FH Mini 53 - Prolific Pals

[0:00] Hey everyone, it's the Flophouse. I'm Dan McCoy. I'm Stuart Wellington, just chomping

[0:10] on some watermelon, yummy! And I'm Elliot Kalin, not choosing to shove some food in

[0:17] my mouth at the moment I'm supposed to say my name. Did I once stand there eating a bag

[0:26] of Doritos as Barack Obama got closer and closer to me, shaking hands down a line of

[0:30] people, only to realize at the last possible minute that I would have Dorito dust all over

[0:34] my hands? Yes, but I don't put food in my mouth before I say my name on a podcast.

[0:39] Yep, so everybody, this is my fucking employee review apparently. I hope it's a fucking shit

[0:47] sandwich.

[0:48] So first, Stuart, you're in great shape, that's fantastic. Criticism, you're shoving a lot

[0:54] of food in your mouth right before talking.

[0:56] I'm so hungry!

[0:57] And the final compliment is loving your array of shirts.

[1:04] Stuart is, here's a little peek behind Flophouse carton for listeners. You may be wondering,

[1:12] you know, how does Stuart get so fit? Every time I see Stuart, he is either shoveling

[1:19] fruit or nuts into his mouth at all times. I don't think he eats other foods, but like

[1:28] a squirrel he has.

[1:30] Like many healthy people, he only eats healthy, non-filling food, so he needs a lot of it.

[1:35] But he eats them all the time, constantly. My little teeths get a serious workout, let

[1:42] me tell you.

[1:43] Teeths, oh god. I was like, my little teeths get a serious workout? I don't know what you're

[1:50] doing with those fruits and nuts.

[1:51] Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you?

[1:52] I misheard you. There's nothing wrong with me. My ears are bad. I guess my ears are wrong.

[1:58] Don't think about the classic kids' toy line, my little teeths. That's a different idea.

[2:01] So what do we do on this podcast?

[2:03] Okay, primarily this is a podcast where we watch a movie, one that has been a critical

[2:09] or commercial flop, and then we talk about it. But in the off weeks, every other week,

[2:14] we kind of go freestyle. We do whatever we want. And this is one of those Flophouse Minis,

[2:20] sponsored by Minnie's Bar, apparently.

[2:23] And so now you're doing it too.

[2:25] It's spreading. Actually, this is different. This is a Flophouse Manny, sponsored by Maniac

[2:30] of New York.

[2:31] Oh, thank you. I appreciate that, Stuart.

[2:33] Nice.

[2:34] Maniac or maniac, as it's also pronounced of New York on comic book store shelves now.

[2:38] Volume one, The Death Train on trade paperback, and volume two, The Bronx is Burning. Issues

[2:42] only at the moment. Will be collected Sunday.

[2:45] So often with these minis, we sort of trade around who's taking the wheel, who's designing

[2:54] the mini for that off week. And it came up to be mine yet again. And listeners, long-time

[3:02] listeners may know.

[3:03] Yet again, as if you've been doing it more than anyone else.

[3:06] No, no, no, not at all.

[3:09] Much like the wheel of karma, this wheel of fate that is having to host Flophouse Minis

[3:15] rotates constantly.

[3:16] If anything, I haven't done it in too long because we had a lot of, you know, like interesting

[3:24] other stuff that was not necessarily any of us in the driver's seat. We just got some

[3:28] good guests, whatnot, whatever. You can listen to them. They're on our feed anyway.

[3:32] Check it out.

[3:33] But now, now that I'm in charge.

[3:37] You're the captain now.

[3:38] Devious Game Master Dan has returned.

[3:41] Oh no, oh no.

[3:44] I have another game.

[3:45] Oh shit, okay.

[3:46] McCoysaw.

[3:47] It's going to play out in two rounds of eight questions each. Don't worry, I saw Elliot's

[3:58] look of alarm.

[3:59] It probably shouldn't take that long.

[4:00] Although, you know, take all the fun diversions you want to because that's why people listen

[4:05] to this show.

[4:06] I mean, that's the thing.

[4:06] I'm factoring in the diversions.

[4:08] This is going to be a long one, folks.

[4:10] At least it's not 12 rounds.

[4:12] Check out our 12 rounds episode from years ago.

[4:14] We probably said offensive things in it because we were young then.

[4:17] Yeah, and dumb.

[4:18] That's the only reason.

[4:21] We were young and dumb and full of something.

[4:23] I don't remember what though.

[4:25] We were young, dumb, and full of gum that we'd swallow.

[4:27] You're not supposed to do that.

[4:28] It just stays in your stomach forever.

[4:30] It stays in your system forever.

[4:31] It grows into a gum tree.

[4:35] Yeah, so this is a game I devised.

[4:38] Like I said, it has two rounds of eight questions.

[4:43] I'll alternate who gets to answer first.

[4:47] And is the thing that we're supposed to take turns guessing what the game is?

[4:52] No, no, I will tell you that.

[4:53] I'm just saying I'm doing this in an unusual order where I tell the rules first.

[4:58] And then I tell you what the game is.

[5:02] So I'll give you alternating chances at it.

[5:06] And then the other person will have a chance to steal if they get it wrong.

[5:11] And it'll get a lot easier at that point, as you'll see.

[5:14] But the game is so they're very prolific artists out there in the world.

[5:21] Um, many of them working in a film and television.

[5:27] Dan, if I could bring up a real life story.

[5:29] Today, my oldest son is doing a book report on Leonardo da Vinci.

[5:33] And he wanted to find an image of the Last Supper.

[5:36] And so I looked up da Vinci paintings in the ad space that came up above the search results

[5:41] were posters of da Vinci paintings and then a poster of Scarlett Johansson.

[5:45] And I was like, wow, Leonardo da Vinci is more prolific than I thought.

[5:47] I didn't realize he painted any pictures of actresses from 500 years after he was alive.

[5:53] It's amazing.

[5:54] You know, some people just have the energy to do that kind of thing.

[5:57] Here's one of them.

[5:59] What?

[5:59] It was it was a game of Pictionary.

[6:01] And his his partner was Nostradamus.

[6:05] And Nostradamus is feeding him clues.

[6:08] There you go.

[6:08] That makes sense.

[6:09] That makes sense.

[6:11] So here's Nostradamus goes, I'm the star of Ghost in the Shell.

[6:16] Da Vinci is like the cartoon or the live action version.

[6:20] Here is one very prolific artist, no stranger to Flophouse Shores.

[6:28] His name is Mr. Eric Roberts, who has 664 acting credits on IMDb.

[6:36] Two away from Ultimate Evil.

[6:38] Now, you might think that's amazing.

[6:41] It's impossible to go bigger.

[6:43] No, no, no, no, my friend.

[6:44] Here's someone who has a lot of acting credits spread over the movies and television.

[6:51] Mr. Frank Welker.

[6:52] Uh-huh.

[6:53] The the voice actor predominantly, although, you know, sometimes he'll be himself on camera

[6:59] in a live action role.

[7:00] But he has 872 acting credits on IMDb.

[7:07] A lot of animal sounds.

[7:08] Frank Welker does.

[7:09] Yeah.

[7:09] Now, when you say as himself in an acting role, you don't mean playing Frank Welker in movies.

[7:14] Like the characters are like, we better stop off at Frank Welker's house for some advice.

[7:19] I mean, you see Frank Welker's face, even though he's playing a different character.

[7:22] You know, a live action role.

[7:23] I see, I see.

[7:24] It's how one traditionally would say that.

[7:27] Now, I know this is a movie podcast primarily, but always for a third thing,

[7:34] you want to throw in a curveball.

[7:36] James Patterson.

[7:38] James Patterson, novelist, or shall I say, man who puts his name on a lot of books,

[7:46] whether or not he actually wrote them.

[7:49] James Patterson has, quote, unquote, written more than 200 novels or I guess.

[7:56] I can believe that.

[7:57] I mean, like Isaac Asimov wrote about two times as many books.

[8:00] But a lot of those were nonfiction also.

[8:02] Yeah, well, that's yeah.

[8:04] Some of these, some of these are like, I like how you just nagged Isaac Asimov right there.

[8:11] I mean, they weren't all novels.

[8:13] Isaac and some of them were short story collections.

[8:18] Well, I'm correcting myself because I think that the website that gave me this figure

[8:23] may not have understood the difference between a novel and a nonfiction book,

[8:26] because some of the titles that were listed were nonfiction books.

[8:30] So I see.

[8:31] OK, now I mentioned James.

[8:33] James Patterson is a very prolific commercial star.

[8:36] If you're talking about actors, mainly love it.

[8:38] He puts himself in his commercials and he is hilarious.

[8:43] But basically, it's like he says, like, one word looks at the camera

[8:47] and then eventually he's like, I want to read this.

[8:51] I remember there was one for his book, Jack and Jill.

[8:53] He didn't want to Jack and Jill.

[8:57] Jack and Jill, my new novel.

[8:59] And it was like, what?

[9:03] No, no, he's using the head on commercial style,

[9:07] or if you just say the thing, it'll get lodged in your brain.

[9:12] So, of course, this game is, is this an Eric Roberts movie?

[9:17] Is it a Frank Welker project?

[9:20] You know, either movie or television show?

[9:23] Very elevated if it's a project.

[9:25] Or is it a James Patterson book?

[9:28] OK, Eric Roberts movie, Frank Welker project or James Patterson book.

[9:34] And like I said, we'll we're going to, you know,

[9:37] alternate who gets first crack at these.

[9:39] Do you have a name for this game?

[9:45] I think Roberts movie, Welker project or Patterson book is a bit long as a name.

[9:49] So let's come up with a new one.

[9:52] The Prolific Pals.

[9:55] Prolific Pals, the game.

[9:58] Cool, yeah.

[10:00] Okay, so that's also the that's also the Disney Plus animated show featuring Eric Roberts,

[10:07] Frank Welker and James Patterson solving problems around the neighborhood.

[10:11] So this it's a very similar personality team up from the what the one where it was Bo Jackson,

[10:20] Michael Jordan, Wade and Gretzky was a super athletes or whatever, something like that.

[10:26] Yeah, yeah, you know that you know that. So Eric Roberts, he's kind of the he's the Donatello.

[10:31] He's all about machines. He's very sciencey. Frank Welker is, of course, the leader,

[10:35] very noble and disciplined. And James Patterson is the is the kind of dumb brute. He's the strength

[10:41] of the team. Yeah. You know, he's not so bright, but he's got a lot of heart. Anyway, that's the

[10:45] prolific battles. I'm glad you compared it to a team of four members. Okay, well, get me a party,

[10:54] dude. And we get we get added to the group. I know I said that the digressions are the fun,

[10:59] but we're 12 minutes in and we haven't started. I should mention James Patterson is not cool,

[11:03] but rude. Yeah. Okay. He's cool. I don't want to get slandered. Yeah, that's why they call

[11:08] him James Politerson. Anyway, Dan, so prolific pals. Are we going to play this game or what?

[11:12] Yeah. So this first one still gets first crack at it. Hell, yeah. I have I've stolen the initiative.

[11:20] Yeah. You just got to answer. Roberts Welker Patterson. Okay. The title is Deadly Nightshade.

[11:31] Roberts, that is a point for Stewart. Deadly Nightshade.

[11:35] Eric Roberts played Father Walsh in that. Okay. Other not even a priest.

[11:42] Yeah, I don't know. I've never seen Deadly Nightshade. Oh, by the way, don't eat, you know,

[11:49] both of the both Roberts and Welker certainly and Patterson actually have have whatever is

[11:58] you're making it up as you go along. I can tell. No, no, no, no. All three of these people have

[12:02] future projects listed on the pages that I consulted. Okay. I will tell you, I did not

[12:07] use any future projects. Thank goodness. They're all playing fair. Yeah. Extant project. So. All

[12:13] right. Elliott. Oh, boy. Your your title is. Fire breather, fire breather. I'm going to say

[12:24] Frank Welker. You got it, buddy. Fire breather. Frank Welker plays dragon number one. It was

[12:32] probably a dragon movie. Frank Welker established plays animals. Number one. So not even a dragon

[12:39] with a name. So, you know, it was probably it was probably roars. How much of a dragon movie is this

[12:45] if the dragon doesn't have a name? Well, we know there's at least more than one dragon in it,

[12:51] I hope. Yeah. So you would think that unless there's like I mean, if there's character dragons,

[12:56] would they just name another? That would be like that's what I'm. Yeah, I think that I think that

[13:01] they feel like human number one. Yeah, I think number one, the numbering system does not

[13:08] necessarily imply that there aren't more important dragons in this movie. Hey, Frank Welker's playing

[13:13] it. Then there are no more important. That's the thing. That's true. OK, so. Well, the hero dragons

[13:19] played by Chris Pratt, of course, doing his best Italian accent. Yeah. And who play who does the

[13:24] voice of the woman dragon that actually solves all the problems, but is not technically the hero

[13:28] because Chris Pratt is technically the hero. Isabella Rossellini. Oh, I want to see this movie

[13:34] now. Isabella Waitressini. That's a long ago reference. She's not in Waitress. I don't know.

[13:44] Anyway, we'll continue. Stuart. Yeah, Stuart. Yeah. You got your you got the crack at this

[13:51] next one, huh? Yep. I've sold I've sold a march on Elliot. OK, the next title. The game is tied

[13:56] right now, but the next title is Private Paris. Private Paris. Oh, private. Wait, say it again.

[14:06] Private Paris. I'm going to say Eric Roberts. No, that's not correct. Elliot, you have a chance

[14:13] to steal. It gets easier now because there's only two. What is what is the second word in the title?

[14:19] Paris, the capital of France. Oh, I thought you're saying Paris. And I was like our parents

[14:24] and I were parrots and I couldn't I couldn't quite tell. Can we get a can we get a less

[14:28] mushmouth toast in for? No, we can't. I am the only. I mean, we could get Audrey in here, but

[14:37] I mean, we could, you know, that's true. We could we could retool the series. No,

[14:42] you know what? Probably in the middle of the pilot episode, we shouldn't start retooling.

[14:48] Maybe at least let's finish the in-house demo. Yeah. So it's Private Paris.

[14:53] I'm going to say that it's a James Patterson book. Elliot, you're correct. It is part of the

[14:58] private book series, which is apparently a book series that James Patterson has. That

[15:03] better be a book series about sex clubs in different world cities. Yeah. P is for private

[15:09] book series. That's too grafted, Stuart. The cat who ate the private books. Oh, that's somebody

[15:18] else. I don't remember who it is. Oh, man, I need an Anne McCaffrey name. The Dragon Riders of

[15:25] private of a purn. OK, so that what are those? What is it? What is a Mary Higgins Clark title?

[15:34] I can't think of any. No, that was a steal for Elliot. So, Elliot, it's still it's your turn

[15:40] again. OK, does that make sense to me? I wouldn't argue against it. So, Elliot, this title is

[15:48] Season of the Machete. OK, Season of the Machete. Yeah, I'm going to say Eric Roberts for that one.

[15:55] No, that's incorrect. So, Stuart, what do you got? I'm going to say

[16:03] Patterson, baby. Yeah, that's true. It is a Patterson novel. It's an early one from 1977.

[16:10] OK, if I had known it was early because it sounds stupid. Yeah, that's classic Patterson.

[16:16] Well, that was before he discovered nursery rhymes, which was really a rich vein for him

[16:23] when it came to titles, which is weird because people normally discover nursery rhymes when

[16:27] they're a baby in the nursery. No, but he's a Benjamin Button, so he's living backwards. Oh,

[16:32] so when he was a baby, he was actually an old man and he was listening to,

[16:36] I don't know, fucking car talk or something.

[16:39] You guessed it. World War II as a child.

[16:44] Reading a lot of World War II books and Uncle John's Bathroom Readers, things like that.

[16:49] I mean, two out of three of those things were things I enjoyed as a kid.

[16:55] I have such a strong memory of the day my dad gave up on collecting all the Uncle John's

[16:59] Bathroom Readers. The day he was just like, there's too many of them. I can't keep up.

[17:04] Yeah, yeah. He's defeated like me with easy comics reference.

[17:11] You gave a good run at it, Dan, though. I did. I tried for a while.

[17:16] OK, wait, who got the first crack? Elliot last time. So this one's Stuart. Stuart.

[17:26] Yeah. Your title is Megaboa.

[17:34] I'm going to say Eric Roberts. That is Eric Roberts. You got that one right.

[17:40] I feel like Frank Welker would have seen that title and said, not for me.

[17:44] Dr. Malone was Eric Roberts character.

[17:49] You're like some kind of gangster doctor.

[17:53] Yeah, they offered Frank Welker the role of a boa number one and he had to turn it down.

[17:59] He said, I'll take I'm taking star boa billing or nothing.

[18:02] I'm not the Megaboa.

[18:07] Elliot said, sorry, we have Ian Ziering playing the Megaboa.

[18:12] It's Ian Ziering, but yeah, we have Ian Rand playing the Megaboa.

[18:16] Oh, wow. Come on, Choi's not known for her vocal work, but her political views, Dan agrees with.

[18:24] All Megaboa's should go to a valley somewhere and leaving regular boas.

[18:30] It's hard for them to shrug because they don't have shoulders.

[18:33] OK, Elliot, you're up. Your title is codename Kids Next Door Operation Zero.

[18:42] And if you want to know, it's it is Z period, E period, R period, O period.

[18:49] Codename Kids Next Door Operation Z E R O.

[18:53] Yeah, OK.

[18:55] What other way to spell zero was there?

[18:58] Well, I'm saying that they have their they're it's an acronym of some kind.

[19:02] Oh, that I didn't understand.

[19:04] OK, well, what does it stand for?

[19:05] Yeah, I don't I don't know.

[19:08] Well, do your research, I guess.

[19:09] Anyway, I'm going to say Frank Welker for that.

[19:11] Ziering as in Ian.

[19:13] If it's James Patterson, I will lose my shirt.

[19:16] Actually, what did you guess?

[19:18] I'm going to say Frank Welker, but it probably is a pattern.

[19:21] It is probably his Patterson because he does kids books.

[19:23] What?

[19:24] No, it is Frank Welker.

[19:26] You got it.

[19:27] Oh, he plays.

[19:28] Ew.

[19:29] Monty Uno is his character name.

[19:31] Monty.

[19:33] So this movie was was it's a Pizzeria Uno fame.

[19:37] Somebody just used a magnetic poetry kit to write this movie.

[19:40] Now, Stuart, Stuart, you're up.

[19:43] Your title is Fat Girls, and that's fat with a pH and a Z at the end of girls.

[19:53] That must have been so like the screenwriter.

[19:55] This is definitely a James Patterson.

[19:57] That's so annoying.

[19:58] So James Patterson.

[20:00] was writing it that there was always red squiggles under both of the title words

[20:03] the spell check wouldn't recognize it yeah uh it's not james patterson if it's james patterson

[20:11] i will i will do a i'll do a flip take and you guys will see it and you'll have to tell people

[20:17] about it because we're not recording this but nobody will believe you we just saw stewart's

[20:21] feet falling out of the panel uh-huh i mean like this yeah honestly if you're gonna do a flip take

[20:27] this is your chance in the world of zoom you can literally flip up so that your feet are all that

[20:33] can be seen in the quote-unquote panel yeah that you live in i want to see i want to see a bazooka

[20:38] joe comic where bazooka joe says something silly on zoom and you and then in the last one the the

[20:44] unlucky uh recipient of this goof falls in the problem with that strip for me is that would

[20:50] indicate that uh that those strips are taking place in the modern times which means somebody

[20:56] is still making them like every time i see a bazooka joe comic i look at it like it's some

[21:02] kind of artifact well that's kind of like the current nancy comic which is really good the

[21:07] current nancy comic strip is really funny but it takes place now so anytime nancy is on a computer

[21:12] but she's dressed the same that she's been dressing for 80 years i'm like what's going

[21:17] on nancy yeah it is a very funny comic uh i'm gonna say eric roberts again uh you are correct

[21:24] that is eric roberts who starred in fat girls he played robert he was excited about it he didn't

[21:32] even know it was a movie yeah uh this is uh hey this is the time where we're gonna do some ads

[21:42] that's how it goes i think it's a tight game still right dan at least at least a score before

[21:47] the break no that's true i should uh to uh increase uh excitement note that maybe maybe

[21:54] maybe i'm just using the lessons i learned as host of the who was podcast a kid's quiz

[21:57] show podcast about history available through iheart radio or wherever you get your podcasts

[22:02] but that's but you know you just you announce the score before break wait that was that was

[22:06] actually a seven a seven uh question round why why did i think it was an eight question round

[22:15] that was seven questions i'm sorry and this is what happens when grandpa runs a game show

[22:23] i'm sorry i'm looking at now i have a you know i have the spreadsheet uh stewart is actually

[22:28] one ahead because it was an uneven round so i'm gonna move the wait hold on let me count the rest

[22:35] of the questions because this may be a this may be a problem with the design of the game

[22:40] seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen what i love is that dan is intentionally

[22:46] confounding the people who are hitting the skip button when they heard him say sponsors

[22:52] they're missing this great content this prime entertainment

[23:00] uh this is an uneven number of rounds this is an uneven number so you're saying that so you're

[23:09] saying the flaw was always in the system that you gave the police and all the clues

[23:13] uh i can't believe i did this i don't know how i i uh made this mistake i think it's because i added

[23:21] all right well okay we're gonna have an uneven number seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen

[23:30] fourteen okay here's here's what you should do dan here's what you should do here's

[23:34] lop off that last question you have planned and make that a tie breaker in case you need it no no

[23:39] yes i i i've done it already there's an even number of of rounds now i just now uh

[23:50] it'll be an uneven number now i don't i don't trust the the amount of their titles that you

[23:55] counted oh boy i can't trust any of your facts uh you know what um this is a podcast that is popular

[24:06] for some reason uh and i'm gonna just uh move on to the ads and then we'll return back to the game

[24:14] after the ads are done okay and uh we can all trust that it's all been done for the best

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[29:29] look it's a rough world out there especially lately i get it so let's take care of our minds

[29:35] as best we can i'm john mo host of depress mode with john mo every week i talk with comedians

[29:42] actors writers musicians doctors therapists and everyday folks about the obstacles that

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[30:10] Give your mind a break.

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[30:16] All right.

[30:17] So coming back from the break, if you will recall, Stewart has four

[30:23] tallies three because of my miscounting, which just means that, you know,

[30:28] like a Broadway show, we'll have a slightly shorter second half.

[30:31] And if you tie up, I'll have a tiebreaker.

[30:38] So what do we got here?

[30:40] Who?

[30:41] It was Stewart.

[30:42] Say it's a little unfair.

[30:42] Stewart got to answer more questions than me in the first round, but you

[30:46] know, it's not a real game.

[30:47] But it's not like that.

[30:48] That's not like the questions get harder.

[30:50] We're all around number like that.

[30:52] The person.

[30:54] Yeah, or James Hong or somebody like who?

[31:01] All right.

[31:01] So Elliot, your first question for the second round, this first title

[31:06] is how I survived bullies, broccoli and snake Hill.

[31:11] Now I happen to know that's a James Patterson title.

[31:14] Oh, Elliot bringing actual knowledge into the game.

[31:19] Tried to option it for a screenplay.

[31:22] Yeah.

[31:22] Yeah, exactly.

[31:23] Yeah.

[31:24] Let's just say I've spent a fair amount of time in the children's

[31:26] section of bookstores.

[31:27] Yeah.

[31:28] Okay.

[31:28] Well, yeah.

[31:29] Let's not go further than that.

[31:31] That is James Patterson book.

[31:35] Stewart.

[31:37] Here's the thing with James Patterson.

[31:37] He was like, hmm, I'm a pretty mediocre writer of adult fiction.

[31:41] I bet I could write some pretty mediocre kids fiction too.

[31:44] You don't think he was like, oh man, I'm going to crush these kids.

[31:49] Got a diverse.

[31:49] I'm never going to know what hit.

[31:50] What are they?

[31:51] And they're like, is he reading?

[31:52] They're like James, you know, children aren't writing those books, right?

[31:57] It's like, I'm going to be totally good writer compared to them.

[32:00] They're kids.

[32:00] I'm a grown up.

[32:01] I know all the words literature written by children.

[32:03] Yeah.

[32:04] And then he picks it.

[32:04] He goes like, what's this?

[32:05] What's a terabithia anyway?

[32:07] And he picks that bridge to terabithia.

[32:08] And by the end, he's just sobbing and he's like, I was wrong.

[32:10] These kids are amazing.

[32:13] He said, I didn't think it was going to end that way.

[32:15] It's so sad, but beautiful.

[32:17] Yeah, he's annihilated that point.

[32:19] I still don't know what a terabithia is.

[32:25] Your your title is the legend of Sasquatch.

[32:33] Who's is this?

[32:34] I love the legend of Sasquatch.

[32:36] You keep saying your title is and I keep expecting you to give us titles

[32:39] like champion or like president.

[32:42] Baron of the legend of Sasquatch.

[32:46] Wow.

[32:48] Oh man, I thought I was only a baronet.

[32:50] I will say I'm going to say this is Frank Welker, but this is a guess

[32:56] because this could be any of these three.

[32:58] You know what?

[32:59] You're right.

[33:00] That is Frank Welker.

[33:01] He played baby Sasquatch in that.

[33:06] I want to believe it wasn't just the voice that he did the body

[33:08] too, or maybe Sasquatch is a rapper that goes looking for the real

[33:15] Sasquatch in the movie.

[33:16] Maybe it's a human character.

[33:17] Yeah.

[33:18] Yeah.

[33:20] That's a good rap name.

[33:21] Baby Sasquatch free for your use.

[33:24] If you're out there looking for a name.

[33:27] Well, yeah, Dan immediately erases your trademark there.

[33:31] Elliot.

[33:31] Yeah, it's all right.

[33:32] Thanks.

[33:33] Thanks, Dan.

[33:35] It's a creative commons rap name.

[33:37] Thanks.

[33:37] Thanks for being the distributor that didn't put a copyright on

[33:40] Night of the Living Dead cheating George Romero out of millions.

[33:43] Can you imagine?

[33:45] Could you imagine?

[33:46] Yeah, it's crazy.

[33:47] They forgot.

[33:47] It's also crazy that there was a period in copyright law where you

[33:50] had to put a copyright notice on a movie or else it was instantly

[33:52] public domain.

[33:53] That's nuts.

[33:54] Yeah.

[33:55] That is bad.

[33:55] Yeah, all right in right there.

[33:56] They didn't they didn't put it on here.

[33:58] I guess they wanted her to be for everybody.

[34:00] I assume they meant for other people to just have instant access

[34:03] to this movie.

[34:04] They put their time and effort into it's like whoa, you want to

[34:07] ask him?

[34:08] No, no, no, it'll be awkward.

[34:11] I'll be uncomfortable.

[34:12] Like it'll be like calling out their charity.

[34:17] So Elliot, you got a title to answer for well, you have to answer

[34:24] for it.

[34:25] Do you want me to provide one or no?

[34:26] No, no, no.

[34:28] That's what it sounded like.

[34:31] No, no, I got one for you.

[34:34] Like I'm going to tell you a person and you name a title.

[34:36] Maybe they were in wow.

[34:39] Here's one for you.

[34:41] And it is Geppetto secret.

[34:47] You know what?

[34:47] I'm going to say Frank Welker again for this one.

[34:50] No, it's not Frank Welker.

[34:52] So Stewart, I'm going to steal that shit because I know that's

[34:55] Eric Roberts, baby.

[34:57] That is Eric Roberts.

[34:59] He plays the character Jack Hammer in Geppetto.

[35:04] It's a porn movie.

[35:05] I didn't realize that.

[35:06] Oh, then I would have said Eric Roberts.

[35:08] I mean, it sounds like he's basically playing the same character

[35:10] they plays in Righteous Gemstones a criminal wrestling promoter.

[35:16] So is that Geppetto secret?

[35:20] Yeah, Stewart that he was he was he was in he was in porn.

[35:27] Stewart, you're up again already.

[35:30] And your title is going to win this one.

[35:32] But with stealing that for me and then also getting more questions

[35:34] in the first Jesus Christ.

[35:36] What are you my dad?

[35:37] Calm down.

[35:37] Overall, overall, you get the same number of questions.

[35:41] But this is just a matter of discounting.

[35:44] OK, you look, by the way, you would look amazing in overalls.

[35:48] I thank you.

[35:49] I look like a big kid, which would be great.

[35:51] You look like me.

[35:55] I mean, I would basically look like middle aged Chucky.

[35:58] Sure.

[35:58] Yeah.

[36:01] Stewart, you're your title in overalls and a baseball cap.

[36:06] I would look like a kid going undercover as an adult.

[36:17] And doing a bad job.

[36:19] Why do you get in your closet like a kid?

[36:22] Yeah.

[36:24] Stewart, your title, your title is the murder of King Tut.

[36:32] The murder of King Tut.

[36:37] What a range.

[36:39] These three people.

[36:42] I want to say James Patterson.

[36:45] That is James Patterson.

[36:47] Yeah.

[36:48] Who else?

[36:48] Who else would have the who would have the balls to take on that?

[36:54] Now, Elliot, this next one.

[36:57] I feel I assume he I assume it was that that's it.

[37:00] He was he had to meet with Anubis in like a dark parking garage to

[37:04] get the inside information on who killed King Tut.

[37:07] Yes.

[37:08] Listen, listen, I didn't get this for me, but it's as hard.

[37:11] I waited against a feather.

[37:14] See where it takes you.

[37:16] Well, wait, who's the who's the murderer in that case?

[37:20] Is it the feather?

[37:21] Hey, I don't want I don't want to get involved.

[37:23] Yeah, because usually what happens is is that it's no, no.

[37:27] It was some some other Egyptian guy, you know, okay.

[37:30] Okay.

[37:31] Okay, Elliot.

[37:32] Probably apocalypse.

[37:33] I don't know.

[37:33] And Savanor.

[37:34] Yeah.

[37:35] This one could go a couple different ways.

[37:37] Probably not a third way.

[37:38] Well, it's just exhausted his knowledge of Egyptian characters.

[37:41] Like what do I know about Egypt?

[37:43] King Tut the the L the oldest mutant apocalypse.

[37:48] That's about it.

[37:49] Imhotep from the Mummy series.

[37:51] Oh, yeah, right, right.

[37:53] Elliot, your title is New York Mimit.

[37:57] Who of these people?

[38:00] I'm going to say Eric Roberts.

[38:02] That is incorrect.

[38:04] Good steal.

[38:05] It's Frank Welker.

[38:06] Frank Welker is in New York Mimit.

[38:09] He's credited as Reynaldo vocal effects.

[38:16] Oh, man, I'm not.

[38:17] There's no coming back for me on this game.

[38:18] He's just too good.

[38:19] He just knows three people too.

[38:22] Well, yeah.

[38:24] Well, Stuart, you got one more chance to just not in series.

[38:34] He doesn't do those.

[38:38] It's not even a boast.

[38:41] It's just true.

[38:44] All right, Stuart, bring us on home.

[38:49] The final title is Head Full of Honey.

[38:54] Head Full of Honey.

[38:57] Head Full of Honey, The Clear Plastic Bear Story.

[39:05] So Eric Roberts is naturally sweet.

[39:09] Frank Welker reminds me of a beautiful bear.

[39:13] Yeah, and James Patterson is full of good stuff.

[39:17] I want you to get this so badly, Stuart, because I don't want to have to answer it.

[39:22] I'm going to say Eric Roberts.

[39:24] It is Eric Roberts who played Dr.

[39:27] Holst in Head Full of Honey.

[39:30] So that's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, Stuart.

[39:36] Wow.

[39:37] To four, Elliot.

[39:38] Fuck, it's a blowout.

[39:41] Wait a minute, Dan.

[39:42] You said two rounds of eight questions.

[39:46] I know.

[39:47] I don't know.

[39:48] You're so far off.

[39:48] Don't hold me to anything.

[39:50] You only asked, well.

[39:52] Haven't I?

[39:52] You asked one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, how many?

[40:00] 11, 12, 13, 14.

[40:01] Wait, how many points did Stuart have?

[40:03] Oh, no, he had 10 points.

[40:04] No, 13, 13 rounds.

[40:06] He did 13 rounds.

[40:07] That's not even...

[40:08] I got the math right, too, but...

[40:09] Lucky number.

[40:11] How did I do this?

[40:15] Remember me not as a person

[40:17] who counts things, but as a game master.

[40:21] Yeah, I mean, the master qualification

[40:23] is just a little,

[40:24] is a little tentative here.

[40:26] Questionable.

[40:29] So...

[40:30] Prolific Pals, I did it.

[40:32] Well, now I know that I want to do a game

[40:34] that's just for Dan on the next mini

[40:36] that's called How Much of This is There?

[40:40] And you've just got to get within two to win.

[40:44] OK, Dan, what's the next part of Prolific Pals?

[40:49] You know, you stand on the top of the thing

[40:53] while the Mario Kart music plays.

[40:55] OK.

[40:56] And I say the end of the show stuff,

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[41:06] Try to leave out the parts

[41:08] where I couldn't count.

[41:09] You know what, I think your counting

[41:11] makes sense at the end.

[41:11] I think because you left one question

[41:14] reserved for a tiebreaker,

[41:15] you didn't need it, right?

[41:16] I did.

[41:16] So, you know, you only miscounted once.

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[42:17] who is at HowlDotty on Twitter.

[42:21] You can probably figure out

[42:22] how HowlDotty is spelled.

[42:24] Just imagine it and type it out.

[42:26] Yeah, not at all.

[42:28] Close your eyes.

[42:30] You're free to do the walking.

[42:31] It's not spelled like the word Howl at all.

[42:39] OK, how the word how?

[42:42] Oh, wait, how about this?

[42:43] Ho as in ho, ho, ho.

[42:46] Well, as in I'm doing well,

[42:50] Dotty.

[42:51] Are you?

[42:51] As in Dotty, is it a word?

[42:57] Anyway, thank you for listening.

[42:59] Until next time, I've been Dan McCoy.

[43:02] Hey, I don't blame you if you stop listening.

[43:06] Stuart Wellington.

[43:07] And this is Elliot Kalin saying, don't worry,

[43:09] we're going to get Dan the healthy needs.

[43:11] Bye.

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FH Mini 53 - Prolific Pals

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