EP. 366.5 — Last Looks: Oops! All Just Chat w/ Ruby Karp

[00:00:00] Paul Scheer: Oops, all Just Chat.

[00:00:02] Music: [Intro song]

[00:00:30] Paul Scheer: Hello, all my balcony monsters. I am on tour and I am seeing you every night right now, and it has been a absolute blast. That’s right. The Doppelganger Tour is going on right now. Just a few more days to catch us, and you can see me, Jason and Jessica St. Clair who is having just her head spun around by watching so many bad movies.

[00:00:56] But it’s not about the tour right now. No, no, no. I mean, it is about the tour if you wanna come see us in our remaining cities. So go to HDTGM.com to find out where we are playing, uh, and what movies we’re gonna be talking about. But this is about you. This is about you getting to voice your issues on last week’s movie, which was, This Is Me Now, but you’re gonna have to wait because like I said, we’re on tour.

[00:01:19] I don’t know what you’re saying. I, I can’t be everywhere at once. I can’t be on the Discord with all my recording equipment in hotel room. No, no, no. I’m there solo with my kids. I’m working my butt off. So what am I gonna do? Uh, I’m gonna give you something special. This week, this whole episode is just gonna be me and Jason chatting it up.

[00:01:37] We’re also gonna be joined by our friend, Ruby Karp, to discuss her new Off Broadway show and all the TV and music that she’s loving right now. And she’s young, she’s gonna hip you to the good stuff. But before we get too far into things, I have to give a big shout out to John Cohen. John Cohen. That opening song was amazing.

[00:01:56] If you have a song like John well, or. Not like that song, but the way that John made a kickass song. You wanna make one too? Send it to HowDidThisGetMade@Earwolf.com Keep ’em short. 15 to 20 seconds is best. Um, Dark Web is a show that Rob Huebel and I host, uh, right now on YouTube. It has been a blast.

[00:02:15] There’s about eight episodes up. Enjoy them. They are completely free. We’re talking about weird lawyers, bizarre people in their outer space theories, my mom being fooled by an Elon Musk impersonator. So much stuff. And my book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, um, for a long time I forgot to put that you can get the book personalized on my website.

[00:02:39] That’s right. Uh, just go to my website and you can get a personalized copy of my book and I’ll get that mailed to you wherever you are in the United States, but, that’s all I wanna tell you about that. Um, we’re on the road. We cannot wait to finish this tour. Well, we are excited. We’re not like we’re enjoying the tour.

[00:02:55] I’m just saying we can’t wait to see more of you out there. Every night’s been such a blast. And you know what, without any further ado, let’s just start chatting. Anton Wellen, play us in.

[00:03:06] Music: [Just Chat Intro Song]

[00:03:27] Paul Scheer: Thank you, Anton. Jason, what is up?

[00:03:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Ba boop. Be boo. Here we go.

[00:03:34] Paul Scheer: Here we go. Oh my gosh.

[00:03:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Where, where are we in time right now?

[00:03:38] Paul Scheer: I feel like we’re kind of mid tour at this point. Mid, maybe.

[00:03:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, we’re in the middle of the tour, so, wow. I mean, who knows who, who know knows if we’re mid tour? Well, I don’t even wanna say it because I don’t wanna jinx it, but I am, I am a little nervous, I will say. To. That we have, uh, for the first time since the last time, a tour date in Texas because.

[00:03:59] Paul Scheer: I love it.

[00:04:00] Jason Mantzoukas: Boy, oh boy. There is a ba health emergency in Texas. You have measles.

[00:04:07] Paul Scheer: I asked my doctor today and I said, uh, what can I do? And he is like, well, if you’re vaccinated. You don’t have to worry about it. So I, I feel good about that.

[00:04:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay. So meaning your childhood vaccine will cover?

[00:04:18] Paul Scheer: Yes. He said as long as you are, you’re not at re if you’re not in a, it’s mostly elderly people and people who are not vaccinated against measles that are having the issues with it.

[00:04:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes. Okay.

[00:04:26] Paul Scheer: He said there’s nothing really to do beyond that.

[00:04:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay.

[00:04:29] Paul Scheer: Uh, which.

[00:04:30] Jason Mantzoukas: Because I was gonna ask my doctor if I needed like a, a booster or something.

[00:04:34] Paul Scheer: Well, that’s what I, that’s what I, you know, we’re going on the road. I was like, uh, you don’t wanna get measles? I don’t wanna get measles out there and get mumps.

[00:04:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah, I don’t, and guess what else I don’t want? Rubella.

[00:04:43] Paul Scheer: Oh God, get rubella.

[00:04:44] Jason Mantzoukas: I don’t want rubella either. I don’t want measles, mumps, or rubella.

[00:04:49] Paul Scheer: Well, you know, look, we, we wanna stay relatively free of the easily avoidable diseases. Uh, and you know, like, like I don’t wanna get shingles either. Uh.

[00:04:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh God.

[00:04:58] Paul Scheer: But yeah, but you know, according, according to, you know, uh, you know, with the CDC or whatever, who knows who’s there now. But, uh, measles, uh, you know, measles?

[00:05:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait, you mean the CDC that is now disbanded?

[00:05:08] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna say.

[00:05:09] Jason Mantzoukas: It’s, that’s now been, that’s been dragged into the garbage can.

[00:05:12] Paul Scheer: Well, I’ve read a couple things here and it says, if you eat a bag of nacho cool ranch Doritos, you will not get.

[00:05:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.

[00:05:19] Paul Scheer: Uh, yeah. But if you, if you, basically, if you’re born after 1957, uh, but vaccinated, uh, before 1968, you should get a booster shot.

[00:05:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay.

[00:05:28] Paul Scheer: So 68. Yeah, that’s, that’s where, where they’re saying it got, uh, but again, that’s only good, good news for you and me ’cause no one else is on tour with us. Uh oh my gosh. But, um, okay. So much stuff to get into, to unpack.

[00:05:44] Jason Mantzoukas: Alright.

[00:05:44] Paul Scheer: To see what you’re up to. Yeah. Uh, obviously we’re recording this before the new Daredevil show, before we’ve watched the new Daredevil show.

[00:05:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.

[00:05:52] Paul Scheer: But I have talked to.

[00:05:53] Jason Mantzoukas: Daredevil Born Again?

[00:05:54] Paul Scheer: Talked to so many people. Who are, I am gonna tell you that the future me has this all queued up on my iPad. I’m very excited.

[00:06:00] Jason Mantzoukas: I am very excited as well. Um, the I, the Daredevil Born again comic is incredible that, that run of comics that’s titled Born Again, not that this is necessarily gonna be a one-to-one adaptation, but the fact that it’s called Born Again, very exciting.

[00:06:17] Paul Scheer: Love that.

[00:06:18] Jason Mantzoukas: These are some of my favorite Marvel characters, you know? Uh, especially, I mean, Daredevil is maybe my favorite comics

[00:06:25] Paul Scheer: Really?

[00:06:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Character, I think. Yeah.

[00:06:27] Paul Scheer: Interesting.

[00:06:28] Jason Mantzoukas: I think so. And, and I think it’s a combination of, um, I. He’s my favorite comics character, like long term. I think especially now, now because there are so many, um, incredible runs of that character, right?

[00:06:43] So many fantastic writers and artists have done very memorable Daredevil runs, so that’s part of it. Um, part of it is that daredevil. Like Daredevil’s, a complicated adult, which makes for those stories to oftentimes be a little bit more grown up.

[00:06:59] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:07:00] Jason Mantzoukas: Than some of the younger hero books. So, uh, into adulthood, I think Daredevil is great, but then this show, like, also like kingpin, like daredevil’s, villains, daredevil’s, rogues, uh, gallery is heavy hitters. It’s great, you know?

[00:07:12] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Well they have those that kind of, and this is like the. In a way it’s like Marvel’s Batman, right? Yeah. Because it, like, you know, there are, there’s a city crime. The element that I feel like often isn’t as, uh, exposed in, in, in, in Marvel. Like it’s there, but it’s.

[00:07:30] Jason Mantzoukas: They also, they also share something which is a lot of what drives them forward is predicated not on the gaining of power, but on the. They do gain, but upon first losing.

[00:07:45] Paul Scheer: Right.

[00:07:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Batman loses his parents. Daredevil loses his sight. Like it’s, it’s in reaction to something that they become who they are, you know?

[00:07:53] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:07:54] Jason Mantzoukas: And that’s, there’s something about that that’s, that’s very interesting to me. Not just like, I’m Superman because of your yellow sun.

[00:08:00] Paul Scheer: Right. That’s it.

[00:08:00] Jason Mantzoukas: I am omnipotent, you know?

[00:08:02] Paul Scheer: Okay. Jason, hold that thought. We’ll be right back. I don’t know if you saw this ’cause you’re not, uh, you know, I know that you are a little bit off, uh, social media, but did you see that, um, a, uh, concept artist, uh, accidentally leaked the new Avengers movie?

[00:08:20] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, no. Wait, what, like a script you mean?

[00:08:23] Paul Scheer: No, uh, concept art. Uh, oh for the film and it is.

[00:08:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.

[00:08:28] Paul Scheer: Awesome.

[00:08:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh oh, cool.

[00:08:30] Paul Scheer: Yeah, it is. I was very excited about it. And, um, you’ll know the run, but uh, without that much, I mean, look, who knows if it will, there’ll be like Quentin Tarantino. Remember when.

[00:08:39] Jason Mantzoukas: This is what Secret Wars?

[00:08:41] Paul Scheer: This is. Yes. So the idea of it being like. It’s Dr. Doom when he, uh, recreates the world to kind of be medieval times.

[00:08:48] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, battle World. It’s Battle World.

[00:08:50] Paul Scheer: Yeah. So it’s like a medieval times world.

[00:08:52] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.

[00:08:52] Paul Scheer: Uh, battle world. And it is, uh, you know, so it’s, it looks very much like that, which I really like that idea. And, uh, and some of the pictures were, were getting me excited. I mean, again, it’s just.

[00:09:03] Jason Mantzoukas: I’m curious. Listen, I’m always gonna be. I mean, we’re just, we are drowning in so much of this stuff.

[00:09:10] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:09:10] Jason Mantzoukas: That, you know, it doesn’t always get to the level of quality that I want it to, you know? Um, but. I certainly think these people are capable of pulling off something incredible and that includes, I’m, I’m, I’m all for the new Superman. I’m like, great, let me see it. Maybe it’s gonna be awesome. Or, or these new Avengers movies. I’m like, great, if you can figure it out. I believe this could thrive again and be thrilling, but.

[00:09:35] Paul Scheer: Well, it, I think it all, well, I think what we were talking about a while ago was this idea like it just needs to have a drive that isn’t to continue, but to tell a story. Right. And I think that that’s why, uh, Skeleton Crew really worked excellent. Mm-hmm. For me, like, it was like, oh, this is just, this doesn’t, you don’t, yes. Star Wars exists and this is in the Star Wars world, but it is a. A contained story. Uh.

[00:09:58] Jason Mantzoukas: And isn’t that great? Wouldn’t that be great to just be like, kind of like what we’ve said in the past about like, oh, isn’t it fun to watch TV shows that have a beginning, middle, and an end

[00:10:07] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:10:07] Jason Mantzoukas: In the episode, and you don’t have to wait another eight weeks to find out and, and forget about why this mattered to you.

[00:10:14] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:10:15] Jason Mantzoukas: You know?

[00:10:15] Paul Scheer: Yes. And I know that you had something to do with having Kathleen Kennedy step down. So I, I, you know, again, I know you don’t wanna talk about that too much, but, you know.

[00:10:21] Jason Mantzoukas: Listen, why won’t you let me be Han Solo? Why won’t you let me be old Han Solo?

[00:10:27] Paul Scheer: Get in there please, please.

[00:10:30] Jason Mantzoukas: Can’t be, can’t be young Han Solo. I can only be old Han Solo.

[00:10:34] Paul Scheer: That would be great if like, and I get that. You know, I think people’s fear of AI is, uh, ultimately driven by the fact that, that’s what the future of entertainment will be, is people just putting themselves in the roles that they wanna be. But I think that people could take a, a big breath of fresh air and going like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be fun to do. But I don’t know who’s, again, it’s not gonna like catch on like wildfire. Like it’s not gonna be like, well.

[00:10:56] Jason Mantzoukas: But you remember, remember years ago when like there was a whole thing that would happen where like a fan made piece of me, like a fan made short like a Batman Short would be made by fans.

[00:11:07] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:11:07] Jason Mantzoukas: And it would get some sort of attention on a YouTube or something like that. I wonder if there’s a future for like, Hey, have you seen this new Star Wars movie that these kids did with ai and it’s awesome? You know, I’m curious.

[00:11:19] Paul Scheer: I, I, you know, look those troopers trailers, I remember that. Where the guys, what’s that? Who were like, it was, um, it was like Cops but, uh, storm troopers. It was like back in the early days of the internet. Okay. So they were just funny little shorts with storm troopers.

[00:11:31] Jason Mantzoukas: Mm-hmm.

[00:11:31] Paul Scheer: Um, uh, all that sort of stuff is, uh, is always interesting for me to like, see what people are, are doing, uh, and being able to, to kind of make, but again, it is funny, like I remember that Human Giant, when we were, MTV was trying out this thing, it was like movie karaoke.

[00:11:48] Jason Mantzoukas: What’s that?

[00:11:48] Paul Scheer: So you could put yourself in Human Giant sketches.

[00:11:53] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, okay.

[00:11:54] Paul Scheer: And, uh, we were trying desperately to get copies of

[00:11:56] Jason Mantzoukas: Mm-hmm.

[00:11:57] Paul Scheer: I don’t know where it came out. I feel like it was like on a failed video game platform. You know, it was like on a, uh, turbo Graphic 16 or something like that. Like it. And um, it was just so funny ’cause every now and then you’d cut to a, you’d see a clip online of like some like. 30-year-old dude in like Bobby, behind Bobby J’s desk being like, I told you ShutterBox. Oh, and like, yeah, I was, which I, by the way, I’ve always had a big feeling that like I would love movie karaoke as much as I love music karaoke, and in a way I prefer it put up a green screen behind me and let me act out a scene, as Codi says, that’s kind of TikTok now.

[00:12:31] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh my god. How funny. Well, whose idea was it? And I can’t remember this might have even been, uh, somebody said this, and forgive me, I’m not remembering because it was years ago, but how come in the same way that karaoke is just, I’m gonna get up and sing this song that you all know in front of you at a bar or whatever.

[00:12:49] How come there isn’t like famous standup routines in the machine? Ah, how come you can’t get up and do fi a tight five minutes of your favorite comedian’s set? The same, same idea.

[00:13:02] Paul Scheer: Oh, love that.

[00:13:02] Jason Mantzoukas: As karaoke. That seems like a no brainer.

[00:13:05] Paul Scheer: It would be really funny because, and I think it would show how hard it is, and which by the way is, as is singing.

[00:13:10] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah. But you know, like there’s no track for comedy, right? There’s no guiding, there’s no guide track, right. That’s like, that’s getting you there. So, boy, would that be funny if someone just got up and started doing like Jeff Foxworthy or you know, like any, I would just, I think that’s a very funny idea.

[00:13:30] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:13:30] Jason Mantzoukas: That would fail spectacularly in a pretty funny way.

[00:13:32] Paul Scheer: No, I mean, look, I, I, I also think that that would be one of those things where you have to just like cut it off. Like you, you get, you know, you got five minutes to do your set, but if you only got through the first minute, like it just shuts down.

[00:13:42] It’s like, and we’re done. We are done with like, you, you can’t continue. You, you had your five minutes, but you’ve, you took too many pauses in there. Um, but, uh, what else have I been up to? Uh, did I, oh, did we talk about this? I got, this is old, but I got that Indiana Jones game, uh, that.

[00:14:01] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, I don’t even know what that is.

[00:14:02] Paul Scheer: Jason.

[00:14:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait, a video game or a board game?

[00:14:05] Paul Scheer: Video game. It is.

[00:14:06] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh. Oh. I definitely don’t know what this is.

[00:14:08] Paul Scheer: Unbelievable. Uh, the actor that plays Harrison Ford, because they did mocap of him.

[00:14:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Mm-hmm.

[00:14:13] Paul Scheer: Like Harrison Ford has come out and been like, holy shit, this guy’s good. He’s basically like, this is the reason why we shouldn’t do anything AI because his performance is fantastic. And it is, and it’s like this full Indiana Jones adventure that I think I’m taking it slowly, uh, and I’m enjoying the hell out of it. It is so much fun. It’s like the most fun I’ve had playing a video game in, in a very, very long time.

[00:14:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Ooh, that sounds awesome. Oh, great. I’m gonna get it tonight.

[00:14:37] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,, I believe is what it’s called.

[00:14:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay.

[00:14:42] Paul Scheer: And it is, I think now it’s gonna be, now it’s available for PlayStation. I got it on Xbox, uh, and I hooked up my Xbox. I had it disconnected for a while. Uh, but it’s available now. You can just, uh, you can get it, uh, on Xbox right now.

[00:14:54] Jason Mantzoukas: Ooh.

[00:14:54] Paul Scheer: And, and it’s,

[00:14:54] Jason Mantzoukas: I love that.

[00:14:54] Paul Scheer: Really, really fun. And like all the reviews are 9 outta 10.

[00:14:57] Jason Mantzoukas: Ooh. I haven’t played a video game in ages. Great. I’m gonna get it. I haven’t, I haven’t played a video game in ages and because nothing’s been that exciting to me.

[00:15:05] Paul Scheer: Oh.

[00:15:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, but this sounds perfect.

[00:15:07] Paul Scheer: And by the way, what you’ll love about it is what you love about Red Dead, uh, redemption.

[00:15:11] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.

[00:15:11] Paul Scheer: You, it is, it is a game that I think definitely rewards you for staying on track, but you definitely don’t have to stay on track.

[00:15:17] Jason Mantzoukas: You don’t have to. Okay, great.

[00:15:18] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:15:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Even better because that’s all I wanna do is wander.

[00:15:21] Paul Scheer: You can wander in these little cities and do your dumb little shit. That’s like, like somebody was talking about that, it’s like.

[00:15:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Great.

[00:15:26] Paul Scheer: They say, oh, the game breaks down a little bit because there’s not, there’s no reason that you’re doing, you’re just walking around, but you’re, you’re doing stuff. It, it, it’s, uh, really, really fun. I think you’re gonna love it.

[00:15:35] Jason Mantzoukas: Ooh, I like that. That’s great. Yeah, I’m, uh, I, I’m excited. I gotta get back into a game. I’ve, I’m, I’ve been watching so much stuff, so much, so many movies, so much tv, which has been great. Um, Reacher, uh, season three out now. I mean, just going game buses.

[00:15:49] Paul Scheer: Gotta get on that.

[00:15:50] Jason Mantzoukas: Um. It’s, it’s so fun. Um, I’m also like, I’m loving, um, The Studio, uh, Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg’s new show with Hike and Gregory. And, and it is, and Ike Baron Holtz is in it. It is fucking great.

[00:16:04] Paul Scheer: So good. Uh, I’m so psyched for them. And, uh, it’s like one of those shows where you’re like, oh, it’s just got, it’s got great people. Lisa Gilroy’s in it. Uh, a bunch of fun people. Uh, and it’s just, I like look. I think that not everything needs to be inside baseball, but every now and then to have an inside baseball show. That’s that funny.

[00:16:23] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, this one’s perfect. It’s so funny. And then they do such a good job giving you little pops into the making of a movie that is going, that’s usually going poorly.

[00:16:32] Paul Scheer: Oh. And it’s like, and what was that one thing as like the, The fart. The, the, the fart innate, like, it’s like, basically it’s like a fart walking dead or something like that. It’s so funny.

[00:16:41] Jason Mantzoukas: And there’s, there’s there all the ones that are just like, you know, Seth Rogan’s studio executive has to go to the new Sarah Pauley movie. But his presence on set causes so much drama just because he is there and it’s very funny.

[00:16:54] Paul Scheer: He wants people to, to thank him at the awards, like they’re gonna get an award, wants people to thank him at, it’s, it’s great. Really, really funny.

[00:17:00] Jason Mantzoukas: It’s great. Um, Reacher’s great. Um, the new animated show, Common Side Effects is phenomenal. It is. What a great show. What a creepy, eerie weird, very funny, absurd show. Um, can’t recommend it enough. Um, really great. Um, was watching it. Super into it and I was like, man, this main character’s voice. Who is this? I know who this is. Looked it up. Dave King.

[00:17:27] Paul Scheer: Oh, wow.

[00:17:29] Jason Mantzoukas: I was like, this is nuts.

[00:17:30] Paul Scheer: That’s really crazy.

[00:17:31] Jason Mantzoukas: Crazy. This is crazy. And he’s doing a fantastic job. Um, the show is fantastic. I think Common Side Effects. I think it’s on Max. I wanna say Max, maybe. Um, we were in Telluride recently with, um, I. The comedy festival in Telluride we did, which we do most years. And um, Rory Scoville was there and did incredible standup. Um, and so I’ve gone back and rewatched a bunch of his standup specials that I think are just terrific.

[00:17:56] Paul Scheer: By the way, keep your eye out on Rory because what he’s doing right now is Rory is doing these improvised standup specials, uh, not specials, but like these, like runs at a theater where he is coming out on stage completely. Uh, he’s just gonna start talking. That’s it.

[00:18:12] Jason Mantzoukas: Mm-hmm.

[00:18:12] Paul Scheer: And you know, look, take it from Jason and I we’re telling you the truth. It’s not like, you know, he is not like he didn’t secretly write a half hour. He is not, he’s like.

[00:18:19] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, there’s a great, he did this in the past and there’s actually a documentary on YouTube. Um, so he did a full improvised standup special like. 10 years ago or something like that.

[00:18:30] Paul Scheer: Oh, wow. Okay.

[00:18:31] Jason Mantzoukas: And so that’s available. You can watch that special. But in the lead up to that special, he recorded a documentary, so he, he did a show, an improvised set every night of one week. And so there’s a documentary movie that is. That takes place over the course of that whole week. So you were watching

[00:18:49] Paul Scheer: Oh, wow.

[00:18:49] Jason Mantzoukas: Both his sets and then him during the day afterwards or the day beforehand, kind of talking about the last night’s set or talking about, you know, like what worked and did. He’s really just, it’s also process, which is very interesting.

[00:19:03] I don’t know if everybody would think it was interesting, but for me to watch him improvise sets and then kind of, offstage kind of processing at all. Super interesting.

[00:19:12] Paul Scheer: Um, yeah, I, I, I agree. I think that that’s really, uh, I just like, I just love Rory. I think he’s such a funny, uh, guy. And, uh.

[00:19:19] Jason Mantzoukas: It’s called live Without Fear. The, the YouTube one is called Live Without Fear. It’s fantastic.

[00:19:25] Paul Scheer: So good.

[00:19:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, and then the, the res, that one from a couple of years ago, that’s all about religion and sex and that stuff. It’s called like Religion, Sex, and Some Other Stuff. I can’t remember. I think, uh. An incredible special. Oh, fantastic.

[00:19:36] Paul Scheer: Yeah, I talk about that one too. That was a great, yeah. It’s so many good. Such good stuff.

[00:19:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.

[00:19:41] Paul Scheer: Jason, we gotta take a quick break and when we come back we’ll be joined by friend of the pod, Ruby Karp.

[00:19:49] I am so excited to introduce our guest today. Ruby Karp is a super funny actress, comedian, writer currently she’s working on After Midnight. She’s also been on this, I think, hilariously funny show on Roku with Charlie Po. Uh, you might even recognize her as the little girl in Human Giants, Shutterbugs.

[00:20:12] That’s right. I’ve known Ruby since she was three years old and I’m just blown away by everything she does. So I’m so excited to bring her on the show right now to talk about what she is up to, because again, with everything she’s done, it’s just damn impressive. Ruby, welcome to Last Looks.

[00:20:31] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow, Ruby. What’s happening?

[00:20:34] Ruby Karp: Oh my gosh, you guys, thank you for having me.

[00:20:37] Paul Scheer: I have to tell you your performance on that Charlie Pooth Show. If you’ve not seen this, this is like a Roku original comedy series. That show was very funny. I feel like many people try to do like, oh, it’s my version of Curb. But that show was actually, they did it. They did a great job.

[00:20:53] Ruby Karp: It’s kind of insane because nobody working on the show, uh, at least in like the talent side, other than me and Natalie had ever done anything in comedy at all. But the show was completely improvised. So everything you see Charlie say John Legend, like John Mayer, like all of these.

[00:21:11] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:21:11] Ruby Karp: Guys who you would kind of not really expect to be able to do improv.

[00:21:15] Paul Scheer: Yes. Yes.

[00:21:16] Ruby Karp: Were so funny. Ro I if you his episode, but like. He came up with every insult for Charlie on the spot and it rocked.

[00:21:28] Jason Mantzoukas: That’s so fun.

[00:21:29] Paul Scheer: This is the thing that I like. When we did The League, when Jason and I were on The League, the football players, I would say 85% of the time were great.

[00:21:38] Like they just were ready to go. They were comfortable, and I guess. Improvising and performing on stage or performing in an arena is so much le lower stake.

[00:21:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Lower stakes.

[00:21:47] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:21:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. It’s like, just, just to goof around is so much easier to them. And they’re used to probably also like just being in the moment and speaking like extemporaneously, you know, like the, the, the right and the stakes just I, I’m sure feel so small to them now.

[00:22:03] Ruby, super quick question. Just Paul and I were wondering, are they still doing auditions for that show?

[00:22:08] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:22:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Is there?

[00:22:09] Paul Scheer: What’s going on with that?

[00:22:10] Jason Mantzoukas: There any, can we send our headshot and resume or, I mean, maybe Charlie Pooth needs a couple of like, like old uncles.

[00:22:18] Paul Scheer: Yeah, we feel great. We live, we work local.

[00:22:21] Ruby Karp: I think that would work really well. I think he definitely needs an older male presence and his life.

[00:22:26] Paul Scheer: Thank you.

[00:22:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.

[00:22:28] Ruby Karp: As he ages. Yes. I think like.

[00:22:30] Paul Scheer: We’re as old as John Mayer.

[00:22:31] Ruby Karp: Yeah, of course.

[00:22:32] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.

[00:22:32] Ruby Karp: Oh my God.

[00:22:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Show’s got, here’s the reality is based on just what you’ve said so far, the show’s got entirely too many Johns.

[00:22:38] Ruby Karp: Oh my God. Yeah.

[00:22:40] Jason Mantzoukas: The show’s just rotten with Johns.

[00:22:42] Paul Scheer: Ruby. I, I feel like I don’t wanna like. Jason and I, but I do wanna say that we have known you for such a long period of time. Oof. I, I mean, I think that there’s a picture of me and you on stage together when you are three years old.

[00:22:57] Ruby Karp: Yes.

[00:22:57] Paul Scheer: You’ve been a staple in comedy in New York.

[00:23:00] Jason Mantzoukas: And I think there’s for sure a picture of you in me on stage together, and you’re maybe five or six maybe.

[00:23:07] Ruby Karp: Yes. Yes.

[00:23:08] Paul Scheer: It really is a wild thing. You have been around comedy and you have been in comedy, and you’ve written books. You’ve written a book, you’ve, you have, you work on a great big show. Uh, After Midnight, you’ve been on this show. You really are. You have been around comedy at a very interesting time. And I mean, I guess the question is, and I don’t know if I’ve ever really asked you this, I mean. I imagine some of your earliest memories are people.

[00:23:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Of our shows. Yes, they are probably our shows. And what funny things did we do that you remember?

[00:23:44] Ruby Karp: I, I remember so much is the thing like so many, like working children are like, I don’t remember anything I did in my childhood. For me. So much of like how I learned about the world was through your shows. Like.

[00:23:59] Jason Mantzoukas: That’s chilling.

[00:24:00] Ruby Karp: I remember one time it’s no, and it’s like sometimes you’re like, oh, that’s why I didn’t really understand how this thing worked for a long time. Like for a while. Because also to me, uh, for context for people who like have no idea who I am. I, my mom is not in comedy, but my mom was around UCB a lot.

[00:24:20] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:24:20] Ruby Karp: And by that effect, I was just kind of being thrown on stage a lot as a kid, particularly because I loved attention as a child, as an only child. I was just like.

[00:24:31] Paul Scheer: I remember that. I think you liked the TV show Alias, or we did something. I remember distinctly, I don’t know if Jason, this is you, uh, but you, we made you run up a wall.

[00:24:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Run up running on the wall. Matrix style.

[00:24:43] Paul Scheer: Yes. Matrix style.

[00:24:45] Ruby Karp: Yes. And everyone was like, this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. And like it was this effect where I was like, I was kind of able to go on stage and just say stuff and get laughs because I was a child, but also like that had some like very negative repercussions.

[00:24:58] Like one time I was hosting a show, so like fully hosting, like I was the person, who was the first person everyone in the audience was seeing? I was 12 and I opened the show by being like, yeah, I just got back from summer camp, which sucks because I can’t wear shorts without worrying about getting raped all the time. And like the audience was just like, oh.

[00:25:16] Paul Scheer: No, this is a too much UCB influence.

[00:25:21] Ruby Karp: And like I remember like Jason, you and Amy did a show where like the sketch opened with like, you guys had just like slept together or something, and I remember being like. Oh my God. I didn’t know Jason and Amy were dating. Like, this is like.

[00:25:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Just like what is reality and, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:25:39] Ruby Karp: What is real? Yeah. And I remember being like, oh my God, I can’t believe we’re all seeing this like this. This feels private. Like, uh, so it was just like a lot of stuff like that. But in like a kind of lovely way, I think it’s, it’s made me very like, um, in touch with my inner child and also very naive.

[00:25:55] Paul Scheer: Well, but that’s so funny. It’s so interesting because I think, you know, we’ve seen you for such a long time and you’ve grown up, uh, to be, I. Like a very normal, well-rounded, smart person. I mean, I was blown away. This book that you wrote, Earth Hates Me. Where.

[00:26:12] Ruby Karp: Oh my God. Which please everyone, please nobody is allowed to read that.

[00:26:15] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh. Wow. Okay. We’re, we’re not advertising.

[00:26:18] Jason Mantzoukas: We’re disavowing the book? Ruby. What’s up?

[00:26:21] Ruby Karp: Because wait, lemme just say I wrote this book when I was 16. It is a self-help, memoir, emphasis on the memoir at 16. What?

[00:26:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Ruby, at 16 you had already lived more life than I had lived.

[00:26:37] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:26:37] Jason Mantzoukas: And I was at that point probably 46.

[00:26:41] Ruby Karp: No, and that, and that is so true. At the same time, it’s like, imagine if you. We’re just so, like, you know how when you’re on a podcast you’re like, oh, I’m just chatting with my friends, nobody’s hearing this. Yeah. Like, nobody’s actually gonna perceive this conversation. Imagine that, but in the form of a book, and it’s like all of your 16-year-old secrets.

[00:26:58] Paul Scheer: Oh, well, but I will say this, it was very well reviewed and I read it. I, and, and it was, and look, and I get, I liked it and I liked it. Amy Pohler liked it. Kikis liked it. Um, but it, you know, talking about that embarrassment of that, I always think about this, which is, uh, Jamie Kennedy, who was in the Scream movies and stuff like that, he had a show, like a prank show on the wb, um, called X, which I loved.

[00:27:22] I. After the first season of that show, he released his own memoir and I was like,

[00:27:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.

[00:27:26] Paul Scheer: Memoir. Buddy. You got more time. You got more time to get it out. You actually though, yours was like, yours is like a handbook for a 16-year-old. I think it’s so funny though, when people try to write their memoir so early, it’s like, we haven’t, it’s not here, it’s not ready yet. It’s not ready for you to, to digest. Um, but yet you have continued to do all this really cool stuff and you, it blows me away. You’re about ready to start a, a month long run at the Soho Theater right now.

[00:27:53] Ruby Karp: Six weeks if you can believe it.

[00:27:55] Jason Mantzoukas: And it’s all just you telling stories about that period of time that you were in camp and they wouldn’t let you wear shorts?

[00:28:03] Ruby Karp: Like, honestly, it’s not far off from that. It’s uh, it’s, uh, Soho Playhouse, it’s called, I Don’t Trust Adults. And it’s basically, it’s, I tell the story of six different adults who caused me to be forever suspicious of adults. So I, I basically go through, because, I dunno if you know this Jason, but like, as a kid, not only was I doing like comedy and acting, but I was like a child journalist.

[00:28:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh wow.

[00:28:27] Ruby Karp: I had beef with Mark Zuckerberg like. I don’t want to spoil it.

[00:28:33] Paul Scheer: Well, this is like, this is the tease on the poster.

[00:28:35] Jason Mantzoukas: This, this is part of the show. This is a.

[00:28:36] Paul Scheer: It says, is mark Zuckerberg allegedly involved in all of this and allegedly, yes.

[00:28:41] Ruby Karp: Oh, allegedly, yes. Yes. A major, major allegedly on all of this.

[00:28:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Major allegedly, I think I heard, just got promoted to Admiral, allegedly.

[00:28:51] Ruby Karp: Thank you. Yes, exactly. I just had all of these. Interactions with so many people who either became big people or who very much did not become big people. But all of it was, uh, a bunch of different adults speaking to me, a child, like I was an adult and I was in a lot of very like, adult situations. And it’s kind of about, uh, how I navigated those and also particularly how theater school and a lot of like theater camp dynamics, theater teacher dynamics are very, um. Uh, very power dynamic based.

[00:29:28] Paul Scheer: Well, yeah. I mean, I think that there’s a lot of like energy when somebody can tell you, look, it’s a tricky role to be a teacher, right? And, and telling people what’s good, what’s bad, you know? And uh, and I feel like there’s also like an inherent jealousy, I think sometimes with some teachers and, and students and pitting people against each other. And you ca but you came out. You came out good. And I mean, this show. Is gonna, it’s, it’s what, no intermission, right? 75 minutes. You get this in and out.

[00:29:54] Ruby Karp: 60 minutes. Thank God.

[00:29:56] Jason Mantzoukas: So Ruby is the, and this, and it’s, and it is one, is it one story or is it a series of stories that are all pulled from, uh, from your life?

[00:30:07] Ruby Karp: So it’s definitely a series of stories. So it, it essentially takes you through like age eight to 18.

[00:30:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh wow.

[00:30:14] Ruby Karp: And the various kind of phases I went through. So we go through, uh, my child journalist phase, my child activist phase. I gave a TED talk when I was 13.

[00:30:25] Paul Scheer: This is what I’m saying. This is insane your life is nuts at this point. You are also 60, 67.

[00:30:30] Jason Mantzoukas: Just things that are getting mentioned just as like points of reference.

[00:30:34] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:30:35] Jason Mantzoukas: So we’re not even gonna talk about the TED Talk, but just an FY. Yeah, just to set the scene.

[00:30:39] Paul Scheer: The book and the TED talk are pushed to the side.

[00:30:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Just to set the scene, there was a 13-year-old TED Talk, but that’s just over there.

[00:30:45] Ruby Karp: No, but and it’s like I, and when I tell people this, they’re like, that’s so funny. And I’m like, no, you don’t understand. This is my life. Like this is like, people are like, Timothy’s digital footprint is so embarra. I’m the digital footprint final boss. Oh. Like you, you cannot understand digital footprint until you learn about my life.

[00:31:01] Jason Mantzoukas: When did you, when did you get online, Ruby? Like what age, how old were you when you started to live online? You know, like for your generation that’s like, uh, when allowed it could have been immediately. You know?

[00:31:13] Ruby Karp: I, I’m an only child who was raised by a single mom, so like I was on the internet from like the second I could understand how to read.

[00:31:20] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.

[00:31:21] Ruby Karp: I, when I was like six, my mom was getting a migraine. I was googling like how to help mother with migraine.

[00:31:25] Paul Scheer: Oh my gosh.

[00:31:26] Ruby Karp: Like I, I was in the digital like world, which is like kind of why it makes sense that I like work at after midnight for digital and like all this stuff now, but.

[00:31:34] Paul Scheer: Well you also made some of my favorite videos at, uh, Betches too, or my.

[00:31:38] Ruby Karp: Yes, yes.

[00:31:39] Paul Scheer: Uh, those are always so, so funny. Like you’ve been a lot in this world and I understand it ’cause I always thought, back in the day, like when I saw that, remember that kid who did the Star Wars video, who ran around, he didn’t have a lights saber. And I’m like, oh, will that follow him for the rest of his life? Will somebody be like, I am the, I’m the Star Wars kid. Like, I’m the Yeah, like, I mean, yeah, there are things out there. I mean, there are, are there ever any things that you can’t take down? Have you tried or.

[00:32:02] Ruby Karp: Oh my God, you don’t know how many YouTube requests I’ve sent in that are like, please, this video is not copyrighted. This is my minor face. Please take this down. I’m begging you so hard. And I was, I was talking to my friends literally yesterday. I was like, if I could, I would take everything from like ages 18 and down, like down. I would take everything down to my friends and be like, no, it’s so cute. And I was like, yes, but like you don’t have to be me when I like take like one hit of weed and then I’m just, I’m like, everyone can see how I perceived myself from ages eight to 18 and it’s just out in public for everyone to see. So that was kind of why I wrote the show because I was like, I need to like, reclaim my narrative and just like, let everyone know how I feel about all of these things.

[00:32:43] Jason Mantzoukas: Smart.

[00:32:43] Paul Scheer: Yeah. I, I love this. Now, one of the things that Jason and I do on this show, uh, is we always are talking about what we’re into, but I feel like we very rarely get a person, uh, of your age.

[00:32:54] Ruby Karp: Yes.

[00:32:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes.

[00:32:55] Paul Scheer: Be like, what is, like, what is good? Like, give us a couple.

[00:32:58] Jason Mantzoukas: Recommends.

[00:32:59] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:32:59] Jason Mantzoukas: You know, we are middle-aged men talking to our audience all the time. And, and listen, Ruby, I’ll be honest, I’m trying to make up for it by, by shouting out anime whenever I can. But I’m not a, I’m not an anime person.

[00:33:12] Ruby Karp: Oh my God.

[00:33:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Or, or any young, young people content.

[00:33:15] Ruby Karp: Is that what you think the young people want?

[00:33:16] Jason Mantzoukas: Young people love crunchy roll, ruby.

[00:33:20] Ruby Karp: Sure. Um, wait. Okay, so are we asking for television? Are we asking for movies? Are we asking for earnest recs?

[00:33:29] Paul Scheer: Yeah, give us a couple, like give us a couple different flavors of things that we should be watching. Thing like anything. Yeah. Push us in different directions. We don’t care.

[00:33:36] Ruby Karp: Okay. So obviously. Thursday’s, Trader, Severance, double feature.

[00:33:40] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:33:40] Ruby Karp: Is coming to a close, but obviously the Trader, Severance double feature was I think my highlight of my week for the past like four months.

[00:33:49] Paul Scheer: I, I am such a fan of both of those shows. I’ll tell you one thing.

[00:33:54] Ruby Karp: Tell me.

[00:33:54] Paul Scheer: I’m in the point in my life where I used to watch Lost and obsess over every detail, and now when I go watch Severance, I’m like, I’m okay just to be enjoying the episode, like reveal it to me whenever I don’t care. I’m like, I’m, I’m just enjoying it.

[00:34:06] I know it’s there, but yeah.

[00:34:08] Ruby Karp: I’m here for the ride.

[00:34:08] Paul Scheer: Yeah, I’m here for the ride.

[00:34:08] Jason Mantzoukas: But it also feels, it doesn’t, unlike Lost, it doesn’t feel like they don’t know what they’re doing.

[00:34:14] Paul Scheer: Correct.

[00:34:14] Jason Mantzoukas: It doesn’t feel like they’re just putting stuff into the ether to be like, this could be cool. Maybe I just rewatched the Lost pilot. And it is so compelling and then such a bummer to be like that never got, uh, settled. We never found out what that was. And it’s just you go down the, the line of like just unprepared now, Ruby, are you doing both of those? Like as they air, like the minute they’re up, you’re watching?

[00:34:38] Ruby Karp: Yes. 6:00 PM on Thursdays. I’m seated. I, I get home from work. I have my setup, I have my snacks. It is like, this is my night now that Traders is over. Yes. The new double feature is White Lotus.

[00:34:52] Paul Scheer: Yep.

[00:34:52] Ruby Karp: Righteous Gemstones.

[00:34:54] Paul Scheer: Love gemstones.

[00:34:55] Ruby Karp: That is a great double feature.

[00:34:56] Jason Mantzoukas: I love that you are, as a young person participating in something that Paul and I participated in for most of our lives, which is appointment viewing.

[00:35:04] Ruby Karp: Oh my God.

[00:35:05] Jason Mantzoukas: You’re not watching it. When you get around to it, you’re watching it as it airs.

[00:35:09] Ruby Karp: Well, do you wanna know why? It’s because if you don’t, you’ll open your phone and every single thing that has happened will be spoiled for you.

[00:35:16] Jason Mantzoukas: I see.

[00:35:16] Ruby Karp: So you simply must.

[00:35:17] Paul Scheer: I don’t watch White Lotus. And the more, and I see more spoilers for White Lotus and it’s actually great because when I do eventually watch it, I won’t remem because it means nothing to me.

[00:35:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.

[00:35:27] Paul Scheer: Uh, because I’m just seeing names or something and I’m like, it all blurs. But it is, yeah, it, it’s impossible ’cause everybody is trying to spoil it. I felt like at least Variety tried to hold back the big spoiler or the, at least casting spoiler in gemstones the first episode. I was like, but man, you can’t go without, if you don’t watch it within the first 12 hours, you’re kind of screwed.

[00:35:48] Ruby Karp: No, exactly. And particularly with a show like Severance that is so plot heavy.

[00:35:53] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:35:53] Ruby Karp: And there’s just so much that you kind of need to, uh, pay attention to a. You get that spoiled for you after a week of theorizing and being like, what’s gonna happen? You, I swear to God.

[00:36:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Ruby is so mad right now.

[00:36:07] Ruby Karp: You guys.

[00:36:08] Jason Mantzoukas: Ruby is fired up.

[00:36:10] Ruby Karp: This is, this is what I live for. Like this is, this is like truly like my Thursday motivation is like, okay, I just have to make it through the next eight hours. And then that’s what’s so lovely about West Coast is that it comes out at 6pm.

[00:36:23] Paul Scheer: Little bit earlier. Yeah.

[00:36:23] Ruby Karp: You don’t even have to wait for 9:00 PM

[00:36:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Now what? How caught up are you, Ruby, on Reacher?

[00:36:28] Ruby Karp: Wait.

[00:36:29] Jason Mantzoukas: How caught up are you on season three of Reacher, Ruby?

[00:36:35] Ruby Karp: That you’re not watching Perfect dad television.

[00:36:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Season three of Dark Wind, Ruby Dark Winds?

[00:36:40] Ruby Karp: And, and what are these shows? Wait, who is the target audience for shows

[00:36:44] Jason Mantzoukas: Middle age dudes.

[00:36:44] Paul Scheer: Uh, dads.

[00:36:45] Jason Mantzoukas: It’s dad. It’s it’s hardcore Dad slash uncle tv.

[00:36:48] Paul Scheer: Now I do let, I mean Jason, we gotta get Jason on Traders. He is yet to like, kind of fall in love with traders. I’ve told them to get in on the UK version. Now Peacock is airing the uk.

[00:36:57] Jason Mantzoukas: I mistakenly watched the wrong try. I get, I tried the wrong traitors. Yeah. Apparently. And I, I, it left a bad taste in my mouth, so I gotta go back.

[00:37:04] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:37:04] Ruby Karp: Here’s the thing with Traitors particularly, it is a show that you must watch with everyone.

[00:37:10] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:37:10] Ruby Karp: Because like you can watch it independently, but the fun of it is like the Twitter discourse.

[00:37:15] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay. Well, yeah.

[00:37:16] Paul Scheer: I also will say if you watch it with a. Like June and I will be in bed screaming.

[00:37:21] Ruby Karp: Yes.

[00:37:21] Paul Scheer: Like, you just need, you need someone, yeah.

[00:37:23] Ruby Karp: Communal view.

[00:37:24] Paul Scheer: Yeah. To be like, oh, you idiot. Like you there is something about it.

[00:37:27] Jason Mantzoukas: So you watch it like, like we watch like, ah, How Did This Get Made Movie?

[00:37:30] Paul Scheer: Yes. Yes. Ruby, do you have a favorite UK or regular?

[00:37:33] Ruby Karp: I. Just, just to get into the format and also just like get into what I think most people have most recently been talking about. I would genuinely start with season one of US Traders.

[00:37:45] Paul Scheer: See, that’s the one I don’t like.

[00:37:46] Ruby Karp: Think that like, see, I don’t like that season either, but it, it, so. But I do think it explains it. It it gives you a lay of the land.

[00:37:54] Paul Scheer: Watch first of uk.

[00:37:55] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.

[00:37:55] Paul Scheer: Watch First uk.

[00:37:57] Ruby Karp: Okay.

[00:37:57] Paul Scheer: Uh, season one of uk they were first.

[00:37:59] Ruby Karp: See, he didn’t, but he didn’t like that. See, he wasn’t happy with that.

[00:38:01] Jason Mantzoukas: I think I watched season one of American traders, which was, which I have been told was bad.

[00:38:05] Paul Scheer: Yeah.

[00:38:05] Ruby Karp: Oh, so that’s the issue.

[00:38:06] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:38:07] Jason Mantzoukas: And, and I correctly thought it was bad and, but I never engaged on any of the good.

[00:38:11] Ruby Karp: No. After you understand season one of UK traders, you must watch season two of US traders. Yeah. Is like what got me hooked.

[00:38:21] Paul Scheer: Season two is very good.

[00:38:23] Jason Mantzoukas: And what season have we just done? Like what was this? Tom Sandoval?

[00:38:26] Ruby Karp: Three.

[00:38:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh. Oh. So that’s just, there’s only been three. Oh, okay.

[00:38:30] Ruby Karp: Mm-hmm.

[00:38:30] Paul Scheer: But there’s six technically because there’s three uk, three us and then there’s two A Australian. I still love season two of Australia.

[00:38:38] Um, I’ll tell you this, one of the details in the uk, one that they’re airing now but is already over in the UK is uh, one person comes on the show. Says, oh, I’m gonna, um, I’m gonna have an accent, uh, of, and I forget the town. It’s like the, uh, it is a place in the UK where I believe like Prince Charles is from, I just can’t remember it right off the top of my head.

[00:38:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay.

[00:39:00] Paul Scheer: And she’s like, that is proven to be the most trustworthy accent of all of uk. So I’m gonna adopt that accent and come into this, but I’m not that. And then comes in and immediately meets someone from that area and then is committed to doing this accent for the entire show.

[00:39:17] Jason Mantzoukas: That’s very funny.

[00:39:18] Paul Scheer: !And is great. It is. It’s, it’s just a perfect, like they’ve walked themselves into a corner and now they are screwed.

[00:39:26] Ruby Karp: Because you have to understand a lot of these people are not game players.

[00:39:29] Paul Scheer: Yes.

[00:39:29] Ruby Karp: Some of them are, but a lot of these people are truly just like, reality stars who a lot of them have not even been prepped on what the concept of the show is.

[00:39:38] Paul Scheer: No, they, they’re just getting that money and they’re going and, uh, it’s great.

[00:39:42] Jason Mantzoukas: Interesting. Okay.

[00:39:42] Paul Scheer: Alright, so we got that for tv. Anything that we should be listening now? Jason loves music. Like Yeah.

[00:39:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Anything you’re loving, any, you know, anything that we should be checking out that maybe isn’t on our radar?

[00:39:52] Ruby Karp: Okay. I, I am going to sound like someone who is like a follower of the people I will have. You know, three years ago I saw Sabrina Carpenter at Webster Hall, an audience of 1000 people.

[00:40:05] Paul Scheer: Wow.

[00:40:05] Ruby Karp: I had boots on the ground. I was spreading the word. I was, I was like, I was telling all my coworkers, I would be like, I’m going to the Sabrina Carpenter concert tonight, and you guys aren’t even ready. She just put out her new album and it’s really good. And all my coworkers would be like, Sabrina Carpenter, the girl from Disney Channel, like, we don’t care. We like Taylor Swift. And I was like, that’s the thing, Taylor Swift likes Sabrina Carpenter, and everyone will be like, yeah, sure. Now here we are. It’s 2025 Grammy winner. Sabrina Carpenter is now here.

[00:40:34] Jason Mantzoukas: We’re all living in sabrina’s world now.

[00:40:36] Ruby Karp: Exactly.

[00:40:36] Paul Scheer: By the way, she’s pretty great. And I actually, I’ve turned my nose up at her early on too. I was like, ah, whatever, whatever. You know? And I’m like, it’s, she’s funny.

[00:40:44] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, I think she’s very funny. I, I, I think we talked about it here. I watched her Christmas special.

[00:40:50] Ruby Karp: Yeah.

[00:40:50] Jason Mantzoukas: Special. That had like sketches in it and had like funny people from SNL and other sketch players on there doing funny sketches, which I was very appreciative of.

[00:41:00] Paul Scheer: Yeah. I’m into, I’m all right. So I like, uh, you’re, you’re, you know, you’re in the zone with us. This is great. Um, I do wanna make sure people know that if they’re New York Soho Theater is where they can see your show. I Don’t Trust Adults.

[00:41:12] Ruby Karp: Mm-hmm.

[00:41:12] Paul Scheer: It’s running there for a month. We like, this is a thing I think people don’t understand, like. This is an impossible task that you’re doing. You are running a show, you are advertising a show, you’re trying to get people out to see a show.

[00:41:25] Uh, so really what you’re really relying on, on to a certain extent, I would imagine is word of mouth, right? You wanna make sure that people talk about it. Yes. You wanna make sure people come see it early. Uh, and, and, and, yeah. I just feel like it’s so if you’re in New York, check it out. Tell people, go see it. It’s gonna be funny.

[00:41:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Where should we send people to your website, Ruby? Or the website of the ticket plate? Where, where, how are we sending? What are we doing here?

[00:41:46] Ruby Karp: You can go to my Instagram. It’s @RubyKarp with a K. No C. And um, all of the links can be found in my bio. You can go to the Soho Playhouse website. It’s called, I Don’t Trust Adults. March 26th through May 3rd. Soho Playhouse, New York City, uh, literally anything. Uh, if you search any of those things, I am sure something will come up, hopefully on the internet.

[00:42:09] Paul Scheer: I just typed in your name and I got it. I got it right there. It’s right at the top.

[00:42:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Great.

[00:42:13] Paul Scheer: Uh, this is great.

[00:42:14] Jason Mantzoukas: What a treat.

[00:42:15] Ruby Karp: You guys. Thank you so much.

[00:42:17] Paul Scheer: We’ll not read your book.

[00:42:19] Ruby Karp: Please tell nobody.

[00:42:20] Jason Mantzoukas: We will ignore. What? What? We will ignore all of your prev. Everything previous to this?

[00:42:25] Ruby Karp: Yes.

[00:42:25] Jason Mantzoukas: We You would like us to ignore.

[00:42:27] Ruby Karp: I have never done anything else.

[00:42:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Moving now.

[00:42:29] Ruby Karp: Yes.

[00:42:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay, got it. Brand new talent screaming onto the scene. Rudy Karp.

[00:42:33] Paul Scheer: I think 20, 21 years old. You should have like a delete button for any third, actually 25. At 25 you should be able to go back and be like, I’m gonna cherry pick what exists after this moment like that, like we should have a moment that that is, you know, I think that that’s the right time to do it.

[00:42:48] Ruby Karp: I think that’s totally fair.

[00:42:49] Paul Scheer: I would say this as somebody who is a, uh, a dad who brought his son today to his first, oh, I’m having such a hard time overnight adventure for five nights. Oh my God. I can’t even get into it.

[00:42:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, what?

[00:42:59] Ruby Karp: Oh my God.

[00:43:00] Paul Scheer: And, and he chose to wear a, and this is not my son’s style at all. He’s, he chose to wear a Panama hat, like a, uh, I don’t know why. He was like, I’m wearing this hat. I was like. Alright buddy. But I’m not posting that online. I’m not posting it online. ’cause I don’t know if he’s embrace that, that Panama hat that he does. I’ve never seen this kid wear a hat in his life and he walked outta the house. He’s like wearing that hat.

[00:43:23] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that’s great.

[00:43:24] Paul Scheer: I was like, okay.

[00:43:25] Ruby Karp: And he’s gonna thank you for that.

[00:43:26] Paul Scheer: That’s what I tried to do.

[00:43:27] Ruby Karp: Oh, he’s gonna thank you for that In 10 years.

[00:43:28] Paul Scheer: He’s wearing a big gold necklace with his basketball. Uh, yeah. What? And uh, galaxy sweatshirt and like a shirt that says.

[00:43:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, I love it.

[00:43:36] Paul Scheer: I’m him. And that Panama hat.

[00:43:41] Jason Mantzoukas: Uh, well, he’s great as long as you don’t let him do a TED Talk. I think, I think it’s gonna pretty, I think he’s gonna be fine.

[00:43:45] Paul Scheer: Good. Uh, Ruby, this is awesome. It’s Ruby Karp, KARP. Uh, and uh, we will, uh, we, I can’t wait to see the show. Uh, thanks so much for talking to us.

[00:43:54] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah.

[00:43:54] Ruby Karp: Thank you guys so much for talking to me.

[00:43:57] Paul Scheer: Um, alright, Jason. We’ve talked about a bunch of stuff. You can see us on tour. Uh, if you wanna find out more about our tour, we even have a show coming up in Toronto. We’re gonna be back. We may even do some stuff in Vancouver. There’s a lot of stuff coming up. Uh, make sure you go to HDTGM.com and, uh, yeah, that’s all we got.

[00:44:14] Jason Mantzoukas: And don’t forget to watch season three of Invincible right now on Amazon Prime. You gotta see what’s happening with Rexplode, guys. Come on.

[00:44:22] Paul Scheer: All right, so much fun everybody. Uh, we’ll talk, uh, soon.

[00:44:27] Alright. Thank you Jason for stopping by and a big shout out to Ruby Karp for joining us for this very special, Oops, All Just Chat.

[00:44:34] But now it is finally time to announce our next movie. Next week we’ll be going from zodiacal councils to vengeful arousals. That’s right. Next week we’re watching the 2000 film starring Dolf Lundgren, called Jill Rips, kinda like Jack the Ripper, but I think it’s like Jill, the Ripper. Anyway, here’s a short breakdown of the plot.

[00:44:56] “A tough guy played by Dolf goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of, you guessed it, S and M to find out who is responsible for the death of his brother.”

[00:45:06] Well, maybe it’s has nothing to do with Jack the Ripper, uh, rotten Tomatoes gives this film an 11% score on the popcorn meter, and here is what letterbox user, Forced One says about Jill Rips.

[00:45:18] “This must be the longest movie ever made. I checked how long I’ve been watching it 10 times, and I wasn’t even at 30 minutes yet. It took me six weeks to finish it.”

[00:45:29] Oh Lord. Uh, all right, let’s listen to the trailer.

[00:45:34] Trailer Audio: A Murder shocks a community. A secret that shatters a family.

[00:45:44] A ruthless killer on a rampage.

[00:45:49] When a former cop is forced out of retirement to find the truth, he’ll have to mount his own investigation.

[00:45:56] I can’t get a warrant and we don’t get a warrant.

[00:45:59] And enter the killer’s world.

[00:46:01] What would he like?

[00:46:03] But he’ll have to go further than he ever imagined before the killer strikes.

[00:46:14] Jill rips.

[00:46:15] Paul Scheer: You can stream Jill Rips for free on Tubi, Amazon Video, Plex and Roku. In addition, I encourage you to check out Hoopla and Canopy and Libby, which are all digital media services offered by your local public library that allow you to consume movies, TV shows, music, audiobooks, eBooks, and comics for free.

[00:46:35] Alright, that’s it everybody. Make sure that you are subscribing to us. If you listen to us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, make sure you rate and review us. I know it helps. It helps. Takes two seconds. Just hit that little star, hit that five star, and, uh, and just keep on telling your friends. That’s how we grow.

[00:46:52] Uh, come out and see us on the road. We have a bunch of special merch out there. You can always visit us on social media @HDTGM. A big thank you to our producer, Scott Sonne, Molly Reynolds, and our movie Picking Producer Avaryll Halley, our associate producer Jess Cisneros, and our engineer Casey Holford.

[00:47:08] We’ll see you next week for Jill Rips.