FH Mini #29 - Ask Us Anything

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[0:36] This week we are doing one of our mini-episodes, which is going to be shorter than our normal

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[0:40] Or maybe by a lot, we'll find out.

[0:42] The uh...

[0:43] Wow, getting bogged down right out of the gate.

[0:46] That's what they call him.

[0:47] You make fun of me for it.

[0:48] That's what they call him, Bass Coverer Wellington, gotta cover every bass.

[0:52] Every bass, yeah, I want to be safe.

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[1:53] Yeah, I guess now I feel bad.

[1:58] Should we just do this whole thing over again?

[2:01] Nope.

[2:02] Jordan, just let it ride.

[2:03] Let's just roll it.

[2:04] So thanks again.

[2:05] Thank you for your support.

[2:07] And in honor of that support, I have recently gone onto Twitter and asked the people that

[2:15] follow me, and I'm guessing anybody who retweeted me, I think that's how Twitter works, to give

[2:21] us some ideas of topics, and turn this into one of those big ol' letter bags.

[2:26] But this is not a letter bag where we get normal letters.

[2:28] No, no, no.

[2:29] These are short electronic letters.

[2:31] So Elliot, when you sing this letter song that I know you've got prepped, make sure

[2:35] that it's kind of electronic-y sounding.

[2:38] That's exactly what we are on the same page here.

[2:41] Short electronic letters, bee-boo-boo.

[2:44] They're short electronic letters, bee-boo-boo.

[2:47] They're not big letters, bee-boo-boo.

[2:50] They're pretty, pretty short, boo-boo-boo, boo-boo-boo, pretty, pretty short, boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo.

[2:57] And they're electronic.

[2:58] I was going for kind of a Thomas Dolby Kraftwerk kind of feel with that.

[3:02] Yeah, and I think we found your genre, because that was the most musical, I think, one of

[3:07] these songs has been.

[3:08] To be honest, I love electronic sounds, love electronic-sounding music.

[3:12] There's a reason that I'm a big fan of Sparks' disco-inspired album, Number One Song in Heaven,

[3:18] or just Number One in Heaven, I guess, is the album, and it's because there's a lot

[3:21] of those electronic beats in it.

[3:23] So there you go.

[3:25] That song is just about as danceable and as kind of an off-the-wall choice as any of the

[3:31] songs that would play in the Ba-da-bing in an episode of The Sopranos, where you're like,

[3:35] I guess they're going to dance to this song.

[3:37] Oh, thank you.

[3:38] High praise indeed.

[3:39] You're welcome.

[3:40] So, let's...

[3:41] So, without further ado, boo-boo, boo-boo, let's get on to boo-boo, boo-boo.

[3:48] Those electronic letters, they're short.

[3:52] So I was asking for topics and or questions for us to...

[3:56] Questions for the peaches.

[3:57] That's us.

[3:58] Three peaches.

[3:59] That's us.

[4:00] Oh.

[4:01] And this first question is from, from at Ed Miller 18.

[4:06] If serial mascots entered a tournament of Mortal Kombat, this is appropriate, because

[4:11] we have, in a couple of weeks, we're going to be talking about Mortal Kombat the movie.

[4:16] With the prize of this Mortal Kombat being the continued freedom of their realm, I'm

[4:21] guessing, whatever realm the serial mascot comes from, which serial mascot would likely

[4:26] prevail?

[4:27] This is a good question.

[4:28] This is a very good question, because there's a lot of, I mean, you've got a number of monsters

[4:33] that are fighting this.

[4:34] You've got a tiger that's fighting this.

[4:35] Total dark universe energy coming off of them, right?

[4:38] Mm-hmm.

[4:39] Yeah.

[4:40] Like, is this one-on-one Kombat?

[4:42] Because you have a captain, a seafaring man, with a whole armada at his disposal.

[4:47] Guys, I just realized, I haven't looked.

[4:49] Did somebody do a drawing of the monster serial mascots, like Count Chocula and all them,

[4:55] standing serious, like in those dark, dark universe publicity photos?

[4:59] I mean, probably.

[5:00] I mean, I have to assume that's happened.

[5:02] I don't know why it wouldn't.

[5:04] It's also like, for Cookie Crisp, would it be the police officer, the dog, or the crook?

[5:08] It's a team.

[5:09] That would be the...

[5:10] You think it's a tag team?

[5:12] All at the same time, team.

[5:13] Yeah.

[5:14] I think it's all...

[5:15] Yeah.

[5:16] Yeah.

[5:17] I mean, you're getting all of them, I think, when you pick Cookie Crisp.

[5:18] Yeah.

[5:19] Whereas, when you have...

[5:21] What's the Froot Loops guy?

[5:22] It's Toucan Sam.

[5:23] Toucan Sam.

[5:24] Toucan Sam.

[5:25] I mean, you've got your sugar bear.

[5:27] Yeah.

[5:28] That's a bear.

[5:29] Mm-hmm.

[5:30] Good things come in them.

[5:31] But can they fight?

[5:32] You've got the Lucky Charms leprechaun.

[5:33] We know from the leprechaun movies that that is not to be sneezed at.

[5:36] And the Trix rat, who, of course, has been driven mad by years of having Trix denied him

[5:41] by children.

[5:42] By children.

[5:43] Yeah.

[5:44] Yeah.

[5:45] I think that, for that very reason, though, we can discount the Trix rabbit, or at least

[5:50] I would discount the Trix rabbit, because I don't think that he has a...

[5:57] Let's call it a history of success.

[5:59] Okay.

[6:00] That's fair.

[6:01] His track record is not...

[6:02] His Trix record.

[6:03] Yeah.

[6:04] It's pretty poor.

[6:05] What about the Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs bird?

[6:06] He's got a big Harley Quinn energy going on.

[6:09] Yes.

[6:10] Yeah.

[6:11] And the...

[6:12] I don't...

[6:13] And Mikey likes it from the Life commercial.

[6:14] I don't know if I'd call that a serial mascot.

[6:15] He's a human being, so...

[6:16] He already got blown up in Vietnam, so...

[6:17] No, no, Dan, that's an urban legend.

[6:18] He died when he drank Coke with Pop Rocks in his mouth.

[6:19] Okay.

[6:20] Scientific fact.

[6:21] It's in his biography.

[6:22] I think, to answer the question seriously, I think, and this is going to sound counterintuitive

[6:23] at first, I'm going to say the Quaker Oats Quaker.

[6:24] You think at first he's a Quaker.

[6:25] He's a man of peace.

[6:26] He's taken a vow of pacifism.

[6:31] Yeah.

[6:32] No, no, Dan.

[6:33] Scientific fact.

[6:34] It's in his biography.

[6:35] I think, to answer the question seriously, I think, and this is going to sound counterintuitive

[6:36] at first, I'm going to say the Quaker Oats Quaker.

[6:40] He's taken a vow of pacifism and nonviolence.

[6:42] But it's going to be one of those stories where when he sees the destruction wrought

[6:45] on his village where this Mortal Kombat competition is taking place, he's going to have to roll

[6:50] up his sleeves, reveal those big, burly arms from all the plowing that he does, and he's

[6:54] just going to have to...

[6:55] He's going to have to break the most basic rule, thou shalt not kill, in order to keep

[6:59] his family safe.

[7:00] And he's played by Mel Gibson.

[7:02] Maybe Liam Neeson.

[7:03] What if they were together and they were called Liam Gibbs memes?

[7:05] Oh, man.

[7:06] I don't know.

[7:07] I think I'm going to go with the Leprechaun.

[7:13] He's got magical powers.

[7:14] A lot of them have magical powers.

[7:16] But you've got the Snap, Crackle, Pop elves.

[7:19] Their power just seems to be that they're very, very small, which I think would make

[7:23] them easier to defeat.

[7:24] I mean, they have the power to imitate sounds, which you say a superhero wouldn't have.

[7:29] Kylo and Excalibur, that was his power, just to mimic sounds.

[7:32] I mean, Black Bolt uses sound as a weapon.

[7:34] You know, Elliot, I also have the power to imitate sounds.

[7:38] I can imitate sounds right now, if you want me to.

[7:40] Yeah.

[7:41] Give us some sounds.

[7:42] Give us some sounds.

[7:43] Well, here's one.

[7:44] Here's a...

[7:45] And then there's like a...

[7:46] I don't like that last one.

[7:47] That's gross.

[7:48] This is good.

[7:49] That's good.

[7:50] Is that like a horse?

[7:51] Yeah.

[7:52] And a...

[7:53] I don't know what that's a sound.

[7:54] I don't know what that sound is.

[7:55] Is that like cobblestones?

[7:56] I'm just saying, anyone can imitate sounds.

[7:57] I wonder if you were imitating sounds so much, you were making sounds.

[7:58] And guys, I'm going to have to go with Captain Crunch, because you don't know what horrors

[7:59] he committed to earn all the medals.

[8:00] That's true.

[8:01] Very true.

[8:02] Oh, yeah.

[8:03] He's an old-time Navy man.

[8:04] It's all about burning foreign villages and whipping his own men.

[8:05] Horrible.

[8:06] Yeah.

[8:07] Sending them off to die in the Arctic, you know, on ill-fated expeditions.

[8:08] That's Captain Crunch.

[8:09] He's seen things and done things.

[8:10] He's such a...

[8:11] He's such a...

[8:12] He's such a...

[8:13] He's such a...

[8:14] He's such a...

[8:15] He's such a...

[8:16] He's such a...

[8:17] He's such a...

[8:18] He's such a...

[8:49] Ryan.

[8:50] This question is from, radreycheeryan.

[8:51] Radreyche is suggested we do a little thing, where, Dan, I went over to a thing called

[9:01] Buzzfeed.com, and I pulled up a little Buzzfeed quiz for you.

[9:05] This quiz is for Dan alone, because the question is, how midwestern are you?

[9:12] So you're going to have to tell me whether or not any of these apply, okay?

[9:17] Wait, wait, can I do the theme song for this, too?

[9:19] Yes, please.

[9:20] Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, how midwestern is Dan?

[9:24] That's great.

[9:25] Nice.

[9:26] Okay, that gave-

[9:27] The next Paul Shaffer, ladies and gentlemen.

[9:29] There is a cornfield within 10 miles of your house.

[9:32] Yes, there was one down the block when I grew up.

[9:36] Do they call it blocks?

[9:40] Football is a big deal to you.

[9:42] No, I mean, not to me, no.

[9:45] Dan, you know-

[9:46] I don't know what the question was.

[9:49] You know what a Hoosier is.

[9:51] You're looking right at one, motherfucker.

[9:54] Yeah, and my mom was a Hoosier, so-

[9:57] Well, is a Hoosier.

[9:58] I don't know why that's-

[10:00] uh...

[10:01] uh... mother's day mom

[10:03] well while this is the only way i got up for and this is an accidently

[10:08] we're going to have a lot of who's your recording is that she also recorded as

[10:12] two days after mother's day to be released almost a week after mother's

[10:15] day so you should have gotten her card yeah i thought i called her on my

[10:18] mother's day i guess delivery got a show that you didn't call it

[10:22] you may have called her beating color who's your business revoked that like

[10:25] the words he and i have been captain was a loser in that

[10:30] she

[10:31] is from indiana but she does not

[10:34] she's not currently a loser i didn't mean i did not mean to post a mother

[10:38] yeah i think that

[10:39] and i went back to the future

[10:41] okay next post stating your mother uh... next one uh... yeah i guess

[10:45] technically correctly

[10:46] uh... you have a big yard

[10:51] uh...

[10:52] i dot currently no okay

[10:54] you have all bicycle

[10:57] uh... i mean again i currently grew up both of those okay we're we're talking

[11:02] about when you grew up

[11:04] okay when i grew up yes yes uh... you love steak and shake

[11:09] i do love staking

[11:11] you've gone to target or wal-mart with your friends

[11:14] for fun

[11:16] it didn't seem to me that i don't think you understand

[11:20] uh... modern people who

[11:22] how things were before the

[11:24] the internet and uh... dan you've seen a horse and buggy near

[11:30] or in your town

[11:32] i haven't well you've seen an amish person

[11:35] separate question

[11:37] uh... well i mean the midnight yes okay we'll count it

[11:42] you say

[11:44] on a regular basis

[11:47] i don't know what opening either okay i'm not i guess i'm not very that was

[11:51] it that was a trick question it's o p p if you had said yes you would not have

[11:54] been so i think that

[11:57] uh... the weather changes every hour

[12:00] where you live

[12:02] uh... i i i don't even think that was true when i lived in illinois now

[12:07] somewhere on lake michigan is your family's go to vacation

[12:13] uh... we did go to the upper peninsula of michigan for vacations

[12:18] you go skiing at resorts with fake snow

[12:21] for fun

[12:23] uh... i don't know i i i went skiing a couple times in ohio growing up

[12:29] i don't know if it was fake or not uh... we'll assume it

[12:32] uh... you say

[12:33] tennis shoes

[12:37] uh... not

[12:38] i mean i say sneakers but tennis shoes definitely while growing up was a thing

[12:41] okay

[12:42] high school basketball is slash was a big deal in your town

[12:49] uh...

[12:51] yeah i mean in our division we were second in state as a sophomore so yes

[12:55] so i just want to ask as an easterner

[12:57] uh... are we a quarter of the way through this quiz

[13:00] this would be a landmark

[13:03] okay you know what i mean this is the most interesting i've ever been on this podcast

[13:08] you know what a tornado siren sounds like

[13:12] yes i do

[13:14] the city

[13:15] is chicago

[13:17] yes

[13:18] for sure you've been to the indy five hundred

[13:22] i've not

[13:22] been to the indy five hundred

[13:24] we wouldn't sit my mom would some for some reason insist on having it on all

[13:28] day

[13:29] on the day i think so it's a it's a it's a it's a holy day

[13:34] you've had many snow days

[13:38] yes

[13:40] uh... man this is going to go larf

[13:42] you've played

[13:44] cornhole

[13:46] uh...

[13:47] simply cornhole yeah i'd but i think that was on the east coast so i think i

[13:51] did didn't know

[13:53] you've eaten

[13:54] puppy chow and no

[13:56] i'm not talking about dog food

[13:59] now i'm familiar with the confectionary of that man can you describe this for

[14:03] elliot being an easterner it is i don't know what this is

[14:06] uh... it is uh... uh... like it

[14:09] uh... she at checks based uh...

[14:12] thing that you might have it like a church bake sale

[14:15] and has uh... confectioners sugar and i believe people but i don't know what he

[14:19] says checks he's talking about the breakfast cereal not like checks that

[14:22] you would write

[14:23] money amounts and no no i think it wasn't that would be blessed frugal

[14:26] midwesterners i've seen would not be eating money sure uh... like that like a

[14:30] rich

[14:30] new york tycoon you know

[14:32] uh... then maybe i want to talk about some of my uh...

[14:35] my culture then

[14:36] have you heard of pizza?

[14:38] so it's like dough and they put sauce and cheese on it and sometimes other

[14:44] toppings

[14:45] and it has to be thrown up in the air by a man who is not wearing gloves and you

[14:49] don't know where his hands have been and he is not allowed to wear a shirt he can

[14:52] only wear an undershirt and he sticks it in an oven

[14:54] and then when you ask him if it's ready

[14:56] he sticks the undershirt in the oven and when you ask him if the pizza is done he goes

[15:01] hey!

[15:02] oh wow

[15:03] now when i get this at uh... a restaurant that has uh... a picture of

[15:07] maybe like a similar looking man

[15:10] giving me a thumb oh my god like a statue of him giving me a thumbs up outside of the

[15:14] that that's either outside sometimes it's in the form of a statue and it's

[15:17] always branded on the box because you also if you get more than

[15:20] one slice it's served in slices or in full pies

[15:23] uh... then you get in a box that also has that picture and he's a sort of

[15:27] sort of idol god

[15:28] that's worshipped by the pizza makers yeah yeah

[15:31] yeah i'm familiar with that yeah and his name is Stromboli

[15:33] on a similar topic dan

[15:36] you like ranch dressing

[15:40] i did growing up yes i'm recovering

[15:43] shorts weather

[15:45] is anything above sixty degrees

[15:48] you know what i've never been one of those guys

[15:52] long pants for as long as i can cargo shorts fuck that shit i don't need that many pockets

[15:56] says dan

[15:58] you've gone sledding

[16:00] many times

[16:02] i have been sledding many times

[16:04] let's get these results baby

[16:06] uh... you're a true midwesterner nineteen out of twenty four you were born and

[16:09] raised in the midwest

[16:10] you've seen many a tractor hung out at stake and shake late at night with your

[16:14] friends and maybe even visited

[16:16] wisconsin dells a few times or a lot

[16:20] uh... everything true except for the dells but i've seen a lot of commercials for them

[16:25] that's for sure

[16:27] wow that was fun guys i'm pretty worn out

[16:30] yeah let's pick up see that was you know finally finally something for our

[16:34] demographics to you know

[16:37] so

[16:38] guys coastal elites uh... this is coastal's elite is how we pluralize it

[16:44] so uh... this next question is directed at all of us it's not just dan

[16:49] uh... this is a question about

[16:51] vampires okay this is uh... i actually cut off uh... the the question submitters

[16:56] uh...

[16:57] they're at

[16:58] but this is from molly in torres season gotta love that shit torres season baby

[17:03] uh... if you're going to be a vampire

[17:05] what kind of vampire would you be

[17:08] each piece of vampire media has its own aesthetic and often its own rules

[17:12] floppy and rice vampire artistic jim jarmusch vampire

[17:17] balls-to-the-walls coppola vampire that's very tempting

[17:20] coppola vampire is very cool with the big hair and can use the shadow to choke

[17:24] kiana reeves

[17:25] mhm

[17:28] yeah i mean like

[17:31] the thing is though are you gonna uh... like this if it's just like what kind of

[17:34] vampire

[17:36] lifestyle do you want to live

[17:38] like it's different than like what the cool vampire is like

[17:43] i mean my favorite movie vampire is probably like count orlock and nas

[17:47] ferrata but i want to be that you know that's what you're choosing a life is a

[17:50] little bit little grows out of my mouth let me be uh... like david bowie in the

[17:54] hunger that would be a fun vampire as you have been prematurely aging

[17:57] you're going apart okay

[18:00] uh... i think i would go with

[18:02] mhm it's a toss-up for me between

[18:05] uh...

[18:06] let's see kind of like uh... the vampires uh... in near dark

[18:11] uh... because i like the idea of having a vampire family like cool like driver

[18:14] and they're like cool punk rock like uh...

[18:17] i don't know like

[18:19] motorcycle gang vampires

[18:20] i mean what bill paxton is but lance hendrickson is like a real dad

[18:24] they're real family

[18:25] either that or i guess uh...

[18:28] uh... or nicholas cage vampire because he knows the alphabet and he shouts it

[18:32] that's true now see now

[18:35] my first inclination is to say

[18:38] like one of the vampires in blade who wear like wilson's leather jackets and

[18:41] wraparound sunglasses and generally just look like stuntmen they're about to

[18:45] get turned into ashes by blade real quick uh... which when you think about

[18:49] your like man these guys could live forever and that's what that like

[18:52] they're just stuntmen whatever

[18:56] uh... i got what about uh... another option for me count ducula

[19:00] okay vegetarian

[19:03] vegetarian you know i wouldn't feel bad just you know

[19:07] ketchup or whatever and i'm a cartoon duck which is one of my favorite thing i

[19:11] think you can also be a really good by nicola

[19:13] you would be a great but if you look at

[19:15] uh... thank you and i would say i feel like laszlo from what we do in the

[19:19] shadows the television program i mean that's the ideal right

[19:23] jackie daytona human bartender yeah i think so that's a good point that's a

[19:26] very good point yeah okay so i think we've uh... put that uh... that question

[19:30] to bed

[19:31] in a coffin

[19:32] uh... so we get a couple of questions uh... from listeners about if

[19:38] it bothers us that they'd nap or fall asleep while listening to our voices

[19:42] how do you guys feel about that

[19:45] i mean only in so much as late i don't

[19:48] want us to

[19:50] do anything unhealthy late i don't like warm our way into people's brains and i

[19:55] don't like a mentoring candidate thing

[19:58] yeah i just uh... i mean like i don't

[20:00] Do you think we're actually going into people's dreams, Dan?

[20:02] Because I don't know about you, I've not been able to crack that code.

[20:04] That would be fucking great.

[20:05] I've always wanted to be able to stretch my arms out super long, and I feel like my only

[20:09] option is to get into somebody's dreams to do that.

[20:11] I'm just saying that I don't think anyone's done it in real life.

[20:15] Well, you can't do that in real life.

[20:16] I don't think any scientists have done any tests, any doctors have done any tests on

[20:22] prolonged sleep exposure to the Flophouse.

[20:24] That's my only concern.

[20:25] You know, any ill effects.

[20:28] Luckily, we have an enormous control group in the form of everyone else in the history

[20:32] of the world.

[20:33] Yeah, that's true.

[20:34] No, I, you know, like, I don't know, I have a few podcasts that I fall asleep listening

[20:41] to.

[20:42] It is not an insult to those podcasts, you know, often is, you know, episodes I've heard

[20:47] before, but I find it comforting.

[20:50] And so it is very sweet that anyone might find us comforting.

[20:54] Yeah, I mean, sleep is a is a precious commodity, a precious resource in this world, in this

[20:58] modern world.

[20:59] It's right up there with food and water and air, frankly, is good sleep.

[21:02] So if we can help you get to it, all the better.

[21:05] And like Dan saying, if someone finds my voice soothing rather than grating, that's fantastic.

[21:11] Go ahead.

[21:12] I often read to my wife and she'll fall asleep.

[21:14] And I always take it as a compliment because it means my voice is not attacking her ears

[21:19] like an ice pick.

[21:22] And I feel like my so when my wife and I, I think it was before we got married, I was

[21:30] a big fan of the Song of Ice and Fire books by George R. R. Martin.

[21:34] And I want it.

[21:35] I'm like, I feel like Charlene would like these, but I don't think she's going to actually

[21:39] sit down and read these fucking things because there's so many in there long.

[21:42] So I came up with the decision to read them out loud to her.

[21:46] And so I started reading them out loud to her before bed.

[21:50] And then depending on the day, we'd get a couple of pages and then she would pass out.

[21:57] And I feel like after a while, it's just the sound of me reading the book and doing my

[22:01] Tyrian voice and everything that I want to hear the Syrian voice.

[22:06] Oh, no.

[22:07] Just like my just like my bare feet.

[22:09] You're going to have to pay for that premium content, baby.

[22:14] And I was really proud of my Sander Clegane voice, the hound.

[22:19] But once again, you got to pay for that.

[22:22] But I'm like, and then after after doing that for a few and eventually getting through all

[22:26] the books, she then realized that she just really likes books on tape and is like super

[22:31] into books on tape and listens to those every night before bed instead of listen to me doing

[22:35] my dumb bullshit.

[22:36] But I'm trying to say is that's probably the same thing.

[22:39] Right.

[22:40] And it didn't bother me.

[22:41] What I'm trying to say is now every time I talk to my wife, she falls asleep.

[22:47] She's dangerous when she's driving.

[22:49] OK, now we have another game.

[22:52] Guys, this is a little game where you guys can earn points and prizes.

[22:55] And by guys, I mean you, you, Dan, and you, Elliot.

[22:59] Oh, wow.

[23:00] This is a game suggested by everybody.

[23:02] It's another visit from the game guys, the game guys, Dan and Elliot playing games with

[23:09] Game Master Stewart putting them through their paces.

[23:13] It's the game guys.

[23:15] Yep.

[23:16] This is promotional content paid for by Spiral from the Book of Saw.

[23:22] Would you like to play a little game, Chris Rock?

[23:23] We'll find out.

[23:24] Brought to you by GameStop, a stock that should not be worth very much.

[23:29] OK, so the way this game works is I'm going to list a fictional character and the first

[23:35] one of you to name and describe the fictional podcast they would create in that world gets

[23:42] a point.

[23:44] So, for instance, the first character I will name is Dr. Alan Grant.

[23:47] What is the name of his podcast and what is it about?

[23:50] Dr. Alan Grant from Jurassic Park.

[23:53] Yeah, yeah.

[23:54] So the name of his podcast is I Used to Hate Kids Too.

[23:58] And it's a parenting podcast for people who are always having to take care of their friends'

[24:01] kids because, as you know, his arc in the movie is he doesn't like kids.

[24:05] He also doesn't really know how a seatbelt works.

[24:07] By the end of the movie, he likes kids and he knows how a seatbelt works.

[24:11] That's what it is.

[24:12] So his podcast is about seatbelts.

[24:13] OK.

[24:14] And once again, what's the name of that podcast?

[24:17] I Used to Hate Kids Too, hosted by Dr. Alan Grant.

[24:20] OK.

[24:21] OK.

[24:22] So Ellie gets a point.

[24:24] Next.

[24:25] Yeah.

[24:26] Next character.

[24:27] If this is based on speed of coming up with nonsense, I can give you a spoiler alert on

[24:32] who's going to win this.

[24:33] You're at a disadvantage.

[24:35] But then, you know, the Washington generals are at a disadvantage every time.

[24:38] No, I feel like Dan's hustling me.

[24:40] Dan's been hustling me all these years, waiting for this moment.

[24:42] Yeah, that's a really long way to go.

[24:46] OK.

[24:47] The next character is Claire Colburn.

[24:50] That's right.

[24:51] Kirsten Dunst's character from the movie Elizabethtown.

[24:53] What's her podcast?

[24:57] Her podcast is called Am I in Garden State?

[25:00] And every episode, she talks to a different celebrity about whether she's in the movie

[25:04] Garden State or if she's in the other movie, which is kind of a ripoff of Garden State.

[25:08] Yeah.

[25:09] Hi, my name is Lauren.

[25:12] I live in L.A. and I wanted to say some things about the Flophouse.

[25:19] I've been a listener for a couple of years now and I've seriously enjoyed having the

[25:27] Flophouse as a podcast to listen to legitimately any time of the day.

[25:32] I listen to it on my car drives.

[25:34] I listen falling asleep.

[25:37] It is my comfort podcast.

[25:39] It is something that I know I can turn on any time and feel good for at least, you know,

[25:45] an hour and a half while the peaches talk.

[25:49] And it's really awesome to have that in my life.

[25:53] So thank you guys.

[25:54] Thank you, Dan.

[25:55] Thank you, Stuart.

[25:56] And thank you, Elliot, for the Flophouse.

[25:58] OK.

[25:59] Bye.

[26:00] Hi, my name is Paul and I'm calling from Denver, Colorado.

[26:07] I'm calling about the Flophouse.

[26:08] I'm about 15 years older than Dan and I don't watch movies very much.

[26:13] Not bad, bad, not good, bad, or even those I kind of like.

[26:16] I did grow up on Mystery Science Theater 3000, though, and you guys are the best thing since.

[26:22] Not even close.

[26:24] This is what I really wanted to say, though.

[26:26] Beginning in early November 2016, you guys became the only thing I could even listen to.

[26:35] The camaraderie, the humor.

[26:37] It was just my warm, comfy chair.

[26:42] And I haven't stopped.

[26:44] I have listened to every single episode with the original peaches so many times I can't

[26:48] even tell you.

[26:49] And I still cry laughing at their classic bits.

[26:55] So thank you for everything, with the possible exception of Elliot's letter songs.

[27:01] I love you guys so much.

[27:02] I cannot even begin to tell you.

[27:05] That's the only point for Elliot.

[27:07] You're about to win.

[27:08] But I think Dan, this one's kind of a softball pitch for my boy Danny McCoy.

[27:13] That's right, Danny baby boy McCoy.

[27:17] What is the podcast made by Lloyd Dobler?

[27:21] That's right.

[27:22] John Cusack from Say Anything.

[27:23] It's called The Dobler Effect.

[27:29] And it's him just sort of like telling tales of woe from his romantic life.

[27:37] This is him much later on in him saying how he has learned not to wake people up in the

[27:45] middle of the night with boomboxes.

[27:48] If I can, I don't want to take away Dan's point.

[27:50] I just want to jump in.

[27:51] He's also probably talking a lot about kickboxing.

[27:53] Oh yeah, he is fascinated with kickboxing and he will describe it to you at great length.

[28:01] Okay, yeah, that's great.

[28:03] What was the name?

[28:05] The Dobler Effect?

[28:06] Perfect.

[28:07] The Dobler Effect.

[28:08] Okay, man.

[28:09] Back on the scoreboard, Dan.

[28:10] I love this.

[28:11] That was a fast one.

[28:12] That was a fast one.

[28:13] Okay, guys.

[28:14] What is the fictional podcast of Luther Strachel?

[28:15] I didn't know his last name.

[28:16] Luther from the Mission Impossible movies played by Ving Rhames.

[28:19] What's his podcast?

[28:20] Oh.

[28:21] Oh, God.

[28:22] It's called, Hey, I'm Here.

[28:23] Oh, wow.

[28:24] Okay.

[28:25] All right.

[28:26] Okay.

[28:27] Interesting.

[28:28] And it's about how you forget that he's in them.

[28:29] All of them.

[28:30] He's in all of them.

[28:31] Yeah.

[28:32] He's the guy who just shows up and you're like, wait, wow.

[28:33] I didn't know that there was so much consistency in these movies.

[28:34] But there secretly is.

[28:35] Every time I watch a Mission Impossible movie, I am always surprised by that they're being

[28:36] so consistent.

[28:37] I don't know why.

[28:46] But there secretly is.

[28:53] Now we said all of them.

[28:54] I can't remember.

[28:55] Is he in two?

[28:56] Oh, yeah.

[28:57] That's the...

[28:58] I'm looking at the IMDb right now.

[29:01] Yeah, he's in all of them.

[29:02] That's kind of amazing.

[29:03] Like, I feel like there would be a section in his podcast where he's just talking about

[29:06] what his buddy Ethan Hunt.

[29:08] Like little tips about Ethan Hunt or like things Ethan Hunt likes to do or like...

[29:12] I bet he gets a lot of questions about Ethan Hunt and he's like, I'm going to get him on

[29:16] as a guest one of these days, but he's super busy.

[29:19] He's hanging off of something right now or else he'd be in the episode.

[29:22] Okay.

[29:23] And let's wrap this up.

[29:25] Cameron Poe from Con Air.

[29:27] What is Cameron Poe from Con Air's podcast?

[29:37] It's called Poetry in Motion and it's about how to get gleaming, luxurious locks of hair

[29:45] that will blow in the wind.

[29:47] Okay.

[29:48] Interesting.

[29:49] I mean, my wife watches a lot.

[29:50] I'm going to say a lot of YouTube channels about how to get like the perfect curly hair.

[29:56] We can go on about the curly girl method and all that shit.

[30:00] various drama involved in those various groups

[30:03] uh... so i think there's actually a pretty big market for poetry motion

[30:06] dance so that's it let me know what i think he's gonna make some money off of

[30:09] that

[30:09] it's amazing the thing i was gonna say was con hair

[30:12] and it was a bit of a plot and we would be a hair podcast yeah nice

[30:17] okay so it looks like dan wins uh... elliot can you tell dan what prize he won

[30:21] this time

[30:23] uh... dan here are the prizes that you won

[30:25] uh... well

[30:26] you do get uh... the feeling of knowing that you bested your friend in a

[30:31] in a made-up game that doesn't mean anything

[30:33] uh... and you win judging by your zoom window a selection of boxes a selection

[30:38] of packing and moving boxes which have not been opened yet

[30:42] elliot uh... i hate to burst your bubble but basically no games matter at all

[30:46] either

[30:47] and this comes from a dude who plays a lot of games

[30:51] yeah it's very nihilistic

[30:53] so this is actually pretty topical somebody asked us about the new uh...

[30:57] uh... about the new venom let there be carnage trailer and that's something we

[31:01] were actually texting about because you know what

[31:03] saw that trailer

[31:04] kinda liked it it opened with a lot of silly stuff with that symbiote just

[31:07] slapping shit around and trying to make breakfast or whatever the idea of the

[31:11] symbiote covering eddie with ketchup because he doesn't know he's a ketchup bottle right

[31:15] hilarious yeah now it's an odd couple sitcom not a fan of woody harrelson's

[31:20] not having

[31:21] goofy clown hair like he had at the end of the first movie but what are you gonna do

[31:25] yeah it's like when they it's like in the marvel movies when they're like okay

[31:29] wanda maximoff doesn't need to have the craziest accent or ben uh... benet

[31:33] cumberbatch doesn't need to have the craziest new york accent like fuck that

[31:37] bring that shit back that was exciting

[31:39] i mean i guess it like plays up the idea of like

[31:42] the marvel movies are generally so they're they're well put together but

[31:45] they are kinda they're

[31:47] they're kind of evened out in a little way so that like the the sillier shit

[31:51] kinda gets evened out over time

[31:54] so that like you get excited when you're like what the fuck is going on with this

[31:57] accent

[31:59] uh... sorry sorry to talk shit about marvel alien i know you're upset

[32:03] i mean it's it's fine i enjoy them a lot but there is a certain uh... corporate uh...

[32:08] corporate sameness gloss to them you could say

[32:11] although i mean i i love that they they watch the first vanna movie and

[32:14] obviously

[32:15] they felt the same way i did that the best thing in it was tom hardy getting

[32:19] into a tank of lobsters and just taking a bite out of one of them and they said

[32:22] let's make that the the spirit animal that lobster they took a bite out of for

[32:25] the second movie double down on that uh... okay

[32:28] so uh... in the past elliot we've got a lot of coal uh... lot of requests for

[32:33] collabs between me and you on a comic book property

[32:37] obviously that makes sense and somebody and this is from user at control

[32:42] underscore x

[32:44] is the invisible maniac in the same universe as maniac of new york

[32:51] uh...

[32:51] no

[32:52] uh... just for just for listeners out there that

[32:56] i mean just for just for that anyone's wondering i'm not that i have anything

[32:59] as the invisible maniac i mean kills a guy with a separate sandwich you know

[33:03] and by doing a mario brothers stomp on a guy's head

[33:07] but uh... which is a point out that maniac in new york is elliot

[33:10] elliot's comic book that's out right now i think issue my number is dropping

[33:13] tomorrow

[33:14] issue issue for jobs that they have to record this so inception's release it

[33:17] will be a non-comical shelves issue four of five

[33:20] uh... in the first series

[33:22] uh... but in the the maniac of new york there's only one kind of like out of the

[33:26] ordinary supernatural ish thing and that's them and then that's the maniac

[33:30] new york maniac harry

[33:31] is kind of not room for the invisible maniac

[33:35] maniac new york let me just point out that there's in the invisible maniac

[33:38] movie there's only one supernatural thing in that too and that's the

[33:41] invisible maniac it's not like there's also a magic and like a little laser

[33:45] beams stuff i mean where does it where does it take place in this one maniac

[33:48] science is not really thank you uh... sort of america and it's it's hard

[33:52] science it's hard science fiction it's all it's all replicable

[33:55] it's based on real theory

[33:56] uh... it's the experience

[33:59] i'm intrigued by the idea of a maniac-averse yeah yeah sure

[34:04] i'd just like to add to this

[34:05] this idea that the invisible maniac is based on science like it's based on a

[34:08] stephen baxter novel or something

[34:11] simply saying he does not become invisible through a spell that is placed

[34:15] on him. No, it's through a magic potion that he creates. Yeah, he doesn't grab the eye of agamotto or something.

[34:20] I mean you're saying it's magical but you know i refer you to arthur c clark

[34:24] and it's just a

[34:25] you know it's technology that has advanced so far that it appears to be magic to you

[34:29] elliott so where does the untrained

[34:32] i'm not a scientist and i am a neanderthal according to twenty three

[34:36] in me i am like point two percent neanderthal. The part of me that is not

[34:40] ashkenazi jewish is neanderthal

[34:42] uh... so explains the body here

[34:45] uh... i mean both sides that comes from both sides really

[34:49] the maniac of new york is in new york if the invisible maniac is happening

[34:53] somewhere in like the heartland dan's beloved midwest

[34:56] it could be happening in the same universe and they just never encounter each other

[34:59] you know

[35:01] uh... i mean for all we know the creature from the black lagoon

[35:05] exists

[35:06] in the marvel and dc universes they just never go there

[35:10] i mean i assume that most movies share a universe and that

[35:14] they're set

[35:15] on the planet earth

[35:17] at various points in human history most movies are

[35:22] okay so i think we uh... put that one to bed

[35:25] once again in a coffin like a vampire

[35:27] uh... this next question not a vampire because there's no vampires in maniac of new york

[35:31] continue this question is maybe if they're science vampires right

[35:35] yeah yeah science if someone it's michael morbius the living vampire who

[35:39] drank a serum that turned him into a vampire yes a science vampire

[35:42] as played by jared leto in the upcoming film morbius

[35:46] can't wait

[35:47] uh... okay so we got a topical it's so amazing to me that

[35:51] that like morbius has been they advertised it a while ago

[35:54] and like not a lot of talk about morbius but then everyone's like

[35:57] uh... this this new thing and meanwhile michael morbius is sitting around going like

[36:00] i'm also

[36:02] tangentially related to the spider-verse yeah we have i have a movie i'm a bad guy

[36:05] there's a trailer out i mean i've been edging this whole time i mean

[36:09] what are they gonna is it like how we just got the fucking green knight

[36:12] trailer today and

[36:14] after what a year and a half

[36:16] like when are we going to get that when are we going to get that fucking candy man movie

[36:21] i mean covid kind of got in the way and they weren't releasing movies in the theaters for a while

[36:24] but it's been a year and a half i can't wait to see it

[36:27] yeah that's true that's fair

[36:28] okay so we got a topical question here i literally thought the other day i was like

[36:32] did that new ghostbusters movie come out already and i forgot about it

[36:36] it's like oh no they delayed the release which makes sense

[36:39] uh... same thing happened with uh... fast and the furious nine but um... okay so topical

[36:43] question here

[36:44] in honor of the new mitchell's versus the machines release a movie i recommend on a

[36:48] recent episode of the podcast and also features the voice talents of friend of the podcast

[36:52] griffin mcelroy

[36:54] uh... what is your favorite what are your favorite movie robots

[36:58] and what do you think makes a movie robot engaging slash fun to watch that's a good

[37:02] question from pawsimandias

[37:05] well i'll i mean i can only speak for myself my favorite movie robots

[37:09] i'll name them starting with three going to two and then going to one

[37:12] number three

[37:13] ED209

[37:15] because he's large and in charge and he does not always have control of himself

[37:19] number two

[37:20] c-3po what makes a good movie robot is when he is

[37:24] cowardly pretty effeminate and complaining all the time i love it

[37:28] number one

[37:29] gonk droid he's just got look at him he's just he's so confident

[37:33] he just carries himself in a way that says he's a boss two injuries in star wars

[37:37] i love it

[37:38] dan you got a favorite movie robot

[37:40] uh... you know i i will have a sentimental favorite

[37:45] pardon me sentimental

[37:47] sentimental jordan leave all that in please

[37:50] loop it a couple times please

[37:53] yeah jordan uh... make it into a ringtone and then make that downloadable

[37:58] content

[37:59] uh... for

[38:00] for flop house donors

[38:03] no my sentimental favorite uh... might be uh... johnny five from the film

[38:09] short circuit uh... a film with uh... you know problems chief among them

[38:14] fisher stands playing an indian man

[38:16] but it is a uh... very

[38:19] sort of it is a believably

[38:21] functional

[38:23] robot design that is also very cute uh... the the eyes obviously very similar

[38:29] to the ones used later by wall-e uh...

[38:32] just uh... a good look for uh... acute robot and i don't like a robot that has

[38:36] eyebrows senior and also you're complaining that wall-e at no point

[38:40] joins a street gang like johnny five dozen parts

[38:43] yeah

[38:45] that we don't know if wall-e can kick your balls in outer space so he does go

[38:48] into outer space

[38:50] that was like i watch that movie i'm like i gotta learn that fucking rap

[38:54] i gotta learn it so bad i gotta be able to recite it because if i can recite it

[38:58] pitch perfect

[38:59] the other kids are gonna make fun of me

[39:01] uh...

[39:02] i i don't know if it's my favorite but a recent one that i really liked was the

[39:05] the weird like square robot in interstellar

[39:08] which was like a design that uh... i i think we talked about this on the show

[39:12] it was a design that like i've never

[39:14] like i've never really seen before like it felt new which you don't get that

[39:18] very often like it's definitely not

[39:21] like anthropomorphic in any way

[39:23] uh... and it like and all of a sudden when it started moving and it just like

[39:26] turned into a wheel kind of thing like oh man that was it was cool it was weird

[39:31] so kind of on the

[39:33] on the other side of that i'm gonna say i'm gonna give another robot on my list

[39:36] and that's gonna be maria from metropolis

[39:38] which is very c3po-y looking but also sexy

[39:43] and not as if c3po is not sexy come on but anyway but more so

[39:46] give me that soriyama print of uh... a boudoir print of c3po

[39:52] and uh... when uh...

[39:53] and when she looks like a person when they put a uh... they put overlay her

[39:57] with maria the human

[39:58] i love the way that that actress

[40:00] What's her name? I'm forgetting it now. She really embodies this kind of like

[40:05] Like sexy evil robot and she kind of half squints one of her eyes

[40:08] but keeps the other one wide open and and moves her head around in a really crazy way that it's just like really jerky and

[40:16] Geometric and mechanical and I just love that

[40:19] I love that robot both as a robot and when in human form so Maria

[40:22] I have to look up the name of that actress. It's really bothering me that I can't remember it

[40:26] Okay, kind of along similar lines guys, we're gonna talk about who or what is your favorite pop culture ghost

[40:33] But I'm also gonna tell I'm thinking of Bridget Helm. Okay, the actress that's not a ghost, right? No, no

[40:39] No, she is a ghost now. She died in 1996. What is your favorite pop culture ghost?

[40:44] I would say for me

[40:45] I mean

[40:46] I think my favorite pop culture ghost story is still is probably like the devil's backbone or something the Guillermo del Toro movie

[40:54] I don't know just cuz it's like sad and feels like

[40:58] It's probably my favorite one of his movies. It's kind of like a perfect little story and it's sad and

[41:05] Features some good kid acting and it's great

[41:08] Devil's backbone watch it if you get a chance and there's some good ghost shit in it. That's family

[41:14] My favorite ghost well, I

[41:18] I always like the taxi driver and Ghostbusters great ghosts because it's genuinely scary. Uh-huh

[41:25] I like I like to Casper's

[41:30] Horse, which I believe is named nightmare. Is that right? I don't know that would make sense a good sense

[41:36] Yeah, it would be perfect. Yeah, but I I remember growing up as a very

[41:42] Small child who would go and visit my maternal

[41:45] Grandmother and grandfather's house and they had absolutely nothing

[41:50] For kids in it. They were very strict Methodists, but there was one

[41:54] dog-eared

[41:56] Casper comic that I would stare at for hours because I was trying to suck all the childhood joy

[42:04] From it to entertain myself. So that that's my memory of Casper. Mm-hmm famous

[42:10] I don't know if this necessarily counts, but I think in that one

[42:13] Marvel comic where Adam Warlock comes back as a ghost made out of flame and turns Thanos into a statue or

[42:19] Maybe he's made out of glass or something

[42:23] What Thanos, okay

[42:24] It's this Adam Warlock ghost comes back made out of fire and like turns Thanos either into either stone or glass to stop him at

[42:31] The end of the thing and Adam Warlock being one of my favorite superheroes if he's a ghost

[42:34] He must be one of my favorite ghosts. Yeah other other than that

[42:37] I guess, you know me and slime or we share a love of hot dogs. So that's true

[42:42] You know

[42:43] That kind of reminds me of that awesome bit from that spider-man comic where Sandman got turned into glass and then Doc Ock shatters him

[42:50] And you're like, oh my god, same man just died. No, no

[42:52] No, he just came back as a glass man, and he's gonna fuck you up Doc Ock

[42:56] Yeah, he's all made out of shards of glass at the end of that. Yeah, that's not like oh, no

[43:00] He's way worse to deal with

[43:03] Like, you know Anakin Skywalker's like, oh, thank God I'd rather be glass to death than sanded to death, but you know, whatever

[43:09] You know, it's good is a Clyde from Pac-man because he's a nonconformist

[43:15] Yeah, he's he does his name doesn't follow the pattern. He pinky

[43:19] Blinky stinky you got Clyde over here

[43:23] I'm gonna mention Stuart mentioned Devil's Backbone great ghost movie

[43:26] I'm also gonna put in a plug for the others with Nicole Kidman. Oh, yeah, he's also a great movie

[43:31] I feel like there was a movie that was like it was nominated for an Academy Award, right?

[43:35] Like it might have been it's this movie

[43:37] It was it's a real sleeper of a movie when I remember seeing the theaters and being like that was great

[43:41] And then yeah, it didn't make much of an impression, but it's its reputation has grown over the years very like turn of the screw

[43:47] Yeah

[43:48] Yes, very much. So, yeah

[43:52] Okay, let's let's do one more to wrap it up and this is this is gonna be related to the podcast

[44:00] over the years we have

[44:02] We have

[44:03] Invented many characters for the show the flophouse house cat

[44:07] Seven pounds the villain who perpetrates only seven pound related crimes

[44:14] Seems dumb when we think about it. Yeah, I mean no dumber than the source material that we we were riffing off

[44:21] Which of our flophouse characters?

[44:25] Should appear in the knives out sequel

[44:29] Directed my range knives in or

[44:32] Forks or spoons? I

[44:35] Really? I really think it's gotta be crawdaddy. It's like

[44:39] Is the only character that can go up against?

[44:43] Daniel Craig

[44:44] accent for

[44:46] And crawdaddy's got a he's got a possible motive because he might have secrets to hide from his years living in the in the

[44:53] Louisiana Bayou now that he's reinvented himself as a Connecticut insurance agent

[44:57] I feel like he's pretty free with those secrets though. He shares that information

[45:01] I mean story people know people know his background

[45:04] But he's involved in shady doings that I'm sure that those at the local country club wouldn't want to know about you know

[45:09] Gator smuggling or whatnot. Oh, man. Yeah, that's that's I mean seven pounds seems a little on the nose, but crawdaddy

[45:14] Oh, man, that's that's the good stuff. That's the sweet stuff

[45:18] What a meaty role like imagine being able to deliver that script onto the desk of I don't know any actor

[45:26] Robert Pattinson and be like you get to play

[45:29] Crawdaddy and then he jumps up and he clicks his heels and he punches the sky and he's like I can't wait

[45:34] Now do I get to at least read for the role of crawdaddy? I know I'm not gonna get it

[45:38] I'm not a big enough name. We can at least read for the role. I originated. Yeah, of course

[45:41] You get a read for it. I mean, I gotta keep you happy

[45:47] I know between me and Robert Pattinson. You gotta go Pattinson. I mean, he's a Batman. He's a vampire from twilight, you know

[45:52] He's a cosmopolitan

[45:59] He is a good time

[46:01] and I was also thinking though that a noir kid could be a

[46:05] film market could be like a sidekick for uh

[46:08] For the he'd be worth the name of the detective again. I can live it up. They know been only Blanc

[46:14] Like that, yeah

[46:18] Sidekick home. Yeah, me and Benoit Blanc gonna solve this mystery

[46:24] Feel like my teeth on it. I

[46:27] feel like the majority of our characters that fall within the

[46:31] Would I mean would easily fit within that kind of a you know, a locked what is a locked door mystery?

[46:37] What what's that kind of shit called? Yeah. Yeah locked door mystery or you know locked floor mystery can't open that floor

[46:43] I was gonna say that Seabiscuit the world's most popular horse wouldn't fit in but you know what you got things like silver blaze

[46:49] the Sherlock Holmes mystery

[46:52] Spoiler alert involves a horse. Yeah

[46:55] You know, okay. I mean is the horse life. I assume the horse would be on the cover of the novella

[47:02] Yeah, probably yeah smoking in a smoking jacket with it with a pipe and he's holding a gun in his hoof, yeah

[47:09] I

[47:11] Got now I think you could populate all of the knives out sequel with our characters

[47:15] You got seven pounds. You got Seabiscuit the world's most famous horse. You got crawdaddy noir, baby

[47:19] You got Tom Brokaw dune. You got all the you know, we had enough characters for a

[47:24] Cat, of course. Yeah flop house house cat lady old lady who loves tin tin. Mm-hmm bad boy Verner Hertzog

[47:31] Yeah, sure. Oh, man

[47:33] Okay, well this is a lovely trip that we just wrapped it up on a bit of nostalgia, you know trip down memory lane for

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[51:47] think it's uh uh it's vincent d'onofrio and uh ever james almost i think uh and we'll also be

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[52:08] we get each 28 000 so yeah you got you got your edward james almost vincent d'onofrio donny

[52:14] wahlberg richard schiff and lorraine bracco and it was entirely shot i think in canada so it does

[52:20] not look like new york unlike the other two versions i can't wait to see which uh which cast

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