of solo whip people.

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Let's get into it. During our last two episodes, we talked at length about both Ronald the Barbarian and 50 Shades Free. 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. Oh damn! Thank you, Styles O'Brien.

I love that theme. First up, we will be talking about Ronald the Barbarian, a film the Discord user Oshuan thought should have had the tagline, something rotten from the state of Denmark. Oh dude, you nailed it. I love it. Lars Andersen, Danish guy here, sorry Jason, loved the show. Here are a couple notes. A shield maiden in Nordic sagas is simply a female warrior. I think the movie invented the rule that a shield maiden marries the man who defeats her. Number two, the old man who complains he's been stuck on the toilet waiting for his nurse since Wednesday is actually a joke on the quality of that a shield maiden marries the man who defeats her. Number two, the old man who complains he's been stuck on the toilet waiting for his nurse since Wednesday

is actually a joke on the quality of social services in Denmark. If you are no longer able to fully care for yourself but wish to stay in your home, you can apply for social service helper to come and take care of the basic necessities, which yes, can involve cleaning the older person. There are too often reports of failures and duty of care

and that's a bummer, so let's just leave it there. And finally, Lars suggests if we like this movie, there are some other animated Danish films that are in this ilk, like Turkle in Trouble or Journey to Saturn and maybe even Checkered Ninja, although that one is a little more serious, he says. Well, we may not go back to Danish animation cinema anymore. We enjoyed it, but maybe get out while the getting's good.

Rob from Long Island, ooh, writing in with a comment. The entire aesthetic of this movie is heavy metal. Yes, I agree with you, Rob. Yes, they bridged the gap between heavy metal, leather, and BDSM, but the guitar guy also has a rock and roll t-shirt. The name of the town is Metalonia, and Dee Snider is the voice of the guitar guy also has a rock and roll t-shirt. The name of the town is Metalonia and Dee Snider is the voice of the bad guy. It's all primed to have a heavy metal score or something But it never leaned into it

There's a song over the end credits and there's a music video for it online But from the trailer you would think that this is some sort of tenacious D metal fever dream and it's nothing like that You know what Rob? You nailed it because you're you are absolutely right. Like this movie doesn't know exactly what it wants to be and that's the problem. It should just be balls out fucking sex comedy, heavy metal. It should be heavy metal meets you know Lord of the Rings. Like heavy metal the animated cartoon not heavy metal the music. But you know what I'm saying. It's the same thing.

Dr. Guts, 10.03 writes, I take issue with the way invisibility is represented in this movie. Ooh, I love a statement like that to start off a paragraph long correction or omission. First of all, after becoming invisible, we can still see Ronald's shadow. If he's invisible, there would be nothing blocking the light to create the shadow,

with the exception of his bouncing ball sack. Secondly, while this issue is not unique to the movie, being truly invisible would actually render a person completely blind. Your retinas are lined with photoreceptor cells that convert light into nerve signals and if you are invisible in the classic sense of light passing through you unimpeded, that means light is passing through your photoreceptors. Rather than being stopped by them, everything would probably appear pitch black, just as it would if your photoreceptors

were getting no signal because you were in a totally dark room. Dr. Gutz, thank you for giving us this Neil deGrasse Tyson moment. We needed to have some of the fun let out of being invisible. Well there, I guess it isn't so fun after all. Let's go to the phones. Anonymous from Denmark. Hi Paul, I am calling after listening to Ronald the Barbarian. So a long-time listener, first-time caller. I live in

Denmark and so first and, I wanted to thank you for correcting everyone that John Dillerman is not weird. It's very kid-friendly. But more importantly, I had to call to defend Danish asses. So the point came up that maybe the animators were drawing their flat asses. Danes have great asses.

These are people that walk and bike absolutely everywhere. They have to get their gorgeous Danish furniture up to their third floor apartments. So I have to say the animation does not reflect the reality of the Danish ass. Thank you so much. Lars Mikkelsen is in every Danish movie, so that's not necessarily big news, but this film is listed in the children's section on TV. I don't know any kids who have seen it, but thank you, bye. All right, you know what? I believe you, I believe, I believe in Danish asses. I love a Danish ass, they were not drawn well,

so you should take this up with really the animator. Let's go to Jesse. Hey Paul, Jesse, two quick things. One Jason mentioned he did like the Amazon part in rural. That's probably because it's a poorly done ripoff of a great Futurama episode about 10 years ago, or I'm sorry, 10 years before this movie came out. There's an episode called Amazon women in the mood.

Of course, that's a takeoff on the old exploitation movie. But anyway, the episode is hilarious. And of course it aired on television, but even though it aired on television, the jokes are pretty great and actually kind of dirty for television. Kind of the way you pull these jokes off rather than the silly kind of childish way they did it in the movie. And a quick number two, this has nothing to do with the movie but I wanna thank you guys for talking about

Sharon Stone's Sylvester movie, The Specialist. I think I sent you that DVD 10 years ago, hoping you'd review it but I, man, when that episode showed up in my feed, I was so pleased. Thanks for everything guys. Thank you, Jesse. We did do the specialist, and maybe it was because of you. And you know what?

I'm going to say it was. Somebody said, oh, Paul, I finally convinced you to go to the UK. I'm like, well, no, you didn't convince me. I've been wanting to go to the UK. Just had to wait for my kids to get older. But you know what? For you, Jesse, we did the specialist because of you.

And now, do I have to watch the future on my episode Amazon women in the mood? I guess the answer is, hell yeah. I gotta compare notes. And finally, Rob from Ontario, Canada. What do you got? Hi Paul, this is Rob Rake from Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The birthplace and home of Dan Aykroyd.

Just wanted to start by saying we would love for you to come to our town and do a show on any type of a Coridian movie that's still left over after Blues Brothers 2000 and beyond. I have a correction and omission for the Rommel show. A guest in the crowd noted that Trolls Christofferson, it was noted as a reindeer wrangler in the credits, when in fact, I also saw that in the credits, and it's a render wrangler.

So it is just a role within a computer animation production, the render wrangler is the last person who sees the animation before it's finally put to film and video. So it was just a misreading. It had nothing to do with the Danes and their reindeers. So thank you very much. Appreciate the show.

Cheers. Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Render Wrangler, our producer Scott pulled me a clip. Yes, that is right. Thank you, Rob from Ontario. Good eyes on ya. And Shawna Gator on Discord explains further, when animators and VFX artists are finished prepping

their shots each day they send them to a render farm which is a bunch of networked CPUs that process the data and render the actual shots for review. And a render wrangler monitors the render farm overnight and makes sure every frame of animation gets processed correctly so the shots are ready to review the next morning as dailies. That's right. Wow. Y'all brought it here. Okay, so many great Ronald the Barbarian corrections and omissions. We're gonna take a quick break, then we're gonna dive into your thoughts about Fifty Shades of Free, and then Jason's gonna join the show.

Then we're gonna talk about the next movie. But don't worry, we're still gonna pick a winner from all this, but it's gonna be a combined winner. Anyway, I know you wanna hear some more bonus content from our Ronald the Barbarian show. So check out this deleted scene where June continues serving up hot takes during the audience Q&A.

I am with a person dressed as a barbarian. Our barbarian is here. Barbarian, what's your name? David the horny. Okay. here, barbarian, what's your name? David the horny. OK. Because of his horns and his raging hard dog. So the animals are also in leather. There's a bird that's tracking Ronald, and he's in fully leathered out.

Son of crumb. Exactly. Son of crumb. So I don't think they auditioned for that part. I don't think they consented to that. I don't think I don't know if do you guys think if they consented to whether he let to be in the leather? This is a great question for June because June is often upset like when monkeys are put in movies and forced to do things that are evil if they don't get a chance on the script, you're saying that the birds were forced to wear.

No, no way. And the horses. No, no, no, no, no way. This is an animated film. And so anything goes. This is an animation is a great space. Animation is not just for kids. It's a great space for us to really explore

our deepest, darkest desires and what we consider taboo. And it's actually the safest space to explore those things. Yes. Okay, your name and your question. So I'm Molly, and I'm kind of questioning the feminism in this movie, because the men have all these intelligent ideas, like coming up with cell cell phones but women cannot come up with vibrators. Well no because they don't... God I hate that I have to have this... I hate that I have to give this speech. The Amazonian women they can come up with vibrators and I believe they're

doing just fine there and they're having a grand old time without any men but they need to keep their tribe going, which is why they need to mate. So it's not, I don't believe that that mating ritual is about pleasure for them. They just have to keep things moving and grooving. Respectfully disagree because they seem psyched. When they find out that these women are in fact men, they are like, Oh my God, that's great news, we can fuck.

Mating ritual, let's go. Now, but what that begs the question for me is, where did all these women come from? How do they not know so much, an entire generation of women, not know that these are in fact even men, that they see these two men and think they are just they think the whole world is women so where did they come from it's a movie we're back and that is enough

Ronald that's right the movie for women is now up on a shelf we have two great shirts for that now it is time to enter the red room one last time for corrections and omissions from 50ty Shades Free, a movie that discord user Vinyard S thinks could have had the tagline, not even a hot bodyguard can protect you from this. I like it. George Glass writes in response to Anastasia saying, people already think I got this job because I'm married to the owner. Oh Anna, you're a 22 year old college grad whose only other work experience was a part-time retail worker at a very non-busy hardware store.

You went from assistant to running the fiction department in months? Hell, even in five years, that would be crazy. If I worked in that office, I would be livid at the blatant installation of this owner's girlfriend slash wife. Thank you, George." I don't know if that's anything more than just a moment of anger. Yes, of course, we all know that. Anyway, Dr. Gutz 1003 weighs in and says, instead of having Jack's female accomplice be HR Liz, which is just a big bowl of who cares, they should have had it been Gail, Christian's housekeeper. There's that scene early in the movie where Gail seems to be annoyed that Anna wants to cook her own food and it would explain why Jack is so easily able to get into Christian's place. Oh this is good I like

this. And if they wanted to go full-on soap opera it could have been revealed that Gail was Jack's adoptive mother and the two of them have been secretly resenting Christian, his family, and their opulent lifestyle for all these years while they struggled to get by. Dr. Gutz, write me a sexual fan fiction book. You got what it takes, kid. Kalio writes, you know, inspired by Dr. Gutz and wants to continue this discussion of Gail the housekeeper and says, if I remember correctly, in the book Gail the housekeeper and Taylor the bodyguard were hooking up and of course

is horrified while Christian is all like, well, they're consenting adults. No big deal. I want a Rosencrantz and Gilderstern version of Fifty Shades of Grey about that relationship. Kellyco, you can do it because the author of this book did it that way too. You write that. Dr. Gutz, you take care of the new ending. We have more work to do. Let's go to the phones.

Stacey from Phoenix. Hi, Paul. So as you've wrapped up the Fifty Shades series and have talked multiple times about the fact that all these people need therapy, there was a very big plot point that was cut out of all of the movies, but was also filmed for the movie. So Christian did go to therapy and Anastasia went with him on the Hands All of Times. And Hugh Dancy actually filmed scenes to be Christian's therapist in the movie, but he

was in a quickly cut out for I don't know what reason. Maybe they just thought he could deal with life on his own. I don't know, just thought that was interesting. Love the show, bye. Whoa, whoa, I didn't know that. You dancey, we need to, I wanna see it. Can we play it? No?

Okay, well go find them. I'm sure they're not interesting because it would be, if they cut it, that means it's more boring than what we actually saw. Wow. Amelia, next on the phone, what do you got? Hi. I had a just mild correction about some of the kink terminology in the movie. So specifically, hopping from the bottom means that the bottom is trying to take control

and that that was not a negotiated part of the scene. So it's generally not something that's cool to do unless it was discussed prior, which is another issue. They should have had so many negotiations. The coverage of these movies is really fun. Thank you so much. Thank you, that makes sense. Okay, got it. Now I understand the topic from the bottom.

Thank you for the clarification. You're the best. So many great corrections and omissions this week. So many people came in and kind of set us straight. Shut us down. Really, I think, put the movies in a different perspective. But I have to say that maybe the most creative one should be the winner today.

Not the most eagle-eyed person. And I think the most creative one should be the winner today. Maybe, you know, not the most eagle-eyed person. And I think the most creative person to me is Dr. Guts 1003. Dr. Guts 1003, you are this double episode winner and you get this amazing song from, you know who it is, my favorite, Rob from Long Island. Hit it! You win, congratulations to you.

Paul picks the winner and the winner is you. You said something smart and funny, so I'm telling you, you win. Nothing! If you want to submit an alt movie tagline, chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode. Hit us up at the Discord at Discord.gg slash HDTGM or call us at 619 paul ask coming up

jason stops by for a chat and i will reveal next week's movie but first enjoy this bonus deleted scene from our 50 shades freed show where i talk about how my mom refused to believe that i was in the tv show veep take a listen my mom is the person who i was on veep for one season and um Mom is the person who, I was on Veep for one season and my mom, thank you, and my mom, she loves to talk to me about the stuff that I do and I didn't hear her talk about Veep at all and I said, you know, hey mom, do you watch Veep? And she's like, I watch it but you're not on it. And I go, well what do you mean? I'm on it, I'm definitively, it's not a big part but I'm on it.

She's like, no, you're not on it. I watch every episode. And I go, what do you mean you watch every, I mean I'm definitively, it's not a big part, but I'm on it. She's like, no, you're not on it. I watch every episode. And I go, what do you mean you watch every episode? I mean, I'm on it. And she's like, do you do any scenes with a dog? And I go, the dog? There's no dog on the show.

She's like, there's a, yes, the dog is a good part of the show. There's no scenes of a dog. And then... Oh, I so want to figure out what it is she was watching. Do you want to figure it out? I'll give you a chance. Well, I figure it took me about 20 minutes, and then we figured out my mom was watching Madame Secretary. No! The T. Leoni CBS hour-long drama.

Incredible. Which is, like, the perfect, like, okay. Veep. That's, like, a female president, right? So I'm... she got, like, okay, Veep. That's like a female president, right? So I'm, she got like in the world. I love that she like probably Googled like politics, something and that's what popped up. She was like, that must be it.

And she watched a lot of Madam Secretary. How many episodes? Every episode. That's a network procedural. So that's like 22 episodes a season. She watched a lot, so much so that I feel like she was like, well, I know that you're not on it, but I'm going to continue watching Madam Secretary and not watch V. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you get on Madam Secretary?

Also, her logic was that you lied to her. Yes. Yeah. Why wouldn't you just tell me? And I think she was just angling to meet the dog. Welcome back. Wow. Whoo. Breathe it in. What a big episode. You've noticed that every Monday, how did this get made is releasing an older episode back into the rotation. We had hackers out there.

I love hackers. We got to the origin story of the whole BB-8 thing. And if you have not listened to that episode in a long time, it's worth the listen to hear June's reaction to my robot BB-8 that she hated so much. Every week, a brand new Matinee Monday. Check out what we're serving up there. They're repeats, but they're oldies, but goodies. Anyway, let's welcome Jason to the show

for a little Just Chat. John Cohen, play us in. ["Just Chat with Paul Sheer and Jason Manzoukas"] What's up, jerks? It's time for Just Chat with Paul Sheer and Jason Manzoukas. Just Chat with Paul Scheer and Jason Manzoukas. Jason, we are back from our UK, Ireland, Scotland tour. And what, what a blast. Holy cow.

We really, everybody showed up. London showed up. Dublin showed up. Glasgow showed up. Belfast showed up. Huge, huge shows. Everybody was a blast and also everybody was so lovely. It really was such a treat to be there with an audience

where I will say like the first night going out on stage, starting up the show, I was like, oh wow, okay. It just felt incredibly different. Like how is this audience gonna respond to things? I didn't know? You're just in a brand new place, but it really was some of the smartest, funniest, and- Great questions.

Great questions. Great questions and not a backlog of people who wanted to sing second opinions. No. A respectful amount. Some nights just won. It was great. Some nights the audience just decided,

you know what, this one person, we're gonna let them do. You know? And we had some amazing guests. You'll see all the t-shirts are available now on tpublic.com, but there is one t-shirt that is made with the face of really the winner of that show. I mean, there is a doctor in the audience and she killed it.

She came dressed as a- King Arthur from the return. And we also have an Allen shirt that, um, I wanted to bring this up because on our discord, uh, we made this Allen shirt in Dublin and the movie that we did for Dublin was this movie about thunder pants, a farting movie and you're welcome. You're you are welcome. As someone asked, did you, did you make this. Pick for Dublin because there's a lot of green and a red head in it.

Like, like calling out our own stereotyping, but she loves the Alan shirt because she's like, what's so great about it is that if you rearrange the letters, it's anal. And anal and farting, that's what makes that shirt even more perfect. I was like, you know what? This is the kind of thinking that we need from our fans. So often, so often I will say that I especially

will try and get the audience to lead a chant of some sort. A real audience-wide, fuck the moon, you know, kumite, you know, there's a lot of chanting in the history of this show. Dublin, we didn't have to do a goddamn thing. They started chanting for Alan on their own. Well, I mean, and by the way, Dublin followed in the footsteps of Scotland

when we did our show in Scotland, where I just mentioned London. I said we were in London, and then the entire audience, unprompted, started chanting, fuck London. Yes, great. These were great chanting cities.

Thank you. Thank you for your willingness. And sometimes thank you for being the engine of the chant. A really incredible audiences. I loved it. And I will say this, you and I actually flew back on the same flight. And I was excited to just really crack into some movies

or watch a bunch of TV. And I just, I really just slept the entire time. I was excited to just really crack into some movies or watch a bunch of TV. And I just, I really just slept the entire time. I watched you sleep most of that flight. Yeah. I was like, Oh, hey, now. Nobody's going to mess with my guy. I was like, thank, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I was like, I'll stand guard first.

But I passed out and I was so upset because I do enjoy a long flight and a chance to like break into movies and shows. And I had it all lined up. I knew what I wanted and I was trying to stay awake like a kid, I was like, oh, no, I can't. I was like, oh, this is out. No, you got it.

That, I will say like this tour was exhausting. I'm still wrecked from the travel, Yeah, no, you got it. That, I will say, like this tour was exhausting. I'm still wrecked from the travel, from the jet lag, from all of the, all of it was a mess. But I managed to, you know what I've been doing lately too is downloading, because sometimes when I, for flights I'll download a bunch of movies or a bunch of episodes of something that I'm watching

or whatever. But I've started downloading like YouTube videos simply because they're shorter and they're a little bit more like, I'm much more likely to watch Adam Savage, you know, build a mock-up of a lid for one of his bags in his workshop or watch, you know, backpack reviews.

It's like a 12 or a 20 minute video about a backpack review. And I'm like, yes, that's perfect for me right now while we're doing plain stuff, you know, and versus like, oh, am I really gonna jump into some, you know, two hour movie that I've decided like, oh, I should rewatch Arrival. You know what I mean? Now that I'm so into Denis Villeneuve right now, you know? Oh my gosh, so good, by the way. Yeah, I should rewatch Arrival. You know what I mean? Now that I'm so into Denny Villeneuve right now, you know?

Oh my gosh, so good. By the way, yeah, I mean, you're right. Like I think sometimes I get anxiety on an airplane. Am I picking the right thing? Am I getting enough done? Maybe that's the way, yes. Oh my, now you asked on the show, on this show, about a series.

It was like not a music series, it was a comedy series about like, when you get cooking show gone wrong. It was Posh Nosh, right? The British. music series, it was a comedy series about like when the cooking show gone wrong. Yes, it was Posh Nosh, right? The British. Yes, and it's all on YouTube. Somebody else has, that has found its way to me. Okay. Yes, Posh Nosh.

Richard E. Grant, an incredible comedy, funny. I mean, it looks like it's a kind of old school British country manner cooking show. Like we're gonna make some potatoes, we're gonna make some of this, but it's actually just outrageous, very funny comedy. Incredibly funny show. I was very excited that it's there.

And I don't know if you've seen it, but I did get to watch the new Roadhouse. I've only watched maybe the first 20 minutes. Okay, so a lot of people have been poopooing the new Roadhouse. There's a lot. Yeah. There's a lot of negative talk from what I've heard. Now.

I know it's also like the number one on Amazon. It went down very easy for me. I want to talk to you about it when you see it, but I will say this. If you don't have an interest in watching it, let me just say that you're maybe missing out on one of the best performances on film ever. And that is of Conor McGregor's shoulders. Because this guy, he is, and I'm doing this on camera, it's adjacency,

but you can't, his shoulders are leading the way. He looks like a cartoon character of a strong man. And there is something about this villain. Like there's, I guess, when I watched The Rock, when I watched Vin Diesel, when I watched all these big muscular movie stars, there's a part of me that's like, well, yes, but they're movie stars.

They are built, but Conor McGregor beats the shit out of people. And he carries himself with an energy that is unlike anything I've seen. And I, and I really was like, this might be the best or worst performance of all time. I'm erring on the side that it's the best. I couldn't take my eyes off him. And I also hated him. I'm going to watch it tonight.

I was liking what I was seeing, but I was like, I was like, oh, you know what? You know what's interesting? I think I was wrong both ways because I have, I have put Roadhouse, the Roadhouse remake and the Fall Guy remake, the David Leach, Ryan Gosling movie. I've kind of matched them together in a way of like, those to me are similar.

And I felt like, oh, the Fall Guy is gonna be a more serious one and Roadhouse is gonna be silly and I think it's the reverse. Cause as I was watching Roadhouse, I was like, oh, this is a little bit more of a, this isn't as campy or it isn't yet as campy as the original Roadhouse was. No, no, it's-

And Fall Guy looks like it is having a blast. I think that Fall Guy is a straight up rom-com with amazing stunts and it's gonna be fun. And this movie is definitely darker, but man, oh man, I was like watching Jake Gyllenhaal and I was like, this guy, like if you... He's career together. It's like, he has done amazing, amazing stuff.

And it's all so different and weird. Incredible in Prisoners, incredible in a movie that is absolutely one of the most, Oh my God, Prisoners, so good. like, difficult to watch harrowing movies. Harrowing. What, like a true edge of your seat, uncomfortable watch, but incredible movie.

Now, when you watch, I want to, cause I really want to break into, cause there are some things I need to talk about in there. It really is. Next time we do this, let's talk specifically about Roadhouse. Okay, now you saw some great music when you were in London, cause you got there a little bit before.

What did you see? What did you like? I saw two great shows. I saw The great shows. I saw the smile, which is the new band that is Tom York and Johnny Greenwood from radio head as well as the drummer from sons of Kemet, who is a monster. Um, and it's just them. It's a, it's a great rock show, a great, beautiful venue.

The Alley Pally, uh, that was like this big up on the hill in London, looking out over the city, incredible show. But then I saw a show that dwarfed that even in terms of, I saw like truly like one of the top 10 shows ever in a long, or at least in a very long time. I saw Mary Lattimore, who's a beautiful heart player, songwriter, incredible artist, play at a venue called the Scala. And there's a documentary about this venue. This venue was a music hall. It was a movie theater. Everybody's played. It's like a

legendary London venue and it's small. And it was the audience was it was packed but everybody was dead silent while she played beautiful songs and it was one of the most transcendent musical experiences I've ever had it was an absolutely stunning show Mary Lattimore all of her records are fantastic How are you getting into the harp world Jason? You You know, she started playing, she's inside of like the experimental music scene that I feel like I listen to a lot of that I would put like Grouper in and or Callie Malone. There's all these people that are playing stuff like beautiful experimental instrumental stuff that I come across,

you know, whether it's, you know, I read a review of it. I'm trying to think how I found Mary Latimore first. Cause she also collaborates with a lot of people. So I might've first heard her on someone else's record. I'm not sure. Well, by the way, I want to ask you, you know, she's got two LA dates coming up. Oh, great.

April 15th and May 8th, she's gonna be at Zebulon. Oh yeah, oh she was, that's right, she did a residency there a couple months ago, yeah. Yeah, with Anthony Perogue and Janelle Lapine. Oh okay, I don't know them, but that's fantastic. And then Walt McClements and Ben Babbitt. So like this is, you know, if you're in LA, I might wanna check this out actually.

I can't recommend that show enough. I think she's one of the most interesting artists working right now. And I think it's beautiful music. Well, that like, I love, like there's something really interesting. I don't love seeing shows in LA. And I think that you talked to a lot of musicians,

they don't like playing in LA that much either. Like they play outside of LA. If you notice like, it's like, oh, I'll play in Orange County. We'll get like, they get a little bit further out. And I love to sing shows in New York, and I love, but going to different venues, it's like, it really is, I don't know.

I just like seeing, I love seeing a good concert. I agree, I agree. And there's something about, you know, London, when I was there shooting Infinite, I saw like, because I was there so long, I saw like 20 shows. So I saw shows at all these different venues, many of which like, I saw like a show in like something

I think it's called the Round Chapel. And it's like a 400 year old round church that I saw a jazz show in that was absolutely stunning. Like it was the venues themselves were beautiful and crazy. Nevermind just then seeing a great music show, but I agree. LA is a tough town. I saw right before we left for tour, I saw Destroyer, one of my absolute favorites, Dan Bayard play a solo show

here at the Lodge Room in Highland Park, which I think is a beautiful room, small, intimate show, fantastic show. Just played, like again, played for so long, just him and another guy. And it was a beautiful show. He played songs from

every record that I wanted him to play. It was, for me, it was like one of my favorite, because he was the last concert I saw before the pandemic, and now one of the first concerts for me back, seeing live music. So do yourself a favor. If Dan Bayer is coming to your town,

if Destroyer is coming to your town, buy tickets, go to the show. It's a phenomenal show. Even if you're not super familiar. If you're not super familiar, buy all of his records. Well, here's what I'll say too. I love this feeling that you're talking about, like seeing a show and I felt,

I was writing this person all this weekend because I saw Rory Scovel's new special, Religion, Sex and Some Other Things. It's an HBO Max special. It's on my list. It's, okay, I will just say this. It's fantastic. It's fantastic. Oh, It's, okay. I will just say this. It's fantastic. It's fantastic.

Oh, you do, you've seen it, right? Yeah, so it is fantastic. And it gave me this feeling of watching a live show. I've not seen a standup special where I felt like I was like, oh, I'm in the room. It felt relaxed, but everything is so hot. Yes, it's so refreshing. He's having fun. You's so refreshing. He's having fun.

You're watching somebody who is so comfortable and at ease and it feels, it doesn't feel, there's two, I was gonna shout out that special and another one, which is Kyle Kanane's special, Dirt Nap is also absolutely fantastic. And both of them are exactly what we're talking about. Both of them are just, they're not overly produced or manicured or they don't feel like this big production.

They don't, they feel, even though they are, they're big specials. They both feel so comfortable and so casual. I thought these are two of the best specials I've seen in years. They really like it. It's interesting because I think you and I see a lot of standup. We are in the world of comedy. So to see a special that is doing something a little bit different or just

makes you feel a certain way. I remember I talk about this a lot because because you know, I've been doing comedy I came out to LA and I saw Patton Oswald get on stage and start talking about the Star Wars prequels. That's how long ago it was and I was like, oh my god I think it was that Largo the old Largo and I was like and I'm listening I'm laughing like he's just coming up With this on the spot and I felt so like it's so cool I'm getting to see his actual reaction to the Star Wars prequels.

And then I saw him like two nights later do the same material and I felt so betrayed because I was like, Hey, cause it was presented so casually. But that's how well it worked. That's how great it, that's what great standup is supposed to be. Like, and that's what I felt like watching Rory's special too. Cause I was like, there are so many moments in it that feel genuine to the moment, to that very moment that I'm like, oh, I know that can't be exactly true, but however he's doing it, it feels electric,

because it feels genuinely like these are the moments that are happening in this room on this night, not just here's the act, now I'm doing it for camera. Um, I'll shout out one more comedy special that I think is absolutely terrific that relates to our tour as well, which is James A. Castor's most recent special, which is called, um, cold lasagna. Hate myself. 1999. Okay. Um, in typical James A. Cast or form, it is two hours long and it is an absolute must watch. It is, if you've seen repertoire, it's fantastic that, you know, those four specials together. This is a whole new other thing and it's incredible. Um, I think it's

on Vimeo. I think I had to watch it on Vimeo or something like that. I will get that because I just recently listened to his, I didn't really know about his books. I knew about his podcast, I knew him as a personality. And man, oh man, his books are so great and you get those as audible books or you can get them wherever you listen to audio books. And man, he is just such a,

he produces so, so much stuff. I mean, it really is. And such a singular voice. Like truly a, somebody that I always, like his podcast Off Menu that he does with Ed Gamble. Ed Gamble who also has a fantastic standup special that I think is on Prime called Blood Sugar. I think it's on Prime.

I'm sorry, if it's not, it's on one of the others, but I think it's Prime. Blood Sugar, and that's a great stand-up special as well. They have that great podcast off-menu that I think you did, Paul. Yes, I did, I loved doing it. Yes, I did, I loved it. And that's a great show if you also wanna hear,

and they've done them recently. They did one with Garth Marenghi recently, the character Garth Marenghi. I have, I love Garth Marenghi. He released his book as well, a book written. I love it. I saw that show live, him doing that. Amazing.

Oh, how is that? Amazing. And I've been like, all these guys are doing these shows right now. Peter Serafinowicz is doing, you know, his, that character, oh, Butterfield. Butterfield is touring the UK right now. I love Butterfield.

Oh, funny. You know. Oh, that's cool, I don't know that character. Oh, that's a very funny character that he has. Kind of like a, yeah. Like a blowhard. Again, like a kind of, you know, they're all roughly these, you know, these blowhards,

these like presenter blowhards that I love so much, but that's so great. Yeah. Oh, I mean, speaking of, they also, I just listened to that off menu podcast had Coogan on and he told a lot of good Alan Partridge stories, a lot of good stories. Oh, I gotta listen to all this.

This is so good. Well, these are- Can I, I just want to shout out a few, just a few more things. Steven Wright has written a book Oh, yes. called Harold, and he reads the audio, just because we were talking about the audio books

of people, the Steven Wright audio book called Harold is fantastic and worth reading or worth listening to. It's one of those books, by the way, I gave it to my dad and my dad loved it. Oh, great. You know, cause my dad kind of introduced me to Stephen Wright back in the day. Like I had that tape, it was like, I remember,

it was like Stephen Wright sitting in like a, almost a Cubist style room or something like that. It was an audio tape, a standup special. And I loved him from that day and I gave it to my dad. My dad just absolutely loved that book. Oh, that's great. And then I've shouted out the podcast, Dissect before. It's a tremendous music podcast

where they go through an album, an artist, it's track by track and go through and really dissect the album. And they've done Kendrick Lamar and Frank Ocean. It's a great podcast. And the new season that has just started is MF DOOM and it is so far absolutely killer. So I can't recommend it if you've never checked out that podcast or if you've fallen off,

now is a great time to jump back in. The season's just started, they've got music in there. If you listen to it on Spotify, you get a lot of the tracks. It's fantastic. Dissect is the podcast. I will say, you know, if we're talking about podcasts too, John Ronson, I don't know if you know John Ronson, but he, right, you know, he has this book

called The Men and the Stair of Goats. So you've been internet chained. Yes, right. He has a podcast called Things Fell Apart. And I was listening to that, and I thought it was really interesting. The second season is really a lot of like post uh, post COVID, like it kind of just talks about like how society is kind of morphed and what's going on.

It's not like a, it's not like, it's not true. Third, it's not anything, it's just kind of interesting stories that kind of talks about culture war and, you know, things from like, uh, the death of these black sex workers in Florida in the 80s and how that kind of connects to George Floyd and the movement of police brutality. It's unnerving and it's interesting and every now and then it's nice to feel challenged by a podcast and that one is really good. Yeah, really, really good. Things fell apart. Oh, I'll check that out. And then just because people have been so good about it, I'm looking for two things.

Oh, I love it. Because we've talked about the Ed Zwick book already, but I am looking for 30 something. I want all of 30 something. Does somebody have a rip of 30 something? Is there, does it exist? I mean, I can buy DVDs off of eBay. I get it, but I'm just curious.

And then I'm looking for the documentary 32 Sounds. I know it came out in theaters, but it's no longer in theaters. Does anybody know, is that gonna live somewhere? Does it exist somewhere already? And I'm just being, I just am having trouble finding it. 32 Sounds, I'm curious, I really wanna see that documentary.

Those are the two things I'm looking for. All right, let's see if we get it, let's see. Get to it, audience. I'm in, I'm on board. All right, Jason, what a pleasure, and we'll be returning next week, or next time we'll have special guests, we'll talk about Roadhouse, we'll do the whole thing.

And yeah, we will talk soon. All right, later. Love it, thank you, Jason, for chatting with me. Now that we got 50 Shades free out of the way, let's talk about next week's movie. We are finally completing our Fifty Shades of Grey run with the fourth and final film. 2019, Fifty Shades Harder, starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan and Jacob Tremblay, who plays their teenage son 15 years in the future.

Now, oh, just kidding. Boom, gotcha. Motherfucker, April Fools, a couple days late, no worries. There is no fourth Fifty Shades of Grey movie, but I think for a second you might have believed me that there was. You don't have to listen to us talk about Fifty Shades of Grey ever again. No more boring sex scenes conversations. We'll save that for another movie.

Only exciting sex scenes from here on in. Next week we'll be covering 1991's cult action classic Samurai Cop. Oh, I love this film. And here's a short breakdown of the plot. Two tenacious police officers try to stop Katana, a renegade Yakuza gang composed of violent and sadistic killers who want to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles. There are not enough reviews on Rotten Tomatoes to give this one a score and I don't know why because this is really the room of action movies.

Instead go to Letterboxd and you can read tons of reviews. This one from ScreeningNotes writes, I've seen The Room and Troll 2, countless feature films from the asylum and Samurai Cop is still without contest the most poorly made film I've ever seen. Well, what an endorsement. Take a listen to the trailer. His real name is Joe Marshall. They call him samurai. He speaks fluent Japanese. He got his martial arts training from the Masters in Japan. He was brought over here from the police force in San Diego to fight us. Would you like to fuck me? You're the one that talked me into bringing this moron from San Diego to fight the Japanese Katana Gang! Bingo. You can stream Samurai Cop for free on Tubi Pluto TV and Hoopla. And remember, Hoopla is a

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