Last Looks: The Ugly Truth [Jason Edition]
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BAS.com slash bonkers and use the code bonkers at checkout. Alright, idiots. Paul's on a book tour, so they made me do one of these dumb shits again. So let's do it. Hit the fucking song, Scott. Let's go. What's up, jerks? How we doing tonight? Did you watch the flick? The time is right. Jason, June, and Booit. Did you keep sanity? Did you keep breath? Did you take some notes? Did you scratch your head? All your work through it. Did you ask yourself? Hey!

Whoa. That was a good one. Holy shit. That was great. Started off as a real slow jam, real like bedroom vibes. I was like, oh, fuck. Our listeners get down. Our listeners. You know what? Yeah.

Let us know if you guys are fucking to these theme songs. I'd like to know. Thank you to Casey Alexander for that opening theme song. Wow, wow, wow. Anyway, it's me, Jason Manzoukas. I'm going to be your host today. We're going to be going through the ugly truth, corrections, omissions. There's going to be voicemails. I think there's going to be songs. To help me out, producers Scott,

and Molly are on the line. So we'll all be chopping it up. Is that what people say? Chopping it up? Now they do. I wish I hadn't said it, but leave it in. We're going to be chopping it up about the old ugly truth. God damn it, I hate this.

Anyway, we're going to be talking about the ugly truth. And then later, I'm going to go through a bunch of recommendations for movies and TV and a bunch of podcasts and all sorts of all sorts of crap. Spoiler alert. I've already recorded that part of it. I'm punching this in right now. I've already recorded the whole episode. But in order to make it better,

Go smoother, Scott said. I needed to punch in and do this. He said, these people are idiots. They don't understand what this is. You've got to walk them through it beat by beat. And so I've done that.

Also, don't forget, at the end of the show, I'm going to reveal what next week's movie is, which you already know. By now, you already know. These are not reveals. Scott's pointing at it like, make sure you tell them this. It's not a reveal. They know already. These are notes for all the newcomers to the show. Paul's off on Colbert, Good Morning America, CBS Saturday Morning. Maybe we'll get some new people who don't know how Last Looks runs. Okay. Okay.

Okay, you know what, Scott? Actually, this is the first time you've said anything that's worthwhile. And I would like to yes and that in the parlance of improv.

If you are new to the show, if you have just arrived after seeing Paul on one of the shows that Scott mentioned or one of maybe a reading or in any other way, shape or form, if this is your first episode, if this, this right here is your first episode, let us know because this is not normal. This is not a normal episode. Please go back, listen to the ugly truth.

Main episode before listening to this. Don't listen to this. Don't listen to this. It's good we're punching in. If you've never heard the show before, stop listening immediately. Listen to a real episode where we're all on talking about a movie. Then sometime later, listen to this. But not right now. Anyway, we're here. We're doing this dumb thing.

We're talking about the ugly truth, apparently. That's what the cursor on the thing in front of me is telling me to talk about. They sent me a script ahead of time. Did I look at it? I didn't. So we're cold reading the episode. Here we go. Plugs. New tour date. Ba-ba-ba!

We are returning to my hometown, Boston. What do you think? You better than me? Sunday, June 16th. We're going to the Wilbur Theater. Love it. Love the Wilbur. One of my favorite theaters. I saw many bands there when I was growing up. The Wilbur, the Orpheum. I saw Huey Lewis in the news. Don't.

worry about it. We're coming to Boston. We'll be hanging out. We're doing that. I believe I will also be there in the days leading up to it for the Comedy Bang Bang Tour. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to say that, but guess what, shitheads? I'm doing it. So boom, I'm going to be for the Boston dates at Bang Bang as of now. All of this could change, but we do know Sunday, June 16th, how did this get made? The Wilbur Theater in Boston and

Boy, do I like it when Boston shows live up to their Boston-ness. Please, don't stop being absolutely wasted wearing hockey jerseys in the audience. I've never been to a How Did This Get Made show where there were so many hockey jerseys. It really... Boston, thank you for making me feel like any comedy podcast I'm a part of is about to become a fistfight.

Okay. Also, get ready. Nantucket Film Festival, Thursday, June 20th. Tickets are on sale now at nantucketfilmfestival.org. Yes, we're going to fuck it in Tuckett. Get ready. We don't know what we're doing. We're part of a film festival. No doubt it's going to be a whole situation. It's on the tiny island of Nantucket. So,

Very easy to get to. Very easy to opt into this show. So I expect everybody to be there for the Nantucket Film Festival Thursday, June 20th. How did this get made? NantucketFilmFestival.org. Okay. Already exhausted. Already exhausted.

Paul's book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, is finally out. Buy it. If you haven't bought it by now, I swear to God, I will come to your house and I will punch you in the dick. God damn it. The book is great. Buy it.

get both the hard copy so you can get it signed and get the audio book so you can listen to it in the goddamn car you get it get the book okay so many plugs that's all the plugs okay great so apparently we're going to a break now it's got you know it's in it's highlighted in yellow it's

bolded. It's in a much higher, much bigger font than the rest of the script. Break number one. So after this, we're coming back with your questions, your comments, all about the movie, The Ugly Truth, which I'll be honest, I have already forgotten. So here we go. Get to the break.

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a bunch of words that don't make any sense together. A movie that discord user fun facts, 47 thinks should have had the tagline, the ugly truth, jagged little red pill, by the way, Scott, I don't mind telling you terrible introduction to this section of the show.

Just a word salad of nonsense. I don't, I can't make heads or tails out of any of that, but maybe you guys can. Anyway, so you guys had stuff you wanted to talk about regarding the ugly truth. You sent us in, I'm assuming voicemails or maybe just notes that we're going to check in in terms of, you know, maybe what we got wrong or things we left out. You know, you get the fucking deal. If you're listening to this, you know what corrections and omissions are. So,

Why don't we, if you don't mind, Scott, hit him with the theme. Okay, that's a banger. That's a 10. If it had said, take it away, Jason. The fact that it said, take it away, Paul, makes it a three.

That is from Carlo Tiafilo. Thank you, Carlo Tiafilo, for your Corrections and Omissions theme song, which I loved. It had a real... It's a bop. It had a real vibe. I enjoyed the hell out of it until, at the very end, it was personally an egregious personal failure by naming Paul and not me. So, fuck you, Carlo.

Carlo Tiafilo. Eat shit. Now, let's go to the Discord. How do we go there, Scott? How do we go to the Discord? It's like we're going to Never Never Land. How do we get there? We're already here. I brought the Discord to the script. What? Ooh la la. Okay, so first up.

Nassim. Nassim writes, you guys pointed out that Katherine Heigl's cat is named D'Artagnan after one of the Three Musketeers. And Jason joked that could mean she has two other dead cats. I remember that. Solid joke.

Uh, that's me putting that in. That's not what Nassim said. Anyway, uh, picking back up with Nassim while D'Artagnan is the main character in the three musketeers. He is not one of the actual musketeers. Oh boy. Is this a gotcha? Is Nassim writing in a gotcha? Oh God. Am I? This is embarrassing, Jason.

I guess I'm an idiot. Okay, so Nassim writes, they are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Those are the three musketeers. D'Artagnan antagonizes them at first, but then quickly befriends them and becomes the fourth musketeer of the story. Bottom line, there might be three dead cats, not two.

Got it. So it's a bit of a gotcha. And it's also a, you know, so in fact, my joke would have been maybe maybe my joke would have been funnier and landed if I had instead said D'Artagnan, of course, the main character. Here's let me let me try my joke again on you guys.

Oh, her cat's D'Artagnan, which must mean that there are at least three other dead cats somewhere around, i.e. the titular Three Musketeers. As we all know, D'Artagnan was the main character in the Three Musketeers, but who was not down with the Three Musketeers until he befriended them and then became a de facto fourth musketeer. End joke. Good?

Better? I'm laughing. I mean, I'm crushing it. I think I'm going to edit that version in and re-upload the episode. Please, please do. Oh man, I wish I could go back and redo a lot of my jokes based on the fact checking and gotcha journalism of Discord. Thank you, Nassim, for that correction. It is in fact paramount, paramount,

to understanding why my joke didn't work. Thank you.

Johnny Unusual writes, so Gerard Butler's character is named Mike Chadway. Around the time of the film, Chad became internet slang, especially in incel spaces, parenthetically, meaning a young, sexually active alpha male. So Mike Chadway is literally showing everybody the Chad way.

Okay, Johnny Unusual. Yes, Molly. Are there a lot of incel spaces? Is this like a community that has...

interaction with each other? Oh, I think that, yes, I think that's quite a bit of what's happening. I think that that's like what, I think that is what's going on. I think that that is those kinds of Reddit 4chan communities, looks maxing, you know, all that kind of stuff. I think that is part of a, I'm sure, listen, Johnny unusual. Maybe you can write back in with more clarification on incel spaces, but,

Johnny Unusual puts in quotes. Anyway, yes, I'm certain. I mean, the Internet is a gathering space for, you know, for, you know, me to talk about Joni Mitchell with other Joni Mitchell fans and for, you know, I guess incels to talk about incel stuff, I would assume. I mean, I always thought it was a very, like, solo activity or, you know, very insular. So I'm happy to know that they have community, I guess.

Oh, yeah. No, I think that a lot of the reason that like some of this stuff takes off is because people find each other on in online communities and perpetuate stuff that is, you know, you know, listen, if you're a flat earther out there and you're listening to the show, I'm curious. What's up? How? How? How? Where? Why? You know, send us a song. Send us a theme song. Yeah.

Send us a theme song that illustrates for corrections and omissions why you believe the earth is flat and how you think it's not round. That would be great. I would love that. You would love that as the person who doesn't have to screen all the phone calls. Yeah. You know what? Here's the deal. Give Scott more work.

Hey, Molly also helps with phone calls. Yeah. Oh, okay. But don't give Molly more work. Oh, no. Just give Scott more work. I'm brutal. Anytime they start talking about, like, thirst comments about Jason, deleted. Get him out of there. Not interested. Get him out of there. Okay.

Sean McBee from Discord writes, For the vibrating panties scene, it was my full expectation that there would not be a remote in the box at all because Gerard Butler would have taken it. This would not only explain the opened box and allow for him to have been the one controlling it, but it would also give the opportunity for him to gloat that he knew she would put the panties on, further establishing him as a man who has women totally figured out.

When he was surprised that she was wearing them in the restaurant, I was entirely disappointed. Well, Sean McBee, I'm not going to lie. I thought the exact same thing that you did. I thought...

That for sure, Gerard Butler was going to have the remote and was going to then be able to use it. I assumed when they were not together, right, that they would be separated. She would be at the business dinner and he would be remotely activating the thing from someplace else. And that's the would be the funny scene. Now you are saying.

That the you are disappointed that that wasn't the case, Sean. And I'm saying disagree strongly. Your disappointment unfounded because boy, was it so much better that instead it was a child child.

A child that was making the vibrator work. A child that was causing Katherine Heigl to have a full body orgasm in the middle of a crowded restaurant where a child is present with the remote control for the vibrating underwear.

That's a scene we wouldn't have gotten if your version, Sean, was true. So that makes your version much worse. So your disappointment, well, you're totally entitled to it, I think is wrong. We got what we got, thank God, even though I can't even imagine why they made the choice they made. To give that remote control to the child was easily the most insane. How children, what children are given access to in the movie The Ugly Truth are insane.

is bananas. Truly. I don't understand why there's even kids in the movie. Shouldn't be. Get them out of there. Get kids out of my movies. How about that?

Okay, so that's what people were writing about on Discord. Now we're going to go to the goddamn phones. Scott, play me down. All right, and for this first call, just a little backstory in case you don't remember because I know you taped this a long time ago. Why do we even need backstory? We shouldn't need backstory for phone calls. I got to be honest. If your phone call needs backstory, don't make the call.

This phone call is in reference to June mentioned she got some dating advice from an unnamed friend that was essentially to be a lighthouse when texting a guy, which was sending the guy kind of a fake accidental text to kind of guide them to you later. What?

Okay. I don't remember this, but okay, go ahead. This is anonymous. Hi, this message is for June, specifically about her relationship advice about being a lighthouse. And I once heard this same advice. I believe it was given originally on a bitch sesh episode. And I was like,

And I would tell all my friends about it. I'm like, oh, my God, listen, this is great lighthouse advice. Until one of my friends told me that lighthouses are actually to deter boats. And they actually are supposed to warn ships of, like, dangerous coastlines. So maybe don't be a lighthouse because you may never get the ship to come close to you, if that's what you would like. That's what I would share. Bye.

Yeah, no. Wow. You know what is interesting when whenever I drop into this is how seriously people take the stuff that I don't think is meant seriously. And and maybe I'm wrong, anonymous, but because I agree with you in the context of what you're saying, a lighthouse is a warning.

It's saying, Hey, don't come here. Don't come over here. Here is land. You might not be able to see it right now because it's dark, but that's why we put this light, this lighthouse here on this promontory. So you don't come close and, and, and, and get fucked up on the rocks. Okay. So that's what a lighthouse is. You're absolutely right. I,

Now, maybe I'm wrong. Now, to be a lighthouse, that's not what June was suggesting. It's not a warning, right? What's the advice? Yeah, so that's what they're saying is essentially the phrase to be a lighthouse, as June was saying, was incorrect. Because she was saying that like...

Once you get a guy's number. You're saying, Scott, you're saying, Scott, I want to make sure you're saying June was incorrect. This is anonymous. You just said it twice. You just said it twice, Scott. Nobody loop this and post it anywhere or June is going to ream me.

You know, I mean, I mean, I don't know. I think we're drilling down too deep into this. I don't think June meant I don't think June meant it the way you're taking it, Anonymous. But I agree with Anonymous that a lighthouse is meant to be something that warns people away from. That would be like saying, you know, in order to attract someone, you should you should you should wave red flags at them.

But also, though, a lighthouse would cause the gentleman in the situation or the other person in the situation to...

Chase after you. To look. Yeah, to look, to chase after you. To chase after you. Well, what's interesting, I think what you're chasing is right, Molly. I think that's what's behind this idea is like shine a bright light. You know, shine your light onto someone. Let them see how bright your light is and then they will find you or whatever. That's my guess is what it is, is to be... is to stand out and to shine a light on something. But I think...

I do think it's confusing only because if you drill down into it, yes, a lighthouse is there to warn people away from that exact location. So you shouldn't be like a lighthouse warning people away from you, but you should be like a lighthouse. Let your light shine. Let your light shine on the people that you want to shine it on. Right. Does that make sense?

Or is this crazy? Be a North Star. Wait, what? Be a North Star. Hold on. Now be a North Star? The North Star guides you. The standards for women are so impossible. We cannot be North Stars. We cannot be lighthouses. Just be you, bro. Just be you, bro. Thank you, Molly. That's very well said. Just be you, comma, bro. And that's what we're doing.

Graham from Saskatchewan, go. Hey, Paul. No, Jason. Great job on the show about the ugly truth. Just want to give you a little tidbit about Sacramento. Those who follow Canadian football here in Canada think of only one thing when we think of Sacramento. It's the city that was the very first...

Okay, Graham from Saskatchewan, giving us a lot of an info dump on Canadian football.

Just, I, wow. I know he said a bunch of stuff. Sacktown apparently had a team. Canadian football, I don't know what's up. I'll be honest, this is the first time I'm finding out there was a Canadian football team. I am really upset right now. Why? Because I don't know about football? No, Graham from Saskatchewan trying to like throw shit on Sacramento's name. Fuck you, Graham.

Whoa, hang on. Molly, go off, girl. Let's go. Let's go. I'm pissed. Okay, first of all, I... Yeah, Graham from Saskatchewan. Sit down and take it. Listen to me, a person who doesn't care about sports talk about sports. Yeah. Saskatchewan, do you guys have an NBA team? Yeah, do you? Do you guys have a basketball that can light the beam up? No, so...

Fuck you. No one cares about football. Yeah, yeah. Eat shit, Graham from Saskatchewan. Do you have a minor league baseball team called the Sacramento River Rats? No. Yeah, Graham. What's up with your curling league, Graham? Lame. Sorry. I'm pissed. The ugly truth, though, did show Sacramento in a very excellent light as opposed to beautiful disaster, which was shot in Bulgaria, which

the ugly truth actually shot in Sacramento, which is pretty cool. Wow. Okay. I mean, Molly, is this where I am finding out that you are from Sacramento? Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah. Wow. I had no idea. Huge reveal. Huge reveal. Yes. Wow. Wow. Wow. Okay. So Graham, wow. You really got it. Like double barrel from Molly. Um, uh,

And you know what? We don't need to hear, you know, you guys know how I feel about Canada. Not a fan. Also, don't like football. You're telling me Graham from Saskatchewan is calling about Canadian Football League? Pass? Hard pass? No. Next call, go to the calls. Scott, go now.

There's no more calls. We're going back to the Discord. We're going back to the Discord. Back to the Discord? I already said we finished the Discord. You're making me look like an idiot. Yeah, we do a little Discord sandwich. Discord call Discord. Wait, why? Why didn't you say Discord sandwich? Because...

I'm now I look like an asshole because I said we were done with the discord. And now I'm now it's written in here. Back to the discord. No, we should have one discord section. Then phone calls. There's too many back. We're going back and forth too much. Here we are. We're here. We are. I'm going to read these things from the discord. More discord things.

Okay, DrGuts1003 writes, if Gerard Butler is so confident in his skills at helping Katherine Heigl get together with Colin, why hasn't he helped his sister find a man? So I believe DrGuts1003, and I'm shocked that this wasn't clear to you, I believe he's helping Katherine Heigl get together with Colin because they have the sexual chemistry and they are the leads of the movie. I think if in the movie...

I think if in the movie he had eschewed helping Katherine Heigl and Colin get together and instead it had been focused on him helping his sister find true love. And then by your rationale, he would have fallen in love with his own sister and realized she's the one for him. Dr. Guts, 1003, I understand you're trying to promote a pro-life.

incest version of this movie respectfully. I disagree. I think the movie is the way it should be. It should be a love story between Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. I don't think it should be about Gerard Butler and the the and Bonnie Somerville, who played his sister. I think that would be just gross. Back to the discord. Wait, Johnny Unusual again. He's back. Johnny Unusual coming in hot, apparently loved this episode.

Johnny Unusual writes,

Johnny Unusual, I got to disagree with you there. The choking hazard element is a plus. I think that's a feature, not a bug. I disagree with you wholeheartedly, Johnny Unusual, because I think hot dogs are easily one of the most easily phallic things that also goes at a baseball game. Aren't they at a baseball game? Yeah.

Imagine. So what, Johnny Unusual? You think they're at the baseball game. She needs to have a phallic thing. Oh, she just happens. Maybe there's a guy walking around. There's a guy walking. Peanuts here. Popcorn here. There's a guy being like bananas here. Bananas. Get your ripe bananas here. What do you think, Johnny Unusual? You're at a baseball game. You need something. You're telling me.

And your, your rationale is because of the condiments, the bun and the choking hazard. So you're saying that takes you out of imagining the hot dog as a dick.

You're like, it's too dressed up. I don't like my dicks dressed up with clothes and condiments on them. Guess who? Johnny Unusual, get out of here. There's no other food that could have normally been served. I mean, a corn dog, maybe. Maybe, you know what?

I take it back. Maybe I can imagine a corn dog being served at a ball game and her using that. But you know what? Then Johnny Unusual will be writing, you know what? I didn't like the corn dog to suck on because, you know, it's just, it's, it's the dog is dressed in all that corn, all that corn bread, all that breads around it. I don't want, when someone is sucking my dick, my dick doesn't have a

bread all around it with condiments on it, says Johnny Unusual. You know what? No. Disagree. The scene... I don't think the scene works sexually. Let me be clear, Johnny Unusual. I think you're not wrong. I wasn't turned on. But you're 100% wrong as to the why. I think...

There are other people who could, I could, here's, you know what, Johnny Unusual? I'll put it back on you. Why don't you watch a few scenes from a TV show that people call The League, where my character, Rafi,

Pulls hot dogs out of his pocket all the time and chows down on them sexually. Watch that and tell me if you're not a little turned on, Johnny Unusual. I'm not trying to yuck anybody's yums, but you're going to be yumming all over the place when you watch those scenes from the league where I eat hot dogs.

There are so many of them. Anyway, okay. Wow. Okay, here's what it says in the script. I'm just going to read it. So many great corrections and omissions. Were there so many great? Okay, no. There were. Here's what it should read. Wow.

Well, many corrections and omissions this week, everybody. Okay. But guess what? There can only be one best. And this week's best is Nassim. Nassim, you win because you know what? Even though it was a bit of a gotcha and it was a bit of a, hey, you got it wrong to me, directed at me. It was nonetheless directed at me.

Everything else was for Paul. Hey, Paul. Hey, Paul. Hey, Paul. Hey, Paul. Paul. Paul this, Paul that. Guess what? I'm here today. And the seam helped me gain clarity on exactly what's going on in the Three Musketeers and correcting me to know that the Three Musketeers are three other people and D'Artagnan was the fourth, who was their enemy and then their friend and thus became the fourth Musketeer. So I don't know.

and understand i'm not gonna go back i'm not gonna read it but nasim you win the week great job thank you for participating and here inexplicably is a song that is just winner's theme there's a winner's theme oh every come on everybody we gotta stand on our own two feet we okay we're gonna get pumped up here rob from long island has it it's the winner's theme hit it scott

Hey you! Congratulations, you won! A nice vacation and an in-ground pool and a car. Gave it away to a charity because we all know just how selfless a person you are. But we don't want to send you away empty-handed. That's not what this all is about.

So here, take the garbage with you as you leave and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. You win!

Great. Great. Rob from Long Island, home run. I loved it. I loved it. Great, great vibes. I liked the message. You know, good work. Okay. If you've got thoughts about our latest episode, hit up the Discord at discord.gg slash h-d-t-g-m. That's where to go to find us. I'm assuming the GG stands for Gilmore Girls. So discord.gg, a.k.a. Gilmore Girls, slash h-d-t-g-m.

H D T G M. That is where you go to go on the discord for this show, our show. How did this get made? Not Gilmore girls. I'm sure there's one for Gilmore girls as well. And you can go figure that out, but you can also leave us a voicemail as so many people have at six one nine, Paul ask that six one nine P A U L A S K. Leave us a voicemail, make them short, get to the point if you want and

It might be smart to maybe write it down a little bit, write down what you want to say so you can be cogent, thoughtful, concise and really get it out there. So you're not just like logging on to the Zoom and freestyling a whole episode without having once looked at the script. You know, maybe like maybe you respect the people you work with and like write it down a little bit and do a little bit of legwork beforehand. You don't have to be such an asshole. Yeah.

Okay. Hold on. Okay. Come. Okay. Here we go. Okay. Leave all this in. Okay. Coming up after one final break. Wow. We still have a break. So too many breaks.

Okay. By the way, keep all this in still. Okay. Coming up after one final break, I'll reveal next week's movie. And I'll also recommend a few things that I'm currently loving. But first the audience in Glasgow had so many great questions about the ugly truth that we wanted to share more of them with you. We cut some out. That's what you don't know. You know, there's a lot of stuff we cut out of the episodes and, and you guys at home, you don't get to hear any of that shit except for right now when we're giving you a

couple of morsels. So here we go. Bonus. Deleted scene from the show. Check it out. Hi, my name's Claire. Okay, what's your question? So my question is, what did you think of Jared Butler's accent or lack thereof and why was he speaking from the corner of his mouth for the whole time?

Yeah, so we did touch on this a little bit, right? Was he doing an accent? Was he not doing an accent? I do think he was trying to. I mean, listen, the exposition about his entry into this country was also strange because it sounded like he came here on a Little League scholarship. It does. I don't know what that was. One of the facts about him was that he urinated on someone.

Wait, wait. Gerard Butler? Yes, he was like, he got charged with public urination dot dot dot on someone. Mike. Yeah, Mike. Sorry, not Gerard Butler. But maybe. I mean, here's the thing. He clearly, this accent, this beautiful, mellifluous accent that you all have. Beautiful. He clearly can't get rid of it.

So they had to put some little line to explain it there. And by the way, boy, did it make him charming. For me, it gave it... I'm in the bag. I'm in the bag for Jerry. That's why I was like, just make his sister have the same accent as him. Insane that it's Bonnie Somerville just being like, I don't know what he's doing.

I literally watched a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger played a border patrol cop on the border of Mexico with that accent. I didn't question the goddamn thing. Does it? I didn't think about it for a second. Tell me he's American, I got it. I was like, Sacramento's own Gerard Butler? Absolutely. Absolutely.

Fine by me. All right, your name, your question. My name is Raymond. The logic of the film is that Butler becomes a prick because his heart's breaking by women. Does that mean Colin is going to turn into a prick because we don't find his story? And one last thing, another title for the film, Gerald Butler. Be no storm!

Wait, say it again. Oh, no. Dino Storm. Thank you. Thank you. It's incredible how many syllables the word film has in this accent. I know. It's really crazy to understand. That's where I got lost. When you put, I think, four syllables in film, which is one. Wow.

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All right, welcome back. Now, I'm sure you've noticed that every Monday we put out an old How Did This Get Made episode back into the main feed.

This past week's matinee Monday was Ernest Goes to Jail, a conversation that I barely remember except for June expressing her desire for Ernest that he is when he's evil, Ernest, that he's handsome. And that's this episode so long ago that it is part of the opening theme song, the current opening theme song. Bad Jim Varney looking kind of nice, I believe, is the the lyric in the theme song.

And next week, another How Did This Get Made classic. Certified classic. Moonfall. Guys, guys. Moonfall is awesome. Moonfall is...

absolutely perfect for this show in that way that geostorm, uh, it's got big geostorm energy. Moonfall loved it. Check it out. Uh, uh, watch it. This, this to me, Moonfall, absolutely. Uh, one of those movies that you've got to watch. Uh, uh, don't, don't be like, eh, I'm not in the mood. Watch it. You're not going to regret it. It's a goddamn home run. Okay. It's finally time to announce dun, dun, dun. Our next movie. Oh,

you're all waiting. Everybody's listening to the whole show just to wait for this one moment. And you're right. Next week's movie is the big, one of the biggest box office flops from this year, 2024. That's recent. This movie is only months old. It is called Madam Web, Madam Web, which also features, I'm not going to lie to you guys. Okay.

How did this get made? All-star certified all-star Adam Scott. Wow. From, I mean, who's watched all the fast and furious movies with us, except for the last one. Um, and, and, and, and integral part of the, how did this get made a team? He is a dear friend and boy, did we just go to hell.

town on him in this Madam Web episode. So if you want to hear what we said full blast, you better listen to the app. Rotten Tomatoes rates this film at 11% on their tomato meter. Please, come on. We got to stop talking about Rotten Tomatoes and the tomato meter. It's flawed science. Get rid of it.

David Sims from the Atlantic personal friend, a past guest of this podcast. And I am a past and hopefully future guest on his podcast. Blank check quote, David Sims. I almost admire the sheer lack of effort on display in the acting storytelling and set pieces to say that Johnson in particular phoned in this performance would be an insult to Alexander Graham Bell. Yeah.

Unquote. Whoa. Savage takes from Sims. Wow. The Atlantic, you know, David Sims is just one of the best in the biz.

uh, read them in the Atlantic. One of the most interesting people writing about, uh, film these days. Okay. So I gotta be honest with you. We've already recorded this episode. It's dynamite. I had a great time. Spoiler alert. I loved it. I love the movie. I'm sorry. I'm, I'm, I'm a week early and I'm telling you already. I loved it. Five stars, five star movie. Madam web loved it. Uh,

Oh, so we're going to play the trailer for this now? Do we have to listen to it? No. You have to throw to it, but we don't have to play it. We'll insert a post. Let me now throw to the trailer. Madame Webb. I can see the future. Ezekiel sins. He's got these crazy powers. I'm more interested in why he's trying to kill us. In the future, those girls are going to destroy me. If you want to live, you have to trust me.

Madame Web, coming soon. Exclusively in cinemas. Okay, so that was the trailer for Madame Web. You can stream it, you know, all over the place. It's free on Netflix. If you want to, you can rent it all over the place. Any streaming service will have it for rent, but you don't have to. It's free on Netflix. Also, you can watch it on Hoopla or Canopy if you're... What, Scott? Why are you interrupting me? What do you possibly want? I'm talking about libraries. I'm talking about libraries.

It's not on Hoopla and Canopy, but we like to plug those services separately as just free services you should check out. But it's not on there? It's not on there, no. Okay, so what a fucking bait and switch. What a rug pull. Also, we would love to shout out Hoopla and Canopy, but guess what? You can't watch this movie there. See, Scott? I don't like that. We're giving people a problem. All right, I'll admit it. I've invested in Hoopla and Canopy. Yeah, I knew it.

I knew it. Anyway, I agree. Hoopla and Canopy, Canopy especially, free service provided by the library. We love libraries. We love librarians. We love everything that's going on at the libraries these days. So if you want, if you didn't know, let me be the first to tell you, a lot, oh,

A lot of the movies that we do on this show are available for free on these library-supported apps. So what are you doing wasting your time renting them or watching them with commercials? You're out of your mind. Get to the library.

Oh, okay. Did we do the, I'm sorry. Did we need, is there a section for the discord about libraries? Scott, is it, do we have more, do we have more discord people? Does Dr. Guts 1003 have any thoughts about the library, about Hoopla and Canopy, Scott? God damn. He sent a couple of pages in, but I'll, I'll skip them this week. We'll give it to Paul next time. Okay. So this is section says Jason's picks segment. Great. So before we wrap up,

I've got some stuff that I want to talk about. I wrote a bunch of stuff down. I thought this was going to be most of it. I honestly, I wrote a whole bunch of stuff down cause I thought I was going to do this for most of it, but instead I had to read all this garbage from you guys. So I hope you're happy. Uh, good. Well done assholes. Oh,

RIP David Sanborn. You know, you've heard me talk here about night music, the TV show night music, the Sunday night companion piece, two seasons companion piece to Saturday Night Live produced by Lorne Michaels and Hal Wilner and featuring hosted by David Sanborn. Yeah.

Saxophone, alto saxophone player, David Sanborn, incredible musical host, incredible musician. Um, one of my favorite shows I've been watching it. It's there's a ton of episodes on YouTube. Night music is the song. I can't recommend it enough. I guarantee a band that you like at some point was on that show. If you want to watch the pixies or Sonic youth, it's,

from Sun Ra to Sonny Rollins. This is an incredible collection of live musical performances from such an interesting variety of acts that I cannot recommend it enough. It's night music. RIP David Sanborn. Fantastic. TV shows. I want to shout out some TV shows. These are all British TV shows, okay?

I've talked about such brave girls before. The show is fantastic. They just got ordered for season two. Now's the time to watch season one. Go extraordinary. Season two shows. Fantastic. I think both of them. I think both of those are on Hulu. I didn't write down where these are. So but look in the show notes. I'm going to make Scott make links to all of these.

Such Brave Girls, extraordinary. The John Brown show, Dead Pixels, fantastic. The show, there's two seasons of a beautiful show called Mum.

uh, on Brit box starring Leslie Manville. Uh, it is absolutely fantastic. It's very funny, but also very sweet and heartbreaking. It's giving me big Roger and Val vibes. Uh, uh, if you've heard me talk about, uh, Roger and Val are getting home before, um, fantastic, um,

incredible show, Alfred Molina and Don French, beautiful, uh, half hour show. Uh, this gives me a lot of those vibes. Great, great show. Mum, M U M, um, on Hulu, British Tudor set murder mystery, shard Lake shard Lake. That's the detect. It's apparently books. Haven't read them. Didn't know it, but it's a murder mystery set in Tudor, England.

you've got a bunch of great players in there it's a blast shard lake but here's the oh also i'm

I'm going to keep running the board here. I don't care. We Are Lady Parts season two out now. You're a fool if you're not watching it. It's one of the best half hours of television going. Season one and season two, both on Peacock. Absolutely dynamite show. And the show creator, Nita Manzoor, also had

an incredible, one of my favorite movies of last year called Polite Society. I can't recommend it enough. It's available to stream. It's a great movie. And We Are Lady Parts back for season two. Season three of Shorzy coming up soon. I'm just putting it on your radar, guys. Shorzy coming up season three. I'm rewatching and really want to talk passionately to everyone in our audience about the Andy Daly show Review.

This show was on Comedy Central many years ago. I'm in an episode of it, full disclosure, where we smash. Andy and I both smash cars into oblivion. I spent an entire day smashing a car to bits with an iron rod and have never been so sore in my entire life. For like the three days afterwards, I was destroyed. The show is top to bottom T to be one of the funniest episodes.

silliest, smartest, most absurd shows I've ever seen. I loved it then. I love it even more now. It is a slept on gem. It is a classic. It is absolutely one of the most hilarious shows of the last 20 years. Review. It is now available to stream on probably Paramount Plus. Paramount Plus. I bet you're right, Scott. Paramount Plus. You're right.

I bet that's it. So review on Paramount plus also pound for pound, the funniest show that's working right now, girls five ever, uh, the season three just came out and it's a banger. It's the show is absolutely hilarious. Um, you guys know, I love the Kings. Good wife, good fight. Elsbeth coming off of, uh, Elsbeth Tassioni, uh, one of the side characters in all these shows, uh,

has her own show now. It's fantastic. It's called Elsbeth. There's 10 episodes. Go watch them. It's a blast. And also season four of the Fantastic Kings show, Evil, has just come out or is just coming out. I can't remember. I don't know when it is in relation to this dropping, but that show is available on Paramount Plus and there are four seasons in. This fourth season is going to be the final season. It's fantastic.

The show is a blast. Last but not least, I was on John Gabrus' podcast High and Mighty recently, and we talked about a whole bunch of stuff. Dad TV, all sorts of stuff. But one of the things we talked about was being a middle-aged guy who is only now starting to get into or try and figure out anime. Like, I now have a Crunchyroll subscription. So...

Actually, that's a good question. So if you're out there now, don't go crazy with this, guys. But if you're out there, I'm watching a show called Frearin that is, I think, absolutely incredible. This show is this is a absolutely stunning, beautiful show about friendship and the found family. And it's about, you know, a fellowship of adventurers that are that are, you know, you

fighting demons and dragons and all sorts of stuff that you would expect from high fantasy. But it's also a show that's about human connection and aging. And it's about the relationships that we have and what it takes to maintain them and what it feels like to lose touch with people and then find them or find them too late. It's such a human show. It's a show about being human told through the eyes of an elf.

an elf who is essentially immortal. And so what is it when you are, when you live that long and time is so, um,

it seems to just stretch out in front of you. What is the lifespan of a human? It is, it's a blink and their life is done. And so it's about this, this elf named Freeran who it kind of jumps back and forth in time to these two different fellowships, to these two different fellowships she has and how she is dealing with them and learning how to be more engaged in a better. Anyway, I don't want to,

drone on about it, but boy, it is absolutely stunningly beautiful and, and, and nothing, you know, they still fight dragons and do all that stuff, but it's about so much more. Uh, it's called Freerun Beyond Journey's End and it's absolutely dynamite.

Okay, so on to here, I've asked a couple of times if anybody could help me find the Judy Sill documentary. And guess what? It's out. I've seen it. And it's fantastic. Lost Angel, the genius of Judy Sill. Judy Sill, 70s era singer-songwriter. An incredible story, a heartbreaking story in many ways. She puts out a number of absolutely stunning records. And

And the documentary has interviews with, you know, the peer group at that time for Judy Sill in Los Angeles is your Jackson Browns, your Linda Ronstadt, your James Taylor's like that era of L.A., the troubadour, that that era of that 70s L.A. scene and Judy Sill, an integral part of it, but like a kind of lost to time person. And those records are a little lost and they are.

absolutely beautiful. She's an incredible singer-songwriter. I can't recommend the documentary enough, but even more so, please, if you don't watch the doc, seek out the albums. Go to wherever you listen to music and listen to some Judy Sill. You won't be disappointed. It's fantastic.

OK, here's the thing. So a number of times I've come on here and asked for people's help finding stuff. And boy, have you guys helped on multiple occasions because of you? I have now access to Roger and Val, for example, or because of you, the audience. I now have access to 30 something. Thank you. Thank you. If you've helped get me the stuff that I'm looking for. And guess what? I'm still looking for stuff.

So one of the things I'm looking for is Smiley's people, the John le Carre mini series, the, uh, the Alec Guinness mini series of, uh, the John, the, the Smiley story. Uh, can't find it streaming anywhere. Can't find it. So if you have a way to get Smiley's people, let me know. I'm,

also looking to see, and maybe this is just obvious and I just don't know. And maybe the answer is I got to get a corn TV or something like that, but I would like to see the adaptation of Jeff Lemire's Essex County. It was done in Canada. I love that comic or that graphic novel so much. I'm a big Jeff Lemire fan. I love everything he's doing with Andrea Sorrentino. Uh,

tenement and the Black Barn stuff, all this stuff I think is great. And I love his writing. And I'm so intrigued that they made an adaptation of this book, Essex County. Can't find it anywhere. So if you know how to get me Essex County, the TV show, send it away. I know it's Canadian, so it's probably, I'm sure what's Graham from Saskatchewan is going to have something to fucking say about it. God damn it.

Okay. Those are the thing. And I'm still looking for 32 sounds, the documentary 32 sounds. So somebody send me that. Okay, great. So those are the things I wanted to recommend. Actually, no, there's a couple more things. Podcasts. I recommended it a couple of times. I recommended it, I think the last time I was on, but boy, it's in full swing. And this season of Dissect about MF Doom is fantastic.

I can't recommend it enough. It's an incredible show. It's an incredible deep dive into MF Doom and Mad Lib and the Mad Villainy album, but MF Doom as a whole, starting at KMD and going all the way through.

It is absolutely riveting stuff. Fantastic. I think it's a great show. Dissect already, one of my favorite shows. From the Kendrick season to the Frank Ocean season to the recent Radiohead season, I think it's pound for pound one of the best music podcasts out there. I'd say that and Song Exploder. And All Songs Considered are some of my absolute favorites. And here's a plug. I will be a guest on All Songs Considered, I believe,

next week, I think, or within the next few weeks. I'll be honest. I'm not sure if I'm going to, I'm supposed to say that or if I'm supposed to announce that I'm doing it, but I recorded an episode and I hope they put it out soon. We talked about a lot of great music and I had a great time and I was truly absolutely delighted to be on a show that I listened to every week. So absolute blast. Um, I will also recommend the brand new podcast from friend of the show, Alan McLeod. Um,

aka Molasses Boy. You've heard him on Doughboys. You've heard him on myriad other things. He has a new podcast called Walking About. I love this conceptually. It is just him on a walk with a friend in Los Angeles. So far, there's only two episodes. Janet Varney and Mike Mitchell. Both are fantastic. And they are just friends on a walk shooting the shit. And boy, do I enjoy that. You know, it gives me those vibes of...

Two Johns Don't Make a Right. You know, it is a true hangout show and it's great. And Alan McLeod, one of the funniest people you might know him from You're the Worst or from many other things, but I think it's great. So that's Walking About with Alan McLeod. You guys gotta check it out. And I mentioned it earlier, but I do want to give

A special shout out to an episode of High and Mighty that I did recently with John Gabrus. It was a live stream. I don't think the live stream is available, but the podcast episode is out. We talk about a ton of television. We talk about a ton of stuff. Sean Clements and Carl Tart stop in for a chat. Check out John Gabrus' podcast.

high and mighty in general. But that's a good jumping on point. If you haven't listened to it, we talk about a lot of the stuff that Paul and I have talked about here, including Bosch, including a lot of other dad TV. So get involved. And then if you like it, subscribe to John's podcast and then also sign up for his Patreon, which I've talked about a lot here. The Action Boys. Gabrus does it with

Ryan Stanger and Ben Rogers. It's three dudes talking for like three hours plus about like seventies, eighties and nineties action movies. So if you want to listen to three, very smart, funny people goof around and talk for three hours about Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, this is the podcast for you. It's called action boys. It's only available on Patreon. That's the deal.

Okay, here we are. We're at the end of the show. We're racing to the end. Credits and end segment is what this section is called. That's it for the show. Rate and review us. Guys, I swear to God, it helps. It makes no sense, but it helps. Take a brief moment now to rate and review the show. If you listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, make sure you're following us.

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