How Did This Get Made? - Last Looks: Oops! All Just Chat w/ Ruby Karp

Episode Date: March 28, 2025

Oops! There's been an accident at HDTGM studios and this week's Last Looks is all Just Chat with Jason, Paul, and special guest Ruby Karp (After Midnight). After Jason and Paul gab about TV and video games they're currently loving, Ruby Joins to chat about growing up as a child in the comedy scene, why she lives for appointment TV viewing, and her new Off-Broadway show "I Don't Trust Adults." Don't worry, Paul still announces next week's new movie!Ruby's show "I Don't Trust Adults" runs through May 3rd at the SoHo Playhouse. Get tickets at:https://www.sohoplayhouse.com/upcoming-events/i-dont-trust-adults PAUL & JASON'S PICKSDaredevil: Born AgainIndiana Jones and the Great CircleReacher (Season 3)The StudioCommon Side EffectsRory Scovel's Improvised Stand-up TourRory Scovel: Live Without FearThe Charlie Puth Show RUBY'S PICKSTraitorsSeveranceWhite LotusThe Righteous GemstonesSabrina Carpenter HDTGM Spring Tour 2025 tickets are now on sale for Austin, Denver, Seattle, Boise, San Fran, Portland, & LA at hdtgm.com.Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of TraumaCheck out new HDTGM movie merch over at teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmJoin the HDTGM conversation on Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerVisit Paul’s YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheerFollow Paul’s movie recs on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer/Watch Enter The Dark Web w/ Paul and Rob Huebel on youtube HDTGM Spring Tour 2025 tickets are now on sale for Austin, Denver, Seattle, Boise, San Fran, Portland, & LA at hdtgm.com.Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of TraumaCheck out new HDTGM movie merch over at teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmCheck out our new hats at podswag.comJoin the HDTGM conversation on Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerEnter the Dark Web w/ Paul and Rob Huebel on YouTube @enterthedarkwebLike good movies too? Listen to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson: https://www.unspooledpodcast.com/Listen to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael: www.thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcastWhere to find Paul, June, & Jason:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on social media Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using the link: siriusxm.com/hdtgm.

Oops, I'll just chat. Hello people of Earth, then welcome to your escape from a late to Xanadu Paul, June, Diane, and Jason, Manzu Everybody in the house say fuck the moon Skyline at the color of night Balcony monsters don't touch that mic Tarzan, she a key risk in his life, he the man alone He got kids and no IPs, and any family fast, they furious No holds barred, you can't be serious Fulo nash, no mash for delirious

Shout out to Gino Storch, you feeling this? Paul kissed his mom, that's a thing June still accepted the ring Jason can't eat flan or meringue Hello all my balcony monsters! Got five stars online, and you're living mine. Hello, all my balcony monsters. I am on tour and I am seeing you every night right now, and it has been a absolute blast. That's right, the Doppelganger tour is going on right now, just a few more days to catch us. And you can see me, Jason, and Jessica Sinclair who is having

just her head spun around by watching so many bad movies but it's not about the tour right now no no no I mean it is about the tour if you want to come see us in our remaining cities so go to HDTGM.com to find out where we are playing and what movies we're going to be talking about but this is about you this is about you getting to voice your issues on last week's movie, which was, this is me now. But you're gonna have to wait because, like I said, we're on tour. I don't know what you're saying.

I can't be everywhere at once. I can't be on the Discord with all my recording equipment in a hotel room. No, no, no, I'm there solo with my kids. I'm working my butt off. So what am I gonna do? I'm gonna give you something special. This week, this whole episode is gonna be me and Jason chatting it up. We're also gonna be joined by our friend Ruby Carp to discuss her new off-Broadway show and all the TV and music that she's loving right now. And she's young. She's gonna hip you to the good stuff. But before we get too far into things, I have to give a big shout out to John Cohen.

John Cohen, that opening song was amazing. If you have a song like John, well, or not like that song, but the way that John made a kick-ass song, you want to make one too. Send them to howdidsgetmade at earwolf.com. Keep them short. 15 to 20 seconds is best Dark web is a show that Rob Hubel and I host right now on YouTube It has been a blast there's about eight episodes up enjoy them. They are completely free. We're talking about weird lawyers Bizarre people and their outer space theories my mom being fooled by an Elon Musk impersonator, so much stuff and my book Joyful Recollections of Trauma.

For a long time, I forgot to put that you can get the book personalized on my website. That's right. Just go to my website and you can get a personalized copy of my book and I'll get that mail to you wherever you are in the United States. But that's all I want to tell you about that. We're on the road. We cannot wait to finish this tour. Well, we're excited.

We're not like, we're enjoying the tour. I'm just saying we can't wait to see more of you out there. Every night's been such a blast. And you know what, without any further ado, let's just start chatting. Anton Wellen, play us in. Paul and Jason have things to say and it's a fact that we can all call in. Just chat!

They're watching their movies, they're watching people, they're going to tell me, they can all call in. Just chat! Thank you, Anton. Jason, what is up? Beep boop beep boo. Here we go. Here we go.

Oh my gosh. Where are we in time right now? I feel like we're kind of mid tour at this point. Mid tour. Oh, we're in the middle of the tour. So wow. I mean, who knows? Who knows?

If we're mid tour. Well, I don't even want to say it because I don't want to jinx it, but I am a little nervous, I will say, that we have for the first time since the last time a tour date in Texas. Because boy, oh boy, there is a, ba ba ba ba ba, health emergency in Texas. You have measles. I asked my doctor today and I said, what can I do?

And he's like, well, if you're vaccinated, you don't have to worry about it. So I feel good about that. Okay, so meaning your childhood vaccine will cover it? Yes, he said, as long as you are, if you're not, it's mostly elderly people and people who are not vaccinated against measles that are having the issues with it.

He said there's nothing really to do beyond that. Which you know. Because I was gonna ask my doctor if I needed like a, a booster or something. Well, that's what I, that's what I, you know, we're going on the road. I was like, you know, I wanna get measles, I wanna get measles out there and get mumps.

Yeah, I don't, and guess what else I don't want? Rubella. Oh God, get that rubella. I don't want rubella either. I don't want measles, mumps or rubella. Well, you know, look, we wanna stay relatively free of the easily avoidable diseases. I don't wanna get shingles either.

But yeah, but according to, you know, with the CDC or whatever, who knows who's there now, but measles, you know, measles. You mean the CDC that has now disbanded? Yeah, yeah. That's now been, that's been dragged into the garbage can. Well, I've read a couple of things here and it says, if you eat a bag of Nacho Cool Ranch Doritos,

you will not get. Wow. Yeah, but if you basically, if you're born after 1957, but vaccinated before 1968, you should get a booster shot. So 68, yeah, that's, that's where, where they're saying it. Uh, but again, that's only good, good news for you and me, cause no one else is on tour with us, uh, uh, oh my gosh. But, um, okay. So much stuff to get into to unpack, to see what you're up to.

Uh, obviously we're recording this before the new Daredevil, before we've watched the new Daredevil show. But I have talked to so many people who are, I'm gonna tell you that the future me has this all queued up on my iPad. I'm very excited. I am very excited as well. The Daredevil born again comic is incredible,

that run of comics that's titled Born Again. Not that this is necessarily gonna be a one-to-one adaptation, but the fact that it's called Born Again, very exciting. Love that. These are some of my favorite Marvel characters, you know, especially, I mean, Daredevil is maybe my favorite comic character, I think.

Yeah. Interesting. I think so. And I think it's a combination of, he's my favorite comics character like long-term, I think, especially now, because there are so many incredible runs of that character. So many fantastic writers and artists have done very memorable Daredevil runs,

so that's part of it. Part of it is that Daredevil, like Daredevil's a complicated adult, which makes for those stories to oftentimes be a little bit more grown up than some of the younger hero books. So into adulthood, I think Daredevil is great. But then this show, like also like Kingpin,

like Daredevil's villains, Daredevil's rogues gallery is heavy hit Daredevil is great. But then this show, like also like Kingpin, like Daredevil's villains, Daredevil's rogues gallery is heavy hitters. It's great. You know? Yeah, well they have those that kind of, and this is like the, in a way it's like Marvel's Batman, right? Because like, you know, there are,

there's a city crime element that I feel like often isn't as exposed in Marvel. Like it's there, but it's- They also share something which is a lot of what drives them forward is predicated not on the gaining of power, but on the, they do gain, but upon first losing. Batman loses his parents, Daredevil loses his sight.

Like it's in reaction to something that they become who they are. And there's something about that that's very interesting to me. Not just like, I'm Superman because of your yellow sun. I am omnipotent. Okay, Jason, hold that thought. We'll be right back.

How did this go? I don't know if you saw this, because I know that you are this, because you're not, you know, I know that you are a little bit off social media, but did you see that a concept artist accidentally leaked the new Avengers movie? Oh, no, wait, what? And yes.

What, like a script, you mean? No, concept art. Oh. For the film. And it is. Wow. Awesome. Oh, cool.. And it is awesome. Yeah, it is. I was very excited about it and you'll know the run, but without that much, I mean, look,

who knows if they'll be like Quentin Tarantino. Remember when- This is what, Secret Wars? This is, yes. So the idea of it being like it's Dr. Doom when he recreates the world to kind of be medieval times. Oh, battle world, it's battle world. Yeah, so it's a medieval times world, battle world.

And it is, you know, so it looks very much like that, which I really like that idea. And some of the pictures were getting me excited. I mean, again, it's just art. I'm curious, listen, I'm always gonna be, I mean, we're just, we're drowning in so much of this stuff that it doesn't always get to the level of quality that I want it to, you know?

But I certainly think these people are capable of pulling off something incredible, and that includes, I'm all for the new Superman. I'm like, great, let me see it. Maybe it's gonna be awesome. Or these new Avengers movies. I'm like, great, let me see it. Maybe it's going to be awesome. Or these new Avengers movies. I'm like, great, if you can figure it out, I believe this could thrive again and be thrilling.

But, you know. Well, I think it all, I think what we were talking about a while ago was this idea, like, it just needs to have a drive that isn't to continue, but to tell a story, right? And I think that that's why Skeleton Crew really worked excellent for me. Like, it was like, oh, this is just, this doesn't,

you don't, yes, Star Wars exists, and this is in the Star Wars world, but it is a, a contained story. And isn't that great? Wouldn't that be great to just be, like, kind of like what we've said in the past about, like, oh, isn't it fun to watch TV shows that have a beginning, middle, and an end

in the episode, and you don't have to wait another TV shows that have a beginning, middle, and an end in the episode? And you don't have to wait another eight weeks to find out and forget about why this mattered to you. Yes, and I know that you had something to do with having Kathleen Kennedy step down. So I, you know, again, I know you don't wanna talk about that too much, but you know. Listen, why won't you let me be Han Solo?

Why won't you let me be old Han Solo? Get in there, please, please. Can't be young Han Solo. Why won't you let me be old Han Solo? Get in there, please. Please. Can't be young Han Solo. I can only be old Han Solo. That would be great if like, and I get that, you know, I think people's fear of AI is ultimately driven by the fact that that's what the future of entertainment will be. Is people just putting themselves in the roles that they want to be. But I think that people could take a big breath

of fresh air and going like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be fun to do. But I don't know who's gonna, it's not gonna like catch on like wildfire. Like it's not gonna be like. Remember years ago when like there was a whole thing that would happen where like a fan made piece of meat, like a fan made short,

like a Batman short would be made by fans. And it would get some sort of attention on a YouTube or something like that. I wonder if there's a future made short, like a Batman short would be made by fans. And it would get some sort of attention on a YouTube or something like that. I wonder if there's a future for like, hey, have you seen this new Star Wars movie that these kids did with AI and it's awesome? You know, I'm curious. I, you know, look, those troopers trailers,

I remember that where the guys who were like, it was, it was like cops, but storm troopers. It was like back in the early days of the internet. So they were just funny little shorts with stormtroopers. All that sort of stuff is, is always interesting for me to like see what people are, are doing and being able to, to kind of make, but again, it is funny. Like I remember that human giant, when we were MTV was trying out this thing, it was like movie karaoke.

What's that? So you could put yourself in human giant sketches. when we were, MTV was trying out this thing, it was like movie karaoke. What's that? So you could put yourself in human giant sketches. Oh, okay. And we were trying desperately to get copies of it. I don't know where it came out. I feel like it was like on a failed video game platform, you know, it was like on a TurboGrafx-16

or something like that. And it was just so funny, because every now and then you'd see a clip online of some 30-year-old dude behind Bobby J's desk being like, I told you, Shutterbugs. Which, by the way, I've always had a big feeling that I would love movie karaoke as much as I love music karaoke.

And in a way, I prefer it. Put up a green screen behind me and let me act out a scene. As Cody says, it's kind of TikTok now. But... Oh, my God. How funny. Well, whose idea was it? And I can't remember, this might have even been...

Somebody said this, and forgive me, I'm not remembering it because it was years ago, but how come in the same way that karaoke is just, I'm gonna get up and sing this song that you all know in front of you at a bar or whatever, how come there isn't, like, famous stand-up routines in the machine?

Ah. How come you can't get up and do a tight five minutes of your favorite comedian's set? The same idea as karaoke. That seems like a no-brainer. It would be really funny, because then I think it would show how hard it is, which by the way, is as is singing. Oh, yeah. But you know, like, there's no track for comedy.

There's no guiding, there's no guide track that's like, that's getting you there. So, boy, would that be funny if someone just got up and started doing like, Jeff Foxworthy or, you know, like any, I would just, I think that's a very funny idea that would fail spectacularly in a pretty funny way. No, I mean, look, I also think that that would be

one of those things where you have to just like cut it off. Like you get, you know, you got five minutes to do your set, but if you only got through the first minute, like it just shuts down. It's like, and we're done. We're done with like, you can't continue. You had your five minutes, but you took too many pauses in there.

But what else have I been up to? Did I, oh, did we talk about this? I got, this is old, but I got that Indiana Jones game. Is that- I don't even know what that is. Jason. Wait, a video game or a board game? Video game.

It is unbelievable. The actor that plays Harrison Ford, because they did mocap of him. Like Harrison Ford has come out and been like, holy shit, this guy's good. He's basically like, this is the reason why we shouldn't do anything AI, because his performance is fantastic.

And it is. And it's like this full Indiana Jones adventure that I think I'm taking it slowly and I'm enjoying the hell out of it. It is so much fun. It's like the most fun I've had playing a video game in a very, very long time. Oh, that sounds awesome.

Oh, great, I'm gonna get it tonight. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, I believe it's what it's called. And it is, I think now it's gonna be, now it's available for PlayStation. I got it on Xbox and I hooked up my Xbox. I had it disconnected for a be, now it's available for PlayStation. I got it on Xbox and I hooked up my Xbox, I had it disconnected for a while, but it's available now.

You can get it on Xbox right now and it's really, really fun. And like all the reviews are nine out of 10. Ooh, I haven't played a video game in ages. Yeah, great, I'm gonna get it. I haven't played a video game in ages and because nothing's been that exciting to me, but this sounds perfect.

And by the way, what you'll love about it is what you love about Red Dead Redemption. Yeah, yeah. It is a game that I think definitely rewards you for staying on track, but you definitely don't have to stay on track. You don't have to, okay, great. Even better.

Yeah, you can just wander. You can wander in these little cities and do your dumb little shit. That's like, somebody was talking about that. It's like, oh, the game breaks down a little bit because there's not, there's no reason that you're, you're just walking around, but you're, you're doing stuff. It's really, really fun.

I think you're going to love it. Ooh, I like that. That's great. Yeah. I'm, I'm excited. Like I got to get back into a game. I've, I'm, I've been watching so much stuff, so much, so many movies, so much TV, which has been great. Reach your season three out now. I mean, just TV, which has been great. Reacher, season three, out now.

I mean, just going game busters. Got to get on that. It's so fun. I'm also like, I'm loving the studio, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's new show with Hiken Gregory and Ike Barron-Holtz is in it. It is fucking great. So good.

I'm so psyched for them. And it's like one of those shows where you're like, oh, it's got great people. Lisa Gilroy's in it, a bunch of fun people. And it's just, look, I think that not everything needs to be inside baseball, but every now and then to have an inside baseball show that's that funny.

Oh, this one's perfect. It's so funny. And then they do such a good job giving you little pops into the making of a movie that is going, that's usually going poorly. Oh, and it's like, what was that one thing? It's like the fart, the fartinator. It's like, basically it's like a fart walking dead

or something like that. It's so funny. And there's, all the ones that are just like, you know, Seth Rogen's studio executive has to go to the new Sarah Pauli movie, but his presence on set causes so much drama just because he's there and it's very funny. It's great.

He wants people to thank him at the awards. Like they're gonna get an award, wants people to thank him. It's great, it's great. Really, really great. It's great. Reacher's great. The new animated show, Common Side Effects, is phenomenal.

It is, what a great show. What a creepy, eerie, weird, very funny, absurd show. Can't recommend it enough. Really great. Was watching it, super into it, and I was like, man, this main character's voice, who is this? I know who this is. Looked it up, Dave King.

Oh, wow. I was like, this is nuts. That's really crazy. And he's doing a fantastic job. The show is fantastic. I think, Common Side Effects, I think it's on Max. I wanna say Max, maybe. We were in Telluride recently

with the comedy festival in Telluride we did, which we do most years. And Rory Scoville was there and did incredible standup. And so I've gone back and rewatched a bunch of his standup specials that I think are just terrific. By the way, keep your eye out on Rory because what he's doing right now is Rory is doing these improvised standup specials.

Not specials, but like these like runs at a theater where he is coming out on stage completely, he's just gonna start talking. And that's it. And you know, look, take it from Jason and I, we're telling you the truth. It's not like, you know, he's not like, he didn't secretly write a half hour.

He's like- Well, there's a great, he did this in the past and there's actually a documentary on YouTube. So he did a full improvised stand up special like 10 years ago or something like that. And so that's available. You can watch that special, but in the lead up to that special, he recorded a documentary.

So he, he did a show, an improvised set every night of one week. And so there's a documentary movie that is, that takes place over the course of that whole week. So you were watching both his sets and then him during the day afterwards or the day beforehand, kind of talking about the last night set or talking about, you know, like what worked and did.

He's really just, it's also process, which is very interesting. I don't know if everybody would think it was interesting, but for me to watch him improvise sets and then kind of offstage kind of processing it all, super interesting. Yeah, I agree. I think that that's really, I just like,

I just love Rory, I think he's such a funny guy. It's called Live Without Fear, the YouTube one is called Live Without Fear. It's fantastic. So good. And then the one from a couple of years ago that's all about religion and sex and that stuff. It's called like religion, sex, and some other stuff

I can't remember, I think, is an incredible spec. Oh yeah, I talk about that one too. That was a great, so many good, such good stuff. Jason, we gotta take a quick break. And when we come back, we'll be joined by friend of the pod, Ruby Karp. How did this go? How did this go? I am so excited to introduce our guest today, a quick break and when we come back we'll be joined by friend of the pod Ruby Carp. I am so excited to introduce our guest today. Ruby Carp is a super funny actress, comedian,

writer, currently she's working on After Midnight. She's also been on this I think hilariously funny show on Roku with Charlie Puth. You might even recognize her as the little girl in Human Giant's Shutterbugs. That's right. I've known Ruby since she was three years old and I'm just blown away by everything she does. So I'm so excited to bring her on the show right now to talk about what she is up to,

because again, with everything she's done, it's just damn impressive. Ruby, welcome to Last Looks. Wow, Ruby, what's happening? Oh my gosh, you guys, thank you for having me. I have to tell you, your performance on that Charlie Puth show, if you've not seen this, it's like a Roku original comedy series.

That show was very funny. I feel like many people try to do like, oh, it's my version of Curb, but that show was actually, they did it. They did a great job. It's kind of insane because nobody working on the show, at least in like the talent side, other than me and Natalie,

had ever done anything in comedy at all. But the show was completely improvised. So everything you see Charlie say, John Legend, like John Mayer, like all of these guys who you would kind of not really expect to be able to do improv were so funny. Law Roach, I don't know if you saw his episode, but like he came up with every insult for Charlie

on the spot and it rocked. That's so fun. This is the thing that I, like, when we did the league, when Jason and I were on the league, the football players, I would say 85% of the time, were great. Like, they just were ready to go. They were comfortable. And I guess improvising and performing on stage or performing in an arena

is so much lower stakes. Lower stakes, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's like, just in an arena is so much lower stakes. Lower stakes, yeah. Yeah, it's like, just to goof around is so much easier to them. And they're used to probably also, like, just being in the moment and speaking extemporaneously, you know, like, the... And the stakes just, I'm sure, feel so small to them.

Now, Ruby, super quick question. Just Paul and I were wondering, are they still doing auditions for that show? Yeah. What's going on with that? Are there any auditions? Can we send our headshot and resume or, I mean,

maybe Charlie Puth needs a couple of, like, old uncles? Yeah. That'd be so great. We live, we work local. I think that would work really well. I think he definitely needs an older male presence in his life. Thank you. Yes. As he ages, yes, I think like definitely needs an older male presence in his life.

Thank you, yes. As he ages, yes, I think like- We're as old as John Mayer. Yeah, of course. Yeah, this show's got, here's the reality is based on just what you've said so far. The show's got entirely too many Johns. Oh my God, yeah.

The show's just rotten with Johns. Ruby, I feel like I don't wanna like age Jason and I, but I do wanna say that we have known you for such a long period of time. I mean, I think that there's a picture of me and you on stage together when you are three years old. You've been a staple in comedy in New York. And I think there's for sure a picture of you

and me on stage together, and you're maybe five or six, maybe? Yes. It really is a wild thing. You have been around comedy, and you have been in comedy, and you've written books. You've written a book. You work on a great big show after midnight.

You've been on this show. You really are, you have been around comedy at a very interesting time. And I mean, I guess the question is, and I don't know if I've ever really asked you this, I mean, I imagine some of your earliest memories are of our shows. Yes. They are probably our shows. And what funny things did we do that you remember?

I remember so much is the thing. Like so many like working children are like, I don't remember anything that I did in my childhood. For me, so much of like how I learned about the world was through your shows. Like I remember one time, no, and it's like, sometimes you're like, oh, that's why I didn't really understand how this thing worked for a long time

Like for a while because also to me For context for people who like have no idea who I am I my mom is not in comedy, but my mom was around UCB a lot and by that effect I was just kind of being thrown on stage a lot as a kid Particularly because I loved attention as a child as an only child. I was just kind of being thrown on stage a lot as a kid, particularly because I loved detention as a child. As an only child, I was just like... I remember that I think you liked the TV show Alias or we did something.

I remember distinctly, I don't know if Jason, this is you, but we made you run up a wall. Run up a wall, running on the wall, Matrix style. Yes, Matrix style. Yes, and everyone was like, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. And like, it was this effect where I was like, I was kind of able to go on stage and just say stuff and get laughs because I was a child, but also like that had some like very negative repercussions.

Like one time I was hosting a show. So like fully hosting, like I was the person who was the first person everyone in the audience was seeing, I was 12. And I opened the show by being like, yeah, I just got back from summer camp, which sucks because I can't wear shorts without worrying about getting raped all the time.

And like the audience was just like, oh. No, this is too much UCB influence. We don't know. Yeah. And like, I remember like Jason, you and Amy did a show where like the sketch opened with like, I remember like Jason, you and Amy did a show where like the sketch opened with like, you guys had just like slept together or something. And I remember being like, Oh my god, I didn't know Jason and Amy were dating.

Like, just like what is reality? And yeah, yeah, yeah. What is real? Yeah. And I remember being like, Oh my god, I can't believe we're all seeing this. Like this, this feels private. Like, uh, so it was just like a lot of stuff like that. But in like a kind of lovely way, I think it's, it's made me very like, um,

in touch with my inner child and also very nice. Well, but it's so funny. It's so interesting because I think, you know, we've seen you for such a long time and you've grown up, uh, to be like a very normal, well-rounded, smart person. I mean, I was blown away. This book that you wrote, Earth Hates Me, where... Oh my God, which please everyone, please, nobody is allowed to read this. Oh my gosh. Wow. Okay. We're not advertising. We're disavowing the book. Ruby, what's up?

Because, wait, let me just say, I wrote this book when I was 16. It is a self-help memoir, emphasis on the memoir, at 16. Ah! What? Ruby, at 16, you had already lived more life than I had lived. Yes. And I was at that point probably 46. No, and that is so true at the same time. It's like, imagine if you were just so, like, you know how when you're on a podcast, you're

like, oh, I'm just chatting with my friends. Nobody's hearing this. Nobody's actually going to perceive this conversation. Imagine that, but in the form of a book and it's like all of your 16 year old. Well, but I will say this. It was very well reviewed and I read it and it was, hey hey look, and I get, I liked it. Amy Poehler liked it. Kirkus liked it.

But talking about that embarrassment of that, I always think about this, which is Jamie Kennedy, who was in the Scream movies and stuff like that. He had a show, like a prank show on the WB called X, which I loved. And after the first season of that show, he released his own memoir. And I was like,

memoir, buddy, you got more time. You got more time to get it out. You actually though, yours was like, yours is like a handbook for a 16 year old. I think it's so funny though, when people try to write their memoir so early, it's like we haven't, it's not here. It's not ready yet. It's not ready for you to digest. But yet you have continued to do all this really cool stuff and you, it blows me away, you're about ready to start a month long run at the Soho Theater right now. Six weeks if you can believe that. And it's all just you telling stories about that period

of time that you were in camp and they wouldn't let you wear shorts? Ah! Like honestly, it's not far off from that. It's at Soho Playhouse, it's called I Don't Trust Adults. And it's basically, I tell the story of six different adults who caused me to be forever suspicious of adults. So I basically go through,

because I don't know if you know this, Jason, but as a kid, not only was I doing comedy and acting, but I was a child journalist. I had beef with Mark Zuckerberg, very personal. I don't wanna spoil it. This is the cheese on the poster. This is part of the show. It says, is Mark Zuckerberg allegedly involved

in all of this and allegedly? Oh, allegedly, yes. Major, major allegedly on all of this. Major allegedly. I heard it just got promoted to, allegedly. Yes. Yes. A major, major allegedly on all of this. Major allegedly. I heard just got promoted to Admiral allegedly. Thank you. Yes, exactly. I, like, I just had all of these interactions with so many people who either became big people or who very much did not become big people, but all of it was a bunch of different adults speaking to me, a child like I was an adult and I was in a lot of very like adult situations and it's kind of about how I navigated those and also particularly how theater school

and a lot of like theater camp dynamics, theater teacher dynamics are very, very power dynamic. Well, yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of like energy when somebody can tell you, look, it's a tricky role to be a teacher, right? And telling people what's good, what's bad, you know, and, and I feel like there's also like an inherent jealousy, I think, sometimes with some teachers and in students and putting people against each other and you can't but you came out you came out Good, and I mean This show is gonna it's it's what no intermission right 75 minutes you get this in and out 60 minutes. Thank God So Ruby is and this and it's and it is one is it one story or is it a series of stories that are all?

pulled from from your life? So it's definitely a series of stories. So it essentially takes you through like age eight to 18 and the various kinds of phases I went through. So we go through my child journalist phase, my child activist phase. I gave a Ted talk when I was 13 about-

This is what I'm saying. This is insane. Your life is nuts at this point. You are also 67. Just the ancillary things that are getting mentioned just as like points of reference. We're not even going to talk about the TED Talk, but just to set the scene... The book and the TED Talk are pushed to the side. Just to set the scene.

There was a 13-year-old TED Talk, but that's just over there. No, but it's like, and I, when I tell people this, they're like, that's so funny. And I'm like, no, you don't understand. This is my life. Like, this is like, people are like, Tiffany Chalamet's digital footprint is so embarrassing. I'm like, I am the digital footprint final boss. Like you, you cannot understand digital footprint until you learn about my life. When did you, when did you get online, Ruby? How old were you when you started to live online? For your generation, that's like, when allowed, it could have been immediately. I'm an only child who was raised by a single mom. So I was on the internet from the second

I could understand how to read. When I was six, my mom was getting a migraine. I was Googling like how to help mother with migraine. Like I was in the digital world, which is like kind of why it makes sense that I like work at After Midnight for digital and like all this stuff now. But- Well, you also made some of my favorite videos at Betches too, or by my- Yes, yes.

Those were always so, so funny. Like you've been a lot in this world and I understand it because I always thought back in the day, like when I saw that, remember that kid who did the star wars video, who ran around, he didn't have a lightsaber. And I'm like, Oh, will that follow him for the rest of his life? Well, somebody like, I'm the, I'm the star wars kid.

Like, yeah, like, I mean, yeah, there are things out there. I mean, there are, are there ever any things that you can't take down? Have you tried or? Oh my God. You don't know how many YouTube requests I've sent in that are like, please this video is not copyrighted This is my minor face I'm begging you so hard and I was I was talking my friends literally yesterday

I was like if I could I would take Everything from like ages 18 and down like down. I would take everything down in my French book No, it's so cute and I was like, yes but like you don't have to be me when I like take like one hit of weed. And then I'm just, I'm like, everyone can see how I perceive myself from ages eight to 18 and it's just out in public for everyone to see.

So that was kind of why I wrote the show because I was like, I need to like reclaim my narrative and just like let everyone know how I feel about all these. I love this. Now, one of the things that Jason and I do on this show is we always are talking about what we're into, but I feel like we very rarely get a person of your age to be like, what is good?

Young person recommends. Yes. You know, we are middle-aged men talking to our audience all the time. And listen, Ruby Ruby I'll be honest I'm trying to make up for it by by shouting out anime whenever I can but I'm not a I'm not an anime person or any young young people. Is that what you think the young people want?

Young people love crunchy roll Ruby! Sure some of them. Um wait okay so are we asking for television are we okay. So are we asking for television? Are we asking for movies? Are we asking for earnest recs? Yeah. Give us a couple, like give us a couple different flavors of things that we should be watching. Like anything. Yeah. Push us in different directions.

We don't care. Okay. So obviously Thursday's Traders Severance double feature is coming to a close, but obviously the Traders Severance double feature was, I think, my highlight of my week for the past like four months. I am such a fan of both of those shows. I mean, I'll tell you one thing. I'm in the point in my life where I used to watch Lost and obsess over every detail, and now when I go watch Severance, I'm like, I'm okay just to be enjoying the episode. Like, reveal it to me whenever, I don't care. I'm like, I'm just enjoying it. I know it's there, but...

I'm here for the ride. Yeah, I'm here for the ride. But it also feels, it doesn't, unlike Lost, it doesn't feel like they don't know what they're doing. Correct. It doesn't feel like they're just putting stuff into the ether to be like, this could be cool. Maybe I just rewatched the Lost pilot,

and it is so compelling, and then such a bummer to be like, that never got settled we never found out what that was and it's just you go down the line of like just unprepared now Ruby are you doing both of those like as they air like the minute they're up you're watching yes 6 p.m. on Thursday I get home from work I have my setup. I have my snacks. It is like, this is my night. Now that Traders is over, the new double feature is White Lotus Righteous Gemstones.

Love gemstones. That is a great double feature. I love that you are, as a young person, participating in something that Paul and I participated in for most of our lives, which is appointment viewing. Oh my God. You're not watching it when you get around to it. You're watching it as it airs. Well, do you wanna know why?

It's because if you don't, you will open your phone and every single thing that has happened will be spoiled for you. I see. So you simply must. I don't watch White Lotus and I see more spoilers for White Lotus. And it's actually great because when I do eventually watch it, I won't remember, because it means nothing to me nothing to me because I'm just seeing names or something.

And I'm like, it all blurs, but it is. Yeah. It's, it's impossible because everybody is trying to spoil it. I felt like at least variety tried to hold back the big spoiler or the, at least casting spoiler in gemstones. The first episode I was like, but man, you can't go without, if you don't watch it within the first 12 hours, you're kind of screwed.

No, exactly, and particularly with a show like Severance that is so plot heavy, and there's just so much that you kind of need to pay attention to. If you get that spoiled for you, after a week of theorizing and being like, what's gonna happen? You, I swear to God, I... Ruby is so mad right now.

You guys. Ruby is fired up. This is what I live for. Like this is like truly like my Thursday motivation is like, okay, I just have to make it through the next eight hours. And then that's what's so lovely about West Coast is that it comes out at 6 PM. Yes, you get it a little bit earlier, yeah.

You don't even have to wait for 9 p.m. Now, how caught up are you, Ruby, on Reacher? How caught up are you on season three of Reacher, Ruby? Ah! That you're not watching Perfect Dad, Dad Television, you're not watching Dad Television. Are you watching any of season three of Dark Winds, Ruby? Dark Winds?

And what are these shows? Wait, who is the target audience for those shows? Middle-aged dudes! A dad. It's hardcore dad slash uncle TV. Now I do love me, Jason, we gotta get Jason on Traders. He has yet to like kind of fall in love with Traders. I've told him to get in on the UK version.

Now the Peacock is airing the UK. I mistakenly watched the wrong, I tried the wrong Traders apparently, and it left a bad taste in my mouth, so I gotta go back. Here's the thing, with Traders apparently, and it left a bad taste in my mouth, so I gotta go back. Here's the thing, with Traders particularly, it is a show that you must watch with everyone. Because you can watch it independently, but the fun of it is the Twitter discourse.

I also will say, if you watch it with a, June and I will be in bed screaming. You need someone to be like, oh, you idiot. Like there is something about it. So you watch it like, like we watch like a how did this get made movie? Yes. Yes. Ruby, do you have a favorite UK or regular?

I just took that into the format and also just like get into what I think most people have most recently been talking about. I would genuinely start with season one of US Traders. See, that's one I don't like. See, I don't like that season either, but I do think it explains, it gives you a lay of the land. Watch first of UK, watch first UK.

Okay, okay. Season one of UK, they were first. But he didn't like that, see, he wasn't happy with that. I think I watched season one of American Traders, which I have been told was bad. Yeah. Oh, so that's the issue. Yes, and I correctly thought it was bad,

but I never engaged on any of the good. No, after you understand season one of UK Traders, you must watch season two of US Traders, because that season is like what got me hooked. Season two is very good. And what season have we just done? Like what was this Tom Sandoval? Three.

Oh, so that's just, there's only been three. Oh, okay. But there's six technically because there's three UK, three US, and then there's two Australian. I still love season two of Australia. I will tell you this. One of the details in the UK one that they're airing now, but is already over in the UK is,

one person comes on the show and says, oh, I'm gonna have an accent of, and I forget the town. It's like, it is a place in the UK where I believe like Prince Charles is from, I just can't remember right off the top of my head. And she's like, that is proven to be the most trustworthy accent of all of UK. So I'm going to adopt that accent and come in to this, but I'm not that.

And then comes in and immediately meets someone from that area. And then is committed to doing this accent for the entire show. That's very funny. And is great. It's, it's, it's just a perfect, like they've walked themselves into a quarter and now they are screwed. Because you have to understand, a lot of these people are not game players. Some of them are, but a lot of these people are truly just, like,

reality stars who, a lot of them, have not even been prepped on what the concept of the show is. They're just getting that money and they're going and it's great. All right, so we got that for TV. Anything that we should be listening. Now Jason loves music. Anything you're loving, anything that we should be checking out that maybe isn't on our radar.

Okay, I am going to sound like someone who is like a follower of the people. I will have you know, three years ago, I saw Sabrina Carpenter at Webster Hall, an audience of 1000,000 people. I had boots on the ground. I was spreading the word. I was like, I was telling all my coworkers,

I would be like, I'm going to the Sabrina Carpenter concert tonight and you guys aren't even ready. She just put out her new album and it's really good. And all my coworkers would be like, Sabrina Carpenter, the girl from Disney Channel, like we don't care. We like Taylor Swift. And I was like, that's the thing.

Taylor Swift, like Sabrina Carpenter. And everyone would be like, like, we don't care. We like Taylor Swift. And I was like, that's the thing. Taylor Swift, like Sabrina Carpenter, and everyone would be like, yeah, sure. Now here we are. It's 2025 Grammy winner, Sabrina Carpenter, is now here. We're all living in Sabrina's world now. Exactly. By the way, she's pretty great.

And I actually, I turned my nose up at her early on too. I was like, eh, whatever, whatever, you know? And I'm like, she's funny. Oh, I think she's very funny. I think we talked about it here. I watched her Christmas... Oh, yes. Special, yeah.

...special that had like sketches in it and had like funny people from SNL and other sketch players on there doing funny sketches, which I was very appreciative of. Yeah, I'm into it. All right. So I like, you're, you're, you know, you're in the zone with us. This is great. I do wanna make sure people know that if they're in New York,

Soho Theater is where they can see your show. I don't trust adults. It's running there for a month. We, like, this is a thing. I think people don't understand, like, this is an impossible task that you're doing. You are running a show. You are advertising a show.

You're trying to get people out to see a show. So really what you really rely on, on to a certain extent, I would imagine is word of mouth, right? You want to make sure that people talk about it. You want to make sure people come see it early. And, and, and yeah, I just feel like it's so if you're in New York, check it out, tell people, go see it. It's going to be fun. Where should we send people to your website, Ruby, or the website of the ticket place? How are we sending it? What are we doing here? You can go to my Instagram,

it's at Rubycarp with the K, no C, and all of the links can be found in my bio. You can go to the Soho Playhouse website. It's called I Don't Trust Adults, March 26th through May 3rd, Soho Playhouse, New York City. Literally anything, if you search any of those things, I am sure something will come up hopefully on the intraday. I just typed in your name and I got it. I got it right there. It's right at the top. Great. This is great. What a treat. You guys,

thank you so much. We will not read your book. Please tell nobody. We will ignore what we will ignore all of your previous everything previous to this We you would like us to ignore. I have never done anything. I'm not now. Yeah, okay got it brand new talent Screaming on to the scene. I think at 21 years old You should have like a delete button for any third actually 25 at 25 You should be able to go back and be like I'm gonna cherry pick what exists After this moment like that like we should have a moment that that is, you should be able to go back and be like, I'm going to cherry pick what exists after this moment. Like that, like we should have a moment that, that is, you know, I think that that's the

right time to do it. I think that's totally fair. I will say this as somebody who is a dad who brought his son today to his first, oh, I'm having such a hard time overnight adventure for five nights. Oh my God. I can't even get into it. What? And he chose to wear a, and this is not my son's style at all. He's, he chose to wear a Panama hat, like a, uh, I don't know why he was like, I'm

wearing this hat. I was like, all right, buddy, but I'm not posting that online. I'm not posting it online. Cause I don't know if he's going to embrace that Panama hat that he's, I've never seen this kid wear a hat in his life. And he walked out of the house. He's like, we're in that house. I was like, okay.

And he's going to thank you for that. He's like, wearing that hat. I was like, okay. And he's going to thank you for that. That's what I tried to do. And he's going to thank you for that in 10 years. He's wearing a big gold necklace with his basketball, yeah, and a galaxy sweatshirt and like a shirt that says, I'm him and that Panama hat. Ha ha ha.

Well, he's great. As long as you don't let him do a Ted talk, I think he's gonna be fine. Ruby this is awesome. It's Rubycarp K-A-R-P. And we will, I can't wait to see the show. Thanks so much for talking to us. Thank you guys so much for talking to me. All right, Jason, Feg, we've talked about a bunch of stuff.

You can see us on tour. If you want to find out more about our tour, we even have a show coming up in Toronto. We're gonna be back. We may even do some stuff in Vancouver. There's a lot of stuff coming up. Make sure you go to HDTGM.com and yeah, that's all we got. And don't forget to watch season three

of Invincible right now on Amazon Prime. You gotta see what's happening with Rexplode, guys. Come on! All right, so much fun, everybody. We'll talk soon. All right, thank you, Jason, for stopping by, and a big shout out to Ruby Karp for joining us for this very special Oops!

All Just Chat. But now it is finally time to announce our next movie. Next week, we'll be going from Zodiacal Councils to Vengeful Arousals. That's right, next week, we're watching the 2000 film starring Dolph Lundgren called Jill Rips. Kind of like Jack the Ripper, but I think it's like Jill the Ripper. Anyway, here's a short breakdown of the plot. A tough guy played by Dolph Lundgren goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance

into the hardcore world of, you guessed it, S&M to find out who is responsible for the death of his brother. Well, maybe it has nothing to do with Jack the Ripper. Rotten Tomatoes gives this film an 11% score on the popcorn meter. And here is what Letterboxd user Forst1 says about Jill Rips. This must be the longest movie ever made. I checked how long I've been watching it 10 times and I wasn't even at 30 minutes yet. It took me six weeks to finish it.

Oh Lord. All right, let's listen to the trailer. A murder shocks a community. A secret that shatters a family. A ruthless killer on a rampage. When a former cop is forced out of retirement to find the truth, he'll have to mount his own investigation. I can't get a warrant, and we don't get a warrant. And enter the killer's world. What would you like? But he'll have to go further than he ever imagined

before the killer strikes again. Dolph Lundgren. Jill Rips. You can stream Jill Rips for free on Tubi, Amazon Video, Plex and Roku. In addition, I encourage you to check out Hoopla and Canopy and Libby, which are all digital media services offered by your local public library that allow you to consume movies, TV shows, music, audiobooks, eBooks, and comics for free. All right, that's it everybody.

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