"Chris Pratt"

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Speaker 2 Look, there's a rumor going around that I really love seafood. First of all, it's that's false.
I like it, I don't love it, but I like sushi more.

Speaker 2 But there's, I think, what the real rumor was going around that I like women, which is totally

Speaker 2 not true.

Speaker 2 Welcome to Smartless. Smart.

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Speaker 2 Hi.

Speaker 2 When did you get home? Well, I just got back today.

Speaker 2 Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's really exciting.
I had a great time. Thanks for asking.
Oh, so you still do it old school. You dress up nice for plane flights.
Is that right?

Speaker 2 Listener, Will's got a nice collar and a V-neck on. I do, actually.
You kind of dress up every day anyway. Oh, yeah.
Were you flying first class on Pan Am or something?

Speaker 2 Or something. But let me just say.

Speaker 2 Oh, is that right, eh? Well, you know. Good for you.

Speaker 2 You know, you don't need to dress up for that one. They wait for you.
I know, and I do. And you know why? Because I think that

Speaker 2 you can't coach people up all the time, but you can just model it for them. So I'm just like, I'm trying to set this standard.
I'm like, I'm not going to tell everybody else how to do it.

Speaker 2 And I'm just going to do it. I'm going to lead by example.
And I feel like, yeah, it should look nice.

Speaker 2 I don't see why not. I was in Atlanta.
You know, I had a great time. Thanks for asking, though.
I really did. I had a really nice time.

Speaker 2 And it was with all my friends. What were you doing down there? Let's plug some of your stuff.

Speaker 2 Well, you know, I was working on the,

Speaker 2 we were making more of these Lego program that I like to make.

Speaker 2 Sure. I host a Lego program and I also.

Speaker 2 You do? Sure, yeah. And I produce it as well.
And we have a really fun time down there.

Speaker 2 Do you drive a GMC when you're down there or eating any rubber? I was actually, you know, don't tell them. I was in a Chevy.
Wait, what? That's okay. It's within the GM family.
It's okay. Is it?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And because GMC and Chevy are both divisions of GM.
That's enough. That's enough.

Speaker 2 And I had great meals made by my friend Brandy. If you're down in Atlanta and you need to get a Camaro,

Speaker 2 you're in the Camaro. Was it a five-speed Camaro?

Speaker 2 It was a superb.

Speaker 2 Oh, so you weren't driving you were riding in a shower no i drove it every day oh yeah i like to you know i like to get behind the wheel of a big truck you had a pull hitch on that suburban did you you know

Speaker 2 part of the problem is i got i can't sometimes something did you wait did you i'm good

Speaker 2 did you are you done done you don't have to go back you're done i'm not done i don't have to go back remember i came back before yeah i'm really excited i'm really excited to be here with you guys i i literally got here this afternoon i'm so so excited happy

Speaker 2 somebody loves los angeles And Shawnee, you're back in Los Angeles too. I am too.
We're all back. We're going to see each other Sunday, maybe.
So Sunday night we're doing Sunday Funday. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. Did you not even know about this? I just got home.
I'm sure Amanda's got a full menu of plans that you've created with her.

Speaker 2 We did.

Speaker 2 Will and I share a wife.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's true. I love that I know before you do, and Sean does too.
I know.

Speaker 2 It's so good. Yeah, Sunday's going to be fun.
I can't wait. I'm really excited to see all y'all.
Tracy might come. Is that true?

Speaker 2 yeah

Speaker 2 listener

Speaker 2 listener this is significant do we have to explain stuff at dinner tonight

Speaker 2 which food is what well we're the fork this is a fork yeah

Speaker 2 um

Speaker 2 jason was making fun of my name before you got on will and he was making fun of my last name and he's been misspelling it all these years it's s-h-a-w-n and haze everybody knows is h-a-i-s-e no but anyways i had an that's why you're so bad at quirdle

Speaker 2 quirdle and Quirtle's like bigger than Quirtle. No, Sean.
Sean, we went from Wordle to Quirdle.

Speaker 2 I can't do it. I tried it.

Speaker 2 So now we're on a chain with Sam Jones and with

Speaker 2 Mr.

Speaker 2 Smart. Listen, our friend Matt, Matt Damon.
And Jason struggled with Quirtle. But you know what?

Speaker 2 We've been gentle on him.

Speaker 2 And they have to Quirdle. Matt and I tied again today.
So now we're going, we're now deciding the tie break. You have to go to Octortal,

Speaker 2 whatever it's called.

Speaker 2 octortle it's so stupid and um

Speaker 2 it gets it gets real chippy in that in that chain doesn't it you've had some good runs but it gets chippy in there will's will's gifted will's uh he's surprisingly good at some things you wouldn't think he's good at and then shockingly bad at stuff you think he just kind of breathes through you know like uh

Speaker 2 driving um

Speaker 2 are you really bad at driving sometimes walking boy you put a stick of gum in his mouth and ask him to walk down the street street it's uh it's something

Speaker 2 did you guys yeah go ahead uh sean you were no you go i was gonna get your guest oh you were gonna get to the guest well they've been waiting for a good 45 minutes no they haven't we had a five o'clock record time will no we had oh my god no he's i know this made me panic i know the way he does it by the way sean Yes.

Speaker 2 Speaking of dressing up, you're wearing a nice shirt today. I am.
Do you want to know why? I swear to God, I'm not making a damn thing.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I swear to God, because first of all, let me just say for our listener, no baseball cap and no t-shirt that says like Bob's beer. Yeah, and it's a lavender gingham button-up.

Speaker 2 So, clearly, what time did Mask get out today?

Speaker 2 Yeah, Sean, what happened? By the way, stand up because I want to see the dockers too. Yeah, no, they are dockers, tucked into some pleated khakis.

Speaker 2 They are ducks. They're cargo pants.
Cargo pants. What happened? Did you unlock a time capsule from 1998?

Speaker 2 Does it have a loop for the hammer? I was just playing Uncharted.

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 2 I swear to God, I did not make this up. I woke up today and I saw my sweats and my shorts.
I was like, gosh, I wear that every day.

Speaker 2 Even to parties. Every day.
Yeah, even to parties.

Speaker 2 And then I was like, you know what? Poor Scotty never sees me dress as a human being. So for Scotty today, I dressed in a nice shirt and just regular pants.

Speaker 2 Just to kick around the house and eat your tuna fish sandwiches? Yeah, totally. By the way, not even kidding, had a tuna fish sandwich today and a little bit of squeeze.

Speaker 2 I'm just not kidding, there's nothing kidding about that. Yeah, this is very serious business, dude.
Anyway, thank you for noticing. You look great.
So, that's just your kick-around outfit today.

Speaker 2 That's my kick-around outfit today. I mean, I had stuff to do, but yeah.
And is this the same haircut from 12 days ago from Skevo? Oh, I thought you were going to say, Yes, it is. Oh, it is.

Speaker 2 It's getting long, right? It's getting long, getting a little long on top there. Yeah, I'm coming out.
I want to do this.

Speaker 2 Can we come in for your next sesh?

Speaker 2 What's his name? What's his name again? It's Skevo. Skevo.

Speaker 2 Skevo.

Speaker 2 We're not laughing at his name.

Speaker 2 I'm not Skevo if you're listening.

Speaker 2 We're not laughing at his name. I just appreciate the salon name.
I know. Wait a minute, Jason, it's the same salon you go to.
I just go to a different place. Look, my guy's name is Chris.

Speaker 2 You know, like,

Speaker 2 Skevo, you can't do anything but cut hair with a name like Christ. Jason, let me ask you, now, is, did Chris break both his hands?

Speaker 2 What's going on?

Speaker 2 Listener, I've got some real growth. i actually kind of like the long hair i was making it's not great

Speaker 2 it's not great we'll let our guest weigh in on this but um i need a hat at least all right let's get let's go let's go with this oh yeah come on here we go our guest today is pretty major guys i think you'll be impressed i'm so excited he agreed to do this the man is hilarious and just when we thought he couldn't get more successful and at the top of his game his career became a marvel

Speaker 2 And everything shifted for this handsome, funny man, which is usually an oxymoron.

Speaker 2 He's so clearly one of the most sought-after actors in hollywood starring in blockbuster after blockbuster but most important above all he's also one of the kindest most humblest men i've ever known so we really aren't worthy but regardless welcome to smartless christopher pratt Chris Pratt

Speaker 2 I knew I had it with the Chris damn it are you serious I know

Speaker 2 oh boy now Sean you and I are gonna have to just take a seat and let these two I know because they love the show together so they're gonna

Speaker 2 space

Speaker 2 we were just talking about him coming on this show and that's I know.

Speaker 2 Will, why didn't you invite him? I mean, Chris.

Speaker 2 I know. Why didn't you invite me? What's wrong with you, Will? Oh, my God.
This is such a good thing. And I just checked in with Michael recently, and I was like, what's going on with Pratt?

Speaker 2 He's like, it's going to happen. Let me just get back.
I'm like, okay,

Speaker 2 this is like, okay, Sean. Sean and I are just going to be here.
I'm happy you're here. I'm happy I'm here.

Speaker 2 I'm happy to be here.

Speaker 2 Hey, guys.

Speaker 2 I love that man we're talking to right now named Chris Pratt. And I don't know if you guys know, but I'm really close.

Speaker 2 I've known his wife, Catherine, for decades, literally decades, since she was a child. So I feel like she's my little sister.

Speaker 2 Great story. Chris,

Speaker 2 welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 Look, you've got a collar on, too.

Speaker 2 I know. Yeah, why do you look so nice, Chris?

Speaker 2 We are wrapping up. This is what I was

Speaker 2 wearing today. Maybe tuna fish sandwiches?

Speaker 2 For work. I was doing some press stuff, so they had me dress.

Speaker 2 If he's ever seen me dress nice, it's because I did something for work. Now, is this a junket? Is this a junket outfit or a photography session outfit or a talk show? This.
What did we do today?

Speaker 2 I did a talk show. I did a Kelly, the Kelly Clarkson show.
Sure.

Speaker 2 Sure. All right.

Speaker 2 And how was that? It was great. We did it with the whole cast of, well, a bunch of the cast members from Jurassic World.
And so Jurassic World Dominion, you mean? Not familiar.

Speaker 2 What is that? Is that some sort of...

Speaker 2 That was good. That was really good.
That was a good save.

Speaker 2 So wait a minute. Let me tell you something.
I watched that movie and I was blown away that is an incredible ride it's so i'm so glad you said away i'm so glad you said away it was blown away

Speaker 2 i was like where did you see the movie

Speaker 2 why do you think i dressed up today

Speaker 2 i saw i saw all of it my friend however missed a large chunk of it

Speaker 2 yeah it's it's

Speaker 2 Universal's loving this. Universal chunks.

Speaker 2 This is the kind of family content we

Speaker 2 hope you're proud of it because it's fucking amazing. It's dude.
Yeah, I am. It is really good.
It's like a it's a great trend. It's a great progression from the previous movie.

Speaker 2 It just keeps getting better and better. What's kind of nice is like

Speaker 2 the whole cast from Jurassic Park is

Speaker 2 back.

Speaker 2 Yes, to see you guys together was so cool.

Speaker 2 Wait, so this is us,

Speaker 2 Sam Neal and Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern and

Speaker 2 BD Wong.

Speaker 2 Were all the dinosaurs available or did they have

Speaker 2 many?

Speaker 2 Many of the same dinosaurs came back. Some of them were a little, weren't they?

Speaker 2 Isn't it? It's not just actors. Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 I want to ask you something, Chris. You know, when someone is as massively successful as you and you know, you know, everybody.
Last question, Sean. Oh, I'm sorry.
No, that's not. Last question.

Speaker 2 Then you got to go.

Speaker 2 Oh, last question already.

Speaker 2 Fox.

Speaker 2 No, no, sorry. Go ahead.
Sorry. Oh, wow.
I got to speed things up.

Speaker 2 No, when someone's as hugely successful as you, and you know, you know every time you open a movie that it's going to be seen by the world, do you ever go, damn, all my hard work paid off?

Speaker 2 Like, are you aware enough to embrace your own success?

Speaker 2 Can you enjoy it? Or are you like, you know, push it away? Deflect? Oh, man.

Speaker 2 You can't win answering this question. This is what Sean does.
Why not?

Speaker 2 No, no, no. It's like all the praise, and then he drops a bomb on you that you can't win.
No, no. And then he says, Chris, please walk into Douchetown.
Welcome to. I want you to walk into Douchetown.

Speaker 2 Join me. I want you to say something about yourself that makes everyone thinks that you're

Speaker 2 Sean, Sean, why don't you ask him if he, how many times a day he Googles himself, okay?

Speaker 2 I'll answer that for myself. No, no, I was asking because it's like a healthy thing to say, yes, I'm proud of what I've done.
Like, it's okay to say that.

Speaker 2 Like, I just think it's so amazing that you're such a gigantic global star now. And from where you came, that you should feel proud because you have worked so hard.
So I'll say it for you. Amen.

Speaker 2 There it is. I will second that.
That's so nice. Yeah.
I mean, look, I feel, I feel like definitely

Speaker 2 blessed and grateful. I've got an awesome manager who forces me to say no to things that I would absolutely say yes to if it weren't for my manager.

Speaker 2 So like I have, it's like the result of really great discernment on my team. It's definitely a team effort.
And

Speaker 2 I've been lucky enough to hitch my,

Speaker 2 wagon to these titles that were really, really special and big titles with Marvel and with Jurassic World. So it's like,

Speaker 2 you know, not to deflect or anything like that. I'm definitely proud of my contribution to them, but these were like juggernauts that I was lucky enough to jump on.

Speaker 2 And so like, it's been an awesome thing. But you would definitely not shy away.
Hold on, Will. You would definitely not shy away from something that was fully dependent on you, though, right?

Speaker 2 Without any sort of like, you'd go off, do some original one act in an equity waiver theater would you not

Speaker 2 we got him oh immediately yeah yeah let's it would have to be the right it would have to be the right

Speaker 2 the right time of the year

Speaker 2 baben what do you have in mind

Speaker 2 and uh go for will

Speaker 2 i was just noticing that you all you were saying you were really grateful and blessed and you kind of at first said you're glested and i was like that's a great you created a nice word which is grateful and blessed and i feel really glested

Speaker 2 oh that's right it's a mashed blade i'm bladed

Speaker 2 Glest would be really good. Glest would save you a lot of time.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 It's like if you didn't have to say grateful and blessed for all the times you're forced to say that, think of all the time you've saved a lot of people.

Speaker 2 I first fell in love with Chris Pratt when he was nice enough to do our little chat and giggle for, I believe it was Denny's, when Will and I were running a digital adage

Speaker 2 for about three seconds. And

Speaker 2 we came up with some.

Speaker 2 Do you remember that?

Speaker 2 I do. With Kechner? With Kechner.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Were you on Parks and Rex at the time or before? I think you were, weren't you?

Speaker 2 I think it was Parks and Rec. Yeah, I think it might have been Parks and Rec or around then, yeah.
Yeah, it was Parks and Rec.

Speaker 2 And what happened was, first of all, I fell in love with Brad because when he first did that first season of Parks and Rec, and I started to watch the cuts of the show.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 Amy will back me up on this. I was watching the episodes and I was like, who the fuck is this guy? This guy is fucking hilarious.
He played Andy. He was Rashida's boyfriend.
He had a broken leg.

Speaker 2 He was a good-for-nothing dude, like stuck at home making her do shit for him. And she was like, oh, God, she dating this loser guy.
And he was so funny, so effortlessly funny.

Speaker 2 I was like, this guy's fucking it. And Will doesn't give it up for a lot, Chris.
That's high.

Speaker 2 I don't. Pratt, well, he knows.
He knows how much I love him. And then Prat did one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
I saw him on Conan years ago, early on.

Speaker 2 You probably don't remember this. And you go, you get at one point, you're talking to Conan, and then you stood up and you start to take your jacket off.
And Conan goes, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 And you go, I'm hot.

Speaker 2 You just took your jacket off.

Speaker 2 And nobody ever does that on a talk show.

Speaker 2 I thought you were going to say that he just collapsed on the ground. And then he said, what are you doing? And you said, I just did a prat fall.

Speaker 2 That would have killed.

Speaker 2 To me, it was funnier that he just took his jacket off and then he was relaxed.

Speaker 2 And I thought, this son of a gun. It's a different, different beat.
It's a different beat. Why are you, Chris, why are you so relaxed on those shows? Yeah, why are you so relaxed? Why?

Speaker 2 What's the name of the video? Every time I say,

Speaker 2 do you shoot at the back of your knee or is it just a tablet?

Speaker 2 I heard someone today was talking about that. They were like, I asked someone, I said, do you get nervous before you go through this? And someone had mentioned, oh, I'd take a, what did they say?

Speaker 2 There was some pill that they took. There was like, I take a voice on the it was like a, I don't know if there was like a name.
Beta blocker, like a beta blocker.

Speaker 2 a blocker, a blocker, a beta blocker, yeah. A beta blocking skills on Chris.
He just he seems like he's never heard of these things, you know? It's like, what's the

Speaker 2 beta blocker? Yeah, dude, Chris, by the way, that's the real thing because I take a beta blocker every time around Bateman, and then I can't do it.

Speaker 2 It blocks him out because it blocks out all the betas.

Speaker 2 Bateman blocker. Yeah, that's a beta.

Speaker 2 He's calling me a beta, and it's not a Bateman thing, Sean. It's even more horrible.
But like,

Speaker 2 so I don't feel I like, I've never had, I don't know. I think I have natural beta blockers in my what do you get, what, what do you get nervous about?

Speaker 2 Golf. I know you're a great golfer, so probably not too bad.

Speaker 2 Golf, no, I'm a complete head case in golf. Really? Really? Yeah, it messes my whole game up.

Speaker 2 I can't just go and like, you know, some of those guys are like, ah, I, I, cause the thing is, I'm not as good at golf as I am at, like,

Speaker 2 going on a talk show. You know what I mean? If I was as good at golf as I was, like, just sitting down at a talk show and shooting the shit and making people.

Speaker 2 Well, how, what, what kind of golfer are you? Mid-80s, mid-90s? I'm like a four. I'm like a 14.
Yeah, there you go. That's great.
It's not great.

Speaker 2 It should be better. For the amount of time and effort I put in, I can't tell you how many times I'll be on the golf course and I'll legit go, you know what? Fucking fuck this fucking game.
I quit.

Speaker 2 What am I doing? What am I doing? I'm spend all my time doing this and this is only how good I am. Why? I could have written a book.
I could have gotten a degree.

Speaker 2 I could have done anything with my fucking life. And then I get a good shot.
I'm like, yeah, baby. Yeah, baby.
Daddy's back. So that's like the emotional roller coaster.

Speaker 2 Chris, I'll tell you right there. One time, a couple of months ago, we were playing golf.
Jason and I were playing golf.

Speaker 2 And we saw a couple of guys at the place we were playing, it was before the LA, the

Speaker 2 Genesis. And we saw a couple pros playing, and I was having a bad day.
And these guys, we saw a DJ and a couple of guys having a practice round.

Speaker 2 And Jason points up to them on, they're on a different hole, and

Speaker 2 he says to me, just to give me perspective, because I was in a bad place, and he goes, they can't do what you do.

Speaker 2 And I went,

Speaker 2 oh, yeah. You're a professional at something completely different.
Yeah. They're an amateur at what you're a pro at.
And I was like, okay. And it put it in perspective.

Speaker 2 And Jason, hats off, it made the rest of my day quite pleasant. So thank you.
That's nice. You helped my experience.
I love you.

Speaker 2 When you give back, when I give to you and you give back to me, I love that. That's pretty cool.
Jason usually tells me I can't do anything. You're an amateur at everything.

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Speaker 2 And now back to the show. Pratt, let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 I've never known.

Speaker 2 I know that before Parks and Rec, you were doing a sort of a show. You were doing a much more serious show.
right? What was the name of the show you did before for a couple of years? I did a TV show.

Speaker 2 Well, it was like a teen drama. It was called Everwood.
It was on the WB. Everwood.
So, not a comedy.

Speaker 2 One of my early claims to fame was that Sean Hayes made an Everwood joke on Will and Grace, and we all thought that we made it.

Speaker 2 He was like, I'm going to stay at home and have Everwood with my date or something like that. Like, that was the joke.
Was like Everwood, like an Everlasting Boner.

Speaker 2 I think you had an Everwood watching

Speaker 2 Jurassic the other day, right?

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 Do you? I love the sound effects. We've so Chris, but that show, not a comedy.
Right.

Speaker 2 What was the, what was the first, I mean, God, I, I know you've gone on, you've done lots of different stuff and you've done action, you've done stuff that's more intense or whatever.

Speaker 2 But for me, I feel like you've got such a comedic heart, which I love. It's so rare.
Like in my little intro, I really mean that. Like good looks with comedy is so rare.
Yeah. Oh, nice.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 Who are are you just talking about? Oh, yeah. I can't tell who you're looking at on this.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 I can't see who are you. I was looking in a mirror just off the side.

Speaker 2 I have a mirror set up in my mind. You forgot you were doing the show.

Speaker 2 Now, Chris, I know you're too humble to really address this question, but if you were to concede that you are affable and good-looking and approachable and an everyman, would you blame that on your dad, your mom?

Speaker 2 You got a brother who's like that? Like,

Speaker 2 where'd you get it from? Where'd you get it? I think, you know, growing up with my family, just

Speaker 2 we were talking about this, Will, when we were down in Atlanta together. The love language is just legit burns, you know, cutting each other up, like

Speaker 2 insult love. You know what I mean? Where you kind of just

Speaker 2 say, listen, gloves are off. I will absolutely allow you to say anything you want to try to cut me down, and I'll appreciate what you do

Speaker 2 for its humor. And, you know, like no one gets their feelings hurt and always

Speaker 2 has their feelings hurt a little bit. You know what I mean? So it's like

Speaker 2 it thickens your skin. You're just not allowed to take yourself too seriously.
I think that's it. I think it's like, you know, appreciating comedy and just getting the piss taken out of you.
Right.

Speaker 2 But for, but for people who don't know, and I think Will was kind of hinting at this, is like,

Speaker 2 I'm sure you're sick of talking about this, but you work at Bubba Gump Shrimp in Maui while you were homeless, which is like blows my mind. That's news to me.
Me too. How did you end up Maui?

Speaker 2 Well, after I, I didn't go to college and I, you know, I did like a semester of community college that I was like paying for myself and just hated it. Shrimp? No, no, no.
This is before the shrimp.

Speaker 2 Okay. Because I, you know, I graduated.
I was young. I was 17 when I graduated.
I had, had done sports through school, so I never did any plays.

Speaker 2 However, I was always MCing, writing, and kind of producing our assemblies at school. Following in my brother's footsteps, he had done the same thing.

Speaker 2 So I really loved the showmanship and doing these song and dance numbers and like comedy sketches in front of the school and stuff really kind of scoring with that stuff i i did stand-up comedy right after high school i did i did a community play right after high school started doing several plays at this local theater so i knew i had the bug that i wanted to be a performer but it seemed outrageous to me i became a door-to-door salesman and i i did that job for yeah i did that job for about um probably a little over a year, maybe a year and a half.

Speaker 2 Wow. How old? And I was, you know, from the time I was 18 to about almost 20.
What were you selling? I was selling these coupons.

Speaker 2 So, like, businesses in the service industry, such as a Minekee or a Midas, or maybe like even a Salon, would put together this package of like, you know, bring your car in, you'd get oil changes.

Speaker 2 Four oil changes for $20 was the deal, but really, we would sell it to the person, then they would take their car in and get free oil changes.

Speaker 2 But really, the mechanic would try to like upsell them on a break job or something like that. So it was like this, there's a coupon kind of criminal in nature, it basically.

Speaker 2 No, you just sold me. I was just just

Speaker 2 a little bit of a pyramid. It was kind of good.
It was kind of, yeah, it was like these multi-level marketing things were like, you know, I was a complete.

Speaker 2 First of all, zero critical thinking skills were ever taught to anyone in my household. My mom was a checker at Safeway for 29 years.
She'd literally believe anything anyone told her through her line.

Speaker 2 She's still that way, sweet. Bless her heart.
And so I answered an ad in the paper for this door-to-door sales thing that said, Do you like rock and roll music? Do you want to make money?

Speaker 2 And I was like, Oh my god, I think this might be it. I think

Speaker 2 both of those things.

Speaker 2 And it was that was was, and so for a year, I did this door-to-door sales job.

Speaker 2 And after I opened my own office in Colorado, like climbed to the top, I got all the sales awards and won a free trip to Jamaica. I did very well at this job.

Speaker 2 But then I got totally burnt out and learned that my management skills were terrible. I was just really good at selling shit.

Speaker 2 And so when I tried to open my own office and I put the same ad in the paper, it turned out only ding-dongs would answer. And the guy's like, I like that.
I was like, cool, let's go.

Speaker 2 Let's get excited. And they're like, I don't really, I forgot my shoes or whatever.

Speaker 2 Why is there

Speaker 2 scraping the bottom of the unemployment barrel?

Speaker 2 Wait, what were the two questions? Do you like rock and roll and like to have fun or like to make money? Do you want, do you like rock and roll music? Do you want to make money?

Speaker 2 I mean, that's going to solicit some real questionable. Wait, so why did in hindsight? It wasn't the best ad, but I was the guy who answered that ad, so I thought that's effective.

Speaker 2 There's probably a bunch of lines. You netted me.
Yeah. It scooped you right up.
It reminds me of that line. Remember in Idiocracy when the guy says to Dax, I like money.
He goes, I like money too.

Speaker 2 I mean, what it really does is

Speaker 2 the true brilliance in it is it filters out people who are too critical of critical thinkers. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Like if you're dumb enough to answer that ad, then you might get pulled into this multi-level marketing thing. There's a stroke of evil genius to it.

Speaker 2 So Colorado didn't work out. How do you get to Maui? That's what, yeah.
So I had to give that backstory to say that my mom had to fly me home from Colorado.

Speaker 2 I had like a thousand, $1,500 cell phone bill debt. And I just went back to my hometown where I like...
This is Maui. You grew up in Maui? No, no, no.

Speaker 2 I grew up in a town called Lake Stevens in Washington State, but a good friend of mine since high school had been living in Maui. And he saw me and he was like, dude, what happened?

Speaker 2 I heard you were like a big, big, big sales in a sales company or something.

Speaker 2 And he said, listen, man, I'm going to buy you a one-way ticket to Maui. I've been living there since high school.
It's awesome. We sleep on the beach.
It's super fast. You like to make money.

Speaker 2 You like to fly to Maui. And so

Speaker 2 he paid for my ticket out there. and then I just basically moved there.
And so I had no money, but I showed up and hung out with a bunch of friends and got a job at Bubblegum Shrimp Company and lived

Speaker 2 on the beach.

Speaker 2 People say homeless, and you kind of like living in LA, there's homeless people everywhere. It's like destitute people.
We were just a bunch of kids living camping on the beach for a year.

Speaker 2 Because you could.

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 2 where did the acting bug and the trip to LA come from?

Speaker 2 Well, I always had that acting bug from having performed in school and having done plays.

Speaker 2 And I was doing stand-up comedy while I was doing the uh sales thing because that office was in seattle so i was performing at some like open mic nights and things like that like you know entry level i did a college tour thing at the university of washington and stuff doing stand-up comedy and so uh i had the bug and i just i waited on a director and and the director saw me was like hey you're cute do you act and i was like yeah i totally act you should put me in a movie and the and and the audition

Speaker 2 came and I auditioned for a movie and and and the movie was, you know, I got paid 700 bucks It was shot over 10 days It was like this one of these sag signatory type of films and I Remember I remember auditioning and I worked so hard on this this material and and I just remember halfway through the director said you know what

Speaker 2 you're pretty good We're gonna use you and I'm like wow I think I'm gonna I got this part that's great. I said where do you where does it film like is it is it like on this side of the island?

Speaker 2 Does the other side say oh no it films in LA and in my mind I'm like well I've got maybe 60 bucks to my name. I I can't go to LA.

Speaker 2 Plus, you've got barbecue shrimp, grilled shrimp,

Speaker 2 mustard shrimp, boiled shrimp, fried shrimp,

Speaker 2 so dumb. But you met this Hollywood Titan at a table for one at Bubba Shrimp.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 Okay. Yeah.
The director and her producing partner were getting ready to shoot this movie.

Speaker 2 And then it was like a, you know, I auditioned auditioned and then I said I can't I can't go to LA I don't have any I don't I don't have any money to get to LA She said sweetie We'll fly you there and that was it Then I never never went back No way had you ever been to LA never oh the only time I'd been to LA was on a door-to-door sales road trip where I came down to sell some stuff because they had an LA office So I they they had sent me down to sell in some areas like I sold in Oxnard and I was on like up and down Santa Monica Boulevard and West Hollywood and stuff.

Speaker 2 But that's so interesting because I picture like you in Maui or anybody who wants to be an actor. I think the last place to find work is Maui.

Speaker 2 It is.

Speaker 2 I mean crazy. Yeah, it wasn't one of these things that I was really looking for.

Speaker 2 I was just having a good time with my friends and enjoying my life and had that opportunity not present, like literally shaking the tree and knocked me out of the tree and grabbed me by the hair and dragged me to LA.

Speaker 2 I don't know that I've ever, I ever would have had an opportunity to pursue what was a dream of my life. Yeah, that's wild.

Speaker 2 You're going door to door.

Speaker 2 You're talking about like Santa Monica Boulevard just going door to door. Yeah.
Business to business. We would always sell.
Oh, business to business. Yeah, yeah.
So B2B, but are you?

Speaker 2 It's not B2B, Will. Jason, you're not in the thing.
You're not in the game with us. You're not in the game.

Speaker 2 Even though I'm going to correct you on the B2B stuff. No, you're not in the game with us.
That's my phrase. No, Chris and I, do you think we have time to go business to business?

Speaker 2 No, because we're going to B2B.

Speaker 2 No, we're going to B2B every second. So you're going to B2B.
I'm with you.

Speaker 2 But you must have had crazy encounters.

Speaker 2 Did you have crazy encounters were you going cold calling yeah i had crazy crazy encounters it was you did it was a it was terrible it was a i mean like i yeah terrible

Speaker 2 it's funny now for to hear actors talk about rejection you know they're like dude it's so hard i'm like mother you were invited to the place where you where you got rejected yeah like i'm sneaking through people's yards and trying to climb in their windows just to talk to someone who i'm walking right past a no soliciting sign to solicit and you know

Speaker 2 a shotgun blast could come right through that door i had people try to stick their dogs on me I had like,

Speaker 2 I had my crew, people that I hired on my crew, you know, the elite sales force that answered the ding-dong app. The other folks that love the rock and rolling money.
Go in and rob places.

Speaker 2 Wait, really? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I had hired up in Seattle on my crew, I hired a guy who was like a violent felon, a convicted two-time violent felon on house arrest. And we were like, hey, listen, this guy's great.

Speaker 2 We really like him. They're like, he needs to be under supervision all the time.
He absolutely will be. They're like, hey, buddy, this is your street.
We'll pick him up at five.

Speaker 2 No way. That's no way.
Yeah, for real. And that guy, Audi, was his name was Audi.
He was very sweet. He was actually an amazing guy.
And he was really a special guy.

Speaker 2 Like, he, he, it, it sounds way worse than it was. He actually was a really great guy who needed a break and was, was a really solid dude.

Speaker 2 I think he actually ended up back in prison, but he had some really crazy stories. And I was like his manager.
I was 18 years old. He was 42.
And he's like, and it was just the wild.

Speaker 2 It was a wild experience. Dude, dude, you kind of grow up fast in that kind of thing, don't you? You learn a lot about like, oh, avoid this.
Ooh, that's wrong. Ooh, I should go over here.
Right.

Speaker 2 It's a great preparation for being an actor, I'll tell you that.

Speaker 2 Cause like you're walking, like when you're, when you're, for the longest time, I was great at auditioning and I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag.

Speaker 2 Like they'd get on set and they're like, what happened to the actor who came into the thing? I was like, oh, that wasn't an actor. That was a door-to-door salesman.

Speaker 2 I walked into a room and I won the role, but I didn't know what the F I was doing. I didn't know how to act.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 So starting with those kinds of humble beginnings and really no huge expectations

Speaker 2 or goals or plans or

Speaker 2 obviously, you know, things are incredible now, certainly

Speaker 2 in comparison to that. But even if you had come out with a bunch of ambition and confidence and plans, it still would be incredible right now.
So my question is,

Speaker 2 where does your current ambition sit? Are you still looking at it through the perspective of the guy living on a beach in Maui? And if so, you're probably all good and ready to retire at any moment?

Speaker 2 Or has have you morphed into somebody that is like, well, no, I'm just halfway done and I want to go to place X?

Speaker 2 It's inevitably I have changed in

Speaker 2 I've grown a lot just because I grew up in a pretty small town and I've just been exposed to a lot more in my life now. So like,

Speaker 2 I'm, I'm still ambitious, but I, but I, but I see people similar in like, I guess, peers of mine who are prolific actors and stars of movies and brands and icons. And, and I, I, I don't want that.

Speaker 2 I don't think I want to, I don't want to spend all of my time trying to build like an empire or something because you see some folks that are really driven in that way and that's great for them.

Speaker 2 But for me,

Speaker 2 I really feel like I want to work to live.

Speaker 2 You get that from you.

Speaker 2 Anytime I see you or either

Speaker 2 on TV or in person at a dinner that we have or whatever, I get that from you. Like

Speaker 2 your life is very, very full. Everything is gravy.

Speaker 2 That's the sense I hope you have. I can relate to that.
I relate to that too.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you're good about that, Willie. What are you barbecued shrimp and boiled shrimp and crayoled shrimp? See, this is going to be a a nice stitch for the shrimp we're going to make.

Speaker 2 Sean knows what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 What about

Speaker 2 tell us about the parts of your life that we might not know as much about to the extent you're comfortable?

Speaker 2 You know, you say you work to live. What are some of those things in your life that work affords you the opportunity to do?

Speaker 2 And I'm speaking, obviously, not about finances, but just your personal life, your time,

Speaker 2 family,

Speaker 2 a lot.

Speaker 2 You're always working.

Speaker 2 it's the truth it's it's the truth i haven't i have been working a lot i mean uh i love to i i have a farm i'm really passionate about a farm that i have a ranch and i up in uh up in washington state and we raise animals and and um and that's a a big passion of mine um what's your favorite thing to do on the farm just just to be there just to just to be there and to be kind of like shoot movies imagine if you said shoot movies yeah yeah i'm doing reality i'm doing reality um but like do you like is there a tractor you like to drive or you like ride horses Do you milk cows?

Speaker 2 We don't have horses. We have goats and sheep.

Speaker 2 There's a lake there. I love to fish.
I'm a huge bass fisherman. Oh, yeah.
Oh, wow. They say that you're, you know, if you want to know where your

Speaker 2 heart is, where does your mind go when it wanders? And for me, I'm just on, my eyes are closed and I'm just fishing this lake.

Speaker 2 And I like, to me, it's like a, it's a 22-acre lake and it's like an aquarium to me.

Speaker 2 Like, I've put in all these fish and I've removed weeds and I'm constantly in my mind thinking about this lake and the type.

Speaker 2 We just put a new type of hybrid bass in there called a wiper, which is like a white fish and striper hybrid, which is a really extraordinary fish.

Speaker 2 So obviously you're catching these fish and releasing them back in. You're not going to be able to do it.
Yeah, catch and release fish. And I'm going up there for this summer with,

Speaker 2 we have a baby that's due. And after the baby's born, I'm taking my nine-year-old son, Jack, and we're going to go up there and camp for 10 days.
It's literally

Speaker 2 it dominates a huge portion of my mind when I'm like, when it's wandering, I'm just fishing with Jack up there. And I'm going to show him these 10 movies.
I've got like 10 days, 10 movies.

Speaker 2 And it's going to be like the coming of age summer. Oh, like what? Like,

Speaker 2 what kind of movies? Yeah, what's on the list?

Speaker 2 I got the list. I mean, they're pretty funny movies.

Speaker 2 I'll tell you right now. Imagine if they were all Jason Bateman movies.
That would be so weird.

Speaker 2 Oh, Office Christmas. I did all my movies.
I did your own movie.

Speaker 2 You're doing it wrong.

Speaker 2 I got, okay, Rambo First Blood. Sure.
Sure. Oh, by the way, that's that's from that area.
This is just you and Jack are going to watch these? Yes. Okay, great.

Speaker 2 Dumb and Dumber. Yeah.
Sure. White Fang.
Okay.

Speaker 2 What's up? I don't know. White Fang.
It's like a, I think it's based on a Jack London book, and I've got you. I think it may have

Speaker 2 Ethan Hawk when he was younger. Yeah, sure, sure.
Peebies Big Adventure. Yes.
Oh, yeah. Rudy.

Speaker 2 Best. Gosh, yeah.
Toy Soldiers.

Speaker 2 What's up? Oh, yeah. It's like Sean Aston when they were very young and they like go, their school gets taken over by terrorists and they they go crazy and like

Speaker 2 a red dawn type of thing. Yeah, it's like that.
Red Dawn.

Speaker 2 Is red dawn on the list? Yeah, it's on the list. What about taps? You got taps on there? Oh, taps.
That's great. I'm adding it to the list.
Come on. And then Chris?

Speaker 2 We've got Blood Sport and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Those are the ones that are.

Speaker 2 And we will be right back.

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Speaker 2 i i um um

Speaker 2 i was thinking about uh

Speaker 2 i really just drifted off there that was grand i can pick it up for you lay down lay down just point the microphone down to the floor there are some cool things that there's some cool things that chris i didn't know uh until i read this about you first of all I think it's always fascinating for people to hear when you audition for something you didn't get or whatever.

Speaker 2 We all have our stories, but I didn't know you auditioned for Captain Kirk and The Lead in Avatar, both movies. Jesus, you get great audition.
And did you come close to getting them?

Speaker 2 No, I didn't come close. In fact, it was a real,

Speaker 2 I know I've, you know, made light of actors feeling rejection or whatever, but I didn't come close.

Speaker 2 In fact, I came, it was so not close that it was really demoralizing and made me actually truly question

Speaker 2 my potential or what I or what I should be aiming for as an actor, you know? For which one? For both of those or for both of those. I remember that the role was written like he comes in.

Speaker 2 It was like maybe the avatar. Were you reading for one of the avatars? I was reading to place the role in Avatar as one of them.
And then another one I was reading for Captain Kirk.

Speaker 2 And then another one I was reading for something that J.J. Abrams did, Star Trek, maybe, Star Trek.
Maybe that was the Captain Kirk.

Speaker 2 But anyways, I just remember reading that this character description was like, he walks in and he has the it factor It is just the it factor with this guy, you know, so I was like feeling a little like maybe overweight I hadn't been taking great care of myself physically I was like in a relationship where we were kind of drinking a lot and I was just sort of like you know I walked in and I started sweating immediately and it was a casting assistant and she just looked at me

Speaker 2 and she just looked down and she just pressed record and it's like

Speaker 2 started doing her stuff while I was reading with the other casting assistant. And I saw that there was literally nothing about

Speaker 2 my audition that was compelling her whatsoever. Like,

Speaker 2 wild.

Speaker 2 It was like, fuck, this is, what am I doing? And I had enough of those in that stretch of, a very lean stretch in my career, by the way, that I didn't get hired for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 It was shortly before Parks and Rack.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 then that's when I kind of.

Speaker 2 I just regaged like, because early on in my, early in my 20s, I was in pretty good shape. I was working out a lot.
I I was training.

Speaker 2 I was young and I felt like potentially I could, you know, I was mostly getting those roles, the auditions for like

Speaker 2 douchebag boyfriend, you know, the guy would be like, hey, my dad's got to escalate outside.

Speaker 2 Dumb bitch, or whatever the line was, you know,

Speaker 2 spend two weeks figuring out how to do that line. I never got any, I never read for any douchebag parts.

Speaker 2 Interesting, really? Yeah, that's weird. That is so surprising to me.
I know, I know. Really, that's really,

Speaker 2 really surprising. I've actually never seen anybody more surprised at something

Speaker 2 than you at that statement.

Speaker 2 So anyways, yeah. So I auditioned for those things and I knew in the moment that I, first of all, I wasn't prepared.

Speaker 2 Like I hadn't done the work that I needed to do physically to be the guy who walks into the room and kind of commands attention.

Speaker 2 And so that was when I

Speaker 2 kind of got Andy and I was like, wait a minute, there's something a little bit maybe more compelling about the clown, you know, that I could play. I can put this clown.

Speaker 2 I remember after the first season,

Speaker 2 I noticed I was self-conscious. Like, I feel like I'm getting a little chunky.
And then I saw the stuff I was doing. I was like, this is actually really funny.

Speaker 2 And so I told Mike Schur, I was like, I'm going to gain a bunch of weight this summer. He's like, all right, dude, sounds good.
Mike Scher is a showrunner.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Mike Scher is a showrunner. And so Andy kind of got fatter and fatter as the seasons went on.

Speaker 2 By the way, shout out to Mike Scher, real quick. Yeah, Mike Scher is one of the all-time funniest guys.

Speaker 2 One of the good guys. One of the good guys.
And we knew him back when he used to be head writer of Update. And we remember Jason

Speaker 2 uh saturday night live

Speaker 2 we can update jason remember how close we came to that one may where we almost got him to come and write on the second season of arrested development and um and then he was stolen by greg daniels and it was just there was a moment he was like is it going to happen yes or no and i don't want to blame it on mitch but it was mitch herberts' fault that he didn't and and

Speaker 2 but thank god but thank god because then he went on to the office and then he went on did uh parks and rec and then he did uh you know the good place and brooklyn 99 and all these other great shows with yeah the great characters.

Speaker 2 Did anybody ever tell? Like, I always thought you could be the next Indiana Jones. Did anybody approach you about that? Like, why aren't you doing that? Come on, Chris.

Speaker 2 Well, a lot of what Colin Trevaro did with the Owen character that I play.

Speaker 2 He's the Colin's the director of Jurassic World Times. He's the director of Jurassic World.
But the Owen character that he like created, that he did with me.

Speaker 2 He bought a lot of that, you know, obviously Steven Spielberg did Jurassic Park, and so Colin was like creating this ode to the work that Steven had done.

Speaker 2 And I think borrows a lot of uh a lot of you know the physicality of like uh uh Indiana Jones.

Speaker 2 And I think that's likely why the humor, yeah, like the you know, like with vests and the humors and the one-liners and the kind of like even the dynamic between my relationship between my character and Bryce Dallas Howard's character in the first Jurassic World.

Speaker 2 It feels a little similar to some of that stuff. So, it was kind of an ode in a way to

Speaker 2 Indiana Jones already. So, what's the guy Colin like? Is he a nice guy? American guy? Is he a brain guy? Yeah, American guy, great guy, really nice guy,

Speaker 2 super talented, and

Speaker 2 just

Speaker 2 incredibly dedicated.

Speaker 2 I mean, you want, I watch him work, and that part of me, the small little flame in the back of my mind is like, you know what, maybe I ought to direct. It's like, oh, I can't, I couldn't do that.

Speaker 2 I could, no way I could do what he does. He's got, he's so thoughtful.
It's a special skill. He listens to every single person, truly takes in their input, considers it,

Speaker 2 you know, makes sure that everyone feels really good. He has that perfect ability to,

Speaker 2 you know, not meddle with somebody because actors are all so different and each so sensitive. You have to actually have a separate

Speaker 2 skill set of like understanding which technique you're going to use to get what you need from somebody.

Speaker 2 Well, I was going to say, so, Chris, that's what I was asking because these directors who do that and the ones who are really successful have that ability to take to wear so many different hats, to listen to so many people, to really collaborate.

Speaker 2 And it always makes me, when I see them do that and be so good, I always think, like, how the fuck does Bateman direct?

Speaker 2 You know what I mean? Because he doesn't possess any of that shit. He's not listening to anybody.

Speaker 2 All he's thinking about is how the fuck can I get out of there? And why the fuck are you talking to me?

Speaker 2 That's the look on his face.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to shorten the question. Who the fuck told you to step to me? I'm trying to get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 2 Oh, you guys. Hey, unless you're telling me to tell you, coming to tell me that my Tesla is fully charged, I don't want to fucking hear from you.

Speaker 2 Hey, Chris,

Speaker 2 before we let you go, I want you to tell me a little bit about

Speaker 2 it. Pulling a bait, man.

Speaker 2 I want you to tell me about the terminal list because it's a show coming out on Amazon that you're starting. I mean, my God, like you have 85,000 things going on.
What is the terminal list about?

Speaker 2 And I'm sure I'm on it. I'm so pumped about it.

Speaker 2 Can we guess? Can we guess what it's about? Okay. Okay.
I thought I saw a promo for you and I'm going to go, is Pratt doing a fucking show like a limited series or some shit? Yeah.

Speaker 2 So we're in an airport, okay?

Speaker 2 And you are the person who's in charge of the standby. Well, no, no, no, no.
So it's the standby, the people who have checked in too late and they get put on the standby list.

Speaker 2 So you are the guy in the terminal with the list, making people's plane dreams come true. This goes to show you how long ago it was that Jason flew commercial.
Yeah. Is that the way it works?

Speaker 2 Is that something something that's not?

Speaker 2 I'm going to tell you what.

Speaker 2 It's not that. Okay.
But I could see why Amazon would pass on that idea.

Speaker 2 But, okay.

Speaker 2 Don't steal my idea.

Speaker 2 What is it?

Speaker 2 So it's based on a New York Times best-selling novel by an author named Jack Carr. Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 my buddy Jared, when I did it, I did a film called Zero Dark 30. Sure, you you did fantastic.

Speaker 2 Not a bad film there. That was a good one.

Speaker 2 And, you know, I play a SEAL Team 6 member.

Speaker 2 And in the process of doing that, I got to go down to Coronado and meet the SEALs down there and meet some guys who are training, the Buds program down there.

Speaker 2 That's their training center in Southern California, right? Yeah, right. That's the Buds training program.

Speaker 2 It's like the, you know, everyone sees the carrying the logs on the beach and all that tough Navy SEAL training is done down there in Coronado. You don't need to tell me, dude.
Yep. Oh, boy.

Speaker 2 You don't need to tell me that.

Speaker 2 Keep going. Tell everybody else.
Go ahead.

Speaker 2 And so I met a guy down there who I ended up kind of shadowing for the character that I was playing. And he, to this day, is now like my best friend.
He's just

Speaker 2 solid as they come, awesome guy.

Speaker 2 And we've worked together.

Speaker 2 He was considering going on to Team Six at that point, but also had always really...

Speaker 2 had a calling to do acting and to be in Hollywood. And so like our paths crossed, we just really had a lot in common.
We were both fishermen. We both like to hunt and get outdoors.

Speaker 2 And I just really love this guy.

Speaker 2 You know, it just is solid as they come. Truly one of my very best friends.
And so he knows Jack and he read this book and he goes, Hey, check out this book. My friend wrote this book.

Speaker 2 You might want to make it a movie. And so I read the book and

Speaker 2 I optioned the book. And at the same time, Antoine Fouquit, the director, Antoine Fouqua, he directed Training Day.

Speaker 2 He directed me in this film, The Magnificent Seven, with Denzel Washington. And Antoine was like, I heard that Antoine was also circling this book, trying to get the rights to it.

Speaker 2 And I was like, hey, I just called him on the side. I was like, dude, instead of us bidding against each other on this book, let me get the rights and I'll just have you direct it.

Speaker 2 And he said, fantastic. So we did that.
And then in reading it, realized that it was probably better suited for a limited series because it's the story of a guy who, you know, it's, it's,

Speaker 2 the book itself is like a political thriller, but we made it more of a psychological thriller with a conspiracy element. And so it's like a little bit

Speaker 2 feels at moments like Jacob's Ladder

Speaker 2 and has this sort of revenge conspiracy thriller, also this psychological thriller aspect to it. And it's eight episodes on Amazon Prime.
It's going to come out

Speaker 2 July 1st. It's fantastic.
I'm so proud of it. It's totally different than anything I've ever done.
I'm really pumped about it. It's like gnarly.
And we hired so, my friend Jared, who

Speaker 2 got me the book, was the producer on it and plays a role in it. And we hired a whole bunch of people both in front of the camera and behind the camera who were former SEALs and spec ops.

Speaker 2 So like, that's great. We're really nailing down the authenticity of the

Speaker 2 I love that. You know what I also love? I heard you recently talk about like you're always inclusive.
You're always trying to get everybody, you know, together. I love it.

Speaker 2 It's so, you can feel that from you. And you got some guy to be in Jurassic Park, like Eaton First.
Like, what was that story? Something about like some, you had a contest.

Speaker 2 You didn't even ask the studio. You're like, hey, right? Something like that? Well, yeah, this,

Speaker 2 you know, we shot Jurassic World Dominion.

Speaker 2 We started filming in January when the pandemic hit the States in February. So.
Yeah, you guys were first, right? Weren't you over in England? Yeah, we were first.

Speaker 2 We got shut down for a few months while they were sort of developing COVID protocols and everyone was hunkered down figuring out, you know, two weeks to flatten the curve or whatever it was at the time.

Speaker 2 And we went back to work and

Speaker 2 our amazing producers on. And Universal, Peter Kramer was,

Speaker 2 you guys drafted up all the sort of back-to-work protocols for the future.

Speaker 2 Was that our buddy Frank? Was that our buddy Frank Marshall there? Yeah, Frank. Pat Crowley was, yeah, Frank was on board, but Pat Crowley and Alex Derbyshire were like,

Speaker 2 I mean, I literally can't imagine how anybody could handle that job, let alone as well as they did. But yeah, they came up with all these protocols.

Speaker 2 And I mean, if there's any industry that's going to be able to take on proceeding through a global pandemic, it really is our industry.

Speaker 2 I think the film and television industry, like we do insane shit. We climb fucking mountains.
We build, build, like, we do incredible shit.

Speaker 2 And it's this sort of this really hyper vigilant chain of command. We just created a whole,

Speaker 2 you know, department. It's the COVID department.
So everyone's getting tested. Everyone's doing contact tracing.

Speaker 2 You know, it's like all these protocols where people are going to stand and the masks and the shields and all this stuff.

Speaker 2 And people, you know, enforcing the rules, which was a terrible job for anyone to have to do to be like, hey, you're not six feet apart. That gets really old.

Speaker 2 By the way, that sounds like a great title of a movie for your father-in-law to do. We should put contact tracing.
Oh my God. Doesn't that sound like a good

Speaker 2 movie? I'm going to stop before we get that. Dude, this, I will not.

Speaker 2 You put him in an airport with a standby list, and I'm going to be a little bit more. Dude, nobody's going to the fucking airport with the standby list.

Speaker 2 I hate to say this.

Speaker 2 It's a comedy drama.

Speaker 2 Plays overseas.

Speaker 2 You're off the list.

Speaker 2 I fucking, but I'd love to watch that. I love that guy.
But you got, but you had this fake contest or something. Yeah, we had a fake contest.

Speaker 2 So, you know, at the time we were trying to raise money for Feeding America, there was this thing called the All-In Challenge, and a whole bunch of people contributed various auction items.

Speaker 2 It raised $60 million or something like that, $59 million.

Speaker 2 And our contest item that we raised was an opportunity to be eaten by a dinosaur in Jurassic World.

Speaker 2 And so everyone entered for 10 bucks. You'd get a chance to enter in this dude named Terry Thompson from Missouri

Speaker 2 has an amazing death scene in our film. He won the contest and we shot him on a green screen.
It's so cool. So let me ask you about that just as a fan of

Speaker 2 those movies. When a guy gets snatched up by a dinosaur, pulled up like that classic bit where he's ripped up off the ground and shoot.

Speaker 2 Is any portion of that where the person, I'm imagining the person that won this contest, got hooked up to a harness and gets snatched up in the air and then they kind of it becomes digital at some point.

Speaker 2 That's typically what you'll do. Yeah, typically you're going to do something like a full like harness and have a stunt rigging crew pull a person up.

Speaker 2 Most of the time, it's going to be a trained stunt man.

Speaker 2 So I think I'm not exactly sure what they did with Terry because he was in Missouri and we were in London and they weren't going to, we literally couldn't even fly our own family members out there.

Speaker 2 So they set it up the whole green screen and did the whole thing

Speaker 2 where he was in Missouri. In Missouri.
I think they shot him on a green screen just riding a scooter and then maybe did everything

Speaker 2 and maybe did a scan on him, like one of those body scans yeah,

Speaker 2 and then did everything else. So cool to get

Speaker 2 him through the stunt stuff.

Speaker 2 To get people involved and to bring fans in and kind of bring them into what you and Sean and Scotty, you guys did that thing where you got people at that contest and they come over and eat a plate of bugles with you and Scotty, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, and who can count how many bugles in the bag and then eat them all?

Speaker 2 Right. Just work your way through a bag of bugles on Sean's couch.
What was the big movie?

Speaker 2 The big mislead was whoever can guess as many, but how many bugles are in the bag, they get to eat them. But the mislead was everybody got a box at the end anyway.
Sure.

Speaker 2 Which cut into the profits because you guys only raised, what, a couple hundred dollars, I think. Was it in?

Speaker 2 Yeah, we bought more bugles with them.

Speaker 2 Work your way through it.

Speaker 2 Chris, Pratt, listen, it has been a pleasure. Thank you for being here.
Thank you for wasting your time with us. Sorry, Chris.

Speaker 2 Pratt, you're the best. This is such a pleasure, you guys.
I'm a huge fan of your guys' podcast. I love what you're doing.
You're all so funny.

Speaker 2 We'll pay it back to you on the golf course.

Speaker 2 Hey, listen, I also want to say you have earned with all the stuff you've done with the Jurassic World Dominion and now your new series on Amazon, you have earned your 10 days with Jack.

Speaker 2 I'm so psyched to hear that you guys are going to do that. Have the best time.
Have the best time. I want to come up there sometime.
That sounds awesome. Oh, I'd love it.
You would love it. Anytime.

Speaker 2 I would love to have you guys up anytime. And also.

Speaker 2 Yeah, dude. Some golf.
We know we're going to.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm about to go. We've got golf.
That's going to be fun. All right.
Chris. All right.
Thank you, Chris. Thank you very much.
It's a pleasure to be here. Keep up the good work.

Speaker 2 See you down the road. Great to have you.

Speaker 2 Bye, Pal.

Speaker 2 Sean, what happens? Does Bugles, do they send it to you? Was it their idea? Or

Speaker 2 you guys did it. Did you just reach out to a sponsor, any sort of chip? Well, and then they bet.

Speaker 2 It's the best guy. Checks Mix.
Checks Mix.

Speaker 2 People at ChexMix never got back to you.

Speaker 2 That's what I was trying to say.

Speaker 2 The gang at Chex Mix. But your heart was in the right place.
Yeah. No, that's not the mix.
Listen, let's do. Sorry, go ahead, Sean.
No, no, that's it. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 I was going to say that, you know, if anybody's out there from Bugles or Chex Mix or Cheez-Its, Cheez-Its, that's what I was thinking about. Cheese-Its.

Speaker 2 And if you want to have, I love Cheez-Its, we're prepared to have ourselves. We can do like a taste test or something like that because these are the things that people really want to talk about.

Speaker 2 I love Cheez-Its. So

Speaker 2 let's get back to the incredibly unpleasant, nasty Chris Pratt. Just negative.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 I mean, how do we get through that, Alice? He's so

Speaker 2 naturally funny. You know what's so funny? When he kind of hit with Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy, and he became this huge, you know, international star,

Speaker 2 you look at him and you go, yeah, what took Hollywood so long? I mean, look at this guy. The second I saw him, I was like, that's a super, that's like,

Speaker 2 like I said, Indiana Jones or like, you know, Harry, like, he's a leading

Speaker 2 big blockbuster. And he wears it well.
He really is the same guy

Speaker 2 that he was 15 years ago. Yeah, he's so grounded and normal.

Speaker 2 Great guest, Sean. Nice gone.

Speaker 2 I've always been crazy about him. And yeah, Will, I mean, that should have been yours.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, fuck off. A better friend.

Speaker 2 I saw it like a month ago when we were at Atlanta and we spent the day.

Speaker 2 And I was like, I want to have you on and great. And I called Michael, MGT, and everybody knew.
But Sean was ahead of you with that review.

Speaker 2 Michael and Bennett and Rob, and everybody was conspiring against me again. Armyerve.
Robert Army is proud to be part of our team.

Speaker 2 Sean, so now Jason kind of made a joke of it, but what are you going to do? Are you taking that shirt out?

Speaker 2 Today I did. I did already.
I did. Tonight, what are we doing? What's dinner? That's an evening outfit, too.
Dinner's going to be at home. Dinner's going to be at home.
Look at it.

Speaker 2 What is it?

Speaker 2 Well, I had spaghetti, like I said, and tuna fish for lunch. Jesus.
Sorry, no, you didn't mention the spaghetti the first time. Yeah,

Speaker 2 I did. Yeah, I had a half a tuna and then like a plate of spaghetti, and then I had a little bit of cheesecake.
Wait a second, together? Do you have tuna fish and spaghetti together?

Speaker 2 Yeah, you just take a glass of milk and you.

Speaker 2 Do you have a big race tomorrow or something? Are you trying to get your carbs up?

Speaker 2 No, yeah, no. Are you planning?

Speaker 2 Are you going to be fasting? Are you going to do it? Are you going on a hunger strike? No, I'm not fasting. I'm fatting.

Speaker 2 Are your veins too clear? Is it there's too much blood flow?

Speaker 2 So you're doing this.

Speaker 2 You had spaghetti and tuna. How do you top it tonight? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I got to have a salad. I got to do something healthy tonight.
So what do you think it'll be? So it'll be a wedge with blue cheese. I think it'll probably be a salad.
It'll be a salad

Speaker 2 just like a like maybe a BLT salad.

Speaker 2 What do you mean a salad between bread?

Speaker 2 No, are you going to make it? No, no, I know. A BLT salad.
Are you going to go make it or are you going to go, are you going to go pick it up? Yeah, I'm going to go pick it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 You are. Yeah, I got to eat something.

Speaker 2 Well, we can cut this, but we won't, but we could cut it. Where are you going to pick up the salad from? Jason, your lighting lighting is fucking phenomenal.
Like indie film much?

Speaker 2 So is it, is it, does Chinchin make a BLT salad? No, there's a restaurant near me that makes a BLT salad. I don't understand.
How do they fry a salad?

Speaker 2 How do they wrap a salad in one of those little dough pinches? They just dump one of them let it just

Speaker 2 the same thing they use for the fries and then they just the basket and they scoop it up. Oh my gosh.

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