Doug Loves Movies - Samm Levine, Aparna Nancherla and Geoff Tate guest

Episode Date: August 17, 2020

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Doug hates candy wrappers, green and baby sticky seeds With 50 azipop or kernels in his teeth There's still not one that he won't see Cause Doug loves movies Hey, hey, hey everybody My name is Doug and I love masks This is Doug Loves Movies coming to you once again From whatever we are

calling this at this point it's another home alone homes alone edition because we're all in our own homes I assume it's Sunday August 16th 2020 my guests today are a pardon and sure that Jeff Tate, and Sam, the man, Levine, aka all that other stuff. Hello, everybody. Hello. Hello. Hi, Doug. Everybody's so polite and waiting their turn to talk.

I love that. And let's talk to you all individually, starting with Aparna Nancherla this here star of uh how many shows are you on now at least three right myth quest space force and corporate wow yes you read my bio no i've seen your bio i i have to admit i haven't seen uh i haven't seen any of Corporate, but I've seen all of Space Force and Mythic Quest. And, you know, you're doing great. Oh, thanks. There's a season of Corporate that's going right now? That's right.

That's right. It's just airing currently. Okay, cool. On Comedy Central. Comedy Central, the network we all know and love it's like you're the uh you're taking over as the announcer for the network you really sold that i know they always use the comment i feel like they always use a comedian's voice to do the like little intro like it wasn't k Kyle Kinane for a while.

It was. And then now it's David Borey who is. Oh, that's right. That's right. From the All Fantasy Everything podcast. Well, maybe they'll go for a woman next time. You know, I guess we were due for that, you know, because it was Penn Jillette for a long time.

So the station, it was a network you went to if you wanted to be yelled at by a large man and then it's gotten more and more gentle so yeah that's probably the next step well they're due for another person with a ponytail that's right they really have a type so um thank you for uh being here and doing a zoom show are you uh are you calling in from home i am yes i am at home you have like you're you're set up there now because of this right you have like kind of it's almost like you're a little studio area yeah i do some voiceover stuff and it's kind of funny because all the different shows have been mailing me equipment so i really feel like i could build

a studio when this is done yeah they love to send uh they love to send equipment to make sure it's going to work better and then and then that equipment often doesn't work yeah it's a whole it's a whole uh system right now that we have to go through and just equipment often doesn't work. Yeah. It's a whole system right now that we have to go through and just figure out how to make these things happen. Yeah. But thank you so much for being here. You're up here today against

two of the legends. I know. I feel like I was miscast for this episode. We totally tricked you into being here, Shay. But, you know, we do – a third player is very important, and maybe Sam can tell us in a second, but I'm sure there's been instances where the third player lucked into the win and Sam went home, you know, without the trophy that night.

It's Sam Levine, everybody. Hey, Sam. Hey, Doug. Yeah, it all depends on the game some some games are fine with three players and and others are less uh strategic when you have a third person in there right yeah you you know them all and uh you're great at most oh thanks pal i try you know i like i like movies you love movies i like them Oh, thanks, pal. I try. You know, I like movies. You love movies. I like them. You're just fond of them. I want to try to get them to marry me, but you're just like, cool, just hanging out.

Yeah, we're not putting labels on it. There's no reason to. What kind of labels are you putting on your work these days? what have you been up to well uh i had the dc daily show we were we were shooting that from our homes for the dc universe streaming platform until they canceled us last month um you don't have to go back and tell us about all the jobs you've lost just tell us what you're working on now uh right now i'm uh i'm working i'm writing a script but that's still the story right it's still fresh enough for you that when anybody asks you like yeah dc daily went away uh doesn't that suck and then yeah i mean i've been working on it for almost two full years so yeah you know every every week so it was kind of a big job uh but yeah that's

done and i've been uh uh much like uh a, I've been doing some voiceover work from home. Uh, and, uh, and that's been fun. And then, uh, I think those are a lot of cameos. Oh, I've also been doing cameos. Oh, you have? Yes. I joined you on cameo. How much are your cameos? I, uh, charge what I think is a very reasonable 45 bucks

that's quite reasonable yeah uh what do they tend to ask you to do they have anything specific they want from you i get such a wide variety of requests uh i'm sure you get this a lot i've got a couple of what i consider regulars now uh people who will uh you know request cameos once to twice to sometimes three times a week uh because they want to you know they want me to make fun of every one of their friends individually uh things like that they want me to roast their friends people i don't know. Or one guy wants to get my gets my thoughts on baseball every week. Well, I assume the ones with the roasting, like you do such a good job. They're like, let's get him to roast somebody else.

You know, like that's what happens is that the people that are good at cameos that gets more cameos. I would like to hope so. Yeah, I think I'm doing an okay job when I roast strangers, and then, you know, they want me to come back and do it to other strangers. Yeah, that's fine. They're like, hey, make fun of our friend. He's got asthma. And I'm like, why would I? Yeah.

Why is that a jumping off point for insults? Yeah, but then like you, I'm sure it's just a lot of birthdays and congratulations and happy anniversaries and things like that. Yeah, mom and dad, I'm a pot smoker. That one has happened. Oh, okay. I haven't gotten any of those. I can't imagine why not.

Yeah, there's some – It's weird those are going your way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you could still break the news to them. It's even better with me because I take a big rip and then blow it in their face. Oh, that is pretty good. Maybe that should be my angle. Maybe I should say, like, give me the bad news that you need to tell someone,

and I will tell it in the best possible way. I don't know, because I feel like then you're gonna be hearing some sad stories all day oh I've gotten a few of those already and I think I did okay yeah those are that's another thing like the pep talk category kind of gets to me because I'm not really a pep talk kind of person ah you know my way I'll go yes my pep talk videos are just me taking a hit and going, whatever, man, just relax. Maybe the idea is, well, look at this guy. He's just sitting there smoking weed. You can, you can do something. Get outside and do something, man.

Well, this gentleman that's joining us, our third guest today, he is, he has been out there doing stuff and he's also been at home isn't that right jeff tate yeah it looks like oparnas wasn't the only bio you read i do stuff and i don't i cover all the bases well everybody's chanting for you at home jeff to themselves or maybe annoying their neighbors. When we used to do these shows in front of an audience, Jeff would get a big chant. He didn't get it going. I didn't want to make it sound like Jeff would start it.

It would just happen organically. The audience would chant Tate. And I can't wait to get back to that again. But, Jeff, same question I asked Sam. What's your answer? I can't remember what you asked Sam. I don't have a... Let me see if I've got it written down here. I asked him, hey, buddy, what have you been up to? Oh, that one. Yeah.

Well, I never had a show on DC daily. So that's like one step behind Sam. I haven't even got canceled yet. I never even got picked up. You're also, you're also less sad about it because you never had the job to begin with. Right. You don't know, you don't know what you got until it's gone and you never know what you got when you don't have it.

The follow-up, the less successful follow-up single. I've been playing one particular game every day. Yes, we get together every day at a different time depending on what time we're both up on our different time zones.

And we get to play a game called the IMDB game against one another. And Jeff and I have been playing for, now it's been 142 days. Oh, my God. Yeah, and we are currently completely tied up at 71 wins apiece. Whoa. That's amazing and to be expected. Have you played today yet? Yeah, we played.

Generally, I get up here on the West Coast at around 8 or 9 o'clock, and I text Jeff, who's on the East coast time zone in Cincinnati area. And then, uh, you know, we just agree on a time to meet on, uh, our Periscope accounts. And then like, it is about 70 people I think that watch it every day. And then thousands of people who wander in wonder what's happening and then leave. Yeah. wonder what's happening and then leave.

Yeah. So it's pretty, it's pretty sweet deal. As far as audiences go, I wish comedy clubs were like that. Like the people that wouldn't be that into it, just look from the back for a second and go, they don't, they don't take a seat. You don't make any noise. Right. They're not mad at you for being something different. Yeah, you don't get to know about their disappointment

that you couldn't help them with anyway. I feel like all these streaming shows are like immersive theater. It's like Sleep No More where you just wander in and you're just wandering out quietly and nobody cares.

Yeah, it's a lurker's world out there right yeah it'd be funny if somebody drops in the chat on their way out of a zoom show hey fuck you guys and then they just leave they send it to everybody or me personally like if they just send it to me i I hate you. Why aren't you different? Well, that's one thing we're certainly, you know, sidestepping here. People can write comments on iTunes or wherever, but you know, podcasts are in so many different spots. There's no like, you know, there's no comment area that I'm, you know, drawn to look at and get annoyed and upset by. It seems like sometimes people comment on specific episodes in the reviews section because they don't know where else to leave their opinions.

That's always the best. There's 2,000 episodes of this show. They're like, that one two weeks ago, bullshit. One star. Yeah. My cameo rating is like I've gotten five stars from everybody. All five-star reviews except for one guy gave me four stars. And he even gave me a pretty positive review.

He just wasn't a five-star. I get it. I don't give five stars to every movie I see that I like, you know, I got to reserve some, uh, you know, I can't say everything's that amazing. So, uh, but it brought my, you know, I've got four and a half stars on a cameo, uh, only because of that one dude. Oh man. That's, that's ridiculous. I want to punch that guy in the face. Doesn't he realize what he's doing?

Well, it's just like that, you know, there was a movie out earlier this year where it got, like, all great reviews except for one guy. So on Rotten Tomatoes, that makes it, like, a 99 instead of 100, you know, just because one guy didn't like it. Out of hundreds. But anyway, we're only playing one game here today. And I think everyone might have had a guess what was going to happen,

except for maybe Aparna, because this is some old school stuff we're talking about. The return of a classic game from this show called The Leonard Maltin Game. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I can't. I'm having trouble understanding what Aparna's noise was about. I tried to do a vague noise. I can just imagine you doing one of your voiceovers and that's their note you know hey do it again but make it vague try to make your voice vague somehow um the Leonard Maltin

game is a game we played for years on the show we even had like tournaments and stuff and uh sam levine was always the champion of it and then jeff tate had a pretty good uh run at the game for a while and then we stopped playing the game on the show because of several reasons but my number one reason is i'm just tired of explaining how the game works to everybody because it's so complicated. So, that being said, Sam, please explain to our guest Aparna. Please tell her the rules of the letter multi-game.

Well, you're going to love it, Aparna. It's like, name that tune, but instead of songs and notes, it's movies and actors. Oh. It's like sound bites is that that's not complicated it doesn't sound complicated well not yet oh it's more there's more i wish i wish those are all the rules that's it that's all you need to know. Okay. Most times when I say that first part

to people, they go, I've never seen Name That Tune. Oh. I haven't seen it, but I know how it's played. You're smart. Wow, how's that possible? It's crazy that you could know something without having seen it.

It's right there in the name. having seen it it's right there in the name is it are you using the book doug the leonard malton book no that's that's you know that's a old way i'm not going to do it that way. We used to use the Leonard Maltin app, but then the app went away, so that's another reason the game went away. And then a dude out in Atlanta hooked me up with, he made a book of all the kinds of information that used to be in the Leonard Maltin app for a bunch of movies. So all I have to do is go through and just kind of pick and choose what I want to use from it for the game.

And that's what I've been doing the last few times we've played it. So that's what we'll be doing today. But go ahead and explain the rest of it to a partner. There's certainly more to it than that. Okay, I'll do it so um oh wait you don't do categories anymore you do categories but you don't explain what the category name actually means yeah i'll give whoever's going first uh you know three categories to choose from but they you know they're vague you know they're hard to hard. You might have a pretty good idea what the category is going to be, but then when you pick a category, that's when I'll reveal it.

Okay. So whoever's turn it is gets to pick from one of three categories and they'll usually have pretty silly names that may or may not actually correspond with what the category truly is. And so then Doug will read, he'll tell you the year of the movie and then he'll give you brief snippets from Leonard's review that are usually not terribly helpful. And then he's going to count up all the names that are listed as cast members underneath that review. Um, and, uh, uh, so let's say it has nine cast names. Uh, so let's say it has nine cast names. So he'll say it has nine names and then

you, whoever chose the category gets to make the first bid. And so you're bidding on how many of those names you're going to need to hear to be able to figure out what movie he's talking about. But the catch is you're going to get those names from the bottom of the list to the top. So the only way you're going to hear like the star of the movie is if you bid all nine names and then whoever goes after you says, name that movie and challenges you to then name the movie, hearing all nine names. If you say seven names and the next person says, name that movie, then you're not going to hear the top two build stars in the movie. So it creates a bit of a challenge there. But if you make a nine name bid out of a nine total names

and the next person, it would be a bad strategic move to say name that movie. So then they can make a lower bid and so on and so forth until someone gets challenged to name that movie. Now, if you think you know what movie it is, without Doug having to give you any names, then you can bid zero names. And if you think you definitely know what the movie is, and not only that, you can start naming the actors from the movie in the correct order listed in Leonard's book from top to bottom, not bottom up, then you can bid negative names, Aparna. Anyway, thanks so much for coming.

Wow. It's probably a great time to mention I'm terrible at learning game rules. Oh. Well, that's the other thing I found over the years is when i have comedians and actors as guests they tend to go that way more than the other way they tend to not be into rules or learning them or remembering you know which is part of why part of what makes the person creative or stand-up comedian i think is you know is that sort of not wanting to sit around and finding out how all the rules work. Remember on At Midnight when we'd be on there and they'd talk you through the rules? Yeah, I would never pay attention. All the comedians, I would watch it happen because I was on the show a bunch of times,

and I was always super into being competitive, but I knew the rules. I didn't need to hear it again. But everyone would just not pay attention. It's just a thing. I don't know what it is about, you know, I guess because it's the same people that were class clowns in school that would rather, you know rather jump in and get something going

than just sit and listen and learn. Doug, I'm wearing my At Midnight shirt right now. What? Oh, my goodness. That is crazy. Wow. You got to let go of these canceled shows. But I have so much swag.

They live forever in my closet. All right, Jeff, are you still there? Yeah, I don't, I don't have any, I've been night merge. I'm sorry. Sam started explaining rules. So I checked out. That's why I was checking to make sure you're here. so I checked out. That's why I was checking out after you to make sure you're here and that the rules

felt complete to me. That seemed like he said it all. Yeah, yeah, that's a pretty good summation. Yeah, and we'll talk Aparna through it. You don't have to really worry about remembering all that. I'll be like your coach.

Yeah, I'm excited to be here and excited to be the first person eliminated. Yeah, well, it's not really an elimination thing. Like, I think you're used to doing the 12 guests at Christmas where we kick Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I should have listened to the rules. You get to stay the whole time, or as I like to say, we get to have you here the whole time. Oh, no.

Let's start with you, though. We'll let you go first, and then we'll go. From there, we'll go to Sam and then to Jeff. But first, let's take a quick break. We're back. Let's give you three categories to choose from, Aparna. Would you like the category

How Do You Like Them Apples? Or The Basketball Drearies? Or Ice Knowing You? Oh, boy.

Okay, I am going to go. They all sound equally appealing, but I'm going to go with Ice Knowing You. Oh, that's a great choice. That's my favorite of these. Ice Knowing You is movies where Val Kilmer appears but does not get top billing. Oh, okay. Wow. Wow.

Yeah. Ice knowing you, Val. We played ice in Top Gun. All right. So here's what you get from this point, Aparna. I'm going to tell you that Leonard Maltin reviewed this movie upon its release

in the year 2005? That's a five. Gave it two stars. Oh. Yeah. And then from his review, he called this movie uneven, and He gave it two stars. Oh. Yeah. And then from his review, he called this movie uneven and also confusing and tiresome. Oh, man.

Yeah. And he named six actors. So I'm going to say to you, how many does it take for you to name this movie? And then just the smart opening bid would just say six. I'll take all six names. And then that way, if the next person, Sam, if he challenges you, then, you know, you, I think you got a pretty good shot. I think we all do. I mean, would six include Val Kilmer? Oh yeah, it would.

Unless his billing was so low that he's not in the top six. Oh, I see, I see, I see. Okay. Well, yeah, then I'm going to go for the six. Very smart. Sam? 2005, you say, Doug. You are sure about that?

Yeah, I'm not crazy about the weirdest thing happened. Like, I'm sitting here looking at this tiny print and then, uh, the sun went behind a cloud or something. So it suddenly got very dark in my heart. All right. It's, it's one of those rolling Brownouts. It's one of those natural lighting changes, but yeah, I'm pretty sure it's 2005, 2005. All right. Then I'm going to go negative three.

Okay, so Sia Parna, you already don't even have to worry about anything because now it goes to Jeff and Jeff has to decide just how much he thinks he knows about this movie. And the trickiest part, the thing that makes Sam such a great player is he does his negative

names bullshit and then he also you have to know them in the order that they're listed according to leonard malton's book so it's maybe not even necessarily according to they try to base it on the billing in the movie in some movies the billing is different from the opening credits to the end credits so or you know or two names are right next to each other on screen at the same time. So, Jeff, what do you think you can do about this? Well, I got two options, right? And I'm going to take the one that goes, name it.

All right, so Sam has to name the movie. Oh. Then the top build person, the second build person, and the third build person. And then if he succeeds in that, he will get one point. If he fails,

Jeff will get the point. Okay. But either way, you get to go first again in the next round, Abana. Okay. So just sit back

and listen to the magic of Mr. Sam Levine. Well, all right, I don't know about magic. I only bid negative three because I kind of also assumed that Jeff would know it. And so this third one may be the one that kills me, but I believe the movie is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, starring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer,

and Michelle Monaghan? I've never known for sure if it's Monaghan or Monaghan, if you pronounce the G. But I think you're probably right about not pronouncing the G, and you're definitely right about everything else. That is correct. Oh, yay! Okay.

Wow. I thought Corbin Bernson might sneak in there as the third one. right about everything else. That is correct. Oh, yay! Okay. Wow. I thought Corbin Bernson might sneak in there as the third one. Yeah, he could totally pull a sneaky there because he had a pretty big part in it. But, yeah. Two stars? That's how it went. Yeah.

That's a low review from Leonard. Yeah. It's low. It throws you off that Leonard doesn't like it. Because he should have liked it. I don't know what happened that day. Man, if it was three stars, I would have gotten negative four. Because I thought it was that. And then I was like, no way.

No way is it only two stars. Wow. Did he say it suffered from over length, Doug? No. One of Leonard's favorite negative things to say about a movie. Yeah, he says it grows, you know, quickly grows confusing and tiresome. But then this is the devastating line here, because I think this determines kind of which way you feel about this movie,

even, because he says, lethal weapon scribe Shane Black seems awfully impressed with himself for repeatedly having the protagonist break away from the story to mock the film's use of narrative and genre cliches. Wow. Yeah, so if you're not into that kind of like, you know, meta

examining itself as it goes along kind of thing, I could just see Leonard sitting there getting, you know, getting impatient with that but the charismatic stars make it somewhat bearable oh wow somewhat bearable i love that movie it's such a good movie this is one we might have to you know corner leonard and make him re-watch it or something. Yeah. Maybe he was having a bad day. Exactly.

I think that really has a lot to do with what people feel about things. Like, I hated Trolls World Tour, but that's because I was watching it in a maternity ward. I can't, you know, it's a great movie, but the screaming babies were too distracting. I thought Trolls World Tour was just somewhat bearable. Trolls World Tour, that's the sequel to Trolls 2, right? What? There's Troll, Troll 2, and Trolls World Tour. I thought Trolls World Tour is Trolls 2.

It is, yeah. No, no, definitely not. Trolls with an S. Troll humor. For serious movie fans only. Yeah, yeah. Well, also, where does the Troll Hunter fit in there? Is it part of the Troll universe?

It's a spinoff movie. It has to be part of that universe. Is it part of the TCU? All right. Sam's on the board. He's got one point, but a partner gets to start us off and then we're going to go to Jeff. So Sam

doesn't like this position or sometimes it doesn't go his way. I don't care for it but that's okay yeah it's you know it's unfortunate part of the game but also part of why we don't play it anymore good to know uh parna yeah let's depict another category would you like would you like Would you like Last Man

Stanton or 30 Days of Night or I have one more here for you. Oh, here we go. Drunk Theirstory.

Oh, I'm going to go with Drunk Theirstory. Okay. This is movies featuring alcohol consumption. Wow. That does not narrow it down. Well, it's not anything from the TCU, I can tell you that. Oh, that's right. That's right.

Okay. I thought they have their equivalent of booze. I think they do. Yeah, it's cupcakes. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Okay, so this movie features alcohol being consumed is from 2013. Mr. Leonard Maltin gave it two and a half stars.

Dang. He calls it mildly diverting and not always compelling. Man, I feel like I'm hearing comedy album reviews. It's definitely better than Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I know, that's true. And only five names are listed for the cast. So what do you think? Do you want to do probably, again, the best move for you would just be say,

I'll take five names, please. Yeah, I'm going to take five names. Now we go to Jeff. I'll take four. Oh, listen to this guy. Wow. So, so clever. That takes the part off to put Sam on the line for he has to go lower or say, Jeff Tate, name that movie.

Only five names. Only five names. Yeah, it's... If I had, you know, spent a little bit more time on this, I might not have picked this movie. Oh, cool. Because it's fun to have ones where there's, you know, a ton of names.

Because it makes the bidding more interesting. Mm-hmm. You know, like when you go from nine names to negative three, that was a fun leap. It was impressive, too. I mean, we haven't played this game in years, and the first time you go negative three and get it.

Wow. So he said negative four, or he said four names, rather, not negative. He said four. I'd have to go three? Mm-hmm. Oh, man. I don't know. Maybe because of the way you're talking about it, it's going to be a real guesser.

So I'm going to say go ahead, Jeff Tate. You name that movie. All right. Jeff gets four names. The only one he doesn't get is the top-billed person in the film. Would you like all the clues and whatnot again, Jeff? Yes. Scott Twain.

It's from 2013. Two and a half stars from Leonard. Mildly diverting, not always compelling. And your four names are Ty West, Ron Livingston, Anna Kendrick, and Jake Johnson. This movie is called Drinking Buddies. That is correct.

That is correct. Wow. That is correct. Whoa. Well done. Well done, sir. Yeah. I feel like I got a Blu-ray of that movie at a Doug Loves Movies. Someone pick your name tag.

I feel like Dick Johnson was on the show and was giving those out to the other people on the show. That feels like a typical, yeah, that feels like that could happen. Probably more likely with Ty West, perhaps. Okay, yeah, probably Ty West. Yeah, because he's been on a few times because he comes on when he's got a movie directed coming out, and then he just acted in this one.

But that is kind of a curveball that he's oh and the top build person is uh olivia wild oh for anyone who was wondering about that all right so that means that sam and jeff each have one point they're halfway to the win but parna is still here i'm'm still here. Boiling away. We're going to start with you again. This time we're going to go to Sam. I love that you get to pick the categories each time. Yeah, it makes me feel relevant.

It gives you, yeah, it gives you a little something to do. And it's, yeah. So would you like a category called F-bombs? You know, F, of course, being short for fuck. Thank you, Doug. Would you like a category called Love That Chicken? Or Top of the World? I'm going to go with F-bombs.

F-bombs it is. These are movies that Leonard Maltin hated that begin with the letter F. Okay. Okay. Jeff's already having a great time. I love the categories I've always been when we played this game before regularly my favorite part was the categories

can I tell you what the love that chicken category is yes please yeah I almost picked that one it's movies featuring a character named Popeye. And it's got to be 1971's French Connection, right, Doug? Well, there's also another film called Popeye.

That's true. And there's the French Connection 2. There's the French Connection 2. And, yeah, that's probably about it, though. Probably. and yeah that's probably about it though my favorite category was the secret life of Walter Mittens I think

and it was movies where Walter Matthau wore mittens no way the answer was the survivors I remember everything about that night alright so The answer was The Survivors. I remember everything about that night. Oh, man. That is a good one.

All right. So F-bombs it is, though. This is from 1995, Aparna. Leonard Maltin gave it his bomb designation, which is really crazy because he gives, you know, what is it? One to five stars, Sam? One to four, I think. One to four. But then sensibly, it's like buildings that claim they don't have a 13th floor

just by skipping that number. Huh. It's a bomb. Like, it's crazy to me that there's a distinction between a movie that gets only one star out of one to four stars or then he had to make one that's even worse he had to make a bomb category so this movie is a bomb and he says about it what a cast dot dot dot what a waste exclamation point exclamation point i mean he's not a exclamation point guy for the most part wow that's a savage review from from leonard um and then he also calls it embarrassingly awful and he lists because he loves to list actors' names, 20 people.

What? Yeah. There's 20 names. He picked a good one. But the main thing you have to remember is that the movie begins with the letter F. And you need to tell me. Again, I'd say maybe in your case you'd want to take all 20 names for your opening bid yeah why not let's go for 20 she's going for 20 sam oh man oh man

what do I do? Oh! 20 names. 1995. He hated it. Zero names. zero names whoa okay that's quite a leap put sam i mean jeff excuse me jeff in a very uh interesting position because I mean, he'd have to know what this is already as you are implying you do.

I think I do. Yeah. So Jeff has to either hope that you don't, that you're onto something incorrect here. That sure there's more than one movie in that year. It begins with the letter F. Jeff, what do you think? Can you go negative or do you have to just

throw yourself at the mercy of Will Logan? This is tough he hated it so there's a chance I have that I actually kind of like it. So you always have to put everything in this game, you have to put it through that metric. They're like, oh, Leonard hated

it, so I probably think it's pretty good. I can't be like, I can't be like, well, it's certainly not this. This is pretty good. It still might get zero. You can't use your opinion of its quality to determine.

Right. Plus the only thing I could think of, Sam would be crazy to not have gotten negative if it's this. So I'm going to say name it. This is maybe my least confident guess. All Sam has to do is guess this. If he doesn't, then that means Jeff is our winner. If Sam gets it correct jeff is our winner but if sam gets it correct he

is our winner and before you even say this sam i've got to tell you guys the prize this week is nothing oh finally yeah we decided last week we gave away a ton of money but this week no prize oh cool that's great no i don't need anything it's just personal pride here we go sam tell us what the movie's called oh boy uh is it four rooms it is four rooms that was the 20 names was the only thing that i could think of where that would and it would need a list that long for cast. But I'm shocked that Leonard thought it was a bomb. Yeah,

well, you know, I'm not too into it, I gotta say. But, yeah, that's an interesting one. Tim Roth, of course, is the number one build, and then the movie's just packed with people because it's four different hotel rooms, four different stories. And Bruce Willis isn't even one of with people because it's four different hotel rooms, four different stories.

And Bruce Willis isn't even one of the 20 because he's in it unbilled. Wow. Yeah. So he might have, maybe he saw a cut of the movie and was like, you don't have to put my name on there. You guys will be fine without me. So congratulations, Sam. You're back.

Wow. It's the first Leonard Maltin game in a while, and you still got it, kid. Oh, thank you. I think I, luckily, you pick movies that are very much in my wheelhouse. Well, that's, I got to get a new book then, because this book says right on the front of it,

Sam's Wheelhouse. Oh, yeah. Oh, is that the book I made for you? Are you the one that made this? No. You sent it from Atlanta to throw him off. That would be the most genius way to cheat is to give some random fan of the show, a booklet. Wow. And say you made it yeah that's a real long game

um is it a year's thing do you think sam or just sort of it's no it's definitely a year's thing for me yeah it's like anything 80s or 90s that's sort of your area anything 80s 90s or into the mid aughts like i think kiss kiss bang bang was val kilmer's only movie that year uh and like i don't really even remember him in anything after that until uh mcgruber which was 2010 yeah he was you know busy touring with the and Mark Twain show. Oh, all right. And they get to tap from town to town, of course, on a paddle boat. Oh,

and sometimes they'd have to put that on the back of a truck. Cause you know, they went to landlocked places. That's it. That's why, that's why the tour has taken the last 10 years. Yeah. It was really, that's what I was trying to say.

It's just a very long tour. Cause they decided to go in a mark twain paddle boat um let's talk we got a few minutes here uh to talk current movies or even just movies that you're turning to in these weird times where we have you know so much time to watch stuff but also our concentration levels are weird right does anybody have like a here's the movie people should should watch like something you could recommend that's good for right now? Well, I mean, this is a good movie if you want to watch something new. This is as new a movie as any movie is right now. It's called The Outpost.

It's called what? The Outpost. It was directed by a friend of the show, Rod Lurie. Written and directed It's his most recent feature And it is based on the book

Written by CNN's Jake Tapper Whoa Tapper tapped out a book? Tapper tapped out a few books Sounds like his name should be Typer Yeah Jake Typer What's up Jake Typer

tell us the story and so it's a it's a harrowing story about a very real battle at one of the military outposts in Afghanistan during the

Afghan conflict okay and it's filled with during the Afghan conflict. Okay. Do you have some actor names you could throw around? Probably. Let's see. I think Orlando Bloom

is in it. Those are my favorite kind of movies. The ones that Orlando Bloom might be in. Hang on. Let me look it up. I always want to be surprised that Orlando Bloom is in a movie. I don't want to know ahead of time.

No. It is. He is in it. I just looked it up. It stars Scott Eastwood. That's always a good sign. Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Milo Gibson, who may or may not be related to Mel.

He definitely is. Have you seen this movie? I have seen this movie, and I can confirm it is a gripping and exciting watch. And it sort of paints a real picture of, we don't, I mean, other than like The Hurt Locker, there's not really a whole lot of movies that give pretty accurate portrayals of what it really is like in that part of the world for our fighting men and women. And so, yeah, this was, I read the book and was anxious to see the movie. And I think the movie did a really great job of telling all these, the stories of these soldiers. Well, I'm looking forward to it i'm going

to check it out because i like you know i like an exciting watch you know most people don't even wear watches anymore so when there's an exciting one i uh i love to see it the outpost the outpost yep what about you aparna is there anything that's caught your eye? Well, I don't know if this would be appropriate for the current time, but it definitely is as strange as our current time. I just saw Being John Malkovich for the first time. Oh, that's, isn't that wild? Isn't it weird that that movie's existed all this time, and now you've you've seen it yeah it's

it's kind of i don't know how i avoided seeing it for so long but yeah because it's really it's it's more than a movie there's something about it it's really uh you know it's just so creative yeah it's so creative and it's so like the turns that it's so creative, and it's so, like, the turns that it takes, you just never, it's kind of outside of conventional storytelling. You just don't know where it's going to go next. Anytime, and I bring this up every time the movie comes up, but anytime I see a door that's too small to walk through, I always say, that's John C to walk through, I always say,

that's John Cusack's office. Either to myself or whoever I'm with. And it never leads to anything, but it makes me smile. Would you ever go through the door? Maybe it does lead to something. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. I don't know whose brain I would be you know who would i be inside i i wouldn't want to crap shoot it i definitely want to know ahead of time

i mean john malgovich would be a great one i would love to hang out in his head for a second sure it could be like vincent gallo or something and then you're forever you'll never be able to sleep again. Yeah, you know, or just, I just, I don't want to be in somebody that, you know, the 10 minutes that I'm in their head, they decide to kill themselves or something, you know. Oh, yeah. You know who has my favorite line in that movie is W. Earl Brown.

It's not a huge role in the movie, but he's one of the guys who comes to pay $200 to do it, and he's sitting in their office. He's just this big crying slob. He's like, so can I be anyone I want to be? And then

she's like, you get to be inside John Malkovich. He goes, perfect! It's my second choice, but yeah, yeah, yeah. That's perfect. As if there was a list in his head. Anyway, W. Earl Brown, for those who don't know him by name only,

he was Warren in Something About Mary, and Dan the Enforcer in Deadwood. What? That's about a wide range, by the way. You know who else makes a's about a wide range, by the way. You know who else makes a cameo in that movie? Octavia Spencer.

Oh, that's right. She also, I was watching an old Sam Raimi movie, Dragged Me to Hell, and saw her name in the end credits. And I was like, what? She wasn't in that. And then, you know, went back and looked at it and there seems like it's like a bank that takes place a lot of it in and she's just like one of the co-workers just hanging around so i guess she had lines that got cut she was also a little horror movie called pulse doug yeah octavia spencer was like uh she played bit really small parts in a lot of

things before you know before these you know big movies like the help and uh hidden figures came along for her i say she seems real nice yeah she was a delight she she was there the night i harassed francis ford coppola um well i wish we had time for that story you'll have to have me back on doug like what do you mean like we'll get to the bottom of that one next time you're on the show um who hasn't weighed in on what we should watch jeff have you suggested anything i have not i've been watching either science fiction or old, like, old comedies. Not very old, but, like, nostalgia-filled whatever. Like, real life is such a nightmare that I just –

I've been watching, like, Tommy Boy a lot. Tommy Boy is, I dare dare say kind of perfect because like you know especially if you've seen it already you can just watch any kind of like 10-15 minute stretch of it and probably get a smile and a laugh because you know that was

that was the Chris Farley movie that was the movie that really tapped into his thing and then you know unfortunately his other movies and stuff didn't really you know they didn't really get it get him as well as that one did right but tommy boy i love tommy boy so much i like black sheep see that's what i'm saying i wasn't gonna start naming other movies just trying to be and i'm watching that like dystopian futuristic sci-fi stuff just to get ready. Like one of those is going to come true, Robocop or Total Recall or something.

One of those is going to happen, and I'm going to be prepared. Yeah, well. You going to get your ass to Mars? Sure. I just hated the end of that movie when Total Recall, I mean, I don't remember it entirely, but I'm pretty sure that Schwarzenegger's

head expands to a point that not even Schwarzenegger's head could handle it. And then it just goes back to normal. He doesn't even have loose skin at the end. Yeah, and Rachel Tickerton, too. Her head also expands to unusual size.

Not Ronnie Cox. He gets the full expansion. Oh, he like, he explodes. His head fully explodes. Yeah. Yeah. Why didn't the other two's heads exploded? Because they went out after Ronnie Cox did as the atmosphere was filling with air.

Yeah, they were able to recalibrate or whatever they got. It was a matter of seconds between life and death getting expelled onto the Mars atmosphere. They got lucky. If it makes any difference to you, Doug, I was recently reading an article or an interview,

I can't quite remember, and they finally confirmed that it is all a dream. What? So anything could happen in that movie because he's dreaming it the whole time. I guess so, yes. That, in fact, he is still very much asleep at the recall center in the real world

where he's dreaming this fantasy. And he says, am I going to wake up? And you know, I don't know. Yeah, he's going to wake up. There's no place like home. What if you find out that you never even saw it? You just went to recall and they gave you the memory of having seen it. Oh, no.

Oh, shit. Can you imagine someone today making the first in a series of Wizard of Oz movies and the filmmaker's like, and it turns out to all be a dream. And then the studio's like, hey, there's 50 of these fucking books. It's not going to just be one movie that turns out to be a dream. We need to get Dorothy's ass back there somehow. Well, this has been delightful talking to all of you about movies and playing

these games with you. It's comforting to me. I hope it's comforting to you and to all of our listeners. Let's go through and do some plugs. Other things you've got going on people should be looking for, starting with Aparna

and Sherla. I guess you already plugged my current plug which is just you can see beyond Space Force on Netflix or corporate on Comedy Central but I guess if you want to find me on the internet I'm on Twitter and Instagram like everybody else yeah very funny Twitter people should check that out and um yeah thank you for being here thanks for having me oh sam um well let's see i wanna i actually do have a movie that i shot a few years ago coming out um i believe next month uh but i'm not 100 sure of the date anyway it's called immortal

and uh it is a uh it's a combination it's four short films uh all with a similar theme that are are put together uh to be one uh two hour long movie and i believe i'm in the first segment so you know if you're if you're watching it just for me there you go no waiting yeah like people had to wait till the last segment of four rooms to see bruce willis but you the man from hollywood yeah you the showcase performer in this of this entire film is you're in the first segment i am am in the first segment, I believe, unless they edited the movie without telling me, but yes. Maybe your segment turned out the best,

so it's got to be number four. Well, I'm okay with whatever. I'm not sitting through. I'm not going to wait for you. If you're not in that first segment, I'm out. That's fair. That's tough but fair, Doug. We're not immortal sam i'm not

immortal yeah okay time maybe we have i think it comes out let's just say early september okay i want to say september 8th but i'm not sure so early september keep a lookout for immortal well uh you know we'll circle back on this okay jeff yeah i got those albums i got an album coming out september 9th by the last one of my series the run the the 2020 run of uh volume 8 hindsight volume 8 september 9th yeah that's what a partner jeff has been releasing a different taped recording of his set from a different year in his career in in order on the uh the same day of the month as uh the month so like august 8th september 9th and this is the last one, September 9th.

But they're all still available, right, Jeff? They're all available. They all stream. Stream them wherever you want to stream. It sounds awesome. I can't – I wouldn't even know where to turn because I always hated having my sets recorded, so I don't have like old sets i could just uh you know release

now but that uh that's such a fun idea well thank you uh i've had a good time doing it revisiting stuff there i mean there's so many so many bits of stuff that i just forgot about yeah it's weird listening to or you know watching old watching old sets because you're like, I don't remember writing that or saying that. Yeah. Did you notice that anything about your delivery changed at all? I noticed that I used to say the word right a lot. Right? Yeah, I would like end a sentence with that.

Somehow there was like a tick. I've had different ticks over the years, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, I would like end a sentence with that. Somehow there was like a tick. I've had different ticks over the years, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one, though. That's, and it's, you know, I hate listening to myself. You know, I hate listening to my sets, but like when you catch yourself something like that,

like a habit you're not aware of, it's very helpful to get rid of it, you know? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I just worked it out too. I had already stopped doing it by the time I found out I had been doing it. That's true, yeah. All right, so I'm not going to worry about it then. I'm sure all my old habits that I wouldn't like now are completely gone.

Right? There's all new ones now. I don't know what they are. I'll find out in 10 years. I don't know. I don't know how I mean, got into like the way we say and me specifically, I mean, all the time. I've even started writing it into tweets just cause it just sounds like how I talk. Yeah. Great story.

So I always like to go out on something that makes people perfectly fine that it's over. Don't want to leave with anything too exciting. I don't really have anything specific to, to plug right now. Doug, we can both plug that we're on cameo. Oh, that's true. We did talk about that earlier. Most people, you know, do listen to all of this. They don't start late.

What if somebody comes in just for the games? Yeah, I guess they could fast forward through the chatty part, but we get right to the games these days. So I don't know. I like it. Um, but yeah, cameo for sam sam's are very reasonable 45 bucks and mine are 1700 dollars wow good for you doug yeah for you you just do one a month that's it significance in my life and And so I wanted to make sure that that was the amount. I guess I could have done 170 or even $1.70. Never too late to change.

Never too late to change up my fictional favorite number. Thank you to all. And to all, I will say this. One thing about living in Santa Carla, I could never stomach all the damn vampires. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky. There's no room in his heart for you. Cause Doug loves movies.