Doug Loves Movies - Mark Ellis, Austin Peters and Gary Vider guest

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

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Doug hates candy wrappers screening baby sticky seeds with 50 as a pop or kernels in his teeth They're still not one that he won't see Hey, hey everybody, my name is Doug and I love movies This is Doug loves movies recording on Sunday afternoon August 18th 2024 and my guests today are a first-timer the What's up? It's a pleasure. Hey, Doug. All right. Let's meet everybody. There's usually a little bit of a audio train wreck when I say hi to three people at once. So let's meet everybody individually and alphabetically by first name, of course.

He is visiting us for the first time. A film he directed and co-wrote called Skincare is in theaters now. It's Austin Peters. Hey, Austin. Hey, Doug. How are you doing? I'm doing good. Thanks for doing this. I know Skincare just opened on Friday. Is this the tail end of press stuff you've had to do to promote it? Yeah, this is the last thing on the calendar right now.

I hope that I don't embarrass myself in the game. Well, that's okay because we'll get your plug-in before the game even begins. I even recommend people shut this off right now, go see skincare in the theater near you, then come back and worry about the rest of it. But since we've been talking so much about it, it's probably, you know, you might be sick of it, or you might have a perfect short description of

the movie. But could you, could you lay that on us now? Yeah, skincare is a is a is a comedic thriller about a facialist in Hollywood who goes off the deep end and sort of descends into the underbelly of Los Angeles to try and deal with a rival who she believes is sabotaging her. And it stars Elizabeth Banks in a very excellent performance. That's a that's a important thing to bring up because she certainly is a big draw. Was it, I know that this is also is your first, what do they call it, narrative feature. Yeah. So was it, I can only assume it was helpful to have the lead actress has actually directed films herself

Yeah, it was super helpful and it was just it's just super helpful to work with really amazing cast who are really Can make the words better and funnier like Elizabeth Banks and Louis Pullman and Nathan Fillion and Luis Gerardo Mendes who are all in the movie. So it was definitely very very helpful to have such a great cast in shooting and making our 18-day schedule. That was sort of what made that possible. Wow, that is fast, but she's also, I'm sure she's got Elizabeth has a whole bunch of different projects. I watch her all the time on Press your luck on TV I love that show. It's crazy and

And also I have to say I just recently I got around to her Charlie's Angels in a hotel room, and I think it was very underrated. I completely agree. I agree so much that Luis Gerardo Mendez who is in that movie is also in our movie and Ella Balinska who is one of the Angels is also in skincare. That's awesome. They're all great. Yeah.

Well, I love it and we'll you know, we'll get a couple more mentions of it in during the show, but let's meet our other guests today. Starting with a comedian, host of the number one dad podcast. That's what it's called. It's not the, it's not officially the number one. Right. There might be somebody ahead of us. Yeah.

You never know, but you took the title for the title of the podcast. I was hoping for the best. It's Gary Veeder. Hey Gary. Hey, what's up, Doug? Um, yeah, I actually did this once we, uh, before a long time ago, but I wasn't the intended necessarily guest. We were at the Columbus funny bone and we did a live show. This had to be, I want to say like ten years ago

maybe and It was a good experience. We were on stage and then we were doing this but uh all I remember is after the show I think you were leaving the next day you were doing shows at the funny bone the day before and then you did the Podcast but after the show since you were leaving people were just giving Weed out and then so I was getting all that weed that was supposed To go to you, but you were flying out so you didn't you didn't care for it So I had a whole bunch of weed For the rest of my weekend at the Columbus funny bone, so I'm here also to say thank you

Oh, well, thank you for that and also to anybody listening who wants to bring me anything at a show in any city in the country thing who wants to bring me anything at a show in any city in the country. I'll happily take it because I was much more paranoid about flying with it 10 years ago than I am now. And it's also a fun, it is fun to regift. I feel bad when I have to, when I feel like after a gift, because also sometimes I do get so much stuff that I don't have room for it just in terms of physical space in my baggage. It can be pretty crazy. But that's what I was going to ask you. That was my first question I was going to ask you is I know you've been on Douglas movies before, but how come I can't figure out Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know the I can't remember the exact situation, but it was I know is the it was a Columbus funny bone But it was before they redid it they have a new I think it's the education or they remodeled it But but yeah, it was the old whatever the old

For you know structure was of that building and then till they like redid the whole thing I love this. I love the size of the old club. The new club is also very cool But it's more like a lot of Yeah, it's where it's more of a theater than a than a club space Exactly the old one. I remember I was like, oh my god. This is this was incredible I think it was like a kill box, but but yeah, this the new one's still the new one's still good But yeah, I think I did better at the other one Killbox is that should be a movie. That sounds like a great title.

Well thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. Once again, and hopefully it won't be so long between visits next time. And your podcast, number one dad podcast, is about your interesting, rather interesting relationship with your own dad. Yeah, so it's a serial podcast, only 10 episodes, and it just follows me on a path of tracking down my father, who I stopped speaking to 24 years ago. He was a con man, and I have no idea what he's up to today. And we had some interesting things that happened in our life, and he would even involve me in some of the cons.

One of them being, he used to say that I worked for Sports Illustrated for kids. I was a reporter, he was a photographer, and in the 90s we'd go to a whole bunch of different games and at Madison Square Garden and they believed it. They'd give us press access so we would go without tickets and then I would go into the locker room after the game and I would interview or fake interview the players

and I even interviewed Michael Jordan that way. So that's like the basis of the podcast, but my dad did a whole bunch of other cons, things that involve like the mafia, things that involve getting sued by the New York State Attorney General. I mean, tons of slip and falls. I mean, and then the goal is to track him down, meet him,

find out what he's been up to and see if he's changed at all. And if there's a chance at reconciling. And that's what the podcast is about over the 10 episodes and all 10 episodes are out now you could get it Spotify Apple podcast and You know anywhere else you get podcasts except YouTube. It's not on YouTube, but maybe one day and There is a actual video Doc on YouTube of just episode one, but all the other episodes are wherever else you get podcasts That's awesome.

I just real quick, I want to go back to Austin. Since Gary mentioned where his podcast is not playing, could you tell us the theaters that aren't playing skincare? That are not playing skincare? Yeah, could you list them off for us? Yeah, there's quite a few of them, but there's also a lot that actually are playing it, which is even more surprising. So you can just Fandango it. It's pretty much, it's all over the country.

So I think we're in like 800 theaters this weekend. Yeah. I just like Gary's anti-plug of like where you can't get something. Well, everybody wants to listen to stuff on YouTube. So, and it's an iHeart product, so people were like, why can't you put it on? I wish I could, but then they would pull it. So I get a lot of messages of, oh, why can't this be here? But yeah, I'm trying, you know,

I mean, obviously this is a movie thing. The goal is to turn the podcast into a show or a movie, and that's why, I mean, that was the reason, the real reason I did it. Obviously obviously it's hard to get anything made but yeah so I wanted to take the IP out and then and put out the story and then hopefully it could turn into something more yeah well hopefully it will and then you come back and talk about it yeah definitely speaking of great, our third guest today is the returning champion to the show, and I just am assuming that you're a number one dog.

I mean, technically, the my special and my real life moniker would be dog stepfather. But I'm a pretty good parent, I think. She's snoring right now peacefully. Molly is her name's Molly, that's her favorite pill, and she is 17 and a half and doing great. So, very, very proud of my dog that work in that department. Now I will say this, Doug, I'm really glad you introduced me as returning champion because as usual on the show,

I am by far the most boring competitor, listening to Austin and listening to Gary. So Gary was a mystery to me because I looked him up on Instagram and I was like, Oh yeah, I follow this guy. I'm sure maybe we like worked together years ago and I just forgot. And then he started talking about the podcast and that's how I followed him because a friend of mine said, you have to listen to this podcast. I watched the last dance a problematic amount of times. So the Michael Jordan thing was the, like the end thing that hooked me and then listening to the podcast, it is tremendous. I am such a fan. So now I put two and two together,

Gary. Yeah, yeah. I'm that guy with the, the, the messed up dad. But I also talked about skincare on the radio out here in Southern California last week. I do 95.5 KOLOS every Thursday, the Heidi and Frank show, and I just come in and we ask about whatever. It usually leads around to movies. And skincare is fresh on the tomato meter. So congrats often, and it's something

that I need to check out. I love me some Elizabeth Banks, so I'll get in there for you. Oh, cool. That's awesome. How are you feeling Mark Ellis about your competition today then? I feel tremendous Doug,

because I've put no prep, no study, no nothing into it. And that's kind of the way I enjoy living my entire existence. And coming from, you know, hosting the movie trivia Schmo down for nine years where we see the competitors just like have these just notebooks full of trivia and information and seeing how hard that was. Like this is, this is just a nice summer breeze kind of thing. So I'm very excited.

You love a game show where guesswork is involved, as opposed to actually knowing stuff. Yeah, it's like you, there's no stress doing this show because if something in life, kids, is impossible to prepare for, then don't. Then don't worry about it. Yeah, that's pretty good advice. Before we play some games today, though,

I like to get recommendations from everybody in a visit to Recommendation nation that's where I ask each of you each of my guests to recommend one movie And since mark knew this question was coming we'll start with you Please recommend a movie right now This is a movie that you actually want me to recommend, right? Not one that I just saw and I need to work my feelings out about long legs? I know you had a lot of feelings about long legs, but it wasn't like a full-throated,

I loved it recommendation. Give us something that you loved. Something that I loved, that I saw? Okay, something that I loved, that I saw fairly recently, again, because I think it's an all-timer, I think it's a movie worth revisiting again and again, once a year. It's the movie that Alfred Hitchcock saw

and then wrote a letter to the director, Billy Wilder, and in the letter he said, the two most important words in Hollywood right now are Billy and Wilder, and that was after he said that's 2 most important words in Hollywood right now are Billy and Wilder and that was after he saw double indemnity a movie that a lot of people think Hitchcock directed because it's such in that vein of storytelling, but Billy Wilder did it and it's an all-time classic for a reason.

I caught it again for work thing and it did not disappoint. It's it's just it's an electric thriller from start to finish. And I have to say to people that are thinking about checking this out, do not accidentally watch Double Jeopardy. There's some good thrills in that too though. Okay. Ashley Judd's very upset. Ashley Judd's very upset. Yeah, double indemnity.

Not just a classic, but also Barbara Stanwyck, who is a sort of a patron state of Douglas movies because in the early days, my sign off was for a while I said Barbara Stanwyck is a shithead because because that is the last thing anybody on earth would have ever called that woman. It was so out of line. It was actually out of line. And eventually that changed to Willem Dafoe is a shithead because same same thing. He's just universally beloved. Did you get any pushback from the Stanwyck camp? No, no, that's why I moved on to the folks

I wanted people to at least have some feelings about it, you know, like people are just like who's Barbara Stanwick? Yeah, well You might you might have gotten a little more accurate if you said that about Fred McMurray not Barbara Stanwick, but Fred Yeah, he wasn't so sweet in real life. I guess. I don't think he was quite the dad we made him out to be on My Three Sons later, but he comes on screen and every scene he's in in Double Indemnity, I'm just watching it. And I'm like, that's a man. I looked it up. He was 36 when he filmed it, I think.

And I'm 44. And he looks like he could be my dad now. Yeah, he was always kind of looked a little older than he was. And usually played mostly played nice guys. So that's another thing about double indemnity that is extra fun is just how terrible he is. He's also really another meanie pants in Billy Wilder's The Apartment. Yep. Yep. Yeah.

So and I get from time to time, people look up with if they see a young Jack Lemon in something, then I immediately get a text about how much I look like young Jack Lemon. So I'm holding on to the young Jack Lemon. I look like old Jack Lemon. I just want to look like young JL as long as possible. All right. Well, shut up and deal. So Austin, it's your turn. What would you like to recommend?

I recently watched sort of building on a double identity. I recently watched another movie again that I've watched many times, which was a straight time by Ulu Grossbard with Dustin Hoffman in it. And I watched that, I watched that and Double Identity quite a few times when we were prepping for skincare. And I've sort of given up all those movies now that the movie is actually out in theaters, but I rewatched this one with a friend

who hadn't seen it the other day. And I just was blown away by how, how good it is. I don't know if you guys have seen it, but it's, it's Dustin Hoffman in the seventies, it's like a seventies, uh, new American sort of thriller character drama where, uh, Dustin Hoffman gets released from prison and he's in LA trying to, to, to be straight and not, you know, and he has a terrible PO. And he slowly, he slowly kind of cracks and goes back to crime in a really tragic and thrilling way. And Harry Dean Stanton is in it and he's amazing.

I really, I really recommend it. It's a great movie. I really, I really recommend it. It's a great movie. Probably maybe the greatest movie about like that seriously exams recidivism. Yeah, I was kind of every time I watched it, I'm kind of like, I always it's always better than I remember, which is a great, which is a great quality for a movie to have. That's one of those movies movies I remember Cisco and Ebert just lost their minds over it. They were like so into it at that time. And how did you, did you watch it on a,

is it on a streamer? Is it on like P plus or something? I don't know. I don't know if it's on Criterion channel. You can definitely rent it on Amazon. That might've been what I did. And, but yeah, I you can definitely it's definitely readily available. It's not one that you have to sort of order an old DVD or Blu ray of which some movies as we know, that's the only way you can

can get them. Yeah, it's, it's weird how like most movies are available But it's easy you just can think of one from time to time when you go to find it. It's like no nowhere Yeah, it's it's a disturbing disturbing trend Gary All right serious, I have one and it's a It's a David Mamet film and it's one that doesn't get talked about a lot It's called the Spanish prisoner. Did you ever see that? It's with Steve Martin and

Campbell Scott and they it is very good. It's a it's it's got a lot of twists. I love the writing I love that it deals with cons. It's a it's a it's a very good movie I haven't seen it in a little while, but I recommended to my good friend Sam Morrell recently He loved it and I think it's a movie that people definitely should see especially obviously David Mamet is Incredible, so it would be a good movie to check out Spanish prisoner and that's one of those ones where the Spanish prisoner and that's one of those ones where the title is kind of misleading. Like you can't, you know, you're not, it's not like some kind of swashbuckling pirate movie or something. Right. Exactly. Very misleading. And it's hard. And that's another movie that's hard to find as well.

It's not, you know, they don't really, yeah, you're not going to find it on Netflix. I mean, you can find it, but, uh, let me see. Maybe it's on. I like all of these recommendations because they're kind of, they kind of come with the caveat of like, good luck getting your hands on it. Yeah. You can get it on like Amazon. That's what I like Amazon. But worth seeking out. All right. Be careful about looking, looking things up while we're talking. Cause then people think you could just do that during the trivia games. Gotcha. Gotcha. I don't do that.

I don't do that. I mean, we'll have a team in the background now. Everybody's yeah, everybody's has to be their own. You know, it would be easy to cheat on this show is what I'm trying to say. All right. So thank you for all those recommendations, you guys. We're going to take some time, a few minutes to just reflect on these options and we'll be right back. This episode is brought to you in part by Shopify.

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And obviously it's a play on, you know, your movie Skin Care, but also, are any of you remember, familiar with a movie from the 70s? Like when I was thinking about Gary Veeders, father and the whole con man thing and con man movies. I remember this movie from the 70s called skin game starring James Garner and Lewis Gossett jr. Have any of you seen it?

I have not but as soon as you said skin game I was thinking like a late 90s Billy Baldwin thriller but now I'm thinking if you got Louis Gossett jr. and James Garner in it I'm watching it. Well it's a western that has sort of probably fallen off of the map a little bit because of how crazy the premise is and I'm going to share it with you now because I brought it up And I really like this movie. I saw when I was a kid. They haven't haven't seen it since but Garner and Gossett are con men who are best friends in 1857 when slavery still existed in this country But Gossett was born in the the north so he's a free man so

these two dudes travel around in the south Garner sells gossip to people who want to buy slaves and then he either escapes or Garner helps him to escape and then they split the money 75 25 split in favor of Louis Gossett jr. it the Watch it again and make up my mind by today's terms, but it you know it was supposed to be a fun movie rated PG by the way Probably not a lot of the true horrors of slavery being revealed in that motion picture But so that being said this game is called skin game because I did some more research into the word skin and its usage in motion picture titles. And so this is how this game is going to work. I'll say a fact, fun or otherwise,

and then you tell me if it applies to the motion picture under the skin starring Scarlett Johansson, Scarlett Johansson, Skin Deep with John Ritter, or Skinnamorink, a Creepfest whose actors I could not name. Yeah, great. Skinnamorink would have made my list of movies that I recommend just because I need to talk about it. Right, I bet you you did back when you saw it. So Austin is gonna be first I Will give you this fact and then you tell me which one of those three movies it applies to and I'll repeat them again

for you So you have to remember and? The fact is that the running time of this motion picture is one hour and 40 minutes is that skin a marine? Under the skin or skin deep I'm gonna go with under the skin Under the skin is not one hour and 40 minutes. Gary, this is your chance. You have the 60.

So it's skin deep was the other name of that one. Skin deep. Yeah, skin of Marine. Yeah, I'm gonna go skin deep on that. You're saying skin deep is an hour and 41 minutes. A comedy starring John Ritter is indeed the correct answer skin deep They're all actually very close to one another there's one of the other ones 148 and

That gives just gives you a clue as to the silliness of these questions Mark you're up first on this next one Yes, sir Which one of those films skin and ring under the skin their skin deep is not rated are by the motion picture Association of America Well, I'm gonna say I've seen one and a half of these movies because I saw under the skin and I saw Well, Doug, I'm going to say I've seen one and a half of these movies because I saw it under the skin and I saw most of Skin of Merek. I might have nodded off at some point. Maybe some herbal medication was involved. And I remember those being like pretty hard are kind of premises.

So I am going to say that Skin Deep, the comedy with John Ritter is not rated R. That's the film you think is not rated R out of those three. That is correct, sir. Final answer. That is not correct, sir. Wow. I'm sorry. Wow. Austin, this is your chance.

You got a 50, 50. I'm back. I think that Skin of a M a rank is not rated R. And why do you think that? Because I've seen under the skin and there's full front. So I feel that that has to be rated R. There's multiple case shots of full frontal nudity. So I believe that that that made our movie you could certainly

You can certainly know it down by that Criteria for sure. That was a perfect way to figure it out But it's actually the it's rather the opposite is true in that skin deep in under the skin both successfully Secured our ratings from the MPAA but skin of a rink had to go out with no rating whatsoever It's it's that kind of creepy that I don't even think the MPAA could have their people sit through it Wow Yeah, so Austin's on the board he's got one Gary's got one Gary's up first on this third one

Tell me which one of these movies skin and marine under the skin or skin deep was nominated for three golden schmo awards Golden schmo. All right. Well, so I haven't seen any of these movies So i'm already at a deficit, but I'm gonna go with a golden schmoe I'm gonna say just based off the name skin of a rank. It's a little bit sillier. They seem like a bunch of schmoes I'll go with skin of a rank So you're also not familiar with the Word the golden schmoe and who gives it out. I have no idea who the gold. Yeah golden schmo and who gives it out. I have no idea who the golden schmo.

All right. Well, that's, that is some type of Jew is incorrect. Okay. And Mark, uh, do you know which of those movies got three golden schmo awards? I, this is very confusing to me, Doug. Um, I, this might be an alternate universe kind of answer, but as you know, we did my, me and my friend Christian created Shmo's Know, which became a very popular movie review channel on YouTube for years.

I don't know if we ever did the Golden Shmo Awards. I had no idea if that was something that we did or not But if it was then I'm gonna say that we probably would not have gone back to John Ritter's catalog as wonderful a town As he is was For skin deep and skin of meringue was after our time so under the skin would fit those parameters So I'm gonna give it three golden schmoes I love that you had to like kind of figure that out instead of just knowing that you used to give out that award Was that from schmoes now? I mean I could only assume

Who else would come up with something called the golden schmo award and do it around the time that you were doing Schmo's know but so you are correct it is under the skin but I was also hoping either you wouldn't get that question or not remember having given out that award so I was I was just as in the dark as Austin and Gary on that one. I almost got what I wanted. Okay, so we're back to Austin. You get to go first on this next one. And this is if you get this one right, you win this game. Doesn't mean a whole lot, but still fun. It's still fun to win.

Yeah. Which one of those three movies has a scene featuring glow-in-the-dark condoms? I'm gonna go with skin of a rank on this one See you haven't seen skin of a ring I have not seen skin But I don't remember I don't remember a glow-in-the-dark condom and under the skin And it doesn't sound like from what I can, what I can understand about skin deep, that doesn't sound like the kind of movie it is. Well, wait till you get what the answer is, Gary.

Okay. Well, based off of your reaction to that, I'm gonna have to go skin deep. Yeah, you figured that out. Yeah, that was a gimme. Go skin deep Deep is a Blake Edwards comedy and Blake Edwards wanted to call it 11 and have it star Dudley Moore as kind of as a sequel to the movie 10 and he would continue to be a alcoholic womanizer and then Dudley Moore's like, I don't wanna keep doing that.

And so then he and Blake Edwards broke up and John Ritter was hired to just, he just wrote a whole new character in screenplay with what he had written already. And so Skin Deep is a sex, it's kind of a sex comedy, not kind of, it just is. And there's a scene where John Ritter is tempted into trying on a glow in the dark condom. And then the woman's husband or lover, somebody else comes in, it's also wearing a glow in

the dark condom. And it's probably the only glow in the dark condom fight scene in the history of cinema. If I'm guessing correctly. But congratulations, Gary. You won that first game. I went to glow in the dark condom. Yeah, that's that's in the mail. And basically you won the opportunity to go first in our next game, which sometimes is is an advantage Sometimes it's not we'll find out after the break. We will be right back We're back and We've learned a lot today so far

about things that we didn't know about and Now we're gonna get even deeper into some film facts with a game that I call, you can't handle the truth. And in this game, Gary's up first because he won that last game. He won that prize of getting to go first. And then we'll go to Austin and then to Mark. That's the order in this game.

And Gary, I'm just going to tell you a statement related to motion pictures. And then you tell me if that's the truth or false. Those are your two options is truth or false. First person to get three of these correct wins the game or the person with the most right after 10 of them will be the winner. And if there's by some weird circumstance, a tie, wouldn't it be that weird? If there's a tie, then I've got a tiebreaker question

So Gary are you ready I'm ready, okay The sled in Citizen Kane is called Rosebud in the film But in real life its name was Clancy. Is that the truth or is that false? I'm gonna say false. Any reason? I'm just going by how you're reading it. I have no idea.

Okay, let me read it again. No, I mean, yeah, yeah. I was like, did you say Clancy? Okay, let me read it again. No Yeah, yeah, I Was like did you say Clancy? So I was like is that yeah, I was going by that so I'm gonna say that's why also, you know Clancy is a Obviously, it's an old movie. You could you know, the name Clancy's sure that was thrown around back then But I'm going to go full anyway. Well, yeah, you gotta pick one and, uh, you did it. That is correct.

Woo. All right. Well done. Austin. I was going to be shocked if the sled was really called Clancy. I, yeah, I, uh, you know, you just don't know what a sled's gonna, I mean, Rosebud's already a weird name for a sled. I don't know. Like on his deathbed is he just more or less just being like Rosebud, why do I call him Rosebud? Like, it's not solving any mysteries, it's

just it was a mystery to him. That'd be a funny Funny take on it because boy do people like to tell you Exactly why he mentions rosebud on his deathbed Or his death moment like he just says it dies Probably the my second favorite somebody Dying after saying something that's a mystery. The first being in it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world when Jimmy Durante dies in front of a bunch of witnesses and he tells them all that there's money buried underneath the big W, but that's the only clue he gets.

W But that's that's the only clue he gets and uh And then he he dies and in the scene he literally there's a bucket sitting there and he literally kicks it over with his dying foot Hilarious, okay Austin Yes, the early draft of the script for the sixth sense Bruce willis's character character realizes he's dead

when he tries to use one of those automated paper towel dispensers, motion automated towel dispenser. That's a tough one. I think I have to go. That's a tough one. I think I have to go. It's really, I don't want to, yeah. I think I'm going to have to go with false on this one. I think that's the right way to go. Because we thought that I laughed to myself.

I know, but that's why I started really getting in my own head. And I thought, well, maybe it's true because it seems so ridiculous. Ever since, you know, a few years after that movie came out and everywhere you go now, you stick your hand under the faucet and it's automated like at the airport, and you stick your hand under there and the water comes out. Every time I do it and it doesn't work, I think, oh shit, I'm a ghost. All right. So good job, Austin. You got that one right.

You're on the board. Gary and Austin both have one point. Mark, this is your chance. Here we go. Again, the game. Robert De Niro's name in the motion picture, Angel is Louis Cypher. Okay, that's the statement. You're not just setting me up for a true or false question.

That is the true or false question. Yeah, is that true or is that made up that Robert De Niro plays Louis Cypher? Louisifer, Louisifer, get it? Okay, any iteration of that name? I don't know. I feel like we got roped up last time with the Sixth Sense fact being false.

So there is some honesty in you, Doug, somewhere. There is truth. And I'm gonna say that the truth just came out with that last statement. Yeah, it is true because he's, he's supposed to be the devil. And so his name is Louis cipher, but it's such a stretch. You have to, you have to mangle both of those words to say Lucifer. But that's what, that's what they were going for. Dude, I'm telling you, man, one of the hardest parts of writing is coming up with a cool character name that isn't like so on the nose, but also like make some sense.

So I'm going to say they stuck the landing. They congrats Angel Heart folks. Everybody needs a heart. You did it. You'll land. Okay, everybody's on the board. This might be a game where everybody figures out all of my little tricks But let's see how Gary does on this next one

Jared Leto is angel face in Fight Club But his name is never actually said in the movie. Angel face, fight club. Uh, I'm going to go with another false one there. It just seems like I wouldn't want to name anybody angel face. So that's mainly why if I was writing it, I'd be like, in life, but I'm gonna go with that's false You're wrong when you're a kid thought what your dad was doing made sense, right? Were your questions good when you interviewed like when you talk to these fans? I mean, I'm not sure if you're a fan of the show or not. I'm not sure if you're a fan of the show I'm not sure if you're a fan of the show

I'm not sure if you're a fan of the show Right. Exactly. Were your questions good when you interviewed, like when you talked to these famous athletes? Did you have good questions? Didn't have a good question. I was there for autographs. So it was once we got past all the security and we're in the locker room, nobody was paying attention to anything that we were doing. So I mean, I would go up and I would ask a question, but it would be like, what's some advice? But that would be, it would be like, what's some advice?

But that would be, it would be not even, that'd be in the back of my mind. The thing was get autographs, go there. And if I had to ask a question, I would just for the sake of doing it and talking to them, and then keeping up the role, but that would be it. But yeah, they weren't- So at least you were into,

you're into basketball and the players and stuff. Like you like- I was into basketball and hockey. And then, yeah, I went to some of the big, I was at the stuff like you like in the bat Yeah, basketball and hockey and then yeah I went to some of the big I was at the rain when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup I was a I was at those games I was at three the three of the games that they had a Madison Square Garden back in 1994 So yeah all without you know all without a ticket and then And then I'll be in the locker room after and then when they win the cup and all the players were celebrating

But yeah, it was pretty after and then when they win the cup and all the players were celebrating but yeah it was a pretty wild and then yeah I wasn't interviewing anybody there is just collecting autographs on a bunch of things hats and and it got a couple sticks too. It's a good thing I'm not a dad because I would be doing exactly this. Yeah that's a great great thing to do. No but like most movies where there's Connors situation where the parent and the child the child is always super reluctant and always, always, you know, close to blowing the whole thing. You know, kind of being forced into it, you know, but this sounds like you had, you had a fun ride. It was a fun ride for this con. My dad, I mean, he coached me. I was watching him do this in

his entire life. So I was getting, you know, I had a backseat to watch in a great comment who never got caught just doing, you know, regular cons that that are every day. And this is kind of just how we paid the bills for my family. So I was just going along and then it just seemed like, oh, this is what we do. We this is how we're going to go to a game. We're going to go in because my dad's going to make up some scheme and it worked flawlessly. All right, well, what was your guess? I said false. Oh, you said false. Later that same day.

Cause I don't believe in the truth. I don't believe in the truth. The answer, it is true. Oh, come on. You know, it's based on a novel. It's based on a novel. So if you read the novel, you knew his name was Angel Face. But and then you see it and then you see it in the credits.

And in and in Jerelde Leto in that movie does have the it is an angel face. And they also have a line of dialogue in the movie where I think Brad Pitt says about him that he's going to become a rock star someday. And then, you know, you could argue that Jared Leto actually did. Okay. I will say this. True was my second guest. It's all about narrowing it down and making it just making a hard decision. And Austin, this one's for you. Okay.

The working title, you know, like as in the title that is never really meant to be the title, but you have to use it. You have to make up something for security purposes. The working title for the Dark Knight was Rory's First Kiss. That's a false for me, I think. You think? I'm gonna go with false on that. Yeah, yeah, I will be humiliated if it's true. I'm sorry to say that that is apparently what it was called.

That is the truth. I don't know where they came up with that. This feels like semantics because they were, that's probably what they put on the boards for like where the parking was. And so, yeah, yeah, you know, it wasn't actually ever called that, but that was the code name. But yes, sure. Yeah, I was thinking like, you know, Batman Begins 2 or something would have been a more apt working title, but yeah. Yeah, yeah.

No, it's definitely the like undercover title for, like you said, for crew parking. I don't know where that, I'm sure there's a story behind it, like Christopher Nolan knows somebody named Rory or something something but But that's a good thing all right moving on to mark All right, make the lead mark if you can get this one seize opportunity don't do it

Just take the fifth more than 500 movies have been made featuring the character count Dracula whoa Have a good one. Oh Man yeah what I wouldn't give for the for the simpler days of Rory's first kiss Did you know that would first kiss did you know that one I probably would have guessed that it was true just because it sounds like such a boring movie title that like nobody would ever bother to investigate why they're blowing up a hospital for a movie called Rory's first kiss no one no one would ever care that kiss got out of hand. Basically it's over under 500 movies with a character

counteractual. It just seems like there's, you know, when you watch the end of a movie, then it's like, you know, this is motion picture number like, and I think it's the number of motion pictures that have been made and it's like this astronomical number. So yeah, I'm going to say at least 500 of them in some form invoked Count Dracula That's wild the first round you all three got your questions, right in the second round

you all three of you missed because Count Dracula he's been in about 200 ish movies, which is still an insane amount of movies one guy who does one basic thing, but I pumped the number up a little bit to trick you and I guess it worked. Wow. Okay. 500 is a lot. I was counting the Black Ula franchise too. I don't know if you counted that. I think I did. I think it's fair to count it Okay, so We're back to Gary Back

Okay Sir Russell you heard of him his first film role was in something called Mosby's Marauders All right, well I have no idea. So it's 50 50. I'll go with true. Unfortunately, it's false. No, so I guess you had a few film rolls under his belt

before he appeared in most movies. It is a real movie. Okay. Yeah. It didn't sound like something he would be in. I believe that for sure. Well, prior to that, he was in one of my favorite movie titles of all time, because it just just sounds so wrong. He was in a movie called Follow Me Boys with an exclamation point. Yeah, I think it was a Cub Scout movie or something, right? I think so. Yeah, I think it was Cub Scouts, but it's still just like, what?

Follow me, boys. Okay, so, sorry, Gary. You're still left with only one point, but it is also tie at this point with ten questions we've only got three left to go so I'll see how this takes out Austin yes the professor the actor played the professor on Gilligan's Island has an uncredited role in three days of the condor. I have no idea. So I'm going to go with true on this one. Any breeze feeling you have one way because my instinct was false because that my instinct was false so I'm going to say that it's true. You're going to castanza it and go against your own your own gut. Exactly it seems so it seems like a very random thing for you to make up Doug, but that's what I do.

In this case, in this case, it happens to be the truth. You got that one right. Wow. Right. Yeah. He was, uh, he was, he acted quite a bit for a guy that really just remembered her one role. Like he really showed up in a, in a lot of stuff and somehow he's in three days of the condor with Robert Redford who by the way happy 88th birthday Robert Redford just turned that yeah I mean I mean what his last TV appearing I mean movie

appearance was in a marvel thing? It was in like a Civil War one of those and he's like a bad Winter soldier, but then wasn't he also been like that thing that was like they were pushing for him to be nominated for an Oscar He's like on a raft or something. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know which one was more recently, but Whatever his last film role was I wouldn't have guessed By how he looked that he was in his 80s. Oh, yeah. It was great. It's pretty impressive.

All right, so Austin's in the lead now. Mark, you really need this one. You need this one to tie it up Joan Rivers directed a movie about a pregnant man Okay I'm pretty sure right man was at that the helm for for Junior or one of those. So this would I mean this this seems like something that in all your boundless creative energies dog I don't even know that you could come up with this. I'm going to say I'm going to say it's true. It is true. Billy Crystal stars as the first man to ever get pregnant.

And because he was I don't want to use any of the words that might be triggering that a woman basically made him pregnant. He didn't even want to have sex with her. And a comedy, it's called Rabbit Test. And even the title has become insanely dated because Rabbit Test is in reference to what, they used to try to figure out, they could tell if a woman was pregnant or not based on injecting something into a rabbit and seeing if it dies. This is real. I'm not making you go into a I was going to say false.

Well, yeah, that's that's the premise. That's where the expression rabbit test comes from. And that's why the movie's called that because it's about pregnancy. But in this case, it's the first pregnant man. I haven't seen it in forever, but I was young when it came out, so I thought it was funny. But no one ever speaks of it. And also that she directed a movie, I don't think people realize that.

OK, so you got that one right mark somehow some way this more than any other question I've ever had on the show proves the title of the podcast Doug you do love movies I do I should probably try loving ones are more recent and have been seen by people Okay Speaking of people everybody loves and has seen This one who's it's Gary's Gary's up again, and you need this one Gary Dick van Dyke once starred in a movie called cuckoo brain. Oh man, well Van Dyke once starred in a movie called Cuckoo Brain. Oh, man. Well.

I'm going to have to go true. Seems like an old title that they would try and do. But I got no idea, guys. I mean, just I like your I like your reasoning. I just don't like that you're wrong. That is a false statement. That's a title that I came up with. Get it registered.

I don't think it's been made yet. And there is a movie out now. I probably got into my head. There's a movie called Cuckoo that's out. But Cuckoo Brain is not the name of Dick And Ike movie. it the question was inspired by the fact that he did star in a movie called some kind of nut Hmm. Yeah, okay, so This is very exciting Austin and mark both have two points, so we have a tie on our hands

so that means that the next person who was up is Austin right Yeah, so since you know Gary got to go first because he won the last game And then you guys go second just because the I flipped the order around so you are the beneficiary of an opportunity to win the whole thing right now I just answering this one final. Answer if you get this correct you're a winner today you miss it Mark Ellis continues to be champion much to my chagrin. This is how I usually become champion as I fall into it. So I'm just sitting there. You're just sitting there waiting to find out if you're the champion. Yep. Just not the lesson we learned from the all the amazing athletes at the Olympics. Nobody just

got handed a medal. Austin, David Lynch, the great David Lynch, directed a Geico commercial. Well, he did direct a lot of commercials, which people don't usually talk about. So, but I really don't think he did Geico. That's not, that's not, that, but I don't know. I can't remember if there was a, if there was a spookier era of Geico. Cause usually when you watch all the David Lynch commercials,

they're like spooky and weird. And you can't believe that anyone ever ran them on television. But Guy and Geico is, you know, we remember the cavemen and the gecko and all that kind of stuff. Oh, this is a tough one. I'm gonna go with, my instinct is no, but I'm debating if I should castanza it

because it's such a wild, it feels like it couldn't be. And maybe in the beginning, I don't even know how long, maybe in the beginning, maybe someone at Geico thought this was a good idea to have David Lynch hire, do a commercial and then we're promptly fired afterwards, but it could have happened. Um, I'm going to go with no, he never did a Geico commercial. I love how you, uh, went through all that. It was like an episode of wants to be a millionaire. You couldn't phone a friend or anything like that,

and yet you still figured it out. That is indeed false. He is not directed a Geico commercial. Congratulations, Austin Peters. You are our winner today. Wow. Nice. You did it.

All right. That's cute. That means that you get to do your plugs first. And of course, I assume the thing you want to plug at this time is your movie. So tell us about it one more time. Yeah, you can go see Skincare in theaters right now. You can't stream it anywhere,

which to take a cue from Gary, people ask me where you can stream it and the answer is nowhere. So you have to see it in a movie theater, which is a throwback and is fun to do. I can tell you, I did it myself. And it has a great cast of Elizabeth Banks and Louis Pullman and Nathan Fillion and Michaela

J. Rodriguez and Luis Gerardo Mendez and Ella Balinska and John Billingsley and Eric Paladino. So go see it. Bring your friends and give it five stars on Letterboxd. Do it. Do that. Do all of that do all of that everybody and Thank You Austin for being a guest and putting up with these Ridiculous games Gary Vee

Thanks. Yes, so your sophomore appearance Yeah, first mystery appearance that neither one of us can completely remember No, no, yeah, nobody remembers it. I don't think anybody's really gonna remember this one either. But you know, you might hear stuff breaking in the background pretty upset at loss. But yeah, you know, as you're on your way to see Austin's movie, just you can listen to my podcast, Number One Dad. It's again everywhere you get podcasts except YouTube as you all know and yes Spotify Apple podcast number one dad also I'm touring the country doing a bunch of different shows all over the place you go to Gary Veeder comm where I

post all my show dates and yeah love to see you guys at a show and thanks so much for having me Doug thank you Mark Ellis how many wins in a row did you have there? Like three? I think I had, I think I had two. I think my record is three. I think I've had three in a row once. And, but you know, two is a solid run and- Yeah, respectable, respectable.

You recognize the Golden Shmoe Award as the thing that you might have had something to do with. Yeah, I mean, I really, I limped into third place in this show, but that's still okay. I'll take it, man. What would you like to promote? I am, like Gary, currently touring various cities around this great land of ours. I'm going to be in San Francisco on August 23rd, which is this Friday at the Lost Church, which is a really cool venue.

So excited to be up there telling some jokes with some funny pals. And then later on upcoming, I got Madison, Wisconsin and Las Vegas, Nevada. You can get tickets at Mark Ellis dot live and the social media is Mark Ellis live. Oh, you're going to be at the Nevada, the Nevada, Las Vegas, the Nevada, Las Vegas. Okay. I'm glad you, I'm glad you cleared that up. I mean, you know, there's like Paris, Texas and like, you know, there's probably a lot of Vegas somewhere else. I don't think that that one one I think is just the one.

But I know, you know, I'm no expert on that. So I could just be popping off just to make fun of my my good friend Mark Ellis who of course Mark Gary welcome back anytime and Austin would love to have you back sometime soon as the as an ongoing champion if you're if you're up for it. I would love to return as a champion. Excellent. The Best of Movie Interruption is back in Los Angeles at Dynasty Typewriter on Tuesday September 3rd. We do the first Tuesday of every month. Everybody brings

in DVDs and Blu rays and we all as a group pick a movie to watch and then we pick it apart through the use of humor and whatnot. And then Douglas movies 18th anniversary episode at the improv lab at the world famous Hollywood improv on Tuesday, September 17th, be sure to try to come out to that one. That should be pretty, pretty exciting. And thanks once again to all three of my guests, Austin Peters, Gary Veeder, and Mark Ellis.

And I closed every episode with the last line I say as always and then the last line from a motion picture. And so today I've chosen from Skin Deep, 1989 starring the late great John Ritter. As always, okay, but you're not being very patriotic. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold is viewing prowess makes it cocky. There's no room in his heart for you Cause Doug loves movies!