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Talk-show host Todd Linder Flohman took his program to sea for a week of relationship episodes, and a hurricane sank the ship. Now he drifts in a life raft with his last guests: Derlin Whittier, Derlin's girlfriend Shawna Munson, her pregnant mother Tammy, who is carrying Derlin's baby, and one member of the studio audience. With no food or water left, Shawna and Tammy keep bickering, the audience member stands to deliver a rambling plea about respect, and Derlin proposes to Tammy with a brooch and a box of chocolates he has secretly kept. The hidden food sets off a brawl, then another surprise reveal: Fabian, Derlin's secret lover, climbs aboard from the water and says he has been living on an island. When Fabian refuses to say where it is, Todd loses his temper and throws him overboard, then delivers a solemn closing thought about how everyone lives on a lifeboat. Derlin follows with a much cruder final thought of his own.
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You need to respect the baby, because life is precious, and God, and the Bible.
You stupid, petty, Prince-looking, no-island-remembering motherf***er!
I guess if you think about it, we all live on a lifeboat.
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- 00:00
Todd Linder Flohman
Eight days have passed since the hurricane sank our cruise ship in the waters off the Florida Keys. We are the only survivors. Derlin Whittier, his high school girlfriend, Shawna Munson, Tammy Munson, Shawna's mother and Derlin's secret lover who is having his baby, and one member of my studio audience, and me, Todd Linder Floman. Since that day, I've wondered if we ever should have taken my talk show out to sea for a week of shows about relationships.
- 00:30
Todd Linder Flohman
We are out of food and fresh water and cannot last long. All right, whose shift is it? Darlene, I think it's yours. Here, take the flare. I'm going to try to grab some shut-eye.
- 00:48
Shawna Munson
So cold and hungry.
- 00:50
Tammy Munson
We're all hungry.
- 00:51
Shawna Munson
Don't you be putting words in my mouth.
- 00:52
Tammy Munson
I'll put words wherever I want.
- 00:54
Todd Linder Flohman
Ladies, please, save your energy. Don't go there, please.
- 00:59
Why you always got to exactly...
- 01:01
Don't be yelling in my ear. Don't be yelling in my ear.
- 01:04
Tammy Munson
I got his baby in there.
- 01:05
Shawna Munson
How do you know it's his baby?
- 01:06
Because it's not mine.
- 01:07
Todd Linder Flohman
All right, then. Hey, then let's do something.
- 01:13
Derlin Whittier
Sean, baby, I love you, okay? But I'm also in love with your mama.
- 01:21
Which is... I have some respect to you.
- 01:24
Tammy Munson
He loves me.
- 01:24
Shawna Munson
Yeah. I know.
- 01:29
Studio audience member
Todd, Todd, Todd. Can I say something?
- 01:32
Todd Linder Flohman
Of course you can, sure.
- 01:35
Studio audience member
Yeah, I just want to say that she, the one with the T-shirt.
- 01:39
Todd Linder Flohman
Shauna.
- 01:40
Studio audience member
Yeah, she needs to respect her mama.
- 01:42
Todd Linder Flohman
Okay.
- 01:42
Studio audience member
And then the one that's her mother.
- 01:45
Todd Linder Flohman
Tamara.
- 01:46
Studio audience member
Yeah, you need to respect the baby because life is precious and God and the Bible. Man, you should be looking for lights and not starting fights. And all y'all, including me, ought to be figuring out how we're going to live without fresh water.
- 02:12
Todd Linder Flohman
Thank you. Those are some good thoughts. We should all remember how precious life is. Derlin, you look like you have something to say.
- 02:27
Derlin Whittier
Shauna, sweet pea, I love you, okay? But I have something I have to tell you, okay? Tammy, you are having my baby. And I'm prideful and honorable that Tammy Would you be my wife and marry me?
- 02:49
Tammy Munson
Oh?
- 02:50
Derlin Whittier
I asked as a lady of the manor engagement brooch and a box of cherry-covered chocolates
- 02:57
This is
- 03:25
Todd Linder Flohman
Fabian he was darling super secret lover, and he was a surprise guest on our show Fabian where where have you been
- 03:33
Fabian
I was on an island
- 03:36
They're rightfully mine! Goddammit!
- 03:38
Todd Linder Flohman
What island? You tell me! This could save us all!
- 03:42
Fabian
I ain't saving no Mr. Three-Timing Ho of the Universe! Get your...
- 03:46
Todd Linder Flohman
Now, shut up! Get your head together! Get your head together! Tell me about this island!
- 03:52
Fabian
Okay, um, I was eating a coconut.
- 03:55
Todd Linder Flohman
Okay, so there's food there.
- 03:56
Fabian
And I saw him float by with them two nasty-ass, white trash stank bitches!
- 04:02
Ooh! Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
- 04:05
Todd Linder Flohman
Stand up! Tell me where this island is or you're a dead man!
- 04:09
Fabian
Well, Darlene should have thought about that before you went from playing me like a fool.
- 04:13
Todd Linder Flohman
God damn it! You stupid, petty, prince-looking, no-island-remembering motherfucker!
- 04:28
Don't!
- 04:28
Todd Linder Flohman
Jesus Christ!
- 04:33
What's she looking at, turning away?
- 04:36
Todd Linder Flohman
Well, there it is. I guess if you think about it, we all live on a lifeboat. It's important to prioritize. What seems important in a trailer park might seem frivolous when facing certain death at sea.
- 04:56
Derlin Whittier
Who you talking to?
- 04:59
Todd Linder Flohman
We all have to learn to listen to each other, remember the location of islands with food and fresh water, and try to forgive ourselves for squandering the precious gift of life. I'm Todd Linder-Floman. That's probably my final thought.
- 05:19
Derlin Whittier
Yep, probably gonna die. I knew, man. I knew I'd never make it to 30, because I'm a wild man, because I party. Heaven better look out for me. Hell yeah, St. Peter-looking motherfucker, let me in! Before I die, I'm gonna fuck me a fish. that's probably my final thought
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