Game Shows & Robert De Niro Movies

Summary

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The Nightly – Game Shows & Robert De Niro Movies

Host: Hatch Podcasts
Date: December 3, 2025

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Overview

This cozy episode of The Nightly invites listeners into the Hatch Pillow Fort for a playful, late-night chat all about game shows and the ever-iconic Robert De Niro’s extensive filmography. Hosts Chris and Jacques (a.k.a. Chiquis) reflect on the appeal of pop culture trivia, swap personal game show stories, and play a friendly “movie memory” game trying to name as many De Niro films as possible. It’s all delivered with gentle humor and the familiar warmth that makes the podcast ideal for late-night unwinding.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Game Shows & Jacques’ Trivia Adventures

[00:43 – 04:11]

• Chris brings up the new Pop Culture Jeopardy! and wonders who among them would survive in that competitive environment.
  • Chris: “I would love to be on that show. And then in the realistic sense of things, I’d probably get completely crushed.” (00:53)
• Jacques reveals a surprising game show resume:
  • The Price is Right with Bob Barker: Wore a homemade Plinko shirt during Barker’s final season at age 19.
  • Idiot Test on Game Show Network.
  • Celebrity Family Feud in recent years.
  • Jacques muses on possibly leveraging his connections to get onto Pop Culture Jeopardy! (03:08) — potentially as a trivia team with friends.
  • Jacques: “We’ve never won at our actual trivia night, but we’ll be so interesting doing it.” (03:43)

2. Movie Memory Game: How Many Robert De Niro Films Can We Name?

[04:20 – 14:59]

• The main game involves going back and forth naming De Niro movies until one person blanks.
  • Jacques sets the rules: “I’m just gonna point at an actor, and that’s the one we’re gonna go with.” (04:32)
  • Actor chosen: Robert De Niro.
• Notable films recalled include:
  • Goodfellas (Chris’s pick, 05:33): “A movie I adore and have seen many, many times.”
  • Meet the Parents (Jacques, 06:07): “This is when the world realized Robert De Niro could be funny, right?”
  • Taxi Driver – including the famous “You talking to me?” scene (06:43).
    • Jacques: “Would you say that was the movie that brought him to, ‘Oh, this kid is like one of the better actors?’” (06:52)
  • The Intern, Raging Bull, Showtime (with Eddie Murphy), Joker, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Irishman (complete with a humorous critique of the “de-aged” effects).
    • Jacques: “There’s a part of the movie where he’s supposed to be like beating somebody up. And he’s supposed to be like a young man, but he’s still clearly a 80 plus year old man.” (11:10)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Cape Fear, and others.
• Jacques runs out of De Niro movies and surrenders, with Chris adding one last pick.

3. Rapid-Fire De Niro Filmography Recap

[15:07 – 19:14]

• The hosts reference the “pillow fort encyclopedia” and are astonished at how many major De Niro titles they forgot:
  • Casino, Heat, and Jackie Brown—“How do we miss those? That’s wild.” (16:18)
  • Analyze This, Analyze That (with Billy Crystal): “Those were fun movies also.” (16:39)
  • The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Joy.
• Chris observes that De Niro’s career is the opposite of Leonardo DiCaprio’s—he has done tons of movies, big and small:
  • Jacques: “…looking at Robert De Niro’s filmography, he was in so many movies that I’ve never heard of in my life.” (18:19)
• They call out obscure or unfamiliar titles: Mistress, Ezra, Guilty by Suspicion, Savage Salvation, Jackknife, Hands of Stone, 1900, and even a short called Ellis where he plays “the Immigrant.”
  • Chris: “If you enjoy acting, play all the different kinds of roles, be in all sorts of projects, why not?” (19:05)
  • Jacques (jokingly): “And if you got 20 kids make all that child support money.” (19:14)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Game Show Glory:
  Chris: “Oh, my God, Jacques, I didn’t know this about you. And now I find you even more heroic than I thought I did.” (01:14)
• On De Niro’s Versatility:
  Chris: “That was like one of the first movies where there was an actor doing that big physical transformation thing… that later on Tom Hanks did for Cast Away and other actors have done.” (07:54)
• About The Irishman:
  Jacques: “I couldn’t get the de-aging in the face. Cool. But the body, like took me all the way out.” (11:10)
• Self-Deprecating Movie Recall:
  Chris: “There are gonna be people who are gonna be so mad. We missed probably two of the biggest movies, Casino and Heat.” (16:09)
• On De Niro’s Gigantic Resume:
  Jacques: “Like every year he has like two to five movies that came out that year.” (18:19)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:43 – Pop Culture Jeopardy! & Game Show Experiences
• 04:20 – Introduction of the Movie Memory Game
• 05:08 – Robert De Niro Chosen; Game Begins
• 06:39 – Notable De Niro Movies: Classic & Deep Cuts Begin Flowing
• 11:10 – Extended Riff on The Irishman’s “De-Aging” Effects
• 15:07 – Comparing Notes: What Major De Niro Films Did They Miss?
• 18:19 – Reflection on De Niro’s Prolific Output

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Conclusion

The episode wraps up with both hosts winding down, expressing admiration for De Niro’s multifaceted career and laughing at the movies they managed to forget. The vibe is as soothing and fun as ever, making this the perfect winding-down listen for pop culture lovers and movie buffs.

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Transcript

[A]

Hello. You're about to drift into an episode of the Nightly, a podcast designed to help you unwind and relax. For the full phone free immersive light experience, visit Hatch Co. Enjoy.

[B]

Hey, out there. I am Chris.

[A]

And I'm Jacques.

[B]

Welcome to the Nightly from Hatch. A slumber party for pop culture lovers and. Oh, boy, it's a pop culture day today that we're gonna get into. Isn't it, Chiquis?

[A]

It is. You know, I just saw they have a show called Pop Culture Jeopardy. Have you seen this? Do you know about this?

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay. I. On the optimistic side of things, I'm like, oh, I would love to be on that show. And then in the realistic sense of things, I'd probably get completely crushed.

[A]

I mean, but for me, see, I'm a game show person. I love game shows, and I've been on a few of them in life.

[B]

You have?

[A]

Yeah, I have been on a couple.

[B]

Oh, my God, Jacques, I didn't know this about you. And now I find you even more heroic than I thought I did.

[A]

Oh, my gosh. So cool.

[B]

Which game shows have you been on?

[A]

Well, I've been on two of the major ones. I was on the Price is Right with Bob Barker.

[B]

Do you still have the giant name tag with your name on it?

[A]

I have the shirt framed that I wore with my name on it. Yeah. Cause I made a Plinko shirt. It was Bob Barker's last season too, so that was dope. I was 19.

[B]

Okay. So that's epic, the fact that you were with Bob Barker. So cool.

[A]

I was on another game show called the Idiot Test, which was a game show network show that came out. This was over 10 years ago. That was fun. And then recently, within the past two, three years, I was on Celebrity, Family Feud.

Um, which was fun too. So, like, those are the only two ways I as a human could ever get on Jeopardy. Is to either do the celebrity version, which you don't have to be smart to be on. You just have to be like, you know, popular in some shape, form, or fashion. And so, like, people are not like, what is this dumb person doing on the show? They're just like, oh, he's a celebrity, he's dumb.

Or the pop culture one, which feels more in my lane of I can be on Jeopardy. Because Jeopardy. Has never appealed to me for that reason. Reason.

[B]

Because you don't know the capital of this country that you've never heard of. No. Or I should say the capital back in the 1300s, which is now this Capital.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And I. And I love a trivia night as well. But, like, I don't want to go on TV and embarrass myself. Like, I want to go win is what I want to do. I'm not going to go on the show that I know I'm going to lose.

[B]

So hold on here. Do you have an in to jeopardy pop culture version? Because if you've already been on three game shows before, that's gotta help you get on this one, right?

[A]

I know the casting office that is casting it, and I'm sure I could find a way to, like, get in contact with someone and, like, kind of, like, bogard my way on if I want to. So that may be what I do, but it'll be for my team, not just for me, because it's not solo. It's a team.

So you go on it as a team, and I do trivia night. So me and, like, a couple of my trivia night partners are talking about applying.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. I really hope this happens. Will you please let me know if it does so I can cheer for you?

[A]

I will. 100%. I will. I will. And we'll probably still lose. We've never won at our actual trivia night, but we'll be so interesting doing it.

[B]

Well, Jacquees, since you are so good at pop culture trivia, I know that you are going to kill it with tonight's game.

[A]

We'll see. We'll see. This one is usually a hard one for all of us because we run out of steam pretty quickly. How about we play some movie memory?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Now, we've played this before. We love this game together. For those of you who have never heard what this game is, I'm gonna say the name of an actor that I'm just gonna look in the encyclopedia, the pillow fort encyclopedia, and I'm just gonna point at an actor, and that's the one we're gonna go with.

Honestly, like, we didn't know what this actor was before we jumped onto the dance pillow for it. And then we're gonna go back and forth saying movies of theirs until one of us can't name one. And the last person to name a movie wins this game. Movie memory sound good?

[B]

Sounds great.

[A]

All right. The actor. This is a good one. Robert De Niro.

[B]

Ah, Robert De Niro.

[A]

Good old Bobby. Bobby D. Bobby D. I feel like I can do good with this. I feel like we both can do good with this. But we'll see.

[B]

Yeah, he's got a lot of Movies to choose from.

[A]

Yes. Okay, Kristen, I'm a gracious man. I want you to start.

[B]

Thank you. Thank you. I'm gonna start with one of the big obvious ones. A movie I adore and have seen many, many times. Goodfellas.

[A]

Goodfellas. Very good movie. I don't remember Goodfellas as much I've seen it, but it's been a minute, but I know it is up there. As far as one of the better movies in cinema history, so that's a good one.

[B]

Yeah. It's a gangster movie. It's based on a true story. It's star packed. And of course, he is menacing and mobster like.

[A]

Yeah, of course. Well, I'm going to switch it up and I'm going to say. And this. I will just go ahead and say for the sake of the game that I'm covering all of the movies in this franchise, but I'm going to say meet the parents.

[B]

Ah. Love meet the parents. This is when the world realized Robert De Niro could be funny, right?

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

He was perfect in this role because he still is serious and, like, takes himself too seriously. But it worked so well for the premise of this movie. And now a fourth one is coming out.

[B]

Yes. All right. I'm gonna say Taxi Driver.

[A]

Taxi Driver. Classic. Yeah. You talking to me?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Are you talking to me?

[B]

He plays a taxi driver and Taxi Driver. Yeah.

[A]

Would you say that was the movie that, like, kind of brought him to? Oh, this. This kid is like one of the better actors of our generation or in Hollywood today. Would that have been, like, one of the first ones to do that?

[B]

I think so. That movie just hit the world like a ton of bricks when it came out. Like, it was so edgy and it was so different. And I do think it's definitely one of the movies that put him on the map.

[A]

Yeah. Okay. Love it. I'm staying in a comedy world right now because that feels right for me. And I'm going to say the intern.

[B]

Oh, yes.

[A]

Movie with him and Anne Hathaway. You know what?

[B]

We mentioned this movie on a different episode when we were doing an Anne Hathaway game.

[A]

Oh, yes, we did. I forgot about that. I love that.

[B]

And he's playing a senior citizen intern.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's a good one. Because it's not the first thing people think of when they think of Robert De Niro.

[A]

No, no, no, not at all. That's why I'm going for all, like, the deep cuts right now. I'm going for deep cuts.

[B]

Deep cuts. Okay. I'M gonna continue going for the obvious ones because that's what I've been doing so far. Raging Bull, where he plays the boxer. It's that black and white movie where he famously put on an enormous amount of weight and. And then he famously got into extreme peak boxing condition. That was, like, one of the first movies where there was an actor doing that big physical transformation thing that later on Tom Hanks did for Cast Away and other actors have done since then. But, yeah, Raging Bull.

[A]

All right, here's another deep cut for you. A movie with him and a young man by the name of Eddie Murphy. Showtime.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. That is a deep cut.

[A]

Deep cut.

[B]

That was not even in my mind just now until you said it. That I'm like, oh, my gosh.

[A]

Yeah, it's a true deep cut. It's very funny, too. It's like, so it's not, like in the top 10 of either of their movie lists as far as their best movies, but I still enjoyed it. It's just an hour and a half of popcorn viewing.

[B]

Okay. All right.

I'm gonna continue being a little misobvious here, and I'm gonna say the Godfather movies.

[A]

Yeah, listen. Yeah.

[B]

You know, that's what a lot of people think of when they think of De niro. Godfather, Godfather 2, Godfather 3. Is there a fourth one or just those three?

[A]

I don't think there's a fourth one. No. But if it is, I've never seen it and don't want to.

Yeah.

Okay, I'll bring us back. And this was a very big movie, but he had a smaller role in it. The Joker.

[B]

Oh, I forgot about that.

Okay, that's good. There was a movie he was in. I think it's also a Scorsese movie, like many of these movies are that I've mentioned.

Once Upon a Time in America.

[A]

Oh, interesting.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't know if I've heard of that. Is that recent or is that, like.

[B]

An OG this is part of the big era when he was doing, like, Raging Bull and Taxi Driver and all of that. Okay. Oh, you know Scorsese. It was Sergio Leone who directed him in Once Upon a Time in America. And I know that this is a movie he was very famous for back in the day. I think it came out before you and I were around Jacques probably.

[A]

Yeah, I've never heard of it. Well, this one is a Scorsese movie.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I thought it was ass, but, like, it is a Scorsese movie. The Irishman.

[B]

Oh, that's that movie that came out like five years ago that the movie.

[A]

That came out during the pandemic, they.

[B]

Did those incredible special effects where they made him look like he was incredible, like 40 years ago.

[A]

Oh, it was so bad. You thought it was good?

[B]

No, I'm not okay. The problem is his body was still his elderly body.

[A]

That's the problem. Yes.

[B]

But they worked on his face and his face actually looked kind of like it was young again, I'll give you that. But I will agree with you. The body did not line up with the face. His body was. His body was not his taxi driver body. It was not.

[A]

I could not. There was a part in the movie I just couldn't get the de agent in the face. Cool. But the body, like took me all the way out. There's a part of the movie where he's supposed to be like beating somebody up. And he's supposed to be like a young man, but he's still clearly a 80 plus year old man. And I was like, this man can barely walk and you want me to believe he's kicking somebody? Like, it was so fast.

[B]

That's totally fair.

[A]

And it was also four hours and like, I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do the Irishman.

[B]

I'm also gonna say this in support of what you're saying. I think that maybe at the moment it came out and we were all in lockdown and had limited access to the outside world and when deep fake technology just wasn't what it is now.

[A]

Yeah, that's true.

[B]

Like five years ago, it really did seem like, wow, look at this technology. Yeah, but the bodies. No, not the body.

[A]

The bodies. Yeah, the face. I'll give you the face. Because, like, it was one of the better ones with faces. Because that. It wasn't the first movie to do that, but like, it was one of the better ones to do it. But the body just. And I was like, bro, you should have just got younger people. Like, yeah, they were playing like themselves like 40, 50 years ago. Like at this point just cast younger actors. Yeah. That kind of look like them or something. I don't know. The Irishman, though. Another Robert De Niro joint. Yes, there it is.

[B]

Yeah. And he's been in so many Scorsese movies.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Since we're talking about Scorsese, the big one from a few years ago was Killers of the Flower Moon.

[A]

That was with Leo, right? Leonardo DiCaprio.

[B]

Yeah. Well, Leo's like Scorsese's other guy that he always turns to. He's always turning to De Niro. And to Leonardo DiCaprio.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. I never saw that movie.

[B]

To me, some interesting history, but my favorite performance in the movie wasn't De niro or Leonardo DiCaprio. It was Lily Gladstone.

[A]

Oh, yeah, Lily's great. I need to watch it. Okay. I'm, like, trying. My brain is starting to leave me with Mr. De Niro for whatever reason, and I don't think this is actually him. My brain is like, bad grandpa. But I think that's Johnny Knoxville.

I'm almost sure that's Johnny Knoxville.

[B]

Could it be both of them? I'm not sure.

[A]

Is it both of them? I don't think. I don't think so. I think it was Johnny Knoxville.

What else was he in that? I can't think of. I'm struggling.

[B]

I believe in you, Jacquees. I believe in you.

[A]

I know. Once I see, like. Once we look at his, like, movie list, there's going to be something that I'm like, this is. I can't believe I didn't get this. I think you're declared the winner of this one.

[B]

Maybe. Yeah, no, I'm going to name one more, and you're going to be like. You're going to be like, yeah, he's totally in that. And then we'll both win.

[A]

I love it. I love it.

[B]

Do you remember the movie Cape Fear?

[A]

I do, but I've never seen it before. But I do know the movie. Okay.

[B]

Cape Fear is a movie where he plays, once again, somebody menacing, scary. And I remember seeing it when I was probably way too young to see this movie and just thinking, that is the scariest guy ever. And he was very good at that. He's like, essentially like a horror movie character.

[A]

In Cape Fear, he plays good bad guys.

[B]

He does. He plays really good bad guys. But as you said, he plays good comedy bad guys, too. Not just villains, but sometimes just like, I don't want that guy as my father in law.

[A]

Exactly, Exactly. I love it. All right, should we crack over to the encyclopedia, see what else we miss? Yes.

[B]

I know that his resume's very long and hasn't.

[A]

It is very long.

[B]

Has, like, at least 100 movies we haven't even thought about. Right?

[A]

Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure we'll only hit some of the big ones. All right, so, you know, one thing we could have said that, you know, his biggest role to date is all.

[B]

The children he has, and they just keep coming.

[A]

He's still up here popping kids out. Okay.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

So we have some we have some movies here. Oh, it was. He was in a movie called the War With Grandpa. That was what I was thinking of. I knew he was in some grandpa movie. And Dirty Grandpa. That's. No, that's the one I was thinking of. Dirty Grandpa. I knew he was in a grandpa movie.

[B]

He was in two movies with the name Grandpa in them. Wow.

[A]

Yes. Yes. He was. He was. Okay, so we've already said Cape Fear, so let's go from there.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

A Bronx Tale. He was in.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Of course. Of course.

[A]

There are gonna be people who are gonna be so mad. We missed probably two of the biggest movies, Casino and Heat.

[B]

What is wrong with us?

[A]

How do we miss those? That's wild. Yeah. Those are huge.

[B]

Those are ones we should not have missed. We shouldn't have missed those. Oh, my gosh. I forgot he was in Jackie Brown.

[A]

Yep, he was in Jackie Brown. He was also. I actually did enjoy these movies with him and Billy Crystal. Analyze this and analyze that and analyze that.

[B]

Yeah, I really enjoyed those, too. I thought those were hilarious.

[A]

Those were fun movies also. I definitely saw this when I was a kid. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. O. Oh, my gosh.

[B]

Was that, like, animated?

[A]

No, that was live action.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah. He was in also Silver Linings Playbook, which I really did enjoy as well. He was the father.

[B]

Yes. And that's not his only David O. Russell movie. American Hustle. That's another David O. Russell movie.

[A]

Yeah, he was in that. Uncredited, I think, so nobody knew he was gonna be in that at all.

[B]

Yeah. And he was also in Joy, which is another David O. Russell mov, which is about the inventor of the miracle mop.

[A]

And Jennifer Lawrence was in that one as well, wasn't she?

[B]

Yeah, she's somebody who David O. Lawrence casts a lot, so. Yeah.

[A]

Robert De Niro, lot of movies. But a lot of big ones, too.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Which is nice.

[B]

So many that we missed.

[A]

It's interesting because, like, you know, we were talking about Scorsese and how he uses Leo a lot. And I would think Robert De Niro was kind of like this, but Leo.

Is really like this, where Leo is very particular about the movies he's in. He's not prolific, really. Like, you could name. If we were to ever do Leonardo DiCaprio, we would name a lot of his movies, and then the ones we missed would still all be like, oh, yes, that was a big movie. That was a big movie. Looking at Robert De Niro's, like, filmography, he was in so many movies that I've never heard of in my life.

Like, he's in shorts, he's in like small roles. And like every year he has like two to five movies that came out that year.

[B]

Yeah. And some of them, like you said, I'm like, I've never heard of some of these movies. Mistress? I've never heard of Mistress. I've never heard of Ezra. Guilty by Suspicion. I've never heard of these movies.

[A]

Savage Salvation, Jackknife. No, never heard of it.

[B]

But I'm like, good for you.

[A]

The comedian. Never heard of that. Hands of Stone. Never heard of that.

[B]

1900. I don't know what that movie is.

[A]

He was in a short called Ellis and his name, his character name was just the Immigrant.

[B]

I'm like, good for you. Try all the things. I mean, if you enjoy acting, play all the different kinds of roles, be in all sorts of projects, why not?

[A]

And also if you got 20 kids make all that child support money.

[B]

Yeah, that too.

[A]

Well, that was fun. That was fun. Robert De Niro is definitely.

An icon in the business, a classic name in the movie industry. So it was fun to stroll down Robert De Niro movie memory lane.

[B]

I've so enjoyed this and honestly, not only is my brain used up, but I'm just overall tuckered out and ready for bed now.

[A]

And you know what?

I am too. So I'm gonna go ahead and turn it on in.

[B]

Me too. Good night, Chiquis.

[A]

Good night, Kristen.

Sam.

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