Doug Loves Movies - Steve Agee, Matt Belknap and Open Mike Eagle guest

Episode Date: August 31, 2020

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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming babies, sticky seeds with 50 azepop 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. I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies, coming to you once again from the muck with another homes alone edition it's sunday august 30th we did it fuck you august 2020 and my guests so excited about this i gotta rearrange some stuff though because i'd like to do it in alphabetical order and we have a last minute edition my guests today are steve agey matt belknap and open mike eagle hello hi hey hello fellas hey doug does your uh theme song say you you hate sticky seats yeah you know the theme song was recorded uh you know over a decade ago back when um there were still some pornographic theaters okay okay i was wondering

about those particular theaters i do not care for the sticky seats yeah you don't that's not as much of an issue these days no i. Who made that theme song? What's that? Who made the theme song? You don't know? No. After all these years? Mike Furman?

Sometimes, yeah. Mike and Chris Hardwick. Okay. Hard and Firm. I reached out to them. That's how long ago this was. They were a team. Yeah.

And I said, guys, do you want to do this theme song for free? And they were like that's how long ago this was they were a team yeah and i said guys you want to do this theme song for free and they were like no problem we're just going to make sure to put some words in there that people will ask you about for the rest of your life that's a trade-off that's a proper trade-off because uh because people don't understand uh they don't understand what they're saying when it says uh 30 ads oh yeah 30 ads and popcorn kernels in his teeth it's like it goes fast and people uh you know it's hard to hard to figure it out but thank you for your question let's meet my guests individually and alphabetically starting with Steve Agee. Hello, Steve.

Hi, man. Long time. Last time I saw you was in Atlanta. That's true. That's the first thing I was going to bring up is the last time we spoke on, on this program, you were not allowed to say which part you were playing in suicide to a side, which parts. Yeah, exactly. As it turns out. Yeah. Which part you were playing in Suicide, Tuicide. Which parts?

Yeah, exactly as it turns out. Yeah. So tell us now, it's the King Shark. I was King Shark on set. I basically was doing what Sean Gunn did with Rocket. Right, which is most of the performance. Bradley Cooper swoops in and takes all the credit

for standing around the booth for 20 minutes. Much like Bradley Cooper, some other asshole's going to step in and work for a day and get all the King Shark credit. Do you know who that is? Do you know who's doing the voice? I actually don't, no.

Oh, interesting. Yeah, so there's that that and then i play a character an actual live action character named john economist who's in the actual original comic series what's his deal or are you not allowed to say? Well, in the comic books, he is the, I believe he's the original, I could be wrong, but I think he is the original warden for Belrev prison, which is where they're all based out of, where all these supervillains are housed. But it's something kind of different now in the movie.

Maybe. Nice try. Man, you were really loose and just talking, and then we already came to a dead end. Oops. But we also are not going to see the film until when? Almost a year next August, August of 2021. Yeah. I want to say August 6th, I think is the release date.

Well, I'm excited for it. And we also have never had a chance you and I to discuss that. We also have never had a chance, you and I, to discuss that we are both voices of blobby weirdos in Justin Roiland's Squanch game, Trover Saves the Universe. That's right. And I only just recently was able to hear and see our actual performances. see our our actual performances well you know i don't have uh video game stuff at home and i certainly don't have the you know vr headset and all that business and uh uh so i just finally one day it just dawned on me oh there's there's dudes that just go on youtube and just show the whole game that's how i saw it that's how i saw it i just sat and watched i did you know after a while i finally had to like start fast forwarding because i tried's how i saw it i just sat and watched i did you know after a while i finally had to like start fast forwarding because i tried to watch it naturally and i just got tired

of waiting for my part yeah uh so but once i got to my part it's just uh the trouble is that the guy playing isn't terrible at it so so a lot of the lines that i said i still haven't heard right because i've got i've just got to you know either play the game or watch somebody play the So, so a lot of the lines that I said, I still haven't heard. Right. Because I've got, I just got to, you know, either play the game or watch somebody play the game and have them just stand around and not accomplish anything because there's so much stuff that Justin had us say. It's there when the person's like failing to move on to what they're supposed

to do next. Well, you should put that out to your listeners. Uh, anybody who has the game and is playing it or has played it, to make a recording of all the Doug Benson parts. I love this. What's a Squanch game? I don't know what that is. It's a weird sounding thing to me.

What is that? That's the name of his gaming company, Squanch Games. And it's in line with all of the silly words he's always making up. I thought it was just an adjective everybody knew except me. So it's good to know that it's proprietary. I didn't know either. I'm glad you asked because I was too afraid to ask. I feel like I'm going to be asking a lot of questions in this show.

I feel like that's going to be asking a lot of questions in the show i feel like that's going to be my position well uh we appreciate you being here and it's strange that someone with the last name eagle would be third alphabetically but that's that's how that shook out uh matt belknap is here hey matt hey doug Hey, Doug. How's it going? It's going great. We had a little bit of a snafu today. The reason you're a guest, I mean, you're always welcome to be a guest, of course, because you're the only reason I would ever listen to Never Not Funny. And you were here as the role of producer today right and we had a issue with our uh the email link that we have to send out to people um casper van dean was going to be here who is the uh actor of course most famous for playing johnny in Starship Troopers. And, you know, he,

I hope he's not just sitting somewhere wondering where we are and thinking of us, thinking of us like bugs and thinking the only good dead bug. We don't want to get that guy mad at us he's intense yeah but he's very nice actor he did were you there uh when he did douglas movies at meltdown comics one time i don't think so i think i would remember that because he's a very strikingly handsome man so i can't imagine forgetting seeing him in person yeah ryan was i mean yeah no you're right. You were right. You got it right. Ryan was there. And, um, I assume maybe not even probably. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, I think he was on with Rosa Salazar and I want to say a comedian, maybe,

maybe Ken Reed was on that one. But anyway, uh, he was a great guest. Super nice. Uh, didn't mind how hot it was at meltdown comics. Didn't mind the crickets. It was really a pleasant experience. He doesn't hate bugs. That was just a role. Exactly. And he, uh, and he also hung out and watched, you know, watch me and all my other friends, you know, smoke weed and, uh, behind the, uh, out behind the comic book store in front of the fire station. It was great times.

Nice. But he has a movie. That's part of why he coaxed him into doing this is because he's got a movie that opens on Tuesday. By opens, I don't know what that means. Some theaters and drive-ins. Not sure about On Demand. Because they're really,

theaters are really opening. Crazy. It's called The Second. The Second. So, there's your plug. Yeah, check out The Second. Donnie Rico. Matt Pellnett, what have you been up to?

Has Never Not Funny been, have you and Jimmy Pardo been cranking out episodes during this whole thing? Yes, we have. We actually are doing three episodes a week now. Mostly because Jimmy's bored at home and has nothing else to do. So we added a third episode a week and that's for our paying subscribers. We have like a premium thing that

the hardcore fans do so yeah we've been pretty busy and definitely didn't think we would still be doing this in August but here we are right I know we were all like oh we'll do these zoom shows for a couple of months that'll

get us to the next phase well thank you for Zoom shows for a couple of months. That'll get us to the next phase. Well, thank you for jumping in. Sure. And, of course, all the questions I have for Casper, I'm going to ask you. Go right ahead. I'm ready. Be ready for that.

I don't even have any questions for him. What's Dina Meyer really like? Yeah. That's a great. Who's Dita Meyer really like? Yeah, that's a great Who's your favorite Busey? It's always Gary. It's always Gary. Yeah, and also joining us

today with I believe a new album coming out soon. It's Open Mike Eagle. Yeah, you believe right. It doesn't come out until October, though. But it's one of those memory tests for me, the title. It's anime. What else?

Oh, trauma and divorce. It's those three things that don't go together overtly at all. It's one of those three word tests like I took in Super Jaime, overtly at all it's one of those three word tests like i took in super high me where like after ever i like you know cab avocado brick so um that's coming out on what date uh october 16th nice all right i know you feel weird about promoting it right now but uh well yeah man everybody's going through shit and i made an album about my own shit i was going through before the world fell apart so it's a little strange to uh you know first of all i'm trying to sell it which is weird um and then you know i'm trying to promote it during a

time when everybody's fucking depressed so i don't know it feels a little strange at the moment you know yeah but you're uh you know the what you put into your music uh it could soothe people or you know inspire people and so you know so many different ways i i think that music is the one thing where i think every musician should be making music right now and and just putting it out and whether it's you know whether they're getting rich off it or not just uh that's i think the music's the one thing that, you know, can really just make people feel better. Every, everything else. And even some music, obviously lyrically musics could be, uh,

music could upset people, but, uh, uh, you know what I mean? I just think that, uh, like Lady Gaga was like, I'm not going to put out my album. It's just like, well, why, why not? Like, yeah, you're not going to put out my album. It's just like, well, why not? You're not going to distract the world that much with your album. No, that's not what she means, though. She might be making this sound altruistic. What she means is all the stores are broken.

You know what I mean? So she doesn't want to miss out on that extra 500 grand that she would have made if all the vinyl stores were still open and all that sort of jazz. Yeah, that's the tricky part of like like that's what's going on with movies now is it's just a giant uh chess game because every movie you know they're doing the research and figuring out well is it gonna you know which way is it gonna do best for us in these circumstances why doesn't everybody just go the vod route i don't understand why they don't do that why they doesn't everybody just go the VOD route? I don't understand why they don't do that. Why they don't all just like sell it through Roku or whatever the hell.

Cause these blockbuster movies, uh, especially Christopher Nolan's tenant, but, uh, these movies in general, it's, it's all about the big screen. Like the,

Oh, the experience, the experience. Yeah. And it's just like, and the thing is, is that they can get, you know, they get the double hit with the, Oh, the experience, the experience. Yeah. And it's just like, and the thing is, is that they can get, you know,

they get the double hit with the, you know, if you have it in theaters and then VOD, then they're getting money for the same movie twice. Right. Going straight to VOD is really, you know, cutting into,

but to the point of like, it's, it's insane how far off they're putting some movies. I mean, like, I feel like suicide squad 2 isn't really actually done so they it's not such a big deal that it's a year from now but like the fast and furious uh number nine you know that was supposed to come out like in april and

now it's not coming out until next year it's it's just sitting there it's completely done we could be enjoying it i would love to see all i i i'm so bummed when i was bummed when uh tenant you know was pushed because i you know of course it'd be better to see it in the theater but i got nothing going on i'm just doing nothing you know what i you know what i noticed steve um yeah so the world was already shitty, but then everything got markedly shittier once the Jordan documentary ended. Like the day after that. The day after people were rioting in the streets.

Oh my God, how good was that? It was the best. It gave us the reason to live for a few weeks. It was great. So good. I wanted to just bring back to the show, not that I ever really did it regularly, but I think it's really interesting now that there is weekend box office

reports and I have the results for this, this particular weekend from the two theaters that are open. Yeah. Well, it turns out there's like over i think over 2 000 screens wow a lot of it's i guess is drive-ins but you know not not more than 20 i don't think i bet i know what number one was well it was the the one big movie that came out yeah uh the new mutants oh that was at theaters yeah oh

i would have said bill and ted oh no i'm talking about movies that are actually you know in uh in theaters it's bill and ted's playing at drive-ins but yeah it's i don't think i think bill and ted's just drive-ins and vod, I think. Oh, okay. I think this is talking about just domestic screens, you know, because there's just a lot of places that have opened up enough. And a lot of these theaters are just doing it at like 50% capacity with an empty seat in between each group. Right. But I still, I wouldn't.

And masks. I'm not going to watch a movie in the theater with a mask on that's where i draw the line that's it yeah i mean i'll go everywhere else with a mask on i mean i believe in wearing masks i'm just not gonna go sit in a movie theater like feeling like i'm in the middle of like unless the movie's contagion oh my god then it'd be like an immersive experience right yeah that's true i just had a fucked up thought like they should have movie theaters set aside for people who all have tested positive and they're then they're in there up and about where they can just go or like you know i'm sure

the industry would love it yeah it would be fucked up yeah antibody theaters yeah they should just do they should have those they don't have to distance they can pack them in yeah i think they should also maybe some places are looking into this yeah i think there should be more theater rentals where you just rent the theater and then you decide you know which and how many people are gonna be at your screen. That's a good idea. But again, that's like, that's a, you know, that's going to be for rich people. And that's not going to be fair. So forget I ever suggested. I did think it was,

it would have been possible to sell them at like 25% capacity with the way things are now. Like you see that at restaurants, people are sitting two tables apart. What's the difference? It's the same premise. Maybe not, though. I don't know. If you're in a theater,

maybe the air conditioning is blowing germs into your face. I assumed that that would be the first step and that we would be there by now. But I guess I'm glad they're being careful. There's so much money being lost. It's kind of insane. Yeah, and that's the, that's the big fight right now is people are mad at the governor of California

for refusing to let, you know, things open back up. And, uh, so they're like, now there's this big push to, you know, there's protests to try to get him out. Right. Wow. That is really an interesting thing. All the things that are going on right now and you're putting your energy into this guy won't let Disneyland open up soon enough. Right. Crazy. I know people need to get back to work. I completely get that,

but it's gotta be safety first, you know? The new mutants, like I said, uh, made $7 million. That's considered the number one box office champ for the weekend. And that movie is a, uh, you know, one of the, you know, one of the series of movies, you know, it's part of a franchise. So it's like, I bet you it would have made 50 60 million first weekend uh if things were normal uh number two is unhinged which was the number one movie last week that's the uh the russell crowe is mad about something

and takes a baseball bat to some headlights or something like that's what that's what i get from the oh that's the one where there was a viral video of him going around like talking about his movie and like getting really uh like aggressive about it did you see that i didn't see any of that but uh it does sound like something that would happen. He starts talking about his movie. And then as it goes on, he's like, starts getting really fucking aggressive.

It's, Oh my God. It's so good. Oh, I got to check that out. Um, and the rest is just like, you know,

SpongeBob on the run, uh, made, made 604 grand. It's, you know, SpongeBob on the Run made $604,000. It's, you know, the second SpongeBob movie, I guess. And then there's a movie called The Personal History of David Copperfield. I don't have any idea what that is. Maybe it's an arthouse movie. And then another movie that I am not familiar with called Words on Bathroom Walls. Might not be a movie. And then another movie that I am not familiar with called Words on Bathroom Walls.

Might not be a movie. Might just be a series of images. Sounds like a Ken Burns documentary. Let's see. I've done baseball and jazz. Oh, Bathroom Walls. The history of Words on Bathroom Walls. so those both made like uh 500 and 400 grand respectively so it's uh but that's that's the box office report is jesus so if you go to a theater right now those are your choices like that's it that's what you got well that and then also what they've been doing in a lot of places for a few months now

is like Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Jaws. They're showing the shit out of classics. Comfort movies. Yeah, because that's what they do at the drive-ins a lot too. Because drive-ins now are multiplexed. They've got to put together

four to six double bills at each drive-in. Because that's the other thing that's driving still do which is amazing to me is you know two movies yeah so it's always two the choices right now are so random I like looking at the drive-in theaters and just seeing the crazy double bills that they've been coming up with yeah you know like trolls world tour and have you been I've been movie Doug in the last few months coming up with. Yeah. You know, like Trolls, World Tour, and Invisible Man. Have you been to a drive-in movie, Doug, in the last few months? I went the other night to, they did an Amazon Prime,

did a series of drive-in events at drive-ins, two different drive-ins in Southern California. And it was curated by Michael B. Jordan and the premise of it, and it started at the beginning of summer, but the timing's been perfect. The premise of it is

black films, but that's also, they want to show popular ones. So I already talked about this on the show last week, but like one of the movies they show is they showed his hook, which on the face of it seems to me like it's about a white family, but there is Rufio. Yeah. Right. So the lost boys are ethnic mix. So that's why it got in there.

Wow. Yeah. I feel like that doesn't check either box. It's not a black film and it's not popular. Like who likes that? But well, the popular part is arguable. Every time I mentioned Hook on stage, the entire crowd chants Rufio without- Okay. I guess that generation maybe- Yeah. They're super into it. But you know, the night I went, they showed,

and also you'd have a choice between movies. So the night I went, it was either girls trip or coming to America. And since coming to America too is coming out later this year, that just put me in a mood to, you know, check that out. So me and my girlfriend went to the city of industry vineland drive-in theater yeah and uh just stayed in our car car with the windows rolled up and saw saw an old old movie that is way dirtier than i ever remembered it being i thought it was like a family comedy coming to america yeah oh no the royal penis is clean man oh yeah

very dirty it's very dirty blow job right at the beginning so dirty yeah and i also like i see it like on vh1 and shit so like they cut out the fact that all of eddie murphy's slave women in the beginning uh all of his servants i should say are uh topless or or you get a good shot of their butt and then they drop F-bombs. I think it's the debut of Samuel Jackson saying motherfucker in a movie. With much conviction.

That's when he robbed McDowell's, right? Yeah. He robs the place and Hakeem is really clever. He screws the mop end of his mop out off so that he just has the stick you don't need to mess around with the rest of that mop then he goes over there and he takes him down and with the help of this his particular his assistant simi played by arsenio hall it is so funny how many parts those two guys play in that movie.

It was almost like they were pranking Paramount by playing all the parts. And every time one of them shows up as a different character, it will not move the story forward. Suddenly they're just talking about

boxing for 15 minutes nothing to do with what's happening it's just there for fun and it and it really is fun um okay so what were we talking about why did i go on driving office gotcha all right well we got to play some games it's been a lot lot of talk here and people come for the games. So let's, let's get to that. We're going to start with one. It's brand new. It's called too fast. I'm furious. I like that title. Oh, you're not going to like this game.

I like that title. Oh, you're not going to like this game. I'm going to go to you first, Steve. I'm going to ask you a Fast and Furious related multiple choice question. Oh, no. Which the answer is one of these three things. Okay. The Fast and the Furious or Fast Five or furious seven okay those are your three choices okay the question if you get it wrong then we'll move to matt belknap who gets a shot at it if he gets it wrong

then boy oh boy open mikey go get that lucky point and then we just uh move from there first person to get two points wins the game okay it's just the first game it's kind of a warm-up don't don't put too much pressure on yourself steve agee yeah dwayne johnson's first appearance in the and Furious franchise was in. Fast Five. Which, God, there's a weird thing with my sound. I keep hearing. Sorry. I keep hearing answers before the question is finished. Is that your final answer? Yeah.

That is correct. That is correct. I didn't realize, and of course, you know, I try not to plan these games for specific people yeah I didn't realize I'd have such a Fast and Furious aficionado on well I will tell you because of this the the quarantine I've I took it upon myself early to start watching series like Harry Potter series and the Fast and the Fur furious series movies i had never seen so i've seen a lot of these movies now which uh do you have favorites

uh fast five i think was my favorite one i think it is the most entertaining one and then what about in the harry potter films um i'm really bad with the names of those ones did you like them though yeah and i thought they got better too as the kids got older and the the subjects got darker oh yeah i mean the first two i just when we come up and in company, I just eye roll and walk away. Yeah. I don't want to upset anybody. Azkaban just turned it around. And then I feel like, I feel like there's none better than that one. That's my favorite one. Yeah. Yeah. I think so too.

I think they went back, they fell back into the trap of just trying to adapt every goddamn thing that happens exactly instead of taking some license and you know making it more of a you know interesting film yeah but they're all you know they all have stuff they all have some value you know as long as dobby's not on screen i'm pretty happy the the jar jar of it's so funny too, because he's like so much in the second one and so annoying. And then he disappears for many of the movies.

And then when he shows back up again, it's just to die and make you feel sad that he's dying, even though you never liked him in the first place. Yeah, totally. Yeah. I mean, I really like felt sad when he died. I was like, damn you. Because if Jar Jar died, I, there's no way,

there's no way I would shed a tear. Probably not. I didn't cry over the Ewoks. Why would I cry over? I mean, I know only one, I think only one Ewok is really seen as dead. Yeah. There's that one sad shot where he's just limp on the ground well doesn't another ewok like try to move him and he doesn't oh right right yeah forgot about all of them it's like a puppy finding a dead puppy not so cute anymore are you oh no but it still kind of is. Okay, so it's still puppies.

So which, we'll start with you or go to you next, Matt. Steve's on the board with one point. So you really got to get this. And I'm pissed about that because I've seen like one or two of these movies, but I knew the answer to that one just by like, I could feel my way through that idea. But this one, I'm sure. Go ahead. feel my way through that idea but this one i i'm sure google go ahead which is the first

fast and furious movie to be over two hours in length the very first one was it the fifth one or the seventh one i saw the first one and i don't remember it being overly long so i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna go ahead and say it was the first one and I don't remember it being overly long. So I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to go ahead and say it was the fifth one. That seems like they, they would have gone all out on that. That is correct. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. That one suddenly two hours, 10 minutes. And they just keep creeping. Like, I think, I think Calvin and Hobbes was like, uh,

Calvin and Hobbes. I think it was, uh, I think it was three and a half hours long i think if you watch it next to the irishman they sync up yeah all right so matt got a point steve got a point here we go mike here's i've never i've never seen any of these movies not one all right well i still feel like feel like you might be able to figure it out. We'll see. I'm all heart on these. All feels. What was the

first Fast and Furious movie to be released in IMAX? Between The Fast and the Furious, Fast 5, or Furious 7? The Fast and the Furious Seven? The Fast and the Furious.

You think out of the gate they were just I don't know. They can't all be Fast Five. They can't all. That can't be the answer for every question. Or can they? Damn it. Incorrect.

My heart is fucked up. Let's go to Steve. Well, I'm under the same. I have the same theory as Mike. I don't think it would be fast five, three times in a row. So I'm going to go furious seven. That's incorrect. Jesus Christ.

I saw it on a fucking tv so all right matt this is yours to lose oh boy i dug i'm gonna say fast five you're gonna go with the one remaining answer yeah you're gonna assume that i know what i'm doing not only that but like be even though i haven't seen those later movies uh having been the producer of your podcast for 14 years i feel like it is exactly like you to just have the same answer three times in a row so i was feeling it all the way through i was feeling it's got to be fast five. All right. Well, you took that one down. But since he's, you know, I don't want to play this game again ever, so I'm going to, just for fun,

tell you the other ones we had here. Which one had the tagline, feel the speed, feel the rush? Hmm. Is this for anybody? Anybody, yeah. That definitely sounds familiar. is this for anybody or are we anybody? Yeah. That's definitely sounds familiar. I think I was the first one. I think it was the first one. Yeah. I'd say first.

See that one would have tricked you. Cause it was, it was fast five. Jesus Christ. After I just said that broke my own rule. Now this one narrows it down to two which which movie was released exactly on the 10th anniversary of the original fast and furious it was at the fifth one of the seventh one 10 years later i'm gonna say fast five i'm gonna go seven i abstain i'm you know what i'm gonna give mike the point no but that was that was also fast five

which movie is puerto rico as a double for rio de janeiro five also five and then a guy named matt Schultz is in multiple fast and furious, furious movies. Uh, which one of the three that we've been using in this game? Is he not in five or seven? Probably fast five,

I guess. I'm going to say, I'm going to go out on a limb and say fast five again all right steve yeah i'd say five you're all correct it's who is he is he like a stunt guy or is he is he an actual actor no he's an actual actor who his character um for whatever he gets his arm really fucked up in the first one by some metal blade or something. And then he shows up again in five and he's got like a scarred fucked up

arm. And then I forget how he manages to also get to, uh, I mean, he doesn't show up again until seven. So he's out from two through six. Oh wow. Yeah. He doesn't show up again until seven. Yeah. out from two through six oh wow yeah he

doesn't show up again until seven yeah it's weird I don't get it but Matt don't have you won that game no I tell you I'll tell you about your winnings I'll tell you about exactly what you won okay after these commercial messages how's that that's an amazing tease that's pretty good very nice yeah we'll be right back we're back matt i know you've had a little time to think about this oh yeah my mind's running wild there's so many things you could have won and uh what you win for uh taking down that first game is you're gonna go first in our final game today. Oh baby. Yeah.

And I don't know if you've noticed this one, Matt, because Ryan's been at the helm for a lot of these Douglas movies lately. Yeah. Have you been able to check out the game? Weird algorithm. It does sound a little familiar.

Tell me how it works, and I'll tell you if I remember. Because I've done a couple of these. Actually, I think I might have been producing when the last time Mike was on. Mike, do you know this game? I don't think he does. I don't recall. Yeah.

No, it's messed up. It's a weird algorithm because IMDB, the Internet Movie Database, has a function now where when you look up the cast of a movie, you click on the thing that says, see all it gives you the whole list. And then it says, Hey, you want to refine that list?

Would you like to see these people listed in the order of their popularity? Oh, that's rather, rather than billing. Yeah. No, no actor needs to find out about this. Oh my God.

Looking yourself up could be painful, but Steve, don't go near this thing. It's so tempting. actor needs to find out about this yeah my god looking yourself up could be painful but steve don't go near this thing i'm so tempted i mean you know i mean if you have reasonable expectations also it's probably not not that bad but for big stars it could be quite jarring some of the supporting players and bit parts in their in their movie are more popular today because i looked this thing up either yesterday or today, so it's like this is popular according to IMDB's algorithm, which is very strange and hard to figure out. Yeah, this is based on their proprietary star meter system.

Is that right? I think it somewhat is, but I don't, I, yeah, I don't know what, I don't know what boosts people up the most other than it does feel like being in the news in a big way does make their star meter go up. And then that makes them go up on this thing as well. So what if you're, what if you're famous because you murdered a bunch of people in real life? Does it make your star meter go up? I bet it does. Probably, yeah. I think if you're

also in movies or TV, unfortunately most of the serial killers aren't really known until they get caught. True. Yeah. I said unfortunately. Okay, so here's how it works.

Each of you will get a chance to go first, but Matt gets the first round. I'll name a movie, and Matt gets to be the first one to tell me who he thinks from that movie would be the top-billed person in the movie because that's worth the most points. If you name the top-billed person, you get three points. Second-billed, two. Third-billed, one.

Anything below that, you don't get anything. second build two, third build one, anything below that, you don't get anything. And you can also share answers and you can do all your math out loud. It's just a matter of making sure everybody's locked in on someone. Yeah, I do. I have heard you play this game. And I just remembered there was like a director was in there. Are you doing the directors are still involved too? Or is it, is it just cast

directors can slip in but i think in that case it might have been because that director you've played a cameo in in the movie oh right right yeah i think you're right yeah or yeah i think in fact also it was a cameo by a director who did not direct that movie right and it was confusing because yeah like their rating was high because of their directing work recently but they were a cameo in this movie and yeah so you have to kind of think that way too sometimes it's just hard to do yeah it's so weird i was uh you know jeff tate and i play this game on periscope every day where you know a movie trivia game and uh so i had to do some research on spies like us recently oh wow that john landis movie he had gotten so out of hand with the casting

cameos by other directors it is crazy how many directors have random little parts and and especially considering how terrible that movie turned out to have all these distinguished directors in there playing, you know, like David Cronenberg and shit like that. Weird. And it's a gag for nobody. Cause not even people who are fans of directors, especially back then tended to even know what they look like. Right. Yep. Um, okay. So anyway, here we go and you know like i said feel free to talk your way through all of this uh it's a shared information game because it's also something we could play on the internet uh assuming no one is cheating and looking stuff up on their uh there's no prizes so so why cheat that's what i say yet there's still people who would all right

none of you guys though no matt i almost called you casper that was close matt i mean casper's a fun guest to have just because how when in your life do you get to just constantly refer to someone by the name Casper? Appropriately. You never, yes. It's just, it's crazy. Okay. Um, the movie Matt is suicide squad.

Suicide. The first one. Uh, yes, yes. I don't, I don't know if it's the second one uh yes yes i don't i don't know if it's the second one do they have like the cast list on imdb already yeah i think so oh man okay so i should have looked at that but anyway this is the first one so yeah steve's feelings can't get hurt by this uh well they wouldn't be hurt anyway so i haven't seen this movie, but I, you know, I sort of have some clue as to who's in it. It seems like the obvious answer is Will Smith, but knowing how the algorithm is a little bit fickle and,

and weighted towards recent events. I feel like I have to think about that. There's Margot Robbie might be above him at this point. Who else is in it? Let me think about that too. Yeah, you know what? Because like what has Margot Robbie done recently? She had something going on this summer, didn't she?

She was promoting something. I'll say, I'm not going to overthink this. I'm just going to say Margot Robbie. All right. That's what Matt's working with. What do you think, Mike? I'm going to place a safe bet, man. I'm going to say Will.

I'm going to go ahead and say Will. I'm going to say he's top build according to the weird algorithm okay i mean they did just announce that uh they're gonna make a bright two oh no they didn't you're lying hey i'm telling you no way there's no way it's happening man i mean maybe it's not because, you know, everything's kind of up in the air at this point, but they intend to make a second. They're also making that the, the, uh,

dramatic one hour fresh Prince of Bel-Air series that he's producing. Have you heard about that? No, come on. No, that's actually, that's, that is real. That's real. And nobody wants it, but it's happening anyway yeah i guess it's got you know i think it looks like it's good it basically what happened is like a film student made a like a trailer about like what if the fresh prince was like riverdale basically yeah and then will smith saw it and he like went flew to like flew to wherever that guy was to meet him and talk to him about it. And then they partnered up.

I feel like Will Smith is the busiest man in the world who somehow also always bored. Don't understand it. He's like yawning while learning how to shoot a gun. Okay. So, uh, cause he has to learn new guns. Every, practically every movie he does yeah um what's your thought steve well i think based on algorithms matt's probably right with margo um

but i think maybe uh just to be just to give a different answer i i want to say viola davis but maybe also based on algorithms i i'll just go with david harbour oh okay oh you know jared leto's in that too ain't he that's true yeah that's another you know he could he could throw this shit off in a major way not that i'm gonna change my vote but maybe somebody else wants to all right so matt's going with margo mike's sticking with will smith and steve goes david harbour Harbor. Glad you all dodged a bullet on Jared Leto because he came in seventh.

Yeah. Third place. Somebody's getting a point. Will Smith. I'll take a point. I'll take a point. It's going to be more than one other of the players has. Whoa, okay. Third. I'll take a point. I'll take a point. Yeah. It's going to be more than one other of the players has.

Uh-oh. Coming in at number two, uncredited but definitely there, Mr. Ben Affleck. Wow. Batman. Fuck, I forgot he was in that. Damn. Yeah.

He shows up and he's like, Hey, what's going on? And, uh, and then number one, three points to Matt Belknap for Margo. Yeah. Yeah. Nice.

Still anybody's game. You don't know what movies I'm going to throw at you. You don't know how crazy the algorithm's gonna get uh who's up next uh mike yeah you're gonna go first this time uh i think this just celebrated an anniversary of major milestone uh the classic film purple rain oh okay okay yeah and mine must be reeling like why would he even jesus this one should wouldn't this just be obvious um i mean there's okay um jeepers man so i mean but the fact that you're asking it means there's there's a curveball in here somewhere uh and i i can't think i mean morris day is pretty but he wouldn't on it he ain't done nothing else in movies except except jay and silent bob or something um

okay i'm gonna since i'm gonna i'm gonna go ahead i'm gonna take prince i'm gonna take prince i oh okay i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna take prince all right yeah uh steve jesus um uh apollonia that was literally the only other name i could pull i thought of morris day and prince and apollonia those i can't even think of a third or fourth person i'll tell you this i'm getting this i'm getting this feeling like somebody who played one of his parents was famous and then but i can't remember who the hell they were yeah there's got to be real actors in it right like yeah and i just can't think of any of them i feel like his dad was somebody but i can't

remember who the hell it was hmm yeah probably someone who's still alive and and working so they would potentially be higher than prince uh so steve is that your final answer, Epilone? Yeah. My turn? Okay. All right. It's to me then. Yeah. Like I could just, I could take a complete shot in the dark and try to think of an actor who would have played like, yeah, like his dad or something, having no memory of who that would be uh but i think i'm just gonna play it safe and say prince because i can say i can also say prince right oh yeah yeah yeah okay that's that's fair i mean i think so let's go back to steve let's circle back do you still you still want to stick with

apollonia yeah just have a different answer yeah all right well we just said you don't have to have a different answer i know i know but some reason is if for some reason it's apollonia this is going to be huge yeah the only i will say the only other name that keeps coming to my head is uh edward james almost but i have no clue if he's in it i don't know why i think he would be in it but it seems like something he might have been in I don't know he's doing origami the amount of Doug laughter on the call right now tells me he is not in it I'm just like even trying to figure out if there was a

party could even play yeah I don't know yeah alright let's break it down um that's what i was trying i was trying to think if there's any larger parts for you know people who people not of color who are you know white or hispanic lisa and wendy yeah from prince's, they came in at number seven and eight. Number six. For a second I thought you were going to say they shared a spot,

like they had to share billing as one person, as a unit. But they did cover one after the other, and I'm not even going to say which came first, because if they're listening, I don't want them to feel bad. For sure it was Wendy, Wendy Melvoin. They're both very talented i i've seen them uh perform you know in various situations in there and i think they're great uh also great the great morris day he came in at number six wow six i know shocking and then fifth i didn't even write it down but

it's that like kind of uh there is that kind of girl, white girl with the white hair, who's like kind of a groupie who's trying to, or she wants to sing and she's trying to get in there, but they kind of dismiss her as a character pretty quickly, I think. And then fourth was the woman who plays Prince's mom. And now I can't think of it. It's Olga somebody. But coming in in third position Apollonia.

Apollonia. Good guess. He's on the board. Here we go. And then number two worth two points. Prince.

Now what the hell shenanigans is going on? worth two points. Prince! All right. Now, what the hell shenanigans is going on? Who directed it? Who directed Purple Rain? Oh, that's a good question. It was directed by... God, what's that guy's name? Okay, that's clearly... He did music videos.

It's not a guy who went on to direct a ton of movies. I think he only directed prince's follow-up movie and then that was it maybe i want to say ragnoli or something like that anyway uh there was a gentleman who played prince's father his abusive father so we know where where his character gets it from and And he was the star of a TV show in the 70s called The Mod Squad. Oh, yeah. And his name is Clarence Williams

III. I see. Number one. I have no idea why. What's Clarence up to? What has he done? I don't even think he's alive. Oh, my God. He beat Prince. I don't know how he did it. Prince in the movie. We know that. Yeah. No, he's alive oh my god how did he beat prince i don't know how he did it in the movie we know that no he's just he's continuing keeps beating him even in death he's won't let let up

i mean maybe maybe he's alive i take that back don't he must he must be in something or yeah there must be some recent project i uh i have no idea how he managed to pull it off, but good for him. Yeah. And we have a really tight game here, except for Steve. Matt has five points, Mike has three, and Steve has one. But. Fast five. Is it Vin diesel?

I think you get to go first this round though, Steve. That's exciting. Okay. All right. Clarence Williams. The third is still alive. Thank goodness.

Oh, good. That was a close one. Oh, while I'm there, I might as well see what his most recent credit is. Right. Yeah. Uh, close one oh well I'm there I might as well see what his most recent credit is right yeah yeah filmography oh there it is 110 things he's acted in and the last thing he did was in 2018 a movie called American Nightmares. Yeah. Whatever that is.

It pulled them out of retirement for it, I guess. The film, Steve, is The Lost Boys. Great. Which are they, they're remaking that, I believe, right? Is that in the works? I think that's the talk is that they're goingaking that i believe right is that in the work i think that's the talk is that they're gonna try to do it again good luck that's a classic it's a classic in terms of like i dig the tone of it and the visuals and stuff i guess it's kind of scary in parts, but it could, somebody could make a new one that definitely takes it in a different way.

Yeah. I, I, I, I feel like it doesn't hold up super well. It's, it's very eighties and, and, uh, very dated. Yeah. It's you're right. It has a distinctive style to it that, that Joel Schumacher style, but, uh, but it's, uh, it's, it's kind of corny. Yeah. And he really didn't do Corey Hayman any favors by decorating his room with a Rob Lowe poster. Oh my God.

He says he did it because Rob Lowe starred in his previous movie, St. Elmo's Fire. But it's a picture of Rob Lowe lifting his shirt up. Why would a 12-year-old boy or how old is he supposed to be? Why would he have that? Yeah, it's weird. Although, on the boy or what how old is he supposed to be why would he have that yeah it's weird although on the other hand though he is a weird kid yeah well i think it's it's like joel schumacher definitely wanted to get a little bit of like in the 80s you couldn't

just make a movie about gay vampires but he wanted to there to be some some gay vibes to the movie so he just anything like the dude playing the saxophone uh it's all oiled up and oh my god it was just a little bit of homoeroticism sprinkled on top of this standard hollywood movie well that being said what do you think ste Steve? Who's number one? God, for me, it's Between Two People. Born between two people. And this is based on algorithms, so this is probably what's current.

I like to think that, but Clarence Williams III hasn't been in a movie for two years yeah god damn it so I'll go with Kiefer Sutherland the fugitive that's right I was weirdly surprised that he's not the fugitive he's the guy chasing the fugitive

yes which makes sense it makes perfect sense perfect sense but i'm just sort of like why keifer the guy's been wrongly accused you seem like you're better than that than the guy who's been wrongly accused you know what i mean jack bauer wasn't about chasing the wrongly accused yeah he was into chasing people nobody knew was guilty or even knew existed. What do you think, Matt? Yeah, Kiefer Sutherland seems like the obvious choice. I'm trying to think if there's somebody in a small part.

I can't remember any of the actresses like who I know there were at least two of my first first teenage crushes. Oh, OK. But you're not going with that. So, you know, the name, but you're not here. Is it Jennifer Connelly? Is she in that movie? No.

OK. Was your crush Jason Patrick?rick nope it was rob low even the poster one of his best performances as that poster and the poster also is in as on the inside of the closet door right it's it's the subtext couldn't be clearer it's really wild yeah um okay so i i think honestly i was thinking of Kiefer Sutherland. And I don't think Jason Patrick's done much recently. So I feel like I can rule him out. But then I kind of weirdly feel like this could be a trick question.

And that maybe the living Corey, Corey Feldman, might actually be algorithmically the most relevant person in this moment, but I don't know why he would be. I'm just, I'm just to, I'm going to say Feldman though. What an interesting label, the living Corey. Okay. So Mike, you've heard a lot of talk. one. Okay. So, Mike, you've heard a lot of talk. I'm not good at this kind of stuff, so I'm

going to go with safe money, which means I'm going to answer in the least interesting way possible and also say key for Sutherland. Okay. I like that move. Let's see what it does. I tell you who my second would have been.

Who was that? Diane Wiest. Oh, yeah. She's so good. She's still working a lot. She's great. Oh yeah.

Yeah. She's a, and she also for a while, like remember on one of the law and order shows, she like had gained a lot of weight and now she's not, you know, she's, uh, back down to, I was going to say normal, but that's not, that's not fair. Steve, who was your crush?

It was Diane Weiss. Jamie, Jamie Gertz. Oh, Jamie Gertz. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Gertz was the lost girl. Right.

And Weiss was Coreyory hames a single mom just trying to make it work but then she starts dating a vampire tale as old as time okay number six bill s preston uh esquire is is in the movie alex winter that is correct oh yeah that's right yeah no there's a lot to choose from this is a complicated one um oh that's a good answer though because of the new bill and ted movie that he might be the top answer oh god it's too bad you're thinking of all this now i forgot he was in it and he's right on the poster like that's the you know the i can picture that poster and he's right on the poster. Like that's the, you know, I can picture that poster.

This is like two out of three of the people driving home from jeopardy. Oh, damn it. Only one winner. Coming in at number six is the Mr. Corey Feldman. Damn it. All the way at number six. Number five is Jason Patrick. And then in a stunning turn, at only four, Kiefer Sutherland. Get out of here. It's going to be Diane Wiest.

And number three is Corey Haim, which is impressive because he's been not with us for a while. Good for him. Number two, the aforementioned Alex Winter. Wow. Who barely speaks in Lost lost boys as i remember it right and number one jamie gertz no wow hey what is she doing right now what isirtz doing right now to get the number one spot? Is she on a TV show or something? She must be.

Huh. I did a movie with her, a Jeff Garland movie that she was in. That was like five years ago. Oh, okay. So that maybe it's, you know, just now catching on. That means your star are rising, Steve. What was the movie called? Do you remember? Yeah, Dealing with Idiots.

It was about little league parents. Oh, I was hoping it took place in a casino. Dealing. Dealing. So that means that Matt Belknap's our winner. Oh, hey. Wow. You did it. Thank you. Yeah, you took it down. It's great to have you back. Last minute edition. Yeah. And you won the thing. Do you have anything that you'd like to promote? You know, what's funny is two things I've been recently doing in quarantine. I've been watching

Superstore, which features Steve Agee, so I've been enjoying Steve on that show a lot. And I just started listening to Open Mike Eagle's podcast, What Had Happened Was, which is about the great rap producer Prince Paul. So check out those two things before those guys

even get to promote them. Well, that's just lovely. So check out those two things before those guys even get to promote. Well, that's just lovely. They're not going to plug shitty. I know that's okay. I mean, check out never not funny if you want to listen to a different comedy podcast when you're done with this one. But, but yeah,

finish this one first. Yeah. Finish this one. It's almost over. You're so close, so close to being done with it. but yeah check out never not funny wherever you get podcasts and then uh and then check out mike's podcast if you like uh 90s hip-hop because it's great and uh and super stores super entertaining my whole family where i'm watching it with my kids and they love

it so yeah nice they don't go blue at all in superstore. They do actually do. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of goes over their heads, I guess. We say fuck a lot and they bleep it. They just bleep it. They really do. It's crazy. I know. I love that. I love that they do that. Um, but yeah, it's, and there's, there's definitely adult themes and topics, but, uh, but yeah, like there's a, there's, there was one episode where there's like some uh just very open abortion jokes flying around and i was like okay this is cool i get to explain to my eight-year-old son what an abortion is now but he didn't ask you i think

he just decided i'll figure that out later maybe what's a good gorshin. Well, thank you, Matt. Open Mike Eagle, the new album is called Three Words. Anime, Second Word, and Divorce. See, I'm getting closer to learning it. That's good, man. Third Time's a Charm, maybe, but Anime, Trauma, and Divorce, October

16th. That'll be on all of the music things. Lovely. Thank you for being here. Of course. anime trauma and divorce october uh 16th that'll be on all of the music things lovely thank you of course steve agee star of superstore i don't know the alec guinness of the next suicide squad there we go now we're talking multiple roles um what else anything else no i think that's it i mean superstore actually starts up again in a couple weeks and i'm i'm scheduled to do a few more so keep an eye out for that and then the suicide squad next august so they're like gonna do some safe shooting of that show somehow they They are every from everything I've heard. It sounds like really, really safe. So it doesn't mean I'm not really fucking nervous, but yeah. Yeah. It's going to be weird. Cause it's kind of like, you know,

sets are already kind of tense. Cause everybody's, you know, trying to do good work or whatever. And then to have this on top, to have that extra concern on top of it uh it seems like a bummer but at least you know at least people will be working and uh and making that show that uh that matt can watch with his family despite all the fuck bombs your family fuck bombs yeah exactly uh i'm doing my first internet stand-up headliner show and meet and greet at rush ticks.com t-i-x rush ticks.com to get your tickets it's on saturday october 3rd at 4 20 pacific time i'll have special guests it'll be fun speaking of special guests thank you one more time to open my eagle steve ag

and casper van dean i wanted to say the last line from i've been closing with last lines from movies and i wanted to say the last line from uh starship troopers to end show, but it's so hard to find sometimes what the last line of a movie is just by asking the internet. Yeah. But I think it goes like this. Are you ready with the end theme, Matt? I am indeed.

All right. I think it goes like this. We need you all. Service guarantees citizenship. 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!