November 21, 2024
EP. 358.5 — Last Looks: Q The Winged Serpent
Jason joins Paul for a marathon chat about what music & podcasts they’re currently diggin’ with a couple Gilmore Girls and Star Wars tangents along the way. But first, Paul dives into corrections and omissions from Q The Winged Serpent and shares a deleted scene from the Q live show. Plus, you bet that Paul announces next week’s movie!
PAUL & JASON’S LISTENING PICKS:
Destroyer
Mdou Moctar
Mary Lattimore
Wolves of Glendale (start with “The Gym”)
Acadia by Yasmin Williams
Daryl Johns LP by Daryl Johns
Geordie Greep
Waxahatchee
Florist
Porridge Radio
The Innocence Mission
Lost Notes: Groupies Podcast
The Penguin Official Podcast
The Watch Podcast
House of R Podcast
The Prestige TV Podcast
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly Bishop
PAUL & JASON’S WATCHING PICKS:
Junior Taskmaster
An Almost Christmas Story
Nöthin’ But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of ’80s Hair Metal
Gilmore Girls (for holiday time viewing)
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Transcript
[00:00:00] Paul Scheer: You’ve got Christmas mail, an evil dream, and a brand new jizz theme. All this and more on today’s How Did This Get Made Last Looks. And now, Anna from Largo, sing us in.
[00:00:13] Audience Member: There’s a beast over Manhattan streets, plus a small time crook who finds a body. Shepard and Pal, the detectives we meet, discover human sacrifice.
[00:00:30] Quetzalcoatl is a god from the past. Is this a sci fi film or a crime story? Who even cares, this flick flies by so fast 92 improv’d minutes to be precise. It’s Q, the winged serpent, on How Did This Get Made And it’s time for a second opinion As we go to the reviews, do you think you’ll be swayed? This is Q and good I gave it five stars.
[00:01:12] Paul Scheer: Hello, all you undercover mimes.
[00:01:14] I’m your host, Paul Scheer. And welcome to How Did This Get Made Last Looks where you, the listener get to voice your issues on Q the Winged Serpent, a movie that discord user Maximum Derek thinks should have had the tagline “Q. The winged serpent more improv than dinosaur.” Oh, well, thank you.
[00:01:34] Thank you, maximum Derek for plugging my own show. Yes. Dinosaur. We just got off a big, uh, week long tour on the East coast. Uh, for more info, you could check out my website, but that’s not a plug. I don’t want to be plugging right now. I want to be applauding Maximum Derek. Thank you. Maximum Derek for that alt tagline.
[00:01:51] Remember if you have an alt movie tagline or title, submit it to our discord, right? Just jump on there, put it up. And maybe just maybe if you plug one of my shows, my book, or it’s just plain funny, we will select you for this highly, highly coveted spot of. Alt tagline. I don’t know. I, we don’t, we don’t have a title for that, but you won, you won something there.
[00:02:14] All right. Coming up on today’s episode, you’ll be hearing all of your corrections and omissions on Q the winged serpent. Then Jason will stop by to chat with me about the music and the podcast that we are currently listening to. And you’re going to want a pen because we’re going fast and there’s a lot of good suggestions in there.
[00:02:29] Plus, as always, I will reveal the movie for next week’s episode. Uh, heads up our live stream. How Did This Get Made is doing a live stream. It’s available all around the world. It’s on December 12th. Um, Plus Jessica St. Claire is joining us, which is going to be such a blast. The movie is called You’ve Got Christmas mail.
[00:02:47] Now. I know a lot of you’ve been saying Paul do Hot Frosty, but Avaryll watched it and she said, it’s not good enough. All right. So trust us. Uh, again, the live stream is December 12th. You can watch it seven days after the broadcast, just go to HDTGM to get your tickets. They’re very, uh, conservatively priced.
[00:03:07] Is that the right way to say it? I don’t know. Um, all right. Are you looking for some holiday gifts? Of course you are. Do you have a How Did This Get Made fan in your life? Well, guess what? You can get a limited batch of my book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, exclusively for How Did This Get Made fans over at podswag.com. The books are very special because they come bundled with a custom bookmark. You couldn’t get anywhere else. I gave these out on tour. I reached out to my friend, uh, Castle McQuaid to make some just for this. So if you want that exclusive bookmark. Paul dressed at blockbuster bookmark. You’ll get that at pod swag.
[00:03:42] Plus each book is inscribed with some sort of a, How Did This Get Made? Um, saying whether it’s a face waterfall, a geo storm, uh, team sanity, whatever you get, you don’t know. Plus speaking of team sanity, we have these amazing new team Fred and team sanity pint glasses, which look amazing. Please check this stuff out.
[00:04:02] Pod swag really stepped it up this season. Um, all right. That is all the plugs that I got. Now, last week, we did talk about Q, the Winged Serpent. We had questions, and we might have even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set us straight, fact check us if you will. It is time for Corrections and Omissions!
[00:04:22] Music: [Corrections and Omissions Song]
[00:04:26] Paul Scheer: Thank you Brash Menagerie for that theme song.
[00:04:29] Let’s go to the discord. All right, this is what we got here Mick G3D writes
[00:04:35] “Can we talk about how after they shot and killed the bad guy who was doing the sacrifices at the end, they just left the body in the room closed the door and put a do not disturb sign on it and walked away. Like how little do they care about who is gonna come and clean that room?”
[00:04:51] Mick G3D, we talked about that in the show. It was crazy. Not only do they not care, they put a, um, like a little sign there for the, the maid to find the body, right? So this is a cop who , who was on, he’s in the scene of a crime. He committed a, a, a, you know, an act of violence. He should be filing a report, but no, he just leaves it for the maid.
[00:05:13] That’s the seventies for you. Cops, you shoot him, you go home. There’s no reports to file back then. Sean McBee writes,
[00:05:20] “Paul’s tidbit about the real scientists examining the abandoned nest long after the production had wrapped came from writer, director Larry Cohen himself on the film’s commentary track. Larry said the story was on the front page of the New York times. I was curious. So I went to the New York times archives to attempt to find this article. I searched every conceivable term that might turn up the story. And what I found is, Oh no. I know what you’re doing, Sean. Larry Cohen is a big fat liar. Okay. Not only was this never a New York Times front page story, but there was never a story about this in the New York Times or anywhere else because it never happened. Larry claimed that anthropologists descended on New York, curious about the mysterious nest found in an abandoned police station. As if it were a nest built by the ancient Lunapay tribe of Manhattan and the city constructed a police station around it. No one who finds that fake ass looking nest in an abandoned building is calling scientists. They’re calling trash pickup.”
[00:06:23] Well, Sean McBee, it sounded odd. I agree. But I had to share it. And I’m glad that you were able to call out that Larry Cohen loves to make up a good story, as we all know, because we loved Q, the winged serpent.
[00:06:36] All right, lovely Lizette writes,
[00:06:38] “I thought for sure Paul was going to mention it in the episode.”
[00:06:41] Uh oh, what did I do, Lizette?
[00:06:43] “The woman who plays Carradine’s wife was his actual wife at the time.”
[00:06:47] Okay, you thought I was going to mention that. Is that interesting? We’ll see.
[00:06:51] “Also, the sacrifice victim was played by Carradine’s brother. I’m going to bet that both castings were due to the short notice of pre production.”
[00:06:58] I agree. I agree. That’s actually, you made a good point at the end. I didn’t know if it was worthy of mentioning it because Carradine’s wife is barely in the movie and the sacrifice victim is barely, again, these are, you know, small parts, but you’re right.
[00:07:12] I think that that probably just speaks to the fact that they were so rushed. They’re just, you know, calling anybody to get to come on down. I mean, look, the director is in the movie as a sacrifice victim. He just threw himself in there. That’s what I’m talking about. That’s movie making. That’s A24, 1970 style.
[00:07:28] All right, let’s go to the phones Rory from New Orleans. What do you got?
[00:07:32] Listener: Paul, I was a minute or two into the queue episode And I noticed that you scoffed at the idea of a robbery homicide unit Um, that is what most uh cop units call that like, uh, if you look up any cities R. H. D. division, um, and Jason should know this as a big Bosch fan, uh, R. H. D. is a big part of Bosch. Robbery homicide is the, uh, common denominator. Like, that’s what they call that. So look it up. Look up, uh, you know, Corpus Christi, R. H. D. It’s a thing. Bye!
[00:08:10] Paul Scheer: Rory, thank you. As a Bosch fan. I am embarrassed. I’ve watched all seasons of Bosch and I’m very excited for the new Bosch spinoff.
[00:08:20] I guess what I found weird was that they were investigating them both simultaneously. It’s like we got robberies. We got murders. I guess what you’re saying is they’re doing both. They’re doing both simultaneously. So if a bank is being robbed, that’s the same person who’s also investigating a serial killing.
[00:08:36] If that’s what you’re saying, then I found it hard to believe. That those same cops are doing both jobs. I would think that there would be a specialization on some level, but Rory. I’m going to believe you just like I believed Larry Cohen. That the same cops who are investigating a serial killer often also are solving robberies.
[00:08:57] All right, and you’re probably right. I’m saying it like disbelieving, but you probably are right. Well, first of all, let me say this. I never saw Bosch bopping back and forth between I saw them doing a robbery homicide, but I didn’t see them doing like a robbery and a homicide. I still don’t believe you, but I know you’re right.
[00:09:17] All right. Uh, Ashley from California. What do you got?
[00:09:20] Listener: Hey Paul. Um, so the latest episode, Q the Winged Serpent. So I am a public school teacher, a fifth grade teacher in the state of California. And we have a story in our reading comprehension curriculum called How The Fifth Son came to be, which is an Aztec myth, which features the Quetzalcoatl, which is Q. So, I just wanted to share that little, little bit of information as we are shaping young minds here in the state of California.
[00:09:52] Paul Scheer: Ashley, you are shaping the best young minds. We need to bring back Quetzalcoatl in schools. Gavin Newsom, I hope you’re listening, because We need Quetzalcoatl in every school.
[00:10:05] We need the Book of the Suns. By the way, speaking of which, um, we do have an amazing shirt that we just made at TeePublic. It is called The Winged Serpent. I mean, what else would it be called? I guess, is that Quetzalcoatl? I don’t know! I didn’t know that he was a winged serpent like that, but I love that you’re teaching that.
[00:10:22] And please, if anyone else is teaching that, let me know what, what the kids think about Quetzalcoatl. Um, all right, back to the discord, Del Preston writes,
[00:10:29] “One thing I noticed during the end credits was the song in quotes, Michael Moriarty played in the bar was actually listed as the only song on the soundtrack. He just made that whole thing up on the spot, obviously, but they still credited it and it was titled Evil Dream. And at the end of the episode. You played that scene with him and Candy Clark, where he says, I get all this evil dream, you know, and it didn’t put two and two together while I was watching it. But a couple of days ago, I realized it was obviously a call back to his song. And he’s harking back to the lyric slash title of the song, which is why he says it in a sing a song, a weird way.”
[00:11:09] Yeah. Del Preston, hold on to your butt, because this might be the winning one. I mean, right now, you just uncovered something that blows my mind.
[00:11:19] This is what Michael Moriarty’s doing. It’s one of the best performances of all time. Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow. I love this, Del Preston. Um, alright, Joel from Chicago,
[00:11:30] “All the things he speculated about. Improvising scenes, shooting without permits, letting actors run wild were par for the course for Larry Cohen, his maverick, okay, reckless approach and sense of humor are well loved among cinephiles, no less than Martin Scorsese is prominently featured in a great documentary about Larry called King Cohen. We know Larry as a B movie legend, but he also infiltrated the A movie scene. Picture realm, or at least mainstream Hollywood for penning scripts for phone booth and the How Did This Get Made favorite Cellular, which is essentially phone booth. So I guess, uh, he had a phone related fixation for a bit. He even wrote a movie directed by the legendary Sidney Lumet. Guilty as Sin.”
[00:12:12] And now here’s a note from our producer Scott. Cohen actually also co wrote cellular with Chris Morgan who wrote and produced several Fast and Furious movies. Yes, Chris Morgan legend. And here’s what I’m going to say. I have a feeling that Larry Cohen wrote Cellular and then Chris Morgan was given that script to punch up and he added so much of his own stuff that they got a co credit on it.
[00:12:36] That would be my guess. I don’t think that Chris Morgan and Larry Cohen were just. In like a Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf, you know, slamming out pages on that one. That is great. And I have to watch King Cohen. I know everyone’s so happy that we did Q the winged serpent. I am too. Uh, if there’s any more Larry Cohen that we should watch, let us know.
[00:12:52] Uh, Django 2108 writes
[00:12:54] “Michael Moriarty is actually a genius with his tarp over the building obsession. Anyone who owns a winged creature knows that if you cover their cage, they go right to sleep. Well, that is true, right? Yeah. If they drop a tarp on the building while Q is in there, it would be an easy kill or capture, a much better solution than shooting randomly at the top of a building.”
[00:13:15] All right. Well, Django 2108, I had birds growing up. Uh, my stepfather had birds and we would put the tarp over, but here’s the thing that you’re missing. That’s for birds. Not dinosaurs. I mean, that is a winged creature. You called it out. I don’t know if the same rules apply for like parakeets and parrots as a winged serpent.
[00:13:35] That’s a serpent, not a bird, a serpent. Anyway, so many great, uh, corrections and omissions this week, but I’m not going to lie. I already said it. There’s one winner. And that winner is Del Preston who did the hard work. He let this movie infiltrate his brain. And he found a connection to something so obscure that I think this is one of the best corrections and omissions that we’ve had in a very long time.
[00:13:58] Bringing it back old school. Del Preston, you are our winner. And you get Nothing but this amazing song from Joel Terry
[00:14:08] Music: You win. Everybody else. So you don’t get a medal to prove it, but you don’t need no accolades. You can sit back and say, I went tonight on Paul’s mini episodes. I win on Paul’s teeny, tiny little mini episode.
[00:14:30] Paul Scheer: Thank you, Joel, for that song. Remember, if you want to submit a theme song to us, please email your theme to HowDidThisGetMade@Earwolf.Com and keep them short. 15 to 20 seconds is best. And if you want to 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, but coming up after the break, Jason will join us for a classic Just Chat. I want to remind you that if you are a fan of the Deep Dive with Jessica St. Claire and June Diane Raphael, they are doing a holiday live stream. You can get tickets for that also at HDTGM.com. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I just built a brand new studio and they’re going to be christening it. That’s going to be a great, fun show. Um, now. Before we go to commercial, I have a bonus scene from our Q, the Winged Serpent live show. This is exclusive just to you, Last Looks listeners. I mean, it’s not that exclusive, but it’s exclusive enough.
[00:15:26] Here we go. Check it out.
[00:15:27] June Diane Raphael: I did like about the cops and their relationship. I feel like in a lot of cop movies that came after this, everybody seems so young. And these guys together, David Cary, Richard Wright, Let’s take, Oh, they’re old.
[00:15:39] Jason Mantzoukas: They’re old, but rest assured they fuck.
[00:15:42] June Diane Raphael: Oh, that’s thousand percent. There’s something nice about that.
[00:15:47] Paul Scheer: Again, this, uh, this movie is a movie that purports that the NYPD is about six dudes who cover all the cases, like, because it seems like Richard Roundtree is. Like, why would he even ever be talking to Michael Moriarty’s character?
[00:16:05] June Diane Raphael: There is no reason to. And that’s the thing.
[00:16:07] There, are they detectives? Are they, do they have a beat, like I could, are they patrol there? And then also David Carradine is, is leading the operation to also take down Q from the top of the building. Like there doesn’t seem to be.
[00:16:23] Jason Mantzoukas: They’re also interested in pursuing, you know, Q as a winged serpent and Richard Rountree is like, this is bullshit. I will not abide this. Like, they’re at odds, which is strange.
[00:16:34] Paul Scheer: What’s so funny to me is also like, David Carradine went home and wrote like a book report about Quetzalcoatl. Like, he’s like, here’s my report. My report is here. And he got it. It’s not evidence. Like, police reports are like, We came in, we saw this, like, he seems like he wrote a book report about.
[00:16:52] June Diane Raphael: He was trying to give some background information. And by the way, I would have loved to have read that report.
[00:16:56] Paul Scheer: It looked like it was in a nice folder. It reminded me of something that I might have done.
[00:17:01] Jason Mantzoukas: Somebody should have given more of like a, like an expositional download. I would have appreciated it.
[00:17:06] June Diane Raphael: Yes, me too.
[00:17:07] Paul Scheer: Well, we had that whole walk and talk. The very, Awkward walk and talk. We have two of them, one outside of Columbia and one inside the museum where they really try to break down.
[00:17:16] June Diane Raphael: Now, I thought one of the guys who was sacrificed at the end was one of those professors.
[00:17:21] Jason Mantzoukas: Quite possibly.
[00:17:22] Paul Scheer: Was it?
[00:17:24] June Diane Raphael: Was was. Was it?
[00:17:25] Paul Scheer: Oh.
[00:17:26] June Diane Raphael: Interesting.
[00:17:27] Paul Scheer: All right. I like that.
[00:17:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Like, we never, do we ever really get insight into what they are up to?
[00:17:31] June Diane Raphael: I don’t know. I don’t know.
[00:17:33] Jason Mantzoukas: Who they represent? What they’re all about?
[00:17:35] Paul Scheer: I mean, I think that they’re just trying to bring back Q.
[00:17:38] Jason Mantzoukas: That’s it? Good news! He’s here!
[00:17:44] Paul Scheer: Welcome back, everybody. Uh, I’m sure you’ve noticed that every Monday we re release old How Did This Get Made episodes back into our feed. Um, I know that everyone’s talking about Wicked, so we wanted to, uh, you know, kind of do something a little bit musical here as well. So, uh, this week’s episode was Cats.
[00:18:01] Next week’s will be Spice World. So we’ll keep that music alive through the Thanksgiving holidays. So keep on checking out all of our replays of classic episodes every Monday. And now without any further ado, it is time to just chat with Jason and to play us in, we have a special theme in the style of jizz music from the star Wars universe.
[00:18:21] Yes. We’ve talked about this a lot. Uh, the, the music in star Wars is called jizz. Uh, that’s not a joke. It’s real. So move over. Max Rebo band. It is time to hear the Action Jackson Five’s jizz chat theme. I love it. Here we go.
[00:18:38] Music: Jason and Paul, just chat. Talk about comics and the movie Biz. June’s got a bad feel about this Star Wars music and all that jizz. Jason and Paul just chat.
[00:18:51] Paul Scheer: Jason. Oh my gosh, it’s been far too long. Uh.
[00:18:56] Jason Mantzoukas: Here we are.
[00:18:57] Paul Scheer: Here we are, November, and we are.
[00:19:00] Jason Mantzoukas: It is fall, baby. If, and if you’re listening to this right now, we’re probably on the East coast.
[00:19:05] Paul Scheer: Yeah, we’ve been doing shows. So come out, see us do shows. And of course, so excited for our Christmas show. That’s coming up our virtual live stream.
[00:19:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Has the movie been announced for that? Do we know what we’re watching?
[00:19:17] Paul Scheer: It’s called Christmas Mail.
[00:19:19] Jason Mantzoukas: M A I L or M A L E? Okay.
[00:19:21] Paul Scheer: M A I L. And it seems to be about a mailman.
[00:19:24] Scott Sonne: I think that’s not quite the title. Hold on. Let me look it up.
[00:19:27] Jason Mantzoukas: Scott. Producer Scott interrupting the flow.
[00:19:30] Scott Sonne: It’s called, it’s called We’ve got Christmas Mail.
[00:19:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, we’ve got Christmas mail. So wow. Playing off of the AOL, you’ve got mail, but it’s now We’ve Got Christmas Mail.
[00:19:44] Paul Scheer: Jeez, this is, this is a 2010 classic.
[00:19:47] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, 2010. I was going to say like to be, to be using the AOL catchphrase. At this point, it does seem insane.
[00:19:54] Paul Scheer: Well, what’s so kind of interesting is, I’ve been looking at this poster to make all the ads. That’s, you know, uh, the way we do it here. And, um, the We’ve Got is very tiny. Christmas Mail is very big. It almost looks like The Christmas Mail, but We’ve Got, I’m just, I’m like, how did I miss We’ve Got? It’s so tiny.
[00:20:13] We’ve Got.
[00:20:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Very strange. And is this a, um, Does somebody turn into something? Does an inanimate object.
[00:20:19] Paul Scheer: Look, I want to, yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know a thing. I know that Avaryll uh, found this and, uh, she never misses with the holiday. So I know a lot of people wanted to do a frosty hot or whatever. There’s been a bunch. There’s a, there’s a few out there that people wanted to do. There’s a Travis, Kelsey, Taylor Swift one. That Jessica’s.
[00:20:37] Jason Mantzoukas: Wait, what?
[00:20:38] Paul Scheer: Yeah, Jessica sent it to me.
[00:20:40] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, no, it’s not them. It’s, oh, no, you’re saying it’s like based on that, I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I first second was like, wait, have they already done a movie together? That would be amazing.
[00:20:48] Paul Scheer: I would love to see it.
[00:20:49] Jason Mantzoukas: I would be thrilled.
[00:20:50] Paul Scheer: Yeah. I mean, I love that time of the year. I mean, uh, when I go to my, my dad’s house in New York, I’ll just pop on Lifetime when I’m going to bed around Thanksgiving time and it’s already begun. Life is, you know, yeah.
[00:21:00] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, wow. Yeah. See, for me that period of time I don’t watch those movies that is reserved for Gilmore girls. Okay, Gilmore girls like Thanksgiving to Christmas is peak rewatch Gilmore Girls a season which is incredible.
[00:21:15] Paul Scheer: See now how many seasons are there of that?
[00:21:17] Jason Mantzoukas: Seven seasons of Gilmore girls. Although season seven is I think you can put brackets around and never watch it again because it’s the season where the Palladinos were fired from the show. So it feels like it feels like after season four of West Wing where the driving force of the show and its unique voice or has somehow disappeared. I will say, while we’re on the topic, I’ve started listening to the audio book, Kelly Bishop’s audio book, The Third Gilmore Girl. Emily Gilmore and it is dynamite.
[00:21:46] She reads it. It’s fantastic. And you very kindly gave me a Gilmore girls advent calendar. Thank you, Paul.
[00:21:53] Paul Scheer: I was so excited to, to find that and get that for you. And I wanted to make sure you had it for day one. Day one. And, um, here’s the thing, Jason, uh, you said seven seasons, but do you include the, uh, the Netflix season?
[00:22:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, I, I, I didn’t get there because I was going to say, and there is, of course, Amy Sherman Palladino does do her final season, which is, you know, 12 years later on Netflix, which is four movie length episodes, uh, a year in the life, uh, is what it’s called.
[00:22:23] Paul Scheer: Do you, you don’t seem as enthused.
[00:22:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Well, let me be clear. I think it’s, it’s gangbusters with some fantastic cameos. Yours, yours, yours truly makes a cameo. But, um, I think it’s very uneven. Um, I think though the, it is one of the best, uh, um, Emily Gilmore storylines in the show. I Emily Gilmore is like one of my favorite characters in the show, and I feel like doesn’t get is kind of can oftentimes be relegated to like the villain or whatever.
[00:22:54] But her story overall, and including those four episodes of the a year in the life are, she’s doing incredible work. I think Kelly Bishop is amazing. Also amazing in Button Heads, but you know, Emily Gilmore. I won’t hear spoilers for A Year in the Life only because the actor Edward Herman has passed away, has long since passed away, who plays Richard Gilmore. And so her story is quite like incredibly one of just profound loss and grief. And that is a very compelling story.
[00:23:24] Paul Scheer: I love that. And can I just because I have not seen it, who do you play? Who do you cameo in there?
[00:23:29] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, I play a zero. I play a nobody. I basically said. I will do anything.
[00:23:34] Paul Scheer: Got it.
[00:23:34] Jason Mantzoukas: And they took that and they ran with it. So I am a lawyer who makes a 40 second telephone call to Rory Gilmore to fire her from a job she’s had. I, I work for, um, I work for a woman who’s made a publishing deal with Rory. Uh, and it’s played by Alex Kingston uh, River Song from Dr. Who Of course. Right. Um, and so I’m in my only scene with her. That’s it.
[00:23:59] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:23:59] Jason Mantzoukas: I don’t, I don’t meet any of the Gilmore Girls.
[00:24:01] Paul Scheer: So you didn’t get to go to Stars Hollow.
[00:24:02] Jason Mantzoukas: I didn’t go to Stars Hollow. I’m in a random building. I was there for like 40 minutes. It was the thrill of a lifetime.
[00:24:10] Paul Scheer: Oh, I can only imagine. I mean, like, uh, I mean, what a, what a those are the best pop ins.
[00:24:16] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh yeah.
[00:24:16] Paul Scheer: Just pop ins.
[00:24:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Especially when you’re such, when you’re, when you’re a fan, it just feels cool. And I tried to play it cool and I was professional. And then when I was done, uh, and the Palladinos came over to say, thanks so much. I was, I started to give them a spiel about what a big fan I was and how much this meant to me. And they were like, yeah, yeah, no, no, no. We, we heard.
[00:24:38] Paul Scheer: Oh, my gosh, you know, we were talking this weekend, um, that my son has gotten into Star Wars and, uh, we talked about a little bit, um, and I have to tell you, did you see the trailer for Skeleton Crew?
[00:24:53] Jason Mantzoukas: I haven’t watched it yet because I’m just going to watch the show. I’m just like, there’s certain things that I’m like, Oh, I’m so excited. I don’t want to get spoiled. I don’t want to know that this or that might happen. I, you know, I don’t want to be waiting for, well, in the trailer, I saw that clip of blah, blah, blah. I don’t care. I want it to all feel new.
[00:25:09] Paul Scheer: You know what I, I, I appreciate that. I was just trying to show him, ’cause my son now is like, well, why aren’t there more things of like, well, this is gonna be right up your alley, kiddo. Yeah. Watch out. We’re watching, you know, we’re watching Taskmaster Kids, we’re watching Skeleton.
[00:25:22] Jason Mantzoukas: I mean, love that. If you’re not, if you, you’ve heard Paul and I talk about Taskmaster in the past, James Acaster, a ta, a past task master contestant just guessed it on our, uh, dream a little dream episode, which perhaps is out by now or, um, or is imminent. Um, but the new Taskmaster season that’s airing right now is Rose Mattafeo, incredible Rose Mattafeo from, she’s a Taskmaster, uh, contestant. She’s starstruck. She’s fantastic. Go ahead.
[00:25:51] Paul Scheer: And she’s great as the task. It’s a very different dynamic because it’s kids. And, uh, it’s fun though. It’s, it’s still very funny. And the first, uh, the first thing in got me hooked. They, they put their assistant, uh, the new assistant for.
[00:26:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Mike wozniak is his name.
[00:26:09] Paul Scheer: Yes. Uh, they put Mike on a, a rotating, uh, circle, right? So it’s a spinning around, lazy Susan, and that’s spinning and he’s wearing a very tall top hat.
[00:26:18] And the, the goal is get as many things into my hat as you possibly can without stepping on the red that surrounds the lazy susan and my gosh, these kids right out of the gate figured out how to subvert that beautifully and they got a, they got a lot of sass, these kids. You know, very simple task, but already I’m like, this is going to be a lot of fun.
[00:26:41] Jason Mantzoukas: So fantastic. He’s also a like a favorite of mine from past Taskmaster seasons. Both of those two have been on fantastic seasons of the show.
[00:26:50] Paul Scheer: And I think they do a good job so far of making it feel very much like Taskmaster without, look, there’s a certain things you can’t do, uh, with kids. And I think rightly so. And, but it also is. Incredibly funny.
[00:27:02] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, so good.
[00:27:03] Paul Scheer: Um, the only thing I wanted to tell you about skeleton crew, and I don’t think this is a spoiler because it’s not really.
[00:27:07] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, no, you can say anything to me. I’m happy to talk about it.
[00:27:10] Paul Scheer: Well, is, uh, they got a, uh, kid Max Rebo. Max Rebo, if you might remember from Return of the Jedi plays a piano.
[00:27:17] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, he’s the, he’s playing jizz in, uh, in Jabba’s place. Jizz, the jizz, the canonical, uh, the canonical music of star Wars.
[00:27:25] Paul Scheer: Oh my God. I hate that. They, I mean, how did they do that?
[00:27:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Every time fanboys get all upset about George Lucas is infallible. George Lucas meant this. George Lucas meant that this is against, just remember that he’s, he created a music and called it jizz.
[00:27:41] Paul Scheer: Right. Like.
[00:27:42] Jason Mantzoukas: What are you doing guys?
[00:27:44] Paul Scheer: And like the fact that like, there are certain things, it’s like, how did it get so far? Cause it’s not like, Oh, he wouldn’t know what jizz means.
[00:27:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Yep. Yeah, why keep it? Yeah. Oh, no, it’s too good. I love that. There’s a kid Max Rebo. Yeah, I saw that in a picture.
[00:27:57] Paul Scheer: That’s what I was very excited about. That’s, you know, I don’t know much more about it.
[00:28:01] Jason Mantzoukas: It’s got big Goonies vibes. It’s just in case there might be people on in the audience who don’t know what Skeleton Crew is. It’s a new Star Wars series on Disney. That is a group of kids. It’s like a Goonies kid adventure with Jude Law as the adult.
[00:28:18] Paul Scheer: And I think it’s basically the from what I understand, uh, Again, uh, this is us talking outta school. They steal a ship. They steal a ship, and, uh, and that’s where the, the adventure begins.
[00:28:28] Jason Mantzoukas: And it’s John Wat who did the right, it’s John Watt who did the Yeah.
[00:28:32] Paul Scheer: The, uh, yes. And David Lowery is directing it.
[00:28:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:28:35] Paul Scheer: Uh, directed, uh, uh, some episodes. And also, uh, my, my friend I, director of Twisters, uh oh yeah. Lee Isaac Chung. He directed as well. Yeah. So, uh.
[00:28:44] Jason Mantzoukas: And Dave Lowery, if you don’t, if you aren’t familiar, does, has done everything from like. Pete’s dragon to the Green Knight and, you know, all the Ghost Story and all these incredible movies. He’s one of the great like visual stylists of our time.
[00:29:00] Paul Scheer: Well, you know what? All I’ll say is. Uh, when it comes out, uh, make sure you set some time aside to watch an Almost Christmas story, an animated holiday short by David Lowery, produced by Alfonso Cuaron. Um, it is, uh, it has, uh, John C. Reilly is in it, Natasha Leone, Jim Gaffigan is in it. It is a beautiful, uh, stop motion animation piece that he did that you will absolutely love.
[00:29:28] Jason Mantzoukas: Is this new? Is this something that’s available right now?
[00:29:31] Paul Scheer: It is available. I believe by this time it will be available. Yeah.
[00:29:34] Jason Mantzoukas: Great. So maybe we’ll put it in the show notes or something, a link or something.
[00:29:39] Paul Scheer: Almost Christmas story on Disney plus inspired by the events of a tiny owl named Rocky, uh, who was found at the Rockefeller center Christmas tree in 2020. Uh, that’s how it all goes. And wow. I, I. It’s great. It’s just great.
[00:29:53] Jason Mantzoukas: Cool.
[00:29:56] Paul Scheer: Alright, so, I know that you and I have both been traveling. We’ve been watching stuff, I imagine. What’s been on your mind?
[00:30:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Um, you know, I’ve got a bunch of music stuff to talk about. I’ve got a bunch of shows to talk about.
[00:30:08] Paul Scheer: Just some music stuff. Eh, you know, why not? I feel like there’s been so much Sure. I need some new music recommendations.
[00:30:13] Jason Mantzoukas: Sure, sure, sure. So I’m gonna shout out a couple of live shows I’ve seen. And, and, in doing so, shine light on those, those artists as well. Um, so, uh, one of them we’ve talked about a million times before. I know you weren’t able to make it, but June was.
[00:30:28] Joni Mitchell at the Hollywood Bowl. Absolutely. I mean, like a, like a hall of fame concert for me, like a one, like, I know we had an incredible time in Seattle last year and this was like that, just like, it just also was at the bowl, which was, which was awesome. You know?
[00:30:45] Paul Scheer: And I saw her do a, uh, like a little version of what we’d saw, uh, in Seattle, uh, with Brandi Carlile. But this really, I heard was like. Her show, she ran it.
[00:30:56] Jason Mantzoukas: So in Seattle, I’ll say like in, in Newport and Seattle, the, the first two kind of Joni comes out of not retirement, but it comes out in this plane again. She seemed really kind of still recovering from her ailments and illnesses. And. Brandy Carlisle doing an incredible amount of work to kind of, um, doing guide vocals and doubling Joni and really keeping it moving.
[00:31:21] At the Bowl, this was Joni’s show. She felt healthy and robust and she was in beautiful voice and the set list was incredible because it was all like, my favorite Joni. It was all like 80s and 90s. Joni Mitchell was like Hejira and she played half of Hejira. She played songs off of Mingus off of Dog Eat Dog.
[00:31:42] She played three songs off of, um, off of Night Ride Home, which is like a nineties album that I love. Incredible song list. She played some hits, but not nearly as many as I think people wanted. It was a absolutely stunning stunning show. Um, and just great. And her archives have continued to be, uh, releasing. There was a great box set recently of live era, Joni recordings from the Asylum years and, and beyond. There’s great stuff in there. Um, I saw Destroyer, uh, Dan Behar from, uh, New Pornographers and you know, of course.
[00:32:16] Paul Scheer: Can I ask you a question about Joni when we were in Seattle, it felt to me like that concert was being taped. We saw drones, we saw many things.
[00:32:25] Jason Mantzoukas: Yes. Cameron Crowe has been making a Joanie documentary for years.
[00:32:32] Paul Scheer: Okay, got it. So this is part of a larger thing.
[00:32:34] Jason Mantzoukas: He was shooting this as well at the Bowl, I believe.
[00:32:36] Paul Scheer: Okay.
[00:32:36] Jason Mantzoukas: There’s cameras all over the place. So I’m assuming that all of that footage is for his documentary. That’s my assumption. I could be wrong. Maybe there’s something else going on or multiple things going on, but I do know, and I did see him in, uh, Seattle. Uh, so I know he’s still doing that.
[00:32:53] Paul Scheer: And at the time of the taping, as I just Googled him just a few hours ago, he had his third baby.
[00:32:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Cameron Crowe?
[00:33:00] Paul Scheer: Yep. At 67 years old.
[00:33:01] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow. Wow.
[00:33:03] Paul Scheer: His first with his girlfriend. Um, and, uh, yeah, there it is.
[00:33:09] Jason Mantzoukas: Holy cow.
[00:33:09] Paul Scheer: Third kid out there. Yeah. There you go.
[00:33:11] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Good work. Good work, Cameron Crowe.
[00:33:14] Paul Scheer: Um, so yeah. Sydney Destroyer.
[00:33:17] Jason Mantzoukas: Destroyer incredible show at the Lodge Room here in Los Angeles, which I love beautiful room I went to the Terragram ballroom a couple of weeks ago.
[00:33:24] Paul Scheer: Love that venue. Love that venue.
[00:33:26] Jason Mantzoukas: Love that venue Great great folks who work there and I saw the incredible guitar player Emdu Mokhtar who is a Nigerian Guitar player desert blues kind of guitar player just shredding guitar solos over driving, uh, rhythms. Fantastic show. Um, got to meet him briefly and was absolutely fascinating. Super interesting guy to talk to.
[00:33:52] Paul Scheer: I am a big fan of destroyer and I am bummed that I missed that. I don’t go to see concerts anymore. It, I feel like it, it’s so bummed.
[00:34:00] Jason Mantzoukas: There’s some good ones coming up. I also went and saw last week just before. Uh, we had our shows at Largo. Yeah. Mary Lattimore, who I saw in London, had a show at Largo where she played duets with her mom and it was incredible. Who also plays harp. So it was two harps on stage. It was stunning. The show was phenomenal.
[00:34:20] Paul Scheer: The way that I heard that show described. Was really amazing. They said that, you know, normally in a show that is a little quieter, um, inevitably you’ll hear the cough, the rapper, whatever it is, like those things that kind of take you out of it. And, and, um, and our friend Michael was like, it was deadly silent and everyone was in a full trance, enjoying the music. He said it was never going to happen. Never had been, and this is a person who works at Largo, never has he seen a show where everyone was so locked in on the same page.
[00:34:52] Jason Mantzoukas: It was, he’s right, that’s how I felt. It was, everybody was like completely engaged and wrapped by the show. It was, it was so beautiful, and you know, it is quiet, so you have to be quiet to listen to it and to hear it, and it was so beautiful and so moving, the show itself was fantastic, and also so like Lovely to see Mary interacting with her mom and her mom was just a hilarious character and was wonderful and the she’s heard the mom played songs by herself.
[00:35:23] Mary played some songs by herself and then they played songs together. It was just a fantastic show. Um, loved it, loved it, loved it. And just for people who might be in Los Angeles, I think this is probably out there already, but Mary is going to be doing a residency at Zebulon in Frogtown in January, so I think you can see you’ll have, I think, a bunch of opportunities to see her play, which is, I really urge you to avail yourself of the opportunity to see her as much as you can because quite often, every show she has different guests.
[00:35:57] She’s like one of music’s great collaborators in that she is constantly bouncing off of other people, an accordion player, a guitar player, all sorts of different stuff, which leads to such different, um, avenues of exploration. So fantastic. Um, experience going to see Mary Latimore.
[00:36:14] Paul Scheer: I have to say, uh, you know, I, I met a guy in a band and I think we were talking about this maybe backstage a little bit.
[00:36:20] Uh, I also want to recommend, uh, the Wolves of Glendale, which are a, a funny, a funny band. Like, but I know that that’s like a hard way to kind of. They’re a band band. They play great music. Uh, their songs are great. Uh, they’re on tour right now. Uh, check them out online. If you want to check out a song, I’d say start with The Gym, uh, and then see what you think, but they are on tour and I just met them right before they left tour and they, they told me, uh, Ethan, one of the members of the band said, you know, I just watched Trap and, uh, I got to listen to your episode before I left.
[00:36:49] And I said, well, you better be careful because. You know, you, you, you’re playing a lot of these gigs, there might be a, there might be a butcher out there for you.
[00:36:56] Jason Mantzoukas: It might be a trap. Oh, that’s funny.
[00:36:58] Paul Scheer: I think that we’re gonna be in DC on the same night as them, so we, uh.
[00:37:01] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that’s cool.
[00:37:01] Paul Scheer: They wanted to meet up and say hey.
[00:37:03] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, that’s great. Yeah. I met some of them. They played. At when we were picketing at Paramount one day, they came down, set up and played. And it was, I had no idea. They were great. Everybody was so excited. They were there and so excited. They were playing. It was a blast. They probably played for 30 minutes while everybody was walking in the big circle. Uh, and it was awesome. They were great. I got to meet them very briefly.
[00:37:26] Paul Scheer: Yeah, really funny guys. Uh, really, really funny guys. And, and also just fun. Like that’s the thing. Sometimes I feel like, uh, music takes a backseat when you have funny, uh, comedy band, right? And, and this doesn’t happen like that.
[00:37:38] Jason Mantzoukas: No, I agree. That can be often the case, which is the jokes come first. And these guys are for real musicians. This is not a joke band. This is a rock, an indie rock band that happens to be clever and funny. There’s a new Yasmine Williams album out that I cannot recommend enough.
[00:37:53] I think it’s fantastic. And then Daryl Johns, who I’m like so obsessed with from a song he put out like two years ago, this guy has only had like one song on band camp for years that I was obsessed with. And then finally, he’s got a new album out. Um, and it’s so far this tracks I’ve heard are great. By now the album is out, but as of this recording, it has yet to come out.
[00:38:15] There’s only a couple of, uh, there’s only a couple of tracks and they’re fucking fantastic. So Daryl Johns can’t recommend that enough. I think super interesting. Uh, great. There’s a lot of great music happening right now. Jordy Greep from, um, Black Mitty, the British, uh, post punk band, uh, Black Mitty has a solo album.
[00:38:33] There’s new Waxahachie. There’s new florist. Come on guys. There’s great. There’s new the new the new Jobby record the the Jazz ensemble absolutely fantastic record. Porridge Radio new music from porridge radio new music from the Innocence Mission What? A band that existed a a, a Christian folk rock band from my college years have just put out a new record. Come on. Wow. Great work.
[00:38:59] Paul Scheer: I love all this. Uh, you know, we have, we’ve threatened it, but I think that people have been trying to keep up with all your recommendations. There is a lot of Spotify lists if you go onto our discord. Oh, really? We’ll see, people are, are trying to.
[00:39:09] Jason Mantzoukas: I gotta figure this out. How to make a, I wanna make, I wanna make a playlist, but I.
[00:39:13] Paul Scheer: It’s, you just give it to me and I could get it. Just write at, just write it up and I’ll just. do it now. I’ll just, I’ll label it as that and then that will be it. Uh, just tell me what you want on it and I will show it to you before I do that. Um, you know, look, I know that, uh, it’s a couple of weeks out now, but are you, you know, how are you feeling about, you know, John Dutton on Yellowstone, Jason?
[00:39:31] I mean, a lot of people are, you know, is he dead? We don’t know. I mean, you know, I think we’re all, you know, it’s.
[00:39:38] Jason Mantzoukas: Are, are Yellowstonians.
[00:39:41] Paul Scheer: I mean, it looks like he could be. Yeah, look, it looks like he killed himself, but I know, I know that John Dutton is not a guy who’s going to kill himself.
[00:39:47] Jason Mantzoukas: It’s not how he’s going to go out. I don’t know.
[00:39:50] Paul Scheer: I hope it’s a in the shower thing. I got very, uh, yeah.
[00:39:58] Jason Mantzoukas: That would be incredible if this a new, like, Dallas esque Western soap opera did a full on dream, dream season. That would be awesome.
[00:40:08] Paul Scheer: I, I am, I feel so badly for Kevin Costner. I was joking about this the other day because he. Look, he took a very big shot and made this you know, Horizon this eight hour epic and God bless like, and you know what, like, I, you know, I think, you know, we should be making big, we should take our shots. We should make our things. I don’t know if you’re reading the room 100 percent right by making an eight hour long, uh, epic western, but, uh, I will say this, the way in which he left, uh, Yellowstone as if, uh, Buddies, go fuck yourself. I did it. I am, I am going to be on another level. And it’s like.
[00:40:45] Jason Mantzoukas: It’s so crazy to me too, because it’s like unquestionably Yellowstone allows him to make Horizon at this level and on this scale. You know?
[00:40:54] Paul Scheer: And you leave it, it’s, uh, you know, not to recall one of our old films. Uh, it’s the, it’s the, the, the, the Jade issue. It’s, it’s our, our friend from NYPD.
[00:41:04] Jason Mantzoukas: David Caruso, he’s, he’s Caruso in this all the way.
[00:41:08] Paul Scheer: I mean, it’s, and no one ever learns. And Caruso did get back. He got back on the track, but, uh, but man, oh man.
[00:41:14] Jason Mantzoukas: Did he? What on CSI Miami?
[00:41:16] Paul Scheer: Oh yeah. I mean, that, that is, I mean, how many seasons did he do that? I mean, I, I think he probably did a bunch. Uh, it’s my gosh. Yeah, he must’ve, I, it’s always one of those things that surprises me. Like I remember I was talking to Ted Danson at one point and I knew that Ted Danson was on, uh, was on CSI and I, and I was, I said to I said to June on the way home, I was like, I wonder how many seasons Ted Danson was on CSI.
[00:41:40] I think it was like a season or two. And I googled it, and it was like seven years. He was on, uh, like it was, let me, I’m gonna double check. He was on, no, 84 episodes.
[00:41:51] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.
[00:41:52] Paul Scheer: He went from 2011 to 2015.
[00:41:55] Jason Mantzoukas: So four seasons.
[00:41:56] Paul Scheer: Four seasons.
[00:41:57] Jason Mantzoukas: Yeah. Okay.
[00:41:58] Paul Scheer: Well, not bad. Not bad.
[00:41:59] Jason Mantzoukas: Plus Damages.
[00:42:00] Paul Scheer: And I think he did it and he did a spinoff CSI Cyber.
[00:42:05] Jason Mantzoukas: Oh, wow. I didn’t know he was on Cyber.
[00:42:07] Paul Scheer: Yeah, he did CSI. I mean, as I’m saying, he does Cyber as well. You know, this is, this is the, we don’t even know what these people are up to. Two seasons of that. Two seasons of Cyber.
[00:42:18] Jason Mantzoukas: Really? That’s, I mean, that is the golden age right there. When, when a CSI could support two seasons of Cyber. Like, that’s it. We can’t do that anymore.
[00:42:28] Paul Scheer: Michael Erbe is on cyber. Oh yeah. Uh, you know, uh, you got a bunch of Vander Beak Cyber, uh, Peter McNichol, Cyber.
[00:42:36] Jason Mantzoukas: Peter McNichol?
[00:42:38] Paul Scheer: Yeah. Uh, Patricia Charette Cyber.
[00:42:40] Jason Mantzoukas: From Ghostbusters?
[00:42:41] Paul Scheer: I mean, this is what we’re talking about. I mean.
[00:42:43] Jason Mantzoukas: Wow.
[00:42:43] Paul Scheer: It does seem that Ted comes on in season two of Cyber, so.
[00:42:45] Jason Mantzoukas: Okay. Uh, wow. Wow. Wow. I’m gonna, I’m gonna, since we were talking about things to listen to, I’m gonna throw in a new podcast. Okay. Uh, into the mix. One of my favorite. My favorite long running, um, uh, um, music podcast is the great KCRW podcast, Lost Notes. Okay. Um, this new season of Lost Notes is all about groupies.
[00:43:06] So it’s all about the groupies seen in the 60s, late 60s, early 70s, LA groupies, like wild, crazy stories. I’m also at the same time watching the MTV three part documentary about like the 80s hair metal era of the Whiskey and the Sunset strip. So that’s those two are overlapping quite a bit in kind of just straight insanity. Um, fantastic.
[00:43:33] Paul Scheer: I want to call out Well, you know what? Just because it’s a podcast and we could talk about the other part of this podcast in a second, uh, I will say that I have been, uh, loving The Penguin on HBO. Um, my friend Amy Nicholson, she hosts the companion podcast to The Penguin show. And wow, uh, it was, it’s been a great, like, I, I’ve never really done that where I’ve been able to time up my watch.
[00:44:00] Jason Mantzoukas: That’s That’s one of my favorites with either, and it’s usually either with Chris and Andy on The Watch, or with Mallory and Joanna on House of R. Mallory Rubin and Joanna Robinson are just the two of the greatest in the biz, um, and then I also will listen to Joanna Robinson and, um. Um, uh, on the prestige TV podcast where they’re been taught, they’ve been talking about, um, you know, uh, so all three of those cover shows that I watch.
[00:44:30] So I’m watching Slow Horses. So not only I’m, of course I’ve, I, I love, it’s one of my favorite shows, but I’m, so then I’m also listening to all of the podcasts that are covering those episodes or Bad Monkey or whatever, Agatha, you know, all of those podcasts will then have watch along or not watch along rather. Uh, you know, as episodic breakdowns of those, uh, episodes.
[00:44:53] Paul Scheer: I gotta get into more of that stuff. All right. Well, uh, Jason, this is great talking to you. We will reconvene in just a little bit.
[00:45:00] All right. I hope you enjoyed that just chat, but now it is finally time to announce our next movie. We’re going to be going from a shoddy cop story to a body swap corey, how do you like that alliteration? Uh, next week we will be doing the 1989 body swap comedy. Dream A Little Dream starring Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Piper Laurie, Meredith Salinger, and Jason Robards. Here is a breakdown of the plot “An accident swaps, the minds of a married older man and a teenager chasing his dream girl.”
[00:45:30] Yes. Rotten tomatoes gives us film a 9 percent score on the tomato meter and a Roger Ebert from the Chicago Sun Times wrote “The plot is a disorganized mess and the director. Mark Rocco seems unable to tell even this simple minded story with any degree of clarity. Dream a little dream is an aggressively unwatchable movie.” And I have to say Roger is not wrong. But at the same time, I found it to be Interesting. I mean it’s long. It’s too long what I recommend you watching this. Hmm Maybe on a faster speed. I don’t know. You got to watch a little bit. But now listen to this bizarre trailer for Dream a Little Dream. Now, this trailer lives in my brain because I saw it a bunch as a kid, and it really kind of got me by surprise when I actually watched the movie because the trailer does not reveal that this is a body swap movie. So when I was watching this movie, I thought I was gonna see a Corey, Corey movie. And no, it’s a Corey Robards movie. Anyway, take a listen to the trailer.
[00:46:31] Trailer Audio: Sir, this is my IOU homework. IOU homework, sir.
[00:46:33] Bobby and Dinger had high school down to a science.
[00:46:36] Perfection.
[00:46:37] Until Bobby decided to steal Miss Right from Mr. Wrong.
[00:46:41] Man, it’s a party! Who’s got the chips?
[00:46:43] Now, one false move, and they’re history. Jason Robards, Corey Feldman, Piper Laurie, Meredith Salinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Corey Haim,
[00:46:53] Hello, honey.
[00:46:54] Dream a Little Dream. Rated PG 13. Starts Friday at a theater near you.
[00:46:59] Paul Scheer: Dream a Little Dream is available to stream on Amazon prime video, Freevee, Tubi and the Roku channel, as well as Plex.
[00:47:06] In addition, I encourage you to check out Hoopla Canopy and Libby, which are digital media services offered by your local public library that allow you to consume movies, TV, music, audio books, eBooks, and comics for free. All right. That is it for Last Looks. If you listen on Apple podcast or Spotify, please rate and review us.
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