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We've been having a lot of fun going through famous bad movies of the decades all of that will be available video on demand as well for ticket

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you can binge them during the holidays.

It's a lot of fun. So if you're interested, go to theflophouse.simpletix.com and check out

our extra flop streams. On this episode we discuss, Afraid. A movie about a scary killer AI

and there's no Tom Cruise to kill it this time.

Should I said Ethan Hunt?

No, no.

No. Hey, everyone to the flop house.

I'm Dan McCoy. Hey, it's me, Stuart Wellington. My name is Elliot Kalen. I'm the author of a book called Joke Farming, How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense. It's on store shelves now. From the University of Chicago Press, it will teach you how to write jokes. How I do it, how jokes work, and how jokes work. I only had two things.

We told him to keep the plug. Elliot, I know that you're, I know you're about to like,

introduce our special guest, but I have to say, I texted Audrey today. And I was like,

between this book on the early years of the Simpsons that she got me for our anniversary and

your book coming to my house

hopefully on Wednesday. I'm like, I think I'm going to try a crack at another sitcom script

after writing longer movie things. That's my next thing that no one's going to buy.

You should do it. I mean, the thing is, no one's going to buy it anyway.

So write what you want.

That's what I say.

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