FH Mini 145 - Flop to the Future

[0:00] Hey there, folks, I'm Stuart Wellington and welcome to another Flophouse Mini, a mini

[0:08] episode of the Flophouse podcast.

[0:10] And I am joined by my two co-hosts, Dan McCoy, Elliot Kalin.

[0:15] Hey, how you guys doing?

[0:17] Good.

[0:18] Well, I don't know if you guys have checked the news, but it is 2026.

[0:22] Is that what the headline of the news was?

[0:27] Every day.

[0:28] It is 2026.

[0:29] I mean, the date is the first thing on the newspaper.

[0:31] So you could think that that is the headline.

[0:34] So we are now living in the future.

[0:37] 2025 is in our rear view.

[0:40] And I thought this would be a good time, but looking at 2025 right now, I think of those

[0:46] eyes removed.

[0:47] Yeah, you should.

[0:48] But you know what?

[0:49] The thing is, Elliot was a big fan of the movie Society.

[0:52] And he is.

[0:53] I saw that.

[0:54] And I said, why don't I have a face on my butt?

[0:55] I've got to get that.

[0:57] So I'm slowly getting there.

[0:59] So here at the Flop House Minis, instead of talking about watching a bad movie and talking

[1:03] about it, we do something else.

[1:04] And in this case, we're going to be talking about, that's right, movies.

[1:08] Because while we look to the future, we are going to be using movies as our kind of our

[1:13] model for what the future may look like.

[1:16] Is it hopeful?

[1:17] Is it terrifying?

[1:18] We are going to be the judge.

[1:20] So I'm going to go down a series of movies and list the rough year that they're supposed

[1:25] to take place in.

[1:27] And I want you guys to join with me and rate these movies in two categories on a scale

[1:33] of 1 to 10.

[1:35] The first category is, how likely this future is to occur?

[1:39] A 1 would be very unlikely, a 10 would be very likely.

[1:45] And then the other category is, how much would you like to live in this future?

[1:50] Once again, 1 is very unlikely, 10 is very likely.

[1:55] Any questions on the rating system?

[1:57] What's 10 again?

[1:58] Very likely.

[1:59] Okay.

[2:00] And 1?

[2:01] Very unlikely.

[2:02] Okay, cool.

[2:03] And 10?

[2:04] Extremely likely.

[2:05] Okay, cool.

[2:06] Okay.

[2:07] So the first one.

[2:08] Now, this movie...

[2:09] Wait, Dan, which is 1?

[2:12] One is the low end of the scale.

[2:15] The longer we fart around, the fewer movies we can talk about.

[2:18] Sorry, sorry.

[2:19] Okay, never mind, never mind.

[2:20] The first one is the Mad Max universe, which technically began in 1980, the far future

[2:28] year of 1980, and then has stretched to year, question mark?

[2:32] We don't quite know.

[2:34] So the Mad Max future, do I need to paint a word picture as to what the future of Mad

[2:38] Max is like?

[2:39] Now, I'm going to be a pedant.

[2:40] Do you mean the future of Mad Max or the future of Mad Max 2, aka The Road Warrior, which

[2:44] are two very different worlds?

[2:46] Or I mean, we're going to talk, we're talking about the, I feel like The Road Warrior has

[2:51] kind of spun into these later movies.

[2:55] Not the first Mad Max where the nuclear war hasn't happened yet, and it's just that there's

[2:59] more crime.

[3:00] Society is getting rougher.

[3:01] It's breaking down.

[3:02] Yeah.

[3:03] So that would be, yeah, let's start with just Mad Max.

[3:07] That wouldn't be our gauge, okay?

[3:09] So how likely is the world of Mad Max, the original film, how likely is that one to occur?

[3:17] 10.

[3:18] Yeah.

[3:19] I think we're there now.

[3:20] Put that up there.

[3:21] 10.

[3:22] 10.

[3:23] Except instead of roving bands of evil bikers, it is roving bands of masked Gestapo agents.

[3:29] Yeah.

[3:30] Okay.

[3:31] So that's very likely.

[3:32] Now, how excited are you to live in this future?

[3:36] How excited?

[3:37] Well, I'm going to grade on the curve of most of these are going to be, I think, dystopias.

[3:41] Pretty low, yeah.

[3:42] Maybe.

[3:44] And so this is kind of like, this feels like a world that is cruel, but still livable.

[3:50] So maybe I'll put it in the three or four zone.

[3:52] I don't know.

[3:53] Yeah.

[3:54] I'm going to put it like a three or four.

[3:55] I feel like, yeah, it's cruel, but there's still television.

[3:58] People still have jobs.

[3:59] You know, they still have families.

[4:01] It's like you live in a house.

[4:03] That's all good stuff.

[4:04] That's all good stuff I would like to hold on to.

[4:06] Yeah.

[4:07] Sort of classic stuff.

[4:09] What role do you think you would play?

[4:12] How do you make your living in this kind of future?

[4:15] Probably outlaw barbarian biker for me.

[4:18] Does scared hermit pay?

[4:20] I feel like Dan could be a scared hermit and Elliot would be like, no offense, I feel like

[4:24] you would be the you'd be like the right hand man of the gang leader.

[4:29] Potentially.

[4:30] I mean, the salacious crumb.

[4:32] I don't think I'd be the right hand man, but I would definitely be the I've already assumed

[4:36] that if the apocalypse happened or like the civilization collapses, I am a jester.

[4:39] Like that's what I am.

[4:41] You could probably I probably have a chain attached between my neck and the throne of

[4:44] the of the whoever is the lord of this colony, the nuclear throne, the nuclear nuclear throne.

[4:49] And I am there to, like, entertain him and he's going to throw shit at me every now and

[4:53] then, you know, and I jibber and jibber.

[4:54] Well, that's the thing.

[4:55] I was going to say you're like you could be the one guy who's like always cackling, like

[5:00] just like mostly just like has a psychotic laugh.

[5:03] Yes, exactly.

[5:04] OK, guys, let's jump to another future.

[5:07] This is also currently in the past, and that is the future of back to the future to the

[5:14] Biff verse.

[5:15] Again, I feel like I mean, that's and I feel like we're living in that right now.

[5:19] Literally.

[5:20] OK, I think we're living in that one.

[5:22] Yeah.

[5:23] A character that was partly, I think, hoverboard fired by the current awful person in charge.

[5:29] The Biff verse is a different world than the hoverboard.

[5:31] No.

[5:32] Yeah.

[5:33] We're not talking about the Biff verse.

[5:34] Let's talk about the hoverboard.

[5:36] So the 2015 hoverboard future.

[5:38] Yeah.

[5:39] I mean, 3D has made a big comeback.

[5:40] Uh-huh.

[5:41] That's true.

[5:42] That gets mentioned there.

[5:43] They haven't made as many jaws as that would postulate.

[5:46] Yeah.

[5:47] According to a kid that I went to elementary school with, they made hoverboards, but parents

[5:52] made them take them off the market.

[5:53] So I think I think it's what's funny about that future.

[5:59] And I think it is it is possible, but not likely is I think that that future is an analog future.

[6:05] In a way, it's an it's a pre-Internet future.

[6:07] And so it's like it's very much the future of right before the Internet and computers

[6:12] become a part of people's lives, as seen by how they have all those fax machines in their

[6:15] house and things like that.

[6:16] Yeah.

[6:17] You know, but it's if we have microwave pizza, my pizza happens.

[6:22] I mean, at the time it existed, too.

[6:24] I mean, it's not like it's a small one that gets to like a dehydrated pizza that gets

[6:29] bigger.

[6:30] We don't necessarily have.

[6:31] Yeah.

[6:32] But what do you think, Dan?

[6:33] Is it likely?

[6:35] Well, it's a little one, two, it's also utopian.

[6:39] I will say it's a universe that implies that that that Max Hedgeroom was a much bigger

[6:43] hit than it was.

[6:44] Well, I mean, the idea is that they don't quite understand what the 80s were like.

[6:52] So I think that that's all in line as far as I was concerned.

[6:55] I'm concerned.

[6:57] Like, I mean, there are plausible inventions in there.

[7:00] It's not like things have gone nutty, but I don't think that our future looks as bright

[7:06] as that.

[7:07] I'll put it at a five, I guess.

[7:08] OK.

[7:09] I'm going to put it at a six.

[7:10] There's an innocence to this future, I think.

[7:12] Yeah.

[7:13] But that's in terms of what I want to live there.

[7:14] Sure.

[7:15] Give me a nine.

[7:16] Why not?

[7:17] Yeah.

[7:18] I would go with a nine, too, for the second category of.

[7:19] Yeah.

[7:20] Give me that.

[7:21] Give me that.

[7:22] Give me that wall of hologram jaws, please.

[7:25] If the worst problem the society has is that hoverboards don't work on water, then unless

[7:29] you have power, I can live in a world like that, you know, and clothes drive themselves.

[7:34] They clothes drive themselves.

[7:35] They talk.

[7:36] I mean, that's talking clothes is something we're going to have, except the clothes are

[7:39] going to be like, hey, buddy, what are we doing today?

[7:41] Why don't you drink some battery acid?

[7:43] I mean, like, hey, I clothes.

[7:45] I don't want to do that.

[7:46] No, no.

[7:47] It'll be cool.

[7:48] Guys, we're going to go to the next movie, and this one is set in the far off future

[7:53] of twenty twenty seven.

[7:56] Children of men.

[7:57] Hmm.

[7:58] OK.

[7:59] So it is a semi dystopian future where humanity is to have children.

[8:05] Well, there's some good things and bad things, according to the according to the manosphere

[8:10] we're heading for right now, birth rates are falling because men are not shooting enough

[8:13] radiation at their junk.

[8:16] I think I you know what?

[8:19] I think that some of those things are very likely and are, again, happening now.

[8:23] But I think the birthright thing is not necessarily so likely because it was like the movie kind

[8:27] of postulates that it's the product of a of a global malaise almost.

[8:31] There's just kind of a global lack of interest in living, lack of satisfaction in life.

[8:35] And I don't know that that's going to happen.

[8:36] There's still things that are enjoyable about life, you know.

[8:40] But I don't think it's like it's not like they're not having children because they're

[8:44] not having sex.

[8:45] Right.

[8:46] No, they are having.

[8:47] I think.

[8:48] But there's a.

[8:49] So here's I think that I'm like this.

[8:50] Burns are like, no, I'm too bored.

[8:53] And I think that it's it's more that like the there's a the same way that that Queen

[8:57] Amidala dies because her spirit is broken, she lost the will to live.

[9:01] It's kind of like that, that humanity has lost the will to continue because life has

[9:05] become so depressing and grim.

[9:07] So maybe it is pretty realistic, actually.

[9:09] Oh, yeah.

[9:10] I mean, it's been a while since I watched the movie, I think since it came out in theaters,

[9:14] honestly.

[9:15] So perhaps I'm forgetting something, but I think you're reading a lot into it.

[9:18] I just felt like it was just an unexplained global catastrophe.

[9:23] I mean, they don't they don't explain it in the movie, but that was my that was my read

[9:26] on it was that it was like there's something that has killed the soul of humanity.

[9:30] Well, I feel like the soul of humanity being killed is the fact that they can't have children

[9:35] like that.

[9:36] Well, now it's a real a real chicken or no egg.

[9:39] Yeah.

[9:40] Yeah.

[9:41] We joined the story once once we know that humankind is probably not going to continue

[9:47] unless something changes.

[9:48] And I think that that's what has caused the malaise.

[9:50] But so how likely one to 10?

[9:53] I don't think that the we're going to suddenly start to stop having kids.

[10:00] So I mean, I was enough.

[10:01] I don't need any more fertility drop, but it won't happen in this way.

[10:07] But but the the way that the world responds to crisis seems pretty realistic.

[10:14] It's pretty accurate. Yeah.

[10:15] I give it maybe a six. I don't know.

[10:17] Yeah, I'm going to give it a six.

[10:19] No, I'll give it a seven.

[10:20] I'll give it a seven.

[10:21] OK, how likely do you want to live in this universe again?

[10:25] I feel like we kind of do to a certain extent in that.

[10:28] It does feel like a very key component, except we do have children.

[10:32] That's yes.

[10:33] So I think I don't want to.

[10:36] You know what?

[10:37] I will. I do not want to live in that world.

[10:39] I think I'm going to give it a two again.

[10:40] They have houses and electricity and things like that.

[10:43] But I don't want to live in a world without children.

[10:45] Children are great.

[10:47] Kind of the argument the movie makes.

[10:49] Yeah, the argument is that humanity should have children.

[10:51] And so it's also like there was one baby.

[10:54] So things are going to be fine, right?

[10:57] It's going to take a lot more.

[10:58] One of the kids, a real drip.

[11:00] One of the skids sucks.

[11:04] That would be a really funny comedy movie to do now.

[11:07] It's the Children of Many Universe.

[11:09] And this he's this is the last child to be born.

[11:11] And all of the world's hopes are resting on this child.

[11:14] And this child just sucks.

[11:15] Yeah, and it's just like they've grown up to be a total asshole.

[11:17] And it's like, oh, man, this is we had so we had so much invested in you.

[11:21] You know, leaving the kid thing aside, like this seems like a widely

[11:26] war torn world.

[11:27] So I don't know.

[11:30] Again, like still kind of livable, but I'm going to give it a four.

[11:34] It seems like the kind of world that many people are are have lived in

[11:37] or are living through a world of whether there's the threat of sudden violence.

[11:41] But you have to get through the day and resources still exist.

[11:44] But there's not a it's not you know, we kind of mixed up

[11:48] our Mad Max is a little bit when we were talking about Mad Max.

[11:50] But it is it is, again, closer to the first movie where it's like

[11:53] things are not great, but it's a noticeably contemporary world

[11:56] as opposed to the second movie where it's like, well, you know, oil is oil

[12:01] is blood now and precious juice.

[12:03] Grab some some leather and spikes to your body.

[12:07] Go to a sporting goods store.

[12:09] You know, some shoulder pads.

[12:10] It's just more people are likely to have flamethrowers than books, you know.

[12:17] OK, let's jump forward to the year 2032.

[12:23] Demolition man.

[12:24] Demolition man.

[12:26] I'm going to give this a two because

[12:30] unlike in the 90s where it's like everyone thought

[12:33] that the greatest concern was too much correctness.

[12:36] I don't think we're going in that direction.

[12:39] I don't think we're headed there.

[12:40] Yeah, I also don't think it's likely that Taco Bell will take over all restaurants.

[12:44] Wow. Despite their constant food innovations, Elliot,

[12:48] they serve chicken nuggets now because who says they can't, you know?

[12:52] I would call I would say, yeah, I think likelihood

[12:55] I'm going to give it like a three or something like that.

[12:58] OK, but would I want to live in the demolition?

[13:00] I mean, it's 100 percent. Yeah, yeah.

[13:03] It seems aside from aside from the lack of I guess the lack of physical sex,

[13:09] it's just a thing that they don't do anymore.

[13:11] Put on. Yeah, I'm going to give it an eight.

[13:12] But on those days, I also don't think I mean, like, but you know, you get it.

[13:16] But then they do it anyway.

[13:17] You can get it.

[13:17] But then he still gets it.

[13:18] He still gets a surprise call video call from a naked woman at one point.

[13:22] Sure. I mean, which is what we all imagine video calls are going to be like.

[13:25] And that's a plus.

[13:27] And to be honest, the challenge of figuring out how to use the three shells.

[13:29] I'm well, that's what I was going to say.

[13:31] The three shells, like if they tell me how to use the three shells.

[13:34] Sure. I'll give it a nine or a ten.

[13:35] You know, I don't I don't have to.

[13:37] I don't have to.

[13:38] You mean I don't have to.

[13:39] I don't have to clean myself with paper like an ape.

[13:42] I can do it with these magical shells.

[13:44] And a famously made paper.

[13:47] Oh, OK.

[13:50] Now, this one is contentious about the year

[13:54] we're talking about Westworld, whether or not we're talking.

[13:57] I'm going to use the show.

[13:58] That's that's the question.

[14:01] How we can we can vote on both of them, I suppose.

[14:05] OK, Westworld, the movie and or show.

[14:09] How likely is this to happen?

[14:12] I'm going to give it like an eight.

[14:13] I feel like we're already moving towards like

[14:17] obviously a I obviously sex robots are a thing.

[14:23] They're just around the corner.

[14:24] I mean, they've been just around the corner for a while.

[14:26] I think I think we're a little bit farther away from getting sex robots

[14:30] that that the general populace will be interested in purchasing.

[14:33] But, you know, if you're going to sort of a theme park.

[14:38] No, no. And I'm I'm saying that the technology to make.

[14:40] Believe me, I know.

[14:42] But but the likelihood that this eventually might happen.

[14:45] That's what I'm saying.

[14:46] That could happen. Yeah, yeah.

[14:46] I think the likelihood it could eventually happen is pretty high.

[14:50] I don't I feel like I don't know too much about the world outside of the park.

[14:54] Yeah, yeah.

[14:56] If you ask if I want to live in a theme park,

[14:58] I don't want to live in a theme park nowadays, you know.

[15:00] But would you rather than live there, would you like to live in a world

[15:04] where you go and visit that Westworld?

[15:07] Well, how likely is it that Yul Brynner is going to try and shoot me?

[15:11] Like this is a functional Westworld or a dysfunctional?

[15:14] Yeah, the movie gives it 100 percent chance of happening.

[15:17] Yeah, I'll give it a two in that case.

[15:20] You know what? I don't know. He's a big star.

[15:22] I think they were like, yeah, this is the king from the King and I, Dan.

[15:26] I think that he's very handsome.

[15:28] Sure. Yeah.

[15:30] Looks great in that cowboy outfit.

[15:32] Noted anti-smoking advocate after his death.

[15:35] You know, so the I it's I don't know.

[15:39] It's one of the things we're like, do I know as an as a as an attendee

[15:43] that the robots are kind of alive and hate being there

[15:46] and don't like what people ask them to do?

[15:48] No, you don't know that.

[15:49] OK, then. Yeah, sure. I'll go to that theme park.

[15:53] Get to be a cowboy. Sounds wonderful.

[15:54] Yeah, my soul is clean.

[15:57] Tens, tens. I guess ten.

[15:59] Yeah, I go there.

[16:00] I don't. Not for the sex aspect of it.

[16:01] Just to be like a guy.

[16:02] Yeah, I'm not. I'm not going to tell you what to do.

[16:04] That's part of the whole thing about Westworld.

[16:06] You can do whatever you want. You can do what you want.

[16:07] It's just like you'll be a white hat or a black hat.

[16:09] You can you could just be the guy like me who would go to the bathroom,

[16:14] go to the outhouse and get blasted.

[16:15] You got to get shot by some outlaw.

[16:17] Go to the bathroom.

[16:18] I get to go shit in an outhouse?

[16:20] Just to go to the bathroom.

[16:21] Look, there's there is no I don't think you've done it in the movie Westworld.

[16:25] There's a part where you see that he has like he gets like water to wash

[16:28] with in the little basin in his room with like a little pitcher.

[16:31] And there is part of me that's like cool.

[16:32] Like those are the details, the old west that I don't want to live that way.

[16:35] But for like a weekend to be like, yeah, it's the old west.

[16:38] I got to live the old west.

[16:39] Forgive me, Ali. I just need a backup.

[16:41] You know, the washbasin story is great, but

[16:45] but Stewart has just been the first person I've ever heard in history

[16:49] to advocate for the joy of using an outhouse.

[16:53] Well, it's like how it's like how it's like how crazy that is.

[16:58] Well, you've heard about Richard Branson's outside toilet, right?

[17:01] It's not that different.

[17:02] On his island, he's very different.

[17:06] Wait, does he just sit on like a fucking toilet and shit out in the open?

[17:10] Yes, he has a toilet that was installed in the out in the open

[17:13] so that he could see the ocean while he's shitting.

[17:16] And there's no walls and he's rich.

[17:18] There's nobody around.

[17:19] So he just goes out there and takes a dump.

[17:20] Like anyone could run up and hit you.

[17:22] Magical. I mean, anyone could run up to a private island

[17:25] and you're paying everybody there.

[17:26] So, I mean, that knives out the glass onion should have been about

[17:29] is that he gets hit on the head while using his outdoor toilet.

[17:31] Sitting on a wooden plank with a hole in it above.

[17:37] Don't knock it till you try it.

[17:38] The fumes of everyone else's waste products.

[17:41] Yeah, you're part of. No, thank you.

[17:44] All right. Well, so in Westworld, so is this in the wet?

[17:47] Is it like that?

[17:48] Because in the movie Westworld, it's a theme park called Delos.

[17:51] And there's three different worlds, right?

[17:52] There's Westworld, Roman world and medieval world.

[17:54] Do they have those in the TV show or no?

[17:56] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so.

[17:57] OK. Yeah.

[17:59] Which one would you go to?

[18:01] Westworld. But then I also I mean, I try them all, you know, go to go to.

[18:05] I think that the thing is, you know, when you go like

[18:08] we need to like do deep role play and like go there to argue

[18:11] like current politics with all these cowboys.

[18:13] No, no. What you do is you go there and you want to see if you can be just

[18:17] you can be mistaken by another visitor as one of the robots.

[18:20] Oh, yeah. They're really doing it.

[18:21] Yeah, that's it.

[18:22] No, because Westworld is about be a gunslinger.

[18:25] Medieval world is about be a knight.

[18:26] And Roman world is about being like Roman world is the sex world.

[18:29] Like that's the decadent kind of like you go there to have orgies

[18:32] and things like that.

[18:33] Or to be a philosopher.

[18:36] It's true. You do both.

[18:38] You can do both. Many of them did. Yeah.

[18:42] OK, now let's jump to twenty fifty four.

[18:47] Oh, OK. Minority report.

[18:50] Minority report.

[18:51] Self-driving cars.

[18:53] Precogs solving future crimes.

[18:56] So really, the dystopian element element.

[19:00] The. Yeah, that's the that's the Elliott element.

[19:03] Yeah. Of this is the pre-crime stuff.

[19:08] Yes. Yeah. Which you can get your eyes swapped out by a guy in his gross house.

[19:12] You know, I'm not a fan.

[19:14] Oh, wow. We're judging the house.

[19:17] I'm not I'm not pro pre-crime, you know, prosecution.

[19:22] But even in the world we are shown, it seems to work most of the time.

[19:29] That's the official rule on it.

[19:30] That's true. How can you know for sure?

[19:33] But I'm just saying that like

[19:35] that seems to be the one truly dystopian part of it.

[19:39] And everything else seems kind of cool.

[19:40] Yeah. I mean, I don't love that.

[19:42] Like when you walk onto it, the fact that you're constantly

[19:45] your eyes are constantly being scanned so that they can program ads

[19:49] and things like that just as you're walking down.

[19:51] Yeah, that's weird. There's no way that would happen.

[19:55] I mean, it kind of happens now, but now you're just walking down the street

[19:58] with your they don't scan your.

[20:00] eyes, right? But like, I mean, if you if you talk about shit near your phone, you start getting ads

[20:06] for the shit you talked about. That's not that far off. Listening to what you're saying and giving

[20:10] you ads. Yeah, that's. So I guess in terms of how accurate, how likely, how I don't think we're

[20:18] going to suddenly discover people's psychic powers. So that takes a couple of points off. But I think

[20:26] the rest of it seems pretty like I'll I'll give it a six or a seven. Yeah, seven.

[20:34] Sure. Beautifully putting down all of our score. Now, how bad do you want to live in this sucker?

[20:40] From I think as long as I'm not accused of a crime, I could do a seven. I mean,

[20:46] again, it's like grading it on the curve. If it's if we're comparing it to the road warrior world,

[20:51] then but if we're comparing it to it, but just on its own platonically, there's nothing about

[20:57] it where I'm like, oh, cool, I want to live there, you know, so it would be like a five

[21:01] for me, like eminently livable. But it's not like I'm like going back to the future world

[21:06] for my future to not the world. But the first one, I'm like, that looks like a fun place to

[21:10] live. Yeah. Whereas this minor report does not look like a fun place to live. So it seems safe,

[21:15] but not fun. Yes, exactly. Arguably. Are you going to give it a five?

[21:22] I'm Dan. I am. I am trading it on a curve. So I'm giving it a seven just because I

[21:29] I get it. If I'm comparing it to the current world we live in, I would rather live in this

[21:33] world than the minority report world. Now, guys, we're going to take a little bit of a jump

[21:39] for our next one. Twenty one jump straight in the year. Twenty one.

[21:44] Twenty two. Ninety three. Oh, that's quite a little place called Zardoz, the place called

[21:51] in our hearts. I mean, as well, those Zardoz. First off, would you guys do you guys think you

[21:58] would how likely is this world to come about? And would you like to live amongst the the

[22:04] I don't know. Why would you want to live amongst the brutal? I don't know. If you

[22:10] feed a giant stone head wheat and it is out of that rules to because I feel like there is

[22:17] a chance that will become so stratified that they're stratified, that there'll be a

[22:22] stratified is when it's stratified, but we're satisfied with it.

[22:26] Yeah, that will be like a board overclass and a bunch of brutals. But I don't think

[22:31] it's going to result in a giant stone head floating around yelling about penises.

[22:35] If we're looking at the details, I would say it's a one with my Zardoz TV presentation.

[22:43] As during that presentation, I was saying we live in the Zardoz world in the meta,

[22:46] in the in the larger sense. So I think it is very likely, like Dan saying,

[22:50] a board upper class that treats a lower class like at best tools and at worst play things

[22:56] and a big, ugly head that yells nonsense at us and wants us all to shoot each other,

[23:01] which is what we have right now as president. And like I think and and wearable is the thing

[23:07] that I pointed out is in there and they want us to have it so badly. So I think in the gagging for

[23:13] it in the broadest, but like immortality and running around in a red diaper on horseback,

[23:18] I think it's not going to happen. So I'm going to give it a six. Okay. Okay. And how badly would

[23:24] you want to live in? Are you guys you guys are going to be in the idyllic English countryside

[23:29] of the Eternals? This is a tough one because there is a lot of casual toplessness.

[23:33] Yeah, I like why they also seem to have lost interest in sex and knowledge of how to do it.

[23:38] This is one of this is one of those things where it comes up in movies where they're like,

[23:42] we have everything provided for us for so long that we have lost the will,

[23:45] the ambition to do anything and we no longer can even get it up. And I'm like,

[23:49] I don't think that's what's going to happen. I'm more of the I'm more of the Willy Wonka.

[23:54] Did you ever hear what happened to the boy who got everything he wanted? He lived happily ever

[23:57] after. So a form of a form of belief about what would happen, you know. So yeah, I mean,

[24:02] as bored as they seem in certain ways, I don't know, like a life of total leisure doesn't sound

[24:09] terrible to me. It doesn't. I mean, you might get bored of it after centuries, which seems to be

[24:13] what they're implying has happened for them. But but I think I'd want to ride around on a horse

[24:17] blasting dudes and being a barbarian king. Yeah, I give this one a seven as well. I don't know.

[24:22] All of it sounds pretty good. Right. If I get to be one of the immortals, I'm going to give it an

[24:26] eight because really, I just want time to sit around and read and I feel like one time enough

[24:30] at last. You know, I would rather not be writing because I know, again, if I'm in this if I'm in

[24:36] the brutal world, I'm not one of the exterminators or one of the terminators like like Zed. I'm going

[24:41] to end up being one of the brutals who has a gun poked at, like, as did Kennedy say,

[24:47] was it when you're raising rice with a gun in your back? Yeah. What is it? Slave for soldiers

[24:54] with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day. That's the position I would be in. I would

[24:58] be one of the people who is a forced laborer. I don't want to do that. You know, so. OK,

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[27:45] jump. Now, this takes place kind of between the 23rd and 24th century, and that is the world of

[27:51] Star Trek. The world of Star Trek. And by that, I mean, theoretically, you're part of the, what,

[27:58] Federation. You're not, we're not Romulans. We're not Romulans. You're not like regular

[28:04] dudes on a planet. You're flying around in one of the Federation spaceships.

[28:08] I think. Yeah, go on. What do you think, Dan? Likely to happen?

[28:12] A post-religion society. Sort of like totally. Post-scarcity society. That's the exciting thing

[28:17] about it. Totally utopian, cooperative society. Seems more and more unlikely to me with every

[28:24] passing year. Yeah. So I'm going to give it a one, unfortunately. I think the same. I'm going

[28:29] to give it like a two. If we do manage to come up with a machine that can replicate whatever,

[28:33] then I think maybe it'll happen. But how would you guys like to live in this universe? Oh,

[28:38] 10. For sure. For sure, 10. It's exploring the universe. It's exploring the universe.

[28:42] Right now. Yeah, and you get tired of it. Just be in Sherlock Holmes time for a little bit.

[28:47] Yeah. Who cares? Oh no, Moriarty. And you don't have to join Starfleet. You could just have her

[28:52] be a regular person and just have a great life doing whatever. Everyone around you is like super

[28:56] competent all the time. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. You got a droid with you that can sing. Why not?

[29:03] Why not? Now we I feel like that was a pretty easy one. The worst thing that happens is you go down

[29:07] to hang out with Whoopi Goldberg at a bar. That sounds great. We push Wesley off the ship so we

[29:12] don't have to deal with his ass anymore. I guess the worst thing that happens is a Q comes along

[29:16] and just fucks up things for a little bit. But, you know, then he goes away. Yeah. I mean, he's

[29:20] mainly like showing up to give you puzzles to solve. Yeah. Now, I don't want to end up as part

[29:24] of the Borg. That would not be great. You know, but I think that's unlikely. I think most people

[29:29] are not Borg at that point. Yeah. Not at least. Yeah. Yeah. And you can come back from that.

[29:35] Yeah. Hard to seven of nine or whatever. Seven is a good Borg. Yeah. You play a good Borg.

[29:50] You play the Borg Borg. As in the Keenan and Kell movie, Good Borger,

[29:54] where they're like, yeah, starring Bjorn Borg.

[30:00] One of the best boards.

[30:04] Yeah, sure.

[30:06] Give me a give me a give me one better.

[30:09] Yeah, name a better board than that.

[30:11] Okay.

[30:11] I'll wait.

[30:12] Oh man.

[30:13] We're flying through this guys.

[30:14] Henri Borgsen?

[30:15] I don't think so.

[30:17] Okay, we return to the 24th century to the world of The Hunger Games.

[30:24] Kind of the opposite of our post-scarcity society.

[30:28] It will happen.

[30:30] Yeah, they won't call it The Hunger Games though.

[30:33] That's the issue.

[30:34] I have with that movie and the book is they would call it like that.

[30:37] Like the National Pan Am Unity Games.

[30:40] They wouldn't give it a name like The Hunger Games.

[30:42] What was like the bullshit that Trump wanted to do?

[30:44] The Patriot Games based on the film and you got to figure out some spy

[30:51] shit and like the Nazis weren't like we're going to ship you to the

[30:55] death camps.

[30:56] Now the Nazis were like we're going to take you to the you know, the

[30:59] work camps.

[30:59] Yeah, we're working on cultural re-education Center.

[31:03] So there would be a better branding for The Hunger Games, but otherwise

[31:06] 10.

[31:06] Yes, certainly that's that's that's a road that I outfits all make

[31:10] sense.

[31:10] The outfits make sense.

[31:11] Woody Harrelson as a as a former champion makes sense.

[31:14] I'm good.

[31:15] I'm going to give it a seven just because I've never quite understood

[31:19] these dystopian societies where like the idea is like and now to distract

[31:25] everyone.

[31:26] What we're going to do is have a game where like we kill each other

[31:29] like the long walk is the same thing like okay.

[31:33] Well, how did we arrive here?

[31:34] How is this helping the government rather than so I think the

[31:39] difference is in the I think maybe I'll give it a nine then I think

[31:43] what they I could I don't see them saying each send us one of your

[31:46] children.

[31:46] They're going to kill each other.

[31:47] I think I could I could see them saying like now it's now it's the

[31:50] it's the it's like the terrorist games all these people that we

[31:53] Arrested as terrorists who are freedom fighters of rebels.

[31:56] They're going to fight each other to the death and whichever one

[31:58] survives like if the long walk was I mean what makes the long walk

[32:02] terrifying is that it's kids who have to do it.

[32:03] But if the long walk was political prisoners, I could see that.

[32:06] Yeah.

[32:06] And then once it's already been established then it'd be like now

[32:12] it's celebrity long walk.

[32:14] You're right.

[32:14] It would be celebrity long walk and you'd have like who would go on

[32:17] celebrity what long walk who'd sign up for that right away.

[32:19] Anybody like Mario Lopez.

[32:21] It'd be like Mario Lopez Dean Cain like a bunch of people like that

[32:27] would want celebrity long walk.

[32:28] Yeah, and then after and then after the celebrity long walk is done

[32:32] so well, that's when you bring the normals in.

[32:34] That's long walk.

[32:35] Well, that's long walk junior.

[32:36] Yeah.

[32:37] Yeah.

[32:38] Yeah.

[32:38] And Gordon Ramsay yells at them until they provide.

[32:41] Okay, so we talked about likelihood how how much would you like to

[32:48] live in the world of the Hunger Games?

[32:50] Would you get caught up in some kind of love triangle with other

[32:53] Hunger Games athletes?

[32:55] I mean like at what at my current age?

[32:56] Would you be the Woody Harrelson be in the games?

[33:00] So at least you're a former Hunger Games winner.

[33:03] You kind of got to see a little bit from your trauma.

[33:06] Pretty sweet.

[33:06] Honestly.

[33:07] Yeah.

[33:07] I guess I still give it a four even at that point.

[33:11] Okay, I'm going to give that a two.

[33:15] I gotta say Stanley Tucci fucking loves that shit.

[33:18] So I think he is probably pretty fun.

[33:20] I mean, if you're Stanley Tucci, you're an amoral famous TV announcer.

[33:23] Then yeah, what a great place to be in the capital.

[33:26] You get to wear all those crazy clothes.

[33:28] Yeah, in the capital.

[33:29] They call those crazy clothes normal clothes.

[33:34] Whereas we call them clothes.

[33:35] It's like we have this restaurant here where I live called pizza

[33:37] kitchen.

[33:38] You may know where you live as California pizza kitchen.

[33:42] The straw is just called a straw.

[33:43] Okay, guys, we are going so far into the distant future.

[33:48] Well, the year is 2505.

[33:52] The movie Idiocracy.

[33:55] Well, again, become shockingly shockingly sharp.

[34:02] The only cliche to say that we are living in a fucking long.

[34:07] Yeah, it would did.

[34:08] Well, that was the that was the it's the same with with it's the

[34:10] opposite of 2001 Space Odyssey where they're like, oh, yeah, by

[34:12] the year 2001.

[34:13] We'll have a hotel on the moon or whatever instead.

[34:16] It's it took much much less time.

[34:18] Although I would say the difference is and this is the thing

[34:20] that if I can be honestly political for a moment that hurts

[34:23] me is that I feel like we live in it.

[34:25] Yeah, because he in terms of the fact that principle that

[34:27] President Camacho is in charge and if anything is crazier like

[34:31] President Camacho in the movie is just dumb, but he genuinely

[34:34] seems to want to help America.

[34:36] He's just dumb.

[34:37] Yeah, I feel like the populace of our country is showing that

[34:40] they make bad decisions but are not stupid, you know, not in

[34:43] the way of like we don't remember how to water plants and

[34:46] things like that.

[34:47] You know, so I think it's unlikely that people will get so

[34:49] dumb that they don't remember how to farm, you know that they

[34:52] don't remember the basics of this is how we grow food and eat

[34:55] food.

[34:55] So I'm going to give it a five.

[34:58] I believe politicians getting that dumb, but the ordinary

[35:00] people the regular Americans that I talk to every day.

[35:03] Dan is wow.

[35:04] I don't know you're pandering.

[35:05] You're pandering.

[35:06] I see them continuing to be empathetic generous.

[35:10] Now, you're going to share an anecdote of a guy he met on

[35:13] the street.

[35:13] There are a bunch of I was talking, you know, I was talking

[35:16] I was talking to Ranch Branson Ranch Branson, you know him he

[35:19] works at the paper mill and he was telling me he doesn't care

[35:22] about all those fussing and feuding.

[35:23] He's not into this culture wars.

[35:26] Ranch Branson.

[35:27] They're a bunch of wonderful.

[35:29] His family and he wants to have other Americans raise their

[35:31] families in a place where they don't have to worry about

[35:34] violence.

[35:35] They don't have to worry that they're not gonna be able to

[35:36] put food on the table.

[35:37] This is what this is what Ranch Branson all those great

[35:39] Americans like him.

[35:40] Why they'll interrupt you but there's a tweet from Ranch

[35:44] Branson three years ago where he said some really concerning

[35:47] things about Black Lives Matter.

[35:48] Oh boy.

[35:49] Well, there are a bunch of wonderful people out there who

[35:55] are standing up for their communities and fellow humans every

[36:00] day.

[36:01] There's also a bunch of people out there who seem to have been

[36:03] guzzling lead for years.

[36:04] So I'm a little less.

[36:05] Yeah.

[36:06] So Elliot says five.

[36:08] What is your likelihood of this occurring?

[36:11] I'm going to go six.

[36:13] Six.

[36:13] Okay, how much would you like to live in the world of

[36:16] idiocracy?

[36:18] Well, I mean, I'm not loving the world.

[36:22] We're living in at the moment.

[36:23] Yeah, and this feels like a slightly heightened version.

[36:26] It feels almost like a caricatured for the sake of satire.

[36:32] But not not there.

[36:33] Not in a fun way.

[36:34] Not now.

[36:35] No, I'm going to say like a four, you know, three or four

[36:39] again.

[36:40] People have houses people that people can people have food,

[36:43] you know, right on the one hand.

[36:45] I do hate like trying to explain something to people who want

[36:51] to almost seemingly be willfully ignorant about it.

[36:54] But on the other hand, idiocracy at least seems like a fun

[36:57] version of that.

[36:59] It's very brightly colored.

[37:00] Zane.

[37:00] Is that true?

[37:01] And in idiocracy a guy comes in and says like, hey, do it

[37:04] this way instead and people listen to him because it seems

[37:07] to work and I don't have faith that that would happen in

[37:10] this world.

[37:10] You know, yeah, I'm gonna go right in the middle.

[37:12] I'll put it at a five.

[37:13] I guess.

[37:14] Okay, idiocracy is another one where it's like both prescient,

[37:17] but it's also it's like a pre social media satirical satirical

[37:21] view, right?

[37:21] And that's the thing that's kind of like missing from it in

[37:23] some ways, you know, it's still a mass media satire.

[37:27] So we now jump to the year 2688.

[37:30] Wow, you're looking at the future in the universe of the movie

[37:35] Bill and Ted.

[37:38] A future built on the music of two rock and roll musicians.

[37:42] There's world.

[37:43] It's kind of hard to tell what else is going on at all.

[37:46] It seems like it's a world made out of classrooms where they

[37:48] just learn about Bill and Ted.

[37:49] They hang out like robes and stuff.

[37:52] They have robes.

[37:52] It's and it's a it's a multicultural future.

[37:56] Very colorful.

[37:57] I mean, I'm going to give it a two just because I have a lack

[38:01] of faith in the world coming together because of some metal

[38:06] music.

[38:07] Oh, yeah, I'm going to give it up.

[38:08] I mean metal is an interesting description.

[38:12] I'm going to give it a one.

[38:13] I think it's very very unlikely future.

[38:15] But hair metal.

[38:17] I mean, what do you want to I mean, it's it's a form of metal.

[38:20] It's rock and roll.

[38:20] It's hard.

[38:21] It's rock.

[38:21] Yeah, it's hard rock.

[38:22] I would say.

[38:22] Yeah, it's approaching here.

[38:24] Fucking metal snobs over here.

[38:27] Both of you.

[38:28] I'm sorry.

[38:28] I believe that words have definitions.

[38:30] I believe that words have meanings.

[38:32] Yeah, I feel like I feel like you've been defending denying

[38:38] the insurance claims of people who lost their homes in floods.

[38:41] Oh, well, why don't we pay out to everybody and the insurance

[38:42] companies will fall apart?

[38:44] This is a conversation that that we had behind the scenes

[38:46] of The Daily Show years ago.

[38:48] Yeah back when he was working as a lawyer for a bad company.

[38:52] Yeah, so funny and not lawyer for bad company.

[38:54] That was my client said that they feel like making love

[39:06] making love specifically to the plaintiff.

[39:08] Yeah.

[39:09] Okay.

[39:10] So how much would how likely are you to want to live in this

[39:14] rock and roll based?

[39:15] I'm going to go nine.

[39:16] I'm not going to go full 10 because even though it seems

[39:19] utopian it all seems a little boring because they're just sort

[39:22] of wandering around vibing, you know, just give it a 10.

[39:26] Come on.

[39:26] I give it a 10 completely less as someone who is too busy

[39:29] and has too much stress.

[39:30] I'm eager for the world of boredom of the future, you know,

[39:33] so we are online Dan.

[39:35] I'll find something to do.

[39:36] I'll find a hobby.

[39:38] We are in the home stretch.

[39:39] We have two left.

[39:40] Okay.

[39:41] Okay.

[39:41] We are going so far into the future.

[39:43] We are in 2805 the world of Wally and now this is a world

[39:50] that this is a year that it's almost certainly we will

[39:52] not live to see.

[39:53] 2805, you know.

[39:55] Fucking hope not.

[40:00] And by the world, let's talk about the world in general, and then as far as would we like

[40:05] to live there, of course, I'm not talking about the trash planet that WALL-E exists

[40:09] on, but rather the place where the humans live, which is on the planet.

[40:14] I thought the trash world is what you're talking about, and I was like, uh, yes, all that stuff.

[40:19] Yeah, all those old movies I can watch.

[40:21] I can watch Hello, Dolly, whatever I want.

[40:24] In terms of likelihood, I have a lot of faith in us turning our planet into a trash planet,

[40:28] but less faith in us being able to create a big sky arc to escape it.

[40:33] And of course, Fred Willard has since passed, so the idea that he would be elected president

[40:37] seems unlikely.

[40:38] Yeah.

[40:39] So because of those conflicting things, I'm going to go right down the middle and give

[40:42] it a five.

[40:43] Okay.

[40:44] Yeah.

[40:45] Similarly, I think I'm going to give it a five.

[40:46] I think the, uh, I'm going to give it a five, um, because like Dan's saying, we're going

[40:51] to trash the world, but I don't think we're going to be able to get everybody up onto

[40:55] that spaceship.

[40:56] But at the same time, I also don't think robots are going to be as cute as the robots in Wally.

[41:00] I think you're right.

[41:01] Those robots are super cute.

[41:02] And the robots that I've seen so far that people are making, surprisingly not cute.

[41:06] Yeah.

[41:07] They're all fucking duds.

[41:08] Yeah.

[41:09] They look like, yeah, they're real duds.

[41:10] Yeah.

[41:11] More fuckable robots, says Elliot.

[41:12] Yeah.

[41:13] No, not cute in that way, Dan.

[41:14] That's not what I'm saying.

[41:15] But like, fuckable as in like...

[41:16] Yeah, because I think Wally and Eve are really fuckable.

[41:20] Exactly.

[41:21] When I look at Wally, I'm like, hold me back.

[41:23] Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[41:24] I'm like Anthony Lane watching The Incredibles 2, you know?

[41:27] Wowzers.

[41:28] Yeah.

[41:29] Wowzers.

[41:30] That is Gene Anthony Lane to his fucking cinema chair.

[41:34] Why did that popcorn just go flying into the air?

[41:38] Yeah, it's his boner springs.

[41:40] They had to ask Anthony Lane to leave the theater because he was making everybody so

[41:43] uncomfortable with the drooling he was doing over The Incredibles 2.

[41:46] Yeah, his tongue had rolled out into a massive red carpet.

[41:49] Spraying spittle everywhere.

[41:51] I still love...

[41:52] I think it was Michael Kupferman who did the fake excerpt from that where he talks about

[41:55] having to run to the bathroom to jack off in the middle of The Incredibles 2.

[41:59] And people were like, did that really happen?

[42:02] Is this really the review?

[42:05] It was like, who was it who made that fake Red Hot Chili Pepper song that everybody's

[42:10] like, is that a real Red Hot Chili Pepper song?

[42:12] I don't know that one.

[42:13] Oh, it's so funny.

[42:15] Okay.

[42:16] So how likely would you like to live on a space ark in Wally?

[42:20] Seems pretty good.

[42:21] I mean, it's like a cruise, which you get tired of after a while.

[42:26] And also, I think you would get tired of never seeing the sun or having fresh air.

[42:30] I think it's hard to overestimate how important it is to have air circulating around you that

[42:36] doesn't feel canned and to have actual sunlight hitting you for just human well-being.

[42:41] But it'd be fun to take a vacation on that spaceship.

[42:44] I mean, the creature comforts feel good, but like, yeah, a lot of ennui would set in as

[42:49] we see in the film.

[42:50] I mean, ennui sets in nowadays, and I'm not on a space ark.

[42:54] That's a good point.

[42:55] So what are we going to say?

[42:56] What are we going to say?

[42:57] Would I want to live there on a space ark?

[42:59] I'm going to give that a six.

[43:00] Yeah, a six is what I was going for, too.

[43:03] I mean, to live in a place where I never have to stand up and I'm probably just eating chicken

[43:07] fingers all day and watching TV sounds good for a little bit.

[43:10] I think I would get bored of that eventually, you know?

[43:13] Okay.

[43:14] And our last one, this is a treat.

[43:18] The 31st century.

[43:20] Whoa, so far in the world of Futurama.

[43:23] Oh, do I get to hang out with all those guys?

[43:27] Hey, you can.

[43:28] My friends, my TV friends.

[43:30] That's the second part of the that's the second part of the first categories.

[43:34] How likely is the world of Futurama to come about?

[43:38] Well, I'm going to give what you say, Dan.

[43:40] I'm sorry.

[43:41] I'm sorry.

[43:42] I just like the fact that they build new New York on top of the wreckage of old New York

[43:47] feels like a pretty believable way of humans reacting to disaster.

[43:51] And that is the main thing about Futurama.

[43:54] That is the main aspect of its future.

[43:57] The thing that came to my mind.

[43:58] What were you going to say?

[43:59] I think I think I think it's very unlikely, if only because as much there is nothing I

[44:05] want more in human history than to be alive when humanity makes contact with an alien

[44:11] intelligence.

[44:12] There's two things I want to experience.

[44:13] I want to see a dinosaur.

[44:14] That's never going to happen.

[44:15] It's just impossible.

[44:16] It's never going to happen.

[44:17] And I want to.

[44:18] There's a series of very popular movies that question your statement.

[44:22] That's true.

[44:23] I will put them in as Exhibit B for the.

[44:25] Carnasaur.

[44:26] Carnasaur 2.

[44:27] Tammy and the T-Rex.

[44:28] Yeah, I think.

[44:31] And the other thing.

[44:32] But I want to see humans make alien contact.

[44:34] It would be so exciting to me, even if it was a negative experience.

[44:36] It would be.

[44:37] I mean, I don't want that to happen.

[44:38] Even if it's a fucking predator.

[44:39] Yeah.

[44:40] It's still.

[44:41] I would be like to know that there's alien life.

[44:43] It would be amazing.

[44:44] But I think it is so unlikely because of the vast distance of the universe that that will

[44:50] happen in my lifetime.

[44:51] But certainly by the time of Futurama, that there would be so many aliens that it'd be

[44:54] so easy to just hop around the universe.

[44:56] I think it's just not.

[44:57] Unfortunately, I think it's just not likely to happen.

[45:01] So I have to give it a very low happenability rate.

[45:04] And also I want to live in that in that future.

[45:06] Yeah.

[45:07] Ten.

[45:08] One hundred percent.

[45:09] OK.

[45:10] Yeah.

[45:11] I mean, just because it's so far ahead, I'm going to leave the door open.

[45:13] I'll give it a I'll give it a two for likelihood.

[45:15] Yeah.

[45:16] I think it's unlikely that that far in the future, everyone will be making the same pop

[45:20] culture references that we make now.

[45:22] They'll have their own new thousand years later pop culture references.

[45:25] But still.

[45:27] But as a world to live in, it's like this sort of retro futuristic world that, of course,

[45:32] I'm going to love.

[45:34] There is a lot of danger in this world, but they always seem to get out of it.

[45:38] So there's a lot of danger and it's pretty grimy.

[45:40] It's pretty grimy and messy.

[45:42] Yeah.

[45:43] I'm going to give it a nine.

[45:44] But I will still also give it a high score because I'm going to give it a higher score

[45:48] because there's so much casual nudity as the series goes on.

[45:51] Yeah, that's true.

[45:52] Definitely.

[45:53] As soon as they got on to like streaming, they're like, oh, OK, we can just like have

[45:56] like Amy's butt in this scene.

[45:58] Let's do it.

[46:00] And I'm like, Zoidberg can be a doctor.

[46:03] That's pretty cool.

[46:04] Mm hmm.

[46:05] Yeah.

[46:06] A crab can be a doctor.

[46:07] If you're asking me if I want to live in a world where an alien crab man who sounds just

[46:11] like George Jessel is a doctor.

[46:13] Yes, I do want to live in that world for sure.

[46:15] Yeah.

[46:17] Yeah.

[46:18] So that has been our look to the future.

[46:20] Listeners, I love that Stuart was noting down the scores for everything very carefully.

[46:27] And then there was no payoff.

[46:29] Not at all.

[46:31] He's just making more work for himself.

[46:32] It doesn't matter.

[46:33] Yeah.

[46:34] But what matters to me is listeners.

[46:37] How close were we?

[46:39] Did we did we get anything incredibly wrong?

[46:41] Did we forget?

[46:43] I mean, it's about the future, so I don't know if we're going to know yet.

[46:46] Well, Criswell could write in and he would tell us.

[46:48] That's true.

[46:49] Yeah.

[46:50] We're all we're all just in the future.

[46:51] We'll find out about it on Flop TV.

[46:53] And please, when we if if we I will probably post a clip of this episode on Instagram.

[47:01] If you could chime in with any futuristic movies, I may have forgotten that I did not

[47:06] add to this list.

[47:07] If we got any information wrong, chime in and I will mention it later.

[47:11] Sean Connery to come up.

[47:12] But I guess you had only one Sean Connery movie.

[47:14] Yeah.

[47:16] Yeah.

[47:17] I when I was working on this mini Conan the Barbarian was standing behind me and he gave

[47:22] me that role.

[47:23] And if I broke it, he would slice my head off my shoulders.

[47:25] I'm glad you follow.

[47:26] Wow.

[47:27] Yeah.

[47:28] That's that's the way right now.

[47:29] Many works.

[47:30] Thanks so much.

[47:31] This has been a mini episode of the Flop House podcast.

[47:34] We are on the Maximum Fun Network.

[47:36] There's plenty of good shows on there.

[47:38] I like the implication there.

[47:41] But there's plenty of what you said.

[47:42] Yeah.

[47:43] We're not one of them.

[47:44] Yeah.

[47:45] Yeah.

[47:46] OK.

[47:48] This episode was like like all our episodes is produced by Alex Smith, who goes by Howell

[47:52] Dottie on the Internet.

[47:54] He's a treat to work with and he produces a ton of great content on his own.

[47:59] Check him out on Bandcamp, Twitch, etc.

[48:01] I have been Stuart Wellington.

[48:03] I've been Dan McCoy.

[48:05] And I'll be Elliot Kalin in the future.

[48:08] I see what he did.

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FH Mini 145 - Flop to the Future

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