EP. 373.5 — Last Looks: Surf II

[00:00:00] Paul Scheer: F1 stands for F yeah. The Simpsons stealing from Surf two and a very cheesy Stallone, all this and more on this week’s How Did This Get Made Last Looks. Hit the theme!

[00:00:17] Music: [Last Looks Intro Song]

[00:00:29] Paul Scheer: Hello, all my surf zombies. It puts the lotion in the basket. I’m Paul Scheer and welcome, welcome to How Did This Get Made Last Looks where you, the listener, get to voice your issues on surf to a movie that honestly, I mean, it just grossed us out. We were utterly disgusted by this movie, but also kind loved it.

[00:00:57] Um. I tell you that Aaron Renee, one of our Discord users, thought the movie should have had the tagline, “Surf Two, Grease three, Eugene’s Revenge.” I love it. Thank you Aaron Renee, for that alt tagline. Remember, if you have an alt movie tagline or a title, submit it to us on our discord and we might just read it on the show.

[00:01:19] Alright. It is 4th of July people. So we’ll be hearing all your corrections and omissions on Surf two. There’s not gonna be a lot of them because a lot of you people are out on vacation, living the life, not trying to correct us, just letting us live. But we will get to those corrections and omissions.

[00:01:38] Plus we have a deleted scene from last week’s episode, which you’re gonna love and. Jason’s not here. He’s also on vacation. It’s just me fresh home from F1, which I fucking loved. It’s the best. Uh, I mean, yes, is the bad guy a little complicated to understand? Sure. But. I don’t care. Um, it’s like Top Gun Maverick, but dumber, but in a way that makes it better.

[00:02:07] I don’t know. I’m still processing it. Anyway, uh, we have so much to get to, but we’ll also reveal next week’s episode. But before we get too far into things, I have to give a shout out to Quinn Quinn. I love that opening theme song. It was so good. Good for you. Good for all of you. I love doing the show.

[00:02:30] Every week, week after week. I am here for you and you are here for me because you deliver the best Last Look episode themes. In the world. No one else has as good a themes as we do. So keep ’em coming. Just go to HDTGM.com, that’s our website. There’s a little button there. You hit submit a song. And that’s how you could submit songs to this.

[00:02:52] It, it’s easy. Keep ’em short though, right? Brevity is the soul of wit, and I believe that was said by Michael Bay. Alright. Next week, Pacific Northwest, you’ve been warned. Dinosaur Improv is coming to Seattle and Portland, July 9th at the Neptune Theater, July 10th at the Portland Theater, which is also the Aladdin Theater.

[00:03:15] I’d like to call it the Portland Theater. Uh, we’ll be at the Aladdin on the 10th, and we’ll be at the Neptune on the ninth. Joining us is Edi Patterson from the Righteous Gemstones and Resident Alien. It’s gonna be me, Jason, Edi, Huebel, Seth Morris, Carl Tart. Owen Burke, Chad Carter. And then get ready. How Did This Get Made will be in Vancouver on the 12th. Okay. We have changed locations. Repeat, How Did This Get Made in Vancouver has changed locations. You should have been notified by your ticket, uh, seller, broker, whatever you call the, the people you buy tickets from. We are now at the Vogue Theater and we might, as of this recording, be completely sold out.

[00:03:58] Um, so heads up Vancouver is at the Vogue Theater now. We cannot wait to see you and we’ll be talking about the 2001 Sylvester Stallone car racing drama Driven, which will not live up to my F1 IMAX experience. Oh man, you know, we have two IMAX Theaters, a true IMEX Theaters in LA, one’s on City Walk. One is at the Kodak Theater, the Dolby Theater, the big one, man’s Chinese Theater is what I call it.

[00:04:28] Um, and I gotta tell you, this beautiful IMAX, great sounds, saw RRR there, seen a lot of movies there. Um. Concessions suck ass there. They’re terrible concessions. It’s like the concessions are trapped in 1984. I don’t get it. I don’t get why the concessions are so bad there. Anyway, that’s just a shout out to a very specific problem that I have with one of the only two IMAX theaters here, and I know there’s these other theaters who we have I Oh, IMAX presentation.

[00:05:01] It’s not IMAX. Ain’t IMAX, buddy. That ain’t IMAX. Uh, anyway, if you haven’t heard, um. This is gonna be a too abrupt of a change of tone here. Um, you know, we have been celebrating bad movies for over 15 years on this show, and one of the reasons why this show is so good is our movie picks. And, um, the main person responsible for these amazing movie picks has been, uh, for as long as I can remember,

[00:05:28] Avaryll Halley. Avaryll Halley is one of our movie picking producers. I mean, she is our movie picking producer. And, um, she is going through a, a battle right now with brain cancer and, you know, she’s asked for some love. Um, that’s really one of the most beautiful things. If that tells you anything about Avaryll, it’s uh, it should tell you everything.

[00:05:53] Um, we were hoping that if you have a second, you could send her an email, some fan art. Just something to brighten her day at Andrew@MovieBitches.xyz. Uh, you can send it right to andrew@moviebitches.xyz. Just a little note even checking in if you’ve done it before. And if you wanna send or something, nothing perishable and nothing scented, you can send it to Avaryll Halley PO Box 6 4 1, Agora Hills, California 9 1 3 7 6.

[00:06:22] Uh, Avaryll is truly one of the kindest, nicest people I have met. I’ve loved my time working with her. We can’t wait to have her back. Um, just. You know, if you have a second, send her some love. Um, okay, that is all that I got. Let’s get into it. Last week we talked at length about Surf Two. Well, not that long, just regular.

[00:06:42] Uh, we had questions and you know what, we might have even missed a few things. Here’s your chance to set a straight fact. Check us. If you will. It is now time for corrections and omissions.

[00:07:08] Music: [Corrections and Omissions Song]

[00:07:10] Paul Scheer: Boom. That’s Action Jackson Five. That’s like, was that dark ska? I mean, is it called dark ska? I love it. Um, alright, let’s go with the discord, Dove. Dove. Dove writes,

[00:07:24] “The Buzz Cola International Surf Trophy that they gave. Eric Stolt at the end is a woman’s bowling trophy.”

[00:07:31] I’m looking at a picture of it and you are correct. And you know what? This movie gets it. I’m not here to pick apart this movie. This movie gets it. But Dove also goes on to say,

[00:07:42] “The sign above the store said Sur boards. Sur boards. ‘Cause I assume they didn’t give an f.”

[00:07:49] Ooh, I like that dove. So many Easter eggs and other things. Uh, just for the audience, uh, they definitely had a blast.

[00:07:56] Um, you know, this is stuff that actually came up during the fan Q and A. We cut it out for time. But yes, uh, Sur boards and groceries is a great, uh. A great notice, a great find, if you will. And the discord is full of these finds, pictures. Everything is so beautifully detailed. Mitch Kappa Chunk Star writes,

[00:08:19] “Giving the nerdiest couple two full pages in the yearbook seems really extravagant.”

[00:08:24] Well, Mitch Kappa, we all know the nerds put together the yearbook, so of course, but they were called the nerdiest couple and maybe it’s a small school. I had a, I, I went to a small private school when I was very young and I still have my yearbook from it. And, um, there was only one senior, so it was like junior class, uh, sophomore class, and then it was the senior. The senior and it was a full page picture of her, um, lonely. That seems so lonely, but back then it felt so cool.

[00:08:56] Uh, Ghost Bag writes,

[00:08:58] “Does Eddie Deezen’s character in this film create Buzz Cola with three Zs with the intention of initially putting the surfers to sleep? Oh, and the zombification is in, like, is a unintended consequence.”

[00:09:13] Okay. Wait, wait, wait. Ghost bag. Let me go with you. I like this. What if the Buzz Cola means zombies. Buzz and the extra Z is for a zombie, Ghost Bag, we got something. Let’s go to the phones. First up, Rob. Oh, we know where Rob is from. Rob from Long Island. What do you got?

[00:09:33] Listener: Hey guys, it’s Rob from Long Island. You talked about a thong and were surpised the Beach Boys talked about them. But, uh, in the olden days. Thong was, uh, referred to flip flops basically. ’cause it’s that little strip that goes between your toes. It’s kinda like what we think of now as a strip between your legs or whatever. So a thong is basically a, uh, it could be a flip flop or a bikini bottom or something like that.

[00:10:01] So, uh, that’s why. That’s that. Alright. Bye.

[00:10:04] Paul Scheer: Well, how about that? Finally learning something on this show. And you know what, Rob, I looked it up in the dictionary, uh, which is I just typed into Google and I typed in definition, and a thong is defined as a narrow strip of leather and or other material used, especially as a fastener or as the lash of a whip.

[00:10:27] Also a skimpy bathing suit or a pair of underpants. Um, well, well, well, thank you. I’m glad that my, my image of the Beach Boys stays un tarnished. Thanks to you.

[00:10:39] Alright, next up. Lot of calls from Seattle, and by the way, we are so excited to come back to Seattle on a Wednesday and you guys are buying tickets for a Wednesday.

[00:10:49] Hell yeah. Seattle, we fucking love you. Um, alright, John, what do you got?

[00:10:53] Listener: Hey Paul. Uh, I haven’t done this in a long time. This is John. You helped me out a lot with my kids with some questions back in the day. Uh, I just wanna kind of give you a, a full circle, uh, follow up. Uh, we were at your Seattle show a couple weeks ago where you got the legendary shirt from, uh, Den of Thieves.

[00:11:12] Uh, the very next. Week I went to CinemaCon and we got to watch a screening of How To Train Your Dragon with Gerard Butler. And uh, I only had like two seconds to, uh, to, to talk to him and it was either get a picture with him or show him my phone where I took a picture of you wearing the shirt. So I chose option B and I showed him the picture of your shirt.

[00:11:33] You wearing the shirt at the show. He was stoked. He started laughing and he was like, ah, I’m glad it’s got a good home. So anyway, that’s basically, it’s, it’s dumb, but I thought you would enjoy hearing that.

[00:11:44] Alright, love the show. Bye.

[00:11:46] Paul Scheer: Well, John, I, I’m glad to hear that my advice has gone over well, but let me tell you this, more importantly, you did the right thing.

[00:11:53] I, I know that it would be cool to have a picture with Jerry B, but you do a moment like that. As someone who has to deal with a lot of different people in my life and people come up that’s gonna stick out in his head. You did done right. You did done right. John, I, I, I appreciate you taking your moment to share it with him.

[00:12:17] Um, I appreciate you calling in. I appreciate you being back on the show, but I’m gonna just say, uh, I know it’s a bummer not to have a picture with him, but I gotta tell you. That story might live on longer with him and then you are a part of it. So I mean, you’re not getting to benefit from it, but just know that was awesome and, uh, way to go that he was doing a Train Your Dragon screening in Seattle.

[00:12:43] Uh, my buddy produced that movie and way to go for that whole team. They were awesome. We went to visit them, as a matter of fact, when they were shooting, when we were in, um, Belfast. Yeah. Um, okay, next up Katie. Uh oh, not Katie. Jafar, what do you got? Jafar.

[00:12:59] Listener: It’s Katie from Seattle, but yet again, anyone listening to this is gonna know me as Jafar, so fuck it.

[00:13:05] But I guess I’m just Jafar now. I’m calling with an answer for Jason because yelling from the upper balcony like a true monsters, absolutely not the best way to convey information. At the time, it just seemed really vital that we clear up what I’m now referring to as crawl gate. Okay, so after the huge reveal about there being a director’s cut, Jason wondered what else is different between the two versions apart from the crawl, which by the way, I’m pretty sure either replaces or plays over the montage most of us saw with the car uncle feet because I think Jason would’ve remembered if he had seen those monstrosities. But aside from the crawl, giving you the entire plot of the movie up front, there’s literally only one other significant difference. The director’s cut has significantly more nudity. When Jason said he loved the movie so much because I had topless scenes every 15 minutes like clockwork, it made me realize I must have watched the wrong version because while I saw some big American naturals, I definitely didn’t see that many big naturals. Naturals aside, though I agree with you, it was way more fun not having the crawl and having to try to make sense of what’s happening while absolute mayhem unfolds.

[00:14:06] Sincerely, thank you so much to everyone who makes the podcast, especially the live shows happen. Not just for the great episodes, but for giving nerds like me, a place to indulge very specific, very strange creative pursuits. When Surf One happens, I wanna be in the costume department. Thanks so much. Take care.

[00:14:22] Paul Scheer: Katie. You are definitely hired on Surf One. Uh, I like this explanation. It was, it was, I’m wrapping my head around it and I think you’re right. I think it is better that we understand the movie less. Leave more to our imagination and uh, thank you for coming in. Great costume. I will say if you come out to see Dinosaur, no costumes needed, uh, but I believe you might actually be coming to Vancouver, so, uh, we hope to see you there.

[00:14:54] Alright, next up. Luke from, you guessed it, Seattle.

[00:15:00] Listener: Hey Paul, had a great time at the Surf 2 show, uh, hope and catch you guys in a week or so for Dinosaur. Uh, so not necessarily correctional or omission, but more theory I wanted deposit and more, I think about more I’ve convinced myself it’s true, uh, but I think this new might have inspired one of the more iconic images in modern pop culture, and that’s the image of Homer Simpson just choking the shit out of Bart, a la Chuck and Bob’s dad.

[00:15:28] When the, uh, guys come out of the water from competing in the surfs and when, or surf competition, they just wrangle their necks. And the first thing I thought was like, boy, that, that looks a lot like Homer choking Bart. Also think Matt Groening being a guy in California at that time, uh, being a fellow Pacific Northwest weirdo and someone whose dad made surf movies when Matt was a child, think it very possibly true.

[00:15:53] So that’s what I think. Um, I want to give a shout out to Avaryll and just want to thank her for all the weird ass movies that she’s brought into my life. And, uh, put me on some watch lists probably. So take care guys. Hope to see you for Dinosaur.

[00:16:12] Paul Scheer: Wow. Okay, well first of all, thank you for buying ticket, uh, or hopefully buying a ticket to come see us in Seattle.

[00:16:18] Uh, no pressure. Uh, but. This might be the best connection yet. You know, I gave a lot to Rob from Long Island. I’ve given a lot. I mean, look, we didn’t, there’s, this is actually one of the better corrections of missions we’ve had. This is tricky. I don’t know where we’re gonna land at this. All right. Um, but I’ll tell you this much, Luke, you were not the only one that saw that Simpson’s connection.

[00:16:40] Um, there were a lot of Simpson’s connections, which make me believe your theory even more. Um, so you could check out our, uh. Instagram because on our Instagram we are going to post all the Simpsons connections that we have found in this movie. And they are great. I mean, buzz Cola references, uh, there are, uh.

[00:17:02] The transformation of Sparkle. You’re gonna see. It’s good. I, I believe you. You know what, Luke, you might’ve, you might’ve really, uh, cracked open a whole goldmine here. Uh, anyway, uh, let’s go back the Discord. John Steele writes,

[00:17:14] “Hey Paul, as a fellow lover of One Crazy Summer. I just wanna bring up the appearance of Tom Villard, A K Clay Stork, Bobcat Gold Fleet’s onscreen twin as Jocko, the Surf Zombie.”

[00:17:24] Oh, yes, I did notice, uh, and I’m glad you pointed it out. I did not bring it up because. I felt like I would have to explain so many different parts of it and it was out of, but yes, John, I saw Tom Villard. I was psyched to see Tom Villard. I love the Stork Brothers. I’m a big fan of One Crazy Summer. Uh, and if you’ve not seen it, what a perfect time to watch it.

[00:17:47] Last year we were in, um. Nantucket for the film festival doing a How Did This Get Made show there. And we watched, uh, One Crazy Summer, which shot a lot on Nantucket back then, and it was a real, it was fun for the whole family. Anyway, this one’s gonna maybe bogle your mind from Fun Facts 47,

[00:18:03] “Even though Eric Stoltz lost out on sharing the screen with Biff in Back to the Future. If you don’t know that story, look it up. I don’t need to get into it here. He did star in this movie with a different Biff, Biff Maynard, who played Bob’s dad. Now, it would’ve been more of a coincidence if Biff played Chuck. That’s Eric Stoltz dad instead.”

[00:18:22] Well, yes, that would’ve been the coincidence we would’ve needed. And Fun Facts 47, that feels like a 47th Fun fact. Like you got the good ones outta the way, and now you’re getting like, you’re, you’re digging a little bit deeper than you need to. JXL writes,

[00:18:36] “I was fascinated by the character arc of Big Head. He starts off with some self-awareness, joking about cheating his way to a 53 on his IQ test, and then tax on a bow wow as his catchphrase early on as the movie progresses, his dialogue is stripped down to just his catchphrase. Did he do some lasting damage to himself in that garbage eating contest?”

[00:18:58] I, I’m gonna say Big Head, I think was suffering once he started eating a chain link fence, which was right in the opening scene.

[00:19:05] You can’t digest that. That’s too much metal. I’m in the garbage eating contest. At that point, I think his brain was already gone. A bow. Wow. Um, alright. So many great corrections and omissions this week, but man, oh man. What could it be? What could it be? I have to say, I. Seattle brought it this week. I wanna give Seattle the, the, uh, you know, the, the winner of the week, but that’s unfair to give it to all of Seattle.

[00:19:30] It’ll be like, I’m, I’m like, kind of like, oh, you know, giving them too much. I’m gonna give it to Luke from Seattle who pointed out this giant Simpsons connection that I’ve never heard about or knew about, and I love it. So, Luke from Seattle, you are the winner. And guess what, Luke? I normally say there you win nothing.

[00:19:51] But guess what? I’m gonna give you two tickets to Dinosaur if you want ’em in Seattle on me. I’m comping you. Just hit us up. Um, I don’t know how to do that, but hit us up. Hit us up at, HowDidThisGetMade@Earwolf.com. No. Well. Hmm. On Discord. You, you’re, you’re on the Discord. Yeah. So just hit us up on the discord.

[00:20:14] We’ll figure it out. Okay.

[00:20:22] Music: [Winner Song]

[00:20:24] Paul Scheer: Okay. Uh, that was more complicated than it needed to be. Anyway, if you wanna chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up the Discord at Discord.gg/HDTGM, or call us at 6-1-9 P-A-U-L-A-S-K coming up after the break. It’s Paul’s pick. But first take a listen to this bonus deleted scene from Surf two, where we talk about the origins of Surf two and it being in 3D and how this movie is connected to our home theater in Los Angeles.

[00:20:52] The Largo at the Cornet. Um, alright, so take a listen to that.

[00:20:56] (Paul at live show) Um, alright, let’s see. Um, okay. Oh, Joshua Cadman was cast as Johnny Bighead. After impressing producers by drinking an entire six pack during his audition.

[00:21:09] Jessica St. Clair: That’s, there were unsafe work conditions on this film. I know.

[00:21:13] Jason Mantzoukas: That is unsettling to me.

[00:21:14] Jessica St. Clair: That’s unsettling.

[00:21:15] Paul Scheer: Uh, we did hear that the writer director had suffered a surfing injury to the face and while on painkillers, he wrote this movie in two days. It was originally called Frankie and Annette Go to Hell.

[00:21:30] Jessica St. Clair: Okay.

[00:21:30] Jason Mantzoukas: I love that too.

[00:21:31] Jessica St. Clair: Yeah.

[00:21:31] Paul Scheer: And then he retitled it, Surf Death, the movie. Uh, and then, um, and then basically he made it into Surf Trash, which was sold at Cannes as a 3D film

[00:21:46] Jessica St. Clair: Cannes?

[00:21:46] Paul Scheer: Yes. Uh, so they sold it at Cannes as a 3D film, and while it was not shot in 3D.

[00:21:51] Jason Mantzoukas: It wasn’t.

[00:21:52] Paul Scheer: Uh, they did use a lot of images that they felt like, oh, maybe we’ll turn this into 3D. Uh, ’cause some setups seem to be 3D. Um, and.

[00:22:02] Jason Mantzoukas: The scene where the, where the boobs keep slapping the guy in the face.

[00:22:05] Jessica St. Clair: Incredible

[00:22:06] Jason Mantzoukas: In 3D? Forget about it.

[00:22:08] Jessica St. Clair: That’d be incredible.

[00:22:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Never, I’d never leave my room.

[00:22:11] Jessica St. Clair: Yeah.

[00:22:11] Paul Scheer: Now here’s another two interesting connections here. So they had the, when they finished the movie, uh, the studio was like.

[00:22:20] Jessica St. Clair: Jason, Jason, come back.

[00:22:21] Jason Mantzoukas: I’m just, I’m just picturing it and I’m like, Calgon, take me away.

[00:22:26] Paul Scheer: When they finished the movie, um, the studio was like, we can’t release this.

[00:22:31] Um, so they had to kind of add in a bunch of the new sex and gross out gags and they really wanted to capitalize on Revenge of the Nerds. So they originally titled it Surf 2 the Nerd Strike Back.

[00:22:46] Jessica St. Clair: I see.

[00:22:46] Paul Scheer: But that came, came away and now this is the best part of it. Um, we perform at Largo, which is the Cornet Theater.

[00:22:56] This film premiered at the Cornet Theater.

[00:23:02] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.

[00:23:02] Paul Scheer: At Largo for the overflow. So basically kids who couldn’t get into the Premier went to Largo to watch Surf 2.

[00:23:12] Jessica St. Clair: Surf Two. Wow.

[00:23:14] Paul Scheer: So that’s maybe, I mean, look.

[00:23:16] Jason Mantzoukas: So we’ve been in the same theater. That.

[00:23:18] Jessica St. Clair: What a piece of history.

[00:23:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Premiered Surf two?

[00:23:20] Jessica St. Clair: Yeah. What a piece of history. Paul, can I ask you a question though? I think we might have covered this. So those boobs were added post?

[00:23:27] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:23:28] Jessica St. Clair: Really?

[00:23:29] Paul Scheer: Not all.

[00:23:29] Jessica St. Clair: Not all, but more.

[00:23:31] Jason Mantzoukas: I think, I think like a bunch of the very, uh, inserts that are very close cut.

[00:23:36] Jessica St. Clair: Mm-hmm.

[00:23:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Are the, are the reshoots simply because they don’t have any other people around them? They can. They can.

[00:23:42] Jessica St. Clair: And those, those people might already have, their boobs might have fallen by the time they were doing the reshoots?

[00:23:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Falling off?

[00:23:49] Jessica St. Clair: Falling down.

[00:23:50] Jason Mantzoukas: What?

[00:23:51] Jessica St. Clair: You know what I mean?

[00:23:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Falling down?

[00:23:52] Jessica St. Clair: There’s a lot of sun damage going on. I don’t know how.

[00:23:54] Jason Mantzoukas: You think the sun makes boobs fall down?

[00:23:57] Jessica St. Clair: Yeah. You don’t know.

[00:23:58] Paul Scheer: Yeah, because they, they grow away from, well, yeah, it makes sense.

[00:24:01] Jessica St. Clair: Yeah. Gravity. Um, look at gravity.

[00:24:04] Jason Mantzoukas: You think, okay, gravity, I understand, but you think the sun controls gravity?

[00:24:07] Jessica St. Clair: I think that sun damage doesn’t do great things for big American naturals.

[00:24:12] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh. So now the American, now the naturals are American? As they should be.

[00:24:18] Paul Scheer: Uh, you’ll be surprised to know that.

[00:24:21] Jason Mantzoukas: We’re gonna build that bra.

[00:24:23] Jessica St. Clair: Yeah.

[00:24:25] Paul Scheer: That the way that they sold this movie at Cannes was around Sparkle. She a.

[00:24:30] Jason Mantzoukas: What was she a name?

[00:24:31] Paul Scheer: That. Well, it’s, uh, Linda Carriage that was the one. They’re like, it’s gonna be a Linda Carriage movie. We’ll go see a Linda Carriage movie.

[00:24:38] Jessica St. Clair: It is, this is the bizarre that this movie was ever in Cannes.

[00:24:41] Paul Scheer: Well, I think they do that to sell a lot of weird movies. It’s like a lot of movies come outta Cannes. They’re like, oh, we’ve got the financing for it.

[00:24:47] Jessica St. Clair: The Palme D’or award goes to Surf two.

[00:24:53] Paul Scheer: Alright, welcome back. By now. I’m sure you’ve noticed that every week we re-release old How Did This Get Made episodes and these matinee episodes come out every Tuesday. This week’s matinee was Highlander two the Quickening with Sam Richardson. And next week we are kicking off Sylvester Stallone’s Summer.

[00:25:10] And we will be re-releasing Over the Top. So keep on checking out all of our replays and classic episodes every single Tuesday, and stay tuned Vancouver as we bring Stallone summer to you on July 12th at the Vogue Theater. Alright, now, Jason is not with me this week, but he has been killing it on Taskmaster and it’s gonna be one of the things I talk about on Paul’s picks.

[00:25:35] Casey Campbell play us in.

[00:25:38] Music: [Paul’s Picks Song]

[00:25:38] Paul Scheer: Alright, people, what have I been up to? What have I been watching? I just did a very big, uh, recommendation on my substack, I have a Substack, no big deal, but mine is free. I’m not charging any money for that.

[00:25:50] Um, but I did a whole bunch of stuff and there’s one thing I really wanna talk about, which is, and I talked about it already on this show, but I’m bringing it up one more time because it’s just so good. Uh, when Things fell apart with John Ronson is a podcast that is blowing my mind. I just finished it today.

[00:26:11] Two seasons, eight episodes each, and it really attacks, um, the culture war, uh, that we are finding ourselves more and more in the midst of, and he goes back to all these pivotal moments that start this like a snowflake that becomes a snowball that then becomes an avalanche where we change our perception on something or the world starts to take a position that is so wrong in a way.

[00:26:43] Uh, it’s. Awesome. I mean, we go back from how the Catholic Church adopted a anti-abortion stance to the myth of kids identifying as furries and using a litter box in classrooms to a disgrace scientist who had become the leading voice on not having vaccines and the documentarian who had it out for Anthony Fauci.

[00:27:11] All of these things started from the weirdest places, but then took on this giant cultural relevance. I find this podcast just fascinating. It’s not done in an incredibly funny way. It’s just very, very interesting. You know, John Ronson, he, um, he wrote that book called The Men Who Stare at Goats. It was made into a movie that was not as good, but it was like the CIA experimenting with like psychedelic drugs and telepathy and all this kind of cool.

[00:27:40] I like John Ronson a lot. I think you’ll like this podcast When Things Fell Apart. I also have been deep into Love Island. You might have heard me on Nick Vile show last week, the Vile Files, as I broke down my impression of Love Island, first time watcher of Love Island, and I gotta say was shocked at how much tongue is happening in kissing nowadays.

[00:28:04] I’ve been married for a very long time and these people are leading with tongue. Is that a thing? Are we really like tongue first kissing. I mean, like, I don’t mind tongue as a part of kissing, but are we leading with the tongue and not the lips? I don’t know. I don’t know. This show is making me second guess how people kiss.

[00:28:24] Um, there is one thing that if you do watch love violent, please avert your eyes. You had to suck milk out of a teat, a fake teat, uh, and then spit it into your partner’s mouth and then collect all the extra milk. And then when a couple. Was making out that you didn’t like it to throw milk on them? I just said all those words.

[00:28:45] Yes, I did. That’s what that show does. And I watched it. I did fast forward a lot through that. I couldn’t take it. It was disgusting, but that is just a norm. That wasn’t even the finale. That was like a midseason fun episode. Uh, Meghan the Stallion is in an episode and she kills. Uh, I’m just falling in love with this show.

[00:29:05] Like I mentioned earlier, I saw F1 really enjoyed F1. Loved Final Destination Bloodlines. Wow. Talk about a franchise that figured it the fuck out. They definitely did. It’s so damn good. Oh. I love it so much. You know, I’ve been doing a little bit of a throwback Amy Miles, uh, when I was coming up in New York doing the comedy thing.

[00:29:31] Uh, I’m still doing the comedy thing, but when I was coming up in New York, uh, there was a amazing musician. Her name is Amy Miles. She actually composes a lot of the music for Amy Poehler stuff, the Good Hang Podcast, Amy Poehler’s podcast, which is great. Great episode with Mike Schurr If you’re a Parks and Recs fan, you would love it, but just if you are a writer, you would love it.

[00:29:50] Mike is great, super smart, uh, talented dude. Amy Miles composed the song for the Good Hang podcast, but she has a bunch of great albums. I’ve just been listening to Dirty, uh, Stay Out. I believe the album is, it’s her first album, 2002, man. She’s great. Love Amy Miles. Um, so I’m gonna give her a shout out and then, um, best show, uh, Tom Sharp.

[00:30:15] 25th anniversary of best show coming up this October. Uh, Rob Huebel and I were on this past week, uh, talking about terrible gifts, really interesting cameos and so much more. So check out best show wherever you get your podcast. And, um, I’ll give one more plug of something that I am in, uh, which is, uh, Unspooled.

[00:30:36] Unspooled, uh, we tackled the New York Times uh, best a hundred films of the Millennium. And I think we had a actually really interesting conversation about that. So if you’ve not checked out unspool or you want like a quick episode to just kinda wet your whistle, uh, that’s the one to do. Okay. I have more to tell you about, but first this.

[00:30:58] Okay. Next week we’ll be going from Chef Boyardee to Provolone, please. Yum. I don’t know. This one was hard. Um, that’s right. Next week we are watching the 1991 film, Oscar starring Sylvester Stallone as Snaps Provolone. That’s the provolone that we needed. Um, what’s this plot? Well, it’s a comedy, it’s a farce.

[00:31:19] It’s a remake. Stallone stars as Oscar, uh, where he plays Angelo Snaps Provolone. A mob boss who promises his dying father that he will leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Well, it’s, it’s really like a stage play, uh, with, uh, mediocre timing. Anyway, Rotten Tomatoes gives this film a 12% score on the tomato meter and Michael James of letterbox.

[00:31:43] Well, that’s, you know, anyone can say. Anyone can post it on Letterbox. Michael James says,

[00:31:48] “This Comedy of errors has its set of hits and misses, but it does stay quite watchable, providing a good dose of laughter. It was also fun to catch Stallone in this mode. It’s, uh, a perfectly laid back guilty pleasure watch on a lazy afternoon.”

[00:32:01] You know, I’ve said that about movies that I have been in. It just means that it’s fine. You know, honestly, Oscar is fine. Uh, I don’t recommend that you need to watch it, but you can listen to the trailer.

[00:32:14] Trailer Audio: The year is 1931 and Gangster Snaps Provolone is in control. The police are powerless. His rivals are helpless. No one in the entire city dares to defy him except his daughter.

[00:32:29] I’m a modern thirties woman. Look.

[00:32:32] Put that away! I’m your father!

[00:32:34] She’ll do anything. Anywhere. With anybody.

[00:32:38] Your daughter and I are lovers.

[00:32:39] What?

[00:32:39] Did he tell you I was pregnant?

[00:32:41] What?

[00:32:41] Touchstone pictures present Sylvester Stallone in the story of a father.

[00:32:45] What we need is a husband.

[00:32:47] Trying to find someone.

[00:32:48] But don’t look at us.

[00:32:49] Who will marry his daughter?

[00:32:50] I’ve decided to go away to a convent.

[00:32:53] Well you’re a little late.

[00:32:54] Paul Scheer: You can rent Oscar on Amazon Prime, apple TV, and Fandango. In addition, I encourage you to check out Hoopla, Canopy, and Libby, which are digital media services offered to you by your local public library that allow you to consume movies, tv, music, audiobooks, eBooks, and comics for free.

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