Doug Loves Movies - Dan Gabriel, Robert Duchaine, and Matt Belknap Guest

Episode Date: September 15, 2011

Doug welcomes the co-hosts of "The Best Medicine" podcast Dan Gabriel and Robert Duchaine into the Never Not Funny Studios and challenges them to a game of Leonard Maltin prepared by producer Matt Belknap.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming babies, sticky seeds with 50 azepop or kernels in his teeth. There's still not one that he won't see, cause Doug loves movies! Coming to you from the Never Not Funny Studios in Death Valley, a.k.a. Sherman Oaks, California, Thursday, September 8th, 2 Oceans 11. Yes, this is recorded eight days before plopping, so I hope there are no world events during the week in between taping it, and when you hear it, that will make us sound ignorant and stupid. when you hear it that will make us sound ignorant and stupid i want to thank at patrick roddy for the gift he gave me at the last douglas movies taping at ucb it's a uh a light box like a wooden box with a uh like a photo or almost like a negative of a photo on one side and it's a picture of me and paul tomkins jimmy pardo and john lithgow

and uh and you plug it into the wall and it lights up and it looks pretty cool yeah anyway uh great memento from a great night so thanks dude and um the reason for the early banking of this particular app is because i will be uh or i am, when you're listening to this, in Toronto, taping Douglas Movies for and during the Toronto International Film Festival, also known as TIFF. I'm still not comfortable calling it that. People are like, are you going to TIFF? And that doesn't sound like something I'd want to go do.

But as of this taping, I have no idea who the guests are going to be, except, of course course for the one dude that i do know in toronto that i gotta have on and i think you know who i'm talking about uh next after that i'll be in boulder colorado followed by colorado springs indianapolis bloomington indiana not illinois sorry uh ventura california louisville k Kentucky, and all the dates and links to the dates, thanks to my crack team, are available at the very first page on DouglasMovies.com. Just find a show you want to go to and click on it. And if it doesn't have a link, that means it's not on sale yet.

Or sold out. Or sold out. That's right. That's right, Matt Belknap. My guest today, of course, you just heard Matt Belknap's voice. He's always here in the room when we do the in-studio tapings and then often participates. And also joining me today are two stand-up buddies of mine who have their own podcast called The Best Medicine. The Best Medicine Podcast.

Yeah, Best Medicine Podcast. Please welcome Dan Gabriel and Robert Duchesne. Thanks, man. Thanks, Doug. Thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks a lot, Doug. Hey. Hey there.

Wait, there's two Dan Gabriels now. Dan ran down to the 7-Eleven downstairs to get some water. It's taking a long time. That 7-Eleven, man. Sometimes there's a bit of a line. I'm worried about him. So, yeah, hopefully I'll make it back. Well, maybe he's making some impulse purchases.

That's Robert Duchesne. They always have that stuff right there at the counter, you know. Oh, you think he's loading up on other things? Slim Jims, maybe, you know. Five-hour energy. Yeah, five-hour energy, exactly. He only needs 45 minutes of energy to get through this, loading up on uh other slim gems maybe you know five hour energy yeah five hour energies exactly he only needs 45 minutes of energy to get through this but at least he's going to be hydrating when he shows up with his water and uh so you guys your podcast is called the best medicine podcast.com

because um at pants wise each on each episode, you take live sort of advice questions. Yes. Like people ask you things, and you're just a couple of stand-up comics, and you admit that. We admit that we have no doctorates or any training whatsoever. We attempt to give people good advice or good medicine. Exactly. Laughter being the best medicine. Yeah, yeah.

Hence the name. Yeah, so we give advice to people. And, you know, we always have a comic. Laughter being the best medicine. Yeah, yeah. Hence the name. Yeah, so we give advice to people. And, you know, we always have a comic. You did the show. And we have fun with it. And I think we also give some good advice. Well, Dan, of course, has been on the show, my show, before. And he's with me a lot on the road when I do shows.

Oh, that's right. He opens for you a lot, right? Yeah, yeah. But you, of course, this is your first time. And you haven't played the Leonard Moulton game before. I've never played the Leonard Moulton game, although I saw him at Gelson's. You saw Leonard Moulton at Gelson's? At Gelson's.

Unfair advantage. When I first moved here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Dan. Hey, Doug. We got really far into it. Was there like a serious line down there? Yeah, a little bit.

You did impulse buy some high chews? Yeah, but that had nothing to do with the line. It was this lady using her ATM card and it was just taking a while. Well, that's our show. That damn lady. Let's go down there and yell at her. We were just talking about the Lettermountain game. Robert's going to do his best to

follow along. When we do it in the studio, I like to play, so Matt is going to be running the game. We'll talk you guys through it. I know how to play it. I've played it before. I'm terrible at movie trivia anyway. You mean like you don't know

actors' names? Yeah, that kind of stuff. That's understandable. You know more than you think. I don't know anything. Years would help. Years of movies, that's that's understandable do you know you know more than you think i don't do i don't know anything like your years would help that years of movies that's always helpful but you've lived a lot of life so you can remember oh i remember seeing jaws when i had hair and and then right you know short and narrow it down that way to see go after you about the bald head all the time that's kind of first thing i'm kind of his go-to he's just showing off for you doug because dan does have a nice full head of hair it doesn't look like it's going anywhere it's not going anywhere no it's staying he still looks 12 it is and i'm

40 right yes i'm 84 actually and the moisturizer works what my moisturizer works oh okay i thought your moisturizer works with some sort of uh you know way to figure out how old your your you know your skin should oh no no i was just saying that my particular oil of ola brand is is working that's why the bottles of moisturizer and subtract okay how many you use a day there's a painting of me in a garage that's aging i apologize for not looking at your um imdb pages uh prior to this and of course dan i should know the answer to this already anyway but i'm going to ask anyhow have either of you guys ever been in a movie yes we were in the same movie you're in a movie together yeah we're in a movie together? Yeah. We're in a movie called It Burns When I Laugh. Yes, we were.

It's a comedy mockumentary that was made in the 90s by our friend Ian Harris. Does the burns part, does that mean that you're smoking weed? No, it was a joke that had a reference to a joke in the movie. Really? Yeah. You should come up with a title that sells more than just one line. The guy's name was Dick Burns. It was a long time ago.

It was a long time ago. So the guy's name was Dick Burns, and so it came out of that. And you and I are both in the thing called... What's that called? Totally Baked. Yeah, Totally Baked. Which they turned into another... It was a movie. Yeah, 420 Funny.

420 Funny. It's another thing they turned in, and they didn't send us any money for that, right? No, not at all. They made this movie that was Totally Baked, and it was a terrible movie did you see it well i uh you know i it had some good parts like you're in it yeah no our our stand-up parts are very good but the um they tried to put this story arc in it kind of like a sketch story kind of

thing to it it was i i watched it myself i i got it on Netflix and I was watching it just going, oh man, I can't wait. I saw it at the premiere. It was kind of fun, but that's because everybody in the room had something to do with it. But let me just say that they spun that off into a thing called 420 Funny or something like that. And so for a while there, I was getting things like,

I just saw you on 420 Funny. And I was like, what is that? Like, I had no idea. Then I finally put it together that it was from that other movie. yeah i got a similar email i got this thing because i saw on netflix i was just looking through uh to try to rent something some some sort of comedy and i saw that it was on there but i didn't pay any attention to it i just saw oh 420 funny and then i got an email from a guy going hey you're on this thing and so I clicked on it and

sure enough it was the footage from Totally Baked that they had just respun into a separate comedy special because they had enough footage between you and me and Tom Rhodes and Al Madrigal and Ron Schock You're selling the shit out of it right now people are going to go oh that sounds great I'm going to check that out

Well it's still us doing stand up Which I hope they do. It's still, but we don't get a nickel off it. Yeah. I just did my first film, since this is the only place I get to talk about it. Oh, that's awesome. Director was Janusz Kaminski, who was a cinematographer initially. Spielberg, yeah.

Yeah, he's won two Academy Awards. Did he shoot Private Ryan? Did he shoot that one? He shot Private Ryan, and he shot Schindler's List, and one two Academy Awards did he shoot like Private Ryan did he shoot that one he shot Private Ryan and he shot Schindler's List and he won Academy Awards those were some handsome movies

that he filmed yeah and so now he's directing he's directing American Dream is the new film that he just did and Duchesne plays

a Russian mobster who's like the lead or leads the lead one of the lead is the guy that just did played John Connor in the last Terminator movie Christian Bale no no no like the lead or leads the lead one of the lead is a guy that just did uh played john connor in the last terminator movie christian bale no no no the last uh everybody says they do every time you

say it that's their first guess exactly because before terminator salvation you mean uh edward was that what it was edwardlong no that's Terminator 2 no in Terminator 3 it's that guy oh what's his name Nick Stahl yes

Nick Stahl that's it is that the guy that's why it always fucking ruins it because it's always like yeah I just worked with what's his name from

you know some film oh Tom Hanks no no I think Nick Stahl was also wasn't he in bully i think he was super creepy movie bully wait is that the movie from the 70s with the kid in high school more recent brad renfro was also in it he passed away recently though and um it was directed by

that guy uh clark uh what's his name clark du? Not Bob Clark, but another Clark. He also directed Kids. Larry Clark. Yeah, that guy makes me... I know what you're talking about. Bullies is really disturbing. So check out your new friend Nick's. Do you have scenes with Nick Stahl?

Yeah. And then how did they... Does it say Russian accent on your resume? No. How did you walk through their door? They just were hoping you'd have a Russian accent? They just, I got the, you know, from my agent said, you know, can you do a Russian accent? And I said, of course.

He said, duh. And then you went to work? Nine. Because did you have a good one already ready to go or did you have to practice? No, well, I have an acting coach. So I went to the acting coach, and we worked on it. But my whole thought was find a couple words that they pronounce heavily, like they really pronounce the Gs and stuff like that, and just hit those.

Don't go in there and try to do a heavy Russian accent. And then at the wrap party when I was talking to Janney, I call him. Janney. Janney. He was saying his Russian friends, he couldn't cast them because their accents, they would put on too thick. So I just kind of did a slight accent, and that's what he said he wanted. And can you slip into it any time, or is it hard to do now? Of course.

Maybe we should have you play the entire Leonard Mullen game as a Russian guy. That would be awesome. That would be really fun, because then you could say stuff like, I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe explain better? Nice. I love it. Or you should play a Russian guy on Best Medicine.

What would a Russian guy say? Cut her hands off. Have you tried cutting her hands off? She is whore. Cut her hands off. She will listen to you. Have you guys had a chance to go to the cinema lately? Have you seen anything?

I think, Robert, you said that you saw a movie to prepare for this podcast. To prepare for this. That's how I do. What did you go see? I went to see The Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Oh, nice. I still have yet to see that. I'm kind of holding out because everybody, I'm confident I will enjoy it, but I'm also

not looking forward to it. It just feels like I've already seen it in my head. You have. Yeah. You know what I mean? You kind of know all the elements and where it's going to go. You know you're going to be rooting against your species at some point. You're going to be rooting for the apes.

I want to go see the next one when the apes are just, you know, they've already kind of taken over. Yeah, it's like, what do we do now? It's called the boredom of the planet. What do we do now? We took over this dumb planet, now what are we going to do? They needed a scene... There's Starbucks everywhere still. There's pretty much the same thing.

They need a scene from the end of The Graduate where one ape looks at the other at the very end like, what now? Yeah. That seemed like a good idea. Maybe that wasn't such a... Now we can't just sit around eating bananas all day now we have to govern oh shit oh man i'm giving you a republic now we're in charge if you don't know how to fish you know how to fish what have you seen dan i've seen um i saw thor is that recent enough i saw thor and uh arthur and i saw

you saw arthur it was really weird how it was one movie it was this rich um uh uh son of odin i would i would love that i think russell brand should have played or Or Russell Brand could have certainly been Thor's, you know, that guy Loki that was all pissy and weird. So those two you saw in motion picture theaters or you caught up to them on demand or something? One of them, Arthur

I saw on a plane. Yeah, that's how I saw Arthur. And Thor I saw on a cruise ship. I was working on a cruise ship. I was working on a cruise ship. They had it on a loop. They have almost new movies playing on the loop on the last couple of channels in the room. So I saw Just Go With It.

Those are big, beautiful TVs, by the way. The best way to see Thor. Yeah, no, it was a terrible way to see Thor because I was like, is that a hammer? But Arthur's a good plane movie. I really thought you know the plot's kind of silly but i i thought that the he and the and the girl were pretty charming i liked her i'd never seen her before and she was uh she was cute she's in um ben stiller movie Greenberg. The movie where the entire movie you're just like, oh, Greenberg. And then she was also in

something with a bunch of girls in it recently. I find it interesting that they kept a lot of lines from the movie, from the original Arthur. They kept a couple of lines exactly the same. The problem with it to me is they should have made

a russell brand comedy about a rich guy about to lose his inheritance there's no reason to tie it into arthur yeah that only made it less appealing and also in the original arthur he didn't sober up at the end right you know what i mean like i think i think that's a funny statement about uh you know the 70s and and now it's that this this version of it had to have him sober for six months just like well at the end of get him to the greek he's sober for six months that's how they end it but on and this one but i think it's funny on the 70s arthur the deadly more one at the end he's still a drunk yeah but lies in an l he's like i'll take care of him. It's a nice message. He's my drunk. Well, you can't change people. That's the message.

That's a happier ending, I think. Russell Brand has apparently been clean and sober for a while. He's pushing that angle. He's pushing that message. It seems like every movie he does, he has to be retelling his own story in some way. Like, I was a drunk and now I'm clean. I think that's almost just foisted upon him probably yeah that's right now maybe he'll start to do something else his he was what was it that he was a voice in recently oh uh i think he's a voice in despicable me yeah

he's the voice it doesn't sound like russell brand it's not like him at all it's just they they olded him up you wouldn't even be able to tell that i think i think he's got he's an actor like when he's on snl too i think he's just an actor with more range that they're just making him play the same thing over and over again so he needs to move on but also i i've been seeing the money ball uh you know like bus bus stop ads everywhere and it just looks like brad like Brad Pitt has a perfume or something. Because it's just a picture of him. It's just sitting there.

And Brad Pitt is much more, it's in a brighter letter than Moneyball. Moneyball is like an afterthought. It's almost like the movie's called Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt the movie. But I think it looks like a good movie. Yeah, I like baseball movies when they're done right. When they're done right, yeah. And that's a cool, it's a true story. It's about the business of it more and about putting the team together and stuff and it's about the a's

which were a ragtag group of youngsters when everybody else was but i love that i love that poster because it's just like i feel like every once in a while like every 10 years brad pitt is like okay i'll do a movie where i'm just the handsome Brad Pitt. You know, like, usually he's all messed up, and it's like, I'm an actor, but this one is like, he's like, hey, I'm back, look at my hair. Like, he looks like a crazy handsome, and you're like, okay, so this is the movie that he's like, I need to buy another yacht or something.

That's the only thing that, that's the one area where I will, the movie will lose me if because in the trailers it looks like there's a lot of scenes where he's trying to convince people of things and if he gets a lot of no answers from people i'm not gonna buy that right because he's way too charismatic to be told you know no over and over again you're just gonna get lost staring into his eyes like yeah it's like why would why are these people not going along with whatever he wants to do? He's working with Jonah Hill, which is also weird, because I still think of him as being 16 years old.

Superbad wasn't that long ago. They're in an office together. I'm like, is he the intern? Why is the kid wearing a tie and talking to him like an equal? He's just his part, and that just reminds me of every other agent or agents assistant I meet in LA so it seems make sense to me so at least it's accurate Eddie's but he's a fun you know he's he's a really talented guy I like I liked seeing him in a role that's like you wouldn't necessarily think that made me want to see it like I like the idea like the story like the idea and and him being it is a little more interesting than a usual...

That's an interesting casting for a Brad Pitt baseball movie. And I trust both of their choices. If Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill want to be part of this, I'm going to give it a chance because both of those guys... The Mexican? Yeah, but... Wow, that's going back a ways.

You do make a good point. Not to say that they each haven't, you know. Yeah, anybody can be in something crappy. We were in Totally Baked. Yeah. And 420. Yeah, this 420 thing. It's like horrible.

Well, they also make deals. Like, if you want to make your movie, you got to be in this piece of shit with Julia Roberts. I bet you they didn't put it that way, but yeah. Well, I saw him in an interview interview and he was asked about her and she said uh he goes uh yeah and she does what she does so gracious yeah yeah i mean that's actor talk for her for uh i look i had to fucking do this i saw the paramount let me come to a screening of they've got a movie coming out called like crazy and this is what i wrote down about it it's a thoughtful and realistic look at the difficulties and hardships of maintaining a relationship in other words a complete bummer

it's like one of those movies where the whole time i'm like i this is exceptionally well done but i'm this is not fun to watch and who's who's in that it's um anton yelchin who's in the new friday night and he was he was um you know uh he was in the new star trek reboot okay yeah and then um the girl in it her her name is Felicity Jones, and that's what really kept me interested is she's adorable. And what's the story? The story is that she's British and he's American. They meet and fall in love while she's in school over here.

And then through visa problems and professional ups and downs and other relationships that they get into, it's just a movie about how they want to be together and they can't, they can't just never seem to make it work. So it's just so frustrating. Like I live that. Why do I need to go watch that? But I guess it's very,

uh, it's nicely observed. And so if you want to go see something that's might make you sad and remind you of all the shit relationships you've ever had. And the good ones, too. And the good ones and how they fall apart. I heard a similar review about Blue Valentine. I heard it's great, but it just rips your heart out.

And I never go, oh, I think I'll have my heart ripped out tonight. It's hard to get excited about. Yeah, it's hard to commit to that for a new year. It's a lot like Planet of the Apes. Your heart. Sorry, it's the only movie I've seen. They literally rip your heart out. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams don't rip your heart out,

but he's a drunk in it, and that's why they have problems in their relationship. So it's really aggravating to watch because he does a good job of playing a drunk. It's like an old Cassavetes movie or something where he does such a good job that it's incredibly irritating yeah he repeats the same things over and over again and yeah drunks are just take a bong hit and switch yeah switch over to the peaceful one that's blue valentine is a love letter to marijuana how they should just smoke pot instead instead of drinking

there should be Green Valentine. So let's try it, you guys. Let's try the Leonard Maltin game. Let's do this. I'm going to look bad. Change my name later. Matt doesn't even know about this name. Can I throw, I actually did see a movie in a theater yesterday.

It's not a big blockbuster movie, but I wanted to mention it. My friend is in this documentary dying to do letterman have you heard of this buddy of mine this comic uh steve mazon a very funny guy was uh diagnosed with cancer and he made it his he the doctors told me he had a couple of years to live and he made it his mission to be on letterman he just that's all he wanted in the whole world. And spoiler alert, he got to do it. The documentary. That's a really sad ending. It's a terrible movie otherwise.

But he has a documentary about him. It's kind of up for an Oscar. Like it's going to be. He's up for a chance to be up for an Oscar. Yeah. But it's great. I saw it yesterday. I'm going to be... He's up for a chance to be up for an Oscar. But it's great. I saw it yesterday. I'm going to see it tonight.

It's an hour and a half amazingly put together. Who's the guy? Steve Mazon. Is he still alive? Yes, he's still alive. He's on the Magic Johnson AIDS diet. His cancer is stable. He's packing on the weight.

Yeah, he's trying to be healthy. But he's a funny dude. I was looking at you like, that's a thing? The Magic Johnson AIDS diet? You know what he got AIDS? He gained weight. Steve's doing well. He's on the still kicking Magic Johnson program.

But did he use what was happening to him physically to get Letterman to help him out? Well, that's part of the movie. I don't want to spoil too much of the movie. But he tried to go, hey, start this campaign of people emailing in to Letterman going, hey, have this guy on because he's got cancer. And they sent him this email going, we're not going to put you on just because you got cancer. And he was like, I don't want to be on because I got cancer. I want to be on because I'm funny.

And I just thought maybe you'd look at the tape a little sooner because I got a shelf life. I got a ticking clock. Ticking clock. Ticking clock, yeah. Clicking talk. But it was very good. Well, this is my make-up wish.

It's called Dying to Do Letterman. Oh, being on Doug Lowe's movies? Yeah. Playing a game you don't understand? Exactly. Think you'll be good at? But here's the new wrinkle, Matt, that I just added. Oh, my gosh.

And what's the name of the movie again just one more time so people dying to do letterman okay i mean i'm all right what i'm just saying now if i get cancer i gotta pick something else that i want to do dying to do ferguson yeah yeah i know dying to host snl there you go that's a That's a good target. Dying not to do Ferguson. Hey, this guy's dying. Please don't have him on.

What if you were just like, I've got cancer. Will Jay Leno go off the air? Forever, please. That is my make-a-way. That is what I wish to happen. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to do that. You can't die. I'm going to do that you can't die

I'm going to stick around I got mavis to feed I'm going on a hiatus for a couple weeks the new wrinkle Matt is that me and my guests are going to play for people who tweeted their shitheads in advance to me

along with hashtag Douglovesmovies on twitter a bunch of people I put out the request a little earlier They're shitheads in advance to me, along with hashtag Douglovesmovies on Twitter. A bunch of people, I put out the request a little earlier, and a bunch of people piled on. So I'm going to let, instead of, obviously we can't see their name tags, so what we're going to do is let Dan and Robert pick who they want to play for. Just I'll give you a couple of choices, and you can tell me who you want to play for. And then if you lose, that person I will say, I will name whoever they wanted me to name

as a shithead at the end of the show. And if you win, they will win something. They can just write to me on Twitter and say, hey, what did I win? And we'll figure out something. That sounds good. Because I don't know where they live. If they live near where I'm going to be, maybe I'll give them'll figure out something. That sounds good. Because I don't know where they live. If they live near where I'm going to be, maybe I'll give them tickets to a show.

If not, maybe I'll send them a CD or something. Send them my new CD. But the real winner is the loser. Depends on how you look at it. You get to have Doug call somebody that you hate a shithead. But people don't really use it

for vendettas as much as they just use it for a chance to say something silly or give a shout out. Did you choose these at random or did you actually like their shithead picks enough to select them? I, you know, I picked shithead picks that'll be, you know, more entertaining than the usual. I assume. Random stuff. Yeah.

But I also, these guys aren't going to pick based on who their shitheads are. They're going to be based on which Twitter handle they like because I want to share the Twitter handles of these people. So let's go with Robert first. Would you like to play for Pete Borea, B-O-R-E-A, or DenialTwister31? I'm going with that one. I think you're going to be pleased with that one. DenialTwister31

So Pete Borio DenialTwister30 Isn't that your Twitter? Who are you playing for? And then Dan I'm gonna give Dan a couple choices Would you like GunNJ84 Or

GunNJ84 Probably And then At devs4life or Gunja Gunja84 probably and then at Doves4Life D-E-V-S-4-Life-17 I don't know what I'm going to go with Gunja because it sounds like he smokes weed through a gun or he'll come after you

with a gun if he does the gun that shoots weed and then I'm going to choose between uh at banana underscore hand because i like that banana hand and then or at also not tj miller because tj miller's handles not tj miller so somebody started also not tj miller oh that's great and that's that's who i'm gonna play for so tj miller i didn't realize that you were actually that was all in itself a game that you just like raised and dashed three people's hopes that they would be still got their name on and there's a couple here that i wrote down that didn't banana lots of people who didn't get their name on so now the

idea is you know next time i'll give you the heads up again everybody will try again so yeah it's a good point that's been a positive those people also won a shout out which is better than a lot of people yeah nice name banana hand all right i'll say i'll say the other name that i that i picked out of the out of the batch of names i got today uh at elliot elliot with a bunch of o's that was that was a cute one is that an et shout out reference i assume so or's parents had really shitty spelling. Or maybe their keyboard is... You passed out while spelling it. It could be from Scrubs.

All right, so here we go. Let's do this. Matt's going to start the game off. It's the Leonard Maltin app on the phone. Do you want to start with Dan and then go to me and then to Robert so he'll be third in line to get a good deal of what's going on? This is the hardest part is to remember which direction

we go. So we're going to start it clockwise. Yeah, because we change direction each round. It's ridiculously complicated. Okay. I don't have to keep up with it, do I? No, you don't have to pay attention. Hopefully Matt and I have got it. Last time we did it in studio with Garfunkel Notes,

the order got messed up and the wrong person won, but who really cares? Yeah, and I don't. Well, hopefully there'll be no travesty of justice like that today. Yeah, no travesties of justice today, please. So obviously I'm no longer giving years for the people to select, but they're still going to select a category, right? Yeah, yeah.

Okay. Dan can pick the first category. Dan, one category is based on your hometown of San Francisco. Am I right? Yes. Yes. You're from San Francisco. These are movies that are based in San Francisco.

Wow. Or the other category is Best Medicine, named after your podcast. It's movies with either the word best or the word medicine in the title. Okay. Love it. Or podcast. That's so good. There's medicine in the title. Or a podcast.

There's no movies with podcasts. Pick between those. I will take San Francisco movies. Way to promote the show. We'll get around to that. Alright.

This movie. I was trying to think of all the movies with best in medicine, and I can think of a lot more San Francisco movies than. Yeah, why wouldn't you pick San Francisco? You're from there. Yeah. This movie came out in 1996. It received two stars.

So if you think you know the answer, don't answer, because there's a process that we go through to determine who gets to try to name it okay yeah it's like it's like joking i wouldn't yeah yeah i was i was worried you might blurt out a movie if you thought you knew it right so just first there will be bidding uh two stars two stars yeah and there's 14 names okay uh let's see. Plenty of contrivances and story holes, says Leonard or whoever wrote that. And the bidding starts at 14. Contrivances, story holes. I'm going to go seven.

Seven. I'll go... I'll just go six just to keep it simple. Okay. Robert. And then Robert, you can either bid. You to keep it simple. Okay. Robert. And then Robert, you can either bid, you can name it in less names. This is reading from the bottom of the list of 14 names up, so it's the most obscure names in the cast theoretically.

Wow, okay. So you can either go four names or you could say to me, name that movie, and I'd have to name it in five, no, six names? Six. Six names. So you could either bid five or say name it in six

or you could bid even lower if you think you've got a handle on it, like if you really know your San Francisco movies. And you lose a point. If I don't get it right, if you say name it and I don't get it, then you get the point. You get the point. I get the point. Yeah, so that's how you win if you're not that knowledgeable.

Name that movie. Oh, boy. So I get six names out of 14. Here we go. It's from 1996. I think you're gonna like these names one of these names i believe is a friend of yours oh my and i should really know it foul uh i could be wrong about that but he's okay he's a comedian uh six names claire forlani

anthony clark you know him right i can stop you right now it's the rock the rock yay the rock yeah i think i i'm trying to think i recently thought of the rock oh i'm i'm working on a uh a writing project where i wrote something about the rock so it was already kind of in my head but yeah claire ferlani is in it and in a minor role and there are a lot of holes there's a lot of contrivances i wouldn't have known it was 96 it could have been anywhere in the last 20 years as far as i know okay so i get the first point and uh we were playing to two points and um since robert challenged me we start with dan again but this time we go in the other direction towards roberts you'll be the next to bit after dan but dan gets to pick again okay so i'm gonna throw a new category in there it's

called on the couch this is uh movies with the you know psychiatry yeah that that world or i will go back to best medicine either best or medicine in the title. I'm going to go for the best medicine to plug the podcast. There you go. Uh, 1984, one and a half stars, unpleasant and unfunny. That's the first line.

That's the first three words of the review. Unpleasant and unfunny. Okay. Uh, six names. This is in San Francisco. Only six names. Yeah.

No, this is best guess. This is a little tough. This is reaching back. Six names, 84. Yeah. One and a half stars. Yeah. And what was the review?

It was terrible? Unpleasant and unfunny. Unpleasant and unfunny. So I'm going to go ahead and assume that we're looking for the word medicine. Interesting assumption. How many out of six names do you think you can do? Gosh. I don't know.

Five. I'm going to go high just because I'm not exactly sure. Well, I'm going to stick with Name That Movie. Wow. Man, you just don't want to play this game. This will be fun. Well, listen. All right.

What is my guy's handle? You're playing for Denial Twister 31. Denial Twister 31. All right. Well, I still want to point if you don't get it. Yeahial Twister 31. All right. Well, I still want to point if you don't get it. Yeah. Yeah.

So, all right. Since it's early in the game, I think that I should not take the chance. Okay. Smart. No, you're playing it smart. So, he gets five out of six names. You're going to get everybody but the lead. Okay.

I still think you might not know it. I think I know it. Maybe. All right. The lead. Interesting. You will know it after five. I can almost guarantee you that. I don't know Dan well enough to know if he will get this. Maybe. All right. The lead. Interesting. You will know it after five. I can almost guarantee you that.

Okay. I don't know Dan well enough to know if he will get this. But here we go. First name is a throwaway. David Rash. Don't know who that is. Oh, I got it. I know who that is.

You do? Yeah. He was not only one of the passengers on United 83. 93. 93. But he was also. I could also be wrong. In't know he was also the star of uh there was a short-lived comedy detective show called hammer oh yeah yeah yeah wow okay there you go great

actor not sledgehammer sledgehammer sledgehammer oh it's sledgehammer yeah with the guy who looks like uh peter saterra yeah kind of yeah david rashid yeah wait is that him that's the star of the show oh wow okay i never called it hammer i meant sledgehammer i love that guy yeah he's always great and everything yeah he is anyway he's in this okay he's in this along with uh helen shaver sledgehammer the movie i already know what this is. Helen Shaver, George Dizunda. Here we go with some big ones. Kate Capshaw. And second to the top, Eddie Murphy. From 1984, and it has Bastard Medicine in the title.

Wow. Hold on. It's funny, because we were already talking about the other that's in this i guess we were the lead actor we've already mentioned some one of his movies today this is uh ah eddie murphy movie from 84 that has. Yeah. It doesn't, doesn't, doesn't get more. I mean, that's a lot of,

that's a lot of really, yeah. Robert really handed this one to you. And yet it was still brilliant strategy. Shot in San Francisco. I know it takes place at the very first scene in the movie. I'll never forget. Cause for some reason I saw the opening scene a couple times and then the rest of it I only saw the one time.

But the main character wakes up to his alarm radio or whatever is Rick Dees in the morning. He's talking about how many Dees agrees it is outside in L.A. That's a random detail that doesn't help me at all no i knew it wouldn't help i'm not gonna sit here and give it to you but if you don't have it so far it's not gonna come to you i don't know a few goals before it'll come to you um the top name let's see if the top name helps you dudley moore um it's such a forgettable movie it's such a big bomb for both of them it was like people were like are these guys going to be in movies anymore that's how badly it wasn't eddie

murphy i've never seen but my understanding is eddie murphy isn't that big a part they just kind of he got big off of snl and they were like get him in there he got big off of uh 48 hours yeah and it was the same this is three 48 hours. No, it came out after. The same year, I think, or at least a year after, probably. Yeah, yeah. I think he had a couple movies under his belt. Trading Places was 83. I don't know. It's Best something. Best Man.

You narrowed that down. Best Defense. The Best Defense. The two of them end up like in a war zone they've got the schematics defense it's about weapons or something yeah a specific tank i just i just remember the video box from the video store it was like dudley moore is holding up a schematic and eddie murphy is in the schematic yeah like they don't have scenes together yeah they like they realize they need to just draw a picture to try to make it seem like Eddie Murphy has a bigger part in the movie.

But one and a half stars, Leonard. That's super generous. You would think half a star. Bomb. It's a bomb. Do they go half stars? I like both of those guys, and it's terrible. Wow, maybe they should have called it a good offense. Ironically, how I played that round.

All right, so yeah, you got a point. I've got a point. Ouch. And then we're starting with me this time and then going. Clockwise again. Which way did we go last time? We went counter. He told him to name it, so it has to come this way.

You're going to start, Doug, and then it'll go to Robert. So let's see. He told him to name it, though. So it was going that way. It was going that way. Well, it was going that way. You going well it's going that way you're right so it goes this way this time yeah it goes clockwise meter robert to dan unless we screwed up last no we did it right okay i think uh all right so now we're back to san francisco treats

uh or on the couch i go san francisco i love that category excite okay you you rocked it before yeah i've i i used to have a theory that if a movie was set in San Francisco, it wasn't going to be bad because there's a lot of good ones set there. Yeah.

That's true. Let's see if this is... And then Sweet November came out. Wow. Yeah. Dashed my whole theory. This is...

I mean, So I Married an Axe Murderer didn't help much. Hey, I liked So I Married an Axe Murderer. A lot of people Hey, I liked So I Married an Axe Murderer. A lot of people say that. I liked that movie. Stephen Wright.

Do they like that movie in Russia, So I Married an Axe Murderer? This is true. Because a lot of people marry axe murderers. It's a true story. In Russia every day. Okay, go. All right, 2008. Ten names.

Three and a half stars. Leonard calls it exceptional. Trying to find some... An expansive screenplay. Covers a lot of territory. Wow. That's all you got? An expansive screenplay.

That's all you're giving me? That's all you're giving me that's all i'm giving you okay oh wait names 10 names you got something else three and a half stars uh no no i i think the okay uh i'll you know i'll start off at like say eight names okay ro. Robert? Seven names. Name that movie. Handle it. I was worried that would happen. You knew that was going to happen. I'll throw you one. I was worried to go too low a number

because I know you'd say name that movie. I didn't know which one I was going to go because you already have a point and the win is two points, right? That was going to be tricky for me. I don't think that was your strategy. I'm forcing you into the field of play. I think it was just a fuck with me.

Give him the names really quick because we've got to get through it. You haven't played a round yet. Here we go. Oh, I'm playing. Here we go. This is doable, I believe. I know you're not good with names,

but in the abstract, this is doable. Or knowledge. Steven Spinella, Joseph Cross, Dennis O'Hare, Victor Garber, Allison Pill, Diego Luna, and possible giveaway, Josh Brolin. Okay. What year?lin. Okay. Oh, I know. What year? Hot sack.

2008. 2008. 2008. Nicely played, Dan. And is this in San Francisco? Yep. Yes, it is. Shit.

Because I only know one with Josh Brolin. What's that, W? Okay, two. No, the other one. because I only know one with Josh Brolin. What's that, W? Okay, two. No, the other one. The Goonies? No. Oh, the other one in Texas? No Country for Old Men?

The one in Texas, yeah. I was thinking W is probably also in Texas. I haven't seen it. At least partially. Jonah Hex? I'm just watching that shit

set in San Francisco expansive screenplay you spent some time in San Francisco yeah yeah yeah you left your heart there play the punchline you had a flower

in your hair just come up with a movie that you think might have been a few years ago that took place in San Francisco I have no you think might have been a few years ago that took place in San Francisco?

I have no earthly. Okay, the point goes to Dan. I can't stand it anymore. It's called milk. That is right. It is milk. That's what I was going to say. And now it's all tied up at one you know what i realized though is that it could have also been uh because it was around the same time maybe even the same year and i think josh brolin's also in it uh although those other guys aren't is um zodiac that's what i would that's what i that would have been my guess yeah i thought it was zodiac i wouldn't call that is it is it really san francisco no because the night stalker was all there's a lot of like the transamerica building and stuff

in the movie yeah all kinds of stuff like you'll get the um it's true it goes around like above the city you know like watching his car drive off yeah yeah you know but you're right it goes beyond the city limits there's no question i don't know if that was one of the rules of this category. It cannot leave the city limits. It's not like these Zodiac killers are murdering people in Chinatown. Right. That's true. It kind of has to have a remote location here and there.

Yeah, exactly. Whereas Milk was made in the cast. I'm pretty sure it was pretty much just... And a really good movie. That was one of my favorite movies that year and all the performances are really good really good yeah Oscar winner Sean Penn for that role

alright guys it's all tied up and someone has to win this thing I probably wouldn't have gotten it with Sean Penn really I'm just terrible

at putting in movies I don't you know I love film but I just can't you know I just don't well you're still in this thing you can make one of us

name it and fail exactly okay so we were going that way so now we're going to go that way starting with you that time hard way dan challenged robert i believe so so then it should have been that way that time so now i should go this way and now it's gonna go robert and come this shouldn't start with you because you weren't in that skirmish i was oh you're right you're right okay so good but uh but we go to dan after yes yeah uh yes uh right i don't know yes

okay um on the couch or best medicine no one's done on the couch yet i want to point out i know but i i really like the ones where there's a word in the title because that helps because it's easy yeah that's true i because i can i can think of movies that have best or medicine where's psychiatry psychiatry it's like that's in a lot of movies and acroid movie and there was but that was called couch trip so i doubt you'd call the category the word couch good point and then psychiatry has been so many other things um so but i'll just just for fun oh wow you're gonna switch it up i was all i had it loaded i was loading up best medicine but this medicine will just be easier for me but uh but let's let's do the one that we let's do on the couch yeah all right here we go 1991 three stars and 10 names

and leonard says uh very funny outing. Only at the very end does it succumb to silliness. How many names? Ten. Ten names. Alright, I'll go... What year? Ninety-one. I...

Ninety-one. I gotta go ten names, I think, just because... I... 91. I got to go 10 names, I think, just because... I don't think Robert would tell Dan to name it in just nine. This is heavy strategy happening. Yeah, so I say 10. All right, I'm going to say 8. Just because you didn't want to do what he said. Well, no, just because I wanted it high enough that i'd have a good show if i do it too low you're automatically going to do name that movie

you know if i do eight maybe i think i can do it in seven or maybe you'll just be a prick and say name that what's the genre uh well i can't tell you that but i can say it was um it's got psychiatry it's got psychiatry and it's got psychiatry in it from 91. It's a very funny outing. Funny outing. And it does succumb to silliness. Silliness at the end. At the end, it succumbs to silliness. Damn it, what the silliness.

So, sounds and lamps. Gave it three stars. That was a pretty silly ending. It does succumb to silliness. You think she's at one door. She's at the other door. Dr. Lecter. Dr. Lecter.

It's the classic wrong door bit. Oh, you do have one point. Shit. It's all tied up. Whoever wins this takes the cake. I guess I've got to do it balls to the wall and say I can do it in seven. All right. All right.

Way to put your balls on the wall. That's even more balls on the wall. Might be an easy and unfair win, so I'm going to say six names. Okay. This is getting very interesting. Thank you for being a gentleman i feel like doug knows what it is no if he knew what it was he would have gone zero or something he's he doesn't mess around really um i've got i've got an idea but i swear years are so weird to me this movie could have cut the movie I'm thinking of could have been 85 or 97 and this is 91 we're talking about so Doug

has been over 10 years off on the I thought Titanic came out in 2007 came out in to the mask it was the mask with Carrey. I was like 10 years off. Maybe both, though. Yeah, because there's also the Eric Stoltz Mask movie. Right. I wasn't confusing them, no. Oh, okay. Because they're basically the same.

All right, so you said name that movie. Jim Carrey Mask is uglier. Six Names, is that what we're doing here? Yeah, I named that movie in six. I have to name in six? Yeah. Here we go. And it's from 91, has psychiatry and silliness at the end.

Mm-hmm. Solid outing, though. Solid. Sounds like somebody just took a good dump. Doris. And a solid outing. Doris Belak. Belak.

Belak, okay. Fran Brill. Mm-mm. Roger Bowen. I didn't know who that is. Susan Willis. Mm-mm. Tom Aldridge. No.

And sadly, this isn't going to help either. Catherine Irby. Or does it? I think it does. I think she played the daughter in What About Bob? Yeah! Nice! That's the one I always thought it was.

And then as soon as he said her name, it helped lock it in. I thought for a second it was that movie Crazy People, another Dudley Moore movie. I think that was 80s. It seemed around 91. I'll look it up for you. Matt's obsessed with Dudley Moore.

Or I thought it was either that or Awakenings. Yeah. Was that psychiatry? I thought that was more like drugs i thought it was given drugs i guess yeah i guess it's a psychiatric drug but no you're right it's a guy who's in a some sort of a yeah he's got a fog and illness that's like that you can't just sit down on a couch and talk to him yeah he's not crazy he's uh messed up in the head but that's still a psychiatrist you're right i think you're I'm going to look up crazy people real quick.

So I won for also not TJ Miller. So also not TJ Miller. Be sure to give me a shout out on Twitter. That's too negative. So that's really it's TJ Miller. Say what did I win? Yeah. What a great idea for a podcast.

Come up with something that you're really great at And then bring your friends and humiliate them But no, here's the thing I always lose I'm just talking with you He runs the game when they do it That was 1990 So you were very close This was the first time I've ever won against the guests

I think I think you might be right Maybe second, no I think it's the second time. And he beat the best medicine. Well, if it had been crazy people, I'd have been upset that I didn't hold my ground. You did have better advice. I'm glad I was at least wrong. You made the right choice to challenge him.

Hey, yeah. And if you guys listening need an entry point into the best medicine podcast, I did an episode. You are episode seven, I believe. Yeah are episode seven i believe yeah episode seven and uh and listen to that and i'm sure you'll like it want to hear more you always have uh great guests on there lots of yeah you did a great job friends of ours oh thanks appreciate it um okay so uh like i said also not tj miller needs to get in touch with me and then did you guys have anything else to plug this is this is going to come out on September 16th, so anything around there or after,

you're going to be with me in Columbus. I'll be with Doug in Columbus and in Chicago. Chicago at Zany's. Yeah. And anything for you coming up, Robert? Well, I didn't notice it coming out so far down the road. I'm in Sin City Comedy in Las Vegas. Robert will be in Vegas pretty much whenever you listen to this.

Robert will be in Vegas. I'm pretty sure I'll be there a few weeks after. Yeah, and listen to the podcast, Best Medicine. Go to thebestmedicinepodcast.com. You guys always say where you're going to be and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you're in L.A. on September 29th, be sure to come to CineFamily for my monthly movie interruption residency.

The film is to be announced. I'm working on something I think will be really good, but if I can't get that, I'll get another movie. Super hire me. No, no. We watch a movie, and me and a bunch of other comics, I'll have you guys on sometime. We just sit in the front row with microphones and talk during it.

I love that. It's a lot of fun. I love that. And you can play the Leonard Mullen game against Dan Gabriel if you wear a name tag and he likes your name tag to my stand-up shows at the Funny Bone in Columbus October 16th and 17th and Zany's

on October 15th. Two of those are at 420, the ones on Saturday and Sunday when they fall on a Saturday and Sunday. Thanks again to Robert Duchesne and Dan Gabriel and as always Matt Belknap, and we'll have Sam Levine back sometime soon. And according to DenialTwister31 and GunJay84,

TJ Miller's beard is a shithead, and 9-11 is a shithead. So I'm hoping nothing really horrible happened on this anniversary of 9-11 is a shithead. So I'm hoping nothing really horrible happened on this anniversary of 9-11, because now it's five days later or four days later. Yeah, this is the 10-year. Wow, I just realized that. People can follow me on Duchenne Comedy on Twitter.

Well, yeah. You got that in right under the wire. I'm at dangabriel.net. The show is over now. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of Gold is viewing prowess makes him cocky. There's no room in his heart for you because Doug loves movies.