Doug Loves Movies - Gabe Mollica, Jim O’Heir and Ryan Niemiller guest

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

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Doug hates candy wrappers screening baby sticky seeds with 50 as a pop or kernels in his teeth. They're still not one that he won't see because Doug loves movies. Hey, hey, hey everybody. My name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies recording on Sunday, April 7th, 2024. My guests today are a newbie and old being a returning be. We've got Gabe Malika, Ryan Neimile Miller and Jim O'Hara. Hey guys.

Hey Doug. Hello Doug. Let's meet everybody individually and alphabetically by first name he is a returning champion East Coast based but has a show coming up in LA that he'll tell us about it's Gabe Malika happy new year happy new year Doug it's nice to be with you so you're one bad show solo a show about friendship is going to happen out in Los Angeles sometime soon? Yes. I'm doing it at the end of April at UCBLA.

I believe it's April 26th and I have a week in Boston at a nice big theater in the North End. So please check me out, a show about friendship. It was on This American Life. You may have heard it even if you don't know that you know it. Yeah. They've heard about it from your multiple appearances on this particular program. And you're back after the last episode because you're a ongoing champion. And I'm in a green room right now in Minnesota.

I made this happen Doug. I need to keep this going. Well, all right. So good luck to you today. Making his second appearance on this show, having appeared on a Parks and Rec themed episode at the just mentioned UCB LA. I don't know how many years ago is now, but it's Jim O'Hare. Hey, Jim. Hey, Doug. I was I was wondering if that was true Like I'm thinking I remember us doing it, but then I thought maybe I made that up But we did do that right with the cast and you yeah, it was crazy. It was Amy Ben Schwartz

Chris Pratt. Yeah, I think it was there too, wasn't he? Adam Scott. There was like seven. I don't think Nick Hoffman was there and Aziz has been had been on Douglas movies a bunch, but he didn't he wasn't on that. Reto was probably there. Yeah Yeah, but it was like it was like seven of y'all. It was really it was really fun and exciting and but happy to have you back on the occasion of your new podcast that you're just starting. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Happy to be here. It's called parks, parks and recollection. Yeah. And I do it with Greg Levine, who was a writer on parks from beginning. Actually he was with Greg and Mike Shore, who Greg Daniels, Mike sure who co-created Parks.

He was working with them over at the office. And so he was with them from the very inception of the show up until the very end. So the two of us, it's a rewatch podcast. So we just go through each episode, we have guest stars, including some of the cast members and the writers and some of the producers you know, producers that were involved. So it's it's really we're probably having too much fun.

But so far, it's been just a lot of laughs. It sounds great. Do you have a has there developed over the years a name for Parks and Rec fans? Is there like a fun? It's just part of it. I mean, first of all, technically, it's Parks and Rec and recreation. But people call it Parks and rec or PNR. I've seen PNR a lot but generally it's parks and rec Yeah, yeah, maybe like the fans can be called PNR heads. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. Yeah I'm just saying you're gonna have to call them something something. Yes. Yeah, they're rabbit

It's a rabid fan base, which has been awesome. And there are certain shows I'm a rabid fan of. So I'm always just so grateful that I ended up on a show that has this type of longevity. We're still pretty popular out there and that's luck of the draw. I've been on many, many shows over the years. They come and go.

You never hear another word from them. But Parks, it's still there, and the fans are still with us. Yeah, Comedy Central's given it a lot of runs, and I'm sure it's available in lots of different ways. Yeah, it's on Peacock, it's on some channel called Esquire. Yeah, it's kind of, yeah So it's on Peacock. It's on some show channel called Esquire. Yeah, it's kind of yeah, it's just wild.

All that's all these years later and we're still out there. Yeah. And also not not a topical reference heavy. It really is pretty evergreen, you know, when you watch it like it's. I agree. Yeah. I mean, there's a couple of political references that, you know, obviously, we have up because Joe Biden did an episode, but he was the VP at the time. So obviously that has changed. Michelle Obama was the, you know, the first lady at the time.

So that has changed. But yeah, other than that, it, yeah, it is pretty evergreen. Well, uh, congratulations on the podcast and thanks for joining us here and joining us for His first time you know him from America's Got Talent and I'm doing a show with him on Saturday April 20th at the Bear River Casino in Lolita, California It's Ryan Neemiller. Hey Ryan. Hey Doug. How are you?

So I'm good. Thanks and like 90% of the time people just the first shot they take is nine Miller Or neem Isler that one happens a lot. So it's my fault for 17 years ago being stupid and not doing a stage name and using my actual government name. That is my fault. Because for the longest time I couldn't build a fan base because people would see me do a show, think I was good, and then they'd find me five years later. I looked up Ryan E. Miller. Where were you? You're nowhere on the internet. I have a stupid German name. I'm sorry Well, you know you're making it work I think and I'm just

grateful that you know, I did the research to make sure that I Pronounced it correctly because even when you know, even when you think you're saying it right, it's easy to get You know tricked by it when you think you're saying it right, it's easy to get, you know, tricked by it. Nothing is more fun for me than watching like like hosts at a comedy show, like really going over it like, OK, it's knee. It's knee Miller, knee Miller, knee Miller. And then they get up there and just explode into nonsense. It doesn't work. It's like whatever you say, man.

Just I'll come on stage when you say a name. That's all I need. It's like that John Travolta with uh Adina Menzel when he called her because you know he went over her name a thousand times like he had that name in his head and then of course kaboom. Yeah your brain just explodes and doesn't want to work right. And she was really uh she was quite the professional about I mean I guess she was singing a song so she just sort of launched into it but she didn't even have that look on her face like what wasn't even close it wasn't even the ballpark yeah it'll endlessly entertaining I've always always enjoyed that clip so Ryan I also was trying to think of with your experience with the AGT, you were on

more than one season, right? You came back like as an all star or something like that. Correct. Yeah. So I was on season 14 in 2019. I got third place on that run because I was unfortunately on the Cody Lee season. And I'm pretty sure you were a Cody Lee season and I'm pretty sure you were a Cody Lee fan. I think that's you came out to the Vegas show to see him.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm a risk a tweet exchange where you were very excited to see Cody and someone was like, oh, comedian Ryan Neymar is going to be there too. And you're like, yeah, whatever Cody and that's kind of how that season was. Like, like I love Cody. I love his family. But the first note that came out of his mouth, I was like, so I'm going for second place, right? That's what we're trying to do here. Yeah. And comedians are just basically kind of,

you know, screwed in general with that show because it's just, you know, there's always I mean, there's some comedians have done very well on the show, obviously, but it's just that you're competing against like Cody Lee or or people that are defying death. Yeah, they're literally on fire. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The problem here's why I always try to explain it to people and comedian will never win. Because like, say that you there's a juggler on the show, but you hate jugglers. You could still watch a juggler and be like, okay, he clearly practice really hard. He's very good at what he does. I just don't like it. If you don't like comedy,

I'm just up there and I look like I'm talking. Nobody thinks that the talent if you don't like comedy, it's like, Oh, he's standing there talking. Any jackass can do that. I'm not voting for him. That's stupid And you just you're just never gonna get around that on some people. Yeah No, you have to be charismatic and call it spoken word to win. Yes Well, congratulations on all your success with it so far Do you think is that something that you would go back to again? Do they is there is that a possibility like another all-star season or something? If they asked me to I would it's one of

the situations you know my life completely changed. I was uh you know before that 2019 season I was an old road dog you know I'm uh I was living in middle of Indiana. That's where I'm from. I can confirm that most of Indiana is like Pawnee, uh, Jim. So it's very, very similar. Most of my family still lives in Indiana. I know all about it. Oh, what part? Uh, Gary, not Gary, uh, um, Dyer and Crown Point. Oh, so, so I grew up in DeMott, Indiana, up in the region. So I'm very familiar

with that. So my first gig ever in the entertainment world was as a radio DJ in Rensselaer, Indiana. You've ever heard of Rensselaer? Rensselaer was our big rival high school. Yes. And St. Joe's College was there. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I went to

Kankakee Valley for a let's do let's do some more small town references that no one else will. Exactly. Exactly. I went to Kankakee Valley for, let's do, let's do some more small town references that no one else will understand. Exactly. Exactly. Doug, we should book some shows in Indiana now and use this momentum.

Just this right here. But yeah, yeah, I would go back on AGT if they wanted me to. It changed my life, you know, like because of that show that directly let me meet my wife. I have an 11 month old son now, you know, based on, you know, what I was able to do and not having to sleep in my car anymore, kind of thing. So yeah, if they ever want to be back, I would definitely go back. Everyone treated me really well. Terry Cruz is cool. You know, I'd love to see him again.

Women are so fickle about, oh, he sleeps in a car. Come on. Big deal. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. Well, when you have to do that dive bar in the middle of Iowa for three drugs who don't know it's comedy night, you sleep in your car. That's what you do. I tell you, I've never done standup. People think I do. They shouldn't. I give you guys so much credit. I think it's the scariest thing in the whole world. I don't know how you guys do it. I'm constantly amazed and blown away by you guys. Well, that's why we get away with it is because some reason people think it's like hard

or something or scary. I think it is. I think it's really hard. I really, you guys always impress me. Well, thanks, Jim. Before we play our games today, because that's what we do on this show, I would like to take a moment to talk about old movies,

new movies, whatever you want. But I'd like each of you to just recommend one movie. We'll start with Gabe. What would you like to recommend today? Yeah. I went on a real baseball movie run recently, because I'm dating someone who thought Angels in the Outfield was the best baseball movie ever made. I was like, we need to sit down and watch

some real baseball movies. Well, that was based on a true story game. So that's why I think it's. So I went back, and I'm in Minnesota. And so I watched Little Big League, which for a kid that ends up as a sports executive, I was like, this is actually kind of fun. So I'm going to recommend that one.

Little Big League. That is not affiliated with Big League Choo? No. So that guy had a long career too. Didn't somebody famous invent big league chew. Oh, I have no idea about that, but sounds like something a famous person would do. So who is in little big league? Um, it's the kid from American pie. Um, what's his name? No, wait, maybe I'm confusing it. No, we're now with rookie of the year Yeah, I just watched this movie. Why can't I think of his name?

But it's the kid from that other baseball movie. Yes, it's the it's the It's like a nine like early 90s. Maybe like 94. Mm-hmm. I do five something like that. Yeah, and Uh-huh. 95, something like that. Yeah. And, uh, yeah. Was it before or after Rookie of the Year? That's a really great question, because as a small child, I was on to Rookie of the Year because the kid actually plays baseball as opposed to like works for the team.

But now as a 32 year old, I'm like working for the team seems more reasonable. So did you officially establish what is the best baseball movie? I mean, I'm a, I'm a moneyball person. Right. Did you officially establish what is the best baseball movie? I'm a moneyball person. But when people say The Natural or The Sandlot or Eight Men Out, I think there's other answers. But you've been watching all of them to try to prove. Yeah. It's not working.

She's really hell bent on being. She's like, I just want to feel like I'm eight again. I'm like, well, these other movies can't do that. Maybe the Sandlot could, I guess, but you know, Angels in the Outfield, that's just like, I feel like to really love that, you have to see it at just the right age, I think. Yeah, I think she's holding on to that it's still good,

even though we watched it and We know it's now bad People will do that. All right Jim if you got a movie like a recommend, I'm gonna throw out two just because one's a documentary So, I don't know if you guys were you guys fall on those but it was remembering Gene Wilder I just saw it last week. It's really lovely. He obviously was a lovely man. And Mel Brooks is really the main voice of the documentary. So that was really cool.

That's super cool. Yeah, it's super cool. And Alan Alda is in there and you hear how it all came together. Mel Brooks changed his life from beginning because he was dating, oh, who's his wife, Anne Bancroft. And it turns out that Gene Wilder was doing a play with Bancroft on Broadway that actually didn't do so well, but Mel fell in love with Gene Wilder as far as his talent and what he thought he could do.

And ever since they met, he couldn't see anyone else in what ultimately would become the producers other than Gene Wilder. So they had this story that just went on and on their whole careers, which was lovely. And then he ends up, you know, he passed away ultimately of Alzheimer's and the dementia and all that kind of stuff. But you hear the stories, you hear about his romance with Gilda Radner, all the different movies. So I was riveted. I just, I absolutely loved it. And then movie wise, as far as a movie movie, I did love Love Lies Bleeding. Have you guys seen that one?

I did see that one. With Kristen Stewart? Yeah, it's, that's a, what, how would you describe it to somebody? Wow, it, first of all, the thing I have to say, I have become more and more, and I can't think of the name of this film other than it might be called Remembering Eileen or Remember Eileen.

But I saw a film on a plane last month with Kristen Stewart. I think she's much better than I had ever given her credit for, because to me, she was one of the girls from the franchise. And I don't know. I just thought that's who she was but I think she's really come into her own and I think she's I think she's really good and this one is kind of all over the place I mean there's it's a very sexual film uh she falls in love with

Jenna Maloney and and Ed Harris is in there he's total wacko yeah I really don't know how to describe it but I left there going wow I like that it was crazy but I liked it yeah I saw it and I you know if somebody said to me like you know well what kind of movie is it it's just really it's a lot going on there's a lot going on yeah you wouldn't call that a comedy it's definitely dramatic but there's some comedic moments but I don't even think it's a dramedy. I don't know it's all over the place. Yeah and Ed Harris is really he's really um he's really come into playing scary characters. Yeah he nails it. Okay so two from Jim. Ryan from me. We only need one. Only one. I thought I had to do three just to make this pattern work.

Yeah, go on the pattern. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a little bit of recency bias. So as just a human, I am generally very contrarian. If everybody talks about how something great it is, you have to give me 20 years to watch it before I can actually give it an honest. Because if you say this is the greatest movie I've ever seen, I'm gonna try to watch it and find everything I hate about it to prove you're wrong.

Cause I'm bad. It's a big character flaw of mine. I know that. But on a plane, I had a really long flight a couple of weeks ago and I went ahead and watched everything everywhere all at once. Yeah. That movie is phenomenal.

And it's probably I don't know if it's too new to like recommend on here. It's not a deep enough cut. But man, I'm practically crying on an airplane like a jackass because that movie was fantastic. It I came in with the wrong thought process. I thought it was going to be, you know, all subtitles and all this and that. But it was it was not at all what I was expecting. It was it was phenomenal. Oh, and the best baseball movie is Major League, by the way.

Oh, OK. You may be right. It's definitely the funniest. Yeah, I would definitely best baseball comedy, but everything, everywhere all at once has been consistent from the day it came out, has been a consistent recommendation from people on this show. You're in good company with lots of people who recommended it, and they were on it immediately. As soon as it came out, it was sort of on the road to best picture and to being considered a classic.

So, it was cool. Well, now that Ryan likes it, I hate it. Cause I am also a contrarian. So I've totally changed my opinion on that film. That's what I wanted to happen actually there, Jim. That is, I'm tired of being the contrarian himself. I want to cause the contrarianism. I'm taking over. I love that movie, but I just really tense up before and then for the rest of the movie after the scene

where Ki-Hai Kwan is giving himself paper cuts. Yeah, that hurt me and I barely have fingers dug. So that was after I played. All right. Well, thanks you guys for those recommendations. We're going to play some games right after these messages. We'll be right back. We are back. We are back. And the first game we're going to play today is a something that I call How Many Is It? This game was formerly

called How Long Is It? But today we're calling it How Many Is It? I'm going to name a thing and then each of you are going to guess How many there are of that thing and then the closest without going over prices, right style will be our Winner of this particular game. Is it still a hundred thousand dollar prize? Is that standard? particular game. Is it still a hundred thousand dollar prize? Is that standard? It's the only reason I'm here, Doug.

We had to stop. Uh, this podcast has been going for like 17, 18 years now, and we had to stop giving away the prize money. Um, after the pilot, we did a pilot episode, and we spent all of our money. Turns out it doesn't cost that much to do a podcast, you know, to load it, to record it and post it. So that's where we're going the cheap route, unfortunately.

But you will be very, I think you'll be very happy when you find out what you win, if you win. OK. Yeah, it's pretty exciting so Tom Hanks in the titular role how many times Has that happened now the man with one red shoe? Doesn't count because it's not even though he does play that man arguably Uh the the man's name is not in the title same with like volunteers

Obviously he and john candy were the volunteers and rita wilson, but uh, it's still not specifically the title Character a name of tom hanks character first last or both Has to be in the title Gabe you're up first How many do you think there are? Tom Hanks movies where he's the title role without going over, huh without going over I'm gonna say that he's been in a lot of movies. Yeah, I'm gonna say this has happened nine times

Okay Solid solid start Jim okay, just to clarify so like the movie big He would that wouldn't be included right? No, cuz even though you could argue that he is the one that becomes big right one of the dreams of being big it's it's still not you know the movie needs needed to be called Billy big big big big man the sex in the city spin- No, we don't talk about big anymore. That's right.

He got some trouble. He got into some trouble. He's bye bye. Uh, okay. Um, oh boy. So like, boy, like even DaVinci. Oh boy. Um, uh, in that case, I'm going to, I'm going to even go lower.

Uh, I'm going to say seven. Okay. What do you think, Ryan? See, like now I'm torn between whether I should actually try to think of the movies or just use the the price is right strategy and hope that I win. Oh, yeah, like go 10 instead of nine. Exactly. Neemiller really coming in handy with this late alphabet. Yeah.

I go by, I'm sorry. I call them Neymiller just so you know. It's an old Indiana name. I know there's probably more than this, but I'm going to say one. I think it's in that range of one to seven. I think it's something I'm a daily pretty much daily watcher of prices right and the when the people bid on the prizes now, they still go for that occasionally somebody will try to be cute and just bid a dollar.

And Drew's always like, you know, it's always very exciting. But the move is these days is to dollar the highest bid to just add a dollar to it because the initial prize that people bid on is generally like 1500 to three grand each one lately, you know, they've gotten so expensive and but people are still bidding, they're opening bids are still like 650, 800, you know, and they're, they tend gotten so expensive and but people are still bidding their opening bids are still like 650 800, you know And they're like there would tend to be way off. So anybody listening if you can get on prices, right? I would definitely recommend Just adding a dollar but that would not have worked

today Because in fact Tom Hanks by my count which she know could certainly be off has appeared in nine movies where Title character okay, yeah gave just nailed it on the very first bid Wow with Exactly nine and let's let's go through them shall we most recently He was a man called Otto.

Right. Yes. Yeah. Remake of a movie I enjoyed very much. So I haven't got around to seeing it yet because the original was so good. I don't and don't know why they had to redo it other than just a juicy role for Tom Hanks. Yeah. Also recently, he was in a movie with a little doggy that I never saw, but I just always assumed that the movie was named after the dog,

but it's actually Tom Hanks' character is called Finch. Oh yeah. Yeah, it was for, you know, went straight to Apple TV. Finch is a good dog name, so I would have made that same mistake. Yeah, I would have. Yeah. Yeah. And that film was off my radar. I don't think I've ever heard of it. Yeah, it just, you know, it landed on streaming, you know, Apple, where they have, like, you know, they don't have enough new things to add.

Yes. To bother checking on, you know, it's it's like okay Ted lasso's done now what next one was a pretty memorable turn as the title character in sully oh yeah yeah good old sully sullenberger and before that he of course, he was the captain, then he wasn't the captain, then he was the captain again in Captain Phillips. I am the captain now. Yeah. The power transfer is part way through the film. And then his, I think the second or third movie he directed was a, he played the title character in Larry Crown. Oh. Do you even remember that?

Isn't that the Larry Crown Affair? Was that the name of it? No. Just Larry Crown? It was the Thomas Crown Affair. Oh, that's what that was. It's Larry Crown. Yeah.

Yeah, that is the Midwest version of the Thomas Crown Affair. Yeah, and this is, Larry Crown is the Midwest version of the Thomas Crown affair Yeah, and this is Larry Crown is the you know the classic where Tom Hanks is character Larry Crown decides to Continue his education. I think he goes to community college and he meets Julia Roberts at community He whisked her away on his Vespa. I'm not making this up This is a real movie that Tom Hanks had the nerve to make and then Of course, it was his war is he was responsible at Charlie Wilson's war. Mm-hmm. Sure Yeah, and then you know, obviously the one that everybody thought of when you're talking

for us, Gump. I mean, when you're talking, I always think for us when I talk about Forrest Gump. So you are correct to me too. Here's a weird thing I never knew. Did you know his character in Philadelphia? His name is Joe Philadelphia. You're joking, right? Am I falling for a bit? Yeah bit yeah, I'm just kidding but

Yeah, oh, that's why it's called that I thought it took place in Georgia But there he was of course Joe in Joe versus the volcano right and then Speaking of dog movies, maybe maybe Finch was like he didn't want the dogs name in the title after his bad experience with Turner and Hooch My name was Sully Sullenberger and forrest gump and probably seven others that was how I came up with my number Right cuz like when you were trying to think of them, it's hard. He's been in so many movies overall. But congratulations, Gabe. Thanks, Doug.

You did it. Enjoy the $100,000 prize, Gabe. And I will be filing a formal complaint, because I feel like somehow I was ripped off. I don't know exactly how, but the attorneys will figure it out If Jim wants to split with me, that's fine And you're generous Yeah, like 5050

I'll take Well, that's just our first game and what gave one Because he won that game is he gets to go first in our second game. Wow, that is a prize. Wow. That is a serious advantage. Or as Sam Levine likes to often point out, possibly a disadvantage. We'll find out which one it is after these messages.

We'll be right back. We are back and Gabe, congratulations, you get to go first. You're this much closer to not winning any money. When you get to go first in our second and final determining game for today. It's something that I call the little search engine that could. I typed the word into the search engine on IMDB, and then I wrote down the top 11 movies

that have that word in the title. This is according to IMDB's popularity algorithm, like movies being searched a lot. So your job is to guess titles that you think landed in the top 11 that have that word. And the higher your answer is on the, if it is on the list, the higher it is on the list, the more points you get. There's three rounds, so you'll each get three guesses. You'll each get to name three movies that you hope are on this list that have the word in the title.

And I'm guessing I'm not allowed to go on computer and search it as along with you? No, that would be a terrific way to cheat. Yes, it would. I mean, you could if you were a dirty, dirty cheater, then yes. Yeah. Have you met me? Figure it out.

No, let's play this the fair way. Even when I have met you and you didn't seem like you were cheating. You never know. I'm very sly. So sly so sly Okay, so I said three rounds oh so in honor of you Jim and being here today the word I chose Because let me just ask you this how many times have you played Santa in something?

1487 Yes, and with including what's coming up in the next year it'll be 1493 Yes, what's the most 50 lined up? Well, I did notice that that seemed to be Something that you've been called upon to do a few times. So Stay fat and you have white hair. Believe me, it's a no brainer. Well, at least you're not walking around all the time with a big old Santa beard. You know, I'm not doing it. You know, no. And actually last year I did one with

Octavia Spencer. It was amazing. She, I know I won't tell the details, but she ended up being perhaps not the nice person in the, in the little thing we shot oh okay yeah she was awesome we know she's got that that that gear like she can she can she turned it on yeah Gary yeah she was great that movie ma is really oh yeah we talked really entertaining yeah okay so the word is Santa the word boy has been in many many movie titles And I wrote down the current top 11 according to IMDB so Gabe gets to go first then we'll go to Ryan and then we'll go to Jim and like I said

You'll each get three guesses But Gabe, what's your first? shot at a movie with Santa in the title? I like this one because it feels like a clever Christmas movie title, which is The Santa Clause. It was a very clever title that led to lots of sequels and now a series. The Santa Claus is. I did one of those too as one of the Santas.

Nice. That's what I'm talking about. With Tim Allen, yes. I think last season or the season before. Yeah. That's where I noticed it. Gabe, congratulations. That one is number two on the list. Yeah, way up there.

So you are starting off with a whopping 10 points. But there's still plenty of points on the board. Ryan, what's a Santa movie that you think would be super popular these days? Well, I'm gonna go, and it's been a little while since I've just had Comedy Central on, but it felt like there was about a year or two where no matter what time of year or day you turned it on, this movie would be on. And that is Bad Santa.

Yeah, that's a classic. They did like, they do like to play it a lot, especially, uh, especially around the holidays, it was Comedy Central Shawshank. It was just always going for a while. But if you sat through it, you often would get rewarded with a episode of parks and recreation. There you go. What a treat.

Yeah. with episode of Parks and Recreation. There you go. What a treat. Yeah. But of course, Bad Santa is on the list and it is at number three. So Ryan is on the board with nine points. Close race thus far. But Jim, with all your Santa experience. What Santa movie do you think of? Yeah, I'm in bad shape here because I wrote down two.

I wrote down Santa and the Santa Claus. So I am screwed. Can I say Santa Claus is to write down another one? Yeah, no. OK, now, when I was a kid growing up, I mean, again, this is, I just turned 104. So we're talking, you know, 1800 and something. No, but there was the classic with Fred Astaire,

Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Is that too random? Well, I mean, that's an amazing television special made by the Rankin bass and animation company, but I don't think it would be on the list because it doesn't qualify as a movie But it was a TV movie technically take that short TV movie. Yeah, cuz there's even You know forty some minutes long cuz it because it was in an hour long time slot.

Okay, so it doesn't count. So yeah, feature films are like, you know, hour and 15 minutes. Yeah, no, no, no, I'm just believe me, I'm just scrambling. So well, also, when you start to hear other people's answers that can help you to, you know, some things might click. No, they gave my answers. So there was nothing click. No, they gave my answers. So there was nothing to click.

They literally gave my answers. Well, no, I mean, when they give more answers that you'll go, oh, right. Yeah. Oh, well, yeah. I'm like, I mean, why didn't I think about it? Then you might think about it. But what was your first, did you guess something? What was your first guess though,

before you said it goes to town? You said something. No, I don't think I did. Cause I literally wrote down the Santa Claus and bad Santa those are the two things I wrote down oh I thought you said something like can I say Santa Claus too oh yeah jokingly I just cuz it's one it's a sequel but if I can get away with it I'll take it yeah why don't you try it let's see what happens Santa Claus too. Sorry it's not on the list. Damn it! No I'm just kidding I'm kidding. It's number six on the list. Oh it is on the list yeah yeah I'm gonna completely

fail yay. You got six points. Oh I'll take it I'll take it. Yeah you're on the board. Those might be the last points I get because I'm great It can get it could get pretty tough as we go forward in this game, but Maybe Gabe's got another one on his mind. What do you think Gabe? So this is the part of the Doug loves games where I just like don't know it's a movie But I'm gonna assume that there's a movie called Santa Another fun thing you can do is you can just kind of guess that there must be something out there called Santa. If there is, it did not make it the cup.

It did not make it on the list, but that was an excellent stab. How embarrassing. Oh my God, I can't even imagine. How are you going to face your child after this? To not immediately know a second Santa movie? Oh, disgusting. Especially this time of year. I thought I was in better company. This is the worst.

I'm glad people don't join podcasts in progress because they would just assume this is a Christmas episode. Exactly. Okay, Ryan, what do you got? You got another Santa movie, don't you? I do. And I don't know if it's going to be on the list, but this was the second one I actually thought of, I guess third, because because I would I also had Santa Claus and bad Santa but So for my fellow nerds out there today as we're recording it it is WrestleMania Sunday right, so

In honor of my first real true passion, which is pro wrestling I am going to go with the the Hulk Hogan classic Santa with muscles Wow, okay now when I put this game together I thought there was one answer that no one would say in a million years and That answer is Santa with muscles. I mean It is number four on the list. Oh, yeah Wow, you mentioned it, that's probably because people are looking it up because today is WrestleMania.

Yes. Yeah. What you gonna do, brothers? You know, they're typing in. Exactly. They're looking for a Hulk Hogan Entertainment and they're fighting Santa with muscles, which I have. You seen Santa with muscles, Ryan?

It's been years and like I've been a hardcore wrestling fan since I was 11. It's my big thing that I'm really, really into. Even as a stupid, like 11 year old, I was like, this is bad. This is not a good, good product. And that was the time where I was just anything pro wrestling. I would just absorb it. And I was like, this is just not a very good, good mo. It's so unbelievable, Doug. It just doesn't. It doesn't make sense.

It doesn't make sense that Santa would have muscles. Yeah, no, he's he's he's a big jolly man. Not a not a big, big strongman. All right, Jim. Oh, damn it. OK, I'm just throwing this out there because I got nothing. Alright Jim. Oh damn it Okay I'm just throwing this out there because I I got nothing what about Was and I have no idea if this ever existed was there a bad Santa too Okay, that's called desperation gentlemen

I'm a chum. Oh, maybe. Okay, that's called desperation, gentlemen. It totally worked. It's number nine on the list, so it's worth an additional three points. So after two games. Was it with the same cast? Like Billy Bob came back for that?

He did, yeah. And even that kid. Wow, I never knew that. Even Thurman Merman, like the kid from the first movie, he's like a young adult in the second one. I think it's a different actor. I think they hired somebody different to play him. But some of the same people are around. Unfortunately, John Ritter passed away after his first Bad Santa.

But I think, well, maybe Lauren Graham is not in the second one, I forget but the second one it's got you know, Tony Cox the you know the Little person that was in the first bad Santa and my favorite part is when the two of them are just In the boxing ring punching each other in the nuts. So funny. Yeah, that's a funny scene Okay, so we've got two rounds and the points tally at this point is Gabe has 10 Jim has nine and Ryan has 17 points thanks all there's still plenty of points on the board a very surprising number one but let's start with Gabe. This is your last

guess. Can you put a few more points on the board? So I only feel comfortable with this because I believe I know the full name of this movie. I believe the third one is called the Santa Claus three the escape clause. Is that right? Is that on the list? I think that is what it's called, but it did not make it on the list, unfortunately. But I think you're right about the very, very clever title. Isn't that how Tim Allen gets out of being Santa forever? That's how he gets back to his real life. Yeah. He's so desperate to get back to his real life. But you know, it'd be only new that someone like Jim O'Hare

has made bank play in Santa. Ho, ho, ho! Oh, no! Oh! All right, Gabe, sorry about that. But you're finishing with 10 points, and either in second or third. Uh, Ryan, do you have another one just to add a little bit more to your total?

Uh, I honestly was going to say Santa Claus three because, uh, that's why not all my brain could do. My problem is now I'm thinking of a lot of other Christmas movies that I love, but don't have Santa in the name. Right. It's not like love, actually, Santa. Yeah. The only other one I can kind of think, isn't there one that has like. Like, wasn't there like a Santa horror movie or something like that? Oh, yeah. With John Lithgow, maybe. I don't know if it was for some reason.

I want to say there's a movie called like Santa Claus, the movie or something like something very basic going along with with Gabe Stab. Just saying Santa. So I'll say Santa Claus, the movie. Santa Claus, Poland, the movie. Yes. Starring Dudley Moore as an elf. And I think David Huddleston was Santa. the movie. Yes. Starring Dudley Moore as an elf. And, uh, I think David Huddleston was Santa and, uh, John Lithgow was the bad guy.

Yeah. I was going to say he was the evil guy in that. Yeah. Right. Yeah. He was the evil guy. And that movie is number five. Yeah. Ryan came to play. Oh my God. That's worth seven more points. I think the lead is insurmountable at this point, but it's still fun to see how if Jim knows, don't say it's still fun. It's horrifying and it's embarrassing.

My family is literally escorting me out of the office right now. Say Santa with muscles too, Jim. Believe me, that's what I'm going for. Yeah, I think that's really, that's probably going to be your best bet because I'm looking at the answers and I, the idea that you would suggest any of these the three of you did a really good job of knocking out all of the you know I don't know if obvious is the right word for it but like you got all the big ones well there's still one huge one out there that we haven't said yet yeah there is and I had to is it my turn saying it are so slim but I again I thought saying with muscles

Satan Santa with my uh I thought that wasn't gonna get guessed I I didn't realize they had such a big wrestling fan on the panel um this is the worst thing Hulk Hogan has ever done to me personally there's a laundry list of worst things he's done in general, but to you personally Gabe, yes, he is wrong to hit this movie. Okay, but I have one more shot at this, right? Yeah, you do. Okay, well here's an obvious one that I'm sure you all know. I think it's a classic. I don't get through the holidays without it and I just forgot it.

It's called My Santa starring Jim O'Hare. What? I just remembered I did a movie called My Santa. It might have been for Hallmark or Lifetime, I don't know who the hell it was for but it was with one of those Lawrence brothers. It was for the people Jim. Everything is for the people yeah. One of the Lawrence brothers, I think the middle, a super nice guy like, Oh God, what the hell was his name? Yeah. Is there a, is there a Matthew Lawrence? Yes. Okay. It was Matthew Lawrence, me. Um, Oh God, the girl, Oh, she was so pretty. Uh, well somethingir, I think was her name. She was like the lead, uh, Paul Dooley was in it. Um, I think Julie Brown, anyway, I'm sure that's number one on the list.

Cause if you, if you guys have gotten through the holiday without watching that, then you have not gotten through the holidays. What is the premise? What, like, why are you,? The premise is think of this. Think how brilliant this is. I was the elf and Matthew Lawrence was Santa. What? Yes. Imagine the mayhem that happened.

Imagine how everything was turned topsy turvy. I jinx all over the place. It was crazy. Yes, it was. And there was magic involved, of course, because Santa's magical. Yeah. Matthew Lawrence played Santa and I was his elf. And that was obviously the funny, you know, juxtaposition of the of the whole thing. Because you had to like white beard and everything. He had the white beard when he was dressed up.

He had the white beard. And I was in like the striped shirt, you know, like an Elfie kind of thing. So yeah, I was in a Santa movie where I did not have to be in the white beard. And just to, just to, since we're talking Santa, when I did the Santa clauses, you know, for Apple with Tim Allen, we were shooting that in, at the Disney ranch in July.

And we were in full Santa gear, but they were really smart. They set up these little tents for us because we were doing outside scenes and each tent had like those big ass. I don't know what they call them, but those air conditioners with the big tubes that or in. Oh yeah. Yeah. So they really saved our butts.

But yeah. So yeah. Hey, it ain't easy being Santa guys. It ain't easy. No, it's really, it's guys. It ain't easy. Now it's really it's really uncomfortable. And having to maintain the calories I have to maintain. Believe me, you don't know what I go through. Michael Phelps regimen. You got to respect it.

He's on without without without the exercise of any sort. Yeah, well, it's a process one step at a time. You've got to tie it down. They just haven't hit the exercise base. Well, I'm sorry to say my Santa did not make a list, but it is on a bitch. It is on my list of things to watch. That's for damn sure. Because I'm fascinated by

that movie and that premise, but Let's go through and talk about I like I said you did a terrific job because the rest of these are It's a bunch of baloney to be honest with you number 11 And that's why I did 11 is because I just wanted to include this one so badly There is a movie called Santa Claus is a stinker. Oh And I think it's French it's from like 1982 and I did not know why it's so high on this list Well, you'll know why in a second because this this list is silly number 10 is the motion picture called Santa Fe trail a

Western Yeah, the word Santa could get tricky My brain did think of Santa Clarita diet, but I was like that was a TV series, right? Yeah, that's a tea Yeah, yeah Number one that's number one on IMDB, but it doesn't count because it's not a movie but a bad Bad Santa to was number nine and then number eight Another Weird one that doesn't really fit Santa day

without the trail just and that is from 1951 Then number seven is a movie that kind of kind of sounds like it might be in the same realm or the same Genre as my Santa because apparently there's a movie called Santa girl I've never heard of any exactly nobody knows any of these yeah Then Santa Claus to then Santa Claus the musical dance Santa with muscles then bad Santa and Santa Claus and number one For who knows what reason?

from 1989 there's a movie called Santa Sangre 1989 there's a movie called Santa Sangre S-A-N-G-R-E No idea what it is or how it managed to top even the Santa Claus, but that is the number one Santa movie currently on IMDB. Yeah, that's random so random, but Congratulations are going out to Ryan Neemiller for being our winner today. Woo! Great job.

Thank you. I'm in a fake enthusiasm. Yay! Excellent! Awesome! You know what? Pity enthusiasm, still enthusiasm. My endorphins are going up right now.

I based a career on it. I get it. And that's you might not even want the prize that comes with winning, Jim, because basically what it means is Ryan is invited to come back on the next show if he so chooses. Oh, I'm so glad I lost. Oh, no, I didn't know that had I known going in, I wouldn't have tried at all. No, I'm jealous. I want to be invited back. Well, you're always invited back.

It's been a long time between visits, but anytime you want to come on, happy to have you. But also, Ryan gets to do his promotional stuff first. So what have you got to plug, Ryan? Uh, mostly just, uh, I'm touring right now. My, uh, my son is, uh, almost old enough where I can leave him by himself. He's almost a year old next month. So,

definitely leaving by himself. Yeah. Just make sure you crack a window. Exactly. Exactly. Let lately leave his, uh, his food dish full when I leave everything. Absolutely. Change the litter before I go. Exactly. Leave is his food dish full when I leave. Everything will be alright. Change the litter before I go. Yeah. But no, like you said, Doug, we're doing a fun show here on the 20th, Bear River Casino in Lolita or Lolita,

California. I like Lolita better because it's not spelled like Lolita the name. It's got an E in there. So I like Loleta Well, yeah my now when we get there, I guess I say my my autocorrect keeps changing a totalita and people are getting concerned But yes my website if you want to check out my other tour dates coming up it's cripple threat comm For it if people are just listening it's weird, but I have a disability that's why it's cripplethreat.com. For that, if people are just listening, it's weird, but I have a disability, that's why it's not offensive. Yeah. You find me there, CrippleThreat8

on all of the social medias. And if you wanna check out my podcast, I do a podcast every week with Brent Terhune and Johnny LaQuasto called The Cafeteria. So check us out on there. It's a good fun hijinks. It's not Jim as an elf hijinks, but it's pretty fun. It's still pretty fun.

All right, thanks. Thank you, Ryan. And Jim O'Hare, the new podcast is called Parks and Recollection. Parks and Recollection, yes. It's on anywhere you get it produced by team Coco. We're having a lot of fun. Also, when is this going to air? Do you think because I do have something I could promote, but I don't know when this is going to air. This will be out tonight. Tonight.

OK, then I'm going to just say this because I don't think I can say it officially. But on Wednesday, People magazine will be making an announcement about something I'm doing. I don't know if I could say more than that, because it's coming out tonight. So I don't because I think they get to do the official announcement. So I'll just say keep your eye on People Magazine on Wednesday. Okay, I love that. I love the idea of just looking through People Magazine trying to figure out what the hell

he's talking about. Jim Oh, here news is. But we'll keep we'll keep a lookout for it. And like I said, you're welcome back any time. It was so much fun. I love this kind of stuff. I would be happy to come back right on. Gabe, Malika. Yeah, this week I'm in Chicago, Chicago, Chicago on Wednesday, April 10th at the Den Theater. Then a week in Boston at a big theater. So please come out if you're in Boston to see

my solo show, Solo Show about friendship. And then also LA, San Francisco and Denver in the next couple of weeks, we're calling it the NPR cities tour. So all the NPR cities please come out. I love Chicago. It's my hometown. Oh, nice. Yeah, I'll be in Chicago in a first weekend of may. All of my dates, of course, are at Douglas movies.com and the next

Douglas movies in Los Angeles is at the lab at the improv on Wednesday, April 17th. That's a special day at 8.30. We've been doing the third Tuesday of every month there, but we're doing Wednesday, April 17th, this month. And thanks again to Gabe Malika, Jim O'Hare, and Ryan Neemiller. And I close every episode with the last line

from a motion picture After I say as always I say whatever Line I've managed to find that I want to use and this is Strangely the last line from big Tom Hanks is big that we talked about earlier from 1988 Okay, I'll call you.