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dan
On this episode of The Flop House we discuss—Godzilla: King of the Monsters! [Audience applauds, cheers.]
stuart
Cars!!!
music
Light, up-tempo, electric guitar with synth instruments.
dan
Hey, everyone, and welcome to The Flop House. I’m Dan McCoy.
stuart
I’m Stuart Wellington!
elliott
And I’m Elliott Kalan. And we’re in Boston again. [Audience cheers, applauds.]
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Elliott and Stuart: Oh, boy!
elliott
And Dan? When we’re in Boston, what do we like to do on this podcast?
dan
[Laughs.] Well, we like to do the same thing as we normally do, but we wear—
elliott
“Try to take over the world.” Pinky and the Brain. Wonderful, yes. [Audience laughs.]
dan
We talk about—
stuart
Wait—was that set in Boston?
elliott
Yeah. It was originally called Pinky and the Brain’s Boston Adventure. [Stuart laughs.] And then they were like, “They never leave the cage, really. Or they rarely do. So why are we calling it out as Boston? If we just take Boston out of the title then people can imagine it’s happening in their town.” And then the executives were like, “That would be frightening. If I had super-intelligent mice in my town? But okay! You’re Steven Spielberg We’ll do it!” [Audience laughs.]
dan
Um, so— [Laughs.] [Audience laughs.] I’m sorry. Guys? Listeners at home, Stuart just did the most amazing presentation. I really—
elliott
Dan is really suffering. [Audience cheers, applauds.]
dan
I wish you had been here for it.
elliott
I feel like—
dan
I wish you had been here.
elliott
Dan has never in his life had a sexual or professional experience— [Audience laughs.] —that so satisfied him the way that Stuart’s presentation did. His mind is wiped. He is spent.
dan
[Through laughter] I really—it really is. [Stuart laughs.] I can’t remember what we do.
stuart
So is someone else driving this… car, if you will? [Audience cheers, applauds.] So what we normally do on this podcast—we watch a bad movie and we talk about it. And today we watched a movie and we’re gonna find out if it was bad or not. Today we watched Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
elliott
That’s right—not Godzilla King of the Monsters, like that’s his last name. Godzilla—colon—King of the Monsters. Because a big monster’s got a big colon. [Audience laughs.]
dan
[Laughs.] Hi. I’m Elliott Kalan. For—
elliott
“Hi. I’m Elliott Kalan for Monster Rectal Health,” as I stand up. “It’s not anything any of us wants to think about. That the monsters we love might, in some way, damage their rectums. And yet—if we all take a moment to pay a little more attention to the rectums of our monsters—their lives will be better for it and we’ll really appreciate it. Join me, won’t you? On a journey inside the monster colon.” [Audience laughs.] “I hope you’ve got wading boots and a spelunker’s helmet, because I didn’t bring enough for everybody.” Well, we watched Godzilla: King of the Monsters. And let’s just say right off the top—I was excited about this one because longtime listeners of the podcast will know that I’m an old time G fan.
stuart
Uh-huh. That means a fan of Godzilla, right?
elliott
That’s exactly what it means. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
Cool. Just trying to stay up to speed.
elliott
Not a fan of the Guyver. It’s fine.
stuart
Wait—what?!
elliott
It’s fine.
stuart
Why are you dragging the Guyver into this?
elliott
It’s just not as good as—
stuart
Do I have to—I’m gonna tweet Mark Hamill.
elliott
No! Don’t do that! [Audience laughs.] Now, as a kid, loved the Godzilla movies. Here was how I felt as a kid. I’ve changed since then. I’ve matured. Big monsters—yes, human-sized monsters—no. Thumbs down. Now I appreciate the human-sized monsters: Draculas, Frankensteins, the Mummy I’m still not crazy about. Wolfmans. You get ‘em all. Anyway. Gillmans. All of ‘em. But Godzillas and their associated giant monster brethren were the best. So when they told me Godzilla was coming back, I was like, “I am ready for this.”
stuart
Uh-huh. And then Matthew Broderick was like, “I don’t think you know—” [Audience laughs.] “This is not your daddy’s Godzilla, my friend.”
elliott
He called me and he said, “I think maybe you should sit this one out.” And I was like, “Ferris Bueller finally meeting Godzilla? Just like my fanfiction?” [Audience laughs.] “You but I’m gonna watch it!” I should’ve taken that day off, though. From Godzilla movies. And then there was the Godzilla movie from five years ago and it was fine. So anyway. Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Let’s just go through this movie, shall we folks? It’s five years after Godzilla the first movie came out. When Godzilla emerged from the—
stuart
That’s the original Japanese Godzilla?
elliott
No. [Dan laughs.] It is five years since the last American Godzilla movie came out. It is—
stuart
Which was just called Godzilla, right?
elliott
It was just called Godzilla. [Audience laughs.] It is five years after the events of that film. Godzilla emerged, ruined San Francisco—worst Pride Day ever.
stuart
Oh, weird. I mean, I feel like gentrification has already ruined San Francisco. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Whoa! Hot take! Hot take! Hot take! What the tech industry started, Godzilla finished! [Audience laughs.] Every time he knocked over a building I was like, “I hope it’s full of tech program coders.”
stuart
Wow. I was like, “Wow, calm down, Elliott.” [Laughs.]
elliott
Yeah. And there was that shot of all these people who were frightened—
stuart
Elliott says as he angrily types it into his iPad.
elliott
There was all these shots of people priced out of their homes going, “Thank you, Godzilla! Thank you!” So anyway, it’s five years later. Godzilla hasn’t been seen in a while. Everyone’s mad at Monarch, the official monster-hunting organization whose logo looks like a bowtie. If you saw the name Monarch and the logo looked like a bowtie, you would think it was some kind of gentleman’s website where you order bowties online. [All laugh.]
dan
Yeah. “We’re disrupting the bowtie industry.”
elliott
And how would you do that exactly?
dan
Uh, well, I guess some sort of box service where every month you get a new bowtie? Y’know?
stuart
It’s actually not a bad idea. [All laugh.]
elliott
Yeah. It’s a pretty good idea, yeah. [Audience laughs.]
dan
You’re never stuck in one of those situations—those common situations—where you’re like, “Oh, I wish I had a bowtie. Well, what am I gonna do?”
elliott
Wait, so it finds you wherever you are?
dan
[Laughs.] Yeah. No, it’s delivered by drone.
elliott
Oh, okay. Great. Okay.
stuart
And those drones look like monarch butterflies.
dan
And the drones tie the bowtie around your neck ‘cause no one can tie a bowtie.
elliott
Thank you! No one! Even the inventor of the bowtie, Solomon Bowtie. Could not tie the bowtie. But he had hooks for hands. That’s why. [Audience laughs.]
dan
An old relative of mine.
elliott
Yeah. [Laughs.] You’re related because you both have hooks for hands? And so that’s a genetic thing?
dan
Yep.
elliott
So anyway. Monarch—everyone’s like, “Monarch, what’s your deal?” And Dr. Serizawa—Ken Watanabe from the last movie—it’s like, “We need to find a way to coexist with these monsters that keep stepping on us!” “Alright, let’s find it.” There’s a family of scientists and they’re gonna be the central characters of this here film. They are Vera Farmiga, Kyle Chandler, and their daughter Maddie. Actress’s name I don’t know. But she’s the psychic girl from Stranger Things, right?
dan
Yeah. She’s Eleven. Millie Bobby Brown.
elliott
She’s older than eleven.
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Dan: Yes. Stuart: Yeah. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
She’s the character Eleven.
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Stuart: That’s her character. Dan: Her character’s name is Eleven.
elliott
From The Prisoner.
dan
No. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
But what if— [Audience laughs.]
dan
It’s just her name. It’s like how briefly in the comic strip Peanuts there was a kid named Three.
elliott
Or like how Blossom’s best friend was named Seven.
dan
No.
elliott
Or Six?
dan
Six.
elliott
Well I thought she was better than Six. She deserved to be Seven.
dan
Oh god.
elliott
Anyway. Look, I’m sorry if that’s a hot take on Blossom’s best friend. That she deserved better than the name Six. So anyway. These scientists—they had a son who died on G-Day, which they don’t call it in the movie but they should. The day Godzilla attacked San Francisco. And they broke up. It ruined their family. Now Vera Farmiga is a scientist who lives in a Monarch outpost where her daughter, Maddie, has the run of the place. So that when they go to watch a Mothra being born, her daughter just runs up to it and is like, “Let me touch the egg! Let me touch the egg!” And the government scientists are like, “I’ll allow it.” Anyway. [Audience laughs.] A Mothra larva gets born and they calm it down with what we’re gonna call an Orca, but it’s a device that can identify and mimic a monster’s bioacoustics. Let’s just stop for a moment. Guys? [Multiple people laugh.]
stuart
Yeah.
elliott
You’re real fans of bioacoustics, right? ‘Cause that’s—there’s a lot of talk of that in the movie.
dan
That HiFi company, I guess? Bioacoustics? It’s—they’re a HiFi company in a David Cronenberg movie. They install a record player in your belly.
elliott
Okay. Keep talking.
dan
That’s all I have!
elliott
You have to be a pretty big customer to hold a whole record player.
dan
I mean, y’know. Why should only the tiny be—have HiFi equipment, Elliott?
elliott
You’re right! That’s exactly what I was implying and I was wrong to do so. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
Now… we’re gonna talk about bioacoustics a lot today, and it would be really easy for us to make a bunch of fart jokes. Right? [Audience laughs.]
elliott
That is the ultimate bioacoustic. But for this one it just means roaring that you can somehow track and also is—what—encoded in the DNA of the monster? They just “bioacoustics” and hope that we’re like, “Is that a thing? I guess it is. I don’t wanna seem dumb so I’m not gonna ask about it.”
stuart
Is it like that thing on like how infants crying is hardwired into our brains to annoy us?
elliott
I mean, it is to me, ‘cause I’ve got one at home and he’s always crying and I can’t get it out of my head. Constantly ringing through my ears! [Dan laughs.] Like the heart of the man I killed. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
Oh wow!
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Dan: Tear up the floorboards! Elliott: But I killed him. I buried him under the floors. I can hear him now. Stuart: I mean, for many reasons your children [through laughter] shouldn’t be listening to this episode now. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
It’s the beating of that hideous heart and it’s beating like this! [Singing] Bomp-bo-da-do-ron-don-ra-da-duh—it’s beating “Money”—the song—I don’t know why! Anyway. Bioacoustics.
dan
Does the heart have the rights to that song?
elliott
The heart wants what it wants, Dan. [Audience laughs.] Including the rights to “Money.” So—
dan
It seems like that heart would play “Heart,” but carry on. I know. It wasn’t worth me stopping you for that. [Audience laughs.] We both know when I did it.
stuart
Maybe put your notes aside and we can talk about this.
elliott
Look, if I—I can’t judge someone else for stopping something for a joke that’s not worth it. [Audience laughs.] Let he who is not me cast the first stone.
dan
I just know it’s gonna come up in my annual performance review, so I’m just saying that I know—
elliott
Oh, your annual performance review is mostly gonna be about your Twitter feed.
dan
Okay. [Audience cheers, applauds.] But they don’t have a lot of time to commune with this Mothra larvae, ‘cause Charles Dance walks in with his bunch of goons and they kill everyone almost.
stuart
He walks in? Or does he… dance in? [Audience laughs.]
elliott
No, he walks in. Unfortunately. He should dance in. But he walks in and shoots everyone but Vera and Maddie. Takes them and the monster-calling machine. He’s an ecoterrorist, it turns out, who think monsters should rule the world. He takes them to his base in Antarctica where—frozen in ice—they have Monster Zero, the ultimate monster. Or I’ll call him Ulta-Monster. Like sort of Mega-Monster.
dan
The Alpha Monster? Where uh—
elliott
Yeah. He killed someone in front of the Rolling Stones concert. Yeah, okay. Great. [Audience laughs.] And Monarch, they’re like—how shall we catch a Vera Farmiga? Only one person can—her ex-husband, Kyle Chandler! He hates monsters! This is good screenwriting! The two characters have diametrically opposed views of monsters! [Audience laughs.]
stuart
It’s kinda like in the Mummy movies, how in the first movie Rachel Weisz’s brother doesn’t know a mummy exists. Second movie, he’s terrified of mummies. By the third movie, he hates ‘em.
dan
But I also enjoy the fact that the death of their child via Godzilla has led them to different conclusions. Kyle Chandler—more logically, one might think—hates your Godzillas and other monsters. Were as Vera Farmiga looks at the Godzilla death of her child and like, “Yeah, okay. More monsters.”
elliott
She’s like, “Science wins out. Godzilla’s stronger than my son.” [Audience laughs.] “I gotta go with the winner on this.” She’s like, “Some people like sons. I like sons that don’t get crushed by monsters.” [Audience groans.] Anyway. I didn’t say it! She did! In the version I just made up! [Audience laughs.] So he hates monsters. You might go as far as to say he wants to destroy all monsters. Little Easter egg for the G fans out there. So Monarch, they track Godzilla’s bioacoustics ‘cause I guess you can do that. ‘Cause there’s not a lot of noise in the sea, I guess. [Audience laughs.] He’s swimming over to Antarctica. It’s almost like he’s being drawn… to Monster Zero. Guys? What do you think he’s hoping to get out of this rendezvous with Monster Zero?
stuart
Maybe a friend or a battle.
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Elliott: I mean, those could be the same thing! Yeah. Stuart: Those are really two options.
elliott
If you’re a superhero it’s the same thing. You battle, then you’re a friend.
stuart
Uh-huh. And then you team up to beat up poachers or…
elliott
Probably poachers yeah.
stuart
Or the Kingpin or…
elliott
Yeah. He’s probably a poacher, too.
stuart
Or Kang or—
elliott
Yeah, yeah. Kang. Poaching people through time. Poaching animals—
stuart
Dormammu.
elliott
Yeah. Dormammu’s an interdimensional poacher. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
Craven the Hunter?
elliott
Mm, I don’t see the connection. [Audience laughs.] So Godzilla shows up, and there’s a bit—not yet. There’s a big confusing fight between the Monarch soldiers and the ecoterrorists. It’s very hard to tell what’s going on. The whole thing ends with Vera Farmiga setting off an explosion that wakes up Monster Zero. Now, they haven’t named him officially in the movie, but we all know who he is, guys. You see those three heads and two tails popping up? It’s King Ghidorah, everybody! [Audience cheers, applauds.] Now, do I feel a special connection to King Ghidorah because I dressed up as him for Halloween as a child one year? And my mother, working only off of my verbal description— [Stuart laughs.] —of a monster with three heads, decided that—and this is a creative way to do it, but I was disappointed at the time ‘cause it didn’t look like it—she gave me a headband and put two paper bags filled with cotton with monsters faces drawn on them and attached them to the headband. ‘Cause all she knew was three heads! And like, Mom? I appreciate that you tried. That’s the important thing. But I had this elaborate imagination—in my head I’m like, “I’ll have the one long neck in the middle for my head and my arms will have necks also, ‘cause Ghidorah doesn’t have any arms! He just has the necks and the wings! But that—oh my god.”
dan
Now, how did you think that you were gonna elongate your own neck? [Audience laughs.]
elliott
I thought hormones would kick in for that. [Multiple people laugh.] Still waiting.
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Stuart: Oh shit! Oh my god! Dan: But Vera Far— [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Take that, my adrenal glands and hypothalamus, I guess?
dan
Vera Farmiga lets loose this monster and at this point you’re like, “Huh? Wha?” ‘Cause you know that she likes monsters, but—
elliott
No, she like-likes monsters. Yeah. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
But you would think—you did not think that she would do so in a way that might endanger her child and her ex-husband.
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Dan: Exactly. Elliott: Yeah.
elliott
Like I was saying, you don’t think she like-likes monsters; you think that’s what’s-her-name from The Shape of Water who’s also on the Monarch team. You know why she likes the monsters.
stuart
Sally Hawkins.
elliott
Sally Hawkins. We all know why she likes monsters. For sex.
dan
Oh—okay. [Audience laughs.]
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Elliott: Remember? Like in Shape of Water? Dan: Yeah. I saw it, yeah.
elliott
It wasn’t—water wasn’t the only shape she was interested in. [Audience laughs.]
dan
I—what? [Audience laughs.]
elliott
She collects silhouettes. Anyway. Okay. So. [Multiple people laugh.] Ghidorah wakes up, and his heads are kind of bickering with each other? And I was like, “This is great and so efficient! He’s the Disney villain and the goofy sidekicks all in the same monster!” He spits lightning like a freestyle rapper and Godzilla shows up for a pretty blurry fight in the snow. Not Stuart, when I say “I wanna see two monsters fight,” do you think I mean “behind a screen of snow?”
stuart
Yeah. You want it to be as obscured as possible, right, Elliott?
elliott
Yeah, yeah.
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Stuart: And you say two monsters. Elliott: I wanna be constantly teased.
stuart
That’s because Godzilla bursts out of the ice and like saves everybody at the last minute. Kind of like the T-Rex does in all those Jurassic World movies.
elliott
Yeah. Do you think the T-Rex was watching the movie and he was like, “That’s my bit! He stole my bit!” [Audience laughs.]
stuart
“I’m calling my lawyer! Let me—oh, no!”
elliott
Those tiny hands! Can’t reach his phone! I mean, he would just say, “Siri, call my lawyer.”
dan
And the movie goes to a lot of lengths to obscure its special effects as much as it can, to the degree that later on they’re like, “Oh, there’s a hurricane coming!” “That hurricane’s moving too fast to be a hurricane.” It’s like, of course, it’s a monster. But they’re like, “Uh, I guess monsters move around with hurricanes in ‘em so we can not see the bad CGI, I guess.”
elliott
Yeah. It’s like they wanna go as far as to be like, “This monster only exists in shadow.” [Audience laughs.] “You know what? It’s a monster that only destroys buildings when our eyes are closed. [Audience laughs.] And someone’s like, “You know what the real monster is? The human heart. Think about that. Don’t need a special effect for that.” Okay. So anyway, Godzilla’s on the ropes. Uh-oh! It looks like the G-man’s not doing well against the other G-man! Although he’s not called “G” yet. He’s Monster Zero. But then some bombers come by and they end it prematurely. It’s the thing that always happens at the end of the first battle—we can’t have a real winner or loser yet, so some bombers come in and blow it up. The same thing happens in The Bad News Bears. [Audience laughs.]
dan
We all remember that, right?
elliott
Yeah. Maybe it was the Director’s Cut. All the Monarch guys are like, “How could Vera betray us? Vera said that?” And she FaceTimes with them and she’s like, “Hey—"
stuart
“I’m gonna need some receipts.”
elliott
She’s like, “Humans are the world’s disease and monsters are the cure.” And they’re like, “What?” And she’s like, “Look. Look at all these cities that the monsters destroyed and we couldn’t go back to. Now they’re flourishing, biodiverse ecosystems! We just need some monster to thin the herd of humanity. Stomp on some cities. All of our Earth problems will be solved.”
dan
And how does she show that, Elliott?
elliott
With a lot of—suspiciously-already-queued-up-B-roll? [Audience laughs.] And it was like, “Did she produce this call?”
dan
This is like basically a Skype call. But then she’s like, “Uh, let me show you what I’m talking about” and just like cuts to Coy Anaskazi like, stop, y’know, stock footage of plants growing over buildings and stuff.
stuart
Yeah. Clips from Microcosmos. [Elliott laughs.]
stuart
“This isn’t technically accurate, but I just thought it fit the musical cues I had set up.”
dan
“I’ve been dabbling with a little iMovie. I wanna show you what I’ve been working on.”
elliott
“I’m not only a monster releaser; I’m also an auteur. And I wanted to show you my new project. It’s—” Anyway, it’s set to The Bangles’ “Hazy Shade of Winter.” I mean, I know they didn’t write that song. They did a cover of it. Sorry. Get off my back. Okay. So anyway, but this—
dan
Elliott, we’ve talked about attacking the audience! [Audience laughs.]
elliott
I’m sorry. I just get so mad when I know people are going to jump on me for The Bangles. Anyway. So there’s a theme in this movie, which is people always having the pictures and videos they need to back up their arguments right at hand. There’s another member of the Monarch team whose sole job seems to be to just throw out images of monsters from old books and paintings and stuff and be like, “Monster. Monster. Monster. Monster. We’ve always had them with us. It’s like these artists needed to communicate about this King Ghidorah three-headed monster and they just didn’t know how!” And she throws out William Blake’s painting of the dragon? [Stuart laughs.] Which—she did not do her research. That’s a representation of Satan! Come on, guys! Come on! And it is a—as we all know, a specific message through the centuries to William Dolarhyde. That he needs to go killing people! Anyway. So.
dan
He needs to go eat that painting! [Elliott laughs.]
elliott
That is the strangest part. ‘Cause it’s also like—so this is an alternate universe where that painting doesn’t exist anymore? He can kill all those fictional people, but destroy a real painting? Anyway. I like that picture.
dan
Let’s talk more about Red Dragon, everyone.
elliott
Or William Blake! Now, you see, the thing is—
stuart
Yeah?
elliott
He blurred the line between poetry and mysticism.
stuart
And he was one of the first, like, self-publishers of comics, if you will. [Laughs.]
elliott
Yeah. I guess—there’s a direct line between him and Dave Sim.
stuart
Oh no! [Audience laughs.]
elliott
They both had some crazy ideas. Uh, Vera, she’s just on a monster waking up spree. She wakes up Rodan before Monarch can evacuate Rodan’s island.
stuart
The sculptor?
elliott
Yeah. Yeah. Wakes up Rodin, who’s like, “Ahhhh!”
stuart
Yes, he’s a monster!
elliott
“Time to have affairs with my assistants!” [All laugh.] And—
stuart
That was really a guess that you would know information about him. [Laughs.]
elliott
Time to make many, many bronze casts of each of my work so when people are like, “I saw The Thinker in Paris,” it’s like, “Yeah, cool, dude. It’s all over the place. There’s one in Pasadena. Okay. So.”
dan
Welcome to the Comedy Central roast of Rodin! [All laugh.]
elliott
So Nanette can be full of art jokes, but I can’t make art jokes? [Audience laughs.] So—that’s a double standard. So Rodan has a pretty cool—
dan
Yeah, yeah. Speak up for white guys against Nanette, Elliott. [Elliott laughs.]
elliott
Dangerous territory. Almost as dangerous as being in Rodan’s sights, ‘cause he’s just flipping over jet planes left and right. Maddie is horrified that her mom did this. Anyway, Monster Zero comes up to beat up Rodan and Rodan’s like, “Oh, I’m so sorry, sir.” And bows down to King Ghidorah. Literally, the monster is like paying obeisance. ‘Cause Monster Zero’s the new alpha. Uh-oh! Unless Gojira has something to say about that. ‘Cause guess who shows up?
stuart
Uh… Godzilla?
elliott
Yeah, you’re right! [Audience laughs.] You did it! Right on one. He shows up and rips off one of Ghidorah’s heads. Whoaaaa!
stuart
Pretty cool.
elliott
Whoa, that never happened in the old one! I mean, the old one was better all-around, but still. That’s when— [Audience laughs.] —General David Strathairn of the United States Military Military—
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Stuart: He looks—sleepy? Dan: He got arrested from Alaska?
dan
Sorry, that’s a Limbo joke, everyone. John Sayles’s Limbo. Never seen so many blank faces. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
I mean—
dan
Check out the works of John Sayles. [Inaudible]? [Light cheering from audience.]
elliott
But Dan is right to question, because Limbo ends on a cliffhanger, so. So [inaudible] babies? What was the other one?
dan
Let’s just not dwell on it. Let’s pretend this never happened.
elliott
Alright. Look. I—what?
dan
What?
stuart
People want us to talk about John Sayles movies, I guess.
elliott
Already wrote the screenplay to Alligator. What do you want to know about him? He wrote The Howling. I don’t know what to tell ya.
dan
Let’s talk about the Return of the Secaucus 7, everybody!
elliott
[Laughs.] I wish the Secaucus 7 stayed where they were. Never seen it. Anyway. So. [Audience laughs.] General David Strathairn and he launches a super-nuke at the monsters. Doesn’t work so well. Ghidorah’s fine, even regrows his head in a pretty cool body-horror scene. But Godzilla appears to be dead. And every—
stuart
How’s his bioacoustics, Elliott?
elliott
Better than ever. [Multiple people laugh.] I mean, growing that new head, it really pushed him into a new area of bioacoustics where he’s kind of interrogating what we mean by bioacoustics. And he’s playing with the fiber and the timbre of the sound. So it’s like he’s gone back to basics in a way that puts a new spin on what we thought about bioacoustics.
stuart
It’s weird for me to say this, but I’m sorry I asked! [Multiple people laugh.]
dan
How are you enjoying your own John Sales moment there, Elliott?
elliott
Hm. Not well. [Audience laughs.] Looks like this John Sale should be half off. [Groans, applause from audience.] I’m saying we should cut John Sayles in half. [Audience laughs.] Anyway, Godzilla appears to be dead and the Monarch people—who at this point really only know Godzilla for smashing San Francisco—act real sad about it. Like, “Nooo! But he’s the title character of the movie! How could we do this?” And Kyle Chandler’s like, “I’m glad he’s dead.” And they’re like, “Stop being a jerk.” Anyway, all these monsters start waking up everywhere, including this really cool monster that’s like a trunkless mammoth gorilla? It’s like a gorilla with huge mammoth tusks? It’s like, what is this thing? Give him a movie! Gormammoth! Mamrilla? What is it called? Dan. Stuart. What is it called?
dan
Uh…
stuart
Man-moth?
elliott
Man-moth?
stuart
Like he’s a man but he’s a mammoth.
elliott
But he’s not a man!
stuart
Wait a minute. He’s not a man?!
dan
Mamilla. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Okay. Mamilla.
dan
[Laughs.] Gramilla.
elliott
No, but that’s got very little mammoth in it. It’s mostly gorilla.
dan
Gremlins 2.
elliott
I like it. [Audience laughs.] Okay, so he’s called Gremlins 2 [Inaudible].
stuart
How about Buzzsaw? How about Subzero?
elliott
No, I mean, there’s already a Monster Zero so that’s doubly confusing!
dan
I also like how you’re like—
stuart
How about Dynamo? [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Okay, guys. I’m going to spoil—
stuart
Do you know any other characters from The Running Man? Are they a public domain yet?
elliott
Let’s just call him Terry. His name is Terry, okay?
dan
I like that you’re like “Give this monster a movie,” too, though. Like you’re Dom DeLuise at the beginning of the Muppet Movie going through the swamp and you’re like, “Oh! A singing frog! That guy’s gotta be in pictures!” And you’re like, in the rubble of this city as things crash down and you’re like, [yelling] “Hey! Do you have representation!”
elliott
[Yelling] “Hello! I think you’ve got ‘it’! I’m hearing a lot of buzz!” So these monsters are waking up everywhere. Turns out that now that Monster—I’m just gonna call him “Ghidorah.” They haven’t named him yet in the movie, but I’m just gonna call him that ‘cause that’s his name. And I know it. Why am I pretending?
stuart
Well they like read it on a scroll somewhere.
elliott
They’re like, “Oh, this ancient thing calls him King Ghidorah. Well I guess that’s his name!” And they’re like, “Ah, the many who is one!” ‘Cause he’s got three heads. And I think one of you made the point that like—he didn’t name himself that! [Audience laughs.] It’s not like, “Oh, we figured—” there’s a lot in this movie of what I call _Batman ‘_66 logic? ‘Cause there’s a part in Batman: The Movie where there’s like a shark that’s pulling on Batman’s leg. And they’re like, “Huh, a shark was pulling my leg… the Joker! It must’ve been! Ah, the whole thing’s like an enormous Riddle! The Riddler!” And it’s like, “It’s not evidence that you used that word when you’re describing it.” And so there’s a lot of them being like, “Oh, it’s almost like they’re moving in a pack. Packs have alpha! The alpha must be this one! Ah, yes. And the bioacoustics—” And it’s like, these are not words that the monsters are using to describe themselves. They’re just coming up with this stuff off the top of their heads.
dan
And the movie also seems to believe that the more they explain the bullshit science, the more they’ll believe it. Rather than like, the more logical thing is like—say the bullshit science really fast so the audience doesn’t notice.
elliott
Or don’t even say it at all! Be like, “Monsters! Monsters everywhere!”
stuart
“Blah, blah!”
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Elliott: “Ahhh! Ahh! Monsters! Monsters! Mosnters! Monsters! Monsters! Monsters! You get a monster!” Stuart: “I’m a monster!”
elliott
“You get a monster!” [Audience laughs.] ‘Cause all—hey guys, I want to turn to Hollywood for a second. SO this is private. If you guys could not listen for a second. Hollywood? This is just between you and me and maybe Dan and Stuart. I don’t know. Look. I just like monsters, okay? So when I see a monster movie? I don’t wanna see people in it. I used to watch He-Man as a kid. You know which character I didn’t like? He-Man. You know which character I did like? All of the bad guys. ‘Cause they were monsters. I wanted to go to the store and buy monsters. And that’s what I did. I had none of the human figures. I owned all—the most human figure I owned was Moss Man. ‘Cause he’s so soft. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
And he smelled like patchouli. [Elliott laughs.]
dan
Guys, I’d like to talk to Paul Hollywood for a moment? [Audience laughs.]
stuart
Okay.
dan
Quit pretending like you don’t like something and then shaking people’s hands. We’re onto you. We get it. [Audience laughs.] We’ve seen it. Stuart, do you want to talk to anyone?
stuart
[Takes deep breath.] Uh, I guess… Paul… Newman? Uh, you’re pretty old to have the name “New Man.”
dan
[Through laughter] Particularly as a dead man.
elliott
Yeah, I mean, he died years ago.
dan
[Through laughter] As a guy who’s dead.
stuart
It should be Paul Oldman.
elliott
Now how do you feel about Gary Oldman? He’s really grown into that name.
stuart
What?! [All laugh.] Who? Okay!
elliott
But you gotta admit that Michael Mann is pretty accurate, right? [Stuart laughs.]
stuart
I’ll check! [All laugh.]
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Dan: How? How are you gonna check? [Through laughter] Okay. Alright. Anyway. Moving on. Elliott: I think you know how he’s gonna check, Dan. I think you know how he’s gonna check.
elliott
So all these monsters are waking up and they’re all now Ghidorah’s slaves. If King Ghidorah wants them to go wreck some cities, by god, they’re gonna do it. ‘Cause the King told them. As Mel Brooks once said, “It’s good to be the king if you’re a three-headed monsters with no arms because you have other monsters to do your bidding, ‘cause again, you have no arms. Just wings. It’s harder to knock things down without arms.” That is a direct quote from Mel Brooks. [Audience laughs.] They’re like, “Oh, only Godzilla could stop Ghidorah and he’s dead. What are we gonna do?” And meanwhile while all this is happening, Mothra emerges from her cocoon in moth form in clear clarity. Right, guys?
stuart
Well, I mean, it’s behind a waterfall that everybody is staring at and shocked about? I feel like so much of the direction of this movie was telling a large cast of talented actors to be amazed at things they can only imagine. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
And now, guys—
stuart
And then imagine being those actors and going to the actual movie and being like, “I still can’t fucking see it.” [All laugh. Some applaud.]
elliott
Now I wanna take a tangent and show you a little bit of Flop House behind the scenes. Dan did not—was not interested, and he didn’t take kindly to the fact that whenever Mothra was on screen, I would sing as much as I remember of the Mothra song that the Mothra twins sing in the original Mothra. And y’know I would be a cad if I were to force him to listen to it now and from an audience.
dan
No. [Audience cheers, applauds.]
stuart
Still can’t believe we made it this far!
elliott
Okay. Keeping in mind I do not know Japanese, this is just based on the sounds of the words in the song.
dan
See, this is the problem right away. [Audience laughs.]
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Elliott: It is—it is filtered through twenty years of life. Okay. Dan: Danger zone!
dan
Danger, Will Robinson.
elliott
Every time I see Mothra, I just wanna hear “Masuraaaiiiia! Masuraaa! Bonangata kuya! Hindomuuun! Lustowillow! Ha hamva hamvaaa whooya! Hamva hamva whooya! Something else!”
dan
He needs to stop.
elliott
“’Cause I’m cooyammm! Masuraaaiia! Masuraaa!” And so forth.
stuart
And this is sang by two tiny little women, right?
elliott
Yeah, yeah. Two tiny ladies that—the Mothra twins.
dan
So you’re saying you don’t speak Japanese. [Multiple people laugh.]
elliott
Strange as it is to believe! So anyway. Back to this movie, because that does not happen in this movie.
dan
Oh, boy.
elliott
And Maddie and Vera are fighting. She’s like, “You’re the monster, mom!” Which, to be honest, every parent hears at some point in their life. Whether you’re waking up monsters or not. [Stuart laughs.] But then overhears Vera’s—
stuart
So what can you do? Just wake up all the monsters. Who cares.
elliott
She overhears Vera’s plan to use the Orca—again, that’s the monster-calling-calming-talking-to-device. It’s like the machine Danny DeVito makes in The Simpsons to talk to babies. [Audience laughs.] But for monsters. ‘Cause I guess a baby’s kind of like a real-life monsters. They’re constantly screaming, breaking things, ruining your life, and a monster’s gonna keep you up at night just like a baby. [Stuart laughs.] Guys, you’ve had experience with babies, right?
dan
Uh— [Laughs.] I guess that now that… I can’t even make that joke. Moving on! [Audience laughs.]
stuart
I mean, I have experience with Baby: The Mystery of the Lost Legend.
elliott
About a dinosaur!
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Dan: Secret of the Lost Legend. Elliott: It’s a monster!
stuart
Uh, is it a secret? I think I know about it. [All laugh.]
elliott
So it’s not really a mystery, either.
stuart
What are you trying to say?
elliott
I’m saying we better get back to the movie, because she overhears her plan to use the Orca to call Ghidorah and then… ??? save the day. It’s like, “Step one: Call Ghidorah. Step two: Something. Step three: No more monster problems.” Where is she gonna find a stadium to amplify that signal to make it loud enough that King Ghidorah’s gonna hear it? Uh, Fenway! Yeahhh! Boston! Boston! Boston! Boston! Boston! [Audience cheers, applauds.] Boston! Boston! Boston! That’s right—
dan
Apparently an accent of local color! Woo!
elliott
We didn’t plan it! And it’s good, ‘cause Boston does not come out well from the movie. [Audience laughs boisterously.] Although I will say—okay. Just a little flash-forward. There’s all this destruction going on, yet that Citgo sign’s still standing proudly. [Audience cheers, applauds.] When they—I assume they landmarked that thing because Godzilla gingerly steps around it. [Audience laughs.] Rather than get in any trouble with the Housing Commission or—
stuart
Yeah. There’s a point where King Ghidorah steps on a giant Dunkin’ Donuts billboard and I can just imagine my wife being like, “Fuck you.” [Audience laughs.] “Don’t fuck with my Dunkies.”
elliott
It’s like the part in Transformers when Megatron just punches the American flag off the Brooklyn Bridge? And it’s like, “That seems petty.” [All laugh.] So the Monarch dudes, they find Godzilla recharging underwater in some kind of ancient, hidden, underwater temple. As if—I think as Stuart pointed out—he was Cthulhu, dead, waiting in sunken R’lyeh.
stuart
Mm-hm. Yup. And he’s just like that, but instead it’s Godzilla and it’s super… what? Super, like, radiation-y? Is that the term?
elliott
Yeah. It’s very radiation-y ‘cause of Godzilla.
stuart
I don’t remember. I—it was a while since I watched Chernobyl. They say “radiation-y” in there, right?
elliott
Yeah. That’s the way you describe it is “radiation-y.”
stuart
In-between chain-smoking they’re like—
elliott
Stuart was like, “How many roentgens is it?” He really wanted to show off what he learned from Chernobyl.
stuart
3.5! That’s as high as the meter goes!
elliott
So they’re like—
stuart
Godzilla lies there, surrounded by graphite.
elliott
And it made me—I was talking to Stuart and it made me wonder if—so dead Cthulhu lies sleeping in R’lyeh. If ever his alarm goes off and he’s like, “Unhh” and he just hits the sleep button and then like sets the alarm for another million years. I hope he does! I don’t want him to come back up. Anyway. [Multiple people laugh.] They’re like, “Hey, there’s only one way to wake up Godzilla ‘cause he’s a big dude. Set off a nuke in his face.” [Audience laughs.] “But we’re in this submarine and for reasons I’ve forgotten, the weapons systems don’t work!”
dan
Yeah. Nukes are Godzilla’s spinach. He’s like, [sings Popeye theme song]. “I’m gonna go get Ghidorah!”
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Elliott: He’s like, [imitates Popeye] “I’ll breathe you with my fire breath!” “Er! Raww! Blow me down!” That kind of stuff. Dan: Ghidorah? I don’t know. Stuart: That’s a pretty good impression.
elliott
And Mothra’s like, [imitating Olive Oyl] “Popeye! Popeye! Help!” [Audience laughs.] And King Ghidorah’s like, “Err! Come with me! Rawr! Gotcha!” They’re all mumbling under their breath constantly. [Audience laughs.]
dan
[Through laughter] Because they didn’t want to animate the mouths. They didn’t know what they were gonna say.
elliott
Godzilla’s just walking past these beautiful parallax backgrounds. That’s an old Fleischer Brothers Popeye joke. So they’re like, “We have to set it off manually.” And it’s like, “Mm, yeah. I guess you do have to rip of the end of Pacific Rim.” So anyway— [Audience laughs.] Dr. Sarazawa’s like, “I don’t want to be in any more of these movies. I’ll do it.” [Audience laughs.] And he goes and he sets the nuke timer and then he turns to Godzilla and I think maybe even puts his hand on Godzilla’s nose, and Godzilla opens his eyes and he’s like, “Goodbye, friend.” And then the nuke goes off and Kyle Chandler is like, “Hey. You know what? I like Godzilla now.” [Multiple people laugh.] “I think it’s time for us to team up with him.” Ohhh! So anyway. Back to Boston. That’s right. Beantown. It has seen better days. Because King Ghidorah shows up. Maddie pulled off the plan. Ghidorah shows up and Maddie’s like, “I don’t know what the second part of the plan was!” And she’s running around. Fenway is smashed, which is too bad ‘cause it’s sad to see another historic stadium torn down so they can build—what—some kind of megamall that happens to have baseball in it? And then name it after a company? Come on! [Stuart laughs.] Dan, I know you have strong feelings about this.
dan
Is that a reference to things that happen in life? [Inaudible.] I don’t—
elliott
You’re not the baseball fiend I thought you were. [Multiple people laugh.]
dan
We could call David—
elliott
Nooo! We don’t need to do that. [Audience laughs.]
dan
We could get your brother in here.
elliott
No, that’s okay. We’ll just move on. Anyway.
dan
FaceTime him for the audience.
elliott
Anyway. [Audience cheers, applauds.] No, that’s alright. I like—you’re leading them up to a thing that’s not gonna happen. [Audience laughs.] Although—
dan
There he is, folks!
elliott
Wouldn’t it be amazing if we did FaceTime and he’s like, “Yeah, it happens all the time. B-roll. B-roll. B-roll. It’s all ready.” [Audience laughs.] “Had it queued up just for this call.” Like, “That’s what you spent your honeymoon doing?” So Ghidorah shows up. He’s about to electrify Maddie. And I don’t mean in an exciting Peter Frampton way. I mean in a, like, shooter her with a lightning bolt. But then who comes in to save her? Stealing the Tyrannosaurus Rex’s bit? Godzilla! And he’s got the American fleet behind him. Oh no! They got it there real fast! [Audience laughs.] Anyway. It’s like Boston’s the site of D-Day II: G-Day. I should’ve saved G-Day for this time instead of saying it earlier. And the problem is Godzilla—that nuke—he’s so pumped up, but he’s too pumped up. He’s primed to explode like an atom bomb. How do the scientists know this? I don’t know. But they even have a timer that tells them how long its’ gonna be before he blows up.
dan
It’s cause he’s all glowy!
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Elliott: He’s always glowy! Stuart: Yeah. I think they—
stuart
I mean… I don’t wanna go out on a limb here. I’m not a scientist. But I would imagine it has something to do with bioacoustics. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Stuart, you make a fair point. The bioacoustics are going crazy. At this point Godzilla has gone electric, just like Dylan, and the folkies are real mad. [Audience laughs.]
dan
Mm-hm. They’re like, “You lie!”
elliott
Yeah. Pete Seeger’s like, “This is outrageous!” [Audience laughs.] “Godzilla used to be cool.” Godzilla steps on him and then Godzilla’s like, [makes nonsense noises]. Which I guess sounds more like Marlon Brando in The Godfather than Bob Dylan. [All laugh.] So they start fighting. Mothra and Rodan start fighting. They have like a little side bout before the main title card. And Rodan’s got Mothra on the ropes, but Mothra kills Rodan with her stinger and it’s like, “Whoa!”
stuart
And we were like, “Holy shit!” And we’re giving each other high fives— [Audience laughs.] —and Dan gets up off the floor and starts doing the Charlie Brown.
elliott
“Huh? Huh? What? I was asleep.”
dan
I ran out of the hotel, took a few laps around the building, came back up. That’s it.
elliott
Yeah. And I was gonna—
dan
There’s not more to that.
elliott
Look, let me just say, personally, I don’t like that Rodan took a real heel-turn in this one. Rodan? He’ll always be part of the original threesome for me: Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan. Best buds. Not in this movie, though. In this movie, Rodan’s a real dick. So— [Audience laughs.] —Godzilla and King Ghidorah are having this big fight, and this fight is when the movie kind of lives up to its potential for a little bit. They’re fighting and it’s really cool. Ghidorah grabs Godzilla in his talons and flies him into the… low Earth orbit? I don’t know! Because then he drops him and Godzilla is burning upon re-entering the atmosphere! [Audience laughs.] It’s crazy. But they keep cutting back to the stupid humans so we can find out about their dumb stuff. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
[Laughs.] And Godzilla collapses in the ground after he hits the Earth and I was really hoping that his old friend, Charles Barkley, would show up. [Multiple people laugh.]
elliott
We talked a little bit about what would be the cooler thing to happen at the end? Would it be if Ash showed up with a Poké-ball and was like, “Looks like you need a little bit of Jigglypuff!” [Audience laughs.] Or would it be Charles Barkley showing up? Would it be—I don’t know. Maybe the Planet of the Apes apes show up? I don’t know.
dan
I think when he hits the ground, a cartoon Godzilla ghost should’ve come up from like—
stuart
Yeah. Playing a little harp? Yeah.
elliott
Yeah. And they’re like, “Godzilla, what a great trick!” “Yeah, but I can only do it once!” [Audience laughs.] That would’ve been really funny. For some reason I’m imagining nine ghosts, like when a cat dies in a cartoon? And has nine lives? Godzilla’s got more than nine lives, though, as we’ll see. Spoiler alert. So anyway, the Chandler clan is reunited. Wonderful. The fix the Orca monster-calling device and Vera sacrifices herself to drive away with it so that she can distract Ghidorah long enough for Godzilla to recover. But she gets a super cool last couple words, right? ‘Cause Ghidorah’s chasing after her and Ghidorah’s like, “I’m gonna lightning-slap you, bitch.” And she’s like—I’m just interpreting what he said in his roar. I dunno. He’s a jerk. He uses language like that. [Multiple people laugh.] And she goes, “Long live the king!” And Elvis himself steps out and hits Ghidorah over the head with a guitar.
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Elliott: But there’s two more heads. Dan: I think that might—
elliott
Luckily he’s got two more guitars, ‘cause Jimi Hendrix is right behind him and there’s Bob Dylan.
dan
Elliott. Elliott. I think that might’ve been when your ayahuasca kicked in.
elliott
I don’t know. [Audience laughs.] Do you guys remember the part where the Great Gazoo came in and was like, “Let’s stomp this guy, dumb-dumbs!” [All laugh.] And then my third grade teacher was there? And I’ve learned a lot about myself. I woke up naked in the middle of Boston Common. [Multiple people laugh.]
dan
Just a tri-corner hat on your penis. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
But like a regular-sized one, or a little teeny one?
stuart
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Dan: Up to you. Stuart: Well I mean we’re not— Elliott: I mean, like, a little wig underneath?
stuart
I mean, I wasn’t going to presume about the size of your penis. [Audience laughs. Then a pause.]
elliott
Moving on. So— [Multiple people laugh.] Who shows up?
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Elliott: It’s Godzilla himself. Dan: We’re so close to the end.
elliott
And he is so super-radioactive he is melting buildings as he passes by them.
stuart
Yeah. He got extra pumped up this time because at the last moment, Mothra sacrificed herself and got blasted by King Ghidorah, and then her Mothra dust fell on Godzilla, I guess, and gave him extra powers?
elliott
I think so, yeah.
dan
Like a 1-UP mushroom.
stuart
I was really hoping that a child somewhere would be watching and be like, “He’s getting power from her dust!”
elliott
I mean, it is the most—it is the moment in the movie that is most accurate to the Japanese movies, where that kind of stuff would happen. Instead they posited by this point that Mothra is the queen of the monsters to Godzilla’s king of the monsters, and one of the soldiers is like, “So is there something going on between the two of them?” And I was like, “Dude, get your mind out of the gutter. Come on.” [Audience laughs.] “Let’s not think about ‘em that way. It’s an honorary title. Come on.” Then again—but it’s also one of those things where like, “She must be the queen of the monsters to his king of the monsters!” And it’s like, “These are not the terms they’re using to describe themselves! Don’t put labels on this relationship between a giant moth and a giant, radioactive, tyrannosaurus type thing.” But I guess she likes thicker monsters, Mothra.
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Stuart: Noooo. I do. Dan: Oh, Elliott. [Multiple people laugh.]
stuart
Oh, lawdy, when he comes running up on King Ghidorah.
elliott
Anyway. Godzilla, he unleashes nuclear blast after nuclear blast. It melts King Ghidorah like the Gremlins at the end of Gremlins 2 and then—uh-oh—one of Ghidorah’s heads starts rising up again. Is he back? Nope! Godzilla’s just chowing down on it. And he vaporizes it through King Ghidorah’s throat with his radioactive fire. All the monsters come and bow to Godzilla as he stands atop the ruins of Boston. Which—the ruins look much bigger than a city like Boston would probably create. [All laugh.] But what are you gonna say about that? They had to take a little bit of license ‘cause—y’know—if Boston was accurate-sized, Godzilla would just kinda like step on it and not notice and just keep walking. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
Yeah. Maybe this posits an alternate world where—when monsters showed up—Boston just [through laughter] built a lot more buildings.
elliott
Yeah. So the monsters bow to Godzilla and he roars. Finally, he is undefeated as the king of the monsters. Or is he? Because—during the credits—this is the craziest part. I knew they were going to set up a King Kong battle. Of course they are. And there’s some headlines on websites that are like, “Monsters head to hollow earth tunnel in Skull Island! Is a king bigger than a god?” But they also have headlines that are like, “Monster poop: the best fertilizer!” “Monster cells: a new superfood?” “Plants grow everywhere! 14 species taking off—"
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Elliott: [Inaudible.] Dan: “Godzilla rebuilds the Amazon forest.”
elliott
Yeah! It literally says that!
stuart
It’s basically like the entirety of the movie Batteries Not Included, where these little space robots help these old people save their building, right?
elliott
Except the old people are humans and the building is Earth. But it was like—wait, so just—
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Elliott: —having monsters— Stuart: But at no point does like Godzilla climb onto a little grill—
stuart
—and somebody confuse him with a burger patty and puts cheese on him?
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Elliott: It’d have to be a pretty big grill! Stuart: But if he did!
elliott
And a pretty big piece of cheese to throw on Godzilla! Anyway. I guess we’re the only ones who remember Batteries Not Included. [Some cheers from audience.] Nobody else here likes the later works of Don Ameche. Guess I won’t start talking about Carina, Carina. Anyways. So it posits that the monsters will really solve every environmental problem we have, and then Kong battle is teased. Credits. And then at the end of the credits—uh-oh! Charles Dance! He didn’t die in this one! And he’s brough to… somewhere? An underground warehouse? I don’t know. Where they’ve got one of Ghidorah’s heads. Uh-oh! Something tells me we might see a Mecha-Ghidorah at some point. And if we don’t, fuck this movie. [Audience cheers, applauds.] Don’t tease me that way!
dan
Alright. Really, really, really fast—
elliott
Yeah, we went long. Sorry.
dan
Really fast, Final Judgements. Is this a good-bad movie, a bad-bad movie, a movie you kinda like? Elliott, go.
elliott
I did not like it. I thought it was a bad-bad. Well ‘cause it’s just like… it’s a boring movie and it doesn’t want to give me monsters and I want monsters from my monster movie.
dan
Yeah. I’m gonna say it’s bad-bad, too. The way you explained it—even with all your weird digressions and us not actually seeing the movie was much clearer than the actual plot of the movie?
elliott
I cut out a lot of the scenes where people talk around fake science stuff and Bradley Whitford’s making jokes about nothing in particular and…
dan
Yeah. It’s just real dull. Elliott? Or—Elliott. Stuart! [Audience laughs.]
dan
Stelliott. Ewart?
stuart
I’m Stelliott tonight. Y’know, I’ve gone on record saying I like a big Godzilla. Y’know? I like one with a lot of meat on his bones. But this movie not so much. This movie coulda lost a little bit of meat ‘cause I feel like if you edited out maybe an hour of it and it was mainly just monster fights? I’d be down. So bad-bad movie. [Multiple people laugh.]
dan
Alright!
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dan
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dan
We have a couple of Jumbotroms—Jumbotroms here? Jumbotroms. That… yeah. Tron—the movie Tron—was angry. They were gonna sue us for copyright infringement. So now we’re Jumbotroms. “Long time Flopper, first time ‘tron-er, with a dumb Jumbotron asking Flop House Nation to support the Kentucky Equal Justice Center. It’s a righteous org working to make sure everyone—black, brown, or white—has the health care, housing, and money they need to thrive. Floppers love horror, and KEJC fights actual horrors like poverty, racism, evictions, gerrymandering, and zombie debt collection. That’s legit what it’s called. Help KEJC keep the horror where it belongs—in Shocktober. And you can donate to the Kentucky Equal Justice Center at Bit.ly/Dumbotron. That is Dumbo like the elephant.” What a nice Jumbotron to help the world. This message is for Jojo. It is from Justine. And Justine says to Jojo, “Happy birthday, little brother! Here’s to the world’s greatest 37-year-old man trapped in the body of a 26-year-old boy. My gift to you is hearing happy birthday from the mouths of three gentlemen—” Well one. “—who might actually have chuckled at your proposal to name a new truck “Alan Truck.” Keep being my favorite—also, only—brother. Love, Teeny.” I would’ve chuckled at Alan Truck. Thank you for sharing it. That’s all before we get back to the live show. I hope that we will have something to announce about a virtual live show soon. But as of this moment, we rejoin ourselves in Boston.
dan
We like to close out these shows with a little bit of audience questions? And we’ve got—
elliott
Was that a question? Yes, we do. [Audience laughs.]
dan
We’ve got—let’s say around twelve minutes.
elliott
There’s a microphone right there. We can’t answer too many questions. We’ll try. We gotta make these questions fast and furious, another reference to Stuart’s presentation from earlier.
stuart
Oh, bless you.
elliott
Godzilla bless me? [Dan laughs.]
guest
Hey guys! [Elliott laughs.]
dan
Hello!
guest
So if you guys were Kaiju, which would—who would you be?
stuart
Well, I would obviously be Gamora because I’m a friend to children everywhere. [Audience laughs, applauds.]
crosstalk
Stuart: And I do a lot of cool spin attacks. Elliott: I mean, I want—that’s true. [Laughs.]
elliott
And you can flame out of your leg holes. Yeah. I wanna believe I’d be Godzilla, but I’d be probably one of the awkward ones like Megalon. Can’t really do anything.
dan
Look, I’ve always had a fondness for Mothra. I know she’s supposedly the queen of the monsters. I don’t care. I’m not gonna box myself in that way, Elliott.
stuart
I think it also makes sense because of the way that you react to the Mothra song.
elliott
Yeah, Dan. Every time I sing it, it’s like you can’t help but skip a beat.
dan
I think it might be a hate crime so that’s why I don’t like it. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Hate crime.
dan
I’m not sure, I just, uh…
elliott
Alright. Next question.
lyman
Lyman—oh, shoot, that’s too obvious. L—
elliott
It’s okay. Just ask the question.
lyman
Okay. Anyway. I have—this movie features a lot of flying monsters?
elliott
You know it! A lot of flying monsters.
lyman
Yeah! And that’s impossible. Right? The biggest birds weigh under twenty pounds. So what I wanna know is like—are there any movies out there that actually feature, like, realistic physics kind of about giant monsters?
elliott
Any giant monster movies that feature realistic physics? I would take issue with the twenty-pound limit you’re setting on flying animals. Quetzalcoatl, anyone? Thank you. Anyway, okay. [Audience cheers.] But he had hollow bones. Uh… that’s how he stayed so thin no matter what he ate. I don’t—realistic? I mean… any monster that big would probably collapse under its own weight at a certain point. They’re literally thousands of feet tall. And they’re radioactive so their cells are deteriorating rapidly.
stuart
Yeah. It doesn’t make you stronger, right?
crosstalk
Elliott: No. Not like the Hulk, yeah. Dan: What about like—what about The Blob?
dan
When The Blob gets really big? Because The Blob doesn’t have—it’s like just a blob! Y’know?
stuart
Yeah. I guess The Blob is just a blob. [Audience laughs.]
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Dan: It’s all—it’s all there in the name, baby! Elliott: I think I’m gonna call that McCoy’s Theorem. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Next question.
mike
Hi, Mike, last name withheld.
elliott
Hey, Mike.
mike
If you were not in The Flop House—god forbid—and you were at— [Laughs.] And you were at one of your own live shows, what question would you ask yourselves? [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Hm. What question would we ask ourselves if we were not in The Flop House at a Flop House live show? [Audience laughs.] I’d be like, “Dan, why’d you kick me out of The Flop House?” [Audience laughs.]
dan
My question would be, “How dare you, sir! How dare you, sir!”
stuart
I would say, “Hey, guys! If you had a stand from the comic book series JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure... which of the major arcana of the Tarot would you choose, and what colors would you use?” I await my answer. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Next question, please. Thank you. [Audience laughs, applaud.]
sam
Sam, last name withheld. Fuck, marry, kill—Godzilla, Ghidorah, and America’s sweetheart, Kyle Chandler.
elliott
Oh, okay. Fuck, marry, kill Kyle Chandler.
stuart
That’s crazy. You marry Kyle Chandler. He’s such a good coach.
dan
Yeah, I mean, this is a weird—like, okay. Can we all talk about fuck, marry, kill for a second? Because—
elliott
Dan, if you’re going to question the premise of something that is obviously—we don’t wanna kill these people. Come on. Dan!
dan
I’m just saying—
elliott
Are you gonna take a brave stand against this thing nobody really wants to do?
dan
Look, this is—I’m just saying. Hold on. [Audience laughs.] This whole game… posits a Lockhorns-style world where marrying someone means the death of sex.
elliott
No, I don’t think that’s it at all. It’s that—who is the person that you wanna-
dan
‘Cause if you marry someone—
elliott
Who is the person that you want to be with all the time and have sex with all the time, who’s the person you just wanna do it once ‘cause the story’s gonna be nuts? [Audience laughs.]
dan
Okay.
elliott
And for me that would be King Ghidorah. That’s right. [Audience cheers, applauds.] I would marry Godzilla. Kyle Chandler, I’m sorry. Just—I don’t have anything against you, but you just didn’t make the cut. I’m a G fan, come on. I’m not a Friday F—F-N-L fan? Friday Night Lights? Not the same. Not the same degree.
stuart
You’re saying you have—wait. Closed eyes, and—wait. [Laughs.] Uh—
crosstalk
Elliott: Yeah. My heart is empty. Empty heart and I always lose. [Laughs.] Stuart: An empty heart. And you can lose. Did it. [Laughs.] [Audience laughs, applauds.]
stuart
Oh man. Smoke’s coming out of my ears.
elliott
Okay, next question.
dan
You’re very good with antonyms, Stuart. [Stuart laughs.]
jake
Hi, I’m Jake. A couple years ago, I sent you guys a letter asking about the machete order for The Fast and The Furious? You never actually answered the question?
elliott
Ohhhh. Ohhh. [Audience “ooohs” along with him.]
jake
That’s—that’s not why I’m here.
elliott
Oh, thank god. I was worried for a second that—
dan
Thank god. I was like, “This is how it ends.” [Audience laughs.]
elliott
“Well I’ve got a machete for ya! Zhing!”
jake
So a few years before that, a friend of mine showed me a movie called The Zero Effect. And we sat on the couch. And he was like, “If you don’t laugh at this one particular moment, I know that you’re not going to enjoy the rest of the movie.” It was when Ben Stiller was unlocking locks for like ten or fifteen minutes of the movie? So have you ever shown a movie to someone, when you sat them down you’re like, “I know you’re not gonna have fun with this if you don’t have fun with this particular moment?” And what is that moment?
elliott
Hm. A movie where you show it to somebody else and you know if they’re not gonna like this moment they’re not gonna like the whole movie. Hm.
stuart
Hm.
elliott
I don’t know. You set down someone and you say, “You’re gonna watch the last half hour of Mother and if you don’t like it, let’s not watch the first hour and a half.” [All laugh.] “Cause this movie is not going to a place you wanna go.” [Audience laughs.]
stuart
I remember right after college, sitting down with my ex-girlfriend’s dad. And pulling out a recently-purchased copy of the DVD of Blade II. And I’m like, “If he’s not into this opening, I don’t think he’s gonna like the rest of it. Aaaand… that was really true. But I liked it!”
dan
I mean I know that we go to a—
stuart
He’s more of a Blade 1 guy. [Audience laughs.]
dan
I know that we go to the Gremlins 2 well a lot, but if you don’t like the fact that the movie begins with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck fighting over the Warner Bros. logo, you’re not gonna—if you’re like, ‘What the—I thought this was a Gremlins movie!” Then, uh…
elliott
Show them the door, please!
dan
[Through laughter] Yeah.
elliott
That’s a good point. Okay, next question ,please!
michelle
I am Michelle, last name withheld. I need help settling an argument—who would win in a fight: Godzilla or Superman?
elliott
Who would win in a fight, Godzilla or Superman? Ohhh. Are we talking pre-Crisis or post-Crisis Superman? [Audience laughs.]
dan
I’m just gonna leave now.
elliott
Because pre-crisis Superman could move a planet! But post-Crisis, John Byrne was like, “Let’s depower him a little bit!” Here’s the—I think, ooh. Probably Superman. I don’t know. ‘Cause he’d fly him into space and hurl him in the sun. But here’s the story I wanna tell. And I always want to tell it in a sad way? That they—Godzilla’s destroying the city and they enlist Dracula, and he bites Godzilla, turning Godzilla into a vampire so the sun destroys him but the radiation from Godzilla’s blood kills Dracula and they build a statue to him. [Audience laughs.] Because he sacrificed himself to save humanity. So Stuart, who do you think would win? Godzilla or Superman?
stuart
Dracula? [Audience laughs.]
dan
Hey, guys, I just wanted to see what’s going on on this side of the [inaudible].
elliott
Oh, Dan has gone to the other side of the room.
dan
Oh, okay. You done?
elliott
Do you have an answer to the question?
dan
No!
elliott
Okay. Let’s move to the next question, then. [Audience laughs.]
stuart
I think Dan’s Superman knowledge begins and ends with Lois & Clark. Of which Godzilla never appeared.
elliott
No, it’s true.
tony
Well, hey, Tony, last name withheld.
dan
Hello!
tony
I know Elliott likes fried chicken.
elliott
You know it! You just said! [Audience laughs.]
tony
So I was wondering which Kaiju would you like to eat and how would you prepare them?
elliott
Oh, man! [Audience laughs.] What Kaiju would I like to eat and how I would prepare it! Well, let’s say fried. Come on. You gotta go with Rodan ‘cause he’s a big bird! It’s the biggest fried chicken ever! [Audience laughs.] But—
stuart
Although he might be too spicy for you. ‘Cause he’s like a firebird.
elliott
He is—that’s true. And I prefer mild to spicy. Also, you know what? I take Anguirus and I would just cook the ribs. Barbecue ‘em. ‘Cause he’s got big ribs. Yeah. Sure.
dan
How long do you think it would take you to skeletonize a Kaiju, Elliott?
elliott
To skeletonize? [Audience laughs.] I mean, more than I have time on this earth, Dan, probably. I mean, which Kaiju are we talking about, though? ‘Cause there’s some that are bigger than others. ‘Cause Ebirah? Crack ‘im open. I mean, it’s not a skeleton. It’s exoskeleton, I guess. That was a bad choice. Uh— [Audience laughs.]
stuart
[Through laughter] You look like an asshole!
elliott
What about Spidor, the giant—, no, but he’s, again exoskeleton. Okay. Or—
dan
We’re wasting everyone’s time. Please. [Laughs.] [Audience laughs.]
hollis
Hi! Hollis, last name withheld. I would like to play Radio Zork? [Audience cheers, applauds.]
elliott
Oh, okay. Someone would like to step up and try their hand at Radio Zork, everyone’s favorite text-based radio call-in… choose your own adventure show! Yeah, please!
hollis
I would like to scream. Just for like a while.
elliott
Okay. You scream at the door for a while. Time passes. [Audience laughs.] Your throat becomes hoarse. There is no answer.
hollis
Thank you.
elliott
The door remains closed. Thank you for playing! That’s Radio Zork! [Audience cheers, applauds.] I gotta tell ya—not a bad strategy! One of these days someone’s gonna get that dang door open—
crosstalk
Elliott: —and we’re gonna start this adventure! Dan: I don’t think—yeah. [Audience laughs.]
josh
Uh, Josh, last name withheld? My friend is unfortunately he was going to be here tonight but he can’t be. He is moving from Medford to Maryland for a job and Elliott, specifically, could you give him a piece of advice for someone who had to move locationally recently?
elliott
Oh, okay. Uh… yeah.
dan
Move locationally versus… [All laugh.]
crosstalk
Elliott: I guess temporally, as we’re all doing? Dan: What’s the other—yeah.
dan
We all move through our lives. Y’know.
elliott
Yeah. Um… so—
stuart
Islands in the stream, I call us. [Audience laughs.]
elliott
Advice for someone moving temporally. Here’s the thing. As an adult, it’s hard to make friends without seeming creepy. And especially when you’re in a new place! But you gotta push through that, because without a local social network you’re gonna feel isolated and you’re gonna start thinking you don’t like it there. When really, you just don’t like being by yourself, probably. So reach out to people you work with or—if there’s a local club that does things you like—rocketry. Chess. Make sure it’s an adult club, not a kid’s club. But like— [Audience laughs.]
dan
What about the Burger King Kid’s Club?
elliott
That’s just what I was gonna say! That’s okay for everybody ‘cause we’re all kids when we’re at Burger King. Where a kid can be a kid! [Audience laughs.] Right? That’s the Burger King slogan?
stuart
Don’t look at me! [Multiple people laugh.]
elliott
So that’s what I would say. Good question, and good answer. Thank you. Next question ,please!
dan
Hey, everybody, hold on. Is the Burger King slogan “Have it your way”?
elliott
The Burger King slogan is “Have—” I think—
dan
‘Cause that can seem very angry. Like, “Have it your way!”
elliott
[Through laughter] It’s a passive-aggressive slogan, yeah. “We made these choices for a reason about what we put on a burger, but sure!”
crosstalk
Elliott: “Have it your way!” Dan: “I guess have it your way.”
stuart
“It’s a Burger King world! You’re just living in it!” Is that one?
dan
Yeah.
elliott
Godzilla, Burger King of the monsters. [Audience laughs.] Next question, please. The penultimate question.
guest
So a friend of mine’s seven-year-old saw this movie and I asked him what he thought of it and he said that it was the best movie he’d ever seen. And I thought—
elliott
I mean, to be fair—if I saw this when I was seven, it probably also would’ve been the best movie I ever saw.
guest
Right. I mean, I was thinking if I—if someone asked me that when I was seven, I probably would’ve said The Cat From Outer Space. But I was wondering what—
stuart
[In mocking tone] Uh, what about Seven Samurai, dude?
crosstalk
Stuart: [Regular voice] I’m just thinking of like shitty things—okay. I’ll shut up. Guest: I mean, it has seven.
elliott
“I mean, when I was seven, Videodrome was really big”? Anyway. You were saying.
guest
Just wondering, y’know, if someone had asked you guys when you were seven what your favorite—what the best movie you ever saw was.
elliott
If someone asked us when we were seven what the best movie we ever saw was—
dan
I think mine would’ve been Beastmaster.
elliott
Mm-hm.
stuart
It’s a good one.
crosstalk
Elliott: Similar, I think— Stuart: A lot of ferrets.
dan
Got a couple ferrets in it.
elliott
The FQ is very high in that movie.
dan
Ferret Quotient? Yeah.
elliott
Uh, I would’ve said—and this is gonna shock Dan McCoy, who was loudly telling me earlier this movie does not work—Dark Crystal. A movie I still love!
dan
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa. Let’s be clear—I think the movie is beautiful. I love Jim Henson and all he did. I think that it’s an amazing work of imagination.
stuart
Sensing a “but”!
dan
The brinefrau designs are great. I just think that narratively—as a piece of drama—it’s kind of boring. Continue. [Light boos from audience.]
elliott
My seven-year-old self and my thirty-seven-year-old self would disagree, but that’s okay. We live in America. Everyone can have different opinions about Dark Crystal or whether they need more information from Alita: Battle Angel. A little reference when you hear that episode. [Audience laughs.] Stuart, what would you say?
stuart
Maybe… Ski Patrol? [Audience laughs.] It’s about some people who work for a ski patrol and they get into trouble. [All laugh.]
dan
[Through laughter] Alright. Last question.
elliott
Last question. Better be about Ski Patrol.
jack
Hi, I’m Jack, last name withheld. Dan, in a previous episode—I think it was the Robin Hood episode—
stuart
Feet to the fire, Dan McCoy! [Audience laughs.]
dan
I’m scared for a couple reasons. Number one, I don’t know where this is going; number two, this man is far too handsome to be a podcast fan? So… [Audience laughs.]
jack
Thank you.
crosstalk
Stuart: Probably some kind of assassin! Elliott: Dan, why are you insulting everyone else in the audience, Dan? Dan: Everyone else! [Audience cheers, applauds.]
dan
Just to suck up to this stranger!
elliott
Dan! This is like… we—it was announced we were on a new podcast streaming service recently. Or we were newly on an old podcast streaming service. And Dan was like, “We’re on this service now! We used to not like ‘em, but now they’re okay!” [Audience laughs.] Dan, you don’t need to say everything!
dan
[Laughs.] That’s a-me!
crosstalk
Elliott: But anyway. Handsome question-asker— Dan: [Laughs.] Go on, sir. I’m sorry.
elliott
—what did Dan say that you either wanna know more about or attack him for?
jack
He’s not gonna like, this, but—
dan
Fair.
jack
He referred to himself as chaotic good because he liked watching porn on airplanes? [Audience laughs boisterously.]
dan
I don’t recall that!
elliott
I have to assume there’s some context that made more sense.
crosstalk
Jack: I’m sorry. I changed that up a little bit. Dan: [Through laughter] I don’t think I said “porn.” I said I did not mind nude scenes on airplanes. But continue.
crosstalk
Elliott: I think we’ll have to consult the record at some point! Dan: Nude scenes. [Audience laughs.]
dan
I do not watch porn on airplanes. [Audience laughs.] No one report me. I don’t wanna have to go—
stuart
I mean, it’s—it’s all—it’s art. [Audience laughs.]
dan
The Dan character, maybe. [Audience laughs.] I dunno. Sorry, go on.
jack
But on the lawful/chaotic, good/bad axis, where would you, Elliott and Stuart, put yourselves? And maybe some other Flop House favorites like the Housecat or Crawdaddy? [Audience laughs.]
stuart
Well the—
elliott
Well, y’know.
stuart
The Housecat is obviously True Neutral. [Audience laughs.] You could never—he goes where the wind takes him. Um… I’m probably lawful good, y’know? I follow the rules. Pay my taxes. [Laughs.] [Audience laughs.] Comb my hair.
dan
Wait, do you?
stuart
Shut the fuck up! [All laugh.] What are you, a cop? [Audience cheers, applauds.]
elliott
I’m probably annoying good? I think that’s probably my status? And Crawdaddy, when he was young he was chaotic good. But now… [with a drawl] “Y’know, when you’re living in a Connecticut suburb and there’s, uh… you put up a basketball hoop in the driveway and they tell you to take it down ‘cause it’s against the neighborhood regulations… back in the bayou, you’d shoot that man. But here in the Nutmeg State we take down the hoop.” So now he’s lawful good, so. [Audience laughs.]
dan
I can’t think of a better way to end than with an appearance of the most popular thing in our show: Crawdaddy. Thank you so much for sticking around for a late show. [Audience cheers, applauds.] Thank you to City Space.
crosstalk
Dan and Elliott: Thank you, Boston!
elliott
Thank you to the Boston area!
dan
For The Flop House—we usually would hang out. We can’t. It’s a late show. But thank you for coming. For The Flop House, I’ve been Dan McCoy.
stuart
I’ve been Stuart Wellington!
elliott
I’m Elliott Kalan! Thank you! For being here!
music
Light, up-tempo, electric guitar with synth instruments.
dan
It’s kind of a disappointment, but um— [All laugh.] Okay. [Light audience laughter. Long pause.]
elliott
You see, on this episode, we talk about—
dan
Alright. [Audience laughs. Music ends.]
music
A cheerful ukulele chord.
speaker 2
Comedy and culture.
speaker 3
Artist owned—
speaker 4
—Audience supported.
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The Flop House is a bimonthly audio podcast devoted to the worst in recent film. Your hosts (Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy, and Stuart Wellington) watch a questionable film just before each episode, and then engage in an unscripted, slightly inebriated discussion, focusing on the movie’s shortcomings and occasional delights.
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