FH Mini 97 - The Theatrical Experience

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[0:43] And now, without further ado, our regular nonsense.

[0:46] Hey, hello, welcome to a Flophouse Mini, that's right, this is the Flophouse Podcast and I'm

[0:55] your host, Stuart Wellington, and joining me are Dan McCoy.

[0:59] And Elliot Kalin.

[1:00] I don't know why I laughed.

[1:01] Dan, I like the energy you gave it.

[1:02] You gave a lot of good energy to it, Dan, yeah.

[1:04] I'm sorry, I don't know why, I know that we introduce ourselves at the beginning of every

[1:08] show, but something about Stuart's wave threw me off, I'm sorry.

[1:14] Yeah, when it came time for Dan's turn to introduce himself, he visibly flinched from

[1:19] me.

[1:20] I froze.

[1:21] I was very unhappy.

[1:22] Who am I?

[1:24] Okay, so here at the Flophouse, we normally watch a bad movie and then talk about it,

[1:27] but today's the mini, so we're going to do something a little bit different.

[1:30] We're going to be doing a show that I like to call Only in Theaters.

[1:34] That's right, we're doing a special mini episode talking about the theater-going experience,

[1:38] because you know me, Stuart Wellington, I'm a bit of a theater kid growing up.

[1:42] That means I like seeing movies in movie theaters.

[1:45] That's what that means, usually.

[1:47] You went to theater camp, which was just the movie theater in the summer.

[1:50] That's what I would call it, yep.

[1:53] That's great.

[1:54] So, I think you guys can agree that the movie theater experience has been fairly formative

[1:59] for all of us, and I would like to talk about various elements of the theater-going experience,

[2:05] and specifically, I want to talk about an early pitch for the Flophouse TV show.

[2:10] This was pitched to me, and then possibly not relayed to these guys, a while ago by

[2:16] my wife Charlene, so this is all TM Charlene.

[2:19] One of our pitches for the Flophouse TV show was the idea that Dan would inherit a movie

[2:25] theater, and that for some reason, Stuart and Elliot would have to live with him, and

[2:29] we would have to try and run a movie theater, but of course, the only movies we would get

[2:33] would be bad ones that we would have to make fun of, something like that.

[2:36] This is a good pitch.

[2:37] I remember this pitch.

[2:38] This is a good one, yeah.

[2:39] I like it.

[2:40] So, is it primarily sort of pivoting to a sitcom with this premise, or is it sort of

[2:47] like Mystery Science Theater, where this is the framing device to us watching movies?

[2:52] I think it could be both, Stuart.

[2:54] What was Charlene's original vision of it?

[2:57] You know, I don't remember.

[3:00] This was many years ago.

[3:02] I think it was a little bit of both.

[3:04] I think it was a little bit of sitcom elements and riff elements, much the same way that

[3:09] Jury Duty has kind of like sitcom elements and hidden camera prank elements, you know?

[3:14] Yep, and just like that, we would also feature somebody who doesn't know we're making a show.

[3:19] That's right, Dan McCoy.

[3:21] He would be the plant, the real-life person to push me out of bed.

[3:30] So before we get too much into the theater-going experience, let's talk a little bit about

[3:34] this movie theater.

[3:35] If we inherited a movie theater, Dan inherits a movie theater, and we had to run it, what

[3:39] would we name that movie theater?

[3:42] The Flophouse is the obvious one, but I say, let's dig a little deeper.

[3:46] Sure, yeah.

[3:47] Okay.

[3:48] The Peach Pit?

[3:49] Well, really putting us on the spot for a clever rejoinder or even something un-clever.

[3:54] You can think about it.

[3:55] Why don't we circle back?

[3:56] Dan McCoy's Movie Madhouse?

[3:57] Okay.

[3:58] Why would we mess with perfection?

[4:00] Dan McCoy's Movie Madhouse.

[4:02] Now, I'm assuming in this case, it would also only be a single screen, not a multiplex,

[4:07] right?

[4:08] I would think so, probably.

[4:09] Yeah, I'm imagining an old-time kind of like, yeah.

[4:13] Now, that's the thing, guys.

[4:14] To you, speaking of movie theater experiences, I went to a-

[4:18] That's what we're doing.

[4:19] I remember, like a few years back, I went to a small theater in downtown Brooklyn.

[4:27] I think the one on Court Street, maybe, and the smell of-

[4:31] Oh, the little one.

[4:32] The real little one.

[4:33] Yeah, the little one.

[4:34] Oh, I know that one, yeah.

[4:35] The smell of popcorn baked into that fucking carpet, and the sound of video games around

[4:39] the corner.

[4:40] Like, it took me back so hard, so it made the experience of going to see Gone Girl that

[4:45] much better.

[4:49] But I feel like a little bit of that is lost nowadays.

[4:52] When was the last time you went to a movie theater that smelled like a movie theater?

[4:58] That's interesting, because, you know, yeah, we have all these boutique theaters nearest

[5:04] in Brooklyn now that I don't feel like I'd go into one where it's just like someone dropped

[5:10] a bunch of butter-flavored coconut oil on the carpet 20 years ago, and the place still

[5:15] stinks.

[5:16] Yeah, there's a-

[5:17] Most of the theaters near us are pretty new and clean.

[5:21] And I took my kids to see a movie, was it last weekend?

[5:24] I guess it was.

[5:26] And my younger son spilled an entire jumbo bucket of popcorn right outside the theater,

[5:31] and I reported it to the staff there.

[5:32] And when we left the theater, it was gone, and you would never have known it had happened.

[5:36] Like there was not a single crumb left.

[5:38] It was like those aliens in Heavy Metal that use their giant, like, vacuum noses to snort

[5:44] up cocaine.

[5:45] Exactly.

[5:46] But with popcorn, yeah.

[5:47] But there is a theater in Pasadena that is an old, fairly run-down theater, very poorly

[5:51] laid out.

[5:52] I took my older son to see the Ninja Turtles movie there, and I was delighted to see that

[5:57] the middle of the theater, where the best seats would be, was actually where the stairs

[6:01] going up into the room were, and they had railings around it.

[6:04] So if you wanted to sit in the middle of the theater, you had to look over the railings.

[6:07] It was the worst laid-out theater I feel like I've ever been in, but there was something

[6:10] very old-fashioned about that, that like, this was probably a bigger room that they

[6:14] cut up, maybe, or something like that.

[6:17] And the place is dirty, and it smells gross and popcorn-y, but there's something kind

[6:20] of fun about that, because it felt like, oh, we're going to a real movie theater.

[6:22] We're not going to, like, a clean multiplex that you would order food at your chair from.

[6:30] We're going to, like, a place that feels old, you know?

[6:33] So there was something nice about that, yeah.

[6:35] So this is, I mean, this is all important information, because we're obviously brainstorming

[6:39] the movie theater that we're going to be opening, of course.

[6:41] And it's going to, it's got to be a gross old theater.

[6:43] There's no, it's no fun if it's a, if we're doing this at a clean new theater, right?

[6:48] So yeah, of course not.

[6:50] It has to be a hellhole.

[6:52] So it has to be like the old Park Slope Pavilion Theater.

[6:58] I was just thinking the same one, the Pavilion Theater, which everyone said they had bed

[7:01] I don't think they did, but they did routinely turn off or just break the lights in the stairs.

[7:07] So if you had to go to the upstairs theater, you would be in the dark, just hoping you

[7:11] didn't fall down.

[7:12] I mean, they certainly had multiple screens with visible tears on them or stains for where

[7:16] sodas have been thrown, and a lot of theaters where even the seats that didn't have garbage

[7:23] bags over them to indicate that they're broken were broken.

[7:26] They're still broken.

[7:27] Yeah.

[7:28] I remember seeing a hot tub time machine in one of those theaters and the, like the smell

[7:34] of mildewy chairs was so prevalent.

[7:37] I'm like, I'm in the movie.

[7:39] That was, I used to go, that theater was in close walking distance to my apartment.

[7:43] So I would go there so often and it was just like, you knew there would be no one else

[7:46] in the theater because no one else wanted to be in that theater.

[7:49] Yeah.

[7:50] You were there because you wanted to see a movie because you have a problem.

[7:56] You know how some people in the summer go see movies because they want to get some air

[8:00] conditioning.

[8:01] That's not why you're at the pavilion theater.

[8:02] No, no.

[8:03] You will not get it.

[8:04] There's something in you demands the movie experience and this is what is within walking

[8:10] distance.

[8:11] That is there.

[8:12] That is their prompt.

[8:13] That was their promise to you.

[8:14] And then I would round it out by going to the used bookstore that I think is now closed,

[8:18] which was roughly the size of an alleyway and smelled like cat pee.

[8:21] And every book I bought there also smelled like cat pee.

[8:25] Oh, that rule.

[8:28] So now the downtown Manhattan theater where you could always hear the subway.

[8:34] Was that the Angelica?

[8:35] That's the Angelica.

[8:36] Yeah.

[8:37] That was great, too.

[8:38] And they had always cranked the AC so high that was when we talk about it in the past

[8:42] tense.

[8:43] It's still there around.

[8:44] Yeah.

[8:45] But I remember seeing years ago, I remember seeing Snowpiercer there and the combination

[8:48] of super frigid, cold atmosphere and sound of subway trains running.

[8:52] I was like, I'm in the movie.

[8:54] I used to go, I remember I saw a lot of movies that I remember.

[8:58] They have one theater there that's tiny, that's so incredibly tiny.

[9:02] And I saw Primer in that theater.

[9:03] I saw The Fountain when I was first dating my wife and a lot of magical experiences in

[9:08] this tiny theater where you can hear trains, sometimes the other theaters also.

[9:13] And the and the refreshments are pretty expensive.

[9:15] Stewart, do you remember the theater that was like it was closed very early on in our

[9:21] time in New York.

[9:22] Like basically across from Charlene's, there was a place that then became like a low, like

[9:27] an American apparel.

[9:28] Yeah.

[9:29] It's an American apparel for a long time.

[9:30] Yeah.

[9:31] I never actually saw a movie.

[9:32] I saw the Final Matrix.

[9:35] Oh, it was a disappointing experience.

[9:38] And the Ang Lee called Matrix Disappointments.

[9:42] That was the title.

[9:44] Yeah.

[9:45] I feel like it's had a cultural re-evaluation.

[9:47] But Dan, I cut you off, sorry.

[9:50] What was your experiencing?

[9:51] Matrix, what?

[9:52] Revolutions?

[9:53] Yeah, I saw that and Ang Lee's The Hulk.

[9:55] A movie that I still like.

[9:57] No, that one's fun.

[9:58] It's got, you know, it's got flair.

[10:00] But that was also kind of just like no frills, you walk in there and it's like okay, well, this kind of feels like a big, I don't know, storage container that got turned into a movie theater.

[10:13] That was the movie where there's occasional wipes where it like turns into a comic book page.

[10:19] Yeah, yeah.

[10:20] Man, I wish comic book movies did that shit still.

[10:23] They're like, no, it's a movie, we don't have to do that.

[10:26] People know it's a comic book.

[10:28] It's a movie now.

[10:29] At this point, more people know this from the movies than know it as a comic book.

[10:33] No, no, no.

[10:34] Panels.

[10:35] We have to show that there's panels.

[10:36] Was that like an old-timey movie house or what's going on there?

[10:38] I mean, I don't think old-time movie house in the way that I would think of like, oh, the old movie palaces.

[10:44] You're not going to get less action heroed while you're there.

[10:47] It certainly reminded me of like the place.

[10:50] I wish I could remember what it was called, like Sunnyland.

[10:55] Sunnyland, I think, movie theater in Washington, Illinois.

[10:59] The half an hour away that we would drive to as a kid that kind of like, I don't know.

[11:05] It could be the architecture, that Midwestern architecture where it could be a church or it could be a fast food restaurant.

[11:16] In this case, it was a movie theater.

[11:19] Yeah, it kind of reminded me of that.

[11:21] Now, I want you guys to think back.

[11:23] We've all been seeing movies for a while now.

[11:26] Can you think back to a time where you have been a bad movie theater attendee?

[11:32] Like have you walked out of a movie before?

[11:35] Have you been particularly disruptive?

[11:38] I've never walked out of a movie.

[11:40] In fact, I remember seeing Joe's apartment in the theaters, and the film broke within 20 minutes, and me and my brother sat around waiting for them to fix it.

[11:50] It just took too long, and we had to go.

[11:52] But we were – even that was the universe telling us you should walk out of this movie early.

[11:57] There have definitely been times when – I mean on the day – we've talked about this on the podcast.

[12:02] On my wedding day when we all went to see Piranha 3D, we were not particularly good audience members to the two other people in the theater for that one.

[12:09] Who were expecting a somber viewing of Piranha 3D.

[12:14] Or when I went with – when Jenny, Jaffe, and I went to go see Cats in the theaters.

[12:18] But otherwise, I try to –

[12:20] I feel like you probably weren't as bad as the people that were in the same theater as us as Cats who were trying to do their own riff show.

[12:28] I'm not talking about me and Dan.

[12:29] We were being lovely.

[12:30] We were enjoying it like it was meant to be enjoyed somewhat ironically.

[12:35] But otherwise, I don't usually – I don't talk back to the screen.

[12:38] I don't yell in movies.

[12:39] I don't masturbate in the theater.

[12:41] I don't – I try not to steal things.

[12:42] Oh, you got it, Brian.

[12:43] You got it.

[12:44] You got it.

[12:45] I mean when I was a teenager, I definitely remember seeing what?

[12:49] Man Without a Face with a bunch of fellow teens, and we were super disruptive.

[12:53] We snuck fucking jolt colas in.

[12:56] We were real jerks.

[12:57] Yeah.

[12:58] I think we were either kicked out or left.

[13:00] I don't think I have ever been that guy.

[13:02] I've left a couple.

[13:03] I remember distinctly I left the Korean horror movie The Eye not because it was particularly bad.

[13:12] I've never seen it in full since then, but I know that there are proponents out there.

[13:18] I know it.

[13:19] I just – I was going there because it was my birthday and I was like, I want to see a movie.

[13:25] This one has gotten good reviews.

[13:27] Just the vibe just was wrong.

[13:29] I'm like, this is not making me happy right now.

[13:32] Let's leave.

[13:33] Yeah, Dan, you remind me of the one time I did walk out of a movie.

[13:35] I did do this.

[13:36] It was on September 12, 2001 when I was living in a dorm on Union Square in New York.

[13:43] There was what used to be that huge AMC theater that was on the corner of 14th Street and – was it Broadway?

[13:50] I can't remember.

[13:51] That has since relatively recently closed, and the day after September 11th, they posted notices on the doors saying, New York, let's make this a day at the movies.

[14:00] Let's forget our troubles or something like that.

[14:02] Free movies all day.

[14:03] Free refreshments all day.

[14:05] And me and another college student were like, oh, we've been hearing that Jeepers Creepers is kind of a fun throwback to old-timey grindhouse horror.

[14:14] And we got the biggest popcorns we could and the biggest sodas because it was all free, and we went into our free packed screening of Jeepers Creepers.

[14:20] And about ten minutes in, we were like, I don't have this.

[14:24] I can't right now.

[14:25] This is not doing it for me, and we left that.

[14:27] So it was extenuating circumstances.

[14:28] It was the day after September 11th.

[14:30] Well, yeah.

[14:31] I mean it's never been as dramatic for me as September 11th, but the times that I've left a movie have been all about – I love movies as I think should be apparent to listeners of this podcast.

[14:46] Even ones that you probably shouldn't.

[14:48] Even ones I probably shouldn't.

[14:49] To listeners of the podcast, yeah.

[14:51] And because of that, I think I reflexively think to myself, what do I want to do?

[14:57] I want to watch a movie.

[14:58] This will make me happy.

[14:59] I'll go to the movies.

[15:01] And as I've grown older and better able to sort of identify my own emotions, there have been more times where I'm like, oh, I did this because I thought it would make me happy.

[15:15] It's not actually what I need to do right now.

[15:18] A lot of times I'm seeing a thing because I'm part of a loyalty program, so I'm paying the fee anyway.

[15:23] It's not like I spent extra money for this movie.

[15:25] I'm going to leave.

[15:26] It's like a post-nut clarity or something.

[15:29] Exactly.

[15:30] Maybe I'd rather be reading quietly at home.

[15:33] Maybe that would make me happier.

[15:35] I think it's very mature of you that you don't have that feeling, that completionist feeling where you're like, I'm here.

[15:41] I have to watch the whole thing.

[15:43] I can't not finish it.

[15:45] I did walk out of a screening of Logan that I went to.

[15:48] It was a matinee, and I didn't realize.

[15:50] Logan Lucky?

[15:51] Nope.

[15:52] Logan, the killer Wolverine movie.

[15:55] Oh, okay.

[15:56] And I didn't realize it was a matinee, and I didn't realize it was like a school holiday.

[16:03] So I sit down, and then right after the movie started, a mom brings in a dozen very young children.

[16:12] And then Wolverine starts chopping dudes' arms and saying fucking shit, and the kids start yelling.

[16:18] I just stand up, and I go, fuck this, and walk out of the theater.

[16:22] Yeah.

[16:24] It was just passive-aggressive enough, but it was a little showy.

[16:29] Oh, man, it was great.

[16:30] I felt really good.

[16:32] Or I could talk about the time that I was – when I went and saw Speed Racer on a school – or school trip.

[16:39] On a work trip.

[16:40] School trip.

[16:41] I wish it was a school trip.

[16:42] Today we're going to see Speed Racer.

[16:44] Our field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry where they're playing Speed Racer for some reason.

[16:49] I went to this – I was at – it was like with a bunch of work people, and I was out of town.

[16:53] And I just remember I was getting into a very intense like sexting situation with an ex, and it was – I was like –

[17:00] Sexting.

[17:01] Yeah, yeah.

[17:02] I'm like – I kept sneaking out of the theater.

[17:05] And that was – I think that was back in the day when like iPhones, if you wanted to send a dirty message, like a dirty picture, didn't go direct.

[17:11] It like went to a website you had to log into.

[17:14] Do you remember that?

[17:15] I wasn't –

[17:16] It was really hard to pay attention to Speed Racer, which is a movie you really have to pay close attention to.

[17:20] When you first knew me, I was married for a long time.

[17:23] So by the time any sexting entered my life, it was –

[17:26] You don't sex with your partner?

[17:27] Oh, man.

[17:28] It really spiced things up.

[17:29] Okay.

[17:30] So let's – now that we're talking about –

[17:31] I'm not saying I've never done it.

[17:32] I'm just – I'm not aware of this.

[17:34] We've talked about great theater experiences, maybe some bad ones.

[17:37] How do you guys feel?

[17:38] Do you prefer a totally full theater or an empty theater?

[17:44] You know, honestly, it just depends on the people in that crowd.

[17:53] If they are respectful moviegoers, I would always prefer a full theater for certain types of movies.

[18:01] Like horror or comedy I think work the best when you're just like with a full crowd that's in it.

[18:08] But if it's like assholes, I don't want those people.

[18:11] I would rather be there alone.

[18:12] Let's assume that not everyone is an asshole.

[18:16] I think that for the most part – well, I guess it differs for genres, what I would say.

[18:20] Like there are certain genres where I'm like – I hunger more for like the communal experience.

[18:25] But I also really enjoy going into a theater and being like, yeah, I'm the only one here.

[18:29] Like so, Dan, you're going to see Ava DuVernay's Origin.

[18:33] Do you want a full communal packed theater or do you want just to be by yourself?

[18:38] Yeah, because it's just a crowd-pleaser that's going to have a lot of moments for people to stand up and cheer.

[18:41] Like Flash is entering the speed force.

[18:43] This year, I feel like Origin is a lock for that stand-up-and-cheer moment award.

[18:48] Oh man, yeah.

[18:49] It's got – it's up there with the zone of interest.

[18:54] I didn't – I'm not cheering.

[18:57] Certain people are cheering.

[18:58] They feel emboldened to cheer whereas in the past, perhaps they wouldn't have cheered.

[19:02] I think the – for me, it depends on how I'm feeling at the moment and like Dan is saying, what kind of movie it is.

[19:08] Like there are times when I've enjoyed having that private theater feeling when I'm the only one there for a matinee.

[19:14] But there are other times where it feels – I feel sad that I'm the only one there.

[19:18] Like I went to see Stop Making Sense when it was re-released in the theaters and there was part of me that was –

[19:24] there were only a couple other people in the theater.

[19:26] There was part of me that was kind of glad because it meant I didn't have to feel self-conscious if I was like moving to the music at all.

[19:31] But there was also part of me that was like, oh, it would be cool if this was more of a like a whole audience getting into this concert feel.

[19:37] It felt more like a concert that way.

[19:40] Yeah, now I think – I mean I think in general, we all agree that like seeing a movie in the theater is probably the preferred experience.

[19:48] But is there a specific – like you had mentioned genres work better with different crowds.

[19:55] Is there a type of movie that like you need to see in the theater as opposed to watching at home?

[20:00] I mean, I think that there's this general conventional wisdom like, oh, like big movies

[20:12] are like what you got to see in the theater and, and I get why that catches on because

[20:18] it has a certain like blunt ring of truth of like, I want to see something visual, highly

[20:23] visual in the theater, but it can change the impact.

[20:26] Like if the, when I saw gravity in the theater, I was like, this is amazing.

[20:29] And I have not watched it since then because it's not going to be the same on a television

[20:33] or an iPad.

[20:34] I have never had any, uh, desire to revisit avatar at home, not in giant 3d, but I had

[20:42] a good time at the time.

[20:44] I saw, yeah, I saw somebody on a plane watching gravity and I'm like, this is a weird experience.

[20:50] But I feel like it's, but it's, it can be helpful for me sometimes to be in theater

[20:53] for a smaller movie because I can be hyper focused on it.

[20:56] There's no disturbance.

[20:57] So like I watched past lives at home and I loved it, but I'm like, I kept thinking

[21:00] like if I was watching this theater, I could be watching this only and not distracted by

[21:05] anything else.

[21:06] And then I think I would pick up so much nuance in the performances that I was probably missing.

[21:10] Yeah.

[21:11] You were so distracted by like all the, all the possibilities that you missed out on and

[21:16] all the things that you exactly like the different paths your life could have taken, but like

[21:21] you weren't in a theater.

[21:22] So you.

[21:23] Okay.

[21:24] Well, I was, I was at home.

[21:25] I was distracted.

[21:26] I was distracted by the reminding of what it was like when I was maude deep and I had

[21:29] the choice between creating a galactic Jihad or not.

[21:33] And I chose the not, and it's like, well, what if it had been different?

[21:35] What if I, what if I had gone all the way with it, you know?

[21:38] But that's, that's what I wanted to get at though, without the, you know, throw the conventional

[21:42] wisdom out.

[21:43] I think any good movie is probably enhanced by seeing it in the theater.

[21:49] Whereas there are some like mediocre movies that maybe you'd be easier on critically if

[21:54] you saw them at home and didn't feel like you're making a big deal out of it, you know?

[21:58] And then of course there are certain sort of art films from Europe, you know, with high,

[22:04] highly sexual situations that maybe are best enjoyed in the privacy of your own home.

[22:09] Not in the theater with your mom.

[22:10] Yeah, sure.

[22:11] Yeah.

[22:12] Yeah.

[22:13] Just, although you were talking about cranking in the theater, do you want to elaborate on

[22:16] that?

[22:17] Yeah.

[22:18] Dan, you came out as pro cranking.

[22:19] JK.

[22:20] Just kidding.

[22:21] Oh, JK.

[22:22] JK.

[22:23] I would normally rather see a horror movie in a theater with an audience because you

[22:27] can get their scares.

[22:28] But there are times when a horror movie is much scarier to me if I'm at home by myself.

[22:31] Or like, like I watched Barbarian by myself at home and it was like, yeah, I'm in a situation

[22:36] where someone could come out of the basement right now and kill me and it was, it made

[22:40] it scarier.

[22:41] Or watching Mandy at home, I had an extra level of fear that my children would get up

[22:46] from their bedrooms and walk in at any moment and see what I was watching and that would

[22:49] traumatize them.

[22:50] Yeah.

[22:51] Yeah.

[22:52] And that's probably seeing in the theater was the moment when I'm like, I'm watching

[22:55] this in a movie theater.

[22:57] Yeah.

[22:59] This is crazy.

[23:00] Yeah.

[23:01] Uh, yeah.

[23:02] What a picture.

[23:03] Um, so we've talked a little bit about the experience.

[23:06] Let's talk about snacks.

[23:08] What kind of movie snacks do you love in a movie theater?

[23:12] Uh, movie snacks.

[23:15] Popcorn, candy.

[23:16] Do you go nuts?

[23:17] Do you buy everything and have to hire somebody to carry it for you?

[23:20] I go with, gotta go with classic PC.

[23:22] That's right.

[23:23] An old PC computer that you just take bites out of, just rip off the circuits and eat

[23:26] them.

[23:27] I'm just kidding.

[23:28] Popcorn is what I'm talking about.

[23:29] Yeah.

[23:30] Popcorn for me.

[23:31] I love popcorn.

[23:32] I like it's the sizes at which you get it at the movie theater, even when it's small

[23:39] and like the butter, which I want, I dammit, I want the weird butter, but I know how bad

[23:44] it is.

[23:45] Yeah.

[23:46] Like I just feel bad.

[23:47] So I like, I get something that's also bad for me, but feels like size wise, at least

[23:53] less of an indulgement.

[23:54] I actually like nachos.

[23:56] Okay.

[23:57] Nachos.

[23:58] I do definitely at the end of a movie, I always feel gross because of all the popcorn I've

[24:01] eaten.

[24:02] Like my stomach always feels bad.

[24:04] So yeah, I mean, obviously I like, you mostly just eat kind of nuts and berries throughout

[24:10] the day in small amounts.

[24:11] Forage.

[24:12] What has fallen on the fourth floor.

[24:13] So what do you eat in the theaters?

[24:16] Yeah.

[24:18] When I'm at one of these fancy boutique theaters where they have like a full kitchen, I'm like,

[24:21] can you just make me like a garden salad?

[24:25] I mean, I, I am one onion and just eat that until it gets, it gets a little bit soft and

[24:35] then I eat it.

[24:36] Cause that's when it's the best when it's nice, soft and sweet, you know, soft, sweet

[24:39] onion.

[24:40] So that's also, that's also Stewart's a lot of sweetness and that was also Stewart's catchphrase

[24:45] when he was Superman's best friend, Sir Wellington, soft, sweet onions, Superman.

[24:51] I, I, you know, I, I often go and make a, like a full, a full experience out of going

[24:58] to the movies when I'll, I'll go to like the Nighthawk or one of the Alamo's, like one

[25:02] of these boutique theaters with a full kitchen.

[25:04] And I spend a lot of money, which is I feel like I'm glad these theaters weren't common

[25:10] when I was like a broke 20 year old.

[25:14] Because I'd be like, but I want to go to the movies and spend all my money.

[25:18] But yeah, like I'll often get like a salad or a grain bowl.

[25:23] They have like sandwiches, but that always feels like too messy of a food item to me.

[25:27] Like pizza or a grain bowl, I'm sorry, you're in the dark, you're in the dark.

[25:33] Now there's nothing of the foods that one could have as a full dinner, like a sandwich.

[25:39] You think the sandwich is a good choice for a movie theater?

[25:43] Like I, the reason I don't tend to get like, I'm always like, I mean, granted there's probably

[25:47] other more base reasons why I'm like eschewing the healthier food, but I'm like, I can't

[25:54] eat that.

[25:55] Like, I don't want something that has, that involves me like putting a fork back and forth

[25:58] to my mouth in the dark several times and dropping shit on myself.

[26:01] Yeah, you might accidentally stab your dick, which is out because you're masturbating while

[26:04] watching the movie apparently.

[26:05] Oh yeah.

[26:06] You might pour fucking queso all over your dick.

[26:08] If you take a bite out of it because you think it's a sausage or something and that would

[26:12] be horrible.

[26:13] One time, one of these places I had like their, their like brunch pizza, which ended up having

[26:19] like, like a, an, an over easy egg in the middle of it, which don't get me wrong, under

[26:26] normal circumstances I would enjoy.

[26:29] Under these circumstances, I ended up with yolk all over my pants and like, oh, I shouldn't

[26:35] have worn my, my, uh, my fresh, clean black pants.

[26:40] I think I went and saw like one of the mission impossibles and I got, I wore like black on

[26:45] black and, and got queso all over myself because I was getting so into the movie.

[26:51] I was, there was, I did have a great sandwich experience in the movies once when, uh, my

[26:55] brother and I went to go see a shoot them up in the theaters the day after, uh, the

[26:59] day after Yom Kippur.

[27:01] And we had all this, my, our, my grandmother had hosted break fast the day before and gave

[27:06] us all the sliced Hebrew national salami that was left over.

[27:09] So we just made ourselves enormous salami sandwiches and just sat there watching this

[27:12] movie eating salami sandwich after salami sandwich and it was a duet of pleasures.

[27:16] Yeah.

[27:17] I feel like if you shaved some carrot on there, that'd have been perfect for the movie, but

[27:21] that's, uh, yeah, because it does eat carrots in it.

[27:23] Yeah.

[27:24] It's always chomping on carrots.

[27:25] And as I said, it gets immediately better.

[27:27] Now we talked about, we talked about what we have eaten.

[27:32] What do we think?

[27:33] What is a, like peering into the future?

[27:34] What do you think is a snack item that movie theaters should start to have?

[27:39] Are we talking, is that a food dots, Dippin' Dots, the ice cream of the future?

[27:44] My kids would love that because they love Dippin' Dots, even though I think it's not,

[27:48] not so good, but I feel like Dippin' or the dots, the dots, they like the dots.

[27:53] I think the dots are the ice cream part that the action of getting the ice cream into them

[27:57] is not, you know, I don't see a lot of corn dogs on menus.

[28:01] But I feel like that's like, that's such a self-contained item, right?

[28:04] Like.

[28:05] Oh, I feel like that.

[28:06] Yeah.

[28:07] It's not going anywhere.

[28:08] Yeah.

[28:09] Um, I think that, I think corn dogs might be hard for theaters because unless you're

[28:12] just having soggy frozen corn dogs, you need a fryer in the snack area.

[28:17] That being said.

[28:18] Sushi would probably be a bad idea.

[28:20] Soup is probably a bad idea.

[28:22] Yeah.

[28:23] Soup is best for airplanes and that's it.

[28:25] And roller coasters.

[28:26] Yeah, sure.

[28:27] What's the movie food?

[28:29] It's so hard because popcorn is such popcorn and candy are such perfect things because

[28:33] as Dan has said, you can eat them in the dark easily.

[28:36] But if you're like, imagine you're in a place that has a full kitchen, Elliot.

[28:40] Mm-hmm.

[28:41] Okay.

[28:42] Soylent tacos.

[28:43] I am in a place with a full kitchen, my house.

[28:45] Okay.

[28:46] What do we have here?

[28:47] Yeah.

[28:48] How about some Soylent corn?

[28:49] Mm-hmm.

[28:50] Yep.

[28:51] Soylent corn.

[28:52] Okay.

[28:53] Uh, like, uh, just like a big pile of bacon.

[28:56] Yeah.

[28:58] Beans?

[28:59] What about beans?

[29:00] Is there something there?

[29:01] Beans?

[29:02] Beans?

[29:03] I don't think so because then you're going to get a theater full of farts.

[29:04] That's not, that's not so great.

[29:06] No.

[29:07] Okay.

[29:08] Uh, what is it?

[29:09] Well, I'm, it's, I'm having trouble.

[29:10] I feel like I go, I feel like there are theaters with relatively full kitchens now.

[29:12] So it's hard for me.

[29:13] I feel like the, that permeable, semi-permeable membrane between not a movie food and a movie

[29:18] food has been, has been broken so much.

[29:20] So what do you think?

[29:21] Like a pork tenderloin or some short ribs?

[29:23] Yeah, probably.

[29:24] Or maybe ribs.

[29:25] Yeah.

[29:26] Classic, uh, Midwestern pork tenderloins where the, the thing's like 80 times the size of

[29:31] the bun.

[29:32] Yeah.

[29:33] It's like where, like the buns, just like a tiny little hat on it.

[29:35] Yeah.

[29:36] Right.

[29:37] I love them.

[29:38] I, I, I introduced those to Audrey and she's like, but why?

[29:40] And I'm like, I don't know, because the excess is the joy in and of itself.

[29:45] Just to like.

[29:46] It is wild that they, that there's a commitment to putting like a little bun on it.

[29:49] Cause you're like, you don't need it.

[29:51] Like.

[29:52] Yeah.

[29:53] But you know.

[29:54] No one is ever eating a pork chop and is like, this would be better if I had a small

[29:55] amount of bread.

[29:56] You're like.

[29:57] Hold on.

[29:58] Cause you can't even hold the bun with your hand.

[30:00] unless you have like crazy long fingers.

[30:02] Now when you're a kid, you know, you're always worried.

[30:04] You have plastic man fingers that can stretch, yeah.

[30:06] So you have to hold it with two hands,

[30:07] with your top hand on the top of the bun.

[30:09] Have you ever had the experience where you're like,

[30:12] oh man, like this sandwich has like these portions

[30:15] where I'm just getting bread,

[30:16] I'm not getting the stuff inside.

[30:18] Here, you don't have to worry about that at any point.

[30:20] No, not at all.

[30:21] I mean, but it will have the issue,

[30:23] I think I have usually with hamburgers,

[30:24] which is that the bottom half,

[30:26] the bottom half of the bun just disintegrates in my hands

[30:29] and I have to turn the hamburger either upside down

[30:31] or eat it with a knife and fork

[30:32] because it's just in wet pieces at that point.

[30:34] Yeah, because you ordered an extra wet burger, right?

[30:37] I mean, to be honest, I do like them super juicy.

[30:40] So yeah, whenever they go,

[30:42] how would you like your burger cooked?

[30:43] I say, does it have to be cooked?

[30:45] Can it just be kind of like a wet lump of raw meat?

[30:47] And they say, no, we can't do that.

[30:49] So maybe like raw hamburger,

[30:50] just a lump of raw hamburger to eat with your hands

[30:52] at the movie theater.

[30:53] My trainer was telling me that he'll catch his dad

[30:56] just going through the, he'll open up the fridge

[30:58] and just take like handfuls of ground beef,

[31:01] like uncooked ground beef

[31:03] and like carry it around like snack on it.

[31:05] I'll get there someday.

[31:09] I've always dreamed about having a little shelf in my car

[31:12] that I can put a rotisserie chicken on

[31:14] so I can just steer with one hand

[31:16] while I reach with the other hand

[31:17] and just pick off pieces of chicken to eat.

[31:19] Yeah, visions of the future.

[31:20] When I was in Paris like some years back,

[31:24] I remember-

[31:25] Oh, all right, must be nice.

[31:27] Yeah, well, I was working at The Daily Show at the time.

[31:29] It was easier.

[31:30] Oh, wow, must be nice, yeah.

[31:31] Yeah, well, you know it was.

[31:33] You were there too.

[31:33] Yeah, it was nice.

[31:35] Anyway, I saw someone,

[31:38] I was at this like little bistro.

[31:40] I saw someone order steak tartare.

[31:41] And you know, like, well, I've seen steak tartare.

[31:43] It's usually like thinly sliced-

[31:46] When you're out riding with the Golden Horde

[31:48] and you stick the beef on your saddle, yeah.

[31:50] I know, I sound so fucking,

[31:52] thinly sliced steak is usually what I associate

[31:57] with tartare.

[31:57] And this guy was like tucking into this big mound

[32:02] of ground beef with like an egg yolk

[32:06] cracked in the middle.

[32:07] And I'm like, I'm a pretty adventurous man

[32:11] and I've eaten raw beef in tartare form.

[32:14] This is grossing me the fuck out right now.

[32:17] Yeah.

[32:19] Anyway, it's not really a story.

[32:20] I just needed to unload that drama onto you guys.

[32:22] No, no, but that was good.

[32:23] That was good.

[32:24] It was very on point for what we're talking about,

[32:26] which is movie theaters.

[32:27] Hey, I'm just bringing up tartare.

[32:29] Yeah, I think tartare is,

[32:32] we'll put that in the no column.

[32:33] So tartare is the sequel to Tar,

[32:35] starring Cate Blanchett, right?

[32:36] Where there's two of her.

[32:38] We found your twin sister.

[32:39] No, that's too tar.

[32:41] Then there's my too tar,

[32:43] where this man hires her to be his personal conductor

[32:48] and they have a sexual relationship.

[32:49] Yeah, yeah.

[32:50] And don't forget when somebody moves next to her

[32:52] and it's my neighbor Totara.

[32:56] Okay, on that note,

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[37:12] and the hard sell to begin

[37:13] because there's some Flophouse stuff going on

[37:15] that you need to know about

[37:16] and you might already know about it,

[37:18] but if you don't know about it,

[37:19] now you're gonna know about it.

[37:20] Please don't skip this part

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[37:31] The Flophouse is just about to go

[37:33] on our long-awaited, eagerly-anticipated

[37:36] West Coast tour.

[37:38] That's right.

[37:39] We're about to go across the coast.

[37:42] That's the westernmost.

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[37:49] We're gonna be on January 24th in Vancouver

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[37:56] On January 26th, we're gonna be in San Francisco

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[38:54] I want to learn about my friend.

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[40:40] Ooh, spooky.

[40:44] That is spooky.

[40:45] Yeah.

[40:46] Also spooky is the fact that Stuart decided to choose this moment to leave the room.

[40:49] Literally ghosted us as I was finishing the ad read, or not the ad read.

[40:52] He is the one in charge of the mini today, and I don't know where he's taking us next.

[40:58] Where do you think?

[40:59] Should we guess?

[41:00] Should we try to figure it out?

[41:01] Yeah.

[41:02] So we've talked about the sort of like the vibe of the theater.

[41:07] We've talked about the food.

[41:09] I wonder if there's something about the technical elements, the actual screening of the theater.

[41:13] Yeah, maybe he's going to give us a test to become professional projectionists, or ask

[41:16] us about Dolby sound.

[41:18] Digital photography versus...

[41:19] Oh, here he is.

[41:20] Yeah, whether it counts as a movie if it's not shot on...

[41:24] Maybe it doesn't count as a movie if it's not shot on film, which of course it is.

[41:28] All right, now that we're back, we are back to Only in Theaters, a special Flophouse mini

[41:33] where we talk about the theater going experience, and specifically, we're brainstorming ideas

[41:37] for our own Flophouse branded movie theater.

[41:40] Now, since we're going to only have one screen, I think the best thing, and we're all forward

[41:45] thinking fellows, I think that one screen is going to have to be 4DX capable, right,

[41:51] Dan?

[41:52] Yeah, that's what everyone wants when they see a movie is to be shaking around and get

[41:57] some water in their face.

[41:58] I've never seen a 4DX movie.

[42:00] Have you guys seen a movie in 4DX?

[42:04] I saw Moonfall in 4DX.

[42:06] I can't remember whether there may have been another one that I can't recall right now.

[42:10] Did you see Top Gun Maverick in 4DX or no?

[42:12] No, I saw Top Gun Maverick in another one of their weird made up formats that Regal

[42:19] has where it's...

[42:22] They project extra stuff on the sides of the walls.

[42:25] That's stupid.

[42:26] And it's not for all of it, but there's certain ones where it's like, let's expand your peripheral

[42:33] vision or whatever.

[42:34] Oh, so it's extra footage of the scene.

[42:37] It's not like pop-ups and information or things like that.

[42:41] No, no, no.

[42:42] It's not like that.

[42:43] That would be unwatchable.

[42:44] This is just mildly...

[42:45] Because if I'm not watching Gable Gantz's Napoleon, I don't want a bunch of stuff on

[42:48] the side of the screen.

[42:51] So can you explain the 4DX experience slightly for those, including me, who don't understand

[42:58] it?

[42:59] Well, the whole sort of bank of seats in your row is on hydraulics, so it can go up and

[43:06] move around.

[43:07] I thought it would just shake a little, but when I saw Moonfall, for instance, we started

[43:11] out in space and the thing was raised up and gently drifting around, so we had that feeling

[43:18] of being weightless.

[43:19] It was actually kind of impressive.

[43:22] And then if there's any excuse for, if there's wetness in a scene, they will shoot water

[43:28] at you.

[43:29] The cleanliness of the water is unknown at this time.

[43:35] Let's see.

[43:36] There's stuff in the back of your seat that sort of punches your back.

[43:39] You're making it sound wonderful.

[43:43] If it's a scene set in a desert, it'll just blow grit in your face?

[43:46] Well, they do have like, it'll just like puffs of air, like at the eye doctor when they're

[43:50] testing like the pressure or whatever, they'll have those like air guns, I don't know.

[43:56] It sounds a lot like being Viggo Mortensen in Crimes of the Future and having to eat

[44:00] in a weird chair that shakes you around and hurts you.

[44:02] Yeah.

[44:03] Is it like that?

[44:04] Well, I will tell you.

[44:05] That's the only way his body can process that crap, dude.

[44:06] Yeah.

[44:07] Until he starts eating plastic.

[44:08] Yeah.

[44:09] No.

[44:10] Spoiler alert.

[44:11] Legitimate good film should be watched in 4DX.

[44:14] However, there are certain films for which it is an additive experience and Moonfall

[44:18] was one of them because it was like, I'm watching a big dumb movie and I want this to turn it

[44:23] into an amusement park ride for me, please.

[44:26] As opposed to the You Hurt My Feelings 4DX experience, which feels like it would be distracting.

[44:31] Well, you guys latch right onto the idea because we are, since we're going to have only a single

[44:36] screen and we're not always going to have big movies, we might do some repertory screenings.

[44:42] How would we use the 4DX experience to translate to these past Best Picture winners?

[44:49] So no country for old men.

[44:52] How would we?

[44:53] Well, obviously, when people get that like pressure thing in their head, the air gets

[44:58] puffed onto them.

[44:59] Yes.

[45:00] I think they're about to die.

[45:01] Sure.

[45:02] Yeah.

[45:03] Yeah.

[45:04] So you get the whole Anton Chigurh.

[45:05] Anything else?

[45:06] Maybe blow grit in our face.

[45:07] When he's grit or when he's giving the water to the guy in the desert, maybe it sprays

[45:10] some water at you.

[45:12] There's not a lot of water in the movie.

[45:13] Yeah.

[45:14] Yeah.

[45:15] Yeah.

[45:16] More of a pretty dry movie.

[45:17] Yeah.

[45:18] I guess when Anton Chigurh blows that thing up, like your seats shake or something, you

[45:21] know?

[45:22] Sure.

[45:23] Certainly.

[45:24] Oh, when you walk out with a haircut.

[45:25] Yeah.

[45:26] Yes, that's right.

[45:27] That's the interactive experience.

[45:28] Everyone gets a dumb haircut.

[45:29] Forrest Gump.

[45:30] Oh, boy.

[45:31] Well, you know, it's going to blow a feather in your face.

[45:32] That's got to happen.

[45:33] Oh, yeah.

[45:34] Totally.

[45:35] Got to blow pop.

[45:36] So like chocolate smells in your face.

[45:37] We're allowed to expand into more just sort of.

[45:38] It's our movie theater, Dan.

[45:39] The 4DX is in our control.

[45:40] OK.

[45:41] So we can do more like William Castle style shenanigans.

[45:42] Well, it's basically there's the scene in Kentucky Fried Movie with sense around the

[45:43] where the guy is literally just someone stands behind him and shakes him around and hits

[45:44] him and things like that.

[45:45] Yeah.

[45:46] Shrimp and shit.

[45:47] The scene where they're on the shrimp boat in the storm.

[45:48] That's a good one.

[45:49] That's a good one.

[45:50] Yeah.

[45:51] I mean, I think it's a good one.

[45:52] I think it's a good one.

[45:58] where the guy is literally just someone stands behind him and shakes him around and hits

[46:01] him and things like that.

[46:02] Yeah.

[46:03] Shrimp and shit.

[46:04] The scene where they're on the shrimp boat in the storm.

[46:06] That's just begging for water.

[46:07] Yep.

[46:08] Yep.

[46:09] Water in your face.

[46:10] Yeah, definitely.

[46:11] And when he meets all those adorable figures.

[46:12] He splashes them in a reflecting pool.

[46:13] That's water, right?

[46:14] Yeah, that's water.

[46:15] And when he has to pee, you have to pee.

[46:17] OK.

[46:19] So I think that's Forrest Gump covered.

[46:21] The next Best Picture winner out of Africa.

[46:25] Not having seen the movie.

[46:27] Now we're talking about this.

[46:30] We still have not rectified that.

[46:31] None of us have seen Out of Africa yet.

[46:33] No.

[46:34] No.

[46:35] As we mentioned in a previous episode, I'm not sure it's a real movie.

[46:37] Yeah.

[46:38] I think all I've ever...

[46:40] I assume it's a movie about lounging on the savannah and looking at lions in the distance

[46:45] because I think that's the only footage I've ever seen from Out of Africa.

[46:49] OK.

[46:50] I mean, the weird thing is it's called Out of Africa, but it seems like the movie spends

[46:52] a lot of time in Africa.

[46:54] So that's the problem.

[46:55] Yeah.

[46:56] Yeah.

[46:57] OK.

[46:58] So let's just assume an elephant steps on you at some point and it shakes you around.

[47:02] OK.

[47:03] How about Patton?

[47:04] The movie Patton.

[47:05] OK.

[47:06] Well, of course, explosions.

[47:07] Yeah.

[47:08] A hand needs...

[47:09] A robot hand needs to come out of the street in front of you and slap you.

[47:13] OK.

[47:14] Yeah.

[47:15] Sure.

[47:16] So you can really feel the indignity.

[47:19] I think I saved the best for last, though.

[47:20] OK.

[47:21] I think now that we have...

[47:22] I think Patton's pretty straightforward.

[47:24] Sound of music.

[47:25] OK.

[47:26] Sound of music.

[47:27] This has been on my mind lately because my wife has been exposing my younger son to sound

[47:31] of music to see what he thinks about it.

[47:33] And he likes music, right?

[47:35] He likes music.

[47:36] He does like music.

[47:37] He likes music.

[47:38] And he'll watch...

[47:39] He'll watch any cartoon, but live action movies are kind of a harder sell for him.

[47:42] And they're watching it.

[47:43] He kept saying, this movie's kind of weird.

[47:46] Maybe it's a little boring.

[47:47] And my wife would say, do you want me to turn it off?

[47:48] He goes, no, we can keep watching it.

[47:50] So he's still...

[47:51] He really wanted to see the puppet scene was really what it comes down to.

[47:55] That's kind of my attitude to sound of music.

[47:57] I'm like, yeah, it's kind of boring.

[48:00] It's also kind of compelling.

[48:02] Yeah.

[48:03] So maybe during that...

[48:04] That's a good question.

[48:05] So you're exposing him to...

[48:06] You're going to start with the sound of music, then it's going to be sound of metal, and

[48:10] then sound of freedom.

[48:11] Exactly.

[48:12] Because he needs to know the truth.

[48:13] It's time to red pill this kid.

[48:16] Yeah, exactly.

[48:17] Well, we're going to start with sound of music, and then we're going to go to cabaret.

[48:22] And I'm just...

[48:23] There's a Nazi musical I can get.

[48:24] Oh, wow.

[48:25] Okay.

[48:26] Yeah, get into it.

[48:27] Yeah.

[48:28] I know those are not Nazi movies.

[48:29] They're movies.

[48:30] They're musicals with Nazis in them.

[48:31] So then I guess it's going to be Listomania.

[48:33] It'll be the third movie that we show him.

[48:35] Sure.

[48:36] Wow.

[48:37] What was the question?

[48:38] Something about...

[48:39] Sound of music, 4DX experience.

[48:40] How would you do a 4DX sound...

[48:41] I mean, you got to...

[48:42] Hills are a lot to...

[48:43] Yeah, they're a lot.

[48:44] ...spin around, right?

[48:45] Yeah.

[48:46] I mean, there's so many...

[48:47] Yeah, you're shaking because those hills are standing on her a lot.

[48:49] There's so much beautiful landscape photography that I feel like you can't have them...

[48:54] The sea's kind of moving around a little bit like you're flying through it, I suppose.

[48:58] Like you're in Soarin'.

[49:01] Like you're on the ride Soarin'.

[49:02] Yeah.

[49:03] I mean, sound of music is kind of the Soarin' of movies in some ways.

[49:09] And Soarin' Kierkegaard is sort of the Soarin' of philosophers.

[49:14] In that it feels like you're flying through the California landscape.

[49:17] Yeah.

[49:18] Soarin'.

[49:19] Why do you keep saying this?

[49:20] Do you not know Soarin'?

[49:21] No.

[49:22] Now I feel like you're fucking with me.

[49:23] What's going on?

[49:24] So Soarin' is the bad guy in the Lord of the Rings.

[49:25] I'm surprised you don't know that.

[49:26] I know that.

[49:27] It's a Disney attraction where basically you just get in these seats that are held up from

[49:34] the ceiling on these things.

[49:36] Okay.

[49:37] And the Batman rollercoaster.

[49:38] And there's a projection in front of you, like 360.

[49:40] So it's like you're soaring over the landscape.

[49:42] Oh.

[49:43] The beautiful landscape.

[49:44] Yeah, you're flying around.

[49:45] Yeah.

[49:46] Yeah.

[49:47] I'm delighted that Dan referenced it though.

[49:49] I was like, yeah, let's run with this one.

[49:51] That's something I didn't expect to come out of Dan, but it fits a Disney attraction.

[49:56] I went to Disney World a couple of years ago.

[50:00] You know, still Dan, the resident Disney adult here.

[50:02] Yeah, I guess I've been to Disneyland and Disney World twice as an adult.

[50:08] I guess it was because you saw a Florida project

[50:10] and it really made Disney World look appealing and exciting, right?

[50:13] You're like, I had a great time from my life going to Disney World.

[50:16] I went with our friends, John and Mary, who are like real, like,

[50:19] you know, like planning nerds.

[50:22] So they you know, like we knew all of the things that we had to do

[50:25] to actually get to do like rides and do things efficiently.

[50:28] So a lot of the stress that normally I think people associate with Disney

[50:33] was taken off the plate because I was with those in the know, you know?

[50:37] Yeah, I think the secret that the hack I've been able to figure out,

[50:40] maybe, Dan, you can figure out to do this

[50:41] the next time you go to Disney Park is be related by marriage

[50:44] to someone who works at Disney so they can get you free passes.

[50:47] Right. Park.

[50:47] It takes a lot of stress off of feeling like you need to do everything. Yeah.

[50:50] Yeah. Can you get like a flash pass or some shit?

[50:54] There's like it's all here for different rides.

[50:56] You know, it's all it's, you know, it's all just a way to like,

[51:00] let's get more money out of you, you know, so you have a better experience

[51:04] than the other guy, then you feel kind of guilty about it.

[51:06] But you're also like, well, what are you going to do?

[51:07] Like, I want to have a better experience.

[51:09] I feel like I feel like Griffin Newman was explaining his

[51:12] like a recent trip to Disney.

[51:14] And like, I'm sure he talked to me for like an hour about this.

[51:18] And my brain doesn't process any.

[51:22] Send them my way.

[51:23] I mean, knowing Griffin, it was all concise, relevant information.

[51:27] Yeah. No digressions.

[51:29] No digressions at all. Yeah.

[51:30] OK, so. So, yeah.

[51:32] For Sound of Music, you're flying around a lot.

[51:34] We did it. Yeah.

[51:34] I think I think the hills are alive at the sound of music.

[51:37] OK, so now that we're all forward thinking, guys,

[51:41] let's take a step out of our own movie theater.

[51:43] Let's talk about theater in general.

[51:44] Let's talk about how movie theaters and actual theater,

[51:50] theaters, legit theaters, the legit stage.

[51:53] Now, how how can the stage experience inform movie theaters

[51:58] or how can movie theaters, how should movie theaters inform,

[52:02] say, a Broadway show experience other than the most obvious one?

[52:07] I don't know if any anybody's been to a Broadway show here.

[52:10] Those seats are too dang small.

[52:13] They are very small.

[52:13] They were that most of those theaters are old houses

[52:16] that are trying to one pack a lot of seats into a small space.

[52:18] And also we're made for smaller people at a time when people

[52:21] were generally smaller. They are too small.

[52:23] Yeah, I thought you were going to talk about how the two experiences

[52:25] appear to be converging in that, you know, if you go to a Broadway show,

[52:29] most of them are based on movies and like a lot of them have video elements.

[52:33] And yeah, they're all Beatles at this point.

[52:35] Like there's something I really want to take my kids to a Broadway show.

[52:39] And at this point, it's like I want everything.

[52:42] Everything's all this.

[52:43] Everything I went.

[52:44] Look, I'm trying to go see.

[52:46] I'm trying to find a place where I can just grope a horrible congresswoman.

[52:50] And all I can find is Beetlejuice.

[52:52] That's the only thing I can find.

[52:53] That's a reference to a scandal that Lauren Bovert had a couple of months ago.

[52:56] I guess I did like the first

[53:00] the first Broadway show I went to post, you know,

[53:04] the reopening after Covid was The Lion King, which was incredible.

[53:08] It was amazing.

[53:09] We were seated very close to the front.

[53:11] We were right on one of the rows, so I almost got stepped on by an elephant.

[53:14] It was amazing.

[53:15] But it was also awesome to see a guy who looked very much

[53:20] like a Midwestern dad there with what also looked very much like a sex worker

[53:24] or just an inappropriately dressed, much younger woman sitting in the front row.

[53:29] And I just love the I would love to be a fly on the wall

[53:32] in the conversation of this guy hiring a sex worker to see The Lion King with him.

[53:36] Yeah, it's a little like Steve Buscemi taking that prostitute

[53:39] to see Jose Feliciano in Fargo, right?

[53:42] Yeah, I feel like every time Audrey and I go to like

[53:45] sort of an anniversary level dinner, like a like a truly nice restaurant,

[53:51] there's always at least one sort of a couple in the room.

[53:57] Is this a sex worker situation?

[54:00] I feel like it shows how innocent I am that that I never when I'm in those

[54:04] I've my wife and I used to play a game called Daughter or or Second Wife

[54:08] and never encouraged us that it would be a sex worker.

[54:10] But it was always like that man is 30 years older than the woman he's with.

[54:13] Is that his daughter or is that his second wife?

[54:15] We've got to try to figure it out before the end of the meal.

[54:17] You know, and then you realize, yeah, if you don't, your meal, if you do,

[54:20] your meals for meal is free.

[54:21] And if you don't, you have to work in the kitchens for the rest of your life.

[54:24] Oh, no. Well, there's no way.

[54:26] There's no way anything he's saying is as delightful to her as her reaction.

[54:30] So this could be she is so into him.

[54:34] Yeah. Change of goods for services.

[54:37] Yeah. I mean, it's not like they have similar like interests.

[54:41] I mean, he looks like he really loves Yellowstone.

[54:47] And she's more into getting paid,

[54:51] being able to live a life that, you know, has some freedom.

[54:55] Aside from this, man, obviously. Yeah, yeah.

[54:57] I mean, this this is in no way an indictment of that.

[54:59] No, I want to make that sexually.

[55:01] Yeah. So we're talking about the theater experience only of the age difference.

[55:05] Yeah. So so I think I also would like those this those experiences

[55:09] to be a little bit different in terms of content.

[55:11] I was saying I'd like to take my kids to a show,

[55:13] but I want to take them to something

[55:14] that is not just a stage version of something they've seen in the movies.

[55:18] But I have seen Broadway shows where they use video elements

[55:21] in really cool ways.

[55:23] And that's and that's neat.

[55:25] But in the movie theater experience, I wonder if there's a way to make it.

[55:29] Hmm. I don't know.

[55:32] Like if you go see Megan in the theater, you're going to have like

[55:35] like a dancer dressed up like Megan dancing.

[55:38] I don't want to see that.

[55:39] I don't want to turn into cats or something.

[55:41] Yeah, it turns into like kitsch at that point as opposed to as opposed to art.

[55:44] And I also and I don't want to do anything too immersive

[55:48] because I don't want that.

[55:49] I don't need the performers interacting with me during the during the movie

[55:52] or the show. No, thank you.

[55:54] Sleep more. Sleep no more.

[55:56] I don't think so. Yes, more.

[55:58] I think I'll sleep less. Thank you very much.

[56:00] I happen to a few screens that I've enjoyed that, you know, they do this

[56:03] sometime where there's a live performance of the score

[56:06] or some accompaniment.

[56:07] Yeah, actually, I don't think I've actually been to one

[56:11] like an extra saxophone player just cranking it.

[56:13] Yeah, that's right.

[56:16] Like if I went to see

[56:16] my boys and they had an extra fucking saxophone player, that'd be great.

[56:20] It was those drummers you can hire for your wedding reception.

[56:23] Yes. Yeah.

[56:25] Which I thought was ridiculous.

[56:26] The first time I went there and I'm like, you have a DJ and an extra drummer.

[56:29] And then that dude started wailing.

[56:30] I'm like, hell yes. Thank you.

[56:32] When when the guy mad movie

[56:36] brand upon the brain was in theaters, they would do that.

[56:38] They did this whole big thing where it's a silent movie,

[56:40] but they would have live Foley artists in the theater

[56:43] and they have live musicians.

[56:45] And you had a celebrity narrator who's reading the narration.

[56:47] And that was a really cool way to do it.

[56:49] But I wouldn't want that for every movie.

[56:50] Like, I don't need to see the Foley artists working for ever.

[56:53] If I go to see, I don't know, like what's a movie that's out now?

[56:59] They had the holdovers.

[57:00] I don't know the guy, the guy with the shoes crunching on on gravel.

[57:04] To me, it sounded like walking through snow, you know?

[57:06] Oh, man. You know, that would be a great 40 X one where they get like fish

[57:09] smells and you smell Jim Beam.

[57:11] Oh, yeah. It just you just the wafts of a liquor

[57:15] scented breath or just puffed out at you at different points.

[57:17] And I love that movie.

[57:19] Yeah, I like that movie.

[57:20] This is reminding me that

[57:23] a former co-worker of mine at The Daily Show, Joe Opio, who's from Uganda,

[57:28] was telling us that a lot of films in Africa that were from other countries,

[57:32] they would have sort of a local like man, like basically like a DJ,

[57:37] like with a with a microphone sort of narrating the film and embellishing

[57:42] the film rather than having like, you know, like subtitles or dubs or whatever.

[57:46] It would just be like, all right, this guy's going to tell you the story

[57:49] and like really like embellish it however he wants to.

[57:52] And that sounds amazing.

[57:53] That's actually fun.

[57:54] Yeah, that sounds like it does remind me of those

[57:56] those those movie posters you see from I don't remember where and which

[57:59] which African nation where they're they take something like Mrs.

[58:01] Doubtfire and all the characters are covered in blood.

[58:03] You know, it's like the embellishments go a little too far.

[58:08] Or it'll be like dumb and dumber

[58:09] and like a xenomorph is bursting out of one of their chests or something.

[58:13] Now, we've you've you've also touched on that, like the other part of this question,

[58:18] as we're all forward thinking people and we're thinking about

[58:21] the future of both cinema and the stage.

[58:23] There have been a lot of

[58:27] stage adaptations that were once movies and movies that were once stage shows.

[58:31] Mean Girls is in theaters now, and it's a movie based on a Broadway show

[58:34] based on a movie.

[58:35] Yeah, just like it was a real hairspray switch.

[58:38] So, yeah.

[58:39] What do you is there a show that you think should be turned into a movie

[58:44] or a movie that you think is desperate to be made into a Broadway show?

[58:49] I just realized the first of those was probably Little Shop of Horrors, right?

[58:53] Was that the first movie that was made into a theater musical

[58:56] that was then turned into a movie of that musical?

[58:58] Oh, maybe I bet.

[58:59] You know, I don't know.

[59:00] Right. Right in, folks.

[59:02] Audiences right in.

[59:03] But yeah, so what's one that we think would work that way

[59:06] or should work that way, you're saying?

[59:09] OK. Oh, boy.

[59:11] I mean, I've you know, I've seen a few musicals.

[59:14] I wouldn't be surprised if something like Ann Juliet were to be turned into a movie

[59:18] because it is I mean, I guess it is a lot of pop music, but I feel like it's

[59:22] like it's peppy, it's bright, young people like that stuff.

[59:26] Right. You see, you guys like a retelling of a.

[59:29] You've seen this Dear Evan Hansen play that they could probably make a movie

[59:31] of that, but they've got to keep the main guy.

[59:33] They've got to keep.

[59:34] I feel like I feel like the musical based on the movie, Dear Evan Hansen,

[59:38] that's where it's really going to kick off.

[59:39] See a musical about the movie being made of Dear Evan Hansen.

[59:44] And all the songs are about like, am I too old for this part?

[59:47] Yeah. Oh, man, that would be great.

[59:50] Digitally DH me trying to look up.

[59:53] I at one point I was keeping a list of stuff I'd seen in the theater, but I would

[59:58] love to. You just saw Merrily.

[1:00:00] Roll Along, should they make a movie out of that?

[1:00:01] No, actually, Audrey went without me.

[1:00:03] That was a friend.

[1:00:04] Wow.

[1:00:05] I guess you didn't Roll Along.

[1:00:06] Wow.

[1:00:07] I had seen it.

[1:00:08] I had seen it recently, though, off-Broadway,

[1:00:10] not the Daniel Radcliffe.

[1:00:12] I didn't see the Daniel Radcliffe.

[1:00:14] She did.

[1:00:14] There've been a lot of revivals of

[1:00:16] Merrily We Roll Along in the past few years.

[1:00:18] That's the Sondheim revival du jour of the moment.

[1:00:23] But I think, like, I've talked,

[1:00:25] I don't remember if I've talked about it on the podcast.

[1:00:27] There's a play I saw years ago called Mr. Burns

[1:00:29] by Ann Washburn that I think,

[1:00:31] it's a great experience in a theater,

[1:00:33] but I think that would be a really cool movie to see, too.

[1:00:36] But I'd kind of want, like,

[1:00:37] I would want a normal director to do the first two parts,

[1:00:40] and then, like, Ken Russell to do the last part, you know?

[1:00:44] But as for movies that could be turned into musical plays,

[1:00:47] that's a good question.

[1:00:48] What have I seen that that would work out?

[1:00:50] Theoretically, like, if you're seriously approaching it,

[1:00:53] you need to find something that has managed to capture

[1:00:56] some kind of cultural zeitgeist on some level, right?

[1:00:59] Not just a, like, it has to, it has to, like,

[1:01:02] part of what makes Mean Girls work

[1:01:04] is that it, like, hit at a very specific time.

[1:01:07] Yes, I think so.

[1:01:08] I mean, you never know, there are definitely,

[1:01:10] I mean, like I said, Little Shop of Horrors,

[1:01:11] like, I guess the zeitgeist was people,

[1:01:14] like, camp being something that people were more open to,

[1:01:16] you know?

[1:01:17] Evil dentists.

[1:01:18] And evil dentists, yeah.

[1:01:20] But then you see movies, there's, like,

[1:01:22] I didn't see the Broadway show of, like, Tootsie,

[1:01:23] but that was one of those ones where it was like,

[1:01:25] this does not feel like the right time for this show.

[1:01:27] That was interesting.

[1:01:29] I saw that one because I think that-

[1:01:31] Because you love the movie.

[1:01:32] No, for some reason, like, the Daily Show got

[1:01:37] an opportunity for, like, just, like, free tickets

[1:01:38] for people who wanted to go.

[1:01:40] And so I was like, yeah, sure, why not?

[1:01:42] Yeah. Great.

[1:01:43] Free Broadway show. Free Broadway show.

[1:01:45] And it was a lot better than I kind of imagined it might be.

[1:01:48] And I think that part of it was, like,

[1:01:49] it did engage with the fact, like,

[1:01:51] hey, it's weird that this guy's, like, aggrieved

[1:01:53] and, like, dresses as a woman to try and get a role

[1:01:57] and steals it from an actual woman out there in the world.

[1:01:59] Like, the movie, you know, like,

[1:02:02] the movie is from another time

[1:02:03] and it's trying to do a different lesson.

[1:02:05] It's like, oh, if you walk in a woman's shoes,

[1:02:07] you know, maybe you'll learn something.

[1:02:09] And it's ignoring this other stuff

[1:02:10] that the play then did sort of work on.

[1:02:13] I don't think it quite cracked it,

[1:02:14] but it came closer than I expected.

[1:02:16] Who was the lead in the stage show?

[1:02:18] Was it the guy who played original Greg

[1:02:20] on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend?

[1:02:21] Yeah. Yeah.

[1:02:23] That's cool.

[1:02:25] Okay, so let's go back.

[1:02:27] Now that we've talked a lot about theater stuff,

[1:02:29] let's cycle back to the original premise,

[1:02:30] which is we have all,

[1:02:33] Dan has inherited a movie theater

[1:02:34] and we now have to run it.

[1:02:36] What job would each of us be responsible for?

[1:02:41] Dan, I see you at the snack bar

[1:02:43] because you like food.

[1:02:44] Wow.

[1:02:45] You like to cook.

[1:02:46] And also, in theory, you should be front of house,

[1:02:49] but I feel like you will get easily flustered

[1:02:52] at the front of house.

[1:02:53] I will get flustered.

[1:02:54] As the snack bar,

[1:02:54] I think you can also really criticize people

[1:02:58] for what they're buying.

[1:02:59] And I think you can be sarcastic to them.

[1:03:02] Okay.

[1:03:03] True.

[1:03:04] I will accept this if,

[1:03:05] in this constructed reality,

[1:03:08] there's a bit more of a short order cook element

[1:03:10] than just the regular snack bar element.

[1:03:12] Oh, sure, sure.

[1:03:13] We've got a half-kitchen.

[1:03:13] And also, do we have a bar?

[1:03:15] Is it that kind of theater?

[1:03:16] Yeah.

[1:03:16] I mean, we should, right?

[1:03:17] That's where the money's at.

[1:03:19] Okay, so Dan will do that, obviously.

[1:03:21] He has the most experience. It's not ticket sales.

[1:03:22] Yeah.

[1:03:24] He has the most experience serving alcohol to people.

[1:03:27] Yep.

[1:03:28] I think Stuart's gonna be in the ticket booth.

[1:03:30] I'll be operating the projection, probably.

[1:03:34] Yeah, right?

[1:03:35] Because that way I can yell things at the audience

[1:03:36] while they're watching it.

[1:03:38] So who's gonna handle the programming?

[1:03:39] Well, that's the thing.

[1:03:40] We gotta split up the programming duties

[1:03:41] because I think we're gonna fight for it.

[1:03:42] But like, you know, Elliot can, you know,

[1:03:45] like maybe we have focuses.

[1:03:46] Like Elliot's more in the classics programming.

[1:03:49] No, that's weird.

[1:03:50] Why would he do that?

[1:03:52] For the same reason Dan's running the bar.

[1:03:54] Experience, yeah.

[1:03:56] We wanna make him feel like he's older.

[1:04:01] Dan would have his cheeky Wednesdays

[1:04:03] where he shows cheeky.

[1:04:05] Tinto Brass movies.

[1:04:07] Tinto's Thursdays, yeah.

[1:04:10] Tinto Tuesdays is the obvious.

[1:04:11] Oh yeah, Tinto Tuesdays, yeah.

[1:04:13] Come on, come on, come on.

[1:04:14] It's the only theater I can imagine

[1:04:15] where Dan is like, right, dear Mr. Brass,

[1:04:18] we're holding a retrospective of your work.

[1:04:21] Please come live at our theater.

[1:04:24] Yeah, because we would all sleep in one giant bed

[1:04:27] with little caps on.

[1:04:28] I've seen his cameos in his own pictures.

[1:04:30] He seems like a gross man.

[1:04:33] Really, the guy who's almost entirely

[1:04:35] shots of up women's skirts based filmography?

[1:04:38] Yeah, sure, okay.

[1:04:42] So I guess now that we've divided that up,

[1:04:43] I think the only thing left to do

[1:04:45] is to open this sucker, Dan.

[1:04:46] Oh wow.

[1:04:47] So you just need to have a long lost relative die.

[1:04:51] And leave you the movie theater.

[1:04:53] All right.

[1:04:54] So wow, so this was a pretty informative episode

[1:04:57] and I think everybody learned something.

[1:05:00] Thank you so much for tuning in.

[1:05:01] This has been Flophouse Mini.

[1:05:02] We're part of the Maximum Fun Podcast Network

[1:05:05] that has a ton of really good podcasts on it.

[1:05:08] We have an upcoming tour, which you should come see

[1:05:11] because as Elliot put it,

[1:05:12] thanks to the way that airplanes work,

[1:05:16] you can go anywhere you want.

[1:05:19] Wow, that's putting a lot of pressure on people.

[1:05:21] Distance no longer exists.

[1:05:22] We have crushed it.

[1:05:23] It is now, the world is your oyster.

[1:05:25] Financial issues involved.

[1:05:27] I'm on your side.

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[1:05:30] Now, this show has been edited

[1:05:33] and produced by Mr. Howell Doughty.

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[1:05:40] He was my best man at my wedding.

[1:05:41] I love him.

[1:05:43] What a credit.

[1:05:44] I mean, it's a pretty unique credit, dude.

[1:05:46] Top of the call sheet above us.

[1:05:50] So for the Flop House Podcast,

[1:05:53] I have been your ticket taker, Stuart Wellington.

[1:05:56] I've been your snack bar coordinator, Dan McCoy.

[1:06:00] And I'm the projectionist, Elliot Kalin,

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FH Mini 97 - The Theatrical Experience

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