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Speaker 1 It's MFD Spring Break Spectacular 2025. I'm Dave Holmes, and this is the globally famous Max Fund Ride.

Speaker 1 The one time of year when we ask for your support to become a new or upgrading member, which you can do right now at maximumfund.org/slash join.

Speaker 1 This is the biggest MFD spring break in the network's history, and it's going to be wet,

Speaker 1 wild,

Speaker 1 and retro the first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight clubs this mfd spring break we're paying tribute to the 90s celebrating the decades music movies and pop culture as only match fun can do but now you know there was a man named jack dawson and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved

Speaker 1 Our first stop is Basel, Switzerland, where this year's Eurovision Song Contest will take place. I hear very faintly somebody say, what's Eurovision?

Speaker 1 I have the Eurovangelist hosts here to explain it to you. Dimitri, we'll start with you.

Speaker 10 The short version is, Europe's competing nations all pick a song and an artist.

Speaker 10 They send it to the host city, and they all compete in an amazing showdown to find out what's the best song in Europe that year.

Speaker 14 Oh, yeah, Oscar, anything to add?

Speaker 15 It's the gay Super Bowl. It is.

Speaker 11 It's just a bunch of spectacle, a bunch of lights, a bunch bunch of good times.

Speaker 1 Oscar, thank you for pointing out that it is lit. They don't have it in the dark like some farm people.

Speaker 3 Jeremy? My standard line for describing what Eurovision is is that it is Street Fighter but with music.

Speaker 18 There you go.

Speaker 1 Now I found out the three of you were going to host the world's largest dance party at the Dance Pavilion sponsored by Dunkaroos and Hollister. So I was a little jealous.

Speaker 1 But then I realized I could fly over. I could attend this dance party.
And you guys have all the pressure of organizing it. So we are about 10 minutes from the start of your dance party.

Speaker 1 Before you take the stage as a three-headed DJ, can you give us a little preview of the spring break-appropriate Eurovision songs that you have selected to play and why?

Speaker 3 It's a shame people can't see the three-headed DJ costume.

Speaker 3 I should let our Eurovision experts take the stage first.

Speaker 10 Let's kick it off the right way as we stand next to the River Rhine.

Speaker 10 I think there's no better song for your Eurovision Spring Break playlist than, of course, Greece 2001 with Die for You by Antique.

Speaker 10 We have future Eurovision winner Elena Paparisu performing with a dear friend, a wonderful early 2000s dance bop that's all about the devotion to your loved one, even until the point of death.

Speaker 1 That is an excellent lead-off clip, Dimitri. Who's got next?

Speaker 11 Listen, when I think about spring break, I think about MTV spring break. I think

Speaker 11 people in scantily clad bathing suits and cancun sort of partying.

Speaker 11 And I kind of want to go back to that mid-90s kind of vibe with a song that kind of hit in the US, but no one really knows that it's a Eurovision song.

Speaker 11 I'm picking UA just a little bit from the UK 1996 by the one, the only Gina G.

Speaker 11 The feelings are right. It's great.
You can grind up on somebody in a consensual way. The vibes are correct.

Speaker 12 I love that.

Speaker 1 And it's one of those rare Eurovision songs that crossed over. Now, it only crossed over so far as the gay clubs of 1996 and 1997.

Speaker 17 It didn't get too much further than that, but that's enough.

Speaker 1 Counts.

Speaker 10 But as we know, as we know, the gay clubs in the 90s set the culture for the rest of us.

Speaker 21 So

Speaker 15 when it was cool with the gays, it was cool with everybody.

Speaker 3 Now, speaking of cool with the gays, you need a song that's going to get everybody on the dance floor moving and like just going crazy.

Speaker 3 And so I need to celebrate perhaps the greatest drag performer in Eurovision history. I'm talking Ukraine's 2007 Verka Serduchka with their song, Dancing Lasha Tumbai.

Speaker 3 Amazing. If this does not get your party going, like, I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 11 The party's dead.

Speaker 3 This came in second place, and it's also a great anti-Russia imperialism song so we love that as well.

Speaker 1 In your face, Putin. Never more topical than right now.

Speaker 1 I would like to slide one in if I could.

Speaker 20 Dave, of course.

Speaker 23 You're an evangelist too.

Speaker 24 Who knows Spring Break better than Dave Holmes?

Speaker 1 Well, that's very true.

Speaker 1 There is a song from, I believe the year was 1973 to Eurovision Winner, and it really encapsulates what the whole thing is.

Speaker 10 It was 1975.

Speaker 1 Was it 1975? Do you know what I'm going to say?

Speaker 10 I'm assuming you're going to go with ding-a-dong.

Speaker 25 You know, that's right.

Speaker 1 1975 from

Speaker 12 Netherlands. Netherlands.
Netherlands.

Speaker 1 And I know the line is a big hit, but it really sounds like Ding-a-dong. Listen to it.
Maybe it's a bigot.

Speaker 1 But I love it. It makes no sense.
And it's so 1973 or 5.

Speaker 1 It's everything.

Speaker 10 I prefer maybe it's a bigot. That's funnier to me.

Speaker 1 Honestly, it's something we're all saying to ourselves.

Speaker 12 When we meet someone new.

Speaker 1 Oh, maybe it's a bigot.

Speaker 19 It's happening a lot these days.

Speaker 1 It is happening a lot these days.

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm seeing the stage manager trying to get your attention, which means we are almost out of time. So let's jump ahead to your crescendo songs.

Speaker 1 What are your closing bangers, Jeremy?

Speaker 19 Boy. Okay.

Speaker 3 I am the resident rock fan at Eurovision. And obviously, pop and rock have a symbiosis that it goes back many, many decades.

Speaker 3 But never has it been more truly expressed at Eurovision than in 2006 with Lordy's hard rock hallelujah.

Speaker 3 And just imagining hitting a high right when Hard Rock Hallelujah drops in. I don't know.
Feels pretty good to me.

Speaker 1 I like it. Oscar?

Speaker 27 Great pick.

Speaker 11 Okay, this is going to be a controversial one because this one just was just released. And

Speaker 29 okay, I know what this is.

Speaker 11 It's the song that I keep coming back to. If you want people to dance, the crescendo is happening.
And you want people to get horny and laugh a little, giggle it a little bit.

Speaker 11 I'm going for the Malta entry of this year's Eurovision 2025.

Speaker 31 I'm talking about

Speaker 1 Mariana Conte Kant,

Speaker 11 spelled K-A-N-T, which is Maltese for sing.

Speaker 11 I do it all the time, yeah, I do

Speaker 33 Singing.

Speaker 3 She's serving, singing.

Speaker 11 But she does. The chorus does go like this.
Do re mi fa so so s.

Speaker 10 And it is.

Speaker 1 She's serving, singing.

Speaker 34 She's serving, singing, but she's also serving.

Speaker 34 Wow.

Speaker 11 If that isn't a song to get people up,

Speaker 10 that is going to do it for me.

Speaker 1 Okay, go on, Malta.

Speaker 21 Absolutely.

Speaker 10 Dimitri, look, like you said, our excitement is peaked. Our hearts are beating like a drum.

Speaker 10 In fact, there's a Eurovision song that talks about your heart beating like a drum when you're dancing out partying with the one you love. I'm talking about Turkey 2009 Doom Tech Tech.

Speaker 35 Can you feel the rhythm in my heart? The beats going doom tech tech. Always out of life.

Speaker 21 I love that song.

Speaker 13 Of course. Doom Tech Tech.

Speaker 10 Of course.

Speaker 10 You end your playlist with Doom Tech Tech. Everyone's walking out happy.

Speaker 21 Oh, I love it.

Speaker 1 I love it. I need this playlist in my life right now.

Speaker 3 Good news. We got it waited for you on Spotify.
We'll put it in the show notes. Love it.

Speaker 16 Dave, you only got one.

Speaker 10 Why do you end us, Dave? You finish on the playlist.

Speaker 1 I unabashedly love, and I don't remember the year, but I know it was Sweden, Mans Sermerlof's heroes.

Speaker 10 2015 heroes.

Speaker 1 When I'm out running and my energy begins to flag a little bit, guess what? Puts the wind back in my sails.

Speaker 21 Months.

Speaker 36 Months.

Speaker 1 All right, you guys, thank you so much for doing this. I got to hop back on the Concorde and head back to South Padre Island.

Speaker 1 Thank you very much for taking the time to chat with me right before the biggest event of your careers.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, we got to get into our three-headed DJ costume.

Speaker 15 Oh, yes.

Speaker 1 Yep, you got to do it right now.

Speaker 1 Coming up, we'll check in with Hal Lublin, who's hanging out at the 90s Pop Culture Appreciation Cabana.

Speaker 38 Pele speaks righteous. Sister Zena says funky.
How bizarre.

Speaker 38 How bizarre.

Speaker 13 How bizarre.

Speaker 1 But first, it's show versus show versus show versus show. As go fact to yourselves, J.

Speaker 1 Keith Van Stratton hosts an epic trivia showdown with secretly incredibly fascinating Alex Schmidt, Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries, Brenda Snell. Let's Learn Everythings, Tom Lum.

Speaker 1 And from just the Zoo of Us, Ellen Weatherford.

Speaker 39 All right, the person who gets the most questions correct will have gotten the most questions correct.

Speaker 41 Here's how it's going to work.

Speaker 6 I'm going to ask you a question. If you know the answer, say the first word in your show name and the first one to call out in guess first.

Speaker 43 Please wait for me to call on you and let's practice our buzz in words.

Speaker 6 Ellen, what's your buzzin' word?

Speaker 45 Just.

Speaker 8 Alex?

Speaker 46 I'm gonna go with Sif because it's fast. Sif.

Speaker 47 Brenda?

Speaker 45 Secret.

Speaker 48 And Tom?

Speaker 49 Lutz.

Speaker 6 All right, here is your first question.

Speaker 39 Here we go.

Speaker 6 The X-Men belong to a long line of fantastic characters which started with the human torch in 1939 from Timely Publications.

Speaker 2 Timely's name changed to Atlas Comics in the 1950s, and it changed to what name in 1961?

Speaker 34 Secret. Let's.
Secret, I heard first.

Speaker 33 Marvel.

Speaker 41 Marvel is correct, and Secret is on the board.

Speaker 44 Very nice job, Brenda.

Speaker 40 Here is your next question.

Speaker 42 Cheers Cheers has one of television's most memorable theme songs written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo.

Speaker 44 Although it's known as The Theme from Cheers, what is the actual title of the theme song?

Speaker 49 Secret.

Speaker 55 Secret.

Speaker 45 Is it called Where Everybody Knows Your Name, or no?

Speaker 57 Well, this is the part where you answer instead of ask, so if you praise that as an answer.

Speaker 17 Is it not Jeopardy Rules?

Speaker 20 No, no, not Jeopardy Rules.

Speaker 31 It's not confident then.

Speaker 45 Is it Where Everybody Knows Your Name?

Speaker 6 It is Where Everybody Knows Your Name.

Speaker 30 Secret running away with it so far.

Speaker 51 Two to nothing, to nothing, to nothing.

Speaker 42 Let's see if the others could get on the board.

Speaker 6 Oh, who here loves sports?

Speaker 17 That's what I thought.

Speaker 31 I'm wearing a benchmark hat.

Speaker 8 You are, okay.

Speaker 53 On March 10th, 1955, the Zamboni made its debut in what professional sports league?

Speaker 61 Let's I heard first.

Speaker 62 The NHL.

Speaker 41 That is correct. Tom and Let's Learn Everything are on the board.

Speaker 56 The National Hockey League.

Speaker 44 Fun fact, Zamboni is a registered trademark of the Zamboni Company, and they are very protective of their trademark.

Speaker 24 Here is your next one.

Speaker 43 The movie Kill Bill Volume 1 opens with the quote, Revenge is a dish best served cold, which is credited to a proverb of what species of Star Trek aliens?

Speaker 65 Just.

Speaker 8 Just, I heard.

Speaker 31 Klingon.

Speaker 6 Klingon is correct, and I can't believe we had that much of a delay regarding a Star Trek quest.

Speaker 45 There's a lot of Star Trek aliens, okay?

Speaker 17 Yeah, there are.

Speaker 62 It loops back around.

Speaker 46 If you know too much, then you're like well it could be a good episode exactly i was in a mind palace about the tholians i was like lost somewhere yeah

Speaker 43 all right here we go with our next question we've got a game going now as shown in the musical alexander hamilton was the united states first secretary of what

Speaker 1 i i think that was alex yes the treasury that is correct ten dollar founding father secretary of treasury treasury or state treasurier state treasury all right here's your next question According to one of TV's Twilight Zones openings, you're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of what?

Speaker 49 Secret.

Speaker 33 Secret.

Speaker 45 I literally just listened to this, but of mind?

Speaker 45 Mind. That is my answer.
That is my answer.

Speaker 60 That is your answer.

Speaker 34 The confidence is growing, and with good reason, that is correct.

Speaker 54 Sight and sound of mind.

Speaker 45 There's literally like that in like what I'm doing for this week's episode of the podcast. I literally just watched that opening.

Speaker 61 Was that a coincidence or did we conspire to help you get that answer correct?

Speaker 45 This goes all the way to the top.

Speaker 17 Almost

Speaker 17 all the Exodus episode.

Speaker 24 Here's your next question.

Speaker 44 Tom Lehrer noted for his song on the electric company, there's a certain magic letter that can turn a can into a cane, turn a pan into a pane, and make a little hug become huge instantly if you just add what quiet vowel.

Speaker 17 Just first.

Speaker 64 I heard just first.

Speaker 17 E.

Speaker 6 More specific, please.

Speaker 45 Silent E.

Speaker 55 Silent E is the answer we were looking for.

Speaker 30 That is the wonderful song with wonderful animation by the wonderful Tom Lehrer.

Speaker 43 What is the proper term for the motion cats make by rhythmically alternating their paws pushing in and out against a pliable object?

Speaker 45 Just.

Speaker 15 Just.

Speaker 5 Kneading.

Speaker 39 Kneading is correct. Yes.
Kneading, otherwise known as making biscuits, which I think is

Speaker 43 one of my favorite cute things that kitties do.

Speaker 65 I like that it's still a baking term. I thought it was going to be much more scientific or ology or something.

Speaker 44 All right, let's move on to our next question.

Speaker 42 This one has to do with Canada and food.

Speaker 43 In the early part of the 2000s, thieves stole 3,000 tons of what Canadian food stuff valued at $18.7 million.

Speaker 43 Of course, that's Canadian dollars. Let's...

Speaker 62 Oh, Canadian dollars. Never mind.

Speaker 70 No, maple syrup?

Speaker 39 Maple syrup is correct.

Speaker 33 That's right.

Speaker 69 3,000 tons of maple syrup.

Speaker 39 Fun fact, Canada has a cartel that controls over 70% of the world's supply of maple syrup.

Speaker 50 But I know a guy if you want to taste

Speaker 70 he makes blue.

Speaker 65 He makes blue maple syrup.

Speaker 12 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 70 It's pure.

Speaker 17 It's so pure.

Speaker 40 All right, here's our next question.

Speaker 42 Anxiety over World War II breaking out in Europe led some handbags to be designed with a stylish compartment to hold what life-saving device?

Speaker 45 Just.

Speaker 1 Just.

Speaker 45 A knife.

Speaker 53 A knife?

Speaker 17 Incorrect, but that definitely is handy in New York.

Speaker 65 SIF.

Speaker 70 SIF.

Speaker 72 Bigger knife.

Speaker 44 That's right. They would say, now that's a knife.

Speaker 73 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 8 No. Any other guesses?

Speaker 63 Let's.

Speaker 74 Let's.

Speaker 47 A gas mask?

Speaker 51 Gas mask?

Speaker 39 That's ridiculous and correct.

Speaker 17 Oh, that's right.

Speaker 63 It seems the gas mask is mightier than the knife.

Speaker 43 I love playing rock, paper, gas mask.

Speaker 17 Yes.

Speaker 6 That's right.

Speaker 53 Respirators or gas masks were part of a line of luxury handbags that were designed and sold near World War.

Speaker 42 Excuse me.

Speaker 73 around World War II in Europe.

Speaker 45 The Chanel gas mask? Yeah, I am.

Speaker 19 Who are you wearing?

Speaker 75 All right, let's move on.

Speaker 40 Here's some questions about improv comedy.

Speaker 61 He was an acclaimed writer, director, producer, and actor.

Speaker 51 She is an acclaimed writer, director, producer, and actor.

Speaker 43 And together, they're probably the greatest improv duo of all time whose comedy records made the pop music charts and won the Grammy.

Speaker 17 Who are they?

Speaker 65 Sif?

Speaker 70 Sif?

Speaker 46 Nichols and May.

Speaker 58 That is correct.

Speaker 55 Yes, we also would have accepted May and Nichols. Yes, Nichols and May, of course, is correct.

Speaker 69 The Grammy-winning comedy duo.

Speaker 43 Any fans of Breaking Bad here?

Speaker 55 Well, let's see how you do anyway on this.

Speaker 16 I made that reference about the blue thing.

Speaker 76 Oh, you did. So, Tom,

Speaker 67 fake fan.

Speaker 54 Big fake fan.

Speaker 51 Well, there are some rabid fans of Breaking Bad, some of whom like to visit the actual filming locations of the show in Albuquerque and recreate some of the show's iconic moments.

Speaker 43 This led show creator Vince Gilligan to beg fans to stop going to the actual house used as Walter White's home and throwing what large circular food on the roof.

Speaker 16 Let's.

Speaker 30 Let's, I think you were in first.

Speaker 74 Yeah, you're in the first place.

Speaker 63 I was gonna buzz in the moment you said house.

Speaker 56 I knew what this was gonna be.

Speaker 63 This is throwing pizzas on the roof.

Speaker 20 That is correct.

Speaker 59 Yes.

Speaker 61 He does that.

Speaker 51 Exactly. Yes.

Speaker 19 Please do not throw pizzas on the roof.

Speaker 44 Please bring them to my doorstep.

Speaker 43 All right, another TV question.

Speaker 44 While the TV show Roseanne gained acclaim for its depiction of a working-class family, season nine of the show depicted the same family as incredibly wealthy.

Speaker 51 How did the family come upon this sudden fortune?

Speaker 17 Secret.

Speaker 39 Secret.

Speaker 56 Roseanne won the lottery.

Speaker 60 That is correct.

Speaker 74 Yes, you won the question and Roseanne won the lottery.

Speaker 51 Hey, let's get a score update as we head into the final crunch of questions.

Speaker 15 We've got Alex with two, we've got Ellen with three, and we've got a tie at the top, Brenda and Tom with four.

Speaker 34 A very close game.

Speaker 30 Anybody could win, but we probably know it's not going to be one of these people.

Speaker 17 All right, here we go with our next question.

Speaker 30 I didn't say the name, but you just.

Speaker 56 People directed at me, and I'm okay with it.

Speaker 65 No, that's a nice

Speaker 34 again.

Speaker 76 The stakes could not be lower.

Speaker 51 Much of the film Ed Wood involves the making of what critics Michael and Harry Medved would later call the worst film ever made.

Speaker 74 What sci-fi film featuring Criswell, Vampyra, and Bella Lugosi do we get to see come to life?

Speaker 16 Sif.

Speaker 17 Sif.

Speaker 46 Is this one Plan 9 from Outer Space?

Speaker 42 It is Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Speaker 75 Very nice.

Speaker 76 Very nice job.

Speaker 43 The musical Les Miserable is based on the novel Les Miserable, published in 1862. Who is the author of that novel?

Speaker 74 Secret.

Speaker 65 Just.

Speaker 39 Secret.

Speaker 45 It is.

Speaker 45 Oh my gosh. I blanked on it.

Speaker 39 I relent.

Speaker 55 Ellen, you were the next one in.

Speaker 45 Hugo.

Speaker 58 Victor Hugo is correct.

Speaker 6 In the season three episode of the Brady Bunches, Her Sister's Shadow, Jan complains about not getting the kind of attention one of her siblings gets.

Speaker 43 In doing so, what name does Jan memorably repeat three times?

Speaker 65 Sif.

Speaker 16 Sif.

Speaker 46 Marsha, Marcia, Marsha.

Speaker 40 That is correct, correct, correct.

Speaker 77 I think it was Bloody Mary.

Speaker 17 I took her name three times. So it's like, clearly, Jimmy.
When he said that, then she appeared.

Speaker 56 Oh, God, I'm Marcia.

Speaker 73 Oh, oh, no.

Speaker 65 I'm falling down the stairs. She pushed me downstairs.

Speaker 55 As long as you don't say Beetlejuice or Candyman, I think we're okay.

Speaker 47 All right.

Speaker 74 ladies and gentlemen we are all tied up at four all tied up everybody is currently in the lead oh my god

Speaker 69 it is going to come down to this one last

Speaker 27 question

Speaker 40 in ontario canada more than 75 of milk is sold in what type of container secret bags bags is correct congratulations brenda

Speaker 58 i didn't know i was going to do this congratulations brenda good job, Brenda.

Speaker 65 Good job, Brenda.

Speaker 17 Of this very important, very exciting trivia showdown.

Speaker 44 Congratulations.

Speaker 30 Well, hey, everybody, I want to thank you, Tom Lum, Ellen Weatherford, Brenda Snell, and Alex Schmidt.

Speaker 51 Now, where can listeners who aren't here with us at the Long Beach Convention Center Promenade Meeting Room find you?

Speaker 71 Ellen, why don't you go ahead and tell us?

Speaker 45 Just the Zoo of Us on Maximum Fun, wherever you get podcasts.

Speaker 54 And Alex?

Speaker 46 Yeah, secretly, incredibly fascinating. If you search secretly in a podcast app, that's the red one.

Speaker 76 And Tom?

Speaker 62 where let's learn everything. We did a topic about bagged milk with a Canadian.

Speaker 63 If you want to learn some more about that, amazing.

Speaker 45 And Brenda, you find me at secret histories of nerd mysteries on Maximum Fun.

Speaker 54 Excellent. And I'm J.

Speaker 79 Keith Van Stratton from Go Fact Yourself here at Maximum Fun.

Speaker 50 Hey, thanks so much for everybody who supports us in the Max Fun drive. You can go to maximum fun.org/slash join.

Speaker 39 All right, don't go anywhere, listeners.

Speaker 6 There's more show right after this.

Speaker 1 We got to go to break, but when I come back, I will sit sit down for an exclusive interview with Auburn College student and guy who died, Thatcher Sawyer.

Speaker 37 I was pronounced legally dead, and I saw heaven itself.

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Speaker 1 MFD Spring Break 2025. We are in the Frutopia one-on-one interview lounge.
I am Dave Holmes with a young man who's down here all the way from Auburn University.

Speaker 1 He's a little bit of a Spring Break celebrity. Please welcome Thatcher Sawyer.
Hi, Thatcher.

Speaker 37 Oh, Dave, it's great to be here. I can't wait to share my story with with everybody.

Speaker 1 We can't wait to be shared in that story.

Speaker 21 Yeah, go Sandpipers.

Speaker 37 Go Sandpipers. We're the number one school in rowing, lacrosse, and shorts.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 and an excellent pair of shorts on you right now, Thatcher. Madras never looked so good.
So you had a bit of an interesting experience at Spring Break last year. Why don't you tell us about it?

Speaker 37 Well, Dave, during spring break last year, I legally died.

Speaker 17 Thatcher.

Speaker 37 I was pronounced legally dead, and I saw heaven itself.

Speaker 1 Okay, back me up a few steps, Thatcher. What happened? What were the circumstances of your spring break death?

Speaker 37 I was a tragic victim of mixing.

Speaker 37 Obviously, I know this now, but like I just want to say to all the young people out there, if you're partying, if you're throwing down, just watch for mixing because I unfortunately mixed tequila, Celsius, and being on a balcony that collapsed.

Speaker 17 Wow.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's a difficult combination.

Speaker 37 Because of that,

Speaker 37 I was legally dead for 14 minutes, but was brought back to life by heroic EMTs. They're the real heroes.

Speaker 37 But, you know, in the time that I was gone, I was fortunate enough to see heaven, to see the other side, and to see what awaits us.

Speaker 37 You know, after the party's over.

Speaker 1 I have so many questions about the afterlife. I'm just going to start.
What does it smell like?

Speaker 37 Oh, I mean, it's just got this wonderful, smoky smell, right? Like a smoky sulfur charcoal. Like you ever like catch your flesh on fire? You ever like catch your hair or flesh on fire?

Speaker 37 Like maybe you fall in a bonfire, you get too drunk at a bonfire. So it smells a little bit like when human flesh burns, right? Just like, just like gorgeous smells in heaven.

Speaker 17 Wow.

Speaker 1 Oh, God. Yeah.
So like a little bit like a like a like a fire pit or a Korean barbecue, but human flesh.

Speaker 37 Yeah, human flesh, exactly. It's kind of got a stench, a kind of a reek, you know, but like, you know, I was into it.

Speaker 1 The music playing in heaven, is it what you're listening to when you die? Or is there special heaven afterlife music?

Speaker 37 You know, I assumed I would be up there jamming with the greats. I play a little guitar, Dave.
Do you know that? I play a little guitar.

Speaker 1 I didn't know that, but I did assume.

Speaker 37 People love it when they're at a party with me and I break out the acoustic and I throw down a little Buffalo Soldier.

Speaker 17 Oh, I love that.

Speaker 37 No matter what's playing on the stereo, it's a song of revolution, Dave.

Speaker 1 And it speaks so directly to your own personal experiences.

Speaker 37 Exactly. I've had a lot of hardship.
You know, Bob Marley, he gets me.

Speaker 37 Anyway, what I was assuming was that I would be in heaven jamming with Hendrix, Bob Marley, the one guy from Dave Matthews' band that died. I didn't really see many, many musicians.

Speaker 37 There was this really cool guy, though, Genghis Khan.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, I've heard that name. Is he on Survivor or Big Brother?

Speaker 37 No, I think he was like a leader or something.

Speaker 37 Okay. Not a history guy.
I'm more of just like a school of life kind of guy. Yeah.
He's great with percussion, and he had this friend there, Vlad the Impaler.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh. Is he a TikToker?

Speaker 2 He's a TikToker.

Speaker 37 Maybe he might be a TikToker. I have like a different TikTok algorithm than most people.
I'm on crosstalk, which is like CrossFit and talking over each other.

Speaker 37 That's my TikTok algorithm. But this guy was really cool.
And, you know, we had a little drum circle and it was like just really cool and like expressive and spiritual.

Speaker 1 It was kind of right up your alley the afterlife, but something,

Speaker 1 something pulled you back. I'm just curious what that was.

Speaker 37 Yeah, you know, I think I just realized that I had a lot of unfinished business to take care of here on earth.

Speaker 37 Of course, I have my great girlfriend Kendra and she and I were supposed to go to a wedding, so I didn't want to like miss out on that.

Speaker 37 It was her cousin who's really cool, who's kind of like a cousin to me in many ways.

Speaker 37 I have a lot of great ideas for apps, so I think I like wanted to make sure that I get some of these apps off the ground.

Speaker 37 And of course, Dave Matthews' band is touring in the fall, so I just wanted to come back for that.

Speaker 1 And now, this is so exciting. Maximum Fun and Miramax together are getting into the film business, and our first film is a dramatization of your story.

Speaker 37 Yeah, it was just like really exciting. Of course, like my uncle's an executive at Miramax, so he like fast-tracked it.
Just a really, really good script from Diablo Cody.

Speaker 37 She was fun to work with. She really responded well to my many notes.
Yeah, I think I'm just like really excited to like finally see myself up on screen, you know? Representation is so important.

Speaker 37 And I am, I think I'm just like excited to finally tell the story of a straight white guy that died and hopefully others can be inspired by my journey.

Speaker 1 And Thatcher, you brought a scene? Can you set it up for us?

Speaker 37 Yeah, this is the pivotal scene where the heroic EMTs bring me back from heaven.

Speaker 37 Can you just tell me if my friend is even alive?

Speaker 1 I'm doing compressions. Come on, dude.
Tack a broth!

Speaker 1 Think about the memes that you might go on to send to your friends and family. Look at those maddress slacks.

Speaker 1 I see his eyes fluttering.

Speaker 14 There's life in those eyes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, man.

Speaker 21 Incredible.

Speaker 1 Thatcher Sawyer's Oops, I Fell and Died comes out this May. Cannot wait.
Everybody goes seeing it.

Speaker 1 What are Clint and Justin McElroy up to in Daytona Beach?

Speaker 36 Be positive that it won't hurt.

Speaker 56 Right.

Speaker 23 And give me your blood.

Speaker 1 Still ahead, the segment MFD's lawyers don't want us to do.

Speaker 21 It's gonna be wild.

Speaker 7 I love watching wrestling and talking about wrestling and interviewing wrestlers. It's pretty cool.
You know I'm able to do all these incredible things?

Speaker 7 Because a friend didn't let me mix tequila and Celsius and step out onto a wobbly balcony in South Beach. Friends don't don't let other friends mix on balconies.

Speaker 1 Hey there, I am Dave Holmes and you are experiencing the MFD 2025 Spring Break Spectacular.

Speaker 1 I'm at the Fruit by the Foot Party Animal Pavilion

Speaker 1 in South Padre Island, where hundreds of party animals have been competing all day long for our first annual Golden Chalice Trophy. And you can hear just how wild it is.

Speaker 1 We're down to our final contestants. And the winner today will be going home with this rad golden chalice filled with the party animals' favorite snack.

Speaker 1 So without further ado, let's say bonjour to our remaining handlers from Dr. Game Show Manolo Moreno, Eurovangelists Jeremy Bent, Let's Learn Everythings Tom Lum.

Speaker 1 And from just the Zoo of Us, Ellen Weatherford.

Speaker 1 First up, Manolo Moreno.

Speaker 1 Now your buddy here is really going to town on those bagel bites, proving the adage that when pizza's on a bagel, you can have pizza anytime.

Speaker 20 Who's your friend here?

Speaker 72 I brought

Speaker 72 a party pig. His name is Pigga Chad.

Speaker 72 Here he is right now.

Speaker 17 There he is.

Speaker 1 No, what's his name again?

Speaker 72 Pigga Chad.

Speaker 72 He just said that he was annoyed by the flight

Speaker 72 because

Speaker 72 people kept telling him to go under the seat. he said yeah he said he wanted to fly the plane well

Speaker 1 you know what we could do a lot worse these days yeah so i understand you you actually speak pig that's impressive

Speaker 72 yeah i mostly understand it i'm too embarrassed you don't speak it you do you yeah i interpret you comprehend and read it you mostly go like where's the bathroom stuff like that yeah yeah which is weird because my pig uh likes traveling yeah he likes traveling he He just came back from France and he learned some French.

Speaker 72 If you want to hear what he said, he said.

Speaker 72 And yeah, that does mean

Speaker 72 where is the bathroom.

Speaker 1 He is multilingual.

Speaker 1 So when did you realize, Manolo, that Pig Chad liked to party?

Speaker 72 I heard him down the street at

Speaker 59 those party houses.

Speaker 72 He likes singing this song.

Speaker 72 And that's when I knew.

Speaker 1 Jeremy Bent, who you got with you? And why do they like to party?

Speaker 30 These are bonobos, Dave.

Speaker 3 Bonobos.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Our closest non-human relative,

Speaker 16 but also animals known.

Speaker 54 to party.

Speaker 1 Wow. What do you mean by that?

Speaker 3 Okay, so these animals, they're very close to humans.

Speaker 3 They're a fellow primate. They're one of two animals within the chimp family, because bonobos are a type of chimp.

Speaker 3 But they are the only animal that exhibits a similar behavior to us humans. They tongue kiss, just like we do.
So these animals like to get down.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Jeremy, what are your bonobos named?

Speaker 3 When I first met them, they told me their names are Manny and Tess.

Speaker 1 Manny and Tess. So when did you realize that your bonobos like to throw down?

Speaker 3 Well, you know, once you see, you know, a big community of bonobos in action, you realize that, like, oh,

Speaker 3 they like to get it on. They have sex for pleasure.
They do it frequently. They do it with

Speaker 24 multiple partners, but they also are known to have long friendships and lengthy relationships as well.

Speaker 3 They're just like a good-time gang, bonobos.

Speaker 21 All right.

Speaker 1 You seem like you actually did some work and research, Jeremy Bent.

Speaker 1 I'm taken by surprise. Tom Mom, who you got with you?

Speaker 62 Well, I thought one of the most and underrated factors of a party animal is a chill hang.

Speaker 1 And so I brought perhaps the most chillest hanger in the world,

Speaker 46 the sloth, as my party animal. Sure.
Wow.

Speaker 62 People don't often know they're nocturnal, so they'll be up all night.

Speaker 11 They are literally cold-blooded, and their temperature will change up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit within a single day because they don't care.

Speaker 62 They'll just, hey, you know what? I'll rock with whatever we're rocking with.

Speaker 1 That's so important to the art of partying, is resilience. Tom Lum, does your sloth have a name?

Speaker 62 Also, Pikachad, weirdly.

Speaker 45 One of you's got to be like Pikachad A, and one of you has to be like Pikachad S.

Speaker 30 Yeah, like on the bachelor.

Speaker 1 Finally, Ellen Weatherford, who's with you, and why do they like to party?

Speaker 45 Well, I've brought only two to three hundred of my closest friends. I've brought a colony of western honeybees, apis mellifera.

Speaker 45 So, you know, I feel like there's no bigger bummer than getting to a party and realizing that it's like all dudes

Speaker 45 so I figured I would bring you know a few hundred females because the in a honeybee colony the only males are a few sort of like they're basically just there for reproduction occasionally and everyone else is all females so I brought some literal fly honeys

Speaker 1 now talk to me about their partying strategies and likes and dislikes.

Speaker 45 They are extremely social. They bring snacks to the party.

Speaker 45 When they collect pollen, they, you know, attach pollen to their body and then they process it into something called bee bread. So they are bringing snacks to share.

Speaker 45 They also communicate with dance moves, which I feel like there's nothing more party than that.

Speaker 1 So true. We will be back later this hour.
from the fruit by the foot party pavilion to see which of these competitors will go home with the golden chalice.

Speaker 1 While we take a break, our judges, Laurie Petty, Gerardo, and the guy who plays the guitar player in California Dreams, the show that is like Saved by the Bell, but it's banded instead of high school.

Speaker 1 They will review our contestants and come to a decision. Stick around for more MFD Spring Break.

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Speaker 21 Well,

Speaker 1 our judges have rendered a verdict. I'll go through one by one.
Pikachad. Pikachad? Pikachad.
Pikachad the sloth.

Speaker 1 Your resilience made my insides bounce for joy. But your internal cooling left me cold.
I'm sorry, my dear, but you are eliminated.

Speaker 1 Manny and Tess, the bonobos, your level of affection made me warm inside. But overall, I found your appearance to be pants.
That means we are down to two competitors. Piga Chad the pig

Speaker 1 and a big swarm of honeybees.

Speaker 1 Congratulations, Manolo. You win the Fruit Gusher's Golden Chalice.

Speaker 1 so what pig a chad like to fill it with

Speaker 20 or beer

Speaker 1 boy this guy likes the party

Speaker 45 ellen you were so close and yet so far do you think you'll try again next year um yeah for sure the colony is always here it keeps uh the colony never goes away this colony will never collapse baby Stick around for more MFD Spring Break.

Speaker 1 Welcome back to MFD Spring Break. We're channeling the 90s, and I've asked a few of this network's greatest movie minds to compile a list of the decade's most iconic films.

Speaker 1 We are in the Orville Redenbacher Extreme Amounts of Movie Theater Butter Microwave Popcorn Screening Room for Maximum Film.

Speaker 23 It's Drea Clark and Alonzo Geraldi.

Speaker 1 Welcome.

Speaker 20 Hello. Hoodie hoo!

Speaker 1 How's your spring break?

Speaker 32 This is my first real spring break. So it's a rum spring energy for me.
I'm very excited to be here.

Speaker 25 She's already had her hair braided.

Speaker 1 And you are actually holding a bottle of Malibu rum in your hands.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a sponsored rum springa.

Speaker 1 It's a spiced rum springa.

Speaker 1 Welcome to the both of you. And welcome also from the Flop House, Dan McCoy.
Hello, welcome, Dan. Hello.

Speaker 1 Drea, Alonzo, and Dan are compiling a list of their picks for the most culturally impactful movies of the 90s. Let's get started.

Speaker 21 Alonzo?

Speaker 25 Well, I mean, 1999 obviously is quite rightly pointed at as a movie, as a year that really changed film a lot and threw a lot of, you know,

Speaker 25 kind of wrenches in the system of big studio filmmaking. And you had a lot of indie o tours making these big breakthroughs and going wild.
So I'm going to make the case

Speaker 25 that

Speaker 25 even though it was not a success in theaters, Fight Club

Speaker 25 really kind of set a new tone of like dude speak and a certain kind of male ego expressing itself in the culture and feeling victimized by the culture that I think has continued to reverberate through the social media era.

Speaker 4 The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.

Speaker 1 That poster on the wall of some of the worst guys I ever hooked up with.

Speaker 17 Exactly.

Speaker 25 You see that bar of soap, you turn around and leave.

Speaker 1 Oh yeah, now you gotta go.

Speaker 32 Dream? I would say 1995's Clueless.

Speaker 32 Clueless gave us a whole new vernacular. It gave us fashion, quotes for days.
It really allowed us to finally all want that aspirational crush on a stepbrother that really cinema had been begging for.

Speaker 1 So wrong, but so right.

Speaker 32 Right? Like you were, we were really all rooting for her to get with her stepbrother. And why not? Because it's Paul Rudd.

Speaker 26 What's with you?

Speaker 84 What do you mean?

Speaker 26 So quiet.

Speaker 32 Like, it launched a thousand ships of stars. Everybody knows one line now of the song Rolling the Tonies.
Like, what is not to love about Clueless?

Speaker 32 Find me someone who has a dreamt of getting a yellow plaid little suit set and I'll find you a liar.

Speaker 1 Damn right.

Speaker 22 I love Clueless, but I do remember even at the time, like, being like, is no one else noticing this about their...

Speaker 85 I mean, I know that they're not blood relations, but no one seems to have a problem with it at all.

Speaker 32 He's playing someone who was raised. The Austin character was raised in the neighboring estate, so it's someone she'd known her whole life was not related to her by marriage or otherwise.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Dan McCoy, how about you?

Speaker 22 I think this is less groundbreaking than more just like trendsetting in that it collaged a bunch of stuff that we hadn't really seen put together before in that pulp fiction from 94, like

Speaker 22 brought this sort of

Speaker 22 humor and glibness to a pulp crime story in a way that, you know, is not utterly new, but was but felt very trendsetting.

Speaker 22 Like, you couldn't, for like the next decade, you couldn't go to a video store without seeing a dozen knockoffs of people who are like, oh, I get it. You just make the crimes funny.

Speaker 26 And you know what they call

Speaker 26 a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris? They don't call it a quarter pounder with cheese? Oh, man.

Speaker 79 They got the Metric system.

Speaker 26 They know what the f the quarter pounder is. And what do they call it? They call it a royale with cheese.

Speaker 22 And that's all they got from it.

Speaker 8 They didn't get any of the other skills.

Speaker 25 The punchline is a gunshot.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Saw it the night it came out in New York City at the Angelica Theater. The subway roared underneath us and rumbled our seats

Speaker 1 during the shot of adrenaline scene. For free? And everyone, like literally everybody was like, the original D-Box.

Speaker 17 It was bad news.

Speaker 1 It was bad news, but I loved it, of course.

Speaker 1 Okay, to recap so far, we have Clueless, Fight Club, and finally, Pope Fiction.

Speaker 1 Stay tuned for the complete list. Stick around for more show.

Speaker 1 Do you ever wonder how British people celebrate spring break? I do. So I'll catch up with Ella McLeod, John Luke Roberts, Ella Hubber, and Caroline Roper.

Speaker 1 All right, so listen, we do think of you often in the UK as a bit more reserved. Who are some of the most notorious UK party figures?

Speaker 65 Who are the party people?

Speaker 67 Timmy Mallet.

Speaker 67 He had a hammer and he'd hit you

Speaker 27 on the head and

Speaker 67 he had a hit with the song Teeny Weenie Itsy Bitsy.

Speaker 40 Yellow Polkadot Bikini.

Speaker 27 That's our party. That's our party guy.

Speaker 65 Okay, Okay.

Speaker 45 The similar. Who did the song Agado?

Speaker 17 Agado.

Speaker 17 Toby Black Law.

Speaker 45 That's a classic.

Speaker 45 I think a lot of our partiers are just, unfortunately, just

Speaker 45 bad people now. You know, I think like Russell Brand was a big fan.

Speaker 56 Sure.

Speaker 67 But I think of him as American now.

Speaker 27 He's been there for long enough.

Speaker 45 So true, he's your problem.

Speaker 17 Yeah. Yeah, that's a real good point.

Speaker 49 I would say anyone like associated with like Love Island or like, do you know what I mean? Like they come out of the island and then they do the Towie group.

Speaker 49 They come out and they do the like uni freshers circuit where they do like club appearances at dodgy nightclubs where they like party with 18 year olds, which you know.

Speaker 7 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 45 The Chuckle Brothers did the university

Speaker 17 tour just to get out there.

Speaker 65 I'm sorry, who are the Chuckle Brothers?

Speaker 67 Oh, you can work it out.

Speaker 82 No, I can't.

Speaker 45 The lore is too deep there.

Speaker 45 They're just a kit, they're a duo for kids' TV kind of presenters, for a show, and they had a bit where they would hold something and they'd pass it back and forward to each other and go, to you, to me, to you, to me.

Speaker 45 And that was the height of children's British humour.

Speaker 84 Well, the Reds got the most rappers off, so that means the Reds won the game and they go first in the main game of to me, to you. Let's go back to the law.

Speaker 67 But also, they come from the sort of Blackpool Working Men's Club comedy tradition.

Speaker 67 So, they're very much.

Speaker 15 And also, they have two brothers who are also less successful, a less successful double L.

Speaker 67 There's two Chuckle Brothers who aren't in the Chuckle Brothers.

Speaker 42 They're other brothers.

Speaker 67 But also, one of the Chuckle Brothers is now dead, which is sad.

Speaker 17 Oh, it's really sad.

Speaker 1 Which set of the Chuckle Brothers died?

Speaker 67 No, the main Chuckle Brothers. The other ones didn't get the Chuckle name.
They had to. I don't know which name they took.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 49 But the main Chuckle Brother that died basically got like a state funeral. Like, I honestly haven't seen that kind of turnout for anyone but like the queen.

Speaker 30 Like, Q was extraordinary.

Speaker 55 It was nice.

Speaker 45 But these characters, these people would often end up at like freshers events or at club nights for students.

Speaker 45 And they would have like a DJ set or something like that or just like a meet and group in a club.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 67 Howard from the Halifax.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 49 The guy Hodor from Game of Thrones did the freshers circuit. Yeah.
And he came to my uni and we saw him like tearing it up.

Speaker 45 I saw Dick and Dom.

Speaker 17 No,

Speaker 34 that's a good one. That's a good book.

Speaker 16 Dick and Dom is good about doing that.

Speaker 45 This is another children's duo presenter team. Apparently, we love them DJing.
We love them DJing.

Speaker 21 Tracy Beaker, Danny Haram, Harvard did as well.

Speaker 17 She did.

Speaker 49 Dick and Dom were famous for going into public places and yelling like bogies really loudly.

Speaker 88 That was like their shit.

Speaker 17 Remember,

Speaker 45 are we selling the UK to you? The UK like club scene?

Speaker 49 I feel like just before we entirely move off the subject, we do need to give a special shout out to Sun's Sex and Suspicious Parents.

Speaker 56 I think it's really interesting

Speaker 49 that we acknowledge the existence of that show. So Sun, Sex, and Suspicious Parents is a

Speaker 49 reality entertainment show that follows a different like group of 18-year-old school leavers every episode. And they're going to one of these like terrible, like Zante Magaloof type holidays.

Speaker 49 And they're like off to go wild for the first time and what they don't know is that their parents are so they think they're being filmed for like some documentary um and obviously I don't know they're too drunk or stupid to question yeah the the the wisdom of all of their actics being captured but anyway but what they don't know is that their parents actually on the holiday just in a different room the whole time watching the shenanigans they get up to and then they come out at the end and it's always some mother who thinks her like precious baby golden boy is an angel.

Speaker 49 And then he, you know, sleeps with 16 girls and says fairly derogatory things about them. And she, she cries and is like, I raised you better than this.
It's great television.

Speaker 17 It's great. Really classic.

Speaker 49 Oh, yes.

Speaker 1 My YouTube two watches is growing and growing and growing.

Speaker 49 You're going to have a great time.

Speaker 67 I'm having, I'm having a, something about this context is giving me a really disassociative experience when I'm, I know all these cultural things. This is my British culture.

Speaker 67 But as I'm hearing them through, and I'm looking at you, Dave, I'm feeling like, so alienated.

Speaker 31 I can't believe that this is that this is all true.

Speaker 82 This is all true, though.

Speaker 31 It's all true.

Speaker 1 And that's the thing. And, like, I'm enough of an Anglophile to know Black Lace did Aga do.

Speaker 73 There's no reason for me to know that.

Speaker 1 And yet, all of this stuff is a level deeper than anything.

Speaker 86 Even Black Lace are forgotten.

Speaker 73 I have certainly.

Speaker 1 I also like, I have so many questions about what that song means or is and what Push Pineapple indicates. And I, I just, I, it, it's, it's for next year's Max fun drive, for sure.

Speaker 1 But for now, let's check back in with Hal.

Speaker 38 We're having a great time here at the 90s pop culture appreciation. Cabana, I'm here with Austin Taylor.
We've already seen a couple come up and reenact one of Ross and Rachel's breakups.

Speaker 38 And another guy who wandered in from the street was already reciting most of 1992's Dark Man, the Sam Raimi film. Austin, tell us about the fun you're having and some of the stuff you've seen today.

Speaker 83 No, it's been great. It's been wild.
Someone came in and they did an entire recreation of the Ninja Turtles apartment fight scene. They had four Deutschers as Hurtles, like 15 guys as ninjas.

Speaker 83 It was nuts. They did set the building on fire, but we put it out.
It's fine now. It's good.

Speaker 33 We're good now.

Speaker 38 Yeah, only three people went to the hospital. We call that a good time here in the Cabana.

Speaker 18 Hell yeah, hell yeah, brother.

Speaker 38 Coming up to the stage now, Sierra Cato.

Speaker 23 Welcome, Sierra.

Speaker 62 I like

Speaker 89 big butts, and I cannot lie.

Speaker 71 You

Speaker 89 other brothers can't deny that when a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist and a round thing in your face, you get sprung.

Speaker 1 Let's go now to J. Keith Van Stratton at the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood.
Which Max Fun host will prevail in our music quiz spectacular?

Speaker 1 Euroevangelist Jeremy Bent, Sleeping with Celebrities and Depressed Mode host John Moe, or Primer's Christian Duena.

Speaker 66 All right, we're going to begin.

Speaker 44 I'm going to ask a question, and if you know the answer, say the first word in your show name, John, you'll have to choose one of your two shows.

Speaker 44 And the first one to get the answer correct gets the answer correct.

Speaker 6 So let's start by practicing.

Speaker 39 Let's get your buzz-in words.

Speaker 6 Christian, go ahead.

Speaker 19 Primer.

Speaker 15 And Jeremy?

Speaker 33 I guess I'll say Euro.

Speaker 66 And John?

Speaker 60 Depress.

Speaker 68 Okay, those are your buzzer sounds.

Speaker 44 Here we begin with the first question.

Speaker 66 Between 1990 and 1999, over 30 hip-hop albums reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart.

Speaker 44 The first one to do so in the span was the album Please Hammer Don't Hurt Him, which featured what number one hit song?

Speaker 60 Depress.

Speaker 78 Depress.

Speaker 86 Uh, can't touch this. You can't touch this.

Speaker 11 You can't touch this.

Speaker 30 You did add the letter U, which does make it correct.

Speaker 41 Yes, that is a point for John Moe. Very good.
We're on our way.

Speaker 8 All right, here's our second question.

Speaker 44 The movie Midnight Run has a rich and driving blues-based score composed by a Grammy and Emmy winner known for his frequent musical collaborations with Tim Burton and his work with the band Oingo Boingo.

Speaker 56 Who is it?

Speaker 6 Ooh, I think I heard Euro first.

Speaker 41 Euro, Jeremy, go ahead.

Speaker 3 That is Danny Elfman, I believe.

Speaker 51 That is Danny Elfman.

Speaker 41 Jeremy is on the board with a point.

Speaker 51 Speaking of music in movies, the movie Dirty Dancing didn't just do well at the box office.

Speaker 8 It also won an Academy Award for what song?

Speaker 17 Ero.

Speaker 60 Depress.

Speaker 86 I've had the time of my life.

Speaker 57 I know you have, but what is the answer to this question?

Speaker 86 And I've never felt this way before.

Speaker 40 Nor have I, John.

Speaker 68 Never felt this way.

Speaker 17 All right, there's a point.

Speaker 8 It's the truth.

Speaker 69 Yes, we could keep going, and yet we shall not.

Speaker 21 We owe it all to you, Jake.

Speaker 21 Oh, thank you.

Speaker 12 Hey, baby.

Speaker 53 Hey, don't put me in a corner in your Zoom window.

Speaker 65 I want to be right in the center.

Speaker 40 Here is your next question.

Speaker 41 Just because you start out playing loud, rock, and roll in a garage doesn't mean you can't have a long career with other styles of music.

Speaker 8 Take the lead singer of the band, Them, who had a hit with the garage rock classic Gloria, but later had even bigger hits.

Speaker 57 Who was this singer and songwriter of Gloria?

Speaker 74 Depressed in right away.

Speaker 86 John. Van Morrison.

Speaker 41 Van Morrison is correct.

Speaker 75 Van Morrison, of course, with the hits Domino, Tupelo Honey, and Brown Eyed Girl, among others.

Speaker 30 A popular song on the Who album Who's Next is Behind Blue Eyes, which could have been about any three of the blue-eyed members of the band, but probably not about which member who had brown eyes and played drums.

Speaker 21 Yerush.

Speaker 64 I heard Euro first.

Speaker 27 Keith Moon.

Speaker 24 Keith Moon is correct, and we're back on track.

Speaker 40 We did an entire segment on that album on Go Fact Yourself.

Speaker 74 All right, let's ask about Prince from Minnesota.

Speaker 69 So, John, no pressure.

Speaker 24 The first Prince song to reach Billboard's Hot 100 was 1978's Soft and Wet. The next one to make the charts hit number 11 in 1979.
The lyrics of the song begin, I ain't got no money.

Speaker 51 I ain't like those other guys you hang around. What is the name of this hit song?

Speaker 19 Euro?

Speaker 42 I want to be your lover.

Speaker 44 Thank you so much, Jeremy.

Speaker 33 But no, yes, that is the correct answer as well.

Speaker 56 Trapped again.

Speaker 21 Trapped again.

Speaker 54 I did not do those on purpose, but it is kind of fun to have it.

Speaker 5 All right, here is another Prince song.

Speaker 50 After this, we'll get a score recap as we head into the next section of questions.

Speaker 69 Prince wrote some amazing lyrics on the album Purple Rain, but not all of them have been heard correctly.

Speaker 8 In a 2009 interview, Prince said that he had seen some strange rewrites of his lyrics, including the opening line of When Doves cry as dig if you will a picture of me marvin gay and the kids what is the correct opening line of this song depressed right away dig if you will a picture me and you engaged in a kiss that is not exactly correct christian or jeremy do you want to see if you can get it exactly right

Speaker 51 i'm guessing by the silence you do not know i think we'll give a we'll give a half a point to john it's dig if you will a picture of you and i engaged

Speaker 21 i was like i think he got it but no good grammar prince.

Speaker 68 Yeah, so that was all very important.

Speaker 69 Of course, by I, he meant the picture of an I, and by you, he meant the letter you.

Speaker 86 He meant the letter you.

Speaker 21 Yes.

Speaker 1 Kiss the rock band kiss.

Speaker 17 Of course.

Speaker 51 Let's see what the scores are as we head into this next round.

Speaker 78 Oh, we don't need to look at the scores.

Speaker 59 The scores currently are Christian with the bronze medal of zero correct answers, Jeremy with three, and John just ahead with three and a half.

Speaker 51 So it still is anyone's game, technically.

Speaker 48 All right, let's move on to our next question.

Speaker 57 This one is about hip-hop.

Speaker 42 Only one hip-hop artist had three albums reached number one on the Billboard 200 charts in the 1990s.

Speaker 40 Tupac Shakur, aka Tupac, aka Machiavelli.

Speaker 57 What were any one of those three chart-topping albums?

Speaker 19 Primer?

Speaker 21 Primer.

Speaker 70 All eyes on me?

Speaker 58 That is correct.

Speaker 41 And Christian from Primer is on the board.

Speaker 51 The others are Me Against the World and The Don Columinati, The Seven Day Day Theory.

Speaker 19 Alright, here's another one.

Speaker 30 James Brown was known as the King of Soul, but so was Otis Redding, who wrote what song that was reinterpreted and made a billboard hit for the undisputed queen of soul, Aretha Franklin?

Speaker 8 Depress.

Speaker 78 Depressed trying to add to the lead.

Speaker 86 Respect.

Speaker 55 Thank you again, but no.

Speaker 6 Yes, respect is the answer and respect for your knowledge of soul music.

Speaker 76 Oh, it couldn't be a show in Max Fun without mentioning Weird Al, so here we go.

Speaker 57 Weird Al Yankovic recorded several parodies of Michael Jackson's songs, all with Michael's blessing.

Speaker 69 But there was one song that Al wanted to record that Michael did not want him to.

Speaker 41 What was the song that Michael thought was too important to be parodied?

Speaker 70 Euro

Speaker 21 black and white.

Speaker 74 Not quite correct.

Speaker 55 Does anyone want to jump in and steal?

Speaker 47 Black or white?

Speaker 39 Christian, he's giving it to you.

Speaker 31 Primer, primer, primer.

Speaker 70 Black or white.

Speaker 20 That is correct.

Speaker 56 Let's give a half a point to each one.

Speaker 33 I think Jeremy says you have for that. Yeah, sorry about that.

Speaker 70 Yes, wrong conjunction.

Speaker 61 All right, let's go back to hip-hop.

Speaker 53 There was a big rivalry between East Coast and West Coast hip-hop artists in the 1990s, and it was on display on live TV one night in New York in 1995 when performers dissed other artists, producers, and even the audience.

Speaker 51 At what award ceremony did this escalation take place?

Speaker 15 Depress, John Moe.

Speaker 1 B.E.T. Awards.

Speaker 8 That is incorrect, Christian or Jeremy.

Speaker 64 Primer.

Speaker 21 Primer.

Speaker 64 Is it the Source Awards?

Speaker 39 It is the Source Awards.

Speaker 60 A nice steal for Primer.

Speaker 61 The scores can only be different than they were before. Very curious to see the recap as we head into the final few.

Speaker 78 Oh, the scores really have changed.

Speaker 66 We've got Christian now with two and a half, Jeremy with three and a half, and John with four and a half.

Speaker 42 Very, very close.

Speaker 64 And the stakes are so high, I forgot to mention what they are.

Speaker 2 The Beatles' longest studio song is on their longest album.

Speaker 69 Name either the song or the album.

Speaker 12 Primer, Primer.

Speaker 8 The white album, self-titled.

Speaker 39 The white album, self-titled is correct.

Speaker 51 That is the longest album. Christian moving now into a tie for second place.

Speaker 24 Revolution number nine, the longest studio song by length.

Speaker 41 Finish this lyric from Hamilton about the Federalist Papers.

Speaker 40 John Jay got sick after writing five.

Speaker 2 James Madison wrote 29.

Speaker 61 Hamilton wrote...

Speaker 47 Euro.

Speaker 19 Euro.

Speaker 42 The other 51?

Speaker 39 I'm sorry, can you say it, though, as it's said in the show?

Speaker 31 The other 51!

Speaker 39 Thank you so much. We're going to give you a bonus half point for that, Jeremy.

Speaker 40 All right, here's your next question.

Speaker 30 Billy Joel's first Billboard number one hit was a single from the Billboard No.

Speaker 8 1 album, Glass Houses, in which he inquires about what's wrong with the clothes he's wearing.

Speaker 69 What is the name of this song?

Speaker 60 Depression. Depression.

Speaker 44 I listened to a lot of Billy Joel when I was depressed, too.

Speaker 12 Yeah, no, I'm just narrating my mood at having to listen to Billy Joel music.

Speaker 86 Still rock and roll to me.

Speaker 53 Not exactly. Do you want to give another chance?

Speaker 56 Still rock and roll to me.

Speaker 60 That is correct.

Speaker 61 Yes, we must have our contraction.

Speaker 50 We are contractually obligated for that contraction.

Speaker 66 Very nice.

Speaker 44 In the 2020s, she received a Kennedy Center honors. In the 2010s, she won an Emmy for producing.

Speaker 51 In the 2000s, she was nominated for an Oscar for acting.

Speaker 2 And in the 1990s, she won a Grammy for rapping. Who is this New Jersey-born sensation?

Speaker 47 Euro.

Speaker 19 Euro.

Speaker 20 Is this Cher?

Speaker 75 It is not Cher. No, not the rapping Grammy that we were looking for.

Speaker 86 Depress.

Speaker 60 Depress.

Speaker 1 Queen Latifah?

Speaker 6 Yes, that is correct.

Speaker 51 She won her Grammy for rapping on U-N-I-T-Y, and that spells unity.

Speaker 74 All right, here's another question regarding California and music.

Speaker 42 The Aquabats got their start in California, just like other well-known ska bands like Save Ferris, Real Big Fish, The Hippos, and No Doubt.

Speaker 8 In what county did all these bands come from?

Speaker 27 Primer.

Speaker 48 Primer.

Speaker 37 Orange County, baby.

Speaker 6 Orange County, that is correct, baby.

Speaker 42 They might be giants were nominated for a Tony Award for a song they wrote for a Broadway musical about what absorbent animated character.

Speaker 17 Euro.

Speaker 70 Euro, I heard first.

Speaker 8 I believe that's SpongeBob SquarePants.

Speaker 82 That is correct.

Speaker 55 Oh, we're getting down to just our last few questions.

Speaker 41 Let's see if we can get a score update again. Oh, here we go.
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 50 I think we're just down to our last two or three questions and the scores, well, they could be closer.

Speaker 55 I was going to say they could not be closer, but they are pretty close.

Speaker 61 We've got Christian with a very respectable four and a half, Jeremy with an even more respectable six, and John ahead just with half a point at six and a half.

Speaker 20 Who will win the shrimp?

Speaker 61 We'll find out after these two questions.

Speaker 42 The band Chicago earned a Grammy nomination for contributing one song to what famine relief album?

Speaker 60 Depression. Euro.

Speaker 64 Depress got in first.

Speaker 86 USA for Africa.

Speaker 8 More specifically, We Are the World.

Speaker 5 That is correct.

Speaker 53 And you're adding to your lead, John Moe, now.

Speaker 56 That shrimp.

Speaker 43 I haven't eaten it in 48 hours.

Speaker 17 It's hungry.

Speaker 24 Okay, this will be your final question.

Speaker 39 This will determine maybe who gets second place.

Speaker 17 All right,

Speaker 51 here's your final question of the game.

Speaker 40 And you know what?

Speaker 64 This will be worth three points, which will decide the game.

Speaker 42 For three points.

Speaker 15 What jazz fusion legend is a noted Scientologist contributing to Space Jazz, the soundtrack of the book Battlefield Earth?

Speaker 41 John, for the win.

Speaker 86 Chick Korea.

Speaker 58 Chick Korea is correct. Congratulations, John Moe.

Speaker 15 You win the shrimp.

Speaker 21 Oh,

Speaker 86 I'm going to share it with everybody.

Speaker 17 Wow.

Speaker 79 I should point out I don't eat shrimp, and I might not even want shrimp that's been sent to me from Minnesota, but we appreciate the effort so much.

Speaker 39 All right, well, that does it for us here at the Hard Rock Cafe at the iconic Sunset Strip.

Speaker 51 And while you're partying, hey, everybody, remember, wear sunscreen, and please stay hydrated and stay safe.

Speaker 71 I don't know what's what's coming up after this, but I know you won't want to miss it.

Speaker 76 Here on Maximum Fun, go to maximumfun.org slash join and support all of these wonderful shows in the Max Fun tribe.

Speaker 69 I'm J.K. Fan Stratton.

Speaker 59 See you later.

Speaker 1 MFD Spring Break 2025. I am here in Daytona Beach on the Bud Ice Blood Donation Stage with Justin and Clint McElroy.

Speaker 23 Pick that bag up, man. It's leaking everywhere.

Speaker 82 Oh, God.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, if we could die.

Speaker 17 Dave, you're watching your stepping pal.

Speaker 21 Oh, wow.

Speaker 23 That'll come right out with a little vinegar. Hey, Dave, thanks for coming by.

Speaker 1 Thank you so much for having me, Justin. Clint McElroy, how are you doing?

Speaker 13 I'm much better now. Thank you very much.

Speaker 30 I'm back in my old hometown, Daytona Beach.

Speaker 1 There it is. Must feel good to be home.

Speaker 90 It is.

Speaker 13 It's good to be home because all my stuff's here. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, and I really want to thank both of you guys for bringing some civic and social responsibility to Spring Break and urging people to donate blood here

Speaker 11 on the beach.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 what made you decide to take this step this year?

Speaker 23 Well, I have been reading up a lot on the effects of young blood on older adults, and that is so important to the Max Fun Drive Network that I want to keep him going just as long as possible.

Speaker 23 So we have been asking all of our Max Fun family today to come in here, do their part, and donate a pint of their young, virile blood for me to pump into my dad, Clint McElroy.

Speaker 18 Yeah,

Speaker 30 just a big old transfusion.

Speaker 13 And I've come up with a bunch of slogans, too.

Speaker 1 Let's hear it.

Speaker 15 Don't be a

Speaker 9 negative person.

Speaker 20 Oh.

Speaker 36 Be positive that it won't hurt.

Speaker 23 Right. And give me your blood.
It says at the bottom of all of them, and give me your blood.

Speaker 19 Right.

Speaker 13 Blood, it's not just for breakfast anymore.

Speaker 10 I'm workshopping that one.

Speaker 90 Alan, we're still coming along.

Speaker 23 So yeah, we appreciate everybody, Dave. It's been a great success so far.

Speaker 1 Clint, you look fantastic. Your skin is absolutely growing.
How many pints of young blood have you had today?

Speaker 55 I've had seven,

Speaker 55 six of them voluntarily.

Speaker 23 Wow. Yeah, which is great for dad, a huge record.
We have just been so appreciative of everybody donating to the the Max Fund Drive and they're saying, I wish I could do more.

Speaker 23 And the truth is, you could tell a friend, you know, you could do a little bit of a boost to your donation. You could do any of that stuff.

Speaker 23 Or you could come in here and give my dad a pint of your blood, you know?

Speaker 1 Some of your blood. Now, and I'm going to tell you, it is a windy day here on the beach.

Speaker 1 We are getting a good amount of sand

Speaker 1 in our eyes and mouths.

Speaker 1 Have you had any hygiene issues?

Speaker 23 I smell the hygiene thing coming.

Speaker 11 Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 12 You never failed to disappear.

Speaker 12 Dad, go ahead.

Speaker 28 Just the usual.

Speaker 30 You know, you get the gritty in the eyes, and that keeps you from doing the gritty.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 23 But it doesn't bother you if you have grit.

Speaker 14 And that's what my dad has.

Speaker 23 He could take a little dirt.

Speaker 62 You know what?

Speaker 23 He's not picky about types either, Dave.

Speaker 23 Any type. You know, whatever you got, Dad is ready and willing.

Speaker 34 You got O?

Speaker 29 Got O. You got A, B?

Speaker 36 A, B.

Speaker 20 I've got an adapter for all of them.

Speaker 42 So bring it on.

Speaker 9 I will tell you this, the sand is really kind of messing with my obligatory Dracula costume that I always wear at Blood Thrush.

Speaker 34 And some people get the gag.

Speaker 90 Most don't.

Speaker 23 Yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 23 As long as the blood keeps flowing, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 30 Feel the need, the need for bleed.

Speaker 12 That's me

Speaker 1 now when i heard that there was going to be a blood donation area here at spring break i will tell you yeah that i i my brain went to a more uh traditional a more familiar blood drive kind of a situation where some of the blood might go to people who have been let's say in accidents and right uh and and it need need blood if you find yourself with any extra pints at the end day is it possible that some of these might make their way to accident victims or people people in search of Dave.

Speaker 23 Oh, Dave, this is such a sensitive topic.

Speaker 9 Sweet, sweet-hearted Dave.

Speaker 23 Yeah, it's, I mean, just to start out, Dave, for starters, um, it's never too early to start cycling out blood.

Speaker 23 I am in my mid-40s, but a lot of these folks have 10-20 years my junior, you know, so I would love to just top off a little bit on the vitality, even though I'm obviously much more healthy than my dad.

Speaker 23 Um, and so that that is not that is any extra blood, I will be sort of taking on myself so do you think it's bad optics to to not you know share

Speaker 23 I mean cuz I don't know I mean I'm I'm seven well we have we have been as a prize to all donors We've been giving them to address to other blood drives that are benefiting the public so that has been not I've been offering that they do have to wait some period of time for the blood to we're not scientists here in the tent but the blood does need to make some more ovens yeah and I'm glad you pointed out you are not scientists here at this blood donation tent

Speaker 1 Clint I gotta say your shirt is off your abs are tight your tits are right you are looking like a man of 22 how do you feel

Speaker 2 well like a man of 69

Speaker 18 yeah this is this is all the filter this is all the filter got on camera

Speaker 9 if I I were to switch over, I would look like Gary Oldman at the end of

Speaker 9 the Dracula movie.

Speaker 23 A lot of Dracula-themed content, Dad. I'm worried the blood is starting to go to your brain a little bit.

Speaker 13 Oh, yeah, that's the good time.

Speaker 23 Yeah, that's the time.

Speaker 21 And when it goes to your brain, yahoo!

Speaker 18 I wish you had the taste for it.

Speaker 1 It's never been a good time.

Speaker 30 Thank you for the compliments, Dave.

Speaker 9 I think I look pretty sharp.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 90 I only wish people could see how good I look.

Speaker 1 Now, one benefit to donating blood, especially at Spring Dream, is that you get buzzed a little bit quicker. Have you used that in any of your marketing material?

Speaker 23 Yeah, absolutely, Dave. It's a killer competitive advantage for us.
Less blood means more fun. That's what we say here.
And we actually have been filling most of our

Speaker 1 blood

Speaker 23 recreating Twinkies. It's important to eat sugar after you donate blood.
I've seen that on TV, so that is something we've been doing here. But we are putting alcoholic cream into the Twinkies.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry. I'm going to mention it.

Speaker 29 We have a lot of people who are going to be able to do that. Sorry, wait, wait, Daddy.

Speaker 23 Dave wanted to ask a clarifying question about

Speaker 23 it.

Speaker 23 folks who are interested in participating. Obviously, you can get rum-filled Twinkies or, you know, whatever sort of liqueur you want.

Speaker 30 Nice. Of legal age.

Speaker 10 Of legal age.

Speaker 1 Which here in Daytona Beach is 14.

Speaker 23 14. 14.
Yes, we did bump it up last year. Thanks, folks.
Appreciate that. That was the right move.

Speaker 23 It was a hard fight, but 14 is the right call, Daytona Beach. Good job.

Speaker 90 But the other snacks we have are also aimed towards buffing you up, building you up.

Speaker 23 Right.

Speaker 13 We've got Screaming Yellow Lazonkers.

Speaker 19 Yeah, protein.

Speaker 23 A lot of protein.

Speaker 28 Space food sticks.

Speaker 30 We've got Koogle.

Speaker 40 Dad got that dehydrated astronaut ice cream.

Speaker 23 That's been a big hit today. We're moving a lot of units of that.
People are starving after VOF Blood, and they are willing to pay any price for these snacks.

Speaker 23 So we've been doing huge business there, too.

Speaker 1 Oh, so the snacks are not free.

Speaker 17 They need to be purchased right after you.

Speaker 23 You assume the snacks are free in much the same way you assume the blood's going to charity. You really highlighted our killer competitive advantage here, Dave.

Speaker 23 People are going to assume we're doing a lot of great stuff that we are not anywhere in the ballpark.

Speaker 1 Your finger is on the pulse of America in 2020.

Speaker 12 Ironically, yes.

Speaker 14 Yeah, yeah, just to find the blood.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So what do you have on your agenda once we wrap things up here at the Blood Donation Tent? What other spring break activities?

Speaker 23 I'm changing my name because nothing here that I've done today is going to be favorable in the eyes of John Q. Law.
So I'm going to go on the lamp. I'm going to get out of here.
Go

Speaker 23 start a fresh life for myself, Dave.

Speaker 13 Smart.

Speaker 13 I'm going to clean all the grit out of places where there should not be grit

Speaker 10 or sand.

Speaker 13 And then if there's any time, I might, I don't know,

Speaker 21 smurf.

Speaker 48 I'm going to smurf a little bit on my smurf board.

Speaker 23 Actually, it's still a family show.

Speaker 14 Watching the sky

Speaker 14 palpitate.

Speaker 28 With all this young blood, maybe I'll try skimboarding, you know, where you toss it and then you jump on it and fall.

Speaker 52 There's a young people activated, right?

Speaker 1 You know, honestly, all I'm thinking in my head is, what if this is how we find out quitmarking? It's been popping smooth for some time. Got it.

Speaker 1 What if it was just a slip and suddenly

Speaker 1 it was like, wait a minute, it's like the end of the usual suspects. It all comes together.

Speaker 23 I would love to believe that.

Speaker 14 Papa Smurf was seeing Clint McElroy this whole time.

Speaker 23 I would love to believe that's true, Dave. That fire hose of residuals, I would not be here, my man.
I will guarantee you that. I would be living in an island in the Balkans.

Speaker 23 I don't even know if the Balkans has islands, but that's what I'd be doing, living off that Papa Smurf money. I would have to kill myself.

Speaker 21 The only one way to find out.

Speaker 1 Get yourselves there. And if you're in Daytona Beach, get yourself here to the Bud Ice Blood Donation.
Well, the tent has blown away, so we're kind of just more standing on a beach at this stage.

Speaker 1 But come on down, Clint needs your blood, Justin merely wants it. And we'll be back with more MFD Spring Break 2025.

Speaker 1 We're channeling the 90s, this MFD Spring Break. Drea, Alonzo, and Dan are compiling a list of their picks for the most iconic or culturally impactful movies of the 90s.

Speaker 1 So far, we have Clueless, Fight Club, and finally, Pope Fiction. All right, next on the list, Alonzo.

Speaker 25 I would be remiss based on my personal brand to not bring up the new queer cinema in all this.

Speaker 25 If I had to pick one, though, I think I'm going to go with 1994's Go Fish,

Speaker 25 because that is a movie that I think represents the sort of

Speaker 25 underground zero-budget aesthetic of the initial wave of new queer cinema movies, but also segues us into that period where indie distributors realized, oh, if these movies are funny and they have a love story, we could actually maybe sell tickets to some straight people.

Speaker 26 We have totally different tastes in women. Are you saying I don't have discriminating tastes in women? I was a diaper.
You were still in diapers, kiddo.

Speaker 25 So to me, it kind of feels like this tipping point between like your sort of Greg Iraqi, you know, Todd Haynes directing poison aesthetic, and then your, your later, you know, like Trick and All Over the Guy and Jeffrey and those movies that were very much kind of pitched at a somewhat wider audience than just angry queer urbanites.

Speaker 25 And it still holds up, you know, 30 plus years later. It's still super charming and a lot of fun and one of my favorite queer films.

Speaker 17 So yeah, go fish.

Speaker 1 What else?

Speaker 22 Right at the start of the 90s, 91, Silence of the Lambs, you know, draws on a lot of stuff that came before, but I think really

Speaker 22 created the serial killer movie as it exists now, sort of.

Speaker 22 And unfortunately, on the other, like, created the idea of like the brilliant serial killer.

Speaker 80 And how is young Josh and the lovely Molly?

Speaker 80 They're always in my thoughts, you know.

Speaker 80 You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Speaker 22 Rather than the serial killer who's just a loser in a basement who lost his empathy somewhere along the way. So many movies owe so much of their DNA to it.

Speaker 1 And finally, Drea.

Speaker 32 All right. I'm going to say 1998's Rushmore.

Speaker 32 It's Wes Anderson's second film, but for a lot of people, this was the breakthrough. They maybe didn't make it to Bottle Rocket.
Rushmore.

Speaker 32 Color, it introduced you to what's become a very iconic and consistent color palette framing device.

Speaker 32 Like his visual storytelling, his cinematic language is established in Rushmore, and that also includes very vibrant yet deadpan characters like Max Fisher, which is Jason Schwartzman, memorable, nerdy, complicated, heartbreaking, all sorts of wonderful things.

Speaker 32 Started the partnership with Bill Murray. This continued through many films.
Obviously, Owen Wilson popping up again.

Speaker 32 It's also quotable, but like my favorite quote from that one would be when he sees Luke Wilson in his scrubs.

Speaker 79 I like your nurse's uniform, guy.

Speaker 23 These are OR scrubs.

Speaker 29 Oh, are they?

Speaker 32 Which is something I say to people all the time and no one understands I'm quoting something.

Speaker 25 That's a big line in this house.

Speaker 86 Oh, are they?

Speaker 58 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 56 And there you have it.

Speaker 1 I, for one, am looking forward to rewatching all of these films in the Orville Redenbacher Extreme Amounts of Movie Theater Butter Microwave Popcorn Screening Room.

Speaker 1 Now, y'all, I have just gotten word that Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries Austin Taylor has just dropped by the 90s pop culture appreciation cabana. Let's take a look.

Speaker 1 Because maybe you're going to be the one that saves me. And after all,

Speaker 1 you're my wonderwall.

Speaker 1 What a way to kick off MFD Spring Break 2025. We have so many exciting things in store this next couple of weeks, and you can stay on top of it all at maximumfun.org.

Speaker 1 And again, for all of you listening and watching at home, it's very easy to support your favorite Max Fun shows. Just go to maximumfund.org/slash donate.

Speaker 1 And big thanks to all the hosts who took part in the MFD Spring Break 2025 Spectacular: Jeremy Bent, Oscar Montoya, Dimitri Pompeii, Tom Lum, Ellen Weatherford, Alex Schmidt, Brad DeSnell, Drea Clark, Alonzo Duralde, Dan McCoy, Jordan Morris, Manolo Moreno, Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper, Ella McLeod, John Luke Roberts, Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Mike Cabillon, Sierra Cato, Pal Loveland, Danielle Radford, John Moe, Christian Dueneus, Christian Dugay.

Speaker 1 We'll see you all at the beach.

Speaker 23 Hey Dave, if you're a plan on coming back this way, I beg that you not. All this young blood has driven my dad insane and he's super strong.
He is uprooting Titan. Ah, Dad, put it down.

Speaker 77 Put it down. To the extreme!

Speaker 36 Quick!

Speaker 29 Oh, dudes!

Speaker 23 Dad, that is Jesse Thorne. He is a hero here.
Put him down!

Speaker 21 Alright.

Speaker 28 I just love his ascot.