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Ep. #178 - 50 Shades of Grey
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Dan McCoy
[0:00]
On this episode, we subject ourselves to the pain and punishment of Fifty Shades of Grey.
[0:30]
Hey everyone, it's the Flophouse. I'm Dan McCoy.
Stuart Wellington
[0:36]
Yeah, we are. We are the Flophouse and I'm Stuart Wellington.
Elliott Kalan
[0:39]
And I complete the trio of flavors known as the Flophouse. Elliot Kalin is the name.
Dan McCoy
[0:44]
The Neapolitan ice cream that is the Flophouse.
[0:46]
From Annapolis.
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I call chocolate.
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I'll be vanilla and you...
[0:51]
Yeah, how gracious of you to take the one everyone knew you were going to be.
[0:55]
No, I mean, I'm not. I mean, I know there are connotations to vanilla.
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I just don't want to get stuck with strawberry.
[1:01]
Strawberry?
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Strawberry.
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Strawberry.
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Strawberry.
Elliott Kalan
[1:05]
Okay, I'll take it.
Dan McCoy
[1:07]
Okay, so what do we do on this ice cream-based podcast?
[1:10]
This is a podcast where we watch a bad movie and then, for the enjoyment of your ears, we talk about it.
Elliott Kalan
[1:17]
And maybe, or unless you're one of those people who listens by putting something against their jaw and feeling the vibrations that way.
Dan McCoy
[1:23]
It's called synesthesia.
[1:24]
And that's not what that means.
[1:26]
Perhaps, like the people in this movie we watched, you wrap the earbuds tightly around your genitals.
[1:33]
Yep.
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I don't remember anyone wrapping...
[1:35]
It's called rap music and it's catching on.
[1:38]
In a big way.
Elliott Kalan
[1:39]
I tried this rap music and I did not enjoy it.
Stuart Wellington
[1:42]
Whatever, grandma.
Dan McCoy
[1:46]
So this is a...
[1:47]
Wait, so I thought all grandmas were rap and granny.
Elliott Kalan
[1:51]
No, the rap and granny actually passed away recently.
Dan McCoy
[1:53]
Well, there was more than one.
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I mean...
Elliott Kalan
[1:55]
In our hearts, there's only the one from Billy Mann.
Stuart Wellington
[1:57]
We were going to wait until the end to do an in memoriam section, but I guess we'll do it now.
[2:02]
Yeah.
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Dear rap and granny, you touched our hearts.
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And their funny bones.
[2:07]
And occasionally our funny bones, yeah.
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Is that it?
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That's it.
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That's a whole...
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Is that it?
Dan McCoy
[2:14]
Is that...
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Yeah.
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I thought there was going to be some sort of...
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No, that was my little thought on that.
Stuart Wellington
[2:18]
Save that little joke for my eulogy, Dan.
Elliott Kalan
[2:22]
And I...
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As I look at Stuart's body, I just think, is that it?
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We don't get more.
Dan McCoy
[2:28]
Is that all there is to a Stuart?
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Is that all there is?
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Is a soul only seven-pound is?
Elliott Kalan
[2:34]
I totally want to see Dan...
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I don't want to see you die, Stuart, but I do want to see Dan's celebrity all-star eulogy of Stuart Wellington.
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He's just standing next to the casket and he's like, well, who's this to talk about Stuart?
[2:49]
It's Michael Caine, everybody.
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I told Stuart to blow the bloody doors off.
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And he just breaks down crying.
Dan McCoy
[3:01]
By all accounts, Stuart was terrible, but the house that he paid for was beautiful.
[3:08]
So Stuart is Jaws 4.
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Stuart is Jaws 4 in this scenario.
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So, Dan, we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it.
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Tonight we watched a little movie called Fifty Shades of Grey.
Elliott Kalan
[3:22]
Boop, boop, boop, boop, ow, ow, ow, bah, bah, bah, bah.
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Spank, spank, spank sounds, sex sounds.
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Let me just tell you how I felt about this movie.
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Fifty Shades of Great is not how I would describe it.
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Maybe I should have finished that sentence or not phrased it.
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I would say Fifty Shades of Grey.
Dan McCoy
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I was counting the shades and there were 47 at most.
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Well, one of the problems was the lack of shades.
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It promised a certain number of shades.
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We didn't see them all.
Stuart Wellington
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Okay.
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Well, let's get to the meat of this meat pie.
Elliott Kalan
[3:53]
A whole crust.
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Now, as we all know.
Stuart Wellington
[3:56]
Let's get past the peas and the, I'm guessing, some kind of starch.
[4:00]
Yeah.
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Yeah, the crust and potatoes.
Dan McCoy
[4:01]
Well, yeah, like those little blocks of potatoes, like little potato cubes.
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Yeah, potato blocks.
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It's a toy that kids get.
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Stack them, whack them, put them in a box.
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Potato blocks.
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Jack them.
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Shellack them.
Elliott Kalan
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Potato blocks.
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Yep, crack them.
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You can't crack a potato block.
Stuart Wellington
[4:20]
Not on my watch.
Elliott Kalan
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Potato blocks, the only toy that'll be...
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You're under arrest.
Stuart Wellington
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Wait, was that police car, like, laughing?
Elliott Kalan
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It was a British police car.
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It was a police car being driven by Muttley from Wacky Racers.
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I'm just going to say my tagline.
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Potato blocks, the only toy that'll be covered in ants in a week.
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Now, everyone knows Fifty Shades of Grey, the inspiring true story behind it,
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how a little underdog piece of Twilight S&M fan fiction took the world by storm
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and became a publishing bestseller.
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And I think...
Dan McCoy
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Introduced bored ladies across the world to the pleasures of spanking.
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Of being tied up and spanked.
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I'm always bored.
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I think...
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I think mostly bored.
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Okay.
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I think non-bored ladies already knew about the pleasures of spanking.
Elliott Kalan
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Oh, okay.
[5:13]
Well, Dan's making an assumption.
Dan McCoy
[5:15]
Now...
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I'm making an ass out of you and me.
Elliott Kalan
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Which is great, because this is all about butts, this movie.
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It's Dan's favorite film.
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Now, Dan, do you...
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I was going to say, I think the world's reaction to the book can be summed up by my sister's
[5:29]
experience.
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My sister, I remember saying, well, I read the first two books and I didn't like them,
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but I guess I'll read the third one, too.
Dan McCoy
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See, I will go one better than that, which was my wife was like, I read the first book,
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didn't like it, but it's got to get hot in the second book, right?
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Read the second book and was like, okay, well, that's where I stop.
Elliott Kalan
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They must be saving the hot stuff for book three.
Dan McCoy
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Fool me twice.
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Shame on, I guess, the person who wrote Fifty Shades of Grey.
Elliott Kalan
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Let's say Jenny Grey.
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Yeah.
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Now, and of course, the really hot stuff.
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Lady Grey.
Stuart Wellington
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Lady Grey.
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Jennifer Grey should not be ashamed of anything, especially her nose.
Elliott Kalan
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It was written by her father, Earl Grey.
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Oh, no kidding.
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Of the British nobility.
Dan McCoy
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We were on vacation.
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I distinctly remember my wife being like, okay, so when does it get sexy?
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It's got to get sexy any moment now, right?
Elliott Kalan
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And you were like, skip to the end.
Dan McCoy
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Well, I think that she was like, I mean, she found it compelling.
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On the last page, it just says, then we did it.
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The end.
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The writing was super terrible, but she found it compelling enough to just keep going,
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but it never got transgressive in the way that she kind of assumed it would.
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Grandmas and badgers, that kind of thing?
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No, I just never, like, the reputation of it, I think, is greater than the actual material.
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Well, because here's the thing.
Elliott Kalan
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I think, like you're saying, it was for a lot of people who are very non-
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Vanilla?
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Yeah, very vanilla lives.
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To borrow my flavor?
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Very Dan McCoy lives.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And not the lives that maybe we follow, which is as sophisticated New York perverts.
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Yeah.
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You know, we're a bunch of cosmopolitan.
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Pansexual.
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Yeah, we're attracted to pans.
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We have sex with all sorts of pans.
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Cookie pans.
Dan McCoy
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Yeah, we usually go to nightclubs that are frequented by businessmen, and women step on scorpions
Stuart Wellington
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for our amusement.
Elliott Kalan
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Yep, yep.
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If it's.
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They pierce them with their high heels.
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Yeah, it's just geishas throwing hedgehogs at each other.
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Basically, if Chris Claremont would send Storm of the X-Men there, that's where we go in
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our spare time.
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Some place where someone will control our mind and force us to dress up in leather and
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then, I guess, fight each other.
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And then, but then we all have really terribly done ethnic accents from different parts of
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the world.
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Yep.
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Cajun, Irish, that's what we're doing.
Stuart Wellington
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Speaking of great accents, this movie has one in space.
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Yeah.
Elliott Kalan
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So let's, I'm going to, we'll do the plot in a minute, but let's talk about the strengths
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and weaknesses.
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Strengths, butts.
Dan McCoy
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Yeah, there's a lot of butts in this movie.
Elliott Kalan
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Weaknesses, very bad accent on the main character's part.
Dan McCoy
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Yeah.
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I got a, our, our, our.
Elliott Kalan
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Also, the movie is about as sexy as like a driver's ed film, but continue.
Dan McCoy
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But there's a, you know, one of our sister podcasts on the Max Fund Network, Jordan Jesse
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Goh actually has talked a lot about how the, the accent that European people put on when
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they try and do an American accent.
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And this.
Elliott Kalan
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It's kind of their version of the, hello, governor, ah, ah, oh, that we do when we try to do an
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English accent.
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Yeah.
Dan McCoy
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And this film has a doozy because Christian Gray is an Irishman who's trying to sound American.
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And he would say, he would talk kind of like this.
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This is the way he talks.
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He's very, he's very American.
Elliott Kalan
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It's, it's similar to in Monty Python episodes, whenever they're playing American characters,
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they would over enunciate all their R's and other letters at the end of words.
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And I remember watching that as a teenager and be like, ah, so that's what we sound like
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to British people, huh?
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We're just over enunciating the shit out of all of our letters.
Dan McCoy
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Which is weird because I would assume that the Brits are the over enunciators.
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Except at the ends of their words, they don't.
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Yeah.
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They just drop it off.
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They get bored by the end.
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They almost never say.
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Yeah.
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Like, I know where this sentence is headed.
Elliott Kalan
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We all know what this word sounds like.
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Let's just cut to the chase.
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Save a little time.
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Yeah, we're so busy over here.
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That's how we can stop for tea every day.
Dan McCoy
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We have to get to tea.
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There's scones that need to be buttered and marmalotted.
Elliott Kalan
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Speaking of buttered, Dan, so let's rate it on a Dan scale of butts.
Dan McCoy
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Yeah, I get this movie on a scale of one to butts.
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Five butts.
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Look, as someone who enjoyed the-
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Ass someone.
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As someone who enjoyed the sitcom Ben and Kate.
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As someone who enjoyed the sitcom Butthouse.
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And thought that-
Elliott Kalan
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A family of butts just trying to make it in the big city.
Dan McCoy
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Dakota Johnson was very charming in Ben and Kate.
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I was like, yeah, sure.
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I enjoy that her butt is in this movie.
Elliott Kalan
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And boy, is there a lot of it.
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And there's one scene in particular that I find-
Stuart Wellington
[9:50]
You take a trip to South Dakota.
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That's her butt.
Elliott Kalan
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That's what it's labeled as on the maps.
Stuart Wellington
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Clever.
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You're welcome.
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You get the Pulitzer Prize for butt jokes.
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Okay.
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2015.
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I guess I'll dedicate this to Dan.
Elliott Kalan
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Thank you.
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Dan was the favorite, too.
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That's the thing.
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You pulled through in the end.
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Yeah, you know.
Dan McCoy
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I'm more of an aficionado than-
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I respect it too much to make light of this.
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I see.
Elliott Kalan
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There's one shot in the movie where-
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Yeah.
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Where the main-
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Anastasia, the main Dakota Johnson's character-
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Anastasia Steele.
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Anastasia Steele is tied up and about to be hit with-
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Describe the sex act, Elliot.
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She's about to be hit on the butt with a riding crop.
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Slower.
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And the way the shot is framed, her butt is enormous.
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And Kristen Grey is in the somewhat background.
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It's a very forced perspective.
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And it looks like a tiny man is being confronted by a giant butt.
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It's like, it's supposed to be sexy, but again, it seemed like something out of a Terry Gilliam movie.
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It seems like a dream of how I might die someday.
Stuart Wellington
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Yeah.
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Like, this is the kind of forced perspective that I used to make.
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Like a butt's gonna start blowing like a smoked fucking airship or something.
Elliott Kalan
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Or just like a tiny spaceship with land on it, you know?
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Anyway, gives a whole new meaning to the word, moon.
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Anyway, moving on.
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So let's talk, tell the story of this sexual tale of sexual sex.
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It won't take that long.
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It's surprising this was an over two hour movie, and yet there's not a lot of story in it.
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So, Anastasia Steele is your normal literature student.
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Your normal mousy college student.
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Kind of a mousy brown haired college student.
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And her roommate, Kate-
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Never been kissed.
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Yep, yep.
Dan McCoy
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And by kissed, I mean fucked.
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But no, she's a virgin in this before she engages in all a manner of deviant sexual acts.
Elliott Kalan
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Yeah, well it's her very innocence that probably attracts the sexual predator known as Christian
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Gray.
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Because you see, her roommate Kate, who is supposed to interview the 27-year-old billionaire Christian
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Gray, or I assume he was a billionaire.
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He's just supposed to be like, he's one of those wealthy businessmen.
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He's a zillionaire.
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Okay.
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And leave it at that.
Stuart Wellington
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Because he's got zillions of dollars.
Elliott Kalan
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He's one of those wealthy businessmen in movies who can just buy whatever.
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Like, it's never quite clear what he does for a living, but he has all the money he needs
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at any moment.
Dan McCoy
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I mean, that's, I think, the way, like, truly rich people are, though.
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I mean, like, they can buy whatever.
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I don't think that's weird.
Elliott Kalan
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No, but it would have been nice to get some sense of, like, what he does.
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Yeah.
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Other than just being in business.
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He's a rich guy, Elliot.
Stuart Wellington
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Yeah, like Dan suggested, he probably invented masturbation.
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Masturbation and is making millions of dollars out of it.
Dan McCoy
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He's got the patent on masturbation, and whoever masturbates has to, you know, kick him back
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a few bucks.
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It made me think of the...
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A few bucks?
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Every time.
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Are you saying it's not worth it, Stuart?
Stuart Wellington
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I mean, I guess.
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I'm not very good.
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Maybe I'll watch this movie.
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I don't know.
Elliott Kalan
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Stuart, I've been watching you, and I'd like to take you under my wing.
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Okay.
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Come into my playroom.
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It's a place where we can masturbate.
Stuart Wellington
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Stuart, I'll do it, as long as I don't have to sign some super long contracts.
Elliott Kalan
[12:55]
No, the contract is necessary.
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Oh, man.
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Because we need to have rules about when we can look at each other, not while we're masturbating.
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I like the idea that...
Dan McCoy
[13:03]
Also, who can borrow whose magazines and videotapes?
Stuart Wellington
[13:07]
Okay, but when I borrow them, I'm going to give it back to you.
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Paused right at the moment when I finished, so you're going to know exactly what I'm into.
Dan McCoy
[13:14]
Totally okay.
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That's a joke from our mutual friend, Bill Hickey, who I believe based that off of...
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Inventor of the kiss of the same hand.
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Yes.
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Me giving him back a porn movie that had not been rewound.
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Yep.
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And so he knew exactly what scene tickled my fancy.
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Which weird was it was one of the dialogue scenes.
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I like the idea that...
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Now, what was that movie, Dan?
Stuart Wellington
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Do you remember?
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I don't recall.
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It was Jane Bond 0069 versus Thunderballs.
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That is exactly what it is.
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I remember.
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I'm not familiar with that one.
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I like the idea that...
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And what was the scene?
Dan McCoy
[13:48]
I don't want to get into it.
Stuart Wellington
[13:50]
It might have been the scene with Odd Joint, but I'm not sure.
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That's the Irish cabbie who, early on, seems to have some kind of rubber thing on the end of his penis.
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But as soon as they actually start having sex, that rubber thing is gone.
Elliott Kalan
[14:02]
Now, we've said more about the plot of this James Bond porn you watched, what, 20 years ago?
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20 years ago?
[14:08]
Yeah.
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Than this movie.
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So let's just talk about it a little more.
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So she goes to...
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Her roommate is sick.
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Can't interview this wealthy entrepreneur.
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So she goes.
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And there is an instant sexual attraction between the two that is noticeably unnoticed by the viewer of the movie.
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I mean, it's noticeable because she bites her lip.
Dan McCoy
[14:26]
She does that all the fucking time.
Stuart Wellington
[14:28]
Her dentist has got to be going crazy.
Dan McCoy
[14:30]
I mean, this might be like a version of Deep Throat where her clitoris, instead of being in her throat, is on her lip.
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She just keeps biting.
Elliott Kalan
[14:37]
This movie is so listless.
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Gross.
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I assume she just keeps biting her lip to stay awake.
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Like, the way you would, like, pinch yourself.
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It's just like, oh, God, I've got to make my way through this scene.
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I'll just bite my lip real hard.
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But that's her main way of expressing arousal, is by biting her lip.
Stuart Wellington
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Or by, like, slamming a pencil that says gray on it up against that lip.
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Yes.
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A pillowy, gnocchi-like lip she has.
Elliott Kalan
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Now, Christian takes an interest in her and follows her to her place of work, a hardware store.
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Emphasis on the hard in hardware.
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And he says, okay, you know what?
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Let's get together and I'll do a photo shoot for the article you wrote about me.
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And then he invites her out.
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They have coffee and they talk about how she reads books.
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He sends her a gift, first edition copy of Tessa the Gerbervilles.
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No, alas.
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But that does mean that we've seen two movies now where a guy tries to win over a girl by giving her a first edition of a book.
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What do you think?
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Is that a new trend in Hollywood?
Dan McCoy
[15:36]
Look, man.
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Girls like books, man.
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I'll allow it.
[15:40]
Like, if we're thinking that literary is the new sexy guys, huh?
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Yeah, thanks, Game of Thrones.
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Let's do it.
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I mean, we all like books.
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Yeah, I guess.
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We're all nerdlingers.
Elliott Kalan
[15:54]
We are nerdlingers.
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The department store that sells nerds.
Dan McCoy
[16:00]
After gimbals went out of business across the street.
Elliott Kalan
[16:02]
Yeah, gumballs.
[16:04]
Well, we sell those gumballs here.
[16:06]
Why don't we rent out the entire Woolworth building?
Dan McCoy
[16:09]
We saw the M&M store and we thought that that business model's got to work.
[16:13]
Turns out it doesn't.
Stuart Wellington
[16:15]
It's terrible.
[16:16]
I mean, it's a high street location.
[16:17]
They expect to lose money but to raise the M&M brand, right?
Elliott Kalan
[16:21]
Well, no.
[16:22]
They sell tigers and other endangered animals out the back.
Dan McCoy
[16:24]
Those gumballs are actually a loss leader for the LCD televisions that they sell in the back.
[16:34]
The M&M's get them inside.
Elliott Kalan
[16:35]
But the TV is the money maker.
[16:37]
It's just a loss leader for the LCD sound systems that they sell in the back.
[16:42]
And the Miami sound machines.
Stuart Wellington
[16:43]
That is a contemporary music reference from Elliot Kalin, everybody.
[16:47]
That's right.
Elliott Kalan
[16:47]
Write it down.
[16:48]
Write it down in the journal.
[16:49]
I did it, everybody.
[16:51]
So Anna goes out on a date with her friend Kate and drinks too much, calls Christian and is kind of a jerk to him, which he is totally intrigued by.
[17:03]
He tracks her to the bar she's at.
Stuart Wellington
[17:05]
I've never had a girl be a jerk to me.
Elliott Kalan
[17:08]
That's kind of what he sounds like.
[17:09]
As an American man, I don't understand this experience.
[17:15]
She throws up in front of him, then passes out.
[17:18]
She wakes up at his hotel room.
Stuart Wellington
[17:19]
It's like, no, no, no.
[17:19]
Save your throw up for my chest hair.
Elliott Kalan
[17:24]
That is a waste.
[17:26]
He's becoming the Swedish chef over time.
Stuart Wellington
[17:28]
I am a wild and crazy guy.
[17:31]
How much better would this movie have been if it was the Swedish chef?
Elliott Kalan
[17:34]
It was called 50 Shades, 50 Chefs of Grey.
[17:38]
Or 50 Swedes of Chef.
Dan McCoy
[17:43]
He's just spanking her with spatulas.
Elliott Kalan
[17:47]
It's just, it's clearly just Jim Henson's hands operating the hands of the chef.
Dan McCoy
[17:53]
I mean, I read that Henson biography.
[17:55]
He was a lady killer.
[17:56]
Yeah.
[17:57]
And then he murdered seven ladies.
[17:59]
They called it the Muppet Murders.
[18:01]
But I also like what we've discovered, which is that Irish guy trying to do American action equals Swedish accent.
Elliott Kalan
[18:10]
He has a little bit of accent math for you.
[18:13]
Send it to the Journal of Accent Mathematics, or JAMA.
Stuart Wellington
[18:19]
So, do they start dating now?
Elliott Kalan
[18:22]
I don't remember.
[18:23]
So they kind of start dating.
[18:24]
Besties?
[18:25]
She finds, she wakes up in his hotel room and he says, no, we didn't do anything last night.
[18:29]
I didn't sleep here.
[18:30]
I don't sleep in beds with girls.
[18:32]
And then there's all this like.
[18:34]
Gross.
[18:35]
It constantly, everything.
[18:36]
Too much farting.
[18:37]
Everything.
[18:39]
There's TMF going on here.
[18:41]
Too much farting.
[18:42]
Maybe it's because after making love, I always feed the woman I'm with a full bean dinner.
[18:49]
For energy.
[18:50]
For energy.
[18:50]
To regain the energy they just lost.
Dan McCoy
[18:53]
Yeah.
[18:53]
You've lost your precious bodily fluids.
[18:55]
I take a Gatorade bottle.
Elliott Kalan
[18:57]
I take a Gatorade bottle, empty half of it, fill it up with beans.
[18:59]
Beans?
[19:00]
Then shake it up.
[19:01]
I call it beanerade.
[19:02]
Beans, kimchi, and Brussels sprouts.
[19:04]
It gives you the post-sex electrolytes you need.
Dan McCoy
[19:08]
Sprinkle a little spirulina on top and add a little almond milk.
[19:11]
Then I have them do a whole bunch of squats.
[19:14]
It's basically like kelp dust.
[19:17]
Okay.
Elliott Kalan
[19:19]
What?
[19:19]
Then I give you an ab massage to really get the gas working up.
[19:25]
Anyway, it's at that point that I learned that spanking is kind of like a fart release valve.
[19:31]
So anyway, long story short, I don't sleep in beds with girls.
[19:34]
Christian Grey has been kind of, they've been doing a lot of what I would call non-nuendo,
[19:39]
which is like, it's supposed to be double entendres and innuendo, but it just comes off as stupid.
[19:45]
And then he tells her something like, about how like, if she was his, he'd have control over her.
[19:52]
And then he bites, he takes a bite out of the piece of toast she's holding in her hand.
[19:57]
Like he says she wouldn't be able to sit down or something.
[19:59]
Oh yeah, that's what it is.
[20:00]
He says if he had had sex with her, she wouldn't be able to sit down.
Stuart Wellington
[20:02]
Because we've seen the trailer and we're like, he means spanking or something else.
[20:07]
Is it like butt stuff?
Elliott Kalan
[20:08]
Is that what he's talking about?
[20:09]
Yeah, probably some butt stuff.
[20:10]
The buttest of stuff.
[20:12]
The most butt stuff.
[20:16]
So they start going out and he reveals to her that he has a room full of,
[20:22]
like whips and stuff and harnesses and clamps and like,
[20:27]
Yeah, which as he said, it looks like a weird like museum of stuff.
Dan McCoy
[20:32]
Yeah, it's an evidence dungeon without the evidence.
Stuart Wellington
[20:34]
Yeah, speaking of evidence, like I was hoping there was going to be like a bunch of pictures
[20:37]
of Nicki Minaj or like other butt models.
Dan McCoy
[20:41]
Is that what she is, a butt model?
[20:43]
Is that how she wrote?
[20:44]
I said other butt models.
[20:46]
She's a recording artist.
[20:48]
You know that famous butt model J-Lo?
Stuart Wellington
[20:52]
I mean, she probably could be if she wanted to.
Dan McCoy
[20:55]
No, I'm aware that it's within her power.
[20:59]
But that's not her primary.
[20:59]
Like the girl who played Six on Blossom?
Stuart Wellington
[21:02]
She was a butt model, right?
Dan McCoy
[21:03]
I don't know what that means.
[21:05]
No, it's true.
[21:06]
Is she model butts?
[21:06]
The girl who became, it was Six on Blossom.
[21:08]
The girl who became Six.
[21:09]
The girl who became, the man who was Thursday, the girl became Six.
[21:13]
No, later in life, she was a butt model for butt-focused magazines.
Stuart Wellington
[21:19]
Like what magazines would those be?
[21:20]
Like butt fancy?
[21:21]
King magazine.
[21:24]
I think it was King.
[21:25]
Booties.
Dan McCoy
[21:26]
National buttographic?
[21:28]
Cheeks.
[21:29]
With a Z.
[21:30]
Yeah.
[21:33]
Split hams.
[21:34]
Oh, stop, please.
Stuart Wellington
[21:37]
I thought this was a foodie magazine.
[21:40]
I bought it at Whole Foods after all.
Elliott Kalan
[21:44]
Whole Foods has a surprisingly large porn selection.
[21:49]
All softcore.
[21:50]
Okay.
[21:51]
Come on, this is a wholesome foods.
[21:53]
Very tasteful.
[21:54]
For the freshest produce and the freshest softcore porn magazines.
[21:58]
Hey, like sexy ladies but are afraid of nipples, pick up Maxim.
Dan McCoy
[22:02]
Like great taste in food and your pornography?
Elliott Kalan
[22:05]
Come down to Whole Foods.
[22:06]
Come down to Whole Foods.
[22:07]
We spell whole without the W, though.
[22:12]
Gross.
[22:13]
This is the grossest episode yet.
Dan McCoy
[22:15]
Oh, yeah.
[22:16]
It's not our fault.
[22:16]
I mean, I think that everyone-
[22:16]
We are earning our explicit rating.
[22:18]
I think everyone assumed that when they saw the title.
[22:21]
Yeah, like people-
[22:21]
Fifty Shades of Sex.
Stuart Wellington
[22:22]
People saw it on their downloads and they're like, gross.
Dan McCoy
[22:25]
They were like, skip, delete, Marcus played.
[22:27]
No, they were like, all right, I'm going to save this one until midnight.
[22:31]
Yep.
[22:31]
When I'm all alone in my bed.
[22:34]
Yep.
[22:34]
Just me and three dudes.
Elliott Kalan
[22:36]
Just me being sad.
[22:38]
Now, they start-
[22:40]
He shows her his playroom where he has all his stuff.
[22:44]
And he says, I want to start seeing you, but first you have to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
[22:50]
You can't tell anybody about this, and it puts limits on what we can do in the bedroom.
[22:55]
And there is-
[22:57]
And she reveals that she's a virgin.
[22:59]
And so he-
[23:00]
Which drives him crazy.
[23:02]
Which drives him mad with lust.
Dan McCoy
[23:03]
He kindly deigns to have regular sex one time.
Elliott Kalan
[23:08]
Because she would not stop for sex, he kindly stopped for her.
[23:12]
It's that kindly there.
[23:15]
Kindly.
[23:17]
Did you just try to make a sexy word out of kindly?
[23:19]
Richard kind.
Dan McCoy
[23:22]
But the point is, he was like, oh, okay, you're a virgin.
[23:26]
Let's do it regular style at least once.
[23:28]
Yeah.
[23:28]
Just so you know what that is.
[23:30]
So you know how freaky the stuff I'm going to do is.
[23:31]
You know the baseline.
[23:32]
Yeah.
[23:34]
Otherwise she wouldn't be that into it.
[23:35]
He could have just tricked her.
[23:35]
He could have been like, oh yeah, this stuff, this is normal.
[23:38]
This is normal sex.
[23:39]
This is just sex.
Stuart Wellington
[23:39]
It's like raising your kids to think salt's pepper and pepper is salt.
[23:42]
So they go to their friend's house and they freak out.
[23:44]
What kind of weird dog tooth experiment is that?
Elliott Kalan
[23:46]
Why would you do that?
Stuart Wellington
[23:48]
It's hilarious.
Elliott Kalan
[23:51]
Doesn't make any sense.
[23:52]
You should never have children.
Stuart Wellington
[23:54]
Well, you know.
[23:55]
After the accident, I don't think I can have children.
[23:58]
Oh, right.
[23:59]
The accident.
[23:59]
Yeah.
[24:00]
With the visas.
[24:01]
Gamma radiation blasted my ball sack.
Dan McCoy
[24:03]
That's why you now have the Incredible Hulk balls.
Stuart Wellington
[24:05]
Don't make me angry or my balls will kill you.
[24:09]
Your balls are wearing these purple pants and then shred into purple ball shorts.
[24:18]
I bought them on Etsy.
[24:19]
Sadly, they get destroyed every time I get angry.
Elliott Kalan
[24:22]
And because they're handmade on Etsy, they cost $55 a pair.
Stuart Wellington
[24:25]
And they're very small.
[24:27]
I'm very popular when I wear them around Brooklyn.
Elliott Kalan
[24:29]
So they have sex regular style for the first time.
[24:38]
And she is enamored of it.
[24:39]
She's loving it.
[24:40]
But she decides to play hard to get.
[24:42]
And they have the one funny scene in this movie.
[24:46]
And this is where I'm going to take a moment before I mention the funny scene to talk about.
[24:49]
It was surprising to me to see in the credits as the movie started that Danny Elfman did the score for this.
[24:54]
And it is Danny Elfman at his least inspired.
[24:56]
And I love Danny Elfman's classic scores.
[24:58]
Spiderman.
[25:00]
Nope.
[25:01]
Tales from the Crypt.
[25:02]
Batman.
[25:02]
Even his theme for Perversions of Science, I think, is a fun.
[25:06]
Danny Elfman's song, P.S. Big Adventure.
[25:08]
He's one of the top movie scorers, as far as I'm concerned.
[25:10]
He's right up there with, like, Neil Morcone and Bernard Herrmann and those guys.
Stuart Wellington
[25:14]
Angelo Badalamente.
[25:16]
Yeah.
[25:16]
Marco Beltrani.
Elliott Kalan
[25:18]
All your favorite Italians.
[25:21]
But this is the laziest score.
[25:23]
Danny Elfman.
[25:23]
But they're...
[25:24]
Danilo Elfman.
Dan McCoy
[25:28]
Clothes by Danny Elfman.
[25:31]
Those famous red-headed Italians.
Elliott Kalan
[25:34]
Danny Elfman's suits provided by Jenna Elfman.
Dan McCoy
[25:38]
She just drives them over.
[25:40]
He doesn't even know where to come from.
[25:41]
Provided by Oingo Bongoni.
Elliott Kalan
[25:45]
All right.
[25:46]
But there's a part during this...
[25:48]
There's a scene where she treats their negotiation over their sex contract like a business meeting.
[25:53]
And the music is like...
Dan McCoy
[25:55]
But it's also like...
[25:57]
It's like goofy music.
[25:58]
But it's also like...
[26:00]
It's genuinely...
[26:01]
It's a genuinely funny scene.
[26:04]
It's like the one...
Elliott Kalan
[26:05]
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Dan McCoy
[26:08]
Yeah.
[26:09]
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Elliott Kalan
[26:12]
You hear the blues a-colling, tall salad and scrambled eggs.
[26:16]
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
[26:22]
Thank you for being a gray and so forth.
[26:26]
Yeah, but...
[26:27]
This is...
[26:29]
We're just going to do...
[26:33]
I got to say, though.
[26:34]
Do, do, do, do, do, do.
[26:35]
Do, do, do, do.
[26:37]
Do, do.
Dan McCoy
[26:39]
X-Files.
[26:39]
X-Files.
[26:40]
Yeah, it took me a while, too.
[26:41]
X-Files.
[26:42]
Okay, then what about this one?
[26:43]
What about this one?
Elliott Kalan
[26:44]
How does the Millennium theme song go?
Dan McCoy
[26:48]
How does Harsh Realm go?
[26:49]
Yes.
[26:50]
It's got to be...
Elliott Kalan
[26:51]
How does the VR5 theme go?
Dan McCoy
[26:54]
So, no, but this is genuinely...
Elliott Kalan
[26:57]
How does Space Above and Beyond's theme go?
Dan McCoy
[27:01]
Misfits of Seinf...
[27:02]
Anyway, this is...
[27:03]
This is actually...
[27:05]
Misfits of Seinfeld.
[27:06]
Genuinely.
Stuart Wellington
[27:07]
What's with all these misfits?
[27:10]
We have the government running after us.
Dan McCoy
[27:13]
I got to say, this is a genuinely funny scene, though,
[27:15]
because this is her being like,
[27:17]
all right, clause four, anal fisting.
[27:21]
We're going to strike that out.
[27:22]
It's like, okay.
[27:23]
And it's like, what about vaginal fisting?
[27:25]
Definitely not.
[27:27]
She's like, section three, genital clamps, remove.
[27:30]
Yeah.
[27:31]
And it's like a funny scene.
[27:32]
It's clever.
Elliott Kalan
[27:33]
I mean, it's no night at the opera contract scene.
Dan McCoy
[27:36]
No, but if you're going to do like...
Elliott Kalan
[27:38]
Eh, there's a no-sexity clause.
[27:41]
That's what he would say.
Dan McCoy
[27:41]
If you're going to do like this bondage,
[27:43]
like this bondage sex movie,
[27:45]
like I think a little like levity,
[27:47]
like a little enjoyment of it.
[27:48]
Sure.
[27:49]
Like it's funny.
[27:50]
People forget the most erogenous zone
[27:52]
is the funny bone.
[27:54]
I don't think that's true.
[27:55]
It acknowledges...
[27:56]
Well, penis is kind of a funny bone.
[27:58]
It acknowledges that there's something inherently funny
[28:00]
about having to like negotiate these different like sexual things.
[28:04]
And like a genuinely sexy movie
[28:07]
about a dominant submissive relationship,
[28:11]
Secretary,
[28:11]
is a funny movie too.
[28:14]
Like it's got a lot of humor.
Stuart Wellington
[28:15]
Leave it to comedian James Spader
[28:17]
to bring the laughs.
[28:19]
Jimmy Spades
Elliott Kalan
[28:19]
and Maggie G. Hall.
[28:21]
But that movie recognizes that
[28:24]
even if something titillates you,
[28:26]
there's something absurd and ridiculous about what...
[28:29]
Sexuality is just...
[28:30]
About sexuality.
[28:31]
It's genuinely silly.
[28:32]
If nobody's laughing,
Stuart Wellington
[28:33]
you're not doing it right.
[28:35]
I don't know if...
[28:36]
That's what I told my parents.
Elliott Kalan
[28:37]
While they were having sex,
[28:39]
when you were sex coaching them?
Dan McCoy
[28:42]
So we're watching sex coach.
[28:45]
They hired a sex...
[28:46]
You've got like a timer around your neck.
Elliott Kalan
[28:48]
And a saxophone.
[28:49]
You're talking for some reason.
[28:49]
I liked it.
[28:50]
It's one of two scenarios.
Stuart Wellington
[28:51]
You have a saxophone so you can...
Elliott Kalan
[28:53]
Set the mood, yeah.
[28:54]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[28:55]
That one of two scenarios,
[28:56]
either you set them down,
[28:57]
you're like,
[28:57]
Mom, Dad,
[28:58]
I noticed something's not working.
[29:00]
We gotta get your game up.
[29:01]
Or they hired a sex coach...
[29:03]
Put my sunglasses on.
[29:04]
They hired a sex coach through Craigslist
[29:06]
and you showed up
[29:06]
and it was like,
[29:07]
uh,
[29:08]
well,
[29:09]
I'm a professional.
[29:10]
Let's just do this thing.
Stuart Wellington
[29:12]
I had to pretend I was somebody else.
[29:13]
I put on a fake mustache.
[29:15]
Yeah,
[29:15]
you called yourself
[29:16]
Gwert Booington.
[29:18]
But it's also...
[29:19]
Like,
[29:20]
that's a terrifying last name.
[29:21]
It's also...
[29:22]
Oh yeah,
[29:22]
ghost,
[29:23]
I'm like,
[29:23]
my parents were ghosts.
Elliott Kalan
[29:25]
I don't...
[29:26]
I'm part...
[29:26]
I'm a ghost American.
[29:28]
I don't want to get too much into it.
[29:30]
Oh, boy,
[29:30]
so...
[29:31]
But we were saying
[29:32]
that there's something,
[29:33]
like,
[29:34]
absurd about
[29:35]
the way people act
[29:36]
when they're having sex,
[29:37]
what turns them on,
[29:38]
and the secretary gets that.
[29:39]
This movie,
[29:40]
for the most part,
[29:40]
does not.
Stuart Wellington
[29:41]
Exit to Eden gets that.
[29:43]
Yeah.
[29:44]
Hilarious.
Elliott Kalan
[29:45]
It's less...
[29:46]
It's a less sexy movie
[29:47]
as a result of being so,
[29:48]
like,
[29:49]
super serious.
[29:50]
But what were you gonna say?
[29:50]
You don't want to what?
[29:51]
Well,
Dan McCoy
[29:51]
but I'll...
[29:52]
Also,
[29:52]
I would say that,
[29:53]
like,
[29:54]
I don't want to get...
[29:54]
I don't want to get too deep
[29:56]
into,
[29:56]
like,
[29:57]
the politics of...
[29:58]
You're in too deep.
[29:59]
I don't want to get in too deep.
[30:00]
Fifty shades.
[30:01]
There's no turning back now.
[30:02]
Yeah,
[30:02]
but I...
[30:03]
There's...
[30:04]
There's controversy
[30:05]
over Fifty Shades of Grey
[30:06]
from a number of sources,
[30:08]
like,
[30:08]
from some people
[30:09]
who are,
[30:09]
like,
[30:10]
bondage people
[30:10]
who are angry
[30:11]
that this stupid book
[30:14]
has been used
[30:15]
as a bondage handbook
[30:16]
like,
[30:17]
when it should not be
[30:18]
because it's obviously
[30:19]
not for that
[30:20]
or where...
[30:21]
where it treats bondage
[30:23]
and S&M
[30:24]
as a pathology
[30:25]
that has to be cured,
[30:27]
which is not...
[30:27]
that Christian
[30:29]
has a...
[30:29]
I mean,
[30:29]
we only get a taste
[30:30]
of that from...
[30:30]
has a psychological problem
[30:32]
and that's what I said.
[30:32]
But also,
[30:33]
like,
[30:33]
there's,
[30:33]
you know,
[30:33]
like,
[30:34]
people have problems
[30:34]
with the idea
[30:35]
that,
[30:35]
like,
[30:36]
this woman
[30:37]
has to sign
[30:37]
this contract
[30:38]
and that,
[30:40]
you know,
[30:40]
like,
[30:41]
there's,
[30:41]
like,
[30:41]
there are feminist critiques
[30:43]
of this,
[30:43]
even though this was
[30:44]
a largely,
[30:44]
like,
[30:44]
feminist,
[30:45]
or not feminist,
[30:46]
but largely female,
[30:47]
like,
[30:48]
sensation as erotica.
[30:50]
But I will say,
[30:51]
like,
[30:51]
this is one of the few
[30:52]
scenes in the movie
[30:53]
where,
[30:53]
like,
[30:54]
the female character
[30:55]
shows her own agency
[30:56]
where she's,
[30:57]
like,
[30:57]
Yeah,
[30:58]
she opens up
[30:58]
the Anna Steele agency.
[30:59]
I will not do this thing.
[31:02]
This thing I'm into,
[31:03]
but let's strike this thing.
[31:05]
Well,
Elliott Kalan
[31:05]
it's all that,
[31:06]
like,
[31:06]
she is showing
[31:07]
I am entering into this
[31:09]
as a consensual partner.
[31:09]
As an equal,
Dan McCoy
[31:10]
like,
[31:10]
consensual partner.
[31:11]
Yeah,
Elliott Kalan
[31:11]
and that you have a hold over me,
[31:13]
but the game we're playing
[31:14]
is that you have a hold over me.
[31:16]
I have a hold over you
[31:17]
and that I am providing to you.
[31:19]
I'm allowing you
[31:20]
the thing you want.
[31:21]
Yeah,
[31:21]
and that the only,
[31:22]
the fun of this
[31:23]
is that it is
[31:24]
a fake temporary thing
[31:26]
that I'm agreeing to.
[31:27]
Right.
[31:27]
And that later on
[31:28]
when she says
[31:29]
that,
[31:31]
well,
[31:31]
anyway,
[31:31]
they have entered
[31:32]
this relationship
[31:32]
and they do that,
[31:33]
they hit it,
[31:34]
he hits her a lot
[31:35]
and they have sex
[31:36]
and,
[31:36]
like,
[31:37]
they go on a glider trip
[31:38]
and a helicopter trip.
Stuart Wellington
[31:39]
The longest glider trip.
Elliott Kalan
[31:41]
Half the movie is them,
[31:42]
is him hitting her
[31:43]
with riding crops
[31:44]
and the other half
[31:44]
is them in different forms
[31:45]
of aviation,
[31:46]
just,
[31:47]
like,
[31:47]
flying around
[31:47]
and visiting each other's parents.
Stuart Wellington
[31:49]
Shots of them
[31:49]
smiling in a glider.
Elliott Kalan
[31:52]
So,
[31:52]
but by the end of it,
[31:53]
she's like,
[31:54]
she's mad at him
[31:55]
because he's not going
[31:56]
as far as he wants to go
[31:57]
and he finally does
[31:58]
and he's just hitting her
[31:59]
so hard
[32:00]
and she doesn't enjoy it
[32:01]
and it ruins their relationship
[32:02]
until the cliffhanger ending.
[32:04]
But it's like,
[32:05]
that,
[32:06]
it's,
[32:06]
fun for her
[32:08]
and that this is a fake game.
[32:10]
If she was actually
[32:11]
at the mercy of a man
[32:12]
who was hurting her,
[32:13]
it's not,
[32:14]
there's no pleasure
[32:15]
for her in that.
Dan McCoy
[32:16]
And I didn't read the books
[32:17]
because,
[32:18]
mostly,
[32:19]
not because I was not interested in it.
[32:19]
You just don't have a lot of time,
[32:20]
you know.
[32:21]
Yeah,
[32:21]
you know,
[32:21]
he's a busy man,
[32:22]
professional.
[32:23]
No,
[32:23]
no,
[32:23]
no,
[32:23]
I'm just,
[32:23]
yep,
[32:24]
look.
[32:24]
If he's going to get through
[32:25]
Dance of Dragons,
[32:25]
come on,
[32:26]
he doesn't have time.
[32:26]
I like sex stuff
[32:28]
more than most people.
[32:29]
We all know this about me.
[32:30]
But,
[32:31]
it was mostly because
[32:32]
they were terribly,
[32:33]
terribly written.
[32:34]
Like,
[32:34]
they gave me a fucking headache
[32:35]
to read a paragraph.
[32:37]
But,
[32:37]
it is my understanding.
[32:38]
Yeah,
Elliott Kalan
[32:38]
that's exactly,
[32:39]
and there's a thin line
[32:40]
between head pleasure
[32:41]
and head pain.
[32:41]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[32:42]
But,
[32:42]
it's my understanding
[32:43]
that the books,
[32:44]
even though they were written
[32:45]
by,
[32:46]
like,
[32:46]
a female author,
[32:47]
were much less,
[32:48]
sort of,
[32:49]
like,
[32:49]
sensitive to that
[32:50]
distinction.
[32:52]
And,
[32:53]
maybe that the movie,
[32:54]
like,
[32:55]
corrected a little bit
[32:56]
in terms of,
[32:56]
like,
[32:56]
making them a little
[32:57]
more equal.
Elliott Kalan
[32:59]
There's a lot of this movie,
[33:00]
though,
[33:00]
that just comes down to,
[33:01]
like,
[33:01]
a men are from Mars,
[33:02]
women are from Venus
[33:03]
type thing.
[33:03]
It's like,
[33:04]
he doesn't want to get
[33:05]
emotionally involved
[33:06]
and she wants more
[33:06]
of a regular relationship.
[33:08]
And,
[33:08]
like,
[33:09]
that's the tension
[33:09]
in the movie.
Dan McCoy
[33:10]
He wants to spank her,
[33:11]
she wants to dance.
Elliott Kalan
[33:12]
All silly.
[33:13]
Yeah.
[33:14]
Like,
[33:14]
you could tell
[33:14]
when he's spanking her,
[33:15]
like,
[33:16]
she's turned on,
[33:16]
but she'd really rather
[33:17]
watch Top Chef with him
[33:18]
while eating a pint of ice cream.
Stuart Wellington
[33:20]
Yeah.
[33:21]
And he wants to wear sweatpants,
[33:22]
but only,
[33:23]
no,
[33:23]
he only wears weird
[33:25]
fucking cut off jeans
[33:26]
or,
[33:27]
like,
[33:27]
fucked up jeans.
[33:28]
Over no underpants.
[33:29]
Of course not.
[33:30]
He wants to feel
[33:31]
the denim against his election.
Dan McCoy
[33:33]
So we can see the root
[33:34]
of his penis once.
[33:36]
Yep.
[33:38]
There's not really,
[33:38]
like,
[33:39]
a nudity parody here.
[33:40]
No.
[33:41]
Oh,
[33:41]
no,
[33:41]
of course.
[33:41]
Well,
[33:41]
it's the same way that...
[33:42]
We see his butt
[33:43]
a couple times,
[33:43]
I guess.
Elliott Kalan
[33:44]
It's similar to,
[33:45]
on the show The Americans,
[33:46]
which is a great show
[33:47]
that I love.
[33:47]
There's a scene where
[33:48]
Kerry Russell and the actor
[33:49]
who plays the male lead.
[33:51]
I always forget his name.
[33:52]
Matthew Reese.
[33:53]
Matthew,
[33:53]
let's just say,
[33:54]
let's just say
[33:54]
Jonathan Reese Davies.
[33:55]
Jonathan Reese Davies.
[33:56]
So Jonathan Reese Davies
[33:58]
and Kerry Russell,
[33:58]
they have a sex scene
[33:59]
and the next scene is
[34:01]
he is still fully clothed
[34:03]
but, like,
[34:03]
his pants are undone.
[34:04]
She is fully nude
[34:05]
lying on the bed
[34:07]
with her,
[34:07]
on her belly,
[34:09]
just completely naked.
Stuart Wellington
[34:10]
And it's such a...
[34:10]
That's how they do it
[34:10]
in Russia, dude.
Elliott Kalan
[34:11]
I guess so.
[34:12]
But it was such a,
[34:13]
it was such a startling moment
[34:14]
of, like,
[34:15]
we know our fans
[34:16]
are not interested
[34:17]
as much in seeing
[34:18]
the naked guys
[34:18]
and the naked ladies.
[34:19]
So we're just gonna go with that.
Stuart Wellington
[34:20]
In Mother Russia,
[34:22]
sex has you.
[34:24]
Right?
Elliott Kalan
[34:24]
Yeah.
[34:25]
Yeah, that's
[34:25]
Jakov Smirnoff.
[34:26]
The, uh,
Dan McCoy
[34:27]
the Russian sex
[34:29]
comedian.
[34:30]
The guy who jacks off
[34:31]
into vodka.
Elliott Kalan
[34:33]
He's Russia's
[34:34]
number one
[34:35]
most wanted criminal.
Dan McCoy
[34:39]
We must find
[34:40]
this man
[34:41]
who has sullied
[34:42]
our national
[34:42]
in Russia.
[34:44]
Criminals want you.
[34:46]
I mean,
[34:46]
they do, yeah.
Elliott Kalan
[34:47]
They want to steal from you.
Dan McCoy
[34:48]
If vodka you drink
[34:49]
is cloudy at all,
[34:51]
please return to factory.
Elliott Kalan
[34:53]
I, so...
[34:54]
Report,
[34:55]
report the point
[34:55]
of purchase.
[34:57]
So we will know,
[34:58]
we know that
[34:58]
Jakov Smirnoff
[35:00]
has probably
[35:00]
been in the area.
[35:02]
All points bulletin.
[35:04]
Jakov Smirnoff
[35:05]
sighting
[35:05]
in,
[35:07]
we believe
[35:08]
he has resettled
[35:09]
to Branson, Missouri.
[35:12]
Sounds weird
[35:13]
in a Russian accent.
[35:14]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[35:14]
Jakov Smirnoff
[35:15]
tried briefly
[35:16]
Broadway show,
[35:18]
but not,
[35:18]
not interested.
[35:19]
No,
[35:20]
not interested.
[35:21]
Wanted.
[35:23]
No one wanted
[35:24]
to pay $60
[35:25]
to see
[35:26]
Man Jakov
[35:27]
into
[35:27]
bottle of vodka.
Elliott Kalan
[35:29]
In Russia,
[35:29]
Calcutta,
[35:30]
oh,
[35:30]
you.
Dan McCoy
[35:32]
So do you think
[35:33]
the...
[35:34]
Vodka.
Stuart Wellington
[35:35]
Do you think
[35:35]
Christian Grey
[35:36]
buys all
[35:37]
the sex toy shit
[35:38]
through like
[35:39]
a international
[35:40]
mail catalog
[35:41]
or is there
[35:41]
like a salesman
[35:42]
in a store
[35:43]
who's like...
[35:44]
He probably
Elliott Kalan
[35:44]
goes to Macy's
[35:45]
and gets it.
[35:46]
He's so excited
Stuart Wellington
[35:46]
and it's his biggest
[35:47]
customer.
Elliott Kalan
[35:48]
I mean,
[35:50]
I don't know
[35:50]
where you buy that.
[35:51]
I mean,
[35:51]
there's sex shops
[35:52]
all over New York,
[35:52]
I guess that's
[35:53]
where you'd buy
[35:53]
that stuff.
[35:54]
Yeah,
Stuart Wellington
[35:54]
but he's probably
[35:55]
got like a specialty
Elliott Kalan
[35:55]
one where there's
[35:57]
like one salesman.
[35:58]
He probably sends
[35:58]
his chauffeur
[35:58]
to go buy him
[35:59]
like he sends
[35:59]
his chauffeur
[36:00]
to go buy
[36:00]
her some clothes
[36:01]
at one point.
Dan McCoy
[36:02]
And to go
[36:02]
have sex
[36:03]
with her roommate.
[36:04]
That's his brother.
[36:05]
Oh,
[36:05]
okay.
Elliott Kalan
[36:06]
That's his chauffeur?
[36:07]
His chauffeur
[36:07]
is his brother?
[36:08]
They have a weird
[36:08]
dynamic.
[36:09]
Okay.
[36:10]
He lost a bet
[36:11]
to him
[36:12]
and now he's
[36:12]
chauffeur forever.
Dan McCoy
[36:15]
You get to be
[36:16]
the billionaire,
Stuart Wellington
[36:18]
fine.
[36:19]
His brother's
[36:20]
a genie
[36:20]
and he tricked him
[36:21]
by rubbing his bottle
[36:23]
backwards
[36:24]
three times.
Elliott Kalan
[36:25]
Which,
[36:26]
wait,
[36:26]
I don't understand.
[36:27]
If you rub it backwards
Stuart Wellington
[36:28]
it makes a genie
[36:29]
your servant.
Elliott Kalan
[36:30]
No,
[36:31]
that happens anyway.
[36:32]
That's what a genie does.
Stuart Wellington
[36:33]
But if you do it right,
[36:34]
if you ask for more wishes,
[36:36]
I don't know.
[36:36]
If you rub it backwards
Dan McCoy
[36:37]
it just sucks
[36:37]
the genie back in.
Elliott Kalan
[36:40]
But what is backwards?
[36:41]
There's no,
[36:42]
like there's an arrow
[36:43]
pointing the way
[36:43]
to rub the lamp?
[36:44]
Yeah,
Dan McCoy
[36:44]
frontwards is that way.
Elliott Kalan
[36:47]
Towards the spout.
[36:48]
You gotta do it
[36:48]
both ways
[36:49]
so that your hand
[36:50]
gets back to where
[36:50]
it was to rub forward again.
[36:52]
Yeah,
[36:52]
you won't get enough
[36:52]
friction to coax out
[36:54]
a genie.
[36:55]
Come on.
[36:55]
This is genie rubbing
[36:57]
101.
Dan McCoy
[36:58]
You're jacking
[36:58]
the genie out of there.
Elliott Kalan
[36:59]
Look,
[37:00]
but I guess that's what
[37:01]
Christina Aguilera
[37:02]
was saying.
[37:02]
If you wanna be with her
[37:03]
you gotta rub her
[37:05]
the right way.
[37:05]
It means
[37:06]
frontwards
[37:06]
not backwards.
[37:07]
Both ways.
Dan McCoy
[37:10]
Sidewards
[37:11]
not topwards.
Stuart Wellington
[37:12]
I wish that
[37:13]
It's not like
[37:14]
around the spout
[37:15]
that'd be weird.
[37:16]
I wish that
Dan McCoy
[37:17]
That doesn't work.
[37:19]
I don't know.
Elliott Kalan
[37:19]
Just teasing it.
[37:20]
Just teasing the genie lamp.
[37:21]
I mean,
[37:23]
that sounds pretty good.
[37:23]
That's not it.
[37:24]
What I understand
[37:24]
is why don't they just
[37:25]
there's always that lid
[37:27]
at the top.
[37:27]
Just open that up.
Dan McCoy
[37:28]
Enough with the lamp rubbing.
Elliott Kalan
[37:29]
Just open it
[37:30]
and let him out.
[37:31]
Oh no.
[37:32]
So anyway,
[37:33]
they break up basically.
[37:34]
She's horrified
[37:35]
by the punishment
[37:35]
that he gives her
[37:37]
and they break up
[37:38]
and it's clear
Stuart Wellington
[37:39]
And boy does he punish her.
[37:41]
It's clear they still have a wall.
[37:41]
He's like the star
[37:43]
of the movie
[37:43]
Silent Night,
[37:44]
Deadly Night.
[37:45]
He wits her like six times.
Elliott Kalan
[37:47]
Real hard though.
[37:47]
Well,
[37:48]
he pulls a punisher
[37:50]
on her
[37:51]
and brings her
[37:52]
into a one man war
[37:53]
against the mob.
[37:54]
I mean,
[37:54]
that's the thing.
Dan McCoy
[37:55]
The sex in this movie
[37:57]
is certainly not
[37:58]
particularly transgressive
[38:00]
at all
[38:01]
through most of the movie
[38:02]
and then when it's supposed
[38:03]
to get super like crazy
[38:04]
at the end,
[38:05]
it's just him like
[38:06]
He goes down on her
[38:08]
like slightly harder
[38:09]
than he did
[38:09]
harder than before.
[38:11]
Before.
Stuart Wellington
[38:12]
When he pulls out
[38:12]
the cat of nine tails.
Elliott Kalan
[38:14]
Well,
[38:15]
that's what his Irish accent
[38:16]
for the nine tails to.
[38:19]
Nothing to see here.
[38:20]
Just hitting you
[38:20]
with a cat of nine tails.
Stuart Wellington
[38:22]
This is for taking
[38:24]
double rations of grog.
Dan McCoy
[38:27]
I'm just saying
[38:27]
this movie is going
[38:28]
to be a sex movie.
[38:29]
Let's fucking do it.
[38:31]
Whoa,
[38:31]
are you?
Elliott Kalan
[38:33]
It's too intense, Dan.
[38:34]
Let's do it.
[38:34]
Let's go all out.
Stuart Wellington
[38:35]
I mean,
[38:36]
it's like a sex movie
[38:36]
in that they have
[38:37]
like songs with singing
[38:39]
in every sex scene.
Elliott Kalan
[38:40]
Every,
[38:40]
as I was saying,
[38:41]
you guys were watching it.
[38:42]
And glider scene.
[38:42]
All the,
[38:43]
the soundtrack feels like
[38:44]
a 17 year old girl
[38:46]
made like a
[38:47]
this is the music
[38:48]
I'm going to listen to
[38:48]
when I have sex
[38:49]
with my boyfriend mix.
[38:50]
And it's all songs
[38:51]
that are like
[38:52]
vaguely like R&B
[38:53]
sexy or like
[38:54]
adult contemporary
[38:55]
music sexy.
Dan McCoy
[38:57]
Fade into you.
Elliott Kalan
[39:01]
Like a
[39:02]
hey,
[39:03]
hey,
[39:04]
hey,
[39:05]
hey,
[39:05]
return to innocence.
[39:09]
In my dreams,
[39:12]
never quite has it seemed.
[39:14]
Sail away,
[39:15]
sail away,
[39:16]
sail away.
Stuart Wellington
[39:16]
These wicked games are.
Dan McCoy
[39:21]
Wait,
[39:22]
no,
[39:22]
you're combining
[39:23]
Foolish Games
[39:24]
by Joel
[39:25]
with Wicked Games
[39:26]
by Chris Isaac.
Elliott Kalan
[39:29]
It's a mashup
[39:30]
of the century.
[39:30]
It would be a great mashup
Dan McCoy
[39:31]
for a teenage girl
[39:32]
to have sex to.
[39:33]
Yeah.
Elliott Kalan
[39:34]
It would be great though
[39:35]
if she's,
[39:36]
for me to poop on.
[39:36]
She's about,
[39:37]
no.
[39:38]
The,
[39:39]
the,
[39:39]
she's,
[39:40]
they're about to have,
[39:41]
they're about to have this.
Stuart Wellington
[39:42]
I mashed up these two songs
[39:43]
as we're about to mash
[39:44]
our genitals up together.
Elliott Kalan
[39:45]
She puts it in her contract
[39:46]
that,
[39:47]
that she controls the music.
[39:49]
So as he's about,
[39:50]
he's like tying her up
[39:51]
and he's undressing her
[39:51]
but they're listening
[39:52]
to like Jewel.
Dan McCoy
[39:54]
These hands are small,
[39:56]
I know.
[39:57]
Yep.
[39:57]
They're like,
Elliott Kalan
[39:58]
I went to see
[39:59]
the doctor of philosophy.
[40:02]
Throw me
[40:03]
into shallow water.
[40:05]
I almost,
[40:06]
Once there was
[40:06]
a cornflake girl.
[40:08]
Thought there was
[40:09]
a real solution.
Dan McCoy
[40:11]
Yep.
Elliott Kalan
[40:12]
And I say,
[40:13]
yeah,
[40:14]
yeah,
[40:14]
yeah.
Stuart Wellington
[40:14]
Walk on the water.
[40:16]
I'm a bitch,
Stuart Wellington
[40:16]
I'm a lover,
[40:17]
I'm a child,
Elliott Kalan
[40:19]
I'm a mother.
[40:20]
Step on the stone.
[40:21]
It's like her,
[40:22]
her sophomore year
[40:23]
in college power mix.
Dan McCoy
[40:25]
Earth becomes,
[40:26]
wait,
[40:26]
no.
[40:27]
For all the listeners,
[40:28]
we're,
[40:29]
we're aware that
[40:29]
guy music is stupid too.
Elliott Kalan
[40:31]
Yeah,
[40:31]
but we like it,
[40:32]
so.
Dan McCoy
[40:33]
Um,
[40:34]
so.
[40:35]
The hardest to learn
Elliott Kalan
[40:36]
was the least complicated.
[40:39]
Bah,
[40:39]
bah,
[40:40]
bah.
[40:40]
He's like,
[40:40]
all right,
[40:41]
I gotta stop.
[40:41]
You know what,
[40:42]
forget it.
[40:42]
I cannot achieve
[40:43]
an erection
[40:44]
listening to the
[40:45]
Indigo Girls.
[40:46]
I'm sorry.
[40:47]
Um.
[40:48]
No,
[40:48]
no,
[40:48]
no,
[40:48]
no,
[40:48]
no,
[40:48]
but,
[40:48]
but,
[40:49]
but,
[40:49]
but,
[40:50]
but at least
[40:50]
the Loeb song
[40:51]
is about to come on.
[40:52]
That'll be okay,
[40:52]
right?
[40:53]
Nope.
[40:54]
Yes,
[40:55]
sir.
Stuart Wellington
[40:55]
I didn't even see
[40:56]
a CD player
[40:57]
in that room.
Elliott Kalan
[40:58]
I mean,
[40:59]
it means that.
Stuart Wellington
[40:59]
It's probably hidden.
[41:00]
He's very wealthy.
[41:01]
Oh,
[41:01]
yeah,
[41:01]
he has a whole
[41:02]
sound system there.
Dan McCoy
[41:03]
So,
[41:04]
uh,
[41:04]
time to move on
[41:05]
to final judgments
[41:06]
on this movie.
Elliott Kalan
[41:07]
I feel like we
[41:07]
haven't gotten across
[41:11]
multiple sex scenes
Stuart Wellington
[41:13]
involved us all
[41:15]
looking at our phones.
[41:16]
Not a pornography
[41:18]
or anything,
[41:18]
just like Twitter.
[41:19]
No.
[41:20]
Whatever.
Elliott Kalan
[41:20]
I have,
[41:21]
I think I have,
[41:21]
whatever was not the movie.
[41:22]
I think I have never
[41:23]
felt less interested
[41:25]
in watching people
[41:26]
have sex
[41:27]
than I have in
[41:28]
watching this movie.
[41:28]
I'm gonna say,
[41:29]
like,
[41:29]
and there's a lot of
[41:30]
reasons for that.
[41:30]
And you've seen
[41:31]
your parents have sex.
[41:32]
And they were
[41:32]
very good at it.
[41:33]
That's the thing.
[41:34]
They made it a show.
[41:35]
They put on a show.
[41:36]
That's,
[41:37]
they had a sense of
[41:37]
there's an audience here,
[41:39]
let's make it worth
[41:39]
their while.
[41:40]
There was Verve.
[41:41]
What were you gonna say?
[41:42]
No, I was just gonna.
[41:42]
Yeah, the band Verve was there.
Dan McCoy
[41:44]
Is that a band?
[41:45]
Probably.
[41:45]
I was gonna talk about
[41:46]
whether this was a good,
[41:47]
bad movie,
[41:47]
a bad, bad movie,
[41:48]
or a movie we kinda liked.
[41:49]
And I honestly,
[41:51]
the cat is really
[41:52]
wanting attention from me.
[41:54]
I honestly.
[41:54]
The cat's like,
Elliott Kalan
[41:55]
I liked it.
Dan McCoy
[41:56]
I honestly feel like this.
Elliott Kalan
[41:58]
I thought it was meowing.
[41:58]
I was like,
Dan McCoy
[41:59]
exists beyond our
[42:01]
categorization.
[42:02]
Because I wasn't,
[42:03]
I was not bored necessarily
[42:05]
because it was about sex,
[42:07]
but I was not amused enough
[42:10]
to make it a bad,
[42:11]
bad movie,
[42:11]
but I did not like it enough
[42:13]
to recommend it.
Elliott Kalan
[42:14]
Yeah,
[42:14]
it's,
[42:14]
well,
[42:15]
I was,
[42:15]
I was fairly bored by it.
[42:17]
There was certainly
[42:17]
a large chunk near the end where.
[42:18]
I would say certainly
[42:19]
less bored during the sex scenes,
[42:21]
but still pretty bored.
[42:22]
There's a large chunk
Stuart Wellington
[42:23]
near the end where you're like,
[42:24]
what's,
[42:25]
why is this still a movie?
Dan McCoy
[42:26]
Yeah.
[42:26]
It feels very much like
[42:27]
there's no plot in the movie.
Stuart Wellington
[42:29]
Well,
[42:29]
it feels like somebody knew
[42:30]
they were not gonna tell
[42:31]
an entire story,
[42:32]
so they're like,
[42:33]
we're just gonna give you a little,
[42:34]
we're gonna give you
[42:35]
a taste of this shit.
Elliott Kalan
[42:35]
Yeah,
[42:36]
and also,
[42:36]
but that they knew,
[42:37]
it's like they knew
[42:38]
while they're making it,
[42:40]
we don't,
[42:40]
these stars have no chemistry.
[42:42]
Well,
[42:42]
they hated each other.
[42:43]
They hate each other.
[42:43]
They seem to hate
[42:44]
being in the movie,
[42:45]
but it's not like,
[42:46]
like Sean Young
[42:48]
and Harrison Ford
[42:49]
hated each other
[42:49]
and Blade Runner
[42:50]
still has a sense of attraction
[42:51]
between the two of them,
[42:52]
you know?
[42:53]
I don't know about that.
[42:53]
The,
[42:54]
I mean,
[42:55]
they're both sex robots
[42:56]
or whatever,
[42:57]
but the,
[42:58]
let me,
[42:59]
I'm gonna reveal
[42:59]
a little bit too much
[43:00]
about,
[43:00]
about porn I've seen.
[43:02]
Yeah,
[43:02]
no,
[43:03]
there's this,
[43:03]
there's a Cinemax show,
[43:05]
I think it's the one
[43:06]
called Best Sex Ever.
[43:07]
Sure.
[43:08]
And there's this,
[43:08]
it just,
[43:09]
where the woman takes
[43:10]
radio call-ins
[43:11]
and there's a scene
[43:12]
where this,
[43:13]
and people are supposed
[43:13]
to call in
[43:14]
and tell their stories
[43:14]
and it's hilarious
[43:15]
because like,
[43:16]
I guess they're just
[43:16]
describing sex
[43:17]
that they had,
[43:18]
but there's one
[43:19]
that starts with,
[43:20]
the story opens
[43:21]
with two women
[43:22]
having sex
[43:22]
in a bathroom
[43:23]
and then the host goes,
[43:25]
whoa,
[43:25]
whoa,
[43:25]
whoa,
[43:26]
you can't just start there,
[43:27]
start from the beginning
[43:28]
and they start the story
[43:29]
and the moment when
[43:30]
you didn't know
[43:31]
how those women
[43:32]
got to that point
[43:33]
had more suspense in it
[43:34]
than this whole movie.
[43:35]
Okay.
[43:35]
Like this professional movie
[43:36]
had less suspense
[43:37]
than the opening moments
[43:38]
of like a Cinemax TV show.
Dan McCoy
[43:40]
By the way,
[43:41]
I like that.
[43:42]
Smash cut.
[43:43]
Smash cut to ancient Rome.
[43:45]
I like that,
[43:46]
by the way,
[43:47]
Stuart,
[43:47]
your course light
[43:49]
has a legend
[43:51]
around the top of it
[43:52]
that says,
[43:52]
the silver bullet,
[43:53]
the world's most
[43:54]
refreshing camp.
Elliott Kalan
[43:57]
I wish you could use it
[43:58]
that it had a real legend
[43:59]
around the top of it.
[44:00]
Like about a guy
[44:01]
who stole gold
Dan McCoy
[44:02]
from a winch or something.
[44:03]
It was a legend
[44:04]
of Alan Ruck.
Elliott Kalan
[44:05]
He's everywhere,
[44:06]
even on Coors Cans.
[44:08]
Who do you think
[44:08]
tapped the Ruckies?
Dan McCoy
[44:12]
Stu,
[44:12]
what do you say
[44:13]
about this movie?
[44:13]
Oh wait,
[44:14]
it's Final Judgments?
[44:15]
Yeah,
[44:15]
Final Judgments.
Stuart Wellington
[44:16]
Yeah,
[44:17]
I don't know.
[44:19]
I guess it's bad,
[44:20]
bad.
[44:20]
It's hard to say.
[44:22]
You never got erect
[44:23]
is what you're saying.
[44:24]
I wouldn't go that far.
[44:26]
Danny Elfman was involved.
[44:30]
What do you think,
[44:31]
Dan?
[44:31]
No,
Dan McCoy
[44:31]
I said that it was
[44:33]
out of time.
[44:33]
I already said bad,
[44:34]
bad.
[44:34]
I found it very dull.
[44:37]
So Stuart
[44:38]
abstains.
[44:41]
Yeah,
[44:41]
so it's...
[44:42]
He's an abstainance.
S4
[44:50]
Hi,
Justin McElroy
[44:51]
I'm Justin McElroy.
[44:52]
I'm Travis McElroy.
[44:54]
I'm Griffin McElroy.
[44:55]
We're brothers
[44:56]
and we host a podcast
[44:57]
called My Brother,
[44:57]
My Brother and Me.
[44:58]
It's a comedy advice show
[44:59]
and if you like podcasts
[45:01]
and when I see me do,
[45:01]
you can still see one right now.
[45:03]
You gotta come see us live
[45:04]
at the Pacific Northwest
[45:05]
area of America
[45:06]
and also Canada.
[45:07]
Yeah,
[45:08]
we're coming to Portland.
[45:09]
We're coming to Seattle.
[45:10]
We're coming to Vancouver.
[45:11]
We're gonna be there
[45:12]
August 28th,
[45:13]
29th and 30th.
[45:14]
I wanna buy tickets
[45:15]
to the Portland show.
[45:17]
Tough.
[45:17]
They're sold out.
[45:18]
Pretty good.
[45:19]
Pretty good advertisement
[45:20]
so far.
[45:21]
But there are tickets
[45:22]
still available
[45:22]
for the Seattle show
[45:23]
and for the Vancouver show
[45:24]
if you go to
[45:25]
bit.ly forward slash
[45:27]
mbmbam seattle
[45:28]
and bit.ly forward slash
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van mbmbam
[45:32]
tickets are still available there.
[45:34]
They are assigned seating
[45:35]
and they're going fast
[45:36]
so don't miss your chance
[45:37]
to get them.
[45:37]
Go right now.
[45:38]
Go.
[45:38]
Do it.
[45:39]
Don't wait.
[45:39]
And also,
[45:40]
the medical history podcast
[45:41]
I do with my wife Sawbones,
[45:42]
another max fun show,
[45:43]
is gonna be there as well.
[45:45]
It's a big show.
[45:46]
It's gonna be a huge show
[45:47]
full of fun,
[45:47]
full of excitement.
[45:48]
You won't wanna miss it.
[45:49]
Gosh, we hope you've heard
[45:51]
of our shows before.
[45:53]
Or else this is just
[45:54]
very weird for you.
[45:56]
We're brothers.
[45:57]
We're experts.
[45:58]
And we're live, baby.
S6
[46:01]
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We just added some amazing
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So visit today and outfit
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Dan McCoy
[46:25]
We do have a
[46:27]
letter.
[46:28]
Sponsor.
[46:29]
Sponsor.
[46:29]
Sponsor.
[46:30]
For the program.
[46:32]
And that is Squarespace.
[46:33]
And that is
[46:33]
Fifty Shades of Grey.
[46:34]
Uh-oh.
[46:35]
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Elliott Kalan
[47:10]
Now, Dan,
[47:10]
what does it say
[47:11]
that I was more turned on
[47:12]
just now thinking about
[47:13]
the possibilities
[47:14]
of getting a domain name
[47:15]
from Squarespace
[47:16]
and setting a website
[47:17]
than I was while watching
Dan McCoy
[47:18]
Fifty Shades of Grey?
[47:18]
You are a genuine pervert.
[47:20]
That's what it says.
Elliott Kalan
[47:21]
Just like,
[47:22]
there's so much potential there.
[47:23]
So much potential.
Stuart Wellington
[47:25]
Mm-hmm.
[47:25]
It's like a blank sheet
[47:27]
of gray paper.
[47:29]
Yeah.
[47:29]
So many shades
[47:30]
of possibility.
Elliott Kalan
[47:31]
You know what?
[47:32]
I look at Squarespace
[47:32]
and yeah,
[47:33]
I think I'm like
[47:34]
the artist at the end
[47:35]
of Sunday in the Park
[47:36]
with George.
[47:36]
So many possibilities.
Dan McCoy
[47:38]
So,
[47:39]
it's time for letters.
[47:40]
Squarespace.
[47:42]
Letters from listeners.
[47:43]
And this first letter
[47:45]
has a...
[47:46]
Right into the letters.
[47:48]
What?
[47:48]
Has a title.
[47:49]
Right in there.
[47:51]
What would we do
[47:51]
before we got to letters?
[47:52]
Stop probably.
[47:53]
There's nothing I can think of.
[47:54]
Stop teasing it.
[47:56]
This first letter.
Elliott Kalan
[47:57]
Hey everyone,
[47:58]
it's letters time.
[48:00]
Sexy this time.
[48:01]
Sexy letters time.
[48:03]
Spanking a letter.
[48:06]
It's kind of weird.
[48:07]
It's paper,
[48:08]
so it gives really easily.
[48:11]
But try it.
[48:13]
Do you like it?
[48:15]
You don't.
[48:16]
Ooh,
[48:16]
paper cut.
[48:17]
That's gotta hurt.
[48:19]
Don't touch any salt.
[48:20]
That'll make it hurt worse.
[48:22]
Unless you're into that.
[48:23]
I'm not,
[48:24]
personally,
[48:25]
but maybe you are.
[48:27]
Write us about it
[48:28]
in your letter.
[48:30]
Like one of those
[48:30]
R. Kelly joints.
[48:32]
You mean a goose bump?
Stuart Wellington
[48:33]
R. Kelly's goose bumps.
[48:39]
Don't look in the closet
[48:40]
because R. Kelly's there.
Elliott Kalan
[48:43]
Scary.
[48:43]
R. Kelly and R. L. Stein
[48:45]
finally work together.
[48:46]
They've been looking
[48:47]
for a project
[48:47]
for a long time
[48:48]
to work together on.
[48:50]
All right.
[48:50]
Sexy letters segment.
[48:54]
Letters for sex.
[48:55]
Sex for letters.
[48:57]
Have you had sex
[48:58]
with a letter lately?
[49:00]
You can't have sex
[49:01]
without S-E-X.
[49:03]
And those are letters.
[49:03]
That's enough.
[49:04]
Okay.
[49:05]
This first.
[49:06]
Letters is brought to you
Dan McCoy
[49:07]
by sex.
[49:09]
This first letter.
Elliott Kalan
[49:10]
Also,
[49:10]
all people in the world
[49:11]
brought to you by sex.
[49:13]
At the beginning.
[49:14]
You need it
[49:14]
to make people.
Dan McCoy
[49:16]
At the beginning
[49:16]
of this letter,
[49:17]
it says,
[49:18]
brace yourselves,
[49:20]
it says,
[49:20]
please read on
[49:21]
or before March 2nd,
[49:23]
2015.
Elliott Kalan
[49:24]
Wow.
[49:25]
Dan,
[49:26]
did someone die
[49:26]
because of your
[49:27]
negligence?
[49:29]
Is this letter bad?
[49:30]
Are we gonna get sick
[49:31]
after we read it?
Dan McCoy
[49:32]
We had a backlog
[49:33]
of so many letters.
[49:35]
I apologize
[49:35]
to this listener.
[49:37]
We're not reading it
[49:38]
on or before
[49:39]
March 2nd,
[49:40]
2015.
[49:40]
I have three weeks
[49:41]
to live.
[49:42]
No,
[49:42]
but here we go.
[49:43]
Here we go.
[49:44]
Let's try and make it up
[49:45]
to them.
[49:46]
Dear Floppers,
[49:48]
I'm writing this letter
[49:49]
in honor of my
[49:49]
second wedding anniversary
[49:50]
to my lovely wife,
[49:51]
Bethany.
[49:53]
I practically forced her
[49:54]
to become a Flophouse fan
[49:55]
in her first year of marriage.
[49:56]
In a Fifty Shades of Grey
[49:58]
type situation.
[49:59]
And thanks to
[50:00]
Stockholm Syndrome,
[50:01]
she now loves the show.
[50:02]
Her favorite cast member
[50:03]
is Elliot.
[50:04]
And her favorite part
[50:05]
of the show
[50:06]
is always the letter jingle.
[50:07]
There you go.
[50:08]
Elliot,
[50:08]
if Dan isn't already
[50:09]
screwing this letter up,
[50:11]
double screwed it up
[50:12]
by reading it too late,
[50:14]
Yep.
[50:15]
Then can you sing a jingle
[50:19]
about my wife
[50:20]
as part of my gift to her?
[50:21]
Here's some info
[50:22]
for the jingle.
[50:23]
She's a personal trainer
[50:24]
with a great caboose,
[50:25]
so hands off Dan.
[50:26]
She loves her cat and dog,
[50:28]
and her favorite band
[50:29]
is Hall and Oates.
Stuart Wellington
[50:29]
Hands off Dan
[50:30]
is another nickname
[50:32]
for Dan.
[50:32]
Thanks,
[50:32]
and keep lopping.
[50:33]
He doesn't have hands.
Dan McCoy
[50:34]
He is books.
[50:35]
Chris,
[50:36]
last name without P.S.
[50:37]
Stewart is great.
[50:37]
So this is their
[50:38]
wedding anniversary?
[50:39]
Well,
[50:39]
it was on and before
Elliott Kalan
[50:42]
March 2nd.
[50:43]
Happy belated
[50:44]
anniversary,
[50:45]
Bethany.
[50:45]
Sorry we missed you.
[50:47]
Blame it on Dan.
[50:49]
Dan was too busy
[50:50]
thinking about
[50:51]
cabooses
[50:52]
on mooses.
[50:55]
I've heard things
[50:56]
that are about you.
[50:57]
Like, for instance,
[50:58]
tell me again.
Dan McCoy
[50:59]
She loves our cat and dog,
[51:01]
and her favorite band
[51:02]
is Hall and Oates.
Elliott Kalan
[51:03]
Hall and Oates.
[51:04]
Give them your votes
[51:05]
in the best band election.
[51:08]
And Dan has an erection
[51:10]
thinking of cabooses.
[51:13]
But hands off Dan,
[51:14]
she's married.
[51:16]
two years,
[51:16]
as of March.
[51:18]
So congratulations.
[51:20]
Sorry.
[51:20]
Sorry I sullied
[51:21]
your wedding anniversary
[51:22]
jingle with talk
[51:23]
of Dan's erection.
Dan McCoy
[51:23]
And sorry I buried
[51:24]
this letter.
[51:27]
I mean,
[51:28]
you know,
[51:28]
it's a couple months late.
[51:29]
It could be worse.
Elliott Kalan
[51:31]
Oh yeah,
[51:31]
I mean,
[51:31]
if you gave your wife
[51:32]
an anniversary present
[51:33]
for better or worse.
[51:34]
Three months late,
[51:35]
you know,
[51:35]
she'd be totally okay with it.
[51:37]
So basically,
[51:38]
your best excuse is that
[51:39]
you wanted to make
[51:40]
a letter kimchi,
[51:41]
and so you buried this
[51:41]
underground for months
[51:43]
until it fermented.
Dan McCoy
[51:44]
It's fermented.
Elliott Kalan
[51:45]
Bethany,
[51:46]
we're sorry we missed you.
[51:48]
Man,
[51:48]
hope that your husband
[51:49]
kissed you
[51:51]
on your anniversary
[51:53]
with him
[51:54]
and you
[51:55]
and me.
[51:56]
All right.
[51:58]
You were there?
[51:59]
According to the song,
[52:00]
yeah.
[52:00]
I have no memory of it.
[52:02]
Probably because of
[52:03]
Project X.
Dan McCoy
[52:05]
The next letter
[52:06]
goes like this.
[52:08]
I am writing in response
[52:09]
to your query
[52:10]
regarding the rights
[52:11]
to a certain
[52:11]
Mr. The Crypt Keeper.
[52:14]
My fiancee
[52:14]
is the granddaughter
[52:15]
of William Gaines
[52:16]
of Easy Comics
[52:17]
and creator of Tales
[52:18]
of the Crypt.
[52:20]
I think that once
[52:21]
we're married,
[52:22]
that technically
[52:22]
makes her my legal property,
[52:24]
so I'm sure
[52:25]
I'll just automatically
[52:25]
get the rights
[52:27]
to the comic book version
[52:28]
of The Crypt Keeper.
[52:29]
I was thinking
[52:29]
we could cast
[52:30]
The Vault Keeper
[52:31]
and the Old Witch
[52:32]
alongside him.
[52:33]
Hmm.
[52:34]
Maybe we need a fourth
[52:35]
to run out of the main cast.
[52:36]
How about
[52:36]
The Crypt Keeper's
[52:39]
less attractive,
[52:39]
less charismatic brother?
[52:41]
He can keep his
[52:42]
Stan Crypt Keeper.
[52:43]
He can keep his
[52:43]
disgruntled cab driver persona.
[52:46]
Sounds perfect.
[52:47]
I know, right?
[52:48]
I think that they should be single
[52:49]
and still looking for love
[52:50]
in their twilight years.
[52:51]
We'll call it
[52:51]
The Golden Ghouls.
[52:53]
It can't mess.
[52:55]
All I ask is
[52:56]
an executive producer
[52:56]
credit on it
[52:57]
and a job
[52:58]
as writer
[52:59]
on Radio Zork.
[53:01]
Sincerely,
[53:01]
Ben Lastname with Hub.
[53:02]
P.S.
[53:03]
My 18-month-old nephew
[53:05]
wanted to investigate
[53:06]
the curious figure
[53:07]
in the corner
[53:07]
of my fiancé's
[53:08]
parents' basement,
[53:09]
but as I carried him
[53:10]
closer
[53:11]
and he realized
[53:11]
it was a life-sized
[53:12]
Crypt Keeper,
[53:13]
he was suddenly terrified,
[53:15]
covered his eyes,
[53:15]
and just kept repeating,
[53:16]
no, no, no,
[53:17]
until I took him
[53:18]
back upstairs.
[53:19]
I laughed and laughed.
[53:20]
Good old Crypty.
Elliott Kalan
[53:23]
So you traumatized that kid.
Dan McCoy
[53:25]
That's what I would
[53:25]
laugh at, too.
[53:27]
Yes.
[53:29]
Then you go downstairs.
[53:30]
Kids need it
[53:30]
to make some stronger.
Elliott Kalan
[53:31]
No, it doesn't.
[53:32]
Yeah, it does.
[53:33]
It reminds me,
[53:33]
I think I might have
[53:34]
told this story
[53:34]
about when I was a kid
[53:35]
and there was a big
[53:36]
cardboard display
[53:36]
for Child's Play
[53:37]
in the video store
[53:39]
and I was terrified
[53:40]
by it.
[53:40]
I thought it was
[53:41]
so frightening.
[53:42]
This enormous
[53:42]
Chucky doll.
[53:44]
Why?
[53:45]
He's just a doll.
[53:46]
He looks really mean
[53:47]
and evil.
[53:47]
He's got blood
[53:48]
all over him.
[53:49]
Yes.
[53:49]
Was he holding
[53:49]
a knife?
[53:50]
He was holding
[53:51]
a knife, too.
[53:52]
Yeah, there you go, Stu.
Stuart Wellington
[53:53]
Yeah, it's not like
[53:54]
he was holding
[53:54]
a chicken dinner
[53:55]
or something.
[53:56]
Then he was holding
[53:56]
a knife.
[53:57]
Well, then it would
Elliott Kalan
[53:57]
be delicious.
[53:58]
I'd say,
[53:58]
thank you very much,
[53:59]
Chucky.
[53:59]
You're a great doll.
Stuart Wellington
[54:00]
You're gross,
[54:00]
but give me that chicken.
Elliott Kalan
[54:02]
It was also because
[54:03]
when I was a kid,
[54:03]
maybe you guys had this,
[54:04]
when you were a kid.
Stuart Wellington
[54:05]
I feel like Chucky's scarier
[54:06]
because he's small.
[54:07]
When he's bigger,
[54:08]
he becomes less scary.
Elliott Kalan
[54:10]
Well, if it's like a guy
[54:11]
in a big Chucky costume,
[54:12]
then yeah.
[54:13]
But when you're a kid,
[54:14]
your imagination is somehow
[54:16]
much more horrific
[54:17]
than when you're an adult.
[54:18]
So I imagined that horror movies
[54:20]
were way worse
[54:21]
than they were
[54:21]
and that Chucky was just
[54:23]
cutting people's eyes out
[54:25]
or just putting knives
[54:30]
across people's tongues.
[54:31]
Eyes.
[54:31]
Eyes and stuff.
[54:32]
There's a lot of face stuff.
[54:33]
But like,
[54:34]
I didn't really know
[54:36]
what the limits were
[54:37]
in horror movies.
[54:37]
So when I finally saw them
[54:38]
as an adult,
[54:39]
I was like,
[54:39]
oh, they're just like
[54:40]
stabbing people mostly.
[54:41]
Like occasionally
[54:41]
there's an axe in the head,
[54:43]
you know.
Stuart Wellington
[54:44]
Or like you trick somebody
[54:45]
to fall down
[54:46]
an elevator shaft.
[54:47]
Yeah.
[54:47]
And at the bottom
[54:48]
of the elevator shaft,
[54:49]
there's a bunch of broken glass
[54:50]
so they also get all cut up.
[54:52]
Yep.
Elliott Kalan
[54:54]
Anyway,
[54:54]
why would you traumatize
[54:55]
your,
[54:56]
what was it,
[54:56]
nephew?
Dan McCoy
[54:57]
Just for Fonzies,
[54:58]
I think.
Elliott Kalan
[54:58]
Just for Fonzies.
Dan McCoy
[55:00]
Next letter goes like this.
[55:02]
A, etc.
[55:03]
In a recent episode,
[55:06]
Dan mentioned
[55:06]
he would like to learn
[55:07]
how to play P-Knuckle.
[55:09]
I was conscripted
[55:10]
into learning P-Knuckle.
[55:11]
You put P's on your knuckles.
Elliott Kalan
[55:11]
I thought we talked about this.
[55:12]
We talked about it.
[55:13]
He tried to balance them.
[55:14]
The secret is
[55:14]
glue them on there.
Dan McCoy
[55:15]
Into learning P-Knuckle
[55:16]
as a small child
[55:17]
when my grandfather
[55:18]
needed an extra person
[55:20]
to round out his table.
[55:22]
I live now
[55:22]
as a broken person
[55:23]
with an encyclopedic knowledge
[55:25]
of strategies
[55:26]
to maximize
[55:26]
meld and card decks
[55:27]
that can't be used
[55:28]
for any other game
[55:29]
except bridge
[55:30]
but fuck that shit.
[55:32]
P-Knuckle games
[55:32]
can last for hours
[55:33]
and require the addition
[55:34]
and subtraction
[55:35]
of negative points.
[55:36]
Trying to find people
[55:37]
to play with you
[55:38]
is a losing game
[55:39]
against mortality.
[55:40]
It is, in short,
[55:41]
the forlorn sigh
[55:42]
of a card game.
[55:43]
Congratulations on your
[55:44]
new hobby, Mr. McCoy.
[55:45]
Don't feel bad
[55:46]
about card counting.
[55:47]
It's the only way to win.
[55:48]
In complimentary
[55:49]
question mark news,
[55:50]
I was listening
[55:51]
to your podcast
[55:51]
while helping my mom
[55:52]
recover from surgery.
[55:53]
The following
[55:54]
is a direct quote.
[55:56]
Is that that guy
[55:57]
from that movie?
[55:58]
They sound stupid
[55:58]
but it's actually funny.
[56:00]
I don't know
[56:01]
what guy
[56:01]
or which movie
[56:02]
but thanks for
[56:03]
a hilarious
[56:04]
and bright spot
[56:05]
in my day.
[56:05]
Yours truly,
[56:06]
JJ last name withheld.
[56:08]
JJ Abrams.
[56:09]
Yeah.
Elliott Kalan
[56:10]
JJ Jameson.
[56:12]
Like he knows
[56:12]
how to play Pinochle.
[56:14]
JJ Hunsecker.
[56:15]
Uh-huh.
[56:18]
So thanks.
[56:19]
I feel like that's
[56:19]
the kind of thing
[56:20]
that people say
[56:20]
about this podcast a lot.
[56:22]
Yeah.
[56:22]
It sounds stupid
[56:23]
but it's funny.
[56:24]
Except this episode.
[56:25]
Just stupid.
Dan McCoy
[56:26]
And sexy.
[56:27]
Yeah.
[56:28]
Well, this is the sexiest episode.
Elliott Kalan
[56:29]
This is the most erotic episode.
[56:32]
Call this one the,
[56:33]
wait, what's an erotic pun
[56:34]
on Flophouse?
[56:35]
Stick it in your ears.
Dan McCoy
[56:37]
Oh, damn.
[56:38]
Jam it right in your ears.
[56:39]
No.
[56:40]
Gross.
[56:40]
No.
[56:40]
Please don't ever do that.
[56:42]
It's invading your brain.
Stuart Wellington
[56:44]
Invading your brain.
[56:46]
Oh, the romantic invasion.
[56:48]
So what is this?
[56:48]
Like brain scan or something?
[56:50]
Yep.
[56:51]
Where you put a CD-ROM
[56:52]
into your, I guess, video player.
[56:54]
It's sexy like a David Cronenberg movie.
Dan McCoy
[56:58]
Yeah, yeah.
[56:58]
David Cronenberg.
[56:59]
Real sexy, yeah.
[57:00]
Last letter of the evening.
Elliott Kalan
[57:02]
Hey, do you like oozing tendrils?
Dan McCoy
[57:04]
Then you'll love David Cronenberg.
[57:05]
Do you like orifices?
[57:08]
Last letter.
Elliott Kalan
[57:10]
I recently.
[57:11]
Orifice and Eurydice.
[57:12]
The classic Greek myth
[57:14]
of the two lovers
[57:16]
who had real gross goopy orifices
[57:18]
with like videotapes and stuff.
Dan McCoy
[57:20]
I recently had the pleasure
[57:22]
of catching a rare showing
[57:23]
of Robert Altman's
[57:24]
long lost masterpiece,
[57:26]
Korns a-poppin',
[57:27]
during a special gathering
[57:29]
at the MoMA.
[57:30]
Featuring incestual overtones
[57:32]
so strong they just become tones,
[57:34]
more songs than actual plot,
[57:36]
and literally every single character
[57:37]
screaming their lines
[57:38]
at the top of their lungs,
[57:39]
it was quite possibly
[57:40]
the worst movie
[57:41]
I've ever had the pleasure
[57:42]
of laughing at
[57:43]
while being so feverish
[57:45]
I thought I might die.
[57:46]
Great title, though.
[57:47]
Have any of you ever
[57:48]
experienced the same?
[57:49]
Watching a movie
[57:50]
by a veritable master,
[57:51]
one of your favorite directors
[57:53]
or writers,
[57:54]
and being incredibly disappointed,
[57:56]
or even not disappointed,
[57:58]
but just deeply
[57:59]
and sincerely confused.
[58:01]
Keep on flopping
[58:03]
the house down.
[58:04]
Sincerely,
[58:05]
John,
[58:06]
last name withheld.
[58:08]
So,
[58:09]
big swings and misses
[58:11]
by favorite directors.
[58:14]
This is a tough one.
[58:16]
I mean,
Elliott Kalan
[58:16]
I mean,
[58:16]
every director
[58:17]
has their disappointments.
Dan McCoy
[58:19]
Yeah,
[58:19]
I mean,
[58:19]
like,
[58:20]
Hitchcock had a bunch of them,
[58:21]
but they're mostly just boring.
[58:23]
Well,
Elliott Kalan
[58:23]
but also I feel like
[58:24]
there's something about
[58:25]
an older director
[58:26]
where it's like,
[58:27]
as soon as you're done
[58:28]
with one of their bad movies,
[58:30]
you can go watch
[58:31]
one of their good movies.
[58:32]
There's something about
[58:32]
when a director,
[58:33]
you're really looking forward
[58:34]
to a movie from a director
[58:35]
you like a lot,
[58:36]
and it comes out
[58:37]
and it's not good.
[58:38]
Like,
[58:38]
David Fincher
[58:39]
is not one of my favorites,
[58:40]
but I loved Zodiac.
[58:42]
So I was like,
[58:42]
on board for whatever was next,
[58:44]
and then he came out
[58:44]
with Benjamin Button.
[58:46]
Oh, man.
[58:47]
And I just remember,
[58:48]
after the first half hour,
[58:49]
I'm like,
[58:49]
what the hell is this?
[58:50]
And there's the movie
[58:51]
and I'm like,
[58:52]
seriously,
[58:52]
this,
[58:52]
wait,
[58:53]
what?
[58:53]
Like,
[58:53]
this is the same guy?
Stuart Wellington
[58:56]
For me,
[58:56]
I think it was when I saw
[58:58]
Lovely Bones.
Dan McCoy
[59:01]
Oh,
[59:01]
yeah,
[59:02]
it was one of your favorites,
[59:03]
too.
[59:03]
That is such a bad movie.
[59:05]
Like,
Stuart Wellington
[59:06]
King Kong.
[59:07]
Bafflingly bad.
[59:07]
King Kong is not great,
[59:09]
but it has some great moments.
[59:10]
I like King Kong a lot.
Elliott Kalan
[59:11]
But I feel like,
[59:12]
the Peter Jackson version.
Stuart Wellington
[59:13]
Oh, man,
[59:13]
Lovely Bones is just so bad.
[59:14]
I never actually saw
[59:15]
Lovely Bones,
Dan McCoy
[59:15]
I have to admit.
[59:16]
I do not.
[59:16]
It is comically bad.
[59:19]
I like comics.
[59:20]
Do not want.
[59:20]
Is Spider-Man in it?
[59:22]
Imagine a movie
[59:23]
that is,
[59:24]
like,
[59:25]
based on,
[59:25]
like,
[59:26]
the abuse
[59:27]
and murder
[59:27]
of a young girl.
[59:28]
Keep talking.
[59:29]
But then it's,
[59:30]
like,
[59:30]
shot like a Hallmark card,
[59:32]
and then it has,
[59:33]
like,
[59:33]
Stanley Tucci
[59:34]
as,
[59:35]
like,
[59:36]
the most,
[59:37]
like,
[59:37]
he's like a cartoon
[59:38]
serial killer,
[59:39]
basically.
[59:40]
So,
Elliott Kalan
[59:40]
Freddy from that
[59:41]
Nightmare on Elm Street cartoon.
[59:43]
Like,
Dan McCoy
[59:43]
he's a clown,
[59:44]
but he's also,
[59:45]
like,
[59:46]
a dude in the neighborhood
[59:47]
who,
[59:47]
like,
[59:48]
kills children.
[59:50]
Yeah,
[59:50]
it's not,
[59:51]
it's not,
Elliott Kalan
[59:51]
he's a cartoon serial killer,
[59:52]
like,
[59:53]
what,
[59:53]
Fenwick from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
[59:55]
Yeah.
[59:56]
You have to assume he was killing people in his spare time,
Dan McCoy
[59:58]
right?
[59:58]
I mean,
[59:58]
my experience has just been mostly disappointment,
[1:00:01]
not like,
[1:00:02]
this is comically bad.
[1:00:03]
Like,
[1:00:03]
I remember watching Intolerable Cruelty and being like,
[1:00:06]
okay,
[1:00:06]
well,
[1:00:06]
this is not a good Coen Brothers movie.
[1:00:08]
Yeah,
Elliott Kalan
[1:00:08]
I mean,
[1:00:08]
when the Coen Brothers have failed the few times they have,
[1:00:10]
it's not comically bad,
[1:00:11]
it's just,
[1:00:12]
like,
[1:00:12]
painfully bad.
[1:00:13]
Like that and Lady Killers.
[1:00:14]
There was a,
[1:00:16]
I was not expecting anything of it,
[1:00:17]
but I remember when I was like,
[1:00:19]
13,
[1:00:19]
I think,
[1:00:20]
my grandmother and I went to the Museum of Modern Art,
[1:00:23]
and they had some,
[1:00:25]
I think the movies that were showing were all,
[1:00:26]
like,
[1:00:27]
writers who directed movies.
[1:00:29]
And we just went to whatever was playing that day,
[1:00:31]
and it was,
[1:00:33]
was it Dead Men Don't Dance,
[1:00:34]
or whatever it's called,
[1:00:35]
the Norman Mailer movie.
[1:00:37]
And I remember we're watching it,
[1:00:39]
and it was so bad,
[1:00:40]
and there's a part,
[1:00:40]
they're at this party where everyone is doing cocaine,
[1:00:43]
and this woman goes,
[1:00:45]
this doorbell rings,
[1:00:46]
and this woman goes,
[1:00:47]
oh,
[1:00:47]
it's my boyfriend,
[1:00:48]
and she takes off all her clothes,
[1:00:49]
and then walks to the door,
[1:00:51]
and it's somebody else,
[1:00:51]
and she's like,
[1:00:52]
oh,
[1:00:52]
forget it.
[1:00:53]
And then,
[1:00:53]
something else stupid happened,
[1:00:56]
and my grandmother just goes,
[1:00:57]
this movie is not for us,
[1:00:58]
and walked out and left,
[1:01:00]
and I was like,
[1:01:00]
was it because she thought it was inappropriate?
[1:01:02]
No,
[1:01:02]
it was just terrible.
[1:01:03]
Like,
Elliott Kalan
[1:01:04]
it's,
[1:01:04]
it means we walked out before the great moment of,
[1:01:07]
oh,
[1:01:08]
man,
[1:01:09]
oh,
[1:01:09]
geez,
[1:01:10]
oh,
[1:01:10]
God,
[1:01:10]
whatever it is that Ryan O'Neill has.
[1:01:12]
Yeah.
[1:01:13]
It's like the acting moment where he begged,
[1:01:15]
Norman Miller to cut it out of the movie.
Dan McCoy
[1:01:17]
And I also find that,
[1:01:18]
like,
[1:01:19]
often with,
[1:01:19]
like,
[1:01:20]
directors I like,
[1:01:21]
it's not so much that they had,
[1:01:22]
like,
[1:01:23]
this one,
[1:01:23]
like,
[1:01:24]
crazy outlier,
[1:01:25]
liar,
[1:01:25]
it's they had,
[1:01:26]
like,
[1:01:26]
a depressing slow decline,
[1:01:28]
like,
[1:01:29]
I don't know,
[1:01:29]
like,
[1:01:29]
John Carpenter,
[1:01:30]
or Joe Dante,
[1:01:31]
or something,
[1:01:31]
where it's just like,
[1:01:32]
okay,
[1:01:32]
well,
[1:01:33]
each successive movie I like less than the last.
[1:01:36]
Thank you for sort of making me sad.
[1:01:42]
You're welcome.
[1:01:43]
Yep.
[1:01:44]
Yeah.
[1:01:47]
We're bringing it down on a bleak note.
[1:01:49]
Ending letters.
[1:01:49]
Okay,
[1:01:50]
so that was the last letter,
[1:01:51]
huh?
[1:01:51]
Wow.
[1:01:51]
I thought the worst part of the letters thing was going to be my sex song.
[1:01:54]
Yeah.
[1:01:55]
Nope.
Elliott Kalan
[1:01:55]
That was the best part.
[1:01:57]
Happy anniversary,
[1:01:58]
Bethany.
[1:01:58]
Let's wrap it up then.
[1:02:00]
Sex letters segment,
[1:02:01]
it's over now.
[1:02:03]
Sex letters segment,
[1:02:04]
oh,
[1:02:05]
and how.
[1:02:06]
Fifty Shades of Grey,
[1:02:07]
it's the sixth episode of the Flophouse.
[1:02:12]
Nope.
[1:02:12]
Don't,
Stuart Wellington
[1:02:13]
don't talk into the microphone.
Elliott Kalan
[1:02:15]
Don't do that.
[1:02:16]
You ruined my song.
[1:02:17]
Censored,
Stuart Wellington
[1:02:17]
censored.
[1:02:18]
Sexy.
[1:02:19]
Redacted.
Elliott Kalan
[1:02:21]
Find someone you love,
[1:02:22]
and hit them lightly on the butt.
[1:02:25]
That's sex.
Stuart Wellington
[1:02:27]
In the movies.
[1:02:28]
I guess,
[1:02:29]
technically.
[1:02:30]
It's real groovy.
[1:02:31]
According to the contract,
[1:02:32]
it is.
[1:02:32]
Yeah,
[1:02:32]
they might be into it.
[1:02:33]
Yeah.
[1:02:34]
So,
[1:02:35]
what do we do now,
[1:02:36]
Dan?
[1:02:36]
Say goodbye?
[1:02:37]
No,
[1:02:37]
no,
Dan McCoy
[1:02:37]
the final segment.
[1:02:38]
Burn this thing?
[1:02:38]
No,
[1:02:38]
our purgatory is not yet over.
[1:02:41]
Is to recommend a movie that we liked.
[1:02:43]
I'll go first.
[1:02:44]
In opposition to the movie that we just made fun of.
[1:02:47]
It's called Fifty Shades of Grey.
Stuart Wellington
[1:02:48]
No.
[1:02:49]
It's called Fifty Shades of Gravy.
[1:02:50]
I'm going to recommend a little movie that's also
[1:02:52]
starring Mike Huckabee.
[1:02:54]
Pretty sexy.
[1:02:56]
It's about a freak.
[1:02:57]
It's from a,
[1:02:58]
in a castle.
[1:03:00]
It's from a tiny little country called New Zealand.
[1:03:05]
New Zealand.
[1:03:06]
New Zealand.
[1:03:07]
New Zealand.
[1:03:09]
It's called What We Do in the Shadows.
[1:03:12]
Oh,
[1:03:13]
I want to see that movie.
[1:03:14]
It's what I would file in my video store under Vampire Comedy.
[1:03:19]
So,
[1:03:20]
what else is in that?
[1:03:20]
Next to Embrace of the Vampire.
[1:03:22]
And,
[1:03:23]
uh,
[1:03:23]
what?
[1:03:23]
What,
Dan McCoy
[1:03:23]
Vampire's Kiss?
[1:03:25]
Yeah.
[1:03:25]
There's,
[1:03:25]
uh,
[1:03:25]
Love at First Bite.
[1:03:26]
Love at First Bite.
[1:03:27]
Once bitten.
Elliott Kalan
[1:03:28]
Dracula Dead and Loving It.
[1:03:30]
Transylvania 657.
[1:03:32]
This place understaffed picks in the Vampire Comedy section.
Dan McCoy
[1:03:35]
It's a,
[1:03:36]
this is a huge category.
Elliott Kalan
[1:03:38]
My best friend is a vampire.
[1:03:40]
Avid Costello meet,
[1:03:41]
uh,
[1:03:41]
Frankenstein.
[1:03:42]
Yep,
[1:03:42]
that's in there.
[1:03:43]
Which has Dracula in it.
[1:03:44]
Mm-hmm.
[1:03:44]
Yeah.
Stuart Wellington
[1:03:45]
Okay,
[1:03:46]
so,
[1:03:46]
what we do in the shadows,
[1:03:48]
uh,
[1:03:48]
it's a New Zealand comedy.
[1:03:50]
Um,
[1:03:51]
it is a,
[1:03:52]
Dracula Spring Break.
[1:03:53]
It is a mockumentary,
[1:03:55]
I guess,
[1:03:56]
about a group of vampires
[1:03:58]
who live together in a house in New Zealand.
[1:04:02]
Uh,
[1:04:02]
how is it pronounced?
[1:04:03]
New Zealand.
[1:04:05]
To,
[1:04:05]
to quote Lobo Morunga.
[1:04:08]
Lobo Morunga.
[1:04:09]
And,
[1:04:09]
uh,
[1:04:10]
they're preparing for some kind of,
[1:04:12]
I don't know,
[1:04:12]
some kind of like dance or get together of other vampires.
[1:04:15]
Oh,
[1:04:16]
Fearless Vampire Killers.
[1:04:17]
Yes.
[1:04:17]
It's another comedy.
[1:04:18]
And,
[1:04:18]
uh,
[1:04:19]
it,
[1:04:19]
or pardon me,
[1:04:20]
it features Jermaine Clement from,
[1:04:23]
uh,
[1:04:24]
Flight of the Conchords.
[1:04:25]
I'll tell you what's Jermaine to this situation.
[1:04:27]
Jermaine.
[1:04:27]
There's no R.
[1:04:28]
It's weird.
Dan McCoy
[1:04:28]
I'm gonna say it normal.
[1:04:30]
It's Jermaine Clement.
Stuart Wellington
[1:04:31]
Uh,
[1:04:32]
but it's very,
[1:04:32]
very funny,
[1:04:33]
uh,
[1:04:34]
and it's great,
[1:04:36]
and it's funny,
[1:04:37]
and you should watch it,
[1:04:38]
because it'll make you laugh.
[1:04:39]
Uh,
[1:04:40]
weirdly.
[1:04:40]
Reese Darby's in it,
[1:04:42]
and that guy can say,
[1:04:43]
that guy's super funny.
[1:04:43]
whatever the fuck he wants,
Dan McCoy
[1:04:44]
and I will laugh.
[1:04:45]
Yeah,
[1:04:46]
we're werewolves,
[1:04:46]
not werewolves.
[1:04:47]
Exactly.
[1:04:48]
But,
[1:04:48]
um,
[1:04:49]
I,
[1:04:49]
I,
[1:04:50]
I watched,
[1:04:52]
I went on a train trip this weekend,
[1:04:53]
and I watched two movies.
[1:04:54]
Oh,
Dan McCoy
[1:04:54]
you're watching movies on different modes of transportation.
[1:04:57]
Trains and planes.
[1:04:57]
I watched two movies,
[1:04:59]
and one of them was What We Do in the Shadows.
[1:05:01]
Trains,
[1:05:02]
planes,
[1:05:02]
and automobie bills.
[1:05:03]
That's why I went first,
Stuart Wellington
[1:05:03]
because I was worried Dan was gonna snake my bacon.
Dan McCoy
[1:05:06]
I gotta say,
[1:05:07]
I,
[1:05:08]
you know,
[1:05:08]
I enjoyed What We Do in the Shadows.
[1:05:11]
I did not laugh as much as I expected to.
[1:05:13]
I don't know.
[1:05:14]
I,
[1:05:14]
I think I might be a little,
[1:05:15]
here's the thing.
Elliott Kalan
[1:05:16]
Because your funny bone got broke.
[1:05:18]
I think I might.
[1:05:19]
I thought it was your knee that got injured.
[1:05:20]
I might be.
[1:05:21]
Not your laugh parts.
Dan McCoy
[1:05:22]
I might be a little,
[1:05:23]
um,
[1:05:25]
tired of semi,
[1:05:27]
laughing?
[1:05:27]
semi,
[1:05:28]
semi,
Dan McCoy
[1:05:28]
semi,
[1:05:28]
semi-improvised comedy documentaries.
[1:05:31]
Okay.
[1:05:32]
Like,
[1:05:32]
I think that the,
[1:05:33]
I found it more droll than I found funny.
[1:05:36]
But I did think it was good.
Elliott Kalan
[1:05:37]
Droll man versus the demonic toys?
Dan McCoy
[1:05:39]
I'm not gonna argue that it wasn't good.
[1:05:41]
And now I'm gonna,
[1:05:42]
he has no chance against us demonic toys.
[1:05:44]
And now I'm going to,
[1:05:45]
he doesn't have a blaster or anything?
[1:05:47]
He's just got witty bon mots.
[1:05:48]
Yeah.
[1:05:49]
Yes.
[1:05:49]
And now I'm going to totally,
[1:05:51]
uh,
[1:05:51]
get rid of any credibility after saying that I didn't find that as funny as I thought it would be by recommending the movie I'm about to recommend,
[1:05:58]
which is the other movie I watched on the train was Lucy,
[1:06:03]
which I enjoyed a surprising amount.
[1:06:04]
I've been hearing that's a fun movie.
[1:06:05]
I was gonna save that for the flop house,
[1:06:06]
but that's okay.
Elliott Kalan
[1:06:07]
Is that Lucy the movie you wouldn't let us watch?
Dan McCoy
[1:06:08]
Because you thought we might enjoy it?
[1:06:09]
Yeah,
Dan McCoy
[1:06:09]
because I thought we would like it.
[1:06:10]
And turns out,
[1:06:11]
I'm recommending it.
[1:06:13]
So,
[1:06:13]
we could have done an episode on that.
Stuart Wellington
[1:06:15]
Elliot and I have to watch it together now.
[1:06:17]
Yeah.
[1:06:18]
We're in our pajamas.
[1:06:19]
Yeah.
[1:06:19]
In our jammies.
Dan McCoy
[1:06:21]
Cuddling?
[1:06:21]
What?
Elliott Kalan
[1:06:22]
No,
[1:06:22]
we're each gonna be...
[1:06:23]
Weird.
[1:06:24]
He didn't put that in the contract.
[1:06:25]
We're gonna be sitting cross-legged in front of the TV with big bowls of cereal.
[1:06:29]
Mm-hmm.
Dan McCoy
[1:06:30]
I feel like,
[1:06:30]
uh,
[1:06:31]
a lot of people have recommended Lucy for us to watch on the show,
[1:06:34]
and,
[1:06:34]
for the show,
[1:06:35]
and,
[1:06:37]
I don't know,
[1:06:37]
like,
[1:06:37]
I feel like,
[1:06:38]
there's a certain,
[1:06:39]
there's like levels of sophistication,
[1:06:41]
and there's a level of sophistication where you're like,
[1:06:43]
that movie's stupid.
[1:06:45]
And there's a level of sophistication above that level where you're like,
[1:06:48]
that movie is delicious.
[1:06:49]
It's deliberately stupid,
[1:06:50]
and I feel like...
[1:06:52]
Yeah,
[1:06:52]
which category does it fit in loosely?
[1:06:54]
I think that loosely,
[1:06:56]
it fits in the second category.
[1:06:57]
So,
[1:06:58]
where I was like...
[1:06:58]
Lucy fits that category loosely.
[1:06:59]
I feel like that movie...
[1:07:00]
Lucy,
Dan McCoy
[1:07:00]
Lucy.
[1:07:01]
...
[1:07:02]
is deliberately,
[1:07:03]
extravagantly,
[1:07:04]
exuberantly dumb.
[1:07:05]
Okay.
[1:07:06]
And that's what I liked about it.
[1:07:08]
It was...
[1:07:08]
A lot of adverbs for one movie,
[1:07:10]
Dan.
[1:07:11]
I feel like a lot of people took that movie on because of the stupid 10% of your brain...
[1:07:16]
Yeah,
[1:07:16]
the limitless bullshit.
[1:07:18]
Bullshit.
[1:07:18]
And that is bullshit,
[1:07:19]
but they just use it...
Elliott Kalan
[1:07:20]
Imagine a future of limitless bullshit.
Dan McCoy
[1:07:22]
Does she drink any limitless blood to get super powerful?
[1:07:25]
Yeah,
Dan McCoy
[1:07:25]
she drinks some limitless AIDS.
[1:07:29]
But I just think that...
Stuart Wellington
[1:07:30]
I don't think you took my question seriously.
Dan McCoy
[1:07:34]
People looked at that...
[1:07:35]
Question rescinded.
[1:07:36]
People looked at this stuff and they're like,
[1:07:38]
oh,
[1:07:38]
this movie's stupid.
[1:07:39]
Whereas,
[1:07:39]
I feel like they would have accepted that bullshit if they're just like...
[1:07:43]
If they just use more of their brain.
[1:07:45]
I get it.
[1:07:45]
No,
[1:07:45]
no,
[1:07:45]
no.
[1:07:46]
They would have accepted the bullshit if they're just like...
[1:07:47]
If they delimited themselves.
[1:07:48]
If they were just straightforward,
[1:07:51]
like,
[1:07:51]
this is a superhero movie.
[1:07:53]
I'm like,
[1:07:53]
oh,
[1:07:53]
okay.
[1:07:54]
This is a superhero movie.
[1:07:55]
I will accept whatever bullshit you throw at me.
[1:07:57]
As opposed to like a super gyro.
[1:07:59]
superhero movie.
[1:08:00]
But you know what I mean.
[1:08:01]
Like,
[1:08:02]
I feel like there are people out there who will be like,
[1:08:05]
this is stupid.
[1:08:06]
Because that doesn't make any sense.
Stuart Wellington
[1:08:08]
If Liam Neeson used more of his brain,
[1:08:10]
I'd believe it.
[1:08:11]
But not Scarlett Johansson.
Dan McCoy
[1:08:12]
But they'll totally accept it if they're like,
[1:08:14]
okay,
[1:08:15]
this is a crazy comic book world.
[1:08:17]
I take that.
[1:08:18]
That's fine.
[1:08:19]
And I think this is just a movie where it's a crazy comic book world.
[1:08:22]
And it goes in crazy weird directions that you didn't expect.
[1:08:25]
Where Lucy literally,
[1:08:27]
like,
[1:08:27]
basically becomes God by the end of the movie.
[1:08:28]
So,
Stuart Wellington
[1:08:29]
wait,
[1:08:29]
spoiler alert.
[1:08:30]
So what you're saying is,
[1:08:32]
Lucy is Dan's pick for best picture of 2015?
[1:08:35]
Yeah,
[1:08:35]
that's what I'm saying.
Dan McCoy
[1:08:36]
That's,
[1:08:36]
you've not paraphrased me in any way.
Elliott Kalan
[1:08:39]
Lucy in the sky with Dan McCoy.
Dan McCoy
[1:08:41]
No,
[1:08:41]
I'm just saying like,
[1:08:42]
it's a fun,
[1:08:43]
dumb movie.
[1:08:44]
Like,
[1:08:44]
it's dumb,
[1:08:44]
but it's dumb in like,
[1:08:47]
a way that is smart visually.
[1:08:50]
Fun,
[1:08:50]
dot,
[1:08:50]
dot,
[1:08:51]
dot,
[1:08:51]
smart,
[1:08:51]
says Dan McCoy of the Flopass.
[1:08:53]
It's fast.
[1:08:55]
It's less than not furious.
[1:08:58]
Dot,
Stuart Wellington
[1:08:58]
dot,
[1:08:58]
Dan McCoy.
Dan McCoy
[1:08:59]
It's fewer than 90 minutes.
[1:09:00]
It's enjoyable.
Elliott Kalan
[1:09:01]
Fewer than 90 minutes.
[1:09:03]
Raves Dan McCoy of the Flopass.
Dan McCoy
[1:09:06]
I mean,
[1:09:07]
you're,
[1:09:07]
you're acting as if you're making fun of me,
[1:09:09]
but it is a qualified recommendation.
[1:09:11]
I'm not saying it's like fucking Citizen Kane.
[1:09:13]
I'm just saying it's like Citizen Kane,
[1:09:14]
says Dan McCoy of the Flopass.
[1:09:17]
All right,
[1:09:18]
go fuck yourselves.
[1:09:18]
Dot,
[1:09:18]
dot,
Elliott Kalan
[1:09:18]
dot,
[1:09:19]
like Citizen Kane.
Dan McCoy
[1:09:21]
Go fuck yourselves,
[1:09:22]
Elliot.
Elliott Kalan
[1:09:23]
Go,
[1:09:24]
dot,
[1:09:24]
dot,
[1:09:24]
dot,
[1:09:24]
to Lucy,
[1:09:25]
says Dan McCoy.
[1:09:27]
That wasn't the end of the sentence.
[1:09:31]
Go,
[1:09:31]
dot,
[1:09:31]
dot,
[1:09:32]
dot,
[1:09:32]
end of the sentence,
[1:09:33]
says Dan McCoy of the Flopass.
[1:09:36]
I'm going to recommend a movie that is maybe the exact opposite of Lucy,
[1:09:40]
and that is a,
[1:09:41]
in some ways,
[1:09:43]
semi-document.
[1:09:43]
It's called Busey.
[1:09:44]
It's called,
[1:09:45]
it's called Busey.
[1:09:47]
And it's a story about Gary Busey using 100% of his brain to make the movie Ginger Dead Man.
[1:09:58]
Anyway,
[1:09:59]
it's called,
[1:10:00]
uh,
[1:10:01]
whatever.
[1:10:02]
Anyway,
[1:10:02]
so,
[1:10:03]
and it is a,
[1:10:04]
this is,
[1:10:04]
the movie I'd like to recommend is called Downhill Racing.
[1:10:06]
Busey,
[1:10:06]
sir.
Elliott Kalan
[1:10:07]
Uh,
[1:10:07]
it's a movie from the 60s.
[1:10:09]
Michael Ritchie.
[1:10:09]
Right,
[1:10:10]
Michael Ritchie film.
[1:10:10]
Michael Ritchie,
[1:10:11]
who has had,
[1:10:12]
had one of the strangest careers in,
[1:10:14]
in filmmaking.
[1:10:14]
Brother of Lionel Ritchie,
Dan McCoy
[1:10:15]
right?
[1:10:16]
Uh,
[1:10:16]
yes,
[1:10:16]
exactly.
[1:10:17]
Bad News Bears,
[1:10:18]
uh,
[1:10:18]
Smile,
[1:10:19]
Yeah.
[1:10:19]
Prime Cut.
[1:10:20]
Yep.
Elliott Kalan
[1:10:20]
He made a bunch of,
[1:10:21]
a ton of,
[1:10:21]
The Candidate,
[1:10:22]
like he made a ton of good movies,
[1:10:23]
and then he also made a ton of terrible movies,
[1:10:26]
like Cops and Robbersons,
[1:10:27]
you know.
[1:10:27]
Yeah.
[1:10:28]
But,
[1:10:28]
uh,
[1:10:28]
it's a Michael Ritchie film with,
[1:10:30]
uh,
[1:10:30]
Robert Redford and Gene Hackman,
[1:10:32]
about the exciting world of competitive,
[1:10:34]
competitive downhill skiing racing,
[1:10:36]
which,
[1:10:37]
ask me,
[1:10:38]
am I interested in skiing?
[1:10:39]
No,
[1:10:39]
I am not.
[1:10:40]
I find it stupid,
[1:10:41]
and I'm not interested in it.
[1:10:43]
But,
[1:10:43]
the movie managed to make it,
[1:10:45]
It took my knee from me,
[1:10:46]
yeah,
[1:10:46]
Dan.
[1:10:47]
Yeah,
[1:10:47]
Dan has a,
[1:10:48]
has a particular hatred for it.
[1:10:50]
But,
[1:10:50]
but this is a movie that manages to make it seem,
[1:10:53]
interesting and exciting,
[1:10:55]
less so for the,
[1:10:56]
the characters.
[1:10:57]
It's about a young guy who is a very talented skier,
[1:10:59]
and kind of,
[1:11:00]
finds himself turning his back on,
[1:11:02]
It's the only way that he can,
Dan McCoy
[1:11:02]
he can save the rec center?
Elliott Kalan
[1:11:04]
Yeah,
[1:11:04]
exactly.
[1:11:05]
He finds himself turning his back on,
[1:11:07]
basically everyone else in his life,
[1:11:08]
in his drive to,
[1:11:11]
get to the Olympics,
[1:11:12]
and win a gold medal in,
[1:11:13]
downhill skiing.
[1:11:14]
And,
[1:11:15]
he's,
[1:11:16]
not a likable character,
[1:11:17]
he's not supposed to be a likable character.
[1:11:18]
It's one of these late 60s movies about,
[1:11:20]
an unlikable guy.
[1:11:21]
But,
[1:11:21]
the scenes of,
[1:11:23]
them preparing for skiing,
[1:11:24]
and the life of these guys,
[1:11:25]
as they travel around to different ski tournaments,
[1:11:27]
in Europe,
[1:11:28]
and everything,
[1:11:28]
becomes really fascinating,
[1:11:30]
and it feels,
[1:11:31]
like a thinly,
[1:11:32]
fictionalized documentary,
[1:11:34]
in a lot of ways.
[1:11:35]
And the skiing scenes are really,
[1:11:36]
amazing,
[1:11:37]
especially for the time,
[1:11:38]
like the way they were able to get certain shots,
[1:11:40]
and the way they mixed the sound,
[1:11:42]
to get the experience across.
[1:11:44]
So,
[1:11:44]
I would recommend it for anyone who,
[1:11:46]
doesn't want to go skiing,
[1:11:48]
but wants to vaguely know,
[1:11:49]
what it's like to go skiing.
[1:11:50]
Downhill Racer.
Stuart Wellington
[1:11:52]
Also,
[1:11:53]
the sequel,
[1:11:53]
Downhill Eraserhead.
[1:11:54]
Three completely,
[1:11:55]
non-qualified recommendations.
[1:11:57]
Yep.
Elliott Kalan
[1:11:58]
I thought mine,
[1:11:59]
it was a really good movie,
[1:12:00]
you loved yours,
[1:12:01]
and of course,
[1:12:01]
Dan referred to Lucy as,
[1:12:02]
dot dot dot,
[1:12:03]
like Citizen Kane.
[1:12:04]
Go,
[1:12:05]
dot dot dot,
[1:12:05]
end of sentence.
[1:12:08]
Dot dot dot,
[1:12:08]
fewer than 90 minutes.
[1:12:10]
Go,
[1:12:11]
dot dot dot,
[1:12:15]
dot dot dot,
[1:12:16]
says Dan McCoy.
[1:12:18]
Go,
[1:12:19]
dot dot dot,
[1:12:19]
yourselves.
Dan McCoy
[1:12:22]
To see Lucy.
[1:12:23]
I was supposed to take someone else.
[1:12:26]
Did I specify?
[1:12:28]
I wasn't telling them,
[1:12:29]
that other people should go.
Elliott Kalan
[1:12:31]
Other people should go,
[1:12:33]
says Dan McCoy.
[1:12:34]
Go.
[1:12:36]
Glad I was.
[1:12:38]
That's the part where you sound like Yoda.
[1:12:39]
Glad I was.
[1:12:41]
That Lucy I saw.
[1:12:43]
All right,
[1:12:43]
well,
Dan McCoy
[1:12:45]
this has been a very sexy episode of The Flophouse.
[1:12:48]
Maybe the sexiest.
[1:12:49]
Actually,
Elliott Kalan
[1:12:50]
it's maybe one of the less sexy episodes of The Flophouse.
Dan McCoy
[1:12:52]
I hope that you've achieved climax by the time that we sign off,
[1:12:57]
which is now.
Elliott Kalan
[1:12:58]
I'm Dan McCoy.
[1:12:59]
You should have begun masturbating at the start of the episode,
[1:13:02]
and now you may come at the sound of the beep.
[1:13:05]
Beep.
[1:13:05]
Oh,
[1:13:06]
that's gross.
[1:13:08]
Should I have said release?
[1:13:10]
Yes.
[1:13:10]
Oh,
[1:13:11]
sorry.
[1:13:11]
Full release.
[1:13:13]
Uh,
[1:13:13]
yeah,
[1:13:13]
I guess I'm,
[1:13:14]
oh man,
[1:13:15]
I'm Stuart.
[1:13:16]
And ashamed as always,
[1:13:18]
I'm Elliot Kalin.
[1:13:19]
Good night,
[1:13:19]
everyone.
[1:13:20]
Stuart wouldn't even say his last name.
[1:13:22]
Cheers.
[1:13:22]
Jizz.
[1:13:23]
Tons of jizz.
[1:13:23]
How are you doing?
[1:13:24]
Squirting all over my dick.
[1:13:26]
Horrible.
Stuart Wellington
[1:13:30]
So I was,
[1:13:31]
I was watching,
[1:13:32]
uh,
[1:13:32]
I was watching the daily show yesterday.
[1:13:34]
So I says to Mabel,
[1:13:35]
I says,
[1:13:35]
I says.
[1:13:35]
And,
[1:13:36]
uh,
Dan McCoy
[1:13:36]
I'll finish this story later.
Stuart Wellington
[1:13:38]
And I liked how you guys had Tom Brokaw on.
[1:13:41]
Oh wait,
[1:13:42]
he's here right now.
[1:13:43]
It's me,
[1:13:44]
Tom Brokaw.
Dan McCoy
[1:13:45]
It's not bad.
[1:13:46]
It's not a bad.
[1:13:47]
It's not good.
[1:13:48]
It's not,
[1:13:48]
but.
[1:13:49]
Greatest generation.
[1:13:51]
Compared to the other.
[1:13:52]
Mike.
[1:13:54]
The fleecing of America.
[1:13:56]
That's me,
[1:13:58]
Tom Brokaw.
Stuart Wellington
[1:13:58]
The greatest generation.
[1:14:00]
No,
[1:14:00]
that's more than.
[1:14:01]
Took me forever to get here.
[1:14:03]
I had to walk.
Elliott Kalan
[1:14:03]
This is Jimmy Stewart.
[1:14:05]
It's higher pitched.
Dan McCoy
[1:14:06]
It's good to meet you.
[1:14:07]
I'm Tom Brokaw.
[1:14:08]
I had to walk the whole way.
Stuart Wellington
[1:14:10]
I don't take the subway train.
Elliott Kalan
[1:14:11]
You got deeper Jimmy Stewart with a little bit more strong confidence.
Stuart Wellington
[1:14:14]
It's me,
Dan McCoy
[1:14:15]
Tom Brokaw.
[1:14:16]
It's Tom Brokaw.
[1:14:17]
Welcome to NBC.
[1:14:18]
I'm really new.
Stuart Wellington
[1:14:20]
If God wanted me to travel in tunnels in the ground,
[1:14:24]
he would have made me shy halloud.
[1:14:27]
It's just like that scene in The Trip.
Elliott Kalan
[1:14:31]
Just like every scene in The Trip.
Dan McCoy
[1:14:33]
I just read Dune.
[1:14:35]
It's great.
Elliott Kalan
[1:14:36]
I consider myself kind of a morn jib of NBC News.
Dan McCoy
[1:14:43]
The greatest generation.
[1:14:46]
You do a good Tom Brokaw.
[1:14:48]
Oh,
[1:14:49]
thanks.
[1:14:49]
Thanks.
[1:14:49]
I'll add that to my.
[1:14:50]
I was on it,
[1:14:51]
Dan.
Elliott Kalan
[1:14:52]
You have two voices you do now.
[1:14:54]
What if Tom Brokaw was on a date with Michael Caine?
Dan McCoy
[1:14:58]
I think it would end in disappointment.
[1:15:01]
Oh,
[1:15:02]
all right.
[1:15:02]
Because they're both straight gentlemen.
Elliott Kalan
[1:15:04]
I was thinking because Michael Caine would,
[1:15:06]
would not be able to last very long.
[1:15:08]
Yeah.
Stuart Wellington
[1:15:09]
Mm-hmm.
[1:15:10]
Yeah.
[1:15:13]
I'm used to a longer lasting lover.
Dan McCoy
[1:15:17]
I'm afraid that you were just too erotic for me.
[1:15:20]
I'm sorry,
[1:15:20]
Tom.
[1:15:21]
I spilled my seed almost immediately.
Stuart Wellington
[1:15:24]
It's all in my hair.
[1:15:30]
Do you have,
[1:15:31]
do you have some kind of comb to cut it out of my head?
[1:15:36]
My hair.
[1:15:37]
No,
[1:15:37]
please leave.
[1:15:38]
Maybe,
[1:15:39]
maybe,
[1:15:39]
maybe peanut butter.
Dan McCoy
[1:15:41]
This is not,
[1:15:42]
this is not,
[1:15:43]
this is not a serious relationship,
[1:15:45]
Tom.
[1:15:45]
This is a one night stand.
[1:15:46]
Would you just take your things and go,
[1:15:48]
but I didn't even get a nut.
Elliott Kalan
[1:15:52]
The ad said no names,
[1:15:54]
except we're both quite famous.
[1:15:56]
It was very hard to avoid us knowing each other's names.
[1:15:59]
you
Description
In the words of Homer Simpson, we've got a hankerin' for some spankerin', as we discuss 50 Shades of Grey. Meanwhile Stuart delivers a eulogy for the rappin' granny, Elliott explains the laziness of British elocution, Dan reveals a porn tale from his past, and we include perhaps our best outtakes ever.Movies recommended in this episode:What We Do in the ShadowsLucyDownhill Racer
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