Doug Loves Movies - Ben Kolina, Gabe Mollica and Samantha Ruddy guest

Episode Date: April 1, 2024

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Doug hates candy wrappers screening baby sticky seeds with 50 ads at Popcorn Colonel's 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 movies recorded on Sunday, March 31st, 2024 for your April Fool's Day listening pleasure. My guests today are Ben Kalina, Gabe Malika, Samantha Ruddy. Hello. Hi, Doug. Doug, what's up? Hey, Doug. Doug what's up hey Doug let's meet everybody individually and alphabetically

my first name which in today's case is the same as alphabetically by last name just worked out that way that might be a first he is going to be appearing with me Sunday night April 7th at Rooster Teeth feathers in Sunnyvale, California. It's been Kalina. Happy New Year Ben. Hey, thanks for having me Are you a psyched for Sunday? I am I'm all juiced up for it. I'm getting right good, I I always try to get my support acts to hit the gym and also inject stuff into their bodies just to get ripped and ready.

Doing it Bash Brothers style. I don't know what that means, but it sounds fun. It's a steroid reference. Oh, okay. I'll take it. He has a solo show about friendship called solo a show about friendship. It's Gabe Malika. Happy New Year, Gabe. Happy New Year, Doug.

It's nice to be back. Are you doing anything special today for Easter? Yeah, we I had to do Doug Lowe's movies at five. So mom had dinner ready at 330. It's a real Italian fest over here. Did you really have to bump up the whole meal? The whole yeah. Oh yeah. Mom was ready to go. She was a half hour earlier. I got it. I love that. It really sounds like, uh, you know, uh, moon struck, but it takes place now. Absolute moon struck vibes in the house.

That's the one thing that's missing from the classic moon struck is somebody saying they need to, uh, my dad having to go back to the office. It's a big day. Yeah. Uh, and, And my dad having to go back to the office It's a big day Yeah and And with a new special coming out on May 28th Samantha Ruddy is here. Hey Samantha Hey, thanks for having me told me be here. Oh happy to forgot almost forgot

I'm happy to forgot almost forgot Would that be funny if I decided to stop saying happy new year, that's when I gave up on it for the year is in between one intro and another Tell us about your special. I know it's coming out like a couple months May 28th Kind of far off, but you never know when somebody's gonna listen to an episode of a podcast So tell us all about it now Yeah, I'm just I'm just trying to get the general awareness out there I have a special called baseball mom that I filmed last year in Los Angeles at 4 p.m On I believe Passover. So, you know know it was a it was a fight but

I'm so proud of how it came out and I'm really excited for people to watch it. So May 28th Baseball Mom it's gonna be available for purchase on like Apple TV Amazon etc. I love it and you know you never know like if you hit a winning streak here on the show, you could still be appearing, you know, on episodes all the way through the release of the special. That's my long game. Yeah, I know you've had a long run in the past so it's not it's not inconceivable, as Walsh-Shan would say. I'm just trying to get past the sophomore slump, you know, my second run at Doug Love's movies. Let's see if we can recreate the magic. Yeah, exactly. Before we play some games today, I'd like to get some recommendations from everybody I'd like each one of you to just

recommend one movie could be old new bar blue whatever whatever Ben Kalina do you have a motion picture experience you'd like to recommend I do it's actually one that I've been meaning to watch again because I think it just added it to Netflix. But Mr. America, the Tim Heidecker movie where he goes on trial. It's very funny. Oh, my goodness. Tim Heidecker. Boy, that guy, whenever he shows up. Anywhere, you know, on stage or in a movie or TV show, you just it's not sure what you're going to get,

in a movie or TV show, you just it's not sure what you're going to get, but it's probably going to be hilarious and potentially misunderstood. Is this guy really wanting us to hate him this much? So. What's more about this one? I have not seen this one yet. It's called Mr. America. Yeah, it's like, uh, it's kind of like a reality tv style documentary about him going on trial for accidentally killing people at a music festival running for office at the same time.

It's really ridiculous and just, I don't know, super insane. ridiculous and just I don't know super insane. Yeah, I'm into it. I'm excited that it is on Netflix or wherever it happens to be because I am a fan of that guy. I saw him, I did a benefit a while back where he you know he did a stand up set and his stand up was just like every cliche and every shitty attitude that a comic takes on when jokes aren't working, like he had it all. And it was so damn funny. Love that guy. And he did, I had him on when I was doing the Dining

with Doug and Karen podcast where we'd sit and get a free meal and just talk about it. Um, I had him on as a guest one time and he could not have been more nice and polite and charming. And like, you know, I mean, it's like, there's some people, they get a reputation. Then when they show up and they do that, you're like, well, wait a second, this isn't the Steve O I ordered. You're like, well, wait a second. This isn't the Steve. Oh, I ordered

What are you gonna put something in your butt But anyway Great choice. I'm gonna check it out. Gabe Malika. What have you got to recommend? This week I rewatched burn Reading, the Coen Brothers movie. OK. And it made me think that and this is high praise, but it made me think that this was it was the spiritual successor to the Big Lebowski in that like it's like a heist kind of thing or like there's like a big mystery and it's just like the world's dumbest people. And I have a new appreciation for this movie. Even like it feels underrated, even though there's huge movie stars in it. In this way.

Well, speaking of dumb people, as you were saying that I, you know, I write down what your picks are. And I actually wrote down burn after burning. Burn after reading is. One of those movies where. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Burn after burning Burn after reading is one of those movies where for me personally it It's a little hobbled by the fact that the first scene in the last scene of the movie are the two funniest scenes in the entire movie because it's JK Simon's and

David Rash as to like what they're like FBI guys or CIA or something. Yeah. And just discussing what you're about to see and then wrapping it up at the end. And it's both those parts of it are really funny. I'm just like I don't like when overweight person or a gay person plays an overweight or gay person in a movie now, like when there's plenty of people that could just play the role or like, you know, Colin Farrell's playing ugly people when there's plenty of those, you know, be handsome Colin Farrell in movies, what I say. But that being said, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, when especially George Clooney, when he plays dumb, I don't buy it.

Sure. Because you want to believe that. I can't look at George Clooney and go, yeah, he's playing. He's a dumb guy. OK, got it. That's that's dumb, dumb guy, George. Sure. Well, Frances McDormand so worried about being attractive in the movie,

and she's sleeping with George Clooney. I'm like, you're hot enough to get George Clooney. What is the issue? Yeah. Her character is really dumb. But I've been vaguely checking into this thing that's happening now where the Coen brothers are making movies separate from each other all of a sudden. I don't love the result in either case. So I'm wondering if they're forever not making films together or if they're going

to come in and out of it, like do solo films and come back together. Because they're not big on interviews and explaining what they're up to. So there's not much evidence to suggest one, one way or the other. Like, I don't think they had a fight, but they definitely made two very different kinds of movies. I wonder if it's a hall and Oates style feud. Yeah, I don't know.

Or if the one brother, the one that did the Shakespeare, he did the Denzel Washington, Francis McDormand Shakespeare movie. The other guy, the other one did a lesbian road comedy. So that shows a divide right here, I guess, of where their interests lie. But anyway, I'll investigate that further, but thank you for that recommendation. Samantha, Lauren D. What's the lesbian road trip comedy for my files?

I already forgot what it's called. It's got... It's Kristen Stewart, right? It's Kristen Stewart and, uh, uh, quality, uh, or, uh, Margaret quality and, um, No, Kristen Stewart's in another thing called, um, Oh, that's right. It's more, I just saw love life leading. Yeah. Yeah.

No, this is Margaret quality and, um, uh, actress who I can't think of her name, but it's like a road trip. They, you know, accidentally murder a guy or something. And it's got real Coen Brothers kind of wackiness, but also very lesbian forwarder. Oh, how are you? Lesbian forward rule? However you'd like to.

How are you like to describe? That was great. I'm gonna find it. Maybe it's drive away dolls, Ryan. I'm'd like to describe. That was great. I'm going to find it. Maybe it's Drive Away Dolls, Ryan. I'm going to get to the bottom of it. That's what it's called. Oh, cool. Drive Away Dolls, yeah.

Sweet. Well, my movie, I did see Love Lies Bleeding yesterday, but I'm still digesting it. So I'm going to go with a very safe recommendation. I love the Holdovers so much. And I have not been on Doug Love's movies since I watched it. So I'm liking the Holdovers. That movie really hits with people because it does get recommended before and after and

during awards season, it's kept coming up. So it really sticks with people. I loved it. I love a period piece that's set in the 70s, 80s or 90s. I know that's a horrible thing to say, but I said it. They are technically period pieces. I love a good coming of age story.

So it was a great hit for me. Yeah, it was really interesting movie for me because I heard so much about it without having seen it. I was really late to watch it. And once I finally did, I certainly regretted not seeing it in the theater because I think the laughter of an audience would make that movie less bleak than it was at home. Yeah, you know, the laugh lines were making me laugh out loud. I was just sort of just sort of saddened by the whole situation. Yeah, I understand that I I did not take that away from it, but I walked with someone who was like Oh, that was a tragic tale

Yeah, no, it's funny People are reacting to it Differently and that that's part of I think what makes it great. I also just had a hard time getting over like I was like have Paul Giamatti's eyes always been this crazy or yeah is this is this a special effect like what you know and then to have other characters insulting you know making fun of his eyes I was like damn like is this is this a new direction we're gonna Giamatti's just gonna be that guy with the crazy eyes, but uh, no, contact lenses, I guess? They were very painful for him to wear, so I, you know,

okay, there you go, that explains the grouchiness. Like, what a great way to get into character, painful contact lenses. Yeah, he's method. Yeah. I wonder if Buscemi did that to play crazy eyes in Mr. Deeds. That's the real question. Same technology. Probably called him up. Steve Buscemi just showed up in an episode of Cobra Enthusiasm as like, you know, Frank Wilburger, like, like like with a made up name, but could could easily be playing, you know, the Steve Buscemi that you'd see on a show like

Curb, which is like somebody who would just get into an argument with Larry the way Ted Danson does. But then you got Vince Vaughn running around playing a Funkhouser and Tracy Allman as another kid like the show whenever a famous person walks on the screen You don't know if they're gonna be themselves or a character And either way the mix I don't I don't care for it. I wish they didn't do that Yeah, I felt like Buscemi's too famous to be doing that with In a show where people are playing themselves. Yeah. A lot. You know, it's weird to have, because also it's a funny scenario because he's like selling his car, selling a fancy old car to Richard Lewis rest in peace. And, uh, but it's still like, it was just so funny to just think, well, he could have just been, cause Ted dancing,

you know, gets into arguments with Larry David on the show all the time. And Ted Enns is not worried about people thinking that's what he's really like. But anyway, that's my current minor beef in a world with much bigger issues. Thank you for those recommendations. We got to take a break. But when we come back back Games will be right back We're back and the first game we're gonna play today is a fan favorite called ABCDs nuts And this is a game where I will tell you

What we are spelling today, and then you will take turns Starting with the first letter of what we are spelling today and then you will take turns starting with the first letter of what we are spelling. We'll start with Ben. He'll name a movie that begins with that letter, any movie from the history of motion pictures. And then if it matches the movie I've written down in advance, then you win obviously that'd be hard to pull off on your first go, but you never know When it's gonna happen and then and then we move on to Gabe gets the next letter And then Sam and I'll keep telling you what letter it is. You don't have to worry too much about Getting skipping ahead and figuring that out and there is a theme

that will emerge after you start to hear a few titles I hope maybe this one this one is I think is a tough one but we'll see the season is here in fact it's April Fool's Day so that's what we're gonna spell April Fool's Day So that means the first letters a Ben start us off name any movie that begins with a you match me Boy without it that would be an Easter miracle right there Movie that begins with a Alpha isn't a movie that begins with a

Alphas in a movie shit. It's wild that it hasn't been turned into a movie. It should be a movie. And a girl should tackle that. I'd like to see a few good men. That's a oh, that's fun. Yeah, you're actually a movie for the an A. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, you're actually a Movie for the letter a I went with a different film Motion picture called about time Okay

Yeah, it was a time travel thing with Donald Gleason and Rachel McAdams Alright, alright, so that's all you have to go on now for the next letter which goes to Gabe Gabe the letters P because we're struggling April Fool's Day, so Give me any movie begins with P that you think Has some sort of thematic connection with the movie about time About time I'm gonna say Peter Pan that you think has some sort of thematic connection with the movie about time.

About time, I'm going to say Peter Pan. Oh, that's a fantastic guess. Because there's, you know, there's things about like aging and time and both of those works. But no, that is not the answer I'm looking for. I'm looking for the motion pictures just up for a few Oscars. Past Lives. Okay so we got about time and past lives and R is the next letter for Samantha. What do you got? What's up? Um What do you got? rear window Oh

Love it great great movie starring Steve Gutenberg Oh, no wait that was like a ripoff of rear window that starts Steve Gutenberg That was like a ripoff of rear window that starts Steve Goodenburg Yeah, I think of rear window just because he's observing multiple lives I like it. So I was I was kind of like it on R and I was like maybe you know, yeah That was it was a decent stab But the movie that I wrote down Raiders of the Lost Ark yeah what's that about back to you Ben with the letter I all right how about Indiana

Jones and the Temple of Doom oh my, that would have been so fun. That would have been a great win for you. If that had worked out in your favor, but that is not what I wrote down. I wrote down a motion picture called Ice Age. Good one. I've seen that. They think they've made like how many Ice Age movies are there now five? I think so four Like I don't even I you know in my own games. I insist that people get the subtitles right But I couldn't tell you the subtitles of all the ice age movies. I think one of them is collision course

Maybe Another one is give me back those nuts Is it really called that no, I don't think so. I Said three give me back those nuts Does anybody know any of the other ice age movie so I need the meltdown. Yes meltdown Any any other ones? Go north and prosper I Can't think of any other ones

I know I'm pretty sure they all had them You know like the Toy Story movies. They just they just do numbers. They don't fuck with the subtitles That's right Pixar is usually a little cleaner. Yeah. Yeah, they go crazy Yeah, it really is weird. Okay What was it? What letter we are what's happening? Oh L is the next letter And it goes to Gabe. I'm gonna say lalaland Where's my hang on a second? And it goes to Gabe. I'm going to say La La Land.

Where's my hang on a second? That is the correct. That is the matching answer. La La Land is what I wrote down. Nice for reals. Can you believe that? Ben, are you stunned? I'm amazed. Samantha, do you feel like it Ben, are you stunned? I'm amazed.

Samantha, do you feel like it was rigged or something? Little bit. What did you think? Did you think of a movie for L in your own head? No, I didn't. I knew I was going to be F, so I was trying to think of F. What F did you come up with? Freaky Friday. Oh, dang. trying to think of F. What F did you come up with?

Freaky Friday. Oh dang. Ooh, that's good. I thought it'd been so amazing if we matched two in a row. But the F that I had was Fargo. Oh, okay. Fargo, yeah. And then for O, I went with O starring Mikaay Pfeiffer. I think he was in that. Oh, I went with Oh, starring Mika Fieffer.

I think he was in that. It was Shakespeare, but you know, modern, modern Shakespeare called Oh. And then I couldn't for the next Oh and Fools, I really couldn't think of another Oh movie that fit the themes as well as this one. So I just went with Oh again. And then I would have been so mad if we had gone to the end and it was, oh, again,

you just got to come in and guess, well, what about, oh, again, you know, a sequel to, oh, called, oh, again. Oh no. Oh no. Again. Um, called Oh, again. Oh, no. Oh, no. Again. And then so that's the same thing happened for L as I just went with La La Land a second time, given it, given everybody a second chance at that one. And then for as I picked Saltburn and for D Damsel, this new movie with Millie Bobby Brown from TV, from Netflix. And then Stranger Things. And then for A, I went with About Time again.

It's just such a perfect answer. I was really determined for somebody to win this thing. And then for why I went with year one, the comedy that I keep hearing is underrated. Like it was a bomb at the time. Oh, was that Michael Cira? Yeah, Jack Black and and it was Probably the last film Directed by I want to say who was it I'll think of it in a second. Anyway. Anybody got the theme figured out?

Is those what? Oh, movies with those like la la la. It's like multiple timelines, right? It's the dumbest. You are going to hate me. The theme is April Fools, there is nothing. Oh my God.

We don't lose it. We don't lose it. Oh my God. That's why you're so shocked when Ben won. Yeah, no, there really wasn't. There is a theme. Well, I think he said La La Land just because, you know, not to take away from your win.

It was Gabe that said it, right? Yes. Yeah, not to take away from Gabe. Gabe, I'm so sorry. Not to take away from Gabe's win. But you know when you when you said think of a movie against L You start going you know like it just is right there. I feel but yeah, I almost said little giants Which would have been embarrassing yeah, see that would have been like what what are you even doing? I'm kidding about they're not I do it'd be funny to say that it was April Fool's joke that there wasn't a theme

But there genuinely is a theme, but it's insanely hard to suss out theme because it's movies that would have been like probably the You know biggest most popular known movie to be like at the very beginning of its letter of the alphabet when alphabetized. So like if you were looking for these movies alphabetically, if you just started A, About Time would be one of the first titles you get to. Like there'd be other ones like there's a movie called Aardvarkark but who even knows what the hell that is.

So I wanted you to have a chance of matching. So that's what it is. It's all movies that come out very early in the alphabet in the letter that they start with, which is, you know, why would any of you figure that out? That would be really impressive. That would be really impressive Figuring out my dumb Stoner mind all right We got one more game to play that was just a warm-up this next one is gonna make even less sense and be more infuriating Can't wait. We'll be right back We're back and

So who ended up winning that game? Gabe won that game. He won the first game and you know, let's see if he can to Pete as we like to say in sports because he's got one more game to win the final and second game that determines Who becomes a champion and goes on to? Compete again sooner than the other players who are of course invited back like pretty much Whenever they want to come back. All right That means that Gabe gets to go first In our next game.

And so the order flips around. So it's going to go, Gabe's going to start, then we'll go to Ben, and then we'll go to Samantha. In a new game I just created, this is another one that's seasonal. I say, why fight March Madness when you can become a part of the problem? And this game is called Brackets Smackets. Or take these brackets and shove it, any kind of disparaging expression involving brackets because everybody's, you know, bragging about making their damn brackets for the

Everybody's bragging about making their damn brackets for the college basketball, the children's basketball games. So I wanted to be a part of the madness. So here's how this game works. We're going to go through four groups, three each of motion pictures about basketball that are considered to be amongst the best in the genre of

basketball films With each group Each one of you is going to pick movie that you think when a poll was run on ex-formerly Twitter, which movie came out on top in a flash poll, if you will. And then I'll explain how this works as we go along further, but the idea is, you wanna get the right answer each time because you get eliminated if you don't.

And you can pick the same answer with other people if you want, but strategically, you might wanna change things up at some point. Let's start with group one, the three films, and you can ask me questions about the films, I may or may not have seen them, but I know enough about them to tell you what they are. The three films are Coach Carter, Hustle,

and The Way Back. So you got like a Sam Jackson, Adam Sandler, and a serious Adam Sandler, or more serious than a lot of his movies. Then the way back is Ben Affleck. Starting with Gabe, which one of those do you think would win in a poll? Best basketball movie? This is tough because I know which one I like the best,

but I got to figure out what people like. I'm going to say hustle. Okay, so Gabe's going hustle. And then we bring it over to Ben. What do you think, Ben? You can also pick hustle if you feel as strongly as Gabe does I'm well I can I ask you like a clarifying question Mm-hmm is Shaq in any of these movies I? Don't think he is But I think you might make a cameo appearance in hustle, so I'm gonna go with hustle he might yeah, he might That's it. That's a really that's an excellent point. I'm going with the shack theory. Okay, it's popular

I like it. All right, so That leaves Samantha. What do you think between coach Carter? hustle and the way back I think the crowd favorite here is going to be Coach Carter. That's your pick, Coach Carter? Yeah. You're not going with these other fools with their hustle? I don't think it's hustle.

I like Coach Carter the best for sure. I think other people will agree with you. It doesn't count for anything. Yeah, exactly. I think a lot of other people are going will agree with you. It doesn't count for anything. Yeah, exactly. I think a lot of other people are going to agree with you. All right. So I do this is going to be an interesting game that I created because you just don't know what's going to happen,

but you try to plan it out so that it'll all come together. In this particular case, the movie that's moving on in the brackets is a little something called coach carter samantha is the only one of the three of you to get that right and to move on now here's where there's a twist if at any point as we move through the brackets, at any point Samantha misses, then it's a reset and all three players, we start, we continue on through the brackets with all three players, but let's see how far Samantha can get on, just on Samantha's knowledge alone.

You don't have anyone with you there, do you Samantha? No, I do not. I'm very alone, Doug. Some would say too alone for an Easter Sunday. Oh, no. All right. Group two. From these three films, which one do you think is the most popular, is the best basketball movie according to Randos?

Is it Air, another Ben Affleck thing? popular is the best basketball movie according to randos is it air another Ben Affleck thing glory road featuring that guy is the voice of Home Depot and then Josh Lucas and then white men can't jump with Woody Harrelson and Leslie Snipes and... Yeah, I'm gonna go White Man Can't Jump. Rosie Perez, you're going White Man Can't Jump? Well, guess what? There's no reason to belabor this,

but yes, indeed, that's what people chose, White Man Can't Jump. Nice. All right. We're off. The air was interesting. I didn't get around to seeing it. I didn't like it.

When it came out, everyone was raving about it. It was the best thing ever. And I was like, there's no way that this story that we all know exactly what happened, there's no way they can make it that amazing. And then as award season came and went, like he ended up getting nothing. Like it was really the darling of the first part of last year. So you didn't like it, Samantha? I thought it was boring.

And I say that as someone who loves sneakers, I just thought it was too dry. Yeah, just a bunch of men sitting around discussing how they can sell more sneakers. It was so much talking and so little doing. All right, so congratulations on you're still moving forward without the other two players. Let's see how you could do with group three. The three options are he got game, which is Denzel semi pro with Will Ferrell and blue chips with Nicknolty which I was disappointed with because I just thought it was gonna be a movie about Mexican food blue chips

Because I love a good blue corn chip Is that why the chips are blue on JetBlue? It's gotta be. Oh, that makes sense. Cause I just thought it was an excellent chip to choose in general, but I never put it together that they're. All right. Okay. I am one of those three. So I'm trying to think of like, what do people have an emotional connection to? And I know that my little brother, when as a tropics player for Halloween, a couple years

in a row, I think there is a crowd out there for semi pro. I'm going to go with that. You're going semi pro. I'm going semi pro. I'm going semi pro. Okay. Could you tell the disappointment in my voice when I asked you that? No, wrong. Yeah, it went to blue chips. Oh, yeah. Bomber. What are you gonna do? I it feels I don't know what to make of that necessarily but obviously You know three choices that ended up coming very close together like they're all three Percentage wise we're like in the 30s, but blue chips won out with

36% of the vote I believe Alright, so a little better. Yeah, it was close. It was very close. Okay. So now all the players are back in. We're starting with Gabe once again. And Gabe, you get first crack at that group four. And as you can imagine, the brackets are going to start to thin down till we are going to reveal and discover what is Factually now the best basketball movie of all time For anyone who needs a basketball movie to watch that when they're busy watching all this basketball all right Hoosiers

Baseball Hoosiers is of course Gene Hackman baseball with the Dudes from South Park and Space Jam oh Oh wow Classics all in their own Yeah Yeah, well okay when I when I met Bill Murray one time at a restaurant, I thanked him for being in Space Jam.

And it's I I didn't go with my heart last time and it cost me. And so I'm going to say Space Jam. Has the movie Space Jam ever come up in conversation near you and you didn't say that that happened No, no, it's now my fun fact bill Murray anything in the orbit of this It's just fun, you know, everybody has some you know There's just some like, you know, they kind of trigger a story when just when there's certain You know movie comes up you know all right so

but you're going your ears go with your heart say space jam let's see what Ben thinks what do you think between Hoosiers baseball and space jam I guess I I mean so far I think is proven true because he was in Blue Chips. I don't think he was in Space Jam, still gonna go with Space Jam though. Okay, that's fair. I hate to jump on board, but I'm also going Space Jam. All three of you are saying space jam.

That is an interesting development. And it's certainly, it's absolutely what I would have thought was going to happen because people have, they have a very strange to me anyway, a strange fondness for that movie. And I guess the new space jam just really kept those people in the gut because it really like was bad in all new and special ways. So it just was like, well,

you didn't even go you didn't even do what I assume they set out to do is fix what was wrong with Space Jam. And it turns out what's wrong with it is what people love about it. You know know I mean Okay, so you're a big space damn fan right Gabe. Yeah, I would say so and you know acknowledging its flaws Yeah, but you know those little those little weird characters that Hang out in the movie that they look like little like germs or something before they become the Monstars for sure Yeah, yeah, yeah, what are they called? What are their names? That's a great question. They become the Monstars before that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What are they called? What are their names? That's a great question. They become the Monstars before that. I don't know if they have names they do

They don't do they they have names because they have you know, they have dumb names for when they aren't the Monstars yet like squiggles and fart breath and stuff like that anyway, I don't know what they're called either but Stuff like that. Anyway, I don't know what they're called either, but... It's just funny, like, even someone who's fond of that movie, I don't think those characters caught on in any way. I used to have, like, I think I still do in a drawer somewhere,

I used to have... There were stuffed versions of those characters that I think they thought were gonna be huge sellers, and then, you you know nobody cares Okay, so all that being said the answer is Hoosiers Damn Yeah, yeah, they were in Hoosiers, so now we've narrowed it down to we've got four movies. And so two more brackets to narrow it down to two movies. And then, of course, finally, a winner. So

we're all back in it again, we all get to weigh in on this next one, starting with Gabe. Coach Carter versus white men can't jump. Which one in a new vote, a separate vote, this isn't based on the numbers they got against other movies. This is just head to head coach Carter versus white men can't jump. Which one takes it? Got it. White men can't jump. can't jump which one takes it. Got it.

White man can't jump. Gabe's going strangely. He's sticking with his own kind. He's going with the white men. What about you, Ben? We'll go coach Carter. I like it. Mixing things up a little bit.

Samantha. I'm going coach Carter as well Well, this is a crazy development because head-to-head white men can't job Troused coach Carter and so that means that Who said why they can Joe gave me gave said it. So gave your back to being you weren't there before, but you're now going solo on this next one.

If you miss it, everybody gets a chance at the win. But if you get it right, you could go all the way. Are you ready? Okay, I am ready. Do you remember which two movies this would be? No, my brain is broken. It's between Blue Chips and Hoosiers. Oh, goodness.

Yeah, which one do you think the people that have already thus far anointed white men can jump over coach Carter, yeah, tell you in the matchup between blue chips and Hoosiers, Doug, I can't tell if you're playing with me because I really, before you said that I was sure it was Hoosiers. Now I'm not sure. I'm going to say Hoosiers. You're going to stick with Hoosiers. Yes.

Taking down Blue Chips, which was like, wasn't it like directed by William Friedkin or something? It was an intense basketball movie with Nick Nolte screaming and spitting everywhere. But I don't remember much else about it. Hoosiers, of course, not only starred the great Gene Hackman, but also we got the dirt on some past episodes of what the director of Hoosiers and the writer of Hoosiers both did not care for Mr. Gene Hackman one bit.

Really? Yeah, that was some juicy ass tea that we got. They did not care for that man. And I've I've heard other stories, so great actor, but Jerry still out on if he's or to be around. But he sure is. I sure gives Hoosiers a lot of heart, even though he gave the writer film and the director of the

film a very hard time and probably cases of heartburn. But in this match up with Blue Chips, Hoosiers is indeed the winner Hoosiers is the winner Now Gabe Just for fun because you you're a winner today officially, but just for fun Between white men can't jump and Hoosiers what is officially I mean we could rubber

stamp this it's official which is the best basketball movie I think according to like 50 or 60 people who answered a poll at like eight. Yeah. I had to learn about the voting body before and the vibe. I feel like, I feel like the registered voters, I feel like it's got to be white man. That's your final final decision. Do you agree with that? Do you prefer why you can't jump over Hoosiers?

I do. I do. Rosie Perez is incredible She is but then the last part of why we can't jump becomes a movie about Someone being on Jeopardy is having do with basketball. Yeah, it's nuts Hoosiers they don't run off, you know to the price is right After winning the big game, when enough money to redo the gym.

Uh, but yes, why they catch up, uh, is of course, uh, in a poll of individuals. I just think when you think of basketball movies, it's just hard not to have white men, I can't jump pop into your, into your brain. So it finished 65% of the vote over 35% for Hoosiers. And then between those two movies, neither one of them got much Oscar love, even though they both, I think, thought of as classics. Hoosiers got two nominations and didn't win either for supporting actor Dennis Hopper

and his crazy top hat and you knew he was drunk he wore a top hat and then best score it was up for best score but didn't win that. His score that was a funny word for a sports movie. But then, Hoosiers did not score at the Oscars. And then Whiteman had jumped no love at the Oscars, zero nominations, not anything. Like I think there was maybe people were really hoping for a Rosie Ferez supporting actress nom, which I, you know, I feel like she probably would have deserved. I don she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress.

I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. I think she's a great actress. Like as soon as I mentioned basketball movies on X, somebody jumped in and goes, you got to include the,

what was that Air Bud movie? Oh, Air Bud, yeah. Someone else said you've got to include the air up there, which is that Kevin Bacon movie where he teaches the Africans. It goes to a village and teaches them how to play basketball. I can't believe that exists. Yeah, yikes. Yeah, the air up there. That's what it's called.

I think that's what it's called, yeah, I think so. Oh my God. Did any of you, that's why I didn't put it in the poll, but did any of you think of a basketball movie that did not come up? Right? Heroin Diaries. Okay.

I think it is mostly about heroin. What's that called, Basketball Diaries? Or yeah, Basketball Diaries. I call it Heroin Diaries. That's what it should have been called though, because it was mostly heroin. Right. There was so little basketball. So much. I thought it was a basketball movie and then it just became not at all a basketball movie, but it's not like a theme throughout.

Yeah. That's hard to be. It's hard to play basketball in here when. Yeah, you just keep nodding off. Yeah, that's why that was the first. That's when people first knew he had a problem because he stopped playing basketball. Number one side. Yeah, I thought of the fish that saved Pittsburgh.

Uh huh. Is a basketball movie. Love and basketball is a great movie. Oh, there you go. Oh, yeah. Oh, I think that would have fared quite well. That would have been a tough one against White Man Can't Jump because this poll is flawed. I do think I feel like.

Air Bud. Yeah, that's what I thought. I said Air Bud when I was trying to think of that air up there movie But yeah But that's the thing basketball not a not a huge genre But also not a lot of like terrible well, I guess they're Pretty good

Yeah, the batting average is pretty good. Yes. Pun intended. Exactly. The free throw percentage is good. Exactly. So congratulations to Gabe, Malika. What would you like you get to go first to unplugging stuff? So what would you like to promote?

Yeah, I'm on the road all of April, Minneapolis, Chicago, a week of shows in Boston of my solo show. Please, if you're in Boston, buy tickets to that. Los Angeles, Doug, I was going to invite you. April 26th, I'm at UCB. I will send you an email. Oh, nifty. What's the date again? April 26th in LA at UCBLA. Okay. All right. Yeah, definitely hit me up.

And Samantha Reddy, what do you want to promote? I want to promote my special, which is coming out May 28th, baseball mom. And also want to promote my social accounts so that you can follow me and see when it comes out, because that's a long time from now. Follow me at Samley Matteratters, S-A-M-L-Y-M-A-T-T-E-R-S on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, whatever. Thank you so much for having me, Doug. Well listen, you know what, I was gonna, you know, we talked about, I did ask you to do this today last minute and Because you had been on the books for doing it in May closer to the date of your release so

Let's just keep that other date because that is so far off from now still. Let's why don't you come back on? May 19th, and then we'll remind everybody about the special Thanks, Doug. I love that that almost feels as good as winning almost it's not the same We have to be appreciated the game one and you got a nice consolation prize Then of course I gets to share the stage with me on Sunday night in Sunnyvale, California. One of the classiest comedy clubs, Rooster Teeth Feathers. You don't let the name fool you. What else have you got to promote Ben Kalina? This is my socials bank.

Twitter and Instagram. And then for people in the Bay Area and San Francisco, every Monday at the Abbey Tavern, Monday,vern Monday Mere earthquake the greatest comedy show in the world Monday Mere earthquake every Monday in San Francisco. Yeah. Oh my god. That sounds super fun Well, thank you all for being here I am going to be Doing a Benson movie interruption Tuesday night, tomorrow night probably people listen to this, the first listeners will hear about how tomorrow night I'm going to be at Dynasty typewriter with the Benson movie interruption with Ricky

Lindholm, Paul of Tompkins and more special guests go to Douglasmovies.com for all of my dates and dates and links and I picked out for my closing line today it's always you know the last line of Hoosiers spoken by Gene Hackman. Uh, as always, I love you guys. Gold is viewing, prowess makes it cocky There's no room in his heart for you Cause Doug loves movies!