The Flop House - Ep. #203 - Look Who's Talking Now

Episode Date: April 30, 2016

This episode is part three in a podcrawl with the guys at Read it and Weep, and at Too Beautiful to Live, covering the entire Look Who's Talking trilogy. We got to handle the thrilling conclusion, Lo...ok Who's Talking Now. Meanwhile we discover what's in the file titled "Things Stuart Knows," Dan reveals his shameful Simpsons past, and Elliott pitches "Fiddler on the Wolf Goes West." Movies recommended in this episode: Ricki and the Flash The Invitation China 9, Liberty 37

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Starting point is 00:00:00 On tonight's episode we watched, look who's talking now. That's right listeners, the flop house goes straight to the dogs. Because there's dogs in the middle of it. Because it's a movie with dogs. Yeah. All right, I'm the flop house, I'm Dan McCoy and you know I'm steward Wellington. And you probably had a premonition that Elliott Kalen would be here. Well, you were right. That's right. We're the flop house podcast.
Starting point is 00:00:55 Starring us in the flop house. The original flop. Bad boys of flop casting. I think the only bad boys of flop casting, which also makes us the only good boys of flop casting. Yeah, where's your yardstick for good versus bad boys? Well, bad boys are coming for you, or were they coming for the bad boys in that song? Well, they were coming after the bad boys. Oh, okay, never mind that. Never mind. So this is a podcast where we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it. And tonight, we did not watch a bad movie.
Starting point is 00:01:28 Well, tonight, oh no, we did not. Tonight we're taking part, and a little thing called a pod crawl. Now we've done this a couple of times before, where we get together with a couple of other podcasts and we watch a series of connected movies. It's like a crossover where no one meets each other. And so we are running the Lukus talking series with Read It and Weep and
Starting point is 00:01:55 two beautiful to live with Luke Burbank. And so the reader weep guys, I believe it. Read It and Weepa show that that I think we all done a guest spot on it at some point. Yeah. Yep. And we've done the previous two prop pakt rolls with the Star Wars one and the, uh, was in the, uh, yeah, the any which way will lose that was with, uh, we, uh, we, uh, okay.
Starting point is 00:02:20 Dan's memory zero. Anyway, point is They watch Lucas talking they which Lucas talking the classic film about hey What if babies could talk and they sounded like Bruce Willis yep to 1989's Look who's talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it felt so hot the next year look who's talking to And then there was a little bit of a leg before our film, look who's talking now. I'm assuming it went through multiple rewrites
Starting point is 00:02:50 so they could get the perfect script. I was gonna say two beautiful to live to the second film in the series, where that's the one with the talking toilet. That's, that's, that's, I love it. For them, they're talking baby. What's the heightening to one talking baby?
Starting point is 00:03:03 Two talking babies. It's, they had to learn the lesson that Walt Disney learned with three little pigs, where he said, you can't beat pigs with pigs. He couldn't just keep making three little pigs cartoons. He had to do other stuff that wasn't pigs. He's got a big cartoon where a pig beats another pig. No, it's impossible,
Starting point is 00:03:20 because pigs always form an alliance against humans. Animal farm by George Orwell. I talked about it on your brother's podcast. Yeah, and there's no they have no arguments in that in that book, right? No, they can't. None of the pigs have anything bad. I have another. Perfectly well.
Starting point is 00:03:33 Yeah. Uh, nothing. So, Lucas talking is about a talking baby, but he's not really talking. It's just what he's thinking. Lucas talking to, you got two talking babies. Yeah. Lucas talking now., the kids have grown up. But we have a gender balance. Yes, yeah, finally we've achieved gender Lukus talking
Starting point is 00:03:51 parody after so many years of progress. There was once in time when girl babies couldn't even vote. And you know what, they still can't, because they're babies. Yeah, they can't understand it. Today, we're actually recording on the night of the New York primary and my wife took our son, Sammy, with her to go voting And he could not tell me which candidate they voted for this two-year-old kid had no understanding of what was going on in
Starting point is 00:04:12 Democratic politics. Maybe he was just trying to keep his vote private. Maybe that's true. I asked him. I saw who'd you vote for? He goes Voted. He was more like way to ask the civic duty is the main thing. Oh, Civic's not the only duty he's making. Oh, dad humor. Anyway, so Luke who's talking now, the kids are grown up. They're already talked to see a five year old talking
Starting point is 00:04:37 is not impressive enough to go to the movies for and pay. At the time, $6 for a ticket plus you got popcorn plus twizzlers probably. Then you see the thing about the float candy floating through space in the beginning, and you're like, oh, gummy bears, of course, you run out and get those. Then you got to sit, they didn't even
Starting point is 00:04:53 have screen entertainment, so it's not like you could buy time with that. You had to hurry, and when you get back. This is back when there would be guys walking around with little boxes hanging from their show. Yeah, there's the Fordy-Ford. The Fordy-Ford? Yeah, the Fordy a lot of you are.
Starting point is 00:05:05 Yeah. I've heard of some little Rogers foundation. You got to put in a couple of bucks from that too. Oh, yeah. What happened to that? That used to be at like every movie theater. They realized that Will Rogers was dead and couldn't hurt them anymore. They could bring both.
Starting point is 00:05:20 It's just a projection racket. Yeah. He was totally by the end. It seems he died in a plane crash 70 years ago. Why are we still doing this? Uh, so Lucas talking now, what's going to be talking now? There are obviously a lot of options. Cars, you mentioned toilet plants. Now there is a talking toilet in one scene in Lucas talking to. Uh huh. It's a fantasy sequence. And if you want fantasy sequence isus talking now is chock full of filler
Starting point is 00:05:45 in the form of fantasy sequence. So what's gonna talk? Is it gonna be the sky? Is it gonna be fire telling people light me? Burn your house. Is it gonna be like a television set? Now that again, if it was talking would not be that impressive.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Okay. Is it gonna be like a talking doll? Like a chuckle? I mean, you know, one of those chuckies are talking tinas. Yeah. Here's what it is. Everyone's clothing talks.
Starting point is 00:06:11 Oh, thanks. What's going on? It's their main thing. And they're all saying, I'm touching your boobs. Yeah, all the clothes are perverts. I'm touching your butt right now. Oh, boy. I'm brightly colored.
Starting point is 00:06:24 I'm brightly colored. I'm brightly colored. Well, there are a lot of brightly colored shows. Yeah, brightly colored clothes. It's a real... Triceracy? Dick Tracy of a movie. Now, man, what really is the extra talking element? The extra talking element is dogs.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Dogs. The series has gone to the dogs. As the story's set up. Oh, Danny? Yeah, like 10 minutes ago? The series has gone to the dogs. It's the worst set up in the world. Oh, Danny? Yeah, like 10 minutes ago. I thought it was this episode is starting rough. Oh, but this, if one in the pound and put it down.
Starting point is 00:06:56 Or as they say, when they're about to kill Danny to be able to be able to watch, to be destroyed. Which I think is supposed to be a less visceral word than kill, but it sounds way worse. If you say you're gonna kill a dog, it's like, oh, well, at least its body will exist, right? You destroyed it. The soul has been banished to the other worlds. We're on an atomic level, it's just been torn apart
Starting point is 00:07:16 to particles. It's like when I get a sandwich and I'm like, I'm gonna destroy this sandwich. Like the guy that's telling me this sandwich is like, holy shit, dude I mean that sandwich back here's your money get out of my restaurant. I would couldn't let you do that You said that weirdly sexually, too. I will that's I'm gonna destroy this sandwich That's how I talk to you service
Starting point is 00:07:37 Oh, I'm just gonna wreck this sandwich Unleaded please fill her up You guys are making it grosser than mine was. Maybe. So we open in a single shot. So the year is 1990. One shot.
Starting point is 00:07:53 A single take long shot. It is irreversible. Now the year is 1993 when this came out. This was the big movie of the year, right? Of course it wasn't. Jurassic Park came out in 1993. The biggest movie, maybe ever made. And the dinosaurs.
Starting point is 00:08:08 I think scientific way. That's untrue, I think. I mean, name a bigger movie. Gone with a win. Dinosaurs are like 60 feet tall. No one in that movie is over 60 feet tall. Dinosaurs could eat scoffo hair very easily. Incredibly easily.
Starting point is 00:08:23 Think about the Civil War with dinosaurs. It's called a ramling in dinosaur hunter I'm thinking about it and I'm loving it Here's $700,000 perfect. Thank you. So wait a second. Are the in this case are the dinosaurs plantation owners? Yes, okay. Well Another reason I hate dinosaurs. I guess no, but I like dinosaurs. Oh shoot anyways So we open as stewards have with a single long take shot of Our heroes John Travolta and Kristie Alley. We've known them through the entire Lucas talking saga. They met
Starting point is 00:08:53 They don't love. Oh, sorry. They had a baby at a wedlock. John Travolta married her. They had another baby in wedlock They are according to IMDB The tagline for this movie is the world's favorite family is back. That is incredibly unearned promotional hype. Hyperbolic. I mean, as if the world's favorite family. Name one more favorite family. Now, considering the movie's set at Christmas,
Starting point is 00:09:20 Jesus and His parents, hugely popular throughout the world. And I'm talking about both his dad. I was gonna say the family from married with children, Jesus and his parents hugely popular throughout the world. And I'm talking about both his dad. I was going to say the family from married with children, the Bundies. The Bundies? They were huge at this point. The Simpsons, even bigger. Let's not forget the Winslow's and the Hustables.
Starting point is 00:09:37 The Cosby's? Well, the Cosby's and the Hustables are the same. Oh, yeah. I'm bad at TV. And the Dick Van Dyches'es and the bunkers and the family from the show dinosaurs. I don't remember if that was on the show. All over the family. Yeah, some family feud.
Starting point is 00:09:53 Yeah, all of them. So all the people who under their breath while they're listening to this show on public transportation who said the name of that family on dinosaurs, please tweet it when you get off the bus. Yeah, please do. I think it's the Sinclair's. That makes sense. But that doesn't say that. We did at Honda's.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Love House cat. Well, no, all the carels are talking about. We've all of it at Flock House cat. All dinosaurs related to correspondents goes directly to my personal car. At Flock House cat. Not the mama. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:10:20 No. Look, you got to love them. He's told you so. Yeah. All the characters were named after oil companies. No, no. Look, you got to love him. He's told you so. Yeah. All the characters were named after oil companies. Oh, wait, are the dinosaurs worth? Yeah, yeah, it was a joke. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:10:32 What's the joke? Is it that their latex master made out of oil? I think is that when they, that their bones would become oil eventually. Yeah, it was sort of a morbid joke. These characters that you love will eventually die and become fossilized, and then you'll burn them up in your car.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Considering the final episode of the series was the Ice Age coming and everybody is about to die. It's pretty close. Anyway, so Kirstie Alley and John DeVolta America's favorite family. They are. Words of favorite family. Now you take World's Family.
Starting point is 00:11:01 We've got the World's Favorite Family. It's like, it's in... Cause in... In Namibia, they're like, what's going on with the Lequeus talking family in Japan? They're like, oh, what's happening now to the family whose last name I don't remember, even though they're my favorite. Yeah, he's complicated. They get the poster, it says Lequeus talking now, and they're like, who? Who?
Starting point is 00:11:20 Who? Oh my god, say, who? Tell us who's been added to the family. They did the same experience I had when I saw the poster for Gremlins 2 and my mind exploded. Oh, forgot, say cool. Tell us who's been added to the family. They did the same experience I had when I saw the poster for Gremlins too, and my mind exploded. They made another one, just for me.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Oh, man, I was thinking. I was thinking, when will I just go first look for that thing? And I was like, a spider, Gremlin. Do I live in the best time that has ever existed? Medically, yes. I remember in that movie, when Gremlins who was still on theaters, I had all the collectible cards, and I would just go on road,
Starting point is 00:11:51 when my parents were taking me on road trips, I'd read the backs of the- Yeah, like you were watching the movie. What was the lobby card I gave you? Was that the, was that Favy K's being terrorized in the- Yes, in the elevator. And the Gremlins arms gunner goes, Forth-Low-R-Women's lingerie. Because it's and the elevator That one's arms are gonna go for the lower woman's lingerie
Starting point is 00:12:07 Because it's just the loony toon scar tuna that boy and when the elevator crashes There's literally like a point that's not effect that squish. What a good movie. We should have watched that There's tons of talking shit in that movie Anyway, so there these two are dealing with tons of talking shit You're like a normal, everyone just talks. They don't make a big deal out of it. Look, every movie since 1929, roughly, has had talking in it for the most-
Starting point is 00:12:34 I mean, there's some movies that have it, but most of them have. Even Charlie Chaplin eventually was like, I get to get on this talking boat. So, in 1993, to release a movie where things are talking, not so impressive. Kristie Alley, John DeVolta, they're dealing with the stress one of being
Starting point is 00:12:49 huge psychologists. And two of having these very stressful children. And then right away, the movie loses its audience because you expect the children to have the voices of Bruce Willis and Roseanne Barr respectively. Yes, why didn't they dove them into these children's faces?
Starting point is 00:13:04 It would have been perfect, and it would have made sense thematically. You know that this boy is gonna grow up to be Bruno, and this girl is gonna grow up to be She Devil. Yeah, yeah, that's her character. Yeah, and so it's really stressful, life having two young kids. They don't wanna go to bed,
Starting point is 00:13:21 ah, they don't wanna take a bath, ah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You're busy healing around the apartment all the time. Oh boy, Yagady Sacks is always playing in their minds and occasionally on their stereo. They love novelty songs. They're like, take, put that Dr. Demento mix on. This is gonna be great. Yeah, they're like, fish heads, fish heads, roll the poly, fish heads. You know what honey, let me queue up the music video. You know, Bill Paxton directed this? Yes, I know, honey, thank you.
Starting point is 00:13:46 Anyway, so they love novelty songs, we wish that. That's their defining trait. Now, John Travolta, as you know, is a pilot who's at a work and became a cab driver. And he's like kind of a goofy nerd, do well. And, Christie Allen does. He always wears shirts that are about five sizes too big for him. Because it's the 90s.
Starting point is 00:14:04 This is something I forget all the time until I watch 90s movies. Everyone's clothes were enormous. Like everyone looked like a fucking Howard Chacon drawing with huge shoulder pads and like, John Perpance. There's up scene where the sun is like, what, six is walking down the stairs.
Starting point is 00:14:21 And he's wearing pants that look like they belong on a grown man. Like, they're so wide. It's like, what are you doing to these kids? But that's you guys, I assume, had clothes like that back then. I certainly did where my mom was buying me shirts that like had so much excess fabric in it. What I remember about the 90s is that I wanted a Simpson's emblazoned outfit because that
Starting point is 00:14:42 was the hippest thing for a while was to have any Simpsons thing and so I somehow I settled upon the nerdy as Simpsons option that was possible meal house which was Bart giving the peace sign in front of a big piece symbol saying peace man And I thought I was the coolest. Where are you the coolest I was not. So where did you get that shirt from? I think it was a J.C. penny sweatshirt. A J.C. penny? Yeah, J.C.
Starting point is 00:15:11 I know you started with retail before he went into wrapping. I had 99 problems and all of them were that shirt. See, because my dad used to get us Simpson stuff, but why dad used to work in Manhattan at the time. He'd go in a big day. So there were bootlegs. And he just picked up tons of bootleg shirts off the street. Awesome.
Starting point is 00:15:27 So my bro have them? Probably somewhere. My mom doesn't throw anything out. And they still fit. Probably. But my sister and my brother and I would always be wearing simpsons or niggas shirt shirts where the colors were all wrong.
Starting point is 00:15:39 Where the part has like a yellow shirt and green shorts or like this guy's got a red bandana, but he's holding none-chucks. That doesn't make sense. Michelangelo holds the none-chucks. And I remember very much the day when my dad came home with no bootleg shirts and he was like, oh, all I could find was Homie the Clown merchandise. So I'm not wearing buying that for you.
Starting point is 00:15:57 But it was too urban for you. It was too, I mean, in retrospect, Homie the Clown was an inappropriate character for a 10-year-old to have emblazoned on them. Yeah, because he's not eating shorts and then being an underachiever, but a pro-pri-in. And Suicir. Appropriate for this movie, because it looked like it was
Starting point is 00:16:14 the costume designer was the same person who did everything for in living color. It was, there were a lot of bold, bright colors. Yeah. Big, big styles. And one point jacket. And one point jacket with contrast sleeves on them. And one point, John one point John to have a dash or in charge of this movie Oh, there's so many hats. They should have called this look who's had him now
Starting point is 00:16:34 Or just look who's talking hats and the hat should have talked like in Lidsville, but they're not big How did they not put fucking hats on the dogs? They were, they must have been littering the, the floor with hands. Now what kind of hats do you think they would have? Like one of them have like a 10 gallon hat? Or, I mean, yeah, because it's a cowboy dog. Or a burr. I mean, the,
Starting point is 00:16:54 Dan, your obviously the, obviously the poodle will have a beret, a traditional poodle hat. But like, right, so it would have one of those like, like a beat a bold hat with the front flipped up. Yeah, maybe it has a press card in it. Like a corner torn off. All right. And what or maybe like he's got like a newsies cap.
Starting point is 00:17:11 A newsies cap. It's like a little bit of it's ripped and she's wearing a tiara. Oh, that's technically a hat. What if he has a hobo hat, which is just a top hat with a top popping off? Yeah, he could definitely do that little little longer than the over his shoulder. He's wearing dog shoes with the toes open. And she's wearing like,
Starting point is 00:17:32 like one of those old-fashioned 19th century hats with a real dead stuffed bird on it and glass cherries. Yeah, that would be great. I would like to see a dog's neck try and support all that weight. It would be very difficult. So anyway, the, oh yeah, and there's, I want it, so we don't forget,
Starting point is 00:17:49 I want us to point out of the clothes, John Travolta won't be a pain. Yeah, a penis atapistry. He dresses up for a fancy dinner in a blue sport jacket, or blazer or suit jacket, that is the blue-est blue, and it is so bright. It's like he took a blue screen from industrialite magic and just cut it into a shirt shape
Starting point is 00:18:08 and just stuffed his sleeves, his arms through it. It's like you were staring deep into the baby blues of Paula Trady. You know, it was far too much spice from the atmosphere in his bloodstream. There's, when he waves his hands in front of it, it looks like he is a weatherman. Like, there's, yeah, he's like,
Starting point is 00:18:28 you'll just add a suit and post. You know how when the rank horse fighting Luke, there's like a green process caught line around it. It's like, John Dervolt has hands had that when they're in front of his jacket. It was really weird. It's a color that does not exist in nature in any form. And somehow they tore it from some like the the hydron collider when two atoms exploded and turned it into a jacket that he wore. It
Starting point is 00:18:55 was crazy. Yeah. It was. And luckily, and luckily. And he's with and Kirstie Allian, Olympia de Coccus, his two dates are also dressed. Yeah, he, Kirstie Allian is what she's in a bright red thing and the magic. Yeah, almost the traction called address. Has a purple number on the Manchester Purple earrings. Yeah, so they are stressed out from their two kids. He's looking for work. He's having trouble finding it doesn't help that he has a light up tie, that he wears as a joke. He's kind of a goofy dad and And she's kind of a stressed out mom. And
Starting point is 00:19:28 they are always trying to do it and always getting interrupted. Yeah. And so she finds out she's been fired from her job. At the same time, he goes on an interview at what appears to be the headquarters of the Tyrell Corporation for Blade Runner, with a woman who is a kind of icy blonde CEO who doesn't wear a shirt just a bra with a blazer over it. She's got a collection of blazers that yeah, the boobs are front and center.
Starting point is 00:19:53 It's like, it's like the guys hold on a second, Dan. Where else should the boobs be? Like back and diagonal? Underneath and in circles. It's like what happened if the, you know, you know, sometimes they drift off to the side, I guess. Yeah, then you gotta push them slightly when you're going out with a gumbee. That's what, that's the main problem the women face, right?
Starting point is 00:20:15 They got a recenter of the boobs. Every now and then, that's what they go to. So if you got a calibrate. You're getting recalibrated and re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re re Is that time to hit him like a punch to the gut? Oh, yeah, his boss is basically if the weird science guys scanned a nagel print and she's praying to life. And so he gets a job as her private pilot. And Kristi Ali is instantly threatened by this beautiful young rich woman. But what can she do?
Starting point is 00:21:02 They need to support the family. And so he takes the job. Little realizing that she has designs on him, and also will make him work all the time, taking away from his family. Now, their son wants nothing more for Christmas than a DOG. That's right, a dog. Four paws.
Starting point is 00:21:20 That's a good place for him. Yeah, we had to do it in our head. And their little girl wants nothing more than to defeat took me a second. I spelled it out. Yeah, we had to do it in our head. And there little girl wants nothing more than to defeat Charles Barkley in a one-on-one basketball game, which we see in a fantasy sequence that has no bearing on the plot. And it's oddly sexual. Yes, it's a weird. She stares at him on TV in a weirdly sexual way. And it's I don't know about you guys, but I was looking up out the IMDB trivia for this scene. I was not. They specified that they had to slow down the basketball footage like
Starting point is 00:21:53 a Hong Kong martial arts movie or else the audience wouldn't know what was going on. They just specified that. Hold on a second. So our basketball game slowed down because people watch those all the time. Well, no, no, no basketball games don't happen at the speed that this little girl is probably involved in. She's so good. And then then then drop in a hot dunk on Charles Barkley. Yeah. They did bring in a a wire food master from the from the shop brothers stable for that scene. Now, he wants a dog. They don't want to get him a dog. They live in a tiny New York apartment in a New York that looks suspiciously like Los Angeles in every single way, except that the cars have New York license plates. But it actually, they probably shot in Vancouver.
Starting point is 00:22:34 So I don't know, maybe that's what Vancouver looks like. Yeah, I wouldn't know. The only experience I have in Vancouver is seeing the movie The Score with Robert De Niro, which takes place in Vancouver. And the only experience I have of The Score with Robert De Niro is, when I mentioned it just now, is Marlon Brando saying to Frank Oz
Starting point is 00:22:55 that he's not one of the puppets that he can stick his hand up his ass and make him do what he wants. I run it all. I only experience with Frank Oz is watching Star Wars. Star Star Wars? He's not even that. He's an F.I. Strikes Back. But he Star Wars. Star Star Wars? He's not even if I strike back. But he's not in Star Star Wars.
Starting point is 00:23:08 He is in Star Star Wars. Yeah, that's true. That's the movie where Star Wars is reinterpreted using real stars. And from it, our own son. Beetleguys. Beetleguys. Yeah, yeah. And serious.
Starting point is 00:23:21 Alcar. Alcar. Serious. The dog star. Speaking of dogs, there is this movie. Al-Tar. Al-Tar? Serious, the dog star. Speaking of dogs, there is this movie. So the sun wants a dog. There's a mishap with a Santa Claus. Kristie Ali, briefly, as a job as an elf,
Starting point is 00:23:32 at a Santa Claus thing. This is a very Christmassy movie. And so pretty quickly, I shut off much of my brain because Christmas... It goes to hate our savior, our Lord and Zaver Jesus Christ. Hate is a strong word. I have no emotional connection to. Well, he is an emotional connection to you. And I know.
Starting point is 00:23:50 Nope. And so I have a pamphlet to you. And potentially an ethnic connection to him too. Oh, much stronger ethnic connection. Potentially. Yeah, there's a lot of controversy. I'm waiting on Ali. It's personificate. I'm going to go on finding your roots and they're going to do my DNA study.
Starting point is 00:24:04 It's going to say 100% Christ. Yeah. Oh, I'll check it for a certificate. I'm gonna go on finding your roots and they're gonna do my DNA study. It's gonna say 100% Christ. Oh, I'll check it for a certificate. I knew you were a secret key bler. Born in a tree. So she gets a job as an out. There's a lot of Christmas in this movie and the movie is very, very heavily relying on the audience, having an emotional connection to Christmas, and the idea of a family being together on Christmas. And since Christmas to me is associated with easier to get a movie ticket, easier to get a table at Chinese restaurant. I mean, you're not a monster, right?
Starting point is 00:24:36 You can theoretically understand. I wish I was a monster. You could understand. Since I was a kid, I've wanted to be a monster. Yeah, you'd be like a Hollywood man, Dell. Little monster's monster, where you're peeing in Apple Juice jugs. That I don't want to be. OK. I would rather be, OK. Number one, Godzilla- a monster. The idea of a white Mandel, little monster's monster where you're peeing in apple juice jugs. That I don't want to be.
Starting point is 00:24:45 Okay. I would rather be, okay. Number one, Godzilla type monster. Okay. Okay. Number two, a Dracula. Number three, a wolf man, but I can control the transformations. Number four, a Dracula. A Dracula. Oh, sure. Yeah, come on.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Number five, Benicula. Okay. Okay. Yeah, there's a lot of coulars that I could be. Drac, bum, duck. And now would you want to be a Godzilla-sized Dracula? That would be silly. How am I going to find a tuxedo big enough to wear? I'm just going to be a naked Dracula.
Starting point is 00:25:20 And that's not something anyone needs to see. So, yeah. I was saying that as a gentleman of the Jewish faith, you can still understand the idea of wanting to be with your family on the holiday. Oh, look, I'm, I'm, I'm, I have a wife and child. Yeah. Much more.
Starting point is 00:25:34 What? Sorry. I was cheating on you with my family. You son of a bitch. A much more important holiday to me, Passover, is coming up to the end of the week. We're recording this. And it's very important for me to be with my family during that holiday.
Starting point is 00:25:47 I'm not going to make a movie about it. But maybe I will. I'm going to call it past over. Itter herb. It's like that movie celebration. Yeah. Except it's that Passover. That was the one right where it turns out everything's terrible. I mean, yes, everything's in my own title. It's an ironic title. What? It's an ironic title, like comedy or entertainment. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:12 What's entertainment? That's that Neil Hamburger movie. Oh, right. Okay. Not that's entertainment, which is not ironic, very entertaining. So... Organs movie. Also not ironic. Oh, it's.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Let's think of some other movies that are not don't have erotic titles. Hell razor. I'm a rhonic. I raise a lot of hell. Candyman. He appears in it. Yep. So it's a kind of a rhonic though. Look, he's talking now a little ironic in that it's not who's talking. It's what's talking. That's more dramatic. I's not really did become her. They looked great.
Starting point is 00:26:46 Yeah, come on. Now, look who's talking now. So they want to be together on Christmas. Who wouldn't want to be? But his job keeps taking them apart and they both worry about their marriage. At the same time, John Travolta, to get on his son's good side, brings him to the pound to get a dog. Yeah, after his son realizes that Santa Claus does something,
Starting point is 00:27:06 says, let's rewind to the introduction of rocks voiced by Danny DeVito, who is a dog who is born in a litter of dogs. Each of the look is talking movies as kids movies starts with a scene that introduces sperm flying towards an egg. And if you had been taking bets as to whether or not this movie would feature the song, how to dog, you would clean up on your bet. Yeah, it is, although it is one to one odds. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:35 You would win exactly the same amount of money that you bet. I think that you are literally, you might as well just not make the bet. Now, I'll be honest with you, I think that seeing the original look who's talking with the credits of a sperm fertilizing an egg may have been up until that point the most erotic thing you've ever seen.
Starting point is 00:27:54 I saw it at a church lock-in and it may have been the... What kind of monster locked you in a church? It may have been the clearest explanation of how an egg is for the lives that I've seen or understood up until that point. Sure. Like, I saw this in early high school and it is the state of sex education in this country that Luku's talking probably got her across the clearest like what the deal was. Well, did they show you the PG rated cut or did they show you the R rated cut where you
Starting point is 00:28:23 actually see the penis's head enter? And then the urethra opened like the mall of a sandworm. Mm-hmm. Just spew it out. I'm sure I know. Yeah. That didn't happen. But here it's dog sperm and dog eggs.
Starting point is 00:28:36 A litter is born. And the one that nobody wants the runt, if you will, is rocks played by Danny DeVito. Poised by Danny DeVito, although I'm assuming he's not a dog costume. Yeah, when they're assuming with the original costume. Yeah, when they were blocking out the scenes, he and Diane didn't put on dog outfits.
Starting point is 00:28:50 You know, you can't, Diane, put on dog outfits and they staged it and they go, OK, bring in the real dogs. What if they shot the whole thing with Diane Keaton and Danny DeVito and dog costumes, they're like, this doesn't look good at all. We'll just, we'll just see G.I. some dogs in there over them. I just want to imagine these little kids acting with Danny DeVito on all fours.
Starting point is 00:29:14 And Diane Keaton on all fours wearing a horrific late text dog mask. And Danny DeVito is so excited on the premiere to see himself in the movie. He's just what? What do they? All right. And walks out. So angry. This is the lower ax all over again, even though that hasn't been made yet. What's the, what did he say? A story.
Starting point is 00:29:34 I'm just glad I would have been really sad because Rio Perlman, I'm sure dressed up really nice to see her, her boy, all about the big screen. Yeah, she had a diamond dog shaped brooch. He actually wore a pearl. I am. He actually wore his fur a pearl. Oh, yeah, he wore his costume to the premiere. So everyone, they didn't even notice him. They just thought it was some crazy dog man and they shoot him away with a broom.
Starting point is 00:29:54 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Just say, shoot him. They're like, get this dog going out of here. Go back to rift. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Yep, they shot him. Oh, no. You got toiffs. If they shot him. Oh no. You got to understand.
Starting point is 00:30:08 You understand it's me, Daniel DeVito. Sure sure it is. The Living Shello Magnate, Danny DeVito. Magnate. Last time I checked Danny DeVito wasn't half-man half-dog you freak. It's me John Canny from Spaceballs. Oh I'm so sorry, sir.
Starting point is 00:30:25 Barf, it's great to meet you. Come in, Mr. Mog. Mr. Mog with my cookie. Mr. Mog is my father. Comey Bernie Mog. Now anyway, uh, rocks, he's, he briefly pals around with a homeless man. That doesn't work out because he gets caught by the air. We get a lot of shots of a dog running around and Danny DeVito providing voiceover. And Danny DeVito, DeVito, just throwing jokes, maybe ad-libbed, maybe not onto the screen. You have to send Danny DeVito and Dynke, and each did their jobs for this movie
Starting point is 00:30:58 in about 90 minutes, maybe two hours. One can only open. Yeah, he goes to the panel. Can we do another take on that, Mr. Navito? No, all right. Thank you. A note for you. Miss Keaton, another take on.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Okay. I prefer to think Diane Keaton kept them there really late trying to get every line perfect. Yeah. She's like, you don't understand. This is Diane Keaton you're talking about. Hmm. Everything I do is important. I have to become Daphne the dog. Uh, rocks gets he's about to be destroyed at the pound, but luckily John
Starting point is 00:31:29 Devolta and his son save him by adopting him. But when they get home, they find that John Devolta's boss, the sexy British lady, she's British too. Sexy British lady has given them a super fancy poodle dog with a voice of Diane Keaton. Again, as we explained, not played by Diane Keaton. Although, probably. We can only see in the mocap. It was done by Diane Keaton in real life. These dogs are
Starting point is 00:31:54 a handful. Daphne needs all the special treatment and a rox is always chewing up the shoes. It was sort of charming to see old-style dogs talking in a movie where they didn't feel like they need to You know old-style dogs. Yeah, my dogs say yeah, they didn't have they didn't have the time here and dogs in ought six We talk like this. I mean they still play poker around here not those game boys Oh, I want to see a dogs playing game boys painting so badly. Yep. They're not Oh, I want to see a dogs playing Game Boy's painting so badly. Yep. They were not playing Game Boy's fucking Tetris. There may be one of them is playing links, but yeah, the other ones are all playing
Starting point is 00:32:30 Tetris and not talking to each other. That's the modern thing that dogs do. Is they play Game Boy? I don't know. Candy Crush, but Game Boy is something that means something to me. You were saying. They don't have like animated. They don't have animated, I mean, like that started with Babe.
Starting point is 00:32:44 So it's like, it's not like they had the technology back. But Babe was John Goodman. That's right. I thought. They animated John Goodman's mouth. See, I always thought they just put peanut butter on his teeth so that he would look at, it would look like he was talking. That's right.
Starting point is 00:32:56 In fact, look who's talking. That was John Goodman, that movie. Yeah. You're right. There's no animated mouths. There's no puppets. It's just a dog with it. Yeah, it's kind of fun to see the mouths. There's no puppets. Yeah, it's kind of fun to see the old style of like, I don't know, just just putting a voice over a dog.
Starting point is 00:33:11 You gotta tell you, Dan, I'm nostalgic for a lot of old movie production techniques. This is not one that plucked at my heart strings. Oh, the laziest thing. They're just having someone talk over footage of a dog. Yeah, they don't even try and match it up to the dog flabbing it's good. Or even the dog doing his action that matches the, the, the, the dialogues. And they're able to communicate with each other. So I guess they're all like telekinetic or no telepathic. Yeah, that's, that has to be,
Starting point is 00:33:36 because they're not even growling. They're just thinking. Or is that, is that them communicating using pheromones? The old question of the Garfield comic strip, isn't it? I mean, because those are all thoughts. Like it's all like, it's my real question is, how does this cat eat so much fucking lasagna?
Starting point is 00:33:51 He's very fat. Garfield thinks something, does Odie hear it? I think there's no evidence to believe Odie does hear it. Nirmal on the other hand, he seems to be communicating with. Yeah. Now, that could be all body language. The look who's talking to, they're the kids did the same thing.
Starting point is 00:34:09 They just kind of thought at each other and they could understand and have conversation. Which having grown up with assembling, that is not how it works. Not at all. You have to communicate through a series of complicated fart coasters. Oh, that was because they had the grace of babies.
Starting point is 00:34:25 It was before they had sin, Elliott. So they had the power of telekinesis. I thought we were born telekinesis. Telekinesis. Telekinesis. Telekinesis. Yep, thank you. There's a full bag is there.
Starting point is 00:34:35 Oh, that's a good, it's a good life all over again. He was born and the pain was so much that he destroyed the world with his telekinesic powers. There's a deleted scene where they wish John told him the court fields. And he just starts dancing in it or whatever. Now, I don't know, oh yes, they've got these dogs. Yeah, there's dogs, there's all over.
Starting point is 00:34:54 The two dogs don't like each other. It's a real, I mean, I guess Hollywood had never made a movie before about like a rich fancy dog. First having a trouble with and then falling in love with like, let's just call it a tramp for lack then falling in love with like, let's just call it a tramp for lack of a better word, like kind of a dirty vagabond dog like this and there's a scene where they almost have spaghetti with each other like that's, I mean they got to give them credit for like an original gag.
Starting point is 00:35:17 That's the scene where they leave a sleeping Kirsty alley and then go out on the town and walk past a full restaurant of people eating giant pastimes. A full Italian, I assume it's an olive garden. Yeah, which is either an all night pasta place or Kirstie Ali goes to bed at six or something. She's very tired from taking care of these kids. Well, John DeVolta is jetting around with his posh spice boss.
Starting point is 00:35:39 Okay, Christmas is coming. Ah, I just want to give you this right, buddy. I just want to give this right, but... I just want to give this right, buddy. You forget it for a second. It is constantly Christmasing up. And that's another mark in the direction of this not having been shot in New York is that literally until the day of Christmas, it does not look cold at all anywhere.
Starting point is 00:36:00 Yeah, so we're introduced to the idea that the little boy wants a dog and it's September I believe when he starts going back to school. Yeah, he's working on his his Christmas list in September And he says he wants a dog and that's roughly around the same time is Dane to veto dog squirts out of the mommy dog stuff. Yeah So that means between September and- I need to be dramatic about a dollar. Between September and let's say December. Okay.
Starting point is 00:36:30 He becomes a pretty large dog. Let's say December since that's when Christmas is- Let's just say December. I hadn't realized that, but it makes more sense than if the home movie takes place in December in which case rocks would be like a jack of a dog pretty ages four times faster than everybody else. It's a really sad movie. It's tragic. Dog's already aged seven times as fast as humans.
Starting point is 00:36:49 Is there a Solomon grundy of a dog? Sure. That is born on a Monday. Yeah, but the big guy, like he just lives a week, right? Isn't that the whole thing? He's a may fly, yeah. Yeah. There's a whole lot of kerfuffle over Christmas.
Starting point is 00:37:04 Is John Dervol to gonna make it there? He keeps promising, I'll be home for Christmas. I'll be home for Christmas. of kerfuffle over Christmas. Is John Travolta gonna make it there? He keeps promising, I'll be home for Christmas. I'll be home for Christmas. I'll be home for Christmas. I'll be home for Christmas. Meanwhile, Kristie Alley and John Travolta are kind of suspecting each other of being unfaithful in that, and this is illustrated by a double dream sequence
Starting point is 00:37:21 in which John Travolta dances with his boss, a tangle of some kind, and Chrissy Alley is just like making out with George Cigal as a Santa Claus. Yeah, Santa Claus. Because earlier on in the movie, we didn't mention this. Chrissy Alley, after she gets a pink slip from her like high powered like business job, the only job she can find is as an elf in a mall Santa Claus, which seems like in a mall Santa Claus. in a mall Santa Claus, which seems like a mall
Starting point is 00:37:45 Santa Claus inside a mall Santa Claus. Like did the kids fall into his butt with his outfit? Hands, the pretzels, like, hey, how you doing? Have a spleen. I mean, I guess. I tell them I'm in here. It's very warm and I don't have to pay rent. That entrance makes no sense because it's probably the lowest entrance to the ground depending
Starting point is 00:38:03 on dick length. Wait, so on dick length. All right. I don't mean we can go out of dick measure. I forgot. You know what? Forget I introduced the idea of injury to Santa's blood. Let's just erase that. But the decision on what interest to use is completely made on lowness to the
Starting point is 00:38:21 ground. Yeah. What are they going to get? It's 12. You get it. The kid that I'm just checking. completely made on loan is to the good. Yeah, what are they gonna get us to all get the kid I'm just checking. Kids are like water. They choose the path of lease resistance. They go in the first hole they find, dude. Yeah, they're like
Starting point is 00:38:34 golf balls or gofers. It's common. I know a couple of things. That's one of them. The other is get on the floor. Wait open the door get on the floor Everybody walk the dinosaur I know I On the outside it says things I know It is in his brain. Zoom into
Starting point is 00:39:01 This is in his brain. Zoom into Stuart's brain. No, comment thanks, I. There's a file cabinet with spider webs all over it. That's just things I know. And it's mostly drink recipes and what different boobs look like. And there's a video cabinet next to it that just has head of the family in Missile Maniac and Castle Freak. Yep.
Starting point is 00:39:21 No, man. And then there's the fact that you, a kid, enters to the lowest difference to the pool. And also the steps to walking the dinosaur. Okay, I opened the door. I think I can walk the dinosaur now. Well, whoa, whoa, let me check. I didn't get on the floor.
Starting point is 00:39:36 Yeah, you get crushed. So they have a double dream sequence, where the dreams start interacting with each other. Yeah, and this is actually like this kind of a fun scene. Yes, it's silly. It plays with what you can do in film, I guess you could say. Yeah, and then John Travolta. And at this point, John Travolta is more...
Starting point is 00:40:00 Well, John Travolta is more charming, you say. It says John Travolta's more charming, you know what I'm saying? He was just, was John Travolta entering the room? Yeah. Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, why are you making fun of my movie? What is it? This is me, John Travolta. I was like, John Travolta does do a lot of voices in the movie.
Starting point is 00:40:15 He seems to have thought, like, I do a lot of good voices. I'll bring them all out. Let's do it. So you were saying, John Travolta. Well, I'm just saying that he's, he is a very charming dance performer. And that's kind of what he was, yeah. Before Pul before Paul fiction, that was kind of what he was known for, right? Was his dancing skills? Well, the Saturday night fever, along with welcome back hot, I guess, like those things that
Starting point is 00:40:33 made him a star. And he, yeah, dancing was something that he always had in his back pocket that he, when you look back at his career, like, didn't use anywhere near as much as you'd think he would. I mean, he dances a lot like, like in phenomenon or Michael, which is the one where he's like Michael. Michael is the one where he's an angel. Phenomenon is the one where he has a tumor that gives him telekinetic powers. Oh, I've seen a roadhouse in Michael where he's dancing around.
Starting point is 00:40:57 Yeah, I think after Pulp Fiction, people like, which is the one where he's dancing to spirit in the sky. That's Michael. Okay. So after Pulp Fiction, I think people are like, oh yeah, this guy can dance. So they shoehorn dancing into like almost all of his movies. But I can get shorty he doesn't dance, right? No.
Starting point is 00:41:12 No, I don't think so. He just throws James Gandalfini down a staircase, which was another talent he had that people forgot about. Yeah. Gandalfini throwing. He's so vimmedled in the Olympics. So they're dancing. Uh, Kristie Ali enters John Travolta's dream and it's like, oh, this is just a dream.
Starting point is 00:41:28 We're not really cheating on each other. And Kristie says, if this is a dream, I can do whatever I want. And she makes the blonde lady disappear revealing just two boob implants, which falls like saline bags that fall in the air. That doesn't make any sense at all. Or still a gotta bag. If her clothes disappear, why do those not disappear? I mean, maybe that like the Lord doesn't,
Starting point is 00:41:45 like because it's not technically part of her body, he considers them unclean. So it doesn't accept her spears. She was sending John Travolta back to kill John Conner. And so like, she couldn't bring the non organic material with her, I guess. That makes sense, yeah. But there was, it's like one of the many jokes in the movie
Starting point is 00:42:02 where like this is a, I guess a family movie. But there's some I guess the early 90s was a time of very sexualized jokes and family movies. Well, I guess nowadays they have that too. You're all the time. Yeah. Actually, you know what? Well, you gotta keep the pain that's interesting. Forgot. Going to hell in a fucking hand back. I forgot. Have you seen the way these kids dress nowadays? Crazy. What with the what with the backwards baseball cats?
Starting point is 00:42:26 And those fucking shoes with the wheels in the heel? Where are they going? What do they got to do? They got to get there so fucking fast. You guys reminded me. I forgot that one day a hard real rain's going to come and wash the scum off the streets in the form of kids. Now, and they dance together kind of in a stair Rogers-type
Starting point is 00:42:43 classic dance routine and Long story short it all comes to a head on Christmas where the boss creates an elaborate Ruse to get John Travolta alone with her in a cabin in a blizzard that I guess she arranged with somebody Yeah, and she's very wealthy. She unplugs the phone slash facts machine. It's 1993 And so that he can't call out and begins to seduce him by pretending she doesn't know how to dance. And he's got a teacher. Christy Alley is back at home with her mom, Olympia Ducakis and the kids and her dad who has no lines in the film. And he does not once. That's true. He does.
Starting point is 00:43:20 He does not. He got paid sag scale for that nod. And she says, you know what? We're not going to spend Christmas without him. We're going to go find him because apparently they're going to spend Christmas with the cranks. No, the cranks don't want us to tell right Christmas. It's the other tired of it. So they she decided she says, mom and dad, you don't have that many years left. See you later.
Starting point is 00:43:45 Each one of these Christmas is something I cherish. You got us, Blit. Here's the Kaluah. Hang out here. And they pile the car. They drive up to the upstate New York cabin where John Travolta is staying. But it's a snowy road and a tree has fallen and blocked the path. Yep.
Starting point is 00:44:02 I guess because either the wind knocked it down or the American soldiers are trying to block the Hessians from making their way through Brooklyn to force them across the Gawanna's Creek and then back into Manhattan. But they don't know about the headless Hessian who rides through those woods. Yeah. Luckily, if you cross a bridge, he just has no powers.
Starting point is 00:44:20 Oh, okay, what if you cross Jeff Bridges because he's mad at me? Yeah. Yeah, you cross Jeff Bridges because he's mad at me? Yeah, you cross Jeff Bridges just by making him angry then yes Should be a soldier can't get you anymore. You should be building Jeff Bridges If I'm not burning Jeff Bridges Bo Bridges Doesn't have any effect Yeah, so don't play the card in magic the gathering
Starting point is 00:44:44 You're gonna spend four forest mana to bring in Bo-Bridge's. You tap him and it literally says has no effect. Thanks, thanks Maximum Bob. Yeah, you keep it because it's a foil card and it's rare. Yeah, I mean, it's worth something, but you don't have to put it in your playing deck. You put in your deck because you're like, I like a iteration, I guess.
Starting point is 00:45:03 I want to show off that I have this, but I just hope Dingo said comes up instead. Mm-hmm. Or was that prodigal sorcerer or something? I don't know. The what was the that was the one where it would hit you for one life and the really slimy kids just played over and over and over. So I didn't actually play that much magic together. I nerd. No, I feel nerdy. Anyway, so she, they pile into the car, this tree gets in their way,
Starting point is 00:45:29 they drive down a hill and they're stuck. Kristi Alley, at this point, at this point she starts eating her children, I guess. She's trapped in a car with her children in the middle of a snowstorm. She is as calm as I could imagine any parent being in that situation. She's like, hey kids, let's start opening presents.
Starting point is 00:45:46 And I guess I'll go out and get a stick and then walk around. And luckily all her gifts are like cold weather survival gear. Yeah, they're opening up hats and earmuffs. They brought the dogs. Isaacs, hooray. A sturnostome. Fantastic. They, uh, they brought the dogs with them too.
Starting point is 00:46:03 Because of course you're driving in the winter, you wanna bring two animals that can't be put in seat belts and can only jump in your lap and make you swerve off the road. And that comes in handy when a wolf comes by. And this wolf is the best character in the movie by far. It's got a Catalan accent. He has the taste of the cat lot.
Starting point is 00:46:24 Or he's, yeah, he's coded his gay. I don't know. This wolf is for some reason coded as like a gay black man on the DL. He's like a still in the closet Titus and draw and draw and draw it on from from Kimmy Schmidt. I'll just say Titus and Roger this, which is a flop house joke. Not a real thing. And he fights with rocks and rocks fights them all. He doesn't fight and rock. He doesn't throw rocks. No, no, no, no, rocks the character. The dog.
Starting point is 00:46:52 So we get, by this point also, rocks the dog and definitely the dog are in love. Yeah, so we get, we are Greek, to a classic Jack London call the wild situation where rocks has to face off against, we'll call him Spitz, I guess. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:07 Let's call him, uh, let's call him gay wolf. Uh, I mean, there's a laser wolf, but I guess he's not gay. No, and he wants to marry Cytle. Yeah. He's lonely. What were we talking about? Okay, wolf. So we get.
Starting point is 00:47:22 So filler on the wolf is the story. Is the story of a family of wolves who are Jewish and they've got two marks against them. One, they're Jewish and Zara's Russia. That's tough. Two, they're wolves. So even the right human Jews don't want them around. So they've got to go to America.
Starting point is 00:47:38 It's called an American tale, T-I-I-L, Fiddler on the Wolf, part two, the reckoning. I'm trying to come up with puns for the song. Somewhere outwolf. Yeah, perfect. There are no whatever kills wolves in America and the streets are paved with whatever wolves. Silver?
Starting point is 00:47:59 Yeah, yeah. Silver. So, so, so, so, so. No, that's deadly to these wolves. Now, the sequel, Fiddloon the Wolf goes west, tells the story of the same characters, but they go west. How far west?
Starting point is 00:48:12 Too far west. They drown in the Pacific Ocean. Oh, no. Don't worry. Luckily, they're saved by... Sea turtles, Poseidon. Both. Poseidon riding a sea turtle.
Starting point is 00:48:23 OK. And Captain Caveman, we were reintroducing the character We're putting him for the 21st century is like a gritty Captain caveman. Okay Savage and he's got like he's got like a giant caveman penis and balls hanging out So into penis That you're saying dark and gritty. I don't understand how that's, does the dark, Christopher Nolan super movies of all John Phoenix is hanging out?
Starting point is 00:48:49 I don't know, I thought we were just blue sky. You're right, there's no bad ideas in this room, except for that one. Yeah, I didn't know there's all this judgment. I gotta say, nothing would be less dark and gritty than if superheroes walked around with their penis is hanging out. Yeah, I'm going woo, woo, woo, woo.
Starting point is 00:49:05 That's exciting. That's the story. As they're going to fly around. I guess he's got that club with a little bird. Oh no, the club now, because it's dark weight, it's just a club that beats people. The only way that superheroes could activate their powers, but you're doing
Starting point is 00:49:19 a little pinwheel penis action. Frederick Wortham would have been right. He would have been right that comic books were distorting sexually and in the link when ways the juveniles of America, if that was the only way they could activate their powers. But Dr. Wortham, my character, the pinwheel, is just an innocent man who got bitten by a radioactive penis. And now he has to use his penis for powers. I don't know if that to start We'll tell you what's wrong.
Starting point is 00:49:45 El Problematic gets the very least of that synopsis. Okay, my character Batman. He just bats things away with his penis when Crooks throw the mat him. And Robin, that is underage lover. He just lives with his war and he called Junior Butts. Junior Butts. It's actually an old Sikh crusty sea salt who served in the merchant marine during the
Starting point is 00:50:08 Spanish-American war. Okay, so he fights off the wolf and then goes, he suddenly smells junctrival to somewhere, probably because junctrival to so turned on by his boss. And he's a fair moning like crazy. Musky. And he runs off together. He's wearing that blousey shirt and you know how sometimes that just traps the smell. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:29 And then every movie gets released through your neck hole and your sleeve holes. Which, that was also the time where the sleeve holes and the neck holes were meant to be super tight, but everything else is extra blousey. It was very billowy. It was a very billowy time. Everyone wanted to look like a circus tent. That was just the fashion. So, John DeVolta meanwhile. It's like old times where you, if you're fat,
Starting point is 00:50:50 it shows you've got extra money. In this case, he's like, if you have extra fabric, you have one. If you were poor, you'd only buy shirts that fit you. Yeah. You wouldn't get all this extra voluminous fabric that makes you look like you're drowning in a parachute. So, John DeVolta went, is on to his boss.
Starting point is 00:51:07 She unplugged the phone and she's trying this to do some. He drops on the ground and drops her from his heart. And when she says you're fired, he's okay with it. Rock shows up in the door. Yeah, we have an immediate turnaround. Yeah. They're like, look, we, we need to end this movie now. Let's just wrap this up super fast.
Starting point is 00:51:24 I mean, to be fair, John Travolta never seems to be attracted to his boss throughout the movie. That's true. It was more like, she was always coming onto him, but he was always like, all this work,
Starting point is 00:51:34 I don't know what to do about it. It was kind of like that movie obsession where you're supposed to believe that Idris Elva is being tempted away by this woman, but at no point does he actually seem tempted. And also he's married to Beyonce in that movie, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of the most attractive women in the world.
Starting point is 00:51:48 I mean, it's it boggles the mind. But anyway, so rocks find John Travolta. Meanwhile, Daphne runs off and discovers how to be a wild dog and smells where the park rangers are, gets them brings them back to save Percy Alley. Rocks takes John Travolta back to the cabin, but along the way the wolf comes back with his friends, other wolves, and a fight breaks out. John Travolta shows up with a ragged bandana, the bandana that Rocks was wearing,
Starting point is 00:52:15 and says, all I was attacked by wolves and Rock saved me, and here he is! Rocks walks in, everyone was worried that Rocks was dead. Yeah, they waited outside for a second, they're like, this will be a hilarious Christmas prank. We'll make everyone that rocks was dead. Yeah, they waited outside for a second. They're like, this will be a hilarious Christmas prank. We'll make everyone believe you're dead. Do we prank people on Christmas bosses? That what we do?
Starting point is 00:52:31 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the thing we do on Christmas. We prank people. We prank people on every holiday. I'm like, wait, am I? My friends are amazing. Am I technically your boss or is that like a new nickname? Do I have to pay you? Well, you already pay me in food.
Starting point is 00:52:44 So, yeah, basically, should I be contributing to like pension have to pay you? Well, you already pay me in food. So yeah, basically, should I be contributing to like pension and health for you? Yeah, I'm going to plan from my future boss. So John, Jeff, all to come to the range of station to find his family. I'm only assuming, since we don't see him, the rangers in the back room, like slowly oiling a pistol to commit suicide, because there's one moment of happiness and family connection has been stripped from him. Yeah, by these squatters. But the ranger turns up his radio and they hear Santa Claus over the radio.
Starting point is 00:53:12 The boy's faith in Santa is rekindled and the movie is over. Or so you think, because that's when the craziness starts. Yeah, this is the best part of the movie. At the very end of the movie during the credits. We were all, I at least was expecting us a shot of rocks and daffney, the dogs running around and then a bunch of fucking puppies that look like each of them chasing after them. We're a bunch of bloopers. Let's just face this.
Starting point is 00:53:37 Yeah, bloops. Run of the mill bloops. Or like little versions of the two babies running after the babies. What to signify the passage of time? Yeah, I don't know. But instead, suddenly the way that things are filmed gets changed. And I joke like, oh, here comes the music video because it looked like a music video. It's a different film style.
Starting point is 00:53:58 And it turns out, no, it actually was a musical video from famous baby... You're famous. And drag them up. actually was a musical video from famous baby. I'm trying to come up. James Jim. Baby musical star, Jordy. Now, you may not remember Jordy. That's because he is a French novelty act
Starting point is 00:54:14 who had his first hit when he was a baby. And Santa Claus stops by the house, a different house than we've seen previously in the film than living in. And shove this super cool rad kid in sunglasses and a backwards hat in the young clothes, down the chimney, where the two kids stars the movie are playing, this kid.
Starting point is 00:54:33 The first time I thought it was like an hour or twist thing. The first one was like, and Santa was like, they had to bring a new kid. Is that what's going on? Is this the story? Did the movie forget from the beginning of the film how babies are made? And now Santa the Liverism, this kid delivers a message.
Starting point is 00:54:49 This French kid. It's like French, not quite rap, not quite techno, not at all rock and roll song about how it's Christmas. And with the laziest delivery, I think the only performing child has ever had. He's like, hey, cool kid, you're so cool. You don't really have to move when you dance. Yeah, and he thinks about how it's Christmas.
Starting point is 00:55:08 Yeah, say Christmas. It's called, it's Christmas, say no well. Say no well, yeah. It's Christmas, say no well, yeah. And he brings to life with magic dust the dolls of the world that they're all has gotten. And then it turns out they're all in a dollhouse and Kristie Allian Dondervolta have been sleeping
Starting point is 00:55:24 through most of this. And they wake up and they're like in a dollhouse, and Kristie Allian Dundravolta have been sleeping through most of this, and they wake up, and they're like peering into the dollhouse and seeing, I assume with horror, that their children have been miniaturized with like a bunch of stewar levels, and are now trapped inside this dollhouse with a functioning fireplace. And we're being led to Santa like a piper situation.
Starting point is 00:55:40 I have to say, if I was them, I would see Santa on the roof and grab him, like King Kong, and shake him, and be like, what have you done to my children? We'll bring them back around and I'll brush your old elf skull. I've watched enough puppet master movies and demonic toys movies to know that that doesn't work. Cause he turns his hands into buzz sauce and chop your wrist off. That's a very good point.
Starting point is 00:55:57 I don't want to over six guns. I don't want to overstate the final credits of this movie, but we watched the rest of this movie, you know, mostly like a normal flop house movie. but we watched the rest of this movie, you know, mostly like a normal flop house movie. And then as soon as the credits hit hysterical laughter. It's like we hit hyperdrive. It was the non-salt laughter we couldn't catch our breath. Tears flying from our faces, like lusty Japanese characters in cartoons.
Starting point is 00:56:22 And it was like, yeah, it was I think because the movie is pretty boring and dull. It's a normal. It's just a, it's just a spiderman's Christmas family movie with talking dogs. And then suddenly, and also American. It is such a snapshot of America in middle class white America in 1993. And then suddenly this, like, the door to madness flies open. And only the way that a European novelty act can do, it just becomes crazy and you're like, what is this? What rules are the universe is this playing by?
Starting point is 00:56:57 Because it has nothing to do. Like, I expect there to at least be a dog in this music video, but there's no dogs. But it is crazy. It's worth watching. It's no dogs. But it is crazy. It's worth watching this. It's across the message that it's Christmas. It's Christmas. Yeah, it's worth watching the movie to get to that point
Starting point is 00:57:13 because I feel like it's not gonna have the full impact unless you see the whole film. Yeah, oh boy, howdy. You know, what I liked about this movie is how much of it takes place. So much of the scenes are the kids and the dogs running around this tiny little apartment and it feels like they're trapped there like some like one act play. Yeah, it's the exterminating angel or no eggs.
Starting point is 00:57:37 It's just something. Sure. Well, we should give our final judgment in this movie. We've gone way along. Is this a good bad movie, a bad bad movie or a movie you kind of liked? I'm gonna I'm honestly because it's such a snapshot of early 90s America as you said and because Maybe in no small part of the little push over the edge that final I'm gonna give it a marginal good bad movie. I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I expected.
Starting point is 00:58:10 Maybe it's because of the I think it's almost it's almost certainly because of the curve that we're grading these things on because you thought any DeVito was hilarious. Yeah. As the wisecrock and dragon dog rocks. This is the same wise crockin. Yeah. Tomorrow Dan's gonna have to smear some bruise cream on his knees because he was slapping those knees at all of them jokes. Yeah, Stan, I'm glad that you finally tied your side's shut because they were splitting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:36 Uh, I though, actually, I agree with you because I think similar to Golden Child, if you grew up in the same years that I grew up in, then just looking at the clothes that everybody is wearing in this makes it worth having fun watching. And yeah, that video at the end is like, what? I almost wish we hadn't mentioned it. So that people would be able to discover it on their own. But I'm gonna say marginal good bad. It's not a, it's not so bad that it's fun. But it's like, if you want to see a movie where every
Starting point is 00:59:02 outfit people wear is a crazy trip back in time 20 years ago. Yeah, go for it. It's due. Yeah, let's do three for three guys marginal good bad. It's Watch watch with somebody you love For a dog the movie that opens up with dogs talking to each other and then dog sperm flying toward an egg and And ends with a little French kid rapping about Christmas. Yes, but great. And in between it's all hats and puffy shirts. Yeah, yeah, watch this thing.
Starting point is 00:59:34 New to Maximum Fun, the Beef and Dairy Network podcast, the number one podcast for those involved, or just interested in the production of beef animals and dairy herds. All sponsored by Grey's X, the latest grass replacement pellet from Mitchell's. If it's not Mitchell's, get back in the truck. Find us at maxmanfan.org or on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast from. And if it's not clear, this is a comedy podcast.
Starting point is 00:59:58 Beef out. Okay, so, wow, that's three for three. That's final judgments. Now it's time for now. Now it's time for a little bit of flop house, house cleaning. Is it flop house housework or? You call it that nobody else calls that. I'll just call it Jujuja Jumbo Tron.
Starting point is 01:00:19 Jumbo Tron. Jumbo, this for today's Jumbo Tron message reads, an idiotic man named Dink is pulled into several tales of intrigue around the world. Coming into contact with ghosts, UFO cults, undead pirates, and roving gangs of clowns. These are my own honest words. I swear, this book is great. It's called Dink and it's really, really funny. If you want to learn more, why don't you go visit www.dinkthebook.com. That's all one word. Or just search for L.P. Wallinger on Amazon.com. That's the author, yeah. You won't know what the clue is until you Google it.
Starting point is 01:01:03 Yep. So yeah, check that out. And if you'd like to have your message on the jumbo tron, go to maximumfund.org slash jumbo tron. jumbo tron. Yep, jumbo tron. And if you'd like a real life jumbo tron, just like get a big movie screen and project tron on it. Jumbo's project tron on the side of an elephant.
Starting point is 01:01:22 Mm-hmm. Uh, operation jumbo drop. But now it's time to move on to letters from listeners. Your favorite segments. My favorite segment. His favorite segment. Who's he? Who knows?
Starting point is 01:01:36 This is a spoken word version of one of my songs. That's right. Suddenly Dan's trying to get in on the act of wasting time before the letters start. Well get one thing straight Get one thing straight dick. Nobody waste time like Elliott Nobody waste time like Elliott. Let's count the number of ways he can waste time One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, that just can't it as one way counting is a way to waste time. Number two, remembering things. Hey, guys,
Starting point is 01:02:12 do you remember a couple minutes ago? You were saying the same thing about the more breakdown. Normally, I just pretend to be annoyed by this, but oh boy, avoid the noise, Dan. You know what? I made a mistake. Before we move on to letters, I just pretend to be annoyed by this, but oh boy. No, avoid the noise, Dan. You know what? I made a mistake before we move on to letters. I just wanted to thank a couple of people. At least it a song. I just want to thank a couple of people who sent things in.
Starting point is 01:02:34 Thank you to Vanessa for the Colonial Williamsburg cookbook and other ephemera that she sent to me. Thanks also to Anne Marie Newman for the care package. Came on a bad day, so it was much appreciated. And then a gift to all of us here at the flop house. A big thanks to Bill O'Donnell for the very generous gift of a digital recorder. That's amazing.
Starting point is 01:02:57 Oh yeah, thanks Bill. That's too nice. As a backup, he sent it in saying, in case there was another Babylon AD situation. He wanted us to have a lost episode I'm back up recording option and so we do now. Thank you so much above and beyond Bill. Yeah, very much so I don't mean that nearly as sarcastically as my voice always sounds It just sounds like I think what he means it from his heart, but thank you very much Thank you. I want But thank you very much. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:03:25 I want to thank you. Oh. Wow. Mr. Roboto. But the first letter of the evening is from Pete last name with hell who writes Peter Dinklage. After you guys, it's me Pete D. Thank you for watching my movie, Little Bit of Heaven.
Starting point is 01:03:45 Big fan. After your fateful findings episode, I had to write in. My partner and I cemented our relationship at a midnight showing of Neil Briein's modern masterpiece, which screened in the theater to us and maybe five other people. Later on, we rallied a few friends to attend another screening. And as incentive, I created a drinking game I call an e-breenated after the film was writer, slash director, slash hunk, slash heavy, slash hacker, slash magician. Which all I think is also the caterer who also may be supernatural. If you're interested, you can find it in his all-cigolory here, and he sends a link to the the drinking game, which I hope I
Starting point is 01:04:31 remember to put up on the website. Only time will tell. I bring it up. Listen, listen, somebody called Dan on Saturday and reminded to put it up. Yeah, it's one, two, three, fake number. You just programming. Wow, you got that one locked in. Yeah. How do you buddy is spell this? Your area code is one two three That is right. I live in Colonial Williamsburg. Oh, yeah, that's where you get the first area. Yeah, I Bring it up because at the end of the break, we is how we used to dip candles. B-b-b-b. What's that? Goody Thomas? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:06 I'll stop by. Sorry. Colonial booty call. We had these back then. I bring it up because of the end of the drinking game. The winner slash loser was tasked with calling Neil Brain. We found an old ad. Apparently he was or is in a real estate agent.
Starting point is 01:05:20 Oh, it still is. With a phone number. And I was promptly added to the game. Oh, he must live in Colonial is. With a phone number. And I was promptly added to the game. He must live in colonial Williamsburg because of phone number. And fellows I called and Neil Brain picked up for real. I was totally paralyzed. I'm not an experienced prank caller or anything. And I didn't think there was any chance I'd be talking to. Did you call him sizzle just? But he
Starting point is 01:05:40 says, I had to learn from the best. I didn't think there was any chance to be talking to Dylan. Whoops, sometimes I call Brain by his character names. He really disappears and draw a role. He said, hello, hello, hello, and then waited before hanging up. Anyway, I do have a request. Is there any possibility you could call on the power
Starting point is 01:06:03 of the Flop House fans to dig up Brains older movies double down and especially I'm here ellipsis now With an extra dot the ellipsis is that the one where he's like a cyborg Jesus? Well, that's what he says. I'm here now is the one where Neil appears to be some kind of robot space Jesus who an axe for Vengeon drug dealers or something Double down was briefly on YouTube, but I left before I could consume it all. That's the one where Neil Brin is to breaded chicken patties, right? Mm-hmm. That one, I can't explain double down.
Starting point is 01:06:34 I watched it, God help me. I can't. This is Dan talking to the voice of Dan and not the writer. Yeah. I did, however, witness an even recluster abandon when it came to laptop usage in Double Down. And Neil's exclamation of, I did, however, witness an even recklesser abandon when it came to laptop usage and double down. And Neil's exclamation of, oh geez, when his topples girlfriend was shot by a sniper while
Starting point is 01:06:51 she was in a hot tub is not to be missed. Pete last name withheld. But he's got a new one coming up. Pass through. Something like that. Yeah. I'm not sure what he's calling us to do when he says, is there any possibility you can call him the power of the floppas to dig up Neil brain's older movies.
Starting point is 01:07:08 I mean they do exist. You can buy them from him right? I don't know whether the earlier ones you can still buy via the brain website. They'd be crazy. Why would findings you can only officially buy from him? I know that if you dig hard enough both double down and and I'm here, ellipsis now are on the internet for free. Yeah, what if you're the world's best hacker?
Starting point is 01:07:31 But that's Neil Brane. Why would he steal his own movies? What if I was Neil Brane second, that's how the government secrets. Yeah. And the second world's best hacker, swordfish, aka Hugh Jackman, is busy dancing up a storm on Broadway or something. So this all sounds ridiculous to you, new listeners. Go check out the film works of Neil Brin. Yeah, just our episode on Fable Findings. I did a group watch of both of these movies with
Starting point is 01:07:55 the flopp house. Well, with the Flophouse Facebook group. Oh, thank you. Something that a lonely person does. Oh, wow. Oh, damn, that's not true. I mean, it kind of is, but. But they're both worth watching. I mean, my favorite, my favorite of the two is I'm here now. I think that- I think it plays a robot space Jesus. Yeah, I think that fateful findings is still the most accessible one in terms of
Starting point is 01:08:21 if you're looking for a bad movie to watch, you know, people, but I'm here now is maybe the craziest one. If you're, if you love the ending of a fateful findings where he gets all the corrupt government officials to commit suicide, you will double love the end of I'm here now where he literally crucifies the bad guys on crosses out in the desert. That sounds great. Yeah. Okay, sold. I'll watch that. I'll buy that for a dollar. He'll bring his Robocop. Oh, no way. I guess that may, I mean, that's kind of what Robocop is is a Robo space, Jesus. Yeah, very much so. He comes back. This next one is from Alex last time with hell who writes,
Starting point is 01:09:07 I need to know your answers to a very winter question. I thought Alex Mack. Oh, okay. We'll find out. Let's say a genie appears to you and offers the following deal. You will receive a no limit credit card and the genie will pay your bill. You and your family will not.
Starting point is 01:09:21 Why does he just give you the infinite money? Can I call myself a no limit soldier? Do whatever you want to do. Okay, wow, I guess you're speaking for the letter. Right here in the genie. That's right. So answer my question. I like a like a high neck.
Starting point is 01:09:36 A high kneeho. Some kind of game genie who gave me 99 lives on contrary. But made me flicker in a weird way. You will receive a no limit credit card and the genie will pay you bill. Well, what I like about that is the genie. Like, I don't give a shit of the genie pays or not. I just don't want to pay.
Starting point is 01:09:57 That the genie has to write a check out. I guess it's just direct pulled from his bank account. Yeah, the credit card company is more powerful than a genie. A genie's inside the lamp sitting at a desk with little half glasses on his nose, writing a check and putting it on the little, but make this out to capital one or a well,
Starting point is 01:10:16 messed a card or what? I don't know, how do I this work? Forget. I'm a thousand years old. You and your family will never again want for money or any material needs. However, in order to earn this arrangement, you must agree to watch the movie last Vegas once a day and Monday through Friday. You're not allowed to multitask, close your eyes, play on your phone, etc.
Starting point is 01:10:40 If you miss the day, the genie stops paying your bills. Last Vegas is 105 minutes long, which works out to about a nine hour work week. The rest of your time is your own, which you can use to watch better movies, do rewarding creative work, jerk off, etc. I can't do that while watching Last Vegas. Well, you can't multitask. What if he's turned on by the babes in Last Vegas? It's still multitasking.
Starting point is 01:11:04 How is this going to be enforced? Is there going to be like another genie with a gun? At that point, the genie has to watch. Apparently, the only repercussion is that the contract is pointed. Well, but the genie has to watch the movie with you to make sure, and so that means the genie has to watch every day and he's like, why did I do this?
Starting point is 01:11:21 I'm really punishing myself. Yeah. The pistol was just a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a...
Starting point is 01:11:31 I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a...
Starting point is 01:11:39 I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a little bit of a... I'm a son you got a feed I put him to college eventually Well Dan's become a bad boy
Starting point is 01:11:53 Sure you take that deal last Vegas. I mean not even the worst movie I'm a week Dan I didn't realize that I touched the nerve by being attentive about that. For, for I'm living in my life. Does the credit card expire? Like, no, man. The problem, do you have to like, do I get miles?
Starting point is 01:12:16 I don't feel like I don't know everything. The only way it expires is if you stop watching last Vegas. Are you, are you going to be able to travel? You got to watch it on a plane. Yeah, do you have to watch last time? I guess that's like an office. Well, there's that.
Starting point is 01:12:28 If you charge up your laptop, I assume that you can watch it wherever. Yeah, can I bring lust luck? Can I just download it to an iPad? And that's my last Vegas iPad. And I just watch that. Does multitasking include like being on a plane or a train and automobile, if you will?
Starting point is 01:12:42 I think most of the mobile. I'm terminated as multitasking just means that if you will. I think most of the automobile, I'm terminated as multi-tasking, just means that if you're doing something that would distract you from watching last Vegas at the same time. Okay. So I don't think that necessarily being on a plane qualifies, but that's just me.
Starting point is 01:12:57 We got to talk to this genius. What I would really like is for Dan to take this bet with a genie and then have to explain it the first time he goes on a date with a young lady. So what do you do? He's like someone's best mate. Last for a genie. Check please. I know he's genie guys. I'll have what he's having. Now why what what's the genie get out of you?
Starting point is 01:13:25 I mean, I get up and watch Las Vegas first thing in the morning just to get it over. That's how you would schedule your day. Yeah, you want to start out a high note. I mean, I don't watch it late at night when you're sleepy and maybe you miss the end of it. No, because then you avoid that contract. Yeah, this genie's tough. Yeah. So, but what if, let's, okay, let can't fully that contract. Yeah, this genius tough.
Starting point is 01:13:45 Yeah. So, but what if, let's, okay, let's look at my day. Sure. So, Sammy gets up 730. I guess I can get him. Sammy is your dog. Sammy is my son that you met. It's my almost two and a half year old child
Starting point is 01:13:59 who you met. He's the light of my life. He wrote a song called Lego Chicken Nugget. And I really like it a lot. He wakes up around like 730. So I get up before him at like 530 and watch the last Vegas. That way I'm already pooped before I'm even taking care of him. But then if I can't take care of him, I'm watching the movie.
Starting point is 01:14:18 That's the only way I gotta do it. What during his nap? Or I guess, I mean, we have a nanny now. So maybe Sam again sign up for this genie deal and then he'll have to watch it with you. I don't want him watching that much television at his age. Certainly not last minute. Yeah, but what's he not watching television? I have a real estate use of being old. He's got to understand that it's okay to
Starting point is 01:14:38 it's okay to objectify women if you're an old man. But he's got to understand that he's got unlimited money for life as long as he watches this fucking movie. That's the other thing then. So do does that pass on to the next generation or when I die, does the credit card get cut off and so that my family is not wealthy anymore? Can we write ourselves a bunch of checks for money on the credit card? The genie pays that off and we're like, see ya, we've got enough money and I just charged a hundred million dollars worth of it.
Starting point is 01:15:03 Yeah, I think he just loophole this journey. Yeah, take that journey, because I don't need infinite money. Yeah, I just need a lot of money. Yeah, you just devalue down to Georgia, that journey. And now here's the other question. What's the credit, let's the credit limit on this credit card?
Starting point is 01:15:18 Because it's not like, It's a magic card. I think it's got no credit. Oh, it's a magic card. No, there's no such thing as a free lunch day. There's always a catch. It's like, it's a magic card. No, there's no such thing as a free lunch day. There's always a catch. It's like, I gotta be one. There's only a last big.
Starting point is 01:15:27 It's only like $95 annual fee. But also, so, but it's like, can I only charge up to a certain amount for certain times or is this just an infinity card? Genie, write in and explain this. Yeah. And we'll see then. We'll see whether we're taking your deal or not.
Starting point is 01:15:43 I was about to call it a job B, but I'm just saying. You do you love me. You do you love me. Are you straight? Tripping. You got me straight paying off your credit card. I'm straight. So yeah, I would watch that show. Shit's Creek with Eugene. Lovey. If you said that line in every episode, that show chits Creek with Eugene Levy if you said that line in every episode. Maybe it's a fine show. I haven't seen it. Last letter of the evening. It's titled, I'm a genie.
Starting point is 01:16:19 Tiled in response to Dan and the golden child asking if people know new what he was talking about. And it goes like this. This isn't Strega known is it? I do. He's talking about touching his weiner. Sent from my iPhone, Rick. Oh, I don't remember what that's what I was talking about. I remember what it was in reference to. I was talking about touching your weiner. Touching you were touching my weiner. Yeah. What why were you doing that? When we were recording? Yeah, just to see. Just to see what if it's still there. Yeah, man. See what's going on See what's going on. I'm the only one with a child. I'm the only one who has
Starting point is 01:16:53 Evidence that he has a penis He was doing it as some kind of fertility idol. Oh, well that makes sense then. Okay. Oh, that's all you say For all I know you're like a Kindle down there a kindle I can't You're a kindle down that you're like sort of a pleasant experience, but there's something a little off about it kind of hurts your eyes Eventually, I don't really enjoy it as much as like no, but that's true my piece is not a full substitute for an actual book. Yeah So now what do we do in this fucking thing? now the last and a final. Those two words mean the same thing.
Starting point is 01:17:28 Segment on the show. The post-Penultimate segment is recommendations. Movies that we watch, that we actually liked, that we would recommend people to watch without the usual capgats. Okay, so there's a new segment where we recommend a movie that like not there. It literally goes back to the first episode of this show.
Starting point is 01:17:53 We'll see if it sticks. You gotta constantly reinvent ourselves. Try it out. We're like Madonna that way. It goes back to episode number one. Is there a movie? I mean, I'll go if you you're talking. Keep going. Sure. I watched a little movie that a lot of people, I think, dismissed without seeing it for
Starting point is 01:18:19 a couple of good reasons. Number one, it has a totally stupid title. Number two, it had a terrible... Jurassic Park. Number two, it had a terrible trailer. Number three, it was written by someone that the internet has decided they hate. That's the Oblacote. Okay, but I watched the movie called Ricking in the Flash. She made the mistake. Oh, yeah successful. Yeah and I really liked Ricky in the flash. It was I mean you got it I watched it because Jonathan Demi directed it and Jonathan Demi is one of my favorite directors Weird he of
Starting point is 01:19:00 Stop making sense and something wild and science of the lambs Stop making sense and something wild and sounds to the lens. It's funny how that first movie is about music and the last movie is about silence. Yeah. And Rachel getting married, which I like a lot more than most people do. Like me. I don't like it very much either, but hey, it's a free country you can like whatever you want. Well, then you probably won't like ricking in the flash because I feel like it's a slightly worse version of Rachel getting married and that it's about Marl Street as a rock star, right? Well, but it's also like she goes back home first to comfort her daughter who is getting divorced, but then to go to the wedding of her son who is getting gay married. And. Or married.
Starting point is 01:19:45 who is getting gay married and or married as it's called. I'm specifying that because she plays like kind of a Republican character in the... Ricky? movie. So she, like, it's a difference that would not pass her by her character. But it's the same sort of like a family gets together and then there's a lot of music sort of movie that Rachel getting married was. Oh, yeah, it's really right that I won't like it.
Starting point is 01:20:15 Um, but you never know. Yeah, but Rachel getting married had LHX girlfriend. So yeah, it's some extra baggage. Right off the bat. I was not into it and also not my X girlfriend. Mm-hmm. It's a bat, I was not into it and also not my extra run. It's a little. Does no exist.
Starting point is 01:20:27 It's a little self-indulgent towards the end with all the musical numbers, especially because I don't think that, I mean, as good as Mara Street. Self-indulgent, raves Dan with like, as good as Mara Street is in the live musical numbers because they are all they are all done like they're all like
Starting point is 01:20:50 She's actually doing performing. Yeah, as good as she is like she's not necessarily as good as you would want her to be Considering she's a great actress not a rock. Yeah, considering there's like 50 musical numbers in the movie You'd be like all right. That's enough of this. But she's better than a mama mia, right? She's definitely better than mama mia. What about Into the Woods? Is she better than Into the Woods? She's better than Into the Woods. Okay.
Starting point is 01:21:13 Is she better than in Cramer versus Cramer, where she doesn't sing? No, she's not better than Cramer versus Crick. Okay. But it's, you know, it's got her and Kevin Klein plays her ex-husband and I always love seeing Kevin Klein and he's basically any fucking thing. Mr. Fish Oater. So, if you were put off by the stupid fucking name or as I said, the terrible trailer, it's not a bad name.
Starting point is 01:21:41 Give it, and neither of those things put me off. Yeah. If anything, you remind me that John Damien directed it, puts me off. Give it, and neither of those things put me off. Yeah. If anything, you're reminding me that John Damie directed it, puts me off. Wait, really? We know that, you know, there's not such huge fans. Really? Yeah, he's all right.
Starting point is 01:21:53 All right. Yeah, you saw a truth about Charlie and you're like, fuck this. I was like, tell me some lies about Charlie. This is the truth. Well, you just reminded me how awesome Silverado is. Another movie with Kevin Klein. That's not my recommendation. I'll recommend that at another time, if I haven't already. Well, you just reminded me how awesome Silverado is, another movie with Kevin Klein, but that's
Starting point is 01:22:05 not my recommendation. I'll recommend that at another time, if I haven't already. So I recently watched The Invitation, which is a thriller. I can't remember the name of the director, but she directed Girl Fight, and she also directed Aeon Flux and another movie or two. But she's been around and made a couple of movies, and this is a fairly small movie. It's a thriller. It's about a guy who is invited to a dinner party with some old friends, and it's being
Starting point is 01:22:39 hosted at his ex's house, who he hasn't seen him quite a while, and the two of them split up under after some kind of a trauma. And it is really tense, and it's also, I think in a lot of ways, very true to life, and it reflects the way people kind of get over, or like deal with grief a little bit. of get over a deal with grief a little bit. And it's a great thriller. So check it out, the invitation. I'm going to recommend a less-new movie than you guys recommended, which is a moment of surprise. I'm usually pretty cutting edge with my recommendations. You usually recommend a movie that comes out in three years. Yeah. I'm going to recommend a movie from the 70s called China 9 Liberty 37, which I originally recorded because the title is crazy.
Starting point is 01:23:35 But it's a spaghetti western. The Italian title was Amore Piaumboi Furore or something like that, which is like love something and everything. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. I don't know. Perfect.
Starting point is 01:23:47 Perfect pronunciation. Yeah. But I know it as China 9 Liberty 37. It's a Monty Helman movie who did, you know, like Tulane Blacktop and Cockfighter. And there's just called Cockfight. Yeah. Fire and I believe. And it stars Warren Oates who worked with him a lot.
Starting point is 01:24:01 And the Italian actor Fabio Testi, and also Jenny Agutter, a beverage pronounced from, from, uh, walk about, she's not called a midwife now. Uh, American, why are we from London? Yeah. And it's the story of a, a gunman who is about to be hanged and they say, hey, the railroad wants this, this ex gunman dead. They say, hey, hey, hey, dude, it's kind of like that. So leave your shorts.
Starting point is 01:24:27 The the railroad wants this ex gunfighter dead. If you kill him, you're off the hook. We're not going to hang you. But he finds comes to like the guy. Warnotes who's this ex gun fighter who's still a super tough guy. And unfortunately falls for the gunfighter's much younger wife. And it's like a spaghetti western with a film or plot applied to it. And it's a movie that I'm recommending partly because I enjoyed it.
Starting point is 01:24:51 It's not the most amazing movie in the world, but it's a really good, solid spaghetti western. And if you wanted to see the mother superior from Call of Midwife nude, she's nude in a bunch of scenes at it. But it's also a movie that has never, I think, received a home video release. I saw it because it was on turn of classic movies. And so it's one of those movies I'm saying
Starting point is 01:25:15 that you should, if you like spaghetti westerns, you might not see it unless you're looking out for it or you happen to catch it. I mean, it's got that catchy title. Yeah, but also the... What is it, China you happen to catch it. I mean, it's got that catchy title. Yeah, but also the... What is it, China 32? China 9 Liberty 37, which it turns out is what two signs at the beginning of the movie say.
Starting point is 01:25:32 Oh, it's not like a volleyball score. Well, that's the thing, I was like, I cannot begin to understand what this title means. First this title. But because it's, I don't know that it was ever fully released on film It's one of the few times where I'm gonna say like you should download this movie if you want to see it because You shouldn't I don't like people to download movies for free when they could pay to see him But if the owners of the rights are seemingly going out of their way not to make it available readily then like go for it
Starting point is 01:26:04 And it's one of the few times that I'll say that about a movie. So it's almost hardly for the novelty of that that I'm saying go see it. But I enjoyed it. China 9 Liberty 37. A title that sounds crazy. And Dan is taking pictures of Stuart holding Archie. Archie's a cat. No, aren't yet, I'm not Archie Andrews. It's adorable. But as, you know, no matter how adorable it is, all good things need to come to an end. As seasons change, so does the podcast. Seasons change with the scenery, weaving time in a tapestry. Yeah, hazy shade of winter.
Starting point is 01:26:41 Or she stopped and remember us. Two dogs have cells. A baby dog comes out. And that dog will one day have sex with another dog and so forth. Before returning to the earth, like so much dead dog. I'm really stopping a metaphor at the end.
Starting point is 01:27:00 Okay, well, thank you for that. I am for the flop house. I've been Dan McCoy. Hey, I'm Stuart Wellington. And what's up, Elliot Kaelin over here saying bye. Well, peace. See ya. That's all on. Bye. Bye. I love you. It's just a good surprise. It's just a good surprise. It's just a good surprise. It's just a good surprise.
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