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Hello, all you roller skating ninjas and rat tail eaters. I'm your host, Paul Scheer, and welcome to How Did This Get Made, colon,

Last looks where you, the listener, get to voice your issues on New York Ninja, one of the best movies ever made. Plus, Jason Manzoukas joins me in just a little bit as we judge more of your new How Did This Get Made theme song submissions. Plus, we will share an exclusive deleted scene from our New York Ninja show. Thank you, Red Bank, New Jersey. That was such a fun show.

I love Red Bank. And as always, we are going to reveal next week's movie. But first things first, a giant shout out, a big shout out to Chris Chaney for that amazing opening theme song. Chris, I love it. If you want to send in a theme song, not a How Did This Get Made theme, but just a last looks theme, send them to HowDidThisGetMade at Earwolf.com. Keep them short. 15 to 20 seconds is great.

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How did this get made? Wrapping paper for the How Did This Get Made fan in your life. All right, let's get into it. Last week, we talked at length about New York Ninja, a movie that Discord user Farm Boy, I love Farm Boy. He's been helping me out on tech back in the day. Farm Boy says the tagline for New York Ninja should have been better late than never.

Okay. I like it. I mean, I put some spin on it, but it's simple. And you know what? Sometimes simplicity is the key. You all know that when you hear a good second opinion song. Anyway, we had questions about New York Ninja. We might have even missed a few things. Here's your chance to fill us in, set us straight, fact check us, whatever you want to do. It is time for you to shine.

on something I like to call corrections and omissions. Hit the theme! Thank you, Alon Osborne, for that great theme song. Let's go to the Discord. The Discord is, as always, discord.gg slash hdtgm. All right, Baba says, my theory with the birthday thing was that both he and his wife had the same birthday. Simple. Sturdy.

All right. I like that. Dr. Guts also weighs in on the birthday party debate saying, I did want to correct Paul on one thing. All right, Dr. Guts, what do you got? When John is on the roof with the birthday decorations, he reads a postcard, not a birthday card. My guess is whatever was written on the postcard was something different.

than what he says in the movie. Oh, all right. I like that again. Doesn't make full sense, but I like that we are getting to the bottom of this. Anybody else want to talk about the birthday party? Oh, well, here's somebody right here. Rocket Wesker writes, my interpretation of the ninja swords at the birthday party is this. John Lennon,

Lou used to be a ninja, but he turned his back on that life after he met his wife and just worked as an ordinary sound technician, probably promised his wife he would never go back to being an assassin again or something along that line. Then his wife got killed, so he took his old weapons to the rooftop and started crying and saying sorry because he was returning to the life of blood and shadow again.

the one he promised her that he would never go back to. Now that, that's drama. That works. I like that. Uh, Gem Jam writes, did anyone else notice that the ninja seems to lure Randy into the park to be kidnapped for no reason? He calls her and tells her to meet him. Then he hides in a tree while she is taken, but then he doesn't follow her or use her as bait to learn where they took her. She's just gone. And he leaves, uh,

and does something else entirely. Gem Jam.

Yes. Makes no sense. Now, I'd imagine that's due to the fact that the movie is re-edited and re-dubbed. Sean McBee writes, I watched Re-Enter the New York Ninja, the YouTube documentary about the making of this film. By the way, I also did it after the show. But Sean, tell us what you got. Sean says the only original cast member in the documentary is Adrienne Meltzer, the actress who played Randy, and she puts an end to the wig debate once and for all. Here you go.

The biggest issue for me was the platinum blonde wig.

So, of course, I auditioned without a wig. My agent didn't say anything about the wig. And all of a sudden, the first day on the shoot, John presents the wig. And I'm like, what? And he said, no, no, no. For the European market, you've got light eyes. They're very big on platinum blondes. And so you're going to wear the wig. I thought, oh, OK. And then the wig became my life. Isn't that great?

And June is wrong. Any chance I get a chance to tell June she's wrong when she's not here, I'll do it. No, I sent that clip around to everybody after the show. Sean McBee continues with some other great nuggets. The Balcony Monster was correct about John Liu's whereabouts.

In making this film, Vinegar Syndrome was able to track him down through another cast member. He lives in Vietnam in a shack on the water with no electricity and has a friend who goes and visits him about once every three months. That friend has brought tidings from the company about the effort to complete the film. Lou has responded that he did not wish to be involved, but sent along a good luck blessing. Okay, nice. Simple. I mean, John Lou is a controversial person. I don't want to get into it too much. The initial rough cut was made...

determining the order from the scene numbers on the slates, that order was apparently incomprehensible, which is why they decided to re-edit and make the most sensible story they could in their own way. Okay, so they didn't just completely go rogue. And then finally, he adds two more thoughts. I can confirm what

anyone watching this movie suspected from the start, no permits were acquired in the filming of this movie. Yes. And then my own observation, not gleaned from the documentary, John recognizing the killer of his wife by spotting his cufflink would indicate that despite having lost one cufflink, he continued to wear the other all on its own with a mismatched maid.

Bam! Wow. That is, honestly, I'm there for that. Johnny Unusual writes, Despite that one audience member's insistence that Vinegar Syndrome remakes old pornos, they really are distributors who clean up and redistribute cult movies. Initially, they were focused primarily on X-rated movies, and yes, their catalog does include a lot of film from the golden age of porn. However, there are a lot of X-rated movies that aren't pornographic, like...

Midnight Cowboy. Scoop then chimes in, "...as a boutique Blu-ray physical media person, I just wanted to say that Vinegar Syndrome is the criterion collection for exploitation and genre pictures. They restored and re-released the unrated cut of Tammy and the T-Rex and do incredible work giving a second life to pictures that would ultimately turn to dust otherwise."

I am a huge fan of Vinegar Syndrome. This is Paul talking. I met them when I was doing an unspooled show in New Orleans. And I will say this. They are putting out great stuff. I would like, and maybe I'll put the offer out to them right now. Would you like to release Human Giant season one and season two on DVD? Because no one else is doing it. Vinegar Syndrome, let's go. Let's do it. I did release Human Giant season two, which has never been available anywhere at Amazon.

So if you're in LA, you want to go to Vidiot's. I have a brand new section there called Pulled From Streaming. A bunch of stuff that you can't get anywhere else. Tim C. writes, not a correction or omission, but I just wanted to share that my 12-year-old saw his first movie boobs in New York Ninja. Sad face emoji. The wife and I were watching in prep for the live show and he walked right in as they unfolded on screen. He did a Grandpa Simpson loop right back out of the room. He refused to believe me when I told him that they were her knees. Oh, man. Tim, her knees. Oh, man.

What a memory from our first How Did This Get Made live show. You know, seeing nudity in a movie for the first time is...

Kind of why I remember it burnt into my mind. And for me, it was being at my grandparents at HBO and risky businesses on. And I thought, oh, risky business. This is a kid. He's cool. He's like me. You know, I mean, as a very young. But I saw myself in Tom Cruise. He wore sunglasses and dances underwear. And I remember going like, well, like that movie is way adult.

I think a lot of people also, Scott included, said that their first, like, nudity scene was Starship Troopers. It's weird because these are movies that you don't always expect. Risky Business, I probably should have, I mean, from the plot. But I just turned it on and I was...

I remember people putting their hands over my ass. Anyway, Cherry Cola writes, my question is how often do people think gang members actually high five when they're doing gang member stuff? I feel like there's a lot of bad dudes high fiving in these movies and it seems so weird to me. Also a lot of cackling, just cackling and high fives while doing bad guy stuff. Well, Cherry Cola, maybe the Warriors set a bad precedent. Yeah. Gang members in the eighties seem to be a little bit more upbeat. They're kind of like,

It's kind of like a fun gang. It's kind of like our gang, but they murder. Sean McBee writes one more time. He goes, I got one more thing. I love the New York Ninja button that John has at the end of the movie. It's fully branded with the name of the company that made the film. You can read it, the 21st Century Distribution Corporation. Wow. I wish we would have made those. Maybe we should have made those. Maybe we can make those. Should we make an I love New York Ninja pin? I hope Vinegar Strokes hasn't made it.

I'll check it in. All right. So many great corrections and omissions this week, but there can only be one winner. And honestly, you know, I always look to people to do some extra work. And Sean McBee, this week, not only did you do extra work, you came in multiple times. Sean McBee, there is only one winner and it is you. Honest Jams, give him what he deserves. His own theme song.

Thank you, Honest Jams. Thank you, Sean McBee. Remember, if you want to submit a movie tagline or just chime in with your own thoughts, hit us up on the Discord, discord.gg slash HDTGM, or call us at 619-Paul-Ask. And before we go to break right now, I want to just talk about something because this is brought up in the live show. We cut it out of the live show because we didn't want to be defaming anyone. So,

I thought we should just read the statement that Vinegar Syndrome put out because you heard me reference it a little bit earlier when I said John Liu is a problematic guy. And a few Discord users also pointed this out. So Vinegar Syndrome has said this.

It has come to our attention that the allegations of inappropriate conduct with actors were made against John Liu concerning the events that might have occurred in the 90s. While we cannot confirm the legitimacy of these claims, we can confirm that John Liu was not involved in the restoration or re-release of New York Ninja, nor associated in the making of Doc.

So that's all we really know about that. So thank you to everybody who pointed that out. Stick around after the break. Jason and I are going to judge your songs and we're going to talk about some stuff that we're into. It's a little mix and match here. All right. Plus, we're going to play an exclusive bonus scene from our New York Ninja show. We'll be right back right after this.

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People, every Monday we're releasing brand new episodes. That's right. Well, not brand new. Old episodes. Old brand new episodes. Matinee Monday is what we call it. And to tie them together with old and new episodes, last week we did Ninja 3 The Domination, which is really fun. I love Ninja 3. That's the V8 one where they have like a sex scene with V8. So check back every Monday for a brand new Matinee Monday. And now Surreal Feld.

Okay, I want to apologize because last time I mispronounced your name. So we're using your awesome theme one more time to make up for it. Surreal Feld, thank you for that. And now welcome my friend, Jason Manzoukas for a little Just Chat. What's up, jerks? It's time for Just Chat with Paul Scheer and Jason Manzoukas.

All right, Jason, it's time once again for how did this get made idle? We are listening to new theme songs. Ken Jeong could not be here today to judge with us. He is busy on the mask singer, but we would be. I like what we do have Nick Cannon.

All right. Yeah. Now, Scott, you do have to do your best Nick Cannon. Scott, our producer has to do our best Nick Cannon to set up every song that we have. We have listened to some before. We've given feedback. People have sent back the notes and this is great. We're putting them into the pot. We're listening. Here's the thing. For those of you who might not be up on this, we are taking submissions for new. How did this get made? Theme songs because shock of all shocks.

The current theme song is 10 years old. Did you say years old? You know, and I will tell you this and I love it. This may be the, this may stay. I love this, but I also love our original one. I just also feel like, Hey, we, we made a transition to the new one. We had one that Devin played when we were on the road. People are, we're open. Paul, are there any theme songs, podcast theme songs that you love or that you so closely identify with the show? Um,

that you or that you listen to you know like that you don't fast forward through oh that's a really I fast forward a lot of theme songs for a lot of podcasts the ones that I don't are Doughboys

Love it. Yes. Yes. I love the original blank check theme song. The old one. And I'm trying to think of what other ones the old binge mode one I used to love. But there are some that I listen to because they get me excited for the podcast that I'm about to listen to. They lay down that.

a good TV show theme song does. The way that I watch every theme song of Game of Thrones or whatever, you know? The one that I find myself humming a lot is the theme to Elvis Mitchell's

that he used to have where it was like, it was like, bend it, don't break it. Like there's a, there's some, you know, I just love that song. It's a good like underscore song. I like those. It is great when they, yeah, it's great when they use real songs. It's great when they, but I love, I get really the way that we are talking about ours right now.

I love the ones that are either fan generated or are, or are for like, or are by people that the, the fret, like the, the dough boys one I know is Mike Cassidy from don't stop or we'll die. Yes. Um, you know, uh, anyway, no, I like, I like them all. You know, sometimes it's just a musical sting, the keys to the kingdom, the new Mac Gourley podcast, which I've been loving. What is that? Mac Gourley and Amanda Lund has a podcast called keys to the kingdom. And all it is is an expose of,

of people who worked at theme parks. So it's like all the princesses at Disney world. It's all these great backstage stories. And then a lot of the voices are, you know, tricked out. So you don't know who's actually talking about it. These people are breaking NDAs, I assume. And it is fascinating. Like the first episode about princesses, just fascinating.

Just like here's a good little stat, like the person playing Ariel was talking about how a lot of kids wanted to grab at her seashells, which are covering her breasts and nothing untoward. But they're like, oh, I want to touch those seashells. Right. Like and how you kind of get it. We all want to touch those seashells. And you and I, unless we're in the bathroom of demolition. Yeah.

Well, you know, here's the funny thing. You got evil that you need to touch those seashells. Yeah, you got, I guess. The scoop it all out. I was telling a story to Huble on the Twitch show where I was saying that my stepfather flirted with Snow White and kind of was like grabby with her. Oh, my God. And Huble was like, oh, my God, this is like you're telling me this crazy story. And I was like, I don't think it's that. I mean, yes. Dads are creeps is my guess is the thesis of this podcast.

I will say, speaking of Gourley, he and his band, the journeyman do a fantastic theme song for the Andy Daly, uh, bananas for bananas. Well, that's a great, yeah. I mean, those are great. Great theme song. Uh, but yeah,

You'll like it. That sounds cool. I'll check that out. Gorley's great, man. Love Gorley. Podcast producing machine. Just a great guy. Roundabout. Great guy. All right. Let's get into it. We got three themes. If we want to do more, we can do more. But let's start off with three and see what we got here. Before we begin, I just want to clarify. I feel like last time we did-

Yeah.

Here with me is producer Scott, and I have Paul Scheer, Tall John, and Jason Manzouk is here with me. And we're going to see if we can find the next great How Did This Get Made theme song. Pretty good. Pretty good. I like it. Last time we did this, I was kind of giving a little flack for maybe prejudging some of these songs. So going into this, I'm going to say I have not organized these in any way, and we'll be judging them in order of when we receive them.

Great. All right. All right. Are you guys ready for some earworms? Yeah, let's do it. First up, we have Balloon Ride Fantasy. How did this get made? How did this get? Call the frickin' studio. Someone there has got to go. How did this get made? How did this get made? Better than a plot twist on kids' shows. Soaps and old-time radio. How did this get made? How did this get made?

Nice! Wow, I gotta say right out of the gate

This might be my favorite one of the submissions. Hence far. So far, I agree. Wow. Wow. So tight. 44 seconds. Mixed. Great. Pop punk up tempo. I can imagine.

this is how I, my question to you earlier, Paul, about what theme songs do you listen to? If at all? Yeah. I can imagine. Cause what I like about the theme songs I like is singing along and getting excited for the show. Here we go. And I can imagine people getting into that and singing along with those easy lyrics. Yeah. I, I like it. It's catchy. It's fun. I have no notes. I really have no notes. I would just put this. If we are separating, uh,

uh, if we're separating things out on the table, I'm putting this on. It's done. Cool. The apple pie. It's ready to eat. This one is, this is a, this is for the big vote. What is this? Cool. The apple pie. It's ready to eat. That's the t-shirt. I don't know if we do t-shirts by the way. I'm for last looks, but cool. Apple pie. It's ready to eat. What? My thought is write that down. Please take it. Don't put it in the oven. It's done.

Cool it. It's ready to eat. Wait a minute. But it was in the oven because it's hot. It's hot apple pie. So I guess what I'm saying is... You're going to say put it on the table. It's ready to eat. It's ready to eat. We don't have to... You don't even have to cool it down. Some of these, what I'm saying is put it back in the oven. It needs a couple more minutes. This one, I'm like... Let it cool. It's ready to eat.

It's ready. I just said let it cool. Oh, but you do want it. Let it cool. I do. What I wanted to say was let's put it on a shelf. Let it cool. Get the ice cream. Because this guy is ready to go. Get the ice cream. The pie is ready. That would have been the way. That's my feedback for that song. By the way, I'm dealing with something right now that I didn't even want to involve you with, but it's really upsetting me. Oh, boy. So-

The audience at large has not heard this episode yet, but we did a Dungeons & Dragons episode when we were in, gosh, I don't remember what city we were in, but we had a great time. Maybe? It was a great venue. I remember the show. I just don't remember the place. And we made a great shirt. And I won't even spoil the shirt. But it has been taken down for copyright infringement, and I can't figure out why, and I'm fighting it right now. Is it possible that I could see a company like Dungeons & Dragons being...

Like yes. Detective of their logo. Whatever. Yeah. I mean, look how good that shirt. People love that shirt. That shirt is incredible. So now is that and the ampersand with the dragon dragon. But is that their thing? Well, here's the thing. I went online. I search on T public. I typed in Dungeons and Dragons and.

Not only are there just straight up Dungeons and Dragons shirts. Sure. Full logo, full everything. But that logo also appears on multiple shirts. I'm like, why is ours getting dinged? Because ours is...

more parody than it is anything else. It's Morgan and the dragons. Can we resubmit with almost no alteration? That's what we're going to try to do. I wonder if they dinged Morgan. So we're trying to figure out that because we also have permission from Morgan. Morgan? Wait, do you think Morgan complained? Wait, Morgan, if you're listening, do you not want us to put you on a shirt? I have a feeling that what they have is one of those kind of... I dealt with this in the past and we lost this battle, but like

MTV allowed human giant to put our sketches up on YouTube and not on their site, but on YouTube proper. Cause we knew we'd get more views. And then, uh, that was a legal agreement that we signed with them. But then when YouTube has their like kind of filtering process, it just ripped them all off because it was like, it was like, well, and then you go and then you go and you kind of fight it. But yeah,

If you're not the owner... You think we got swept up in some sort of like a bot ding-dong rather than somebody... Okay, got it. All right. Anyway, I hope T-Public and I are on it, but I want to save that Dungeons & Dragons episode because I want to get this figured out because I want people to get that shirt. It's so good.

All right. Big time. I really, I really liked this song just to get back to these songs. I thought this was great. I could see this being played. I could see this hyping up a crowd for a sing along this, you know, so far for me, very exciting, great work, balloon ride fantasy. I love it. The other thing that I'm going to say about this is,

And I think all theme songs, it's kind of like the way that theme songs and TV have elevated themselves too. We've gotten away from these kind of fun theme songs, like these legacy podcasts. I would consider us a legacy podcast. We still have our- Isn't that crazy? I know, it's nuts. It's crazy. And I know we've talked about this before, so I won't waste much more time on it. But the idea that people have started coming to the shows who are themselves-

the age of the show, like all these families coming with 13 year olds in attendance who are as old as the show is. That's very weird to me. Yeah. I, that is wild. And I will say this old theme songs have a more fun, like homemade vibe to them. I feel like newer theme songs, there's a lot more production on certain things. Oh yeah. And I, I like a throwback. Like I'm not calling this a throwback per se, but it's,

It reminds me of when I was... I don't know. It just has a nice feel to it. I like it. Well, it feels... Yeah, well, it feels like somebody made it. It doesn't feel like we pulled library music for our high-end fucking show. It feels like... Oh, no. It feels like what is exciting is these, I'm hoping, are fans who are writing something that excites them about it. All the specifics. That's what's great about the current theme song is that it is...

it is so dense with lore, you know, it is so dense with podcast lore from those first few years that it's, it is crazy. And it's, I think really fun, um, as opposed to just bland theme music. I agree. Let's get into the next one. What do we got? All right. Coming up next, we have Chris Chaney who along with the song sent a video as well. Oh,

Wow. Let's see if this apple pie is hot enough to come out of the oven and cool down. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Careful, Scott. Or does it need a little more time to bake? Yes. All right. Apple pie. Let's keep it in. All right. Chris Cheney. Mary Lou from my two-minute candle boy. Megaphoison of the world.

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Okay. All right. Yeah. A lot of stuff I like about this. First of all, love, love the length. Love the video. Yeah. So this person has put together a video accompaniment that like is similar to the one we play in the live shows in that everything that is being described in this song clips from those movies are being shown on the video. So it's it's great.

If I'm going to give you, I'm going to start off with the note and then I come back with the positives. The one thing I'm going to say about this is that it is simply a list of the movies that we've done. I don't feel like it encompasses the show, but let's go back to the compliments. I just, I like the sound of it. I like the length of it. I like the fun of it. I was into it.

I was waiting for it to maybe turn to a little bit of the show. Yes, I agree. I agree. And I know what you mean. It is a it is it's a classic list song. Again, we're getting into like pop punk really lends itself to this type of an uptempo vibe, which is fine by me. I don't love pop punk, but, you know, this this guy's doing a great job. Who is this? Chris Cheney.

Great job. I like the video is helpful, but not necessary. I think the song works. I could see this. I could see this coming around in some way, shape or form. I could see this as I could see this as something that gets played prior to a live show on screen while the audience is watching something like different songs or different video accompaniment for different songs. This is cool.

I like it. I like it a lot. And I feel like, look, we've also been doing a lot of fun stuff on the road, which is like the shows on the road now have like a whole kind of prelude and it's fun and there's a lot of stuff. And this kind of works perfectly within that. I'm all in. Yeah. And I've also been liking how many people have been coming to multiple shows on the road. It's amazing. It makes me step up my game to kind of figure out different things. So I try when we do shows on the road that we don't repeat things

on multiple days. So I think of us and our podcast, like it's the, you're like, our fans are like the grateful dead or fish fans. I know they're following us from city to city, like camping outside, making grilled cheese sandwiches for each other. I mean, I wish I would like to have some of those grilled cheeses. I mean, let's be honest. If a fan handed me a grilled cheese sandwich, there's absolutely no way I'm eating it. Oh, well you can, I mean, you know, it would kill you.

Let's see what we got here now. But great job, Chris Janey. Great job. Before we move on to going with Paul's pie analogy, do we want to assign each song like the type of pie you think, you know, it emulates? Scott? No, Scott, absolutely not. What type of pie? So what? That's a rhubarb? What are we saying?

You're not on the pie thing, Jason. I feel like, you know. All right. I'll do it. I'll do it. Fine. Great. Let's do it. Let's do Scott's dumb pie. All right. All right. I'm going to call that a blueberry pie. You're going to call that blueberry pie? Okay, great. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally, totally blueberry pie. Got it. Got it. So that was like a pecan pie to me. Jesus Christ. All right.

Here we go. What do we got next? All right. Coming up next, we have a song from Darren Keene. What type of pie will it be? Yes. Let's find out. I don't like this pie thing.

All right, Jason, what do you think? I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that. That had vibes. That had vibes. It feels a little low energy for a theme to me. Yeah. Or maybe it's just muted. No, I feel like it had... Oh, I'm so sorry to interrupt you, Paul, but Molly has weighed in and says that song is key lime. Okay. If that helps. Okay.

I know that helps me quite a bit. Yeah. But like, all right. So I hear what you're saying. Can we just play it again? A little, just a little bit of the front of it. Cause I also feel like the lyrics are getting a little muted. Just like this play me like five or six seconds in. All right. Stop it for a second.

I think what it is, it's like there's a reverb thing or there's a tin caniness to it. Yeah, it's a little muted. I don't know what that is, but maybe it's a mix thing or because it's an uptempo song. Yeah. But I mean, I like this. I like a kind of fuzzed out rock and roll kind of giving me some 80s vibes.

you know, uh, Synthie vibes in there. There's something here. I like this. I like this. I like this. It's fun. I mean, by the way, what a great second batch of songs. I like that. I like the, how much this is about the show and how we talk about movies in the show. Do we love that? We hate it. Do we hate it that we love it? Like there's a good, there's a good vibe to this song that I just feel like, you know, it could be great. You know, it could be great.

What? If the theme song had a presumed call and response to it. Oh, I love that. Can you give me the lyric sheet again for this one, Scott, that you had put up for a second? Just because I feel like this song has natural call and response so that it would be like one voice is saying, do we hate that? Do we hate that? We love it. We love that. We hate it. Yes. Yes.

You know what I mean? Like so that the audience gets to chime in because that's what I'm picturing. I'm picturing people driving, people doing their dumb lives and shouting out loud while they have their headphones on or whatever. Yeah. The way that when I'm listening to the Shadow Wolves episodes of Action Boys, I will find myself in public wandering around going, Shadow Wolves.

I see a lot of that. Yeah. So anyway, yeah, I like I'm not necessarily that this art that Darren here has to do that. But I think this exemplified a way to me to do a call. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I agree with that. And I feel like I mean, look, we're talking a lot about like how the live shows go. I mean, right now, when you come see a live show, the entire audience is chanting Geostorm and Kumite. I feel like we could have more call and response. I'm down with that. Oh, yeah.

I think I think especially, you know, and I like the idea that we've talked about having like a handful of theme songs that we use, because I think dropping them in, if people love them all, we're dropping them in and people get excited for, oh, wait, we got this one or we got that one. The same way that every show gets individual movies. Yeah. Maybe they get songs. Maybe they get to, you know, they're already getting T-shirts, all this kind of stuff.

And not that we're basing everything around the live shows. So relax, you studio heads. No, we just do some things. And, you know, look, by the way, yeah, calm down. We like to make the show fun for everybody. Speaking of, you mentioned, you know, calling response and shouting Geostorm. Paul, I saw on your Twitch stream you shared a story of...

you and June driving by Jason. Oh my God. You said that story? Yes. I would love to get Jason's take on it as well. Okay, so yeah. So I was talking about this time. June and I were driving in our neighborhood and there was a, there's a restaurant with some nice outdoor seating. We were driving by and we see Jason. As a matter of fact, June sees Jason.

And June's like, oh, there's Jason. I said, oh. And she, before I could say anything, rolls down the window. And I'm expecting her to say, hey, Jason. Like, just... Because that's June. Friendly conversation. And I just want to be... Just for setting the scene, you guys are seeing me, but my back is to you. Exactly right. Yes. So I have not seen you. Right. Right. We are driving by and we're doing a little shout as we drive. Like, to get your attention a little bit. Yes. Good point. So...

Boom. June rolls down the window and without conferring with me, not that she has to, but it was just immediately rolls down the window and starts yelling out,

Geostorm! Geostorm! And she's screaming. And it's like a Sunday morning, right? Oh, yeah. The restaurant is packed. Yes. You know, people are sitting at all the outdoor tables. And all I can hear now is I can tell there is a car that is parked in front of all of these tables full of all these people just screaming Geostorm at me. Hey!

And, and so then as she starts screaming, I start screaming because, and then my kids who are also in the car, they don't know what's going on, but they know Jason, they start screaming. So now you have a car of, of people yelling geostorm nonstop. I'm getting more and more uncomfortable because I won't engage with it because I'm at lunch with people.

Right. You know, like I'm at a table full of people and I don't I don't want to engage with whatever like car full of maniacs has decided they're going to scream at me from the street.

And rightfully so, because you're also on the street. And I would say oftentimes, in my experience, sometimes people just want to yell something at you. And it's just like a bam. I did it. I did it. I acknowledge it. And you go. And it's not like, now let's chat. But we won't stop yelling. And it's funny to me because I'm like...

Why? Like, now it's like, now I'm starting to feel uncomfortable because now I'm like, now we're parked and we're screaming. And so we're just, it's going on for way too long. And then you turn around. And it was one of my favorite moments of all time because it was a great, just a convergence of

You turning around like, okay, I get it. I know. Thank you. Hello. And then realizing it was all of you, I just collapsed into laughter. Just like in a minivan screaming at you. Just calling attention to so much. It was truly. It was incredible. It was your face, that turn of that face, which was like, I get it because you're like,

Okay. These so annoyed because we don't know too much. It wasn't enough is enough. I hear, you know, like that, you know, cause I'm sure you've dealt with it too. It's like, it's okay. We, I got it. I got it. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Holy shit. That was really funny. Oh my gosh. People used to run up to, uh, I mean, obviously you get it because of the league and, and there's a couple of things that they would yell at the league that was tricky too, because, uh,

Like, Geostorm is a crazy thing to yell out to anybody in the street, but it's something that I feel like we've all experienced. It's a nice, fun little thing. Oh, it's great. It's great. Hey, Nung Man, for me, from Comedy Bang Bang, is so wonderful and easy because each of us says it and then it's done. Yeah, you know what it is. But people used to yell for the league a lot because

Shiva Kamini, who was a number, a name of a, of a character in the show. And that yelling was also, it, it, that would scare my kids. Uh, like, yeah, they're younger. So now they're, they're more used to it, but now my kids have yelled geo storm at you. Uh, that was really a highlight of my life.

really funny oh that's funny i just hope jason that one day you don't end up facing an actual geostorm and then you don't take that warning seriously someone's like geostorm geostorm and you're just and i'm gonna be like oh all right man i'm really i'm i'm super popular today what's the deal i will say this uh that um you know i don't know if i've ever told you this but every now and then my kids love jason jason's great and they've seen him you know a

a bunch, but they'll like on a random night, they'll say, can Jason have cake? Like, it's like, they've like, it's just, Oh yeah. It pops back up. Like my allergy. Yeah. Your egg allergy just sits in their head and it's apropos of nothing.

Yeah. It's like, it's like, it's just, it's this running on a background program. Yeah. Cause they, there was a period, there was one night where I feel like Gus specifically had a number of questions for me about things that I could or couldn't eat, which was very cute. I will say this much too. I never, I,

Like, I've always recognized how scary that allergy is, right? Because you realize, oh, oh my God, eggs. And you're so...

You're just, you know, you're so aware of it. You're so presentative. I've known you for a long time. But when I had kids is when I really understood, oh, God, this is a hellish thing. Because as an adult, you can at least navigate. But as a kid. Oh, you can advocate on your own behalf. But as a child, crazy. Oh, yes. Absolutely. And you are, I mean, I'm just, my God. Yeah. And plus, as I say, children eat. I was just.

It's so funny. I was just with my cousins, all of my first cousins a week ago, and we were just telling stories and blah, blah, blah, reminiscing. And one of my cousins told a story about me being a baby.

And it her mother, my my aunt, they were babysitting for me. And my cousin remembers her mother was making me scrambled eggs. And this is before they knew I was allergic to eggs. But I had had a number of really bad incidents. And so my cousin said to her mother,

Remember, Jason's mother said not to feed him eggs. Right. He doesn't he doesn't handle them well. I can't remember what she said, but he doesn't. They don't agree with him or something. And my aunt said that's because he hadn't he hasn't had my eggs.

And then she like almost killed me twice. Oh my God. For the rest of her life felt such guilt for almost killing me that during that babysitting that every time I went to her house, she had like sugar cereals.

To give me, because I wasn't allowed to have sugar cereals. So she'd be like, there's something in the cupboard. You know what I mean? I'd be like, yes, I'd get to take home sugar cereal. It was amazing. Well, it's so funny because to me, it's like, I understand the idea of like, oh, he doesn't like...

steak. Well, he hasn't had my steak yet. Right. Cause it's like, that's not like, yeah, but eggs, you can't, there's no getting around it. There's no, there like, you know, you can't dress it up. You can't like, you know, it's like, it's not like, it was great. I was like, that is so funny. And they were like, oh yeah, she was relentless that all you needed to it, all it was going to take for you to be able to eat eggs was the way that she prepared them.

It was very cute. I love it. I mean, this is the best. You know, it's always like this. I mean, last night I was having this argument with my youngest son because he was like,

no, you don't understand when you cut my nails, it hurts. And I was like, well, I, yes, I understand. Like, it feels weird maybe, but it's like, it doesn't hurt. He's like, no, no, it's like, it's, it's hurting me. I'm like, and we're just trying to debate. I'm like, I don't think it's true. Then June's like, do not disagree. If he says it hurts, it hurts. I'm like, but it's not, but it's, he's like, he's like, not my toes, only my hand. I'm like, okay.

So it's like, yeah, it's like a very fun. And I think what he is is just, he can see it happening on his hand. And I think he sees something being clipped off. I think it's like a fear. It's like, you know, he's, he gets his hair cut fine. Maybe it should hurt or it seems like maybe something that might hurt. It also makes a sound. Yeah. It also makes a hard sound that mustn't this hurt?

Maybe I should be scared of this. Yeah, I know. I get that. It's like, but it's so funny to like debate your kids about you're like, no, no, it doesn't. Now, meanwhile, look, if I find out a couple of years later, they'll be like, yeah, my dad never believed me. It hurt. And I actually have a rare disorder where if I cut my nails, I'm allergic to getting my nails cut.

All right, we got some songs. I feel like we did it for this episode. We'll go back. We'll listen to some more. We should even just talk about what we've been up to in the next one. So tune in again. We'll kind of go down the wormhole here. We'll listen to more songs. We have more submissions. Thank you for these submissions. These were across the board.

I'm going to say without any, you know, look, all of these are apple pies that should be cooled. None of these need to be put back in the oven. I thought these were great as well. I loved all of these. And I loved the ones we listened to whenever the last time was. I agree. I agree. I'm having a blast listening to the stuff you guys are coming up with.

the creative everybody is, your lyrical content, musical content. Great work all around everybody. I mean, some of you are much, much better than others. I'm just not going to rank them that way. But I'm just saying, I've loved all of these. Except for the ones that I have not liked. And those, you know who we're talking about. We'll see you next time. Bye for now.

Thank you, Jason. And thank you to everyone who submitted a theme song. We know that we still have more to listen to and we will do our best to get to them all. Now that we got New York Ninja out of the way, let's talk about our next movie. Next week, we're going to be going from corny ninjas with voices dubbed to horny aliens who love eating grub.

That's right. Next week, we are watching the 1987 comedy Munchies, a movie that is a blatant knockoff of Gremlins and kind of crazy, too. Here's a short breakdown of the plot. A space archaeologist finds a furry little creature in a cave in Peru, but his groundbreaking discovery is thwarted by his evil twin brother who kidnaps the creature. What the brother doesn't know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures, and they are mean. I told you.

It's Gremlins. Anyway, Rotten Tomatoes does not have enough reviews to give this film a score, so we turn to Letterboxd. Oh, I love Letterboxd, where Oscar Montoya writes, I know it's bad, I know the plot is non-existent and terrible, but the aesthetic was really fun. The set design rivals Pee-wee's Playhouse, manic colors and patterns, the acting is camp as hell, Mavis is a

queer legend. The Munchies themselves are so corny, but still 80s. Can only recommend watching this with fellow idiots. And just a shout out to Oscar Montoya. He's a super funny improviser and actor. And this is what I'm saying. You'll find good people on Letterboxd. Get on Letterboxd, people. You will love it. Martin Scorsese's on Letterboxd now. So cool. All right, let's listen to the trailer for Munchies. I want you! Yeah! For breakfast! The Munchies are here! Whoa!

And they want you for lunch. No one kills more tropical fish at Ness. And they want you for dinner. Nothing human can be this hungry. Munchies, rated PG.

Oh, you're going to love it. Now we are almost at the end of this episode, but before we go, we want you to check out this bonus scene from our New York Ninja show where an audience question leads me to giving a glowing endorsement for one of my favorite products. Splinter out. What do you got? So I have a really quick comment, which is that if you watch the subtitles, it starts after Nita dies with in parentheses, melancholy synth instrumental. Oh,

Love that. And then the film ends with grooving beat with synth. Haven't stopped thinking about that. And then I have a question for Jason. I'll just wait. Everybody else can just close your eyes. What was more erotic? Every scene between the ninja and the kid in this and every scene between Stallone and the kid in Over the Top?

That's a question for me? Wow. I thought it was going to be about boobs. What a bummer.

It was pretty wild. When he does finally rescue the kid, which does happen, the kid survives the first encounter. Thank God. If that kid died, I truly was going to have to turn off the movie. I was like, I can't. But he seems to rescue the kid from the suburbs. When he finds the kid, the kid is out in, it's not in the city, it's out in a suburban neighborhood with standalone houses and a driveway. And I was like, where are they now?

Bayonne. All right, so... But also, he rescues the kid and heals the child by pulling out a bullet from his own chest. The kid is shot. Both of them are shot with a gun. And neither of them are treated by medical experts. Well, he pulls out a bullet like you would pull out a splinter.

Like, it's like, oh, that just got one of those bullets right under my skin. Didn't go all the way through. You want to quickly plug your splinter? Oh, I do. Here, go ahead. So there's a thing called Splinter Out. You can buy it on Amazon. And it's a little splinter removal kit. Watch out behind you, Paul.

And when you have kids and they get splinters, you got everything you need in there. I love that little splinter kit. It's the best. I use it all the time with my kids. I got one with me right there backstage. Ready to go. Is this product placement for a splinter removal thing?

I got them. They're called tweezers. It is as... No. But if you're out... This is as thin as a credit card you put in your wallet. Again, we're not making money off of this. This... Yes, you're not going to carry tweezers out. It's just a public service announcement. Look under your seats. You've got a... You get a splintered cake. You get a splintered cake. By the way, there are... What? There it is right there behind your head. Wait, you have it? Behind your head. The best thing you could possibly get. How?

Wait a minute. Why do you have it ready to be shown? That's our amazing stage manager, Beth. She was able to pull that up in a moment. Thank you, Beth. That's what it is. And this is an amazing product.

Splinter Out. And that box is the box that they all come in. You can take them out of the box and put them in your wallet. You can put them all in your car. You got them. It's great. I love that we talk about the Splinter Out and boom, it's there. But when we talk about boobs the whole time, none of them. We get none of them. It's a family show.

Thank you, everybody. A big thank you to Avril Halle for finding these great movies. Remember, rate and review this show. It helps. If you listen on Apple Podcasts, make sure you are following us and make sure you're listening every week because now they're not going to download episodes if you don't listen to them within 15 days. Weird. Anyway, rate and review us. It does help. Visit us on social media at HDTGM. And a big thank you to our producer, Scott Sonney, Molly Reynolds, our movie picking

producer, Avril Halle, which I already said. Our engineers, Casey Holford and Rich Garcia, and Jess Cisneros, who makes our amazing social media videos. We will see you next week for Munchies! Munchies!