How To with John Wilson

So that's Carrie.

So my second pick is How To with John Wilson.

Have you heard of this lad?

I've never heard of him.

I thought, "I'll go onto YouTube," and this video pops up with this guy, John Wilson, talking about his artistic practice for MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, in New York.

And I thought, "Oh, I wonder..." I watched it, thought it was great.

I thought, "I wonder if I can watch his stuff here," and I go onto Now, because Now has HBO Max on it, and his series, How To with John Wilson, which was on in, like, from about 2020 on for about three years, is on Now and HBO Max in Ireland.

Finally, you can watch it here.

Uh, there's a new documentary by, uh, I believe it's by, uh, John Wilson, um, who's sort of, kind of like a Nathan Fielder type.

He's done a lot of, like, television shows like How To With John Wilson.

It's like a docu-series he does on HBO.

He has a new film called The History of Concrete, which is sort of the same premise.

But before we wrap this podcast up, Simon, a film that we presented at Revelation Film Festival earlier this year was the John Wilson documentary, The History of Concrete.

And it was a film that we presented because we're both fans of John Wilson and his documentary series, How To With John Wilson.

And a lot of other people were fans as well, considering the turnout for what was a 9 p.m. showing on a Wednesday night.

And let's quickly just explain, like, what does it mean, like, we presented it, we presented

And what's great about him and this movie is the idea of digressions, of kind of just following different pathways and rabbit holes and just going off tangents and and just finding these kind of like fascinating, funny, and strange kind of things.

And The History of Concrete purports to be about the history of concrete.

He is taking on this topic of concrete, and it's come about because he, you know, for people who follow him on the How To with John Wilson, you would see a lot about his living situation, that he was renting this flat from this landlady, and then he kind of took over the lease, so he is a landlord now.

And just watching him have to deal with a concrete issue and fill it up and then kind of ask those questions.

Thanks, Ben.

Today we're gonna close out the podcast with a conversation that I had with John Wilson who is the director behind a new movie called "The History of Concrete." It is a documentary that is very, very in line with the "How To with John Wilson" HBO series that he made a few years ago.

There were I think three seasons of that show, and it was so delightfully strange and off-kilter, and I think it is really defined by Wilson's curiosity as a filmmaker.

He's one of these guys who just carries around a camera with him basically wherever he goes and he's constantly filming, and he is open and honest and speaks to people and actually listens to them.

So The History of Concrete is a documentary film by director John Wilson.

And John Wilson is most known for his HBO show, How To With John Wilson, which lasted three seasons from 2020 until 2023. a show that if you've seen it at all, you would not be surprised to know that it was executive produced by Nathan Fielder.

And you have not seen it, correct? You haven't seen any of

the HBO show? Correct, yeah.

Yes.

Well, and that's the thing about John Wilson.

If you saw How To With John Wilson on HBO, it is a documentary series of this guy who kind of films stuff on the street happening of New York and basically kind of stumbles into his episodes.

So the episodes are titled How to Make Small Talk, How to Put Up Scaffolding.

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... are familiar with your work, How To with John Wilson, a fantastic show.

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I think, uh...

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... are familiar with your work, How To with John Wilson, a fantastic show-

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... on HBO.

And it's streaming on Netflix.

So I recommend, um, uh, The History of Concrete, which is not streaming, I don't think, anywhere, but it's John Wilson's new first feature-length documentary, which is essentially a feature-length version of one of his episodes of his show, How To With John Wilson.

And the subject matter is... like the history of concrete even though much like his show it's very tangential to yeah everything else like it's just like a side quest like a side quest and then another side quest and then another side quest while along the way you're meeting all these very eclectic and weird kind of people throughout throughout the whole thing and it's kind of hard to like really say that it's If you like John Wilson, then you're going to like the movie.

That's pretty much all I can say.