Greatest Trek! A Crossover Mess-Around

[0:00] Hello, and welcome to a

S1

[0:29] special team-up episode of The Greatest Generation, The Flophouse, and Greatest Trek.

[0:36] For The Greatest Generation and Greatest Trek, I'm Ben Harrison.

[0:41] And I'm Adam Pranica.

Dan McCoy

[0:43] And for The Flophouse, I'm Dan McCoy.

Elliott Kalan

[0:45] Also from The Flophouse, I'm Stuart Wellington.

[0:49] And thirdly from The Flophouse, I'm Elliot Kalin.

[0:51] Ben, you started off with such a great, smooth, professional intro.

[0:55] It fell off.

[0:56] The wheels fell off.

[0:59] I felt like it was a promising takeoff, but in a bumpy flight, which is interesting

[1:04] because we're tying in this episode to tease some bonus content.

[1:08] Now, it's getting to be MaxFunDrive time, or if you're listening to this during the MaxFunDrive,

[1:14] it is MaxFunDrive time.

[1:15] That's the time when we, MaxFunFun shows, say to you, the listeners, thank you for thanking us for our shows in the form of money that you pledge every month for us to have.

[1:30] And I don't know if I can talk for the—

S1

[1:32] I don't know if I've ever heard it put so concisely as that.

[1:36] Thank you.

Dan McCoy

[1:37] So clearly, people will totally understand what the business model is.

[1:42] You know, like how we get paid.

S1

[1:44] We don't have weird comments on Reddit about how it seems like we're just a grift for all of a sudden.

Stuart Wellington

[1:49] Why are you reading the Reddit comments?

[1:51] Don't read the Reddit comments.

S1

[1:54] Some of them are very nice, though.

Elliott Kalan

[1:55] Some of them are very nice.

[1:56] Yeah, read those, I guess.

[1:57] Yeah.

[1:57] So I can't speak for Ben and Adam.

[1:59] They're great guys, but I just don't spend as much time with them.

[2:01] You can speak for me.

[2:01] I give you that permission.

[2:04] Speaking with the power of attorney for Ben and Adam, and also for Dan and Stu, I'll say that making our podcasts is a real joy.

[2:12] It's something that we really love doing, and we love creating something that fans can enjoy.

[2:17] We love that we have listeners.

[2:18] We love that so many listeners are so excited about our work, and that you not only enjoy it, but that you want to support it.

[2:24] And now, really only speaking for me and Dan, and I'm not sure about Ben and Adam's situation, but we are especially excited and thankful and very grateful during this time when the TV and film business is collapsing and crumbling in on itself like a house made out of soggy cheese that's been left out in the rain and the sun for too long and is now imploding and no longer edible.

[2:46] It's just spoiled and rancid.

S5

[2:47] Cheese is a terrible building material to begin with.

Elliott Kalan

[2:51] Yeah, but they thought it was a new model.

[2:52] They said, we've been building TV shows out of structurally sound materials for too long.

S1

[2:56] But when they built a house out of cheese, they shouldn't have done it in MacArthur Park because the second it rains, we know what's going to happen.

[3:04] That's good real estate, though.

[3:05] They wanted to break the curse.

Elliott Kalan

[3:06] Anyway, that's a long, very logical way of saying we're especially thankful and especially grateful that we have the support of our listeners because it is very literally keeping us going.

[3:18] Because Papa doesn't have any other form of income right now.

[3:22] In this case, I'm Papa.

[3:25] So if the movie Where's Papa was playing about Dan, you would know that the answer is at Dan's apartment.

Stuart Wellington

[3:31] Or if I was singing Bob Seger's Come to Papa, you'd know I'm saying come to Dan's house.

Elliott Kalan

[3:37] Yes, exactly.

[3:37] And if you're hearing Papa don't preach, we're saying Papa will preach about the need for you to support us during this MaxFun drive.

[3:45] We would love to have new members, listeners who have not made the plunge into being regular donors.

[3:51] Please consider it.

[3:52] Please do.

[3:53] If you are a regular donor, please consider upping your donation amount.

Dan McCoy

[3:57] Now, Ali, I just want to say we're not saying donation because that confuses people.

[4:01] Oh, right.

[4:01] Sorry.

[4:02] It is not a, what do you call it, non-profit.

[4:06] We are not a non-profit.

[4:07] We are very much a for-profit organization.

Elliott Kalan

[4:10] We like profit and want it.

Dan McCoy

[4:11] We're patrons of the arts, and the arts in this case is us.

[4:15] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[4:15] If you have not been paying for this.

Dan McCoy

[4:17] I'm Papa and also the arts.

[4:19] Papa arts.

Elliott Kalan

[4:20] Papa arts, which is your like Zydeco burlesque name that you perform under.

S5

[4:25] If you like cream puffs, you might think of yourself as a beard Papa.

[4:30] And your creamy filling would be your financial support of this sweetened pastry.

Dan McCoy

[4:36] I like it when you call me beard Papa.

S5

[4:39] Of all of our podcasts.

S1

[4:41] Hey, do you guys think we should get on to some actual content and off the pitch before we drive everyone away?

Dan McCoy

[4:47] We've been so clear so far that we may as well.

[4:50] I think we've been.

Elliott Kalan

[4:51] Anyway, so this is just, we want to, and also we have an actual thing to tell.

[4:55] We want to tell you about, which is.

[4:56] Why don't you.

[4:57] So, Ben, why don't you talk about what we've done together that is a special thing.

Dan McCoy

[5:02] What have we done?

[5:04] What have we done?

[5:05] Not the illegal thing.

[5:08] Point to the part of the doll thing that we've done.

Elliott Kalan

[5:11] That we recorded a podcast about.

Dan McCoy

[5:13] Not the murder we all did together.

[5:15] Don't give them any details about that.

Stuart Wellington

[5:17] Well, we heard.

[5:18] It happened last summer, dude.

Dan McCoy

[5:20] Yeah, surely no one will remember it.

Stuart Wellington

[5:22] He was just a fucking fisherman.

[5:24] Nobody cares.

S1

[5:28] We heard from a listener to our show that they would love to hear a collab, another collab between us and our buddies at the Flophouse.

[5:35] Because we've done them before.

[5:37] This time.

[5:38] There's a precedent.

[5:39] Chill out.

[5:40] Yeah.

[5:41] Was.

[5:42] Get off our dick.

[5:44] About.

[5:44] Jesus Christ.

Elliott Kalan

[5:46] Dan, Dan, let's try to, let's try not to anger the bears out there.

[5:49] You know, with, like, if we want it, we want to get them to, like, leave the campsite peacefully.

[5:55] And maybe, maybe pledge to us along the way.

[5:58] Let's not rile them, you know.

S1

[6:00] Dan, you don't want to be aggressive.

[6:02] You just want to make yourself big and noisy.

[6:04] You want to confuse.

[6:06] Yeah, exactly.

[6:06] Maybe punch them in the snoop.

Elliott Kalan

[6:07] Our listeners are a bunch of, our listeners are a bunch of adorable, huggable bears.

[6:10] And Dan is just laying out the cocaine for them to see what will happen.

S5

[6:13] Big and noisy with wordplay.

[6:15] That'll keep the bears away.

S1

[6:17] We reviewed a movie called Airplane 2 colon the sequel.

[6:22] And we made a collaborative bonus episode with both of our shows that is now in your bonus content feed if you are already a MaxFun supporter.

[6:31] And will be soon if you're about to become a MaxFun supporter.

[6:34] And it is a really bad movie.

[6:37] But it stars William Shatner.

[6:38] So it's appropriate to both of our shows.

[6:41] Again, stars is generous.

[6:42] William Shatner appears in maybe a fifth of the film.

S5

[6:47] I'm aware of that the source material is bad.

[6:50] But the hosts that talk about it, they make it fun and good.

[6:55] And it's sort of that kind of show that we all made together.

S1

[6:57] Yeah, which is opposite of me and Adam's oeuvre.

[7:01] Because usually we're reviewing good things, but we're not that good.

[7:04] Right.

[7:05] But you guys might be a little bit more familiar with that kind of book show.

Elliott Kalan

[7:08] Wait, you guys get to review good things?

[7:10] Yeah, good things like the Cheesecake Factory.

[7:12] Sometimes.

[7:12] I didn't know that was possible.

[7:13] Are there good things?

[7:14] Yeah, when we get lucky.

[7:16] So we recorded a fun time talking about Airplane 2, the sequel.

[7:22] It's available in the Maximum Fun bonus content feed.

[7:26] Yeah.

[7:26] You will not be hearing it unless you decide to go to the Max.

[7:30] Sorry.

[7:31] Go to the Max.

[7:31] You will not be hearing it unless you go to the Max.

[7:34] Unless you go to the Max, the restaurant from Saved by the Bell, and you hang out with Screech and the gang.

[7:40] And you ask them to put HBO Max on the screen.

Stuart Wellington

[7:43] Yeah.

[7:43] And you watch Max.

[7:44] And they only play Max Headrum.

[7:48] Headrum.

[7:49] Max Headrum.

Elliott Kalan

[7:50] Max Headrum, which is about a boutique liquor brand that Matt Frewer puts out.

[7:57] Go to, if you go to MaximumFun.org slash join.

Stuart Wellington

[8:01] Dude, if Matt Frewer started a fucking celebrity booze brand selling rum and he called it Max Headrum, you know we would buy that shit.

[8:09] That's crazy.

[8:10] That's a million dollar idea.

S1

[8:13] I would go to the hotel from The Shining to buy Max Headrum.

[8:17] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[8:17] Unfortunately, Max Headrum is just a beautiful dream.

[8:22] So instead of spending your money on that non-existent celebrity liquor, instead go to MaximumFun.org slash join and become a member.

[8:30] Become a member and start pledging money not as a donation but as a real exchange for artistic content in the form of comedy and commentary.

[8:39] Service is rendered.

[8:40] It's a monthly membership.

[8:42] You can choose what level of membership you want to be at.

[8:45] You can go as low as $5.

[8:46] You can go as high as $200.

[8:48] Why not go as high as you can?

Dan McCoy

[8:49] I want to make it clear.

[8:50] At the $5 level, you get access to all that bonus content.

[8:55] Really, honestly, that's, you know, like, look.

[8:58] If you can afford to give us more, that's great.

[9:01] But in terms of, like, the rewards you get, the good stuff, we give you the good stuff up front.

[9:07] Let me just say that the floppers are making really worthwhile bonus content.

S1

[9:11] As a Flophouse fan, I got to say, get your money into this thing so that you can listen to that stuff.

Stuart Wellington

[9:19] What's your favorite part of our stuff?

[9:24] All the jokes.

[9:25] Oh, you like the jokes.

[9:27] That is kind of primo stuff right there.

[9:29] That is.

[9:30] That is.

S1

[9:30] Top shelf.

[9:31] It's right next to the bottle of Max Head Rum.

Dan McCoy

[9:33] I can't tell whether Ben has listened to it, but I have listened to the Cheesecake Factory reviews, which, you know, I think it got talked over before.

[9:44] But I was saying that, you know, some of the good stuff they talk about, the Cheesecake Factory on the bonus feed.

[9:48] Oh, yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[9:49] It's mainly, what, reviewing the quality of the menu and how many pages it has.

S1

[9:54] Yeah.

[9:54] And we've gone to all different Cheesecake Factories on our different episodes of that bonus show.

[10:01] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[10:02] Do you have a new one coming up?

[10:04] Do you have a new one lined up?

[10:05] Do you have your eyes on the prize?

S5

[10:06] One of the many ways the show is unsustainable is our decision to go to different locations every time.

S1

[10:12] We're going to have to start, like, booking Southwest flights to, like, Tucson so that we can keep that going.

[10:17] Yeah.

[10:18] What a treat.

[10:19] Yeah, we've got to—

Stuart Wellington

[10:20] You can go to a mall somewhere and get some Cheesecake Factory.

Dan McCoy

[10:23] Yeah.

[10:24] I've never been to a Cheesecake Factory.

[10:26] Really?

[10:26] And their reviews make me want to go, I got to say.

S5

[10:28] You should come on a show sometime.

[10:30] That would be delightful.

[10:32] Yeah, you should do it, Dan.

[10:32] We'll fly to New York and we'll go to one there.

[10:34] I'm sure they've got—

[10:35] Dan would love it.

Elliott Kalan

[10:36] Dan would love that.

[10:37] Do we have one?

[10:37] He loves food.

[10:38] He's a real gourmand.

Stuart Wellington

[10:39] If not, there's got to be one in fucking New Jersey.

Elliott Kalan

[10:41] Yeah.

[10:42] Of course there is.

[10:43] Yeah.

[10:44] That's where I used to go to when I was young.

[10:46] Anyway, so, there's a lot of great points.

[10:48] That was where Tony Soprano was shot, right?

[10:51] The movie Tony Soprano was shot.

[10:54] Shot in the Cheesecake Factory.

S1

[10:56] It's not definitive whether he was shot.

Elliott Kalan

[10:58] You see the assassin, he points his gun into the holes of a big Swiss cheese.

[11:04] The bullet will go through the cheese into Tony Soprano and then it cuts to black.

S1

[11:08] I don't think you can see that the assassin is getting distracted by the menu because there's

[11:12] so much stuff in it.

[11:13] There's so much.

[11:13] And so it's a little ambiguous whether he actually pulls the trigger.

Elliott Kalan

[11:16] And Journey's Don't Stop But Cheesing is playing on the soundtrack.

S5

[11:20] The most unbelievable part was how difficult a time Meadow Soprano had parking.

[11:25] Plenty of parking outside the Cheesecake Factory every time.

Elliott Kalan

[11:29] Every time.

[11:30] So convenient.

Dan McCoy

[11:30] In downtown Brooklyn, there's a famous desserts by the Cheesecake Factory.

[11:36] But there's a full menu.

[11:38] Dan, you don't need to research it right now.

Elliott Kalan

[11:39] There's no need to save it up for the bonus episode.

[11:42] Yeah, save it for the bonus episode.

[11:43] There's a lot of Flophouse bonus content.

[11:45] We've got audio commentaries for movies.

[11:47] We've got many episodes of a role-playing game that we played set in the weird 30s noir world

[11:52] that, spoiler alert, the last episode ended with me with a head full of space worms.

[11:58] So get ready to listen to find out how that happened.

S1

[12:01] I love your role-playing episodes.

[12:02] They are really great and, like, super well-produced.

[12:04] You guys put a ton of work into those.

[12:06] Oh, thank you.

Stuart Wellington

[12:06] I mean, that's all our producer, Alex Smith.

[12:08] And also, I mean, I put a lot of work into it, too.

[12:10] And we have some hot ones coming up where we're going back to playing animated –

[12:14] Where you're eating chicken wings with different sauces on them?

[12:16] Uh-huh.

[12:17] Yep.

[12:18] Yep, that's what we're doing.

[12:19] You know, normally that sort of shit's reserved for, like, a Cate Blanchett-level celebrity.

[12:23] But instead, he's like, I'm going to get these dumb-ass podcasters on.

Elliott Kalan

[12:27] But we've got another role-playing game coming out that we've recorded already.

[12:30] Yeah, Stu, you're saying we're returning to our Flop Tales dog world.

Stuart Wellington

[12:35] Yeah, you guys play animated dogs.

[12:37] Oh, fun.

[12:37] Zubin's back.

Elliott Kalan

[12:38] The whole gang's together.

[12:39] Yeah, Zubin's back.

[12:40] Yeah, we're all back together.

[12:41] And all that bonus content, it's many hours of bonus content at this point.

[12:45] We've been doing this for years, all of us.

[12:47] There's a lot of exclusive shows.

[12:48] You can only get to it if you go to MaximumFun.org slash join and join.

[12:53] Become a pledger.

[12:55] Pledge some money to us each month.

[12:57] And it means that we will continue to make our shows and we'll continue to be able to focus on them and put real effort into them because they're all we've got right now.

[13:05] Guys.

[13:05] It's everything we have.

[13:06] Look, they say don't put your eggs in one basket.

[13:08] But what happens when life takes away the other baskets?

[13:11] That's true.

S5

[13:12] That is true.

[13:13] It's like musical chairs except baskets and the podcast or the music.

Stuart Wellington

[13:18] I mean, not me.

[13:19] I got plenty of baskets.

[13:20] But you guys, yeah, you're down to just one.

[13:22] And that's fucked.

S1

[13:23] It's true.

[13:24] Look at Zach Galifianakis over here with all his baskets.

[13:27] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[13:28] Oh, yeah.

[13:28] That's what they call me in the streets.

Dan McCoy

[13:33] What do they call you in the sheets, though?

Stuart Wellington

[13:35] Oh, you don't want to know, buddy.

Dan McCoy

[13:38] Is there more to this?

Stuart Wellington

[13:40] They call me Zach Galifianakis.

[13:42] Do we have ass in the sheets?

[13:43] Nice.

Dan McCoy

[13:44] Hot.

[13:45] Nice.

[13:46] We didn't really talk this out well before.

[13:49] Is there any content to this?

Elliott Kalan

[13:51] We're just having fun and talking.

[13:51] Or is it just a commercial?

[13:53] We're just having a good time.

[13:55] We're having a good time.

[13:56] Okay, I just look.

Dan McCoy

[13:57] I don't need to harsh your mellow if that's the thing.

Stuart Wellington

[14:01] Yeah, we're doing like a little.

[14:02] What are we talking about?

[14:03] You know like when you're watching the Super Bowl, Dan, and you're like, well, my team's not doing well, but at least.

[14:09] Oh, these are commercials?

[14:10] Oh, wow.

[14:11] These are really fun and funny.

[14:12] Like sometimes ads are fun and funny, and that's what this is, a fun and funny ad.

Elliott Kalan

[14:16] Yeah, Dan.

[14:17] Go to Stan Freebury and tell him ads can't be funny.

S1

[14:20] And what is the Max Fun Drive but the Super Bowl of podcasting?

[14:24] Thank you.

[14:25] Oh, very much so.

S5

[14:26] I just teed you up, dude.

[14:27] We're going to have to edit that out.

S1

[14:28] It is the big game of podcasting.

[14:34] Yeah, just beep that, Alex.

[14:37] Yeah, no, I mean it's a thrill to get to sit down with you guys.

[14:42] You guys were really early on in the game of podcasting, and I feel like when Adam and I were getting started, you were kind enough to share a lot of your, you know, like we were like, when Maximum Fun sends us a check, like what do we do?

[15:00] And Elliot wrote like a very detailed email about like the, you know, like how you guys had wrapped your minds around.

S5

[15:06] Ben, I've taken a home economics class, so I didn't have that question, and I wasn't on that email thread that you had with Elliot.

S1

[15:13] I mean, I did, and I really appreciated the advice that you were kind enough to share.

Elliott Kalan

[15:18] Elliot, what do I do with the dishes after I've made dinner?

[15:22] I'm glad you wrote me about this.

[15:24] Here's what I'm going to tell you.

[15:25] It's going to be complicated, but you're going to be able to get through this.

[15:27] We'll do this together.

S1

[15:28] If you're like Elliot, you put a bad movie on an iPad, and you stand there washing the dishes.

Elliott Kalan

[15:34] Wash the dishes.

[15:34] Every now and then you have to pause the movies.

[15:36] That means drying off your hands, pausing the movie, writing down what happened, and then pressing play again, and then washing the dishes some more.

[15:42] It really would be easier if I just opened the window and threw the dishes right out and just pretended they didn't exist anymore.

[15:47] Every time.

[15:47] Yeah, or go on the roof and shoot the dishes.

Dan McCoy

[15:49] I got three words for you, Elliot.

[15:51] Lick them clean.

[15:54] I've got one word for you.

[15:56] That's the let them fight of this one.

Elliott Kalan

[16:01] How do I deal with all, I've got too many dishes.

[16:04] Well, here, my name is Zorba the Greek, and I'm going to show you how to deal with those extra dishes.

Dan McCoy

[16:10] Using the Zorba the Greek method.

Elliott Kalan

[16:14] The Zorba the Greek is being parachuted into the place where the alien dishes are attacking.

[16:19] He'll be able to take care of the problem.

[16:24] You guys are great, network mates, and we're, you know, you're, I don't want to slam the other shows or anything.

[16:31] But your stuff is, you know, we're, you know, excited and proud to be on the same network, you know, as you guys.

[16:38] It's a, it's a, I feel like Maximum Fun is a, a real community of creatives.

[16:43] And I've made real friends and like real relationships through being on this network.

[16:47] And that's another exciting thing about it.

[16:48] And something that the people pledging, they don't really get much of a benefit from that.

[16:54] From me having friendships and important relationships in my life.

[16:57] But, but it's still something that makes my life worthwhile.

S5

[16:59] They benefit from us being happy and not stressed out about money to whatever extent that's possible.

[17:05] Like, yeah.

[17:06] This makes better shows.

[17:07] Yeah.

[17:08] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[17:08] Well, and you know, like, I understand it's hard to have someone come to you once a year and ask you for money.

[17:16] I didn't like it.

[17:18] You know.

[17:18] When Uncle Sam does it.

[17:19] When Uncle Sam.

[17:21] Let's all get our guns and go to the Capitol.

[17:23] Well, we moved to Fun Drive.

[17:25] No, no, no.

[17:26] It was on April 15th last year.

[17:28] That was a joke.

S1

[17:28] And we moved it to a different time of year so that it's not quite as reminiscent of that.

[17:32] Yeah.

[17:33] Let's just say.

Stuart Wellington

[17:33] Dan's voice sounds like a joke, but his face is deadly serious.

[17:36] No, I was.

S5

[17:37] If you listen to Maximum Fun shows and you don't support them, you may be visited by a Maximum Fun auditor.

Dan McCoy

[17:45] No.

[17:45] What I was trying to say was, you know, I didn't like it when NPR, say, did it when I was growing up.

[17:52] Or public radio because I was like, oh, my favorite shows are being interrupted by all this gobbledygook.

[17:58] Your favorite public radio shows as a kid.

[18:01] I listened to so much public radio as a kid.

[18:04] Explains a lot, actually.

[18:05] Yeah, it does.

[18:06] It does explain a lot.

[18:07] But, like, that is the tradeoff.

[18:11] Excuse me.

Elliott Kalan

[18:11] I didn't realize that ads were one of the things that was being considered under all.

Dan McCoy

[18:15] When you say that there's a community of creatives, like, that's, like, the thing that is, there's a tradeoff.

[18:23] None of us, I think, really, it comes natural to us to go out and ask for money.

[18:28] None of us, it comes natural to us to think of the thing that we do as a business.

[18:33] But it is.

[18:36] And at this point in our lives, we kind of need to, like, have money to continue doing it.

[18:42] And the beauty of an organization like Maximum Fun is it is set up so that is not necessarily the primary concern.

[18:51] While we want to get paid for the work we do, like, we also want to put out something good.

[18:57] We want to put it out in our way where we don't have to, like, filter it through a third party.

[19:04] We want to be able to make, like, moral decisions about what our shows are.

[19:08] All of these things, and that's sort of the benefit of being supported in this way to get serious for half a second.

[19:16] Well put.

[19:17] And now, back to the jokes.

[19:19] Ben, you had one.

Elliott Kalan

[19:20] Anyway, bong, bong, bong, toilet flush.

[19:22] Whoa.

[19:24] Fart, fart, fart.

[19:25] Dan, you made a really good point.

[19:27] I thank you for articulating it so well.

S1

[19:30] Yeah.

[19:30] And, like, I mean, I'm looking at, like, real writing awards that Dan has won behind him on his shelf.

[19:39] Those days are gone.

[19:41] Those are homemade.

[19:41] Those are long.

Elliott Kalan

[19:43] Yeah, that Emmy and 25 cents will get him a pack of gum.

S5

[19:46] That's a picture of Belushi and the word college written across his chest.

Elliott Kalan

[19:54] Yeah, Dan, I didn't realize that so much of what you learned in college could be defined by what it says on beer camps.

[20:01] It's right there on the wall, sure.

S1

[20:03] But, like, I think that we all feel tremendously lucky to have found this as a thing that we can, you know, to a certain extent make a career out of.

[20:12] And that's all because of listener support.

[20:16] Like, that, I mean, the ads are nice, but they don't pay the bills.

[20:20] Like, the listener support really does.

[20:22] And we hugely appreciate it.

[20:25] So, go get some fun bonus content by signing up at MaximumFun.org slash join.

[20:30] And the real reward will be all of the warm, fuzzy feelings you experience.

[20:35] But also the bonus content and the stuff they get in the mail.

[20:38] And, yeah, I mean, those are the real rewards.

[20:40] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[20:41] And if the warm, fuzzy feeling causes you to pass out, go to a doctor because that is a separate kind of issue.

[20:47] That's a question of blood flow.

Stuart Wellington

[20:49] Yeah, and all this preamble really is just a setup for this whole process made us watch Airplane 2, which is a movie that sucks.

Elliott Kalan

[20:58] Please, please don't make it worthwhile.

[21:00] Make it so that we didn't.

[21:01] We only, this is something that I've realized more and more as the Flophouse continues is we only have a limited amount of time on this.

[21:08] There's a certain amount of it that, for me, is earmarked.

[21:10] We have sold some of it to you.

[21:13] Yeah.

[21:14] We've promised to do terrible things with it.

[21:16] I'm sacrificing hours of my life, which builds up to days.

[21:20] At this point, I've spent many days of my life watching crap.

[21:22] Yes.

[21:23] I'm sacrificing it so that you can have entertainment, so that you can have the fun of hearing things that you don't need to watch to learn about them, so you can have a warning, and so you can have recommendations of things you might like.

[21:36] Please, don't make the time I spent watching Airplane 2, the sequel, be a total waste that I regret on my deathbed.

[21:43] Please, go to maximumfun.org slash join and support us.

Stuart Wellington

[21:46] I see your children in the background getting older.

S1

[21:50] All these precious moments you've missed.

[21:52] My son was taking his first steps while we were recording this, so I hope you're fucking happy.

[21:58] Yeah.

S5

[21:58] Elliot, one of your children is wearing a shirt that says college on the front of it.

[22:03] Your child is Jim Belushi?

Elliott Kalan

[22:05] That's my son Jim, yeah.

[22:06] He's got some problems, but I think I haven't been able to give him the parenting he needs, but I think he'll be fine.

[22:10] He'll be fine, yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[22:11] Do you think Jim Belushi dresses up as, wears a college sweatshirt around?

Dan McCoy

[22:16] For sure.

[22:16] That's me, and I'm the guy from this poster.

[22:18] I mean, probably not now he doesn't.

Elliott Kalan

[22:21] No, John Belushi doesn't tend to do that now.

[22:23] No, I'm talking about Jim Belushi.

[22:25] Jim Belushi dresses up like his brother and says, yeah, that's me.

[22:28] Yeah, yeah, sure.

[22:30] Remember this?

[22:31] I'm taking care of business, you know?

[22:33] While I was doing the dishes and watching Airplane 2, there were times when my son was like, hey, dad, want to do a puzzle with me?

[22:37] Dad, want to play Dominion?

[22:38] And I was like, I can't.

[22:40] I got to do this thing.

[22:41] So please, please make my son's trauma.

Dan McCoy

[22:44] Sorry, your dad needs to watch Robert Haggerty.

[22:48] That's a real, like, lost lyrics of Cats in the Griddle.

[22:51] Not Robert Haggerty.

[22:53] Yeah, yeah.

[22:54] Julie Haggerty and Robert, who's the main guy?

[22:57] I got to watch him, son.

Elliott Kalan

[22:58] I'd love to play with you.

[22:59] But I got to watch Airplane 2, son.

[23:02] I got to watch Airplane 2.

[23:05] Yeah.

[23:06] Oh, so sad.

[23:07] So sad.

[23:09] Well, Elliot's saying something.

[23:12] Well, my son, grown up, started a podcast.

[23:13] Yeah.

[23:14] I wanted to be on it, but he never asked me.

[23:17] Hey, son, when could we talk a while?

[23:19] He said, I can't.

[23:21] He said, dad, it would be cool, but I got to tell you, I got to watch Airplane Mode, dad.

[23:27] 2019 sequel to Airplane 2 that I learned about while recording with Airplane 2, dad.

Stuart Wellington

[23:31] Dan's got the turn signal on.

[23:33] He's making his way to the rest stop.

[23:36] I think we're about to.

Dan McCoy

[23:38] Yeah, let's bring this in for a landing.

[23:41] Yeah.

[23:42] For the Flophouse contingent of this crossover, I've been Dan McCoy.

S1

[23:48] Hey, I've been Stuart Wellington.

[23:49] I've been Elliot Kalin.

[23:51] I've been Ben Harrison.

[23:52] Sorry about the 20-minute advertisement in your feed.

[23:56] I'm still Adam Pranica.

S5

[23:59] Bye.

[24:12] Maximumfun.org

Dan McCoy

[24:30] Comedy and culture.

S6

[24:32] Artist owned.

[24:33] Audience supported.

[24:34] Bye.

Greatest Trek! A Crossover Mess-Around

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