Doug Loves Movies - Guy Branum, Raanan Hershberg and Riki Lindhome guest

Episode Date: August 21, 2023

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Doug hates candy wrappers screaming baby sticky seeds with 50 azipop 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 Movies coming to you on Sunday, August 20, 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 Road. part two for the road. We were supposed to be at Dynasty Typewriter today, but LA got hit by a tropical storm in August. What? It's true. So we had to regroup because

I'll get into this in a second, but I'll just say for now that the storm has been a bit of a letdown when it comes to massive storms. But we're doing the show on Zoom, and thank you for making the adjustment to my guests, Guy Branum, Renan Hirschberg, and Ricky Lindholm. Hello. Hey. Hello. Hey. Hello.

Thanks for having me. Let's meet each of you individually and alphabetically by first name, which in this case, you're still in the same order, whichever way we do it. So we'll start with Guy Branum. Hey, Guy. Hello, Doug. I just want to say this is the first time we're talking since you subjected me to cool as ice and i am still just you know reveling in that experience thank you so much it was um it was kind of like going to church that

night because i had never taken the time to watch Cool as Ice. And it was the movie that was selected at the Benson Movie Interruption. Partially my excitement for it was because I had never really sat through it before. The other movies were things I think I'd seen before, some of the other options. But I was just going to say thank you for coming to that show and uh killing it uh you know with just the right enthusiasm for the movie but also uh you know trash talking the hell out of it oh i mean it was dumb but it was kind of a better movie than i thought it would be Isn't that weird? Yes. Yeah, I think part of it, though, is that there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of weird gaps in the dialogue. Like, the pacing of it's very slow.

And I think everybody, all of us yelling our jokes in between the lines of dialogue really filled it all in nicely. It was pure delight. We're going to do it again the next uh Benson movie interruption at Dynasty Typewriter is on uh September 10th uh one more thing Guy Branum how is the uh how is this alleged storm treating you so far you know I was really expecting more things crashing through my windows i mean i i love any opportunity to hunker down and be cozy um but you know i i canceled a drag brunch for this and it really feels like i i probably could have watched drag without anyone's genitals being blown

out of you know the places where they are tucked yeah i think that the um you look out the window now and it's just like oh a rainy day in la i mean it's august so that's weird but it's also not cold out you know it's a tropical thing so uh i i assume it's going to get worse but they they keep uh backing off of their initial uh claims of how much rain it would be so we'll see where we end up just to be safe i booked a guest who i assume is on the east coast renan hershberg everybody how's it going man it's good yeah i'm in new york so uh it's actually a really nice day here i feel i feel bad i feel guilty it It's like perfect. This is not that bad at all, to be honest with you. It tapered out?

Yeah. Well, also, though, it is a lot of rain for LA to get in one day. So the roads are going to suck and the drivers are going to suck even more. Rain is good there, right? According to Chinatown and Trouts. Yeah. Yeah. We very much need it, but not all at once not all at once right because then yeah

a couple drops at a time please right um but uh thank you for uh sacrificing a nice day to be uh inside for an hour uh it's what i do best is sacrifice nice days to be inside it's really one of my my passions are good at it it's true and um also joining us from her home is ricky lindholm hello hi doug i was doing sound check i was marveling at how natural and great your microphone sounds. And that, again, just I was startled like I thought you were in the room with me when you said hello. Because you also said it quietly, but we can hear you so clearly. Oh, good. Wow.

It's a blue Yeti. Can I just say that Guy is my favorite podcast guest ever. Like every time he's on a podcast that I listen to, I laugh and love it so stop it's so true you are on a lot of podcasts i love and i love when you're on there so i got excited when i found out you were gonna be hey if i listened to podcasts i would laugh at everyone renan is on and uh i was i was lacking a compliment there i appreciate it. I only have one favorite. Sorry.

You're like, Ron on mic fucking sucks. Ricky's just amazing. Oh, my God. My question for you, Ricky, is this your child's first hurricane? Yeah. He's really excited. You got to watch the Weather Channel and keeping up with what's going on. I've like fully just turned into a mom. I got so much food and water and I have a fridge full of

water. I don't know. I just got very scared when I normally wouldn't have been. I'm such a mom now, I don't know what happened. What does he do? What does he do when you're in the podcast closet? He's downstairs with my parents. Oh, perfect. Yes. He's so funny. If you're like, he's outside right now. I just love being a mom. He's right here. I duct taped his mouth. Yeah. I just love being a mom. It's great. He wouldn't be able to be in the room with you without having stuff to say.

Right. He's getting a little verbal. Oh yeah. Well well remember when he came to the last one that i did he was backstage and he just like melted down he's screaming in the alley oh okay well i'm glad we didn't have to put that was part of the reason why i was quick to to go along with the idea of canceling today. I thought you would be probably bringing your young child with you to the show. That just seems awful to get a kid in and out of a car in the rain. That's just terrible. So we ditched that. We avoided that circumstance. ditched that.

We avoided that circumstance. But before we play some games today, I'd like to stroll through Recommendation Nation. That's where I ask each one of my guests to recommend one movie. It can be old, new, borrowed, blue, I don't care.

But it just has to come from you. And you alone guy branham what do you got for us what can you recommend for people to see okay so i've been reading sarah polly's book um run towards the danger and in it there is a big meaty essay about how uh terry gilliam almost killed her repeatedly on the set of the adventures of baron munchausen and it is sort of like a larger contemplation of should we have child actors but then i went and re-watched the adventures of baron munchausen and god damn is the adventures of baron munchausen good like it is just so beautiful all practical effects it's so silly and magical is it worth putting that many people

in danger no um but it is like you know and polly has come out and been very vocal about saying you know the experiences that i talk about don't mean you can't love that movie uh and she talks about watching it with her daughter and processing it in that way. But like, you know, it is just such an amazing piece of film craftsmanship of a sort that we do not make anymore. No, it's wild that Terry Gilliam, I mean, obviously, he's a bit of a madman. But it's, it just really worked out so strangely that someone who's clearly so gifted at filmmaking and when he when everything fell into place for him his movies would be amazing uh that that he had you know several films where just everything went to shit and was just an absolute disaster well it's

interesting because like i think that like oppenheimer has put me on a path of reviewing so many of these movies. Like, I rewatched Amadeus about this idea of sort of, like, you know, white male genius. This thing that we love making movies about that I'm tired of us making movies about. But hearing Polly process this idea of, like, what we put up with because of the idea that this guy is, like, you know, a mad genius. of the idea that this guy is like, you know, a mad genius. And then, you know, what she tries to do as a filmmaker to make a space where people do not feel like they might die. Just emotionally.

I mean, she's got some really gut-wrenching stuff in her films. Yeah. So she's taken it another way. I also think as an actress, she's not only terrific in that movie Go, which is a comedy, but then she's also great in that Dawn of the Dead remake that she was the lead running from zombies person. Sarah Polly, ladies and gentlemen. Little tribute to her. Okay, so that's a great pick.

Renan, what are you thinking about? I've been re-watching a lot of stuff lately, and I was on the plane the other day, and I re-watched Pan's Labyrinth, and I was just bawling at the end. I was just sobbing uncontrollably next to a middle-aged man and a

child. And it was I mean, I always liked that movie, but re-watching it, I was like, this is one of the greatest movies ever. Did you have a strong, did you have an emotional reaction to Guillermo's Pinocchio?

No, but I also haven't seen it so that's not a fault of his own. I have felt nothing but I have yet to see it. I felt nothing about it but to be fair I have not watched it. I love him.

I'm going to watch it at some point but I love him. I love Nightmare All watch it at some point um but i love him i love nightmare alley um but yeah pan's labyrinth is just uh it's just such a heartbreaker you know it's a pretty uh intense fairy tale it's like yeah it's just one of those movies where like only he can, only someone like him could like make a beautiful fairy tale world, but also perfectly show like the brutality of like reality and evil. And it's just like, yeah, there's no, uh, in the Guillermo del Toro movie, there's no pulling the knife out quickly. It always has to get shaken around you know just oh he just really he really manages to have beautiful imagery and storytelling but then also uh i don't think he

has a single movie maybe the pacific rim i think he's where he doesn't have some image where i have i look away when it happens but it's still burned into me. And it's funny that he made Pacific Rim, which I thought was so kind of like mindless. And then like, you know, Pan's Labyrinth, which I just think is one of the great, like, I don't know, classics. It fits in with his move towards not working with human actors on real sets. I do love that we have go-to actors for, does this movie involve people with horns? It's like, do we have to get someone horns? Call Del Toro. He's not available.

Where's Julie Taymor? Right. And also, it's like Adventures of Baron Munchausen. It's like a kid and also like a fantasy world, kind of following in that theme. Yeah. No pressure, Ricky, but we have a pattern here terrific it's a terrific double bill and i'm sure that ricky uh has another great movie to add

to it well the movie that i just saw is kind of sarah polly's worst nightmare it's that movie Oh, gosh. It was good. It was very violent. I liked it. How is that spelled? S-I-S-U. It's like a Finnish movie. Yeah. It played in theaters for a moment. you know, Patton Oswalt was

raving about it. So I'm like, oh, this is going to be violent. It's really violent, but really good. What else can you tell us about it without giving anything away? Well, it's an older gentleman in Finland trying to get past the Nazis when the war is ending. So that's all I need to hear. Yeah, he's older. so that's all you know you want him to win yeah he's older he's like you know maybe not in the best of health and he needs to get home and pass the nazis and he you know he yeah a lot of people yeah i get i get the uh you know simple premise it's exciting to watch somebody do terrible things

to nazis yeah it is that's what nazis are good for you can have like a brutal revenge movie and no one feels bad for them yeah like even if the women involved all the women that are captured they get to do bad things to nazis it's great even in the blues brothers when the they uh almost run over some nazis on the bridge uh you know and all the nazis jump into the water right it is like for a moment there it is like oh if they hit these Nazis, they're just murdering Nazis. You know, it's a good thing that bridge was over a nice little watering spot. Watering hole.

So instead you just had a bunch of angry Nazis instead of, you know, all those lawsuits that could have come from it. Sisu, where do you think – it's too bad Sisu isn't a channel anymore. Sisu on Sisu. It would be fun to see Sisu on Sisu. How did you see Sisu, Ricky? iTunes, I think. Oh, okay.

Yeah. All right. Well, that is really, that's going to be interesting to see. You know, I take all three movies that people recommend and I put them on the Douglas Movies, formerly Twitter, now that other thing, account. And then, you know, just do a fun little poll. But this is like i think

people that like these movies would be passionate about them and people who haven't seen them just seeing them lumped together like this if you haven't seen one of these three i haven't seen sizu uh so i'm gonna check that one out all right thank you for the rex we're gonna take a quick break uh because i gotta you know i to check the perimeter for leaks because of this torrential rain. We'll be right back. We are back and my home is in ship shape shape. So nothing to worry about there. Is everybody else nice and dry still? Yep. Still in my closet. there is everybody else nice and dry still yep still in my closet so you wouldn't even know if there was an issue of any kind really because it's probably very uh it's almost probably like a bomb shelter in there i feel like a real sucker everyone else is just like hiding in shelter

and i'm just wasting a beautiful day it's just so weird like even if it wasn't uh being even if we weren't warned there was going to be like you know a potential hurricane it's still just uh you know in la the rain just sort of comes and goes we usually don't get like three days of build up to this like we have so everybody was able to just you know make arrangements to just blow off whatever they had to do today like so many people got out of picnics and 5ks that they didn't want to do i mean uh is this is this calling for a crash remake where it just la has to contemplate it rains like where everyone's life is upset in los angeles because it rains it's i mean it's a crazy light warm rain right now so it's like i'm kind of mystified by

uh you know i don't like to get in with all those conspiracy theorists that say that you know the government says that the weather's gonna be bad so to get people to stay home? Because I don't see the hurt in people staying home for any reason, really. If you have a home, it's nice to be able to stay in it. Okay. Let's play a game. It's one that I just came up with, and it's called One Direction. I will start with Guy Branum.

I will name two actors, and you will tell me. It's multiple choice. You will tell me if they were in a movie together that had the word North in the title. Okay. Or the word South. You see where this is going yes or east or west you have four options okay these two actors were in one movie that has one of those four in the title if you miss it then we go to run on and then if he misses it, we go to Ricky. Anytime

someone gets run right, the next person gets to go first on the next one. Okay. This first one, guy, Rossano Brozzi and Mitzi Gaynor.

Oh, that's South Pacific. So South. Is it? Yes, it is. Okay. That is correct. Yay! Guy Branham came to play. I can't think of hardly anyone who's a regular

on this show who would have just blurted out, oh, that's South Pacific. I mean, Doug, you opened with giving the gay guy a Mitzi Gaynor option. Like, I have no idea who Rosano Brasi was until Mitzi

Gaynor as my compass directed me towards him. Exactly. You know that you met him on some enchanted evening. You will find a stranger. So, yeah, that guy. I don't know how he gets top billing over the lady washing all the men out of her hair. But that's from the motion picture.

South Pacific. Renan, are you ready for yours? Can mine be tailored for my judaism like judd hirsch jeff goldblum i try not to tailor anything to anyone you know i try to write these games without thinking about who's playing okay sometimes you know the the you know the subconscious does what it wants to do so for this one you have to tell me east west north or south for uh the pairing of james dean and raymond massey james dean and raymond massey i guess i'm gonna go with East of Eden. That is also correct.

We got some super geniuses on hand today. It was tough. It was tough. I had three James Dean movies to pick from. I know, right? Well, just that you even know that much about James Dean. Rebel without a North. Makes you a giant. I can barely beat you to it.

All right. So, Ricky, these two gentlemen, they really knocked it out of the park. But I feel like I wrote these for each of you now that I look at this third one. Are you ready? Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen. Oh, Ingrid Goes West. That is correct. That should be a TV game show

where they just write questions that they think the guests will know. And the writers get points taken away if somebody misses a question. That's funny. Because that is wild how that worked out. So we got to go

to a tiebreaker. This is like the dating game. You do know us so well. I did not plan for this way, but it really worked out. But the tiebreaker not i didn't have a plan for this this way but it really worked out um but uh

the tiebreaker and this goes to guy first so if you get this you you win this game you know you don't win anything really but you get to go first in the next game so guy um elijah wood and bruce willis that is the major motion picture, North, by Rob Reiner. Roger Ebert hated, hated, hated, hated, hated that movie. He sure did. He said, oh, shoot. No, I'm thinking of a different movie now. But there was a movie where Roger Ebert said that if Harry Dean Stanton's in a movie,

it can't be all bad. But then there was some movie that he was in, he goes, but in this case, I'll make an exception. But I can't remember what movie it was. I was just watching it the other day and laughing about that review. Anyway, yes, North was a uh critically panned motion picture perhaps best known for its uh the fact that bruce willis is a i guess he's an imaginary bunny he wears like a bunny costume yeah and uh you know it's just one of those misfiring things

you know like they put julia louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander were in it because Seinfeld is super popular and it just didn't work out. It would probably be a good movie maybe to bring to a movie interruption. And Rob Reiner hated it?

He made it. But you said he hated it afterwards? Roger Ebert gave it. Oh, Roger Ebert. I thought you said he like hated it afterwards or Roger Ebert gave it oh Roger Ebert I thought you said the direct writer like I thought you said he ended up hating it which I was like well you should have known by the script I wouldn't say

yeah you know maybe he thinks it was a home run that was misjudged and underappreciated but I just I can't even remember I just remember hardly being able to sit through it like it's just it's just one of those movies is just such a swing and a miss that it's uh frustrating because rob reiner for for a minute there uh he had like four or five comedies in a row that were like you know pantheon by kind of perfect movies best streak and he had

misery misery yeah and then we went off course a little bit he's still a good solid director but then he just started started peppering in things that i i didn't particularly enjoy and that's what matters um uh but also a great guy in terms of uh he's really out there uh fighting the fight politically he's like he really is uh like his character and all in terms of he's really out there fighting the fight politically. He really is like his character in All in the Family. He's happy to argue with people. He has interesting range.

He's like, I will only do two things, rom-coms or Stephen King adaptations. Right. That was the other interesting, like, just keep making those Stephen King things. Just goes back and forth he should take a crack at another one you know instead of like i think the last movie of his i saw was just like kate hudson and luke wilson sitting around writing a book it was something that sounds like the mix of the two steven king and rom-com she keeps on interrupting him and he goes crazy yeah exactly all right uh congratulations

uh guy for ruining that one that was a real squeaker um did either did guy you knew it was ingrid goes west yes and uh did did you did you uh ricky did you know it was North? I knew all of them except for North, which I've never heard of. Oh, wow. It's like a little Elijah Wood, like when he was a kid actor. I think his name in the movie is North. I think. But yeah, I don't remember it that well. Okay.

We got to take another break. Yeah, I don't remember it that well. Okay, we've got to take another break. When we come back, we're going to play a game that is an old game that I came up with a new version of that I just love and spring it on everybody after these words. We are back, and Guy Branum gets to go first in our next game. And what does this say? Oh, it's just a segue that I hastily scribbled down.

All this rain. See, when I wrote this, it was supposed to be really raining right now. It's still barely coming down. I was also seriously worried about any one of us getting our power you know our internet taken down and uh and then you know the whole thing falling apart but it hasn't been an issue and i i don't think it will be but i still want to play because of all this rain all this alleged rain i want to play the game called purple rain man Purple Rain Man. And this is a game where, as you can imagine from the title, the answer in every round is a mashup title of two movie titles that share a common sound syllable or word in the middle.

So you can mash them up. syllable or word in the middle so you can mash them up and uh so like with purple rain man uh you would say that the uh top build person in the first movie is prince and the top build movie person the second movie is dustin hoffman but what i'm going to do is i'm going to start with the third build people so i'm going to tell you the two people in your third build a guy's going to get to go first and then we'll flip the order go to Ricky and then to

Renan and if nobody gets it which could happen these are tough then I'll give you the second build people. So now you have two people from each movie to try to figure it out. And if nobody gets it on that, then everybody will get a shot at the first build people.

And basically it's the same deal as the last game. If somebody gets one right, the next person goes first on the next one. Any questions? Nope. Sounds hard. It is very hard. They've been doing a similar thing to it on Jeopardy, and I've openly accused them of stealing it from me. But I do love it.

I do love trying to figure out the uh the two titles you know they give clues about each of the movies and then you figure out you know what the mash mashed up title is well i think they even call it movie mashup but anyway this is purple ray man and guy you are up first okay can you think of two films that would mash together uh with third build actors Cameron Diaz and Michael Angarano um uh I can I'm going to guess there's something about Mary full of grace. Cause I did not recognize the second person. I mean, that is a slam dunk guess, but no, that is not,

that is not correct. Let's go. Can I ask a question? Ricky with a question. Are you saying the names in the order that the movies are okay got it okay so it's cameron diaz am i gonna go uh so yeah so he was right to like a cameron diaz movie started his title but then uh once he finished it i ruled incorrect. Oh, jeez. I got nothing. Okay. Do you have anything Ron on?

I can't hear the second name. What is the actor? Michael Angarano. Michael Angarano? I'm kidding. Okay. I mean, I don't know, so I'll just guess. Gangs of New York,

New York. See, that is how this game is played. That would have been a miracle pull if you had been correct. But that's incorrect. So we're back to Guy, and he gets two more names. Can I just first say, Renan, what a great pull for...

I am scraping my brain trying to figure out situations where Cameron Diaz would be third build and like truly Gangs of New York is a very good pull no that one was exactly right I totally forgot about the third build thing so I wasn't thinking about that but I appreciate

it I forgot that whole part out of Bill the Butcher's hat but you're right I guess that is that was I picked a Cameron Diaz movie out of Bill the Butcher's hat. But you're right. I guess that would have been smart of me. All right, guy. Second build in these movies. So we have Cameron Diaz and Michael Angarano,

and then we add Penelope Cruz in the first film and Kelly Preston in the second one. Oh. Oh, um... Okay, so it's Vanilla Sky and... Oh, Vanilla Sky! Is it called Sky High? Vanilla Sky is it called Sky High?

Vanilla Sky High that is correct you figured it out oh my gosh that's hard wow that is impressive well you know once you get the Vanilla Sky part you were so confident you blurted it out because if you didn't come up with the second half, you would have helped the next person immensely.

Yes. But Sky High, indeed, because first build, of course, in Vanilla Sky is Tom Cruise, and top build in Sky High is Kurt Russell. Hmm. Who is fourth build in Vanilla Sky. Oh, right. He's a cop. Yeah. So that's fun. I thought he was a shrink.

Oh, that's right. He's a shrink. I thought he was top. That movie's so weird. Maybe he was a shrink that was also a cop. No, no, no. You're right. Yeah.

You're right yeah you're right i want to make clear that i saw sky high in the theaters um there's a underrated movie i think well i want to make it clear i've never seen or heard of sky high likewise sky high is my north for of that. Let me drop some names for you that are in Sky High. In addition to the aforementioned Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston as married superheroes with a son played by Michael Angarano.

It's also got Dave Foley, Jim Rash, Kevin McDonald. I want to say Thomas Lennon might be in there anyway it's got a stacked cast

and it's really it's a really fun movie about superheroes and their kid being in school in school at superhero school and he doesn't fit in and it goes from there and yeah that's what i i i that's what i'm saying that's how underrated it is i still think you may be both lying it's weird to

hear about a movie you've never heard of it just feels made up it's like you're improvising a made up movie it really does but uh it's a fun movie. I recommend it. I'll put that down as my recommendation this week. It's good old Sky High. All right. I just don't think it was that big of a hit with the youngsters when it came out, so then it never really hit with anybody except for nerds that just see everything. You know? Okay. really kit with anybody except for nerds that just see everything.

Okay. Guys on the board, Ricky, you're up first. Third build would be Aaron Eckhart and Robert Beltran. Oh, gosh. Okay. This is really...

No. Aaron Eckhart and Robert Beltran? Okay. Let me think if I can think of something Aaron Eckhart would be third building. No. I don't have anything. I got nothing. I like the way you nothing. That's hard.

That's hard. Nine. Once again, I have no idea who that second name is. It really makes it hard when you don't know when you've never heard of the second actor. Yeah. Thank you

for not smoking gun. Dark Knight Rises bread. Or smoking aces too. But that's incorrect. Guy, any idea? The only thing I can think of where aaron eckert might be third build is aaron brock of vich so i'm going to say it's aaron brock uh the vich the angie taylor joy movie i forgot the billing part again but definitely creativity points on that one

here's the second build ricky okay heath ledger and kelly maroney Kelly Maroney. The second part's hard. Dark Night. There's like how many night movies? You know, Night of the Living, Dark Night of the Living Dead? No, but I love that guess. I love it very much. Right on.

So it can be like night spelled differently, right? Yeah, the spelling I don't care about. Okay. And who are the other two actors from the second one? Robert Beltran and Kelly Maroney. The Dark Knight moves? I like it. The Night Moves was actually like a 70s movie with uh gene hackman that which uh i just tried to pick a movie i tried to pick a movie that i don't know anyone in since i don't

know any of those actors right i have to pick a movie i don't know about yeah no that was a your strategy was correct but it's a different movie you don't know about does this guy have a I have nothing good Dark Knight Moves Dark Knight Moves yes

Night Moves is some movie from the 80s I don't remember what it was about no that's what I just said that's what he just said I'm sorry and did she and did ricky say night of the living dead yes yeah my ability to think of movies that i did not hear in the last three minutes is not all right i'm gonna say it's dark find out you're not listening i'm gonna say it's dark night and day and the stars of night and day who was in Night and Day? Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.

Yes, I'm saying Cameron Diaz was fourth billed in Night and Day. After Robert Beltran. Incorrect. My next answer is going to be South Pacific. All right, Ricky. I don't know if this is going to help you or not. All right, Ricky. I don't know if this is going to help you or not. All right, let's see. Christian Bale and Catherine Mary Stewart.

I'm going to say Dark Nightmare on Elm Street. Oh, another great guess. That's not right. All right. Such a great guess, though. Thank you. We're all done. That's top billing, Mary Stewart? Such a great guest, though. Thank you. That's top billing, Mary Stewart?

Yeah, Catherine Mary Stewart pulled out the number one slot in a motion picture. It's a tricky one yeah i know this is it's tough i don't know any of those actors on the second one um the dark i was just thinking today sorry to interrupt but i was just thinking today this is just such a weird live moment i was just thinking today about how this horrible storm's hitting. Wouldn't it be weird if we got a California earthquake? It's happening right now. Oh my God.

I just felt that. Oh no. We're having an earthquake. Holy crap. That was weird. I was like, am I making this up? Yeah. And now I got my emergency alerts going off.

Whoa. Yeah, we just had it that was so yeah but i was just thinking today about how like the way things go these days wouldn't that be fucked up if there was an earthquake the same day as a hurricane in california everybody that doesn't live here is so it's having such a laugh right now they're all at home like live on the podcast before i've hardly done an earthquake live on anything i've been like in a comedy club off stage during a quake one time and every other time earthquakes tend to happen like middle of night early in the morning or i've i've found living in southern california for as long as i

have but anyway back to you. You were so polite in your interruption. You're like, I'm sorry to interrupt, but the world is crumbling right now. Because also, I mean, this recording isn't live-live, you know what I mean? So we could just take all of this out. I could have just screamed, it's an earthquake. But also, it's raining outside, so I'm not going outside anyway. But that was really really weird oh and also the show big brother is taping uh right now and they have the cams on so i wonder if they're they must notice it because they're in the valley

so they must uh be hit with it any minute now because they're it's on like a delay and it's been like three or four minutes since it happened right you guys just a second somebody's knocking on my door give me just a moment or something wow excuse me everything's happening i wonder if the person knocking on his door is earthquake related like did you feel that i bet it is people love to ask somebody else if they felt it that was the most exciting part of it for me was that i just you know knew that ricky and guy were probably feeling it as well and we're all in different parts of uh la it was so weird because did you not notice until i started saying it was happening no i felt it and then i was like is that what i'm feeling or yeah i didn't know if it was winds right i was like i was like shaking

a little because it's an old house i didn't know i'm so sorry about that that's okay what happened it was a delivery person who was at the wrong address no one looks at the physical addresses on things anymore they just go go to where the GPS takes them and it makes me very mad. I'm an old mad person. Maybe the earthquake just pushed him to your door. Yeah, he just stumbled into your door. Or maybe he was asking

for shelter. God bless the guy for even trying to get a package somewhere in the rain on a Sunday. He should get a job at Chick-fil-a and stay home all right all right here's my what was happening when we were interrupted rudely by earthquake i was i was about to have a wrong guess for this okay so nightmare alley is a remake i've never seen the original but since i don't know any of the actors i'll go with that the dark nightmare alley that's fun it sounds like i'm correct from your tone the noise i um i i liked all your guesses very much but i think i overestimated in preparing for today like the you know i i thought sky high was

like a pretty popular more popular than i thought it was and same about this one the full title is the dark night of the comet and it's night of the comet is another one that i would recommend if for those that haven't seen it it's's kind of a low-budge, science-fiction-y horror. It's one of those dystopian, downtown L.A.'s deserted, so they got really cool shots of downtown L.A. when nobody's there.

It's a pretty enjoyable movie. I haven't seen it in a while but all I knew was that Robert Beltran was Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager so I was trying to think of things with Native Americans in them and I couldn't yeah

and his other big claim to fame is he played the title character in a movie called Eden Raoul oh and it was about this couple who um you know uh mary warren of and her husband whose name escapes me right now but uh it's about this couple who invite this guy over and their whole plan is to you know eat him there's a comedy that's like rope but worse yeah exactly alright so nobody got a point on that one

and I haven't felt any aftershocks so I feel reasonably safe at this juncture to continue on with the game is everybody alright yes still in the closet I'm fine Renan are you jealous of all this activity we're having?

I've been shaking around here just to feel connected to you all. Okay, yeah. Just to fit in like an Xbox theater where you sit in a chair and it shakes around and you're supposed to go, wow, I really feel like I'm there. Okay. Good luck to everybody because these are tougher than I thought they were and Ricky you get to go first again oh man can you quickly make up an easy one no okay I like to think that the tiebreaker is easy just because I want to make sure we had a winner but so far guy has taken this thing so you have to get you have to get on the board

and we can go through the third build quickly because i really don't think anybody's gonna no bells are gonna start ringing until the second build people so third builder thomas m of them yes graham green i'm assuming actually i'm gonna hold on to it so that i don't okay i'm gonna wait for the second one gonna wait for the second one all right uh here we go ricky second bills are Vivian Lee and Jeremy Renner. Oh, yeah. OK. Gone with the Wind River. Yes. Look at that. I just don't know what's happening today.

That one is going to be really tough. And then look what happened. First Bill Clark Gable and Elizabeth Olsen. Not of the twins. She's just probably got twice the talent because she's all one person. Really good movie. Wind River is

really good. Right? Yeah, really good underrated movie. And Graham Greene, he's a go-to Native American actor. He really fills that role frequently.

Twilight movies. Turned into a wolf in those. So that puts Ricky on the board. And so we got to do something about this. Because we have a tie between Guy and Ricky. And thank you so much for being here today, Renan. I appreciate it.

Oh, yeah. We'll get your plugs and whatnot in a few minutes. Okay, cool. Yeah, it was an honor. Taking a Lifetime Achievement Award for some reason. I want to thank my parents. Yeah, you win the Doug Loves Movies Achievement Award. That's what I give to everybody who's on the guest for an entire episode.

I usually don't. I've only lost guests mid-episode a few times. Okay. Which, Ricky, quick question. I was thinking recently about the times that I've been at a Broadway show and either the famous lead person didn't go on at all, and you don't know about it until pretty much day of

or I've also seen someone else just come out on stage like an actor replaced mid-show. I've seen it three times and two of them were on the same day. Oh, wow. No, they were back-to-back. One was Strange Loop right in the middle

and one was Beetlejuice right in the middle. And who were the lead in each case? The lead and then someone else. Oh, wait, wait. No, I'm I can't remember. But I remember it happening twice in a row. And then I saw it in Into the Woods in Los Angeles and it was the the witch character. She just dipped partway through the show? Yeah, halfway through. Probably vocal issues, probably. Yeah, who knows?

That's crazy. If they can't sing those notes that they have to sing, I think they'd just rather just jump out because the understudies are always ready to go. Yeah, Strange Loop, it was the lead and this guy had to come out at a moment's notice and do the lead in that huge show. And he was great. I think that was a recurring issue with that show because that same thing happened to us when we saw it.

Really? eye like uh you know just part way into it which i was grateful to get to see a little bit of him because i'll never forget that you know when i saw wicked uh christian chenoweth wasn't in it and that was a bummer and when i saw mj that guy miles frost that won the tony wasn't in it yeah wait what if we saw the same performance of Strange Loop? What if that was actually part of the show? I think it happened a few times. I think it would happen. But did it happen right after Inner White Girl? Because that's when it happened in mine.

How long into the show is that? Four songs, three songs. Maybe, yeah, it might have been. I feel like it was a little deeper into the show than that. How long of a break did they take before starting up again? Ten minutes. Oh, yeah, we were at the same show. No, I don't think we were because I would see your

Instagram would have pictures of you holding up your program. I don't Instagram in real time though. Oh, you. I was wondering about all your travel pictures were always like, she's not there right now. I'm a girl. Safety reasons.

Things have happened. I just put up things when i feel like it and i don't feel pressured to do it in real time so we could have been at the same show that's smart that's so smart that you do it that way but but i just mean i feel like i as friends i would know if you were in new york at the same time i would think but i don't know because i usually text you about shows i'm seeing or something. But anyway, here we go. To determine our winner, who went first in this game? Guy did, right? So, Guy, you're back in the driver's seat for the first round. Third build in this movie mashup title are Morris

Day and Valeria Galeno. Oh, this is Purple Rain Man. Yeah, it is. I would not have gotten it. That's the really easy one you were looking for, Ricky. I wouldn't have gotten it. That was good.

Yeah, that's funny. Which one did you know? I guess Morris Gay gives that away, right? Yeah, but also I remember the Valeria Galeno is that, because we didn't get that many great Valeria Galeno performances, but she was the lady in Rain Man. Yeah, and she was the lady in Big Top Pee Wee. And the kiss that she and Peewee Herman share might have been

somebody might have beaten it by now, but at the time was the longest movie kiss. Yeah. I also thought you said Doris Day, so I was thrown. She was not in Purple Rain, I'm guessing. Doris Day

was not. But, you know, her talent probably was inspirational to Prince and Apollonia. Yeah, because they were involved. But that's a movie I watched one time with an audience interruption style. And, you know, the concert scenes end up being, you know, a little bit too long. You know, there's not much to say about him writhing around having sex with his guitar but um but the dialogue scenes are it's just gold to uh to talk during them because they're they're uh they're quite awkward

uh the people's emotion it's kind of, it reminds me a lot of Showgirls, the way that the actors have to do three or four emotions in 15 seconds. And nobody working on the movie realizes that's too much to ask of anybody and just looks crazy. Okay, so congratulations to Guy Branum. You get to do your plugs first. Oh, well, my name is Guy Branum. You can follow me on all social media at Guy Branum. And I don't have anything coming out because we're on strike.

So watch Platonic on Apple Plus if you have not watched Platonic. I, youonic. I think you're terrific on that show, as I've said before, but I'm also anti-streamers. Fair. And I would say Ricky, where can a person stream

another period on Paramount Plus? Yes, you can. Thank you for mentioning that. It is on there now. If you want to see a Guy Branum, Rikki Lindholm re-team, I worked for her on the very great show Another Period that I think we are both very proud of. Yes, we are. I'm glad you are too. I'm very proud of that. Yeah, watch it on Paramount Plus. I just got a residual check for my appearance on that show

and on the check, they write the name of the episode on the paper attached to the check. And the episode was called Sex Nickelodeon. Yeah, that's right. Beatrice makes an accidental sex Nickelodeon. It's an accident This just happens You slip and make a sex Nickelodeon And creeps like me and Steve Agee And Andy Kindler show up

Okay Thank you Guy Branum Let's go to Renan Hirschberg What would you like to plug buddy Just follow me on Instagram at ron on comedy r-a-a-n-a-n comedy and i'm i'm touring every weekend for the next couple months so if there's a link in my bio there and you'll see where i am chicago tulsa vermont a bunch of other places so just yeah run on comedy give me a thank you run on thank you so much for having me it's a lot of fun

ricky lindholm another period ricky lindholm i don't instagram in real time though sorry yeah another period on paramount plus and wednesday on netflix but uh i'm also on strike so doing nothing yeah just uh you know trying to get through this thing and get uh all this stuff we deserve like you know a great example i was just talking about residuals one of those shows that that one dummy zazlov uh you know one of the shows that he just you know buried uh doesn't have to pay me residuals for my work on it anymore because it doesn't exist. It's just such a shitty move to save what

ends up being not that much money with the kind of money these guys make. Them deleting shit from the archive is the worst thing. It makes me so infuriating. It's just the residuals. How much was your another period check? Do you remember?

Oh, stupid, though. Like, you know, because I just was, you know, one scene and one episode. So, like, yeah, they get pretty low. Well, everybody made the same because it was such a low-budget show. So, I probably got the same amount. Yeah, well, I tell you, the, like, you know, I've done shows where shows where like i've done multiple episodes and so it's really aggravating when you'll get like 30 checks in the mail it's all from the same show and they're all for a penny you know it's just like come on you guys it's sad to just not send you this yeah

just send one check for 30 cents it'll be very sad but yeah it's really like a weird lottery when you when i get you know checks because it's like you know some of them actually still can be decent but it's it's a lot of you know little pennies there used to be a bar in the valley called residuals and uh if you went in there with a residual check that was like i think it was like under a dollar or something they would like you would give you one free drink. They stopped that policy after a year or two. You can just get one free drink every time you went in there if you're a working actor because the tiny checks just keep rolling in.

Did I talk to everybody? Yes. Here's my plugs. Did I talk to everybody? Yes. Yeah. Here's my plugs. Doug loves movies. It's coming to the Brea Improv on August 31st in Brea, California. That's a Thursday night before Labor Day weekend.

And then we're back at Dynasty Typewriter on September 16th at 420. And, oh, Guy, do you think there's a chance you can join us again next Sunday? Same that time, same Zoom thing? I would love to. So that's a semi... You would love to, but we'll double check

and reconfirm later. I always end every episode with the last line from a motion picture. Today, I chose

the movie that Guy knew immediately, South Pacific from 1958. As always, Papa! Papa! So as always, Papa, Papa. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold is viewing prowess makes him cocky.

There's no room in his heart for you. Cause Doug loves movies.