Doug Loves Movies - Paget Brewster, Joe Kwaczala and Geoff Tate guest

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

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Doug hates candy rappers screaming baby sticky seeds with 50 as a pop more kernels in his teeth. They're still not one that he won't see. Because Doug, Doug. Hey, hey, everybody. My name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug loves movies. And if you're expecting this show to be the one we recorded last Saturday in San Francisco at SF Sketchfest, I'm sorry to say that it's officially a lost episode

because there were issues at the venue with the sound. They tried their best to pull it together. It was a venue we hadn't done those movies at before and maybe do it again there sometime. So there's no hard feelings. It was a super fun show. And I invited the participants on stage for that show to join us today, Wednesday, January 1st,

2026 to recreate the experience as, you know, best as I could for the listeners. And one of them said yes. So joining me today are Padget Brewster and Joe Quazala and Jeff Tate. Hello, everybody. Hello. Hi. Let's meet them individually and alphabetically by first name. If this show was in front of a live audience, they would,

chant his name, but today I'm just going to say it once. It's Jeff Tate. Hey, Jeff. Hello. How's it going, everybody? I'm good. I can't speak for everybody, but tell us about, I know we've talked about the show before, but now you're really, I think you really have a lot of episodes under your, under your belt. So tell us about your movie podcast. Oh, it's, it's true. It's, I try to keep it to the movies I saw that were on after the cartoon stopped when I was a kid. Like, when I wasn't really allowed to watch stuff. So it's just movies from the 70s and 80s generally that are just forgotten. They're not bad or great.

They're just solid, fun, random shit. Did you have you stumbled into one that is great, or are they all really just men? No, I mean, that's the pitch for the listeners. I like most of them. Like that's why I'm doing it. Like this is how I got into movies. Was this random stuff. That you would watch on Saturday afternoons.

Yeah, it's a Saturday afternoon movie club. Has a movie squeaked in that you don't remember having watched when you were younger? There's been a couple. We sometimes let the guest pick and every now and then I'll get one that I haven't seen. And those are always fun. It's exciting to find something random. Even if it's bad, it's still kind of. hyped for seeing something I haven't seen.

Yeah, well, that's how I feel about when we do the Benson movie Interruption, Your Choice Edition, where, you know, people bring in DVDs. And I don't know what we're going to end up watching. And a lot of times, it's, you know, delightfully good or delightfully bad. You just don't, you don't know, but it's, it's fun to see things you haven't seen or it's been a long time since you've seen it. We watched this thing the other day that Stephen, based on a Stephen King, and he wrote the screenplay called Sleepwalkers.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, and it, you know, I remember not liking it when it came out when I was younger. And, boy, it was just confirmed. It is just a weird, shitty movie. All right, well, it's on the list. I can't wait to see it. Oh, boy. Also joining us today, always a great guest on the show.

It's comedian and filmmaker Joe Quazala. Hey, Joe. Hey Doug, thanks for having me. Always good to have you. What is the latest with your movie American comic? We are still doing our festival run. We ended the year with a great screening at the St. Louis International Film Festival. And a lot of the ones that we've got coming up are, to be announced, I can say we're at the El Dorado Film Festival in El Dorado, Arkansas.

I didn't even know that was a place. Yeah, so brag, brag much. But no, that's supposed to be a cool little festival. And then, yeah, like I said, there will be more to be announced. But, you know, some of these festivals are like, you can't announce it until we do. So keep your eyes open for more news about that. And like, how long can this go on for? I feel like some filmmakers go around with their movie at festivals for like two or three years.

Yeah, that's true. I don't want to necessarily take it that depth. But yeah, you know, we premiered in June, and so we're still under a year, and I don't feel too ashamed about the lack of distribution at this point. And, you know, I'm still, I still got the excitement of showing the movie in front of live audiences. That's still within me. So, you know, check back in a few months, and we'll see if there's diminishing returns.

I mean, it's always fun to, like, you know, be. there with a movie and, you know, maybe not necessarily watch the whole thing again with the audience, but at least get the feeling of how they responded to it and talk to them, you know, do the whole Q&A thing afterwards. I find that aspect of it pretty fun. So I'm just throwing it out there. And if you, if you do it somewhere, you know, where I can be or happen to be, I'd be happy to come in and discuss the three lines that I had in the movie. I'm sure we, we could really get into the weeds about your role, which I've said before on this show, is a great role. And that specific role is unique and that it's, you know, it's about stand-up comedians.

And there's a lot of comics in the movie essentially playing themselves, but you are, I think, the only one who is playing a character who's not a comic. Yeah, I'm the only one that had to act. Yeah. It was a real stretch for me to play a comedy booker. Right. I've never met any personally. No, of course not. And she was not only a terrific guest on the aforementioned lost episode.

No. She had a career best moment on the show. No one will ever hear it, but there was plenty of people in the audience who were experienced it live. It's Padgett Brewster. Hey, Padgett. Hey, Doug. we played a game where my guests had to try to guess the names of the best-reviewed vampire movies according to Rotten Tomatoes.

Don't say, I thought you weren't going to say what the game was. Well, I could say what the game was. I'm just not going to say what any of the answers were. Oh, okay, okay. But I did. I hit home run in that, and I was very happy about it. Yeah, you got the number one answer. You pulled it.

and it was very impressive. Thank you. And I'll try to remember to give you credit for that when I recycle the game. I do want to play the game in a future episode because the results are pretty interesting. Yeah. But I'd like to also,

because it was a super fun show. And here's the funny thing, Paget, the recording that was delivered, because the venue was having issues with figuring out how to record the show, which I've had that happen a few times over the years. Usually you find out after, they were very upfront about it,

like we're trying to work this out. And they were like, we're going to send producer Ryan like two tracks. We're going to get it all on two tracks. And Ryan got it. And remember how in the room Josh Gondelman seemed to have the loudest microphone? Yeah, yeah, I do.

Well, on the recording, he's super loud and the rest of us are almost silent. No. Well, also, were you even able to record the audience? Because that's what I figured. Well, that's the other thing that goes sometimes is that they weren't in a position to set up an audience mic. But that's happened to us before. And sometimes the audience noise, you get enough of it through our mics, you know, on stage that like it ends up sounding okay. but it's not, you know, it's not ideal.

But, you know, we've definitely put out some episodes over the years that are kind of a rough listen. Sound challenge. But this one, this one would have been too rough unless you're a Josh Gondelman Stan. And in that case, it would be heaven to only hear from him. I should send it to the recording to him because he'll probably enjoy it. But also your microphone, your mic cable, was disconnecting from your. Mike. So you ended up throughout the show having to sit forward or hold on to the wire or it was and you were very gracious about it. You were making jokes. It worked. The audience had a great time.

One whole row was dressed in 49ers gear and they were there to watch you not go watch the game. Yeah, the game started while we were doing the show. But you know, the only missed like maybe the, you know, first quarter. But I still, I did a. appreciate that. Because also, that's the thing. We pick a, you know, we pick a date for SketchFest. This happens every year because it's around the same time of year. It's around the playoffs and the Super Bowl. And every year, we just have to kind of pick a date and go with it, not knowing whether or not the San Francisco 49ers are going to be in any of those games. And this year, it just worked out that it was right up against us. And so that's frustrating. But the people still

came out because, you know, people who love movies and sports, you know, I like to think that the movies should take precedence. That's my personal feeling. But I'd like to give a shout out to the name tags that were chosen at that show since no one will hear the episode that people don't get credit for all the great work they put in. So Johnny Taylor Jr. played for a little girl whose name tag, I mean, an absolute child who came with her dad. Ten?

What's that? I think she was 10 or 11? Yeah. And her name tag was thoroughly influenced by her dad. I don't even know if she would even know this movie. But her name tag was, it's a mad, mad, mad, mad,

Luna world because her name was Luna. And Josh Gondelman played for Lenore of the Rings. You get that one. Padget picked a guy named Kevin who merged his name into Avengers for Covengers. And first-time guest, Sabrina Wu, played for Avatar, Fire, and Ashley. And in a wild turn of events, Sabrina Wu won the entire game. She did.

Because we let her go to her lifeline twice, and Ashley was a terrific lifeline. She knew exactly what to say. So at the end of this show today, I'm going to say the shithead that Ashley suggested for me to say on that show that no one will ever hear, but we'll get it in at the end of this episode. Oh, good. You'll do it. Yeah, yeah. Nice. Yeah. So, you know, that's about the best we can do for the people were there, the people who wish they were there. and, you know, fingers crossed that that won't happen again, but you just never know. Have you ever been in a lost episode, Jeff?

Yeah. Do you remember? I've been on which one? I was on one because the guy took a week to finally tell you, I forgot to push record. Yeah, that's the thing. Whenever time starts to go by after a show, I start to get really worried that the,

They're just stalling. They don't want to come right out and say, you know, that it didn't happen. But now you mentioned it. I do remember that one. Yeah. I forgot how to press records only happened a few times because that's one thing I really try to do is say the words to press record right right before I go on stage. A lot of times people are like, we started recording half an hour ago, you know, when I get there,

like, you know, do you assure me that the recording. Everything that happens in the building for several hours. But before we play some games today, I would like each of you to recommend a movie, starting with you, Jeff. What's your recommendation today? Oh, I just saw it. It's called No Other Choice. It just came out. It's a Korean movie directed by the guy who made, oh boy, Park Champ.

And it's really good. It's super cool. This fascinates me for a couple of reasons. that you know that you're probably more into foreign films and subtitles than you've ever been before yes yeah that's true and especially a a long movie that is foreign and has subtitles like no other choice it's like two hours and 15 minutes long but you were you were down for the whole thing yeah i was into it i mean i don't love the running time but you can't do anything about that now they're all everything is crazy long.

No, it's really weird how it just seems like the baseline now is to like every movie's trying to be over two hours. So when something's less than two hours, I rejoice. Because it's just fun knowing that they've already gone into trouble

of making it not too long because there's lots of long movies where I watch the whole thing go, oh, that wasn't, that didn't feel too long. But most times when a movie is over two hours long, there's definitely have that feeling that some parts of it can go. And no other choice, I've seen it as well.

And it's pretty wild movie, as you can imagine. And poised to potentially get several Oscar nominations tomorrow morning, because that's when the word's going to come out. They're saying it's got a pretty decent shot of being nominated for Best International Film. it's good i didn't even realize how like i knew how long it was before i went in but it didn't feel like it watching it just took me in and i'm just enthralled until it was over yeah a lot of stuff happens there's a lot of yelling it's really uh yeah but i don't want to you know that's the kind of movie where the less you know about it going in the better because i'd even heard what the

premise of the movie was and then you know it goes it already it kind of kind of goes off the track of what the announced premise is. So I kind of was like, well, why do we, why do I even have to know that? You know, like, just go, just go watch it. I'm giving you no other choice. Joe, what would you like to recommend today? Yes. Well, first things first, American comic 86 minutes.

Thought I should just put there. I don't add to it. The film is about that long too. Right. You know, it's a perfect mockumentary length. But the movie I'm going to suggest is actually 59 minutes. It is a documentary that you can find on YouTube. It's from 1994.

It's called Wildwood, New Jersey. Or if you look it up, it's NJ. It is a really fascinating documentation of these women who go to this blue-collar beach. town every summer and it's just footage of them talking about their lives and it is the accents are extremely uh specific and the just hearing about them you know it's it's unfiltered there's no there's really no gloss to it but i it's kind of the snapshot of this time you know these people who it's their big thing every summer to just go down a lot of them you know maybe teens, early 20s, just talking about having a wild time at this, at this spot on the shore.

How did you, how did you discover it? Just goofing around on YouTube? It was actually the director of American comic, Daniel Clark. He's from the Philly area. And he used to go to Wildwood when he was a kid. And he stumbled on it. And I was at his place. And he was like, we got to throw this on. It's, you'll, you'll love it. And he was right. It's, it's so, so watchable. All right. Wildwood, New Jersey. Available on YouTube. On YouTube. On YouTube, yes. Yeah. On your tube. Now, Padgett. Yeah. I wanted to mention the movie that you recommended on the lost show because you were so excited that it's, that you went out to the theater and saw a film and liked it. I did.

And that was Predator Badlands. I just wanted to make you proud that I actually went to a movie theater and watched a movie. I was so beside myself that I ran into the back of the set and unplugged the sound. So this show would go on her. I couldn't believe it. I didn't love it. That you went to the cinema and that you also loved it. But in preparation for today, last night I watched one.

battle after another in 4k at my home. Oh, very good movie. But yeah, the Predator Badlands with, and do we figure out, is it L or Dakota Fanning? It's L. I think it's L. Thank you. L. Fanny. I don't know who played the runt of the litter predator boy.

Oh, yeah. I don't think I do either. I mean, that's a lot of makeup. That's a lot. And then the brother and the dad. But I did really enjoy it. And I, listen, as long as I made you proud, Doug. My work is done.

So, did you, are you recommending now one battle after another? Well, yeah, I am. It's great. You've seen it. Everyone's seen it. I'm sure everyone said it. I've seen it twice. I've seen, you know, I've seen two of the different formats of it. It's available. And they put it out in 17 different formats. And I've seen it in two of them. And one of them was Vista Vision. And I don't get, I don't get it. I don't get. I don't get why anyone would go. Oh, boy, it's in VistaVision. Because it's just like a square in the middle of the screen. Oh, so it wasn't, because it wasn't shot on VistaVision cameras. It can't.

They didn't make the transfer. You went to the theater in Las Villas, the Vista? No, I didn't see it there, but where I did see it was the screening room, the screening room at Warner Brothers, you know, that big, beautiful Stephen J. Ross Theater. No. On the Warner Brothers lot. When you were playing Kathy on Friends, you never went to a screening on the lot? No, I went to the commissary with the Friends, but I never went to the screen.

I didn't even know. I didn't even know. No, they have a beautiful theater there, and I've been fortunate to see a few things there over the years because they do, you know, lots of screenings there. And so I saw one battle under those circumstances. I almost said one battle under God. I thought you were. And so you're on board with, you think all of the acting was amazing and deserves all the, because they're saying five of the actors are probably going to get Oscar nominations tomorrow.

Payona Taylor, Sean Penn, DiCaprio. Benizio. Benizio. Infinity. And Chase Infinity is like, you know, has already been nominated by a lot of people for best actress, but they're saying she might be screwed on the academy ballots. people can decide which she would be the actress or supporting actress. And I personally feel like it's a supporting role because, you know, there's huge stretches

of a movie that she's not in. But, you know, if they split the vote between giving her son for best actress and some for support, she may get shut out entirely, not get nominated. What is? Sorry, I don't know what the other movie is that she's in. Oh, it's just the role in self. You could decide. Oh, you're saying.

If they decide, I see, I see. When you go to fill out your ballot, you can decide if she's a lead actress or a supporting. Oh, and she could cancel herself out in the voting. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah, that shit happens a lot. That's why these studios in their campaigning have to be very clear about this is what we've decided to put them up for. Yeah. But, yeah, so who knows?

But also, I think she does a great job. but it's also her first movie and she's already gotten a ton of accolades and she's probably already signed on to do a couple other movies. So like I wouldn't feel too bad for if she didn't get nominated because she does a good job. But like, you know, there's,

especially in the lead actress category, there's like such intense. So it's such intense performers. And she's just like, you know, Padgett, you could tell us, you could tell us that it's not that hard to act tied up when you're tied up. Oh boy. I did I did think she I thought she was great and I think the studio is really pushing for her because even I was invited to the Soho house to see one battle after another and then a Q&A with her and I didn't know why I was invited I'm not a you know what I mean yeah but so you are you know what I mean no I'm a watch well I watch cooking shows Doug I'm not I'm just a cooking shit now if Guy Fierry invited me into a swamp

I'd say yes. Well, the next time somebody invites you to something at the Soha House, definitely say yes. I should go. Have you seen a movie there? No. Oh, it's like the perfect place for a nap. Oh, really? Nice eater.

Totally nap. There's like, there's just big soft chairs with a little table next to your chair. Like gold class cinemas? Drinks and snacks. Yeah. And like footstools to put your feet up on. And then the front row of the theater is just a big bed. What?

Like people just lay flat. And hipsters are just laying on it? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. I always, I saw sinners when it came out, and then they did a special screening to try to rally support for the amazing costume designer of that movie. And so I got invited to a screening where she was there and spoke to another costume designer, like, after the movie. And they gave us snacks and stuff.

and it was great because since I'd seen it before, I didn't mind taking a nap in the middle. Because the chas are way too comfortable. I don't want to derail us, but before we get too far, I would just like to say, please don't follow anybody into a swamp. Yeah, historically.

I appreciate it. Thank you so much. I feel I'm not Hollywood enough to go to the Soho House. Like that requires, hair and makeup and well I guess so but again the lighting is very even before the movie starts it's very subdued

lighting and it's in a private thing you sold me on the theater I should have just I should have just asked you to go with me well you know I might have been like I've already seen that movie I know because everyone I knew had already seen it so it was like okay

I won't follow anyone into a swamp in conclusion right I've been to the So you're definitely Hollywood. I've been to the Soho House and I'm in Cincinnati right now. What did you see there? I didn't see anything there. I had dinner.

Oh, right. Okay. The pasta thing is good. I don't know what it's called. But if you like the cooking shows, you probably like that pasta thing. The pasta thing? Yeah, I don't know what it's called. I tried to take a picture.

I got yelled at. Oh, my. There's no photography in Soho House. See, that's another reason why you could show up without makeup on. Oh, I didn't know. They don't allow cameras, although I've taken so many pictures in there. You know, you forget. You forget the rules.

But thanks for those recommendations, and we're going to play some games right after these messages. We are back. And the first game we're going to play today is called That's Fantastic. And that's a game where I give you three choices. and you have to pick one. And if you're wrong, the next person gets a 50-50 shot at it. And if that person misses, then the third person gets a gimmie point. So you never know what's going to happen or who is going to win.

And this particular edition of That's Fantastic is featuring Richard Linklater movies in honor of his two great movies of 2025 that I enjoyed very much, Blue Moon and Novel Vogue, which many people, if they just look at it, written down by many people, I mean myself, just thought it was called Novel Vague. But it's the French pronunciation. So it's Vogue. Great story. Here's how this is going to work. Jeff is up first.

Like I said, if he misses, it goes to Joe. if Joe misses a pageant, good for you. But whenever somebody gets one right, the next person in line goes first in the next round. There's four rounds plus a tiebreaker, if necessary. Jeff, you're familiar with Richard Linklater movies, right? Yes. You've seen a few of them.

See a few. Maybe not all of them. Definitely not all of them. But the one that really put him on the map, you know, he did Flacker, but then the next one that really, you know, launched his filmmaking career and the career of lots of actors who were in it is called dazed and confused.

And here's what I want to know about days and confused, Jeff. Who is in it? Giovanni Ribisi, Marissa Ribisi, or both? Marissa Ribisi. That's your final answer? That's my final answer. Are you positive about this?

answer? Yes. You don't think Giovanni could have slipped in there for a little cameo or a little uncredited appearance? I tend to remember when he does. Like, I like him when he's in a movie, and I don't remember him. I know he was in that first one, but I don't think he was in this one. Okay. Well,

it turns out that you were correct. Oh, boy, I really fell for that one. God damn. I tricked you to giving the right answer. All right. Jeff's on the board of the one, but now Joe gets a shot. Another film that he made that, you know, didn't have the exact same vibe, but also took place somewhere in Texas. Suburbia, also with interesting, like, capitalization of some of the letters in the title.

And the question about suburbia, Joe, is Giovanni Ribisi, Marissa Ribisi, or both. Oh, my goodness. Wow. That really caught me off guard. Just when you think old sneaky Pete is going to. Okay, I'm going to say, well, this is a movie I haven't seen. Right. And so in a movie I know nothing about. and so I'm going to use my expertise to say that I think they're both in it.

Well, your expertise has failed you, but I don't know what kind of expertise you're supposed to have under the circumstances. If you haven't seen the film, Padgett. I guess I meant bad expertise, my lack of, lack thereof. Have you seen this movie, Padgett? I have. What do you think the answer is? It was a long time ago. I'm going to say

So we're going to call it limited expertise Limited expertise I'm going to say he's stuck with Marissa Rubisi Stuck with her? Yeah Like She's going to be my Hector Elizondo

Well she's maybe Maybe not her actor Elizondo Gary Marshall His Sarah Paulson Every time I'm in somebody's first movie I say I want to be your Hector Elizondo You have to me in every one of your movies.

And in each case that that's happened, it did not work out for me. They decide to go a different way with it. I'm sorry, Padgett, that is incorrect. Oh, dear. Jeff, what's the right answer? It's Giovanni Rubisi.

Yes, that was correct. Wow. All right. You're still out of this, Joe. Okay. he made one of those rotoscope movies where he filmed the people and then made it animated called Waking Life

Right And so the question to you Joe is Ethan Hawk Julie Delpy or both Who We're We're talking about another movie A movie I've heard of this one I've heard of

But I have not seen this I would like to exercise the option of technically only cartoons are in that movie. So is any person in that movie? Kind of look like drawings to me. But, you know, let's just say, you know, it's an Ethan Hawk kind of year. So let's say Ethan Hawk. You know, I'm happy to say it as often as you'd like. It's not the correct answer.

But it's, you know, it's always fun. say now we can say my hawk like it's just fun to know so many hawks uh Padgett I'm going to say Julie Delpy you two just want to hand every point to Jeff I don't know what

it's not both when they did their own movies when they had that sunrise to sunset and sunset to suns they were also together in Richard Linklater's movie they did uh you know I believe before Sunset was before

Waking Life and Ethan Hawke is the lead in Waking Life but Julie Delpy appears I believe at one point or actually nobody's really the lead in that movie because it bounces around between different stories but I think they're playing the same characters or similar characters that they played in those in that other trilogy

and but that's another thing that you know kind of pokes a hole in your logic pageant is that he tends to use a lot of the same actors over and over again, which brings us back. So Jeff got that point. He doesn't even have to say it. Jeff gets all the points.

All the points. Joe, Linklater went on to make another rotoscope movie. This one about, this one had more of one specific story. I believe it was based on a Philip K. Dick story. called it's called a scanner darkly and the question to you, Joe, is

True. Woody Harrelson, Ethan Hawke, or Matthew McConaughey. Damn it. Well, you know, sticking to Ethan Hawk really served me well last time, but am I going to abandon

a man who said such a great year? I'll just say Ethan Hawk again. You know, no matter how many times you say it. It turns out it's not the correct answer. Paget. Woody Harrelson. You know this one? Sounds like I do, doesn't it?

Really, the way you said it, you're very... All right, all right, all right. I think it's him. I think you're right. Yeah, I got a point. It is Woody Harrelson. I don't know. I don't remember that movie very well.

I don't know how big his part is in it. Wasn't there, was there also a movie called Through a Scanner Darkly or was that the name of the Philip K. Dick short story? That might have been it, but also there's, through a something, something also sounds familiar. But one of our great adverb movies. Yeah. But it was, it was Robert County Jr. and, and, uh, uh, went on a, writer and apparently Woody Hedelson.

I mean, also in it. Okay, so just for laughs, Paget, you're, you did get a point. So you're on the boards. That's very exciting. It's not going to be enough to win this game, but just for Jeff to like really, really bring it home with a total of four points.

The movie Jeff is called Bernie. Bernie, R-N-I-E. and the question is Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey or neither? Matthew McConaughey. That's correct. He and Shirley McLean and Jack Black

are the only, like, professional actors in the movie every other role is played by living real people that were involved in the story of this weird dude Bernie that the movie's based on. Yeah. Clean sweep. Five points or four? He got four.

You got one. Damn. It wasn't entirely clean. You dirty it up a little bit, Paget. I tried to give him clean. I was trying to do this for Jeff. I see, I see. Paget stole the sweep, as we like to say.

Also, two of them just fell on my head. Like, let's not give me too much credit. Yeah. I was just standing here and got two points. Seems to be some sort of flaw with the game. But, you know. Well, it depends on where you're standing, Joe. From where I'm standing, it seems like a real feature.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. perspective and also as I like to remind my guests every time the only thing Jeff won for winning that game

is you know certainly a sense of civic pride but also he has to go first in our next game which will commence after this edifying break

we are back well those were some pretty interesting ads. I'll say. Yeah. So. I didn't think you got political on this show, but based on those ads. Interesting.

Very, very political ads. Like, do you think, I'm, like, really torn because, like, one of the ads that we've been doing lately, like, like, brags about having an AI kind of element. And so I'm like, do I really want to push this AI thing? But it's not like it's an ad for AI specifically. But I still don't, you know, I still don't like supporting it in general. I get that. Because you have that deal, would it be, would it affect you adversely if like say a guest like myself said something like fuck AI?

Like would that bother the situation? I don't have to say it. What if two guests were to say fuck AI? What if your third guess were to say, I think AI is going to be extremely useful in the medical fields. Well, yeah. Oh, okay. We're being reasonable here. Come on.

I didn't know we were being reasonable. I'm just trying to balance it out. What if those first two guests, though, said, fuck medicine? What if they said that? Now we're, now we got a show. Oh, man. Doug, you think that's bad. A listener of my podcast reached out.

to me and they were like, hey, you should probably know there was an ad on her podcast for ice recruitment. No. Oh, yeah. I sent a very angry email to our, to our network. Oh. Damn. See, that's, what's going on? It was a fridge freezer thing.

You know, we were just trying to get the trays filled in the freezer. There's this delicious, like, fruity fruit water drink that, uh, is new in stores, and it's called sparkling ice, and I like it a lot, but the word ice is really big on the bottle, like bigger than the word sparkling. I was like, this has got to be regrettable timing for this company to roll out a drink with that on there. Or, you know, maybe play in their favor somehow,

but I don't think so. Okay, so Jeff won our last game, so he's going to go first and our next. game and the game that we played with Padgett and Josh and Sabrina and Johnny in San Francisco was so fun that I came up with a game that's you'll see it's kind of similar. I mean, Padgett especially will know. We played using the vampire movies in San Francisco. And so the game I want to play.

today is called Werewolf Their Wolf. Don't laugh in the middle of the title. Wait, it's called Werewolf, their wolf? Yeah. Okay, okay. I just just question asked and answered.

We're going to go through and try to guess, the three of you are going to try to guess the top 10 best reviewed werewolf movies in the history of cinema according to rotten tomatoes. Yay! And don't be threatened

Jeff or Joe that Paget did get the number one vampire movie when we played vampires. I can almost guarantee this isn't going to be a repeat performance at least when it comes to number one. But let me quickly describe the game. I wrote down the top 10

movies with a werewolf, one or more werewolves than them. I wrote them down and number one is worth 10 points. Number 10 is worth one point and each of you will get three guesses total and then the total number of points you have will determine who our winner is today. Jeff. Jeff is up first. We flipped the order

around after the last game so it's going to go Jeff, then Padgett, then Joe. Jeff, you know some werewolf movies, right? I know a couple, yeah. Not a ton, but a few. But which one do you think is the best-reviewed werewolf movie of all time? An American werewolf in London.

Seems to be extremely well-received. one of my favorite movies growing up, period, because it just had everything that a teenage boy would like to see in a film swearing nudity, violence, and werewolves, and The Walking Dead as well. Griffin Dunn is one of the funniest walking dead individuals in the history of cinema.

Number five, Wow, nice. So Jeff gets six points for that. And we go to Paget for her first guess. Well, that one was my big swing. You know me both. So I don't even know if it's called the werewolf, but Lon Cheney's The Werewolf?

So you're going with just the Werewolf. The Werewolf. The werewolf. Should I just do Werewolf? I'm looking at, I'm not here to consult when it comes to the correct answers.

But I'm looking for the werewolf and I do not see it. Okay. All right. On the list. That's fair. I mean, it was a very logical guest pageant.

Okay. But let's go to Joe and see. what he's got for his first guess. Okay. Kind of bouncing back between two that I think are bad. All right. I'm going to, let's go very simply wolf. I have to say that, you know,

having done the vampire game and then now the Wolfman game, the Wolf, you know, Werewolf movies are, they just don't tend to get as critically well received as the vampire movies. For some reason, they have managed to make more artistic. Vampire movies? Certainly. Yeah. The were the top 10 vampire movies, they were all like 90% or more on Rotten Tomatoes.

And then with the werewolf movies, the number drops off into, you know, not certified fresh pretty quickly. I'm sure. But I'm sorry. What was the one that you said, Joe? My guess was just wolf. Just the word wolf is number 18 on the list. Oh, boy. Okay.

Wow. Okay. But that was a terrific guess. Everybody is still in this. Jeff, are you going to run further out into the lead? Are you going to stay right where you're at? well i'm probably just gonna uh stay where i'm at i'm gonna guess teen wolf damn it that's the other one damn it patjit you were gonna say teen wolf yeah i love that movie or one

i want to buy some beers does he say i want to buy a keg i want to buy a keg of beers never mine. I do like Teen Wolf. Oh, yeah. He shows his fangs to get the cell and beer. In the package store and he's like, I want to try your shop, some beers. It was really weird timing with Teen Wolf because like between family ties and back to the future, Michael J. Fox was so huge, but he kind of ended up, like, I think they shot Teen Wolf like right before Back to the Future, but it came out second.

it. I think that's how it shook out. So then everyone was sort of like I think he didn't like it. And that made me sad. Yeah, it made me sad that he disavowed it. Well, because it's just weird. Like they do this thing constantly in the movie where they like they go surfing on the top of a van.

They act like that's the coolest thing a teenager could do. It's not? Teen Wolf was not. I don't think it got the greatest reviews. It is number 23. on the list. Oh, damn. It's a long-ass list, too.

They put a lot of a lot of movies. So I wrote a lot of them down just because it's fun to see just how low on the list some of these are. So this is very exciting news for Padgett and Joe, because Jeff is still stalled at six points.

Did you get all your options taken away, Padgett? No. No. of another one. I believe there is a well-received, possibly foreign film called Where. Just called W-H-E-R-E? Not where.

Oh. Like, we're, Wolf. Like the way I said Wolf. Paget is saying where to complete. Where. Like, W-E-R-E. Where. And what kind of?

country do you think it's from? I think it's from France. Where? Yeah, where in France. From Bologna. Easy. Yeah. Is there something called where?

Where? That's interesting that you mentioned it, though, because when we were doing the vampire movies, there were quite a few in that top ten that were foreign films. You know, which is... You're pronouncing it wrong, Doug, that were foreign films. Yeah. There has to be a movie called Where? Where?

Like the weird people. Okay. You're decreeing that it must exist. And yet. It does not. I can't find it anywhere. Okay, Doug, thanks. I'm looking everywhere.

I looked under the couch. All right, come on. Get to these guys. I got one more. I got one more. Just see. Looked every where. Amwa.

You looked everywhere. Somewhere. Weird. All right, Joe. Yes. I'm going to go with simply the Wolfman. Damn it. The Wolfman.

That must be the launch any one. That's got to be. Yeah. It's got to be way up there. That was my last guess. Number two on the list. Oh, wow. Wow.

Now we're talking. Wait, so you had the Wolfman ready to go pageant, but you're like, really got to try this weird thing i really in my mind thought there was a very highly rated european a subtitled movie called weir it sounds like you have to make it yeah you got to take yourself to france you got to make this happen yeah so that if you ever play this game again they ought to have a correct answer now while i was saying we're i thought oh it's the wolf man that's why I was thinking the werewolf, the

Lon Cheney movie was the Wolfman. Yeah, the Wolfman. I forgot. Beautiful. All right. Beautiful point. Jeff, this is your third and final guess. You need to come up with one that's number eight or higher

to tie or win the game. All right. I'm a little worried that my understanding of what exactly is a werewolf is going to hurt me right now, but I'm guessing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Oh. Thinking outside of the box. I mean, that's a man that turns into a wolf. Gary Oldman's guy. Gary Oldman. Oh, I thought he turns into a wolf. Serious blacks into a wolf. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. No, it was David Thulis.

Yeah. David Thulis. Yeah. Turned into, turned into a wolf. But what is, oh, maybe. but maybe Sirius Black has the powers to turn himself into animals so he's like looks like a wolf at some point

because Lupin came along later in the series maybe but anyway I mean it sounds like it's not on the list are you getting that vibe off of my reaction I want to change my answer to ready to wear

is that ready to wear movies is a pretretae what? Predate is the Julie Roberts fashion movie. That's the Robert Altman, Paris. Yeah. Is there a werewolf in it?

Ready to wear. Maybe it's about a leader. I didn't even get it. Ready to wear. It's dusk? The sun's going down? Oh, no. Let's wear, everybody.

Okay, well, that pretty much since Joe's win, but let's play this out. Yeah. Because, you know, Padgett could right now name the number one. I still have a shot. Still the game. I still have a shot.

Yeah. Right. When. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I thought it was over. I thought the game was over. I wasn't thinking anymore. I'm going to say, I'm going to say,

uh, Dracula versus the wolf man. There's got to be three stooges, something? Once again, this movie must exist. The number one on the list is Avon and Goldman are both in it. Wait, so it's on the list? Once you've got, I'm just trying to explain that once you have Dracula in a movie,

Wolfman is going to be an afterthought. Second billing? Yeah, he's not going to be the top monster. And then therefore it becomes a Dracula movie or, you know, a vampire movie and not a werewolf movie. But I don't even know, I don't even know if there is a monster. movie called that. No, I guess not.

So Dust Till Dawn, that is actually vampires. Dust till dawn? No, no werewolf. Custello both took on. Abbott Costello. One of them was versus the Wolfman. The other one was versus Dracula.

Cat people, they turned into cats, right? What? I don't know. I want to know what's on this list. You're just going to keep guessing. Yep. No matter how long it takes. No.

I was watching. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune the other night. And because our friend Ricky Lindholm was one of the contestants. Oh, cool. But the other two contestants were Rick Ross and rich, rich lady, who I don't know what she does other than being a rich lady, Kathy Hilton. What? You're right.

He's just the, she's married to Conner to the Hilton. Yeah. So guess what she has to do with her life? It's not learn how to play Wheel of Fortune before. for going on Wheel of Fortune. No, no. So she stumbles into playing the final round where they go, you know,

people in places or whatever the category was. And they go, we're going to give you these letters, R-S-T-L-N-E, and they put those letters up in there. And, of course, it's still, you can't tell what the puzzle is. Then they say to her, now you name four three consonants and a vowel. And she, painstakingly, it takes her forever to say the worst choice is like she's like, B, C, you know,

she's not even picking the consonants that are more likely to appear. And then Ryan, C. Chris goes, okay, you have, you know, however many seconds they give you on that,

10 seconds or whatever. And they're like, go. And then she continues to name letters. That's going, W. No. And he goes,

no, just try to guess the puzzle. And then she just keep fixing letters. It is the most embarrassing, uh, celebrity, game show appearance I think I've ever seen. And she needed it.

Yeah. Like, why does she even need to go? Well, she's a, technically she's a Bravo Leopardy because she's on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Oh. In a tertiary capacity. Oh, she's not even like a

She's not one of the main ones. She's just so compellingly daft that they keep bringing her back and she knows it. She, she doesn't wear her glasses. She needs asleep with a fan on she's nutty nutty

oh man all right so anyway those Blake the sidebar we gotta get back to wherewolves right I'm still losing anyway that whatever was you said is not on the list

I know Dracula versus Wolfman Joe do you want to just put the final mail in the coffin I'll deploy my kind of outside the box Are you okay, Pajette? I just want to hear what you have to say.

Okay. Yeah, I mean, obviously I was thinking Paget was going to take what we're, the Buffalo Rome. But my kind of outside the box was I was going to say, I imagine the movie Hotel Transylvania has a werewolf in it. That was going to be my guess. Oh, okay. I don't know your rules if that's like, if that counts or not. You know, I mean, it's just all I typed in was rotten tomatoes and werewolf. And they said, here's the top werewolf movies.

So, like, it's sort of based on their idea of what werewolf movies are. And every single one of these, as far as I can tell, is a wolf. It's full wolf. But there's a bunch of them that there's a few that I've never heard of, and I'm now actually intrigued by because, you know, top 10 werewolf movies, and I haven't seen some of them, you know, it makes me want to fill in the blanks. Maybe I will next Halloween time. Maybe I'll catch up on all the great werewolf movies.

But yeah. Let's call it right now. I was going to say, yeah, knowing that, I don't know, the other thing I was maybe going to deploy at Twilight or two. Right. Yeah. I know those like landed on the list, but again, critics did not like the Twilight movies.

Right. So that's the, that's the tough part. Is it critics like things that are more obscured? like we're from France like the French film queer so Joe is officially our winner of the

games today congratulations very well done that means I'll tell you the rest and the answers in a second but first while people are waiting to hear that let's give let's do our plugs what do you want to plug Joe so I have a podcast about the

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which is seasonal and the season is just about to start because the ballot for the next year is coming up with all the Rock Hall nominees so you can check out who cares about the Rock Hall, where we get your podcasts. I started a new stand-up show at UCB every Tuesday in L.A. called Solid. You can follow Solid underscore Comedy underscore show. Or you can just follow me to hear about all that stuff and the movie American comic at Joe Kwa, J-O-E-K-W-A on Instagram and TikTok.

Thank you, Joe Quo Zola. We will have you back as soon as a reigning champion. Jeff's heard that sentence many times over the years, but alas, this time, we won't see you again for maybe instead of two weeks. It might be four or five.

When would you like to part, Jeff? When does this come out? Tonight. Tonight. Okay, I'm in Minneapolis this weekend, Friday and Saturday, Comedy Corner Underground. Yeah, Minneapolis. So come to those shows in my podcast,

Saturday after a movie club. Yeah, and while you're at it in Minnesota, be safe. I will try to be less mouthy than usual. Or maybe more mouthy. I'm going to play it by ear, but we'll see what happens. I mean, we've established, I think, that ICE loves to be filmed and yelled at. Perfect. That's what they're...

I'm just trying to help. I thought that's what they were into. That's my, this is my defense. Listen, my friend Doug told me. I thought you loved this. I thought you loved being an asshole while I filmed you. you. Padgett, we talked about this the other day.

The new season of criminal minds is going to come out whenever they feel like it. Yeah, we don't know yet. But please feel free to mostly watch Criminal Minds on Ion. Oh. That's considered regular TV. And so sometimes there are royalties. Or you can watch 15 seasons of the CBS criminal minds on. on Hulu or you can watch Paramount

Plus's Criminal Minds Evolution. I think there's three seasons that we're waiting to find out when they're going to put out the fourth season. But please, please watch the criminal minds. Yeah. Just a rag-tag bunch of FBI serial killer hunters.

Just, they're buddies. Please watch. I know I will. Hey. The Benson movie on interruption is back on February 3rd at the Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles, like we talked about earlier, or I talked about, you know, bring a DVD or Blu-ray and maybe we'll watch it.

Tacoma Comedy Club, I'm doing stand-up on February 6th and 7th, and I'll be at the punchline in Houston, Texas, March 6 and 7, and all of my dates and deeds and links are at Doug Lovesmovies.com. This was a weird-ass game because Paget especially was really dancing around variations of Wolfman, and werewolf and there's been over the years number 26 is the wolf man number

22 is wolfman without the the number 18 was wolf number 12 is wolf with an E.N after wolf and yeah I think that's all of them but let's be more

What? Wait that's the top 10? No those were all different numbers pageant none of them had the number 10 Thank you. I thought so. What's number one? Okay, I'll be quiet. I'm going to give you number 10 through one. I'm always appreciative when you're on the show that you always encourage me to do the thing I'm about to do. So sorry, I know, I know. I'm the worst. I don't know why we're friends. I don't know why you put up with me. Number 10 from Canada in 1985, the Company of Wolves. Yeah, I've heard of it. I don't think I've seen it. Number nine.

a sequel, Ginger Snaps 2 Unleashed. Come on. That sounds like porn. 2004, featuring a 19-year-old Tatiana Maslani as a ghost. Number eight is a movie called Blackout. And it's from just a couple of years ago, 2023 from writer-director Larry Fessenden. but it's gotten really good reviews.

From 2002, a Scottish film called Dog Soldiers, which is, of course, another way to say we're. And then number six, this one I was hoping somebody might remember because it's directed by Josh Rubin, who's been on his show and features two people I've done a podcast with Milano of Ein Trub and Sam Richardson. It's called Werewolves Within. Now, we finally hit a movie I have heard of.

Yeah. And then American Ralph in London, of course. And the number four is the original Ginger Snaps from 2000. So I'm really intrigued by Ginger Snaps being such a highly ranked movie with the critics. And then the sequel still was in the top ten as well. But like I said, they don't get the greatest reviews, these werewolf movies. And then number three is another one that I'm fond of because, is directed by a dude named Jim Cummings and feature our friend Ricky Lindholm from 2020,

The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Oh, I haven't seen it. Is it good? Yeah, I think you like it. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's fun. Thank you. And then number two was The Wolfman from 1941.

And then number one, I was confident no one was going to get this because I feel like I've just heard about it for the first time. in Portuguese from Brazil, 2017, good manners. I guarantee the original title was where. In Portugal. Where are your manners? In Brazil. Wow. So, anyway, that's a lot of werewolf recommendations for anybody that wants to watch a

werewolf movie. Thank you once again to Jeff Tate, Joe Quazawa, and Padgett. rooster and as always anybody who takes someone else's Nobel Peace Prize is a shithead. 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 because Doug.