Doug Loves Movies - Vanessa Gonzalez, Samm Levine and Mike Valdes guest

Episode Date: September 9, 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 Cause Doug loves movies Hey, hey, hey everybody. My name is Doug and I love the movies. This is Doug loves movies recording on Sunday, September 8th, 2024. It's a hot one. I'll just say that right now. We've got guests located all over the country. They are Vanessa Gonzalez, Sam Levine, and Mike Valdez. Hello, everybody. Hello.

Let's meet y'all individually alphabetically by first name. In his first appearance on the show, phoning it in from Florida. It's a comedian. Mike Valdez. Hey, Mike. Hey, Doug. Happy New Year. I didn't know you're going to bring noisemakers to the party.

Believe it or not, that was just me. Thank you for being patient with me Mike. You should have been on the show a long time ago because you were booked to do it live in Orlando, Florida. Do you live in Orlando? I actually live in Miami. OK, but you were going to make the schlep to Orlando. Of course, yeah. Participate. And then it got canceled.

And, you know, any time I'm back in Florida, I will I will hit you up. But let me ask you this is a longtime listener of the show. Are you worried about? competing with Vanessa Gonzalez today I I'm worried about competing with Vanessa for sure she's very funny She knows a lot about movies I've seen her material about Home Alone 2 before. She really knows that movie.

The only movie I know. It's gonna seem like this is rigged because one of the games today is all about Home Alone 2. Yes! Finally! No questions about Home Alone 1. That's not the fact. Hell yeah. Finally, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I watched Deadpool and Wolverine and called it Deadpool, Big Sam Levine. So yeah, I'm sure the person selling the tickets was like, what? Yeah. Well speaking of the man, he's back. And currently it's an impressive winning streak. I've lost track of how many times he's won in recent appearances.

But of course, everyone knows and loves him as all different sizes of Wolverine. It's Sam Levine. Hey, Sam. Hello. Hi, Doug. Hi, Mike. Hi, Vanessa. That's all I've got. No further questions. It's been. Doug. Hi, Mike. Hi, Vanessa. That's all I've got. No further questions. It's been fun.

I'm sick of talking to you, Sam. It's like on Jeopardy when they run out of little stories to tell when they've been a champion for many episodes. Yes. Is there anything you'd like to talk about today, Sam, before we move on? I remember watching Ken's run, 74-game run on Jeopardy, and I remember somewhere around game like 50-something. Literally, the Alex walks up to him,

and he just makes a big sigh, and he just goes, "'Ah, so what's up?' -"Hahaha!" And it was one of my favorite moments, and I can't find that episode. I don't remember exactly which one, which is, I'm sure Ken remembers, but it was it was tremendous. So yeah, where they are in that. That's fine.

I feel like Ken would not remember. Now you're probably which day was the heavy side day. But, you know, he does remember a lot of stuff that matters. Yes. It's been a while since she joined us. She's currently in Austin, Texas, and she is speaking as if you're not on the call. Vanessa Gonzalez. Hey, Vanessa. Hello. Thanks for having me back.

It's good to have you back. I'll be seeing you soon. That's part of why I thought of you because I'm doing a Benson movie interruption at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas in a little over a week or so and You are going to be one of the Interrupters. Yeah, I'm so excited It's I stole you know how you do a lot of movie mocking with the Master Pancake Theatre in

the Texas Alamo Drafthouses and I started doing shows with them as well a few years back and I stole their they do you guys do bring your own pancake where people bring in movies and then you pick one and watch it. And so I stole that format. I've been doing it out here at the dynasty typewriter in LA and I'll be doing that. I'll be doing it again on, um, on, uh, it at fantastic pest. And I call it, instead of saying choose your own, I call it your choice.

Nice. I like to say everybody should have the right to choose which movie your movie, your choice. I like to say everybody should have the right to choose. Yes. Which movie you have to sit through. You don't have to sit through a movie you don't want to. But unfortunately that will happen for some audience members maybe if they're very much against what the majority wants to watch. But what are you going to do? That's the only flaw in that system I think. And I look forward to doing it with you. Yeah, it's going to be a blast.

I'm so pumped. It's going to be even an even nerdier film crowd than you're used to. Oh, yeah, that's that's what I've always wanted. Nerdier because it is because it is a film festival. It's a genre festival. So it's like science fiction, fantasy and horror mostly. And but they're also going to bring horrific movies

like we're going to have to watch something probably very violent. Oh, God. Right. I mean, even with Master Pancake, most of the movies they bring, I'm like never heard of it. So I'm sure I won't know any movies they bring. Yeah, it's going to be it's going to be an intense one. But then, you know, then maybe we'll just end up watching Mac and me. You just never know. Yeah.

I mean, that's on a good day. Yeah. I wrote on what said you got Paul read on a good day. Yeah. I'll run on. What? Said you got Paul read on standby for McEne. Yeah. His love of that movie is they really should just he should just be involved in getting a sequel off the ground because he's attached to what happened. Yes. You know, pull that dumb puppet out of storage and have some fun. Decaying puppet. Yes.

Before we say probably in the Smithsonian, right? Obviously, before we play games today, I want to visit as we do recommendation nation. That's where I ask each of you to recommend one movie. I was going to say, let's start with Sam's bullshit answer but but since Mike has you know has been listening to show regularly this isn't this question didn't come as a surprise to him so let's start with you Mike what movie would you like to recommend today honestly Doug I'm a little off guard. I didn't know this question was coming, but. No, I'm kidding.

So my recommendation is gonna be October Sky, just because it's a movie that is so good. And yet for some reason it's one of those, oh yeah, that movie exists, you know, like, for some reason. And it's a wonderful performance. And it's just, there's something that I really relate to with Jake Gyllenhaal's character of like, wanting to do something. And even though your parents love you, they just don't understand what you're trying to do. And then finally, just proving to everyone that you can do something, you know, and there and he did have that one person that believed in him that Laura Dern plays

the teacher. And yeah, it's just a wonderful film. I love it. Was Jake a real teenager in that movie or was he a 20 year old playing a teenager? More than likely, he was probably a 20 year old. 20 year old playing a teenager. More than likely, he was probably a 20 year old playing a teenager. I'm not really sure. That's that's important. Yeah, I remember first really noticing him when he played exactly the same character in two different movies.

Yes, he was in Lovely and Amazing and The Good Wife as the young boy that has an affair with an older woman. Yeah. And in both cases, he was probably again in his 20s at the time. Yeah. But yeah, he's he's always been tremendous. A rewatch of October Sky is probably something I should do because at the time I was just kind of over movies about a young person and astronaut movies. Yeah, I get that.

Yeah, so I think it'd be interesting to check it out again. And I'm also thinking about just spending an entire year with the only movies I watch are movies with a month in the title and in the proper month. So I won't have a lot to watch. the Just see how it's doing. Does it still exist or did Joaquin Phoenix pull out of that too? All right, Sam, you're up. All right. Now, remember, Doug, my nonsense ended episodes ago. I know, but I still can't trust you.

That's fine. I'll give you no reason to doubt me, though, today. So I feel a little bad because the film I'm going to recommend, the masses won't be able to see it for about another three weeks, just under three weeks, because it is coming to Netflix. And on September 27th, this film is going to drop on Netflix, and it's a documentary and it's called Will and Harper. Oh, I can't wait. Yes, I want to see that. I was at the Telluride Film Festival a week ago or so,

and I saw it up there. And it was so moving and so charming and so funny and so sweet. And I want everyone to see it. It was my favorite film I saw at the festival. And of course, it's made conservative types angry because it's Will Ferrell just admitting to having a relationship with a trans person and actually respecting them.

Yes, treating a transgender person like a human being. How dare you? So one of those fools, I'm not going to say his name because there's no reason to do that, but one of those fools took to Twitter to say, look at this movie that will fail doing how far has his career dropped? And it's like he was in the number one movie in the world last year. Yeah, the world.

Yeah, that's insane to say that. What a fool. OK, so Will and Harper is what it's called. And it's it's basically about a friendship and a road trip and it's a documentary and I can't wait. I just yeah just saying will ferrell Just seeing a documentary where your cameras follow will ferrell is interesting because he's not like a nutty on all the time guy But he is he is dryly amusing.

And so that's interesting to see. And then to see him just in a relationship with someone trying to understand everything he can about a trans person. Yeah. Harper. Beautiful. Yeah. Harper transitions when she was in her early sixties.

And so, wow. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. 60s. And so. Wow. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. 61 years old. So, you know, the whole the crux of the conversation that two of them have from Harper's standpoint was, OK, ask me anything you want to ask me. I want to destigmatize this.

And I mean, they get into a lot. So I heard anything. I heard anything. I heard Will Ferrell's first question was, do you really think I look like the drummer and chili peppers? I love it. Yeah. All right. Will and Harper out in a few weeks. Yes.

You could have saved it, Sam, because you'll probably be back on in a few weeks. But you know, couldn't risk it. Couldn't risk it. Wanted to make sure I got it. Never know, Doug. OK, now it's Vanessa's turn. What would you like to recommend today? Well, I'm already watching scary movies for the spooky season. And last night I rewatched Barbarian and it's so fun.

I really like that movie. Did I already recommend it? I wouldn't be surprised if you had. And I don't know what it is with horror movies and that one in particular where it gets it's been recommended on the show at least a dozen times. And it's been you know and it's been it's been out for a while and it keeps coming up. You know, one of the greatest smash cuts of all time.

It's so good. And yeah, and the the rewatch was fun. So, yeah, it's a good time. We even had the guy that plays the monster in Barbarian was a guest on this show one time. Just yeah, it turns out Barbarian was a guest on this show one time. Yeah, it turns out a barbarian is not not as great a movie trivia, but he was a super nice barbarian. Oh, I love Barbarian.

I was thinking of going as barbarian for Halloween this year. Oh, that is a fun costume. Yeah, I need to grow up my fingernails, though. Let me ask you this, Vanessa, since you do watch and appreciate horror films. The other movie that has been recommended repeatedly since it came out is Long Legs. Have you seen Long Legs? I have. You didn't like that one?

It was okay. I didn't like that one? It was OK. I didn't really connect with it. I was I thought I was going to be like scared, scared because everyone was going to be like everyone was talking about it like, oh, it's going to fuck you up. And I

that's what I go by with horror films. I'm like, am I scared? And I wasn't that scared in it. I thought it depends. I thought it was a great performance by Nick Cage. Yeah. But if growing up, you weren't scared of Tiny Tim, you probably wouldn't be scared of him in that movie. Right. Because it's very, he looks very much like that guy, Tiny Tim, who nobody remembers. Yooka-Laylee? Yeah, yeah, that guy.

Oh, OK. Tiptoe, three to two. Oh, yes. If Nick Cage did not think of him, he's insane. If he did not think that's what he was doing. That'd be like Johnny Depp saying, oh, my Willy Wonka has nothing to do with Michael Jackson. Well, thank you for these recommendations. You know, I can't argue with any of it.

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I am so into Chimp Crazy that, I mean, into it's crazy that I'm not. I mean, into it's kind of a weird thing to say because it's very upsetting, the things that occur in it. You know, I'm very pro animal and pro not keeping them as pets unless they're specifically domesticated creatures. Same. Which chimps are not. They become an absolute nightmare. And they live to be like same as us, 80 or 100.

But they get insane around age seven. Yeah. Just like us. Exactly. Yeah. No, I to me, I find the people fascinating. I'm like, these are real people that are like doing this. They're crazy. It's wild.

Yeah, they're just absolutely characters, you know, if anybody's not familiar, it's the same director who did documentarian who did Tiger King and it's, you know, in some ways crazy. Yeah, I'd say in some ways crazier because chimps are considered so cute and so trainable and so fun. And, you know, you don't really think those things about tigers and lions. Like that was just straight up dangerous what they were doing on Tiger King. But in this movie, some there is some rampaging chimpanzees. Yeah, I think that's the series. I think I think of it as a movie because it's it's only four or like half hours is the whole season. So why I don't know why they just didn't make one movie other than capitalism.

I keep accidentally calling it chimp love. And I think because I'm waiting for the episode where they're like, and I'm in love with him, well, they dress them up. Though she is that one. The main lady is Tanya. She really is just in love with Tonka, the champ who's very, very, looks very unhappy all the time. His only joy is slapping her through a cage. Yep. And

and it's a it's a wild watch. And I recommend it to anybody who can handle it because it is, there are parts that are a little, you know, you don't see anything really, but just hearing about the incidents. Because we've all, we all know comedians who do routines about, you know, the guy that got his nuts ripped off by a chimpanzee and And another person that got their face torn off like it's It's really really scary. So Mm-hmm in honor of Jim crazy my games today are

stupid crazy Possibly the dumbest games You'll ever play on this show So good luck to everybody. And this first one is just called Chimp or No Chimp. Oh my god. So we'll start with Mike, and then we'll go to Sam, and then we'll go to Vanessa.

And one at a time, you just get the title of a movie with no other information about the movie. And you tell me if in the in the between the beginning and end of the movie, is there a chimp or no chimps? Does it have to be a chimp? Could it be any other primate? Those other primates, Sam? Yeah. not chimps

Just making sure good question. It was a good question You imagine somebody stopping ten Jennings to ask a question about a category in Yes, I can Because that person would be me and the producers would ask me to leave. Now Ken, what's the category? Chimp or no chimp? Do non-chimps count? All right. That's part of my goal with this game is to educate as well as entertain. And so, Mike, are you ready?

Do you have any questions? I'm very ready, yes. Okay. Chimp or no chimp in the motion picture called Outbreak. Oh my gosh. I thought this was gonna be easier. Believe it or not, the nineties was a wild time for Chimp movies. But like.

So I was like, this is a, I'll have this in the bag. This is easy. Um, Outbreak. Oh gosh. I'm just gonna go Chimp. You think there's a chimp in Outbreak? Why not? Well, I mean, you're not far off because there is a capuchin monkey.

But no chimp. That is incorrect. No chimp. Man. See, that's what Sam meant about... Which I'm glad that movie... I imagine the monkey dies in that movie. Yeah. I assume that's what I meant. I imagine the monkey dies in that movie. Yeah, I assume that's how they go. There's been an outbreak. No, the capuchin monkey lives. That's how they get the that's how they cure the outbreak. They capture the monkey and then they synthesize its antibodies. Oh, my goodness.

If only I'd ask you that one, Sam, then you'd be on the board. I thought, yeah, instead, you have to tell me, Sam. OK, if there's a monkey or not, I mean, Chimp, specifically, Jim, you know, Jim, I apologize for the apologize for the M word. Is there a chip or don't chip in hot summer in barefoot County? Yes, you're saying there's a chimp in hot summer in barefoot County I'm saying I Can't imagine I can't imagine what there is.

I can't even vaguely imagine what that movie is. Yes. What are you saying, Sam? So I'll say sure, why not? There's a chimp in hot summer in Barefoot County. I'm sorry to say, and it's a reason for me to not check out that movie. No, Jim. Oh So you just found a random movie and you haven't even seen it you're just assuming there's no chance I did research If there's a chimp in that movie They've decided to keep it a massive secret

Maybe maybe it worked on the movie in behind the scenes. Yeah, you don't know who the caterers were. You don't know. I think I know all the common chimp names. Like if it said Bonzo in the credits, I'd be like, oh, a chimp was involved. OK. Very well.

Moving on to Vanessa. I need to know who your source is. How can we trust? How can we trust? How can we trust? My source is going to be wrong. We might have to contact the corrections department. Because people let us know when I get things wrong. The motion picture Dunstan checks in. Have you seen it? Yeah. Chimp or no

Chimp. Well, I know he's an orangutan and that's that's not a Chimp. So I'm going to say no. Dustin checks in is in fact an orangutan. Thank God. And also, do you think that there do you think that there's no G at the end of that word? But we why do you think we add a G to it just because of Tang, the astronaut drink? Yes. Orang a tang. the astronaut drink. Yes. Orang-o-tang. Is how I spell it. It is better.

Also, I think we should call them capuchin. Yep. That is correct. Dunstan. Great performance. Great orangutan in a movie that is more enjoyable than it absolutely needs to be. Have you ever done like a mock of that movie, Vanessa? No, but we should. That'd be fun. That'd be a fun time. All right, so Vanessa is on the board. She's got one one point we go back to Mike you still have a chance

here Mike the barefoot in Tessa Jim for no chip forgive me I'm having issues hearing you Doug. Oh just a second here. Okay, you sound good Okay, cool Do you hear the title? No, can you say the title one more time? Sorry. You're just gonna have to guess no, it's It's the barefoot Contessa Like this like the chef? There's a motion picture called the barefoot contestant. Does it have a chimp or no chimp? I think the only, my only strategy here is that sometimes Doug, you like to be

a silly goose and you're just going to give us movies with no chimps in them and make us think there's chimps in them. So I'm going to say no. No chip is correct. Yes. You're also on the board with one point. I forgot to give Vanessa sound effect when she got her point And now this next one. This is for Mike Okay Sounds do not get captured I think it becomes too loud and your mic mutes it How's that Couldn't hear it either. I think it thinks too loud and your mic mutes it.

How's that? Couldn't hear it either. I think it thinks it's back. It's so far from the mic. Oh man, I don't know. That's hilarious. What about this one? Do you hear that? It sounds like you're farting. It's so amazing how accurate Zoom is that I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You know, it doesn't come through it's crazy. But it's so funny that there must be a Hundred episodes where I'm saying there's a sound effect happening that people aren't hearing That's how long it's taken for people to start really going So much work out of the post Guys so high he's acting like he's making sound effects that aren't there. I swear you could hear them at one time or another.

Yes, I believe you are right. We could hear them at one point. Yeah, I don't know what's happened to my microphone on my phone, but that's where we're at. So I'll go, I'll go I'll go If you get this right Sam, okay, Chimper no chip the barefoot executive Now normally I would have 100% agreed with Mike's strategy of you being a silly goose. And of course, I have no idea what this movie is. But that does sound like the name of like a goofy, like 60s movie,

where like they would have absolutely somehow a chimpanzee or I could be wrong like it could be some other non human executive could be a monkey could be an arachnid could be a gorilla but I am leaning towards saying yes chimpanzee and I'm ready to be wrong That is correct There is a specifically a chimp and He does in fact become an executive Yeah, so long and so hard for a quality that.

It is one of the most satirical Disney movies ever made because a chimp just watches TV pilots and decides which ones are good and he always picks hits. Wow. And a young Kurt Russell, it's his chimp. It's his chimp. So he moves up through the ranks at the network because it's his chimp. Amazing.

Yeah. And then in the end he has to decide, am I exploiting this chimp? Should I stop showing him these awful TV shows? They should start doing that again. Let him pick. Yeah, seriously.

He would love Jim crazy. I know that we can. Okay, Vanessa. Ready. Here's the next one for you. And if you get this one, you are the winner of this game. If you don't, the others have a chance. The motion picture is MVP, most vertical primate. You know, the expression MVP in sports?

Yeah. They took it and changed it to mean most vertical primate. Okay. Now the question is, is there a chimp or no chimp? In a movie that brags about primates in the title. I'm assuming he's playing basketball. That's not the question. Well, I'm trying. I'm like, which one would most likely play basketball?

I'm going to say Chimp. Chimp is correct. This is rigged, man. You gave her all the 90s Chimp movies. By the way, Vanessa, he skateboards. I've seen the movie. What? Yeah, it's not even, it's very misleading what sport it's gonna be. I thought it was basketball. I remember Most Valuable, primate.

I think we all remember that one. Oh, why? What's that? That's the I think this sounds like a sequel to most valuable primate. Oh, I see. I see. He gets into a different sport. Yeah, he started. I think most valuable primate is hockey. Oh, yeah, that sounds right.

We all know how great chimps are at skating. Yeah. They're already super low to the ground. All right. Congratulations, Vanessa. That means you get to go first in our next even dumber game, and we'll play that after these messages. We'll be right back. We are back.

And are you ready? Are all of you ready for some more monkey business? Hey, don't use the M word. We agreed. The next game is sillier than the first. And it's Sam's probably favorite game that we play on the show. It's called the little search engine that could It's called the little search engine that could. Oh no. I typed a word into the search engine on IMDB this morning,

and then I wrote down the top 10 movies that, according to the popularity index on IMDB, are the top 10 movies with that word in the title. You're going to take turns guessing movies for three rounds with that word in the title. If you can't think of one, make one up because maybe it's actually a movie. If your title is number one on the list, you get 10 points. Number 10, you get one point

and then there's a bunch of points in between. We'll start with Vanessa and go to Sam and then to Mike. And of course the word today is monkey. So Vanessa Gonzalez, please name a movie that has the word monkey, not monkeys. It's never plural. It's just singular word monkey in the title. You have 3000 seconds. Go. Oh, um, monkey business.

I love a confidence answer. Number eight on the list, Monkey Business. Yes. From 1952 starring Cary Grant, not the Marx Brothers. Not the Marx Brothers. Not the Marx Brothers one that did not, did not manage to make the list. So that's why if you,

whichever movie you thought it was, you still get the points. That's worth three points for Vanessa Very nice start Sam yep They move his monkey in the title I'm gonna roll the dice for recency bias and say monkey man Monkey Man. Starred Dead Patel from this very year it was released and it is number one on the list.

So that's worth 10 points for Sam, but that's not an insurmountable lead, especially with Vanessa already on the board. Mike, have you thought of any movies? I sure did. And Sam took it. Oh, no. What you should have done, Mike, was one of the last games. One last game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah. Chimper no chimp. You know, like I said, if you can't think of one, you can just make up a title with monkey in it.

And who knows? Could be real. I'm going to go monkey business semicolon, this is going gonna be bananas. Yes. Well that unfortunately was a little too creative. Okay. Because I don't see there's no monkey business sequel on the list. I don't know if a monkey business sequel exists.

I don't think it does. Yeah. But what a fun guess. And that's, you know, that's important. Vanessa, we're back to you. Okay. That's a little monkey movie. I'm gonna take a swing and say boss monkey boss.

That's one you just made up. Yeah, it is. Is the name boss comma monkey boss or just a boss, just just monkey boss. Thank you for this. Yeah, this is a spin off from baby boss? Yeah, that's boss baby. That'd be funny. Boss baby to baby boss.

Or three, I guess they're up to now or four. I don't know how many of those movies there are. I just know that Alex too busy making boss baby movies to be in a Beetlejuice movie. Or there could be other reasons. Actually, Tim Burton said that Gina Davis and Alec Baldwin weren't brought back in it because he just didn't feel that they would have anything to do with this story he wanted to tell.

And I mean, and I'm like, you mean the story of Beetlejuice? I think they had a lot to do with it. Yeah, I think there has to be other reasons. OK, so we're back to. Oh, I'm sorry, Vanessa, I never gave you an answer. Is it a movie? So disrespectful. That is if it is a movie, it's not on this list. Oh, it didn't make the top 10, unfortunately.

But let's see if Sam can solidify here. I this is another monkey title. This is shockingly harder than I thought it was going to be. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Like I am saying, I'd be lucky to come up with three of these if I were. I am racking my brain. I have one more. I'm sure it's not up there was it film.

I saw when I was a kid starring Thor a birch called Monkey Trouble. Oh, that's a good one. Good one. Monkey Trouble is number seven. Now, it is four points for Monkey Trouble is number seven on the list. Four points for Bucky Trouble. So now Sam really is running away with this. Now that he's got four more points in a total of 14. But, you know, I like... I like a good comeback.

And it's still absolutely possible though unlikely It's not over till it's over, but it's really close to over Mike Well Concocted another title for fun, or if you thought of one in the interim that actually exists Believe it or not as you were talking about Tim Burton that Cracked something in my head and it made me think of the Tim Burton universe

And even though this has nothing to do with him. It just seems like something he would make and that movie is called Monkey Bone Monkey Bone is very Tim Burton and I think that yeah that's supposed to be that is a monkey I guess it's probably kind of monkey do you think it is? I don't know probably it's it's animated probably. Yeah yeah it's like it's kind of like those dolls those monkey dolls that I don't know if it's supposed to be a capuchin or a chimp or some sort of hybrid But that was a great guess and and I'm glad the Tim Burton conversation sparked that I thought I thought you're gonna really go rogue I mean say Planet of the Apes

Okay, that's a guess but unfortunately unfortunately, Monkey Bone is not on the list. Wow. No Monkey Bone, but it should be. I can think of it. It really should be. Yeah. We just saw it recently. It got chosen at Your Choice

movie interruption at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles and We actually has entertaining parts. I'm not gonna lie to you, but it's also kind of terrible I Say Chris Catan strangely enough As the funniest sequence in the movie agreed with a little little Bob Odenkirk sprinkled in as well Okay, Vanessa We've got Agreed. With a little Bob Odenkirk sprinkled in as well. Okay, Vanessa.

We've got one, two, three, four, seven monkey movies that have not been named. Wow. That's some of the top 10 list of monkey movies on IMDB, the Internet Monkey Database. Oh my God. What have you got for us this time? My best friend's monkey. I mean, why wouldn't there be? There's a movie, a Robert's movie.

Yeah. There's a whole bunch of stuff. If it doesn't exist, somebody should get the rights to that title. It doesn't even have to be a monkey. You know what I mean? It could be some sort of metaphor. Yeah.

But I'm sorry, my best friend's monkey is not on there. But man, that'd be fun if you just made up a title and it was there. I'm writing it down. I'm writing it down. OK, good. Sam, do you want to punish everybody further with your wisdom and come up with another one? I am out. I am stone cold out of monkey movies. The only one I could think of was one that originally occurred to me,

which was Monkey Business. And of course, it's either the Cary Grant one or the Marx Brothers one. And I'll roll the dice. Nobody said Monkey Business. I think it's 1931, Marx Brothers. So that's what I will guess. Okay. Well, I mean, you know, it doesn't really matter at this point, but I tried to say that, you know, the other Monkey Business didn't make the, didn't make the top 10, just the one. But I also don't make people, uh, in this case say specifically which monkey business movie they were talking about. Were you talking about the Marx brothers, Vanessa?

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. You snuck into that one. You snuck into the three points for the Cary Grant Monkey Business movie, which, you know, in 1952, everyone was well aware that Monkey Business was the title of a Marx Brothers movie. So I don't know why they were like, let's call it Monkey Business. There's so many other things they could call it.

They'd gone through the war. Everyone. Just everything that happened. It was a reset. It was a reset. There's so many other things they could call it. They'd gone through the war everyone Yeah, nothing mattered after that before that okay so Damn, that's you get zero for that one. So that's that I feel that's satisfying to me anyway That you could only think of two that are on the list. Them's the two. With 14 points, unless I played some weird thing like,

Mike, if you get any movie that's on this list, I will give you 15 points. All right, do it. Do it. My big fat Greek monkey. Let's do this. Yes. Sorry, that's not a movie. Oh, man.

I don't know who would be more insulted, Greeks or monkeys by that title. But let's find out. Oh, I just thought of one. Oh, okay. Just for fun. Oh, sorry. Monkey shines the horror movie. Yeah, monkey signs was number four I just thought of one to you What monkey paw I just thought of one. Oh, right monkey paw isn't on the list No, I'm only thinking of ones that aren't on the list or don't exist. Yeah. Monkey Shines from 1988.

I forget what actors are even in that. My God. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, wait. I think it's. I think it's. Sarsgaard is in it, I think. Which Peter? Top Sarsgaard. Oh, Sarsgaard. Oh, oh, Stellan. No, no, you're right. It's the it's the it's the other one of the boys. Sarsgaard. Yeah. No, I think too. I think I can't even challenge you. It's the one of the boys, Saris Garz. Yeah. No, it's been too long. I think.

I can't even challenge you. It's been so long since I've seen it. All right. Let's go. Let's go. So let's go through this and it's going to be no surprise to anyone that the movies that remain on this list, except for maybe one, nobody's heard of. Okay. that remain on this list except for maybe one nobody's heard of oh okay

number 10 animated movie from 2015 that's generated some interest for some reason called monkey king hero is back so it must be about a maybe the first movie was just called hero the monkey and then he came back as a king. Also another title, quite similar. Number nine on the list is from 2020, nearly monkey King. Oh, I almost said something like that. Monkey Prince. Yeah. I was going to say monkey, monkey queen, PR, I N T S monkey Prince. Um,

number six on the list. We're going jumping over monkey business and monkey trouble to emotion picture called the monkey King to not a sequel. This is not a sequel to Monkey King, because that came out in 2020. This is another case of people just going, oh, this is called Monkey King, when there's already Monkey King out there. And then at number four, excuse me, number five is one that perhaps somebody might have thought of if they were given several more hours to think about it. From 1994, directed by David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. I would have needed three business days. Okay. Now, here's where things get even more stupidly complicated. Number three on the list is a movie Here's where things get even more stupidly complicated. Number three on the list is a movie from 2014 that I do not think is related to the movie

from 2020 or the movie from 2015, but it is also called The Monkey King. Colon Havoc in Heaven's Palace. Now, in that movie, star Donnie Yen and Chow Young Fat. So it's a legit movie. Do you think all of these movies, the Monkey King, whether they have a number or you think they're all unrelated? They strangely are. I mean, Monkey King 2 definitely has a previous The Monkey King, but there's no movie on this list called The Monkey King.

Who knew that M and MCU was monkey? And then number 2 on the list, I'm not kidding. It's called. Stop. It's called The Monkey King. But it is not followed by any follow ups. And it's not related to the other movies. It's from twenty twenty three. It stars Jimmy O. Yang and Bowen Yang. Oh, my God. What? I hope it's a movie with only people named Yang in it, but I do not

do any further research. Wow. Oh, what a crazy, what a crazy game that was. Sam, congratulations. Thank you. You're our winner once again. By any chance, and you don't have to commit now, you can just give us a maybe, but is there a chance that you can join us at the improv for our 18th anniversary episode on Tuesday September 17th at 730?

Here in Los Angeles. Maybe I can. I'll put you down for a maybe. Okay. This is exciting. And what would you like to plug today, Sam? Oh, so that movie that I was talking about for a very long time called City of Dreams that I appear in, it's released, it's out there. It's in, as of last weekend, at least 774 theaters. This weekend, probably not as many, but it's still out there. I did check. So if you want to see a really tough watch that I play a very bad guy in. Check out City of Dreams. Oh, and I'm also on Cameo. Otherwise, you can listen to this episode. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, it was probably a tough listen.

So what what genre is it that it's such a tough watch? It's it's a drama. It is inspired by true events. It is about human trafficking and forced slave labor. Oh, yeah. You told me the human trafficking part. Yeah. Yeah, that's rough. OK. Yeah, I probably won't watch that. That's OK.

OK, just tell me that title is so god damn misleading. I know it's the third title. We shot it under the name This Is America. And then it got changed to Bonded and then it got changed to Dreamer. And now it's City of Dreams. That's a peek behind the curtain, kids. Yeah, Dreamer sounds too positive. But Bonded sounds too much like it's like more of a thriller

Yeah, and what was the first one? This is America mark. Nope just point of fact Oh, this is America. Nobody wants to see what America is. Nope so city of dreams it is and I Was teasing I there's a chance I will watch it. Oh, well, thanks, Doug. It'll probably be on streaming relatively soon. How do you feel about would you be offended if I only watch your scenes? No. Because it still counts as a view according to the streamer or whatever.

Yeah, and you're in luck. They cut almost everything that I meant except one like 12-minute sequence, which is if you watch that, you've seen everything I have to contribute to the final cut. When they were editing it, they were probably decided, oh, this shouldn't be this shouldn't have so many comical moments. I can assure you I brought no comedy. I mean, I don't know if you've noticed this about yourself,

but you're a funny person. Well, thank you. And I appreciate that. And generally, when I do get acting gigs, it is to be very silly. My guy in this movie is not silly. He is very angry and very serious and very evil. I want to see it. I'm going to see it. Speaking of angry and evil, Mike, I guess. I'm not angry. Lives in Florida.

That's an angry place. What do you want to plug, dude? Thanks for being here. the They're making another one? Yeah, they're making another one. Apparently, the other titles did not matter. So they'll be barring in it with a monkey, apparently. And no, I'm kidding. But honestly, everything that you can find, my Instagram and my TikTok, all that stuff, is on my website, thekidfromup.com. That is a real website. Until Disney sues me. So yeah, that is my that is my plug.

How can they prove you're not the kid from up? They can't. And if you're spelling his name, it's Valdez with the S. Correct. Yes. Yeah. Saldez. It's Saldez. Alright speaking of S's oh my god Vanessa you have so many of them. Just said my first name not my last name. Oh your last name is all Z's also. I'm all Z's. Which is what I say about your act. Oh, damn.

Wow, is this a roast battle? I came on here on my day off. I would not make that joke if you didn't know how funny I think you are. What would you like to promote? Well, I'm doing shows. Hopefully, they're awake. They're very much alert.

And I'll be in San Antonio and Albuquerque this week. You can follow me at Vanessa G Comedy on everything and find tickets for my shows at Vanessa comedy.com. That's lovely. I haven't been to Albuquerque in a minute, but I hope to go back soon and I at San Antonio. I always have a great time there. So if you're in those cities, go see Vanessa. And I got a couple things to plug in addition to the 18th anniversary episode of this show that's going to be at the lab at the improv on Melrose in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 17. Really hope we, you know, get a nice turn out for that because it's an anniversary episode. episode and then I'll be at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas doing a movie interruption with Vanessa and Doug Mellard is gonna be there and hopefully some fancy fun actor or filmmaker who's at the festival. I always try to leave

one slot open for a you know a last- addition. And then I'll also be doing a Douglas movies at Fantastic Fest and people could slip in without a badge usually. So keep that in mind if you're in Austin but not necessarily attending the festival. And then first Tuesday of every month we're at Dynasty Typewriter doing a Benson movie interruption. October 1st is the next one. And I just like to stress, to bring horror movies. Last year, I forget what movie it was, I should look it up. Because last year in October, we did a movie interruption and we ended up picking just some random movie that was not a horror movie, which seems like a odd decision in October. So You know bring whatever you want to your choice, but uh horror movies if possible

Uh, thank you once again to mike valdez sam levine and vanessa gonzalez as always Now this is uh, the last line from uh, the actual Marx Brothers monkey business, spoken by the great Rauchel Marx. I'm looking for a needle in the haystack.