The Flop House - FH Mini 89 - Screen Gems

Episode Date: September 16, 2023

Elliott quizzes Dan and Stu on cinematic treasures.We’ve changed how we’re running FLOP TV — now all of the shows will be up until late January, so that even if you buy a season pass late in the season, you’ll have access to EVERY episode until then. You can buy tickets here!Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund, to support those affected by the WGA strike.

Hello everybody, welcome to a flop house mini. I want to apologize ahead of time. This is your co-host, Elliot Kaylen. I have a bit of a cough. So you may hear me coughing in this episode. I can't wait to introduce my co-hosts on this episode. Daniel McCoy and Stuart Wellington, but first I wanted to make a brief mention about something I'm going to tell you about more later.

We had a great show on September 9th Saturday where we talked about cool world on video in front of the audience. You can still watch that show even if you missed it on September 9th. I'll explain later in the show how you can do that and we're doing two live shows in person in front of human beings in a room at Videots in LA on October 19th. I'll tell you more about that later in the show. But first, I mentioned them already, I teased them and I like to tease these guys. They're a tease of all. Here are my co-hosts, guys, introduce yourselves for reels. I'm Damakoy, teased like some 80s hair. I'm so Wellington pleased by all this teasing. That's great. Now, I wish the mini was about teasing, but it is not. So everybody, this

is a flop house mini episode. Wasn't that mean? It's a little bit shorter than a regular episode, so though occasionally longer. And instead of watching a bad movie and then talking about it, we're going to be talking about some other thing. Often it's a game that we play with each other. And that's what it's going to be tonight because guys, I don't know if you know this, but Dan and I are on strike. Strike from our jobs.

And when I hear the word strike, I think just one thing. That's right, striking it rich, oil, gold, diamonds, mineral wealth. Mother Earth is just full of valuable junk. All you have to do is dig that shit right out of her. So that means it's going to... And we're like, you're like, Matthew Lesco, hoping like the earth is just giving money away. Did you know there's lots of free money under the ground? Which means it's time to celebrate that mineral bounty

with another episode of everyone's favorite valuable resources based movie podcast quiz show, Screen Gems, also known as There's Golden then our films. He he he. Love all of it. We'll be rich. I tell you, Rich.

Oh, no. Stuart is putting his hands to his head and just me and I. Oh, yeah. I can't love it more. Screen Gems, as always, is brought to you by Questionable Eddie's last-minute idea warehouse. Questionable Eddie's. When you just realized you need a topic for tomorrow's

mini episode, and it's also brought to you by the Entertainment Community Fund. If you'd like to support striking entertainment workers or workers affected by the ongoing strike in the entertainment industry, please consider donating to the TV and film fund at entertainmentcommunity.org. But that's enough serious stuff. Let's get to the goofy dumb stuff, guys. Are you ready for a big quiz about big wealth?

Big yes. Yeah, as long as it's big, it sounds like big fun. It's going to be big wealth. Big yes. Yeah, as long as it's big, sounds like big fun. It's gonna be big fun, not bit fun. That would be if this was a game about Bitcoin, it is not, this is instead a game about natural wealth. The things that, you know guys, there's a lot of fake currencies out there.

These crypto currencies, which are, it's value based on nothing. Whereas the value of these things is real and natural and it's based on the fact that it is shiny. That's true. And shiny is a Bitcoin fan. Well, it's a shiny as you want it to be. That sounds like a Zen coin. It's meant to clear your mind. You're Zen Master goes, tell me this student, how shiny is a Bitcoin? And you're like, oh, I don't know. Just a bit. Okay. Just a bit Chinese.

Well, guys, are you ready for Round 1? All right. Couldn't be more ready. Yeah. Okay. Round 1 of Screen Gems is called Treasure of the Sierra movie. I'm going to name a movie and you're going to tell me what is the valuable stone or element or thing?

What's the valuable thing that the characters in the movie are all chasing around and looking for? Love it. It's a, I got you characters in the movie are all chasing around and looking for it? It's, I got you, I'm going to break your game wide open. It's a mcguffin. All right. I guess you, in a way, you kind of just won completely. That's true. I can go for an egg mcguffin right now. Can I be kept in the enterprise now? That's right. One look will be actually. Yeah, this is the, this is the co-re. Yeah, you broke the game. You're now the greatest hero in the world.

Is it that he went in and recoded the test? That's what he did. So he cheated. That's just cheating. Yeah. Okay. Dude, I just got to the nerve. That's all they do in every game is cheat.

It's crazy. Yeah. So for those, for people who are not aware of the Kobayashi Maru, the Kobayashi Maru is a test that that startfully to Academy kidettes have to go through in which they realize at the end that Kobayashi was a made up character that verbal Kent was just lying about in the story he was telling the usual suspects. I got to say, he got the name from the bottom of a cup. The Kobayashi Maru is a cool idea for like, okay, the training here is to, it's philosophical. So that a Starfleet captain can accept that they may encounter a no-win situation and to

sort of be psychologically prepared for that. Cool idea. I feel like after the first class takes the Kobayashi Maru and everyone's talking about the Kobayashi Maru, the effectiveness of that is done. You go on to start fleet Reddit and you're like, yeah. The thing about the first rule of Kobayashi Maru is supposed to be that, no, you don't talk about Kobayashi Maru. That's the first rule.

Second rule, see the first rule. But then Dan always has problems with public education. Don't get him started on critical race theory. Anyway, so you're on going to name a movie. I'm going to name a movie. And you're going to name the valuable thing that they're looking for. Dan, you'll go first and then we're all tonight. And yes, in this in this game, you can steal. If the other person gets it wrong, you can get a point by answering it right. Okay. So Dan, I'm going to name a movie. You name the valuable thing the characters are looking for. The Pink Panther. They are looking for, I believe, the Pink Panther. And that is a thing of a diamond. Yes, it's a diamond. Thank you. Which makes the rest of the series

title and conventions confusing. But, yes, none of the other movies involve the pink Panther diamond. The much the same way as in the movie The Thin Man, Claude Wynett, the missing scientist, is the thin man they are looking for. But then after that, they're like, eh, William Powell's kind of thin. We'll just pretend he's the thin man from now on. He's not, he's not, he's not a, he's not a fat man, but he's not the, he's a fat man. I guess the second movie is called After the Thin Man because it's literally like after whatever happened in the movie.

It's a great sequel to it. If the sequel to Star Wars was called After Star Wars, I mean they did that with After Mash. That's true. They called the Thin Man president. And the movie Aftermath is about what happens after you learn math. And after Earth. And the movie aftermath is about what happens after you learn math. And it has to earth. And that's after the earth, the documentary series.

Yeah. So Stuart, so Dan has a point. Stuart, he's on the board. I got a point. Okay, what valuable thing are they looking for in the movie, Sisu? Oh, gold. You're right. It's gold.

They're looking for it. Sisu, Dan, you're out next to the movie Uncut Gems. And I want you to be as specific as possible. Well, there's an Uncut Gems. Yes. That the idea is, I guess, that Adam Sandler's character is like, if I cut this, it'll be worth a lot of money. In a sense, but what is the particular gem that the plot revolves around? The particular Uncut Gem. Is it a type of diamond?

Well, no. It's a black diamond. It's a black diamond. Okay, you're halfway there. I'm gonna steal that shit. What is it? What, Dan, are you officially saying no? I am officially saying? No.

I am officially saying no. Okay, Stuart. So wait, I can't steal until my opponent gives me permission to. Well, you got to give him credit. You got to give him credit. Yeah, that's, yeah, that's, yeah. I mean, this one, he's made a clear he doesn't know it. It's an Opal, right?

It is a, should I give each of you half credit? Is they black Opal? Black Opal, Bob and maybe each half credit. I also would have accepted a Jule and Crusted Furby. Oh, yeah. Stop playing the movie. I mean, it's in the movie. It's in the movie. He's right, Dan.

Yeah, right. Okay, so it is the black opal that they're looking for. A Stuart, you're up next. The movie is the treasure of the Sierra Madre. What are they looking for? Well, they're looking for treasure. I'm going to say, I actually don't know this movie. I mean, I've heard of it. Is there any good? Do you know what their relationship to badges is in that movie? Oh, do they steal that bit from teaching Sean?

They stole that bit from the movie, UHS, yeah. Yeah. What are the looking for? I'm going to say they are looking for gold. Yes, you're right. It's gold. Yeah. The airmod tray. Okay. Stewart, that was great. You didn't even see the movie and you got it. Dan, you see this movie. If my next movie is gold, stirring, ratch or more, I'm going to look at the next movie. You're next movie is full four. Dan Avatar. What are they looking for? An avatar.

They're looking for an unobtainium. You got that right. An element that James Cameron caught a lot of shit for, but he took that from real scientists. Whether or not it still sounds dumb, you can argue that, but it's not James Cameron's fault necessarily. No, there's other dumb stuff that he can take. The book stops with him, you know? I guess so. He's the director and writer, yeah.

I totally forgot to put the fucking dog face octopus in his Titanic. He has a track record of where his Titanic movie is so inaccurate. He has the people on the titanic drowning to death. When in reality, as we know from the legend of titanic, they were all saved by tentacles in his maritime buddies. Yeah. And the heroism of Camembert, the mouse, in allowing them to electrocute him through his

mustache to send out his cello. The world's most conductive mustache. Which would have killed a lesser mouse, but luckily. Stuart, I don't know how psychic you are, but the answer is very because the answer is gold, starting Roger Moore. What is the thing they're looking for? Gold. It is gold. What a great opening title sequence for that movie. It's amazing opening titles. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, you really get the idea that that movie is about gold. I've never seen this movie. Should I see it?

No, but just look up the opening title sequence. It is. Okay. I've never seen this movie. Should I see it? No, but just look up the opening title sequence. Okay. It is. Yeah. My parents had it on VHS tape with like three other movies.

And I remember it like, I would see the opening and then be like, I don't know what I was doing. No, it's not going to live up to it and it doesn't. Dan, your movie is Notorious. Oh. What is the valuable element or thing they're looking for in notorious? Um, the Muguffin, as Stuart put it earlier when he broke the game. Mm-hm.

I remember some sort of like dust. Is it? Uranium? It is uranium. You did a great job. It's not unobtainium. It's uranium. It's no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, notorious, no, notorious. Well, that's what you also could have said.

You also could have said hip hop. Go, son film. Yeah. Girls on film. Yes. Different songs. A medley now. Different songs.

I don't know why this medley and all that's unrelated. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I'm his real and she I just like her and we we should we should for like the wool. We should form like a Durand Iran cover band we could call ourselves students to dance. Okay, let's talk about this. Hold on, we were going to make this mini short, but let's talk about this. So students, now touring the Sudan.

So you'll be you'll be huge to ran to ran audience in the Sudan. Is it North Sudan or right? Both why limit ourselves. Sounds so down. So guys, so guys are oyster. Are you doing just straight covers of Durand Iran songs or they also

Durand Iran songs we've inserted yourselves in it in some way. I mean, a little bit of that. I mean, it's it's going to beopelic, because that's what people like. Okay. And it will cut down on our travel costs, because we don't have to travel at home for it. Yeah.

That's a life hack for a life hack. Hey, Nick Rose, leave the keyboard at home, buddy. Yeah. You got to tell Rush to have fewer drums on that stage, you know? Oh, man. Yeah, yeah. to tell Rush to have fewer drums on that on that stage. Oh, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Imagine the shipping costs. Yeah, the shipping costs because they mail it.

They go to the post office. I mean, they got stamps.com. That stamps.com. Stamps.com. Stamps. Stamps. Stamps. Stamps.

Stamps.com. Yeah, it stands for doppelganger because it's the evil duplicate of Stamps.com. They only mail people's drum. Yeah, because I sure hope this drum my drum kit gets to be gets to the arena on time. Oh, okay. So, um, robot in the families, dude, this is your movie robot in the family. What are they looking for at it? So this is a movie we've talked about covering, but you guys said it was too bad and that you didn't want to watch it. Yes, because I've seen it before, even though it was shot in a part of New York, I know very well.

So Stuart, here just, there's going to be based on context clues because there's a robot involved. I'm going to say gold. You got it, gold is the answer. Yep. Dan, now it's your turn. Now it's your turn. Your movie is Fools Gold.

What is the valuable thing they're looking for in Fools Gold? I think they're looking for actual gold in the form of maritime treasure. I think they're looking for love and they find that shit. You guys have credit to both of you again. The answer is gold and love. So that's a so still you are, you are really killing it today in these steals. You are snaking it. Now your fun. The uncut, Jim, we made along the way. Yeah. And so Stuart, this is the final question the round Kelly's heroes.

I'm going to say, man, I actually haven't seen a lot of these movies. Kelly's here. She as a fun movie. Yeah, I mean, I should. It ends with one of the more inexplicable like, we're just going to have a Johnny song. Well, you're like, remember all these heroes? Well, it's because the theme song, friends all tried to warn me, but I didn't even try. It's called Burning Bridges or something like that. Yeah, it's kind of like, burn your bridge.

You've got to burn your bridge. It's the song is totally out of step with the rest of the movie. It sounds like the end of Return of the King. So yeah, at the end of Return of the King, when they play what is a Chris Isaac song? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When they play Bullish King. They play Bullish King. He's so many, they played Walking on Sunshine at the end. It was like, first, but they keep in the scene of scouring the shire. And then they play walking on sunshine. Man, Sharky wouldn't asshole. I'm glad he gets, gets in the end.

Okay. But then with his machine, Sharky's machine, though, was deserved its own movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to say gold. Can you be more specific? Gold coins.

I need it. It's a certain kind of gold. Dan, do you feel like you can steal this half point? Nazi gold. Up, Stuart got it. Not the gold. That's the answer. That's a good answer. It's a worse kind of gold. It was indeed Nazi gold.

They're looking for Kelly's heroes. Do they get it? You'll have to watch the movie to find out. Yes, sir. So that's the leaving round one. Stu is in a slight lead, six to four four against Dan in a category that was somewhat stacked against Dan. I will admit that.

You're thinking. Well, let's move on to our next round. This is this round's called hard rock Q and A. Now I'm going to name a movie and you have to tell me if there's a rock and roll song in it, a giant rock in it or neither. Okay. Okay. Dan, because I didn't quite play fair on that last category, but you did great. Would you like to go first or do you want Stewart to go first? I'll let Stewart go first, actually.

Okay, Stewart, then the first question is for you. Is it, guy has the movie got a rock and roll song, a giant rock or neither in it. And the first movie is Raiders of the Lost Ark. Giant rock. You got that right. They should have first movie is Raiders of the Lost Ark. Giant rock. You got that right. They should have called that movie Raiders of the Lost Rock. Oh, that had been a great idea. Or the Rockers of the Lost Raid. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah, the Boulder at the front. I was like, yeah, take me a second. You're like, huh? The main, the main adventure or not. Let me think about. The best part was I feel like you like rock song. And just just India.

I love it. It is guitar to blow those Nazis away with the power of rock. I'm sorry. You just too darn loud. I love the idea that even if you had then run the entire movie in your head to remember if there's a giant rock in it, you'd get to it pretty quickly. Okay. Dan deep impact.

Is there a rock and roll song, a giant rock or neither? Well, isn't, is both an option? You didn't say it, but there is both, right? Does deep impact have a rock and roll song in it? Oh, you know, when I think you've arm again, just a rock. It's just, thank you. It's just a giant rock. I'll allow you to take it even though you were insultingly questioning my knowledge of deep impact, I guess. You know, that Stuart School of Rock. It's got a rock song in it. You got that right. Of an expensive one. I'm assuming the rights to use immigrant song cost them a pretty penny. Probably. There's a few rocks. There's a lot. Yeah, but what Zeppelin songs are like extra expensive. They're extra expensive because you. Yeah, but let Zeppelin songs are like extra expensive.

They're extra expensive because you have to deliver them by Zeppelin. You can't just ship them like rushes from set. Yeah. You've to deliver them by a lead Zeppelin, which doesn't fly. No, you have to drag it. No, you have to ship that Zeppelin. It has to be dragged ironically by immigrants. So Dan, the rock.

Rock song, rock. Oh, the movie, the rock. Yeah. Well, let's see. Um, don't overthink it. You know what, I, although Nicholas Cage does play, I think a Beatles song at one point. I'll say it has a rock in it. And that Alcatraz is nicknamed the rock.

Incorrect. Stu, you want to steal this one? What? Got a rock song in it. Wrong. It has neither. I am not counting. I'm not counting Nicholas Cage briefly noodling on his guitar and not laying a full song and then saying what a Beatles fan he is and the rock. It's a prison. It's not a rock. It's not my lens. Come on. Yeah, I guess we fucked up because the for the rules of the game, we have to hear an entire song. He gets out of the fun. And that is God in this game. I am indeed. I mean, if we consider the rock to be a giant rock, then any movie has

a giant rock in it because they all take place on land. I guess except for. I mean, specifically nicknamed the rock as per the title. But is Joanne the rock Johnson a rock and roll song or a giant rock? He's not. He's not exactly right. He is. He's made out of stone. He's a man named the rock who is giant Daniel.

Daniel. Don't don't play games. Don't play not at all. Okay. So, okay, the next one is for you. Stu, because Dan, that is you on the run. Stu is Rock of Ages. Uh, Rock of Ages has a rock song in it. You got that right. Dan picnic at hanging rock.

That has a giant rock. You got that right. For real, the music, there's no rock and roll. It's all pan flute, salsa and fear, the massive pan flute, Stuart Galaxy Quest. Uh, oh shit. Definitely a giant rock. Yes, there's a giant rock monster. Not just a rock, but a rock monster. That's what B 52s. Okay, Dan, the never ends my weird out parody of B 52s. Dan, the never ending story.

I believe that that also has a big rock man. He's got that right. Stuart returned to us. And that fucking title track, though, is kind of a rock song. Yeah. But I'm going to go with rock monster that Dan, that's short return to us, that's your name. I don't know that well.

I'm going to say giant rock. You got that right. So got a giant rock monster in it. The known king. Okay. Dan Armageddon. So I'll go back to my original assertion that it has both. You got that right.

It was a trick question. It has a big rock and rock and roll song in it. You don't want to miss a thing unless it's on the end, in which case you can miss it. It's not that great. I don't know. I would say it's amazing. You can. It's crazy.

I think most of Armageddon is dope, but enjoyable. If you're going to miss part of Armageddon, I would say you should probably miss the part with that top right? Yeah, I would think so. Yeah, yeah, it's not, I don't love it. I don't love this one. Okay, so that was Dan Stue, bad day at Black Rock. I'm going to say, a giant rock.

No, neither. It's just a town called black rock. Wait, are you going to steal it? Oh, sorry. Daniel wants to steal it? Yeah, neither. It's a ten- Okay, Dan got that point.

Dan, you know I knew that. No, Dan, see that movie. Dan, you're turned the hot rock. I mean, how giant counts as giant? Because I believe a hot rock is about stealing a big diamond, which is big for a diamond. I would call it a giant rock in that sense, but you're a trickster, so I'm gonna say neither.

You got that right. You figured it out a lot, neither the rock is very little. It's a diamond. It's big for a diamond. It's small compared to like a boulder. So yes, you got that. Yeah, and I thought like mice or something.

I thought I'd trick you, but I was wrong. Okay, Stewart, Rocky. You're trying to trip me up. I'm going to say rock and roll song. No, there's no rock and roll song. Oh, so I did. Do you get to steal? What do you think?

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'll just let it stand without trying to steal because I you know, I might have decided that gonna fly now. I guess it doesn't have lyrics. It does. Gonna fly now. Yeah. Let's just move along. Okay, sorry about that. I should have allowed you to steal. So but I would say that is not a rock song. So Rocky is neither. Rocky 2. This is me. Yes.

I'm going to say that there's a rock song and a Rocky 2. No. Oh no. Stewart Rocky 3. That's serious. I'm going to steal. Nothing. There's nothing in it.

You're right. I shouldn't have said anything. Yes, you should have more rock songs in it. Okay, that's like a natural it. You're right. I shouldn't have said anything. Siri should have more rock songs in it. Okay, that's like a next one. Stuart, Stuart, Rocky 3. It's got a rock song in it. You know it. I the tiger, Dan, Rocky 4.

Let's see, that's the one with the Russian. Are you better not be doing research on your five-and-drag? No, I'm just looking. No, he's in his fucking memory palace. Okay. Uh, I don't remember rock songs, I'm gonna say neither. Stuart? I'm gonna say there's a big ass rock, because he climbs a mountain and hollers.

You are both wrong. Rocky IV James Brown literally plays living in America in the movie. There were multiple rock songs, there's literally a performance in the film. I'm disappointed you both. I can't get to rock song. I mean, he's normally a fun artist, but the song... I'm living in America feels like a rock song. Yeah, that's what a rock song.

Yeah. I guess you could say fun song. If people want to write in and say that I owe a point to Dan for that one, but I would call it a rock song because it rocks. There's a giant goat head behind him, Ellie's playing it. Come on, there's nothing more rock than that. Stuart, you had the last question in the round. Rock you like a hurricane.

I mean, that's a movie. I'm gonna say a rock song. You know what? I like the equation. That was a trick question. It's not a movie. It's a song, but you got it. Yeah.

Okay, so now- By the Scorps, the Scorps do. By the Scorps. So as we go into our break, it's still a pretty close game. Dan has 10 points, Stewart has 14 points. I apologize, Dan, might be a little closer if I had not been so easy to tell people they were wrong and given him the chance to steal stuff. But we're gonna take a quick break for a sponsor, promo, and to tell you more about those exciting flop house

live shows that I teased you with earlier in the mini. Hey, we have a, j-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-mo-trone. That's right. This is a message for Andrea. This is a message from mom, dad, and Samantha. Happy 30th birthday, Andrea. We're giving you the greatest gift of all. Your name said on the flop house.

We love you and can't wait to see what you do next. Stay weird, stay silly and stay sarcastic. And thanks Dan Stewart-Nelliot for making a contribution to Andrea's 30th birthday. In conclusion, happy birthday, Andrea. Happy birthday. Words to live by. We're so happy. Happy birthday. Well, like no, stay silly in sarcastic. Oh, that those ones. Always be birthday. ABB. AB B. Every day is a birthday for somebody. So I want to talk to you guys about these live shows.

I mentioned them earlier. Maybe you are one of the hundreds, if not thousands of viewers, who has already watched our September 9th Cool World, Flop TV show. Flop TV, of course, is our monthly, usually the first Saturday of every month, live show where we broadcast over the internet,

talking about some of the all-time flops of movie history that we have mentioned on the show but never covered before. Last time it was cool world, it was a lot of fun. There was a brief altercation in the beginning over some technical difficulties. Everybody agreed with me that it's a great movie and that everyone should watch it. Nope. But even if you missed it, you can still watch the recording. The recordings for all the flop TV episodes will remain up on the flop TV ticket website

until the end of the run of the series. And so if you go to theflophouse.simpletix.com, you can still watch that video, watch our first episode about Beastmaster II, and get ready for our October 7th broadcast. When we're doing an all-American meat double feature hot dog the movie and hamburger the motion picture. I have to do the summaries for both of those, I think, and I am not looking forward to it, but we'll see what we can do. Two movies at once. Can it be done? Can it be done?

Can it be done? Movie a cha-cho-a, montage a-cho-a. That's what I should have called it a montage a-cho-a. Also, I do the- I. Also, I'm doing the presentation and let's just say that the original cut of my presentation was way longer than I'm like, we're doing two movies. I gotta do my best to get it down. So I'm gonna do my best to keep it tight. Dan, I would much rather you do a long presentation and us give short shrift to hotdog the movie. So don't worry about it too much. I'm gonna do a much more abbreviated summary than normal for both of us.

I think LH should do or Dan should do like a director's cut version of this. It's only available on its premiums. I got a lot of family fans. I'm genuinely, I say this a lot, but genuinely excited to do this presentation. Yeah, we're excited. All right, great. I mean, yeah, I can't wait to see it. So that's October 7th. You can buy your tickets now at the flopophouse.simpletics.com. Season passes are available that are a discount over buying individual tickets. And the season passes still worth it, even if you haven't got, if you get it now, because you can watch the recordings of the episodes you've missed.

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Find us at MaximumFun.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Bye. Guys, you ready to go back to the final round of Screen Gems, aka, there's golden them there. And then there's, there's golden them there, films, okay? This one's gonna need you to use a little bit less knowledge, a little more imagination. The most valuable resource of all, because if there's one thing that humanity could never get by with, it's not gold, it's not even oil, it's

imagination as explained at Epcot Center in Disney World. So this round, round three, fine round is called pigment. Tell you that. Figment did tell me that. Yeah, okay. He said, don't tell anybody, but imagination is the most valuable resource. And now give me all your money. You're a practice skull open and the train Yeah, yeah, I said I wanted his power of imagination added to my own. So I devoured his brain. Oh, that's what happened to him. I haven't seen him around that much. That's why they closed down the ride. Yeah.

So this category, this round is called rock me a movie day, movie days. Okay. Rock me a movie day. I'm going to name a metal. And you are going to have to pitch me a short movie plot about or involving that medal in some way. So use your imagination. I'm going to be and I'm going to be rating this, judging this, just on my own criteria.

So you have to figure it out. I think that's going to be, I guess I'm going to use Top Chef Quick Fire. Quick Fire. Top Chef Quick Fire Rules. It's got to be show imagination. Quick, quick, quick fire. Quick fire, thank you. Top chef, quick fire rules. It's gotta be show imagination. It's gotta show competence and creativity. And it's also gotta really center the metal,

really showcase it and make it an important part. Yeah, I see, I knew as soon as, as soon as the strike happened, LA was gonna use the podcast as a way to pitch himself take over for Padma when she late. I'm too late. I'm too late. They already cast Kristen. Can't wait to see her. She's going to be a natural fit. A friend of mine was a guest judge on this season of, up on the season of Top Chef and said, Kristen is doing a great job. So I can't wait to see it. Okay. So this first move, this first one goes to Dan and you're a medal that you have to build a movie

around and pitch to me right. It really is aluminum. Or as Dave's David Sims would say, aluminum. I was listening to an episode recently where he said aluminum and Z and I was like, come on. I mean, you grew up in the anyway. Let's see. We've all heard the legend. Oh, and I want to end here. Okay, and I want to say this, we, this is called the No Pickstar Rule. You cannot pitch me a movie where it's like all the medals live in a world and aluminum is tired of being made into thin sheets.

Oh, no. Don't do that shit. Don't do it. Um, okay, it's going to be called Legends of the Foil. I love it already, Keith Kelly. It's going to be about a whimsical child who believes that he can build a spaceship out of aluminium foil. So he's a British child.

He's British child, okay. A shrubsher lad or something like that, yeah. Yeah, this is, you know, yeah, he's an under privileged youth in the days of that year. Well, okay. So just getting all that aluminum is gonna be difficult for him. Yeah. Yeah. He endless, a rag tag group of friends, including, you know, like the older British last who's always in these movies, who he has a crush on, but it's too old to see him as anything, but just an adorable kid.

And we're getting into liquor, speech, a pizza territory and I do not like that keep going. Not that much older. Okay. It has a crush on her. I just- It's like a 10 year old, and a 12 year old or something like that. Who knows? Okay.

Well, the who knows opens up a lot of licorice pizza territory, not a fan. And so this is his, you know, like his parents want to send him away to public school, which is what they call private school. But I thought he was poor because they don't understand what the difference between public and private means in England. It's very sad. It's a, it's true. I'm like a, like a pub in England is not like a private club that only make people go to a workhouse there. You know, 50% of the proceeds from this film go to

teaching British people what public and private. Oh, okay, wow. And at the end, what? No, but he's going, yeah, I'm just waiting for the pitch then. At the end, he escapes his, I'm just waiting for the pitch then. At the end, he escapes his, you know, dull life by blasting off into space. And we're left to wonder, is this what really happened? Or did he kill himself? See, I gotta jump in here.

I gotta say this, I think this category is a little unfair because you have an experienced Hollywood pitch man, Dan McCoy. Clearly, clearly, I'm used to the room. Literally never pitched anything. I've taken some general meetings. I've never. Well Dan, I was, look, that was a wild ride for me.

When it first started, I was like, I love the title. Then it was like, okay, it's about getting aluminum. It became so much more about the boys' private life. I really lost sight of the aluminum. It felt like it wasn't being centered. And then I was realizing that you're basically stealing the plot of the astronaut farmer. And I was like, hold on a second, hold on a second.

So I'm gonna give you two points for that. Okay. I was gonna give you more, but it really lost sight of the aluminum. Stewart, you're up next, pitch me a movie about platinum. Platinum. Okay. So opening, opening credits, we see Roger Moore's name, if you should probably allow. And the word platinum is slowly spelled out over a screen.

With images of, images of platinum mining and, and it's incredible. It's striking. images of platinum mining and it's incredible. It's striking. I like you said Dan kind of stole the idea for a movie. I'm just going to steal the opening credits from another. So the rest of the movie takes place is the rise and fall of a nightclub owner Roger Moore. And in the in the swing in 70s, but it set now, so it's elderly Roger Moore as a nightmare. Roger Moore, who is 70 years old at this point. He might be older, actually. I'm sure that Roger Moore is older than that, right? Right.

I'm going to look it up while you pit on something. I'm not going to look up how old my story. I also wanted to mention Rocky IV has other rock and roll songs besides the questionable living in America. There's also burning heart, heart, sun, fire. There's a, so it's a, so I just want to tell if any listener was like mad that living in America is to them is not a rock and roll song. There's other more of the songs in it.

Past away in 2017 at the age of 89. Yes. It's going to be a challenge. It's going to be a challenge. But it's going to be a challenge casting it. We can do it. Yeah. Well, modern AI technology and whatnot.

We can just scan them and set it up. Just get it. Just get it. So it's all about, it's all about platinum blonde hair, platinum jewelry, shiny metal, rise and fall of a nightclub. It's incredible. You're gonna love it. Okay, Stuart, I'm gonna give you zero points. I'm gonna give you zero points for two reasons. One is there was almost the platinum, if anything, entirely negligible to the block. And also the implication that we will use some kind

of technology to bring back a dead actor. One of the major issues in this strike is AI. I cannot stand for it, cannot abide it. No way I'm there. No way I am this way. No, it's totally fair. And when the computers rise up and they hear me saying, no way I on the audio of this, I will take whatever punishment they have for me

for being an anti-computer technologist, I guess. Okay, so Dan, you're up on this round. So here's your one. Let's see what you can do with PyRite. A movie about PyRite. Let's see. Okay. PyRite.

So this is gonna be called PyRomania. Can I steal? Can I steal? Can I steal? Yeah, well, let's what's your steel? Okay, so all of our characters are riding around on a ship called the black pearl. Yeah, what's the title? David Jones is there. Oh, from the late David Jones. So is Orlando Bloom. Cieranightly shows up, Jack Davenport's there. The whole game. And what's the time limit?

Pyrites of the Caribbean. Thank you. That was the, the most important part of the joke. You, you, you, you're leaving out. It's called Roman Polanski's Pyrites. Oh, wow. You guys are really, Dan, the Roman Polanski reference is not getting you anymore, anymore, anymore help.

But tell me, you know, directed pirates. That's true. That's true. And, and the, et cetera, et cetera, pyrites of Penn's Anne. We're white-froaching history. So, Dan, I'm sorry, you're right. You're right. So, there's been too much pyrites, the movie revisionism. So, Dan, your pyrate movie, what's it about? Stu, that was a great joke and giving you one point for it. Dan, what's your py right movie about? Um, so it, like I said, also ice py rights. Dan, continue. So it's py right, you know, what? Not pyrimay new py right mania. Okay, great. And it's about, uh, there's, it's a new gold rush, uh, in a small town, uh, turns out that this town only has fools gold, but so DVD. It's where all the unsold copies of Fools Gold were buried alongside the ET attorney.

No, the mountains are just lousy with pie right around this town. And a second Gold Rush starts, but the town council, the better business bureau or whatever, they're like, don't tell me when it's full schooled because they are cleaning up selling, you know, panning goods, pickaxes and whatnot. And because Goldminey technology has not changed in 130 years, yeah, 106 years. And, and the mayor of the town, this woman falls in love with one of the, the, the minors and finds that she is in conflict because she doesn't want to reveal the large scale deception. The task has been engaged in defleasing these people, but she's falling ever more in love with them.

Okay. Dan, I like it. I'm going to give you two points because the pyreite was much more centered on this one. The movie can't exist without the pyreite, but I was disappointed when you said, there's a new gold rush. I firstly said a nude gold rush, and I was waiting for this to be kind of like some sort of TNA comedy about the town says the only way to dig up the gold is to do it nude. And I thought that was more in your wheelhouse.

There wasn't enough nudity in the pitch. I'm sorry. That's, yeah, I've noticed this if I'm pitching something to Hollywood executives, they end they go, oh, and by the way, the people are nude, then they go, can you pay you right now? It's your turn. Your element, you got to talk about. I think it's a medal is manganese.

Bitch me a movie about manganese. Okay. There is a mine. Okay. Manganese. Okay. And it's having trouble. Okay.

Interesting. Because a bigger manganese mine opened up down the street. Okay. Interesting. So our mom and pop manganese mine is going to be put out of business. Okay. So the local bikini team, all right. Here's the new to you. Ha ha. Have to do a car wash.

Uh huh. Oh, I want to raise money to save the manganese money. Ha ha. Okay. Now I'm going to give you. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, that's okay. And, and they do it and the mind is saved.

Okay. Dan, you want to steal this one? I feel like, do it. You're going to get one point for that because manganese is a tough one. But, uh, Stewart, Dan, you want to steal this one? I feel like, do you, do you want to get one point for that? Because manganese is a tough one. But, uh, Stewart, Dan, you want to steal, try to steal it all? Get some manganese points? Sure, I've got to capitalize on the idea that we clearly don't know what manganese is. If it helps Dan, is it helped to know that manganese was first isolated in 1774? Shit, if you tell me that before, my, my pitch is about a manganese professor. Okay.

Like he's made out of manganese. He's made out of it. He's made out of it. No, no, there's a guy, like a con man discovers the dead body of a manganese. I wish there's some specific stewards. Do you face right now? A manganese teacher, a teacher who specializes in talking about manganese. Okay. He steals this guy's 10 year track position that he just. Okay, I'm gonna stop you right there, Dan. I'm gonna stop you right there. He has to be given like five points. He has to speak knowing about Mangini. No, there's

not enough Mangini's in this. That could be any, any, any element. I'm gonna steal. I'm gonna give myself five points. Okay. The movie is, it's Stewart's start. There's a mom and pop Mangini's mind. It's, there's a mom and pop manganese mind, there's a big one that goes in, but there's secret, they get an orangutan and he can mind manganese fast and everybody else is called mangan tan. That's the movie. Okay, so next one, Dan, this is yours, it's Beryllium. I need a movie about Beryllium.

Beryllium. Yeah. Uh, my, it's called my Barillion career and it's a young lady who, um, has a secret. And the secret is that she's made of brilliant. Okay. Okay. Better, better than before. And, you know, she has to, she has to wear like sort of big blousey clothes and a mask to keep people from knowing her secret.

And how is being made of barilium manifests physically? Well, Dan, would it help to know that barilium, it has a nuclear spin of three over two? That's actually pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. And you can't your problem. Yes, that's the crux of the issue is she has to hide from everyone. Like everyone would see her and think like that has a nuclear spin of three over two. So she has to hide it, which leads her to be an outcast in the community until a tiny dog, but she adopts.

Freeze, you know, like warms her burlium heart and she opens herself up to... Literally, but she's made out of burlium. She's really open herself up to being accepted by the community. Sadly, they do not accept her because human beings are often a prejudiced and cowardly lot and they throw her off. Wow. That's a chilling story of Antelope. It's a chilling story.

He's been pretty exciting and Dan's always sad. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to keep, I'm trying to get people with the world as it is. No, I'm trying to get the American people excited about real. I'm here. I don't want to bum them out. Well, then change their hearts and minds with my story.

It's a good point. Okay. So Stu, I'm going to give you, do you want to try to steal this one? You just want to go on to the next one. I want to go on to the next one. Okay. Dan, you get no points for that. Okay.

What? Okay. I'll give you one point. It looked like he was gonna be really bereal focused when she was made out of brilliant. And then again, once again, it was about people. Never really. Okay, Stuart, this is the last one. It's a metal you're very familiar with.

It's a, I think it's a metal that you'll be able to make a movie about. And that metal is sludge metal. Okay, so sludge metal. We open in New Orleans, Louisiana. I'm just kidding. It's actually Disprosium. This is the smellless Disprosium. If it helps, if it helps, it's a rare earth element in the Lampenite series with a metallic silver luster. Never found in nature. Never found in nature,

right? It is found in, well, it's never found as a fielness found in various minerals such as Xenotime. Xenot time. And we're getting towards Zeno time. So we should probably wrap up this episode pretty quick. Just tell me a quick story about disprozium. Okay, so disprozium. Zeno time is when you shoot an arrow and it never reaches its destination because it's xenotime. I'll give you a point for that, Dan.

Thank you. So. You know what, Stuart, tell us that sledge metal movie. Let's see. We have a no, no, no, I can, I can, I can follow the brief. Does it help to know that we are the components of Turfanol D along with iron and terbium? I actually already knew that. Yeah, you already know that Turfanol D is the highest room to perform mega-meda restriction of any known metal. Clear Clear. But by you telling me it's kind of insulting actually metal explaining. Sorry.

I don't mean to met splain to you. Thank you. So we, we open on a mom and pop dispersium mine. And there, just on hand, which one of the seven, which one of the seven isotopes of naturally occurring dispersium is, is is, are they mining? The fourth one. Okay. Oh, that's the best one.

And a bigger Disbrosium mine opens down the street. Wow. Okay. And they have to get in a ring into the bubble. Okay. Now listen. Okay. Interesting. I'm going to bring it to the table. Okay, now listen. Okay, interesting.

And the bikini team has to do a car wash. We have to do both things. Okay, both things. So something for the kids and something for the dads, sure. Okay. Yeah. And then they win and the mom and pop, dispersion mine is saved. Stuart, you're getting three points for that.

That's the most that anyone's got. Dan, do you want to get any points off of this dispersion? No, I don't. I don't. I don't. I do. Okay. Well, why don't you guys take a minute to talk about the game and how you liked it while I tell you up the score? Oh, man. So that was really fun, Dan. I feel like you were very good at pitching. Thank you. You weren't as good and ding movies. Well, I don't know. I mean, I feel like it's acquired taste. Um, you weren't as good at the round where I, uh, knew all the metals were gold.

And you didn't know that. That was, I should go now. Well, you got to, yeah, you got to work on that. Uh, okay. Everybody were back to the scores. Again, a close game. This is what Dan, you should be very proud of how you did, but not too proud because Stu won. That was the score of 19

to 16. So a close game. And I think if we factor in the fact that I deliberately designed round one to make it easier for Stu, then we might as well call it a statistical tie. Thank you, everybody for listening to this episode of the flop house. This was a mini about about all the beautiful, valuable things that are just waiting in there inside the earth. And all we have to do is tear open Mother Earth's flesh and rip it out like the scavengers and vermin. We are. Mother seems very pleased with the human race right now.

Yeah. My eyes are all caching some of that goodwill. Yeah, exactly. For more on the subject, see the song Blackened by Metallica. Okay, everybody. This has been a Flapp House episode. Our producers, Alex Smith, find him online under the name Howell Dottie. We're also a member of the Maximum Fund Podcast Network. Go take a listen at some of their other fine Maximum Fund Podcasts. If you like this show, why not go on iTunes or your podcast app of choice and leave a supportive review.

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