Doug Loves Movies - Halle Kiefer, Alison Leiby and Josh Ruben guest

Episode Date: August 14, 2023

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Doug hates candy wrappers, squeaky babies, sticky seeds with 50 acid pop or kernels in his teeth. There's still not one that he won't see, cause Doug loves movies! Hey, hey, hey everybody! My name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies, coming to you from both coasts today, I think. It's Sunday, August 13th, 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 on Rambo First Blood Part 2. on Rambo First Blood Part Two.

All three of my guests today are first timers, and they are Hallie Kiefer, Allison Levy, and Josh Rubin. Hello. Hello. Hi. Hello. Oh, that was great how you synchronized that, but let's meet everybody individually and alphabetically by first name.

Yeah, the twists don't stop coming on this show. She's the co-host of a podcast called Ruined. It's Allison Leiby. Hey, Allison. How's it going? I'm doing pretty good. Oh, good. Me too. Yeah. Before we talk about your podcast. Yeah. What's going on with your highly successful one person show? My show, Oh God, a show about abortion is I have a bunch of touring dates in September. I'm going to try and put it on tape sometime soon so everybody could see it.

And it was, yeah, it sadly is still a relevant topic. Well, I say, first of all, put it on the DL that you're going to film it because you want people to come see this thing live. I mean, there just aren't a bunch of times left. So, you know. Okay, well, that's good. Start prepping all the people that are just not going to be able to make it due to geographical concerns. There's a lot of places I won't go. So if you live in Florida, you know, sorry. Sorry, Florida. You're going to have to watch it on tape. It'll probably have to you'll have to do it under cover of night.

You'll have to be really sneaky. Yeah, I'm sure they're going to have a don't say abortion or don't say women law anytime there now, so it'll be great. I'm just going to sit in a very open spot at Disney World and just watch it on my phone. Yeah, great. With the sound up. That's the perfect way to experience it.

I think so, right? Okay, so that's exciting that you do have a few more spots where it's going to be performed in September. And congratulations on all of your success with it. Thank you very much. And speaking of your podcast, your co-host is here. So I'll introduce her.

It's Hallie Kiefer. Hello, Hallie. Oh, thank you for having me. Please know I was frantically going through the alphabet in my mind. I know, right? The order we were in. Am I next or not? And thank God

I was. It worked out great. Could you tell us all about, for the uninitiated, your podcast called Ruined? Absolutely. The premise, basically, is us all about for the uninitiated do your podcast called ruined absolutely um so the premise basically uh is i love horror movies i consume almost exclusively horror other than and just like that which to some terrifying allison can't watch horror movies and so every week i ruin or you

know extensively spoil a horror movie for Allison. We've sort of established a system where she guesses what's going to happen. She's become incredibly good at it. And yeah, it's for both people who love horror movies and like to revisit horror movies they've watched and for people who genuinely can't watch horror movies.

And it's very interesting because when you talk to people who can't watch them, and Allison is among these people, the number one reason is because it gives them nightmares. And I think that's such an interesting look at the human brain, especially someone with a brain, where I can watch someone be, you know, disemboweled any day of the week and sleep like a baby. Yeah, I'm the same way.

I can watch a really scary movie, and then my dreams are about, like, trying to find my keys. Oh, yeah. You know, like trying to find my keys. Oh yeah. You know, like it doesn't line up at all. I think there should be much more exciting based on the info I'm putting into my brain before bedtime. Yeah.

I had a dream this week where I was just at a friend's birthday party at a restaurant. Like it was just like an extremely normal birthday party. And that was it. Oh, there's nobody spilled any tea. there wasn't any hot goth so not a great party is what you're trying to say well this ruined podcast sounds uh sounds like a super fun uh premise but my question for back to Allison is do you uh are there some that you you will

go ahead and watch ever or do is it really a genre that you only uh hear about uh vicariously I like I've seen like four horror movies in my entire life like it was like get out the shining and like two others um you said scream right and i think like having now like talked through so many of them i think they're you know we discuss it on the pod sometimes where it's like allison you could watch this like this is not like that scary there's just like one or two jump scares and like otherwise it's just kind of a thriller like those i think i could do we've definitely come across some i haven't watched anything that we've talked about because now like i know what happened you feel like you've seen it yeah it'd be especially boring waiting for the jump scares yeah but i used to read wikipedia and now i have hallie which is much better

well the reason i asked and i'm glad you told me the exact four horror movies you've seen, because you managed to miss out on the entire filmography of our third guest today. Perfect, yes. I know. Who is not only a writer, director, producer, actor in horror movies that are scary, but I feel also have enough character development and dialogue uh to soften let's just introduce him it's josh rubin everybody that's right josh gateway horror rubin it's a pleasure to be here gateway horror well it's not like you make you know g-rated stuff you it's still uh you know it's still got the uh got what it takes, yeah, there's a there's a scream. There's an F-bomb, you know.

Yeah. F-bombs. Exactly. Because a movie horror movie without F-bombs. I don't know who they're kidding. Because, you know, as soon as you have so little violence that you can get a PG, you know, then, you know, you've got to probably a movie that's not that scary in this day and age. It's called The Haunted Fucking Mansion. It's like, come on. then you've got probably a movie that's not that scary in this day and age. It's called The Haunted Fucking Mansion. It's like, come on.

Okay, so I was going to jump in if anybody talked about any current studio product because of the ongoing strikes. But in this case, I'll allow it because you just talked shit about it. Oh, yeah. If we talk so much shit about studios less money, then it seems like that's okay. Yeah, exactly. If you're we talk so much about studios less money, then it seems like that's okay. Yeah, exactly. If you're insulting, but no praising anything today. But at the same time, we're supposed to encourage people to watch movies and streaming to prove to the studio heads

that this new content that exists now is what people are going to need more of later, and they're not going to get it unless uh they play ball yeah yeah um so josh uh how are the strikes treating you because you're you're striking from every angle i am yeah yeah i'm uh striking for two-thirds of myself since my one union, the DGA caved quickly. But but also for, for all thirds of myself, it's, it's good. I mean, it's kind of, it was kind of beautiful to go out once the, I'd been going out previously to sag strike, but once, once like the actors came in or as someone on Twitter said, hot backup,

it really lit up. It was so fun just to see like the writers who'd been just completely exhausted, just kind of recatalyzed. So that's been super cool. I mean, the longer we hold the line, you know, the stronger I think we're going to be, you know, once we get back. But it's, you know, it's nasty. We're out, we're out here because we've been exploited for so long. But of course, last time we did this together, the way that, that we are now in the sixties,

we got residual checks, baby. So hopefully something just as monumental, we'll come out of it. Yeah. I'm hoping that these checks, I mean, I still got like standup comedy and stuff that I can do, but nonetheless, every residual check I get is, is a delight, you know, is a treat even though the tiny ones, because it's still nice to know that SAG and all the actors got that for us. You know, they've made that happen even though it's definitely not enough,

but all of that being said, thank you for being here, Josh. It's your first time on the show. I apologize for it taking so long, but I think I asked you once a year or two ago, and it turns out you're busy making films a lot of the time, so I'm taking advantage of the strike by getting you to participate. I'm so glad. I feel powerful and important. I'm so glad I feel powerful and important

before we play games today which we do on the show every week I'd like to visit a segment I call Recommendation Nation and that's where I ask each of my guests I put everybody on the spot because this is a question I hate being asked because

I don't want the responsibility of someone else's enjoyment you know like when they say recommend a movie i can be like well i like this i don't know if you're gonna like it probably won't uh so it's a tough question but i want each of you to recommend one movie and i would uh like it to be in honor of josh and the ruined podcast i would like it to be in honor of Josh and the Ruined podcast. I would like it to be of the horror genre. So, Allison, I guess you've got four movies to choose from. So which, Allison, would you say is your top horror movie that you'd tell somebody this is one you should watch?

Well, there is one that we get in fights about all the time and it's silence of the lambs and i do not think it is a horror movie but there are lots of people who think it is i think it's a psychological thriller and it's one of my all-time favorite movies well that's an interesting line then because then there's probably other horror movies you're not watching that have that sort of vibe but you're scared off of the fact that they have that label. Yeah, I do think like marketing and posters goes a long way for deterring me from watching something. I really wish it didn't feel that way. But I love Silence of the Lambs. I studied it in college. It's like I've read the book. It's just such a good movie and it holds up so well, like, I mean, as a great narrative. But you also that you're also this is your way

of saying you really are into do you watch a lot of true crime stuff you know I don't love true crime and this is gonna sound terrible I find it boring um like I like big crime is what my friend and I call it so like documentaries and shows about like systemic abuses and major cults and like that stuff I can get into but just like a lady was murdered doesn't really do it for me okay is that as insensitive as I could possibly be towards murder victims I don't know they're not for entertainment they're sad stories but um that's true that's a good point. And no, if you love true crime, continue watching true crime, but it has never hooked me in that way. Those silence of the lambs feels like it's of that.

That's why I just assumed that that's the way you rolled because loving silence of the lambs, you know, that's some pretty creepy stuff in there. Yeah. I think it does have a jump scare too also oh yes it does i think i love mystery and i like there being like resolution and an answer to like we didn't know what was happening now we do like so movies that have that i'm much more interested in than just

like this demon is ruining everybody's life like i don't it's less that's less exciting for me in horror i guess right you like movies that end on a question. Cause at the end, Jodie Foster just keeps repeating Dr. Lecter. Dr. Lecter. We know he went and had a lovely lunch with his.

Yeah. We know what's going on, but she's like, why didn't he say goodbye? That seems he's usually got such good manners. Yeah. Yeah. He is a very polite man in most ways.

Yeah. She's with the FBI. She doesn't understand the concept of being hung up on. She doesn't understand there's no sound coming out of the phone. Okay, so that's your pick, Silence of the Lambs. I love it. Anybody who hasn't seen it, of course, you should check it out. Everybody who has seen it is just nodding their

heads going thanks a lot allison the game should be called remind us of a movie just say a movie that everyone's seen uh holly what have you got for us now you're since you're a horror aficionado i assume you got something uh you something that people should really check out. Oh, yes. A movie that first came to mind is 1971's Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Okay. Written and directed by John Hancock. Well, co-written, John Hancock and Lee Kelchum wrote it.

And I think it's an excellent film. And it has such a particular early 70s vibe where you are a woman, as women are often made to do, made to feel insane, which of course then puts you in a situation, unfortunately when an actual danger does start appearing, you are made to then question your own judgment. It's a, it's a great movie. I just, I don't want to say anything because you know, unless you really need to ruin, we should do it on the podcast.

I don't want to spoil it for anyone who's not anticipating this on your podcast, but it is a great vampire movie, but it's not, it's like I prefer a vampire movie where we're not using the word vampire. We are describing things. We are getting the idea of what kind of entity or person could be preying on people, but we're not

necessarily... There's not necessarily a cape. We're not necessarily giving it those exact parameters. And I think this movie does it in a really interesting way. You know, was one of those, just the title alone had me pretty terrified in my youth, you know, like it was something I was worried about, you know, because I mean,

they just laid out for you right there that they're going to, you know, try to scare somebody to death. That sounds pretty scary. It's, it's the most, I love a really long 70s horror movie title yeah those are good to let you know what's going on yeah uh okay josh how can you i mean these are two in their own ways classic horror films we've got so far bang Bangers. Yeah, absolute bangers. There's totes bangs. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, a kind of vampire movie where there's no cape or like I was going to say no hiss.

Yeah, I think like I like to recommend something kind of that feels sort of commercial but also, you know, just obscure enough. And, and one of those, one of those faves for me was nightbreed Clive Barker. Um, just so kind of unhinged.

It's basically about a bunch of monsters that live under a graveyard and it's like delightfully queer and gory. And I just loved it. I watched it way too young. And I was just like, what are these weird feelings I have below my waist about like the, the tentacle girl and like the pig man. It was way too, way too early for me in my formative years to be watching anything of this nature, but I just love it. It's a great creature design.

It's just rife with mythology and just all of Barker's delightfulness. I just love it. And David. I mean, Tentacle Girl and Pigman, though, that sounds like somebody should make that movie. Yeah, totally shaped my personal life. And here we are today. Yeah, exactly. Remember actually David Cronenberg plays a serial killer.

And I remember this is the kind of child I was, you know, it's 1990 or whatever. And I, he, he like had a bunch of knives that he kept in like a briefcase. And I remember having like a Fisher price briefcase that I put all of our kitchen knives in and walked around the house copying David Cronenberg. Cause I was like, I thought that that's a cool character. So it changed me in all the ways. And hopefully you'll ask me back. Yeah. It's that's the that's not like it really uh shapes shaped you

good old good old night breed i just as soon as you said it all i could flash on was like it's it's the kind of movie that has some really uh imagery that's hard to shake yes yes before before nb and after nb is kind of you know how measured my life yeah and if cronenberg's acting in something you know you know weirdness is is afoot you know he doesn't just show up in you know uh i can't the examples coming to my head are all terrible okay so thank you for those recommendations i think that if anybody hasn't seen any one of those particular movies, they'd be, you know, they should check it out unless they're like Alison. And then they should just find somebody who's seen those movies and have them

explain what happens. Yeah. That sounds good. Yeah. That used to be what my mom would do. She'd be like, you're too young for this movie. and then she'd tell me beat for beat what happens in it and i'd go well it's still in my head and probably a scarier version yeah whatever is it i sometimes i wonder i'm like oh is am i actually like making it worse for myself now that i like know what happens but haven't seen it and my nightmares are probably way worse than anything that is actually captured on film.

Yeah. Cause it looks so fake in the movie. When you, when you, if you do finally watch it, some of these things, you know, cause is that, is that a big part of it for you? It's just that you, you don't like the excessive violence. It's I don't even know if it's the violence and I don't even really think it's gore. Like I, like, I just don't like the like act of being scared i don't like find it that fun right hallie has a great way of always like keeping me like grounded um what is it you're always like just remember these are actors there was a call sheet there's a pa somewhere like it's just like it's a movie set

like these aren't real things like right you just man mike there's a bunch of cameramen it's like and having been to set it's like yeah people are just like please just get through we gotta finish this like we just you know i mean like the the environment on set is not the environment you're watching right and that'll help you in your moments of distress i think so yeah. Yeah. It's not like they're all like, you know, a satanic cult that all sit around and have a ball, you know, making this stuff. It's like hard work. Now that's a movie. Yeah. Yeah. Satanic cult that makes movies. That sounds, that sounds like a really,

that's what they should be doing. Isn't that just the AMPTP? You know? Yeah. like a really that's what they should be doing isn't that just the amp tp you know yeah making content okay so uh we got to sell some items so that we can make some more content we will take a break and we'll be right back we are back and we're gonna play some games um i hope you're excited uh or at the very least interested this first game we're going to play some games. I hope you're excited or at the very least interested. This first game we're going to play is something that I call Whose Tagline Is It Anyway?

And I think we even mentioned taglines briefly earlier, touched on it with something, you know, what's written on the poster can, you know know influence whether or not you think the movie's going to be uh scary or not uh in this game i will say we're going to start with allison i will tell you a tagline that was used to advertise a hopefully well enough known motion picture uh that one of you will figure it out. But these, these are, these do run a little tough. I'm going to tell you right now.

Yeah. I mean, I did, you know, I didn't sit here trying to make it stuff about horror to help you out, but you never know because it's all movies. But the thing is, is that there will be a theme that will potentially emerge, and that might help you guess if you figure out what the theme of all these things is, what they have in common. And so I'll do the first one for Allison. If she doesn't get it, then Hallie gets a crack at it.

If she doesn't get it, Josh gets a crack at it. And whenever somebody does get one, right. Then the next one, we, we just start with the next person in line. And there's only a few of them. And like I said, pretty, pretty high difficulty level, especially, you know, unless you just happen to remember either the tagline or you know, the movie well enough that it pops into your head uh here we go allison all right what movie do you think had the tagline it's awesome totally awesome oh i mean it's like that weirdly could be almost anything.

It could be a lot of things. Awesome. Totally. It's like, I know it's not clueless, but I feel like it's possible that it's in that kind of like more teen genre. I'm going to guess. It's not this, but fast Times at Ridgemont High? No. No, that's not your guess? No, that's my guess, knowing that it's probably wrong. You're sticking with Fast Times at Ridgemont High as a tagline.

It's awesome. Totally awesome. No, you're wrong. I'm going to guess The Meg. A complete pivot from everything I just said. I'm guessing the Meg. If I just said it, it was more of a Jason Statham voice. Yeah. I mean, Meg feels like that we could be talking about.

Totally awesome. I'm guessing the Meg. I don't know. Okay. That is, I'm sorry, but that is incorrect. Oh, no. Yeah, but, you know, I uh your thoughts on on all of it you walked us through it made a decision hallie what do you think it is i'm gonna say the lego movie because

i remember they had that um everything is awesome song so i'm gonna say the lego movie i didn't see like a movie and i'm probably wrong but it feels i i'm going to go with it. I like the way you arrived at that incorrect answer. Okay, great. Yeah, I really liked it. I like when people show their intelligent work but

not the correct answer. Josh? Okay, I'm going to go with I don't know what the third in this franchise was, so I'm just going to throw out Bill and Ted's. Ooh, Ernie? The third one was Face the Music. It might be that one, but I'm going to go with Bogus Journey.

You're going to go with Bogus Journey? Yeah, why not? I'll tell you why not, because it's not correct. I'm just saying. But this happens from time to time, and I feel really bad when it happens. But unfortunately, people can be talked out of a correct answer. And Allison, you nailed it when you said Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Oh, really?

Oh, my God, Allison. Because they didn't try to sell it as kind of an actually thoughtful movie H. Mon High. Oh my god, Allison. They didn't try to sell it as kind of an actually thoughtful movie about teenagers. They just wanted to sell the idea that Spicoli was a surfer. You barely even see him surf in the movie. Yeah, right. The poster is him with a surfboard and two cute girls and it just says, awesome, totally awesome. I guess with, I'm and two cute girls, and it just says, awesome, totally awesome. I guess, like, with, I'm so young.

No, but, like, I was very young when that movie came out, so I think it already had gotten the credibility of being, like, a good movie by the time I was engaging with it. So, like, wow, wow. Yeah, it's a terrible, terrible tagline. They did not do it. They did a disservice, and it wasn't too successful at its initial release i don't think okay so we're back to uh allison again who uh was close with no cigar wow i'm gonna have to trust my gut moving forward yeah you're just gonna have to trust it and uh here's the next tagline. It begins on the street. It ends here.

Oh. Oh. Um. Yeah. Yet another, I think, terrible tagline. But you'll judge for yourselves once you know the answer. This feels like maybe too. I'm just going to say the Fast and the Furious, the original.

Okay. I like it, but no. Okay. Okay, boy-oing. Boy-oing last time. All right, so Hallie's next. I'm going to say the Warriors, even though, again, I know that is incorrect. I, well, again,

see, that's why I like having you on the show both of you are at least not just going I don't know like you're giving answers that are you know legit and bringing up things I want to talk about anyway

the Lin-Manuel Miranda oh my god he's doing a Broadway musical of the Warriors And I could not be more excited That's a perfect Thing He'll make it kind of West Side Story Meets the actual Warriors movie

Which can address You know violence and gang warfare And what not but could have cool choreography Where they fight each other I think he was I'm excited I think he was wise to take a break and gang warfare and whatnot, but could have cool choreography where they fight each other. I think he was wise to take a break. I think he was wise to take a break. Because I feel like we reached Lin-Manuel

a saturation point. And I think that was... We'll be ready by the time that happens. Does that make sense? When they announce that somebody has an idea for something on Broadway, it could be four or five years before we hear about it again, you know? Yeah, it's going to be a minute.

I think we'll be, that'll be the time for him to come back into the zeitgeist. Yeah. I'm so excited about it. Because it's, you know, it's just all these gangs. Like, it's one gang trying to get through the city.

So you just have all these, you can have all these different settings throughout. You know, they're trying to get through all the boroughs, I think. So, like, you get all the settings, plus you get all the other gangs. They all had matching uniforms. They were all so stylish. It's just crazy, that movie.

I guess it's based on the book that the movie was made on, and I wonder how different the book is. Yeah, that might ruin it. It might be less fun, the than the movie because the movie is very you know it's it's pretty corny okay um josh you've been waiting patiently oh god i want to uh i want to make my guests relevant um like the other contestants very smartly uh smartly did okay if the first the first one is fast times at ridgemont high maybe there's a high school kind of theme happening here my gut not to you know not to to to have suffer the fate of allison's gut the first go around but my my gut is to say 21 jump

street but the redundancy of street makes me kind of go like no there's no way in hell um so um it is shocking though that there are there are there the redundancy does happen sometimes and it's funny to me it would just be funny it was like it start it began starts and ends here 21 jump street it would just be funny if it's like it start it began starts and ends here 21 jump street it would just be that oh don't enter this house and then that's for the movie house yeah that kind of thing um so uh oh god uh i'm i'm gonna go with um uh a school fight movie uh only the strong survive that's the name of a high school fight movie i don't even that was i don't even think that was the the i don't even think it was about high school but it's it's an obscure i want to say

mark damascus like fighting movie and I think they're high school students. I'm horrific. All right, I'm going to give an official ruling. Incorrect. Sorry about that. This one, I didn't expect anyone to get it. It's a real toughie, but it does fit the theme, and it's a movie called Coach Carter.

Oh. Okay. Yeah. Denzel? No. It's going to sound terrible when it's another famous actor. I know, right. It's Sam Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson. Yes. But you know, I give you credit for at least, you know, narrowing it down considerably to the two most famous black authority figure actors of the time. But it begins in the street and ends here. I don't know what... I guess that all the kids on his team were in

gangs or something. Yeah, I guess. I vaguely remember this. It had Channing Tatum in it. Oh, did it? I believe she was one of the students. That might have been his motion picture debut. There's a reason we don't remember this movie. I don't get a quarter of a point. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I mean, Sam Jackson did a lot of movies that

kind of blend because he was often teacher, principal, cop. You know, he had several reasons to walk around carrying a bat in movies um okay so um allison we're back to you again right you're doing great guessing okay this is so corny a story about how far we have to travel to find a place where we belong. Oh, Lord, that could be any movie. Yeah, I'm like homeward bound.

The dogs and cats. No, it can't be any movie. You can't be human centipede. It can't be. Well, that is a journey. Certainly was a journey. The journey begins and ends at home. Oh, my God.

That movie, Nightmares. Okay, so I'm guessing that we do have like a high school theme. I'm going to say Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Oh, okay. That is another great guess. traveling pants oh okay that was another great guess oh wait could you repeat it again sorry i sure can thank you a story about how far we have to travel to find a place where we belong oh my god um i'm gonna say ladybird even though i know a thousand percent that is not right this is the first movie that came to mind wrong yeah only for how you you were absolutely right if this

line was a story about where you know how far we want to travel yeah away from the place where we belong because yeah because spoiler she she seems to fit in immediately in New York after being brought up in Sacktown, Sacramento. Okay. Oh, sorry, I didn't give you the incorrect sound. Josh? Huh? Give it to me now because I know it's not Mean Girls, even though Lindsay Lohan's character lived in Africa

and moves to be included. So I'm just going to... First she belonged with the bad girls, and then she realized she belonged with herself. Well, she was first with the Maasai, and then she went to America. So it's like how far she traveled you know she traveled far and then she yeah to do a christmas dance i think you should be able to win this game if you you give a convincing enough answer that that seems seems right you know i should just

not write down the actual answer because i'd probably forget and be like that sounds good the actual answer because i'd probably forget and be like that sounds good that sounds legit but i unfortunately did write down this answer and uh it's a motion picture called the cider house rules oh wow oh my god i i have all the that to me is not what the cider house rules is about no it's about getting an abortion in a cider house that's what that movie is about no it's about getting an abortion in a cider house that's what that movie is about yeah it's about breaking the rules in the cider house you princes you kings of new england yeah oh hell yeah i've never liked the title of that movie because it sounds it just sounds like it's about a really awesome Cider House. And I guess it is awesome if your goal is to get a Cider House rules.

This Cider House is the best. Nobody's making movies like that before. Yeah, that's true. I want another, I could do for another Cider House rules. Yeah, another orphanage flick, absolutely. Oh yeah. Okay,

Allison, this is, I have a very strong feeling that this is the last one, and I feel like you're going to take it home with this one. It'd be nice if I could. All right. What movie had the tagline, Have the time of your life? I mean, Dirty Dancing? That is correct. You all get to hear the correct sound now

yeah wow the correct answer and all four of those films the theme as uh inappropriate as it might seem for a fun game show uh the theme was movies that feature abortion for better or worse. People forget that there's some big movies that just have like, oh, and then there's that abortion part. I remember Cider House Rules being about abortion.

Right? That did seem to be the crux of it. But, you know, some people will walk away thinking it was Toby Maguire story. Michael Caine and Michael Caine with that Boston axe. I don't know what was going on. OK, so congratulations, Allison. You won that game. And you're going to find out what that means after these messages. We'll be right back.

We are back. Sorry to leave you in suspense for so long, Allison. But what you won for winning that first game, we only played two games, but what you win for winning the first one is that you get to go first in this next one. Oh, wow. Amazing. Yeah.

Might not even be any kind of advantage to go first. It depends on the game. In this one, I think maybe there's a little advantage. And then what is the winner win, really, if they're the winner at the end of this show today? Because you're all three first-time guests on the show. I thought it would be a good time to recap what the prizes are. And they are bragging rights, which you can have for, you know,

you can hang on to those for a lifetime if you want. And then an invite to return uh on the you know very next or as soon as possible episode based on scheduling wow yeah so so sometimes somebody will have like a four or five show winning streak where they're like second or third show into it they're like oh i really regret uh winning constantly but i can't stop myself yeah yeah i feel confident that will not be me but i'm excited to find out if it's one of you guys well that's the thing i like to tell people like if you have a commitment to winning then you're gonna have a you know you're gonna be committed to this show yeah but if you're just here to have

fun it was nice to see you and all guests are welcome back you know when you next time you have something to plug you know what i mean yeah um so our deciding game today is something called the little search engine that could oh i typed a word into the search engine on imdb the internet movie database and then i wrote down the top 10 motion pictures, not TV shows, not people's names, you know, lots of things come up there that aren't motion pictures, but theatrical motion pictures. I wrote down the top 10 movies in order, uh, that came up with that word in the title and, and IMDB, uhb uh you know when you do type something in this search engine goes with the most popular thing that goes by that word uh and so you know whatever

is number one is currently most popular so you're going to take turns guessing movies that have this word in the title and uh there's three rounds you'll each get three guesses we take turns it's all very polite and you get if you name the number one movie you get 10 points if you name the uh 10th movie uh on the list that's worth one point and everything else in between is that's how that works. Got it. It's a lot. It's a lot. Since the planet is burning, the word I chose to play today, because I like to get messages out while having fun, is a word we're going to probably see in a lot more titles moving forward.

And that word is hot. Oh, okay. Movies with the word hot in the title. Now, sometimes this game can shake out like other words that have HOT in them, like hotel and shot might be in the title, but that's not the case today. This is all just the word hot. So get Hotel Transylvania out of your head. All those kinds of hotel movies.

Hotel for Dogs. Forget about it. Okay. All right. And since she won that last game, I knows Allison gets to go first. And then we're going to switch the order around. We'll go to Josh and then to Hallie.

And like I said, you all get three cracks at it and we'll count up the points at the end and see who wins. Okay. I'm going to do an obvious one and say Some Like It Hot. That's Allison is starting us off with Some Like It Hot. I'm sorry to say

that that movie, while it did make the top 10 came in just at the bottom at number 10 oh boy there's gonna be a lot more movies that the IMDB thinks are more popular than

some like it hot okay but you're on the board that's the important thing because there's a lot of hot titles out there yeah so now we go to hallie okay i thought we're doing josh oh you know what thank you very much for that you get three points for correcting me hell yeah and you get four points taken away for being rude oh okay that's not that's fair that's very no i that would be wild if i put you in the negative one category just for pointing out to me my own rules josh thank you hallie josh is up literally

my only guess for this entire round and it's hot rod hot rod you're already blowing out your one hot movie yeah hot rod and i i think you'll think of some more as you're just listening to the other guesses and stuff and you are on the board because Hot Rod is number four I assume because of the continuing popularity

of Andy Samberg if he's in something I tend to like it yeah I think he does good work i i always thought popstar was was underrated agreed yeah very very especially at a at a hot like an hour it's like an hour and 18 minutes the dream length flies by a seal cameo come on all right the man not the uh okay there's a seal in it me a seal cameo when a seal sends you a message that's a video saying happy birthday to your friend does he do those too i don't know but i would love to see an actual Sealdi one. Oh my god.

Now it's your turn, Hallie. Alright, I'm going to say Wet Hot American Summer, largely because that is the first one that I thought of. Right? You got to go with what pops into your head. It's a gut move, but unfortunately, because I agree, I thought of that one, that

did not land in the top 10. Oh, that's dumb. Probably due to just, you know, not having any recent, you know, nobody in it's been in a recent scandal or anything. Well, any day now. I know, right? It's always percolating.

All right. So we're back to Allison. Round two. All right. You got one point so far. Can you think of another movie that has hot in the title? Hot Shots? Hot Shots! Exclamation point number two on the list. Wow! That's number two? Nine points for I don't know why people are suddenly

into hot shots. I mean, I remember it being a pretty funny movie. I fucking loved that movie as a kid. Yeah. And Charlie Sheen really was like, he was kind of the perfect actor to kind of take the mantle from Leslie Nielsen of the acting dramatic

but looking like an idiot. Yeah. He was good at it. So that's a whopping nine points. Allison's got ten points. I can't believe that's in the top ten. Right? You really had no faith in it. I was like, I think this

might have cracked, but wow. Unbelievable. These things can be surprising. I'd say it's Hallie's turn, but it's Josh's turn. So Josh. Christmas for remembering those hot rules. No one said it wouldn't be cheating

to name the sequel. Can I do Hot Shots Part Deux? Is number seven on the list. Oh my God. Incredible work. Four points. Josh just pulled into the lead

with 11 points. Excellent work. Charlie pulling a chicken back on a bow and it just clucking all the way into someone's forehead. Great trailer moment. This can still happen for Hallie. I'm just going to say the name of the only other movie that I have thought of

while we've been sitting here, which is Hot Fuzz. Oh. Hallie, Hot Fuzz, directed by a friend of the show, Edgar Wright. Hell yeah. Is the number one movie. Yeah! I think it just celebrated an anniversary, so maybe lots of people have been looking it up. That makes sense.

I love that movie. It's so good. And yeah, currently the number one hot movie. So now we've got a real race here. Because Allison and Hallie are tied with 10 each and Josh has 11.

So anybody continues to get on the board in any way is going to probably take this thing. Allison, what have you got? I might have exhausted. What's hot, Allison? Hot, hot. Drop it like it is. Hot. I mean, I keep trying to think of maybe if there's like a subtitle that's got the word hot in it.

I really can't think of anything else. Hot. I want to say, nope, that's a show. That's not even a show. It's just people eating wings. You're going to say, I know, nope, that's a show. That's not even a show. It's just people eating wings. Hot Ones? I'm like, that's the title I'm seeing the most in my experience looking at screens. Hot Ones the movie.

Hot Ones the movie. It's just a full meal. It's inevitable. It's, I mean, it's going to happen. Oh, God. Like a really hot amuse-bouche, like a whole meal. Every course is crazy hot. I mean, let's be honest. I would watch it.

I'm just going to say like a phrase with the word hot in it and hope that maybe it's a movie. I love it. That's a great way to do this. Hot nights? Oh. Yeah. I mean, it should have been in there, but it's not. It sounds like an 80s, yeah, like erotic.

It's not in there. Yeah. Well, it was a guess. Yeah, that's fair. Josh, you might be not needing any more points, but you're next if you can add a few points to your score. Oh, I will. I'm going to finish huge

with this Aaron Paul vehicle, literally. Hot Wheels. Hot Wheels. Aaron Paul. Oh. He was in a Hot Wheels movie? I guess it didn't show up. You don't say.

It came out for five minutes. Yes. Like right after Breaking Bad. I'm going to do this, bitch. You're not thinking of Need for Speed, are you? No. Animated? Uh-oh.

He did a race car movie called deed for speed you know what doug love movies because i think i was like i'm gonna finish big baby yeah you really got a good one wow you just retitled the movie and uh proceeded Not even upcoming in 2024? Oh, maybe. Didn't show up? But it's not in the... No, it didn't make the... But, you know, maybe that current... There's a TV show called Hot Wheels

right now, like a competition show. Maybe it got in there. But you're still in the lead with 11, so this might not be over unless Hallie's got one more. But you're still in the lead with 11. So this might not be over unless Hallie's got one more. Come on, Hallie. I've got one more.

Okay. And I didn't see it because it looked bad. So I won't be making the studios any money. That movie is... Oh, no. Colin, the Hot Cheetos movie about how a guy made Hot Cheetos. I tried to watch it before the strike.

I was like, no, thanks. I don't need to see how anything was invented. I don't need to see how I didn't, I don't need to see Beanie Babies. I'm good. I, we, I lived through it. I accepted it. I don't need to see it reenacted. I'm good. It is a strange, it does feel like a genre created by AI to just be like, Oh, this weirdo invented this weird thing that was popular for a second.

And then it failed. Let's make a movie about it. There's at least a dozen of those that came out in the last year or two. But Holly, you'd nailed it because third on the list is Flaming Hot. Oh! Yeah. It's a White House, and I don't know why.

Yeah. Well, I think it's because it was, you know, directed by Eva Longoria, so it was not only a huge leap for Flaming Hot Cheetos, but also for women. Finally. Finally. Finally. Finally a woman figured out that all you need is a

Flaming Hot Cheeto to break that glass ceiling. Those Cheetos are so hot, they just go through anything. Yeah, you did it. Congratulations, Hallie, you are our winner. Hallie Kiefer takes the game today. I did it.

With 18 points. Go ahead. And that's another thing you win is you get to do your plugs first. What would you like to plug? I'd like to plug Ruined Podcast, our podcast. You could follow us, it, wherever podcasts are sold. And then also you can follow us on any social at ruin podcast. And yeah,

we're, um, I'm not sure when this comes out, but on the 20th, August 27th, we'll be doing a live show on moment house and we'll be doing shark NATO, which has the best tagline, best tagline.

What is the tagline for shark NATO? Enough said. best tagline best tagline allison what is the tagline for a sharknado enough said what the hell it's so funny man back on the middle of the poster enough said with an exclamation point that is the like those people wanted to go home from work early that day. So bad. I even feel bad telling you, cause it's such a good one for that game to use in the future. But it's just any movie where the people just did not care about what it was going to say on there. Like that might as well just be like Sharknado.

And then the tagline is whatever. Movie. Yeah. It's a movie, period. Oh, my God. I love it. Okay, so congratulations, Hallie. That means that you, like I said earlier, are invited to come back on the show ASAP,

so I will hit you up for a a future date okay great i'm excited you're so excited i love it i'm sorry i just have to go to the bathroom so i'm just like willing myself through okay well we're good it's really uh we're right at the the end here i don't know why i said that, but please ignore me. I'm barely human. I was just going to say that, like, you know, no one would know if you didn't speak anymore for the rest of the show, because I'm just going to say goodbye to the other guests. Yeah, but you've been here just screaming from the bathroom. You could sneak off and go to the bathroom, and no one would know.

I fucked up. I'm sorry, everyone. Yeah, that's okay. But now at this point, it's your call what you're going to do, and none of us will know unless you talk, then I guess we'll know. No, I won't. You took your device with you into the bathroom. Okay. Allison Leiby, thank you so much for being here.

So much fun. What are your plugs again? You got the show. Yeah. Well, Ruin, obviously. Yeah. And then in September, I'm going to be in portland and seattle early in the month and then i'll be at jfl toronto for four or five performances so if you want to see oh god a

show about abortion there are dates so awesome great places to uh to go and do that and uh have a nice time out there. Josh Rubin. Yes, sir. I hope you were satisfied by your first. I hope you're not kicking yourself too much about some of your answers. Ending big with Need for Speed. One in particular, yeah. The hot need for hot speed was the working title so you were right twice on that my wife who was

listening in on this game went hot chicks hot chicks oh my god hot chicks i should read off which ones you didn't get to i apologize for everybody listening going why isn't he saying which ones didn't get mentioned? So number nine is some movie I don't know called Hot Seat. Number eight was The Hot Chick with Rob Schneider. Number six, this one I don't know why anybody would know it. It's some movie that Tim Chalamet is in called Hot Summer Nights. But you were so close with that Hot Nights guest. Yeah.

Any phrase really seems to work. Yeah. And then this one I'm kind of shocked nobody came up with. The only other one that nobody mentioned at number five, Hot Tub Time Machine. Oh. Oh. And there's that damn Hot Tub Time Machine.

And the sequel didn't make the top ten. But so that wraps that up josh what have you got to plug i've got a graphic novel out called darla it should be yeah no struck movies baby it should be at your local comic store and if it's not just say i want josh rubin's darla it's based on uh my love of stephen king King and some HBO's Tales from the Crypt madness. You must have done Scott Wampler's podcast, right? Oh, yeah. A few times. I love him. He just did it recently.

Oh, nice. The King cast, right? Is that what it's called? Hell yeah. I need that. You know, I'm excited. He asked me to do it. I think we might even do it like with a live audience. So I'm excited about that. Douglo's movies is going to be at a dynasty typewriter here in Los Angeles,

this upcoming Sunday, August 20th at four 20. And I got a few more road, Douglo's movies and standup shows coming up in the next month or two. So go to Douglas movies.com for all the info. Yeah. Thanks again to all of my guests, Hallie Kiefer, Alison Levy,

and Josh Rubin. Thank you for having us. Thank you. And as always, that's all folks. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky. There's no room in his heart for you.

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