Mark Malkoff LIVE - 6/21/12 (Full Ep)

BETH HOYT: Happy birthday, [INAUDIBLE]
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BETH HOYT: Hey everyone, welcome to My
Damn Channel Live.
It's Thursday.
Also, inside of your mouth, it's a steamy 98.6 degrees.
In New York City today, it's the same.
It's hot.
OK, we have a special show today, because we're going to
talk to My Damn Channel's own Mark Malkoff.
Now, Mark is a master of stunts and feats of endurance.
He once visited every Starbucks in Manhattan in one
day and consumed something there, in each one.
Another time, he brought a goat into the Apple store to
test their pet friendly policies.
That video on YouTube now has over a million views.
That's awesome.
More recently, he crashed on the couches of as many
celebrities as he could.
But his latest one--
just watch this video and behold.

MARK MALKOFF: Hi, I'm Mark Malkoff.
And I am one of 23 million
subscribers on Netflix streaming.
I want to see what the best possible value I
can get for my $7.99.
For example, if I watch 100 films on Netflix, that works
out to about $0.08 per film.
I want to do even better.
How many movies would it be possible to watch on Netflix
in a month?
My goal, 250 films.
Let's do it.
It's really cool.
I've gotten almost 500 film suggestions on Twitter and
Facebook, which is awesome.
Here goes nothing.
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[LAUGHS]

MARK MALKOFF: I haven't left my apartment in 155 hours.
I'm starting to feel a little bit like Jack
Nicholson in The Shining.
JACK NICHOLSON (OFFSCREEN): Here's Johnny.
MARK MALKOFF: You know, the only thing I miss with
streaming is there's no commentary.
I'm going to put a fix to that right now.
Jason--
JASON LONDON: Hey, pal--
MARK MALKOFF: London.
JASON LONDON: How are you doing?
MARK MALKOFF: Sophia.
What's going on?
JASON LONDON: We filmed this in one of the
high schools in Austin.
And apparently all of the locations are now like go to
visit, you know, kind of--
MARK MALKOFF: I bet.
JASON LONDON: Tourist destinations.
See that, most people--
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah.
JASON LONDON: Don't even know that that's Ben Affleck.
MARK MALKOFF: That's Affleck?
JASON LONDON: They said, that's--
They said they've watched the movie about 30 times--
MARK MALKOFF: Wow.
JASON LONDON: Before they actually figured it out.
MARK MALKOFF: Wow.
JASON LONDON: You OK there?
Ohh, you're looking tight there.
MARK MALKOFF: It's great.
I have a little knot.
Just keep going.
Just--
JASON LONDON: Yeah, yeah.
MARK MALKOFF: I've decided this week to
watch movies by theme.

[HORROR MOVIE THEME]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
MARK MALKOFF: Help me, Obi Wan.
You're my only hope.
People online are like, Mark, what else are
you doing this month?
And I am like, I'm reading War and Peace.
What do you think?
I'm doing nothing but watching movies.

CHRISTINE: [SIGH]
Mark's Netflix watching has really started to have a
negative effect on our lives.
MARK MALKOFF: Coffee please.
I need coffee.
I need coffee.
I need coffee, thank you.
Coffee!
Get me coffee.
I need coffee.

I'm here with actor Andrew McCarthy.
You're going to be doing commentary on St. Elmo's Fire
as I watch it on my iPhone.
ANDREW MCCARTHY: Yeah, it's a big thrill, Mark.
MARK MALKOFF: I bet it is.
There you are.
That's you!
ANDREW MCCARTHY: Yeah, I'm very good in this
scene, aren't I?
MARK MALKOFF: It's very good.
ANDREW MCCARTHY: You know, I improvised that line.
MARK MALKOFF: Really?
ANDREW MCCARTHY: Yeah.
MARK MALKOFF: Is it true that you wrote
the whole move yourself?
ANDREW MCCARTHY: Well, um, the better scenes, I did right.
Yeah.
MARK MALKOFF: OK.
[LAUGHS]
ANDREW MCCARTHY: No.
No, that went into turn around.
But I think this is, um, got some real possibilities--
MARK MALKOFF: Whup!
Ahh!
MARK MALKOFF: I was wondering if you could meet me here
tomorrow to do commentary on Weekend at Bernie's?
ANDREW MCCARTHY: You're out of your [BLEEP]
mind, Mark.
I got stuff to do.

MARK MALKOFF: I'm going to be up until, once again, 2
o'clock in the morning watching movies.
Thanks, Netflix.

Another movie.
[MUSIC, DRIVING ROCK]
MARK MALKOFF: I'm going to be getting more value for my
money than any customer in Netflix history.
No more movies.
No more movies.
No more movies.
ANDREW MCCARTHY: You can do this, Mark.
MARK MALKOFF: I did it.
Total films, 252, 404.25 hours.
Cost per film, 3.2 cents.

Thank you Netflix.
Thank you.

BETH HOYT: Here he is, you guys,
joining us out in public.
MARK MALKOFF: Public.
BETH HOYT: It's a very reassuring sign.
Mark Malkoff, you guys.
MARK MALKOFF: Thank you.
BETH HOYT: Mark, what did you do to yourself there?
MARK MALKOFF: Um, I did something that years and years
of therapy will take to fix.
BETH HOYT: [LAUGHS]
Well, fantastic.
MARK MALKOFF: Yes.
BETH HOYT: Now you have the time for that.
So you did not include any television in that?
MARK MALKOFF: There was no television.
It was just films.
I just wanted to see how many Netflix movies I could watch
in a month.
And the answer was 252.
BETH HOYT: So you planned out each day?
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah.
I had people suggest movies to me on Facebook and Twitter.
So I mean, I got 500 film suggestions.
So usually a day or two before I would put,
uh, the films together.
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
And you responded to each person as you were doing it?
MARK MALKOFF: I tried to.
BETH HOYT: Say-- did you tell them like, that was a terrible
suggestion?
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah.
The person who did, um, Vanilla Ice's Cool as Ice, um,
I unfriended them.
Booyah!
BETH HOYT: [LAUGHS]
Like what did you do to me?
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah.
BETH HOYT: Two hours of, yeah.
That's, uh, that's worth, you know.
That's like, uh, tagging up all the rough, bad Facebook,
um, statuses that you read from one person.
It's like those two hours are condensed to like--
MARK MALKOFF: Exactly.
BETH HOYT: It's no longer worth it.
MARK MALKOFF: Another person that did
Gigli, suggested Gigli--
BETH HOYT: Ooh.
MARK MALKOFF: I don't want them to be alive.
BETH HOYT: Yeah, well that's not a surprise though.
MARK MALKOFF: It's not.
BETH HOYT: Did you not know that was going to be?
MARK MALKOFF: I knew it wasn't, it
wasn't going to be good.
But I didn't know that it was going to be that damaging.
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
Is there any movie on your queue that you're like, oh, I
didn't get to that one?
Is there any movie--
MARK MALKOFF: No.
BETH HOYT: Like you can't.
MARK MALKOFF: No.
Sadly, no.
BETH HOYT: Um, did you, do you eat movie snacks?
What are your movie snacks?
MARK MALKOFF: I didn't have any popcorn except for the
popcorn that Andrew McCarthy fed me in Central Park.
I didn't--
I tried to eat healthy as I could, but I
still gained six pounds.
BETH HOYT: Well, I mean that's so relative.
If I, if I did this challenge--
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah.
BETH HOYT: I would be a different person
at the end of it.
MARK MALKOFF: For-- not a good person.
BETH HOYT: No.
I would be, uh, I would not be, I would not be good.
I'd be more into social.
And I would be huge.
MARK MALKOFF: I left, I didn't leave my apartment for the
first 155 hours.
So I was encased in a red envelope in my own filth.
BETH HOYT: [LAUGHS]
I mean it sounds like a dreamy thing to like have a month and
not having to leave your apartment and
watching Netflix movies.
That's what I often wish for.
But in reality, that's, it's hard to do.
MARK MALKOFF: It was fun.
It was fun some days.
Other days, it was challenging.
Jason, ah, London coming over to do live commentary on Dazed
and Confused was awesome.
I asked him to explain the plot of Dazed and Confused.
And then I realized, there is no plot to Dazed and Confused.
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
In the middle of his answer, you're like, ah, I see it.
MARK MALKOFF: Yes.
BETH HOYT: Very meta, I get it.
MARK MALKOFF: Exactly.
It was fun having him.
The commentary was, was, was the good part.
BETH HOYT: That's such a cool idea--
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah
BETH HOYT: To do that.
which actor or actress, as, after the whole month, which
one, who do you feel like you saw the most of?
MARK MALKOFF: Oh my goodness.
Um, Katherine Ross kept showing up from The Graduate
and she was in Butch Cassidy and one other movie.
And I was like, what, Katherine Ross, are we
supposed to be BFFs?
Why do you keep showing up?
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah.
BETH HOYT: Well, maybe you are supposed to be.
MARK MALKOFF: I think so.
She's married to Sam Elliot, so maybe I would, we could
have a, a celebrity sleepover--
BETH HOYT: You need to have a--
MARK MALKOFF: With Sam Elliot--
BETH HOYT: You need to have a double date.
MARK MALKOFF: And Katherine Ross, yes.
BETH HOYT: OK, so Netflix took note of what you were doing,
as they should.
And they invited you to their
headquarters, which is so cool.
Tell me a little bit about that.
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah, I couldn't believe this.
They started tweeting me during my project.
I had no idea.
And then they invited me to the--
BETH HOYT: They should.
MARK MALKOFF: Wonka Factory in Los Gatos, California.
BETH HOYT: So cool.
Well we have, um, really a great clip from that.
Let's watch some footage from that trip.

MARK MALKOFF: How many movies would it be possible to watch
on Netflix in a month?

We're here at the Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos,
California.
I've been invited to their offices.
Let's do this.
I, ah, can't believe that you guys invited me to the Netflix
headquarters.
JORIS EVERS: Well we thought it would be the appropriate
thing to do after you like were the customer that watched
the single most number of movies in a month.
MARK MALKOFF: And what did you think of my project?
JORIS EVERS: I thought your project
was awesome and insane.
JACK NICHOLSON (OFFSCREEN): Here's Johnny.
MARK MALKOFF: I brought this from New York.
And I was wondering that, instead of mailing them, I
could just give it to you?
JORIS EVERS: Yeah.
Oh, let me take this.
MARK MALKOFF: Will you, will you watch Troll 2 with me?
JORIS EVERS: Yeah, Let's watch Troll 2.
-No I won't [INAUDIBLE].
MARK MALKOFF: It is.
It's goblin spelled backward.
I'm watching Netflix at Netflix.
That's ironic.
JORIS EVERS: This is Reed.
REED HASTINGS: How are you?
MARK MALKOFF: Oh my goodness.
I'm so excited.
Oh my god, are we filming this?
JORIS EVERS: [LAUGHS]
MARK MALKOFF: This is, I feel like Charlie going into
Wonka's factory, now I'm in, that I'm in Netflix.
REED HASTINGS: You are.
MARK MALKOFF: This is so cool.
Do you think the whole month I should do TV next--
REED HASTINGS: I think you should.
MARK MALKOFF: With Netlix?
REED HASTINGS: That's a great follow-up.
Yeah, it's easier, because it's just next episode.
MARK MALKOFF: And Reed, you're going to do it with me.
REED HASTINGS: Yeah, I don't know.
That's a long month.
MARK MALKOFF: You're a busy man.
REED HASTINGS: That's a long month.
MARK MALKOFF: Would you call me a geek or a nerd or both?
REED HASTINGS: Because you watched so many movies?
MARK MALKOFF: Yes, and just because I'm Mark Malkoff.
REED HASTINGS: Ah, neither.
Uh, I would call you someone who's passionately desperate.
How many movies are you going to watch over
the rest of the year?
Are you done?
Or are you going to--
MARK MALKOFF: I'm retired.
I'm retired for a little bit for movies.
I haven't watched a movie on Netflix--
REED HASTINGS: Your data cap must be a big problem.
MARK MALKOFF: My internet service provider hates me.
REED HASTINGS: Yeah, yeah.
MARK MALKOFF: They hate me.
REED HASTINGS: Get back to watching, uh, one
or two a week and--
MARK MALKOFF: Thanks, Reed.
REED HASTINGS: You'll love it.
You'll love it.

TODD YELLIN: So Mark Malkoff, he's, um, come here today.
He watched 252 Netflix movies in one month.
Over 400 hours of Netflix.
[APPLAUSE]
[LAUGHTER]
MALE SPEAKER: What was, what was your device of choice to,
for viewing?
MARK MALKOFF: I was, I watched most of them on just a
standard TV.
I think like, I just wouldn't listen to the public as much.
Like it was good.
But sometimes they got me into things.
I was like, this is not going to be fun.
Like Cool as Ice, should be, the should have a category,
Vanilla Ice's movie Cool as Ice, should have a category on
Netflix, not suitable for anymore.
That's just my suggestion.
[LAUGHTER]
MARK MALKOFF: But I did watch it.
I kind of like had like these weird recurring dreams at
night and they were all narrated by Morgan Freeman.
[LAUGHTER]
TODD YELLIN: I'm sorry, but there is one more announcement
I have to make.
MARK MALKOFF: Yes.
TODD YELLIN: It's a special surprise for everyone,
including yourself.
It's such a important day for us at Netflix that we've
declared it a special day.
Today is Mark Malkoff Day.
MARK MALKOFF: Yes!
[APPLAUSE]
BETH HOYT: Wow, the Netflix headquarters.
That is like a Wonka, really, like it--
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah.
BETH HOYT: Like it exists.
MARK MALKOFF: It does.
It was so much fun.
BETH HOYT: Pie in the sky factory.
So when your wife is now like, let's have movie night.
Are you like, let's play cards or just talk.
MARK MALKOFF: I don't want to watch any movies.
Movies are not my friend right now.
I still need to to kind of like detox from the movies.
I have seen--
I'm doing damage control, because I put Christine, my
wife, through so much.
So I did, I've taken her to two movies in the theater.
And I brought a book.
But she's like, you're not reading a book
during, um, the movie.
BETH HOYT: Like with a little light on it.
MARK MALKOFF: Exactly,
BETH HOYT: I'm here with you.
MARK MALKOFF: Exactly.
BETH HOYT: I'm here.
I paid for it.
MARK MALKOFF: But that doesn't count.
So, um--
BETH HOYT: Nope.
MARK MALKOFF: Yeah, but I don't, seriously, want to
watch another movie for a long, long time.
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
Well, I was, I mean that was kind of hard
to put up with that.
How many did she watch with you?
MARK MALKOFF: A handful maybe, like a couple a week.
Like definitely not as many as--
BETH HOYT: The good ones?
MARK MALKOFF: I would've hoped.
I was like, come on, honey, let's watch Indecent Proposal.
This'll be good for our marriage.
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
MARK MALKOFF: She'd be like, no, Mark.
BETH HOYT: Yeah.
Yeah, that's funny.
Um, do you have, have a challenge lined up?
What's--
MARK MALKOFF: I'm going to be announcing my next video at
VidCon in Anaheim, California on Thursday of
next week at 4 o'clock.
BETH HOYT: I'll be there.
MARK MALKOFF: Beth.
BETH HOYT: I, I'm going to be able to come to.
And I'm going to be there at 4:00 PM on Thursday.
MARK MALKOFF: It's going to be fun.
BETH HOYT: I mean, I literally don't know what this is.
It's a big reveal.
So no one know this.
MARK MALKOFF: It's a big surprise.
Nobody knows.
BETH HOYT: Mark's next challenge--
MARK MALKOFF: I don't even know.
BETH HOYT: Guys.
I'm going to tweet it.
I'm going to tweet the crap out of that as soon as I find
out what it is.
Wait for it.
A week from today.
MARK MALKOFF: Yes.
BETH HOYT: It's exactly a week from today.
MARK MALKOFF: A week from today.
BETH HOYT: We're going to all know.
That is so exciting [INAUDIBLE]
MARK MALKOFF: It is exciting.
I can't take it.
BETH HOYT: I have goosebumps.
MARK MALKOFF: I do.
BETH HOYT: You guys--
thank you so much for being here, Mark.
This is awesome.
MARK MALKOFF: Thank you, Beth.
This was fun.
BETH HOYT: Be sure to check out all of Mark, Mark's videos
on mydamnchannel.com, like the goat one.
How did you get that goat by the way?
MARK MALKOFF: I put on my Facebook status that I wanted
a goat and within an hour I had three possible goats.
Thank you Facebook people.
BETH HOYT: Really?
MARK MALKOFF: Yes.
BETH HOYT: Friends of yours?
Or I mean, they're obviously your Facebook friends.
But was any, were any of them people that you're like,
really, Sam?
You have a goat?
MARK MALKOFF: No.
I just, if you, if you are interested in a
goat, I know people.
That's all I'm saying.
BETH HOYT: [INAUDIBLE]
MARK MALKOFF: I'll hook you up.
BETH HOYT: Good to know.
This is good to know.
MARK MALKOFF: Yes.
BETH HOYT: Good information.
I'm from Wisconsin.
I should know how to get goats.
But I don't.
All right, Mark, you're the best.
Thank you so much.
Um, I'll see you guys tomorrow for the weekly wrap-up.
I can't wait.
I can't, I can wait.
I can wait.
Because I've got to, we've got to wait though.
MARK MALKOFF: We have to wait.
We have, we have to.
BETH HOYT: We will.
All right.
Love you.
Bye.
MARK MALKOFF: Love you too.

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