Doug Loves Movies - Raanan Hershberg, Kenice Mobley and Monica Nevi guest

Episode Date: January 29, 2026

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This is Doug Loves Movies, recording on Wednesday afternoon, January 28th, 2026. My guest today are three terrific guests, all returnees, Renan Hersberg, Denise Mobley, and Monica Nevy. Hello. Good to be here. Thanks for having me. Hi. Hello. Let's meet them all individually, alphabetically, by first.

name. She is a timeout comedian to watch. But for now, she's a comedian to listen to. It's Keneas Mobley. Hey, Keneas. Hi, thank you so much. I assume you want to promote a hot guy draft. I do. I'm dying to hear about it. So hot guy draft is a competitive draft show that pits comedians against each other and a competition of hotness. They make teams. Hot guys. A guy is gender neutral. It also includes cartoon characters and historical time periods. Anything really can be a hot guy. This time, last time we did it just regular hot guys in general. This time we're focusing on daddies. What is a daddy? Who is a daddy? And why is a daddy? That third question is the real, the real tough one.

We're getting to the bottom of it. Yeah. And what, so when is this going to happen? This is March 22nd in Brooklyn at Littlefield 7 p.m. I asked for earlier because I love afternoon shit now, but they said seven's the earliest they could do. Well, that's still pretty nice and early. And by March, you may even like the sun will have just gone down probably. So I think it's pretty good, pretty good timing. And we'll plug it again at the end of the show for people that don't have

attention spans or or a pencil she has two specials on YouTube it can be seen on shows with me at the Tacoma Comedy Club February 6th and 7 6s and 7th it's Monica Nevy

Hey Monica hey it's me yep we'll be 6 and 7ing Do you understand that that 6s and 7th thing? Not at all not even a little bit I love how just absolutely vague generic it is, but children and some adults just fall out laughing when they hear those. I have a 12-year-old and he's tired of it, but I hear it all the time.

I'm glad he's over. At least you're raising somebody with a proper sense of humor. Just losing it over a couple of numbers that aren't even like, I don't think it's supposed to be dirty or anything. I think it's just, I don't know. Exactly. Everybody knows it. And nobody really knows why. And it's not dirty. And so that's disappointing.

So. Makes a lot of heat off of the 69. 69. So I'm looking forward to seeing you in Tacoma and doing four stand-up shows. Yeah. Get your tickets. And actually February 6th is my birthday. So we'll be celebrating together.

Oh, my goodness. Do you, what kind of, how much of a drinker? are you? I'm a drinker. So that'll be a thing. I was like an appropriate way to respond to that. Yeah, but there's nothing like working at a comedy club with endless free drinks on your birthday. On your birthday, yep. Yeah. You don't even really have to bring up it's your birthday to get the drinks, but I'm sure everybody will be excited to celebrate with you. I love that club. I love the way the bar is just right there outside of the showroom. So it says

And you don't have a lot of bar noise in the showroom, but you're also close enough to the showroom when you're at the bar to go running in when it's your turn. Yes. And also joining us is a man. I always look forward to seeing in person, but I'm settling for a brief glimpse of him on the Zoom call today. He's got a new spash on YouTube. It's Renan Hirshberg. Hey, Renan. Yeah, thanks for having me.

I guess I also just found out I'm not in the hot guy draft in Brooklyn, which is upsetting. That's how you found out? That's how I found out, yeah. Not even in the running. But yeah, I got special on YouTube, morbidly Jewish. Check it out. And yeah, I always love doing this pod. It's good to be back.

I also know everyone on it. It's nice. I know everyone. Oh, that's great. Yeah, we all, yeah. Throw people together. You never know where the connections are going to be. I mean, sometimes I'll on purpose put people together,

but this was just a lovely accident. This was just a timing issue because you're all three people who have cool stuff to promote, and I want everyone to find and watch said stuff and thank me later. Now, before we play some games today, I would like each one of you to recommend one movie. We'll start with Kniece.

I was so worried about this because the thing that I'm going to recommend is a thing that is in theaters now and everybody's probably already seen it, but I don't care. It's 28 years later the Bone Temple. I fucking loved it. I grew up in 28 years later men a lot or 28 days later men a lot to me. And this feels like a nice forwarding of the narrative. And I love it. And I love Ray Fines. He's ridiculous in this movie.

and I want to hug him. Even with all, he's just constantly smeared with crap. He's covered in iodine and I would let it ruin an outfit of mine if I could hug. Sounds like you more just like iodine. Yeah, I'm super into that. I love it. It helps with stuff, right? I don't really know what iodide is for.

I'm so sorry. I'm like, what is it? What does it do? I don't think, I think I've been confused about iodine since I was a kid. because when Lucy in the Peanuts cartoons, when Snoopy would lick her face, she'd be like, oh, no, I've been kissed by a disease dog. Get me some iodine.

What? Yeah, I think if penis, I think if they made the peanut specials today, she'd give me some invermectin. But, yeah, she'd say, get me, where's the iodine? And I just never, I always thought, are you really supposed to, is that something you're supposed to do? Put iodine on And what would she put it on?

The dog just licked her. Anyway, Bone Temple. To me, in the pantheon of great sequels, I just think that, you know, I love the, you know, more the one that came out last year

just 28 years later, no colon, no subtitle. And I love that much that there's just fun anticipating this next one and then for it to deliver but also be quite different in a lot of ways it doesn't have as much of the danny boyle spazziness it's a more still and reflective movie which is crazy for a insanely violent zombie movie um i found it very strangely peaceful at times yes like i think people are really going to embrace it as like you know a horror movie you can watch at bedtime, you know, and just drift off and have lovely dreams of...

It has emotional catharsis. If you were worried and you saw the 28 years later and you were like the giant donned zombie, no, he's back. And his giant dong is also back. It goes away for a little while, but then it comes back. Yeah, it's for some reason he gets shy during his section of the film. but that actor who plays that character I've seen him like all cleaned up or whatever and it's pretty impressive that he's just a normal

handsome looking very tall dude but you know that'll be up to you know really investigative reporters to figure out if he had some sort of prosthetic or not I'm guessing not if I had to guess it's all makeup but his penis that's only thing that's real yeah well he's not covered in night night

he's just kind of covered in zombie mind like he's a mess too it's like those two men had to just get crap put all over them at the start of the day each day and then sit there and have their amazing scenes together looking at beautiful sunsets together

while they're fucked up on multiple drugs really pro-drugs too that movie when you think about it I'm dying to see it for some reason my nine months pregnant wife does not want to see this mommy movie even though I think it'll help like induce her

to give birth probably did you tell her about the dong I think that's I'm gonna let her know I didn't know about the dog I didn't know till now it wasn't in the MPA like zombie dog rating thing but I'm gonna let her know and see if that

makes any change probably not but uh you know strangely enough i'd say the movie that the two of you should avoid as best as possible is hamnet hamnet does not make child bruce look good i did see it yeah well it'll make her feel grateful that you know she's getting an epidural or whatever you know yeah modern medicine she's got that going for her yeah yeah it's pretty brutal. That part.

Yeah. Monica, help us out here with a recommendation. I don't know if it's going to... This is bending the rules a little bit because I'm watching it tonight. But...

Oh, a pre-recommendation? Yeah, a pre-recommendation. And the reason I'm not always good at watching all the Oscar noms, but we're making an effort. However, this one was filmed in Washington State, where I live and I actually own a nonprofit that gives grants to people who will make things in Washington. So I'm very pro this. So we're making an effort tonight to watch train dreams. I've heard good things and I can see that it looks good and I can see where in my home state

that they were filming, which is exciting. So even if it's bad, I like that part. Well, check out what my script says that I prepare before a show. I know it just sounds like I'm talking off the top of my head, but a lot of it I have prepared. And after you're all done with your recommendations, we'll get to yours in a second at Renan. But I have written here, great recommendations. Nice. I liked, and then a blank for which ones I saw. So so far, it's like two of the recommendations.

But then I went on to write, I'm really on the train stream train right now telling everyone to see it. I saw it on the small screen, but liked it so much. I saw it again on the big one. Well, look at that. That's the best prerec I could have I could have done. Yeah. I'm going to have your fact that you're right about something you don't know. You're right about. It's an incredible movie. I'm a really, really like it a lot. And seeing a second time, I was an absolute mess the entire time because knowing, knowing where everything is going is not the greatest feeling. But it also falls with Bone Temple in that it's got violence and scary, scary moments, tense moments. But it is also strangely just hypnotic and soothing. It's like if Terrence Malik made like a short movie, which is kind of like a great thing, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

That's how they should have marketed it, really, you know. Terence Malik, that's not five hours long. Because it's a cute hour and 42 minutes. Oh, great. About six minutes and credits. If you don't want to stick around for that, you're out pretty fast. And, but yeah, I've loved the momentum. It's gotten in, you know, award season.

And it was great to see it on the big, so you're going to go out to a theater to see it, Monica? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, that would be very cool. Because it's, it really, you know, people can watch it on Netflix and it's still effective, I think. but I'm glad I got to see it on a big screen when I decided the small one wasn't good enough. All right.

So, I mean, I'm, like, fully on board with both of the wrecks so far. Both of them are movies you could see in theaters right now. But Renan, you've been busy with, you know, a special and a baby. No, I still, I still, I don't let that. They'll see a lot of movies. you watching. Still have my priorities. Well, if we're all recommending movies and theaters,

I guess I'll recommend, I thought like Blue Moon was really great. And I guess I haven't seen as much buzz about it, the Ethan Hawk movie. But I thought that was just like, it's just one of those, I mean, it's about like a sad, bitter artist. So it just felt like it was made for me.

Yeah, we can all relate. We can all relate to his frustration. I just thought it was great. It's just really funny, really sad. And, yeah, it was one of my favorite movies of the year. I feel like it got kind of ignored a little. I mean, it's very, like theatrical, like a play stage. It's a filmed play, but still, they had to be pretty creative about it

because the entire set had to have holes in it that Ethan Hawk could stand in. Because he's playing such a short man. They did, they like Irishmaned him, but just to make him really. short. It was weird and wild. It was like the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings. Yeah, but I thought that worked. It did. It absolutely did work. It's, you know, I didn't get taken out of the movie by it.

Like, it wasn't like that showy, but at the same time, you know, Ethan Hawk is, you know, he's six foot tall normally. And it's just, it's a, but it's also just such an impressive performance. But Ronan, how much of a Broadway fan are you? Because it's very, a lot of Broadway talk. I'm a big Broadway fan, big Broadway fan. There you go. So I was very, you know, I'm, you know, loving the Sondheim reference in it and all the,

you know, all the references. Yeah, I love Broadway. So, yeah. I mean, I'm more of like a Sondheim kind of that period. I'm not as, I mean, I know Oklahoma, I'm not as familiar with a lot of what he did. Well, that's part of why he's so bitter is that he's, you know, with his partner, he's kind of forced into writing corny shit. Right.

And then the corneous shit of all in his mind is the Oklahoma that his partner made with somebody else. Which is so funny when he's like, Oklahoma was an exclamation mark. I just, it's just a great character. I love it. It's like, it's just like a love letter to him, but it's also not, it's also very aware of his flaws. It's just great. Yeah. I think he could possibly win.

If Timothy Chalmey doesn't win, I see he's a possible dark horse upset. He's well liked in Hollywood. and the Oscars love movies about actors and artists and, you know, filmmaking and the stage and all that kind of stuff. So, yeah, he could be, he could slip in there. But, like, if anybody's ever worked harder just for the specific goal of winning an Oscar, I don't, I, that Timothy Shalame is so, so crazily committed to what he does, like to spend seven years playing ping pong for that one movie,

because he's not going to go out on the ping pong circuit. You know, he's not like Paul Newman or one of these guys that they learned to drive a race car and then they keep driving race cars, you know? Right, right, right. He learned ping pong just to get this Oscar. It is wild. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he'll most likely get it.

Though it's interesting. You know, it's a movie about like a really arrogant guy who gets kind of humbled, though I guess he does kind of win at time. I wonder if maybe he won't get, it'll be, like, self-reflexive. Like, because he wants it so much, they won't give it to him, you know, and give it to Ethan Hawke. I could see it happening. Yeah. No, it would be a great story if it did because, you know, it's not like Timothy Shalmay is going to, as long as he's still alive and acting, he's going to get awards consideration because he's just very good at it.

And very, very committed. And multi-talded, too, like the doing his own singing thing. in the Bob Dylan movie. Oh, he's incredible in that. Like, just so incredible, yeah. So he'll win eventually. So I would laugh very hard if Ethan Hawke slipped in there. Because Ethan Hawk, this is like his third or fourth nomination, I think, maybe fifth.

But he's never been nominated in the lead category, and he's never won. So there's definitely some momentum there. Because like you said, Blue Moon is such a small movie that was underseen. That that also says a lot about his performance. And the movie's also nominated for Best, I think, Adapted Screenplay or Maybe Original. Yeah, is it original? It must be based on some book or something, like, couldn't have just made up all the conversations and stuff.

Right, right, right. Oh, I think it's based on tapes of him talking. Caves and conversations. Yeah, no, I mean, either way, whoever loses, I won't feel bad for any of them. They're both doing great. Yeah. Well, that is the thing that people, especially this year,

people are going to be so mad if one battle or sinners doesn't win the right awards. Right. They're both doing very well. They're both going to win awards. They're both great movies. I like one better than the other,

but I'm not going to wake up the next day mad about it. No, that's insane. People act like sinners got rob somehow. It's one, like it's been nominated like 400 times. It's not. It's got more nomination. in any movie in history and if it doesn't win all of them people are going to be mad like why

wouldn't it win all of them but it's because this stupid paul thomas anderson movie is made by a guy who has never won and gets nominated for every movie he makes pretty much and he's never he's never won so like it's it's a he's due award so i think what might happen and i would i would love it is if sinners won best picture uh paul thomas andersen one best director ryan cougar won best original screenplay for sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson won adapted screenplay for one battle. They both get two Oscars and all the nuts that are so nutty about the movie. No one cute is that, man. Can't be that, man.

No one says the Oscars to KKK. Yeah, I think, I still think what battle is going to sweep just because especially it was ice and stuff. I saw a tweet, but it's kind of fun. It's like, Trump's kind of like doing a great press campaign for, for one battle after another, you know? He is, but people were really disappointed when Paul Thomas Anderson won the Golden Globe

because he didn't say anything. Like, you know, he didn't say anything about how, like, how sad it is that this movie is so prescient and relevant, you know, something. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, I mean, I get why people are upset. I don't know. It's also like they're doing so many campaigns all year that I assume they're just like,

they're in a complete blur. but I guess it is a little weird that he wouldn't, you know. No, I think he doesn't want to be controversial because he wants, you know, he wants to get that Oscar. And, you know, you know, if you say something that people are offended by in your speech at the Globes that hurts your chances, they've always said that, I think that Jamie Fox gave the best performance the year that he played Ray Charles.

But like his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was so exuberant and fun and amazing. hit all the right notes that that really like oh well he's getting the Oscar also because we want that again uh oh okay interesting yeah yeah um i mean yeah but i guess pt and ryan c and ryan c and ryan are both kind of quiet dudes so i don't know no their speeches aren't going to be that it's not going to be fun either right i might have something pretty pretty well spoken prepared yeah yeah all the time and sanerson will just thank all the people that he needs to thank yeah yeah yeah, they're both great movies. I mean, they're both, like, masterpieces.

It was awesome. You know, it's a good year for movies. Yeah. Don't get somebody started about how Thinters is a rip-off from dust till dawn. An homage. Much better. I liked that movie, too. Yeah.

I did, too. That's the thing. I like that movie a lot. And I'm like, yeah, they got, they took a, you know, there's a basic idea that's the same, a basic, kind of vibe that's the same, but then such a different experience and such an enriching experience. Like from Duskilde Dawn, it's like you don't care

who lives or dies and you saw silliness. But Sinners is like really sits with you. It's like really impactful. Even like the head vampire in sinners, like I think he's so good. And he's also great in. He's also great in Bone Temple. Like that guy. He's such a good bad guy. And they're both so different. Both creepy as hell.

It's also like the genius of that movie is that it combined so many different types of movies. I mean, the Dust Till Dog thing is true, but it's a genius mixture of all these certain things. So that's, I mean, it's not really a critique. Yeah. No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Especially, you know, anything Quentin Tarantino's involved is going to be an homage to previous things. Right.

Yeah. So why can't somebody do that to him? Exactly. You're not allowed to rip off Quentin Tarantino. He's never ripped off anyone. Sinners is like from Dust Till Dawn if you didn't have to look at Quinn Tarantino. That's the big thing. If the N-word wasn't said by, well, I guess in both situations, the N-word is said by white people.

Yeah, but I love what happens in sinners. Yeah. Not white person. All right. So we got to take a break. Those are all great recommendations of movies that are actually in theaters. Now, Blue Moon might be harder to catch a hold of, but I'm sure it'll be on streaming if it isn't already.

And we'll be back to play some games after these messages. We are back and our first game today is a popular one that is absolutely sweeping the nation. It's called Fuck Ice. So it's actually a game called That's Fantastic. And in this game, I'll start with Knieis. I'll give you a movie title. then three choices that will they're associated with that movie in some way and then you get a

point if you pick the right one if you miss monica gets a shot a 50-50 if you will and if monica misses then renan will get the give me point because there's only one option left and he's a smart guy but this will continue on every time someone gets one right the next person in line goes first in the next round so canine answer me this. The motion picture field of dreams, does it have in it Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, or both?

Wow. I was focused on completely different people in that movie. Just because it's like a multiple choice question on a test in school, I'm going to say both? Just because that's, you think that's always the answer.

It's often the answer, but I recognize I might screw myself. And you're, you're, you asking a follow question makes me think that that's not the answer. I just always have to make sure that you mean it when you say, what might be. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay. Let's let's let's go with Ben Affleck. Finally, it's her shit. Are you sure you want to change it to Ben Affleck? Oh my God.

You don't have to say final answer. I don't play by those rules. Oh, okay. Well, I'm just going to go with Ben Affleck because, you know, I kind of like him. And, you know, he's cool. All right. So that's cool. It sounded like the Duncan commercials.

And I lived in Boston for a long time. And I feel akin to him in some way. I don't know. Okay. Well, that's incorrect. Damn it. Monica, after all of that, what? I was going to say, do I have?

have to say logically. However, I did feel, I have no idea. That was, I would, I'm surprised either of them were in it, but. Were they? I agree with the, yeah, that's true. Is there, neither? I feel like that would be so psychotic if it was neither. It's like, why even ask the question? Trick question, yeah. It's just like a hallucination. I did, I did like Keneas's, um, logic of the, of the both. I'm going to go with both. going with both. Yes. Yeah, Canis was right. You talked to something.

I'm talking out of it. I apologize for that. I was thought of my attention. So that means Monica is on the board with one point because Ben Applic and Matt Damon were allegedly both extras in a crowd scene, one or more crowd scenes in Field of Dreams. I guess that was their. Because they're buddies. There was their first time being together in a film. Yeah. We wouldn't even have remembered them. There's no reason to just empirically know the answer.

It definitely comes down to guesswork. But maybe Renan will actually know the answer on this next one. The movie is called School Ties. Uh-huh. And the question is Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, or both? They are both in it. See, I was afraid you might just know that just right off hand, and that is correct. They are both.

Well, I'm Jewish. That's like a go-to movie for Jews growing up because, you know, anti-Semitism and stuff. Right. Which one is one or both of them a bully? Matt Damon is a bully. I think they're both bullies, but I think the real bully is Matt Damon, I'm pretty sure. And Brendan Fraser. He's the more intense one in Africa sort of like his henchman or something.

He's like, yeah, not as committed to the anti-Semitism. But yeah, I remember that movie very well. It's Brendan Fraser, yeah. Yeah, and school ties, like, you know, it doesn't get more clever than that because then the, you know, the poster is school students putting on their ties. It's perfect, yeah.

It's quite literal. Is it really? I'm pretty sure that there's, yeah. That's like, that's like it. Because it's a, you know, it's a school where they have uniforms. That's like in Forced Gump, Enforce Gump when anyone does anything,

the music is like completely literal. It's just like running. It's just like running against the wind. Or anytime anyone does anything, it's just like the song is saying exactly that, you know? Yeah, that's how I make my reels on Instagram and I just pick the most obvious damn song. There's a song called Moran shrimp catching.

But anyway. So you got a point, Renan. And so everybody's got a point. But Knieis, but Knieis, you're up first on this next one. So hopefully you know. I'll try my best. The movie is the classic mall rats. And the question is, the choices are Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, or neither.

I have seen this movie at some point in my youth. And I am mentally trying to make sure I'm not confusing it with chasing Amy, which does have Ben Affleck in it. I feel like they're just kind of around for a lot of those movies. So it's one, the other, or neither. Both is not an option. No both this time. It's either one or the other or neither of them is in it.

Well, I've got to follow the logic that I went through the first time and then didn't follow. I'm going to say neither? See, that's the trouble with logic. Is it really, it becomes illogical at times. That is incorrect. Sorry. Monica, is it Affleck or Damon that's in Mallrats? It's not both.

I know that. I'm going to say Matt Damon. Renan? It's better. It's magic. Ben Affleck in one of his one of his real perfectly like shitty roles kind of. Yeah, I like a little rolls. Up there was Daisy confused.

Yeah, he was the main bully in Daisy confused. So I think that's kind of like, you know, maybe led into him being the main bully and type rats. Yeah. And but, you know, one, he's got like sleeveless shirts and in mall rats. He's always in like in what's supposed to be a fancy suit. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, that he got from like, you know, perfect gentleman or some dumb, stupid name store. They have a lot of fake names for the stores in the mall. But none of them look like real signs. They all look like fake signs put over the real signs at the mall. Yeah. The budget must not have been very big for that movie. And it was certainly Kevin Smith's first film in color.

And I think Clerks was genius to be in black and white because it just made it an art house movie immediately just from that choice. Yeah, I feel like he rubbed people. I feel like he rub people the wrong way with small rats because everyone's like, oh, he's an art house guy. And then he made mall rats and everyone's like, oh, this is just kind of a dumb comedy.

Yeah. But I don't know. I loved it at the time and I still do this day, even though it's really, it's an unusual experience. And I don't like watching Michael Rooker eat the chocolate pretzels. Eat the shit. Oh, God, yeah. One of the more disturbing things he's done.

It's the worst. All right. So Renaud wins that game, but just for fun, let's go to Canis. And if Canis misses this next one, then officially Monica can tie it up. So let's see if that happens. But if Canis gets it, then it's over. Renan's the winner. The movie is called Catch and Release.

And the question is, does that have Kevin Smith, Jason Muse, or both? Does it have Jay, Silent Bob, or both? This is so mean. Do you ever heard of Catch and Release? I've heard of it, but I'm like, am I confusing that with forces of nature, which is another Ben Affleck movie? Okay. I genuinely have absolutely no idea.

So I'm going to say both, even though that strategy failed me last time, but it would have served me the first time. Yeah, it's been all over the map these answers. Like, you just can't know for sure which way it's going to fall. Not logical. But it is not both. Damn it. One of those two gentlemen is in a film called Catch and Release.

Monica, to tie it up with Renan, I'm sorry. I announced you as the winner, Renan. I didn't know that this was going to happen. been. Oh, it's all right. I should have known. I've never heard of this movie. Oh, okay.

I've definitely seen it. Which one do you think it is? It's Jennifer Garner. Jay or Silent Bob. I think it's Kevin Smith. That is correct. Yeah. Yeah.

It's very good. Kevin Smith in a rare speaking role as like the, I guess the whole thing's supposed to be kind of funny, but he's more or less the comic relief. Yeah, it's definitely like Rom. Yeah, it's Jennifer Garner and our romantic troubles. Oh, wow. Yeah, terrible title.

I guess there's some fishing involved in it. That's why it's called that. I thought it was like a Catch a Predator documentary or something. I don't know. It just doesn't have like a Rom-com title if you know. Catch and release. It feels like, you know, the, expressions they use in professional weightlifting.

Yeah, yeah, it doesn't feel rom-comby at all. Then again, he should have called it snatch and grab. And then for the next, you know, I've got a tiebreaker ready to go. So that means if Renan gets this correct, then he'll be the winner of this game. And the question is, Jersey Girl. Affleck, Damon, or both. Back to those two. Oh, boy.

Well, I know it's Affleck. I know that in my heart. Well, I know that. And I know it's also George Carlin. I don't know about Matt Damon. So I'm going to go with, I think I'm just going to go with Ben Affleck. It hurts me to say.

Oh, no. But that is not correct. Damn it. The Matt Damon Mall. Camio. Monica. Both? Is correct.

Whoa. Did you see that coming? Yeah. I didn't either. I don't remember Matt Damon being in that movie, but it's listed on the internet as having happened. So he must have some weird like one scene situation or something. I remember seeing that movie and being like,

I'm not going to see that, seeing the preview. It just looked really bad. No, it is rough, especially coming off of Gile because there's just like a lot of the same players, you know, like doing a movie set sort of in the same world.

It's like, okay, we'll see. But I know that a lot of them are, of course, Kevin Smith movies, but it's still kind of shocking to me that Matt and Ben have been in 13 movies together. Wow. They're currently in this thing on

Netflix called The Rip and I didn't like it very much. You don't like it? Oh, I thought it was so fun. I thought it was okay. I mean, I wasn't ever like bored during it, but it's, if you just want to watch people run it, like, it's weird timing to have these people in cop uniforms

just really just, just shoot. the shit out of spaces with no concern for for people or property it also has a very dumb title the rip just sounds dumb no say couldn't tell what it was about but it is i thought it's fun yeah but you know uh the direct of netflix thing is uh interesting so that means they spent a ton of money on it but it doesn't didn't feel like they did because it's you know it's set just like in this kind of one neighborhood. And, you know, this happens all the time, but Tiana Taylor, you know, just got nominated for an Oscar, and then her next role is this, and she's a cop who spends most of the movie counting money. Money. Yeah, it's the most worthless part. She said yes to it because there

was some, you know, Affleck and Damon and, you know, Netflix, but, you know, she just, she had no idea at that, you know, I don't know what the timing was, but, you know, she is just way too talented for how dumb her part is in that movie honestly everyone's way too talented for that movie that was a charm yeah Stephen Yun is in it I always love him

I love him not a great part for him and yeah completely like not used well for such a great actor and I always like coach Taylor and he's he's got a dumb part too like it's uh I'm just I'm preparing to have a kid where I just like everything know when you have a kid so i'm just getting getting used to liking everything yeah well especially

stuff for children you're gonna have to really uh i mean the good news is utopia too is really fun for adult an adult to view oh is it good okay yeah did you see the first utopia yeah i had an issue with it because i feel like i mean this is going to sound like a little nipicky oh you don't think that animals can talk it's almost just as crazy what I'm going to say but like I feel like the whole metaphor is racism but like a rabbit should be afraid of like a wolf that's not racism

like a wolf can kill a rabbit like he's trying to use racism but it's like no those animals are designed to kill other animals I feel like the racism metaphor kind of falls apart with the whole animal thing you know yeah but it's also like it's not judging people

and not thinking they can rise to, you know. But you should judge animals. If you're a rabbit, you should judge a wolf. She's a tiny bunny, but she's a dedicated cop. You know, she knows her job well. Right, right. You know, she only shoots when, you know, when in actual danger. I guess I think bigotry in the animal kingdom is not only okay, but vital for survival.

Yeah, I feel like the second one doesn't, isn't supposed to be that so much, more or less just a society that's all animals and how they're still, you know, you're still going to have issues. You think you're the DMV part again? It's all about how all the animals judge a snake poorly just because he's a snake.

You know what I mean? But once again, every snake I've known has lived up to the stereotype. I'll say it. No, there's lots of nice ones that's all by you. Yeah, they're chill. It's great. There's some real cute ones. I'm pro.

Animal racism. Yeah. All right. Well, we got to go to a commercial and play one more game, which will, Monica will get to go first in because of winning this first game. And we'll do that after these words. Whoa, those are some serious words. We are bad. And, I mean, you already know this because I said it before the break and it happens every time.

Monica gets to go first in our next game. And this game was part of the lost episode from San Francisco. We did Douglas movies at Sketchfest a couple weekends ago, SF SketchFest, the wonderful annual several week-long comedy festival that they have at San Francisco. And there was an issue with the recordings, so we weren't able to release it. But I still enjoyed this game very much and how it went. So since none of you were there, you won't know, you won't know the answers in advance. It's called Bats Entertainment.

And I came up with the game because we did the show at Bats Bayfront Theater, and I was disappointed to find out that it's not actual Bats in the theater. Bats stands for Bay Area Theater Sports. So once I heard there were no actual bats, I still wanted to play a game in their honor. So I found the Rotten Tomatoes, the folks of Rotten Tomatoes have compiled a list of the best reviewed vampire movies

over the entire history of cinema. I wrote down the top 10 movies on that list, and the three of you will take turns guessing one movie at a time, what films you think would land on that list. The higher up on the list your title is, the more points you get. And once each of you have guessed three different movies,

I'll add up all the points and we'll have a winner. That's fun. I hope so. So we start with Monica, and then we'll flip the order around and go to Kinesse, and then to run on. But of course, this stuff can be pretty difficult to suss out because when we played in San Francisco,

they named very well-known vampire movies, but it turns out a lot of them don't get the greatest reviews. So keep that in mind. And Monica, what is your first guess? My first vampire guess. well this is complicated because this is all of time it's not like what's popular now right yeah okay

yeah it's just you know the aggregate of movie reviews obviously like some of the older movies might have gotten a boost in their score just because there was only a handful of reviews to aggregate these days you know there's probably like I don't know how many critics are official Rotten Tomatoes critics but I bet it's in the hundreds

right I'm wondering if I just like do you go really old or do you go I'm going to go with sinners just because I liked it a lot that's a you know that's a good reason you have you know you have critical faculties you know the difference in good and bad and sinners is number three wow oh so that's a strong strong start for monica with eight points but now we go to canis who you know if you name the number one or number two movie, you will rock it to the lead, but any points at all will be helpful this early in the game. I'm going to go interview with a vampire. This is also, this came up in San Francisco, of course, because it is a very well-known vampire movie, but it was not that well-received with the critical body.

I mean, you know, some people liked it, I guess. But unlike the AMC TV series interview with Vampire is like, you know. That show rocks. The critics love it. It's so good. Like, you know, the movie was good in its own way, but the series is pretty amazing. I don't know the show was so good. Oh, I'll check it out.

Definitely watch it. No, yeah. Oh, wow. I didn't realize that. With a baby, it won't stop crying. It's perfect. It's perfect. television. So I'm sorry, Knieis, that did not land in the top 10, but don't fret because that was a good answer.

And you'll get two more guesses, but now it's Renan's turn to guess. All right. I feel like I feel like the ultimate options would be Nosferatu, the original, or let the right one in or 28 days later. I love Let the Right One In so much And I don't know if it makes a cup But I'm going to guess it just because I love the movie so much Well, I love the answer that gives the other contestants I'm sorry I'm sorry So it's always real good sportsmanship to help everybody out

But then you honed in on the number one Most critically approved of vampire movie the right one in from where is it from Sweden, Norway? I think it's I think it's,

I think it's Norway. No, no, it's Sweden. Sweden. Yeah. You know what? I have no idea. But it's worth 10 points. I'll tell you that.

I don't even know. Oh, you don't know that movie? No. Great movie. Yeah, it's really good. They made a remake with Chloe Grace Muretz, right? That nobody.

Wow. She didn't remake of that and Carrie. So she keeps remaking things and nobody likes the remakes. Yeah. It's ruining everything. As long as Hit Girl is working, I'm happy. Okay, Monica, we come to you now. Renan has 10 points.

You're two points behind, so anything would help to keep you in first place or close to it. I know. What's your second guess? Well, I was really listening to him talk. So it's funny because I did. It's a test to see if people zone me out. I know that they've done nosferatu like a lot of times.

But I assume that's why I was going back and forth with really old versus new and how that would. So you saying the original one, I'm going to steal that and say the original nosferatu. But it's interesting that you laid it out like that because if you had just said Nosferatu, I would follow it up with from 1922 or 2024 because there's been two times that specifically the name Nosephratu. Well, there's another one too. Oh, the other ones? I have like a different title. Might.

It might. Yes, indeed. Okay. But which date is the Nosephratu that you would like to choose, 22? 1922 or 2024. I'm going old. I'm going 1922. Yeah. Your instincts were right.

That is correct and that is worth seven points. Oh, thank you for on. Sorry. Kinesse, what's your next guess? This is like deeply painful. I'm like very far behind. No, but that's the thing about this game is

the best players sometimes don't you know, get any points because, you know, you're naming, you know, you're naming legit movies. Right. I'm trying. You know, but it's, it's tricky. Dracula. Okay. Follow up question for Dracula.

1931 or 1979? So the one from the 90s isn't on there, I'm guessing? The movie that's just simply called Dracula. with no other words. Dracula Oh. 1931 or 79.

31 was Bella Legosi and 79 was what fuck is his name? Christopher Lee? No. Wasn't there also

on Nosferatu in the 70s with like Klaus Kinski? Yeah, the Warner Herzog one, yeah. Yeah. Closkinski, yeah. Was that called

Nosharatu or was that called Dracula? I can't answer questions. this time. Dang it. Okay. Well, so. I asked because if it was no surrection and you just completely didn't mention it before we're talking

about those other two. Can I say? You just have to pick between 1931 or 79. Dracula is your guess. Okay. There are two options. Just pick one. 31 or 79.

I'm going to say 31. Don't be so sad. That is the correct answer. Thank goodness. You're on the board with five points. Finally. Yeah. You figured it out.

But yeah, that was Bell Legosi. And 79 was it finally came to me, Frank Langela. Who, you know, was a decent Dracula, but that movie doesn't, you know, it's not as good as the original. All right, Renan, do you want to share several more answers? Or do you want to just say one? I don't understand, but what number, what have we, we've done one, two, three on the list? Yeah, we've got, let the right one in was one. We, two is available.

Three is sinners. Four is Nosephratu from 1922. And six was Dracula from 1931. Oh, so two is not, two has not been named yet. Yeah, yeah. So if you got that one, you would probably win the game. game, but it's hard to tell because Monica's, you know, Monica's got five more points in you right now. So she could pull this off, but, you know, and you never know what's going to happen with Kniece.

I mean, I guess I have to go, let's see, I guess I have to go 28 years later, the original. Okay. But I can hear from your tone that I'm not correct. Well, I mean, don't they like to refer to those as more of zombie than vampire? Oh, shoot. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. All right.

Wait, let me do another guess. I had a brain fart. I confused it, too. I'm going to put everybody down for zero for that one because we don't have time for a real. Okay, shoot. I confuse it, too. But you're also not out of it. You still have a chance.

Okay. If Monica doesn't get more points on the board, she's got 15. you've got 10 so you could still do this. You could still make this happen if you just have a vampire movie next time. Monica? I'm running out of movies that I know have vampires in them.

I mean, that's better than one that doesn't have any. That's true. It's a real fall for me. I'm so embarrassed. We talk too much about the 28 days movies. Yeah, I get the gun on my head. I'm like, Jaws, does that count as a vampire movie? I mean, he's got the teeth. He's for blood.

He's for blood, yeah. Does it can't, do you know Jaws can't see himself in a mirror? Exactly. What? You stick a steak in him, he's dead. I know. Let's hear it. Just name one.

Okay, from Dust Hill John. I don't think it's that high. Again, it was because we've talked about it. Yeah, I'm like, I know it's in there. Yeah. Yeah, but it was treated like the kind of Schlocky B movie that it is. And I don't think it got, you know, amazing reviews. Like, all of these ones in this top ten are, like, seriously, like, 90% or more on Rot Tomatoes.

Like, they're really well-regarded. I think I know the answer. But so, Monica's still in the lead. Keneas can be a spoiler here because you can't win Keneas, but you can knock off another one that's high up on the list. So give me one more. I'm going to go out in a ball of glory by saying a movie that is near and dear to my heart, even though it's not on the list of best vampire movies. It is fright night because Colin Farrell as a sexy vampire was really important to me.

That's the remake. That's not even the original. It's the one with Anthony and Yeltsin, RIP, Dave Franco, Imogen Poots. It's great. Yeah. Unfortunately, this game isn't how many people can you name from that we make the Fright Night. And I'm sad to say that neither Fright Night made the list. Oh, last.

Yeah. All right. I think I know. Okay, Renan, this is it. You could win this thing right now. I mean, I think I know. If you get the number two or the number five. Carl Dreyer's vampire, V-A-M-P-Y-R.

From 1932? Yeah. I assume that's well reviewed. It's number two on the list. Oh, my goodness. You know, that's the part of the fun of these kind of games is all anybody had to do was just repeat back the word vampire. But you have to know your spelling. You even knew the spelling was very impressive.

I could have just said vampire. It's almost like you host a film podcast yourself. Yeah. Well, that was quite an exciting finish. And congratulations to. Renan, before I tell you the rest of the correct answers, let's do our plugs while people are still listening.

Renan, do your plugs first. I got a new special. It's called Morbidly Jewish. It's on YouTube. Just watch it now, share it, morbidly Jewish on YouTube. Nice. Excellent. Monica Nevi, what would you like to promote?

Well, you can come see me open for Doug Benson and Tacoma on February 6'7. and I have lots of new dates all over the country at monica nevycomedy.com. Nice. And Canis Mobley, Hot Guy Draft. Hot Guy Draft, March 22nd, Littlefield, 7 p.m. You can also vote if you go to, Hot Guy Draft is on Instagram.

It's also, you can go to my Instagram. You can vote on the hot guys. So you can affect the outcome of this competition show by saying, who is a daddy and who is not a daddy. Fair enough. Hot guy daddies. HGD. I am going to be

doing events and movie interruption at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 3rd, and then see Monica and I at Tacoma Comedy Club. And I've got shows coming up in Key West, Chicago Land, Denver Opelisk,

more, go to Douglasmovies.com. That's duglosemovies.com. And let me tell you the rest of these vampire movies that you didn't manage to guess, and for good reason.

Number 10 from 1958, which now I'm kind of want to check out because it's so well reviewed from 1958, horror of Dracula. That's Hammerhead, right? The Hammerhead movies? Oh, yeah. And then number nine was, it's funny we mixed up zombies with vampires in that game because George Romero made a vampire movie called Martin.

Yeah, yeah. So that was number nine. Number eight is, this is where everything got confused when we were talking about Nospheratu movies, is the one in 79 is called Nospheratu the Vampire. Oh. Yeah, so it gets confusing with the name. A combination of words. As opposed to the other Nosferatu's. Yes.

This is Nosferatu, the vampire. Yeah. How introduces himself. I'm Noseferatu, the vampire. They're like, we don't need this. The vampire. Back to Nesferatu. Yeah, and then, you know,

Egress didn't make a movie called Lighthouse, The Lighthouse. Number seven was a girl walks home alone at night, a foreign film that's well regarded in the vampire genre. And then one I'm surprised that three comedians didn't pull. At number five, the great what we do in the shadows. Oh, I love that one. Yeah, that was a good one.

But thank you, everybody, for playing. And I've gone back to, I'll say your names all one more time before I do this. Denise Mowgli, Monica Nevy, Renan Hersberg. Thank you to all. And as always, the Board of Peace is a shithead. Thank you. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold is viewing prowess makes him cocky.

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