Episode 237 - Brittney Spills the Tea (featuring Jason Statham)

[00:00:16] Hey everybody, it's another episode of Go Flix Yourself. My name is Ben Konowitz and with me as always is the Moe to my Lisa, Bradford Omen. Yeah, that's me. And the Homer to my Lisa, Nate Lauxx. Woohoo! Pretty good. That was not bad. That was the best impression I've done. Yeah, guys. That was actually really good. And we have a very special, very special guest with us. The Hank Scorpio to my Lisa Simpson.

[00:00:47] Brittany Spencer. It's me. It sounds like Hank Scorpio. Hank Scorpio, a super villain played by Albert Brooks, one of my favorite characters of all time. Very funny. And you are one of my favorite people of all time. That's why you're that person. Brittany, that was from The Simpsons. Yeah, I didn't even know what that was. Can we talk about Brad's fiancee Brittany for real quick? Is it time to talk about how much we like Brittany over Brad? I mean, we've said it so often. This is how we start every episode that I'm on.

[00:01:16] Literally every single one. Yeah, well, it holds true. Yeah, it's a math. You don't say Brittany. Brittany's on the podcast. My girlfriend, Ashley, is down here with us. She's not on the podcast. She's just in the audience right now. It's interesting that you said audience, Ben, because for years you've used... You've been saying Peanut Gallery and I told you it's racist and we've got to stop using it.

[00:01:46] I come on one and I feel unprepared every single time. Well, there's no test. Well, sometimes there's a test. Usually there's not. I mean, to be fair, I test you every day. That's true. And I fail often. No, you test her fucking patience on a daily basis. Yes, thank you, Ben. That was the joke. I failed last week when I told him I didn't really love... Him. Wow. Damn. Damn. It's getting dark.

[00:02:15] I failed because like I told him I didn't... I would never seek out watching one of his most favorite movies of all time again. She wouldn't go out of her way to rewatch Back to the Future. Yeah, no thank you. Okay. It was all right. You got mad at that? Not mad. It's just disappointing. Yeah, just hurt. It's very hurtful. Just a little bit hurt by it. Well, anyway, this is a movie podcast, believe it or not, where we talk about the latest trailers that we've seen and the latest movies. But we always start with a game. And Nate, did you bring a game? Okay, hold on.

[00:02:44] Let's deal with this bullshit. We don't always start with a game. Quit with your fucking nonsense. So we do. We start every episode with a game. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. You're rewriting history. You're trying to change the trajectory of the podcast. No one in the comments has said, oh man, I love having the game first. Actually, that's a lie. That's a lie. Hey, we're making podcasting great again and you need to get on the train. No one who has any power over this podcast has said they want the games first. Everyone. Disrespectful. Everyone has said. Everyone.

[00:03:13] We hear it all the time. Okay, Donald Trump. A lot of people saying. Yeah, I got a couple Trump twins over here. A lot of people saying they want the games first. This is the best podcast ever. This is the best podcast. When the games come first, best podcast ever. And yeah, they listen to the podcast and they say they want games. They want games. And I'll give them the games. They want games first. I'll give them the games. You know who didn't have the room for the games? Kamala. Oh, no. Guys, let me ask you a question. Go ahead. What kind of donuts?

[00:03:43] You get one question. One question. What kind of donuts do you like in the morning? I like a chocolate donut. Like a cake or yeast? Okay. So give us some options here because I want to know, does an apple fritter count as a donut? No. Yes, it does. No, it's a Danish. It's a pastry. A pastry. No, it's not a pastry. A donut has to have the hole in the middle or it has to be shaped like a donut. That's not true. What about a cronut? Otherwise, none of the donuts you get. You just answered your own question. Otherwise, none of the donuts that you get from Krispy Kreme that are the circular ones are not. Like none of those are not qualifying.

[00:04:10] No, I just said you have to have the hole in the middle or they're still shaped like a donut and they're filled with cream. An apple fritter is literally a circle. An apple fritter is a lump. It's a big sweetened lump. I love good apple fritter. It's not a circle. No, but an eclair is not a donut to you? Is a long john a donut? It's a long john. But it's also the phylum of a donut. At BYU, we had these things called Cougat Tiller.

[00:04:39] We're in the donut kingdom. I'm really happy for him because that was a good word for him to pull out. Say what you said again, Brittany? At BYU, we have these things called Cougat Tills and that's literally a long donut that's with maple glaze over it. Is it a donut or a pastry? It's a donut. Yeah, that's some Mormon stuff though. But it's a long one. That's just a Mormon thing that nobody knows about. It is a Mormon thing and I guarantee you'd be... I'd probably love it. That would be the one thing I could convert better on with Mormonism. I love these golden blades in the ground and these cougat tails. That's the two things that I love now.

[00:05:08] I bet you'd put more long cougar tails in your mouth than straight Mormon husbands do dicks. And Brittany, no, don't leave. Don't leave. She's leaving. It's just because she knows. Okay. Guys. Yeah, let's get back to the donut conversation. So Ben went quick with the chocolate. Nate, what's your favorite? I like the yeast chocolate. I hate cake donuts. No, cake donuts are my thing. Cake donuts. What? Interesting. No, cake donuts. Because I became an adult. No.

[00:05:37] I became an adult. Oh, I'm sorry. I like to eat chocolate chalk. No. You eat it and it just crumbles like chalk. It's dry. Do you know what a cake donut is? It's terrible. And I think that you just had bad cake donuts. No. Those are just... Go to the Krokers. They're just moist. Go to the Krokers. Get a good cake donut. No way. It's not a donut. With some frosting on it. You know. It sprinkles if you feel like it that day. I like a good yeast donut. I like a good cake donut. What is a yeast donut? A yeast donut is what you know as a donut. Oh, okay. No. Like a glazed donut. Cake donuts are... Different kinds.

[00:06:08] A little different texture, but if they're the right... No, but a good cake donut could be soft too. But I will tell you, so honestly, Kroger's the jam. Because in... Well, no. Jam is a jelly-filled donut. That's way different. Stop it. Kroger's has good donuts. They really do. And it's the cake donuts very specific. For those of you Californians, that'd be a Ralph's donut. Yeah. Kroger has a lot of sister stores. King Soopers. Smith's in Utah. Yep. X marks the spot up there in Nova Scotia. Jimmy Ray's in Missouri.

[00:06:36] Hammy Pot's in the South. Old Blumpkin Pies down in Alabama. Yep. Yeah. That's a smaller chain, but it's growing. No, it's growing. Yeah. In popularity too. Yeah. As well as size. We didn't have ideas, didn't we? Brittany, what's your favorite donut? I just am a very, very simple lady. I just want a glazed donut. Wow. Oh, just like a glazed? Yeah. Listen, a good glazed donut is amazing. Also, in Zimbabwe, they have these donuts. So the way that you guys have donuts, you guys have very pillowy donuts. Those are the yeast donuts. Soft, pillowy donuts.

[00:07:06] Yes. And we're talking. In Zimbabwe, they're like doughy almost. Like you have like, it's got more texture to it, but it's like, it's a hearty bite when you bite into a donut. I feel like we're talking about the difference in boobs now. They're all good. But I'll put them all in my mouth. Hey-oh, we did it. But those are yum. Except for the cake ones. Those are disgusting. Have you guys seen the ones on like, on TikTok or on like Instagram? And they have, they're round and they rolled in sugar and then they like pumped full of jelly. Those are very yummy too. That sounds delicious. Yeah. They're very tasty.

[00:07:36] Actually, so we were just in Orlando, Florida and on the second to last day, we went to a Rise Chicken place. These are, it's a franchise and they're, they like won the world's best biscuit, right? Oh. And so they're all, you know, Nashville hot chicken sandwiches and all these other things, but they also have a pastry shop basically in there. And a lot of the, like they have this biscuit that is glazed blueberry. It's like, oh my, it's so dense and like still crumbly. Is it a good biscuit? Good God, it was really good. It sounds good.

[00:08:05] But their regular just chocolate donut, your chocolate yeast donut, one of the best ones I've ever had. Ooh. I mean, this place knows what they're doing. Okay. All right. Can we get one up here? You know what? I'll look into it. Well, guys, I got a treat for you. So yeah, if we went through all this and it's not donut related, now I'm going to be so mad. Well, you never know. Well, here's a gummy bear that tastes like ass. You know, it's a complicated game we're playing. Don't look over here. Don't look, don't look at the bag. Look at the bag. I can see it's a pretzel. You can't see anything. I can see lots of these. It's a pretzel bag.

[00:08:34] So flips. Okay, don't look at the bag. Take one out. Pass it around. Pass it around. Don't look at the bag. Don't look at the bag. Don't look at the bag. Brent, don't you look at the fucking bag. I swear to God. I see a purple flip. Don't you look at that bag. Nate, you don't look at that bag. You don't stare at that bag. You don't do it. Look how many men as he has. There's a blueberry donut, let's say, pretzel. Hmm.

[00:09:06] Hmm. Don't eat in the mic. You're very good. No, not you, Brent. Brent, you do whatever you want. This is the exception. If you want to eat in the mic, it's fine. But this fucking asshole over here does this thing where it's like, it's horrible. It's ASMR. People are into it. These are delicious. They're really good. Yeah. These are very good. And so Ben is right. This is a blueberry donut, flips, covered pretzel. Okay. We did it. We nailed it. Delicious. Well, thank you, flips, for sponsoring. What's the donut part of this?

[00:09:33] I'm trying to figure out, like, why not just a blueberry, blueberry-like pretzel? How many did you do put in your mouth at once? It's the sweetness. It's the sweetness. It's the sweetness. Did you put seven of them at once? That was, you had a full mouth. You better not eat all those. I swear to God. I'm going to be so mad at you. Those are the ketchup-flavored Pringles all over. This is so yum. No, get it from him. Don't let him have that. Listen, I like him. I don't love him that much. No, get it from him. I reached. He reached away. Stop it. No, you don't get to hand me one. Oh, you fucker. This is basically like talking to a dog.

[00:10:02] You get in that kennel. You don't know. You don't shit on the floor. You don't shit on the floor. Grab it. Hurry. No, no, not the pretzel. Get the bag. I'll have one. What the fuck? This is horseshit. Oh, man. God. Go to 7-Eleven and get your own fucking bag. God damn it. He faked me. And you reached for him. Like a fucking Morty. Brad made literally fake that he was going to throw in one. And read full on. Both hands up. Two feet away from his face. Went like. To try to catch it. And nothing came.

[00:10:31] And then he brought attention to it saying, he tricked me. What is wrong? That's a lie and you're going to hell. All right. Okay. Okay. So it's games time. Yay. What is going on? This is chaos. People love the games. That's right. No, that's what people have been saying. They're like, hey, we need more games. I just don't want to run out of time. Is there a game? Yeah. I didn't. I got game. He got game. He got game. We got game. We have game. The kids say Riz. He's got Riz.

[00:11:01] He's got Riz. Is that the game? Riz Ahmed? He's the Riz Ahmed. The actor? Yes. So one of the trailers we're watching stars. Spoiler alert. See, that's why you do the games after. No, I like this approach. No, it stars a classic actor. Man of the movie. Man of the movie. Just a guy that like every man. A working man. John Malkovich. No, a working man. Oh, sorry. Just found a pretzel. There was one on your shirt.

[00:11:30] What is wrong? You're becoming me. Who found a pretzel? Just found food on my clothing. Jason Statham. Ashley, I'm sorry. I'm bored. Do you want one? No, I'm just sorry about me. Because I just said out loud, you're turning to me. I found food on my shirt. And I realized that happens. She's like, Jesus, you've got food on your shirt. And I'm like, yeah, sorry. I'm bad. All right. So Jason Statham, which I know you guys both love.

[00:11:59] I'm a Stathamite. Yeah, I love Jason Statham. So this game is going to be about Jason Statham. Now, Brittany, how much do you know about Jason Statham? I know he's a baddie. What does that mean? He's married to me. Like he's a good looking guy? He's a zaddie, I think, is what the kids would say. He's just very handsome. I love him. I don't. Do you know of any films? Of course. Okay. Yeah. Name seven.

[00:12:28] I'd be hard pressed. Do you have a favorite Jason Statham film? Could be The Italian Job. We've got time. No, Italian Job is up there for me. It's a fun one. Most of his movies all run together for me, though. No, because it is the same role in every one. Yeah, every single one. They're like, we need someone who's going to be a badass. British badass that's going to kick people's ass all the time. The transporter. The beekeeper. Transport two. The janitor. Transporter three. Yeah. It's all like the. The mechanic. The janitor.

[00:12:58] The beekeeper. Yeah. You're not wrong. All right. So we're going to do some trivia. Okay. About Jason Statham. Because again, we're going to watch. British. He's British. Jason Statham trailer later. Oi. Oi. So I need a. I need your buzz. Oi. Oi. Okay. Yeah, it's going to be oi. Brad. Hee hee. Britney. Oh, I have to have a voice? No, not a buzzer. A buzzer. Just a buzz. Just a buzz. It can be.

[00:13:28] How are you going to buzz it? It can be honk. Buzz. Okay. Perfect. All right. If I remember correctly, that was your exact one from last night. Probably. Buzz. All right. So to recap, Brad, what's yours? Hey. Britney? Buzz. Oi. All right. All right. Perfect. Now you do have to also give the answer in your best Jason Statham voice. Of course. Okay. Like there's no way to play this otherwise. All right. All right.

[00:13:53] In this film, Jason Statham's character, Shev Chelios, has to keep it. Yep. Crank. Correct. Wait. Crank. To be fair, the odds are stacked against me because there's no freaking way I'm going to beat these two. Oh, Britney, I've never won a game in my years on this podcast. That's true. I think you won one. No, yeah. We rigged it one time. I'm really bad at games. Okay. That's what I make. So I just shouldn't take it personally. Just like sit back and let them win. No.

[00:14:23] Our guests almost never win. Don't let us win. Oh, try? Yeah. Try. Yeah. You'll have your chance. We'll see. All right. Next one. Statham plays a transporter who uses a fire hose to escape from an underwater car, saving himself and his agent from drowning. What is the film? Voice. Oh, yeah. You got it. That one. Transporter 2. I'll just call it the transporter. The transporter. The transporter. Sorry. Yes. Correct. You got it. We're tied. Did I win?

[00:14:53] We're tied at one apiece. What happened to the Jason Statham voice thing? Oh. Transporter. All right. Another one. Jason Statham teams up with Sylvester Stallone. Yep. The Expendables. Yeah. Is that the best you can do? I need to try another one with The Expendables. Like, I need you to really lean into The Statham. You got to grit your teeth a bit more. Oh, yeah.

[00:15:23] The Expendables. Yeah. That's okay. That's pretty good. Yeah. All right. All right. Round two. Nate's going to provide clues about co-stars and characters from Jason Statham's films. You have to guess the actor or character's name. So these are- Actor or character? Yeah. Okay. All right. So these are from Jason Statham films, but the answer is not Jason Statham, obviously. All right.

[00:15:48] So this actor played alongside Jason Statham as his mentor and friend in The Mechanic, later revealing he betrayed him. I was going to show you how much I remember about The Mechanic. That was a tough one to watch, honestly. It was not a very good movie. He also has a son that is an actor. The answer is Donald Sutherland. His son is Bob Sutherland. Yep. Yes. All right. All right.

[00:16:18] Moving on. In Spy, the movie Spy, Jason Statham plays a field agent with an exaggerated view of his own abilities, often clashing with this comedic actor. Brad. Melissa McCarthy. That's pretty good. That's good. It's not bad. All right. All right. In Fast and Furious movies, Statham plays Deckard Shaw, who has a sister named Hattie Shaw, who plays... Who plays... Yeah.

[00:16:50] Oh, shit. Who plays Hattie Shaw? Oh, no. I was thinking of... That was the mom. I was thinking of Helen Mirren. So never mind. Whoops. Yeah. Screwed that one up. I don't know. I can't remember the actress's name who plays Hattie Shaw. I'm actually having trouble remembering her last name. Shaw. I actually think it might be, but I don't know why I'm hesitating. Like, really? Like, her real name is Shaw? Yeah. We'll try. Katie Shaw. Hee-hee. Brad.

[00:17:20] Vanessa Shaw. You think her last name is Shaw? No, I really did. I really did, actually. I know it's Vanessa, but I forget what it... Vanessa Hudgens. No, Vanessa Kirby. Kirby. Kirby. So close to Shaw, though. Yeah, it is. Right there on the same alphabet. Yeah. All right. This is round three true or false questions about Jason Statham's life and career.

[00:17:44] Brad and Ben and Brittany will again need to buzz in with their answers. Here we go. This is true or false. Jason Statham, known for his tough-as-nails action roles, has a surprising gentle side hobby. He's an avid beekeeper.

[00:18:10] On his secluded countryside estate, Jason has set up several beehives where he tends to his buzzing friends with the same precision he brings to his stunts. Oi. False. What do you think, Brittany? I've never seen the movie. Can I just guess? No, it's not a movie. No, no. This is about him for real. Oh, if he actually has done this? Yeah. Do you think he really is a beekeeper? Oh, yes. I do think he's a beekeeper because I follow his wife. I'm going to need to hear Jason Statham say it, though.

[00:18:40] Jason Statham is a beekeeper. I love that he talks about himself in the third person as well. Yeah. It seems very on Brad. Brad, Jason Statham doesn't like this toast. No, I'm going to say Jason Statham might have no bees on his land. Oh, that's pretty great. Ain't have no bees on his land. That's a false, false, true. It is false. He does not use that beekeeper. All right. True or false? I like how confident you're like, no, I follow his wife on Instagram.

[00:19:07] His wife is like a very, like she loves gardening and all that sort of thing. So I feel like Jason Statham doesn't have bees, but he still has a great makeup brand. Fucking hell, Britt. You just ruined my fucking punchline. Sorry. It was not that great. It's fine. You didn't even hear the last part. No, we were fine. We were fine. No one needed that. It's fine. Great job, Brittany. He still gets the honey. That was good. All right. True or false?

[00:19:37] In the gritty underground scene of his early career, before the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Jason Statham was not just an actor in training, but a fighter at heart. One faithful evening in the dimly lit, smoke-filled basement of an amateur fight club, Jason Statham stepped into the ring with the same fierce determination he now brings to his on-screen battles. False. False. All right. This is true. By the way, not real done yet. Okay. Oh, boy.

[00:20:07] The crowd's roar was a backdrop to his focused intensity. Pastor Nate wrote a story for this one. As he faced his opponent, the fight was intense. A whirlwind of punches and dodges. Baboons to the left of me. Baboons to the right. Unexpectively blow connected squarely with Jason Statham's face. There was a sharp crack. And the pain shot through him as his nose broke, blood trickling down, staining his shirt. Is this true or false? It's good.

[00:20:37] And now you know the rest of the story. I feel like it's got to be true. Listen, this man is from, he's from London, right? Like, isn't he from, he's from like London, London. He has to have been in a few fights. He has to have been in a few fight clubs specifically. I don't think you just fall into that. Grew up on the West End as a pickpocket. So, Ben will it false? A snitch snatcher as we used to call ourselves. Brittany goes to true. True. Brad? I'm going to say it's false.

[00:21:06] Brittany gets the point. Whoa! What? That makes him so much cooler. Yeah. You don't become a badass out of nowhere. Did you get my sister's reference, by the way? What? Baboons on the left of me, Baboons on the right. No. That's from the episode where Reverend Lovejoy saves Ned Flanders from the Baboons on the train. Oh. Do you remember that episode? Mm-mm. Okay. It's Mr. Sparkle. I like that you kept the Simpsons references going on. I'm trying. Yeah, it's a good job. All right. True or false? True. Oh, sorry.

[00:21:34] Despite his reputation for fearlessly facing down villains and performing death-defying stunts on screen, Jason Statham harbors an unusual phobia that contrasts starkly with his tough guy image, a deep-seated fear of sharks. This fear which he keeps well hidden from the public eye. This is the kind of shit that I'm talking about. If he just would have been done, it would have been harder. But now I'm like, this is bullshit. This is false.

[00:22:02] During the film of The Meg. Oh, false. Where he had to confront his aquatic nemesis up close. On the set, the crew noticed Statham's unusual behavior. He was more reserved than he usually is. He's usually steady gaze, fitting nervously towards the water at whatever the mechanical shark was mentioned. To manage his anxiety, he insisted on rigorous safety protocols,

[00:22:28] often double-checking the equipment before scenes involving the massive CGI creature. Behind the scenes, he confided in close friends about how he thought of those silent predatory creatures lurking in the depths since chills down his spine. And he knew that it was a mechanical thing, but he was a little bit afraid still. Is this true or false? That's false, mate. It's so fucking false. I would say that's true. The reason I say it, I'm going to give you a backstory. Because my uncle, who is essentially one of the most badass people I've ever met.

[00:22:57] How many times can I say badass in one podcast as well? No, a couple more at least. Yeah, at least three. I like it. I like it. We're on the trend right now for Jason Statham. He's a baddie. So my uncle is one of the most badass people that I know. And he is essentially a mercenary. What? Kills people for a living. Or used to. What? Your uncle is a man that was paid as not a government entity, but just hired, like a hired gun and killed people? Mm-hmm. In Zimbabwe? Not in Zimbabwe.

[00:23:27] In the States? All over the world. In Iraq. In all over the world. Like everywhere. In Liberia. All of those places. And he is a very stoic person. Ben's uncle had porn magazines in his barbershop. Go on. Explains a lot. Please continue your amazing badass story while we revel you with stories of 1970s Playboys and a smoke-filled barbershop in La Porte, Indiana. Trying not to laugh while looking at nudies.

[00:23:55] I'm giggling at nipples while he's ripping throats. Anyway. As I was saying, so he does all of these things that are so manly and so masculine and so macho. And he's afraid of flowers. And he's afraid of frogs. Wow! Deathly afraid of frogs. Cannot go near frogs. Like frogs terrify him. Why? Well, there's a lot of poisonous frogs.

[00:24:23] So in Zimbabwe, we have these big frogs, big bullfrogs. And when he was a kid, the bullfrog bit his arm up to his elbow and pulled off the skin. They're that big? Oh my God. You have big bullfrogs over there. What the fuck is wrong with your country? We are in Africa. Yeah, but there's no excuse. There's beasts. There's no excuse for big bullfrogs like that. That's a slight. Imagine a frog big enough to get up to the elbow. I know, I'm thinking about that. But think about a three-year-old. Okay? Oh. It's a 10-year-old. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. They are big and terrifying.

[00:24:53] I've been envisioning a bullfrog swallowing Rune's arm right now. Like, that's a seven-foot bullfrog. No, they're big though. They do get big. I personally never encountered any of those kind of bullfrogs, but he did. And he has an unrealistic fear of frogs. It doesn't matter how big, how small. Unrealistic. He just doesn't think that he can't even approach them. So, true. Long story short, true. And your best friend, Jason Statham's voice, please? Did Brittany convince you guys yet? Jason Statham says it's true.

[00:25:22] Did Brittany convince you? No. No, but it's still false. Yeah. I'm giving the point to Brittany even though she's not right. For that long-winded story. Because I did like that story. Because she met you breath for breath on the longest tailspinny story of the night? Yep. All right. I'm going to give you guys a quote from one of Jason Statham's characters. And you guys will guess which film it is if you know the film. Okay? Here we go.

[00:25:51] I'm not a tourist. I'm not a tourist. Oi. Yep. The Italian job. Nope. Damn. Oh, the Italian job. Is that why I didn't get it? I didn't say it like him? He's like, oh no, correct this time. We've already mentioned this film. Yep. The Transporter. Correct. All right. Oh, that's right. I actually remember him saying it now. Damn it. I'm not a tourist. What's the difference? I'm not a tourist.

[00:26:21] That was good. You guys are both. You've obviously... Good judgment comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Good judgment comes from experience. Fast and Furious 5. Bad judgment. Hey. Yep. Snitch. Nope. Shit. Lockstock and Lockstock. Two Smoking Barrels. Nope. Rock and Roller. Just kidding. He's not in that. I don't think. The Mechanic.

[00:26:52] Favorite movie of all time. Is that one movie he did? Oi, it's me, the Mechanic. Next time, I'll deflate all your balls, friend. Oi. Yep. The Expendables. Correct. He stabs a basketball. All right. So I think it's safe to say that Ben won this one, which I was not shocked about. Yeah, that's the only time you're going to get me a win is if it's about Schwarzenegger, Stallone, or... Any action. Other testosterone-fueled actors.

[00:27:22] Exactly. Bullshit. Action movie stars. Mel Gibson. Yeah. Mel Gibson. I know you're a big fan. Paul Giamatti. Huge Paul Giamatti fan. Holdovers, you know, that action film. So congratulations. We are going to talk about a Jason Statham film coming out soon. Holdovers does sound like it could be a cool action. Honestly, no, it's kind of... I'm ready for it. The Holdovers 2. Yeah. It's just Paul Giamatti in a nobody type character. Where he's like that wonky eye. He got that wonky eye in a prison brawl. Yeah. You find out the backstory of his character.

[00:27:52] Hey, Brad. Have you seen any movies lately? Yeah. Oh, okay. Jason, what have you seen? I've been watching a lot of fighting movies. I mean, put me peepers on some of these flicks. Yeah. I got my peepers out. No, honestly, I haven't watched anything new that I hadn't seen before. I've seen two movies. Both I already seen, though. I rewatched Saturday Night so I could show it to Brittany for the first time. Yeah. What did you think of that, Brittany? I really loved it. I thought it was a great film.

[00:28:21] I got caught up a little bit too much in figuring out who was who because I did not grow up with SNL at all. I grew up with it. I would say I started loving SNL when I was about 14, maybe 15. And that was for a very brief period of time because Zimbabwe, we didn't have a ton of access to SNL or any of those sorts of things. Mugabe was a mad TV fan. Yeah. We definitely knew that those things were out there. Live from Johannesburg, it's Zimbabwe Night Live. Yeah. Johannesburg's name is Zimbabwe Night Live.

[00:28:52] Harari Ben, get it right. I was going to say, I was going to look it up. Honestly, that's why I got my phone out. I was like, I'll look up the capital of Zimbabwe, but I don't know it. That's okay. Johannesburg made it more fun. He spelled the wrong capital when he did it. Yeah. I spelled it Himbabwe. He's like, I can't remember where she's from. Australia. He's typing in Australia. Capital of Australia. Live from Canberra. Brittany's actually from Zimbabwe, which is a very... Hey. Hey. Hey.

[00:29:20] Y'all remember from when we were kids and you had that big bullfrogs, right? And they come up to your arm and you swallow your arm whole. I ain't only ever seen them in Zimbabwe. Yeah. Zimbabwe. Back in Zimbabwe. Okay. These... They would say Budweiser. Okay. In America. But back then it was a hams. Hands. I'm glad Brad loved that the most. It was pretty funny. Hams is a good beer. All right. Sorry, Brittany.

[00:29:47] So you were lost in a little bit on trying to make a sense of who's who? Yeah. Just figuring out who was who. So I would love to watch it again just because I actually was... I did appreciate the film itself. I thought it was fun. It kept me engaged the whole time. But I'd like to go back and watch it again knowing a little bit more about which characters are who. And actually enjoying the film versus asking Brad every five seconds who that person is supposed to be. He doesn't like watching Star Wars with me because I'm like, what planet is that now? What...

[00:30:16] And in the Senate, who is this person? Yeah. It's out... There's so much to keep track of in those movies. But I want to know those details because it makes it more interesting for me at the end of the day. Which one is Senator Hoth? Sometimes you have to pee. Sometimes you have to pee and you walk away and you come back and it's like, give me an You pause the fucking movie. Yeah, you jagaloon. You're just doing that to get under my skin. Yeah, his foreskin. Do you... Okay, wait. Nate, you get up and you just leave when the film's playing? Because he's a positive. I'm the same. Yes! I do the same thing. I just walk away. I just go and do something. Brad's like, what are you doing? And he presses pause.

[00:30:46] But I don't care about it. I'll come back. I'll figure it out. Yeah, you'll come back and then you'll ask a thousand questions. We have something from the peanut gallery. Go ahead and yell it. Nope, not peanut gallery. Damn it. From the audience. Yell it. Yes. Ain't nobody got time for that. Yeah. Until they come back and they're like, no, who's he? Yeah. Wait, what happened? No, you do because you ask questions. Just answer it. Wait, what happened? Who is he? Give me an answer and then I'm caught up. Why is he mad? Yeah. Well, in the scene where you were doing fucking laundry or dishes or whatever the fuck you

[00:31:15] were trying to do or putting the kids to bed. What are they talking about? I'm just joking. I love you. Yeah, I don't care about it. It's not a big deal to me. Just answer my question. We'll be good to go. I'll get caught up real fast. We're not cutting this, but what the fuck just happened? There's a fucking bug flew across. I was like, you got this fucking weird ass basement where some new bug crawls out of the fucking ceiling every time we record. We're not cutting this. We're leaving all this in. But we're having this kind of weird debate. And out of nowhere, no one saw the bug except for Brad.

[00:31:45] And he went, oh, fuck. It was like he was face to face with a Zimbabwe bullfrog. It flew right over the fireplace and landed over there somewhere. It's one of those little fucking beetles. He was so afraid. He was so afraid. It flew by and went, hams. Where is it? Exactly. It's nowhere, Brittany. He's making it up. I'm high. Great film. So Zana, you liked it a lot. I did. I'm glad that she was able to enjoy it even though she wasn't ingrained in knowing who everybody was.

[00:32:14] That's what I've often wondered. There is a ton of characters. Even for me, though, watching it the first time through, I didn't recognize that that was supposed to be Billy Crystal until a little further in. I was a little embarrassed by that because obviously he's an incredibly famous. He's got a big connection to Saturday Night Live. But I didn't really realize that on the opening night he was there. I didn't know that about him. I thought in my head, I'm like, I'm pretty sure that's who it is. But I don't want to stake that claim necessarily. I'm still not sure who was the female character with Billy Crystal. I don't know who that was either, but she was part of the first episode.

[00:32:43] Clearly another stand-up, obviously. No, I love that movie. Very, very well done, obviously. And I'm not sick of it. Love the frantic pacing of it because I can appreciate he really tried to emulate what an actual episode of SNL probably is. Even to this day, obviously a little bit more craziness going on that first time. But there's still that element of, we just talked about on the 10 to 1, Lin-Manuel Miranda had a guest spot on Saturday night. They just shoehorned in on Friday night.

[00:33:12] So 24 hours in advance, they get one of the most famous people in the world to come down the block and be part of this sketch that they just added him into. That's a level of pressure that you're putting on yourself for no reason really other than I'm going to make this better. And I love the idea that Saturday Night Live still exists in a world where even up to the last minute, we're going to feed jokes up. There used to be somebody under Norm MacDonald's desk that would hand him note cards of new jokes they had just written just right then and there. That doesn't happen anymore. We are very lucky to still have a program that does that on live TV.

[00:33:42] I respect it so much. I actually really loved it as well. So Brad and I have also been watching the SNL docuseries. So is that out yet, Brad? Yeah. So all four episodes of this new SNL docuseries, it's called SNL 50 Beyond Saturday Night. I can't wait to see this. And each one chronicles a very specific part of SNL history. And I showed her all four of them. It's so interesting. It's so interesting. And this is coming from someone who obviously I have very limited knowledge of SNL. Jimbabwe. Yeah, Jimbabwe.

[00:34:10] But I mean, I knew of it. My parents had taught me about it. They taught me about SNL. They told me about SNL. I'd seen things here and there, but never actually. No, Bill Murray was on the second season. I love this idea of you being homeschooled and like, all right, it's time for SNL history. She just writes down on the chalkboard, Bill Murray was on the second season a hundred times. No, I mean, like it did feel like a lot of the time it did feel like we grew up under a rock for some of these things that Brad will talk to me about.

[00:34:39] I still haven't seen Saving Private Ryan or any of those sorts of films. I just found this out and I'm just flabbergasted. Well, it didn't happen in Zimbabwe, Brad. Well, it's that or we would get pirated DVDs. So like you always have like a pirated version of it. So you knew all the Pirates of the Caribbean. All of the pirates. I knew every pirate. And they genuinely, I mean, that was my access to media. So for Brad, like having been with Brad who like has, he's consumed media his entire life. He knows movies. He knows TV shows. He knows references. We get it.

[00:35:08] There's not a lot that he doesn't really get. And the same for you guys as well, actually. No, there's a lot he doesn't get. No, trust me, there's. We're working on his feelings. But I will say, if I'm going to work on anything, it's his feelings for sure. But what I will say is your catalogical knowledge of movies is something to behold. And you've got a really, like Nate was saying, a really dumb memory when it comes to stuff. It's like you and I are actually pretty good at like what year movies came out. So especially 80s, 90s, 2000s, we can kind of nail it within a couple of years. And a lot of times like, you know, what year did this movie come out? Blah, blah, blah.

[00:35:39] That, I didn't know how rare that was because you and I would just kind of do that all the time. You have a good memory too. It's pretty good. Well, it's because we're passionate about that kind of stuff. And I know you like films, but I'm not sure that you're, you know, absolutely in love with them like we are. We're just better than you. I don't even remember my kid's name half the time. I call them by my dog's name. It's just bad. Bosco. Bosco, come here. I also think I have one thing that I pride myself in actually is I have a very good visual memory when it comes to very specific shots in movies.

[00:36:07] I'll remember like how something is framed or something like that. One of the weird things is you'll remember the box art from like a VHS tape or something like that. You'll mention something. This is that part cover. And I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? I don't know how you. Why do you remember that? Of all the things you don't know algebra. You'll know that. But that's actually his, that's interesting because his, his knowledge of his general knowledge because he watches so much media. Keep going. Is actually so remarkable because we, we've been watching pop culture. Pop culture. Jeopardy.

[00:36:37] And he is so quick on his feet. Like he can, he can pick it up so quickly. Answer, answer so rapidly. And I'm like, I, I have no ability to answer questions that, that quickly, but he, he just pulls it out of nowhere. But let's just, let's talk about, you know, like. But then I asked him about World War II. Exactly. Oh, fuck. No, but let's just, let's talk about like, I don't know. Let's talk about the colors of the rainbow. I said, I said to myself, I guarantee you, I could school you on a couple of these topics.

[00:37:04] And I was like, but I could school you in a way that you would probably, you'd probably have to like, I don't know. He'd have to, he'd, he'd school me on a lot of things. I could school him on a lot of history. And I asked him because he was like, nah, no way. I said, what years were World War II? Wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Shut up. Wait, wait, wait. What did he say? What did he say? He said 1949 to the mid-50s. No, I said, no, I said 41 to 44. No, you did not. I did.

[00:37:34] No, I said that would literally be right. No, no, because no, well, she knew when it started though. I didn't know 1939 is when it started. And so I got that wrong. But, but you got the American involvement in World War II, right, though? Because we started in World War II. See, that's probably why. You didn't. You said the 50s. That is true. I didn't say the 50s. I knew it was the 40s. You asked me, you said, what was it? I didn't say the exact date. See, this is where the misremembering comes in. Because I didn't say the 50s because I know it's not in the 50s. I wouldn't have had to. Okay, I've seen so many movies about World War II. I absolutely know it's not in the 50s.

[00:38:03] What war was America involved in in the 50s? In the 50s? Yeah. It would have been. That's a good question, actually. The Cuban Missile Crisis? That was the 60s. That was the 60s. Would have been Vietnam, right? Nope. It's the 60s. My grandfather fought it. Korean War. Korean War. Yeah, so there you go. I didn't know that. But you didn't know that either. I figured you would have known it because of the TV show MASH. I actually haven't watched MASH. Don't. Why?

[00:38:31] I don't know much about it other than the fact that Alan Alda's in it and there's a character named Hawkeye. That's great. There we go. So I've watched the first. He's got bow and arrow. I've watched the first four seasons of that show. Yeah. It's insane to me, honestly. Honestly, it's the same episode over and over for the first three seasons. Oh, wow. It's the same exact where it's like Hawkeye and Trapper John or whatever do something they're not supposed to do and the guy that's in charge is mad. That's the exact same premise.

[00:39:01] It's a little bit insane that this was the most popular show ever. I just remembered. You said 1945 to 1949. There you go. That's what it was. And I was like, no freaking way. You fucking idiot. No, but also though, to piggyback on that and give myself a little more credit, I do know a lot more about certain things around the world and histories like that because of the movies I've seen, whether it's documentaries or historical dramas.

[00:39:29] I do push back on people that say you're wasting your time watching movies and TV. No, I've learned so much from them. Because you do. And as long as you understand that Saving Private Ryan is decently accurate, but you can't use it as your Bible to say this is exactly what happened. But they're going to say things like the beach of Normandy. They're not going to make up the word Normandy, right? So you're going to have these kind of references to the real world through the lens of movies. One of the things that I love the most about film is the perspective it gives you that you're never going to walk a mile in that person's shoes.

[00:39:59] So let's watch a movie about it and then maybe you kind of get it a little bit. That's awesome. The power of film and television does that more than even reading a book because you've got to fill in the blanks a lot of times in reading a book and there's a lot of historical knowledge that you can do. But when somebody is showing you something, especially documentaries, and you are actually able to learn in a visual way, that sticks with you. Every documentary I've watched has had an indelible impression. I remember things like they're really impactful. I fucking love that so much. You can't get that really in any other medium. Yeah, I agree.

[00:40:28] So go to the local theater. Watch a movie. Go to the movies. What else did you watch? We also watched... How did we get on that train? Oh, we were talking about the SNL documentaries. Yeah. And SNL the movie. Yeah. Anything else? Conclave. Yeah, we watched Conclave. Yeah. Oh. I talked about it, so I let Brittany talk about it. You also watched a series that I'm very interested in. No, I don't want to give a shit about Landman or Landmass or whatever the hell you're talking about. I'm not talking about Landman. It's not the one. I was talking about Landmass. He had it up on his laptop earlier.

[00:40:57] Brittany, you watched Conclave. What did you think about Conclave? I really loved it. It was a great film. It's really interesting. Have you guys seen it? It's the one where the Pope takes substance to make himself look at your... No, but Brad talks about it as if it's a good film to see. It's a very good film. It's well acted. I mean, it keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time. Does it move or is it slow? No, it moves. It moves quick. Yeah, it moves quick and it keeps you engaged because I was very hesitant. He kept saying to me... It feels like a movie I need to be in the right mood to watch.

[00:41:25] That's what I kept saying every night because he'd be like 9 o'clock at night and I'd be like, this looks like I don't know if I want to watch it. But was I right? It feels like a suspenseful court drama, right? 100%. Yeah, it actually... Both his mom and I were completely engaged the entire time and both of us were hesitant. We were like, I don't have the energy for this. Especially because they knew there were some subtitles involved. I didn't... No one said... It's a Mia! De Papa!

[00:41:54] I didn't say anything about subtitles. Your mom said something about subtitles. But he's like, for the record, that wasn't me. I did not mind the subtitles at all. But it is... Yeah, it's an incredible film. It's... I mean... What is this, a book? I don't want to read. I ain't watching a book. I'm from Jimbabwe. What's the name of the actor, the main? Ray Fiennes. He's brilliant. He's up for it, right? He's... Yeah. He's up for an Academy Award for it. He... I mean, like his acting, every time he's in a movie, I obviously don't know his name to this day, but...

[00:42:23] Ralph. His acting is top notch because you believe everything he says. Yeah, it is. He's an idiot. But yeah, very, very, very well constructed film. Ralph Fiennes. Anything else? The rest of it, Nate's going to love hearing about because it's television. Me and Brittany... Well, I'll... Me and Brittany... Me and Brittany watched the second season of Shrinking and it was really tear jerking.

[00:42:53] Oh, that last episode. Oof. So, Christmas, hard for me this year, right? Yeah. And so, I watched that last episode as I'm wrapping presents for my kids in my bedroom. Just sobbing. Yeah. I'm like, you can't take it. And your kids are like, Dad, why is the wrapping paper soggy? Yeah. It was bad. But man, so good, right? Yeah. This show really is fantastic. Harrison Ford is incredible in it. Oh, my gosh. He deserves all the awards, doesn't he? Yeah.

[00:43:22] He's just acting so... Like, he's acting for his age, right? Like, for the role that he's playing as somebody that I've looked up to as an actor for... You know, like, I just love Harrison Ford, but he is getting old. And so, the way in which he embodies that kind of elder statesman is just so perfect in this role. He's so good. There was one particularly great moment that I liked where one of the characters gives him a quick nickname, and he just goes, nope!

[00:43:50] Was that in the college dorm? Or not that, but the college hall where he's taking questions or whatever? No, I don't think it is. No, I think it's in the break room. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. He is so miserly, you know, and cutting. Yeah. And I love him. I love the first season, but I think I actually... Oh, second season is better. This is a show that I think is second season. It is better. That's great. Yeah.

[00:44:14] It's because Ted Lasso did a pretty good job of building on what they, you know, in the second season, taking what they built in the first season and getting it to the next level. Shrinking legitimately took the building blocks of season one, and then it's almost like they just... They reaped what they planted in the first season, seriously. They laid so much groundwork that you didn't even see coming, right? It was brilliant. Yeah. And you're already in love with most of those characters as well, which is...

[00:44:43] And they just built it so that you feel more in dear to what you should have. The only other show that I can say that had built as much groundwork that paid off was The Bear. Second season, The Bear really paid off a lot of the things that they set the groundwork on season one on. And I'm very, very impressed. A two and a half man. I was just going to make that... I knew what you were going to do there. I was just going to make that same... Well, Young Chauvin, of course. Just because Ted Lasso... I mean, like, I love Ted Lasso, and I think it's such a brilliant series.

[00:45:11] But this, I think, has my heart a little bit more. It does. Because there's some holes in Ted Lasso where I don't feel I connect with every single episode. But I also think that, for me, Ted Lasso is funnier. There's more laugh-out-loud moments, for sure. It's more of a comedy, in my opinion. And this is definitely more of a dramedy where there's some soul-sucking moments in this, especially in this second season. Good Lord. I teared up at Ted Lasso at moments. I full-on cried at shrinking. I think it feels more relatable, too. Yeah. It feels like you're watching something of yourself.

[00:45:40] It's completely relatable. You can't have a show that elicits that sort of just full-on response from the audience unless the character building is so well done. If you don't believe in the characters and the value they bring to your life, you don't cry with them, right? That's where this show really shined is you saw yourself and a lot of your foibles and your mistakes in these characters. And it allowed me to really connect to it. Man, it was just – I could watch that show ad nauseum.

[00:46:09] It's therapy for me sometimes. Very, very good. I'm really – I want to, in the name of being therapeutic right now, I want to say a couple kind things to Ben. And I appreciate that you're talking about a TV show right now. Way to go. Well, I was texting Ashley right now. Like, this is why the show takes so fucking long. This is not a TV show podcast. I literally just texted her that. You didn't have to tell everybody that. Yeah, well, I did. What else did you watch? Speaking of TV shows – Oh, you're right, Ashley. I'm sorry. She's like, stop engaging them.

[00:46:39] Thank you. He's the one being like – he's the one that gets on it. It's like – Oh, yeah. Sorry. Let me just pull up the text message here. You're a piece of shit. I'm leaving you. I never loved you. Whoa. No. Oh, don't act like you care. You'll talk media no matter what. Stop engaging them. Not them. Then with an N. Yeah. But I can't stop. You're right, Ashley. I'm a bad person. Thank you. This falls a little more outside of our usual purview of TV. The show that I'm talking about is Beast Games.

[00:47:09] What? Oh, come on. I know. Mr. Beast, Logan Paul bullshit? No. Mr. Beast is not like Logan Paul. Yes, he is. They're like – But he's actually like a decent person, it seems like. He's not – I don't know. Is he? No, I don't believe that. He doesn't – There's nothing that has come out about Mr. Beast that is like the same way that has come out about Logan Paul. Okay. I will say that I don't know, so I will surrender that. And I also don't know for sure.

[00:47:35] I'd also like to speak to his character because he's just gotten engaged to a South African, so, you know. There you go. Second mistake. Game recognizes game. From what I can tell, all I'm saying is there's a very long – Well, I met this American. I'm from Jimbabwe, and I met this American, and you know what? He's Mr. Beast. Hold on. Nate's going to say something that's probably going to make us all cry. Remember himself. There's a very long section with the title, Controversies Under Mr. Beast. But are the controversies legit controversies?

[00:48:04] Are they people complaining about the way he sets up games because it's controversial as far as what he asks people to do in competition? So I think that if – I'll answer that without reading it because I love to do this. The same thing happened when there was a rapper, I want to say five or six years ago. Kanye? No. That was making a name for himself, and he kind of made it rain legitimately. He splashed hundreds onto people, and it was like him giving back, right? Yeah.

[00:48:34] But what does that say, right? You're shoving up all this money and making people grovel for it and snatch it out of the – Right, yeah. And that's bad. And I think that's where the controversies – So that's kind of what this is. We actually – and so to get very, very specific about this, we at the arcade, we kind of grappled with this because we had an employee appreciation Christmas party last year, and we gave everybody normal Christmas bonuses. I want to be very clear. We did the normal thing. But then they covered them in honey and put them in a big money machine. With a bear.

[00:49:04] And you fight the bear. But no, legitimately, we had run a promotion that month that was a ticket promotion. We took Monopoly money and put it in one of those air bubbles where you can grab it out of the air. Yeah. So we thought it would be hilarious to put real money in there and let the employees grab as much as they could for an additional bonus. Now, if we had not given a normal Christmas bonus, we're like, get what you get, bitches. That's fucking awkward and weird. But the fact that everybody got there, and this was something we were definitely just over and above. And if you don't want to do it, you don't have to do it. Exactly. We didn't make you do it.

[00:49:34] We were like, whatever. And so we felt like we were okay there. But there was part of me still that was like, you're still making people awkward. This feels weird. Let me read one of the controversies. Okay. You see it. Okay. I would explain why you like him. Wow. Wait. Me or Brad? Actually, at this point, both of you. Okay. Some former employees allege that Donaldson – Mr. Beast's last name is Donaldson. Donaldson. Jimmy Donaldson. Nurtured a difficult work environment.

[00:50:00] In a May 2021 New York Times article, Matt Turner, an editor for Donaldson from February 2018 to September 2019, claimed that Donaldson berated him almost daily, including calling him a retard. Oops. Oh, you guys love that word. You love that word. We can't say that on the podcast, guys. Yes. Well, you could defend yourself and say, I don't love that word. I like to point out that Nate's the only one who has said retard on this podcast. Whoa. This is like Elon Musk. He's like, well, I'm not going to come out and say I'm not a Nazi.

[00:50:29] Just say you don't do that, Brad. Well, we can't say that on the air. No, I do think it is one of those weird things where there's a lot of people – he also had an employee that I – from what I understand, he ended up firing that may have done some things with children. He ended up firing, but initially he was kind of defending him, but then he ended up firing him maybe. Oh, okay. YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, has criticized the American healthcare system

[00:50:56] after he helped 2,000 amputees get access to prosthetics in his latest video. Taken to social media, MrBeast condemned the U.S. healthcare system that turns the other way instead of providing the basic facilities to its citizens, which forced individuals to basically go fuck off. See? So you win some and you lose some. Yeah, exactly. You win some and you lose some. He rapes, but he saves. But anyway. Whoa! Well done. Well, did we just find the title of the episode? I will tell you that Brittany pulls out that Dave Chappelle reference a fantastic amount

[00:51:26] and in all the best moments. That's a great use of that. Rapes, but he saves. But anyway, so this show is good. Because I've started seeing some buzz about it. It's just a lot of fun. You've never seen a competition like this. It doesn't have like a squid game feel to it, but obviously they're not killing each other or anything. But it's just the scenarios he puts them in, the psychological games he forces them to play against each other. But the pushback is what?

[00:51:52] These people are poor and then he's dangling $100,000 in front of them? Some of them are poor. Not all of them are. Yeah. Not all of them are poor. It's just people who wanted a shot. Yeah. Obviously they all want the money, but there's literally people from every walk of life. There's like a grandma. There's people of all different colors, shapes, and sizes. It's not just a bunch of young people trying to get it. But it's- Because I look at it like, we're just going to take the lowest income people and make them fight tooth and nail. And maybe one of them wins a million dollars. It changes their lives.

[00:52:21] From the contestants right now, there is a class action lawsuit from the show against Mr. V. Because some people got injured. Yeah. Yeah. So it says that they were denied food, water, medication, and beds. Yep. And many of them got injured and they did not get any care. Well, it sounds like they need to stop being babies. I did tell Brad that. Yeah. But no, it's so like, you're bound to get that, I think. What? Bum fights? Yeah, it is bum fights. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:52:52] No. No, you probably never watched even Faces of Death. No, I was a good kid. I don't watch bum fights or Faces of Death. Sorry. I think the thing that makes this show interesting is just how much- I mean, you feel a lot of despair for humanity, to be fair. But like, it is your everything. Every time you think that he's helping people form alliances or build relationships with people, he completely tears that apart. But not like- He'll throw something at them. Yeah. And he's like, now you've got to choose between your friends. Put it in a good way. No, no, no. Put it in a good way.

[00:53:22] No, no. It's really helpful. No, no. It's about- No, but it's not about the people. It's about the gameplay, though. Because people think they're like, oh, if we're supposed to team up for this, then we can work together. But he's like, every time he makes somebody shit in somebody else's mouth, and Brad's like, but no, no, no, no. They had peanut butter before. Hold on, hold on. It was just peanut butter only. Hold on. I don't have any tie or love of Mr. Beast. I haven't watched his YouTube channel or anything like that. I'm familiar with his persona. This is like the longest piece of media I've ever seen from him.

[00:53:46] The way he plays, the way he sets up the games, and the way he throws curveballs makes it totally unpredictable and wild to watch. Like bum fights. Just like bum fights. And Brad and I constantly play the game of how much- How much money would it take you to do this? How much would it take? And what would it take? Would you take the money? There's one- Yeah, here's an example. Okay. They've gotten to a point where- Ben and Ashley are like, we gotta go to bed. There's like 500 of- So tired. There's like 500 of them on an island where they have to go through more competitions. They have it set up where they're broken up into teams.

[00:54:17] Each team has to pick a leader, and that leader has to go and stand, and there's a count down or a count up of money. And it's going to hit like an astronomical amount. It starts off with 10,000, and it just keeps going, and it keeps rising faster and faster. If one of the four captains pushes the button to accept the money, their entire team gets nixed. Not only do they get the money, but they get to go on to keep fighting in the competition.

[00:54:46] So the leader gets to keep the money and go on, and everybody else does not get to go on. Right. So it's very philosophical. Yeah, he eliminates- They eliminate their whole team. Everybody knows it's going in, so you're trying to nominate the most altruistic person you can think of in your group? Yeah, they have conversations about- Like if it's me and you, they'll be like, Ben, please go, because Brad will take the money. Trying to pick the person who's not going to screw them over. Let's be honest, you guys are both picking me. I'm not leaving you guys. That's the truth. It would be Nate. No, no, I'm trying to be the leader, and I'm going to get that money. No, exactly. That's why you pick me. I don't need the money.

[00:55:15] So I would just let it keep going. You would? That's why you pick me. You don't need a million dollars? Because that's what it got to. Everybody needs a million, but like- I don't have to have a million. Do you need that money? Brad's got college debt. Brad's got college debt. I would never pick him. Yeah. He's got debt, man. Because he said that, actually. He was like, if it was me- I'm taking that money. I know you are. How many people in the team- We know you are. Like 30 or 40. So you're just like, fuck those 40 people. I'm taking the money. Oh, fuck them. Yeah, no, see, I could never do that. I don't give a shit. And no one picked it. Oh my god, you're the worst. No one did it.

[00:55:45] No one picked it. So they all- They all stayed strong. They hit a million. That was the cap, and none of them took it. And so were they rewarded for their altruism? No. See, that's insane. They just got to keep playing. But they would have got to keep playing, and they would have got a million dollars, and they would have eliminated the competition. And the odds are stacked against you. Honestly, what are the odds of you coming out of that game having won anything? Only one person's getting five million. At any point, you can get eliminated. That's stupid. I'm going to do this, but I'll still give you $10,000, right? To be kind to you. And at least you're going to walk away with something. Like all four of you, I can't believe the altruism.

[00:56:14] And so Nestle has decided to give you all $50,000, right? So there are instances where something like that happens, or he'll present a new opportunity, or a bribe. Or if you want to do this, you can take this instead. It's really interesting to see- Sounds like Mr. Beast didn't have to spend any money, and he just got good ratings. That's what it sounds like to me. No, no, they spent money for the show, for sure. Because they're giving tons of money away all the time. Okay, we said five million at the end, but- Five million at the end, but even before they get to that point, they've already given away millions of dollars.

[00:56:44] They give away millions and millions throughout the show. You can defend them all you want, but I don't know. Anyway, it's honestly, because neither of us had any skin in the game on it. I don't watch his stuff at all. I had only ever seen random posts that other people had posted randomly. Like, oh, here's a competition from Mr. Beast. I never even watched him on social media sometimes. My team boys know Mr. Beast, right? I think everybody younger than us knows who you are. Most importantly, did you watch any of their fucking movies? Mr. Beast's movies? Okay, Nate, what did you watch this week?

[00:57:13] I watched Beauty and Mr. Beast. I'm glad we finally got here. It's like 40 minutes in, and we've only talked about the stuff. Welcome, by the way, to talking about Brad, about the movies. I'm sorry, Brittany got to go too. Brittany did her movies. What else did you watch, buddy? I'm just going to bring up one. There's been some other things I've seen, but just one. I have a list. All right, there's a film I just recently saw called Get Away. Have you seen this film? Have not. Maybe. It is. What does that mean? I'm not sure what movie he's going to talk about. It is a film. It's called Get Away.

[00:57:43] I know, but I don't remember the movie that the title. It is a film done by Shudder. Oh, I haven't seen it yet. Why are you watching horror films? Written by Nick Frost. Oh. Are you getting interested or no? Yeah. No, actually, yeah. Yeah, and so this is like Nick Frost kind of wrote Midsommar. Okay. And this is a film that my kids and I watched together.

[00:58:07] And so I watched this film with my three kids, Harry's 12, Finn's 14, Nora's 16. And we got done with this film, and my 12-year-old Harry goes, well, that was a weird film. And it's super weird. But also there's something about it that we're all like, but oddly interesting.

[00:58:30] So it is kind of a horror film that is based on, I don't know, how to even describe it? Weird vacation kind of tropes. And so Nick Frost and his family, one of them's Aisley B. Do you know who that is? I don't think so. She's been in some things, but nothing that I can really, like more British kind of things.

[00:58:59] Sebastian Croft and Maisie Eris. And they go to Sweden. They go to this island in Sweden. And essentially they go there for this vacation. They encounter this commune. And the film is about that. And there's some, definitely some horror elements to it. It has some twists and turns that are kind of fun, but also so freaking weird, like Midsommar.

[00:59:27] And yeah, it's not a film that I think I would rewatch. But it was fun and it was interesting. Because of Nick Frost, though, is it funny? Because he's a comedian, right? No, so that was the weird thing is I was waiting for, there's certainly some like light, not even lighthearted, but like absurd. Let's say there's some absurd. Some absurdist comedy elements to it?

[00:59:49] Yes, there's some absurdist things where, especially like the settings, because this island they go to, this commune, is doing like this kind of religious service. And some of the setup for the religious service is ridiculous. And it's funny. And you're like, why is that head, like this big head there, right? It's just absurd. But I was waiting for Nick Frost humor. Sure. British kind of dark humor. It is not there. It is more horror than it is anything else.

[01:00:18] So that's, it's surprising. So because you don't like horror movies, my first thought is like, did you think that it was going to be funny? Is that why? Yes, because I like Nick Frost stuff. I tend to like Nick Frost stuff. So even though it wasn't super funny, were you disappointed that you watched it? I was not. It was still pretty good. You liked it? Yeah. I think you two would like this more than I did even, but I liked it. It was good. Okay. It was odd though. But that's all I could talk about. I mean, I've watched a couple of, I watched Lame Man, but we don't have to talk about that. No, that's a TV show.

[01:00:46] I haven't watched a single Taylor Sheridan TV show. How many have there been? There's Yellowstone. There's 18... The Sylvester Stallone one. 1883. 1923. Tulsa King. Tulsa King. Mayor of Kingstown, I think is one. Good Lord. He's... No, the dude owns TV right now. Yeah. He's all over TV right now. No. And his shows tend to do fairly well. I will say this. Billy Bob Thornton is freaking great in this. This is not a groundbreaking TV show, but Billy Bob Thornton is.

[01:01:16] No, it's a land-breaking TV show. Great in this. And it is. And he said Tulsa King, not the best show, but Sylvester Stallone, breathtaking. That's what you said about Tulsa King. I've never seen Tulsa King. Did you watch Tulsa King? I watched the first two episodes. How was it? It's so bad. Is it? No, it's not bad. You said you liked it. It's not bad. I thought I remember you saying you liked it. It's so in the same vein of a reacher where it would just be a guilty pleasure. That's all this is. It would just be a guilty pleasure. This is a TV show for my dad that I didn't hate. It's just stuff that doesn't make sense.

[01:01:45] We talked about this. In Tulsa King, in the very first episode, he goes and he has to go to Tulsa after being in jail for a while. And he walks into a weed dispensary and takes over. And it's like, you just call the cops. And then he goes to jail. It's just simple. Because nothing there was like, he didn't find some blackmail stuff. No, they're all followers. It's just so weird. But that's like how it's basically a show for people who are simple enough to be like, yeah, that's how it would go. There's no level of detail there. Yeah, tell him, Tulsa King. No, he would just do that.

[01:02:15] And you know, he's scared of him because he's big. He might be seven to eight years old. But back where I'm from, Jimbabwe, that says something. Because you live to be 900. That is a young man. We're Southern Africa. We're not the country. Southern African. Exactly. I'm from the South. Deep South Africa. South Africa. Jimbabwe. We've been down this road and it's a dirt one. I don't know if you heard that off air. My girlfriend said, oh my golly. I will say this about Landman.

[01:02:44] Because I think the concept is interesting. Where the concept. No. Is about oil. Wait. Fuck no. No. We're not doing that. How does this keep happening? It's about oil refineries in Texas. Finally. The show we've all been clamoring for. And the politics behind it. Starring the A-lister still to this day, Billy Bob Thornton. I tell you, Billy Bob Thornton. And you know who else is in it? My high school crush, Elliot Larder. Oh. Who is that?

[01:03:14] Varsity Blooming. Legally Blonde. Which one? She's the one who's on trial. Oh. Nice. Oh, she was you a crush? That's crazy. Oh, in high school? Sounds like she still is. So, are you done? Yeah. Brad forgot a movie. We watched a movie called Fly Me to the Moon. Oh, yeah. Oh, you guys did. Ashley and I and Brad and Brittany sat down and watched this film. Yes. And it was way funnier than I thought it was going to be. I was going to watch this, but I'm like. It's so fucking funny. No. It's so well worth it, dude. It's good. It's fun.

[01:03:43] I love Channing Tatum. Dude. From the get. It's so much funnier. Oh, yeah. Give me some Tates all day. Tate yum. Tate yum. More like Channing Tatum. Yum. Let's point out that if it had not been for Ashley, we would not have watched it. Yeah. We were scrolling and she's like, can we please just watch this film? She's been wanting to watch it for a while. Yeah. Do what? The era. I love the era. Yes. You love the era of it all. And yes.

[01:04:07] But no, it's a story of NASA in the 60s is trying to rebrand because they are, you know, they're in the space race with the Russians, but they don't have the funding. And how do they do that? And I hire a PR person played by Scarlett Johansson to effectively rebrand NASA to get the American public behind it again after the, you know, the failures of the era. Channing Tatum plays a real life person who is a mission leader. Mission leader.

[01:04:37] Scarlett Johansson hires somebody else to play him as one of the bits in this film. And it's a romantic comedy, but it's very funny. It's more comedy than romance. It's great. Yeah. It's an interesting tone that the movie strikes. Sometimes to its detriment a little bit. It was a box office failure, this film was. It's hard to market something like this. Yeah. Well, and plus it's an Apple TV Plus movie. And so like it didn't like get a huge push for theaters. Like I think they always knew it was going to end up just being a movie they wanted people to watch on Apple TV anyway.

[01:05:06] This is a film that if you end up watching it like we did, you're like, oh, that's pretty good. Yeah. But you're not going to go out of your way to see it. Yeah. Or why have I heard more about this? And it's the for me, the shortcomings of the movie, but they didn't it didn't make it unenjoyable and didn't make me dislike it is it has some big shifts in tone as far as like feeling like a little bit like a screwball romantic comedy. And then there's these really dramatic points. And it's just like really like almost oversaturated sadness. Sharp, sharp turns. Okay.

[01:05:34] Well, I know that he has a history in a past and that's why he's hesitant to do all this, you know, flashy stuff. But you can't do that and then juxtapose that against a fake moon landing set that's just bonkers. With a really flamboyant film director. It just kind of totally shifts too hard. But that's not. It is funny. To say that it's not great. Yeah. Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson are good in it. It's good. It's very entertaining. It's a tad too long. Yep. But it's solid. I would recommend that you watch it.

[01:06:02] It's a movie you watch with your parents. Most importantly though. That's great. How does Ray Romano do? Ah, we're going to the moon. Oh, he's great. And it turned Brittany on. What'd you say, Ashley? Yeah. So we were watching it and I definitely did my best Kermit the Frog, which is effectively a Ray Romano. Yeah. But Brittany was still turned on by Ray Romano. Were you really? Yeah. He's such a handsome man. Oh, give it to me. He's completely handsome. Have you guys ever seen the TV show Parenthood?

[01:06:32] No, but I have a lot of friends that love that show. Hey, Brittany, do you want a frog in your throat? It's pretty remarkable. Ugh. What? I'm Ray Romano. Don't ruin Kermit. I'll stick my hand up that puppet's ass all day long. Oh my God. He's out a couple. Yeah. He's out a couple. Yeah. I've seen green. You're talking about putting a puppet in a puppet? It's not easy. It's not easy. Being green. You're nasty. You know it and you love it. What is that? I don't know where this impression is going to, by the way. Oh, I'm on his final. Oh, no.

[01:07:02] This is fucked up. All right. So I'll run down the movies that I watched. I watched Van Wilder. Stitch. I haven't seen that since probably 20 years. I like it. Van Wilder's fun. It really is. I watched Remembering Gene Wilder because I was on a kick of Wilder movies. Great insight into Gene Wilder. Not a well-produced documentary. Terrible documentary. They used the same photos like three or four times. It's like you guys didn't have a budget for more photos? It was really weird.

[01:07:32] They really did. It's like you have access to everybody in his life. Nobody had a photo? Nobody. That's weird. But no, yeah. The subject matter, obviously, Gene Wilder's amazing. Okay. We can hear you guys talking. Because you're not. Brad, you didn't move the mic. You were like, it's almost over. Don't worry. Here's a tip. Yeah, sorry. I just said, who is that? How funny would it be if the three of us just started having a conversation? Jesus Christ. Yeah, no, Gene Wilder.

[01:08:01] I was an actor in the 90s. What are you guys doing? She didn't recognize the name. It's okay. But again, you can whisper to her by putting the mic on the floor. Could you hear what I was saying? Yes. Dang it. It picks up everything. It's Britney. It's Willy Wonka. Yeah, the original Willy Wonka. I didn't know. And that's okay. It's okay. It doesn't sound like it. Brad's the worst. Sounds like you want to be a grump about it. That's the only movie I think I've ever seen him in is Willy Wonka. That's probably true. And I saw that as like a 30-year-old. Yeah, the only one he's ever. I mean, he's at an incredible.

[01:08:31] He has a whole documentary about him and that's the only movie he's ever made. He was in a lot of Mel Brooks films. Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles. He's in several movies with Richard Pryor. I don't know any of those. Yeah, it's okay. He was on Will and Grace. That was his biggest thing. He was on Will and Grace? He was. He was, yeah. I watched On the Line. Do you know what that is? I think so. That is a Mel Gibson film. Oh, no. Yeah.

[01:08:57] He plays a man named Elvis who is a radio shock jock in this day and age who evidently caused a listener's girlfriend to commit suicide for one of his schticks. And the guy then breaks into the guy's house and holds his family hostage. So, it's kind of like Ransom. And the radio producers and everybody are in the building and they're trying to figure out how it's a game of cat and mouse type thing. It's a thriller in that way.

[01:09:24] And there's an enormous twist that I will not give away because it's a bonkers twist at the end of that film that just was like, wait, what the fuck was this? It's good enough to like, because of the twist. I'm like, what the fuck just happened? But the whole time I'm like, this is middling. And I wish that I didn't know more about Mel. I wish I was in the dark about who Mel Gibson is as a person because it could be enjoyable with the right person in that role. Didn't stop me from watching it, though. Who is Mel Gibson? Just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding.

[01:09:53] I watched Inside Man. The Spike Lee movie? Spike Lee movie. I hadn't seen it since it came out, probably. Great flick. Incredible. Loved it. We threw on The Ridiculous Six. God, that movie sucks. I've never seen it. It's awful. It was... That movie's... Is that the Adam Sandler? Yes. Yeah. Oh, it's so bad. It's so bad. However, there are a couple of scenes that I laughed out loud.

[01:10:18] There is a scene where the one dude is being hung by his neck until he's dead. And it cuts him and he's swinging like he's on a pendulum and he's laughing the whole time. And it was so jarring that I laughed. This is crazy. There are a couple moments like that where it's so outlandish. Okay. Okay. But other than that, yes, it's a dog shit movie. I watched Erin Brockovich for the first time. Oh, it's a brilliant film. Excellent movie. Excellent movie.

[01:10:45] Her and Albert Finney, their back and forth is tremendous. You can see why Julia Roberts is an acclaimed actress, not just lucky as some people early in her career picked out of nowhere for Mystic Pizza and Pretty Woman. This woman can fucking act. She's a phenomenal actress. She's great. I watched the Russell Crowe movie Unhinged. Good movie. Did you see it? Solid. It's weird as fuck, but it's good the whole time. It was great. He's a real good creep in it.

[01:11:15] It's not often that I see representatives of my body type in films. And so I was really happy. And your face type too. My whole face and body shit. It does work for you. It's unhinged. I unhinged my jaw for burgers. I watched a two for Kraven the Hunter and Madam Web. Yeah. Oh, that's a great double feature. Oh, wow. Those are great double feature, boys. You watching back and back? I did. What is the better of the two? Kraven is a better movie just because there are some action scenes that are just fun to watch.

[01:11:44] Madam Web is atrocious. It's just dog shit. It's a fucking mess. It's terrible. But there are just quite a couple of redeeming scenes from Kraven. But otherwise... I forgot that Kraven came out. Yeah, it's terrible. I watched a documentary called Buried the 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche. Okay. It's a true story about an avalanche that happened in 1982 and they got everybody back. I mean, people died in this huge avalanche and they go through the motions of telling

[01:12:10] you how an avalanche happens, how in the 80s avalanche prevention was exactly what you think it is. It's a bunch of fucking dudes that are drinking... Shh. What? That's what they're saying. It's all the ski patrol people and they go and shoot off the... Yeah. They literally throw dynamite. Oh, yeah. And it's like, how qualified do you need to be? Not at all. These are just ski bums that have dynamite. And that's what... But there were obviously a couple guys that knew where to place the dynamite, right?

[01:12:39] And they thought that they got it all, but this one, they didn't. And a huge avalanche came down and killed a bunch of people. And so it's actually a really good documentary. Have they ever made a movie about the people that do that for avalanche prevention? I don't think so, but they should. I feel like we need a National Lampoon's comedy about these people who are reckless, but they still get the job to... Out Cold 2. There you go. Out Cold 2. I watched Spiderhead. Yep. With Chris Hemsworth. And Miles Teller. Miles Teller. It's better than I thought it was going to be. Yeah, it's solid. It's solid. I understand why nobody saw it.

[01:13:09] Yeah. That's such a hard movie to market. For sure. But again, it's one of those, if after you're done watching it, you're like, yeah, that was really solid. I'm glad I watched that. Yeah, good thriller. I watched the Tom Green documentary. I need to watch that. It's fine. He directed it. That's always hard. Oh, interesting. Oh, I don't know. So there's nothing here that is anti-Tom Green. Right. Even the stuff that is a little bit more... Like, I'm sure that somebody got hurt sometime from something he did. And none of that's mentioned, right?

[01:13:39] There needs to be... Okay, well, you know, he does talk about Drew Barrymore and their relationship, but he just says, you know, I survived, our relationship didn't. Okay, fine. But they're kind of glossing over a bunch of stuff. What I really wanted to know is to hear from him in a way that... Like, you've never heard from him before. Like, very serious and like really just talking honestly about his... There are. So there are some moments in there where he talks especially about the testicular cancer

[01:14:04] diagnosis and his decision to like go live with it and make it on... Make it a thing where they recorded the surgery and put it on MTV and stuff. And then I didn't realize this, but basically his career kind of culminates with Freddy Got Fingered. Like, it comes... That's at the end of his quote unquote Hollywood career. Yeah. Like, Euro Trip and all that stuff was... I thought... You mean Road Trip. Sorry, Road Trip.

[01:14:33] This movie does a good job of laying out the chronological order of things. Yeah. And it really does remind you, holy shit, this guy was doing stuff that was really difficult to do in a pre-YouTube, pre-era. And he basically created the first podcast. His... He recorded a visual medium from his living room and it was so expensive he couldn't do it anymore. But it was the precursor to Joe Rogan's experience and Joe Rogan was a guest on that show and credits Tom Green being like, this is what's going to happen.

[01:15:02] People are going to monetize this. He was so ahead of his time. It's kind of like the Dana Carvey show. Tom Green was so ahead of his time. That's the takeaway I got. And there's a lot of benefit to watching it just to see that. But I would have really liked to see the other side of what really happened. You're not going to get the dark side of Tom Green on this. No, not at all. Not at all. It's just more of a chronological events of his career. And it's kind of a... Kind of a reminder to... A nice nostalgia. Okay. And also, he's got reverence for... So much reverence for David Letterman. So much reverence for Saturday Night Live.

[01:15:30] And then conversely, Eric Andre has so much reverence for him. Jackass. The guys have reverence for him. You know, who came before who type stuff. It really lays all that out in the... Two and a half men. Oh my God. I watched Operation Varsity Blues. That was the Netflix documentary about the Lori Loughlin scandal. Oh, yeah, yeah. Scandal. Fine. Whatever. I watched... Hey, but Ann Becky can still get it. Oh, that is actually... It's... Yeah, it's an okay documentary. It was fine. Like I said, Ann Becky can still get it. Okay. Good for you. I watched...

[01:16:00] Man on the Run was the last one I watched. Man on the Run. That is a movie... Man on the Run. About a man that was in charge of the Malaysian Wealth Fund who stole the money and used it for his own personal gain. And he had access to billions with a B, billions of dollars. And he spent it creating... Red Granite is a production company that funded the Wolf of Wall Street. Oh, that's where that came from? Yep.

[01:16:29] And Leonardo DiCaprio thanks this man in his acceptance speech at the Oscars. Oh, my God. And him and his partner. And they... You know, Martin Scorsese knows him. I mean, they basically... They didn't ask questions about where the money came from. They just like... You never do. Here's a wealthy Malaysian that wants to back our movie. Yep. Great. And they just... There's like a lot of Saudis that back movies and stuff like that. So Leonardo DiCaprio was paid $250,000 per night that he hung out at parties with this guy. And he wasn't alone. Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian.

[01:16:59] You know, all of these famous people were just paid. This man rented five acres on the Las Vegas Strip for his birthday party and had like 300 people there and 200 of them were celebrities. He just paid for everybody to be there. But this all came off the backs of the Malaysian people. And so it's a documentary about trying to find this guy and extradite him and... So is he in prison now? He's not. Per usual. He's still on the run? Yes. Spoiler alert. He is still not found.

[01:17:27] Now, how does one get in charge of this Malaysian fund? His... And can it pay for college. And can it pay for college student loans? Good question. I'm not going to... Listen, I get it. ...incriminate myself. Yeah, I was going to say... I'm just curious about how it works. How it works. Yeah. His best friend in school, his dad is the prime minister. That's always something about who you know. It's about who you know. And so the prime minister's son introduces him to this guy. The prime minister of Malaysia. Yes. And the guy's like, yeah, I can help you with that.

[01:17:56] They're like, cool. They're two that are just trying to kill the prime minister of Malaysia. That's basically how it happened. So, yeah, it was fucking bonkers what this guy got away with. Okay, so I can do this. Yeah, of course. Okay. At a certain point, he was on a yacht that was an icebreaker class yacht, and he was in the Arctic Circle on the run. Amazing. This is legitimately a thing that happened. They got to make a movie about this guy. Yeah, they should make a real... You know, Ryan Reynolds can play him. There you go. Ugh.

[01:18:27] So those are all the movies I watched. I watched like 14 movies. Ugh, it's because Brittany is on board the drama train that's following Blake Lively. Oh, of course. Ryan Reynolds and Justin Baldoni. It is a hot mess. Wait, are you team Baldoni? Right now I am. Really? I will tell you the way this is playing out is it seems like Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds might not be the best people. You were team Blake Lively like an episode ago. Trust me, I know. And there's been a lot of shit that... He listens to my...

[01:18:55] And all I know is what you tell me too. No, it seems like Justin Baldoni has some receipts at least. And at the very least, they could all be shitty. Yeah. But this is... That's usually what it is. This stuff does not paint Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively in a good light. And it's going to be tough. It looks like they blew those their way through. Does anybody care? Is it because they were reactionary to the first thing or was it them at the outset? Because I feel like there's one thing to take something too far in retaliatory response. But if you're the one starting it, that's tough to defend.

[01:19:23] So one of the things that... One of her biggest claims is that he sexually assaulted her. Yeah, sexually assaulted her. So it wasn't just harassment. It was an actual assault. Well, like he made advances on set during specific scenes and that sort of thing. And so she outlines the scenes that she claims that these things took place. And he came out with receipts with the footage of those scenes. And in those scenes, she's perfectly on board and the person who is making the advances.

[01:19:54] Like she's the person pulling him in, saying all the flirtatious things. Kissing him when she wasn't supposed to. Yeah, like just lots of... I mean, it's a little bit... It looks fishy. And some people's theory is that she probably caught feelings. Ryan caught on to that and then got upset. And so now this is all kind of... It all snowballed into what it is now, which is... It's all a wild Hollywood drama. A massive, massive lawsuit.

[01:20:22] It wouldn't be as interesting for the general public, except Ryan Reynolds is probably the biggest A-list star in the world, beloved by everybody and also worth a billion dollars. This isn't small potatoes, you know? Yeah. Even Taylor Swift is embroiled in this partially too. How? To write a specific scene. So he came over to the penthouse at one point. And he came over... He came over and invited...

[01:20:51] And Taylor Swift was there? She came in after. So they're like chatting and hanging out and it's Ryan. And Ryan's like, oh, Blake's scene isn't Blake's scene so brilliant. Like she wrote it so beautifully. We should probably use that one instead of the one that you've written as the director, et cetera, et cetera. Obviously not in those terms. And he is sitting there and there's a ring at the door and someone goes and collects the person at the door and in walks Taylor Swift. And she goes, oh my heavens. I just love the idea that Ryan Reynolds is like, no. No, seriously.

[01:21:20] That sounds so crazy. Bring her up now. The worst one is actually the thing that they talk about. So this all happens. Taylor's at the... She talks to him and she says, oh, I'd love for you. Isn't it so brilliant that she's been writing this? And she's so talented, et cetera, et cetera. And they... He leaves and he gets a text message from her. And she specifically says... Say who these people are. So it's Taylor Swift. He leaves. He leaves. Justin Baldoni. Baldoni leaves.

[01:21:49] And then Blake Lively texts... Baldoni. Baldoni. Once he's left. Okay. That's sort of a villain too. A little bit. Calm down. I want to hear the rest of this. And so he says, I mean like there's... So she says to him what in the text? She says to him in the text. I mean he sends to her a text and he says, listen, I thought your writing was great. I thought it was great before Taylor and Ryan told me. We should... I'm happy to work together. I think this is going to be great. We're going to be a great duo. So this is before they even started shooting the film? Okay. Yeah.

[01:22:16] And so she responds and she says something crazy about being... You need to see the actual text message because it's... She says... This is a lot of eggplant and splash emojis. I am... She basically says, I am Khaleesi and I have dragons. And those dragons sometimes work for good and sometimes work for... Does she use that illustration? Yeah, she does. So she says that Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift are her dragons. And she uses... She's like usually for good but sometimes like the opposite.

[01:22:44] But if you work with me, like I can like essentially sick my dragons on you. And or if you work alongside... All that saying, she's warning him. And if he gets into bed after that, then it's his fault. Oh, case closed. I mean, team Reynolds all the way here. That's a Reynolds wrap on the whole situation. This episode is brought to you by Reynolds Wrap. Guys, I don't know about you, but when I'm wrapping my meals up, I like to have a nice crisp layer of Saran Wrap. But I go with Reynolds Wrap. Hi, I'm Susan Sarandon.

[01:23:15] And I am here for Reynolds Wrap. But yeah, everybody on TikTok is like picking all the pieces of the legal details. It's like something like 287 pages of legal documentation with evidence. And they have more. That's what the attorney says. He's like, listen, I have more where this came from. So cut to 15 years from now. And it's going to be like, hey, so thanks for joining our law firm. Why did you decide to become a lawyer? Well, I was on TikTok when I was a teenager.

[01:23:44] And I read 287 pages of a deposition. And I was like, I can do this. I can do this. But there's a, I mean, like Justin Baldoni's, I'm just reading right now, but like Justin Baldoni's podcast host quit on him. Like even resigned. Sony Pictures came out and sided with. His representation dropped him initially. Because he's not innocent in this either. The receipts that she originally had shown were that. Were doctored. Look at, they were doctored? Were doctored. Yeah.

[01:24:16] That Justin Baldoni is filing because he lost. All I know, right, is what I've been told in the media, which is she has receipts saying the PR firm like that had Baldoni's back tried to like, I can prove that they were trying to trash me. Right. And if those have been faked. Holy shit. Yeah. It seems like some of it was a matter of like missing context and like that kind of thing. It's a whole mess. So his PR firm wasn't lying then?

[01:24:44] Well, at the very least, it doesn't seem like they were actively trying to create a smear campaign against her. Probably. Like they said. They had their shit. And then if you doctored enough, it looks like they were being malicious. And Brittany, based on your professional opinion on this, is the chief villain, is it Ryan Reynolds or is it? Khaleesi. Khaleesi. I honestly think it's Ryan, to be fair. And the reason I say that is. Even over Blake? Even over Blake.

[01:25:13] Because Ryan, Ryan is the one in that relationship that wields power. And where power lies is where you, I mean, he's probably the one dictating how this goes, what the attorneys are, what attorneys are going to use, how they're going to play this. I think he has us. He has so much more power over this scenario than anyone else. And in your opinion, too, or from what you said, if Blake and Justin Baldoni have these feelings for each other. Had. Had. So only Blake had feelings. Okay. Apparently he like.

[01:25:43] Yeah. But he wants to crush the man that his wife got feelings for. And especially even. Yeah. There was a blind item that came up actually last week that said whoever, like someone was working on set. And they witnessed Ryan not really being on set for a long time. And he came unannounced and he watched them in a scene that he wasn't happy about. And they started fighting in her trailer. And then he was there every day after that.

[01:26:12] So I do think, I do think he is kind of the villain. And I wonder if that starts off with Ryan Reynolds. Hey, hey wife, whatever you do affects my brand as well. And I'm, I want this to be, I'm hearing that like, you know, that, that your flirtatiousness with this person or whatever will affect. Cause again, you get divorced or you get cheated on. Even if you're a $500 million man, you take a hit. Yeah. So. Wow. That's just aggressive. It's so interesting because I was for the girlies. I was like, oh, Blake.

[01:26:41] I was so, I was so adamant that she was, I was like, listen, she is also beloved, which turns out I, I didn't realize now that they've come up with receipts from her and prior interviews. I thought she's not very beloved. No, she's not anymore. Like not at all. But people didn't realize this. Like she. I'm on Reddit. She's not loved. Not loved at all. Yeah. People, people hated her on set. Brad didn't think that. They say that about me though. But they also don't like Taylor Swift on Reddit either. I know. And that's, I always tell Brad this because I.

[01:27:09] There's a Reddit to hate everyone out there. Yeah. Yeah. There's a Reddit for everybody. Yeah. There's a, there's a, I hate Brad Omen Reddit. But I told this to Brad. And Ben's trying to get more people on it. There's two members. Yeah. You gotta, you gotta R. Ben and Ben's alt account. Yep. Sunset tits. Ken. Ken Bonowitz. Sunset tits. I. I. Are you just trying to get that into every episode now? We had a break for a little bit. Big tits on Sunset is all you think I watch. What's his favorite.

[01:27:38] I watch other things. Big tits on Beverly. I watch Land Ass. Got him. I was telling Brad though. I was like, I, and I said this even long before any of this happened. Taylor, I am a Swifty and I love her. I love her. Love her. I love, I've been to her concerts. I love her. I have an inkling that has been, it's stuck with me that she is a mean girl. No. And I have a feeling, I have a feeling because she gives me, because you know what?

[01:28:06] You show me your friends, I show you, like it'll tell me who you are. Right? Of course. And her friends are often intertwined in lots of drama, lots of messiness, lots and lots and lots of stuff. Donald Trump believes the same thing. If you were. I believe he does. Okay. That's so devastating. If you were. No, Donald Trump doesn't like Taylor Swift. Because I love her and I think she's phenomenal. Donald Trump doesn't like white people shit. Nope. He loves them.

[01:28:34] I'm just trying to say, I'm being told that a lot of Swifties have kicked puppies. Well, this podcast has been fun. Well, so you guys shouldn't probably put this on air because if the Swifties catch any whiff of this, they'll be good. Oh, that's true. Oh, yeah. Very avid listeners of the Swifties. Actually, so my favorite thing that has come out about the Baldoni. The Baldoni, Blake Lively thing so far, though, which is hilarious no matter what way you slice it, is that apparently Nice Pool from Deadpool Wolverine is a riff on Justin Baldoni. That's what I heard. Yeah.

[01:29:04] And Baldoni's lawyers has confirmed this and it's like, buddy, that's an L. No matter what way he slice it, if that's what happened. If that's what they specifically, and it was, it was like they quoted him, right? A few of the lines that he says are things he said. Yeah. That's not a good look for you, bro. No matter what happens here, Reynolds and Lively have so much fucking money that they'll recover no matter what. Baldoni's done no matter what. Nobody's going to want to touch somebody that toxic, even if he's innocent. They just won't. Yeah.

[01:29:33] Because all Reynolds has to say is, I won't work with you. Yeah. I won't work with anybody who will work with him. And so you're just cutting him off. But it'll be interesting to see what happens as far as the cases, if this ends up being a hard hit on Reynolds and Lively. I don't think it will. I don't think so. I think he's so bulletproof. And again, you know all of this. And there's monsters in Hollywood. There's so many monsters like that. But no, here's the thing. You guys know all about this. And I'm decently... I read stuff on Reddit. And I'm pretty up to it. And I've never heard any of this. So imagine just like my mom.

[01:30:04] She's not... Oh, I like Ryan Reynolds. She's not going to dig into any of this. That's true. He's still going to be bulletproof. We're just... Unless it becomes big news. I think the main person that will get the hit is Blake. And she was also not very... I mean, for how many years has she not read that? Her career is not that great. It's really not. I can't think of a single movie where I think Blake was notable. I'm like, wow. Well, do me a simple favor, okay? And watch the film A Simple Favor. No, A Simple Favor is very good. I wish you had just left it. Do me a simple favor. Just left it. So thanks, Brittany. That is actually a great movie.

[01:30:34] I wish it would have been better, Brad. Thank you so much for giving him... Giving him notes on his jokes is really what he means. It's really great. Brad, I see what you're going through. Oh my gosh. Brad, I wish you would have just actually left it there. If you would have just left it there. Oh, also, listen. Let's talk about my career. Yeah, you asked me how I fight. That's how I fight with Brad. Dirty. You fight dirty. With calm. Calm wrecking ball. Yeah. It's like, how did that room get disappeared from the earth?

[01:31:02] Oh, that was the calmest wrecking ball you've ever seen. Quiet wrecking. It was an ASMR wrecking ball. All right. Are we going to do trailers or not? No, we've already gone long. Right? Where are we at? We're 140. Four hours. Yeah, we got to cut that. We would have to cut the games. And we didn't have to cut the games. That's true. We wouldn't.

[01:31:31] No, we would have cut the games. How many times have we done that? We've cut the games. We watched Trailer for Working Man. It looks like a Jason Statham movie. Yeah, it looks great. It's Beekeeper with the construction. Yeah. Then we watched the new A24 film. It looks like AI wrote A24. I mean, I don't really vibe with how he's describing it. It's like somebody took every single A24 film, put it in a blender, and now we've got this. You don't even know what a blender does. It mixes things up. Do you guys ever think about doing an actual podcast? Where you look at me. Oh, fuck you.

[01:32:00] Oh, that's so great. No. That's so great. Shut up. We just, like the boys are sleeping two floors up. We just woke them up with how audacious that was. Not because of that. No, Brittany, I love you, but how fucking dare you? Do you guys ever think of doing an actual podcast? I've never thought about doing an actual podcast. What's on this? Joke podcast? One that doesn't fucking suck. Like actually publish something that's worthy of publishing. One that isn't a stain on the earth. Let me explain that. The most innocently brutal comment we've ever had on the show. Wow. Let me explain.

[01:32:30] I mean with video. I wonder that every week. What the fuck, Nate? No, I just met with video filming you guys because you guys are hilarious. Oh, because for her, an actual podcast has a video team that puts videos out on TikTok. Sometimes, because I'll listen to the podcast, but sometimes I'll want to watch the interaction. I'm not sure anyone wants to see this. You want to see people laughing at each other. Listen, we have faces for radio. Yeah. We just do. And honestly, more than that, bodies for radio. Hey, did you guys see the episode? Chubby boy. Look at this. Not fuck you.

[01:33:00] You're so skinny compared to you. Fucking Chubby boy. Did you guys see the episode of Go Flicks Yourself where Ben was drinking out of that big red Pizza hut glass? It's a bear's cup and you know that. And he spilled some of it on his shirt. You didn't, did I? I think that would be fun. It's like a Theo Vaughn episode, you know? Right now, it's a bear's cup, but it's usually a big red pizza glass. It is, usually. It's a local albano's pizza cup that I stole. They're all the same. Had permission to take. Yeah, those are great. There was orange one at Hooters. Yeah. I almost took one. You should have.

[01:33:28] So we took the boys to Hooters in Orlando. How did they like it? The heater was broke, so it was all covered up. They didn't love it. I feel like it would have made Hooters better. No. Oh my gosh. It was so disgusting. It was horrible. It was so disgusting. No, it was great. It was great. Brittany, I love you. All right. Brittany, I love you too. Thanks for telling us. Thanks so much for being on the podcast. A real podcast. Have you ever thought about doing a real podcast? We have. We have. You know what? Message received.

[01:33:58] Thank you. I promise it was just the video. I know. We love you. I love you guys too. Yeah. Thanks for coming on the show, Brittany. Anytime, Brad. Sweet. Thanks for being so formal. Later, do you want to maybe hook up? Nope. Nope. Are you sure you don't want to hook up with some Hooters, ladies? Seriously. We're going to be talking about that later. Actually, what did you say? I'm not picky. Oh yeah. They watched the dogs for a week. Did you guys hook up on our bed? We did not. Yeah. We were like. Not in your bed. Oh.

[01:34:28] In the kennel. In the dog kennel. Yeah. I do like your bed, how it like raises. Yeah. Yeah, you do. All right. I forget about it all the time. It also vibrates. For your. Trust me. We know. Brad's like, we didn't hook up, but I did. Because that bed. Man, he did. Yeah. The other corner of the bed is super wet too. And that had nothing to do with Paul.

[01:34:57] Well, this has been a great episode. Nate, Ashley, Brittany. Brittany, we love you. Oh, I love you guys too. Thank you for being here. I hope you know I think this is a real podcast. I know. And I really love it. Yes. No, we love you. Brad was here too. Bye everybody. Bye. Bye. Bye. Nah, cheating. Aye. Bye.