FH Mini 158 - Astro-Nuts

Elliott Kalan

[0:00] Welcome, listener, to another Flophouse mini episode,

[0:09] a miniature episode of the Flophouse.

[0:11] You know the Flophouse, of course,

[0:12] as the internet's oldest bad movie podcast, probably.

[0:16] And usually on an episode, we watch a bad movie

[0:19] and then we talk about it.

[0:20] When I say usually, I mean half the time.

[0:21] The other half of the time,

[0:23] we do whatever we want in these minis.

[0:26] Today, I will be running this mini.

[0:28] I will be mission control.

[0:30] That'll make sense in a moment.

[0:31] I'm Elliot Kalin, and I'm joined by my two,

[0:35] let's say, space explorers.

[0:39] Name your names.

Dan McCoy

[0:41] Dan McCoy.

Elliott Kalan

[0:42] Stuart Spaceman Wellington.

Dan McCoy

[0:45] Oh, thank you.

[0:45] You're picking up what I'm laying down.

Elliott Kalan

[0:47] I appreciate it.

[0:48] I like Elliot.

Dan McCoy

[0:50] Sorry, go on.

Elliott Kalan

[0:50] No, no, Dan, what were you going to say?

[0:51] I like hearing what people like about me.

Dan McCoy

[0:53] I like that you encounter the same difficulty I do

[0:56] when introducing the minis,

[0:58] which is like, you know,

[1:00] it's not that we usually talk about a movie anymore

[1:04] because, as you say,

[1:07] these minis happen half the time.

[1:09] Yeah.

[1:09] But in the aggregate,

[1:11] there are certainly more movie episodes.

[1:14] That's true.

[1:14] I guess technically it's still true.

[1:15] It is still true that it's usual.

Elliott Kalan

[1:17] Yeah, yeah.

[1:18] By the numbers.

[1:19] Well, that was Statsman Dan.

[1:21] Dan, of course, is our numbers guy,

[1:23] which we'll need.

[1:24] I'm a Statsman.

[1:27] Numbers, numbers, numbers.

[1:30] We need our statistics guy.

[1:31] We need Stuart Spaceman Wellington.

[1:33] Stuart, how did you get the nickname Spaceman?

Stuart Wellington

[1:35] So I went into outer space this one time

[1:37] and I came back.

[1:39] I thought there'd be more to that.

Elliott Kalan

[1:40] I thought it was a more interesting story.

[1:42] And that actually ties...

Stuart Wellington

[1:42] Oh, you wanted me to stretch for a second.

[1:44] No, no.

[1:44] I went into outer space first.

Elliott Kalan

[1:46] No, no, not necessarily.

[1:46] No, because we're going to talk about

[1:48] going into space

[1:49] and how it should be very interesting.

[1:51] How it maybe it's not that interesting.

[1:53] These days, of course,

[1:54] everyone's talking about AI.

[1:56] And we're going to be covering that

[1:57] on today's Flophouse.

[1:58] But I mean, astronaut imagery.

[2:01] That's right.

[2:01] The other meaning of AI.

[2:03] Because we're going to be talking about...

[2:04] The only other one.

[2:05] The only other one.

[2:07] I mean, there's also Al's Igloo.

[2:09] But that's just a local business.

[2:11] You know, just it's an ice cream shop

[2:13] in Juneau, Alaska.

[2:14] So astronaut imagery, astronaut movies.

[2:16] Guys, you would have to think

[2:19] off the top of your head.

[2:20] If I said, this person's job

[2:22] is to go into outer space,

[2:23] you would say,

[2:25] what a cool job, right?

[2:27] What a cool job.

[2:29] And yet...

[2:29] Literally.

[2:30] There are very...

[2:31] It is because it's the frozen...

[2:32] Very cold.

[2:33] ...ways of space.

[2:33] Unless you're right near the sun,

[2:35] which case it's blazing hot.

[2:36] It's also very hot in space.

[2:37] Yeah.

[2:38] There's always an exception.

[2:40] Life finds a way.

[2:42] Or in this case,

[2:42] the cold, lifeless void of space.

[2:45] Now, there are very few...

[2:47] I'm going to say this right now.

[2:48] It seems like such an amazing job.

[2:50] I'm going to go on a limb

[2:51] and say there's very few

[2:52] cool movies about astronauts.

[2:54] I feel like you...

[2:55] There are so many movies

[2:56] about hitmen,

[2:57] a job no one really has.

[2:59] There's so many movies

[3:00] about professional athletes,

[3:03] which is a cool job.

[3:04] But again,

[3:05] I guess more people have that

[3:06] than astronauts.

[3:07] But it's not a job

[3:07] most people have.

[3:09] But astronauts,

[3:10] you'd think it'd be

[3:11] this amazing thing,

[3:12] but there's not that many movies

[3:14] where if you said,

[3:14] give me a great astronaut movie,

[3:16] how many can you think of?

Dan McCoy

[3:17] Do you think?

[3:17] Now,

[3:18] well,

[3:18] it depends on what...

[3:19] What do you mean by saying cool?

[3:20] Because there are two

[3:21] astronaut movies

[3:23] that I can think of

[3:24] off the top of my head

[3:25] that I like quite a bit.

[3:26] Okay.

[3:27] And those are

[3:28] Apollo 13?

[3:32] Wow.

Elliott Kalan

[3:32] Wow.

[3:33] Hold on.

[3:33] Let's wait a moment.

[3:34] Let's stop for a moment.

[3:35] Just that Dan could not remember

[3:36] the number

[3:37] in Apollo 13.

Dan McCoy

[3:39] There's a...

[3:39] Well,

[3:40] Apollo 11 was pretty cool.

[3:41] There's a They Might Be Giants

[3:42] album called Apollo 18.

[3:44] Oh,

[3:44] I see.

[3:45] So I have to like,

[3:45] in my head,

[3:46] be like,

[3:46] which thing am I?

[3:49] And The Right Stuff.

[3:50] And The Right Stuff.

Elliott Kalan

[3:51] Yes.

[3:51] So those are great movies

[3:52] about astronauts.

[3:53] There are some of them,

[3:54] and those are both

[3:54] based on true stories,

[3:56] right?

[3:57] I'm finding,

[3:58] I was thinking about

[3:59] astronaut movies,

[4:00] because again,

[4:00] everyone's talking about AI,

[4:01] so of course I'm talking about

[4:01] astronaut imagery.

[4:02] And I was thinking,

[4:04] there's certain kinds of movies

[4:05] about astronauts

[4:06] that are really great.

[4:08] There's a,

[4:08] like a handful

[4:09] that are great,

[4:10] but then there's a lot

[4:11] that are not great.

[4:13] And there's not very many

[4:14] in the middle.

[4:15] And so I was wondering,

[4:15] I want to talk to you guys today

[4:16] about astronaut movies.

[4:18] Why is there a dearth of them?

[4:20] And also,

[4:21] is it possible

[4:22] being an astronaut

[4:23] is actually

[4:24] not that cool a job?

[4:26] Because I want to make it,

[4:27] the first thing

[4:28] I want to start with is,

[4:29] what makes a movie

[4:30] an astronaut movie?

[4:31] There's a lot of movies

[4:32] set in outer space,

[4:33] but I wouldn't call

[4:34] all of them

[4:35] astronaut movies.

[4:36] So when I say

[4:36] space movies,

[4:37] do you guys,

[4:38] what do you think of?

[4:38] What's a space movie?

[4:39] Ice Pirates.

[4:40] Alien.

[4:41] Okay, great.

[4:42] Ice Pirates,

[4:43] Alien.

[4:43] What else?

[4:44] Give me some more.

Stuart Wellington

[4:45] Transformers,

[4:45] the movie.

[4:46] Star Wars.

Elliott Kalan

[4:47] Okay.

[4:48] Now,

[4:48] would you call

[4:48] any of those

[4:49] astronaut movies?

[4:50] No.

[4:50] Not even Alien,

[4:52] where they do wear

[4:53] like spacesuits

[4:53] when they go

[4:54] onto a planet.

[4:54] Yeah,

Dan McCoy

[4:54] but they're clearly

[4:55] sort of like

[4:55] blue-collar

[4:56] private workers.

[4:58] They're not the elite

Elliott Kalan

[4:59] military scientists

[5:00] that astronauts often are,

[5:01] you know,

[5:02] test pilots.

[5:02] Yeah, yeah.

[5:03] So,

[5:04] Star Wars.

[5:04] Again,

[5:05] that's probably

[5:05] the most successful

[5:07] space movie

[5:07] that's ever made,

[5:08] the most popular

[5:09] space movie.

[5:10] You wouldn't call

[5:10] them astronauts,

[5:11] right?

[5:11] No.

[5:11] Even though they're

[5:12] flying around

[5:12] in spaceships.

[5:13] Why is that?

Dan McCoy

[5:15] Well,

[5:15] I mean,

[5:15] the most astronauty

[5:17] of them

[5:17] are like

[5:18] the X-Wing pilots

[5:20] and you think of that

[5:20] like they're fighter pilots.

[5:22] like those are dogfights

[5:24] but in space

[5:25] quite famously,

[5:26] like literally,

[5:27] that's what they are.

Elliott Kalan

[5:28] And how often

[5:29] do you think

[5:29] a real-life astronaut

[5:30] is involved in like

[5:31] a high-stakes

[5:32] fighter jet battle

[5:33] in space?

Dan McCoy

[5:35] Yeah,

[5:35] I think zero times

[5:37] because if I like

[5:38] the shuttles,

[5:40] the space,

[5:40] like they're not built

[5:42] for,

[5:42] you know,

[5:44] dodging and weaving.

[5:45] They kind of just

[5:46] float there.

[5:47] Yeah,

[5:47] they kind of,

Elliott Kalan

[5:48] I mean,

[5:48] the fact that

[5:49] we still haven't

[5:50] come up with a way

[5:50] to get into orbit

[5:51] that is not

[5:52] throwing a whole ton

[5:53] of shit out the back

[5:54] of a vehicle

[5:55] in order to push it up

[5:56] and then eventually

[5:57] you get up there

[5:57] and space moves

[5:58] kind of slow,

[5:59] right?

[6:00] Like,

[6:00] there's no air.

Dan McCoy

[6:01] Space moves

[6:02] kind of slow

[6:03] around these parts.

Elliott Kalan

[6:04] Out here in space,

[6:05] we move a little slower

[6:06] than you city folk.

[6:07] Welcome to my

[6:08] floating orbital porch.

[6:11] Sit around the cracker barrel.

[6:12] The crackers are floating

[6:13] out of the barrel.

Dan McCoy

[6:15] Here,

[6:15] have this pouch

[6:16] of lemonade.

Elliott Kalan

[6:18] Like grandma used to,

[6:20] like Astro grandma

[6:21] used to make.

Dan McCoy

[6:23] Oh,

[6:23] for dessert,

[6:24] dip and dice.

[6:26] Ice cream of the future,

[6:27] don't you know?

Elliott Kalan

[6:29] What makes it astronaut

[6:30] ice cream is it's

[6:31] freeze-dried

[6:31] and it comes in a package.

[6:32] You could just throw

[6:33] that into space.

[6:34] It doesn't matter

[6:34] where it goes.

[6:35] It tastes like

Dan McCoy

[6:35] someone throws

[6:36] some toothpaste.

Elliott Kalan

[6:38] And we brush

[6:39] our teeth with ice cream.

[6:42] Well,

[6:43] being an astronaut

[6:43] It's a tomsi-termy world

[6:44] up here.

[6:45] Literally.

[6:46] In space,

[6:46] we do things

[6:47] a little backwards.

[6:48] There's no up,

[6:49] there's no down.

[6:50] You just kind of float.

[6:53] You might be talking

[6:54] to somebody's feet

[6:54] because for them,

[6:55] they're standing up,

[6:56] but for you,

[6:56] they're upside down.

[6:57] Doesn't matter.

[6:58] Who cares?

[6:59] It's space, baby.

Dan McCoy

[7:00] Space is the ultimate

[7:02] fixture.

Elliott Kalan

[7:04] Yeah,

[7:05] so space sounds

[7:06] pretty fun.

[7:07] Yeah.

[7:07] So,

[7:08] a lot of movies

[7:09] are space movies,

[7:10] but they're not

[7:12] So,

[7:12] what is it that would

[7:13] make something

[7:15] Like,

[7:15] do they have to

[7:16] be members of NASA?

[7:19] Like,

[7:19] do they have to be

[7:20] in a kind of like

[7:20] official function?

[7:22] Because like,

[7:23] space truckers

[7:24] is clearly not

[7:25] an astronaut movie.

[7:26] They're truckers,

[7:27] you know,

[7:27] in space,

[7:27] you know.

[7:28] But is a movie,

[7:29] Alien,

[7:30] we've said,

[7:30] is not an astronaut movie.

[7:31] Is Event Horizon

Dan McCoy

[7:34] Interesting,

[7:35] interesting.

[7:35] There you're getting

[7:36] into,

[7:37] a gray area.

[7:39] I wouldn't,

[7:40] I wouldn't think of it

[7:41] as an astronaut movie,

[7:42] but if someone said,

[7:44] that's an astronaut movie,

[7:46] I don't know that I would

[7:47] argue too much.

[7:49] You wouldn't get mad about it.

[7:50] Yeah,

[7:51] they seem to be

[7:52] some sort of official

[7:53] scientific expedition.

[7:55] Mm-hmm.

[7:56] Yeah,

[7:56] and they go to hell.

[7:57] Yeah,

[7:58] an expedition to hell.

Elliott Kalan

[7:59] I mean,

[7:59] and how often,

[8:00] but again,

[8:00] how often have astronauts

[8:01] gone to hell

[8:02] in the official NASA logs?

Stuart Wellington

[8:04] I don't,

[8:04] they,

[8:05] they don't.

[8:05] I don't know,

[8:06] how bad are they?

[8:07] Yeah.

[8:10] That's fair,

[8:10] that's fair.

[8:11] When astronauts die,

[8:12] we don't know where they go.

[8:13] Yeah.

[8:15] Man,

[8:16] that song is still like,

[8:17] man,

[8:17] that song is still

[8:18] shorthand for a tough guy.

[8:20] Bad to the bone?

[8:20] I do it all the time at home

Elliott Kalan

[8:21] and my kids do not know

[8:23] that song,

[8:23] so they don't understand.

[8:24] Whenever I,

[8:25] when I run a bath with them,

[8:26] I go,

[8:26] it's time to go,

[8:27] bath,

[8:28] bath,

[8:29] bath,

[8:30] I don't understand

[8:30] what that means.

[8:31] Yeah.

[8:32] Now,

[8:33] the,

[8:33] now,

[8:33] in the beginning of that song,

[8:34] the nurse says,

[8:36] leave this one alone.

[8:37] She could tell it was bad,

[8:38] bad to the bone.

[8:38] She's saying,

[8:39] leave a baby alone,

[8:40] just don't care for it.

[8:41] Yeah.

[8:41] Because that will drive someone

[8:42] to be bad to the bone.

[8:44] Yeah,

[8:44] that's true.

[8:44] Trust nature and nurture.

Dan McCoy

[8:46] Yeah.

[8:47] Chicken and the egg there.

Stuart Wellington

[8:48] But I guess if you're bad

[8:49] to the bone already,

[8:51] nothing you can do

[8:53] can fix it.

Elliott Kalan

[8:53] What test,

[8:54] what test is the nurse

[8:55] performing?

Elliott Kalan

[8:55] Yeah,

Stuart Wellington

[8:55] how does the nurse know?

[8:57] I mean,

[8:57] you don't cut them open.

[8:58] That's fucked up.

Elliott Kalan

[8:59] No,

[9:00] you don't bother counting

[9:01] their rings.

[9:01] There wouldn't be any yet.

[9:02] They were just born.

[9:03] Yeah.

[9:04] But just the nurse,

[9:05] like,

[9:05] did he come out wearing

[9:05] a leather jacket

[9:06] and carrying a switchblade

[9:07] in his hand?

[9:08] Well,

Stuart Wellington

[9:08] like that Exodus album cover.

Dan McCoy

[9:12] Now,

[9:12] maybe it's a kid

[9:14] on the Nirvana cover.

[9:15] Oh,

[9:16] naked.

[9:17] Yeah,

[9:18] that's rare for a baby.

Elliott Kalan

[9:20] Usually babies have

[9:21] the decency,

[9:22] the modesty

[9:22] to wear a little fucking

[9:23] hang dong.

[9:24] No,

[9:24] at least wear a modesty pouch

[9:26] like they're on the set

[9:27] of a big budget movie,

[9:28] you know?

[9:29] Now,

[9:30] guys,

[9:30] that song,

[9:31] Bad to the Bone,

[9:31] you know when it's from,

[9:32] right?

[9:33] When it's from?

[9:34] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[9:35] The 50s?

[9:37] Like,

[9:37] it seems like,

[9:38] I'm going to say the 60s.

Elliott Kalan

[9:40] That song is from 1982.

[9:41] So,

[9:41] this is something

[9:42] I will just think of

[9:43] every now and then

[9:44] where I'll be like,

[9:45] oh yeah,

[9:45] Bad to the Bone

[9:46] is an 80s song,

[9:47] but it feels like

[9:47] it's a much more

[9:48] old school song

[9:48] than that,

[9:49] right?

Stuart Wellington

[9:49] Because so much

[9:50] of the 80s pop culture

[9:51] was like looking back

[9:53] to the 50s and 60s,

[9:54] right?

Dan McCoy

[9:55] We're looking forward

[9:56] to the future.

[9:57] You know,

[9:57] just finally taking over media,

[10:00] caring about the things

[10:01] they like,

[10:02] like wearing a leather jacket

[10:04] and being Bad to the Bone.

Elliott Kalan

[10:05] And being bad,

[10:06] yeah,

[10:06] Baby Boomers were

[10:07] Bad to the Bone,

[10:07] but just for the environment

[10:08] and future homeownership

[10:10] by younger generations.

[10:11] Yeah.

[10:11] Mm-hmm.

[10:12] So,

[10:13] let's think about

[10:14] astronaut movies

[10:14] for a moment.

[10:15] That's ostensibly

[10:16] what this episode is about.

[10:17] So,

[10:17] again,

[10:17] what would make something

[10:18] an astronaut movie then?

[10:19] They have to be,

[10:20] like,

[10:21] they got to be astronauts,

[10:22] right?

[10:22] I mean,

[10:22] for lack of a memory.

Stuart Wellington

[10:23] There should be some,

[10:26] like,

[10:27] nod to science.

Elliott Kalan

[10:29] Okay.

[10:30] So,

[10:30] there wouldn't be,

[10:30] like,

[10:31] an astronaut heist movie.

[10:32] Like,

[10:32] that would not,

[10:33] that wouldn't work.

[10:34] It would be hard.

[10:35] Yeah.

[10:36] They're not robbing

[10:37] the space bank.

[10:37] Well,

Dan McCoy

[10:37] were they sent into space

[10:38] to rob something?

Elliott Kalan

[10:40] Maybe.

[10:41] Did NASA send them somewhere?

[10:42] if NASA,

[10:43] what would they be robbing?

Stuart Wellington

[10:44] Is this the High Roller

[10:45] sequel pitch

[10:45] that were

[10:46] John Travolta?

Elliott Kalan

[10:48] You know,

[10:49] no,

[10:49] but you know what,

[10:49] this should be a

[10:50] Now You See Me sequel.

[10:51] Oh,

[10:52] have they gone into space

[10:53] in any of those movies?

[10:53] No,

[10:53] not yet.

[10:54] They haven't,

[10:54] right?

[10:55] They've got to rob,

[10:56] like,

[10:56] an alien space casino

[10:57] or something,

[10:58] and they've got to,

[10:59] they've got to use

[11:00] their magic tricks

[11:01] and their astronaut training

[11:02] that they get,

[11:02] you know.

[11:03] Yeah.

[11:03] One member of the group

[11:04] is an astronaut

[11:04] who doesn't care

[11:05] for their magic ways.

[11:07] Yeah,

[11:07] of course.

[11:07] Doesn't care for

[11:08] their deceitful ways,

[11:09] you know.

[11:10] So,

[11:10] they have to,

[11:11] because in my mind,

[11:13] being an astronaut,

[11:14] an astronaut movie

[11:15] is kind of like

[11:15] a pirate movie.

[11:16] A pirate movie,

[11:16] they've got to be pirates,

[11:17] right?

[11:17] And they've got to do

[11:18] pirate-y things.

[11:19] Yeah.

[11:20] Even if a movie

[11:23] who's dealing with

[11:24] reconnecting to the family

[11:26] that he left behind

[11:27] when he went to the high seas,

[11:28] I still wouldn't really

[11:29] call that a pirate movie.

Dan McCoy

[11:30] Yeah.

[11:31] And they're like,

[11:31] you know,

[11:33] there are things that are

[11:34] more astronaut movie tropes,

[11:37] like,

[11:38] where I'm like,

[11:39] you don't have to have it in

[11:40] to be an astronaut movie,

[11:42] but if you have it in there,

[11:44] like,

[11:44] this is definitely

[11:46] So,

Elliott Kalan

[11:46] name some of those tropes.

[11:47] What are some of those tropes?

Dan McCoy

[11:48] Well,

[11:48] you know,

[11:48] like the apex of the form,

[11:51] of course,

[11:52] Rocket Man starring

[11:53] Harland Williams.

[11:54] I mean,

Elliott Kalan

[11:55] Rocket Man starring Elton John,

[11:56] which again,

[11:56] is not actually

[11:57] an astronaut movie,

[11:58] yeah.

Dan McCoy

[11:58] It's a song.

[11:59] I think a trope

[12:00] that really marks it

[12:02] as an astronaut movie

[12:02] is you have the NASA training.

[12:05] Yes.

[12:05] You've got to be,

[12:05] like,

[12:05] spun around in that thing.

Elliott Kalan

[12:07] NASA training sequence.

[12:08] And your face has got to go

[12:08] all flat

Dan McCoy

[12:09] and flap in the wind,

[12:11] you know.

[12:11] There's got to be

Elliott Kalan

[12:11] some moment where,

[12:13] or there should be

[12:14] some moment where the,

[12:15] let's expand it more,

[12:16] because when I think

[12:17] astronaut movies-

Dan McCoy

[12:17] Like Space Camp also,

[12:18] has some astronaut training in it.

Elliott Kalan

[12:19] Yes.

[12:20] Space Camp,

[12:20] exactly.

[12:20] You know what?

[12:21] That's not one I hadn't

[12:21] even thought about,

[12:22] but Space Camp is definitely

[12:24] The movie that I think of most

[12:25] is 2001 A Space Odyssey,

[12:27] as like a movie about astronauts.

[12:28] That doesn't have

[12:29] a training sequence,

[12:30] but it does have them

[12:31] dealing with the effects

[12:32] of outer space

[12:34] and physical reality

[12:35] on the body.

[12:36] Right.

[12:36] Like,

[12:37] he's got to run around,

[12:38] jog to keep his muscle

[12:39] and bone density

[12:40] or whatever.

[12:41] And like,

[12:41] when he goes into the airlock

[12:43] without his helmet,

[12:44] he's in danger

[12:44] because you can't be

[12:46] in decompressed,

[12:47] airless space

[12:48] for too long.

[12:48] So there's got to be

[12:49] something where it's about

[12:50] like the effect of space,

[12:51] the danger of space on you.

[12:53] Right.

[12:53] Or the effect of space

[12:54] condition.

[12:55] Because that's another

[12:56] difference between a space,

[12:58] and a pirate movie

[12:58] is that pirates exist

[13:00] in a place where there's

[13:01] gravity,

[13:02] oxygen.

[13:03] They're not really worrying

[13:04] that there's the ocean

[13:05] to deal with.

[13:05] Yeah.

[13:06] But they're not really

[13:06] worrying that much about

[13:07] can I breathe

[13:08] unless they fall in said ocean.

Stuart Wellington

[13:09] So I think

[13:10] like an octopus

[13:12] wraps its tentacle

[13:13] around their neck.

[13:14] Exactly.

Elliott Kalan

[13:15] Or right on their face.

[13:16] You got that octopus's beak

[13:18] right in your mouth.

[13:19] Ugh,

[13:19] that'd be horrible.

[13:20] It's biting your tongue.

[13:21] Yeah.

[13:21] Have they ever done that

[13:22] in a pirate movie?

[13:23] That sounds horrifying.

Dan McCoy

[13:24] That would be really good,

[13:24] Dan.

Stuart Wellington

[13:25] I don't recall that.

[13:27] I don't have it

[13:27] in my logbook.

[13:29] Octopi are super smart too.

[13:30] So they know exactly

[13:31] the perfect time

[13:32] to latch on.

Elliott Kalan

[13:33] Yeah.

[13:34] And they know the sweetest,

[13:35] softest part is the tongue.

[13:36] They'd want to go for that.

[13:37] Octopi,

[13:38] I love octopi.

[13:38] I think they're really

[13:39] amazing animals,

[13:40] but it always bothers me

[13:41] that they have...

[13:41] I know you're talking

Dan McCoy

[13:42] about how delicious they are.

[13:43] I mean,

Elliott Kalan

[13:43] I do like to eat them too.

[13:44] They taste really good.

[13:46] But,

[13:46] and I always feel bad eating them.

[13:47] That's the sad part about it

Dan McCoy

[13:48] because they're smart,

[13:49] but they taste good.

[13:49] They're so smart.

[13:50] And what I mean,

Elliott Kalan

[13:50] and their brains

[13:51] go all throughout their bodies.

[13:53] Their tentacles

[13:53] have neural networks in them.

[13:55] So when I'm eating

[13:55] their tentacles,

[13:56] I'm like,

[13:57] ugh,

[13:57] I'm eating the smart part too.

[13:58] It's not even like

[13:59] I'm eating the dumb part of it

[14:00] because there are no dumb parts.

[14:01] But it always throws me off

[14:02] that they have beaks.

[14:03] I don't like that at all.

[14:04] It makes me very uncomfortable.

Dan McCoy

[14:06] A self-help book,

[14:07] by the way.

[14:07] There are no dumb parts.

Elliott Kalan

[14:11] There are no dumb parts,

[14:12] only dumb actors.

Dan McCoy

[14:13] But I do think,

[14:14] Elliot,

[14:15] you're onto something here

[14:15] that maybe disqualifies

[14:17] Event Horizon,

[14:18] which is that

[14:19] even if they're fantastical elements,

[14:23] it has to be sort of grounded

[14:25] in some sort of

[14:26] scientific reality.

[14:28] Uh-huh.

[14:28] So like,

[14:29] you know,

[14:30] more something like

[14:32] Project Hail Mary,

[14:34] you don't think of it

[14:36] foremost maybe,

[14:38] but like that's an astronaut movie

[14:39] because it's all grounded

[14:40] in the sort of

[14:41] scientific,

[14:42] I mean,

[14:43] I do think of it

Elliott Kalan

[14:44] because he's an astronaut,

[14:45] right?

[14:46] What about,

[14:46] uh,

[14:46] well,

Stuart Wellington

[14:47] he's drafted into it.

[14:48] I haven't seen it,

[14:49] gotta be honest,

[14:50] but I'm just going by the poster.

[14:51] You said heist movies.

[14:53] What about a movie like

[14:54] Ad Astra

[14:55] where there is like

[14:57] a car chase

[14:58] on the moon?

Elliott Kalan

[14:59] I have still,

[15:00] I have to admit,

[15:00] I haven't seen Ad Astra,

[15:01] so I don't know.

[15:02] You're a dad.

[15:02] You're like the perfect target.

[15:03] I know,

[15:03] I haven't seen it either.

[15:05] It's for science fiction dads.

[15:06] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[15:07] The car chase on the moon

[15:08] sequence is awesome.

Elliott Kalan

[15:09] That sounds so good.

[15:09] I have to watch it.

[15:10] I assume it's an astronaut movie

[15:11] because the poster has Brad Pitt

[15:13] in an astronaut costume,

[15:14] but it looks real sad.

[15:15] Yeah,

[15:15] so it's a dad astronaut.

[15:15] At the time,

[15:15] I was like,

[15:16] I don't need a sad astronaut.

[15:17] Yeah,

[15:17] sad dad astronaut.

[15:18] Yeah,

[15:18] sad astronaut.

[15:18] But like,

[15:18] um,

[15:19] sad-stronaut.

[15:21] A sad astronaut.

[15:22] Yeah.

[15:23] But like,

[15:23] when I,

[15:24] when I,

[15:24] so I'll tell you,

[15:25] when I started thinking about

[15:25] astronaut movies,

[15:26] and we'll take a break shortly

[15:27] and then we'll come back

[15:28] and I want to see if we can come up

[15:29] with the 10 greatest astronaut movies,

[15:31] which might mean expanding

[15:32] the boundaries to movies

[15:33] that are either not great

[15:34] or not astronaut movies.

[15:39] Gravity is pretty high off the list.

[15:41] Yeah.

[15:41] But these are both about

[15:42] astronauts in space

[15:43] dealing with space problems

[15:44] as opposed to,

Dan McCoy

[15:46] More space,

[15:47] more space problems.

Elliott Kalan

[15:48] I mean,

[15:48] it's literally true.

[15:49] More space,

[15:49] more problems.

[15:50] Space is infinite and vast.

[15:51] Gives you a lot of problems,

[15:53] you know?

[15:53] But it's hard for me to think of

[15:56] that is not about,

[15:57] like,

[15:58] the problems of being an astronaut.

[16:00] And so I was thinking,

[16:00] like,

[16:01] is Moon an astronaut movie?

[16:02] Because that's really more

[16:03] about the problems of

[16:04] being a weird clone or something.

[16:07] But,

Elliott Kalan

[16:07] but I wasn't.

[16:09] Is Sunshine an astronaut movie?

[16:11] Exactly.

[16:11] Like,

[16:11] they have a thing they're doing.

[16:13] Like,

[16:13] Sunshine and Project Hail Mary

[16:14] are kind of similar.

[16:16] Like,

[16:16] is Solaris an astronaut movie?

[16:18] It kind of is,

[16:19] you know?

[16:20] But the,

[16:21] but like,

[16:21] it's easy about the ones

[16:22] that are about

[16:23] biographical movies

[16:24] about astronauts.

[16:25] Yeah.

[16:25] Paul 13,

[16:26] the right stuff.

[16:27] Like,

[16:27] is Silent Running

[16:29] I think so,

[16:30] but I'm not sure.

Dan McCoy

[16:32] No,

[16:33] you're right.

[16:33] It's,

[16:34] these are like,

[16:35] some of these are more.

[16:36] Isn't it not about

[16:36] bobsledding?

[16:38] No,

[16:38] that's Cool Runnings.

[16:39] That's Cool Runnings.

[16:39] Yeah,

[16:40] that's.

[16:41] Some of these are more.

Elliott Kalan

[16:42] These are all running movies.

[16:44] Cool Runnings,

[16:44] Silent Running,

[16:45] Run Silent Run Deep.

[16:46] Yeah,

[16:46] you know,

[16:47] The Loneliness,

[16:48] Long Distance Runner.

[16:49] Yeah.

[16:49] The Running Man.

[16:50] Yeah.

[16:51] Running Man,

[16:52] the new one.

[16:52] Yeah.

[16:53] These are like,

[16:54] science fiction movies.

[16:55] Run Lola Run.

Stuart Wellington

[16:56] Logan's Run.

Elliott Kalan

[16:57] Logan's Run.

[16:58] Yeah,

[16:58] exactly.

[16:59] Logans do run.

[17:02] Always.

[17:02] It's hard to catch a Logan.

[17:03] They're always running.

[17:04] Yeah.

[17:05] Dan,

[17:05] you're saying some of these?

Dan McCoy

[17:06] No,

[17:06] it's funny because like,

[17:07] I came so close to having a window and then like,

[17:10] the train kept moving.

[17:11] It closed.

[17:12] Yeah,

[17:12] closed fast.

[17:13] No,

[17:13] no,

[17:13] no.

[17:13] Like,

[17:14] a lot of these I think are most accurately science fiction movies with astronauts in them.

[17:19] Whereas like,

[17:20] an astronaut movie,

[17:21] like,

[17:21] I'm trying to think of like a,

[17:22] a comparison,

[17:24] a point of comparison.

[17:24] It's like,

[17:25] Like is Amityville in Space an astronaut movie?

[17:27] Like a mob movie is maybe a point of comparison where it's like,

[17:29] it's about the job.

[17:31] It's about the job that you have.

[17:32] And the job that you have is astronaut.

[17:34] And what,

[17:35] what is like.

Elliott Kalan

[17:35] Like a mob movie is always about being involved with,

[17:37] there's,

[17:38] it's very rare that you have,

[17:39] I mean,

[17:39] sometimes you have a mob movie about a mobster who does,

[17:42] does something.

[17:43] Do's things.

[17:44] Yeah.

[17:44] Do's things.

Stuart Wellington

[17:45] You gotta do these things when a Sicilian vampire shows up.

[17:48] You know,

[17:49] and it's in blood.

Dan McCoy

[17:51] And it's in blood.

[17:52] Yeah.

[17:52] That's what I was going to say.

[17:53] Or that Frank,

[17:53] uh,

[17:54] D'Angelo.

[17:55] Sicilian vampire.

[17:57] Yeah.

[17:58] You could cross the streams a little bit there.

Elliott Kalan

[17:59] Like Mickey Blue Eyes is a mob movie,

[18:01] but it's about a guy who like falls in love with a mobster's daughter.

[18:04] Yeah.

[18:04] I think this is like the second time in two weeks you brought up Mickey Blue Eyes.

[18:07] For some reason,

[18:08] Mickey Blue Eyes is on my mind and I don't know why.

[18:09] Moves large in Elliot's imagination.

[18:11] Somehow.

[18:11] Yeah.

[18:12] I guess,

[18:13] I guess it's Hugh Grant's most famous movie probably,

[18:15] right?

Dan McCoy

[18:16] Yeah.

[18:17] That's why when you see Hugh Grant on the street,

Elliott Kalan

[18:18] you're like,

Dan McCoy

[18:19] Hey,

[18:19] Mickey.

Elliott Kalan

[18:19] Mickey Blue Eyes.

[18:21] He goes,

[18:21] yes,

[18:21] yes.

[18:21] People call me that.

[18:22] People call me that.

[18:23] Well,

[18:24] just,

[18:24] yes,

[18:24] sir.

[18:25] Thank you for seeing the movie.

[18:26] That's me doing Rob Bryan's impression of Hugh Grant.

[18:29] It's pretty good.

[18:30] He does a great Hugh Grant impression.

Dan McCoy

[18:32] Whereas real Hugh Grant probably just sort of frowns at you and walks away.

Elliott Kalan

[18:36] Yes,

[18:37] exactly.

[18:37] Well,

[18:37] I mean,

[18:38] there's a reason that he was,

[18:40] it's not my story to tell,

[18:42] but when people ask Jon Stewart before the Daily Show sometimes,

[18:45] they'll be like,

[18:45] who was your least favorite guest?

[18:46] And they're like,

[18:47] he's like,

[18:47] Hugh Grant.

[18:47] Hugh Grant was just not very pleasant for people when he was there.

[18:51] Ulysses S.

[18:52] Grant,

[18:52] on the other hand,

[18:53] his great grandfather,

[18:54] saved the union.

[18:55] you know,

[18:56] so.

[18:56] Well,

Stuart Wellington

[18:56] next time Jon Stewart comes on the Flophouse,

[18:58] we'll have to pick his brain about that.

[19:00] What's happening,

[19:00] Elliot?

Elliott Kalan

[19:01] Let me get back to you about that.

Stuart Wellington

[19:04] You're probably closest to him.

[19:05] We couldn't do it on a Monday,

[19:07] because that's the one day he works.

[19:08] Yeah,

[19:09] well,

Elliott Kalan

[19:09] we don't normally record on Mondays,

[19:11] so that shouldn't be too big a problem.

[19:12] we're clear.

[19:12] Yeah.

[19:13] I haven't talked to Jon in a while.

[19:14] Yeah,

[19:15] maybe I'll ask him to be on this podcast.

Dan McCoy

[19:17] Now's the time to call in that shit.

[19:19] Yeah,

Elliott Kalan

[19:19] now's the time when he owes me the least.

[19:22] Yeah.

[19:23] So,

[19:24] Astro,

[19:25] I think,

[19:25] let's,

[19:25] let's go to our ads in a moment.

[19:27] And I think we've,

[19:28] we're having trouble defining what an astronaut movie is,

[19:30] maybe because it's not a real genre of movie,

[19:32] but that's okay.

[19:33] But I think we've agreed that it is about being an astronaut.

[19:36] It's hard to do an astronaut movie

[19:37] where you just happen to be an astronaut

[19:39] and some other story is happening,

[19:41] maybe because there's not very much going on in space.

[19:43] Like,

[19:43] if you're out in space,

[19:45] you are being an astronaut.

[19:46] It's not an along the way thing.

[19:49] And so,

[19:49] I think we're going to have to come up with our list of

[19:51] the 10 greatest astronaut movies.

[19:53] We might have to argue a little bit about,

[19:55] what,

[19:55] which ones are astronaut movies and which are not.

[19:57] But before we do that,

[19:59] let's take a quick break.

S4

[20:06] Well,

[20:06] gang,

[20:07] it's that time of year again.

Elliott Kalan

[20:09] Labor Day is here,

[20:10] which means you can't wear white anymore.

S4

[20:13] No.

[20:14] Well,

[20:14] yes,

[20:15] but no,

[20:15] it's Great British Bake Off season.

Elliott Kalan

[20:17] Oh,

[20:17] right.

S4

[20:18] And that means it's time to draft your teams and play along.

[20:21] There's a new judge in town,

[20:23] but the game's the same.

[20:24] Draft your bakers,

[20:25] score points like it's fantasy football,

[20:27] and talk smacking in group chats.

Elliott Kalan

[20:29] I wonder what Nigella Lawson would think about the Scripple Double.

S4

[20:31] So,

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Elliott Kalan

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S4

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Elliott Kalan

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[26:36] So guys, astronauts, we know what they are.

[26:39] We know an astronaut movie has to involve-

[26:41] Yeah.

[26:42] We all know what they're like.

[26:43] We know what we're getting.

[26:44] There's no surprises.

[26:46] We know an astronaut movie has to involve some kind of scientific reality

[26:50] in some way about space travel.

[26:52] It doesn't have to be totally accurate, probably.

[26:55] But it has to involve some kind of real-world situation

[26:58] that does not involve Wookiees or jumping into hyperspace

[27:03] or walking out on the surface of a planet

[27:06] and you don't need to wear a space suit.

[27:07] Or walking on sunshine.

[27:08] Walking on sunshine.

[27:08] Which is scientifically impossible.

Stuart Wellington

[27:10] That happens in the movie Sunshine.

Elliott Kalan

[27:11] Yeah.

[27:12] And it happens in the song, Walking on the Sun, by-

[27:16] Who was that?

[27:18] Smash Mouth.

[27:20] You got to admire a guy who sings even though his mouth got smashed.

[27:24] Like, you know, he's not going to let it stop him.

Dan McCoy

[27:25] Not going to let that keep me down.

Elliott Kalan

[27:27] No.

[27:28] He gets knocked down.

[27:29] I had the dream.

[27:29] His mouth smashed.

[27:30] But he gets up again.

[27:31] Nobody's going to keep him down.

[27:32] That's a different band at that song.

[27:34] Yeah.

[27:35] You got to imagine.

[27:35] And those guys, their chumbas.

[27:37] Their chumbas got Wombas.

[27:39] And they're still performing even with Womba chumbas.

[27:42] You got to admire that.

[27:43] You got to admire the stick to it in this.

Stuart Wellington

[27:45] Let's give a moment of silence.

Elliott Kalan

[27:47] For all those chumbas that got Womba'd.

[27:49] Yeah.

[27:50] You know, Wombaing of chumbas is one of the great tragedies you don't get here.

[27:54] You're getting talked about very much.

[27:55] Mostly because it's hard to say.

[27:57] Yes.

[27:58] Thank you, Dan, for now justifying this episode's existence.

[28:00] We finally did it.

[28:01] Okay.

[28:02] Good.

[28:02] Go find your local charity that's dealing with Womba chumbas.

[28:07] See what you can do to help.

[28:08] Because too many chumbas are being Womba'd and someone's got to talk about it.

[28:12] Hashtag no more Womba chumbas.

Dan McCoy

[28:14] Whoever talked about it was Dr. Seuss.

Elliott Kalan

[28:17] And he was shouted down at the American Medical Association convention.

Dan McCoy

[28:22] You're not a real doctor.

[28:23] They would scream.

Elliott Kalan

[28:25] What do you know about this?

[28:28] Now, the problem when you chumba a Womba and he just stopped because he couldn't think of any other words that rhymed.

[28:33] He couldn't think of words that rhymed.

[28:34] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[28:35] It's just weird because he just makes them up normally.

Elliott Kalan

[28:37] No, Dan, he got a dictionary from the future.

[28:40] Those are all future words.

Stuart Wellington

[28:41] Oh, that makes a lot of sense.

[28:42] That's how he won all those bets, right?

[28:46] Yeah, exactly.

Elliott Kalan

[28:48] There's the great –

[28:48] Or there's the –

[28:49] Out words.

[28:49] Yeah.

[28:50] Oxford's word of the year in the future is going to be this.

[28:53] Old biffs in a back zone.

[28:54] There's no way.

[28:55] There's no way.

Dan McCoy

[28:56] That word doesn't even exist as of yet.

Elliott Kalan

[29:00] Yeah, and that's why there's that, of course, Seuss world where Dr. Seuss took over and made everything terrible.

[29:06] Yeah.

[29:07] Everyone has to wear stars on their bellies and so forth.

Dan McCoy

[29:09] The West world and future world.

[29:11] Seuss world?

Elliott Kalan

[29:12] Yeah.

[29:12] Oh, I love that.

[29:13] All the robots are kind of weird big birds and stuff like that.

[29:16] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[29:17] You got these trees that are all corkscrewed.

Elliott Kalan

[29:19] They're like alligators that are furry somehow.

[29:22] I was going to say it could be like the classic science fiction story Mimsy were the Borgovs made into a movie, The Last Mimsy,

[29:29] in which the Jabberwocky is actually the instructions for making kind of like interdimensional either communicator or traveling thing or something like that.

[29:38] Anyway, it's a great short story.

[29:39] I never saw the movie.

[29:40] I remember reading the short story and being like, they should make a movie of this and then finding out they had already.

[29:45] And did I run out and see the movie?

[29:47] I did not.

[29:48] I have a movie I should have.

[29:48] Classic.

Stuart Wellington

[29:51] Touching on what we're going to talk about next week.

[29:53] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[29:54] How we answer a letterless question.

[29:56] Because we do some time travel here at the Flop House, which is called recording the episodes out of order.

[30:00] So, guys, we've talked enough about, well, you can never talk enough about how Wombas need to stop being Chumbas.

[30:06] Yeah, of course.

[30:06] Vice versa, Chumbas need to stop being Wombas.

Dan McCoy

[30:08] Wow, look at this letterbox spread on Last Mimsy.

[30:11] Oh, wow.

[30:11] The average rating is three, but it's like almost like a straight line across of like reviews all over the place.

[30:18] Rare.

[30:18] That is a rare one.

Elliott Kalan

[30:20] Wow.

[30:20] We might have to see it to find out.

[30:22] So, an astronaut movie can't do all the things that a science fiction movie does.

[30:26] There's some science fictional element to it usually, unless it's like Apollo 13 or First Man or the right stuff where it's just about a real astronaut.

Stuart Wellington

[30:35] How was First Man?

[30:37] I liked it quite a bit.

Elliott Kalan

[30:38] First Man is good.

[30:40] I found myself having, I could not connect to it emotionally.

[30:43] I found it very cold.

[30:43] And at times I was like, this feels like a really well done version of the movie they show you at the Air and Space Museum.

[30:49] Okay.

[30:50] But it's very well done.

[30:52] But it's, I found myself having trouble connecting to it.

Dan McCoy

[30:55] I mean, in part it was, the character as presented is kind of cold.

[31:00] But that's sort of what was interesting to me to do that.

Elliott Kalan

[31:03] But I feel like I would have, he's…

Dan McCoy

[31:05] Played by Gosling.

[31:06] Yeah.

[31:07] Oh, but he's so warm.

Elliott Kalan

[31:09] He is warm.

[31:09] He's also cool.

[31:10] He's also very cool.

[31:10] He is cool.

[31:12] I've been telling a lot.

[31:12] And Drive.

[31:14] Yeah, he's super cool.

[31:15] That jacket.

[31:15] That fucking jacket.

[31:17] Oh my God.

[31:17] You weren't cool.

Dan McCoy

[31:18] You couldn't wear that.

[31:19] He's like a real hero in a real human.

[31:20] You look like a fool.

Elliott Kalan

[31:21] No, I would look terribly foolish wearing that.

[31:23] Yeah.

[31:24] And of course, with my fingerless driving gloves too, I'd only look more foolish.

[31:28] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[31:28] Do you think your kids would think you were cool if you started wearing fingerless driving

[31:32] gloves?

Elliott Kalan

[31:32] There is nothing I can do that would make my kids think I was cool.

[31:36] I could be Kendrick Lamar and they would decide Kendrick Lamar is not cool anymore.

[31:40] Yeah.

[31:40] That's what happened.

[31:41] They'd be on team fucking Drake.

[31:42] They would turn…

[31:43] And they hate Drake, my kids.

[31:45] I don't think they've ever heard his music, but they hate him because they know Kendrick

[31:47] Lamar doesn't like him.

[31:48] Cool.

[31:48] So, it's a weird thing when your kids constantly want to listen to the clean radio version of

[31:55] a song about how Kendrick Lamar is… or a song about another rapper being a pedophile.

[32:01] And they're walking around going, they not like us.

[32:03] And I'm like, guys, I don't… it's a weird song for you just to be singing just walking

[32:07] around the house, you know.

[32:09] So, anyway, let's try to think just off the right hand.

[32:11] Let's think about the greatest movies, astronaut movies, movies about astronauts.

[32:16] They might have some science fictional element.

[32:17] They might be a real life story of a real astronaut that really lived.

[32:21] Fantastic Four.

[32:22] Again, I feel like…

[32:24] So, is Fantastic Four an astronaut movie?

[32:26] They go into space.

[32:26] They are astronauts.

Dan McCoy

[32:29] Yeah.

[32:29] Does it count as an astronaut movie?

[32:31] I think that's an element in the film.

[32:33] Okay.

[32:33] Rather than being an astronaut movie.

Elliott Kalan

[32:35] But I'm going to argue…

[32:36] I'm going to argue maybe it is an astronaut movie because that's the most interesting

[32:40] part of the movie, to be honest, is them being astronauts.

[32:42] Yeah.

[32:43] If I'm being honest.

[32:45] And like many astronaut movies, it's a little sad.

Stuart Wellington

[32:49] So…

[32:49] This is the new one?

[32:50] I haven't seen the new one yet.

Elliott Kalan

[32:51] The new Fantastic Four is very…

[32:54] So, then what are you talking about?

Dan McCoy

[32:55] You're so devoted to the Jessica Alba Michael Chiklis…

[32:59] No, the other one.

[33:00] The one with Michael B. Jordan and…

Elliott Kalan

[33:02] Oh, you like F4 or whatever.

[33:03] The one we did on the podcast.

[33:04] That one, they're not…

[33:05] I would not call that an astronaut movie.

[33:07] No.

[33:07] I would say they're more like astronauts than the new one.

[33:08] But they're all…

[33:09] This is…

[33:09] And this is my issue.

[33:10] I may have talked about this before with the Fantastic Four movie.

[33:12] People were like, oh, yeah, it was good.

[33:14] I want to see it.

[33:14] And so, it was…

[33:15] You should watch it.

[33:16] And I watched it.

[33:16] I found it so dour and so sad and depressing.

[33:20] It was…

[33:20] It had a weird tone.

[33:22] Yeah.

[33:22] It's very…

[33:23] Jack Kirby, known for bland, boring shit.

[33:26] Jack Kirby is known for not…

[33:27] Yeah, he's not known for investing energy and excitement into everything he's doing.

[33:31] And I kind of…

Stuart Wellington

[33:32] I did like when Galactus showed up at the end.

[33:33] I imagine that's the part I'd be most excited for.

Elliott Kalan

[33:37] Certainly, the fact that Galactus looks like Galactus in the comics is…

[33:40] Yeah.

[33:40] Even then, they like…

[33:41] Stopping around.

[33:42] They didn't get his character quite right.

[33:43] He's a little too evil at part.

[33:44] He's like, hmm, insects.

[33:46] Oh, and I'm like, that's not something he would do.

[33:48] He has no emotions.

[33:48] He's just hungry.

[33:49] He's just hungry.

[33:50] He's just hangry, you know.

[33:51] Yeah.

[33:51] But he's just a hungry man.

[33:52] The Hungry Man Dinners for Galactus, that's a planet.

Stuart Wellington

[33:55] How's…

[33:55] The hangers for a hungry planet.

[33:57] How's…

[33:57] Is Roran Nadd in it?

[33:59] Or Norrin Radd?

Elliott Kalan

[34:00] No, Norrin Radd is not in it because the Silver Surfer is Shallow Ball in this version.

[34:04] And it's a big waste of…

[34:06] What's her name?

Stuart Wellington

[34:07] Julia…

[34:08] Julia…

[34:09] Fox.

[34:11] Fox?

Elliott Kalan

[34:11] No.

[34:12] No, no.

[34:12] I don't know.

[34:13] No, from Ozarks and, you know.

[34:15] I don't know what…

[34:16] Julia Garner.

[34:17] Julia Garner.

[34:17] Thank you.

[34:18] Julia Garner, she's really great.

[34:19] She's a great actress and they don't really give her much of anything to do in it.

Dan McCoy

[34:22] Who the hell is Julia Fox?

Elliott Kalan

[34:24] Somebody know.

[34:25] Where is she?

[34:25] Who is she?

[34:27] From…

[34:27] Wait, who is she?

Stuart Wellington

[34:28] Yeah.

[34:29] From fucking Uncut Gems.

[34:31] Oh, okay.

Dan McCoy

[34:32] Oh, yeah.

[34:33] That's her.

[34:34] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[34:34] Okay.

[34:35] No, that's a different person.

Dan McCoy

[34:36] That's a different person.

[34:36] It's just like…

[34:37] No, it's like one of those things where I pull a name out of somewhere and I'm like,

[34:40] I don't even know who I'm talking about.

[34:41] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[34:42] This is why they took away your telephone.

[34:45] Yeah.

[34:46] Some old men, they take away their car keys.

[34:47] Yeah, yeah.

[34:48] It was the telephone.

[34:49] Because we go, Siri, call Bell Biv DeVoe.

[34:52] Who's that?

[34:53] Can I call them?

[34:56] They just took it away.

[34:57] Yeah.

[34:58] Call…

[34:58] Took the name.

[34:59] I like it.

[35:00] Maybe that's my name.

[35:02] That's my name now.

Dan McCoy

[35:03] Call me Bell.

[35:04] That's why we…

[35:05] Or you can call me Bell Biv.

[35:05] Yeah, he has a cheater button now.

[35:09] Call Tony, Tony, Tony.

[35:12] But spelled it three different ways.

Elliott Kalan

[35:14] Don't spell it the same way.

[35:15] Spell it three different ways.

[35:19] Yeah, this is Tony Collette.

[35:20] That's not who I'm trying to call.

[35:21] You only spelled Tony one way.

[35:24] Do you think she ever checks in at a hotel with Tony spelled a different way?

[35:27] Just so that nobody knows?

[35:28] Just incognito.

[35:29] The mafia mama herself?

[35:31] Yeah.

[35:33] So, back to astronaut movies.

[35:35] So, let's just think of what are the great astronaut movies?

[35:37] We mentioned a couple of them.

[35:38] We mentioned…

[35:38] Yeah, no.

Dan McCoy

[35:39] I think Apollo 13 and the right stuff have to top the list.

[35:42] Okay.

Elliott Kalan

[35:43] We mentioned Apollo 13.

[35:44] Not actually in that order, but…

[35:46] I mentioned 2001, which is, again, a science fiction movie, but I feel like it is about being an astronaut.

[35:51] You know?

[35:51] Yeah.

[35:51] I mentioned Gravity.

[35:53] That's an astronaut movie.

[35:53] That's up there.

[35:54] That's up there.

[35:55] What other ones?

[35:56] Dark Star.

[35:58] Is that an astronaut?

[35:59] It's about being an astronaut.

Dan McCoy

[36:02] Yeah.

[36:02] I think it's a little too silly.

[36:05] Probably not the astronaut's wife, because that's about being an astronaut's wife.

Elliott Kalan

[36:09] Yeah.

[36:09] And also, that's not really…

[36:10] It's about…

[36:11] He comes back with, like, an alien inside of him, right?

Stuart Wellington

[36:14] Yeah.

[36:15] What about…

[36:15] Yeah.

[36:15] What about Species 2?

Elliott Kalan

[36:18] Are there any astronauts in Species 2?

[36:20] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[36:20] The main guy is an astronaut who comes back, but now he's a species.

[36:23] I forgot about that.

Elliott Kalan

[36:24] So, like, what are the other ones?

[36:25] I think the Martian, I think you mentioned before.

[36:27] The Martian.

[36:27] Definitely.

[36:28] That should be on there.

[36:28] That's an astronaut.

[36:29] Interstellar.

[36:30] Is that an astronaut movie?

[36:31] Well, that's a good question.

[36:32] Yeah.

[36:33] I would call that an astronaut movie.

Stuart Wellington

[36:34] Probably an astronaut movie.

[36:35] It's a good robot movie.

[36:37] Yeah, but that's not what we're talking about.

Elliott Kalan

[36:38] We're talking about astronaut movies.

[36:39] Oh, right.

[36:39] I think we did one about robot movies at some point, but it was a movie where the robot

[36:43] had to be the star of it.

[36:46] Yeah, probably.

[36:47] Is Space Cowboys.

[36:50] Damn.

Dan McCoy

[36:51] That's definitely an astronaut movie.

[36:52] You love Space Cowboys.

[36:53] Okay.

[36:53] I don't know if it's one of the all-time best astronaut movies.

[36:57] Let's see how many we can think of, Dan.

[36:59] What about Armageddon?

Elliott Kalan

[37:00] Armageddon?

[37:02] That's a good question.

Dan McCoy

[37:02] It's a half-astronaut, half-driller movie.

[37:04] Oh, okay.

Elliott Kalan

[37:05] Oh, okay.

[37:06] Because it's not really like...

[37:09] It's a disaster-not movie.

[37:11] That's a disaster-not movie.

[37:13] It is a disaster-not movie.

[37:14] I'm going to write it down.

[37:15] Project Hail Mary.

[37:16] I didn't see it.

Dan McCoy

[37:18] Yeah, I'd say so.

[37:19] I'd say so, yeah.

[37:20] I would also...

[37:22] I mean, I would put First Man up there.

[37:25] I know you didn't like this movie.

Elliott Kalan

[37:26] Oh, First...

[37:26] No, I mean, First Man is definitely an astronaut movie.

[37:28] We're just thinking of astronaut movies right now.

[37:29] We're just naming movies.

[37:30] Just naming movies.

[37:31] Is the astronaut farmer?

[37:32] I never saw it.

[37:34] It's when a farmer becomes an astronaut.

[37:36] Is it a farmer movie?

[37:37] That's the one with Billy Bob Thornton,

[37:38] where he's a farmer who builds a spaceship

[37:40] and becomes an astronaut.

[37:41] Oh.

Dan McCoy

[37:42] Wasn't that October Sky?

Elliott Kalan

[37:45] No, that's a different movie, October Sky.

[37:48] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[37:48] What about Fire in the Sky?

Elliott Kalan

[37:50] Now, that's not an astronaut movie.

[37:51] That's an alien abduction movie.

[37:54] Is October Sky...

[37:55] Does he become an astronaut in that?

[37:56] Or is he just an astro-astronaut?

[37:59] I don't even know what that is.

[38:00] October Sky.

[38:01] That's the one that's like a kid.

[38:04] October.

[38:05] That's the one.

[38:06] Yeah.

[38:07] He becomes a NASA engineer.

[38:09] He's an amateur rocketeer who becomes a NASA engineer.

[38:11] It's a true story.

[38:12] But he is not an astronaut.

[38:13] He works for NASA, but he is not an astronaut.

[38:15] Does not go to space.

[38:16] Sorry, October Sky.

[38:17] You're burnt.

[38:18] You don't get to be one.

[38:19] Sorry.

[38:20] I didn't make it.

Stuart Wellington

[38:20] What about Hidden Figures?

Elliott Kalan

[38:22] Now, again, Hidden Figures is a NASA movie,

[38:25] but they're not astronauts, right?

[38:26] It's astronaut adjacent.

[38:27] You actually never see an astronaut,

[38:29] as far as I can tell, in that movie.

[38:30] It's just about the hidden figures.

Stuart Wellington

[38:31] You were really framed by framed in it.

Elliott Kalan

[38:33] I was Where's Waldo-ing that movie like crazy,

[38:35] looking for an astronaut,

[38:36] and looking for Waldo, too, to be honest.

[38:38] But I do that with every movie,

[38:38] just to see if he crept in there.

[38:40] What about Airplane 2?

[38:42] They go into space,

[38:43] but I think they're not really astronauts, right?

[38:47] If Dark Star is too silly to be an astronaut movie,

[38:50] a movie about astronauts,

[38:51] then I think Airplane 2 is not.

[38:53] Mission to Mars, is that an astronaut movie?

[38:56] I think that counts, yeah.

[38:57] Okay.

[38:58] Now, we said 2001.

[38:59] What about 2010, the year we make contact?

[39:02] I've never seen it.

[39:03] I've never seen it.

[39:03] I've seen it.

[39:04] I'm going to put it on there.

[39:05] It's not as good,

[39:06] but it is a movie about people going into space,

[39:08] and it's vaguely realistic.

[39:09] At Astra, Stuart,

[39:10] you're making a pretty good case

[39:11] for being an astronaut movie.

Stuart Wellington

[39:13] I feel like it's on the line

[39:16] of being more sci-fi than astronaut movie,

[39:19] but I think it's still...

[39:20] And I think Sunshine goes on there, too.

[39:22] Sunshine goes on there.

Elliott Kalan

[39:23] And I'm going to put Silent Running on there,

[39:24] to be honest,

[39:25] because it's about living in space

[39:27] as opposed to...

[39:27] You know that one, right?

[39:28] The one where Bruce Dern's the astronaut,

[39:30] and he's got those little robots.

[39:32] It's a science fiction movie,

[39:33] but it's not like a...

[39:34] It's not like...

[39:35] There's nothing in it

[39:36] that is incredibly unrealistic.

[39:39] He doesn't meet a wacky alien that raps...

Stuart Wellington

[39:42] Yeah, it's not Enemy Mine or something.

Elliott Kalan

[39:44] Yes, exactly.

[39:44] Like, Enemy Mine,

[39:45] I would not call an astronaut movie.

[39:46] Yeah.

[39:47] The Last Starfighter,

[39:48] not an astronaut movie.

Dan McCoy

[39:49] Capricorn 1 is a fake astronaut movie?

Elliott Kalan

[39:52] Oh, but they are real astronauts.

[39:53] Oh, Dan.

[39:55] Now we're getting into Tom Wood,

[39:57] in the scientific territory.

[39:57] Yeah.

[39:58] Because Capricorn 1 and astronaut movie,

[39:59] they are astronauts,

[40:00] but they don't go into space.

[40:02] And the movie is not about their space trip,

[40:04] but it's about the conspiracy.

[40:06] Oh, man.

[40:08] Guys, we may have...

[40:10] Dan, you may have hit on

[40:11] the first astronaut movie

[40:12] that is like...

[40:13] There are astronauts in it,

[40:14] but it's not about being an astronaut.

[40:16] Yeah.

[40:16] Like we were talking about,

[40:17] it's hard to do with mob movies.

[40:18] I'm going to put it on.

Dan McCoy

[40:19] It exists in a suspended state

[40:21] where it's both astronaut

[40:23] and non-astronaut movies.

[40:24] Exactly.

Elliott Kalan

[40:24] Schrodinger's astronaut movie.

[40:26] Yeah.

[40:26] And I'm going to point people to,

[40:27] I think it may still be up on YouTube.

[40:28] I'm not sure.

[40:29] My video where I put out

[40:31] Capricorn 1,

[40:32] the Elliot Gould edition,

[40:33] where it was just about

[40:34] Elliot Gould's character

[40:35] in the movie.

[40:36] Oh, wow.

[40:39] Capricorn 1's a funny movie

[40:41] because there's so many scenes

[40:42] of Elliot Gould

[40:43] hearing information from people

[40:44] and then repeating it back to them.

[40:46] Oh, really?

[40:47] Yeah.

[40:48] Look on YouTube

[40:49] for my Capricorn 1 video.

[40:50] If it's still on,

[40:50] you'll see.

[40:52] So, okay.

[40:54] We've got a lot of movies

[40:54] on this list now.

[40:55] What about Moonraker?

[40:56] I would call Moonraker...

[40:58] Well, I...

[40:59] No, probably not an astronaut movie.

Dan McCoy

[41:01] What about...

[41:01] What was it called?

[41:02] Moonfall?

[41:03] What was the...

Elliott Kalan

[41:04] Moonfall, they don't go into space.

[41:05] No.

Dan McCoy

[41:05] They do eventually.

[41:07] Do they?

[41:07] They find the moon's hollow, remember?

[41:10] Oh, right.

[41:10] They do.

Elliott Kalan

[41:12] Yell it.

[41:12] Moonfall may...

[41:13] No, it's not an astronaut movie

[41:14] because it's not...

[41:15] Well, I don't know.

[41:15] Guys, what do you think?

[41:16] Vote on it.

Dan McCoy

[41:17] No, it's not.

[41:18] I mean, there is an astronaut in it,

[41:20] but I think we can say it's not one.

Elliott Kalan

[41:21] And I think we may decide

[41:22] Event Horizon is probably not

[41:24] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[41:25] More of a sci-fi horror movie.

[41:28] Yes.

Elliott Kalan

[41:28] So, let's start putting

[41:30] these movies into a list, shall we?

[41:31] We're running long.

[41:32] Let's put them into a list.

[41:33] Did we miss any?

[41:34] Yeah, I'm going to toss

Dan McCoy

[41:35] Space Camp in there

[41:36] because it is a camp,

[41:37] but it is a NASA-run camp

[41:39] and they go into space.

Elliott Kalan

[41:40] And they do go into space.

[41:40] They do accidentally go into space.

[41:42] How do you go accidentally

[41:43] go into space?

Dan McCoy

[41:44] Jigs put Max into space.

[41:46] Jigs can get Max back from space.

[41:48] He has to.

Elliott Kalan

[41:49] He heard lunch

[41:50] and he thought they said launch,

[41:51] so he hit the lunch button

[41:53] So, I think there are a couple

[41:55] that we can definitely agree

[41:56] are on the list of best astronaut movies.

[41:58] Apollo 13, for sure.

[42:00] The right stuff, sure.

[42:02] 2001.

[42:03] 2001, sure.

[42:04] I'll put First Man on there.

[42:06] It's a really,

[42:06] it is a very good movie

[42:07] about being an astronaut.

[42:09] Gravity, I think.

[42:11] I'll put Gravity on there.

[42:12] I think The Martian

[42:13] should go on there.

[42:13] Okay.

[42:13] Because that could happen.

[42:15] You could get lost on it.

[42:16] You could get stuck on a planet

[42:17] to grow potatoes.

[42:18] It could happen to you.

[42:18] It could happen.

[42:19] That's what it could happen

[42:20] to you should be about.

[42:20] Again, I call back,

[42:21] call forward to next week's episode.

[42:22] Call forward.

[42:23] Next week's episode.

Stuart Wellington

[42:24] Yeah.

[42:24] It could happen to you.

[42:25] It could be about

[42:26] getting trapped on Mars.

Elliott Kalan

[42:28] If you're an astronaut

[42:29] or Matt Damon

[42:30] because that's who it happened to.

[42:31] And Matt,

[42:32] The Martian and Interstellar

[42:34] are such fun,

[42:34] that's a fun double feature

[42:35] because you get to see

[42:36] both sides of Matt Damon.

[42:37] The cool, fun astronaut

[42:39] who looks for the best in things

[42:41] and the shitty astronaut

[42:42] who is ready to kill humanity

[42:45] if it means he's not stuck

[42:45] on a rock forever.

[42:47] Yeah.

[42:48] What are the odds

[42:49] that the same guy,

[42:50] it would happen to him twice

[42:51] that he'd get marooned

[42:52] on another planet?

[42:54] What are the odds?

[42:55] What are the odds?

[42:56] Some NASA,

[42:56] I hope the mathematicians

[42:58] from Hidden Figures

[42:58] can write in and tell us

[42:59] what the odds are

[43:00] that Matt Damon

[43:00] would twice get stuck

[43:02] marooned on an alien planet.

Stuart Wellington

[43:04] Like a real Odysseus.

Elliott Kalan

[43:07] What are the odds

[43:07] that every island

[43:09] they would land on

[43:09] there would be

[43:10] some kind of monster

[43:11] that wants to eat them?

Dan McCoy

[43:12] Yeah.

[43:13] I mean,

[43:13] how far away are they?

[43:14] These are like new things to them.

[43:16] It's like,

[43:16] oh,

[43:16] we don't have any of these monsters

[43:18] where I come from,

[43:19] but every island over here

[43:20] has monsters.

Elliott Kalan

[43:21] This is the monster sea,

[43:22] I guess.

[43:22] It's the monster-terranean sea.

[43:24] That movie,

[43:25] I really liked the Odyssey a lot.

[43:26] I thought it was really good.

[43:27] But the part where they're

[43:28] running away from

[43:28] the shades of the dead

[43:30] after they talk to Tyreseus,

[43:31] I'm like,

[43:31] why do they have to run this time?

[43:33] Half this movie

[43:33] is them running from things

[43:34] to get back to their boats,

[43:35] you know?

Dan McCoy

[43:36] Yeah.

[43:37] Probably the dead

[43:38] can just hang out.

Elliott Kalan

[43:39] Yes.

[43:40] So we've got,

[43:40] yeah, exactly.

[43:41] I mean,

[43:41] what are they going to get from them?

[43:42] Nothing.

[43:43] They're just mad.

[43:44] Yeah, I mean,

[43:44] that's the whole thing.

Stuart Wellington

[43:45] So they're kind of

[43:46] whittled down to a single emotion

[43:48] and that's vengeance.

Elliott Kalan

[43:49] I guess that's true.

[43:50] That's true.

[43:51] So we've got

[43:51] one, two, three, four, five,

[43:53] six movies on here.

[43:54] We don't have to order them.

[43:55] We don't have to order.

[43:56] That's six movies.

[43:56] Apollo 13,

[43:57] The Right Stuff,

[43:58] 2001,

[43:58] Gravity,

[43:59] The Martian,

[43:59] First Man.

[44:00] I think any of those

[44:01] would look fine

[44:02] on a list of the top 10

[44:03] greatest astronaut movies.

[44:05] Now is when we start

[44:06] to get into the more difficult.

[44:08] What are the final four?

[44:09] What are the fantastic four?

[44:11] Some might say.

[44:12] I think not fantastic four.

[44:13] That's not one of them.

[44:14] I though admire Stuart

[44:15] nominating a movie

[44:16] he has not seen

[44:17] for the list.

Dan McCoy

[44:18] Again,

[44:19] Rocket Man

[44:20] starring Harland Wilson.

[44:21] Wow.

[44:22] Williams.

[44:23] Harland Wilson?

[44:23] Or Wilson?

Elliott Kalan

[44:24] Harland Wilson?

[44:25] It's not familiar.

[44:26] You might be thinking

[44:26] of Harold Wilson,

[44:27] the former British

[44:28] prime minister perhaps.

[44:29] Probably was.

Dan McCoy

[44:30] Yeah.

[44:30] Harland Ellison?

[44:31] No, clearly I'm not

[44:32] familiar enough

[44:34] with Rocket Man

[44:34] to make that claim.

[44:35] No.

[44:36] You haven't seen it?

[44:36] I've seen it.

[44:37] I saw it.

[44:38] I've seen Rocket Man.

[44:41] Did you see

Elliott Kalan

[44:42] the Elton John Rocket Man also?

[44:43] I did.

[44:45] So in the Battle

[44:46] of the Rocket Men

[44:46] you can't tell me

[44:47] which is the better

[44:48] Rocket Man.

Dan McCoy

[44:49] Well,

[44:50] has Stuart seen

[44:51] the Harland Wolf?

[44:52] No, I haven't.

[44:53] I haven't seen

[44:54] the Harland Wolf.

[44:54] If only I could combine you

Elliott Kalan

[44:55] into the perfect man,

[44:56] one who has seen

[44:56] both versions of Rocket Man.

Stuart Wellington

[44:58] The duality of Rocket Man.

[45:00] Instead,

[45:01] we're this like

[45:01] Jack on Hyde situation.

[45:03] Inside of each of us

Elliott Kalan

[45:04] there's two Matt Damons

[45:05] and two Rocket Man,

[45:05] but we don't know which one.

[45:07] No.

[45:08] I'll tell you

[45:08] crack us open.

[45:10] So what if Jekyll and Hyde

[45:11] was just,

[45:11] when he's Dr. Jekyll,

[45:12] he thinks Rocket Man,

[45:13] the Elton John movie

[45:14] is the better.

[45:14] When he's Mr. Hyde,

[45:15] he thinks the Harley Williams

[45:16] one is the better.

Stuart Wellington

[45:17] Yeah, I mean,

[45:18] I would imagine

[45:19] he is like that.

Elliott Kalan

[45:22] A few years ago,

[45:23] my younger son,

[45:23] he went as Halloween

[45:24] as the wizard

[45:26] from a kid's movie

[45:27] called Spooky Buddies.

[45:30] These are the movies

[45:31] that are spin-off

[45:31] of Air Bud.

[45:32] Right, right.

[45:32] It's a bunch of puppies

[45:33] and he loved these movies.

[45:35] There's Treasure Buddies,

[45:36] there's Space Buddies.

[45:37] I mean,

[45:38] they're pretty cute.

[45:38] Is Space Buddies

[45:40] Yes,

[45:41] Space Buddies

[45:42] is an astronaut movie.

[45:43] We've got to put that

[45:43] on the list.

[45:44] Hold on.

[45:45] But he wanted to be

[45:46] the bad guy

[45:46] from Spooky Buddies

[45:47] who's this evil warlock

[45:49] and I was like,

[45:49] this warlock seems so familiar

[45:50] until I realized

[45:51] it was Harlan Williams

[45:52] playing it

[45:53] and I'm like,

[45:53] my son is going out

[45:55] for Halloween

[45:55] dressed as Harlan Williams

[45:56] basically.

[45:56] Like he's in a

[45:57] Harlan Williams costume.

[45:58] It's like,

[45:58] that's fine.

[45:59] That's okay with me.

[45:59] What a magical world.

[46:01] Exactly.

[46:02] So is Space Buddies

[46:03] one of the final four?

[46:04] Let me just throw out

[46:05] some movies.

[46:06] I'm just going to name

[46:06] them one after the other.

[46:07] You tell me if you think

[46:07] they should be

[46:08] in the final four.

[46:09] Okay.

[46:10] Armageddon.

Dan McCoy

[46:12] No.

[46:12] I don't think it's

[46:13] astronaut-y enough.

Elliott Kalan

[46:15] Okay.

[46:15] Sunshine.

[46:17] Maybe.

[46:18] Maybe.

[46:19] And that's a maybe.

[46:19] What about Space Cowboys?

Dan McCoy

[46:23] It is very...

[46:25] It's very astronaut-y

[46:26] so I guess I'll say

[46:27] sure.

Elliott Kalan

[46:28] One of the top ten

[46:29] astronaut movies ever made.

[46:30] No, I'm going to fight it.

[46:32] Space Cowboys.

[46:32] Okay.

[46:32] Well, we got to find

[46:33] some other ones.

[46:34] Okay, let's see.

[46:34] What about...

Stuart Wellington

[46:35] You can't say that

[46:37] every time we veto an option.

[46:39] You're going to say

[46:39] that same shit

[46:40] when we say Space Buddies.

[46:41] You're like,

Elliott Kalan

[46:42] something's got to go in there.

[46:43] Why is all these Space Buddies?

[46:45] We have ten fingers.

[46:46] Got to have a top ten.

[46:47] You got to put something on there.

[46:47] What about Interstellar?

[46:49] Okay.

Dan McCoy

[46:51] Sure.

[46:51] Because I think

[46:52] it's a very good movie.

Elliott Kalan

[46:53] Okay.

[46:53] And it feels astronaut-y.

[46:54] They're doing

[46:55] the astronaut stuff.

[46:58] Wait, you just said

[47:01] Yeah, but have you

[47:01] rethought it?

[47:02] Have you second thought it?

[47:03] Not yet.

[47:03] We'll try this again

[47:05] in a few minutes.

[47:05] Mission to Mars.

[47:07] No.

[47:08] Okay.

[47:08] It's an astronaut movie

[47:09] but all right.

[47:09] Not one of the top ten best.

[47:11] 2010,

[47:12] the year we made contact.

[47:12] Well, I mean,

[47:12] if we've gotten this far,

Stuart Wellington

[47:14] they're already astronaut movies.

[47:16] We're trying to pick our favorites.

[47:17] Good point.

[47:18] Now we're splitting hairs

Elliott Kalan

[47:19] about movies.

[47:20] Okay.

[47:20] What about Silent Running?

[47:22] he's the astronaut,

[47:22] he's got the last trees,

[47:23] he's got a robot,

[47:24] take care of them.

Dan McCoy

[47:25] It is kind of a classic.

[47:27] It's a good movie.

[47:28] It's a good movie.

[47:28] Yeah, I'll put a vote in

[47:30] for sure.

[47:31] Add that one.

[47:31] Okay, I'll vote for that too.

Elliott Kalan

[47:32] Okay, so then we got

[47:32] one, two, three, four,

[47:34] five, six, seven, eight.

[47:35] We need two more movies.

[47:36] Okay.

[47:38] What do you think about that?

Dan McCoy

[47:40] Elliot, I'm going to be

[47:41] frank with you.

[47:42] I'm more inclined to vote

[47:43] Space Camp

[47:44] than Space Cowboys.

[47:46] Okay.

[47:46] It might be my nostalgia.

[47:48] What about Space Buddies?

Stuart Wellington

[47:49] I figured that was going to be

[47:50] 10 no matter what.

[47:52] Yeah, put that in number 10,

[47:54] Space Buddies.

Elliott Kalan

[47:55] Okay, so Space Buddies

[47:56] is the movie where

[47:57] the puppies go into space.

[47:58] Yeah, so we just need

Stuart Wellington

[47:59] one more.

[48:00] Dan is saying Space Camp.

[48:01] What are the other options?

Elliott Kalan

[48:03] You've also got Ad Astra.

[48:04] Not to be confused

[48:05] with Ted Asner,

[48:06] who's a person

[48:07] and not a movie.

Stuart Wellington

[48:07] Yeah, if you put him

[48:09] into space.

[48:09] If it was called

Elliott Kalan

[48:10] Ed Asner in Ad Astra,

[48:11] I would have seen

[48:12] that movie Opening Night.

[48:13] Yeah.

[48:15] Ed Asner has to go

[48:16] into space.

[48:17] Take my money

[48:18] out of my pockets.

[48:18] How much money

[48:19] do you have to pay

[48:19] for this ticket?

[48:20] Project Hail Mary.

[48:21] Again, I haven't seen it yet.

[48:22] Oh, yeah.

[48:22] It's pretty good.

[48:23] Astronaut Farmer.

[48:24] About a farmer

[48:25] who becomes an astronaut.

[48:26] I haven't seen it.

[48:27] October Sky was mentioned.

[48:28] That's not about an astronaut.

[48:29] Take that off the list.

[48:31] And Sunshine we mentioned

[48:33] and Space Cowboys.

Dan McCoy

[48:36] So...

[48:36] Wait, Sunshine

[48:36] wasn't already on there?

[48:38] Was not already on the list.

[48:39] Yeah, let's go with that.

[48:40] Just because we don't

[48:41] like it a lot.

[48:41] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[48:42] Okay, I mean,

[48:42] it's not the most

[48:43] astronaut-y of them.

[48:44] No.

[48:44] But, you know,

Dan McCoy

[48:45] one, two.

[48:45] But we already decided

[48:46] it's an astronaut movie.

Elliott Kalan

[48:48] If Sunshine's an astronaut movie,

[48:49] I feel like Alien

[48:49] is an astronaut movie.

Dan McCoy

[48:50] Look, we already said

[48:51] that we decided

[48:52] that these are astronaut movies.

[48:53] Now we're just talking

[48:53] about the ones

[48:54] that we like.

[48:54] Now we're just thinking

Elliott Kalan

[48:55] you've lost control,

[48:57] my friend.

[48:57] Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

[48:59] Then we have our ten.

[49:01] We have our top ten

[49:03] I'm going to give

[49:03] Space Cowboys

[49:04] an honorable mention.

[49:05] Sure.

Stuart Wellington

[49:07] Why not?

[49:08] Is this fucking episode

[49:09] sponsored by Space Cowboys?

Elliott Kalan

[49:11] I didn't want to tell you guys,

[49:12] but Space Cowboys

[49:13] slipped me a 20

[49:14] when the episode started.

Dan McCoy

[49:15] Don't worry, guys.

[49:16] You're a shoe-in.

[49:17] You're a shoe-in.

[49:18] There's no way

[49:18] they're not going to say.

Elliott Kalan

[49:19] You're about astronauts.

[49:20] What a cast.

[49:21] There's just not that many.

[49:21] Clint Eastwood,

[49:22] James Garner,

[49:23] Morgan Freeman, I think.

[49:24] Who else is in this movie?

[49:26] I don't remember.

[49:27] Clint Eastwood.

[49:28] Yeah.

[49:28] I said Clint Eastwood.

[49:29] Yeah.

[49:29] Okay.

Stuart Wellington

[49:30] Garner.

[49:30] Tommy Lee Jones.

[49:31] Tommy Lee Jones.

[49:33] TLJ.

Elliott Kalan

[49:34] Come on.

[49:34] Donald Sutherland.

[49:35] Not Morgan Freeman.

[49:36] I was wrong about that.

[49:37] I don't know why I assumed

[49:38] he was one of the S-Rex.

Dan McCoy

[49:40] He's an old dude.

[49:41] He's a fucking artist.

[49:42] He's in a lot of old dude movies.

[49:43] Yeah.

[49:43] He was actually still

[49:45] a little too young

[49:45] to be in the old dude movies then,

[49:47] but there was a period

[49:48] where he was in

[49:48] all the old dude movies.

Elliott Kalan

[49:49] Oh, this was the year 2000.

[49:51] He was plenty old by that time.

[49:52] How old was Morgan Freeman

[49:53] in 2000?

[49:54] Yeah, but like...

[49:55] He was 63 years old.

Dan McCoy

[49:56] But there's the era later on.

[49:59] Yes.

[49:59] Let's look at the...

[50:00] Let's look at Morgan Freeman's...

Elliott Kalan

[50:01] He's in the old man movies

[50:02] when like Robert De Niro

[50:04] is in old man movies, right?

Dan McCoy

[50:06] No, that's Moor Farm.

[50:07] That's not how you spell it.

Elliott Kalan

[50:09] Moor Farm Collar?

[50:10] No, that's Hank Moorpork.

[50:11] That's the city from Discworld.

[50:13] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[50:14] Okay.

[50:14] All filmography.

Elliott Kalan

[50:15] All right.

[50:15] I feel like I can't...

[50:16] I can never make fun of Dan

[50:17] for not knowing

[50:18] if Jackie Chan's in a movie

[50:19] now that I've mixed up

[50:20] Donald Sutherland

[50:21] and Morgan Freeman.

[50:21] But, you know...

Stuart Wellington

[50:23] So we got this period here.

[50:25] Okay.

[50:25] Like when you see

[50:26] Morgan Freeman's butt

[50:27] in Animal House.

Elliott Kalan

[50:29] Yeah, exactly.

[50:30] Yeah.

[50:30] When Morgan Freeman

[50:31] gives that big long speech

[50:33] in JFK.

[50:34] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[50:34] Just getting started,

[50:35] going in style.

[50:37] Oh, right.

[50:37] Going in style remake

[50:39] Yeah.

[50:40] There was the...

[50:40] Oh, geez.

[50:41] Wow.

[50:41] These are actually

[50:41] more spread out

[50:42] than Las Vegas.

Elliott Kalan

[50:44] That's the one

[50:45] I remember most

[50:45] is Las Vegas.

Dan McCoy

[50:46] Yeah.

[50:47] I feel like Red

[50:48] where they're all old.

[50:49] Yeah.

[50:50] They're old assassins.

[50:50] That's the whole point.

Elliott Kalan

[50:52] We're not doing old movies.

[50:55] The bucket list.

[50:57] Bucket list.

[50:57] Save this for when

[50:58] we do old person movies.

[51:00] What counts as an old person movie?

[51:01] Is Clueless an old person movie?

[51:04] Is Fast Times at Ridgemont High

[51:05] an old person movie?

[51:06] No.

[51:07] Singles?

[51:08] Is that an old person movie?

[51:09] No.

[51:09] There's no way of knowing.

Dan McCoy

[51:10] He cornered the market

[51:12] on movies where like

[51:13] the point is like

[51:14] these guys are old

[51:16] and they're doing something.

[51:17] Is Dennis the Menace

[51:18] an old person movie?

[51:20] Because Mr. Wilson is old.

[51:22] Yeah.

[51:22] He's a second lead.

[51:23] The title character is young.

Elliott Kalan

[51:25] Yeah.

[51:25] But I mean

[51:26] the title character is young.

[51:28] Carl Young.

[51:30] As Dennis the Menace.

Dan McCoy

[51:31] Young the Menace.

Elliott Kalan

[51:34] Ah, you know what

[51:35] your dreams are saying.

[51:37] You know what your problem is.

[51:38] The collective unconscious.

[51:39] Don't tell me about

[51:40] that stuff during

[51:41] while my prize begonias

[51:42] are being judged

[51:43] because it's still Mr. Wilson.

[51:45] Anyway, so Harold Wilson

[51:46] the former prime minister.

[51:47] So guys, I think we have our list.

[51:49] I think at the top

[51:50] we probably got Apollo 13, right?

[51:52] Apollo 13 or the right.

[51:53] No, we're 2001.

[51:53] I'm going to put 2001 at the top.

Dan McCoy

[51:55] I mean, my only argument

[51:56] about 2001

[51:57] is like a better movie

[51:58] but if we are

[51:59] if it's a combo platter

[52:01] now that we have our 10

[52:02] of like what's most astronauty

[52:03] and what's best

[52:04] it's a little less astronauty.

[52:06] Well, are we judging

Elliott Kalan

[52:06] by most astronauty

[52:08] or by greatest?

[52:09] I'm going to say

[52:10] let's say most astronauty.

[52:11] Okay.

[52:12] What's the most astronauty

[52:13] in the movies?

[52:13] Then probably the right stuff

[52:14] or Apollo 13.

[52:14] Yeah, one of those two.

[52:16] I would say Apollo 13.

[52:17] It's a story of astronauts

[52:18] being in space.

[52:19] Yeah.

[52:20] Solving problems.

[52:21] Okay.

[52:21] It's not like the right stuff

[52:22] where they're fighter pilots

[52:23] for most of the movie.

[52:24] Yeah.

[52:25] It's not like First Man

[52:26] where a lot of it is

[52:27] about him being a cold fish.

[52:29] You know.

[52:30] Yeah.

[52:30] They're astronauts

[52:31] from the jump

[52:32] in Apollo 13.

[52:33] Yeah.

[52:34] So Apollo 13.

[52:35] Then right stuff

[52:37] got to be on there.

[52:38] Yeah.

[52:39] 2001 I'm putting

[52:39] pretty high up.

[52:40] Yeah.

[52:41] You know,

[52:41] even if it's not

[52:41] as astronauty.

[52:42] Then what do you put after that?

[52:44] I would say either

[52:44] maybe like gravity

[52:45] or the Martian.

[52:47] What do you guys think?

Stuart Wellington

[52:48] I mean,

[52:48] on pure fucking

[52:50] astronaut terms,

[52:52] gravity is more

[52:53] astronauty

[52:54] than 2001.

Elliott Kalan

[52:56] Yeah, but...

[52:57] I guess so.

[52:57] There's fewer scenes

[52:58] of apes.

[53:00] Thank you.

[53:01] 2001,

[53:02] they start out as apes

[53:03] and then they become astronauts.

[53:04] I understood the movie, right?

[53:05] Like the apes,

[53:06] they shave the apes.

[53:07] They do a morph.

[53:08] Space chimps.

[53:08] Yeah.

[53:10] When the ape

[53:11] throws his bone

[53:11] into the sky.

[53:12] We forgot space chimps, guys.

[53:13] Oh, boy.

[53:15] How could we forget that?

[53:15] We got thrown

Dan McCoy

[53:16] the whole list out.

[53:17] Oh, man.

Elliott Kalan

[53:18] Everything's unbalanced now.

[53:19] Oh, boy.

[53:20] What about Jason X?

[53:22] They're astronauts in that.

[53:24] I don't know

[53:25] if I'd call it

[53:26] necessarily, you know.

Stuart Wellington

[53:28] There's more astronaut characters

[53:29] than Jason characters.

Elliott Kalan

[53:32] When you're looking

[53:33] at character density

[53:34] and proportion,

[53:35] there are more astronauts

[53:36] in the movie

[53:36] than there are slashers.

Dan McCoy

[53:38] Also, David Cronenberg

[53:39] is in it.

[53:40] But the knife

[53:41] is more dense

[53:41] than the astronauts,

[53:43] which is why

[53:43] he can slice it through him.

Elliott Kalan

[53:45] Now, is Leprechaun

[53:45] in space

[53:48] Yes.

[53:49] There's astronauts in it.

[53:50] Yeah.

[53:51] So, are there any movies

Dan McCoy

[53:52] you want to bump off this list

Elliott Kalan

[53:53] to put Jason X

[53:54] or astronaut

[53:54] or Leprechaun in space?

[53:56] We've already committed.

[53:57] Okay.

[53:57] Then I think you got

[53:58] down a little bit,

[54:00] you got like

[54:00] The Martian and Interstellar

[54:01] and those are good.

[54:03] You got First Man in there

[54:04] and then probably

[54:06] Sunshine I'm putting

[54:07] a little closer to the bottom

[54:08] just because it's not

[54:08] that astronaut-y.

[54:09] Yeah.

[54:09] And Space Buddies.

[54:11] Space Buddies!

[54:13] Ten.

[54:13] Yeah.

[54:14] I mean,

[54:14] it has to do with

[54:15] space history,

[54:16] I guess,

[54:17] about like the early dog

[54:18] astronaut explorers.

[54:21] as much as I would prefer.

[54:22] A happier ending,

[54:23] I assume.

[54:23] And honorable mention,

[54:24] of course,

[54:24] Space Cowboys,

[54:25] which is kind of like

[54:26] the flip side to a lot of these

[54:27] because it's about astronauts.

[54:29] They're like,

[54:29] ugh,

[54:30] only,

[54:31] we have no astronauts left.

[54:32] We only have the oldest astronauts.

[54:34] Were there guys

[54:35] who were supposed to go into space?

[54:36] I'm trying to remember that movie.

[54:37] Were there guys

[54:37] who were supposed to go into space?

[54:39] Are you talking about

[54:39] Space Buddies too?

[54:40] Cowboys.

[54:41] No,

[54:41] not Space...

[54:42] Because those dogs

[54:43] were probably...

[54:43] Yeah,

Dan McCoy

[54:43] why did they go into space?

[54:45] Those cowboys.

Elliott Kalan

[54:46] They're fixing a satellite.

[54:48] They're former test pilots.

[54:50] Oh,

Dan McCoy

[54:50] because they're the only ones

[54:51] who still know

[54:52] how to do this stuff

[54:53] or something?

Elliott Kalan

[54:53] I guess so.

[54:54] I haven't seen it long.

[54:55] I remember seeing it

[54:56] in the theaters

[54:57] in the year 2000.

[54:58] I thought that was fine.

Stuart Wellington

[54:59] Something there like,

[55:00] they're like old guy know-how.

[55:02] Yeah,

[55:03] yeah.

[55:03] Something like that.

[55:04] No,

[55:04] it's like the tech is too old.

[55:05] Because you know,

Elliott Kalan

[55:06] the people,

[55:06] that's what it is.

[55:07] It's like an old Soviet satellite

[55:08] or something.

[55:09] And they're the only ones

[55:10] who know how to fix it

[55:11] because everyone else

[55:12] is just using their

[55:13] MacBooks.

[55:15] Yeah,

[55:15] their smartphones.

[55:16] I mean,

[55:16] it's the year 2000,

[55:17] so no.

[55:17] They didn't have smartphones.

[55:18] They didn't have that.

[55:18] They had those Apple computers

[55:19] with the colors on them,

[55:20] you know.

[55:21] Oh,

[55:21] cool,

[55:22] yeah.

[55:22] Yeah.

[55:23] So,

[55:23] we've got our list

[55:24] of the greatest,

[55:25] most astronaut-y movies

[55:26] ever made.

[55:27] To be honest,

[55:28] guys,

[55:28] I thought we were going

[55:29] to have more filler

[55:30] on that list

[55:30] because we came up

[55:31] with more astronaut movies.

[55:32] It's all killer.

[55:33] It's all killer,

[55:34] baby.

[55:35] Yeah.

[55:38] I feel like Space Buddies

[55:39] snuck on there.

[55:40] That was the loophole one.

[55:42] they're so cute.

[55:43] There's nothing in the rule book

[55:44] that says a dog movie

[55:45] can't be on the astronaut.

[55:46] Dogstronauts.

[55:47] So,

[55:48] in case anyone's wondering

[55:48] the official canon

[55:49] Flophouse list

[55:50] of best astronaut movies,

[55:53] you got Apollo 13,

[55:54] The Right Stuff,

[55:55] 2001 A Space Odyssey,

[55:58] then,

[55:58] oh,

[55:58] you know what?

[55:59] Didn't make it on,

[56:00] actually,

[56:00] hold on,

[56:01] guys,

[56:01] before I would say it,

[56:02] Dan,

[56:03] Space Buddies made it on there,

[56:04] but Space Camp did it.

[56:05] How do you feel about that?

Dan McCoy

[56:06] Oh,

[56:06] wow.

[56:07] No,

[56:07] no,

[56:07] I let Space Camp go,

[56:10] you know,

[56:11] and that's fine,

[56:12] because they are,

[56:14] It is your favorite movie.

[56:15] at best,

[56:16] trainees.

[56:16] They are,

[56:17] they went to a fantasy camp.

Elliott Kalan

[56:20] But what if their fantasy

[56:20] becomes real?

Dan McCoy

[56:22] I mean,

[56:22] one of them is an astronaut,

[56:24] I believe,

[56:24] who goes back up with them,

[56:26] but anyway.

[56:26] I haven't seen that movie

Elliott Kalan

[56:27] since I was a child,

[56:28] so I don't really remember.

Dan McCoy

[56:28] What about Meatballs 2,

[56:30] where there's an alien?

Elliott Kalan

[56:31] No,

[56:31] that's an alien on Earth.

[56:33] Then E.T.

[56:34] would be an astronaut movie,

[56:35] because technically,

[56:36] he's a space traveler.

[56:36] Technically,

[56:37] yeah.

[56:37] He's not an astronaut movie.

[56:38] Okay.

[56:38] Now,

[56:39] no,

[56:40] no,

[56:40] so,

[56:40] you heard me say the list earlier.

[56:42] Yeah,

[56:42] yeah,

[56:42] we got it.

[56:43] I don't need to say it again.

[56:43] We got it,

[56:44] we got it,

[56:44] and no one cares anyway.

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FH Mini 158 - Astro-Nuts

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