Fans of “How Did This Get Made,” the podcast series where Paul Scheer , June Diane Raphael , Jason Mantzoukas , and friends joyfully dissect “bad movies” of all shapes and sizes, don’t have to find themselves in a Jacob’s-Ladder-type situation in order to see live tapings of the show. The podcast has toured all over the United States and internationally for a decade and more. But at the Nantucket Film Festival, the team opened up “HDTGM” to a more general audience — albeit one full of cinephiles who had thoughts about how taking a more “Paul Schrader” approach could have2012’s “Bait,” the live show’s hapless subject.
That could create a watered-down or tonally different episode of the series, but the “How Did This Get Made” team found subtle, creative ways to open up their tent wide enough that anyone wandering into the ‘Sconset Casino (it is not a casino) on Nantucket would still be hit with the comedy force of a tsunami stranding multiple sharks inside of a supermarket — which is, of course, the plot of the movie “Bait.” The film was chosen specifically because the situation is pretty easy to grasp and doesn’t have too many nuances. But host Paul Scheer told IndieWire that, even so, “How Did This Get Made” leaned on clips and an explanatory structure they don’t normally utilize.
“A lot of the time, the clips are a special sauce of the actual podcast; it’s like a shared remembrance of this thing,” Scheer said. But for �.
