The Flop House - Ep. #241 - Pass Thru

Episode Date: September 30, 2017

Smalltember Small-Stars concludes with Pass Thru, a.k.a. us revisiting the endless well of crazy that is Neil Breen, the lumpy messiah-complex-ed Las Vegas architect who's also a one-man moviemaking factory. Will we be as charmed by him this time around? Meanwhile, Stu rails against those who rail against political correctness, Dan reveals childhood spider trauma, and Elliott is under attack by helicopters. Wikipedia page for Neil Breen Movies recommended in this episode Salesman mother! Inside No. 9 LIVE SHOWS Oct. 8 – The whole gang in Los Angeles, at the Regent Theater Oct. 21 – The whole gang in Toronto, at the Royal Theater Dec. 9 – The whole gang in San Francisco, at the Marines Memorial Theater

On this episode we discuss, pass through. Normally I'd have like a joke here, a store would have a joke here, but it's a neo-brain movie. It's like, how can you even talk about it? Ugh! Hey everyone and welcome to the Flop House, I'm Dan McCoy. Hey everyone, welcome to the Fl house. I'm Dan McCoy. Hey everyone, welcome to the flop house. I'm Stuart Wellington. And hey everyone, welcome to the flop house. I'm Ellie Kalen. Thanks for that dose of energy, Elliot. Well, I decided to add kind of a carnival-esque, you know, filini atmosphere to it. Sure.

And the height ropes and trapezes and lions and horrifically grotesque acts of all sorts. And I realized it's obvious that's why I just, I just shout. For horrific like lions. Yeah, horrific grotesque lions. Yeah. Because they all have heavy makeup on them. That's a filini movie.

Oh, okay. I thought they just, they just had like, mange or something. Anti-mange? Yeah. Ugh. It's sure it's not having any of it. Ugh.

Hahaha. He's not into it. Okay, what do we do on this year podcast? Okay, this is a podcast where we watch a bad movie. Yeah, great. We established that. Nice genius. Did we watch a bad movie? Did I get to be established that nice genius. Did we watch a bad movie?

Did I get to be part of a Call of You a Genius? Sarcastically, I think so. We watch a bad movie and then we talk about it. And this time of year is one of the most magical time of year. It's small timber where we watch small, small, them, small movies, movies that normally would not be enough for us to even pay attention to. Uh huh. They are, they are but a dust moat in the galactic scale.

In the eye of, in the eye of God, which in this case is what Roger Ebert. I guess so. Yeah. Yeah. The ghost or Roger Ebert. When you say small movies, you don't just mean we're watching Avatar on our phone, right? Mm hmm. No, that's not what I mean. That would be absurd, Elliot. Absurd. I've seen it done many times. If we did that, Christopher Nolan would personally come and slap us in the face.

He would say, spend more money on movies. I kind of get the feeling that Christopher Nolan just greets people by slapping them in the face very severely. Mm-hmm. I mean, it sets the stone. It sets the stone. It sets the stone. It sets the stage.

I don't know why I'm thinking, I don't know why I'm thinking about stones. Now, here's what kind of stone, this is something I want the listeners to write in on. It does say, well, what kind of stones is Stuart thinking of? Is he thinking of Emma Stone, the rolling stones, or the magical Norn Stone? I think we know which one. I think the video game Power Stone. Probably that one. Slime the family stone. Yeah, or sticks and stone,

which would be the band sticks and a stone. I still think I'm probably thinking of Keystone, the brief promoter of Keystone Light. Okay, that character that they entered. Yeah, Keith Stone. All right. Matt Stone, Philips. No.

So guys, Now what was Keith Stone's deal? He was just like a dude, right? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's talk about Keith Stone for a moment. Sure. Well, okay. I mean, when I pitched him as an ad exec,

I was pitching him on the premise that like, he's just kind of an every man, but he was also like kind of a trickster spirit. Uh-huh. Like the Loki next door. Exactly. Like the Loki next door, but like just take those fucking sleeves off Loki. Like you don't need to wear sleeves. Not if you're drinking a couple of beers, just hanging out with your buds, playing some

jokes. I mean, here's the thing, Stewart, if he doesn't have sleeves, where will he keep his tricks up? Probably in his pants. Good point. What if he's wearing gene shorts? I mean, you could put him in one of those pockets that sticks out down the frayed bottoms of the gene shorts. That's what I was just going to get at. If he puts all his tricks in those, people are going to see the tricks bulging out of his pockets that are hanging.

Now we're talking about- Now we're talking about- We're talking about trick cereal, right? Yeah, yeah, Loki walks around just with handfuls of trick cereal, just to taunt that rabbit. That would be funny if Loki was this spokesperson for trick cereal.

I mean, it would make sense. I mean, Marvel's all over the place. It's huge right now. The, I wonder- how commercial ends with him. Every commercial ends with him denying tricks cereal to Balder and then killing him with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Yeah, and every commercial begins with Souter, uh, hammering that, what magic sword he's building to kill Thor with. Yep. Just 13 commercials to start with that until we get to the real commercial, which is what it's going to finally shows up with the sword.

Dan, you know what we're talking about, right? So the movie passed through that we watched. It was a Neil Brain movie. Now we watched. Should we re-equaint people with Neil Brain? Yes, that's what I was about to try and do my best at least. Neil Brain. Okay, so yeah, you pull up Wikipedia on... Yes, that's what I was about to try and do my best at least. Okay. Neil brain.

Okay, so yeah, you pull up Wikipedia on, so for all those, for all those briniacs listening at home. Yeah. Dan's trying to really get into the spirit here by recording this podcast on a laptop that stacked up on top of a second laptop. That's true. That is happening.

And of course, the only way to finish it then is to sweep those laptops off the deck. Yeah, that's how you save the file, right? Yeah. Now, Dan, Neil Brane, who is he? Is he some kind of like a sea creature? Yes, he's the thing that filters out krill in a whale's mouth. That you would think so. But no, Neil Breene is actually the number one realtor in Las Vegas. Incorrect. He's an architect who briefly worked as a real estate agent. Oh, really? I've been flying vehicles the whole time.

He's a, a, a, a, a butt model. Yeah. Because his naked ass is in most of his movies and part of the back of his ball sack. Wait, what? Yeah. In most of his movies and part of the back of his ball sack. Wait, what? Yeah. In most of his movies, there's a naked, Neil Breene and back of ball sack. I was actually going to write read a letter about this later on. Okay, we'll save it. I'm sure we can delay our gratification.

I have to say though, I haven't remembered any of that all. Have I been watching the blockbuster video editions of Neil Breene's movies? Wait, did blockbuster video edit out Neil Brain movies? I really didn't care any of that. Well, when you watch them on a plane, certainly, you don't get all the... There's that Neil Brain channel on Delta. Yeah, because they were worried about

if they're flying a plane with all the Neilil brine uh... bottom and back ball sack the orgone levels would rise to scary heights and everybody just start fucking like maniacs uh... no so neil brine okay he's not he he worked as a realtor but he's not one anymore is this what you're saying to me at all yet he's an architect now but he really is calling is he's a filmmaker. How does he, all right, how does he have enough money as an architect to make these films?

That's the real question. Have you seen, have you seen the film? I don't know, that's a lot of money. Well, you rented a drone for this one. I mean, there's that at least. That's production value. You mean the customer electronic that's available

to everyone? Yeah. It was so funny. So there's a lot, this movie, we'll get to it. It's amazing. There's a lot of what I thought at first were helicopter shots, and then I'm like, no, wait a minute, he just strapped a GoPro to a drone.

That's not the same thing. Yeah, and he's based out of Las Vegas, a place where helicopter tours are fairly affordable, right? Yeah, I would think so. It's a tourist economy. Now, Neil Brain, he's made a lot of movies that are baffling and we reviewed one of his earlier movies, Faithful Findings, right? Yeah, I'm glad that you're looking to us for confirmation.

Well, I have a Memento syndrome where I only remember things that happen in memento's camera. Wow. Okay. So I can tell you all about the time that I snuck into the backstage of a concert by tying a bandana around my head and pretending to be a rote. Or that time you convince those those brawny construction workers to move that person's car.

Exactly. Oh, that was one of my real triumphs in life. Yeah. And then there was so you forget everything about the podcast and all the weird esoteric knowledge that you mentioned on there. Oh, is that something that happens? Yeah. I was, oh, no, I wasn't, I wasn't aware of it. Okay. But we, so faithful findings. What, how would you describe that movie Dan in four words? A writer tries to expose secret government secrets. So many extra words. Neil brain. You shouldn't have used up two of the words just with the name Neil brain Messiah complex. Okay, you did it. Yeah, that's pretty good. That seems to be a theme between all of his movies. Is Neil Breene presents himself as the one purveyor of truth and

like honest reality in his movies and everybody else is corrupt and openly horrible and that's one that well we should disturb time in the movie because one of my favorite thing in Neil Breene movies is that the bad guy characters just openly state how bad they have casual conversations about how corrupt and evil they are but okay let's start so this movie but that was faithful findings which was about a writer with magic psychic powers who hacks into government secrets and convinces all the bad people in the world to commit suicide. Elliot is is there a plane flying over your house what's going on over

there? A very low flying helicopter just flew like that. Sure. Is Neil Breene hanging out of it? It's possible. As I was saying that the helicopter it was probably 30 feet above the ground. This helicopter flew by. That was crazy. But I live in LA. It's like a movie every day. Yeah. Yeah. Bragg about it. This. So so where are you looking at me? Go on. I remember when we watched Faithful Findings I was like I don't understand this man's brain or his movies this looks so cheap and and shoddy and yet It's the scope is so enormously ambitious in a foolhardy way. Yeah, pass through is like that times what a a million Yes, I think you're right Yeah. Pass through is like that times what, a million? Yeah.

Yes, I think you're right. It's like both a million times cheaper and less coherent and yet a million times more ambitious and what it's trying to say to the world. So let's just get into it, right? Let's just try to summarize the plot of a movie that is seemingly daring you to believe that there's a plot in it. Yeah, I'm trying. We watched this a couple of days ago and oh boy, Elliott, please take me back to that place. Okay, so I'll take you back to the beginning, which is there's kind of a heavenly choir

over some kind of geometric shape and space, which looks like the kind of poster that like a pothead who is also like a computer science or an astrophysics student would have in their dorm. And then suddenly you're just in the desert. You're just in the desert, looking at rocks through like a GoPro attached to a drone. Lots of rocks and ominous piano music. And then the title comes up pass through. And then a Neil Brain film, usually that comes up sometimes before. He plays with the way credits go.

And you see, and this is his, I guess, attempt to be like 2001's Space Odyssey, you see a rock with kind of aboriginal designs painted on it. And from the side of the frame, an arm with like really poorly attached fake fur holding a paintbrush, paints this, paints this symbol on and it looks like I suppose to look like I think some kind of proto hominid arm, but what it looks like is somebody just shoved their arm into the lint filter of a dryer. And then, and then paint it something. And then you see above this cave where these rocks are, the worst composited in Tiger,

I think I've ever seen in a movie. It looks so, It looks terrible. And this is a Tiger effect we'll see many times. Next, Neil Brie in Simpli, the passage of time by showing clocks sitting on the ground in the desert. Uh huh, yeah. And uh, that's what that,

that's what that was representing. Thank you, Alan. I think the fact that, so very shortly, you see, in succession with no dialogue, you see rocks, you see some kind of furry person's hand painting a stone, you see a tiger, and then you see clocks sitting on the ground in the desert. I have to assume that it's supposed to be about the evolution of man. Well, but man's not in a great place because we cut to a chain of what appears to be at first to be possibly hikers

or possibly migrants trying to cross the border into the United States. Now, here's the thing. They're a wonderfully diverse group of migrants. Yeah. I was like, they look, they're dressed like migrants. They're going through the desert. I've seen this footage on the news many times, but I don't remember Latin American migrants crossing the border in the news footage, at least, to be so white and also black and also there may have been an Asian person. Yeah. And everyone speaking in kind of like California, Las Vegas accents. Yeah. There's a certain central casting element to it. Or certain anyone in the upbringing could find to be in his Dan movie element to it.

Yeah, I feel like there's a certain whoever was hanging out at the mall that day, elements of the casting. But we don't see the hikers for long because for a little bit, we are cutting between and cutting almost randomly, it seems between three storylines. These migrants in the desert, a bunch of kids who love space studying at computers and talking to each other on the phone. Yep. There's an old man looking at a book, and Neil Brain as a kind of dirty hobo collecting can.

Ha, ha, ha. It turns out that the teens are tracking some sort of signal that the old man predicted, but they keep finding, it's a false positive. It feels like, it feels like every time they cut from the's room to the old man's hospital room, the exact same posters and the same configuration are on the wall, Celia. Now, would you be suggesting, okay, there's only two possibilities there.

One is that they just wheeled out the child's bed and wheeled in a hospital bed to shoot those scenes. Or, and this is what I posit is more in line with the movie's bed and wheeled in a hospital bed to shoot those scenes. Or, and this is what I posit, is more in line with the movie's themes. The old man and the kid either are in such psychic synchronicity that they unknowingly put their posters up in the same places, or that the old man and the kid are the same person at different points in their lifespan, somehow emerging into space and time at the same space. It's like the inner Sandman video where you're like,

is the little kid the old man now? What is going on? Because Neil Briein is kind of like Stanley Kubrick with the shining, no detail is beyond his eye. I can't believe that he would just so casually use the same room for two different sets and two different locations if it wasn't part of his grand design. Because as we'll see, he is a very intricate director different sets and two different locations if it wasn't part of his grand design. As we'll see, he is a very intricate director who has a reason for everything.

Like for instance, Hobo Neobrain isn't just sleeping on a dirty mattress and a trailer for no reason. He's been hired by the coyotes who move the migrants to clean up their trash after them. There's no evidence. Now, here's how I would have solved that problem. If I was a coyote, just bring a garbage bag with you, pick up the trash as you go along, and then throw it away at some point. But no, I just guess decided it was easier to get drugs with which to pay Neal Brin who we find is a drug addicted hobo to clean up this

drug. Now, when you say it's a drug addicted hob does. He means that he takes his syringe and he squirts out some sort of liquid on top of his arm. Like, there's a scene of him like theoretically injecting it into his arm, but it's clear that he's just. I mean, dude, fucking drugs, you know joke now, man. Half that shit is transdermal anyway. Like he's getting so high. He also cooks, he cooks his drugs by taking the powder,

putting on a piece of foil, just laying it on the ground, and then sucking up the powder with the syrup. So either the rocks of that desert are so hot that you can really cook whatever drug he's using on it, cook his heroin or whatever, or he just got, he doesn't like his drugs running. Yeah, I mean, there is a little more solid, you know.

I think there is a scene that he cut out where he actually fries up a little breakfast on the rocks, but just by just cracking, cracking eggs on that rock, because it's so hot, Elliot. And I think that would have explained the scene that you're talking about a little better. Yeah, I have to imagine. I mean, he must have cut that scene

because he's like, wait a minute, my character, who looks just like me, but slightly dirtier. Looks like he hasn't eaten a good meal in probably 30 years. So maybe it would be unrealistic for me to show him eating a breakfast. But he's like, the breakfast scene is important to me because breakfast is the most important meal of the movie, right? Is that the popular phrase? They'll say, that's the popular saying.

Yeah. So that's the popular phrase. Yeah. So that's why they sneak it in. That's why all the best movies that you've ever seen have a breakfast scene, like idle hands, bring it on. Dan, what are some other top tier movies? Citizen Kane is a famous breakfast scene. Yeah, yeah. You watch the crumbling of a marriage over breakfast.

Let's not forget the most famous breakfast scene maybe, which was the poster for Dan in real life when Steve Carrell has his head on top of a pile of paint. Yeah, we're talking, we're talking S to your movies right now, like Lauren of Olivier, Lauren, Lauren's ever a, or a, or a Arabia, where, or Peter O'Toole's just, you know, crushing some fucking breakfast and BKFST and somebody's like, hey, hey, why are you putting out that match with your fingers

and he's like, I don't give a fuck, right? You remember that part? Yeah. I remember it. Now, what would Lawrence of Olivier be? That's right. He's that Peter O'Toole, he's from Sephiravia, but he's been shrunken, he's inside Lawrence Olivier's body hero tool. He's a Pennsylvania, but he's been shrunken. He's inside Lawrence Olivier's body.

Yep. Yep. I mean, that's exactly what it's about. And he lights a match and someone's like, hey, put that out. You're inside one of the greatest living actors. Oh, I'm so sorry. And he puts that with his finger. And then they insert a tiny evil spy character

that's in a robot suit. And he's like, I'm gonna crush you. And he's like, he's like, not so fast, dude. And he tossed him in the stomach acid. And the dude totally gets roasted. It's so gross. Think about that little dead body in that, the floating around Lawrence Olivier's body.

Does he shit him out? If it's, yeah, if it's in a stomach, it's just gonna come out and it's, is he a, he's not even gonna know it? But is he a cannibal then? I guess. If it's a robot, then no. No, but there's like a dude inside the robot.

Now, that's an interesting question because cannibalism, it implies a certain motivation, an intent, I think. He accidentally eat a tiny person and you never even know it's there. The same way that like all the food we eat has a certain amount of insect parts in it. We never know. Does that mean we are insectivores without knowing it?

I mean, I am. I, I, this sounds like just a way of justifying being a cannibal. Like, oh, I didn't know that that was a human being that I ate. Yeah, yeah. When you, when you, when you turn into a fucking win-to-go, you're like, oh, I didn't know about the tiny scientist in my when you went when Lawrence liby appeals in when to go for

this is I like to I like to file a writ of didn't know and I guess judge when to go was like all with yeah, yeah, oh man. He's used to apply to the governor for a pardon. Let's just take him all moment and step back and appreciate the absurdity of the picture we've painted where Lawrence Olivier has had a spy injected into his stomach who he's eaten and become a windigo. So he has to go to windigo court to object to this transformation. Yeah.

Maybe gets even more absurd, Dan, because who shows up but Peter Pan to take when to go? To never, never lands meet the lost boys and they think she's a when to go bird. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, there's another helicopter going by. So, where are we at in the movie again? Okay, so this is when the movie cuts to the one well framed shot in the whole film and it actually startled me.

The first time that I saw there was an actual shot that could have been in a real movie, I like, I'd literally jumped. Like it struck me so hard. I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, accidentally find a good shot. Because Neil Brayon, he seems to have died of a drug overdose. That's when Neil Brein number two gets up, walks out of that body and just goes to his house. And we'll find out that this second Neil Brein is not everything that, it's not everything he seems, he's a little bit more. And it's essentially the movie The Hidden at a certain point. But anyway, the teens who were looking for that mysterious signal, they've been writing songs.

That storyline doesn't go anywhere about how great their songs are. Neil tries to cross a barbed wire fence and his hands get all bloody. That symbolism, I don't have to explain to you guys. You know what bloody hands means, right? Mm-hmm. Uh-huh, bloody hands means he goes through a lot of gloves.

All right. Yeah, I was going from one of a Christ stick mod, everything, but yeah lot of gloves. All right. I was going for more of a Christ stick model. Okay, but yeah, also gloves. The migrants make it across the border by knocking down a fence, which has been weakened by the silliest CGI blowtorch. Oh, yeah. You can imagine. Yeah, that's one of those.

That holds up a blowtorch. It's like how cheap is your movie? They can't even have a real blowtorch go on for a moment. Instead, you have a little CGI flame that comes out. It's like how cheap is your movie? You can't even have a real blowtorch go on for a moment. Instead, you have a little CGI flame that comes out. It's amazing. I thought the special effects in last week's movie, Sicilian Vampire, are going to be the silliest special effects that I had watched that year. But no, no, no.

That blowtorch is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was great. Like I, I feel like it should win an award for it's silly as a special. Is there, is there be a Thesilly's or the Sveshi's? Sveshi's.

So the special effect awards, the Sveshi's, we're hosted by Joe Peshi. It's me, Joe Peshi. Once again, I'm hosting the Sveshi's. Your favorite award show for special effects and Pesci effect. So the migrants get into America, hooray. The teens talking the phone with the old man in his hospital bed. All the migrants have drugs hidden under their shirts, which are ridiculously and the get

and it's here's where okay, so they get brought across the border. It seems like the drugs are being stolen from them But by the people who already brought them across yeah, yeah by the coyotes Yeah, the coyotes and they're dividing the drugs up into bags and they're like this is for the politicians This is for the stock brokers. This is for the CEOs This is for the lawyers like all of Neal Brains' enemies get lost right off the bat as drug dealers, drug users who, the drug, not even just the big drug dealers know

who their customers are, the mules and everybody know who the customers are, like just an open secret, I guess, that everybody uses drugs. This is also one of Neil Brains' favorite tropes where his enemies are referred to in the most vague way possible too though. Like, it's just like, the bankers are the bad guys.

Or, oh, the lawyers are doing something. It's never any specific bank or specific lawyer or specific crime that's talked about. It's just like, they're just doing their bad big business stuff. Well, it's a specific, it's a tactic that artists, that great artists have used for a long time, where you just make vague references. And if you get offended, it's like guilty conscience much. Where the whole thing is like a bad political cartoon

where everything's labeled really explicit. Yeah. Who's that fucking asshole? Who's that one fucking right wing cartoonist who does that fucking terrible shit? Oh god. Do you want to do the stuff in the post? Yeah. He's the worst. He's the worst. Anyway, the leader of the gang is a black woman, which just shows that Neil is woke or because his casting is diverse or it shows that black women are bad guys. I don't know. I don't know. Neal. Where do you find this?

I don't know. Although I like that. I like that. I like that we have a strong female character at this point. Oh, yeah. She's like the Imperator Furiosa. So I think at this point we've already probably been introduced to some additional characters. Maybe you're going to get to this, Elliot, but we have But we have a pair of migrants who have escaped and they appear to be of the same age, but no, no, no, we are introduced to them as they loudly shout their relationship to each other, being, you're my niece, you're my sister's daughter. We've got a run. We have to keep running, you're my sister's daughter. We've got a run.

We have to keep running. You're my mother's, your mother is my sister. You're my niece. I would love that if we can. And one is black and the other appears to be Latino. So it's, it's a, you know, but you're saying Dan, you love one. No, I just love if that was the way that that, that character just said everything. They, they said something and they had to define it afterwards.

Like, we need to keep running. Webster's dictionary defines running as a motion between me. I mean, it's great. Yeah. It's the woman gang. Why are they escaping? Because the female gang leader has shot a boy in his grandma and locked all the other migrants into trailers.

So this woman and her sister's daughter, her niece, they're on the run. Neil Breene, meanwhile, he finds the painted rocks from earlier, which are just sitting out there. And also the tiger, he and the tiger stare at each other. There's a glowing dot on a painted hand. Now, when they stare at each other, Elliot, does it look to you like that tiger is sitting in a field

of snow and Neil greens, Neil green. Oh, Fadifa. I just put my foot in my mouth. Neil brain's face looks like it's just superimposed over this image of a tiger sitting in snow. That is exactly what it looks like. Or is that snow supposed to represent the drugs that are being mulled over the border every day? Oh, interesting read.

I think that that snow represents that Neil could most easily get stock footage of a tiger in the snow and decided that it was good enough because he seems to be, first it seems like maybe he and the tiger are challenging each other. No, they're commuting. Their spirit's commuting together, but really more that he's sharing a very sensitive moment with stock footage of a tiger. And at a certain point, it just seems like he's standing in front of stock footage of a tiger in voiceover.

Here's where the voiceover comes in. Neil Breene begins to narrate, says, just states it outright. He's a robot from the future who's come to cleanse the human species. Oh, okay. So it's one of those tropes where... Okay, buckle up, guys. Yeah. Oh boy One of those tropes where an alien of or robot or whatever has take or time travelers taking the form of a dead person and will now go about their mysterious business

Meanwhile the kids are searching the desert for the thing the old man thought they'd found they pass bring in as a bum and They it's like and they just kind of like just keep walking. The migrants are like, don't look at the dead hobo. Just let it lie. Yeah, the kids are super, I mean, there's a whole movie about kids trying to go out of their way to see a dead body. These kids could not give a shit about this dead body. They couldn't care less.

It is, if anything, it's just an inconvenience to their day. There's, then you get to all the migrants are thrown in, the men are thrown into a bus, the women are thrown into a bedroom. One very poignantly places a rose into a can. And the gang lady yells at them. The women on the run, the woman in her niece, they find Neil Green's gross trailer. And it is, let's do it. Dan, how would you describe this trailer? Is it the ultimate bachelor pad? Yeah, it's a real man cave. It's, uh, it's got, it's got that one standing lamp that all single guys have in the corner.

Now it's got like your, uh, oh, wow. Another helicopter. Now there, how did you move there to a helicopter pad? Yeah, you're house. Yeah, did you move the helicopter landing? I feel like we should have a... It's called it. I feel like we should have some sort of musical sting

whenever a helicopter goes by or something. Mm-hmm. Ba-da! Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada. Yeah, I have a company now called Kayla Coopter, where I don't own the helicopter, but I do give you permission to fly it by my own. Okay. Why do they want to do that? I don't see what they're getting out of that deal.

I will, I will, hey, I don't know, but it's the money is good, dirty deeds, dundered cheese, you know, whatever, I don't know. But I will say living in LA sometimes does feel like you're in a movie. We had some people over for dinner, and my house looks out on the Silver Lake Reservoir. At night, you see the car is driving by on the other side.

And it was literally like, we witnessed a police chase going by across the water, and then helicopters flying over. And it was just like, we were literally the bystanders in a movie that you cut to for a minute to show that other people exist in this world of car chases, the danger of the car chasing that much more real. And it was like, oh, I was just an extra in my own life. That was amazing.

Dude, you guys all do spit takes at the same time when you saw the cars racing by. And a dog went, and I didn't even know I had a dog. And the weird thing is you're carrying a big paint of glass at the time too, which shattered as the cars went through. But the glass just shattered out of surprise. Yeah, that's the strange thing.

Yeah, everybody did a spit take onto the glass and then it shattered. So hard that it shattered. Revealing a DVD copy of the movie shattered glass starring Hayden Christensen. Now, was this the point in the movie? I'm still so distracted by this helicopter. We talked.

Sorry, I'll tell it to it's quite done. Oh, whoa, it's so low. This is crazy. Oh, you know what it's doing? It's a fire copter, and I think it's picking up water from the resume. Oh, okay. So there might be a fire in the hills, which is maybe the most exciting thing I've ever, most dramatic movie thing I've ever said in real life. There might be a fire in the hill. Now, is this the point in the movie where Neil brain is trying to get

the woman to trust him and come into his, uh, yeah. So he has a clean up is clean up that bachelor pad. So he, he lives in a bachelor pad that's essentially a dirty mattress on the full of a trailer with not which doesn't even have full walls around it. So if ever there was a place that a murderer would lure you into, this is it. Yeah, like this is the place. It's the human equivalent of like when a scorpion hiding under a rock or something like that. But he's like, no, no, no. He's telling them it's safe. And he goes, I'll clean it, which just means a shot of him taking cans one by one and throwing them outside the tray.

Yeah, but the best part is, there's a woman who's standing outside the trailer and you get these reaction shots as like cans fly pastor and she's just like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, like she's just like so creeped out by the idea of trash that she has to react to every single thing that flies pastor, as he throws it. I wanna take a moment to talk about this woman

who I don't know the name of the actress, I don't remember it. She is so like, she's got such heavy makeup for someone who has just been crossing the desert on the run for their lives. And she like, but you can tell that she and Neal have a real connection. Uh-huh. Oh, cool. Okay.

Do you wonder if they're going out? Do I hear wedding bells? Maybe I could just be the helicopter. Yeah. That's a good point. The helicopter has bells hanging on it. Yep. No, that's what it is.

But it's wedding bells. It's a, it's a Bella copter it is. But it's wedding bells. It's a bellicopter. Okay, but. I mean, there is a helicopter called a bellicopter, right? Like a Huey. I don't know. I have not a helicopter expert, nor have ever claimed to be one.

Sir, your business card says, comedy writer slash helicopter expert. That's helicopter parenting. Oh, I'm so sorry. Yeah. I get it now. Okay, I apologize. That's on me. You know what? From everybody here. I was a mea culpa. I was there to say. That's my jam. I mean, they may have the he she he may have a special relationship

with this woman because unlike most of his female leads, he does not make her to be half-topless at any point in the film. She does later on lift up her shirt so you can see her back and see there's a tattoo of a tiger there. Yeah, she doesn't. Wait a minute. She has a tattoo of a tiger and there's also a tiger in the movie. No, that's just got to be a coincidence, guys.

And I actually think it's that it's just supposed to be telling us that she really liked the movie wanted. Oh, right. So the tiger tattoo on Angelina Jolie's back, she's like, I want a tattoo like that. But anyway, it's all symbols that symbols within symbols. So we see the girl migrants at their house, they talk very openly about being addicts, being weak, how much they hate the corrupt politicians of their home countries, which are never named. One of them just goes, I'm pregnant. And it felt like a community theater production of Orange is the new black. Just like diverse women in a room,

just talking out loud their problems. And meanwhile on the bus, two guys fight over a water jug and it is hilarious. It is like the pisciest, least dramatic fight over life-giving water that I think I've ever seen. It's like, if the entire movie Waterworld was just two guys on a bus arguing like just mad at each other because they don't like seeing an extra scene. Okay, Brain Wonders the Desert talking about like how we shall all be one and things like that. because they don't like singing next time. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Brain wanders the desert talking about how we shall all be one and things like that. There's a lot of Neil Brain philosophical voiceovers that

are just kind of nonsense throughout the movie, over shots of him wandering through the desert. Meanwhile at the migrant house, one of the migrant women hangs herself in the shower and the leader of the gang, the lady she goes oh damn Neil has more monologues about how only the laws of the spirit realm remain the same human laws are constantly changing Neil the niece falls asleep in the desert and Neil brain does he like a merge out of her rock and talk to her It's very she she calls out to me. Oh, remember.

Yeah. I mean, what then Brin goes tries to approach the ant and she throws a rock at him in self-defense, but then apologizes and cleans the wound on his head with a tissue. And by cleans, I mean, just kind of like smears at it. Yeah. The tissue she already, what you have to assume

is a filthy tissue. She's been carrying it with her. Filthy with, with the makeup that she's had to remove before she reapplies every morning. Either that where she found it on the floor of Neobrene's trailer, which means who knows what parasites are, dear God, are crawling on that thing. Terrible.

Later she asked him how he's doing and he says, I'm fine. And she says to herself, who is this guy? And he names himself, he introduced himself as Till and spells it THGIL. And it's only a little later that she realizes he saw the word light on a package that he threw out of his trailer and took that as his name. Yeah, but it made it back. I love that he in order to facilitate this realization of hers, he made a point of spelling out

the name that he just came up with by looking at a thing. Because Till doesn't, I mean, if you saw those letters, you'd be like, oh, my name's Thugil. Yeah. That would make more sense. But this is also, we're like, at that point, I think we're almost halfway through the movie,

and this is when the characters start getting names. Yeah. Up till now, they've just been anonymous figures. Well, you know, they're all incredible figures. Yeah, I till now they've they've just been anonymous fake. Well, you know, I thought we were introduced to the the two women Kim and No, what's their niece's name? It's like her name is Kim like they have the most like I don't know like mundane Like that's my like a person you'd bump into the mall name like that's my, like a person you'd bump into the mall name. You mean like, like Bidelia?

Yeah, yeah, but totally normal name that you get sick of here. And like Zarelda? Yeah, a name that's so common that when they're on and on a season of the bachelor, you're like, that's Bidelia, this is Bidelia to this is Bidie. Oh, okay, like Zanthippy. Yep. Yeah. Like a name like that.

Okay. Like Zanobia, a name like that. Okay. Yeah, like a normal lady name. More voiceover from Neil Brayne about how in taking on human form, he takes on human feeling and is vulnerable to human traits. Don't know what that means. Never gets explained.

He also says that everything that power does, it does in a circle, and he starts just spinning around in circles among ring stones, and that goes on for a while. Now, I think that's in spinning in place. I feel like a top. I feel like that's where the ring stones are. Listerers can write in and tell me,

but I feel like that's the place where they shot some of the scenes from bone tomahawk, some of the early stuff like Sid Hague and stuff where the crazy cannibals are living. But. Oh, good. Yeah. I'll tell you what, those were not the cannibals you want to be around. The bone, the, the, the, those tomahawk cannibals, they were crazy cannibals.

They were neither fine nor young. No. I don't want to be a can around a cannibal. I want to be a fine young cannibal. Mm-hmm. Uh, yeah, yeah, because they drive you crazy or what? were neither fine nor young. I don't want to be a carnival. Around a carnival. I want to be a fine young carnival. Uh, yeah, yeah, because they drive you crazy or what? Now would you call Hannibal Lecter as portrayed by I think Hopkins a fine old carnival? Because he's no longer young, but he's very elegant.

Yeah. I mean, I think he's pretty fine. He's delicate. Yes, he's like a fine old carnival. He's like a fine wine kind of fine. Yeah, but what now what would a course young cannibal be? Because that's the opposite of a fine young cannibal. I mean, that's where you have.

Cannibal would be what you have whole grains of cannibal mixed in there. Oh, I see. So it's grittier. The mouth feel is different, but it's actually healthier. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Why is it healthier? Does it help you help you do movements easier?

Like, yeah, I think so. Like what I'm talking about. I'm talking about Bams, dude. Oh, okay. Like, wait, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, like a dance movement. Kind of. I think all the cool folks out there. I mean, I don't want to be too explicit because this isn't a because this isn't an R-rated podcast. Wait, it is. No shit. I've got so much that I've read it and can do. Yeah, this is a PG-rated podcast day and the whole time, right? Yeah. Yeah, Dan, the podcast version of Jack Valente is very unhappy with you. I'm very distressed, by the way, whenever I hear parents letting their kids listen to this podcast,

I don't want to be responsible for that. I worry about what I'm putting out into the world. You don't have to worry, but you're not Charles Barkley. You're not a role model. I'm certainly not a role model, that's true. Just because you dominate the court doesn't mean that people should look to you for how to take care of their kids. Yeah, just because he beat the shit out of Godzilla. Uh-huh. Doesn't mean he's a role model.

On the court. On the court. Not in like, it wasn't, not in person. In a fight, Godzilla would win because he has fire breath and Charles Barkley has at best what, like cold breath, maybe? Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. It's not like a bird's breath. Godzilla can't dribble with those little arms of his. Come on. He dunks in the commercial. Yeah.

And I mean, think of all the obstacles that Godzilla has to overcome in order to learn how to dunk with those little arms. First off, his body is not designed for dunking. No. No. Although maybe he can use, maybe it's hard to get hot vertical bleeps with those legs. Although maybe he uses his tail like when Godzilla does that

like sliding drop kick attack where his tail is still attached to the ground. Yeah. I'm assuming like propelling him forward like a slug might propel a human body forward. Right. This. Wait. What? Yeah. Wait, what?

Yeah. So like, you know, when you're standing on a bunch of slugs and the slugs, un-delete their muscular body mass, and you slide forward super quickly, you know, when you're at a roller rink. Oh, when you're at a roller rink and they run at a roller rink

and you're like, and you're like, roller rink and they run at a roller stage, you're just turning off lots of stuff. Yeah, and you're like, and you're like, I want to impress this girl, make her my steady. So I'm going to slide up, hold the fucking malted, and a thing of disco for eyes. And glad you asked for clarification on this, by the way, Elliot, because I was willing to just accept it on its face.

And I was amazed at it. I was amazed at how easily you let it pass. Now, you were just like, yes, slug, yeah, you have to tell your shore, okay? Now, the problem is that the roller rink, that's a place where salted food is very common. So you have to be careful when you navigate using your slug skates.

That's one of two problems. One, you could accidentally slug over a French fry and they die. The other is, at the end could accidentally slug over a French fry and they died. The other is at the end of the sluggy hawk and skate, just the girls' shoes skate. The rink is just so coated in that ooze. It's just like you got to clean it up afterwards, and that's when they bring out what a zamboni.

Yeah, they speed up. Yeah, and that's all up. That feed it to the Ninja Turtles, so they get big and strong. Wait, they put it on a pizza, because that's what Ninja Turtles do. Yeah, of course they do. I mean, I said they feed it to fucking Ninja Turtles so they get big and strong. Wait, they put it on a pizza because that's what Ninja Turtles. Yeah, of course they do. I mean, I said they feed it to fucking Ninja Turtles. How do you think that they fed it to them with fucking like tip and dots?

They're not from the future, Elliot. Yeah. That's true. No, some of the turtles are from the future like that robot turtle. Okay, I guess you're right. Guys, can I issue a retraction to my earlier statement? The Ninja Turtles are not from the future. What if Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, they came out with a statement and they held a

best conference. They're like, by the way, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all the, that was just a visual metaphor for them, choking down a lot of slugs. Yeah, all the news channels change, they interrupt all the TV channels that are out there programming for this press conference with Kevin Eastman coverage this live coverage of the Super Bowl to go direct to this press conference for Ninja truck creators no longer own the rights. They sold it to Nickelodeon. Yeah, Kevin Eastman and Peter layered and you just go there and Julie strain is Yeah, yeah, yeah, this This is set in the future.

So I'm assuming they're interrupting a screening of the TV show Young Sheldon, the most popular television show in history. Okay. Here's my problem with Young Sheldon. Okay. What's that? That's my only problem with it. Otherwise, it's flawless.

Young Sheldon wears a bow tie right to signify that he's a nerd. Grown-up Sheldon doesn't wear a fucking bow tie. He wears like superhero t-shirt. That's the thing. At the end of season one, you're gonna find out when he stopped wearing bow ties. Oh, I see. So that's the ads are supposed to raise questions

in my mind of like it's like a better call Saul type thing. That's the thing. Oh, they're, when did he turn into Saul? It introduces stakes he didn't expect it would have. Okay, that's what's so impressive about it. Like in young Sheldon, it opens up. Sheldon is a fucking awesome dude. He's party and all the time. He's not weird with anybody by the end of that first season. He's a fucking maniac. And now here's my question. Are they going to show him testing out different catch phrases? So like the Zoinga. Yeah, Bazingo. The Roombal. Bazingo.

You know guys, we were just making jokes and then Elliott told a joke and now I wanna die forever. I thought you were gonna be like, we were just making jokes and it just came over the wire that young Shelton died. Oh no. Oh no.

Oh no. I'm not a tragedy. Oh yeah, it's so much left to give. Literally and that now there's a time pair of abs. He's like, we've grown up, Sheldon. Okay, so Stuart, you said you want to die forever. Let's do the next best thing, the closest equivalent, talk some more about Neil Breene moves.

Okay. So we're talking about, we're talking about a man from the future or an Injector from the future. Neil Breene's character says he's from the future, a future that I'm presuming nobody laughs at all because PC culture is killed comedy. Well, we'll get to, yeah, because, well, first, before we get to Neil Breene's thesis statement,

Neil Breene makes an abandoned desert piano play music again and explains that music is magical, it's timeless. He talks a lot about, you can't travel the path without becoming the path. Blah, blah, blah. They aren't realizes. He made up his name. He says it's from the future.

Blah, blah, blah. Let's just skip. He shows that he has the magic ability to make cans rise into the air through a obvious reverse shot of cans falling down, hangs out with that stock footage tiger again, talks about how you can manipulate the planes of space and time and bend time. It's all makes sense.

It's all how you can bend time. Yeah. Yeah. So here's where it starts in. He says he's going to eliminate humans who hurt other humans. That's what he was sent on the Earth to do. That's why he's been wandering the desert

talking to a tiger all this time. Now we start seeing news anchors at what is the first of many virtual sets. We were clearly in front of a green screen and a CGI room was put in behind them. And the news anchors badmouth politicians when they're off the air, but they kiss his ass when they're on camera and they call themselves out as biased. They, is it because he uses, does he use magic to make them tell the truth? No, no, I think, I think we're meant to see that as their hypocrisy.

Oh, okay. They just don't give a thought. They just like chatting about how they, uh, yeah, they're hypocrites. That's their favorite about how they're biased and they're putting it across their corporate parents message, even though it's not the truth. But then they report stunningly and they have no footage to back this up. And no sound bites to back it up that the president and quote the prime minister of which country were never

told are missing as have many management people. And one of them literally says it's as if all the harmful people on earth are disappearing. Now again, that's one editorializing completely to the two Zaker said on set on camera, the president is missing. I guess all the harmful people in the world are gone. That would be crazy. That's not journalistic objectivity, even with our current president,

who is a bad person who hurts people. A journalist can't just go out and be like, president's missing. I guess all the bad people in the world are going away. Yeah, let's just move forward with our day. It's also a hell of a logical leap to be like, I figured it out. I've cracked it, guys.

All the bad people are going now. It's like, well, it's like, hey, I don't want to be a slilock fox or anything, but I know that four people have disappeared. So I'm gonna assume all the people who are bad in the world are dis- I mean, that's a faster logical leap than the fucking leftovers, where they're like,

a bunch of people disappeared. I guess everybody got raptured, dude. Yeah. Like, everybody got raptured, dude. Yeah. Like if the president disappeared, I mean, even if our current president disappeared, I feel like half the people in the country would be like, oh, I guess the rapture's happening. I guess he was good anyway.

I guess he was the best of us. Cause he's the only one who disappeared. Neil Brein takes it into his own hands to free all those migrants we saw earlier. He makes the gang members who disappeared. Neil Breene takes it into his own hands to free all those migrants we saw earlier. He makes the gang members just disappear and he yells, this is my universe. And he gets very mad at the gang lady and dissolves her into nothingness. He tells the women, go back to your country, stop being lazy and overthrow your governments. Start revolutions.

The time is now and the migrants are all like, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, the part, alien shows up and tells them to go back. I don't know if those are such. Handsome muscular, very dark hair. Beautiful. Beautiful man sends them back. They're like, sure, let's do it.

There's nothing so much. It's like Jeff Goldblum after a bender. Yep. And maybe, maybe his eyesight is very bad now. What is up with having watched this right after Sicilian vampire? I'm struck by the idea that both these guys so obviously die their thinning hair. And like, man, I get it. You get old, you want to stay looking young, but like, I feel like it's such a symbol

of these guys who are writer, director, stars of their own movies that they're like, I got to stay young forever. There is a... It's like... Go on. No, no, I. There is, it's like, go on. No, no, I was just saying, it's like that little touch of real life every day vanity among this enormous vanity project. But Dan, what we gonna say?

Oh, just that the going home and overthrowing your government also raises like a weird question of the plot because Neil Braen is theoretically getting right of all of the bad people on Earth. So why do that have to go back and overthrow some people? Like aren't those people gone by now? Well, you know, there are those people who are like, they aren't really bad, but they weren't a bad situation.

I think it's two things. I think one is that he's trying to empower them and feel like they have some kind of ownership of their own revolution, even though he's secretly doing it. I think he's also kind of testing them because I think he's sending them back with this mission and they might accidentally or on purpose kill somebody who is not a bad person, in which case they'd be outing themselves as a bad person.

So he could, yeah, it's, yep, it's in tratment the movie. could have been yes, yep, it's in trapped at the movie. Now, now we get to the one of that this is I think my favorite scene in the whole movie to be on. Okay. Yeah, I know what you're talking about when he goes to this, when he goes to the rich people. Yeah. He goes to a mansion makes the guards disappear. He changes you with through magic. he changes his dirty jumpsuit into a tuxedo or like a suit. And then this is just seen after seeing of him and different people in front of very clearly like green screen composited in fancy rooms. And in each one a different person is talking about how openly evil they are, how open like they bribe politicians,

they're doing things for their companies that hurt people, they're ruining other people's lives, and they're so cheerful about it. And it's also artificial that it feels like Neil brain like walked into a game of the Sims, where everyone's corrupt. And it's like, it is, and it goes on forever. Like he wants to make sure you really know

all these people are bad. But as Dan was saying earlier, they talk about what they're doing in the vaguest possible terms. They're like, my corporation and its affiliated banks have been bribing politicians and judges for decades to get what we want. And we're going to raise healthcare costs

for ordinary people. And like, this is the conversations that they're thinking. Do you think that? And then after each of those things, Neil Br brain goes, but isn't that unethical? Isn't that betraying the public's trust? Do you think it do you think he made it this way? Did do you think he made it vague or ambiguous so that he could go back in later when when he sells this movie to different markets? They can just insert their own regional villains. Yeah. Oh, that's a very... Just like how in in other countries in Demolition Man, it wasn't Taco Bell that

won the restaurant wars. It was Pizza Hut because Taco Bell wasn't available in certain markets. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. You can learn a lot when you just go on YouTube and look up demolition You certainly can learn a lot Let's see let's see what Simon Phoenix would do with that. Oh, we put some dynamite in it. Okay Okay, I'll try it. He'd use three shells somehow, unexplained. This goes on for a long time, this cycle of repetitive scenes. And then he leaves and they all go, who was that guy? And then Neil Brin is outside the mansion and he blows it up.

So it's like, why do he bought, he like, this endless scene of people talking about how evil they are, him going, but isn't that corrupt and then walking out at sight and blowing up the building? The reporters are announcing more disappearances of harmful people worldwide. It's very repetitive. Apparently, they go out of the way to mention that reality show casts have also disappeared and then they say, the wars have stopped and those causing the wars have vanished.

And they announce that whole judicial systems cannot be found. Like it's the way they're phrasing it is crazy and they're so not excited or worried. Like if this was really happening and again, there's no point in a Neil brain movie that you can ever say if this was really happening. It exists on a different plane of reality. But if this was really happy, you've got to be out of imagine to be some sort of panic, even if they weren't prominent people who were disappearing. This means that thousands, if not millions of people,

are just disappearing worldwide. And I want to mention that this too, also, just this is another Neil Brin trope, is there's always some sort of a reaping in his movies. Like, he is clearly a guy who has deep bitterness towards something. I'm not sure exactly what, but he always want, like he just like wants to kill bad people in his movies. I don't know about you guys, but the idea that, the idea that he's a guy who is able to

fund his vanity project movies, like he should be on top of the fucking world, dude. Why does he have this chip on his shoulder? Yeah. Look. Okay, what I love is he's able to express himself creatively. Isn't that what we all want? Very true. But he has this message and he wants to change the world

for the better and he's got to get that, you know, he's just the weight of the world is on his shoulders because no one understands the way he does what needs to be done, which is apparently the murder of most of the human population. So it gets a little unclear at this point whether brain is an alien or a robot from the future. And it was around this point that I started realizing, I think the old brain might be an alien or a robot from that.

Because it seems to have never heard a human being speak and doesn't know how to replicate those vocal patterns He appears on the news set makes the anchors disappear sits down, which I find hilarious that he then is like well Now it's my turn to to use the anchor to take a load off I'm a disappeared people all over the world got to rest my dogs and Then he just explains the plot to the camera for a while. He talks about how human evolution has ended. We've reached our genetic and psychological

limits, he says. And we have an inability to be honest and fair. And all the media has been solid. And he talks about corruption. He throws political correctness in and says that it has ruined the human species. It's like, that is a huge, that's a huge buy-in. To say that political correctness, which you have to assume at this point just means not saying things that are intolerant to us. You have to understand that young upcoming comedians are under attack because they can't use

the same jokes older comedians got away with decades ago. And older comedians when they play at colleges can no longer use material that used to work in Vegas perfectly well for drunk middle age. Are you saying older comedians that are? Are you saying older comedians that are about as old as my fucking dad aren't relevant to college kids anymore? Big fucking surprise. That's what I'm saying, but it's also that's ruined the human species. Yeah. And then he says, I have eliminated 300 million humans from the planet today, which percentage wise is not that much.

There's over what set six billion people on the planet, seven billion people, but 300 million people, like that's almost the population of the United States. Neil Breene apparently was wandering the earth, just disappearing on his own. Yeah, well, this, you know, I just want to, yeah, reiterate, this is our hero. This is the hero of the movie is killed 300 million people. Oh, I'm so glad that you just said that because when, when you interrupted Elliot, I was worried you were about to start railing against PC culture again, Dan. Oh, yeah. I hope the listeners are never subjected to the rants and the Dan subjects us to off the mic.

Dan's like, look, is it my inability to make fun of trans people? If anything more intolerant than their inability to use public bathrooms in some states? Yeah. He's like, these are my first amendment rights. I guess, I guess LA you're not interested in pushing boundaries and moving the medium forward. No, at the good point, I want to move it backwards. If family guy can't do it, LA, what are we as a society to do? Nowadays you couldn't put the shepel show out.

What could we do? It's as if all of humanity's works are dust. Which is interesting because Neil Brin literally says about all the bad and dishonest people in the world, I have turned them all to dust. And he talks about how we need to overthrow our failed bureaucratic system and all the corporations. We need to violate laws and regulations. Like he turns into cosmic Alex Jones.

And he says the cleanse has begun and it was at this point that like to be honest the movie stopped being fun for me to watch like fatal findings I found so fun and final findings. What was it what I said? Final findings. Oh, faithful. Faithful. Faithful. Faithful. Faithful. Faithful findings. Are you okay over there, Elliot? When I was watching Final Fantasy. I felt there were times I was like, this is hilarious. This guy's so crazy, blah, blah. Is at this point where he is and maybe, and I know, not maybe, it's because of where we are as a country right now, that watching this crazy man sitting on a news anchor set, saying to the camera, or not done a set, I'm sorry. In front of a poorly composited image of a news channel saying, we need to, all these things are ruining humanity. We need to overthrow them. The cleanse has begun. I was like, oh, like this is a fascist movie. Like this is not a

fun movie for me anymore. Even knowing that nobody watches this movie. Like, the only people who watch this movie are watching it to make fun of it, but it was knowing that Neil Brin like feels these things deeply enough that it's now this open in his films. I was like, I like, it's less fun to be made fun of him. Although, if anyone was listening to this episode, they know I'm having a great time. Yeah.

I mean, that's, so I guess not as much as I thought. I mean, that's kind of how we feel after reviewing a Frank the Angelo movie, like Sicilian vampire, where you're like, oh yeah, he's a total shithead who like took legal actions against a woman who accused him of what like sexual abuse or something. Yeah, sexual abuse. Yeah, that is the thing.

It's like, this guy's crazy. Look at his crazy movie. Oh, also, he used his money to basically buy his way out of sexual assault charges or out of a conviction even, I think, if I remember, I can't remember correctly. But that was the story about then the judge and I think the prosecutor read a party at Frank D'Angelo's restaurant afterwards.

It's like, so it's, I guess. And they're like, you know about those charges? Forget about it. Oh, great one. Yeah, yeah. It's a good one. Yeah, you know about those charges, forget about it. Oh, great one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a good one. It's a good one. Yeah, exactly.

Now, here's the thing. I guess what it is is that not everyone who makes bad movies is a good person. And it really makes me value the people who make big Hollywood bad movies because they seem to be, you know, they're not, they're not don't seem to be bad guys and ladies. They're just, you know, sellouts or do,

or if they people who lost control of a production or sometimes they're bad, you guys. But it seems like there's, it was just like, it's always jarring to watch a thing for fun and be like, oh, the person who made this and their real life is something. It's a monster. I don't, yeah, is something of a...

And on some level, you've supported them financially. Yeah. We're gotten there, helped get their message out. Yeah. Chilling, really. Which is why next time we'll be talking about like boss baby. Exactly. I don't know.

Oh, dude, you don't want to know the things that boss baby did. Oh no. And all day, anytime a baby gets into power, they're just, you know, I would like to uh, what if it was, now this is something I should say. What if the end of boss baby was boss baby killing 800 million people? Oh no. I mean, that would be a, that would be the more than any person has ever killed ever. So for a baby, that's pretty impressive.

But the idea that a boss baby is, he's charged with sexual harassment and for grabbing a woman's breasts, and then his defense is, I'm a baby, I was hungry, what are you supposed to do? Oh, come on, I'm just a baby. And of course it turns out that he's just like an escaped, you know, a short connoisseur. Yeah, the fucking plot of little man over here, which was itself a rip off

of a loony of a bug sponey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, so that's what boss baby turns out to be about, I guess. Anyway, the teens pick up their signal. They can see it clearly. They bring their professor out to the desert. Neil brain, he's back out in the desert again. He says, it does not require many words to speak the truth. And this is after he's back out in the desert again he says it does not require many words to speak the truth and this is after he's given like a six minute long speech about how terrible the world is. They take their old man into the desert but they say oh no the authorities might on the be on the way to they must have picked up the field like his it feels like his wheelchair wasn't designed for off road travel. designed for off-road travel. 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,

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Yeah, I mean, clearly we were just talking about how he has kind of crazy, fascist beliefs. So I bet there's probably people who'd like to read it. Yeah, or it's called like Tiger Brain or something like that. Tiger Brain. Which makes sense. There's tigers all over this. Yeah, just a bunch of penups of his paint.

We didn't explain to them. Did you say penups of his Taint, Dan? Yeah, this was a PG podcast before that. No. Taint pushes it up to PG 13. Didn't you read the rules? Dan, now we can only say the F word once before our rating gets pushed up again.

I'm sorry guys, I know that we were restricting the quadrants that our podcast could play to. Yeah, that's okay. This used to be a four quadrant podcast. Teens, grownups, manatees, and also trees. What about manatees? What about manatees?

What about modern movie? Just trees. Manatees? Or manatees? Manatee, either one, dude. I think they're both assholes. No, no, those are our listeners Stewart. Come on. I don't guys. Let me tell you something about Manitries.

So, but Neil, before you think that there's going to be like a shootout with the police, something Neil Breene says, no, I blocked the signal. Nobody can see it, before you think that there's going to be like a shootout with the police something Neil brain says no I blocked the signal nobody can see it but you But here's how people will believe you met me. Here's some future jewels that you can use as proof He just gives like shiny secrets. Yeah, he just dumped some into their hand Now what the teens are supposed to tell people about meeting Neil brain I have no idea and how those future jewels that he's done. I mean, we're having a difficult enough time describing Neil Breene today on this podcast. Yeah.

And he's not even an alien robot. And we're not teams. And then the niece goes missing and they find her the ant screams. We have to find her like 10,000 times. They track her to an abandoned mine. There's a guy there who you think at first is going to be a threat, but no, he's just a guy who likes to hang out and make fake ghost shadows on the whole people away. And he's he's they're suffering from PTSD, right?

Yes. And with a wave of his hand, Neil brain, freeze him of his PTSD. Now, that's more plot than I think the rest of the movie contains and they pack it into like two and a half minutes. Oh, sorry, sorry, Elliot, I gotta cat bumping into the microphone. Okay, go on, continue. Neal Brin welcomes back the spirits of people he killed earlier. Yep.

And he brings people back. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Jesus, that he brings people back to life. Oh yeah. I forgot about that. Jesus, that he has the power of life and death like that. Did you mention that the the the aunts ex-husband comes after her with a gun and kills her? You know what it was? I couldn't remember who that I didn't know who that character was. Yeah.

So yeah, just a random person. Yeah, it's her ex-husband. Yep. Who we haven't heard about, I feel like for the rest of the movie. Yeah, he's tracked her down over the border over that fence that the migrants knocked over. And he, I guess, shoots her right? Yeah. And the head.

In the head. Yeah. And then luckily, Neil Brin makes him shoot himself and then he brings her back to life. I guess he decided he didn't want to use his disappearing powers on that one, not worth it. I'll just let you shoot yourself in the head. Yeah. Brings them and the Antennaise canna green on whether they're going to go with Neil Brin to wherever he's going. And Neil Brene and the ants hands and close up.

They lightly touch pinkies, very touchively, for a long time. And it's the closest the movie has to a sexy and it's just two pinkies kind of touching and then moving away and then touching again and moving away. And I cannot imagine what it's supposed to be, community key.

I mean, in this crazy world, that's about all the human contact we really have, right? Yeah, just pinkies. Just pinkies. I mean, I guess what he's saying is the only true bond between humans is the pinkie swear. That's exactly what you're saying. Which is why in this new world that he's creating,

Michelle from Full House will be the true leader and divine inspiration. Yeah, that makes sense. And now, okay, we're wrapping up the end of the movie. The teens stumble on a vast field of dead bodies and neo-brie and flumes. The cleanse has begun. Yeah. And it's like, what the hell?

It seems sort of inconsiderate of him, like knowing that he can make people just disappear, that he left his killing fields there. Like, corpses are rotting in the sun there. I kind of assume that that's where they go when he's like, when he makes them disappear. Right. Like he kind of, let me go out to the desert.

Wornfield. Yeah, he just wishes them into the desert. And the teens are pretty happy about this. They've just stumbled on as far as the icon seats, the horizon, it's just dead human bodies, formerly living people, rotting in the sun. Yeah, so I mean, they appear to be happy. I'm assuming at this point, their minds are completely broken at the scale of the loss. Yeah. And they're like, scale the loss and also, and like what, what do they have to do to keep from being amongst the dead? Well, that, do they have to pretend

to like that pile of shitty glitter that Neil Breene poured into their hands? This, I had this like, they're like, okay, I'm being confronted with a homicidal robot alien from the future that can bend space and time and can kill with a thought. And he's just filling my hand with crappy sequence. I got to play along with it because what he, at the other goes, Neil Breene, all he says is don't harm other people. Well, what does that mean? So they're like, if I heard his, well, I heard his feelings by saying I don't want these,

these glittery rocks. And then he'll be like, oh, you heard a person and he'll disappear me. What, like, everyone's going everyone's gonna live on the edge of doubt at all times that they could be disappeared at any moment by this arbitrary cosmic judge of human behavior. Yeah, it's that twilight zone, the movie sequence, right? With the little kid.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's a good life. It basically that, yeah, where I was like, ah, yeah, it's a good thing you made all those people disappear and you'll be in. Oh, it's a good thing you poured all these sequins in. It's a good thing you rented a drone for all those shots. Neal brain. It really captures the majesty of the pain at desert. It's a very convincing tiger. Neal. Oh no, it very much looks like there's a real tiger there. And of course, Neal brain walks off through the bot, the field of dead bodies and the dead bodies disappear behind him and explains again the humans must cleanse to survive to survive the species.

And then he gets sparkly green effects thrown on him, which I guess means that he's also dissolving into into space. And the northern lights get superimposed in the sky, but they're also green, and that's the end of the movie. Yeah. So when you said Neil green earlier, I think maybe you just knew a little bit more than we thought. Yeah, I think you're right. I think this movie was not very good, guys. Oh.

It's like all the things, it's got all the worst, it's so cheap looking, it's so nonsensical. Everything in it is bad. The message is horrifying and terrible. It's like, I felt like a fateful findings I was seeing inside the mind of a weirdo. And now I'm like, oh, no, no, I'm seeing much deeper

into that mind that I wanted to see. Like, he's a, his message is a little too clear for me and I want to step back a little. Yeah. When we were watching it, when we were watching the movie, Dan, I mean, I think it's been described before but it is like watching a movie by David Lynch if David Lynch had no talent. But also if David Lynch was a crazy fascist weirdo instead of a sort of a jolly. Midwestern type. Yeah, very, very congenial here, though. David Lynch.

Like, yeah, who's only real messages that people should meditate. Yeah. What a nice guy. Yeah. Anyway, we should do our final judgments, whether this is a good bad movie, a bad bad movie, or movie we kind of liked.

Elliot, you're shaking your head. You're, you look like you have to on Burton yourself. It's so like, this is a difficult one, because on the face, this is, it's like, it's a Neil Brain movie, it's a good bad movie. It makes no sense. You gotta dig a little harder on this one because there's so much less going on

and it's so, it's crazy and it's so cheap looking but it's so toxic. Yeah. On a certain level that it's like, oh, I don't know, I don't know what to tell you audience. It's Neil Breena. Maybe he needs to go for like a romantic comedy next time, you know, a little lighter. Yeah. What would that look like? I think it would look like his bare ass. And yet some and somehow in the romantic comedy, he would still end up killing like 10 people.

He decided, don't deserve to be. Yeah. You know what it is? Neil Brin is like, if Steve Ditko had never created Spider-Man, and he'd just gone, and also was not talented. I mean, Steve Ditko is also one of the most talented comics artists there ever was just in terms of sheer layout and everything. But if Steve did you hear that Steve Ditnever sold any of his original artwork? Yeah, he uses it as cutting wood. It's insane. Like because he's so, I mean, he's just too pure. He won't do it. He, that work, he sees no value in.

But the, but if Steve did co-never created Spider-Man and just went straight to like Mr. A and all his characters that let criminals die. Yeah. Like the, that's, that's what Neil Brin is kind of like, but in movie form. Yeah. That's what Neil Brayne is kind of like, but in movie form. Yeah, I say this is a good bad movie. Like if you enjoy the work of Neil Brayne, then boy, howdy, is this the brainiest movie you can see.

And keep your peepers peeled because they snuck a little Easter egg in the back, back in one of the shots where you can see his denim vest from I am here, dot, dot, dot, now. No, no, no see his denim vest from I am here dot dot dot now. No, no, no, it's I'm here dot dot dot dot. He can't even do it on a lip-seeing screen. Oh shit. His four dots is title. But yeah, I would say that well that's new. Everything takes place because everything takes place in the brain of verse or the brain cinematic universe BCU. Yeah, but I would say that

this movie is, like, Faithful Findings is in a weird way his most accomplished film, like having saved them all now. That's the one with the closest thing to a traditional narrative that you can hang your hat on. And so, and I feel like more stuff happens, like, yeah. In both, this is, I'm with you guys. I think this is a good bad movie.

But I don't feel like there's quite as much meat on the bone here. That meat is tender and delicious, but there's just not as much of it as in faithful foods. Yeah, so I guess what I'm saying is if you haven't seen either of them start out with faithful findings, that's the fun one. Yeah, so you won't be able to appreciate the other ones

as much, that makes perfect sense to him. As opposed to building yourself up to the best one. Yeah, so you won't be able to appreciate the other ones as much that makes perfect sense And as opposed to building yourself up to the best one. Well, you do it. Do it however you want to do it Then I think you should you should miss what I call the Neobrain machete method Which is you watch the first half of fateful findings then you watch his other movies and then you finish fateful fine. All right Okay, I think we did it guys. Okay How how could we ever have cracked that movie? Right. Okay, I think we've cracked. We did it, guys. Okay. How can we ever have cracked that movie? It's still a riddle to harshly constructed for us to even get through it.

I feel like it's the equivalent of the puzzle box from Hellraiser. Yeah, but Lamar Shank is a bigeration. Except it's so complicated that nobody ever finishes it. Yeah. That would be a really boring hell razor, dude. That's my sketch. That's my hell razor sketch for a sketch comedy show

that is that's my pitch is someone finds that and they just can't seem to solve it. And pinhead is in the other dimension watching this being like, come on, just like, it's so obvious, just turn in that part. The circle part matches up with the other circle. I wish I could just go in there and do it for you. Like, oh, God. And the guy's like, this sucks. He just puts the society. He can't figure out how to solve it. We've got. And and PN head turns to CD head and says, we're going to need a simpler track true fire. Right, dope album.

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every week. So search for the infinite bad wherever you get your podcasts and on Twitter at the infinite bad. Okay, check it out. That sounds fun. That sounds up my alley. That's why Dan had me read it. Yeah. That's a and that was a business jumbo tron. Dan assigned to me a personal jumbo tron because I'm all about people. Yeah, you're a personality. I'm a personality who loves personal. Yeah. Thanks for clarifying it.

Wesanality. And a lot of Kate and Alex. So this jumbo tron message is for Josh last name with held and it's from Jamie last name with held. So if you are Jamie, you sent this and if you're Josh, you're getting it from Jamie. And the message says, happy anniversary. I thought this message would be best coming from your three favorite peaches, especially

your patronus, Elliot. Now just a note, I don't know if they mean patronus in the Roman or Harry Potter terms, read it, Josh as much as you would. Yeah, thanks for clarifying. I thought this message would be best coming from your three favorite peaches, especially your patronus, Elliot. During the segment, I sometimes skip, but you always love.

Our love has lasted longer than the amount of time the brats weren't friends, and we'll hopefully continue for many cage misses to come. Love you. That was very sweet. That's really sweet. And I like that they, she's snuck in some puzzle, puzzle element.

So I'm like, how long has it been? If they had two apples at the beginning of the day, they should take the chicken over first. So the fox doesn't eat it. Because it's traveling 30 miles per hour west. Yeah. Yeah. But so yeah, have to be anniversary

of you to Crazy Kids or senior citizens. I don't know. We have some live shows coming up. We should talk about those. Yeah. Oh yeah. Plug Central. They're excited about them.

The easiest way to get tickets to these live shows is just to go to a flop house. Wait, wait, what's our website? Is it a flophouse podcast? Yeah. Yeah, what's our Flophouse podcast? So go into your web browser, being I'm assuming and search for Flophouse podcast and just go to that website. Yeah, I believe it's FlophousePodcast.com. And go ahead. It's FlophousePod Look, it's flop house podcast.com. Like, let's sit down.

This, how long have we had this site for? I don't know. This is also the kind of information you could always write down ahead of time just so you haven't. I forget. I forgot to write down anything about our live show. Dan had a rough night last night.

Dude, take it easy, Elliot. That's true. He had a very rough night of, I don't know whatever he does. Okay, Dan, I, take it easy, Elliot. That's true. He had a very rough night of, I don't know what every does. Okay, Dan, I'll take, if you go to flopphousepodcast.com slash events, because these are live events, you'll see listings for our upcoming three live shows. Those shows are one in Los Angeles, on October 8th at 7pm at the Regent Theater. It tickets are amazingly somehow still available, but they're going very fast, so I would buy them. It tickets are amazingly somehow still available,

but they're going very fast, so I would buy them. No, no, no, no, no. Because that show's coming up soon, and it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's our first West Coast show, so everyone's gonna have extra energy because you gain those three hours. Oh.

You're right. Mm-hmm. Then just a couple weeks later, we've got on October 21st, our first ever international show. That's right, the flop house is traveling the world.st, which is a Saturday at 8pm at Toronto, Canada. I'm excited about that because it means I get to use my Canadian money from the last

time I was at. Oh, great. And then later in the year, December 9th, just six days after my birthday, we're going to be in San Francisco. That's right. Concrete jungle, we're gonna be in San Francisco. That's right. Concrete jungle where dreams are made? San Francisco at the Marines Memorial Theater December night at 8 p.m. That's a Saturday. These are all weekend shows everybody, so don't worry, you don't have to miss work unless you work on the weekend, but most people are working for the weekend because logically it's when they're not working and so you can make it to the show.

So once again, that's October 8th Sunday and LA Los Angeles, the big easy October 21st in Toronto, the windy city and December 9th in San Francisco. Yeah, it's not known the same thing. It's not known as anything. They have no city branded treats. So I'm really excited about these shows. I'm excited to have Dan and short with me in my new hometown of Los Angeles. I'm excited for all of us to go to a piano that I've never been great. I've never been a tour. I can't wait to go to LA so we can hang out with you and you can, you know, be our local guide, right? To take us to all the spots that locals go to. I mean, I can take you to all the restaurants that are kid-friendly. Oh, great. Because that's kind of all I've learned so far.

There is one taco place I'm going to take you guys to, I think you're going to like a lot. It's great because it's served to you by a clown and you get a balloon after you eat all your tacos and clean your plate. And if you're 12, you pay your... Wow, that's going to be expensive. I think you're 12 you pay your Wow, that's gonna be expensive.

I think you're underestimating how heavy kids weigh. I'm paying for Sam and I'm like $33 for these chicken bangers. All right, pay your weight. I kind of thought it was sensitive. Okay, it's dollars. Yeah, and I'm excited to do the San Francisco show because San Francisco is great and I feel like that's my wife's territory. That's her home area. So you can claim it. Yeah

I want to I kind of want to show all her friends and family that I'm not a big loser like they think I am So that show better go well guys. There's a lot of pressure. You're not gonna come to the show, right? Probably not so flop house podcast.com slash events to buy tickets for all these shows. If you want, if you're even thinking about going to the LA one, you should buy your tickets now because you're running out of time. So you're just going to lose the opportunity. Toronto, you got a little bit more time. So they're just go, you got lots of time. But why not just buy the tickets now? Yeah, LA had hold their feet to the fire on this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on. And yeah, those shows are all gonna be really fun.

We're gonna be doing presentations. I just met someone the other night who said, hey, when you talk about the presentations on the show, what is that? And I was like, what would you present, like you got to see it to find out? Come on, that's the whole point of it. It's to come to live shows.

So if you're curious about them, then you definitely need to come. Yeah. That is anything I'm forgetting about these shows, other than that they're going to be super fun. Now I think you covered them. I think you nailed it, dude. It is. I'm actually really looking forward to going to the West Coast and Toronto.

I'm looking forward to all the shows. I don't know. I don't know. I'm specifying. No, no. No, I think the West Coast ones will be a little special just because like now the West Coast is so much a part of the flop life with me being out here. And it's, it'll be a nice splash for everybody. But the, oh, and also, I think this is gonna be

our first live Shocktober episode, right? Yeah, what are we watching, Dan? We're watching rings, ring. Yeah, we're gonna be a bunch of fucking Sonic the Hedgehogs. Dr. Robotnik, we're gonna kill you. Okay. Dan, you have to be Tails. Aw.

So wait, you're, wait, who's Sonic? You're Sonic. I get to be Sonic. Yeah, but who's gonna get me pregnant? Yeah. Yeah. I guess I will as Knuckles. Okay, well be gentle.

Dan, what do we do next? Next, we talk about letters. Are we we don't talk about letters? We read letters. What are your guys' favorite letters? Mine, I know it's a little egotistical minus E because it's the first letter of my name, but it's a very versatile letter, the most useful letter in the English language. And that's because there's so much it's the Swiss Army knife of letters now you get a letter like Q Very difficult, but when it's used properly Wonderful he was kind of like a Fugu fish Where it's like only the only someone with a lot of skill should use a Q But when they use it right there's just nothing better, you know, yeah, I do know so we're not talking about

We're reading letters from listeners that they've sent in Okay, and the first letter is from Ryan. Hey everybody. We're talking Okay, I can But why talk about letters when we can sing We can sing about anything, but we're saying that about the letters and my song hurt dance somehow Is it possible that music can hurt while the army is looking into it now? The first test subject was Dan right now

because I'm singing about letters, and at Hurt Dance, he said, oh, that was Dan's reaction to a song about letters. Actually, Archie, I was scratching my leg, and Archie apparently didn't know that my hand was connected to my body and Swiped at me Anyway

So Archie thought your light your hand was attacking. Yeah, I think so Well, you so he was defending Dan by scratching this this arm that can oh wow, what an adventure we had okay There's a very special tone of voice that Stuart gives when it's like let's move it along. This special tone that says let's cut this. Alright so Dan what's the first letter and how does it go and what can I sing about? It says it's from Ryan last name with help and see Christ. He says I can't remember exactly when, but you once read a letter describing Neil Briehn's first cinematic masterpiece, Double Down. You can find the whole film

on YouTube, but there's only one scene that matters. When Neil Briehn's Super Hacker, Slash Spy, Slash Fighter Pilot, Slash, maybe Terrorist character, watches his very sunburned girlfriend shot in front of him, and she winds up floating face down on a pool and he for some reason joins her and then you see his taint for what feels like forever. Please see the enclosed screenshot because I had to see this so so to you. Love the podcast and keep on flopping in the free world. And so he does indeed include a picture of his taint. I'm putting this up so Ellie can see it. I hold it over a little bit. Okay, yeah. Okay. Stuart, you've seen it. Now I've seen it from the first side. No, it looks great. Yeah. So you get a little, and see if you can look at

the bottom there, picking, picking out. I have to assume that he saw Eastern promises and he was like, this is the future of filmmaking. Taints. That's it. This is the last front. You got to push boundaries somehow, dude. Yeah. Yeah. So this is the, I think this is the only actual nudity

in one of Neil Brains films, because you do like it's both him and his girlfriend's but as they float in the water. Uh huh. And usually he's just tastefully suggests nudity. By having, but usually the camera pans down to the feet of the two people making out standing up and a woman's shirt will just fall to the back. Yes.

Now, Dan, when I talked about that denim vest before, I think I confused it. Is that in double down or is that in I am here, dot, dot, dot, dot, now? Uh, I think it's in I am here, dot, dot, dot, dot, now. I'm not a Neil Brin historian. You're not aie. machine. No, I'm not a Brie machine. In the double down is when he does his jacket is made out of two pieces of fried chicken. Oh, right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. That makes sense. That's all the double. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They and they use fried chicken because it it's easier to handle with your hands. Instead of fucking bread.

Instead of bread, which is greasy and hot. Your Skype has frozen and the most unappealing screenshot of you. It's my face. Yeah, it's your face, but your eyes are closed. We're looking up your nose and you got this kind of goofy smile going on. It's just really great. It's really great. We should put it on a t-shirt for the flops. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, for some reason in the end, this picture, this unflattering picture,

you're also wearing a t-shirt that says, you support gamer gate. Yeah, it's really weird. No, no. Anyway, so this next one. Now what would that t-shirt say? There's no clever way. And also wait, so you support, so is that mean you support, so is gamer gate the bad activities, or was it the calling out of the bad activity? I don't know. You bought the fucking t-shirt, too, man. Come on. Good night. I'm not explaining it to you.

I was confused as you are. Did you just buy it from my fucking Kroger because he needed a shirt and you were in a tough situation because he spilled chili all over your last shirt? Similar. I was with my partner. We're both hitmen and we accidentally killed somebody in a car and got blood all over your last shirt. Similar. I was with my partner. We're both hitmen. And we accidentally killed somebody in a car and got blood all over us. And that was just the shirt that the guy who's house we stopped at happened to have.

And now I have to walk around in it all. Even though you don't maybe support that ideology, whatever it may mean, because we, as we've explained, don't quite understand what the t-shirt means. The t-shirt's message is a little unclear. And that's just one of the reasons I'm unhappy to be wearing it instead of my normal attire, which is a black suit with a white shirt and a very skinny tie.

Yeah. You're one of the Beatles from Hard Day's Night. Anyway, so this next letter is from Cam Last Name Withheld. Cam Kennedy, the Star Wars? Cam Gajanjit, yeah, and it says, Hey guys, for what is worth, I'd love to hear more book recommendations along with the usual movie suggestions.

I'm actively making time to read as much as I can and Elliot's recommendation of the sympathizer was gold. Oh, awesome. Glad to do that. That was a great book. I live in your vents. Cam, last name with health. Well, that's creepy.

You know, like a sea, like an underground organism or a deep sea organism, is that what he means? Or is it like a parasite that lives inside of a fish's gills? Uh, yeah, Dan, which one? I think you just live in our vents. I don't think you need to put any, Oh, like he's crawling around, lighting a lighter, talking like talking into some Bruno oh, like he's, he's crawling around light and a lighter,

talking like, talking into some Bruno voice, like Bruce Willis. Yeah, taking us taking out the terrorists in our bloodstream one by one. Listen to the floppos, have a few laughs. Mm-hmm. So I, so should we recommend some? Yeah.

Let's do that. Okay. Why not? I just finished reading a book called Lincoln's Virtue, an ethical biography, which I actually found it may be my new favorite Lincoln book. It goes through Lincoln's life from his youth up to Lincoln's Virtue is an ethical biography by William Lee Miller as I take it off the shelf. And it goes through his life up to becoming president and then talking about Lincoln's Virtues and Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller, as I take it off the shelf,

and it goes through his life up to becoming president and then talking about some of his stuff as presidency. Looking at how his life and in larger sense, all of our lives are a series of ethical choices based on what we think we can accomplish in the world and how to balance that with our larger, kind of like moral principles, but also the idea that his moral principles and his ethical qualities kind of grew over time. And I thought it was a really, really like interesting and inspiring for me, look at like,

how a person's ability of what they, how a person's understanding of what they can accomplish in the world can change and grow over time. So I like that a lot. It's Hothlinkin's virtues. Interesting. What are you guys reading lately?

I'm rereading a book that I remember loving as a child, the Depford Trilogy. It's called 101 Creed. That's right. No, I read that. It's a little later than that. I read this. I think when I was about 13 or 14, it's written by Robinson Davies, who's the kind of the most significant Canadian literary figure, I think. More than Margaret Atwood. Well, okay. That's a good one. She's so hot right now, dude. But rock. That's where they call her Margaret hotwood. Robertson Davies is an interesting guy. He uh, I

can't go through his uh, I realized I couldn't go through his biography because I was kind of vague on it. I was like, I'm gonna tell you a little bit of Robert Robertson Davies and then I'm like, no, wait, hold on. I don't actually know that much about him. He uh, I believe he was a newspaper man at one point. That's about all I can give you. So what's the book? The book, the Departur trilogy is made up of three books, uh, Fifth Business, World of

Wonders, and the Mathichor, and I'm in Fifth Business right now. And they're all sort of centering around the idea of who killed the boy Staunton or the death of boy Staunton and they each have totally different protagonists and they add up to kind of this portrait when we're taken together and Roberts and Davies is really interested in a lot of things that I find interesting like magic and newspapers and theater and religion and he's kind of this Mystic version of Charles Dickens, I would say like he writes in a very sort way, these buildings remain, but he has more of a mystical view on the world than Dickens did.

The first book, Fifth Business, is about a character who is a fifth business in sort of the life of this person in fifth business being defined as the character who is not the lead or is not all these other things, but is nevertheless integral to the turn that a play takes, the integral to the, I can't talk apparently right now. But I think that this was a thing that Robertson Davies made up. I think this is much like the prestige, a term of art that is not actually real,

but it's kind of an interesting idea. This guy who is not the important character necessarily, but the one who brings about the action in a life. And so that's the first book, and I'm in the middle of that, and enjoying it very much. I think the last book I remember really enjoying was a series of short novels that I read about a year ago, Jeff VanderMeeer's Southern Reach Trilogy,

which are the first ones on Isleation, and then I don't remember the names of the other ones. But they're really great. I've liked Jeff VanderMeeer's writing for a long time, and I think he's getting to, like a really interesting point in his career and his Southern Reach trilogy are these awesome little, this awesome little sci-fi story, kind of set in a kind of ambiguous set in a kind of ambiguous modern era.

It's not specifically America, but it kind of feels like it and a group of scientists are sent into a similarly ambiguous area that has been quarantined off this area of wilderness that's been quarantined off. And they have to are tasked with exploring it. And it is a place that is like rigidly defies classification. And it the story goes in very strange way. It places and the second book picks up and is very different than the first.

And I think they're really great. If you are a fan of some of the like themes of, well, some of the, yeah, some of the, some of the themes of like HP Lovecraft minus the social elements, the social themes of HB Lovecraft, I think you would like it. And it's just this really interesting kind of sci-fi horror with a, like, an eco-bent. So check that out. This next letter is from Tyann Lasting with Feld. And she writes, Hi, appeaches, huge fan of of you three fellows. I've listened to every episode of you to the life of podcast and still get excited when a new one comes out. Anyway, to answer the question Elliot posed on your Sicilian vampire episode, yes, I have opened a box of bananas and

had an animal come out. Stuart, you were right about the stock boys being the main victims of bananas box still ways. I work in a co-op grocery store though I'm a stock girl, Stuart. Geez. Oh, wow, sorry for gendering it. And a few years ago, we had a massive, beautiful spider arrive with some bananas. And before I thought to Google the pulmicides are racnid,

I thought I caught it in a plastic container, thinking I might be able to save it somehow. When a coworker suggested looking it up before I decided on a name for my new pet, I discovered that what I had in my hands was a Brazilian wandering spider, the world's most deadly spider. Not being a complete idiot, I ended up killing the thing, though it did take multiple attempts, including suffocating, freezing, and eventually death by flushing. Oh, the resputin of spiders. Another fun fact about the co-op war.

You sure see that spider, it's dickily. Ha-ha-ha. Another fun fact about the co-op where I work. Jesse Eisenberg is a regular customer. He's about as quiet and awkward as you could imagine, much smaller than you'd expect, and has the least annoying baby of all our customers. Did he also crawl out of a box?

I'm sorry. This is the point I was making in that when we were talking about it. If ever an animal's gonna come out of a banana box is gonna be a spider as we all know from the banana boat song Princess Dayo or maybe it's the other way around that there's a big tarantula in that bunch of bananas but I've never heard of a bat fly out of a banana box. Yeah that's in the that's in the second verse of that song. Oh I see if it was a box of rice crispy's yeah that would fly out. The bats fly out of a banana box. Yeah, that's in the second verse of that song. Oh, I see. If it was a boxer rice crispy, yeah, that would fly out. The bats fly out of that shit all the time.

Little banana, I don't think so. Yeah, well, this was basically my nightmare. So I wanted to read it on the air. I am terrified of spiders, mostly because of, I think I had these flashcards of poisonous spiders when I was a kid and they worked my brain. And so to have literally the most dangerous spider in the world come out of a box of bananas in the course of my job

would be harrowing. Yeah, you crack up in that box, you like, I'm about to have some breakfast. Unless what? I mean, I mean, you're not gonna have breakfast. You're really gonna have like a whole unpacked creative bananas in your house for breakfast. Come on.

I was gonna say, unless your job was you're a banana box spider finder. Sure. In which case, it should happen on your job. That means you're doing your job. Yeah. Then you might not wanna come to my house in LA, which is crawling with their spiders every.

Oh God. Like, their spider webs all over the place. And I never realized Los Angeles was so full of spiders. Yeah, I mean, I know that they're like good for the world and whatnot like they're killing other insects. So I've come around on them a little bit, but I just and don't they have such cute little faces. No, they don't. With those. Yeah, with all those. Yeah, and those weird little mouth things. Uh-huh. Their mouths are really cute. And the way they have eight legs and move in that very alien way, as if they're not of this world.

And if you drop them from a high enough height, their torso just cracks open. Oh, God. Great. I mean, that's kind of cool. Yeah, I guess, I guess, yeah, there's, there's, I'm sure there's some kind of scientific formula. The factors out the height that each species needs to be dropped from for their torso to split open.

Anyway, that was from Tyann rhymes with Diane, but is not Diane last name with held. Good to know. Very helpful. And this last letter is from Kyle last name with held who writes. Kyle Katarn. That's a good question. I feel like Elliott usually stares off into the middle distance, channeling some kind of strange spirit. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Because I have to hear the song vibrating from the far reaches of the universe, the places that evil.

Yeah. But also, Stuart usually gets up during the song, so I can't look him in the face. Yeah, and then I looked at Elliot in the face while I was singing it, it would turn too sexual. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't look him in the face. And then I looked at Ali in the face while I was singing, it would turn too sexual. Yeah, dance, dance like I'm just gonna avert my gaze to my phone where I will engage the porn hub app. Gotta have the app, do you get it?

Do you have the app? Yeah, you gotta get the app. You get so much quicker access. Yeah, better scale for mobile better. Yeah, okay, I have two questions. One is what benefits would come from that? That it would make it worth having everyone who, just see a porn hub app just on your homes. Well, it's a shortcut.

And the thing is the icon for the app is disguised. So the only people that would recognize that are other people who have the app. Yeah. So they can't say anything because it would out there. Exactly. That's also it makes it a lot easier to review the porn clips. I'm really into reviewing porn clips guys. Yeah, you're into like in-in engagement. Yeah, leaving those notes being like man her face at 140. Yeah. She's like, what in the world? Yeah. This is such a specific.

The kind that could only come for burst with your Yeah. Anyway, okay. I think it's time for I think we answered those, yeah, we answered all this questions. Answer all this questions. So do we do now?

I don't want that many questions. We actually had to just one question pretty much. What do we do? We questions. Answer all those questions. So what do we do now? I don't want that many questions. We actually had to just one question pretty much. What do we do? We did them all. One for one. 100%. This last section on the show is where

we recommend movies that you should watch. Let's say before pass through. If you are making a list of priorities, maybe go out and see these ones before saying Andy will bring them. If you have like two to three hours left in your life, maybe watch this instead of that. Okay.

I'll go. I recently watched a movie that I did not like that much, but remind me of a movie I did like. Okay. I went and saw X Libris, the three and a half hour Frederick Weissman documentary about the New York Public Library. And surprise, surprise. It gets a little boring, guys.

Three and a half hours of library talks and administrative meetings, not the most exciting movie. Although it's- You were the target audience for that one. I think I am the target audience for that one. I think I am the target audience for that one. If I didn't like it, then I'm not sure like a three-and-a-half hour movie about libraries. It's where there are. Yeah. How many scenes were there of librarians having to tell old people not to look at porn on the

computer? There was a sequence where they were talking about homeless people and like how to deal with that issue. Uh-huh. The answer is you have to encourage sharedable giving. And then you give them a hand up, dude, not a hand out. All right. Job training and also mental health care, you know. But it is reminded me of a movie that I liked a lot more. By also a documentary legend, The Mazzles Brothers. The movie is Salesman about traveling Bible Salesman.

And it's an interesting movie because the very subject of it kind of suggests this intersection between capitalism and religiosity, these men having to go out and sell these fancy bibles to people who, honestly, most of them probably should not be spending money on a fancy Bible. No, they cannot afford to be buying a fancy. Exactly. And just the grinding sadness of these men's lives is fascinating.

But it's beautifully shot. It's like this beautiful black and white cinematography. It's 90 minutes long, unlike the 3.5 hour monster I watched. And it's just fantastic. Salesman is what I recommend. That sounds pretty good. I'm going to, oh, sorry, you're gonna say so. I was just saying that sounds good, dude.

That's a good movie. Can I get next? I'm gonna make a qualified recommendation, not because the movie needs to be qualified, but because I think the movie viewer should self-select ahead of time. You guys might know what movie I'm getting. Yeah. That's a little movie called Mother. Which it's the story of Glendale saying how

you came up with the greatest song in rock and roll movie. So I'm sure you guys are all aware of it. Darren Arnowski's new movie with J Law and J Bard that's Havier. I haven't seen it yet to keep them spoilies tight. Okay, I will not tell you anything then except that. I mean, it's one of those movies where the less you know about it going in, the better, but you should know ahead of time before going in whether you're the type of person who's going to enjoy this movie. I thought it was amazing, like on a technical level, on a tension level,

and also like, it's the kind of, it's the kind of creepy brutal allegory that I like, I get a lot out of thematically and also like emotionally, it's a real grind. Like, it is a movie that is always at high pitch of emotion and does not let up the entire movie, but it's one of those movies where it's like if you're not if you don't care for a movie like like possession then

Maybe don't go see this movie like I was watching the movie and for most of it I was like this is really great I don't see why people are walking out of this film and in the last 20 minutes. I'm like oh now I get it. This is this is like it gets very, it gets very like it's always intense, but then it gets extremely intense in a way that is both can be both derided as too intense and also kind of pretentious, but that's there in our offstee. I love his stuff partly because he is willing to be pretentious in a way that you can tell is very Strongly felt by him. Yeah, I mean, I don't feel like you I don't feel like you ever make I Don't feel like he ever makes like boring movies

No, and it's it's one of those things where I'm like I'm surprised that people are surprised when they go and seeing it because but I guess There's probably a lot of people who like, don't, when they hear Darren Arnowski, they don't immediately think, oh, this is gonna be insanely intense. And they just see that it's Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem and Michelle Fyfe were in it. And they're like, I'm just hoping for an easy scare.

Yeah, exactly. They're like, oh, this little, maybe when I'm watching this, my date will jump and her butt. Like, I like this, this, this, this straw man we're creating. He's like, and Harris looks enough like a skeleton. I'm sure this movie's scary.

Well, then the way it's set up, you could very easily be lulled into thinking like, oh, this is probably like a ghost movie or a haunted house, but it is something so much stranger and so much more intense and so much more effective. And I thought like at times genuinely disturbing and at times genuinely beautiful and like, it was I can, I like, I totally see that guy, this unnamed straw, straw team going with his girlfriend to see this movie hoping for like a little bit of scares to get her in the kissing mood, and then they're both like, whoa, what are we watching? What is happening in front of us?

So, for anyone who has a, let's call it a strong stomach and an interest in large themes on an, express, on an interesting scale, I would say, and go to mother. And like technically, I'm a textible point of view, it's amazing. I would go see mother. But if you are in the interest of a film that is not going to either be pretentious or possibly shake you to your core, then don't go see this movie. I, like, I, they did that, they did that new ad campaign where they're the new posters have lists that like all the poll quotes are kind of negative things about the movie to kind of like challenge you. And they actually took one of my buddies poll quotes

from his GQ review that just says people were going to fucking hate this movie. Like, I totally get it. Watching the movie. I thought it was a like it blew me away. But I and I really liked it a lot, but I could see how most people will not like at all. And it's the film reviewers that have been so against it that I don't understand, but I get why like CinemaScore gave it an F. Like if ever there was a movie that's not really meant for wide release, it's this one. But it's really good. If you like crazy stuff, you'll see it. But like for instance, my wife and I were talking about seeing it and I really wanted to

see it and the more I heard about it, the more I was like, worried that she wasn't going to like it and she's out of town. And so I was like, can I just go see mother and fellow Max Fun post Jordan Morris invited me to go to screening with him. And I went and she was like, that's fine. You can go. And I went and I was like, I'm so glad I did. You did not have me did like this is not I would not have been a bit good. And she's looking at you and she's like, but Elliot, I'm a mother. Shouldn't I like it? It seems like it's made for me. It would also be even harder for her to take, but yeah, I can't say it strongly enough.

I highly recommend this movie, but the vast majority of people will not. It's kind of like our recommendation for only God forgives. Yeah, no, very similar. Yeah, where it's like, you need to self-select ahead of time. It's likely you will not like this movie, but if you like this kind of movie, you'll really like So We're in the recommendation section. So I'm gonna recommend a TV show Okay, I'm gonna recommend a show that I'm only finally getting around a watching

It's a show called inside number nine. It's a show on the BBC. Two of the creators are Steve Pemberton and Reese SheerSmith of the League of Gentlemen. Another TV show that I've recommended on here. League of Gentlemen being possibly my favorite show of all time. It's such a League of Gentlemen is this perfect balance of like strange comedy and horror that I think is just as awesome.

And inside number nine kind of continues that tradition. It's an anthology series. And at least all the episodes, I've only seen the episodes from the first season and they've had a couple seasons. But each episode takes place in a single location and they're all funny and they also have these dark elements to them. And so if you're looking for something that is both, you know, is a little uncomfortable and funny. I would totally recommend checking them out. It's streaming on shutter now, the horror streaming service, and I'm sure you could probably buy it in various other places as well.

You typing something, Ellie? Yeah, that was looking so good. Okay. Horace, are you eating a caramel? Sorry. Oh, I apologize that my brief typing will interrupt a podcast that routinely has cat on it. I'm just trying to, I'll keep up our professional standards from this.

Trying to, Elliot, why don't you put that hair shirt on again? I'm trying to fend off the inevitable, I'm complaints that we're going to get from people. That's all. I don't care. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. What do we do now? What do we do now, Dan? Now we sign off. Okay. It's everyone's favorite part of the podcast. We're going to leave on a high note. Energy is pumping.

Yeah. With me, Reppermann and Elliot. That's the best way to end a five. Dan's like with someone feeling bad about Elliott, we've been doing the show for 10 years. We have never had a audio problem. We've had a perfect record with all this stuff. We don't want you to fuck it up.

Yeah. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I took us down from an A plus plus plus plus to an A plus plus plus plus. Oh, no. Sorry. No, that's on that's on our permanent record. Yeah, which is a record that's made of everything we've ever said and is put on a satellite and shot into space for aliens.

That was great. So they'll know what it sounds like when humans waste time. Yeah, speaking of wasting time, we're putting off the inevitable, which is saying goodbye. Which I'll do it now. Isn't that Dan isn't life all about putting off the inevitable, which is saying goodbye, which I'll do it now. Isn't that Dan, isn't life all about putting off the inevitable? Oh, I got it. Uh, for the flop house, I've been Dan McCoy. I've been steward Wellington.

And this is Elliott Kaelin over here saying, see you, Kaelheads. Until next time, when we'll be Elliott Kaelin in around with all the latest news, reviews and updates from me. Elliott Kaelin in around with all the latest news, reviews, and updates from me. Elliott Kaelin. Bye. Elliott sounded cooler. I hope you keep in Stuart saying Elliott sounded cooler.

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