The Flop House - FH Mini #25 - Stuart Telly-ton

Episode Date: March 6, 2021

Stuart leads Dan and Elliott in a quiz game, which -- to the untrained eye -- might seem to just be an excuse to do goofy shit and talk about television.

So, hey, welcome to the Flop House. Now, normally here on this podcast, we talk about movies, usually bad ones, that we've watched and we give like a cheeky little review and have some laughs. But we're doing something a little different tonight. That's right, you have tuned into a Flop House mini episode, which means it's probably gonna still be like an hour long. I'm your host tonight Stuart Wellington and joining me for this very special episode are my co-hosts. Dan McCoy. And Elliott Kaelin, no lack of confidence about my name.

Well I was just waiting to see who it would go first and yet I mean I seem to still pick up on my cue faster than you did. So, uh, Dan, you're the one who goes first. You're the lead. You're if this was the three amigos, he'd be whichever one of those guys was the leader. Steve Martin, I'm guessing, or no, probably Chevy Chase is the one who's the bossiest. Uh, this, this raises a good point, which is now stewards of the driver's seat this time around. So, sure be mistaken by me but again. But I, this is a second flop house recording in the last couple of weeks.

And I had very bad hay fever the last time. And then I was fine. And now I have a big attack today again. So as I was saying to Elliot off microphone, I'm probably allergic to the podcast. That's fine. You know, like I have to live with it. That's my cross to bear.

But I also, I took some new allergy medicine today. So the energy I'm gonna be bringing is new allergy medicine, uh, side effects unknown. So I just want to, uh, but the thing is, you're, you're new allergy medicine is cocaine. So I think we're going to see something a little interesting. Yeah. Yeah. You might think that all this Josh Gondelman powder. Yeah, he got, he got a, he got a prescription for Dr. Gondelman for 30ccs of Josh powder. He's an electric genius.

Bolivian laughing powder, yeah. Okay. So, I mean, for people who wait, hold on. Now, I don't want to, for people who are not on Twitter all the time and just know the very nice Josh Gondelman from appearing on our show. Let us be clear that. He's best known for a bit that our friend Matt cough started. One of the other writers at the daily show asking people if he if he should try cocaine ironically, he is not. It doesn't, you know, he was never going to try the cocaine.

Let's make that clear, but asking a lot. All the hours somehow detached from him and you know, he was never going to try the cocaine. Let's make that clear, but asking a lot. Yeah, all the answers. Somehow detached from him and parasitically attached itself to Josh Goddleman. And now the Twitter bit is that Josh Goddleman, a very nice man who, to my knowledge, does not constantly engage or ever in cocaine is now. Twitter's number one cocaine fiend. Um, yeah, yeah, he's the white line demon.

So as I mentioned, normally we talk about a movie usually a bad one, but tonight we're going to do a little thing that I like to call. That's right. Two boy talking tube to two dudes, two night. That's right. Wait, hold on. I'm sure it's what. No, I love it.

It made perfect sense. That was probably clear and coherent. I know exactly what it is. At the first time, maybe slower and clearer. I mean, normally, I would just assume that our listeners being tech savvy coolios will just go and then play it at super slow speeds. It's another listener. All the low easter eggs.

You are also the man. Let's just say he has the same confidence in the listeners technical ability as he had in the podcast search engine ability to find a podcast called Till Def Do We Puparti, the hardest to spell Deaf leopard podcast title in the history of audio entertainment. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely the second hardest to spell deaf leopard podcast in the history of podcast.

So once again, this is an episode of the show that I like to call, two-boy, talking tube to two dudes tonight. That's right. Two-boy, of course, being me, Stuart Wellington. No, and talking tube means that instead of talking about movies, guys, we're going to talk about the small screen and what we're watching on it.

And two dudes, well, that's you guys. And tonight, well, we're recording at night. That's right. Wait, why are you, you say, stew boy or two boy? Okay, now, two, we're getting, two, well, no, it's, I gotta correct you both. You're getting started. Well, no, I got to correct you both. You're both incorrect. It's two-boy because when I was a kid, I had difficulty pronouncing the S at the beginning

of my name, so I would say that my name was two-word, and my father thought it was very funny to make fun of that. So he would call me Tuboy instead. Okay, well, that would be like nickname. So, we'll talk about that off-air. But I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,.O.Dan an apology. I thought that Stewart was calling himself Tubeboy playing off of his famous character Tubeman from the Psycho Gourman feature film franchise. And I thought that Dan not getting that was being foolish, but if it's Tubeboy, a reference to a childhood nickname for Stewart that I have never heard of.

And neither of us don't know. Then I have to O.Dan an apology, you're right. We need an explanation. That title made no sense until now. So I'm glad we finally got the annotated version. I was ready to let Stu just kind of bust through it and not explain it, thank you Dan, I appreciate it. I apologize.

Well that's a thing, like the, Thank you for being the bigger fan. My podcasting guys, my podcasting is similar to some of the the near future speculative fiction of William Gibson where he just starts writing and you got a follow along and Assume you know that he knows what he's talking about. So as I said, we're talking about TV TV the new movies, etc. So we're going to be talking about the what TV that we're watching. That's right. Plus the flop house and I am taking it. I you know, I have plenty of segments. There's gonna be scoring involved.

I hope you're all very excited. And to be along with music, or scoring like, there's carbon scoring on this droid that I bought. There's actually a third type of scoring, I think. I'm glad that you brought up the first two, yep. Yep.

Well, in a way, it's the sex of scoring points. Oh. And so there will be points awarded. Well, in a way, it's the sex of scoring points. Oh. And so there will be points awarded. And in honor of what I think you have told me in confidence is your favorite of the awards programs, the Golden Globes. I have broken the television categories down into a couple different categories here.

So the first one, we're going to talk about it. Wait, wait, wait. I hear that police siren is arresting you for an implying that either of us respects the golden globes. We're gonna be talking about dramas. So Dan, what kind of dramas are you watching lately? Oh, okay. I wasn't aware that-

Dan, remember, he is scoring you on this. So aware that I was supposed to come bearing this information. You get you guys you can get the email I sent you explaining what we're doing on two boy talking to the two dudes tonight that's right. I you know and I think the only dramas. Okay, Dan. Dan I'm gonna take the pressure on you.

I'm gonna I'm gonna give you an example of how you're supposed to. I'll say, hey, so Charlene and I just follow along. Charlene and I have been doing a sopranos rewatch. I think about halfway through season two, and you know, it's fun. We're enjoying it. I haven't watched it since I guess since it first came out and certainly since before I moved to New York. So that adds a whole new layer to like sopranos.

This although it did make me look up on the internet what sopranos character are you based on your zodiac sign and of course I'm fucking Christopher Malta saunt you. I could have told you that but I could have told you that, but I could have told you you're Christopher all the way. Yeah, yeah, now. It's written on my face. So, that is the show that I have been watching. I now have to rate it.

So you guys are going to have to do the same thing. I'm going to have to rate it. Is it A? I hope you're taking notes. I said it. This was all in the email. I said, this was all the email I sent you. Uh, it was at A, very compelling. B, am I not ready for a commitment with this drama or a C?

This is just background noise. And I'm going to say, you know what, the sopranos? You're very compelling. Oh, so that's the way. Right. So that, so that's the way I'm supposed to do it. I'm supposed to mention that I've been watching a show and I really say anything about the show, maybe digressing to something else. And then you're supposed to rate it.

You're supposed to rate it for it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Following that form as precisely as I can. It's just a rated pretty. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Following that form as precisely as I can, then. Only a game's, only a game's to a like Stewart could come up with a competition. So intuitive that it's just you instantly know how to play it.

The interface to the gameplay mechanics, just they just trip off the top. I watched the flight attendant on HBO Max, which I suppose is more of a dramedy sort of a thriller with drama and comedy. No, no, Dan, that's a camel with one hump. And yeah, we watched it. Actually, Dan, I checked it. We're gonna walk out of that.

So I watched that. Wait, Dan, how long is it? We're gonna, we'll count as a drop. I'll get that cast. So watch that. Wait, Dan, how long is it? Is it one hour long or 30 minutes long? Well, you know, it's direct to streaming. So I would say it's 45 minutes long. Ooh, dromody length. Yeah, that's right. Halfway between 30 minutes, comedy length,

and an hour, drama length. Yeah. They didn't take advantage of the time to make it a full hour. Um, I hate to interrupt you, Dan, but I'm gonna have to chime in here. I also watch that show, so I get a point for also watching it. Okay, continue.

Okay, that's how it works, all right? And to sort of digress. This is like playing every game that my, every game my son has made up is like this, where he's just coming up with the reasons why he gets points. And I'm like, I didn't know that. Okay. Um, so to dig digress to like sort of a personal like note about it, I guess, uh, it, you know, the star, Kaylee Cuoco, uh, Audrey and I watched all of the Harley Quinn show and

thought she was a very good, We've really come around on her. I think she's a really funny actor. And so I give it a what is it? I'm going to. I'm very good. I'm very good. Are you not ready? Yeah, very good.

Belly. Yeah, you married the show. Yeah, I think you think she has some kind of development. Does she have like a development deal with HBO? Is that how with between flight attend and Harley Quinn? Like, it's possible because I just remember I actually listened to, she was on the Conan O'Brien podcast. Let's, you know, let's throw some publicity to the podcast that's huge and massive and much

bigger than ours. Sure. But she was on that and she said that she acquired the source material of that, the flight attendant, just she saw the cover of the book and it was like something about this compels me and had them acquire it. And she didn't actually really know all about what it was about. And so that suggests that maybe she was the person who put in development, yes. Yeah, that sounds a little bit like Alex Garland and annihilation, but whatever. That sounds cool.

And Alejandro Yorovsky and Dune. Yeah, yeah. So Dan, I forgot, there's one more step to this process. Oh, okay, I'm sorry. You now, one oh no you need to do you need to perform an impression of one of the characters on the show Oh man Of that show Yes, on specifically the flight attendant, the show that you rated very compelling.

Uh, to... there's the... there's the wines working through his characters. I mean, I haven't seen the flight attendant. Is there a character that sounds like this? Like a character who's gonna not sure what to say? And this is kind of like figuring it out out loud. I'll be the, hey, I'm the FBI agent who's wrong about everything, but I'm confident about being wrong about everything, because I'm a dude. How about that? Wait. Okay. Now Elliott, now you now have to, you're gonna have to rank, you're gonna have to rank Dan's performance,

is he A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A.

A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A.

A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. Yeah. Like, yeah, of course, dude. What's wrong with you? Just double checking. Okay, then I'm gonna, I'm gonna go with, I'm gonna say a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a Isn't that the goal of great acting? You can convince you that I saw a show that I saw. Let me put a point down for Dan. Okay, great. So, Elliot, I think it's your turn to talk about a drama.

Can me a drama? What drama are you watching? Well, I'm watching, one of them is HBO drama, but you already mentioned that one. So I'll set it aside. We're rewatching an old HBO drama, but I'll show you that. Oh But I show you a point for also watching it. Okay, let me make that. Thank you. The wife, a drama that my wife was a big fan of that I never watched is one downtown Abbey, which is the story of, you know, the downtown art scene in a in an old British house. And

story downtown Julie Brown. Starting downtown Julie Brown, not Julie Brown, the American Julie Brown, downtown Julie Brown, the British Julie Brown. Not Earth Girls are easy, Julie Brown. And I had never watched Down to Naby before because two reasons. One, I was worried it was, I would have watched

a later episode and I didn't know the characters and I couldn't get into it. And two, I do not like the video format that British television shows use. I'm sorry, I don't like the weight looks. It't get into it. And two, I do not like the video format that British television shows use. I'm sorry, I don't like the video, the way it looks. It's just a peccadillo of mine. But we started watching it from the beginning and now I'm really getting into it

and I wanna see it, we're very early in the first season. So I'm like, as Thomas, gonna get baits fired, I know he's not gonna get baits fired, but I don't like, I'm always like, ooh, Thomas, what are you doing? And so that's what we're watching right now, and I'm finding it compelling. I want to find out whether Bates is going to get blamed

for Thomas stealing the wine. That's great. Now, Elliot, of course, you know, the next step of this process, since you've already nailed the rating process. Give us an impression of one of the characters of Downton Abbey. Now, this is very personal to me. I'm going to do an impression of Lady Old Lady Downton as played by Maggie Smith because she reminds me a lot of my late grandmother who passed a couple years ago.

Not in terms of being a rich snooty person. My late grandmother was kind of the socialist Jewish version of this character. And so if I will, I'll try to disappear as much as I can into Maggie Smith's character of Lady Dowager Downton, I'll try to to disappear as much as I can into Maggie Smith's character of a lady Dowager, Downton, Crowley, whatever their name is. Oh, no. And scene. Okay, Dan, you're going to have to rank this. Is Elliott a chameleon, a body snatcher, or Madame Tussaud? Well, okay. I will, I will say that I'm not sure if I believe with the improvisation he did, because I think that that character, if I recall accurately, is more of a sort of a withering remark character

unless of a mumble-get-shattered sort. No, no. Well, she was about to let loose with a withering on mark but I was I figured hey brevity is the soul of Maggie Smith let me just not not overload everybody the way you did with a very long description of the character much in the way the character would never actually say in a scene sure but if you like I could do one of those I'm a I'm a I'm an old-fashioned dowager and I don't like all these modern things. Oh dear, and this is, oh well, if you're going to look like that, then perhaps we should

all die in a revolution. Well, I never, that kind of stuff. You know, I, it's great. So here's the tough thing. I was kind of like, I was like, Elliot's making a good point. I was going to bump his grade up. And then he started making fun of me. And I was tempted to bump his grade back down.

But then, no, no, no, no. This is the test of a true judge, Dan. Here's the thing, through therapy, I've realized that when presented with one of my own shortcomings, I shouldn't lash out an anger at the person who presents it to me. I should listen to them and hear what they're saying. And Elliot, that was a fair criticism of my impression. So I give you whatever the highest bullshit rating there is. Thank you, Dan. You know what? You are also a chameleon. Yeah. Yeah. That's great.

Okay. Chameleon. Okay guys. So you know what follows drama? Of course, that's comedies. And I'm gonna we're gonna do we're gonna do a snake draft on this one. So that means L.A. you're back up again. What comedies are you watching right now? Buddy, what makes you laugh? Well, I watched I watched the first episode of The Great North, and I laughed a bunch of times at that. What's the deal there? What's The Great North? That's a new Fox animated show. It's a family that's in Alaska.

Oh, right. And they live in Alaska, and they are relentlessly upbeat and positive. Well, you're working on a animated show, right? Were you watching that for like research purposes or? merely because I enjoy animated comedy. And but actually that's a good point. Housebroken, they just announced it's gonna start, it's premiere May 31st.

That's the show I've been working on. Also on Fox. So if you want a show about dogs, that's the show to watch. This is about dogs. That's that or the Westminster dog show and that only happens. It's here. Yeah, it's the puppy bowl again, an annual event. So if you want dogs, you are shit up a Greek if you don't watch this show. But so yeah, yeah, great North. Yeah, it was funny. But I haven't been watching that many other television

comedies lately, although I should watch more of them because I live to laugh. Uh-huh. Now, Elliot, would you describe the great North? Would you say it is chock full of nuts? Would you say it made you crack a smile or did it take you to a frown town? Oh, no. I think it's certainly chock full of nuts. There's a hot, these are some very talented people working on the show, very talented voice actors and writers and animators. There's a lot of laughs. If you like to laugh, you could do worse. Now, it sounds like you've only watched one episode. So this next part's going to be a bit of a challenge.

But LA, give us an impression of your favorite character from that show. I mean, there was a moose in the show very briefly. I don't know if it's going to be a recurring character, but you know me, I've always loved Megafana. And so it's hard for me not to immediately choose that as my favorite. We have so many lost Megafana. There was that big die off about 40 to 60,000 years ago or so. And it really bothers me that we don't have elephants

on every continent. So seeing this. That was caused by Craven the Hunter, right? Yes, exactly. Surge at Craven off, I believe is his name. He was the world's greatest hunter. He just went around killing all those megafauna until he eventually set his sights on the greatest game Spider-Man, specifically Spider-Man, maximum carnage for the Super Nintendo. That was the greatest game. Now, so I guess I'm going to do an impression of that moose, which goes like this. Now, so I guess I'm doing impression of that moose, which goes like this

Okay, Dan, let me give me give me your hot take on this one. Camelian body snatcher madam to so the boy You know what like the problem here is really that I have very little sense of what a moose sounds like You know, so I don't know whether there's a strategy on Eliot's part. You know, I'm gonna pick a character that Dan cannot confirm in any possible hook, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and give him whatever that high thing is again. Perfect, here are Camille again. I love Camille.

Camille, a known cohort of Craven the Hunter. So it is a little tie-in right there, too. Yeah, Demetameleon now Dan. A chameleon, a known cohort of Craven the Hunter. So there's a little tie in right there, too. Yeah, Demetri Smertikov. Yeah, he's a little criminal guy with a little hat, right? He wears a little trench coat. So Dan, I mean, he does wear a trench coat. I don't know, the hat is not really like a trademark part of him. He's these changes face.

But. Dan, when you're looking to tickle your funny bone, what have you been putting on the old TV? I feel like I watch things, but I'm looking at a literal list I keep so that we don't lose track, forget that we're in the middle of a series or something. And it's pretty sparse here, man.

Well, you said you were going through a big touch right? No, yeah, like here's a ear. I mean, that's a later category called late night topical comedy slash variety. I have been watching Mr. Mayor. I wouldn't say I think it has its feet yet. Uh huh.

But I have enough faith in like a team to pay Robert Karlock show that our friends, our mutual friend Sam means also work done and like, it's got Ted Danson, Holly Hunter. Like I figure eventually it's going to find something. I'm, I'm, I'm going to take a little point there because I'm also watching that. And I think Bobby Moynihan is, is really great in it. If, like, it feels like they're letting them take in the handcuffs off them and let them just go crazy.

Yeah, I think once they figure out that these are maybe not like that the political takes are not necessarily the best on the show. And they should just focus on it as a workplace but comedy I think I think it'll figure itself out. Yeah. Oh, I was I was nervous you were gonna say that they should put the handcuffs back on Bobby Moynihan. Oh, no, he's already just timed in. I think you're right Dan that I think the more it covers the workplace and the personalities the stronger it is. Yeah, although I think it is it it is, it is, it now is a time for, finally, for a TV show that takes down those non-white people who are always trying to keep rich idiots from running

the show. Yep. So, Dan, what do you say? Mr. Mayor is chock full of nuts. Did it make you crack a smile or did it take you to a frown time? Uh, right now it's a, it Right now it's a good smile cracker. Uh huh. A smile cracker sweet.

Yeah, with the potential being chock full of nuts. I like it. So that's what the rich with just a dab of chocolate on it? Yeah. Oh, yummy. That's a treat. Well, guys, I've been watching a show that is on the same comedy block as Mr. Mayor. That's right.

I'm watching Super Stords and its final season. It's been pretty consistent. It started off like an office clone and I feel like it's kind of become much more than that. It's got a great cast. And it is also a very pro organized labor, which is nice, or at least in general it is. I mean, I think this current season takes some weird twists, but whatever. And all the casts is great. I would say, I would say, chock full of nuts, check it out. It's pretty funny. And at impression I will do Mark McKinney playing the character of Glenn.

Well, hmm. Okay guys, am I a chameleon? A body snatcher or Madame Tussaud? I mean, I haven't seen Super Swarovitz. Certainly seems like the kind of character that Mark McKinney could play. He himself is kind of a chameleon. He can do anything, you know. Yeah. Yeah, I did give it a shot. Wasn't quite for me. I think that's accurate though. Yay! So I'm a chameleon. Thank you. Maximum Fund is a network by and for cool popular people, but did you know it also has

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Now, I noticed that Dan did not do an impression of anyone on Mr. Mayor. That's true. Well, man, I gave Dan a little bit of extra time to cook one up. Let's see if it's ready to come out. So mostly unfortunately, it's mostly a visual impression.

Perfect. We just work for the podcast, but I'm gonna give you a little bit of, of Ted Danson the mayor. Like here's a little. Okay, Dan's, yeah, it's kind of pointing with his finger. No, not, yep. And that is a really good Ted Danson, to be honest, that was kind of pointing with his finger. No, not yet. And that is a really good 10 dance.

To be honest, that was really good. He really captured like a 10 dance and mannerism or danaism as we call it. Yeah, that was really good. Yeah, that's that's chameleon-esque. Sure. Yeah, I love that. Guys, it looks like we have a brief an eruption here. We have a mini game.

That's right. A mini game that I like to call like an a mini game. That's right. A mini game that I like to call Like an ever flowing stream. That's right. There's so many streaming services out there And there's so many original programs on the streaming services. I'm going to list a The name of a program and you're gonna have to tell me which of the big three streaming services It is an original four. Is it Amazon Prime, Netflix or Hulu? That's right.

So the first one, guys, remember, the possible answers, wait, Netflix, do we buzz in? What's the, how do we indicate whether we're, just shout it out. Shout out. Real glad Dan that you're making sure we have all the mechanics of this BS game. It's important.

BS means, I didn't want to be just a little bit of a fight on it. It's like, hell in a lead smart, this brilliant smart game. Okay, so this is the name of the first television program. Is it on Amazon Prime, Netflix, or Hulu? The name is Shut Eye. Netflix. Elliot, do you have an answer? Shutter?

It is on Hulu. Now I will give you bonus points if you can tell me anything about the shit. I can, I think I can. It's the story, no, hold on. It's the story of a guy whose eyes refuse to shut the title is ironic all he wants is a little Shut-eye No, no, no, this is the it's loosely based on Nick like Ogles the nose

But they really they found early audiences did not like the idea of a nose that has a mind of its own so they changed it to eyes that have minds Their own and the eyes are voiced by two of the weigh-ins brothers. Oh, yeah. Marlon and Damon. Damon's back. Oh, wow. Jeffrey Donovan's on this. Yeah. Is this the, this is the bird notice guy, right?

And it's, he's like, it's like they're like grifters. They're like grifter fortune tellers, but he actually gets like some sort of second sight, I think Yeah, yeah, good job Danny gets some extra you get some bonus points there you get a bonus point for knowing that okay So number two light as a feather I believe that's one of these that on Amazon Prime Netflix or I think that's one of those hulu fright things they did those like one-off like sort of scare things I'm gonna say Netflix Dan you are right again. It is on hulu two seasons 26 episodes

Can you tell me I guess you actually and you already said it's a supernatural thriller anything else? Can you tell me any other Anything else. Yeah, I'm gonna say Netflix It's a supernatural thriller anything else could you tell me any other anything else? I'm gonna say Netflix Close okay, Dan you're doing pretty well in this actually you are a stream in Dino So the final one is is this final show going to be on was it on Netflix Amazon Prime or Hulu? The show is called Reprisal. Crackle. I'm gonna say Amazon,

I don't think we've had one of those. Nope, it's on Hulu. By the way, guys, this segment, like an ever-flowing stream is brought to you by Hulu, apparently. You're giving it away for free. I know. So, can you tell me anything about Reprisal, Dan? I assume that someone is taking some sort of revenge for something.

That's true, and that somebody is Abigail Spencer. Okay. Okay. Back to the normal game, guys. So, we're sort of like this disbelieving laugh That is one of my favorite like it's sort of like grudging But also sort of like Like it's like the laugh version of okay, I guess that's what we're going with

It's basically it's the laugh that says I don't like it but damn it I'm expecting. Yeah, oh man, I mean it's just that it's like a made up game show that we were not notified about ahead of time and then they do it as many games that have. just set up mini games that have. It really isn't like an insidious game master. He's a, yeah, I just, it's one of those, it's one of those things where you're waiting at any moment for us to be like, anyway, that's all, but there's more. Okay, we're on the reality television.

Thanks. You have a great day. And what kind of reality TV are you? You know, it's, you know, ever since the real world took, I'm not sure if you're gonna be a little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more

little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more little bit more the Emmys. What okay what am I watching in the realities like zone like something I liked? that I watch or not. No because Stuart our mutual friends John and Mary I do like a group watch night with them and Audrey where we've just been sort of running down reality shows and

though you either need something that's really genuinely good or like really like dumb as shit like that those are your sweet spots anything in the middle I find kind of unbearable but I did like on core on Disney Plus where they reassemble high school musical casts of of real life, you know, like it's like a high school reunion of this cast and they put the show on after like a week of rehearsal, mostly playing their old roles when possible. Some episodes are way better than than others but it's a lot of my old roles do you mean like the roles they played as high school like who they were in high school as opposed to who they were the popular kids the loser you know the door

and i met yeah no obviously now that is the i met their old roles nuts in the in the show uh... but but do they fall into their old roles in the show. But do they follow into their old behaviors as well? No, I mean, that's the thing about it is like, watching it, you see what the experience is. Like, when I went back to my high school reunion, I had this, I saw this chip at my shoulder, I realized where I was just like, because I like every other human

in the world felt like he had a shitty high school experience, I came back being like, oh, show everyone. And then I'm like, what am I showing them? Like everyone's like really happy to see me. They're all very nice. Like everyone's nice. Everyone gets past it so much. And I think it's mostly like a-

And Dan Acroix didn't show up in Trump. Yeah, I just like seeing, yeah, like people had sort of like gotten past it mostly. It was like the people who were still hanging on to the high school drama were the most insufferable. Like the worst episodes had people who were like, still upset about something that happened to them back then. And it's like, look, that stuff sticks with you. I'm not saying it doesn't, but come on.

You have to move past it. Pass it. Like you're on TV, man. Chill out. Just enjoy it. You know, just sing that song. But do you think the producers were like getting them all licked up before they went on to perform and, uh, I don't know, like the music man, what shows are they doing?

I think it's like Godspell was one. Of course they did. Yeah, they did like, Dave, oh, yeah. Yeah, probably Okaukutta. Yeah, the ragtime. I don't know, there's so much of stuff. It's all a whole night of a night of spawning gray and air if a Gozzy and monologues.

Yeah, no, it is all musicals. You got to get the singing in these days. Yeah, that makes sense. OK, Dan, well, you're going to have to give me a rating here. Let me just pull up our ratings. Would you say this show is who needs actors or if it's on okay that's fine or what is wrong with the world? It's the real spectrum of human emotion. Yeah I think you know

even though I liked it I think I'll still go with with it. It's on. Okay. That's fine. Okay. Yeah, not a bad one. Will Forgo impressions on this one since it's gonna be, you know, it's a reality show. Elliot, what kind of reality shows are you watching? I'm guessing some kind of a competition where somebody you know, tries to perform Jeopardy questions and win the day. I mean, that's just Jeopardy. I mean, I don't know if I thought that a reality show,

that's a game show. You're saying that you're not real? I mean, but they're not like a plank. Yeah, that's a good, that's a good truth. I wasn't playing the character of Elliot Kale in Jeopardy contestant. I mean, I was, but I was not. I was so focused on my character, and that's

why I was so laid on the version constantly. Yeah. All in the sense that we're all playing characters every moment of the day. Yeah, exactly. All the worlds of stage. All the worlds of stage, exactly. Ironically, as we record this,

actually, I haven't seen last night's episode, a friend of mine, as of last week was the current Jeopardy champion. And each episode, I couldn't help but being petty and be like, well, if that was my episode, I would have put on that one. Like, he's won two episodes in a row by losing less than everyone else when nobody knew the final jeopardy answer. And both times I was like, I knew that question. I would have won on that.

If I'd gotten the category Elliott's favorite pizza toppings, I would have won. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Pepperoni all the way. Pepperoni and none. There's a thing called caramelized onions, Dan. I'm not sure you're on the internet. You do like, no, I'm just, I am extrapolating from what I know of your picky eating habits, which, to be fair, I've gotten way better over the course of the time

I've known you. We all grow up, guys. Yeah, as I get older, I find my tastes expand in every direction, musically, food-wise, entertainment-wise, sexually, in every different way. And so part of growing up is introducing new things into your life. Speaking of new things, I don't watch the TV. I don't really like it very much.

So the closest I come to reality TV is like we're big top chef viewers in in this house, but I think see that more as a competition show. They have kind of squeezed, they've kind of filtered out a lot of the reality-ish elements over the years to make it a more respectable show. And so the only thing that really applies otherwise is like finding your roots because we're big genealogy heads over here. We love finding out who famous people's ancestors were, but otherwise, you know, nothing much. Well, I'm going to mark down an extra point for myself,

because I also watched Top Chef. Dan, what about you? I watched Top Chef when it was on. Who or what made it so long? I just, yeah. I'm not currently watching Top Chef. Did you guys watch Padmas show the... I did, I liked a lot of it.

It was great, right? Yeah, I thought it was really good. I didn't see the whole season. I saw most of it, and I really liked it. The one thing, it was so, but it was one of the things where it was like, I'm not as interested in food as I am in human beings and how they live.

So every time they would go into the kitchen to cook something, I'd be like, okay, fine, I don't need to see close-ups of every ingredient. Just tell me more about the people. Huh. The, and it was one of those things where I think, I mean, it came out like shortly after the start of the pandemic, right? Yes, I think so. And so, a lot of the episodes, I was like, oh man, I want to go and support that restaurant.

And of course, we can't. And I'm hoping that they'll be around when I can go to those towns. Yeah. Yeah. On a lighter note, it was nice to see Padma's sillier side on the show sometimes. That's true. It was a serious show, but we got to see her joke around a little bit more. I feel like on top chef sometimes, she's in a joking mode. Sometimes she is very much not in a

joking mood. And for those contestants, they must just live in fear of what kind of day it's going to be. Because Tom at this point is always in a joking mood. He's always going to like the class clown these days, but you never know whether she's going to be a stern headmistress or the fun teacher who's willing to laugh it up with the students. Yeah. So Elliot Elliot, would you say watching Top Chef that made you think, who needs actors? Or if it's on, okay, that's fine. Or what is wrong with the world?

I mean, I guess the first one, because I like this show a lot. I've been watching it for years. But it's not like I would want all the shows I watch to be Top Chef. I didn't even want to watch that Top Chef dessert spin off even though I did, you know. Oh, yeah. Charlene, Charlene's shouted friend was in like the, do they do multiple seasons? I think they only did one season. Because that show was, did not work very well.

And there was one episode of that show that was one of the most, I made it, one of the most profound hours of television I think I've ever seen, because first, the way the top chef has set up, people are not aware, there's a quick fire, quick competition, and then there's a elimination competition later on, and someone is cut from the competition after that. In this episode, during the quick fire,

one of the people involved had a medical emergency and had to be removed from the show. And then during the elimination, they were about to kick off one chef, and then one of the other chefs was like, you know what, this is too much pressure for me. I don't like it, I'm just gonna leave the show. I don't really wanna do this.

And the judges, you could tell, did not know how to handle this. They were like, oh, but you did really well. We were gonna keep you on. She's like, you know what, this is just not the way I wanna spend my time. I just wanna focus on my work. And. They were like, oh, but you did really well. We were gonna keep you on. She's like, you know what, this is just not the way I wanna spend my time. I just wanna focus on my work. And so they're like, okay, I guess we can't kick off

two peoples and we can't force you to stay here. Like we don't have the legal power to force you to be in this competition. And it was seeing the judges so at a loss to control their own show. I was like, yeah, that's life. You can't prepare for everything. Like sometimes things just happen.

I, it hit me on a level a level that very few other shows have, but otherwise it was not a very good show and it didn't work that well. You know? Yeah, and I didn't, didn't one of the hosts like Johnny Yuzini turn out to be a creep. I don't know.

I don't really remember the stuff. I mean, it's not, I don't think it surprised anybody. Okay, so it's, it's my turn of course, guys, talking about reality TV. I cannot talk about any show other than catfish. That's right catfish. Good. You love catfish.

I watch so much fucking catfish. And you know, at first I thought it was going to be, you know, the premise of it is these hosts are investigating potential fraudulent internet relationships, whether it's a fake internet relationship that's set up by somebody who's just lonely or if it's a scammer. And at first I thought it was going to be a lot of like gotcha moments and a lot of like laughing at people that are presenting themselves differently or whatever. But it turns out to be a show where like the hosts are

very understanding when they seem to be very understanding. Even when somebody is like clearly lying about who they are and misrepresenting themselves, the hosts are still like trying to help that person get to the bottom of why they have to do that and what's missing in their life. And I find it to be a really charming show. And obviously, I watched a ton of it all at once,

so it all has blurred together. But there's some really intense episodes. And this most recent season, they managed to do like the quarantine episodes, which unsurprisingly, there's a lot of people catfishing other people. Yeah, this must be a gold mine era for the catfishers out there, because you never have to meet the person, you know?

Yeah, and I figured the, I thought that the episodes might not be as good, because part of the charm is watching Neve go up to the front door and knock and have to like actually like confront the person. But there's something even more nerve-racking about knowing that the person is about like, when you see the little box and it's like so and so is joining the Zoom call

and you're like, who the fuck is it gonna be? Now, did you start watching it because you thought it was gonna be about catfish or Stevens? I did, actually. That's, I miss, I thought it was, well, what had happened was I went on my mon hulu, of course, once again, the sponsor of like an ever-flowing stream,

and I had, I clicked on catfish because I thought I was ordering my dinner of catfish. Oh, that's the process. And I, yeah, that was, I mean, you know, who knows what's going on in my ass. To be fair, the name Hulu does not tell you this is a television entertainer. No, but this is a fun thing. It's certainly like, it's not Stuart's first time using Hulu, right? Maybe it was, I don't know.

We don't know that. But look at it, Netflix, and it tells you what you're getting. You're getting a net full of flicks. Amazon Prime, less clear that you'd be getting, it makes you think you're getting meat from South America, which is delicious. They've fortunately destroyed the rainforest, but the result is grade A beef for the rest of us.

But Hulu, what does that even mean? You know, it's a- A net full of flicks makes me think of the time. Shortly after we reopened the bar for, like, you know, like pickup service, I saw Michael actor Michael Shannon walking down the street with a big crazy beard carrying a net full of beers. Like he had just like fished him out of the river.

It was really awesome. I just had an idea for a future mini that I am writing to myself and putting in a sealed email. Oh, okay, sealed it because you want to keep the post date. In case someone tries to steal the idea, you see them? Copyright, baby. Okay, so I will of course give catfish the rating of who needs actors and I will earn some bonus points for myself by doing an impression. That's right. I'll be Neve from the show catfish.

Hello? Hey, this is Neve. I have a show called Catfish. You might have seen it on MTV. Well, I'm been talking to Dan, you know each other on the internet, and I was hoping that we could maybe set up a meet. Do you think that's possible? Scene. So guys, thank you. Now based on you've never seen the show before, right? I've said I saw the movie. Oh, okay, that also features me. Actually, the real reason I started watching is because Nev's co-host for quite a while was this guy Max, the director of the movie, we are your friends which we reviewed on the podcast

and is uh... uh... acquaintance of my wife charlene they like when on a study abroad program to uh... st. Petersburg rushes together uh... you should i wish you just closed this conflict of interest at the time i'm afraid that and also that your wife is a potential uh... national intelligence. Yeah, we're going to have to turn you made a Russian.

Talk to Flophouse HR about this, but um, yeah. I mean, I feel like you should go higher than HR. Now, normally, normally, contestants that are on the bottom are waiting to hear how much they screwed up in their dishes? Yes. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- Okay, that's not impression of that. Dan, what are you thinking? Is LA the chameleon? Is he a body snatcher or a Madame Tussaud? Well, you know, I feel like we need some more like

musical categories. I'm gonna call him. I'll say he's the John Williams of this game. Wow. I was hoping just to get Bobby McFarron in this game, but thank you. Oh, not bad. But one of the things I do like about Top Chef is they've been using the same music CD for every season

for years. And they almost, and every now and then it'll introduce a new song, and I'll be like, new song. And then I'll never hear it again. I'm like, I guess it didn't make friends with the old songs. Like it did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah, yeah.

So let me just, so normally we would go into the final category of normally. And we've never done before and we'll never do it again. Yeah, on the normal episode of Two Boy Talking Tube to Two Dudes tonight, that's right. We would hit the final category, which is late night topical comedy slash variety. But I feel like we'll have to save that for the next episode. Guys, let me tell you at the points. Up, it looks like I won. Whoops. Sorry, I beat you guys in my own game. Uh, sorry, I beat you guys in my own game. I mean, if that's really an accident, there was oops all points. It was the thing that you could have done to prevent that from happening, but.

I mean, it's, it's rare. I will say in Stuart's defense, it's rare that the host of a show is also a contestant on the show. Not since when Ben Stein's money, and even then Ben Stein wasn't asking the question when he was answering them during the time. So I mean, another, if we're talking about flawed game, game, game mechanics, having us, rank our competitors might be a problem, I think. Yeah, it's like, it's, it was like that moment on that, that game, on that show, instant hotel,

where the owners of Australian Airbnb's stay at each other's Airbnb's and then rank each other. Yeah, the moment when they realize that not only do they get to rank the person's Airbnb, but the host of the Airbnb get to rank the other people as guests is the like silliest point score I think I've ever seen. That also that show is well.

That show, I usually hate any show that has anything to do with real estate. It stress me out. And but Audrey was watching, like, binging this over the course of the day. And it has really all said and done very little to do with real estate. Everything to do with how weird all these people are.

And the one person that first season is so good. Like, like, gives the guests like bad points because like one of them didn't have a margarita or something. Mm-hmm, yep, that's totally fair. It's in the rule book. I feel like I'm miss, right now I'm between seasons on a show and I am really missing learning about these

shows through my co-workers. Because like like I didn't have to watch Love Is Blind because I would just get the update from my co-workers and I feel like I didn't even know about this hotel show and if only I had co-workers they'd be telling me about it every day and I'd get the fast facts you know which would leave time for me to do things like watch Fitz Coraldo which is how I spent the last few dish watchings. Well, I guess we're gonna do fun. Fitz Coraldo on the flop house, guys. The secret set. Yeah, I guess you just teased everybody.

Teased the next movie. Well, thanks so much for playing, guys. This has been the flop house. This has been the flop house. This has been the flop house mini, mini episode. That's right. Two boy talking to to dudes tonight. That's right. I'll see you the next time we record one of these, but until then, I'll sleep in my grave.

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