Dan McCoy joins MFD Spring Break

[0:00] It's MFD Spring Break Spectacular 2025!

[0:08] I'm Dave Holmes, and this is the globally famous MaxFunDraw, the one time of year when

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[0:22] This is the biggest MFD Spring Break in the network's history, and it's going to be wet,

[0:28] wild, and retro.

[0:37] This MFD Spring Break, we're paying tribute to the 90s, celebrating the decades music,

[0:42] movies, and pop culture as only MaxFun can do.

[0:46] But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me in every way that

[0:50] a person can be saved.

[0:53] Our first stop is Basel, Switzerland, where this year's Eurovision Song Contest will take

[0:58] place.

[0:59] I hear it very faintly, somebody say, what's Eurovision?

[1:03] I have the Eurovangelist hosts here to explain it to you.

[1:07] Dimitri, we'll start with you.

[1:08] The short version is, Europe's competing nations all pick a song and an artist.

[1:13] They send it to the host city, and they all compete in an amazing showdown to find out

[1:18] what's the best song in Europe that year.

[1:21] Oh yeah.

[1:22] Oscar, anything to add?

[1:23] It's the gay Superbowl, it's just a bunch of spectacle, a bunch of lights, a bunch of

[1:30] good times.

[1:31] Oscar, thank you for pointing out that it is lit.

[1:33] They don't have it in the dark like some song contests do.

[1:36] Jeremy?

[1:37] My standard line for describing what Eurovision is, is that it is street fighter, but with

[1:41] music.

[1:42] There you go.

[1:43] Now, I found out the three of you were going to host the world's largest dance party at

[1:47] the Dance Pavilion, sponsored by Dunkaroos and Hollister.

[1:52] So I was a little jealous.

[1:53] But then I realized I could fly over, I could attend this dance party, and you guys have

[1:57] all the pressure of organizing it.

[1:59] So we are about ten minutes from the start of your dance party, before you take the stage

[2:05] as a three-headed DJ, can you give us a little preview of a spring break appropriate Eurovision

[2:10] songs that you have selected to play and why?

[2:14] It's a shame people can't see the three-headed DJ costume.

[2:16] Yeah, it's pretty cool.

[2:17] I should let our Eurovision experts take the stage first.

[2:20] Let's kick it off the right way, as we stand next to the river Rhine.

[2:24] I think there's no better song for your Eurovision spring break playlist than, of course, Grease

[2:30] 2001, with Die For You by Antique.

[2:35] We have future Eurovision winner, Elena Paparizou, performing with a dear friend, a wonderful

[2:55] early 2000s dance bop that's all about the devotion to your loved one, even until the

[3:00] point of death.

[3:02] That is an excellent lead-off clip, Dimitri.

[3:05] Who's got next?

[3:06] Listen, when I think about spring break, I think about MTV spring break, I think people

[3:11] in scantily clad bathing suits in Cancun sort of partying, and I kind of want to go back

[3:16] to that mid-90s kind of vibe with a song that kind of hit in the US, but no one really knows

[3:23] that it's a Eurovision song.

[3:25] I'm picking Ooh Ah just a little bit from the UK 1996 by the one, the only, Gina G.

[3:46] The feelings are right.

[3:47] It's great.

[3:48] You can grind up on somebody in a consensual way.

[3:51] The vibes are correct.

[3:53] Love that.

[3:55] It's one of those rare Eurovision songs that crossed over.

[3:58] Now, it only crossed over so far as the gay clubs of 1996 and 1997.

[4:03] It didn't get too much further than that, but that's enough.

[4:06] Counts.

[4:07] But as we know, the gay clubs in the 90s set the culture for the rest of us.

[4:12] That's very true.

[4:13] So, when it was cool with the gays, it was cool with everybody.

[4:16] Now, speaking of cool with the gays, you need a song that's going to get everybody on the

[4:20] dance floor moving and like just going crazy.

[4:25] And so, I need to celebrate perhaps the greatest drag performer in Eurovision history.

[4:30] I'm talking Ukraine's 2007 Verka Sertuchka with their song Dancing La Shatumba.

[4:36] Amazing.

[4:37] If this does not get your party going, like I don't know what to tell you.

[4:53] The party's dead.

[4:55] This came in second place and it's also a great anti-Russia imperialism song, so we

[5:00] love that as well.

[5:01] In your face, Putin.

[5:02] Never more topical than right now.

[5:05] I would like to slide one in, if I could.

[5:07] Dave, of course.

[5:08] You're a Eurovangelist, too.

[5:10] Who knows Spring Break better than Dave Holmes?

[5:12] Well, that's very true.

[5:14] There's a song from, I believe the year was 1973, it's a Eurovision winner, and it really

[5:20] encapsulates what the whole thing is.

[5:22] It was 1975.

[5:23] It was 1975.

[5:24] Do you know what I'm going to say?

[5:25] I'm assuming you're going to go with Ding-a-Dong.

[5:28] You know that's right.

[5:29] 1975 from...

[5:30] Netherlands.

[5:31] Netherlands.

[5:32] Netherlands.

[5:33] I know the line is a big hit, but it really sounds like, ding-a-dong, listen to it, maybe

[5:39] it's a bigot.

[5:40] Even when your lover is gone, gone, gone, ding-a-dong, listen to it, maybe it's a bigot.

[5:41] Even when your lover is gone, gone, gone, ding-ding-ding-dong.

[5:55] But I love it.

[5:56] It makes no sense and it's so 1973 or 5, it's everything.

[6:01] I prefer maybe it's a bigot.

[6:03] That's funnier to me.

[6:04] Honestly, it's something we're all saying to ourselves when we meet someone new.

[6:08] Maybe it's a bigot.

[6:09] It's happening a lot these days.

[6:10] It is happening a lot these days.

[6:11] Okay, I'm seeing the stage manager trying to get your attention, which means we are

[6:17] almost out of time.

[6:19] So let's jump ahead to your Crescendo songs.

[6:22] What are your closing bangers, Jeremy?

[6:26] Boy, okay.

[6:28] I am the resident rock fan at Eurovision.

[6:31] And obviously pop and rock have a symbiosis that goes back many, many decades.

[6:37] But never has it been more truly expressed at Eurovision than in 2006 with Lordi's Hard

[6:44] Rock Hallelujah.

[6:45] Hard rock hallelujah.

[6:46] Hard rock hallelujah.

[6:47] Hard rock yeah.

[6:48] I've been rolling.

[7:04] And just imagining hitting a high right when Hard Rock Hallelujah drops in, I don't know,

[7:08] feels pretty good to me.

[7:09] I like it.

[7:10] Oscar?

[7:11] Great pick.

[7:12] Okay, this is going to be a controversial one because this one just was just released.

[7:17] And it's the song that I keep coming back to.

[7:23] If you want people to dance, the Crescendo is happening.

[7:26] And you want people to get horny and laugh a little, giggle it a little bit.

[7:30] I'm going for the Malta entry of this year's Eurovision 2025.

[7:38] I'm talking about Mariana Conte-Kant, spelled K-A-N-T, which is Maltese for sing.

[7:56] Singing, she's serving singing.

[8:04] But she does, the chorus does go like this, Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-So and it is serving singing.

[8:12] She's serving singing, but she's also serving.

[8:17] If that isn't a song to get people up, that is going to do it for me.

[8:22] Okay, go on, Malta.

[8:23] Absolutely.

[8:24] Dimitri?

[8:26] Our excitement is beat.

[8:27] Our hearts are beating like a drum.

[8:29] In fact, there's a Eurovision song that talks about your heart beating like a drum when

[8:34] you're dancing out partying with the one you love.

[8:36] I'm talking about Turkey 2009, Düm Tök Tök.

[8:40] Can you feel the rhythm in my heart, the beat's going Düm Tök Tök, oh without it like there's

[8:46] no name, it feels like there's no way back.

[8:50] I love that song, Düm Tök Tök.

[8:54] When you end your playlist with Düm Tök Tök, everyone's walking out happy.

[8:57] Oh, I love it.

[8:58] I love it.

[8:59] I need this playlist in my life right now.

[9:03] Good news, we got it waiting for you on Spotify.

[9:04] We'll put it in the show notes.

[9:05] Love it.

[9:06] Dave, you only got one.

[9:07] Why don't you end this, Dave?

[9:09] You finish on the playlist.

[9:10] I unabashedly love, and I don't remember the year, but I know it was Sweden, Måns Zermeloft's

[9:16] Heroes.

[9:17] We are the heroes of our time, heroes, but we're dancing with demons in our minds, heroes.

[9:32] 2015.

[9:33] Heroes.

[9:34] When I'm out running and my energy begins to flag a little bit, guess what puts the

[9:39] wind back in my sails?

[9:41] Måns.

[9:42] Måns.

[9:43] All right, you guys, thank you so much for doing this.

[9:45] I got to hop back on the Concorde and head back to South Padre Island.

[9:49] Thank you very much for taking the time to chat with me right before the biggest event

[9:52] of your careers.

[9:53] Oh, yeah, we got to get into our three-headed DJ costume.

[9:55] Oh, yes.

[9:56] Yep.

[9:57] You got to do it right now.

[9:59] Coming up, we'll check in with...

[10:00] Hal Lublin, who's hanging out at the 90s pop culture Appreciation Cabana.

[10:04] Pele speaks righteous.

[10:06] Sister Zina says funky, how bizarre, how bizarre, how bizarre.

[10:14] But first, it's show versus show versus show versus show.

[10:18] As Go Fact Yourself's J.

[10:20] Keith Van Straten hosts an epic trivia

[10:23] showdown with Secretly Incredibly Fascinating's Alex Schmidt.

[10:27] Secret histories of nerd mysteries.

[10:29] Brenda Snell.

[10:30] Let's learn everything's Tom Lum and from just the zoo of us, Ellen Weatherford.

[10:38] All right, the person who gets the most

[10:39] questions correct will have gotten the most questions correct.

[10:43] Here's how it's going to work.

[10:44] I'm going to ask you a question.

[10:45] If you know the answer, say the first word

[10:47] in your show name and the first one to call out can guess first.

[10:52] Please wait for me to call on you and let's practice our buzz in words.

[10:55] Ellen, what's your buzz in word?

[10:56] Just Alex.

[10:58] I'm going to go with SIF because it's fast.

[10:59] SIF. Brenda?

[11:01] Secret. And Tom?

[11:03] Let's. All right.

[11:04] Here is your first question. Here we go.

[11:07] The X-Men belong to a long line of fantastic characters, which started

[11:11] with the Human Torch in 1939 from Timely Publications.

[11:14] Timely's name changed to Atlas Comics

[11:17] in the 1950s, and it changed to what name in 1961?

[11:21] Secret. Let's. Secret, I heard first.

[11:23] Marvel. Marvel is correct.

[11:25] And Secret is on the board.

[11:26] Very nice job, Brenda.

[11:28] Here is your next question.

[11:29] Cheers has one of television's most

[11:31] memorable theme songs written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo.

[11:35] Although it's known as the theme from Cheers.

[11:38] What is the actual title of the theme song?

[11:40] Secret. Secret.

[11:42] Is it is it called where everybody knows your name or no?

[11:45] Well, this is the part where you answer instead of ask.

[11:48] So if you would phrase that as an answer.

[11:50] Is it not Jeopardy Rules?

[11:51] No, no, not Jeopardy Rules.

[11:53] Oh, let's be confident then.

[11:54] Is it where everybody knows your name?

[11:57] It is where everybody knows your name.

[11:59] Secret running away with it so far.

[12:01] Two to nothing, to nothing, to nothing.

[12:02] Let's see if the others can get on the board.

[12:05] Oh, who here loves sports?

[12:07] That's what I thought.

[12:08] I'm wearing a baseball hat. You are?

[12:10] OK.

[12:12] On March 10th, 1955,

[12:14] the Zamboni made its debut in what professional sports league?

[12:18] Let's. Let's, I heard first.

[12:21] The NHL. That is correct.

[12:23] Tom and Let's Learn Everything are on the board.

[12:25] The National Hockey League.

[12:27] Fun fact, Zamboni is a registered trademark of the Zamboni company,

[12:31] and they are very protective of their trademark.

[12:34] Here's your next one.

[12:35] The movie Kill Bill, volume one opens

[12:38] with the quote, Revenge is a dish best served cold,

[12:41] which is credited to a proverb of what species of Star Trek aliens?

[12:46] Just. Just, I heard.

[12:49] Klingon. Klingon is correct.

[12:51] And I can't believe we had that much of a delay regarding a Star Trek quest.

[12:54] There's a lot of Star Trek aliens, OK?

[12:56] Yeah, there are.

[12:57] It loops back around.

[12:59] If you know too much, then you're like, well, it could be.

[13:02] Exactly.

[13:03] I was in a mind palace about the Tholians.

[13:06] I was like lost somewhere.

[13:08] Yeah. All right.

[13:09] Here we go with our next question.

[13:11] We've got a game going now.

[13:12] As shown in the musical,

[13:13] Alexander Hamilton was the United States first secretary of what?

[13:18] I think that was Alex. Yes.

[13:20] The Treasury. That is correct.

[13:22] Ten dollar founding father, secretary of Treasury.

[13:25] Treasury or state. Treasury or state.

[13:27] Treasury. All right.

[13:28] Here's your next question.

[13:30] According to one of TV's Twilight Zone's openings,

[13:33] you're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight

[13:36] and sound, but of what? Secret.

[13:38] Secret. I literally just listened to this.

[13:41] But of mind, mind.

[13:44] That is my answer. That is your answer.

[13:46] The confidence is growing.

[13:47] And with good reason. That is correct.

[13:49] Sight and sound of mind.

[13:51] This there's literally like that in like what I'm doing for this week's episode

[13:55] of the podcast, I literally just watched that opening.

[13:58] Was that a coincidence or did we conspire to help you get that answer?

[14:01] Correct.

[14:02] This goes all the way to the top.

[14:04] I'm all the way to an episode.

[14:08] Here's your next question.

[14:09] Tom Lehrer noted for his song on The Electric Company,

[14:12] there's a certain magic letter that can turn a can into a cane,

[14:15] turn a pan into a pane and make a little hug become huge instantly.

[14:20] If you just add what quiet vowel?

[14:22] Just.

[14:23] I heard just first.

[14:25] E.

[14:26] More specific, please.

[14:27] Silent E. Silent E is the answer we're looking for.

[14:30] That is the wonderful song with wonderful

[14:32] animation by the wonderful Tom Lehrer.

[14:35] What is the proper term for the motion cats make by rhythmically alternating

[14:39] their paws, pushing in and out against a pliable object?

[14:43] Just. Just.

[14:44] Kneading. Kneading is correct.

[14:46] Yes. Kneading, otherwise known as making biscuits.

[14:49] Making biscuits, yes.

[14:51] It's one of my favorite cute things that kitties do.

[14:53] I like that it's still a baking term.

[14:55] I thought it was going to be much more scientific or allergy or something.

[15:00] All right, let's move on to our next question.

[15:02] This one has to do with Canada and food.

[15:04] In the early part of the 2000s, thieves stole 3000 tons of what Canadian

[15:10] foodstuff valued at eighteen point seven million dollars.

[15:13] Of course, that's Canadian dollars.

[15:15] Let's. Oh, Canadian dollars.

[15:16] Never mind. No.

[15:17] Maple syrup.

[15:19] Maple syrup is correct.

[15:20] That's right. Three thousand tons of maple syrup.

[15:24] Fun fact, Canada has a cartel that controls

[15:27] over 70 percent of the world's supply of maple syrup.

[15:30] But I know a guy if you want to.

[15:32] He makes blue. He makes blue maple syrup.

[15:35] Yeah, it's pure.

[15:36] So pure.

[15:38] All right, here's our next question.

[15:40] Anxiety over World War two breaking out

[15:42] in Europe led some handbags to be designed with a stylish compartment to hold what

[15:47] life saving device just just a knife, a knife, incorrect.

[15:53] But that definitely is handy in New York.

[15:55] So if bigger knife,

[15:59] that's right, they would say now that's a knife.

[16:01] Yeah, yeah.

[16:03] No. Any other guesses?

[16:05] Let's let's a gas mask, gas mask.

[16:08] That's ridiculous. And correct.

[16:10] Oh, that's right.

[16:13] The gas mask is mightier than the knife.

[16:17] I love playing rock, paper, gas mask.

[16:20] Yes, that's right.

[16:22] Respirators or gas masks were part of a line of luxury handbags that were designed

[16:27] and sold near World War two me around World War two in Europe.

[16:31] The Chanel gas mask.

[16:33] Yeah, I am. Who are you wearing?

[16:39] You know,

[16:43] all right, let's move on.

[16:45] Here's some questions about improv comedy.

[16:48] He was an acclaimed writer, director, producer and actor.

[16:50] She is an acclaimed writer, director, producer and actor.

[16:53] And together, they're probably the greatest improv duo of all time,

[16:57] whose comedy records made the pop music charts and won the Grammy.

[17:01] Who are they, Sif, Sif Nichols and May?

[17:04] That is correct. Yes.

[17:05] We also would have accepted May and Nichols.

[17:06] Yes, Nichols and May, of course, is correct.

[17:09] The Grammy winning comedy duo.

[17:11] Any fans of Breaking Bad here?

[17:14] Well, let's see how you do anyway on this.

[17:17] I made that reference about the blue thing.

[17:20] So, Tom, fake fan, fake fan, big, big fan.

[17:23] Well, there are some rabid fans of Breaking Bad, some of whom like to visit

[17:27] the actual filming locations of the show in Albuquerque and recreate some

[17:31] of the show's iconic moments.

[17:32] This led show creator Vince Gilligan to beg

[17:34] the fans to stop going to the actual house used as Walter White's home

[17:37] and throwing what large circular food on the roof?

[17:40] Let's let's I think you were in first.

[17:44] Yeah, I was going to buzz in the moment you said house.

[17:47] I knew what this was going to be.

[17:48] This is throwing pizzas on the roof.

[17:50] That is correct. Yes, he does that.

[17:52] Exactly. Yes.

[17:53] Please do not throw pizzas on the roof.

[17:55] Please bring them to my doorstep.

[17:59] All right. Another TV question.

[18:01] While the TV show Roseanne gained a claim

[18:03] for its depiction of a working class family, season nine of the show depicted

[18:07] the same family as incredibly wealthy.

[18:09] How did the family come upon this sudden fortune?

[18:12] Secret. Secret.

[18:14] Roseanne won the lottery. That is correct.

[18:16] Yes. You won the question and Roseanne won the lottery.

[18:19] Hey, let's get a score update as we head

[18:21] into the final French of questions. We've got Alex with two.

[18:25] We've got Ellen with three.

[18:27] And we've got a tie at the top.

[18:29] Brenda and Tom with four.

[18:30] A very close game.

[18:32] Anybody could win, but we probably know it's not going to be one of these people.

[18:37] All right. Here we go.

[18:38] Our next question.

[18:40] I didn't say the name, but it's directed at me and I'm OK with it.

[18:43] No, that's nice.

[18:45] Again, the stakes could not be lower.

[18:47] Much of the film Ed Wood involves the making of what critics Michael and Harry

[18:52] Medved would later call the worst film ever made.

[18:55] What sci fi film featuring Criswell,

[18:57] Vampyra and Bela Lugosi do we get to see come to life?

[19:00] Sith. Sith.

[19:02] Is this one Plan Nine from Outer Space?

[19:04] It is Plan Nine from Outer Space.

[19:06] Very nice. Very nice job.

[19:08] The musical Les Miserables is based on the novel Les Miserables published in 1862.

[19:13] Who is the author of that novel?

[19:15] Secret. Just. Secret.

[19:17] It is.

[19:19] Oh, my gosh, I blanked on it.

[19:21] I relent.

[19:24] Ellen, you were the next one in.

[19:25] Hugo. Victor Hugo is correct.

[19:28] In the season three episode of the Brady

[19:30] bunches, Her Sister's Shadow, Jan complains about not getting the kind

[19:33] of attention one of her siblings gets in doing so.

[19:36] What name does Jan memorably repeat three times?

[19:39] Sith. Sith.

[19:40] Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.

[19:42] That is correct. Correct.

[19:43] Correct.

[19:44] Why did I think it was Bloody Mary three times?

[19:47] So it's like clearly when he says that, then she again.

[19:52] Oh, God, Marsha. Oh, oh, no.

[19:53] I'm falling down the stairs. She pushed me downstairs.

[19:55] As long as you don't say Beetlejuice or Candyman, I think we're OK.

[19:59] All right.

[20:00] Ladies and gentlemen, we are all tied up at four,

[20:04] all tied up.

[20:05] Everybody is currently in the lead.

[20:08] Oh my God.

[20:09] And it is going to come down to this one last question.

[20:14] In Ontario, Canada, more than 75% of milk

[20:18] is sold in what type of container?

[20:20] Secret.

[20:21] Bags.

[20:22] Bags is correct.

[20:23] Congratulations, Brenda.

[20:24] We got it perfect on this, on our podcast.

[20:26] I didn't know I was coincident.

[20:28] Congratulations, Brenda.

[20:29] Good job, Brenda, you did it.

[20:32] Of this very important, very exciting trivia showdown.

[20:36] Congratulations.

[20:36] Well, hey, everybody, I want to thank you,

[20:38] Tom Lom, Ellen Weatherford, Brenda Snell, and Alex Schmidt.

[20:42] Now, where can listeners who aren't here with us

[20:44] at the Long Beach Convention Center

[20:46] Promenade Meeting Room find you?

[20:47] Ellen, why don't you go ahead and tell us.

[20:49] Just the zoo of us on Maximum Fun,

[20:51] wherever you get podcasts.

[20:53] And Alex?

[20:54] Yeah, secretly incredibly fascinating.

[20:55] If you search secretly in a podcast app,

[20:57] that's the red one.

[20:59] And Tom?

[21:00] Where let's learn everything.

[21:01] We did a topic about bagged milk with a Canadian,

[21:03] if you want to learn some more about that.

[21:05] Amazing, and Brenda?

[21:07] You find me on Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries

[21:09] on Maximum Fun.

[21:11] Excellent, and I'm J. Keith Van Straten

[21:12] from Go Fact Yourself here on Maximum Fun.

[21:14] Hey, thanks so much for everybody who supports us

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[21:21] All right, don't go anywhere, listeners.

[21:22] There's more show right after this.

[21:25] We got to go to break, but when I come back,

[21:27] I will sit down for an exclusive interview

[21:30] with Auburn College students and guy who died,

[21:33] Thatcher Sawyer.

[21:35] I was pronounced legally dead,

[21:38] and I saw heaven itself.

[21:41] But first, here's Mike Cavallon on stage

[21:44] at the 90s pop culture Appreciation Cabana,

[21:47] appreciating for non-blondes, what's up?

[21:50] For non-blondes, what's up?

[21:54] So I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed

[21:57] just to get it all out, you know, what's in my head.

[22:01] And I am feeling a little peculiar.

[22:06] And so I wake in the morning and I step outside

[22:08] and I take a deep breath and I get real high

[22:12] and I scream from the top of my lungs, what's going on?

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[24:38] MFD Spring Break 2025.

[24:41] We are in the Fruitopia one-on-one interview lounge.

[24:45] I am Dave Holmes.

[24:46] With a young man who's down here

[24:48] all the way from Auburn University.

[24:50] He's a little bit of a Spring Break celebrity.

[24:53] Please welcome Thatcher Sawyer.

[24:54] Hi Thatcher.

[24:56] Dave, it's great to be here.

[24:58] I can't wait to share my story with everybody.

[25:00] We can't wait to be shared in that story.

[25:04] Yeah, go Sandpipers, go Sandpipers.

[25:07] We're the number one school in rowing, lacrosse, and shorts.

[25:13] Yeah, and an excellent pair of shorts

[25:16] on you right now, Thatcher.

[25:18] Madras never looked so good.

[25:19] So you had a bit of an interesting experience

[25:23] at Spring Break last year.

[25:24] Why don't you tell us about it?

[25:25] Well, Dave, during Spring Break last year,

[25:28] I legally died.

[25:31] Thatcher.

[25:32] I was pronounced legally dead,

[25:35] and I saw heaven itself.

[25:38] Okay, back me up a few steps, Thatcher.

[25:41] What happened?

[25:42] What were the circumstances of your Spring Break death?

[25:45] I was a tragic victim of mixing.

[25:49] Obviously, I know this now,

[25:50] but like I just want to say

[25:51] to all the young people out there,

[25:53] if you're partying, if you're throwing down,

[25:55] just watch for mixing,

[25:56] because I unfortunately mixed tequila, Celsius,

[26:00] and being on a balcony that collapsed.

[26:03] Wow, oh, that's a difficult combination.

[26:06] Because of that, I was legally dead for 14 minutes,

[26:10] but was brought back to life by heroic EMTs.

[26:14] They're the real heroes.

[26:15] But in the time that I was gone,

[26:18] I was fortunate enough to see heaven,

[26:21] to see the other side,

[26:22] and to see what awaits us after the party's over.

[26:27] I have so many questions about the afterlife.

[26:29] I'm just gonna start.

[26:29] What does it smell like?

[26:31] It's just got this wonderful, smoky smell,

[26:35] like a smoky, sulfur, charcoal.

[26:40] You ever catch your flesh on fire?

[26:42] You ever catch your hair or flesh on fire?

[26:45] Maybe you fall in a bonfire,

[26:46] you get too drunk at a bonfire?

[26:48] So it smells a little bit like when human flesh burns,

[26:52] just like gorgeous smells in heaven.

[26:54] Wow, oh God.

[26:56] Yeah, so a little bit like a fire pit

[27:01] or a Korean barbecue, but human flesh.

[27:03] Yeah, human flesh, exactly.

[27:05] It's kind of got a stench, kind of a reek,

[27:09] but I was into it.

[27:11] The music playing in heaven,

[27:13] is it what you're listening to when you die,

[27:16] or is there special heaven afterlife music?

[27:19] You know, I assumed I would be up there

[27:21] jamming with the greats.

[27:23] I play a little guitar, Dave.

[27:24] Do you know that I play a little guitar?

[27:25] I didn't know that, but I did assume.

[27:27] People love it when they're at a party with me

[27:30] and I break out the acoustic

[27:31] and I throw down a little Buffalo Soldier.

[27:33] Oh, I love that.

[27:35] No matter what's playing on the stereo,

[27:37] it's a song of revolution, Dave.

[27:39] And it speaks so directly to your own personal experiences.

[27:42] Exactly, I've had a lot of hardship.

[27:44] You know, Bob Marley, he gets me.

[27:46] Anyway, what I was assuming was that I would be in heaven

[27:50] jamming with Hendrix, Bob Marley,

[27:52] the one guy from Dave Matthews' band that died.

[27:55] I didn't really see many, many musicians.

[27:58] There was this really cool guy though,

[28:00] Genghis Khan.

[28:01] Oh, yeah, I've heard that name.

[28:03] Is he on Survivor or Big Brother?

[28:06] No, I think he was like a leader or something.

[28:11] Not a history guy,

[28:12] more of just like a school of life kind of guy.

[28:15] He's great with percussion

[28:17] and he had this friend there, Vlad the Impaler.

[28:21] Is he a TikToker?

[28:22] He's a TikToker.

[28:23] Maybe, he might be a TikToker.

[28:25] I have like a different TikTok algorithm than most people.

[28:29] I'm on Crosstalk, which is like CrossFit

[28:32] and talking over each other.

[28:34] That's my TikTok algorithm.

[28:36] But this guy was really cool

[28:37] and, you know, we had a little drum circle

[28:40] and it was like just really cool

[28:41] and like expressive and spiritual.

[28:44] It was kind of right up your alley, the afterlife.

[28:46] Oh, yeah.

[28:47] But something pulled you back.

[28:50] I'm just curious what that was.

[28:51] Yeah, you know, I think I just realized

[28:53] that I had a lot of unfinished business

[28:55] to take care of here on earth.

[28:57] Of course, I have my great girlfriend, Kendra

[29:00] and she and I were supposed to go to a wedding.

[29:03] So I didn't want to like miss out on that.

[29:05] It was her cousin, who's really cool,

[29:07] who's kind of like a cousin to me in many ways.

[29:09] I have a lot of great ideas for apps.

[29:11] So I think I like wanted to make sure

[29:13] that like I get some of these apps off the ground.

[29:15] And of course, Dave Matthews Band is touring in the fall.

[29:18] So I just wanted to come back for that.

[29:19] And now, this is so exciting.

[29:21] Maximum Fun and Miramax together

[29:24] are getting into the film business

[29:26] and our first film is a dramatization of your story.

[29:32] Yeah, it was just like really exciting.

[29:34] Of course, like my uncle's an executive at Miramax.

[29:37] So he like fast tracked it.

[29:39] Just a really, really good script from Diablo Cody.

[29:43] She was fun to work with.

[29:44] She really responded well to my many notes.

[29:47] Yeah, I think I'm just like really excited

[29:49] to like finally see myself up on screen, you know.

[29:52] Representation is so important and I am.

[29:55] I think I'm just like excited to finally tell the story

[29:59] of a straight white.

[30:00] guy that died, and hopefully others can be inspired by my

[30:03] journey.

[30:04] And Thatcher, you brought a scene? Can you set it up for us?

[30:07] Yeah, this is the pivotal scene where the heroic EMTs bring me

[30:11] back from heaven.

[30:14] Can you just tell me if my boyfriend is even alive?

[30:18] I'm doing compressions. Come on, dude. Take a breath. Think

[30:24] about the memes that you might go on to send to your friends

[30:28] and family. Look at those madras slacks. I see his eyes

[30:36] fluttering. There's life in those eyes. Yeah, man.

[30:46] Incredible. Thatcher Sawyer's Oops, I fell and died comes out

[30:50] this May. Cannot wait. Everybody go see it. What are Clint and

[30:54] Justin McElroy up to in Daytona Beach?

[30:57] Be positive that it won't hurt.

[31:00] Right and give me your blood.

[31:03] Still ahead, the segment MFDs lawyers don't want us to do.

[31:07] It's gonna be wild.

[31:12] I love watching wrestling and talking about wrestling and

[31:16] interviewing wrestlers. It's pretty cool. You know, I'm able

[31:20] to do all these incredible things. Because a friend didn't

[31:23] let me mix tequila and Celsius and step out onto a wobbly

[31:27] balcony and South Beach. Friends don't let other friends mix on

[31:32] balconies.

[31:35] Hey there, I am Dave Holmes and you are experiencing the MFD

[31:39] 2025 spring break spectacular. I'm at the fruit by the foot

[31:44] party animal pavilion in South Padre Island, where hundreds of

[31:49] party animals have been competing all day long for our

[31:52] first annual golden chalice trophy. And you can hear just

[31:57] how wild it is. We're down to our final contestants. And the

[32:02] winner today will be going home with this rad golden chalice

[32:07] filled with the party animals favorite snack. So without

[32:10] further ado, let's say bonjour to our remaining handlers. From

[32:15] Dr. Game Show Manolo Moreno, Eurovangelists Jeremy Bent. Let's

[32:20] learn everything's Tom Lum. And from just the zoo of us, Ellen

[32:24] Weatherford. First up Manolo Moreno. Now your buddy here is

[32:30] really going to town on those bagel bites, proving the adage

[32:34] that when pizzas on a bagel, you can have pizza anytime. Who's

[32:38] your friend here?

[32:39] I brought a party pig. His name is Piggachad. Here he is right

[32:47] now.

[32:48] There he is. What's his name again?

[32:50] Piggachad. He just said he just said that he was annoyed by the

[32:54] flight. Because people kept telling him to go under the

[32:59] seat. He said, yeah, he said he wanted to fly the plane.

[33:06] We could do a lot worse these days. Yeah. So I understand you

[33:09] actually speak pig. That's impressive.

[33:12] Yeah, I mostly understand it.

[33:15] You don't speak it. You do. I do. Yeah, I interpret it and read

[33:19] it.

[33:19] You mostly don't like where's the bathroom stuff like that.

[33:22] Yeah, yeah. Which is weird because my pig likes traveling.

[33:28] Yeah, he likes traveling. He just came back from France. And

[33:33] he learned some French. If you want to hear what he said. He

[33:37] said.

[33:43] And yeah, that does mean where's the bathroom?

[33:47] He is multilingual. So when did you realize Manolo that Piggachad

[33:52] liked to party?

[33:53] I heard him down the street at his those party houses. He likes

[34:00] singing this song.

[34:08] And that's when I knew.

[34:10] Jeremy bet who you got with you. And why do they like to party?

[34:14] These are bonobos. Dave bonobos. Yeah. Our closest non human

[34:19] relative. But also animals known to party. Wow. What do you mean

[34:26] by that? Okay, so these animals, they're very close to humans.

[34:29] They're another their fellow primate. They're one of two

[34:32] animals within the chimp family. Because bonobos are our type of

[34:36] chimp. But they are the only animal that exhibits a similar

[34:42] behavior to us humans. They tongue kiss just like we do. So

[34:45] these animals like to get down.

[34:48] Jeremy, what are your bonobos named?

[34:51] When I first met them, they told me their names are Manny and

[34:53] Tess.

[34:53] Manny and Tess. So when did you realize that your bonobos like

[34:58] to throw down?

[34:59] Well, you know, once you see, you know, a big community of

[35:02] bonobos in action, you realize that like, oh, they like, they

[35:06] like to get it on. They have sex for pleasure. They do it

[35:09] frequently. They do it with multiple partners, but they also

[35:13] are known to have long friendships and lengthy

[35:16] relationships as well. They're just like a good time gang

[35:19] bonobos.

[35:20] All right. You seem like you actually did some work and

[35:23] research Jeremy Benton. I'm taken by surprise. Tom Lum, who

[35:28] you got with you?

[35:29] Well, I thought one of the most underrated factors of a party

[35:33] animal is a chill hang. And so I brought perhaps the most

[35:37] chillest hanger in the world, the sloth as my party animal.

[35:43] People don't have to know they're nocturnal, so they'll be

[35:45] up all night. They are literally cold blooded, and their

[35:49] temperature will change up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit within a

[35:52] single day because they don't care. They'll just, hey, you

[35:55] know what, I'll rock with whatever we're rocking with.

[35:57] That's so important to the art of partying is resilience. Tom

[36:00] Lum, does your sloth have a name?

[36:03] Um, also Piggachad, weirdly.

[36:05] One of these got to be like Piggachad A and one of you has

[36:08] to be like, Piggachad S.

[36:11] Yeah, like on The Bachelor. Finally, Ellen Weatherford,

[36:15] who's with you? And why do they like to party?

[36:17] Well, I've brought only two to 300 of my closest friends. I've

[36:21] brought a colony of Western honeybees, Apis mellifera. So

[36:25] you know, I feel like there's no bigger bummer than getting to a

[36:27] party and realizing that it's like all dudes. So I figured I

[36:33] would bring you know, a few hundred females because the in a

[36:39] honeybee colony, the only males are a few sort of like, they're

[36:45] basically just there for reproduction occasionally, and

[36:48] everyone else is all females. So I brought some literal fly

[36:52] honeys.

[36:53] Some fly honeys. Now talk to me about their partying strategies

[37:00] and likes and dislikes.

[37:01] They are extremely social. They bring snacks to the party. When

[37:06] they collect pollen, they you know, attach pollen to their

[37:09] body and then they process it into something called bee bread.

[37:11] So they are bringing snacks to share. They also communicate

[37:15] with dance moves, which I feel like there's nothing more party

[37:18] than that.

[37:18] So true. We will be back later this hour from the fruit by the

[37:25] foot party pavilion to see which of these competitors will go

[37:29] home with the golden chalice. While we take a break, our

[37:32] judges, Lori Petty, Gerardo, and the guy who plays the guitar

[37:37] player in California dreams with the show that is like Saved by

[37:41] the Bell, but it's banned instead of high school. They

[37:44] will review our contestants and come to a decision. Stick around

[37:50] for more MFD Spring Break.

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[39:06] Well, our judges have rendered a verdict. I'll go through one by

[39:13] one. PikaChad, PikaChad, PikaChad the sloth. Your resilience

[39:21] made my insides bounce for joy. But your internal cooling left

[39:27] me cold. I'm sorry, my dear, but you are eliminated. Manny and

[39:32] Tess, the bonobos. Your level of affection made me warm inside.

[39:38] But overall, I found your appearance to be pants. That

[39:42] means we are down to two competitors. PikaChad the pig

[39:48] and a big swarm of honeybees. Congratulations, Manolo, you win

[39:56] the Fruit Gushers Golden Chalice.

[40:00] So, what would Pig-a-Chad like to fill it with?

[40:04] More beer.

[40:08] More beer. Boy, this guy likes to party.

[40:12] Ellen, you were so close and yet so far. Do you think you'll try again next year?

[40:16] Yeah, for sure. The colony is always here. It keeps...

[40:20] The colony never goes away. This colony will never collapse, baby.

[40:24] Stick around for more MFD Spring Break.

[40:30] Welcome back to MFD

[40:34] Spring Break. We're channeling the 90s, and I've asked a few of this

[40:38] network's greatest movie minds to compile a list of the decade's most

[40:42] iconic films. We are in the Orville Redenbacher Extreme

[40:46] Amounts of Movie Theater Butter Microwave Popcorn screening room for Maximum Film.

[40:50] It's Drea Clark and Alonzo Giraldi. Welcome.

[40:54] Hello. Hootie-hoo. How are you? How's your spring break? This is my first real

[40:58] spring break, so it's a rum-springa energy

[41:02] for me. I'm very excited to be here. She's already had her hair braided.

[41:06] And you are actually holding a bottle of Malibu rum in your hands. Yeah!

[41:10] It's a sponsored rum-springa. It's a spiced rum-springa.

[41:14] Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm. Welcome to the both of you, and welcome also from the

[41:18] Flophouse, Dan McCoy. Hello, welcome, Dan. Hello.

[41:22] Drea, Alonzo, and Dan are compiling a list of their picks for the most culturally

[41:26] impactful movies of the 90s. Let's get started. Alonzo?

[41:30] Well, I mean, 1999, obviously, is quite rightly pointed

[41:34] at as a movie, as a year that really, like, changed film

[41:38] a lot and threw a lot of, you know, kind of

[41:42] wrenches in the system of big studio filmmaking, and you had a lot of Indio tours

[41:46] making these big breakthroughs and going wild, so

[41:50] I'm gonna make the case that

[41:54] even though it was not a success in theaters,

[41:58] Fight Club really kind of set

[42:02] a new tone of, like, dude-speak and

[42:06] a certain kind of male ego expressing itself

[42:10] in the culture and feeling victimized by the culture

[42:14] that I think has continued to reverberate through the social media era.

[42:18] The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club.

[42:22] That poster on the wall of some of the worst guys I ever

[42:26] hooked up with. Exactly. You see that bar of soap, you turn

[42:30] around and leave. Oh, yeah, you gotta go. Drea?

[42:34] I would say 1995's Clueless.

[42:38] Clueless gave us a whole new vernacular,

[42:42] it gave us fashion, quotes for days,

[42:46] it really allowed us to finally all want that aspirational

[42:50] crush on a stepbrother that really cinema had been

[42:54] begging for. So wrong, but so right. Right? Like, we were

[42:58] really all rooting for her to get with her stepbrother, and why not?

[43:02] Because it's Paul Rudd. What's with you? What do you mean?

[43:06] So quiet. Like, it launched a thousand ships of stars,

[43:10] everybody knows one line now of the song Rolling with the Ponies,

[43:14] like, what is not to love about Clueless?

[43:18] Find me someone who hasn't dreamt of getting a yellow plaid little suit

[43:22] set, and I'll find you a liar. Damn right. I love Clueless, but

[43:26] I do remember, even at the time, like, being like, is no one else noticing

[43:30] this about their, I mean, I know that they're not blood relations, but no one

[43:34] seems to have a problem with it at all. He's playing someone

[43:38] who was raised, the Austen character was raised in like

[43:42] the neighboring estate, so it's someone she'd known her whole life, was not related to

[43:46] her by marriage or otherwise. Okay. Dan McCoy, how about you? I think this

[43:50] is less groundbreaking than more just like trend-setting

[43:54] in that it collaged a bunch of stuff that we hadn't

[43:58] really seen put together before, in that Pulp Fiction

[44:02] from 94, like, brought this sort of

[44:06] humor and glibness to a pulp crime story

[44:10] in a way that, you know, is not utterly new

[44:14] but felt very trend-setting, like, you couldn't, for like the next

[44:18] decade, you couldn't go to a video store without seeing

[44:22] a dozen knockoffs of people who are like, oh, I get it, you just make

[44:26] the crimes funny. You know what they call

[44:30] a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris? They don't call it a quarter pounder

[44:34] with cheese? I mean, they get the metric system, they wouldn't know what the quarter pounder is.

[44:38] What do they call it? They call it a Royale with Cheese.

[44:42] And that's all they got from it. They didn't get any of the other

[44:46] skill. The punchline is a gunshot. Yeah.

[44:50] Saw it the night it came out in New York City at the Angelica Theater. The subway

[44:54] roared underneath us and rumbled our seats during the shot of

[44:58] adrenaline scene. For free! And everyone, like, literally everybody

[45:02] was like, the original D-Box. It was bad.

[45:06] Or the X. It was bad news, but I loved it, of course.

[45:10] Okay, to recap so far, we have Clueless,

[45:14] Fight Club, and finally, Pulp Fiction.

[45:18] Stay tuned for the complete list. Stick around for more show.

[45:22] Do you ever wonder how British people celebrate Spring Break? I do.

[45:26] So I'll catch up with Ellen MacLeod, John Luke Roberts, Ella Hubber, and Caroline Roper.

[45:30] Alright, so listen, we do think of you often in the UK

[45:34] as a bit more reserved. Who are some of the most

[45:38] notorious UK party figures?

[45:42] Who are the party people?

[45:46] Timmy Mallet, he had a hammer and he'd hit you on the head

[45:50] and he had a hit with the song Teeny Weeny Itsy Bitsy

[45:54] Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. That's our party.

[45:58] That's our party, guys. Okay, okay.

[46:02] Who did the song Agadoo?

[46:06] That's a classic. I think a lot of our parties

[46:10] are just, unfortunately, just bad people now.

[46:14] I think Russell Brand was a big one.

[46:18] But I think of him as American now. He's been there for long enough.

[46:22] Yeah, that's a real good point.

[46:26] I would say anyone associated with Love Island.

[46:30] Do you know what I mean? They come out of the island and they do the

[46:34] uni freshers circuit where they do club appearances

[46:38] at dodgy nightclubs where they party with 18 year olds.

[46:42] No, no, no, no. The Chuckle Brothers

[46:46] did the university tour. Just putting that out there.

[46:50] I'm sorry, who are the Chuckle Brothers? Oh, you can work it out.

[46:54] No, I can't. The lore is too deep.

[46:58] They're just a duo

[47:02] for kids TV presenters for a show and they had a bit

[47:06] where they would hold something and they'd pass it back and forward to each other and go

[47:10] to you, to me, to you, to me. And that was the height of children's British humour.

[47:14] Well, the Reds got the most rappers off, so that means the Reds won the game

[47:18] and they go first in the main game of To Me, To You.

[47:22] Let's give it up for them all.

[47:26] But also, they come from the sort of

[47:30] Blackpool Working Men's Club comedy tradition.

[47:34] And also, they have two brothers who are also less

[47:38] successful, a less successful double act. There's two Chuckle Brothers

[47:42] who aren't in the Chuckle Brothers. They're other brothers. But also one of the Chuckle Brothers is now dead.

[47:46] Which is sad. Which set of the Chuckle Brothers

[47:50] died? No, the main Chuckle Brothers. The other ones didn't get the Chuckle name.

[47:54] I don't know which name they took. But the main Chuckle Brother that died basically got a

[47:58] state funeral. I honestly haven't seen that kind of turnout for anyone but

[48:02] the Queen. Q was extraordinary. It was nice.

[48:06] But these characters, these people would often end up at

[48:10] Freshers events or club nights for students and they would have a DJ set

[48:14] or something like that or just a meet and greet in a club.

[48:18] Howard from the Halifax. Yeah. The guy Hodor from

[48:22] Game of Thrones did the Freshers circuit and he came to

[48:26] my uni and we saw him tearing it up.

[48:30] I saw Dick and Dom. That's a good one.

[48:34] That's a good booking. This is another children's duo

[48:38] presenter team. Apparently we love them DJing.

[48:42] We love them DJing. Tracey Beaker, Danny Harham

[48:46] did as well. Dick and Dom were famous for going into

[48:50] public places and yelling bogeys really loudly.

[48:54] Are we selling

[48:58] the UK to you? The UK club scene?

[49:02] I feel like just before we entirely move off the subject, we do need to give a special shout out

[49:06] to Sunsex and Suspicious Parents. I think it's really important that

[49:10] we acknowledge the existence of that show. So Sunsex and Suspicious Parents

[49:14] is a reality entertainment show that follows

[49:18] a different group of 18 year old school

[49:22] leavers every episode and they're going to one of these terrible

[49:26] zante, magaloof type holidays and they're

[49:30] off to go wild for the first time and what they don't know is that their parents are

[49:34] so they think they're being filmed for some documentary and

[49:38] obviously, I don't know, they're too drunk or stupid to question

[49:42] the wisdom of all of their actics being captured.

[49:46] But anyway, what they don't know is that their parents are actually on the holiday just in a

[49:50] different room the whole time watching the shenanigans they

[49:54] get up to and then they come out at the end and it's always some mother who thinks

[49:58] her precious baby golden boy

[50:00] is um an angel and then he you know sleeps with 16 girls and says fairly derogatory things about

[50:05] them and she she cries and is like i raised you better than this it's great television

[50:10] it's great really classic oh yes my youtube uh to watch this is growing and growing you're gonna

[50:17] have a great time i'm having i'm having something about this context is giving me a really

[50:21] disassociative experience when i'm i know all these cultural things this is my british culture but as

[50:26] i'm hearing them through and i'm looking at you dave i'm feeling like so alienated i can't believe

[50:32] that this is that this is all true this is all true though it's all true and that's the thing

[50:38] and like i'm enough of an anglophile to know black lace did aga do there's no reason for me to know

[50:44] that and yet all of this stuff is a level deeper than anything even black lace are forgotten i have

[50:50] certainly i also like i have so many questions about what that song means or is and what

[50:54] push pineapple indicates and i i just i it's it's for next year's max fund drive for sure

[51:01] but for now let's check back in with how we're having a great time here at the 90s pop culture

[51:08] appreciation cabana i'm here with austin taylor we've already seen a couple come up and reenact

[51:13] one of ross and rachel's breakups and another guy who wandered in from the street was already

[51:18] reciting most of 1992's dark man the sam ramey film austin tell us about the fun you're having

[51:24] and some of the stuff you've seen today no it's been great it's been it's been wild someone came

[51:29] in and he did an entire recreation of the ninja turtles apartment fight scene they had four

[51:34] doodresses hurdles like 15 guys as ninjas it was nuts they did set the building on fire but we put

[51:38] it out it's fine now it's good we're good now yeah only three people went to the hospital we call that

[51:43] a good time here in the cabana hell yeah hell yeah brother coming up to the stage now sierra cotto

[51:50] welcome sierra

[51:54] i like big butts and i cannot lie you other brothers can't deny that when a girl walks

[52:05] in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get sprung

[52:13] yeah

[52:17] let's go now to jake heath and stratton at the hard rock cafe in hollywood

[52:21] which max fun host will prevail in our music quiz spectacular your evangelist jeremy bent

[52:28] sleeping with celebrities and depression mode host john moe or primers christian duenas

[52:34] all right we're going to begin i'm going to ask a question and if you know the answer say the first

[52:38] word in your show name john you'll have to choose one of your two shows and the first one to get

[52:42] the answer correct gets the answer correct so let's uh start by practicing uh let's get your

[52:47] buzz in words christian go ahead primer and jeremy i guess i'll say euro and john depress

[52:54] okay those are your buzzer sounds here we begin with the first question between 1990 and 1999

[53:00] over 30 hip-hop albums reached number one on the billboard 200 chart the first one to do so in this

[53:06] span was the album please hammer don't hurt him which featured what number one hit song depress

[53:12] depress uh can't touch this you can't touch this you can't touch this you did add the letter u

[53:17] which does make it correct yes that is a point for john moe very good we're on our way all right

[53:22] here's our second question the movie midnight run has a rich and driving blues based score

[53:27] composed by a grammy and emmy winner known for his frequent musical collaborations with tim

[53:31] burton and his work with the band oingo boingo who is it primer oh i think i hit euro first euro

[53:37] jeremy go ahead uh that's danny elfman that is danny elfman jeremy is on the board with a point

[53:43] speaking of music in movies the movie dirty dancing didn't just do well at the box office

[53:48] it also won an academy award for what song euro depress uh i've had the time of my life i know

[53:57] you have but what is the answer to this question and i've never felt this way before nor have i

[54:03] john never felt this way all right there's a point for it's the truth yes we could keep going

[54:09] and yet we shall not we owe it all to you jake oh thank you hey baby hey don't put me in a corner

[54:16] in your zoom window i want to be right in the center here is your next question just because

[54:22] you start out playing loud rock and roll in a garage doesn't mean you can't have a long career

[54:26] with other styles of music take the lead singer of the band them who had a hit with the garage rock

[54:31] classic gloria but later had even bigger hits who was this singer and songwriter of gloria

[54:36] depression right away john morrison van morrison is correct van morrison of course with the hits

[54:43] domino tupelo honey and brown-eyed girl among others a popular song on the who album who's next

[54:50] is behind blue eyes which could have been about any three of the blue-eyed members of the band

[54:55] but probably not about which member who had brown eyes and played drums euro i heard euro first uh

[55:01] keith moon keith moon is correct and we're back on track we did an entire segment on that album

[55:06] on go fact yourself all right let's ask about prince from minnesota so john no pressure oh

[55:13] oh boy the first prince song to reach billboard's hot 100 was 1978's soft and wet the next one to

[55:19] make the charts hit number 11 in 1979 the lyrics of the song begin i ain't got no money i ain't like

[55:26] those other guys you hang around what is the name of this hit song euro i want to be your lover

[55:32] thank you so much jeremy but no yes that is the correct answer as well again trapped again

[55:38] i did not do those on purpose but it is kind of fun to have it all right here is another prince

[55:42] song after this we'll get a score recap as we head into the next section of questions prince wrote

[55:48] some amazing lyrics on the album purple rain but not all of them have been heard correctly

[55:53] in a 2009 interview prince said that he had seen some strange rewrites of his lyrics including the

[55:58] opening line of when doves cry as dig if you will a picture of me marvin gaye and the kids what is

[56:05] the correct opening line of the song depressed right away dig if you will a picture of me and

[56:10] you engaged in a kiss that is not exactly correct christian or jeremy do you want to see if you can

[56:16] get it exactly right i'm guessing by the silence you do not know i think we'll give a we'll give a

[56:21] half a point to john it's dig if you will a picture of you and i engage i was like i think he got it

[56:28] but no good grammar prince yeah so that was all very important of course uh by i he meant the

[56:35] picture of an eye and by you he meant the letter u meant the letter u yes kiss the rock band kiss

[56:41] of course let's see what the scores are as we head into this next round oh we don't need to

[56:46] look at the scores the scores currently are uh christian with the bronze medal of zero correct

[56:54] answers jeremy with three and john just ahead with three and a half so it still is anyone's game

[57:00] technically all right let's move on to our next question this one is about hip-hop only one hip-hop

[57:07] artist had three albums reached number one on the billboard 200 charts in the 1990s

[57:12] tupac shakur aka tupac aka macaveli what were any one of those three chart topping albums

[57:19] primer primer all eyes on me that is correct and christian from primer is on the board on the board

[57:25] the others are me against the world and the don culminati the seven-day theory all right here's

[57:31] another one james brown was known as the king of soul but so was otis redding who wrote what song

[57:37] that was reinterpreted and made a billboard hit for the undisputed queen of soul aretha franklin

[57:42] depression depressed trying to add to the lead respect thank you again but no yes respect is the

[57:48] answer and respect for your knowledge of soul music oh it couldn't be a show on max fun without

[57:54] mentioning weird al so here we go weird al yankovic recorded several parodies of michael jackson songs

[58:00] all with michael's blessing but there was one song that al wanted to record that michael did

[58:05] not want him to what was the song that michael thought was too important to be euro euro black

[58:12] and white not quite correct does anyone want to jump in and steal black or white christian he's

[58:18] giving it to you primer primer primer black or white that is correct let's give a half a point

[58:25] each one i think jeremy sets you up for that yeah sorry about yes wrong wrong conjunction

[58:31] uh all right let's go back to hip-hop there was a big rivalry between east coast and west

[58:37] coast hip-hop artists in the 1990s and it was on display on live tv one night in new york in 1995

[58:43] when performers dissed other artists producers and even the audience at what award ceremony

[58:48] escalation take place uh depressed john moe bgt awards that is incorrect christian or jerry primer

[58:57] is it the source awards it is the source awards a nice steal for primer the scores can only be

[59:03] different than they were before very curious to see the recap as we head into the final few

[59:07] oh the scores really have changed we've got christian now with two and a half jeremy with

[59:11] three and a half and john with four and a half very very close and the stakes are so high i forgot

[59:18] to mention what they are the beatles longest studio song is on their longest album name either

[59:25] the song or the album primer your primer uh the white album self-titled the white album self-titled

[59:32] is correct that is the longest album christian moving now into a tie for second place revolution

[59:38] number nine the longest studio song by length finish this lyric from hamilton about the

[59:44] federalist papers john jay got sick after writing five james madison wrote 29 hamilton wrote uh euro

[59:52] euro the other 51 i'm sorry can you say it though as as it said in the show the other

[1:00:00] 51. Thank you so much. We're going to give you a bonus half point for that.

[1:00:05] All right, here's your next question.

[1:00:07] Billy Joel's first Billboard number one hit was a single from the Billboard

[1:00:11] number one album, Glass Houses, in which he inquires about what's wrong

[1:00:14] with the clothes he's wearing.

[1:00:16] What is the name of this song? Depression. Depression.

[1:00:21] I listened to a lot of Billy Joel when I was depressed, too.

[1:00:23] Yeah, no, I'm just narrating my mood at Billy Joel music.

[1:00:27] I'm still rock and roll to me.

[1:00:30] Not exactly.

[1:00:31] Do you want to give another still rock and roll?

[1:00:34] That is correct. Yes, we must have our contraction.

[1:00:37] You can track. We are contractually obligated for that contraction.

[1:00:40] Very nice. In the twenty twenties, she received a Kennedy Center Honors.

[1:00:44] In the twenty tens, she won an Emmy for producing.

[1:00:46] In the 2000s, she was nominated for an Oscar for acting.

[1:00:50] And in the 1990s, she won a Grammy for rapping.

[1:00:53] Who is this New Jersey born sensation?

[1:00:55] Euro euro. Is this Cher?

[1:00:58] It is not Cher. No, not the rapping Grammy that we were looking for.

[1:01:02] Depression. Depression.

[1:01:04] Queen Latifah. Yes, that is correct.

[1:01:06] She won her Grammy for rapping on you and I T.Y.

[1:01:09] And that spells unity.

[1:01:11] All right. Here's another question regarding California and music.

[1:01:14] The Aquabats got their start in California, just like other well-known ska bands

[1:01:19] like Save Ferris, Real Big Fish, the Hippos and no doubt.

[1:01:22] In what county did all these bands come from?

[1:01:25] Primer. Primer. Orange County, baby.

[1:01:28] Orange County. That is correct, baby.

[1:01:31] They might be giants.

[1:01:33] Were nominated for a Tony Award for a song they wrote for a Broadway musical

[1:01:37] about what absorbent animated character?

[1:01:39] Euro euro. I heard first.

[1:01:41] I believe that's SpongeBob SquarePants.

[1:01:44] That is correct.

[1:01:45] Oh, we're getting down to just our last few questions.

[1:01:48] Let's see if we can get a score update again.

[1:01:51] Oh, here we go. Oh, my gosh.

[1:01:52] I think we're just down to our last two or three questions.

[1:01:55] And the scores, well, they could be closer.

[1:01:56] I was going to say they could not be closer, but they are pretty close.

[1:01:59] We've got Christian with a very respectable four and a half.

[1:02:02] Jeremy with an even more respectable six.

[1:02:04] And John ahead just with half a point at six and a half.

[1:02:08] Who will win the shrimp?

[1:02:10] We'll find out after these two questions.

[1:02:13] The band Chicago earned a Grammy nomination for contributing one song

[1:02:17] to what famine relief album?

[1:02:19] Depression. You're depressed.

[1:02:21] Got in first USA for Africa.

[1:02:25] More specifically, we are the world.

[1:02:27] That is correct.

[1:02:28] And you adding to your lead, John Mo now that shrimp.

[1:02:32] Yeah, I haven't eaten in 48 hours.

[1:02:37] OK, this will be your final question.

[1:02:39] This will determine maybe who gets second place.

[1:02:43] All right. Here's your here's your final question of the game.

[1:02:45] And you know what?

[1:02:45] This will be worth three points, which will decide the game for three points.

[1:02:51] What jazz fusion legend is a noted Scientologist contributing to space

[1:02:56] jazz, the soundtrack of the book Battlefield Earth?

[1:02:59] John, for the win, Chick Corea, Chick Corea is correct.

[1:03:03] Congratulations, John Mo.

[1:03:05] You win the shrimp.

[1:03:07] Oh, I'm going to share with everybody.

[1:03:10] Wow. I should point out I don't eat shrimp and I might not even want shrimp.

[1:03:14] That's been sent to me from Minnesota.

[1:03:16] But we appreciate the effort so much.

[1:03:20] All right. Well, that does it for us here at the Hard Rock Cafe

[1:03:22] at the iconic Sunset Strip.

[1:03:24] And while you're partying, hey, everybody, remember, we're sunscreen.

[1:03:27] And please stay hydrated and stay safe.

[1:03:29] I don't know what's coming up after this, but I know you won't want to miss it

[1:03:32] here on Maximum Fun.

[1:03:33] Go to MaximumFun.org, join and support all of these wonderful shows

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[1:03:39] I'm Jakey Van Straten. See you later.

[1:03:49] MFD Spring Break 2025.

[1:03:52] I am here in Daytona Beach on the Bud Ice

[1:03:56] Ludd Donation Stage with Justin and Clint McElroy.

[1:04:01] Pick that bag up, man. It's leaking everywhere.

[1:04:04] Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah.

[1:04:06] If we could, Dave, you're stepping, pal.

[1:04:08] Oh, wow. That'll come right out with a little vinegar.

[1:04:12] Hey, Dave, thanks for coming by.

[1:04:13] Thank you so much for having me, Justin.

[1:04:15] Clint McElroy, how are you doing?

[1:04:17] I am much better now.

[1:04:19] Thank you very much.

[1:04:20] I'm back in my old hometown, Daytona Beach.

[1:04:23] There it is. Must feel good to be home.

[1:04:26] It is. It's good to be home because all my stuff's here.

[1:04:28] Yeah. You know, and I really want to thank both of you guys

[1:04:31] for bringing some civic and social responsibility to Spring Break

[1:04:35] and urging people to donate blood here on the beach.

[1:04:40] Now, what what made you decide to take this step this year?

[1:04:45] Well, I have been reading up a lot on the effects of young blood

[1:04:50] on older adults, and that is so important to the Max Fund Drive network

[1:04:55] that I want to keep him going just as long as possible.

[1:04:58] So we have been asking all of our Max Fund family today to come in here,

[1:05:02] do their part and donate a pint of their young, virile blood

[1:05:06] for me to pump into my dad, Clint McElroy.

[1:05:09] Yeah. And just a big old transfusion.

[1:05:12] That's that's.

[1:05:13] And I've come up with a bunch of slogans, too.

[1:05:16] So let's hear it.

[1:05:17] Don't be a negative person.

[1:05:21] Oh, give me positive that it won't hurt.

[1:05:26] Right. And give me your blood.

[1:05:28] It says at the bottom of all of them. And give me your blood. Right.

[1:05:31] Blood. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

[1:05:33] I'm workshopping that one.

[1:05:36] That one. We're still coming along.

[1:05:38] So, yeah, we appreciate everybody, Dave.

[1:05:40] It's it's been a great success so far.

[1:05:42] Clint, you look fantastic. Your skin is absolutely glowing.

[1:05:44] How many pints of young blood have you had today?

[1:05:48] I've had seven, six of them voluntarily.

[1:05:53] Wow. Yeah, that's which is great for data.

[1:05:55] A huge record.

[1:05:56] We have just been so appreciative of everybody donating to the Max Fund Drive

[1:06:00] and they're saying, I wish I could do more.

[1:06:02] And the truth is, you could tell a friend, you know,

[1:06:06] you could do a little bit of a boost to your donation.

[1:06:08] You could do any of that stuff

[1:06:09] or you could come in here and give my dad a pint of your blood, you know,

[1:06:14] some of your blood.

[1:06:15] Now, I'm going to tell you, it is a windy day here on the beach.

[1:06:19] We are we are getting a good amount of sand.

[1:06:22] Sure. Yeah. In our eyes and mouths.

[1:06:25] Is that have you had any have you had any hygiene issues?

[1:06:29] I smell the hygiene thing coming. Thank you.

[1:06:31] You never you never fail to disappoint us.

[1:06:34] Dad, go ahead.

[1:06:35] Just the usual, you know, you get the gritty in the eyes

[1:06:40] and that keeps you from doing the gritty. Yeah.

[1:06:44] But it doesn't bother you if you have grit.

[1:06:46] And that's what my dad has.

[1:06:47] You could he could take a little dirt.

[1:06:49] You know what? He's not picky about types either.

[1:06:51] Dave, you know, any type, you know, whatever you got,

[1:06:55] that is it is ready and willing.

[1:06:57] You got to get a baby.

[1:07:01] I've got an adapter for for all of them.

[1:07:04] So bring it on.

[1:07:07] And I will tell you this.

[1:07:09] The the sand is really kind of messing with my obligatory

[1:07:13] Dracula costume that I always wear at blood drives.

[1:07:17] Yeah. And some people get the gag.

[1:07:20] Most most most don't. Yeah.

[1:07:23] That's OK. It's as long as the blood keeps flowing.

[1:07:25] Does it matter? I feel the need.

[1:07:28] The need for bleed. That's me.

[1:07:31] Now, when I heard that

[1:07:32] there was going to be a blood donation area here at spring break,

[1:07:36] I will tell you, yeah, that my brain went to a more traditional,

[1:07:41] a more familiar blood drive, kind of a situation

[1:07:44] where some of the blood might go to people who have been, let's say,

[1:07:46] in accidents. Right.

[1:07:49] And it need blood.

[1:07:50] If you find yourself with any extra pints at the end of the day,

[1:07:54] is it possible that some of these might make their way to accident victims

[1:07:59] or people in surgery?

[1:08:01] Oh, Dave, this is such a sensitive topic.

[1:08:03] Sweet, sweethearted Dave.

[1:08:05] Yeah. I mean, just to start out, Dave, for starters,

[1:08:09] it's never too early to start cycling out blood.

[1:08:11] I am in my mid 40s, but a lot of these folks have 10, 20 years my junior.

[1:08:16] You know, so I would love to just top off a little bit on the on the vitality,

[1:08:21] even though I'm obviously much more healthy than my dad.

[1:08:26] And so that that is not that is any extra blood.

[1:08:30] I will be sort of taking on myself.

[1:08:33] So do you think it's bad optics to to not, you know, share?

[1:08:40] I mean, because I don't know. I mean, I'm I'm seven.

[1:08:42] Well, we have we have been as a prize to all donors.

[1:08:45] We've been giving them to address to other blood drives

[1:08:48] that are benefiting the public.

[1:08:50] So that has been I've been offering that.

[1:08:52] They do have to wait some period of time

[1:08:56] for the blood to we're not scientists here in the tent,

[1:08:59] but blood does need to make some more of these.

[1:09:03] Yeah, I'm glad you pointed out you are not scientists here.

[1:09:06] This blood donation to Clint.

[1:09:09] I got to say your shirt is off.

[1:09:11] Your abs are tight. Your tits are right.

[1:09:13] You are looking like a man of 22.

[1:09:17] How do you feel?

[1:09:20] Well, like a man of sixty nine.

[1:09:23] Yeah, this is this is all the film.

[1:09:25] This is all the filter got on camera.

[1:09:29] If I were to switch over, I would look like Gary Oldman

[1:09:33] at the end of the Dracula movie.

[1:09:37] A lot of Dracula themed content, dad.

[1:09:39] I'm worried the blood is starting to go to your brain.

[1:09:42] Yeah, that's the good time.

[1:09:44] Yeah, that's when it goes to your brain.

[1:09:46] Yahoo! I wish you the taste for it.

[1:09:49] And it's not it's never enough for the compliments, Dave.

[1:09:53] I think I look pretty sharp. Yeah.

[1:09:56] I only wish people could see how good I look.

[1:10:00] Now, one benefit to donating blood, especially at Spring Break, is that you get buzzed a

[1:10:06] little bit quicker.

[1:10:07] Have you used that in any of your marketing material?

[1:10:10] Yeah, absolutely, Dave.

[1:10:12] It's a killer competitive advantage for us.

[1:10:15] Less blood means more fun, that's what we say here, and we actually have been filling

[1:10:20] most of our blood recreating Twinkies.

[1:10:25] It's important to eat sugar after you donate blood.

[1:10:27] I've seen that on TV, so that is something we've been doing here, but we are putting

[1:10:31] alcoholic cream into the Twinkies.

[1:10:32] I'm sorry, you're putting what kind of cream in the Twinkies?

[1:10:45] It's a vodka cream, Dave, but it's only for folks who are interested in participating.

[1:10:53] You can get rum-filled Twinkies, or whatever sort of liqueur you want.

[1:10:58] Of legal age, which here in Daytona Beach is 14.

[1:11:04] 14, yes, we did bump it up last year.

[1:11:07] Thanks, folks.

[1:11:08] I appreciate that.

[1:11:09] That was the right move.

[1:11:10] It was a hard fight, but 14 is the right call, Daytona Beach.

[1:11:13] Good job.

[1:11:14] The other snacks we have are also aimed towards buffing you up, building you up.

[1:11:20] We've got Screamin' Yellow Zonkers, we've got Space Food Sticks, we've got Kugel.

[1:11:27] Dad got that dehydrated astronaut ice cream.

[1:11:31] That's been a big hit today.

[1:11:32] We're moving a lot of units of that.

[1:11:34] People are starving after a day of blood, and they are willing to pay any price for

[1:11:38] these snacks, so we've been doing huge business there, too.

[1:11:40] Oh, so the snacks are not free.

[1:11:41] They need to be purchased, right?

[1:11:43] You assume the snacks are free in much the same way you assume the blood's going to charity.

[1:11:47] We really highlighted our killer competitive advantage here, Dave.

[1:11:50] People are going to assume we're doing a lot of great stuff, but we are not anywhere in

[1:11:53] the ballpark.

[1:11:54] Your finger is on the pulse of America.

[1:11:57] Ironically, yes.

[1:11:59] Just to find the blood.

[1:12:02] So what do you have on your agenda once we wrap things up here at the Blood Donation

[1:12:07] Tent?

[1:12:08] What other spring break activities?

[1:12:09] I'm changing my name because nothing here that I've done today is going to be favorable

[1:12:15] in the eyes of John Q. Law.

[1:12:17] So I'm going to go on the lam.

[1:12:18] I'm going to get out of here, go start a fresh life for myself, Dave.

[1:12:24] I'm going to clean all the grit out of places where there should not be grit or sand.

[1:12:32] And then if there's any time, I might, I don't know, smurf?

[1:12:37] Smurf.

[1:12:38] I'm going to smurf a little bit on my smurf board.

[1:12:39] Oh, that's still a family show.

[1:12:42] Watch the language, okay, pal?

[1:12:44] Well, this young blood, maybe I'll try skimboarding, you know, where you toss it and then you jump

[1:12:50] on it and fall.

[1:12:51] That's a young people activity, right?

[1:12:53] You know, honestly, all I'm thinking in my head is, what if this is how we find out?

[1:12:56] Clint McElroy has been Papa Smurf this whole time.

[1:12:59] What if it was just a slip and suddenly, suddenly, it was like, wait a minute, it's like the

[1:13:06] usual suspects.

[1:13:07] It all comes together.

[1:13:08] I would love to believe that.

[1:13:09] You smurfed and smurfed with Clint McElroy this whole time.

[1:13:12] I would love to believe that's true, Dave.

[1:13:13] I would not be here, my man.

[1:13:16] I will guarantee you that.

[1:13:17] I would be living in an island in the Balkans.

[1:13:19] I don't even know if the Balkans has islands, but that's what I'd be doing, living off that

[1:13:22] Papa Smurf money.

[1:13:23] I would have killed myself.

[1:13:24] Only one way to find out.

[1:13:25] Get yourselves there.

[1:13:26] And if you're in Daytona Beach, get yourself here to the Bud Ice blood donation while the

[1:13:31] tent has blown away.

[1:13:32] So we're kind of just more standing on a beach at this stage, but come on down.

[1:13:37] Clint needs your blood.

[1:13:39] Justin merely wants it.

[1:13:40] So we'll be back with more MFD Spring Break 2025.

[1:13:51] We're channeling the 90s this MFD Spring Break.

[1:13:54] Drea, Alonzo and Dan are compiling a list of their picks for the most iconic or culturally

[1:13:58] impactful movies of the 90s.

[1:14:00] So far we have Clueless, Fight Club and finally Pulp Fiction.

[1:14:06] All right, next on the list, Alonzo.

[1:14:08] I would be remiss based on my personal brand to not bring up the new queer cinema and all

[1:14:13] this.

[1:14:14] If I had to pick one, though, I think I'm going to go with 1994's Go Fish, because that

[1:14:20] is a movie that I think represents the sort of underground zero budget aesthetic of the

[1:14:28] initial wave of new queer cinema movies, but also segues us into that period where indie

[1:14:35] distributors realized, oh, if these movies are funny and they have a love story, we could

[1:14:40] actually maybe sell tickets to some straight people.

[1:14:43] We have totally different tastes in women.

[1:14:45] Are you saying I don't have discriminating tastes in women?

[1:14:47] I was a dyke when you were still a diver's kiddo.

[1:14:52] So to me, it kind of feels like this tipping point between like your sort of Greg Iraqi,

[1:14:58] you know, Todd Haynes directing Poison aesthetic and then your later, you know, like Trick

[1:15:05] and All Over the Guy and Jeffrey and those movies that were very much kind of pitched at a

[1:15:10] somewhat wider audience than just angry queer urbanites.

[1:15:15] And it still holds up, you know, 30 plus years later, it's still super charming and a lot

[1:15:22] of fun and one of my one of my favorite queer films.

[1:15:24] So, yeah, Go Fish.

[1:15:26] What else?

[1:15:26] Right at the start of the 90s, 91, Silence of the Lambs, you know, draws on a lot of stuff that

[1:15:33] came before, but I think really created the serial killer movie as it exists now, sort of.

[1:15:40] And unfortunately, on the other, like created the idea of like the brilliant serial killer.

[1:15:46] How is young Josh and the lovely Molly?

[1:15:49] They're always in my thoughts, you know, you will not persuade me with appeals to my

[1:15:54] intellectual vanity.

[1:15:56] Rather than the serial killer, who's just a loser in a basement who lost his empathy

[1:16:00] somewhere along the way.

[1:16:02] So many movies owe so much of their DNA to it.

[1:16:05] And finally, Drea.

[1:16:07] All right. I'm going to say 1998's Rushmore.

[1:16:11] It's Wes Anderson's second film.

[1:16:14] But for a lot of people, this was the breakthrough.

[1:16:17] They maybe didn't make it to Bottle Rocket.

[1:16:19] Rushmore, color.

[1:16:21] It introduced you to what's become a very iconic and consistent color palette framing

[1:16:27] device like his visual storytelling, his cinematic language is established in Rushmore.

[1:16:33] And that also includes very vibrant yet deadpan characters like Max Fisher, which is

[1:16:40] Jason Schwartzman, memorable, nerdy, complicated, heartbreaking, all sorts of wonderful

[1:16:47] things. Started the partnership with Bill Murray.

[1:16:50] This continued through many films.

[1:16:52] Obviously, Owen Wilson popping up again.

[1:16:55] It's also quotable.

[1:16:57] But like my favorite quote from that one would be when he sees Luke Wilson in his

[1:17:02] scrubs. I like your nurse's uniform, guy.

[1:17:05] These are our scrubs.

[1:17:08] Oh, are they? Which is something I say to people all the time and no one understands.

[1:17:13] I'm quoting something.

[1:17:15] That's a big line in this house.

[1:17:16] Oh, are they? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:17:18] And there you have it. I, for one, am looking forward to rewatching all of these films in

[1:17:22] the Orville Redenbacher Extreme Amounts of Movie Theater Butter Microwave Popcorn

[1:17:26] Screening Room. Now, y'all, I have just gotten word that Secret Histories of Nerd

[1:17:31] Mysteries' Austin Taylor has just dropped by the 90s pop culture Appreciation Cabana.

[1:17:36] Let's take a look. Because maybe you're going to be the one that saves me.

[1:17:41] And after all, you're my Wonderwall.

[1:17:45] What a way to kick off MF the spring break 2025.

[1:17:57] We have so many exciting things in store this next couple of weeks.

[1:18:01] You can stay on top of it all at maxumfun.org for all of you listening and

[1:18:06] watching at home. It's very easy to support favorite Max Fund show's.

[1:18:11] Just go to maxumfun.org slash donate and big thanks to all the hosts who took

[1:18:16] part in the MFD spring break 2025 spectacular.

[1:18:20] Jeremy Bent, Oscar Montoya, Dimitri Pompei, Tom Lum, Ellen Weatherford, Alex

[1:18:26] Schmidt, Brenda Snell, Drea Clark, Alonzo Duralde, Dan McCoy, Jordan Morris,

[1:18:33] Manolo Moreno, Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper, Ella McLeod, John Luke Roberts,

[1:18:39] Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Mike Cavallon, Sierra Cotto, Hal Loveland,

[1:18:45] Daniel Radford, John Moe, Christian Duenas, Christian Duguay.

[1:18:49] We'll see you all at the beach.

[1:18:55] Hey, Dave, if you're planning on coming back this way, I beg that you not all

[1:18:58] this young blood has driven my dad insane and he's super strong.

[1:19:02] He is uprooting to put it down.

[1:19:04] Put it down to the extreme, dudes.

[1:19:09] Dad, that is Jesse Thorne.

[1:19:10] He is a hero here.

[1:19:11] Put him down.

[1:19:12] All right.

[1:19:13] I just love his ascot.

Dan McCoy joins MFD Spring Break

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