The Flop House - FH Mini 81 - The Field House

Episode Date: May 27, 2023

Elliott, mega-sporto that he is, challenges Stuart and Dan to see who's the number one sports movie fan.Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund here, to support those affected by the WGA strike, if you’re so inclined.

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's flop house mini regular flop house listeners will know that most episodes we watch a bad movie and we talk about it. But on many episodes we do whatever we want and right now we especially get to do whatever we want because we're the bosses. We writers are on strike right now that's Dan and me were both members of the writers of the build of America were on strike Stewart is I That's Dan and me. We're both members of the writers field of America. We're on strike. Stuart is, I guess, striking from writing for television shows just in solidarity. He's continuing to know.

I get all first and show first. I get all first and I'm like, I can't take your meeting, Ron Howard. Take that, Ronnie. So not you two first names. I mean, also, if Ronald Reagan asked me for a meeting, I would tell him to shove it to Ellen. You wouldn't ask him. Right.

He said, it's so dead. You wouldn't ask him what happens after you die because I'd ask him that and I'd tell him to shove it. I don't know. I don't miss around Weegee boards anymore after the incident. Yeah. We don't need to talk about that. So anyway, the point thing is.

Washing the evil. Was that the incident? Yes. Because that was a pretty bad one. Yeah. So we writers run strike right now and you know what strikes remind me of sports. Everybody. There's two different kinds of strikes in sports. Welcome to the field house. The only podcast about sports movies. Whistle sound. Alex put in a whistle sound. Okay. Now, welcome to the field house.

I'm joined today by two amazing guest slash co-hosts. First up, Dan, mad dog McCoy, a real movie commentary MVP. That stands for most valuable pervazoid. Give a yode the audience at home, mad dog. Yo. Well done. Wait, hold on. I'm gonna let you do it.

More like a mad dog. Yo. Thank you. Much better. More like a mad dog. Yo! Thank you much, Matt, or much matter in dog year. And with us today is the bodybuilding bartender who's dream is to mix an Arnold Palmer for Arnold Palmer. That's right. The man, the legend, the legend, Stewart Mad Cat Wellington.

Stewart throw a yo at the audience, but do it like a cat. Yo, yo! Perfectly done. And I'm your host of the field house. As always, America's biggest sports fan, brother, Ellie Madness, Kaling, Dan Stu, welcome to the field house. Thanks. I realized that I just simply having big headphones on and sitting in front of microphones

side by side, looking straightforward, makes us look like sports commentators. You are. side by side, looking straightforward, makes us look like sports commentators. Stewart is right now. So sports commentators and especially sports movie commentators. Because today we're talking about sports movies on the field house. Like I said, the only podcast about sports movies, there are no others. No, I don't even look for that. Do you not check? Now, Dan, Stu, you're both famous for claiming to be the number one sports movie fan in America.

You do it every episode constantly. I bump into people on the street, at lows, when I'm by some hot dogs and people are like, hey, you think you're the number one sports movie fan commentator in the universe. And I'm like, universe, how about the dark universe? And they're like, that exists. I'm like, in my universe the dark universe? And they're like, that exists. I'm like, in my universe it does. And they're like, what are you talking about? The New York dark universe is about monsters

that play sports. Now, and Dan, you're well known for your catchphrase. What do I want for dinner? Sports movies. Dan, why don't you deliver your famous catchphrase for the audience? What do I want for dinner? Sports movies.

Hey, great for it. You are really both buying into this in a way that I was afraid dinner sports movies. Great for it. You are really both buying into this in a way that I was afraid you wouldn't and I really appreciated it. Okay. Now, you I'm going to settle this long running feud for good on this episode of the fieldhouse. We are going to finally decide who is the biggest number one sports movie fan in America. Whistle sound. It's got to be me.

It's got to be me. I'm gonna put you to it. It's gotta be me. It's gotta be me. You're in trouble, mad dog. Mm-hmm. Smack talk goes here. Well done. I'm gonna get, it's the best smack talk. It's the smack talk you don't hear. The audience can feel in the worst insult they've ever heard.

Okay, so I'm gonna put you through the ultimate cinematic combine of four rounds of sports movie related quizzes. And yes, stealing is allowed. Or should I say interception, whistle sound. Okay. Do you feel like you are pumped and ready? Do you need to stretch those brains at all before we get to the first game?

Yeah. Let me stretch my brain real quick. Okay. Ready? Your brains look stretched. I want to remind the audience, it's always important to take care of yourself. If you're going to do a quiz game, remember to stretch your brain ahead of time. You don't want to sprain that brain.

A brain sprain can end a very promising career. In brain pain. Yeah. Brain pain. A brain sprain pain. And you're listening to, you're listening to train on the pain brain. Yeah. Yeah. Well, eating grain, and you're like, the grain're listening to a train on the pain brain. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, eating grain, and you're like, the grain isn't even processed in any way or it's just getting insane in the membrane. Oh, so there's, so as a, as a, as a sports doctor, which I am, there's two different kinds of things you want to look, look out for. You don't want to be insane in the membrane or insane in the brain. Ironically, the membrane is worse. The, I'm saying the brain sounds like it's worse, but insane in the membrane or insane in the brain. Ironically, the membrane is worse. I'm saying the brain sounds like it's worse, but insane in the membrane is actually worse. That's

the blood brain barrier membrane, which is very important to not make insane. Okay, and the worst thing is when you're insane, you've got no brain, which is also mentioned. It's like a chicken in the egg thing or a shred of your cat, right? Shredder's cat. You tell your friend open that skull and get none of that brains in there. You know, it's a real shredder's cat scenario. That's what it is. Yeah, yeah.

What a bottle episode that was. We just focus on shredder's cat. Just going around the the the technodrome taking a nap inside cranks of Otty. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, let's get to our first round. Whistle sound. Okay. This round is called one, two, three strikes and you're a movie. Now I'm going to name a movie and you're going to tell me the sport that's being played in that movie. Okay. We're going to ease in. Now each of you is going to get a chance to answer your question individually.

But again, if you can't answer, or you get it wrong, the other player can steal. Whistle sound. And so, let's start this first round. I name the movie, you tell me the sport. Dan, here's your first movie. Okay. It's called Miracle.

Miracle, that is a hockey film. You got that right, ding-ding. Oh, okay. I'm hurt, Russell. So, I'm not interested in the extra information. There is no extra point itch for this round. Now, he's zero and Dan got a, he got a real layup of a question. Don't get cocky, Dan. Now, I know it starts, starts, Kurt Russell has, Kurt Russell has icepliscate his, his famous hockey play and bad boy, Stewart, here's your movie, The Big Green. I'm going to say football.

Oh, no, it is not, Dan. Well, I mean, is it, wait, so is it not what we Americans would call football, but other parts of the world would call football, IE soccer. You know what, you know what, Dan, you, uh, you said you're right and you've just talked yourself out of a point, Stewart, you got the point, you're right. They, they, okay, call it a fair competition, but it is a soccer movie, but you're right. In other countries, they would call it a football movie. So Dan, that was, I'm going to give you a sportsmanship point, Dan.

That was fantastic. So that sportsmanship point can be, can be, can be cashed in at any dicks or- Because that's what I meant. I meant, I meant soccer, not American football, that's what I meant. Exactly. So, Dan, here's your next movie. Yeah. Bang the drum slowly.

Bang the drum slowly. Jeez, Louise. I was not aware that this was a sports movie at all. Bang the drum slowly. Bang the drum slowly. Often listed as one of the best sports movies ever made. Oh, come on, dude. It's easy. It's a sports movie.

It's a sports movie. A drum is banged slowly. It's a metaphorical title. Is it? Is it cricket? Whoa. Is it cricket? I'm sorry. No, of course it is rowing crew. No, no, no, it is all so wrong. You're both wrong. It is a baseball movie, a baseball movie. That's weird because there's not a lot of drums. I guess in the movie, Major League, there's, I won't, where does this movie take place? This movie takes this, in the United States of America in New York, it stars Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro. And it is about a baseball player with a terminal illness.

It is the baseball version of Brian Song, in some ways. What movie that is set in China has a similar title? I was imagining. I believe you're thinking of, raise the red lantern instead of bang the drugs slowly. It could be. I mean, that's actually very similar. Yeah. Yeah.

What you should do with an item. Also, that's also about baseball, right? Yeah. That is, yes, also about baseball. No, it is not. Raise the red lantern is not about baseball. So, you're called a Mr. baseball. No, it is not. Raise the red lantern is not about baseball. So, you're called a Mr. baseball. No, it is, but Mr. baseball said in Japan, not in China.

A different country. A different country with his own rich culture. Very different. Oh, no. Let's not stick with that too much. So, Dan, you, Dan, so you both had trouble with that one. No points rewarded. Stuart, let's see, so you both had trouble with that one. No points rewarded Stewart. Let's see if you can do better on this next one.

Your next movie, what sport is played in this movie? It's called roller ball. What sport do they play in roller ball? They play roller ball in it. That's exactly right. They do play roller ball. You got it. Okay, Dan, that was, I know that was kind of an easy one.

Here's an easy one for you. The way back. What sport has been played in the way back? Uh, you said basketball. You're right. It's basketball competitive drinking. It's kind of okay. Stu, what about this one? chariots of fire. Uh, running. Yes, running. Exactly. It's about Olympic runners, Dan. It's really about the theme by Vanjeleus though. That's what's all about. That's what's all about. The theme for the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm saying that's a delivery system for that. Yeah, that's true.

That's true. That's a good point. Okay. We'll do that one for you. Go to the movie theater wearing fucking sunglasses. You don't need to see that screen. You just want to hear those sweet two. Yeah. Now that's that. You'll talk more more about that in our and when we get to an episode of field tempo Which is the only podcast about the music in sports movies A lot of Hey in that one as seen in the scene in the Joker that is Famous force movie Joker about competitive clowning

Joker of course him walking down the stairs to that The most beautiful moment in all of filmmaking according to idiot son Twitter Idiot son, but not the movie Flash entering the speed force right flash entering the speed force is not the most beautiful moment is the most exciting That's the state of a cheer most exciting inspirational moment movies was it it was the stand up and cheer moment from this year's Academy Awards stand? I think they correctly identified that as a big dumb idea. Yeah, America cheered when they stopped having America vote on the stand up and cheer moment. Okay. For me, it was when Judith Light appears in the menu and I'm like,

Judith Light. Yeah, it is a stand up and cheer. Yeah, sure. So Dan, here's your next one. Can you answer the question? What sport is the movie Blue Crush about? That is a surfing film. Yes, that's right. It's a surfing movie. Okay, Stu. Dan just pulled up his phone so he can cheat. No, I am looking at the ads that we need to do later on. Oh, all right. Well, I appreciate the impact you are showing before the game. I mean, I think the fact that I was able to get the correct answer without, true, but giving it my full attention and was able to do it without being detected until Stuart

called me out means that I was doing okay. Yeah. Yep. Yep. You're a regular our son loop pan, you know, sneaking in and sneaking out. We got a real Harrison Bergeron over here, making the game harder for himself. Okay. Yeah. He's just trying to make it equivalent, you know, stew. Take advantage of this opportunity of distracted Dan. Here's your movie. It's called He Got Game. Mm, basketball. You got that right. Dan, Here's your movie. It's called He Got Game basketball. You got that right. Dan, here's your movie.

The greatest game ever played golf. You got that right stew for love of the game basketball. No, it's not about basketball. Dan, would you like to steal for love of the game baseball? That's baseball. And two more left, Dan, the game. The game is about sort of an interactive game. Yeah. And the name for that is it's like, it's like TRS or something. Do you want to steal this one? The game. Yes. No, it's close. Lurping. It is

larping. It's essentially a movie about larping. And finally, this last one is for Stu basekit ball. What is basekit ball? It's a basekit ball. You got that right. So heading out of that round. Stuart has a short lead, the six to five that's including Dan's good sportsmanship point. So Dan, maybe you shouldn't look at your phone while playing the game. I don't think that's the problem. We'll go on. All right, everybody. Now it's time for our second round. We're going to do one more round. Then we've got our, we'd take a break for sponsors. Then we've got two more rounds. Our first round, second round, sorry. This next game is called put movie in coach. I'm ready to press play.

So in this round, I'm gonna name the sport. You tell me a movie about that sport. Any movie about that sport. Okay, this good sounds easy and it probably is. We're gonna start with Stu. Stu, can you name a baseball movie? Mm-hmm, field of dreams. You got it probably is. We're gonna start with Stu. Stu, can you name a baseball movie? Mm-hmm, feel the dreams. You got it, Dan.

You're up next. Can you name a rugby movie? Leatherheads. No, I'm sorry, that's about American football. That's about American football. Uh, what, Invictus? Yep, Stu gets it. Another point, Invictus is a rugby movie.

Okay. Oh, I thought that was soccer. You, as did I until I looked it up. I've never gets it. Another point in Victus is a rugby movie. Okay. Oh, I thought that was soccer. You as did I until I looked it up. I've never seen it. That Damon gets so fucking bulky in that shit. He does. He has to play rugby. It's a touch board. He's a bulky boy. Okay. Stu back to you basketball. Can you name a basketball movie? Yeah. Love and basketball. Sure. I'll take it. It's got basketball right in the title. Okay. Dan, I'm going to need to name a sailing movie. Can you name a movie about sailing? White squal. You got it. White squal. That counts. Okay. Stuart, the things are going to get a little bit harder. Stuart, can you name a football movie?

Yes. I could. How about the last boy scout? I'll technically allow and he's a football player. There's not a lot of football in the movie, but does he shoot someone on the field? Yeah, Billy, Billy time-oh blank shoot somebody. Okay, and now Dan, if you can name an Australian rules football movie. What the fuck? I think of this game as tech. I don't think so. Australian rules football movie. I cannot do that. No, I can't think so. Australian rules football movie.

I cannot do that. No, I can't. Okay, I need to do. You got Australian rules football movie. Okay, I might be able to. Maybe wait, no, that's New Zealand. I don't know. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. No, I'm sorry that is an Australian rules, murder movie, not an Australian rules football

movie. I would have accepted the great McCarthy, the club, Australian rules, any of those are Australian rules. Okay, of course. Okay, Stu, next. Can you name a golf movie? Yeah, I'm going to say tin cup. You know it tin cup and Dan, now eat the balls in your court.

Should I say on your field, can you name a field hockey movie for me? Um, I mean, mean girls has field hockey in it. I feel like the last boy scout works that one. Wow. All right, all right. All right, all right. All right. All right. All right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, Here's a movie. Here's a soon sport. Can you name a movie that is about the sport of Jim Cotta? Oh, that's really tough. It's not trouble with the curve.

It's not idle hands. Cheating. It's not. I mean, idle hands isn't even a sports movie. Is it? I think I'm going to say Jim Cotta. All right, I'll accept it. Jim Cotta and Dan, the final

question around this room, can you name a movie about the sport of Super Mario Brothers 3? Is the wizard? Yes, Dan. I wasn't sure you can be able to pull it out, but yes, there's one movie about the sport of competitive Super Mario Brothers 3 playing. That is the wizard. All right. You're doing really good, Dan. You're doing great. Whistle sound, go back to your corners, hit the dugouts and the club houses, get some new tires and gas up in the pit for the next round. It's time for us to take a break for our sponsors, but we'll be right back on the fieldhouse. Do do do do do do.

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Welcome back to the Field House. Whistle sound. We're back on the buzzer sound. Give us a buzzer too. OK, whistle sound, lots of sports sound. We're back. We have two more rounds. Boys, before we get started, how do you feel?

Are you pumped? Stewart, tell me. Are you pumped for these rounds? You are dominating right now. You think you got what it takes to take you through the end. Yeah! It's me, the Mad Cat. Stewart Relentine.

And am I pumped? You know it. And great. And now Dan Mad Dog McCoy, how about you? You are trailing a little bit, but not by that much. I think you can make up the distance. Maybe Bob a boy.

All right. I don't love that. But originated a new catch phrase. Never been done before. I would love it if now Dan, Dan's whole character is trying to convince the universe that he invented Baba Boo.

That's a catchphrase. Yes. All right, everybody. Here's our next game. I hope you're ready for it. Are you ready? Maybe stretch those brains again. Stretch those brains again.

Oh, it's better not show up on one of your erotic AMS ASMR channels. No, what's there, dude? Don't loop it. Too late. Too late is already there. All right. Round three, this segment is a little game we call nothing in the rule book. I'm going to name a movie and you tell me what sport is being played in it and what animal

is playing that sport. Oh, okay. Okay. So there's nothing in the rule book that says animals can't play sports. And honestly, major league sports should take advantage of that more often. Dan, we'll start with you. National Velvet. National Velvet. That is a horse movie. The other thing I'm supposed to. The sport. What is the sport that the horse is?

Is it is it professional jumping? Horse jumping? What do you call it? Drisage? Is it what you know? What do they do in that? Is it just a show pony? That's amazing. It's amazing. How many, it's amazing. How many different horse things we are talking about and they are not correct. Okay. Okay. Stuart, do you want to steal? I don't know football. Was it a race horse? Yes, it was a race horse. Oh, man. I that seems here's the problem. So many horses die racing. They played. I felt like it'd be like a nicer thing where it's just like, you know, she prances around on the horse and, you know,

everyone's a race horse. No, the horse runs in the grand national. Okay. What's the deal? Is it like a horse from the wrong side of the tracks? Like, is it not a racing horse? Yeah, yeah, it's a horse. It it's a horse from the bad part of town. Okay. It's a high-class pony and they eat spaghetti together. Yeah, they eat things together. Yeah, and this horse wants to. I'm just like in flash dance.

I love the famous flash dance spaghetti scene. Yeah. Dan, I'm going to give you one point for that out of a possible two points. Okay. I'm kind of disappointed that racing was not what you thought of when you thought of horses. It just seemed like that, I think that is more of a film for young adults and racing seems the high pressure world of racing didn't seem right to me. As opposed to the natural world of dressage, a single horse to step around like there's

broken glass all over the fence. Like the John McClellan horse. Yeah. Sorry. All right. Well, Stu, perhaps you'll get your two points on this one. The movie is the movie is Ed. So Ed is not to be confused with Eddie, which is also a sports movie, but not an animal sports movie. Ed is a chimpanzee who plays baseball. You got that right. Both points are for you.

Okay, Dan, next one, another, another name movie, Gus. Uh, if, yes, is this one about a donkey? Uh-huh. That's one point. And does the donkey play football? You know it. Oh, just like EO. This is American football. I haven't seen EO yet, but I have seen Captain EO. No sports in that one. So Stewart, this next one's for you. Name the animal and the sport. I got my, I got my fingers crossed that this is angels in the outfield. Angels.

Angels. Have you seen them? Have you seen them describe in the Bible? They sound crazy. They don't sound like animals. They sound like, like, like, like, I don't really know. Can I just sidebar? Yeah, I'm kind of, I'm a little annoyed at the popular conception of angels as like dead people. Like, those are ghosts you're thinking of. Like angels are a whole nother thing. I love that this is what you're taking a stand on. We're in the middle of a strike. Get your mythology right. Right. So many industries and you got to make sure that angels and problems are different.

Is it, is an AI going to go to those same, isn't there going to be the same difficulty eventually that happens with the spelling on my phone? Like I read something that said the spelling on your phone, you're not imagining it, it's getting worse, it's because of using AI and they're sourcing it from people on the internet. And you know what, on the internet, a lot of bad spelling and grammar.

So, you know, at a certain point, isn't the AI just going to spew out a bunch of shit, but for people who can't write. Yes. Yeah. That's the plan. It's like when my phone always tries to correct it, when I spell Kyrothungol, and I'm like, I know how to spell this shit bitch.

And seriously, there's no need for that, sir. I am just as God made me. But God did make you a bombination, human's to. Well, it's serious talking about Steve Jobs. Oh, sir. I'm just as God made me. But God did make you a omination. Human. She's serious talking about Steve Jobs. Okay. We call him God, even though he didn't do the actual creation. I made more of a ideas man. God would say to the angels, I did the hard part. I came up with the idea. Now you make it work. Yeah. Beat Boo. I have to say this now because you make it work. Yeah. Beat Boo. I have

to say this now because people put it on the internet. Beat Boo. Mm hmm. And then you were, are we done with this? Or are we blind? The field. Okay. You got the next one. Okay. Can you name the animal in the movie MVP? Most valuable primate. Uh, pretty sure that's a another chimpanzee and it's playing baseball. No, it is not playing baseball. Dan, you want to ask it ball? Dan, you want to steal that

sport sport's work point? Uh, yeah, I'll go with basketball. No, incorrect. You would say that. No, what the fuck do it's hockey, Dan, you should have gone with your first gun instinct, which is that chimpanzees play hockey. Okay, I shouldn't have listened to two or try, Stuart,

inceptive me with the wrong answer. Yeah. So, yeah. So, you're a mom's game. But that's, that's the way this game works. Sometimes you potentially fuck up your opponent. That's true. Dan, let's call this a chance for redemption. See biscuit, name the animal and the sport. Dan, well, redemption. Yeah. I believe Biscuit is the world's most popular horse. Yes. And that I know is a racing picture. Yes, that's a horse racing picture.

Yeah, I'm sure that's about how C. Biscuit saved us all from the great depression. Yeah, I was running out of ice. Alex, real quick, can you check to see if it was about Dursash? Yeah, it was that year when dressage lifted the nation's spirits. That's the great depression. Okay, Stu, and here's some redemption possibility for you. That's nothing a horse should do. Bancidance and we're race horses. Gotta go. Oh, no, there he goes. I'll never get up. Yeah, see if it's getting never sticks around. So fast. Yeah. So if it's getting never sticks around. It was so fast. Yeah.

So here's a redemption moment. Here's a chance for a I get a redemption for salvation. Salvation. Yep. MVP to most vertical primate name the animal and the Oh my God. Oh, you know, there's a thing we're like, you know, you know, the Matrix, where he can like see the Matrix.

That's what I'm doing right now. Just like Ellie's dad. So I am going to say chimpanzee. Yeah. I'm going to say skateboarding. Yes, skateboarding. You got it. I was worried you were going to say basketball, which is also a very vertical sport.

Okay, Dan, here's another name one for you. Matilda. Navy, I'm on the sport, Matilda. The raw doll movie. No, this isn't movie starring Elliott. Oh, I shouldn't have given you that clue, but I will. Sorry, is this about a gorilla of the boxes? Wait, no. Is it about kangaroo that boxes? Yes, it's about a kangaroo that boxes. Excellent work, Dan. Excellent work. A kangaroo that

boxes is smoky is coming out of Dan's earpiece. I'm glad you stretched your brain earlier because that would have sprained it. If you had a gorilla that boxes is a terrifying idea. Well, the kangaroo that boxes is a little idea. Well, it's like, I'm the rooted boxes. It's a little amusing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeahpanzee. Yes. What's more extreme than skateboarding?

There's only one thing that's more extreme than skateboarding. You know what I'm thinking? No, you know what I'm thinking? No, you got it. Snowboarding, that's right. Awesome. Okay, Dan, airbud, give me the name, animal and the sport. That is a golden retriever dog who plays.

Originally, I believe basketball. I'm glad that you, I'm glad you mentioned the breed. Stu, airbud golden receiver. Give me the animal. That's, that's a dog, a golden retriever playing football. That's right. Dan, airbud, airbud spikes back. That's a golden retriever playing volleyball. You got that right. Stu, airbud, seventh inning fetch. Oh, fuck. Probably not cricket.

That's a dog that's a golden retriever playing baseball. That's right. I'm glad you're mentioning the breed. You might get a point off if you don't, Dan, air bud, world pup. Uh, I'm going to say this is also a golden retriever who plays soccer. That's right. This football. Yeah. Bo Jackson has nothing on this dog. He plays every sport. And Stu, you guessed it, the final one of the round, the wrestler, named the sport and the animal. Okay. The animal is Mickey Rork and the sport is wrestling. You got it,

technically an animal, technically an animal. Wow, what a round. You guys both scored a lot of points. In fact, you tied on that round. You both had the same number of points for that. Wow. So, so that means that Stewart still just has a slight lead of, if I'm doing my math correctly here, of just four points, a four point lead. So it's all going to come down ironically to round four for this four point lead. Now this is a cooperative game actually. You're a coincidence. Oh, okay.

Yeah. It's a huge irony, Dan. It's an irony. You make the call. That's the name of this one. You make the call. This is a cooperative game in which you will have to call Sylvester Stallone to break the news to him that we didn't mention any of his sports movies during this episode. So guys, if you will just dial the number I put up on your screen there, I'll patch the call in to the recording line. Do you want to go first or ring ring?

Ring ring. Ring ring. Do you want me to go first? Do you want me to go first? No, okay, okay. Ring sound. Uh, yeah, hello. Hey, uh, hey, I'm, uh, is the, is Sylvester Shalon there?

Sylvester there? Uh, speaking. Call me, slide. Oh, hey, oh, hey, Unless you're a telemarker in which case, get the hell off my phone, unless you want to talk about things, because you know, sometimes a guy in my position, you know, at the top of the world for the biggest movie stars in the universe, I don't get to like, you know, talk to people, honestly, about how they're feeling. So are you a telemarker

on what are you selling and how do you feel about it? No, hey, I'm Stuart Madcat Wellington. I'm a podcaster and also the biggest fan of sports movies in the universe. I'm worth that some debate. I heard there was another guy who also well, he was the biggest fan of sports movies. It's great though, we kind of know each other's, you know, like reputation. So please don't, please don't assume a level of familiarity that we've yet to earn. Now that I know, now that I know you're not a telemarketer, I'm not as interested in your opinions on. Interesting. So, Sligh, you have made, call me Mr. Loan, please. Mr. Sloan, you made a number

of movies in your day, correct? You could say that. I have, it's literally a number. The number escapes me at the moment, but as is a finite set of a particular item, in this case, movies featuring me, you cannot say it was an infinite amount. Halls go take forever. And you must be described by a number, yes. Uh-huh. You have some of those movies are about sports, is that correct? You better believe it. If there's a sport, I've made a movie about it, except for hockey, better believe it. If there's a sport, I've made a movie about it, except for hockey, baseball, uh, was I in a football movie? Okay, my wasn't a soccer movie. I did boxing. I haven't done highlight yet. I haven't done Bob sled or skeleton. Uh, I haven't done Javilan or

high jump, yep, or pole vault, mm or pole vault or long jump. So I guess you could say if there's a sport, I've done a movie about it. Yeah, you've done them all. So we're just doing a little game here. I have a guy is spelunking a sport. Because I did a movie where I was on top of a mountain, but I don't think I've ever done one of those under a mountain. Daylight doesn't count.

I was in the sewers. Yeah, yeah, the tunnel. I don't know if it's just for lulking if you're in a tunnel. Anyway, we're playing a game here where we were, oh, that's great. I love games. This is like you guys said, lean cattan. Yeah, it's kind of like a sport. Kids start getting points if he never actually gets around to telling still what he's supposed

to tell. Let me just let me just jump in here and interrupt the call slightly in here me uh... no he doesn't get points that you have to break the news to slice i see so uh... mister slone i just want to say we're just don't know and it sounds like you're saying slone which is not my name that the girlfriend from first-bular uh... so wait you're not related to slone Peterson

i know i'm not related to Sloan Peterson. I know, I'm not related to Sloan Peterson or her father who is who is at one point. So I was just trying to get this top place. Yeah, yeah, Alan Ruck pretends to be. Yeah. So we were playing a game which you love where we're the we're made a movie about it. Remember that movie I did called Oscar? That was originally a movie about a game called Oscar the Game. It's just slow.

I just want to break in. Who are you? Excuse me. I'm having a private conversation here. I'm Dan McCoy. Yeah, you're on speaker. I forget what my, my nickname is, but I really, because well, his nickname he said was mad cat.

I imagine it's too hard to guess what your nickname would be. It was a bad dog. I don't ask me. I'm new to this conversation. Seems like that would be the obvious thing. I don't know why you call me that. You know, we'll see what if I answer you. I mean, you may be calling yourself mad dog, but right now I'm not. I'll see if I answered my name. Hey, I just want to offer you some restaurant quality testitos if you could, if you just take a little info from me right now. You are speaking up music to my ears and to my taste buds. You know I love toastitos.

It's a restaurant quality chip. You would have normally, you would have to go to a restaurant to get that, but you just have them in your house. Like you just buy a bag and leave it in your pantry. Oh, I want some chips. I guess I better go to a restaurant, open the pantry to get your keys, you keep them in the pantry sometimes. There's tostitos. You don't have to go to a restaurant anymore. You save the day. Yes. And unlike a restaurant, you get to pick the size of the bowl that

you're tostitos are in. Oh, that finally freed from the tyranny of restaurant bowls. I can have like just a little bowl. Maybe just like a little finger bowl, I just chips in it. Or it's like a big bowl, like a punch bowl. It's all crystal cut glass. Oh beautiful. Yeah, we do. And the most beautiful thing about it is this full of restaurant quality dosditos. Oh yeah.

Yeah, I'll send you some. If you just let me say something to you for a second, we're gonna. All right, here's my address. So Ves is alone on two three future street time cop America. Wait, you weren't even in time cop. So, this is alone on two, three future street time cop America. Wait, you weren't even in time cop. So, why would you?

More of a demolition man. No, no, no, no, no, I bought time cop and I live there now. Oh, you bought stock and time cop? No, no, I bought the world of time cop because whenever you make a movie, that world comes into existence. I don't know if you're aware of that. In a way, yeah, there's a lot of more told me. Here's the thing in the demolition man world, since every restaurant to Taco Bell,

you can't get restaurant quality chips at home. You gotta go to a restaurant. But in time cop, you can just buy tostitos. They still have that in that future. Demolition man, they don't have it anymore. Well, time cop has regular toilets. Whereas demolition man has weird toilets. So I don't want to live in that future.

I want a regular toilet. So I bought the time cop world and I live in it now. So I didn't want to live in that future. I want a regular toilet. So I bought the time cop world and I live in it now. That's why there's that scene in time cop where it just uses a regular toilet, Dan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know what, we don't want to keep you any longer.

We're gonna, we're gonna, we'll let you go. I got another one of the time. This has been really. So what did you want to, so I realized there was probably a reason for calling me. You didn't want to just have it out on me, tostitos as beautiful as a world is that would be. I mean, tostitos were offered, yeah,

we didn't include any of your movies in our sports game. We're sorry, but in a way, what? We've, but we've centered you. What kind of in a way, excuse me, in a way you have, excuse me. I've made so none of the Rockies? Nope. Well, at least you didn't mention any boxing movies, right?

I think we didn't. We didn't have a movie about a kangaroo that bought. Oh, you're right. You talked about Matilda. We didn't talk about the Rocky movies. Are you kidding me? You're kidding me. I mean, are you kidding me?

This is the worst insult since Matilda snubbed us and wouldn't appear in Rocky 2, which was originally going to be called Rocky 2, Rocky versus a kangaroo. And we had to rewrite the whole thing and change the movie because we couldn't get the kangaroo. The kangaroo was like, oh, I'm not alive anymore. I can't be in this movie. And I was like, you're dead to me. And like, I'm so mad about it. I mean, yeah.

For everyone in the early. I mean, technically in Matilda, the kangroo is played by a man in a suit. We were gonna do it. We were gonna do it that way too. Wait, really? Yes. And it was gonna be, it was gonna be mo- Did you see Matilda?

No. It was, it looked at me as he's a psychic girl. It was a movie and we're so, you know, amazed by the effect that it wasn't actual. Now, I guess the, let me take back to back to the real story is not the kangaroo said no because it was just a real going to do it mo cap style we're going to capture mo Howard of the three stuages and and making play the kangaroo but I believe he had died by that point and so we couldn't we couldn't like a kangaroo does exactly like a kangaroo will often do so so none of the Rocky movies or in your, is what's game? No, I mean, not even wait. What about over the top? Name a better movie about professional

arm wrestling? I did. There is a better movie about arm wrestling. No, this probably isn't the only example of a Sylvester being foiled by a kangaroo, right? Sylvester, the cat gets assbeat repeatedly. That's true by hippie, by hippity hopper, I believe was his name, although he was under the misapp reg and that that was a giant mouse. Which is understandable. If you've never seen a real kangaroo, the tale is often told how an escaped kangaroo cited by New Jersey residents was mistaken for the Jersey legend, the Jersey devil of legend. So, Jersey legend is of course John legend's brother. I meant the Jersey

devil, a New Jersey legend of the Pine Barons. I mean, like Bruce Pracine probably is Jersey legend. Yeah, it did Bruce Pracine is also a Jersey legend, but it's not his name. Pine Barons, of course, the brother of Chris Pine. Now, what did you talk about? Sadly, a naval half shoulder. Yeah, it's because of that thing. Now, so did you talk about my soccer movie Victory or Escape to Victory? Is it's also known? No, we made a point there. We didn't talk about any sort of war sort of break out. And what sport did the prisoners of war play? Yeah, I realized that they play soccer.

It just doesn't seem to be primarily. Now, I think there's a lot of cast Haley in this movie. Oh, maybe it should be about baseball. I could, I could on it, but I understand. I understand that it's you saying that. It's like it would be like calling the last boy scout a football movie. Who would do that?

Who would do such a crazy thing? Yeah, who would do such a crazy thing? It would do such a listen like that. Anyway, you know what, you guys are making me laugh. I just remembered that? Who would do such a crazy thing? Yeah, who would do such a crazy thing? Who would do such a crazy thing? It would do such a little like that. Anyway, you know what? You guys are making me laugh. I just remembered that I'm a very rich movie star and I don't need to be in your, in your little game on your, what is this like a, like a show and tell scene for school? The times are basically. Yeah.

We're putting on a play for our parents. Oh, that's really adorable. Well, anyway, if I can donate some tostitos to the after party, I'd be happy to do it. In exchange for the tostitos, you said you were going to send me. Yeah. So sure, sure. Really, it saves the wound of not being included in your little play. For the future, I'm happy to be in school plays. I love to hang out to my passion.

My passion school like this acting number one, number two screenwriting, number three, kangaroos. They're just an amazing animal. And I just wish I could work with them. Yeah, we can just hang out. We'll just, number three kangaroos. They're just an amazing animal and I just wish I could work. Yeah, we can just hang out. We'll get in touch with your agent whenever another school project comes up. We're just going to go down. We'll let you go now. Yeah, let me show you what I can do.

Teeth are important. All people are born with 30 teeth. Is that true? I don't know. You're going to have to write the script for me. And click. Yeah, we'll get, we'll get, uh, total deal. We'll have that.

Oh, he got distracted. He hung up. Stop talking. All right, everybody. You boasted a great job, uh, winning over. I didn't think you're going to be able to do it, but you really want to, we got him down. I think I'm going to hand this to Dan.

Dan, uh, Dan, Dan, while I kept him busy, Dan came up with a strategy. That's true. He got, he, Dan, you got him so mad. But in the end, I guess you neged him and that allowed him to be open to talking to you more afterwards. So you know what? Stuart had a four point lead going into that round, but for, for winning over Stallone, Sly himself so well, you get four points from that round.

It's three gets zero. That's right. It's a gets zero. That's right. It's a tie game here on the field house. It is a tie. It wants it to be the food ball. Food ball. Just like what? Food ball.

Yeah, just like in the, just like in the beautiful game, it is a tie. And so normally we'd go into sudden death. We're in you guys would both have to act out the entirety of the movie sudden death to me. And I have a great New performance, but we just know that time it's a flop house mini. It is hot. It is a hockey movie. Yes I'll be powers. I'll be powers. You can be Sean club and cool. Yeah So Dan get your I think penguin mascot But we don't have time for that. That's the end of our flop house mini

This has been the field house. We still don't know who is the biggest sports movie fan of all time. The mad dog or the mad cat. Maybe we'll figure it out next time on a thank both of our contestants. Dan mad dog McCoy and Stewart mad cat Wellington. I want to thank our producer Alex Smith who hopefully put in some sports sounds, but left a few of the times when I go whistle sound. We are part of the maximum fun network.

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I've never seen Ted Lasso. So what are you going to do? All right. So maybe I'll say, maybe I'll say, air horn. Alex, maybe you don't need to go air horn. That's fine. I don't know. No, I think, I think what you did was good.

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