Doug Loves Movies - Doug Mellard, Arden Myrin and Bri Pruett guest

Episode Date: September 25, 2020

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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming baby, sticky seeds with 50 acid pop or kernels in his teeth. There's still not one that he won't see, cause Doug loves movies! Hey, hey, hey everybody! My name is Doug, and I love Mellard. What? This is Doug Loves Movies, coming to you once again from are we there yet for another homes alone edition it's thursday september 24th 2020 and my guests today are the aforementioned doug mellard i could have said this other one too i like to say i love and then a different m word than movies i could have said art and Marine. And also joining us today, Brie Pruitt. Hello, everybody.

Hi, John. Hey. This is the part where I encourage everyone to talk over each other. Hi, Brie. Hi. I'm so excited. Yeah, I love it. Let's meet everybody individually, but not in alphabetical order today you'll see why because i've had the weirdest timing like all my guests on these shows i like to do everything in

alphabetical order but it ends up the men always get to go first i don't i don't know what i'm doing wrong but i want ladies first sometimes so let's say hi to arden marine hello hello doug how are you i'm good i'm excited i got a copy of your book yes little miss little compton little miss little compton yeah that's a lot to take in so that's it's a journey so i mean is it safe to assume this means that you were in a child beauty pageant in Compton, California? That's exactly what the book is. It doesn't seem like you would win in that. No, I grew up in a town called Little Compton, Rhode Island.

Oh! Yes! And if you look at the photo on the back, can see i was not a beauty queen i looked an awful lot like barb from stranger things doug wait what is that oh barb yeah she's the one that dies immediately yeah she's the one that gets eaten by the demogorgon who's like which is the end of the diving board i definitely had a like I would say I had a pretty awkward, like an eight-year awkward year chunk. And I feel like that gal wrote the book. Barb wrote it.

Okay. Well, it's good you didn't look like a demogorgon, though. You know, I didn't look much better than a demogorgon. I would say I had the confidence like the unwitting confidence of like the high school cheerleader there's a photo on the back with like my collar popped and like you can tell i feel like i'm nailing it and nothing could be further from the truth i begged the publisher to let that be my cover photo but they they shut it down much to my dismay yeah they wanted to go sexier on the cover yeah so then i i tricked them and had a fake set of adult braces made i was like okay i'll wear a

pretty dress but i'm gonna put on adult braces at least well you uh you and your publishers were kind enough to send me a box that not only has the book in it but also some other like fun items yeah yeah and uh so i would love to do a unboxing of it with you like on instagram nothing would please me more than uh yeah that was all that was all my design that was all my excitement i didn't think i'd be releasing a book in a pandemic. And I thought, I want to send everybody a fun present. And that's what I've been doing. Well, thank you so much for that.

Thank you. Also joining us today, for the first time since we've been Zooming, but has been on the show before, both in Portland and in Los Angeles, I believe, it's Bree Pruitt. Hello. Yes, I did a Brea show. Brea. Ooh. I was fun at the shows I did in Brea

because they were lightly attended enough that we could probably still do them there in the pandemic. It's a big theater, too. It was really fun. Yeah, there were cool people. It's a huge room that we could easily socially distance in there, but I don't know where they're at with opening up again. How are you doing with stand-up comedy, Bree? Have you had a chance to do it anywhere? I'm doing okay with it. Yeah, occasionally my weekly LA show, Faded, went to Twitch. So we do like a hang. We don't do stand up. We do witticisms.

It's going okay. Have you done stand up on Zoom yet? Yeah. You have? Yeah, I did a flapper show, which was really well done. You know, it's all about having the tech nailed down. And some clubs can do it. Some clubs can't. It's yeah, it's kind of a crapshoot right yes and it's and it's a crapshoot on a bigger level than just um you know like you can have all the tech rehearsals you want but the internet has to cooperate in both places right like if you're having if two people are talking you got to have good internet in both places so it's just amazing how much television right now actual television like the emmy awards yeah are you watching people freeze and all of that shit yeah that that what did you think of the emmys doug i i thought i liked the opening i thought they did it well, considering. I thought they did a good job.

Yeah, but it's, first of all, I mean, I know they want to have a long show because they probably charge a lot more for advertising, even though the ratings aren't that hot anyway, especially now when people probably really don't care. But I feel like I've been, you know, I watch every award show in the pandemic because I'm just fascinated with how they're going to pull it off and if they're going to pull it off. And I just love the shitty moments and the beautiful moments.

Cause also it really creates things that wouldn't have happened, uh, under normal circumstances, you know, like Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Kimmel pointing out how, yeah, fire is a silly thing to fuck around with yeah that was so crazy like there's a wildfire going you know destroying california and they're like putting starting a fire on purpose that they also have trouble putting out yeah that made me panic watching that and crazy and then i started to panic when the whole friends cast was together maskless.

Like, there was something like really, four of them really close together. It was like, it was just, I just thought, we keep, you know, I feel like we're already been more liberal about the masks and give everybody a hard time. And I'm like, they, what is happening? What is going on? Yeah. It is weird. The images like that, like I, duringmy's monologue where he faked it you

know and showed audience from the previous year it's very clever but i would have been fine with them admitting it was faked before doing it because it does make the jokes work better if you have people to cut to that are laughing even if they're laughing at a joke from last year but but the uh the fact that the first four or five minutes of the show looks like he's performing for an audience and there's tons of dummies in america you know oh look they're all together those fucking hollywood hypocrites right and then like several minutes into his monologue he admits there's no audience there, but I was just tense waiting for him to admit that, because I was like, there's no way they're just going to do the whole show this way, are they? I know, it did make me panic a little

bit. I did keep thinking about how it looked, like, to the rest of the country, as, like, we, you know, California's been on our high horse about social distancing and i just thought oh my god like it went on for real i think i thought the jokes were great i thought he did a great job but it went on for a really long time before they admitted it yeah and a lot of times when people get together they'd stand like he and anthony anderson stood right next to each other like it's just it's so weird yeah that there's just some sometimes the hubris of being rich and healthy yeah just makes people go ah just take go ahead and take that chance but if Jimmy or Anthony got COVID they would be so unhappy it is very unpleasant to have

just because you might get over it doesn't make it not bad to get. I know. I have a friend who had it who did not have the lung part, did not have, and she was like, Arden, it is so gnarly. Like the nights, apparently, it's like a dragon. Every night just takes you on your worst ride that you could possibly imagine. And she said it just has a really long tail where you think you're over it but then like all of your muscles have atrophied you know and she didn't even have a really bad case but she said it was gnarly yeah so i'll be over here for now me too also joining us is doug mellard hey buddy Hey, dude. Been a minute. Yeah. Days, maybe. Co-host of Wide World of Dugs, of course, which Arden and Bree are both welcome to join us on there sometime.

It's a show where we get together and talk about how boring the name Doug is. And we've been having a pretty good time with it. And we'll be back with another new episode of that show one week from today. Unless you're listening to this on another day, then I can't help you. But they could listen to it. It still could match up somehow, right? Yeah. You can also see Doug and I together on a thing called two friends on uh vultures ig live cool vulture the pop culture website they have an ig live and they do a couple different things

but art and you or your uh publicist peeps should reach out to them because the show is basically you know doug and i wanted to promote wide world of doug so they said come on our show two friends and what they do is they just get two people to go on instagram live together and talk to each other for half an hour and then they just post it on all of all of vulture's stuff that's real i'm gonna write that down yeah and it was it was super fun to do but also cool that you know we're reaching a new audience through uh through vultures uh audience but you arden you've got so many good friends that people would love to hear you just shoot the shit with for half an hour that'd be really fun i'm writing that down maybe i there's all sorts of people i'd love to chat yeah i think they'd be

happy to have you you know i mean i don't know if you've ever gone by their offices and broke something, but I think... Not this year. It's going to be my first stop when the pandemic's over. You were on the last show. I think you were on the last live show I did was at Sketch Fest was Doug Loves Movies. That was fun. That was the last live show you did in january i think so holy cow i don't think i did another one because i was doing something in february and then and then i was like traveling a lot in february and then and then we got sort of

shut down yeah and then yeah dot dot have you i'll take i'll take this question to brie have you seen a film in the cinema anytime lately what do you mean in the cinema like if you go into a theater there's theaters are starting to reopen really oh no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But then another option, would you consider going to the drive-in? I would consider going to the drive-in. I think if I were going to go to the drive-in in the L.A. area, there are a lot of live events at the drive-in. There's some stand-up comedy and drag shows that I would like to attend. Oh, that sounds fun.

Wouldn't that be fun? You know, drag queens get all up on your windshield and you tip them. You know, that sounds fun wouldn't that be fun uh you know drag queens get all up on your windshield and you tip them you know and that's fun uh but uh no i have not seen it i have not seen a cinema film have you seen a cinema film doug no there's a the amc in century city reopened with um 25 capacity i think and you have to wear a mask the whole time you're in there. And I'm just not that much of a Christopher Nolan fan. To go through all of that. I do want to see, I want to see Tenet, but I also feel like Tenet is still going to be just as good.

It's going to be the same movie if I watch it a few months from now. Sure. And it's the kind of movie they'll, you know, if movie theaters ever do go full open again, they'll revive it all the time to show it on the big screen because everybody, so many people are going to end up just having to watch it at a drive-in

or at home or whatever. Same with you, Arden. You think you haven't been trying that? any movie going experiences no I'm not I'm not that I'm going to a drive-in I'm going to a drive-in to see but it's not I'm gonna see the uh The Walking Dead premiere next what I'm gonna be there too I'm gonna be at the midnight one are you gonna be at the midnight one. Are you going to be at the midnight one? What are you, crazy? I said no. They were like, what do you want, 8 o'clock or midnight?

I was like, 8 o'clock, please. I'm the dummy that picked midnight. I'd be the guy sleeping in his car during a zombie movie if I went to the midnight one. Okay, all right, I'm a night owl. So, yeah, I'm excited about it. We can honk at each other as i'm leaving and you're in and i love that was that is that your first drive-in experience no i went to um i've talked about this on the show before so i won't tell the whole story but

i went to a uh drive-in for a like a revival screening i saw uh coming America. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, it was super fun. But the drive-in was just, I loved, I've always liked drive-ins, you know, and I, as an adult, kind of stopped going to them. But I've always had a thing for them. And I also love that you're just in your car with the window rolled up. I'm excited. I haven't been since i was a kid i'm really i think i saw grease and uh when i was really little and so i'm excited that's the last one i saw that's the last time you went to a drive-in they don't really have many near me

in rhode island they didn't have a lot right because they would be so seasonal there'd only be like two and a half months out of the year you could even do it. Yeah, yeah. And I know Doug is in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they've outlawed motion pictures. It's actually silent films here. There's like a person playing piano on the side, you know, space though. No, actually, I actually just discovered they do have a drive-in here i didn't know that until like a few days ago so i'm actually pretty excited to give that a shot what is it now the other thing about drive-ins that was different from when i was a kid i mean

the biggest drive-in in san diego near where i lived the aero drive-in was just one screen in a giant parking lot and you know and it was just yeah you know swap meet on weekends and um that but now lots of drive-in theaters are like you know it's a big circle and there's anywhere from five to eight different uh screens with different movies playing so it's kind of fun to just look at the other movies even though you can't hear them and i guess you could change the station on your radio now but it used to be you'd have a speaker in your car and you'd only get the movie that you were looking at but what's my point what am I talking about so do you know what's playing there I just

looked it up it looks like Ferris Bueller's tonight which would be cool Magic Mike Tron Legacy is coming up I don they're just showing old stuff? Yeah, I think so. I don't think there's any new stuff here. And the theaters aren't open. They're not opening anything here, which is why the cases are so low here, which is great. Yeah, that's great.

But interesting that they're just doing old stuff because a lot of movies, a lot of new movies have been opening and drive-ins, especially cheapy horror movies because that's that that works because you know people like although i've seen a couple horror movies that were crazy boring i watched them at home and found out they were the drive-in i was like oh my god i can't imagine sitting through a super boring movie at the drive-in i mean i guess you can sit there and text or make out or whatever, but you can do other things. Uh, okay. So, um, what are you watching? We'll start with, uh, Arden, uh, movies or TV. What, you know, do you have anything you could recommend that you've seen lately? Um, I've been watching a lot of, of TV and movies. The last movie I watched, I watched The Social Dilemma, the documentary about like Instagram and Facebook. Did you see that?

I haven't because I fear like, I know it's bad, but it's worse than I think. I know. And I don't want to be, I don't want to be mad at social media because I use it so much. Yeah, it definitely was. It just sort of was like, oh, yeah, we're addicted. And they know that. And then there's a lot of people pulling strings and we're all fucked. So, like, I mean, it definitely confirmed it.

I didn't watch it on my own accord. I had to watch it for something. It was interesting. It was definitely scary. What have I, I mean, I loved, I loved The Last Dance, the documentary about the Chicago Bulls. I loved the one about the Queen of Russia with Elle Fanning. What was that, The Queen?

Oh, yeah, that series looks interesting. It's called The Great. The Great. It was so good and nicholas holt who is the guy from about a boy was excellent as like the dipshit king and she was great it was beautiful um i loved that i loved never have i ever um you watch all sorts of, that's a series. That's a series on, um, I think it was on Hulu and it's about a high school girl. I like a high school story. It's about a high school girl and, uh, yeah, it's like a dark, fun, it was a fun, quick watch. I very much enjoyed it. I enjoyed the Indian matchmaker. Um, I watched a lot of TV. Yeah, it sounds like it. I enjoyed the Indian matchmaker.

I watched a lot of TV. Yeah, it sounds like it. That's it. That's it. I watched Jaws. I'd never seen Jaws. I just watched Jaws. Whoa. Okay. So that's an interesting, you know, cause that's what a lot of people are doing. Like my friend Anna Roisman, like watched the first three Star Wars for the first time in her life. So you hear about Jaws your whole life. Yeah.

Non-stop, especially around men. And you finally watch it, and what's your assessment of it? I also had never seen Close Encounters. I watched both of them. Oh, wow. All right. This is getting too complicated. Let's start with Jaws.

So I grew up in a town that was very much like the town of Jaws, so I didn't watch it on purpose because I grew up in a summer community that looked a lot like that, and I knew I would be afraid of the water if I watched it. Jaws Town, Rhode Island. Jaws Town, Rhode Island, little Jaws Town. I thought it was great. I thought Richard Dreyfuss was fantastic. I thought

the woman who played his wife was spectacular. I loved the crazy other guy that was on the boat with him, who was like the maverick, you know, that at the end, like, I love the salty characters of the 70s. I loved it. I loved, i hate cgi so i loved like the i loved knowing they were out in the ocean going crazy filming it i loved it yeah it's um yeah the fact that it was such a horrible shoot and went on for so long and and the reason like it works so great for the movie that you don't see the shark that much especially in the early going but part of the reason you don't see it that much is because it didn't work it was always broken um and they had to just sort of you know wing it and shoot around it yeah but yeah those those

three actors alone on the boat like it's just you know you just don't get anything as great as when they're all sitting there talking to each other and drinking and singing, you just don't get scenes with that kind of great acting in like, it's so ironic that Jaws was like, you know, ushered in the era of the blockbuster and yet it's, it's a character study. Yeah. Like, and even just as you say that, looking back on the scenes, like those were long scenes of them just sitting and shooting the shit and getting drunk on the boat and i could have watched you know hours like it was so interesting watching it was so natural and fun and they were all such specific characters i i really i loved it

yeah it's it's a pretty uh amazing movie also, like, I constantly remind people about how funny it is. Yeah. Yeah. Because people don't think of it that way. Like, when it came out, the summer that it first came out, it terrified the nation. Like, people went absolutely apeshit. Yeah. They went shark shit, I should say.

They went shark shit. Which is always so funny to me because I've never been scared of sharks because I, you know, if I'm not in the ocean, they don't have a chance. You know, so it's that easy to get away from sharks. Body surf every day. And I think that was, I was like, you know what, I'm not going to watch it. But I have to say now I don't feel any more afraid of sharks. I can handle it. Well, you know, unfortunately now is when the sharks are swimming closer to the shore because there's nobody in the, you know, there's less people in the water when the beaches are closed. So now I'm not going to get even with a shark.

Yeah. Shark attacks are up. Okay. Do you think we'd have shark week without Jaws? Oh, I don't know. Probably not. That movie really put those sharks on the map. Before sharks were living in an anonymity. Yeah. That's so funny that cause it's Amity Island in the movie. Yes.

Amity Island. So Bree, what have you been watching? I'm with Art. I've been watching everything, man. Just sucking it down. I go from like newer movies that aren't so good back to kind of nostalgia. So like I heard the new Mulan was very bad.

So I watched the trailer and then I watched the old Mulan, you know, save myself 30 bucks. Here's the thing about new Mulan. I love talking about movies like I've seen them when I haven't. It's got a lot of action in it, which to me is cool that she's, that it's a female lead and a lot of action. But then I also feel like if there's too much action, you're losing the audience that the movie should mostly be for, which is, you know, young women.

And they went PG-13. But then again, you know, more and more young women are getting into more and more action. So I don't know. But to me, it sounds like it's a little bit too many war scenes and not enough things that interest me, like a little talking dragon voice by Eddie Murphy. I like that.

Yeah. There's no Mooshu in, in this new one. I looked at the credits. Also, if you did have Mooshu again, why wouldn't you just get Eddie Murphy to do the voice again? Oh man, that'd be great. I mean, get Eddie Murphy to do the voice again. Oh man, that'd be great.

Eddie Murphy, now, for years, he's been saying he might come back to stand-up, and there's always a new excuse, and now his excuse is the world is too serious of a time, and there shouldn't be any comedy. Oh. He's just afraid to

do stand-up again, because it's hard to do it when you have no act and then you know start building one you've got to have those first shows where the audience is looking at you like what the fuck are you talking about like a Netflix characters something like that

but him is all dragons and the donkey from Trek Yeah, but him is all dragons. I'd watch that. And the donkey from Trek. But you did enjoy the original animated Mulan? Oh, love the original animated Mulan. Class Action Park, very good. Very good documentary about... Where did you see that?

I used to go to Action Park. Get out! It was so fun. And I read all the articles. I haven't seen the documentary yet. But yeah, we used to go. We had family friends that lived in New Jersey. So we'd go down and we'd go both to Six Flags and then we'd go to Action Park. And it was all these boys and me. And it felt dangerous. And that made it more exciting. It was so fun. That's what everybody says in the doc. There was one where you, I remember going in it and I'm a little claustrophobic and

like you would go underground, like in an underground tunnel and then it would rocket you out like over the side of a lake, but really far, like you come rocketing out like a bullet and just fly into the water. I, it, it, there's, it's so dangerous. Like you come rocketing out like a bullet and just fly into the water. It's so dangerous. And then there's like, you know, gigantic, fully grown men that just are about to land on you. There's no supervision. It was incredible.

I get why you're not afraid of sharks now. so that was a big part of the documentary is cutting to people who are like yeah i had a cousin who whose back got shredded on this ride and that made it great like that made it really exciting oh that's not how my fear um like operates it doesn't like raise the stakes for me um because you could tell it was before people were suing. You know what I mean? It was the equivalent of like a 1980s dad that was like driving with a drink and like just letting all the kids get in the way. Like divorced dad, like throwing them in the back of like a pickup truck without seats or like a station wagon. Or you could like ride on the roof of the car.

You know what I mean? It was just like wild and fun and unsupervised. It was the best yeah nobody thinks to sue because they look around the place and it's like it doesn't look like they have money no like if you get hurt at disneyland the first thought is going to be how much money am i going to get out of this yeah you get hurt there you're like uh i don't want this place to close no i'm to keep my mouth shut. Where did they air that?

Where did you see it? I think it's Netflix. I think it's, and this is a real problem. People do not know where they're watching stuff. It must drive all the streaming services crazy because it is hard to brand exactly where you're watching something. It's not like TV where there's a bug in the corner the entire time that says what network you're watching something, you know? It's not like TV where there's a bug in the corner the entire time that says what network you're watching.

But it's on Apple TV. Okay. I'm going to watch that. I'm pretty sure. You know what? It's on HBO Max. Oh, HBO Max. I'm enjoying HBO Max.

That's my new favorite streamer. I'm enjoying it too. Okay. You're enjoying that you can't watch it on your tv that it has to be on your phone or computer no that's not the one that's quibby that's quibby hbo max i can't watch it on my tv because i have roku and it's not on roku what do you do it's on apple tv so you can watch it on your TV. If you subscribe to it. Yes.

See, and I subscribe to HBO, so why would I subscribe to HBO and HBO Max? On my thing, the app just changed. So, literally, I didn't have to do anything. It just became HBO Max. What? Yeah. I didn't subscribe to them. I just got it.

Okay. what yeah i didn't subscribe to them i just got it okay this should be addressed in the social dilemma that's what the whole thing is about it's about doug's hbo subscription um uh yeah it's i you know it's so confusing that's why i asked because i want to be clear about these things because you know i get uh sent stuff from all these streamers it's it's very nice of them to send me stuff and then they want me to you know promote the the thing that's connected to what they're sending me and so i i want to get it all straight but i have not i've not figured out hbo max yet but like I said it's because I can't do it on my Roku so that's what's screwing me up um but they sent me links

I can watch it on my computer I just don't like if I'm at home all day anyway I want to get it on my TV somehow yeah instead of watching a device because also I'm here with my girlfriend um doug yeah if i'm out of time for this segment i appreciate you being here yeah i'll make it quick i just re-watched a movie have you ever heard of break point with jeremy sisto have you seen that what's it called break point like point break but they just switched the words? Switched it. Yeah, that is confusing, but it's a great film. I think you'd really like it. It's Jeremy Sisto, Amy Smart, J.K. Simmons, Adam Devine,

a couple other people. That's an odd cast. Yeah, but it's great, and they all kill it, and it's about like a kind of brother trying to do one last go at the tennis circuit, and he's at odds with his brother and uh it's just like a nice uh i feel like i've seen it it's really good jake uh jake caris directed it he does a lot of stand-up specials and it's just got a lot of heart it's a really fun story really funny but you know some good drama

unless he played a tennis instructor in a different thing i i think i've seen it because i can see jeremy sisto playing tennis it's man it's great it's maybe maybe i just saw him playing tennis one day when i was yeah maybe have you played tennis with j Sisto? I have. He's very nice, though. I've run into him a couple times. He's a nice man. He's great at karaoke. I saw him do karaoke once at a bar. What did he sing?

I don't remember. It was a late night thing. That follow-up question is going to happen every time you do it. Make one up. Just pick something. Something by the Pointer Sisters, because I said great point. That's how my hand works. I saw Kiefer Sutherland really drunk doing a Bon Jovi song years ago. And it was after he'd gotten divorced from Julia,

or he broke up with Julia Roberts. And he was like talking to the microphone about like never getting engaged and stuff like that. It was very. Oh, my God. Was that like the gas lamp or whatever? Whatever that's called out in Santa Monica. Oh, my God. It was really, really exciting. It was my version of seeing him fight the Christmas tree in that lobby.

That's the thing. Yeah. That's the thing. When you said you saw Kiefer Sutherland in a bar, when you see Kiefer Sutherland in a bar, you see a very drunk Kiefer Sutherland. Yeah. He had the powers to hang out and just have one.

That's a point. He gave the christmas tree vibe but he was singing bon jovi and it was terrific it was wearing his heart on his sleeve it was great yeah because he's also even though he's a little destructive he's also very friendly and you know chaotic good everything you wanted from a drunk keeper sutherland doing in like a bar in santa monica it was great i saw donald sutherland drunk doing here i was joking that's the problem with uh the situation we're in now is that when bars, when a bar is reopened and someone gets inebriated, the, the, you know, the rules go out the window. Talking in somebody's face and spitting in their face and spreading, spreading COVID. So it's just, it's, it sucks. Cause I really like, you know, hanging out in bars and restaurants and stuff.

I've seen that in action a couple times in person where it's like I'm doing a social distance hang somebody has one or two drinks and then it's just they're starting to come at you and you have to like, hey, remember the rules, buddy. The weird dance. I didn't come here to dance.

Yeah. I just came here to drink and but not to excess. All right. So I've got a game planned for the three of us today. Thank you for all of your recommendations. I'm going to watch all three of those movies. And when you say, what movies are you talking about, Doug? I'm going to watch all three of those movies. And when you say, what movies are you talking about, Doug? I'm going to say one from each of you.

It's called Class Action Park, right? Yeah. That's funny. Okay, so I know Chris Gethard's in it, right? Yeah. Yeah, he loved that place. Okay, so we're going to go to a brief commercial message and then come back and play a game where the winner takes all and by that i mean all the things they want in their own home we'll be right back we're back and ready to play a game. Are you ready?

Yeah. Yeah. Do it. All right. It's called Weird Algorithm. I always hold for laughter there.

It's a game where but Doug's heard it before. It's a game based on the weird algorithm that you can find on the imdb website uh the international movie database um has when you look at the cast of a film or whatever, you know, TV show or whatever it is you're looking at on IMDb, you can change it so that that cast list is reordered in the order of their popularity. Okay. And by popularity, I mean that's according to IMDb's algorithm that is very confusing, B's algorithm that is very confusing other than the biggest clue I can give you is that it tends to be it tends to favor the people that are being searched a lot for something that they're up to

currently okay you know like so that's that's a little clue but what happens is when you take an older movie and you rearrange it by their, their rules, somebody who played a bit part could be super hot right now. And you don't even remember if they were in that movie or not. So it becomes a pretty tricky game. I'll go to each of you for each movie.

And this is also where you can, you can share answers. You can discuss everything. It's just to ultimately, you just got to pick one that you're going to walk in as your answer and it can like i said it could be somebody else's answer and um but if you if you name the number one person in that particular film you get three points second person second build person you'd get uh two and, you get one. We play three rounds. Everybody gets a chance to go first. And most points at the end of three rounds wins.

Exciting. Yeah. We do the plugs and we get out of here. I'm so nervous. And by get out of here, I mean, stay where we are. I just want to say, I have numerous times since sketch fest thought about and laughed to myself alone and how funny the game diarrhea Perlman is to me.

I just want to get a particular nerve on my funny mom that I have laughed alone numerous times thinking, ha ha ha diarrhea Perlman. Well, maybe I'll just call weird algorithm diarrhea Perlman from now on. I do like getting those laughs from my guests. Diarrhea Perl rhythm. Yeah. Oh, that's good.

All right, so we're going to go back to what I was talking about earlier with going alphabetically. So, Doug, you get to go first. But everybody gets pretty equal opportunity. In honor of Arden's book,

the first film we'll play today in Weird Algorithm is Straight Outta Compton. Yes. Ooh. Yeah. Who do you think is the top build person in the motion picture about NWA? I'm going to say, oh, God.

Ice Cube's son, O'Shea. I can't think of Ice Cube's real name. His name is O'Shea. I can't think of Ice Cube's real name. His name's O'Shea Jackson Jr.? Yes. I think O'Shea Jackson, because I feel like I've seen him in a couple things lately. But there's probably some cameo that I'm not thinking of. But I'm going to stand by that.

Okay. What do you think, Arden? Oh, golly. My brain is going so blank right now. What do you think, Arden? Oh, golly. My brain is going so blank right now. I literally can't. Well, like name somebody from, you know, name a character, not a character, but a real life person that you know would be in that movie.

I don't mind telling you, you know, who is in it. I just don't want to tip anybody to who might be the... Okay. You know what I mean? O'Shea Jackson Jr. plays Ice Cube. Corey Hawkins plays Dr. Dre. A guy named Aldous Hodge plays

MC Wren. And Paul Giamatti plays their manager. All right. I'm going to go. I'm going to go for the Dr. Dre. I'm going to go for Dr. Dre. Okay.

That's Corey Hawkins. Oh, yeah. I just saw him in something, too. I see Paul Giamatti a lot in commercials, but that doesn't make me think. Commercials for the show Billions? No, I see him in, like, weird, he's in, like, weird commercials. He's in a new one that's really weird. Yeah, like, it's, like, it's for a product that's, like, an odd thing for him to be hawking,

and you're like, how much money do you need, Paul Giamatti? You know what I mean? He's been in every movie, and he must have been with the Beatles forever. If you want Paul Giamatti, there's not really anybody else that does Paul Giamatti. And he's hawking some strange product right now. That's so weird. I haven't seen it, because I'm a fan, so I think I would notice if he came on. I've just been seeing that here in Southern California, they just nonstop with the lady who thinks that if they make new rules about dialysis clinics, that she's going to die.

That's what they're trying to do is just close down those places so that all the patients just die. That's what's happening, according to the companies that are trying to keep those places open and profitable, in my opinion. Anyway, the rest of the country doesn't care about this issue, probably. Or anybody in this show right now. Bree, what do you think? Okay. It's been so long since I've seen that movie, but was Lakeith Stanfield in that movie?

He was. Good call. Because everybody else was like an upstart because they needed new actors to fill these specific roles, but there were only a few actual famous people, so I'm going to go Lake Keith Stanfield because he's having a better year than Paul Giamatti. Damn. That's a great guess.

He's Snoop Dogg in it. Snoop, yeah. Wow, he's so good. He was really good. I saw Snoop Dogg on Price is Right the other day. It was the best thing ever. I love his friendship with Martha Stewart. I love the article about her popping 20 CBD, like, pills before bed. I love all of that.

You're in for all of them. Of course, we're good. Yeah. All right. Let's lock in our answers. Doug wants O'Shea Jackson Jr. Yeah. And Corey Hawkins for Arden and Lakeith.

I'm not going to win. I'm not going to win. There's still two more rounds. Nobody can run away with this thing quite yet. I'm going to start at number six. In sixth place, according to INDB in popularity today, is Corey Hawkins. Oh, I really screwed the pooch, I really screwed the pooch. I really screwed the pooch.

I still think that was a great guess. Thank you so much. I do remember Paul Giamatti was in a car ad. Well, forget forget I guess they forgot about Dre. Anyway, so just trying to work that joke in.

Fifth place went with O'Shea Jackson Jr. Oh. Yeah. First place is a lady who plays a character named Kim, who I guess is a girlfriend or wife of one of the guys. Her name is Alexandra Shipp. Hey. Yeah.

And then MC Ren, Aldous Hodge, he came in third. Oh. That's because he's one of the leads of the new Invisible Woman movie. Yes. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. That was the last movie I saw before quarantine.

Mm-hmm. Oh. And then coming in at number two, Paul Giamatti. Wow. Yeah, none of you said him. But I assume he came in number second in this particular movie because he's a white guy.

Yeah. Yeah, that's just how people are. Yeah. He's really good in that movie, but... He's so good. He's a really good actor. It's funny seeing him be a mean manager of both NWA and the Beach Boys.

Yeah. He's just like this shitty manager guy for those movies. And coming in at number one, great job, Brie. It's Lakeith Stanfield. Wow. You deserve that win. I'll vote for him on... You name three Lakeith Stanfield you deserve that win

I'll vote for him on you name three Lakeith Stanfield movies I'll give you number one all the time he's so good sorry to bother you he was so amazing he was so good in that and I actually thought What's His Name was funny

with the Say My Name he was actually funny what are we talking about the guy and sorry to bother you the guy called me by like what's what's his name sorry i feel like my grandmother right now timothy chalamet no he's the other guy and he was like arnie hammer oh yeah the boss he was the boss i had the half horse half man people in his base he was funny like i didn't think he was funny and he was actually really funny and um sorry to bother you oh okay by the way doug army hammer that's a good name for the Doug's podcast oh you want to try to get him on yeah um second round ready yes do it Bree's got three points

Doug and Arden thank you for being here and uh Arden gets to go first this round it's a tricky one. Okay. An inconvenient truth. Oh. Oh. God. The collective sigh. I'll put that in the mix because I believe Ron

on the Doug Loves Movies Twitter suggested that using that title would make this a weird Al Gore. So, I mean, we have, we have Al Gore. We have Al Gore. I'm sure we have like tornadoes and stuff like that. Yeah. The climate change has, has billing in the movie.

How popular is it? There's fires and drought. I'm sure drought got pretty high up. Well, I have not seen that in a really long time. The only person that I know of that's in that is Al Gore. That's the trick, is that the movie is basically just Al Gore giving a speech. Yeah.

There are some multimedia situations that happen. So appearances by actual figures from history and for some reason a voiceover actor get involved. There's only five names listed. Okay.

For this movie. Is Clinton listed? Is Clinton in there? I'm going to say Bill Clinton. Thank you. Bree? I'm trying to think of who would be in that movie that would be on IMDb. What about Tim Robbins?

Oh, really good guess. Because he cares about climate change. Yeah. And is in movies sometimes. And that was the right era. That's like right around. That's really doing it's it's pre-mark ruffalo you know yeah right like yeah yes but for his fracking his fracking stuff yeah

wow does he care about it more than john cusack does oh now that feels not fair um is that your answer? You want to go with that, Brie? Well, it sounds like I shouldn't, but yeah, sure. Yeah. This is tricky because it just feels like if y'all were more familiar with the movie, maybe you'd get an idea of what's going on here. Because let's see what Doug – yeah, Doug, do you have a guess?

Humans being garbage is that we're the cause of all that uh i'll just say al gore because i don't nobody else said it and why not seem safe why not because he's not i won't tell you where he landed but i will tell I'll give all three of you a chance to change your answers. Cause this one, it really is unfair because you really have to have seen the movie and, you know, remember it. And it was, it's been a while. It's ex presidents show up quite a bit.

Yeah. Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and George no W. Bush, and Billy West, the voiceover guy, must have had to do a voice of something, maybe like Nixon or some shit. He's the voice of Al Gore. And then, of course, oh yeah, that might be it. Maybe I'll just mouth the words. I'll take GW. I'm going to take GW. Climate change is very important. I'll take GW. I'm going to take GW. Climate change is very important. Okay.

So what'd you change your answer to, Arden? I'm going for George W. Bush. I'm going for G-dubs. What do you think? Those five names, which one do you think ranked the highest, Bree? I'll do H-W. Herbert Walker Bush, senior. Bree. I'll do H.W. Herbert Walker Bush, senior. I'll do Billy West because he's an honorary Doug.

Because he voiced Doug on the cartoon. He did? Yeah. Yeah, we learned that on our Wide World of Doug show. I got to listen to this podcast. It's got so much information you really need. Okay, so

coming in at number five was George No W Bush. Okay. So that's H, wait, it's not really No W, it's HW, right? W plus, yeah. Yeah, it's extra, extra, W w and extra he came in fifth who said him me okay sorry uh fourth that's why i'm so confused because fourth is george w bush oh my

god i can't win yeah uh but that's why i scared you off the al gore doug just because it's crazy and that's why we call it Weird Algorithm. He's listed third in a movie where he's the person who talks the entire time. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Number two, Billy West. Good for him. Oh, right. And Ronald Reagan is more popular.

In a lot of movies? Oh, there you go. Yeah, probably more of a film career than the Bushes. During Bonzo and whatnot. Yeah. You know, so maybe that's why people are like searching his name. Yeah. I feel like people are desperately looking him up because they feel like,

you know, things were perfect back when he was. Yeah. Okay. So now Doug's on the board with two points and Bree has three and Arden, you still have a chance. I'm just here to hear about Action Park. This is exciting. Oh, Action Park would be a fun one to play. Lots of different noted people talking about it. From New Jersey. I'm going to guess about it. From New Jersey.

I'm going to guess they're all from New Jersey. Like Donnie Knoxville must be in it, right? Yeah. Bruce Springsteen? I don't know if Bruce is in it. Oh, I think you'd remember if he was. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I think he is not in it.

Gethard is very prominent. Prominently featured. Yeah, because he's been like for years I think he's talked about action arc on Douglass movies Because he's really been a fan of it for a long time Okay so The third movie that we're going to do

And Arden Goes first this time Right? I think I went first last time no brie gets to go first i'm ready like everybody gets equal opportunity i think it's not great for art and then she has to go third though because we'll see it's okay the movie is called Gone Girl. Yeah. Yeah. Who from Gone Girl, Brie, do you think is number one of all?

Oh. I guess Ben Affleck. I guess Ben Affleck. Oh, man. Yeah. What's that? I guess Spinaflick oh man yeah what's that the movie Gone Girl did you see it

yeah it's been a minute I'm like trying to like go through my mental you don't know their name and I'll tell you what their real name I mean there's Casey Affleck but I don't think it's him

what I mean isn't Casey Affleck in, but I don't think it's him. What? I mean, isn't Casey Affleck in that, too? I don't think so. Oh. Am I thinking of the wrong movie? Oh, God. Yeah, Ben Affleck seems like the safest, but it's not always the safest.

Oh, Doogie plays. Yes. The crazy person. He's an honorary Doug, Neil Patrick Harris. I'll stick with the Dugs. I think that's a good pick. What do you think? Well, the one I remember is the lady, which is Rosamund Pike. But there's no way she's above Boogie or Ben.

So there's got to be somebody else in the movie. I just thought of somebody. Shoot. I mean. Who did you just think of? Emily Ratajkowski? Should I say? Tyler Perry oh yes Tyler Perry he just had a moment at the Emmys where he was great I don't want to steal your thunder if you thought of no I mean you're up it's yours Arden mean, I hope that Tyler Perry is above Ben Affleck and Neil Patrick Harris.

I bet he is. I would imagine he's definitely above Rosamund Pike. And I'm going to guess, particularly this week, I don't know when IMDB registers stuff, but he's definitely been very active lately because he did that great COVID bubble and had successful filming and built the studio and like the housing and then if it counts starting Sunday night

and his great speech I'm going to go thank you, thank you Doug I know bro okay so Arden's going Tyler Perry Doug's got Neil Ferris and Bree's got Ben Affleck. Coming in at number seven.

This thing is crazy. Number seven. Because I agree with you for all your reasons, Arden. Number seven is Tyler Perry. Oh! That is a really – he deserves to be number one. I thought his at the Emmys, he should be number one. It seems like he should have been, but you know,

but maybe if you're watching his thing on the Emmys, it's, it was such a full rounded. Here's what, who Tyler Perry is. Here's what he does. Here's what he feels. Would you really run to IMDb to look him up? I bet it doesn't count until next week. I think it might have been too late on Sunday. It feels like he's always in, like, 10 projects. Yeah.

It's wild. I feel like he's been in the news so much because, like, he and the NBA figured out the bubble, you know, and The Bachelor. Those have the lockdown that everybody's like you should do their mode uh so i i think imdb's not giving him the proper due i got a question for you arden yeah what's going on with your uh bachelor bachelorette podcast um we've we've been we've done it all the way through pretty much every week. We have one every week. Uh, they,

they did, uh, the best ofs, which were horrible to watch as like one offs, but really fun to record the podcast. And then we've been doing, we rewatched some old seasons and it starts again, October 13th.

So each week there's been a new episode. Cause I've been, I decided that I'll watch this season if you'll have me on your show. Are you speaking to your rookie? We always have a seasonal rookie. Would you like to be the rookie this year? It's going to be fascinating because there's never been one like this. They're not going anywhere.

They're in the weird bubble. There's going to be two bachelorettes. I would love for you to be our season's rookie all right we'll talk about that because watching an episode at least but maybe yeah maybe I'll just go full in on bachelor it's what are they calling it it's called bachelorette it's the bachelorette? It's the Bachelorette. And so it's like, so here's a little, it's the oldest woman they've ever had. She was 39 and cause they were getting younger and younger.

So, and apparently, and this is not like a big spoiler. Apparently she finds love really, really quickly. And then they bring in another bachelor who was this really, really popular, beautiful black woman who should have been the bachelorette last year. But they, you know, picked a blonde, white beauty pageant queen. And this woman should have been picked. And so apparently when this, so it's like you've got a 39-year-old woman finding love. And then like, because this franchise has been really white, you know?

And so it's going to be, it's really exciting. There's two, it's going to be two exciting Bachelorettes. Well, that's what happened is they got screwed by, you know, we haven't seen it yet, but the first Bachelorette just falls in love right away and says, hey, this is it. I'm in love. I don't need to look anymore. And that's why they bring me in the second one.

It's going to be great. I think it's really fun and it's going to be so weird to watch. So they're all at a La Quinta resort, which is... Get out of the studio. Apparently it's been like 120 degrees while they're filming. Wow.

And they're not leaving. It's going to be unlike any other season. Watching sunburned, like, it's going to be fascinating. Yeah. It sounds like hell to shoot reality television under those conditions. It sounds like big brother bachelorette. Yes, that's exactly right.

So we would love to have you. You just can't read any spoilers. We don't do any spoilers. The amount of sun they're taking in mixed with the amount of alcohol that they drink on that show sounds dangerous it's it's gonna be it's gonna i mean it's also like the pandemic season like just like they i mean they apparently everybody got you know showed up 14 days in advance got locked into rooms that like they took over the entire resort including the pas and like like everybody got locked into

and apparently two women are finding love it should be crazy all right let's uh let's find some love of movies while we wrap this up because we're out of time so coming in number six was a Neil Patrick Harris oh yeah Wow NPH isn't more popular right now but he he's kind of seems kind of dormant like I haven't seen him in anything too big lately Missy Pyle is number five I know and like her she's great so good in Galaxy Quest and then number four was

I mentioned Emily Ratajkowski to try to trick you into picking her Doug he was number four so worth no points but number three Benny Affleck. Wow. How do you like them apples?

Yeah. I got her number. How do I like them apples? Number two, you're going to kick yourself, Arden. It's Rosamund. It's Rosamund Pike. I don't get it. He is the titular missing girl.

But, like, that was a while ago, so why is she so high right now? Sorry, I've done you wrong. I think they just announced that she's in some big thing that's about to happen. Like, I think announcements of someone being cast in something tends to be a big... Okay. All right. ...pumper-upper of people on this. And then coming in

at number one, I'm such a fan and it's easy to forget that she was in Gone Girl, but it's Carrie Coon. Huh. Huh. Yeah, who is currently who is currently, do you guys not know who Carrie Coon is? I don't. I don't.

So you never saw fargo season three oh he's the lead in the fire lady officer and she's ben affleck's sister in gone girl so she's leftovers she's so good in leftovers yeah yeah she yeah. She's also on leftovers. Yeah. So Carrie Coon, I think she got a boost out of the fact she's in a movie that's out now called The Nest. Right. From IFC Films. It's in theaters and drive-ins now. And it's going to be on demand in November. So that means Brie Pruitt is our winner. Wow.

Way to go. First time. I didn't even get on the board. Yeah, but you really helped the other players and there's a lot to say for that yes and i hurt you so sorry my bad i thought i was helping i really felt i knew that your heart was in the right place thank you you gave me taylor perry i mean that was a gift you gave me keller perry i mean that was a gift let's plug some stuff doug mellard you're on wide world of doug's with me what else is going on uh just find me on social at doug mellard m-e-e-l-a-r-d

sounded like chef boyardee oh i thought it sounded like the uh the old uh k-i-S-S-I-N-G. Yeah, that too. Doug and Mallard sitting in a tree. M-E-L-L-A-R-D. You make out with yourself. What about you, Arden Marine? When does that book come out? It comes out Tuesday the 29th. So I don't know when this episode drops, but it makes –

Okay, so it comes out next Tuesday. It's called Little Miss Little Compton. You can get it wherever books are sold. My last name is spelled Maureen, M-Y-R-I-N. You can find me on Instagram and Twitter. And we're having a book release party slash comedy show this Saturday night at Dynasty Typewriter. It's $5.

And if you bundle your book through there, you can get it custom signed to you. And it's me and Lauren Lapkus from the wrong Missy and Brian Safi and Rob Benedict. It's going to be really fun. And then my podcast, will you accept this rose? We have a wonderful rookie this year,

man named Douglas Benson, who's just got stars in his eyes and he's looking for women to fall in love in the desert. And that would be really fun. You can listen to that on iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you, Arden. And we're going to unbox on Instagram Live. Yeah, I will hit you up about that for sure. Because I've got to unbox this thing so I can start reading it.

Yeah. Some fun presents in there for you that's what i'm assuming that's why i want to unbox it it's not you know you when you get a cool present you know just sitting by yourself opening it up it's no fun it doesn't count if it first if a tree falls in the forest and it's not unboxed on instagram and brie pruitt what's going on you've got uh you still got that show that you do right yeah i got a friday twitch hang um i also do a weekly podcast called you can do it with brie pruitt and it's a pep talk podcast love that i give a little pep talks to my comedian friends

um and then for the doug loves movies audience you might be interested in if you're in portland oregon i'm doing a zoom event where a dispensary is going to ship weed out to the to the audience and then we're going to smoke it together on zoom and that's on october 23rd and it is for william at weeks 420 happy hour it's called are you an angel does that sound like fun? It does. There's a show in Long Beach that is a brewery that ships beer to people, and they drink it together while they watch comedy. And I just like, I love this concept. Let's share space safely is my whole idea.

Yeah, that's great. I mean, that's, you know, I'm still doing my weed show, but we do it over on Patreon for people that subscribe. And but it's still it's it's so fun to just get, you know, get on the Internet with my friends. And, you know, it's the next best thing to being able to get together and smoke. Hell yeah. Well, thank you to all three of you so much for being here i'm doing uh my first headliner stand-up set on the internet on saturday october 3rd at 4 20 it's called doug benson's comedy sesh

and my guests are amy miller jeff tate and dustin ibarra and you can get your $15 ticket. Everybody you can crowd around one device can get in for $15, and it's at RushTix.com. I'd like to end this show with a last line from a motion picture, and I forgot to find one. Does anybody know a classic or obscure even last line from a movie? What's the last line of Jaws? Oh, that's a great question.

I don't know what the last line is. That dumb shark is dead? I'm so glad we found a bigger boat. Alright, I got it. I got one. Thank you again, Doug Mellard, Arden Marine, and Brie Pruitt. And as always, boy, that shark shirt did blow up real good. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky. There's no room in his heart for you

Cause Doug loves movies!