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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Greetings. And welcome to House of R, a Ringerverse podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm Mallory Rubin. She's Joanna Robinson. And friend of the pod month would not have been complete without Jason fucking Manzoukas.
Let's go. Let's go. I'm setting the tone. We're getting this done. Shorzy style.
Shorzy reference right away. I love it. Would you say he's the friend of the pod? This is our last friend of the pod month episode.
Oh, am I the last? Oh, wow. What an honor.
You won't be the last guest in the history of the podcast unless something goes really wrong today, which like, don't rule it out.
But for this inaugural friend of the pod month, I'm honored to please be batting cleanup to do a sports reference.
We both made a baseball reference. Did I do it right? Well, I went with closer, which I think is slightly more It is? Okay.
But I think that's also acceptable. What I was promised is that you don't care for sports.
I hate sports.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of Spider-Noir Season 1?
You know, I'd say that I've mellowed in my old age. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think that I... You didn't go after anybody or take it personally? Well, this is the meter more. The meter is calm. In the hype draft, I think I was pretty well-behaved this year. On the big pick Star Wars draft recently, I was well-behaved for, I'd say, 80% of it.
That's not what any of the clips I was serving told me.
When I was not allowed at the end to select. I was not allowed at the end is a real issue. which is like ludicrous. And then it really... 3PO? Yeah.
Is not a Sky... Wait, what? Of course he is. Of course he is. What are we talking about? You tried to draft 3PO, R2D2, absolutely.
Well, I tried to do R2 and 3PO both. And then I tried to make the case for both. Then I tried to do midichlorians as Anakin's father. And then I eventually had to take Shmi. It was a whole thing. You took Shmi? I had a choice. I had waited until the last round. Oh, God. Let me throw this one nugget at you. How many of our podcasts are we going to spend relitigating? All of them.
Did anybody get Cobb Vanth?
Well, it's funny you should mention that because then Joanna and Damon Lindelof and I did on our Mando Grogu primer a mini draft, a Star Wars duos draft. And 3PO and R2 were just waiting for me in the fourth round. But I didn't take them, I think because of PTSD. Yeah, that's why.
And then ended up at the very end.
Or a better drafter got them. I don't know, something happened.
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Chapter 3: How does Nick Cage's performance influence the show?
As a romantic couple? By the way, we all want it. We're shipping that.
Com Banth with anything, honestly.
You know, their first meeting was very flirtatious.
There's some crackling energy there.
Oh, yeah. It's electric.
Who doesn't love a slow saunter?
What about a healing fuck in the Bacta tank? Why not?
Oh, yeah. When Cad Bane, and I'm going to say this.
Is that like fucking in a hot tub?
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Chapter 4: What are the key themes of Spider-Noir and its characters?
Oh, look at you. Are you an interview with the Vampire Watcher?
I am not an interview with the Vampire Watcher, but you have gotten me so close so many times that I do feel like there's going to come a moment when I don't have something that's one of my shows and I'm going to be like, oh yeah, this. And I'm going to be obsessed. I can, the way you talk about it, I know I'm going to like it. You know, I just got to get into it.
I watched the first two seasons for Jo for gift swaps and made her watch Landman and Fire and Ash in exchange. Landman.
Avatar. Welcome. Welcome. I'm out on Avatar, but boy, I'm all in on Landman.
Landman is the text of our time.
Especially because of season two.
Did you watch season two? Are you aware that Billy Bob's character fucks an omelet at one point?
Yeah. And are you aware that- Very point- How literally are we talking about?
Sticks his dick in an omelet.
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Chapter 5: What humorous moments stand out in the discussion?
For his friend's salt.
I've never seen this. Salt? The thing you put on your food?
I got the salt. It worked.
Wow.
I bought the salt.
Where does it land on the Orson Welles wine commercial?
No, it's a real commercial.
Well, the Orson Welles one is too.
No, I know.
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Chapter 6: How does the show explore themes of time and relationships?
And it's so Werner Herzog. It's amazing. Exciting. All the lizard shots on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Werner Herzog, they're talking about that movie. And she's talking about all these shots that are from the point of view of the lizard. And he says... that it's Herzogian. He calls it Herzogian. And I was like, I love this guy so much.
What's Manzikian?
Who knows? That's not for me to decide.
Well, it was for Werner to decide.
I wouldn't claim to have that.
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Chapter 7: What are the main recommendations made by Jason Mantzoukas?
This is like you can't give yourself a nickname. I can't have that gravitas the way that he does. He also claims to not dream. I love it. Silence.
He says he doesn't remember his dreams or that he does not dream. Like his subconscious is not active while he's asleep. That doesn't seem possible.
I don't think that's true.
Have I ever told you my favorite joke from the league?
No.
What is it? It's when your character says Gattaca instead of Attica.
Oh, yeah.
Was that an improv or was that in the script? Just claim it. I think it might have been in the script.
I think it might have been in the script because we didn't have scripts. We just had outlines. And so Jeff would usually like have some if he had a bit or a joke, he would give us that. And I think Gattaca might have been a Jeff pitch. I don't remember, though. It's absolutely something I would have improvised.
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Chapter 8: How does the conversation wrap up with reflections on the episode?
I loved all that stuff. We talked about the scene where he's doing the stretching and all this.
There's a couple, but there's one in particular that genuinely, and it's especially if you really, I'd love for somebody to clip it and meme it or whatever because he comes in with the suitcase with his costume in it and it looks like that, just that scene looks like a version of Death of a Salesman directed by Guy Madden. It's like true, insane, next level, other world stuff. Walk-in.
I love when you see it before you quite understand what it is. Yeah. And you're like, what's, okay.
Yeah. Whatever it is. And those were the moments that I felt like really engaged by the show. Yes. When it was weird. Yeah. You know, because when it's trying to do the story, it's not weird at all. Right. And it's very on rails. Right. Unsuccessfully, I would say.
I love, too, in his, like, when he's doing the physical comedy of the shriveled-up spider and all of that. You know, because Spider-Man, so many of the comics, the origin of Peter Parker, all of this is so rooted in the, like, young person goes through puberty and comes to terms with, like, I've got a tingle, and then I'm slinging white stuff out of my body. What's happening? Yeah.
The idea of, like, old, washed Ben Reilly, Spider-Noir, being like, guys, I'm... I'm in the refractory period. I'm going to need a minute. No more web slinging for me.
Really funny. That was great. That was just great. I also loved, I wrote when he, him playing happy Ben Reilly. Oh, yeah. When he sings, I love cheesecake in the morning with you.
Mm-hmm. I was like, what is he up to?
I guarantee that's an improv. There's absolutely no way that was in the script. He's just riffing in a way that I recognize as the insufferable riffing that I do on sets that people are like, well, this guy just please stop. But boy, are they finding absolutely wonderful stuff. I love having eating cheesecake in them. I love cheesecake in the morning with you.
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