Feed Drop: Clint and Justin join MFD Spring Break!
79 min
•Mar 17, 2025about 1 year agoSummary
This MFD Spring Break 2025 special is a comedy variety show celebrating 1990s pop culture with multiple segments including Eurovision song selections, pop culture trivia competitions, movie discussions, and absurdist comedy sketches featuring Maximum Fun network hosts.
Insights
- Nostalgia-driven content strategy remains highly effective for audience engagement and sponsorship opportunities in podcast entertainment
- Multi-host collaborative formats create diverse content appeal and cross-promotion opportunities across podcast networks
- Absurdist humor and meta-commentary on pop culture drive engagement in comedy-focused podcast content
- Live event integration with podcast production creates unique listener experiences and fundraising opportunities
- Niche cultural knowledge (Eurovision, 90s references) builds community identity and listener loyalty
Trends
Podcast networks leveraging live events as content production and fundraising vehiclesCollaborative multi-show episodes as audience cross-pollination strategyNostalgia marketing targeting millennial audiences through 1990s cultural referencesAbsurdist comedy and deadpan humor gaining prominence in podcast entertainmentTrivia and game show formats as engagement drivers in podcast contentCelebrity guest appearances and interview segments as content differentiationBranded content integration within entertainment programmingInternational pop culture (Eurovision) as accessible entertainment topic for US audiencesFundraising integration into entertainment content rather than separate pledge drivesMeta-commentary on entertainment industry as comedic device
Topics
Eurovision Song Contest and European pop culture1990s music and pop culture nostalgiaFilm criticism and 1990s cinemaHip-hop history and Billboard chart analysisComedy duo performance and improvReality television and entertainment formatsBritish pop culture and entertainment traditionsPodcast network fundraising strategiesLive event production and logisticsMusic trivia and music historyLGBTQ+ cultural representation in entertainmentIndie film and new queer cinemaSerial killer films and genre evolutionWes Anderson filmography and visual storytellingBlood donation awareness and public health messaging
Companies
Maximum Fun
Podcast network hosting the MFD Spring Break 2025 event and multiple featured shows
Mirror Max
Film production company partnering with Maximum Fun to produce dramatization of guest story
Dunkeroo's
Sponsor of the Dance Pavilion at the Eurovision-themed dance party event
Hollister
Co-sponsor of the Dance Pavilion at the Eurovision-themed dance party event
Spotify
Platform where Eurovision playlist curated by hosts is available to listeners
Bud Ice
Sponsor of blood donation stage at Daytona Beach location
Fruit by the Foot
Sponsor of party animal competition pavilion at Spring Break event
Fruit Gushers
Prize sponsor for party animal competition Golden Chalice trophy
Orville Redenbacher
Sponsor of movie screening room for film discussion segment
Malibu Rum
Beverage sponsor for film discussion segment
People
Dave Holmes
Primary host and narrator of MFD Spring Break 2025 event coverage
Justin McElroy
Co-host of blood donation segment at Daytona Beach location
Clint McElroy
Co-host of blood donation segment; featured as blood transfusion recipient
Jeremy Bentz
Eurovision expert and DJ for Dance Pavilion; music trivia competition participant
Demetri Pompey
Eurovision expert and DJ for Dance Pavilion
Oscar Montoya
Eurovision expert and DJ for Dance Pavilion
Tom Lumb
Trivia competition participant and party animal competition judge
Ellen Weatherford
Trivia competition participant and party animal competition participant
Alex Schmidt
Trivia competition participant
Brenda Snell
Trivia competition winner
Jake Heath Van Stratten
Trivia competition host and music quiz competition host
John Moe
Music trivia competition participant and winner
Christian Dwayne
Music trivia competition participant
Drea Clark
Film discussion panelist for 1990s cinema segment
Alonzo Girolde
Film discussion panelist for 1990s cinema segment
Dan McCoy
Film discussion panelist for 1990s cinema segment
Thatcher Sawyer
Interview subject about near-death experience and film dramatization deal
Diablo Cody
Wrote screenplay for dramatization of Thatcher Sawyer's story
Quotes
"It's the gay Super Bowl. Just a bunch of spectacle, a bunch of lights, a bunch of good times."
Oscar Montoya•Eurovision explanation segment
"Street fighter but with music."
Jeremy Bentz•Eurovision explanation segment
"I was pronounced legally dead and I saw heaven itself."
Thatcher Sawyer•Interview segment
"Less blood means more fun that's what we say here."
Justin McElroy•Blood donation segment
"The gay clubs in the 90s set the culture for the rest of us."
Demetri Pompey•Eurovision playlist discussion
Full Transcript
It's MFD Spring Break Spectacular 2025. I'm Dave Holmes and this is the globally famous Max Fund blog. 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. This is the biggest MFD Spring Break in the network's history and it's going to be wet, wild, and retro. This MFD Spring Break we're paying tribute to the 90s, celebrating the decades music, movies, and pop culture as only Max Fund 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. Our first stop is Basel, Switzerland, where this year's Eurovision Song Contest will take place. I hear it very faintly, somebody say, what's Eurovision? I have the Eurovangelus hosts here to explain it to you. Demetri will start with you. The short version is Europe's competing nations all pick a song and an artist. They send it to the host city and they all can be in an amazing showdown to find out what's the best song in Europe that year. Oh yeah, Oscar, anything to add? It's the gay Super Bowl. Just a bunch of spectacle, a bunch of lights, a bunch of good times. Oscar, thank you for pointing out that it is lit. They don't have it in the dark like some song contest. Jeremy? My standard line for describing what Eurovision is is that it is street fighter but with music. Now I found out, the three of you, we're going to host the world's largest dance party at the Dance Pavilion sponsored by Dunkeroo's and Hollister. So I was a little jealous. 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 before you take the stage as a three-headed DJ. Can you give us a little preview of a spring break appropriate Eurovision songs that you have selected to play and why? It's a shame people can't see the three-headed DJ costume. Yeah, pretty cool. I should let our Eurovision experts take the stage first. Let's kick it off the right way as we stand next to the river Rhine. I think there's no better song for your Eurovision spring break playlist than of course, Greece 2001 with Die For You by Antique. We have future Eurovision winner Eleanor Paparizu 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. That is an excellent lead-off clip. Dimitri, who's got next? Listen, when I think about spring break, I think about MTV spring break. I think people in scantily clad bathing suits and cancun sort of partying. 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. I'm picking U.A. just a little bit from the UK 1996 by the one, the only Gina G. The feelings are right. It's great. I'm going to find up on somebody in a consensual way. The vibes are correct. I love that. 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 and to get too much further than that, but that's enough. Counts. But as we know, as we know, the gay clubs in the 90s set the culture for the rest of us. So when it was cool at the gays, it was cool with everybody. 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. 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 Tumba. Amazing. If this does not get your party going, like I don't know what to tell you. The party's dead. This came in second place and it's also a great anti-Russia imperialism song. So we love that as well. And your face, Putin. Never more topical than right now. I would like to slide one in if I could. Dave, of course. You're, you're, you're, you're evangelist too. Who knows, Spring Break better than Dave Holmes. Well, that's very true. There's a song from, I believe the year was 1973 to Eurovision winner and it really encapsulates what the whole thing is. It was 1975. It was 1975. Do you know what I'm going to say? I'm assuming you're going to go with Ding-a-dong. You know that's right. 1975 from. That was from Netherlands. Netherlands. Netherlands. And I know the line is a big hit, but they, it really sounds like Ding-a-dong listened to it. Maybe it's a bigot. Even when your lover is gone, gone, gone. Ding-a-dong listened to it. Maybe it's a bigot. Even when your lover is gone, gone, gone. Ding, ding, ding, dong. But I love it. It makes no sense. And, and it's, it's so 1973 or five, it's, it's everything. I prefer maybe it's a bigot. That's funnier to me. Honestly, it's something we're all saying to ourselves. When we meet someone new. Ugh, maybe it's a bigot. It's happening a lot these days. It is happening a lot these days. 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. What are your, what are your closing bangers, Jeremy? Boy, okay. I am, I am the resident rock fan at Eurovision. And obviously pop and rock have a, have a symbiosis that it goes back many, many decades. But never has it been more truly expressed at Eurovision than in 2006 with Lordy's Hard Rock Hallelujah. Just imagining hitting a high right when Hard Rock Hallelujah drops in. I don't know. It feels pretty good to me. I like it. Oscar? Great pick. Okay, this is going to be a controversial one because this one just was just released. And okay, I know what this is. It's the song that I keep coming back to. If you want people to dance, the crescendo is happening and you want people to get horny and laugh a little, giggle a little bit. I'm going for the Malta entry of this year's Eurovision 2025. I'm talking about Mariana Conte Cont, spelled K-A-N-T, which is Maltees for sing. Singing, she's serving singing. But she does, the chorus does go like this, do re mi fa so so s**t. And it is... She's serving singing. She's serving singing, but she's also serving. If that isn't a song to get people up, that is going to do it for me. Okay, go on Malta. Absolutely. Dmitri? Look, like you said, our excitement is beat. Our hearts are beating like a drum. 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. Can you feel the rhythm in my heart, the beat's going Doom Tech Tech, always out of life, there's no name, it feels like there's no way back. I love that. Oh, of course. Doom Tech Tech. Of course. You end your playlist with Doom Tech Tech, everyone's walking out happy. Oh, I love it. I love it. I need this playlist in my life right now. Good news, we got it waiting for you on Spotify. We'll put it in the show notes. Love it. Dave, you only got one. Why do you end this, Dave? You finish up the playlist. I unabashedly love it. I don't remember the year, but I know Sweden. Man's Zermalov's Heroes. 2015. Heroes. When I'm out running and my energy begins to flag a little bit, guess what puts the wind back in my sails? Mons. Mons. 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. Thank you very much for taking the time to chat with me right before the biggest event of your careers. Oh yeah, we got to get into our three-headed DJ costume. Oh, yes. Yep, you got to do it right now. Coming up, we'll check in with Hal Lublin, who's hanging out at the 90s pop culture appreciation cabana. Pele speaks righteous. Sister Zena says funky. How bizarre. How bizarre. How bizarre. But first, it's show versus show versus show versus show. As go fact yourself, Jay Keith Van Stratten hosts an epic trivia showdown with secretly incredibly fascinating Alex Schmidt. And histories of nerd mysteries, Brenda Snell. Let's learn everything's Tom Lumb and from just the zoo of us, Ellen Weatherford. All right, the person who gets the most questions correct will have gotten the most questions correct. Here's how it's going to work. I'm going to ask you a question. If you know the answer, say the first word in your show name and the first one to call out can guess first. Please wait for me to call on you and let's practice our buzz in words. Ellen, what's your buzz in word? Alex, I'm going to go with Sif because it's fast. Sif, Brenda, secret and Tom. Let's. All right, here is your first question. Here we go. The X-Men belong to a long line of fantastic characters which started with the human torch in 1939 from Timely Publications. Timely's name changed to Atlas comics in the 1950s and it changed to what name in 1961? Secret. What's secret? I heard first. Marvel. Marvel is correct. The secret is on the board. Very nice job, Brenda. Here is your next question. Cheers has one of television's most memorable theme songs written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo. Although it's known as The Theme From Cheers, what is the actual title of the theme song? Secret. Secret. Is it called where everybody knows your name or no? Well, this is the part where you answer instead of ask. So if you would phrase that as an answer. Is it not Jeopardy Rules? No, no, not Jeopardy Rules. Oh, we're just on Jeopardy Rules. Is it where everybody knows your name? It is where everybody knows your name. Secret running away with it so far. Two to nothing, to nothing, to nothing. Let's see if the others can get on the board. Oh, who here loves sports? That's what I thought. I'm wearing a baseball hat. You are, okay. On March 10th, 1955, The Zamboni made its debut in what professional sports league? That's just... That's, I heard first. The NHL. That is correct, Tom. And let's learn everything are on the board. The National Hockey League. Fun fact, Zamboni is a registered trademark of the Zamboni company and they are very protective of their trademark. Here's your next one. 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? Just. Secret. Just, I heard. Klingon. Klingon is correct. And I can't believe we had that much of a delay regarding a Star Trek question. There's a lot of Star Trek aliens, okay? Yeah, there are. That's true. It goes, it loops back around. If you know too much, then you're like, well, it could be. Exactly. I was on a mind palace about the folians. I was like lost somewhere. Yeah. 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? So, I think that was Alex, yes? The treasury. That is correct. $10 founding father for secretary of treasury. Treasury your state. Treasury your state. Treasury. All right. Here's your next question. According to one of TV's Twilight Zone's openings, you're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of what? Secret. Secret. I literally just listened to this, but of mind? Mind. That is my answer. That is your answer. The confidence is growing. And with good reason, that is correct. And sound of of mind. This 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. Was that a coincidence or did we conspire to help you get that answer correct? This goes all the way to the top. All the way. Twilight Zone episode. Here's your next question. 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? Just. Secret. I heard just first. E. More specific, please. Silent E. Silent E is the answer we were looking for. That is the wonderful song with wonderful animation by the wonderful Tom Lehrer. What is the proper term for the motion cats make by rhythmically alternating their paws pushing in and out against a pliable object? Needing. Needing is correct. Yes. Needing otherwise known as making biscuits. Making biscuits, yes. It's one of my favorite cute things that kiddies do. I like that it's still a baking term. I thought it was going to be much more scientific or allergy or something. All right, let's move on to our next question. This one has to do with Canada and food. In the early part of the 2000s, thieves stole 3,000 tons of what Canadian food stuff valued at $18.7 million. Of course, that's Canadian dollars. Let's. Oh, Canadian dollars. Never mind. No, maple syrup. Maple syrup is correct. That's right. 3,000 tons of maple syrup. Fun fact, Canada has a cartel that controls over 70% of the world's supply of maple syrup. But I know a guy if you want to take. He makes blue. He makes blue maple syrup. Yeah, it's right. It's pure. So pure. All right, here's our next question. The over World War II breaking out in Europe led some handbags to be designed with a stylish compartment to hold what life-saving device? Just. Just. A knife. A knife incorrect, but that definitely is handy in New York. Sif. Sif. Bigger knife. That's right. They would say, now that's a knife. Yeah. Yeah. No, any other guesses? Let's. Let's. A gas mask? Gas mask. That's ridiculous and correct. Oh, that's right. That's right. It seems the gas mask is mightier than the knife. I love playing rock, paper, gas mask. Yes. That's right. Respirators or gas masks were part of a line of luxury handbags that were designed and sold near World War II. Excuse me. Are you wearing the Chanel gas mask? Yeah, I am. Who are you wearing? Who looks old? All right, let's move on. Here's some questions about improv comedy. He was an acclaimed writer, director, producer and actor. She isn't acclaimed writer, director, producer and actor. And together they're probably the greatest improv duo of all time whose comedy records made the pop music charts and won the Grammy. Who are they? Sif. Sif. Nichols and May. That is correct. Yes. We also would have accepted May and Nichols. Of course is correct. The Grammy winning comedy duo. Any fans of Breaking Bad here? Well, let's see how you do anyway on this. I made that reference about the blue thing. So Tom, fight your way on. Fake fan. Fake fan. Fake fan. 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. 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? Let's let's I think you were in first. Yeah, you're in first. I was going to buzz in the moment you said house. I knew what this was going to be. This is throwing pizzas on the roof. That is correct. Yes. Exactly. Yes. Please do not throw pizzas on the roof. Please bring them to my doorstep. All right. Another TV question. While the TV show Roseanne gained acclaimed for its depiction of a working class family season nine of the show depicted the same family as incredibly wealthy. How did the family come upon this sudden fortune? Secret. Secret. Um, Roseanne won the lottery. That is correct. Yes. You won the question and Roseanne won the lottery. Hey, let's get a score update as we head into the final friendship questions. 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. A very close game. Anybody could win. We probably know it's not going to be one of these people. All right. Here we go with our next question. I didn't say the name, but you know, directed it to me and I'm okay with it. No, that's nice. Again, the stakes could not be lower. Much of the film, Ed Wood involves the making of what critics Michael and Harry Medved would later call the worst film ever made. What sci-fi film featuring Criswell, Vampira and Bello Lugosi do we get to see come to life? Sif. Is this one planned nine for Matter Space? It is planned nine for Matter Space. Very nice. Very nice job. The musical Les Miserables is based on the novel Les Miserables published in 1862. Who is the author of that novel? Secret. Just secret. It is. Oh my gosh. I blanked on it. I relent. Ellen, you were the next one in Hugo. Victor Hugo is correct. 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. In doing so, what name does Jan memorably repeat three times? Sif. Sif. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. That is correct, correct, correct. I think it was Bloody Mary. I was like, I was like, when he said that, then she came. Oh, God, Marcia. Oh, no, I'm falling down the stairs. She pushed me down stairs. As long as you don't say Beetlejuice or Candyman, I think we're going to be in the same place. I'm going to be in the same place. I'm going to be in the same place. I'm going to be in the same place. I'm going to be in the same place. I'm falling down the stairs. She pushed me down stairs. As long as you don't say Beetlejuice or Candyman, I think we're okay. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are all tied up at four. All tied up. Everybody is currently in the lead. Oh, my God. And it is going to come down to this one last question. In Ontario, Canada, more than 75% of milk is sold in what type of container? Secret. Bags. Bags is correct. Congratulations, Brenda. We're going to try and make all of this on our podcast. I didn't know I was going to dance. Congratulations, Brenda. Good job, Brenda. You did it. You did it. Oh, this very important, very exciting trivia showdown. Congratulations. Well, hey, everybody, I want to thank you, Tom, Lom, Ellen Weatherford, Brenda Snell, and Alex Schmidt. Now, where can listeners who aren't here with us at the Long Beach Convention Center promenade meeting room find you? Ellen, why don't you go ahead and tell us? Ask the Zoo of Us on Maximum Fun wherever you get podcasts. And Alex? Yeah, secretly, incredibly fascinating. If you search secretly on a podcast app, that's the red one. And Tom. Well, let's learn everything. We did a topic about bagged milk with a Canadian. If you want to learn some more about that. Amazing. And Brenda. You find me in Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries on Maximum Fun. Excellent. And I'm Jake Heath Van Stratten from GoFact Yourself here at Maximum Fun. Hey, thanks so much for everybody who supports us in the Max Fun Drive. You can go to maximabun.org slash join. All right, don't go anywhere. Listeners, there's more show right after this. We got to go to break. But when I come back, I will sit down for an exclusive interview with Auburn College students and guy who died, Thatcher Sawyer. I was pronounced legally dead and I saw heaven itself. But first, here's Mike Cabellon on stage at the 90s pop culture appreciation cabana appreciating four non blondes. What's up? So I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed just to get it all out. You know, what's in my head? And I am feeling a little peculiar. And so I wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath. I get real high and I scream from the top of my lungs. What's going on? Mike Cabellon, everybody. 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I button this up for business, but the business is eating pancakes and building log cabins. Call the old stuff club now at 1-800-555-STUFF. 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. He's a little bit of a Spring Break celebrity. Please welcome Thatcher Sawyer. Hi Thatcher. Oh, Dave, it's great to be here. I can't wait to share my story with everybody. We can't wait to be shared in that story. Yeah, go sandpipers. Go sandpipers. We're the number one school in rowing, lacrosse, and shorts. Yeah, 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? Well, Dave, during Spring Break last year, I legally died. Thatcher. I was pronounced legally dead, and I saw heaven itself. Okay, back me up a few steps, Thatcher. What happened? What were the circumstances of your Spring Break death? I was a tragic victim of mixing. Obviously, I know this now, but I just want to say it to all the young people out there. If you're partying, if you're throwing down, just watch for mixing, because I, unfortunately, mixed Keela, Celcius, and being on a balcony that collapsed. Wow, that's a difficult combination. Because of that, I was legally dead for 14 minutes, but was brought back to life by heroic EMTs. They're the real heroes. But 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 after the party's over. I have so many questions about the afterlife. I'm just going to start. What does this smell like? I mean, it's just got this wonderful smoky smell, right? Like a smoky sulfur charcoal. You ever catch your flesh on fire? You ever catch your hair or flesh on fire? 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. Just like gorgeous smells in heaven. Wow. Oh, God. Yeah, so a little bit like a fire pit or a Korean barbecue, but human flesh. Yeah, human flesh, exactly. It's kind of got a stench, a kind of a reek. I was into it. The music playing in heaven, is it what you're listening to when you die? Or is there special heaven after like music? You know, I assumed I would be up there jamming with the greats. I play a little guitar, Dave. You know that I play a little guitar. I didn't know that, but I did assume. 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. Oh, I love that. No matter what's playing on the stereo, it's a song of revolution, Dave. And it speaks so directly to your own personal experiences. Exactly. I've had a lot of hardship. You know, Bob Marley, he gets me. 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. There was this really cool guy though, Genghis Khan. Oh, I mean, yeah, I've heard that name. So you're on Survivor or Big Brother? No, I think he was like a leader or something. Not a history guy. I'm more of just like a school of life kind of guy. He's great with percussion and he had this friend there, Vlad the Impaler. Is he a TikToker? He's a TikToker. 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. 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. It was kind of right up your alley the afterlife. Oh, yeah. But something, something pulled you back. I'm just curious what that was. Yeah, you know, I think I just realized that I had a lot of unfinished business to take care of here on earth. 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. It was her cousin who's really cool, who's kind of like a cousin to me in many ways. I have a lot of great ideas for apps. So I think I like wanted to make sure that like I get some of these apps off the ground. And of course, Dave Matthews Band is touring in the fall. So I just wanted to come back for that. And now this is so exciting. Maximum Fun and Mirror Max together are getting into the film business. And our first film is a dramatization of your story. Yeah, it was just like really exciting. Of course, like my uncle's an executive at Mirror Max. So he like fast tracked it. Just a really, really good script from Diablo Cody. 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. 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. And Thatcher, you brought a scene. Can you set it up for us? Yeah, this is the pivotal scene where the heroic EMTs bring me back from heaven. Can you just tell me if my friend is even alive? I'm doing compressions. Come on, dude. Take a breath. Think about the memes that you might go on to send to your friends and family. Look at those madras slacks. I see his eyes fluttering. There's life in those eyes. Yeah, man. Incredible. Thatcher Sawyer's Oops I Fell and Died comes out this May. Cannot wait. Everybody go see it. What are Clint and Justin McElroy up to in Daytona Beach? Be positive that it won't hurt. Right. And give me your blood. Still ahead, the segment MFD's lawyers don't want us to do. It's gonna be wild. 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? Because a friend didn't let me mix tequila and Celsius and step out onto a wobbly balcony in South Beach. Friends don't let other friends mix on balconies. Hey there, I am Dave Holmes and you are experiencing the MFD 2025 Spring Break Spectacular. I'm at the Fruit by the Foot Party Animal Pavilion in South Padre Island, where hundreds of party animals have been competing all day long for our first annual Golden Chalice Trophy. And you can hear just how wild it is. We're down to our final contestants and the winner today will be going home with this rad Golden Chalice filled with the party animal's favorite snack. So without further ado, let's say bonjour to our remaining handlers from Dr. Game Show, Manolo Moreno, your evangelists, Jeremy Bentz. Let's learn everything's Tom Lumb and from just the zoo of us, Ellen Weatherford. First up, Manolo Moreno. 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. Who's your friend here? I brought a party pig. His name is Pigachad. Here he is right now. There he is. What's his name again? Pigachad. He just said that he was annoyed by the flight because people kept telling him to go under the seat. He said, yeah, he said he wanted to fly the plane. Wow. You know what? We could do a lot worse these days. So I understand you actually speak pig. That's impressive. Yeah, I mostly understand it. I'm too embarrassed. You don't speak it. You do. Yeah, I interpret it. You comprehend and read it. You mostly go like where's the bathroom, stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, which is weird because my pig likes traveling. Yeah, he likes traveling. He just came back from France. And he learned some French if you want to hear what he said. He said, le, le, le, le, le. And yeah, that does mean where is the bathroom? He is multilingual. So when did you realize Manolo that Pigachad liked a party? I heard him down the street at his party houses. He liked singing this song. And that's when I knew. Jeremy, Ben, who you got with you? And why do they like to party? These are bonobos, Dave. Bonobos. Yeah, our closest non-human relative, but also animals known to party. Wow. What do you mean by that? Okay, so these animals, they're very close to humans. They're another, they're a fellow primate. They're one of two animals within the chimp family, because bonobos are type of chimp. 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. Jeremy, what are your bonobos named? When I first met them, they told me their names are Manny and Tess. Manny and Tess. So when did you realize that your bonobos like to throw down? Well, you know, once you see, you know, a big community of bonobos in action, you realize that like, oh, they like, they like to get it on. They have sex for pleasure. They do it frequently. They do it with multiple partners, but they also are known to have long friendships and lengthy relationships as well. They're just like a good time gang, bonobos. All right. You seem like you actually did some work and research, Jeremy. Ben, I'm taken by surprise. Tom Lomb, who you got with you? 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, the sloth as my party animal. Sure. Wow. People don't have to know they're nocturnal. So they'll be up all night. 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? I'll rock with whatever we're rocking with. That's so important to the art of partying is resilience. Tom Lomb, does your sloth have a name? Also, Picachad, weirdly. One of you's got to be like Picachad A and one of you has to be like Picachad S. Yeah, like on The Bachelor. Finally, Ellen Weatherford, who's with you and why do they like to party? Well, I've brought only two to 300 of my closest friends. I've brought a colony of Western honeybees, Apis Malifera. So, you know, I feel like there's no bigger bummer than getting to a party and realizing that it's like all dudes. So I figured I would bring, you know, a few hundred females because 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. Some fly honeys. Now talk to me about their partying strategies and likes and dislikes. They are extremely social. They bring snacks to the party when they collect pollen. They, you know, attach pollen to their body and then they process it into something called B-bread. So they are bringing snacks to share. They also communicate with dance moves, which I feel like there's nothing more party than that. So true. We will be back later this hour from the fruit by the foot party pavilion to see which of these competitors will go home with the Golden Chalice. 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 belt, but it's banned instead of high school. They will review our contestants and come to a decision. Stick around for more MFD Spring Break. Personal Injury Lawyer If you think life would be easier with millions of dollars in your bank account and feeling back in your extremities, you're right. I've won hundreds of negligence lawsuits and gotten my clients huge payouts. 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You win the Fruit Gushers Golden Chalice. Wow. So what would Pikachuad like to fill it with? Or beer. Beer. Boy, this guy likes to party. Ellen, you were so close and yet so far. Do you think you'll try again next year? Yeah, for sure. The colony is always here. It keeps the colony never goes away. This colony will never collapse, baby. Stick around for more MFD Spring Break. 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. We are in the Orville Redenbacher Extreme Amounts of Movie Theater Butter Microid Popcorn Screening Room for Maximum Film. It's Draya Clark and Alonzo Girolde. Welcome. Hello. How are you? How's your spring break? This is my first real spring break. So it's a it's a rum spring energy for me. I'm very excited to be here. She's already had her hair braided. And you are actually holding a bottle of Malibu rum in your hands. Yeah. It's a sponsored rum spring. It's a spiced rum spring. Welcome to the both of you and welcome also from the Flop House. Dan McCoy. Hello. Welcome, Dan. Hello. Draya, Alonzo and Dan are compiling a list of their picks for the most culturally impactful movies of the 90s. Let's get started. Alonzo. Well, I mean, 1999 obviously is quite rightly pointed at as a movie as a year that really like changed film a lot and through a lot of, you know, kind of wrenches in the system of big studio filmmaking. And you had a lot of Indio tours making these big breakthroughs and going wild. So I'm going to make the case that even though it was not a success in theaters, Fight Club really kind of set a new tone of like dude speak and, you know, 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. The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. That poster on the wall of some of the worst guys I ever hooked up with. Exactly. You see that bar of soap you turn around and leave. Oh yeah, you gotta go. Dram? I would say 1995's Clueless. 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 step brother that really cinema had been begging for. So wrong but so right. Right? Like we were really all rooting for her to get with her step brother and why not? Because it's Paul Rudd. What's with you? What do you mean? So quiet. Like they launched a thousand ships of stars. Everybody knows one line now of the song Rolling the Toys. What is not to love about Clueless? Find me someone who has a dream of getting a yellow plaid little suit set and I'll find you a liar. Damn right. I love Clueless but I do remember even at the time like being like is no one else noticing this about their I mean I know that they're not blood relations but no one seems to have a problem with it at all. He's playing someone who is the Austin character was raised in like the neighboring estate so it's someone she'd known her whole life was not related to her by marriage or otherwise. Dan McCoy how about you? I think this is less groundbreaking than more just like trend setting in that it collaged a much of stuff that we hadn't really seen put together before in that pulp fiction from 94 like brought this sort of humor and glibness to a pulp crime story in a way that you know is not utterly new but felt very trend setting 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. You know what they call a quarter pound of a cheese in Paris? They don't call it a quarter pound of a cheese? Oh man they get the metric system they would know what a quarter pound of a cheese is. What do they call it? They call it the Royale with cheese. And and that's all they got from it they didn't get any of the other skill. The punchline is a gunshot. Yeah. Saw it the night it came out in New York City at the Angelica Theater the subway roared underneath us and rumbled our seats during the shot of adrenaline scene. For free? And everyone like literally everybody was like the original D-Box. It was bad. Or DX. It was bad news but I loved it of course. Okay to recap so far we have clueless fight club and finally pulp fiction. Stay tuned for the complete list. Stick around for more show. Do you ever wonder how British people celebrate spring break? I do so I'll catch up with Ella MacLeod, John Luke Roberts, Ella Hubbard and Caroline Rowe. 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? Who are the party people? Timmy Mallet he had a hammer and he'd hit you on the on the head and he had a hit with the song Teeny Weenie itsy bitsy yellow polka dot bikini. That's our party that's our party guy. Okay okay. The similar who did the song Agadou? That's a classic. I think a lot of our parties are just unfortunately just bad people now. You know I think like Russell Brandt was a big one. Sure but I think of him as American now. He's been there for long enough. So true he's your problem. Yeah yeah that's a real good point. I would say anyone like associated with like Love Island or like do I mean like they come out of the island and then they do the like the Taui group. The Taui group they come out and they do the like uni freshers circuit where they do like club appearances at dodgy night clubs where they like party with 18 year olds which you know. No no no no the Chuckle Brothers did the university tour. Just putting that out there. I'm sorry who are the Chuckle Brothers? Oh you can work it out. No I can't. The law is too deep. That's so cute. They're just a kid they're a duo for a 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 and that was the height of children's British humour. 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 give it up for them all. But also they come from the sort of Blackpool Working Men's Club comedy tradition. So they're very much and also they have two brothers who are also less successful a less successful double act. There's two Chuckle Brothers who aren't in the Chuckle Brothers they're other brothers but also one of the Chuckle Brothers is now dead which is sad. Oh yeah that was really sad. Which set of the Chuckle Brothers died? 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 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 like. Q was extraordinary. It was nice. But these characters these people would often end up at like freshers events or club nights for students and they would have like a DJ set or something like that or just like a meet and greet in a club. Yeah. Howard from the Halifax. Yeah. 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. I saw Dick and Dom. No. That's a good one. That's a good looking. That's a good looking. That's good. That's doing that. This is another children's duo presenter team. Apparently we love them DJing. We love them DJing. Tracy Beaker, Danny Haram. Oh right really. She did. Dick and Dom were famous for going into public places and yelling like bogeys really loudly. That was like that shit. Remember. Wow. That was good. Are we selling the UK to you? The UK like club scene? I feel like just before we entirely move off the subject we do need to give a special shout out to Sunsex and Suspicious Parents. I think it's really important that we acknowledge the existence of that show. So Sunsex and Suspicious Parents is a 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 Zanty Magaluf type holidays 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 and obviously I don't know they're too drunk or stupid to question. Yeah. The the the wisdom of all of their act is being captured but anyway 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 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. It's great. Really classic. Oh yes. My YouTube to watch is growing and growing. You're going to have a great time. I'm having I'm having 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 but as I'm hearing them through and I'm looking at you Dave I'm feeling like so alienated. I can't believe that this is that this is all true. This is all true though. It's all true. And that's the end like I'm enough of an Anglophile to know Black Lace did Agadu. There's no one for me to know that and yet all of this stuff is a level deeper than anything. Even Black Lace have forgotten. I have certainly I also like I have so many questions about what that song means or is or what a push pineapple indicates and I just it's it's for next year's Max Fund Drive for sure. But for now let's check back in with how we're having a great time here at the 90s pop culture appreciation. Good bad. I'm here with Austin Taylor. We've already seen a couple come up and reenact one of Ross and Rachel's breakups. And another guy who wandered in from the street was already reciting most of 1992's Darkman, the Sam Raimi film. Austin tell us about the fun you're having and some of the stuff you've seen today. No it's been great. It's been it's been wild. There's someone came in and he did an entire recreation of the N'Juic Hurtles apartment fight scene. They had four Deutrus' Hurtles like 15 guys as ninjas. It was nothing. They did set the building on fire but we put it out. It's fine now. It's good. We're good now. Yeah. Only three people went to the hospital. We call that a good time here in the cabana. Hell yeah. Hell yeah brother. Coming up to the stage now Sierra Cato. Welcome Sierra. I like big butts and I cannot lie. You 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. Let's go now to Jake Heath Van Stratten at the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood. Which Max Fawn host will prevail in our music quiz spectacular? Your evangelist Jeremy Bent? Sleeping with celebrities and depressed mode host John Moe? Or Primers Christian Dwayne? All right we're going to begin. 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. And the first one to get the answer correct gets the answer correct. So let's start by practicing. Let's get your buzz in words Christian. Go ahead. Primer. And Jeremy? I guess they'll say Euro. And John? Depress. Okay those are your buzzer sounds. Here we begin with the first question. Between 1990 and 1999 over 30 hip hop albums reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart. 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? Depress. Depress. Can't touch this. You can't touch this. You can't touch this. You did add the letter U which does make it correct. Yes that is a point for John Moe. Very good we're on our way. All right here's our second question. 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 has worked with the band Oingo Boingo. Who is it? Euro. Primer. Ooh I think I hit Euro first. Euro Jeremy go ahead. That is Danny Elfman I believe. That is Danny Elfman. Jeremy is on the board with the points. Speaking of music in movies the movie Dirty Dancing didn't just do well at the box office. It also won an Academy Award for what song? The Euro. Depress. I've had the time of my life. I know you have but what is the answer to this question? And I've never felt this way before. Nor have I John. Never felt this way. I swear. There's a point for I think it's the truth. Yes we could keep going and yet Michelle not. I'll go with all to you. Thank you. Hey baby. Hey don't put me in a corner in your zoom window. I want to be right in the center. Here is your next question. 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. Take the lead singer of the band them who had a hit with the garage rock classic Gloria but later had even bigger hits who was the singer and songwriter of Gloria. Depress in right away. John. Van Morrison. Van Morrison is correct. Van Morrison of course with the hits Domino, Tupelo Honey and Brown Eyed Girl among others. 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. Yuro. I heard Yuro first. Keith Moon. Keith Moon is correct and we're back on track. We did an entire segment on that album on Go Fact Yourself. All right let's ask about Prince from Minnesota so John no pressure. The first Prince song to reach Billboard's Hot 100 was 1978's Soft and Wet. The next one to make the charts hit number 11 in 1979. The lyrics of the song begin I ain't got no money. I ain't like those other guys you hang around. What is the name of this hit song? Yuro. I want to be your lover. Thank you so much Jeremy but no yes that is the correct answer as well. Trapped again. Trapped again. I did not do those on purpose but it is kind of fun to have it. All right here is another Prince song. After this we'll get a score recap as we head into the next section of questions. Prince wrote some amazing lyrics on the album Purple Rain but not all of them have been heard correctly. 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 Gaye and the kids. What is the correct opening line of this song? Depressed. 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? I'm guessing by the silence you do not. No I think we'll give a half a point to John. It's dig if you will a picture of you and I engaged. Oh I was like I think he got it but no good grammar Prince. Yeah so that was all very important of course by I he meant the picture of an I and by you he meant the letter U. He meant the letter U. Yes. Kiss the rock band kiss. Of course. Let's see what the scores are as we head into this next round of questions. Well we don't need to look at the scores. 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. So it still is anyone's game technically. All right let's move on to our next question. This one is about hip hop. Only one hip hop artist had three albums reached number one on the billboard 200 charts in the 1990s. Tupac Shakur aka Tupac aka Machiavelli what were any one of those three chart topping albums? Primer. Primer. All eyes on me. That is correct and Christian from Primer is on the board. On the board. The others are Me Against the World and the Don Caluminati the Seven Day Theory. All right here's another one. 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? Depress. Depress trying to add to the lead. Respect. Thank you again but no yes respect is the answer and respect for your knowledge of soul music. Oh it couldn't be a show on max fun without mentioning Weird Al so here we go. Weird Al Jankovic recorded several parodies of Michael Jackson songs all with Michael's blessing but there was one song that Al wanted to record that Michael did not want him to. What was the song that Michael thought was too important to be parody? Euro. Euro. Up. Black and white. Not quite correct is anyone want to jump in and steal? Black or white. Christian he's giving it to you. Oh good good Primer Primer Primer. Primer. Black or white. That is correct let's give a half a point to each one I think Jeremy set you up for that. Yeah sorry about that. Yes wrong wrong conjunction. All right let's go back to hip-hop 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 at what award ceremony does escalation take place uh DePresh John Moe. BET awards. That is incorrect Christian or Jeremy. Primer. Primer. Is it the source awards? It is the source awards a nice steal for Primer. The scores can only be different than they were before. Very curious to see the recap as we head into the final few. Oh the scores really have changed we've got Christian now with two and a half, Jeremy with three and a half and John with four and a half. Very very close and the stakes are so high. I forgot to mention what they are. The Beatles' Longest Studio Song is on their longest album name either the song or the album. Primer. Primer. The White Album self-titled. The White Album self-titled is correct that is the longest album Christian moving now into a tie for second place. Revolution number nine the Longest Studio Song by Length. Finish this lyric from Hamilton about the Federalist Papers. John Jay got sick after writing five. James Madison wrote 29. Hamilton wrote Euro. Euro. The other 51. I'm sorry can you say it though as it said in the show. The other 51. Thank you so much we're going to give you a bonus half point for that journey. All right here's your next question. Billy Joel's first Billboard number one hit was a single from the Billboard number one album Glass Houses in which he inquires about what's wrong with the clothes he's wearing. What is the name of this song? Depression. Depression. I listened to a lot of Billy Joel when I was depressed too. Yeah no I'm just narrating my mood and having to listen to Billy Joel music. Still rock and roll to me. Not exactly do you want to give another chance. It's still rock and roll. That is correct yes we must have our contraction. Do you contract we are contractually obligated for that contraction. Very nice. In the 2020s she received a Kennedy Center honors. In the 2010s she won an Emmy for producing. In the 2000s she was nominated for an Oscar for acting. And in the 1990s she won a Grammy for rapping. Who is this New Jersey born sensation. Euro. Euro. Is this Cher. It is not Cher no not the rapping Grammy that we were looking for. Depress. Depress. Queen Latifa. Yes that is correct she won her Grammy for rapping on UNI TY. And that spells unity. All right here's another question regarding California and music. 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. In what county did all these bands come from? Primer. Primer. Orange County baby. Orange County that is correct baby. They might be giants were nominated for a Tony Award for a song they wrote for a Broadway musical about what absorbent animated character. Euro. Euro I heard first. I believe that's SpongeBob SquarePants. That is correct. Oh we're getting down to just our last few questions. Let's see if we can get a score update again. Oh here we go oh my gosh I think we're just down to our last two or three questions and the scores well they could be closer. I was going to say they could not be closer but they are pretty close. 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. Who will win the shrimp? We'll find out after these two questions. The band Chicago earned a Grammy nomination for contributing one song to what famine relief album? Depreshe. Euro. Depreshe got in first. USA for Africa. More specifically we are the world. That is correct and you adding to your lead John Moe now. I want that shrimp. Yeah. I haven't eaten in 48 hours man I'm hungry. Okay this will be your final question. This will determine maybe who gets second place. Here's your final question of the game and you know what this will be worth. Three points which will decide the game. For three points what jazz fusion legend is a noted Scientologist contributing to space jazz? The soundtrack of the book Battlefield Earth. John for the win. Chick Korea. Chick Korea is correct. Congratulations John Moe you win the shrimp. Oh I'm going to share it with everybody. Thank you. Wow 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. All right well that does it for us here at the Hard Rock Cafe at the Iconics on Set Strip and while you're partying hey everybody remember wear sunscreen and please stay hydrated and stay safe. I don't know what's coming up after this but I know you won't want to miss it here on Maximum Fun. Go to maximumfun.org slash join and support all of these wonderful shows in the Max Fun Drive. I'm Jake E. Fanstraten see you later. MFD Spring Break 2025 I am here in Daytona Beach on the Bud Ice blood donation stage with Justin and Clint McElroy. That picked that bag up man it's leaking everywhere. Oh god yeah yeah if we could uh Dave you're watching your Steppen pal. Oh wow that'll come right out with a little vinegar. Hey Dave thanks for coming by. Thank you so much for having me Justin. Clint McElroy how are you doing? I am much better now thank you very much I'm back in my old hometown Daytona Beach. There it is must feel good to be home. It is it's good to be home because all my stuff's here. Yeah 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 on the beach. Now what what made you decide to take this step this year? Well I have been reading up a lot on the effects of young blood on older adults and that is so important to the Maxfun Drive network that I want to keep him going just as long as possible. So we have been asking all of our Maxfun 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. Yeah just a big old transfusion. And I've come up with a bunch of slogans too. Let's hear it. Don't be a negative person. Oh give me more blood. Be positive that it won't hurt. Right and give me your blood. It says at the bottom of all of them and give me your blood. Right blood it's not just for breakfast anymore. I'm workshopping that one. Now we're still coming along. So yeah it's we appreciate everybody Dave it's it's been a great success. Clint you look fantastic your skin is absolutely glowing. How many pints of young blood have you had today? I've had seven six of them voluntarily. Wow yeah that's which is great for dad a huge record. We have just been so appreciative of everybody donating to the Maxfun Drive and they're saying I wish I could do more 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 or you could come in here and give my dad a pint of your blood. You know some of your blood. Some of your blood. Now I'm going to tell you it is a windy day here on the beach. We are we are getting a good amount of sand in our eyes and mouths. Is that have you had a hygiene thing? Have you had any hygiene issues? Well this is that fast. I smell the hygiene thing coming thank you. You never you never you're failed to disappoint. Dad go ahead. Just the usual you know you get the gritty in the eyes and that keeps you from doing the gritty. Yeah but it doesn't bother you if you have grit and that's what my dad has. You could he could take a little dirt. You know what he's not picky about types either Dave. Any type you know whatever you got that is ready and willing. You got O. Got A.B. I've got an adapter for all of them so bring it on. I will tell you this the the sand is really kind of messing with my obligatory Dracula costume that I always wear at blood drives. And some people get the gag most most most don't. Yeah that's okay it's as long as the blood keeps flowing. Does it matter. Feel the need the need for bleed. That's me. 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 my brain went to a more 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 and need blood. If you find yourself with any extra pints at the end of the day is it possible that some of these might make their way to accident victims or people in search. Oh Dave. Oh Dave this is such a sensitive topic. Sweet hearted Dave. Yeah I mean just to start out Dave for starters it's never too early to start cycling out blood. 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 on the vitality even though I'm obviously much more healthy than my dad 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 not you know share. I mean because 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 of these. Yeah I'm glad you pointed out you are not scientists here at this blood donation. Ted 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. Well like a man of 69. Yeah this is this is all the field this is all the field. Camera if I were to switch over I would look like Gary Oldman at the end of the Dracula movie. It's a lot of Dracula themed content dad I'm worried the blood is starting to go to your brain. Yeah that's the good time yeah that's when it goes your brain. I wish you the taste for it and it's yeah it's never enough. Thank you for the compliments Dave I think I look pretty sharp. Yeah I only wish people could see how good I look. Now one benefit to donating blood especially at Spring Break is that you get buzzed a little bit quicker have you used that in any of your marketing material. 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 blood recreating Twinkies. It's important to eat sugar after you donate blood I've seen that on TV so that is something that I'm doing here but we are putting alcohol at cream into the Twinkies. I'm sorry you're gonna mention it we have a variety of snacks. That Dave wanted to ask a clarifying question about the alcohol at Twinkies. You're putting what kind of cream in the Twinkies. So it's a vodka cream Dave but it's only for folks who are interested in participating obviously you can get rum filled Twinkies or you know whatever sort of look where you want. Of legal age. Of legal age. Which here in Daytona Beach is 14. 14 yes we did bump it up last year thanks folks. Appreciate that that was the right move. It was a hard fight but 14's the right call Daytona Beach good job. But the other snacks we have are also aimed towards buffing you up building you up. Right. We've got screaming yellow zonkers. Yeah protein a lot of protein. Space food sticks we've got coogle. Dad got that dehydrated astronaut ice cream that's been a big hit today. We're moving a lot of units of that. People are starving after they give blood and they were willing to pay any price for these snacks so we've been doing huge business there too. Oh so the snacks are not free they need to be purchased right after you. You assume the snacks are free and much the same way you assume the blood's going to charity. You really highlighted our killer competitive advantage here Dave. People are going to assume we're doing a lot of great stuff that we are not anywhere in the ballpark. Your finger is on the pulse of America. And ironically yes. Yeah yeah just to find the blood. Yeah. So what do you have on your agenda once we wrap things up here at the blood donation tent. What other spring break activities. 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 lamb. I'm going to get out of here go go go start a fresh life for myself Dave. But I'm going to clean all the grit out of places where there should not be grit or sand. And then if there's any time I might I don't know smurf smurf I'm going to smurf a little bit on my smurf board. Um dad this is a family show. I watched the way with this with all this young blood. Maybe I'll try skim boarding you know where you toss it and then you jump on it and fall. You know honestly all I'm thinking in my head is what if this is how we find out. Click my video has been called a smurf sometime. No no what if what if it was just a slip and suddenly suddenly it was like wait a minute. It's like the end of the usual suspects it all comes together. I would love to believe that. I would love to believe that's true Dave that fire hose residuals I would not be here my man. I will guarantee you that I would be living in an island in the Balkans. I don't even know if the Balkans has islands but that's what I'd be doing. Living off that pop of smurf money I would have killed. Only one way to find out 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 but come on down Clint needs your blood Justin merely wants it and we'll be back with more MFD spring break 2025. We're channeling the 90s this MFD spring break. Drea Alonso and Dan are compiling a list of their picks for the most iconic or culturally impactful movies of the 90s so far we have Clueless Fight Club and finally Pulp Fiction. All right next on the list Alonso I would be remiss based on my personal brand to not bring up the new queer cinema and all this if I had to pick one though I think I'm going to go with 1994's Go Fish because that is a movie that I think represents the sort of 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 can actually maybe sell tickets to some straight people. We have totally different tastes in women. Are you saying I don't have discriminating tastes in women? I was a dyke when you were still a diverse kiddo. So to me it kind of feels like this tipping point between like your sort of Gregor Rocky you know Todd Haynes directing poison aesthetic and then your your later you know like trick and all over the guy and Jeffrey and and those movies that were very much kind of pitched today somewhat wider audience than just angry queer urbanites and it still holds up you know 30 plus years later it's still super charming and a lot of fun and and one of my one of my favorite queer films so yeah Go Fish. What else? Right the start of the 90s 91 Science of the Lambs you know draws on a lot of stuff that came before but I think really created the serial killer movie as it exists now sort of and unfortunately on the other like created the idea of like the brilliant serial killer. How is young Josh and the lovely Molly? They're always in my thoughts you know. He will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. 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. And finally Drea. All right I'm gonna say 1998's Rushmore. 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 color it introduced you to what's become a very iconic and consistent color palette framing device 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 Swartzman memorable nerdy complicated heartbreaking all sorts of wonderful things started the partnership with Bill Murray this continued through many films obviously Owen Wilson popping up again it's also quotable but like my favorite quote from that one would be when he sees Luke Wilson in his scrubs. I like your nurses uniform guy. These are OR scrubs. Oh are they. Which is something I say to people all the time and no one understands I'm quoting something. That's a big line in this house oh are they. Yeah yeah yeah. And there you have it. I for one am looking forward to rewatching all of these films in the Orville Reddenbacher extreme amounts of movie theater butter microwave popcorn screening room. Nope 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 because maybe you're going to be the one that saves me and after all you're my wonder wall. 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. And again for all of you listening and watching at home it's very easy to support your favorite Maxfun shows just go to maximumfun.org slash donate. And big thanks to all the hosts who took part in the MFD spring break 2025 spectacular. Jeremy Bent Oscar Montoya Dimitri Pompey Tom Lumb Ellen Weatherford Alex Schmidt Brenda Snell Drea Clark Alonso Durolde Dan McCoy Jordan Morris Manolo Moreno Ella Hubbard Caroline Roper Ella MacLeod John Luke Roberts Justin McElroy Clint McElroy Mike Cavalon Sierra Cato Hal Loveland Daniel Radford John Moe Christian Dwayneus Christian Dugay we'll see you all at the beach. Hey Dave if you're planning on coming back this way I beg that you not all this young blood is driven by my dad insane and he's super strong he is uprooting tits. Ah dad put it down put it down. To the extreme. No. Quick dad. Oh dudes. Dad that is Jesse Thorne he is a hero here put him down. All right I just love his ass god.