How Did This Get Made? - Last Looks: This Is Me... Now: A Love Story AND Jill Rips

Episode Date: April 11, 2025

On this special double movie Last Looks we recap J-Lo's relationship history and separate shibari fact from shibari fiction when Paul dives into corrections & omissions from both This Is Me... Now: A Love Story AND Jill Rips! Plus, Paul shares a bonus deleted scene from our Jill Rips live show and announces next week's new movie.  Get tix for our May 9th Toronto show at hdtgm.comHave a correction or omission for Last Looks? Call 619-PAULASK to leave us a voicemail!Buy HDTGM merch at howdidthisgetmade.dashery.com/Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of TraumaJoin the HDTGM conversation on Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmShop our new hat collection at podswag.comPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerPaul’s YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheerFollow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheerSubscribe to Enter The Dark Web w/ Paul and Rob Huebel: youtube.com/@enterthedarkwebListen to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson: unspooledpodcast.comListen to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael: thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcastInstagram: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & @junedianeTwitter: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & msjunediane  Jason is not on social mediaEpisode 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

Sexy ass separating Shabari fact from Shabari fiction. And let's talk about fondues at funerals. All this and more on today's How Did This Get Made? Last looks hit the theme. Time to say goodbye to this dark shit movie. So cross it off the list. Take it off the list, take it off the post, let's get this over with, Last Looks. Hello all my erased Capricorns and Aquarius's.

Just like Polish Elvis's wig, we are so happy you exist in this world. I'm your host Paul Sche, and welcome to this special, super-sized edition of How Did This Get Made? Last Looks. That's right, because yes, we took a little last looks hiatus while we were away on tour, and what a great tour. Thank you so much for coming out. The crowds were amazing.

Truly some of the most fun shows we had on the road. We were lucky enough to have June for four of the nine shows. And every night, I gotta say, my favorite tour that we've ever, ever done. Every night, night after night, the movies got better and better and better. Anyway, this episode of Last Looks isn't just about me talking about my enjoyment of the tour. No, no, no. I am talking about two big movies.

This is me now, a love story and Jill Rips. We're going to get into corrections and omissions and dive deeper than you ever wanted to go into these films. Plus, later in the show, I will share an exclusive deleted scene from our Jill Ripps live episode. And as always, I will reveal next week's movie, but first things first, a huge shout out to Josh Kramer for that opening song. Josh, you killed it. This is what we need. People like Josh.

We got so many great people out there. Bombay beach revival. They got a song in a big show. I forget what show it is, but someone was telling me that Bombay beach revival got a song in a big show. I forget what show it is, but someone was telling me that Bombay Beach Revival has a song in a big show. I'm sorry Bombay Beach Revival that I'm not remembering what it is, but good on ya. And we're lucky to have you. Look, we love all these songs. We want you all to have songs on big TV shows. But if you want to get your break here, send them to us at howdidthisgetmadeatearwolf.com. Keep them short. 15 to 20 seconds is best. All right.

We've been on tour, but we are still going to Toronto. That's right. Keep your ears open because there might be some new shows scattered in the mix. As always, you can check out Dark Web, a brand new web series with Rob Hubel and myself every Monday on YouTube. And Jason, get ready for it, is going to be on Taskmaster coming up this May. I cannot wait.

All right, so let's get into it. During our last two episodes, we talked at length about This Is Me Now, a love story, and Jill Rips. We had questions and we might have even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set us straight. Fact check us if you will. It is now time for Corrections and Omissions. All right. Thank you, Rob from Long Island. Another, another favorite of the show.

Rob from Long Island creating this amazing theme song. Up first, we will be talking about, This Is Me Now, a love story. A film that Discord user Arkham Player thought should have been titled, This Is You, Leaving, colon, a short story. Ooh, I like that. All right, let's go to the Discord.

Android Hotel writes, what was funny is that when JLo comes home with the Diddy-esque character, all her friends are just sitting in her apartment. Who let them in? Is hanging out in JLo's apartment without her there a normal occurrence for her friends? You know what, Android Hotel,

I think you get to a level of being so rich that people just are able to get into your house at all times and just hang. Like I believe from what I see on the real house lives, people are always coming in and out. It's like, like a train station in there. I hope to get that famous where you, uh, you know, someone's going to always open the door and you can be like, yeah, yeah.

JLo said I could come over and have some bananas. Great. And you can, and you know what? You could come over and have some bananas. Great, and you can. And you know what, you could leave and JLo wouldn't even know those bananas are taken. That's fame. Jessica writes this, I've always been struck by JLo's pattern of being in romantic relationships

with men that match her career aspirations. You know, she does music and she's with Diddy. She does movies and she's with Ben Affleck. She does Latin music and she's with Diddy. She does movies and she's with Ben Affleck. She does Latin music and she's with Mark Anthony. She's with Affleck again and she decides to make a movie. You know, I'd love to hear June's thoughts about this and if it has any impact on the films. You know, I would say, Jessica, you are kind of right, but where your theory falls apart is when she was dating A-Rod. Did she get into Major League Baseball? Because I don't remember J.Lo being a DH for any team in the MLB.

You know what? When I get into a project, I kind of look, and I'm kind of gearing up like when I was writing my book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, I listen to a ton of biographies. It inspired me. So maybe she is just dating people to inspire her to create her best art. I mean, it's not odd, you know? I mean, it is going against that rule.

Like don't, you know, don't shit where you eat. Is that a rule? I think that's a rule because she's like in the field and then dating in the field. But you know, I don't question JLo. Clearly she's got it figured out. Anyway, Gritty Realism writes, the gang mentioned that JLo was influenced by Lemonade,

which seems obvious. However, in the documentary, JLo says nobody has ever done anything like this, mixing music videos and a feature. Does this imply that she never saw Lemonade or Michael Jackson's Moonwalker or Tommy? Or is she just lying? I mean, huh.

That is kind of bizarre. I mean, I would say that there's even a longer history than what you just mentioned as well. There's a lot of movies that are music videos and you know what? This is another thing about being super famous. A, you're like a horse with blinders on, you only see what you get.

And then B, sometimes you watch somebody do something really good, and then you adopt it as your own, not like recognizing that you're stealing something or that you've already seen that idea. It's like, oh, that was my idea. Like she saw lemonade and she's like, oh, I have an idea. I was inspired by this idea, not realizing that her inspiration was what she's like, Oh, I have an idea. I was inspired by this idea, not realizing

that her inspiration was what she's doing. But she said she never saw it. I don't know. Look, to figure out JLo is to live in that house, right? Oh, so many JLo monograms. I know people were upset we didn't talk about all the JLo monograms all over the house when she's watching Barbra Streisand. I mean, I think we gotta look into JLo's mind. I don't think we're gonna unpack or figure it out. I just sit back and enjoy the show. SS Lizard writes, I think that what JLo wants is limerence, not love.

She's in love with the idea of love, but she wants the honeymoon phase, not a real relationship. Now, our producer Scott chimed in because I was like, Scott, what does limerence mean? And he's like, well, look, Paul, limerence is a state of intense involuntary romantic infatuation or obsession with another person characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation

and emotional dependence. While limerence can feel like love, it's distinct in that it's often one-sided based on obsession rather than a deep emotional connection and has a limited lifespan ending once reality sets in. So I guess what Scott is saying is, SS Lizard, you're wrong. I think you are right,

but you shouldn't have used the word limerence because I agree, she wants the honeymoon phase where everything is perfect and where she gets turned around is when things get hard. I'm gonna tell you, it's not an advice show. Sometimes I give advice, but all relationships, friendships, partners, husbands, wives, kids, parents, they're all hard.

They have amazing moments in them and those amazing moments make all the hard times worth it. But that's a relationship and I feel like if you just want the beginning part, you actually don't know what love is. Wow. Wow. Should I take a break? That's a kind of take a break moment. No, I can't. But let's go to the phones Hi Paul, it's Jill from Los Angeles. I just wanted to make a correction Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck were married for 10 years from 2005 to 2015 and they have three kids So they weren't just together. They were married for quite a long time. Bye Okay, Jill, sorry. I

Bye. Okay, Jill, sorry, I misspoke. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner did not just date. They were married for 10 years and have three kids together. I knew that. I, look, we're just going, right? This is not a Wikipedia page. We're not putting this into an Encyclopedia, all right? Don't come to me looking for all the facts.

This is not a fact show. Anyway, here's another one. Another one coming at me about what I said, what I meant, looking for all the facts. This is not a fact show. Anyway, here's another one. Another one coming at me about what I said, what I meant. Who cares? Yes, and Bitter Pill, they're writing in on the Discord too. Oh, Paul said that JLo and A-Rod got married. Yes, I know, they weren't married.

While they got engaged, they broke it off in 2021 before getting married. You know what? When you're engaged, you're married. It's like when people say, oh, we just were dating for 10 years. You're married. It means the same thing. On some level, it means the same thing.

What are we doing here? We're adopting one title and then not, oh, so you don't want to marry that? What are you doing? You're married. I'm not even going to say I'm wrong anymore. You know what? I'm right.

They were married. You've made the commitment to be married. You got engaged. You're married. I'm not even gonna say I'm wrong anymore. You know what? I'm right. They were married. You've made the commitment to be married. You got engaged. You're married. Anyway, I don't need this. I don't need any of this bullshit. I need some real theories. Zilla21 has a theory.

Zilla21 says, you know, I think the reason why JLo kept Ben Affleck's engagement ring is because she is kind of running a thriving business venture. If you think about it, her engagement rings are estimated between 11 and 20 million dollars. I mean, that's just good business. I mean, in this world in which the economy is always fluctuating, diamond rings ain't going anywhere. I mean, I don't know if she can cut them up and make them into new rings, but my thought is that JLo, I bet, is keeping all her rings like in a display case like

at the museum. This is a reflection of my love not these are 30 million dollars in assets. I don't know. I don't know. Again, I would like to think that JLo has a hall of love like a museum of modern art but all like dedicated to the men that have made an impression in her life. What was that song Ariana Grande? Thank you Pete for all that you showed me. Move on or next up, whatever that song was. Batter Up? Was that the name of the song?

I think it was Batter Up. All right. Lastly, we have a video to share from Cash Money Coward who writes, JLo may be Jenny from the block, but here's a hilarious old TV interview where she goes back to the Bronx and no one has any idea of who she is. This was brought up to me the most on the tour. I know about this and I'm so glad Cash Money Coward is bringing this to the forefront. I used to live here. My name is Jennifer. Yeah, I used to live up and my room was upstairs right there. Jennifer Lopez.

Me. I used to live here. Oh boy. That makes me… It's embarrassing. I mean, I think it's like you don't recognize… Ah, I feel bad. Of course… By the way, they don't… I mean, that speaks more on them than it does on her. It's not like JLo isn't gigantically famous, right? But that is awkward as hell. Anyway, while we're talking about Jenny from the Block, let's end with a t-shirt pitch from Maddie Ice. Maddie Ice writes, Jenny from the Block, how about Pauly from the Blockbuster?

Print the shirt! By the way, I love that. I wish we made that shirt Pauly from the Blockbuster, print the shirt. By the way, I love that. I wish we made that shirt, Pauly from the Blockbuster. Unfortunately, we made a Fat Joe shirt, which I think is equally great, and you can print it as a sticker, and I've already put it on two lampposts. Is that vandalism?

Should I not admit to that? I don't know. Anyway, so many great corrections and omissions, but I won't be crowning a winner until we tackle the submissions for Jill Rips. I mean, right now, the one that strikes me as bringing the most heat to this, hmm, man oh man, you know what?

I do wanna get into how J.Lo lives, and I think the idea that her friends are just always hanging out at her house makes me laugh, but that video that no one gets, Jenny from the Block is a plus plus. So you are going around to Cash Money Coward. Round two, here we go, right after this. Howdy, Disco B.

Howdy, Disco B. All right, welcome back. It is finally time to enter the cold room. That's right, the cold room for corrections and omissions for Jill Rips. And Discord user Arkham Player is back with another alt tagline. Jill Rips, colon. The BDSM stands for Boring Dull Shitty Movie.

These are great. This week, the IMDB taglines are making me laugh. Back to the Discord. Django1 writes, I can't believe no one has mentioned the most disturbing part of this amazing movie at the wake when Dolph and his cop friend are talking at the table. There's an obvious fondue set. Who serves fondue at a wake? On top of that, there are multiple fondue forks in the pot. Are we to believe that many people come to the wake, put their fork in and then wandered off to give their condolences.

So sorry for your loss. Oh wait, gotta go get my fondue. That is ridiculous. Well, let me tell you this. Fondue is a great wake thing to do because you're saying you gotta put it in. You don't have to put it in. You dip, dip and eat, dip and go, dip and go.

They should have reusable fondue forks. I mean, that was what I think the issue is probably. Look, it's the 70s, it's set dressing. Wakes were full reusable fondue forks. I mean, that's, that was what I think the issue is probably. Look, it's the seventies, it's set dressing. Wakes were full of fondue. People were dipping bread and cheese. Oh man, I gotta get myself a fondue kit. Frosted Nebula writes, if you're getting into a latex body suit,

baby powder piles up in the suit. Silicon lube is the best thing to cover yourself in first. Thank you, Frosted Nebula, I am sorry. I guess you're right, it would be drying your skin, the baby powder. Silicone lube, oh boy, that's so much, must be so much to clean up after that, and then you gotta clean the suit.

How do you clean that suit? Let me know how you clean that suit. I do wanna know how do you clean that, because for me, I would just throw away the suit. Now, I'm not yucking a yum, I'm just yucking a cleaning hat. I don't want to clean it. I'm not even saying for like weird sex stuff. I just don't want to clean a suit full of silicone lube and my sweat and all my chest hair. Oh gross. Anyway Dove writes, I was surprised that the crew didn't mention that the first BDSM light club

that Dolph visits was named Emma Peels. A nod to the fabulous Diana Riggs character from the 1960s BBC TV show, The Avengers. She famously wore a black leather cat suit. I also felt like I needed to point out that Dolph plays an ex-cop, but he carries a gun around and immediately the cops just let him become part of the investigation, walk through crime scenes,

go through the files. Now Dove, I wanna attack your second part first. That is cop trope. If you're a cop in a town and you retire, they let you back in full force. I mean, every TV show and movie let, ah, let him in here, he's one of us. It's a cop code.

Don't, don't, you know, it's the 70s too, so that cop code is going hot. But I do love that a set designer made that choice and I guarantee you no one saw it or recognized it or even questioned it because here's the thing, it's also from the 70s, even though this movie was made in the 90s. Would Emma Peel have been that iconic?

I mean, it would have just happened, ultimately, right? I mean, I guess it's early or 50, I don't know. It's like, it's nearby. I don't think that there's a club naming itself Emma Peel's like right away. It would be like almost like having a bar named Bluey. Well, I wouldn't have a bar named Bluey. I don't know.

Dog shelter named Bluey's, Bluey's house, Bluey's Clues. Bluey's Clues, Bluey stole? Bluey's house? Bluey's clues? Bluey's clues? Bluey stole from Bluey's clues! God! All right, here we go. Back to the phones. Ariel from LA, what do you got? Hi, Paul. This is Ariel. I'm an intimacy coordinator in LA. I just listened to your episode, Jill Rips, and I just wanted to speak to the Shabari question about hanging upside down. So yeah, a lot of people hang upside down, but you don't have to, not everybody does. And generally speaking, Shabari just sort of gives you this feeling of being held. So when the ropes go around a person, depending on where the knots are,

it hits different points of the body and basically sets off the parasympathetic nervous system in different ways. So if the person being tied up wants to be upside down, it will basically have a little bit of a head rush, it will bring a little bit more to the chest than let's say someone who's maybe on their back and being held by the arms and by the ankles or the other way around. But anyway, thought that might be interesting to you and your listeners. I love the show and thank you so much. Wow. Okay. I am learning a lot about Shabari. I appreciate Shabari and I'm glad that we

got this little education, but guess what? There's more. Melissa from LA, what do we got? Hey, Paul and Jason and Jim. My name is Melissa. I've been listening to How Did This Get Made for 10 years, and this week's episode is the first time I felt absolutely compelled to call in for a correction. You all were right to have so many questions for the person sharing their experience about Shibari.

They were so confident and so close to being right. I'm the co-owner of DevilMaps Studio here in DTLA, and I've been teaching folks how to tie each other up more safely for over a decade. I wanted to correct a few things that person mentioned about Shibari. Yes, it has some relationship to a martial practice called hojujitsu that was historically used to capture and restrain prisoners. But it has been reinterpreted and recontextualized into a primarily artistic and sexual practice over the last 100 years. Yes, it can sometimes be escaped, but generally not easily, especially once you're in suspension.

And most of the point is to be restrained and surrender to the experience so you won't be trying to get out anyway. It's awesome that Jason bought Rope and June seemed interested in trying it too. If you're up for it, I invite you all to the studio for a private lesson when you're back from the tour. Love the show. Thank you for 10 years of laughs since I've been listening. And all of our fans, thank you, thank you. And thank you for introducing me to this absolute nonsense movie.

It was wild. Thank you. Bye. First of all, thank you so much. I will ask Jason and June if they would like to accompany me. I need to check it out. And all right. So this is interesting now.

Okay. Everyone, I'm not a I love this. I love knowing about Shabari. By the way, our shirt for this is Olaf in Shabari. And it's Noddy Olaf is the name of the shirt. We had to take it down because we got a copyright issue, but we were able to change the Olaf. So now, I mean, it still looks like Olaf,

but we were able to, you know, go around it. Anyway, Melissa and Ariel, bringing in the heat with Shabari talk. I mean, this is, I mean, maybe we should just call this Corrections, Emissions and Shabari Illuminations? I love it. If Jason, Jun, and I went to your Shabari studio, I think that would be, I mean, we got to take this show on the road. We got to get a video of this. All of us. I would love it. Anyway, Hang Dong Man wrote this while watching the opening credits,

my fiance and I came across the name Charles Sexiest and had a juvenile chuckle imagining his last name being pronounced Sexy Ass. However, I noticed on IMDB that Big Jim Conway's actual name is Charles Say Yass, which means his name was misspelled in the movie. Coincidentally, Charles's final credit on IMDB is for a character named Dolph. What? Separately, I wanna say I've been listening

to the show since 2012 and I cannot thank you and this podcast enough for all the free laughs. The show has gotten me through many dark periods. It was a ray of light during the pandemic for my fiance and I who are finally getting married this September. And if this is remotely interesting enough to make it onto last looks, Haley, I love you. I'm eternally grateful to PJ and Z and the rest of the How Did This Get Made crew and

community. I love you all oh hang on man first of all you come in here with a fact that I'm like love it right this guy's name misspelled three different places then they miscredit him you get paid extra for that Rob Hubel they spelt his name wrong and the love guru they paid him extra by the way it's a great deal and tell your name wrong you get more money. And then you get this fun little fact about yourself. Well, look, there's I was going to say, Melissa and Ariel,

you guys were going to split the the best correction of mission. But now, I mean, I got to say to someone who's been listening since 2012, which I know many of you have, but we got a fiance situation here. We got a marriage going on. Maybe Melissa will offer you a free Shabari, you know, or discount, let's give them a discount, you know, we all have to make money. Give them a discount, Melissa.

If they come to LA, get them up in Shabari. Anyway, our winner this week is Hang Yong Man, is that how you say it? Hey Yong Man, and Hailey, and Hailey, because you know what, honestly, they are the best. All right, I love it all. Thank you so much for all these corrections and omissions, they were all great,

except for the two people who decided to correct me. Do not do that again, I am so mad. Anyway, Hang Yong Man, you get this amazing song from Honest Jams, hit it! ["Hang Yong Man"] All right, if you wanna chime in with your own thoughts We can be All right, if you wanna chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up the Discord at discord.gg slash HDTGM or call us at 619-P-A-U-L-A-S-K.

All right, coming up after the break, I will finally announce next week's movie, but first take a listen to this bonus deleted scene from Jill Rips, where we talk about why you should never trust ChatGBT. All right, what's your question? Hi, I'm hoping maybe a book person can help, but I was very confused when watching this book and movie.

I thought maybe it was because I was quite high, but I'm glad everybody else was also confused. But I looked it up on ChatGBT afterwards and say, please describe this movie to me like basis by basis. It goes to start pretty accurately but then it flips into talking about how he's obsessed with a girl named Griffin and how Griffin is actually the murderer and Griffin can't trust chat GPT for stuff like this. Yeah in the book. Is there a character named Griffin in the book? Is there? Book readers know they're saying no. I think this is just chat GBT going rogue on you. Oh, it's almost like that's an untrustworthy place

to go for information. So like. I one time, I was trying to get like, I was trying to find a trivia fact for a movie and they said, oh, Steve Carell originally decided to do a robot voice for 40-year-old Virgin. And I wrote back to chat, GPT goes, that's not true. And they go, my mistake, you're right, it's not true. I'm like, I was like, wait, you just lied to me.

God help us with the next 30, for the rest of our lives, we you just lied to me. I don't wanna, I don't, God help us. God help us with the next like 30, for the rest of our lives, we're just scolding AI. For misleading us. I was like, I don't think that that's true. He's like, you're right, it is. But I was like, wow, you just made up that Steve Carell. It's no better than my friends. Yeah.

It's no better than someone I ask. How did this get me? How did this get me? How did this get made? All right, we are back. By now, you've noticed that every week, we re-release old How Did This Get Made episodes. Every Tuesday, we release something from the past that relates to something from the present.

And this week's matinee was another Dolph Lundgren classic, Masters of the Universe. Love that episode. Tatiana Maslany, I believe, was the guest on that. So much fun. All right, keep on checking out our replays. Many people don't even realize that the replays, which is even better.

So yeah, we have two episodes a week. And if you heard it before, hit yourself in the head before you listen. All right, so Jason will be back next week for another Just Chat segment, which means we're jumping right ahead. That's right. We are going from Shibari Grunter to Safari Hunter.

That's right. Next episode, we are watching the 2024 superhero movie Craven the Hunter starring Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ariana DeBose and Russell Crowe. Oh, it's a great Russell Crowe performance. Anyway, Rotten Tomatoes gives this film a 15% on the tomato meter, and Dominic Baez from the Seattle Times says,

"'Craven may be the world's greatest hunter, but next time he needs to track down a better movie.'" Oh, Dominic gave you a Craven slam. Now look, I love this movie. It was dumb as hell and I enjoyed every damn minute. But why don't you be the judge? Listen to the trailer. Do you like your father? A killer? He puts evil into the world. I get rid of people like him. You think you have some kind of honor, some kind of code? You're a criminal just like our father.

Craven the Hunter in theaters December 13th. Alright, I'm getting excited just listening to it. You can stream Craven the Hunter for free on Netflix or rent it on Apple TV or Amazon Prime Video. Separately, I encourage you to check out Hoopla Canopy and Libby, which are digital media services offered by your local library that allow you to consume movies, TV, music, audiobooks, eBooks,

and comics for free. All right, people, that is it for last looks. If you listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please rate and review us. Please also make sure that you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on. I'm gonna say that again. Please make sure automatic downloads are turned on. It helps the show and we appreciate it. You can visit us on social media at HDTGM and a big thank you to our producers. Welcome back, Scott Sonny. Welcome back, Scott. He came back from his maternity leave. A beautiful baby.

Oh my gosh, we're psyched to have him back. Molly Reynolds also just kicking it. And our movie picking producer, Averill Halley. Our audio engineer, Casey Holford. And Jess Cisneros who creates our amazing Instagram vids. We will see you next week for Craven the Hunter. Here I come!