Doug Loves Movies - Guy Branum, Geoff Tate and Justin Thompson guest

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

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There's still not one that he won't see Cause Doug loves movies Applause Hey, hey, hey everybody My name is Doug and I love movies This is Doug Loves Movies. Coming to you once again from Zadies at Parkway Bank Park Entertainment District

in Rosemont, Illinois. Make some Illinois. You've probably heard that one before. We're O'Hare adjacent, bitches. It's Monday. May the 5th be with you. 2025. And let's get right to what everybody's been waiting for. You've probably been looking forward to this for weeks. Doug Plugs. Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs! been waiting for, you've probably been looking forward to this for weeks, Doug

Plugs. That is so, that is emotion free, that chanting. There is no, there is just like hearing from a field of robots. We are going to do another live stream of Douglas movies from Dynasty Typewriter. This one's going to be on Monday, May 19th at 730 Pacific Time. You can see it in person or you can buy the live stream which will also be available for a week or so after the show, for either live tickets or live stream tickets, go to a Douglas Dynasty. It's not Douglas Dynasty, it's just dynastytypewriter.com. But Douglas Movies is also coming to Sunnyvale, California,

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That is really... That really makes me feel good. You ready to meet our guests today? Whoo! We got three good ones. These are all people who have appeared regularly on the program, but never the three of them all together at the same time. Give it up, everybody, for Guy Branham,

Justin Thompson, and Jeff Tate! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Let's meet them. Let's meet them individually and alphabetically by first name, making his 1000th appearance on the show. It's Jeff Tate, everybody. Hi. Jeff Tate, Jeff Tate, Jeff Tate, Jeff Tate, Jeff Tate, Jeff

Tate. So I have to immediately apologize to the other guests that this is what happens when Jeff is on the show. They'll root for you all equally. That's part of the weirdness of it is they love Jeff Tate, but they don't, you know, it's not like they mind if he loses. They're just happy that he's here. I'm happy you're here, Jeff.

How'd you like those golf balls we had at Caddyshack yesterday? Oh, they were fantastic. Yeah. They're so good. It's a fried ball of potato. Little bits were fantastic. Yeah. They're so good. It's a fried ball of potato. Little bits of bacon in there. Yeah it's like it's like four or five tater tots but one wrap. Yeah. And cheese and bacon. It's a whole meal. They even give you like horseradish to dip it in. Yeah.

If you want to really, really go nuts. Write two words that should, if you separate them, gross. If you keep them together, horseradish all at the same time, that's good shit. Horse and radish, no thank you. I like to bite into the Caddyshack golf ball and you know then look around at everybody and do the Bill Murray's line when he's eating the bar of shit out of the bottom of the pool. No big deal, no big deal. I'm just eating a ball. A golf, they're bigger than golf balls too. They are yeah and you can't golf a little bit misleading

We tried it in the parking lot But so if anybody's anybody listening or anybody here is wondering about is this are they talking about a real thing or do they just do acid and Start hitting tater tots around in a parking lot. It's a Murray Brothers Caddyshack Bar and Grill and it's attached to the Crowne Plaza at the Rosemont Airport and I go in there and I get the golf balls every single time. So tell them I sent you, and they will go, who? Right, they're just happier there.

We've been there a few times. There's never a wait. So this is like the Vanderpump rules of the Eastern Chicago suburbs. It's like all of the biggest stars in a bar and you can just go in there and hang out with them. Pretty much, yeah. I mean, it's pictures of some big stars

and then me and Doug eatin'. I said Eastern Chicago suburbs, that was implied. Whoa. There's posters, there's movie posters, but they wanted to represent all of the Murray brothers, so there's some rather unfortunate posters in the mix. But I'm not going to name names other than our next guest, who you just heard from, who is a stand-up currently on tour. That's what brought him to this area and brought him to this show tonight is Guy Branum, everybody. Yeah! Guy! Guy! Guy!

Guy! Guy! Guy! Thank you. Thank you for the chanting. Doug, I would... That sounded like a sick bird. Guy! Guy! Guy! Guy! Yes, Guy? Uh, Doug, I would responsibly plug my dates to try to get people to come to my tour,

but I just had to cancel my tour because I got a job Wait You came out because isn't your first first gig like tomorrow is I'm able to do Chicago and Minneapolis And then after the rest of it's just go right for a TV show, okay? well, I Okay. Well, I really, I was already a little worried because this episode actually won't come out until Monday.

So I was already like, well, a lot of his tour dates, you know, it wasn't a huge long tour, right? It was pretty brief. Most of them were like in the future. It's not like a real tour. It's just, I came to the Midwest and then I'm gonna go to the, I was gonna go to the Pacific Northwest

and then I was gonna go to the East I was gonna go to the Pacific Northwest and then I was gonna go to the East Coast, all like divided by a month. We can't really call that a tour. Um, but my manager did and so I followed his lead. Right? It's a smattering of Branum. Just across... The tour did have a name though, right?

Oh, well, it's, I'm not just doing stand up, I'm doing a solo show. Oh. And that means that I'm smug in between the jokes. Um. Um. Um. And that show is called Be Fruitful.

Yeah. There you go, so. Hopefully people will get to see Be Fruitful down the line somewhere, but the tour is cancelled, everybody. Would you like to know the worst part? Yes. I was supposed to... I convinced my hometown is the prune capital of the world, and since prunes are a fruit,

I convinced the California Prune Board to send me 400 individually wrapped prunes to promote my tour. That's now not going to happen. So I have 400 individually wrapped prunes in my home. You should send them back and see what happens. No, those are a delightful delicious fruit. We'll find a use. Yeah, bring them to my next show in LA. We'll just pass them out to everybody.

How long are prunes good for? Especially individually wrapped ones. It's the magic of drying fruit, you know? It extends the shelf life a lot. Oh really, okay. That's good to hear. Ooh. And it's gonna be good to hear from our third guest today.

And it's gonna be good to hear from our third guest today. Uh... This gentleman has been following me around the country. It's Justin Thompson, everybody! Hey, how we doing, Rosemont? Yeah, a little hard with the two-syllable name, huh? Can't get a good chant going. Yeah, the people with those long- syllable name, huh? Can't get a good chant going. Yeah, the people with those long ass names

don't get chances often. What a damn shame. Yeah. How you doing, man? I'm doing great. Enjoying the town. Got to go flick the beans, see the Art Institute. I saw a dog walking on its hind legs.

It's amazing. I saw a dog walking on its hind legs. It's amazing. I bet you that happens in more cities than this one. But you know, you got lucky. So you got to see it. So how do you typically celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Is there anything you do for that particular day? You know, I can't think of a better way than doing this and that beats anything I've ever done before. What do you do? You get a margarita, that's it. You celebrated it. Congrats. Yeah. Yeah, we went and got, I had a margarita or a couple sips of a margarita at lunch today and I felt like it, I really felt like I clocked in for Cinco de Mayo and then I just you know pretty much clocked right out but you

know I'd love to be a sombrero guy well I know how much you like siestas and those really those sombreros come in handy if you want to block the sun. But here in Rosemont at the Parkway Bank Park Entertainment District, I have been doing this show or stand-up one or the other on Cinco de Mayo every year for quite a few years. You know, skipped one year but of course. But it's been happening for a long time. And people say, why do you keep coming back on Cinco de Mayo? And there is no good reason. Other than the first time I played here on Cinco de Mayo,

I thought it was really fun that there was this, as part of the complex here, there's an Adobe Gila's, that's like a second floor bar that like, you know, back in the day before the pandemic, it would stay open till 4am like every night. And so on Cinco de Mayo, which is off off the hook off the chain. It was all off of everything. And and I just always saw crazy stuff and had a lot of fun. And then over the years it's dwindled down to today,

I poked into Adobe Gila's, and there was like one guy, one customer at lunchtime. Because now, right next door to Zany's is Fat Rosies. I didn't name it. I was kind of shocked that they put that word in the name of a restaurant these days. Rosie's allowed to define herself, you know? Yeah, Rosie is real body positive. And so, why didn't they just call it

that fat bitch Rosie? I really take her down a few notches. But I'm not going to lie to you, we ate there today and it was delicious. And they were busy. So I think Adobe Gila's... It's just amazing. There's two Mexican food restaurants. There's like a football field outside.

And it's not even 50 yards away. There's only 50 yards between the two. They're not even on opposite ends of the football field. They're so close together. But just like we are on this stage, before we play some games tonight, I like to go down the line and ask each of my guests to recommend one motion picture

will start with you Jeff. What would you like to recommend tonight? Oh, there's a movie about that band kneecap on Netflix. And that movie rips. It's a good movie. It's called kneecap. It's called kneecap. And it's fucking great. It's they're a good band. And it's a cool story. It's called kneecap and it's fucking great. They're a good band. And it's a cool story. I don't know why everybody's weird right now, but.

We were just waiting for something to laugh at or, you know, there's no reason to laugh at you recommending kneecap. Like, you know what I mean? Nothing funny was happening. You gave a sincere recommendation of what everybody in the audience is thinking might be a movie. But applaud if you're familiar with the band kneecap. Okay, there you go. Like Jeff said there's a movie that they star in and it's roughly their story as themselves. It's sort of like Purple Rain. Yeah. Or Eight Mile. Right. You know where the artist plays themselves. It's sort of like Purple Rain.

Yeah. Or Eight Mile. Right. You know, where the artist plays themselves. Or the Jonah Melissa River story. That's another, that's another terrific example. Boy, you guys, the other contestants are gonna be crushed tonight, guy, if we do Hallmark movies.

It's gonna be crushed tonight, guy, if we do Hallmark movies. But yeah, kneecap was, the kneecappers, the guys in kneecap were really pissed when the Oscars didn't nominate it for best foreign language film. And it is a foreign language. You need the subtitles on that movie. But anyway, yeah, it's worth checking out. Yeah, it's very entertaining. Fastbenders, isn't it? Yeah.

And I think they're having issues with travel and stuff. I think they're mad at the American government. Right, or I mean, I think it goes both directions. Yeah. They're mutually combative. Yeah, I think so. All right, Guy, what do you think? What do you want to recommend?

I would like to recommend the remake of The Wedding Banquet. I love seeing comedy in the theater. And I went last week, and it was really fun. The original 1993 Ang Lee movie about a gay guy who has to pretend to get married to satisfy his parents And this is like a really fun update Directed by Andrew on with Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone and also fucking Joan Chen

And no one told me Joan Chen was in that like nothing marketed to me But Joan Chen is gonna play like a wacky goofy mom who's too proud of her lesbian daughter And then I went to that movie and I was like well this is great and then also that lady who won the Oscar for for Minari. Right yeah she's terrific. I wish I wish I could remember her name but she's she's terrific. There are lots of whys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, the original Wedding Banquet,

was it a flat-out comedy, or was it more serious? It was like an Ang Lee comedy. Like, it's got farcey elements to it, but also, you know, lyrical and sad about the fact that this gay guy had to pretend not to be gay. And this one just really, in a very queer way, sort of speeds through all of that and like, it keeps finding wacky in really fun ways. It's Andrew Ahn who directed Fire Island. So his ability to sort of like

balance the sweet and the funny is really, really great. Yeah, Fire Island was super fun. I am gonna see a wedding banquet. As soon as I'm done processing Thunderbolts, movie gives you a lot to think about. Like the fact that it's not called Thunderbolts. Did you get the memo? No, the movie's called The New Avengers. They were just calling it Thunderbolts until it was out for a few days. I'm not kidding. All of the posters, when you see a poster for Thunderbolts, it says New Avengers now. And the studio is so dumb, like, because it's a fun gag once you've seen the movie,

but lots of people haven't seen the movie yet. So like, they should have waited a few weeks, but it's like the parents or something that, you know, somebody that, or like that character on SNL that Kristen Wiig plays that can't keep a secret. They just love secrets so much that she can't keep her mouth shut. They barely waited until today. The movie's only been out a few days and they're like, guess what?

It's not the title we said it was. Isn't that a fun joke? No, we don't get it, Marvel. We don't get the joke. I think Kevin Feige had a stroke halfway through production of Ms. Marvel and he just he had a stroke and then he said Annette Banning and then from then on it's just he also forgot the difference between the words mini series and movie and they just they can't decide which is which. You, I didn't get around to the last, what was the one, Jeff, where Harrison Ford

turns into Orange Hulk, Red Hulk? The last one. Yeah. Brave New World. Yeah, Captain America. Captain America. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't get around to that one.

So then I'm sitting there in Thunderbolts having to go, oh, that happened. And they're talking about something that happened in Brave New World. I guess I'll catch up to all this someday. But maybe not. Maybe not soon. Oh yeah, that guy's name is Thunderbolt, right?

The William Harrison Ford character? Like isn't his nickname Thunderbolt? Maybe, yeah. Yes, we're getting confirmation from the audience. I think they call back to that in Thunderbolts. But like I said, there's a lot of stuff that I was like, oh, I guess I missed the setup for this. And then every single person left when the credits started

in the matinee today. People don't know at this point that you have to fucking sit there for 10 more minutes just to get... And you know, they have the first scene, they have like, they show a bunch of the, like they show the above the line credits, you know, all the actors and the director and stuff.

And then they have a scene, and then they show tons of credits to take forever, and then they have another scene. That's generally the structure of the scenes at the end. And the first scene at the end is dumb and insignificant and just made me angry. And, because it's supposed to be cute, you know, it's supposed to be like a cute scene,

and it's like nothing about it is that great. But then at the very end, there's little quite a lengthy scene involving lots of characters and it's like it's part of the movie that's what's driving me crazy about sinners is the first scene after the after the first credits the first scene that comes on the first end credit scene is is a part of the movie you know what I mean like it tells it's kind of moving the story forward potentially moving in another direction epilogue of like hey this is how it actually is yeah no it's a real ending and so you've got to stay for

that but people don't like when I saw it everybody just started bolting because it's already the movies already the movies already over that's the only thing I was disappointed with Thunderbolts as I was waiting to just, you know, for Bohemian Rhapsody to come in at some point. Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me. All right. Didn't happen. OK.

Justin, what do you got? I finally saw David Lynch's blue velvet nice And I gotta say wow you know I was disturbed. I was aroused. I was disturbed by her out by how aroused I was you know What a movie Yeah, no, that's a that's a real experience that movie like Just creepy. Yeah, just weird and you know like,

oh man if I saw this when I was a teenager I would have been obsessed with it. I would have told everyone. It would have ruined my life. Well he certainly, I think David Lynch ruined the life of dwarf actors because they're just a go to for when something's an absolute nightmare.

Like when somebody's having a bad dream for some reason a dwarf needs to be around. Like, what's a dwarf gonna... Dwarves never bothered me none. I don't... If one showed up in my dream, I wouldn't automatically be, oh, this is creepy. That guy's short. Ha ha ha ha ha! I mean, Peter Dinklage, it's so cool that he came along because like the first three or four movies that I remember seeing Peter Dinklage in, he's like angry at how dwarves

are treated. Like he really came in and just like was just mad for a few movies and then just started to, you know, essentially play. He plays a lot of parts that could have been played by a person of any height. It's one of the respected actor he is now. Yeah, pretty amazing. Let's hear it for the Dink. Probably number one on his list of hated nicknames. I wouldn't appreciate that at all. But anyway, back to Blue Velvet. Very creepy, disturbing. Erotic.

Yeah. But also, yeah, but also, yeah, it's messy. Like, like, you know, poor Isabella Rossellini has some of the most awkward nudity you'll ever see. And I went and watched the Siskel and Ebert review of it after on YouTube. They're just both sitting there with boners. Ha ha ha ha ha!

Three thumbs up! Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha! Beep beep beep! Beep beep beep beep! Beep beep beep beep beep! Yeah, that pretty much says it all. Ha ha ha ha!

You know, it's just, it was smart of us as a group to bring the Siskel and Ebert humor to the Chicagoland area. People here get it. You go up to like a little kid on the street these days and say Siskel and Ebert, they don't know what the fuck you're talking about. They don't even know what thumbs are.

It's a shame. They don't know what the fuck you're talking about. They don't even know what thumbs are. It's a shame. Alright, so those are the recommendations for this episode. Thank you for that. Continue to support cinema in any way you can, everybody. But especially if you can get out to the theater. You know, I really recommend it. Especially now that you can like out to the theater, I really recommend it. Especially now that you can look at the seat map before going to the movies.

Just go to one when nobody else is going. You know what I mean? You see an empty theater, jump on it. Because that movie is going to play anyway. It's all computerized. Nobody that works at the theater knows how to run it. It's just, the movie's gonna play whether anybody's there or not. So you might as well have a nice little private screening.

I went to see Django Unchained in South Central Los Angeles. I wanted to see it in a black theater with a black audience. And as I was going in, there was a theater that was showing, this is 40. And it was the emptiest space I have ever experienced. Oh man. All right. We have got some really fun games we're gonna play tonight and we're gonna start doing that after these commercials. We'll be right back. Today's episode is brought to you in part by Shopify. The origins of Doug Lowe's movies were once just a dream. That dream turned into the podcast and business

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Yeah, great pun. Yeah. Sparkling pun. Beautiful, beautiful pun. Let's see, just so that anybody who didn't get picked isn't too upset, let me show you the crap. The best part is the bag because it is a limited edition Douglas movies tote. Yeah. Yeah that's the best part. We got I

got a very colorful slinky. These are things I. I used a claw. I played a claw machine and I got the slinky and I got this little keychain Rubik's Cube thingy and then a rubber peacemaker pipe for your smoking needs. It's only been used one time we got pins Doug Bettson and Douglas movies pins and then finally this is the weirdest thing this is a device that you can use to find hidden cameras so like you know if you're afraid somebody's hidden a camera in your home, you can walk around with this thing. It looks like something out of Ghostbusters or something.

It probably starts beeping a lot when it notices a camera. I don't know. Those claw machines have everything. I ain't afraid of no surveillance state. Justin? Nice bag solid prizes. Anyone should be honored to win. All right. Our first game we're going to play today to determine what lucky person goes home with that bag of stuff is something called Alex's Jason and Deb's IMDB game. I try to whip this one out whenever there's you know guests that are you know expert level. So why'd you bring it out today? Well we didn't need to you know we didn't need to single you out but I think all three

of you are good players and I think you'll, this will be very competitive. Every actor on the internet movie database, the IMDB, has a best known for, for projects, movies and TV shows are listed, you know, for each person. And so this game is where I start reading someone's top four. When you think you know who it is, buzz in with your own name, Jeff, Guy, or Justin, and I will stop and look at you, and you will give me a guess. And if it's incorrect, you get a negative point. One point gets taken away from your score.

But if you get it right, you can also, in addition to the point you get for getting it right, you can get additional points for each person, or each movie rather, in that person's top four that you can name. You get as many guesses as there are titles left at that point, they're worth one point each. Any questions? Can you guess after each title or you only get one guess around?

When you buzz in with your name, that's your that's your guess. OK, if you get it right, you'll get points. If you get it wrong, you'll get a negative point. Gotcha. And you can't guess again till the next round. But thank you, Jeff. Nobody's ever asked that. Some people probably thought they might be able to. All right. First round. Here we go. This person's top four starts with a television series called The Wire. Now of course there's always kind of a theme or explicitly a theme in these games when

I play them but this is way too early to use that. You can't possibly know what the theme is yet. And then the second project that this person has in their top four is a motion picture called Selma. Third is Horrible Bosses. And then the fourth and final title is an actor who's clearly not really registering with people who he is with his choices in his top four. The Money Pit. Now these are some shrewd players we have on this stage everybody. The Money Pit!

Because nobody wants to take a swing and get a negative point and this is, I will admit, this is a tough one is everybody just want me to say the answer yeah long on the wire Is Shelly Long on the wire? He just announced the nominees for the Tonys the other day. He's on El's Beth, and his name is Wendell Pierce. Wendell Pierce. Yeah, that was a tough one.

But we'll continue. But like, everything's pointing towards I should be watching El's Beth. Like, this is just another sign It's crazy Elizabeth is rife with the supporting players are all like Broadway Stop there though from Broadway stage a sassy. Oh Mary joke last week. Yeah, they did Yeah, no, they're really

They're really all in on on Broadway over at El's Beth. Yeah. Plus she solves crimes. Okay, here's round two. Don't yell out if you know it. The first film in this person's top four is called Revolutionary Road. Revolutionary Road. revolutionary road revolutionary road number two is hell boy the 2019 hell boy guy guy what is it who is it isn't Ronlman? It is not Ron Perlman.

It's not quiet with the whatever you're saying back there. I mean, I heard a couple of words that were about exactly what we're talking about. The third title, you want the third one you guys? Black Widow. Jeff. Who is it, Jeff? David Harbour. It is David Harbour that's right I heard people back there talking about stranger things so you had it figured

out too Jeff you get one more title in his top four... You're never gonna guess, Jeff. I'm gonna guess Stranger Things. No, you got suckered into that one. Ha ha ha ha. Is it short-lived Netflix queer animated show Q-Force that I worked on but no one saw but he was a voice on? Does everyone love Q-Force now? No.

No, his top four sucks. Like, he's been in way better stuff than this, I think. But his fourth one is Suicide Squad. Oh. Yeah, exactly. All right. So Jeff got a point for that, exactly. All right. So Jeff got a point for that though. So Jeff is charging out into the lead.

Here's round three. It starts with, so so far we got Wendell Pierce and David Harbor. And the third one starts with Captain America, the Winter Soldier. Jeff. And then Jeff. Sebastian Stan. Captain America, The Winter Soldier. Jeff. And then, Jeff. Sebastian Stan.

Sebastian Stan is the correct answer and I heard somebody in the audience say it, please stop, please. I beg of you to not say answers out loud. That's all I, that's the only thing I ask. Jeff, you get three more guesses for David Hart, not David, Sebastian Stan movies. All right, so I'm gonna say Avengers Endgame,

The Apprentice, and Defender. Ooh, Avengers Endgame was in there. The Apprentice was in there. And the other one that they listed was Captain America Civil War. So that's still a hell of a lot of points for Jeff. Also, I meant Destroyer. I could have remembered the name of that movie. Oh, yeah, Destroyer with Nicole Kidman. Yeah. I could have remembered the name of that movie. Oh yeah, Destroyer with Nicole Kidman.

Yeah. I could have pulled it. Fuck. Anyway it wasn't right. But me and Guy are tied for a close second. No. I have negative one. I'm in last place. I forgot about that. Both Justin and I forgot about that negative one. Let me write that down. Both Justin and I forgot about that negative one. Let me write that down. Okay, here's round four.

It starts with a movie called The Falling. And then the next one is called Marcella. And then Lady Macbeth. I think this is like a rare top four, somebody's top four, where I have not seen any of these films. The fourth one is The Commuter. The Commuter? The Commuter.

Any guesses? No. I'm with you on that. That's a real tough one. What do Wendell Pierce, David Harbour, and Sebastian Stan have in common, you think? I think they were in the movie you saw today. Who else do you think was in that movie? Florence Pugh. Florence Pugh is correct!

Yeah, these are all people that are in Thunderbolts, but it's actually by the time this comes out everyone's gonna know it's the new Avengers. But great job you guys Jeff was our winner on that one. I love it. Make love not tate. Or both. All right so that means Jeff gets to go first in our next game, and it is something that I call Bad Company. We've only played it once before,

but apparently people love it. We'll start with Jeff, and then we'll go to Guy, and then we'll go to Justin. And you will take turns guessing the answer to this game which is there are a lot of bad fictional companies in films I will name the company you name the film or franchise that that company is in yeah this game just caused the guy in the audience to take a big shit. Yeah, it's a tough game.

First one to two correct answers is our winner. And I would normally say these will get easier as we go along, but I'm pretty sure they're pretty tough until maybe the last one is easy. So it could be a real luck of the draw who ends up winning this thing. But Jeff, are you ready? Yes. All right.

What movie or franchise has a company in it called Multinational United? Thunderbolts. No. Incorrect. Do you have a guess, Guy? I'm going to say it's the mid-90s Meg Ryan romantic comedy, French Kiss. Please keep those guesses coming because there truly are a lot of romcoms on this list. Most romcoms have an evil corporation. Fox books of course from you've got mail.

Let's hope it's on there somewhere. What's your guess Justin? Do you have a guess? Yeah can I buy a vowel? Gremlins 2. Oh that's not bad. That's not a bad guess. But that company is the you know the companies are pretty much always evil in movies and this one is from a motion picture called District 9. Oh yeah. District 9. Oh.

Yeah, District 9. I knew it had a number in it. I thought the evil corporation was South Africa. No, that was Chappy. OK, we're back to you, Jeff. Consumer recreation services. The game. From 1997, that is correct how did you remember that shit I just tried to think of another word for recreation Wow, yeah, you really puzzled that out.

You ever see that movie, Justin? Yeah. District 9? No. Wait, what are we talking about? The game. Yes, I saw the game. David Fincher, 1997. I knew this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You talking about? The game. Yes, I saw the game. David Fincher, 1997.

I knew this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You didn't get to me. I didn't have a chance. Michael Douglas and Sean Penn and yeah, and they play a game. All right. Jeff's on the board with one. Guy is up next.

What movie or franchise has the umbrella corporation? Wow, this I should know. The um, like, oh god, this is like, there's no guy, I think it's just umbrella corp. Okay, umbrella corporation. It's not the matrix, but I'm gonna say the Matrix. Everyone was trying to tell you through telepathy and weird whispering. Justin? President Evil. Wait, Resident Evil. Yes it's President, I mean Resident Evil. I used to work for a network about video games and I remembered it was one of the ones that

was based on a video game and then I was like I forgot that there were Resident Evil movies. All right, Jeff, we're back to you. Justin's got a point now. Guy's here. Anything could happen. Jeff, what movie has the company in it called Prestige Worldwide? That's Step Brothers. That is Step Brothers! Jeff is too good for this game. That's the problem. We're going to keep going though because I want Guy to get on the board here.

You ready, Guy? Yes. OK. Lacuna, Inc. Oh, so a lacuna is a space where something should be, but it is absent. So I'm going to say Eternal Sun, Treaded the Spotless Moth. That is correct.

Whoa. spot with smile. That is correct. Lacuna. That's a weird ass word. Do they say it a lot in the movie? I don't remember. I mean't remember. I mean, nobody knows. I just wanna say, if one of the options had been Fox Books from You've Got Mail, I would have been all over that. And it is an evil corporation. It is driving children's bookstores out of Upper Manhattan. All right, Justin, it's your turn.

See if you can tie it up with Jeff. This will be exciting. Luna Industries. I'm thinking, hold on. Yeah, you're thinking. I'm not going to get in the way. Can I phone a friend? No.

All right. Well then, Luna Industries. Okay, so something spacey maybe. Maybe. Hold on, hold on. It's in the back of my mind. John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars. Oh, that's a good guess. Incorrect.

Jeff? Moonfall. Oh, that's a good guess. Guy? Moonraker. Ooh, another... Look at the big brains on these guys all figuring out that Luna means moon. So, of course, the answer is moon.

Oh, my God. I was gonna guess moon struck. Justin, Justin. Snap out of it. But that's so weird that you said when you were trying to think of the answer, you said that it was Spacey, Kevin Spacey's in Moon. Half point for closeness. It's pretty wild. Yeah.

All right. Well, so Jeff's the winner of that one, but I'm just going to give everybody a chance to feel like they are smart and that they know movies by telling you the last one was gonna be Bailey building and lone what's that okay somebody just repeated it I guess all right so congratulations Jeff won another. What else is new? It just keeps happening for this guy, but we'll find out if this guy and this dude can topple Jeff in our third game after these words. Thank you to Aura Frames for sponsoring this episode. Thank you to Aura Frames for sponsoring this episode. Thank you Aura Frames.

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But, uh, as we all know well yeah going first on this one is kind of an advantage but we'll flip the order around it'll go Jeff Justin guy will go that way Jeff Justin guy and the game is called the little search engine that could I typed a word into the search engine on IMDB this very day and then I saw Thunderbolts but I I typed a word in and then I wrote down the top 10 movies according to the weird algo on IMDB their top 10 movies with that word in the title the three of you are going to take turns guessing movies you think might have made the list the higher up on the list your guess is the more points it's worth if it's not

in the top 10 even though it may fit the category, you don't get any points unless it's in the top 10. Oh, and this is the most exciting part. There's three rounds, so you each get three guesses, but on any round, you can go to your lifeline one time, which is the person whose name tag you picked. So Jeff would be going to Missy, Guy would be going to Matthew, and Justin will talk to Justin. Don't let me down. Which, now I'm really seeing why you picked that name tag, Justin Justin because nothing else about it deserved to be chosen. But you know you got the same name so that's uh just Justin's got to support each other. Justin Thompson. Especially considering everything Baldoni's been through over the last couple of months. Oh, I was gonna go Timberlake. He went Baldoni.

All right, so I just find it interesting that most movies tell a story, yet lots of films strangely have the word story in the title. Like, no shit, it's a story. That should be obvious. So it's movies with the word story in the title. Please don't say any out there in the audience. We have a loud whisperer out there. We have a deaf horse whisperer. Whisper, whispering loudly. All right, Jeff, what's your first swing at a movie you think is in the top 10 that has story in the title and this

is as of today the never-ending story people love it but much like our family feud just because you clap doesn't mean it's on the list. Just because you thought it was a good answer. But it is. It's number five on the list. And Jeff, did you know that the word never ending in never ending story is a portmanteau? I did not know that. Yeah, it is. It's one word for some reason, but with a capital E.

The third one in never ending. All right, so Jeff is off to, he's in the lead. He's just a nose at had his sovereignty and democracy. No, journalism. Yesterday, it was funny, the Kentucky Derby, the way the announcers had to go, and sovereignty's beating journalism. And there goes journalism passing sovereignty. Just like, oh, okay, so concepts and professions.

And here comes nuance. Guy, you've been thinking. What do you got? Philadelphia story. Oh, shit. It's old. It's probably not on there. And it's not a portmanteau. And it did not make the top ten. But deserving. But like I said, there's a lot of movies with

story in the title. Justin, do you, are you thinking about going to your lifeline or do you have one? Well I think I was supposed to go next, part of your earlier announcement. Oh, that's right, I apologize. But that's okay, because I got one in the chamber. How about police story? Yeah. It just wouldn't, right? This would have been the perfect time for me to say yes,

you know, I fucked up the order. He set me straight, he came right at me with one after I was begging him to use his lifeline. And although it's a great movie, Police Story is not on the list. I'll fix the order this next time. You just wait. Jeff, we're back to you. I want to go. Do you have one?

The Story of Us. That's your, that's what Missy says? That's what Missy says. Jeff, we're back to you. I want to go, do you have one? The Story of Us. That's what Missy says? That's what Missy says. And I guess you're agreeing with it. I am agreeing with it. It was in my head, but I couldn't remember if it's right or if I just thought up a phrase.

Well, sometimes that could lead to a right answer in this game, for sure, because sometimes those titles are just like, kind of, you know, they've been searched, but like they're foreign or obscure or something. But in the case of the story of us... Sorry, no. No story of us. Ah. That's the, like, Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer, I think? Anyway.

Yes. OK. Obviously. I just remember that the ads had a picture of a bus in it, so I was just like, story of bus? Yeah, story of bus. Speed. Yeah, story of us. Hahaha. Hahaha. Haha. Speed.

It's like a school bus, so like the premise is there's a bomb on it, but you can't go over 55. Right. Hahaha. So the kids are relatively safe. Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. All right, Justin, I'm going in the right order this time.

Never Ending Story 2. Oh my God. The trouble with that is you need to know the full title. All right, I'm changing my answer. There has to be a movie called Based on a True Story. I don't think that. That works. I don't think Never Ending Story 2 did have more words after the colon.

Maybe it did. Still not ending or something like that. Never Ending Story 2. Did you think we were kidding about the. Lack of ending. Told you motherfucker. Yes, Never Ending Story 2. To have a lack of ending told you motherfucker Yes, never any story to told you motherfucker

You want to change it You're really making me second guess myself since you said there might be extra words, maybe there isn't Fuck it. We'll go with it I don't know all right so then my other guess was based on a true story oh right right right okay so both are wrong I came to win yeah no it's really it's anybody's game at this point. I'm very excited about what could potentially happen here. But yeah, I don't think there's any movie called there was a I don't want to say it out loud because it's another movie with story in the title. But there's a similar title that I think you're thinking of. And then what was the other thing you said? Oh, the never ending story to Yeah, I

don't think there's a thing at the end. But also Never Ending Story 2 is not on the list. All right, guy, A Christmas Story. I just want to destroy the tape of this show because this man is just, it's all great answers. this man is just it's all great answers three for three not on the list I can't I don't I'm ashamed of what is IMDB doing over there did meta take over IMDb? I think probably. Alright, so everybody's still got one more guess. This is where really, this is where the rubber hits the road, because at this point anybody could win.

Jeff needs to put some more points on the board to secure the win. He already used his lifeline. So what do you got left, Jeff? A movie with story in the title. I have one. I don't know if it's going to be on there, but... Well, the... History of the World, Part One. I mean, I guess I should have been more clear. Because sometimes wacky things like that you know do happen like I was gonna do

the word plane and then and then sometimes the word planet would come up you know it was like well I guess that does have the word plane in it but but in this case all the stories there's no stories that aren't know, they're all, you know, just the word story. So, sorry, dude. That's okay. It's my final answer. Lock it in. Is it on the list? After everything you said, it definitely isn't. Check it out. it into the top ten at all. So this is now we've got a real shooting match because Justin's up next and if Justin can name any of the top four movies with story in the title he will pass Jeff on the board what do you think Justin? I think I gotta go to my lifeline here. He's still got Justin.

Justin says a movie called Toy Story. Hold on I just thought of one. I gotta go with Toy Story, Doug. I thought of that on my own. That guy makes the bullshitest name tag. I think comes out with Toy Story. I got Missy over here going, remember Michelle Pfeiffer, Bruce Willis? The story of us. That's what I get.

You get this guy to half asses his Yawn of the Dead fucking name tag. Why is the Yawn of the Dead guy taking strays? His name is actually Yawn. His name tag didn't get picked during the break. Yeah. Imagine how he feels with how low the bar was set on name tags that got picked.

I'm also meant to say Yawn of the name tag. I biffed it, but Yawn of the Dead. You get it. Good job, Toy Story. Shout out to Austin Transwn of the name tag. I biffed it, but yawn of the dead. You get it, good job Toy Story. Shout out to Austin Translation, by the way. He's been bringing Photoshopped, lost in translation for years, and I love it, but he says he might have brought it 10 times,

and he got picked briefly tonight, but then apparently there are take backs or do-overs, give backs. Doug, at the end of the show, you should whisper something into his ear, and no one will know what it is, but that will be the real victory that he takes away. I'm just gonna tell everybody what it is.

I'm gonna whisper in his ear, she's 17. I actually found out what he whispers into her ear at the end and it was, they didn't know, he didn't know they were filming and he just whispers did you get paid yet I haven't gotten paid and then the movie ends like that it was just trying to get his check anyway we'll edit this part out but yeah she was she was under, I mean, I don't know what the rules are in Japan. But Justin? Doug? What did your lifeline say?

Toy Story. Number four on the list. Oh, apologies. Number three on the list. Oh, apologies, number three on the list. Whoa! No, no, no, it's not, no, I'm kidding. All right, now this is so exciting because Justin now has the lead. He has eight points and there's. You know, I owe it all to Justin.

There's two titles with the word story in them that could catapult Guy to the win. Did you use your lifeline already? No. No, do you want to? Yeah, Matt, what do you got? Okay, Matt, you really gotta think about this for a second, Matthew.

You gotta really think about it. But I think you already made up your mind. What's your answer? Toy Story 3. You're going Toy Story. Well, let's just talk about it. I don't have to go with Matt, right? Yes.

All right. Oh, that's right, you can reject. The thing is, is like, I had the greatest story ever told. I had the straight story from David Lynch. None of those are gonna be on there. It's gonna be Toy Story 2 or 3. And I like that Matt said Toy Story 3. Let's go with Toy Story 3.

Oh, what a ride. Yeah, that was really, that was something. Yeah, that was really, that was something. And Toy Story 3 is on the list at number 8. Yeah, that was, that was exciting. But everybody, everybody ended up with some points on the board, which is nice. But let's go back to Jeff, just for fun. Do you, can you think of another movie

with story in the title? Oh, for sure, Toy Story 2. Not on the list. I don't know how you knew to skip to three, but like three would be more popular than two is interesting. Guy, you said Straight Story, number nine on the list. And what was the other one you said? Greatest story ever told.

Yeah, that didn't make it on this that's that old circus movie Justin do you have any more Toy Story 4 also another another great one but no it didn't it did not make the list all right so since Justin is officially our winner before I tell you the rest of the answers because the listeners are sticking around to hear what didn't get up yeah you could do your plugs now Justin what do you want to plug all right you can follow me on Instagram at Justin Thompson LOL thank you and I have a new podcast it's called music's great I interview other fucking comedians about music if you're into that sort of thing You can check it out at musics great comm to get the links or on Instagram at music's great pod

Thank you Justin Thompson will have you back sometime soon to defend your title we'll have you back sometime soon to defend your title. Coming in at number 10 in movies with story in the title from 1975, the story of Oh, yeah, people are still look pervs are still looking that movie up, I guess. They should, they should make a re- they should reboot it and get the guy from office space and call it the story of O-Face. Straight story was number nine, Toy Story 3 was number eight. Number seven, Solo a Star Wars story. Oh! Yeah, Solo's not just a cup.

Number six, marriage story. Yeah, marriage story. People are still interested in that for some reason. Number four, West Side Story. Oh. Yeah, the 2021 version was number four. It's very good. Steven Spielberg does very solid work.

I mean, he's going to really, it's going to make him feel good when he listens to this podcast he loves he loves just nice sweet polite applause mention of his name now number two I apologize for this, because there's no way in hell anybody up here was gonna say it. Maybe people listening or people here in the audience are familiar with this movie, but it's from India, and it's called Kasari, Chapter Two, The Untold Story. And interesting thing to call a movie you made.

That story sounds very told. The never untold story. And then it's the same thing that got you with that whole solo situation. Number one on the list is Rogue One, a Star Wars story. Son of a bitch. Wow. I'm so mad.

I've watched both of those movies in the last couple days. But in either case where you confused you, you're like, oh thank goodness the title told me it was going to be a story. I thought it was just a series of unrelated images. I assumed it had something to do with Star Trek when I started it. Thank God they told me what story it was. Solo, an untold Star Wars story, and then it just stops as soon as you play, your TV shuts off.

You never get told that story, man. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Jeff Tate, what would you like to promote? Instagram at Jeff Tate and I have a podcast called the Saturday Afternoon Movie Club.

And then in two Sundays, May 18th, I'm at the Commonwealth Sanctuary in Cincinnati, Ohio, greater Cincinnati ish Dayton, Kentucky ish area. Yeah. So find me there. Yeah. I'm gonna be there too yeah I will I will have just been there by the time this comes out so never mind but go see Jeff there I love love the Commonwealth sanctuary guy Branham so your tours canceled what do you want to plug? I would like to plug people who have purchased tickets for my tour getting a refund from the venue. And I would encourage all of you,

when I do take this show on tour, to buy tickets for it again so that I can get another job and cancel the tour again. It seems like it's good luck for me. Whoo! When you start up again, the tour can be called Still Being Fruitful. Yes. All right.

Don't forget that Douglas Movies on May 19th is live streaming from Dynasty Typewriter in LA. So that'll be 7.30 on the west coast, 9.30 here in the central time zone, and then, of course, 8 or 10.30 on the east coast. You've got to stay up late. Or you could watch it. You could just buy it and watch it any time,

like over a course of like a week or so. However you do it, I appreciate it. But dynastytypewriter.com is where you go for that. And we did it, Cinco de Mayo fun once again. Thank you to Zanies for hosting this. For I don't know how many years, thank you to Austin for saving that one poster and bringing it back year after year. Someday you hopefully will get picked and win.

And one more time for all my guests, Jeff Tate, Guy Branum, Justin Thompson. We're doing pretty good on time. Let me ask you a question before we go. Jeff, do you have a favorite last line of a movie? Oh, man. I do, but I can't remember it. What? Tell me what movie it was, and I'll tell you what I think the last line is. Solo, a Star Wars story. I think the last line of that movie is shut up and deal.

It might be. They're playing cards right? Yeah they're playing cards. Yeah, that's the last line of the apartment but it's close. I think it might be you got everything you need. Yeah, they're playing cards. Yeah. That's the last line of the apartment, but it's close. I think it might be, you got everything you need. Like he's trying to tap that cheat card out of his, and then Solo hits him with, you got everything you need. Something like that. Oh, OK.

Anyway, it's just a story. It's not true. What about you, Guy? Do you have a favorite closing line? I'm trying. I mean, the only one I can ever think of is some like it hot. But I do like it at the end of When Harry Met Sally, when the two of them are finally doing their confessional

and they're talking about how some people like the sauce on the side. Now there's that commercial where they're back in the deli and she's like slamming the table and people are like, she's 70? What is? Mid 60s maybe. Anyway, Justin, do you have a favorite? I'm just thinking of the scene at the end of They Live. Yeah?

I can't remember the line. Oh, okay. But that's what I'm thinking of. They say something at the end of it, and then the movie's over, and you're like, that was satisfying. I'm like, you know what? They did live.

They did live. Yeah, maybe they're just like, we live! They go, we live, and then freeze frame. Well I'm going to close tonight with every episode lately I've been ending with a different last line from a movie and I discovered recently what AI thinks the last line of Casablanca is. And it's a little off. So, as always, I'm sure, Jan. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie.

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