The Flop House - Ep. #236 - Suicide Squad LIVE

Episode Date: July 22, 2017

We reach way back into the Flop House vault to bring you a live show from the winter, with Suicide Squad. The commercials are all-new, though. That's good for something, right? Meanwhile, Elliott tries to sell us the character of the Joker, Stuart suggests the hell of being Boomarang, and Dan is accident prone. Wikipedia synopsis for Suicide Squad

On tonight's episode, live from the Bellhouse, we discuss Suicide Squad. Oh. But, damn, this is gonna be our shortest episode ever because that movie was really good. All right, got it in one. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Hey everyone, welcome to the flop house, I'm Dan McCoy. I'm Stuart Wellington. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Chain Rattles, Ghost Sounds, Halloween Sounds, I'm Elliot Kaelin. Alright. Number one, inappropriate.

What? When did you become the arbiter of appropriateness, Stan? It's not near Halloween. I don't understand what that was about. Who knows when people will listen to this? Yeah, fair enough. Number two. What if what if this is on Billy Pilgrim's iPod? And he's like, oh, it wasn't Halloween when I started listening,

but now it is. I've felt through a time war for some. Yeah, you're right. It's probably on fictional character Billy Pilgrim's iPod. Yeah. Uh, guys, uh, true story. Because we're in front of a bunch of people, uh, when we were doing the introductions, I momentarily forgot my own name.

That happens, that happens. It's okay, we'll work this together. Is that what you do when you stare off into the distance and get silent? Do you just think of your own name? Let's not talk about the dark places I go to. Hey, Dan, so what are we doing this podcast? Alright.

Thanks for asking. My name is Dan. Thanks for asking, Elliot. This is a podcast where we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it. Do we usually have so many people in your apartment, Dan? I don't know where they came from, and they won't leave. But we're glad that they're here to listen to us talk about Suicide Squad.

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This was a modem suesitem. All right, was it a movie, Dan? This was a movie, then. Are you sure this was a movie? And not like a trailer for a video game? Funny you should talk about trailers because a lot of people thought this was going to be a really good movie based on the trailer. The trailer may look like a fun lark. Now.

A romp and the guardings of the galaxy. Now people talk about, people say stuff like that as if they were a betrayal involved. As if the purpose of a trailer wasn't to make you want to go see a movie. As if the trailer should have opened with a voicing in a world where movies are often disappointing. Get ready for another. When did these commercials for movies become so commercial? When even as a wee babe, my father would tell me, eh, they put all the best parts in the trailer. He stopped saying that the day we went to see a movie called Gremlins to the New Batch.

Because there were too many good parts, to be in the trailer. Yeah, they were playing the whole movie as the trailer. Yeah. And then of course, you're like, only to see the movie as all the good parts. And Joe does, he's like rats, my residuals. This is the only audience where a mention of Gremlins to the batch, is a pander. I know our crowd. So, Dan, a lot of people saw this trailer

and they said, that's gonna be a fun movie. It looks like it's got jokes, it's got folks, it's got spokes and wheels. It's like a hot topic brought to life. Man, animated and man, there's all my favorite characters. Well, here's, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well my favorite characters. Well, here's, well, no. Will Smith and the other guy. Again, you say that as a joke, people do say, oh, will Smith's in that movie? I like him. I'm a huge star, dude.

That's why you put stars in movies. You're questioning the underpinnings of the film business. I'm, like, this is a new thing. Oh, they just put that big star in that movie to get people to go see it. Yeah, they put Viola Davis in it, so it's got to actually be decent, as opposed to terrible, I guess. Hmm.

That's where the thesis falls apart. Sure. I want you to tell us a little bit about this movie, Elliot. I'll tell you a little bit about it. So Suicide Squad, imagine the world where superheroes are real. But they're not showing me to the core. Are we ready for such a thing in 2017? Now, Suicide Squad is the latest chapter in the DCMU-S,

the DC movie universe stuff, in which DC says, looks at Marvel and goes, hey, I want that. And so recently, this will show when we are recording this. Recently, we covered Superman V Batman, Justice of a Nation, or something. And it, positive to world, were superheroes, are kind of violent grim figures. We're always beating each other up in abandoned men's rooms.

And like, just killing each other left and right. But for suicide squad, they had made a twist. They said, what if the heroes are really grim violent guys who kill each other? That would be a crazy twist, right? Nothing like the previous movie we just made. Well, ironically, the bad guys in this movie are much lighter than the...

There's a much smaller and bad man. A much smaller body count for the villains who are turned heroes in this movie than for Superman. Who destroyed a city and did not seem to care. No, well, yeah. It's strange because his movie also sets up the idea of forming a elite team of villains turned, I guess, heroes. That's also a rag-tag squad of underdogs.

It's based around the idea that, like, what if a superhero showed up that isn't a good guy? And I'm like, I thought the government already thought Superman was a bad guy. He nuked him in space. Yeah. So anyway, suicide squad. He mooked him in space. Yeah. So anyway, suicide squad. This movie has roughly 17 openings.

We're first introduced to, let me try to dig through the onion of layers back to the beginning of this movie. Dead shot. Dead shot. We're introduced. So here's the character. To the house, the rising sun.

There's a music queue for every character. Every character. The music budget for this movie must have been enormous. They must have said, I mean, I guess it's a music queue for every fucking person. Every character. The music budget for this movie must have been enormous. They must have said, I mean, I guess it's a Warner movie, so they just flung open the doors of the Warner library and said, go hog wild. Put in every southern rock hit and every rap hit you can imagine that says, on the nose as possible,

there's literally what, when Joker comes back, they're playing like Shady's back and stuff like that. Like, it's ridiculous. Uh, the, uh, but anyway, uh, Deadshot, he's a super assassin. He, his special power is... He's really good with shouldn't be involved. Harley Quinn, the Joker's girlfriend. Her special power is she hits people with a bat.

Kill her crock, actual special power. He's like a crocodile man. Captain Boomerang, special power. Throws Boomerang. He's got Boomerang, guys. Watch out. Watch out America, because Boomerang's are coming for you.

They're going to come at you, and then they're going to fly back around. So I thought America was looking out for Boomerang's in the 80s when Yahoo Serious and Crrockett out Dundee were at their peak. That's right. There were two cars in the face. Yeah, those two guys. Yahoo Serious just walked across the shore in the Pacific

and Crockett out Dundee made land in Manhattan and they just walked through the country, spreading boomerang-based terror until they reached the middle. Whoever wins, we lose. Yeah. Yeah. And there was L. Diablo who has fire powers. And there's everyone gets their backstory told again.

And like an introductory powers demo scene. And it's like the movie thinks that your movie is like look this movie was for people who got hit on the head a lot. We got to keep reminding them who these characters are. How are they gonna remember that killer crock is the guy with crocodile skin? And how are they gonna remember that Harley Quinn is the one woman until Katana literally walks on to a plane and go, oh yeah, Katana's on the team too. We're like, Slipknot, who has a few minutes in the movie. Literally, all the bad guys that we've seen up to this point,

they all got their back stories told. And each of their back stories is like a miniature movie where they removed all the connective tissue so that you don't really know what happened in their adventure suddenly shows up. And I'll say this, there's a lot of potential in something like that. It's like how in every James Bond movie,

it starts off with a little mini adventure. Just to remind you, who's this James Bond guy? Oh, yeah, the coolest guy in the history of the world. Now I remember, okay, titles, and let's get on to the real story. It's like, slip knot, by the way, though it gets like one line, like he just walks off a car door and steps out

while the villain's waiting. And someone says, oh, that's lip knot. He can climb anything. He then proceeds to punch a woman in the face. Yeah. And then as soon as they get to their mission, he tries to run away and the grenade that they've embedded in his nana grade and his neck

blows up when he's dead. So we'll get to the nana grenades. But essentially, so here's what? Sorry, Stewart. Stewart really became attached to slip knot So, we'll get to the Nanak grenades, but essentially, so here's what, sorry Stuart. Stuart really became attached to Slipknot in the marketing campaign for you sitting in the film. So Slipknot is literally the mickey likes it of this movie. Yeah, bring Slipknot in, he can climb anything. Let's try the Nanak grenades on Slipknot, blows up his neck.

Hey, it works! I mean, we'll be works. And he was tested. But it was a clear ability. Like when they bring Harley Quinn in, they're like, she's a wild card. Yeah. She's got crazy powers. She's a...

I mean, she's in a constant, when the point in a movie where someone's really gotten the shit beaten out of them and they're almost dead. And then the bad guy goes like, oh, will I keep you alive to see your wife kill first and puts a gun to the wife's head. And suddenly you get anger strength, and your wounds instantly heal.

And you get the strength to throw that guy off a building. That's Harley Quinn all the time. Who is playing that villain? Let's give them a food o' cure. Clearly, clearly it's oodokir. Doing an impression of a guy who does a bad oodokir impression. Wow. He's a very talented actor.

Layers upon layers. These characters are introduced to us numerous times. The first 45 minutes of the movie, there are a lot of movies where they're putting together the heist team and it takes a long time and that's great. This movie takes like 45 minutes to explain the same five characters over and over again. Get it?

Okay. Here's what they're gonna do. I mean, this movie thinks that it's me at a party, where you, you know, you tell me your name, and then five minutes later, I'm like, I have no idea what this is going on. So they're all at some crazy, some crazy super villain prison down in Nollins.

And what's it, what's your problem with names, Dan? Yours, other people's. You make a good point. I should probably see Neurologist. Now, Vialadeva is playing Amanda Waller, the toughest character in the comics, because she has no powers like most of the heroes in the movie. She puts together, it's her idea to put together this team X of the worst of the worst. Again, not as bad as the real heroes in the universe who destroy cities, but the worst of the worst and put them on one team to go on missions where they're easily expendable and there's a lot of plausible identability because it's like, oh, that monster destroyed

a city, someone stopped him. I must have been some bad guys who fought with him when they died. Yeah, when she approaches the government, she's like, hey, check out this amazing video of a guy. And it's just this kind of boring video of a bunch of people being set on fire. Like, oh, she's absolutely like, she's absolutely like, the video is incredible. And it's like the worst looking after effects, fire effects.

And there's also her first agent in Chantris, an archaeologist who discovered some evil sorcerer which is heart and opened the bottle it was in and the sorcerer which took over her body, and now she's like, now she looks like the girl from the ring and she like, you know, bikini, she hangs out,

and she like makes out with Joel Kinnamen, the new Robocop. And it's again, and this movie operates in the universe where unless your name is Viola Davis, you have to wear some kind of outfit that shows your belly or has your butt hanging out of it for all the time. Because Harley Quinn's costume is basically

like the smallest shorts you can make without them being not shorts anymore. And they're just underpants. And the enchantress is a super powerful demon wizardist is just like dressed in a bikini. That's how they dressed in the olden days, Ellie. That point. In the olden days of the 80s spring break, I guess.

That's the one power she doesn't have. It's just spirit up more clothes. She can't do it. Oh, man. She can't do it. It's like someone. So in Chantris, set some plot in motion. She escapes, and she set some plot in motion

that involves turning a regular guy into a giant gold monster man with tendrils that come out of his hands and hit people. And when they do that, he also turns regular people into kind of like black mold blob monsters and who are actually much less effective than regular people would be at fighting.

And her plan involves, and this is the thing you've never seen in a superhero movie before, or any movie before. Opening up a portal through which a blue portal with a beam of light coming out of it through which something, yes. I don't know if I honestly couldn't tell something was going to come out, go through, explode. What was, I don't remember, I don't know. She's like building a weapon and she says to be old Davis later in the capture she goes, now tell me how to destroy your forces. And it's like, I don't know blow them up or something. Yeah, we don't have vampirical.

The human beings, you can just like pretty much anything kills us. You don't need to like look on our Wikipedia page to figure out how to, like what our weakness is. Get that issue of national geographic with the article on humans. What's their weakness? I don't know. Cut their Achilles tendon or something. Just try some shit. So in Trantrisco's Nuts in Midway City, which I am not a DC fan enough to know if that's a real DC fictional city. I assume it is. There's a lot of Easter eggs in this movie for the DC fans,

such as the moment when Harley Quinn is thinking about her boyfriend, the jokemer, played by Jared Leto in what's essentially the movie. He gets almost no introduction. It's kind of crazy. It's the Joker. Okay, this is the biggest main character in the movie. He'll move with all introductions.

I guess it's not the biggest main character because Batman is in the movie. Batman just kind of shows up and hit bunches people and then walks away. And the Joker, they just kind of cut to him and he's like, hey, and then that's... Like there's no big buildup. Every time the Joker appears, they just

cut to him, like, oh yeah, he was in that scene too. The Joker. I mean, the Joker feels like he's visiting from another movie. Like, he's just like, ah just like ah I thought stop by suicide squad What's going on here? Not much. Okay gotta go Because like he he is completely extraneous to the plot like he keeps showing up and trying to save Harley Quinn But he is bad at it like every time she like he's in a helicopter and the helicopter gets blown up and she's like

Okay, well I'm back again guys. I guess'm, can I still be part of your squad? Is that okay? But there's a moment where, so, every scene the Joker looks like he just showed up from attending a party viewing of the Bass Larm in Romeo and Juliet. He dressed up from midnight screening of Romeo and Juliet. And he's like, oh, I'm so busy,

I don't have time to change. I guess I'll just have to keep wearing this tuxedo unbuttoned with no tie. Yeah, that's crazy, right? It's still overcapped teeth on my tattoos. But he's a pretty lackluster joker. And I guess you do get the sense that Jared Leto, they just decided they didn't like him

and they just cut him a lot of the movie. He's still in the movie a fair amount but it does feel like when you get started, he used the gondoms to your co-workers as a way of getting into the characters, the Joker. I think that you, like the best you can hope for is being cut from the movie. I think that points to his misconception of the Joker character because the Joker, let's just call him what he is. He's the clown prince of crime. The guy's always, give him, say what you will about him, almost like a maniac. He loves to laugh.

And he is, at least he's having a good time, and he's not afraid to do it. He just wants to pull everyone else into the party. Look, it's the Joker. I'm not selling us the Joker. Look, I'm just not sure if you guys are heard of this new character, the Joker. I think he's got a lot going for him.

I mean, he has no powers, and he's basically just a clown that kills people with knives, but the world's greatest detective can't stop him. So, that detective being, of course, Benedict Cumberbatch. You can't stop him because the Joker is not a real person, and Benedict Cumberbatch is. And Benedict Cumberbatch. Hold on, hold on. Hold on. No, he reads. Let me tell you. Cumberbatch's. And Benedict Cumberbatch. So, I was like, hold on, hold on. Hold on. No, he reads, let me tell you.

The Cumberbatch is the greatest detective. Yes, the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, as you just said. So what? He was just reading a Batman comic going, oh, I wish I could stop you. And trying to put his fingers through the comic. And he's like, if only I had some kind of last action hero ticket that worked for comics. Yeah, yeah. But I would never rip a comic to get into the comic it would he's like, if only I had some kind of last action hero ticket that were for comics.

What if he put it in? But I would never rip a comic to get into the comic he would ruin its resale value. Me, the world's biggest comic collector, Benedict Cumberbatch? I feel like Nicholas Cage is gonna sue us for you saying that last part. I love it.

I love the, I love the bigest comic book I've ever seen. Okay. I collect comic books and I collect illegally sourced Mongolian dinosaurs skulls. I love that Benedict Cumberbatch just goes around proclaiming him the world's biggest everything. Like he goes into McDonald's, give me a happy meal.

Me Benedict Cumberbatch, the world's biggest collector of happy meal. He would say, the world's biggest kid. I may be older on the outside, but I'm young on the inside. He goes to toys or russ. This is the place for me. I don't want to grow up. I'm Benedict's Comberbatch.

So he's just trying to convince everybody he has that Jack disease. Reages really fast. Proving the old comedy adage that is just fun to say Benedict Comberbatch over and over again. So there's a moment I won't even get tired. Forget it. I was going to tell my mom it's not important.

Let's get back to the plot. Our Suicide Squad has been assembled several times. It's off to the mission. There's a big monster who's attacking midway city. In Transrace's open enough for portal, the Suicide Squad is told they're going in to rescue some famous scientist. In actuality, they're rescuing Amanda Waller herself and they get really mad that they've been lied to about everything. And this is all stuff that the audience

has been well aware of throughout the entire movie. So when Deadshot finds a binder and reads it instantly and tells his local squaddies that hey we've been had. This isn't the fun in games we were set up for. They're like, let's just go get a drink at a bar for a while. Because there's a lot of forced camaraderie in this movie. And I get it. It's about a team of misfits. Hey, they're not team flares.

But they become team flares. Nay, they become a family. Perhaps that's stretching it a little far. But there's a lot of like forced, uh-oh. for having to eat it for the whole time. And then, you know, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like, you're just like,

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We were just talking about Benedict Cumberbatch talking back to my books. Why are we even care how they stop the enchantress? No, they do it. A bunch of them, they're followed by a group of real regular soldiers who, of course, exist, only to be killed by the bad guys to show how bad the bad guys are. And to highlight the question of, why do they need the suicides squad? They already have a bunch of soldiers.

Yeah, like, what is Harley Quinn going to do? Welcome to the hammer. Yeah. Well, she shows you that big gonna do? Welcome to the hammer. Yeah, well she shows you that big clown hammer and she never uses it. She just uses a baseball bat and a pistol, disappointing. She upholes up her regular Harley Quinn costume. Let's get one thing straight. The old Harley Quinn.

My dad's Harley Quinn. Which was my Harley Quinn because my dad wasn't watching Batman the animated series. That original Harley Quinn. Why not, Ali watching Batman the animated series? That was not really a Harley Quinn. Why not, Aliens? It's pretty good. No, it's a great show. I tried to get him to watch it. He was like, I want to watch a... I'm more neon, Evangelion, whatever. He's like American animation. I'll never be as good as Japanese animation.

Let's watch Ronma one half again, son. Let's watch Ronma one half against, son. So the old Harley Quinn was a beloved, lovable character. Look, one looked like a Harley Quinn, so the name made sense. And she was just like Joker's crazy henchmen, but there was a weirdly, there was more depth to that character and the way that she would occasionally feel bad about what they were doing, which she wanted the Joker's attention, like she was a conflicted character in a way that this Harley Quinn is not, except for one moment. Dan, do you want to describe that moment? There's a pretty good, I think there's a nice little moment where she thinks that Joker

has died and she's sitting on a car in the rain crying. And then the rest of the suicide squad comes up and she immediately puts on her sexy, crazy act that she does. They're like, I don't care about anything. Hey, fellas. Yeah, it's a nice, like, a little moment that actually works. It's a nice character thing. So all you have to do is sit for the first hour and 35, 40 minutes. I'm allowed. A bad movie can have a good bit. So all you have to do is sit for the first hour and 35, 40 minutes, the middle. I'm allowed.

A bad movie can have a good fit. Look, here's, look, you got a pan through a lot of dirt to find one speck of gold dust. And Dan did it. Yeah. He's a grizzled old prospector, and maybe he went insane from those months he spent on the mountain. I said, gold! This gold! When he walks into town with that tiny sack of gold dust

that can buy him, I guess, one ride on a pony at the local county fair. That's what I'm doing. Yeah. Yep. Buttercup's gonna be yours for a mere 10 minutes, Dan. 10 minutes is a long time for a pony ride. Dude, I don't ride the pony's chill out.

I don't ride that many ponies. So you ride some ponies. Like five or six, dude. So we only scratch the surface of Suicide Squad partly because we've got a time limit. If we were doing this in Dan's apartment, just three of us, we could easily talk for four hours about this movie.

Because there's so much stuff in it, but it's like, usually that's like, hey, we can only tell you a little bit about this movie. Go check it out. Don't bother to do that. It's like the same way that there are times every now and then when I'm like, I've never read like the Bacchewa Gita, like, that I'm probably never gonna do that.

And I'm just gonna know there's a lot of interesting stuff and they're all never know. I mean, if you want to see a movie where a bunch of people fight a bunch of faceless blobs that are, you know, kind of easy to disintegrate. And then at the end, they destroy a cosmic power by just putting a really big bomb under it. And shooting the bomb. This is the movie for you then. It's a movie where they bring in this squad of super bad tough guys who are either giving extensive backstories or literally throwing

at the screen at the last minute. Like, when you order something in a restaurant and they leave out one component and you're like, what about this? It's just coming out of the kitchen right now. Okay, here you go. It's like that. But they bring these guys with special abilities with them.

At one point, they need to dive into a flooded subway station to plant a bomb. And Killer Crocus, like, give me the bomb. And the Marines Marines or whoever they are like, no, we'll take care of it. Why'd you bring a crocodile man? Is this the perfect time for him to pull his stuff? He took off his hooded sweatshirt for everything. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no you here for one reason, you're our ethics counselor. And you're supposed to watch what we do and then report on it back to us so we can make sure we're following standard protocol. And most of you say, it's like Killer Croc is going on a ride along for his crime novel

that he's working on. For his Gator Man series of mysteries. You're like, Killer Croc is Gator Man a representation of somebody? Hey, Gator Man is just a character who has spoke to me and the character of retired detective Lou Gator Man is just a fictional character. Yeah, yes, I mean it's part of, I don't explicitly talk about his Judaism but it's something that makes the character a little richer. You know he's dealt with prejudice on the forest working in Mobile, Alabama.

Oh, geez. So, but it is a nonsensical movie. Okay, when so many of the action scenes and scenes in general are edited so clearly poorly, maybe it's improved by the extended version. I'm guessing not. I mean, there's, like, when Katana gets introduced, there's a mobile... She really walks onto a helicopter already.

And Joel Kinman's character is like, describing how her sword can cut everybody, and it steals your soul or something. But while his character is delivering this monologue, you can see him in the background, and his mouth isn't moving at all. Oh. By the way, I want to know how they know

that that sword steals people's souls. Like, do they have a soul detector that they put up to the sword? And they're like, oh yeah, it's in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're about in the zoo book. Well, because whenever she tries to swing the sword at somebody, a window pops up that said,

sorry, no more space for souls on this sword. And she's like, hold on, we got to wait with the fight and she's scrolling through looking for old souls, she can delete. And then I got to go to the recently deleted souls album to really make free up the space on the phone. It's a sword, but I call it a phone bag. I mean, I couldn't even sustain that bit. We could talk for a long time, but we only have limited time here.

So we should wrap this part up with our final judgments. It was such a long edition. And if this was suicide squad, you would say final judgments and then like some song with the word judgment would start playing. So the categories are, is this a good bad movie, a bad bad movie, or a movie that you kind of liked Elliot? What do you have to say? It's hard to say because I didn't like it and I didn't really enjoy watching it but there was so much movie in there. Maybe it was just too much movie for me. me. Like maybe the problem was with me, not with the movie.

Like maybe I just can't handle that. So I'm gonna say, bad, unless I'm wrong. And I'm sure the fine people on the internet will let me know if I'm wrong about their favorite movies. It's amazing how movies like this before. People don't have strong opinions about comic book movies. Before these movies come out, anytime they get a better view, before release people are like,

well, you must take comics, don't know, you don't even get it. And then as soon as this movie comes out, those feelings evaporate into the air. And there's never sorry, there's never an apology. No. Uh... LAUGHTER Yeah, what do I have to say about this?

We've been talking for a while. It's not a good movie. The one thing I will say is that Will Smith and Margot Roby are working their asses off to sell the material. I'm bad choice of words from Margot Roby's character. No, I guess I was there. I think both of them show a lot of charm and I would be happy to see her as Harley Quinn in a good movie.

I think she could do that. I'd be happy to see her in a good movie, Raeves Dan McCoy. No, but you're right. You're right. The movie is not so bad that it can't crush their charisma. Yeah, those two are actual movie stars. The rest of it, eh, you don't need to see it. Oh, man!

A cheer for Dan's indifference. Let me tell you guys a story. I was talking to somebody last night who described Suicide Squad as a movie that made them question what was possible in movies. I mean, they throw a bunch of text up on the screen in a different voice. But that, and also, it is really strange how it

does feel like there's whole separate movies that have been condensed down. The first half of the movie feels like you're watching the, like, what happened last season on Suicide Squad. Yeah. It feels like a movie put together from a season of a TV show. There's a, I think it's in the book, Slotrmatic. There's a bit about a book that has so many hyperlinks in it.

And each hyperlink takes you to the full text of another book. So you never, ever finish any of the books, because you're always hyperling, that's what kind of what this movie was designed for, is that technology where you could be like, wait a minute, I want to watch that Harley Quinn movie. Click and you'd watch that movie or like, I like that dead shot scene. Let's watch that dead shot movie. Except that technology does not exist yet. Except I guess in the form of that movie Mr. Payback? So, yeah, I didn't like it.

It's a bad, bad movie. I would like, I mean, I feel like there's some stuff I like. I like Captain Boomerang. Even, here's the thing, Captain Boomerang. One? Sure. I guess so. But he's like, no, there's-

Is that a thing? So he, he like, so they're all having drinks and they're like, no, let's do this that a thing? So he like, so they're all having drinks, and they're like, no, let's do this. Let's finish this mission, and he just leaves. Yeah, he's like, I deactivate the bombs, and he just immediately just leaves. There's no- Setting you up, you know he's gonna come back

at some climactic moment and save someone with a boomerang. He doesn't, you know what he does? The next shot, they're walking down the main street, where they're going, and he just- Wait, they're walking someplace slowly with music? Yeah. This one movie also could have been called Walking Slowly in Ranks with music, with a pop song playing behind his god.

But he just steps into frame and nods to them and they nod back and it was like, why bother having him leave? Maybe he's going to come back 10 seconds later so that you could do what the Rogue One movie where it's like, what was Captain Boomerang up to in those minutes, that we didn't see. I guess we'll find out in our spin-off, not prequel, it takes place during the other movie. And that movie is just him in the bathroom,

idly, thumping through a magazine. I mean, that was, if it was Billy Lank. You were Boomerang catalog. If he walked in, he was like, you know, you got it, you got it, you got it, you got it, You have a boomerang catalog. If he walked up, he was like, God it, want it, God it, God it, want it. If he like, if he walked up, he was like, watch you guys leave. I just went to the bathroom.

There's also, there's a part where he's using a remote, he's using a boomerang with a GoPro on it. And he's watching the video on his phone and the camera breaks because of evil magic, I guess. And he goes, ah, and he throws the phone down and steward had the great idea. It would have been so much better if he threw the phone away and then a moment later it came back to his hand. They call him Captain Boomerang.

They call him that because everything in his hands becomes a boomerang. And he just like throwing celery sticks and they come back to him. It's a blessing and a curse, clearly. Because he can never throw garbage away. You know how you feel when you're thrown away Styrofoam packing peanuts and they won't leave your hands because of static clang? That's boomerang's life. Not so great.

Don't look at soda. Oh man, comes back to him so damn what do we do? It seems like the dumbest part I wish for We were like oh, I don't did he wish for it in the King Midas types there. Yeah, yeah He's what happened was he threw He threw a half finished package of whizzlers away and he's like actually I would have finished that I wish you would just come back to I'm a zoo is right there. He's like our gozer is there and he's like, actually, I would have finished that. I wish he would just come back to me. And Zool is right there, and he's like, or goes or is there, and he's like, oh shit.

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Are you a shut in? Are you a homebody? Are you an old person? Have you just had a baby? Are you? Are you? Are you telling him to go grocery shopping? Nobody does.

In this fast-paced world, nobody is telling to go grocery shopping. It's why retail is going down the toilet these days. Like, the millennials are killing retail. Yeah, with their avocado toast and whatever. And they're not getting jobs and playing video games instead. Now, the food comes to you.

You don't even have to put your pants on. You can just wait till the mail man leaves and go outside and get it yourself, pantsless. Number two, you got a cooket, yeah. You don't gotta go. You don't gotta measure the ingredients. Everyone's least favorite part of cooking. Measuring those down ingredients. You don't have to any ingredients. Everyone's least favorite part of cooking, measuring those damn ingredients.

You don't have to get out all your little spoons that are the different sizes. You don't have to get out of measuring cup. You can use a regular cup, pour some beer in it, drink that, because you know what? You can be a little tipsy, because you don't have to measure anything. That's great.

Just take the little containers they give you, dump them in, beautiful. Okay, third thing, it tastes delicious. It's all seasonal, you know what that means? They're not gonna be giving you winter food in the summer. They're not gonna give you spring food in. Beautiful. Okay. Third thing, it tastes delicious. It's all seasonal. You know what that means? They're not going to be giving you winter food in the summer. They're not going to give you spring food in the fall. They're going to give you food from that season, the way nature meant you to eat it. And number four, look at how cheap it is. Less than $10 per person per meal. No one can eat that cheap unless you're dumpster diving. Dan, do you want to dive in a dumpster or do you want delicious food, pre-sort it out

in terms of recipe size, delivered to your door? No options. Where's this dumpster located? Not in your house. You got to leave your house, put some pants on. All right. If there's pants involved, I want blue apron instead. That's right.

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I do have a jumbo tron. There's a jumbo tron message today. This message is for Will. And the message is from Meredith. So Will open up those ear holes because Meredith's going to shoot some words into him. Gross. I get what if it was a gun that's shooting the words. Okay. I get what if it was a gun that's shooting the words. Okay. Dear Will, happy 30th birthday. I've had so much fun with you these past two years going for long bike rides, eating eggs, and listening to the flop house together.

Congratulations on becoming an old man. You are my favorite boyfriend, and I love you, Meredith. PS, if Elliot would, if Elliot would, oh, I say there's an if there shouldn't be there, Elliot, would you sing a song about how cool Will is it would make his year. I gotta do it you guys you know I gotta do I'm legally and morally and divinely religiously obligated will the McMaster requires it. Is there a cooler guy then will if there has then I haven't met him still he can cook some eggs. He can ride a bike

There's a lot of things that he likes that I like like the flop house and so for 10 years of the flop house It's 30 years of will there's been three times as much will as flop house Flop house is only one third as much as will so will your three times as cool as the coolest thing in the school, which is the flop house. Boy, is that will guy cool? He eats eggs. Thanks. And his girlfriend sounds cool too.

Yeah, he eats eggs. That's great. You know what, Frazier may not know what to do with that Tossel and scrambled eggs, but Will knows what to do. Eat it. Yeah. Unless is that a sex thing that Frazier may not know what to do with that toss salad and scrambled eggs, but we'll know what to do. Eat it. Yeah. Unless is that a sex thing that Frazier's singing about?

Uh, that's a good question. Is that the toss salad he's singing about? I don't know what scrambled eggs means. No. You don't want to know. Okay, don't tell me. Um, so, uh, we've also got a few announcements, right? Yeah, well, we've got one thing to announce that I can think of. Yeah, well, we got two things first off

The flop house is doing an international live show in Toronto, Canada, but it's already sold out I hear so I guess keep checking that site if you live in Canada see if there's like if there's returns Yeah, which which is I think just called a stop-up a it's just called hockeytickets.com. Stub-up a. And we, and we also just want to remind everybody if you haven't, you can go check out the Flop House Funnies, a series of comics that we do. There are digital comics that you can download off of our website, theflopuspodcast.com. And between us and a variety of incredibly talented people.

A bewildering and astonishing array of talent. Has been helping us. We've been working on some stuff. And all the money from those go to the ACLU. Yeah, after expenses are paid, everything goes to the ACLU. So far, we've donated over $4,000. Crazy. From these comic sales, but we want to keep donating more in these times, and I believe I speak for most of our listening audience, in these times, the American Civil Liberties Union's work is more needed than ever.

And so we want to support them. If you want to support them and get some crazy comic stories by your favorite pals, the Flawphouse, then please do that. Go to what's the website, Dan? It's www.flawpousepodcast.com. And so we put out three comics, and we actually have three more.

In the works. In the works, yeah. Though three we did we actually have three more in the works. In the works. Yeah. We had those three we did it before. We're on the theme of horror, three different types of horror stories. And should we reveal the theme for these next? Sure. Yeah.

Do it. The theme is love. Yeah. The opposite of horror. Maybe the least horrible thing unless you're afraid of commitment that it's the scariest thing. We're going to do three very different takes, only concept of love in comic book form. So get ready for that, they'll be coming out one at a time

and you'll have your chance to donate through those, but the horror issues are still available and if people like these and keep helping us make money for a good cause, then we'll probably keep doing them. Yeah. Yeah. Do we think, and we should mention also that we can't announce them yet,

but we are going to have some other upcoming live show dates to announce in parts of the country that we've never performed in before. Well, I think we can, I think we can say where? We just can't, we don't have the full go ahead to say when I don't think, I don't know. Let's just say, it's the West Coast. Let's say, yeah, let's narrow it down

to the, not the coast we're used to going to. Yeah. So keep your ears open for West Coast, flop out of states. If you want to go to In and Out Burger, they have them there. Yeah. Yeah.

Let's just say, also, if you want to get something in a bread bowl They have them there as well. I mean you can get that pretty much anywhere Right say what's the fuck I'm it's a regional thing that's it's famous No, but it's like famous for a city because I thought of a treat from that city that it's not bread bowls Can you get a Roni style? you certainly can Roni style? You certainly can. Roni it up.

Yeah, that's that Bobby Brinzo. That's my guess. I'm Roni it up. So those are some hints about two cities. They'll never guess. You're right. You got me. It's Avocrycchi and Des Moines.

So I think those were all our announcements. Hi. Yeah. Before our time runs out, we haven't. So I think those were all our announcements. Mm-hmm. Hi, yeah. Yeah, before our time runs out, we have a next part of the show, which is taking a few questions. So I just ran the microphone into my face. Taking a few questions, we have about 20 minutes for that, I think.

Roughly. Maybe a little less. OK. There's a microphone over here. If anyone would like to ask us a question about anything in the world, it's over there. But first, maybe a little less. Okay. Microphone over here. If anyone would like to ask us a question about anything in the world, it's over there. But first, my preamble. Anyone who's been to CS before will be familiar with this one.

But I'll tell you anyway, here's a little thing. I like to do when I'm at a Q&A. It saved me a lot of trouble. It'll save all of us a lot of trouble. If you're getting ready to ask a question, people will have lined up. First, think about that question, and then think to yourself, if I was not me, and I heard somebody else ask this question,

would I care? Often, the answer is no. It take the opportunity to think of another question or sit down. I've been at too many Q&A's where it's like, first, I'm going to tell you for 10 minutes why your work uniquely appeals to me and we should be friends. Woody Allen, like that. All right. It's someone who's never gonna be friends with you is what I'm saying.

Yeah, just. How, how about, not us, I'm talking about Woody Allen. How many of you wanna hang out with Woody Allen? You're wasting our time. You're wasting the audience's time. OK, sorry. That's the show, basically. Yeah, so keep it bitty. What do you have to say?

So real quick, Elliot, as per your tweet. First off, what's your name last name withheld? Peter last name withheld. Hi, Peter. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Peter, tweet back, I don't want to hesitate asking for your autograph since you're going to be out of here,

you said. Oh, probably. Well, I'll stick around for a couple minutes at first. OK, don't worry, thank you. So my question is, and yours too, Dan, I already have stewards. Oh, OK. Oh. Well, so now you know he has mine, dude.

Now we know the order of favorites. Do on top, of course, me comfortable in the middle, and then, has mine, dude. Now we know the order of favorites. Do on top, of course, me comfortable in the middle, and then whoever. So after over a 300 episodes, which ones did you have the most fun recording, like, individually? Ellie, I'm sure you have a different one from Dan and et cetera. Uh, which most fun recording? Yeah.

The live shows are the most fun recording. Bro, Glenn, bro, Glenn. Hey, and dirt. I don't know. I mean, the movies that break us the mo- like, Oogie loves or something like that. I'm- I'm gonna jump in here, guys. Okay, take it, take it. I think the most fun I like that. I'm gonna jump in here, guys. Take it, take it.

I think the most fun I had watching a movie and then, and talking about it with these guys, was Easy Rider II, The Ride, Back. Oh, that was a good one. Like, that last, like, third of the movie just broke me when that old man, little Bob, like, I left the whole way until the mics came out. When there's just a shot of him getting a haircut from his daughter-in-law I don't have a good answer so in the interests of moving things long if you have one

They went on crazy one one the ones that break us all right right, when we're doing Uglie loves your food fighting, we're crawling back over the ashyp of our lives together. Yeah. Or some of this got catchy songs, like breads. Yeah, moving right along. Thanks Peter. All right, next question. Hurry it up.

Let's go people. Come on, all right. The end of the day, let's do this. OK, hurry it up. File through, OK. Hey, my name's Antu. I've come from the land of Captain Boomerang to ask this question. Oh, thank you.

So he's like famous there. He's everyone's favorite. He's on the currency, Elliot. The rubber currency. He never gets wet. It must be so galling to be like, finally, an Austrian on superhero. Oh, he's a Boomerang.

I get it. Because every American superhero throws hot dogs at people. Oh, superpowers. He throws shrimps at people. And only underbarvis. Oh, OK. So my question is it involves the Stuart Gordon film reanimator. And... See you now.

So, me and a friend think that the premise of that movie would make a great three camera sit-com, sit-com. Like, you guys are right. As the straight man with the lead character who's in med school and he's pesky roommate who ruins everything by trying to bring back the dead, what movie would you pick to turn into a three camera sitcom? Oh, that's a good question. That's a good question. Yes, that deserves super applause Super how you know Elliott is bamping he repeats that's a good question twice. That is a good question because it's a stumper

Yeah, what is a good sitcom? I think Yeah. What is a good sitcom, man? I think. Well, I mean, did they ever try to make big into a show? If he doesn't turn back, and he's just a man, he's just a child stuck in a man's body, that's a sitcom right there. And they call it big, the show.

He's a little boy in a man's body, sleeping with normal age to women. Okay, you know what? You're right, I forgot about that part. Don't not big. Okay. Ooh. Ooh.

I forgot about that part. I just remembered him working at the toy company. I'm just like, in my head, I'm just like running through like... Every time. The fugitive. Blue velvet. 30-Dinosaur. Trouble with the curve. That thing you do.

Trouble with the curve. The league of their own. I mean, the league of their own would make it great. The league of their own might be a good one. I don't know about three camera sitcoms. That'd be a good series, like about a woman's baseball team. I mean, League of their own did that great.

So I don't know what there is more to do with it. See them play other games? Like, I... I just... It just shows those same people, but not playing baseball, like afterwards. It's just like, okay, well, now we're back to our normal lives. Like, why are we following these characters anymore? I don't understand. It's like after Mesh, the hit show after Mesh. So then I'm gonna to say suicide squad.

That was a great question. I think we're not going to come up with any better answers, so thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks so much for coming all this way. Awesome. Hello. Hey, it's me, Liz, last name with Held. Hello. I'm here again. Back again. I haunt this podcast like a poltergeist. A podtergeist. I do it.

I do it. It's not even a pun. Doesn't work. Yeah. Sorry. We do the pun, please. I believe this bad. Oh, the FBI.

What if I had a vampire? What if I had a bad jelly? Wouldn't that have been great if I actually had a prop batch? And you've just been waiting for years, for a chance to use it. Every morning you just, you're like, putting, getting dressed, walking out to work. Oh, shit, I forgot my prop batch. I've got to walk back from the subway station.

I say, just in case. I say, sadly to myself, maybe today. Maybe today. I want to make it, I'm gonna make this $1.29 that I spent on this worth it. Your question was, I do have a question. Okay, now. Sorry to waste your time. Oh, okay.

I don't know why I turned into Morton Downhill. No, but if you had to assemble your own team of Motley Super villains to do whatever it was they were trying to do in Suicide Squad, so I wasn't sure because I was real drunk when I saw that movie. And you could only choose from villains who had appeared in movies that were featured in the flop house. Oh, oh, oh, someone, literally someone behind her in line collapsed. Yes.

In horror and fear that that had been their question, I think. I knew it was a good idea to run up here because somebody else was going to have the same dumb question. Oh. Yeah. So. Wow. It's settling a suicide squad of villains from flop house movies. Well, Bobby Wobbly has to be in there. Bobby Wobbly, I mean, technically he's not a villain.

He is a villain, but he is a villain. You know you're putting in the popular girl from Bratz. You know it. Yeah. You know it. And her power is that she can buy anything. She's super rich. And she always goes into musical numbers.

She bought an elephant. She bought an elephant for her party. And you know she just killed that elephant, ever. It's not, and it's not like then she put on like an elephant for her party, and you know she just killed that elephant ever. It's not like then she put on an elephant meat feast for the homeless, like she just dumped it in her pool. What, she killed it with emotional neglect? Yeah. So yeah, Bobby Wobbly, the rich girl from Brits. She said it balanced.

She's made up characters. Okay, then I guess five had also. The corrector exact. The corrector. I've made up characters, okay, then I guess five had also. The correct er, exact er, correct er. Now it's just, okay, we should do characters from movies. Not just stupid characters we made up on our dumb show. What other, it's hard to think of like villains from these movies. One of the, oh, the crazy Christopher Lloyd character

from Food Fight, who I guess is a wild-eyed robot. Sure, the snake man from Jonah Hex. God, God. No. Stop shouting movies at me. If you wanted to end this question, you do a podcast for almost 10 years. God damn.

We've earned this question. Wasted our lives. We don't even remember the villains. Okay, let's name one more. We've got a pretty good team here. Let's name one more. What's the movie we watched? Um, Lex Luthor does it count.

What? Tango and... Oh, Jack Collins from Tango and Shad. Jack Collins and the English guy that they bought. Yeah, that guy is great. And Robert's a dars in that. Yeah, and James, you know what? Let's just do all the villains from Tango and Chad.

Yeah. Let's just watch Tango and Chad. Let's just watch Tango and Chad. Let's just watch Tango and Chad. Thank you for the question. Of course. TMC. BME, best movie ever.

Hey guys, I am the guy who collapsed. My idea was that Bradley Cooper from Burnt finished shucking his 2 millionth oyster and was assembling a suicide squad, but I got a backup. Oh, that's pretty good. My backup question is, obviously there's a lot of speculation over what would be the plot of the flop house of the movie. And a very popular one is a body swap movie,

so my question is, there's two ways that this could go. Okay. Which body, which way do you pick, and what is the heartwarming lesson that each of you learn from being in another person's body? All right, interesting. Okay, that's tough, but that's tough but fair. Tough but fair.

Well, clearly, clearly, I want to be Stuart because he's the tallest. And you know what? I think I'm going to learn, it's not so easy being tall. You bump your head into stuff? You bump your head. Can you just walk under the turnstile subway stations? Because I can.

No, I have to pay for it. I wanted to be Stuart so I could learn that being beautiful isn't everything. I have to pay for it. I wanted to be stewards so I could learn that being beautiful isn't everything. I want to be both you guys. You're soul splits between the two of us. My bottom half goes into Elliot.

Yeah. Wait, so are we like sharing the space then? It's like an all of me type situation. Yeah, you can't really. You can't run dance shoulders in my body. It's like the old reincarnation problem, where it's just like there used to be so many fewer people that all those people must be split between several people at this point

because there's so many people at there. Look at me reincarnate it as an animal, Dan. So guys, we both want to be inside my body. What? Yeah, we both want to be inside you. So, what other way? How do you- How do you-

How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you-

How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you- How do you- And then I'll jump into Dan's body and just do all sorts of crazy stuff that he has to deal with the consequences of later. You realize that it isn't a lot of fun to be interrupted all the time. Yeah. And sometimes it's hard to read words on a page.

Sometimes. It is guy. Sometimes it's harder to speak clearly when you literally have the words in front of your face. Do you realize how drunk I am? Clearly, the lesson you would learn from me is that the truest treasure is fatherhood. Okay. I think we have enough time to quickly go through the three people that are in the line.

Nobody else join the line. That's it. Nobody is. Yeah, no one's running up there. Jeremy last name with Held. You mentioned in your critique of this how much pop music was in it, and I think Watchman and other comic book movie was known. There was a lot of discussion about its sort of jukebox feel for its music selection.

And I can't think about the word jukebox without thinking about karaoke. I know you guys have a pension for it. So what do you think is the movie with the most singable official soundtrack? Bratz. No, that's not true. I've been in a lot... It's got La Cucurancia in it, do you? Purely because my son's been into it a lot. I've been seeing a lot of them up at movie. A lot of them up at the end. And those words are surprisingly difficult, but when you get them, there's such a feeling of accomplishment. When you know the words to can you picture that,

a song which makes no sense? I mean, I know that Jeremy has been present at a karaoke night where I've sung not one, but multiple songs from Little Shop of Horrors. So I think that's my choice. Well, do you guys listen musicals, right? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure. If it's a movie.

We're making the rules. So we've got the microphones. And I'm going to be like Hamilton. I'm going to break those rules again, because I'm going to say the movie that I listen to the soundtrack the most of. I'm going to change the question entirely. There's not what was asked. I'm gonna say probably the crew.

What? What do you, it's got an awesome edgy soundtrack, dude. Pop it in. All right, you asked for it. You like Joy Division? There's a Nine Ishingale's cover of a Joy Division song. All right so Stuart's a teen girl in the 90s. Let's go on. Sure. All right so my first statement is I've been to about two or three of these and this is by far the largest crowd you guys have had. Thank you. That's so right, the bellhouse, right there.

That's so that when the media tries to distort it, we got an eye witness on the scene. Not to bring it back to the suicide squad too much, but if you guys had to give one Nicholas Cage villain, to be part of this movie to lead this team who would have been... Oh, Nicholas Cage been. Oh, make this cage-filling. Oh. And stew it if you can give us a flop house cat.

A flop house cat. A great baby. Raral! Woo! The people who have never heard the podcast are so baffled by why that got applause. I remember when we first started getting fan letters for the house cat. It was just a sound.

But OK. Is he Elliot? Or is he so much more than that? I'd like to tell you a story. No. So a Nicholas Cage, now villain from our movie. So a villain from a Nicholas Cage movie. Because I got to say, the villain from Stolen

who has like a robot leg. Yeah, the cockroach man. Yeah, I mean, it's just that he lost a leg and he has a metal leg, but suicide squad, I mean, there's a cow. Although? Nothing and hit people with stuff. I mean, Julianne Moore as a bedredlocked dragon lady in... I'll write in which killer? No.

Source sword sky. Source sword seven sun. No, it wasn't which killer? No. Source Sword Sky. Source Sword's Seven Sun. No, it wasn't Source Sword. He wasn't even in that movie. It wasn't Seven Sun. Oh, my God. It was like, it was like, oh, what was that being called? What was that being called?

Seven Sun. No, Seven Sun, I thought was the one with Jeff Brett. He's not even in that movie. What's the one? It's like Seven Sun, but it's not. People are yelling out, no one knows. People are yelling out 50 different movies. Really?

Let's just... Only history will judge. Let's just say it was called Gone with the Witch. Anyway, but that's a good choice, Dan. Was it the bad lieutenant kind of the villain of his own movie? Yes, that's the point. So why is he a bad lieutenant? I would love to see him hallucinating Aguana

as well leading a team of suicide squad. I mean, frankly, Nicholas Cage and Bad Lieutenant is the Joker performance. Jared Ledo should have had in this movie. Like he's crazy. When the moment when he goes, they shoot that guy and they go, is he, and he goes, shoot that guy and they go is he and he goes shoot him again I can still see his soul dancing like that's the thing a Joker would say like

That's a thing a Joker with one of them Joker's midnight pokers. Yeah All right, we got one last question. Hey guys shit. Hey, guys. It's my, yeah, it's my first time here, but it is Matt thoroughly entertaining, unbelievable. Oh, thank you. Are you guys the only question is are you guys going anywhere after that appear? Wow. Interesting.

Guys, let me introduce the real set-up. Yeah, it's up where? It seems like some kind of a plan. The real set-up. So, uh, Thank you. Last night, my business partner last name with hell. Yeah, so after the show, we're doing an after party at a bar

called Hintralands. Woo! Maddie, do you have any connection to this bar, Stuart? Wait, are you a cop? Dan, you have to tell him if he asks. That's the law. That's a myth. That's an urban legend.

He's going to pull his badge out again. Two uses in one night. I was right to make that wish. So we're doing an after party at Hinterland tonight. It's not too hard to get there if you take the F.R.G. train from the ninth street, stop 4th Avenue, ninth street. Very close to you. A cab, also not that expensive. And if street. Very close to you. A cab, also, not that expensive.

And if you have also spoken to me about a cab, my lovely wife, Charlene, will be at the front door of this establishment. Woo! This is all going to be really useful for the people listening to this at home later on. You'll edit it out, Dan. You had a lot of these, right? Nope. Nope, staying in.

Oh, Dan. Seven for nine church Avenue. Seven point nine church avenue. I will talk over Ellie and Joe. Yeah. You all have Google Maps, just put hinterlands into there. No, it'll send them to some kind of unsabilized wasteland.

Some forest somewhere. We live here now, Dan. You're a forest person now. We've managed to go only five minutes over time. That's amazing. That's amazing, right? So. And it's all thanks to these wonderful people at the bell house. It's a place we like to be. And let's hear it for the wonderful people at the Bell House. I don't think, I don't think, I don't think I've ever seen a mouse at the Bell House.

I wouldn't know if I'd seen a mouse at the Bell House. I saw a person wearing a blouse at the bell house I'm sorry. I just my soul left my body there for a second. I Guess what I'm saying is Dan. Yeah, thank you to everybody. Thank you for everyone is possible Thank you to the bell house Thank you to our our sound man. Thank you to Matt Carmen who's the running tech for us And for the flop house. I've been Damakoy. I've been steward Wellington. And...

Oh, God. You learn a lot of things about yourself in a while. Jesus Christ. And I think the thing I've heard is... That I'm Elliot Kaelin. Good night, everybody. Good night, everyone. Woo! Hello, hello, hello. If you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours shall be reduced to a burned

out cinder. That's from the day the Earth stood still. That's such a blank look on this page right now. I mean, now it's back to these really great jokes that he was making. How's my level? That was my level. No, my level.

Fine. Giving me my level. No, dance level is bad. Mine's level is good. Mine's level. Yeah, I'm taking Jar Jar lessons. Me? Some level is.

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