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Oops! All just chat.

Paul June, Diane, and Jason Van Zoo. Everybody in the house say fuck the moon.
Skyline of the color of night. Foucaulty monsters, don't touch that mic.
Tall Josh here, keep risking his life.

He's the man alone. He got kids in the wife.
He's in a family fast and furious. No holds barred, you can't be serious.
Sulo has no match for delirious. Shout out she your star, are you feeling this?

Paul kissed his mom, that's a thing. Doom still accepted the ring.
Jason can't eat flan or meringue. But the most important thing,

they picked the worst movies of all time. That's why it was high.

Somehow we've got five stars online.

Hello all my balcony monsters. I am on tour and I am seeing you every night right now and it has been a absolute blast.
That's right. The doppelganger tour is going on right now.

Just a few more days to catch us. And you can see me, Jason, and Jessica St.
Clair, who is having just her head spun around by watching so many bad movies. But it's not about the tour right now.

No, no, no. I mean, it is about the tour.
If you want to come see us in our remaining cities, so go to httgm.com to find out where we were playing and what movies we're going to be talking about.

But this is about you. This is about you getting to voice your issues on.
last week's movie, which was this is me now.

But you're going to have to wait because, like I said, we're on tour. I don't know what you're saying.
I can't be everywhere at once.

I can't be on the Discord with all my recording equipment in a hotel room. No, no, no.
I'm there solo with my kids. I'm working my butt off.
So what am I going to do?

I'm going to give you something special. This week, this whole episode is just going to be me and Jason chatting it up.

We're also going to be joined by our friend Ruby Carp to discuss her new off-Broadway show and all the TV and music that she's loving right now. And she's young.

She's going to hip you to the good stuff. But before we get too far into things, I have to give a big shout out to John Cohen.
John Cohen, that opening song was amazing.

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15 to 20 seconds is best.

Dark Web is a show that Rob Hubel and I host right now on YouTube. It has been a blast.
There's about eight episodes up. Enjoy them.
They are completely free.

We're talking about weird lawyers, bizarre people and their outer space theories, my mom being fooled by an Elon Musk impersonator, so much stuff. And my book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma.

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We're on the road. We cannot wait to finish this tour.
Well, we are excited. We're not like we're enjoying the tour.
I'm just saying we can't wait to see more of you out there.

Every night's been such a blast. And you know what? Without any further ado, let's just start chatting.
Anton Wellen, play us in. Paul and Jason have things to say.

And it's the fact that we can all call in.

Just watching their movements. They're watching the game.

Thank you, Anton. Jason,

what is up? Beepoo peepoo. Here we go.

Here we go. Oh my gosh.
Where are we in time right now? I feel like we're kind of mid-tour at this point, mid-maybe. Oh, we're in the middle of the tour.
So, wow. I mean, who knows? Who knows?

If we're mid-tour, well, I don't even want to say it because I don't want to jinx it, but

I am a little nervous, I will say, to that we have for the first time since the last time, a tour date in Texas. Because

boy, oh, boy, there is a

health emergency in Texas. You have measles.
I asked my doctor today and I said,

what can I do? And he's like, well, if you're vaccinated, you don't have to worry about it. So I feel good about that.
Okay. So meaning your childhood vaccine will cover it?

Yes, he said as long as you are,

if you're not in the, it's mostly elderly people and people who are not vaccinated against measles that are having the issues with it. Yes.
He said there's nothing really to do beyond that.

Because I was going to ask my doctor if I needed like a... a booster or something.
Well, that's what I, that's what I was, you know, we're going on the road.

I was like, you know, I want to get measles. I want to get measles out there and get mumps.
Yeah. I don't.
And guess what else I don't want? Rubella. Oh, God.

I don't want rubella either. I don't want measles, mumps, or rubella.

Well, you know, look, we want to stay relatively free of the easily avoidable diseases.

And, you know, like, I don't want to get shingles either.

But yeah, but, you know,

according to, you know, you know, with a CDC or whatever, who knows who's there now, but measles, you know,

you mean the CDC that is now disbanded? Yeah, yeah.

That's not been, that's been dragged into the garbage can.

Well, I've read a couple things here, and it says if you eat a bag of nacho Cool Ranch doritos you will not get wow uh yeah but if you if you basically if you're born after 1957 uh but vaccinated uh before 1968 you should get a booster shot so 68 yeah that's that's where it's where they're saying that uh but again that's only good good news for you and me because no one else is on tour with us uh

uh oh my gosh but um okay

So much stuff to get into, to unpack, to see what you're up to.

Obviously, Obviously, we're recording this before the new Daredevil show, before we've watched the new Daredevil show. Oh, but I have

talked to so many people who are. I'm going to tell you that the future me has this all queued up on my iPad.
I'm very excited. I am very excited as well.

The Daredevil Born Again comic is incredible, that run of comics that's titled Born Again.

Not that this is necessarily going to be a one-to-one adaptation, but the fact that it's called Born Again, very exciting. Love that.

These are some of my favorite Marvel characters, you know, especially, I mean, Daredevil is maybe my favorite comic

character, I think. Yeah.

I think so. And I think it's a combination of

he's my favorite comics character, like long-term, I think, especially now,

because there are so many...

incredible runs of that character.

So many fantastic writers and artists have done very memorable daredevil runs so that's part of it um part of it is that daredevil like daredevil is a complicated adult which makes for those stories to oftentimes be a little bit more grown up than some of the younger hero books so uh into adulthood i think daredevil is great but then this show like also like kingpin like daredevil's villains daredevil's rogues uh gallery is heavy hitters it's great yeah well they have those like kind of and this is like the

in a way it's like Marvel's Batman, right? Because it like you know, there are there's a city crime the element that I feel like often isn't as

exposed

in Marvel like it's there, but also they also share something which is a lot of what drives them forward is predicated not on the gaining of power, but on the

they do gain, but upon first losing. Right.
Batman loses his parents.

daredevil loses his sight like it's it's in reaction to something that they become who they are you know yes and that's there's something about that that's that's very interesting to me not just like i'm superman because of your yellow son right that's i am omnipotent you know okay jason hold that thought we'll be right back

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I don't know if you saw this because you're not, you know, I know that you are a little bit off social media, but did you see that

a

concept artist

accidentally leaked the new Avengers movie? Oh, no,

and what, like a script, you mean? No, concept art for the film. And it is

awesome.

Cool. Yeah, it is.
I was very excited about it. And you'll know the run, but without that much, I mean, look, who knows if they'll be like Quentin Tarantino.
Remember? This is what? Secret Wars?

This is, yes. So the idea of it being like, it's Dr.
Doom when he recreates the world to kind of be medieval times. Oh, Battle World.
It's Battle World. Yes.

So it's like a medieval times world, battle world. And it is, you know, so it's, it looks very much like that, which I really like that idea.
And

some of the pictures were getting me excited. I mean, again, it's just,

listen, I'm always going to be,

I mean, we're just, we're drowning in so much of this stuff that, you know, it doesn't always get to the level of quality that I want it to, you know.

But I certainly think these people are capable of pulling off something incredible. And that includes, I'm, I'm, I'm all for the new Superman.
I'm like, great, let me see it.

Maybe it's going to be awesome. Or, or these new Avengers movies.
I'm like, great. If you can figure it out, I believe this could thrive thrive again and be thrilling.
But, you know.

Well, I think it all, well, I think what we were talking about a while ago was this idea, like, it just needs to have a drive that isn't to continue, but to tell a story, right?

And I think that that's why Skeleton Crew really worked excellent for me.

Like, it was like, oh, this is just, this doesn't, you don't, yes, Star Wars exists and this is in the Star Wars world, but it is a contained story.

And isn't that great?

Wouldn't that be great to just be like kind of like what we've said on the past about like, oh, isn't it fun to watch TV shows that have a beginning, middle, and an end in the episode?

And you don't have to wait another eight weeks to find out and

forget about why this mattered to you. Yes.
And I know that you had something to do with having Kathleen Kennedy step down. So I, you know, again, I know you don't want to talk about that too much.

Listen, why won't you let me be Han Solo?

Why won't you let me be old Han Solo? Get in there, please.

Please. I can't be young Han Solo.
I can only be old Han solo.

That would be great if, like, and I get that, you know, I think people's fear of AI is ultimately driven by the fact that that's what the future of entertainment will be: is people just putting themselves in the roles that they want to be.

But I think that people could take a big breath of fresh air and going, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be fun to do. But I don't know who's,

it's not going to like catch on like wildfire. Like, it's not going to be like that.

Remember, remember years ago when like there was a whole thing that would happen where like a fan-made piece of me like a fan-made short like a batman short would be made by fans yeah it would get some sort of attention on a youtube or something like that i wonder if there's a future for like hey have you seen this new star wars movie that these kids did with ai and it's awesome you know I'm curious.

You know, look, those troopers trailers, I remember that where the guys who were like, it was, it was like cops, but stormtroopers. It was like back in the early days of the internet.

So they were just funny little shorts with stormtroopers.

All All that sort of stuff is always interesting for me to see what people are doing

and being able to kind of make. But again, it is funny.

I remember that Human Giant when we were, MTV was trying out this thing. It was like movie karaoke.
What's that? So you could put yourself in human giant sketches.

And we were trying desperately to get copies of it. I don't know where it came out.
I feel like it was like on a failed video game platform.

You know, it was like on a TurboGraphic 16 or something like that.

Like, and it was just so funny because every now and then you'd cut to a, you'd see a clip online of like some like 30-year-old dude in like Bobby, behind Bobby J's desk being like, I told you, Shutterbucks.

Like, yeah, it was, which I, by the way, I've always had a big feeling that like I would love movie karaoke as much as I love music karaoke. And in a way, I prefer it.

Put up a green screen behind me and let me act out a scene. As Cody says, that's kind of TikTok now.

Oh my God.

How funny. Well, whose idea was it? And I can't remember, this might have even been

somebody said this, and forgive me, I'm not remembering because it was years ago.

But how come, in the same way that karaoke is just, I'm going to get up and sing this song that you all know in front of you at a bar or whatever, how come there isn't like famous stand-up routines in the machine?

How come you can't get up and do a tight five minutes of your favorite comedian's set?

The same, same idea as karaoke that seems like a no-brainer it would be really funny because then i think it would show how hard it is and which by the way is as is singing oh yeah but you know like there's no track for comedy right there's no guiding there's no guide track that's like that's getting you there so boy would that be funny if someone just got up and started doing like Jeff Foxworthy or what, you know, like any, I would just, I think that's a very funny idea

that would fail spectacularly in a pretty no, I mean, look, I also think that that would be one of those things where you have to just like cut it off.

Like you, you get, you know, you got five minutes to do your set, but if you only got through the first minute, like it just shuts down. It's like, and we're done.

We're done with like, you can't continue. You had your five minutes, but you've, you took too many pauses in there.

But what else have I been up to? Did I, oh, did we talk about this?

I got, this is old, but I got that Indiana Jones game.

Oh, that. I don't even know what that is.
Jason. Wait, a video game or a board game? Video game.
It is

unbelievable. The actor that plays Harrison Ford, because they did mocap of him.
Like Harrison Ford has come out and been like, holy shit, this guy's good.

He's basically like, this is a reason why we shouldn't do anything AI because his performance is fantastic. And it is.
And it's like this full Indiana Jones adventure that I think I'm taking it slowly

and I'm enjoying the hell out of it. It is so much fun.
It's like the most fun I've had playing a video game in a very, very long time. Awesome.
Oh, I'm going to get it.

Yeah, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, I believe is what it's called. Okay.
And it is, I think now it's going to be, now it's available for PlayStation. I got it on Xbox

and I hooked up my Xbox. I had it disconnected for a while.
But it's available now.

You can get it on Xbox right now, and it's really, really fun. And all the reviews are nine out of 10.
Ooh, I haven't played a video game in ages. Yeah, great.
I'm going to get it.

I haven't played a video game in ages and because nothing's been that exciting to me. Oh, but this sounds powerful.
And by the way, what you'll love about it is what you love about Red Dead

Redemption. Yeah.

It is a game that I think definitely rewards you for staying on track, but you definitely don't have to stay on track. You don't have to.
Okay, great. Even better.
Yeah, that's all I can do.

You don't want to just wander. You can wander in these little cities and do your dumb little shit.

Like somebody was talking about that. It's like,

oh, the game breaks down a little bit because there's no reason that you're doing it. You're just walking around, but you're, you're doing stuff.
It's really, really fun.

I think you're going to love it. Oh, I like that.
That's great. Yeah.

I'm excited. I got to get back into a game.

I've been watching so much stuff, so much, so many movies, so much TV, which has been great.

Reacher Season 3 out now. I mean, just going game.
Got to get on that.

It's so fun.

I'm also like, I'm loving

the studio, Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg's new show with Hike and Gregory

and Ike Ike Barrenholtz is in it. It is fucking

so good. I'm so psyched for them.
And it's like one of those shows where you're like, oh, it's just got, it's got great people. Lisa Gilroy's in it, a bunch of fun people.

And it's just, I think, look, I think that not everything needs to be inside baseball, but every now and then to have an inside baseball show that's that funny. That's one's perfect.
It's so funny.

And then they do such a good job giving you little pops into the making of a movie that is going, that's usually going public.

and what was that one thing it's like the the fart the the the fart anator like it's like basically it's like a fart walking dead or something like that it's so funny and there's there's there's all the ones that are just like you know Seth Rogan's studio executive has to go to the new Sarah Pauly movie but his presence on set causes so much drama just because he's there and it's very funny he wants people to thank him at the awards like they're gonna get an award wants people to thank him it's great it's great really really it's great um Reacher's great.

The new animated show, Common Side Effects, is phenomenal. It is what a great show.
What a creepy, eerie, weird, very funny, absurd show.

Can't recommend it enough.

Really great.

Was watching it, super into it. And I was like, man, this main character's voice.
Who is this? I know who this is. Looked it up.
Dave King. Oh, wow.
I was like, this is nothing. That's really crazy.

And he's doing a fantastic job.

The show is fantastic. I think.
Common side effects, I think it's on Max. I want to say Max, maybe.

We were in Telluride recently with the comedy festival in Telluride we did, which we do most years.

And Rory Scovel was there and did incredible stand-up.

And so I've gone back and re-watched a bunch of his stand-up specials that I think are just terrific.

By the way, keep your eye out on Rory because what he's doing right now is Rory is doing these improvised stand-up specials.

Not specials, but like these runs at a theater where he is coming out on stage completely,

he's just going to start talking. And that's it.
And, you know, look, take it from Jason and I. We're telling you the truth.

It's not like, you know, he's not like, he didn't secretly write a half hour. He's not.
He's like. Well, there's a great, he did this in the past.
And there's actually a documentary on YouTube.

So he did a full improvised stand-up special like 10 years ago or something like that.

And so that's available. You can watch that special.
But in the lead up to that special, he recorded a documentary. So he did a show, an improvised set every night of one week.

And so there's a documentary movie that is, that takes place over the course of that whole week.

So you were watching both his sets and then him during the day afterwards or the day beforehand, kind of talking about the last night set or talking about, you know, like what worked.

And he's really just, it's also process, which is very interesting.

I don't know if everybody would think it was interesting, but for me to watch him improvise sets and then kind of offstage kind of processing it all, super interesting. Yeah, I agree.

I think that that's really, I just like, I just love Rory. I think he's such a funny guy.
It's called Live Without Fear. The YouTube one is called Live Without Fear.
It's fantastic. So good.

And then the recent, the one from a couple of years ago that's all about religion and sex and that stuff. It's called like religion, sex, and some other stuff.

I can't remember, I think, is an incredible spec. Fantastic.
I talk about that one too. That was a great idea.
Yeah, it's so many good, such good stuff.

Jason, we got to take a quick break. And when we come back, we'll be joined by friend of the pod, Ruby Carp.

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I am so excited to introduce our guest today. Ruby Karp is a super funny actress, comedian, writer.
Currently, she's working on After Midnight.

She's also been on this, I think, hilariously funny show on Roku with Charlie Pooth.

You might even recognize her as the little girl in Human Giants. Shutterbugs.
That's right. I've known Ruby since she was three years old, and I'm just blown away by everything she does.

So I'm so excited to bring her on the show right now to talk about what she is up to. Because again, with everything she's done, it's just damn impressive.
Ruby, welcome to Last Looks. Wow.

Ruby, what's happening? Oh my gosh, you guys, thank you for having me.

I have to tell you, your performance on that Charlie Pooth show, if you've not seen this, it's like a Roku original comedy series. That show was very funny.

I feel like many people try to do like, oh, it's my version of Curb. But that show was actually, they did it.
They did a great job.

It's kind of insane because nobody working on the show, at least in like the talent side, other than me and Natalie, had ever done anything in comedy at all. But the show was completely improvised.

So everything you see Charlie say, John Legend, like John Mayer, like all of these guys who you would kind of not really expect to be able to do improv

were so funny. Law Roach, I don't know if you saw his episode, but like

he came up with every insult for Charlie on the spot.

And it rocked. That's so fun.
This is the thing that I like when we did the league, when Jason and I were on the league, the football players, I would say 85% of the time were great.

Like they just were ready to go. They were comfortable.
And I guess improvising and performing on stage or performing in an arena is so much lower stage.

Yeah, it's like just to goof around is so much easier to them. And they're used to probably also like just being in the moment and speaking extemporaneously, you know, like the

right. And the stakes just, I'm sure, feel so small to them.
Now, Ruby, super quick question.

Just Paul and I were wondering, are they still doing auditions for that show? Yeah. Is there what's going on with that? Are there any audio? Can we send our headshot and resume?

Or I mean, maybe Charlie just needs a couple of like old uncles. Yeah, Yeah, we're so great.
We live. We work local.
I think that would work really well.

I think he definitely needs an older male presence in his life. Yes.

As he ages, yes, I think we're as old as John there. Yeah.
Yeah.

Here's the reality is based on just what you've said so far, the show's got entirely too many Johns. Oh my God.
Yeah.

It shows just rotten with Johns. Ruby, I feel like I don't want to like age Jason and I, but I do want to say that we have known known you for such a long period of time.

I mean, I think that there's a picture of me and you on stage together when you are three years old. Yes.
You have been a staple in comedy in New York.

And I think there's for sure a picture of you and me on stage together and you're maybe five or six, maybe.

Yes. It really is a wild thing.
You have been around comedy and you have been in comedy and you've written books. You've written a book.
You've,

You work on a great big show, After Midnight. You've been on this show.

You really are, you have been around comedy at a very interesting time. And I mean, I guess the question is, and I don't know if I've ever really asked you this.

I mean, I imagine some of your earliest memories are

of our shows. Yes.
They are probably our shows. And what funny things did we do that you remember?

I remember so much is the thing. Like, so many like working children are like, I don't remember anything I did in my childhood.

For me, so much of like how I learned about the world was through your shows.

Like, I remember one time, it's no, and it's like sometimes you're like, oh, that's why I didn't really understand how this thing worked for a long time.

Like, for a while, because also to me, uh, for context for people who like have no idea who I am, I, my mom is not in comedy, but my my mom was around UCB a lot.

And by that effect, I was just kind of being thrown on stage a lot as a kid, particularly because I loved attention as a child, as an only child.

I was just like, I remember that I think you liked the TV show alias, or we did something. I remember distinctly, I don't know if Jason, this is you,

but you, we made you run up the wall

on the wall, Matrix style. Yes, Matrix style.

Yes. And everyone was like, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life.

And like, it was this effect where it was like, I was kind of able to go on stage and just say stuff and get laughs because I was a child, but also like that had some like very negative repercussions.

Like one time I was hosting a show. So like fully hosting, like, I was the person who was the first person everyone in the audience was seeing.
I was 12.

And I opened the show by being like, yeah, I just got back from summer camp, which sucks because I can't wear shorts without worrying about getting raped all the time.

And like the audience was just like, oh, no. Like, this is too much UCB influence.

And, like, I remember, like, Jason, you and Amy did a show where, like, the sketch opened with, like, you guys had just like slept together or something.

And I remember being like, oh my God, I didn't know Jason and Amy were dating. Like, this is like, just like, what is reality? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What is real? Yeah.

And I remember being like, oh my God, I can't believe we're all seeing this. Like, this, this feels private.
Like,

so it was just like a lot of stuff like that. But in like a kind of lovely way, I think it's, it's made me very like in touch with my inner child and also very nice.

It's so funny. It's so interesting because I think, you know, we've seen you for such a long time and you've grown up

to be like a very normal, well-rounded, smart person. I mean, I was blown away.
This book that you wrote, Earth Hates Me, where. Oh my God, which please everyone, please, nobody is allowed to read.

Oh my gosh. Wow.
Okay. We're not advertising.

We're disavowing the book. Ruby, what's up? Because, wait, let me just say, I wrote this book when I was 16.
It is a self-help memoir, emphasis on the memoir. At 16.

Ruby, at 16, you had already lived more life than I had lived. And I was at that point probably 46.

No, and that, and that is so true at the same time. It's like, imagine if you were were just so like, you know how when you're on a podcast, you're like, oh, I'm just chatting with my friends.

Nobody's hearing this. Like, nobody's actually going to perceive this conversation.
Imagine that, but in the form of a book. And it's like all of your 16-year-old secrets.
Well, but I will say this.

It was very well reviewed. And I read it.

And it was, look, and I get it. Yeah, I liked it.
Amy Poehler liked it. Kirkus liked it.

But, you know, talking about that embarrassment of that, I always think about this, which is Jamie Kennedy, who was in the Scream movies and stuff like that. He had a show, like a prank show on the WB

called X, which I loved. And after the first season of that show, he released his own memoir.
And I was like, memoir,

buddy, you got more time. You got more time to get it out.
You actually, though, yours was like, yours is like a handbook for a 16-year-old.

I think it's so funny, though, when people try to write their memoir so early. It's like, we haven't, it's not here.
It's not ready yet. It's not ready for you to digest.

But yet, you have continued to do all this really cool stuff. And you, it blows me away.
You're about ready to start a month-long run at the Soho Theater right now. Six weeks, if you can believe it.

And it's all just you telling stories about that period of time that you were in camp and they wouldn't let you wear shorts.

Like, honestly, it's not far off from that. It's it's at Soho Playhouse.
It's called I Don't Trust Adults.

And it's basically, it's, I tell the story of six different adults who caused me to be forever suspicious of adults.

So I basically go through, because I don't know if you know this, Jason, but like as a kid, not only was I doing like comedy and acting, but I was like a child journalist. Oh, wow.

I had beef with Mark Zuckerberg, like very personal. Like, I don't want to spoil it.
Well, this is like this is the tease on the post part of the show.

This is a, it says, is Mark Zuckerberg allegedly involved in all of this? And allegedly, yes, oh, allegedly, yes, major, major allegedly on all of this.

Major allegedly. I think think I heard just got promoted to Admiral allegedly.

Thank you. Yes, exactly.

I just had all of these

interactions with so many people who either became big people or who very much did not become big people. But all of it was

a bunch of different adults speaking to me. a child like I was an adult.
And I was in a lot of very like adult situations.

And it's kind of about how I navigated those and also particularly how theater school and a lot of like theater camp dynamics theater teacher dynamics are very um

uh

very power dynamic things well yeah i mean i think that there's a lot of like energy when somebody can tell you look it's a tricky role to be a teacher right and telling people what's good what's bad you know and uh and i feel like there's also like an inherent jealousy i think sometimes with some teachers and and students and pitting people against each other and you can't but you came out you came came out good and i mean

this show is gonna it's it's what no intermission right 75 minutes you get this in and out 60 minutes thank god so ruby is the and this and it's and it is one is it one story or is it a series of stories that are all pulled from uh from your life

So it's definitely a series of stories. So it essentially takes you through like age eight to 18 and the various kind of phases I went through.

So we go through my child journalist phase, my child activist phase. I gave a TED Talk when I was 13 about

this is insane. Your life is nuts at this point.
You are also ancillary things that are getting mentioned just as like points of reference.

We're not even going to talk about the TED Talk, but just an FY, just to set the scene. The book and the TED Talk are pushed to the side.
Just to set the scene.

There was a 13-year-old TED Talk, but that's just over there. No, but it's like, and when I tell people this, they're like, That's so funny.
And I'm like, No, you don't understand. This is my life.

Like, this is like, people are like, Timothy Chalamet's digital footprint is so embarrassing. I'm like, I am the digital footprint final boss.

Like, you, you cannot understand digital footprint until you learn about my life. When did you, when did you get online, Ruby? Like, what a how old were you when you started to live online?

You know, like for your generation, that's like

when allowed, it could have been immediately, you know. I'm an only child who was raised by a single mom.

So, like, i was on the internet from like the second i could understand how to read like i i when i was like six my mom was getting a migraine i was googling like how to help mother with my

like i i was in the digital like world which is like kind of why it makes sense that i like work out after midnight for digital and like all this stuff now but well you also made some of my favorite videos at uh betchas too or by my

yes yes uh those are always so so funny like you've been a lot in this world and i understand it because i always thought back in the day like when i saw that remember that kid who did the Star Wars video who ran around.

He didn't have a lightsaber. And I'm like, oh, will that follow him for the rest of his life? Will somebody be like, I'm the Star Wars kid? Like,

yeah, like, I mean, yeah, there are things out there. I mean, there are, are there ever anything that you can't take down? Have you tried? Oh my God.

You don't know how many YouTube requests I've sent in that are like, please, this video is not copyrighted. This is my minor face.
Please take this down. I'm begging you so hard.

And I was, I was talking to my friends literally yesterday.

I was like, if I could, I take everything from like ages 18 and down like down i would take everything down and my friends were like no it's so cute and i was like yes but like you don't have to be me when i like take like one hit of weed and then i'm just i'm like everyone can see how i perceive myself from ages eight to 18 and it's just out in public for everyone to see so that was kind of why i wrote the show because i was like i need to like reclaim my narrative and just like let everyone know how i feel about all of these things i i love this now one of the things that jason and i do on this show is we always are talking about what we're into, but I feel like we very rarely get a person of your age

to be like, what is like, what is good? Like, give us a good time.

Yes. You know, we are middle-aged men talking to our audience all the time.
And listen, Ruby, I'll be honest, I'm trying to make up for it by shouting out anime whenever I can, but

I'm not an anime person

or any young people. Is that what you think the young people want young people love crunchy roll ruby

sure some of them

um wait okay so are we asking for television are we asking for movies are we asking for earnest rex yeah give us a couple like give us a couple different flavors of things that we should be watching like anything yeah push us in different directions we don't care okay so obviously Thursday's Trader's Severance double feature is coming to a close, but obviously the Trader Severance double feature was, I think, my highlight of my week for the past like four months I I am such a fan of both of those shows I mean I'll tell you one thing tell me I'm in the point in my life where I used to watch lost and obsess over every detail and now when I go watch severance I'm like I'm okay just to be enjoying the episode like reveal it to me whenever I don't care I'm like, I'm just enjoying it.

I know it's there. I'm here for the ride.
Yeah, I'm here for the ride. But it also feels, it doesn't, unlike Lost, it doesn't feel like they don't know what they're doing.
Correct.

It doesn't feel like they're just putting stuff into into the ether to be like, this could be cool.

Maybe I just re-watched The Lost Pilot and it is so compelling and then such a bummer to be like, that never got settled. We never found out what that was.

And it's just, you go down the line of like, just unprepared. Now, Ruby, are you doing both of those like as they air? Like the minute they're up, you're watching? Yes.
6 p.m. on Thursdays.

I am seated.

I get home from work. I have my setup.
I have my snacks. It is like, this is my night.
Now that Traders is over, the new double feature is White Lotus Righteous Gemstones. Love gemstones.

That is a great double feature. I love that you are, as a young person, participating in something that Paul and I participated in for most of our lives, which is appointment viewing.
Oh, my God.

You're not watching it when you get around to it. You're watching it as it airs.
Well, do you want to know why?

It's because if you don't, you will open your phone and every single thing that has happened will be spoiled for you. So you simply must.

You can watch White Lotus and the more, and I see more spoilers for White Lotus. And it's actually great because when I do eventually watch it, I won't remember, because it means nothing to me.
Yeah.

Because I'm just seeing names or something and I'm like, it all blurs. But it is, yeah, it's impossible because everybody is trying to spoil it.
I felt like at least variety.

tried to hold back the big spoiler or the at least casting spoiler in gemstones the first episode i was like but man you can't go without if you don't watch it within the first 12 hours hours, you're kind of screwed.

No, exactly. And particularly with a show like Severance that is so plot heavy and there's just so much that you kind of need to pay attention to.

If you get that spoiled for you after a week of theorizing and being like, what's going to happen?

You, I swear to God, Ruby is so mad right now. You guys really are fired up.
This is, this is what I live for. Like, this is,

this is like truly like my Thursday motivation is like okay i just have to make it through the next eight hours and then that's what's so lovely about west coast is that it comes out

earlier yeah you don't even have to wait for 9 p.m now what now how caught up are you ruby on reacher how caught up are you on season three of reacher

that you're not watching perfect

are you watching

season three of dark winds ruby dark winds and and what are these shows wait who is the target audience middle-aged dudes a dad it's dad It's hardcore dad slash uncle TV. Now, I do love.

I mean, Jason, we got to get Jason on Traders. He has yet to kind of fall in love with Traders.
I've told him to get in on the UK version. Now the Peacock is airing the UK.

I mistakenly watched the wrong.

I tried the wrong traders apparently, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. So I got to go back.
Here's the thing. With Traders, particularly, it is a show that you must watch with everyone.

Because like you can watch it independently, but the fun of it is like the Twitter Discord. Well, yeah.
I also will say if you watch it with a like June and I will be in bed screaming.

Like you just need, you need somebody. Communal viewing.
You're like, oh, you idiot. Like you, there is something.
You watch it like we watch like a how did this get made movie. Yes.
Yes. Yes.

Ruby, do you have a favorite UK or regular? I.

Just to get into the format and also just like get into what I think most people have most recently been talking about, I would genuinely start with season one of U.S. Traders.
See, that's true.

Because I do think that's like,

see, I don't like that season either, but it's it so, but I do think it explains,

it gives you a lay of what I've seen. Watch first of UK, watch first UK.
Okay, season one of UK, they were first, but he didn't like that. See, he wasn't happy.

I think I watched season one of American Traders, which was, which I have been told was bad. Yeah.
Oh, so that's the issue. Yes.

And I correctly thought it was bad, but I never engaged on any of the good.

No, after you understand season one of UK Traders, you must watch season two of us traders because that season is like what got me hooked season two is very good and what season have we just done like what was this tom sand evolve three oh oh so that's just there's only been three oh okay but there's six technically because there's three uk three us and then there's two australian i still love season two of australia um i will tell you this one of the details in the uk one that they're airing now but is already over in the uk is uh one person comes on the show and says, Oh, I'm gonna

I'm gonna have an accent

of, and I forget the town. It's like the, it is a place in the UK where I believe like Prince Charles is from.
I just can't remember right off the top of my head. Okay.

And she's like, that is proven to be the most trustworthy accent of all of the UK. So I'm going to adopt that accent and come in to this, but I'm not that.

And then comes in and immediately meets someone from that area and then is committed to doing this accent for for the entire show. That's very funny.
And is great.

It's, it's just a perfect, like, they've walked themselves into a corner and now they are screwed. Because you have to understand, a lot of these people are not game players.

Like, some of them are, but a lot of these people are truly just like reality stars who a lot of them have not even been prepped on what the content of the show is.

They're just getting that money undergoing. And it's interesting.
All right. So we got that for TV.
Anything that we should be listening. Now, Jason loves music.

Anything you're loving? Any, you know, anything that we should be checking out that maybe isn't on our radar? Okay.

I am going to sound like someone who is like a follower of the people. I will have you know three years ago, I saw Sabrina Carpenter at Webster Hall, an audience of 1,000 people.

I had boots on the ground. I was spreading the word.

I was like, I was telling all my coworkers, I would be like, I'm going to the Sabrina Carpenter concert tonight and you guys aren't even ready. She just put out her new album and it's really good.

And all my coworkers would be like, Sabrina Carpenter, the girl from Disney Channel, like, we don't care. We like Taylor Swift.
And I was like, that's the thing. Taylor Swift likes Sabrina Carpenter.

And everyone would be like, yeah, sure. Now here we are.
It's 2025. Grammy winner, Sabrina Carpenter.
is now we're all living in Sabrina's world now. Exactly.
By the way, she's pretty great.

And I actually, I've turned my nose up at her early on too. I was like, ah, whatever, whatever.
And I'm like, it's, she's funny. Oh, I think she's very funny.

I think we talked about it here. I watched her Christmas

special that had like sketches in it and had like funny people from SNL and other sketch players on there doing funny sketches, which I was very appreciative. I'm into it.
All right.

So I like, you're, you're, you know, you're in the zone with us. This is great.
Um, I do want to make sure people know that if they're in New York, Soho Theater is where they can see your show.

I don't trust adults. It's running there for a month.
We look, this is the thing. I think people don't understand.
Like, this is an impossible task that you're doing. You are running a show.

You are advertising a show. You're trying to get people out to see a show.

So really, what you really rely on, to a certain extent, I would imagine, is word of mouth, right? You want to make sure that people talk about it. You want to make sure people come see it early.

And

yeah, I just feel like it's, so if you're in New York, check it out. Tell people, go see it.
It's going to be fun.

Should we send people to your website, Ruby, or the website of the ticket play?

How are we sending it? What are we doing here? You can go to my Instagram. It's at RubyCarp with the K, no C.

And

all of the links can be found in my bio. You can go to the Soho Playhouse website.
It's called I Don't Trust Adults, March 26th through May 3rd, Soho Playhouse, New York City.

Literally anything.

If you search any of those things, I am sure something will come up, hopefully, on the intro. I just typed in your name and I got it.
I got it right there. It's right at the top.
Great.

This is great. What a treat.
You guys, thank you so much. I will not read your book.
Please tell nobody. We will ignore what we will ignore all of your previous, everything previous to this.

You would like us to ignore. I have never done anything else.

Yes. Okay.
Got it. Brand new talent screaming onto the scene.
Rude. I think at 21 years old, you should have like a delete button for anything.

Actually, 25. At 25, you should be able to go back and be like, I'm going to cherry pick what exists after this moment.

Like that, like we should have a moment that that is, you know, I think that that's the right time to do it. I think that's totally right.

I will say this as somebody who is a dad who brought his son today to his first, oh, I'm having such a hard time, overnight adventure for five nights. Oh my God, I can't even get into it.
What?

And he chose to wear a, and this is not my son's style at all. He's, he chose to wear a Panama hat, like a,

I don't know why. He was like, I'm wearing this hat.
I was like, all right, buddy, but I'm not posting that online. I'm not posting it online because I don't know if he's going to embrace that.

That Panama hat that he did. I've never seen this kid wear a hat in his life.
When he walked out of the house, he's like, wearing that hat.

I was like, okay. And he's going to thank you for that.
That's what I tried to do. He's going to thank you for that.

He's wearing a big gold necklace with his basketball

galaxy sweatshirt and like a shirt that says I'm him and that Panama hat.

Well, he's great. As long as you don't let him do a TED Time, I think it's going to be pretty good.
He's going gonna be fine. Ruby, this is awesome.
It's Ruby Carp, K-A-R-P.

Uh, and we will, uh, we, I can't wait to see the show. Uh, thanks so much for talking, though.
Thank you guys so much for talking to me.

Um, all right, Jason, in fact, we've talked about a bunch of stuff. You can see us on tour.
Uh, if you want to find out more about our tour, we even have a show coming up in Toronto.

We're going to be back. We may even do some stuff in Vancouver.
There's a lot of stuff coming up. Uh, make sure you go to hdtgm.com.
And uh, yeah, that's all we got.

And And don't forget to watch season three of Invincible right now on Amazon Prime. You got to see what's happening with Rexplode, guys.
Come on. All right.
So much fun, everybody. We'll talk soon.

All right. Thank you, Jason, for stopping by.
And a big shout out to Ruby Carp for joining us for this very special. Oops, all just chat.
But now it is finally time to announce our next movie.

Next week, we'll be going from zodiacal councils to vengeful arousals. That's right.
Next week, we're watching the 2000 film starring Dolph Lundgren

called Jill Rips. Kind of like Jack the Ripper, but I think it's like Jill the Ripper.
Anyway, here's a short breakdown of the plot.

A tough guy played by Dolph Lundgren goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of, you guessed it, SM to find out who is responsible for the death of his brother.

Well, maybe it has nothing to do with Jack the Ripper. Rotten Tomatoes gives this film an 11% score on the popcorn meter.
And here is what Letterbox user Forced One says about Jill Rips.

This must be the longest movie ever made. I checked how long I've been watching it 10 times, and I wasn't even at 30 minutes yet.
It took me six weeks to finish it. Oh, Lord.

All right, let's listen to the trailer.

A murder that shocks a community.

A secret that shatters a family.

A ruthless killer on a rampage.

When a former cop is forced out of retirement to find the truth, he'll have to mount his own investigation. I can't get a warrant.
No, we don't get a warrant. And enter the killer's world.

What would you like? But he'll have to go further than he ever imagined before the killer strikes again.

Dolph London.

Jill Rips.

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