The Flop House - FH Mini 50 - Tuboy Talkin' Tube for Teens to 2 Two Dudes Tonight, That’s Right, with Alex Smith

Episode Date: March 5, 2022

Stu returns to his smash hit mini format, to discuss the hit show about teens and drugs that everyone's talking about.

Okay, you guys are in a fucking dance. What's the dance? I got out. So you think you can dance. Dan McCoy, that is. This is gonna wait. Fuck my notes are all fucked up. Give me a second.

This is gonna be good. Okay. I'm not going to fuck this one up at all. And woo. Hey, hey, it's me me Stuart Wellington on the flop house. And I'm here to present a flop house mini presented by Minnie's Bar. That's right.

But before we get into the meat of this delicious podcast sandwich, Elliot, I think you have a couple of words for our listeners. I do have a couple of words for our listeners. I've got four words in fact, masters of the universe. That's right, March 19th, and only a couple weeks, where you're gonna be doing our newest online live show, The Flop House is coming at you live on your own computer. You don't have to get dressed, you don't even have to bathe,

you don't have to shave, you don't have to clip those nails, put on makeup, any of the things you normally do when you go outside, put on your wig, put on your hook, any of the things you normally do. You don't have to worry about it because you can sit at home on your own computer and watch us talk about the Masters of the Universe movie. This is the 1987 Dolf Lernergen, Courtney Cox, Billy Barty, Frank Langella, classic question mark. I haven't watched it since I was a kid when I saw on the theaters and I cannot wait to see

it again and see if it holds up or even if I even care about him and anymore. The way I loved him so much when I was a kid. That's Saturday, March 19th under computer screen. It's 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. How do you get tickets to this? It's easy, peasy. Let me tell you, go to theflophouse.simpletix.com.

Again, that's theflophouse.simpletix.tix.x.com. The tickets cost you only $10. And what do you get for that Alexander Hamilton? I'll tell you, you get access to these all new show, a show we have never done before with exclusive never before seen PowerPoint presentations presentations. We will never do again. We're going to be taking Q&As from the audience. There'll probably be some polls. We'll have some other kind of comedy bit that we have yet to figure out what it is. Guess what? you can't make it that night, you can't make it that time, that is okay.

Get your ticket, it gives you one week of access to a recording of the live show, you can still watch it, you can still enjoy it, watch it as many times as you want for one week, just put it on forever. Like an art installation, like the clock, and just over that 24 hour vertigo, just keep it going. Anyway, that's the Flapp House live show, I'm super excited about it.

I cannot wait to talk he-man with these he men Stewart and Dan and maybe we'll have a good time. In fact, I think we know we'll have a good time. So go to theflophouse.simpletics.com tickets are going fast. Now, it's the internet. There's infinite space, but I'm still going to act like there's limited supplies. So it's all about digital false scarcity. Everybody, crypto. Come on, let's go. Theflaphouse.simpletics.com that started in March 19th and then are recording for one week afterwards. Come see the show. It's going to be really fun. Stewart, back to you. Okay. So as I mentioned before, this is a flaphouse mini brought to you by Mini's Bar.

And here at the flaphouse, we normally want you to be able to move on. What kind of money you're going to give us for the sponsorship storage? Mini's the sponsorship. Yeah. Uh, many spark sponsorship. I, uh, well, uh, you, uh, drink or two. If, uh, that's true. I remember saying that 2020 and 2021 were the two best years in the history of your barkeeping profession. Yeah. That's true. Uh, yeah. I mean, that's a thing like, I mean, just in general, 2020 and 2021 and now 2022, nothing bad is happening. It's only going up, only good stuff. Yeah, it's like, it's like, oops, all good stuff. So yeah, that's why that's why many is getting a little taste

here, different, it's big. So normally what we do here on the flop house is we interrogate Stewart for promoting his business. That's what we do. We know what the podcast is about. We normally watch a bad movie and then we talk about it. But you know what? This is a flop house. Many brought to you by many. So we can do whatever the five we want March 19th. Now I want to I want to I want to broadcast something we're all going to get a taste of. Yeah, seeking parody. It's going to be tough. So many of New York, the Bronx is for it.

Bronx is bringing on comic book shelves now. So the, I mean, if you just want to send me cash, I don't have anything to promote, but yeah. Sorry, go on. Yeah. So I just, I'll pull back the curtain a little bit a little bit, open up the robe, if you will. The my, my DMs are flooded, okay, on various platforms with people requesting the different topics for the minis.

And the one that I get the most, of course, is what we're going to be doing tonight. And that's exactly what we're gonna be doing tonight and that's Exactly what we're doing. We are doing two boy talking tube to two dudes tonight. That's right Classic classic mini now two boy talking tube to two dudes tonight. That's right is when I Steward aka two boy is going to talk about two that's television to two dudes that's Dan Elliott Tonight, which is when we're recording it. That's right because it's not definitely not wrong No, Stuart can you can you can you clear up is it to boy or is it to boy because you were to man in a film psychogormant?

Yeah That that makes it's understandable that there's a certain amount of confusion. I That's I mean, that's the thing. I'm trying to like make it as difficult as possible for people to track me down or understand me I mean, it makes sense then why your deaf leopard podcast had the hardest to spell title of any podcast in the history of recording Hmm cool. Another another dig it me today. I don't know what's going on Okay, that's fine. So normally what we do is we talk about a bunch of different TV shows or we talk about like TV awards, but tonight we're going to do a hyper focus, okay.

We're just going to focus on a single television show. And I want to specifically, I want to talk about a show that I think is kind of of the moment. It's people are talking about it on Twitter quite a bit. And it's like, it's kind of gritty. And it, we're dealing with teenagers who are kind of navigating the difficult world of like, filled with like sex and drugs and complicated relationships.

So tonight we're gonna be talking about Euphoria. We're gonna be talking about Euphoria. We're gonna be talking about Euphoria, the 15th episode of the second season of Beverly Hills 90210. Okay, the episode is- We're in luck, we're in luck. There it is, there's the other shoe I was wearing before. We're in luck in that I've seen neither.

That nor the TV show Euphoria. So I'm equally ignorant of whatever it's just. And to help me with this, I brought in a expert of Beverly Hills 902 and O. Alexander Smith, our producer. Hey, Alex, thanks for joining us. Oh, look at him. He just changed his back right to the cast. It's great to be here, guys.

What a pleasure. How's it going? Oh, wow. I was expecting a lot of great coming in hot Alex is coming in hot. Bringing the energy into the changing of backgrounds, I think. So just to give on the subject of backgrounds, just to give you kind of an idea, the name euphoria in this case is spelled you the number four, EA, okay? And that is a reference to the, that is the drug, the name of the drug that is basically

ecstasy in the Beverly Hills 90210 universe. And it serves as both the title of the episode. And it serves as a pretty important plot point. Now, I would like to argue that that would be pronounced you for eeah and not euphoria. And that's just I. That's the artist's biggest distinction, but it's important. Yeah. It's important. You for ea like the, the company. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Electronic arts. Yeah. Yeah. That's the argument Dan's having with the dealer and ends up not scoring. Yeah. I'm like four has all of it in there. The number four, you just say that while Dan's plug rolls his eyes.

Actually, Dan, it is funny that you said that because the dealer, the euphoria dealer in the episode is wearing a shirt that just has a number four on it. And that's how you know that you're talking to a euphoria dealer is the giant four on their shirt. Yeah. So that is usually, usually drug dealers do have their branded shirts that they wear to announce to the world. This is my job and what I do

and stand up for pretty. Yeah, or a Trilby with a bright orange band. That's the other way you know, you're talking to a drug dealer. I guess it works. I guess it works. I take back my objection in this. Okay. All I'll allow it in the Star Wars universe. You know, you're talking to a drug dealer because he has a name like Slees Baggo. And he's asking you if you want any death sticks. Yeah. Yeah. If the name wasn't enough, he's specifically doing his job in front of you. The, and I would imagine in the Beverly Hills, 902 and O universe, if we were to fast forward to modern times where people use cash, happen, Venmo, the symbol would be some kind of four to their drug dealer to indicate that they're cash having them for you for you, right?

Right, Alex. Mm hmm. For the drug dealer taxes, which so they itemize which drugs the money was similar to doing like a skier or like a snowflake or something. I was that what you do. Okay. Okay. You like it like an emoji or something. I yeah, I was thinking like a dollar sign followed by a four, but that that just becomes

four dollars. Yeah. So now we're, well, you have to send it to the dollar. You have to pay whoever, whatever the price is, you have to give it to them in four dollar increments. That's how they know. Which is, which doesn't work out. Well, depending on inflation, I guess, because at the time back in 1990, a single hit of

euphoria would cost you $25. We're revisiting that episode. I was very surprised. That's, that seems expensive for that time. But these are kids from Beverly Hills. Yeah, yeah, this is a rich neighborhood. I mean, I was watching this with Charlene who also inspired this episode, by the way,

because she was the one who was like, hey, isn't that the name of the drug from 90219? I'm like, no, it's this thing that I keep getting Twitter memes about. But yeah, in her experience at the time, that would be the cost of one ecstasy. What, one dose of ecstasy, boy. So I'll take one ecstasy, sir.

Yes, I'll, yes, bag it, and I'll take a paper bag, thank you. But I mean, but I understand why you think it would be expensive because, but as expensive neighborhood as this title tells us, the monthly rent in Beverly Hills was $9,210, which is a lot of money for monthly rent, especially in 1990. Yeah. Yeah. And you knew you were talking to your landlord if they had 90210 on their shirt. Yes. Exactly. That's all the landlords had to. It's people forget that back then before before the end of the Reagan Bush Revolution, it was legal law that everyone had to wear a shirt that denoted what their occupation was,

which made it very easy to round up drug dealers. It's why the war on drugs was won, and we no longer have to fight it anymore. The, before we get to into the meat of this episode, Alex, can you explain a little bit about your bonafides? A boot, as Beverly Hills 902 and O. Expert? As an expert, my bonafee days.

Yeah, well, I will say I was a fan of this show from the first episode. I watched it the entire run, and it was a long run, it's 10 season show, and I've watched it all the way through many, many times since then. I feel like back in college, you were still like catching it on the release day. Like you were watching it. Oh yeah, because you couldn't like catch on.

Yeah, it was my regular Wednesday watch on a back eve. Even in college, when they had moved on to, I don't know, be boring adults with jobs and stuff. That I still watched it pretty religiously throughout that. Did any of them ever graduate to being a Melrose place? Like, was it ever like when a new mutant becomes a member of the X-Men, they're like, you did it, you graduated, you're going from Beverly Hills, not to an Oto Melrose place.

Now you're living a steamy apartment complex in LA. There is a crossover, they introduced Melrose Place by, they introduced the character that takes you to Melrose Place initially was a guest star on 90210. And did it tell you? During the episode of Beverly Hills 920, he to the camera went come with me I'm gonna take you somewhere and they can't follow them over to Melrose Place. That would have been a great transition. Absolutely. He went to the camera and dragged me down the street to Melrose Place. Yeah. Oh that would have been so good. I don't believe they did anything like that.

This is going to be a real tangent. I wanted to go off on a slight mispronunciation that steward had earlier. He was saying Hulu, but for instance, for a moment, he said Hulu, and maybe think of Miss Jacques Titigess starring on an episode of Beverly Hills 902 and Dan, what would that be like? Give us a taste about that, would you like? Well, it's mostly, you know, Mr. Ulo is a pretty, you know, dialogue free. So just imagine that I'm doing a bunch of sort of intricate slapstick that's more whimsical

than it is funny. And you're never going to really laugh at me, but you're going to say, oh, I see, that was kind of interesting. Alex, do you, who's your favorite 90210? Which one is your? I was a, I was a Brandon guy. Still a, still really am a, a, a, a guy. Was that? That's Jason priestly. Okay. Yeah. Brandon Walsh. Yeah. And I, I feel like he is the emotional and moral core of the show, I think. That's why this is such an emotional episode because he's, you know, he goes through some tough times. He does. He changes dramatically from a guy who's not high into a guy who's high. Very high.

Yeah. It ruins his relationship with everyone in his life. Yeah, it ruins his relationship with everyone in his life. So would you, would you would you classify this as a very special episode? Was this an episode with a message for our nation? Well, that was a thing like I feel like at this time, a lot of 90210 episodes were kind of like ripped from the headlines, very special episodes. Yes. Season one of 902 0, it was an issue show specifically like every episode has a deals with a You know some kind of PSA topic or teen To talk to their parents about over breakfast for like five hours What it seems like they do

I mean many homes do it We have a colleague in water school and I was growing up. Yeah. I just outed myself as a richie, I guess. No, no, for a while, we had a water cooler too. Like, Uriko water. I don't want to throw any shade at my hometown, but Uriko water tasted gross. We got a lot of describe that taste. Give me, give me, do talk shit about. Tell me what notes you would be texting. I would say it's soulful for us. Yeah. For the notes.

Yeah. Okay. Like the liquid fart. Let's get into the meme in the subject. So I'm trying to, this is complicated. I think maybe Elliott has the talent to get us there. But there's some kind of connection between euphoria, where the four is like, you're being brought to a euphoric state and you wreak a water,

where the water wreaks, I don't know. I don't have that. That would be, I mean, if it's sulfurous, I would call it euphardia. You're crazy. There we go. Right. That's great. So the episode begins. We're introduced to Brandon Walsh and his girlfriend, Emily. They're dating. They're ready to make thealsh and his girlfriend Emily. They're dating. They're ready to make the next step and move into each other's lockers.

So they of course decide to go to weird. We decide the thing that teenagers do. Because when I was in high school, my locker was assigned to me by the school. Like I didn't get to, I didn't have to find one and then. But that's the thing. They went on it. Well, they have their, they have their own lockers, but they're going to make space, like make a shelf for the other person in their locker.

Oh, I mean, well, okay, hold on. Dan, this makes sense. Dan, this is a real thing that kids do. This makes sense in real life, you know, like adult life, not real life. I mean, teen life is real. I'm sorry, adult life. It makes sense to, you know, clear out a shelf or a drawer or whatever and be like, I'm sorry, adult life. It makes sense to, you know, clear out a shell for a drawer or whatever and be like, I'm gonna have a change of clothes over here for like when we spend the night

because we live at some out of time away. I don't like this is just sheer laziness in here. Like, can I leave my math textbook in here so I don't have to walk down the wall? Isn't chess sure like a promise ring, I think. There's two critical pieces of information here, I think. Okay. They're important. One is in the universe of the show, Brandon is a very eager student.

He's like a, he's very, very, he's a very good student, a very enthusiastic student. And the idea is that he had complained at some time to Emily about not having enough room in his locker for all of his books because he's so smart or whatever. And then the other thing that you gotta remember about 9-2-1-0 in general is that it is a show about 16-year-olds played by 30-year-olds, written by 50-year-olds,

who make very little effort to actually figure out to actually get into the mind of a teenager. You get the feeling throughout this whole show that if they could just take the parents out and just put these people in an apartment and give them a day job, they would do it immediately. So this is clearly just them trying to figure out a way to be like, well, what's a good analog to them moving in together? Oh, well, they have a locker at school. So I want to tell a story about grown-ups because I'm a grown-up, but I'm stuck on a stupid show about teens. So how do I make my grown-up story be about teens? So they're trying to make the next step so they decide to go on a date to a cool like

floating all ages party, where you, you know, you find the location from a special person and it'll, then you'll go to the secret party. And of course, the rest of the game. Like a health? Yeah, kind of like that special person. And the rest of the, the rest of the gang finds out. And though they have their reservations about Emily, because she's not a core cast member right now, like she's just kind of like, she's the bad girl who's Brandon's new, Brandon's

new girlfriend. At this point, I think she had been in eight episodes, but she has, but she and Brandon have become very serious by it. Well, as we now know, because of the locker thing. Yeah. Yeah. So the rest of the gang find out about. They're all good.

I was thinking, even further and they were like, I'm ready to go the next step. Can you keep a little space in your pocket for my change? So like, I need it. And I'm far from my pocket. I can get from your pocket. Yeah. This is a big step. No, far from your pocket. Now, I don't understand. It's a metaphor, Dan, but maybe it's maybe it's in a different pair of pants. You're in your gym clothes. maybe I don't know. Your gene pocket is closer to my heart than my gene pocket is to my hand. Is the kind of romantic thing you can say. I'm a gene my life.

I'm taller than I am, so I would have to reach down less low. Well, and in a cis relationship, I don't think we even need to start talking about the tyranny of pockets, about how women's clothes often don't feature enough pockets. True. That's true. Or if you do have pockets, the how women's clothes often don't feature enough pockets. True. That's true.

Or if you do have pockets, the pockets are decorative. They're not actually functional. Okay. So there's an interesting element about this party is that the way that you get to it is you have to take an egg to a corner store, a specific corner store, and you give the egg to the person running the store. I know what. And he will give you the direction.

I did see this episode. I did see this episode. So remember them with the egg offering it to strangers, thinking that that's how they get the directions to the party. Ugh, I did see this. Yeah, Steve and Andrea famously, I think this scene is one of the more iconic,

early scenes from 902 and O, where Steve and Andrea go to the wrong store. And Steve is trying to, in a very, very great comic performance from I and Zering. He is trying to exchange an egg with a lady who has no idea what he's talking about and threatens to call the cops on them and they have to run out. So that's a scene a lot of people I think have seen. But before we get to that, our characters have to get ready for the party.

It's a Friday night. They all decide to lie to their parents, which is tough because they are dressed to go out. They're all wearing all black chandorties, wearing a Canadian tuxedo that is decidedly not black, but everybody else is wearing, is wearing I guess party clothes. And Andrea, Andrea, Andrea is, of course, Andrea is dressed like a Lane Beness, like she is always dressed.

And a Lane Beness was dressed like a woman from the 1940s, much of the times. Well, and they, they do the thing where, uh, with Andrea with Andrea, the reason she wants to go to this underground rave party because she's such an adult, she's so much more of an adult than her friends. Because the actress is 12 years older than the, yeah, to her. I have to admit, when I saw the show as a kid, I thought she was supposed to be a grownup for a lot of the run. Yeah, she seemed like that. Oh, wow.

That's weird. She was hanging out with these high school students who also seemed like a teacher or something. Yeah, I thought she was supposed to be a grownup for a lot of the run. Yeah, she said, oh wow. That I went to was weird shoes hanging out with these high school students who also seemed like a teacher or something. Yeah, I thought she was a teacher. See, and the weird thing is the rare times I saw this show, like she was the one that had a crush on her. Yeah. Doesn't surprise me. Yeah.

I mean, Audrey is great. And that, but she, the way she convinces herself that she needs to go to this rave is because there might be a breaking story. She runs this, come on, this is favorite. Makes sense to me. And she, oh my God, it's, well, Stuart continued. So they lie to their various parents except for Kelly who tells her hot, well-dressed mom that she tells her the truth.

I mean, her mom, okay. Her mom can get it, dude. You say that's a surprise that her mom would be hot and well dressed. Yeah. Yeah. These keep keep. She's got this business bitch attitude. I'm all about it. Yeah.

Yeah. Kelly's mom is steward's type for sure. Yeah. I'm like, oh, why isn't she stepping on my neck? So. Okay. Okay. I'm like, I don why isn't she stepping on my neck? So okay, okay. I'm like, I don't man this to happen. So Kelly tells her mom.

She's a character on a TV show for one thing, but anyway, continue. So Kelly has a relationship with her mom that she believes she can tell her mom anything. And as long as she's being honest, her mom will let her do it. Not so much in this instance because her mom knows that she is potentially going to an illegal underground rave party. So she tells her no. So Kelly's like, okay, I guess I won't go and puts a bathrobe on over her dress and sits in bed until the moment her mom leaves and then immediately takes that bathrobe off and sneaks out. Real quick, as an aside, Kelly's mom had a co-cadiction in season one that Kelly helped her get through.

So they have a very tight knit. They have a very tight knit relationship at this point. So that's why Kelly thinks she can do what basically whatever she wants. But Kelly's mom has also been to a lot of these types of parties and says, no, there's drugs at those parties. I don't want you going. And she's got that kind of like super tight blonde haircut and big shoulder pads that make you think of a cocaine dealer's girlfriend.

Now, I, I, I want to take a break. No, the shoulder pads. The shoulder pads. How you know to, yeah, because that's what they do. The cookoff of you just, you just lay out a line on that shoulder pad and then snort it out. So like the, like the helmet with the beer cans on it that you wear at the stadium. Exactly. It's shoulder pads with two lines on each shoulder pad with little straws that go

up to your nose. Yeah. Little dollar like rolled up dollar bills that are going to go right to your nose. Yeah. Also, I want to give a tip to all teens out there who like, you know, are one of the sneak out. If you're going to pull this rope trick, you have to lay the track for it ahead of time. You have to establish yourself as a robe wearing person because otherwise your parent is just going to be like, why hang out on that robe? You know, so just good point. You got to play the long car. It's a tip for team. For Dan. Another Dan team tip. Okay.

You don't get mega. I mean, it's just for teens. Sorry, Elliot. Go ahead. No, I was just making a reference to a spark song, continue Alex. I was going to say you can't establish yourself as too much of a robe person because they might think, oh, he's just going to go out in his robe like like he usually does. Yeah.

Yeah. Like the big Lebowski or the dude. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, not the big one. No, the big one does not go out in his room. I get the dude size. I'm not that hungry.

I went to a big and dude store. I got cargo shorts there. I'd imagine. Yeah, it's all cargo shorts and three pieces. So cargo shorts and three pieces. Yeah. Okay. So they all the gang all meets up at the peach bit, except for Andrea and Steve, because as we learn later, Steve is meeting Andrea's grandmother and they are held up. Yeah. Apparently, apparently, Andre is grandmother makes a really good chopped liver. Yeah.

And Steve would, there's a scene that I really wish was in it. Yes. Where Steve was apparently just begging for more and more chopped liver over at Andre's grandmother. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He keeps cleaning his plate and then saying more.

Yeah. Like that's why they're late is because he couldn't stop eating. He keeps saying he would insist. And she's like, I don't insist almost out. And I was planning on eating this all week. I was having, I was hoping to have some also, but yeah, the rest of it, she's, she's desperately in the kitchen chopping more liver to keep it. Yeah, it's a rather tough thing. She's got to go find more liver.

This is a very intestinal distress of some kind. She's got to go find more livers. A road to a testinal distress of some kind. She's late. The stores are closed. She has to get more liver. She's breaking into a grocery store to get livered. Chop it up for Steve. It's a real little shop of horse. She would stay.

Little shop of livers. Yeah. Wait a minute. You have a liver. I'll take yours. I should have said little chop of livers. Anyway, continue to do it. So the gangs all there, they're dressed on black, which is what you wear when you go to a rave, they look out of place for the peach pit because that's just their regular local hang. And we find out that Brandon has to be back early the next morning for his shift. So they get the directions, they leave extra directions for Andrew and Steve

and they go to a, they go downtown to a corner store where they exchange an egg with the somewhat bewildered man behind the or like scared man. He's got he's he plays the scene very strangely. Um, uh, the guy where you found it. I'm not sure what his, I think it's just supposed to be mysterious. Like they're not sure the egg exchange is going to work. Now you say exchange an egg. Does he hand them an egg in return? That would make sense. They keep saying exchange an egg, but that's not what they're, yeah, that's they don't get an egg back. But I think, I think exchange an egg makes sense because they walk in with an egg.

Okay. They hand the egg to the guy behind the counter. And he then asked them for $10, which in my head can and that he just made that up. He's like, I'm yakin'. Yeah, he saw that these are newbies and he's like, you know what, I'll get an extra 10. I'll get an extra 10 on Travis.

But he doesn't take 10 bucks from all of them. He only takes one 10 bucks for the whole group. So I think he's got some room to grow. He's got modest goals. He says, I'll get $10 from these kids. I'll use you to buy a ticket to the Flop House Live show, March 19th, that's 9 PM, Easter, and 6 PM, just go to theflophouse.com slash the simple tips.

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the government can't tell you not to do that. Your grandma's just chopping away that slough hash in the kitchen, putting it in a tube that goes straight to your mouth. You're in a robe. You can watch the show. Go for it. No, just go. We're a big kick.

The, uh, and another important plot point is that this is when David buys a flask of whiskey and everybody gives him shit for it. And he's like, somebody can enjoy a little bit of alcohol and not be an alcoholic. And I'm like, that's what an alcoholic is going to say. And which we will find out later. He his character, I believe, develops a drinking problem, right? I mean, do you mean in the, in the episode itself? No, over the course of the next couple episodes.

Because he definitely has a drinking problem in the, over the course of the episode. Yeah. Um, David has a, David develops a drug problem later in the series. I'm trying to remember, they all have, uh, uh, it's, at some point, the show like to introduce them to different dependency issues, but I, I can, I can remember David's drug problem, but I'm spacey. There's that one. There was that season where Tory spelling just keeps my and beanie babies on eBay.

And she's sending way too much of it. I love the delicacy with which you put that. At some point, the show likes to introduce them to various dependency issues. And it's Oh, Kelly, have you met, I think a positive shopping? I don't know if you like whatever. Yeah, no, that is how the show works. And that, because the, I mentioned earlier that season one was like an issue show where each show covered like a different thing.

And this is, we're right in the middle of them transitioning the show into more of like a soap opera, like a teen soap opera, where it's all serial plot lines and stuff. And this is kind of a hybrid of the two. This is why this is kind of the best era of the show is because they're doing an issue show, but there's all these long, longer storylines going on.

So the gang follows the directions and the directions bring them to a warehouse party in downtown and speaking of things that are brought to you by things, the show is brought to you by something. You know what? You said that you said you did do it, you'd handle it and you did too.

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gang is now in a really cool warehouse rave. Now we were, while we were watching this episode, uh, we really liked the music sounded really kind of wink. And so I looked it up. And apparently there was a good thing or a bad thing. I'm not sure what that was. It was not good. Wank versus dank. Wank is the bad one. Exactly. Yeah, I'm just trying to like just like 902 and O, I'm just trying to keep you old people up to snuff with what the kids are talking about. Um, so, no, I think it's a

thing is I'm also trying to keep everybody on the floor one one. I'm also dreaming quite a bit and I'm speaking before I think about it. So apparently when these episodes originally aired, there's music by the Thompson twins and fucking sisters of mercy in this scene. That's not the case. And I guess what, in syndication or I have no idea when the change would have happened. I think they, no, if you watch them in syndication, they still have all the good music in it.

If you get the DVDs or the, or you watch them on streaming sites, they have a bunch of sound alike and fill in, fill in music. Instead of, they have the hits of the day, playing in all of these scenes. It's a big show, you know? It's a big show. Yeah. It was a huge show. And as always happens, I'm sure like they negotiate the rights for a particular type of broadcast, not realizing there will be other ways that people will watch in the video.

Now, I think producers are a little more savvy about that, but at the time, it was like the same way that like with W. K. R. P. and Cincinnati, they would play all these current hits. Right. It's like, well, no one's going to see these shows again. Sure. Throw the songs in. We don't need them for the future. And that's why you cannot even now get like unedited versions of that series. Yeah. It's too bad people say I want to see a full episode of Wukerape and Cincinnati. And I can't find it. And I'm like, I got some news for you about how to pronounce the title. I've got two bad news. That's how you say it. Just like the bad news is bears. Yeah.

The most disappointing example of that to me is the state when a state DVD finally came out, the $240 worth of pudding sketch, they couldn't use sexual healing in that. So they had to replace the music, but it was a live recording with the music playing in the studio. So they had to also overdub the voices again. So you watch that scene. It's got a sound alike track and they're clearly also overdubbed for the entire thing. And with older voices. Yeah. Yeah. With their voices like,

you know, from when the DVDs came out. So it's very, it's very weird and yeah, but that's, I mean, that was an MTV show. So they obviously would have had the rights to everything. So at the time, so this club, you know, is cool because there's a lot of people attached to and interesting hairstyles are gang kind of stands out because they're all, you know, they're dressed a little preppy. They all are dressed like they're going to like a really cool funeral, except for Dylan. Brenda is wearing, you know, denim on denim. And Dylan is wearing two denim jackets one underneath the other. Wow.

Yeah. They call that a, they call that a matroshka Canadian tuxedo. Yeah. Quite a fit as the kids would say. Now, so yes, so this rave, where would you put it on the scale from one, meaning a matrix rave to 10, meaning the rate, the rave from pusher one? Where is it? Is it more of a matrix rave where there's just like sweat flying everywhere

and everyone is wearing like leather or is it more of a pusher rave where everyone's kind of vaguely Danish Scandinavian and there's a lot of people just dancing weird dance moves by the corners. I gotta say, I don't understand this scale. I was in the middle. Somewhere between a rave where the charmed ones would show up in an episode of Charmed or a blade would show up and be killing all the vamps. Okay, because that was my other, that was, okay, another skill. Is it on a skill from one, which is vampire rave, where blood is spreading, or to 10, which is the monster dance party, little monster starting for its average. Where was it land on that? or to 10, which is the monster dance party

and little monsters starting Fred Savage. Where was it land on that? Okay, I would say it's closer to a vampire rave. Okay. So what I'll say, if this helps pinpoint it at all, is every time I see this scene, here's what I think, because they walk in and they say, one of them says something like, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

Again, a great thing for teenagers. We say teacher. And then that was much more current in 1990 when that was only a 51 year old reference. As opposed to now when it's an almost 90 year old reference. There was probably around the time that Dylan calls David Rico Suave twice. He says in twice in the episode. Because he's drunk. Yeah, because yeah, David's already drunk. He's, you know, he's, he's embraced that lifestyle already. But the, okay, so we have that a different

scale for the raves. Is it like a one which would be the Cantina, the Mos Eisley Cantina, two at 10, which would be not Jabba's pleasure barge, but the droid torture room in Jabba's palace. I mean, I think it's a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more

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And they say, we're not in Kansas anymore. And one of them says, we're definitely not in Beverly Hills anymore. And they walk into a party that looks like every party you've seen on television, you're all like. Look at the thing is, it sounds like exactly what you would see in Beverly Hills. Like it sounds like a Beverly Hills party. Oh, it absolutely is. I mean, the fact, I think what they do is they, every once in a while, they will show you like a biker. And they'll be like, this is what it's rough

around. And then at one point, you see someone like doing, you see someone smoking something, you see someone. Well, you don't understand. It's like, we're just only seeing what's in front of the camera. Behind the camera, everyone's like totally nude. Like they're just like setting things on fire. It's insane. And to the side of the camera, it's like, it's the grand ol' off-ree country bear jamboree. So it's not like Beverly Hills at all. It's like the Southern, you know, you know, the know, the rockifier explosion band is playing there. I mean the Justin position of the rocker. Even more horrifying. We got to go to this party, the rockifier explosion is playing.

They keep like they'll point in a direction and it cuts to like some stock footage of a dog jumping through flaming hoops and stuff. To the old black mite footage of the guy getting hit in the belly with a can of all. Yeah. So one of my favorite. What is this place? Not Kansas. So we have one of my favorite exchanges in the episode is Brandon and Emily sit down on a couch and they're kind of surveying the crowd and they point out this guy who's very

clearly a drug dealer. And Emily explains that he is dealing euphoria and he's like in front of everybody and she's like, yeah, you know, whatever everybody does at 25 bucks a hit. And Brandon's not interested. But then his friends all show up and then Brandon explains all this shit. He's like, he's an expert. He's already an expert. He's like, that guy's a drug dealer and his name is this and this is how much it costs. It's hilarious. Yeah, he really shows off all of the knowledge he just got from his girlfriend who is sitting there the whole time. Oh, man, it's so great. Yeah. So while that's going on, David's getting drunker, Luke Dylan and Brenda are, you know, just Dance and Having a Good Time. Everybody's dancing and having a good time.

Brandon is not dancing because he doesn't dance. That's a big character thing for Brandon, he does not dance. And you kind of wonder what his, why he wanted to, at this point, what is the point of sitting on the couch? Yeah, why would you go to this room like this and watching? I mean, I guess maybe watching your friend's dance is fun. I don't know. Yeah. Uh, so Emily makes me.

I mean, is he like pointing and laughing at them and being like, look at that. Look at that. Actually, actually, they actually, they do put in a few shots of him like pointing at David. David is already acting all kinds of goofy. Uh, I do think that it is fun to watch your friends dance, but with, you know, apologies to Jordan Morris noted advocate of the non-dancing lifestyle. I find that it's fun to watch your friends dance from your position on the dance floor where you are also dancing. Yeah. Well, I think that the,

your position on the dance floor where you are also dancing. Yeah. Well, I think that it's never what I like dancing, but number two, I feel like off to the side, you're not really getting a good sense of what's going on. Yeah, I mean, maybe if I was like reclining on a palak win or something. Yeah, yeah. It's a little bit of height, yeah, surely. Yeah, yeah, being fanned by a muscle man. Yeah, actually, a muscle man.

It's pretty good if you can convince yourself that your friends are dancing for you. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That you, yes, entertain me. Yes, yes, come work for my interest. So while they don't even remember that you're there, giving a little double clap a little, you know, one of those while this is all going on, Steve and Andrea are trying to connect the dots and follow their friends and they end up in the wrong store and they get some

very, they have very strange conversations with a woman who wants to call the police on them because they're trying to give her an egg. And that's all and so it's a blessing. It's great. I mean, part of the issue, I guess, was them asking Richard Lane Clayter to direct that part, that aspect of the episode, that story line. He's like, I don't want to see them wander around and interact with the people of Beverly Hills, you know? So meanwhile, Emily, Emily decides to take the, take things up a notch and she secretly doses Brandon Brandon's water soda. I don't

know. She goes to get them sodas and they are very, I mean, I guess they're supposed to be spried or something, but they look, they look more like cocktails. They're in like little short cocktail, you know, tumblers and, and she, yeah, she, she puts, she gets to slip you for years in both cups. I wonder if that's an instance of them originally supposed to be having actual drinks and someone saying, no, no, they're teen characters. We can't have them drinking. We'll say it's soda. What do you think?

Well, running throughout all of this is the fact that these teens, unlike my experience, myself, and other teens that I know, I'm not currently a teen, but the teens I've met throughout my life. You still keep in touch with the lifestyle? I'm a horse. I of course have my finger on the pulse, but please think you're from my experience. My experience. They are all, at this point, Dylan is like a 17 year old recovering alcohol at this point. At this point, Dylan is already, Dylan is like a 17 year old recovering alcohol I get this point.

Oh, right. Brandon had one episode where he drank too much and totaled his car. Everyone on, Kelly is opposed to any kind of substance because she saw her mom go through stuff. At this point, all of them have these, they're all like opposed to stuff, except for David, obviously, it's just like, I want to have a, I want to have a good time. He has he has some, some drinks, but it's like, um, like they're all very, yeah, instead of,

instead of being like, oh, instead of being like, teens on the one side of it where you want to just go out and have as many different experiences with as many different chemicals as you can, which a lot of people went through, they are, the show has positioned them on the other side of that where they're like, they're like chiding each other for every choice that they make. So they get punished for anything that they do.

And Brandon definitely does not want to drink a cocktail. So it wouldn't have made sense for the show to for them to just be like, oh, let's relax and have one cocktail because on this show No one relaxes and has one cocktail. Yeah, you know, you you you have a drink and you get expelled from school right before graduation The so Brandon gets super high Emily gets super high. They're like She reveals him what happened, but by then he's too far gone. He doesn't care. They end up, he's just waving at bats that he thinks are flying.

They ended up reclining together on the hood of his convertible with him with his shirt off. The rest of the gang decide to know that they want to leave. David is wasted and he's barfing everywhere. Yeah. Brandon, Brandon starts to burn some bridges. He's mean to Dylan. He's mean to Brenda. He doesn't care. There's some hilariously, I would say really effective high acting from, from Jason Prisley here. Yeah. And what does he do? A lot of swaying. Mm. I think they did get the club drug thing correct

because he's not like a lot of old movies if somebody gets in a, you know, has takes an us substance of any kind. They just like immediately they're seeing like the swirling lines and they're like going crazy and they're you show them like running down the street with their shirt off or whatever. In the 1970s, they always thought they could fly and jump off buildings.

Yeah. That's all anyone on drugs did. This is seriously all he does is he lounges on the hood of his car and love bombs all his friends. He's just like, I love you. You're so great. And everyone's like, what the fuck is wrong with you? Like, they got so bad.

Everyone gets so mad at him, even though he's just rolling. And I mean, and the Emily drugging him is definitely not cool, but there is like a quality to this where they really, really punish Brandon for one time taking a club drug or whatever. Yeah, yeah. They're all super shitty about it, and then like, yeah, it doesn't let up.

You know, and they end up taking his keys and leaving him and Emily there. Yeah. And he, that seems like the worst, worst solution. Seems like the worst solution. At least drive them hard. Because of course the cops show up because that's, you know, that was bound to happen. And they end up running, leaving his car behind in this warehouse.

Uh oh, I don't think that car is going to have a good night. All the everybody gets home. You know, there's going to be some possums sleeping in the trunk of that car. Brandon gets home at six a.m. He gets home at six a.m. Brenda is still having ditched him is waiting up for him and makes him feel super bad. It's so fun. For showing up late, I'm like, you took his keys and then left him there. Yeah. Yeah. She says every time a car drove by,

I got up and looked out the window. And it's like you let you fucking left. It's like it'd be him and listen, learn to fucking potwire it. Yeah. You had a car that could bring the person home. Like you're giving me out of the car. That you was observing your own as you drove it. Yeah, you had a car that could bring the person home. That should have been the car that you was observing,

your own as you drove it. And every time I heard a plane go by, I thought, you might parachute out of it, you did. I really had no idea how you were gonna get home because we took your keys again. But she also says something like, I thought you would change forever or something. It's like, man, this is really, really,

the consequences of this night are hard. I mean, that's what happens anytime I take like too strong of an edible, I'm like, I'm always gonna be high. But he's like Dylan, I love you, man. And Dylan's like, you've changed. You're bad now. He used to be about to hate.

The end of court and like Brenda's also like. How are you gonna fight the one-world government if you got loving your heart? Come on, man. And Brenda's like, Brandon, our parents trust us. And I could only imagine having that conversation with my brother. I don't know, like, not, yeah. So of course, I have to say, if, if, if their parents named them Brenda and

Brandon, they deserve whatever they get from messing up their kids by giving them almost the exact same name, that was crazy. I thought I was going to be a kid. I mean, there are, there are twins. They're, I'm a twins. I'm a twin. I don't know the same name as my sister. So we have different something names. You actually should. So you're your parents actually. Yeah, you're a man. Yeah. You change. I don't want them to end up in jail. The and the scene ends this this scene ends where this confrontation ends where Brandon's like, I got to be up in a few hours to work my shift at the at the peak pit. And I'm like, OK,

so that's going to be the next scene that is not the next scene. The next scene is Dylan driving him to pick up his car. So I guess he didn't, he had enough time to go back to pick up his car, which is now ruined. The like, all the tires are gone, the doors are gone, it's been spray painted. There were some very efficient vandals who were just like, we are all over this.

That's real, that's real John Hughes fear of the city type stuff. We like, you leave a car overnight and it's just stripped right away, because it's a city, you know? So, I mean, it's a convertible and he left the top down. Yeah, so, I mean, that part, I'm not surprised somebody did something to it. But yeah, they like spray painted it and took the wheel. I don't know what to do with the fucking wheel. And that way you might as well just take the whole car. Just go for it.

You would think. Yeah, it's easier to get the wheels somewhere if you take the car. I would imagine. They took the wheels and they go, they go, okay, just roll them a couple of miles to the chop shop. Yeah, I mean, if you're that handy, why don't you just steal the whole car? Yeah. It was pretty nice.

I think it was probably like a couple of turn of the century kids, and they just had, they just had planks of wood and they're just hitting those wheels along the road. Just as a game, you know. So he can't, he's not going to be able to hide this. So the next scene, you'd think he's at work at the peach bit. No, he's having breakfast with his family. In that type of breakfast that you that that families have on television where it goes on forever and you're like, yeah, there's like endless time. Where are you finding all that? Yeah, I'm holding time. I'm holding space.

It's an absolute mystery to me. I know how you, yeah, they're like on their third cup of coffee. You know, like, well, we should go to school. So then, well, I've had my, it's always like a full breakfast. Everyone has multiple foods in front. Yeah, I have my cereal and my eggs and bacon in front of me. So there I have milk and also this grapefruit half coffee. We have grapefruit half pancakes.

Yes, please. Waffles put them on the pancakes. Sure. So it all comes out. They reveal what happens. His family's concerned that he could have been driven permanently insane by taking euphoria. And there are going to be some changes around here now. What he does not reveal is who doasted him, even though he admits that he was, he was dosed by

someone else that he was roofied. He doesn't reveal who it was. Brenda does, Brenda does know. Brenda does not. That Emily did it. And Brenda and Emily have a very rough history. She does not like Emily for, when Emily first came to West Beverly, she dated Dylan one night and Brandon the next night.

And that's Brenda's boyfriend and brother. And so she has hated Emily pretty much every since. Even though they make up for a little bit there, but eventually she did. Yeah. The two butt heads for the whole time. They do sound like butt heads. Yeah. Or like lock horns.

Yeah. They're married. Yes. So. I do believe in theaan of the show there now Brenda and Emily are now are now married. Yeah. So Emily shows up and she and Brandon kind of make up but not really and Brandon's going to have to make some changes too. He's not ready. She's like next time I won't I won't dose you with. He's like, I time I won't, I won't dos you with drugs. And he's like, I don't know if there'll be a next time. Um, and then he goes to work and he and Andrea catch up

a little bit. And she is wearing a very, uh, like, like, like, like a, like a very gram osher. It's great. Um, it says, ask me about my grandson. She showed up here again. I wouldn't, I wouldn't bend not. I'm like, yeah, it's normal that this is caring. She's sitting down, sitting down with a menu and she puts, takes her glasses that are on a chain around the neck and puts them on the head to her nose. If she like came, it was like churning butter because she's like working at Colonial Williamsburg. I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. That's that's a character. Okay. And that's basically the episode guys. It was,

I mean, it was touching. We all learned something. Some of us were changed. You're revocably. And I kind of get why everyone's talking about this shit on Twitter. This was the end of the. Roderful circle. This was the end of Brandon and Emily Valentine's relationship. I don't know if Stewart said that explicitly. Yeah. So the end scene should have been him taking her stuff out of his locker. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, he's not, yeah, he's not going to, he's going to have to pick up all his stuff from her locker. Yeah. So, you know what, take all the stuff that you asked me to hold in my pockets for you. And it's all like feathers and shiny rocks that she picked up and just like pennies and, you know, screws and nails. And that's where she's going to discover she's a magpie in disguise. It takes a hard left turn to the fantasy. Wait a minute, you're a magpie, aren't you? And she's like, I didn't want you to find out this way.

And she takes off her wig and revealing a bird's head. Oh, man. I would have been awesome to meet you. Yeah. The next Monday at school, he's like, Emily was a magpie the whole time. And they're like, who's Emily? Yeah. What a double twist.

So it seems like everyone got really mad at Brandon, which as the point you're making, nothing really bad happened to him. And it seems like the really bad thing that happened was that they took his keys away and his car got wrecked, but it's not. He didn't do anything bad to anyone other than I guess put his trust in the wrong person. Yeah. So yeah. And the show, the show punishes them quite bit for for that, which is it is weird.

It's very weird that a regular job with this guy. Yeah. There is that episode later where his whole his whole family and all his livestock are killed. And he argues with God and then he gets a new family and new livestock. And he's like the new livestock find, but I still miss my old family. Like it's great. It's new family. But it's like, God, it's not. God's like, oh, doesn't anything please you? Nothing's good enough for Job. I would love it so much if every episode of 90210 ended with a kind of doogie house or style rap

where Brandon argues with God about the events of the episode. That would be cool. And he's like, he's like, God, it seems like I really got punished for something that wasn't my fault. And he's like, God, it seems like I really got punished for something that wasn't my fault. And God's like, brand in where were you when I created B.A.M. myth and Leviathan? Come on, you're going to tell me about the whirlwind all of a sudden. You're right. A serious 902.10. And then he's and then Mark walks in. He's like, are you done with the room? Because I need it to talk to the people at work. Oh, Mark from Morgan Mindy 9.

Is he from Morgan Gorky? Morgan Gorky, the Orc Gods from Warhammer. Thank you. No, no, no. No, that's a different one. That's a reference you have to be a teen on 90210 to get the Morgan Mindy thing. Yeah. So how old are his parents, do you think?

So this is 1990. It's got to be in like their mid 40s at least, right? Yep. So they're. Jim or Cindy. I would put I would put that around 40 at least in the canvas. Yeah. So they're part of the trick is you cast you cast a dad who was balding. That's first step. You got to get that as receding a hairline as possible, just to differentiate him from the teenage actors who have a normal receding airline. Yeah. Teenage actors more 10 years younger than him.

And because so like these, they have experience, they have experienced the drugs or probably like, yeah, I mean, they bring that on the, the actors. And well, I mean, like these characters, I have to assume. Well, there is a line where the mother says that, you know, she was in college in the 60s, so she knows, and that's why she's scared that they'll turn into fire starters or some shit. That is an adventure a lot, to a lot of people. Yeah, that's, that was the main issue

of the 60s with all the telekathetic firesters. Yeah, it doesn't quite ring true to me because as I understand it, that 60s weed was trash, apparently, is from what, from all accounts. Yeah, yeah. Compared to a modern weed which, uh, yeah, I hear is really cool. Yeah, I think Cindy's talking about the sensation of smoking a cigarette too fat basically is what she experienced in college. Yeah, yeah, spinning around in an office chair a little bit too much. She's worried that there might be a lot of coughing involved.

This doesn't want to be a sore throat. Yeah. So I look, I went to college in the 60s. I know what it's like to be slightly nauseous for a little bit. Okay, kind of a headache. All right. Well, so this was a very special episode of Beverly Hills, 902 and O, and of course, that means that this was a very special end of a headache. All right. Well, so this was a very special episode of Beverly Hills 902 and O and of course, that means that this was a very special end of the flop. Yeah.

Of, oh, sorry boy talking to tube to tube tonight. That's right. And which is a flop as many brought to you by many's bar. We are a show that is on maximum fun. There's plenty of other great shows on there. Check that shit out. I'd like to thank my co-hosts who are Dan McCoy and Elliott Kalin. I'm Stuart Wellington and our producer, Alex Smith has joined us as an expert. Yeah, thanks for an expert. I'm an expert, not a dude. I'm relinquishing my dude's status so that the title of the show's go make sense. Make it clear to everybody. Before you plug up my DMs, I believe there were three dudes on the previous show. So Charlene and I were watching an episode since we're still talking tube. Charlene and I were talking about the television show Catfish, which is on the tube. So this still counts.

This is fair. We're still on this. Yeah. And I was talking about, I was talking about of the three of us, the three main flopp houses, which of us would be most likely to be catfished by somebody. And I think it's me. I think I am most likely, because you know, I'm a big romantic. I would have said Dan a long time ago, but now I do think it's used to because you live so much of your life online. Yeah, super online. I'm so plugged in.

My online stuff is mainly limited to me promoting things on Twitter and Dan's is mainly limited to the dumbest jokes on Twitter. And you're living in the metaverse by this point. You have to do it. I'm committed to tying myself to this cycle that makes me sad all the time. Yeah, sometimes I'm like, is there a place where I can see steward squatting?

Like just like I see him sticking his butt out while lifting large amounts of weight and turns out there is. Instagram and TikTok is on the bottom. Yeah, go look at it. Yeah, you can double up just like my two butt cheeks. So congratulations on your upcoming cat fishing. I hope it goes great. Yeah, I mean, it never does. Well, it's ever time people fall in love. Oh, I would love to see an episode of like a good good catfish. Great.

Oh, this is so much better than I expected. Yeah, you're really underselling yourself. This is amazing. There are enough episodes where it is like actually the person where I'm like shocked. I'm blown away. But most of them are not. Most of them are sad. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. So how many of them turned out to be actual catfish? Oh, you would be surprised that it's, most of them are actual catfish. Oh, really? Wow. I mean, that would be a surprise to be like, I fell in love with the person of my dreams and they're like, I have to tell you, I'm not a person at all. I'm a catfish.

Yeah. Like, that fish has got big like whiskers. Yeah, you think this is a, you thought that I was a man with a mustache, but no, this is actually long fish whiskers. Let me take off my wig. I'm not, I'm not Emily, your girlfriend, I'm a catfish. I mean, it's weird. It's very weird, but you can't be too surprised. The show is called catfish. Yeah, it's an entirely like super shot. Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's amazing. It's amazing how they keep keep keep it fresh every episode You're always wondering and then effort you like right because it's called catfish Yeah, of course

Keep it fresh like a delicious piece of catfish Oh, yeah, so I think I've already done the sign off so this was a post-crypt I guess the sign off. So this was a post script I guess. Yeah, this is the afterword. We think we found out what happened to all of us after the episode, which just kept talking like it is. It's the one show that has its own after show embedded in it. So just say goodbye or something. Bye. So just say goodbye or something. Bye. By the way, I have to podcast myself. Oh yeah.

What's the point? Too late, too late Alex. This is something earlier. No, let's just if if if you were not absolutely repulsed at listening to me speak along with three of your favorite pair of social relations. Go ahead and check out Hal Doddy's Fast Track and the Big Hal and Possum podcast.

And I produce this show and I produce, I know the owner with Charlene Wellington. So those are also, check out the flop house if you haven't heard it. That's a great show. Yeah. But Stuart and Charlene, I think are you both on mainline episodes? And I'm on like a Patreon one of FastTrack. I'm just trying to sweeten the deal for this kind of our show.

Yes, Stuart is on, I believe episode four of the first season of Howdy's FastTrack. We wrote a song together about going to the movies about going to the movie theater. And then Dan and I did a bone, I do, I do parody songs on my bonus episodes. And Dan and I did Ziggy Stardust about, uh, dip about, uh, potato chips and dip chips and dip. We turned Ziggy Stardust into it. It's, it's, the, the the bonus episodes which you can get by going to patreon.com slash Howledoddy H O W E W D A W D Y $5 a month gets you three bonus episodes and the one with Dan Well the parody episodes what we do is we we have a list of songs and a list of topics and we roll two dice and it decides What the song is and what the topic is so we rolled Ziggy start us and

Chips and and what the topic is. So we rolled Ziggy Stardust and Chips and dip as the topic the most recent one of those We got an electric feel by management was the song that we were parodying and the topic turned out to be electric eels as well So we ended up having to do a parody of electric feel that's more about electric heels than the original song. So nice. And that's how crazy we get with it over there in the Fast Track supporter Patreon. Okay.

Well, so now I'm going to say bye. Bye. Bye. I've wanted to say that for so long.