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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 12 Oh, yeah, Oscar, anything to add?

Speaker 2 It's the gay Super Bowl.

Speaker 14 It is.

Speaker 2 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 17 Jeremy? My standard line for describing what Eurovision is is that it is Street Fighter but with music.

Speaker 11 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 17 It's a shame people can't see the three-headed DJ costume.

Speaker 17 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 2 Listen, when I think about spring break, I think about MTV spring break.

Speaker 12 I think

Speaker 2 people in scantily clad bathing suits and cancun sort of partying.

Speaker 2 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 2 I'm picking UA just a little bit from the UK 1996 by the one, the only Gina G.

Speaker 2 The feelings are right. It's great.
You can grind up on somebody in a consensual way.

Speaker 18 The vibes are correct.

Speaker 11 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 16 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 23 So

Speaker 10 when it was cool with the gays, it was cool with everybody.

Speaker 17 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 17 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 17 Amazing. If this does not get your party going, like, I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 2 The party's dead.

Speaker 17 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 22 Dave, of course.

Speaker 26 You're an evangelist too.

Speaker 27 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 8 Was it 1975?

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

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

Speaker 28 You know, that's right.

Speaker 1 1975 from

Speaker 11 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 11 When we meet someone new.

Speaker 1 Oh, maybe it's a bigot.

Speaker 21 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 31 Boy. Okay.

Speaker 17 I am the resident rock fan at Eurovision. And obviously, pop and rock have a symbiosis that it goes back many, many decades.

Speaker 17 But never has it been more truly expressed at Eurovision than in 2006 with Lordy's hard rock hallelujah.

Speaker 17 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 31 Great pick.

Speaker 12 Okay, this is going to be a controversial one because this one just was just released. And

Speaker 33 okay, I know what this is.

Speaker 2 It's the song that I keep coming back to. If you want people to dance, the crescendo is happening.

Speaker 18 And you want people to get horny and laugh a little, giggle it a little bit.

Speaker 12 I'm going for the Malta entry of this year's Eurovision 2025.

Speaker 34 I'm talking about

Speaker 35 Mariana Conte Kant,

Speaker 18 spelled K-A-N-T, which is Maltese for sing.

Speaker 18 I do it all the time, yeah, I do

Speaker 37 Singing.

Speaker 17 She's serving, singing.

Speaker 12 But she does. The chorus does go like this.

Speaker 2 Do re mi fa so so s.

Speaker 10 And it is.

Speaker 1 She's serving, singing.

Speaker 10 She's serving, singing, but she's also serving.

Speaker 10 Wow.

Speaker 2 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 40 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 41 Can you feel the rhythm in my heart? The beats going doom tech tech. Always out of life.

Speaker 42 I love that song.

Speaker 43 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 44 Oh, I love it.

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

Speaker 17 Good news. We got it waited for you on Spotify.
We'll put it in the show notes. Love it.

Speaker 15 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 11 Months.

Speaker 11 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 17 Oh, yeah, we got to get into our three-headed DJ costume.

Speaker 46 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 47 Pele speaks righteous. Sister Zena says funky.
How bizarre.

Speaker 47 How bizarre.

Speaker 12 How bizarre.

Speaker 3 But first, it's show versus show versus show versus show.

Speaker 1 As go fact to yourselves, J. Keith Van Stratton hosts an epic trivia showdown with secretly incredibly fascinating Alex Schmidt, Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries, Brenda Snell.

Speaker 1 Let's Learn Everythings, Tom Lum. And from just the Zoo of Us, Ellen Weatherford.

Speaker 51 All right, the person who gets the most questions correct will have gotten the most questions correct.

Speaker 52 Here's how it's going to work.

Speaker 51 I'm going to ask you a question.

Speaker 24 If you know the answer, say the first word in your show name and the first one to call out in guess first.

Speaker 5 Please wait for me to call on you and let's practice our buzz in words.

Speaker 54 Ellen, what's your buzzin' word?

Speaker 55 Just.

Speaker 56 Alex?

Speaker 48 I'm gonna go with Sif because it's fast. Sif.

Speaker 57 Brenda?

Speaker 55 Secret.

Speaker 58 And Tom?

Speaker 55 Lutz.

Speaker 27 All right, here is your first question.

Speaker 51 Here we go.

Speaker 4 The X-Men belong to a long line of fantastic characters which started with the human torch in 1939 from Timely Publications.

Speaker 5 Timely's name changed to Atlas Comics in the 1950s, and it changed to what name in 1961?

Speaker 61 Secret. Let's.
Secret, I heard first.

Speaker 37 Marvel.

Speaker 52 Marvel is correct, and Secret is on the board.

Speaker 62 Very nice job, Brenda.

Speaker 40 Here is your next question.

Speaker 24 Cheers Cheers has one of television's most memorable theme songs written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo.

Speaker 50 Although it's known as The Theme from Cheers, what is the actual title of the theme song?

Speaker 55 Secret.

Speaker 49 Secret.

Speaker 55 Is it called Where Everybody Knows Your Name, or no?

Speaker 53 Well, this is the part where you answer instead of ask, so if you praise that as an answer.

Speaker 42 Is it not Jeopardy Rules?

Speaker 21 No, no, not Jeopardy Rules.

Speaker 34 It's not confident then.

Speaker 55 Is it Where Everybody Knows Your Name?

Speaker 27 It is Where Everybody Knows Your Name.

Speaker 63 Secret running away with it so far. Two to nothing, to nothing, to nothing.

Speaker 50 Let's see if the others could get on the board.

Speaker 38 Oh, who here loves sports?

Speaker 16 That's what I thought.

Speaker 34 I'm wearing a benchmark hat.

Speaker 62 You are, okay.

Speaker 50 On March 10th, 1955, the Zamboni made its debut in what professional sports league?

Speaker 66 Let's I heard first.

Speaker 67 The NHL.

Speaker 52 That is correct. Tom and Let's Learn Everything are on the board.

Speaker 46 The National Hockey League.

Speaker 4 Fun fact, Zamboni is a registered trademark of the Zamboni Company, and they are very protective of their trademark.

Speaker 35 Here is your next one.

Speaker 46 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 42 Just.

Speaker 3 Just, I heard.

Speaker 34 Klingon.

Speaker 50 Klingon is correct, and I can't believe we had that much of a delay regarding a Star Trek quest.

Speaker 55 There's a lot of Star Trek aliens, okay?

Speaker 16 Yeah, there are.

Speaker 7 It loops back around.

Speaker 48 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 46 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 12 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 55 Secret.

Speaker 37 Secret.

Speaker 55 I literally just listened to this, but of mind?

Speaker 55 Mind. That is my answer.
That is my answer.

Speaker 73 That is your answer.

Speaker 38 The confidence is growing, and with good reason, that is correct.

Speaker 24 Sight and sound of mind.

Speaker 55 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 65 Was that a coincidence or did we conspire to help you get that answer correct?

Speaker 55 This goes all the way to the top.

Speaker 39 Almost

Speaker 48 all the Exodus episode.

Speaker 35 Here's your next question.

Speaker 35 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 42 Just first.

Speaker 66 I heard just first.

Speaker 16 E.

Speaker 35 More specific, please.

Speaker 55 Silent E.

Speaker 49 Silent E is the answer we were looking for.

Speaker 72 That is the wonderful song with wonderful animation by the wonderful Tom Lehrer.

Speaker 46 What is the proper term for the motion cats make by rhythmically alternating their paws pushing in and out against a pliable object?

Speaker 55 Just.

Speaker 46 Just.

Speaker 8 Kneading.

Speaker 27 Kneading is correct.

Speaker 51 Yes.

Speaker 63 Kneading, otherwise known as making biscuits, which I think is

Speaker 46 one of my favorite cute things that kitties do.

Speaker 70 I like that it's still a baking term. I thought it was going to be much more scientific or ology or something.

Speaker 35 All right, let's move on to our next question.

Speaker 24 This one has to do with Canada and food.

Speaker 46 In the early part of the 2000s, thieves stole 3,000 tons of what Canadian food stuff valued at $18.7 million.

Speaker 50 Of course, that's Canadian dollars.

Speaker 46 Let's...

Speaker 76 Oh, Canadian dollars. Never mind.

Speaker 77 No, maple syrup?

Speaker 40 Maple syrup is correct.

Speaker 37 That's right.

Speaker 5 3,000 tons of maple syrup.

Speaker 51 Fun fact, Canada has a cartel that controls over 70% of the world's supply of maple syrup.

Speaker 72 But I know a guy if you want to taste

Speaker 77 he makes blue.

Speaker 15 He makes blue maple syrup.

Speaker 19 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 44 It's pure.

Speaker 16 It's so pure.

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

Speaker 4 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 55 Just.

Speaker 46 Just.

Speaker 55 A knife.

Speaker 58 A knife?

Speaker 63 Incorrect, but that definitely is handy in New York.

Speaker 68 SIF.

Speaker 22 SIF.

Speaker 76 Bigger knife.

Speaker 59 That's right. They would say, now that's a knife.

Speaker 57 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 21 No. Any other guesses?

Speaker 67 Let's.

Speaker 60 Let's.

Speaker 68 A gas mask?

Speaker 63 Gas mask? That's ridiculous and correct.

Speaker 42 Oh, that's right.

Speaker 67 It seems the gas mask is mightier than the knife.

Speaker 50 I love playing rock, paper, gas mask.

Speaker 42 Yes.

Speaker 40 That's right.

Speaker 4 Respirators or gas masks were part of a line of luxury handbags that were designed and sold near World War. Excuse me.

Speaker 57 around World War II in Europe.

Speaker 55 The Chanel gas mask? Yeah, I am.

Speaker 21 Who are you wearing?

Speaker 78 All right, let's move on.

Speaker 40 Here's some questions about improv comedy.

Speaker 4 He was an acclaimed writer, director, producer, and actor.

Speaker 63 She is an acclaimed writer, director, producer, and actor.

Speaker 46 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 68 Who are they?

Speaker 70 Sif?

Speaker 42 Sif?

Speaker 70 Nichols and May.

Speaker 54 That is correct.

Speaker 63 Yes, we also would have accepted May and Nichols.

Speaker 77 Yes, Nichols and May, of course, is correct.

Speaker 58 The Grammy-winning comedy duo.

Speaker 40 Any fans of Breaking Bad here?

Speaker 63 Well, let's see how you do anyway on this.

Speaker 15 I made that reference about the blue thing.

Speaker 78 Oh, you did. So, Tom,

Speaker 55 fake fan.

Speaker 24 Big fake fan.

Speaker 49 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 50 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 15 Let's.

Speaker 72 Let's, I think you were in first.

Speaker 15 Yeah, you're in the first place.

Speaker 67 I was gonna buzz in the moment you said house.

Speaker 39 I knew what this was gonna be.

Speaker 67 This is throwing pizzas on the roof.

Speaker 21 That is correct.

Speaker 19 Yes.

Speaker 65 He does that.

Speaker 63 Exactly. Yes.
Please do not throw pizzas on the roof.

Speaker 56 Please bring them to my doorstep.

Speaker 50 All right, another TV question.

Speaker 35 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 54 How did the family come upon this sudden fortune?

Speaker 16 Secret.

Speaker 49 Secret.

Speaker 39 Roseanne won the lottery.

Speaker 73 That is correct.

Speaker 63 Yes, you won the question and Roseanne won the lottery.

Speaker 5 Hey, let's get a score update as we head into the final crunch of questions.

Speaker 4 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 80 A very close game.

Speaker 72 Anybody could win, but we probably know it's not going to be one of these people.

Speaker 16 All right, here we go with our next question.

Speaker 63 I didn't say the name, but you just.

Speaker 39 People directed at me, and I'm okay with it.

Speaker 70 No, that's a nice

Speaker 49 again.

Speaker 74 The stakes could not be lower.

Speaker 63 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 40 What sci-fi film featuring Criswell, Vampyra, and Bella Lugosi do we get to see come to life?

Speaker 15 Sif.

Speaker 16 Sif.

Speaker 48 Is this one Plan 9 from Outer Space?

Speaker 72 It is Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Speaker 78 Very nice.

Speaker 35 Very nice job.

Speaker 50 The musical Les Miserable is based on the novel Les Miserable, published in 1862.

Speaker 53 Who is the author of that novel?

Speaker 15 Secret.

Speaker 70 Just.

Speaker 49 Secret.

Speaker 55 It is.

Speaker 55 Oh my gosh. I blanked on it.

Speaker 49 I relent.

Speaker 63 Ellen, you were the next one in.

Speaker 55 Hugo.

Speaker 9 Victor Hugo is correct.

Speaker 35 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 50 In doing so, what name does Jan memorably repeat three times?

Speaker 70 Sif.

Speaker 23 Sif.

Speaker 48 Marsha, Marcia, Marsha.

Speaker 73 That is correct, correct, correct.

Speaker 81 I think it was Bloody Mary.

Speaker 42 I took her name three times.

Speaker 16 So it's like, clearly, Jimmy.

Speaker 15 When he said that, then she appeared.

Speaker 39 Oh, God, I'm Marcia.

Speaker 57 Oh, oh, no. I'm falling down the stairs.

Speaker 70 She pushed me downstairs.

Speaker 63 As long as you don't say Beetlejuice or Candyman, I think we're okay.

Speaker 42 All right.

Speaker 71 ladies and gentlemen we are all tied up at four all tied up everybody is currently in the lead oh my god

Speaker 56 it is going to come down to this one last

Speaker 24 question

Speaker 50 in ontario canada more than 75 of milk is sold in what type of container secret bags bags is correct congratulations brenda

Speaker 16 i didn't know i was going to do this congratulations brenda good job, Brenda.

Speaker 70 Good job, Brenda.

Speaker 39 Of this very important, very exciting trivia showdown.

Speaker 35 Congratulations.

Speaker 58 Well, hey, everybody, I want to thank you, Tom Lum, Ellen Weatherford, Brenda Snell, and Alex Schmidt.

Speaker 4 Now, where can listeners who aren't here with us at the Long Beach Convention Center Promenade Meeting Room find you?

Speaker 63 Ellen, why don't you go ahead and tell us?

Speaker 55 Just the Zoo of Us on Maximum Fun, wherever you get podcasts.

Speaker 80 And Alex?

Speaker 48 Yeah, secretly, incredibly fascinating. If you search secretly in a podcast app, that's the red one.

Speaker 78 And Tom?

Speaker 76 where let's learn everything. We did a topic about bagged milk with a Canadian.

Speaker 67 If you want to learn some more about that, amazing.

Speaker 55 And Brenda, you find me at secret histories of nerd mysteries on Maximum Fun.

Speaker 49 Excellent. And I'm J.

Speaker 7 Keith Van Stratton from Go Fact Yourself here at Maximum Fun.

Speaker 35 Hey, thanks so much for everybody who supports us in the Max Fun drive.

Speaker 53 You can go to maximum fun.org/slash join.

Speaker 63 All right, don't go anywhere, listeners.

Speaker 64 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 45 I was pronounced legally dead, and I saw heaven itself.

Speaker 1 But first, here's Mike Cavillon on stage at the 90s Pop Culture Appreciation Cabana, appreciating Fournon Blonde's What's Up?

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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 45 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 11 Yeah, go Sandpipers.

Speaker 45 Go Sandpipers. We're the number one school in rowing, lacrosse, and shorts.

Speaker 32 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 45 Well, Dave, during spring break last year, I legally died.

Speaker 16 Thatcher.

Speaker 45 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 45 I was a tragic victim of mixing.

Speaker 45 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 16 Wow.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's a difficult combination.

Speaker 45 Because of that,

Speaker 45 I was legally dead for 14 minutes, but was brought back to life by heroic EMTs. They're the real heroes.

Speaker 45 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 45 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 45 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 45 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 16 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 45 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 45 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 45 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 16 Oh, I love that.

Speaker 45 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 45 Exactly. I've had a lot of hardship.
You know, Bob Marley, he gets me.

Speaker 45 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 45 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 45 No, I think he was like a leader or something.

Speaker 45 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 86 He's a TikToker.

Speaker 45 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 45 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 45 Yeah, you know, I think I just realized that I had a lot of unfinished business to take care of here on earth.

Speaker 45 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 45 It was her cousin who's really cool, who's kind of like a cousin to me in many ways.

Speaker 45 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 45 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 45 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 45 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 45 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 45 Yeah, this is the pivotal scene where the heroic EMTs bring me back from heaven.

Speaker 45 Can you just tell me if my friend is even alive?

Speaker 87 I'm doing compressions.

Speaker 1 Come on, dude. Tack a broth!

Speaker 87 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 87 There's life in those eyes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, man.

Speaker 44 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 10 Be positive that it won't hurt.

Speaker 39 Right.

Speaker 26 And give me your blood.

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

Speaker 83 It's gonna be wild.

Speaker 88 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 88 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.

Speaker 12 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 22 Who's your friend here?

Speaker 89 I brought

Speaker 89 a party pig. His name is Pigga Chad.

Speaker 89 Here he is right now.

Speaker 16 There he is.

Speaker 1 No, what's his name again?

Speaker 89 Pigga Chad.

Speaker 89 He just said that he was annoyed by the flight

Speaker 89 because

Speaker 89 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 89 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 89 If you want to hear what he said, he said.

Speaker 89 And yeah, that does mean

Speaker 89 where is the bathroom.

Speaker 1 He is multilingual.

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

Speaker 89 I heard him down the street at

Speaker 19 those party houses.

Speaker 89 He likes singing this song.

Speaker 89 And that's when I knew.

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

Speaker 10 These are bonobos, Dave.

Speaker 17 Bonobos.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Our closest non-human relative,

Speaker 11 but also animals known.

Speaker 80 to party.

Speaker 1 Wow. What do you mean by that?

Speaker 17 Okay, so these animals, they're very close to humans.

Speaker 17 They're a fellow primate. They're one of two animals within the chimp family, because bonobos are a type of chimp.

Speaker 17 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 11 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Jeremy, what are your bonobos named?

Speaker 17 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 17 Well, you know, once you see, you know, a big community of bonobos in action, you realize that, like, oh,

Speaker 17 they like to get it on. They have sex for pleasure.
They do it frequently. They do it with

Speaker 59 multiple partners, but they also are known to have long friendships and lengthy relationships as well.

Speaker 17 They're just like a good-time gang, bonobos.

Speaker 39 All right.

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

Speaker 8 I'm taken by surprise.

Speaker 1 Tom Mom, who you got with you?

Speaker 76 Well, I thought one of the most and underrated factors of a party animal is a chill hang. And so I brought perhaps the most chillest hanger in the world,

Speaker 72 the sloth, as my party animal. Sure.
Wow.

Speaker 76 People don't often know they're nocturnal, so they'll be up all night.

Speaker 76 They are literally cold-blooded, and their temperature will change up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit within a single day because they don't care. They'll just, hey, you know what?

Speaker 76 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 76 Also, Pikachad, weirdly.

Speaker 55 One of you's got to be like Pikachad A, and one of you has to be like Pikachad S.

Speaker 72 Yeah, like on the bachelor.

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

Speaker 55 Well, I've brought only two to three hundred of my closest friends. I've brought a colony of western honeybees, apis mellifera.

Speaker 55 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 55 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 55 They are extremely social. They bring snacks to the party.

Speaker 55 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 55 They also communicate with dance moves, which I feel like there's nothing more party than that.

Speaker 1 So true.

Speaker 8 We will be back later this hour.

Speaker 1 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 44 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 19 or beer

Speaker 1 boy this guy likes the party

Speaker 55 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 26 It's Drea Clark and Alonzo Geraldi.

Speaker 1 Welcome.

Speaker 22 Hello. Hoodie hoo!

Speaker 1 How's your spring break?

Speaker 36 This is my first real spring break. So it's a rum spring energy for me.
I'm very excited to be here.

Speaker 28 She's already had her hair braided.

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

Speaker 11 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 42 Alonzo?

Speaker 28 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 28 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 28 that

Speaker 28 even though it was not a success in theaters, Fight Club

Speaker 28 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 6 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 16 Exactly.

Speaker 28 You see that bar of soap, you turn around and leave.

Speaker 1 Oh yeah, now you gotta go.

Speaker 36 Dream? I would say 1995's Clueless.

Speaker 36 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 36 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 30 What's with you?

Speaker 90 What do you mean?

Speaker 30 So quiet.

Speaker 36 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 36 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 25 I love Clueless, but I do remember even at the time, like, being like, is no one else noticing this about their...

Speaker 91 I mean, I know that they're not blood relations, but no one seems to have a problem with it at all.

Speaker 36 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 25 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 25 brought this sort of

Speaker 25 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 25 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 30 And you know what they call

Speaker 30 a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris? They don't call it a quarter pounder with cheese? Oh, man. They got the Metric system.
They know what the f the quarter pounder is. And what do they call it?

Speaker 30 They call it a royale with cheese.

Speaker 25 And that's all they got from it.

Speaker 31 They didn't get any of the other skills.

Speaker 28 The punchline is a gunshot.

Speaker 16 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 16 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 29 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 57 Who are the party people?

Speaker 69 Timmy Mallet.

Speaker 69 He had a hammer and he'd hit you

Speaker 31 on the head and

Speaker 69 he had a hit with the song Teeny Weenie Itsy Bitsy.

Speaker 50 Yellow Polkadot Bikini.

Speaker 51 That's our party.

Speaker 31 That's our party guy.

Speaker 57 Okay, Okay.

Speaker 55 The similar. Who did the song Agado?

Speaker 16 Agado.

Speaker 16 Toby Black Law.

Speaker 55 That's a classic.

Speaker 55 I think a lot of our partiers are just, unfortunately, just

Speaker 55 bad people now. You know, I think like Russell Brand was a big fan.

Speaker 39 Sure.

Speaker 69 But I think of him as American now.

Speaker 31 He's been there for long enough.

Speaker 55 So true, he's your problem.

Speaker 42 Yeah. Yeah, that's a real good point.

Speaker 55 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 55 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. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 55 The Chuckle Brothers did the university

Speaker 42 tour just to get out there.

Speaker 70 I'm sorry, who are the Chuckle Brothers?

Speaker 69 Oh, you can work it out.

Speaker 34 No, I can't.

Speaker 55 The lore is too deep there.

Speaker 55 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 55 And that was the height of children's British humour.

Speaker 90 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 69 But also, they come from the sort of Blackpool Working Men's Club comedy tradition.

Speaker 51 So, they're very much.

Speaker 3 And also, they have two brothers who are also less successful, a less successful double L.

Speaker 69 There's two Chuckle Brothers who aren't in the Chuckle Brothers.

Speaker 39 They're other brothers. But also, one of the Chuckle Brothers is now dead, which is sad.

Speaker 16 Oh, it's really sad.

Speaker 29 Which set of the Chuckle Brothers died?

Speaker 69 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.
Yeah.

Speaker 55 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 3 Like, Q was extraordinary.

Speaker 49 It was nice.

Speaker 55 But these characters, these people would often end up at like freshers events or at club nights for students.

Speaker 55 And they would have like a DJ set or something like that or just like a meet and group in a club. Yeah.

Speaker 69 Howard from the Halifax.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 55 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 55 I saw Dick and Dom.

Speaker 16 No,

Speaker 50 that's a good one. That's a good book.

Speaker 55 Dick and Dom is good about doing that. This is another children's duo presenter team.
Apparently, we love them DJing. We love them DJing.

Speaker 42 Tracy Beaker, Danny Haram, Harvard did as well. She did.

Speaker 55 Dick and Dom were famous for going into public places and yelling like bogies really loudly. That was like their shit.

Speaker 16 Remember,

Speaker 55 are we selling the UK to you? The UK like club scene?

Speaker 55 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 39 I think it's really interesting

Speaker 55 that we acknowledge the existence of that show. So Sun, Sex, and Suspicious Parents is a

Speaker 55 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 55 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 55 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 42 It's great. Really classic.

Speaker 55 Oh, yes.

Speaker 16 My YouTube two watches is growing and growing and growing.

Speaker 55 You're going to have a great time.

Speaker 69 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 69 But as I'm hearing them through, and I'm looking at you, Dave, I'm feeling like, so alienated.

Speaker 34 I can't believe that this is that this is all true.

Speaker 22 This is all true, though.

Speaker 34 It's all true.

Speaker 1 And that's the thing.

Speaker 70 And, like, I'm enough of an Anglophile to know Black Lace did Aga do.

Speaker 57 There's no reason for me to know that.

Speaker 29 And yet, all of this stuff is a level deeper than anything.

Speaker 85 Even Black Lace are forgotten.

Speaker 57 I have certainly.

Speaker 29 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 47 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 47 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 41 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 41 It was nuts. They did set the building on fire, but we put it out.
It's fine now. It's good.

Speaker 37 We're good now.

Speaker 47 Yeah, only three people went to the hospital. We call that a good time here in the Cabana.

Speaker 13 Hell yeah, hell yeah, brother.

Speaker 47 Coming up to the stage now, Sierra Cato.

Speaker 26 Welcome, Sierra.

Speaker 62 I like

Speaker 92 big butts, and I cannot lie.

Speaker 18 You

Speaker 92 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 74 All right, we're going to begin.

Speaker 54 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 24 And the first one to get the answer correct gets the answer correct.

Speaker 38 So let's start by practicing.

Speaker 27 Let's get your buzz-in words. Christian, go ahead.

Speaker 14 Primer.

Speaker 54 And Jeremy?

Speaker 37 I guess I'll say Euro.

Speaker 58 And John?

Speaker 46 Depress.

Speaker 64 Okay, those are your buzzer sounds.

Speaker 35 Here we begin with the first question.

Speaker 72 Between 1990 and 1999, over 30 hip-hop albums reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart.

Speaker 54 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 46 Depress.

Speaker 61 Depress.

Speaker 93 Uh, can't touch this. You can't touch this.

Speaker 5 You can't touch this.

Speaker 64 You did add the letter U, which does make it correct.

Speaker 35 Yes, that is a point for John Moe.

Speaker 58 Very good. We're on our way.

Speaker 49 All right, here's our second question.

Speaker 35 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 39 Who is it?

Speaker 64 Ooh, I think I heard Euro first. Euro, Jeremy, go ahead.

Speaker 17 That is Danny Elfman, I believe.

Speaker 49 That is Danny Elfman.

Speaker 58 Jeremy is on the board with a point.

Speaker 35 Speaking of music in movies, the movie Dirty Dancing didn't just do well at the box office.

Speaker 21 It also won an Academy Award for what song?

Speaker 16 Ero.

Speaker 46 Depress.

Speaker 93 I've had the time of my life.

Speaker 35 I know you have, but what is the answer to this question?

Speaker 93 And I've never felt this way before.

Speaker 56 Nor have I, John.

Speaker 21 Never felt this way.

Speaker 16 All right, there's a point.

Speaker 80 It's the truth.

Speaker 58 Yes, we could keep going, and yet we shall not.

Speaker 39 We owe it all to you, Jake.

Speaker 42 Oh, thank you.

Speaker 19 Hey, baby.

Speaker 78 Hey, don't put me in a corner in your Zoom window.

Speaker 70 I want to be right in the center.

Speaker 40 Here is your next question.

Speaker 64 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 35 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 53 Who was this singer and songwriter of Gloria?

Speaker 74 Depressed in right away.

Speaker 93 John. Van Morrison.

Speaker 52 Van Morrison is correct.

Speaker 78 Van Morrison, of course, with the hits Domino, Tupelo Honey, and Brown Eyed Girl, among others.

Speaker 58 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 44 Yerush.

Speaker 66 I heard Euro first.

Speaker 31 Keith Moon.

Speaker 80 Keith Moon is correct, and we're back on track.

Speaker 58 We did an entire segment on that album on Go Fact Yourself.

Speaker 40 All right, let's ask about Prince from Minnesota.

Speaker 58 So, John, no pressure.

Speaker 56 The first Prince song to reach Billboard's Hot 100 was 1978's Soft and Wet.

Speaker 35 The next one to make the charts hit number 11 in 1979.

Speaker 54 The lyrics of the song begin, I ain't got no money.

Speaker 49 I ain't like those other guys you hang around.

Speaker 5 What is the name of this hit song?

Speaker 75 Euro?

Speaker 72 I want to be your lover.

Speaker 54 Thank you so much, Jeremy.

Speaker 37 But no, yes, that is the correct answer as well.

Speaker 39 Trapped again.

Speaker 44 Trapped again.

Speaker 80 I did not do those on purpose, but it is kind of fun to have it.

Speaker 40 All right, here is another Prince song.

Speaker 65 After this, we'll get a score recap as we head into the next section of questions.

Speaker 72 Prince wrote some amazing lyrics on the album Purple Rain, but not all of them have been heard correctly.

Speaker 78 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 35 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 39 i was like i think he got it but no good grammar prince.

Speaker 62 Yeah, so that was all very important.

Speaker 58 Of course, by I, he meant the picture of an I, and by you, he meant the letter you.

Speaker 85 He meant the letter you.

Speaker 44 Yes.

Speaker 32 Kiss the rock band kiss.

Speaker 16 Of course.

Speaker 54 Let's see what the scores are as we head into this next round.

Speaker 61 Oh, we don't need to look at the scores.

Speaker 77 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 53 So it still is anyone's game, technically.

Speaker 58 All right, let's move on to our next question.

Speaker 53 This one is about hip-hop.

Speaker 72 Only one hip-hop artist had three albums reached number one on the Billboard 200 charts in the 1990s.

Speaker 56 Tupac Shakur, aka Tupac, aka Machiavelli.

Speaker 74 What were any one of those three chart-topping albums?

Speaker 21 Primer?

Speaker 44 Primer.

Speaker 77 All eyes on me?

Speaker 9 That is correct.

Speaker 52 And Christian from Primer is on the board.

Speaker 53 The others are Me Against the World and The Don Columinati, The Seven Day Day Theory.

Speaker 58 Alright, here's another one.

Speaker 54 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 24 Depress.

Speaker 61 Depressed trying to add to the lead.

Speaker 93 Respect.

Speaker 49 Thank you again, but no.

Speaker 27 Yes, respect is the answer and respect for your knowledge of soul music.

Speaker 78 Oh, it couldn't be a show in Max Fun without mentioning Weird Al, so here we go.

Speaker 56 Weird Al Yankovic recorded several parodies of Michael Jackson's songs, all with Michael's blessing.

Speaker 58 But there was one song that Al wanted to record that Michael did not want him to.

Speaker 52 What was the song that Michael thought was too important to be parodied?

Speaker 77 Euro

Speaker 44 black and white.

Speaker 71 Not quite correct.

Speaker 63 Does anyone want to jump in and steal?

Speaker 15 Black or white?

Speaker 12 Christian, he's giving it to you.

Speaker 34 Primer, primer, primer.

Speaker 21 Black or white.

Speaker 22 That is correct.

Speaker 39 Let's give a half a point to each one.

Speaker 37 I think Jeremy says you have for that. Yeah, sorry about that.

Speaker 77 Yes, wrong conjunction.

Speaker 65 All right, let's go back to hip-hop.

Speaker 58 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 49 At what award ceremony did this escalation take place?

Speaker 35 Depress, John Moe.

Speaker 12 B.E.T. Awards.

Speaker 80 That is incorrect, Christian or Jeremy.

Speaker 66 Primer.

Speaker 44 Primer.

Speaker 66 Is it the Source Awards?

Speaker 38 It is the Source Awards.

Speaker 24 A nice steal for Primer.

Speaker 4 The scores can only be different than they were before.

Speaker 65 Very curious to see the recap as we head into the final few.

Speaker 61 Oh, the scores really have changed.

Speaker 35 We've got Christian now with two and a half, Jeremy with three and a half, and John with four and a half.

Speaker 4 Very, very close. And the stakes are so high, I forgot to mention what they are.

Speaker 54 The Beatles' longest studio song is on their longest album.

Speaker 74 Name either the song or the album.

Speaker 21 Primer, Primer.

Speaker 24 The white album, self-titled.

Speaker 51 The white album, self-titled is correct.

Speaker 53 That is the longest album. Christian moving now into a tie for second place.

Speaker 35 Revolution number nine, the longest studio song by length.

Speaker 59 Finish this lyric from Hamilton about the Federalist Papers.

Speaker 71 John Jay got sick after writing five.

Speaker 27 James Madison wrote 29.

Speaker 59 Hamilton wrote...

Speaker 77 Euro.

Speaker 12 Euro.

Speaker 72 The other 51?

Speaker 21 I'm sorry, can you say it, though, as it's said in the show?

Speaker 34 The other 51!

Speaker 51 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 54 Billy Joel's first Billboard number one hit was a single from the Billboard No.

Speaker 56 1 album, Glass Houses, in which he inquires about what's wrong with the clothes he's wearing.

Speaker 58 What is the name of this song?

Speaker 46 Depression. Depression.

Speaker 38 I listened to a lot of Billy Joel when I was depressed, too.

Speaker 39 Yeah, no, I'm just narrating my mood at having to listen to Billy Joel music.

Speaker 93 Still rock and roll to me.

Speaker 58 Not exactly.

Speaker 75 Do you want to give another chance?

Speaker 85 Still rock and roll to me.

Speaker 73 That is correct.

Speaker 56 Yes, we must have our contraction.

Speaker 65 We are contractually obligated for that contraction.

Speaker 74 Very nice.

Speaker 27 In the 2020s, she received a Kennedy Center honors.

Speaker 54 In the 2010s, she won an Emmy for producing. In the 2000s, she was nominated for an Oscar for acting.

Speaker 27 And in the 1990s, she won a Grammy for rapping.

Speaker 54 Who is this New Jersey-born sensation?

Speaker 57 Euro.

Speaker 75 Euro.

Speaker 22 Is this Cher?

Speaker 78 It is not Cher. No, not the rapping Grammy that we were looking for.

Speaker 93 Depress.

Speaker 46 Depress.

Speaker 1 Queen Latifah?

Speaker 54 Yes, that is correct.

Speaker 58 She won her Grammy for rapping on U-N-I-T-Y, and that spells unity.

Speaker 71 All right, here's another question regarding California and music.

Speaker 66 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 58 In what county did all these bands come from?

Speaker 31 Primer.

Speaker 44 Primer.

Speaker 45 Orange County, baby.

Speaker 53 Orange County, that is correct, baby.

Speaker 4 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 42 Euro.

Speaker 21 Euro, I heard first. I believe that's SpongeBob SquarePants.
That is correct.

Speaker 49 Oh, we're getting down to just our last few questions.

Speaker 53 Let's see if we can get a score update again.

Speaker 58 Oh, here we go. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 56 I think we're just down to our last two or three questions and the scores, well, they could be closer.

Speaker 49 I was going to say they could not be closer, but they are pretty close.

Speaker 4 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 21 Who will win the shrimp?

Speaker 4 We'll find out after these two questions.

Speaker 35 The band Chicago earned a Grammy nomination for contributing one song to what famine relief album?

Speaker 46 Depression. Euro.

Speaker 71 Depress got in first.

Speaker 93 USA for Africa.

Speaker 56 More specifically, We Are the World.

Speaker 40 That is correct.

Speaker 78 And you're adding to your lead, John Moe, now.

Speaker 39 That shrimp.

Speaker 71 I haven't eaten it in 48 hours.

Speaker 16 It's hungry.

Speaker 59 Okay, this will be your final question.

Speaker 51 This will determine maybe who gets second place.

Speaker 16 All right,

Speaker 63 here's your final question of the game. And you know what?

Speaker 65 This will be worth three points, which will decide the game.

Speaker 24 For three points.

Speaker 3 What jazz fusion legend is a noted Scientologist contributing to Space Jazz, the soundtrack of the book Battlefield Earth?

Speaker 63 John, for the win.

Speaker 85 Chick Korea.

Speaker 9 Chick Korea is correct. Congratulations, John Moe.

Speaker 94 You win the shrimp.

Speaker 44 Oh,

Speaker 85 I'm going to share it with everybody.

Speaker 42 Wow.

Speaker 7 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 51 All right, well, that does it for us here at the Hard Rock Cafe at the iconic Sunset Strip.

Speaker 63 And while you're partying, hey, everybody, remember, wear sunscreen, and please stay hydrated and stay safe. I don't know what's what's coming up after this, but I know you won't want to miss it.

Speaker 53 Here on Maximum Fun, go to maximumfun.org slash join and support all of these wonderful shows in the Max Fun tribe.

Speaker 58 I'm J.K. Fan Stratton.

Speaker 24 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 26 Pick that bag up, man. It's leaking everywhere.

Speaker 34 Oh, God.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, if we could die.

Speaker 16 Dave, you're watching your stepping pal. Oh, wow.

Speaker 26 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 43 I'm much better now. Thank you very much.

Speaker 94 I'm back in my old hometown, Daytona Beach.

Speaker 3 There it is.

Speaker 1 Must feel good to be home.

Speaker 86 It is.

Speaker 43 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 2 on the beach.

Speaker 1 Now,

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

Speaker 26 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 26 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 11 Yeah,

Speaker 43 just a big old transfusion.

Speaker 43 And I've come up with a bunch of slogans, too.

Speaker 1 Let's hear it.

Speaker 14 Don't be a

Speaker 32 negative person.

Speaker 42 Oh.

Speaker 10 Be positive that it won't hurt.

Speaker 26 Right. And give me your blood.
It says at the bottom of all of them, and give me your blood.

Speaker 44 Right.

Speaker 43 Blood, it's not just for breakfast anymore.

Speaker 10 I'm workshopping that one.

Speaker 72 Alan, we're still coming along.

Speaker 26 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.

Speaker 12 How many pints of young blood have you had today?

Speaker 21 I've had seven,

Speaker 43 six of them voluntarily.

Speaker 26 Wow.

Speaker 4 Yeah, which is great for dad, a huge record.

Speaker 26 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 26 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 26 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 26 I smell the hygiene thing coming.

Speaker 10 Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 11 You never failed to disappear.

Speaker 11 Dad, go ahead.

Speaker 43 Just the usual.

Speaker 94 You know, you get the gritty in the eyes, and that keeps you from doing the gritty.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 26 But it doesn't bother you if you have grit.

Speaker 12 And that's what my dad has.

Speaker 26 He could take a little dirt.

Speaker 23 You know what?

Speaker 26 He's not picky about types either, Dave.

Speaker 26 Any type. You know, whatever you got, Dad is ready and willing.

Speaker 61 You got O?

Speaker 33 Got O. You got A, B?

Speaker 11 A, B.

Speaker 22 I've got an adapter for all of them.

Speaker 24 So bring it on.

Speaker 86 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 61 And some people get the gag.

Speaker 86 Most don't.

Speaker 26 Yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 26 As long as the blood keeps flowing, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 32 Feel the need, the need for bleed.

Speaker 11 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 26 Oh, Dave, this is such a sensitive topic.

Speaker 32 Sweet, sweet-hearted Dave.

Speaker 26 Yeah, it's, I mean, just to start out, Dave, for starters, um, it's never too early to start cycling out blood.

Speaker 26 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 26 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 26 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 3 well like a man of 69

Speaker 73 yeah this is this is all the filter this is all the filter got on camera

Speaker 32 if I I were to switch over, I would look like Gary Oldman at the end of

Speaker 32 the Dracula movie.

Speaker 26 A lot of Dracula-themed content, Dad. I'm worried the blood is starting to go to your brain a little bit.

Speaker 10 Oh, yeah, that's the good time.

Speaker 26 Yeah, that's the time.

Speaker 44 And when it goes to your brain, yahoo!

Speaker 11 I wish you had the taste for it.

Speaker 2 It's never been a good time.

Speaker 12 Thank you for the compliments, Dave.

Speaker 32 I think I look pretty sharp.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 18 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 26 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 76 blood

Speaker 26 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 43 I'm sorry. I'm going to mention it.

Speaker 33 We have a lot of people who are going to be able to do that. Sorry, wait, wait, Daddy.

Speaker 26 Dave wanted to ask a clarifying question about

Speaker 26 it.

Speaker 26 folks who are interested in participating. Obviously, you can get rum-filled Twinkies or, you know, whatever sort of liqueur you want.

Speaker 3 Nice. Of legal age.

Speaker 32 Of legal age.

Speaker 1 Which here in Daytona Beach is 14.

Speaker 26 14. 14.
Yes, we did bump it up last year. Thanks, folks.
Appreciate that. That was the right move.

Speaker 26 It was a hard fight, but 14 is the right call, Daytona Beach. Good job.

Speaker 86 But the other snacks we have are also aimed towards buffing you up, building you up.

Speaker 26 Right.

Speaker 43 We've got Screaming Yellow Lazonkers.

Speaker 31 Yeah, protein.

Speaker 26 A lot of protein.

Speaker 43 Space food sticks.

Speaker 87 We've got Koogle.

Speaker 7 Dad got that dehydrated astronaut ice cream.

Speaker 26 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 26 So we've been doing huge business there, too.

Speaker 1 Oh, so the snacks are not free.

Speaker 11 They need to be purchased right after you.

Speaker 26 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 26 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 11 Ironically, yes.

Speaker 12 Yeah, yeah, just to find the blood.

Speaker 44 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 26 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.

Speaker 86 Go

Speaker 26 start a fresh life for myself, Dave. Smart.

Speaker 43 I'm going to clean all the grit out of places where there should not be grit

Speaker 10 or sand.

Speaker 43 And then if there's any time, I might, I don't know,

Speaker 21 smurf. I'm going to smurf a little bit on my smurf board.

Speaker 26 Actually, it's still a family show.

Speaker 33 Watching the sky

Speaker 33 palpitate.

Speaker 43 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 1 There's a young people activated, right? 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 26 I would love to believe that.

Speaker 12 Papa Smurf was seeing Clint McElroy this whole time.

Speaker 26 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 26 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 16 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 28 I would be remiss based on my personal brand to not bring up the new queer cinema in all this.

Speaker 28 If I had to pick one, though, I think I'm going to go with 1994's Go Fish,

Speaker 28 because that is a movie that I think represents the sort of

Speaker 28 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 30 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 28 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 28 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 16 So yeah, go fish.

Speaker 1 What else?

Speaker 25 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 25 created the serial killer movie as it exists now, sort of.

Speaker 25 And unfortunately, on the other, like, created the idea of like the brilliant serial killer.

Speaker 83 And how is young Josh and the lovely Molly?

Speaker 83 They're always in my thoughts, you know.

Speaker 83 You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Speaker 25 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 36 All right. I'm going to say 1998's Rushmore.

Speaker 36 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 36 Color, it introduced you to what's become a very iconic and consistent color palette framing device.

Speaker 36 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 36 Started the partnership with Bill Murray. This continued through many films.
Obviously, Owen Wilson popping up again.

Speaker 36 It's also quotable, but like my favorite quote from that one would be when he sees Luke Wilson in his scrubs.

Speaker 7 I like your nurse's uniform, guy.

Speaker 26 These are OR scrubs.

Speaker 41 Oh, are they?

Speaker 36 Which is something I say to people all the time and no one understands I'm quoting something.

Speaker 28 That's a big line in this house.

Speaker 31 Oh, are they?

Speaker 9 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 39 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 41 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 26 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 81 Put it down. To the extreme!

Speaker 20 Quick!

Speaker 33 Oh, dudes!

Speaker 26 Dad, that is Jesse Thorne. He is a hero here.
Put him down!

Speaker 13 Alright.

Speaker 12 I just love his ascot.