Monkeybone LIVE! w/ Rob Huebel

24:40Jason Mantzoukas:Well, because he started drawing with his other hand. Oh, that's right. Right. Thank you. Now, is his other hand his dick? And is she fucking her patients? Yes, she's fucking her patients. Absolutely. Also, okay, so he's in a coma. Again, this is for kids. Maybe. Maybe it's for kids. He's in a coma. This is for kids whose parents have recently died. Yes. And they're just like living alone. This is for latchkey kids. Yes. Yeah, your parents still come home. That's right, latchkey kids. Where are you? Where are you, latchkey kids? Yeah, if your parents asked, what did you watch? You could just say, oh, this movie Monkey Bone.

25:23Right, they wouldn't ask a follow-up question. What's crazy is he's in a coma. Megan Mullally incredibly plays his callous sister who can't wait for him to die. Three months. And in a way that I was like, oh, when he dies, she must make money or she must be a reason she's so glib about him dying. The reason they give is because they saw a parent die and they agreed they'd never let each other suffer. But what's absolutely clear is that his brain activity is off the charts. he's in a coma yes but is he brain dead absolutely not in fact his brain waves are going double crazy as dr julie says well that's the plan is to is to make him have even more nightmares yes you

26:12Jason Mantzoukas:can shock him away but you wouldn't pull the plug on someone who is that much had that much brain well but that's why they gave it a nice time now i've been in a situation where the plug has been pulled on somebody. I won't get into that story. That's a different podcast. That's a different podcast. They don't schedule it. They're like, well, they're going to pull the plug tomorrow at 9 a.m. It's not spoken about. And you can't stop it. You cannot stop it. I just got an e-vite to a plug pull. It was such a funny thing. What am I supposed to bring? Weird thing to hang over. Like, oh, yeah. You only have until tomorrow morning at 9.

26:49Jason Mantzoukas:Then you did. I'll show you this one, alt clip four. But this is a scene that was edited out with Stu and his sister. Alt clip four. Here we go. Michaela, do you have that one? Alt clip four, his sister one? You can't find that one. Okay. Well, then we don't have it. Well, what was it? It was, because there was, well, there was a scene where Stu comes on to his sister. Wait, once he's monkey bone? When he's Stu or when he's monkey bone? He's monkey bone. Okay, so monkey bone comes on. Monkey bone is trying to fuck his sister. Yeah, that's okay. I mean, Monkeybone doesn't know any better. That's what he's born to do.

27:24Jason Mantzoukas:Yeah. So Monkeybone is a monkey. That's the other thing I was having an issue with. It is his id, but it's a full monkey. Like, he's hanging and swinging and wanting bananas. It's interesting what you're saying. And, yeah, because it's fuzzy. Because, yes, it is his boner. And, yes, it is all of the urges and all of the kind of animal instincts are contained in it. But it is a physical boner at times, or it seems to be. but he also has distinct monkey-like actions. He's literally hanging from things. Yes, he's swinging and hanging and go, whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo at times. And so he's also doing straight monkey stuff.

28:00Yeah. I would say he's doing Mr. Peeper's stuff. Yes. We'll get to that. Well, well, well. Mr. Peeper's. Yeah, indeed. I will say, and not for nothing, we could get to it now, Chris Kattan, late in the movie, late in... I mean... Comes in and single-handedly is electric. The physical comedy that he, the broken neck, all the broken neck stuff was killing me. Unbelievable. When he takes the yardstick, jams it down his back, the tape, and then spins around. Yes. All that's in one take. All in one take. Next level. Really elevated the third act of this, which was absolutely nuts.

28:49Jason Mantzoukas:No, but I guess what I'll say about it is we are led to believe that Stu is a boring, nothing burger. But when he's in the body of Chris Kattan, I got to say he's very inventive, very outgoing, and broad, equally like a monkey bone. Here's my question, though. When he's in Chris Kattan's body, he's somehow still able to execute all of the gymnastics abilities that Chris Kattan's human... Well, that was like... Because it's like, so is he sharing a brain? That's what I was wondering. And I was like, oh, I wish they'd explore this some more. Well, how did the gymnast die? The newspaper on the bus says the tragic death of famous gymnasts.

29:33But they don't explain how does he die. And I don't want to be mean. Oh, he must have broken his neck, right? Yes, he breaks his neck, but we don't know. Well, that happens to every gymnast. They all break their necks.

29:42Jason Mantzoukas:I don't want to be mean at all, but I will say this. Even in 2001, if a gymnast died, it's not getting front page of any paper. They would have to have done something insane. You just pissed off a lot of gymnasts. You're going to get so many emails. We're going to hear from the gymnasts in the fan base. because they also position him to be very famous, but yet he is taking public transport. I mean, people do notice him around. He's, I do have, I have issues with that second half, but I do, I do like it. There was a YouTube. Oh, you have issues? Oh, you have issues with some of the movie? Oh, wow.

30:20Just a couple things. Some of the choices they made, they didn't work for you? Now, Whoopi Goldberg's in this. Oh, yeah. Oh, the cast is wall-to-wall, next-level talent. Explain to me how that happens. Who read this? Well, this is it. I did a show with Megan Mullally. Megan Mullally is the funniest person on earth. So funny. It is a crime. It is a crime how underused she is. They don't give her anything. Bob Odenkirk.

30:58Jason Mantzoukas:Odenkirk also. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Thomas Hayden Church is in this. Whoopi Goldberg. Giancarlo Esposito. Rose McGowan. It is a murderer's row of people. All of the surgeons, Odenkirk and all that team is all people you know. And it's all in service of nonsense. I mean, and... But I do feel like Megan Mullally gets to be funny. The only person who does not get to be funny aggressively aggressively is Bridget Fonda. I feel like I love Bridget Fonda and I watch her in this movie. I'm like, wow, they really like whatever they did. It's like, I don't know what she is in any way whatsoever. I think they sold her.

31:38They said, do you want to kiss Chris Kattan and Brendan Frazier?

31:44Jason Mantzoukas:She was like, yeah, I felt like she was, I felt like Chris Kattan had to kind of force that kiss he did hold her face uh she wasn't leaning in for it yeah but chris katan also has a moment where he's like it's me i called you by our name i got my monkey here he's wrecking everything and she's like okay it's not him like wait what do you mean he just gave you like 10 context clues that it is him so much crazy and she's already had multiple experiences with monkey bone as stew that seem like it's not Stu. Right. So when a dead, when the reanimated corpse of a gymnast arrives with his head taped to a T-square, you might be like, now hang on.

32:28I'm going to listen to this. Stranger things have happened. I also fully expected, I couldn't figure out, I fully expected there to be a love story in the downtown between Stu and Rose McGowan's character, because I felt like they were trying to see that somehow. But you can't because he's in love. No, because we're meant to believe in true love between him and Julie.

32:50Jason Mantzoukas:But he's been there for three months, so maybe it dies. Yeah, and does time work the same there? Who knows? I mean, he grew a full beard in the bed. I mean, that was a good-looking beard. I mean, you can do that in a couple days. A good sneeze will get that much beard out. My favorite moment was Megan Mullally appearing through the window of the hospital. She was smoking. Yeah, she was smoking out there on the patio. But it is also just it felt to me like she's like, I want to do something interesting and funny and not be in this room. Because I didn't feel like that should be an option for her to be smoking in and out, like a patio, leaning in through a hospital.

33:29Jason Mantzoukas:You mean the hospital rooms don't have balconies? Yeah. When did... Okay. What was the movie we did? Cool World? Yes. Where Brad Pitt enters Cartoon World? But that was his cartoon world. Well, no. Brad Pitt was the cop. Will one of the nerds tell us what's going on? Gabriel Byrne. Gabriel Byrne's cartoons. He goes in. Brad Pitt was the cop trying to bust him in his own cartoon world, right? Okay. So Gabriel Byrne knows the world. What year was that roughly? Oh, okay. So that's fully. So, okay. Because this was giving me that vibes wise. Yes. Of like, oh, a person getting trapped in their cartoon.

34:09Jason Mantzoukas:This is everybody, every executive's like, I don't know why Roger Rabbit worked, but I think we can do it too. And then you go, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's in this movie. Oh, yeah, love it, love it. And he's a dick. Oh, yeah, love it, love it. Well, you know what's true about that? Is this movie, Monkeybone, is as horny as Roger Rabbit is in Roger Rabbit. And maybe that is the direct connection they're trying to make is those other movies didn't work because the animated character wasn't fucking horny enough. So what if the character was a dick? Literally an engorged, blood-filled penis. But as a monkey.

34:50I have a question, just to go back to Whoopi Goldberg for a second. God of death? Yes, the God of death. So Whoopi Goldberg at one point is approving these other grim reapers, you know, those guys. Well, the people in the white robes,

35:05Jason Mantzoukas:So Brendan Fraser should be in a white robe to be judged, right? No. No. They are like, I think what Rob is saying. They're like Grim Reapers. Oh, they're Grim Reapers. They go out. Remember, they arrive to give the old man his exit check or whatever. So he was going to dress up like that and escape. Okay, got it. So then they got busted and then somehow her head exploded and there were a bunch of interchangeable heads. Why are there extra heads? Why are they thinking that somehow in the future her head will get destroyed and we will need replicas that we can just install? Well, you should read my prequel script that is self-published.

35:49Jason Mantzoukas:But yeah, you should read it. It's good. I would love to. But she's also not the devil. That's the other thing about this movie. She's not damning people. She's like, oh, your time on Earth is over and that's it. Like, she's seemingly benevolent, right? I mean, like, she's not... Yeah, I think she's death. She's just sort of agnostic. She's like, your time is up, and you're just down here now, and these are the rules, basically. But yet, there is this purgatory where nothing is happening before you get to... Like, you don't do any trials or tribulations. You just wait until... You just seem to have...

36:21You seem to be able to hang out in a space that seems kind of like where you might buy supplies in a video game. Right. You know what I mean? It's the kind of weird town you stumble on in Fallout. And you're like, oh, everybody here is kind of a reanimated corpse. And I guess this is where I buy ammo. Like, that whole world, I was like, and what they failed to give us by only giving us downtown is, we don't understand any kind of hell or heaven we only know this this middle ground this nether

36:56Jason Mantzoukas:world and but then also in the nether world hypnos is there who is the sleep god who's the brother of whoopie goldberg yes okay yeah so sleep and death are closely related i like that as an idea well sleep is kind of a sleep is a bit of a death yeah that's so it's our nightly death i like that An orgasm is a little death. So monkey bone, wow. That all makes sense now. A poop is a birth. Big or little. Sometimes just watery. So then...

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39:29I have another quick question. Well, yeah, go for it. I don't want to jump around too much. You can jump around. Like House of Pain tells us. Jump around. Just jump up and get down. Jump, jump, jump. The sex scene between them. Yes. We got to talk about that. First of all, I feel like Bridget Fonda said, I'm not getting naked for this. You're not going to see any part. Thank God. So much so that she opened her robe and wrapped it around her. What a strange move that was. You're not going to see side boob. You're not going to see arm. You're not going to see anything.

40:10Jason Mantzoukas:I guarantee you that that wasn't even her body in the shower. Oh, yeah. I think that was a body double. When she wrapped the robe around, I was like, we are through the looking. That's the way my wife and I make love. Don't look at each other. Don't look at each other. this is also I feel like although now you tell me it's 2001 and I'm now going to go back on this because I feel like this was an era in which butts and butt stuff in terms of Ace Ventura's talking butt or in this one when he's like that's not how we shake on it in monkey land we rub butts there's a lot of like butt stuff you studied monkeys, is that true?

40:52they rub butts? they do, and you can rub their butts all you want We have one out in the lobby after the show If anyone's interested Just to drill down on this sex scene For a second I have no desire To see Brendan Fraser's body Or his ass Shaking in my face But you're not in love with him That's true Doc Julie is The sleep doctor But he is about to teabag her there's one angle there's one angle where you can tell Bridget Bond is like I fucking hate my agent so much yes she's down here I am giving up acting his ass is like right here and you can't that's not a fake thing that's him with his taint and balls like right here I couldn't figure this out at all like what did they did they think this is hilarious was it in the script or was Brendan Fraser like oh you know it would be funny if i started like bumping like like like up and down her like i would like it's like he's gonna teabag her or something in a way that i was like she should dump him now well that's

42:05Jason Mantzoukas:it i have a lot of issues with doc julie because doc julie everything could have been justified like you are still coming out of a coma just take it easy she she's like he's back home the same day he comes out of a coma he is eating cake with his hands and then he's teabagging her all of these feel like improvised moments. The eating the cake with the hands, all that stuff. Where did they get the footage of the monkeys having graphic sex that he's watching? They do that misdirect where you see her in the shower and you think he's looking at that. And then they cut to his POV and he's watching like doggy style sex, which I guess that is how monkeys don't do a missionary.

42:49Monkeys don't go like... Monkey style. That's the shirt. Yes. Wait, hold on. Did we come up with missionary sex? Well, because of the missionaries. Missionaries did. Yeah.

43:01Jason Mantzoukas:They brought it around from land to land. Yes. They take it from country to country, introducing heathens to the good Lord and missionaries' position. Yeah. Bad to the bone. But there is a moment in here. That's what the movie Silence is about. But.

43:25Jason Mantzoukas:but there's a moment here where i'm like he is having a dream chasing women in bikinis but he's watching monkey porn but he's also attracted to flabby arm school teachers well you're confusing monkey bone and his uh i think the thing on the golf course with uh when he runs into the sand trap on the golf course which also was a pretty cool stunt i couldn't figure out like how they did that practically. I agree. It looks great. That looked pretty cool. My guess is the sand is a visual effect. Oh, okay. He's just going down. I don't know though. My guess is it's all stop motion animation. Even Brendan Fraser.

44:10That quick sequence where he's fantasizing about chasing the women in lingerie on the golf course. Was that 2001 lingerie? That looked like 19 It was

44:23Jason Mantzoukas:We have a lingerie expert We travel with her every show Just in case we have a lingerie question We have Morgan of course Our Dungeons and Dragons expert We have our lingerie expert And I will say that she is just a 2001 lingerie expert So you can't Before or after 9-11 man yes i'm sure it changed dramatically oh after 9 11 everything all the lingerie changed but that like so you're right like so were you gonna say is that his dream or the monkey's i think that was uh his fantasy down in uh the underworld i think well because he but then he's talking to brendan frazier i believe as monkey because he goes in the day that's you but down here you're with me your monkey ass is mine right so i think that so i think that the hypnos the god of sleeps is is telling him like uh your your monkey ass belongs to me and and we're running out of nightmares we got to go get some more nightmare juice but isn't monkey bone hypnosis agent in the real isn't this their plan well but that's what he's saying he's saying me enough bad dreams, asshole.

45:47Jason Mantzoukas:Go put all the fart juice. Now I understand. I see, I see, I see. Not fart juice. Fart juice? Fart juice. That's a movie. We gotta pitch that movie. Do not steal that idea. Fart juice is gonna come out next summer. I felt like that whole farting toy thing came in so late. I was like, oh, give me the farting toy thing way earlier. Make that the plan. Why does he have to put, hey, so much of it in the butts? but also it's like it seems like that vial of nightmare juice is only going to affect a handful of people oh yeah well no but i mean they're they're giving it the toys are going to go to everyone oh you mean just but i mean yeah so say all right so they do a thousand people is that enough nightmares to fuel all the underworld that's a this is a great question and i'd love to spend the rest of the episode just drilling down on the the metrics of how much nightmare juice per capita can give enough nightmare return to fuel downtown's energy needs because this is a renewable resource here's all i need to stop using fossil fuels and power our cars off of nightmares i want to see more of a jack nicholson batman moment where he's like oh we got the new parade float, the monkey bone parade float, and he's going to douse the whole city with nightmare juice.

47:13Jason Mantzoukas:But it seems like you have to have a lot of nightmare juice, because then Dave Foley, also a very funny person, in this movie. Back when actors could get away with Purpleface. Oh. Man, talk about a moment at the end. A girl closer there, where he pops up. They put a lot of pressure on that line, too. But I want to drill down real quick on when he goes to the sleep institute to break in to steal the nightmare juice. He does fuck that monkey. There's an orangutan. He does fuck that monkey. That's not a monkey. That's an orangutan. Orangutan. Tan. In a cage. I don't know why he's in a cage. I guess he's part of the sleep study.

47:53I guess, yes. He's part of the nightmare. That he, Brendan Fraser, kisses. Yep.

47:58Jason Mantzoukas:Or more. And then the orangutan rips off his fucking pants. Yes. Yes, because the orangutan wants it to go farther. Because I think the orangutan understands that there's a monkey in here. The same way that the dog understands that's not him in there. Like, I think all the animals know what's going on. So the orangutan is like, I'm going to fuck you. Yeah. Because... I feel like that was edited out. I feel like the monkey... Sorry, the orangutan did fuck him. Yes, 100%. In the prison cell probably for, you know, atmosphere. And then they edited the - Wait, the prison cell in downtown? No. I'm just - Oh, you mean in the lab?

48:41Yeah, in the sleep lab. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

48:42Jason Mantzoukas:So wait, and when they're in the - When you just said prison downtown, and we remember Stephen King. So Stephen King, Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden, they're all there. Attila the Hun. Attila the Hun. So they're just - Are they just being sucked for nightmares? Yes, because he says - Stephen King says, isn't it, that Cujo is inhabiting his body on Earth? Earth. Yeah, Cujo took his exit pass. Yes, Cujo took his exit pass. So I guess... So Cujo is his monkey bone? So yes, I think Cujo is his monkey bone, which means anything after 2001, any Stephen King book after 2001 is written by a dog? I mean, what are we talking about here?

49:21And Cujo is up there fucking people. Yes. With Cujo's dick. Wait, did Cujo get hit by the van? Have people forgotten that Stephen King was hit by a van? Is this a story nobody remembers? Well, he was chasing after the van.

49:38Jason Mantzoukas:Wait, refresh my memory. Stephen King was chasing after a van. As Cujo's dog? No, he was... Stephen King was walking on the side of the road and he got hit by a car. That happened... Recently? No, no. A while ago. My favorite story about Stephen King, and this came out recently, is that he got addicted to Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5. Addicted? What do you mean addicted? He couldn't stop playing it, and his wife told him, if you play it one more time, I will divorce you. Oh, wow. Does that feel a little bit of Monica? Do we have the rights to that? And he is divorced.

50:27Jason Mantzoukas:wait so then i guess my question is if cujo is up here then is jack the ripper's like monkey bone also up here and who is that who is jack the ripper's oh oh it's rob who is who's lizzie borden's monkey bone the axe patilla the huns we don't know yeah no so some monkey bones can be violent some monkey bones i wish i knew the rules the movie would have been the movie is so close to enjoyable in a lot of ways if simply the rules had been made more clear so I understood what the entire fuck was going on because without that I kept being like, I kept rewinding to be like did I miss important plot points?

51:12I think this movie is for kids that take mushrooms. I really do.

51:19Jason Mantzoukas:So all kids. I will say this, Henry Selleck found in love with dark town comic book this is the source material because this is a book that henry selk really wanted to adapt and he wrote to the author he said i never felt any project was closer to my sensibilities than this one and his initial intention was to stay true to the material but as the project developed it evolved into monkey bone that's the quote when was he fired in the process like was he seemingly late we're gonna get some more details okay about this a little bit because i had a question um there's there's a sequence um where the basset hound dog that they share or i forgot his name but um stew takes the purple sludge and gives it to the basset hound and puts him to sleep and what kind of nightmare they cut to the dog's dream yeah and it's so fucked up because the dog has huge balls and he's laying prone and they pull back and there's a giant scissors.

52:24Like, he's having this nightmare. Because dogs get snipped. Yeah. But they had to shoot that. Yeah. They had to anesthetize a basset hound with huge... Let's be clear. That basset hound for sure died during this production. that is absolutely clear

52:47Jason Mantzoukas:let me go out to the crowd because I think that there might be some people out here who have some questions we may have some answers hi what's your name, what's your question? Emily, so I know you guys like to talk to people who are kind of experts in certain areas I've been in a coma oh congratulations Emily has Emily, who did you meet in your coma? Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck are you in it right now? Are we all characters in your coma dream? Is this her monkey bone or is this Emily? All right, so what would you like to share? I just want to say that, Jason, this is a Jacob's Ladder scenario.

53:29Because at a certain point when Brendan Fraser wakes up from the coma or monkey bone, his breathing tube pops out. That breathing tube would be connected to a ventilator. so there was no ventilator breathing for him if there was and the tube came but they've unplugged the ventilator well they didn't unplug it they snipped it so so it has to be removed by a medical professional because if if you wake up and it's in your body you're trying to breathe and it's

54:02Jason Mantzoukas:trying to breathe for you you would die in seconds so what really are we really having that react Yeah, okay, sure. Well, can we hear a little bit more about your coma? If it's funny. If it's funny. Keep it light. Keep it light. Don't bum us out. Just out of curiosity, how long? A few weeks. Okay. And did you go in any, was there any rollercoaster imagery, any Joe Camel imagery? There was a lot of imagery for sure. I can't, as someone who's never had a boner, I can't. It's okay. It's okay. I cannot confirm whether or not I would have had a monkey bone. I did not. No. All right. I like it. Thank you so much for your expertise.

54:54Incredible. Three weeks. Three weeks. Wow. That was... See, that's a great one, New York. One of the best. What a great... Give it up for Emily. What a great vacation. Welcome back. Well, she didn't just get out of the coma. I don't know. I assumed you woke up to come to the show. Your brain knew you had tickets.

55:19Jason Mantzoukas:She said at 5 p.m. she got out of the coma. She's camera. Yeah, hi. Jen. Jen, what's your question? So you've shown some alternate clips of there's different cuts. Do you think in that alternate version, there's a more nefarious version of Julie where she kind of tricks Stu into like a Stockholm Syndrome version of the relationship because she very clearly has no problem manipulating his subconscious. Okay. Because... Do you mean manipulating him with the nightmare juice? Yes. When he's in the coma? You think she's an unethical doctor and that like... She's feeding her... Are you reporting her?

56:01Jason Mantzoukas:Are you trying to get her license stripped? This whole thing has been just to get this on. It's on tape. Let's go. Walls fall down. I will say all the doctors in this movie behave irresponsibly. It was very unethical. And I have a master's in marriage and family counseling. So, like, I have to, like, feel like, oh, that's very unethical how you're behaving. You don't have to do it here. Now, here's my question. Does everyone in the audience? Here's my question for you. My question for you is if you were faced with the imminent death of your partner or behaving unethically in order to save them, what would you choose?

56:37She just looked at her partner. She just looked at her partner and said, bye-bye. Well, like, I'm not his doctor. She isn't either. She was. She was his sleep doctor. Only sleep doctor. Does that count?

56:54Jason Mantzoukas:A sleep study. A sleep study. It feels like she was getting college credit for that. I don't know. She didn't even have the authority to stop Megan Mullally from pulling the plug. Pulling the plug on someone who has so much active brain going on that to pull the plug is murder. Like, I mean, when was Terry Shivo? Was that before this? Jason. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on. Jason. I walked out the door for one second. Whoa, whoa, whoa, no. Here's what's happening. Jason's branding about Terry Shivo. I am not going to hear you guys ham and haw over me mentioning Terry Shivo when you barely reacted to multiple 9-11 jokes.

57:43You guys got to decide. What are your levels? The balcony gets at their assholes. It's all the Richie Richies over here that are clutching their pearls. Terry Shivo. That's a home run reference.

58:04Jason Mantzoukas:Assholes. What do you got? She's dressed as Rose McGowan. Oh, nice. Fantastic movie, but also, whoa. Hi, my name is Sajita. My friends here are huge fans of your podcast, so thank you so much. But not you. But not you. Now that's interesting. You're wearing a costume. question why do we hate doctors so much on this show why do we hate doctors so much on this show i feel like i've just struck out twice with questions here i apologize to um the the i will say as paul makes his way up into the balcony get ready um some of the that the third act which which the Catan stuff is inclusive of, some of the funniest shit was the surgeons in full surgical gear chasing the reanimated corpse through the hospital into the parking lot.

59:06They load into a Suburban. They do a car chase. Catan's organs are falling from the sky onto a barbecue. The kid plays football with it. Kids are playing football with a lung.

59:23Jason Mantzoukas:Paul's in the... I'm in the balcony. In the balcony. That's the kind of reception. Welcome, yes, Balcony Monsters. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes, yes. All right. I'll come to the person I'm closest to right now. Okay, what's your name? What's your question? Hi, Ashley. So I did a little bit of research. Apparently, Ben Stiller was originally signed on to play the main character. That's what we heard. Ultimately, Chris Kattan, Brendan Fraser were a great combination of people. Would Chris Kattan and Ben Stiller have been that great, or would they have gone for a different actor to play the person Ben Stiller jumped into as the generalist?

59:59Jason Mantzoukas:My guess is that Kattan... The voice. Wait, what? Ben Stiller was going to be John Turturro. Oh! I thought he was going to be Brendan Fraser. Are you sure, Paul? Are you sure? From what I... We're going to get some more... I'm here... Wait, let's... Let's answer this question. It's a good question. Hold on one second, Paul. There's somebody right there. What was? What was supposed to be Ben Siller? Ben Stiller's character, no. No. I heard someone say Ben Stiller is supposed to play Brendan Fraser's character, and then I heard, no. I saw that you have notes. I want to see what your notes are. So what do you got?

1:00:42Was anybody here else in a coma? Yes.

1:00:48Jason Mantzoukas:What? Hold on. Hold on. From now on, only people in comas. By the way, Paul, there's another coma over here. Oh, and I was right by her. I'm so sorry. We're only talking to coma people tonight. You have to currently be in a coma. All right. Hi. Hi, Paul. I was in a coma. I'm not trying to. It's not a competition, but it was exactly four weeks. How many weeks? Four weeks. Four weeks? Well, he's better. Is it true what they said? After three months, it goes downhill. No, it was four weeks. I was having this DMT dream where I was in an MCS or house. You'd open a door, and then you'd be looking. Instead of looking like this, you'd be looking down at people on a couch playing video games.

1:01:40And then you'd go in another room, but it was this real crazy maze. And the end of that was I was running away because I thought they were trying to cut my dick off.

1:01:50Jason Mantzoukas:Wow. monkey bone that's a fucking monkey bone it's a real thing like it's in Richard Hammond's autobiography after he had his like racing accident and it's a real thing and I'm pretty sure I was having that when they were trying to put the catheter in and I was trying to like protect myself that's what the dog was also doing the dog was worried about the one other thing I wanted to say is that I grew up next door to Liz Livingston who is the creator of Drop Dead Fred. Oh, whoa. Carrie, in the original script, Carrie Fisher's character was named after my mother, but the studio thought that Martha was a lame, like, old lady name.

1:02:36So Carlos changed it to Janie, which was the girl he was dating at the time. But if you hear, when Fred hits her, when he hits her papers down and she's, like, in her office, her boss yells, Miss Chagru.

1:02:49Jason Mantzoukas:That's your mom. Wow. Wow. Wait a minute. Wait. I have one. Incredible. Incredible. Well, now we got to ask you. Incredible. I have a question. Team Fred. Yes. Is Team Sanity. Yes. That's it. Team Fred. They're the same thing. It's a short story. There's a woman my age who's an amazing artist. Her name is Liz Livingston. when her sister was born, all of these mischievous things started happening. And when her mom confronted her, she said, it wasn't me, it was dead Fred. So her mother, who's a writer and used to edit for Reader's Digest, wrote a short story about this evil character, and it's called Drop Dead Fred.

1:03:34Her friend, Carlos Davies, said, this is brilliant, wrote the script, they made the movie, there was going to be a second one, and it just, the whole thing petered out because the person they got to play Fred wanted to rewrite the script. Can I ask a question? If we had not asked who else was in a coma, would we have heard none of this? That's what I'm like living in that. This is essential information. Do you want to come sit down here? We need more people like you down here. One more coma. One more coma person.

1:04:09Jason Mantzoukas:I'm going to come back to the person I was almost, But now you're up against the wall because that person really delivered. Your coma better have been in a coma for five or more weeks. Now you stood up with a coma. You were in a coma. Oh, she'll put her in a coma. Please don't stand so close to the edge. Yeah, that guy's shooting your reaction for me. Please don't stand so close to the edge. Okay. Oh, sorry. My name's Jess. Long Island trash. We spent a lot of time talking about medical malpractice, but I feel like we really missed the fact that there was organ trafficking happening. Yes. Because they were talking about money and you cannot sell organs in the United States and they were really invested.

1:04:50Jason Mantzoukas:They were like, this will get my Mercedes. Yeah. So I feel like the real enemy was capitalism. And that's why we hate doctors. Yes. Yes. That's why we hate doctors. Unethical doctors. I do I mentioned that we have another special guest here tonight Is it Naked Dave Foley? No We didn't talk about Dave Foley's naked body You want to talk about it? What? You want to talk about it? He had a very cute bottom I'm surprised that he did that

1:05:30Jason Mantzoukas:Well, there is one person here One person here who knows a lot about this movie He is a fan of this movie. You might know him from roles in such TV shows as The Tick, but also as the co-host of the Blank Check podcast. Griffin Newman is here. Where is he, though? He's already downstairs. There he is. Oh, where is he? Oh, there he is. Here we go. Take my chair. I got three things to say right off the bat. Give it up for Griffin Newman!

1:06:04I brought my two copies of Monkeybone DVD and Blu-ray because I need the high def picture quality but this doesn't have special features holy shit and as we saw tonight the only way to see the deleted scenes from Monkeybone reliably is to have the disc this is chilling that you have hard media physical media two of Monkey Bone is like very uncomfortable for me. We recorded a three and a half hour podcast with you guys today. Yes. Coming up. You guys went, oh, you like Monkey Bone. Do you want to come on at the end and do a defense? Yeah. I said yes. I ran home. I picked up the two copies. I came straight here.

1:06:50I love it. By the way, thank you. I needed people to know.

1:06:53Jason Mantzoukas:So this is a movie that you that was a salve to you as a child. Like, this made it good. It made things make sense. And what are those things? When you say it made things make sense, like what? Like puberty? I get it. This is a comedy show, and you guys all just gave it a spin this morning. You gave it one watch, right? And you're sort of visitors, you're dilettantes to the world of monkey bones. We're tourists. You're tourists. And so I don't mean to just fact check, but there are a couple things you got wrong that I want to just quickly correct. Please. Yeah. Also, crucial question Have you been in a coma?

1:07:32I have not There is one more coma guy over there That we didn't get to We don't call them coma guys

1:07:41Jason Mantzoukas:Coma man Coma people Comies Jameses They'll have their day in court You're indicted Just quick little speed round fact check Number one, Monkeybone is good Okay. Number two, monkey bone is normal. Okay. Number three, monkey bone makes sense. I feel like that's pretty... Wow. Are you saying the movie or monkey bone the character? Both. Wow. All three statements apply in both directions. There are a lot of misreads here. No, I want you to... Yeah, hit us with... I want to get to the answer of the Ben Stiller thing. Was Ben Stiller supposed to be Brendan Fraser? Ben Stiller was supposed to be Brendan Fraser.

1:08:22Okay. He dropped out pretty late. Okay. He makes more sense as an angry Gen X cartoonist, I would argue. Yes. Here's what I'll say to the guy that said, no. Earlier, you're a fucking moron. Get out of here.

1:08:39It was absolutely Ben Stiller. Okay. And Fraser didn't want to get pigeonholed into post-Mummy Action Hero. And he was like, I want to be loose. I don't want to be taken seriously. Pushed hard for this role. Paul Rubens was supposed to be the voice of Monkeybone. Whoa. A man who knows something about boners and places they shouldn't be. Edit that out. Edit that out. And may his memory be a blessing. I think the studio would not approve of that. Okay. But I believe he did do Sessions. Wow. And was replaced. Stiller and Paul Rubens from Mystery Men, which had already come out by the way. No, right?

1:09:18This was the movie that he did Mystery Men instead of this. Correct. I'm sorry. This was mostly shot in 1999 and sat on a shelf. Is that before or after 9-11? Way before. Good amount before. And this is also a thought experiment I've been working on. I've been trying really hard to drill into the canon of movies to me that feel distinctly post-Y2K but pre-9-11.

1:09:40Jason Mantzoukas:Okay. And obviously a lot of these movies were shot, you know, in 1999. Or, you know, there are movies that were shot before 9-11 that came out afterwards. But there are movies that came out within that window that feel time lock to this feeling of we just live past the apocalypse. We made it and now nothing can stop us. There's a hubris to the mania. Yeah. And some of these films extend into sequels that go past the 9-11 point, but you feel them kind of taking on. We got to scale it down. Like Shrek 1. Right. Is a post Y2K pre 9-11 film. Shrek 2 is firmly Post 9-11 It's considering the weight of what it has to represent Shrek 1 didn't have to represent Shit We were invincible Monkeybone is prime Somehow shot in 1999 But like a time capsule If we survive If we make it past Y2K If the clocks don't kill us This is what the future needs We're leaving this for the next generation Can you explain to me...

1:10:47Yeah.

1:10:52Can you explain to me... Is one of them a foreign monkey bone? Australian Blu-ray, American DVD. Okay. I don't like foreign Blu-rays. Let me see that Blu-ray's papers. Take it up with the Fox Corporation who's refused to put this out in HD. Oh, I wonder why. It's almost like they thought it wouldn't make money Now a couple Quick questions Why at the museum fundraiser When that giant paper mache Head gets hit Or like a pinata Gets ripped open and all the monkey toys Fall out why do all of the Rich people at the fundraiser Lose their fucking Minds

1:11:37Jason Mantzoukas:What do you mean But it's monkey bone on the air because what happened was that was the pilot. He went to a coma for three months. The movie is a comment on crass commercialization. As the smart attendee up there said, capitalism is the real evil of this film. Okay? Stu Miley is a pure Gen X artist. He is a riff. He is a third beat in the Matt Groening, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, your outro kind of fucking pissing on the outside, Gen X fuck you guys Who accidentally created these things That like captured The public id right The unprocessed like child Fucking mania That then became mainstream And in both cases you got this like Oh think of the children this is ruining them George H.W.

1:12:28Bush is like The Samson's are back You know all that shit right Hey no characters I'm sorry What do you think this is TBS This is not an SNL audition

1:12:39Jason Mantzoukas:Don't you dare Character's not welcome here Unless it's Rizzoli and or Isles Okay well So it's cart before the horse He's a guy who is fucking tortured He meets the love of his life In like a psychiatric hospital This guy is like He's not processing his trauma Through art He is regurgitating his trauma But the trauma is a childhood boner? Well, no, this is where she redirects him. As she said, he was in art therapy, and the art therapy was putting his trauma back on the page in a way that frightened him and only fed back into the cycle. And she said, we've got to find some way to break this guy.

1:13:16Change to your less dominant hand. And what comes out? His repressed sexual awakening as a child in a puritanical society. I love this. Part of him that was most pushed down, he was comfortable with the inherent darkness in his brain. What he wasn't comfortable with was who he actually is, his primal urges.

1:13:34Jason Mantzoukas:I actually do love what you're saying and I feel like that feels to me very much like Henry Selick is this artist. And he's connected to his piece of work. And he made this thing that became very commercial. Here's this guy. He does this dark tortured art. He's fallen in love with his sleep study doctor. She's like switch hands. He draws a boner. She's like this is funny. You should do it as a comic. He does it as a comic. People fucking option the rights and are like we're giving you 80 episodes on Fox. The train is moving so fucking fast. We have the dolls already. He's like, wait, slow down.

1:14:05What is any of this? I don't know if this is good. I don't know if this is good for the public. And they're just like, we're trying to identify the next fat. That's the panic he's in in the five minutes before he gets coma.

1:14:17Jason Mantzoukas:So basically, like, his trauma is coming out before he can, like, he's like, you're commercializing my trauma. And you're, and he's just trying to actually get better to go, to be able to. Well, it's an unprocessed psyche at the very least. Wow, an enthusiastic yes. Right, that's why Julie loves him, but it's also why I think she rides out the time with monkey bone and have it stew for so long, because she's like, I've seen him go through weird shit. Do I like this guy? No, but he's had cycles of loss of identity. It came out of a fucking coma. I don't know, maybe we'll shake this off. Do you think nine-year-old boys get this?

1:14:55This nine-year-old boy does. I was 12, and I could not have gotten it more. I was like, this is what I've been asking my health teachers to explain to me every week. Those poor teachers. Big mouth before big mouth. Did Griffin talk to you today? Oh, he had a lot of questions. What'd you do? I gave him a copy of Monkey Bone. He'll be buying copies of that for the rest of his life.

1:15:18Jason Mantzoukas:Now, I guess the joke I couldn't quite put my hands around was... Wait a minute. that's a joke I couldn't quite get my hands around when Whoopi Goldberg makes a South Park joke is that a joke that South Park is bad? or is that a joke? no it's that it's coming out of the same place and that she likes them and presumably she has had a similar experience with them so this whole question of does everyone have a monkey bone what is downtown? downtown is the collective subconscious the collective unconscious Carl Jung's collective unconscious? on the film. Wow, I love this. And so it is largely populated with these pop culture figures, right?

1:16:01Like Joe Campbell, because they exist, like they now like fucking occupy. They live rent-free in our heads, but also just abstract, nightmarish concepts like a barbecue pig who serves pig, right? Right. Just fucked up shit. I love it. But also our mascots, our modern gods. Isn't Ganesh down there? You know what I'm saying? It's all the soup. So we're just seeing like everything.

1:16:21Jason Mantzoukas:Our mascots are modern gods? That's what It's saying like the earworms of our culture. In a dead culture. Don't get on it. I'm in now. I'm on board. In a dead culture circling the drain. And this is why hypnosis, like business is bad. People aren't using their fucking brains. They're thinking of Joe Camel because they're looking at billboards, right? Right. I have to take artists, get them down here. Artists who are able to create a subconscious or unconscious that is so fully, vividly realized that it could become its own thing, right? So like Stephen King gets hit by the van, goes into the coma, ends up down there.

1:17:02That's when Cujo swaps. Ah, okay. That makes sense. Wow. That makes sense. Attila the Hun, Jack the Ripper, these were creative guys who didn't have an outlet yet. These are out-of-the-box thinkers, Attila the Hun. They didn't have an outlet. They were just a little bit uneaten. They're trying to draw, and they're like, ah, my hands aren't that good. They fall into a coma. there's a little murderer in there and it's like let me have a stab at the above ground and they go up there and they do a bunch of bad shit. That's what Monkey Bone is. So you're saying Jack the Ripper

1:17:33Jason Mantzoukas:was a good creative doctor who Monkey Bone was a murderer and the Monkey Bone murdered people not Jack the Ripper. Is Monkey Bone a trickster god? Yes! Wow, we've all gone through something. But a trickster god? The audience just went, oh. A trickster god of Stu Miley's creation. Smiley. Yes. Is it possible to have sex with Christine the Carr? Great question. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. You have recontextualized this film for me in a way that I feel like there is a plot here. Yeah. That is, I think, hidden by Christopher Columbus. Yes, yes. I will say one of the things that I wrote a number of times, and I said some version of it earlier, which is there were a number of times in the movie where I was like, oh, this is almost good right now.

1:18:27This is starting to be a good movie, and I wish it could hold on to it, but it would always crumble under the weight of strange choices that didn't seem to add up. And without any exposition, which they are loathe to give, not understanding the framework in which I am operating, I kept getting lost. But the version of the movie you're giving us is more like a drop-dead Fred in which I'm 100 % on board. I wish that the movie had successfully done it.

1:19:02Jason Mantzoukas:Well, what I'm realizing is Christopher Columbus is the bad guy. He is. Like, he is fucking poisoning the culture. He didn't get it at all. Here's another crazy thing. And he didn't discover America. He did not. And he doesn't deserve a parade.

1:19:21Plymouth Rock landed on him. Wait, what? You get it. I'm King Kong, motherfucker. Do you think Christopher Columbus sailed over on the Mayflower? The Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria, and the Mayflower? You got it. Straight to Plymouth Rock? You got it. Looking for the Fountain of Youth? He cooked the first turkey on the first Thanksgiving. Another crazy thing I must call out in terms of like art imitating. Stop pointing at us so much, Griffin. I'm offering. I'm offering. I kind of like it. I like being yelled at. Darktown, the comic book that Henry Selleck sparked to and optioned, only ever had that one single issue.

1:20:10One issue. It was an intended miniseries that was never completed. Much like Monkeybone, where you're like, corporate interests are jumping on a piece of IP that's not even completed as an idea. And going like, let's just start putting stuff on top. So it's not like it was a Ninja Turtles, like a successful indie comic. One of 12. It was a one of 12. Yes. And only the first issue was ever released. And it's very different. and it's just in the idea of artist goes into coma, enters a collective unconscious where his own creations exist. That's all that the comic gave. Okay.

1:20:47Jason Mantzoukas:Yeah. Give it up for Griffin. Griffin Dooman. Listen to the Blank Check podcast. Their episode on Monkeybone is available now. Could not have been better. As well as all the other Henry Selleck movies. check out the George Lucas talk show when you can with a brand new DVD listen for Paul and I on an upcoming episode of Blank Check so between us yeah

1:21:22we're gonna edit all that out right

1:21:27Jason Mantzoukas:he's making us look bad We have, obviously, an opinion about this. There's a lot of people like Griffin who have a different opinion. It is now time for second opinions. Ladies and gentlemen, Rob from Long Island.

1:21:50Settle down and I'll tell you the plot. Stu is a cartoonist in a coma and then he's not The monkey had sex with his wife Chris Kattan came back to life A cameo by Harry Knowles I gave five stars to Monkey Bone

1:22:24Stephen King is not in this flick. The opening scene's a cartoon about a little kid's dick. The casting was great after all. It starred two actors from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. I gave five stars to Monkey Bone. This is my second opinion. Give it up for Rob from Rhode Island. You killed it. Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob. You did great.

1:23:03Jason Mantzoukas:All right, now we also have another special guest here tonight, another songwriter from the show. Ladies and gentlemen, Tom McWatters.

1:23:14He can sing, give dirty looks, and when it's hard, it breaks through books. And when it's hard, it really cooks. It's Brendan's boner. Watch it run and watch it grow. Jacob's boner scenario. He even gives himself a blow. It's Brendan's boner. During Brendan's coma, the monkey runs amok. If the monkey was the boner, how can he still fuck? Always weird, always wrong.

1:23:44Jason Mantzoukas:Got five stars on Amazon because it's so gargantuan. It's Brendan's boner. Give it up for Tom McWatters! Tom and Rob together on the same stage. Wow. Love it. I have a super quick question. Is there anybody here in a coma now? Why did you raise your hand? Well, the person up there said I'll put her in a coma. Yeah. Can I ask you before we do it? The guy over there who was in a coma, how long were you in a coma for? No way No way She said three I'm not buying it He said four I'm not buying it We can't just say things Was it really? I have to add that it wasn't a natural promo It was a nap Pedagree induced?

1:24:37Yeah, pedagree induced Cool, we've all been in that

1:24:42Jason Mantzoukas:They're naturals Wait, very naturals? Or big naturals? No, not big naturals Big naturals Big naturals? Is that what you said? I said naturals. Heavy naturals. Real naturals. Real naturals. Well, that's kind of redundant. Keep this in. Keep this in. Oh, this is the only thing in. 1 ,923 reviews for Monkey Bone. 84%. 1 ,925 reviews. 84 % are five-star reviews. 84? 84 % Sydney K. writes my all time favorite movie just like Beetlejuice but better five stars oh that's an interesting comparison too yeah that we didn't even mention written in 2015 this one from Veronica Owen was 2015 before 9-11 just right before and the title is the Kobayashi report this is the one movie i love it is probably among the top 50 in my list five stars this is the one movie i love it is probably among the top 50 in my list wow It's a tough bracket to break into Okay, this one is from KM McKenzie I love Monkey Bone I watched this movie as a kid And I recently saw it on Prime I ran so fast to rent this movie Severely underrated Tim Burton comedy horror film From the early 2000s If you're a fan of Tim Burton Please watch this movie now you won't be disappointed.

1:26:44Jason Mantzoukas:Five stars. This is the exact shit that Henry Selleck is driven crazy by. Right. Absolutely. It was Tim Burton presents a Henry Selleck film, but people think it's Tim Burton. And Coraline, right? Everybody thinks Tim Burton did Coraline too. So this person didn't get the memo. Also, not a Tim Burton film at all. Not at all. Here's what I want to say. I just got a text. We have a very special person here. to weigh in on Monkey Bone. You guys don't know what Monkey Bone is about? Doy, first of all, Doy. Monkey Bone is a beautiful film. I know I've never seen it, but I know exactly what it's about.

1:27:27And yeah, Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda are two archaeologists who are looking for a specific breed of monkey that hasn't been alive for many, many years, was extinct a long time ago. So that monkey is going to hold the key to a virus that's been killing all of us, all of humanity in this present moment. So the two of them have to go find that monkey bone in order to unlock the cure to this very terrible virus that's like really taking us all out. So within that, within that, you know, they find love. They find love, you know. And Brendan Fraser, of course, is, he's kind of that hot shot, shooting from the hip type archaeologist that we all know, that stock character.

1:28:25And, you know, doesn't play by the rules. and Bridget Fonda is a leader in the field and always you know she's had many many breakthroughs and she knows exactly where to go and how to do everything so perfectly and and and scrape off little sand pieces and dig and do all of her archaeology stuff and it's so hard to work with him so hard to work with him which of course she learned about herself is it's time to loosen up a little bit and what he learns about himself is it's it's it's time to actually respect a woman for the first time ever which is never done uh so it's a really it's it's it's beautiful they save us thank god thank god in that search for a monkey bone they also find what they didn't know

1:29:16Jason Mantzoukas:they were looking for which is love and there you go i would love at some point in the future to make June watch Monkeybone and have a rebuttal to herself. And by the way, just announced The Mummy 4, or The Mummy, right? Is that what it is? Three or four? I can't remember. Yeah. Would you recommend the movie Jason? Yeah. Yeah, I would recommend this movie. This is a real fever dream. This is chaos unlimited. And I enjoyed the hell out of it, even though it was deeply frustrating frustrating because so often as it was just getting cooking it would go way off the rails and that would be disappointing but don't let that deter you absolutely watch monkey bone hubel i would recommend this movie to people in a coma people in a coma and kids that love drugs okay yeah i would recommend this movie because we've watched so many and whenever i am like gobsmacked by a film.

1:30:27Jason Mantzoukas:I feel like I don't know if I like it, love it, or whatever, but I have to acknowledge I was gobsmacked by it, so I'm putting it in a category of a must-watch. I find that for me, like, the movies, what we do, like, I was engaged. Whether I was enjoying it or furious, I was never bored. No. I wasn't like, this is a slog. I was like, what the fuck? And if that's the response, then I think it's working. I agree. I agree. I could have watched more of them dangling from the balloon. I wanted more of that. And if that happens in the Thanksgiving Day Parade this year I will be psyched. I would love it if the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade floats farted out nightmare juice.

1:31:13I love that. It does feel like for the last year plus we've all been just subsisting on Nightmare Juice. And that is, that's my question, is when did Monkeybone become our reality? All right, Jason, you want to promote anything? Sure, I'll promote some stuff. Percy Jackson season two

1:31:39Jason Mantzoukas:coming soon. A Man on the Inside season two coming soon. I'll be in that. Starts November 20th. It all unloads. And then I'm still going to be promoting Taskmaster season 19. Watch it on YouTube. That's right. Every episode is up for free. Check it out. So good. So, so good. Season 20 airing now is fantastic. Is it as good as 19? Absolutely not. Hubel. Oh, and All Out on Broadway here in January. What are you doing on Broadway? I'm doing a stage reading of Simon Rich stories called All Out from January to February here on Broadway. Broadway. I'll plug a show that Paul Scheer and I do on YouTube called The Dark Web.

1:32:33Dark Web. We do that every week. Super fun. Totally free. Totally free.

1:32:38Jason Mantzoukas:My book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, is available. Thank you for buying it. If you bought it, let's do it as an audio book. And if you want a signed copy, you can go on my website and I'll figure it out. It sounds vague, but it's very specific and I don't need to get more into it. Thank you all for coming out tonight. Great job, New York. You are amazing. Good night. Thanks for coming. Eat shit, New York. That's a wrap on Monkeybone. Wow. What a awesome episode. A big thank you to Rob Hubel who stepped in at the last minute when June's flight got canceled. Remember that when the FAA went on strike?

1:33:15Jason Mantzoukas:Well, yep. Rob stepped in and did us a huge, huge solid. Do him a solid by checking out the dark web every week on YouTube. It's completely for free. Also, a shout out to Griffin Newman, who also stepped in, stepped up and delivered maybe one of the best voices for Monkeybone. He is a defender of Monkeybone. If they're making a Monkeybone criterion, we got to give it to Griff. Now, Griff, he is the star, the host, the co-host, I should say, of the Blank Check podcast. Check out Blank Check. If you've not listened to Blank Check, you will love it. I also want to kind of promote this thing that I did.

1:33:51Jason Mantzoukas:I made a mini documentary with the people from Supper Club who do Chef's Table. We went out to a Taylor Swift parking lot. That's right. I went out with a microphone. I didn't know what I was going to get. And let me tell you, it was so much fun. It was really something I could never have expected. So check out Taylor Swift parking lot. You can watch that on my YouTube page. You can also watch it on the dark web YouTube. It's 15 minutes. I'm not asking you to watch it on big TV. You can watch it on your phone. I think you'll like it. You don't have to be a Taylor Swift fan. You just have to be somebody who's ever gone to a concert or maybe have an interest in going to a concert.

1:34:28Jason Mantzoukas:I don't know. Also, a big shout out to the staff at Town Hall and our tour manager, Beth and Michaela. Our t-shirt design for this episode is, I would say, iconic. Yeah, it's I woke up from a coma and all I got was this podcast. If you want that design, that verbiage on a t-shirt, a hoodie, a sticker, a mug, whatever you want, just go to hdtgm.com, click on the merch tab, and you can now own that or anything from any of the other shows that we made merch for. As always, if you have a correction or omission from this episode, leave me a voicemail at 619-P-A-U-L-A-S-K or write a comment in our Discord at discord.gg slash hdtgm.

1:35:09Jason Mantzoukas:And remember to vote for one of the next movies that we're doing here on the show. Now, also, to help us with nominations for next year's Howdy Awards, since you all liked it so much, we want to know what some of your favorite moments were from this episode and all of our new episodes. So go to the new Howdy Nominations channel in our Discord to tell us what you thought so we can keep track of them. If you have the time code, even better, but I'm not going to hold you to that. Anyway, if you listen to us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please make sure you are subscribed to our feed and have automatic downloads turned on in the settings.

1:35:40Jason Mantzoukas:If you want to see us in real life in Los Angeles, Dinosaur Improv will be back at Largo on January 24th. Come out and see us. Largo is so much fun. We got a great crew coming up on this January 24th show. I believe Rory Scoville is sitting in, but don't quote me on that. Anyway, and lastly, but not leastly, a giant, huge thanks to our behind-the-scenes team. I'm talking about our producer, Scott Sonny, Molly Reynolds, our engineer, Casey Holford, and our social media manager, Zoe Applebaum, as well as our intern, Quinn Jennings. And we'll forever be thankful to the one and only April Halley. That's all I got, people.

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