How Did This Get Made? - Last Looks: War of the Worlds

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

Jason & Paul have a classic Just Chat where they recommend all the TV shows, movies, and comics they're currently loving (picks listed below!). But first, Paul answers all your Corrections & Omissions on Ice Cube's War of the Worlds and shares a bonus deleted scene from the episode. And as always, Paul announces next week's movie! Order Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon at: www.chroniclebooks.com/products/podcast-pantheonAttend a book signing in LA here: https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-09-25/sean-malin-podcast-pantheon-101 PAUL & JASON'S TV/MOVIE PICKSAndor (Season 2)Dark WindsBrooklyn 99Star Trek: Strange New WorldsBallardThe Naked Gun (2025)LudwigThe ComebackThe PittSherwoodWolf HallMobLandDigmanSouth ParkKing of the Hill (Season 14)WeaponsAlone (Season 12)ÉtoileKiller of Killers JASON'S BRITISH PANEL SHOW PICKSLast One Laughing (UK Version)Would I Lie To You8 Out of 10 Cats Does CountdownBig Fat Quiz of the Year PAUL'S COMIC BOOK PICKSSupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom KingHelen of Wyndhorn by Tom King • 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

Okay. Let's see here. Time to record today's last looks episode. All right. On War of the Worlds. Okay. Yeah. Let's see here. It's got to open up my Dropbox folder. Download my script. All I smell messages. The theme song. Wait. What the hell? Everything's gone. The corrections. The omissions. All the listener submitted theme songs. All of it's been erased. Oh, man. If producing, Mr. Scott accidentally deleted the Dropbox again, I am going to fire his hairy little ass. Scott, what's going on? Paul, thank God. Where did all the last looks data go? I don't know. There's a freaking alien invasion. I think they ate all our data.

Aliens invading Earth to eat data. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I know it's stupid, Paul, but think about it. What better place to hunt for beloved data? than 15 years worth of podcast assets in the How Did This Get Made Dropbox folder? I don't care, Scott. Just get me the last looks data now. The aliens are eating her. And then they're going to eat me. Oh my God. Scott, move. Scott, get out of there. Run! Run! Scott, get out of there!

Ah, I'm dead. Oh, that didn't look good. Well, I mean, I really never liked Scott. I mean, everyone, knows producer molly is like the real backbone of the show anyway so oh the only trouble is without all the last looks data how am i supposed to respond to the listener corrections and omissions on war the world's a movie that discord user vinod s thinks should have had the tagline war the world's straight out of computors that's good and how am i supposed to play my pre-recorded just chat with jason where we talk about all the tv and movies that we're currently obsessed with And how am I supposed to end the episode by announcing next week's new movie?

If only I could simply fix everything by saying, Hey, Amazon Alexa, recover all of the Last Looks data. Last Looks data recovered. Oh, I also destroyed all the aliens. Hooray, Amazon. Whoa, thanks, Alexa. I guess I can start doing the episode again. Alexa, play opening theme to How Did This Get Made Last Looks? Playing the How Did This Get Made Opening Theme song, now.

five stars proprietors of trash is what we are how did this get made dialogue cliched how did this get made who the hell got paid surely now

chasing the juno poor they're the ones that have to watch you know they've got to watch the monobus or a train Oh, the middle seat of an airplane where people think that they are going insane.

Oh, yes! Thank you, Tom McWaters, for that opening theme song and RIP to our producer, Scott. But I'm glad the show will go on, and it's all due to Alexa. You know, for a long time, I thought War of the Worlds didn't make any sense, but now that I've lived through it, it makes every bit. of sense. Now remember, if you have an alt movie tagline like Vinod S did, submit it to us on our Discord at discord.g.g.m. And if you have the last looks episode, theme song, go to HDTGM and click submit a song. It's super easy now. Remember, keep these song short. 15 to 20 seconds is

best. Before we dive into corrections and omissions, just a heads up. How did this get made is returning to Largo in Los Angeles on the 22nd and 23rd. There are still a few tickets available, but get them fast because they sell out quickly. Dinosaur Improv will also be at Largo on the 18th with Jack McBrayer. That's right. Daniel Schneider from Bitch Sesh, Corinne Wells, and Rob Riggle. It's going to be a fun one. So get your tickets, L.A.

I also wanted to shout out an awesome new book called Podcast Pantheon by culture critic Sean Malin. It's a comprehensive canon of podcast history told. through the perspective of 101 different shows, and there's an entire chapter in the book covering How Did This Get Made, which I am honored to be a part of. The book comes out on September 16th, and we will drop a link in the episode description if you're interested in checking it out. I like Sean a lot. I think this book is going to be great for all you podcast nerds. I will say, slightly offended, that How Did This Get Made did not make the top 100 podcasts

that kind of covered the scope of podcast. And we've been around for 15 years. There's another list we weren't on. I was a little bummed. But lists aren't everything. You're everything. People who listen to the show, make the show. And you know what?

I'm just going to focus on that. I don't need those damn accolades. Yeah, sure, I was bummed about it, but I'll need them. And you know what? I'm not going to stop it from putting on a great show. So let's get into it. Last week we talked about War of the Worlds. Well, we had questions, and we might have even missed a few things.

Here's your chance to set us straight fact-check us, if you will. It is now time for corrections and omissions. Got an error. Don't you worry about a thing we're here to correct. Corrections and omissions. We're on the case. Take it away. Thank you, Carlo.

Tiofillo. I hope I'm pronouncing it right. For that theme song, let's go to the discord. Soap Trail writes, are we to believe that Ice Cube a hacker who regularly checks his daughter's fridge, cam, I should add, because he has no boundaries of his kid's privacy, would have not accepted a Facebook friend request from his daughter's baby? Daddy, I think you're missing. For several years, he would have accepted it instantly to snoop on this guy from day one. Soap Trail, you are right. You left at a couple of key words, but yes, it feels to me more like Ice Cube hasn't checked Facebook in a long time after his wife died. That, that to me is where I feel like, look, I want to agree with you, but I also want to pay homage to the great writing of War of the Worlds.

Dove writes, the Chiron on the TV over the footage of a plane crashing said, Passenger jets are falling to their death. I'm pretty sure that planes aren't alive. yeah dove you're right but you know what when the aliens are attacking that person has to come up with those graphics they're going too quick too much news is happening by the way i would love that should be a show right people who just have to put up news kairons i mean i guess that's not a show i had a great show with adam mackay oh it was so good andrew guest one of the greats had a good show and then pandemic killed it uh anyway uh it was about the cable news anyway uh johnny unusual rights. There are six camera angles in the Amazon delivery truck. Is that the case with actual

Amazon trucks? I mean, it wouldn't surprise me, but that is terrible. Scott, our producer, who is deceased, did say although six cameras seems excessive, according to Vice, Amazon does use AI-enabled cameras to monitor drivers speed location and actions on the road. Wow. Wow. That's scary to me. But I'll tell you one thing, my Amazon packages come on time. Although occasionally, I'll get something from UPS. They're like, oh, we couldn't make it out today, or there's some sort of obstruction. It just seems like they didn't get to it, but they make it like it's your fault.

And then when you kind of follow up on it, it was their fault. Anyway, let's go to the phones. Riley from New York, what do you say? Hey, Paul. I just finished listening to the War of the World's episode, and I wanted to comment as a a volunteer EMT on your discussion about first aid. First of all, Jason was completely right that if you have a foreign body embedded in you

like a shard of something, you do not want to take it out. That thing is probably keeping pressure in your blood and taking it out will release that pressure and also maybe rupture an artery. But however, your discussion about tourniquets wasn't exactly right. So applying a tourniquet does not need,

that you're going to lose that limb. The science has changed, and there's been a lot of progress made in after-care of applying tourniquets, and the general consensus is if you apply a tourniquet and then seek hospital care within six hours, there won't be any lasting damage. After six hours, there's the potential for nerve damage and necrosis, and maybe you'll lose a limb, but it's not guaranteed. But, you know, for in the case of this movie, if the character had gone to the hospital within six hours of the tourniquet, then they would not have lost that limb. I hope that's interesting to you. All right. Bye. Riley, thank you for this. Thank you for

your service. But also for opening my mind about a tourniquet. I, first of all, didn't even know that that was a possibility. A tourniquet meant you're going to lose a limb. So when Jason said that I took it face value. And now you have disputed it. And I appreciate it. Oh, my gosh. And look at that. Medicine, science, all working together to make us live longer. But great to know that if you apply a tourniquet, someone's not going to be like, you're making me lose a limb. So I feel like, you know, because I imagine when you're tying it off, if you were to have that in your head, You're like, wait, wait, like, can I just see a doctor before you just do this action? This is probably because Jason's watching that show.

It's like a battlefield show that he likes to watch. And I'm sure he's probably equating to two things. Thank you, Riley from New York. Simon, what do we got? Hi, Paul. I wanted to talk about something you touched on in the War of the World's episode. There are multiple ways that people were saying data or data. And as June says, there's only one way of saying it right, which is data.

I thought you might find it interesting to give a little background of how that became the standard pronunciation as it could be due to one of my British countrymen. The story that Brent Spiner tells, who of course plays Commander Data in Star Trek is that it was at the first ever table read for the first ever episode of Star Trek the next generation. Patrick Stewart announced something like, Mr. Data, please scan that Walt's signature. Everyone was there assumed this new character was pronounced data, but Gene Roddenberry had a rule that the first person to say the name of a character or an alien or whatever

a major word they needed in that show, that becomes the way that you say it. So Mr. Data became set in stone. And because everyone pronounced data that way, whereas they used to say data, but then they were saying data on a prime time TV show, that became the standard way to say it in general. Anyway, love the show. Sorry, you in London last year, and it was wild, and I hope you come back here soon. Thanks very much. Bye. Oh, Simon, I love anyone who comes on with a Star Trek anecdote. And that is a great one um i actually always like that data or yeah lieutenant data uh data uh data data i felt like it was a more formal name because why would you name a robot data you know that that would

be a weird data lieutenant data weird it's weird data was a much more sophisticated way of kind of handling it it's a funny play on words in my opinion so uh hats off to patrick stewart for for creating the confusion, but also for creating a longer-lasting legacy of a great character by not just naming him data. All right. Thank you, Simon, by the way, for all the shoutouts. Amy from Baltimore. Hi, Paul, a long-time listener and third-time caller.

Calling about War of the World, it's kind of a small thing. But you guys touched on the difference in the relationship between ICE and his daughter and ICE and his son. And I also thought that was crazy. I was also flabbergasted by the fact that he seemed to hate his son so much that he didn't even add his name to that email until, like, almost the end of the movie, well after he found out that his son was a disruptor. So I'm not really sure what that was about. Was that a choice to show that he had grown? I don't know.

I thought it was wild. And then super quick side notes, I started watching Kathmaster for the very first time so that I could catch. Jason in series 19, and I am hooked. I'm loving it. It's so fun. Jason is hilarious. It's great. And I went to the movie theater to see weapons upon your recommendation, which is not

a movie I would normally see in the theater, and I loved it. And June was incredible. And not to leave you out, Paul, we saw Dinosaur when you guys came to the DC, to D.C. And it was great. We had an amazing time. It was so much fun. We missed Jason, of course, but you guys were all incredible. So I'm actually going to see some improv.

back in D.C. tonight. So thank you for continuing to broaden my horizon, both in the worst ways and the best ways. And can't wait to you guys come to the D.C. area again. Better yet, come to Baltimore, huh? All right, take care. Bye. Amy from Baltimore, great catch there. You know, I didn't even put that together, but I'm thinking about it now, and it's all kind of circling in my head. And I'm realizing, you know what, he didn't even seem that upset when his son almost got killed. This guy is bad news. Maybe he thinks, oh, maybe my son killed my wife. If that, I mean, I want to get into that kind of drama of Ice Cube's world.

By the way, thank you for coming out. Thank you for supporting that DC show was a weird one. I remember that in our run of shows. We're going to be back in D.C. in November. Yeah, it's not been announced yet. But we will bring you a much more controlled show. We got mics now. We got a lot of things under control.

that one that story the woman in the audience kept on taking us on these detours it was it was horrific for us but we figured it out um all right people let's go next to david hey paul you're talking about ice keying on facebook all the time and my friend works for a defense contract company that makes one small component of some sort of military technology and he's not allowed to have any social media accounts at all so the fact that that Ice Cube has Facebook and is going on some of these sites is apparently a big no-no in, you know, defense and government circles. Thank you. Have a great day. Yes, exactly, David. My son's computer from school has more restrictions than Ice Cubes does. Now, you could say, well, he's a hacker. You hacked into it. No, no, no. Because they would keep that shit at the door. It's like the Old West. You put your guns in the front when you go in to have a drink. How do I know time travel?

Anyway, yes, this movie falls apart with any hard research as John from Minnesota brings forth. Hey, Paul. I've been listening since the first episode. This is my first time calling, love you guys. I'm calling about the War of the World's episode. I am confused about the data or data that these aliens are consuming. I assume it's, let's call it, records. in a database. I'm a system developer. I've built many systems that contain databases,

large data systems, big data, things like that. Often what we will do is we will create programs that generate dummy data to simulate user data. So my question is, does the data need to be user generated? It's extremely confusing to me why an interplanetary species has figured out how to travel between planets to consume other species data. Can't write a very simple program to generate enough data or food for themselves to never have to worry about this again. Yeah, that's my question. I have more questions,

but I'm not sure the writers were too concerned about these types of problems. Love you guys, Paul, love the dark web. Jason, your season of Taskmaster was absolutely the best. Dune, Weapons, loved it. Excited to see you guys and more. That's it. Love you guys. Bye. Exactly, John. Exactly.

And you know what? With any amount of research, this movie falls apart. Yes, John, and I like that you even know how to generate dummy data. I didn't even know that was a thing. You can generate dummy data, but yes. And Caroline from Texas, what do we got? Hi, Paul. I just was wondering if you guys had noticed his shout out to ludicrous when he says,

move, bitch, get out the way when he's going around the, the snake things that go into the data center. I just thought that was kind of funny. Thanks. You know what? I did, but the way that he said it was it wasn't in the spirit of Luda. And it sounded more aggressive and misogynistic in a weird way. Like it didn't come across as planned.

I think you're right. It was there. I felt it. But it didn't feel like an homage as much as he's just angry. Thank you, everybody, for all the support. So much love coming at us. Thank you for listening to the show. Thank you for calling in multiple times.

Thank you for calling in first times. We love it. We love you all. And, yeah, and Taskmaster in Weapons is great. It's so, so good. All right, let's go back to the Discord to Sean McBee. The government has known since 1948 that these things feed on data. Yet, just decided to roll the dice with the creation, rollout, and exponential growth

of the internet. No matter how invasive Goliath is, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the data footprint of the entire internet. The idea that Goliath is what rang the dinner bell is absurd. Sean, yeah, it is. I have nothing to add, but yes, well researched, well thought out, easy point. The Mighty Beard writes, I think there was an interview with the director or producer where they said that the reason they chose Mark to be an Amazon driver is because during COVID, Amazon drivers were out there delivering all of our stuff, and they were heroes. And this is why Amazon had such a big role in the movie versus Amazon forcing them to put a bunch of product placement in the movie. And you know what? I read that, too, Mighty Beard.

And I actually don't disagree with this. This is a movie made in COVID. The people that were out there on the trucks, delivering the things, whether it was DoorDash. So I appreciate that. And I don't understand, I mean, I think when Amazon bought it, it feels a little bit weight. frankly, I, yeah. Look, I can also, I can understand this guy being like, Amazon's saving my ass. By the way, Amazon saved my ass during COVID. It's saved my ass many times as a new parent, you know, moving. There's so many things. So I get it. Amazon workers are heroes. You heard it

here first. By the way, we have created a shirt for this show. Yes, you asked for it. We made it. Check it out right now, T. Public. It is the Grandpa Shark shirt. So get that Grandpa Shark. It's a little Ice Cube face on a shark. It's pretty great. Permutator. I don't think you mentioned a possible connection between his kids' names and the Goliath program. Ice Cube was afraid of losing faith, but then regained it by becoming David's sling to take down Goliath. You know what? Congratulations. permutator. You've done more thinking than the writer of this film. And no offense to the writer of this film. And that's why you are the winner of this week's corrections and omissions. And you get this song by Chris Finkie. Hit it. You, you win. You win nothing. In the thing, except for this song, Paul Ask Looks. All right, if you want to chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode,

hit up our Discord, or leave us a message by calling 619, P-A-U-L-A-U-L-A-S-K. That's 619, Paul Ask. Call it anytime. It's a Google Voice Mail. So, wherever you are, whenever you want to call it, you leave a message. We'll get it and we'll play it on the show. Anyway, coming up after the break, Jason and I will catch up about all the TV and movies that we are currently loving. But first, let's close out our War the World's episode by listening to

this bonus deleted scene where we learn how June can actually relate to Ice Cube. Here, take a listen. How much the movie exists on a cluttered computer screen is a scathinging indictment of how we live and also quite stressful. Like how many open windows he had active, how much clicking around he would, I did not like it because of how much like the world. it looked. I mean, occasionally I will see June's computer screen and it gives me an anxiety attack because there's too many files on that desktop. There's too many things open.

And that's a world in which I like to keep a nice and tidy workspace. I got to know what's up. I can't take it. I can't do it. Now, June, were you comforted by his work screen? I wasn't comforted by it, but I understood. Did you feel validated? Well, I just was like, he's got a lot going on, you know, and he's a working dad.

A lot of it is his own stuff. That's what I'm saying, though, and a lot of my work space is my own stuff, like my personal stuff, too. So it's the struggles of a working parent. Welcome back. By now, I'm sure you've noticed that every Tuesday we re-release classic How Did This Get Made Episodes back into our feed. This week's matinee covered a very different alien movie. That's 2016's Great Wall, which was a movie about the Great Wall of China. and, yes, aliens, and has one of our most infamous shirts, designs, stickers, whatever you want to call it,

where it's just aliens fucking each other, and it spells out the Great Wall. I love that shirt, and it has sold like gangbusters. It's like one of those, like, Senior Frog's sexual position shirts. So keep on, so there's a tie-in that I haven't really talked about on this show in a long time. But our replay is always kind of bringing back those kind of beautiful memories to me. without any further ado it is time for Jason and I to catch up on all of our favorite TV shows and movies which we have not done

in a very long time and to play us in we have a theme from Sweden that's right Anton Wellen please play the theme Paul and Jason have things to say and it's the fact that we can all call in

they're watching their movies they're watching people they're going to tell me you can all Can it just chat? Jason, it's just you and me back, baby. Oh, it feels good to be back. We are going to do a straight-up recommendation second,

but I know a lot of people have been asking questions about Taskmaster, and we will do a special last looks chat about Taskmaster. Now that it's completed, the season is over, you have invaded the UK. We did it. I've got a foothold. over there. You're finally in. You got in. Uh, it was, it was, I'm, I will say, it's been incredible. Finally getting to see these episodes air. Right. Has been awesome. And it, I really, I'm loving that people are loving it. Just being out in the streets, people are talking to me

about taskmaster, which is delightful. Got it. Uh, so great. So great. All right. Well, let's, uh, let's get into what you have been watching and doing because I know you've had some time to, to watch, to read, to get into stuff. So where are we at? Oh, man, I've been pretty prolific. I've watched quite a bit and listened to a lot. I've got a big list. And also, part of it is my list includes stuff that, like, we haven't done one of these in a while.

So, you know, we never talked about Andor, which, and, or the last season, which was, I can't believe we didn't do that, don't me. Absolutely. Must-see TV, like, maybe the best show of the year. One of my favorites. I'm willing to say at this point, just an incredible season of television. I'm going to shout out, I don't even know where to start. I mean, I think I talked about it in the past, but I'm going to keep talking about it. I think maybe the best show on television right now, the best continuing show on television, is Dark Winds.

Yes. The Zon McLarenin, George R.R. Martin, Robert Redford produced adaptation of the, I think, Tony Hillerman novels, which are just banger police procedurals that take place on a on a reservation. It is tribal police. Every season are these big, beautiful, sprawling cases. The characters are incredible. The stories are fantastic. But there's nobody better right now than Zahn McLarnan in this show, you know?

And it is so incredible to watch. Dark Winds, there's three seasons of it. It's fantastic. I am right there with you. I've been watching, I told you we've been watching at Brooklyn Nine-N-N-9. That's what we have been doing as a family all summer. I love it. And watching that show in beginning to, we are in almost at season six.

So we've been really just chunking a lot. But, you know, we're going. And this has been a summertime show. And it's, I got to just say, one of the best shows. I mean, really one of the best shows. It was so funny, so good. You're so good on it. A fantastic sitcom.

Like one of a show. that, you know, before I was able to be on it, I was a rabid fan of. Yeah. I love that show. They really, really, really nail it. And I was going to tell you the other thing that I kind of missed my radar early on. And I'm reading Tom King's Supergirl right now in the world of tomorrow. I did not read that book. And wow, it's great. Wow, wow, wow. Like I am actively, whenever I have a chance, running to continue reading that. I love that book. I think that book is absolutely fantastic. You know, and that's like applicable to almost every Tom King. Yeah, we love Tom King. You know, like I think from, you know, from the beginning, Sheriff of Baghdad, you know, to now like all of the books that he's been doing, the Rorschach book, the, the Mr. Miracle book. And this book especially, I think, is just phenomenal. I really, I mean, there are certain ones that you miss. We were talking about the Helen of Windhorn, too. which is another.

Yeah, great one. All right, so what else have you been watching? Because I want to give you some wide berth here. Yeah, I'll shout out some returning stuff that I thought was great. This new season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, I'm having a blast watching. I'm so excited. I love that show, and I feel like it's getting some of its just deserve at this point. Like, I feel like it's, it really is kind of, like, I feel like people are coming around to it in a great way.

Yeah, I love it. I'm having a blast with it, as I always do. It is a super fun, super silly at times show that I just really enjoy. And I think the dude that plays Spock, I think, is just fantastic. So good. Really great. I can't recommend enough. What will be one of my favorite shows at the end of the year is the Amazon Prime show Ballard,

which is an adaptation of the Michael Connolly Ballard book. So it is a Bosch spin-off, technically. and don't you worry, Bosch is in the mix for a couple of episodes. It's great. It's better than Bosch legacy. It's better than late season Bosch. I think Maggie Q is fantastic as Renee Ballard. I think having John Carroll Lynch in there is so smart and so great.

He is such an incredible grounding element to the team. I think it's fantastic. I think the cases are great. She is a terrific lead and I love Ballard. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm my my begging to please let me be on the season two of I've been working on trying to get on ballard uh at Amazon because we have a have a show over at Amazon I'm like get me gets get on yes come on I need to get in that Bosch universe uh you know it's such a good show she's great and I do hope that uh you know look

like I I I had issues with Bosch like a slight slight issues but this is bringing me back to what I fell in love with original for sure. Oh, it's great. It is unimpeachably, I think, a fantastic season of television. And it is, it's long, too. It feels like a season. Yes. It's not six episodes. It's not eight episodes. It's longer. It luxuriates in it, which I had a blast with. Now, yeah, go ahead. Can I just say, too, I know that I was, I just deferred the floor to you, but I want to also say, like, if you've not gone out to the theater and seen naked gun, go do yourself a favor. I saw it for a second time last Wednesday. It was packed on a Wednesday night. It is a movie to see in a theater, bring some friends, have a, it's, it's just very good, very, very good, and worth going out and seeing. I just want to support our friends, Dan Greger and Doug Mann, who wrote that with Akiva Schaffer, who is a Lonely Island director, incredible, so funny, great director.

Yeah. Yes, a great shout out. And also, I have now gone back and rewatched the naked gun, the original naked gun movies. Yes. Then a bunch of police squad, which is so funny. The original TV show, great, incredible. The TV show is so good. So good.

Like, you know, and the reason they canceled that TV show was because, and this is at the time, the president of ABC said, well, you have to pay attention to it. Yeah. That was the reason for cancellation. You have to pay attention to it. We got to get rid of that. Yeah, got to get rid of that show. Got to get it off. there. I will say this. I find the police squad movies as I've watched over the naked gun

movies. They really degrade quickly. And to a point where I'm like, wow, what happened? But I guess really what happened was less and less of the guys who created the original were there. And I think that's it. I can't recommend enough. Now that I'm so British because of Taskmaster, there's a couple of shows that I will shut out, some of which are, if you liked Taskmaster, I can't recommend enough past seasons of Taskmaster, including if you watched Taskmaster as a family, Taskmaster Jr., great stuff. But other similar shows that will scratch that itch, there's a show called Last One Laughing, LOL. There's a UK version of it. There's an Australian version of it. I believe there's a Canadian version of it. The UK version is the one that I watched.

It's six episodes. And it is just. just six comedians in a room together and you cannot laugh and for six hours and that's the challenge and each episode is one of the hours and it's just them fucking with each other wow in a way that is so funny because two of the people on the there's only one season of it and it is all banger the cast is bangers almost everybody is a taskmaster alum but the two except for the two geniuses they have a Richard A. O'Hoddy, who is just such an icon of British panel shows from what I lie to you to eight out of ten castas count on, all that stuff. But the true legend Bob Mortimer, who is absolutely one of the funniest people on the earth currently, they are both

in this season of Last One Laughing, and I cannot recommend it enough. It is so fucking funny. And then as well, would I lie to you? As well, eight out of ten cats does count down or big fat quiz of the year. These are all British panel shows that incorporate many of the same cast of comedians who are just on this circuit of shows where they are just constantly roasting each other and being funny. Where do you find all these shows, though? Oh, they're all over the place. You can find on YouTube. A lot of them you can find on YouTube.

Last One Laughing is on Amazon. Okay. It's just, it's licensed to Amazon. I subscribe to Britt Box, not to brag. Right. Well, you know, I didn't know if Brit Box had comedy on there. Oh, it does. Okay.

It's got sitcoms and it's got panel shows. Oh, great. Okay. So I think that's, I think Britbox has what I lie to you. Okay. And I think eight out of ten cats is on YouTube. I think I just found it on YouTube. Also on Britbox is one of my favorite shows of the year.

It is the David Mitchell show Ludwig. which is a this is the setup of the show he is a character who is a kind of shut in who is a puzzle maker he makes puzzles blah blah blah

his twin brother who is a police detective goes missing so he in an effort to try and figure out what's happened to his twin brother he pretends to be

his twin brother who is a homicide detective and inexplicably starts solving cases because of his puzzle expertise. Oh, wow. And gets embroiled in this much larger criminal story. But it is a very light one hour police procedural. There's only one season of it. It's a blast. The way I'm explaining it is a little bit convoluted. So give me the title again. Ludwig. It's just called Ludwig.

It's on Britbox. I can't recommend it enough. It's fantastic. Okay. And again, a show that I'm dying to be on. In that way, like, there's a lot of shows right now, Ellsbeth. high potential poker face that are that kind of case of the week show that also has a larger in the background macro story line and this is one

this fits right in with those and is maybe a little better than all of them I think just because it's very, this is right up my eye I'm so excited about this. I think you'll really like that. I think that's great.

Because they announced it's coming back, I am rewatching the comeback, the Lisa Kudrow, Michael Patrick King show the comeback which is talk about a show i want to be on that show my god dying to be on it but the rewatch is a blast the show so funny so funny and still so savage and so brutal and such an indictment of of our world yes and tv and everything it's great it's and you know i was talking to certain people

behind there and you know as of all good things based in some reality some things that are dark moments that people have experienced, especially at a time when sitcoms were a lot more produced. So that first season, you know, there is a pretty savage takedown of a network sitcom. Yeah.

And when you're, and some, and Jimmy Burroughs is in there as the director and blah, blah, blah. What you're watching, this is one year after Friends ended. And you cannot help but see it through the lens of all of these people have just made friends and sex.

in the city. And this is the show they're making now. You know, super interesting. Great, great, great stuff. I totally agree. Have you watched The Pit? You know, yes and no. I watched the first like three or four episodes of The Pit. Yeah. Loved it. But it stressed me out so much medically. Yes. I agree that I had to stop watching it simply because it was giving me like, I was, it was giving me sympathetic health anxiety. Jason, I am right with you. I was, I watched the majority of the show through a book that I was sitting next to June while she was watching it because it was, I don't, the gore is one thing, which I am, but I'm also like, I don't want to start to think about diseases. Yeah, that's it.

And it kind of, the same thing happened to me, I loved and watched all of, but the last few seasons of house. Yeah. I was like, I'm just. too suggestible right uh right now i'm just too suggestible and it i don't want to then be thinking about like well actually i have that i have a little bit of that yeah i don't need it that's why it was kind of fun june was watching it hardcore and i could sit on the side and like page into the plotting and then when it got into the sick now i'm not into this anymore there's an episode with a testicle turn that really got me i'll just shout out some other shows that i think are fantastic uh

Sherwood Season 1, the British crime drama, Sherwood, was one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. It's not a new show. It's maybe from four or five years ago. But I just watched it now and thought it was incredible in my pursuit of watching everything that Leslie Manville does, who I think is just absolutely incredible. She's fantastic in this. She's fantastic in all the magpie murders. Now, if you're wondering if I've subscribed to every single subscriber, subscription service there is. I mean, the answer is yes. I now subscribe to BritBox,

Britbox, Acorn TV, and the PBS app. Wow, you're on the PBS app. Well, the PBS app just for Wolf Hall. Season two of Wolf Hall came out. Oh my God, how did I forget about that? I didn't even watch it yet. Oh, yeah. Season two of Wolf Hall, again, a masterclass in watching someone act in that Mark Rylance is just full stop unreal in this show. just next level stuff. Mobland, the Guy Ritchie Mobland, Tom Hardy, Helen Marin, Pierce Brosnan,

British gangster TV series that's on Paramount. I'm having a blast watching that. The new season of Digman is out. Oh, I love that show. Andy Sandberg, our friend Neil Campbell's show, Mitra Juhari's on it. And it is so fucking.

funny. It's a really funny show and it's one of those shows that I think, unfortunately, is sideline by this is the thing. It's trapped. It's trapped in Comedy Central. Yeah, and it sucks. It's like there are these shows you just can't get

out of the, you know, it's like it's hard to find if you're not specifically looking for them and that's it's a bummer, it's a bummer, but that show is very good, seek it out. That show should be a massive hit that everybody should be talking about. Yes. But because it's stuck on Central right now in a way that is not advantageous for the common viewer to come across.

I think it is, it needs the love. So if you're listening to this, go and find it, find a way to watch Digman, tell people about Digman. I think it's one of the funniest pound-for-pound joke machine shows that's on television. I mean, and, uh, and I will say that, you know, we've, obviously everyone else has been talking about, but South Park this season is already just, uh, like just killing it in what it's doing. And I've watched the new King of the Hill, which I really enjoyed. Oh, I haven't watched that. Oh, great. Great. Yeah. So it's really, there's a lot of fun, good, animated things right now that I am enjoying.

The other thing that we did is if my kids have finally, we've passed the Marvel threshold. I didn't know when it was going to happen. But we saw Superman in the theater. Then we saw, but that's not Marvel, obviously. But that was the first superhero movie that they saw. then we saw Fantastic Four. And now I'm doing something that you're going to be very upset with, I think. I was like, all right, my son's like, I want to watch a Marvel. And I was like, all right, well. Having watched none?

None. Yeah, great. Okay. So I started them with Guardians of the Galaxy 1. And that has been a huge hit in the house. And we went on to Guardians of the Galaxy 2. And now we are in the Super, sorry, the Spider-Man's, which re-watching these have been a black fantastic oh man i forgot how good that first spider the john walk spider man is so good

the original guardians is so great uh and and i like you know it's tricky because you know we've been watching these movies we're all caught up to date and it's like i wanted to bring gus in i'm like he's not he's not going to make it he's not going to get that all the all the all the medium stuff all those mid movies you don't want them to lose sight of it you know i kind of was like if you get really into this we can go back and you can watch them as prequels but like right now let's figure out a way to kind of get you and so i'm i am creating some sort of weird backdoor way into the thing because i think i think what i'm going to do next after the spider man because i have to watch out for the i have to watch out for when we get to uh the big avengers end game and all that

i almost feel like at a certain point you're going to need to do the iron man like the early Iron Man one Captain America one I don't think you need to do Thor one if I'm honest Well he's very first in Iron Man He gets it from a Spider-Man And so then I'm gonna get him

Into Thor Ragnarok So I kind of feel like I might be I might be outfitting it in such a way Where he might not know everybody But he's seen enough of these other ones And he kind of can get to Yeah right exactly I'm just like let's just go this way

Because I want to keep them watching And that's the tricky thing. It's a hard. You can't, you know, these kids, they get this, they get, they get, they get, uh, they get, uh, they get, and there's so much. They have so much that's available so that they don't have to suffer through bad origin story movies. They don't have to suffer through all those early, all that sense. I just watched, I don't know, maybe there wouldn't be into, oh, maybe they would be. I've just rewatched the Nolan Batman trilogy. Oh. Um, which is absolutely fantastic. Uh, yeah. I'm, I'm,

And all I want now is there to be extended cuts of these. I would like the way that, like, I think the Lord of the Rings trilogy really benefit from those extended cuts, I think Nolan's Batman trilogy longer would be incredible. And so that, I want that. I wonder if there is any extra meat on those bones because it feels like he is taping. Maybe. Yeah, getting, I mean, now I will say this. If you've not seen weapons, you've got to go see weapons in the theater.

It's fantastic. Very excited. June is obviously in weapons. and I won't say anything about it, but I will say... And if you don't know, Weapons is the new movie from Zach Kregor who made the movie Barbarian. So a lot of people have seen that. So this is the next movie from the same creator.

And you don't need to know anything about Barbarian to watch this one, but the way I've been describing it to people is it's like Paul Thomas Anderson meets John Carpenter. There's a fun... So cool. It's fun. It's really well done. And my point on that was a lot of people have asked you,

like, oh, well, the script must add so much more crazier stuff in it. She's like, no, it was what it was. And I think that when you have a filmmaker, especially at least the way that Zach approached this movie, he knew what he wanted, he got what he wanted, and that was it. There was no confusion on what he was getting. And so, you know, so it's always interesting, like those filmmakers seem like there's a lot less, although I will say, I can share a little story out of school.

This is good. I was on the universal lot last week. And if you've online at all, you will see that they have been shooting the Odyssey, in Nolan's new movie, The Odyssey, on the back lot at Universal. And apparently from the E.T. parking lot at Universal Studios, you can watch them shoot the Odyssey. Funny. It's a boat out on the water during thunderstorms. And then there's another grouping of houses on the other side of the lot that can also watch it.

Now, what can you see? You see a boat in the water with rain and thunder. You're not really seeing anything. And it's the boat that we already saw in the IMAX commercial fort. And apparently, they are pissed. Like, Nolan is furious that anyone is seeing a boat in the water from hundreds of yards away. Like, when I say you don't even see people or cameras, you are just watching, like, big overhead lights. And I was talking to one of my friends there at universities.

Like, you cannot imagine the amount of phone calls that we have gotten that there is essentially like bad security. footage of a boat that has already been revealed in the preview in water. And I was like that is a filmmaker that can spend that much time being mad that nothing is revealed. It's not like oh, you got the costume. Yeah.

Nope. No possibility for anything. That's so funny. That's great. But yeah. But I mean like also like shooting it on your universe a lot, that's very public. Yeah. That's very funny. Great. I love it. I'll just shout out at the very end here. Alone season 12.

is airing. It's alone in Africa for the first time. They're in a desert climate. It is incredible. The Amy Sherman Paladino ballet show Aitual has already been canceled, but don't worry, I watched every episode and it was great and

insane. The Predator animated movie Killer of Killers. Yes. Incredible. Absolute blast. Oh, that's amazing. I love that. Absolutely blast. Yes, fantastic. And I'm very excited for Dan Tracton 's new Predator movie, Dan Tractonberg, who did pray some years ago.

Just absolutely fantastic. Anyway, I've got a bunch of other stuff I can shout out, but for another time. Yes, we'll do it. We have so much more to talk about. Great to finally get back to just us. Just us. Just chatting. All right, that's enough of me and Jason Gabben about TV.

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It has nothing to do with that. Rotten Tomatoes rates this film a 71% fresh. What? Roger Ebert wrote, What makes Jack Spack worth seeing is the work of Spader as a young actor, who I believe has much promise as anyone in his generation. That is true. Spader is great.

This film is worth the watch. Take a listen to the trailer. One hundred years ago, there was a series of murders so grisly. Some theorized that Jack the Ripper was a medical man. I believe that would also apply in this case. mutilations so meticulous. My brother didn't kill anybody. That an entire

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