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FH Mini 67 - Newmania! with Griffin Newman

mini Nov 12, 2022 01:07:09
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[0:00] Hey, wow, welcome to another Flop House Mini, that's right, an episode of the Flop House
[0:12] that's theoretically shorter than a normal episode and we do different stuff on it.
[0:16] This is the Flop House podcast and I'm one of the hosts.
[0:18] My name is Stuart Wellington and joining me are...
[0:21] Hi, I'm Dan McCoy, delighted by how much Stuart seemed, I don't know, to do like a weird awkward
[0:28] surprise like, oh, I didn't know that you were going to be here.
[0:32] I'm Elliot Kalin and it appeared to me that Stuart was in this situation of stealing someone's
[0:37] valuables when they thought the house was empty and then when the homeowner walked in
[0:41] they pretended to start a podcast, as if that's what he was there for.
[0:46] And who's joining us as a special guest today, Stuart?
[0:49] What?
[0:50] Yep, there he is.
[0:51] Why don't you introduce yourself?
[0:53] Hi, this is Griffin Newman of the Blank Check podcast.
[0:57] What a surprise guest.
[0:58] I cannot believe I'm here.
[0:59] Way to put our guests to work right away, Stuart.
[1:03] We couldn't tell.
[1:04] Oh, but also, also, the Disney Plus original movie, Disenchanted, streaming November 18th.
[1:10] That's right.
[1:11] That's what you're here to promote?
[1:13] Right up top.
[1:14] Right up at the top.
[1:15] Right up at the top.
[1:16] If you prefer to take your podcaster in chipmunk form, then this is for you.
[1:24] You know, I feel like between Blank Check, The Times I've Appeared on other shows, the
[1:28] complaint I get most often is, why does Griffin speak so lowly in his podcast?
[1:34] Yeah.
[1:35] When Dan said, take your podcaster in chipmunk form, Griffin grabbed his hat and I'm like,
[1:40] he's going to put on a fucking costume.
[1:42] I'm going to put on the chipmunk, no, I don't have a chipmunk suit.
[1:45] Yes.
[1:46] I guess I should have one.
[1:47] Yeah.
[1:48] No.
[1:49] But that's everyone.
[1:50] Your voice is too deep.
[1:51] Too slow.
[1:52] Too low.
[1:54] Can we speed it up?
[1:55] Can we chip it up?
[1:56] Why doesn't Griffin share what he thinks?
[1:57] Why is he so reticent to speak?
[1:58] What's going on?
[1:59] I know.
[2:00] I hold it all so close to the chest.
[2:03] This is a behind the scenes thing.
[2:05] I was saying to my wife and to my son, I said, oh, we're having Griffin Newman on tonight,
[2:09] so it might be a little long for a mini because he's, you know, he's a guy who likes to talk
[2:12] and my son goes, oh, like you?
[2:14] Wow.
[2:15] Wow.
[2:16] Oh, man.
[2:17] It showed.
[2:18] And your home is out of aloe vera at this point because you've been roasting.
[2:24] Yeah.
[2:25] I was.
[2:26] Yeah.
[2:27] Call me Billy Joel because I was living in a glass house with that one.
[2:28] Yeah.
[2:29] Yeah.
[2:30] I'm sure.
[2:31] I mean, I think before we met and before our podcast had formally collided, I would hear
[2:34] a lot from people.
[2:35] Oh, you're a lot like Elliot Cahill.
[2:38] You're like the Elliot of your show.
[2:39] I get a lot of you're like Griffin Newman.
[2:42] Someday.
[2:43] Someday we're going to have to, I guess, have a baby together and see if you were the most
[2:49] pure version of us.
[2:50] That's possible.
[2:51] I don't know.
[2:53] Yeah.
[2:54] This is how we got like, you know, French bulldogs.
[2:57] Please explain what that means.
[3:00] You know, interbreeding for characteristics.
[3:03] Eventually you get like, you know, this this critter that's going to be wheezing around.
[3:08] It might be adorable.
[3:10] It can't stop talking and dropping movie references, but also it can't breathe out of its nose
[3:15] for some reason.
[3:16] Yeah.
[3:17] It's the best of what it does.
[3:18] But what it does is kind of just be hanging on to life.
[3:22] The movie reference part of the brain is so overgrown that it can no longer stand direct.
[3:27] It has to has to live with its head on a pillow.
[3:30] But, you know, brilliant.
[3:31] Yeah.
[3:32] Did we decide on what we're doing?
[3:35] Yeah.
[3:36] OK.
[3:37] We did.
[3:38] I haven't gotten to introduce it.
[3:39] I was going to introduce.
[3:41] Thank you so much, Griffin, for joining us for our first annual State of the Newman Address.
[3:48] Wow.
[3:50] I did not know this is what was happening.
[3:53] OK.
[3:54] This is it.
[3:55] Every year, Griffin Newman comes on a mini and talks about the state of the entertainment industry,
[4:01] the world, his life, where the sciences are right now, the arts in general, the state of our oceans,
[4:08] the state of space junk, how much space junk is still in the sky orbiting around the Earth.
[4:13] And he just gives it to us comprehensively.
[4:15] No holds barred.
[4:16] He's the last sane man in a world gone mad.
[4:19] And he's here to drop some truth bombs on us in his very respectable, very dignified.
[4:24] And I think this is what the 45th or 46th annual State of the Newman Address.
[4:29] Mm hmm.
[4:30] Mm hmm.
[4:31] I know.
[4:32] I did know it was that time of the year already.
[4:33] And boy, are you guys lucky that I already have a Google Doc prepared with answers to
[4:36] all of those specific topics.
[4:38] I just happen to have it open right now.
[4:41] I don't I mean, I don't I wouldn't say I like to throw my co-hosts under the bus, but I
[4:46] would say, look, maybe let's not go with the premise that requires Griffin to do so much
[4:52] work.
[4:53] Our guests in our home and these two Asians of chaos.
[4:55] Oh, sure.
[4:56] No, no, no.
[4:57] Let's say, you know, my my third podcast episode I've done today.
[5:02] Oh, you're all revved up and ready to do some.
[5:06] Yeah.
[5:07] Just a night.
[5:08] 1140 p.m.
[5:09] Record.
[5:10] That fact, Elliot, that fact makes me want to.
[5:14] Two days after the time change.
[5:17] True.
[5:18] So thank God.
[5:19] Yeah.
[5:20] Thank God.
[5:21] We can't do this.
[5:22] The man was the third podcast of the day.
[5:23] We may need to go to the fallback premise.
[5:25] And let's know I'm going to I'm going to give this first podcast of the day energy.
[5:28] I'm going to give it 1140 a.m. energy.
[5:31] So so if we're not doing if we're not doing the annual state of the we're not.
[5:37] Well, you know what?
[5:38] Why don't you why don't you why don't you build up your force for that?
[5:41] Because instead, our backup thing, which is even dumber than that, was I have a little
[5:47] really, OK, I have a little game just for you.
[5:49] It's called it's called it's two games.
[5:52] In fact, one's called Know Your Newman.
[5:53] So one's called Get Your Griffins.
[5:55] And so I'm going to see how well, you know, OK, other famous Newman's and Griffins.
[5:59] All right.
[6:00] Cool.
[6:01] Cool.
[6:02] I try to keep tabs on both.
[6:03] OK, then we'll talk about movies or something.
[6:04] So let's what you like.
[6:05] So what's your what's your pick your poison?
[6:06] You'll end up doing both.
[6:07] Would you rather do Know Your Newman's or Get Your Griffins first?
[6:11] I, I think.
[6:15] And remember, you could have gotten out of this by giving an extemporaneous speech about
[6:18] everything in the world.
[6:19] I'm still going to.
[6:20] I'm still going to.
[6:21] I don't think that's off the table.
[6:22] I think which would be easier.
[6:25] So let's let's go Newman's first.
[6:28] OK, I think that's a good idea because in Know Your Newman's, it's all last names.
[6:32] Right.
[6:33] In Get Your Griffins.
[6:35] Some of them might be first names.
[6:36] So it's gonna be first names or last names.
[6:39] It goes both ways.
[6:40] Know Your Newman's.
[6:41] All right.
[6:42] So we'll start off.
[6:43] We'll start off a little easy.
[6:44] Can you name?
[6:45] No.
[6:46] Do you know this Newman?
[6:47] OK.
[6:48] Do you know this race car driver and salad dressing magnate who just had a posthumous
[6:51] memoir published?
[6:52] Paul Newman.
[6:53] OK, there you go.
[6:54] The one I wish I were related to.
[6:56] Well, there are a couple.
[6:57] We'll get to the other one.
[6:58] It's possible.
[6:59] He's Jewish, right?
[7:00] Probably not.
[7:01] Oh, he is.
[7:02] No, no, no.
[7:03] No, he is.
[7:05] He is.
[7:06] In every sense?
[7:07] That was when he died.
[7:08] The people of Israel said he was the best of us.
[7:11] I mean, there are a few prophets who are vying for the role, but overall, he is the best
[7:16] of us.
[7:17] He ascended to heaven and Saul and David both said and Solomon all went, hey, you take the
[7:23] throne, man.
[7:24] You got it, man.
[7:25] You get it.
[7:26] And say what you want.
[7:27] They did change the label for his Asian styled salad dressing to be less kind of racist.
[7:34] A little racist.
[7:35] Less and less.
[7:36] And when he died, they did change the labels to put X's over his eyes so that we knew that
[7:39] he had passed.
[7:40] Well, that was frank.
[7:41] The FDA said that.
[7:42] There's a whole there are whole generations of Americans who are going to grow up thinking
[7:46] that he is a man who had a popcorn and salad dressing company and may have been in movies
[7:51] also.
[7:52] Yeah.
[7:53] They're not going to know it.
[7:54] I was going to say after he died, people thought it was maybe a cause collaboration.
[7:56] One of those.
[7:57] The kids love these cause collaborations.
[7:58] I don't know if you're aware of this.
[8:01] OK.
[8:02] Paul Newman.
[8:03] So here's another easy one.
[8:04] OK.
[8:05] Who.
[8:06] OK.
[8:07] Do you know this, Newman?
[8:08] Who is the Catholic churchman given the catty satire treatment in Leighton Strachey's classic
[8:13] Eminent Victorians?
[8:14] Oh, come on.
[8:17] We've all read Eminent Victorians.
[8:18] It is a hilariously catty book about four Victorian British people written in the 1920s,
[8:24] I believe, by Leighton Strachey.
[8:26] I never knew how to pronounce it.
[8:27] He's a hilarious writer.
[8:28] Did you say Itchy and Scratchy?
[8:31] Written by Itchy and Scratchy.
[8:32] It was a collaboration.
[8:33] They've set aside their differences.
[8:35] Itchy and Scratchy, two characters who my son is sincerely entertained by, does not
[8:40] get the joke.
[8:41] That's cool.
[8:42] Yeah.
[8:43] Yeah.
[8:44] That's cool.
[8:45] OK.
[8:46] Wait.
[8:47] Can you read it to me one more time?
[8:48] I think I'm going to get it.
[8:49] OK.
[8:50] I'll tell you.
[8:51] I'll give you a hint.
[8:52] He's English.
[8:53] He's also from England.
[8:54] This.
[8:55] Yeah.
[8:56] No, that's the one thing I've been banking on.
[8:57] This Catholic churchman, famous figure in the Catholic church, given the catty satirical
[8:58] treatment in Leighton Strachey's classic Eminent Victorians.
[9:01] Do you need me to name the other people who are in Eminent Victorians?
[9:03] Would that help?
[9:04] Yeah, that would help.
[9:05] That would help.
[9:06] Let's eliminate some other names.
[9:07] OK.
[9:08] Hold on.
[9:09] Let me just make sure that I've got it.
[9:10] Again, the name has to have Newman in it.
[9:12] So this won't help that much.
[9:14] But just, you know, the book also goes after, oh, you know what?
[9:19] It goes after Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, the schoolmaster, and General Charles
[9:24] quote Chinese Gordon.
[9:25] Now, I should be.
[9:26] I should be clearer.
[9:28] He is mentioned in the chapter about Cardinal Manning.
[9:31] Oh, that chapter.
[9:33] OK, go on.
[9:35] So that may be helpful.
[9:36] Yeah.
[9:37] No, no, no.
[9:38] That is.
[9:39] That's a huge hint.
[9:40] That's almost a giveaway.
[9:41] I'm going to do what perhaps is a cheat.
[9:44] And also, I'm guessing is wrong.
[9:46] And guess, Vicar Newman.
[9:49] Oh, I'm so sorry.
[9:50] It was Cardinal Newman.
[9:51] Oh, so you would have accepted if I had gotten the right title.
[9:55] Yeah, I would have accepted it.
[9:56] Yeah.
[9:57] Henry Newman was the name.
[9:58] But.
[10:00] I would have accepted Cardinal Newman, sorry about that.
[10:02] Okay, Vicar just felt more British.
[10:04] Okay, here's one, okay, well here's one that,
[10:06] here's another, here's one, here's a hard one.
[10:08] No, it's an easy one, how about this one?
[10:09] Okay, humor magazine mascot
[10:11] who spells his name differently than you,
[10:13] Alfred E. Newman, A-N-U-M-A.
[10:15] So is his middle name also entertainment?
[10:19] I think so, yeah, just like Charles E. Cheese.
[10:21] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're related.
[10:24] I was trying to, I was explaining,
[10:27] we drove by the Chuck E. Cheese in our neighborhood,
[10:29] there is one, and I said, oh, well, you know,
[10:31] his name is technically Charles Entertainment Cheese,
[10:34] and my older son Sammy said, but it's Chuck, not Charles.
[10:38] And I was like, well, Chuck is Chuck Charles.
[10:39] And then my wife turned to me, she goes,
[10:41] why do you know this?
[10:44] And why do you feel compelled to pass it along
[10:46] to the next generation so that they may pass it down?
[10:49] That's a good question.
[10:50] Why do you know his full Christian name?
[10:52] Yeah.
[10:53] Well, Chester Edward, or Charles Edward Cheese, yeah, yeah.
[10:59] Not a Jew, for the record.
[11:01] No, not a Jew, not a Jew, no.
[11:03] Elliot knows it because he wrote the Times obituary
[11:06] that you have on file.
[11:08] Well, I ghost wrote his memoir, yeah, of course.
[11:11] It's not always playtime down at the Playhouse.
[11:13] That was his memoir.
[11:15] It was all about performing in Somerstock
[11:17] and his troubles there, nothing about pizza
[11:20] or the Chuck E. Cheese franchise.
[11:23] He never wanted to go into restaurants.
[11:24] It's a terrible business.
[11:25] It's a terrible industry, yeah.
[11:27] Anyway, so how about this one?
[11:28] Here's another easy one.
[11:29] American abstract expressionist painter
[11:31] who specialized in color fields.
[11:34] Fuck.
[11:39] You said this was an easy one.
[11:42] But I also said Cardinal Newman was an easy one.
[11:43] I know, I'm starting to sense a pattern.
[11:45] This one feels easier.
[11:47] This is easier than Cardinal Newman,
[11:48] not as easy as Paul Newman.
[11:50] Yeah, okay, I'm going to say Richard Newman.
[11:54] Okay, it's a good shot in the dark.
[11:57] No, it was Barnett Newman.
[11:58] Sorry, Barnett Newman.
[12:00] A name that you may know.
[12:02] Again, he abstracted it very much in the Rothko vein.
[12:05] Okay, oh, cool, yeah, yeah, oh, that vein.
[12:08] Yeah, yeah, not Rothko Newman, Mark Rothko.
[12:09] Oh, yeah, big colors.
[12:13] Big colors, yeah, pretty much.
[12:13] This man is one of these men who takes the canvas
[12:15] and he paints one big color on it.
[12:17] Well, it's not, yeah, he does some of that, yeah.
[12:19] Not exclusively, but I'm saying a lot of big color paint.
[12:21] A lot of big colors.
[12:22] You feel like one day Mark Rothko reaches his breakthrough
[12:26] when he was like, I've got to get the background ready
[12:28] for this amazing painting I'm going to do.
[12:29] And he just painted all red and he goes,
[12:30] I think I'm done, I'm tired.
[12:32] Wait a second.
[12:34] Okay, so Barnett Newman would do like a line.
[12:36] Yeah, he'd do like a line,
[12:37] like a squiggle or something like that.
[12:38] In the middle, okay, I kind of like this.
[12:40] He looks cool.
[12:41] Yeah, I mean, he's got a real face about him, yeah.
[12:44] He does, absolutely.
[12:45] He kind of looks like if Paul Krugman was cool.
[12:47] Great description.
[12:50] So, okay, this one, you might get this one.
[12:54] This is a Newman, know this Newman,
[12:55] original cast member of SNL.
[12:57] Lorraine Newman.
[12:58] There you go, yeah, there we go.
[13:00] And here's another easy one for you.
[13:02] British author, best known for his Dracula novels,
[13:04] but he's also dabbled in the Warhammer
[13:06] and Doctor Who universes.
[13:07] And he once wrote a book of short stories
[13:09] in which Ed Gein and the Blues Brothers both appear.
[13:12] Now this, I really feel like I should know.
[13:18] I'm going to say Randolph Newman.
[13:25] Close, it was Kim Newman.
[13:26] Kim Newman is his name, Kim Newman, yeah.
[13:29] Author of Anno Dracula, Dracula Cha-Cha,
[13:32] Bloody Red Baron, yeah.
[13:34] Ed Gein and the Blues Brothers appear in his book,
[13:36] Back in the U.S.S.A.,
[13:38] which is a book of short stories
[13:39] set in a socialist America
[13:41] where the history doesn't quite work out.
[13:43] It's like, his parallel-
[13:44] Yeah, you don't say.
[13:45] The one where Blues Brothers meet again?
[13:48] It doesn't totally track out?
[13:51] The characters also include Kurt Vonnegut
[13:52] and I think Hannibal Lecter is in it also.
[13:55] Wow.
[13:56] But okay, okay, how about this?
[13:57] You're gonna get this one.
[13:58] Okay.
[13:59] Okay, know this Newman, you're gonna know this.
[14:01] Singer and songwriter who always sounds
[14:03] like he's got something in his mouth.
[14:06] Oh, okay, okay.
[14:07] Because I thought it could be a couple people
[14:08] until we got to that last part.
[14:10] Randy Newman.
[14:11] You're right, Randy Newman.
[14:12] Randy Newman.
[14:14] The guy who's too-
[14:15] Randy is for them all.
[14:17] Another way I bother my children
[14:18] is by just walking around going,
[14:19] you got a family, which they don't like.
[14:23] Nobody likes it. Never not fun.
[14:24] Never not fun.
[14:25] He's someone who I'm like, if he could be a Muppet,
[14:28] he wouldn't even have to do a voice.
[14:29] He would just make his regular voice.
[14:31] Okay, we've got one person left in know that Newman,
[14:35] or is it know your Newmans?
[14:36] I don't remember when I called him that.
[14:38] Know your Newmans.
[14:39] Know your Newmans.
[14:41] So this one, I hope you get correct
[14:44] because it's someone I am related to by marriage.
[14:48] So, okay.
[14:49] Griffith Newman.
[14:51] Yeah, wait a second.
[14:52] And it's Randy Newman.
[14:54] And he's with me today.
[14:55] Hey, Griffith, it's good to see you.
[14:57] Nice to see you.
[14:59] Okay, I won't do the whole thing where Randy Newman's here
[15:01] and he keeps singing, you got a friend in me.
[15:03] Cause I did that on episode before
[15:04] and I'm not one to repeat bits, right Dan?
[15:06] No, never.
[15:07] Not unless you suddenly remind me of a character
[15:10] I barely remember that I did a long time ago
[15:12] as he did on the previous minute.
[15:14] That's why both your kids find both you and I very funny.
[15:17] He never repeats bits.
[15:19] Yeah.
[15:21] Oh, they would love you.
[15:22] My kids would love you.
[15:23] They're big fans.
[15:24] Okay.
[15:25] Or they'd say another one of these.
[15:27] No, no, they'd be like, he's just like dad
[15:29] without any of the baggage or power to punish.
[15:33] They would love you so much.
[15:35] That's true.
[15:36] It's like vacation dad.
[15:37] Finally a dad that they don't have to have it,
[15:38] that they don't have to care about.
[15:40] But they've been very clear
[15:43] in their feelings about me today.
[15:45] They did call me boring.
[15:46] And at one point I got hit with a toy in the face
[15:49] and that was deemed hilarious for a moment
[15:51] until it was clear that it actually hurt.
[15:54] How old is this kid?
[15:55] 17?
[15:56] Yeah, 17.
[15:57] My oldest is 32 and my youngest is 17.
[16:00] Yeah.
[16:00] Okay.
[16:01] But they're actually twins.
[16:02] There was a mistake with a time machine.
[16:03] I won't get into it.
[16:04] Oh, okay.
[16:05] So, okay.
[16:06] This is award-winning general relativity physicist
[16:10] who co-developed the famous Newman-Penrose formalism.
[16:14] And remember, this is someone I'm related to by marriage.
[16:16] So I will be deeply offended if you don't,
[16:18] if you don't get it.
[16:19] And their last name is Newman.
[16:21] I'm prepared to steal.
[16:24] Do you have this, Stuart?
[16:28] Would you mind reading the hint one more time, please?
[16:31] The question?
[16:31] Okay, he is award-winning general relativity physicist.
[16:34] He was a winner of the Einstein Award,
[16:36] the Einstein Prize,
[16:37] who co-developed the Newman-Penrose formalism.
[16:41] Okay, I have my answer.
[16:43] I'm gonna say it is award-winning
[16:45] general relativity physicist, Dr. Newman.
[16:49] That is my final answer.
[16:50] You are, you're right.
[16:51] I mean, you're technically right.
[16:52] I've gotta give it to you.
[16:54] His full name is Ezra Teddy Newman.
[16:57] He was my wife's grandfather's cousin
[16:59] and also my wife's grandfather's best friend.
[17:01] And he was a very nice man.
[17:03] Everyone called him Teddy.
[17:04] But I guess his coworkers called him Ted.
[17:07] Anyway, award-winning physicist.
[17:10] A real member of my wife's family,
[17:12] just passed away last year.
[17:13] Anyway, so let's tally up the score,
[17:17] which I wasn't really believing.
[17:19] You blazed ahead with four out of eight, it looks like.
[17:24] So that's a solid 50%.
[17:26] In this democracy, that's enough to get you a win.
[17:30] So we gerrymandered that one.
[17:31] You are winning over second player not found.
[17:35] So that's good news for you.
[17:38] Other controllers not connected.
[17:39] I was gonna say, excuse me, Dan,
[17:41] you got zero points so far.
[17:42] Yeah, it's true.
[17:43] Stewart's got zero points so far.
[17:45] I think that's the competition.
[17:46] Stewart threatened to steal on the last one,
[17:47] but he did not get a chance.
[17:48] He didn't do it.
[17:49] He didn't get a chance, he scooped me.
[17:51] I gotta give you credit for Dr. Newman.
[17:52] That's five.
[17:53] You got five out of eight, actually.
[17:54] That's much better, yeah.
[17:55] Okay, you just need to bone up
[17:57] on your English Catholic history,
[18:00] your Dracula, non-canon Dracula knowledge,
[18:04] and also abstract expressionist art.
[18:07] Speaking of which, I finally caught up
[18:09] with Barnett Newman's face over here,
[18:12] and I also would like to endorse it.
[18:14] He's got a really nice mustache as well.
[18:16] It's fun.
[18:17] He's got a fun energy.
[18:18] Yeah.
[18:20] Yeah, he looks like a guy who'd be,
[18:22] give you a real good time.
[18:24] A real blast.
[18:25] Yeah.
[18:26] Okay, so should we move on to the second game now?
[18:28] This is get that griffin, get your griffin,
[18:32] something like that.
[18:33] Let's get that griffin.
[18:34] Get a griffin.
[18:35] Now, in this case, these are famous griffins.
[18:38] Now, you can throw a curve ball your way.
[18:41] It could be a first name or a last name.
[18:44] So-
[18:46] We could also be talking about
[18:47] the mythical creature, right?
[18:49] Well, that's my question.
[18:50] I did consider including that,
[18:52] but I thought it would be unfair
[18:53] because that's technically,
[18:54] I don't know the name, the griffin's name.
[18:56] I know that's a species,
[18:59] but I don't know if he has another name.
[19:01] Well, Elliot, I would suggest asking him directly.
[19:03] That's the best way to find out.
[19:05] Yeah.
[19:06] I'll get in touch with him through his people.
[19:07] He's in the book.
[19:09] I'll just look him up.
[19:10] I'll let my finger do the talking.
[19:11] The cryptozoology book.
[19:15] And okay, so here's the first question.
[19:17] Okay.
[19:19] Murderous invisible man played by Claude Rains.
[19:24] I just watched this.
[19:27] Griffin is his last name.
[19:29] Yes.
[19:30] What's his first name?
[19:31] And don't get it confused
[19:32] with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
[19:33] That's a different first name.
[19:34] I know.
[19:35] I know.
[19:36] Oh, RIP to Kevin O'Neill, man.
[19:38] Oh, yeah.
[19:39] Did Kevin O'Neill pass away?
[19:40] He just passed away.
[19:41] Yeah.
[19:42] The fucking best.
[19:43] I'm learning this news on air right now.
[19:45] Oh, that's so sad.
[19:46] I'm sorry.
[19:47] Oh, he's fantastic.
[19:47] Yeah.
[19:48] Oh, that must be sad.
[19:50] Well, that's the end of it.
[19:50] That's the end of this episode.
[19:52] Sorry, everybody.
[19:53] The game's over.
[19:54] The game's over, yeah.
[19:56] I did a bunch of the universals during the month of October.
[20:00] October, the spookiest month.
[20:01] Good time to do it.
[20:02] And because this shows how out of step with the world and America
[20:06] I am is that I didn't watch that many horror movies during
[20:09] October and then November 1st.
[20:10] I was like put it up Spanish-language Dracula, Vampire's
[20:14] Kiss.
[20:14] I'm watching them all like it suddenly was all about horror
[20:17] movies right after Halloween.
[20:19] I watched a really scary horror movie during October.
[20:23] It was called The News.
[20:25] This is the State of the Newman Address.
[20:35] I'm so glad I watched this movie within the last two weeks
[20:38] because it of course is fresh in my memory that this character's
[20:40] name is Dr.
[20:42] Newman.
[20:44] This is the Griffon's name.
[20:45] This is the Griffon's name.
[20:46] I'm so sorry.
[20:48] I'm so sorry.
[20:48] That's an easy mistake to make.
[20:51] He is not Dr.
[20:53] Newman, but in fact Dr.
[20:54] Jack Griffon.
[20:55] Oh, unforced error.
[20:57] Very unforced.
[20:59] It's hard to believe that you got that half of the answer
[21:01] wrong.
[21:04] Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in explaining the rules of the
[21:06] game, but I'll tap into my inner Renoir and go into the rules
[21:11] of the game, which is it's people with Griffon in their name.
[21:13] Okay.
[21:14] Thank you.
[21:14] Thank you very much.
[21:15] Thank you.
[21:15] Okay.
[21:16] Thank you.
[21:16] That was definitely your mistake and not mine.
[21:17] Great.
[21:18] So here's another Griffon.
[21:19] Let's see if we can get this one.
[21:20] Okay, maybe you said you watched The Invisible Man recently.
[21:22] Maybe this is someone whose work you've also encountered
[21:24] recently.
[21:25] This is founding member of Mott the Hoople.
[21:32] God damn it.
[21:35] Well, at least I was right that this one's harder.
[21:37] Yes, then harder than the one you got wrong.
[21:40] Yes.
[21:40] Yeah.
[21:41] Yes.
[21:41] Okay.
[21:43] I am going to say.
[21:46] Griffin Hoople.
[21:49] I'm sorry.
[21:51] This is Dale Buffen Griffin.
[21:53] So Griffin was actually the last name.
[21:55] Buffen is the nickname.
[21:58] Yeah, not a terrible guess.
[21:59] Not a terrible guess.
[22:00] I think Griffin Hoople is not a terrible guess.
[22:02] Mott the Hoople, of course, the only band to be sponsored by
[22:04] Mott's Apple Juice.
[22:06] Mott's Apple Juice, the only apple juice you could drink when
[22:09] I was a kid.
[22:10] There were no other ones around.
[22:12] It's like a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.
[22:14] It's Mott's the Hoople.
[22:15] Yeah, Mott's the Hoople.
[22:16] Yeah, exactly.
[22:17] Yeah.
[22:18] What is a Hoople?
[22:19] Well, we'll find out in Newman's, in Griffin's State of the
[22:22] Newman Address, probably.
[22:24] Okay, coming up.
[22:25] Okay.
[22:26] So here's this one.
[22:27] I think you'll get this one.
[22:28] This is for an old movie hound like you.
[22:31] This is you're going to get this one.
[22:32] Okay, the star of Undercover Brother, who is ranked number
[22:35] 62 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of
[22:39] all time.
[22:39] So he's not only in Undercover Brother.
[22:42] He is also the 62nd greatest stand-up of all time, according
[22:44] to Comedy Central.
[22:45] I have talked about this with my friend David Sims, a co-host
[22:50] of Blank Check many times, that for a long time my greatest
[22:54] career aspiration was to be in a two-hander buddy comedy
[22:59] with this actor.
[23:00] So the poster could just be Eddie Griffin Newman.
[23:05] You got it, Eddie Griffin.
[23:06] Thank you.
[23:06] You know it.
[23:07] Thank you.
[23:07] And I think that's a great poster too.
[23:09] Although it would surprise, I think people would think that
[23:12] Nelson Eddie and Barnett Newman and Merv Griffin were in a
[23:16] movie together.
[23:18] I mean either way a great before and after on the Wheel
[23:23] of Fortune.
[23:26] That's true.
[23:27] Guys, I have a question.
[23:30] Yeah, if we know who Chris is, who's Ruth in The Ruth's Chris?
[23:36] The possessor of Chris.
[23:38] Yeah, I guess.
[23:42] I just don't know why I'd go to them for a steak.
[23:46] Because they're really open about the dominant relationship
[23:49] that they have.
[23:51] Yeah, I was going to say, if you like the Chris, you'll love
[23:53] the steak.
[23:56] Yes, you're right.
[23:58] It's Ruth's.
[23:59] Yeah, you like this guy?
[24:00] He's in charge of the steak.
[24:04] Okay, I just I'm sorry.
[24:05] I looked it up.
[24:06] It was founded as Chris Steakhouse and then a woman named
[24:11] Ruth Fergle bought it and I guess didn't want to thoroughly
[24:16] abandon the value of Chris Steakhouse as a brand.
[24:19] So it became Ruth's Chris.
[24:21] That is absurd.
[24:23] Yeah.
[24:24] So and not to make it Ruth Chris, but Ruth and create a new
[24:27] person, a new character named like Ruth Chris.
[24:30] Ruth Chris sounds too much like Ruthless.
[24:32] Right.
[24:33] I mean, like it also implies that there's some Chris's
[24:38] steakhouses out there that are not Ruth's Chris's Steakhouse.
[24:42] That's fair.
[24:43] And I've yet to see one.
[24:45] Yeah.
[24:46] It was it was one restaurant.
[24:49] She bought one restaurant that was called Chris Steakhouse.
[24:54] And what I can only assume that at some point she played
[24:57] for the Miami Dolphins because isn't that like a requirement
[25:01] for you to name a steakhouse after yourself?
[25:03] Absolutely.
[25:03] Yeah.
[25:03] Yeah, that's you have to do that.
[25:05] Peter Luger.
[25:05] He did that.
[25:06] Yeah, Smith and Walensky.
[25:09] They both did that.
[25:10] Yeah.
[25:11] Old Homestead.
[25:13] Yep.
[25:13] Old.
[25:14] Oh Homestead.
[25:15] That was good for old.
[25:16] Yeah, of course.
[25:18] Keen.
[25:18] Yeah.
[25:19] Yeah, all of them for anyone listening at home is not from
[25:22] the New York area.
[25:23] If you'd like to put in your own regional steakhouses into
[25:25] this joke.
[25:26] Yeah.
[25:26] Feel free.
[25:27] Frank.
[25:28] Yeah.
[25:29] It's a good exercise, you know, if you want to learn how to
[25:32] write the palm.
[25:34] Palm.
[25:36] The palm that's Theodore Howard Edward.
[25:40] Yeah.
[25:42] All right, everybody.
[25:42] Okay.
[25:43] We've got we've got some more Griffins.
[25:44] Are you ready for them?
[25:45] Okay, I as ready as I've ever been.
[25:47] Yeah.
[25:48] Okay.
[25:48] How about this?
[25:50] You got you're doing great.
[25:51] You got well, you're not doing great.
[25:53] You've got one out of three.
[25:55] I'm doing okay.
[25:55] You're doing okay.
[25:56] Okay.
[25:58] Current pitcher for the St.
[25:59] Louis Cardinals.
[26:01] God damn it.
[26:02] A baseball player playing now.
[26:04] I mean not anymore.
[26:05] The season's over but playing in this era.
[26:07] Well, I'm going to name the most current relevant baseball
[26:10] player.
[26:11] I can think of Ken Griffey jr.
[26:15] I'm sorry.
[26:16] Griffey is close to Griffin.
[26:18] I don't believe Henry ever played for the Cardinals.
[26:20] I couldn't be wrong about that.
[26:21] I was thinking I was thinking of Griffin Roberts Griffin wasn't
[26:24] going to get that.
[26:25] Oh, yeah, but when I when I was no, sorry, we're gonna say
[26:29] no.
[26:29] No, I was just going to next question.
[26:30] You I want to hear your story about Griffin Roberts someone
[26:33] I think you've just learned the existence of yeah, I have no
[26:35] opinion on whatsoever.
[26:36] I was going to say that when I was a child and they would
[26:39] ask us like who's your favorite athlete, you know, like those
[26:42] sort of like go around say your favorite animal say your
[26:44] favorite color and like favorite food pizza favorite maybe
[26:47] term there too.
[26:48] Yeah, exactly.
[26:49] I would always say Ken Griffey jr.
[26:50] Because it was just like I'm gonna pick the guy's name sounds
[26:52] like mine.
[26:53] I had no opinion on him.
[26:54] Otherwise loved him.
[26:57] Mm-hmm.
[26:58] Yeah.
[26:58] Yeah.
[26:59] Did you like get a shirt or a poster or anything?
[27:01] Maybe I'm posing next to a Lamborghini or yeah, I'll tell
[27:05] you this.
[27:05] I remember reading his biography his like little junior
[27:09] biography.
[27:10] Yeah, there's a lot of commitment to a name link to like
[27:14] hey, read the whole thing else.
[27:16] Yeah, I commit to the bet Wow.
[27:19] Well, hopefully you can continue to commit to this dumb bit
[27:22] of the get your Griffins game because here's another one
[27:25] coming your way.
[27:26] Okay, the mascot of the College of William and Mary.
[27:31] I'm going to say the Griffin and you know what I looked it
[27:37] up.
[27:37] He does have a name it turns out and now I know it.
[27:39] What is that name?
[27:42] That name is okay.
[27:43] Yeah, but let's just clarify it is a Griffin.
[27:46] I cannot let me ask the judges.
[27:48] No, the judges say I'm not allowed to tell you ahead of
[27:50] time, but I believe from context, please.
[27:52] You can probably figure out the answer to that question.
[27:54] Okay, and we want a proper name first and last just just
[27:58] one name just one name.
[27:59] I will maybe this will help you that up that this mascot
[28:03] the other finalists for the job that did not get it were
[28:06] a Phoenix a pug a Wren and a king and queen.
[28:10] So, you know, it's not one of those.
[28:12] So, okay, I'm going to guess his name is King Phoenix pug
[28:18] Wren the Griffin.
[28:20] I mean, that's a great name.
[28:22] Can I attempt to can I attempt to steal?
[28:24] Yeah, you can try it.
[28:25] Yeah, unless Griffin thinks he can stop the steal.
[28:27] He can't know.
[28:28] No, I'm going to give Stewart the opening here.
[28:30] Is it Griffey Entertainment Griffin?
[28:36] So Griffey is not a nickname.
[28:37] Griffey Griffey is his full name.
[28:39] Is it?
[28:40] Yeah, it is just a one-word name.
[28:43] Sorry.
[28:44] It is a one-word name.
[28:45] Dan.
[28:45] Are you doing research or are you guessing?
[28:47] No, I'm just guessing.
[28:50] It's just Griffin.
[28:51] No, do you want to steal the steal?
[28:53] It's I'm just curious.
[28:54] It's not Griffin.
[28:58] Can I go back and try to re-steal the steal?
[29:00] Yeah, if they want to re-steal the steal.
[29:02] As you know from the rules that were clearly explained.
[29:06] Once we go one ring around the zoom, you get another chance.
[29:10] Then you can re-steal the steal again.
[29:12] That's a special bonus move that we call a re-steal re-seal.
[29:17] That's when you un-seal.
[29:19] It's also called re-steal un-seal.
[29:21] You un-seal your old answer and you re-steal it.
[29:23] Yeah.
[29:24] Give me the name of the college again.
[29:26] The College of William and Mary.
[29:28] Okay.
[29:28] I'm going to guess his name is Will the Griffin.
[29:34] All right.
[29:35] That's not correct.
[29:36] Fuck.
[29:38] I think I think it was probably this was probably your second
[29:40] choice.
[29:40] His name is Reveley the Griffin named in honor of University
[29:44] President Taylor Reveley upon his retirement.
[29:46] I was closest.
[29:47] In 2018.
[29:48] No way.
[29:49] I was closest.
[29:50] I was going to go with Gary next.
[29:53] Yeah, I was between Gary Greg and I thought it maybe it's
[29:56] William.
[29:57] Yeah, I mean I was the right line of thinking that it was a
[29:59] name.
[30:00] connected to the college itself.
[30:02] I think if only you had some time
[30:04] to research other names connected to the
[30:06] college, I think you definitely would have gotten it.
[30:08] And that's on me. That's on me. Obviously, I came
[30:10] unprepared tonight.
[30:12] Now, this site, maybe someone can
[30:14] write in and explain about this, or maybe you guys are familiar.
[30:16] Looking at Wikipedia, it says Griffin Mascot
[30:18] and it says, Related Mascots
[30:20] Canisius College, Golden Griffin.
[30:22] Now, are they implying that these two mascots
[30:24] are related?
[30:26] I can only assume.
[30:28] That's like, if you go onto IMDB
[30:30] and it recommends other movies, like Movie Connections,
[30:32] technically those movies are
[30:34] cousins. If they're being
[30:36] recommended to you by
[30:38] an algorithm or a database
[30:40] like that, the movie is a cousin.
[30:42] That reminds me of when I was...
[30:44] Roman J. Israel, Esquire, and
[30:46] Hacksan Never Married, because
[30:48] I don't know why
[30:50] those two were recommended together, by the way.
[30:52] I just, you know, I have a weird
[30:54] algorithm. I will know why.
[30:56] I remember years and years ago
[30:58] looking at the IMDB listing for
[31:00] From Hell, the
[31:02] Jack the Ripper movie, and seeing
[31:04] that... And you're like, not
[31:06] based on reality, huh?
[31:08] Weird. I thought this was a true story.
[31:10] Are you saying that...
[31:12] Loosely inspired?
[31:14] That they took liberties with this, what I thought was a
[31:16] documentary film?
[31:18] The recommendations,
[31:20] another one was
[31:22] Rising Sun, I believe.
[31:24] And I was like, wait a minute, the only thing
[31:26] this movie has in common, I think, is they're both movies
[31:28] where prostitutes are murdered.
[31:30] That's not why I want to watch movies,
[31:32] but the computer doesn't know.
[31:34] Makes more
[31:36] sense than when I finished watching The Lost Daughter
[31:38] on Netflix, and Netflix said,
[31:40] you might like this, and it put up,
[31:42] somebody feed Phil?
[31:44] I was like,
[31:46] I don't think that's the right follow-up
[31:48] for this. After you see a daughter
[31:50] being lost, you're very concerned.
[31:52] Your paternal instincts kick in, you're like,
[31:54] can somebody feed Phil? Somebody's gotta
[31:56] feed Phil. Oh my god.
[31:58] Phil is starving.
[32:00] Maybe, okay, here's...
[32:02] Okay, get this Griffin.
[32:04] Get this Griffin, Griffin.
[32:06] And you're bound to get this one. This one's a guarantee
[32:08] if you are my dad.
[32:10] Because this is a famous author of military
[32:12] and detective novels, and my dad
[32:14] has read like a million of his books.
[32:16] Routinely picks them up, routinely
[32:18] buys them, starts reading them, and realizes
[32:20] he has already read that one, and then puts it back down.
[32:22] This is what's annoying,
[32:24] is I believe my grandfather
[32:26] also was a rabid reader of this man's
[32:28] books, and I'm picturing the spines
[32:30] on his bookshelf.
[32:32] The covers are very shiny.
[32:34] Can I, I'm gonna ask you for a hint,
[32:36] you can decide whether or not to grant it to me.
[32:40] Is his first
[32:42] name initials?
[32:44] I'm gonna say, yes.
[32:46] Okay.
[32:48] He's going to say
[32:50] yes.
[32:52] This is a clue that might be less helpful
[32:54] than I would
[32:56] think it would be.
[32:58] We'll see, we'll see. His first name
[33:00] is initials that spell out a word
[33:02] related to, perhaps,
[33:04] America's favorite fictional character.
[33:06] Just by coincidence.
[33:08] That the word is related to
[33:10] America's favorite fictional character, possibly.
[33:12] Oh.
[33:14] Okay.
[33:16] Okay, so now
[33:18] I'm convinced it has to be
[33:20] a Chuck E. Cheese thing.
[33:24] That's right, America's favorite fictional
[33:26] character, Charles Entertainment
[33:28] Cheese. Fictional?
[33:30] I'm gonna say
[33:32] C.E. Griffin.
[33:34] I'm sorry, it's Web Griffin.
[33:36] W.E.B. Griffin. That fictional
[33:38] character, of course, Spider-Man, the greatest character
[33:40] in fiction, in all of literature ever.
[33:42] Take that, Odysseus.
[33:44] Okay.
[33:48] Spider-Man knows how to find his way home,
[33:50] as evidenced by the movies we saw.
[33:52] That was such
[33:54] a rude taunt to tell him there was no
[33:56] way home.
[33:58] It was very inaccurate, too. Very inaccurate.
[34:00] It really feels like it motivated him.
[34:02] Now I really want to see
[34:04] a version of the Odyssey where it's Spider-Man instead of
[34:06] Odysseus, and he's just webbing that Cyclops in the eye.
[34:10] You know, up in Maine.
[34:12] He goes down to Hades to talk to Uncle Ben.
[34:14] Up in Maine, that movie was called
[34:16] Spider-Man, You Can't Get There From Here.
[34:20] Thank you, Dan.
[34:22] Good work. Good work.
[34:24] Really strong work.
[34:26] Stephen King's listening to this right now, and he's like,
[34:28] fucking nailed it.
[34:30] Some rough beast stirred himself from his
[34:32] age's slumber to deliver
[34:34] that zinger against Maine.
[34:36] It's more of a nod
[34:38] to their sort of local
[34:40] dry sense of cranky humor.
[34:42] Oh, yeah.
[34:44] Yeah, we understand.
[34:46] No, thank you for
[34:48] dissecting the joke for us.
[34:50] I mean, it might have landed
[34:52] a little bit better
[34:54] if I'd said it, you know,
[34:56] immediately and not after
[34:58] an interruption.
[35:00] But who's to say?
[35:02] Who's to say?
[35:04] I don't know if it could have possibly
[35:06] gone over any better than that.
[35:08] There's no way of knowing. To quote Jack White,
[35:10] who's to say?
[35:12] Who's to say?
[35:14] Okay, that one was close.
[35:16] This one's going to be even closer.
[35:18] It drives me crazy.
[35:20] Look at those spines.
[35:22] And it's all like,
[35:24] the colonel, you know, and stuff like that.
[35:26] They're all
[35:28] police officers in the army or something.
[35:30] I don't know. I've never read them, but my dad
[35:32] goes crazy for them.
[35:34] If my dad was a girl,
[35:36] those books would be a sharp-dressed man,
[35:38] because he goes crazy for them.
[35:40] Wow.
[35:42] Alternately,
[35:44] if the book was a girl,
[35:46] it would have legs, because
[35:48] certainly he knows how to use them to walk over to my dad
[35:50] and make him read the book.
[35:52] That would work quite as well.
[35:54] I'm just trying to get as many 80s hits into this.
[35:56] As many, as the British would say,
[35:58] Zed Zed Top songs into this.
[36:00] Sometimes your dad would double back
[36:02] on books that he'd read before.
[36:04] Mm-hmm.
[36:06] He'd enjoy it so much, he'd do the tube steak book.
[36:08] He also thought
[36:10] those books had a real tush on them.
[36:12] It's amazing how
[36:14] Zed Zed Top is possibly
[36:16] it's like
[36:18] such a funny combination of just the most
[36:20] extremely proficient
[36:22] guitar playing and the dumbest subject matter
[36:24] for every song.
[36:26] Anyway.
[36:28] I'm sure there's big Zed Zed Top fans out there.
[36:30] I apologize.
[36:32] Yeah, she wants a pearl necklace, Elliot.
[36:34] That's the name of the song.
[36:36] Anyway.
[36:38] I didn't make it up.
[36:40] No, I know you didn't. It was those bearded gentlemen.
[36:42] Okay.
[36:44] You're going to get this one.
[36:46] 72nd Attorney General
[36:48] of the United States.
[36:50] He served under Jimmy Carter.
[36:52] Stewart?
[36:54] Oh, you're phoning a friend?
[36:56] What was that reaction just now?
[36:58] Can I phone?
[37:00] You get one phone a friend, but it has to be a friend
[37:02] who's already on this Zoom call because the budget's tight for this show.
[37:04] Say it one more time, Elliot.
[37:06] Stewart responded as if he were
[37:08] front row at a Zed Zed Top concert
[37:10] and they just started playing tush
[37:12] just for the listener at home.
[37:14] Okay.
[37:16] 72nd Attorney General
[37:18] of the United States served under
[37:20] President James Carter.
[37:22] I would say
[37:24] Attorney General Griffin.
[37:26] Okay, well done.
[37:28] Okay, that's his suggestion.
[37:30] Griffin, are you going to take that suggestion?
[37:32] Again,
[37:34] this has turned now into a game I called
[37:36] Hollywood Griffs.
[37:38] It's like College of Squares, but with Griffin.
[37:40] Are you going to take that one?
[37:42] Are you going to say yes or no?
[37:44] I basically feel like 50-50 chance.
[37:46] Stewart's answer covers me.
[37:48] Ironclad
[37:50] Griffin's the last name and not the first.
[37:52] Again, like you're saying, that's a 50-50 risk.
[37:54] It's a 50-50 risk.
[37:56] Especially since this is not really
[37:58] a game of chance, but a game of knowledge
[38:00] based on a real piece of information.
[38:02] There's no luck involved.
[38:04] I'm chancing it pretty hard.
[38:06] I'm going to say
[38:08] Attorney General Griffin.
[38:10] I'm so sorry, his name is Griffin Bell.
[38:12] Fuck me.
[38:14] I'm so sorry.
[38:16] You know what?
[38:18] I wasn't
[38:20] going to pull this one out.
[38:22] I feel like you need a win.
[38:24] I'm just going to say
[38:26] American Werewolf in London.
[38:28] What are you going to say?
[38:30] Griffin Dunn.
[38:32] You got it.
[38:34] Now you can send Griffin home
[38:36] with the home game version.
[38:38] He needed to get at least two right
[38:40] or else the home game would be denied to him.
[38:42] He would just get a sticker that said
[38:44] I got my grift got on Get Your Griffins.
[38:46] I got grifted.
[38:48] Grapejob?
[38:50] It says Grapejob.
[38:52] A picture of a grape.
[38:54] Yeah, exactly.
[38:56] Nailed it.
[38:58] We were going to get
[39:00] stickers that were branded for the show,
[39:02] but it was expensive, so we just took some
[39:04] from a teacher's desk.
[39:06] This one also says Big Cheese.
[39:08] It's got a cheese on it.
[39:10] Apple of my eye.
[39:12] Yeah, it's got an apple on it.
[39:14] Yeah.
[39:16] That was a good
[39:18] bulk price for Scratch and Sniffs.
[39:20] I think this was a smart purchase for you.
[39:22] Oh, thanks. Thank you.
[39:24] Let's go on to the next one.
[39:26] We've only got a few left.
[39:28] This one, I think you'll get it.
[39:30] Also, because I mentioned it earlier,
[39:32] Game Show Magnate.
[39:34] Merv Griffin.
[39:36] This one,
[39:38] I normally would have said it was a shoe-in,
[39:40] but the way you've been playing this game,
[39:42] Oh, poorly?
[39:44] Can you name this Griffin?
[39:46] Played the part of Arthur on The Tick.
[39:48] Oh, fuck. I know the guy.
[39:52] Can I ask for a hint?
[39:56] Here's another hint.
[39:58] Also known for
[40:00] the role of Wado.
[40:02] Okay.
[40:04] Hmm.
[40:06] Not Andy Succumb from The Phantom Menace.
[40:08] Uh, wait,
[40:10] which failed version of The Tick was this?
[40:12] Which cancelled
[40:14] before its prime?
[40:16] This is the, I'm gonna,
[40:18] we should clarify. Of the two
[40:20] failed live action versions of The Tick,
[40:22] this was the more recent one.
[40:24] Oh, Griffin Newman. The one that many cases
[40:26] had more of a shot. Yes, Griffin Newman.
[40:28] Griffin Newman.
[40:30] Also known, of course, for playing Wado.
[40:32] And Pip.
[40:34] Pip the Chipmunk.
[40:36] Pip the Chipmunk.
[40:38] I wasn't gonna name all of Griffin's roles.
[40:40] No, I'm just promoting.
[40:42] But Griffin's here to promote
[40:44] Pip the Chipmunk.
[40:46] And America's got Pip fever. It's just
[40:48] topical.
[40:50] Have you seen any Pip action
[40:52] figures out in the wild yet?
[40:54] Or branded merch?
[40:56] I have the Google
[40:58] alerts set. I do the search
[41:00] on Shop Disney twice a day.
[41:02] I have asked the Disney
[41:04] marketing department. There have been no
[41:06] clear answers yet.
[41:08] I'm, I'm waiting.
[41:10] I'm waiting. I have, uh, I
[41:12] successfully bought what limited Pip
[41:14] merchandise there was from the first movie.
[41:16] Which I, which I was not
[41:18] the voice of Pip in that movie. Who was the voice of Pip
[41:20] in the first one? If not you. Great question.
[41:22] Yeah, great question. Uh, in the first
[41:24] movie, Pip essentially is two
[41:26] voice actors. Because for those
[41:28] who are not familiar with the first Enchanted,
[41:30] Shame on you if you're not.
[41:32] A delightful film. It's like a fish out of water
[41:34] comedy where she's a Disney, a classic
[41:36] sort of hand-drawn Disney princess
[41:38] named Princess Giselle from the Kingdom of
[41:40] Andalasia. She's got a lot of fun
[41:42] animal friends. And
[41:44] she gets pushed by an evil witch
[41:46] through a well and lands
[41:48] in real New York City where life is tough.
[41:50] And in the opening
[41:52] animated prologue, the first ten minutes of the film,
[41:54] a voice actor named Jeff Bennett,
[41:56] who's an incredible voice actor who voiced
[41:58] Johnny Bravo among many
[42:00] other characters. Oh, Johnson Bravo, yeah.
[42:02] He's one of the most prolific voice
[42:04] over actors of our time.
[42:06] He played Pip for like the
[42:08] three or four lines of dialogue that are at the
[42:10] beginning of the film. And he did like sort of
[42:12] a New York tough guy voice.
[42:14] And then they pitched it up and sped it up.
[42:16] And, uh,
[42:18] then when Pip falls through the well
[42:20] and comes to the real world,
[42:22] in the real world, animals can't
[42:24] talk so he loses his voice.
[42:26] And for the rest of the movie, Pip
[42:28] just squeaks a bunch and
[42:30] sort of tries to pantomime to warn everyone
[42:32] about the stakes of the film.
[42:34] And the squeaking is voiced
[42:36] by a man named Kevin Lima
[42:38] who's an animator and directed
[42:40] the first Enchanted film.
[42:42] So there were two different voices
[42:44] and
[42:46] they thought, what if
[42:48] we find someone who already
[42:50] sounds like a New York chipmunk
[42:52] and we save money in
[42:54] post by not having
[42:56] to speed him up or pitch him up?
[42:58] Wow.
[43:00] And that's what brought you to our
[43:02] doorstep. Exactly.
[43:04] It's great. I'm glad you finally were able
[43:06] to tell the audience about Disenchanted,
[43:08] about Pip the Chipmunk, because
[43:10] that means you've unlocked our
[43:12] final round, which is a bonus game. It's called
[43:14] Ain't That a Pip?
[43:16] And in Ain't That a Pip, you have to name
[43:18] the actors who have voice acted
[43:20] characters named Pip.
[43:22] Let's see if you're ready for it.
[43:24] Because, let's see,
[43:26] we know you know
[43:28] the Enchanted movies, as you've made so clear.
[43:30] Did you have them written down?
[43:32] Uh, the people from
[43:34] the Enchanted movie? Yeah.
[43:36] Uh, no. Okay.
[43:38] I don't get points for that.
[43:40] You know what, I'm gonna give you
[43:42] what I call professionalism points.
[43:44] I was gonna say plug points,
[43:46] proper respect to my forebears points.
[43:48] Yeah, all those things.
[43:50] Respecting your elders,
[43:52] standing on the shoulders of giants points.
[43:54] That's what you get. Knowledge of the lineage
[43:56] points. Because this is a one-question
[43:58] bonus round. I think you're gonna get it. Okay.
[44:00] Ain't That a Pip? Can you name the voice actor
[44:02] who played Pip the Troll?
[44:04] And also name the movie that that character appears in.
[44:06] Pip the Troll.
[44:08] Pip the Troll? Pip the Troll.
[44:10] And also name the movie
[44:12] that appears in.
[44:14] Pip the Troll. Pip the Troll.
[44:18] Voices? Pip the
[44:20] Troll. Pip the
[44:22] Troll. I might have a guess
[44:24] for this one. Pip the Troll.
[44:26] A real honest
[44:28] one. Well, here's the thing. Do you want
[44:30] a clue, or do you want
[44:32] to pass on to Dan? That's called
[44:34] a Dan Pass. You're allowed one of those
[44:36] per game also. No, no. I was only gonna do it
[44:38] if it didn't, you know.
[44:40] Well, would you like a clue
[44:42] first? Dan doesn't want to help.
[44:44] He wants to steal. I was gonna say.
[44:46] He's got gold in his eyes. I see.
[44:48] Huh.
[44:50] Dan,
[44:52] you're stroking your beard. You're
[44:54] looking off into the distance.
[44:56] Deep in thought.
[44:58] Maybe I could
[45:00] hazard a guess about the movie.
[45:02] And then if it's correct,
[45:04] maybe that... Okay.
[45:06] I'm gonna use the Dan Pass. Okay.
[45:08] Is this from
[45:10] a troll in Central Park?
[45:12] Oh, no. I'm so sorry.
[45:14] Dan, he passed the
[45:16] Pip the Troll to you, and you
[45:18] fumbled it to the ground. It shattered
[45:20] into a million pieces, and now you gotta put it back together with
[45:22] glue before I get home and find out it's broken.
[45:24] Why did I soak this
[45:26] troll in liquid nitrogen?
[45:28] It's Frozen Troll.
[45:30] Okay. Pip
[45:32] the Troll. Pip the Troll.
[45:34] It does...
[45:36] Glue pills.
[45:48] I would rather have a clue about the
[45:50] source material.
[45:52] Pip the Troll was created by
[45:54] Jim Starlin.
[45:56] Oh, shit.
[45:58] I know this now. Thank you.
[46:00] Thank you. Thank you.
[46:02] At first, I thought it was gonna be in
[46:04] Denver, but that's wrong. Then I thought it was
[46:06] in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.
[46:08] That's wrong. Then I thought it was
[46:10] in The Canyons. Also wrong.
[46:12] But I think we finally figured it out.
[46:14] Yeah. Who can forget the
[46:16] breakout character from America's favorite
[46:18] blockbuster? Of course, Pip the
[46:20] Troll was voiced by Patton Oswalt
[46:22] in the end credits scene of Eternals.
[46:24] Yes, you're right. Exactly
[46:26] right. Pip the Troll, best known
[46:28] to comics fans, the sidekick to Adam Warlock,
[46:30] a character slated to appear, I guess,
[46:32] in the next Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
[46:34] Not a Jim Starlin creation, but a character
[46:36] that Jim Starlin really put his mark
[46:38] on. As Flop House listeners will know, if they
[46:40] listen to the second of the two Elliot
[46:42] Explains Adam Warlock episodes, the first one, of course,
[46:44] was hijacked by Tom Brokaw to talk about the recent
[46:46] Dune film. But
[46:48] Griffin, you got full points from that.
[46:50] Oh, thank God.
[46:52] What I love is the...
[46:54] What I love is that
[46:56] was definitely a moment when many of
[46:58] our listeners, I'm sure, knew the answer
[47:00] and are mad at us.
[47:02] Very much so. You don't forget a great character
[47:04] like Pip the Troll.
[47:06] He's one of the few teleporting trolls
[47:08] to be loosely based on Jack Kirby's appearance.
[47:10] And you don't forget a character like that.
[47:12] Also, he fucks up
[47:14] my SEO on voice of
[47:16] Pip in Disney film.
[47:18] Yeah.
[47:20] Sorry to bring that up. Sorry to remind you
[47:22] about that. But, no, it's fine.
[47:24] Griffin, you played a great game. You knew those
[47:26] Newmans. You got some of the Griffins, and you
[47:28] picked that Pip.
[47:30] Yeah, and especially after Dan
[47:32] so thoroughly tried to
[47:34] mislead you, which was a really,
[47:36] really tricky thing to do.
[47:38] That was the kind of thing you do on a reality show
[47:40] because you're not there to make friends. You're there to win.
[47:42] Right, Dan?
[47:44] Doing it for your family.
[47:46] Yeah, I was going to say...
[47:48] It's also just embarrassing, you know,
[47:50] that you would try to lead me astray
[47:52] as if I didn't know that Charles Nelson Reilly was the voice
[47:54] of Lord, the King Consort of Queen Gnorgna.
[47:56] Yeah, that's...
[47:58] Pretty fucked up, actually.
[48:00] Of course, Cloris Leachman was
[48:02] Gnorga, the evil queen of the forest who can turn anything
[48:04] to stone with her thumb.
[48:06] Cloris Leachman, yeah.
[48:08] And Dom DeLuise, we all know,
[48:10] was the voice of Stanley, a troll with a magical green thumb
[48:12] that can grow plants.
[48:14] I mean, it's a Don Bluth film, right? So Dom DeLuise
[48:16] is going to be in there.
[48:18] You're going to have a little Dom DeLuise in there.
[48:20] They were just wheeze laughing away.
[48:22] Don and Dom, they were the
[48:24] party boys of L.A. for a while together.
[48:26] You could always find them at the Snake Pit.
[48:28] You know, when I was a kid,
[48:30] I didn't find Dom DeLuise funny,
[48:32] which seems like the perfect time
[48:34] to find Dom DeLuise funny,
[48:36] but now that I'm a middle-aged man,
[48:38] I kind of find him funny, just because
[48:40] the man is working so goddamn hard all the time.
[48:42] You respect him.
[48:44] You don't think it's that funny, but damn it,
[48:46] you respect him. Yeah.
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[52:17] Wait, Seward, what were you going to say?
[52:18] I'll get to my points.
[52:19] I was going to say, you could put together a website that lists all the famous Griffins,
[52:24] as well as all the famous Newmans.
[52:26] Mm-hmm.
[52:27] Yeah.
[52:28] And you said I could sell anything?
[52:29] Anything.
[52:30] Could I sell, like, a Yeti?
[52:33] Yes.
[52:34] Okay.
[52:35] A Yeti microphone?
[52:36] Like a dragon?
[52:37] Um, a bad dragon sex toy?
[52:41] You know what?
[52:42] Like a basilisk?
[52:43] This is my fault for unclear phrasing.
[52:49] You can sell anything that exists in the world.
[52:52] Oh, that I already have.
[52:53] Okay.
[52:54] That is, yeah.
[52:55] So I couldn't sell, like, a magic bean that when you eat it, you can change shape to be
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[53:04] You know what?
[53:05] You probably could sell it in the sense that you could claim that that is the thing, but
[53:10] then you'd be committing fraud.
[53:12] That's unconnected.
[53:13] I mean, that's you misusing the product.
[53:18] You know, like, that's a problem on your end.
[53:21] So if I'm being straight, I can set up a website where I can do just about anything that's
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[54:16] Can I ask you guys, you know, we do this little game on the Blank Check podcast, the box office
[54:22] game where I try to guess the top five movies from the box office from the weekend of the
[54:26] film that we're discussing.
[54:27] Yeah, you're very good at it.
[54:29] And I just was, I went on to the Troll in Central Park Wikipedia page just randomly
[54:33] after I listed those character names.
[54:37] I knew those, and then I just felt like looking at the Wikipedia page.
[54:41] Do you three gentlemen want to wager guesses as to the final domestic box office gross
[54:47] of a Troll in Central Park?
[54:48] This is not opening weekend.
[54:50] This is the final domestic box office gross.
[54:54] After its complete eight to nine month run in first-run theaters in the United States.
[54:58] I'm going to put in a bid.
[55:01] I'm going to say it's top.
[55:02] So you're buying, are you buying a Troll in Central Park?
[55:04] Are you buying it?
[55:05] I'm going to make a guess.
[55:06] At the Don Bluth estate sale?
[55:08] I'm going to say it topped out at $360,000.
[55:12] Okay, great guess.
[55:13] Stewart, Elliot, either of you want to wager a guess?
[55:16] I'm going to say $205,000.
[55:21] It's a while back.
[55:22] Tickets were a little cheaper.
[55:23] October 7th, 1994, film was one hour and 16 minutes long.
[55:27] Of course.
[55:29] That means I can put more showings in.
[55:32] It does, but it also means half the tickets are like half price.
[55:35] Yeah, that's true.
[55:36] Stewart, do you want to wager a guess?
[55:37] We have one guess in the $300,000, one guess in the $200,000.
[55:41] I'm going to be optimistic.
[55:43] I'm going to say $400,000.
[55:46] Wait, can I redefine mine?
[55:48] I feel like the lower numbers are staked out.
[55:50] I'm going to say $700 million.
[55:53] I'm going to say it was the number one film of that year.
[55:57] Well, Elliot, of course I should have said we're doing Price is Right rolls highest without going over.
[56:02] Closest without going over, sorry, rather.
[56:04] But it's a shame because otherwise all of you were very far off.
[56:09] The final domestic total, $71,000.
[56:14] Wow.
[56:15] That's got to hurt to see that number and know that your movie made it.
[56:21] But it didn't cost that much to make, right?
[56:25] Fewer thousands than the run time, the number of minutes in there.
[56:29] 76 minutes.
[56:31] So they didn't even make $1,000 per minute of film.
[56:34] No.
[56:35] Wow.
[56:36] I'm not going to budget here, but my guess is higher than $71,000.
[56:42] That reminds me of the time.
[56:44] I think I've talked about this on the show before, but if I did, everyone's probably forgotten it because it's kind of boring.
[56:49] That I learned that the Chinese movie Devils on the Doorstep grossed $20,000 during its American release.
[56:56] And I was like I saw that movie, so I must have been one of like 1,500 people that saw it in the entire United States.
[57:03] And I felt like I was in a little club.
[57:05] A very exclusive club.
[57:06] A very exclusive club of people who decided to go on opening night to see it at the film forum to see this Chinese import.
[57:12] The New York Times made it sound like it was a dark comedy.
[57:14] It was not a comedy at all.
[57:16] It was a very serious movie.
[57:18] Were you alone in the theater or were there other people?
[57:21] There was a small sprinkling of people.
[57:23] Wow.
[57:24] Okay.
[57:25] Were there as many people as there were when I saw the premiere of Cowards Bend the Knee and Guy Maddin showed up to introduce it in person?
[57:32] And I think there was probably less than 15 people in the audience.
[57:34] Wow.
[57:35] I think there were not that many, but there were still a few.
[57:37] It was a small sprinkling of people.
[57:38] You know what they say about troll in Central Park, right?
[57:41] Once you go troll, you never go.
[57:44] I mean of course I do, but can you enlighten our listeners?
[57:46] Yeah, of course.
[57:47] And I'm sorry to bore the listeners with the thing they already know that I'm about to just repeat on the mic.
[57:52] Only approximately 7,000 people ever saw Troll in Central Park in theaters, but every single one of them went on to write a great rock album.
[58:02] You know, it's funny that there's been so much Troll in Central Park talk because I remember very distinctly voting for Don Bluth and you guys' brackets for what to cover.
[58:17] And Marie Barty being on Twitter being like, why are you cases voting for Don Bluth?
[58:25] I'm like, look, I would love to hear this.
[58:28] When is anyone going to talk about Don Bluth to the degree that I want to hear a podcast talking about Don Bluth?
[58:34] And look, one of the more interesting kind of rise and fall film careers.
[58:40] I mean from literally like the Golden Boy at Disney.
[58:45] Yes.
[58:46] But this is interesting.
[58:48] As long as we were talking about a Troll in Central Park during an episode that probably should have ended some time ago.
[58:52] It's a maxi mini.
[58:55] I decided to look up a gnome named Norm.
[58:58] Only now learning that was not an animated film, but a live action film.
[59:04] Was that a disgusting animatronic creation?
[59:08] It was someone in a costume it looks like.
[59:11] It was directed by Stan Winston.
[59:13] Oh, jeez.
[59:15] But voiced by Rob Paulson, the great voice actor Rob Paulson.
[59:19] Who played Arthur on the Tick cartoon?
[59:23] He was Arthur on the Tick cartoon.
[59:25] It was two voices.
[59:27] It was a classic Pip situation.
[59:29] Mickey Dolenz was season one and then Rob Paulson took over.
[59:32] Yeah, exactly.
[59:33] I forgot how disgusting the gnome named Norm looked.
[59:38] This is a movie I only knew by title and I'm only realizing now.
[59:41] But it's an amazing cast.
[59:43] Because that's a fucking banger of a title.
[59:45] That is a name that sticks in your head forever.
[59:49] It will be on your death bed and that will still be in there.
[59:52] I have to assume the only movie where Jerry Orbach and Robert Zadar are in the same cast.
[59:57] And it's very important that I.
[1:00:00] for people who are listening to this and may not have ever seen a gnome named
[1:00:04] norm written out there is a G before norm so yeah that's the joke that's the
[1:00:10] yeah everybody yeah but if you're hearing it you don't know you don't know
[1:00:13] that's true no one's gonna say a gnome named gnorm or a gnome named gnorm
[1:00:18] that's not how you pronounce things Wikipedia says a gnome named norm also
[1:00:24] known in some markets as up world why even bother if you're not gonna fucking
[1:00:29] call the thing a gnome named norm why bother putting in the theaters this is
[1:00:32] my this is all my only my only suggestion maybe to play devil's
[1:00:36] advocate is that maybe that was the foreign release title in places where
[1:00:39] the hilarious gnome with the G and norm with the G wouldn't play quite the same
[1:00:43] way this is interesting I didn't sorry I mean you probably said this before when
[1:00:48] you said it was live-action but this is so much more interesting than I assumed
[1:00:52] a gnome named norm would be now I kind of want to see it the fact that it's
[1:00:55] directed by Stan Winston is about a cop who teams up with a gnome to solve a
[1:00:59] murder yeah mm-hmm and you know yeah you see that you see the pictures of norm
[1:01:05] I'm assuming is the name I mean the title says it all and you're like wow
[1:01:10] he's really hairy and strange-looking what does this whole body look and when
[1:01:14] you see his whole body it just asks more questions now now you may be asking
[1:01:19] yourself was a gnome named norms written a gnome names norm written and produced
[1:01:22] by the same man who wrote and produced Robin Hood Prince of Thieves well yes of
[1:01:25] course it was of course it was and did that same man also supervise the fight
[1:01:29] montages in Rocky 2 but yes of course we all know that yeah no name norm this is
[1:01:36] like if Brian Froud fell asleep while drawing I think I like the Spanish name
[1:01:43] no mo cop I'm realizing I absolutely have been picturing a different movie in
[1:01:53] my head when I have heard a gnome named norm yeah there was some early 90s
[1:01:59] Disney Channel rotation movie in which there's like some kind of troll in an
[1:02:04] office there's a visual I have yeah of like a little person with an animatronic
[1:02:09] head or maybe a lot of prosthetic makeup wearing a suit but they have like
[1:02:14] furry hobbit feet and some sort of like Brian Froud face but not as horrific as
[1:02:21] this yeah this is the buddy cop Anthony Michael Hall thing this was not what I
[1:02:25] had in mind no and in case you were wondering if this came out that the same
[1:02:28] year that the same cinematographer had King of New York directed by Abel
[1:02:32] Ferraro came out yes it was the same same year thank you for answering all
[1:02:35] these questions is that what I'm thinking of I'm waiting for like one of
[1:02:42] your listeners to eventually write in and tell me what this movie is that I'm
[1:02:47] thinking of the poster of the gnome mobile has a tall tale about little
[1:02:53] people it says they cut a timber tycoon down to size you know some people like
[1:03:00] doing like a Harrison Ford point at some gnomes this looks very W Gillis in
[1:03:06] the little people yeah it's just small people it's just actors shrunk down
[1:03:11] using the magic of movies yeah as opposed to a horrific gnome with it with
[1:03:16] a with a scary face right and I'm picturing a slightly cuter name gnome in
[1:03:21] a suit yeah sitting behind a desk what is this movie I'm thinking someone please
[1:03:26] write I can I know I I can see it too I see like the VHS cover of this thing
[1:03:32] yeah okay well that's the cliffhanger that I think we should end on a hole in
[1:03:39] office movie no I'm finding I'm finding a VHS box for upworld which has English
[1:03:45] text on the front says Casey's a cop gnomes and norms a gnome together the
[1:03:49] long and short arm of the law so I was wrong that's not the foreign title they
[1:03:52] just decided I guess to I guess maybe they thought they could fool some people
[1:03:56] at the video store into thinking it wasn't a norm a gnome named norm that
[1:03:59] they were that they were renting sure was there something that you wanted to
[1:04:04] yeah yeah so before so thanks so much for joining us Griffin this has been
[1:04:10] great my pleasure always a pleasure this this mini is part of the flop house
[1:04:15] podcast thank you so much for listening we're on the maximum fun network it's
[1:04:20] produced by Alex Smith say thank you a bunch and bye
[1:04:31] and welcome back welcome to this podcast this is the kind rewind the podcast
[1:04:37] where we recap Dan and Stuart going out to dinner with actor Richard kind I'm
[1:04:42] your host or Wellington and joining me is Dan McCoy and we have two guests as
[1:04:45] well we got Elliot Kaling Griffin Newman hey everybody Dan so what do you
[1:04:50] think of that food it's very very very nice very nice very nice evening but I
[1:04:55] think what people are really looking forward to the meat of this podcast that
[1:04:58] is not the meat of the meal because that was actual meat but the meat of the
[1:05:01] podcast of course is what did you think of actor Richard kind well I'll tell you
[1:05:08] something I've never seen so much pure joy on someone's face and never taken so
[1:05:13] much joy in someone's reaction is when for whatever reason Audrey mentioned us
[1:05:19] going on the avatar amusement park ride and Richard kinds face getting super
[1:05:27] serious and super enthused saying that's the best ride and just like the
[1:05:34] intensity and clear love for the avatar ride was delightful to see I just want
[1:05:41] to say that both of you texted me while you were at dinner with Richard kind to
[1:05:45] tell me that you were at dinner with Richard kind well you know when you're
[1:05:52] at when you have dinner with someone at the level of a Richard kind you got a
[1:05:57] letter window and I feel like the exact same thing in your position of the
[1:06:00] people in my life I'm like Griffin really wants yeah and I believe my
[1:06:06] response was this is the third time someone has independently brought up
[1:06:11] Richard kind to me today he's on everybody's lips there's one name on
[1:06:17] everybody's lips and it's kind it had happened in two in-person conversations
[1:06:21] hours apart the same day that you both of you then texted me and said we're at
[1:06:26] dinner with Richard kind right now yeah what a dream and for me it was it was
[1:06:32] quite it was really great to watch my man Dan McCoy chatting up about theater
[1:06:38] stuff with Richard kind smiles all around a lot of love yes so this has
[1:06:45] been the kind rewind thanks so much for tuning in bye
[1:06:52] Stuart I think you showed so such restraint and not bringing that at any
[1:06:57] point when we were just talking about no movies the trick is I forgot about it
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We invite Griffin Newman (of Blank Check fame) on for a mini with an excess of premises. Is it about Griffin addressing the nation? Is it a pop quiz? Is it a quiz GAME? Is it about A Gnome Named Gnorm? Is it another of Stu's Flop House spinoffs in his increasingly large Flop Podcastic Universe? Who knows? The important thing is, WE had fun.

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