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Last Looks: War of the Worlds

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Last Looks: War of the Worlds", an episode of How Did This Get Made? published September 12, 2025 (51 min, about 9,323 words). It mentions 27 people, works and ideas, including How Did This Get Made, War of the Worlds, Jack's Back, Taskmaster, Podcast Pantheon.

What this episode is about

The main topic revolves around the humorous chaos of losing crucial podcast data related to *War of the Worlds*, including listener interactions and pre-recorded segments, due to a fictional alien invasion. The narrative blends comedic elements with a lighthearted critique of technology, showcasing the struggle to recover lost content while engaging with the audience's contributions.

Key takeaways

  • When aliens invade, better hide your Dropbox - even extraterrestrials appreciate a good podcast archive.
  • War of the Worlds: a true reminder that even Hollywood hasn't cracked the code on family boundaries.
  • Fear not, podcast fans! Amazon Alexa proves its worth, saving data and the lives of hapless producers.
  • Accolades may elude, but loyal listeners make every episode a triumph - proof that love trumps lists.
  • Ice Cube as a privacy-snooping dad? In a world of alien invasions, family boundaries are the real casualty.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: How Did This Get Made, War of the Worlds, Discord, Los Angeles
  2. – 10:00: War of the Worlds, How Did This Get Made, Amazon, Ice Cube
  3. – 15:00: Baltimore, War of the Worlds, Star Trek, Taskmaster
  4. – 20:00: Taskmaster, Weapons, War of the Worlds, Amazon
  5. – 25:00: Ice Cube, How Did This Get Made, Amazon, Taskmaster
  6. – 30:00: Ballard, Dark Winds, Amazon, Taskmaster
  7. – 35:00: Naked Gun, Amazon, Taskmaster
  8. – 40:00: Sherwood, Wolf Hall
  9. – 45:00: Weapons, Barbarian, Star Trek
  10. – 50:00: Jack's Back, How Did This Get Made, Amazon, Los Angeles
  11. – 50:57: Jack's Back

Notable quotes from "Last Looks: War of the Worlds"

  • So, only trouble is without all the last looks data, how am I supposed to respond to the listener corrections and omissions on War of the Worlds, a movie that Discord user Vinod thinks should have had the tagline, War of the Worlds,.
    about War of the Worlds · at
  • Every bit of sense. Now remember, if you have an alt movie tagline like Vinods did, submit it to us on our Discord at discord.gg/HDTGM.
    about Discord · at
  • It's a comprehensive cannon of podcast history told through the perspective of 101 different shows and there's an entire chapter in the book covering how did this get made…
    about How Did This Get Made · at
  • Don't know. I thought it was wild. and then super quick side note, I started watching Taskmaster for the very first time so that I could catch Jason in series 19 and I am…
    about Taskmaster · at
  • That the reason they chose Mark to be an Amazon driver is because during COVID, Amazon drivers were out there delivering all of our stuff and they were heroes.
    about Amazon · at
  • Where to start. I think I talked about it in the past, but I'm going to keep talking about it. I think maybe the best show on television right now, the best continuing show on…
    about Dark Winds · at
  • I can't recommend enough what will be one of my favorite shows at the end of the year is the Amazon Prime show Ballard, which is an adaptation of the Michael Connelly Ballard book. So, it is.
    about Ballard · at
  • All right. let's talk about next week. Next week, we'll be going from a guy who hacks to Jack Who's Back. That's right. will be covering the 1988 serial killer thriller Jack's…
    about Jack's Back · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Ice Cube — Person · Referenced actor/character subject of discussion · 5 mentions · first at
    Used as shorthand for the film's lead (the 'War of the Worlds' episode subject), with listeners critiquing the character's behavior and plausibility.
    Time caller calling about War of the Worlds. It's kind of a small thing. but you guys touched on the difference in the relationship between Ice and his daughter and Ice and his…
  • Shawn Min — Person · Referenced author (book promotion/shout-out) · 2 mentions · first at
    Paul highlights Min's forthcoming book 'Podcast Pantheon' and notes it includes a chapter on HDTGM.
    It's going to be a fun one. So, get your tickets LA. I also wanted to shout out an awesome new book called Podcast Pantheon by culture critic Shawn Min.
  • Tom McWaters — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as the creator of the podcast's opening theme song.
    From the California accent of Jason Stathithm to the giant jaw of Robert Sedon.
  • Danielle Schneider — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a participant in an upcoming improv show.
    Are still a few tickets available, but get them fast because they sell out quickly. Dinosaur Improv will also be at Largo on the 18th with Jack McBrer, that's right, Danielle Schneider from [ __ ] Sesh, Karen Wells, and Rob Wle.
  • Jack McBrayer — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a participant in an upcoming improv show.
    Are still a few tickets available, but get them fast because they sell out quickly. Dinosaur Improv will also be at Largo on the 18th with Jack McBrer, that's right, Danielle Schneider from [ __ ] Sesh, Karen Wells, and Rob Wle.

Books & papers

  • Podcast Pantheon — Book · Primary recommendation · 2 mentions · first at
    A book mentioned with a chapter dedicated to the podcast, recommended to listeners.
    It's going to be a fun one. So, get your tickets LA. I also wanted to shout out an awesome new book called Podcast Pantheon by culture critic Shawn Min.

Companies & orgs

  • How Did This Get Made — Company · Business focus · 8 mentions · first at
    The podcast being discussed in the episode, with mentions of its history and operations.
  • Discord — Company · Business focus · 5 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a platform for listener interactions and submissions.

Concepts & topics

  • Goliath — Concept · Core topic · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of the movie War of the Worlds and its plot.
    Yeah, it is. I have nothing to add, but yes, well researched, well thought out, easy point. The Mighty Beard writes, I think there was an interview with the director or…

Places & events

  • Los Angeles — Place · Setting · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as the location for upcoming podcast events.
    Keep these songs short. 15 to 20 seconds is best. Before we dive into corrections and omissions, just a heads up, How Did This Get Made is returning to Largo in Los Angeles on…
  • Baltimore — Place · Setting · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned by a caller as a location they hope the podcast visits.
    Say it in general. Anyway, love the show. Saw you in London last year and it was wild. And I hope you come back here soon. Thanks very much. Bye.
  • New York, New York — Place · Setting · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned by a caller as their location.
    When you kind of follow up on it, it was their fault. Anyway, let's go to the phones. Riley from New York, what do you say?

Media & podcasts

  • War of the Worlds — Media · Core topic · 9 mentions · first at
    The main movie discussed in the episode, with listener corrections and omissions.
  • Jack's Back — Media · Core topic · 4 mentions · first at
    The movie to be discussed in the next episode.
  • Taskmaster — Media · Referenced work · 7 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a show one of the hosts participated in and recommended.
  • Dark Winds — Media · Referenced work · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as one of the best shows currently on television by one of the hosts.
  • Weapons — Media · Referenced work · 4 mentions · first at
    A movie recommended by the hosts and mentioned positively.
    In series 19 and I am hooked. I'm loving it. It's so fun. Jason is hilarious. it's great. And I went to the movie theater to see weapons upon your recommendation, which is not…
  • Ballard — Media · Referenced work · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a show one of the hosts recommends and wants to be on.
  • Naked Gun — Media · Referenced work · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a movie recommended by the hosts.
    Friends. Have a It's It's just very good. Very good. And worth going out and seeing. I just want to support our friends Dan Greger and Doug Mand who wrote that with Schaffer who is a Lonely Island director. Incredible. So funny. Great.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in an anecdote about the pronunciation of 'data'.
    Became the standard pronunciation as it could be due to one of my British countrymen. The story that Brent Spiner tells, who of course plays Commander Data in Star Trek, is…
  • Bosch — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in the context of the Ballard show being a spin-off.
    Of the year is the Amazon Prime show Ballard, which is an adaptation of the Michael Connelly Ballard book. So, it is a Bosch spin-off technically. And don't you worry, Bosch is in the mix for a couple of episodes.
  • Sherwood — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a show one of the hosts recommends.
    Season 1, the British crime drama Sherwood was one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. It's It's not a new show. It's maybe from four or five years ago, but I just…
  • Wolf Hall — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a show one of the hosts is watching.
    I now subscribe to Britbox, Britbox, Acorn TV, and the PBS app. Just Wow, you're on the PBS app.
  • Barbarian — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a previous work by the director of Weapons.
    Won't say anything about it, but I will say and if you don't know, Weapons is the new movie from Zack Kger who made the movie Barbarian. So, a lot of people have a lot of people have seen that. So, this is the next movie for this. And you.
  • Star Trek — Media · Referenced work · 4 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
    Became the standard pronunciation as it could be due to one of my British countrymen. The story that Brent Spiner tells, who of course plays Commander Data in Star Trek, is…

Sponsors

  • Amazon — Company · Sponsor · 9 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of product placement and as a hero during COVID.
  • Amazon Alexa — Product · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a product that helped recover data in the episode's narrative.
    Last looks data recovered. Oh, I also destroyed all the aliens. Hooray, Amazon. Wow. Thanks, Alexa. I guess I can start doing the episode again.

Full transcript with timestamps

Okay, let's see here. Time to record today's last looks episode. All right, on War of the Worlds. Okay. Yeah, let's see here. Just got to open up my Dropbox folder, download my script, voicemail messages, the theme songs. Wait, what the hell? Everything's gone. The corrections, the omissions, all the listener submitted theme songs, all of it's been erased. Oh man, if producer Scott accidentally deleted the Dropbox again, I am going to fire his hairy little ass.

Scott, what's going on? Oh, thank God. Where did all the last looks data go? I don't know. There's a freaking alien invasion and I think they ate all our data.

Aliens invading Earth to eat data. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I know it's stupid, Paul, but think about it. What better place to hunt for beloved data than 15 years worth of podcast assets in the How did This Get Made Dropbox folder.

I don't care, Scott. Just get me the last looks data now. The aliens are eating her and then they're going to eat me. Oh my god.

Scott, move. Scott, get out of there. Run. Run. Scott, get out of there. I'm dead.

Oh, that didn't look good. Well, I mean, I really never like Scott. I mean, everyone knows producer Molly is like the real backbone of the show anyway. So, only trouble is without all the last looks data, how am I supposed to respond to the listener corrections and omissions on War of the Worlds, a movie that Discord user Vinod thinks should have had the tagline, War of the Worlds, straight out of computers. Venod, that's good. And how am I supposed to play my pre-recorded Just Chat with Jason where we talk about all the TV and movies that we're currently obsessed with. And how am I supposed to end the episode by announcing next week's new movie?

If only I could simply fix everything by saying, "Hey, Amazon Alexa, recover all of the Last Looks data."

Last looks data recovered. Oh, I also destroyed all the aliens. Hooray, Amazon. Wow. Thanks, Alexa. I guess I can start doing the episode again. Alexa, play opening theme to How Did This Get Made? Last looks.

Playing the How Did This Get Made opening theme song now. From the California accent of Jason Stathithm to the giant jaw of Robert Sedon. We proudly present to you a universe containing five stars. Proprietors of trash is what we are. How did this get made by a law cliche? How did this get made? Who got paid? Surely not. Chasing the jun. They're the ones that have to watch and go.

They've got to watch them on a bus or a train or the middle seat of an airplane where people think that they are going.

Yes. Thank you, Tom McWaters, for that opening theme song and rip to our producer Scott. But I'm glad the show will go on and it's all due to Alexa. You know, for a long time I thought War of the Worlds didn't make any sense, but now that I've lived through it, it makes every bit of sense. Now remember, if you have an alt movie tagline like Vinods did, submit it to us on our Discord at discord.gg/HDTGM. And if you have a Last Looks episode theme song, go to httgm and click submit a song. It's super easy. Now remember, keep these songs short. 15 to 20 seconds is best. Before we dive into corrections and omissions, just a heads up, How Did This Get Made is returning to Largo in Los Angeles on the 22nd and 23rd. There are still a few tickets available, but get them fast because they sell out quickly. Dinosaur Improv will also be at Largo on the 18th with Jack McBrer, that's right, Danielle Schneider from

[ __ ] Sesh, uh Karen Wells, and Rob Wle. It's going to be a fun one. So, get your tickets LA. I also wanted to shout out an awesome new book called Podcast Pantheon by culture critic Shawn Min. It's a comprehensive cannon of podcast history told through the perspective of 101 different shows and there's an entire chapter in the book covering how did this get made which I am honored to be a part of. Uh the book comes out on September 16th and we will drop a link in the episode description if you're interested in checking it out. Um, I like Shawn a lot. I think this book is going to be great for all you podcast nerds. I will say slightly offended that How Did This Get Made did not make the top 100 podcasts that kind of covered the scope of podcast and we've been around for 15 years. And there's another list we weren't on. I'm I was a little bummed. But lists aren't everything.

You're everything. People who listen to the show make the show. And you know what? I'm just going to focus on that. I don't need those damn accolades. Yeah, sure. I was bummed about it, but I don't need them. And you know what? I'm not going to stop it from putting on a great show. So, let's get into it. Last week, we talked about War of the Worlds. Well, we had questions and we might have even missed a few things. Here's your chance to set us straight. Fact check us, if you will. It is now time for corrections and omissions.

Don't you worry about a thing. We're here to correct correction and no missions. We're on the case. Take it away. Thank you, Carlo Teio. I hope I'm pronouncing it right for that theme song. Let's go to the Discord. Soap Trail writes, "Are we to believe that Ice Cube, a hacker who regularly checks his daughter's fridge, Cam, I should add, because he has no boundaries of his kid's privacy, would have not accepted a Facebook friend request from his daughter's baby." Daddy, I think you're missing. For several years, he would have accepted it instantly to snoop on this guy from day one. Soap trail, you are right. you left out a couple of key words, but yes, uh it feels to me more like Ice Cube hasn't checked Facebook in a long time after his wife died. That that to me is where I feel like, look, I want to agree with you, but I also want to pay homage to the great writing of War of the Worlds. Uh Dove writes, "The

Chiron on the TV over the footage of a plane crashing said, "Passenger jets are falling to their death." Um, I'm pretty sure that planes aren't alive. Yeah, Dove, you're right. But you know what? When the aliens are attacking that person who has to come up with those graphics, they're going too quick. Too much news is happening. By the way, I would love That should be a show, right? People who just had to put up news chirons. I mean, I guess that's not a show. I had a great show with Adam McKay. Oh, it was so good. Andrew Guest, one of the greats. Had a good show. And then Pandemic killed it. Uh anyway, uh it was about the cable news. Anyway, uh Johnny Unusual writes, "There are six camera angles in the Amazon delivery truck. Is that the case with actual Amazon trucks?" I mean, it wouldn't surprise me, but that is terrible. Uh Scott, our producer, who is deceased, did say, uh although six cameras seems

excessive, according to Vice, Amazon does use AI enabled cameras to monitor drivers speed, location, and actions on the road. Wow. Wow. Uh, that's scary to me. Um, but I'll tell you one thing, my Amazon packages come on time. Um, although occasionally I'll get something from UPS like, "Oh, we couldn't make it out today or there's some sort of obstruction. It just seems like they didn't get to it, but they make it like it's your fault and then when you kind of follow up on it, it was their fault." Anyway, let's go to the phones. Riley from New York, what do you say?

Hey Paul, I just finished listening to the uh War of the Worlds episode and I wanted to comment as a uh a volunteer EMT on your discussion about first aid. Um first of all, uh um Jason was completely right that if you have a foreign body embedded in you like uh a shard of something, you do not want to take it out. um that thing is probably keeping pressure into your blood and taking it out will will release that pressure and also maybe rupture an artery. Um but however, your discussion about tourniquets wasn't exactly right.

Um so applying a tourniquet does not mean that you're going to lose that limb. Um the science has changed and there's been a lot of uh uh progress made um in after care of applying tourniquets and the general consensus is if you apply a tourniquet and then seek hospital care within 6 hours um there won't be any lasting damage. After 6 hours um there's the potential for nerve damage and necrosis and maybe you'll lose the limb um but it's not guaranteed. But, you know, for in the case of this movie, if if the character had gone to the hospital within 6 hours of the tourniquet, then they would not have lost that limb. Hope that's interesting to you. All right. Bye,

Riley. Thank you for this. Thank you for your service, but also uh for opening my mind about a tourniquet. I first of all didn't even know that that was a possibility. A tourniquet meant you were going to lose a limb. So, when Jason said that, I took it at face value. And now you have disputed it and I appreciate it. Oh my gosh. Uh, and look at that. Medicine, science, all working together to make us live longer. Um, but great to know that if you apply a tourniquet, someone's not going to be like, "You're making me lose a limb."

So, I I feel like, you know, cuz I imagine when you're tying it off, if you were to have that in your head, you're like, "Wait, wait. Can I just see a doctor before you just do this action?" This is probably because Jason's watching that show. It's like a battlefield show that he likes to watch. Uh, and I'm sure he's probably equating the two things. Thank you, Riley from New York. Simon, what do we got?

Hi, Paul. I wanted to talk about something you touched on in the War of the Worlds episode. The multiple ways that people were saying data or data, and as June says, there's only one way of saying it, right, which is data. I thought you might find it interesting to give a little background as how that became the standard pronunciation as it could be due to one of my British countrymen. The story that Brent Spiner tells, who of course plays Commander Data in Star Trek, is that there was at the first ever table read for the first ever episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Patrick Stewart announced something like, "Mr. Data, please scan that wolf signature." Everyone assumed this new character was pronounced data.

But Gene Rodenbury had a rule that the first person to say the name of a character or an alien or whatever made up word they needed in that show, that becomes the way that you say it. So, Mr. Data became set in stone and because everyone pronounced data that way, whereas they used to say data, but now they were saying data on a prime time TV show, that became the standard way to say it in general. Anyway, love the show. Saw you in London last year and it was wild. And I hope you come back here soon. Thanks very much. Bye.

Oh, Simon, I love anyone who comes on with a Star Trek anecdote and that is a great one. Um, I actually always like that data or yeah, lieutenant data. Uh, data data. It I I I felt like it was a more formal name because why would you name a robot data, you know, that that would be a weird data lieutenant data? Weird. It's weird. Data is a much more sophisticated way of kind of handling it. It's a funny play on words in in my opinion. So, uh, hats off to Patrick Stewart for for creating the confusion, but also for creating a longerl lasting legacy of a great character, uh, by not just naming him data. All right. Uh, thank you, Simon, by the way, for all the shoutouts. Amy from Baltimore.

Hi, Paul. Longtime listener and third time caller calling about War of the Worlds. It's kind of a small thing. Um, but you guys touched on the difference in the relationship between Ice and his daughter and Ice and his son. And I also thought that was crazy. Um, I was also flabbergasted by the fact that he seemed to hate his son so much that he didn't even add his name to that email until like almost the end of the movie. Um, well after he found out that his son was the disruptor. So, I'm not really sure what that was about. Um, was that a choice to show that he had grown? I don't know. I thought it was wild. Um, and then super quick side note, I started watching Taskmaster for the very first time so that I could catch Jason in series 19 and I am hooked. I'm loving it. It's so fun. Jason is hilarious. Um, it's great. And I went to the movie theater to see weapons upon your recommendation, which is not a movie I

would normally see in the theater, and I loved it. And June was incredible. Um, and not to leave you out, Paul, we saw Dinosaur when you guys came to the DC to DC. Um, and it was great. We had an amazing time. It was so much fun. We missed Jason, of course, but you guys were all incredible. So, I'm actually going to see some improv back in DC tonight. So, thank you for continuing to broaden my horizon, both in the worst ways and the best ways. And can't wait till you guys come to the DC area again. Better yet, come to Baltimore, huh? All right, take care. Bye,

Amy from Baltimore. Great catch there. You know, I didn't even put that together, but I'm thinking about it now, and it's all kind of circling in my head, and I'm realizing, you know what? He didn't even seem that upset when his son almost got killed. This guy is is bad news. Maybe he thinks, uh, oh, maybe my son killed my wife. If that I mean, I want to get into that kind of drama of Ice Cub's world. Um, by the way, thank you for coming out. Thank you for supporting. That DC show was a weird one. Uh, I remember that in our run of shows, we're going to be back in DC in November. Yeah. Uh, it's not been announced yet, but we will bring you a much more controlled show. We got mics now. We got a lot of things under control. Uh, that one that that story, the the woman in the audience kept on taking us on these detours. It was it was horrific for us, but we figured it out. Um, all right, people. Let's go

next to David. Hey, Paul. Uh, you're talking about Ice Cube being on Facebook all the time and my friend works for a defense contract company that makes one small component of some sort of military technology and he's not allowed to have any social media accounts at all. So, the fact that IceQu has Facebook and is going on some of these sites is apparently a big no no in, you know, defense and government um circles. Uh, thank you. Have a great day. Yes, exactly, David. My son's computer from school has more restrictions than Ice Cubes does. Now, you could say, "Well, he's a hacker. You hacked into it." No, no, no. Because they would keep that [ __ ] at the door.

It's like the Old West. You put your guns in the front when you go in to have a drink. How do I know? Time travel. Anyway, yes, this movie falls apart with any hard research as John from Minnesota brings forth.

Hey, Paul. I've been listening since the first episode. This is my first time calling. Um, love you guys. I'm calling about the War of the Worlds episode. Um, I am confused about the data or data that these aliens are consuming. Um, I assume it's let's call it records in a database. I'm um system developer. I've built many uh systems that contain databases, large data systems, big data, things like that. Often what we will do is we will create programs that generate dummy data to simulate user data. So my question is does the data need to be userenerated? It's extremely confusing to me why an interplanetary species that figured out how to travel between planets to consume other species data uh can't write a very simple program to generate enough data or food for themselves to never have to worry about this again. Yeah, that's my question. I have more questions, but uh I'm not sure the writers were too concerned about

these types of uh problems. Um love you guys, Paul. Love the dark web. Um Jason, your season of Taskmaster was absolutely the best. June weapons, loved it. Uh excited to see you guys and more. All right, that's it. Love you guys. Bye.

Exactly, John. Exactly. And you know what? With any amount of research, this movie falls apart. Yes, John. And I I like that you even know how to generate dummy data. I I didn't even know that was a thing. You can generate dummy data. But yes. Uh and Caroline from Texas. What do we got?

Hi Paul. I just was wondering if you guys had noticed uh his shout out to Ludacris when he says move, [ __ ] Get out the way. When uh he's get going around the uh the snake things that go into the data center. I just thought that was kind of funny. Thanks. Bye.

You know what? I did, but the way that he said it was it wasn't in the spirit of Luda and it sounded more aggressive and misogynistic in a weird way. Like, it didn't come across as planned. I think you're right. It was there. I felt it, but it didn't feel like an homage as much as he's just angry. Thank you everybody for all the support. So much love coming at us. Thank you for listening to the show. Thank you for calling in multiple times. Thank you for calling in first times. Uh we love it. We love you all. Uh and uh yeah, and Taskmaster and Weapons is great. Uh it's so so good. All right, let's go back to the Discord to Shawn McB. The government has known since 1948 that these things feed on data, yet just decided to roll the dice with the creation, roll out, and exponential growth of the internet.

No matter how invasive Goliath is, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the data footprint of the entire internet. The idea that Goliath is what rang the dinner bell is absurd, Sean. Yeah, it is. I have nothing to add, but yes, well researched, well thought out, easy point. The Mighty Beard writes, "I think there was an interview with the director or producer where they said that the reason they chose Mark to be an Amazon driver is because during COVID, Amazon drivers were out there delivering all of our stuff and they were heroes."

And this is why Amazon had such a big role in the movie versus Amazon forcing them to put a bunch of product placement in the movie. And you know what? I read that too, Mighty Beard. And I actually don't disagree with this. It's a movie made in COVID. The people that were out there on the trucks delivering the things, whether it was Door Dash. So I appreciate that and I don't understand I mean I think when Amazon bought it feels a little bit weighted frankly I yeah look I can al I could understand this guy being like Amazon's saving my ass by the way Amazon saved my ass during co uh it saved my ass many times as a new parent you know moving there's so many things so I get it Amazon workers are heroes you heard it here first by the way uh we have created a shirt for this show. Yes, you asked for it, we made it. Check it out right now at Tublic. It is the uh the Grandpa Shark shirt. So, get that Grandpa Shark.

It's a little ice cube face on a shark. It's pretty great. Uh Permutator, I don't think you mentioned a possible connection between his kids' names and the Goliath program. Ice Cube was afraid of losing faith, but then regained it by becoming David's sling to take down Goliath. You know what? Congratulations, Permutator. You've done more thinking than the writer of this film. And no offense to the writer of this film. And that's why you are the winner of this week's corrections and omissions. And you get this song by Chris Finky. Hit it.

You You win. You You win nothing. You You You win. You win nothing except for this song.

All right. If you want to chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up our Discord or leave us a message by calling 619 P A L A SK. That's 619 Paul ask. Call it anytime. It's a Google voicemail. So, wherever you are, whenever you want to call it, leave a message. We'll get it and we'll play it on the show. Anyway, coming up after the break, Jason and I will catch up about all the TV and movies that we are currently loving. But first, let's close out our War the Worlds episode by listening to this bonus deleted scene where we learn how June can actually relate to Ice Cube. Here, take a listen.

How much the movie exists on a cluttered computer screen is a scathing indictment of how we live and also quite stressful. Like how many open windows he had active, how much clicking around he I did not like it because of how much like the world it looked.

I I mean occasionally I will see June's computer screen and it gives me an anxiety attack because there's too many files on that desktop. There's too many things open and that's a world in which I like I like to keep a nice and tidy workspace. I gotta know what's I can't I can't take it. I can't do it. Now June, were you comforted by his work screen?

I wasn't comforted by it, but I understood like did you feel validated? Well, I just was like he's got a lot going on, you know, and he's a working dad.

A lot of it is his own stuff. Like a lot of thing though and a lot of a lot of my workspace is is my own stuff like my personal stuff too. So, it's this is the struggles of a working parent.

Welcome back. By now, I'm sure you've noticed that every Tuesday we re-release classic How Did This Get Made episodes back into our feed. This week's matinea covered a very different alien movie. That's uh 2016's Great Wall, which was a movie about the Great Wall of China and yes, aliens. And has one of our most infamous uh shirts, designs, stickers, whatever you want to call it, where it's just aliens [ __ ] each other. Uh, and it spells out the great wall. Uh, I love that shirt and it has sold like gang busters. It's like uh one of those like Senor Frogs sexual position shirts. Uh, so keep on So there's a tiein that I haven't really talked about on this show in a long time. But uh, our replay is always kind of bringing back those kind of beautiful memories to me. Um, without any further ado, it is time for Jason and I to catch up on all of our favorite TV shows and movies, which we have not done in a very

long time. And to play us in, we have a theme from Sweden. That's right. Anton Wellen, please play the theme.

They're watching their movies. They're watching people. You're going to tell me.

Jason, it's just you and me. back, baby. Oh, it feels good to be back. Ah, we are going to do a straight up uh recommendation segment, but I know a lot of people have been asking questions about Taskmaster and we will we will do a special last looks chat about Taskmaster now that it's completed, the season is over, you have invaded the UK.

We did it. I've got a foothold over there. You're finally in. You got in. H It was It was I'm I will say it's been incredible. Finally getting to see these episodes air has been awesome and it I really it I'm loving that people are loving it. Just being out in the streets, people are talking to me about Taskmaster, which is delightful. Got it.

Uh so great. So great. All right. Well, let's uh let's get into what you have been watching and doing because I know you've had some time to to watch, to read, to get into stuff. So, where are we at?

Oh, man. I've been pretty prolific. I've watched quite a bit um and and listened to a lot. I've got a big list. So, and and also part of it is my list includes stuff that like we haven't done one of these in a while. So, you know, we never talked about Andor which andor the last season.

I can't believe we didn't do that. Oh my god. Absolutely. Um mustsee TV like maybe the best show of the year. One of my f I'm willing to say at this point um just an incredible season of television. Um, I'm going to shout out I I don't even know where to start. I mean, I think I talked about it in the past, but I'm going to keep talking about it. I think maybe the best show on television right now, the best continuing show on television is Dark Winds. Um, yes, the the Zan McLaren, George RR Martin, Robert Redford produced adaptation of the I think Tony Hillerman novels, which are just banger uh uh police procedurals that take place on a on a reservation.

It is uh tribal police. Every season are these big, beautiful, sprawling cases. Uh the characters are incredible. the the stories are fantastic, but there's nobody better right now than Zan McLaren in this show, you know, and it is so incredible to watch. Uh, Dark Winds, there's three seasons of it. It's fantastic. I I am I'm right there with you. I have been uh I've been watching I told you we've been watching a Brooklyn 999. That's what we have been doing as a family all summer.

I love it. and watching that show in beginning to we are in almost at season six so we've been really just chunking along but you know we're going and and this has been a summertime show and it's I got to just say uh

one of the the best shows I mean really one of the best shows uh it was so funny so good you're so good on it uh

a fantastic sitcom like one of a show that you know before I was able to be on it I was a rabid fan of I love that show

they really really really nail it. Um, and I was going to tell you the other thing that I kind of missed my radar early on and I'm reading Tom King's Supergirl right now in the world of tomorrow. I did not read that book

and wow, it's great. Wow. Wow. Wow. Like I am actively whenever I have a chance running to uh continue reading that.

I love that book. I think that book is absolutely fantastic. um you know and and that's like applicable to almost every Tom King, you know, like like I think from you know from the beginning uh Sheriff of Baghdad all you know to uh to now like all of the the books that he's been doing the Roarshack book the um the uh Mr. Miracle book the and this book especially I think is just phenomenal.

I really I mean the there there are certain ones that you we were talking about the Helen of Windhorn too which is another great one. All right. So, what else have you been watching? Cuz I I want to give you some wide birth here.

Yeah, I'll shout out some returning stuff that I thought was great. Um, this new season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, I'm having a blast watching.

I'm so excited. I love that show and I feel like it's getting some of its just deserve at this point. Like, I feel like it's it really is uh is kind of

like I feel like people are coming around to it in a great way. Yeah, I love it. I'm I'm having a blast with it as I always do. It is a super fun, super silly at times show that I just really enjoy. And I think the dude that plays Spock I think is just fantastic. Really great.

Um, I can't recommend enough what will be one of my favorite shows at the end of the year is the Amazon Prime show Ballard, which is an adaptation of the Michael Connelly Ballard book. So, it is a Bosch spin-off technically. And don't you worry, Bosch is in the mix for a couple of episodes.

Um, it's great. It's better than Bosch Legacy. It's better than It's better than late season Bosch. I think Maggie Q is fantastic as Renee Ballard. I think having John Carol Lynch in there is so smart and so great. He is such an incredible grounding element to the team. Um, I think it's fantastic. I think the cases are great. She is a terrific lead and I love Ballard. I'm I'm this is my my begging to please let me be on season two of Ballard.

I have been working on trying to get on Ballard uh at Amazon cuz we have a I have a show over at Amazon. I'm like get me let's get on this. Come on. I need to get in that Bosch universe. Uh you know, it's such a good show. She's great. And I do hope that uh you know, look like I I I had issues with Bosch Legacy. slight slight issues, but this is bringing me back to what I fell in love with uh original box.

For sure. Oh, it's great. It is unimpeachably, I think, a fantastic season of television. And it is it's long, too. It feels like a season. It's not six episodes. It's not eight episodes. It's longer. It luxuriates in it, which I had a blast with.

Now, yeah, go ahead. Can I just say too, I know that I was I just deferred the floor to you, but I want to also say like if you've not gone out to the theater and seen Naked Gun.

Uh go go do yourself a favor. I saw it for a second time last Wednesday. It was packed on a Wednesday night. It is a movie to see in a theater. Bring some friends. Have a It's It's just very good. Very very good. And worth uh worth going out and seeing. I just want to support our friends uh Dan Greger and Doug Mand who uh wrote that with

Schaffer who who is a Lonely Island um director. Incredible. So funny. Great director.

Yeah. Um yes, great shout out. And and also I have now gone back and rewatched uh the Naked Gun, the original Naked Gun movies, the a bunch of Police Squad um which is so funny. The original TV showcas so good. it like so good like you know and the reason they canled that TV show was because and this is at the time the president of ABC said well you have to pay attention to it

that was the reason for cancellation you have to pay attention to it we got to get rid of that

yeah got to get rid of that show got to get it off the air I will say this I find the police squad movies as I've watched over the naked Gun movies they really degrade quickly uh like and and to a point where I'm like wow

what happened but I guess what really what happened was the less and less of the guys who created the original were there and that

and I think that's it. Um I can't recommend enough now that I'm um so British because of Taskmaster.

Yes. Um there's a couple of shows that I will shout out. Some of which are if you liked Taskmaster I can't recommend enough past seasons of Taskmaster including if you watched Taskmaster as a family Taskmaster Jr. Great stuff. But um other similar shows that will scratch that itch. There's a show called Last One Laughing. Um, lol. Um, there's a UK version of it. There's an Australian version of it. I believe there's a Canadian version of it. Uh, the UK version is the one that I watched. It's six episodes and it is just six comedians in a room together. Um, and you cannot laugh

and uh for 6 hours. And that's the challenge. And each episode is one of the hours and it's just them [ __ ] with each other. Wow. in a way that is so funny because two of the people on the there's only one season of it and it is all banger the cast is bangers almost everybody is a Taskmaster alum but the two except for the two geniuses they have are Richard Aawati yeah who is just such an icon of British panel shows from would I lie to you to um eight out of 10 cast countdown all that stuff um but the true legend Bob Mortimer who is absolutely one of the funniest people on the earth currently. They are both in this season of last one laughing and it I cannot recommend it enough. Um it is so [ __ ] funny. Um and then as well would I lie to you as well uh eight out of 10 cats does countdown or big fat quiz of the year. These are all British panel shows that incorporate all many of the same cast of comedic of comedians

who are just on this circuit of shows where they are just constantly roasting each other and being funny.

Where where you where do you find all these shows though? Oh, they're all over the place. A lot you can find on YouTube. A lot of them you can find on YouTube. Last one Laughing is on Amazon. Okay. It's just it's it's licensed to Amazon. I subscribe to Britbox. Not to brag. Um,

well, you know, I didn't know Brit Box had comedy on there. Oh, it does. It does. It's got sitcoms and it's got panel shows. So, I think that's I think Britbox has Would I Lie to You? Okay.

And I think eight out of 10 Cats is on YouTube. I think I just found it on YouTube.

Also on Britbox is one of my favorite shows of the year. It is the David Mitchell show Lwig, which is a This is the setup of the show. He is a character who is a kind of shut in, who is a puzzle maker. He com he makes puzzles, blah blah blah. His twin brother, who is a police detective, goes missing. So he, in an effort to try and figure out what's happened to his twin brother, he pretends to be his twin brother, who is a homicide detective, and inexplicably starts solving cases because of his puzzle expertise. Wow. and gets embroiled in this much larger criminal story, but it is a very light one-hour police procedural. There's only one season of it. It's a blast. I'm The way I'm explaining it is a little bit convoluted. So,

give me the title again. Lwig. It's just called Lwig. It's on Britbox. I can't recommend it enough. It's fantastic. And again, a show that I'm dying to be on in that way. Like there's a lot of shows right now, Ellsworth, High Potential, Poker Face that are that kind of case of the week show that also has a larger in the background macro story line. And this is one this fits right in with those and is maybe a little better than all of them, I think, just cuz it's very

This is right up my alley. I'm so excited about this. I think you'll really like that. I think that's great. Um because they announced it's coming back. Um, I am re-watching the comeback, the Lisa Kudro, Michael Patrick King show, The Comeback, which is,

talk about a show. I want to be on that show. My god, dying to be on it. But the rewatch is a blast. The show is

so funny and still so savage and so brutal and such an indictment of of our world and TV and everything. It's great. It's and you know I was talking to certain people behind there and you know as of all good things based in some reality some things that are dark moments that people have experienced especially at a time when sitcoms were a lot uh more uh produced.

So that first season you know there is a pretty savage takedown of a network sitcom.

Yeah. And when you're and and some and Jimmy Burroughs is in there as the director and blah blah blah. what you're watching. This is one year after Friends ended and you cannot help but see it through the lens of

all of these people have just made Friends and Sex in the City and this is the show they're making now, you know, super interesting. Great, great, great stuff.

I I I totally agree. Um, have you watched The Pit? You know, yes and no. I watched the first like three or four episodes of The Pit. loved it, but it stressed me out so much um medically.

Yes, I I agree that I that I had to stop watching it simply because it was giving me like I was it was giving me sympathetic health anxiety.

Jason, I am right with you. I was I watched the majority of the show through a book that I was sitting next to June while she was watching it because it was

I don't the gore is the gore is one thing which I but I'm also like I don't want to start to think about diseases.

Yeah, that's it. And it it kind of the same thing happened to me. I loved and watched all of but the last few seasons of House I was like I'm just too suggestible right uh right now. I'm just too suggestable. And it I don't want to then be thinking about like, well, actually, I have that. I have a little bit of that.

I don't need it. That's why it was kind of fun. June was watching it hardcore and I could sit on the side and like pay attention to the plotting and then when it got into the I like now I'm not into this anymore. There's an episode with a testicle turn that really got me.

I'll just shut out some other shows that I think are fantastic. Uh, Sherwood season 1, the British crime drama Sherwood was one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. It's It's not a new show. It's maybe from four or five years ago, but I just watched it now and thought it was incredible. Um, in my pursuit of watching everything that Leslie Manville does, who I think is just absolutely incredible. Um, she's fantastic in this. She's fantastic in all the the Magpie murders. Um, I've now, if if you're wondering if I've subscribed to every single subscription service there is, I think the answer is yes.

I now subscribe to Britbox, Britbox, Acorn TV, and the PBS app. Just Wow, you're on the PBS app.

Well, the PBS app just for um Wolf Hall, season two of Wolf Hall. Oh my god, how did I forget about that? I didn't even watch. Oh, yeah. Season two of Wolf Hall. again a masterclass in watching someone act uh in that Mark Ryland is just full stop unreal in this show. Um just next level stuff. Um

Mob Land, the Guy Richie uh Mob Land Tom Hardy, Helen Marin, Pierce Brozen um British gangster uh TV series that's on Paramount. I'm having a blast watching that. Um, the new season of Digman is out.

Oh, I love that show. Yeah. Andy Samberg, our friend Neil Camp show. Uh, Mitra Jihar's on it and it is so [ __ ] funny.

It's a really funny show and it's it's one of those shows that I think unfortunately is is sidelined by this is the thing. It's like

it's trapped in Comedy Central. Yeah. And it sucks that that suck. It's like there are these shows you just can't get out of the, you know, it's like it's hard to find them if you're not specifically looking for them. And that's it's a bummer. It's a bummer, but that show is very good.

That show should be a massive hit that everybody should be talking about. Yes. But because it's stuck on Comedy Central right now in a way that is not advantageous for the common viewer to come across, I think it is it needs the love. So, if you're listening to this, go and find it. Find a way to watch Digman. tell people about Digman. I think it's one of the funniest pound-for-pound joke machine shows that's on television.

I mean, and uh and I will say that, you know, we've obviously everyone else has been talking about, but South Park this season is already just uh like just killing it in what it's doing. And I watched the new King of the Hill, which I really enjoyed.

Oh, I haven't I haven't watched that. Oh, great. Great. Yeah. So, it's really there's a lot of fun good animated things uh right now that I am uh that I am enjoying. The other thing that we did is a my kids have finally we've passed the Marvel threshold. I didn't know when it was going to happen, but uh we saw Superman in the theater. Then we saw but that's not Marvel obviously, but that was the first superhero movie that they saw. Then we saw Fantastic 4 and now and now I'm doing something that you're going to be very upset with. think I was like, "All right," my son's like, "I want to watch a a Marvel." And I was like, "All right well

haven't watched none." None. Yeah. Great. Okay. So, I started them with Guardians of the Galaxy

one and and that has been a huge hit in the house and we went on to Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and then uh and now we are in the super uh sorry, the Spider-Man's which re-watching these have been

fantastic. Oh man, I forgot how good that first Spider-Man the John Watt Spider-Man is so good. The original Guardians is so great. Uh and and I like you know it's tricky because

you know we've been watching these movies. We're all caught up to date and it's like I wanted to bring Gus in. I'm like he's not he's not going to make it. He's not going to get that

all the all the medium stuff all those mid movies. You don't want them to lose sight of it. I kind of was like, if you get really into this, we can go back and you can watch them as prequels, but like right now, let's let's figure out a way to kind of get you. So, I'm I am creating some sort of

weird backdoor way into the thing cuz I think I think what I'm going to do next after the Spider-Man because I have to watch out for the

I have to watch out for when we get to uh the big Avengers Endgame and all that. I almost feel like at a certain point you're going to need to do the Iron Man, like the early Iron Man one, Captain America one. I don't think you need to do Thor one if I'm honest.

Well, they he's very first in Iron Man. He gets it from Spider-Man and uh and so then I'm going to get him into Thor Ragnarok. So, I kind of feel like I might be I might be outfitting it in such a way where he might not know everybody, but he's seen enough of these other ones and he kind of can get Yeah. Right. Exactly. I'm just like, let's just let's just go this way because I want to keep them watching and that's the tricky thing. It's hard. You can't, you know, these kids, they get this they get uh they get upset, you know,

they and there's so much they have so much that's available so that they don't have to suffer through bad origin story movies. They don't have to suffer through all those early all that nonsense.

I just watched I don't know maybe they're wouldn't be into Oh, maybe they would be. I've just rewatched the Nolan Batman trilogy.

Um, which is absolutely fantastic. Uh, yeah. I'm And all I want now is there to be extended cuts of these.

I would like the way that like I think the the Lord of the Rings trilogy really benefit from those extended cuts. I think Nolan's Batman trilogy longer would be incredible. Um, and so that I want I want that.

I wonder if there is any extra meat on those bones cuz it feels like he is taping or Yeah. getting I mean now I will say this uh if you've not seen Weapons, you got to go see Weapons in the Fantastic.

June is obviously in Weapons and uh I won't say anything about it, but I will say

and if you don't know, Weapons is the new movie from Zack Kger who made the movie Barbarian. So, a lot of people have a lot of people have seen that. So, this is the next movie for this. And you don't need to know anything about Barbarian to watch this one. But the way I've been describing it to people is it's like Paul Thomas Anderson meets uh John Carpenter. There's a there's a a fun it's fun. It's really well done. And um uh my point on that was a lot of people have asked June like, "Oh, well, the script must have so much more crazier stuff in it." She's like, "No, it was what it was." And it like and I think that when you have a filmmaker, especially uh at least the way that Zach approached this movie, he knew what he wanted. He got what he wanted and that was it. There was no there was no confusion on what he was getting and uh and so you know uh so I it's always interesting like those filmmakers seem

like there's a lot less. Although I will say I can share a little story out of school. Uh this is good. I was on the Universal lot last week and if you've online at all, you will see that they have been shooting the Odyssey in Nolan's new movie, The Odyssey, on the back lot at Universal. And apparently from the ET parking lot at Universal Studios, you can watch them shoot the Odyssey.

Funny. It's a boat out on the water during thunderstorms and then there's another grouping of houses on the other side of the lot that can also watch it. Now, what can you see? You see a boat in the water with rain and thunder. You're not really seeing anything. And it's the boat that we already saw in the IMAX commercial for it. Uh, and apparently they are pissed. Like Nolan is furious that anyone is seeing a boat in the water from hundreds of yards away. Like it like when I say you don't even see people or cameras. You are just wa you are just watching like big overhead lights. And I and I was talking to one of my my friends there at university.

It's like you cannot imagine the amount of phone calls that we have gotten that there is uh there's essentially like bad security footage of a boat that has already been revealed in the preview in water. And I was like that is a filmmaker that like you get to spend that much time being mad that nothing is revealed. No, it's not like oh you got the costume.

Nope. No. No possibility for anything. That's so funny. That's great. But yeah, but I mean like also like shooting it on Universal Lot. That's very public. Uh yeah, that's very funny. Great. I love it. Um I'll just shout out at the very end here, Alone season 12 is airing. It's Alone in Africa for the first time. They're in a desert climate. It is incredible. Um the Amy Sherman Paladino ballet show A2 has already been cancelled, but don't worry, I watched every episode and it was great. Um and insane. Um, uh, the Predator animated movie, Killer of Killers.

Yes. Incredible. Absolute blast. That's amazing. I love that. Yes. Fantastic. And I'm very excited for Dan Tractenberg's new uh, Predator movie. Dan Tractenberg, who did uh, Prey uh, some years ago. Just absolutely fantastic. Um, anyway, I've got a bunch of other stuff I can shout out u, but but for another time.

Yes, we'll do it. We have so much more to talk about. Great to finally get back to just us. Just us, just chatting. All right, that's enough of me and Jason gabbing about TV. I want to remind you that if you go to our Dashery store, that's our new store. If you go to hdtgm.com, it's run by Tublic. I don't know the difference ultimately, but uh it's better for the artist, it's better for us. Uh you can get any design from the show in a sticker, on a coffee mug, on a laptop sleeve, on a sweatshirt, on a onesie. You could do whatever you want. So, you don't just have to get t-shirts. If that's not your thing, wearing like t-shirts, just get a sticker. I've got some great How did this get made stickers. Also, want to let you guys know, um, that, and just to bring it back up, that Grandpa Shark sticker is going to look pretty badass on anything you want to put it on. Uh, all right. Uh, let's talk about next

week. Next week, we'll be going from a guy who hacks to Jack Who's Back. That's right. will be covering the 1988 serial killer thriller Jack's Back, starring James Speder, Cynthia Gibb, and Robert Picardo. IMDb calls this film a movie where a serial killer is in Los Angeles celebrating Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders. But here's the twist, people. It has nothing to do with that. Rotten Tomatoes rates this film a 71% fresh. What Roger Eert wrote? What makes Jack's Back worth seeing is the work of Spader as a young actor who I believe has much promise as anyone in his generation. That is true.

Sper is great. This film is worth the watch. Take a listen to the trailer. 100 years ago, there was a series of murders so grizzly.

Some theorize that Jack the Ripper was a medical man. I believe that would also apply in this case.

Human mutilations so meticulous. My brother didn't kill anybody. that an entire city was paralyzed in fear. Now 100 years later to the day it ripper has returned Jack's back. You can stream Jack's back on Hoopla, Amazon Prime Video Tuby, the Roku channel, Fubu, Pluto TV, and Fawsome. In addition to Hoopla, I also encourage you to check out Canopy and Libby, which are digital media services offered by your local public library that allow you to consume movies, TV, music, audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for free. That's it for Last Looks. If you listen on Apple Podcast or Spotify, please rate and review us. Please also make sure that you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on. Say that again. Make sure you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on. It helps the show. We appreciate that. And you know what? Here's a little thing for you. Tell a friend about the

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Last Looks: War of the Worlds"?

Paul Scheer (Host), Scott (Host), Jason Mantzoukas (Host), June Diane Raphael (Host), Riley (Guest), Simon (Guest), Amy (Guest), David.

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The main topic revolves around the humorous chaos of losing crucial podcast data related to *War of the Worlds*, including listener interactions and pre-recorded segments, due to a fictional alien invasion. The narrative blends comedic elements with a lighthearted critique of technology, showcasing the struggle to recover lost content while engaging with the audience's contributions.

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