Ep.#207 - The Boy

[0:00] On this episode, we discuss The Boy.

[0:03] Let's hear it for The Boy!

[0:05] La-da-ba-ba-ba-do-do.

[0:07] Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

[0:09] The movie.

[0:30] Hey, everyone, and welcome to The Flophouse.

[0:32] I'm Dan McCoy.

[0:34] My name is Stuart Lenton Wellington.

[0:36] Lenton?

[0:38] Yeah, that's my middle name.

[0:40] Your middle name is Lenton?

[0:42] Yeah, you didn't know my middle name?

[0:44] No, I knew it started with L, but I didn't know what it was.

[0:46] What do you think it was?

[0:48] Uh, Larry Lou.

[0:50] Stu Larry Lou Wellington.

[0:52] Nope, Stuart Lenton Wellington.

[0:54] It's a family name.

[0:56] Oh, okay.

[0:59] And this is Elliot Kalin with a slight cold

[1:01] back from not being on an episode.

[1:03] Mm-hmm.

[1:05] So everyone can hold their horses.

[1:07] We haven't broken up.

[1:09] I haven't left.

[1:11] I'm still here.

[1:13] Why would you be the one who left?

[1:15] Maybe we, like, kicked you out.

[1:17] Yeah, man.

[1:19] No, that's not happening.

[1:21] Make sure that you're the breakout star of the show.

[1:23] Yeah, like, you're like,

[1:25] there's only water enough for one of us,

[1:28] because Justin Timberlake is very successful.

[1:30] He's incredibly successful.

[1:32] Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[1:34] Why don't you like Justin Timberlake, Dan?

[1:36] He can dance, he can sing, he's a great comedian.

[1:38] He can act, he's handsome.

[1:40] That's four things, so he's a quadruple threat.

[1:42] He can do it both ways.

[1:44] He can be casual and dressed up.

[1:46] No, I thought you meant regular and doggy.

[1:48] Yeah.

[1:50] The other version's just regular.

[1:52] Like, man,

[1:54] do you mind if we just do it regular tonight?

[1:57] Undance.

[1:59] They're ordering it at the window and you say,

[2:01] I'll have a regular.

[2:03] At the sex burger drive-thru.

[2:05] I'll have a regular.

[2:07] No sauce.

[2:09] What does that mean?

[2:11] This is a nice punch-up for your Black Mirror episode.

[2:13] What if sex was fast food?

[2:17] Yeah, so,

[2:19] we watched a horror movie tonight.

[2:21] But what do we do on this podcast, Dan?

[2:23] For people who are just starting today,

[2:26] or never heard an episode of the Flop before,

[2:28] or they're like, I love this Viceland show

[2:30] about whatever it's about,

[2:32] I'm going to check out the podcast.

[2:34] We actually met one of those guys and he was really nice, Elliot.

[2:36] Did we tell you that story?

[2:38] He did. He sounds very nice.

[2:40] So what do we do on this podcast?

[2:42] It's a podcast where we watch a bad movie.

[2:44] Okay, established.

[2:46] We're treading water right now.

[2:48] We're keeping it tight, Dan.

[2:50] Tight and taut, come on, like we talked about.

[2:52] We watch a bad movie

[2:54] and we talk about it.

[2:56] What movie did we watch?

[2:58] We watched a horror movie,

[3:00] which is usually confined to the month of Shocktober,

[3:02] but it escaped its bounds

[3:04] like a vengeful spirit

[3:06] and made us watch The Boy.

[3:08] By vengeful spirit,

[3:10] the vengeful spirit was me

[3:12] because I said,

[3:14] I want to watch The Boy

[3:16] and when other people were like,

[3:18] you know, that movie was kind of successful,

[3:20] financially,

[3:23] Not a terrible critical flop.

[3:25] You could just watch it for funzos

[3:27] and I'm like, dude, I don't have the time.

[3:29] I'm busy as a beaver

[3:31] in a wood factory.

[3:33] A little known aphorism.

[3:35] You don't have the time

[3:37] so you're turning the flop house

[3:39] into your leisure activity.

[3:41] This is a serious job, Stuart.

[3:43] Normally,

[3:45] it takes me a full 40 minutes

[3:47] to get into character,

[3:49] the Stuart character that you guys have come to know and love,

[3:52] What do you do, Stu?

[3:54] What's your process?

[3:56] For anyone who's just listening for the first time,

[3:58] Stu's character is kind of the ultimate party dude.

[4:00] He's rude and he's got tude.

[4:02] I put on my overalls,

[4:04] two legs at a time,

[4:06] like a lion,

[4:08] and then I comb my hair.

[4:10] I look in the mirror.

[4:12] What are the overall straps you undo?

[4:14] It depends on if it's formal evening or not.

[4:16] Well, since we're recording an episode

[4:18] of a podcast, it's always formal.

[4:20] I have a little slingshot hanging out of the back pocket

[4:22] of those overalls.

[4:24] In the other pocket,

[4:26] a bunch of peanut M&Ms to use in that slingshot.

[4:28] So when people are having a bad day,

[4:30] I just shoot one of those in their mouth.

[4:32] To make their day worse,

[4:34] they choke on a peanut M&M.

[4:36] Especially if they've got a peanut allergy.

[4:38] Yeah, I say, choke that one down with a smile.

[4:40] That's my new catchphrase.

[4:42] Choke that one down with a smile.

[4:44] That's the new peanut M&M slogan.

[4:46] M&Ms.

[4:48] Choke that one down with a smile.

[4:50] Yeah, you know those talking things

[4:52] that people eat in the commercials?

[4:54] M&Ms.

[4:56] You know the big one that's kind of the dumb guy

[4:58] because I guess he's fat?

[5:00] Yeah, I don't know who does his voice.

[5:02] I think Billy West does the other one.

[5:04] Choke that guy down with a smile.

[5:06] Okay, now we watched this movie,

[5:08] The Boy.

[5:10] Did we watch the 2015 horror movie, The Boy?

[5:12] No.

[5:14] We watched the 2016 horror movie, The Boy.

[5:16] Directed by William Brent Bell.

[5:18] What's the difference?

[5:20] You started reading the Wikipedia episodes of the 2015.

[5:22] It turns out they're not actually as different as it seems.

[5:24] The 2015 one is about a young boy

[5:26] who has lost his mother

[5:28] and his dad is checked out of reality

[5:30] and so the boy is a budding serial killer.

[5:32] Whereas this one,

[5:34] this one is the one directed by William Brent Bell

[5:36] who also directed Flophouse Fave, The Devil Inside.

[5:38] Oh man, it's a huge movie.

[5:40] Enormous.

[5:42] Again, a huge success.

[5:44] The only movie I've ever seen where

[5:46] instead of giving you the ending of the movie they say

[5:48] go check out this website for more information.

[5:50] Oh shit, that's the one.

[5:52] That must be the least visited website in the history of the internet.

[5:54] Even less visited than

[5:56] unfortunately PenguinFarts.com.

[5:58] One of my many venues.

[6:00] Dan, I'm surprised you don't remember

[6:02] because we were interviewed.

[6:04] What are you doing?

[6:06] Sorry, I dropped a metal coaster.

[6:08] A roller coaster.

[6:10] Is that an original wooden coaster?

[6:12] No, no, a metal one.

[6:14] Man, I don't care for these metal coasters like

[6:16] Kingda Ka, Nitro,

[6:18] Medusa,

[6:20] Great American Steam Machine,

[6:22] Batman The Ride,

[6:24] Joker's Adventure,

[6:26] Don't Forget Green Lantern.

[6:28] That's the name of the roller coaster is Don't Forget Green Lantern.

[6:30] When are they going to make Batman The Ride the movie?

[6:32] That's what I want to know.

[6:34] That property is out there.

[6:36] All those other super successful

[6:38] roller coaster based movies.

[6:40] I mean there's plenty of successful theme park ride based movies.

[6:42] Pirates of the Caribbean,

[6:44] Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 3,

[6:46] Country Bears,

[6:48] It's a Small World the movie.

[6:50] That's the one where the world is shrinking

[6:52] and a bunch of kids from around the world have to stop it.

[6:54] And also that French kid who sings the

[6:56] It's Christmas,

[6:58] Say Noel song.

[7:00] Mr. Toad's Wild Ride turned into Fifty Shades of Grey.

[7:02] It's a loose adaptation.

[7:04] So The Devil Inside

[7:06] The Devil Inside was a different movie.

[7:08] We were interviewed about it on

[7:10] Planet Money.

[7:12] A planet made entirely of money.

[7:14] They took our interview and were like,

[7:16] These guys are idiots.

[7:18] Throw it in the garbage.

[7:20] That's what they did with my audio.

[7:22] It's true, you did not appear in it.

[7:24] You could feel my presence.

[7:26] Yeah, exactly.

[7:28] Much like the presence of The Boy.

[7:30] They just used my dumb guffaw in the background.

[7:32] My Ed McMahon hype man laugh.

[7:34] But that was what made the sound bite.

[7:36] That's true.

[7:38] Now, The Boy. Let's talk about it, shall we?

[7:40] This is a horrible film.

[7:42] It's full of horror.

[7:44] It's full of horror and terror.

[7:46] So the movie opens with a smash cut.

[7:48] Media res.

[7:50] Nope, it opens quite delicately.

[7:52] A girl riding in a car.

[7:54] There's a girl named Greta who's played by someone

[7:56] from The Walking Dead. Let's call her

[7:58] T.W. Dead.

[8:00] As her real name.

[8:02] She's from Montana. She's fleeing an abusive relationship

[8:04] with a guy named Cole.

[8:06] Ladies, let me just stop right there.

[8:08] If you meet a guy named Cole, do not date him.

[8:10] Unless he is Grifter from Wildcats.

[8:12] Or Cole Hauser, the actor.

[8:14] And even then, I'm not totally sold on him.

[8:16] If his name is Cole,

[8:18] In order of dateable Coles,

[8:20] you have Cole Hauser.

[8:22] He's in the middle.

[8:24] Up above him, you have Cole Cash from Wildcats.

[8:26] And below that, Cole Slaw.

[8:28] If he is like a bunch of mayonnaise-y cabbage slices,

[8:30] go ahead.

[8:32] Knock yourself out. Eat it up.

[8:34] Eat that man like he's Pizza the Hut.

[8:36] What about like a ranch hand named Cole

[8:38] with a cigarette dangling from his lips?

[8:40] Nope.

[8:42] You're not going to be able to tame him.

[8:44] And he doesn't fit into one of those categories.

[8:46] Cole is a bad news name.

[8:48] It's right up there with Slade.

[8:50] If you meet a guy named Slade,

[8:52] or a guy named Python, do not date them.

[8:54] If you meet a guy named Viper,

[8:56] or a guy named Sharktooth, don't date them.

[8:58] Yeah.

[9:00] You're living in Adventures in Babysitting probably.

[9:02] If you meet a guy named...

[9:04] Just get in the jazz band club or whatever

[9:06] and play the blues.

[9:08] If you meet a guy named Cole Sladetooth,

[9:10] I don't care how charming he is on the first date,

[9:12] by the fifth date, he will be chasing you

[9:14] through an abandoned house with a hammer in his hand

[9:16] shouting,

[9:18] Bedtime! Bedtime!

[9:20] Or something like that.

[9:22] That's an interesting direction that you went with him.

[9:24] That he's like a weird serial killer person

[9:26] or just an abusive boyfriend person.

[9:28] He'll most likely be somewhere in between the two.

[9:30] You want a guy who can be both, right?

[9:32] You want a man who can do both.

[9:34] A serial killer in the sheets

[9:36] and an abusive boyfriend in the streets.

[9:38] That's the worst of all worlds.

[9:42] Greta is taking a job at an English manor house.

[9:44] She's from Montana.

[9:46] She's an American, y'all.

[9:48] She's never been to England before.

[9:50] She's never even met an English person before.

[9:52] She's taking a job as the au pair

[9:54] She's pulling a reverse Mary Poppins.

[10:00] made of magic, but she's a non-magical American nanny.

[10:04] And then the boy has possibly some magical properties, I guess.

[10:09] I'm more of a Mary Floppins, if you will.

[10:11] Anyhoo, I won't.

[10:13] She's taking this job

[10:15] and she finds herself at first in a house that appears to be abandoned

[10:19] until a plucky young grocer named what William?

[10:23] No, Wallace, something like William Wallace.

[10:25] And William Wallace tells her that freedom is important.

[10:28] But anyway, he who's this charming young grocer says, oh, I come here

[10:32] once a week to this a bit to this kind of isolated country house

[10:36] to put slant of the groceries.

[10:38] You're going to be taking care of Brahms.

[10:39] Oh, he's the kid here.

[10:41] Then the parents show up.

[10:42] And even before that, like he explains that she's going to be taking care of Brahms.

[10:46] And then he's like, I'm not going to go into that.

[10:48] Instead, I'm going to tell you about how I'm a fucking psychic

[10:50] by reading people's chewing gum.

[10:52] He's getting charming.

[10:53] He's oh, he's a little what I would call the flirtato.

[10:57] Which is like a flirtatious potato.

[11:00] And the best way to flirt with a lady is to get her spittle

[11:03] all over your hands in the form of chewing gum.

[11:05] It shows that you're not afraid of intimacy, Dan.

[11:07] Yeah, because what's more germs or yeah, exactly what we might as well have sex.

[11:12] I've already got your germs on my hands.

[11:13] Yeah. What lady could could say no to that?

[11:15] Logic is basically a crazy town song.

[11:21] The the parents show up and there's something a little off about them.

[11:23] And it soon turns out that Brahms is actually a ceramic doll

[11:27] that the parents seem to be convinced is a live boy.

[11:30] And they give her all these rules.

[11:32] You got to play with them.

[11:32] You can't leave them alone.

[11:33] You got to make a meals.

[11:34] You got to kiss him and tuck him in. Good night.

[11:37] You got to dress him in his PJs.

[11:38] Then you got to dress him in his clothes.

[11:40] Make sure to empty out the rat traps and empty out the rat traps.

[11:43] You can't waste food.

[11:44] You might get rats in the walls if you don't empty out them rat traps.

[11:47] And it's not going to be fun like the Lovecraft story, Rats in the Walls,

[11:50] where there's some kind of unspeakable horror scratching away between dimensions.

[11:54] The Lovecraft was they they used to tell him as laugh a minute.

[11:57] Lovecraft. Yep.

[11:58] You'll chuckle.

[11:59] Your sides will split.

[12:00] You're going to love his craft.

[12:02] Hilarious person.

[12:04] Lovecraft.

[12:05] That was his name.

[12:06] Yeah. Indescribably funny, they would say.

[12:10] These Cyclopean jokes.

[12:12] Yep. And a lot of racist jokes, though.

[12:15] A lot of it would not stand up today.

[12:17] You got to understand at the time he was still pretty racist.

[12:21] Yeah, but he had a thing with his mom where he stayed at home.

[12:28] Speaking of staying at home.

[12:29] So Brahms is going to say that Greta's going to stay there with Brahms.

[12:32] Yeah. Brahms is staying there.

[12:33] He's a fucking doll. He's not going anywhere.

[12:36] He's a creepy looking doll with like very pale skin.

[12:39] It's like you imagine this is like Tim Burton's

[12:42] my buddy doll from when he was a kid.

[12:45] Like just a creepy, spooky little doll or his wrestling buddy.

[12:50] Yeah, possibly. Sure.

[12:51] His real life wrestling buddy today.

[12:54] He always wins.

[12:55] The parents leave.

[12:57] We're going to have it's been so long since he went on a holiday.

[12:59] Bye bye. Ta-ta-la-la-la-la.

[13:01] Be sure to play Brahms's music very loud.

[13:03] He loves his music.

[13:04] And Greta's like, these people are crazy, but they're going to pay me

[13:07] a bunch of money to watch a doll.

[13:08] This is the life.

[13:10] Just like that weird Al song.

[13:11] Suspiciously sad for people going on a holiday.

[13:14] Yeah. Yeah.

[13:15] I mean, they're sad because they're leaving their little baby boy Brahms, dude.

[13:18] I felt that way when I've left Sammy behind.

[13:20] Sammy, the doll that I pretend is a baby.

[13:22] That is. Yeah.

[13:23] We've been meaning to talk to you about that.

[13:24] What? Oh, no, you know, he's a doll.

[13:26] Oh, so much easier to take care of than a real baby.

[13:28] Sometimes I just forget I have a baby for days on end.

[13:31] Yeah. And porcelain is way easier to clean up when it gets poop all over it.

[13:35] Yeah. And it's my poop.

[13:36] So it's like I got no one to blame but myself.

[13:38] I can't get mad about it.

[13:40] And your poop's super easy to clean up.

[13:41] Yeah, because of what I eat.

[13:43] I have a diet of mostly clean foods.

[13:45] It's very easy to clean up later.

[13:47] Yeah. Mainly bowls.

[13:50] Most of it comes out my pellets that I cough up.

[13:52] I eat various soaps, decorative soaps

[13:56] just to make sure my poop's the cleanest it can be.

[13:58] I get soaps shaped like food.

[13:59] Yeah. Because really, all your stomach understands is shape.

[14:02] It's all about texture.

[14:04] Your stomach is blind. I mean, come on.

[14:06] You can't see the food. You can't smell it.

[14:07] Your stomach doesn't have a nose.

[14:08] Eyes are the window to the stomach. Am I right?

[14:11] Your head is designed wrong.

[14:14] Unfortunately, Greta is like,

[14:17] I'm just going to put this doll in a corner with a blanket over it.

[14:19] Yeah, like a normal person.

[14:21] And I'm going to... Oh, Malcolm, that's the guy.

[14:22] I'm going to flirt with Malcolm.

[14:23] You leave your normal person sitting in a chair with a blanket over it.

[14:26] Yeah. And she goes, I'm going to go on a date with Malcolm.

[14:29] She's taking a shower.

[14:29] And while she's in the shower, strange things are happening.

[14:32] Her dress disappears.

[14:34] Her necklace.

[14:35] Her necklace disappears.

[14:37] And she finds that the attic, which she couldn't open before, is now open.

[14:40] In her towel, she creeps up with a whale harpoon in her hands

[14:44] that was leaning against the wall and the door slams shut.

[14:48] She's trapped in the attic.

[14:49] Ah, she misses her date.

[14:51] Ah, and she gets scared by something and falls and knocks herself out. Mm-Hmm.

[14:55] Now, if I see an attic door open,

[14:58] I'm just going to leave that towel on, you know,

[15:00] because like that towel is way thicker than any clothes

[15:03] you would probably be wearing. Yeah.

[15:04] That's like fucking body armor, dude.

[15:07] Why close the attic and leave when you can go investigate?

[15:10] Because you're one of the mystery machine gang. Mm-Hmm.

[15:14] She finds that a bunch of robots solve mysteries.

[15:17] Yeah, let's just say it's more.

[15:18] That's more interesting than what it actually is. So, yes.

[15:22] But weird things start happening around the place.

[15:25] A peanut butter jelly sandwich appears for her.

[15:28] There are weird phone calls from a child's voice.

[15:30] And she's like she sees the doll's legs walking

[15:33] underneath the crack in the door under her bedroom door.

[15:36] It's like, ah, ah, ah.

[15:38] And meanwhile, there's like shadows that appear behind her.

[15:41] There's shadows and they like creepy stuff and creaks and all sorts.

[15:44] Like there's something in the house with her.

[15:46] And you think it's a ghost because it's doing lots of ghost stuff. Yeah.

[15:50] Meanwhile, this is something that she doesn't learn until later.

[15:52] But the movie decides to tell us now for purposes of suspense.

[15:55] The parents have left a goodbye letter for Brahms.

[15:58] And then they put fill their pockets with rocks, rock pockets, we call them.

[16:02] And then just walk into the ocean until they're drownded and dead.

[16:06] Yep. They try to walk on the water,

[16:11] step on the stove shore.

[16:15] Flesh becomes water.

[16:17] Wood becomes bone.

[16:20] What is this?

[16:21] Toe the wet sprocket, dog.

[16:23] My favorite band.

[16:24] Yeah, really? Yeah.

[16:25] Couldn't you tell from the way I sang that song?

[16:28] As if you were feeling through a dark room for a light switch that wasn't there.

[16:31] Yeah, that was where it was actually done.

[16:34] So Greta starts to believe there's a ghost around here.

[16:36] And she kind of gets Malcolm to believe it, too.

[16:39] She invites him over and she shows him that the doll,

[16:41] when they leave the room, moves to somewhere else.

[16:45] And Malcolm says, when this kid was alive, it turns out the son had died.

[16:49] They had actually they had a real son. He died years ago.

[16:51] Yeah. And I think it's a fire in a fire before he died in this fire.

[16:55] He had a playmate over.

[16:57] Some little girl was I had a play date with him.

[16:59] And she was found in the forest with her skull crushed.

[17:02] And before this odd kid could be investigated, there was a fire and he died.

[17:06] And now they think that the ghost is in there.

[17:08] Bum, bum, bum.

[17:10] And it's like to live in dolls.

[17:13] Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's comfortable.

[17:14] Look at fucking Chucky, man.

[17:16] Yeah. And Annabelle, Annabelle.

[17:20] Which which one was Annabelle from from the Conjuring

[17:23] and the spinoff movie Annabelle?

[17:25] Yeah. Annabelle, right.

[17:27] Lector. But I don't want to hear one more fucking word about Hannibal Rising.

[17:33] I'm just saying it's the undiscovered gem of the Hannibal series.

[17:37] Elliot, I know his backstory.

[17:39] I will give you five hundred dollars if you can tell me

[17:43] who played Hannibal Lecter in fucking Hannibal Rising.

[17:46] It was now using your phone.

[17:48] His name was Hannibal, the actor.

[17:52] No, who was it?

[17:53] I don't even remember anymore.

[17:54] Some young guy.

[17:55] Stewart's very bitter about this because we did the pub quiz at Max FunCon

[18:02] led by Mr. John Hodgman.

[18:03] And it was the one thing I should be able to do.

[18:06] And we had to list the four actors who have played Hannibal Lecter.

[18:10] You can only do three of them. Yeah.

[18:11] Mads, of course, the best.

[18:13] Anthony Hopkins and Striker.

[18:16] Yep. Stryker.

[18:18] Yeah, that's how he likes his family to remember him.

[18:21] That X-Men two was really weird.

[18:23] He felt like he came in.

[18:24] Yeah, Brian Cox's family's like dad.

[18:28] He's like, don't call me dad.

[18:29] Call me Striker.

[18:31] I forgot his name is Brian Cox, which is strange since I've seen him in a play.

[18:34] We don't have to talk about that.

[18:36] It was called Rock and Roll's Tom Stoppard play.

[18:37] Anyway, so they're convinced there's a ghost around here

[18:41] and everything seems to be kind of fine.

[18:43] She follows the rules.

[18:44] She plays with this doll.

[18:46] The ghost is happy.

[18:47] They're kind of a family now.

[18:48] And she reveals that this she has this boyfriend, Cole,

[18:52] who she had to get away from, who's kind of abusive.

[18:54] She had become Gaspar.

[18:55] Julio is who plays Hannibal.

[18:59] Julio. Yeah, it's something like that.

[19:01] Gaspar Julio or something.

[19:03] It sounds like the French waiter in a cartoon for kids.

[19:07] It sounds like the full name of a horror host who goes by Julio.

[19:11] Yeah, I could see that.

[19:12] Or Julio would also be what Julio on Halloween.

[19:15] It's when the Julio's Italian cousin come to visit them at college.

[19:19] Julio is what Julio's name would be in the credits of a Simpsons Halloween episode.

[19:26] That's right.

[19:26] If he was like us, animation supervisor on The Simpsons.

[19:30] There's some alternate universe where it's going to happen.

[19:33] Yeah. He's an animation supervisor for film romance.

[19:36] I like that. And he's just named Julio in a version of reality,

[19:40] even though he works at a cartoon show.

[19:42] He still calls himself Julio normally.

[19:45] That was his birth name.

[19:46] Yeah. Jerry Julio.

[19:50] Well, if it's his last name, it's much more believable.

[19:52] Yeah, that's true.

[19:53] So everything is Julio Jones and Greta believes Julio Jones.

[19:59] Greta believes.

[20:00] is that because she was pregnant and had a miscarriage

[20:03] that this mother she was meant to take care of this ghost child

[20:06] and so everything happens for a reason blah blah blah until

[20:10] Cole shows up bump bump bump. Cole Hauser the actor?

[20:14] No we wish. Okay. It's Cole her ex-boyfriend who is just as... Cole the

[20:20] the rock? Wait what? That was spelled differently.

[20:24] If it was Cole the rock they'd be like great this would be useful for warming the house.

[20:28] Or giving bad children like Brahms for Christmas.

[20:31] Just kidding he's a great kid. Now here's the thing I'm going to talk about before we get to

[20:35] Cole's entry because we're already in act three of this movie. There's not a lot of plot in this movie.

[20:39] For most of this movie I think we're supposed to sympathize with Greta

[20:42] because she's scared and doesn't know what to do. She's just a normal young American out of the town.

[20:46] She was hired to do a job take care of this

[20:49] child doll and she does not do it for a while

[20:52] and as is his right as the employer Brahms complains

[20:56] in the only form he knows how. Locking her in the attic

[20:59] and giving her peanut butter sandwiches. And you know what?

[21:03] Lesson learned. She does her job. So take that

[21:06] millennials if someone pays you to do something give it a hundred and ten percent so that

[21:10] that ghost is happy.

[21:11] She's like oh no I'm bored I can't get internet service. Well do your job dude.

[21:15] Hey you know what? Doing your job is never boring. Exactly.

[21:19] You know what makes a job most interesting? When you do it with enthusiasm.

[21:22] And you give a hundred and ten percent. Because you're the one making that job boring.

[21:26] The job's not boring. You gotta find your joy in the work. You gotta love the work.

[21:30] Yeah have you cleaned out all the traps outside and made sure there's no rats in them?

[21:33] Because here's what you can do. Oh gross I don't want to clean traps full of rats.

[21:36] Hey there's 17 traps around this house. Let's see how many rats we can collect in them.

[21:41] Let's see how fast we can clean them out. Make a little game out of it you know?

[21:45] Yeah. Make it do a sport. Pretend you're I don't know a member of the Cleveland basketball stars.

[21:50] Who just won the super dunk.

[21:53] I don't know. And you're trying to dribble the most dead rats out of traps.

[22:00] Okay you don't want to give Brahms his bath because he's just a doll.

[22:04] You know what? Use your imagination. Maybe Brahms isn't a doll taking a bath.

[22:08] Maybe he's in a submarine. And you're the captain.

[22:11] I gotta tell you. You might not want to give Brahms a bath. He is way more embarrassed than you are.

[22:16] He doesn't want you to see his little porcelain weenie.

[22:19] Because he is very anatomically correct. Very. And circumcised.

[22:22] He's terrified you're going to break that thing off the whole time. Exactly.

[22:25] Because you're washing it much too violently. Please be careful.

[22:29] You're paying a little too much attention to that.

[22:30] I know you're trying to get in all the crevices but still let's give it a rest.

[22:34] Yes I get it. It's really veiny. Some people are into that dude.

[22:39] It's just look. It's a work of art. Let's just let's just take all the sexual element away from it.

[22:45] It's a work of human expression of the most beautiful thing in the universe. The human body.

[22:49] Yeah. Just ask. The most beautiful thing in the universe.

[22:52] The least goofy piece of sexual organs. The human penis.

[22:56] Which is essentially a droopy windsock that occasionally gets caught in a very high wind.

[23:01] I'm glad you said least goofy and not least gonzo.

[23:03] Because it reminds me of gonzo shows all the time. It is quite gonzo.

[23:07] In fact, Gonzo the Great was originally called Penis Face the Great.

[23:11] Until children's television workshops said to Jim Henson, you can't call him that.

[23:15] And he's like, Jim, you don't control me. You only do Sesame Street.

[23:19] This is The Muppet Show, a show for adults.

[23:21] And me and my new producer, Ralph Bakshi, are going to make it this way.

[23:24] And Ralph Bakshi's like, hmm, how do I fit more genitals into this show?

[23:28] Anyway. So that's the untold story of The Muppet Show.

[23:31] So the lesson of all that is one, gonzo's face has a penis on it.

[23:36] Yep. And not a penis shaped like an umbrella handle like many of them are.

[23:40] And two, if you get a job, do the job and learn to love the job.

[23:45] Because you know what's going to impress your employer? A ghost doll doing the job.

[23:51] Yeah, yeah. You're going to get extra, I don't know, ectoplasm for that or whatever.

[23:55] Yeah. And that's something you can do with somewhere.

[23:57] Yeah, it'll squirt it into a little beaker that you can, I don't know, trade at the market.

[24:01] I mean, it's basically just cheesecloth that you regurgitate.

[24:04] You can spray it all over a toaster and make it dance to, you know.

[24:09] Your love lifted me higher.

[24:12] I was trying to think of Jackie Will's.

[24:14] Ghostbusters 2. Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters.

[24:17] Now, you may think they need a Ghostbuster in this movie.

[24:20] And Cole is the man to bust that ghost because he ain't afraid of no ghost.

[24:23] And clearly, busting makes him feel good.

[24:25] Nothing else does. He's a real sad sack.

[24:27] Yeah. Unfortunately, he likes to play pool or snooker or they also called snooker.

[24:32] Yeah. A word that always makes me think of gonzo for some reason.

[24:35] OK, so Cole is there. She's freaked out.

[24:39] He's like, can I stay over?

[24:40] He sleeps over. And while he's like, oh, cool doll, cool doll.

[24:44] What's this crap? She's like, that's Brahms.

[24:46] He's like, oh, whatever, babe. Oh, Bobo.

[24:49] And so while he's sleeping, blood drips down on him.

[24:51] He looks up. It says, get out in blood above him.

[24:54] And he's like, did you do this?

[24:56] Malcolm, to keep an eye on the situation, has been sleeping in this car outside.

[25:00] Or did you do it? What's going on?

[25:02] And Greta's like, Brahms did it.

[25:03] He's like, don't tell me this doll did it.

[25:05] This stupid doll. And he takes the doll and he smashes it.

[25:08] Oh, suddenly the world's not going to like that.

[25:11] No, Brahms is not. It explodes like it's in scanners.

[25:14] Mm hmm. If if the guy in scanners had smashed the other guy's head against a chair.

[25:18] Yeah, Brahms.

[25:21] Suddenly they're shaking all over the walls and you think, oh,

[25:23] they're just doing the stuff from the original The Haunted or The Haunting.

[25:27] Nope. Here's the big twist.

[25:30] Spoiler alert.

[25:30] OK, in this movie, if you don't want to know the twist ending of the boy,

[25:34] turn this podcast off right now and then do anything else

[25:38] because no one else will ever talk about the movie.

[25:40] The boy, you are safe from spoilers

[25:44] unless you type in the boy spoilers.

[25:47] Twenty sixteen.

[25:49] Because you might get spoilers for the boy.

[25:51] Twenty fifteen, in which case doesn't affect you.

[25:53] OK, big twist.

[25:54] M Night Shyamalan and Rod Serling, stop making out and start listening.

[25:58] Frick up your ears because you know that new twist you've been looking for.

[26:02] Listen to this.

[26:03] Holds up phone.

[26:04] It turns out your cousin, B Night Shyamalan.

[26:10] There's 26 of us, 26 Night Shyamalans from A to Z.

[26:15] It's your cousin, Joe Henry.

[26:19] That's O Henry's cousin.

[26:20] Oh, OK.

[26:22] You know, that gift you've been looking for for your magi

[26:26] will read this because there's no audio recording technology yet.

[26:29] Although I guess actually like the gramophone had been invented.

[26:32] Yeah. Check out this wax cylinder idiot moron.

[26:36] They have a weird relationship.

[26:38] Joe Henry and O Henry. Yeah.

[26:40] I mean, Joe Henry was always pretty mad that the candy bar he invented

[26:43] was named after his more famous cousin O.

[26:46] And O Henry was mad that his book, The Story of O, didn't have a twist ending.

[26:50] It was just his real life sexual exploits.

[26:53] He couldn't think of a twist for it.

[26:56] What's that book?

[26:58] Is it a James Thurber book where the letter O? The Story of O?

[27:01] No, it's not.

[27:04] The drawings James Thurber did for The Story of O are very disturbing.

[27:07] Just these lumpy, bald men and women becoming sex slaves to each other.

[27:12] And there's a dog in there for some reason.

[27:14] Anyway, the seal.

[27:16] So the wall starts shaking.

[27:17] The whole place starts quaking.

[27:19] My mind was aching.

[27:20] Your brain starts shaking, just like in that size noodle song.

[27:24] And suddenly you think there's a ghost that's about to tear the house down.

[27:28] No, wrong.

[27:29] Something burst through the wall.

[27:32] It's Brahms.

[27:33] What? He didn't die in the fire.

[27:35] He's not a ghost.

[27:37] He is a grown man wearing a little ceramic

[27:40] boy face mask over a very full beard, which is really cool.

[27:44] Creepy effect.

[27:45] Who has been living in the walls of this house for decades,

[27:48] being fed and taken care of by his parents.

[27:50] And they left.

[27:52] They left finally because they couldn't bear to take care of this monster anymore.

[27:56] And they tricked this girl into showing up to be like a sacrifice to Brahms,

[28:00] saying, like, here, you can have her.

[28:01] We're going to leave now and kill ourselves out of guilt, shame, horror, trauma.

[28:05] I don't know.

[28:06] Maybe they just like swimming with rocks.

[28:09] Yeah, just like that Kevin Spacey movie Swimming with Rocks.

[28:12] About how they just like swimming with rocks.

[28:14] They're like, see you later.

[28:15] We're going to go find Dory today.

[28:17] I Brahms chases them around the house, and this is where the movie

[28:22] would have after having what I thought was a pretty neat twist.

[28:25] To be honest, I didn't see that twist coming.

[28:27] That Brahms was still alive in the house and was just kind of like a crazy

[28:30] murder man.

[28:31] But here's the problem is that when he's not supernatural,

[28:34] he's just a greasy guy with a mask on and they're constantly hitting him

[28:38] in the head and kicking him in the face.

[28:40] And he falls down and they run away.

[28:42] He catches up to them.

[28:43] They kick him in the head again.

[28:44] He falls down.

[28:45] One thing easily is someone who has been living in a wall

[28:48] for all of his life would fall down.

[28:50] Yeah, he doesn't get enough vitamin D.

[28:52] Yeah, that's the right one.

[28:55] Yeah, that's what you get from the sun.

[28:56] And it's if if they'd made a point of being like, like the delivery,

[29:00] if like the delivery guy had some kind of a like a physical ailment.

[29:05] Yeah, like maybe he had polio.

[29:07] Maybe he's got a limp.

[29:08] I mean, polio has essentially been eradicated.

[29:11] But yeah, what if he had it?

[29:12] Wouldn't that mean he would be like 70 years old?

[29:16] Yeah. So that guy would have a tough time defeating Brahms

[29:19] and also winning over this young woman from the States.

[29:22] No, it would be like a like a real.

[29:25] It would take a lot of bubblegum. Mr.

[29:27] Rochester, Mr.

[29:29] Rochester was a handsome young man.

[29:32] He had a crazy wife in the act.

[29:34] I mean, he was a catch.

[29:35] Spoiler alert, which is actually kind of crazy.

[29:37] Wife is not that different from I guess so.

[29:40] And also, I know by saying crazy wife,

[29:42] I'm looking at through the lens of a white imperialist colonialist.

[29:45] Mm hmm. From her point of view, she's just trying to get back home.

[29:50] Thanks for checking your privilege, Elliot.

[29:51] I appreciate it. And how is your privilege?

[29:53] Oh, it's very nice. Thank you.

[29:54] Or did you mean Rochester?

[29:57] Jack Benny's assistant on the Jack Benny show.

[30:00] uh... wondering does he's also a catch he was in movies t v the radio like a

[30:05] forty fifty year career

[30:08] very successful bronzes after them

[30:10] they find is evidence basement he kills call

[30:13] he kills all of the first person you should kill in any kind of it is what i

[30:17] mean at this point bronzes the hero of the film yeah he has

[30:20] been a great manager

[30:22] you've got greta to do what he did job in either do

[30:25] just like a little spooky stuff not three yelling at her

[30:28] not through docking her pay

[30:30] just like a psychological management yes good little bit of negative

[30:33] reinforcement but a ton of positive reinforce yet that's true she got a

[30:37] little bit of a

[30:38] you're not doing the job on the call you and i'll talk to the baby voice of the

[30:41] following you're doing the job

[30:44] they call it a basketball's bobby night

[30:46] take a lesson out of brownsville players are behaving well

[30:50] give me a little bit of a sandwich to put me around the the walls of the

[30:54] chair adam

[30:55] give them a sandwich go to the walls and wait for them to do the job yet

[30:59] playing b-ball

[31:01] which could also mean baseball but it doesn't always means basketball

[31:05] people say base be when they mean baseball it's a little bit

[31:08] uh... the bronze chase them around for a while and i say i want to watch it that

[31:12] time so i can be mister base the

[31:15] like wait is he like an english gentleman you're like no he's a

[31:18] basically the opposite

[31:20] he is an american loud was having trouble with all these japanese social

[31:23] customs

[31:24] destroyed base the berkeley mhm yet the greatest choreographer in hollywood

[31:28] history

[31:29] so

[31:30] she'd uh... greta escapes but malcolm gets beat up

[31:33] greta goes back

[31:35] with screwdriver

[31:36] and she tricks bronze he's about to attack urges bronze

[31:39] it's bedtime

[31:40] i said it's time for bed and he gets into bed

[31:42] and she is forced to give him his goodnight kiss on his mask and he's all

[31:45] about he is grabbing her too much

[31:48] and she stabs him with a screwdriver and eventually kills and after almost getting

[31:52] killed by him yet

[31:53] and she she and malcolm was still i've escaped

[31:57] and last we see is bronze repairing his doll he survived

[32:01] and the dollars we see somebody repairing the dole yeah maybe it's cold

[32:05] all year or maybe it's a little bit of maybe it's the most who was living in

[32:09] the house the whole time you know it felt like he couldn't show himself

[32:11] because bronze was sucking up all the oxygen with his antics yeah

[32:17] that's probably it

[32:18] so that's the story of the boy

[32:20] let's hear it for the boy story yeah i got a lot of stuff to talk about so when

[32:26] i thought i was about to watch a movie with a doll man in it i'm like where's

[32:29] brick bardo where are the demonic toys

[32:32] where's the demonic toys where are the creations of mad inventor andre toulon

[32:37] now stewart you really wanted to watch this movie what were your expectations

[32:40] and were those expectations met exceeded or disappointed

[32:43] uh... so

[32:46] i want to watch this movie

[32:48] and to be honest i kinda

[32:51] knew the twist already

[32:52] i think somebody spoiled it on some social media there's no point in watching this movie

[32:57] that's why we ruined it for all these people because i thought it would be a fun stupid movie to talk about

[33:01] and watch with you guys because you're my best friends aww that's very sweet

[33:05] uh... but

[33:07] the as far as meeting my expectations my expectations were met i was not expecting

[33:12] a second act

[33:13] that was a lot of our uh... gretta

[33:17] carrying around brahms and treating him like a little baby boy that was great

[33:23] uh... and i wish that they had made brahms scarier at the end he was really

[33:27] interesting to look at but

[33:29] he didn't have enough like i would expect him to have weapons

[33:32] you know if you have a mass crazy strong guy

[33:35] you expect them to have a like a menagerie of killing implements you should have like

[33:38] boy themed weapons like a really big rattle

[33:41] yeah boys

[33:43] carry rattles around or a lolly you're not a parrot are you

[33:48] a lolly that he stuffs down people's throats yep he puts a propeller beanie on his head

[33:52] and he cuts people off like it's a lawnmower blade let's say it's more like it's a toy truck

[33:56] that

[33:57] has maybe it's like a toy digger or a crane or something

[34:00] and it's got spikes on it so you like can

[34:03] stab people with it or just a giant digger thing yeah or it's a real truck

[34:08] i found

[34:09] it was one of those things where

[34:11] i thought the twist when it first was shown

[34:13] was a pretty good twist i was like i didn't see that coming

[34:16] and you know what that's a neat twist and it explains everything i guess

[34:20] i still don't know i guess they had two phone lines in the house that's the only thing that

[34:22] kind of bugged me

[34:24] but then once it was revealed it was like oh

[34:27] it's going to be a lot easier for them to escape this than it would be to escape a ghost

[34:30] yeah as far as the twist goes there was uh... there's a previous stewart

[34:34] flophouse movie recommendation that i'm not going to mention because i don't want

[34:38] to ruin the twist of that movie you should watch over

[34:40] uh... but that

[34:42] that movie managed to

[34:44] introduce the twist and then continue making it interesting and scary despite

[34:48] the fact that like the big twist has been revealed yeah

[34:52] i would say that's compared to like the devil inside this was a it was not

[34:56] particularly forward

[34:57] yeah like not a particularly good movie but much

[34:59] better than a couple of junk

[35:01] we should go to final judgments oh sure ok final judgments

[35:06] a good bad movie

[35:07] a bad bad movie or a movie you kind of like what were you saying elliot

[35:12] i'm going to put this

[35:13] probationary movie i kind of liked

[35:16] it wasn't good bad and it wasn't bad bad it was like

[35:20] i wish it was good enough that i wish it was better than it was there's a couple

[35:23] of good jump scares in it

[35:25] it gets really slow and dull in the second act

[35:28] but that's the stuff i liked when she's caring for the boy i love that stuff i

[35:31] just wish it was more interesting than it was and

[35:34] it's just kind of like

[35:35] like a blah like mediocre movie maybe if they played up more her like

[35:39] uh... her mother motherhood issues stemming from her miscarriage or

[35:43] something yeah

[35:44] like i wish the movie had for a movie that should be super creepy

[35:47] it was not as creepy as it

[35:49] yeah i kind of liked it too it was an hour forty

[35:53] probably should have been an hour twenty like it

[35:54] it was an eighty minute movie

[35:56] i would have liked it a lot

[35:58] yeah me too eighty minute movies are the best

[36:01] make it twenty minutes twenty minute movie

[36:03] come on peter jackson give me a twenty minute movie

[36:07] but it like it wasn't

[36:09] i wouldn't recommend it but i wouldn't be like what a piece of garbage it was

[36:12] like it was better than i thought it was going to be

[36:15] considering it is about

[36:16] i thought it was going to be about a ghost doll

[36:18] the way of the samurai and frankly it would have been a better movie if there

[36:22] was no supernatural stuff in it

[36:24] if it was like i mean there wasn't any supernatural stuff in it

[36:29] but i mean no like out of the ordinary fantastic elements like a man living inside the walls of the house

[36:33] if it was just

[36:34] these people have hired her to take care of this doll as if it's a child

[36:37] they don't leave they stick around

[36:40] and she finds herself

[36:41] slowly falling into the same psychosis they're under where this doll is

[36:45] becoming real to her

[36:46] because she's play acting that it's real so much like that would be a creepy

[36:50] movie to me

[36:50] yeah well i mean it's like in the house of the devil how the first two acts are

[36:54] super duper creepy because it's just a woman like walking around a

[36:59] creepy old house

[37:00] yeah and the first time

[37:01] you see that shadow move under that door and you know there's someone else in the house

[37:04] that's one of the scariest moments of any movie i think

[37:06] but it's like

[37:07] i would have rather and then like she and the parents would get into a fight over who

[37:10] gets to have this child because you know she feels like the mother of the child

[37:14] that and uh...

[37:15] okay that's the movie i'm going to do i'm going to call it the boy

[37:17] because there's already like a dozen movies called the boy so that title is up for grabs

[37:22] you call it the boy the next generation

[37:26] i mean that title is up for grabs i guess

[37:28] i think he's on the enterprise with jean-luc

[37:31] not jean-luc picard, jean-luc the waiter from the tea commercial

[37:35] or was it a coffee commercial

[37:37] uh... i don't know man but the thing is jean-luc is still going to say make it sew

[37:41] right? oh of course

[37:42] but he's talking about actual sewing

[37:44] he's talking about a sewing machine that's broken and he takes it to the fix it shop and he goes

[37:47] make it sew

[37:55] where are we right now?

[37:56] you're in the minority corner haven't you been here before? you know what i think i have

[38:01] because you're a woman

[38:02] and you're a gay man

[38:03] and we're both black

[38:07] and now that we're in the minority corner what should we talk about?

[38:09] how about race, gender, and sexuality

[38:13] and we can gossip about celebrities and i can quiz you on pop culture

[38:16] and we can have guests

[38:18] we're going to learn, laugh, and play

[38:21] you know that sounds a lot like blues clues

[38:23] only it's more black, gay, and ladylike

[38:28] minority corner with the k, check us out

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[40:03] It's not even a taste of the Orient.

[40:06] I mean, I'm boiling spaghetti with nothing on it or I'm eating hot dogs without buns.

[40:13] That's my bachelor life.

[40:14] I mean, I think of the sad part of it.

[40:16] Blue Apron had existed when I was a bachelor.

[40:18] I might not have dropped down to a dangerous way.

[40:21] The sad part is the part where I'm eating above the sink rather than bothering to walk into the next room to have my

[40:30] dinner.

[40:30] Why dirty a plate?

[40:31] You know, just put the garbage can between your legs.

[40:37] Just eat above the toilet.

[40:38] But now you don't need to do that.

[40:39] See a blue apron and they portion it out for you because I know when I try to cook the thing I hate is trying to do measurements.

[40:45] I can't eyeball it that well.

[40:46] It says like a pinch of something.

[40:47] I don't know what that means.

[40:48] It drives me crazy.

[40:49] Yeah, you're like my hand Sammy's hand Danielle's hand.

[40:52] What kind of pinch?

[40:53] Some kind of crab man monster, but they give you just take the container and dump it in because they give you the amount you need.

[41:00] Give you a sample of some of the meals that are available in June.

[41:05] You got spicy Korean rice cakes with snow peas and pea shoots.

[41:09] That sounds pretty good.

[41:10] Sweet chili ponzu catfish and green beans with coconut ginger rice and New England style salmon rolls with roasted potatoes and chives and chives guys.

[41:21] On top of it.

[41:22] Here's an idea.

[41:23] You say I don't need someone to cook my food for me.

[41:26] Well, do you know anyone who is expecting a child?

[41:29] They're not going to have time to cook for themselves when that baby is born.

[41:33] So get them some blue apron meals so that they can have the half of it taken care of.

[41:38] They don't have to shop.

[41:38] They don't to measure things out.

[41:39] A friend of ours did that for me a friend Justin and it was really helpful and I appreciate it.

[41:44] I don't think I ever sent him a thank you, but I should have you just gave him a thank you on the air.

[41:47] Well, that's even better.

[41:48] That's even better than a regular.

[41:49] Thank you.

[41:50] So thank you Justin.

[41:51] So check out this week's menu and get your two meals free with free shipping by going to blueapron.com slash flop house.

[42:00] That's blueapron.com slash flop house blue apron a better way to cook now.

[42:07] Normally, I never allow the words slash and flop house to exist in the same sentence, but that's okay.

[42:12] I believe we also have a couple of messages up on the Jumbotron.

[42:19] Jumbotron Jumbotron.

[42:20] So I got a message for John War Man.

[42:23] Awesome.

[42:26] Cool it John.

[42:27] Yeah.

[42:27] Hey John War Man.

[42:29] It's not his fault that he is the coolest last name in the world.

[42:31] Exactly.

[42:32] I'm a man of peace.

[42:33] All right.

[42:34] Mm-hmm.

[42:34] Well, you better get out of John War Man's way and this is a message from Xander Boutel.

[42:41] Another great name.

[42:43] Now Xander wants to say happy happy birthday.

[42:47] John War Man note note pronounced to be pronounced to the tune of by Menin.

[42:54] So I think I've been doing it right as a birthday gift makes me think it's not War Man.

[43:00] It's just like warming something up as a birthday gift Chris.

[43:06] Yep.

[43:07] Let's see.

[43:07] We want to work out all these goops.

[43:11] Jumbotron goops dropping some sweet bits as a birthday gift this show.

[43:18] You should be listening to it.

[43:21] It has a guy who lives in Brooklyn and loves beer a hilarious know-it-all pedant who also lives in Brooklyn.

[43:27] That could be either one of us and a long-suffering pessimist who sometimes hates his friends.

[43:32] Yeah, this show is you so I guess John War Man is some kind of three-eyed Cerberus monster.

[43:41] We're living inside John War Man.

[43:43] It's just like identity starring John Cusack or Herman said starring John Cusack.

[43:47] Was that the movie of her instead?

[43:49] Yeah, what he can do TV say that but he didn't that's the twist.

[43:54] The twist to the boy is the boy being a real person.

[43:57] The twist to this episode of the Flophouse is that we're inside John War Man's brain.

[44:02] All this time.

[44:03] Yeah, my wife's gonna be surprised and this is gonna be fun to say Bon Anniversary Zando.

[44:12] That's from Xander Butel.

[44:14] Happy birthday John War Man.

[44:15] We've got another message.

[44:24] Do mouth sounds.

[44:32] Okay, this message is for Stan.

[44:34] You know who you are.

[44:35] It's from Alana from the Eminem song.

[44:37] Nope.

[44:38] Who is this message for?

[44:38] Well, maybe Stan who is this message from Alana, Irky, Foofruk, Koff, Mala, and Pimdur.

[44:45] Okay, and they say sounds like a Motley Crue.

[44:48] It's from Motley Crue.

[44:51] They say whether we're infiltrating a fantasy high school fighting a giant guitar playing robot that transforms into a train or just getting the shit kicked out of us in an alleyway.

[45:00] Your quick wit funny voices and storytelling genius are with us all the way.

[45:04] Thanks for being the best DM love can buy the Zynga and that's for Stan from Alana, Irky, Foofruk, Koff, Mala, and Pimdur.

[45:12] I want to thank you guys for making me say my least favorite word in the universe and I want to thank Dan for assigning this Jumbotron message to me because he's the one who knows that I hate that word.

[45:22] As I said, it's called good producing.

[45:25] I'm creating conflict for the purposes of drama.

[45:29] Let's just I want to go on the record if I haven't before that Zynga is my least favorite word.

[45:34] It's not real.

[45:35] It's a dumb catchphrase.

[45:36] It means like pasta or something in Italian, right?

[45:39] Who even knows?

[45:40] And I never forget the moment it first confronted me when I was walking to work past a New York souvenir shop and in the window was a t-shirt with a picture of Jim Parsons on it that just said Bazinga and big letters underneath and I was like, am I supposed to know what the fuck that means?

[45:53] If it's on a t-shirt, there's an understanding that I'm going to see someone wearing it on the street and be like, I get it.

[45:58] Bazinga, dude.

[45:59] It should be about stupid and whether or not you're with him.

[46:02] Thank you because that will warn me if the person they're with is stupid and I should avoid them.

[46:06] Yeah, it's it should be an indicator whether or not the person you are looking at is a member of a co-ed naked volleyball team.

[46:11] I don't know if that guy they're accredited to inspect female bodies.

[46:15] I don't know if that guy has a beer belly or a fuel tank for a party machine and their shirts got to tell me which one is the man and which is the legend.

[46:23] This is what I need to know t-shirts help me out.

[46:28] And I like to imagine Dan sweating over a hot keyboard where he's like, well, this message has a reference to role-playing games.

[46:36] So maybe I should give it to Stewart, but it does say Bazinga.

[46:39] So I want to totally nail Elliot to the wall.

[46:42] Now, can I plug something real quick before you?

[46:45] I have been remiss in not plugging as fully as I should on this podcast.

[46:50] My other podcast or minor to anyone who may not know which case it's not a reminder.

[46:55] It's just new information that for audible your source for audiobooks.

[46:59] If you're an audible member, I'm doing a series for them.

[47:02] It's an audio series called presidents or people to with my friend and co-author Alexis co-author of the book Allison Frida forever and soon to be a major motion picture by the director of the Babadook and we're doing a show where that's what she's do awesome.

[47:17] Every episode is about a different president and we tell you enough about them to make them interesting.

[47:22] We can't cover their whole life in 25 minutes, but we're going to tell you some interesting things.

[47:26] So later on when you hear their name, you're like, I know that that guy called his penis.

[47:29] Jerry, which president called his penis.

[47:31] Jerry, you're going to have to listen to find out.

[47:33] So if you're an audible subscriber, please download presents for people to starring me and Alexis.

[47:38] And you guys have some pretty great guests.

[47:40] We've got a lot a lot of great guests.

[47:42] Yeah, and it's fun to get you to hear you talk about something that you're passionate about as opposed to shitty movies.

[47:47] Thank you before we move on to the next part.

[47:53] I just want to thanks say thanks to John Began who turned one of our letter songs into a lovely mini musical, which I'll put on the end of this episode.

[48:02] If I remember to do so, hopefully you will.

[48:04] Hopefully you saying it will be a shame.

[48:06] Punish.

[48:07] Yeah, it'll be it'll be one of those mnemonic devices.

[48:10] It's like when you like I if I don't lose 25 pounds by March, cut my head off.

[48:15] That's my New Year's resolution.

[48:17] I start sharpening my kitchen.

[48:18] Cheers.

[48:19] Yeah.

[48:20] Unfortunately, I made that resolution.

[48:21] Yeah, I eat big food in my kitchen.

[48:24] Thanks, Blue Apron.

[48:26] You eat those giant ribs from the start of Flintstones.

[48:30] They did hadn't invented shears that they used a fucking duck with a really sharp beak.

[48:35] And he went, I also want to thank you to Edward Ross for the copy of his book film ish, which he sent in to us.

[48:47] I'll show you guys after the show.

[48:49] It's sort of a series of history essays about film and comic book form.

[48:53] Oh, I'd like to read if you it's like an understanding comics for movies.

[48:57] Let's say so high praise.

[49:00] I'm looking forward to seeing it.

[49:01] If people are interested in learning a little bit more about movies in a in a comic strip, pick up film ish, maybe.

[49:09] But before we move on entirely, we should also promote our D.C. show, D.C. District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.

[49:18] Tickets are capital or whatever it's called in Hunger Games.

[49:21] That's right.

[49:21] Tickets are going fast for our Washington, D.C.

[49:24] Show, like hot cakes, like the hottest cakes.

[49:27] Imagine a cake.

[49:29] Now, I got my head.

[49:30] It's like a birthday cake.

[49:31] Now, imagine there's candles on it.

[49:33] But the candles are like all burn it like they're all wicker man.

[49:37] OK, and that cake was dipped in gasoline.

[49:40] That thing's on fire.

[49:41] That's the hottest cake.

[49:43] I don't know why.

[49:43] Why did we make the cake this way?

[49:45] I don't think it's going to be as like when you don't have time for questions.

[49:48] Now, we've got to get out of the house.

[49:51] Everything's pretty good.

[49:52] Stuart.

[49:53] No, just leave me behind.

[49:55] Let me die in this cake prison.

[49:57] No, I know you always wanted to die by cake, but still.

[50:00] He was too beautiful to live every time you order death by chocolate on a and I'd like a Bennegan's menu

[50:04] Yeah, and you didn't die

[50:07] He's not that glassy look in my eyes when I told the waiter

[50:10] I'll have the death of chocolate. No, no, you've got so much to live for

[50:15] So again buy tickets if you would like to see us and Washington DC

[50:20] They're on sale now. The show is August August 5th. That's a Friday night this year

[50:26] Friday night. Are there any songs about Friday nights? Not a single one

[50:32] For fighting. Yeah, and also

[50:35] S8 to you Saturday, but it's not on a Saturday Friday

[50:40] Just think of the old

[50:42] Not SNL show that was on Fridays called Fridays

[50:46] That Annie Coffin was thrown off the set of in that one bit

[50:49] Think of the lead character to Futurama and if you had a day what that day would be called

[50:54] think of

[50:57] Friday Robinson Crusoe's sidekick in the hit film his guy Friday

[51:04] Which is about he's read is on deserted island that just has a newspaper and he's got to run this newspaper. Mm-hmm

[51:10] They talk like a mile a minute. So we're good, but we're gonna be live in DC

[51:14] It's the first time we'll ever be doing a show outside of the New York area

[51:16] So watch come watch us be disoriented by how people's accents sound different and they don't have pizza

[51:22] Yeah, how they put toppings on their hot dog with I don't know tongs or something

[51:28] And

[51:29] Perhaps can we should we say we're gonna have some special guests the ghosts of all the former presidents. That's right

[51:35] They're all gonna be there. You can't see them or hear them, but they'll be and and plop house listeners. Here's an exclusive

[51:41] Dan what movie are we gonna watch?

[51:45] Go fuck yourself

[51:48] We haven't decided

[51:50] Oh

[51:52] Man, I thought maybe with a little bit of pressure you know still some gold

[51:56] Sponsor doing this promo spot is like being a defense attorney. You never ask a question. You don't know the answer to

[52:03] But Washington DC August 5th tickets on sale now and they're going fast so pick them up

[52:08] now that

[52:11] And we've done our business. It's time to get on to the exciting part letters from listeners like you

[52:18] You wrote us some letters you wrote us a lot of letters lotteries letters and lotteries

[52:24] Lottery letters letters for lot. Oh, let it out. Let. Oh, Jay Leno. Oh, no

[52:31] letters lotteries

[52:33] Letters loaders letters and leaders and loaders and lotters and logs

[52:38] From you. That was nice and maybe the most free associative

[52:43] More than ever and that's saying a lot. I didn't even understand what was going on half of it

[52:48] All right. So this is a handwritten letter Wow

[52:52] Is a note

[52:54] from parents

[52:56] It's from David last name withheld not Elliot's brother. He makes it clear

[53:01] Says hello peaches as a thank you for the many hours of free is an asterisk here

[53:07] I'm a max fund donor, but the point still stands free entertainment

[53:11] You provided me over the years. Thanks for donating max fun. Yeah. Thank you very much. I'm sending you the enclosed gifts

[53:18] for Stewart, mm-hmm, my favorite Star Wars movie in

[53:23] Marvel Comics form and a copy of Noelle Stevenson's

[53:28] Pneumonia. Oh

[53:30] Cool, I promise to stop tweeting at you about it now. So let me oh, I know David. Okay, cool

[53:36] I know it's David. Is that this is my brother. It is not your brother. Okay good. Oh, that's great. Awesome. And also

[53:45] Also

[53:48] I'm going to enjoy these for Elliot the original motion picture soundtrack of fiddler on the roof

[53:54] I know you don't have a record player. So I framed it. Oh, that's very nice

[53:57] Thank you. Finally a gift. My wife will appreciate an excellent documentary about the doomed production of

[54:03] Richard Williams is the thief in the cobbler. Oh, okay. Thank you very much. That's awesome

[54:09] You know Elliot might have with this Elliot might have a have a record player

[54:13] And it's the motion picture soundtrack, which is the one my wife is familiar. Yeah, I grew up with the Broadway cast album

[54:19] Yeah, you'd have a record player if you were a rich man

[54:28] Thank you very much David and

[54:31] For me he got me the vinyl edition of buttons from champagne to Chicago a

[54:36] collection of new wave and power pop songs from lesser-known, Illinois bands and a pretty good documentary about the end of traditional animation at the

[54:44] Disney Studios made by an animator who witnessed it all from the inside

[54:49] So, thank you very much

[54:51] And I gotta thank you David for not wrapping these up because we've tried unwrapping gifts on the podcast before and we are terrible

[54:59] That is true

[55:02] This is a very generous gift, thanks David and anyone who sends us gifts. Thank you very much. That's very sweet of you

[55:07] Yeah, there's no

[55:09] Gifts even the gift of your time to listen to our show our show. That's that's the biggest gift of all

[55:15] Is you are the greatest?

[55:18] Love of all is happening

[55:23] Not at all

[55:25] Not by by far

[55:29] So continue Danworth going into more normal letters. This is from Carl last name was held jr

[55:35] I was getting along to episode 186 guardians of the highlands when an offensive and shocking assertion was made by Elliot Kaelin

[55:42] Yeah, yeah, he falsely claims about local hero. He falsely claimed that beside the beautiful Leatherman cave

[55:48] There's absolutely nothing to see in the great state of Connecticut

[55:52] I'm certain Ellie did not mean to perspire to the Constitution State the world's number one producer of constitutions

[55:58] So I was prepared to let the matter go

[56:00] But then I realized how much Elliot loves being corrected

[56:02] So I prepared this short list of must-see places in my former home state. Okay, number one

[56:08] How many of them are like hot dog stains?

[56:19] Yeah, yeah, that's you have like six of them in a row and then you don't want them for a week, you know

[56:24] Yeah, you go watch hot dog the movie. Yeah, that's one of the six

[56:27] Go find a dog and heat it up. That sounds terrible. It's not for not good for the dog. That's for sure. Mm-hmm

[56:35] So here you go

[56:36] The list of must-see places in Connecticut number one the boyhood home of modernist composer Charles Ives not interested

[56:43] Number two the Danbury Railway Museum

[56:47] Alfred Hitchcock filmed several scenes for strangers on a train on the station's distinctive curved platform. Okay, number three the PT Barnum Museum

[56:56] Number four the recently reopened Holy Land USA an 18-acre biblical theme park as seen on The Daily Show

[57:03] number five the homes of Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe

[57:06] You can see all of these places and still have time to see the very spot where I lost my virginity

[57:11] I know you're already playing that is I assume the Leatherman came

[57:17] As we say in Connecticut, do you know a better way to drive from New York in Boston?

[57:22] It's a very good state. Oh, yeah good point

[57:26] What you have a hover car?

[57:29] Thank you for correcting me on that. You can also go visit many of my relatives there. Yeah for some reason

[57:35] There's a Letterman joke. It's not even that funny that is stuck in my head for years and years and years, which was

[57:42] state mottos

[57:44] The state motto he had for Connecticut was the Middle Sea is silent

[57:49] So

[57:51] That's what I think of when I think of Connecticut. That's like Dan. Do you remember when I said Letterman, but I swore you said Leatherman

[57:57] Yeah, David Leatherman

[58:03] You travel from town to town interviewing celebrities

[58:07] Watermelons off of buildings that reminded me of Dan

[58:09] You remember when I created a logo for our detective agency and it was gonna be called

[58:14] Mystery Brothers detective agency and the slogan was we're not really brothers

[58:25] That's I like to think of a more beautiful world where we have a boy detective agency together I would love that yeah

[58:31] We detect boys

[58:34] There's one his name's Brahms

[58:36] So this next one is from Stan last name withheld who writes Lee. Mm-hmm. I was hello true believers

[58:44] Eminem wrote a song about me

[58:46] I'm having doing a cameo in your podcast because I created you maybe I don't know at this point. I'm forget it

[58:51] I don't remember

[58:53] So this letter goes I was listening to the fourth top podcast about Def Leppard when host Stu Wellington

[58:59] Mentioned he did some joke him ups here on your program and since tell deaf to us per party does currently has no email

[59:10] Or a Twitter

[59:14] You

[59:15] Alex was right. How dare you sacrifice? Hello America from on through the night. Oh weird. I gotta go get a beer

[59:20] It's proto left. Wait, you're the big address here. This is I don't know anything about this

[59:26] It defined what would be their future sound without it

[59:29] There'd be no sugar to pour on anyone

[59:30] The heartbreak would never be brought and that lady over there is acting pretty cool would always have love available for her to her

[59:36] Despite always playing the fool. Yeah, frankly, I expected more from a connoisseur of fine music

[59:41] I'm sure Elliot would agree and join me in a body rendition of everything's alright. I called Judas

[59:47] Thank you, Dan for your time attention and mp3 program. Let's get rocked Stan last name with

[59:52] Me in the hot seat over here. I would sign with Stewart in any Def Leppard related things

[59:57] I think I've heard maybe three Def Leppard songs

[1:00:00] Most of what I know is from Stuart's podcast, so I have to rely on him.

[1:00:05] As it is the number five authority on historical deaf leopard information.

[1:00:10] Well, thank you, Stan.

[1:00:13] Those are some interesting but incorrect points.

[1:00:16] Since you can't refute what I'm saying now, I must be right.

[1:00:21] Oh, boom, burn.

[1:00:24] I'll bring it up with Alex, but Alex is probably right.

[1:00:28] That's why we call Alex Dr. Deaf on the program, because he has a doctorate in deaf leopard information.

[1:00:34] Deaf leopard studies.

[1:00:36] For the last letter of the evening, it's from Alex, last name withheld.

[1:00:41] Uh-oh, Stu, I take issue with what you said on our podcast.

[1:00:45] I recently discovered you after I finished a deployment.

[1:00:49] How I wish I had known nine months earlier of your fantastic little show.

[1:00:52] Stuart is my spirit animal, by the way.

[1:00:55] Anyway, I know this isn't a book cast.

[1:00:57] I'm a ghost?

[1:00:58] That's not really what a spirit animal is.

[1:01:00] You're a Brahms.

[1:01:01] Okay.

[1:01:02] I know this isn't a book cast, but I noticed something was missing in a recent book-to-movie adaptation.

[1:01:07] In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, there's a crazy part where a duck, parenthesis gaga,

[1:01:14] is violated in a POW camp and then killed.

[1:01:19] Of course, this is the only part of the book I wanted to be in the film.

[1:01:22] Sure.

[1:01:23] As you can probably guess, it wasn't included in the movie.

[1:01:26] I know Angelina Jolie directed this movie,

[1:01:28] and I like to imagine her directing some dude in a World War II-era uniform fucking a stuffed duck.

[1:01:34] Oh, wait, a stuffed duck?

[1:01:38] It's stuffed with something.

[1:01:39] Oh, what is this, a day med in a show?

[1:01:41] Sure.

[1:01:42] Anyway, are there any scenes in a super serious movie that seem ridiculous and out of place to you?

[1:01:51] Keep flopping.

[1:01:52] Alex, last name.

[1:01:53] Well, I think we'd all point to the bear suit blowjob from The Shining as a major example of that.

[1:02:01] There's nothing more horrifying than the idea of a bear suit giving a blowjob, I guess.

[1:02:09] Maybe 30 years ago, but times have changed, Dan.

[1:02:13] That's awfully heteronormative of you.

[1:02:15] Yeah, Dan.

[1:02:17] How do you know those are male bears?

[1:02:19] Maybe that was a female bear.

[1:02:20] You never know.

[1:02:21] Well, you couldn't see the bear teats hanging down underneath their udders or whatever.

[1:02:26] Wow.

[1:02:27] Okay, let's go back to the letter.

[1:02:28] I apologize.

[1:02:29] I shouldn't have brought it up.

[1:02:30] So this is what, a ridiculous scene in a serious movie?

[1:02:32] Yeah.

[1:02:35] I mean, you see a lot in old movies.

[1:02:37] Like every David Lynch movie.

[1:02:39] Yeah, but it works for them usually.

[1:02:41] In a lot of old movies, it'll be a serious movie where you'll have a slapsticky character who's thrown in there,

[1:02:47] oftentimes a person of color, because they were very racist back then.

[1:02:51] But I'm going to keep going with bear suit blowjob, because it's the scene where...

[1:02:55] Shining is a scary movie.

[1:02:57] There's a bunch of scary scenes in it, and then suddenly this thing happens,

[1:03:00] and Shelley Duvall is so much more freaked out by it than anything else she's seen,

[1:03:03] and it's like, they're doing what works for them, okay?

[1:03:07] Don't judge them.

[1:03:09] It's out of the ordinary, but still.

[1:03:11] Maybe she's just really impressed by his technique.

[1:03:13] No, maybe.

[1:03:15] How does he move in two directions at once?

[1:03:17] I don't understand.

[1:03:18] The other thing is, I never thought of this before,

[1:03:20] how many people who grew up to be furries had their first awakening while watching The Shining?

[1:03:25] Does it hold a special place in their hearts?

[1:03:27] Yeah, it's probably maybe 1% The Shining, 99% Disney's Robin Hood.

[1:03:33] That makes sense.

[1:03:34] Like a little bit gizmo.

[1:03:36] Yeah, a little bit gizmo, a little bit rock and roll.

[1:03:40] You guys, can you think of anything?

[1:03:44] This is an incident of me being a bad producer, which is there was a question asked,

[1:03:49] and I could have thought about it.

[1:03:51] You never ask a question you don't know the answer to.

[1:03:53] Yeah, you could have prepped it.

[1:03:54] Well, think about it.

[1:03:55] Write your answers into flophouse at theflophousegmail.com, sir.

[1:04:00] Yeah.

[1:04:01] Well, what's the email address?

[1:04:02] It's theflophousepodcast.com.

[1:04:05] Sorry, theflophousepodcastatgmail.com.

[1:04:07] What's a goofy scene in a serious movie?

[1:04:09] Or what's a scene in a book that wasn't in the movie version that you wish was in there?

[1:04:14] Go to theflophousepodcastatgmail.com.

[1:04:17] That's correct.

[1:04:18] For your answers.

[1:04:20] No, I have answers to this question, but they can't come to my tongue.

[1:04:24] They're blocked by my stupid brain.

[1:04:25] Then let's talk about something we do know what we want to talk about, and that's our recommendations.

[1:04:29] Oh, fucking A. I forgot to watch a movie.

[1:04:33] Dan, do you have anything to recommend?

[1:04:35] I got a couple things to recommend.

[1:04:36] Oh, boy.

[1:04:37] Strap in.

[1:04:38] One of them can be mine.

[1:04:40] Just go, yeah, me too.

[1:04:42] Oh, yeah, yeah.

[1:04:43] That's what I was going to say.

[1:04:44] You stole mine.

[1:04:45] We're going to do a double shot of Noah Baumbach here.

[1:04:47] What if I don't recommend those?

[1:04:52] I really liked Mistress America, which I caught on cable recently.

[1:04:57] It's got Greta Gerwig, who collaborated with Noah Baumbach on Francis Ha, which I liked quite a lot.

[1:05:04] I think Francis Ha is probably still a little bit better than Mistress America.

[1:05:07] Francis Ha, I think, might be my favorite Noah Baumbach movie, which is not saying that much.

[1:05:12] I like him quite a lot, but he can be irritating.

[1:05:16] But this movie, I think, is very entertaining.

[1:05:21] It's about a—we all know that kind of person who sort of constructs their life.

[1:05:27] They construct a persona, and Greta Gerwig's character—

[1:05:31] Yeah, like a sociopath.

[1:05:33] —is sort of this—you know, she bon vivants like Jack of all trades, like master of absolutely nothing,

[1:05:44] who is living in New York and lives this, you know, like gadabout, bohemian lifestyle

[1:05:52] and pretends to be a lot more together than she is, where she's sort of secretly falling apart inside.

[1:05:58] And she befriends sort of the lead character of the movie because their parents are going to get married

[1:06:05] and they're going to be sisters, and the lead character starts writing a story about her.

[1:06:10] And it's a question of, like, you know, artistic betrayal.

[1:06:17] Like, is it a betrayal for her to write this story about someone that she knows in real life

[1:06:23] and is putting a very honest eye on this character, or is that the way all art works?

[1:06:30] And it has a second act that is a long scene where they go on a trip

[1:06:38] to try and get some money out of a friend of Greta Gerwig's so that Greta Gerwig can open a restaurant.

[1:06:47] And the scene plays out like a slow-motion farce with characters being added all the time to this one house

[1:06:56] and entering and exiting rooms, and it's very funny in a way that I think is a little different for Noah Baumbach.

[1:07:03] It feels like a really, like, funny stage play for the second act of the movie.

[1:07:10] But also I want to recommend Noah Baumbach's documentary De Palma, which I saw at the Angelica Film Center.

[1:07:17] The ratlinist from the subway movie theater there is.

[1:07:22] Yeah, I haven't seen anything there in a long time.

[1:07:24] Yeah, that's where I saw Snowpiercer. It was great.

[1:07:26] But it's a fun movie. It's a trip through all of De Palma's movies, front to back.

[1:07:36] Basically just Brian De Palma talking about his movies and then us seeing clips from them.

[1:07:43] And the thing is, like, in form it's pretty boring.

[1:07:48] In form it's basically just a glorified DVD extra, but it's a really good DVD extra.

[1:07:56] And I know people have mixed feelings about De Palma.

[1:08:00] Like, I don't like all of his stuff, and he's kind of hard to defend sometimes,

[1:08:05] but there's something about his willful perversity and, like, combined with great technical mastery that I respond to.

[1:08:15] Yeah. And he doesn't mind lingering on the – wait, Noah Baumbach or Brian De Palma?

[1:08:21] Brian De Palma.

[1:08:22] He doesn't mind lingering on the female form.

[1:08:24] Yeah, well, that's one of the things that people –

[1:08:27] You fact-checked it right in the middle of that.

[1:08:29] I was just making sure.

[1:08:30] That's one of the things people criticize him for. He is the male-gaysiest of male-gays directors.

[1:08:38] Well, he's Hitchcock. He wants to be Hitchcock, and Hitchcock was all about objectifying women in many ways.

[1:08:45] And De Palma can do it with nudity.

[1:08:48] But if you want a jacked-up, campy version of Hitchcock, then Brian De Palma's for you.

[1:08:54] The documentary?

[1:08:56] Or just his movies.

[1:08:57] Just his movies.

[1:08:58] So you recommended a lot of movies right there because he's had a very varied film career.

[1:09:01] That's right. I recommended the varied and hugely up and down filmography.

[1:09:07] You recommended Snake Eyes.

[1:09:08] There's good stuff in Snake Eyes.

[1:09:10] Not too much. I'll recommend my movie. I'll try to do it quick.

[1:09:14] I'm going to recommend – hey, it's an old Japanese movie. What a surprise.

[1:09:17] Oh, weird.

[1:09:19] I'm recommending it. I'm going to recommend a movie called The Face of Another, which maybe you guys have heard of.

[1:09:26] It's directed by Hiroshi Teshigara, who's best known for Woman in the Dunes, and it stars Tetsuya Nakade, one of the greats of Japanese film.

[1:09:35] He was the emperor in Ron. He's in a ton of different Japanese movies.

[1:09:40] He's the star of one of my favorite Japanese movies, Kill.

[1:09:44] But in this, he plays a man who – it's from the mid-'60s.

[1:09:47] He plays a man who, before the movie has started, has had his face horribly burned in an industrial accident, and this very morally dubious but kind of intellectually curious surgeon…

[1:10:00] Specializes in prosthetic limbs that are meant to help cure mental conditions

[1:10:03] He says I'm gonna make you the most lifelike face

[1:10:05] but it's not gonna look like your face and

[1:10:07] You just have to watch out because this face is gonna turn you into a different person and you're gonna spawn

[1:10:13] Kind of yeah, and I want you to tell me everything that happens

[1:10:16] I want to see you how your personality changes under this and

[1:10:19] He starts to construct another life for himself where he wears this false face and the movie is kind of in a way about

[1:10:27] How difficult it is to escape the person that you are and

[1:10:31] What kind of consequences it can have when you try to and can't quite accomplish it and it's super creepy intense

[1:10:39] It's a weird movie

[1:10:40] But it's really good. It's called the face of another that sounds great

[1:10:46] so

[1:10:47] yeah, I totally just didn't realize I hadn't had a movie to recommend until just now, but I

[1:10:55] The a couple days ago a the actor Anton Yelchin died

[1:11:00] Which was a terrible crazy accident and he's an actor who I've really admired in a couple of movies

[1:11:07] Most recently green room and also realized that he died the terrible and also the Fright Night remake

[1:11:13] Which was recommended by Dan on an earlier episode?

[1:11:16] So tonight I'm going to recommend a movie without Anton Yelchin the original Friday night

[1:11:23] With with Chris Sarandon as the

[1:11:27] sexiest vampire in the universe and

[1:11:29] It is very similar to the remake

[1:11:32] but it also

[1:11:35] It is I don't know it manages to capture the kind of like

[1:11:40] the late-night horror movie

[1:11:43] Aesthetic of the 80s while also being kind of sexy

[1:11:48] even though it's got you know, they make they have

[1:11:52] Marcy from

[1:11:54] married with children as the like sexy mom character and it totally works and

[1:12:02] Yeah, Rodney McDowell in that movie and Rodney McDowell is amazing. Yeah, it's a really great movie

[1:12:07] It's uh, I think I came to mention Chris Sarandon. I did. Yeah right up at the top. He's amazing

[1:12:13] Yeah, I would let him drink all of my blood

[1:12:17] He can have my sweet young blood

[1:12:19] And then

[1:12:21] bury me in the backyard and

[1:12:23] so

[1:12:24] Fright night watch the remake and then watch the original because they're both really great

[1:12:29] Yeah, write a paper comparing and contrasting them and send it to us

[1:12:34] Yep, send it to us

[1:12:36] Elliot will read it cuz he's got a ton of free time. Nothing but free time. Yeah, great it why not?

[1:12:41] You know if you want validation from someone. Mm-hmm. You will not get course credit for it

[1:12:46] You will this is not a course and we'll send it back to you and you'll be like, oh man Stuart was tough

[1:12:50] But fair, yeah, you know what this I was hoping you'd be more lenient, but I didn't deserve for him to be more lenient

[1:12:56] Yeah, that's I can't really find fault with these even though I'm upset about them. Mm-hmm

[1:13:00] And I kind of get off on being yelled

[1:13:03] So this is really getting me going. Yeah, I mean, it's really we're really trying to lure you into a school roleplay. Mm-hmm

[1:13:10] Yep, it's this is one of the persona series

[1:13:12] That's a JRPG did JRPG. Yep Japanese role junior. Nope. You see you're baking cheeseburgers

[1:13:22] All right, well guys this has been fun we've had a few laughs yeah

[1:13:28] So before we totally wrap this up, I just want to say guys my bar finally fucking open

[1:13:36] By the time you hear this

[1:13:38] So my bar hinder lands

[1:13:41] What's the entrance? It's 739 Church Avenue in Brooklyn three nine Church Avenue

[1:13:48] By the time this episode airs we just had our grand opening, but please come down and visit

[1:13:54] I'm gonna be there a lot, but I don't know exactly when my regular days are gonna be

[1:13:59] And I gotta say that I gotta say thanks for the podcast guys because it is a great time

[1:14:04] And I gotta say that I gotta say thanks for the podcast guys because it really helped me get through

[1:14:10] Kind of a pretty difficult

[1:14:11] Your process was a rough process and it took a long time. Yeah, it was really difficult

[1:14:15] But uh, yeah, so it's open finally and we the neighborhoods really coming coming is really

[1:14:23] Supportive and our friends are all super supportive and I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out so far

[1:14:28] You know what? I think I speak for Dan when I say we're proud of you. Well, thanks, man

[1:14:33] So

[1:14:35] Hopefully Elliot will come down and we're gonna get fucking twisted. Oh every night. Yeah, that's gonna be my new hangout place

[1:14:41] That's and that's gonna be kind of new role

[1:14:42] You take like you've always been kind of like a like a troubled writer type and now you can be more like a Charles

[1:14:49] Charles Belushi type

[1:14:51] That's I guess a mix of Charles Bukowski and John Belushi. Yeah different

[1:14:57] Then you become Jim Belushi. Yeah

[1:14:59] I've always been kind of like a

[1:15:01] Straightforward square family man middle of the road. Mm-hmm your classic white bread

[1:15:07] Cisgender male, you know, whatever, but I'm gonna start a real chicken pot pie of a person

[1:15:13] Love chicken pot pie. And yes, I don't know what that means. But sure fill me with peas and carrot slices a little pearl onions

[1:15:20] But I'm gonna know what a name for someone little pearl

[1:15:24] It's like a comedian at a knockoff of hee-haw little pearl onions

[1:15:32] But now that the bars open I'm gonna be there every night drink until it closes and beyond

[1:15:36] My life's gonna fall apart

[1:15:38] My career is gonna fall apart

[1:15:39] My family's gonna fall apart until you're gonna look terrific people aren't even gonna recognize me cuz I'm gonna look so great from all

[1:15:45] The drinking no sleep that I'm doing gin blossoms. Yes, please. Yeah play them

[1:15:50] Yeah, my favorite Bailey and bloated I can't remember any of their songs, but play it. Come on

[1:15:56] Get that till I hear it from you song. Yeah, I think they sing the

[1:16:01] That flagpole sitter song babbada, but do but I do but do but I believe

[1:16:06] Wait, no, that's someone else

[1:16:09] Do they sing that song about how there's no rain I'm a stinker tonight guys. They didn't sing any of those songs

[1:16:15] They didn't do the friends theme even though that's what I think of when I think of them. So

[1:16:20] Yeah, right. Send all gin blossoms

[1:16:23] Song lyrics and titles to at dank McCoy

[1:16:29] I don't want a dank McCoy at dank McCoy Twitter. Send him some gin blossom stuff

[1:16:33] So let's send me some dank memes and you know anything about the gym. You know what? He really wants, you know the minions

[1:16:39] Yeah

[1:16:43] Minions memes that use lyrics from

[1:16:46] I just talked about how I eat my dinners of

[1:16:50] Sometimes yeah time to take you down a notch

[1:16:54] To real life again, so

[1:16:57] For the flop house podcast. I've been steward wellington. I've been Dan McCoy and I'm a doll named Elliot

[1:17:05] Surprisingly Kayla lives on the walls

[1:17:07] Good night, everyone. Bye

[1:17:20] He's gonna be fucking amazing, so let's try to keep it taut and tight this time

[1:17:24] There's not a lot of plot in this movie. So that'll help. Mm-hmm

[1:17:28] Tautness isn't the issue so much as comedy. That's what we need comedy. Yeah. Yeah, but I think let's also I think let's not be sleepy

[1:17:36] I'll try my best. Let's fucking spin it. You're already in your pajamas. So you're already failing on part of that account

[1:17:42] You're not even wearing waking day clothes

[1:17:46] Waking day. Yep

[1:17:48] There are the sequel to wake it sounds like something from a fantasy novel today's your waking day. Mm-hmm

[1:17:55] Now we determine which battle class you are a member of you will stop wearing the pajamas of you

[1:18:02] Maximum fun.org slash maximum fun donate, please. I work for such donate. Okay, what's the next part of this podcast?

[1:18:08] I think my guest is where we take a few moments to answer letters from listeners. Oh, man

[1:18:15] You need a I'm gonna get a little refresher. All right, mr. John Hodgman is gonna go

[1:18:20] get another

[1:18:24] That reminds me while he's getting up that we might want to take a few moments, right

[1:18:29] Now take a few moments the three or four of us to listen to the letters

[1:18:36] To think about them and really give a good reply

[1:18:40] Maybe something that might change some lives

[1:18:43] Maybe something that'll get us high fives when we meet the writer of the letter in person

[1:18:50] Writer of the letter in person

[1:18:56] Are you saying there's a chance that I could meet the flop

[1:19:01] Probably not. Well Stewart. Yes, because he works in a public place

[1:19:06] There's a time on his hands. We'll be there too. Ellie. It's kind of a mysterious sort of a recluse

[1:19:13] They say back in his lair. He hates the sunlight and hates the light of the moonlight of any kind

[1:19:21] natural air

[1:19:24] It strikes him like spikes and like boys

[1:19:31] Sure, why not and you'll tell thanks for reading my letter

[1:19:36] Tonight this letter song is brought to you by me wasting time. That's how it works

[1:19:49] So Dan do we have some letters or should I sing another song for well, I've got it so this first letter

[1:20:00] I just wanted to say what did I miss is the name of a song from the popular

[1:20:10] musical Hamilton but it also describes the question I have cuz I was in the

[1:20:15] kitchen when something happened did someone sing a song I hope I didn't miss

[1:20:22] a song from my ancient slumber to sing another number about letters and

[1:20:44] writing and writing and letters from us to you from you to us from them to them

[1:20:51] Elliot do I actually have to write a letter to a stranger I don't want to do

[1:20:55] it I have problems with expressing myself that's understandable and

[1:21:00] something we might need to work on you're a great guy you should be

[1:21:04] confident in your abilities but no because the strangers have written to us

[1:21:14] they're strangers but there's no dangers cuz it's through a letter

[1:21:20] unless they figured out some way to kill with words probably not and so let's

[1:21:27] read this letter from Chris last name with L

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