---
title: "Episode #26 \u2013 88 Minutes"
url: "https:\/\/www.flophousepodcast.com\/2008\/11\/episode-26-88-minutes\/"
date: "2008-11-09T19:17:00+00:00"
episode_number: 26
movie: "88 Minutes"
guests: "Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan"
---

# Episode #26 – 88 Minutes

It’s a new day in America, and what better way to celebrate the first African-American president than with Al Pacino’s thriller [88 Minutes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411061/)? What, you don’t understand why that’s appropriate? Maybe that’s because you’re racist. Meanwhile, Dan makes a baldfaced plea for sponsorship, Elliott proves his facility with numbers (as long as they’re in the titles of movies), and the ghost of Stuart looms large over the episode.

 0:00 – 0:30 – Introduction and theme.
 0:31 – 5:02 – We explain why we’re the dynamic duo this week, and talk about how much we miss Stuart. Also: we engage in the name-droppiest name dropping yet, as Elliott tells the story of the time he met PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA.
 5:03 – 32:52 – We talk about 88 Minutes, the movie that is a worse example of real-time filmmaking than Nick of Time, and a far worse example of post-mortem semen-swapping than Presumed Innocent.
 32:53 – 37:25 – Final judgments, plus a brief side-track into dream analysis.
 37:26 – 45:43 – The sad [bastards](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/) [recommend](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103270/).
 45:43 – 46:32 – We talk about Stuart some more. Jeez! Why don’t us guys get a room, already!
 46:33 – 49:03 – Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.

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 [Wikipedia synopsis of 88 Minutes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_minutes#Synopsis)