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FH Mini 78 - Don't Mess With Taxes

mini Apr 15, 2023 00:49:50
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[0:00] Hello everybody, welcome to the Flophouse mini-episode.
[0:07] What is the Flophouse?
[0:08] It's a podcast about bad movies.
[0:10] What is a Flophouse mini-episode?
[0:12] It is a smaller version of that podcast, where instead of talking about one particular bad
[0:16] movie, we do whatever we want.
[0:19] I'll be your, let's say, host for this evening, if you're listening to it during the evening,
[0:23] or this morning, if you're listening to it this morning, or the middle of the day, if
[0:28] you're listening to it in the middle of the, let me just, hold on, let me just do what
[0:32] voiceover artists have to do when they record voices in their character for a talking clock
[0:36] and do every single permutation of every time.
[0:39] I just remember hearing Dave Foley had to do that for the flick Bug's Life Clock.
[0:43] Oh dear lord.
[0:44] He recorded an entire day of 11-11, 11-12, 11-13.
[0:49] And then he gave all those royalties to his wife in Canada.
[0:53] Yeah, his royalties for time, because he invented a couple numbers in there.
[0:58] Anyway, I'm your co-host, Elliot Kalin, and joining me are my co-hosts, and their names
[1:02] are...
[1:03] Dan McCoy.
[1:04] Stuart Wellington.
[1:06] We've got a fun mini-setup for you today, but first, I wanted to remind you that you
[1:09] have a chance to see us, the three guys whose voices you just heard, Elliot Kalin, Dan McCoy,
[1:14] and Stuart Wellington.
[1:15] What could we possibly look like?
[1:16] You'll see for yourself.
[1:17] You'll see what we look like.
[1:18] We can see how we've aged since the last time you've seen a picture of us by buying a ticket
[1:22] to our streaming event on April 22nd.
[1:25] That's right.
[1:26] We did a show in Brooklyn about Battlefield Earth.
[1:28] Usually, when we do those shows, you don't get to see them unless you're there in person.
[1:32] But this time, you can buy a ticket to watch the video of the event professionally shot,
[1:37] professionally edited so it looks nice, professionally presented over streaming so it's not our usual
[1:42] just kind of a Zoom room that people pile into.
[1:46] You don't just look at Elliot's garage.
[1:48] No, not at all.
[1:50] Or the virtual background I've put up to replace my garage, since my garage looks like a place
[1:54] where you would kidnap somebody.
[1:56] If you go to flophousepodcast.com slash stream, you can buy not just a ticket to our streaming
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[2:06] video watching.
[2:07] You will be watching it with us as we talk about it to you in the chat.
[2:11] And we'll be remembering what we said in real time because honestly, when I get up on stage,
[2:17] I go into sort of a fugue state and I don't recall any of it.
[2:20] It doesn't show at all.
[2:21] So you'll get to see us respond and react to what we were saying.
[2:25] But if you can't make it for the premier event, buy a ticket and you'll be able to watch the
[2:28] video for quite a while afterwards.
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[2:32] I think it's till May 7th.
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[2:39] So go to flophousepodcast.com slash stream.
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[2:44] where we'll be in the chat text box chatting with you.
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[2:56] for a few minutes and have a special moment with us that you can cherish forever and share
[3:00] with your grandchildren.
[3:02] The same way that the recent news of the death of Al Jaffe was made a little bit less painful
[3:07] to me by remembering that I met him once for a minute very briefly in the Daily Show offices.
[3:12] Shortly before his death.
[3:13] No, no.
[3:14] It was this.
[3:15] This was like 20 years before his death.
[3:17] He was already an old man, but he was not as old.
[3:21] You get the chance to buy that ticket for that VIP meet and greet experience.
[3:24] It'll be great.
[3:25] We'll get to talk to you about whatever you want to talk about.
[3:27] Or you can buttonhole us.
[3:29] You can buttonhole us and be like, who do you think you are?
[3:32] What makes you so good?
[3:33] And we'll be like, I don't know.
[3:34] I don't, frankly, honestly, could you tell us?
[3:37] You can buttonhole us or butthole us since that's.
[3:41] What?
[3:42] You can butthole surf us.
[3:43] Oh, yeah.
[3:44] You can butthole surf us or talk about cats buttholes.
[3:47] What are we committing to right now?
[3:48] Yeah, I don't know.
[3:49] We've gone down a weird path.
[3:50] Don't worry.
[3:51] It's all over the computer.
[3:52] Don't worry.
[3:53] It's the same kind of stuff that you want to do on the computer.
[3:54] Just, you know, for one person instead of a vast, teeming sea of millions.
[3:58] And you can also buy great looking, new, exclusive Flophouse merchandise.
[4:01] I'm excited about it.
[4:02] There's a pint glass on there.
[4:03] There's a new shirt.
[4:04] There's pins.
[4:05] They all look great.
[4:07] And so if you go to flophousepodcast.com slash stream, you can buy any merchandise you want.
[4:12] You can buy the tickets you want.
[4:14] You can buy extra tickets for the VIP meet and greet to meet and talk to us and butthole
[4:19] us or surf our buttholes.
[4:20] I don't know exactly how it would work online, but, you know, we'll figure it out.
[4:23] That's Battlefield Earth, Brooklyn style.
[4:26] The Flophouse.
[4:27] Finally, you can see our live show complete with all the presentations that you normally
[4:30] don't get to see if the episode's audio is released in our feed.
[4:34] And that's April 22nd, 7 p.m. that we'll be there for the premiere event.
[4:38] Flophousepodcast.com slash stream.
[4:39] Dan, what did you want to say?
[4:40] Oh, I just wanted to clarify something.
[4:42] There was someone on Twitter, like, wondering where the merch was.
[4:44] I think it shows up after you are sort of like in the process of buying tickets.
[4:49] It's not just like a separate, you know, it's not like a regular store.
[4:52] It is, like, tied to the stream.
[4:56] But if you're confused looking for the merch, I think it comes in later in the process.
[5:00] And I don't know what the front end of this thing looks like, I'll be frank.
[5:04] But I believe...
[5:05] Dan isn't a web designer.
[5:06] Dan, as someone who loves butts, only knows what the back end of this thing looks like.
[5:08] I only know the back end.
[5:11] When you're watching the video, there will be an easy-to-notice dedicated button for
[5:15] buying that merchandise also.
[5:18] So that's Flophouse Battlefield Earth live event, streaming event, premiering April 22nd.
[5:24] Flophousepodcast.com slash stream.
[5:25] But we're not here just to promote our own stuff.
[5:28] We're here for the mini.
[5:29] And we're going to have fun today, guys, because you know what?
[5:31] This mini is being released around everyone's favorite holiday, Tax Day.
[5:36] That's right.
[5:37] Oh, your background, your virtual background makes more sense now.
[5:39] Yeah, the day when we as a nation say, thank you, Uncle Sam, for all the things you do
[5:44] for us.
[5:45] Here's more of our money than we would like you to take, unless we're rich, in which case
[5:49] you will take much less of our money than you should be taking.
[5:52] Than you need.
[5:53] Yes.
[5:54] And so because this is around Tax Day, I wanted to take a look at the Flophouse Accountants
[6:01] in the Aisles, which is the name of this game today.
[6:04] It's not a game so much as a, let's call it an opinion poll.
[6:08] As an audit.
[6:09] Yeah.
[6:10] Yeah.
[6:11] I'm going to be auditing.
[6:12] Great.
[6:13] Thank you, Dan.
[6:14] I should have thought of that.
[6:15] Oh, boy.
[6:16] I really didn't think out this tax theme as quickly as I could, as well as I could.
[6:17] So I'm going to audit your feelings about several different movie accountants.
[6:21] I'm going to name an accountant from a movie and you tell me, would you hire them to do
[6:25] your taxes?
[6:26] Oh, OK.
[6:27] First of all.
[6:28] OK.
[6:29] That's the criteria.
[6:30] Yes.
[6:31] Do you guys use accountants in your daily life?
[6:32] In my daily life?
[6:33] No.
[6:34] In my once a year life, yes, I have an accountant.
[6:38] OK.
[6:39] I interact with my accountant more often than that.
[6:41] Really?
[6:42] Than once a year.
[6:43] I do, too.
[6:44] Well, yeah.
[6:45] I mean, I'm a small business owner and I'm a professional podcaster, Dan.
[6:50] That's true.
[6:51] No, I know.
[6:52] I know.
[6:53] You know, as someone who had like a TV job that would have variable incomes due to residuals
[6:59] as well as freelance stuff and the podcast, yeah, it's a complex.
[7:03] It's a complex thing.
[7:04] It is.
[7:05] Stuart and I, as small business owners, both of us, we see our we talk to accountants frequently
[7:09] Dan as more of a joke writing hobo rambling man, just roaming the country.
[7:13] He eventually makes his way to his accountant once a year and hands over his receipts.
[7:16] He's written on the backs of cans of beans.
[7:19] I don't like to think about things that stress me out.
[7:22] Some people might call it avoidant, but I just call it a way of coping that has worked
[7:28] for me.
[7:29] So I talk to my accountant as little as I can.
[7:31] But, you know, you guys are best pals to your accountants, it's fine.
[7:34] Yes.
[7:35] My accountant and I, we go on vacation together.
[7:36] It's fine.
[7:38] So I'm going to name some movie accountants.
[7:39] You tell me, would you hire them?
[7:40] This is just round one.
[7:41] And there's going to be three rounds in this episode and round two and round three will
[7:45] have some interesting twists.
[7:46] So round one, let's start off.
[7:48] OK, OK.
[7:49] There's only one accountant we can start with, and that's the accountant Christian Wolfe,
[7:52] as played by Ben Affleck in the movie The Accountant, which we covered on the podcast.
[7:56] Yes.
[7:57] Yeah.
[7:58] Would you hire the accountant to be your accountant?
[7:59] I mean, his skills seem to be more in the area of shooting people than traditional accountancy.
[8:06] But he is fastidious.
[8:08] He's very fastidious.
[8:09] That's the whole.
[8:10] That's true.
[8:11] Kind of his whole deal.
[8:12] His neurodiversity does give him certain superpowers.
[8:14] Yeah.
[8:15] According to that movie, it does.
[8:17] Yeah.
[8:18] I don't.
[8:19] Yeah.
[8:20] Not according to other movies that he's not in, which don't say much about him.
[8:21] No, I'm just.
[8:22] Hold on a second.
[8:23] Jurassic Park.
[8:24] Do you have any comment on The Accountant?
[8:25] No comment.
[8:26] Oh, OK.
[8:27] I think I'm just kind of distressed by the like.
[8:28] I'm all for more neurodiversity being depicted in media, but it seems to have been a little
[8:29] bit too much.
[8:30] by the like.
[8:31] I'm all for more neurodiversity being depicted in media, but it seems to have become an explosion
[8:39] of people thinking like, OK, if you're on the autism spectrum, you have various ill-defined
[8:44] superpowers, which like, look, you know, people on the spectrum have like occasionally like
[8:51] greater skills in certain areas.
[8:53] It's not like it's coming out of nowhere, but like it is like a weird comic booky understanding
[8:57] of.
[8:58] Well, also, it's different types of mental processes, only that all people have various
[9:03] skills, different areas.
[9:04] Yes, exactly.
[9:05] Different specifications.
[9:06] So the idea that this and the idea that their special skill is so inextricably linked to
[9:11] their neurodiversity, it feels like the positive flip side of the long period when all serial
[9:16] killers were presented as superhuman, super geniuses who are constantly out thinking everybody
[9:22] else and have elaborate plans.
[9:24] And in reality, serial killers are, you know, sad, pathetic people who do terrible things
[9:30] for their awful sexual drives that are linked with.
[9:35] Yeah, it's horrible.
[9:37] And they're not like super Moriarty's sort of like, you know, like bottled rage, sort
[9:47] of men with wire rim glasses who live alone and keep to themselves and until the live
[9:55] alone part, you were kind of describing John Lennon.
[9:57] Is it possible John Lennon was a serial killer?
[10:00] Why are in glasses bottled rage?
[10:03] Anyway, sir, would you I would not hi. Well, I mean you look I would hire the accountant
[10:07] I don't need my you know, let's let's be let's wink wink. I don't need any houses to be painted right now
[10:14] But maybe if I did I would hire the accountant, but why did Dan look at me when he said?
[10:20] But not for accountancy, you know, what would you say? Yeah, I would totally hire him. He's super fastidious
[10:27] It's played by the the bean bean town bad boy himself Ben Affleck, I love him
[10:37] Yeah, I'll give him a shot I think he you know, I think I don't mean shot is like I'll let him shoot me
[10:46] But maybe like
[10:48] You know, I think I'll think I'll give this guy a shot. Yeah
[10:51] What's the worst that'll happen and the worst will happen is you get involved in some kind of organized crime gang war but
[10:58] True might be a risk that you're willing to take if you can really save a lot of money on your taxes this year
[11:03] mm-hmm, and the thing is is like if some of his enemies capture me and they like threatened to
[11:09] Torture me to give up information. I will fold immediately. Yeah, that's so that's see that's fine
[11:16] There's no like it's they won't have to tear my face off because I'll give it all up already
[11:21] They won't be like so what you're saying is you would hire the accountant
[11:24] But maybe the accountant should not accept you as a client. I would I
[11:27] Mean, it really depends on what he's looking for in a client. I mean, I'm very nice. I will give him coffee
[11:32] I will like every person in my life that I pay for a service
[11:36] I will be obsessed with the idea that they like me even though I'm paying for
[11:41] I love that life to guys and as you as people will know if they watch our battlefield earth streaming show
[11:46] I have started to crowd source not my tweets
[11:49] But my decision whether to tweet things or not. Do you think I should now tweet something about a Boston duck named bean Aflac?
[11:56] Well, I think he needs more work. I think I think you need to come back to me once Wow, you have a policy
[12:01] I mean
[12:07] Okay, I'll come back to you maybe we'll see if I have something later in the episode spoiler
[12:10] I won't let's move on to our net so a split decision on that one
[12:13] Let's move on to our next accountant this one. Who else would it be? Andy Dufresne Tim Robbins from the Shawshank Redemption?
[12:20] Unjustly convicted of murder sent to jail and it's his abilities as an accountant that gives him the opportunity
[12:26] To escape through miles of more shit and sewage and dirty diapers. I didn't want to think about now
[12:33] Okay, bad Morgan Freeman. You just dropped on us. Have you been have you been cooking that for a while?
[12:38] No, but I do I am getting over a cold. So my voice is slightly deeper. Okay
[12:44] so I'm not one of the
[12:47] IMGB voters who like
[12:49] Consistently for a while named the Shawshank Redemption the best movie that has ever been or shall ever be what an era of
[12:56] American history that was when it was widely accepted that the Shawshank Redemption was the greatest film of all time
[13:01] Not a very good. No a good movie
[13:05] but a movie that I think I have seen once in its entirety and
[13:09] Enjoyed and then you sir. You sir have never stumbled on TNT in the middle of the day. I said in its entirety
[13:16] I've seen bits and pieces of brain digging a hole through his wall. I ever think Dan found an escape in his claws
[13:25] Yeah, yeah, I've seen I've seen at least a part of the Shawshank Redemption at least a hundred times
[13:31] but um, I don't I so he he used his
[13:37] Accountancy to trap the warden. Is that a thing?
[13:40] The warden has him cook in the books at the prison
[13:42] uh-huh, but then he manages to he's able to get lots of different favors because now he is the warden's pet and he's able
[13:49] in the end to escape and then
[13:52] Thanks to the rock hammer and poster. They got from red. Yeah Freeman and then after he escapes
[13:57] He delivers the real books the uncooked books
[14:00] To the authorities and that's how the warden gets found out. Yeah. Yeah, I mean this sounds like some top-shelf account
[14:06] You know, I'll have to go with this guy
[14:08] I mean like presumably he wouldn't be cooking the books if not directly asked to by by a corrupt warden
[14:14] So if you can use his accountancy to sort of set right, you know, the miscarriage of justice in his own life
[14:21] I I say yes, and he's good with a rock hammer, which is something you want in an account
[14:25] So you would hire Andy Dufresne? Well, he's a murderer though, right? Didn't he kill his wife? Oh, I mean, no, technically
[14:31] Well, that's the thing according to the legal records
[14:33] Suspicion has fallen on Luke Skywalker for murdering his aunt and uncle since there's no other there's no that's the circumstantial evidence
[14:38] According to the legal record. He was convicted of murdering his wife. Now. There is evidence. I would that there was hearsay evidence
[14:45] That another man secretly confessed of the crimes of the crime, but that hearsay witness was I think
[14:51] Murdered or transferred somewhere. I don't remember what happens. I've seen the movie probably ten times
[14:56] I don't remember what happens to that guy. So which one which one is it?
[14:59] By William Sadler William Sadler played somebody in that movie, right?
[15:03] Warden was he know the warden was he deaf? Did he play death? I think he was like another inmate
[15:10] I think he wasn't it wasn't birdie the inmate who can't handle life on the outside. Yeah
[15:16] But so so what you're saying?
[15:18] I would say I would say I would totally hire him because
[15:22] you know the
[15:24] Prison industrial complex in the United States is fucked up and I think he deserves a shot
[15:29] Okay, I mean and also you established by by hiring Ben Affleck that you will hire murderers to do your account
[15:35] I mean, here's a picture of William Shat Sadler and Strauss. I think that just that
[15:41] He's got like he's like I've got a center part that easily it's underneath a cap right now
[15:46] That's not that that's a very specific case. I mean, I don't I don't I don't I don't I don't I don't I don't
[15:52] That that's a very specific costuming choice that I think works
[15:56] Okay. Well, I'm glad that we could audience. I guess look up a picture of William Sadler in the Starshine Credentions
[16:02] Oh, yeah, just I mean just Google William Sadler shossing. It is the picture that will come up. Okay now
[16:09] Criminal accountants. So any defraying is a man who has made a criminal accountant through circumstance. Here's a man next is an accountant who?
[16:18] Similarly through circumstance, but actively chooses to become a criminal accountant who else but Leo Bloom Gene Wilder in the producers
[16:25] Would you hire him as your accountant now?
[16:27] He does set up this entire scheme where they can make more money with a flop with a hit
[16:31] But again in the end they do get caught and he also goes to jail. So it's another criminal convict accountant
[16:38] But he did it this time. Yeah, I mean incredibly guilty as the foreman says he does not get caught. However
[16:45] Through a failure in accountancy
[16:48] He gets caught because of the the hit nature of the show that they have produced
[16:53] I mean it seems to me at the beginning of the movie that he is a very good accountant because he
[16:59] He comes up with all this idea and but how good an accountant is he if he's working for?
[17:05] zero Mostel
[17:07] Max Bialy stock who is at one of the worst producers on Broadway. Yeah a man who is
[17:13] Whining and dining every little old lady sees to get money for his his flops
[17:20] Dan is not in any way judging people who want to whine and dine little old lady
[17:27] Other more just because they're on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire in the hearth
[17:34] Okay, I think we've over corrected in the other direction now
[17:38] Yeah, I yeah I say yes again, uh, so guys I've never seen the producers what's it about really you've never seen the producers
[17:47] Nope, is it a horror movie?
[17:51] It's a comedy it's very funny movie is it a TNA comedy?
[17:56] No, not really. It's no there's a sexy secretary, but but I guess I mean like a bikini at one point
[18:01] But there's no sure
[18:03] The springtime for Hitler number at the end, there's a lot of like boobs covered with
[18:12] Like an episode of the man show
[18:21] So there's all the studio you probably of course remember in the Dark Knight Returns the the bank robbing lady who has
[18:27] swastikas on her boobs
[18:29] Yeah, there's a scene in the producers where it's so they put on a play called springtime for Hitler
[18:34] I'm amazed you're not familiar with is it famous?
[18:37] I've heard the name one of the biggest Broadway shows in history
[18:41] but they have these dancers who have German things as
[18:45] You know boob coverings through the showgirls. None of them have swastika boob coverings
[18:49] Do you think a young Frank Miller saw that in the theater and said this is outrageous someday?
[18:53] I'll correct the record by presenting a character who has swastikas
[18:56] Yeah, and I mean he I mean he threw a lot of those in his work of his various works
[19:02] Yeah, if he's there's a ninja in one of his stories that ninjas got a shuriken that's in the shape of a swastika
[19:08] Which is yeah, also show up in the spirit to like why?
[19:13] Probably I mean the spirit was if ever there was a movie where someone took source material and said
[19:18] Instead of doing this in the spirit pun intended of the original
[19:22] I'm gonna do it the way I would do it
[19:23] It was that movie where Frank Miller was like I respect Will Eisner's work so much that I will make it
[19:28] Unrecognizable as Will Eisner's work and instead make it as Frank Millery as possible who played the spirit
[19:34] Some schmo. I think it was like some guy
[19:37] as some schmo
[19:39] It wasn't like a big star of any kind. No, it wasn't and he remains not anyway
[19:45] So so Seward Young was the director of the movie. He was the director of the movie
[19:50] Anyway, so, uh, so Seward you're gonna say uh, no comment because you don't know enough about leo bloom now
[19:55] What if but you're familiar with is he named after leopold bloom?
[20:00] Okay, Gabriel mucked and and now you I'm sure you're familiar with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.
[20:05] Would you hire Willy Wonka then as your accountant?
[20:09] Well, he's got a lot of panache, but he doesn't seem he and he likes to delegate,
[20:17] but things I mean, there's a lot of dead children.
[20:22] So I'm gonna say I would pass I would pass on Willy Wonka as a as an attorney.
[20:27] Also, I feel like every time I would need to talk to him about stuff,
[20:30] he turned into a big fucking production.
[20:32] That's true.
[20:33] There'd be a song.
[20:34] He'd have he'd pull some kind of strange prank on you.
[20:36] But it's true.
[20:36] If you're gonna if you're gonna hire your accountant based on how few dead children
[20:40] are in his factory.
[20:41] Yes, not the one.
[20:43] Oh, I was gonna say you're gonna run into trouble anywhere.
[20:45] That's the problem is.
[20:47] So this next one.
[20:49] I don't know.
[20:49] I guess she's an accountant.
[20:50] She keeps the books at her family's business.
[20:52] This is Loretta Castorini share from Moonstruck.
[20:55] Would you hire her as your accountant?
[20:58] Keep in mind, she is in dread.
[21:00] She's in desperate need of passion in her life.
[21:02] Yeah, I'm gonna answer for Stu.
[21:04] And I'm gonna say that he's gonna say yes.
[21:07] Yeah, immediately.
[21:08] No question.
[21:10] I just want to hang out with share.
[21:12] Yes.
[21:13] Yeah.
[21:13] And possibly more question mark.
[21:15] Yes.
[21:16] Yeah.
[21:19] Moonstruck another one that like I haven't I saw once when I was far too young to like,
[21:23] I feel like I'm positive.
[21:25] That is a movie that will hit harder.
[21:26] And I will understand more than me seeing it as a child.
[21:33] It's a great movie.
[21:34] That's a great movie.
[21:34] I mean, you watch it.
[21:36] I put it off for years not realizing how much of like,
[21:39] I think I mentioned this on the podcast before,
[21:41] but how much of it is like,
[21:42] it's basically like a Shakespearean comedy at that.
[21:44] Yes.
[21:45] Like, it's so good.
[21:46] And yeah, it's a movie that you watch it and you're like,
[21:49] how did the same guy write this and write Wild Mountain Time?
[21:51] That's fine.
[21:53] But it reminds me, Dan, you should watch.
[21:55] It's like the movie Breaking Away.
[21:57] My dad always used to tell me how good it was.
[21:58] And I was like, no, thanks.
[22:00] Not going to watch it if you think it's good.
[22:01] And I finally watched it years ago.
[22:03] And I was like, oh, this is a great movie.
[22:04] I really like this a lot.
[22:05] Now, if you'll be happy to know that my dad and I do not see eye to eye on everything,
[22:09] everywhere, all at once, which during my recent visit to New Jersey,
[22:12] he made clear to me he was not a fan of.
[22:14] But that leads me to my next person.
[22:16] Would you hire yourself as your accountant as in everything,
[22:19] everywhere, all at once?
[22:20] A movie where a lot of their problems might have been solved
[22:23] if they had a professional accountant and didn't handle all of their files themselves?
[22:28] I'm going to say no.
[22:29] Because I'm not, guys, I'm not going to surprise anyone here.
[22:34] I'm not that much of a numbers guy.
[22:35] You know, I'm more of like a vibes and feeling.
[22:38] I feel like the only numbers you're interested,
[22:41] the only number you're interested in is 40,000, as in Warhammer 40,000.
[22:45] The only numbers I care about are stat blocks on my units.
[22:48] I want a low armor save, a low hit roll, a high number of wounds.
[22:55] I feel like, I love that approaching middle-aged Stuart,
[22:59] young Stuart when he was on would talk a lot about like sexy stuff on the podcast.
[23:03] Approaching middle-aged Stuart really likes to bother us with the minutiae of Warhammer.
[23:10] I mean, like, yeah.
[23:12] Oh, Jesus Christ.
[23:13] I had something I wanted to say.
[23:16] You want to talk about what Warhammer 40,000 army you would play if you had the chance?
[23:23] No, I remember what it was.
[23:24] I was just imagining Stuart trying to like hand in vibes to the IRS.
[23:28] Like, do you accept these vibes?
[23:30] Like, I'm more of a vibes than a number guy.
[23:32] So what about this?
[23:34] You're giving me a Blu-ray Criterion Collection edition of the movie Vibes.
[23:39] And I'm like, it exists, I think.
[23:41] Yeah.
[23:43] No, I mean, the fact that I am spending money already to have someone do my taxes for me,
[23:50] because I neither, I mean, obviously no one wants to do them.
[23:55] But I also just don't understand and know that I would do them
[23:59] wrong in every way means that I would not hire myself as an accountant.
[24:03] I think that's safe.
[24:04] I wouldn't do it either.
[24:04] Real quick, just anyone who is not from the United States,
[24:07] just understand that the United States tax system is intentionally overcomplicated.
[24:12] Yes.
[24:12] So that it supports this bullshit cottage industry of accounts.
[24:16] Every time the IRS is about to roll out a home website where they will provide the information
[24:22] you need and fill out the forms for you so that you can just basically sign it and pay,
[24:28] a huge industry of like TurboTax, things like that, lobbies actively to kill those measures.
[24:34] The same way that there was at one point, there was a real push for
[24:38] the U.S. Weather Bureau to stop releasing free information that was taxpayer funded
[24:43] because places like the Weather Channel wanted to have a monopoly on that information,
[24:47] which again, they got from the government, which was taxpayer funded.
[24:50] So this is like an episode of last week tonight.
[24:55] You get your laughs, you get some serious shit.
[24:57] It's great.
[24:58] Where's our fucking network?
[25:00] When do we do the big production number that involves a lot of expensive costumes?
[25:05] All of you unfettered capitalism,
[25:09] nun nuts out there who are screaming about socialism.
[25:12] This is the kind of good stuff that you are actively working against.
[25:15] We could have easy taxes, but you're like, no, the market's going to figure it out.
[25:21] The market fucks everything.
[25:22] Is that Kermit the Frog?
[25:23] Yeah, that was libertarian Kermit.
[25:26] Socialist.
[25:27] That was not libertarian.
[25:28] I was against libertarianism.
[25:31] I'm saying more socialist control.
[25:33] You're not.
[25:35] That was your Kermit voice.
[25:36] Yeah, that's right.
[25:37] So the character of libertarian covers like, uh, uh, piggy, don't you understand that a
[25:42] little smaller government means larger responsibility for everybody?
[25:45] So isn't that a little bit better?
[25:47] I feel like the invisible hand on the market will take care of it all because you see,
[25:52] competition is good and invariably goes to the...
[25:55] Like piggy karate chops them at that point.
[25:59] I'm in favor of everyone living the way they want to live as long as they want to live like me.
[26:03] A upper middle class or upper class white man who wears a polo shirt and khaki pants.
[26:08] So anyway, that's libertarian Kermit the Frog.
[26:12] I'm glad we got so political.
[26:14] We're almost done with this round.
[26:15] So we're making some people angry out there.
[26:18] Yeah, there's just one person left.
[26:19] I didn't realize when I proposed this, this fun tax game that, uh, that we would end up
[26:25] angering so many of our not left of center listeners.
[26:29] So, uh, the next one, Rick Moranis as Lewis Tully in Ghostbusters.
[26:33] Are you going to hire him as your accountant?
[26:34] Keep in mind, it does mean you are instantly invited to a party at his apartment.
[26:39] It's a pretty cool apartment building because of all the magic.
[26:44] Yeah.
[26:45] Well, that party also doubles as a write-off because he only invited clients, not friends.
[26:50] So that sounds like a pretty good account.
[26:53] Yeah, that is.
[26:55] Now, is he a dog at this point or not?
[26:57] Good question, Stuart, because I was going to ask separately if you would hire him as
[27:01] a demon dog.
[27:02] So as a human, would you hire him in as a demon dog?
[27:05] Would you hire him?
[27:05] Well, as a demon dog, I like his confidence.
[27:11] I mean, as as regular Lewis Tully, he's doing fine as a demon dog.
[27:15] He's bagging Sigourney Weaver.
[27:16] He's this guy.
[27:18] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[27:19] And he'll just bust through doors and shit.
[27:22] Yeah.
[27:22] So, uh, so you're saying yes, as a demon dog.
[27:26] Just regular Lewis Tully.
[27:28] You know what?
[27:28] I'll give him a shot.
[27:29] Why not?
[27:30] You know, uh, I'm easy.
[27:34] It's those vibes we were talking about.
[27:36] Yeah, Stuart's all about vibes.
[27:37] And you know what?
[27:38] You should also give a shot.
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[34:00] We're back to the game which is not really a game but more of a discussion round 2 we talked about tax preparation with accountants
[34:06] I'm gonna name some movie taxi drivers and you tell me if you're getting into that cab same basic thing
[34:11] But instead of your taxes, it's your tax
[34:13] Okay, I hope one of the specific one shows up, but we'll see I don't know if this is short round first off
[34:19] Of course, we got to go with the taxi driver himself Travis Bickle Robert De Niro. Are you getting into that cab?
[34:25] I mean, I you know, look I'm not saying anything
[34:31] Intentionally negative, but I mean he'd you know
[34:36] Most taxi drivers look kind of grumpy and
[34:40] you know, I have no way of judging from the outside who is like a
[34:44] murderer or
[34:47] You've seen his movies, you know, I've seen his movies
[34:51] Remember, they wrote him up in the newspapers
[34:53] I've always assumed that he would avenge I always want to do a thing where I write his obituary and he's become a Fox
[34:58] News host at a certain point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know what like I think
[35:03] It depends on the time of day because like if it's like really late and there are no other cabs
[35:08] I'd probably be like, well, you know, he didn't like kill any of his like taxi
[35:12] Like clients, you know try to kill presidential candidate Charles Palentine who was yeah, but no one knows about that
[35:19] That's true. They think his name is
[35:21] Cranky, he just goes around killing, you know pimps and and such
[35:25] Yeah, and he's like I think he's a pretty good listener
[35:28] Like if I just want him to like sit outside somebody's apartment while I say some wild-ass shit to him
[35:32] He'll just sit there and take that's true. He'll just sit there and listen while you say the
[35:38] Say terrible things good point good point you could save on therapy with him
[35:42] Okay
[35:42] So that's now from taxi driver to taxi
[35:45] That's right
[35:45] Bill Williams played by Queen Latifah in the Jimmy Fallon hit film taxi Wow hit his charitable
[35:54] Well as a hit in France the original version the original one that it's based on was a hit in France, but yeah
[36:00] Yeah, I mean, I think that the idea was like she was a good driver
[36:04] Like she did a lot of chases and stuff in that movie. I didn't see it. So I'll say sure
[36:09] She'll get me there fast. I assume
[36:13] Yeah, I'm assuming she'll get you there fast and she's got you know, she's great she's a huge yes a Queen Latifah
[36:20] Yeah
[36:22] Where's that somebody else? Yes now the equalizer if you need anything equalized
[36:28] Every every once in a while Charlene will be watching that show and I'll catch like 10 seconds and it's the most insane thing
[36:34] I've seen in my life
[36:37] I'm imagining like it reminds me of like there was like a time, you know when you're in college like and
[36:43] Drinking is new to you
[36:44] like it's all very like I remember time when I was with my friend Ariel and we're like
[36:49] Pouring out a drink and making sure that we both got the same amount. I'm just imagining now that that's what the equalizer does
[36:55] Okay, all those those wine glasses look equal. Oh
[36:58] She shows up when people are splitting a check at the end of the night and goes. Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa
[37:03] You got drinks
[37:05] She doesn't have to pay as much you wait Eliza. You ate most of those poppers. Yeah
[37:10] You ordered that for the table, I mean that's the plate next to you and ate it all yourself that is sort of
[37:16] De-equalizing but I you know, that's also a valid part of her job. I assume. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
[37:22] Well, I think it's not equal. It's not equal in terms of everyone gets the same thing
[37:26] It's that everyone gets what they need. It's fairness. She's the fairerizer not the equalizer. That's really cool
[37:32] Yeah, that's great or fairy Poppins, which is a maid or a nanny
[37:37] Yeah, I guess arrow riser is of course somebody goes around puts like Pharaoh headdresses on people, yeah
[37:43] So yeah, I guess I am I guess I am getting in that cab guys. Okay get in the cab now
[37:47] Here's another cab. I'm wondering if you're gonna take this is the cab of Max de Rocher played by Jamie Foxx in collateral
[37:55] Mmm, that's the thing. He might get in the way of my job. That's true
[38:00] And I'll spend the whole time telling me about his plans to the future of owning a fleet of limos
[38:06] He's got a lot of great painters what you're saying? Yeah, I
[38:11] Mean again, I don't think anything that happened in collateral would be like if anything Jamie Foxx, you know prevented more mayhem
[38:18] So that's the thing if somebody gets in the cab after me and is like I gotta kill that dude Stewart
[38:24] He'll probably help prevent it. Yeah. All right
[38:28] Do you want him out there in the world, but your nest is not necessarily taking the cab yourself
[38:32] All right, so you are so was that so that's a no
[38:37] Give him a shot. Why not? Okay. Yeah, you're easy. You got vibes and so Dan you were yeah
[38:42] I'm interested in giving travel a shot, but not no. No, I didn't say that. I was trying to help Stewart
[38:48] Crystallize his thoughts. Okay. Yeah, it helped. I
[38:51] Know I I would get in that cab. Okay, great. And now we're on to round three. We've talked about taxes
[38:57] We've talked about taxis and now it's finally time to talk about everyone's favorite creative art
[39:04] Taxidermy, that's right
[39:06] mounting of
[39:07] Animals in a lifelike position don't call it stuffing taxidermist do not like to say that they stuff animals. They say they mount them
[39:14] I was a hundred percent sure the third round was gonna be about Texas
[39:20] Not a lot of actors have played Texas is the problem
[39:25] Mean, I've never seen Debbie does Dallas, but maybe Dallas is a person and not a possibly. Yeah
[39:30] So guys, here's some movie taxidermists. Tell me are you hiring them?
[39:35] Number one, maybe the most famous movie taxidermist Norman Bates Anthony Perkins and psycho
[39:41] Birds, are you hiring him as a taxidermist? Keep in mind. He has worked with larger objects than birds
[39:51] Am gonna say I'm not hiring him not because of the murderousness per se but because I think that
[40:00] seems to be like he seems to be a hobbyist as a taxidermist you know his
[40:03] main line of work is motel manager that's true that's true so you know I
[40:09] probably would go to someone who'd actually like hung out their shingle
[40:12] before I would knock on his door I'm gonna say you know shower time super
[40:17] important to me and I feel like if he worked for me I'd constantly be nervous
[40:20] that I was gonna get interrupted not murdered just interrupted yeah like the
[40:27] original title of psycho girl interrupted okay so that's a no from
[40:37] both of you I think I'm Norman Bates I think that's fair but only because you
[40:40] see his work with birds is great his work with his mom's body not great
[40:50] in life she may have been a shriveled old mummy who just screaming chairs so
[40:55] one of those Apple dolls yeah so next guys going to a character who's slightly
[41:03] less murderous we're gonna talk to we're gonna talk about Barry Speck Steve
[41:07] Carell in the movie dinner for schmucks he specializes in taxidermying mice and
[41:12] posing them in non lifelike situations where they're in costumes and stuff
[41:16] would you hire him for your taxidermy needs keep in mind he's apparently very
[41:21] annoying yes I mean you know again this posits a world where I have taxidermy
[41:28] needs which I don't think is ever going to happen I've died not particularly
[41:33] keen on the idea of having an animal you know like put in my home like the corpse
[41:40] of an animal that has been treated and you know preserved but I don't know no I
[41:45] know I just I think it would make me sadder more than anything else not to
[41:49] throw shade on anyone who has any taxidermy it's just my personal but he
[41:54] those are pretty adorable little my mouse dioramas they are that's true now
[41:59] I want to I just want to make sure our listeners understand that in terms of
[42:02] Dan worrying he's hurting a listeners feelings number one of the top does not
[42:06] want to hurt the feelings of anyone taxidermy a little bit lower down he's
[42:09] okay with slightly hurting the people the feelings of people who wine and dine
[42:12] old ladies he is not worried about hurting the feelings of libertarians so
[42:15] that is his his values yeah who he's afraid of offending hierarchy of values
[42:20] yeah yeah yeah I I feel like did he have like a wacky haircut in that movie or
[42:25] something uh he's just got kind of it's a he's got
[42:28] what kind of longish bangs like it's like short but it's and he's got you
[42:32] know he's not wacky but it's not great looking haircut you know okay so I guess
[42:39] with that in mind yeah I'll hire him well Dan I didn't question why you don't
[42:46] like having taxidermy animals well I can't you let me know I agree I agree I
[42:53] think I think it's unfair for you to it's a question of how Stewart uses hair
[42:56] I guess he's worried that like the fur and the taxidermy would end up looking
[43:01] like the hair if he can't take care of his own hair yeah spinning it out I
[43:04] don't know taxidermy is you got to watch out for moths on the other hand
[43:09] you guys you go to a town with two barbers one barber has a great cut the
[43:13] other barber has a terrible haircut which barber do you go to the barber
[43:16] with the great haircut yeah you go to the barber bad hair classic yeah it's
[43:21] like you don't trust this this reminds me of a during the episode of a
[43:28] presidents are people to about Theodore Roosevelt I went to visit a
[43:32] taxidermist because Theodore Roosevelt wasn't a taxidermy and I asked him if
[43:35] it was possible to take a cow cut just one steak out of it and then mount the
[43:40] rest of the cow with an open slot where that's gone and he was so on a he was so
[43:45] like confused and disgusted that I would even suggest such a thing even as a
[43:49] joke which reminds me our next person is Theodore Roosevelt that's right real
[43:53] person a real hobbyist taxidermist it could be the Theodore Roosevelt from
[43:57] Newsies the Theodore Roosevelt from the Wind and the Lion the tiny Theodore
[44:00] Roosevelt I guess tiny the diorama Theodore Roosevelt from night at the
[44:02] museum battles but not battles of Sonya he was like a person in the museum it
[44:07] was like a full-size room he's a full-size mannequin he's not one of the
[44:09] small ones it's a it's an incredibly inaccurate view of the Museum of
[44:12] Natural History but anyway Theodore Roosevelt are you gonna hire him as
[44:15] yeah that was your that was your issue you're like I'm turning this nonsense
[44:19] haha I mean in a way they're like oh now we're in the diorama section with these
[44:22] ancient Roman dioramas I'm like what what museum is this what are you talking
[44:26] about yeah I probably would just because I think that like you know I don't know
[44:31] how much interaction I'm gonna have but if I can sit around while he's doing
[44:34] some of the work I bet he's got some good stories okay fair I mean I would do
[44:40] it mainly because I know my friend Elliot would get such a big kick out of
[44:42] it you like Elliot you won't believe be like
[44:45] taxidermist hey Teddy we're doing this on these days I mean he called Teddy
[44:53] because he's because he liked Theodore he didn't like when people called him
[44:55] Teddy that's the kind of information you would have to share with me over a
[44:58] FaceTime yeah it's ironic that you bring up Teddy though because of course
[45:04] the teddy bear is named after him and our final taxidermist was Teddy Ruxpin
[45:13] after him because the bear Alan Ruck was riding on the back of the bear at the
[45:19] time and Theodore Roosevelt spun it around so he became known as Teddy Ruxpin so uh guys
[45:27] there's an adorable bear named Paddington there's a taxidermist after
[45:30] Millicent Clyde played by Nicole Kidman from the film Paddington are you gonna
[45:34] hire this taxidermist now I don't I don't think I would it is no shade on
[45:42] her work which I'm sure is is good but I did not Dan you can hurt you can hurt
[45:48] her feelings heartbreak feels good in a place like this I just I can't I cannot
[45:52] condone any sort of injury or possible injury to my man Paddington so I'm not
[46:01] gonna support anyone who supports possibly if somebody were to say like
[46:05] that's marmalade sandwich yeah you you wouldn't like that no wait is this like
[46:19] oblique references to your side Tom Cruise gets into the cabin collateral
[46:27] and he's like follow that bear and he's got to go after Paddington to get the
[46:31] hit on him follow that bear yeah you would have to change the name of the
[46:39] movie to follow that bear would I wait I'll hire yeah of course I'd hire it's
[46:45] Nicole Kidman dude so you just want to hang yeah I just want to hang I would
[46:51] man I would have a lot of questions like I would show her the pictures of her
[46:56] walking away from her divorce what's it like when you're when your husband is
[47:07] reincarnated as a little kid is that weird yep I would ask all these
[47:11] questions what was it like working with Chan Wook Park that it should be like
[47:17] that I'm a taxidermist I don't know what you're talking about what happened but
[47:24] the thing is all these things considered I would still hire because
[47:28] you know it's close enough yeah yeah and also if she's gonna if she wants to
[47:33] stuff sorry I shouldn't say stuff I'm the one who's warning you not she's gonna
[47:36] mount Paddington that's a big project but again confidence it's all about
[47:40] confidence I know that you're supposed to say mount but if she's going to mount
[47:45] Paddington sounds like an entirely different she's living a lot of women's
[47:49] dreams and mounting Paddington yeah I mean he does seem very cuddly but yeah
[47:54] he also reads like a child so I don't think that I mean true it's true very
[48:00] true he's again his paws have got to be sticky so much so much marmalade that's
[48:08] that's the hard part with that with that taxidermy job is cleaning the marmalade
[48:11] out of the fur it's very difficult like a comb what do you yeah like why is
[48:18] there so much on on Paddington's head well let me tell you where I kept the
[48:24] sandwiches you're gonna want to sit down for this and well listeners I hope you've
[48:33] been sitting down and enjoying this episode of the Flophouse mini I'd like
[48:36] to thank Dan and Stu and I'd like to thank you for listening I'd like to say
[48:40] I hope your tax day goes smoothly and as painlessly as possible I want to
[48:45] thank our producer editor Alex Smith you can follow him online as HowlDotty
[48:49] and I would like to thank the Maximum Fun Network for being our network
[48:52] they're a great network and I'd also like to thank you for going right now to
[48:55] flophousepodcast.com slash stream and buying your ticket to our Battlefield
[49:00] Earth streaming event you can finally see one of our live shows if you've
[49:03] never gotten to see one before with the presentations with the Q&A's and like we
[49:07] said you've got a chance to get a VIP meet-and-greet session with us the
[49:11] peaches being funny and doing silly stuff and Stuart will be like bye at the
[49:16] end of the meet-and-greet probably and official merchandise new looking
[49:20] merchandise I'm excited about it I'm gonna buy some of that also tickets
[49:23] available at flophousepodcast.com slash stream guys thank you for going on this
[49:29] journey of words that sound like other words with me
[49:32] thanks Elliot. Bye! That was a little different.
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