FH Mini #25 - Stuart Telly-ton

[0:00] So, hey, welcome to the Flophouse.

[0:07] Now, normally here on this podcast we talk about movies, usually bad ones, that we've

[0:11] watched and we give like a cheeky little review and have some laughs.

[0:15] But we're doing something a little different tonight.

[0:18] That's right.

[0:19] You have tuned into a Flophouse mini-episode, which means it's probably going to still be

[0:23] like an hour long.

[0:25] I'm your host tonight, Stuart Wellington, and joining me for this very special episode

[0:31] are my co-hosts, Dan McCoy, and Elliot Kalin.

[0:36] No lack of confidence about my name.

[0:38] Well, I was just waiting to see who would go first, and yet I seem to still pick up

[0:43] on my cue faster than you did.

[0:45] Dan, you're the one who goes first.

[0:48] You're the lead.

[0:49] If this was the Three Amigos, you'd be whichever one of those guys was the leader.

[0:53] Steve Martin, I'm guessing?

[0:54] No, probably Chevy Chase.

[0:55] He's the bossiest.

[0:56] Now, guys, this raises a good point, which is now Stuart's in the driver's seat this

[1:02] time around, so don't be mistaken by me butting in, but this is the second Flophouse recording

[1:11] in the last couple weeks, and I had very bad hay fever the last time, and then I was fine,

[1:20] and now I have a big attack today again.

[1:24] So as I was saying to Elliot off-microphone, I'm probably allergic to the podcast.

[1:29] That's fine.

[1:30] You know, like I have to live with it.

[1:32] That's my cross to bear, but I also took some new allergy medicine today, so the energy

[1:42] I'm going to be bringing is new allergy medicine, side effects unknown.

[1:49] So I just want to ...

[1:51] But the thing is, your new allergy medicine is cocaine, so I think we're going to see

[1:54] something a little interesting in terms of your allergy medicine.

[1:56] That's the thing.

[1:57] You might think that all this sniffing ...

[1:58] You got Josh Gondelman powder there.

[2:00] Yeah, he got a prescription from Dr. Gondelman for 30 cc's of Josh powder.

[2:08] Bolivian laughing powder, yeah.

[2:11] Okay, so ...

[2:13] I mean, for people ... Wait, hold on.

[2:16] For people who are not on Twitter all the time and just know the very nice Josh Gondelman

[2:22] from appearing on our show, let us be clear that ...

[2:27] That's what he's best known for.

[2:29] A bit that our friend Matt Koff started, one of the other writers of The Daily Show, asking

[2:35] people if he should try cocaine.

[2:38] Ironically, he was never going to try the cocaine.

[2:41] Let's make that clear, but asking a lot.

[2:44] Yeah, officers.

[2:46] Somehow detached from him and parasitically attached itself to Josh Gondelman, and now

[2:52] the Twitter bit is that Josh Gondelman, a very nice man who, to my knowledge, does not

[2:58] constantly engage or ever in cocaine, is known as Twitter's number one cocaine fiend.

[3:06] Yeah, yeah, he's the white line demon.

[3:08] So, as I mentioned, normally we talk about a movie, usually a bad one, but tonight we're

[3:12] going to do a little thing that I like to call, that's right, two boy talking tube to

[3:17] two dudes tonight.

[3:20] Wait, hold on.

[3:21] Stuart, one more?

[3:22] No, I love it.

[3:23] It made perfect sense.

[3:24] It was perfectly clear and coherent.

[3:25] I know exactly what it is.

[3:26] One more time.

[3:27] Maybe slower and clearer.

[3:29] I mean, normally I would just assume that our listeners, being tech savvy coolios, will

[3:35] just go and then play it at super slow speed so they can hear all the little Easter eggs.

[3:42] You are also the man, let's just say, he has the same confidence in the listener's technical

[3:48] ability as he had in the podcast search engine ability to find a podcast called Till Deaf

[3:55] Do We Pa Party, the hardest to spell Deaf Leopard podcast title in the history of audio

[4:01] entertainment.

[4:02] Yeah, I mean, it's definitely the second hardest to spell Deaf Leopard podcast in the history

[4:07] of podcasts.

[4:08] Once again, this is an episode of the show that I like to call two boy talking tube to

[4:16] two dudes tonight.

[4:19] Two boy, of course, being me, Stuart Wellington, and talking tube means that instead of talking

[4:26] about movies, guys, we're going to talk about the small screen and what we're watching on

[4:30] it.

[4:31] And two dudes, well, that's you guys.

[4:33] And tonight, well, we're recording at night.

[4:36] Did you say stew boy or two boy?

[4:40] Okay.

[4:41] Now, we're getting, well, no, it's, uh, I'm, I got to correct you both.

[4:47] You're both incorrect.

[4:48] It's two boy.

[4:49] Uh, because I, um, when I was a kid, I had difficulty pronouncing the S at the beginning

[4:56] of my name.

[4:57] Uh, so I would call, I would, I would say that my name was Tewart and my father thought

[5:02] it was very funny to make fun of that.

[5:05] So he would call me two boy instead.

[5:07] Well, uh, that would be like nicknames.

[5:10] We'll talk about that off air.

[5:12] I, I, uh, I mean, we can, we can talk about it on air, but I think right now we're focusing

[5:17] on talking about the small screen.

[5:20] First I wanted to, first I want to butt in just to, I owe Dan an apology.

[5:23] I thought that Stuart was calling himself tube boy playing off of his famous character

[5:27] tube man from the psycho gore man feature film franchise.

[5:30] Uh, and I thought that Dan not getting that was being foolish.

[5:33] Two boy, a reference to a childhood nickname for Stuart that I have never heard of.

[5:37] And I have to owe Dan an apology.

[5:39] You're right.

[5:40] We need an explanation.

[5:41] That title made no sense until now.

[5:43] So I'm glad we finally got the annotated version.

[5:45] I was ready to let Stu just kind of bust through it and not explain it.

[5:49] Thank you, Dan.

[5:50] I appreciate it.

[5:51] I apologize.

[5:52] Well, that's the thing.

[5:53] Thank you for being the bigger man.

[5:55] My podcasting guys, my podcasting is similar to some of the, uh, the, the near future speculative

[6:01] fiction of William Gibson where he just starts writing and you got to follow along and assume

[6:05] you know that he knows what he's talking about.

[6:07] So, uh, as I said, we're talking about TV, TV, the new movies, et cetera.

[6:12] So we're going to be talking about the, the, what TV that we're watching.

[6:17] Us, the flop house.

[6:18] And, uh, I am taking a, I, you know, I have plenty of segments.

[6:23] There's going to be scoring involved.

[6:25] I hope you're all very excited.

[6:28] Like music or scoring?

[6:30] Like there's carbon scoring on this droid that I bought.

[6:33] There's actually, it's actually a third type of scoring LA.

[6:36] I think I'm glad that you brought up the first two.

[6:38] Yep.

[6:39] Yep.

[6:40] Well, in a way it's the sex of scoring points.

[6:43] Um, and so, uh, there will be points awarded and, uh, in honor of, uh, what I think you

[6:51] have told me in confidence is your favorite of the awards programs, the golden globes.

[6:56] I have broken, I've broken the television categories down into a couple different categories here.

[7:01] So the first one we're going to talk about, I hear that police siren.

[7:04] It's arresting you for implying that either of us respects the golden globes.

[7:10] We're, uh, we're going to be talking about dramas.

[7:13] So Dan, what kind of dramas are you watching lately?

[7:17] Um, okay.

[7:19] Uh, I wasn't aware of that.

[7:22] Dan, remember he is, he is scoring you on this.

[7:24] I wasn't aware that I was supposed to come bearing this information.

[7:29] Uh, wait, you guys didn't get the email I sent you explaining what we're doing on two

[7:34] boy talking to two dudes tonight.

[7:37] I, you know what?

[7:38] I think the only dramas.

[7:40] Okay.

[7:41] Dan, Dan, I'm going to take the pressure off.

[7:44] Okay.

[7:45] I'm going to, I'm going to give you an example of how you're supposed to do this.

[7:48] So I'll say, Hey, so Charlene and I just follow along.

[7:52] Just it's cool.

[7:54] Charlene and I have been doing a Sopranos rewatch.

[7:57] We're like, uh, I think about halfway through season two and you know, it's fun.

[8:02] Uh, we're enjoying it.

[8:04] I haven't watched it, uh, since, I guess since it first came out and certainly, uh, since

[8:09] before I moved to New York.

[8:10] So that adds a whole new layer to like Sopranos Ness.

[8:14] Although it did make me look up on the internet.

[8:17] Uh, what Sopranos character are you based on your Zodiac sign?

[8:21] Of course I'm fucking Christopher Maltasanti.

[8:23] I could have told you that buddy.

[8:25] I could have told you you're Christopher all the way.

[8:27] Yeah.

[8:28] Yeah.

[8:29] I know it's written on my face.

[8:30] Uh, so I have, I, that is the show that I, uh, have been watching.

[8:35] I now have to rate it.

[8:36] So you guys are going to have to do the same thing.

[8:38] I'm going to have to rate it.

[8:39] Is it a, I hope you're taking notes.

[8:43] I said this was all in the email I sent you.

[8:46] Uh, you're, it was it a very compelling B.

[8:53] Am I not ready for a commitment with this drama or a C this is just background noise.

[8:59] And I'm going to say, you know what the Sopranos you're very compelling.

[9:02] Oh, so that's the way.

[9:05] So that was an example of the way I'm supposed to do it.

[9:09] I'm supposed to sort of not, I'm supposed to mention that I've been watching a show

[9:15] and not really say anything about the show, maybe digress into something else.

[9:18] And then you're supposed to rate it.

[9:20] You're supposed to rate it pretty.

[9:22] Okay.

[9:23] Um, yeah.

[9:25] Okay.

[9:26] Following that form as precisely as I can.

[9:28] Only, only a games, only a gamester like Stuart could come up with a competition.

[9:33] So intuitive that it's just, you instantly know how to play it.

[9:37] The interface to the gameplay mechanics, just, they just trip off the tongue.

[9:43] I watched the flight attendant on HBO max, which I suppose is more of a dramedy,

[9:50] sort of a thriller with drama and comedy elements.

[9:55] That's a camel with one hump.

[10:00] Actually, Dan, I checked it. We'll count it as a drama, it counts as a drama.

[10:04] So I watched that.

[10:05] Wait, Dan, how long is it? Is it one hour long or 30 minutes long?

[10:08] Well, you know, it's direct-to-streaming, so I would say it's 45 minutes long.

[10:13] Ooh, dramedy length. Yeah, that's right, halfway between 30 minutes comedy length and an hour drama length.

[10:18] They didn't take advantage of the time to make it a full hour.

[10:23] I hate to interrupt you, Dan, but I'm going to have to chime in here.

[10:27] I also watch that show, so I get a point for also watching it.

[10:31] Okay, continue.

[10:32] Okay, that's how it works. All right.

[10:35] And to sort of digress.

[10:37] This is like playing every game my son has made up is like this,

[10:42] where he's just coming up with the reasons why he gets points.

[10:45] And I'm like, I didn't know that. Okay.

[10:48] So to digress to sort of a personal note about it, I guess,

[10:56] I star Kaley Cuoco.

[10:58] Audrey and I watched all of the Harley Quinn show and thought she was very good.

[11:04] We've really come around on her.

[11:06] I think she's a really funny actor.

[11:09] So I give it a, what is it?

[11:12] I'm going to marry the show.

[11:15] Is it very compelling? Are you not ready?

[11:17] Yep, very compelling.

[11:19] Yeah, you married the show.

[11:21] Do you think she has some kind of development?

[11:23] Does she have like a development deal with HBO?

[11:25] Is that how between Flight Attendant and Harley Quinn?

[11:29] It's possible because I just remember I actually listened to,

[11:33] she was on the Conan O'Brien podcast.

[11:36] Let's throw some publicity to the podcast that's huge and massive

[11:41] and much bigger than ours.

[11:42] Sure.

[11:43] But she was on that, and she said that she acquired the source material of that.

[11:49] The Flight Attendant just, she saw the cover of the book,

[11:53] and she was like, something about this compels me, and had them acquire it.

[11:58] And she didn't actually really know all about what it was about.

[12:01] And so that suggests that maybe she was the person who put in development, yes.

[12:06] Yeah, that sounds a little bit like Alex Garland and Annihilation, but whatever.

[12:12] That sounds cool.

[12:13] And Alejandro Jodorowsky and Dune.

[12:16] Yeah, yeah.

[12:19] So, Dan, I forgot, there's one more step to this process.

[12:23] Oh, okay, I'm sorry.

[12:25] You now, one thing.

[12:26] Do I get on a duck tank or something?

[12:29] Oh, no.

[12:30] You need to do, you need to perform an impression of one of the characters on the show.

[12:35] Oh, man.

[12:38] Of that show?

[12:41] Yes, on specifically the Flight Attendant, the show that you rated very compelling.

[12:47] Uh, ooh, there's the one.

[12:54] Dune's working through his characters.

[12:56] I mean, I haven't seen the Flight Attendant.

[12:57] Is there a character that sounds like this, like a character who's kind of not sure what to say,

[13:00] and is just kind of like figuring it out out loud?

[13:04] I'll be the, hey, I'm the FBI agent who's wrong about everything,

[13:12] but I'm confident about being wrong about everything because I'm a dude.

[13:18] How about that?

[13:19] Wait.

[13:20] Okay.

[13:21] Now, Elliot, you're going to have to rank Dan's performance.

[13:26] Is he A, a chameleon, B, a body snatcher, or C, Madame Tussauds?

[13:32] Okay.

[13:33] So they're a little different in that Madame Tussauds, I assume you mean like lifeless like a wax dummy,

[13:39] has the ability to craft copies.

[13:42] Yeah.

[13:43] Like lifeless copies.

[13:44] Yeah, of course, dude.

[13:45] What's wrong with you?

[13:46] Just double checking.

[13:47] Okay.

[13:48] Then I'm going to go with, I'm going to say A, a chameleon.

[13:52] I didn't quite believe I was watching this character from a show I haven't seen,

[13:56] but I did believe that Dan had seen it.

[13:59] Uh-huh.

[14:00] Well, isn't that the goal of great acting?

[14:04] To convince you that I saw a show that I said I saw.

[14:09] Let me put a point down for Dan.

[14:11] Okay, great.

[14:12] So, Elliot, I think it's your turn to talk about a drama.

[14:14] Give me a drama.

[14:15] What drama are you watching?

[14:17] Well, I'm watching – one of them is an HBO drama, but you already mentioned that one, so I'll set it aside.

[14:22] We're re-watching an old HBO drama, but a show that my wife –

[14:26] Oh, so you get a point for also watching it.

[14:28] Okay, let me move that.

[14:29] Great.

[14:30] Thank you.

[14:31] A drama that my wife was a big fan of that I never watched is one, Downtown Abbey,

[14:36] which is the story of the downtown art scene in an old British house.

[14:42] Starring downtown Julie Brown.

[14:44] Starring downtown Julie Brown.

[14:46] Not Julie Brown, the American Julie Brown.

[14:47] Downtown Julie Brown, the British Julie Brown.

[14:49] Yeah.

[14:50] Not Earth, Girls, or Easy Julie Brown.

[14:52] And I had never watched Downtown Abbey before because – two reasons.

[14:57] One, I was worried it was – I would have watched a later episode and I didn't know the characters and I couldn't get into it.

[15:02] And two, I do not like the video format that British television shows use.

[15:06] I'm sorry.

[15:07] I don't like the way it looks.

[15:08] It's just a peccadillo of mine.

[15:10] But we started watching it from the beginning and now I'm really getting into it and I want to see –

[15:14] we're very early in the first season, so I'm like, is Thomas going to get Bates fired?

[15:18] I know he's not going to get Bates fired, but I don't – I'm always like, ooh, Thomas, what are you doing?

[15:24] So that's what we're watching right now and I'm finding it compelling.

[15:27] I want to find out whether Bates is going to get blamed for Thomas stealing the wine.

[15:32] That's great.

[15:33] Now, Elliot, of course, you know the next step of this process since you've already nailed the ratings – the rating process.

[15:40] Give us an impression of one of the characters of Downtown Abbey.

[15:43] Now, this is very personal to me.

[15:45] I'm going to do an impression of Lady Old Lady Downton as played by Maggie Smith because she reminds me a lot of my late grandmother

[15:52] who passed a couple of years ago, not in terms of being a rich, snooty person.

[15:56] My late grandmother was kind of the socialist Jewish version of this character, and so if I will,

[16:02] I'll try to disappear as much as I can into Maggie Smith's character of Lady Dowager Downton, Crowley, whatever their name is.

[16:10] Oh, no.

[16:13] Oh, and scene.

[16:16] OK, Dan, you're going to have to rank this.

[16:18] Is Elliot a chameleon, a body snatcher, or a Madame Tussauds?

[16:21] Well, OK.

[16:23] I will say that I'm not sure if I believe with the improvisation he did because I think that that character, if I recall accurately,

[16:38] is more of a sort of a withering remark character and less of a mumble-get-shattered sort.

[16:45] No, no.

[16:46] She was about to let loose with a withering remark, but I figured, hey, brevity is the soul of Maggie Smith.

[16:52] Let me just not overload everybody the way you did with a very long description of the character,

[16:57] much in the way the character would never actually say in a scene.

[17:01] That's true.

[17:02] But if you like, I could do one of those.

[17:03] No, no, no.

[17:04] I'm an old-fashioned dowager, and I don't like all these modern things.

[17:09] Oh, dear.

[17:10] And this is, oh, well, if you're going to look like that, then perhaps we should all die in a revolution.

[17:15] Well, I never.

[17:16] That kind of stuff.

[17:17] You know, I –

[17:18] That's great.

[17:19] So here's the tough thing.

[17:20] I was going to – I was like, Elliot's making a good point.

[17:24] I was going to bump his grade up, and then he started making fun of me, and I was tempted to bump his grade back down.

[17:31] Oh, Dan.

[17:32] But then – no, no, no, no.

[17:33] This is the test of a true judge, Dan.

[17:35] Here's the thing.

[17:36] Through therapy, I've realized that when presented with one of my own shortcomings,

[17:43] I shouldn't lash out in anger at the person who presents it to me.

[17:49] I should listen to them and hear what they're saying.

[17:54] And, Elliot, that was a fair criticism of my impression, so I give you whatever the highest bullshit rating there is.

[18:01] Oh, thank you, Dan.

[18:02] You know what?

[18:03] You are also a chameleon.

[18:04] Yeah.

[18:05] Yeah, that's great.

[18:06] Okay, chameleon.

[18:07] Okay, guys, so you know what follows drama.

[18:09] Of course, that's comedies, and I'm going to – we're going to do a snake draft on this one,

[18:13] so that means, Elliot, you're back up again.

[18:16] What comedies are you watching right now, buddy?

[18:18] What makes you laugh?

[18:23] Well, I watched the first episode of The Great North, and I laughed a bunch of times at that.

[18:28] What's the deal there?

[18:29] What's The Great North?

[18:30] That's a new Fox animated show.

[18:32] It's a family that's in Alaska.

[18:33] Oh, right.

[18:34] And they live in Alaska, and they are relentlessly upbeat and positive.

[18:39] Well, you're working on a – you are working on an animated show, right?

[18:44] Wait, were you watching that for, like, research purposes or –

[18:48] Merely because I enjoy animated comedy.

[18:51] Oh, okay.

[18:52] But actually, that's a good point.

[18:53] Housebroken, they just announced it's going to start its premiere May 31st.

[18:56] That's the show I've been working on, also on Fox.

[18:59] So if you want a show about dogs, that's the show to watch because it's about dogs.

[19:04] That or the Westminster Dog Show, and that only happens once a year.

[19:08] Yeah, the Puppy Bowl, again, an annual event.

[19:10] So if you want dogs, you are shit up a creek if you don't watch this show.

[19:15] But so, yeah, Great North.

[19:17] Yeah, it was funny.

[19:18] But I haven't been watching that many other television comedies lately,

[19:22] although I should watch more of them because I live to laugh.

[19:26] Now, Elliot, would you describe The Great North, would you say it is chock full of nuts?

[19:31] Would you say it made you crack a smile, or did it take you to frown town?

[19:36] Oh, no, I think it's certainly chock full of nuts.

[19:38] There's a hot – these are some very talented people working on the show,

[19:41] very talented voice actors and writers and animators.

[19:43] There's a lot of laughs.

[19:44] If you like to laugh, you could do worse.

[19:47] Now, it sounds like you've only watched one episode,

[19:51] so this next part is going to be a bit of a challenge.

[19:53] But Elliot, give us an impression of your favorite character from that show.

[20:00] There's a moose in the show, very briefly.

[20:02] I don't know if it's going to be a recurring character,

[20:03] but you know me, I've always loved megafauna.

[20:07] And so it's hard for me not to immediately

[20:09] choose that as my favorite.

[20:11] We have so many lost megafauna, you know?

[20:14] And there was that big die-off

[20:15] about 40 to 60,000 years ago or so.

[20:18] And it really bothers me that we don't have elephants

[20:20] on every continent.

[20:21] So seeing as Majestic-

[20:22] That was caused by Kraven the Hunter, right?

[20:24] Yes, exactly.

[20:25] Sergei Kravenov, I believe is his name.

[20:27] He was the world's greatest hunter

[20:28] and he just went around killing all those megafauna

[20:31] until he eventually set his sights

[20:32] on the greatest game, Spider-Man.

[20:34] Specifically, Spider-Man Maximum Carnage

[20:37] for the Super Nintendo.

[20:39] That was the greatest game.

[20:40] Now, so I guess I'm going to do an impression

[20:42] of that moose, which goes like this.

[20:47] Okay, Dan, give me your hot take on this one.

[20:50] Chameleon body snatcher, or Madame Tussauds?

[20:53] Oh boy, you know what?

[20:54] Like the problem here is really

[20:56] that I have very little sense of what a moose sounds like.

[21:02] You know, so I don't know whether there's a strategy

[21:04] on Elliot's part.

[21:07] You know, I'm going to pick a character

[21:09] that Dan cannot confirm in any possible way,

[21:12] but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt

[21:15] and give him whatever that high thing is again.

[21:19] Perfect, you're a chameleon again, Elliot.

[21:21] Now Dan-

[21:22] A chameleon, a known cohort of Kraven the Hunter.

[21:24] So there's a little tie-in right there, too.

[21:27] Yeah, Dmitri Smirnikov.

[21:29] Yeah, he's a little criminal guy with a little hat, right?

[21:32] He wears a little trench coat.

[21:33] So Dan-

[21:34] I mean, he does wear a trench coat.

[21:35] I don't know, the hat is not really

[21:35] like a trademark part of him.

[21:37] He's changed his face, but-

[21:39] Dan, when you're looking to tickle your funny bone,

[21:42] what have you been putting on the old TV?

[21:47] You know, I just, I feel like I watch things,

[21:50] but I'm looking at like a literal list I keep

[21:55] so that we don't lose track and forget

[21:57] that we're in the middle of like a series or something.

[22:00] And it's pretty sparse here, man.

[22:04] Well, you said you were going

[22:05] through a big Tosh rewatch, right?

[22:07] No, you know, like here's, I mean,

[22:09] that's gonna, that's a later category

[22:11] called late night topical comedy slash variety.

[22:16] I have been watching Mr. Mayor.

[22:19] I wouldn't say I think it has its feet yet,

[22:22] but I have enough faith in like a Tina Fey,

[22:25] Robert Carlock show that our friends,

[22:28] our mutual friend Sam Means also worked on.

[22:30] And like, it's got Ted Danson, Holly Hunter.

[22:33] Like I figure eventually it's gonna find something.

[22:38] I'm gonna take a little point there

[22:40] because I'm also watching that.

[22:41] And I think Bobby Moynihan is really great in it.

[22:44] Like it feels like they're letting him,

[22:47] they're taking the handcuffs off him

[22:49] and letting him just go crazy.

[22:50] Yeah, I think once they figure out

[22:54] that these are maybe not like,

[22:59] that the political takes are not necessarily

[23:02] the best on the show and they should just focus

[23:06] on it as a workplace, but comedy,

[23:07] I think it'll figure itself out.

[23:10] Oh, I was nervous you were gonna say

[23:12] that they should put the handcuffs back on Bobby Moynihan.

[23:14] I'm like, no, he's already served his time, Dan.

[23:18] I think you're right, Dan.

[23:19] I think the more it covers the workplace

[23:21] and the personalities, the stronger it is.

[23:23] Although I think it is, it now is a time for finally

[23:27] for a TV show that takes down those non-white people

[23:30] who are always trying to keep rich idiots

[23:32] from running the show.

[23:33] Yep.

[23:36] So Dan, what do you say?

[23:38] Mr. Mayor is chock full of nuts.

[23:40] Did it make you crack a smile or did it take you to frown town?

[23:44] Right now it's a good smile cracker, smile cracker sweet.

[23:49] Yeah, with the potential of being chock full of nuts.

[23:52] I like it.

[23:53] So it's like a Ritz with just a dab of chocolate on it?

[23:56] Yep.

[23:57] Yeah, oh, yummy.

[23:58] That's a treat.

[24:01] Well, guys, I've been watching a show

[24:03] that's on the same comedy block as Mr. Mayor.

[24:07] That's right, I'm watching Superstore.

[24:08] It's in its final season.

[24:11] It's been pretty consistent.

[24:13] It started off kind of like an office clone

[24:16] and I feel like it's kind of become much more than that.

[24:19] It's got a great cast

[24:22] and it is also a very pro-organized labor, which is nice.

[24:30] Or at least in general it is.

[24:31] I mean, I think this current season

[24:33] takes some weird twists, but whatever.

[24:35] And all the cast is great.

[24:37] I would say chock full of nuts, check it out.

[24:41] It's pretty funny.

[24:43] And an impression I will do,

[24:47] Mark McKinney playing the character of Glenn.

[24:51] Hmm, well, hmm.

[24:54] Okay, guys, am I a chameleon, a body snatcher,

[24:57] or Madame Tussauds?

[24:58] I mean, I haven't seen Superstore,

[24:59] but it certainly seems like the kind of character

[25:01] that Mark McKinney could play.

[25:02] He himself is kind of a chameleon.

[25:04] He can do anything, you know?

[25:05] Yeah.

[25:08] Yeah, I did give it a shot.

[25:11] It wasn't quite for me.

[25:12] I think that's accurate, though.

[25:15] Yay, so I'm a chameleon, thank you.

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[26:53] Now, I noticed that Dan did not do an impression

[26:56] of anyone on Mr. Mayor.

[26:58] That's true.

[26:59] Oh, man, I gave Dan a little bit of extra time

[27:03] to cook one up.

[27:04] Let's see if it's ready to come out of the oven.

[27:06] Unfortunately, this is mostly a visual impression.

[27:11] Perfect.

[27:12] Which doesn't work for the podcast,

[27:13] but I'm gonna give you a little bit of Ted Danson, the mayor.

[27:18] Like, here's a little.

[27:19] Uh-huh.

[27:21] Okay, Dan's, yeah, he's kind of pointing with his finger.

[27:24] Uh-huh, yep.

[27:25] And that is a really good Ted Danson.

[27:26] To be honest, that was really good.

[27:28] Thank you.

[27:28] You really captured, like, a Ted Danson mannerism,

[27:31] or Dannerism, as we call it.

[27:32] Yeah.

[27:33] That was really good, yeah.

[27:35] That's chameleon-esque, sure.

[27:36] Yeah, I love that.

[27:38] Guys, it looks like we have a brief interruption here.

[27:42] We have a mini-game, that's right.

[27:44] A mini-game that I like to call

[27:47] like an ever-flowing stream.

[27:48] That's right, there's so many streaming services out there,

[27:51] and there's so many original programs

[27:53] on those streaming services.

[27:55] I'm going to list the name of a program,

[27:59] and you're gonna have to tell me

[28:00] which of the big three streaming services

[28:03] it is an original for.

[28:05] Is it Amazon Prime, Netflix, or Hulu?

[28:10] So the first one, guys, remember,

[28:13] the possible answers are Netflix.

[28:16] Do we buzz in?

[28:17] What's the, how do we indicate whether we're?

[28:22] Just shout it out.

[28:23] Just shout it out, okay, great.

[28:24] Real glad, Dan, that you're making sure

[28:25] we have all the mechanics of this BS game.

[28:28] It's important.

[28:30] BS means, uh,

[28:32] I didn't want to be disqualified on a tricycle race.

[28:35] It's brilliantly smart, this brilliantly smart game.

[28:38] Okay, so, this is the name of the first television program.

[28:43] Is it on Amazon Prime, Netflix, or Hulu?

[28:46] The name is ShutEye.

[28:49] Netflix.

[28:50] Elliot, do you have an answer?

[28:52] Shutter?

[28:53] It is on Hulu.

[28:55] Now, I will give you bonus points

[28:57] if you can tell me anything about the ShutEye.

[29:00] Okay, it's the story, no, hold on.

[29:02] It's the story of a guy whose eyes refuse to shut.

[29:05] The title is ironic.

[29:06] All he wants is a little shut eye.

[29:10] No, no, no, is this the?

[29:11] It's loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's The Nose,

[29:14] but they found early audiences did not like the idea

[29:16] of a nose that has a mind of its own,

[29:18] so they changed it to eyes that have minds of their own.

[29:20] And the eyes are voiced by two of the Wayans brothers.

[29:24] Oh.

[29:25] Yeah.

[29:26] Marlon and Damon.

[29:29] Damon's back.

[29:30] Oh, wow, Jeffrey Donovan's on this.

[29:32] Yeah, this is the bird notice guy, right?

[29:37] And he's like, it's like they're like grifters.

[29:41] They're like grifter fortune tellers,

[29:43] but he actually gets some sort of second sight, I think.

[29:47] Yep, yep, good job, Dan.

[29:49] You get some bonus points there.

[29:50] You get a bonus point for knowing that.

[29:52] Okay, so number two.

[29:54] Light as a feather.

[29:57] I believe that's one of these.

[29:58] Is that on Amazon Prime?

[30:00] Netflix or Hulu? I think that's one of those Hulu fright things they did those like

[30:05] one-off like sort of scare things. I'm gonna say Netflix. Dan you are right again it is

[30:12] on Hulu two seasons 26 episodes can you tell me I guess you actually and you

[30:19] already said it's a supernatural thriller anything else can you tell me

[30:22] anything else yeah I'm gonna say Netflix close okay Dan you're doing pretty well

[30:32] on this actually you are a streaming Dino so the final one is is this final

[30:37] show going to be on was it on Netflix Amazon Prime or Hulu the show is called

[30:44] reprisal crackle I'm gonna say Amazon because I don't think we've had one of

[30:51] those nope it's on Hulu by the way guys this segment like an ever-flowing stream

[30:58] is brought to you by Hulu given it away for free I know so can you tell me

[31:06] anything about reprisal Dan I assume that someone is taking some sort of

[31:12] revenge for something that's true and that somebody is Abigail Spencer back to

[31:22] the normal game guys so yes we're sort of like disbelieving laugh that is one

[31:29] of my favorite like it's sort of like grudging but also sort of like like it's

[31:37] like the laugh version of okay I guess that's what we're going with it's

[31:41] basically that it's the laugh that says I don't like it but damn it I respect

[31:45] it that it's like that it's like a made-up game show that we were not

[31:55] notified about ahead of time and then it really isn't like an insidious

[32:08] yeah it's one of those things where you're waiting at any moment for school

[32:12] to be like anyway that's all but there's more okay we're on to the reality

[32:18] television Dan what kind of reality TV are you it's uh you know ever since the

[32:27] real world took the took the TV world by reality TV is what okay what am I

[32:46] watching in the realities like zone like something I liked or not no cuz I'm

[32:55] Stuart our mutual friends John and Mary I do like a group watch night with them

[33:03] and Audrey and where we've just been sort of running down reality shows and

[33:10] though you you either need something that's really genuinely good or like

[33:15] really like dumb as shit like that those are your sweet spots anything in the

[33:20] middle I find kind of unbearable but I did like encore on Disney plus where

[33:28] they reassemble high school musical casts of real life you know like it's

[33:34] like a high school reunion of this cast and they put the show on after like a

[33:38] week of rehearsal mostly playing their old roles when possible some episodes

[33:45] are way better than others but it's a lot of my old roles do you mean like the

[33:48] roles they played as high school like who they were in high school as opposed

[33:52] to who they were in the performance kids the loser yeah the door I meant yeah no

[33:58] obviously not obviously I met their old roles nuts in this in the show but but

[34:05] do they fall into their old behaviors as well I mean that's the thing about it is

[34:10] like watching it you see what the experience is like when I went back to

[34:15] my high school reunion I had this I saw this chip at my shoulder I realized

[34:20] where I was just like because I like every other human in the world like felt

[34:26] like he had a shitty high school experience you know I came back being

[34:31] like I'll show everyone and then I'm like what am I showing them like

[34:35] everyone's like really happy to see me they're all very nice like everyone's

[34:38] nice everyone like gets past it so so much and like I think it's mostly like

[34:44] Dan Aykroyd didn't show up and try no no I just like seeing yeah like people had

[34:50] sort of like gotten past it mostly it was like the people who were still

[34:55] hanging on to the high school drama who were the most insufferable like the

[34:59] worst episodes had people who were like still upset about something that happened

[35:04] to them back then and it's like look that stuff sticks with you I'm not

[35:08] saying it doesn't but come on you have to move past pass it like you're on TV

[35:14] man chill out just enjoy it you know just sing that so do you think the

[35:17] producers were like getting them all liquored up before they went on to

[35:21] perform and I don't know like the music man what what shows are they they did

[35:27] like Godspell was one course they did like Daylight yeah probably Oh Calcutta

[35:37] ragtime I don't know if there's a bunch of stuff a night of Spalding Gray and

[35:46] Eric Boghossian monologues yeah no it is all musicals you got to get the singing

[35:50] in there these days yeah that makes sense okay Dan well you're gonna have to

[35:57] give me a rating here let me just pull up our ratings would you say this this

[36:04] show is who needs actors or if it's on okay that's fine or what is wrong with

[36:12] the world it's the real spectrum of human emotion yeah I think you know even

[36:22] though I liked it I I think I'll still go with if it's on okay that's fine okay

[36:27] yeah not a bad one will forgo impressions on this one since it's gonna

[36:32] be you know it's a reality show Elliot what kind of reality shows are you

[36:38] watching I'm guessing some kind of a competition where somebody you know tries

[36:45] to perform Jeopardy questions and win the day I mean that's just I mean I

[36:50] don't know if I thought that a reality show that's a game show that's true I

[36:57] wasn't playing the character of Elliot Kalin Jeopardy contestant I mean I was

[37:01] but I was not I was so focused on my character and that's why I was so late

[37:04] on the buzzer yeah only the sense that we're all playing characters every moment

[37:10] of the day exactly that life you know the stage all the world's a stage

[37:13] exactly ironically as we record this actually I haven't seen last night's

[37:17] episode a friend of mine as of last week was the current Jeopardy champion and

[37:22] each episode I couldn't help but being petty and be like well if that was my

[37:25] episode I would have won on that one like he's won two episodes in a row by

[37:30] losing less than everyone else when nobody knew the final Jeopardy answer

[37:33] and both times I was like I knew that question I would have won on that if I'd

[37:37] gotten the category Elliot's favorite pizza toppings I would have won mm-hmm

[37:41] yeah pepperoni all the way anyway there's a thing called caramelized

[37:47] onions Dan I'm not sure you're aware of it you feel like no I'm just I am I am

[37:51] extrapolating from what I know of your picky eating habits which otherwise I

[37:56] have gotten way better over the course of the time I've known you we all we

[38:01] all grow up guys yeah as I get older I find my tastes expand in every direction

[38:06] musically food wise entertainment wise sexually in every different way and so

[38:12] I'm just it's part of growing up is introducing new things into your life

[38:16] yeah speaking of new things I don't watch TV I don't really like it very

[38:20] so the closest I come to reality TV is like we're big Top Chef viewers in in

[38:27] this house but I don't think see that more as a competition show they have

[38:30] kind of squeegee they've kind of filtered out a lot of the reality ish

[38:34] elements over the years to make it a more respectable show and so the only

[38:38] thing that really applies otherwise is like finding your roots because we're

[38:41] big genealogy heads over here we love finding out who famous people's

[38:44] ancestors were but otherwise you know nothing much I well I'm gonna mark down

[38:50] an extra point for myself because I also watch Top Chef Dan what about you I

[38:54] watched Top Chef when it was on I just yeah I'm not currently watching did you

[39:04] guys watch Padma's show the I liked a lot of it yeah it was great right yeah I

[39:09] thought it's really good I didn't see the whole season what I saw most of it

[39:13] and I really liked it yeah the one thing I it was it was in so it was one

[39:17] things where it was like I'm not as interested in food as I am in human

[39:22] beings and how they live so every time they would go into the kitchen to cook

[39:25] something I'd be like okay fine I don't need to see close-ups of every

[39:28] ingredient just tell me more about the people huh the and it it was one of

[39:33] those things where I think I mean it came out like shortly after the start of

[39:37] the pandemic right yes I think so and so a lot of the episodes I was like oh

[39:43] man I want to go and support that restaurant and of course we can't and

[39:48] I'm hoping that they'll be around when you know I can go to those towns yeah

[39:53] yeah on a lighter note it was nice to see Padma's sillier side on the show

[39:58] sometimes it was a serious

[40:00] show, but we got to see her joke around a little bit more. I feel like on Top Chef,

[40:03] sometimes she's in a joking mood, sometimes she is very much not in a joking mood. And

[40:08] for those contestants, they must just live in fear of what kind of day it's going to be.

[40:11] Because Tom, at this point, is always in a joking mood. He's kind of like the class clown these

[40:15] days. But Emma, you never know whether she's going to be a stern headmistress or the fun teacher who's

[40:20] willing to laugh it up with the students. Yeah. So Elliot, would you say watching Top Chef,

[40:27] it made you think, who needs actors? Or if it's on, okay, that's fine. Or what is wrong with the

[40:34] world? I mean, I guess the first one, because I like the show a lot. I've been watching it for

[40:39] years. But it's not like I would want all the shows I watched to be Top Chef. I didn't even

[40:44] want to watch that Top Chef dessert spinoff, even though I did, you know? Oh, yeah. Charlene,

[40:49] Charlene's Childhood Friend was in like the first, did they do multiple seasons?

[40:54] I think they only did one season because that show did not work very well. And there was one

[40:58] episode of that show that was one of the most profound hours of television I think I've ever

[41:06] seen. Because first, you know, the way the Top Chef is set up, people are not aware there's a

[41:11] quick fire, quick competition, and then there's an elimination competition later on. And someone

[41:18] is cut from the competition after that. In this episode, during the quick fire, one of the people

[41:23] involved had like a medical emergency and had to be removed from the show. And then during the

[41:28] elimination, they were about to kick off one chef. And then one of the other chefs was like, you know

[41:32] what, this is too much pressure for me. I don't like it. I'm just going to leave the show. I don't

[41:37] really want to do this. And the judges, you could tell did not know how to handle this. They were

[41:41] like, oh, but you did really well. We were going to keep you on. She's like, you know what, this

[41:44] is just not the way I want to spend my time. I just want to focus on my work. And so they're

[41:48] like, okay, I guess we can't kick off two peoples and we can't force you to stay here. Like we don't

[41:54] have the legal power to force you to be in this competition. And it was seeing the judges so at a

[41:58] loss to control their own show. I was like, yeah, that's life. You can't prepare for everything.

[42:03] Like sometimes things just happen. It hit me on a level that very few other shows have.

[42:09] But otherwise, it was not a very good show and it didn't work that well.

[42:12] Yeah. And didn't one of the hosts like Johnny Uzzini turn out to be a creep?

[42:19] I don't know. I don't really remember. I mean, it's not I don't think it surprised anybody.

[42:23] Okay. So it's now my turn, of course, guys, talking about reality TV. I cannot talk about

[42:30] any show other than Catfish. That's right. Catfish. You love Catfish. I watched so much

[42:38] fucking Catfish. And, you know, at first I thought it was going to be,

[42:42] you know, the premise of it is these hosts are investigating potential fraudulent internet

[42:50] relationships, whether it's a fake internet relationship that's set up by somebody who's

[42:56] just lonely or if it's a scammer. And at first I thought it was going to be a lot of like gotcha

[43:02] moments and a lot of like laughing at people that, you know, are, you know, are presenting

[43:10] themselves differently or whatever. But it turned out it turns out to be a show where like the hosts

[43:13] are very understanding when they seem to be very understanding, even when somebody is like clearly

[43:20] lying about who they are and misrepresenting themselves. The hosts are still like trying to

[43:25] help that person get to the bottom of why they have to do that and what's missing in their life.

[43:30] And I find it to be a really charming show. And obviously, I watched a ton of it all at once. So

[43:38] it all has blurred together. But there's some really intense episodes. And this most recent

[43:43] season, they managed to do like the quarantine episodes, which unsurprisingly, there's a lot

[43:50] of people catfishing other people. Yeah, this must be a gold mine era for the for the catfishers out

[43:56] there because you never have to meet the person. You know, yeah. And I figured the I thought that

[44:02] the episodes might not be as good because part of the charm is watching Neve go up to the front door

[44:07] and knock and have to like actually like confront the person. But there's something even more

[44:12] nerve wracking about knowing that the person is about to like when you see the little box and

[44:17] it's like so and so is joining the zoom call and you're like, who the fuck is it gonna be?

[44:22] Did you start watching it because you thought it was gonna be about catfish or Stevens?

[44:26] I did actually that's I missed I thought it was well what had happened was I went on my

[44:33] mon Hulu, of course, once again, the sponsor of like an ever flowing stream. And I had I

[44:41] clicked on catfish because I thought I was ordering my dinner of catfish. And I yeah,

[44:48] yeah, that was I mean, you know, who knows what's going on my head to be to be fair.

[44:53] The name of Hulu does not tell you this is a television entertainment.

[44:59] Stewart's first time using Hulu. Maybe it was I don't know. You don't know that.

[45:03] But look at it Netflix. It tells you what you're getting. You're getting a net full of flicks.

[45:08] Amazon Prime less less clear that you'd be getting it makes you think you're getting

[45:13] meat from South America, which is delicious. They've unfortunately destroyed the rainforest,

[45:17] but the result is great a beef for the rest of us. But Hulu What does that even mean?

[45:23] A net full of flicks makes me think of the time. Shortly after we reopened the bar for

[45:30] like, you know, like pickup service. I saw Michael actor Michael Shannon walking down

[45:36] the street with a big crazy beard carrying a net full of beers. Like he had just like

[45:42] fished them out of the river. It was really awesome. I just had an idea for a future mini

[45:47] that I am writing to myself and putting in a sealed email. Okay, okay. So you want to you

[45:55] want to keep the post date on in case someone tries to steal the copyright, baby.

[46:02] Okay, so I will of course give catfish the rating of who needs actors. And I will earn some bonus

[46:11] points for myself by doing an impression. That's right. I'll be Neve from the show catfish.

[46:21] Hello. Hey, this is Neve. I have a show called catfish. You might have seen it. It's on MTV.

[46:28] Well, I'm been talking to Dan, I you know each other on the internet. And he

[46:38] I was hoping that we could maybe set up a meet. Do you think that's possible?

[46:45] Scene. So guys, am I? Thank you. Now based on you've never seen the show before, right?

[46:52] I've seen I saw the movie. Oh, okay. That also features Neve. Actually,

[46:57] the real reason I started watching is because Neve's co host for quite a while was this guy,

[47:03] Max, the director of the movie, we are your friends, which we reviewed on the podcast.

[47:07] And as an acquaintance of my wife, Charlene, they like went on a study abroad program to

[47:13] St. Petersburg, Russia together. Well, you should I wish I had disclosed this conflict

[47:20] of interest at the time. I'm afraid that and also that your wife is a potential

[47:24] national intelligence. Yeah, we're gonna have to turn to make a Russian

[47:28] HR about this. But yeah, I mean, I feel like you should go higher than HR.

[47:34] Now normally, normally, we would touch on the final category here.

[47:38] That would be actually could I could I get a bonus point real quick? Can I I'll do my

[47:42] impression of the music they play on Top Chef when they when the contestants that

[47:46] are on the bottom are waiting to hear how much they screwed up in their dishes? Yes.

[47:52] Okay, that's my impression of that.

[48:03] Dan, what are you thinking? Is Elliot a chameleon? Is he a body snatcher or a Madame Tussauds?

[48:09] Well, you know, I feel like we need some more like musical categories. I'm gonna call him.

[48:16] I'll say he's the John Williams of this game.

[48:22] Wow, that's I was I was hoping just to get Bobby McFerrin this game. But thank you.

[48:26] That's not bad. One of the things I do like about Top Chef is they've been using the same

[48:30] music CD for every season for years. And they almost never every now and then they'll introduce

[48:36] a new song and I'll be like new song and then I'll never hear it again. I'm like,

[48:39] I guess it didn't make friends with the old songs.

[48:42] Yeah, yeah. So let me let me just so normally we would go into the final category of normally.

[48:53] We've never done before and we'll never do again.

[48:55] Yeah, no, I'm the normal episode of two boy talking to two dudes tonight. That's right.

[49:02] We would we would hit the final, final category, which is late night topical comedy slash variety.

[49:09] But I feel like we'll give that we'll have to save that for the next next episode. Guys,

[49:15] let me tally up the points up. It looks like I won. Whoops. Sorry, I beat you guys at my own game.

[49:24] I mean, if that's really an accident, there was oops, all point was a thing that you could

[49:28] have done to prevent that from happening. But I mean, it's rare. I will say in Stewart's defense,

[49:35] it's rare that the host of a show is also a contestant on the show, not since when Ben

[49:39] Stein's money and even then Ben Stein wasn't asking the questions when he was answering them.

[49:44] Also, I mean, another if we're talking about flawed game game mechanics, having us rank our

[49:52] competitors might be a problem, I think. Yeah, it's like it's it was like that moment on that.

[50:00] that game on that show Instant Hotel, where the owners of Australian Airbnbs

[50:06] stay at each other's Airbnbs and then rank each other. Yeah, the moment when they realized that

[50:11] not only did they get to rank the person's Airbnb, but the hosts of the Airbnb get to

[50:16] rank the other people as guests is the like silliest point score I think I've ever seen.

[50:22] Also, that show was wild. I usually hate any show that has anything to do with real

[50:29] estate. It stresses me out. But Audrey was watching, binging this over the course of a day

[50:35] and it has really, all said and done, very little to do with real estate. Everything to do with how

[50:41] weird all these people are. And the one person- Yeah, that first season is so good.

[50:48] Gives the guests bad points because one of them didn't have a margarita or something.

[50:53] Mm-hmm. Yep. That's totally fair. It's in the rule book.

[50:57] I feel like right now I'm between seasons on a show and I am really missing learning about these

[51:04] shows through my coworkers because I didn't have to watch Love is Blind because I would just get

[51:08] the update from my coworkers. And I feel like I didn't even know about this hotel show. And

[51:13] if only I had coworkers, they'd be telling me about it every day and I'd get the fast facts,

[51:18] which would leave time for me to do things like watch Fitzcarraldo, which is how I spent the last

[51:22] few dishwashings. Well, I guess we're going to do Fitzcarraldo on The Flophouse, guys.

[51:30] The secret's out. Yeah, I guess you just teased everybody. Tease the next movie.

[51:39] Well, thanks so much for playing, guys. This has been The Flophouse. This has been The Flophouse

[51:46] mini episode. That's right. Two boy talking to two dudes tonight. That's right. I'll see you

[51:54] the next time we record one of these. But until then, I'll sleep in my grave.

[52:00] Not that it's the only flaw with the title, but I feel like the that's right is a little tacked on.

[52:07] I don't know. I mean, so Elliot, would you say the OK, you guys, both you guys can answer this.

[52:17] I think I'm ready to open myself up. Would you say the title for this episode was super good?

[52:25] Let's change the official name of the podcast. Is it B? OK, it's fine for a mini, but that's it.

[52:31] Or C, throw it out of there, Jordan, edit this shit out.

[52:35] Oh, no, it's I mean, Dan, you go first.

[52:38] I you know, honestly, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me just I got to get prepared for this.

[52:43] OK, OK, wait. OK, OK. I'm honestly I think it's super good. The only problem I could foresee

[52:50] with changing the name of our podcast to that is that everyone else would see that there

[52:56] is no better title possible than they'll start naming all of their stuff, the same thing.

[53:03] And then at that point, the whole idea of titles is useless.

[53:08] And yeah, and now someone someone walks into a store and it's like, I'll have two boys talking

[53:12] to two guys that tonight that's right. And they'll be like, do you mean the cereal, the toothpaste,

[53:17] the animal, the movie, the magazine? It's the book. I don't know what you're asking for.

[53:23] The cement brand, the ice brand, the brand of pipe cleaner. I don't know what that scotch tape

[53:30] prescription medicine, the five hour energy I supplement. I don't know what it is out here.

[53:36] Are you asking for the two boy talks to two guys brand of condoms or are you talking about

[53:43] the chewing gum or are you talking about those little toys that come in the balls

[53:46] that you get at the grocery store when you put twenty five cents in?

[53:48] It's probably seventy five cents now. Are you talking about the soda, the energy drink?

[53:54] And.

[53:59] Maximum fun, dark comedy and culture, artist owned audience supported.

FH Mini #25 - Stuart Telly-ton

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