Doug Loves Movies - Graham Kay, Kenice Mobley and Justin Thompson guest

Episode Date: September 25, 2023

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Doug hates candy wrappers, green and maybe sticky seeds With 50 acid pop or kernels in his teeth There's still not one that he won't see Cause Doug loves movies Hey, hey, hey everybody! My name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies recording on Sunday afternoon, September 24th, 2023. Kingsman, the golden circle of friends with benefits, a wonderful life as we know it could happen to you. Only live twice in a lifetime, cop and a half.

Nelson of Rambo, First Blood, Part 2 for the Roadhouse Terminator 2. Judgment, Dazed and Confused, Carsonic and Old Place. My guests today are a newbie and two oldbies, Graham K., Kaniece Mobley, and Justin Thompson. Hello. Hello. Hi.

Hey. Hey. Thanks for having me. I wasn't sure what to do there. hello hi hey hey thanks for having me let's meet everybody let's meet everybody individually and uh alphabetically by first name what uh that means it's his first time on the show he's got a youtube special called live in a bowling alley uh that when i read it i thought it might have said live in a bowling alley it's graham kate hey graham hey i've never thought about that oh no uh yeah hey thanks thanks for having me remember that band uh live yeah they had a lot of problems with people thinking they were called live yeah Yeah, I was one of them.

I was a 12-year-old boy. That boy has some good tunes. Yeah, a lot of people put their foot in that one. But thank you for being here. Thank you. I also hear that you have a one-man show that you are going to be performing soon, or are in the midst of performing i'm in i'm in the midst of my uh off broadway run in uh in manhattan uh it's called pete and me and it is a non-depressing look at uh autism and family my brother has autism if you're wondering how it ties in. Yeah. Yeah.

That's a, that's great. That sounds great. It sounds like a, sounds like a interesting premise and show. And what, what theater is it at? It's a under St. Mark's theater on,

on St. Mark's. St. Mark's. Yeah. Right on. And what are the, what are the dates of the remaining performances?

The dates are the first two weekends of october uh so we're looking at uh october 5th and 7th and then the 12th the 13th and the 14th so that's five more hot dates things are going fast right on uh thank you for uh joining us and also joining us today he's back it's justin thompson yo what's up oh you know just podcasting are you in uh you're in new york city right now yes yes sir i'm uh in brooklyn i'm in austin te'm in Austin, Texas, the Brooklyn of Texas. And I'm in a film festival called Fantastic Fest. But I just wanted to note while I'm talking about me during Justin's time that I'll be back in Austin at Cap City Comedy Club, October 24th and 25th. What's going on justin you got uh uh you got any big gigs coming up that you want to emphasize

i will plug my monthly show i run a show here in brooklyn uh called drop a video i bring on a panel of comedians and everyone selects a music video for us to screen and make fun of. Um, we do that every month, uh, at the pine box rock shop. I would describe it as incredibly off Broadway. And you guys know it. Um, yeah, yeah. 10, 13, uh, October 13th, Friday. Uh, we're there. We have a date in November. And we'll have more coming up. I'm also looking at taking it on the road.

That sounds interesting to you. We're looking at hitting Austin and Philly, Denver, Chicago, and your town. You let me know. Are those all your dream cities, or do you really have dates lined up everywhere those are the dream cities we're looking at trying to find the right venue you know

in stand-up where you just like need a microphone so when i'm like hey i need four microphones and a screen where you can also see the people on stage and the screen and surprisingly not every venue can handle that yeah and then you want you... Technically, you wouldn't need it to be good because they have to ride the levels of the sound so they could hear the people commenting on the video. It'd be easy to play it too loud. It's a tricky game, but when you get to a venue that knows what they're doing,

those kind of shows are super fun. Yeah, it's a flawless technical production nothing has ever gone wrong doing this show um uh well good luck i mean not good luck with it you're already doing it yeah yeah we've got it all put together and um yeah well speaking of doing it our third guest was at two of my guests were at high plains comedy festival in uh it's like outside of denver anyway let me say her name and then i'll talk to her about it hello yes it is i think it's in denver technically although i don't know this city very well i'm still there graham left this morning and I am sitting outside The Clifford Still Museum Which is an artist that I am a big fan of

But I just found out from Adam who runs the festival That he has a museum here Oh so are you Is this post or pre-museum visit That you're talking to us? Post and I bought some little postcards That I'm going to put in frames and act like I buy artwork

Did you feel rushed Going through there rushed and I bought some little postcards that I'm going to put in frames and act like I buy artwork. Did you feel rushed going through there because you had to do this show? Not at all. I got here with plenty of time to spare. I was the annoying person who reads every word that they have in the exhibit and looks at the picture from all different angles. So I got to be a real jerk and I love it. You don't go to museums with other people very much, right? I mean, sometimes if I find someone who wants to come with, but I will go regardless. So today was just like, oh, most people have already left. I'll just go right now.

Yeah, because every time you go with somebody, it's one of those types of things. It is like the person who reads everything is going to annoy the person who just looks at it and moves on, you know, like it's everybody has their own speed and sometimes they have those headsets you can wear and stand there and they'll talk about, you know,

they'll give you a tour or whatever. I'm going to do that next time. All right. So what, what's going on with you? I believe you have a solo show you've been doing i do i felt i feel like such a cliche after graham being like yes i too have a solo show i am also located in new york yes we all do this we all take our trauma and make it into a show

mine is not about an autistic sibling but it is about uh being borderline suicidal and uh then like working on that but then having a stroke so it's called don't chill yourself yet okay so another super fun topic yes but i swear it's funny i swear it's no i is i you can all you you gotta assume it's funny because I swear it's actually funny. No, I, I, you can all, you got to assume it's funny because these shows, if you know, when you hear about them, like Alison Lively's show about abortion and stuff, it's like, it better be funny. Cause like, why would it be a show if it's just someone giving you a serious talk?

That'd be crazy. So. Are people making money off serious talks now? Because, I mean, if people are making money off of it, I'm interested. Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so. People don't like to go out to serious clubs and stuff unless they're old or something. Oh, yeah. Right?

You know what I mean? Pace Magazine thinks. Well, thank you all for being here today. And before we start playing some games, I got a couple of games prepared. Before we do that, let's make a visit to Recommendation Nation. That's where I ask each of my guests to recommend one film and one film only that they think people should see and might enjoy or get something out of let's start with graham first time on the show you might not have known that was going to be a question no i i've i've listened to this show i'm'm prepared. I'm excited to recommend 1997's

The Wrong Guy starring Dave Foley. It has one of my favorite premises for a movie, for a comedy movie. He thinks that he's walking around. I'm not ruining

the movie, by the way, doing this, saying this. He thinks he's witnesses of murder. walking around someone i'm not ruining the movie by the way doing this saying this but he he thinks like he he's witnesses of murder there's blood everywhere his fingerprints are everywhere he didn't do it and he thinks he's gonna get framed so he he just goes on the run and then the cops show up the next scene and they're like they solve the murder immediately but he doesn't know that so he's just spends the whole movie on the run yeah because he's the wrong guy yeah he's the wrong guy it is dave foley commits so hard to being such a stupid person in that movie and it is a real cult hit because it's like isn't it like not available anywhere to see it's i i didn't know that i saw it i'm from canada so i

that's just we have to see it's part of uh it's just yeah high school canadians have seen it yeah yeah the prime minister makes us watch it so i don't i don't know i didn't know that sorry um you have to go to the no that's okay uh you know i know that they recently, that Dave and some other people involved in it recently had a screening somewhere in the States, you know, might have even been New York. But I saw they were having a screening because it is so inaccessible. I didn't know that. Well, I'm sorry. Should I recommend another one that people can watch? that oh well i'm sorry should i recommend another one that people can watch no because now people have something you know now they have like a movie they gotta try to figure out a way to see it and uh i think also a lot of people listen to the show probably already have seen it one way or

another i know i saw it back when it came out initially and uh have always been uh always been a fan kind of reminds me of a little bit of uh also the bill murray movie the man who knew too much or something no that's not the right title the man who the man who knew too little i love that movie that's it that's it too little yeah that's an interesting one too because he's just like in the middle of this mystery situation but he's so dumb um okay moving on justin do you have anything to recommend that's very hard for people to access i don't know if it's hard to access but uh first thing that comes to mind thief thief of james conn yes wow interesting um that's michael mann the dude that you know did uh miami vice and lots of other stuff

and uh it's a real moody uh movie it's real uh a lot of atmosphere yeah excellent soundtrack by tangerine dream yeah because it has around the same time as Tangerine Dream was like the people that did soundtracks for a few movies, including Thief and Risky Business. And yeah, it's a real mood piece, but also a heist story. Yeah, it's great. It's a good vibe. It's the kind of movie that you can just throw on and tune in and out after you've already seen it and get, uh,

an ambiance. Yeah. And it's a fun movie to not pay to see, because then it's kind of got, you know, you're kind of like, uh, the main character,

uh, the title. You freaking thief. All right. uh, Denise, these have been some interesting choices so far. What do you have for us? Okay, so I'm going to go in the complete opposite direction

and do something that's very available and very widely seen. The Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse movie, I watched it on the plane ride over to Denver. And I've seen it before, but I love it so much that I'm having my birthday party be a themed Spider-Man party for adults. I don't want any children there and we're all going to be like, I just feel like I should let that be known because someone will bring a child to my apartment and I'll be pissed.

But yeah, we're all going to dress up as different spider people and adjacent spider universe people so i think it'll i think it'll be a lot of fun and i think if you haven't seen that movie yet do yourself a favor and watch it i haven't seen it yet i've been just kind of uh holding it off because i i anticipate liking it a lot because i like the last spider verse movie and uh everybody says this one uh just uh you know uh is just as good it really is um i will say go in knowing that it is part one of two so that you're not looking around like what the hell just happened so yeah oh really so the the whole thing is like a trilogy

and this is the second part yes and it the way that it ends makes you very much like, okay, so there better be something this is building to. What the hell? Yeah, I kind of like how Dune 1 ended. It was like, wow, what do they cover? Two or three chapters? And then they said, let's just take a break. He didn't even learn how to ride a worm or whatever in the first Dune movie. So you're like, okay, so now what, what did we just do? Yeah, no, there was, I don't feel like a lot happened in the first Dune,

but talking about a mood, people just ate that movie up. And I, I didn't, I didn't really get it. You know, I'm still, I'm still back watching the David Lynch version where it's just like, that one is so bad. Yeah, exactly. So you got that to cling on to you know like uh you could just sit there and go man this is really weird and terrible uh but you can't say that about this new dune because everybody loves it well it's vibes i think that's the thing about denny villeneuve or however you say it um he he's

great at creating a vibe and doing doing is a vibe yeah no he's a real fall asleep too yeah no he's a real slow slow atmospheric you know like he's all about this more about the visuals and then uh than anything else it feels like and that my thing about doing that i don't like is those little breathing things that they wear. Timothy Chalamet just looks like he has a Hitler mustache. But they all have the Hitler mustache. Yeah, they all do. But, you know, I mean, it looks it definitely looks better on Zendaya than on Timothy.

But in the future, it's not too soon to have a Hitler mustache. Right. It's back. And it's back. It helps you to breathe soon to have a Hitler mustache. Right. It's back. And it's back. It helps you to breathe. It helps you to breathe. Yeah. Standing around in a bunch of sand.

OK, so we got the wrong guy thief at Spider-Man across. Wait, what's the title again? Across the universe. I think it's across the Spider-Verse. But it could be into the spider verse i know it's one or the other that's all right yeah it's confusing but uh but it's really good i liked it all right uh thank you for those recommendations let's take a break and we'll be right back we're back and the first game that I would like to play

with Graham and Justin and Denise today is something called How Long Is It? I'll name a thing and it's up to the three of you to try and guess how long it is. You know, without going over price is right style the closest to the correct answer like time wise or length the winner well let me tell you what the thing is it's always a different thing that you got to figure out how long it is but in this case it is a time question because today what i did was i joked on to uh x formerly twitter and i posted uh the following post i said i just heard tom hanks is six foot seven i didn't know he was that big and then you know big all in capital letters so

terrible joke i don't think it's funny okay good but some people wrote back you know boo i'm angry some people didn't enjoy it and but my question is because we got we live in such a reply guy universe. How long in hours or minutes or a combination of the two did it take for someone to correct me and say that Tom Hanks will actually is six feet tall. So we'll go to Graham first. How long do you think that takes in the world of X, formerly Twitter? Well, I know that everyone online, particularly Twitter slash X, has a great sense of humor and understands subtlety and irony and i think that uh i think realistically it took probably four seconds

that's like you can't even type it that fast yeah you think they're quick they're just they're waiting to pounce and criticize. I'll show them. I'll show someone. Okay. So you're going to go with four seconds. Yeah. It's closest without going over. I have to remind you.

Oh, I'm sticking to it. Okay. I mean, I think it would be very funny if that were, if it was four seconds or less. And I'm not going to say whether it is or not. Justin, how long do you think it would take? It's at least twice as long as what Graham said.

So I'm going to say like 12 minutes. Twice as long as what Graham said would be eight seconds, but you're saying 12 minutes. Yeah, sure. Final answer. Lock it in 12 minutes before one of the uh 700,000 bots that follow me before one of them chimed in with uh uh he's six foot denise i think it's five minutes i feel like that's a safe thing um wow justin i feel like you're being real nice to the people of the internet thinking that they would wait 12 minutes

to be right about something uh so i'm gonna say five minutes i mean the responses came in fast and furious, but I was looking for specifically someone correcting me about Tom Hanks is, you know, legit height. And then when somebody did do it, they posted that. That a picture of him and from Google where it says, you know, six feet. And then they wrote this, they must have, uh, Google must have measured him on the set of, uh, uh, money pit. Cause there's that scene where he's like, you know, standing on the rug and it sinks into the floor. Oh, I thought there was like Apollo 13. Cause in space you grow.

Yeah. Well, I was expecting all sorts of things and uh you know of course once i got my answer i deleted the whole thing because people were just being so mean about how dumb a joke that was and uh i didn't want people to think i really was standing behind that uh that bit have you guys seen how uh uh how torn up jimmy cars is right now on uh twitter because he you know he posted that he was going to tell some really you know dangerous jokes that you can't tell anymore and uh everybody's roasting him because the jokes aren't that aren't that uh you know offensive i'm so excited to go see now though well. Well, you know, I've known you, you've known Jimmy and known Jimmy for years. And I always thought, you know, his stuff was kind of edgy. But now when he just put out this special where he opens the special by saying, OK, folks, this is jokes you can't tell anymore.

Then everybody held him to that standard. And the jokes aren't that offensive, really. Yeah. Especially when you set it up that way. So he's really getting roasted by everybody. I thought he'd get a little support, but everybody's really having a good time with it. But back to our game.

Graham said four seconds. Denise said five minutes. Justin said 12 minutes. and this one goes to Justin because it took those mother effers it took somebody 23 minutes to get around and look to looking up Tom Hanks real real height and then correction yeah impressive I was i was uh i was surprised uh to be honest i thought it would happen uh much quicker so either either the people that are paying attention to my posts are not uh you know not so bad or uh nobody's paying attention to anything over there anymore well i want to say i'm just glad you saw my reply correcting you

Well, I want to say I'm just glad you saw my reply correcting you. Justin, that was you. I didn't even know you had any fake accounts. Because you know whoever it was had a really funny name. You know, the most of the, if you see a comment that's mean, then you look and see what their name is, and it's some made-up silly thing. But congratulations to Justin. You did it uh you figured that one out without going oh none of you went over everybody went under well under 23

minutes and you know what that means justin that you when you win this game do you remember from your previous appearances do i go first in the the next game? That's exactly what's going to happen. And we're going to do that after our second commercial break. We'll be right back. We are back. And Justin Thompson, he knows how fast people will correct you on social media. And so he gets to go first and our second, and this sounds like

a little quick warm-up game, How Long Is It?, where I always ask, every time I play How Long Is It?, it has something to do with Tom Hanks. That's the running gag there. So Justin gets to go first in our most important game, the one that determines it

all, and it's called whose tagline is it anyway king or kong edition so i'm here at this amazing film festival in austin fantastic fest it's a uh genre uh film festival so that's that means you know horror fantasy uh film festival so that's that means you know horror fantasy and uh science fiction and but you know all versions of those things very either very violent or very funny or you know just uh but it's genre films and uh i have participated in a podcast uh the other day called king cast and it's just a podcast that's entirely about uh steven king and each each episode they have a guest on and they talk about a steven king movie so for that for me to be a guest on that show i had to bring you know some of my uh movies game to it. So I created this game to play on the King cast. And I had so much fun with them playing it that now I'm going to do a version

of it with all of y'all. But in this version, I'm going to say a tagline from a movie. And then you have to guess if it's from a movie based on stephen king's writings or a king kong movie so it's either king or kong is the answer every time and i'll start with graham you get the first one uh and then you'll either get a point or you won't get a point. And it'll just move on from there. And here's the extra wrinkle I added.

Once you get one right, if you get it right in your 50-50 guess, then you get to guess the title of the specific movie it is and if you get that right uh you'll get an extra point and you know these are all movies that either have king kong in them or are based on stephen king works does all that make sense? Yep. I'm locked in. Locked in and excited? Mm-hmm. All right, Graham. Bring it to me.

I worry that Kenese is going to lose interest and wander back into the art gallery. No, when you said this, I genuinely at first was like Martin Luther King. So I thought it would be very different quotes. But yes. King Kong King. Yes. Every one of these taglines is from a movie with King Kong or Stephen King or MLK. All right, here we go.

I have a dream about a giant gorilla. Monkey, gorilla. He's an ape, right? Officially? Right. Kong? Okay. Here we go. Here's the first one, Graham. Escape is not an option. It's the tagline for a movie that's either a Stephen King adaptation or a King Kong movie.

Which do you think it is, King or Kong? I would say that King Kong escaping in New York City would not be an option. I'm going to go Kong. Right. The only thing he has to go is up. He just has to climb up depending on which of know which of the king kong movies it is because he's taking on the empire state building the twin towers um and then probably back to the empire state building did he ever do the chrysler building

not sure you can't go down escape is not an option is not from a it is not from a kong king kong movie it is from a based on a stephen king uh either short story or novella i think heck it's uh it's a movie called the mangler oh yeah exactly uh i don't even i'm not i've seen most stephen king adaptations i think and i'm not even sure if i've seen the mangler but there you go some of these are really tough others maybe not we'll see see how Justin does in his first attempt. Are you ready, Justin? I was born ready. You can't take a pause that long and then say you were born ready.

All right, here we go. Now there's a new name for terror. I'm going to go King. There's a new name for Terror. That is correct. It is a Stephen King adaptation. Justin, that's one point for you.

Now, do you think you could tell me which Stephen King adaptation has the tagline? Is it Cujo? You're going with Cujo is a new name for terror. Is that right? I'll tell you. I'm going to tell you.

As host of this show, I have all the answers. And that is correct. It is Cujo. Nicely done, Justin. Yeah. You're off to the races. You got two points. And I was reading an interesting thing about Cujo that I forgot. In the opening titles, there's like a puddle of blood and it starts to swirl around and it spells Cujo. I had forgotten about that.

Kind of makes me want to just watch the beginning again. Did you ever see Cujo, Justin? Yeah, it's been a long time, but there's a dog, there's a car. Ooh, I'm so scared. Yeah. Yeah, no, he's a really, he's really mangy and scary looking. And like, yeah, everyone's terrified. They're trapped in a car because he's outside

the car yeah it's a bad buddy uh but yeah i don't remember being a great movie but uh sure is fun to think about because uh dogs really should rise up against us i don't know for. All right. Denise, are you ready? I am ready. Okay. What movie is it a con or a king that has the tagline laughs exclamation point thrills

exclamation point pathos exclamation point pathos? Yes. I'm like, was there a like, did people at the time King Kong movies came out know what the word pathos meant? Do we know what the word pathos means?

I'm gonna say that it is King? Ooh, I'm sorry, it's not. It's not. It's not King. You have more faith in people. I mean, it's not Kong.

Yeah. It's not King. It's King Kong from 1933. Wow. Yeah, I really should have more faith in humanity. I think the use of exclamation points is also a giveaway for it being something old

or older because they used to love to just really, really hype shit up in the taglines. Taglines these days are more chill and sometimes they just have a period or no, nothing at the end. But this one laughs through which I get it.

You know, once you've seen the movie, I guess there's pathos, but it's really just sort of a couple minutes of it at the end. Yeah. I will go by punctuation next time. Thank you. Well, you know, I'm not going to give out any hints that are going to help as we move forward in this game. I don't think any of the other ones have exclamation points, although maybe that will help in some sort of weird way.

All right. We're back to Graham. Mm-hmm. And this one goes like this. Is it Stephen King or King Kong? One will fall. Oh, and here's a perfect example. This one has a period at the end. or King Kong, one will fall. Oh, and here's a perfect example of this one as a period at the end. One will fall.

Period. Well, if I've learned anything from the past question, there's no exclamation point, so it must be King. It must be? It must be. be no it's not god it's another kong and the reason they say one will fall is because it's godzilla versus kong of course of course i didn't yeah i didn't see that one

does one of them fall but does one of actually, or do they just mean trip and fall, not necessarily dying? It'd be a pretty boring movie if they just hug upright. Oh, I thought that was the season the film was released. Yeah. Also, yeah, right? One will fall this autumn. Why, like, also, in any matchup between Godzilla and Kong, why

doesn't Godzilla just roast his ass? Like, why doesn't he just shoot flame out of his mouth and it's a done deal? Like, even a giant monkey doesn't want flames in his face. Nope. Nope. That's my theory. That's my theory, anyway.

It seems fake. Um, the whole matchup?up well you know it's funny they uh that there is like uh some people that really get bent out of shape about how in godzilla and king kong movies you know they they size of both of those creatures varies kind of wildly like in some cases they're much bigger than they are in other ones and uh so people are especially when godzilla and kong get together it's people presume godzilla is just much bigger than kong normally but i think they're about the same size in that movie of course i yeah did not it. Apes are very strong. It's true.

I'm not saying it's not a fair fight, especially if Kong could get Godzilla in a chokehold and make the flame shoot away from him. And he's got arms. He's got little velociraptor. Godzilla's got little tiny arms. Little velociraptor arms. Yeah, he's like arms he's got little uh velociraptor godzilla's got little tiny arms

little velociraptor arms yeah he's like a uh or whatever yeah yeah so okay there's not much he can do there he can't even really shove with those or anything yeah dog i'm really coming around on this i gotta say well if nothing we're here to learn about these magnificent creatures. And we're moving on to Justin, who's the only person with points on the board on this one. So he can really run away with this thing. Justin, King or Kong, the tagline is, we don't belong here Kong you're going Kong?

hold on what? nope let me go King whoa you're going King? you worked for me last time you know double or nothing so you're saying it's a Stephen King movie You're going King? Yeah. You worked for me last time, you know, double or nothing. So you're saying it's a Stephen King movie with the tagline,

we don't belong here. Yeah. Okay. That's wrong. All right. We'll go with my first answer then. Okay. You're going to go with Kong instead?

That's the tagline from Kong Skull Island. I knew that one. Oh, no. It's such a timing thing with these games. I wish I'd asked you that one. It was wasted on Justin. But nice try, fella. Kaniece, are you ready?

I am ready. Miracles do happen. Oh, my gosh. No, I'm just trying to give you a pep talk. The tagline is... Oh, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's miracles do happen. I'm going to be a jerk, and I'm going to guess it's not only... I'm going to guess that it's Stephen King, but is it the Green Mile? Hang on a second. You can't do this one step at a time. Oh, can I start with

King then? King is correct. You get one point for King. But I want you to not rush into anything. Okay, so it's not The Green Mile. Hang on. It's a Stephen King, but I just want now is when you can uh answer

what which movie you think it is okay so he did like some ones that we don't like think of is like traditional stephen king ones so part of me is thinking it's not those boys who found a dead body in the woods and it's not did he do shawshank it's not that so i feel i'm sorry i'm gonna stick to my guns here but i think it's a great smile i i you know appreciate uh you sticking to your guns because i i think it's it's the thing to do and that is the correct answer it is the green one nice so Now, Kadees has two points. This is getting pretty intense. That's one of the few movies

where Tom Hanks fucks. He does what? He fucks. He and his wife... It's like the magical negro thing. And this magical negro touches him and he is able to finally fuck his wife after a long time of not fucking her.

Wow. Yeah. He saves a mouse too, doesn't he? Or does he just get sad his mouse is dead and he can't bring it back? No, he brings it back. I'm not sure. Sorry, there's a man just yelling. I don't know what's happening. Sorry.

He loves art. He loves art. yeah he's like moved by it can you get closer to him see what he's yelling about oh he's walking away from my source of power so i'm like there's an electrical outlet like right near a tree so i'm just like leaning against the tree like a total weirdo but so far no one told me to move yeah i'm just leaning against it like a hobo in the 30s just uh plugged into it you're just i think your charger's just in a hole in a tree i think my phone's charging although it has not gone above 50 percent eating the cord oh and also yeah it might be one of those uh you know i love how there's sockets everywhere especially like airports where you plug in just nothing it's just not it's not real Oh, and also, yeah, it might be one of those, you know, I love how there's sockets everywhere,

especially like airports where you plug in just nothing. It's not real. Just so they can save a little money and not let you recharge. But yeah, The Green Mile is one of those movies that I saw it, but I didn't love it. So I don't remember everything about it but i do remember that that one creepy guy played by an actor named doug uh steps on that cute little mouse and then the big guy brings it back to life i remember that part the score is great if you like film scores i listen to that film score all the time oh okay it's also like it's funny that

it's a it's a movie that sort of lives in the shadow of shawshank redemption because you know same director and same uh you know stephen king uh adaptation and uh it's just you know everybody thinks shawshank redemption is the best movie made. And so it's funny that there's this other long ass movie about people in a prison. I don't, I don't, I'm bad at my fill of movies of people in prison. You know, if you, if you really want to see a prison stuff, just watch all the reality shows that, you know, show what's really going on in there. Wait, there are reality shows set in prison?

Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm clearly out of it. Yeah. Like, I mean, those have been around for a long time. You know, they're called Locked Up and they, you know, just go to different prisons and just, you know, show you their lives, you know, and talk about what they did and what they're doing to,

you know, go back out into society. Turns out, yeah. Turns out everything's fine the prison system's great it's really uh it's working out perfectly they're making a profit and things are okay because of it nobody ever goes back in you know they're always uh rehabilitated or whatever um all right gra Graham, speaking of rehabilitation, this is your shot.

If you can get two points here, you're going to force a three-way tie. And then we'll have to play a tiebreaker. But if not, then it's going to be a tie between Justin and Kniece, and they will have a showdown. And then what do I do? I just have to go. You can hang out. Okay.

It won't take very long. Okay. I don't want to be lonely. But first, you get, this is the last one. So if you get it and then get the extra point, okay. Then you're in business. Locked in. I have faith in you.

Thank you. Miracles do happen as they say in the green mile, uh, a game. Nobody survives. A game. Nobody survives. Oh, boy.

I'm going to have to say I have no idea. I'm going to say Kong. I'm going to say Kong because I can picture them saying like in the Jurassic Park kind of way that this is your, your, your tempting fate with this game. And this is not, it's King, isn't it? I screwed up. I'm going to go, I'm going to be alone again. Which, so what's your final answer? uh which so what's your final answer uh i'm gonna you know you go i'm gonna go king i'm gonna go king i'm gonna go all right it is stephen king yes yes yes it goes to show you

never trust your instincts never trust your instincts and never never stop guessing just keep trying just keep flip-flopping until it always works yeah you'll get there eventually you'll get there someday and um the uh motion picture is called now just think of all the stephen king books and movies you can think of and which one do you think would have the tagline a game nobody survives a game nobody survives um

uh fire starter what's the game part of that she's a kid so she's just playing a game she's just playing like red light green light setting people on fire the game of using her for the government is a game to serve. The law of humanity. Yeah. Oh, God. Okay.

Well, I think that. Oh, what's happening? It's a classic grandma flip. I can't. Here's the thing. Okay, here we go. I can't think of anything. If you asked me to name my family's names, I couldn't tell you what their names were.

I'd have to take Firestarter as your answer because it is a Stephen King adaptation and we talked about it for a while before I tell you that that is the incorrect answer. The movie, but you were so, you were touching on like the right thing about the government and in a game

that they control. Cause it's a movie called the running man. Okay. I wouldn't have got that anyway. That's fine. Yeah. That's a Schwarzenegger movie where he, he's in a game show. It's basically like uh they somebody saw the running man and then they wrote uh hunger games because it could not be more similar although the running man's kind of similar to other things that came before it but uh because let's face it ever since uh you know gladiator days and stuff you know we know, we've all humanity enjoys watching somebody, uh,

try to survive and die. So, um, the running man is the answer. And then that means that Graham, I'm sorry, but you did get, you got on the board,

you got a point. So you had a really, uh, I think you had a, uh, quite a successful first time appearance, uh, here on the show.

I'm really proud that I got one of the two 50-50 chances, correct? Yeah, you did it. And that's what these games are about, is giving everybody a chance. And we will discuss again your plugs that you would like to do at the end, so please stick around for just another couple of minutes as we settle the score between Justin and Kniece. Here's how it's going to work. I am going to say another Stephen King tagline. Justin, it's

all on you, buddy. If you know, if you guessed correctly what movie this is the tagline from, you're our winner today. If you fail, Kenise is our winner, and she can go ahead and guess if she wants, just for fun. But

are you ready? No, I was not born ready, but let's do it anyway. This is for everything. I was born so ready. The doctor didn't even have to slap me. I slapped him. Also, do they slap babies now anymore?

Or was that a weird thing they used to do and they don't do it anymore? They tase them. They tase them now. I knew they might've changed it. I knew they might have updated the uh the system because just especially when you're watching old movies the way they just smack a baby on the ass when it was just born it's just like what it's never too soon for corporal punishment that's what i say well the tasing is much more humane modern elegant solution

yeah yeah just give them a quick tase and then that way because i think the bottom smacking is just in case they're like choking on their on their tongue or something like that but they always hold them upside down by their ankle it's the weirdest thing maybe that was just something that took off that was more like a good luck thing or something are you ready, Justin? Yeah, hit me. After all of that. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive. Misery.

That is correct. Damn it. You did it, Justin. Kenice, did you know it? Yes, I knew that one. Yeah, it has to be kind of an easy one because we've got to settle this tie. We can't just leave it a tie at the end. So congratulations, Justin. You did it.

Would you like to go ahead and do your plugs at this time? Sure. Well, my name is Justin Thompson. I'm a comedian. You can follow me on Instagram at so justin uh my monthly show here everybody's laughing we're having a good time um yeah on instagram it's tom so justin uh and you'll find links to all my other stuff and my show there and did you leave x no i'm still on x okay and but on there you're you're also just oh thompson

no something even stupider it's tomso tweets uh the thing is when you have a very common name every handle uh with a variation of that has been taken yeah before me so it's true because like every time i'm like looking for you on the socials i can't remember these justo tomso things and i i you know just typing in justin thompson is really it's wild like it's you know it's you gotta really put the work in so it's all right let's pick a new handle right now i'll change it today no no what going to do? You can't make it Justin Thompson. That's taken. So it's on Instagram. It's Tom. So Justin, uh, T H O M P S O Justin. Um, also I have a website where you can see all my links. It's Justin Thompson.omg.lol. That's way easier. It's so much to write down with you. It's hard to remember all that.

All right. Now here's my social security number and we'll wrap it up there. Okay, good. And can you join us on the next episode? Cause that's what you win is the opportunity to join us next time. It'd be at the same time, but on a Thursday.

Sure. Okay. You sure you don't want to check your calendar? I'm looking at my calendar. I'm pushing all these other appointments aside. Wait, you've been looking at your calendar the whole show? No, I just... That sounds like a form of cheating, just in case any movies come up. Like, there was that one about fall? There was that fall one? Alright. any movies come up like there was that one about fall there was that fall one all right uh graham k uh thank you for joining us today let's talk about your show again it's at uh under saint

marks is that what it's called uh yeah show is called pete and me it's at under saint marks theater uh the paste magazine says k embraces in a moving monologue filled with humor humility and humanity humanity his fate he won't be alone because he will always have his brother pete even though you doug benson left me alone and will leave me alone after this. I'll have nothing to do next Thursday. I'm sorry, dude. But I would love for you to come back sometime. Let's pencil you in for like 2025. Yeah.

I'm a little busy. You think you're open? Oh, you might be busy. Yeah, I'm slammed. No, we'll have you back. Anytime you want to come back and plug something, definitely reach out. And Kaniece Mobley, tell us again all the deets on your solo show. The solo show is called Don't Kill Yourself Yet.

And I have no dates because I'm going to Italy for a month, baby. Don't talk to me. I don't exist. No, seriously, though, look me up on all the socials. It's Kniece Mobley because my parents did foresee that I would have to have a social handle and no one else has it. So it's Kniece Mobley on Instagram, formerly known as Twitter and the other ones, I guess. And oh, yeah, I co-host the show called Boys in the Woods at Friends and Lovers in Brooklyn. It is on the first Thursday of every month. So check that out.

But more importantly, me and go to my website and find out where I'll be. And please, dear God, buy tickets because people say I don't push tickets enough. Well, that's a great idea for people having a baby is just, you know, punch in the first name you're thinking about giving the baby with your last name and see if the Twitter, you know, if not Twitter, but you know, see if the handles is available and then name your child.

Tom Joe, Tom Joe. Cause these, obviously these social media things are really built to last and can't possibly change or go away. Doug loves movies. Thank you, Kniece. Doug loves movies is on. We do have an account on X.

And then we also have a account for the Wide World of Doug's podcast. So listen to that if you get a chance. The Benson Movie Interruption is back at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles on October 3rd. I'm doing stand-up in San Diego at the American Comedy Company at 420 on Saturday, October 17th, Doug Loves Movies moves to the Improv Lab at the world-famous Hollywood Improv. That's on October 17th. And all my dates are at DougLovesMovies.com. Thanks, all three of you, for joining me today. Graham Kay, Justin Thompson, and Kaniece Mobley.

Thanks for having us.. Hope to see you all again sometime soon. Thanks very much. I end every show with a last line of a motion picture. So today it's two words, both with exclamation points,

and it's from the King Kong that came out in 1976 so as always jack jack now it's time for doug to watch another talky eyes of gold is viewing prowess makes him cocky there's no room in his heart for you