Last Looks: The Pope's Exorcist
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The Pope drinks Guinness. Just how far is the ride from Rome to Spain? It is now time for How Did This Get Made? Last Looks. Hit the theme! Last Looks! Last Looks! Last Looks! Last Looks!

Buongiorno! Ma spicy dimmins! It's-a me, Russell Crowe's Italian accent coach, Paul Scheer, and welcome to "How Did This Get Made?" Alas Looks!

I want to do that the entire show. This is where you get to voice your issues on The Pope's Exorcist. Jason will join me to chat about old TV shows, and we will recommend some books and podcasts for you. I'll share an exclusive deleted scene from our Pope's Exorcist show, and as always, I will reveal next week's movie. But first things first, a shout out to Sean Fogle for that amazing opening theme song.

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You'll wonder what possessed them to make it. I like it even better in the Italian accent. Well, we had questions about the Pope's exorcist. And while we might have even missed a few things, here is your chance to set us straight. Fact check us if you will. It is now time for Corrections and Omissions. We got Corrections. We got Omissions.

Since you guys fucked it all up

Thank you, Josh Broilo, for that amazing theme song. Let's go to the Discord. Ooh, Kat, starting off with Kat here. Italian here, she writes, this was a tough one. I might write another post solely about accents, but I wanted to point out that Father Crow is actually riding a Lambretta, not a Vespa. Yes, I've gotten this complaint a lot. Thank you, Kat, for calling it out. Lambretta is the first type of scooter in this style made in Italy by a company named Innocente.

The man who designed the Lambretta had a falling out with the Innocente's owner, quit, and then took his design to another company called Biagio, where they started producing Vespas. I strongly doubt Father Crow knew any of this and just did it for the dynamite looks. But of course, the character had to ride a scooter made by the company named Innocence. And the scooter talk continues. Sean McBee writes...

I looked it up, and that scooter ride from Rome to Castile, Spain was roughly 1,194 miles. He appears to have been riding a Lambretto L1 150 with a top speed of under 55 miles per hour. That's about...

a 22-hour ride, plus plenty of stops for gas, given that the scooter only has an 8-liter tank, about 2 gallons, and the absolute max range you would get on a full tank would be about 100 miles. So you're looking at making

making at least 12 gas stops. And in trying to figure out exactly which model he was driving, I found another link to the movies filming in Ireland, and his scooter actually has a Guinness badge on it. It included a picture. We can see it up close. Yes,

Russell Crowe is an Italian man who loves Guinness. By the way, I do want to just get a date check. Was this model Lambretta even in production in the 80s?

My gut says no. I know a lot of people have written in about this journey. This might be my favorite one. Someone also mentioned there was a fairy component to it. You had to take a fairy at a certain point. Liz brings up, so it got brought up in the show, how the demon has a Rumpelstiltskin-like thing going on, where if you learn its name, you have power over him. But did anyone notice that right after Russell Crowe learns his name and says it out loud,

that's when the demon gets especially powerful. Learning his name didn't help at all. Well, you know what, Liz? It's interesting because I think that that was a lower tier demon. I think it's sort of like, that's like if you're playing chess, those are your pawn demons. And he was dealing with like a queen demon. Anyway, that's my theory. I'm sticking to it. Kenji writes, I loved the card at the end of the movie that said, Father Gabriel Amroth died.

continued to serve the afflicted until his death in Rome in 2016 and wrote many books

And the payoff line, books are good. Now, I will say this. We did touch upon this very briefly. Jason and June didn't seem to understand why everyone kept on saying the books are good. If I remember correctly, I might have told them it was because Russell Crowe says his books are good. But here, take a listen. I do feel like we didn't discuss that moment at the end and the end credits where we got the book plugs. Yes.

You know, it was just so very strange. Is this an adaptation of one of the father's books? I'm assuming it is. Is this a real case? He does say in the beginning that they wrote some books about me. He's a little on the down low about it. But yeah, and the books are good. I thought this was like a slide. I wanted Russell Crea. The truth is they didn't write books about him. Didn't he write those books about his author? Yeah, he wrote them himself. They're good.

I'm sorry, Paul, have you read the books? Has anybody read these books? They're good? They're good. Wait, for real? They're good. They're good. They're so fun? They're so good. Wow. They're just good to so good. All right, well, let's go figure it out. I guess I do want to read the books now. At least a handful of people in our audience read these books for real. There we go. Get out of here.

All right, some clarity, maybe. By the way, I will say this. People are loving...

Russell Crowe lambretta shirt that we've made. It is just him riding that lambretta and it says exercise underneath it. It's amazing. Available at T public right now, tpublic.com slash stores slash HDTGM. Now let's go to the phones. Let's hear from Jason in Seattle. I just got to say, I think, um, for the sequel, we got to go back to that line about father Crowe tells the young priest, um,

that the young priest needs to learn jokes because the devil hates jokes. Right off the bat, as soon as I heard that, I thought, okay, the sequel has to bring in a stand-up comedian. So everyone hated that young priest anyway. He was a pervert.

Jason, I love this idea. But you know what?

We got to bring an 80s comic in. What if he brings in Emo Phillips? That would be a great 80s comedian. Or maybe Judy Tenuta. I know they're married. I should go outward a little bit more. But Richard Belzer. That would be great. A real 80s, big vest kind of wearing. Paula Poundstone in there. Hey, demon. I would love to see...

Yep, you guys got a little taste of my Paula Poundstone impression. I would like to see that. Jason, good call. Pair Russell Crowe up with a 80s stand-up comic. Next up, John from Chicago. Hey, Paul. I'm calling to let you know, I don't know if you know this, but the...

They wanted to promote this movie, so they decided to do a partnership with the World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE, at their WrestleMania this past year. It was a match that was also advertised as a Hell in a Cell match between then-WWE wrestler Edge and Finn Balor.

And before the match started, a video played with Russell Crowe on there talking about good and evil, heaven and hell, just like going on the spiel. It was like really weird. And then during the match, you know, the lights were kind of down and they had like, you know, the Pope's actresses, like the name everywhere around the ring and the red lights. It was just like really strange to use the...

them to advertise a partnership between the post-exorcist movie and world wrestling entertainment. And then also going off something that Jason mentioned, he was talking about the wrestler and Mickey Rourke and the director of the wrestler trying to get the glasses away from Mickey Rourke on the movie, Aaron

Aronofsky and he kept on saying like that Mickey Rourke you know he won his Oscar Mickey Rourke didn't win an Oscar for the wrestler unfortunately he was nominated but he didn't win all right take care love you I love the show bye oh do I remember it I was there yes I was there for this moment and you just unlocked a memory that has been deep down inside of me

Yes, it was so weird when this actually happened. You didn't know what was going on because there's so many video moments in the actual show. I'm like, what? Is this like, is Russell Crowe going to come out and wrestle now? Because it's not, look,

You see celebrities coming in to WrestleMania, being a part of the show. And I thought there was a moment. First of all, I had no idea what they were advertising. It looked shitty. But then when I saw Russell Crowe, I was like, whoa, I'm engaged. Get him in the ring. Get him in his Friars frock. And let's go for it.

But that sadly did not happen. Russell, show your face at WrestleMania. And thank you, John, for Chicago, for reminding us that Mickey Rourke did not win an Oscar for The Wrestler.

But maybe should have? But maybe shouldn't have? I don't know. Back to the Discord. Margarita writes, I'm an Italian. Well, she doesn't say that, but I'm putting it contextually. Margarita is Italian. I have to admit, I was impressed at the beginning by how good Father Crow's accent was. Sure, he was maybe mumbling half of the words, but he did have a heavy accent. And at least this time, I didn't have to read English subtitles to understand what was going on. Now...

All of that came crashing down the minute he started to speak English. While his Italian was fairly flat or monotone, his English was heavy.

heavy on the accent and sounded quite cartoonish to me. It is true that some of us have thicker accents, but usually that is partially reflected in the way that we speak Italian. So the difference between the way he spoke, the two was actually even more jarring. Now I'll tell you, as someone who is Italian, grew up Italian, it's always interesting to hear that accent come out. I went back home to Long Island and I was in this area I grew up in, Central Issa.

And I was in the 7-Eleven. Standing in front of me is this guy in camo pants, a knife at his side. And he goes, ah, these fucking stunads who run the government. And I was like, I would never expect that from

out there too. So I wonder if there's like a performative nature to some people. I feel like in Long Island, where I grew up around a lot of Italian people, they really love to perform their accented Italian. They wouldn't actually speak like that in real life. But Italian, they are Italian and they

put it on. So I don't know. Maybe it's this thing of he did the reverse version of that. He's an Italian who puts on more of an accent in English. Again, I think it just comes down to even though you're Italian margarita, you don't know what you're talking about.

All right, Slashman writes, I did not realize that while watching the movie, the titular Pope in The Pope's Exorcist was played by legendary actor Franco Nero, our very own golden-haired space Jesus from The Visitor. Oh, yes, I think we mentioned it in the show. Grumblebottom adds, it speaks to how nut

balls and banana pants this movie is that our host never mentioned the great franco nero as the pope he was more than just blonde jesus and the visitor he was also in force 10 from navarone with harrison ford a great movie people i just bought that on blu-ray and die hard 2 yes great in that as well and he was the original jango franco nero rules justice

I love Frank O'Nero. Highly recommend going deep into his filmography. You will not be disappointed at all.

A really, really fun, great actor. Also speaks to the knowledge that this movie is a low-budget, fun, crazy fest. Walker, Florida, writes,

Let alone live, everyone would have been fine. How does that mother not think we've got a gas leak that is blowing up construction workers? My son is having seizures and being a little freak. Maybe this old ass house is unsafe for obvious and not supernatural reasons. Well...

The Pope's robotic hobo chimes in to add, in fact, carbon monoxide has been found to be the culprit in several ghost sightings. The first recorded case dates back to 1912 when one family reported hearing voices and footsteps, seeing apparitions and feeling a haunting presence, only to discover the source was a faulty furnace that had been leaking poison.

poisonous gas. Wow! Did not know. Well, now, maybe that's like a cool thing the kids want to do. Turn on that gas and start seeing my ghosts. I love to see those ghosts. I don't know if he didn't talk about it as much as I don't think they could have left the house at that point. But yes,

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

Only with an Abbey in a foreign country. I mean, this feels like a Homer Simpson-esque foolhardy venture. Yeah, right? I didn't think about that. Like, only.

How did he get it? Gambling debt? Like, remember when Brett Ratner had to do those commercials for New York Film Academy because he lost, like, a poker deal? Maybe this guy won one in a poker deal. Who knows? I like it. I don't need to know much answers. Like, that's what I feel like movies kind of fuck up on. Don't give me so much backstory. I get it. You got an Abby. Deal with it. I'm in. So I don't fault the movie for not going into greater detail. Anyway...

So many great corrections and omissions this week, but I think there's one clear winner. Yes, Franco Nero is amazing, but that's not good enough. Truly, the one person who brings it all together is the great Sean McBee for telling us everything we wanted to know about that trip on a Lambretta and finding the...

cultural inaccuracy of the Guinness on the Italian bike. But you know what? Honestly, Italians can love Guinness, so who am I to judge? Anyway, that's neither here nor there, but Sean McBee, you are our winner, and you get this amazing song from Case Silva. Hit it! When are you thinking you'll stand out from the rest of the crowd? But here's the thing,

All you get through that is just some fucking nothing. Thank you, Case, for that song. And remember, if you want to submit an alt movie tagline or chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up the Discord at discord.gg slash hdtgm or call us at 619-Paul-Ask. All right, stick around after the break. Jason will join me for a Just Chat. We'll be right back. How did this get me?

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Alright people, you probably noticed that every Monday we release an old school episode into the stream. And guess what? This week we did it up with the Vampire's Kiss. Hayes Davenport joined us from the first Earwolf podcast festival? I think first and last maybe? Or maybe it was the first and second to last. Either way, that was a fun little event. And we loved doing that episode there. People came in costume. I believe...

Hayes came in costume. Anyway, next week we will be releasing Maximum Overdrive with Andy Daly to close out our Halloween season. So stay tuned for that. And every Monday, classic episodes are always being dropped. Just a reminder, people.

If you want to see some of these live shows, and I got to say that that Vampires Kids show is a perfect example of weird stuff happening that you had to be there for. Make sure you head out to see How Did This Get Made on tour in Minneapolis and Chicago in November, hdtgm.com. And it will be a lot of fun. I'm just so excited to go back out on the road. As a matter of fact, I'm so excited to sit here and chat with Jason just for a little bit. So, Surreal Fred on Instagram, play us in. ♪

What's up, jerks? It's time for Just Chat with Paul Scheer and Jason Mantzoukas. So, Jason, a couple weeks ago, you and I were talking about just...

Things that live in our mind, things that we haven't quite been able to place. And you were describing this movie, this movie that you remember and you were like, here is the art type. Oh, right, because we were talking about Seven Minutes in Heaven. Yes. Yeah, I remember. And you were trying to describe this movie that you have been looking for. I tried to Google some of it. So a lot of people have weighed in. But there has been one thing that kept on coming back up.

And a lot of people said it, so I'm not going to credit it to just one person, but the movie that people believe you are thinking about. And I think they might be wrong.

is Stealing Home with Mark Harmon and Jodie Foster. Ooh, hold on. The one I remember, it's like a summer romance movie. Ooh, this might be it. All right, so here we go. It says, I think he was conflating Knox Overstreet, Josh Charles, and Dead Poets Society with Alan Appleby, Jonathan Silverman, and Stealing Home. They've got the same energy.

So that's... Yeah. Okay. This is it. This is it. Wait a second. No, we'll get in trouble. No, we won't. They always say we won't get in trouble, and we always get in trouble. You never forget the first girl who steals your heart. Wait a minute. This is it. It is. Wow. Wow. I shouldn't have doubted it. And of course, of course it's a movie about, like...

Kid Heartbreak. Well, of course, the movie that left some fingerprint on my heart is about Kid Heartbreak. Go ahead. Well, this is so interesting because I loved this movie as well when I was a kid. I haven't watched it in a long time. Yes. I remember this movie because this also has similarities to, I mean, to Seven Minutes in Heaven. There's an energy here. These are teen...

Teen based ROMs that are not comms. Yes. You know what I mean? These are not like, like the John Hughes movies had romance in them, but they were comedies. Yes. These are, they have light moments, but these are romance stories. These are, these are stories about like young people trying to figure out how to be in love. And when I tell you that is awful,

all I cared about when I was a kid this age. All I wanted to watch. How can I figure out how to be in love? And here I am, 50 years old, still have no idea.

Well, that's why we are going to set you up with Taylor Swift. When she breaks up with Travis Kelsey, we are going to get you in there and we're going to put some pressure on it. Maybe that pressure will reveal a diamond. Jason, now you also... That is incredible. Great work, everybody who sourced that. I'm going to watch it. Our How Did This Get Made sleuths were out. And look, they all came in pretty heavy. I love it.

Now, the other one that you talked about, you talked about this idea of kids solving crimes, a gritty crime. The undercover gang, the Michael Perry one is the one I was talking about, right? I know it's not Michael Perry, but that's how I have tried to find it because I remembered that specific. Now, Scott, do we have a call about this? Yes, we do. Let's go to the phones. Hey.

Hey, Paul, this is Michael the Nerd from Chicago. And this is the call and response you guys asked. Okay, so Michael the Nerd, if people don't remember, he's the one that was giving us all the help about Morbius, right? Yes, I believe so. He was our Morbius expert? Yes, I believe that that is. He was the Morgan of Dungeons and Dragons. I mean, well, now people don't even know about Morgan yet.

Oh, has that not come out? Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah. We haven't even touched Morgan yet. Get fucking ready. All right. Here we go. Listen to the rest of the nerd. And this is a call and response to you guys asking about TV shows. I believe the TV show you're talking about with Matthew Perry, where there's a light that shows both good and bad, and you can go to heaven or hell. It's called Second Chance, which ran for one season, first year of Fox.

and halfway through got renamed boys will be boys. - Yeah, this is right. - And the part was dropped and the TV show that Jason was talking about where a gang goes and helps the police, I believe it's called the Renegades,

That is right. I'm looking at a picture. Wow. Wait a second. That's Patrick Swayze? Wow. Whoa. Wait a minute. Oh, my God. Okay, so this works so well. Because doesn't Patrick Swayze kind of look like a Michael Perry type? Yes, you're totally right. I'm looking at this now. This Renegades poster is amazing.

This show, I was obsessed with this show. They had like a cool hangout. I got to find this. Oh, yeah. I got to find this. So if anybody has a way for me to watch this. Oh, here we go. Wait, what is happening? Are we watching it right now? We have it. Yes! Whoa! Yes! Oh, my God. I remember all of this. Wow.

This is great. Just people walking like a Michael Jackson video. Patrick Swayze's putting on his punching gloves. I mean, that could be Michael Perry. Oh, Patrick Swayze as Bandit. Wow. Holy shit. Bandit. This guy's just punching a punching bag. Randy Brooks. Randy Brooks as Eagle. Wow. Holy fuck. Paul Mones. Paul Mones as JT. Wow. Wow.

Tracy Scoggins as Tracy. Wow. This is an amazing open. Wait, who's this guy's the looks of the operation? He's the face man. Robert Fowler. Dancer. Oh, Dancer. I remember that character. Holy shit. Brian Tachi as Dragon. Wow. Oh, wow. Fausto Barra as Gaucho. This is. This show. Give me this show immediately. I love this.

Wow, our audience is great. Can you pause for a second? I just want people to know there's still a minute left in this theme song. And this theme song is just people looking cool. It's like every character's been introduced. There's nothing to this. Man, oh man. That's like when we didn't put it in the show, but we aired the trailer to Booker, which is a spinoff of 21 Jump Street at

one of our shows and 20, it was, I think it was, my gosh, the Richard Grieco movie. And that was like a minute and a half long theme song that was like, wow, it's still going. Yeah, the initial Magnum PI theme song is over two minutes long, I believe, and is absolutely stone cold crazy. Well, okay, now you see, we found it right away. We found both of these things right away, but some other people thought

That was incredible. That was amazing. You just fully blew my mind. Oh, I'm going to show you what another. And that it was Patrick Swayze is even crazier to me. I was just assuming it's obviously it's not Michael Perry because I never found it. But I was like, it's got to be some Michael Perry, you know, lookalike. But instead, it's even better. It's Swayze. All right. This is what other people thought you were referencing. I'm not going to even tell you what this is. A show called Powerhouse. Check it out.

Whoa!

Oh wow!

Oh, wow. Hi there, this is Brenda Gaines. Hey, wait a minute. Where are you going? Don't move an inch. The Powerhouse Gang will be right back. Okay, so we just watched a minute-long open, an animated open. That was incredible, like on a theme song and animation level. That, to me, felt like original Sesame Street. Yes. Or Electric Company. Yeah.

And this is a PBS show with live actors. It is. Yeah, that's what it feels like. It feels like a kid. This is a children's show. Right. And so that's why I think that people thought that maybe Powerhouse. I get it. Because I said kids solving mysteries and this is that. This is the kind of PBS show that Ben Affleck, when he was a kid, was on the PBS, the Boston PBS show about the boat. What was that called? I can't remember.

I believe you're talking about The Voyage of the Mimi. Whoa. Watch that one in elementary school. Thank you. Voyage of the Mimi was a local WGBH, which is our... It's one of their shows, so it was shot in Boston, obviously. Wow. Tiny Ben Affleck on it.

I mean, this is a wild... Scott, will you look up the theme to WizKids? Oh, WizKids, I love. Did you watch WizKids? Oh, yes, I remember WizKids. I was going to say, if you want to see the theme to the Ben Affleck show, here, we got this, too. Oh, yeah, sure. Voyage of the Mimi. Yes, this one I know. This and Zoom. Oh, Zoom, I remember, yeah. That's another WGBH show. Mm-hmm. The Voyage of the Mimi. Jerry O'Connell was in one of these PBS shows, too. Oh, really? Episode one, All Aboard. All Aboard.

No theme song, nothing, just some instrumental music and then it starts. Wow, that's it. A kid being let off at a dock. Amazing. By the way, this looks like it was shot like

Like my home videos. Like this is like my... Oh, yeah. Wow. Do you think you and I could get Ben Affleck to do an episode Watch Along With Us podcast about Voyage of the Meanies? Here's the thing. Ben Affleck came to one of our How Did This Get Made shows. He did? Yeah. You don't remember that? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yes, yes, yes. At Largo. Yes. I do remember that. And I felt like, and I am a fan, I felt like he was looking at us going...

You guys have talked shit on me in this show. I also felt like he had no idea what he was coming to see. No way. In other words, he wasn't coming as a fan. No, I felt like he was brought... I think he came with someone. He did come with somebody, and I think it was maybe a date situation. This was years ago. Maybe a date. I don't know. Maybe just like, hey, I'm going to come see this comedy show. And...

And then watched us dissect a movie that he probably had not seen. He was nice. He was very nice. Came backstage very nice. Oh, no, totally. I remember him being very nice. And brief. It was like a brief interaction. But he came out and drank with us. Or hung out in the bar. I don't think I was there. I think you were. But it was also like... Oh, okay. I also felt like we weren't trying to get in his space. Like, we were like, you do your thing. And he was within our arm's reach. But we weren't like...

You know, I think that was the right way to handle it. But again, I would love like the offers out there. And the challenge is up, guys. If if you can get a more famous date to a live How Did This Get Made show, we'll pay for you. By the way, why not? Why not just try to we will bring a celebrity on a bring a celebrity on first date to How Did This Get Made? We'll pay for you. And we will also arrange for your wedding if it works out.

Okay. Yeah. If it works out. If it works out. And if you get divorced, within 10 years, we get our money back. And that's, it's a very, it's a very big, you know, but we don't want to be taken for a sucker. You know what I, no, no, not at all. Because we're, we're,

don't fucking try and play us here. Don't try to play us. This is real. We're into love. We've talked about this multiple times on the show. And we don't want your bullshit proposals and nonsense during our shows. But if you bring a celebrity, a celebrity bigger than Ben Affleck, and you end up getting married, we will pay for the wedding. And I am, look, happy to do it.

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Now, Jason, we are talking about a lot of stuff. I know that we can't... We're in this weird zone where we're not supposed to plug our own stuff, but I do think...

Obviously, these are all fine. What we're talking about. I was just going to say these are lost to time shows because it's so funny. I was just about to say that we had talked some weeks back about Sledgehammer. Oh, yes. The David Rashid Sledgehammer. And I found like, I don't know, six hours of it on a YouTube. I used to have it on a laser disc.

Oh, amazing. Yes. I had my sledgehammer. Are you so heartbroken? I'm sad you don't have your laser disc collection. You know. As a person. Yes. Who compulsively collects things. It breaks my heart. I made a couple of choices in my life. And a lot of that was due to the size of the apartments that I lived in. Of course. That got rid of a lot of physical media that I truly, truly loved. I kept a handful of it.

But man, those laser discs, you know, I, you know, I, boy, I mean, I would never pop one in, but it would just be nice at the machine. When I went over to Quentin Tarantino's house, not to brag, for unspooled, what I found so amazing about his house was just the, the, the,

the amount of physical media players. And we had a very long conversation about the right type of VCR to buy. And it was really interesting. And I just, I appreciated that. I appreciated that like his house was just loaded with

So many interesting things, but it was all to watch and see. Just to be able to watch the stuff he wants to watch. And not to be at the discretion of whoever picks these things up or gets rid of them. Or whoever owns the license on that thing. Whether they're going to make it available or not, or whether they're going to make it available in a format that works for you or that is...

as high quality as what you want? Well, this is why I want to talk about one thing here. And again, we're going to be a little flexible on these strike rules. And I'll say this, so excited.

so happy that Moonlighting is coming out to stream. Finally, Moonlighting. I cannot wait. I've been watching it in a TV rip that someone made available to me because they heard me talking on the podcast about wanting to watch it. And I was like, here you go. It's here. And I've been watching it. But it's tough to watch because it's a really very shitty copy. So I'm beyond excited. Well, I

I will go one step further. Again, I think this falls under the Strike Reels okay. I, for the first time ever, saw the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense. Oh, Jonathan Demme movie? Yes. And holy shit, what an experience that was. It was absolutely amazing. People were dancing in the theater. The Talking Heads were there. But I will say that the 4K remastering of that

really just amps everything up. And that to me is like... Especially for theatrical. Yes. That must have been gorgeous. And that's why I'm excited about this moonlighting. And, you know, maybe if the strike is over, we should have like a... Maybe we should do like a moonlighting one of these minis. A last look. A last look. Just about moonlighting. Absolutely. Where we just sit and we watched one and we could chat about it.

I would be very excited. Oh, I would love to talk. And or, well, no, actually, well, no. After the strike, we'll talk about it. All right, great. I don't want to be so positively driving people to something that we should not be. 100%. And I think we did it with respect. We didn't say where it's streaming, but it's not even out yet. So you can't even watch it. We're talking about the idea that it will eventually be coming. And when you hear this, the strikes may be over anyway. We don't know. We're in a vacuum. Yeah.

But Jason, this is great. We found I now want to kind of continue to to. And wait, do you remember? Oh, yeah. The person mentioned your show. Yes. The show that the Matthew. I don't know what that is. And found it. We did a little Twitch stream about it where we watched is a heaven and hell. Yeah. We've found all that. Yeah.

And it was really, it was great. It was very fulfilling. You could watch these episodes. Oh, you know what I should do for you, though? You're going to first think, oh, I think I know what this is, but I don't think you do. This is a show that I stumbled across and I have now been obsessed with. And here we go. Mr. Dennis Escorts, wherever you want to go, we want to go with you.

Okay, so that little thing that you just heard there... Holy shit. ...was a Ted Knight sitcom called The Ted Knight Show where he is the head of an escort service. Yes. Right? Yes. That seems to be what it is. It is a show where he is...

He's running a sex worker ring. I mean, and he himself is also a sex worker. I was just going to say, he also seems to be available to hire to attend the opera or whatever. The premise of the show is like he is an uptight guy and his brother. He's like a Felix Unger? Yes. And his brother dies and his brother's like, you have to now take over my sex worker's.

And not only does he take over running it, but seems to have to also be a sex worker. This is an era where everybody...

Everybody, see, in pop culture, there was a real, there was a real, there was a group of, I guess, reluctant pimp narratives. Yes, yes. Risky Business, Dr. Detroit, this apparently, like, reluctant pimp was a style of movie or TV show that somehow seemed viable. It's fucked up and crazy. And...

Here we go. It was written by Lowell Gantz, who did Night Shift, Splash, Spies Like Us, Gung Ho, Vibes, Parenthood, City Slickers, Mr. Saturday Night, A League of Their Own. Oh, yeah. Lowell Gantz and Babalu Mandel wrote everything in this. And this is wild that it was. And they did. And it's so funny. Like, it's so aping the Mary Tyler Moore theme song as well. Yes. In a way, because this is between Mary Tyler Moore and what's it called?

that we talked about, but too close for comfort. This show is in between those. May I read you episode five, suite 16? When a mature-looking young woman named Victoria Diamond approaches the Mr. Dennis escort service seeking an escort to a party, Roger thinks that he'll be escorting her will be a good chance for Winston to prove he can make it in the escort service business.

But Victoria insists that Roger escort her, and when Roger arrives with her at the party, he discovers that she is only 16 years old, and that this is a sweet 16th party, and that she is using him to make her boyfriend Cliff jealous. He is immediately arrested.

immediately arrested and has to spend the rest of the remaining episodes going door to door and telling people that he lives in their neighborhood. This is fucking crazy. And in episode two, Grisela signs a 30-year contract to work for his sleazy competitor. Of course, this is documenting the most predatory world. I mean, this is a sitcom about human trafficking, essentially. Oh my God.

I love it. This is like if you were like, I'm pitching a TV adaptation of Sound of Freedom and it's a sitcom. And this is a... Caviezel's in. Oh my God. I could watch this shit forever. All I want to do sometimes is just be like... I wish there was, yeah, a streaming service or a YouTube channel, and there probably is, that just...

did this stuff that just put up pilots and themes that are lost to time. Yeah, it's like, oh, we did... You know, not the ones we know. Eight episodes of a show. Like, I don't under... I never understand why...

We can't embrace failure like that. It's like it like not failure, but it's like that's the more interesting thing. Yeah. It's like this. This did not work. You know. Yeah. I mean, I feel like that's the people are still Americans especially are so unwilling to participate in the narrative that from failure comes growth.

You know, it needs to be just like victory at all costs. Yeah. You know, it's like we're protagonists in a Fast and Furious. Nobody loses a fight. Well, and I think that... I feel like there was this time... It's interesting because, like, the 80s...

There's this moment where I feel like no one was minding the mint. It was sort of like, yeah, in this show, it's just a show about a sheriff, but she's a woman. People are like, good, let's go. We got it. That's it. We got it. It's enough. It's enough for us. And the one I was talking to Molly about was like, he's the mayor, but black. Good. Awesome.

on the air let's go it's like these they were very like oh yeah basic basic and i oh super super and because again and you sometimes forget they were called they are situational comedy yes that's it the situation is the comedy and that's what it's supposed to be that's it and by the way she's the sheriff that show i referenced with suzanne summers sure a pop

Yeah.

it doesn't matter like you get past this you get past the premise and you're in and it's like just go like you know it's like oh my god man I can't wait till the union calls you to be like you're in trouble Paul we heard you talking about she's the sheriff oh my god this is the best this is a great day Jason this is Paul this

This is a great day. We did it. Couldn't have been better said. Before we go, can I throw out a couple of plugs just because why not? Because here's the thing in this period of not plugging content that we're involved in or that is part of any of the struck companies. I'd like to just throw some love to some people that might benefit from you spending your money or putting your attention elsewhere. For example,

uh maria bamford's new book sure i'll join your cult is fantastic especially as an audiobook oh i gotta get that okay that's holy cow dynamite stuff okay and then another podcast that can i talk about a book like that if we're talking about oh yeah please go ahead i'm reading the andre august book while i'm listening to it oh yeah it's

Oh, cool. But it's like, wow, blowing my mind. But I just read Reggie's book, Reggie Watts' new book. Watts? Oh, cool. And it's a great book. I didn't know he had a book. Oh, yeah. It's called Great Falls, Montana. Oh, cool.

Great Falls MT. And it's great. It's just about him growing up. It's Reggie. It's Reggie. It's great. It's really, really fun. That's awesome. Oh, cool. Okay, great. I will also throw in another book slash podcast recommendation, which is the absolutely phenomenal comedian Joe Firestone has put out a book called Murder on Sex Island.

What she has also released as a podcast where she just essentially similar to an audio book reads each episode of the podcast is another two or three chapters of the book. Um, the, so the podcast is up. Um,

And this is a Lula Van Horn mystery, right? It's a Lula Van Horn mystery about a woman who puts on a wig to become a detective and goes to a Love Island, Sex Island type reality show to solve a murder. It's maybe one of the most bananas and hilarious. I was crying, laughing, listening to it the other night, doing a jigsaw puzzle. It is fantastic.

so funny listening to it. I also bought the book. Great. I think, forgive me, Joe Firestone, if I'm misrepresenting this. No, it's Murder on Sex Island. I think she might be self-publishing it. It looks like it's self-published. So support Joe Firestone, support this book, Murder on Sex Island. It's available as a podcast, but also as a book. Yes, it's sold by Amazon. You can order it on a Kindle for $2.99. You can get the paperback for $15.99. Great.

And if you haven't watched Joe Fire... Oh, Book Baby. Actually, Book Baby is publishing it. So, yeah. Okay. Oh, great. If you haven't watched Joe Firestone's

special that she released during the pandemic where she features all of the older adults who she's been teaching in a stand-up comedy workshop and it features them doing comedy boy that i don't know where it is but it's out there track it down it's phenomenal i will also throw in a plug for a podcast that st claire and i did that i think you've also done too which is amy poehler's podcast uh same more question mark thank you uh with dr sheila or sorry

Same more with Dr. Question Mark Sheila. Yes, that's it. It's a brand new podcast. It's up now. It's well worth digging in on. It's got great people on it. Very funny. Basically, what the premise is, if you like shows like I like with these couples therapy and stuff like that, it is basically...

Amy doing a character like this, Relationship Council. People come. You guys are so funny. You and Sinclair are so funny. And June and I did one that I thought was really fun. I haven't listened to that yet. Oh, it's fun. Is it out already? Yes, it came out last week. Great. Oh, good. Okay, great. All right. Great talking. Just because you mentioned Dr. Sheila reminded me that someone had...

Maybe it was Avril or somebody from the fans had recommended the movie Last of Sheila when I was...

It was you. Oh, okay. Yes. Did you watch it? Okay, great. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. Wow. Loved it. So fun. Loved all of it. Thought it was fantastic. Yes. I'll also give a shout out to the new Mary Latimer album is just absolutely stunningly beautiful. And if you can find, I don't know. Well, can we find out if and take them out if I shouldn't promote these two things? Go for it.

There is a four-episode documentary about the making of RoboCop called RoboDoc that is like six hours of the making of RoboCop. It's incredible. I am so down. And by the way, I'm working with somebody who has been in RoboCop. And yeah, every day we get to talk. Paul McCrane. What is it? Paul McCrane, who...

Paul McCrane was also on ER. Great character actor. Oh, I know who it is. And, you know, I have not asked him about RoboCop, and I should. Oh, okay. What's the job? Well, we are working on this charity event that I think has already passed at this point. Wonderful. All right, Jason, we'll see you next time. Bye for now. Yeah.

Now that we got the Pope's Exorcist out of the way, let's talk about our next movie. Next week, we will be riding our Lambretta scooters all the way from the Vatican to New York City. That's right. We are watching the 2021 action thriller,

New York Ninja. Now, let me just correct that. New York Ninja was actually shot in 1984, but wasn't edited or released until 2021, when its footage was discovered by the home video distributor Vinegar Syndrome. The movie's plot revolves around a sound technician for a news station who becomes a vigilante ninja in New York City. Don't make me say it again. The reason why? I

His pregnant wife is murdered. Anyway, Rotten Tomatoes gives this film a 96% score on the Tomatometer. Lee Jutton of Film Inquiry writes, This is a must-see for anyone who loves outrageous old action flicks and who appreciates the labor of love that is film preservation. Now, let's listen to the trailer for New York Ninja. Abductions of young women are still being reported. Another woman with mysterious radiation burns has been discovered. ♪

We're gonna have a baby. Oh my god. I can't believe that John's wife was murdered. There's something weighing us down. It's that damn ninja. New York Ninja's a real hero.

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