Doug Loves Movies - Adam McKay, Ben Blacker, Ben Acker and Jeff Miller guest

Episode Date: February 2, 2017

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Hey, hey, hey, everybody. Hey, hey, hey, everybody! My name is Doug, and I love movies. Yes, it's God Loves Movies! Coming to you once again from the UCB Theater, Franklin location. Some people, you know, the sunset location is cool too, but some people prefer Franklin in Los Angeles. It's Tuesday, January 31st.

Can you believe it, you guys? We got through one month of this shit. 2017. How we doing for name tags? I see a sparkly shirt in the front row But what's the name tag situation? What is that you're holding up? It's your hospital ID? I'm going to have to ask you to leave

Did you write a shithead on the back of it? No, of course you didn't On the back of your hospital ID It's your hospital ID. It's your hospital ID for crying out loud. What's that box of cereal over there? Cap'n what? Cap'n Kirk. Cap'n Kirk? Kirk's ID. Oh, okay.

I was going to say, there's so many Star Trek things you could have done. You changed Captain Crunch to Cap'n Kirk. Captain Kurt. Crunch cereal. Is the cereal in the box? Yeah. Yeah? yeah yeah it's not a used empty cereal box brand new i might i hope somebody picks that because i haven't fucked up the roof of my mouth in a long time and captain kirk will do it for you kurt i, I'm sorry. Wild, wild Jess. I like that. Yeah, that's one of the most racist major motion pictures.

What's that next to you? Jord of the Rings. Jord of the Rings? Jordan. Your name's Jordan. Okay. And what's this One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest thing? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's West.? One flew over the cuckoo's Wes.

One flew over the cuckoo's Wes. Because your name is Wes. Good job, Wes. There's a few other ones, but, you know, I don't want to spoil you guys. Although this guy over here, what is that you're holding? Yeah, that. VHS. It's a VHS copy of what?

VHS? The Best of Buckwheat. The Best of Buckwheat. And what's your name? Jason. Jason. Jason. Trump did it again.

Everything's changing. Thank you to everybody for bringing the name tags. I know it's hard when you're busy being in show business to make a name tag. Doug plugs. The next Doug Loves Movies taping in L.A. is over at Meltdown Comics on Thursday, February 9th at 7 p.m. And Doug Lowe's Movies is back at the American Comedy Company in Sweet Home San Diego on Valentine's Day, February 14th. Very romantic night. Me and trivia, movie trivia in a basement.

And then I'm doing stand-up at Good Nights in Raleigh, North Carolina on Thursday, February 16th. And Doug Loves Movies on the 18th. All my dates and deets are at DougLovesMovies.com. That's Doug Loves Movies.com. Great job. The prize bag tonight. I'm pretty excited about this prize bag. Not going to lie to you.

Why am I doing a Charlie Day impression? Why is my voice getting so high? I was just at San Francisco SF Sketch Fest and had a wonderful time there. And there is a, the bag tonight is a Audible Presents Sketch Fest bag. And then inside the bag, this is a lovely hoodie that they gave me and i really appreciate it but it's just a little too snug on me so uh i'm gonna give this beauty away tonight and i think it's like i think it's a large and then a douglas movies t-shirt and then whatever my guests brought but i'm so psyched about this because i'm not giving this away

somebody recently i forget which city it was in i want to say maybe it was Austin but somebody oh wait I can figure it out by the date 12-5-16 no I can't figure it out Dude Doug thanks so much for everything you do. Extremely grateful for your many years of free Douglas movies fun. I wanted to give you

these buzzers for your guests who don't quite understand how to buzz in during jason and deb's imdb game yeah because saying your own name has proved to be challenging for some people so he says if you don't like the idea give them away in the prize bag but either way i hope you'll enjoy these and i hope you'll plug the uh they came from the flannel cakes, a nerdy comedy podcast about cartoons and cereal. So thanks to the Flannel Cakes Podcast for

these buzzers. And I'm going to try them out with my guests tonight. Let me give you an example of one. Somebody's going to get the honk one. And there's three other fun noises that these things make.

So I don't know if that's going to improve that game very much. But we'll find out. Please give a big warm welcome to my guests, Jeff Miller, Ben Blacker, Ben Acker, and Adam McKay. Here they come. Have some seats, you guys. Oh, look at that. Holy shit. What the fuck? A banker's box. I'll put it under the table for now well you can whatever i mean but that is like a that's a serious box of a prize thing

that you brought yeah you know trying to represent doug all right well let's meet uh we got a couple of newbies here so so let's meet our first-timers first from Food is the New Rock. Sure. Right? Yeah. And? I'm going to be on a new travel channel show.

Well, let's build up to that. Oh, let's build up to that. All right. What else do they know you from? So I'm the editor of Thrillist in LA. Thrillist, yeah. I play in a band called Black Crystal Wolf Kids. There you go.

And Monday, I'm the star of a new show on the Travel Channel called Trip Testers what happens on Trip Testers it's me and this other dude who's also sort of a writer guy and we travel around the US and he's

sort of like an odd couple show he's the buttoned up sort of anal-y guy and I'm not that person so we go around we have adventures you're not buttoned up sort of anally guy and i'm not that person so yeah you're not buttoned up at all no buttons that doesn't seem to be a part of your agenda at all buttoning up and uh and it premieres on feb 6 feb 6 next monday this is my first like promotion thing for this is it and i hope you can find other ways to promote it. I do. This seems a little bit of a small first step. Well, I feel like I'm the contestant

of the people, Doug, because I've been in the audience many, many, many times, and my dream, this is true, I was like, two things I want to do. Doug loves movies and At Midnight. So one of two crossed off the list. Yeah, and let me tell you, as far as At Midnight goes,

I can't help you at all. But that's great. I'm glad that you have such a short bucket list because we're all going to die soon. Also joining us for maybe the first and last time, it's Adam McKay, everybody. I mean, do I have to list off his credits? Do we even have to talk about it?

Every one of them. Is your mic working? Check, check. I don't think it is. Check. Seems a little not happening. Check, check, check. Oh, now it's coming alive. Now I have power.

Yeah, there you go. Well, you know, you're a very powerful director. The Big Short. The Anchormans, I like to call them. I like that. The other guys, Step Bros. Talladega Nights.

Prometheus. You. Why would you take credit for that garbage? You have all these great films. I made it. I stand by it. Last season of MASH. What?

Yeah. That was your idea to end the Korean War war yeah yeah yeah i didn't write that one down i uh you know imdb is sketchy they missed some things but uh thanks for being here dude it is my pleasure thank you for having me i'm excited excited. I really appreciate it. I don't know about you guys, but thanks to the movie The Big Short, I almost understand the financial crisis. And also the, you know, what's about to happen. Because now I follow you on Twitter. You're very active. Yes, I'm basically...

You have a very political Twitter. I don't know if it's political anymore. It's me drowning, yelling help. And everyone's saying, oh, you're waving. That's cute. And so, yeah, yeah, I apologize for my Twitter feed. No, I didn't mean to apologize for your Twitter feed. We should all apologize for our Twitter feeds.

We all feel that way. Don't you feel like, oh, I'm RTing way too much of this shit, you know? And like, the Twitter feed's really where I get, like, I want to get my news from the, I follow 420 people, and those are the people I've chosen to get

my news from instead of, you know, the fake news or all those other organizations so like i really enjoy that you put it out there and that you say it and also the other guys how did you how did that happen that you snuck in that whole thing in the end credits about the financial crisis. Cause that was like kind of the short, big short. It was. Yeah.

We, we made that movie. And then I was like, Oh, the whole movie's about financial fraud, but I'm not sure the audience is getting it. So I told the credit house, just put it really blatantly in there.

And then Sony pictures was not happy with that i didn't think they would be no and they were like what the f and we said oh sorry and then it was out yeah but what but then it got back in somehow no no we left it in it was like the last week there's a point at which they sign off on the movie and we just said oh yeah we're gonna put credits in in the end and then we did put that in anyway incendiary credits about how our entire financial system is fucking bullshit and that a lot of dumbasses won't even watch because people just jump up and leave the theater the second they think it's over that's true but it was it's very educational and was kind of like a preview of the big short. Unfortunately, yes.

And actually, the credits are on YouTube. You can just watch the credits. They're really good. Picture Mill did them. I didn't give them the credit. I did not animate them. Oh, okay. But yeah, it's pretty amazing and I'm glad that it's on there for people that, you know,

just innocently watching a Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg comedy, and then, bam! Schooled. Speaking of schooling, my other two guests have probably never schooled anybody on anything.

From Thrilling Adventure Hour, it's the Benz, Acker and Blacker so this is like exciting to me because having two people with the same first name is the perfect time to introduce buzzers into the gameplay instead of having to buzz in with your own name, because that's so confusing. But still, in general, we refer to you, or I refer to you, so the listeners understand, by your last names, which are also crazily similar.

Like, do you guys, have you become creative partners just because your names are the same? We changed it for Hollywood. Oh, you did? No. If we had changed it, we would have picked something awesome. Race car. Yeah.

Fireworks. Ace car. I don't know. Acker and Blacker is pretty awesome. Sounds like it should be on the side of a power tool. But just to be clear, Ben Blacker, say hi. I'm Ben Blacker.

And Ben Acker, say hi. I'm Ben Acker. You know what? The listeners... Not helpful at all. This is just a white mess tonight. People listening are going to be like, I heard Adam McKay was there,

and the Blacker and Acker, but, you know, Jeff Miller, but they all sounded the same to me. I have great Will Ferrell stories, too. You do? What? Is everything you say going to be sarcasm that I do not get?

And I tell the truth. No! I only tell the truth. Oh, that's interesting. It's a real... What a great... What a great... What a great team

you guys are. It's true. Tell Hollywood. What's going on that you guys... You reached out to me and said, hey, can we come back

on the show? I said, sure, great. I'd love to have you. What's the impending thing you got to plug? First, we love the show. Yeah. Of course. You're not just here to plug something.

No. But the timing is good because you have something to plug. Yeah. Next week, we have a new comic book coming out called Death Be Damned from Boom Comics. I wish I had a copy for you. But it's about a woman who can't die until she gets revenge on the people who killed her family. And it's cool. It's not like things we've done before.

It's a gritty Western. Yeah. And then next month, we wrote a Star Wars book that is in the Star Wars universe. Go ahead and order it online. No, I was looking at my phone because somebody's phone was talking, and I thought, oh, shit, might be lying. But it wasn't sorry it's

alright it's good to be here it's really good to be here I'm excited about your son or his book thank you very excited thanks for having us on your last show does it a blow up a death star in it i want death stars to blow up more in the star wars world opens with a blown up death yeah i'd like it to end with one too read it backwards it'd be fun if like the empire was like continually trying to build death stars and they just get blown up like you know a week or two into into construction isn't that really every star wars movie but they're completed like i'd like to see them, you know, the guys are on scaffolding on the side of it. Oh, shit, we're getting blown up

again. Get out of here, you kids. We barely got started on this one. I want them to be like residential. I want them to just be Death Stars that are condos. This is beautiful and it's... You want a whole Star Wars movie about gentrification? I do. I do.

That's what I'm asking for. Bob Iger, hear my words. Is that who runs Disney? Bob Iger? Seems like it might be. So... So Adam had a moment of panic backstage because you knew about the prize bag situation, but then you forgot to bring what he said was something awesome.

He forgot to bring. Not cool. Yeah. But what do you actually have? Well, I was going to bring a VHS copy, original copy of Over the Edge, the Matt Dillon movie. There's like four people that know it. Those four people would have loved it.

Then... This guy is excited because he brought a VHS as his name tag. Nice. So he's quite the VHS connoisseur. So what I brought instead is $80. Four $20 bills? Yes. Let's count them out on the table.

God, I was hoping you wouldn't call my bluff. I also don't have any cash. I told him to like, you know, the 20 bucks would be cool, and he went 80. Let's see what you got. Let's dig in. This is going to be the best prize bag

ever for whoever wins this. 20. I feel like Chuck Woolery. 40. 60. 61. Oh, 80 bucks right there. Officially

making it probably in the top three value prize bags in the history of this show i feel so powerful right now yeah that is a lot of people happy with my gestures and my wallet yeah it's nice you did it look at that spread it out 80 bucks i got it it's like Vegas. I gotta let the camera see it. There we go. I got the 80 bucks. Oh shit! What? Guy just ran in and added 20 bucks to it. Take it out.

It's not mine. It's not mine. It's not E-level celebrity money. That was fucking scary. That's about right. I thought he was gonna stab you, didn't you? That was like Monica Seles moment. You have no athletic talent.

Oh, you don't. You haven't seen me. No, you're right. Neither do I. It's all right. Jeff Miller, what do you got for the prize bag or should I come to you last

because you brought a banker's box it's up to you Doug I've got a t-shirt from my band Black Crystal Wolf Kids because you know

yeah you gotta promote the band so here's the t-shirt and then I brought my grandma with me who's not in the prize bag that's your grandma that's my grandma

right up front my grandma Connie and she's gonna be very excited about this i have a lot of shit that needs to get out of my apartment and so i brought you guys a box of cds that i meant to sell to amoeba in 2013 so it says cds to sell 2013 and you might get any dollars worth wow let's see. Let's get some... Should we guess? Let's get some examples. Yeah. We've got Alkaline Trio. I think Hot Hot Heat is in there.

I used to work as a music journalist, so there's a lot of promo stuff in here. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The Megaphonic Thrift. Oh, there's... Who the fuck that is? There's a bunch of CDs of a band I used to manage called Super Duper.

Ellie Goulding. So... She loves fixing to die. There's so many in here. How many are in here? I don't know. I just took the whole box. It's a lot of CDs, you guys. So take it to Amoeba and get some money or throw it away. Either way, it really doesn't matter. But that process at Amoeba where they're like

I'll give you a nickel for this. Doug, there's a reason for three years this has been sitting in a room for me to take to Amoeba. It's so shameful. You're just like, let's see here.

Robert Ellis, the lights from Chemical Plant. Could you give me some money for that one? Just total record snob working at the fucking Amoeba. This one I'm gonna break in two in front of you. Oh, John Legend. Well, thank you for bringing those. That's an amazing box of fucking...

It's like a big heavy box of stuff you're not going to want. It was like your VHS giveaway except all at once. Right, yeah. It's too much. It's too much. It's too generous. But we'll see what happens. Last night, somebody brought a big box of TV guides. And the person who won the prize bag said, no thanks.

They can do that? Yeah, the people who win can say no to the prizes. Because they have to pay taxes on them, right? Right, yeah. Exactly. That's where this cash is going to come in handy. To pay the taxes on those CD sales.

What do you got for us there, Ben? We brought some things that we made. Oh, you brought stuff together. You guys really are a team. I wish you were more like Penn and Teller, though. Can be arranged. Because there's one of you were more like Penn and Teller, though. Can be arranged. Because there's one of you I'd like to not hear from at all.

That was just a Penn and Teller joke more than anything. We brought an Us starter kit. A what? A starter kit for figuring out who we are. Oh, okay. This is a concert film for the Thrilling Adventure Hour, our staged show in the style of old-time radio that ran for a baker's decade here in Los Angeles.

13 years? No, 11. Oh, that's a baker's decade? Yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm surprised I didn't know that. Because a baker's dozen is an 11. No, I know.

You see what I deal with? I get it. One plus. One plus. I'm there. Let's do that again. This is an issue of a comic based on the show that is a podcast available on iTunes

as well. Listen to that. Is that Paul Fancy Tompkins on there? Paul F. Tompkins and Patrick Brewster who were in the show for that Baker's decade. Yeah, they're both great. I love seeing Tompkins on a comic. That's bizarre. It looks like him, too.

Oh, shit. Wow. Yeah, the whole comic. That's actually too much. I never needed to see Paul Tompkins inside a comic. And we brought the press copy of our... This is an advanced copy. It's not out for a month, so don't tweet it all.

Yeah, of our Star Wars book that is canon that comes out in March you can buy it already on Amazon Jeff thought it was fanfic when we told him about it I didn't know you guys

actually dealt with Star Wars people that blew me away when I found that out Admiral Ackbar is in this book that's fucking awesome not to name drop

well that makes me feel like that book is a trap alright pass it all down here. Thank you very much for bringing all that. Great job, everybody. Lots of stuff for somebody to carry home with them tonight if they win.

I'll push this box. A hundred bucks is the best. Push it up there. It probably is, yeah. It's probably the best item is the hundred bucks. Not to destroy creativity and people's thoughtfulness but a hundred bucks cash. A hundred motherfucking bucks

You can go out and buy any Star Wars bullshit you want with this. Can we all swear 20% more because his grandmother is here?

Speaking of 20% I'm going to hang on to one of these. Adam I promise she does not give a fuck. Alright. A lot more swearing. So that's all the stuff in the prize bag but very quickly I'd Adam, I promise she does not give a fuck. All right. All right.

So that's all the stuff in the prize bag, but very quickly, I'd like to just go down the line, starting with the Ben's on the end. What was the last movie you saw? Oh, I saw... Come on, Ben Acker. I saw a rerun of the movie Flirting with Disaster. Because Mary Tyler Moore was the reason they reran it,

you think because she just passed yeah yeah and a very entertaining movie it's a real good

i could watch alan alda so damn funny mary tyler moore and who's lily tomlin right yeah like just do anything

that's a good one that was david o russell before he started yelling at people uh huh yeah it's great that's all i have to say he just started yelling at people.

What about you, Ben? My wife and I watched... My wife... watched... watched... We watched Singing in the Rain last night. You did? Which I have not seen since I was a child

and is a great movie. Yeah. It really is. Backstage we were talking about La La Land and we watched Singing in the Rain and then said, that was so much fun to watch. The end.

Yeah, I mean, that's something I flashed on a lot during watching La La Land is just the joy that Singing in the Rain had and that it's like, you know... It's never earnest. What? Singing in the Rain is never earnest. It's honest and it's

very funny, but it's never earnest in the way that La La Land is I think interesting this is what I have to deal with so you you think you think Singing in the Rain needs more earnest like no not what I'm saying

go the other way like Ernest goes to camp too soon Ernest goes singing down the street in the rain but yeah it's also Singing in the Rain is a great movie just about the transition from

silent to talkies like it's got a good story in addition to a bunch of amazing song and dance numbers I kind of feel like Singing in the Rain It's got a good story in addition to a bunch of amazing song and dance numbers. I kind of feel like Singing in the Rain sort of ruined musicals for, like ruined a lot of other musicals because it is so perfect. I'm not a big musical fan.

Yeah. Why would anybody be? Musicals are stupid. But, yeah yeah it's really it's really good I really like it a lot alright Jeff I saw Hidden Figures

which I really liked but I didn't realize that peeing was going to play such an important part in the story there is you watch Taraji

P. Henson run back and forth from the bathroom so many times it's like literally one of the biggest plot points of the movie. Yeah, and also just sort of like, after a couple times, you're like, I get it. She could just run out the door,

and we know that she's going to have to run a long way to find the right bathroom. But it's also... It's just... I cannot... I can't get over the fact that there were different drinking fountains for white people and black people. It's so crazy.

Because you have to install a second water fountain, put a stupid sign on it, put a sign on the first one, and then what are you stopping from happening? What is sharing a water fountain going to do to a person? It's the most insane thing to think about? It's like the most insane thing. It's really wild. And it's not that long ago. The movie takes place in the early 60s. I had the same reaction watching it.

It's unbelievable. Yeah, it's very angering. But also, the space program is great. And, you know, it's another one of those movies where a white guy comes along and goes, I don't agree with this, and Kevin Costner helps the black people,

and good for them, I guess. It's not my favorite of the nine nominees for Best Picture. We all know your favorite is La La Land. Okay. It could be Manchester by the Sea

because I do love a great comedy. What about you there, Adam? Have you been to the movies lately? I'm trying to remember the last one I saw. I think the last one I saw was The Fitz. Has anyone seen this? Wow, that's impressive. One of the best movies of the year, a little indie film that an NYU student shot out of Cincy, as you like to call it Moonlight. And it is one of the strangest stories

in a really unusual, interesting movie. It's about a girl who's joining a dance troupe in a sort of inner city high school. And then everyone starts having these weird seizures. And it's about women becoming, girls becoming women. I'm just looking at Doug right now as he's zoning out as i'm describing this movie no i'm like i'm amazed no one's seen it it's actually incredible like really original vision and first-time actress and really cool how'd you see it i didn't see it

i'm lying uh i wanted to seem cool everyone else had movies we've heard of. No, my wife sat on the couch and read off like a top 30 list. And I was like, I've never heard of that. And then we watched it. Oh, okay. So some highfalutin critics saw it. And then you guys got wind of it. It was actually Boogie Cousins from the Kings. His list.

Top 30 movies. Oh, okay. DeMarcus Cousins. Once again, no one enjoying a DeMarcus Cousins. Once again, no one enjoying a DeMarcus Cousins reference or The Fitz. Alright, I got one applause. Thank you. Garrett Temple. It was his list.

Well, alright, so check it out, you guys. The Fitz. And if you don't like it, it's at Adam McKay on Twitter. M-C-K-A-Y. This is a part of the show where I say, let the games begin!

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excellent job everybody who you playing for Ben Acker well Doug I'm playing for a guy named Wes, who has a poster that says, One flew over the cuckoo's... Wes. And then my face instead of Randall P. McMurphy.

I think it was Jack Nicholson, Doug. All right, well, I just was excited I knew the name of the character. And your name over the top. And my name over the top there, yeah. So, great job. Thank you. I look forward to participating in that remake. And by the end of my movie,

I put a pillow on the Indian's face. Spoiler. And then they still put me to death. You really flew over that cuckoo's nest. Who are you playing for, Ben? I have K-League of their own. It's not a picture of you. It's not a picture of her.

It's still Geena Davis. It's Geena Davis, but still a big poster. It's sort of taped on to another poster. She did a lot there. She looked like she knew a lot about movies. Yeah. Oh, good thinking. Might be able to use her as a lifeline if we play that game.

Jeff? I have Hot Tub Tim Machine. I feel like I've seen that one before. Have I seen that before, Tim? Nope. Nope. I thought it was clever. I thought the Photoshop job was good.

And I saw that movie and had an extremely bad experience where I needed to be pulled up the stairs at the Arclight afterwards. So it holds a special place in my heart. What? Why'd you have to get pulled up the stairs? Let's just say that edibles are not my thing and move on from there.

I think the hot tub time machine is in your thing. Don't do edibles before watching that, I think is the lesson here. Or at the arc light. So you were on the lower floor of the arc light and they had to carry you up those stairs? This is true. Oh, wow.

Adam's got a box of cereal, so that's why I'm a little distracted right now. Because I love Captain Crunch. It's full, too. I noticed that. It's a real full box of Captain Crunch. Yeah. It smells, though.

It may be like 10 years old. There's a rancid quality to it. Instead of Captain Crunch, what this young gentleman has done, and I appreciate his innovation, is he's taped over the word Kurt over Crunch. So it's Captain Kurt. Yeah. You did a great job with that.

You could barely tell that the Crunch was under there. He almost covered all of it. The white paper really sells it. But I love that Captain Crunch on the box, forget the... He's much more animated than... Captain Crunch used to always be a very dignified character. Exactly. But here he's kind of like...

I think he's going to steer an aircraft carrier into an atoll. It's not going to go well. I haven't heard the word atoll since the last not going to go well. I haven't heard the word atoll since the last time I saw Waterworld. And you know what?

Kevin Costner in Hidden Figures? There's a scene where he drinks his own urine. Crunchitize me, Cap'n. It doesn't say that. That's what it says on there. Crunchitize me, Cap'n. It doesn't say that, does it? That's what it says on there. Crunchitize me, Cap'n. Cap'n's the only person on there, so I don't know who's saying that.

That's his off-camera crew is clearly gone insane from dehydration and scurvy as he steers their $3 billion aircraft carrier into Bora Bora. I read that wrong. They're dying.

Concentrate on me. Captain. If you go to the back, there's a whole true war story back there. About the casualties suffered and the tiger sharks eating the bodies of the lost soldiers. I would watch this shit out of Adam McKay's Captain Crunch movie. That'd be fun. That's a fun idea.

A deranged Captain Crunch movie. Who would play Captain Crunch? Russell Crowe. This might really be happening, you guys. That's how good that idea is. With constant dental cocaine around the edge of his nose. Because did you see The Nice Guys? Of course.

That was terrific, right? I liked it. Yeah, it's very fun. Very fun. That's Shane Black, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I liked that dude a lot.

A lot of the job. You should team up with him. No. Not happening. All right. Just real quick before we get into the meat of the game tonight, just because he's in town, he's excited. I'm always left to have him come by.

Let's do some lines with Mark. What's up, you guys? Let's do some fucking lines. How you guys doing? You doing good? Hey, Mark. What's going on, dog? You happy to see Adam again?

What's up, A-Mac? How are you doing? How are you, Mark? Good to see you, man. Been a while. Been a while. Yeah. I think Daddy's Home was the last movie.

I know. We got Daddy's Home 2 coming up. Yeah, we are. We're working on it. Of course I should. Oscar, here we come. The Other Guys 2 was really fun. Yeah, it's great to see you, man.

Wait, you made an Other Guys 2 without me? No, no, no. I was saying The Other Guys as well. I didn't mean two. I meant as well. I felt like we really made Will funny in that one. That was hard to tell. But we teamed up on it, dude.

We teamed up on that shit. Yeah, we did. We had a great time. I only have a little minute here, Doug. What? You're in a hurry? Yeah. Why? donnie's in the parking lot applying for lift i told him like this is the best time donnie get in on this left and he's like all right i'll go do it so he told me how to do it in a parking lot he believed me all right so All right, so... So Mark is going to... Yeah, let's do a fucking line, too.

Yeah, he's going to say a line from a motion picture. It's not necessarily one of his own. He likes to really get into it. And just Use your microphones And just guess any Just guess Whenever you feel like it

First person to get it He says something first Look good, feel good You look good, you feel good Alright, now it's gonna start I don't know, Ike. Maybe poker just isn't your game. Rounders. Here's a go. Let's have a

spelling contest. I don't know, Ike. Maybe poker. What was the one with the robot? The robot boxes? I know. Let's have a spelling contest. The pawnbroker.

I don't know, Ike. Maybe poker just isn't your game. The Mission, starring Robert De Niro. I can't even think of a movie that has a character named Ike in it. Is this an Eisenhower movie? You want another line? Angel at my table.

No, here we go. Thank you. You tell them I'm coming and hell's coming with me. You hear me? You tell them hell's coming with me. Yuma 310 or whatever it is. No. Big business?

Shit, no. Oh, yeah? Well, you tell them I'm coming. And you tell them hell's coming with me. You hear me? Hell is coming with me. Three men and a baby. Drive Angry?

No. Howard the Duck? No. Oh, that's a good guess. Want another one? Yes, please. I think it is Howard the Duck, but keep going. No, you can't guess.

Who's saying that? Your beer can is not a microphone. You should go to a Jeopardy taping. Hey, Alex, can we guess? Survey says no. That's Family Feud. We're having feud. That was clearly family feud. Can you

edit this, Doug? Because that was family feud, just so everyone knows. I'm going to tell you this, Wyatt. Someday I want one of these billiard tables right now. Tombstone. It is Tombstone. It's fucking Tombstone! Never seen it. Last Starfighter.

Great job, Ben Acker. Nailing it. Adam McKay with a last minute guess on Last Starfighter. Was it Last Starfighter? No. Everyone applauded, so I couldn't hear. It was that other one. It got loud.

I got confused. It was Tombstone. Done. But that's because how many movies have characters named Wyatt in them? What? I need you to do me a favor. I don't ask for much. Oh, you're asking for something.

Three times in the next week. Three times? And then I want you to call Donnie for a lift. When he gets to your house, cancel the fucking ride. I'll pay for it. I'm out.

All right, you got it. All right, so normally this game that we're going to play tonight is accomplished through the contestants, the guests on the show, just shouting out their own name when they want to buzz in. But a nice gentleman gave me these buzzers, so I'd like to try these tonight. So that's going to be your sound there, Ben. Yeah. Thanks.

Yeah, that's for Ben Ackercker ben blacker gets this one wait leave leave every bit of you handing these buzzers out in your podcast oh yeah no this is why would you edit this out this is gold plus let me just clarify that this is a four-piece set, and it's for ages three and up. Oh, you got... That's fun. Yeah, it's a really good one. That's awesome. You got the best one.

You got the one where we all know if you have a boner. So that's yours, Adam. So... Buzz in. So that's yours, Adam. So, buzz in when you think you know who I'm talking about. I feel like this just got really serious here. Somebody said,

are you going to give a bunch of those silly buzzers to a bunch of comedians? Like, they're going to just hit them the whole time. I was like, no, tonight we don't have any comedians. It's all normal people. You gotta... This is going to be these

faint buzzers in the background on the podcast. I could watch that for an hour. So, the game is Alex's Jason and Deb IMDB game. And the premise is I'm going to start naming somebody's top four on IMDB and just buzz in as soon as you think you know it. But if you get the wrong answer, it's negative one point. But if you get the right answer, then negative one point but if you get the right

answer then uh depending on how many more names there are you get to guess the additional names for bonus points also a theme might emerge for example adam mckay your top four on imdb is step brothers anchorman, not the full title. Paul Rudd. The Big Short, and Anchorman 1. Okay. Would you consider that your top four?

Yeah, sure. I would throw Talladega Nights in there. I maybe would go Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Big Short. Well, I don't know. Step Brothers, I'd love to. Those four, though, I would do. Because now IMDb is set up in a way where you can get in there and set up your own top four.

You can change it. And don't they charge you if your picture is terrible on IMDb and you want to change it? There's something that's like IMDb Pro or something? Yes, and I have left my horrible picture up for eight years terrible it's a really bad it's like a half eye closed picture from the talladega nice thing the heaviest i've ever been in my life i was like 30 pounds heavier and i'm like fuck it i'm not giving you the money like i'll take it i'll take it right on the chin. I'll just go with your picture. I'm married. I got kids. I can deal with it.

Fair enough. All right. So be ready to buzz in, you guys. I just put my hand over the buzzer like I'm ready, and then everyone else did it too, which was really dorky. You're a natural director who stopped for includes spider-man I like how you're all cautious about that because there's more than one person in Spider-Man.

Finding Nemo. Spider-Man and Finding Nemo. Oh, Adam McKay buzzing in. I don't know his name, but the Allstate guy. What? You can't... Yes, I can. Yes, I can. I definitely can. The Allstate guy and the jerky jazz...

Dennis Haysbert? No, no. The black guy? The jerky jazz drummer teacher and the Allstate guy. That's J.K. Simmons. That's my guess. That's Farmer. He was J. Jonah Jameson.

We are Farmers. Yeah, that's the one he is. Well, that's my guess. But that's a fun way to play this game. It's like playing it with my parents. And that answer is incorrect. All right. Minus one for Adam.

All right, sit this one out, Adam. Because this third one's going to give it away, you guys. Platoon. Oh, shit. Willem Dafoe. Ben Acker with the Willem Dafoe. That's right. He's in Finding Nemo?

What would the fourth one have been? He's in the fish tank. Well, that's where he could pick up, Ben could pick up an extra point by guessing a fourth in his top four. What do you think? What's that one? Spider-Man what do you think what's that one spider-man 2. no what's the one why are you asking him to help you do you guys want to play as a team no spider-man all right spider-man 2. he did it he talked you into it are you trying to drag him down because they went with grand budapest hotel oh i knew that one yeah all right so you trying to drag him down? Because they went with Grand Budapest Hotel.

Oh, I knew that one. Yeah, all right. I'd like to change my answer, Doug. That's all right. Thanks. So Ben Acker has one, Adam McKay has minus one. In your face, McKay. Oh, wow.

I didn't think things were going to get so ugly. I actually stung. Like, I know he's being playful, but that was upsetting. Yeah, I didn't... I honestly didn't think things would get as ugly as your IMDb picture. By the way, I'm fine with that. Fuck you, IMDb.

It stays. Wait, IMDb. All right, here we go. Next round. The Sixth Sense. Yeah, Donnie Wahlberg was in that. So tempted. You want to jump in?

No, no, keep going. Little Miss Sunshine. Here's Adam McKay. I don't remember names because I'm 48. It's that really good Australian actress. And I can't remember her name, but that's definitely who it is. She played the mom. She was the mom. And we all know who I mean. Come on. All right, name, but that's definitely who it is. She played the mom. She was the mom, and we all know who I mean.

Come on. All right, so I got that one. Move it on. That is who it is, though. Tony. Tony. Tony. Wait.

Give him another second. I want to say Tony Morrison, but no one in this. We'll accept that. No one in this crowd knew the fits so i would get no appreciation for that um tony i don't know tony cox i have no idea so close jeff tony collette that's correct we all knew i knew it you know i need to think of two more tony we did we did know I knew it. I need to think of two more Tony Collette movies. We did.

No, you knew it. Yeah, so you get two more shots at Tony Collette. I can picture her. Keep in mind, it's not always movies, but it's generally movies. I know who she is. And she's probably done television because that's probably what it is.

Family ties. I guess Family ties. So. I guess family ties. So I'm going to go with Parker Lewis can't lose. Oh, that's a. She wasn't in that show. No. Yeah.

I was just going to secure. Do you have any anything else? I really can't think of anything else she's been into. I'll go Spider-Man 2.

Good answer. Muriel's wedding. And then the TV show was on Showtime, United States of Terra. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's where we first noticed Brie Larson on that program. At least I did. All right, so... Acker's got one point.

Ben Acker, one point for Jeff. Adam's got one point Ben Acker One point for Jeff Adam's got negative two Really zero though We all knew I knew that one Well that would make it really negative one No no Because I would have made up for the negative one To zero

Whatever I don't want to make a big deal out of it But I'm at zero. You're tied with Ben Blacker. All right. I'm at five. Wait, what? Oh, no. So many alternative facts.

Fake score. Okay. Pulp Fiction correct yeah there's quite a few people on that Hateful Eight Jeff

Samuel L. Jackson that's correct yes that was good what do you think his other two are in his top four I'm gonna go with Snakes on a Plane.

Okay. And, man, Star Wars The Phantom Menace. Very good guesses, yeah. But Django Unchained and Captain America The Winter Soldier. Right, right, right. Yeah, it's very weird. It's hard to figure out what the... Those are recent searches doug i would like

to say at this point i'm very proud of myself because in the car i would have yelled samuel jackson i did it here you did it in person you made it happen it's real and uh sam jackson is in the other guys so you worked with him yes yes how How'd that work out? He was delightful. I always improvise with my actors, and he was in the car, and we had green screen behind him, and he did the written line, and I yelled out, hey, try this line. And there was a beat, and he said, no. And the entire crew froze because they hadn't heard that the entire time.

And I just went, Sam, if it sucks, I won't use it. And then there was a long beat. And he was like, what's the line again? And then he did it. And then he got addicted to improv. He kept coming up to me going, give me more lines. He was awesome. Okay, good.

No. He did not know. Ezekiel. He just launches into a speech. All right. He just launches into a speech. All right. What just happened? Oh, so Jeff has two points now. And we don't need to...

No reason to recap the rest of it. This is everybody's chance to get in this. Friday. Friday. Now, so far we have Willem Dafoe, Tony Collette, and Samuel L. Jackson. And this one, this round starts with Friday.

And then the next movie is Boys in the Hood. Jeff! Ice Cube. Ice Cube is correct! Dominating this shit! You want to name two others? Man, I'm trying to

remember what the name of the XXX movie that he was in is, but that's probably not in his top four. XXX? Triple X? Yeah, but wasn't he in the second one? Right. It had a colon. Yeah. And then the rest of it is... I don't remember. The Legend Continues. Triple X colon. I don't remember. The had a colon. Yeah. And then the rest of it is... I don't remember.

The legend continues. Triple X colon. I don't remember. The legend continues. The legend continues. That's not it. No, my guesses are going to be Friday. My guesses are going to be next Friday.

And... And... Oh, man. I'm trying to think. And are we there yet? Whoa. No. 22 Jump Street and Straight Outta Compton.

Those make sense. Yeah. Yeah. They kind of do. Well, you know, sometimes, like, a producing, he's a producer on it, probably, so, like, that slips in there. Plus, does his face show up at some point

in Straight Outta Compton? Like at the end, like, hey, that was me! He played that character's mom, right? Oh, yeah. He came... Yeah. Take that out. Ice Cube's taking over the Big Mama's House franchise.

Alright, so Jeff's really the winner of this game, officially. That's not cool. But let's... Exactly. It's not cool to win. What if I got one?

That's a bad lesson for the listeners. So let's play one more round, because I had a tiebreaker ready to go in case I needed it. I did not need it. Jeff is the winner. But let me recap. Willem Dafoe,

Toni Collette, Sam Jackson, Ice Cube. You see a connection there at all? I don't know the pattern, no. Okay. This last one, someone's giggling over there

because they know it. This last one starts with Furious 7. Adam McKay. I got nothing to lose, so... Had nothing to win. Furious 7.

Is it really just Denzel Washington? I'm going to go Denzel Washington. Wait, Furious 7? I got confused. I got confused. I was thinking of the Western movie. Yeah. Glory.

Oh, shit. Can I help my man out here, dude? I swear to God. What? Donnie is fucking 20 minutes late and said he's dropping off a writer. Can I help out? I don't know.

What's he dropping off? A writer. What does that mean? I don't know. That's what he said six fucking times. I can't leave Adam like this to him. Alright. I made his movie funny once. I want to help him again.

Please. Think about it. Yeah, this movie was not... It is fucking Vin Diesel. We're going with Vin Diesel, Doug. I didn't say it. He fucking said it. He said it. It's Vinny D. That's right.

I'll take it. It was mercy. You're all being very kind, but I'll say it. He fucking said it. He said it. It's Vinny D. That's right. I'll take it. It was mercy. You're all being very kind, but I'll take it. Do I have to guess the next three? It seems like IMDb goes off most recent searches, right? It seems like that's one of the things that goes into it, but they also go by Thank you for saying one of the things, because you just told me

that I'm wrong. You got the same act. I gotta go punch that I'm wrong. All right, I'm going to go saving Private Ryan. And I'm going to say, I still think, saving Private Ryan and Triple X. Okay, you get to guess three. All right, and then Fast and the Furious. Just straight up Fast and the Furious, the first one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the way back to the beginning?

No. None of those? No, but Triple X was in there. Well, why did you say none of those and then one of them was in? It's like you wanted to make it worse than it was. I said no to the first one and then when you said none of those. Didn't seem like that. But whatever.

Let's not get tangled up on this. Let's not. They went with Fast and Furious 6. All right. Whatever. And the best title of not only this franchise, but of any movie ever. Because it sounds like a hand job. Fast Five.

I have seen none of those movies literally you've never seen any of the fast horror furious none of them have no desire to watch any of them well i gotta say let's talk about this there's can you put some cat stevens underneath this in post? They've had some ups and downs. Baby, it's a wild world. Don't you feel anything that has Kurt Russell in it is worth watching? I listen to the wind of my soul. Honestly, I can't imagine I would like any of them. Really? Does anyone here like any of them?

They're awesome. Some of them are all right. No offense, but five shitheads. Just applauding. Some offense. Yeah, I mean, the quality is wildly varying and in every single one, Vin Diesel won't

shut up about the importance of family. But... Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah, yeah. That's demented. It comes up a lot. It's like car thieves talking about the importance of family.

That's kind of America in a nutshell, isn't it? They're not just car thieves. They've actively just murdered innocent people. Frequently. It's about family. It's about us loving each other. Yeah, family's got to stick together. I'm a giant robot. I'm also Groot.

So Jeff is officially our winner. Congratulations, Jeff. I just missed a handshake with Adam McKay. I'm not going to give that up. And who is this poor person? Tim. Poor Tim. Tim didn't put a...

Oh, he didn't need a shithead on the deck. He doesn't need a shithead, yeah, because he took it all. Tim, come on down here and get your prizes. Tim, I just made you $100 on a lot of really bad CDs Oh my god these CDs are so fucking heavy Do I have to take them back to Pennsylvania? No I don't Yeah I wouldn't try to get those through the airport security I also wouldn't try to go back to Pennsylvania

It's not a great time to fly dude Where are you going? You left your whole box of shit. You really don't want them? No. What am I going to do with them? What am I going to do with them, he says. He's right.

This is a very sad new trend. We have a volunteer. Two nights in a row, the winner has said, I don't want that. We have somebody offering himself as a tribute for the CDs behind you. Or somebody just taking them. That's the same guy that put

the $20 in there. That guy takes any opportunity to jump up on stage. He's kind of the shit. Yeah. Will you share them with this guy, or you're just going to leave them in the dust? Oh, yeah. Oh, you guys can split them afterwards.

Yeah. Yeah, do it afterwards. Split up that box of a thousand CDs on your own time. Yeah, don't even look in there, dude. I bet you you won't find one in there that you want to keep.

That guy looked like he was living in the movie Tough Turf. Does anyone know that movie? Tough Turf, yeah. Kind of looks like he's from it. Alright, so let's do some plugs. Once again,

our friends from the Thrilling Adventure Hour have a new comic coming out that is a Thrilling Adventure Hour comic. It's not a Thrilling Adventure Hour have a new comic coming out that is a that is a Thrilling Adventure Hour comic it's not a Thrilling Adventure Hour it's called

Death Be Damned it's out February 8th oh that's not the one that had Paul F. Tompkins in it no okay sorry forgiven

and our and our Star Wars book is out March 8th and we're doing a show here in Los Angeles at Largo it's like a book release variety show

that will be for charity to celebrate it'll be Star Wars themed. We're going to have lots of pals come and do songs and sketches and stuff. That sounds awesome. It'll be fun. Do you want to do it?

When is it? March 8th. You have to tell me right now. March 8th. When is that? Is that after the 7th? It's before the 9th. It's roughly before the 9th.

Let me just figure out where that is in the calendar. What day of the week is that? Wednesday? Listen, we can decide later But I'm going to need your answer now I think hash this out right now I really want to give you an answer I'll take your answer on air

Adam, also your invite I'm a quick no I understand Oh, I love these guys. I was just being a dick for audience effect. It's fun, yeah. But Doug, let's hash this out. I'm going to be on a cruise at sea on that date.

Have a good cruise. What cruise? I think. What cruise are you on? Sea Orc? The band 311 has a cruise. Oh, that's cool. And I'm going to be there because we...

I enjoy them very much. Well, if you're not on the cruise, come to our show at Largo, please. Okay, that sounds good. Let me write that down. Don't come to show at Largo. He just did like a swirly line on his paper. I'll watch you guys from the audience and just heckle.

Thanks. You're invited to the audience. But that does sound like a lot of fun, and thank you for being here Acker and Blacker probably my favorite ACDC album Acker and Blacker and Jeff Miller has a new show on the Travel Channel

yes I do you can find me on Thrillist every day and my Travel Channel show airs February 6th at 11 p.m. It's called Trip Testers. Me and Jason Kessler, who I didn't name check in the beginning, so I apologize, Jason. But we're running all over the place doing great stuff. And Black Crystal Wolf Kids at Casey's February 25th. Very cool.

Hey, give me these buzzers back. I got to hang on to these beauties. I think that worked really well. It did work. Yeah, I thought that wasers back. I got to hang on to these beauties. I think that worked really well. It did work. Yeah, I thought that was pretty fun. All right. Can I plug? Jeff, stop. Do I get to plug?

Yeah, of course you get to plug. We have a movie coming out with Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler this summer called The House that we produced. It'll be really fun. We have another movie coming out next fall. It's a remake of Blade Runner, directed by me. No, that's like a sequel directed by Ridley Scott. Shush, shush.

That's your thing? You're just going to take credit for all Ridley Scott movies? And then after that, I have a movie coming out called Days of Thunder, which I hope you all enjoy. Wait a second. A reboot of Days of Thunder? And then ABC Nightly News I direct every night. Whoa.

You're doing so much crazy stuff. Yeah, busy. Busy guy. Well, thank you so much for being here. And thank you to all of my guests. Was that fun? Akron Blacker and Jeff Miller and Adam McKay. I'm going to be at the Tampa Improv on March 1st,

the night before I leave on the 311 cruise. So then I'll be on the cruise the 2-3. I think I can do March 8th, maybe. We'll look. We'll talk. We'll talk about it. And as always, somebody didn't

put a shit on their thing. Who was the League of their own one? Yeah, go ahead. Mark Wahlberg is a shithead? Every driver in L.A. is a shithead? Or are you just referring to the first scene

in La La Land? And everything that's happened after January 20th, 2017 is a sh-ass.