FH Mini 66 - The Peach Pit After Dark

[0:00] Good evening. It's Tuesday, October 25th, 11, 19 p.m. And you are listening to The Peach Pit

Stuart Wellington

[0:15] After Dark, the one podcast covering The Peach Pit, a Flophouse review podcast.

[0:21] Tonight's episode will focus on Flophouse Mini 63, The Peach Pit. So it's recommended

[0:27] that you listen to that first. Before we get started, let me introduce our guests. Right

[0:33] out of the gate, we have the man with the plan, and the plan ain't pretty, Dan McCoy. Hey,

[0:39] Dan McCoy, thanks for joining us.

Dan McCoy

[0:41] Is this how you do it on The Peach Pit? You tell the actual date and time that we record

[0:45] the show? Is that a thing that the standard for The Peach Pit?

Stuart Wellington

[0:47] This is how we do it on The Peach Pit After Dark. Sorry to interrupt you, Dan. You are

[0:51] the guest in this house. I just want to make sure that the listeners weren't confused and

[0:54] thought that they were listening to The Peach Pit. This is The Peach Pit After Dark.

Dan McCoy

[0:58] No, that is confusing. Thank you for clarifying.

Stuart Wellington

[1:01] No problem. And we have some more guests. The next one, of course, it's the motor-mouthed

[1:06] maniac of New York himself, Elliot Kalin. Elliot, thanks for coming.

Elliott Kalan

[1:11] Thank you so much for having me, Stu. I've always wanted to be on The Peach Pit After Dark,

[1:14] my favorite after-show, after-show podcast.

[1:17] Now, Stuart, you said we have some- Notice how quickly I grasped the concept as opposed

Dan McCoy

[1:21] to Dan, who stumbled his way through it.

Elliott Kalan

[1:23] No, I grasped the concept. Dan, stay beautiful. Stay beautiful.

Dan McCoy

[1:27] I realized that this was a whole separate line rather than a special within The Peach Pit.

Stuart Wellington

[1:33] Also, you said that we have more guests. So, beyond Elliot, who-

[1:39] Thank you so much for setting this up, Dan. Yes, that's right.

[1:42] Let me introduce our last guest for this episode. That's the information broker to the movie

[1:47] jokers. That's right. Spaghetti Jones is here, everybody.

[1:51] What?

Elliott Kalan

[1:52] Yeah, thanks for having me here, everybody. It's great to come back to one of my favorite podcasts.

[1:57] I actually like this one more than The Peach Pit and more than The Flophouse.

Dan McCoy

[2:01] Thank you so much for joining us.

[2:03] I'm sorry, Mr. Jones. I really apologize.

[2:05] Well, thanks. Thanks for nothing, Dan.

[2:07] I thought that this was a character that Stuart was introducing for the first time,

[2:11] but now I recall that, of course, he's the beloved-

[2:14] What was he? He's both a robber and-

[2:18] He's like an informant robber.

Elliott Kalan

[2:20] I'm a shoeshine boy who also informs about movies.

[2:22] Okay.

Stuart Wellington

[2:23] And occasionally robs banks, if I'm correct, right?

Elliott Kalan

[2:26] Yeah, sometimes, but that's, you know, I don't like to advertise that part of my resume.

Stuart Wellington

[2:32] Certainly, yeah, you wouldn't want to. It's not on your cover letter.

Dan McCoy

[2:35] But you do advertise that you are an informant, which means that people, you know, would get mad at you.

[2:42] About movies, though, right?

[2:44] Yeah, I guess it's true. He's more of a publicist.

Elliott Kalan

[2:49] I guess that's a kind of less dramatic way to describe what I do, and let's not forget the shoeshining.

[2:53] Mm-hmm.

[2:55] Now-

[2:56] I hope this is a rough approximation of my voice.

[2:58] I got to admit, I'm not fully sure exactly how I talked before.

[3:02] Nope.

[3:02] I remember there was a certain amount of mispronunciation, but I don't really remember exactly too many of the other details about my own voice, which is strange.

[3:09] I must have gotten knocked on the head with a coconut earlier tonight.

Stuart Wellington

[3:13] Yeah, it's quite possible.

[3:14] Well, despite that injury, I'm glad that you made it here, Spaghetti Jones.

[3:18] Now, let's just jump right into it, guys.

[3:21] My first question for the three of you, mainly Dan and Elliot here, is when I, Stuart Wellington, host of the Flophouse, host of the Peach Bit, host of the Peach Bit After Dark.

[3:32] Yeah.

[3:32] When I came to you with the premise for the Peach Bit as a Flophouse Mini, what was your initial reaction?

Dan McCoy

[3:40] I mean, I think I did what I normally do, which is sort of project my attitudes about a project onto others.

[3:48] And I thought to myself, that sounds complex.

[3:50] I wouldn't like to do it, so Stuart probably won't actually do this idea.

[3:54] Okay.

Stuart Wellington

[3:55] I mean, that makes sense.

[3:57] Elliot, do you have any feedback here?

Elliott Kalan

[4:00] I don't actually remember being presented with the idea beforehand, but I thought, you know what, Stuart, he's taken me on a lot of joy rides.

[4:11] Metaphorically, I've been blindfolded in the back of his late model van many times, and he's always brought me to a great destination rather than a basement.

[4:20] And so I was like, okay, let's let him loose.

[4:23] Let's take him where we're going to go.

[4:26] And I don't think I was disappointed.

[4:28] Was I spaghetti?

[4:29] No, you loved it.

Dan McCoy

[4:30] And to be fair, I've been in some great basements, too, in my time.

[4:33] So it's a false dichotomy.

Stuart Wellington

[4:35] In college, I saw a lot of shows in basements, and I played ping pong in a basement or two.

[4:41] Now, just—

Elliott Kalan

[4:42] I think I'm—you know what I'm bringing into it?

[4:43] My new frame of reference as a California resident.

[4:46] In Los Angeles, there's very few houses with basements because of earthquake danger.

[4:50] So here, taking some to a basement is slang for, I'm going to bury you in the foundations of your house.

[4:54] No, no, I catch your drift.

[4:56] Oh.

Dan McCoy

[4:56] I just didn't want to, you know, be—

[4:58] There's some great basements out there.

[5:00] Yeah, right.

[5:01] There might be some basements listening.

[5:02] Keep it on, basements.

Stuart Wellington

[5:03] We don't want to offend our basement listeners.

[5:05] And how often do you come across that slang, Elliot, in your day-to-day life?

[5:10] Oh, in L.A. almost daily.

[5:11] Uh-huh.

[5:12] Anytime you're trying to park or I don't know what, go to—

[5:15] Yeah, anytime you're trying to parkour.

[5:17] Yeah.

[5:17] Anytime you're trying to parkour, you start threatening people.

Elliott Kalan

[5:21] Hey, get off of my aerial or I'm going to take you to my basement.

Dan McCoy

[5:24] Yeah, yeah.

[5:25] Every time I try to parkour, I end up in the hospital.

Stuart Wellington

[5:28] Oh, wow.

[5:29] That's too bad.

[5:30] Is it the hospital located in District B13?

[5:33] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[5:34] I think it's because you love to entertain the sick children there.

[5:37] You hop over roofs and through fences to get there and entertain them.

Dan McCoy

[5:41] I have a mistaken belief that the best medicine is fancy walking.

Elliott Kalan

[5:46] So, not to—

[5:48] As opposed to casual walking, which is Christopher walking.

[5:50] Yeah.

[5:51] And not fancy walking his billionaire brother who wears a tuxedo and is often at fancy gallows.

Stuart Wellington

[5:58] Or the country version walking in Memphis.

[6:02] So, just to clarify, if this is your first time tuning into The Peach Pit After Dark,

[6:08] this is a podcast—

[6:09] Which it has to be.

[6:09] This is a podcast where we talk about and review an episode of the podcast The Peach Pit,

[6:15] which is a podcast that reviews an episode of The Flophouse Podcast.

[6:20] Okay.

[6:21] Okay?

[6:21] Following?

[6:22] Yeah.

[6:22] Okay.

Dan McCoy

[6:23] So, what episode of The Peach Pit are we reviewing?

Stuart Wellington

[6:25] We are reviewing the episode of The Peach Pit that reviews the episode of The Flophouse covering Amityville and space.

[6:32] That can be found in the feed of the Flophouse, Flophouse mini number 63.

[6:36] Okay.

[6:37] I think I'm familiar with that episode.

Elliott Kalan

[6:39] So, this is the middle of Pit-tober, the month when the Peach Pit talked about Shocktober episodes.

[6:45] Mm-hmm.

Dan McCoy

[6:45] The month—

[6:46] And not when we talk about the movies of Pitoff.

[6:49] That was when Ronnie Chang was on the show to talk about Catwoman.

Stuart Wellington

[6:54] That's actually true.

[6:55] Yeah, that's correct.

[6:56] So, one of the big things talked about in this episode of The Peach Pit, of course, was the celebration, the anniversary.

[7:06] Mm-hmm.

[7:06] 15 years, guys.

[7:08] And let's take us back there.

[7:12] Oh.

Elliott Kalan

[7:13] Well, the screen is being shared.

[7:14] For those at home, Stuart is sharing his screen.

[7:17] Mm-hmm.

[7:18] The image hasn't come up for me yet.

Dan McCoy

[7:21] I've got it.

[7:22] The words.

[7:22] Stuart Wellington has started screen sharing his screen.

[7:24] It appears to be the episode.

[7:25] It's intriguing.

[7:26] Flophouse from 1963, The Peach Pit.

[7:29] It was weird that this entirely different show was in the feed for our show, but—

Elliott Kalan

[7:33] It's the podcast equivalent of when that Max Headroom guy hacked into that local television feed and just said a lot of weird things, and they never caught him.

[7:46] And now he's the president of the United States.

[7:47] That's right.

[7:48] I can now reveal that it was Joe Biden that pulled off the famous Max Headroom television hack.

Stuart Wellington

[7:52] Now, while you guys were talking, I was playing a clip from the—

Elliott Kalan

[7:55] That was a big response to me finally pulling the Max Headroom mask off of one of America's most notorious video hackers.

Dan McCoy

[8:03] All right.

[8:03] Sorry.

[8:04] Well, I can only assume our listeners are peeing all over themselves in surprise, but you guys are taking it very, very stoically.

[8:10] Well, I'm interested in the actual thing that Stuart's about to tell us.

Elliott Kalan

[8:13] All right.

[8:14] Fair point.

[8:14] You know what?

[8:15] Deep Throat, don't reveal yourself.

[8:16] I'm too busy going to this carnival.

[8:19] No, Deep Throat was.

[8:21] Jimmy Hoffa's body, I don't need to know where you are.

[8:24] I'm about to go watch TV.

[8:25] I mean, I don't need to know where Jimmy Hoffa's body is.

[8:29] Not with that attitude.

[8:31] Stu, you were saying?

Stuart Wellington

[8:32] So, while you were talking about that, I was attempting to share audio on my end.

[8:37] And I'm assuming that happened or didn't happen.

Dan McCoy

[8:40] It didn't happen.

[8:41] That's why we kept talking for the entire time.

[8:42] No, it didn't happen here either.

Stuart Wellington

[8:43] Didn't happen at all.

[8:45] Yeah.

[8:45] Okay.

[8:45] Well, I think it's probably a good time for me to double check my Zoom settings.

[8:50] Mm-hmm.

[8:51] Because it played perfectly fine for me.

[8:54] And I'm sure it, is it showing you the image of my screen?

[8:58] Yes.

[8:58] Yeah.

[8:59] Okay.

[8:59] But it won't actually make the sound.

[9:01] I don't hear the noise.

Dan McCoy

[9:03] No, I haven't heard it.

[9:04] The sound.

Stuart Wellington

[9:04] There we go.

[9:07] Okay.

[9:09] And here.

[9:11] Just to prompt you guys again, this is talking about celebrating 15 years of the Flophouse.

[9:18] And resume.

[9:20] So, Dan, it has been 15 years for you as you are the creator, founder, genius behind the Flophouse.

[9:28] Yeah, yeah.

[9:28] So, yeah.

[9:29] How do you feel about this little house you've constructed?

Dan McCoy

[9:33] Yeah, I guess I feel good.

[9:37] I mean, like, it's definitely, I did not expect actual success when I started it, I have to say.

[9:45] So, I feel good about it.

[9:46] What did you expect?

[9:48] I don't know.

[9:48] I was throwing a lot of stuff against the wall back then, trying to, like, figure out how to make some kind of showbiz career.

[9:58] And I guess that's what happened.

[9:59] I made some kind of showbiz career.

Stuart Wellington

[10:02] And you made a showbiz career, right?

[10:06] Now, the question is, Dan, thinking about it now, what would you do differently if you could go back 15 years and do this whole podcast thing all over?

Dan McCoy

[10:18] Like, just the podcast decisions.

Stuart Wellington

[10:21] No other decisions?

[10:22] No, you could change all decisions.

[10:24] I mean, this is a safe space.

[10:25] You can talk about everything.

[10:28] We're after dark, Dan.

[10:29] Yes.

[10:30] So.

[10:30] Was there, like, a hitchhiker you ran over?

Dan McCoy

[10:32] Do I have, like, a sports almanac of some kind with me?

[10:35] Sure.

[10:36] Yes, you do have a sports almanac.

Stuart Wellington

[10:38] What would your version of the Biffverse be, Dan?

Dan McCoy

[10:42] You know how they have those casinos and the Biffverse and whatever?

[10:46] Like, I think.

[10:47] Yes, of course.

[10:48] Yeah.

[10:48] It would be more of kind of a DuckTales-themed amusement park that would be the dystopian Hill Valley.

[10:54] All right.

Elliott Kalan

[10:54] The duckstopian future that Dan McCoy is putting together.

[10:58] Yeah.

[10:58] Mm-hmm.

Stuart Wellington

[10:59] Okay.

[10:59] So, yeah.

[11:01] I mean, the podcast would be the same, though, right?

[11:04] Well, here's.

[11:04] No, that's my point.

[11:05] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[11:06] My point is I would go back and I would make a lot of money in some other endeavor so that I didn't suck the life out of the creative things in my life.

[11:17] Not this podcast.

[11:18] I want to make it clear.

[11:19] I'm not talking about that.

[11:20] I'm talking about other stuff.

[11:21] You're talking about the peach pit after dark.

[11:24] Yeah, yeah.

[11:25] Okay.

[11:26] I just want to keep my love of comedy intact so I can do this podcast as a hobby while I was independently wealthy.

Stuart Wellington

[11:34] That sounds great.

[11:35] Elliot, what changes might you make to your life?

Elliott Kalan

[11:38] If I went back 15 years?

[11:39] Uh-huh.

Stuart Wellington

[11:41] If you say don't ever do the Flophouse in the first place, I would be impressed.

[11:46] Why would that impress you?

[11:47] That's a curious.

[11:49] Because it's a wild way to make everyone mad at you.

[11:52] Yeah, that's true.

Elliott Kalan

[11:53] Yeah, I'm slowly evolving into a heel as I get older, but I'm not that much of a heel yet.

[11:59] I think probably I would.

[12:03] There's some outside of work things that I would pursue more, but the Flophouse, I'd just keep doing it the same way I do it.

[12:09] Maybe I'd try to get us to put more into publicity, put more effort into publicizing the Flophouse.

[12:15] But you know what?

[12:17] We're doing great.

[12:17] Like skywriting and stuff?

[12:19] Yeah.

[12:19] And in this world, survival is success.

[12:22] So, yeah, skywriting.

[12:23] Yeah.

[12:24] We'd probably put fortunes in fortune cookies that were like, you will listen to the Flophouse.

[12:29] That kind of stuff.

Dan McCoy

[12:29] We probably could have gotten professional earlier, although arguably we're still not there.

[12:33] So, that's another change we could have done.

Elliott Kalan

[12:36] I guess.

[12:37] I mean, doing it for – not waiting, what was it, seven or eight years to start charging money to do the show was somewhat of a mistake.

Stuart Wellington

[12:44] Yeah, just putting it out there for everyone.

[12:47] I probably would not have recorded every episode for the first ten years very drunk.

[12:56] Maybe eight years.

[12:58] Who cares?

[12:58] Whatever.

[12:59] It's fine.

[12:59] Don't listen to the early episodes.

[13:02] You know, I'm a different man.

Elliott Kalan

[13:03] I feel like there must be some episodes in the first eight to ten years that you can listen to.

Dan McCoy

[13:07] Yeah, the honest answer is there's probably plenty of things I said back then that I wouldn't stand behind now.

Stuart Wellington

[13:13] Yeah, you're like, Donald Trump is going to be the best president ever, et cetera, et cetera.

Dan McCoy

[13:17] I think I'm on record with my feelings about that.

Stuart Wellington

[13:21] Although there was that time where I made a joke during the G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra episode and I said that the American people would never elect a leader with that crazy of a haircut and that was proven incorrect.

Elliott Kalan

[13:32] Incredibly wrong.

[13:33] Oh, man.

Stuart Wellington

[13:34] You had to eat those words.

[13:35] It's your fault that we got a man like that.

[13:38] Because America said, oh, yeah, we'll show you.

[13:40] A bitter meal, the broccoli rabe of meals.

[13:44] So on this episode of The Peach Pit, there was a moment where Stuart made a reference joke in one direction and Dan and Elliot decided to go in a different direction.

[13:54] Let's listen.

Elliott Kalan

[13:55] You know what?

[13:56] I'm upgrading it to volcanic.

[13:58] It's as hot as you can get.

[13:59] Oh, wow.

Stuart Wellington

[13:59] Smoking, somebody stop me.

[14:01] Smoking like aces.

Elliott Kalan

[14:04] So.

[14:05] If your aces are smoking, please call the Hoyle Company and complain.

Dan McCoy

[14:08] Yeah, stop playing your Texas Hold'em or whatever it is, you know.

[14:13] Drop those.

[14:13] Don't hold them.

[14:14] Yeah.

[14:14] Drop those cards.

Stuart Wellington

[14:16] So I decided to go in the mask direction.

[14:19] You guys went smoking aces.

[14:21] Now, which reference do you think is more appropriate for the Flophouse listeners?

[14:27] Which, which I feel like the mask is a little more common.

[14:30] Smoking aces is a little more niche.

Elliott Kalan

[14:32] It feels like a false choice.

[14:33] Yeah.

[14:33] I don't think that we need to.

[14:34] I don't think either of those choices is inappropriate.

Dan McCoy

[14:37] I think both jokes registered and were appreciated by the audience.

Stuart Wellington

[14:40] How many times have you seen both of those movies?

Dan McCoy

[14:43] Let's see.

[14:46] I would say that I've seen the mask maybe two and a half times and smoking aces once.

Elliott Kalan

[14:53] Wow.

[14:53] And I would say, I would say, as a kid, I probably watched the mask, I don't know, six times.

[14:59] A hundred times.

[14:59] And smoking aces I have never seen.

[15:00] Now, okay.

[15:01] It's a movie that for me is only a, only a poster.

Dan McCoy

[15:03] Is this, are you, you know, is there an implication here, Stuart, that this was a superior reference?

[15:09] Because here's my secret.

[15:12] My secret to not succeeding in comedy.

[15:15] I have always had a stubborn belief that the stranger, less accessible reference will be funnier.

[15:22] Which has, you know, led me to where I am today.

[15:26] Sort of a middle tier broadcaster.

Elliott Kalan

[15:29] Well, it's why, it's why I think there was a, there was a big hullabaloo over at the Daily Show when you were working there.

[15:35] When you, you pushed so hard for that Toxic Avenger for President running campaign that you wanted to have appear at least twice a week on the show.

[15:45] And people were like, I just don't think anyone really remembers that much about the Toxic Avenger.

[15:49] And Dan was like, that's the point.

[15:50] That's the point.

[15:51] And then once we've got their interest, we turn it into the Toxic Crusaders, the cartoon show, which is even more obscure.

Stuart Wellington

[15:57] Yeah.

[15:57] That was an interesting choice, Dan.

[15:59] You didn't share that with our, with our listeners.

[16:01] Do you want to elaborate any more on this Toxic Avenger thing?

Dan McCoy

[16:04] As far as I know, a made up story.

[16:07] Although, you know.

Elliott Kalan

[16:09] As far as you know.

[16:11] Are you being interviewed by a Senate committee?

[16:13] That was a very covering your bases answer.

Dan McCoy

[16:14] My memory is very bad, Elliot.

[16:17] But I do want to say this, listening back to this episode of The Peach Pit.

[16:22] Alex is doing a great job producing.

[16:25] Like, with these nice headphones on.

[16:28] Yeah.

[16:28] It sounds crisp.

[16:29] Everyone sounds different.

[16:30] Like, there's a feeling of dimensionality to the sound.

Stuart Wellington

[16:34] Love it.

[16:34] So, yeah.

[16:35] Dan's referencing Alex Smith, who is the producer on The Peach Pit After Dark, as well as The Peach Pit and The Flophouse, as well as many other shows.

[16:44] Very busy man.

[16:44] Some of which you may hear later.

[16:46] The next question, of course, goes for Mr. Spaghetti Jones.

[16:50] And the question is...

[16:51] Finally.

[16:52] How is your podcast, Curly's Corner, going?

Elliott Kalan

[16:55] Yeah.

[16:56] Unfortunately, I had to take a short break from Coily's Coiner.

[17:00] That's my podcast.

[17:01] And, you know, just a lot of things going on in my personal life.

[17:05] And I just couldn't...

[17:06] And now that I'm remembering more what spaghetti sounds like, it's just, you know, I think I might get back to it.

[17:12] But it's just been a busy time.

[17:13] It's been a busy time for Spaghetti Jones and Coily's Coiner.

Stuart Wellington

[17:15] You mentioned problems in your personal life.

[17:17] I think this might be the right time to address.

[17:20] Are you ready to address the public allegations that have been made against you, Spaghetti Jones?

Elliott Kalan

[17:24] I'm not familiar with any allegations that might have been made against me.

[17:28] It seems...

[17:29] I just feel like...

Stuart Wellington

[17:29] I don't know what you're talking about.

[17:30] I feel like you should...

[17:32] We should talk about them here on air as opposed to dodging them entirely.

[17:35] This might...

[17:35] This is a safe space for you, Spaghetti Jones.

Elliott Kalan

[17:38] I mean, it would be a safe space if people weren't ambushing me already with these questions.

[17:43] Sure.

[17:44] Well, what do you want to talk about?

[17:44] I'm an open book.

[17:45] I'm an open...

[17:46] I'm an informant.

[17:46] I'm an open book.

[17:47] I tell people all the time.

[17:48] I'm always...

[17:49] Whatever.

[17:49] And sometimes I rob banks.

[17:51] But what's that?

[17:51] What are you saying about me?

Stuart Wellington

[17:53] Your silence is deafening.

[17:55] Well, thank you so much for joining us, Spaghetti Jones.

[17:57] We're going to continue the show.

[17:59] Was that my time?

[18:01] I need to finish?

[18:01] That's your time.

[18:02] Do you have anything you'd like to plug?

Elliott Kalan

[18:06] I guess the return of Coily's Corner, my podcast, which I guess I have to put out to clear my name,

[18:13] against allegations that may or may not exist based on things that never, certainly never happened.

[18:19] Can you give me one clue as to which specific of the many allegations leveled against me?

[18:24] So the next...

[18:25] You're affoying to?

Stuart Wellington

[18:26] The next thing I want to talk about in this recent episode of The Peach Pit, of course.

[18:30] Sorry, Curly.

[18:30] We've got to move on.

[18:32] Is, of course, there's a moment of Star Wars talk and let's get right into it.

[18:37] There's sex.

Elliott Kalan

[18:37] I know, Dan, that you would rather be a modern day George Lucas and go back and fix what you think are problems with the original,

[18:44] which are really what people love about it.

[18:46] I see.

[18:46] But, you know, maybe you want to insert a scene with Jabba the Hutt that there's really no point for because just repeating information that was in the Greedo scene.

Dan McCoy

[18:54] But what if someone steps on his tail and his eyes bug out all funny?

Elliott Kalan

[18:58] Yeah.

[18:58] What if the power dynamic that's being established between Han Solo, smuggler afraid of his life, and Jabba the Hutt, Incredible Crime Lord,

[19:06] a member of the band, the Incredible Crime Lords, what if that was for a moment—

[19:10] Also a member of the family of the Incredibles.

[19:13] Yeah.

[19:13] What if that was just completely ignored and he stepped on his tail, thus having Han Solo, I guess, put Jabba in his place for a moment with no punishment whatsoever?

[19:22] Yeah, you want to do that kind of thing with small timber, small vember.

[19:25] And you're like, oh, I always meant it to be small timber, so I guess I'll go back and change it so that me as an old man is happy,

[19:31] even though it's making millions of fans around the world unhappy.

[19:35] That's how you feel about it?

Stuart Wellington

[19:36] So, is this the first time that we have ever talked about Star Wars on the floor pass?

[19:42] I don't remember any other ones.

Elliott Kalan

[19:44] Actually, just to break kayfabe for the moment, two things.

[19:48] One, I was looking for the word undercut during that, and it just wasn't coming into my head.

[19:53] But that's what I should have said.

[19:54] I undercut the menace, the power dynamics.

[19:56] But also, someone today was telling me how much they loved our routine about Luke Skywalker and the people on Tatooine, assuming that he killed his aunt and uncle,

[20:05] and then fled to escape punishment after the events of the first Star Wars.

Stuart Wellington

[20:10] Was that one of those bits that I started and then it's like, I'm going to take this ball and run a marathon with it?

Elliott Kalan

[20:15] Exactly what happened is Stuart picked up that diamond and said, what is this?

[20:20] And described it.

[20:21] And then I snatched it from his hands and ran away and dug in my own personal bank.

Stuart Wellington

[20:25] Yeah, yeah.

[20:25] I'm the D-gall to your Smeagol.

Elliott Kalan

[20:30] You're the Jack Kirby to my Stan Lee.

[20:33] We were like, look at this cool idea.

[20:34] And I'm like, yeah, yeah, it's mine now.

[20:36] I own it.

[20:36] Anyway, bye.

Stuart Wellington

[20:37] I feel like we – for a non-specifically tagged Star Wars podcast, the Flophouse and the Peach Pit, talk about Star Wars quite a bit.

Dan McCoy

[20:49] Yeah, we're white men in our middle age.

[20:53] What are you talking about?

Elliott Kalan

[20:54] At this point, Star Wars is possibly the closest thing America has to a shared common culture.

[21:01] Yeah.

[21:01] That's – I mean –

[21:02] It's kind of what the Bible was to the 18th and 19th century.

[21:07] Yep.

[21:07] And what – I don't know.

[21:09] What would it have been in the first half of the 20th century what a shared vision of democracy was in the second half of the 20th century?

Dan McCoy

[21:18] When Little Mel died and everyone cried about it?

Elliott Kalan

[21:21] Yeah, just all those people waiting on the docks for that ship to come in from George Lucas' private island asking, is Jar Jar still around?

[21:29] What happened to Jar Jar?

Dan McCoy

[21:30] Tell us.

Elliott Kalan

[21:31] We can't wait for you to unload the manuscripts of Star Wars.

[21:35] Exactly.

[21:36] Nobody ever talks about Big Mel.

Stuart Wellington

[21:38] Or nobody talks about the boy in the bubble anymore.

[21:41] The baby with the baboo.

[21:43] Or the balloon.

[21:43] The balloon who's the boy in the balloon.

Elliott Kalan

[21:45] Yeah, yeah, because what, business is magical and magical is art or science is magic and magic is art.

[21:49] How does that sound?

Dan McCoy

[21:49] Now we're just reciting lyrics.

[21:51] And I see that Stuart is hovering over some sort of other clip.

Elliott Kalan

[21:57] What an amazing segue would be if this was a part of the episode where we talked about Paul Simon.

[22:03] It would be amazing.

Stuart Wellington

[22:05] Partly because I'm not particularly familiar with the works of Paul Simon outside of, I guess, his hits.

[22:12] Dan, I'm assuming, is into all the deep cuts and B-sides of Paul Simon's catalog.

[22:15] I wouldn't go that far.

Dan McCoy

[22:17] But I had some of his, you know, his early solo albums.

[22:23] And you're funny to say.

[22:25] You took us down Paul Simon Drive, Stuart.

[22:28] And I wasn't prepared.

[22:30] Wait, I drove the car to a ditch.

Elliott Kalan

[22:33] To be fair, I pointed at Paul Simon Drive and said, hey, what's down there?

[22:36] And then Stuart jerked the wheel over to head straight down it.

[22:40] Unfortunately, what was there was a brick wall.

Stuart Wellington

[22:42] It's okay.

[22:43] The thing is that that's, we can chalk that one up to a whoopsie.

[22:46] And whoopsies are a big part of the peach pit.

[22:49] And so we're going to talk about probably the biggest whoopsie of the night.

[22:53] Grease's jeans.

[22:56] Crystal?

Dan McCoy

[22:58] That was not from Grease's jeans.

[23:03] That was not from Jesus Christ's super crystal.

Elliott Kalan

[23:08] No.

[23:08] Were you trying to say Jesus Christ's super crystal and you said Grease's jeans?

[23:13] Yes.

Stuart Wellington

[23:16] Grease's jeans, Dan.

[23:19] So take us back there.

[23:21] What was going on in your head?

Dan McCoy

[23:23] Well, if you listen, I never actually said Grease's jeans, but I did go along with Elliot.

[23:29] What did you say, Grease's jeans?

[23:30] I said Grease's Jesus.

[23:33] Grease's Jesus?

[23:34] All right.

[23:36] So I guess that was my whoopsie.

[23:39] What?

[23:40] Yeah, no, I was trying to get to.

[23:42] What Dan was trying to say was Grease's Jesus.

[23:49] Less popular.

[23:51] I had a harder time finding followers.

Stuart Wellington

[23:54] Grease's jeans.

Dan McCoy

[23:55] We have a good time on this podcast.

[23:56] What if I just started talking during the clips and then the listener wouldn't know whether,

[24:02] what level of reality they were currently in?

Stuart Wellington

[24:04] I mean, that would be kind of fitting for tonight.

[24:08] So the-

Elliott Kalan

[24:08] I mean, if anyone listening knows what level of reality they're on, I would so much appreciate the help in that.

[24:14] So please write in and tell us what level of reality we're currently at.

[24:18] Because every day I think I've got it and it turns out I'm way off.

Stuart Wellington

[24:20] So we keep getting emails about the Church of Greasy Jesus.

[24:27] And so I have to ask Dan, have you been saved yet?

Dan McCoy

[24:32] Have I been thinking about turning it into a real religion?

[24:35] Yeah, have you heard the oily news?

[24:38] I mean, we could, you know, well, what if we were sort of a benevolent Scientology?

[24:44] I was going to say we could be like a figure like L. Ron Hubbard, but you know, there's a lot of horrible stuff.

[24:48] What if we like started kind of just like a religion that was just a place for, you know, people to hang out after work?

Elliott Kalan

[24:57] I mean, I think a benevolent religion is what Jesus tried to do and it kind of got out of his control at a certain point.

Dan McCoy

[25:03] His mistake was he died.

[25:06] Are you sacrificing himself?

[25:07] Not the first time he died.

[25:09] Not the first time he died.

[25:10] Like when he died, that part kind of like made his name.

[25:15] But then when he left after he came back, that was the mistake.

[25:20] Because then it was in our hands.

[25:22] So we kind of messed with it.

Elliott Kalan

[25:23] I don't think technically that, you know, priests would say that he died at that point when he went to heaven.

[25:30] But I like the idea that Jesus died and then he came back and was like, see?

[25:33] And then someone shot him.

[25:36] Or like, he was like, see?

[25:37] I redeemed everybody and then he got in a car and the car, you know, just hit a truck or something like that.

[25:44] That he had a whole big plan that didn't get paid off.

[25:46] I think, yeah, it's like a final destination.

[25:49] I think, you know.

[25:50] Wait.

[25:51] So wait.

[25:51] Actually, I want to follow Stuart's thinking here that, so the ultimate final destination story is Jesus's.

[25:58] Because he did die on the cross and then escaped death and came back.

[26:01] And that Tony Todd then followed him around, I guess, waiting for the elaborate death traps to finally catch him.

Stuart Wellington

[26:08] Yep.

[26:09] Tony Todd was there to provide like knowing color commentary, but not actually do anything bad.

[26:13] He's not a bad guy.

[26:15] No.

Dan McCoy

[26:16] Here's my problem.

[26:17] I think that the issue is kind of like how the Constitution was written a long time ago.

[26:22] And then we're like, oh, we can't change it because we've decided that this document is perfect for no particular reason.

[26:30] Likewise.

Elliott Kalan

[26:30] And against the explicit wishes of the people who wrote the original document.

[26:34] Yeah.

[26:34] He said, please change this.

Dan McCoy

[26:36] So I think.

[26:37] Yeah.

[26:37] I mean, just like Star Wars.

[26:38] Bible-wise, we haven't been doing our like regular updates.

[26:43] Like we should be on version, you know.

[26:45] Yeah.

[26:46] 2.0, 2.8, 2.7.

[26:48] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[26:48] You keep getting at this notification in the upper right hand corner of your screen.

[26:51] You're like, what's this?

[26:52] Big red exclamation point for.

[26:55] I'll never check.

[26:56] I try to set it up.

Elliott Kalan

[26:56] I plug my Bible in at night.

[26:58] I leave it turned on and it does the update.

[27:00] All you get is a fire.

[27:02] It tells me.

[27:05] You've burned your house down.

[27:06] And then I got to get a new one.

[27:07] And the new one still doesn't have the most recent iOS.

[27:11] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[27:11] You know, all this talking about religion makes me think about.

[27:16] Makes me think about.

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[27:21] No.

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Dan McCoy

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Elliott Kalan

[29:01] Oh, shame moi.

[29:02] I thought you said sham moi.

[29:04] Yeah.

[29:04] Like a rag that we'd use to clean a car.

Stuart Wellington

[29:07] Not to interrupt and throw us off track, but Miss Piggy?

[29:10] Definitely in my celebrity hall pass category.

[29:13] Okay, well, I'll let Frank Oz know.

Dan McCoy

[29:17] And he can, I don't know, dig up an extra puppet.

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Elliott Kalan

[29:29] Now, I meant Frank Oz showing up at Hinterlands tomorrow with the puppet.

[29:35] And it's like the first episode of Black Mirror.

[29:37] He's like, do it.

[29:38] Go ahead.

[29:39] You said you'd do it.

[29:40] Like, okay.

[29:41] Do it right now.

Dan McCoy

[29:43] This is awful.

[29:44] I don't like, I'm sorry that I went down this road.

[29:48] HelloFresh.

[29:49] How dare you mention Miss Piggy?

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[29:56] Audrey and I had some just recently, and I am not just, I'm not, I kid you not when I say

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[30:10] And I got the healthy meal.

[30:13] And I think that a lot of times the barrier to making that kind of stuff is just the convenience,

[30:19] literally having it around.

[30:21] And I found that, you know, having these things meant that, you know, instead of me having

[30:29] to think like, what can I make in my brain drifting to something grosser, we instead had a nice,

[30:36] healthy meal.

[30:37] So.

[30:38] And.

Elliott Kalan

[30:38] Yeah.

[30:39] I'm sorry.

[30:39] Want to say that?

[30:39] No, no.

[30:40] Go on.

[30:40] I wanted to chime in and say that we also had some HelloFresh here at our non Miss Piggy

[30:46] affiliated house.

[30:47] And it was also delicious.

[30:49] I got the family friendly meals because I have two small children who are not exactly

[30:55] adventuresome eaters.

[30:57] But we had, there were these like pork tostadas, I think they were.

[31:01] And those were a huge hit with both me and the boys.

[31:04] And then also this really great macaroni and cheese that they had that the boys also really

[31:08] loved.

[31:08] And so I think if you got a family and you're, you don't want to even have to think about

[31:13] what you're going to make and you just want to have all the stuff there for you.

[31:17] Go with HelloFresh.

[31:18] They got it.

[31:19] The food's really good.

[31:19] And the ingredients were very fresh.

[31:22] And you know what they said to me when I opened them up?

[31:24] What?

[31:25] Nothing.

[31:25] They're food.

[31:26] But I felt like they were saying hello.

Dan McCoy

[31:28] Oh, okay.

[31:29] That's what you're leading us to.

[31:31] It's true.

[31:31] I chopped up some ginger.

[31:32] I'm like, this ginger is juicy, not desiccated like the ginger I usually get at the store.

[31:37] Anyway, go to.

Elliott Kalan

[31:38] Like Ginger Rogers, the mummified corpse of whom you dug up and put in your closet.

Dan McCoy

[31:42] Not for eating.

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[32:13] Stuart, you have a message too.

[32:17] Elliot actually is going to be doing a –

Elliott Kalan

[32:19] I'll take the Jumbotrons on this one.

[32:22] We've got a Jumbotron today.

[32:24] And the Jumbotron says like this.

[32:26] And it doesn't really say – again, I'm going to say it.

[32:29] It's not the Jumbotron talking out loud.

[32:31] This is me now.

[32:31] The Jumbotron Through Me says,

[32:33] Art Slice is a podcast that makes art history and sometimes color theory rowdy and accessible through storytelling, goofs, pantrymons, and real-world art insights.

[32:42] A good starting point is episode 17 featuring sculptor Maria Marcins, the wheel-in-a-galley guy, Marcel Duchamp, and the work they made as a result of their semi-secret love affair.

[32:52] Art Slice, subscribe on your pod player or go to artslicepod.com.

[32:57] And yeah, go and subscribe on your pod player or wherever you listen to podcasts or go to artslicepod.com.

[33:03] And that's Art Slice.

[33:05] And you know me.

[33:06] I'm interested in anything Marcel Duchamp related.

[33:08] So I think I'm going to listen.

Dan McCoy

[33:09] Nice.

[33:10] Great.

Jesse Thorn

[33:17] I'm Jesse Thorne.

[33:19] On the next Bullseye, our annual Halloween Spectacular.

[33:23] We'll interview Anna Fabrega from Los Espookis, Monet X Change from Drag Race, and the great R.L. Stine, creator of Goosebumps.

Dan McCoy

[33:31] You know, I don't really get too deep into the real fears.

Jesse Thorn

[33:35] It's a lot safer to do a dummy coming to life.

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[34:09] But now, as they enter their twilight years, I'm as surprised as anyone to admit that it's gotten kind of good.

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Stuart Wellington

[34:42] Hey, Grease Monkeys.

[34:43] Welcome back to the Peach Pit Pit Stop, your one-stop spot for all things related to the Peach Pit and the Peach Pit After Dark.

[34:50] Tonight, I'm joined by two members of the Flophouse Podcast.

[34:52] That's right, Dan McCoy, Elliot Kaling, podcast superstars.

[34:56] Thanks so much for joining me.

[34:57] Now, you guys are reviewers of media, okay?

[34:59] You guys review movies.

[35:01] I'm sure you guys also do some stuff on the side.

[35:03] What do you guys like to do?

[35:04] Do you guys do Letterboxd?

[35:05] Do you use Yelp?

[35:06] What's up?

[35:07] Do you like people's social media posts?

Dan McCoy

[35:10] I mean, occasionally I've been known to like a post or two, Stuart.

Stuart Wellington

[35:15] I feel like you're undercutting your own Letterboxd account because I feel like you're a contributor.

Elliott Kalan

[35:19] You're very big on Letterboxd.

[35:20] And also, we've been known on the Flophouse to talk tube with a certain tube.

[35:25] That's true.

Stuart Wellington

[35:26] We talk tube sometimes on the Flophouse Podcast.

[35:30] So, what do you like about you guys?

[35:34] I know that you do, you review things professionally.

[35:38] But do you get any joy out of doing it non-professionally?

Dan McCoy

[35:42] I mean, as referenced before, I mostly get joy out of non-professional things.

[35:47] Because professional things always end up figuring out a way to mess with you.

[35:53] But, yeah, I'm on Letterboxd.

[35:56] Dan K. McCoy.

[35:57] Like my Twitter.

[35:59] Letterboxd.com.

[36:01] Dank McCoy.

[36:03] I log everything I see.

[36:06] I make a rule that I have to write something about every one of those things.

[36:10] Sometimes it's an actual review where I'm making interesting points.

[36:14] Sometimes it's just, you know, a joke or some personal thoughts.

[36:19] And it's very short.

[36:21] But, yeah, check it out.

Stuart Wellington

[36:23] Now, as reviewers of pop culture and media, can you think of a time when reviewing something has, like recommending something to someone or reviewing something favorably has come back and bit you on the ass?

[36:38] Guess not.

[36:39] It happens to me all the time when I recommend things to people and then they're like, hey, that movie you recommended, it wasn't good.

[36:45] And I'm like, no shit, you're an idiot.

[36:47] I recommended good stuff.

[36:49] It's not my fault you don't like good stuff.

Elliott Kalan

[36:51] I don't have too many interactions like that.

[36:53] Even if someone says they didn't like it, I'm usually like, okay, that was your opinion.

[36:56] I think the closest I came to that was when many years ago.

Stuart Wellington

[36:58] No, you've got to be meaner to people, Elliot, I think.

Elliott Kalan

[37:01] Many years ago, I recommended the movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch to my mother.

[37:06] And she told me afterwards, she said, I couldn't finish it.

[37:10] That movie's for younger people.

[37:11] I love that.

[37:12] And I was just left to unpack what that comment meant.

[37:15] But otherwise, I haven't.

Stuart Wellington

[37:16] So you're like, maybe next time, mom, you should try Spring Breakers.

[37:23] Or kids.

Dan McCoy

[37:24] I mean, it's for kids right in the title.

[37:26] It says kids right there.

[37:27] Let's watch it.

[37:28] I mean, I feel like I, yeah, I'm almost defiantly like contrarian sometimes.

[37:37] What?

[37:40] Not in like an angry like troll on Twitter way, but like with my Letterboxd reviews, like I'm.

Elliott Kalan

[37:46] More like a happy troll working in a mine or as a blacksmith.

[37:49] Mine troll.

Stuart Wellington

[37:50] Yeah, yeah.

[37:51] Mine troll.

[37:52] A troll that has plenty of food.

Dan McCoy

[37:54] Like if I'm reading.

[37:56] Long, luxurious beard.

[37:58] What?

[37:58] Bearded troll.

[38:00] Again, my Letterboxd is for myself.

[38:02] So I'm writing something on there.

[38:04] I rate it as basically according to how much I enjoyed it and throw the ideas of objectivity

[38:10] out the window and I figure like, oh, if anyone's reading this is like me, they'll know, hey,

[38:15] I'm like that guy.

[38:15] I like that thing.

[38:17] But in real life, I'm almost, I'm very terrified to recommend anything to anyone because I'm like,

[38:23] I don't know what you like.

[38:25] Whatever, man.

[38:26] Like you figure it out.

[38:28] You'll probably get a.

[38:29] That's how.

[38:30] You'll probably do better.

Elliott Kalan

[38:31] I don't feel that way about movies, but I do feel that way about food.

[38:34] And I do have a very particular anxiety that I hate when someone is like, oh yeah, well,

[38:40] why don't you just order for us?

[38:42] Or like, what's good here?

[38:43] And I do not like the idea of having to be responsible for what someone else is going to eat.

[38:47] That it just.

[38:48] Yeah.

[38:48] I agree with you.

Dan McCoy

[38:50] Audrey's sometimes like, do I want this or do I want this?

[38:54] I'm like, I, why?

[38:57] Do I look like a waiter?

[38:59] Why?

[39:00] Why have you gone beyond your own mind?

[39:04] This question.

[39:05] There's no one else who could possibly be more qualified to answer this question than yourself.

[39:11] True, yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[39:12] Let me ask your tongue what it feels like.

[39:14] Audrey's tongue, which would you prefer?

[39:17] What do you think?

[39:18] Don't ask me.

[39:19] I'm not going to eat it.

Dan McCoy

[39:19] Oh, see, that's the trouble.

[39:21] Indecisive tongue.

Stuart Wellington

[39:22] Do you ever feel like a question like that is just like, almost like a, like her, her

[39:27] metaphorical hand is reaching out and saying, Dan, I want to have a conversation.

Dan McCoy

[39:32] You know, well, Stuart, you've, you know, right to the nub of the gist.

[39:38] I think that a lot of the interactions I previously got frustrated with, I, I learned like, oh, wait,

[39:45] no, this is an effort to make a human connection.

[39:48] And that I should try and indulge that.

[39:49] Not just to solve problems.

[39:50] Rather than being a robot man.

Elliott Kalan

[39:54] Sometimes people ask questions just as a way of getting to thoughts.

[39:57] Yeah.

[39:58] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[39:58] I remember, I remember when I was a little kid, I, uh, I expressed like excitement about,

[40:04] uh, like a rock and roll band.

[40:05] I think it was Queen maybe.

[40:07] I think it was right around when Wayne's World came out and I was like, wow, music's cool.

[40:11] And I remember my dad making like a snarky comment about it.

[40:15] And it immediately made me think like, oh, I will never express my interest in something

[40:20] again.

Elliott Kalan

[40:21] Yeah.

[40:22] That can be, that can be a harsh thing at an early age.

[40:24] Especially from an authority figure.

[40:25] The, uh, like stovetop learning.

Stuart Wellington

[40:26] Don't worry.

[40:27] My, my issues with my dad are, uh, are being extensively examined by me and my therapist.

[40:32] This really is.

[40:32] Oh, that's great.

Dan McCoy

[40:33] This really is Flap House after dark at this point.

[40:36] So really, we're getting real.

[40:37] This is like Taylor Swift's midnights.

[40:40] You know, these are the conversations we have at midnight.

[40:43] It's 12.03 here.

Stuart Wellington

[40:45] Yeah, it is.

[40:45] Yeah.

[40:46] 12.03.

[40:47] Um, speaking of getting real.

[40:49] Not where I am.

[40:50] 9.03 is still prime time, baby.

[40:52] Cool math.

[40:53] Um, how, uh, how, how am I doing as a host guys?

Dan McCoy

[40:58] I mean, you're really keeping us on point.

[41:01] With, with barbs like that one.

Elliott Kalan

[41:08] There's a real, there's a real steward's dad edge to that.

[41:14] Yeah.

[41:15] That's where I learned it.

[41:16] Nice math.

[41:17] Oh my God.

Stuart Wellington

[41:18] I learned it from watching you.

[41:19] Oh my God.

[41:21] Do you ever do things and you're like, that's exactly like my fucking dad does.

[41:26] Yeah.

[41:26] Like everything from like little conversation things to like,

[41:31] like a weird vocal tick where I'm like, I can't believe I say it like that.

Dan McCoy

[41:35] I mean, there are many times that I'm making like an expression with my face and I'm basically

[41:40] imagining either my dad or my two older brothers.

[41:45] Like, I'm like, I probably look like this from the outside.

Stuart Wellington

[41:53] Now guys, we're talking about getting real.

[41:56] Let's get even more real.

[41:58] Can we?

[41:59] Was it, do you guys think it was a good idea to bring Spaghetti Jones back?

[42:04] Like, do people remember him?

[42:06] Is there any like, like Dan forgot he even existed?

[42:09] There's no fan art of Spaghetti Jones is there?

Elliott Kalan

[42:12] No, he's not a, he's not a popular character.

[42:14] And also, and this was edited out by Alex.

[42:16] So of course the audience won't know this, but he had to be physically removed from the,

[42:20] from the premises.

[42:21] Yeah.

[42:21] It caused a lot of trouble.

[42:23] So it might've, might've been better if you had brought back one of our more popular characters

[42:27] like that.

[42:28] Yeah, I think you're probably right.

[42:28] Old lady who loves Tintin.

Dan McCoy

[42:29] I'll say I'm fond of the character.

[42:31] I do think that maybe the implication that he's done horrible things was a term that we didn't

[42:37] need to take.

Stuart Wellington

[42:39] Who knows?

[42:40] I mean, maybe though.

Dan McCoy

[42:41] Unless you're setting up breadcrumbs for later on.

Stuart Wellington

[42:44] Yeah.

[42:44] Oh yeah.

[42:45] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[42:45] This is all, this is all for, for several episodes later on the Peach Bit After Dark.

Stuart Wellington

[42:50] Yeah.

[42:50] Well, we're actually on the Peach Pit Pit stop right now.

[42:53] Peach Pit After Dark's a different show.

[42:56] But speaking of new shows.

[43:02] Hey, things not going your way.

[43:05] Welcome back to Life's the Pits.

[43:07] The review podcast covering the Peach Pit, a Flophouse review podcast.

[43:10] Joining us in the pit today are Dan McCoy and Elliot Kalin.

[43:14] So guys, has there been any drama on the Flophouse lately?

Dan McCoy

[43:18] Which, where are we?

Stuart Wellington

[43:20] I guess the last show ended and it's a new show now.

[43:23] We're in life.

[43:23] This is Life's the Pits.

Dan McCoy

[43:25] Oh yeah.

[43:25] I mean, is there any drama?

[43:27] I guess on the previous show we were on, we kind of got real, you know, and vulnerable.

Elliott Kalan

[43:35] Yeah, that's true.

[43:35] In this, in this Peach Pit programming block or this Flophouse discussion programming block,

[43:41] uh, uh, on, on what network is this?

Stuart Wellington

[43:44] Uh, this is, this, this, this show is not on a network, although it recommends people check

[43:48] out the Maximum Fun Network.

[43:49] Maybe at some point Maximum Fun will decide to accept, uh, Life's the Pits as a show for

[43:55] the, uh, for the network.

[43:56] Although it seems weird because it's, uh, a podcast that just focuses on reviewing other

[44:02] shows that review the Flophouse.

[44:04] Yeah.

[44:05] Um, so guys, where will this end?

[44:07] Are we just going to watch Amityville in space again?

Dan McCoy

[44:11] You think that we're somehow, uh, sort of like how if you leave matter infinitely, it will

[44:20] break down, but then eventually reform into, you know, other shapes and eventually its original

[44:28] shape that somehow we're going to circle around to Amityville again.

[44:36] Like the infinite regress of this, this bit will eventually turn into us watching that

[44:42] film.

Stuart Wellington

[44:43] So it's interesting that you talk about circles.

Dan McCoy

[44:47] No definitive answer to that, but I guess how could there be?

Elliott Kalan

[44:52] Yeah.

[44:52] Unless, unless Stuart reveals himself to be a God or Q like figure, Q from Star Trek, the

[44:57] next generation, not Q, the conspiracy character.

[45:00] Sort of the version of Kang from Loki or something.

Stuart Wellington

[45:03] Yeah.

[45:03] It's interesting that you guys bring up a God-like figure because.

[45:09] Life reminds me of a stone here in the Flophouse.

[45:15] Make a move when.

[45:16] Shatter-ass, the king's former seneschal turned rogue chronomancer, has kidnapped your companion

[45:24] Tanzer Silverview in his clock of ages at the peak of his shattered tower.

[45:29] Wait a minute.

[45:30] What's going on?

[45:30] Rain lashed down on you as you huddle in the lee of a rocky outcrop.

[45:36] Elliot, of course, you'll be playing the role of Jeremy Scalesfang Battle.

[45:40] Dan, you'll be playing the role of Lucian Buttwatcher.

[45:44] Dark forces gather above the tower.

[45:47] You only have 90 minutes to stop Shatter-ass from completing his ritual.

[45:52] A ritual that Tanzer's noble blood is a key component.

[45:56] How will you enter the chronomancer's keep?

[45:59] So why don't you guys gather your dice?

[46:01] You're going to need at least one d20, a couple of d6s, maybe a d4.

[46:04] Are we supposed to have those on hand?

Dan McCoy

[46:07] I guess.

[46:09] What if we decide to take a long rest?

Stuart Wellington

[46:13] Okay.

[46:14] Take a long rest in the, I mean.

[46:16] In the.

[46:17] You're going to want to take a short rest.

[46:19] You only have 90 minutes to prevent the ritual.

[46:20] No, I know.

Dan McCoy

[46:21] Well, I'm kind of hoping that, you know, circumstances will take care of themselves.

Elliott Kalan

[46:28] You think Tanzer's going to free himself?

[46:30] I like this plan.

[46:31] He's thinking globally, but he's acting locally, by which he means just a couple inches around him at the moment.

Dan McCoy

[46:36] Yeah, sort of hyper-locally, where I just think about my own concerns.

Stuart Wellington

[46:41] So it sounds like you're not prepared to complete this flop tale, so I think we might have to save this for another future Flophouse Mini.

[46:49] Please.

[46:50] So for Life's the Pits, the Peach Pit Pit Stop, and the Peach Pit After Dark, I've been Stuart Wellington, and I've been joined by my two pals, L.A. Kalen and Dan McCoy.

[47:03] We are representatives of the Flophouse Podcast, a great podcast that's on the Maximum Fun Network of Podcasts.

[47:10] There's plenty of other good podcasts, arguably some as complicated as this one.

[47:15] In addition, this podcast is going to be heavily edited and hopefully juiced up by Alexander Smith, who has done plenty of great work for us.

[47:23] You can find him at Howell Doughty on various social media.

[47:27] He also does a great podcast called Fast Track, of which we are going to be guests on, I think, probably around the same time this episode drops.

[47:36] If you want to hear the spookiest, scariest song in the universe.

[47:39] Sexiest, spookiest, scariest song.

[47:42] I mean, I felt that went without saying, but I guess, yeah.

[47:46] Yeah, so thanks again, guys.

[47:48] Do you have anything else to plug?

Dan McCoy

[47:52] The next iteration of this show, whatever it may be, I plug it now.

[47:58] I future plug it.

[47:59] Bye.

[48:01] Bye.

S5

[48:29] is stoned. Audience supported.

FH Mini 66 - The Peach Pit After Dark

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