How Did This Get Made? - Last Looks: The Pope's Exorcist

Episode Date: October 27, 2023

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The Pope drinks Guinness, just how far is the ride from Rome to Spain? It is now time for how did this get made? Last look. Hit the theme! BONJONO! Mespacidim means it's me, Russell Crowe's Italian accent coach, E pol Shir, and welcome to How Did This Game Made? Alas, looks! I want to do that the entire show.

This is where you get to voice your issues on the Pope's Exorcist. Jason will join me to chat about old TV shows and we will recommend some books and podcasts for you. I'll share an exclusive deleted scene from our Pope's Exorcist show and as always I will reveal next week's movie. But first things first a shout out to Sean Fugel for that amazing opening theme song. We love these themes. We love them so much. Keep them coming and not only do we want last look themes, but we are potentially looking for a brand new main theme songs. So if you think you're up for the challenge and you've heard Jason and I discuss what we're looking for. Senator, I said how did this get made at your wolf.com. You can post it on our discord or just send it to us. Whatever you want to do, and Jason and I will continue to judge these

songs on air. Now, we just finished up our first half of our fall tour. It was amazing. Maine, Rhode Island, New Haven, Brooklyn, you all brought it in a major way. I loved playing those cities. And now we're doing it again. November 8th and 9th will be in Chicago. November 10th and 11th, we will be in Minneapolis. Tickets are on sale right now at howtodiscatmade.com. That's hdtgm.com. Let's get into it. People, last week, we talked at length about the Pope's Exorcist, a movie that Discord user Anna Houdkins thinks could have had the tagline, the Pope's Exorcist. You'll wonder what possessed them to make it. I like it, even better in the Italian accent. Well, we

had questions about the Pope's Exorcist, and while we might have even missed a few things, here is your chance to set a straight. Fact check us if you will, it is now time for We got omissions. Thank you, that's fuck it all up. Thank you, Josh. Broilo for that amazing theme song. Let's go to the Discord.

Ooh, cat. Start off with cat here. Italian here, she writes, this was a tough one. I might write another post solely about accents, but I wanted to point out that Father Crow is actually writing a Lambreta, not a Vespa. Yes, I have gotten this complaint a lot. Thank you, Cat, for calling it out. Lambreta is the first type of scooter in the style made in Italy by a company named Inesante.

The man who designed Lambreta had a falling out with the Innocente's owner, Quich, and then took his design to another company called Biagio, where they started producing Vespas. I strongly doubt Father Crow knew any of this and just did it for the dynamite looks. But of course, the character had to ride a scooter made by the company named Innocence. And the scooter talk continues. Sean McBeer writes, I looked it up. And that scooter ride from Rome to Castile Spain was roughly 1,194 miles. He appears to have been riding a Lambretto L1-150 with a top speed of under 55 miles per hour.

That's about a 22 hour ride plus plenty of stops for gas, given that the scooter only has an 8 liter tank about 2 gallons. And the absolute max range you would get on a full tank would be about 100 miles. So, you're looking at making at least 12 gas stops and in trying to figure out exactly which model he was driving I found another link to the movies filming in Ireland and the scooter actually has a Guinness badge on it and included a picture we can see it up close yes Russell Crowe is an Italian man who loves Guinness. By the way, I do want to just get a Date check was this model and bread even in production in the 80s?

My gut says no, I know a lot of people have written in about this journey. This might be my favorite one Someone also mentioned there was a fairy component to it. You had to take a fairy at a certain point. Liz brings up, so it got brought up in the show, how the demon has a rumple still skinned like thing going on, where if you learn its name, you have power over him. But did anyone notice that right after Russell Crowe learns his name and says it out loud? That's when the demon gets especially powerful. Learning his name didn't help at all. Well, you know what Liz, it's interesting because I think that that was a lower tier demon. I think it's sort of like that's like if you're playing chess, those are your pawn demons, and he was dealing with like a queen demon. Anyway, that's my theory. I'm sticking to it.

Kenji writes, I loved the card at the end of the movie that said, father, Gabriel, Amruth, continued to serve, they afflicted until his death in Rome in 2016. And wrote many books in the pay off line. Books are good. Now, I will say this. We did touch upon this very briefly. Jason and June didn't seem to understand

why everyone kept on saying the books are good. If I remember correctly, I might have told them it was because Russell Crowe says his books are good, but here, take a listen. I do feel like we didn't discuss that moment at the end and the end credits where we were, we got the bookplugs. Yeah. You know, I was just so very strange Is this an adaptation of one of the father? I'm a Well, he does say in the beginning that real case. He does say in the beginning like they wrote some books about me You know, he's a little on the down low about it, but yeah, and the books are good. I thought this is like a sigh Like I wanted Brussels Korea. The truth, they didn't write books about him. Didn't he write those books about him?

I think so, yeah. Yeah, he wrote them himself. They're good. I'm sorry, Pa, have you read the books? I read these books. They're good. Good. They're good.

Wait, for real? They're good. They're good. They're so fun. They're so good. Wow. They're so fun. They're so good. Wow. They're just good. They're so good.

All right, well, we'll have to, well, let's go figure it out. I guess I do want to read the book now. Yeah, it's a handful of people in our audience read these books for real. There we go. I mean, look. Yeah, out of here. All right, some clarity, maybe.

By the way, I will say this, people are loving our Russell Crowe Lembreta shirt that we've made. It is just him riding that Lembreta and it says exercise underneath it. It's amazing, available at T-Bubble right now. T-Bubbleq.com slash stores, slash HDTGM. Now let's go to the phones. Let's hear from Jason in Seattle.

I just gotta say, I think for the sequel, we gotta go back to that line about Father Crowe tells the young priest that he needs, the young priest needs to learn jokes because the devil hates jokes right off the bat. As soon as I heard that, I thought, okay, the sequel has to bring in a standup comedian. So everyone hated that young priest anyway. He was a pervert. He needed to be wiped out anyway. Let's just say he got killed in between the first movie

in the sequel and Father Crowe needs to bring in Kevin Hart at his sidekick. I'm just saying Russell Crowe with Kevin Hart as a standup comedian to piss off the devil. You can't miss. All right. Thanks for thinking my call. Jason, I love this idea. But you know what? We got to bring an 80s comic in. What if like he brings in emo Phillips? That would be a great like 80s comedian or maybe like Judy Tannuda. I know they're married. I should go outward a little bit more, but Richard Belzer, that would be great. The real 80s big vest kind of wearing Paula Poundstone in there, you know, I would love

to see. Yep, you guys got a little taste of my Paul a poundstone impression. I would like to see that Jason Goodcall, um, pair Russell Crowe up with a 80s standup comic. Next up, John from Chicago. Hey Paul, I'm prone to let you know, I don't know if you know this, but the movie studio they wanted to promote this movie. So they decided to do a partnership with the world wrestling entertainment wwe at their WrestleMania this past year.

It was a match that was also advertised as a hell in a cell match between then wwe wrestler edge and thin baller and before the match, a video played with Russell Crowe on there talking about good and evil, heaven and hell, just like going on the spiel, it was like really weird, and then during the match, you know, the lights were kind of down, and they had like, you know, the Pope's actresses, like the name everywhere around the ring, and the red lights, it was just like really strange to use them to advertise a partnership between the post-exorcist movie and World Wrestling Entertainment. And then also going off something that Jason mentioned, he was talking about the wrestler

and Mickey Work and the director of the wrestler trying to get the glasses away from Mickey Warck on the movie, Aaronowski, and he kept on saying like that Mickey Warck, you know, he won the Oscar, he didn't win an Oscar for the wrestler, fortunately, he was nominated, but he didn't win. All right, take care, love you, I love the show, bye. Oh, do I remember it? I was there. Yes, I was there for this moment. And you just unlocked a memory that has been deep down inside of me. Yes, it was so weird when this actually happened. You didn't know what was going on because there's so many video moments in the actual show. I'm like, It's like, is Russell Crowe gonna come out and wrestle now because it's not, look, you see celebrities coming in to WrestleMania being a part of the show and I thought there was a moment.

First of all, I had no idea what they were advertising. It looked shitty. But then when I saw Russell Crowe, I was like, whoa, I'm engaged. Get him in the ring, get him in his fr friars frock and let's go for it. But that sadly did not happen. Russell, show your face at Russell Mania and thank you John for Chicago for reminding us that Mickeywork did not win an Oscar for the wrestler. But maybe should have, but maybe shouldn't have. I don't know. Back to the discord, Marguerita writes, I'm an Italian, while she doesn't say that, but I'm putting, it can't be actually, Margarita is Italian. I have to admit, I was impressed at the

beginning by how good Father Crows accent was. Sure, he was maybe mumbling half of the words, but he did have a heavy accent. And at least this time, I didn't have to read English subtitles to understand what was going on. Now, all of that came crashing down. The minute he started to speak English, while as Italian was fairly flat, our monotone is English was heavy on the accent and sounded quite cartoonish to me. It is true that some of us have thicker accents, but usually that is partially reflected in the way that we speak Italian. So the difference between the way he spoke, the two, was actually even more jarring. Now I'll tell you, as someone who is Italian, grew up Italian, it's always interesting to

hear that accent come out. I went back home to Long Island and I was in this area that grew up in Central Isop. And I was in the 7-11. It's standing front of me as this guy in camo pants a knife at his side and he goes, ah, he's fucking stoon, ah, zoom around the government and I was like, I would never expect that out there too. So I wonder if there's like a performative nature to some people. I feel like in an island where I grew up around a lot of Italian people, they really

love to perform their accent in Italian. They wouldn't actually speak like that in real life, but Italian, they are Italian and they put it on. So I don't know. Maybe it's this thing of, he did the reverse version of that. He's an Italian who puts on more of an accent and again, I think it just comes down to, even though you're Italian, Margarita, you don't know what you're talking about. All right slash wind writes I did not realize that while watching the movie the titular Pope and the Pope's exorcist was played by legendary actor Franco Nero our very own golden

haired space Jesus from the visitor oh yes I think we mentioned it in the show Grumble Bottom ads it speaks to how Knut balls and banana pants this movie is that our hosts never mentioned the great Franco Nero as the Pope He was more than just bond Jesus in the visitor He was also in force 10 from never own with Harrison Ford a great movie people. I just bought that on Blu-ray and Die hard to yes great in that as well and he was the Django, Franco Nero Rules Justice for Franco Nero. I love Franco Nero. Highly recommend going deep into his filmography. You will not be disappointed at all. A really, really fun great actor. Also speaks to like the knowledge that this movie is like a low-budget fun crazy fest. Walker Farter writes, the one thing I'm surprised, no one mentioned, is that it's very dangerous

to stay in a house that is slowly filling with flammable gas. If they just got the fuck out of there after the construction crew told them that it was too dangerous to be in that house to work, let alone live, everyone would have been fine. How does that mother not think we've got a gas leak that is blowing up construction workers? My son is having seizures and being a little freak. Maybe this old-ass house is unsafe for obvious and not supernatural reasons. Well, the Pope's robotic hobo chimes into ad. In fact, carbon monoxide has been found to be the culprit in several ghost sightings.

The first recorded case dates back to 1912 when one family reported hearing voices and footsteps seeing apparitions and feeling a haunting presence only to discover the source was a faulty furnace that had been leaking poisonous gas. Wow! Did not know. Well now, maybe that's like a cool thing that kids want to do. Turn on that gas and start seeing my ghosts. I love to see those ghosts. I don't know if he didn't talk about it as much as, I don't think they could have left the house at that point.

But yes, they couldn't have left that house because they didn't have any money. And that's why it was established. The mom needed to sell this abbey because the husband just straight up money and that's why it was established. The mom needed to sell this Abby because the husband just straight up died and left them with it. So you know what Walker Florida ghosting your fancy hotels this family couldn't afford it. Johnny Unusual writes, the mom says, this Abby is all your father left us. I need to know what happened. I get not having much, but how do you end up only with an abbey in a foreign country? I mean,

this feels like all home simpson-esque, full-hard adventure. Yeah, right. I didn't think about that. Like, only. How did he get it? Gambling debt. Like, remember when Brett Ratner had to do this commercials for New York Film Academy because he lost like a poker deal? Maybe this guy won one in a poker deal. Who knows? I like it. I don't need answers like that's what I feel like movies kind of fuck up on don't give me so much backstory I get it you got an Abbey deal with it. I'm in so I don't fault the movie for not for not going into greater detail Anyway, so many great corrections and omissions this week, but I think there's one clear winner. Yes, Franco Corrections and omissions this week, but I think there's one clear winner. Yes, Franco Nero is amazing, but that's not good enough

Truly the the one person who brings it all together is the great Sean McBe for telling us everything We wanted to know about that trip on a LEM bretta and finding the cultural inaccuracy of the Guinness on the Italian bike, but you know what honestly Honestly, Italians can love Guinness, so who might have judged? Anyway, that's neither here nor there, but Sean McBee, you are a winner, and you get this amazing song from Case Silva. Hit it! Thank you. Stand out from the rest of the crowd. But now, here's the thing. All you get through that is just some fucking thing. Thank you, Case, for that song.

And remember, if you want to submit an alt movie tagline or chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode Hit up the discord at discord.gg-hdtgm or call us at 619-pall-ask All right, stick around after the break. Jason will join me for a just chat. We'll be right back All right people you probably noticed that every Monday we released an old school episode into the stream and guess what this week We did it up with the vampires kiss Hayes Davenport joined us from the first your wolf podcast festival I think first and last maybe or maybe it was the first and Seconded last either way that was a fun little event and we loved doing that episode there people came in costume I believe

Hayes came in costume anyway next week we will be releasing maximum overdrive with Andy daily to close out our Halloween season so stay tuned for that and every Monday classic episodes are always being dropped Just a reminder people if you want to see some of these live shows and I got to say that that vampires could show is a perfect example of weird stuff happening that you had to be there for. Make sure you head out to see how to just get made on tour in Minneapolis and Chicago in November, hdtgm.com. And it will be a lot of fun. I'm just so excited to go back out on the road and as a matter of fact, I'm so excited to sit here and chat with Jason just for a little bit. So, surreal, Fred on Instagram, play us in. What's up jerks, it's time for just chat with Paul Sheer and Jason Menzukus.

all share and Jason men's sukkus. So Jason, a couple of weeks ago, you and I were talking about just things that live in our mind, things that we haven't quite been able to place. And you were describing this movie. This movie that you remember and you were like, here is the, oh right, because we were talking about seven minutes

in heaven. Yes, and you're, and you're trying were talking about seven minutes in heaven. Yes. And you're trying to describe this movie that you have been looking for. I tried to Google some of it. So a lot of people have weighed in, but there has been one thing that kept on coming back up. And a lot of people said it's, I'm not going to credit to just one person, but the movie that people believe you are thinking about.

And I think they might be wrong. It's stealing home with Mark Harmon and Jody Foster. Ooh, hold on. The one I remember, it's like a summer romance. Well, let me, ooh, this might be it. All right, so here we go. It says, I think he was conflating Knox Overstreet, Josh Charles and dead poet society with Alan Applebee

Jonathan Silverman and stealing home. They've got the same energy So that's yeah, okay, this is it. This is it. Wait a second. We actually Never forget the first girl who steals your heart This is it. It is. Ah! Wow. Wow. I shouldn't have doubted it.

And of course, of course it's a movie about kid heartbreak. Well, of course, the movie that left some fingerprint on my heart is about kid heartbreak. Go ahead. Well, this is so interesting because I love this movie as well when I was a kid. I haven't watched it in a long time. Really?

Yes. I remember this movie because this also has similarities to, I mean, to seven minutes in heaven. There's like an, there's an energy here. These are teen, teen based roms that are not comms. Yes. You know, I mean, these are not like like the john hues movies had romance in them but they were comedies yes these are they they have light moments but these are

romance stories these are these are stories about like young people trying to figure out how to be in love and when i tell you that is all i care to putt was a kid who wanted to watch. How can I figure out how to be in love? And here I am, 50 years old, still have no idea. Well, that's why we are going to set you up with Taylor Swift when she breaks up with Travis Kelsey. We are going to get you in there and we're going to put some pressure on you. Maybe that pressure will reveal a diamond. Jason, now you also, that is incredible.

Great work, everybody who's sourced to the bets. I'm gonna watch you. Our how did this get made, Sluse, we're out and look, they all came in pretty heavy. Now the other one that you talked about, you talked about this idea of kids solving crimes, a gritty crime.

The undercover gang, the Michael Perry one is the one I was talking about. Yes, right. I know it's not Michael Perry, kids solving crimes a gritty crime the under the undercover uh... gang uh... the michael perry one is the one i was talking yes the one that i know it's not michael perry but that's what i think the one i that's how i have tried to find it because i remembered that specific now scott do we have a call about this yes we do let's go to the phones hey call this is uh... michael the nerd from chicago and i have this the owner's spot you know i've got okay so michael the nerd from Chicago and I have this with honor. So I can you pause? Okay, so Michael the nerd, if people don't remember,

he's the one that was giving us all the help about Morbius. Yes, I believe so. He was our Morbius expert. Yes, I believe that that is. It was the Morgan of Dungeons and Dragons. I mean, well, now people don't even know about Morgan yet. Oh, has that not come out?

Oh, oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, we haven't even touched about morgan yet oh has that not come out of oh shit yeah we haven't even touched morgan yet get fucking ready here go let's get a rest of the and i have this the common response you guys asking about tv shows i believe the tv show you're talking about with Matthew Perry where uh... there's a light that shows both good and bad and you go to have

in her hell health called second chance which ran for one season first year for and halfway through got renamed boys will be boys yeah the department was dropped in the tv show that jason was talking about where again goes and helps the police i believe it's called the renegades which that is right what i which was- That is right, what? Or I think one year back in 1983 and third. Wow, I'm looking at a picture. All right, thanks guys.

Wow. Wait a second, that's Patrick Swayze? Wow. Whoa. Ah-ha. Hey, no. Oh my God, okay, so this works so well, because doesn't Patrick Swayze kind of look like

a Michael Perry type? Yes, you're totally right. I'm looking at this now. This Renegade's poster is amazing. This show, I was obsessed with this show. They had like a cool hangout. I gotta find this. Oh yeah.

Well, this is, yeah. So if anybody has a way for me to watch this, wait, what is happening? Are we watching it right now? Let's, we have it. Yes! Whoa! Yes!

Oh my God, I remember all of this. Wow. This is great. Just people walking like a Michael Jackson video. Patrick Swayze is putting on his punching gloves. I mean, that could be Michael Perry. Oh, Patrick Swayze is banded. Wow. What was's lazy as bandit

This guy's a punch in a punch and bag Randy Brooks as eagle wow holy fuck All bones this GT Wow Tracy scoggins as Tracy Wow This is an amazing open wait who's who's this guy's the looks of the operation He's the face man Robert Fester dancer oh dancer I remember that character holy shit Brian Tachi as dragon wow oh wow Fusto Bara as Gacha. This is.

This show. Give me this show immediately. I love this. Wow, our audience is great. Can you pause for a second? I just want people to know. There's still a minute left in this thing. And this theme song is just every looking cool.

It's like, it's, every character's been introduced. There's nothing to this. Man, oh man. That's like when we put it in the show, but we aired the trailer to Booker, which is a spin off of 21 Jump Street at one of our shows. And I think it was, my gosh, the Richard Greco movie. And that was like a minute and a half long theme song.

It was like, wow, it's still going. Oh, the initial mag, yeah. The initial Magdum PI theme song is over two minutes long, I believe, and is absolutely stone cold. Well, okay, now you see, we found it right away. We found both of these things right away, but some other people thought that- That was incredible.

That was amazing. It just fully blew my mind. Oh, I'm gonna show you what other what another and that it was patchy swasey is even crazier to me i was just assuming it's obviously some michael parry because i never found it but i was like it's got to be some michael parry you know look alike but instead it's even better it's wavy alright this is what other people thought you were referencing i'm not going to even tell you what this is a show called powerhouse.

Check it out. Oh, Powerhouse! Oh, Powerhouse! Power's a thing that we're talking about. It's always been in. You've got to let it come out. It's better than anything good money can buy. We all have a powerhouse to keep down inside. Powerhouse. Everything good money can buy we all Whoa

Oh wow. Oh wow. Yeah, this is Brenda Gaines. Hey, wait a minute. Where are you going? Don't move and inch. The powerhouse gang will be right back. Okay, so we just watched a minute long open, an animated open. That was incredible, like on a theme song

and animation level. That to me felt like original Sesame Street or a Legend company company. And this is a PBS show with live actors. It is. Yeah. That's what it feels like. It feels like a kid.

This is a children's show. Right. And so that's why I think that people thought that maybe powerhouse. I get it because I said kids solving mystery and this is that. This is the kind of PBS show that Ben Affleck, when he was a kid, was on the PBS, the Boston PBS show about the boat. What was that?

I can't remember. I believe you're talking about the voyage of the Mimi. Thank you. Oh. Wash that one in elementary school. Thank you. Voyage of the Mimi was a local PB at bot WGBH Which is our but it did it did it did it did it did it that's it's that it's what are their shows?

So it's shot in Boston obviously wow that's a tiny Ben Affleck on it. I mean this is a good This is a wild. I mean Scott. Well, you look up the theme to whiz kids a whiskers I love did you watch whiz kids? Oh, yes, I remember whiz kids I was gonna say if you want to see the theme to the Ben Affleck show, here we got this. Oh yeah, sure. This one I know. This and Zoom. Oh, Zoom I remember, yeah.

That's another WGBH show. Mm-hmm. The Voyager The Mimi. Gerry O'Connell was in one of these PBS shows too. Oh really? Episode one all aboard No theme song nothing just some instrumental music and then it starts Wow That's it

A kid being let off at a dock. Sir? Could you please show me where the Mimi is docked? Yeah, right on down the dock down here, son. Amazing. By the way, this looks like it was shot like my home videos. Like this is like my- Oh yeah!

Wow. Do you think you and I could get Ben Affleck to do an episode watch along with us, podcast, about voyage of the meaning? Here's the thing, Ben Affleck came to one of our how did the Skitmaid shows. He did? Yeah, you don't remember that?

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, yes, yes, yes, yes. At Larmus, I do remember. And I felt like, and I am a fan, I felt like he was looking at us going, you guys have talked shit on me in the show. Like, I also felt like he had no idea what he was coming to see. No way.

Like, it was not, in other words, he was coming as a fan. No, I felt like he was brought. I think he came with something. He did come with somebody and I think it was, maybe a date situation, this is years ago. Maybe a date, I don't know. Maybe just like, hey, I'm it was maybe a date situation. This is a year ago. Maybe a date? I don't know.

Maybe just like, hey, I'm gonna come see this comedy show and then watched us dissect a movie that he probably had not seen. He was nice. He was very nice. Came backstage. Very nice.

Totally. I remember him being very nice. And like it was like a brief. Yes, but he came out and drank with us or hung out in the bar. I don't think I was there. I think you were but it was also like oh I also felt like we weren't trying to get in his space like we were like you You're saying and he was like he was within our arms reach, but we weren't like You know, I think that was the right way to handle it

But again, I would love like the offers out there and the challenges up guys if you can get a More famous date to alive. How did this get made show will pay for you to by the way Why not why not just try to we will bring a Celebrity on a bring a celebrity our first date to how did this get made will pay for you and we will also arrange for your wedding if it works out We if it works out and if you get divorced within 10 years, we get our money back. And that's, it's a very big, you know, we don't want to be taken for stock. You know what I, no, not at all, because we're, don't fucking try and play. No, don't try to play. This is, this is real.

We want, we're into love. We've talked about this multiple times in the show. And we're not, we don't want bullshit prop proposals and nonsense during our shows but if you bring a celebrity on a nor a celebrity bigger than Ben Affleck and you end up getting married we will pay for the one I am I look happy to do it hey Jason we are talking about a lot of stuff I know that we can't we're in this weird zone we're not supposed to plug our own stuff, but I do think Obviously these are all fine. What we're talking. I was just gonna say these are lost to time shows because it's so funny I was just about to say that we had talked some weeks back about sledgehammer. Oh, yes

The David Rache show of sledgehammer and I found like I don't know six hours of it on YouTube. I used to have it on a laser disk. Oh, amazing. Yes, I had my sledgehammer. Are you so harper? I'm sad you don't have your laser disk collection. You know, as a person who compulsively collects things, it breaks my heart. I made a couple of choices in my life, and a lot of that was due to the size of the apartments that I lived in, that got rid of a lot of physical media that I truly, truly loved. I kept a handful of it. But man, those laser discs, you know, I,

boy, I mean, I would never pop one in, but it would just be nice at the machine. When I went over to Quentin Tarantino's house, not the brag for unspooled What I found so amazing about his house was just the the amount of Physical media players and we had a very long conversation about the right type of VCR to buy

And it was really interesting. And I just, I appreciated that. I appreciated that like his house was just loaded with so many interesting things, but it was all to watch and see. And you know, it's like, and I just to be able to watch the stuff he wants to watch. And not be at the,

and not to be at the discretion of whoever picks these things up or gets rid of them. And whoever owns the license on that thing, whoever, you know, whether they're gonna make it available or not or whether they're gonna make it available in a format that works for you or that is as high, you know, quality as what you want. Well, this is why I wanna talk about one thing here.

And again, we're going to be a little flexible in these strike rules. And I'll say this, so excited, so happy that moon lighting is coming out to stream. Finally, moon lighting. I can't, yeah. And not wait. I've been watching it in like in a TV rip

that someone made available to me so that because they heard me talking on the podcast about wanting to watch it. And I was like, here you go, it's here. So I've been watching it. But it's tough to watch because it's a really very shitty copy, so I'm beyond excited. Well, I will go one step further.

Again, I think this falls under the strike rules, okay. I, for the first time ever, saw the talking head stop making sense. Oh, Jonathan, do I mean movie? Yes. And holy shit, what an experience that was. It was absolutely amazing. People were dancing in the theater. The talking heads were there.

But I will say that the 4K remastering of that really just amps everything up. And that to me is like especially for theatrics. Yes. And that's why I'm excited about this moon lighting. And maybe if the strike is over, we should have like a moon lighting, one of these minis. A last look. A last look.

We just sit and we watched one and we could chat about it i have a very excited oh i would love to talk a and or well no actually i'm well at no after the strike will talk all right great i don't want to be so positively driving people to something that we should a hundred percent and i think we we did it with respect we didn't say where it's yeah but it's we we it's not even out yet. So you can't even watch it. We're talking about the idea that it will eventually

be coming. And when you hear this, the strikes may be over anyway. So we don't know. We're in a vacuum. But Jason, this is great. We found, I now want to kind of continue to, to, yeah. And wait, do you remember,

oh yes, the person mentioned your show, the show that the Matthew Piesh was? I don't know what that is. I went and found it. We did a little Twitch stream about it where we watched this Heaven and Hell. Yeah, we found all that. And it was really, it was great.

It was very, very fun. You go watch these episodes. Oh, you know what I should do for you, though? You're gonna first think, oh, I think I know what this is, but I don't think you do. This is a show that I stumbled across, and I have now been obsessed with. And here we go.

["Mister Dennis S. Carts, Wherever You Wanna Go, Where You Wanna Go With You." Okay, so that little thing that you just heard there was a Ted Knight sitcom called the Ted Knight Show where he is the head of an escort service. Yes, right? Yes. That seems to be what it is. It is a show where he is, he's running a sex worker ring.

I mean, and he himself is also a sex worker. He also seems to be available. Yes. To hire, to attend the opera or whatever. The premise of the show is, he is an uptight guy and his brother, he's like a Felix Unger. Yes, and his brother dies.

And his brother's like, you have to now take over my sex workers. And not only does he take over running it, but seems to have to also be a sex worker. This is an era where everybody, see in pop culture there was a real, there was a real, there was a group of, I guess reluctant pimps.

Yes, yes. Risky business, Dr. Detroit, this apparently, like, reluctant pimps was a style of movie or TV show that somehow seemed viable. It's fucked up and crazy. And here we go. It was written by Lollghans, who did. Yes, Lollghans, that's it.

Night shift, splash, spies like us, Gungho vibes, paranoid city stickers, Here we go. It was written by Low Gants who did. Yes, Low Gants is a night shift splash. Spies like us, Gungho vibes, Paranod city stickers, Mr. Tatt and I, Aliga their own. Oh yeah, Low Gants at Barley Mandel wrote everything in this. And this is wild that it was just, and they did.

And it's so funny, like it's so aping the Mary Tyler Moore theme song as well. Yes. In a way, because this is between Mary Tyler Moore and what's it called? That we talked about, too close for comment. This show is in between them. May I read you episode five, Sweet 16, when a mature-looking young woman named Victoria Diamond approaches the Mr. Dennis Escort service, seeking an escort to a party, Roger thinks that

he'll be escorting her, will be a good chance for Winston to prove he can make it in the escort service business. But Victoria insists that Roger escort her, and when Roger arrives with her at the party, he discovers that she is only 16 years old, and that this is a sweet 16th party, and that she is using him to make her boyfriend Cliff jealous. He is immediately arrested, immediately arrested, and has to spend the rest of the remaining episodes going door to door and telling people that he lives in their neighborhood. This is fucking crazy.

And an episode two, Grisilla, signs a 30 year contract to work for his sleazy competitor. Of course, this is documenting the most predatory world. I mean, this is a sitcom about human trafficking essentially. Oh my God. I love it. This is like if you were like, I'm pitching a TV adaptation of Sound of Freedom and it's a sitcom.

And this is a... A Veezels Inn. Oh my God. I could watch this shit for all I wanna do sometimes is just be like, I wish there was, yeah, a streaming service or a YouTube channel and there probably is that just did this stuff, that just put up pilots and themes,

that are lost in time. Yeah, it's like, oh, you know, not the ones, not the ones we know. Eight episodes of a show, like, I never understand why we can't embrace failure like that. It's like it like not failure, but it's like That's the more interesting thing. It's like this this did not work. You know, yeah, I mean, I feel like that's the people are still Americans especially are so unwilling to participate in the narrative that from failure comes growth. You know, it needs to be just like victory at all costs. Yeah, you know, it's like we're it's like we're protagonists in a fast and furious.

Nobody loses a fight. Well, and I think that I feel like there was this time. It's interesting because like the 80s, there's just a moment where I feel like no one was minding the mint. It was sort of like, yeah, in this show, it's just a show about a sheriff, but she's a woman. Too like good, let's go. We got it, that's it. We got it.

It's enough for us. And the one I was talking to Molly about was like, he's the mayor, but black, good on the air. Let's go. It's like, they were very like basic, basic, and I, oh, super, super, and because, again, and you sometimes forget, they were called, they are situational comedy. Yes, that's it.

The situation is the comedy, and that's what it's supposed to be. That's it. And by the way, she's the sheriff that you're reference with Suzanne Summers. Sure. A popular show, a show that did actually work, and I think it's supposed to be, that's it. And by the way, she's the sheriff that sure I referenced with Suzanne Summers. Sure. A popular show, a show that did actually work. And I think it just goes to show you

there's so much energy and deliberation over are these characters interesting? It's like, just put them somewhere and no one's gonna ultimately care. Like if the characters are okay, it doesn't matter, you get past the premise and you're in. And it's just like, just go. Like, you know, it's you know it's like oh my god man I can't wait till the union calls you to be like you're in trouble Paul we heard you talking about she's the sheriff oh my

god this is the best this is a great day um Jason this is Paul this is a great day we did it couldn't have been better said um Before we go, can I throw out a couple plus just because why not? Because here's the thing. In this period of not plugging content that we're involved in or that is part of any of the struck companies, I'd like to just throw some love to some people that might benefit from you spending your money or putting your attention elsewhere. For example, Maria Bamford's new book, Sure I'll Join Your Cult, is fantastic, especially as an audiobook.

Oh, I gotta get that. Okay, that's holy cow, dynamite stuff. Okay, and then another podcast that I- Can I talk about a book two days? I just, like, if we're talking about books. Oh, yeah, please go ahead. I'm reading the Andre Agassi book while I'm listening to it. Oh, yeah.

It's awesome, but it's like, wow, blow in my mind, but I just read Reggie's book. Reggie Watts's new book. Watts? And it's a great book. It's just I, I didn't know we had it. Oh, yeah, it's called Great Falls Montana, great falls empty. And it's it's great. It's just about him growing up. It's it's Reggie. It's Reggie. It's great. It's really, really awesome. Oh cool. Okay. Great. I will also throw in another book slash podcast

recommendation, which is the absolutely phenomenal comedian Joe Firestone has put out a book called Murder on Sex Island. What she has also released as a podcast where she just essentially similar to an audio book reads each episode of the podcast is another two or three chapters of the book. So the podcast is up. And this is a loop in horn mystery, right? That it's a Lula van horn mystery about about a, um, a woman who puts on a wig to become a detective, uh, and goes to a love island sex island type reality show to solve a murder.

It's maybe one of the most bananas and holy I was crying, laughing, listening to it the other night doing a jigsaw puzzle it is so so funny listening to it i also bought the book great uh... it's i think if forgive me uh... joe firestone if i misrepresented no it's murder she might be self publishing it looks like it looks like it's all published uh... so support jo Joe Firestone support this book murder on sex island. It's available as a podcast, but also as it's sold by Amazon for, you can order it on a Kindle for $2.99.

You can get the paperback for $15.99. And if you haven't, oh, maybe actually book, baby is publishing it. So yeah, so, okay. Oh, right. If you haven't watched Joe Firestone's special that she released during the pandemic where she features all of the older adults

who she's been teaching in a stand-up comedy workshop and it features them doing comedy, boy, that I don't know where it is, but it's out there track it down, it's phenomenal. I will also throw in a plug for a podcast that St. Clair and I did that I think you've also done too, which is Amy Poler's podcast Same more question mark. Thank you. Oh with Dr. Sheila. Oh, sorry. Same more with Dr.

question mark Sheila Yes, that's it It's brand it's a brand new podcast. It's up now. It's well worth digging in on it's got great people on it very funny Basically like what the premise is, if you like shows, I like with these couples therapy and stuff like that, it is basically Amy doing a character like this relationship council people come. You guys are so funny, you and Sikler are so funny.

And Jun and I did one that was, I thought was really fun. I haven't listened to that yet. Oh, it's fun. Is it already? Yes, it came out. Yeah, last time. Great, great. listened to it. It's fun. Is it is it already yes it came out? Yeah last great great Oh, oh good. Okay great. All right great talking. Can I can I can I just because you mentioned the doctor Sheila meant reminded me that someone had

Maybe it was a Avril is there somebody from the fans had recommended the movie last of Sheila when I mean It was you. Oh, okay, was you. Did you watch it? Okay, great. Phenomenal. Right? Phenomenal. Wow.

Loved it. So all of it thought it was fantastic. Yes. I'll also give a shout out to the new Mary Ladimer album is just absolutely stunningly beautiful. And if you can find, I don't know, well, can we find out if, and take them out if I shouldn't promote these two things?

But there is a four episode documentary about the making of RoboCop, called RoboDoc, that is like six hours of the making of RoboCop. It's incredible. I am so down and, and by the way, I'm working with somebody who has been in robo cop and uh...

everyday we get to talk about palm a crane what is a palm a crane who uh... palm a crane was also on e.r. great uh... character i think it is uh... and uh... you know i have not asked about robo cop and i should okay i i you know what do you what's the job we are working on this charity event that i think has already passed at this point wonderful thanks everybody by for now now that we have the pokes exorcist out of the way

let's talk about our next movie next week we will be writing our lamb right as scooters all the way from the vatican to new york city that's right we are watching the two thousand and twenty one action thriller new york ninja now let me just correct that We are watching the 2021 Action Thriller New York Ninja. Now let me just correct that. New York Ninja was actually shot in 1984 but wasn't edited or released until 2021.

When its footage was discovered by the home video distributor, Vinegar Syndrome, the movie's plot revolves around a sound technician for a new station who becomes a vigilante ninja in New York City. Don't make me say it again. The reason why his pregnant wife is murdered. Anyway, Rotten Tomatoes gives his film a 96% score on the tomato meter, lead jet in a film inquiry rights. This is a must see for anyone who loves outrageous old action flicks and who appreciates the labor

of love that is film preservation. Now let's listen to the trailer for New York Ninja. I can't believe that John's wife was murdered. There's something weighing us down. It's that damn ninja. New York ninja's a real hero. People I love this one. It was so damn good. Averyl Halley just picking winners every single time.

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