VelociPastor (HDTGM Matinee)

Summary

Podcast Summary: "How Did This Get Made?" – VelociPastor (HDTGM Matinee)

Release Date: February 18, 2025

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Introduction to VelociPastor

In this special matinee episode, hosts Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas dive into the bewildering world of "VelociPastor," a 2019 B-movie that has garnered attention for its unique blend of religious themes and dinosaur action. The episode begins with the trio setting the stage for their analysis, humorously referencing personal anecdotes before transitioning into the film discussion.

Plot Overview and Initial Impressions

"VelociPastor" tells the story of Doug Stewart, a young priest who witnesses the violent death of his parents. Struggling with his faith and seeking vengeance against urban crime, Doug discovers that he can transform into a velociraptor. This newfound power turns him into a vigilante, delivering justice with a primitive twist. Jason Mantzoukas humorously notes, “It's like part Incredible Hulk, part Jurassic Park. 100% Sharknado” (00:56).

Acting and Character Analysis

The hosts commend the cast's dedication despite the film's low budget. Paul Scheer praises the protagonist's physique and commitment, stating, “The priest… is straight jacked. The guy is... ready for a fight” (25:55). June Diane Raphael highlights the performance of the antagonist Carol, describing her as “a beautiful woman with a heart of gold” (25:25). They also laud the portrayal of Father Stewart, the old priest, with Scheer remarking, “Father Stewart was pitch perfect. If he's acting for real, God bless him” (57:35).

Special Effects and Production Quality

A significant portion of the discussion centers around the film's special effects, or the lack thereof. The velociraptor, dubbed VelociPastor, is critiqued for its unconvincing appearance. Jason Mantzoukas compares it to an inflatable dinosaur, humorously stating, “This looks like a paper mache Barney running around, wobbling around” (34:17). The hosts agree that the limited budget of $35,000 is evident in the rudimentary VFX, leading to moments that are unintentionally humorous.

Writing and Direction: Intentional vs. Accidental Badness

The dialogue and script of "VelociPastor" are dissected for their quality and intent. Paul Scheer questions whether the poor writing is a deliberate comedic choice or a result of inexperience, asking, “Are these lines purposefully bad or like... bad writing that's fun?” (15:36). Jason Mantzoukas adds, “Are you trying to be clever? And then I was mad at it” (16:22), highlighting the film's inconsistent tone between parody and earnestness.

Humor and Comedic Elements

Despite its flaws, "VelociPastor" provides ample comedic material. The hosts find humor in the film’s over-the-top action scenes and absurd plot points. Scheer chuckles about the protagonist's excessive blood scenes, noting, “He’s just covered in red. And it's like old school, like 1960s red blood” (73:17). The unintentional comedy derived from the film’s stilted acting and illogical narrative decisions keeps the discussion lively and entertaining.

Comparisons to Other Bad Films

"VelociPastor" is compared to cult classics like "Sharknado" and "Birdemic," with the hosts debating its place within the bad movie genre. Jason Mantzoukas observes, “If you're going to make a comedy version of it, you have to... you have to... and I think here, what they did was allow themselves just to imitate” (56:00). Paul Scheer appreciates the film's intentional embrace of bad movie tropes, likening it to works that "are in on the joke" (72:23).

Tangents: Sauna Beds and TikTok Insights

Interwoven with their critique of "VelociPastor," the hosts engage in lighthearted tangents about personal interests and contemporary topics. June Diane Raphael shares experiences with sauna beds, humorously detailing attempts to watch the movie while sweating profusely. The conversation shifts to TikTok, where June discusses following educational content on endometriosis, enlightening the hosts and listeners about the platform's diverse content beyond dance and lip-sync videos.

Final Thoughts and Recommendations

Concluding their analysis, the hosts acknowledge that while "VelociPastor" is undeniably a mess in many aspects, it possesses a certain charm that can be enjoyable if approached with the right mindset. Paul Scheer summarizes, “I laughed a bunch there. There’s smart people making this. It’s terrible, but in a way that I found enjoyable” (72:44). Jason Mantzoukas encourages listeners to watch the film on Amazon Prime, emphasizing its entertainment value despite—or perhaps because of—its shortcomings.

Closing Remarks

The episode wraps up with important reminders about voting and upcoming projects, maintaining the podcast's signature blend of humor, camaraderie, and community engagement. The hosts extend gratitude to their production team and tease future content, leaving listeners both informed and entertained.

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Notable Quotes:

• “It's like part Incredible Hulk, part Jurassic Park. 100% Sharknado” – Jason Mantzoukas (00:56)

• “The priest… is straight jacked. The guy is... ready for a fight” – Paul Scheer (25:55)

• “This looks like a paper mache Barney running around, wobbling around” – Jason Mantzoukas (34:17)

• “Are these lines purposefully bad or like... bad writing that's fun?” – Paul Scheer (15:36)

• “He’s just covered in red. And it's like old school, like 1960s red blood” – Paul Scheer (73:17)

• “I laughed a bunch there. There’s smart people making this. It’s terrible, but in a way that I found enjoyable” – Paul Scheer (72:44)

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Conclusion

This episode of "How Did This Get Made?" offers a comprehensive and humorous breakdown of "VelociPastor," blending critical analysis with personal anecdotes and broader cultural observations. For fans of bad movies and sharp-witted comedy, this episode delivers insightful commentary wrapped in the hosts' signature entertaining style.

Transcript

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hello, people of Earth, and welcome to how did this Get Made? Quarantined edition. I am Tall John Shear. And. And boy, oh boy, do we have a movie for you. It is called Velocirapaster, not VELOCIRAPTOR. And man, at 75 minutes, this 2019 release really is trying to be a B movie. It's about a priest who sees his parents violently killed. He also.

[Paul Scheer]

Does he though?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, I mean, this is part of the question.

[June Diane Raphael]

He doesn't care.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Does he though?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know what? That is a good question. And I don't even think I need to describe. Describe it more. Just that, you know, it's about a priest who can transform into a velociraptor who takes vengeance on crime in the city. And even that is giving it more credit than it deserves. But let's get into it with my two co hosts. Please welcome Mr. Jason Manzoukas. How are you, Jason?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, Paul, you know, 75 minute runtime. Terrific. I don't mind that at all. But this was, this was. I'm excited to talk about this because this was. I, I. If you told me this was like a sketch that someone had shot, I would believe that this was bananas to watch. Yeah, this was a wild ride of the 75 minutes. Like I would say 10 minutes of it are just the main character, the velocipaster, covered in blood, screaming directly into camera. Like. Yeah, that's a huge portion of the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, I think we want to kind of break down this idea of it feels like a sketch. I think it was intended to be a sketch. But let's break it down even more with somebody who has a lot to say about dinosaurs. Please welcome Miss June Diane Rayfield. How are you, June?

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm okay, Paul. How are you?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm fine, thank you for asking. Velocipaster thoughts?

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, so I'm also curious about the intentions behind the movie. You know, I watched this movie, I watched the first six 60 minutes of it in a sauna bed.

[Paul Scheer]

June.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

At our home. At our home. Just be clear.

[June Diane Raphael]

In an in home sauna bed in our basement.

[Paul Scheer]

What is a sauna bed? I'm like, I'm genuinely, I don't know what a sauna bed is.

[June Diane Raphael]

Happy to talk to you about it. So a sauna bed, have you ever heard of. Again, I have no stake in this company, but have you ever heard of the Shape House in Los Angeles? Okay, so it's a place you go to and they put you in these little cubicles and you lie in a sauna bed and they wrap you up like a little burrito.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh. Oh. So it's like a start.

[June Diane Raphael]

Sweating.

[Paul Scheer]

Sweat. It's like a sweat, but it's not a, it's not a room. It's a. You. You're swaddled in a sweat.

[June Diane Raphael]

You're swaddled in a sweat.

[Paul Scheer]

A sweat swaddle. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's such a wonderful sweat spotl and they bring you. You have a bottle of water next to you about.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, are your hands free?

[Paul Scheer]

How do you get to it?

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, well, you have a button that you always. You can sort of. They swaddle you up pretty good. But your hand, you have access to a little remote control for a tv. This is actually why I started watching the Sopranos. Because you have a tv.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yep. This.

[Paul Scheer]

Welcome to my. Wow. You're welcome, David Chase.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The only way to watch the Sopranos is when you're sweating like Balls dressed as a little burrito.

[Paul Scheer]

I guess I'm a sweaty burrito. Sure. I'll watch Sopranos.

[June Diane Raphael]

I was in there, and for some reason I was in a bed where I could only access hbo. And so I was tooling around and I saw the Sopranos in the store.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You could only access. No, I believe that you have, like, a Roku box in there. Right?

[Paul Scheer]

We do.

[June Diane Raphael]

You do have a Roku box. But for some reason, I was only able to access hbo, so I started watching the Sopranos, and then I started booking sweats almost every day just to get to my Sopranos, so.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow, that doesn't sound healthy. Is that when you were hospitalized for severe dehydration?

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, listen, unfortunately, since the pandemic shape house, and I think most sweat establishments have temporarily closed.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I'm going to guess that that's probably a real Covid passer.

[Paul Scheer]

If you think a small room where, like, the air is filled. Filled with aerated particles.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, they shut down pretty quickly.

[Paul Scheer]

Not a thing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

June, I don't. I just want to. I don't want to reveal you, but I will say that way before COVID you came to me and said, well, no, you didn't even tell me. You just said, we now have a sauna bed in the basement. And I was expecting some sort of thing that you might see in a movie, like, you know, like a tanning bed or something like that. But no, it's almost like a deflated air mattress in our basement. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Now, the only problem with the one that I purchased is I'm not sure if it was one size fits, but I think I purchased, like, an extra large one.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Very large. It's very large.

[June Diane Raphael]

Very large. The idea is that you are. It's got Velcro on both ends, so you should be able to swaddle yourself.

[Paul Scheer]

Listen, I'd love to be able to swaddle myself.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I've never seen her in it, and I do that out of the respect of our marriage.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, I know, but there have been several times, Paul, where I've almost asked you and texted you with that one free hand that I can.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, that's what I was gonna ask. Who has the. When you push the button at home, who answers it?

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, there is no button at home. You just have to work your way out of there. But I've almost asked you a number of times, Paul, to put me in because I feel I'd get a much tighter wrap if you would get me in there. You get me real tight in there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Look, part of Me knows that as a father, I was very good at swaddling. So I would love to swaddle you. I also don't know if I want to see you in that position. It seems to be a very bizarre position.

[Paul Scheer]

I feel like you're gonna, like, be like, someday. You're gonna be like, you know what? I fell asleep on the couch. June said she was going down hours ago. You're gonna go down, and June is gonna be, like, in a. In a pile of a puddle of sweat, like, severely dehydrated, unable to muster the strength to un. Velcro herself.

[June Diane Raphael]

Let me tell you, it is a powerful, powerful in home machine, because I, too, and what I usually do is I set myself up. I try to swaddle as good as I can, and I put a little yoga block right behind my head to prop me up a little bit. I have tried a number of times to keep my hands and arms in there the whole time. It's next to impossible. It's so hot. So I. Anyway, long story short, I wanted to sweat last night, and I wanted to get in my sauna bed, and I also needed to watch the movie. So I watched the first 60 minutes in a full body sweat.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow.

[Paul Scheer]

Did that have a visceral reaction to you watching the movie?

[June Diane Raphael]

You know, there were many times I thought to myself, rewind, rewind. But I couldn't quite get to my phone, and I couldn't quite muster up the energy because of the deep sweat I was in to rewind. So.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So can I just point out one thing? That this sauna be is only good or you enjoyed the Sopranos. So Velasa Pastor and the Sopranos are sharing the same creative space for you? As far as the sauna, like, did it bring up those kind of Soprano issues? I mean, this is about family. It's about vengeance. It's about doing the right, but faith about doing the right when doing the wrong. You know, there's a lot of not unrequited love, but there's a lot of forbidden love in this. I mean, they're very similar as properties.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, both features men of the clergy whose faith is challenged by their relationship with a woman. A woman who is somehow corrupted or they feel like perhaps they should save or something like that. So, like, do you. Do you thematically see a lot of similarities between the Sopranos and Velocipaster?

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, listen, the Sopranos is so much about sort of the. The monster in. In all of us and the. The monster of Masculin. You know, men Trying to find their more feminine, caring sides. And yeah, I think there are a bunch of really easy comparisons, and I think both should only be viewed. Can I just say, June, as full body sweat.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I feel like we're getting dangerously close to you promoting your Sopranos watch along podcast, and I really. I wanna watch along Sweat along.

[Paul Scheer]

Sweat. Sweating. Sweating with Tony.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's called sweating with the Sopranos. You'll lose a salami every time you lose the weight of a salami every time you watch an episode. Is that about the right amount of weight that you lose?

[Paul Scheer]

Everybody's in a sauna bed eating gabagool while they watch.

[June Diane Raphael]

Listen, as you know, I hope both of you know I am not promoting any crazy weight loss techniques. Sweating has so many folks. Saunas have so many.

[Paul Scheer]

What is going on?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So many.

[June Diane Raphael]

Jason, when I say that are not just about water.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Jason, when I tell you that it looks like a deflated air mattress with a children's set of buttons on one side of it, you really need to picture just wires going into a deflated air mattress.

[Paul Scheer]

It sounds dangerous. It sounds like dangerous because you would be sweating an amount of water around these wires.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, that actually reminds me. Paul, can you text our nanny right now? I won't say her name. And make sure it's unplugged.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I unplugged this morning. I unplugged when I came down.

[June Diane Raphael]

Cause I just realized I didn't unplug it.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, God.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I look at it. I often go down to make sure that the sauna bed is off after a good steam in the house. And I will say, you come up, you look very refreshed.

[June Diane Raphael]

And I will add, again, it's not just about getting rid of some water weight. And for all the women out there who are on, you know, crazy hormonal cycles and retaining water, I do find it's helpful. But beyond weight loss and all of that, it is really my sleep better. My skin looks better.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Sure.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yeah. I mean, there's tons of benefits to sweat.

[June Diane Raphael]

There's tons of health benefits that, you.

[Paul Scheer]

Know, that I think is undeniable.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Should I get in the steam burrito? Should I go in that?

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, boy. I just picture your children finding the two of you in there weak from sweating so much, unable to get yourselves out of there.

[June Diane Raphael]

Honestly, Paul, it's big enough for both of us to get in at one time.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Really? We could have been watching Velocipastor together and sweating to this priest in his crisis of conscience. Oh, my God.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, my God. Just like the priest And Carol, it could have been the two of you.

[June Diane Raphael]

It really could have. Well, anyway, this movie was a true fever dream for me.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, I bet.

[June Diane Raphael]

I didn't know what was happening.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We did take about 11 minutes to break down saunas, and we haven't even gotten into this film, which I just want to call out. Yeah. Which, by the way, totally fine. I want to call it out and tell you what my issue was with it at the top. I think it's trying too hard to be the thing that we all want it to be. Right. That was my issue with it.

[Paul Scheer]

It's like it has like a. It has. Just to be clear, it has, like a. The. The. The look and the feel of, like, a. Like a Bird Demick or a Neil Breen movie. But it definitely feels like the makers are in on the joke.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes. And I feel like that would be okay, but I also feel like it misses the mark because the first joke of the movie I loved, which was the priest is performing his. A sermon. He goes outside and sees his parents. His parents blow up, or we don't know. But it says, vfx, missing explosion. And that, to me, made me laugh really hard. I'm like, oh, wow. They're gonna really be meta about creating a B film, because that's what you see.

[Paul Scheer]

So just to be clear, what that means is instead of showing the explosion of the car, there is text on screen that traditionally happens when a vfx, when a visual effects shot has not yet been placed into the movie. There will be a placeholder. There'll be placeholder shot where it's just the. The framing of the scene. And then it'll say across the screen, as it does in this movie, vfx car on fire.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Right.

[Paul Scheer]

That was really fighting that. That piece of visual effects to be put in and plugged into the movie. But that didn't happen. And that movie, this movie does that over and over. Versions of this over and over again.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Right. But I feel like they didn't even dive into that as deeply as they wanted to. But I guess we have to judge it on the fact that it does go, like, hand in hand with, like, trauma films or Sharknado. Like, they know what they're doing. They're creating something crazy. Everyone is trying. I mean, in my opinion, and I can't quite figure it out, are these people trying to imitate the stilted acting? Or are these people actually.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Stilted actors.

[Paul Scheer]

And I felt that way about the writing. The writing as well. I was like, now, are these lines purposefully bad or are these lines is like. Like when the. When they go to. When Doug the priest goes to China and the. The woman is shot through the chest with an arrow. And he looks at her and he says, are you hurt? And she is like, there's an arrow protruding from her chest. She's covered in blood. Like, it is clear she is hurt. You know, like the. There's stuff that I'm like, well, now, is that like just bad writing that's fun or is this like intentionally bad writing, you know?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Right. Because they do things that wink at the audience. Like he's walking through clearly like a field in New Jersey or like Pennsylvania, you know, very east coast forest. And then like a title comes across the screen that says China. You know, clearly a joke. Like, they're not in China. Right. But I don't know. I don't know where the line is. And it was kind of irritating me throughout the whole film because I wanted to enjoy it for the birdemic nature of it. But then I felt like, are you trying to be clever? And then I was mad at it.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, you went through a lot and you weren't in a sauna bed.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes. I mean, I was watching this completely sweat free. I was cool as a cucumber.

[Paul Scheer]

So I feel like just because I understand where you guys are coming from, I just want to tell you where I. How I interacted with this movie. So I have a. I have a cryo tank in my attic.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yes, I love those.

[June Diane Raphael]

So you were quite cold, so I.

[Paul Scheer]

Watched this in a deep freeze. And you're only supposed to spend like three, five minutes in like a cryo setup. But. But I watched the whole movie in there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, I mean, that. That is not good. I mean, I've trying to get that.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm trying to get, you know, in Snowpiercer, when they stick that person's arm through the window. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to do that, you know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow, you want to break yourself. You really.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm trying to. I'm trying to. I'm trying to turn myself into the X Man Iceman.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't think you can do it. I don't think you can do that by.

[Paul Scheer]

You don't think I can fit myself into Bobby Drake? Just watch me, Paul.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, no. Jason, your arm looks extremely unhealthy. I'm looking at it in the zoom. It is. It looks almost.

[June Diane Raphael]

I've never seen it.

[Paul Scheer]

You know what? It's Covid, baby. Every. I'm coming out of this with Superpowers. Watching this felt like I. I kept being like things that were enjoyable. I was like, I think you're doing was. It kind of was going. It was neither nor. Which is, I think, a little bit of what you're saying to Paul. It's. It's obviously winking at you repeatedly through the film, but some of the winks are. Some of it was very. Making me laugh very hard.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, I totally agree.

[June Diane Raphael]

I. I laugh. I had a bunch of laughs, too. But this is the thing that some of the wink. I mean, it's kind of like when people. When you don't know if someone is winking at you in person or not, it's very uncomfortable. So there were times where I was like, oh, I'm really enjoying this. I get what they're doing. This is really fun, and this is working. And then there were other times where I couldn't tell if I was being winked at or not, or it wasn't happening as often as it should.

[Paul Scheer]

That's why when I wink at, like, a woman in a bar, in like a. In a. In a scenario in the real world, I screamed the word wink, wink when I wink.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You need to do that. And I think right now we've. We really come together as a society to know that we need to say the word wink when we are.

[Paul Scheer]

I point at the woman I'm winking at to make sure nobody else intercepts the wink, and I scream wink as I'm winking.

[June Diane Raphael]

Good, good.

[Paul Scheer]

Wink. And then I point at my eye and I point at her. That's it.

[June Diane Raphael]

Because the worst thing would be is if someone intercepted it and took that wink.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, my God. Because then that person now were contractually obliged. I have to follow through on that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You have to.

[Paul Scheer]

Whoever catches the wink.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Earns the wink.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, that's. That's part of the problem about meeting people in bars I like, you know, And I think people really get into meeting people online because that wink will not be intercepted.

[Paul Scheer]

Wait, Paul, are you still meeting people?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, I mean, I'm always just trying to see what's out there, you know? What do you mean?

[Paul Scheer]

What's out there? In what context?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, just day dating, you know, it's for a research project I'm doing.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, that makes sense.

[June Diane Raphael]

For what? Is it for a movie or a television show?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, one of those.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, that's so cool.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank you.

[Paul Scheer]

Do you want to announce what now when it is?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow, That's a lot of that.

[June Diane Raphael]

Has nothing to do with that other phone that I always see and ask you about?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's my emergency phone for agents and managers, and they always say, do not let your wife answer this phone. Do not let her pick it up. If you do, we're not gonna give you that job.

[Paul Scheer]

Are you repped by Commissioner Gordon from the old Batman TV show?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I. Look, obviously, there's a lot of issues going on with police right now not.

[Paul Scheer]

Letting your wife answer this phone.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A lot of them are retiring and getting into the agent and management business. And so, yeah, I have a couple of former police officers who now are very protective of the calls coming in and coming out.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow. Okay. So.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, that all lines up.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. You don't need to blow that up for me. No.

[June Diane Raphael]

He works so hard, everybody, honestly. I know I'm gonna get a lot of tweets about this and a lotta. But really, babe, thank you. Work so hard. Thank you, sweetheart. I see it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank you. And that's why I'm out so late so much.

[June Diane Raphael]

I know. Especially during the virus, it's been shocking that you're willing to take that risk for your family.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I need to support the family, and that's so important. So I just want to talk about that. June asked me a question last night, and I said, save it, because I didn't know how to answer it. June, do you remember the question that you asked?

[June Diane Raphael]

I do not.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You said, how did he become a dinosaur? And I said, oh, well, he went to China. And you said, no, no, that was a dream. And then I was like, wait, it was a dream? So now I'm really curious.

[Paul Scheer]

No, he went. Didn't. He went to China. Because the old priest says, from your travels. Does he?

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes, he does. But then. But that. Those travels only happened in his dream. He never actually went somewhere.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, I think he did, but no.

[June Diane Raphael]

Because then he woke up, and he was in his bed staring at Father Stewart.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Right. Or so like, in my.

[Paul Scheer]

Wasn't that after a trip? Because Father Stewart's like, so your parents died, Doug. It's what parents do. They die on you. And then he's like, why don't you go out and see the world? And then it cuts to China, and then the. The. The lady in all white who's been shot with the arrow hands him some sort of talisman, which turn. Which cuts him, and he turns into the velocipastor.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But it didn't seem like he turned into the velocipastor Stewart until that dream. I mean, by the Way. Father Stewart.

[June Diane Raphael]

What is he waking up from then?

[Paul Scheer]

I think a nightmare. I think he's waking up. I think. Wow. Yeah. I think he's waking up from being the velociraptor. I think it's. This is like, wait, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You already think that he was out that night as the velocipastor? Didn't realize it. Oh, wow.

[Paul Scheer]

I think he's. Yeah, that's what I think. Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I thought the first time he.

[Paul Scheer]

Turned this into it. I think it's like an Incredible Hulk scenario.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I thought the first time he turned into it was in the park.

[June Diane Raphael]

Me too.

[Paul Scheer]

In China?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, in Central park with Carol or.

[June Diane Raphael]

Whatever that guy was. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. With Carol and the first rapist.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Frankie Mermaid. Oh, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, no, no, not Frankie Mermaid. Doesn't he turn into the velocipaster in China, though, when the thing cuts his hand?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, I just.

[Paul Scheer]

No, I'm at the screams.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then he wakes up from the dream. So he cuts his hand and he screams. But I guess the idea is that bone can turn you. I mean, and this is kind of the fun of this movie because I do believe two things can be true, that they are winking at the audience, but then they also aren't fully able to wink. So it would be like someone who can't wink who is trying to wink. And that's maybe the secret sauce of this movie, because it's not fully.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's me, by the way. I can't wink.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think if I try to wink, I would get both eyes. And this is why I don't again, go to bars. I do it online for research.

[June Diane Raphael]

For research. Cause you can just press the wink emoji.

[Paul Scheer]

The other thing I might I also do is I just write the word wink on little pieces of paper and I, you know, like, I just hand deliver them.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, that's actually the best way to do it.

[Paul Scheer]

But. All right, so I loved when he wakes up from the dream and he's all disoriented and he's back in the place, and the old priest comes in and he says, feed a fever, starve a cold. Which I was like, what is this in regards to? And then. Then the priest gives him an awkward hug, and then they adr a smoochie kiss sound.

[June Diane Raphael]

I was like, oh, I didn't hear that.

[Paul Scheer]

What is this? What is this about?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You see, that, to me, feels like the joke on the joke on the joke. Like, Father Stewart, I want to give props to this Actor. Because I think that whatever he's doing, he's nailing it always. Actually, the whole cast, I think, is actually doing.

[June Diane Raphael]

I gotta give props to the whole cast.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, the whole cast is doing a great job. Carol loved Carol.

[June Diane Raphael]

Carol. Carol is also a beautiful woman. I couldn't take my eyes off of her.

[Paul Scheer]

She was great. She was great in the fight scenes too. She was great at, like, the choreography. She was everybody. And the. To be clear, the priest, the young priest, the velocipastor priest is straight jacked. The guy is. When he's not in priest's robes, he is in a white tank top and jeans that when he's not wearing them, hang on a single hanger in his room.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love that. And by the way, you knew he wanted to show off that physique. And by the way he showed. It's a good looking physique. Oh, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

This is fucking jacked, man. He's ready for a fight. Which is great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, he reminded me of Michael C. Hall in a way. I was like, this guy's got a.

[Paul Scheer]

Michael C. Hall very much.

[June Diane Raphael]

The only thing I didn't like was like in the post coital scene when he's wrapped up in Carol's arm and they do this like, loving shot of his legs. Again, I don't know if this was a wink or not, but seeing those baggy tighty whities, it was just. It was not what I wanted to see.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, June, I want to throw something to you. I know that you have an issue with baggy underwear, but I also had an issue when he wears the leather jacket at the end. I thought his jeans were too baggy. I didn't see like I felt for a man in that good of shape. I wanted to see more of an ass shape. And not to say that I just felt like he deserved a better pair of jeans. I just.

[Paul Scheer]

I wanted to see more of an ass shape.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I wanted to see. I felt like.

[Paul Scheer]

Is that what you call it? Ooh, look at the shape of that ass over there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Look at that ass shape.

[Paul Scheer]

You know what I haven't seen in a while? A shapely ass.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Where does the butt start? And I need to know where it starts On a human. No, I was surprised that his jeans were as baggy for his shirts being as tight. That's what I guess.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm surprised his jeans were as baggy for his shirts being as tight.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I mean, that's my own personal, you know, look, we all look for our own things in these films. And that's what I.

[Paul Scheer]

He also wears a tight fitting orange like polyester shirt at one point with the jeans that are too baggy as well.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, I thought you were talking about the outfit that he, that he changed into when he slept over Carol's apartment.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, no, that was the orange dress that I'm obsessed with. That.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, that's straight up Mel Brooks, right? Like that's a straight up, like ba, ba, ba ba. You know, like that's when you're like.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, this movie is in on the joke, you know, like of course. Because he's like, do you have any clothes that I can wear? And then boom, cut straight to. He's in like a tight fitting, knit, orange like mini dress.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I did love that scene where he wakes up and plays into the trope of Did I have sex with you? Like what's going on? Like when Carol comes in with that cup of tea. She does so much business with a cup of tea where I think she's bringing it to him, but then she drinks it herself. Which that really made me laugh. I don't even know if that was intentional. And they're playing this moment of they're not expressing what actually happened. So it's this very long scene of them both being confused about what they're talking about.

[Paul Scheer]

Let me be fair in saying that this can never happen again.

[June Diane Raphael]

So it was just a one time thing?

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Honestly, it never should have happened at all.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's for sure.

[Paul Scheer]

Was it bad? It was weird. Oh.

[June Diane Raphael]

Honestly, it all happened so quickly. I was very scared.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think I even peed myself.

[Paul Scheer]

Was it your first time too? Yeah, well, as I said, I'm a priest, so we can never say.

[June Diane Raphael]

Wait, what are you even talking about?

[Paul Scheer]

What are you talking about?

[June Diane Raphael]

The time you turned into a dinosaur and ate someone.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What?

[Paul Scheer]

This is what I want to ask about this thing, okay? In. In turning into the velocirapastor, when he turns into the velociraptor, all he does is eat people. Right? So he's a cannibal. This man is a cannibal.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, the dinosaur is.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, but I mean the dinosaur turns into him, so it's. Do you. Do we think they share the same stomach?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, so you.

[Paul Scheer]

When he takes a shit in Carol's apartment or is that human remains?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow. Now by the way, that's something I want to get to the bottom of. I felt like they really did a transformation with him because he doesn't even. I mean, he kind of American Werewolf in London is his body, right? Because at certain Points he's certain.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, there's multiple scenes where only his hands are the velociraptor's hands.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I think, obviously, if you're a fan of this show, I think you'll like all the tropes that they're doing here because it clearly is a lover of bad movies creating his own B movie.

[June Diane Raphael]

My favorite thing about the Velocipastor was the first time we got to see his eyes. Well, first of all, it was crazy at the end to see him in daylight. I mean, that was just.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Daylight was the best choice.

[June Diane Raphael]

Dare the Velocipaster was crazy. But at nighttime, when we first see him, the way they. And I don't think this was a choice. I think this was the best they could do. I think the way they made that puppet's eyes, he looked so friendly. It was like a little cartoon. Like Barney the dinosaur.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It reminded me of. Of Theodore Rex. Another movie we did on this podcast with Whoopi Goldberg. Like, he was a really lunky, like, dinosaur and fat like velociraptors. At least the version that I'm used to seeing in Jurassic park. The lean, kind of like cheetah esque creatures. And this was like a paper mache Barney running around, wobbling around.

[Paul Scheer]

There's like one of those inflatable dinosaur things that people can wear. It looks like that but heavier. Weird.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, those things look better than this does. This looks like really rubbery. And it. I agree. It looks friendly. It doesn't look threatening. It doesn't. It's not articulated at all. Like, none of the movements are possible. Like, yeah, it can't even open and close its mouth, really.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No.

[Paul Scheer]

You know, in a way that everything.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is done in cutaways. Like every moment where an arm is being ripped off or anything, you're just seeing a part of it. You're not seeing the full creature. And I think it really made me laugh. The final fight scene really made me laugh. But the budget of this movie is $35,000 financed by the director, editor, producer, his mom's friend.

[Paul Scheer]

But I did not expect his mom's friend.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

At the end of that scene, he said that they tried to crowdfund this film twice in 2011 and 2016. They were unsuccessful. And then his mom called and said, we got the money from one of my friends. So at 35,000, I imagine at least what, 8 to 10 is on that velociraptor costume. I mean, that was. No. You think that that's too much?

[Paul Scheer]

No way. That's way too much.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Where is the money then? Where's the money going?

[June Diane Raphael]

Inflatable. I don't know. But literally, the inflatable, like, blow up one that Gus wears.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes. Our son is.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. Is scarier.

[Paul Scheer]

And yeah, there's no way they spent no money on the. No money on the thing. The money is for, like, equipment rental and, like, I don't even know what else.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It feels like. You could have shot this movie if you were really at a good clip. Three days.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yeah. There's like. There's only like 12 people in the movie total.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, 12 people, about four sets. And yeah, there's minimal set dressing except for the. When they go to like, the. The. The witchcraft.

[Paul Scheer]

And I'm going to guess a bunch of those locations are like, you know, their own home or whatever.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

So, you know, I don't think they're spending a lot of money on location rentals or anything.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Could you understand where this movie even took place?

[June Diane Raphael]

The city.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay. Right. I thought at a point it was New York, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it because they definitely stole that shot of Carol outside of a church, like, when she was across the street. Like, they were stealing some shots on New York City streets for sure. But then when they were in the forest and that final fight scene, I was like, where are they? They're just in an open field.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, my God. So much is that the bad guys, that. The bad guys are like ninjas who want to control. This is the bad guy's plan. The bad guy's plan is I want to flood the market with drugs to create people who Are become so addicted to drugs that they will seek out rehabilitation programs that are Christian in basis so that then I will have an army of Christian soldiers who I had previously made drug addicts.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, that's, I love that about.

[June Diane Raphael]

But listen, it did make me think. It did make me think about religion and just sort of recruitment rates. Well, I know that there are not. I know that they are not recruiting priests and nuns anymore. Not, not. I. I don't think people are signing on to the order in the numbers that they had been.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, no, I think they're gonna, they're gonna need to start recruiting. You know, they're gonna need to start going to like amateur priest and nun competitions and looking at the young talent. She who's out there, you gotta see. Right.

[June Diane Raphael]

And they have to start scouting at an early age.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But I mean, this is an indictment. June, I agree with you. An indictment about maybe a ten step program. Like who is really behind it? What do they want from you? And I feel like I'm glad that we are talking about this.

[Paul Scheer]

And Paul, how is a ten step program different from a twelve step program?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, that's a good question because a lot of us are in a very right now and we can't.

[Paul Scheer]

We don't need those two extra steps.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You can't do the 12. You gotta do 10. 10 is easier. That's how as many fingers I got to 10.

[Paul Scheer]

10'S good enough, you know, you know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The good old 10 step program.

[Paul Scheer]

10, good old. Oh, you know, things are tough. But now I'm in a ten step program and everything's great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We give you a menu of 12 steps to take. You pick the 10 that you want to do. Like you don't want to maybe apologize to everybody that you're wrong. So let's sign that one off the list. You can pick and choose.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh yeah, yeah. Which ones you want to do.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You get the choice. And that's when I'm running it. When I run my 10 step program, I'm like, forget about the 12. Let's just focus on you. What do you want to do? And that's why my rehab house, while it's incredibly. We have a high return rate at our place because some people say we shouldn't let them leave, we shouldn't let people come in, we shouldn't let them have their phones. But to me, that's part of the fun is like, you know, hey, let's talk about stuff. Let's have our phones out. You know, like, so that's a rehab house.

[Paul Scheer]

Because you usually just call it your party palace.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, well, we had to change it.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Me and Jake Paul did it together.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And so we've been running this thing with, you know, mixed results. And I think it will get. I'm hoping to grow it.

[Paul Scheer]

You still have access to the TikTok house, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I mean, yeah. I'm in there all the time. I mean, majority of the work I do right now is on TikTok, and I'm really proud of it.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, yeah. 10 steps on TikTok. I know. I'm sure you'll plug it at the end. Your 10 step program available on TikTok.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If you follow the 10 videos, you can cure yourself of any addiction. And I'm serious about that. Any addiction. And each video is 30 seconds. So we're asking about a 300 second commitment. Yeah. And June got me into TikTok. I saw it and I was like, this is a great way for me to get information out there. And it's been really great and it's fun.

[June Diane Raphael]

You put all those dances to it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I will say I do catch June now. More and more on TikTok. Just going down wormholes. Like, I went into the room the other night and it was late and you were still up, and I was like, what are you doing? And you're like, just on TikTok.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, that's because I have fallen into an algorithm on TikTok, and I don't know how to get out of it, but I.

[Paul Scheer]

What is it showing you?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Jason, prepare. Jason, prepare for. Wait, hold on. Can we just ask. Jason, can you just guess based on what you know of June, what you think. Think the videos are, and then June will reveal it because it's worth.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, so here's the thing. So primarily, I don't know if I'm going to be good at this, because I don't. Other than my very broad strokes. Understanding TikTok is someplace where people go and do, like, those. It's like a. It's like lip syncing to things that already exist. Right. Or dancing to things that are already.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So what do you think that June would be engaging on that? Maybe like, watching cool dance moves or.

[Paul Scheer]

Or my guess would be that June would be watching people doing, like, impersonations of funny things, not dancing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, well, like, like Sarah. Like, like, like. Yeah, yeah. Okay, great.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, that is my. My, My. My exposure to TikTok is Sarah Cooper, for the most part.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right. So June.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, no, I do follow Sarah Cooper on TikTok But I have. Have two very special. Well, one of my special interests in life is a very. Well, it's actually pretty common, a disease called endometriosis that affects women. And where tissue basically grows. Where it's not tissue that's supposed to grow in your uterus end up. Ends up growing outside of it. And it's incredibly painful. And I've done a lot of research on it just for my own personal knowledge. So. And I don't suffer from it, but this is just an area I'm curious about. So. So imagine a million different videos on endometriosis.

[Paul Scheer]

But wait, what? Wait. Oh, so, okay, so they're just. These are just videos about endometriosis.

[June Diane Raphael]

So I follow a number of hashtags called June is on endo Warrior Endo Queens like endo. And then also doctors who specialize because so many women have not been able to get proper diagnostics for.

[Paul Scheer]

This is on TikTok.

[June Diane Raphael]

There's so much on TikTok that both of you don't know about. There's a lot of education material.

[Paul Scheer]

I misunderstood. I would see. Okay, got it. Go ahead.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

TikTok will have like great iPhone tips or like cooking.

[Paul Scheer]

I misunderstood what it was.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, you're not. So it's like YouTube though.

[Paul Scheer]

It's like YouTube put any video up of anything.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But you're in front facing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Though sometimes though, I'll see. You'll see an ob GYN or just a gynecologist doing a dance. But during that dance, they are.

[Paul Scheer]

So you're saying. Wait, whoa.

[June Diane Raphael]

They are also dropping facts about endo uterine lining and all sorts of things.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like they're block texting information while they're doing popular dancing.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, so it's. So you can jerk off to it too, then.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, man, I didn't want to. I didn't want to. Ah, man.

[Paul Scheer]

Wait a minute. So. So these are people who are hoping that their message about, in this case, endometriosis will be heard better if they are dancing as.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, because you can be impressed with the dance. I've. I've watched a lot of these over June shoulders and I've watched a lot of. Look, I've gotten deep into the medical part of TikTok as well. Just because. Because June has opened it up. I'm like, well, what else do they have?

[Paul Scheer]

Medical. TikTok is blowing. You're blowing my mind right now. I had no idea this would even be harder.

[June Diane Raphael]

A lot of doctors, a lot of nurses sharing wonderful information on TikTok. People sharing information about all sorts of things on TikTok in really sort of bite sized, accessible ways.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So endometriosis, I will tell you, it helped me. It oddly helped me. It helped me diagn diagnosed something that I had. And, and I feel really.

[June Diane Raphael]

It did, Paul. It definitely did.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. I mean I went to the proper. I went to the proper doctors after I saw some stuff on TikTok.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't, I don't know if, if I'm being fucked with right now, but.

[June Diane Raphael]

This is why you are not.

[Paul Scheer]

You are not.

[June Diane Raphael]

I promise you, Paul, this has been.

[Paul Scheer]

Super informative because I really naively, I guess just thought TikTok was for lip syncing and dancing videos. That, that's what like kids are doing. It's. It's all young people doing dance routines.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The majority. The front facing.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The front facing version is. And by the way, I'll say that the tone of this podcast is really the tone of velocipaster, which is this. We're going off on tangents. They're not going to know his payoff, but we're just gonna kind of explore some things on the side here because that's how I felt in this movie. I feel like this is a very.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, here's the thing. This movie, we don't need to, we don't need to dig in on velocipast. We kind of get. There's still some funny stuff I would talk about, but I'm being, I'm enjoying very much being educated about TikTok right now.

[June Diane Raphael]

Paul has made a few TikToks. See, I've never created content on TikTok.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I have made a couple TikToks and.

[June Diane Raphael]

I am known as a content creator.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. June is, you know, people look to her for her content and always. And she does a great job with it. But. Yeah, but TikTok, you haven't jumped in. You did tape a dance that I thought was actually very good, but you did not upload it. You saved it.

[June Diane Raphael]

I was worried it was a little too thirsty now it was just a little too sexy. And I always struggle with that sometimes I. You know, it's when you have a body, we all do as mine. It was just a little too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It was post sweat. It was ready to go.

[June Diane Raphael]

You know, it was just like. And I was like, you know what? I don't think this should be my first. First right. Foray into the world.

[Paul Scheer]

And so you're doing a dance, but then are you also talking about some endometriosis? Something that is something that the importance of complicated medical.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, I was so. So, Jason. Yes. A lot of. There's a lot of amazing education on TikTok. I actually think it's been great for a lot of teenagers during this. The pandemic, because so many teachers are on TikTok. But anyway, my dance, then you just have people who are. Along with getting their education out every once in a while, they're also just doing a dance. So this was just a dance that.

[Paul Scheer]

Would be like, to me, if you were. If you always saw your doctor and then you went to your doctor's office one day, and instead your doctor was like. Like, instead of checking you out today, I would just like you to watch me dance for the next 15 minutes. I would be like, hey, great news. I'm never coming back here again because this is inappropriate.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But wouldn't you be like, oh, my gosh, my doctor's so cool. Instead of just delivering terrible news to me, they're also putting it in a really fun package.

[Paul Scheer]

See, instead, I would be like, the time you spent learning this dance. Dance could have been time better spent learning about the disease. I have. Like, I want my doctors to be bad dancers. I want my. My doctors to be amateur in everything else.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Or, Jason, how about this? Your doctor's so good, they have spare time to learn how to dance. I'm saving lives.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't trust that. It's like, we all have a friend who got his pilot's license, and he was like, oh, you should come up with me. I have a plane now. I'd love to fly you around. And I was like, never. Never once in my life will I do that, because I think you are so funny. You are one of the funniest people I've ever met that you can't be as good a pilot as you are a comedian. And that must mean I shouldn't be defying gravity with an amateur.

[June Diane Raphael]

So you don't believe it's possible to be, like, a Renaissance woman or a Renaissance man? I mean, da Vinci was a doctor.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He was.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, that's how far. Like, that's how far ago we have to go to. To find a person.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Dr. Phil is a doctor, and not really.

[Paul Scheer]

The answer to that is actually not really. He is, in fact, not really.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And he's actually not a good dancer either, so I don't know where I was going with that point.

[Paul Scheer]

I love that you were gonna use Dr. Phil as your example of someone who can do it all.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, when I look, when I tell you that the Only show. There's two shows that my family want me to be on that would prove to them that I have reached a level of success in this world. And one of them is the show Doctors. My grandma is like, can you please get on Doctors? And I'm like, I don't even know if they bring people out to plug stuff on Doctors. I think Doctors is just a roundtable of doctors, kind of. Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

I was gonna say, does she. Doesn't. Does she, like, as in, like, you need to be a patient? Is it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't know exactly what she wants. She just wants me on a show that she watches.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, like a talk show.

[Paul Scheer]

No, it would be so funny.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Just, you should.

[Paul Scheer]

You should tell whoever books you on stuff to, like, make sure that whenever you're promoting, you get on to Doctor.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, by the way, I did ask one time because I thought it would be fun. And then they wanted me to do a Best of Doctors recap show of, like, funny bloopers and outtakes where I would be like, oh, my gosh. Remember when this doctor said that? And I. I couldn't get behind that?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, that's too much.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

I was like, that's more work.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's more work. And also. So is that the point of the show? Like, remember when these doctors made some goofs and gaffes? Like, I don't.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't know if that's what celebrated my understanding. My understanding of what Doctors Goofs would be. Would be like, that patient then died.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That was. Yeah, that. I don't want to see my doctor falling down. Like, you don't want to see your doctor dancing. If they're capable, I don't mind it. I don't want to see my doctor, like, put a fork in his eye or something like that.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. When you're in surgery, you can't go back to one and start the scene again because you cracked up in the middle of it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

Cheers to a great day and this ice cold corona. You know what would make this day even better?

[Paul Scheer]

My grandma's carne asada.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Or your grandma here with us making carne asada. She does love a cold corona. Throw in some dancing, we can watch the game. I'll drink to that. So a backyard concert with football, food, dancing and Corona and your grandma. Or we could keep it simple. Simple is good. Want a Corona?

[Paul Scheer]

Thanks.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Salud.

[Paul Scheer]

To the perfect day. Corona la vida Masvina.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Get your [e-mail] Relax responsibly. Corona extra beer imported by Crowning Port Chicago, Illinois. By the way, speaking of dancing, I want to call out the lethargic ninjas in this movie who at certain points there's just like activity going on in the background of velocipastor. And they clearly are, you know, just trying to keep kicking for as long as they can but don't have any real skill in kicking. So when they do like the walk down the line of ninjas, it's just, it looks like you've just walked by a strip mall karate class on day one of a white belt class of.

[Paul Scheer]

People over 40 agree 100%. Like the all of the ninja stuff is, is terrible and slow and cut weirdly all of the action set pieces are really bizarrely staged and choreographed very poorly. Nobody is like. Like, for example, when. When. And it is. It's played for comedy. When the big bad guy comes out who has a Hitler mustache. Oh, no, he doesn't have a Hitler. That guy has a Hitler mustache. But the guy comes out with a sword, and he cut. Cuts down Carol, the. The prostitute with a heart of gold who's fallen in love with the velocipaster. They have their. Fine. It's the final big fight at the. Oh, the bad guys are doing their whole drug operation out of, like, two tents in a park, which is weird.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

They're like. Their whole drug. Mega drug operation is set up in two tents in a park. Anyway, so they go. There's a big fight. The guy comes out, he slashes Carol with a sword, and velocipaster, like, cradles her in his arms. And the ninjas just stand around watching. Sadly. They watch. Like, they get emotional when Carol seems to be like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, well, I think that was part of the joke. I feel like that.

[Paul Scheer]

I think so.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And that's why, again, this movie is.

[June Diane Raphael]

By the way, you do such a good job of explaining comedy to me, and I just want to say I always appreciate it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, but I mean.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, you do.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, but it was like, that's what I think was having. I was having a hard time doing, like, I want these moments to be very dehydrated.

[Paul Scheer]

People don't understand comedy.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, I know. And he's so great at connecting those dots.

[Paul Scheer]

He's like, babe, babe, please drink this Gatorade and let me explain.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Let me show you Jokes. This is a joke.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, so this is now the setup. This is called the setup. No, no. Drink that coconut water. Come on. Okay, here we go.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's a hilarious joke. No, and I guess I just. I'm frustrated with the movie because I feel like even on Sharknado, they were trying for a level of competency. And I feel like in this movie they're just trying to be weird. Like the ADR with the kiss and the crying or the.

[Paul Scheer]

Even the better. The. The best example to me of the true absurdity of this movie, which I believe is set in contemporary times.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Is that there is a Vietnam flashback.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Or tbd, because it seems very different than Vietnam. Right. Or it's Vietnam.

[Paul Scheer]

They say it's Vietnam. They. They call it out. So the old priest. This was my favorite part of the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That guy was amazing, by the way.

[Paul Scheer]

That's the director Scene, the exorcism scene, and the old priest Vietnam flashback. So the priest. So. So when Velocipastor is, like, conflicted, the old priest, his mentor says, you know, you might need an exorcism. So he calls in his old buddy and he then the old priest. Priest suddenly has voiceover. Multiple people throughout this movie have interior monologue voiceover, which is very rare. So he says, I haven't seen what this guy since the war. And then they cut to the Vietnam War. So we're talking late 60s, early 70s, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

So that is 50 years ago. The old man who's playing the priest is playing himself as a young man with a wig. With a blonde wig and a blonde wig.

[June Diane Raphael]

I enjoyed that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I loved it.

[Paul Scheer]

This was making me laugh forever.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So all I want to see is more of this actor. I mean, Father Stewart was pitch perfect. If he's acting for real, God bless him. If he is acting for comedy. He is a straight up genius. Yeah, he was. He was amazing.

[Paul Scheer]

His buddy and him standing up against a tree and the guy goes, have 11 kids, spend 15 minutes a day with each of them. And then that guy basically says, this is the one they lean into. Like movie tropes, which I did enjoy. He's like, you tell him. You name him after me and you tell him that I'm the guy that got through all of the Vietnam War never being shot once and is like, immediately shot in the chest and then.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then falls down to the ground still smoking the cigarette. The cigarette is in his mouth.

[Paul Scheer]

Continues to smoke. Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

By the way, that also. That has one of my favorite parts of the entire film, which is the. The father, the priest is looking forward to seeing his sweet Adeline or Adelaide. And he's. And she's Adeline. And she's running towards him in Vietnam.

[Paul Scheer]

She's in the jungles of Vietnam.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And she looks age appropriate to Father Stewart in modern times.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. She does not look like the picture he just showed of his sweetheart at home.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Right. And so when she runs to him, she steps on a landmine and explodes and jumps. Just red paint. And this guy holds a frozen, like, mouth open. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen that she kills.

[Paul Scheer]

She explodes. She explodes like, I'm not kidding, three feet from where he is. And she explodes into just blood. Like, her. Her body is vaporized. No, like, there's no body part hearts. There's nothing. She is vaporized but for blood. And he is. He's not blown back he's not. He's. He's in the. He's immediately in the vicinity of the explosion, as are two other men. And none of them are impacted by it other than blood is splattered on him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And the two guys are like, well, we can't do anything for her right now. Like, no. Like, it's. So that scene is.

[Paul Scheer]

The guy says. The guy says, this. This is. This blew my mind. The guy comes up at the guy, the old priest is covered in blood and he goes, what do you think she was doing in the forest? And then the other guy goes, I don't know. Maybe she was trying to start a family. What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Right.

[Paul Scheer]

Maybe she was try. Because. Because the old priest was just saying how he wanted to start a family with Adeline. So then it's like he conjured her to Vietnam to just be exploded by like a tripwire.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And meanwhile he. He is still frozen. The old man is frozen for that entire conversation. Oh, that really. That made me joy.

[Paul Scheer]

That made me laugh. And the other thing that really made me laugh was we are with Carol later in the movie and Carol comes home to her apartment. She turns the lights on, she's getting ready, and the priest is there, Velocipastor is there, but he's in her single room apartment covered in a. In newspapers, right? Covered him. He's hiding.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That was such a funny bit.

[Paul Scheer]

He's hiding in her apartment under newspapers as if he's like a homeless person. Like for warmth or something. But like, why?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, oh, and that was like. And I do like that kind of meta, like Chim and Eric style of just absurdity. I wanted more of it. And I also really love the end. We're talking about doctors. Like, she gets sliced in half. The Carol at the climactic battle scene by a guy who is revealed to be like a big bad that we've never really met. And he doesn't seem to do anything to her. Like he just walks out and just cuts her in half. Like she puts up her fists, there's no fight. Just like. It's like an Indiana Jones like gun to the guy with the swords. It's like a very quick moment and.

[Paul Scheer]

The velocipaster is literally four feet away from her and and is just like. She doesn't call out to him, she just lets the sword guy walk up to her and slice her down. It was crazy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then they fix her and she's totally fine with no scar. And that was like the doctor's like, hey, we did it. We did It. And he sits down and starts smoking a cigarette.

[Paul Scheer]

That was so funny.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Such a. Like, there's so many funny things and I feel like consistency is the issue that I was missing. Like, anyway. But oh, by the way, I did have a thought. I wanted the dinosaur to be wearing a priest's collar. I thought that would have really stepped it up.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, yeah, like a hundred percent agree.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. Ah, well.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And more. And actually wanted more of those VFX missing shots and things like that too. Like, you know, I feel like that sort of stuff really made me laugh. Like, because at the end when he goes to visit her in the hospital and she's on the bed, she looks at him and she goes, I'm fine. And then a big graphic on the screen pops up and says, like, she's fine.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And. And that was like. Well, clearly you were all in on the joke because that's not even a trope. That's just like weird for weird sake. And I'm not mad at it. I just like. But more of that then. More of that. That's all.

[Paul Scheer]

Why. Why was. Why was the. Ok, so why was the Big Bad's right hand man Velocipastor's brother? Oh, yeah, I didn't. I couldn't. And then. Because then they do that, they double the flashback. So like. So like, there's a point where the priest is like, my parents. I loved my parents or whatever. And it's just a flashback to them. Like just laughing and laughing and laughing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That was really great too.

[Paul Scheer]

And then they're in the car and he's like, why don't you get out? Your mother and I will drive around a little and then we'll pick you up from priest college. He says again, again.

[June Diane Raphael]

So many if seminary.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, yeah, somebody is a genius at writing bad dialogue lines in a few of these moments. Like, some of these are, I believe, purposefully, absolutely expositional. Bad writing. Like, we'll pick you up from priest college.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, you know, it's. And I think that's the thing. It's like, it's walking this line of. I don't know if. I don't know if you can do this. And I think this is my issue with the. I don't know if you can walk yourself into something as pure as Miami Connection. The room birdemic. Like, these movies hold a place because there is a purity in the thought from the director and the performers and there is some just realness there. And you know, because I think anyone can. Like what you said. It's A sketch you can. Everyone can parody the bad version of it, but to kind of make. Make a B movie. I don't know. I mean, is it more like a Troma film? But Troma films, I also feel like. I guess they have a similar sensibility too, like Toxic Avenger and Sergeant Kabuki man, where they are, you know, very extreme and silly. But also the thing that those.

[Paul Scheer]

The thing that I think those. Those are a little bit better at executing the genre, right? And this while obviously very much living within the genre is not always. Not always playing. You know what it is. They're breaking the rules too much, right? In a way. So in a way to. That is. It just gets a little flat, you know, right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Even at 75 minutes, you're like, okay, you've. You've exceeded. You've run out here. You've run out of the room.

[Paul Scheer]

I believe this could have been even much better at 40 minutes, you know, just like, really just keep hitting. Keep hitting. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. But there's just, like, flat stuff in here that is neither nor. It's neither. It's neither forwarding the genre archetype nor is it joke. Joke scenes. Some of this is just kind of stalling in a way, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's sort of like, if you're going to make a comedy version of it, you have to. Then we're making a full comedy. We're pressing ahead. We are. Everything is going to be for a joke. And I think here, what they did was allow themselves just to imitate and not necessarily always comment on. Yes, that's a good point. And that, to me, feels like. While I did have some big laughs, I think that the people. Probably. The title is great and the poster is fun. And the trailer. I mean, this whole movie came out of a trailer, right? This guy Bren.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Brendan Steers. He was basically in film school. His phone autocorrected velociraptor to velocirapaster. He was like, oh, that would be funny. He made a grindhouse trailer.

[Paul Scheer]

What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, he made a grindhouse. That's like.

[Paul Scheer]

We made a movie called stellar skateboard 100%.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And this video got over 45,000 views on YouTube. So he's like, oh, I should make this into a movie. And. And I think because it was so crazy, like Snakes on a Plane, like, where it is like one of those things where you're like, we're just gonna. You know. Snakes on a Plane, I think walks in that same line too. People Go and get excited about it. Like, I wanna see it. I wanna see it. And I think Snakes on a Plane missed it as well, which is like you're trying to create some thing that's really hard to do. But it worked to a certain degree. I mean, because now they've given him a $2 million budget for a sequel.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, interesting.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, good.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And they've already.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, I'm.

[June Diane Raphael]

Who's given him that?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He just said he's got a $2 million budget for it.

[Paul Scheer]

Paul, you said that a lot of that money was coming from you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I did invest in it. That's kind of my nighttime activity where I'm funneling money through different avenues. Yeah, that is one of the things.

[June Diane Raphael]

And I just want to say, Paul, I just appreciate you taking total control of our finances.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank you, June. And I don't want you to look in. Don't look in there. Don't look in those bank accounts. Yes. No.

[June Diane Raphael]

And I work really hard and it's just nice to know, especially Grace and Frankie, since I 16 hour days nowadays. And it's so nice, you know, six years in, to know that you are such a responsible.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank you.

[June Diane Raphael]

Steward of that hard work. So thank you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I really appreciate that.

[Paul Scheer]

And. And my understanding is a lot of Velocity Pastor 2 takes place when the Velocity Pastor gets loose in the Jane Club.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Paul. Yeah, we're going to shoot a lot in the Jane Club. Jan, I'll talk to you about that offline thing. Yeah, that's great. You know, I will say. I will say one other thing too, that there is another spiritual sequel that he is making to like.

[Paul Scheer]

This man has created a spiritual because it's religious in theme as well.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's called Outback Dracula. Set in the 1880s in Australia. A psychic school teacher teams up with the world's greatest adventurer to save her girlfriend and defeat Dracula and his golden army of the undead.

[Paul Scheer]

This guy might be a genius.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think that there is a part of it there. Like when he was putting together the movie, he said he put the film in an oven and baked it at 200 degrees for 10 minutes to achieve the old aged look. And he also.

[June Diane Raphael]

What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, he took.

[Paul Scheer]

There's no way he didn't do that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He took the film into his windowless bathroom and ran it across different surfaces to physically scratch the film before developing it. So it had a look to.

[Paul Scheer]

Wait, wait. There's no way this guy shot on film.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, if they shot on film. I mean, you're right. As I'm reading that. Right Now I'm like, no way. This, they couldn't have shot it on film.

[Paul Scheer]

No, that would be so that would be prohibitively expensive.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Maybe they shot it on digital, transferred to film and then even screens that one. I don't know.

[Paul Scheer]

Nah, that would be crazy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So I mean this is it. The poster looks pretty great. I would read you five star reviews but they're all, they're all very much in on the joke. But I think it might be time for a second opinion.

[Paul Scheer]

The movie will was a piece of, yet this person recommends it. Tell me what is the message? Maybe that art is subjective. I need a second opinion.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank you John La this is a second opinion. That's a different opinion. We normally do five star reviews but these are I guess third opinions because, because these are one star reviews of people who just did not get it. And I think that is kind of the fun ones here where people are like, great, this is the worst movie I've ever seen. All the budget went into the creation of the poster, leaving nothing left for the script, costumes, special effects or acting. Think twice. No three times before viewing this stinker. One star written by Leigh Dunning or Bohefus writes, this is the worst movie I've ever watched. The COVID art leads you to believe that there will be a quality dinosaur with gore. And the price leads you to believe it will be a quality horror movie. Neither could be further from the truth. The acting, the story, the paper mache dinosaur are a very low quality, not indicative of the price. Is this supposed to be a parody? And then it goes. And if so, then why is the price and cover art so misleading? So this person really has an issue with the COVID art. And the title of the review is A third grader could make a better dinosaur. And then this one is just from Ricky. If I could give it zero stars I would because that's an hour of my life I can't get back. That is a one star review. I think if you're in the right mood, this movie is fun. But it also, you know, don't go into it thinking like, oh, you just stumbled upon a new, you know, Neil Breen film or, or Tommy Wiseau. This is, this is a person like us who enjoys those movies, who made this movie. I mean, Jason, June, what do you all think?

[Paul Scheer]

I agree with that. I think, I think you're on the money there. I don't think this is, I don't think this is the kind of bad movie that is somebody trying their best and accidentally came up with this. I think this is somebody intentionally using the tropes and the pitfalls of the bad movies that we've talked about, you know, in the past a lot. And I think, you know, Miami Connection or Bird Demic are great examples of this. This is somebody knowingly leaning into that as its own genre. Like, this is someone purposefully making a bad film and in some ways successfully. You know, like, there's a lot of this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

That I enjoyed watching. And not for nothing, the fact that it's 70 or whatever, 75 minutes long makes it tolerable. If it had gone on much longer, it would have worn out its welcome. Even at this length, it's a little too long. But no, I laughed a bunch there. There. Obviously smart people are making this. It's. It's terrible, but in a way that I found enjoyable.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I definitely. Hard laughs were had. Like, they got me. They got me in a way where I was like, oh, I didn't expect that. Like, one of my favorite scenes is at the end when he kills the bad guy and he rips his head off. And you think, oh, it looks so fake. It's like a mannequin head. But then he turns it to camera and it's even like it's aggressively a mannequin head. Like, it's.

[Paul Scheer]

It's just.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, like that.

[Paul Scheer]

It's. It's worse.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

It's like they never. They lean into things looking as bad as. And they also lean into. Just like that poor guy who's the lead actor has multiple scenes where they're just spraying him with blood for so much time.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's just covered in red. And it's like old school, like 1960s red blood. Like, before they figured out how.

[Paul Scheer]

It's Sriracha. It looks like he's covered in. Covered in Sriracha.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

June, what do you. What do you think? Would you recommend this movie? What are your final thoughts?

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, I think. I think, like you said, if you're in the right. If you're in the right frame of mind, if you're in the right size sauna bed, if you're in where it feels right, throw it on. If you're trapped.

[Paul Scheer]

If you're trapped in a sauna bed and you can't get the Sopranos nose.

[June Diane Raphael]

Then throw it on. If you, you know. And it is enjoyable. And yeah, I agree. I wish it was a little shorter, but I wish most of these movies were a little shorter.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, I. I enjoyed this a lot more than I enjoyed, say, Ultra Violet.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Or, you know, 100.

[Paul Scheer]

It was one of the movies we did a while, like, like those, those like terrible, like CG nonsense movies. I'm like, who cares? This at least is fun.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

100%. Yeah, I. I totally agree with you. This is better than most movies that we watch. It is even better than most movies that try to be bad. Like, I would rather watch this than Sharknado. I think that Sharknado is trying in a different way, but I enjoyed this more than that. So it's an unfair representation because it is a comedy. I think if you have to look at this movie as a comedy first, first and then. And I think you will enjoy it a little bit more in the.

[Paul Scheer]

In the vein of. I think Sharknado is a good reference point. I think the Money Plane, which we did recently is. Is also like, Is in on the joke a little bit.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, I.

[Paul Scheer]

A little bit, I think a little bit.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, I think. But I think that they're actually trying to make an action movie. Like this one is like. I think it's comedy first and playing it, you know, and then doing what it is second. I mean, and look, it worked. I think people want these movies. We want more birdemic. I think that Birdemic one to Birdemic two. This is the issue that I have with it. Birdemic 1 was beautiful because it was pure. Birdemic 2 is not as great because too many people are involved in it. Same way with Tommy Wiseau when he got to make his sitcom for Adult Swim. It's like, ah, you've interfered too much. You've messed up the magic sauce of this insane person. You know, but that's my two cents.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, I think the. And I hope they tackle this in Velocipaster 2, because I think, like, this movie concerns itself with a lot of religious stuff. You know, like at a certain point, the velocip pastor says that he doesn't believe in dinosaurs. I mean, you know, which is a wild statement. And then he goes and gets a book about dinosaurs, which is crazy. From the library, I'm assuming. I hope the second one delves deeper into that and really seeks to examine and unpack back how this man feels about the fact that he is living. When he turns into the Velociraptor, it's because he's hungry.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

And when he's hungry, he's hungry for the taste of human flesh. This is a cannibal. This is a. He might be a vigilante.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I want to get into that.

[Paul Scheer]

He might be rescuing the people that he loves. But at what cost? He's also, you know, he also rips out the older priest's eye and eats it. Like, what is this?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He could hurt Carol. And I want to explore that more. Avril Halley, one of our producers who picked this film, she brought up a very good point. She's like, I want you to notice that I don't know if it's intentional or not, but at the end of Miami Connection and at the end of this movie, they both share the same quote from Gandhi. Only through the elimination of violence can we achieve world peace. And to me, in Miami Connection, I believe that is honest. And here I feel like it's a joke, but I feel like that's the level of.

[Paul Scheer]

My guess is this person put it in as a nod to Miami connection.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I 100% agree. So that's, that's, that I would say it's on Amazon prime, so it doesn't cost you anything. You don't have to worry about these reviews that are really upset about how much it costs. So you can watch it for free on Amazon Prime. It is.

[Paul Scheer]

If you have Amazon Prime.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If you have Amazon prime, you're right. Exactly. And I think it's a fun watch. Like, it's 75 minutes. You could fast forward, you could have fun. And every one of these actors I want to just tip my hat to, to really solid work. June, anything to plug?

[June Diane Raphael]

No, just that of course, November is coming and I just encourage all of our listeners to find out if they're registered to vote and if they need to request their mail in ballot, absentee ballot, they can head to vote.org to see, to make sure they get it in time and to figure out exactly how to get their ballots in this November.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Jason?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Don't, don't, don't think because everything was fine the last time you voted, it's fine now. Like, look into it now to make sure your polling place is still your polling place. Make sure whatever it is, do your due diligence now so that you're not caught by surprise day of.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And if you're feeling any discomfort with the postal service at all, you can also drop off a ballot at a polling place where you can make sure that everything is correct and that it will not be rejected. So you could do a myriad of different things, whatever works for your lifestyle. But it's most important that you double check that you are ready to vote.

[June Diane Raphael]

And have a plan.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Have a plan and. But by the way, the last presidential election, my stepfather passed away right before the election and I was planning on voting in person, but I had to drive out to wherever I drove out to 40 minutes away from the house to get my ballot and put it in there. And I'm so happy that I did. There are ways to get. But you can't vote unless you are registered. And besides that, I just want to say that I'm also on the new CBS All Access show Lower Decks, which is kind of Star Trek cartoons. Not kind of. It is a Star Trek cartoon that's based in.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, I've heard it's great. There's a lot of people who are loving it. I've heard.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, it's, you know, it has a great cast of really funny people. And it is created by Mike McMahon, who has been behind Rick and Morty and Solar Opposite. He's worked alongside Justin Roiland for a long time. This is kind of his breakout show where he can embrace everything nerdy about Star Trek. It is very much a Star Trek show with comedy, not a comedy version of Star Trek, if that makes any sense. And I love it for that.

[Paul Scheer]

That's great. And I'll just throw out the Long Dumb Road is now on Netflix and Close Enough, the animated show on HBO Max, both of which I'm on, which are terrific.

[June Diane Raphael]

Can I just say one more thing about what you just said, Paul, about you can't vote unless you're registered? Yes, everyone should register to vote, but you can even find out more information because there are some states where you can do same day registration on election day. Thank you. You should just head to vote.org to find out all the information on where your county registrar is, if you're dropping it off, or where drop off locations are, or, you know, ideally mailing in your ballot ahead of time. But definitely just check out vote.org for all of the information on where you live.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I want to say one more thing too to add to the voting thing, which is take an interest in your local politics. There's so much going on on a local level and that's where you can really achieve a lot of change and a lot of people who've been in power who maybe need to be taken out of power in your local area. I know that June and I are involved literally in our own district in LA about that. You can go really localized. It's important, I think, to keep your eyes open, not just on the big ticket items, but also all the races that are going on. Just inform yourself before you get in there because there's a lot of big decisions happening. Yes, all right, well, if you want to talk about Velocipastor, you want to talk about TikTok, if you want to talk about any of these things that we have talked about, you could join us next week on the mini episode. Jason, I hope you can join me again. We could talk a little bit bit about what we've been up to. It's been a couple weeks off there, so give us a call at 619 Paul A S K619 Paul. Ask. I can talk to you about your life, your love, your jobs, whatever you want to do. And a big shout out and thank you to Nate Kiely for doing all the research here. Our producer Cody Fisher, Devin Bryant, our engineer Molly Reynolds, and July Diaz, everybody who works behind the scenes on this show over at Earwolf, we love you. Thank you so much. And tune in next week for how did this get made mini episode. Bye for now.

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

Throw in some music, we can watch the game.

[Paul Scheer]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

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