How Did This Get Made?

I genuinely believed at the beginning that we were watching a movie based on the book The Secret.

It's a French film based on a Japanese film.

It's a French movie based on a Japanese book that became a film that then became a French movie that was released in the United States.

It is a French movie based on a Japanese film.

It's a remake of a Japanese movie by a Frenchman.

If you want to read books, read the Hunger Games books, because those books are great.

They're so bad after the first three.

Book three is not great, but it is still all three books of Hunger Games are a billion times better than the Twilight.

That's the Carl Sagan book, right?

Well, that's a connection right there.

That is a crazy, that's a crazy credit. I mean, when I saw suggested, I started laughing.

If after is The Notebook this is the Fifty Shades of Grey

Because Madonna had her sex book in 1992. This movie comes out in 1993. Erotica, her album. I just felt like, oh, Madonna knows about sex.

Please, please, please, please, please. Oh really? Until the movie's out and she didn't do it.

I think the audiences were so incredibly curious and scared about what that meant.

Now I have been trudging through, not trudging, happily enjoying the 48 hour audio version of Barbra Streisand's book.

I'm reading the Andre Agassi book while I'm listening to it. It's awesome, but it's like, wow, blowing my mind.

It starts off and you are like, okay, it's a little like exactly what you expect. And it kind of just like, it just kind of frost the cake to be like, okay, well I'm here. I'm here. I don't know.

And then Jason, it switches to a point where you're like, I was riveted and it really revolves around for a lack of a, to just abbreviate it as much as I can. She's a bad girl gets sent to a very rich sleepaway school boarding school.

That's going to correct the bad behavior and rich kids. And it is an incredibly abusive place where essentially it has been shut down because they compare the torture that they gave to these kids. Like like the torture that you would get as a prisoner of war, uh, torture, like kids died from the things that they at the school and they, and there was covered up and it's all been now found out.

It is harrowing. And she was there and what it did more than anything, her tenacity through surviving this is otherworldly.

It's honestly like real life Matilda.

Steven Wright has written a book, oh yes, called Harold.

The Steven Wright audiobook called Harold is fantastic and worth reading or worth listening to, it's one of those books by the way, I gave it to my dad, and my dad loved it.

My dad kind of introduced me to Steven Wright back in the day, like I had that tape, it was like I remember it was Steven Wright sitting in like almost a Cubist style room or something like that. It was an audio tape, a stand-up special, and I loved him from that day and I gave it to my dad, my dad just absolutely loved that book.

But I just read Reggie's book, Reggie Watts' new book. And it's a great book. I didn't know he had a book.

Oh yeah, it's called Great Falls, Montana. Great Falls MT. And it's great. It's about him growing up. It's Reggie. It's great. It's really, really fun.

You know him as a How Did This Get Made all-star, great guest on the show. And he has a brand new book called Subculture Vulture. It is a great read. I'm in the middle of it right now.

And if you read his first book, you will know that Moshe delivers. He is brilliant. Can't wait to finish the book. Well, I don't want to finish the book because it's so good. But I also can't wait to see where it goes. You get what I'm saying.

Anyway, get Moshe's book right now.

It's a memoir and six scenes. It comes out January 30th, a day before my birthday.

I got the box of the real thing today. I just opened up this box. Oh, Molly. And there it is. Oh, that looks great.

what was that comic that they made they made like the adult oh Mark Russell's comic is fantastic so that's a great comic book

He's like Lenny from Of Mice and Men. You think he might crush the cat or crush Sharon Stone I don't know.

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It's interestingly the same set up as The Mist.

Yes, exactly. Right?

Basically?

Christine, Christine is a Stephen King story, right?

Yes.

And that's about a killer truck.

So do you think he made that, he wrote that rather, it got made and then he was like, you know what, not enough trucks in this movie. I got it.

Was The Running Man, the original Stephen King.

It's not, it's a full book.

man, oh man, I enjoyed that man. Man, I enjoyed the hell out of it.