Farewell, Nervosa

Context outside the activity. Title: Reverse Psychology Reviewed full source context: Welcome to Reverse Psychology, the Fraser Rewatch podcast where we go backwards through every episode of the show. Tonight, we're covering Season 10, Episode 20, Farewell, Nervosa, which originally aired on April 22nd, 2003. Is this the last time Fraser and the gang hang out at Nervosa? Obviously not. I'm your host, Curtis Sheck. Joining me as always, it's our resident upside downer, Ryan Sansone. Farewell to Nervosa and farewell to our sanity, Curtis. This one's going to be a good one. Also with us today, our barista, it's Bradley Kirkston. Thank you. Barista is a word I can pronounce. The name of this episode is not a word I can pronounce, so it's going to be great. It's also inaccurate. Could you imagine Brad having to make you coffee? That'd be the worst case scenario for me. I don't think you know anything about coffee. Well, first off, America runs on talking, so does Bradley Kirkston. So I get coffee every morning. I love coffee. As a barista, though, you can't go over to Duncan and just say whatever the person ordered. You have to make the coffee yourself. I'm getting there. This is a very long way of saying I 100% agree with you. I'd be a terrible barista. I don't know what the coffee would taste like, but I'm convinced it would be gritty somehow. I would throw in like random stuff. I don't like the use of throw in this early. That's a concern. It would be like 10% coffee beans, 15% lima beans. Lima beans? What? 10% love. In the brewing process? Or you're just going to chuck them in at the end? What do you mean? You know, it's like a salad. You just mix it all together and then you... No, I do not know what you mean. You put a little pumpkin spice, a little peppermint spice. That makes way more sense. Both at the same time? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pumpkin, peppermint. And then you top it off with special secret ingredients. I'm going to need you, and I think the FDA is also going to need you to inform us about what those ingredients are. Yeah. It depends on the day. So like Mondays, it's rice flour. Oh, you mean the literal day of the week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tuesday, the special ingredient could be barley. Could be. That's a disturbing... Yeah, don't love that use the could be. Don't love the plan for the record, but don't love the could be either. Wednesday, spice it up a little bit. Cat food. Oh, what? That's a weird use of spice. You put actual spices in there. If I was a barista, I would just keep people on their toes. No, you wouldn't. You would get less business than Mrs. Daphne, whose name I don't know. I know that had nothing to do with this episode, but you started saying Mrs. I really thought you were going to say Doubtfire. And I was like, that's very random. I don't know. Was there like a Mrs. Doubtfire 2 back in the coffee shop or something? Oh, that would be great. There were talks about doing a Mrs. Doubtfire, and the actor, you know, died. They did do Mrs. Doubtfire. They filmed that. No, Mrs. Doubtfire 2. You didn't die right away. I mean, they had time. Well, it took 45 years to do another Top Gun. Is this true? Yeah. Concede. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you for always being on my side and being such a strong supporter of the Bradley Kirkston universe. Somebody who's going to support your mess. Yeah. We know Curtis. No, no. That is not a necessary thing. That is not a correct use of the word necessary. We let the viewers decide on this show. Curt, I know you always like discussing things. Could you imagine making $3,000 a year? Imagine if this podcast got so successful that we made $3,000 and we could just spend it on whatever we want. What is the $3,000 a reference to? That's how much he spends on coffee every year. Oh, I see. I see. I see. First off, is that that much money? I didn't even think there was that much money on coffee. $3,000? Well, 2003. Yes. I know for a fact you don't spend $3,000 on coffee a year. Let me do the math right now. I spend $2.96 a day. Really? Is that real? Times $7 times 52. I spend $1,000. Yeah, my cup of coffee at Dunkin' Donuts, a large coffee with taxes $2.97 or $6, $2.96. How much did that come out to? I know you don't know how to do math, but... $1,077.44. Wow. So imagine getting three of those a day. Yeah, I guess when you think of it like that, it probably is a lot of money. Now imagine if we made that much. What would you do with it? How would you spend your $3,000? Why do you keep saying it like that? You know, all of us do make more than $3,000 a year. We could get mics. We could replace Brad. We could replace Brad. For the record, you know, with an AI. For the record, if this podcast made $3, we'd be happy. Yeah, yes. Sponsor or support us on... Sponsor us and then support us on Patreon if we ever make one of those. I'll tell you what. Email us at reversepsychpod at gmail.com to let us know you're willing to put money into a Patreon and then we'll just set one up for you. Spitballing it right now, I think for like the $5 thing, I would make a grilled cheese version of any picture you send in. And for any donation, if you're a female and someone attracted to me, I will go on a date with you. Or you could spend $10 to not go on a date with Brad. I want to back up to the first one. Ryan, you are going to make a picture out of a grilled cheese? What were you going to do? Well, it would be sort of like grilled cheese. Eatable art. That's kind of my specialty. So like you send a picture and I would grill up a grilled cheese that looks like that picture. And then I would eat it and I guess film it for you. Yeah, Curtis, has he never done this for you? Yeah, have I never done that for you? He's done so little for me. He did one of me staring in the abyss. Yeah, which is most of Brad's photo. If you've ever seen Brad in picture form, that is what you generally look like. Correct. Yeah, and for $10, I'll do like a 3D version of whatever picture you send in. Like I'll just imagine it was 3D for you. And also to all the audience members, if you were to just DM me directly to set up a date, I'm actually okay with that too. You didn't have to pay me. You didn't have to. Wow, what a deal. You don't have to pay Brad to date him. Yes, I'm pretty sure I just called myself a prostitute on a podcast. No, you said you don't have to be a prostitute. I think that's very kind of you. I can't believe the ladies haven't already DM'd you.

Prompt: Give us a famous camp director book. Writer. Answer: Michael Brandwein. Result qualification: Yeah, you just made that up. Reviewed full source context: So good on you for paying attention. And apparently it's popular enough that Avery, a person who's just randomly meeting her, not only knows the book, loves the book, but recognizes her name and that she is the author of the book. So that is quite a feat. I don't know about that. If you have a profession and you read the book, you know authors. I've read a bunch of camp director books, so I know some of the famous camp directors that have written books. Give us a famous camp director book. Writer. Oh God, what's the guy? I've heard him talk a thousand times. What's his name? Crap. Is it the guy who wrote Goodnight Moon? Is that what we mean by camp? Michael Brandwein. Michael Brandwein. He's from Chicago. Yeah, you just made that up. I did that. Famous camp director Michael Brandwein. Check him out everywhere that, I don't know, is it books? Sounds like a guy that might make pamphlets. But my point is we've already found out that she was in the midst of building like some fancy software program. He apparently wrote a book.

Prompt: What's the name of that again, Brad? Answer: Nervosa. Method: Yeah, just do that weird West Coast accent. Adjudication: That's it. Reviewed full source context: Now for the real ice story, Elvis Costello plays Nervosa and annoys Frasier out of his regular haunt. Wow, way to steal my roll. Oh my. So they're in the coffee shop. What's the name of that again, Brad? Oh, um, it is called- You can do this. Stake yourself up. Stake yourself up, yes. All right. You got this, buddy. We all believe in you. Nervosa. Or just what is happening. We're on the same page. Nervosa. Nervosa. Yeah, just do that weird West Coast accent. It'll be fine. You can just do that the rest of the whole time. We have how many more episodes, Curt? 154? More than that. Yeah.

Activity request: Yep, go slow and painful, let's do it. Response context: Okay, so you haven't had me say Nervosa. Answer: Nor, Nervosa, Nervosa, I got it. Reviewed full source context: I mean, I was mostly focused on the fact that Frasier is going to date this monster of a human, but I didn't notice. It was like a solid minute that Frasier left and the two of them were still talking. So. Fair enough. Ben has quit singing because Julia got him a job at a bank. Nervosa is back on the table, boys. Okay, so you haven't had me say Nervosa. Uh, in a little, Nervosa, goddammit. Nerv, I was trying to say it fast and quick. Nervosa. Yep, go slow and painful, let's do it. Okay, here we go. Nor, not, goddammit. What just happened? Nor, Nervosa, Nervosa, I got it. Uh, Nervosa. I'm slightly worried at this point that people listening to this and thinking you're putting on a bit or you're really laying it on fake that you can't pronounce this basic word that you've said before many times. But this is very real. This is happening. Oh, this is completely happening.

Activity premise: You guys are lucky I can pronounce your names. Prompt: Give us a shot. Let's see what you can do. Answer: Ryan and Seabax? Adjudication: Good enough. Reviewed full source context: You guys are lucky I can pronounce your names. Oh. Mostly you can't. You haven't tried in a while. Are you sure you got them? Give us a shot. Let's see what you can do. Ryan and Seabax? Good enough. Ryan and Seabax. Spiff. I don't know what that was. I don't know what Choco's trying to make there. I think that might have been a hate crime. Was that a joke? I think that was, uh, that was a misprint. Well, if I take his first letter and his last two. That's a way to call people's names.

Activity request: Those sentences rhyme, so do some of that. Segment type: Local conversational rhyming task Reviewed full source context: Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Never once. He just made it all the way through. He didn't get stuck. You really, I mean, you really can't. That's my point. It's kind of like, it's pretty small. It's high on the wall. Those sentences rhyme, so do some of that. I was going to say, keep rhyming. And that is all. Oh, pretty good. It's a very long fall. Niles has chosen to perform with Ben and gets really into it. He runs off when Frazier turns up. Frazier thinks the next song will answer his moral quandary, but a string pops, so no dice. Yeah, Niles is great in this scene. I also liked it because his dance moves, which is how Curtis dances. Where do you think I learned how to dance? Yeah, it was like straight up of Curtis, and I was like, oh, wow, okay. So I would say this is like the big comedy scene from this episode, and it is absurd.

Segment type: Episode opinions, grading and ranking Interaction mode: This is why there's three opinions and three of us. Reviewed full source context: Well, Brad, did you like this episode? I'm middle of the pack when it comes to this episode. Like, I thought it was fun. I thought it was, you know, there were some good jokes, but it wasn't great. It wasn't fantastic. So I'm going to go with the very typical Bradley Kirkston score of a B+. Wait, that's really high for you. It's like middle of the pack for me. Yeah, because you grade on a curb. What was the issue with you? Yeah, I mean, my grading system is very count. In all of season 11, you never went lower than a C. Either season 11 is an above average season or grade inflation. If we gave last episode a terrible C, how is this one a B+. Like I said about my grading system, it's through the, is every couple episodes, you'll learn more and more. And by season one, episode one, you'll totally understand my grading system. But you're not going to give any illumination today? Oh, today is what I'm going to say is, like I said earlier, there were some funny parts and there were some parts that weren't as funny. I thought it was. You can say that about like every episode. But about this one particular. So by the end, you guys will totally understand my grading. I kind of hate you. No, you'll get it. Curtis, what do you have to say about this episode? You're not going to believe this. But Julia's back and so is the lucky number seven. Oh my God. Get the fuck out of here. Are you doing a bet? This is a bet, right? It's really not a bet. I really tried to not make the best episode. You really think this is the seventh best episode? I really tried. Have you lost your goddamn mind? Have you taken the time to compare the episodes? Because I have and I kept trying to rank it lower, but I couldn't. I feel like of the Julia episodes, this is the best one so far. I'll agree with him on that one. So if I rank them all seven, I have to rank this seven. I think you've got like some cost fallacy there. Like, okay, what's the current number eight now? Fathers and sons. The one that you guys didn't like that much. Yeah. I think you're just comparing it to fathers and sons. I think you need to go back and raise some of the other ones up. I don't know. I mean, I'm looking, but. What's number, what's number 10? The placeholder. The end, the second Anne episode. Talking to me about the first Anne episode. You loved that one. You must have liked it more than this episode. Yeah, I don't know. I. Well, if I don't pay attention, it's seven. You get brattle out of shit. All right. I will, I will take some time tomorrow to reevaluate all of my rankings. I'll get back to you if I've, I've changed any sevens. Thank you. Ryan, go ahead. You guys are way off. This was a terrible episode. I'm giving this a, I think, I think it's genuine, generous to give this a five. Okay. You are going to have to explain that because I really thought this one was. Yeah. I thought it was a good one. Not the best, but very, very enjoyable. I liked it. Your peak of this episode is the, the Niles dance. It's, it's pretty good. As far as like the big comedy scenes, it's nowhere near Frazier's best swing, but it's pretty good. And the supporting stuff. I had a, I, the Marty bits are okay. Like, you know, Daphne doing work is really confusing, but it's fine. All of the coffee shop bits are okay. You've got much better versions of a lot of these things in other episodes. I don't know where you guys are coming in saying this is great or anywhere near good. We've seen much better work from pretty much every character across the board. Also, I think no Roz, right? She was in a couple of scenes, but she didn't do anything. This is why there's three opinions and three of us. We all come from different backgrounds that bring our unique personality to this, to this ranking system. I guess. Also, you guys are just big coffee shop fans. I always forget about you too. We are. Holy shit. Seven scenes in a coffee shop. Let's go.

Title or premise: Mucho Macho Activity request: Well, today we're here to pitch some movie ideas based on the title Mucho Macho. Interaction mode: Movie pitches followed by questions and statements of willingness to watch. Rules: Movie ideas based on the title Mucho Macho. Adjudication method: Hypothetical viewing choices are discussed; a participant refers to Courtney's grading system. Reviewed full source context: So in this episode, we find out the naming of one of the coffee shops sizes, one of them being Mucho Macho. And last time we had a fun coffee name was The Macchiato Man, where we describe movies based on the title Macchiato Man. Well, today we're here to pitch some movie ideas based on the title Mucho Macho. I want Brad to go first because I'm excited for Brad's and he always disappoints. So let's have him go first. Okay. Yeah, he's not good at things. He's really bad at things. In a world where everyone is tiny, this one man brings his intensity to the world. He will be the one who saves the day. He will be the one who makes America great. He will be the one who has all the answers to all our questions. They say he puts the macho in Mucho Macho. Coming to a theater near you. The boss is back. We find out his true story because it's Mucho Macho, the story of Tony Danza. Yeah, he's the boss. I really thought that was going to be a Trump thing. I really thought that you weren't going to have a plot at all. You weren't going to have anything. It was just going to be saying Mucho Macho a lot. I don't think he had a plot. Well, that's true. He didn't have a plot, but he at least had some kind of a punchline. Usually it just fiddles out. No, it's Tony Danza saving the day. It's just him. Saving what day? I think he said Make America Great Again? Well, yeah. Is he going to be the Philadelphia field goal kicking phenomenon again? Oh, too soon. But no, there's lots of issues in the world. Global warming. The Republican Party. Other things. And Tony Danza just saves us. He's the one who can fix it all because he's the boss. Of what, though? What is he in charge of? Yeah, how is he going to fix America? Well, because he's Mucho Macho. Mucho Macho is a superhero. Duh. Oh. That's the superhero. Yeah. At no point did you make it clear this is a superhero movie. I thought we all were doing superhero movies. Mucho Macho. Why? Your trailer came off as a superhero movie. Well, yeah. It sounded more like a 90s thriller. I really thought it was a political campaign movie. Well, it's 2023. Every movie is political. But still. No, but I thought the plot was about him running for office. No. It's Tony Danza. He can do it all. He's the boss. And because he's so strong, that's why he's Mucho Macho. I didn't watch he's the boss. Is that a plot line? I mean, you know Tony Danza as a person. Isn't he like 5'1"? Tony Danza? Yeah. No. I don't know who you're thinking of. Tony Danza's tall. Look it up. Okay. 5'9". 5'9", yeah. All right. So tall compared to you. Yeah. It's like average, I think. You see, all I'm saying is you see Tony Danza in an alley, you're like, ah, could have been much worse. I disagree. I think Tony Danza can do it all. What's his superhero costume, McCoy? It's a red costume. The muscles, because he's Mucho Macho, are blue. So you can like see the blue. What? Wait, what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so like when he goes to flex, the blue comes out. And I'm flexing right now, but you guys can't see it. What do you mean it comes out? Like of his clothes? Are you saying is it like a Coors can? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, like you don't- When the biceps are blue, it's Macho time. There you go. That's a good slogan. Thank you for your help. That's a really good slogan. I'm going to like that down. Is it the shirt color that changes? Yeah. Is it like a bandex, like Lycra thing? No, no, no, no. It flexes in its colors now? No, no, no. You know how like the Hulk turns green when he's angry? Yeah. Same concept. Same concept. So the guns are out. The guns are out. Yeah, the guns are out. Guns out, guns out. Just his arms turn blue when he flexes. Yeah, bingo. Ryan, would you watch this movie? I don't know. I'm still not sure if there's a plot. So I want to see the color changing action. I think I would go knowing it would be really a disaster movie. I think you have to see it because as a completist, you've got to see all the MCU movies. Oh, is this MCU? I used to, this sounded DCU to me. Yeah, I thought it was going to be DCU. But if you were to sell it to MCU. I'm pretty sure Batman's going to have to shut this guy down in Mucho Macho 2. So I'm still in. I'll still, I'll buy. I'll do a Madme. Oh, I like, we're bringing in Courtney's, Courtney's grading system. That's smart. I don't want to see anything that's from the mind of Bradley Kirkston, but I am curious. So I would say I would pirate it. Oh, okay. That's fair. In a time when it was not okay to be gay, one organization was there. The Youth Men's Christian Association. But when conservative America catches wind, it's up to the machoist group of Halloweeners to defend it. It's going to take more than a village to stop the music. When the Navy gets called in, the people will be forced to go west unless they can go even more macho. Mucho Macho in theaters at five o'clock in the morning. You can come hang out with all the boys, muchacho. Did you call them the Youth Man's Christian Academy? The Youth Man's Christian Association. Young Man's Christian Association. I don't think so. The Youth Man. It's Young Man. Young Man's Christian Association. Yes. I love how you took the time. You could have just said YMCA, but you took the time to call it out and you didn't even bother to know what it was. Yes. I was like, what are you talking about? I Googled it even worse. I'm a little confused. Is this an actual movie or is this just a hookup joint for gay men? What are we talking about? You made fun of mine. Yours makes no sense either. No. So this is the story of how the YMCA became iconic for the gays. It was their safe house and then conservative America tried to destroy it, obviously, because they found out. And then the macho men had to save the day. Probably a fictionalized version of it. Unless that happened. Then it's based on real life. We know Tony Danza's in Brad's movie. Who's in your movie? I didn't think of that at all. It's definitely Tony Danza. I think... I want to make sure I get all the macho guys. So I guess Thor will be in it. Danza, Sly Stallone. Basically, it's the Expendables cast plus Tony Danza. They'll be the village people. I thought this was going to be sexy a little bit because it's very about gay men. But you're saying it's mostly old straight men. Yeah. It's not a sexy movie. This is a movie about fighting for freedom and winning, probably. I mean, go see it. I don't know. What month do you see it being in theaters? I think it's going to be the whole year. No. When is it going to get released? What month is it going to get released? The next one. I don't know. Whenever we're done filming. You think Mucho Macho about the YMCA that doesn't even... Like, apparently for copyright reasons, couldn't use the actual YMCA. You think that is going to be so successful that people for an entire year are going to be flocking to theaters to see it? It's even worse. I came up with the idea and then realized that YMCA is not the same song as Macho Men. So I had to rewrite it a little bit. Oh, my. I thought they were the same song for a while. In your defense, in your defense, I think all of their songs kind of sound alike. So I think you're okay. All right. Brad, coming to my defense. You don't see that every day. Would you see it, Brad? I would see it because I... It's going to be excessively violent. I don't know if that's good or bad for you. Yeah. I mean, I would see it. I would see it. The last movie I saw in theaters was almost 12 years ago. So I probably would have seen it. Yeah. I don't see movies in theaters a lot. Is it the name of the movie or is you just telling us the date you last watched? Are you trying to say 12 Years a Slave was the last movie you saw in the movie? Yeah. Did you go see 12 years? That was probably about 12 years ago. Why don't you go to movies? You don't do anything. I don't like movie theaters. What do you mean? Why? Because it's claustrophobic. I don't like it in there. Movie theaters aren't cramped. They're a giant room. Famously small, cramped spaces. A giant movie theater. The last... So what I was going to say is I would watch it on Netflix. Okay. I mean, I'll take it. For me, I would say that I have absolutely zero interest in watching this movie. It sounds terrible. But on principle, I will pay to see any movie with gay characters. So I will give it a matinee. All right. When Max was growing up, the Mucho Macho movie theater was the life and heart of a small town in Osage. But today, it stands abandoned and dilapidated, a symbol of a hollowed-out town. He abandons his big city life to restore it to its former glory. Aided by his childhood friends, Benny and Zara, they quickly discover a map that is rumored to lead to a long-lost fortune. They embark on a zany quest to take them on a whirlwind tour of the town's most eccentric characters. From the town historian who holds the key to deciphering the map's cryptic clues, to the local artist whose paintings help identify locations on the map. Along the way, they uncover a deep sense of community and rediscover the magic of their town. So you put some thought into this one. Okay. I should say, I worked with ChatGPT as my co-writer on this one. Oh, okay. Well, it shows a little. Some notes. Less questions, more notes. You went really 80s. I think that was the vibe I got out of this. I kind of figured you guys were both going to go sort of action movies, so I decided to go the other way. You started out very boring. You're like, it's an elapidated town. It's a movie theater. It's like, oh boy, you're really setting the bar low at the start of this thing. Obviously, treasure map's exciting, but then we start to just treasure map around the town. Like, that's a rough move also. I think we could go somewhere a little more exciting with a treasure map. I mean, in the original version ChatGPT came up with, it's just the mayor tells them he's going to turn the theater into a mall. That's even more 80s. Yeah. I kind of like that. What do they have to do? They have to treasure map their way out of it being a mall? I don't remember how that connected. I'm intrigued by that. Tell me more about the mayor. I think in that version, it was like, they find a treasure map, and then the mayor comes and shuts it down. It's just really abrupt and out of nowhere. Because, like, let's be real. The mayor should do something. I shouldn't turn it into a mall. This is the 80s, I guess. So maybe. But, like, it's a movie theater that's not getting any play. Like, you've got to change it into something that's going to bring in money. If you got the treasure map, you still aren't getting people to go to the Mucho Macho movie theater. Like, it doesn't matter how nice you make. I don't think it was like, oh, the seats are falling down. I'm not going to go watch a movie there. It's a dilapidated town in general. Yeah. It's a movie. It's an 80s movie. It doesn't have to make sense. I feel like the casting in this one is really going. Okay. I forgot. To raise the bar. It's going to get butts in seats. So Max, the main character. John Cho. Oh, okay. Oh, Harold. Yeah, Harold. One of his two friends is going to be Benny, played by Awkwafina. Okay. I mean, she always raises up anything. Yeah, fair enough. The other friend is Zara, played by Jamila Jamil. Oh, love Jamila. Yeah, she's good. Now, the historian will be Helen Mirren. Of course. Okay. And the artist is Tony Dancer. Yeah, I mean, that was clear. This is a Tony Dancer podcast. I had to include that, obviously. But the original casting. And again, I did not cast this. ChatGPT cast this. The original artist was Jeff Goldblum, which I thought was great. Oh, that would have been great. Yeah, we're not really going to bring Tony Dancer to this. We should be the historian, though. Tony Dancer can be the mayor. Yeah, the bad guy. I like that. Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm trying to think if there's questions we can do to juice up this movie, because it sounds horrible. It does not sound great. How long is it? Is it short? It sounded long. It was a very long description. Oh, I have very strong opinions about the length of movies these days. I would never... If I was ever producing any movie, I don't care what it is, 90 minutes, tops. And this one, honestly, this one, 84. 84 minutes. Okay. I think with that in mind, I would... If I was hammered and kind of just scrolling through Hulu, maybe I might give it like a 30 minutes. Probably turn it off right about when we meet the historian. Yeah, I think for me, I would watch it on TV, but only if it was on Freeform. So I think that's my answer. Yeah. Freeform. You're flipping through channels and like, oh, this might be... Oh, it's on NBC, though. It's not a Freeform movie. I'm not going to watch it. Yeah. Normally, I'd fight you on the Freeform call out here, but yeah, this was made for Freeform.

Pitch title: Mucho Macho Premise: In a world where everyone is tiny, this one man brings his intensity to the world. Ending or payoff: We find out his true story because it's Mucho Macho, the story of Tony Danza. Central premise: Mucho Macho is a superhero. Important beats: Global warming. The Republican Party. And Tony Danza just saves us. Choice: costume: It's a red costume.; transformation: Just his arms turn blue when he flexes. Action: And I'm flexing right now, but you guys can't see it. Answer qualification: The shirt-color agreement is superseded by the Hulk comparison and agreement that exposed arms turn blue. Response context: I thought we all were doing superhero movies.

Pitch title: Mucho Macho Premise: So this is the story of how the YMCA became iconic for the gays. Central premise: It was their safe house and then conservative America tried to destroy it, And then the macho men had to save the day. Answer qualification: Probably a fictionalized version of it. Notable references: Basically, it's the Expendables cast plus Tony Danza. They'll be the village people. Ending or payoff: This is a movie about fighting for freedom and winning, probably. Choice: The next one. I don't know. Whenever we're done filming. Notable events: I came up with the idea and then realized that YMCA is not the same song as Macho Men. Answer or action: It's going to be excessively violent.

Pitch title: Mucho Macho Premise: When Max was growing up, the Mucho Macho movie theater was the life and heart of a small town in Osage. Central premise: He abandons his big city life to restore it to its former glory. Aided by his childhood friends, Benny and Zara, they quickly discover a map that is rumored to lead to a long-lost fortune. Ending or payoff: Along the way, they uncover a deep sense of community and rediscover the magic of their town. Notable references: Max: John Cho; Benny: Awkwafina; Zara: Jamila Jamil; historian: Helen Mirren Notable events: And the artist is Tony Dancer. Important beats: ChatGPT cast this. The original artist was Jeff Goldblum, which I thought was great. Choice: artist: Jeff Goldblum; mayor: Tony Danza; status: Recasting adopted in final owner audio review; announced initial casting preserved in earlier claims and raw source Answer qualification: 84 minutes. Method: I should say, I worked with ChatGPT as my co-writer on this one. Response context: I mean, in the original version ChatGPT came up with, it's just the mayor tells them he's going to turn the theater into a mall.

Segment type: Next-episode prediction and discussion Prompt item: Season 10, Episode 19, some assembly required. Result qualification: We will be here to find out if that's what happens next week. Reviewed full source context: Well, Ryan, why don't you tell us what we can expect next week when we cover the previous episode at Season 10, Episode 19, some assembly required. Niles and Frasier get Marty a fuddy-duddy old person scooter. Ooh. Okay. That sounds like something they would do to make Marty seem way older than he actually is. So yeah, let's do it. Yeah, and obviously they can't assemble it, so he's stuck with a cane the rest of the way. But yeah, I mean, that goes without saying. I think this is one of your better guesses, buddy. Because we know the scooter doesn't persist. What's the zany problem that makes the scooter go away? They try to build it. Yeah, they never actually built it. It's just a pile on the floor for the rest of the series. Yeah, exactly. Best case, the scrambled egg scene, it just falls apart. Oh, that's actually... That could be fun. I would love to see him just driving through the coffee shop and it falls apart. You know what? And that's what re-aggravates his hip. That's why he still needs daff. Perfect. I don't know why they wouldn't address it ever again, but...

Context outside the activity. Response context: And if you want to go see a boring movie about a movie theater, it'll be out soon. Reviewed full source context: We will be here to find out if that's what happens next week. Thanks to Kevin MacLeod for our theme music. Thank you for listening. Everyone, just don't engage with us on the lines. Reverse PsychPod if you want to. ReversePsychPod at gmail.com. Go away. For myself, for Ryan, for Brad. So long, y'all. And if you want to go see a boring movie about a movie theater, it'll be out soon.

Context outside the activity. Activity request: Well, now we're going to do something else. Response context: You can just run this back like you did the Macchiato Men. Segment context: Unresolved: ['The appended production exchange does not establish which activity was being introduced or its recording-time relationship to the earlier pitch segment.', [[1606], [1608], [1613], [1614]]] Reviewed full source context: Well, now we're going to do something else. Sorry. I should have written something to introduce this. I'm sure you thought about this. Yeah. It's going to take a minute. You know what you can do? You can just run this back like you did the Macchiato Men. Just replay that clip. The fuck? What was that? That was not me. It was not me. That was not me that time. It was 100% you. It really was not. I don't know what it was, but it scared the shit out of me.