FH Mini 89 - Screen Gems

[0:00] Hello everybody, welcome to a Flophouse Mini. I want to apologize ahead of time. This is

[0:07] your co-host, Elliot Kalin. I have a bit of a cough, so you may hear me coughing in this

[0:12] episode. I can't wait to introduce my co-hosts on this episode, Daniel McCoy and Stuart Wellington.

[0:17] But first, I wanted to make a brief mention about something I'm going to tell you about

[0:19] more later. We had a great show on September 9th, Saturday, where we talked about Cool

[0:24] World on video in front of the audience. You can still watch that show, even if you missed

[0:28] it on September 9th. I'll explain later in the show how you can do that. And we're doing

[0:33] two live shows in person in front of human beings in a room at Vidiot's in L.A. on October

[0:38] 19th. I'll tell you more about that later in the show. But first, I mentioned them already.

[0:43] I teased them, and I like to tease these guys. They're very teaseable. Here are my co-hosts.

[0:47] Guys, introduce yourselves for reals. I'm Dan McCoy, teased like some 80s hair. I'm

[0:54] Stuart Wellington, pleased by all this teasing. That's great. Now, I wish the mini was about

[0:59] teasing, but it is not. So, everybody, this is a Flophouse mini episode. What does that

[1:04] mean? It's a little bit shorter than our regular episodes, although occasionally longer. And

[1:07] instead of watching a bad movie and talking about it, we're going to be talking about

[1:11] some other thing. Often, it's a game that we play with each other, and that's what it's

[1:16] going to be tonight. Because, guys, I don't know if you know this, but Dan and I are on

[1:20] strike. Strike from our jobs. And when I hear the word strike, I think just one thing.

[1:26] That's right. Striking it rich. Oil, gold, diamonds, mineral wealth. Mother Earth is

[1:32] just full of valuable junk, and all we have to do is dig that shit right out of her. So,

[1:37] that means we're going to... You sound like you're Matthew Lesko, being like, the Earth

[1:44] is just giving money away. Did you know there's lots of free money under the ground? Which

[1:49] means it's time to celebrate that mineral bounty with another episode of everyone's

[1:53] favorite valuable resources-based movie podcast quiz show, Screen Gems, also known as There's

[2:00] Gold in Them Nar Films. Love all of it. We'll be rich, I tells you, rich. Oh, no. Stuart

[2:07] is putting his hands to his head in dismay, and I can't love it more. Screen Gems, as

[2:13] always, is brought to you by Questionable Eddie's Last Minute Idea Warehouse. Questionable

[2:18] Eddie's, when you just realized you need a topic for tomorrow's mini episode. And it's

[2:22] also brought to you by the Entertainment Community Fund. If you'd like to support striking entertainment

[2:26] workers or workers affected by the ongoing strike in the entertainment industry, please

[2:30] consider donating to the TV and Film Fund at entertainmentcommunity.org. But that's

[2:35] enough serious stuff. Let's get to the goofy dumb stuff, guys. Are you ready for a big

[2:40] quiz about big wealth? Big, yes. Yeah, as long as it's big. Sounds like big fun. It's

[2:47] going to be big fun, not bit fun. That would be if this was a game about Bitcoin. It is

[2:51] not. This is instead a game about natural wealth, the things that, you know, guys, there's

[2:56] a lot of fake currencies out there, these cryptocurrencies, which are it's value based

[2:59] on nothing, whereas the value of these things is real and natural. And it's based on the

[3:03] fact that it is shiny. That's true. I'm shiny as a Bitcoin fan. Well, it's as shiny as you

[3:12] want it to be. That sounds like it's meant to clear your mind. Tell me this, student,

[3:19] how shiny is a Bitcoin? And you're like, oh, I don't know. Just a bit. OK, just a bit shiny.

[3:25] Well, guys, are you ready for round one? I couldn't be more ready. Yeah. OK. Round one

[3:31] of Screen Gems is called Treasure of the Sierra Movie. I'm going to name a movie and you're

[3:36] going to tell me what is the valuable stone or element or thing? What's the valuable thing

[3:42] that the characters in the movie are all chasing around and looking for? I got you. I'm going

[3:47] to break your game wide open. It's a MacGuffin. All right. I guess in a way, you kind of just

[3:54] won completely. That's true. I could go for an egg MacGuffin right about now. Can I be

[4:00] captain of the Enterprise now? That's right. You won the Kobayashi Maru. Yeah, you broke the game.

[4:08] You're now the greatest hero in the world. Is it that he went in and and recoded the test?

[4:15] That's what he did. So he cheated. That's just cheating. Yeah. OK. Dude,

[4:21] that's all they do in every game is cheat. It's crazy.

[4:24] Yeah. So for those for people who are not aware of the Kobayashi Maru,

[4:27] the Kobayashi Maru is a test that that Starfleet Academy cadets have to go through in which they

[4:32] realize at the end that Kobayashi was a made up character that Verbal Kint was just lying about

[4:37] in the story he was telling in the usual suspects. I got to say he got the name from the bottom of a

[4:41] cup. Kobayashi Maru is a cool idea for like, OK, the training here is to to it's philosophical.

[4:49] It's so that Starfleet captain can accept that they may encounter a no win situation and to

[4:57] sort of be psychologically prepared for that. Cool idea. I feel like after the first class

[5:05] takes the Kobayashi Maru and everyone's talking about the Kobayashi Maru, the effectiveness of

[5:09] that is done. You go on the Starfleet Reddit and you're like, yeah, the thing about the first rule

[5:16] of Kobayashi Maru is the Kobayashi Maru is supposed to be that. No, you don't talk about

[5:20] Kobayashi Maru. That's the first rule. Second rule. See the first rule. But then Dan always

[5:24] has problems with public education. Don't get him started on critical race theory anyway.

[5:28] So I'm going to name a movie and you're going to name the valuable thing that they're looking for.

[5:34] Dan, you'll go first and then we'll alternate. And yes, in this in this game, you can steal

[5:39] if the other person gets it wrong. OK, you can get a point by answering it right. OK,

[5:43] so Dan, I'm going to name a movie. You name the valuable thing the characters are looking for.

[5:47] The Pink Panther. They are looking for. I believe. The Pink Panther. And that is the name

[5:56] of a diamond. Yes, it's a diamond. Thank you. Which makes the rest of the series titling

[6:01] conventions confusing. Yes. None of the other movies involve the Pink Panther Diamond is

[6:06] much the same way as in the movie The Thin Man. Claude Winant, the missing scientist,

[6:10] is the thin man they are looking for. But then after that, they're like,

[6:13] uh, William Powell's kind of thin. We'll just pretend he's the thin man from now on.

[6:18] He's not. He's not. He's not. He's not. He's not a fat man, but he's not a fat man.

[6:23] I guess the second movie is called After the Thin Man because it's literally like

[6:26] after whatever happened in the movie. It's a great sequel. The sequel to Star Wars is

[6:31] called After Star Wars. Yeah. I mean, they did that with Aftermash. So that's true.

[6:38] That's true. All the thin man precedent. And the movie Aftermath is about what happens

[6:42] after you learn math. And after Earth. Yeah, that's after Earth, the documentary series. Yeah.

[6:52] So, uh, Stuart, Dan has a point. Stuart, he's on the board. I gotta get a point.

[6:57] Okay. What valuable thing are they looking for in the movie Sisu?

[7:02] Oh, uh, gold. You're right. It's gold that they're looking for in Sisu. Dan,

[7:07] you're up next. The movie Uncut Gems. And I want you to be as specific as possible.

[7:12] Uh, well, there's an uncut gem. Yes. That, uh, the idea is, I guess, that, um,

[7:21] Adam Sandler's character is like, if I cut this, it'll be worth a lot of money.

[7:27] In a sense. But what is that particular gem that the plot revolves around?

[7:33] The particular uncut gem. Is it a type of diamond?

[7:36] Uh, well, no. Is it a black diamond? Okay, you're halfway there. I'm gonna steal that

[7:42] shit. What is it? Dan, are you officially saying no? I am officially saying no. Okay, Stuart.

[7:47] So wait, I can't steal until my, uh, my opponent gives me permission to steal. Well, you gotta,

[7:51] you gotta give him, you gotta give him a chance. I mean, at this point, he's made it clear he

[7:55] doesn't know it. It's an opal, right? It is a, should I give each of you half credit? It's a

[8:00] black opal. Black opal. I'm giving you each half credit. I also would have accepted, uh,

[8:05] a jewel-encrusted Furby. Uh, I mean, it's in the movie. He's right, Dan. You're right. Okay. So it

[8:15] is the black opal that they're looking for. Uh, Stuart, you're up next. The movie is The Treasure

[8:19] of the Sierra Madre. What are they looking for? Well, they're looking for treasure.

[8:24] Um, I'm going to say, I actually don't know this movie. I mean, I've heard of it. Um,

[8:33] is it any good? Do you know what their relationship to badges is in that movie? Oh,

[8:37] uh, do they, they steal that bit from Cheech and Chong? They stole that bit from the movie UHF.

[8:43] Yeah. Um, what are they looking for? I'm going to say they are looking for

[8:50] gold. Yes, you're right. It's gold. Okay. Stuart, that was great. You didn't even see

[8:57] the movie and you got it, Dan. If my next movie is gold stirring Roger Moore, I'm going to fucking

[9:02] crush it. Dan, Dan, uh, Avatar. What are they looking for? An Avatar? They're looking for

[9:12] unobtainium. You got that right. An element that James Cameron caught a lot of shit for,

[9:17] but he took that from real scientists, whether or not it still sounds dumb.

[9:22] You can argue that, but, uh, it's not James Cameron's fault necessarily. No,

[9:27] there's other dumb stuff that he can take with him. You know, he's the director and writer.

[9:32] Yeah. Totally forgot to put the fucking dog face octopus in his Titanic movie. He has a track record

[9:40] that his Titanic movie is so inaccurate. He has the people on the Titanic drowning to death.

[9:45] When in reality, as we know from the legend of the Titanic, they were all saved by his maritime

[9:50] buddies. Yeah. And, and the heroism of camembert, the mouse in allowing him to electrocute him

[9:56] through his mustache to send out the world's most conductive mustache.

[10:00] which would have killed a lesser mouse, but luckily.

[10:03] Seward, I don't know how psychic you are,

[10:05] but the answers vary,

[10:06] because the answer is gold starring Roger Moore.

[10:08] What is the thing that we're looking for now?

[10:10] It's gold!

[10:12] It is gold.

[10:13] What a great opening title sequence for that movie.

[10:15] It's an amazing opening title sequence.

[10:16] Yeah, it's amazing.

[10:18] Yeah, you really get the idea that that movie's about gold.

[10:22] I've never seen this movie.

[10:23] Should I see this again?

[10:24] No, but just look up the opening title sequence, it is, yeah.

[10:27] My parents had it on VHS tape with like three other movies,

[10:31] and I remember it like, I would see the opening

[10:33] and then be like, I don't wanna watch that.

[10:34] No, it's not gonna live up to it, and it doesn't.

[10:36] Dan, your movie is Notorious.

[10:40] Oh, okay.

[10:41] What is the valuable element or thing

[10:44] they're looking for in Notorious?

[10:47] The MacGuffin, as Seward put it earlier

[10:49] when he broke the game.

[10:51] I remember some sort of like dust.

[10:54] Is it uranium?

[10:57] It is uranium, you did a great job.

[10:59] It's not unobtainium, it's uranium.

[11:02] No, no, Notorious, Notorious.

[11:05] Well, that's true.

[11:06] You also could have said hip hop glory.

[11:08] Girls on film.

[11:10] Yeah.

[11:11] Girls on film.

[11:13] Different song.

[11:14] It's a medley now.

[11:15] Different song, I don't know why it's a medley at all,

[11:17] it's unrelated.

[11:17] The union of the snake chasers on the prop.

[11:19] Wait, the crime?

[11:20] Her name is real and she.

[11:23] I just like Duran Duran.

[11:24] Man, we should, we should forewarn girls.

[11:26] Glory like the wolf.

[11:29] We should form like a Duran Duran cover band.

[11:31] We could call ourselves Studan Sudan.

[11:36] Okay, let's talk about this.

[11:37] Hold on, we were gonna make this mini short,

[11:38] but let's talk about this.

[11:40] Studan Sudan, now touring the Sudan.

[11:44] I love it.

[11:44] So you'll be.

[11:45] Huge Duran Duran audience in the Sudan.

[11:47] Is it North Sudan or regular Sudan?

[11:51] Both, why limit ourselves?

[11:52] Yeah, exactly.

[11:53] South Sudan.

[11:54] So guys.

[11:56] Are you doing just straight covers of Duran Duran songs

[11:59] or are they also Duran Duran songs

[12:00] where you've inserted yourselves in it in some way?

[12:03] I mean, a little bit of that.

[12:04] I mean, it's gonna be all acapella

[12:06] because that's what people like.

[12:07] Okay.

[12:08] And it will cut down on our travel costs

[12:09] because we don't have to travel.

[12:11] Because nobody will book you.

[12:12] Yeah, that's a life hack for.

[12:13] Yeah, that's a life hack.

[12:14] Hey, Nick Rhodes, leave the keyboard at home, buddy.

[12:20] Yeah, you gotta tell Rush to have fewer drums

[12:22] on that stage.

[12:24] Man.

[12:25] Yeah, yeah.

[12:26] Imagine the shipping costs.

[12:28] The shipping costs, cause they mail it.

[12:29] They go to the post office.

[12:32] I mean, they got stamps.com, not stamps.com.

[12:35] Stamps.com, yeah.

[12:38] Yeah, it stands for doppelganger

[12:39] because it's the evil duplicate of stamps.com.

[12:42] They only mail people's drum kits.

[12:45] Yeah, because I sure hope my drum kit

[12:48] gets to the arena on time.

[12:51] Okay, so Robot and the Family.

[12:53] Stu, this is your movie, Robot and the Family.

[12:55] What are they looking for in it?

[12:57] So this is a movie we've talked about covering,

[12:59] but you guys said it was too bad

[13:02] and that you didn't want to watch.

[13:03] Yes, because I've seen it before.

[13:05] Even though it was shot in a part of New York,

[13:07] I know very well.

[13:08] So, Stuart, here, just to-

[13:09] This is gonna be based on context clues

[13:11] because there's a robot involved.

[13:13] I'm gonna say gold.

[13:15] You got it, gold is the answer.

[13:18] Yep.

[13:19] Dan, now it's your turn.

[13:22] Your movie is Fool's Gold.

[13:24] What is the valuable thing they're looking for

[13:26] in Fool's Gold?

[13:28] I think they're looking for actual gold

[13:32] in the form of maritime treasure.

[13:35] I think they're looking for love

[13:36] and they find that shit.

[13:37] You guys have credit to both of you again.

[13:40] The answer is gold and love.

[13:43] So, Stu, you are really killing it today

[13:47] in these steals.

[13:49] You are snaking it.

[13:50] On the uncut gem we made along the way.

[13:53] Yeah, and so, Stuart,

[13:54] this is the final question of the round.

[13:56] Kelly's Heroes.

[13:59] I'm gonna say, man,

[14:02] I actually haven't seen a lot of these movies.

[14:04] Kelly's Heroes is a fun movie.

[14:06] Yeah, I mean, I should.

[14:08] It ends with one of the more inexplicable,

[14:11] like, we're just gonna have a jaunty song

[14:13] where you're like, remember all these heroes?

[14:15] What's the theme song?

[14:16] My friends all tried to warn me,

[14:18] but I didn't even try.

[14:20] It's called Burning Bridges or something like that.

[14:22] Burn your bridge, you've got to burn your bridge.

[14:25] It's the song, it's totally out of step

[14:27] with the rest of the movie.

[14:28] It sounds like the end of Return of the King.

[14:30] So, yeah, at the end of Return of the King,

[14:32] when they play, what is it, Chris Isaac's song?

[14:34] Yeah.

[14:36] Yeah, yeah.

[14:37] They play Walking on Sunshine.

[14:38] They play Bullish King.

[14:39] It'd be so funny if they played Walking on Sunshine

[14:41] at the end.

[14:42] It was like, first,

[14:43] but they keep in the scene of scouring the shire

[14:45] and then they play Walking on Sunshine.

[14:49] Man, Sharky, what an asshole.

[14:50] I'm glad he gets in the end.

[14:52] Okay, so-

[14:53] But then with his machine,

[14:54] Sharky's machine, though,

[14:56] deserved its own movie, yeah.

[14:57] Yeah, it did, yeah.

[14:58] Yeah.

[14:59] I'm gonna say gold.

[15:00] Can you be more specific?

[15:02] Gold coins.

[15:05] I need it, it's a certain kind of gold.

[15:07] Dan, do you feel like you can steal this half point?

[15:09] Nazi gold?

[15:10] Oh, Stuart got it, Nazi gold.

[15:12] That's the answer.

[15:13] Nazi gold.

[15:15] It was the, indeed, Nazi gold that is stolen.

[15:18] They're looking for Kelly's heroes.

[15:19] Do they get it?

[15:20] You'll have to watch the movie to find out.

[15:21] Yeah, I guess so.

[15:22] So that's it, leaving round one.

[15:23] Stu is in a slight lead, six to four against Dan

[15:26] in a category that was somewhat stacked against Dan.

[15:29] I will admit that.

[15:30] You think?

[15:33] Well, let's move on to our next round.

[15:34] This round's called Hard Rock Q&A.

[15:38] Now, I'm going to name a movie

[15:39] and you have to tell me

[15:40] if there's a rock and roll song in it,

[15:42] a giant rock in it,

[15:45] or neither.

[15:46] Okay.

[15:47] And Dan, because I didn't quite play fair

[15:49] on that last category, but you did great.

[15:51] Would you like to go first

[15:52] or do you want Stuart to go first?

[15:54] I'll let Stuart go first, actually.

[15:55] Okay, Stuart, then the first question is for you.

[15:57] Is it, has the movie got a rock and roll song,

[16:00] a giant rock, or neither in it?

[16:02] And the first movie is Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[16:05] Giant rock.

[16:06] You got that right.

[16:07] They should have called that movie Raiders of the Lost Rock.

[16:09] That would have been a great idea.

[16:10] Or the Rockers of the Lost Raid.

[16:12] Yeah, exactly.

[16:14] Oh yeah, the boulder at the front.

[16:15] I was like, it took me a second.

[16:17] You're like, huh.

[16:18] I was thinking the main adventure, not the-

[16:20] Let me think about-

[16:21] The best part was, I feel like you were like,

[16:24] was there a rock song in that movie?

[16:26] Does Indy ever plug in his guitar

[16:30] to blow those Nazis away with the power of rock?

[16:32] I'm sorry, you're just too darn loud.

[16:34] I love the idea that, Dan,

[16:35] even if you had then run the entire movie in your head

[16:38] to remember if there's a giant rock in it,

[16:40] you'd get to it pretty quickly.

[16:41] Okay, Dan, Deep Impact.

[16:43] Is there a rock and roll song, a giant rock, or neither?

[16:47] Well, isn't, is both an option?

[16:50] You didn't say it, but there is both, right?

[16:53] Does Deep Impact have a rock and roll song in it?

[16:56] Oh, you know what?

[16:57] I was thinking of Armageddon.

[16:58] Just a rock.

[16:59] It's just a, thank you.

[17:00] It's just a giant rock.

[17:01] I'll allow you to take it

[17:02] even though you were insultingly questioning

[17:04] my knowledge of Deep Impact, I guess.

[17:07] You got that.

[17:08] Stuart, School of Rock.

[17:10] It's got a rock song in it.

[17:13] An expensive one.

[17:14] I'm assuming the rights to use Immigrant Song

[17:17] cost them a pretty penny.

[17:19] Probably, probably.

[17:20] I mean, there's a few rock songs in School of Rock.

[17:22] Yeah, but Led Zeppelin songs are extra expensive.

[17:25] They're extra expensive

[17:26] because you have to deliver them by Zeppelin.

[17:27] You can't just ship them like Russia's drum set, yeah.

[17:31] Well, you have to deliver them by Led Zeppelin,

[17:32] which doesn't fly.

[17:34] No, you have to drag it.

[17:35] So you have to ship that Zeppelin.

[17:37] It has to be dragged, ironically, by immigrants.

[17:40] So Dan, The Rock.

[17:43] Rock song, giant rock.

[17:43] Oh, the movie The Rock.

[17:46] Yeah.

[17:47] Well, let's see.

[17:50] Don't overthink it.

[17:53] You know what?

[17:55] Although Nicolas Cage does play,

[17:58] I think, a Beatles song at one point.

[18:01] I'll say it has a rock in it

[18:03] in that Alcatraz is nicknamed The Rock.

[18:06] Incorrect.

[18:07] Stu, you want to steal this one?

[18:08] What?

[18:10] Wrong, it has neither.

[18:11] I am not counting Nicolas Cage

[18:13] briefly noodling on his guitar

[18:15] and not playing a full song

[18:17] and then saying what a Beatles fan he is.

[18:18] And The Rock, it's a prison.

[18:20] It's not a rock.

[18:21] It's not an island.

[18:22] Come on.

[18:23] Yeah, I guess we fucked up

[18:24] because for the rules of the game,

[18:26] we have to hear an entire song.

[18:28] I guess Elliot is God in this game.

[18:32] I am, indeed.

[18:33] If we consider The Rock to be a giant rock,

[18:36] then any movie has a giant rock in it

[18:38] because they all take place on land.

[18:39] I guess except for Warner World.

[18:41] I mean, it was specifically nicknamed The Rock

[18:44] as per the title.

[18:45] Is Dwayne The Rock Johnson a rock and roll song

[18:47] or a giant rock?

[18:48] He's not.

[18:49] He's neither of those things.

[18:50] He is a giant rock.

[18:51] He is a giant rock.

[18:52] He is not a giant rock.

[18:52] That's exactly what he is.

[18:53] Is he's made out of stone?

[18:55] He's a man named The Rock who is giant.

[18:57] Daniel, Daniel, don't play games with me.

[19:00] Don't play, not at all.

[19:01] Okay, so, okay, the next one is for you, Stu,

[19:04] because Dan, that is you on the right.

[19:05] Stu is Rock of Ages.

[19:08] Rock of Ages has a rock song in it.

[19:11] Dan, Picnic at Hanging Rock.

[19:14] That has a giant rock in it.

[19:15] You got that right, for real.

[19:17] The music, there's no rock and roll.

[19:18] It's all pan flute, it's all Zamfir,

[19:20] the massive pan flute.

[19:21] Stuart, Galaxy Quest.

[19:25] Oh, shit.

[19:26] Definitely a giant rock.

[19:27] Yes, there's a giant rock monster.

[19:28] Not just a rock, but a rock monster.

[19:31] Yep, and, okay, that's what, B-52s?

[19:34] Okay, and Dan, The Neverending Story.

[19:36] This is my Weird Al parody of B-52s.

[19:38] Dan, The Neverending Story.

[19:43] I believe that that also has a big rock man,

[19:45] so I'll say it's a giant rock.

[19:47] Stuart, Return to Oz.

[19:48] And that fucking title track, though,

[19:50] is kind of a rock song.

[19:51] Yeah.

[19:52] But I'm gonna go with Rock Monster then.

[19:53] Dan, Stuart, Return to Oz.

[19:55] That's your move.

[19:56] I don't know it that well.

[19:57] I'm gonna say Giant Rock.

[19:59] It's got a giant rock monster.

[20:00] in it, The Known King. Okay, Dan, Armageddon.

[20:04] Uh, so I'll go back to my original assertion that

[20:08] it has both. You got that right. It was a trick question. It has big rock and

[20:12] rock and roll song in it. You don't want to miss a thing. Unless it's Armageddon

[20:16] in which case you can miss it. It's not that great. I don't know. I would say it's

[20:20] amazing. It's crazy. I think most of Armageddon

[20:24] is dumb but enjoyable. If you're going to miss part of Armageddon

[20:28] I would say you should probably miss the part where that song plays. Yeah, I would think

[20:32] so, yeah. I don't love it. I don't love this one. Okay, so that was

[20:36] Dan. Stu, bad day at Black Rock.

[20:40] I'm going to say Giant Rock. No, neither.

[20:44] It's just a town called Black Rock. Wait, I didn't get to steal that one? Oh, sorry.

[20:48] Dan, you want to steal it? Yeah, neither. It's a town called Black Rock.

[20:52] You know I knew that one. No, Dan's seen that movie. Dan, your turn. The Hot Rock.

[20:56] Uh, I mean

[21:00] how Giant counts as Giant because I believe the

[21:04] Hot Rock is about stealing a

[21:08] big diamond, which is big for a diamond. I would call it

[21:12] a Giant Rock in that sense, but you're a trickster

[21:16] so I'm going to say neither. You got that right. You figured it out a lot. Neither. The rock

[21:20] is very little. It's big for a diamond but it's small compared to like a boulder

[21:24] so yes, you got that one. Yeah, it looks more like mice or something. I thought I'd trick you

[21:28] but I was wrong. Okay, Stuart. Rocky.

[21:32] You're trying to trip me up. I'm going

[21:36] to say Rock and Roll Song. No, there's no Rock and Roll Song. Oh, so

[21:40] Dan, you get to steal. What do you think?

[21:44] Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'll just let it stand

[21:48] without trying to steal because I might have

[21:52] decided that Gonna Fly Now, I guess

[21:56] it doesn't have lyrics. Yeah, it does. Gonna Fly Now.

[22:00] Yeah, let's just move along. Okay, sorry about that.

[22:04] I should have allowed you to steal. But I would say that it's not a rock song.

[22:08] So, Rocky isn't either. Rocky 2. This is me?

[22:12] Yes. I'm going to say that there's a rock song in Rocky 2. No. Oh, no.

[22:16] Stuart, Rocky 3. That series is real. I'm going to steal. Uh, nothing.

[22:20] There's nothing in it. You're right. I shouldn't have said anything. The series should have more rock songs

[22:24] in it. It feels like a natural fit. Stuart, Rocky 3.

[22:28] Uh, it's got a rock song in it. You know it. Eye of the Tiger.

[22:32] Dan, Rocky 4. Um,

[22:36] let's see. That's the one with the Russian.

[22:40] You better not be doing research on your phone right now, Dan. No, I'm just looking.

[22:44] No, he's in his fucking memory palace. Okay.

[22:48] I don't remember a rock song, so I'm going to say neither. Stuart?

[22:52] I'm going to say there's a big-ass rock because he climbs a mountain and hollers.

[22:56] You are both wrong. Rocky 4. James Brown literally

[23:00] plays Living in America in the movie. There were multiple rock songs.

[23:04] There's literally a performance in the film. I'm disappointed

[23:08] you both think that's a rock song. He's normally a funk artist.

[23:12] Living in America feels like a rock song to me. Yeah, it's more of a rock song.

[23:16] I guess you could say funk song. If people want to write in and say that I

[23:20] owe a point to Dan for that one, but I would call it a

[23:24] rock song because it rocks. There's a giant goat head behind him while he's playing it. Come on.

[23:28] There's nothing more rock than that. Stuart, you had the last question of the round. Rocky like a hurricane.

[23:32] Wait, that's a movie? I'm going to say

[23:36] a rock song. You know what? I like that you questioned it. That was a trick question.

[23:40] It's not a movie. It's a song, but you got it. Yeah.

[23:44] By the Scorps. The Scorps, dude.

[23:48] As we go into our break, it's still a pretty close game. Dan has 10 points. Stuart

[23:52] has 14 points. I apologize, Dan. I might be a little closer if I had not been so

[23:56] eager to tell people they were wrong and giving them the chance to steal stuff, but we're going to take

[24:00] a quick break for a sponsor promo and to tell you more

[24:04] about those exciting Flophouse live shows that I teased you with earlier in the

[24:08] mini. Hey, we have a J-J-J-J-Jumbotron!

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[24:28] We love you and can't wait to see what you do next.

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[24:44] happy birthday, Andrea. Happy birthday!

[24:48] Words to live by.

[24:52] Stay silly and sarcastic.

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[25:00] A-B-B. A-B-B.

[25:04] Every day is a birthday for somebody. I want to talk to you guys about these

[25:08] Flophouse shows. I mentioned them earlier. Maybe you are one of the hundreds

[25:12] if not thousands of viewers who has already watched our September 9th

[25:16] Cool World Flop TV show. Flop TV, of course, is our monthly

[25:20] usually the first Saturday of every month live show where we broadcast

[25:24] over the internet talking about some of the all-time flops of movie history that we

[25:28] have mentioned on the show but never covered before. Last time it was Cool World.

[25:32] It was a lot of fun. There was a brief altercation in the beginning over some

[25:36] difficulties. And everybody agreed with me that it's a great movie and that

[25:40] everyone should watch it. Nope. But even if you missed it, you can

[25:44] still watch the recording. The recordings for all the Flop TV episodes will remain

[25:48] up on the Flop TV ticket website until the end of the run

[25:52] of the series. And so if you go to theflophouse.simpletics.com

[25:56] you can still watch that video, watch our first episode about Beastmaster 2

[26:00] and get ready for our October 7th broadcast

[26:04] when we'll be doing an All-American Meat Double Feature, Hot Dog the Movie, and

[26:08] Hamburger the Motion Picture. I have to do the summaries for both of those, I think, and

[26:12] I am not looking forward to it. But we'll see what we can do. Two movies at once. Can it be

[26:16] done? Can it be done? Can it be done? A movie-age-a-choix.

[26:20] Montage-a-choix. That's what I should have called it. A montage-a-choix. Also, I'm doing

[26:24] the presentation and

[26:28] let's just say that the original cut of my presentation

[26:32] was way longer than I'm like, we're doing two movies, I gotta do my best to

[26:36] get it down. So I'm gonna do my best to keep it tight. Dan, I would

[26:40] much rather you do a long presentation and us give short shrift to Hot Dog the Movie and

[26:44] Hamburger the Motion Picture, so don't worry about it too much. I'm gonna do a much more abbreviated summary than normal

[26:48] for both of those movies. I think Elliot should do, or Dan should do, like a Director's Cut version

[26:52] of this that's only available on his premium ticket. Ooh, on his OnlyFans.

[26:56] I'm genuinely, I say this a lot, but I'm genuinely excited to do this presentation.

[27:00] Yeah, we're excited. Alright, great. I can't wait to see it. That's October 7th.

[27:04] You can buy your tickets now at theflophouse.simpletix.com. Season passes are

[27:08] available that are a discount over buying individual tickets and the season pass is still worth it

[27:12] even if you get it now because you can watch the recordings of the episodes

[27:16] you've missed. That's at theflophouse.simpletix.com. But hey,

[27:20] let's say it's not enough to see us through a computer screen. What if you want to see us

[27:24] IRL, which stands for in the flesh? What if you want to see us in the

[27:28] same room? If you live in the Los Angeles area or have access to a train or

[27:32] airplane or car, you can do just that because on October 19th

[27:36] we will be doing two shows in one night at

[27:40] Vidiots, one of the great independent video stores

[27:44] and movie theaters in Los Angeles. We're going to be doing two shows, like our

[27:48] regular live shows, each of us doing a presentation, talking about a movie,

[27:52] Q&A afterwards to the audience. We're going to do it at 6pm, Speed 2,

[27:56] the movie that said, what if Speed 2 was not fast?

[28:00] And at 8.45pm, Three Men and a Baby, the movie that asked the question,

[28:04] can men be parents? Is that possible?

[28:08] And I think we can hint that this is an extra tease,

[28:12] at the Three Men and a Baby show we'll be joined by a certain special guest star of the Flophouse.

[28:16] So maybe closer to the show we'll reveal who that star of the show is.

[28:20] But if you just can't wait and you've got to get tickets for one or both of those shows,

[28:24] it's going to be two separate completely different shows as far as I know.

[28:28] It's going to be at vidiotsfoundation.org. I'm going to tell the same jokes for both shows.

[28:32] For Speed 2 and Three Men and a Baby? Is it the right jokes that work for both?

[28:36] That'll be interesting. And I'm known for being a good joke craftsman.

[28:40] And memorizer. So that's October 19th,

[28:44] two shows, 6pm and 8.45pm, separate ticketing for both

[28:48] original shows at vidiotsfoundation.org.

[28:52] So be there, October 19th. Can't wait to be there. So excited to do the show.

[29:00] Throughout history, sirens have captured men's attention,

[29:04] enticed men with their feminine wiles, and fulfilled men's primal needs.

[29:08] The sirens allure... They have not. Unless the primal need is

[29:12] I need to be smashed from the rocks. Yeah, smash me.

[29:16] Smash me, mommy. Smash me, mama. Smash me, mommy.

[29:20] The sirens allure...

[29:24] Why do we do this to ourselves? Strand me, baby. Strand me, mom.

[29:28] So yeah, this is My Brother, My Brother Me from Maximum Fun on Mondays.

[29:32] It's just like that.

[29:36] It's just like that, but more of it. There's more of that.

[29:44] The Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom. Diablo 4.

[29:48] 16. Street Fighter 6. Baldur's Gate 3.

[29:52] Starfield. Spider-Man 2. Master Detective Archives raincoat

[29:56] for Nintendo Switch? No? Is that just me?

[30:00] It's a huge time for video games.

[30:02] You need somebody to tell you what's good, what's not so good, and what's amazing.

[30:07] I'm Jason Schreier.

[30:09] I'm Maddie Myers.

[30:10] And I'm Kirk Hamilton. We're the hosts of TripleClick,

[30:13] a video game podcast for anyone who likes games.

[30:16] Find us at MaximumFun.org or wherever you get your podcasts.

[30:20] Bye!

[30:23] Guys, you ready to go back to the final round of Screen Gems,

[30:26] a.k.a. there's gold in them there.

[30:29] And then there's gold in them there films, okay?

[30:32] Yep.

[30:33] This one's going to need you to use a little bit less knowledge,

[30:35] a little more imagination.

[30:38] The most valuable resource of all.

[30:40] Because if there's one thing that humanity could never get by with,

[30:43] it's not gold, it's not even oil, it's imagination,

[30:47] as explained at Epcot Center in Disney World.

[30:50] So this round, round three, final round is called...

[30:52] Did Figment tell you that?

[30:54] Figment did tell me that, yeah.

[30:55] He said, psst, don't tell anybody.

[30:57] But imagination is the most valuable resource.

[31:00] Now give me all your money.

[31:01] Then he cracked his skull open and drained his brain.

[31:04] Yeah, yeah, drained his brain.

[31:05] I said I wanted his power of imagination added to my own,

[31:08] so I devoured his brain.

[31:09] That's what happened to him. I haven't seen him around that much.

[31:11] That's why they closed down the ride, yeah.

[31:13] So this category, this round is called Rock Me a Movie Deus.

[31:19] Okay.

[31:20] Rock Me a Movie Deus.

[31:22] I'm going to name a medal.

[31:24] And you are going to have to pitch me a short movie plot

[31:27] about or involving that medal in some way.

[31:30] So use your imagination.

[31:31] And I'm going to be rating this, judging this,

[31:34] just on my own criteria.

[31:36] So you have to figure it out.

[31:37] Oh, okay.

[31:38] I guess I'm going to use Top Chef Quick Fire Rules.

[31:44] Thank you. Top Chef Quick Fire Rules.

[31:46] It's got to show imagination.

[31:47] It's got to show competence and creativity.

[31:50] And it's also got to really, really center the medal,

[31:54] really showcase it and make it an important part of the movie.

[31:57] Yeah, see, I knew as soon as the strike happened,

[32:00] Elliot was going to use the podcast as a way to pitch himself

[32:03] to take over for Padma when she enters Top Chef.

[32:06] I'm too late. I'm too late.

[32:07] They already cast Kristen.

[32:08] Can't wait to see her.

[32:09] She's going to be a natural fit.

[32:10] A friend of mine was a guest judge on this season of Top Chef

[32:15] and said Kristen is doing a great job.

[32:16] So I can't wait to see it.

[32:18] Okay, so this first move, this first one goes to Dan.

[32:22] And your medal that you have to build a movie around and pitch to me

[32:26] is aluminum.

[32:28] Or as David Sims would say, aluminum.

[32:35] I was listening to an episode recently where he said aluminum and Zed.

[32:38] And I was like, come on.

[32:39] I mean, he grew up in the – anyway.

[32:42] Let's see.

[32:44] We've all heard the legend.

[32:46] Okay, and I want to say this.

[32:48] This is called the no-pick-star rule.

[32:50] You cannot pitch me a movie where it's like all the medals live in a world

[32:53] and aluminum is tired of being made into thin sheets.

[32:56] Don't do that shit.

[32:57] Don't do it.

[33:01] Okay, it's going to be called Legends of the Foil.

[33:07] I love it already.

[33:08] Keep going.

[33:10] It's going to be about a whimsical child who believes that he can build a

[33:20] spaceship out of aluminum foil.

[33:25] So he's a British child.

[33:26] He's a British child.

[33:29] A Shropshire lad or something like that.

[33:32] Yeah, he's an underprivileged youth in the days of Thatcher.

[33:40] Wow, okay.

[33:43] So just getting all that aluminum is going to be difficult for him.

[33:47] Yeah, he enlists a ragtag group of friends including the older British lass

[33:56] who's always in these movies who he has a crush on but is too old to see him

[34:00] as anything but just an adorable kid.

[34:03] We're getting into licorice pizza territory and I do not like that.

[34:06] Keep going.

[34:07] I'm not that much older.

[34:08] He has a crush on her.

[34:10] So it's like a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old or something like that.

[34:13] Who knows?

[34:15] Okay, well the who knows opens up a lot of licorice pizza territory.

[34:18] Not a fan.

[34:24] So this is his parents want to send him away to public school

[34:33] which is what they call private school in England.

[34:36] I thought he was poor.

[34:37] Because they don't understand what the difference between public

[34:39] and private means in England.

[34:40] It's very sad.

[34:42] It's true.

[34:43] Like a pub in England is not like a private club that only rich people go to,

[34:47] a public house there.

[34:49] 50% of the proceeds from this film go to teaching British people

[34:54] what public and private mean.

[34:55] Oh, okay.

[34:56] Wow.

[34:57] And at the end, what?

[35:00] Keep going.

[35:01] I'm just waiting for the pitch to end.

[35:02] At the end he escapes his dull life by blasting off into space

[35:09] and we're left to wonder is this what really happened or did he kill himself?

[35:17] I got to jump in here.

[35:18] I got to say I think this category is a little unfair

[35:21] because you have an experienced Hollywood pitch man Dan McCoy.

[35:25] Clearly he's used to the room.

[35:29] I've literally never pitched anything.

[35:31] I've taken some general meetings.

[35:32] I've never –

[35:33] Well, Dan, look, that was a wild ride for me.

[35:36] When it first started I was like I love the title.

[35:39] Then it was like, okay, it's about getting aluminum.

[35:42] It became so much more about the boy's private life.

[35:44] I really lost sight of the aluminum.

[35:46] It felt like it wasn't being centered.

[35:47] That's true.

[35:48] Then I was realizing you were basically stealing the plot of The Astronaut Farmer,

[35:50] and I was like hold on a second.

[35:53] Hold on a second.

[35:54] So I'm going to give you two points for that.

[35:58] Okay.

[35:59] I was going to give you more, but it really lost sight of the aluminum.

[36:01] Stuart, you're up next.

[36:03] Pitch me a movie about platinum.

[36:05] Platinum, okay.

[36:07] So opening credits, we see Roger Moore's name featured prominently.

[36:14] Wow.

[36:15] And the word platinum is slowly spelled out over his screen.

[36:19] It's incredible.

[36:20] With images of platinum mining and manufacturing.

[36:22] Exactly.

[36:24] It's striking.

[36:26] You said Dan kind of stole the idea for a movie.

[36:29] I'm just going to steal the opening credits from another film.

[36:33] So the rest of the movie takes place –

[36:35] is the rise and fall of a nightclub owner, Roger Moore,

[36:39] and in the swinging 70s where –

[36:44] But it's set now, so it's elderly Roger Moore as a nightclub owner.

[36:47] Roger Moore who is 70 years old at this point.

[36:50] He might be older actually.

[36:52] I'm sure that Roger Moore is older than that right now.

[36:55] I'm going to look it up while you pitch.

[36:56] I'm still paying attention.

[36:57] In the middle of my pitch, I'm not going to look up how old my star is.

[37:00] I apologize.

[37:01] I also wanted to mention Rocky IV has other rock and roll songs

[37:04] besides the questionable Living in America.

[37:06] There's also Burning Heart, Hearts on Fire.

[37:09] So I just wanted to tell if any listener was like mad that

[37:12] Living in America to them is not a rock and roll song.

[37:14] Roger Moore passed away in 2017 at the age of 89.

[37:19] Yes.

[37:20] It's going to be a challenge.

[37:21] It's going to be a challenge casting him.

[37:23] But I think with technology, we can do it.

[37:25] Well, with modern AI technology and whatnot,

[37:28] we can just scan him and et cetera, et cetera.

[37:31] Just scan him.

[37:32] Whoops.

[37:33] So it's all about platinum blonde hair, platinum jewelry,

[37:41] shiny metal, rise and fall of a nightclub.

[37:46] You're going to love it.

[37:47] Okay, Stuart.

[37:48] I'm going to give you zero points.

[37:49] I'm going to give you zero points for two reasons.

[37:51] One is there was almost – the platinum was, if anything,

[37:55] entirely negligible to the plot.

[37:57] And also the implication that we will use some kind of technology

[38:01] to bring back a dead actor.

[38:03] One of the major issues in this strike is AI.

[38:05] I cannot stand for it, cannot abide it.

[38:07] No AI on this one.

[38:09] No, it's totally fair.

[38:10] And when the computers rise up and they hear me saying,

[38:13] no AI on the audio of this, I will take whatever punishment they have for me

[38:19] for being an anti-computer technologist, I guess.

[38:22] Okay, so Dan, you're up on this round.

[38:25] So here's your one.

[38:26] Let's see what you can do with Pyrite, a movie about Pyrite.

[38:30] Let's see.

[38:33] Okay, Pyrite.

[38:39] So this is going to be called Pyromania.

[38:42] Wow.

[38:43] Can I steal?

[38:45] Yeah, well, Stu, what's your steal?

[38:47] Okay, so all of our characters are riding around on a ship called the Black Pearl.

[38:53] Yeah, what's the title of the movie?

[38:55] Davy Jones is there.

[38:57] Oh, from the monkeys, the late Davy Jones, sure.

[38:59] So is Orlando Bloom.

[39:01] Keira Knightley shows up.

[39:03] Jack Davenport's there, the whole gang.

[39:07] And what's the title of it?

[39:09] Pyrites of the Caribbean.

[39:10] Thank you.

[39:11] That was the most important part of the joke you were leaving out.

[39:16] It's called Roman Polanski's Pyrites.

[39:19] Oh, wow, you guys are really – Dan, the Roman Polanski reference is not getting you any more help.

[39:25] He directed Pyrites.

[39:27] That's true, that's true, and et cetera, et cetera, Pyrites of Penzance.

[39:30] With whitewashing history.

[39:32] So Dan, I'm sorry, you're right, you're right.

[39:35] So there's been too much Pyrites, the movie revisionism.

[39:38] So Dan, your Pyrite movie, what's it about?

[39:40] Stu, that was a great joke.

[39:41] I'm giving you one point for it.

[39:43] Dan, what's your Pyrite movie about?

[39:46] So like I said –

[39:48] Oh, also Ice Pyrites.

[39:50] Dan, continue.

[39:51] So it's Pyrite – you know what?

[39:53] Not Pyromania, Pyrite Mania.

[39:55] Okay, great.

[39:56] And it's about – there's –

[40:00] New Gold Rush, in a small town, it turns out that this town only has Fool's Gold, but-

[40:08] No DVD!

[40:09] It only has DVDs of-

[40:11] It's where all the unsold copies of Fool's Gold were buried alongside the E.T. Atari

[40:15] game.

[40:16] No, the mountains are just lousy with pyrite around this town, and a second Gold Rush starts,

[40:22] but the town council, the Better Business Bureau or whatever, they're like, don't tell

[40:29] anyone it's Fool's Gold, because they are cleaning up, selling panning goods, pickaxes

[40:37] and whatnot.

[40:39] Because gold mining technology has not changed in 130 years, yeah, 160 years.

[40:47] And the mayor of the town, this woman, falls in love with one of the miners and finds that

[40:56] she is in conflict, because she doesn't want to reveal the large-scale deception the town

[41:02] has been engaged in to fleece these people, but she's falling ever more in love with him.

[41:08] Okay, Dan, I like it, I'm gonna give you two points, because the pyrite was much more centered

[41:13] on this one, the movie can't exist without the pyrite, but I was disappointed when you

[41:16] said there's a new Gold Rush, I had first thought you said a nude Gold Rush, and I was

[41:20] waiting for this to be kind of like some sort of TNA comedy about the town says the only

[41:24] way to dig up the gold is to do it nude, and I thought that was more in your wheelhouse.

[41:27] You're right, there wasn't enough nudity in the pitch, I'm sorry.

[41:33] I've noticed this, if I'm pitching something to Hollywood executives, at the end they go,

[41:36] oh, and by the way, the people are nude, then they go, can we pay you right now?

[41:39] Stuart, it's your turn, your element you gotta talk about, I think it's a metal, is manganese.

[41:45] Pitch me a movie about manganese.

[41:50] Okay, there is a mine for manganese, and it's having trouble, because a bigger manganese

[42:17] mine opened up down the street.

[42:21] So our mom and pop manganese mine is going to be put out of business.

[42:32] So the local bikini team have to do a car wash to raise money to save the manganese

[42:50] mine.

[42:51] Okay, now I'm going to give you, oh, that's okay.

[42:56] And they do it, and the mine is saved.

[43:01] Okay, Dan, you want to steal this one?

[43:03] I feel like, Stuart, you're going to get one point for that, because manganese is a tough

[43:05] one.

[43:06] But, Stuart, Dan, you want to try to steal it all, get some manganese points?

[43:10] Sure, I'm going to capitalize on the idea that we clearly don't know what manganese

[43:20] is or does.

[43:21] Dan, does it help to know that manganese was first isolated in 1774?

[43:25] Shit, if you told me that before.

[43:31] My pitch is about a manganese professor.

[43:37] Okay, like he's made out of manganese?

[43:41] Like he's made out of it?

[43:43] No, there's a guy, like a con man discovers the dead body of a manganese teacher, a teacher

[43:59] who specializes in talking about manganese.

[44:02] Okay.

[44:03] And he steals this guy's tenure track position that he just landed.

[44:09] Okay, I'm going to stop you right there, Dan.

[44:11] I'm going to stop you right there.

[44:12] I'm going to give him like five points.

[44:14] He has no fake knowing about manganese.

[44:16] No, there's not enough manganese in this.

[44:18] That could be any element.

[44:19] I'm going to steal, I'm going to give myself five points.

[44:22] The movie is, it's Stuart's start, there's a mom-and-pop manganese mine, there's a big

[44:26] one goes in, but they're secret.

[44:28] They get an orangutan and he can mine manganese faster than anybody else and it's called Mangatan.

[44:33] That's the movie.

[44:34] Okay, so.

[44:35] Okay.

[44:36] Next, next one.

[44:37] Dan, this is yours.

[44:38] It's Beryllium.

[44:39] I need a movie about Beryllium.

[44:41] Uh, Beryllium.

[44:43] Yeah.

[44:44] Uh, my, it's called My Beryllium Career.

[44:49] And it's about a young lady who, um, has a secret and the secret is that she's made of

[44:58] Beryllium.

[44:59] Okay.

[45:00] Okay.

[45:01] Better.

[45:02] Better than before.

[45:03] And, you know, she has to, she has to wear like sort of big blousy clothes and a, and

[45:07] a mask to, to keep people from knowing her secret.

[45:13] And uh.

[45:14] And how does being made of Beryllium manifest in her physically?

[45:17] Well.

[45:18] Dan, would it help, would it help to know that Beryllium, it has a nuclear spin of three

[45:21] over two?

[45:22] That's actually pretty good.

[45:24] Yeah.

[45:25] Uh, yeah.

[45:26] Well, yes, that's, that's the crux of the issue is she has to hide from everyone.

[45:31] Like everyone is, you know, would, would see her and think like that has a nuclear spin

[45:36] of three over two.

[45:37] Yeah.

[45:38] So she has to hide it, uh, which leads her to be an outcast in the community and tell,

[45:43] uh, a tiny dog that she adopts, uh, freeze, you know, like, uh, warms her Beryllium heart

[45:51] and, uh, she opens herself up to literally she's made out of Beryllium to being accepted

[45:58] by the community.

[45:59] Sadly, they do not accept her because human beings are often a prejudiced and, uh, cowardly,

[46:06] uh, a lot.

[46:08] And, uh, they, they throw her off.

[46:11] Wow.

[46:12] Wow.

[46:13] That was a chilling story of anthology.

[46:15] You know, like most of my movies end pretty exciting and Dan's are always sad.

[46:19] Yeah.

[46:20] Yeah.

[46:21] I'm trying, I'm trying to keep grappling with the world as it is trying to get the American

[46:25] people excited about Beryllium here.

[46:26] I don't want to bum them out.

[46:30] Well then change their hearts and minds with my story.

[46:33] That's a good point.

[46:34] Okay.

[46:35] Uh, so, so Stu, I'm going to give you, do you want to try to steal this one or you just

[46:37] want to go on to the next one?

[46:38] I want to go on to the next one.

[46:40] Okay.

[46:41] Dan, you get no points for that.

[46:42] I want to go on to the next one.

[46:43] Okay.

[46:44] I'll give you one point.

[46:45] It's it looked like it was going to be really Beryllium focused when she was made out of

[46:47] Beryllium.

[46:48] And then again, once again, it was about people.

[46:49] Nevermind.

[46:50] Okay.

[46:51] Stuart, this is the last one.

[46:52] It's a metal you're very familiar with.

[46:53] It's a, it's a, I think it's a metal that you'll be able to make a movie about.

[46:57] And that metal is sludge metal.

[46:59] Okay.

[47:00] So sludge metal, uh, we open in new Orleans, Louisiana.

[47:04] I'm just kidding.

[47:05] It's actually dysprosium.

[47:07] This is dysprosium.

[47:09] If it helps, if it helps, it's a rare earth element in the lanthanide series with a metallic

[47:13] silver luster never found in nature, never found in nature.

[47:18] It is found in, well, it's never found as a free elements found in various minerals

[47:21] such as Xenotime.

[47:22] Xenotime.

[47:23] And we're getting towards Xenotime.

[47:25] So we should probably wrap up this episode pretty quick.

[47:27] So just tell me a quick story about dysprosium.

[47:29] Okay.

[47:30] So dysprosium.

[47:31] Um, Xenotime is when you, you, you shoot an arrow and it never reaches its destination

[47:38] because it's Xenotime.

[47:39] I'm giving you a point for that, Dan.

[47:41] Thank you.

[47:42] So, you know what, Stuart, tell us that sludge metal movie.

[47:45] Let's do that.

[47:46] We have a, no, no, no.

[47:48] I can, I can, I can follow the brief.

[47:51] Does it help to know that dysprosium is one of the components of terfenol D along with

[47:54] iron and terbium?

[47:55] I actually already knew that you already know that terfenol D is the highest room temperature

[48:01] magnetostriction of any known metal.

[48:04] By you telling me it's kind of insulting actually.

[48:06] Metal explaining that.

[48:07] Sorry, I don't mean to MetSplain to you.

[48:09] Thank you.

[48:10] Uh, so we, we open on a mom and pop dysprosium mine and they're.

[48:20] Just offhand Stuart, which one of the seven, which one of the seven isotopes of naturally

[48:24] occurring dysprosium is, are they mining?

[48:27] The fourth one.

[48:28] Okay.

[48:29] That's the best one.

[48:31] And a bigger dysprosium mine opens down the street.

[48:36] Wow.

[48:37] Okay.

[48:38] And they have to get an orangutan.

[48:41] Okay.

[48:42] Interesting.

[48:43] And the bikini team has to do a car wash.

[48:50] We have to do both things.

[48:51] Okay.

[48:52] Both things.

[48:53] So something for the kids and something for the dads.

[48:55] Sure.

[48:56] Okay.

[48:57] Yeah.

[48:58] So they win and the mom and pop dysprosium mine is saved.

[49:02] Stuart.

[49:03] You're getting three points for that.

[49:04] That's the most anyone's gotten.

[49:05] Dan, do you want to get any points off of this dysprosium?

[49:07] No, I don't.

[49:08] I don't.

[49:09] I don't.

[49:10] I do not.

[49:11] Okay.

[49:12] Well, why don't you guys take a minute to talk about the game and how you liked it while

[49:13] I tally up the scores?

[49:14] Oh man.

[49:15] So that was really fun, Dan.

[49:16] I feel like you were very good at pitching.

[49:18] Thank you.

[49:19] Um, you weren't as good at, uh, ending movies.

[49:23] Well, I don't know.

[49:25] I mean, I feel like it's acquired taste.

[49:27] Um, you weren't as good at the round where I, uh, knew all the medals were gold and you

[49:34] didn't know that.

[49:35] I don't know what was wrong with me.

[49:36] You gotta, yeah, you gotta work on that.

[49:39] Uh, okay.

[49:40] Everybody, we're back to the scores again.

[49:43] A close game.

[49:44] This was Dan.

[49:45] You should be very proud of how you did, but not too proud because Stu won.

[49:48] That was the score of 19 to 16.

[49:51] So a close game.

[49:52] And I think if we factor in the fact that I deliberately designed round one to make

[49:55] it easier for Stu, then we might as well.

[50:00] statistical tie. Thank you, everybody, for listening to this episode of The Flophouse.

[50:03] This was a mini about all the beautiful, valuable things that are just waiting in there inside

[50:08] the earth, and all we have to do is tear open Mother Earth's flesh and rip it out like the

[50:12] scavengers and vermin that we are. Mother Earth seems very pleased with the human race

[50:17] right now, so we might as well cash in some of that goodwill. Yeah, exactly. For more

[50:21] on the subject, see the song Blackened by Metallica. Okay, everybody, this has been

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[51:10] is? What's that? Friendship. Oh, no, wait, I'm sorry. It's actually this rare thing that they

[51:17] make conductors out of. I apologize. But friendship is also very good. Very good. Yeah.

[51:22] This has been Ellie Kalin for the Flophouse saying I'm joined by Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington. And

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