FH Mini 76 - The Peach Pit, MFD Edition

[0:00] Hey, that's right. Welcome back to this is another episode of the Peach Pit. Everybody's

[0:10] favorite fan podcast about the number one podcast about bad movies. That's right. The

[0:14] Flophouse podcast. So welcome to the Peach Pit. I'm your host, Stuart Wellington. And

[0:19] joining me, I have two really great guests today. Again, I have the two original peaches.

[0:24] I have part Dan, part cop, part machine, all podcast here. Dan McCoy. Hey, Dan, thanks

[0:32] for joining us. He's only part. Hey, I feel like, you know, you've had us back enough

[0:37] times that there's diminishing returns as our as the specialness of us being guests

[0:42] on this wholly different show from the Flophouse that exists entirely separate from our feed.

[0:49] I don't follow, but we have another guest. It's not just you today, Dan. We have another

[0:54] guest today, and it is the man whose love of movies is so old that he even dreams in

[1:00] black and white. That's right. Elliot Kalin. Elliot, thanks for joining us, Stuart. Thank

[1:05] you so much for having us again on the Peach Pit. I've got to say I've got really exciting

[1:08] news I want to share with everybody specifically for this episode of the Peach Pit. Dan, I

[1:12] know you want to say something. I can see it in your eyes, but I'm going to take a moment

[1:16] and keep you hanging on the precipice of almost saying a word, much like the kid in

[1:21] the Phantom Tollbooth in that one scene. Anyway, I'll just write it down. There's that. Wait,

[1:24] there's an edging sequence in the Phantom Tollbooth. No, not exactly. And I've got exciting

[1:28] news. Dan, Stu, do you know what time of year it is? No, it's Max Fun Drive time. It's Max

[1:36] Fun Drive time. Technically, Max Fun Drive starts on Monday, May 20th. This episode drops

[1:40] two days before, but you're probably not going to listen to it. The day of Max Fun Drive

[1:44] starts on Monday, May 20th, lasts until Friday, May 31st. I was just so excited about it.

[1:48] I had to start talking about it with this episode also because of our release schedule.

[1:52] Max Fun Drive is the time of the year when we, the Flophouse podcast and all the podcasts

[1:56] on the Max Fun Network come to you, the listener, hat in hand and say, thank you, my most beautiful

[2:00] beloved for being such a wonderful, generous and supportive audience. Can you please keep

[2:04] us going with regular infusions of cash? If you're a longtime listener, you know how Max

[2:08] Fun Drive works. You go to MaximumFun.org join. You choose how much money you'd like

[2:12] to pay per month to keep the Flophouse alive, and then it happens. The money goes to us

[2:17] and the Flophouse keeps going. If you haven't done it before, please go do it right now.

[2:20] Right now, while you're listening to this, don't wait around. Go to MaximumFun.org join

[2:24] right now because let me tell you, the entertainment market is dire right now and Dan and I really

[2:29] need it. Stuart, not so much. He's a small business owner, backbone of the American economy,

[2:32] but Dan and I, whoo, golly, the wolf is at the old door there. I'm just kidding, mostly.

[2:37] Anyway, later in the show, I'll tell you more about the kinds of cool stuff you get from

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[3:04] That's very little money in the grand scheme of things. You will be so happy that you did.

[3:09] So Stuart, thank you for having us on the Peach Bit so I could talk about that and I'll continue

[3:13] that message later in the show. Yeah, thanks, Elliot. Thanks for bringing it up and thanks

[3:16] for mentioning the word bullshit because we got a lot of it coming up. Well, Dan,

[3:20] you got something you wanted to say? Well, I wrote down what I wanted to say, and I'll show

[3:24] you that I wrote it down. When you were introducing Elliot, you said that his love of movies is so old,

[3:31] suggesting that the love is the old thing, which I mean, I would say that the love probably doesn't

[3:37] predate Elliot, who is... I mean, the love of movies, I'm 41 years old, so that my love of

[3:42] movies is at least 36 years old. I would say, yeah, your love of movies is approaching middle

[3:47] age, whereas you do love old movies. I'm just, you know, I don't want the FCC to come after us,

[3:55] Stuart, for the lies that we've been telling. Dan, one of the great things about being on the

[4:00] Maximum Fun Network, we don't, the FCC can't do shit about what we do. We're not on the public

[4:05] airwaves. Well, then fuck it, guys. FCC might as well say we're a fucking cuck corporation because

[4:12] they're a bunch of cucks to us. Cool. So anyway, I apologize that this is the meanest I've ever been

[4:20] and the worst I've ever been on a Maximum Fun Drive episode. And that's the thing,

[4:24] even though you're a villain, I assume that I'm supposed to sympathize with you.

[4:29] Yeah, I exist in a piece of fiction. So you have no choice but to assume that the author

[4:35] agrees with everything I'm saying. Yeah. Mm hmm. So, Dan, thanks for calling out a misspeaking

[4:42] on my part. That's great. And that's very fitting with this podcast. So, no, normally The Peach Pit,

[4:49] we take an episode. This is when Dan goes, who's the Dan now, dog? Because usually Dan is the one

[4:54] who's misspeaking to me. The problem is, I'm the dog now, Dan. Who's Dan's dog now? Stuart is.

[5:03] When Stuart reminds me, when Stuart throws it back in my face, I feel bad about it.

[5:10] It doesn't seem to work. My Polish grandmother taught me well. Yeah. So now, normally here on

[5:16] The Peach Pit, we take an episode of the Flophouse podcast and go moment by moment and blow by blow

[5:22] and talk about our favorite bits. But this is a very special episode. As Elliot has mentioned,

[5:26] it's during the Max Fun Drive. So this episode of The Peach Pit is not just The Peach Pit.

[5:30] This is The Peach Pit Requiem, The Rise of The Peach Pit. OK, it's a very special episode.

[5:36] And because I have my two favorite podcasters with me, I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions

[5:41] sent in by listeners of The Peach Pit to really pick your brains and really get a picture of who

[5:46] these two peaches are. And three peaches, because I'm a peach, too. Keep track. OK, so. Wow. That

[5:53] was a shocking twist that Stuart is not just the host of The Peach Pit, but also one of the hosts

[5:57] of The Flophouse, the podcast that The Peach Pit is about. The Peach Pit is complicated, OK?

[6:04] Instead of Chris Hardwick hosting The Talking Dead, he hosted Talk Midnight,

[6:07] a show that follows At Midnight and talks about what happened in that episode of At Midnight.

[6:12] I mean, he might do this because aren't they bringing At Midnight back with,

[6:16] I'm assuming, a different host? Very much not with him. Very much not with him. Yeah,

[6:19] I would presume that after everybody. It would be weird. It would be a weird choice. It would be

[6:24] an odd choice, but, you know, people would talk and I guess any publicity is good publicity,

[6:28] right, guys? Yeah, that's what they say. That was ironic. Again, I was doing it.

[6:34] If who's is Comedy Central putting it on this time because they normally don't know it's on CBS.

[6:40] Oh, weird, because normally I was going to say it wouldn't make sense for Comedy

[6:43] Central to make a mistake because they only make good choices when it comes to their entertainment.

[6:48] Only good choices.

[6:56] This podcast is always, I know this is impeachment,

[6:59] the podcast is always experimenting with new ways to wreck Dan and my careers ahead of time

[7:04] by alienating powerful buyers. I didn't do anything. I'm just a stinker.

[7:10] Okay, hands off, hands off for the stinker. I guess he's absolved by the stinker loophole.

[7:16] Your Honor, I'd like to submit a writ of he's a stinker. Yeah,

[7:23] the case is dropped. I can't do anything.

[7:25] Vacated. Yeah, I'm exonerated on grounds of being a stinker. So you guys just mentioned,

[7:31] as you guys just moaned and complained for moments, you guys are both out of work.

[7:36] So what I would like, what I and what our listeners want to know is, what's a day in

[7:41] the life of a podcaster like you, Dan? What do you do on a regular work day, on a podcaster day?

[7:49] I mean, I would love to talk about this because my greatest fear when I'm asking for money is

[7:55] that people are going to be like, he's a podcaster, what the, he's, what, why, why am I,

[8:01] and don't think about it too hard. Just go to maximumfun.org slash join.

[8:07] No, I put a lot of work into the podcast, as do we all. A lot of what I do during the day actually

[8:16] is right now is on my own projects. I'm trying to get a book off the ground. I have a book proposal

[8:21] out there, just hurling it into the air. How does anyone do it, guys? I've been to the library. I'm

[8:29] like, oh, this is all great for, you know, the 1% who can afford like a book tote to like, take

[8:36] their books home. But how am I to do it? I'm your man. Your floor is covered with books and the only

[8:41] way you know how to move them is just nudge them with your foot and kick them around.

[8:45] Yeah, that's a classic 20's Stewart-style apartment layout is stacks of books on ground.

[8:51] Uh, so there's that. I mean, I sometimes do some freelance, uh, stuff. I don't know. I don't,

[9:00] I like, I, a lot of my time is, uh, with weird, like stuff that relates to just the runnings of

[9:06] the show, but I was not prepared to answer this question. So it's all going blank, right?

[9:13] I love Dan's inability to answer questions posed to him on the spot.

[9:17] Why don't you, uh, why don't you pick it up? What's you, I feel like you have a,

[9:21] probably a little more complicated life than Stewart or Dan.

[9:24] Well, that's, that's, you're exactly right. Because I have two small human beings that rely

[9:28] on me and my wife for their entire livelihood. And I assume it seems all their entertainment

[9:33] and all the stimulation they need throughout the day. And so my day usually begins, uh,

[9:38] probably around, uh, 4, 4 30 or 5 AM when my youngest child walks into the room and announces

[9:44] that he's having trouble sleeping and he wants to sleep on the mattress that's in our room on

[9:48] the floor because he comes in and sleeps on it all the time. And, uh, we also another feature

[9:53] of a classic Stewart, uh, Stewart Wellington twenties apartment is mattress on floor.

[9:58] You were really, it was very floor based.

[10:00] for you. You were very floor-centric. I remember in high school I had a friend who was a few

[10:04] years older than me who graduated from high school before me and he lived in an apartment

[10:08] where in his bedroom it was a mattress on the floor and then like just piled up magazines

[10:15] and role-playing books and the magazines were either like cheap pornography or reptiles

[10:21] magazines and at the time I was like this is living. This is the coolest person I've

[10:28] ever met. So the small child sometimes will just walk into the room in the middle of the

[10:33] night and announce that he has to go to the bathroom and then go to the bathroom by himself

[10:38] because he doesn't need us anymore. He's old enough to do that but he needs to announce

[10:41] it and get permission in the middle of the night. Anyway, I do the same thing though.

[10:45] Then I wake up for good a little bit later, get my kids stuff ready for school. Some days

[10:49] I drive them to school. Some days my wife does and then when I get back it is the work

[10:55] of a working writer who is trying to get work writing. So there's a lot of coming up

[10:59] with ideas, sketching out ideas, scheduling pitches, pitching projects, those projects

[11:05] not getting bought, me wondering why I even do this, entering a deep depression, a storm

[11:11] cloud over my head. Then I come up with another idea. I say this is my million dollar idea.

[11:15] I start working on that pitch and also I'm working on a book about joke writing that

[11:19] will hopefully come out in 2024 at some point, maybe 2025 and doing various comic book things

[11:26] too as well.

[11:27] Elliot is putting his finger on the trouble that I have with defining my work which is

[11:31] that my work is so diffuse and hard to describe in any way that doesn't make it sound just

[11:40] like sitting around and staring off into space which a lot of it is but the time is spent

[11:45] thinking and working on.

[11:48] What I find is that I am often working on anywhere from five to eight projects but most

[11:54] of those projects are not paying projects yet. They're things that I hope to sell.

[11:59] And so you enter this realm where you're like, is this real or is it not real? How is this

[12:08] different from a madman in a castle somewhere who's kind of scrawling on the walls of the

[12:14] dungeon that he's been imprisoned in with his own feces?

[12:17] You start thinking, why are my thoughts more important? Why do I feel like I need to put

[12:22] them on paper and other people need to respond to them in some way? Why am I so good? Who

[12:29] do I think I am? Speaking of which, I spent most of the day, I just remembered the thing

[12:33] that I was doing today. I don't know why I forgot. Basically all of the day today was

[12:39] working on the presentation for our live show coming up in April at the Bell House.

[12:46] April 2nd at the Bell House?

[12:49] Yes.

[12:50] April 2nd, Sunday, 7.30pm, April 2nd at the Bell House in New York. Go to the Bell House's

[12:54] website which I believe is bellhouseny.com for tickets.

[12:58] Oh wow.

[12:59] Yes.

[13:00] The one where we'll be talking about Battlefield Earth, one of our most requested movies to

[13:04] talk about?

[13:06] Both writing it and putting together the images which I have now gotten so granular and perfectionist

[13:13] about and wanting to really make these images that people are going to see essentially one

[13:18] time briefly in a series of slides really good because, I don't know, that's the work

[13:28] that you put into it because if you can't find the joy in it then why are we doing it

[13:32] I guess? Even though many other podcasts, and I'm not throwing shade on them, I'm just

[13:39] saying how it's dumb that we do it and we hope you appreciate it. Many podcasts just

[13:45] get up on stage and talk but we put in the work to this visual element that can be quite

[13:51] a thing.

[13:52] So Stuart, I'm glad you asked that question. It led to this descent into unhappiness and

[14:00] complaining that we can have where we openly question the worth of our work even as we

[14:05] are asking our audience to go to MaximumFun.org.join and throw money at the work, or not throw

[14:11] money.

[14:12] It is funny. What's also funny is that neither of my two friends ask me what I do in my day

[14:16] so that's a really good question. I usually wake up.

[14:20] I didn't realize when you said you were the host of the show, we were your guests, I didn't

[14:24] realize that we were also co-hosting and going to interview you but what do you do during

[14:28] your day?

[14:29] That's part of being an active listener, L.A., is making an effort to ask the person you're

[14:33] talking to.

[14:34] Usually a guest on, say, Conan O'Brien's show doesn't say, Conan, what did you do to die

[14:42] today at a minute or two to Conan.

[14:44] Yeah, they definitely don't stumble that way. They also don't ask him how he spent his time.

[14:48] But I mean, Stuart, the Conan O'Brien of this show, what did you do today?

[14:52] If you had the option, if you had the chance, one chance, would you take it? Would you ask

[14:57] Conan O'Brien what he did that day?

[14:59] Yes, but I'm not like Paul Rudd there to pitch Quantumania.

[15:04] Any projects you've got coming up?

[15:06] People's Sexiest Man Alive, Paul Rudd?

[15:09] Yeah.

[15:10] Okay.

[15:11] So what do you do during your day?

[15:14] I stretch for about 30, 40 minutes. I drink my juices in my coffee.

[15:19] And then I go to the gym. I have a bad back so I have to stretch it. Then I go to the

[15:22] gym for about an hour and a half, mainly weightlifting. I come home, make a breakfast, watch some

[15:27] late-night television. But in the morning, that's weird, right? I think that's how most

[15:31] people consume it.

[15:32] That's why you're the Batman villain backwards man. That's all you do is watch late-night

[15:35] shows in the morning.

[15:36] Then after doing that, I hit the treadmill, take a shower, and then I spend my afternoon

[15:41] usually at one of the bars I own, checking inventory, helping out, making sure everything's

[15:46] running smooth. And then that evening, who knows? World's my oyster. Maybe I'll go to

[15:51] the movies. Maybe I'll do a podcast with my friends. Who knows? So that's a day in the

[15:56] life of Stuart Wellington.

[15:57] The podcast recordings are usually scheduled, so you do know.

[16:00] Oh yeah, that's true. Sometimes I know. Sometimes, like today, I throw together at the last minute.

[16:06] Okay, so that's a day in the life of the podcaster. That's great. Now, the Flophouse guys. So

[16:14] the Flophouse, we watch and review bad movies.

[16:18] Yeah, are you asking if that's the premise?

[16:21] I've been doing it for about 15 years. Now, I'm sure there's been times where you're like,

[16:28] watch a bad movie and talk about it? Ugh, what a way to waste my life. Now, if there

[16:33] was another topic, I feel like we've answered this before on the show. Is there another

[16:39] topic that if you couldn't do a movie, if you couldn't do a podcast about movies, is

[16:44] there another topic you would like to do a podcast on?

[16:47] So all movies are out.

[16:50] All movies are out. I guess unless you have a twist on the movie premise that is untapped

[16:57] as of yet.

[16:59] No. Could I do a deep dive? I mean, hold on.

[17:05] You can do whatever you want.

[17:07] It's a fantasy world.

[17:08] Is television fine?

[17:09] You can do anything you want.

[17:10] Television's fine.

[17:11] Yeah, I would do a deep dive.

[17:13] No, if you said you were going to do a movie podcast, I would climb through the computer

[17:17] like Sadako and kill you.

[17:21] I would do a deep dive into Jim Henson's lesser known television projects.

[17:27] You know, we're talking, I mean, not like super, they don't have to be super lesser

[17:32] known, but what we're talking about, like, storyteller would be like the peak of like

[17:38] known that would be allowed.

[17:40] Is Emmett Otter in there?

[17:42] I think Emmett Otter is too well known, but what we would definitely get into is the Jim

[17:47] Henson hour, which we package a lot of storyteller with, you know, a new version of the Muppets,

[17:54] you know, working at a cable TV station.

[17:57] You know, maybe we talk about the terrible sketches he did for Saturday Night Live.

[18:04] So basically, you're taking one of the one of your heroes, one of your idols whose work

[18:09] you love deeply, it means a lot to you.

[18:11] And you're like, let's troll through the stuff he did that wasn't as good.

[18:14] Well, I mean, the Saturday Night Live definitely wasn't as good.

[18:18] I loved both halves of Jim Henson hour.

[18:23] I thought that that was some of the most interesting stuff.

[18:25] And I felt like even though he was not sort of, you know, Muppets were up and down in

[18:32] terms of how much money they were making anyone.

[18:37] And that was maybe like playing a little bit that way.

[18:41] But it was definitely some of his more creative stuff.

[18:45] I feel like I wish he had lived longer so I could have seen where he took it.

[18:49] That storyteller episode where the the soldier wins the card game with the devils and gets

[18:56] the ability to see death and puts death in a sack and ties them up like I think about

[18:59] that story.

[19:00] I think I saw it once when I was a kid and I think about it frequently, you know, not

[19:05] a day.

[19:06] You know, I bet not a month's gone by that I haven't thought about that storyteller anyway.

[19:12] You had some questions, young man.

[19:14] Yes.

[19:15] Cain, his last word, Rosebud, that no one was around to hear.

[19:19] What did it mean?

[19:20] Well, it's interesting you say no one was around to hear it because a character in the

[19:23] movie says I heard him say it.

[19:25] But other people say, well, I didn't see him in that shot, but I'm going to trust the movie

[19:29] on this one.

[19:30] Yeah.

[19:31] That's one of those.

[19:32] That's one of those.

[19:33] There's a Susan Cain podcast that I was listening to recently where they're like, the character

[19:36] says he was in the room.

[19:37] But when you look at the shot, you don't see him in the room.

[19:40] And I'm like, come on.

[19:41] Let's just let's just go with what the movie tells me.

[19:43] Like they didn't want to.

[19:44] So it looks like he's alone.

[19:45] What's the Susan Cain podcast called?

[19:48] Is it called CainCast?

[19:49] No, this was called The Susan Cain Minute, although they each episode talks about five

[19:52] minutes.

[19:53] Oh, OK.

[19:54] Not one.

[19:55] Because I feel like if you called it CainCast, people might assume it's based on the collection

[19:58] of short stories by Gene.

[20:00] tumor? Oh, I thought if they said, yeah, the book cane, you're saying? That's one of Stuart

[20:07] Stummel's gene tumor references. Not a classic Stuart stinker. Every now and then, now and

[20:12] then, Stu will mention cane by gene tumor, and it's the reference I never expect from

[20:15] him, even though he's done it a couple times. But a lot of people, I think, would think

[20:20] a cane cast is just a cane you get when you're in a cast. That's true. Or a cast for your

[20:26] cane in case you break your cane, and you have to get a cast, and it's like, doctor,

[20:29] my cane's not going to heal. It's not organic. It's a cane review podcast. That wood was

[20:34] living at one point, but no longer. It has been carved and shellacked. Well, I made it

[20:39] a zombie first so that it'll heal, and then it's a zombie cane, zombie wood, and then

[20:43] I put a cast on it. That makes sense. That makes sense. One more question. One more question.

[20:48] Why am I asking you this? Are you some sort of a wizard? That, of course, is our recurring

[20:54] character in Fantasy Columbo. I mean, Fantasy Columbo would 100% be a wizard, right? I

[21:02] don't know that he's a wizard. I think he's a frumpy guy who interviews wizards. Oh, Wormtongue

[21:09] says you work for Sauron, maybe, or something. I don't remember. Saruman, technically. No,

[21:17] I work for Sauron, who works for Sauron. We're being on hierarchy here in the Sauron organization.

[21:21] He could be like a hobbit or something. He could be a hobbit or something. A wizard's

[21:25] too high status for Columbo. Columbo would be like, but that's the thing. Yeah, he's

[21:30] like a hobbit, and everybody drops their guard around him, and that's how he gets them. Exactly.

[21:35] Yeah. That makes sense. That makes sense. Just one last thing. Are you going to sing

[21:39] a song when you throw my dishes around? Because Mrs. Columbo doesn't like that. I specifically

[21:48] unchecked that box on Grubhub. I don't like that that box comes pre-checked. When I hire

[21:55] a bunch of adventurers, that they throw my dishes around while singing a song box comes

[21:59] pre-checked, and I have to opt out of it. That shouldn't be fair. Yeah. Well, it's said

[22:04] very plainly on the website. You should just check it more clearly. That makes sense. That

[22:09] makes sense. You know not everybody reads that agreement, though, right? They just gotta

[22:14] scroll down to the end, and they write, click OK, because we won't have that much time on

[22:18] our hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you expected people to read it, you'd put it in Quenya,

[22:22] not Centaur. I mean, come on. So one of the things that Columbo is known for is having

[22:28] a collection of great guest stars, and so is the Flop House podcast. You guys have had

[22:33] some really great guests on the show. My question to you is, do you have any dream guests to

[22:40] be on the podcast? I mean, I'll be honest. My dream guest was having Joel Hodgson on,

[22:49] because you know, you can't like this kind of thing without, and it was just so nice

[22:57] to have that finally happen. But let me think about something else. I've vamped a long time.

[23:04] Maybe Elliot has something. I don't. Well, I do have something. While Dan's thinking

[23:07] about that, I just wanted to take a moment to remind everybody that the MaxFun Pledge

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[23:46] MaximumFun.org slash join yet? Okay, Dan, Stu, hold me back, boys. Hold me back. I'm

[23:51] about to give him a piece of my mind. Hold me back, guys. Okay. Maybe, listener, you're

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[30:52] Stu, I'm sorry, I'm too heated up.

[30:53] Can you take over?

[30:54] This is, I'm just too mad about this.

[30:56] Yeah, yeah, whoa, whoa.

[30:58] Alex, add in a spooky time distortion sound effect here.

[31:03] Whoa, oh no.

[31:06] Everybody, guys, we've just become unstuck in time.

[31:09] The Flophouse exists in all times everywhere,

[31:12] even times before the Flophouse normally existed.

[31:15] That's right, because the Flophouse normally reviews

[31:18] recently released bad movies.

[31:20] What if the Flophouse existed at different times?

[31:24] What movies would they cover?

[31:25] What I need you guys to do is decide

[31:27] which of these three movies from these different years

[31:30] would make perfect time, perfect Flophouse movies.

[31:33] Oh no.

[31:34] This will be hard for me,

[31:35] because as we know, my love of movies is old.

[31:37] Yep, we've, yeah, I addressed that

[31:41] at the beginning of the fucking episode.

[31:43] Whoa, no, we've landed in the year 1984.

[31:48] Our options are Cannonball Run 2,

[31:52] Conan the Destroyer, or Rhinestone.

[31:56] Which of those three do you think

[31:57] would make a good Flophouse movie?

[32:01] Look, I know that-

[32:03] Every answer Dan gives always starts with a sigh,

[32:06] an um, a sigh, and then look.

[32:08] And he is dreading the disappointment

[32:11] that's gonna drop on you.

[32:12] You know, I've realized that the problem

[32:14] with a lot of my thinking, my negative thinking,

[32:16] is I start from a place of like,

[32:17] okay, let's eliminate the bad options

[32:19] rather than being like-

[32:20] Yeah, go to the positive.

[32:23] Look, Stuart, I know that you're a big fantasy head.

[32:27] Conan, for me, feels the least fertile there.

[32:32] I was very excited at first when I heard

[32:33] Cannonball Run 2, a movie that I remember

[32:38] being on television a lot when I was a kid,

[32:41] but I remember nothing about other than the bloopers.

[32:44] Do you remember if Jackie Chan is in it?

[32:46] Because I know that's a hard thing for you to remember.

[32:47] Jackie Chan is in both Cannonball Run

[32:49] and Cannonball Run 2, I believe.

[32:51] So your Jackie Chan blindness

[32:52] just does not apply to Cannonball Run's franchise.

[32:55] I don't remember Cannonball Run 2,

[32:56] but I just recently watched the first one.

[32:59] It's wild that he plays a Japanese character,

[33:02] and he didn't find out until like,

[33:04] after they made the movie.

[33:06] Yeah, that is unfortunate 80s racism at its,

[33:12] not finest, because that would,

[33:15] no, but I would go with Rhinestone,

[33:17] a movie that I recall seeing is baffling

[33:21] and has so many points of entry for us,

[33:24] whether they be a love of Dolly Parton

[33:27] or Elliot's fascination with Mr. Stallone.

[33:30] I am fascinated with him, yeah.

[33:32] Yeah.

[33:34] Rhinestone is one of those movies that,

[33:35] I mean, I've never seen it,

[33:36] but it's one of those movies that,

[33:38] it's such a go-to punchline that there are times

[33:42] that I'm like, is this, is it a real movie?

[33:45] Like, is it a real thing?

[33:47] And it must be, but it's like,

[33:48] it's the flip side of Out of Africa,

[33:50] which in our mini about best picture winners,

[33:52] I was like, is this a real movie, this movie?

[33:55] Like, is it like, so it's a, yeah, I let it,

[33:58] I'm just curious about it.

[33:59] So we might have to do Rhinestone at some point.

[34:01] Yeah, especially because like-

[34:02] It just opens a door you don't wanna go through.

[34:04] Well, cause we did,

[34:05] we've done one of the other punchline movies.

[34:07] We did a episode on Ishtar.

[34:09] Yeah.

[34:10] And we're about to do a live show on April 2nd

[34:15] about Battlefield Earth.

[34:17] So yeah, I feel like this, Rhinestone is a natural one.

[34:20] Oh, wait a minute, oh, we're not in 1984 anymore.

[34:23] We've just landed in 1979.

[34:26] Oh no, which of these three movies

[34:28] would make a good Flophouse movie?

[34:30] So it's like a five-year jump.

[34:31] It wasn't as big a jump as I thought we were gonna make.

[34:33] We have The Nude Bomb,

[34:36] Saturn III,

[34:38] or Xanadu.

[34:40] Okay, so one-year-old Dan

[34:44] is in the theater watching all of them.

[34:46] Oh, so we're going at the age we were at the time?

[34:48] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[34:49] So I was still swimming in my dad's ball sack.

[34:52] Yeah, I had not been received yet.

[34:53] So hopefully he brought it to the movie theater.

[34:55] That's how it works.

[34:55] So a one-year-old and Stuart and my dad's scrotums

[35:00] are going to the movies together.

[35:01] So here's what I-

[35:02] And again, this is not technically a movie character,

[35:04] but maybe Dan will draw that for you

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[35:08] Now, as per Vizoid number one,

[35:11] you'd think I would go for The Nude Bomb.

[35:13] However, I happen to know that that is a Get Smart movie.

[35:18] It is not as salacious as it sounds.

[35:20] Yeah, you looked it up and you're like,

[35:23] it doesn't say sexual situations.

[35:26] I didn't look it up now,

[35:28] but I won't say that I never looked up,

[35:30] ooh, what's this movie, The Nude Bomb?

[35:34] Ironically, per Vizoid,

[35:35] you'd probably want to go to Saturn III,

[35:38] because I think, doesn't Farrah Fawcett appear

[35:40] briefly topless in that?

[35:42] Wow, this is the first time you've out-Mr. Skinned me

[35:45] on one of these issues.

[35:46] Oh man, oh wow, yeah, there's cracks in your armor.

[35:49] Because that's a movie I've seen before,

[35:52] but I only saw Saturn III on Monster Vision on TNT.

[35:55] And so I don't know if that's actually the case

[35:57] because they would have cut out all that,

[35:59] but I've seen Saturn III.

[36:00] I would not go with Saturn III though,

[36:02] because I feel like science fiction of that period

[36:07] that was not good science fiction

[36:11] is just slow science fiction.

[36:13] So I would go for Xanadu, a movie that I kind of like,

[36:18] actually, but would have a lot of fun things to talk about.

[36:21] Yeah.

[36:22] Yeah, Xanadu would probably be the most fun to talk about.

[36:25] And it's, I mean, any movie based on my favorite

[36:29] Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem is going to be exciting for me.

[36:33] Yeah, yeah.

[36:34] You got roller skating, you got animation,

[36:36] you got Gene Kelly.

[36:36] Technically that poem, I think it's called Kublai Khan,

[36:37] but still.

[36:38] It is, yeah.

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[38:09] Whoa, wait a minute.

[38:11] Oh, we're springing forward.

[38:13] We have landed in the year 1992.

[38:17] Whoa, the year 1BJP before Jurassic Park.

[38:23] Does the Flophouse review Stop or My Mom Will Shoot?

[38:29] Christopher Columbus colon The Discovery

[38:32] or Final Analysis starring Richard Gere.

[38:37] Ali, why don't you take this one

[38:38] because I jumped in fast on the first two.

[38:40] I mean, we've established,

[38:41] I want to watch the movies

[38:42] that Celestia Stallone made for some reason

[38:45] where it's not quite clear why he made it.

[38:47] So I'd have to do Stop or My Mom Will Shoot,

[38:48] another movie where even as a kid,

[38:50] I was like, what is this movie?

[38:52] Like, what is going on?

[38:54] Isn't the story around that one

[38:55] that like Arnold tricked Stallone into doing it?

[38:59] Is that the one?

[39:00] Because I knew there was some movie

[39:01] where Arnold made it seem like he was going to do a movie

[39:03] so that Stallone would steal it out from under him.

[39:06] I think that, I mean, that's the one that the story's about.

[39:08] I don't know whether it's apocryphal or not,

[39:09] but that's the one.

[39:10] I mean, Schwarzenegger kind of half went on the record

[39:13] as saying he did that, but.

[39:15] Yeah, he did that on Emily Ratajkowski's podcast.

[39:18] He talked about it on Emily Ratajkowski's podcast.

[39:20] But on the other hand, I just,

[39:22] I read a whole book recently

[39:23] about the Marx Brothers' early years

[39:25] where they made it clear that almost every story

[39:27] the Marx Brothers told about their early years,

[39:28] even in their memoirs,

[39:29] was totally either misremembered or made up.

[39:31] So it's always possible that it didn't happen.

[39:33] No, they're such good stories.

[39:35] They are great stories, Dan.

[39:36] I mean, the thing is,

[39:38] a lot of the true stories are just as good,

[39:40] but I don't know why they told mixed up stories.

[39:43] So Columbus, I feel like,

[39:45] is going to be pretty boring, probably, right?

[39:48] Probably. Yeah.

[39:50] And what was the third option?

[39:51] The one, a final analysis?

[39:52] So is that a real movie

[39:53] or did you make that up using like

[39:55] magnetic poetry kit or something?

[39:56] I did not make it up.

[39:57] It's an erotic thriller starring Richard Gere.

[40:00] and who else is in that one let's hit the old internet movie database

[40:07] Kim Basinger yeah I think I was in it I think I'd go with that one cuz you know

[40:15] a bad 90s thriller even when they're Eric Robinson a kick out of them I feel

[40:21] like yet a 90s thrillers especially 90s erotic thrillers usually have some

[40:26] there's something good in there usually oh this is the same the same this is the

[40:32] same director who made Heaven's Prisoners oh so and also the American

[40:38] version of the 7up films so career that I got this director Phil Jono I didn't

[40:45] know there was an American version of the 7up film apparently there is so

[40:49] wait the 7up films those are the ones where they like they it's a

[40:54] documentary or something about people seven years yeah they follow they start

[40:59] out as seven-year-olds and then every time they follow them every seven years

[41:03] and the series has outlived Michael Apted who the director of the of the

[41:07] series at this point but yeah this I guess they only did uh they only did two

[41:12] installments okay and for the American one so okay so I guess you never know

[41:17] what happened his random kids after canceled due to lack of interest at that

[41:22] point yeah oh no wait a minute we're and we are landing in the future the

[41:30] year is 2024 and we're watching big movies that were released in 2023 is the

[41:36] flophouse going to cover Tetris uh-huh transformers colon rise of beasts or Meg

[41:45] to they're not doing it they're doing another transformers with rise is that

[41:51] you make it up cuz I know Tetris is real but no these are all real these are

[41:55] totally real it's Tetris it's the story of them is it the story of the making of

[41:59] Tetris yes and getting it out of Russia I guess where it was conceived I I mean

[42:06] like that seems actually vaguely interesting to me I mean I could see a

[42:09] number of ways in which it's not done as well as it could be but it it seems like

[42:14] it could be interesting like if the blocks are all woke or something

[42:20] the tone of it Stewart says something and then puts his hand over his mouth

[42:24] and and wheels back away from the microphone that's right up there with

[42:30] referencing Kane by G tumor and again Stewart is playing an ironic heel of an

[42:39] internet complainer no no no more that more that my fear would be more new

[42:50] characters do tar Wellington is a very is kind of a sociopath but don't worry

[42:59] the world's gonna come crashing down around them yeah it uh it looks like a

[43:04] kind of a you know semi-ironic docudrama and like I've liked stuff

[43:10] like in that vein before like say the informant where it's kind of got this

[43:15] kind of loopy comedy to go along with this zany true-life story but I feel

[43:20] like if they get the tone wrong it can be insufferable and that's a hard tone

[43:25] to get but okay so yeah so we're talking so it leaves us with two sequels

[43:33] yeah transformers rise of beasts and Meg too now the interesting thing about Meg

[43:38] too it's directed by Ben Wheatley what the no Ben Wheatley the director of a

[43:46] field in England kill list oh okay so this so this could be either a very

[43:53] weird Meg movie or it could be just at one of many many examples of a director

[44:00] who comes up on smaller interesting movies and then and then gets big

[44:03] absorbed by absorbed into a big movie machine but he's made so many weird

[44:07] movies that I I feel like it'd be impossible to like iron out all the

[44:12] weird now he's a director who with the exception of kill list I think all of

[44:16] his movies I like the idea more than the actual movie like there's always like I

[44:23] feel like oh like certainly a field in England I'm like I I can't do this

[44:28] anymore I was field in England is right up my alley that's where I am in my life

[44:32] right now I was like this is exactly what I wanted but like free fire I'm

[44:37] like free fire I'm like okay after 60 minutes I'm like okay we can tap out

[44:41] this is I think I tapped out like within five minutes on free fire I did not I

[44:46] just did not seem like I was gonna enjoy it I didn't like kill this as much as

[44:50] everyone but I was like this is interesting I I'm very curious about a

[44:53] field in England I haven't seen that one I mean I haven't seen free fire I mean

[44:57] of the movies I've seen of his fields England is the one I like the most but I

[45:01] could see why Stuart would like kill list more than a field in England so I

[45:06] think but then the other one is trans and transformers is that still um who's

[45:11] doing this one I said Mikey no Mikey is Mikey Bay returning or is it but I think

[45:17] he also has like a Netflix fucking deal on the way like another Netflix like

[45:21] didn't he do like army of the dead or whatever I think he made yeah

[45:25] transformers rise of the beast is directed by Stephen Capple jr. who did

[45:28] let's see who did Creed 2 and well let's look at top top build cast we have we

[45:43] have Academy Award winner Michelle yo uh-huh okay all-time star go okay we got

[45:49] Ron Perlman playing optimist primal okay Peter Dinklage plays scourge the

[45:56] leader of the terrorists yeah Davidson as he doesn't playing Mirage so does

[46:03] that change your opinion John DiMaggio is doing the voice for a couple

[46:06] different robots I mean honestly that cast plus having a new director I mean I

[46:13] didn't see Creed 2 people tend to like it the least out of the three

[46:17] creeds from what I can tell yeah good I don't know like both of these movies I'm

[46:23] like I have no interest in but what I'm learning about what we're gonna end up

[46:27] like one or both of them one of my interests I would say the Meg just

[46:31] because I have much more transformers fatigue than I have Meg fatigue you know

[46:36] what I'll kind of say the opposite because I have very fond memories of the

[46:40] Beast Wars cartoon came out years ago where I had to get up early I was

[46:45] probably too old to watch anyway I think I was in high school and I had to

[46:48] get up early to watch it because in my market it aired at like 630 in the

[46:51] morning but I would often get up and watch it before school and I thought it

[46:55] was a pretty good Transformers cartoon the only thing the problem being of

[46:58] course that they're all animals so it's kind of goofy they're all different

[47:02] animals that transform but uh yeah it would make way more sense if they're

[47:06] transforming into cars trucks a gun that is the right size for another robot to

[47:11] those are mechanical things you know none of it really makes sense but as

[47:17] long as as long as I could go on a ride where I am somehow protecting the all

[47:22] spark by just riding around slamming into things and at the end I become an

[47:25] honorary transformer or something then I'm okay and I managed to live so it is

[47:29] also the Universal Studios what a flex over here so I bet we'll probably cover

[47:36] both of those movies what do you guys think yeah that's the bet I would I

[47:39] would place yeah okay guys so now we're back in the real world the real time

[47:45] 2023 well and what everybody wants to know is how do we warn people about the

[47:51] horrible dystopian future of next year when the only movies available are Meg 2

[47:54] that Transformers movie and what was the other and Tetris so we've talked about

[48:00] some slop let's talk about some fancy boy movies let's talk about a criterion

[48:04] collection what movie do you think what movie would you like to see added to the

[48:09] criterion collection well I'll jump first while you guys think of it okay

[48:17] obviously I'm gonna say Riccio the story of Ricky it's a perfect movie it

[48:22] would look great I would like a nice restoration although I don't know I feel

[48:26] like the like bootleg version I first had that had even funnier subtitles

[48:31] would be the best version but I don't think they would probably do that they

[48:34] would probably get a new subtitling yeah story of Ricky often criterion is

[48:40] working with whatever the whatever print or were dubbing the studio has provided

[48:46] for them so thank you maybe if the studio says you got to use this old this

[48:51] old bootleg subtitling yeah but yeah I would love I would love I would love a

[48:58] nice little package there and obviously if somebody's familiar with another

[49:03] company that's put out a very nice blu-ray of Riccio let me know so I can

[49:06] buy it I I wonder I mean I have a everyone knows I have a couple favorite

[49:10] movies take compelling one two three shadow of a doubt Miracle Morgan's Creek

[49:13] but those movies are all readily available and there are good DVDs of

[49:18] them and I wonder the first movie that comes to mind I'm not sure if it's the

[49:21] one that would come to mind if I had a lot more time to think about it but the

[49:24] first movie that comes to mind might be Martin the George Romero vampire movie

[49:28] which okay I believe is out of print I'm not sure and I only ever saw it because

[49:32] I bought a used VHS of it years ago and the VHS was very old and the the image

[49:37] was pretty blurry and the I would I would love to see a a you know a good

[49:42] looking version of that movie that movie has a scene in it that has always stuck

[49:45] with me the main character thinks he's a vampire he goes to a woman's house to

[49:50] feed on her and she's having an affair and the guy she's with is like I'm

[49:54] getting out of here and I'm not gonna tell anybody about what's happening

[49:56] because I don't need people to know I'm having an affair and it was one of the I

[50:00] I've never seen before of what happens when you're having an affair and a vampire shows up.

[50:06] But it's a kind of lesser seen George Romero movie that I think is really good.

[50:13] You know, I have to just go back to – I have to go back to one of my foundational obsessions and say that if they had like a really good set,

[50:23] if they somehow managed to swing all of the rights for a March Brothers set and then did a bunch of –

[50:33] you know, like gave it the real treatment of giving background on all of the movies.

[50:39] Because there are great March Brothers sets out there.

[50:41] There's one from each of the major studios they were associated with, but that would be pretty cool.

[50:48] And I also looked up – you know, there's a lot of Hitchcock films in Criterion, but they don't have –

[50:54] I think from what I saw in North by Northwest, which was I think the first one I saw and the one that really kicked off just loving is suspense films.

[51:04] Now on the subject of physical media, are there any like DVD or Blu-ray special features that you like the most?

[51:16] Are there specific ones?

[51:17] I mean obviously you look at me and you're like I know what he loves.

[51:21] He loves all the featurettes and the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

[51:26] He loves –

[51:27] Watch the shit out of that.

[51:28] I'm crazy for it.

[51:29] Animated menu screens.

[51:31] Animated menus.

[51:32] Can they be interactive menus?

[51:34] I would love that.

[51:35] Yeah.

[51:36] Can there be trailers for other movies that are coming out?

[51:39] Is there some sort of game maybe you can play with your remotes like a trivia game?

[51:43] What I always love is when there's trailers and also a very elaborate animated intro to the main menu screen.

[51:48] Oh, yeah.

[51:49] I can never skip past even though I've seen it many times and don't need to watch it again.

[51:53] But you have to understand the value of DVD as a format, as an entire format and all the offerings that this studio has.

[52:02] Yeah, yeah.

[52:03] You got to know.

[52:04] You got to know all that stuff.

[52:05] I do.

[52:06] I am like – I am a huge sucker for watching like an older DVD or like a VHS and getting to watch trailers for movies.

[52:13] I'm like, fuck.

[52:14] That movie came out?

[52:16] Like movies I had completely forgotten about.

[52:18] It's like – it's such like a weird like – well, you know, where you bury shit and then you dig it up in 20 years.

[52:26] What's that called?

[52:27] A time capsule.

[52:28] Yeah, a time capsule.

[52:29] Repression.

[52:31] Or repression, yeah.

[52:32] Yeah, yeah.

[52:33] Repression capsule.

[52:34] Back when I thought I was going to – you know, like when I was growing up, I wanted to be a movie director and like –

[52:42] How did it feel letting go of that dream?

[52:45] Fine.

[52:46] I mean I went to film school and I was like, oh, this has so many elements in it that I like and so many of them that aren't for me.

[52:53] So let me go to New York and just focus on one of those elements that I liked rather than, you know, having to be the guy in charge.

[53:02] Anyway, but, you know, when I was into that, like I would listen to commentaries and I would love listening to commentaries and now these days the idea of listening to a full audio commentary on a movie baffles me.

[53:16] Other than ours.

[53:17] Other than ours, which you should join Maximum Fun to hear.

[53:22] It's a different thing what we're going to be doing.

[53:26] Yeah, it's super different.

[53:27] Yeah, it's very different.

[53:28] Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.

[53:30] Back in the day, like I would listen to, I don't know, like P.T. Anderson talk about Boogie Nights for two and a half hours.

[53:36] I'll listen to the whole commentary for Eraser.

[53:39] Let's see what Arnold Schwarzenegger has to say.

[53:42] Well, there's something that I didn't take as much advantage of as I wish I had and this is something that you see on Twitter sometimes is especially movie production people or effects people talking about the behind-the-scenes featurettes on DVDs like Eraser where they're like here's how we did this stunt or here's how we pulled off this shot.

[53:59] And how influential that was for like our generation of people now working in the film industry because that's how they learned about how that stuff got made.

[54:08] And I feel like the –

[54:10] Yeah, like pre-internet era.

[54:11] Yes.

[54:12] Like knowledge dispersal basically.

[54:15] If you were lucky, maybe the biggest movie in the world would do a TV special where they explained how they did their special effects.

[54:22] Or maybe if you had HBO, you'd get to watch like – I saw that – the featurette they did about the making of the Hudsucker Proxy probably 70 times when I was a kid before I ever saw the Hudsucker Proxy.

[54:32] But like it was very hard to come by.

[54:34] What was that special effects magazine like Cinefx that had all the like – yeah.

[54:39] It was not easy to come by in that those DVD extras were a really good way of introducing people to the methods of film production that were available at the time.

[54:48] And so those are really – I wish I had dipped into those more, but that would be a cool thing to have for a lot of older stuff.

[54:54] There's a lot of older films that use special effects in a way that is not immediately noticeable but are very much – like the matte painting process, kind of different kinds of optical printing, use of model work and things like that.

[55:08] It would be really cool to have that for some older movies and like medium-age movies too.

[55:13] So Elliot, I made you both laugh with my recent quote-unquote discovery of YouTube.

[55:19] But the other day like I wanted to tell Audrey something and she's like, hold on, hold on.

[55:25] I got to go do something in the other room. I'll be right back.

[55:27] And I was like waiting for her to like talk and I was like, okay.

[55:32] Well, I'll just put on one of these YouTube videos.

[55:35] I've been hearing so much about.

[55:38] One of the ones that I put on was about the way they use special effects in various old movies.

[55:44] Like people – like they cut down the cuteness to the smallest amount.

[55:50] It was actually okay because they had people guessing like how did this happen?

[55:53] Like how do you think they did this?

[55:55] And then they would have an explanation of it and it would be for stuff like Metropolis and –

[56:00] Can you send me the link to that if you still have it?

[56:02] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[56:03] I really – but I like started watching it and then almost immediately I'm like, shit.

[56:07] This is what I was going to do, just waste time while Audrey's in the other room.

[56:10] But she's going to want to see it.

[56:13] But it's really fascinating, the old stuff.

[56:15] Yeah, I mean there's a – years ago I watched – there's a – on YouTube there's an old movie about the making of the old HBO logo intro thing.

[56:24] Yes.

[56:25] Where you fly over a city and then the giant HBO logo comes out of the sky.

[56:28] The da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.

[56:31] Oh, yeah, yeah.

[56:32] I was fascinated by how much work went into this.

[56:34] There's so much model work.

[56:35] There's so much hand-drawn animation work for like the laser effects.

[56:38] Yeah.

[56:39] It's just astounding.

[56:40] That's awesome.

[56:41] At the end, like when you're inside the letters, like you think it's all just like computer.

[56:45] But it's like no, no, no, no, no.

[56:47] No, because they did it in like 1982 or something like that.

[56:49] Yeah.

[56:50] It's all hand-drawn stuff.

[56:52] Yeah, the closest thing to like a DVD extra that I watched lately was after watching the new Guillermo del Toro Pinocchio, which was one of my favorites of the year.

[57:02] Oh, yes.

[57:03] There's a really great little featurette on Netflix that you can watch that's just like watching the movie and then watching that you're like, holy fucking shit.

[57:11] Yeah.

[57:12] Like they did what?

[57:14] I'm lucky enough that I got to – I live in New York and there's currently an exhibit at MoMA of those fucking little puppets, and it's amazing.

[57:22] It's such a – it's so worth it if you live in New York to go check out these.

[57:26] And I'm hoping – I wouldn't be surprised if it tours afterwards.

[57:30] But it's so amazing to see this shit up close and in person.

[57:33] Yeah.

[57:35] They even have one kind of diorama set up with a stop-motion camera moving so you can see how fucking slow this thing moves.

[57:44] Yeah.

[57:45] It's great.

[57:47] I watched that thing, and I felt this combination of admiration for like the gorgeous work and like just like, oh, man, like what an accomplishment and like this feeling of utter stress of like why would you put yourself through this?

[58:00] I love the movie, but why did you do this?

[58:03] Yeah, I feel like that's the thing about stop-motion animation, right, is how labor-intensive it is.

[58:08] Yeah.

[58:09] So, Dan, how did that movie sit with you?

[58:13] Did you like it?

[58:14] Was it sad?

[58:15] Oh, it was one of my favorites of the year actually.

[58:17] I walked into it being like, why do we need another Pinocchio?

[58:21] It came out of it being like, okay, fine, fine, you did it.

[58:25] You convinced me you needed one more Pinocchio.

[58:28] Yeah.

[58:29] No more after this one.

[58:30] You got to –

[58:33] Yeah, that's a lovely note for us to change topics.

[58:38] Guys, if you – our listeners are wondering, what is the best meal you've had in your life?

[58:48] I don't think our listeners are wondering that.

[58:53] Did you just start – now are you reading the like questions to make someone fall in love with you or whatever?

[59:01] Is it working?

[59:03] You tell me.

[59:06] Okay.

[59:07] So I guess you guys don't want to answer that one.

[59:08] That's fine.

[59:09] Too personal, too personal.

[59:10] As Tommy Wiseau once said at a panel discussion I attended when someone asked him what a Tommy Wiseau breakfast is.

[59:15] He said too personal.

[59:16] Next question.

[59:17] Okay.

[59:18] So we got one more question, everybody.

[59:20] That is the Flophouse started about 15 years ago.

[59:25] Sliding Doors is a movie that explores the concept if there's a key moment in your life and your life went different.

[59:33] What do you think you guys would be doing if you had not become podcasters doing the Flophouse?

[59:40] What would you be doing with yourself?

[59:42] I have thought about this before, like just the utter chance with which this podcast was started and the luck that it continued because, like, I know that we gripe about –

[59:53] It started with Dan saying, hey, do you want to do a podcast?

[59:56] And I'm like, what's a podcast?

[59:58] Yeah.

[1:00:00] And, you know, as much as we gripe about the time we spend on, say, the upcoming Transformers

[1:00:08] movie versus spending it with our families, and as much as, you know, sometimes...

[1:00:15] The only part of the podcast that ever grates on me is the time spent watching the movie.

[1:00:20] Everything else is a beautiful thing and a joy forever.

[1:00:23] Well, you know, I'm gonna, you know, mention one more.

[1:00:27] The times we get a little grumpier with one another because we're not only friends, but

[1:00:33] now business partners of many years.

[1:00:34] Oh, yeah.

[1:00:35] Well, that goes without saying.

[1:00:36] Yeah.

[1:00:37] Sure.

[1:00:38] We hate each other now.

[1:00:39] We don't.

[1:00:40] Oh, no.

[1:00:41] But aside from those things, like, I can't imagine how much less rich my life would have

[1:00:48] been if this hadn't, like, honestly, miraculously happened because, you know, maybe I would,

[1:00:55] you know, still be working in television, but I'd be currently out of a TV writing job.

[1:01:03] And I wouldn't...

[1:01:04] I would still be friends with Elliot and Stuart, but probably not as close and probably would

[1:01:10] have drifted further away as Elliot went across the land to the other golden coast and...

[1:01:18] Other golden coast.

[1:01:20] The other coast, comma, which is golden.

[1:01:26] And, you know, I wouldn't have had the chance to have something that really felt like our

[1:01:30] own thing in a world where even in my dream day job, when I am employed on TV, I'm not

[1:01:39] writing the thing that I want to do.

[1:01:42] I am hammering my thoughts into the form of someone else's head.

[1:01:49] And me write words good.

[1:01:53] Me give job writing.

[1:01:57] I can't believe you're turning this into a resume like I do when I try and become a Warhammer

[1:02:02] pitch man.

[1:02:03] And I guess my flaw is I'm too hard on myself.

[1:02:06] I'm too much of a perfectionist.

[1:02:08] Yeah.

[1:02:09] I take my job too seriously.

[1:02:10] No, no.

[1:02:11] I don't think I said anything of the sort.

[1:02:12] Some people say I'm too good at work.

[1:02:13] My big ass dick gets in the way of my legs sometimes.

[1:02:17] I don't think that's what I was saying.

[1:02:20] I was saying that, like, even when you're at your best in one of those jobs, you're

[1:02:23] not getting to be sort of the person who controls things.

[1:02:29] And you can't be someone who wants to write words down and share them without being a

[1:02:35] little bit of a control freak about that sort of thing and want to have your own expression.

[1:02:41] So that's nice.

[1:02:42] In addition to all the people I've met through this, people have been guests on the show,

[1:02:48] people who are just people that we met out on the road, listeners who were so kind to

[1:02:54] us.

[1:02:55] And I probably wouldn't be.

[1:02:57] Jesus, I wouldn't have my wife like who I met at a Max Fun Karaoke event.

[1:03:03] You know, like, yeah, now that's a fan.

[1:03:09] She said that she listened to the show beforehand and was like specifically about me.

[1:03:16] She said, not for me.

[1:03:19] This guy seems grumpy and not too sad.

[1:03:26] But I weaseled my way into her heart, apparently.

[1:03:30] And yeah, I'm not her favorite podcaster.

[1:03:33] I was going to mention before we're talking about people to have on the show.

[1:03:36] I was like, I was thinking, like, should I say John Dickerson?

[1:03:39] I'm sort of jealous that that they had him on Jordan.

[1:03:44] And that's Audrey's favorite podcaster.

[1:03:47] It goes John Dickerson, Hallie Elliott.

[1:03:50] And then I'm somewhere down below.

[1:03:53] But anyway, sorry, that was really rambly.

[1:03:56] But that's no, but there's a lot of beautiful sentiment in that.

[1:03:59] I'm sure that the listeners will be able to dig it out like chunks of meat and a big old stew.

[1:04:03] And sure, Alex will be able to chop it into something.

[1:04:07] And speaking of big old stews, Stu, this question leads so well into my final pledge break that I

[1:04:11] want to give you a chance to answer before I pick up.

[1:04:14] So what would you be doing if you weren't doing?

[1:04:16] Well, obviously, long time listeners of the podcast would assume that if I wasn't doing

[1:04:20] this podcast, I would be doing some other kind of grind set influencer style podcast,

[1:04:26] encouraging people to really embrace their like alpha personality.

[1:04:31] But I don't know.

[1:04:32] I feel like one of the things about this podcast really saved you from being a terrible person.

[1:04:38] Exactly.

[1:04:39] Yeah.

[1:04:39] Oh, man, I would have so much flair.

[1:04:42] I, you know, I feel like one of the things the show gave me is unlike you guys, I didn't have

[1:04:49] a creative day job, so it really gave me a creative outlet, which has been really exciting.

[1:04:56] And it I mean, more than anything, it exposed me to a whole wide world of people

[1:05:03] and kind of allowed me to become a better person, which is really great.

[1:05:09] Which is really great.

[1:05:10] And that's that's been awesome.

[1:05:12] Don't listen to the old episodes of the show.

[1:05:14] I'm you know, whatever.

[1:05:16] But yeah, so the show's been really cool.

[1:05:18] And I don't know what I'd be doing.

[1:05:19] I mean, I feel like I'd probably be I would certainly be less happy and well rounded and

[1:05:26] adjusted.

[1:05:28] Yeah.

[1:05:28] So yeah, I need I'm really glad this show came into my life and that especially because

[1:05:34] yeah, like I probably I mean, I'm one of those.

[1:05:37] I'm a middle aged guy, and a lot of my relationships are built around shared interests

[1:05:42] and hobbies.

[1:05:44] And this show is, you know, it's obviously more than that.

[1:05:47] But it's like I feel like it would be hard to maintain relationships with both Dan Elliott

[1:05:52] if I didn't have this regular thing that I'm doing.

[1:05:55] And I'm really thankful for that.

[1:05:57] If you were forced to put up with my shit.

[1:05:59] No, but as you get as you get older, it's harder to maintain friendships, especially

[1:06:03] with people who don't live super close to you or you don't have a reason to see regularly

[1:06:07] at work or something like that.

[1:06:08] So it's yeah, it's I totally understand that that's a not necessarily a dig on us and how

[1:06:13] unfriendable we are.

[1:06:15] But that's nothing to do with that.

[1:06:16] No, but that no, I mean, that's true.

[1:06:18] But it's not what it's what you're saying at the time.

[1:06:20] Yeah, that's not what I'm saying.

[1:06:21] I'd say that in private or to my therapist.

[1:06:23] But I also similarly, everything you guys said goes for me in terms of how wonderful

[1:06:29] this has been as a way to maintain our friendship, especially doing you and me to grow our friendship

[1:06:35] because we didn't really know each other particularly well when we first started recording

[1:06:38] it together to meeting meeting listeners, meeting people on the road, like Dan said,

[1:06:43] really reaching out the most exciting thing to me about any creative endeavor.

[1:06:47] And I feel like podcasting is that times 1000 is being able to reach out and connect to

[1:06:52] people who otherwise you never would have met.

[1:06:54] You wouldn't have known they existed.

[1:06:55] They wouldn't have known you existed.

[1:06:56] Someone on another part of the country, another part of the world, another city who listens

[1:07:01] to you and hopefully responds emotionally and enjoys it and hopefully also responds

[1:07:08] in kind in terms of not not in the form of a podcast, but it responds with a message or

[1:07:14] a note or an email or a tweet, something that is a way of saying, like, I heard you and

[1:07:19] I want you to hear me, too.

[1:07:20] And now we know each other exists.

[1:07:21] And that's really wonderful.

[1:07:23] We've created another connection between human beings that wasn't there before.

[1:07:27] And that's very special to me.

[1:07:28] And like Dan was saying, having something that is us, that can be us, that we don't

[1:07:33] have to run anything by, you know, we don't have to hammer, like Dan was saying, our thoughts

[1:07:38] into a new shape to fit someone else's voice is really exciting and really wonderful.

[1:07:42] And so before we leave, I just want to say, I know I got a little mad at the end of the

[1:07:46] last pledge break, and I shouldn't have.

[1:07:49] I apologize.

[1:07:49] That was on me.

[1:07:50] The thing is, most of all, have you cooled off a little?

[1:07:53] Are you cool?

[1:07:54] I've cooled off quite a bit.

[1:07:55] Yeah, I had I had a cold soda pop, which has caused me to burp a little bit throughout

[1:08:00] the second half of the show, which is not great, but it did help cool down my internal

[1:08:03] temperature and my emotional temperature.

[1:08:04] Yeah, that's what it does.

[1:08:07] That's an off gas.

[1:08:09] Yeah, so each burp is me releasing tension in a way that lowers my my emotional thermometer

[1:08:15] slightly.

[1:08:15] The thing is, I'm very, very thankful for you, the listener.

[1:08:19] I'm thankful for Dan.

[1:08:20] I'm thankful for Stuart for many reasons, partly for starting this podcast and partly

[1:08:23] for asking me to be a part of this podcast.

[1:08:25] But I'm really thankful to you, the listener, for listening to this show.

[1:08:29] I'm thankful that you write into us, that you reach out to us over social media, that

[1:08:33] you tell people about the show, that you force your family members sometimes to listen to

[1:08:37] it on long drives, and hopefully they like it.

[1:08:39] And sometimes they don't.

[1:08:41] I'm especially thankful that so many of you are already supporting us each month, and

[1:08:45] I hope even more of you join them.

[1:08:47] I'm going to be almost brutally honest right now.

[1:08:49] I'm going to say things that I said before in a joking way, but I'm going to say them

[1:08:53] kind of in an honest, serious way now.

[1:08:55] This is not an easy time to be in the entertainment business.

[1:08:57] It feels like there's kind of three corporations that own all of TV and the movies, and they

[1:09:01] don't want to pay anybody any money because they are all tottering on the edge of extinction.

[1:09:05] It is a very chilling time to be a professional writer in many ways, from AI bots that are

[1:09:13] going to start taking our jobs probably to companies that are afraid of trying new things

[1:09:18] and just kind of reinvest in the same old IP, to the fact that it's always been a hard

[1:09:23] job, and it never gets easier.

[1:09:26] So it makes me so excited that I have the Flophouse, that Dan and Sue and I have this

[1:09:29] outlet that we can be creative with, that we have total control over.

[1:09:33] Like I said, we don't have to ask anyone's permission.

[1:09:34] We don't have to ask Max Fund's permission to do anything.

[1:09:36] They're a great network, in part because they are completely hands-off and can't tell us

[1:09:41] what to do.

[1:09:43] We can do whatever we want with it, and that we can connect to you, the way I was talking

[1:09:47] about before, without anyone getting in the way.

[1:09:48] There's nobody between us and you.

[1:09:50] Nobody.

[1:09:50] Me saying this right now is going straight from my brain to my mouth to your ears to

[1:09:55] your brain with nothing in between, and thankful that all that becomes something that we can

[1:10:00] our bills with, that we can support ourselves with to a certain extent, and that means so

[1:10:05] much to me.

[1:10:06] It's something I'm extremely thankful for, and it's possible entirely because of the

[1:10:09] Maximum Fund Network and your financial support of us and that network.

[1:10:13] So by going to MaximumFund.org slash join, pledging as little as $5 a month, that's $1.25

[1:10:19] per episode, which is the price of a Marvel comic book in 1993.

[1:10:23] So that is a good deal for an episode of a podcast, just in case you're wondering how

[1:10:27] that factors into Marvel comic books in 1993 pricing structure, $1.25 is base minimum standard.

[1:10:34] By paying that much, you are, yes, Dan, were you going to make a comment about my pricing

[1:10:37] system?

[1:10:38] Well, what about if you have a special cover, like one of those hologram covers or a foil

[1:10:43] cover?

[1:10:44] A foil cover, that's going to cost you more.

[1:10:45] That could get up to as much as $2.95 for an issue.

[1:10:49] And if you're buying one of the books like She-Hulk or Wolverine that doesn't have big

[1:10:52] newsstand distribution, that's $1.75 per episode.

[1:10:55] If they have like variant covers, think of how much you're spending at that point.

[1:10:59] Yeah, because you're buying, you got to buy all those covers because how can you not?

[1:11:02] That's another picture that you didn't own and that you need to own it now.

[1:11:04] So just for that little amount, you are supporting artists whose work you enjoy in a very direct,

[1:11:09] very tangible way that is oftentimes very necessary.

[1:11:12] It's certainly necessary for us.

[1:11:13] And I hope that you feel like the Flophouse is a special and necessary part of your life.

[1:11:17] By going to MaximumFund.org slash join and pledging to support us, you are directly contributing

[1:11:22] to every new episode that appears in your feed.

[1:11:24] And by going to MaximumFund.org slash join, you get access to even more episodes because

[1:11:28] of all that bonus content I mentioned earlier in the show.

[1:11:31] Most importantly, as I'm saying, by going to MaximumFund.org slash join, you are making

[1:11:34] it possible for anyone to hear this silly nonsense.

[1:11:38] And we get emails all the time.

[1:11:40] This is the part where I'm going to tug the heartstrings.

[1:11:41] We get emails all the time.

[1:11:42] I pretend you didn't hear that.

[1:11:44] I was telling Dan and Stuart that we get emails all the time from listeners who say, I was

[1:11:48] having a really hard time and listening to your podcast.

[1:11:51] Help me smile when I really needed it.

[1:11:53] And that is the thing that means the most to me.

[1:11:56] It is a very humbling thing.

[1:11:57] And I find it a little frightening because it's a lot of power to have over another person's

[1:12:01] emotion when we're just three stupid idiots that are saying dumb stuff.

[1:12:05] But people write in and they say, thank you for just giving me something that made a hard

[1:12:09] time easier.

[1:12:10] And I totally understand that.

[1:12:11] The fact is, I've had some pretty hard times recently, too.

[1:12:14] I've talked about them a little bit on the show and I've kind of hinted at them.

[1:12:17] There's nothing exciting to tell.

[1:12:18] There's no exciting story, just just rough emotional times.

[1:12:21] And doing this podcast with my best friends has really helped me smile when I needed it

[1:12:25] in my life.

[1:12:26] And us doing that is really only possible because of every one of the Maximum Fund members

[1:12:32] who supports us, because of everyone who listens to us, but doubly so those who support it.

[1:12:36] So I want to say thank you very much again.

[1:12:38] Even if you feel like you can't pledge this time, thank you for listening.

[1:12:41] Please consider it in the future.

[1:12:42] But please do it this time if you can.

[1:12:44] Thank you very sincerely from my heart to yours for keeping us going, keeping all of

[1:12:49] us going for kind of more ways than one.

[1:12:51] Again, thank you to everyone who isn't a supporter yet.

[1:12:55] But we especially thank you if you go to Maximum Fund dot org slash join right now to become

[1:13:00] a supporter.

[1:13:01] Remember, I owe so much to you guys.

[1:13:02] I hope this dumb show goes a little way towards repaying that debt.

[1:13:06] And I know it's super cringy for me to keep making calls to action and telling you the

[1:13:10] URL rather than ending on my actual feelings, which are just this intense gratitude for

[1:13:16] your your ears and your and your dollar support.

[1:13:19] But please go to Maximum Fund dot org slash join, become a Maximum Fund member or upgrade

[1:13:23] your monthly pledge.

[1:13:24] You'll never regret that you did it.

[1:13:26] You'll never regret going there.

[1:13:27] I'll stop.

[1:13:28] I'll never stop being grateful for it.

[1:13:29] So I want to say thank you very much for doing so.

[1:13:32] Please do so right now.

[1:13:33] Maximum Fund dot org slash join.

[1:13:34] Thank you.

[1:13:42] Each of those thank yous got more sincere as I went on.

[1:13:43] Thank you for joining me on this episode of the Peach Pit Requiem, Rise of the Peach

[1:13:47] Pit.

[1:13:48] Oh, yeah.

[1:13:49] I forgot about that part.

[1:13:50] I also forgot about the subtitle.

[1:13:51] This has been a production of the Flop House podcast.

[1:13:55] It's also a fan podcast of the Flop House podcast.

[1:13:58] Thank you for tuning in.

[1:13:59] Check out other shows on Maximum Fund dot org.

[1:14:02] Thanks so much.

[1:14:03] I'm Stuart Wellington.

[1:14:04] Bye.

[1:14:05] Maximum Fund dot org, comedy and culture, artists owned, audience supported.

FH Mini 76 - The Peach Pit, MFD Edition

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