How Did This Get Made? - Last Looks: Communion [June Chat Edition]

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

June makes a rare Last Looks appearance to chat with Paul about their fave board games, snack organization, and an important life pro tip: ALWAYS have a deck of cards on you. Plus, Paul dives into corrections and omissions from Communion and announces next week's movie. Shop June's Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/junediane JUNE & PAUL'S BOARD GAME PICKS:Poetry for NeanderthalsDutch BlitzTicket to RideCinephileDisney VillainousMonopoly Go!Uno, Uno Dos, Harry Potter Uno, & Star Wars Uno We're coming to NYC on Nov 15th & Philly on Nov 16th! Go to hdtgm.com for ticket info, merch, and for more on bad movies.Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of TraumaFor extra content on Matinee Monday movies, visit Paul's YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheerTalk bad movies on the HDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerFollow Paul’s movie recs on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer/Check out new HDTGM movie merch over at teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmPaul and Rob Huebel stream live on Twitch every Thursday 8-10pm EST: www.twitch.tv/friendzoneLike good movies too? Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael: www.thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcastWhere to find Paul, June, & Jason:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on social mediaGet access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using the link: siriusxm.com/hdtgm.

Anal Probes, Why June Won't Play Monopoly Go, and we once again go into the world of M. Night Shyamalan. All this and more on a brand new How Did This get made? Trash can fires and chickens flatter Started out bad, now it's getting battered Jason's stinking Angelino Down at the lago is where I seen him How did this get made? Tall John's here and Jason's zoos Balcony monster's about to puke How did this get made? Hello all my little doctors. 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 Communion, a movie that Discord user Dove thinks could have been called Close Encounters of the Probed Hind. Dove. Very good. I like that. Thank you Dove for that alt title. Remember if you have an alt movie title or a tagline, submit it to us on our Discord and I might just read it on the show or I'll scroll until I find a better

one. So let that be a challenge to you. Step up, be a dove. All right, coming up on today's episode, we got so much to talk about. June Diane Rayfield will be joining me today to talk about board game storage and more. Look, I'm gonna give you some tips and tricks

in just a little bit. So if you got card games, you got board games, you're going to want to hear this, but more importantly, you're going to want to hear from June. Uh, we are also going to give you corrections and omissions on communion, a movie that I've visited the set on when I was a child. I detail it in my book, Joyful Recollections of Drama. So I know a lot about this movie. So you got to really get up early to get one over on me.

So I know a lot about this movie. So you got to really get up early to get one over on me. Plus we will talk about, or I should say, reveal the movie for next week's episode. But first, do you live in Philly? Do you live outside of Philly? Well, come to see us on November 16th at the Miller theater. That's right. How did this get made is back in Philly and we want you there. Theater. That's right. How did this get made is back in Philly and we want you there. So go to

HDTGM.com to get your tickets and My group with Jason. We do improv Jason Manzoukas myself Nicole Beyer Carl Tartt Rob Hubel Seth Morris so many great people Lisa Gilroy Phil Augusta Jackson. We all perform improv We perform under the moniker of moniker. We perform under the name Dinosaur and we will be in Boston and DC on November 20th and November 22nd. Our Brooklyn shows are already sold out. So you can come see us in Boston and DC. Every night is a different show.

And what a cast, what a fun time. All right, people, let's get into it. All right. Last week we talked at length about communion. Well, we had questions and we might have even missed a few things. Although I doubt it. Here is your chance to set us straight. Fact check us if you will.

It is now time for that amazing theme song. Let's go to the Discord. Mitch Cappa. Oh my god am I just getting this right now for the very first time that you are Mitch Cappa from the movie Old? I love it. Per the flashback to Young Whitley, it seems like the aliens have been around for a minimum of 35 years and presumably have been abducting people

throughout that entire time. Are they learning anything new from the anal probe thing at this point? Well, Mitch, chunk style. That's not for us to figure out. Maybe they're just, maybe that's how they clone people. Maybe they need something from up in the butt. We don't know. We don't know what that probe does. Could be getting DNA. Could be analyzing things. Could be for a human farm on a different planet. Mitch, don't question the probe. Anyway, let's move away from probing and get to Danny the wall who writes,

So the bit with Whitley smelling the creature is an improv. In the original book, it's an important detail for Whitley who writes about how he felt panicked when they were examining him. And they asked, what can we do to make you feel more comfortable? And he replied, he wanted to smell them. The scent was like wet cardboard and cinnamon and became a touchstone for his memories later and something that was likely meant to ground his experience. Well, Danny, I appreciate that.

And by the way, wow. But I think what we were saying was Chris walking kind of just improvised around that idea because those doctors weren't saying like, Hey, how can we help you? He just started to smell. But yes, interesting. So I guess when Whitley wanted to go back to that time, he'd wet down some cardboard and sprinkle some cinnamon on it. Well, there you go. Let's go to the phones. Hi Paul, this is Ruben in Pacifica, California, and I am calling about your meeting with Christopher Walken on the set of Communion.

Now, famously, Christopher Walken and his wife have been married forever, but they do not have children. And in the movie communion, Christopher Walken really leans into the sort of the dad aspects of his character. And I wonder, do you think that he wanted to meet you as a small child in order to inform him about what his character may be like when he is in the presence of a child. Food for thought and yet another

way that Paul Scheer has made the movie communion a little deeper of the show. Wow. Ruben, you might be right. Maybe I was the son. I would be better than that kid in that movie. Fuck that kid in that movie. Yeah, that's right. I gave him that juice. That father juice! That sounds weird and gross.

Okay, John from Massachusetts, what do you got? Hi, Paul. This is John. I was actually in the front row for the communion show, and it was a great night. I have a question about the movie. What are the logistics of his anal probing? Because the doctors approached not only from the front but at a weird angle and Christopher Walken is clearly sitting down. So just how did they get in there? Thanks. Again we can't ask questions about this probe, okay? You don't know, I don't know.

We're using our human brains. We gotta start using our doctor brains about this probe. Don't think of it so linearly. I mean, have we ever seen a probe that's attached to a wall like a vacuum cleaner? No, don't put your human logic on this. Don't wreck it, John, from Massachusetts. Come out to the Boston show when we do Dinosaur there. I want to make sure that we set you straight.

All right, Allison, what do you got? Hi, Paul. This is Allison calling in regard to the reunion episode that just came out. I had the pleasure, probably, of seeing Whitley Stryber present this movie live at IFC a few months ago and it was unhinged. This sad little old man rambled on for a very long time about the kids that are still in his head, the meetings he has had with the aliens since the movie, and just in general how unhappy he was with Watkins' performance because he felt that he did not take aliens seriously enough and that he would rather have had Stan Ackroyd playing the role. My take is I think the movie would be cataclysmically boring without Walken because this guy

was so up his own butt with the alien-ness of it all that at least Walken brought him like the movie. And he multiple times went off on how the pilot of Stood Up South Park ruined his life, made him go bankrupt, and forced him to sell more than one of his houses? I don't know. That's all, bye. All right, everything about that is absolutely amazing.

Oh my gosh, you know, Dan Akred would have been great in that role, but you're right, he probably would have played it too dry. We needed to have some life, some energy in there. And I mean, I still go on record saying that this is Christopher Walken's best performance of all time. It really is amazing. And I don't know how South Park made him lose a house,

but that's the type of person where I just listen and I shake my head, yes, I don't ask follow up questions. Um, but you know, Scott did want to point out that that episode of South Park, uh, is about Cartman getting an anal probe. So I guess anal probes weren't in vogue. Again, I don't want to get into the anal probes. All right, let's move away from it. Back to the discord.

Ghost bag writes two scenes in this film that disturbed me more than anything else. Number one, early in the film, Whitley starts typing "'on his Zenith computer before it craps out on him, "'he inexplicably licks his fingers. "'The idea of Whitley getting saliva all over his keyboard "'made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.'" And then, well, yeah, first of all, you're right. That is gross. And also, I mean, what, to make his fingers move quicker?

I mean, I don't think he was like wetting them down. I think it was like, you know, just a quick, you know, more of a, well, a lick is, he's not sucking on his fingers. Anyway, Ghostbag continues, in the cabin, the morning after the alien encounter, Whitley is placing pancakes on a plate by hand, not with a spatula, but by hand.

And the pancakes were obviously not hot or even warm because he's grabbing these things by the fistful and tossing them onto a serving plate, which he sets in the middle of the kitchen table. So, Whitley is serving his family and friends cold pancakes that got his finger licking hand all over it. Well, look, ghost bag, I think this is gonna go back to our friend Ruben, who, you know, I think brings up the biggest part.

Walken is not living that dad life. He's not living in the world that we know. So we can't expect him to understand how pancakes work. But I did notice that pancake scene because it's so bizarre. I get making pancakes for the table, but, uh, blah, blah. All right. So many great corrections and omissions this week, but I have to say the one that really nailed it for me was the person who made me look at this movie in an entirely different light.

A movie that I guess now I feel solely responsible for. That's right, this week's winner is Ruben from Pacifica, California. Ruben, you get this theme. But let me tell you this I've got Moonshine Silverly Brown That's right. Nothing else. Just that theme from John Steele. Thank you, John Steele, for that song. And now everything comes together. By the way, my book might still be on sale right now. It was on a major sale for Amazon Prime Day. It's 99 cents for the Audible book. Holy moly. Anyway, so now you can see how everything ties together. I am this movie. This movie is me and you can be a part of this episode. If you send us your songs to how did this get made at earwolf.com, we are accepting songs for corrections and omissions,

just chat and winner theme songs. So please remember, if you're going to record a song, keep it 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 slash HDTGM or call us at 619-P-A-U-L-A-S-K All right coming up after the break June is going to stop by for just chat And then I will announce next week's big movie. All right, we'll be right back I will announce next week's big movie. All right, we'll be right back. How did this get made?

How did this get made? People, hope you're checking out Matinee Monday. Every Monday we are re-releasing an old How Did This Get Made episode. We're taking it out of the vault, putting it back into the stream. And this week's was one of my favorites, Van Helsing with Seth Rogen,

Ricky Lindholm and Ben Blacker. Next week we will continue our spooky re-releases with the 2007 Lindsay Lohan horror movie, I Know Who Killed Me with the great Ken Marino. So keep on checking out all of our replays of our classic episodes every Monday. And without any further ado, it is time for a very special June edition of Just Chat. John Astonish, do your thing. Jason and Paul, Just Chat. June and Paul, Just Chat.

Tall John Sheer, Just Chat. How did this get made? Last look, Just Chat. June, welcome to a Just Chat. Always a pleasure to sit down with you here on a mini episode. You know, I'm happy to be here and I just was thinking about the name,

Just Chat, it's just chat. It implies that on other podcast, like shows, other mediums that you're doing more than just chatting. Well, this is- What else could you be doing? Well, but chatting is just- Are podcasts all chat? But maybe there's a premise around that chatting, right?

Like obviously, how did this get made? We're chatting about a bad movie. You know, a lot of interview shows, We're chatting about a bad movie, you know, a lot of interview shows, they're chatting about someone's career or something, and it goes off on tangents. We're saying this is full tangent. This is just, just chat.

Sounds like the deep dive. Well, we've been doing it longer, so. Now, now, now, speaking of which, can you tell people what has been going on with the deep dive? Because I have been loving being, first of all, a member.

I mean, I'm also, am I essentially a staff member of deep dive? Yeah, well, the deep dive, of course, has we have our own, you know, auxiliary sort of premium content over at the deep dive academy so that the podcast exists and and is always there for consumption. But then for for for people who just need more, they head to the Deep Drive Academy and they can become students. And you are one of our, our valued faculty and published author and

professor emeritus. I am so many classes there. Very happy to teach classes there. I love everything that you're doing. And I also love, is it Friday at three o'clock when you go live? Yes, but we're actually going live today. Sometimes that that schedule changes a little bit, but we always update it. Okay. Yeah.

So, so you've taught, I was actually thinking the other day, Paul was like, Oh, I need to, of course talk about just chat. So Paul, you taught a class on snack organization and you revealed our snack closet. At a point when I wasn't even fully prepared to like, I mean, that was upsetting to you. Yeah. But, you know, I, for the listeners of just Chad had this gamedo, don't know this. I completely seeded the kitchen organization over to Paul. People were stunned by that when we moved into our new house

that I didn't have anything to do with the kitchen and where things were. The kitchen is not my domain, even though I cook more than you do, but I let you completely set it up. Now, snacks you have categorized into sweet, salty, Now, snacks you have categorized into sweet, salty? No, I don't wanna be, I wanna get into all the- There's a whole grab and go section of just like,

you're a kid, it's eye line, just grab and go. Like don't talk to us about it. There's a chip shelf, there's a cereal shelf, there's also a chocolate. Interesting that cereal's in snacks. Well, where else could they be? It's our pantry. You know, it's like, you know, but again, that's our go-to snacks.

Our, you know, look, there's pasta in the pantry. I mean, there are snacks in there, but I'm just talking about like, these are the things. Right, I guess it's not a closet devoted to snacks, but the snacks section is very beautifully organized. And people wanna talk about it. Well, I thought, yeah. I thought that you were gonna maybe invite me on

to talk about my board game organization. I was, that's where I was going, was there's something else has been organized here in our home. Yeah. And I am actually hosting a game night tomorrow night. I love playing cards. I love, I'm learning tomorrow how to play Mahjong for the first time.

Oh wow. At 5 p.m. That's a very important time. So I am using the game closet quite a bit and it is in my office. It's more to two cabinets really, but you have found a new system. That's an absolute game changer. The idea is games are bulky and especially, especially card games. You can fit the cards in the box

whenever you're manufacturing that box and those cards for sale. But once you play with those cards, very rarely do they fit back in the box. It's not like a deck of playing cards, which always fit in the box, but the box will get a tear. Uno cards, tricky to get back in the box once you start,

you know, to get a little bit more, you know, you're shuffling, you know? Especially with the instruction packet, yeah. So I have developed a system. Can I ask a question, actually? Sure, go ahead. I wanna, I know this is your show, but I wanna. No, this is our show.

How did you make this our show? I forget sometimes. As I always say, I'm there without my own consent. Yes. You know, I'm there without my own consent. Yes. You know, I'm not always a willing participant. I got you. But what happened, because it was getting pretty unruly, but what happened that you thought I'm going to find a better way.

Now you are an innovator. You always have been. You and I created podcasting. Yes, as I always say, as a medium. Don't look it up. Don't fact check us. Don't, no one worry about it. Just accepting. Yes. As I always say, as a medium. Don't look it up. Don't fact check us. Don't, no one worry about it. Just accept that.

Yes. We created podcasting. You've been thinking you were ahead of Twitch before anyone. You're always at the forefront, always a beat ahead. So I'm just curious, cause for, for me, I saw those two cabinets and I just thought, well, this is life. This is life. Where I'm always gonna be stuffing games in there.

It's always gonna be a nightmare to open up that cabinet. This is what it is, you know, they say in Buddhism, like you have to accept the struggle. And I accepted the struggle and thought that this is just what life has in store for me. What made you think that it could be different? I'm always fine tuning. I'm always trying to figure out how to streamline things.

I'm a big declutterer. I like, you know me, I like to hire, and I do it often, a dump truck to come to the house and I have them load up that dump truck. And we're, we're right on the verge of another dump truck, uh, hiring because we have a palette, we have a mattress, a lot of things. Um, what you don't know about me is when you leave town, when you go away for more than one day, one night, it gives me total carte blanche to get into the nooks and crannies and try to

figure something out because the way that I deal with things is I have to sometimes get it all out, see what I'm working with and then put it back in. So it normally will take me about, I would say conservatively about a day and a half to do a full, you know, a full rebuild. And can I ask, were you even in that closet very often? That these, the game cabinets very often? Yeah, whenever I wanted to go get card games or do anything, we go on trips or vacations.

I'll tell you what, the reason why, I mean, I was inspired to fix the cabinet was, we went away on vacation. We bring card games to play with our kids. Always, you gotta have cards. Always have, by the way, always have a deck of cards. I just wanna say, cause I wanna hear the rest of this, babe.

But just so you know, when I took our son to a soccer tournament in San Diego, I took the train, the express, and I sat in a group of four seats. And next to me, there were two lovely young women, probably in their late 20s, early 30s, who were just chatting the whole time, sitting across from each other. And they said, God, it would be so fun. I wish we had a deck of cards. And I, I had to say, I didn't want to interrupt, but I said, I'm so sorry. I have, it would be my greatest pleasure. I handed them a deck of cards. They handed them back before they got off. Always have a deck of cards at the ready. I am right with you.

And what I find though, especially with kids, when we're bringing a deck of cards out, we're losing cards, we're shoving cards back in, a thing of cards are going in a person. I was like, there must be a better way to carry an open deck of Uno cards, to carry apples to apples to apples to apples to apples to apples to apples to apples. we're losing cards, we're shoving cards back in, a thing of cards are going in a person. I was like, there must be a better way to carry an open deck of Uno cards,

to carry apples to apples, to carry a game. We like the play called Dutch Flicks. Because lots of times we're bringing them to dinner, to establishments. Yeah, and so I started looking online and I found, because I had this idea that, oh, well, the kids collect basketball cards. And I was like, what if we put regular cards in this, like kind of same system?

And then I found- Oh, I know this, okay. Yes, and then I found that they actually sell these like little boxes on Amazon, little plastic boxes. They also have one in a more travel-friendly size that is like a, that's kind of water repellent. But I was like, this would be great to bring our cards in this because it will stay closed.

We could always put them back in there. The kids can put it back in there. We're not gonna lose these. of water repellent. But I was like, this would be great to bring our cards in this because it will stay closed. We could always put them back in there. The kids can put it back in there. We're not going to lose these. It was really based on our trip. So that was my original intent. We have so many card games and also the card games come in boxes that are way bigger than the actual cards that are necessary. I was like, it's taking up so much space in this closet. Then in my card research, I found out there's actually these Tupperwares for board games that are like, they almost look like,

it's a- It's like a, if I may. Yeah. It's like if you were to take a regular folder, any kind of folder for papers and make it Tupperware. That's how thin, thin these are. You could put a monopoly in there, full game of monopoly in there.

You could put a full game, every game that has a board and pieces, whether it's that train game, I forget the name of it right now. Ticket to Ride. Ticket to Ride, right? It all fits in these little things. So now we have a section of our board game closet that's like 10 stacks of these like little folders

that are off to the side. And that would have, that's our whole- That was the whole closet. That was the whole, it was the whole thing. And not only that, but every time you opened it, like things were falling on top of you. It was like Uncle Buck. Yeah.

Uncle Buck. And. Uncle Buck. And a lot of times I would try to Tetris and every once in a while you would go in there and try to Tetris it to make it all fit. But now we got all the space in the world. And what I realized also is like we weren't grabbing the things that we needed. And it was hard to get certain things.

And then also there has to be a purging, a purging has to go on. It's like, you know, look yeah we've looked at this house. Well I had been sent a lot of board games too. I'm on you know because the wonderful makers of poetry for Neanderthal, great game, great game, wonderful makers of poetry Neanderthal had heard me talking on the deep dive about how much both Jessica and I love that game and so we actually played it on the deep dive about how much both Jessica and I love that game. And so we actually played it on the deep dive. And so they started sending me a lot of games.

Now they started sending me an overwhelming amount I can't even keep up with. No, there's been a, and there's a lot of dupes in there as well. You know, so, so, but I love- We had to get right with what we were actually playing. And I think we also have to like look at ourselves and go. What's realistic? Are we playing chess? We're never playing chess. And I think we also have to like look at ourselves and go. What's realistic?

Are we playing chess? We're never playing chess. And if we are gonna play chess, I'll buy another chess thing, right? Like there are certain things that have never been open. There's two games that I really wanna play with you, but you'll never wanna play them. So I have to find somebody else,

but Cinephile is a really fun game where it's like six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but you have a deck of playing cards instead. So you have to kind of build on your own hand with what you have. And there's a bunch of different games in there, which I think would be a lot of fun. But I really like it.

What can I have a different taste a little bit? Like I like playing your classic. I'm more of a meat and potatoes. I wanna play hearts. I wanna learn mahjong. I eventually wanna learn bridge. I'll probably save that for my fifties, but you like more sort of narrative and. I eventually want to learn bridge. I probably save that for my 50s, but

You like more sort of narrative and I have a bunch of aspirational games like a game called Disney villains Which I've heard is amazing, but I can't find anyone to play that with me because I'm sadistic I've ever heard by the way, I will play it with you Don't know say I can't find any you know what what it is? And this is where Rich Summer, you know, Rich Summer from Mad Men. He's been in a bunch of fantastic films and TV shows. Rich is a board game guy. And what was kind of amazing about Rich was, back in the day, Rich would come over,

or also even Tall John, a great guy, John Daly and- Of course. Yeah, Tall John. I thought for a second you meant Tall John, a great guy, John Daly and- Of course. Yeah, Tall John. I thought for a second you meant Tall John Shear. No, but look, sometimes people go, don't you mean John Schroeder? Anyway, I'm not, but Two Johns Don't Make a Right,

that's their podcast where they just drive around and never make a right turn. But they could explain a game to you. And I think that's the fun of game night. Like when you do a game night to introduce new games, you need someone who has played the game, who can walk you through it. That's why Sam Stone is coming over tomorrow at 5 p.m.

Okay, that's very exciting. So that kind of world is exciting to me. And I like that for those bigger board games that feel insane to do. But I will also say, what is great now is that YouTube is really taking over on that. So much so that I think exploding kittens,

they say, don't read these instructions, just go online and watch. Go on YouTube. Well, I actually, I learned how to play Spades from watching YouTube. And there's, I can't remember his name, but there's this one guy who does such great and they're funny YouTube tutorials.

And that was really helpful. Yeah, everything's on YouTube now, but if you remember playing Dutch Blitz, when we first learned how to play Dutch Blitz, I had to watch a lot of YouTube tutorials. Now I will say, and nobody else thinks this of me, but I believe, or at least they haven't said it, I am amazing at teaching people how to play a game.

You've seen me teach how many people play hearts? Many people. Now I'm gonna say this about you as a teacher. You are exceptionally good, but what I notice, and this has nothing to do about you, is you give out information on a need to know basis. And I think that's the actual right way to teach a game. But I see it happen time and time again, people don't want it on a need to know basis, but they do need it on a need to.

And that, and that is just ask them to trust the process. Right. And that's the thing that is they want to jump ahead. They want to just learn the first couple of. And so that's a lesson to everybody out there right now. How did this get me? How did this get me? So anyway, we've organized the game.

Well, you know, I do like, I do like, and by the way, so, so for our listeners, I do like to win. I don't like playing games that are, where you don't keep score or collaborative games. That really freaks me out. That's fucking crazy town and willy nilly where you don't keep score or collaborative games. That really freaks me out. That's fucking crazy town and willy nilly

and a lawless land that I don't wanna be a part of. That's spring break, that's chaos. That you specifically don't like apples to apples because apples to apples really plays upon a, yeah, plays upon a core concept that you, the winner is chosen at random with no true reasoning. No, thank you. No, thank you.

So that, yeah. But I will just wanna say that I am going to, is all of the, are all of the compartments that you bought, especially the slim ones available on Amazon, or did you have to go elsewhere? Yes, they're all available on Amazon. Okay, so I'm gonna link them, babe, to my Amazon storefront, which I haven't updated in a while.

But I will start a special page just for Paul's picks. Oh, wow, I get to get a part of the storefront. This is exciting. Yeah, and our listeners can head there. All right, I love that. It's also been thrilling to label them. Yes, oh, first of all, I got a Brother P Touch label maker, same day shipping, it was got a Brother P Touch label maker, same day shipping.

It was great. Brother P Touch. But can I just say something that you and I have struggled with the label makers? Yeah. Why don't they ever hold a charge? Well, but you know why that one didn't hold a charge. No.

You remember we had this whole conversation that the AAA batteries all were dead that Amazon sent. We got these AAA batteries and we were like, why is nothing holding a charge? And then I took out a battery tester because they do have a battery compartment. That was another class I taught on the Deep Dive Academy about organizing batteries.

And I'm gonna link that. I need a poll. I gotta link that one too, Ben. Well, you should definitely get in my, I'll show you my cereal boxes as well. But I took out my battery tester, which is often made fun of why we'd even have that there. And I tested these AAAs and none of them worked.

That's why nothing was holding a charge. We were putting in dead batteries that had like an inkling of a charge, like just like a smidge. So now once I- And I will say, I don't think that that was the fault of the Amazon batteries.

I think they were probably there for too long. Very long. Okay, great. Well, that's it. And you know what? You win some, you lose some, but we said those batteries there and because they had a surplus of them,

I was able to pull from the ones that were not dead. And we now have a working brother, P-Tush. All this to say. And it was so hard to realize like, oh, it was the batteries. It's like, at the end of the day, it was the batteries. I've already forgotten. Well, I mean, of course, but that's okay.

I was ready to blame the filmmakers again. June, we did succeed in just chatting. We just chatted. Yeah, and I just wanna make a really quick announcement. Something's been bothering me, and it's that Jason Manciukas has told me a number of times to play Monopoly Go. Yeah, I know you won't play it

and I have that sitting there waiting for it. And I don't, it's not that I won't play it. It's that I haven't, maybe we need him to teach us. No, Monopoly Go is like so easy and fun. I understand how to play it. I would love to play it with you. And it's, I think the boys would play it. It's just basically, it's like a,

it's taking Monopoly and making it into like a fun card game. Now the games that you and I have really been stuck on is a game that Rich, Rich did give us that I think one time we tried to learn, which was like a Jack the Ripper gin rummy game. No, we did learn it. I loved it. That was really fun. I'd go back to learn, which was like a Jack the Ripper gin rummy game. No, we did learn it. I loved it. That was really fun.

I'd go back to that. That was really fun. It's labeled in the closet, ready to go. That was really fun. I also really like Ticket to Ride. I do too, but I don't ever see you pulling that out. I know. Now look, people are probably thinking to myself,

oh, well, what about when I have like a big board game? Like, I'm not saying this is a solution for all board games. Like there's a couple of board games. No, there's some errant ones that are just in boxes still. Yes. But boy, did we save space. Oh, and actually it's organized because we can actually see all of our pieces.

And just so people are asking, I don't put my playing cards in those. I have a box that all the playing cards go in. Those are just playing cards. Like that's not Uno, that's not DOS, that's not Dutch Blitz, that's not Harry Potter Uno. We have a lot of Uno. Star Wars Uno.

Yeah, we're getting Uno all the time. It's all the same. But yet we've never been invited to Questlove. No, there's some differences in like the power cards. There are, we've never been invited to a Questlove party where he plays a lot of these games, Jenga, Uno, all this sort of stuff. Maybe we should have a competitive thing. We have our own game night.

Well, I do have my own game night. I don't know if you seem to be not recognizing that. I'm not really invited to it. That's why I don't, you know. You're not invited, but you do come down and you chat. I do some vids. You do some just chatting for a little bit. You always make yourself known and-

But I also let you be. Yeah, it's a ladies night. I think though that if you wanted to introduce Monopoly Go or if Jason wanted to introduce Monopoly Go, that's something I'd be open to. Because I host a lot of guest professors. Okay. You can come teach.

All right, well, I would love to bring a game into a game that one time. Okay, well, this has been so wonderful. And again, I'm gonna put all these links. I gotta do it right now on my storefront. I'll have a whole page for you. And we'll put some links here on the how did this get made as well.

But we wanna make sure that you get to June. Well, I guess, yeah. All right, all right, all right. June wants to get that sweet commission from her Amazon storefront. So Cody will link to June's Amazon storefront. That's okay. Listen, if you're going there anyway, might as well use my link.

Amen. I'm an influencer and associate. I've always wanted to set up one of those storefronts. I never got the patience to do it. It's literally made for you. I guess you're right. Maybe I'll do it. Maybe I'll do it. Maybe I'll do it.

I'm not saying sales are coming in crazily, but like it's nice to have a mall about passive income. Look, we, you're my sister-in-law, your sister has created, and we found this out on the slide, a fake name and puts out a novelty t-shirts that we did not know about. And they are funny and she's producing a lot of them.

She's designing them and some work and some don't. And, uh, but it does make a difference because it's just, it's the numbers game. Yeah, that's right. So you gotta, yeah, we gotta be a little forward thinking about this, but our, our wrecks. All right. I like it. I like it, June.

Um, June, the best, I would love to do more of these with you. Always a pleasure. Make sure that you're listening to the Deep Dive. You can also sign up for the Deep Dive Academy and you can see June with me in New York and Philadelphia. New York is sold out, but we'll be in Philadelphia on November 16th. So we'll see you then.

And you also have some dinosaur shows coming up. I do indeed. I'm gonna talk about that plenty on this. They will know that if they're on the East Coast, they're gonna come see Dinosaur. All right, everybody, bye for now. Thank you, June, for stopping by Last Looks. Love when June pops by here to just chat.

So I'm gonna make sure it's just chat there. All right, so next week we will be going from Little Green Men to a serial killer's den. That's right, we will be going from Little Green Men to a serial killer's den. That's right. We will be revisiting the world of M. Night Shyamalan for the fifth time as we watch what I think is a damn classic, his 2024 thriller Trap starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donahue, and Salika Shyamalan. I cannot wait. A breakdown of Trapp's plot, a father and daughter,

see a pop concert only to realize that they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event. Ooh, that's a nice vague way of setting it up. And I appreciate it. All right, Rotten Tomatoes gives this film a 57% score on Tomato Meter that is criminal. And A.A. Dowd for the Digital Trends website writes, this patently absurd thriller doesn't just strain credulity,

it strangles it, wraps it in plastic, and leaves it rotting in a dumpster. Oh, A.A. Dowd, you didn't get it. Anyway, listen to the trailer for Trap. This whole concert, it's a trap. Be aware of what we're dealing with. He's going to be charming, sympathetic to your nervous system. He'll be telling the truth. Somebody help me, please!

He's going to try to use chaos to get by us. What's going on, Dad? Trap. I'm in control. Only in theaters August 2nd. What's going on, Dad? Trap. I'm in control. Only in theaters August 2nd. Trap is available to rent right now on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube and Google

Play and will be available to stream on Macs starting October 25th. Separately, I encourage you all to check out Hoopla and Canopy and Libby, which are digital media services offered by your local public library, which will allow you to consume music, movies, TV and audiobooks for free. All right. That is all people. Thank you so much. If you listen on Apple podcasts or Spotify, please rate and review the show and then please make sure that you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on. It helps the show and we truly appreciate it. Visit us on social media at HDTGM and I wanna shout out the Action Jackson 5

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Trap!