How Did This Get Made? - Last Looks: Shoot 'Em Up

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

Are Zouks and Tall John changing this podcast's name to "How Did This Ass Get Eaten?" Find out in this week's Just Chat, where Jason and Paul also recommend TV shows/movies they're currently loving and discuss an amazing script about the ghost in Three Men and a Baby written by Severance creator Dan Erickson. But first, Paul answers a slew of A+ corrections & omissions on last week's Shoot 'Em Up episode. And as always, we announce next week's new movie. Hint: It's a Gerard Butler gem...   PAUL & JASON'S RECS: Project Hail Mary Sentenced to Be a Hero The Muppet Show (2026 Special) Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal Shoresy The Office • Go to hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, FAQs, and more• Have a Last Looks correction or omission? Call 619-PAULASK to leave us a voicemail!• Submit your Last Looks theme song to us here• Join the HDTGM conversation on Discord: discord.gg/hdtgm• Buy merch at howdidthisgetmade.dashery.com/• Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of Trauma• Shop our new hat collection at podswag.com• Paul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheer• Paul’s YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheer• Follow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer• Subscribe to Enter The Dark Web w/ Paul & Rob Huebel: youtube.com/@enterthedarkweb• Listen to Unspooled with Paul & Amy Nicholson: unspooledpodcast.com• Listen to The Deep Dive with June & Jessica St. Clair: thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcast• Instagram: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & @junediane• Twitter: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & msjunediane  • Jason is not on social media• Episode transcripts available at how-did-this-get-made.simplecast.com/episodesGet 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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It's a Cinderella story, yuck in people's yums, and finding out a little bit about that ghost and three men in a baby. All this and more on today's How Did This Get Made? Last Looks, hit the theme. Last looks, last looks, time to start to last looks, Paul. Should you name for D.L.N.J. Zim and two guys. Hello to all my nuns out there wearing thongs. I'm your host Paul Shear, and welcome to How Did This Get Made Last Looks, where you, the listener, get to voice your issues on the classic Discord pick, shoot-em-up, a movie that Discord user Ghostbag thinks should have had the tagline, shoot him up. Let the bodies hit the floor. Thank you, Ghostbag for that alt-movie tagline. It does not sound as good without hearing it with that music behind it.

Let's try it one more time. Shoot them up. Let the bodies hit the floor. There we go. A little bit better. Thank you, Scott. And a big shout out to Lake text drool for that opening theme song. Remember, if you have an alt movie tagline or a title, submit it to us on the Discord at Discord.g.g slash HDTGM. And if you have a Last Looks theme song, go to hdtgm.com and click on the submit a song button on our homepage. Remember, keep them short, people. Brevity is the soul of wit. Coming up on today's episode, we'll be hearing all your corrections and omissions on shoot them up and hopefully some apologies as well. Then Jason will stop by for a just chat where we will talk about a ton of fun stuff like this amazing script read that I did

written by Dan Erickson, the creator of Severance about the ghost from three men and a baby. Yeah, we'll talk about that. We will also talk about some crazy dinosaur shows where the audience members got a little bit out of control. And I will give my spoiler-free review of the new Ryan Gosling movie Project Hail Mary. Lord Miller, they did it again. when we recommend movies and TV shows that we are currently loving.

And lastly, as always, I will reveal the movie for next week's episode. By the way, how did this get made is coming back to Largo on April Fool's. That's right. 4-1 will be there. Jason and I, maybe June, possibly not.

Jason and I, and a special guest is how we're billing it. You can get tickets right now. There's also a dinosaur show, me, Jason, Rob Hewbel, a bunch of really funny people. on 326. It's a Thursday. We've been selling out all these dinosaur shows in Los Angeles at Largo. It has been so much fun. And just a shout out to myself. The New York Times wrote about that documentary I made about Taylor Swift, which was a real treat. Honestly, I geeked out about it. It was really awesome. So if you have not watched that, it's on my website, just paulshear.com. And remember, people, we're always putting up new merch in the shop. So go get it. it. All right. Let's get into it. Last week, we talked about a movie that you selected. Shoot them up. We had questions, I think, or we really just had a lot of flowers to throw at it. But maybe we missed a

couple things. Maybe there are a couple things that we didn't quite get. Here is your chance to set us straight. Fact-check us, if you will. Tell us why you thought this was a good how-did-this-get-made movie. It is now time for corrections and omissions. Why do we miss? Corrections and omissions. Why don't we miss? Corrections and omission. Why don't we miss?

Thank you, John Cohen for that theme song. Let's go to the Discord. Monica Balucci's character's full name is Donna Quintano, which seems ordinary on the surface, but I notice that the movie's subtitles shortened her name to DQ, which is the same abbreviation for Dairy Queen. I feel like this has to be another. tongue-and-cheek reference made by the writer about all the lactation in the movie. Oh, wow,

Fun Facts 47. I know I didn't give you credit at the top, but I'm giving you credit now. What a great find. Also, the ice cream parlor at the end of the movie is called Dream Queen, which is another D-Q. Holy shit, fun facts, nailing it. Right out of the gate, Greas Town writes, not only did Mythbusters test the bullets firing between the finger scene. They also tested if you could shoot a merry-go-round to make it move. I love Mythbusters, and I love that they focused on this movie in particular. Big surprise, it did not work. Yeah, of course not. The bullets are not going to make a merry go around, go around. The MythBusters found the bullets went right through the handles, and the team had to add heavy-duty plates as a surface for the bullets, and even then it didn't work

really well. Well, thank you, Greystown, for letting us know a little bit more of MythBusters lore, but that must mean that the Mythbusters are in the Discord. because they selected that movie to focus on. Out of all the movies, they've only focused on a handful. That's when they picked. Unevolved Panda wrote, regarding the baby carrot tangent, baby carrots are carrots harvested before reaching maturity and sold at a smaller size. However, Jason was correct that what we mostly see in grocery stores are baby cut carrots.

They are marketed as baby carrots, but are actually just full-grown carrots cut down to the smaller size. They were developed as a way to sell, broken or misshaping carrots that were previously being thrown away in order to prevent food waste. I have no idea if that's still true, though, especially as they seem to have taken over the carrot market. Well, look, I'm going to tell you that I saw some really baby corn the other day. I don't think on another show we were talking about baby corn. So let's get into the baby fruit and vegetable market. I need to find out more. But I understand it the way that you understand

it on Evolved Panda. That is just a big carrot cut down to a smaller one. It makes more sense. All right, for more carrot talk, oh, can't have enough carrot talk. Let's go to the phones with Ryan from Houston. Hey, Paul, long-time listener, love the show. I was calling about Shoot-em-up episode. Just wanted to let you all know with the recurring carrot gag, the fact that carrots improve your eyesight is actually just a myth. It comes from World War II.

British pilots were shooting down. German aircraft bombers in the middle of the night, and it was because of radar, and it was a technology that the British wanted to keep a secret from the Nazis, so they spread the word through propaganda that their pilots were just really good at seeing in the dark because of all the carrots that they were eating. Anyways, just thought that that would be a fun fact to share. Keep up for the good work. Bye. Oh, my God. Ryan, I love this story. This is why History is just fascinating. What a beautiful and crazy lie. Really, really, I just, you know what? I'm impressed that you knew it. Now I feel like I can share that at a party and not give you any credit for it, Ryan. I'm sorry.

Thank you, Ryan for that. But Scott, our producer does want to note that while carrots don't improve eyesight, they are rich in beta carotene, which helps people maintain good eyesight as they are. Now, it sounds to me like Scott has just watched too many, you know, Centrum commercials. But Scott, I don't know if you are over-correcting Ryan, but I feel like we're working together. I'm going to say that Scott and Ryan worked together to give us some more information about Carith. Okay, when I saw this next person on the list, I was excited. And you know what? It's worth it. Jafar, what do you got?

Hey, Paul. It's Jafar. I'm at the risk of attracting even more freaks on Discord. I just wanted to call in with a few notes on lactation kinks. First of all, we don't kink shame. We kink wonder why. It did skew a little towards kink shaming, it felt like. So what's depicted in the movie is more of like an age play thing with a lactation dynamic.

You have the guy wearing a diaper, you have the big crib, you have the bottles. and that fetish can kind of exist with or without the lactation element. It really just kind of mostly depends on if lactation is happening with the woman. You guys were also wondering how the lactation occurs. A lot of times it is a woman who's had a baby recently or who maintains lactation by regularly expressing or having the milk expressed. You can also induce lactation just kind of by using public. and or other types of suction to kind of maintain a regular schedule with that until milk comes in with or without hormonal supplements.

Yeah, so like on the other end of the spectrum without the age play element, there are adult nursing relationships, which is kind of more of a like bonding sort of thing that doesn't have as much of like a maternal child element to it and is more of just kind of like setting aside time for like bonding one-on-one, that sort of thing. Why I know this isn't important. Also, not for nothing. I'm the one who nominated the core in the movie recommendations thread because someone made me watch it

on a second date a few months ago, and I still think you guys should do it. Okay, take care, bye. First of all, great to hear your voice, Jafar. Second of all, I am fascinated with your dating life. And weren't we engaged at a certain point? Now we're on a date? I don't know. Maybe I'm messing up the timeline here. You might not have been engaged.

Maybe you were. I don't remember. I know we left you off at one point, but no one should ever make you watch the core. I say that, you know, if you are out there on a hinge, Tinder, you know, whatever, you're doing, plenty of fish. Is that a pretty? Christian mingle, only farmers, but don't make me watch the core ever. First of all, I want to get out in front of this and say, yes, I am sorry if we yucked anyone's yum. Not about that. We're not about that. And I think that what we were saying was the way it was depicted in the film was borderlining on grotesque. So that, you know, it wasn't the base level idea of it as much as it was the way that it was being portrayed.

But maybe, honestly, again, maybe that is yucking someone's yum. So Jafar, you've given me way more information than I ever needed. But honestly, now I think I did need it. I did. So I appreciate you chiming in with that. And I appreciate you leading the charge with the core. And one time when we watch a two-hour movie, it might be it. All right.

Next from Indianapolis, we have Lindsay. Hi, Paul. I am a pediatric oncologist. And I was calling. I'm just listening to the shoot-em-up episode. So funny. offer some insights about bone marrow transplant in pediatric. So you are correct that a newborn baby would not be a viable bone marrow donor.

I have seen children donate, actually not uncommonly. Match sibling donation is often the best possible option for a kiddo with cancer. And so I think probably the youngest donor I personally have known was maybe around six. The procedure is somewhat painful. Kids are put asleep for it with some sedation or anesthesia, but typically go home the same day and only need something like accedomitin for pain management. But the other thing that I think is interesting from the perspective of shoot them up is that umbilical cord blood can be used as a donation for a patient who needs a bone marrow transplant.

There are cord blood transplants. So maybe five o'uns shouldn't have shot that cord. anyway, those are my insights. Love the show. Love you all. And thanks for making my road trip more fun this time. Take care. Oh, my gosh. Lindsay, pediatric oncologist. Thank you for all the work that you did.

Do. And whenever I now hear pediatric oncologist, I think of that hilarious episode in the studio, which if you've not seen, watch that episode. I believe it is called pediatric oncologist, one of my favorite ones from season one. Okay, first of all, thank you for this is crazy. And, you know, this is another reason to maybe store cord blood. We did that with our kids. We had a cord blood thing.

So great. And you know what? I'm glad, Lindsay, you brought some attention to Clive Owen wasting that cord blood. Oh, man, he should have kept it in his pocket and chewed on that all movie. Beef jerky. Anyway, this has been a wildly, lovely bunch of people. but let's see if Jay continues the trend. Hey, Paul, maybe Jason.

This is just something for the shoot-em-up episode you guys just did. I actually worked for a certain federal agency that regulates firearms and had been doing that for a better part of a decade. Obviously, this movie wasn't interested in making a kind of sense, obviously, which is part of its charm. But I can tell you that Jason was absolutely correct about their not being an ammunition president and a firearms manufacturer. While many do actually make ammunition addition,

these factories actually, as well as many of your distributors, are very strict about an anti-immunition policy while in the presence of firearms, obviously with good reason, as you can imagine. And again, considering they're a dirty manufacturer, I guess they don't care. So I guess that's one, you know, just I'm going to notice. Anyway, thanks.

Thanks for everything. Your podcast always cheers me up and makes me laugh. Thanks, you guys. Bye. Ah, Jay. I love it. Yes, you all have brought so much to the table. Actually, more than I've ever expected, and this maybe is why the Discord is great,

because when you select the movie, you bring in the facts. Jay, thank you for your work. And yeah, I think we feel like we've now got all of our questions answered by the nicest group of people. So thank you, Ryan, Jafar, Lindsay, and Jay. Now back to the Discord. Jenin, ABQ, writes, Talljohn, must have been mistaken about Paul Giamatti accepting an Oscar for Sideways with his shoot-em-up characters, disheveled hair, and goatee. He did not win an Oscar for Sideways and wasn't even nominated for that role. he's never won an Oscar but was nominated for Cinderella Man and the Holdovers.

He has won Golden Globes, Saga Awards, critics, Troits Awards, and an Emmy. Okay. So, look, I'm only as good as the notes in front of me when we're doing the show, as we found out with our target. But Scott clarifies, I did some digging and shoot him up was filming during the 2006 Oscars where Giammati was nominated for Cinderella Man and his hair at the ceremony matches. So the gist of the story is true, but the details are wrong. But it's the same story. He went to the Oscars dressed as his character. And there's pictures of him. I mean,

he didn't win, but he was on stage. He got pictures. I'm going to say, sheer, your story checks out. Thank you, Paul. Um, Riepaw Man ish writes omission. Perhaps it's worth noting that the cinematographer of this film was Hong Kong veteran Peter Paul, who lends John Wu's classic the killer, Ronnie cult favorite bride of Chucky and then rightly won Best Cinematography Oscar for his breakthrough work on Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

And according to Wikipedia, there's even an asteroid named after him. Wow! Repo Manish. You know what? I'm going to say this. Every single one of you came to play. You didn't pick weird details. You found the real stuff. And you know

what? Discord, you picked this movie. And this week, there isn't going to be one winner. It is going to be all of you because the power of you all is great. That's right. So, Repo Manish, Jen and ABQ, Jay, Lindsay, Jafar,

Scott, Unevolved Panda, Greystown, Fun Facts, you are all winners. And for that, you get this song by John Wenzell. Hit it. You win a thing at a but you're still cool.

Thank you, John, for that song. And remember, If you want to chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up our Discord or call us at 619 P-A-U-L-A-U-L-A-S-K. Stick around because after the break, Jason will pop in for a chat and just a warning. Things are going to get raunchy. Yeah, actually, it's surprisingly so. Welcome back, everybody. As you know, every week we go into the vault to pull out a classic episode.

This past week, we pulled out John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. With Darcy Cardin and Dan Levy, if you've not listened, it's a great one. And coming up next week, it will be the event. Avengers, that's 1990s Avengers with Uma and Rafe. And we have a special guest, Tom Sharpling. We did that live at the New York Comedy Festival, I think. I love Tom, love the best show. If you've not heard of the best show, look it up, you will enjoy it.

If you're a fan of Comedy Bang Bang, you will love Tom Sharpling's The Best Show. All right, without any further ado, it is now time to welcome Jason to Last Looks for Little Just Chat. All right, John Cohen, play us in. What's up, jerks. It's time for Just Chat with Paul Shear and Jason Manzoukis. Jason, how are you? Paul, boy, so thrilled to be talking to you from the confines of my closet. Once again, my cozy closet.

Yes, you are back in an undisclosed location. Yep. Happy to have you. Thrilled to be here. How was the end of your Broadway run? boy, you know what? It was, I was really sad at the end because I had a blast. Seems it's such a fun time. I had so much fun. There were some, how did this get made fans? Absolutely came out. Somebody yelled Geostorm at one of the shows. Okay, so how do you react to that?

I could hear it. Okay. I could hear it. I react a little bit, but not, you know, it wasn't overwhelming, I will say. No, it's not like somebody was trying to do it in the middle of the show or something. It was, it was, it was, it was, at. an appropriate time and I just let it be. I told you, I think, about the time I went to go see Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross. And it was the last version of it where there was All-Stars, not the one that just happened with Kiernan Colkin, but this is one with like Alan Alda was in it. Yes, yes, I remember this. And, you know, a handful of other people. And in the middle of that, in a moment of silence, someone yells out, Hawkeye.

What? Wow. Like someone yelled out a MASH reference in the middle. That's incredible. Nobody did that. Thank God. Nobody did that. It was at like the, so I heard it when I was introduced and like at the end. The times when it would be appropriate.

I like that. But it was a blast. The show was so fun. I will say the event of doing it every night of the week made me want. us to do like a residency somewhere. You know, like I wanted me. It made me want to do our show night after night after night without having to travel. Like we go on tour and do the show night after night. But it's, there's always a tremendous amount of travel and packing and unpacking and repacking and new hotels. I was like, wow, I'd love to be walking into this theater and doing

how did this get made every night for a week. Oh, well, you know what? I actually had a similar experience of doing a show night after night, which was I was in Tell Your Ride. We often go together to Tell Your Ride to do these shows. And I got to tell you, this Tell You Ride Comedy Festival is a blast. It is a group of us. We're all friends. Jason's normally there. And we do different kind of shows every single night to this town that is just a fun ski town on President's Day weekend. But the problem with Telluride this year was there was no snow. So people were getting. getting antsy. It's like the entire town is an alcoholic waiting for that, like, when is it five o'clock so I can actually have my drink? No, it's so true. We have been going to, we've been

doing this festival, our friend Jeb Barrier, shouts to Jeb Barrier, a real legend, started this festival, you know, in the early 2000s, we've been going for the better part of 20 plus years. Yeah. Every President's Day weekend, we do it. And when there is not snow, the town is cranky. And that means the audience is not psyched. And you would think the opposite, because it's like, well, we are giving you something to actually do. Like, no.

No. No. They are. Their whole life is snow dependent. And I don't know if I told you this, but we got lucky, snow hit, and it was a nice snow. And then everyone got extremely happy. Yes. And then that became.

The other half of these nights they were doing. I'm so jealous. And the last night we were there, I was talking to the audience, we're doing like essentially what we do for dinosaur. You know, what's new? What's this? And before I could even get out, like, what's something exciting that happened to you? Someone yells out, I got my ass eaten on Valentine's Day. And when I tell you, Jason, I looked at this young woman.

I was like, if she was 22, I would. have been shocked. Sure. Sure. And I was like, okay, let's hear about it. And then I heard so much about Hinge. And then the town started everyone in this theater. And this is like, like, it's a Sunday night show, an earlier show. Everyone weighed in on getting their ass eaten.

It was the funniest thing to me that this one guy I spoke to in the very beginning. I said, what do you do, sir? He's like, I'm a fireman. And I was like, okay, great. You see, I would ask that kind of question. And then this woman's talking about getting her ass eaten. And then the fireman's like, I do it. What?

Amazing. Was the handsome cop there? The handsome cop was not there. He was talked about. He was referenced. He was referenced. But it was one of the funniest things because it felt like we went from this town that was angry and like a little on edge to all of a sudden this entire audience all celebrating, getting laid. The catharsis of the snow.

brought about people getting laid. And it was wonderful. And I tell you, when I look at that fireman, the last thing, if you would have given me a list of all the things he could have chimed in on, eating ass was not going to be in the top 100. It's such a, I think this is a real, like, there is some sort of age demarcation line for eating ass. Because I feel like the younger generation is all about eating ass

and the older generation is like, I don't know what you're talking about. It has been, and I'm saying this because recently it has been a very big topic of conversation on the Howard Stern show. Yes. Because a bunch of the younger staffers, the writers and the producers and so forth, are saying, no, no, this is normal. This is a normal thing. And all of the older people are like, are you kidding? That is not at all one of the normal components of hooking up.

What are you talking about? And they have been talking about it in this same kind of hilarious way. Well, this is like, it was amazing to watch everybody chime in. And again, this is not the show where you come to hear Jason and I talk about like the ass eating culture. But I was, it was just one of those things that just like it like, and I hearing that on Stern was just making me laugh. I was like, wow, it's a different. It is the, this is the conversation that people want to be. having about modern sexual moors and what are the and i think like when you talk about like what are

the bases you know like when we were kids first base was like kith french kissing yeah i think first base is like like full penetrative sex now you know like i think i mean ass eating his second base i remember like a time when you would say you hooked up with somebody that just meant that you like fooled around yeah like now it's like and fooled around just meant like first and second base 100%, which was all like kissing and over the shirt stuff. I mean, this is, we've lived through a lot. And that's why I do want to announce to our audience that how did this get made is changing its title to how did this ass get eaten. Yes.

And we. And every episode, we're going to seek to get to the bottom of it. Sadly, the only episode, we can only do that one episode of girls. Now, I want to apologize to, Jason. I know that you've been working really hard to buy Warner Brothers, and I know that that fell through for you. It's such a bummer. I'm so bummed.

I've been really working hard to buy Warner Brothers on the cheap. You know, Zooks and Zaz, you know, we go way back. You guys are great. We're the best together, you know, and I'm so, I'm super bummed. I was wanting to get that Warner Brothers purchase. I'm wanting to grab it up. But, you know, I get it. You know, Netflix was in the mix for a while.

And then the Ellison's, they swooped right in. And, I mean, people were saying your offer was very low. I mean, you were saying, yeah, it was like a couple thousand bucks. Yeah, and quite a bit of it was, um, it was funny money. Yeah. It was, was old funny money from strip clubs that have long clothes. All those scores dollars. I've got so many scores funny monies.

I used to work next to scores. And, oh, yeah. I worked next to scores. which was a very famed and popular. Again, Howard Stern Show reference. Yes. But in New York City at that time, it was like the crem de la creme of strip. It was like a quote unquote classy strip club.

And I was working at a comedy theater right around the corner. But the common denominator was, you know, 25 feet from where I was working and 25 feet from where scores was was a pizza place on the corner. And we went. And so. I love it. And because we were all just working, like you would see all the people in there. For sure. And I remember one time one of the bouncers was trying to pay for his pizza and did accidentally give funny money.

Oh, I love it. I love it. And they're like, oh, what's this? He's like, oh, I'm so sorry, buddy. I got to take that back. Amazing. Because you could only spend funny money inside scores. Of course.

That was the, that was the, that was the, that was the, that was the, that was the, the thing. Oh, God. Well, well, well, well, there has been... Well, well, well. What has been happening with you, Paul? Oh, my gosh. You know, so much. While I have been on the road, what has been happening?

Oh, my... You know, there... I will tell you this much. I got to see Project Hail Mary. Oh. I've seen it twice. I've seen it twice now. I saw it...

Did you read the book? I did not read the book. Okay, great. But the audible book is fantastic and they're a great sponsor for us. Okay, I'll read the... I'll do the audiobook then. Great. But...

I saw the movie in a rougher state. No special effects done. The music wasn't perfect. And it was running a little bit longer than it was. And I went into that theater going, I got to pee. You know what? I'll just hold it. I can always get up in the middle of the movie.

Wow. And I'm impressed. The movie when I saw it was like almost three hours. Yeah. And I watched that movie and I forgot that I had to be. That's incredible. There is no way at 53 now that I could go three hours. hours. If I went in knowing I had to pee, I don't know if that I could make a 15 minutes.

I was having a freak out because then all of a sudden, Lord Miller, I love those guys. They came down and they were talking. I was like, I should pee now. But I had to work myself too far into a row to casually get up. And I was like, and then I was like, and then the movie started and I forgot. So that's, that is my highest level of. And that was the rough cut. Yeah. And I brought my sons to go see at IMAX for another little special. screening. And I will tell you this. I don't want to spoil anything about the movie. I want everyone to enjoy it and make their own opinions of it. Gus, my oldest son, looked over to me at one point and said, this is my favorite movie ever. And I was like, whoa. And then as we

were leaving, Sam said, that was the funniest movie I've ever seen. And it made me cry five times. Wow. Now, I will say they have not yet seen Infinite. So, Right. So, yes. And that's, we are going to, we are going to, and I was waiting. I didn't want to gill the lily and show it to them first, so they'd have a letdown. But I love that. I love this.

And on the way home, and on the way home they said, what was your, like, who's your favorite person? Yeah. And they go, well, Glenn Powell. And then they list off two other characters. And I won't tell you because it would be spoilers. And I go, well, Glenn Powell's not in it. And they're like, what? I was like, that's Ryan Gosling.

And they're like, oh. I thought that was Glenn Powell. Howell. This whole time. Oh, my God. Now, the funnier part of that is throughout the whole summer, whenever he saw a poster for Running Man, they're like, I want to see that Ryan Gosling movie. Oh, weird.

They've got, they flipped them. They've flipped the two guys. I will tell you one other thing that I think you will enjoy. So last night, I was asked to do this live table read. And I can talk about it because it's out in the open. for Dan Erickson. Darren Erickson is the guy who wrote Severance, created Severance.

Yeah, great. Great, very talented guy. And he'd written this script about 10 years ago. And I don't know if you know about this, but you know about the baby, like the ghost baby in three men and a baby? You ever hear that rumor? No, yes, but I don't know this story. All right, so basically there was a thing when I was a kid that you could see a ghost

in the reflection of a window in three men and a baby. This is the time before the internet, and, you know, you couldn't, like, screen grab. And it was, you know, so this rumor of there's a baby. And there was, then you would see it. Oh, my gosh, I see it. I see it. Now, the conventional wisdom is it is a standy of Ted Danson that was put behind a set. But the window was an exterior window.

So the standee was misplaced. The light hits it. It's Ted Danson. But, yeah, there is something there, but it's not a ghost. It is just this piece of like a marketing material that inadvertently gets reflected, right? So yes. So Dan has written this script about three men and a baby where the leads are Steve Gutenberg, Ted Danson and Tom Selleck, on top of a hellmouth in Hollywood. Great.

And this baby is real. Great. And this story is real. It is a very, very funny script. And so last night we did a read. And I got to play Leonard Nimoy, the director of stuff. Three Men and a Baby. Great.

And Randall Park played Ted Danson. Kumail played Tom Selleck. And Steve Gutenberg played Steve Gutenberg. Amazing. Steve Gutenberg came in to reprise his role. And that even reprises role to play Steve Guttenberg. And it was truly one of the most bananas, funny things I have ever. Because it's like one of those scripts that you write to be like, oh, yeah, Dan's great.

He's funny and he can write horror. and he could do whatever. And to have Steve Gutenberg reading the most, I mean, it's heightened characters and it was, it was a, it was a real, real,

real treat. It's a crazy movie. I think you could probably even find it out online because I don't know even how this got out. The live read? No, the actual script if you want to find, yeah, because it was not taped.

It was a benefit, but it's public. So I could talk about it in that way. I don't think anyone's making. Sure. I would hope they would, but I, I think a lot of issues would come into play.

I think that's... Well, it reminds me of the fast nine read we did. And that script, you know, that taking a funny, weird, lateral thinking idea and treating it like a real thing. And then doing it. I love that. It's really, it was really fun. And I was enamored to see him. I love that.

One of the best moments of it was, you know, Steve was so nice and so funny. And he played the part. So the part's really written perfectly for him. And he's like, you guys really captured our voices. And I was laughing because I think he really just thought the script was really funny. And it felt like it was this thing. But in the script, Tom Selleck is just snorting cocaine all the time and fucking anything that moves. And it's like, and then I was like, part of me was like, did it.

Are they? Because maybe they are. No, but I think he was just, it was just being so appreciative of everybody. I take the time out to do this thing. Oh, maybe. I was like, but I thought of you because it's so few people that, I mean, that movie is burned in my brain in a way where it's like, oh, yeah, that was the biggest hit. It was like a number one movie.

Such a big movie. To have it spawned sequels for something that was not like an action adventure. Like a, it didn't. It was like such a small steak, slice of life type of movie that was such a massive hit. And also just like really based on like, like, just like, here's three cute guys. Yeah. Like, what if they were taking care of baby? What if they had to take care of a baby?

Oh, my. And they're men. That's like impossible. I mean, they're not going to figure that out. No way. No way. A baby will die, right? Oh, my God.

It's really funny. I love that. As an idea, I think that's great. And now I know that you've been doing some shooting, a little bit away doing some shooting. I don't know if you talk about it, but were you able to be catching up on anything? Yeah, I've caught up on some stuff, but I'm behind on some stuff as well. I was doing the play, and then I was doing Percy Jackson, finishing up season three of Percy Jackson, which I think is going to be gangbusters stuff. But it's interesting.

While I was away, I think I talked about this actually when we last spoke. I've gotten like deep in, I got a crunchy roll subscription and I've gotten deep into anime. So like I was saying, I think the last time, the Apothecary Diaries is a show that I like very much became obsessed with. Free Runn Season 2 is happening right now week to week and is easily, immediately the best season of television this year will be number one on my list. It's incredible. But then I've also been watching a couple of other shows that I think are fantastic. one of which is also happening week to week right now, and it's called sentenced to being a hero, which is, this falls into the category of this is like action adventure, this isn't like fantasy

character building, this is action adventure, like fighting like a demon hoard. And like being a hero is like the lowest of the low. Like it's a criminal sentence is to be, is to be told you're. a hero and the heroes are being sent into bed. It's almost like suicide squad. Okay, got it. You know what I mean? Like, the heroes are oftentimes bad guys or people who did bad things, but they have to then go and be, do acts of heroism. And it's fantastic. And it's visually very cool and beautiful. I am, I am psyched. I have to get into this and maybe I have to find my kids way into it because I may have talked about this before, but my kids are very

much into jackass right now. So we are watching so much jackass. They still have not like crossed over to thinking that things that are not animated are like they're like, it's animated. It's for kids. We're not kids. We watch adult stuff. But they understand like my youngest son wanted like a Naruto sweatshirt, but he's never watched

an episode. And Gus loves wearing his like one piece t-shirt, but is no clue of what that is. interest in One Piece. That was so cute. But I do understand, because I remember feeling this way, too, like, oh, cartoons are for kids. I don't do that anymore. Yeah. I watch MASH now.

You know what I mean? Speaking of Hawkeye, you know, I don't watch cartoons anymore. Yeah, and that's, and like, I feel like that was, like, for me when I was a kid, cartoons weren't even on the table as like, it was like, it was like Saturday morning cartoons. That was it. That was really, yeah. There was no such thing.

Even, I will say, I remember very vividly in. college having a reaction to The Simpsons and being like, I don't understand. Why would I be watching a cartoon in like prime time? Like that even for me was like, what, what's going on? And then I was like, oh, wait, this is incredible. But my first instinct was to be like, why is Fox this new channel trying to push cartoons on us in prime time? Right.

That felt strange, you know? And then I would argue that we were the beginning of that, like, new cartoon generation that has just grown and grown and grown. Yeah. Built off of the Simpsons. And then, you know, family guy and all the way through. Family Guy now has become another. We are watching really at random any Family Guy episode, which I've really not sat down and watched that many of.

And I've been enjoying those and The Office, which I may have talked about last time we were watching a lot of the office. Fun. That's a good one. Great. And as I said to Rob Hubell about it, I was like, it's a pretty funny show. I didn't like, and I, you know, like, and I think the office came out at a time where I just wasn't watching 22 episodes of television. Same. A season.

So I've watched. I know all the dynamics. I know where the show goes. But I guess I don't know. There's so many holes in my office knowledge. There are dozens and dozens of episodes of the office that I've never seen for sure. It is not, it is not a show that I at all. was completionist on.

No. And it's been, maybe I watched the first three seasons and then stopped. Well, and, and people say that season four is the best season.

Okay, so maybe I watched the four seasons. But you may not have. Like that? I don't even know. I remember actually being mad at the first season of the office because I love

the British office so much. And they copied the, the British office for the first six episodes. And I was like, this is not the same. And I went back and watched and I was like,

holy shit, I can't believe they got this on network television. Like because Michael Scott changes drastically between season one and season two. But wow, I was like, they're, and they still push in different places. It just kind of makes you realize like how safe television has gotten in a weird way. And I know a lot of people like complain about that. But it's like, oh, I was like, oh, but you, this was done really, really well and really funny.

And it really holds up. Well, remember, like, there was a period there where like they were really loosening things up a little bit. And you could, even like going back to showing butts and calling people assholes on NYPD Blue in the late 90s, like early 2000s. Like there was a certain sense of like pushing things and things evolving and not being so safe and puritanical. And we have really rebounded the other way now. And everything feels much safer and much, much more bland and not interesting. Shows without conflict, shows without, you know, that really don't at all come close to representing the world we live in. Right.

You know? Yeah. You know, I thought to myself, I was like, oh, my kids aren't going to like this show because they've never worked on an office. And then I realized, oh, it's characters. And I know it's so silly to say, but it's like, oh, and that's something that we always are missing. It's like what we like, what we respond to are just characters. It doesn't make. Like, at one point, Gus turned to me.

It was like, what do they do? I was like, they sell paper. Great. What do you mean? Who cares? Doesn't make it difference. And that's it. Yeah.

Like that's it. It really is, even if we were to say like, oh, what are like the paper specific storylines of the office, almost none? Like that's genuinely not what it's about, which is great. I know. It's such an interesting thing. And it's like, and I held off showing it for that reason alone. And yeah.

So it's like, it's fun. It's fun to watch this stuff through their eyes and what they are. Like, I just like, it gives you to. different life, but it also is like, like I told you, I've made that I promise so we couldn't watch anything before 2000 with them. But last night they broke their promises. They watched Ferris Bueller's Day off and they enjoyed it. Great. Yeah. So every now and then we get sneak one, sneak one down. Oh, that's a great one. I'll throw in a couple of more, just because I'm wondering if you guys watched one of my favorite things for the year is going to end up being the new Muppet

show. Did we talk about this? We, I don't think that we have anything. I don't think we have. I don't I don't think so. He used it. The new Muppet show that our friend Seth Rogen did that Alex Timbers directed, who just directed the play that I was in in New York. My cousin, Muppeteer on. Whoa. Incredible. Yes.

And it is in every way, shape, and form the old 70s, 80s era Muppet show of our childhood. It is a straight variety show, Muppet Show. That is terrific. It's so good. And what I love about it is, I think they didn't change anything, and there's nothing dated about it. The Muppet show was S&L. Like, for all intents of purposes, it was S&L with a backstage component.

Yes. And the writing is really funny. It's not a kid thing. And that's the thing. It wasn't a kid show. And as the first time, my kids actually liked the Muppets because it felt like it was not a kid show. Yes. Yeah.

It's great. Sabrina Carpenter is the guest. There's one episode of it up. And I'm genuinely, I'm hoping this is a regular thing that they do more of these because it's absolutely fantastic. I mean, it's built ready to go. Oh, yeah. There's a new season of Gendi Tartikovsky's show Primal. Oh, yeah.

I think a visual masterpiece that is absolutely incredible and goes absolutely crazy places. Shorzi season four is up and out. The whole season is incredible. Did we talk? Came out this week. We haven't talked about it, I don't think, because it only has just come out. Well, but I heard that you were at the hockey game. I went to the hockey game.

Yes. I went to the hockey game, which was absolutely insane. So, yeah, tell everybody about this. So the Shorzy show, which I absolutely adore, I think, is one of, you've heard Paul and I talk about it. You've heard Paul and I talk about Letterkenny, which is the show that Shorzie grew out of. Shorzy is the hockey, the Canadian hockey sitcom with a heart of gold, so funny joke machine. but also a heartwarming story of like a grown men's hockey league, recreational hockey league. And they did a tour around promoting the new season that was just them playing a hockey game.

And so I went and watched them play a hockey game against the L.A. King's like seniors or whatever they're called, just an exhibition game. And that was the show. It was just an afternoon hockey game. It was crazy. An absolute blast. Nobody talked. There was no performance element of it. It was just a hockey game. I was blown away that that happened.

And then people were asking me that, we saw Jason that we saw Jason there. And I was like, and that to me, solidified everything I needed to know about you and your fandom of this. Because I was like. That I would go to a sporting event. Yes. Like I am so uninterested in sports.

But I was like, this is, I'm just so curious what it is they're doing. Because I was like, oh, are they going to have microphones? on and they'll be trash talking. Nope, none of that. It was just a hockey game. Okay, well, then let me ask you this, because this blew my mind as well, and I'm a little behind on a few things. But I did not realize that one of the writer, directors of Letterkenny created heated rivalry. Oh, yeah, Jacob Tierney, who is also Glenn on Letterkenny, the priest, the pastor. That is Jacob Tierney, who writes and direct letter, Kenny, writes and direct Shorzie, and then created Heated Rivalry. So Heated Rivalry and Shorzie are coming out of the same hockey, like, yeah, pressure cooker.

Blue my fucking mind. That was like, wait a second. And it was, I guess I just wasn't looking at any, because he's not on, I haven't seen heated, right, that's the other part of it. I haven't seen heated rivalry. Yes. So I was talking to a friend who went to the Olympics, and he was like, oh, yeah, I was with Jacob Turney. And I was like, oh, I love, I love Letterkenny. I love Shore.

And he's like, oh, I go, well, why was he there, though? He did rival me. I was like, what? Wait. I was like on a hike. I had to like stop. Oh, no. When I found that out, too, I was like, oh, whoa, that's wild.

And of course. And somebody, like, the story that I heard, I hope I'm not talking out of school because I think it's a fine enough story is. They're like, did you know that this is going to be successful? He's like, oh, my gay hockey show? No. Well, that, and like, especially the gay hockey show that barely had like an American profile. Right. It was like a Canadian show.

It was, it's so funny. It's so great. It's really, really wild. Now that, I went to an exhibition of that. Yeah. Different. It was different. Very different.

No talking to the audience either. A lot of action. And it was beautiful. It was beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful. I mean, who would have guessed? People are going to hockey games now. It's a thing.

I love it. I love that hockey's taken off. Let's do it. Let's make hockey our new national sport. I'm in. I'm all on board. Well, well, then we have the issue with the men's hockey team. There's some issues there. Oh, yeah, that's right.

Get rid of it. Hockey's out. All right, Jason, it's so good talking to you. We'll talk to you soon. That is a wrap on this week's just chat. And if you want more recommendations, don't worry. Jason will be back next last.

looks and we will run through a whole new slew of TV shows, movies, and books that we are currently loving. But enough about the last looks because right now, we need to get first looks, right? We're getting a brand new movie next week, and it is time to announce what that movie is. That's right. Next week, we are going from kidnapped moms to Jerry Butler bombs. That's right. We'll be watching the 2009 action thriller, law-abiding citizen starring, Friend of the Pod, Gerard Butler, Jamie Fox, Leslie Bibb, and Viola Davis. Here's a short breakdown of the plot. After a plea bargain sets free one of the men who killed his family, a man unleashes vengeance on the killers and the legal team responsible for the deal, manipulating events from his jail cell to expose the system's flaws. This was a fun episode. And I got to say, rotten tomatoes may have its head up its ass a little bit because they gave this film a 26% score on the tomato meter. And Robbie Colin from News of the World says, if you want a crazy mix of saw and Shawshank, where a lot of people get killed in nasty ways

and Gerard Butler gets his bum out, then this is a decent bet. You know what, Robbie, Colin, I agree with you. It is a decent bet. Let's take a listen to the trailer. The Shelton case, where are we? Let's make the deal. They killed a little girl there.

Some justice is better than no justice at all. You need to tell the husband. I don't understand. With Darby's testimony, Ames will go to death row. What? The jury's going to believe me. The deal is done.

This is just how the justice system works. He killed my wife and John. What was supposed to be a painless execution has turned into something out of a horror film. The machine was corrupted. Who could have done this? I killed your friend Ames in prison, but I wanted to keep you all for myself. You can stream Law Abiding Citizen on AMC Plus and Philo, or you can rent it. Really, this is the way it works now, everywhere.

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