FH Mini 81 - The Field House

[0:00] Hello, everybody, and welcome to this week's Flophouse Mini.

[0:07] Regular Flophouse listeners will know that most episodes, we watch a bad movie and we

[0:12] talk about it.

[0:13] But on mini episodes, we do whatever we want.

[0:16] And right now, we especially get to do whatever we want because we're the bosses.

[0:19] We writers are on strike right now.

[0:22] That's Dan and me.

[0:23] We're both members of the Writers Guild of America.

[0:24] We're on strike.

[0:25] Stuart is, I guess, striking from writing for television shows.

[0:28] Yes.

[0:30] He's continuing to not write for television shows.

[0:31] I get offers.

[0:32] I get offers.

[0:33] Lifelong strike.

[0:34] And I'm like, I can't take your meeting, Ron Howard.

[0:37] Take that, Ronnie.

[0:38] So, not you, Ronald Reagan.

[0:39] Mr. Two First Names.

[0:40] That's what they call him.

[0:41] I mean, also, if Ronald Reagan asked me for a meeting, I would tell him to shove it, too,

[0:48] Elliot.

[0:49] Brave.

[0:50] Brave stance against a dead man.

[0:51] You wouldn't ask him, what happens after you die?

[0:52] Because I'd ask him that, and then I'd tell him to shove it.

[0:53] I don't know.

[0:54] I don't mess around with Ouija boards anymore after the incident.

[0:59] Yeah.

[1:00] We don't need to talk about that.

[1:01] So, anyway, the point...

[1:02] The origin of evil?

[1:03] Is that the incident?

[1:04] Because that was a pretty bad one.

[1:06] Yeah.

[1:07] So, we writers are on strike right now, and you know what strikes remind me of?

[1:11] What?

[1:12] Sports, everybody.

[1:13] There's two different kinds of strikes in sports.

[1:15] Welcome to The Fieldhouse, the only podcast about sports movies.

[1:19] Whistle sound.

[1:20] Alex, please put in a whistle sound.

[1:23] Okay.

[1:24] Now, welcome to The Fieldhouse.

[1:26] I'm joined today by two amazing guests slash co-hosts.

[1:29] First up, Dan, Mad Dog McCoy, a real movie commentary MVP.

[1:34] That stands for Most Valuable Pervisoid.

[1:36] Give a yo to the audience at home, Mad Dog.

[1:38] Yo.

[1:40] Well done.

[1:41] Wait, hold on.

[1:42] More like a mad dog.

[1:44] Yo!

[1:45] Thank you.

[1:46] Much better.

[1:47] Much madder and doggier.

[1:48] And with us today is the bodybuilding bartender whose dream is to mix an Arnold Palmer for

[1:53] Arnold Palmer.

[1:54] That's right.

[1:55] And the legend, the megend, Stuart Mad Cat Wellington.

[1:58] Stuart, throw a yo at the audience, but do it like a cat.

[2:01] Yo, yo!

[2:03] Perfectly done.

[2:04] And I'm your host, The Fieldhouse, as always, America's biggest sports fan's brother,

[2:10] Ellie Mad Mouse Kalen.

[2:12] Dan, Stu, welcome to The Fieldhouse.

[2:15] Thanks.

[2:16] I realized that just simply having big headphones on and sitting in front of microphones side

[2:20] by side, looking straightforward, makes us look like sports commentators.

[2:24] You are!

[2:26] Sports commentators and especially sports movie commentators.

[2:30] Because today we're talking about sports movies on The Fieldhouse.

[2:33] Like I said, the only podcast about sports movies.

[2:36] There are no others.

[2:37] No others.

[2:38] Don't even look for them.

[2:39] Do not check.

[2:40] Yep.

[2:41] Now, Dan, Stu, you're both famous for claiming to be the number one sports movie fan in America.

[2:46] You do it every episode constantly.

[2:49] I bump into people on the street, at Lowe's, when I'm buying some hot dogs, and people

[2:55] are like, hey, you think you're the number one sports movie fan commentator in the universe.

[3:00] And I'm like, universe?

[3:01] How about the dark universe?

[3:03] And they're like, that exists?

[3:04] I'm like, in my universe it does.

[3:06] And they're like, what are you talking?

[3:08] Your dark universe is about monsters that play sports.

[3:10] Now, and Dan, you're well known for your catchphrase, what do I want for dinner?

[3:14] Sports movies.

[3:16] Dan, why don't you deliver your famous catchphrase for the audience?

[3:19] What do I want for dinner?

[3:21] Sports movies.

[3:23] Okay, great.

[3:25] You are really both buying into this in a way that I was afraid you wouldn't, and I

[3:29] really appreciate it.

[3:30] Okay.

[3:31] Now, I'm going to settle this long-running feud for good on this episode of The Fieldhouse.

[3:36] We are going to finally decide who is the biggest number one sports movie fan in America.

[3:43] It's got to be me.

[3:45] It's got to be me.

[3:46] You're in trouble, mad dog.

[3:48] Smack talk goes here.

[3:50] Well done.

[3:52] It's the best smack talk you don't hear.

[3:55] The audience can fill in the worst insult they've ever heard.

[3:58] Okay.

[3:59] So, I'm going to put you through the ultimate cinematic combine of four rounds of sports

[4:03] movie-related quizzes.

[4:04] And yes, stealing is allowed, or should I say, interception.

[4:09] Okay.

[4:10] Do you feel like you are pumped and ready?

[4:12] Do you need to stretch those brains at all before we get to the first game?

[4:16] Yeah, let me stretch my brain real quick.

[4:22] Okay.

[4:23] I'm ready.

[4:24] Okay, your brains look stretched.

[4:25] I want to remind the audience, it's always important to take care of yourself.

[4:28] If you're going to do a quiz game, remember to stretch your brain ahead of time.

[4:31] You don't want to sprain that brain.

[4:33] A brain sprain can end a very promising career.

[4:36] Brain pain.

[4:37] Yeah, brain pain.

[4:38] A brain sprain pain.

[4:40] Then you're listening to train on the pain brain.

[4:44] Yeah, while eating grain.

[4:46] And you're like, the grain isn't even processed in any way.

[4:49] A brain sprain leads to getting insane in the membrane.

[4:54] So, as a sports doctor, which I am, there's two different kinds of things you want to

[4:58] look out for.

[4:59] You don't want to be insane in the membrane or insane in the brain.

[5:02] Ironically, the membrane is worse.

[5:04] Insane in the brain sounds like it's worse, but insane in the membrane is actually worse.

[5:08] That's the blood-brain-barrier membrane, which is very important to not make insane.

[5:13] Okay, and the worst thing is, when you're insane, you've got no brain, which is also

[5:17] mentioned.

[5:22] That's like a chicken and the egg thing, or a Schrodinger's cat, right?

[5:26] Yeah, yeah, Schroeder's cat.

[5:27] Until you crack open that skull.

[5:29] We don't have that brains in there anymore.

[5:31] It's a real Schroeder's cat scenario.

[5:33] Schroeder's cat, yeah.

[5:34] What a bottle episode that was.

[5:36] We just focused on Schroeder's cat.

[5:38] Just going around the technodrome, taking a nap inside Crang's body.

[5:42] Yeah, okay.

[5:43] I love it.

[5:44] Anyway, let's get to our first round.

[5:47] Okay, this round is called one, two, three strikes, and you're a movie.

[5:52] Now, I am going to name a movie, and you're going to tell me the sport that's being played

[5:57] in that movie.

[5:58] Okay.

[5:59] Okay, we're going to ease in.

[6:00] Now, each of you is going to get a chance to answer your question individually, but

[6:04] again, if you can't answer or you get it wrong, the other player can steal.

[6:09] And so, let's start this first round.

[6:12] I name the movie.

[6:13] You tell me the sport.

[6:14] Dan, here's your first movie.

[6:15] Okay.

[6:16] It's called Miracle.

[6:17] Miracle, that is a hockey film.

[6:20] You got that right.

[6:21] Ding, ding.

[6:22] Whoa.

[6:23] Sorry, Kurt Russell.

[6:24] I'm not interested in the extra information.

[6:27] There is no extra pointage for this round.

[6:29] Just trying to impress Stuart.

[6:31] Easy one.

[6:32] You got a real layup of a question.

[6:34] Don't get cocky, Dan.

[6:36] Now, I know it stars Kurt Russell as Ice Plisket, his famous hockey playing bad boy.

[6:42] Stuart, here's your movie.

[6:44] The Big Green.

[6:46] I'm going to say football.

[6:49] Oh, no, it is not.

[6:51] Dan?

[6:52] Well, I mean, is it...

[6:54] Wait.

[6:55] So, is it not what we Americans would call football, but other parts of the world would

[7:00] call football?

[7:01] You know what?

[7:03] You know what, Dan?

[7:04] You're right, and you've just talked yourself out of a point.

[7:07] Stuart, you got the point.

[7:08] You're right.

[7:09] Okay, call it football in other parts of the world.

[7:10] I wanted to make sure this was a fair competition, but...

[7:14] It is a soccer movie, but you're right.

[7:17] In other countries, they would call it a football movie.

[7:20] So, Dan, that was...

[7:21] I'm going to give you a sportsmanship point, Dan.

[7:23] That was really fantastic.

[7:24] Oh, thank you.

[7:25] So, that sportsmanship point can be cashed in at any Dick's or Moe's.

[7:28] Because that's what I meant.

[7:29] I meant soccer, not American football, that's what I meant.

[7:34] Exactly.

[7:35] So, Dan, here's your next movie.

[7:38] Yeah.

[7:39] Bang the Drum Slowly.

[7:42] Jeez Louise.

[7:44] I was not aware that this was a sports movie at all.

[7:50] Bang the Drum...

[7:54] Often listed as one of the best sports movies ever made.

[7:58] Oh.

[7:59] Come on, Dan, this is easy.

[8:01] It's a sports movie.

[8:02] It's a sports movie.

[8:04] A drum is banged slowly.

[8:06] It's a metaphorical title.

[8:08] Is it?

[8:09] It's...

[8:10] Is it cricket?

[8:11] Whoa.

[8:12] Is it cricket?

[8:13] I'm sorry.

[8:14] No, of course it is.

[8:15] Rowing Crew.

[8:16] No, no.

[8:17] Stuart is also wrong.

[8:18] What?

[8:19] You are both wrong.

[8:20] It is a baseball movie.

[8:21] A baseball movie.

[8:22] Oh, that's weird.

[8:23] Because there's not a lot of drums.

[8:24] I guess in the movie Major League, there's...

[8:27] Where does this movie take place?

[8:29] This movie takes...

[8:30] In the United States of America in New York.

[8:32] It stars Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro.

[8:35] And it is about a baseball player with a terminal illness.

[8:38] It is the baseball version of Brian's Song in some ways.

[8:41] What movie that is set in China has a similar title?

[8:44] I was imagining.

[8:45] Do you have any idea?

[8:46] I believe you're thinking of Raise the Red Lantern instead of Bang the Drum Slowly.

[8:50] Could be.

[8:51] Could be.

[8:53] That's actually structurally very similar.

[8:55] What you should do with an item.

[8:57] Also, that's also about baseball, right?

[9:00] That is, yes, also about baseball.

[9:03] No, it is not.

[9:04] Raise the Red Lantern is not about baseball.

[9:06] It's a sequel to Mr. Baseball.

[9:07] No, it isn't.

[9:08] Well, Mr. Baseball is set in Japan, not in China.

[9:11] Oh, shit.

[9:12] A different country with its own rich culture.

[9:17] Very different.

[9:18] Oh, no.

[9:20] Let's not stick with that too much.

[9:22] So, Dan, you both had trouble with that one.

[9:24] No points rewarded.

[9:25] Stuart, let's see if you can do better on this next one, your next movie.

[9:29] What sport is played in this movie?

[9:31] It's called rollerball.

[9:34] What sport do they play in rollerball?

[9:36] They play rollerball in it.

[9:38] That's exactly right.

[9:39] They do play rollerball.

[9:40] You got it.

[9:41] Yeah.

[9:42] OK, Dan, that was it.

[9:43] I know that was kind of an easy one.

[9:44] Here's an easy one for you.

[9:45] The Way Back.

[9:46] What sport is being played in The Way Back?

[9:48] Is that basketball?

[9:50] You're right.

[9:51] OK.

[9:52] Competitive drinking.

[9:55] Kind of.

[9:56] OK, Stu, what about this one?

[9:58] Chariots of Fire.

[10:00] Uh, running?

[10:02] Yes, running, exactly.

[10:04] It's about Olympic runners. Dan?

[10:06] It's really about the theme by Vangelis, though.

[10:08] That's what it's all about.

[10:10] It's the theme for the movie.

[10:12] It's a delivery system for that.

[10:14] Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.

[10:16] Okay, we'll do that one for...

[10:18] You go to the movie theater wearing fucking sunglasses

[10:20] because you don't need to see that screen. You just want to hear those sweet tunes.

[10:22] Yeah.

[10:24] We'll talk more about that when we get to an episode of Field Tempo,

[10:27] which is the only podcast about the music in sports movies.

[10:31] Okay.

[10:33] A lot of da-na-na-na-na-na-na.

[10:35] Hey!

[10:37] In that one.

[10:39] As seen in the Joker,

[10:41] the famous sports movie Joker,

[10:43] about competitive clowning.

[10:45] Joker, of course, him walking down the stairs

[10:47] to that most beautiful moment in all of filmmaking,

[10:49] according to idiots on Twitter.

[10:51] Idiots on Twitter who have not seen other movies.

[10:53] That's what you're saying.

[10:55] Flash entering the Speed Force, right?

[10:57] Flash entering the Speed Force is not the most beautiful moment,

[10:59] it's the most exciting.

[11:01] That's when you stand up and cheer.

[11:03] That's the stand up and cheer most exciting, inspirational moment in movies.

[11:05] What was the stand up and cheer moment

[11:07] from this year's Academy Awards, Dan?

[11:09] I think they correctly identified that

[11:11] as a big, dumb idea.

[11:13] Yeah, America cheered

[11:15] when they stopped having America vote

[11:17] on the stand up and cheer moment.

[11:19] For me, it was when Judith Light

[11:21] appears in the menu and I'm like,

[11:23] yeah, that is a stand up and cheer.

[11:25] Yeah, sure.

[11:27] So, Dan, here's your next one.

[11:29] Can you answer the question?

[11:31] What sport is the movie Blue Crush about?

[11:33] Easy.

[11:35] That is a surfing film.

[11:37] Yes, that's right, it's a surfing movie.

[11:39] Okay, Stu.

[11:41] Dan just pulled up his phone so he can cheat.

[11:43] Dan, no phones allowed.

[11:45] I am looking at the ads that we need to do later on.

[11:47] Oh.

[11:49] All right, well, I appreciate the respect you're showing

[11:51] for the game that we're playing.

[11:53] I think the fact that I was able to get

[11:55] the correct answer without

[11:57] giving it my full attention

[11:59] and was able to do it without being detected

[12:01] until Stuart called me out

[12:03] means that I was doing okay.

[12:05] Yep, yep.

[12:07] You're a regular Arsene Lupin.

[12:09] You know, sneaking in

[12:11] and sneaking out.

[12:13] We got a real Harrison Bergeron over here,

[12:15] making the game harder for himself.

[12:17] Yeah, he's just trying to make it equivalent.

[12:19] Stu, take advantage of this opportunity

[12:21] of distracting Dan. Here's your movie.

[12:23] It's called He Got Game.

[12:25] Basketball.

[12:27] You got that right. Dan, here's your movie.

[12:29] The greatest game ever played.

[12:31] Golf.

[12:33] You got that right. Stu, for love of the game.

[12:35] Basketball.

[12:37] No, it's not about basketball.

[12:39] Dan, would you like to steal?

[12:41] That's baseball.

[12:43] And two more left. Dan, the game.

[12:45] The game is about

[12:47] The game is about

[12:49] sort of an interactive game

[12:51] Yeah.

[12:53] And the name for that is?

[12:55] It's like

[12:57] It's like

[12:59] TRS or something.

[13:01] Stu, you want to steal this one?

[13:03] The game?

[13:05] Yes. No, it's close.

[13:07] LARPing. It is LARPing.

[13:09] That was the answer I was looking for.

[13:11] It's essentially a movie about LARPing.

[13:13] And finally, this last one is for Stu.

[13:15] Basketball.

[13:17] What is basketball about?

[13:19] It's about basketball.

[13:23] Stuart has a short lead.

[13:25] Six to five.

[13:27] That's including Dan's good sportsmanship point.

[13:29] So Dan, maybe you shouldn't look at your phone

[13:31] while playing the game.

[13:33] I don't think that's the problem.

[13:35] We'll go on.

[13:37] Now it's time for our second round.

[13:39] We're going to do one more round.

[13:41] Then we'll take a break for sponsors.

[13:43] This next game is called

[13:45] Put Movie In, Coach.

[13:47] I'm Ready to Press Play.

[13:49] In this round,

[13:51] I'm going to name the sport.

[13:53] You tell me a movie about that sport.

[13:55] Any movie about that sport.

[13:57] Okay.

[13:59] This sounds easy, and it probably is.

[14:01] We're going to start with Stu.

[14:03] Stu, can you name a baseball movie?

[14:05] Field of Dreams.

[14:07] You got it. Dan, you're up next.

[14:09] Can you name a rugby movie?

[14:11] Leatherheads.

[14:13] No, I'm sorry.

[14:15] That's about American football.

[14:17] Invictus?

[14:19] Yep, Stu gets it.

[14:21] Another point. Invictus is a rugby movie.

[14:23] I thought that was soccer.

[14:25] As did I until I looked it up.

[14:27] I've never seen it.

[14:29] Dan Damon gets so fucking bulky in that shit.

[14:31] He does. He asked you to play rugby.

[14:33] He's a bulky boy.

[14:35] Stu, back to you. Basketball.

[14:37] Can you name a basketball movie?

[14:39] Yeah, Love and Basketball.

[14:41] Sure, I'll take it. It's got basketball right in the title.

[14:43] Okay, Dan, I'm going to need to name a sailing movie.

[14:45] Can you name a movie about sailing?

[14:47] White Squall.

[14:49] Does that count?

[14:51] You got it. White Squall, that counts.

[14:53] Okay, Stuart, things are going to get a little bit harder.

[14:55] Stuart, can you name a football movie?

[14:57] Yes.

[14:59] I could.

[15:01] How about The Last Boy Scout?

[15:03] I'll allow it.

[15:05] I'll technically allow it.

[15:07] You're a football player. There's not a lot of football in the movie,

[15:09] but doesn't he shoot someone on the field?

[15:11] Yeah, Billy Tyboe Blake shoots somebody.

[15:13] Okay, and now, Dan, if you can name an Australian rules football movie.

[15:15] What the fuck?

[15:17] I think that this game is stacked.

[15:19] I don't think so.

[15:21] Australian rules football movie.

[15:23] I cannot do that.

[15:25] No, I can't.

[15:27] Okay, Stu, you got an Australian rules football movie?

[15:29] Okay, I might be able to.

[15:31] Maybe, wait, no, that's New Zealand.

[15:41] Won't Creek?

[15:43] No, I'm sorry.

[15:45] That is an Australian rules murder movie,

[15:47] not an Australian rules football movie.

[15:49] I would have accepted The Great McCarthy,

[15:51] The Club, Australian Rules.

[15:53] Any of those are Australian rules.

[15:55] Okay, Stu, next,

[15:57] can you name a golf movie?

[15:59] Yeah, I'm going to say

[16:01] Tin Cup.

[16:03] You know it, Tin Cup.

[16:05] And, Dan, now the ball's in your court.

[16:07] Should I say on your field?

[16:09] Can you name a field hockey movie for me?

[16:17] I mean, Mean Girls has field hockey in it.

[16:19] I feel like if The Last Boy Scout works,

[16:21] that one should work.

[16:23] All right, all right, I'll allow it.

[16:25] Dan's on his knees here. He's tearing his shirt.

[16:27] You're begging only because you're being crushed in this round.

[16:29] I'll give it to you.

[16:31] You can name any number of movies, though.

[16:33] Kidokundi, Gold, Harjita, Sorma,

[16:35] a number of famous field hockey movies.

[16:37] Sure.

[16:39] Stu, okay, here's a movie.

[16:41] Here's a sport. Can you name a movie

[16:43] that is about the sport of Gymkata?

[16:45] Ooh, that's really tough.

[16:47] It's not Trouble at the Curve.

[16:49] It's not

[16:51] Idle Hands.

[16:53] It's not...

[16:55] I mean, Idle Hands isn't even a sports movie, is it?

[16:57] I think I'm going to say

[16:59] Gymkata.

[17:01] All right, I'll accept it. Gymkata.

[17:03] And Dan, the final question in the round is for you.

[17:05] Can you name a movie about the sport of

[17:07] Super Mario Bros. 3?

[17:09] Uh...

[17:11] The Wizard?

[17:13] Yes, Dan. I wasn't sure you'd be able to pull it out,

[17:15] but yes, there is one movie about the sport

[17:17] of competitive Super Mario Bros. 3 playing.

[17:19] That is The Wizard.

[17:21] All right, everybody.

[17:23] You're doing really good, Dan.

[17:25] You're doing great. Whistle sound.

[17:27] It's time for us to take a break

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[17:31] on the Field House.

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[23:03] Welcome back to the field house.

[23:06] We're back on the buzzer sound.

[23:07] Give us a buzzer too.

[23:08] Okay, whistle sound, lots of sports sound.

[23:11] We're back.

[23:11] We have two more rounds.

[23:13] Boys, before we get started, how do you feel?

[23:15] Are you pumped?

[23:16] Stuart, tell me, are you pumped for these rounds?

[23:19] You are dominating right now.

[23:19] You think you got what it takes

[23:20] to take you through the end.

[23:22] Yeah, it's me, the mad cat, Stuart Wellington.

[23:25] And am I pumped?

[23:26] You know it.

[23:27] And great.

[23:28] And now Dan, Mad Dog McCoy, how about you?

[23:31] You are trailing a little bit, but not by that much.

[23:33] I think you can make up the distance, maybe.

[23:37] Baba Booey.

[23:40] All right, I don't love that.

[23:41] Dan originated a new catchphrase, never been done before.

[23:45] I would love it if now Dan's whole character

[23:48] is trying to convince the universe

[23:49] that he invented Baba Booey as a catchphrase.

[23:54] All right, everybody, here's our next game.

[23:56] I hope you're ready for it.

[23:57] Are you ready?

[23:58] Maybe stretch those brains again.

[23:59] Stretch those brains again.

[24:05] You better not show up on one of your erotic ASMR channels.

[24:09] No, put it up there, dude.

[24:10] Don't loop it.

[24:11] Too late, it's already there.

[24:13] All right, round three.

[24:14] This segment is a little game we call

[24:16] Nothing in the Rule Book.

[24:18] I'm gonna name a movie and you tell me

[24:19] what sport is being played in it

[24:21] and what animal is playing that sport.

[24:25] Okay.

[24:25] Okay, so there's nothing in the rule book

[24:28] that says animals can't play sports,

[24:29] and honestly, major league sports

[24:31] should take advantage of that more often.

[24:34] Dan, we'll start with you.

[24:36] National Velvet.

[24:38] National Velvet, that is a horse movie.

[24:43] What's the other thing I'm supposed to?

[24:44] It's the sport.

[24:45] What is the sport that the horse is?

[24:47] Is it professional jumping?

[24:50] Horse jumping?

[24:51] What do you call it?

[24:52] Dressage?

[24:53] Is it, well, you know, what do they do in that?

[24:57] Is it just a show pony?

[24:59] What are you?

[25:01] That's amazing.

[25:01] It's amazing how many different horse things

[25:05] we are talking about, and they are not correct.

[25:09] Okay.

[25:10] Okay, Stuart, you wanna steal?

[25:11] Can I steal, I don't know, football?

[25:15] Was it a racehorse?

[25:16] Yes, it was a racehorse, Dan.

[25:18] Oh, man, that seems, here's the problem.

[25:21] So many horses die racing.

[25:22] That's where fucking horses exist.

[25:23] They play fucking racing.

[25:24] I felt like it would be like a nicer thing,

[25:26] where it's just like, you know,

[25:27] she prances around on the horse,

[25:29] and, you know, everyone's like, that's the best horse.

[25:30] No, it's a racehorse.

[25:32] No, the horse runs in the Grand National.

[25:34] Okay.

[25:36] What's the deal?

[25:37] Is it like a horse from the wrong side of the tracks?

[25:39] Like, is it not a racing horse?

[25:42] Why is it?

[25:42] Yeah, it's a horse from the bad part of town.

[25:45] Okay.

[25:46] It meets a high-class pony,

[25:47] and they eat spaghetti together.

[25:48] Yeah, they eat spaghetti together, yeah.

[25:50] Oh, it's just like in Flashdance.

[25:52] Yeah, the famous Flashdance spaghetti scene, yeah.

[25:56] Well, Dan, I'm gonna give you one point for that

[25:58] out of a possible two points.

[26:00] Okay.

[26:01] I'm kind of disappointed that racing

[26:03] was not what you thought of when you thought of horses.

[26:05] It just seemed like that's,

[26:07] like, I think of that as more of like a film

[26:10] for young adults, and racing seems,

[26:13] the high-pressure world of racing didn't seem right to me.

[26:16] As opposed to the natural world of dressage,

[26:19] forcing a horse to step around

[26:21] like there's broken glass all over the field.

[26:24] Like it's the John McClane horse.

[26:26] Yeah.

[26:27] All right, well, Stu,

[26:28] perhaps you'll get your two points on this one.

[26:30] The movie is Ed.

[26:34] So, Ed is...

[26:38] Not to be confused with Eddie,

[26:39] which is also a sports movie,

[26:41] but not an animal sports movie.

[26:43] Ed is a chimpanzee who plays baseball.

[26:47] Both points are for you.

[26:48] Okay, Dan, next one.

[26:50] Another name movie, Gus.

[26:57] Gus, is this one about a donkey?

[27:00] Uh-huh.

[27:01] That's one point.

[27:02] And does the donkey play football?

[27:04] You know it, you know it.

[27:05] Oh, just like EO.

[27:08] This is American football.

[27:10] Okay.

[27:11] I haven't seen EO yet,

[27:12] but I have seen Captain EO.

[27:13] No sports in that one.

[27:16] So, Stuart, this next one's for you.

[27:18] Name the animal and the sport.

[27:20] I'm really, I got my fingers crossed

[27:23] that this is Angels in the Outfield.

[27:24] Animals, angels.

[27:25] What's the animal there, Christopher Lloyd?

[27:26] The animal's angels?

[27:27] Angels.

[27:29] Have you seen them?

[27:30] Have you seen them described in the Bible?

[27:31] They sound crazy.

[27:32] That's true, they do sound crazy.

[27:33] Yeah, they don't sound like animals.

[27:34] They sound like...

[27:36] Like I'm pushing a bunch of animals.

[27:37] They don't sound like they're depicted, though.

[27:38] Can I just, sidebar?

[27:39] Yeah, sure.

[27:41] I'm a little annoyed at the popular conception

[27:44] of angels as like dead people.

[27:47] Like, those are ghosts you're thinking of.

[27:50] Like, angels are a whole nother thing.

[27:52] I love that this is what you're taking a stand on.

[27:54] We're in the middle of a strike.

[27:55] Get your mythology right.

[27:56] AI is threatening so many industries,

[27:58] and you gotta make sure

[27:58] that angels and ghosts are separate.

[27:59] Here's the problem.

[28:00] Isn't AI gonna go to the same,

[28:02] isn't there gonna be the same difficulty eventually

[28:05] that happens with the spelling on my phone?

[28:08] Like, I read something that said

[28:09] the spelling on your phone,

[28:11] you're not imagining it, it's getting worse.

[28:13] It's because they're using AI,

[28:14] and they're sourcing it from people on the internet.

[28:18] And you know what's on the internet?

[28:19] A lot of bad spelling and grammar.

[28:21] So, you know, at a certain point,

[28:23] isn't the AI just gonna spew out a bunch of shit

[28:26] from people who can't write?

[28:28] Yes.

[28:29] Yeah, that's the plan.

[28:31] It's like when my phone always tries to correct it

[28:33] when I spell Kirith Ungol, and I'm like,

[28:35] I know how to spell this shit, bitch.

[28:38] And Siri says, there's no need for that, sir.

[28:41] I am just as God made me.

[28:43] But God didn't make you, you abomination.

[28:45] Humans did.

[28:46] Well, Siri's talking about Steve Jobs.

[28:48] Oh, okay, okay.

[28:50] We call him God,

[28:51] even though he didn't do the actual creation work.

[28:53] I am as God made me.

[28:55] More of a ideas man.

[28:58] God would say to the angels, I did the hard part.

[29:00] I came up with the idea.

[29:02] Now you make it work.

[29:03] Yeah.

[29:04] Anyway.

[29:06] I have to say this now

[29:07] because people put it on the internet, beep, boop.

[29:11] And then-

[29:12] Okay, you were, are we done with this?

[29:14] Or are we playing the game?

[29:15] No, we're still in the field house.

[29:16] Okay, Stuart, you got the next one.

[29:18] Okay. Oh, cool.

[29:19] Can you name the animal in the movie?

[29:20] MVP, Most Valuable Primate.

[29:24] Pretty sure that's another chimpanzee,

[29:27] and it's playing baseball.

[29:28] No, it is not playing baseball.

[29:30] Dan, you wanna- It's playing basketball.

[29:31] Dan, you wanna steal that sport point?

[29:34] Yeah, I'll go with basketball.

[29:37] No, incorrect.

[29:38] You would say that.

[29:38] Skateboarding.

[29:39] What the fuck does it do?

[29:40] It's hockey, Dan.

[29:41] You should have gone with your first gut instinct,

[29:43] which is that chimpanzees play hockey.

[29:46] Okay.

[29:47] I shouldn't have listened to Stuart.

[29:48] Stuart incepted me with the wrong answer.

[29:49] Yeah, I fucked him up.

[29:50] I threw him off his game.

[29:51] But that's the way this game works

[29:53] is sometimes you intentionally fuck up your opponent.

[29:55] That's true.

[29:56] Dan, let's call this a chance for redemption.

[29:59] See this.

[30:00] name the animal and the sport. Redemption. Redemption, yeah. I believe that Seabiscuit

[30:06] is the world's most popular horse. Yes. And that, I know, is a racing picture. Yes, that's

[30:12] a horse racing picture. Yeah, I'm sure. It's about how Seabiscuit saved us all from the

[30:17] Great Depression. Actually, Alex, real quick, can you check to see if it was about Dressage?

[30:25] It was that year when Dressage lifted the nation's spirits out of the Great Depression.

[30:29] Okay, Stu, and here's some redemption possibility for you. Dressage, that's nothing a horse

[30:33] should do. Fancy dancing, we're racehorses, gotta go. Oh, no. Oh, there he goes again.

[30:39] Oh, wow, Alex, you don't have to look it up, I guess. Seabiscuit never sticks around. It

[30:43] was so fast. Yeah. So, Stuart, here's a redemption moment. Here's a chance for... I get a redemption?

[30:50] Salvation? Yep. MVP2, most vertical primate. Name the animal and the sport. Oh, my God.

[31:00] You know, there's a thing where, like, you know, you know in the Matrix, where you can,

[31:06] like, see the Matrix? That's what I'm doing right now. Just like Elliot's dad. So, I am

[31:13] going to say chimpanzee, and I'm going to say skateboarding. Yes, skateboarding. You

[31:18] got it. I was worried you were going to say basketball, which is also a very vertical

[31:21] sport. Okay, Dan, here's another name one for you. Matilda. Name the animal and the

[31:28] sport. Matilda. The Roald Dahl movie? No, this is a movie starring Elliot Gould. Oh.

[31:35] I shouldn't have given you that clue, but I will. Sorry. Is this about a gorilla that

[31:41] boxes? Wait, no. It's about a kangaroo that boxes. Yes, it's about a kangaroo that boxes.

[31:49] Excellent work, Dan. Excellent work. A gorilla that boxes is... Smoke is coming out of Dan's

[31:54] ears. I'm glad you stretched your brain earlier, because that would have sprained it if you

[31:59] hadn't. A gorilla that boxes is a terrifying idea. Well, it's a kangaroo that boxes. It's

[32:03] a little amusing. It would murder people. Yeah. It would just destroy them. His fist

[32:07] would just claw right through the glove. Okay, Stu, here's another one for you. Then

[32:12] that rhymes. Stu. MXP. Most extreme primate. Give me the animal and the sport. I got to

[32:21] say a chimpanzee. Yes. What's more extreme than skateboarding? There's only one thing

[32:27] that's more extreme than skateboarding. You know what it is. Snowboarding? You got it.

[32:30] Snowboarding. That's right. Awesome. Okay, Dan. Airbud. Give me the animal and the sport.

[32:37] That is a golden retriever dog who plays originally, I believe, basketball. I'm glad

[32:46] you mentioned the breed. Stu. Airbud. Golden receiver. Give me the animal and the sport.

[32:51] That's a dog, a golden retriever, playing football. That's right. Dan. Airbud. Airbud

[32:59] spikes back. That's a golden retriever playing volleyball. You got that right. Stu. Airbud.

[33:08] Seventh inning fetch. Oh, fuck. Probably not cricket. That's a dog that's a golden retriever

[33:18] playing baseball. That's right. I'm glad you're mentioning the breed. You might get a point off

[33:22] if you don't. Dan. Airbud. World pup. I'm going to say this is also a golden retriever who plays

[33:29] soccer. That's right. This football. Yeah. Bo Jackson has nothing on this dog. He plays every

[33:35] sport. And Stu, you guessed it. The final one of the round, the wrestler. Name the sport and the

[33:40] animal. Okay. The animal is Mickey Rourke. And the sport is wrestling. You got it. Technically

[33:48] an animal. Technically an animal. Wow. What a round. You guys both scored a lot of points. In

[33:54] fact, you tied on that round. You both had the same number of points for that. Wow. So that means

[34:01] that Stuart still just has a slight lead of if I'm doing my math correctly here of just four points,

[34:07] a four point lead. So it's all going to come down, ironically, to round four for this four point

[34:15] lead. Now this is ironic. Yeah. Now this is a cooperative game, actually. Coincidence. Oh,

[34:20] okay. Okay. Yeah. It's a huge irony, Dan. It's an irony. You make the call. That's the name of this

[34:26] one. You make the call. This is a cooperative game in which you will have to call Sylvester

[34:31] Stallone to break the news to him that we didn't mention any of his sports movies during this

[34:36] episode. So, guys, if you will just dial the number I put up on your screen there, I'll

[34:40] batch the call in to the recording line. Do you want to go first or ring ring?

[34:48] Ring ring. I think I should go second because I'm no. Okay. Okay. Ring sound.

[34:54] Oh, yeah. Hello. Hey. Hey, I'm is Sylvester Stallone there. Sylvester there.

[35:01] Speaking. Call me. Oh, unless you're a telemarketer, in which case get the hell

[35:07] off my phone unless you want to talk about things because, you know, sometimes a guy in my position,

[35:12] you know, at the top of the world for the biggest movie stars in the in the universe,

[35:16] I don't get to like, you know, talk to people honestly about how they're feeling. So are you

[35:21] a telemarketer and what are you selling and how do you feel about it? No. Hey, I'm Stuart Madcat

[35:26] Wellington. I'm a podcaster and also the biggest fan of sports movies in the universe. I'm under

[35:33] some debate. I heard there was another guy who also felt he was the biggest fan of sports movies.

[35:38] It's great that we we kind of know each other's, you know, like reputation. So please don't assume

[35:43] a level of familiarity that we've yet to earn. Now that I know you're not a telemarketer, I'm not as

[35:48] interested in your opinions on. Oh, interesting. So, Sly, you have made. Call me Mr. Stallone,

[35:54] please. Mr. Stallone, you've made a number of movies in your day, correct? You could say that.

[36:00] It's literally a number. The number escapes me at the moment, but as is a finite set of a particular

[36:07] item, in this case, movies featuring me, you cannot say it was an infinite amount. It must

[36:13] be described by a number. Yes. You have some of those movies are about sports, is that correct?

[36:19] You better believe it. If there is a sport, I've made a movie about it, except for hockey,

[36:25] uh, baseball, uh, was I in a football movie? Okay. I was in a soccer movie. I did boxing.

[36:34] I haven't done highlight yet. I haven't done bobsled or skeleton. Uh, I haven't done

[36:40] javelin or high jump or pole vault or long jump. Yep. So I guess you could say if there's a sport,

[36:49] I've done a movie about it. Yeah, you've done them all. So, uh, we're just doing a little game.

[36:54] Is spelunking a sport?

[36:57] Cause I did a movie where I was on top of a mountain, but I don't think I've ever done

[37:02] one was under a mountain. Daylight doesn't count. I was in the sewers. That was a tunnel.

[37:07] Yeah. I don't know if it's cause of spelunking if you're in a tunnel. Anyway,

[37:10] we're playing a game here, uh, where we were. Oh, that's great. I love games. This is like

[37:14] you guys settling Catan. Yeah. No, it's kind of like a sport. Kids start getting points.

[37:19] Uh, if he never actually gets around to telling still, I don't know what he's supposed to tell

[37:24] him. Let me just jump in here and interrupt the call. So I can't hear me. Uh, no, he doesn't get

[37:28] points that you have to break the news to slice. I see. So, uh, Mr. Sloan, I just wanted to say,

[37:33] we're just alone. It sounds like you're saying Sloan, which is not my name, the name, the

[37:37] girlfriend from Ferris Bueller's day off. Uh, so wait, you're not related to Sloan Peterson.

[37:43] I know I'm not related to Sloan Peterson or, or, or her father who is, uh, who is, uh, at one point,

[37:50] uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, we're playing a game, which you love, uh, where we're, uh, the,

[38:00] we're made a movie about it. Remember that movie I did called Oscar. That was originally a movie

[38:06] about a game called Oscar the game. It's just Sloan. I want to, I just want to break in.

[38:10] Excuse me. I'm having a private conversation here. I'm I'm Dan McCoy. I forget what my, uh,

[38:17] my nickname is, but I like to, well, his nickname was mad cat. I imagine it's too hard to guess

[38:23] what your nickname would be. It was a bad dog. I don't ask me. I'm new to this conversation.

[38:28] It seems like that would be the obvious thing. I don't know. Why don't you call me that? And

[38:31] you know, we'll see what, if I answer, I mean, you may be calling us all mad, but right now,

[38:36] it's true. If I answer to my name, um, Hey, I just wanted to offer you some restaurant

[38:43] quality Tostitos. If you could, uh, if you would just, uh, take a little, uh, info from me right

[38:48] now, you are speaking up music to my ears and to my taste buds. You know, I love Tostitos.

[38:54] It's a restaurant quality chip. You wouldn't normally, you would have to go to a restaurant

[38:58] to get that, but you have them in your house. Like you just buy a bag and leave it in your

[39:02] pantry. Oh, I want some chips. I guess I better go to a restaurant, open the pantry to get your

[39:06] keys. You keep them in the pantry. Sometimes there's Tostitos. You don't have to go to a

[39:10] restaurant anymore. You save the day. Yeah. And unlike a restaurant, you get to pick the size

[39:15] of the bowl that your Tostitos are in that finally freed from the tyranny of restaurant bowls. I can

[39:20] get like just a little bowl, maybe something like a little finger bowl chips in it, or it's like a

[39:24] big bowl, like a, like a punch bowl. It's all crystal cut glass. Oh, beautiful. Yeah. And it's

[39:30] the most beautiful thing about it is it's full of restaurant quality Tostitos.

[39:35] I'll send you some, if you just, let me say something to you for a second.

[39:39] Here's my address. Sylvester Stallone, 123 Future Street, Time Cop, America.

[39:45] Wait, you weren't even in Time Cop. More of a demolition man boulevard.

[39:50] No, no, no, no, no. I bought Time Cop and I live there now.

[39:53] Oh, you bought stock in Time Cop? No, no. I bought the world of Time Cop.

[39:57] Because whenever you make a movie, that world comes into.

[40:00] I don't know if you're aware of that.

[40:01] In a way, yeah, yeah.

[40:02] That's what Alan Moore told me.

[40:03] And the Demolition Man world, here's the thing.

[40:04] In the Demolition Man world, since every restaurant's a Taco Bell, you can't get restaurant-quality

[40:07] chips at home.

[40:08] You gotta go to a restaurant.

[40:09] But in Timecop, you can just buy Tostitos.

[40:12] They still have that in that future.

[40:13] Demolition Man, they don't have it anymore.

[40:16] Plus, Timecop has regular toilets, whereas Demolition Man has weird toilets, so I didn't

[40:22] want to live in that future.

[40:23] I want a regular toilet.

[40:24] So I bought the Timecop world, and I live in it now.

[40:27] That's why there's that scene in Timecop where he just uses a regular toilet, yeah?

[40:30] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[40:31] Yeah, yeah.

[40:32] Well, you know what?

[40:33] We don't want to keep you any longer.

[40:34] We're gonna, we'll let you go.

[40:35] I got nothing but time!

[40:36] This has been, uh...

[40:37] So what did you want to, so I realize there was probably a reason for calling me.

[40:43] You didn't want to just offer me Tostitos, as beautiful as a world as that would be.

[40:48] Oh yeah, we didn't...

[40:49] Tostitos were offered, yeah.

[40:50] We didn't include any of your movies in our sports game.

[40:53] We're sorry.

[40:54] But in a way...

[40:55] You what?

[40:56] But we've centered you.

[40:57] You what?

[40:58] Kind of, in a way.

[40:59] You, excuse me.

[41:00] In a way, you have a...

[41:01] Excuse me.

[41:02] A whole round.

[41:03] I mean, so, none of the Rockies?

[41:05] Nope.

[41:06] Well, at least, but you didn't mention any boxing movies, right?

[41:10] Uh, I think we did have a movie about a kangaroo that boxed.

[41:14] Oh, you're right.

[41:15] You talked about Matilda, but you didn't talk about the Rocky movies?

[41:18] Are you kidding me?

[41:20] You're kidding me.

[41:21] I mean...

[41:22] We're not.

[41:23] Are you kidding me?

[41:24] Since Matilda snubbed us and wouldn't appear in Rocky II, which was originally going to

[41:28] be called Rocky II, Rocky vs. a Kangaroo, and we had to rewrite the whole thing and

[41:33] change the movie because we couldn't get the kangaroo, and the kangaroo was like, oh, I'm

[41:36] not alive anymore.

[41:37] I can't be in this movie.

[41:38] And I was like, you're dead to me.

[41:40] And like, I was so mad about it.

[41:41] I mean, yeah.

[41:42] For Tavron, literally.

[41:43] I mean, technically, in Matilda, the kangaroo is played by a man in a suit.

[41:47] We were going to do it.

[41:48] We were going to do it that way, too.

[41:49] Wait, really?

[41:50] Yes.

[41:51] And it was going to be...

[41:52] It was going to be...

[41:53] Stuart, have you seen Matilda?

[41:54] No.

[41:55] Well, you looked at me as if you had seen the movie and were so, you know, amazed by

[42:01] the effect that it wasn't an actual kangaroo.

[42:05] Let me take back to court.

[42:06] And the real story is not the kangaroo said no, because it was just we were going to do

[42:09] it mo-cap style.

[42:10] We were going to capture Moe Howard of the Three Stooges and make him play the kangaroo.

[42:14] But I believe he had died by that point.

[42:16] And so we couldn't.

[42:17] We couldn't.

[42:18] Like a kangaroo does.

[42:19] Exactly.

[42:20] Like a kangaroo will often do.

[42:21] So none of the Rocky movies were in your sports game?

[42:24] No.

[42:25] I mean...

[42:26] Not even...

[42:27] Wait.

[42:28] What about Over the Top?

[42:29] Name a better movie about professional arm wrestling.

[42:31] I dare you.

[42:33] There isn't a better movie about arm wrestling.

[42:34] Now, this probably isn't the only example of a Sylvester being foiled by a kangaroo,

[42:39] right?

[42:40] Didn't Sylvester the Cat get his ass beat repeatedly by...

[42:43] By Hippity Hopper, I believe was his name, although he was under the misapprehension

[42:47] that that was a giant mouse.

[42:49] Oh, yeah.

[42:50] Which is understandable if you've never seen a real kangaroo.

[42:57] The tale is oft told how an escaped kangaroo sighted by New Jersey residents was mistaken

[43:03] for the Jersey legend, the Jersey devil of legend.

[43:07] So Jersey legend is, of course, John Legend's brother who lives in New Jersey.

[43:11] I meant the Jersey devil, a New Jersey legend of the Pine Barrens.

[43:14] I mean, like Bruce Springsteen probably is a Jersey legend.

[43:18] Yeah.

[43:19] Bruce Springsteen is also a Jersey legend, but it's not his name.

[43:21] Pine Barrens, of course, the brother of Chris Pine.

[43:23] Now, did you...

[43:24] Sadly, unable to have children.

[43:25] Yeah.

[43:26] It's because of that thing.

[43:27] Now, so did you talk about my soccer movie, Victory, or Escape to Victory, as it's also

[43:34] known?

[43:35] No.

[43:36] I mean, I think we made it pretty clear we didn't talk about prisoner of war sort of

[43:42] breakout film.

[43:43] And what sport did the prisoners of war play?

[43:44] No, I realized that they play soccer.

[43:47] It just doesn't seem to be a primarily...

[43:49] Yeah, they're like, let's cast Pele in this movie.

[43:51] Maybe it should be about baseball.

[43:54] I could, but I understand.

[43:56] I understand that you're saying that.

[43:57] It's like, it would be like calling The Last Boy Scout a football movie.

[44:00] Who would do that?

[44:01] Who would do such a crazy thing?

[44:02] Yeah, who would do such a crazy thing?

[44:03] Who would do something like that?

[44:04] Anyway, you know what?

[44:05] You guys are making me laugh.

[44:06] I just remembered that I'm a very rich movie star, and I don't need to be in your little

[44:10] game on your...

[44:11] What is this?

[44:12] Like a show and tell thing for school or...

[44:15] Basically.

[44:16] We're putting on a play for our parents.

[44:18] That's really adorable.

[44:19] Well, anyway, if I can donate some Tostitos to the after party, I'd be happy to do it

[44:24] in exchange for the Tostitos you said you were going to send me.

[44:26] Sure, sure, sure.

[44:28] Really stabs the wound of not being included in your little play.

[44:31] For the future, I'm happy to be in school plays.

[44:34] I love to act.

[44:35] Do we hang out?

[44:36] Do we just hang out?

[44:37] It's my passion.

[44:38] My passions go like this.

[44:39] Acting, number one.

[44:40] Number two, screenwriting.

[44:41] Number three, kangaroos.

[44:43] They're just an amazing animal.

[44:45] I just wish I could work with one.

[44:46] Yeah, we can just hang out.

[44:47] We'll get in touch with your agent whenever another school project comes up.

[44:53] We're just going to go now.

[44:54] We'll let you go now.

[44:55] That would be wonderful.

[44:56] Let me show you what I can do.

[44:57] Teeth are important.

[44:58] All people are born with 30 teeth.

[45:00] Is that true?

[45:02] You're going to have to write the script for me.

[45:03] Click.

[45:04] Yeah.

[45:05] We'll get Tony Gilroy to work on that.

[45:06] Dan, he hung up already.

[45:07] He hung up already.

[45:08] He got distracted and he hung up.

[45:09] Stop talking.

[45:10] All right, everybody.

[45:11] You both did a great job winning over...

[45:13] I didn't think you were going to be able to do it.

[45:14] But you really won over...

[45:15] We got him, yeah.

[45:16] I think I'm going to hand it to Dan.

[45:17] Secret teamwork.

[45:18] Dan, Dan, Dan.

[45:19] While I kept him busy, Dan came up with a strategy.

[45:23] He got...

[45:24] Dan, you got him so mad, but in the end, I guess you negged him and that allowed him

[45:28] to be open to talking to you more afterwards.

[45:31] So you know what?

[45:33] Stuart had a four-point lead going into that round, but for winning over Salone, Sly himself

[45:39] so well, you get four points from that round and Stuart gets zero.

[45:43] That's right.

[45:44] It's a tie game here on The Field House.

[45:45] It is a tie.

[45:46] Just like football.

[45:47] The feud continues.

[45:48] Just like what?

[45:49] Football.

[45:50] Yep.

[45:51] Just like in the beautiful game, it is a tie.

[45:52] And so normally we'd go into sudden death, wherein you guys would both have to act out

[45:53] the entirety of the movie, Sudden Death, to me.

[45:54] And I would rate you on your performance, but we just don't have the time.

[45:55] It's a hockey movie, right?

[45:56] It's a Flophouse mini.

[45:57] It is a hockey movie.

[45:58] It is a hockey movie, yes.

[45:59] It's a hockey movie.

[46:00] I'll be Powers Booth.

[46:07] You can be Jean-Claude Van Damme.

[46:08] Okay, cool.

[46:09] Yeah.

[46:10] So, Dan, get your, I think, penguin mascot costume on.

[46:11] But we don't have time for that.

[46:12] That's the end of our Flophouse mini.

[46:13] This has been The Field House.

[46:14] We still don't know who is the biggest sports movie fan of all time, the Mad Dog or the

[46:15] Mad Cat.

[46:16] Maybe we'll figure it out next time.

[46:17] I want to thank both of our contestants, Dan, Mad Dog, McCoy, and Stuart, Mad Cat, Wellington.

[46:18] I want to thank our producers, Dan, McCoy, and Stuart, Mad Cat, Wellington.

[46:52] Until next time, this has been Elliot Madmouse Kalin saying, I'll see you at the sports game.

[46:59] Honk.

[47:01] You know, in Ted Lasso, one of the characters, doesn't use a whistle because he's scared

[47:05] of them.

[47:06] So he just says whistle when he wants to say whistle sound.

[47:08] Oh, does he?

[47:09] So it's, but you've never seen Ted Lasso?

[47:11] I've never seen Ted Lasso.

[47:12] So what are you going to do?

[47:13] All right.

[47:14] So maybe I'll say, maybe I'll say air horn.

[47:15] Alex, maybe you want me to go air horn.

[47:16] That's fine.

[47:19] I think, I think what you did was good.

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