FH Mini 93 - Happy Thanksgiving

[0:00] Hey, everyone, and welcome to the Flophouse.

[0:05] I'm Dan McCoy.

[0:06] I'm Stuart Wellington.

[0:07] I'm Elliot Kalin.

[0:08] What are we doing on this episode today, Dan?

[0:12] Well, this is a mini.

[0:15] Normally on the Flophouse, we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it.

[0:17] But every other week, we come to you with a marginally shorter, usually, episode where

[0:23] we just kind of do whatever.

[0:25] This time, I'm in charge.

[0:27] Uh-oh.

[0:28] Uh-oh.

[0:29] So when this releases, don't tell mom the babysitter's Dan.

[0:34] Um, when you're listening to this, we'll have just been Thanksgiving in America.

[0:42] And of course, Thanksgiving and bad movies go together because, okay, I'll buy into this

[0:50] premise.

[0:51] Please explain.

[0:53] We call bad movies turkey sometimes.

[0:55] Oh, yeah.

[0:56] The Golden Turkey Awards was a was a big part of that.

[1:00] And then, of course, Mystery Science Theater has their annual Turkey Day Marathon.

[1:05] There's a turkey trot where you run to a movie theater to watch a bad movie and then you

[1:11] get the trots.

[1:12] Yeah.

[1:13] And let's not forget that the nation of Turkey, the president every year names his top worst

[1:19] movies of the year.

[1:20] Oh, wow.

[1:21] Yeah.

[1:22] So everyone in Turkey has to watch them or be thrown in jail.

[1:25] Oh, that's fucked up.

[1:27] In honor of this fair, in honor of this film food crossover, I have prepared a movie based

[1:34] Thanksgiving feast.

[1:35] How so?

[1:36] Well, I found a movie to represent each of the most common dishes you might find at a

[1:43] traditional American Thanksgiving meal.

[1:46] And as we know, you know, when you have a Thanksgiving meal, it's it ends up being kind

[1:50] of buffet family style, often where you take what you want and maybe you don't take what

[1:56] you don't want or you take just a little bit so as to not hurt anyone's feelings.

[2:00] But there's so much food, you know, you don't have to eat everything.

[2:02] So, of course, you know, similarly here, I'm going to tell you a little bit about each

[2:07] movie.

[2:08] You're going to tell me whether you're going to add that movie to your plate or not.

[2:11] I'll tell you one extra fact about that movie.

[2:14] See if that makes you more or less apt to take it.

[2:17] And lastly, for each of these, I'm going to ask in real life, this is a food that you

[2:21] enjoy.

[2:22] Is this something that you would add to your Thanksgiving plate?

[2:25] I look forward to asking you to remind me what the rules of this thing are.

[2:30] I mean, it's essentially a very simple idea, but I realized when writing it out that it's

[2:36] you know, it'll take a little time.

[2:39] OK.

[2:40] Best way to do it is to just get to it.

[2:42] So that's awesome.

[2:43] We're going to start with the big one, turkey.

[2:46] Oh, man.

[2:47] Centerpiece.

[2:48] Big dish.

[2:49] So to represent turkey, the film that I've picked is Turkey Shoot from 1982.

[2:55] OK.

[2:56] This is directed by Brian Trichard-Smith, the Osploitation director who did BMX Bandits

[3:01] and Dead in Drive-In and also the Flophouse film Drive Hard.

[3:08] And Turkey Shoot stars Steve Railsback and Olivia Hussey.

[3:12] And I will give you the IMVB summary.

[3:17] In a dystopian future where deviants are held in re-education camps, a freedom fighter and

[3:23] an innocent prisoner try to survive their decadent oppressor's game of kill or be killed.

[3:30] So you're going to add a slice of turkey to your cinematic plate.

[3:33] Does this entice you?

[3:34] Yes.

[3:35] Yes or no?

[3:36] I'm on board.

[3:37] Everything you said about it makes me want to watch it.

[3:40] Yeah.

[3:41] OK.

[3:42] Not a lot of discussion on that, but.

[3:43] Well, let's see.

[3:44] I mean, it's got a dystopian future.

[3:46] It's called Turkey Shoot.

[3:47] So I'm like, is this an Aardman movie?

[3:49] It's not, apparently.

[3:51] But it's a Ozman movie because it's probably Australian.

[3:55] I don't recognize any of the actors because they're, you know, maybe not Olivia Hussey

[4:00] of Olivia Hussey from Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and many of them.

[4:04] Steve Railsback from The Stuntman and also Nuki.

[4:06] Guys, thank you so much.

[4:08] Thanks.

[4:09] I hang out with Smarty Pants as they help me, help fill in the weirdos who remember

[4:14] things.

[4:15] OK, well, so I don't have to sell it to you.

[4:19] Now, I believe I wonder if this is the fact you're going to tell us.

[4:21] I believe this is the movie they're watching in Dead End Drive-In.

[4:25] That is not the fact.

[4:26] That is interesting.

[4:27] I have.

[4:28] I've seen this movie.

[4:29] I loved Dead End Drive-In and I loved the Not Quite Hollywood Hospitalitation documentary.

[4:35] I was like, oh, let me check out Turkey Shoot.

[4:37] I don't want to influence you too much, but this one bored me a little bit more than it's

[4:43] got its charms.

[4:44] But now you've already added some to your plate.

[4:47] I'm going to ask you to see if we're going to scrape it off.

[4:49] Why don't you scrape it up or scrape it off or add another slice to get some seconds here.

[4:55] Here's the extra facts trivia.

[4:58] The nude extras in the group shower scene were from a local hippie commune that do anything

[5:03] for you one way or the other.

[5:04] That makes me a little bit less interested in watching it, to be honest.

[5:09] I want only professionals, please.

[5:11] In my nudity.

[5:12] I don't know.

[5:13] I mean, they're hippies.

[5:14] They're pretty professional.

[5:15] It's true.

[5:16] It wasn't like the security camera footage that they repurposed.

[5:20] Yeah.

[5:21] OK, so you're a little mixed now on the Turkey movie.

[5:26] Look, Dystopian, Killer Be Killed, Steve Railsback and Olivia Hussey.

[5:30] I'll watch it.

[5:31] Yeah.

[5:32] Guaranteed shower scene.

[5:33] OK.

[5:34] I'm going to go for the culinary side of this.

[5:37] Turkey as Thanksgiving food.

[5:38] Yeah.

[5:39] That's your plate.

[5:40] What do you think?

[5:42] I've never been a big turkey fan.

[5:44] It's a little dry.

[5:45] It's not particularly exciting.

[5:47] It's kind of like there to do it.

[5:48] I mean, I've definitely had good.

[5:50] It is there to do it.

[5:51] That's true.

[5:52] Yeah.

[5:53] Well, it's there.

[5:54] Let's do it.

[5:55] Let's do it.

[5:56] Like other food, which is there for other reasons.

[5:58] Not to eat.

[5:59] Yeah.

[6:00] I'm going to take some.

[6:01] I like turkey.

[6:02] I like roast turkey breast meat because it is a little dry.

[6:04] Yeah.

[6:05] Turkey thighs, though.

[6:06] Delicious.

[6:07] I love them.

[6:08] Thigh is the best part of the chicken.

[6:09] It's the best part of the turkey.

[6:10] It's the best part.

[6:11] I haven't eaten a buffalo, but it's probably the best part of that, too.

[6:13] That roast turkey skin, too.

[6:15] Pretty good.

[6:16] Oh, yeah.

[6:17] Wonderful.

[6:18] Yeah.

[6:19] That's great.

[6:20] Yeah.

[6:21] It's not my favorite meat.

[6:22] But, you know, if I'm at a traditional Thanksgiving, I'm going to take some turkey.

[6:23] Sure.

[6:24] Yeah.

[6:25] I mean, also, I'm not a huge fan, but I'll still have some.

[6:27] And also for the novelty.

[6:28] How often do you eat roast turkey for dinner?

[6:30] Very rarely.

[6:32] Yeah.

[6:33] With, like, a giant, giant napkin tucked into your shirt, like a bib with giant cutlery

[6:36] to cut it up with?

[6:37] Yeah.

[6:38] And a hat with a buckle on it, like a pilgrim.

[6:40] None of these things are required for eating turkey, but.

[6:42] I'm not so sure about that.

[6:43] Then you're going to get that shit all over yourself, dude.

[6:46] Okay.

[6:47] All right.

[6:48] Well, moving along, you can't have turkey without stuffing, of course.

[6:52] And so to represent stuffing, no, it's illegally, you can't do it.

[6:58] To represent stuffing, I have chosen the film Stuffings from 2021.

[7:05] Not the movie The Stuff.

[7:06] Okay.

[7:07] Interesting.

[7:08] Not what I was expecting.

[7:09] It's directed by Matthew J. Wilkinson, who seems to be a director of low-budget horror,

[7:14] also from Australia.

[7:16] And the IMDb summary says, this is really good.

[7:19] I'm going to Australia in the new year, so this is really going to be valuable knowledge

[7:23] for my vacation.

[7:24] And I love that this quintessential American holiday is so far represented by two Australian

[7:28] films.

[7:29] You're going to walk around being like, have you seen Stuffings?

[7:31] Have you seen Stuffings?

[7:32] And they're like, oh, no, I'm like, I don't know, I can't understand.

[7:39] The summary says, a self-obsessed social media celebrity couple, celebrity couple, sorry,

[7:46] camp out in the Adelaide Hills on Christmas Eve, only to stumble onto a community hiding

[7:52] a secret tradition to protect the 25th of December.

[7:55] Hmm.

[7:56] It seems more like Christmas.

[7:58] Yeah, I mean, what is this, Zayard or something?

[8:03] The initial pitch has not warmed me to this stuffing.

[8:06] No, me either.

[8:08] I don't know how you would protect a day.

[8:10] I don't know what that means.

[8:11] Yeah, I'm going to need more information.

[8:12] Well, what about this trivia?

[8:15] Toward the end of filming, the police arrived on set thinking something may have happened

[8:19] to director Matthew J. Wilkinson after a local noticed fake blood all through his car.

[8:24] Does that do anything for you movie wise?

[8:26] Not really.

[8:27] There's blood in it.

[8:28] I mean, there's blood.

[8:29] I told you there's blood.

[8:30] OK, well.

[8:31] I know it ends up in a car or it just spilled while they were transporting it.

[8:37] Adelaide.

[8:38] Yeah.

[8:39] All right.

[8:40] Well, sorry, Stuffing.

[8:41] Cinematically, you're not on the plate, but what do you guys think about stuffing as a

[8:45] food?

[8:46] I'm a fan.

[8:47] I mean, it's like bread, often some sausage, maybe maybe some like nuts for crunch or cranberries.

[8:54] Yeah.

[8:55] We often have celery in ours for for crunch.

[8:57] I don't like it.

[8:58] I like it when it doesn't have like raisins or cranberries in it, though, as much as it's

[9:01] been stated.

[9:02] I am an anti fruit eater.

[9:04] Yeah.

[9:05] I mean, I'm not I'm not with you on the general anti fruit.

[9:08] I'm not wild about it in stuffing.

[9:13] I'm also not wild about cornbread stuffing.

[9:15] You are wild about Harry.

[9:18] And Harry's wild about me.

[9:21] That's Harry's law.

[9:22] We're talking about Harry's law states that you are wild about Harry and Harry is also

[9:27] reflexively wild about you.

[9:29] Honestly, to me, stuffing is the king of the Thanksgiving table.

[9:33] It is just carbs that is soaked up meat juice.

[9:38] And you can use it as a receptacle for gravy, which is the next.

[9:43] Oh, yeah, it is gravy.

[9:48] This is represented by the 2015 movie Gravy.

[9:52] All right, works out.

[9:55] This film was directed by James Roday Rodriguez, who you may know.

[10:00] TV's Psych. I don't know him as that. Well, just listen to the show. Didn't you write

[10:06] that show? Didn't you come up with the idea for that show? That's true. I did have the

[10:10] premise for that show. I'm like, that would be a good idea for a show. And then a couple

[10:13] years later, I'm like, oh, that's the show I thought would be a good premise. Um, anyway,

[10:18] is that grounds for a lawsuit? I told it to anyone. I just, oh, then you don't have grounds

[10:21] for a lawsuit. No, I don't. No, no, no, no, no. I mean, if that's the case, then I can

[10:25] take credit for any number of premises that I thought would be good. I just never told

[10:28] anybody about it. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. I thought of that. I thought Avatar. Yeah.

[10:32] The only bragging rights I have was accurately the king of a good friend. Yeah. I did not

[10:39] doing nothing with it. Yeah. Yeah. But it sounds like this has an impressive cast gravy

[10:44] for a movie that I am unfamiliar with. Michael Weston, Jimmy Simpson, Gabber, a Citibe, Dule

[10:52] Hill, Sarah Silverman and a bunch of other people that I don't have time to mention.

[10:58] Wow. Here's the summary. Busy thinking up premises that he's not going to do a damn

[11:02] thing with. Yeah. The summary is it's all how it's all Hallow's Eve. A trio of costume

[11:09] misfits with very special dietary requirements sees a Mexican cantina and forces that Madlibs

[11:17] movie. What's going on? They sees a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a night

[11:24] of gaming, food and libations. The only caveat is what's on the menu.

[11:32] So I was out, but then I heard they're they're doing it's the gaming. It's the

[11:37] game that got me back in. I can't wait. I want to see if they're like cracking out settlers or

[11:42] maybe doing maybe doing like a Twilight Imperium game on the hands of Dominion.

[11:48] Yeah, sure. Slathering himself in gravy. What do you say? I thought it would be on when you

[11:51] heard that something was on the menu. Since, as we know, in the Lord of the Rings films,

[11:54] they make a big deal out of meat being back on the menu. Yeah, because they just they're

[12:00] going to eat some eat another org. I'm going to say maybe it's just because I was expecting me.

[12:05] I wasn't expecting a movie about a different holiday to rear its head yet again in our

[12:09] Thanksgiving game. But I must say this one has not caught my attention. OK, well, this

[12:14] piece of trivia from IMDb, this is the IMDb trivia section. All right. Here's some trivia

[12:20] for you. Delivering this shit like he's Jarrah. How about this trivia in this scene, in the scene

[12:29] with Anson and Carrie in the supply closet? He says, oh, no, I've said too much. She replies.

[12:37] You haven't said enough. This is paraphrasing a lyric pass.

[12:41] How am I losing my religion? Not interested. No, thank you. OK, going in for seconds.

[12:48] I like with this movie. Yeah. Speaking of liking what it's serving, what about gravy,

[12:54] the food? How are you going to you going to take some gravy? I honestly don't usually

[12:58] take gravy, but sometimes I will. That is madness. Yeah. Don't you like your food wet?

[13:03] I like to take. That's why I eat the thigh because it's the wet part of the bird.

[13:07] Yeah, you like it up even more. You make it even wetter. Slop all over. Right. I guess,

[13:12] you know what? It could be it could be drenched. It could just be concentrated meat flavor. I'm

[13:17] into it in liquid form. I'm not like super into like a country gravy like a sawmill.

[13:23] You know, it's like a white gravy. I like that, but not not for this purpose. I like that. Yeah,

[13:29] yeah. That's good. Biscuit gravy. All right. You know what? I'll just drench my plate in gravy this

[13:34] year. And did you know that in some cultures you would call pasta sauce gravy? Yes, I do know that

[13:43] culture, Italy, Italian, Brooklyn, Italian, American in a certain part of the tri-state

[13:49] area. Yeah. OK, well, I remember I think I've talked to before possibly about when my

[13:55] landlords in Brooklyn said possibly. Right. Yeah. It was a possibility that I might have said

[14:02] my landlords in Brooklyn. They asked me if I want to come down because I lived above them

[14:06] for some macaroni and gravy. And I imagined macaroni noodles in turkey gravy. And I was

[14:10] like, that sounds terrible. But it was just spaghetti and tomato. No, actually, I feel like

[14:15] that sounds pretty good. It's like a stroganoff almost. OK, well, before we go to our break,

[14:23] there's one more food, cinematic food I'm going to ask you about. Sweet potatoes, of course,

[14:30] a part of the plate. Are they a part of the plate or their food you're eating off the plate?

[14:34] Their food you're eating. I don't want to eat. I don't have a plate made of sweet potatoes.

[14:38] Component of a plate you might assemble. Wait, so I have to make my own plate

[14:42] out of sweet potatoes before I get food off of it. Here, take these Legos.

[14:47] And by the way, some of the Legos are sweet potatoes. Did I forget to mention that?

[14:51] Yeah. So our next challenges are getting so strange in the later seasons of Lego Masters.

[14:57] You know, you may just have them in potato form. You're from the Midwest. You might or the South,

[15:03] you might slap some marshmallows on there, have a casserole. Yeah.

[15:09] I mean, I I don't mind a marshmallow sweet potato casserole, but I agree with you that like

[15:15] they're already sweet. It's in the name. You don't need the marshmallows. But anyway.

[15:20] But I do love to eat things from marshes.

[15:24] We picked these mallows out of the marsh. What kind of mallows are these?

[15:28] Where are these mallows from? A marsh? These are field mallows.

[15:34] We have a selection of mountain mallows and desert mallows.

[15:40] The mountain mallows call to me. So to represent this, I have the film Sweet Potato Pie from 2004.

[15:52] And the summary goes like this. Taking its cue from the successful American pie franchise,

[15:58] Dale Steeley's sex comedy Sweet Potato Pie follows the exploits of three friends named

[16:04] Chuck, Perry and Trey. The threesome set out on a road trip in order to try and shed their

[16:09] pesky virginity. Oh, it is getting in the way of you and end up in a fly buzzing around your head

[16:18] like the fucking Scooby-Doo gang and end up involved with the Scooby-Doo gang.

[16:23] Yeah, get rid of their pesky virginity. End up involved with a sexually seasoned

[16:29] woman named Anaconda, a horny and overweight neighbor and the title food.

[16:36] So what are you going to put a slice of this sweet potato pie on your movie plate?

[16:43] Um, I mean, I would mainly want to watch it in the company of our friend Chris White's to see

[16:50] whether he has legal action that he wants to take. I mean, you can't copyright the idea of pie.

[16:55] Or else Darren Aronofsky would have both of them in court.

[17:01] That's actually why that dude drilled a hole in his head. He was trying to lose his pesky virginity.

[17:08] He said, you know, I heard that having sex is like putting your penis in your own brain.

[17:14] So yeah, I'm going to pass on this one as well. Okay, well, before you pass

[17:18] entirely, one more detail. Oh, that's right. There's the trivia. This will turn it around.

[17:21] Sure. Well, you're about to walk away from the table only to be pulled back in. Hold on.

[17:26] Let's do this. There's no trivia, but the one item in IMDb's quote section is this

[17:33] from the character Trey. Okay. Okay. Previously mentioned. What's crackalackin?

[17:39] That's the quote. Yeah. Apparently the sweet potato pie claims that what's crackalackin is a

[17:47] notable quotable solely from that movie, not just a bit of slang that people might say.

[17:55] Yeah. Does that make you more or less interested?

[18:00] I didn't think it was possible to dial down my interest any further, but it is. It turns out

[18:04] this one, much as final taps speakers go to 11, my speaker, my interest apparently goes to

[18:08] negatives numbers. I also want to say that the what's crackalackin appears in brackets in the

[18:14] quote section. I'm not sure why. Oh, because he's just thinking it's a stage. Yeah. Yeah.

[18:20] Walk in with the feeling of what's crackalackin. Yeah. But don't say it.

[18:28] Well, let's move on to what are your feelings about sweet potatoes, the food? What do you

[18:31] are you going to put on some sweet potatoes there? I might. We eat a lot of sweet potatoes in my

[18:36] house and I've before I don't really I didn't love them growing up, but I like the way my

[18:41] wife cooks them. So maybe I'll have some. Yeah, I'm a fan. I kind of prefer them to be roasted

[18:47] ideally and not with marshmallows because or with like brown sugar. Oh, yeah. We always we

[18:52] always roast them until they're crisp. We never we never put any other sweet stuff on them.

[18:56] My wife is a is offended by sweet potatoes because she doesn't think they deserve to

[19:02] also have the name potato to share the name potato with actual potatoes because interesting.

[19:07] OK, well, I yes, I can see how one would feel that way because I know that there's a potato

[19:13] mania among many, many people love potatoes. I I am sort of mid on potatoes. I don't you know,

[19:22] like they can be good. I don't I'm not like I've never been nutty for fries like some people are.

[19:27] I mean, fries are delicious. I mean, fried potatoes are I will eat them like sometimes

[19:31] they're great. I'm just saying like sometimes I don't have like I don't have the craving for

[19:35] a potato dish that a lot of people do. I see. And yeah, I would take the sweet potatoes partly

[19:41] because as starches go, it's a healthy one. And actually, that's why we and that's why we have

[19:47] them a lot of our houses. We like potatoes in our family, but it is healthier to have a sweet potato

[19:52] than a than a proper potato. Ironically, the one time that something sweet is healthy.

[20:00] Normally, if you want a tart, you don't want to eat sweet tarts because they're too bad for you.

[20:05] But if you eat regular tarts, they're fine.

[20:07] Yeah, that's right.

[20:09] But I think I got to where I was going.

[20:11] Like a lemon tart?

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[25:23] On Friday, January 26th.

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[26:43] 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific.

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[26:53] A movie that we had to go to extreme lengths.

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[26:59] It's going to be fun.

[27:01] It's a movie we've talked about as a reference for years.

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[27:08] We're going to have to call Lucy Liu.

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[30:34] all right so back to i don't know the mini i was gonna say back to the game it's not a game it's

[30:41] just kind of just it's a conversation lots of games yeah and we all play our part uh the next

[30:49] the next dish sure is cranberry sauce and the film representing cranberry sauce is

[30:57] from 1910 it's a short film it's called a jar of cranberry sauce or the crime in room 13

[31:07] and uh la does this your favorite movie yeah yeah not not familiar with it

[31:13] is probably your favorite movie right yeah yeah probably uh that's not even the kind of old movie

[31:19] i like the best the imdb summary is a long synopsis of the entire short from uh courtesy of something

[31:26] called moving picture world so i will just give the first paragraph of that uh the story starts

[31:34] with the departure for the metropolis of silas a farmer but nobody's fool his wife out of the

[31:40] goodness of her heart insists on putting up a lunch for him in spite of his protest that he is

[31:46] going to stop at a first-class hotel and buy the things to eat she wins him over to her way of

[31:53] thinking by putting in a jar of his favorite cranberry sauce and he takes his departure with

[31:59] it and a cheerful countenance in consequence thereof so that's the beginning of i feel like

[32:06] i feel like i don't have to watch it now a jar of cranberry sauce or the crime in room 13 that is

[32:11] that is just the very beginning of a long yeah that's a little moose boosh for this movie so uh

[32:19] i don't know you're slapping some of this you know i think i gotta find out what happens with

[32:24] that sauce yeah i gotta find out i'll watch it how long is it for you stew no sauce for me uh let

[32:30] me look that up while uh you discuss cranberry sauce a bit more or this normally i'm a real sauce

[32:35] freak but this time i'm saying hold that a sweet jar now oh now we're talking about cranberry sauce

[32:42] the food i don't want any of that keep it off my plate no we'll get to it we'll get to the short

[32:48] i'm just trying to fill the space as you know i'm sorry sauce guy do you like dips i didn't have an

[32:54] answer to and it turns out there is no time listed on imgb so i don't know how long this

[33:00] could be anywhere from five minutes to five million years uh here here's the next part of it

[33:05] um to see whether i'll give you a little more to see whether you're more or less enticed and the

[33:11] little more is that i could not find any additional information about this phil not just on imgb

[33:18] but by searching google with the title so does that mystery yeah i want the answers to those

[33:25] questions now yeah this this this the it is a very intriguing title i gotta say a jar of

[33:31] cranberry sauce uh semi-colon or comma the crime in room 13 i'm guessing it's not that exciting

[33:40] a crime like that's the kind of thing you see in a lot of those silent shorts it'll be like

[33:43] it'll be you know a hunk of ham or her indelicate proposition and turns out it's like you know

[33:49] somebody invited the wrong person to a party or something yeah okay well the food let's move on to

[33:55] the food are you putting now now elliot said no cranberry sauce i guess this is not surprising

[34:02] given his anti-fruit stance exactly um i'm nothing if not consistent in this one instance

[34:08] sure what is my consistent instant but no i'm i'm i mean i guess i'd be i'm tempted if it isn't

[34:15] the like stuff that comes out of a can the like the like log uh yeah gel now some people that is

[34:23] their preferred because of course it's what they grew up with and they have a nostalgic attachment

[34:27] uh i i would say that i do not like the canned stuff sometimes take a little bit of the good

[34:37] the good stuff to go with the turkey i understand how it might add a little like tartness to cut

[34:43] through the richness of everything else but i agree i'm not really a fan yeah i mean maybe if i

[34:47] had like a uti or something i might then it's very helpful then it's because cranberries do promote

[34:52] urinary tract health which and as someone who has had more than one kidney stone you know i should

[34:57] be having more cranberry stuff possibly and like marshmallows comes out of a bog comes out of that

[35:02] swampy marshy ground so here this that's a good question ali do you drink juice do you like any

[35:08] juices no i don't like any juice okay oh you should drink uh i've been really into like

[35:12] beet juice lately i don't yeah it's good for your heart i mean i like the heart health i don't know

[35:18] if i want to drink the juice though how does it taste i mean it's usually like earthy yeah it's

[35:22] earthy i usually i'll usually have it like mixed with some ginger that sounds it's got a little

[35:28] zing yeah i'll try it you know i'll try it i'll have that instead of cranberry sauce i'll have

[35:33] beet sauce with ginger on my thanksgiving meal well let's move on to mashed potatoes

[35:39] and the film that represents mashed potatoes at this cinematic feast is called is it's also a

[35:47] short this one's from 2020 it's called mashed potato face and the summary is a potato-based

[35:55] killer intrudes upon a family in the middle middle of dinner okay that sounds terrifying

[36:03] um yeah um i mean it's a killer i mean to take something delicious like a potato and make it a

[36:08] make it a danger yeah sure yeah okay um let's say i'm intro i'll take i'll take a scoop of

[36:14] mashed potatoes yeah you know what i'll try it too yeah i want to see how he's how this killer's

[36:19] potato based yeah is it like a carbon-based life form and this is a potato-based life form

[36:27] does he beat people to death with a mr potato head or shove potatoes in their

[36:30] mouths until they we're gonna find out well i've already won you over clearly but does it

[36:35] does it improve or uh deep wade i don't deprove yeah i don't saying that wrong uh does it entice

[36:43] you more or less to learn that the tagline for this movie is mashed potatoes i don't like i

[36:52] don't get it i don't like that don't understand well it's just mashed potatoes with extra a's in

[36:58] it yeah what is that supposed to that makes me less interested i guess i'm still gonna do it

[37:05] yeah i'm still watching it i guess i mean so sure i'm guessing that that's you know with

[37:09] this is just my idea based on nothing that's probably what the killer says

[37:16] walks around doing let me check the quote section oh no he says what's crackalackin

[37:21] apparently they invented that wow i feel like that's uh they're stealing that now mashed

[37:28] potatoes this this is a this is a classic food i assume everyone's gonna have some mashed potatoes

[37:33] i actually honestly i'm i've been pulling back from mashed potatoes lately because

[37:37] especially if it's uh no it's the uh especially if i get them from somewhere else it's too much

[37:43] dairy it just fucks me up oh i understood that i love mashed potatoes i had mashed potatoes for my

[37:47] dinner last night i don't need to wait for thanksgiving i can have them whenever i can

[37:50] i can do mashed potatoes all by myself you know oh wow that's really great you can do the mashed

[37:54] potato can you do the twist though i can do the twist now tell me baby uh wait where'd you go

[38:00] i was naming all the dancers that i do i was mansplaining to you all the dances that i know

[38:04] how to do now and you left hold on thousands of them well just one thousand uh you know stew

[38:10] i had dinner well he doesn't say he knows the thousand dances just been to the land of a

[38:15] thousand dances yeah yeah we had a friend's pre-thanksgiving dinner that included our

[38:20] our mutual friends john and mary okay it wasn't one that wasn't one that i was throwing i didn't

[38:27] uh deny you from this this this wasn't a party where everybody talked shit about me the whole

[38:33] this is uh this is people that uh you're not friends with uh who invited us all is that

[38:40] possible steward is friends to all he's like yeah i am a lot like fucking gamma i'm a flying turtle

[38:46] possibly with nuclear powers but you know john mary john mary are vegan

[38:51] we made vegan mashed potatoes uh audrey made them and uh very good okay what's how do you

[38:58] what's what makes vegan butter what vegan butter is vegan butter that's from plant milk

[39:04] made mostly made with nuts okay like a nut but yeah but i'm just saying like peanut butter but

[39:10] my nuts like semen yeah that's what i'm saying i'm just saying you know if dairy's your problem

[39:17] who learns that vegan mashed potatoes yeah don't blame the potato for it okay all right

[39:23] up next that was a maybe not an important digression but it happened anyway uh but

[39:30] we had i'm glad we can get back to the very important business of the episode though so

[39:35] yeah yeah yeah key stuff people are on tenterhooks uh the next food is green bean casserole now uh

[39:46] for the movie that i think for this oddly enough there's not a lot of green bean casserole

[39:52] themed films out there so i believe that i picked one of the first movies that

[39:56] popped up when i put in green bean casserole and that is the love

[40:00] if and times of Hank Greenberg from 1998.

[40:03] So this gets to the interesting,

[40:05] tell us about it Dan,

[40:06] because this gets to the interesting thing

[40:07] I want to say about casseroles in general.

[40:09] Yeah, the summary is,

[40:11] the life and career of Hank Greenberg,

[40:14] the first major Jewish baseball star in the major leagues.

[40:18] So this is what I want to say is,

[40:19] growing up Jewish and being Jewish,

[40:21] there's not a lot of casserole in my life.

[40:24] Aside from like Kugel,

[40:25] there's not really a lot of casserole,

[40:27] I feel like in the Jewish American world

[40:30] that I grew up in.

[40:30] So we eat green beans,

[40:31] but they're usually like steamed or something like that,

[40:34] salted maybe a little bit,

[40:35] like they're not baked into a casserole.

[40:37] That being said,

[40:38] I have had green bean casseroles that I like,

[40:40] but you're not going to find them in our house.

[40:42] We don't do a lot of casseroling.

[40:43] And I don't think Hank Greenberg did a lot of it either.

[40:45] So come along Hank,

[40:47] let's get out of here.

[40:48] Well, I'll speak to this issue more

[40:50] once we hit the food section,

[40:51] but you're going to take some movie,

[40:55] you're going to slap some movie on your plate.

[40:57] I'll take some, I mean, as the, as the,

[40:59] as the father of this episode, right?

[41:01] Slap some movie on your plate.

[41:03] As the father of a baseball loving Jewish kid,

[41:05] I think I have to watch this movie, yeah.

[41:07] Okay, let's see what you say.

[41:11] I'm going to need more convincing.

[41:12] Okay, well, does it convince you more

[41:14] to learn that the tagline is,

[41:16] when America needed heroes,

[41:19] a Jewish slugger stepped to the plate?

[41:21] Yes, I'm immediately sold.

[41:23] The tagline is, so it's baseball?

[41:33] Baseball you're playing now?

[41:35] A Jewish slugger has filled that role.

[41:38] I think I remember when this movie came out,

[41:40] I remember in the trailer,

[41:41] they talked to Walter Matthau

[41:42] about being a fan of Hank Greenberg when he was a kid.

[41:44] Cause it was like,

[41:45] it was the same way that Sandy Koufax was in the sixties.

[41:47] It was like all the, all the Jewish boys were,

[41:49] they finally had a player they could relate to, you know?

[41:52] Well, let's get back to the food.

[41:54] You know, as a Midwestern boy,

[41:57] had a lot of green bean casseroles.

[41:59] Everything's casserole over there.

[42:00] Yeah, stick it in the casserole, why not?

[42:03] Yeah, culturally, casseroles loom large.

[42:06] Not so much in my particular household,

[42:08] but if we went to a church potluck or something,

[42:10] lots of casseroles.

[42:11] And your parents were a big fan

[42:12] of the music of Mama Casserole.

[42:16] Mama Cass-a-role, likewise to you though,

[42:20] like other cultures,

[42:21] I think that I made some a year or two back.

[42:25] I think that Audrey as a Filipino was like, what is this?

[42:31] Yeah, what is, why are you doing this?

[42:32] Why?

[42:34] I'm like, the reason is it's a way to get fried onions.

[42:40] It is a delivery method for fried onions.

[42:42] Fried onions on their own would be sinful,

[42:44] but when you buried them in a casserole,

[42:46] Jesus can't see you.

[42:47] The baby Jesus can't notice the fried onions.

[42:50] Put some green beans around

[42:52] and slop some cream of mushroom soup in there, it's okay.

[42:57] I mean, the fried onions are the best part, for sure.

[43:00] There's a reason you need to eat them separately.

[43:01] Do you like those casseroles?

[43:02] No, I don't know.

[43:03] There's something about cream of mushroom soup

[43:05] that never really worked for me.

[43:10] I don't like it on its own.

[43:11] I like it as the ingredient in the casserole.

[43:12] No, I know, there's something about the combination

[43:15] of something that I can't quite explain.

[43:19] When I have trouble dividing the ingredients in my head,

[43:22] it makes, I don't know, there's something about it.

[43:26] Okay, all right, so split on green bean casserole,

[43:30] but it's time for dessert.

[43:31] I think there's a reason

[43:32] there's not a lot of casserole restaurants.

[43:35] Yeah.

[43:36] Dessert time, we're gonna pull out.

[43:39] There's a space in the market, though, I guess,

[43:41] for how we could.

[43:42] Maybe let's do it. Sharks, sharks.

[43:45] I would like to pitch my casserole restaurant,

[43:49] Stewart, sharks eat fish, come on.

[43:51] All right, pumpkin pie.

[43:53] Fish casserole.

[43:55] Pumpkin pie, represented in this case

[43:59] by the television movie.

[44:00] This better not be about a movie

[44:02] where someone has sex with a pumpkin pie.

[44:04] We've already talked enough about pie sex.

[44:06] No, the movie is Pumpkin Pie Wars from 2016.

[44:10] It's a TV movie from Stephen R. Monroe,

[44:14] who started as a B-horror director

[44:16] with films like the remake of I Spit on Your Grave,

[44:19] but he seems to have pivoted

[44:21] into these television holiday romances

[44:23] with other titles like A Harvest Wedding,

[44:26] A Bramble House, I'm sorry, A Bramble House Christmas.

[44:30] Oh, because A Bramble House

[44:31] could be a good horror title, too.

[44:32] Yeah, and I like this title, USS Christmas.

[44:36] It's either some kind of Christmas ship

[44:40] or it's a Soviet movie,

[44:42] and the USSR is celebrating Christmas.

[44:44] So I'm gonna read the summary of the plot of this,

[44:49] and let me know if this sounds familiar to you,

[44:52] but different.

[44:54] 10 years ago, Faye and Lydia each opened

[44:57] their own bakeries in Emeryville, Ohio

[45:00] after a personal and professional fallout

[45:02] during a local pumpkin pie contest.

[45:06] It was Little Italy.

[45:07] Little Italy on Logan.

[45:08] Yep, that's what I was thinking, too.

[45:09] Now their children and coworkers, Casey and Sam,

[45:13] are set to carry on the rivalry

[45:13] as they go head-to-head in the same contest.

[45:16] There's only one problem.

[45:17] For these two people who are supposed to hate each other,

[45:19] they start to fall in love.

[45:20] That's what always happens.

[45:21] Little Italy, pumpkin pies instead of pizza pies.

[45:24] And I believe that Audrey and I watch this

[45:28] as we are fans of the holiday pap that gets churned out.

[45:35] The holiday work of Joseph Papp,

[45:36] founder of the Public Theater.

[45:37] Yeah, so what do you think?

[45:40] You into pumpkin pie wars?

[45:42] I'm gonna say, how dare they?

[45:44] Steal Little Italy's what?

[45:46] How dare they, sir?

[45:47] Yeah, Little Italy's original, never-been-seen-before

[45:51] pumpkin pie of two houses at war.

[45:55] Yeah.

[45:56] I don't know, I'm gonna say I'm kinda interested.

[45:59] Yeah, well, I like trash.

[46:02] I'm gonna say no, but maybe you can tell me

[46:06] something that'll pique my interest.

[46:08] Because the thing that Little Italy,

[46:09] which a movie I did not particularly like,

[46:10] what Little Italy had going for it

[46:12] was at least it was set in the world of New York Italians,

[46:15] which is a world I feel comfortable in and love,

[46:18] as opposed to-

[46:18] I thought it was Toronto Italians.

[46:19] Yeah, that was the thing, it was Canada.

[46:21] But they still talk like New York, you're right,

[46:23] it was Toronto Italians, but they're big city Italians.

[46:25] And Hayden Christensen, he really brought it, man.

[46:28] Yeah, he really believed his family came over here

[46:30] from Kiberia or something.

[46:33] Yeah, from Naboo.

[46:36] That kid's got the juice, you know?

[46:38] Not a lot of actors got the juice anymore,

[46:41] but he does, you know what I mean?

[46:42] I forgot that movie was set in Toronto, that's right.

[46:44] But Toronto is the New York of Canada, so.

[46:46] Okay, sound off in the comments, people, not Toronto.

[46:50] It replaces New York in movies all the time.

[46:52] The idea that anyone in Toronto would be offended

[46:55] to be called the New York of Canada, bring them to me,

[46:56] I'll tell them why that's a nice thing to learn.

[46:59] Well, Elliot, let me try and convince you-

[47:01] This is set in Ohio, which is kind of a shadowy,

[47:03] strange world that I'm not familiar with.

[47:05] Let me see if I can convince you for this movie

[47:09] with the only trivia available.

[47:11] Okay.

[47:13] This was aired-

[47:13] Claims to have coined the phrase, what's crack-a-lackin'?

[47:16] The only trivia in its trivia section.

[47:20] Aired as the third of four original films

[47:24] in the Hallmark Channel's 2016 Fall Harvest lineup,

[47:29] which fulfills its obligation of being trivial,

[47:32] but it's a truly trivial piece of information.

[47:36] Who's in this movie?

[47:38] I don't, you know how these movies go.

[47:40] You know, someone who was a star in some TV show

[47:45] 15 years ago.

[47:46] Oh, yeah.

[47:47] And the, it says the family patriarch

[47:50] is played by Werner Herzog.

[47:52] He must have been this sweet potato competition.

[47:58] Is it sweet potato pumpkin?

[48:00] Oh, they're always the same.

[48:02] Empty, empty at their heart.

[48:04] Yeah.

[48:05] You're right, it was that.

[48:07] Actually, he would say,

[48:09] son, it is time for you to take the reins of the pie shop.

[48:16] You would be a pie maker.

[48:20] Well, let's pivot to-

[48:21] Truly to make a perfect pie is to spit in the eye of God,

[48:26] to say I too can create.

[48:29] Yummy, yummy, there's nothing better than a pumpkin pie.

[48:34] Mm.

[48:35] So let's pivot to the food side of things.

[48:39] You're gonna walk away with a slice of pumpkin pie

[48:41] at the end of your Thanksgiving meal?

[48:43] Absolutely, I love that shit.

[48:45] Love it?

[48:46] Absolutely love it.

[48:46] None for me, thank you.

[48:47] Not a fan of the taste of pumpkin.

[48:49] And especially in my house,

[48:51] we always make the same kind of chocolate pie

[48:54] that is delicious.

[48:55] So if I can have some of that,

[48:56] why am I gonna eat pumpkin pie?

[48:57] Come on, chocolate, the best tasting thing that exists?

[49:00] Look, I like chocolate.

[49:01] I'm not a fan of chocolate pies.

[49:04] I-

[49:05] Would you describe yourself as a chocoholic?

[49:07] I would not.

[49:08] As a recovered chocoholic.

[49:10] I actually rarely have chocolate.

[49:12] I like pumpkin pie.

[49:14] I'll say that I, of the Thanksgiving pies,

[49:17] I prefer a pecan or a pecan pie,

[49:20] depending on where you are from the country.

[49:21] Well, you make the rules.

[49:22] You could have made that the pie that you were doing.

[49:24] But that's less traditional.

[49:25] Yeah, that's true.

[49:26] I'm going through the most, but yeah, of course.

[49:29] I'll have some pumpkin pie.

[49:31] Good stuff.

[49:32] Two thumbs up.

[49:33] I'm a pie guy.

[49:35] For me, there's only one holiday

[49:36] pumpkins should be part of.

[49:38] H-ween.

[49:39] Make that, carve that thing into a spooky face.

[49:42] Make it a skull or something.

[49:43] And then throw it in the trash.

[49:44] Let it rot on the tree.

[49:46] Let it slowly rot on your doorstep.

[49:48] It makes it even scarier than throw it away.

[49:51] And it gets all wet and gross

[49:52] and it falls apart in your hands

[49:54] while you're trying to carry it to the garbage can.

[49:55] That's what I call a holiday.

[49:58] Mortality.

[49:59] Exactly.

[50:00] Okay, well, thank you for being with us for this mini.

[50:05] Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate in this country.

[50:09] Thank you for sharing this time with us.

[50:13] If you liked this podcast, go over to MaximumFun.org.

[50:18] Check out the other great podcasts they have there.

[50:21] Some of them are funny. Some of them give information.

[50:23] Some of them do both.

[50:25] This one's barely achieved either.

[50:28] This was an idea that I had and was like, sure, that's good enough.

[50:34] Let's do it. Thanksgiving.

[50:36] I will say, though, Dan, it gives us a great opportunity to say that we are thankful for our listeners,

[50:41] and I personally am thankful for you two guys.

[50:44] Thanks for being a part of my life and doing this show with me,

[50:47] and thank you listeners for giving us a reason to talk every couple weeks.

[50:51] We talk more than that, but it means we have to talk to each other, which is great.

[50:56] We have a reason always to get together like a family.

[50:59] You guys are two foods I will always put on my plate.

[51:05] Thanks.

[51:07] I'll appreciate the spirit behind the sentiment.

[51:10] Yeah.

[51:12] So, yeah, if you like podcasts in general, not just this one,

[51:17] maybe go over to MaximumFun.org.

[51:19] Check out the other great podcasts on our network.

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[51:34] And if you want to learn more about X and Sever, join us on December 2nd for Flop TV.

[51:41] If you want to help us out beyond being a member of Maximum Fun,

[51:45] why don't you go over to Apple Podcasts, iTunes, leave us a good review, not a bad one.

[51:52] Why put out negativity in the world?

[51:54] Just focus on a good one.

[51:56] Yeah.

[51:58] Says the host and creator of a podcast shitting on movies.

[52:01] That's true, except for I think we do it in a nice way.

[52:05] Yeah.

[52:06] Yeah.

[52:07] Out of a spirit of hope and love.

[52:08] Yeah.

[52:09] Yeah.

[52:10] Our butts are clean when the poop comes out.

[52:11] Thank you to HowlDotty.

[52:14] I think Werner Herzog said that also, right?

[52:16] Thank you to HowlDotty.

[52:19] Actually, Alex Smith, but he goes by the name HowlDotty on the internet.

[52:23] I'm trying to do the wrap up.

[52:24] I'm getting so distracted.

[52:26] Thank you, Alex, for being our producer.

[52:29] But for the Flophouse, I've been Dan McCoy.

[52:32] Hey, I'm Stuart Wellington.

[52:34] And I'm Ellie Kaelin saying let's crack-a-lackin', everyone.

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