The Flop House - SUPER SECRET ANNOUNCEMENT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

Dan reveals a WEIRD and possibly EXTREMELY COMPLEX FOR HIM TO PUT TOGETHER stretch goal for this year's Max Fun Drive!Become a supporting member of Maximum Fun and help keep our show going and independent by visiting maximumfun.org/join today! MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Hey everyone, I don't have much time. I'm pretending that Elliot and Stuart don't know that I hijacked the feed to record this message and I'm pretending that they'd be pretty mad at me if they didn't already know and approve. Dan? What are you doing in there, buddy? Oh, I'm just, uh, masturbating. There, that ought to buy us some time.

I wanted to tell you about a fun stretch goal for the Max Fun Drive. As many of you know, I am an Emmy-winning TV comedy writer. I know, it's surprising to me too. But the entertainment world right now is a little, well, let's be nice and just call it horrifically broken. But I keep writing. So I'd like to offer one of my favorite projects that I did, one that may not otherwise ever be seen, to you the listener and Max Fun supporter IF we get 1,000 new or upgrading members during this drive. If

we do that, I will take an original TV comedy script that I have written and turn it into a fully produced audio theater presentation with sound effects, music, and the closest thing to a celebrity cast that I can assemble from people I personally know and are willing to do me a favor. What's the script? It's called Flyscraper. Flyscraper! It's about a failing PBS station that has banked its pledge drive on an unseen 70s TV

show because that TV show was created by an esteemed American novelist. But they find out the show they've been counting on is a high concept cheeseball, disaster, garbage, piece of crap about a flying high rise apartment building called A Fly Scraper. Does this script have a weird premise? Yes. Does it have a more nested narrative than your average

Wes Anderson film? Yes. Does it have sophisticated and obscure jokes about actual science fiction authors who moonlighted as TV writers right next to dumb, broad jokes? Yes. Is it kind of like an American Garth Maringhi's Dark Place? Kind of yes, although I promise I only realized that after writing it. The point is, it's the kind of weird, specific script that was probably never going to be bought for TV anyway, but it's perfect for you, beautiful weirdos and the listener-funded model at maximum fun. Will this be a lot of extra work for me?

Yes. Which is why, as much as I'm excited about it, I'm only going to do it if we make that goal of 1,000 new or upgrading members. So, if you have the means, go to MaximumFun.org slash join and become a supporting Flophouse listener today. Dan, what are you doing? Stuart says you're masturbating, but I don't think you have this much stamina. That's MaximumFun.org slash join.