EP. 336.5 — Last Looks: D&D & The King’s Daughter (w/ Ike Barinholtz)

Paul Scheer [00:00:01] It’s time to do it over. Talking about paintings that inspired performances and just how fast a horse can run. You’ll understand all of this in just a second, because now it’s time for How Did This Get Made Last Looks. Hit the theme!

Music [00:00:18] [Intro Song]

Paul Scheer [00:00:34] What is up my blue lipstick men and my French mermaids? I’m your host, Paul Scheer. And welcome to a very special supersized edition of Last Looks. That’s right. Today on Last Looks, we are not only going to be talking about Dungeons and Dragons, but also the King’s daughter. We’re going to have special guests galore. Because later in the show, we are joined by How Did This Get Made all star, Ike Barinholtz will be here. You know him from episodes like Cellular, On the Line and Bats. He’s gonna be talking about his brand new improvised comedy podcast called The Chris Chapman Do Over, which is hilarious. Since I’ve interviewed him, I’ve listened to two episodes and they are great. Basically, he’s a shock jock who, is trying to get back from being canceled. It’s him, Lisa Gilroy, Neal Casey. Some of the funniest people ever. And each week, very special guest stars. It’s done by the same team that did Amy Poehler’s improvised podcast, Doctor Sheila. So we’ll get into that in a little bit. Plus, we’re going to reveal next week’s movie. But before all that, a huge shout out to Quinn for that opening theme. Quinn. Thank you. That was awesome! I loved it and we want more songs. If you have a theme for Last Looks, send it to HowDidThisGetMade@Earwolf.com please. But keep them short. Brevity is the soul of wit, and we will all appreciate a 15 to 20 second song. I mean, it’s just the way it goes, people. You might have heard this last week, but I’m going to repeat it again and I repeat it again. For a long time. I wrote a book. I literally just finished the copy edit of my book seconds ago. It is called Joyful Recollections of Trauma and you can preorder it now. You can get it as an e-book. You can get it as a hardback. You could get it as an audiobook. And I beg you, get the book, get the ebook. It’s important in the publishing industry to sell books before they actually come out. I didn’t know that. I want to tell you a little bit about this book, really briefly. This book was made truly because of you, the How Did This Get Made audience. And I’m not saying that Hyperbolically when I started telling these stories on the show, you made Supercuts. There were blog posts about them, and you kind of gave me this feeling like, oh my gosh, maybe there is something here that I could turn into something bigger. So I started writing and I’m I love my book. I mean, thankfully, no, I’m excited, but I put a lot of time into it, and I really wanted to do something that was special, something that I think gives you what you want, but also something that you don’t expect. And, and I think I accomplished that. The only thing I know I definitely accomplished is I need more. I need to do it more. I love this process, I love writing. I started this Substack, because I want to keep on writing, and if I actually sell a bunch of books, I’ll be able to maybe make another one, I don’t know. Oh my God, that seems daunting. After the last ten days, I just had. Anyway, Joyful Recollections of Trauma is the book. It is, collection of childhood tales and more. You can preorder it wherever you get your books. And, here’s the other thing. We know that How Did This Get Made has an amazing, group of people that support local public libraries. The easiest thing you could do is just go to your local public library’s website and request they buy my book. That’s actually great, too. It’s like buying a book, but you don’t have spend any money. Although I would love you to to spend some money on the book. I don’t see a dime of it, but I’ll tell you this much if you preorder the book and if you save your receipt, I have something very special for you. Something that I’m going to mail to your house. And I’m not just talking to one person. Why am I doing this? I’m spending a lot of money to do something crazy, because I appreciate anyone who would go out of their way to purchase my book. So that’s that’s why I’m doing it. You can go to my website. You can go to How Did This Get Made website, and you’ll see links to get the book. Anyway, more on that. I’ll talk about it a lot, but I’m excited and the audiobook is going to be fucking fun too. How Did This Get Made is on the road. We’re continuing being on the road for a little bit. February 3rd and 4th. We’re going to be in San Diego and San Francisco. Get your tickets there, and we’re going to be in Europe from March 28th to April 3rd. We’re gonna be in London for two nights, going to be in Glasgow, we’re going to be in Belfast and Dublin. And man, I gotta tell you, London and Dublin, I think we’re sold out. And all those shows are which is amazing. Belfast. I’m looking at you. We gotta we’re close. But Belfast. Let’s get those tickets going on here. Belfast. Show them what you’re made of. We’ll also be at the Netflix Is a Joke festival. May 8th through the 10th at Largo. Oh, so many live shows, so much going on, books, podcasts, so many things. We’ll be talking to you. Oh, by the way, I might actually include you on the audiobook. Well, we’ll get into all that. All right, let’s get into it. During our last two episodes, we talked at length about Dungeons and Dragons and The King’s Daughter. We had questions and we might have even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set a straight fact. Check us if you will. It is now time for corrections and omissions.

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Paul Scheer [00:05:55] All right. Thank you, Cool skull, for that great theme. First up we will be talking about Dungeons and Dragons, a film the discord user GrahamS thought should have had the tagline “Dungeons and Dragons, D&D by way of Dumb and Dumber.” I like that. I like it a lot. Can I give you a pitch to improve it, Graham? Just D&D: Dumb and dumber. That’s how I would say it. I mean, I’m stealing your joke. All right, let’s go to the discord. GrumbleBottom writes “I know poor Morgan got overworked for no pay in that D&D episode. And I thank him for his service as a long time player and sometime dungeon master. I sympathize with him. Go, Morgan. Also, how did that entire episode happen without mentioning that Richard O’Brien, Riff Raff from Rocky Horror, and Mr. Hand from Dark City was at the head of the Thieves Guild, and that the Elf King was played by Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor from Doctor Who, who turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the rings. Justice for Riff Raff and the Fourth Doctor. Now, let me just nerd out on you here. Scott, our amazing producer and I teamed up here to kind of do some research. Accounts do vary about whether or not Tom Baker was actually offered the role, or simply made it to a short list. Okay. We’re not sure that, you know. I don’t want to I don’t want to slight anybody who got the part. Either way, Baker said he would have turned down the role because he wasn’t willing to leave his wife for an 18 month shoot in New Zealand, so that’s what he got there. Little did he know that he could have brought his wife potentially. Or I mean, who knows? Again, I don’t want to judge anybody. I would probably have a hard time, leaving anywhere for 18 months as well. That’s a long, long time. But why didn’t we mention Richard O’Brien and Tom Baker? I don’t know, because it was not that on a list of the most insane things in the movie falls like in the deep 80s, anyway. Dungeons and A Dragon writes, “Some info regarding the conversation about the dwarf’s height. Although the producers were looking for someone under five feet to play a very tough dwarf. Five foot four actor Lee Aaron Berg said he told them I got a few more inches, but a foot more talent than the other short people they were auditioning. And Aaron Berg said he compensated for his taller height by walking with the stoop and spreading his legs wide.” Guess what? Didn’t work. And and I gotta say, five foot four. And even at five foot. Not really what I think of when I’m thinking about that type of a character. Great performance, but I don’t think he fooled anyone. But the talent was all there. Doctor guts 1003 writes “So what exactly is Ridley getting knighted for at the end of the film? He was responsible for bringing the Red Dragons to Izmir, which created more harm than help. Then he opts not to kill Jeremy Irons, leaving that up to Thora Birch to take care of. And if we’re saying he’s worthy of being knighted simply for going on a journey, then the rest of the crew deserves a similar honor. Or is this like a Chewbacca situation where only the white guys receive the honor despite the others going on the journey?” Boom. Slam. You know what, doctor guts? I 100% think they tried to copy Star Wars there, and they had no reason why. There was no reason given. And maybe it was a badge of dishonor. Maybe it’s a dishonorable discharge he was getting. He should have gotten a dishonorable discharge at that point. Biggie writes “As a long time Dungeon master…” Wow, we got a lot here. “…I’ve had many players like the Snails character at my table. They steal random stuff all the time and mouth off to villains that are much higher level than the characters. All of that is fine, but often leads to hijacking of the story and making it all about their characters. I wondered if the absolutely brutal killing of Snails in the movie was a nod to those types of problem players. I know I killed the problem PCs table in a similarly brutal fashion, so they could come back as another character that might fit the table better. There weren’t enough nods to the game in general to make me believe that that is true, but I really wanted Damon Wayans to come back for five minutes after Snails death in a slightly different costume and inexplicably join the party seamlessly. That would have been really like D&D.” Okay, that’s actually a pretty great idea, but, I you know, I don’t really have enough experience to to give my take on that. I do have the experience to tell you that it wasn’t Damon Wayans in the film. It was Marlon Wayans. You were close in the Wayan’s World. But not, but not not the right Wayans. It’s. But anyway, like I said, I’m not a dungeon master. I don’t know, maybe I should call in some help here from a true Dungeon master. Morgan, what do you think?

Morgan [00:10:52] Hey Biggie, you’re right not to believe it. The movie doesn’t stay close enough to the source material for a deep cut like treating scenes as a problem player to be intentional. Snails didn’t even hog the spotlight. As Paul pointed out, Ridley was undeniably the star of the movie, and having a star at all throws any concept of party dynamics out the window. Jason’s guess that Wayan’s needed to cut the shooting short to do Requiem for a dream seems more likely, but yeah, the beer fest gag of “I’m Snails’ brother Dails, and I want to help you finish what my brother started, also to honor him. Call me Snails.” It’s a time honored tradition in old school D&D, as that game could be quite lethal, and making an identical character to the deceased was easy and let you still use the deceased equipment.

Paul Scheer [00:11:34] Boom. Thank you. Morgan. Morgan working the phones. We cannot get enough of Morgan. All right, and as we are working the phones, let’s go to David from New York.

Listener [00:11:44] Hey Paul, this is David here from New York. I don’t know if you know this, but James Cameron almost directed this movie. Basically, the producer of the film, was a really big fan of Dungeons and Dragons, and he reached out, got a hold of James Cameron. James Cameron came in for a meeting to direct the film. And the head of Wizards of the coast who owned Dungeons & Dragons at the time. I think it’s still one of them. I’m not sure. Anyway, they, the person who was in charge, this woman, I forgot her name, decided to tell James Cameron. Why should you direct Dungeon & Dragons? What can you bring to the table that will help us make a good film? Essentially acting like he was a nobody. So James Cameron got pissed off. Decided that he didn’t want this movie. For good reason. And, the producer, couldn’t get anybody else, so he decided to, direct the movie, which is why it’s so horrible. But, yeah, the guy behind some of the best films in the 20th century, got told by a nobody that he didn’t matter. Anyway. So I will let you go. Have a good one, guys. Thanks.

Paul Scheer [00:12:50] You know what? Honestly, this is a movie that probably was around forever, and I could see James Cameron actually doing a great version of this movie. According to the LA times, Francis Ford Coppola and Renny Harlin were also attached to direct at certain times, but deals fell through. We might have even talked about that on the show. I think it’s one of those movies where everybody has a meeting on it. I remember a couple of years ago, everybody I knew had a meeting about doing like, the M&Ms movie. You know, they had they have those M&Ms before, like, you know, like the funny M&Ms. Like, you know, something? It’s like, were you attached? Were you interested? Well, who knows? You were there. You did something. I would have loved to seen any of those people direct this film, but clearly. It wasn’t going to happen. These people, these producers pissed everyone off. Let’s hear from Jackie in Brooklyn. Jackie. What do you got?

Listener [00:13:44] Hi, Paul. I was at the show in Philly during the episode. You guys use the word scepter, which is a great word and is a word that I wish would be used in the movie, but they used the word rod throughout the movie, to talk about the the rod that they were holding needed to find all of that, and I, I guess this is really a question for Morgan. But I was curious if that is a Dungeons and Dragons term or if that is just something that they use in the movie, because it’s for kids and it’s easier to understand. But anyways, that’s it. Thanks so much. Happy New Year. And I’ll just give a shout out to, my friends Maria and Kevin and their new son Myles that I went to the show with who was just born on New Year’s Eve. Thanks so much. Bye.

Paul Scheer [00:14:34] All right. A rod/scepter again? I don’t know the answer. I have to throw it to my dungeon Master Morgan. Is it a rod? Is it a scepter?

Morgan [00:14:47] Hi, Jackie. Good guess. Rod is, in fact, a classification of magic items in D&D which Scepters would fall under. Iconic examples include the Rod of Rulership, Rod of Wonder, and the Immovable rod. But the iconic item to control dragons is actually an orb of dragon kind. No idea why the movie decided to use a rod instead. They could have just made the orb on the end of the rod and called it a day. Maybe they had a leftover prop from another movie and had run out of money.

Paul Scheer [00:15:11] Thank you Morgan. Setting the record straight once again. And finally, Morgan from Philly. What do you got to say?

Morgan [00:15:19] Hey, Morgan here and I have a few corrections and omissions of my own. Jason mentioned how Marina barely uses her magic, even when it would be super helpful. This is one of the few D&D things the movie got right, albeit perhaps unintentionally. Paul clipped about her being in her first year of wizard school, so she only knew one spell, but Paul was right on the money here. Wizards learn more spells as they level up. Not only that, but mages and D&D can only use their spells a finite number of times. A first level wizard before this movie was released could only cast one spell per day. Then they had to resort to using a crossbow until they got a good night’s sleep. Later editions of the game gave mages weaker spells that could be cast over and over again, but to this day, stronger effects like opening portals or zapping a whole crowd with lightning are still finite resources which mages have to judiciously manage.

Paul Scheer [00:16:10] Okay, wow, all right. I am surprised that is accurate. Well, I guess you know, maybe it’s not great for a film. You know, it’s like, oh, Schwarzenegger, in this is a robot Terminator, but in this movie, he doesn’t kill. I don’t I don’t agree with it. I don’t, I agree with what you’re saying, but I disagree with it. Anyway, so many great D&D corrections and omissions. Thank you to Morgan for jumping in here and answering, all of these questions. And you know what? Morgan was such a true, great sport this entire time. People loved him. There were so many overwhelming comments about him, and I just wanted to give Morgan a chance to say thank you to all of you who supported him.

Morgan [00:16:56] Hey, How Did This Get Made fans, Morgan here. It was an honor to rep my fellow Philly nerds at the show. Hearing 1800 people chanting my name on a stage I’ve seen Neil Gaiman speak on was one of the wildest experiences of my life. Since then, I’ve been telling the story to anyone who would listen as I eagerly awaited the episode drop. And I’ve also been DMing for campaigns and playing in three others. I’m not really on social media, but friends have been showing me the lovely posts y’all made across different platforms. Seeing everyone support has been incredibly flattering. And if you’re not sick of me, some fellow audience members interviewed me for their podcast Trippy. You can check that out. I’ve also been lurking on the How Did This Get Made subreddit and was considering doing an AMA there. Throw some posts up if you’d be interested in that. Thanks again to Paul, Jason, and June for letting me hold the mic, and to Philly for giving me one of the best nights of my life.

Paul Scheer [00:17:49] Thank you Morgan, and we’ll be right back after a quick few words from our sponsors.

Paul Scheer [00:17:57] Welcome back. That is enough of Dungeons and Dragons. Now it is time to get into corrections and omissions from The King’s Daughter, a movie that discord user PawnPaloma thinks could have had the tagline “The King’s daughter: my so-called mermaid.” Yes, I love it. So-called life reference. I’m into it. Let’s go back to the discord. JohnNotConnor writes “The gang pointed out several instances on how cheap and thrown together this movie seemed. One more example is that when the quartet is supposed to play the special mermaid dissecting Requiem, Marie destroys their instruments to sabotage the ritual. Or so we’re told, because as soon as Marie bustin on them, we smash cut to the next scene and we never see her destroy the instruments. Clearly, the instruments were rentals.” Boom! Wonderful eye. You are 100% correct. But didn’t she smash up some instruments earlier, too? Like when the king was listening to music? I feel like they had one set to smash and they couldn’t do it again. I forgot this movie because it feels like that was recorded like last summer. Sean McBee writes “Just to expand on Paul’s point about Versailles being far from the water, I looked it up and it is roughly 115 miles to the nearest coastline, which is the English Channel. So here’s some math. In the absolute best circumstance, a horse can ride about 100 miles a day, though typically it’s 20 to 35 miles. A solar eclipse from start to finish lasts about 2.5 hours, with totality lasting 7.5 minutes at most. All this to say is that the idea of getting from sky to the shore during the course of the eclipse is just about impossible in a car, and no stretching of creditability makes it feasible in this film.” Thank you Sean for doing the math. I also like how much leverage you gave a horse from 25 miles a day to 100. I feel like you really, you really, are being paid by big horse. Okay. Rocket Wesker writes “The movie did give an explanation for why the heroine can breathe underwater. One of the mermaid’s powers is that if one swims close enough to the mermaid, then that person is able to breathe underwater too.” Yes, I think we knew that. “But this is also why captain Jack boring was able to escape Versailles with the mermaid through the water. If I recall correctly, the heroine also told the king about this and listed it as one of the reasons why the mermaid should be considered sentient.” All right, so. But are you saying that you could force the mermaid to give you that power? Because it feels like the mermaid like grants it, you just can’t take it. Anyway, I don’t remember that part of the movie or even our issue with it. So all I’m going to say is, yeah, you’re right. Let’s go back to the phones. We got Eric. What do you got, Eric?

Listener [00:20:59] This is Eric. I’m a history teacher, and I wanted to say a couple of things about the king’s daughter. First of all, I don’t know if you look up Louis the 14th. There’s, like, a very famous painting of him. It’s like the one at the top of the Wikipedia page where he has, like, an outstretched arm, and he’s holding the scepter. And Pierce Brosnan on quite a few occasions that this movie basically like hits that pose. He does the exact same thing. And it was, I don’t know, to me, like, that’s still in the painting in my class and all that stuff. It just looks weird. Like he doesn’t really do any research. He just like looked at the picture and was like, okay, I got it. Anyway, thanks.

Paul Scheer [00:21:40] Oh my God, you know what? Scott, our amazing producer, he actually found that portrait and several screengrabs from the film. We’ll put this on our social media here. But you’re right. Yes, he’s a straight up stealing that pose. You know, some people, it starts through, physicalization. That’s where the acting becomes. Some people put on a costume and they become the character. Pierce Brosnan was like, give me a scepter or rod again. I don’t want to get into that debate. And, I’ll be this guy. I mean, it clearly, this is what I have an issue with. Clearly, Louis the 14th was posing for a picture. Pierce Brosnan decided that, his the 14th would always be posing for a picture? Oh my God, this is amazing. You have to see these pictures. And now let’s go to Andrew from New Jersey.

Listener [00:22:24] Hi, Paul. I just listened to The King’s Daughter, and I got to say, I was looking into the book, The Moon and the Sun that it’s based off of because I thought like, oh, that’s interesting. And then sometimes things cause some of your background or fandom. The author, Vonda McIntyre, actually wrote several novelizations of Star Trek movies, including Wrath of Khan, Star Trek three The Search for Spock, and Star Trek four The Voyage Home, which has been discussed on the show before. And I thought you would think that that was interesting. Thanks so much.

Paul Scheer [00:22:57] Hey, I love it. I love a Star Trek novelization. I’ve read many Star Trek movie novelizations. As a matter of fact, I have a whole book, shelf full of movie novelizations. A lost art that I wish would come back. Well, way to go. I feel like we should not be judging, this movie on the book, right? Vonda McIntyre shouldn’t take any shrapnel from what happened here in this film. I would like to go read some of her Star Trek movie novelizations and, and relive all my favorite moments from Trek. Anyway, great corrections and omissions this week, but there can only be one winner. I had to tell you, this is hard to do, but I think I’m giving the winner out of all the calls to Eric. That’s right. Eric, you finding out that Pierce Brosnan made his entire character choice based off a painting truly is the most mind blowing thing that I’ve heard on this show in quite some time. And you know what? Because of that, you are going to get an amazing song from our friend Casey Campbell. Hit it, Casey.

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Paul Scheer [00:24:29] Okay. 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/HDTGM or call us at 619-PAUL-ASK. Coming up, Jason and I are going to be joined by Ike Barinholtz to chat about his hilarious new podcast, The Chris Chapman Do-Over, and so much more. Plus, as always, I will reveal next week’s movie. But first, get ready because we got a bonus scene from our King’s Daughter show. Take a listen.

Paul Scheer [00:25:00] Sir. What’s your name? What’s your question?

Audience Member [00:25:02] Jim and my question is, who do you think did the Free Willy escape better? Willy the killer whale or the mermaid escaping over the wall of the grotto?

Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:14] Holding. Holding. The guy. Captain Jack. Captain Jack Boring in her arms.

Paul Scheer [00:25:21] Well, yeah. Why could she escape at that moment, I. And again, this is where when I watch a movie like this, it makes me dumber. But I’m like, is there a reason why? That was a moment where she could escape?

June Diane Raphael [00:25:34] Maybe something happened with the wheel that they did? I don’t know, Paul.

Paul Scheer [00:25:38] Yeah, the wheel was a part of it. He came up on that wheel.

June Diane Raphael [00:25:41] That was spooky.

Paul Scheer [00:25:42] Really spooky. That’s when I realized I was like, these guys look too much alike because I was like, who is that? Is that the boyfriend or is that the evil guy?

Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:50] Also, the wheel was moving so slowly. He had so much time to get off of it. And and she has. So you watch her work out every single detail. And he’s like. And she’s like. This. This goes on for so long in a movie in which every scene is 15 to 30s long itself. They are cutting scenes mid-sentence from people. It’s so not working.

Paul Scheer [00:26:35] Hey everybody, I think you probably all have noticed this, but every Monday we rerelease old episodes online in the stream. We don’t have a vault right now, so that’s the best way we can combat this. And we are putting some fun ones out for rerelease. This week’s Matinee Monday was Free Jack with Sinclair and Phoebe Robinson, and next week will be the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic Street Fighter with John Gimberling. So keep on checking out these replays. Okay, now it is time to welcome to the stage of the podcast, to the recording. How Did This Get Made all star, a true Statham maniac. We’re going to talk about the Beekeeper. Oh, you know it. Tom McWaters, play us in as we meet Ike Barinholtz.

Music [00:27:21] [Just Chat Theme]

Paul Scheer [00:27:41] First of all, Ike, I’m excited that you’re here. We’ll just jump right in and say, do you know the premise of the new Jason Statham movie, The Beekeeper?

Ike Barinholtz [00:27:50] The Beekeeper I do, he is just he’s just a simple, humble Beekeeper.

Paul Scheer [00:27:56] Former assassin.

Ike Barinholtz [00:27:57] Former assassin.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:27:58] I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry to tell you that I have read the script for Beekeeper.

Paul Scheer [00:28:04] Whoa.

Ike Barinholtz [00:28:07] How did you get your hands on that thing?

Jason Mantzoukas [00:28:09] Oh, I got my mitts on that script. I got my mitts on that script, and it’s a blast.

Paul Scheer [00:28:13] There is someone in the trailer that I was like, oh, man, that’s a Mantzoukas part. They’re like, because basically he’s friends with Phylicia Rashad, Jason Statham, an older woman, that he takes care of her bees, and then she gets like internet phished and then commits suicide, and he goes off to, like, avenge her death.

Ike Barinholtz [00:28:35] This was Patty Chayefsky last script, right?

Jason Mantzoukas [00:28:36] Yes. Yeah.

Ike Barinholtz [00:28:37] Yeah, he wrote network and this was.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:28:39] It’s based on a Trumbo, a Dalton Trumbo idea.

Paul Scheer [00:28:43] I just saw today that there’s some rumors going around that, like, there’s apparently a twist in the movie that was based on Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, and they’re like. And the filmmakers are like, no, no, that is not true.

Ike Barinholtz [00:28:56] No this scene with an old confused man and his son with his dick out. That’s based on two different guys.

Paul Scheer [00:29:01] But so the so there is this, this thing with the Beekeeper where, like, you know, she’s being internet phished, scammed and like, they cut to, like, the guy doing it and like, he’s in a room of, like, all these people, like, dressed super fashionable, like, they all went to Zara and they’re all on computers, and he’s in the center on a headpiece, and like, he gets her, you know, bank information. He’s like, yeah.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:29:29] Like The Wolf of Wall Street?

Paul Scheer [00:29:30] Yes.

Ike Barinholtz [00:29:30] As opposed to just a massive call center in Bangalore.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:29:34] Yeah.

Paul Scheer [00:29:36] I just love that. It was like super like they tried to make it, like, real sexy. What? What’s going on here?

Jason Mantzoukas [00:29:41] Oh, yeah. No, it’s going to be. I’m. I cannot wait to see it.

Paul Scheer [00:29:46] Great. The reviews are literally like, oh, they’re.

Ike Barinholtz [00:29:49] Good reviews?

Paul Scheer [00:29:50] Oh great reviews.

Ike Barinholtz [00:29:51] Because I was going to say I can’t wait to be doing, How Did This Get Made live in 2045.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:29:57] I don’t maybe we’ll do it, but it is a lot more. At least it’s when I read it I was like, oh, this feels a lot more like it wants to be playing in the John Wick like style versus like a, Chevy Chelios, a Crank Jason Statham.

Paul Scheer [00:30:14] From what I understand though, it’s still, like, really fun and super crazy, right? Like there is, yes.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:30:21] I mean, quite a lot of his, assassin skills, I think I’m allowed to say, because having having read it are because, are using explosive honey and other bee related things.

Ike Barinholtz [00:30:36] Well, you know, JS is probably still very like, enmeshed in the bee like he’s probably on set of his new movie right now being like, “Oh you’re putting honey in your tea, eh? You know, the honey comes from a bloody fucking bee. A bloody fucking bee. Did you know that once the queen dies. The hive is lost completely.”

Jason Mantzoukas [00:30:54] “I’d like to have you come down and check out my apiary. Have you seen my apiary?”

Paul Scheer [00:31:00] “Just give me one second. I’m gonna put on this yellow jacket.”

Ike Barinholtz [00:31:05] “I got it at Free and Easy at Highland Park.”

Jason Mantzoukas [00:31:09] “Common misconception. Wasps and bees, very different.”

Ike Barinholtz [00:31:11] “Wasps and Hornets are nasty. Bee are actually peaceful. But bad news for you. I’m not a bloody bee.” We gotta go. We gotta do it.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:31:24] The podcast that is just the three Stathams.

Paul Scheer [00:31:26] Yes. Oh my gosh, I’m all in. I’m all in for it. I’m loving.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:31:29] The whole thing is all we want to do is get a chance to interview Jason.

Ike Barinholtz [00:31:35] That’s the goal.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:31:36] Until then.

Paul Scheer [00:31:37] It’s on the table. At one point. I feel like I had heard he was like he was amused by our fascination by it.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:31:49] Oh, really? That’s incredible.

Ike Barinholtz [00:31:52] It is. I hope you understand it is nothing but legit fan worship. I think he is the coolest man who’s ever fucking lived. This is not like, oh, Steven Segal.

Paul Scheer [00:32:02] And like an Olympic diver. Like he just is doing it all. A model. Doing it all. The guy. Guy. He’s got the goods.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:32:09] I love it. I’m obsessed.

Paul Scheer [00:32:11] And we need those. We need. We need a movie called The Beekeeper. Like we need. We need this.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:32:18] And the extended Beekeeper universe when we get there.

Paul Scheer [00:32:22] Absolutely.

Ike Barinholtz [00:32:24] EBKU?

Paul Scheer [00:32:25] Yes. By the way, speaking of extended universes, Ike, you are now in an extended universe.

Ike Barinholtz [00:32:31] I’m in a marvel movie. I’m in it. I did a marvel movie. Sorry, sorry. Marvelous Mrs. Maisel movie. Oh, wait. I’m playing Steve Allen in season six. Very excited. Breaking news.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:32:46] I think that’s a crossover. That’s the crossover I want Marvel’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Paul Scheer [00:32:52] So you have, it’s the Marvel’s. You get all three of the ladies, and.

Ike Barinholtz [00:32:56] And then Mrs. Maisel’s there. So you got Captain Marvel shooting lasers, and then Miss Maisel.

Paul Scheer [00:33:03] I’m not a superhero. I’m pretty good here.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:05] But gotta remember, she’s also Lois Lane, isn’t she? Is it? Isn’t it isn’t Brosnahan our newest Lois Lane?

Ike Barinholtz [00:33:13] Is that true? Okay.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:15] In Gunn’s movie? James Gunn’s movie?

Ike Barinholtz [00:33:17] I did not know that.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:20] That might be wrong.

Paul Scheer [00:33:23] No, I think you’re right.

Ike Barinholtz [00:33:23] I auditioned for Superman. I haven’t heard back yet, so I’m still.

Paul Scheer [00:33:26] Me too. We should check it. We should follow up on that.

Ike Barinholtz [00:33:28] Yeah. I can’t imagine a world where I didn’t book that, but like most. Fine.

Paul Scheer [00:33:32] I mean, we’ll see. I, my audition for Superman, my character was shirtless, and I. And. And I did that, shirtless in jeans, like, you put the shirt on, and I was.

Ike Barinholtz [00:33:44] Like, yeah, I didn’t have fun take for mine. I was, I did my audition. I was like, Superman. But what if he’s kind of dealing with a bout of acid reflux? Yeah, like, imagine if Superman ate a really big dinner the night before, and he’s just, like, a little mild burping. Oh.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:34:03] Yeah, I did mine nude. I did mine nude because I assumed that the suit was CG. You know, I assumed the suit was VFX and I’m like, they’re going to put it on me. They’re going to do they’re going to do that themselves.

Ike Barinholtz [00:34:16] For the audition. They did that so they could see how you look at the movie.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:34:20] I’m like, hey, listen, I gotta I have to show them the, the, the, the, the canvas that they’re going to be painting.

Paul Scheer [00:34:26] Of course, I mean, that’s, that’s the whole thing. It’s like and I, you know, I do all that kind of work and I, I got into an extreme regimen that I for the audition, you know, and, and I gained a lot I gained a lot of weight. I just drank the protein powders. I didn’t actually do the workout. And I found that that made me very bloated.

Ike Barinholtz [00:34:41] I just like James. The idea of James Gunn looking at a board that has, like a one picture of like, the kid from the bear, like one picture of like.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:34:50] Jacob Elordi.

Ike Barinholtz [00:34:52] And then just a nude Mantzoukas. He’s just like, which way do I go? All right, all right.

Paul Scheer [00:34:57] This is interesting. I like this, you know, look, I’m open to interesting ideas. I worked on this, movie where one of the actors is now in, Superman, but, between he was working on a movie. The strike happened, and then they came back. He got Superman in between, right? Some version of it. So anyway, the movie was shut down for weeks and weeks because of the strike, and he came back to set just jacked to the max. And we were like, oh, this isn’t gonna match the rest of the movie.

Ike Barinholtz [00:35:31] Oh, well. His one arm was jacked from holding a sign all day.

Paul Scheer [00:35:39] I think they had to throw him in like, like sweatshirts for the rest of the movie.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:35:43] Oh that’s hilarious. Oh, my God, we gotta get jacked. Guys, we’ve gotta get jacked.

Paul Scheer [00:35:48] We got to.

Ike Barinholtz [00:35:49] Talk to someone. Years ago, I think it was Mark Duplass. We talked about, like, we don’t want to go crazy, but what if, like, 6 or 7 of us just shared, like, low doses of HGH with each other?

Paul Scheer [00:35:59] Just a little bit.

Ike Barinholtz [00:36:00] Yeah. Like the syringe comes, I shoot it, I run it over. I shoot an eighth of it.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:36:07] Sharing needles?

Ike Barinholtz [00:36:08] Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. Oh, no. We’re all, we’re all safe.

Paul Scheer [00:36:11] Alcohol pad to clean it off.

Ike Barinholtz [00:36:12] Yeah, yeah. You clean it off. You wipe it off the Jason real quick. You know, just wipe off your arm. You wipe off the needle. Hello? Yeah, I shoot a little bit. I drive over to your place, Paul takes a shot, he drives it over to your place, and then so on and so on. And then a little, tiny bit, that’s all.

Paul Scheer [00:36:28] I’m like, this is going to go perfectly with my. I’m also creating a new form of ayahuasca. I’m calling it Shurowausca. And it’s going to be. Tiny. And it just a little. The little dab will do you, you know, and this is.

Ike Barinholtz [00:36:38] You just have a little bit of diarrhea for three hours.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:36:41] And my thing is, my thing is, I don’t like that ayahuasca right now as it exists, is for everybody. I want to do it just with my bro’s. And I want to do guyahuasca. And it’s just it’s just like a bro’s weekend where we do the sacred herb and we just go nuts. But just with the guys.

Paul Scheer [00:36:59] That’s what we need.

Ike Barinholtz [00:37:01] I actually the real shit is if you can get in and you can go to Korea and you can do Gangnam Style with Psyahuasca.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:37:10] Oh, and that’s a long walk.

Ike Barinholtz [00:37:13] No, it’s not a short walk. It’s a short, lovely walk. And Psyahuasca is what they’re doing in Korea. Yeah, that’s what I heard.

Paul Scheer [00:37:20] Oh my God. Wait. So the extended universe I was talking about that you are in is this. I don’t even know what they’re even calling it, technically, but Amy Poehler.

Ike Barinholtz [00:37:31] A podcast.

Paul Scheer [00:37:32] But Amy Poehler has this world that she’s creating. She’s doing these, like, improvised comedy podcasts. And she started off with this one called Say More with Doctor Sheila and Jason and I were both on that. You were on that and you were hilarious on that.

Ike Barinholtz [00:37:44] Thank you.

Paul Scheer [00:37:46] And you have now spun this off and now you have your own. You have your own podcast. You’re doing your own thing.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:37:53] That character has his own podcast.

Ike Barinholtz [00:37:55] Yes.

Paul Scheer [00:37:56] Yeah, sorry.

Ike Barinholtz [00:37:57] Doctor. And it’s I think it’s actually there’s a question mark. Yeah. So yeah. Doctor? Sheila because she’s not really a doctor. Right. But the last one of her series, she interviews Chris Chapman, who I play, who was a former, podcast star, I would say got it went through a little mild cancellation like we all have. Actually, Jason has to be. Jason, you’re getting cancel next week, I read.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:38:22] Oh, is that right?

Paul Scheer [00:38:23] That’s going to be really weird.

Ike Barinholtz [00:38:24] I’m pretty excited.

Paul Scheer [00:38:25] A lot of animals involved.

Ike Barinholtz [00:38:26] Yes. It’s crazy.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:38:28] The tracking. The tracking is looking good.

Ike Barinholtz [00:38:31] Tracking is looking good. I have you in my fantasy canceled, roster of actors you think are going to get canceled in the next year? But he’s a guy who kind of went through that. And he was. He was for the boys. He was a guy. You know what I mean? The show was for the boys, and he’s kind of coming back and he’s gotten a new podcast. But it is, it’s contingent on him getting at least 1% female listeners. And so to do that, the podcast company has paired him up with a female co-host who’s a person named Frankie played by, Lisa Gilroy, who you guys know.

Paul Scheer [00:39:08] Hilarious.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:39:09] The best.

Ike Barinholtz [00:39:09] Just like such a star, I think. Just literally one of the funniest people.

Paul Scheer [00:39:14] She plays with us in Dinosaur a bunch. She’s on Jury Duty and she’s on this, brand new. Well, I don’t even know if I can talk about that yet, but she’s on a brand new cool show on FX that’s going to be coming out soon.

Ike Barinholtz [00:39:25] She’s amazing. And then I also brought with me my old sidekick from my old podcast, The Professor, who’s played by our friend Neil Casey, who is.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:39:36] Truly one of the great comedic geniuses of our time.

Ike Barinholtz [00:39:39] Well, not in the not an understatement.

Paul Scheer [00:39:41] No. One of the funniest guys. And he is the professor, right?

Ike Barinholtz [00:39:45] He’s the professor.

Paul Scheer [00:39:46] Now. Yeah. Is this kind of like I am, I grew up with Howard Stern. I love Howard Stern. Like, is this the more Bubba the Love Sponge or this a little bit more like the like, or is this more?

Jason Mantzoukas [00:39:58] Opie and Anthony?

Paul Scheer [00:40:00] What world are we living in?

Ike Barinholtz [00:40:11] [Indiscernible] No. This guys, he’s a little bit, post a lot of those guys. This guy was influenced by some of the great, dumb podcasters that we all know and love for sure. Who have zero expertise and incredibly uninformed opinions based off of horrible data. Yeah. He’s he was one of those guys. He was one of those guys.

Paul Scheer [00:40:34] Are you doing a lot of research for this? Are you going deep like, I mean, because I imagine I know that you got to play a character you’re improvising with in this character. Are you just are you like, just going deep into, like, archives of podcasters and just taking it all in?

Ike Barinholtz [00:40:48] It’s basically like, remember in the mini series Chernobyl where the like, you have to get off the roof within 37 seconds or you’ll have like, I it’s, I’ve basically been on that roof for like three years now, just like listening to every.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:02] Just consuming.

Ike Barinholtz [00:41:03] Yeah. And they’re getting dumber and dumber and and they’re derivatives of derivatives now. And I listen to a lot of them. So yeah, I’ve exposed myself to some pretty toxic stuff.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:14] Are you like, are there things that you’re like on your show, like, do you get excited to do a. Because I’m assuming do your episodes have a theme or a topic? Each episode like so are there things that you’re like, oh, when in this in my version, I’m going to come out this this way or this is a I want to play in this space completely. Vaccines or whatever, only eating meat that you’ve killed or whatever.

Ike Barinholtz [00:41:40] Every episode has a guest that we will be interviewing, and that guest has some kind of expertise, some kind of, specialty.

Paul Scheer [00:41:47] And by the way, your guests are amazing. It’s like Armisen, Ashley, Nicole, Black, Sinclair, Eggo, Busy Philipps, Alistair ginger.

Ike Barinholtz [00:41:59] It’s just it was a ridiculous group of friends. We got to come and play. And exactly. To your point, Zouks like, it was really a fun opportunity for me to just kind of be like, what would the dumbest guy I know who is trying to sound smart and trying to appear to be like, you know, all knowledgeable. What would he what would his reaction be to that? And, you know, again, you have Lisa and Neil you’re bouncing off of and it’s totally improvised, like it’s all totally made up. And it was it was the most it was the most fun, I think I’ve had performing this year. Just because we never whenever we do like when I do a, you know, Dinosaur with you guys, it’s like it could not be more fun, but all those scenes are pretty short. They’re three minutes or less. And this to be able to sit in a studio and get to really go deep and, and record for 45 minutes to an hour with someone you you really you don’t get to do that a lot when you improvise. So when Amy first kind of brought this to me and was like, this is a chance for us to improvise and just kind of have fun without having to, you know, be on stage and just move fast. It was irresistible.

Paul Scheer [00:43:07] I loved it because of that reason. Amy’s show, because you just committed to a character and you just let it go. And like, people don’t have the patience for that on stage often, like they have to be in the right mindset, right to to even see that. And so this is amazing.

Ike Barinholtz [00:43:21] That’s real specialty improv. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:43:24] That’s the same like when Saint Clair and I did the show with Amy, you know, it was literally it felt like jumping back in time. Yeah. You know, to like a point where it was just we were doing stuff together that was just making us laugh, you know, that was really exploring and about discovery and making surprise discoveries and stuff like that. And, and in doing so, finding real silly, funny stuff that was genuinely delightful that you wouldn’t have found in a two minute quick improv scene or whatever, you know? So I think on a process level, this is dynamite.

Ike Barinholtz [00:44:02] Yeah. It was, thank you. It was it was just. Yeah, it was so much fun. And it did give you the vibe of like, you know, improv has changed so much now, you know, you get like, like big shows like Dinosaur or whatever, but used to have dozens of shows and oh yeah, you find yourself in a show with someone who’s like, hey, you want to do a two person improv show tonight? And we’ll play the same, and you and you never get to do that anymore. So to get that chance again was just just so much fun.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:44:26] Now, Paul, I will say, Paul, you read the list of guest stars on the podcast and I don’t think you read your name or mine.

Paul Scheer [00:44:33] Let me look up here again, I see this.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:44:34] Yeah. So I’m just wondering, so I’m just checking my notes here for questions that I had for you, Ike and the question I have is, what the fuck, bro?

Ike Barinholtz [00:44:43] Yeah. Okay. No no no no no no, I knew this is going to come up boys. Right. All right. I knew this was going to come up. And basically what it was we we had a talk we talked budget and yeah, as you guys are very well aware of your quote for doing, a lot of the podcast, we’re talking we’re talking $47,000.

Paul Scheer [00:45:02] Yeah. I mean, that’s a lot.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:45:04] Been in the podcast game for 13 years.

Ike Barinholtz [00:45:06] And respect to you, I’m not saying you’re not worth it. I’m not saying you’re not worth it.

Paul Scheer [00:45:11] Thank you for not saying that.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:45:12] What are you saying?

Ike Barinholtz [00:45:13] I’m saying for the amount of money we were given to produce this podcast, we could not sign off. And being like, yeah, it is expensive because then we would be left with six grand. How do I cover my transportation, my hair and makeup, my glam?

Paul Scheer [00:45:27] Now, you do know that you don’t need to do that. Okay, again, I don’t want.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:45:31] An audio format.

Ike Barinholtz [00:45:32] Yeah, it is an audio format, but we’re taking stills the whole time. We’re popping stills. Okay? You know, there’s going to be a cover. It needs to be cover art, I need. I also, as I know you guys. Have you heard of this? I am not my funniest if I don’t look my hottest.

Paul Scheer [00:45:47] And that’s and that is something I feel like people don’t talk about. Men don’t talk about that that much.

Ike Barinholtz [00:45:51] So yeah, they don’t, they don’t. So it was a strictly budget thing. But from what I’m hearing, if we hit the numbers, we think we’re going to hit. Yeah. Season. Season two. We’re talking, we’re talking. We get like 5, 6 million bucks an episode and I pay your quotes. I pay your family’s quotes, I send I, we got transport for you, we got snacks, we got the whole thing. But it just we have to do it this way first.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:46:19] I understand, I understand. So we should probably say, Paul, that we should encourage our audience to start listening at season two.

Paul Scheer [00:46:25] Yes.

Ike Barinholtz [00:46:25] No no no no no. If you don’t think it is, if they don’t listen now, we’re not going to we’re not going to get to a season two if we don’t have your guys, man.

Paul Scheer [00:46:32] All right, I know I can make an exception.

Ike Barinholtz [00:46:35] If you want to. If you want to be on the show, please plug the show.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:46:39] Or do it like this. Subscribe to the show now! Let the episodes download. Don’t listen.

Paul Scheer [00:46:44] No, no. You got to say they do. You do. You do need to listen. But turn down the volume. Listen to the thing because they need to have the completion rate to make sure.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:46:54] You’re listening for us, for the How Did This Get Made, boys? Then season two is where you want to start pumping up that volume.

Ike Barinholtz [00:46:59] Yeah.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:47:01] Yeah. All right.

Paul Scheer [00:47:02] Well, that is interesting. Like, can I tell you that I, when I first came out to LA, I was like, talk about like, these guys for a second, because when I came out to LA, Tom Licas was, oh my God. This is before Howard Stern had kind of gone on to series. So I, you know, I like give you missed Stern in the morning, you wouldn’t get him later and I listen to Tom Licas and what I always loved about Tom is his like how much he loved wine. Like, you know, you’d be talking about he’d be tell you in one, one side of his mouth, like, this is how you get your girlfriend to have a a makeshift abortion. And then and then and then talking about the fine wine that he had last night at dinner. All right.

Ike Barinholtz [00:47:39] “All right. So last night, I had a beautiful silver oak Cabernet at Morton’s, and now we’re going to do titty Titty Tuesday. Honk your horn, ladies, if a man honks his horn at you, you have to show your breast.”

Paul Scheer [00:47:50] “Oh. Hey, Tom, can you, can you give me a bong hit?” And it would always like, a little, like.

Ike Barinholtz [00:47:56] “Hey, Tom. Hey, Tom. What’s up man? I’m in Alhambra. I’m about to be arrested for murder. Can you blow me up real quick?”

Jason Mantzoukas [00:48:03] I cannot recommend James Adomian’s Tom Licas impression enough. I did a comedy bang bang episode, actually, with Amy Poehler, myself, and Licas.

Ike Barinholtz [00:48:15] Is one of the funniest things I have ever heard in my life. He is so disgusting with Poehler. He’s like, I bet you. I bet you want to have sex with this, don’t you? And she’s like, no. He’s like, I bet you do, dear.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:48:32] It is one of the hardest. I’ve never laughed so hard during a show I was on.

Ike Barinholtz [00:48:39] I have sent that clip to so many people. It is, it is. Yeah. And because who the who the fuck does Tom Licas?

All [00:48:46]  [Indiscernible]

Paul Scheer [00:48:51] I mean maybe it should be Licas should come on your show. I feel like that’s kind of that is, maybe tease that.

Ike Barinholtz [00:48:59] Not a hundred, blow me up, Tom.

Paul Scheer [00:49:02] I don’t know if you remember. This may be I may be talking way inside baseball, but, you know, and, Aspen Comedy Festival, that was a thing that, like, would happen that HBO would put on. People would come, they would do their shows, get all these great comedy shows, from all over the country, primarily L.A., Chicago, New York. And, they would do their shows there. And Tom Licas, was always set up in the lobby of the main hotel of the Aspen Comedy Festival, doing that show like, you know, so he was like, you know, he’s wearing a big dark sunglasses all in black. And I just remember, like, just walking by him. I didn’t know who this guy was. But to just know that, like, he somehow weaseled his way into that festival, like, just to be in the lobby, loud ass lobby. And he wasn’t even getting people. He was just doing his show. It was a sort of like, I’m here. I’m also at the comedy festival. Give it up, give it up. Oh my God.

Ike Barinholtz [00:49:54] He was this great, great guy.

Paul Scheer [00:49:56] Podcast is, the Chris Chapman Do-Over. Yes. It’s available wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes come out, weekly through March 14th. And if you’ve not, even if you don’t even know what we’re talking about with, with Amy’s podcast, Say More with Doctor? Sheila, you can listen to that as well. They, they it all goes together. It’s they really are. These are great funny shows with hilariously funny people. I mean, this when I knew that you, Neil and Lisa were doing a show together like this is it. Downloading it.

Jason Mantzoukas [00:50:27] Oh, and that it’s characters. I love that it’s like that. It’s you know that it is. It is sketch type, improv type characters.

Paul Scheer [00:50:36] And thanks again for taking down these libtards, man.

Ike Barinholtz [00:50:39] Let me, let me let me tell you something, man. Yeah, man. Know what I am. I, I realized a long time ago, I’m a shepherd, not a sheeple. And, I don’t I don’t play their game. They’re going to play my game. I promise you, it’s the dumbest way to spend, like, 40 minutes, on a Saturday. You guys are going for a stupid hike? Are you going to fold some dumb laundry? Are you going to go for an idiotic bike ride?

Jason Mantzoukas [00:51:06] To get on a subway, you moron?

Paul Scheer [00:51:09] I gotta tell you, our audience, they love you. They’re in there downloading. They’re listening. It’s going to be great. It’s going to be great.

Ike Barinholtz [00:51:16] And season two, Jason Mantzoukas, Paul Scheer on season two, first episode.

Paul Scheer [00:51:20] Wow, this is going to be exciting.

Ike Barinholtz [00:51:21] It’s also going to go ahead and free plug. How Did This Get Made featuring Jason Statham, the Beekeeper live at the Wiltern turn April 2025. What have we? What have we invited him? And he’s like, yeah, I would I would love to come. And we’re there and we’re doing our bits. And just like halfway through, he just beats the shit out of us?

Jason Mantzoukas [00:51:44] I would love it.

Ike Barinholtz [00:51:45] I would love it.

Paul Scheer [00:51:48] Like I will say that we’ve had that experience when we invited Vanilla Ice on the podcast and, he didn’t really understand why he was on the podcast list, but we were all on the same page.

Ike Barinholtz [00:51:59] So, I understand you wanna talk to me about my life. My career. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, remember this fucking shit scene you were in?

Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:09] Oh, man.

Ike Barinholtz [00:52:12] You guys are the greatest. Love you boys. Thank you so much. Love you, I love you.

Paul Scheer [00:52:16] Well, thank you, Ike, for chatting with us. You can listen to the Chris Chapman Do-Over wherever you get your podcasts. And if you want to hear more of Ike on How Did This Get Made. His episodes are Cellular and Bats, and those came out in September and October. So just scroll back to find them. Or just search Cellular and Bats. I think that’s the way podcast engines work. Anyway, next week’s movie. Now that we got The King’s daughter out of the way, let’s talk about what we’re doing next week. That’s right. We’re going from a swimming mermaid in a bay to rollerblading LL cool J. I love that rhyme. Next week we are watching the 2002 sci fi sports flick Rollerball, starring Chris Klein, LL cool J and Rebecca Romaine. Here’s a short breakdown of the plot. Jonathan is the most popular player in the fastest and most extreme sport of all time, Rollerball. But things go wrong for Jonathan and his teammates when they realize that Rollerball creator wants more on court accidents for higher ratings, Rotten Tomatoes gives this film a whopping 3% score on the Tomatometer, and Mark Rather of the Seattle Times writes, “They should have called it gutter ball.” Oh, Mark. Slam! Anyway, let’s take a listen to the trailer.

Trailer Audio [00:53:30] You think you can play?

Trailer Audio [00:53:31] What’s it gonna be? Us or them?

Trailer Audio [00:53:33] They’re going to kill you.

Trailer Audio [00:53:39] Ride to survive. From the filmmakers that brought you The Fast and the Furious and Die Hard.

Trailer Audio [00:53:44] Got Gotta Catch Me First.

Trailer Audio [00:53:47] Rollerball. Rated PG 13.

Paul Scheer [00:53:51] You can stream Rollerball for free on Tubi, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, and MGM plus. You can also rent it on Apple TV, Amazon, YouTube, and Google Play. And if you want to go watch Rollerball, make sure you select the 2002 remake the Chris Klein one, not the 1975 original with James Caan. We are not watching the James Caan one. I don’t want to send you down that rabbit hole, although it’s a better film. Anyway, thank you for listening. Please remember to rate and review the show. It helps if you listen on Apple Podcasts. That’s a big deal. Visit us on social media @HDTGM and a big thank you to our producers, Scott Sonne and Molly Reynolds, our movie picking producer, Avril Halley, our associate producer, Jess Cisneros, and our engineers Casey Holford and Rich Garcia. We will see you next week for Rollerball.