He was a guest on "The Howard Stern Show" on April 10, 2008; when he was asked if he would direct "Ghostbusters III" and cast Howard, he said "Do you know how many times I get asked if I want to do "Ghostbusters III"? Looking at my career so far, I mean, if you just looked at my two films, I would make the most boring "Ghostbusters" movie. It would just be people talking about ghosts, there wouldn't be any ghost-busting in it." Stern, a friend of Ivan Reitman, also revealed that he had seen Jason's early short films and was impressed enough to offer him the opportunity to direct an episode of "Son of the Beach" (a TV series he produced, a goofy parody of "Baywatch"), which Jason declined, citing that he was busy obtaining financing for "Thank You for Smoking" at the time.