Doug Loves Movies - Ezra Buzzington, Blair Socci and Dan Van Kirk guest

Episode Date: May 25, 2020

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Doug hates candy wrappers, greenie babies, sticky seeds with 50 azepop or kernels in his teeth. There's still not one that he won't see, because Doug loves movies! Hey, hey, hey everybody! My name is Doug and I love technical issues and delays. This is Doug Loves Movies, coming to you once again from suburbatory. It's Sunday, May 24th, 2020. And my guest today in this homes alone edition.

Oh my God. I got a second. They are Ezra Buzzington, Blair Saki and Daniel Van Kirk. Hey, Hey. Hey, got a second they are ezra buzzington blair sake and daniel van kirk hey hey it really sounds like we're in the future because at least one of you uh i'm not gonna name names sounded kind of robotic guilty robotic. Guilty. Let's meet them individually and alphabetically and get used to how everybody sounds.

Starting with, what a coup. I can't believe I got him. It is the one and only Ezra Buzzington. As I said before, guilty as charged, but not responsible. There you are. You sound like an underwater robot. Clearly you're familiar with my work. Are you a method actor preparing for his next role? Yeah, you got one?

Is the sequel to The Shape of Water about a underwater robot that a lady falls in love with you know what i could actually make a call on that because doug jones and i are from the same hometown i would love to watch that who wouldn't especially like i think i find myself saying that more than more and more during the quarantine i I would love to watch that. Now that I have all this time to watch everything that's ever existed, I want to watch things that don't exist yet.

That's what I really crave. What I remember most about Doug's movie, that movie, is it was blue. It was a very blue film. There was a lot of blue in that. Yeah. The art direction really sold the idea of the ocean and sadness. Yeah, I think I got that.

Yes, sir. Guilty, yes. Ezra had like a, you know, was attacked viciously by a previous guest. was attacked viciously by a previous guest who goes by also unlike the name of Joe Coy.

He went nuts when he heard, I mean, it was nothing personal because he had no idea who you were. Which is very personal actually, you realize. That's incredibly personal. No, I'm not familiar with your work. Don't get me wrong, I love Joe Coy. I've loved Joe Coy for years. He totally has always made me laugh. And I've never felt so honored as to when, as I was

telling, before we started, the text I got that morning saying, hey, your name is being trashed all over the internet. And I looked up and found the podcast and went, oh, my God. And I was trying. It was so funny because I was trying to eat my sad solo breakfast. And I was howling, tears pouring from my eyes, salting my eggs. And it was just, it was hilarious. It's one of my all-time favorite movies ever.

Movies, moments ever. Well, don't ever talk about salting your eggs in mixed company, because I don't think it means what you think it means. Is that a euphemism? I didn't know that was a euphemism. Dude, you were in, you know, I had, because of course you were in Fight Club, and the game we were playing was people that are in Fight Club. Of course I was picking actors that, you know, my guests would just sort of have to guess whether was people that are in Fight Club. Of course, I was picking actors

that, you know, my guests would just sort of have to guess whether or not they were in the movie, except for, of course, Meatloaf was a real obvious one, I thought. But you were also in your top four on IMDb. It's pretty impressive because you've also got the Academy Award winning best picture of the artist is in there along with uh you know totally opposite kind of movie uh the hills have eyes right um honestly you know hand to god I've been incredibly lucky in terms of the directors I've worked with um it what I tend to tell people about major tends to tell me, you know, small parts, big films, big parts, small films, but they all seem for the most part to be pretty stinking good. And like right now there's, there's one that was supposed to go to South by that played Sundance

where I play like a nothing role. I mean, I'm a limo driver at the opening of a film, but it turns out without my even knowing it, because I hadn't read the whole script because it wasn't finished, it was a great deal that was improvised with Cary Bronstein and St. Vincent, the singer St. Vincent, called The Nowhere Inn. And I played a limo driver at the beginning who's driving her through the desert. I don't know who she is.

She's St. Vincent. She's famous, but I'm not carried it enough. No big deal, right? It was a one-day shoot. It was great. I left everybody on. It was great. I left everybody on. It was fabulous, and I'm a huge fan of both St. Vincent and Cary Bronson, obviously.

But Variety says Ezra Buzzingman sets the tone of the film, and I'm just like, Jesus God, what the fuck? And so now, of course, nobody's going to see it. Thank you again, Pandemic. Right, but you didn't finish the sentence. Is it a good tone that you said?

Seriously, that was followed up. The secondary paragraph was, so go get your popcorn early so you don't have to suffer through another Ezra Buzzing. Now you really sound like my agent. It just seemed like it was following me. All right. now you really sound like my agent all right and how are you uh how are you doing with aside from uh frustration that movies aren't coming out because at least i'm sure we're gonna see that movie someday i'm excited to see it even before finding out that the great Ezra Buzzington sets the tone for the whole thing. How are you doing for the isolation? Are you doing like a

play online or something like that? Yeah, it's funny, actually. Yeah, it's a good question, honestly. I've been hooked up to do two readings for filmmakers for next week via Zoom. But also, I just got an email yesterday saying that the last project I did, which was the television program Into the Dark on Hulu through Blumhouse, it's called Into the Dark. It's a series. I don't know if you know it or not, but it's a series. And this particular one is called Current Occupant.

And basically what you do is you shoot an hour and a half uh episode within like 10 days and it's going really really well but they need some more uh atr work so they're literally going to be sending over apparently heavily disinfected technical equipment um but no disinfected technical engineer for me to set up all this bullshit and record it. They've clearly never met me because I tend to screw things up technically. I'm sure I'm primarily the reason you could not get on today because I have alien influence in my life. But I'm excited. So it's something to do. It breaks up the monotony of staring at the mirror and weeping.

It breaks up the monotony of staring at the mirror and weeping. I think if it ends up sounding half as good as you do right now, they're going to be thrilled. It's perfect how you sound right now. Oh, cool. Good to know. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. Let's also say hello. Also joining us today is Los Angeles comedy phenom Blair Saki.

Hi, Blair. How are you doing? Hello, everyone. It's great to be here. I think everything's going pretty well. I'm also a little bit upset about my movies not coming out but hanging in there well tell us about your movie what do you are you a limo driver in your movie do you set the tone i love to set the tone i've been known to um you know be able to really carve the road in a limo um but um no i'm just hanging out getting

some sunshine i've got a sick farmer's tan right now from my long walks around town all right let me ask you let me be more specific so you can sum up how you're doing. Would you say that you're doing better than Ezra? Oh, my God. Dang. Put it on. Dang. Laugh a minute.

You know, I don't know. I am not in Ezra's head, i feel like i'm i'm doing okay less movies but you know still thriving all right i tried to set you up for you the punchline but uh yeah thank you for being here and also joining us is also joining us is everyone's favorite dan van kirk how you doing dan hey buddy i'm good how about yourself i'm doing all right you know we got blair and ezra and you so like you know that's it's a nice combination of people i think nice man nice yeah i feel like i'm in a um i've been watching a lot of movies i've seen before like i'm i'm testing the like does this hold up waters all the time for movies that i was like oh

i bought this for a reason i used to like it i mean i'm sure we'll get into that later but i'm just doing a lot of movie watching these days that's good i'm glad that you can pull it off i'm seeing maybe a little bit more serialized uh you know tv shows just because you know they've gotten so good especially you know ones that can have you know swearing and nudity and violence and stuff and um uh also you know it's just like in you know i can watch it in shorter increments. Watching a whole movie is a little harder to do right now. But I will ask you guys later if you have any recommendations so you can think about that.

But a quick question for you, Dan. You know, star of the Dumb People Town podcast with a couple other people are on it, but you're, you're the best. Do you find that the people in dumb people town are getting dumber? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, so I've always felt like there's never been a better time to be dumb, which is part of like the world we're living in right now. Like you,

like we have better access to like dumb things people are doing, but I am constantly getting stories of things that are directly born out of this. Like I think in, in downstate Illinois, uh, which for the most part is still taking everything seriously. They, they had like the wife of a mayor was arrested in a bar. Oh, I just got a story sent to me about a woman who was without consent,

kissing people. And she got drunk and she was kissing people in a bar in Wisconsin. And then she went home and called nine one one because she was mad that the bar wasn't making people practice social distancing. The same bar she was earlier at forcing people to kiss her. So yeah, all the hits are still coming. Oh my God. Yeah. It's really, it's really like, this is like the time for dumb people to shine. Oh yeah. They really have a nice,

a nice opening here to just get out there and be dumb. Like I've seen some amazing low speed car chases in Los Angeles. Traffic's not there. It can go on for longer, but it's still going to end the same way. Oh, yeah, for sure. And there is apparently a local Los Angeles actress of sorts who has taken, and performance artist,

and apparently wizarding goddess who has taken it upon herself to stand in front of Trader Joe's in some part of town. I couldn't tell from the pictures which part they all look like. Standing with masks, you know, the blue, the standard masks. One's on her forehead. Two are on her boobs.

One covers her privates. She has some around her ankles and in heels and stands performing something called, I think she was calling it a plandemic performance. So she clearly wasn't buying into the whole concept of everybody's going to die soon. And she was going instead to push her career to anybody who was willing to. You got to put yourself out there. Oh my God.

I saw that picture and I thought that she was being like a pro mask. Yeah, I would. She's not good at branding. I was like, wow, this bitch is really down for the cause. Yeah. Unfortunately, no, no, that's not the case. Unbelievable. She's part of that whole put a mask on your twat campaign.

Which will probably be in next year's Hollywood Fringe Festival, so look for it. She booked Edinburgh, that's what I heard. I mean alright it's really bringing out the crazy in people so I'm sure I'm sure you guys are still you can still make episodes

of Dumb People Town right? Oh for sure yeah yeah yeah we're good yeah doing them remotely and having the craziest stories i imagine very much so i can't imagine you'll ever run out of material for that no it's impossible um all right well i'm uh very excited to pit the three of you against each other today. People are getting along too well during this pandemic,

so I want people to battle one another for no prize whatsoever. That's part of what's so fun about it. And then I got two games prepared, so it's not going to be too much trouble. This first one... I've already told the competitors there's no freedom. I've already thrown in the towel

like five, six times. My trivia mind was lost with early LSU. You never know. Ezra, the category could be the movies of Ezra Buzzington. I still wouldn't be able to know. You know, the only things I remember are my lines and the way home, but I'm going to give it a shot.

I'm going to humiliate myself to your zillions of fans. Well, that's funny that you should mention it. Cause the first game we're going to play is called It's Ezra's Lines Anyway. Oh. People have to guess what your lines were. Oh, my goodness.

Which is really tough with the artists, because that, of course, was a silent film. Right, and it was all improvised. Yeah. Okay. No, this game was all improvised. Yeah. Okay. No, this game we're going to play, I think you can win this first game, because it's got a luck element to it. The game is called, since it was Saturday yesterday,

we're going to play. It's called Saturday Night Fever Fever. It's the fever everybody's had for years, but it hasn't killed anybody. Everybody loves the movie Saturday Night Fever. These are questions about Saturday Night Fever. These are questions about Saturday Night Fever. This is a game where luck and knowledge of Tony Manero and his adventures

go hand in hand. But they stay responsible six feet apart, of course, at all times. I'm going to come to you first, Ezra, because I don't know if you did this on purpose, but Buzzington's very early on in the alphabet.

We're going alphabetically. Oh, interesting. You know that it also has all of the vowels, just FYI. Buzzington does? No, Ezra Buzzington does. Okay, I was going to say. I was really going to call you out on that why am i sweating

i hate my life here's what's gonna happen is i'll ask you a question and you just have to guess and answer and if you're if you're not correct or you don't guess at all then it goes to blair who's gonna get multiple choice two options if blair misses from those two options then it goes to dan dan gets what we call lucky point. And then it moves on from there, et cetera. So anybody can get the lucky point at any time, depending on what the other contestants know. First to two points wins, so it doesn't take much to win this thing. Let's dance. Ezra?

What am I doing? I'm so confused while I'm here. Go ahead on this. All you gotta do is tell me the name of the movie about a robot that was directed by John Badham, who of course directed the legendary Saturday Night Fever.

But what robot movie did he make? That's all I have to do? Yeah, just tell me the name of the robot movie directed by the great, late John Badham. Can you hear me clicking on my keys? Don't cheat. I'm not. I'm kidding you, dude. I'm totally kidding you. The robot movie directed by John Badham would have been that robot movie directed by John Badham. Oh, you're calling it that?

That's my answer. That's my answer. Yeah, I'm standing for it. People don't make up titles enough uh in these games and i applaud it of course that would be incorrect so now i get to give options to blair you ready blair yeah your options are did he direct short circuit or short circuit two? Oh, that's cool. Look, I'm just going to take a wild guess here and go short circuit. That is correct. Rock on. Blair is on the board with one point.

Dan gets to go first in this next round. He gets the tough part where he gets no choices, just a question. Well, see, I would have done great with a multiple choice. Well, if I don't get this right, you're going to get multiple choice. Nice. Yeah. Dan's wearing his captain obvious hat. Fitted.

You'd be so good in those commercials. Okay, here we go. Dan, how many Oscar nominations did Saturday night fever get? Ooh, three. Three. How many Oscar nominations did Saturday Night Fever get? Ooh. Three. That is incorrect.

Damn it. Ooh, that's exactly the number I was thinking too. All right. So Ezra gets a choice. Thank God. Jesus help me. And did it get one or two, Ezra?

It's got to be two. Is that your final answer? Can I make a call to Joe Coy real quick? There's no such thing as a real quick call to Joe Coy. That is true. That was true.

That was good. Two. Yes, final answer. Okay, that is incorrect. Kill me now. I told you, man. Blair, how many is it? One. That is correct. Oh, my God!

Blair crushed. I fucking rule. You really kind of do. What did you win for? What did they win for? It was just nominated, right? Was it Best Song? Original Song? It won for, it was only nominated for one thing, and that of course was John Travolta.

Really? So the Bee Gees got screwed on that. That's a shame. You know, the departments of the academy that, yeah, that rolled the music. That was back when hit songs didn't necessarily win the best song. It was always really corny shit from movies nobody cared about. It's a weird category. It's just a category where somebody writes a song in hopes of winning an Oscar for writing

that song except when it's a musical but you know what I mean when they do a musical it's like some old ass movie where the songs were written already and the category is it has to be written for the movie they write a song that plays over the end credits

it's not as good as the rest of the songs but it wins anyway. Cause you know, uh, it's from that movie. That was really good. Yeah. They're awarding the movie. I hate this town, but sometimes it works out in three, six mafia wins an Oscar. You guys, I was going to get the, I was going to get the hell out of this town.

And then this happened. I'm stuck here. Oh, no. Where were you going to go? Doug was out of town when it happened. I got so many great Saturday night fever questions, so everybody listening, look forward to this game coming back in the future. But congratulations to Blair Saki for winning that game.

And we're going to go to a brief commercial message. When we get back, Blair, you're going to find out exactly the advantage you won in our next game. I can't wait. I'll tell you that. After these messages, we'll be right back. We're back. Great.

Wow. That was just, I told you there was no such thing as time anymore. My head is spinning. That was so fast. There were so many great products and services that I can't wait to try. We're here with, I'm saying that like anyone would join this in progress. That's not really possible.

I mean, maybe there's somebody just fast forwarded wildly first over the commercials. And I mean, the commercials that happened before I started talking at the very beginning of the show, Blair Sagi won the last game. Thank you very much, everyone.

It was an honor. She gets an incredible advantage in this next game that we're going to play because it is called Last Person Standing. This is the one that scares me. This is the one that scares me. This is the one that I'm terrified of. This one is really, yeah, it is for the real trivia dogs out there. Unless you get an advantage, and that's what I'm going to hand to Blair right now,

because you get to name who we're going to play today. I like to play along in this game. We're going to take turns naming movies of the actor or actress of Blair's choice. And whenever you can't think of one or you say one that's incorrect, you are out. First couple of rounds, I go kind of easy on everybody because it's no fun to kick somebody out immediately

you know it's like on Jeopardy you know if it's very early on in the game and they forget to word it as a question Alex just reminds them to do it from now on or they will be murdered what an old softy he really is he's a sweetheart okay okay so blair you've had a chance to think about it is there an actor actress that you think you know a lot of their films and you can sweep the floor with the rest of us yeah i mean i'm gonna do my best here but i'm gonna have I'm going to have to go Owen Wilson. Oh my God. That's a great one. Oh my God.

And you know a lot of Owen Wilson movies because you, in fact, do a podcast where his name is even in the title, right? It's not a podcast. It's a live show. But yeah, it's called Dear Owen Wilson. And it's based on a letter that I wrote to him after he had some issues in 2007. Well, that's sweet.

Yeah. So, yes, you really know Owen Wilson's work. A little bit, yeah. Or I used to. Or at least as a dress, anyway. You know that. Whatever a dress I found on the internet in 2007. I'd say that you've definitely put in more thought into Owen Wilkes

than these other two. I hope so, honestly. I hope that you've thought about it more. But I think he's a great choice for this game, and I'll be a good spoiler to, you know, help move things along. And don't forget to give me a turn. So it's going to go Blair, then Dan, then Ezra. Ezra might be out on the first round. Ezra's already out, dude.

Not that I'm not a fan. I'm just that guy who will do the things like, oh, he did that movie with that lady about those people. You know? Which is true. That's true. All right. Well, you know, in the early round,

I might accept that if I know what. Got a wild card. Okay. But I think you can come up with Moe and Wilson, especially because, you know, he's been in some sequels and whatnot. So go ahead and start us off, Blair, though, with any Owen Wilson

movie. Okay. You, Me, and Dupree. Great one. Yeah, that's just a title that's just ingrained in everybody's heads. Even if they

hate that movie. I was going to use that one. That's just a title that's just ingrained in everybody's heads. I was going to use that one. Yeah, right? All right, Dan? Wedding Crashers. Uh-huh. I was going to use that one. Previously mentioned, yes.

That's already in your head. All right, what do you got, Ezra? You've got to come out of the gate with at least one here. Night at the Museum. Night at the Museum. I love it. Very good one. You know, he had a small role in that one.

Does that matter? No. Do I get like half a point? No, he set the tone. one does that matter no do i get like half a point no he set the tone that was that was great man nice he set the tone for steve coogan's character it's like it's like going wilson's like we're both gonna be small in this I'm going to say I gotta go maybe my favorite Owen Wilson movie

and he's been in some goodies I'm going to say Marley and Me oh wow that one's good for anybody that needs a good cry I don't think I'd recommend it right now back to you Blair with the weather

I'm gonna go Starsky and Hutch just because I wanna be generous to my game mates to take up the more obscure titles first to show my cinema knowledge.

Oh, your result is in heaven. Thank you. Yeah, that was a nice pull. I don't know if I would have remembered that. Dan? I'm going to go with The Royal Tenenbaums. Oh, gee. Oh, you know what?

I take it back. That's my favorite movie that he's in. Yeah, I love that movie. What do you think, Ezra? Well, here's what sucks. Excuse me, I have

allergies. It's not COVID, it's just allergies. I know every single one of these movies, and I enjoy pretty much every single one of them but once I've seen them they're kind of out of my head I'm pretty Ezra can I just say real quick that I've been sneezing

a lot lately because I'm allergic to COVID I like that very much I don't mean to do any hot topics here but but uh when i'm walking down the street periodically and i'm wearing my mask and someone isn't i always cough really hard um so yeah just to lighten it up you know yeah uh so i'm remembering and i think it's kind of early uh my I'm pretty sure it's really early.

But I remember when Sunset Lemley still existed and there were such things called art films that played in real theaters as opposed to just festivals or streaming. I want to say it was called The Minute Man. I'm really hoping that's right. He played a serial killer. The Minute Man?

Is that it? The Minute Man? I mean – Or just maybe Minuteman? I'm not entirely sure if that's real, but with that windup, I can't – Can you check? You're allowed to check, right? I suppose I could, but you know what? At this stage in the game, I feel like somebody else that's playing

is going to walk away with this thing, and I really like having you in the game, so I'm going to accept whatever this is. I literally, I could have said Mrs. fucking Doubtfire, and I'd still be in this game. No. He is great in Mrs. Doubtfire. If I allowed that, everybody would be like, how come Doug doesn't know that Owen Wilson's the item in Mrs. Doubtfire if I allowed that everybody would be like

how come Doug doesn't know that Owen Wilson is not in Mrs. Doubtfire but nobody is saying that to themselves I can't believe Doug doesn't know Minifad I mean that sounds like a studio picture to me not an independent

pretty sure it was an indie like I said i was playing at the lemley and that's usually what they show yeah all right you know naming the specific theater really sold me there are things i do there are things i do remember i remember that theater and it's not known for playing movies that don't exist. So, um, I guess. Yeah.

Okay. Um, so for my turn, I'm going to say for the great Owen Wilson, I want to go all the way back. I want to go back super far back in the day to an early early ass

one called The Cable Guy. Oh, God, that's a great movie. That's what some people say. Oh, you don't agree? I love that film. I know a lot of people love that movie but coincidentally they're on a watch list i need to re-watch that

that explains a lot yeah no it's really it's creepy it's it's well done it's a well-done movie i don't know i wouldn't necessarily recommend it for anyone looking for laughs. Oh God, no. No, it's not funny. It's not the, you know, Ace Ventura kind of funny. No. Yeah. Okay, so. Was Owen Wilson in Ace Ventura? Back to you, Blair.

Okay, I'm going to have to toss out Zoolander. No, that was my next one sorry i'm proving to be a vicious competitor imagine my stunned surprise all right dan what are you gonna do with I'm going to leave it for Ezra. I hope he takes it. I will say Moonrise Kingdom. Oh, that's a good one. You people are very impressive. Owen Wilson's been in so many movies. He has an incredibly illustrious career.

He really does. Some of which are sequels. So Ezra... Very good. Yeah, subtle. What do you think of him at this point? My guess would be... Let's see. What was that sequel to that museum movie that happened at night?

Was it called Another Night at the Museum? No, it wasn't another night at the museum it's called night at the getty no not the getty not at the museum too just a guess listen uh oh is this going to be sad news. I love your tone. I'll just call you a junior favor. I want you to do me a favor, right? Yeah. What was Blair's last

answer? There was a Zoolander 2? I mean, technically he said the word. Correct. That was great. And you're also telling them that there wasn't a Knight Museum too? Oh my goodness. I'm not saying there wasn't.

I'm just saying that you're never going to guess what the title is. Oh, really? Yeah, we play exact titles, which really trips people up. Oh, gotcha. The title is getting so dumb. So it would have to have been like Night at the Museum to Ben Stiller's Wet Dream, just a guess? Something like that, but, you know, I don't think they've really come out and, you know,

just admitted in the title of one of his movies. Out of the room, out of the room. His personal level of excitement about the project. Okay, so let's go to uh oh it's back to me it's back to me so um gosh i don't know i kind of want to say i kind of want to uh just say it for him but I also enjoy the level of torture that's going on here I'm gonna go ahead and go with I'm gonna say gosh what's another dumb

thing that he was in it was like oh there he is again I have a lot of dumb choices to pick from so I got a good one for you Blair that you probably have in your back pocket but I'm gonna ruin it for you right now you ready

okay and I like this movie too kind of uh the big bounce oh okay esoteric choice that really wasn't anywhere I was The Big Bounce. Oh, okay. Esoteric choice. That really wasn't anywhere I was going, but thank God.

So I still have an arsenal ready. Oh, Jesus. I feel like your arsenal is going to take us all down, but go ahead. It's like an AK-47 of information. I don't know how. This is so impressive. I know. I don't know how. It's so impressive. I know. I want to ban myself. What's your next answer?

Shanghai Noon. Oh, my gosh. I love Shanghai Noon so much. What a great combo, huh? Incredible chemistry. Set the screen on fire. And then leave. All right, Dan, what do you got?

Cars. Cars. Cars. All right, so Ezra. I saw that on a plane, cars. It was confusing. This is a guess. We got Shanghai Noon.

We got Cars. What do you say, Ezra? This is a guess because I kind of remember he was in it, but I'm not even sure I saw it. Is he in Pineapple Express? Just real quickly, let me recap. Why do you do the tongue fessing

we've got Shanghai Noon Shanghai Noon and we also have cars Blair we've never met and I love what we're doing together I'm not sure I can

concur with that I'm not sure I can concur with that. I'm not sure I completely agree. So in other words, no. Sorry, as a sinister things happen in quarantine. Well, here's the thing. What you guys don't understand is I'm trying to get out of this. All right. We got to. But no, you keep dragging me back. I bought, oh, Jesus, seriously.

Cars 2. Very good. Very good. Good job, dude. Wow, Ezra. You know, I am a font. I, Ezra. As you know, I am a font. I am too.

Alright, I'm gonna go ahead and say Shanghai Nights. Dang, good choice, Doug. Way to go. Very good call. I kind of think that's cheating. Ezra, all your answers have been twos.

That's hilarious. Which is what I used to get on my Broadway audition score as well. That's great. And Stan looks too. Okay, so we're back to Blair.

Okay. Meet the Fockers. So, uh, we're, we're back to Blair. Um, okay. Uh, meet the Fockers. Oh no. What is happening? Dan. Uh, the life aquatic was Steve Zissou. Oh, you take my breath away with that movie that I didn't remember he was in. This is so hard for me.

We're back to you, Ezra. Oh, my God, it could not be easier. We've got Cars 2, and we've got Meet the Fuckers. Uh-huh. Was there one called Killing the Fuckers. Was there one called Killing the Fuckers? No. No. Oh my God, can you imagine

if it was Meet Mary or Kill the Fuckers? Are there only three choices? Actually, I like the fuckers. I thought That was a cute movie. Can I say Pineapple Express 2? No, that's probably not a good choice.

I'm familiar with what you're doing, Mr. Benson. It's very clear to me. And I thank you for holding my hand. I'm a lonely actor in a lonely town. So I will say, to stay in the game and drive you all mad, meet the Fockers 2.

I'm not going to hold anybody's hand ever again. Or Washington. No, I'm sorry. There is nothing called meet the Fockers 2. Oh, my God. Am I out? I think you are. Sweet Jesus lives.

You guys are the best. I just want to sit here and laugh now and listen to y'all and stop sweating. Well, that's fair. You're going to laugh at my next answer. Cars 3. You're right. Wait, I didn't know

there was a Cars 3 for real yeah there is a cars 3 unfortunately hilarious actually it's actually better than two it's like kind of a rebound from two wow this is what it's come to yeah cars cars 3 had doesn't has very little of the tow truck. That's awesome. They went tow truck crazy in the second one and people didn't respond to it so they took them out of the third one. Who voiced the tow truck? Do you know? Larry. That guy, Larry

the professional voice over guy. Boy is he rich just off of that, but he also made a ton being the cable guy. Yeah, the other white cable guy.

Whose turn is it? Blair. Back to Blair. Okay. Okay. Boba Rocket. Nice. ship back to play okay um uh bottle rocket nice damn i'm starting to forget what i've said already it's okay to repeat i mean i'll just remind you if something's been said i'm breathing a sigh of relief yeah no you don't have to worry about it. It's not a memory game as far as what we've said so far.

It's a memory game of what we can come up with in the future. Dan, do you have another one? Meet the Parents. Yes, of course. So that's what happened to you, Ezra. You were a victim of the fact that Meet the Fockers was the sequel to Meet the Parents. Yeah, I think that's true. It's completely legit.

And then I'm going to say the follow-up to Meet the Fockers, which, of course, is Little Fockers. Of course it was. Yeah. See, now, if we had chosen Robert De Niro as the actor, maybe I would have gotten all three of them. Oh, yeah, that's true. How did you forget? I mean, easy to forget that Owen Wilson was there.

Thanks, Blair. What about Blair? We're back to you, Blair. Oh, um, Uh... Uh... Dyer J. Lee Limited? Uh-huh. See, that's the one that wasn't Pineapple Express.

Oh, right. You just had the wrong... Exactly. That is so funny. I didn't even catch that. Oh, I didn't... I didn't get that either. That's exactly how the mind doesn't work. Dan?

I'm starting to get to the bottom of my barrel here. barrel here. I... It sounded like you were doing an impression of Dennis Hopper and Blue Velvet. I was just wondering. That sounds kind of dirty. I will go with Behind Enemy Lines.

Oh. There's a right turn. Whoa. Daniel's trying to battle. No, I think that's, that might be the only one I have left. I was sitting on it.

Oh my God. It totally, it totally triggered me though. It totally helped me to think of some stuff, especially I might not have ever come up with. He's in Armageddon. Oh my God. Why are you guys so good at this?

It's incredible. I know, right? What the hell? This explains the sweat pouring from my face. Holy shit. It's the weirdest thing. I got to admit, Blair, it's the weirdest thing. Like of all the actresses you've picked, you picked the one who I've decorated my entire bedroom with posters of his films.

It is true. Is that true, Doug? I'm just sitting here reading all the great, no, I don't. He got Owen Wilson wallpaper from galleries 1988. It's pretty cool. You know, I've had issues with goal ability my entire life. Is it my turn? I think it is, yeah.

Okay, okay, okay. This is getting hard and scary because I don't want to lose my own choice, but Rushmore. Nice. Poor child. He did a lot of good damage. I know. He's an incredible genius. Yeah.

I mean, that's the thing. Well, it's Dan's turn. I won't say it until my turn, Dan. Man, this came too fast. He is in... Man, does he have a voice in that movie? Yeah, he does.

You know we heard you, right? He's in Planes. What? Planes. you know we heard you right he's in planes what planes one of the spinoff movies from cars cars with wings he's not in there I know I know that you don't know for sure either but he's probably not

he might have like a line yeah I know alright I don't think he does I don't think he does I don't think he does either but well let's keep going because I think Blair and I both have I'm here for the game

alright so that it comes back to me and I know for sure I thought he's in Fantastic Mr. Fox Damn that was supposed to be mine Damn it

Oh dear This is getting ugly Dog you ninja Okay Wait okay did we say I'm forgetting Kind of what we've said already Did we say Sing High Nights

Yes Fuck okay Did we say Sing High Nights? Yes. Yeah. Fuck. Okay. Did we say... We said Zoolander 2. Kind of. Kind of.

Zoolander. Oh, my God. Oh, my heart is beating. Okay. God damn it. Dog, I will say while she thinks. The internship! Ooh!

Talk about a barrel bottom. Can I tell you something? I've never seen the internship. I just know he's in it and it was a big problem nationally. Yeah. It was weird. It was a weird

behind the scenes at Google movie. Okay. I personally feel like I enjoy watching Vince Vaughn like when he's like kind of a fast talking idea man and when he's just an intern and nobody likes any of his ideas but you know that he's a movie star it just doesn't it's weird

I know I loved when he was like a confident fast talking asshole okay so I know. I loved when he was like a confident, fast-talking asshole. Okay, so I'm going to go with, let's see. Oh, oh, oh. Isle of Dogs. Oh, man. Great movie. Wait, I didn't know he's in Isle of Dogs. He, man. Great movie. Wait, I didn't know

he's in Isle of Dogs. He plays one of the dogs. Oh, shit. We've got a flag on the play. I think you're probably right. He might not be in it, but go ahead and give us your next one there,

Blair. Okay. give us your next one there, Blair. Okay. You know you have another one. Oh, God. Maybe that movie where he was all like,

hey. Hey, what's going on? Hey, what's this about? It's okay. It's all right.'s okay yeah it's alright oh yeah me Owen Wilson

nice that's really good well that's pretty good that was really good sure thanks thanks so much I appreciate it very nice

up in the nose and drop on that lip thanks for saying all my movies saying hi we haven't said them all I don't

know any what is another Wes Anderson movie fuck seriously um wait we said oh yeah I thought of one we didn't say

he's probably in um I oh no I don't know I feel dang what was that is Dan still in it

no I'm out no unfortunately oh my god head to head with Doug loves movies I don't know I can't think of one come on Blair you came up with the internship you can do this

the internship little meet the parents meet the fuck Meet the fuckers Little fuckers No I don't know any I don't know any Night at the museum Yeah there was two more

Night at the museums There was the one called Battle for the Smithsonian And another one called something else. I always get tripped up on those because I don't remember what they were called. But here's one you're going to kick yourself for not remembering. You ready?

What is this? By the way, Blair, you won. You won, Doc, I feel. I don't think so. I feel like you won because I don't count because I'm just the host. Well, I'm still not sure about Isle of Dogs. I know I'm too good at it. Isle of Dogs, yeah, could go either way, but I think he's not in it.

I think Blair's right about that. But you know what he's definitely in? A movie called Drillbit Taylor. I've never seen that movie. Yeah. Yeah, he's in there. Because he plays the titular role. He's Drillbit?

Drillbit, yeah. That makes sense. Only a star could play that role. But he's a tailor. He was also in, wasn't he in a thing with Jack Nicholson and Reese Witherspoon or Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon or somebody and somebody? Reese Witherspoon. Oh, yeah.

Jack Nicholson's in it for like one scene. What is that? It's called something like, hey, go over there. Something people? The people who go places. Yeah. Didn't he do a Woody Allen movie too? Am I remembering that?

Midnight in Paris, but I said that one. Oh, you did? I don't remember you saying that. Did you not say that? You didn't say it. Damn, I thought I said that first. No, you said you, me, and Dupree

first. I, you said you, me, and Dupree first. I'm considering that the winning, you did it. You won by coming up with Midnight Paris. That's a very good goal. Oh my God, if we did any other actor, I would have only gotten two right.

You're lucky you got to pick. Yeah, I see you won that first round it all came together oh yeah when you uh when you come back on the show you'll have to like you know study up on somebody first and then of course you also have to win the uh it's funny because that actually occurred to me i thought well maybe maybe i'll study up like i'm tilted switten but then i thought well no because then i going to have to win the other games. I'm not going to do it.

So why bother? Oh my God. I was going to do a new thing towards the end of the show where I ran out and watched movies recommended by my guests on the last show. And I didn't watch

anything that they recommended. I just get into that state of mind where, you know, when you have everything to choose from, you end up watching, you know, whatever you feel like seeing in the moment, not something that's kind of unknown or whatever. Yeah, this is a real American problem. We have so many choices. It's hard to choose.

Yeah. Fucking Americans. I feel the same way. real american problem we have so many choices it's hard to choose yeah fucking americans i'm like i could be using this time to deepen my exploration of cinema and then i find myself watching fucking bullshit like housewives i'm re-watching gilmore girls I love it. Perfect example. So, do any of you have a recommendation for either a new movie or a classic that you've seen lately or that you think people should watch during this lockdown? Oh, I was thinking series as opposed to movies. I've been watching a lot of serial stuff.

Well, I recommend the movie 25th Hour. It was Spike Lee's first movie after 9-11, but it's more about a guy in his final days before going to jail. It is a drama, but it's not as dark or heavy. It's pretty

entertaining. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, as I said, directed by Spike Lee, Rosario Dawson, and led by Edward Norton. It's a really, really, really, really good movie. Heavy hitters. Yeah, called 25th Hour. And then also, I'm going to watch this week

if anybody else wants to watch it, Warrior, starring Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy, and an Academy-nominated performance by Nick Nolte. It is technically a sports movie, but it has no business being as good as it is, especially with the backdrop of MMA. But it is just a great story. Yeah, I really like that movie.

I like that movie a lot. So I concur that people should try to catch it if they can. You just think it's not going to be that good. And then you realize, oh, these are the actors that are in it. And this is just a great goddamn story. It's called Warrior. So those two movies are what I recommend. All right.

Yeah. Well, we got a Dan Van Kirk double bill for you guys of 25th Hour and Warrior. Written down. 25th Hour and Warrior. Written down. Don't get inferior with The Warriors, the silly gang movie from the 70s. The subway movie

I was thinking of that, yeah. Yeah. Blair, what do you think? Is there anything people should watch? Well, I'll just be candid with my teammates and the listeners. I did recently revisit the Bad Boys trilogy with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, another incredibly high-chemistry, unrepeatable duo.

But I'll say that the first Bad Boys was really incredible, and then the next two fell off but what can you do you know they can't all be hits it's true what was it in particular about the second and third one that like made them not as good as the original just that they just kept repeating the same thing basically yeah maybe and like um i think i don't know it's if it's just the progression of time or what but it seemed to be less plot and just like three hours of like ak-47s and um i don't know maybe my sophisticated feminine palette has changed a bit, you know? Yeah, there is a shit ton of gunplay in part two

and a really extended car chase that is so insanely wild, it would be the best thing anybody ever saw on TV if there was local news covering it. Right. Doug, you have an insane memory. It's pretty impressive. It really is. I just remember what I want to remember, like

parts of movies I hate. Me too. I just remember I just forget a lot of men I've hooked up with that I don't like. Okay, so we're going. I'm personally not going to dive back into it,

but for those of you out there that are looking for something that's going to take a while and part of it's not going to be as good as another part of it, check out the three Bad Boys movies. And don't get confused with the Bad Boys movie that's about a prison starring Sean Penn, but it is also a pretty good movie in its own right, but I think it's probably pretty depressing to watch right now. Like any prison movie right now is like, they've got to be, those people are in prison, they're like, so that's depicted in the those people are in prison. They're like,

so that's depicted in the movie and then you get to think about, Oh, and also there's this virus going around that you shouldn't be, you shouldn't be close to other people, which is a whole nother movie. Yeah. Okay. Ezra, it's finally to you, man. What do you recommend? Fight Club, The Artist, and Kill Bye Bye. Any one of my 60 films. No. Interestingly enough, a really smart kid I know here in town theatrically

who is a playwright posted a couple days ago a YouTube video about his deconstruction analysis of Midsommar, which I had seen already, and then after his deconstruction analysis on it. And I'm making it sound far headier than it actually is. It's a beautiful insight on how the director managed to somehow infuse the concepts of one who would build a cult into like the steps they take, you know, find someone lonely, make them feel welcome. Always keep them busy, found a way to apply those tenets directorially to the film.

So that by the very, very end, after she has gone through her journey, for anyone who hasn't seen it, I don't want to give any spoilers, but it's been around a while. We are thrilled and happy to see how happy she has become. And it was really, really interesting. So I rewatched it and I'll be damned, he's right. It was fascinating. It was a fascinating study to me. What's that? I was going to say, you say it's been around for a while i think it i think it's been around since mid-sommar just this last mid-sommar yeah yeah there is no time there just is no time for me anymore but honestly what i've been watching mostly i have been as i said um uh shows i hope should i mention those or no i mean this is a

movie thing no i'm loving i was loving the Midsommar talk. I just wanted to jump in and do a stupid joke. But I think that is one of those movies where I think it can get deeper and deeper and deeper. I just don't know if for me personally, if I take any pleasure from, you know, revisiting the horrors of that movie. Yeah, that's what I feel. I loved it.

I loved it, but I don't know if I can rewatch it. But I kind of want to someday. It just might need to be more time than less than a year. Have you seen it, Blair? Has Blair seen it? Midsommar? No, I can't see scary movies. I'm a very soft girl. I was

recently forced to watch Cloverfield, which I don't know what that was, but... I'm not sure anyone does. Yeah, that movie... Cloverfield only scares people who are afraid of shaky camera work.

Yeah. I was like, is Cloverfield the monster? I mean, what happened? The brother slept with the... I mean, I don't know. Pretty sure it's just a street in Santa Monica, honestly. Yeah, that doesn't sound like the right movie for you. I think you should

stick to black cop buddy fiction. for you, I think you should stick to a black. That's good advice for anybody. Thank you. Thank you to all three of you for joining me today. All of my June shows have been canceled or postponed July dates. I don't know. Stay tuned. july dates i don't know uh stay tuned um what any last minute you guys have for your uh current endeavors uh i will let everybody know that this friday i am doing a on like a virtual comedy show benefiting a man named sean harrington who was paralyzed when he was mistaken for somebody else

in chicago and it's raising money to help make his home ADA accessible. But it's a comedy show and tickets are whatever you can donate. That's the cost. So if you got two bucks, you got 20 bucks, you got two bucks, whatever it is, that would be your ticket into the show. You can find all of that stuff posted recently on my social media at Daniel Van Kirk. And that is this Friday, the 29th of May at eight o'clock central time. Awesome.

What about you, Blair Saki? Oh, you know, all of my road dates are canceled if you can believe it. But you can just find me online on Instagram and Twitter at Blair Saki, B-L-A-I-R-S-O-C-C-I. And I post a lot of my short films and wild ass content on there. If you need to see it. Yeah. Go check out some wild ass.

Not my actual ass, but you know what I mean. All right. And Ezra Buzzington, not my actual ass but you know what i mean all right and uh uh ezra buzzington what's the name of that movie again we should be looking out for it sounds great uh though the one with saint vincent and carrie brownstein is called the nowhere in and i still haven't seen it but i have i've read wonderful things but, um, I guess it's Hulu coming up in July, will be into the dark colon current occupant. And, uh, that, that looks really freaking cool. Um, I'm very excited about that. That was the last job I managed to work before everything hit and went to hell. So now I'm just mostly writing a lot, but you can also find me socially

anywhere you want to. I love it. Thank you so much for doing this, dude. That's very cool of you. It was so much fun. Thank you to all three of you. Ezra Buzington, Blair Saki, and Dan Van Kerr. Thanks, Doug. Thank you, Doug. You guys rock.

Thank you so much. Yeah, nice to meet my new friends. Hey, if all of you could send me pictures of yourselves, like selfies in your recording environment that you're in today, I'd appreciate it. I'll use it for the promotions. Episode will be out later tonight. Thank you again. And as always, you met me at a very strange time in my life.