On this episode, we discuss Sonic 3.

A further delve into the lore of the Sonic the Hedgehog mythology, which exists.

Music Hey, everyone, welcome to the Flop House. I'm Dan McCoy. I'm Stuart Wellington.

I'm Elliot Kalan. And before we get started telling you what this podcast is about and what we do on it, I just want to mention, you may have seen that this is a hedgehog podcast. This is a podcast about Song of Hedgehog 3. You may ask yourself, is the Flop House able to bring back their politics and hedgehog correspondent? Yes, we did and he's here with us. Now, we are very happy to be joined by the great Jamal Bowie, writer for the New York Times, co-host of Unclear and Present Danger with John Gans, someone who has more serious, interesting things to do with his time than watch Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and then talk to us about it. But we're always so glad when he comes to join us. Jamel, thank you so much for joining us again for this hedgehog film. The full end of the trilogy, unless there's more, I don't know. First, it's for pleasure.

Second of all, I think this movie did well, so there will be a fourth one. And third of all, honestly,

you know, I was disappointed that yet another hedgehog movie, a Sonic movie, and neither Sonic nor Knuckles is pregnant. Honestly, I was thinking the same thing during it. I'm like, when does the series go off the rails and they just start making these characters pregnant? And you know, I'm pausing the screen every time they're on there, and I'm measuring their bellies to see if they're a little bigger. They're showing a bump. Any scene where they're hanging out, you're like, what are they drinking? Is it water or do they have actual liquor in their hands? It's always liquor. First of all, I'm glad that we got Jamel back. I wanted to clarify, unclear and present danger is another podcast. The word podcast was not said in case people wanted to go looking for the... I thought I did say it. I guess I didn't. Yeah.

But also, I have to admit, like, we put off doing Sonic 3 for a while because I kept being scared. I was like, Jamel's too busy being like one of the few people with balls enough to say true things in the media right now.

He can't come back for a hedgehog show. And then he expressed interest himself. And I'm like, oh, thank God, okay? That's great. We'll get them back. I was like, honestly, I was like, why haven't they reached out to me about this yet? The movie's been out for a minute. No, you're too busy. Every time you're like scrolling through whatever app and you see it and you're like, oh, Sonic 3, huh? You wistfully look out the window. You look at the window and hope that the, that the Jamel symbol is, is flashing in the clouds. Do I watch it? No, I should wait. So unclear in present danger. It's a podcast where you and John Gans, you talk about like kind of John Clancy-style movie thrillers, right,

from the 90s?

Yeah, yeah should wait. So unclear in present danger. It's a podcast where you and John Gansy talk about like kind of John Clancy style movie thrillers, right, from the 90s?

Yeah, yeah.

John Clancy?

Tom Clancy.

God damn it.

His brother.

His woke brother, John Clancy.

Yeah, which the peaceful look for Red October is a big John Clancy one.

Yeah.

Yeah, we watched like the political and military thrillers of the 90s.

The podcast named after the film Clear and Present Danger.

And there's obviously that and Hump for Red October and Patriot Games and Air Force One,

which isn't technically a Tom Clancy movie, but it basically is...

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