"Jason Momoa"

Put your hands on yourself, it’s Jason Momoa– making his pod-debut. Hot topics across the board on this one, like cute boy haircuts, facial creams and lotions, dollar drinks on Thursdays, and other little things like near death experiences. He’ll reach through [your audio device] and grab you… on an all-new SmartLess.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Sean Hayes?

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• 2:50Speaker 02

  I'm Jason Momoa. And Smarless is popping my cherry.

• 3:14Will Arnett?

  Jason, you look, why do you look so clean cut today?

• 3:17Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you look really good. Because I washed. I'm fresh from the shower. I'm glad we were a little delayed today because I was running a little behind. And it occurred to me as I was racing through my rituals there of pre, during, and post shower, that my loop has gotten quicker. You know, the sort of, how long does it take you guys from start to finish? Like, oh shit, I gotta get out the door. I gotta shower, gotta get dressed, gotta get out the door. Are you like a 10-minute, 5-minute, 15, or a half hour?

• 3:49Will Arnett?

  I'm a 5.

• 3:49Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, it takes me a long, long time.

• 3:51Will Arnett?

  Does it?

• 3:52Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Yeah, because my- What we're enjoying right now doesn't just happen.

• 3:57Sean Hayes?

  What you're enjoying right now?

• 3:58Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it takes some work.

• 3:59Sean Hayes?

  No, because my hair, it gets super, super, super poofy and big and it takes forever to just do it so I can walk out the door.

• 4:07Jason Bateman?

  And then, so how do you get it down? How do you de-poof?

• 4:10Sean Hayes?

  I, I have to-

• 4:11Jason Bateman?

  Is there a product in a-

• 4:12Sean Hayes?

  Ideally, I have to let it air dry it because if I blow dry it, it's like massive. Gets bigger. Yeah, and then-

• 4:17Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 4:18Will Arnett?

  It's really humid over in the UK and so-

• 4:20Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, it's super humid and I put water in it with the product and then I spray it. It takes a long time.

• 4:24Jason Bateman?

  Oh my god.

• 4:24Will Arnett?

  We should post on the website, uh, just your ritual, just for people who are looking to, you know.

• 4:29Jason Bateman?

  And Willie, you just, you're just a five-minute, um-

• 4:33Will Arnett?

  I'm a five and go.

• 4:35Jason Bateman?

  Truly, just five minutes.

• 4:37Will Arnett?

  I think so.

• 4:38Jason Bateman?

  Get your clothes off, get wet, get dry, get dressed.

• 4:40Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I'm a quick, I'm a quick shower person, uh, really quick shower person, uh, always have been. I obviously had those moments where I have a longer shower, but I'm a really quick, I'm a kinda in and out-

• 4:50Jason Bateman?

  Well, let's stop there for a second. What are those moments where you're taking a longer shower? Is that when you're putting your hands on yourself?

• 4:55Will Arnett?

  No.

• 5:00Will Arnett?

  No, no, uh, no, I'm not, I'm the, my shower is not my jack shack.

• 5:06Jason Bateman?

  It's not?

• 5:07Will Arnett?

  No, that's a separate, I told you, that's a separate building out back.

• 5:10Jason Bateman?

  Are we seeing you? Are we seeing in your jack shack right now?

• 5:13Will Arnett?

  I mean, you might be, you might be.

• 5:14Jason Bateman?

  It's a whisper booth slash jack shack?

• 5:17Will Arnett?

  No, it's, uh, shower time is, long showers is usually like wintertime and you're kinda chilled to the bone.

• 5:25Sean Hayes?

  Well, what about you, Jay? How fast can you do it?

• 5:27Jason Bateman?

  I'm a, I'm a fifteen-minute all-in. I can be in the car, um-

• 5:31Sean Hayes?

  Oh, really?

• 5:32Jason Bateman?

  Well, yeah, yeah, that's from getting undressed, showered, redressed, down the stairs, out the door.

• 5:37Will Arnett?

  Maybe I'm fifteen as well.

• 5:39Jason Bateman?

  I bet you're fifteen.

• 5:40Will Arnett?

  I might be, because I do a lot of other stuff, you know, grabbing everything to a little quick moisturize, um-

• 5:45Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that, that's another thing I've done is my products, my products have increased as I've gotten older. I've got creams and ointments and fucking-

• 5:52Will Arnett?

  Oh, so you do have creams?

• 5:54Jason Bateman?

  All kinds of shit.

• 5:55Will Arnett?

  This is you creamed.

• 5:56Jason Bateman?

  Oh, I'm fully hydrated right now.

• 5:59Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 5:59Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, check me out.

• 6:01Will Arnett?

  Okay, I'm, okay.

• 6:02Jason Bateman?

  I mean, if you could smell me too, I've got-

• 6:04Will Arnett?

  You do have like a, you've got a little bit of a cute boy haircut right now.

• 6:07Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 6:07Jason Bateman?

  Hey, thanks, man.

• 6:08Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, it looks good.

• 6:09Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it does. It's kind of real good. No, don't start acting boyish.

• 6:13Jason Bateman?

  Well, a little bit after the podcast, if you've got some extra time, maybe, uh-

• 6:17Sean Hayes?

  Jesus.

• 6:19Jason Bateman?

  Hey Will, who's your fucking guest today? You seem pretty chipper about this guest.

• 6:23Will Arnett?

  I am, I am. I like our guest.

• 6:28Jason Bateman?

  Your guest is not intimidating.

• 6:30Will Arnett?

  He's already making a lot of noise.

• 6:31Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 6:31Will Arnett?

  Jason, you better mind your Ps and Qs.

• 6:34Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 6:35Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 6:35Jason Bateman?

  Why?

• 6:36Will Arnett?

  Cause he'll reach through the screen and he'll grab you.

• 6:39Jason Bateman?

  Is this a hockey player that could tune me up?

• 6:41Will Arnett?

  No, he's not, but if he grew up in Canada, he would have been. But he didn't, he grew up in Hawaii.

• 6:46Jason Bateman?

  Oh, is that right?

• 6:46Will Arnett?

  Yeah, and you know, he's done a lot of stuff that we love.

• 6:50Jason Bateman?

  Barack Obama.

• 6:51Will Arnett?

  He's done a lot of, he's done a lot of, it's not a terrible guest.

• 6:55Jason Bateman?

  Did I get it?

• 6:56Will Arnett?

  Guest, no, you didn't get it. But he's done a ton of movies. This guy's been in like so many frickin' huge movies. I'm gonna say like, I'm gonna try to do it so you can just bury it a little bit. You know, things like, I'm not gonna say the obvious ones. Lego Part Two movie he was in, Minecraft movie, you know, from Fall Guy.

• 7:16Jason Bateman?

  Jack Black.

• 7:16Will Arnett?

  From Fast X, from the Fast series. But you also know him from the Aquaman movies and Zack Snyder's Justice League. And he has a new show.

• 7:24Jason Bateman?

  This is Jason Momoa. Let's just bring him out.

• 7:27Will Arnett?

  Apple TV, chief of wars, Jason Momoa.

• 7:29Jason Bateman?

  Jason Momoa! Got it.

• 7:32Sean Hayes?

  Look, wow.

• 7:33Jason Bateman?

  You can't swing these guys by me. I can guess it.

• 7:36Speaker 02

  What's up, guys?

• 7:37Jason Bateman?

  What's up?

• 7:38Sean Hayes?

  Look at this guy.

• 7:39Jason Bateman?

  Jason, what is your, what's your, babe, we gotta go. Come on, get dressed. What's your, I gotta get undressed, shower and redress. What's your out the door?

• 7:49Sean Hayes?

  Do you do what Jason does? You cream on your face?

• 7:51Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, he creams on his face.

• 7:53Speaker 02

  What's me in and out of the door? How quick I gotta go?

• 7:57Jason Bateman?

  How quick, if you're dirty and you need to shower and get dressed to go out?

• 8:02Speaker 02

  Yeah, 10, 15 minutes, easy. Yeah, it's quick.

• 8:05Jason Bateman?

  What about when the hair was super long?

• 8:06Speaker 02

  Armpits, nuts, ass and then fucking out the dough.

• 8:09Jason Bateman?

  But the hair, what about when the hair was super long? That's a beast, right?

• 8:12Speaker 02

  My hair is super long, it's just, yeah.

• 8:14Jason Bateman?

  Up in a pony?

• 8:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's just in the back, yeah. I'm not cutting my hair again.

• 8:19Will Arnett?

  No.

• 8:19Jason Bateman?

  Never again.

• 8:20Will Arnett?

  Never?

• 8:21Speaker 02

  I don't want to.

• 8:22Will Arnett?

  Does it take like two hours to drive? Is it about that?

• 8:25Speaker 02

  To dry my hair?

• 8:26Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it must, right?

• 8:27Speaker 02

  No, I just.

• 8:28Jason Bateman?

  You just take it outside.

• 8:30Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:30Sean Hayes?

  You, you, when you get out and you just let it air dry, you probably look like an eighties rock, like heavy metal guy, right? Just cool everywhere.

• 8:37Speaker 02

  I mean, real men try, let's be true.

• 8:41Jason Bateman?

  But don't you have to like, don't you, you gotta condition that shit and you gotta watch out for your split ends and all that?

• 8:47Speaker 02

  You have to put stuff in your hair. I don't put shit in them, man.

• 8:49Jason Bateman?

  You don't? You walk around with a bunch of hair ties on your wrist, like?

• 8:53Speaker 02

  I do, I do.

• 8:54Jason Bateman?

  You do, right?

• 8:54Speaker 02

  I do, I do have hair ties, but I just.

• 8:57Will Arnett?

  JB, you spend a lot of time worried about your split ends? Is this something that could keep you?

• 9:01Jason Bateman?

  You know, when my hair was long for a second there, I was like, oh shit, this is a, this is a nightmare. It's not fun.

• 9:08Speaker 02

  Oh, it's easy.

• 9:09Sean Hayes?

  Do you really do, do you do all the stuff that Jason does too with the creams and the things and the, and the products in your face?

• 9:15Jason Bateman?

  He's younger than us, he doesn't need to yet.

• 9:16Speaker 02

  No, no, of course I put a cream on my face, but my face, yeah, it feels dry, yeah. Cause I mean, I feel like there's a lot of chlorine in the water, just when, you know, I'm in London right now and it's like everything.

• 9:24Sean Hayes?

  So am I.

• 9:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're just like, yeah.

• 9:26Jason Bateman?

  Cool it, Sean.

• 9:26Sean Hayes?

  So, Sean?

• 9:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, I definitely, I definitely had to put cream on.

• 9:30Sean Hayes?

  What part, what part of town?

• 9:31Speaker 02

  I'm just at the.

• 9:31Jason Bateman?

  Careful, Jason.

• 9:32Speaker 02

  I'm at the Rosewood right now. I was supposed to be in New York, but then the flight got canceled.

• 9:36Sean Hayes?

  Ooh, Will, here comes Will. Hey, you know, I live in the Rosewood too.

• 9:43Sean Hayes?

  Get him, get him, Will.

• 9:46Sean Hayes?

  Everyone's getting along. Come on, first question, Arnett, let's go.

• 9:50Will Arnett?

  Listen, hey, F you, man, you just, you just completely, uh, uh, you know, hijacked him.

• 9:56Jason Bateman?

  Wait, is that cold brew up there or is that, or is that, is that a lager?

• 10:00Speaker 02

  This is Guinness. This is Guinness.

• 10:02Will Arnett?

  Guinness.

• 10:03Jason Bateman?

  That's Guinness, yeah, cause it's what, it's like 6pm over there. Go get it, Momo.

• 10:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's, uh, yeah, it's 6pm.

• 10:09Jason Bateman?

  Are you getting after it tonight? What's, what's, what's going on tonight?

• 10:12Speaker 02

  No, I'm gonna spend the time with my lady. She's in here doing a movie, so I, well, my intention was to be, I was supposed to do Fallon tonight, so, uh, I was in, I'm in Budapest right now. Yeah, I'm in Budapest shooting Dune, so I flew in and then we got stuck in a storm and then I couldn't get in and so, I was supposed to do Fallon and, uh, but I mean, I can do you guys.

• 10:31Will Arnett?

  Now we got stuck doing us.

• 10:33Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 10:33Speaker 02

  No, I fucking, you, you guys are popping my chair, you guys. You're the first podcast I've ever done.

• 10:39Will Arnett?

  No way!

• 10:40Speaker 02

  You're the first podcast I've ever done. I've, I've never agreed to do these because I'm like, I'm gonna get myself in trouble. So please, don't get me in trouble.

• 10:47Will Arnett?

  Listen, I, I, listen, you know this, Jason. The first time that we met was like at some adventure or something. But I, you're one of those dudes where the first time we met, I felt like I knew you.

• 10:57Speaker 02

  We freaked the fuck out is what we did.

• 10:59Will Arnett?

  Yeah, we freaked out.

• 11:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, you were outside smoking. I was like, yeah.

• 11:03Will Arnett?

  Yes. You grabbed me and wrapped me. I was like, oh shit.

• 11:06Speaker 02

  Same thing with Bateman though. Same thing. It was with my ex. It was the same thing, man.

• 11:10Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you were a good dude.

• 11:12Speaker 02

  Forever, so.

• 11:13Jason Bateman?

  So wait, so you had to cancel on Fallon because of weather. I wonder who Fallon calls? Everyone's got like that call, like I think, I forget who Kimmel said his call is. When, when a guest drops out last minute, you've got somebody you can get on the blower to get, hey, can you drive down and, and do the show tonight? Cause you know, they're live. Um, I wonder who he calls.

• 11:31Speaker 02

  I mean, it was a pre-tape, so I mean, like, I mean.

• 11:33Will Arnett?

  I've been, I've, I've had, I've done it a few times.

• 11:36Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you've been, you've been a call friend?

• 11:38Will Arnett?

  I've, I've last minute it for, for Kimmel before and I've last.

• 11:41Jason Bateman?

  You are one of the great all-time talk show guests.

• 11:43Will Arnett?

  Back in the day when he was in New York. They'd call and they'd be like so-and-so, like their flight got canceled or they were sick or whatever. And you come and make a jackass out of yourself for 15 minutes.

• 11:52Jason Bateman?

  No, you are one of the great all-time talk show guests. Um, uh, Jay, Mama, how are you, how, do you like the talk shows?

• 11:58Speaker 02

  I do. I love, I, yeah. I, I mean, listen, I think this is probably way better to do because it's way more personal and you get time.

• 12:05Jason Bateman?

  Well, this is just a conversation bullshit thing, but like.

• 12:08Sean Hayes?

  Well, and you don't have to get out, you don't have to dress up and like, you just show up.

• 12:11Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you gotta have bits on those talk shows.

• 12:13Speaker 02

  It just depends on what you're supporting. Like right now I'm doing like my dream project. Like it's my Braveheart or my Dancing with Wolves. So it's.

• 12:19Jason Bateman?

  What is it?

• 12:20Speaker 02

  I've worked my, no, no, Chief of War. So the, the show that I have coming out is, uh, is 1790s Hawaii. So I, I created it.

• 12:27Jason Bateman?

  Oh, no way.

• 12:28Speaker 02

  I wrote it.

• 12:28Sean Hayes?

  No way. Come on.

• 12:30Speaker 02

  I directed it, acted it.

• 12:31Will Arnett?

  Come on. Yeah, he did all of this. August 1st on Apple TV. Yeah. So.

• 12:34Jason Bateman?

  You directed all the episodes?

• 12:36Speaker 02

  No, no, no. I directed finale. I mean, I couldn't, I mean, I couldn't do all of it, but it was, but I mean, I created the show. I co-created it and wrote it with my partner. And then, uh, but it's been like my 10-year project that I did with Apple and it's all like, just right after the white man came. So it's like, it's 1790s Hawaii.

• 12:52Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 12:53Speaker 02

  It's all in Olelo Hawaii. So it's all in the language, which is, you know, very, I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a pretty big deal.

• 13:00Jason Bateman?

  Whole thing subtitled?

• 13:02Speaker 02

  It's the subtitles, but it does, it slowly gets into English. But it's my character, actually, like he, he leaves Hawaii and he goes out to the world and he comes back with all the weapons. But he basically gets to see the world and just see what's coming and then he unites. It's about the unification of the Hawaiian Islands.

• 13:21Will Arnett?

  Shaun, that's your, that's your approach when you're in the UK, right? Just slowly get into English?

• 13:25Jason Bateman?

  That's right.

• 13:26Will Arnett?

  So Jason, talk a little bit, how did it start? How, what was, what was the genesis of this, this whole idea of doing this project?

• 13:35Speaker 02

  I mean, it's just, it's never happened before, you know? These images, um, my great, great, great grandfather has never even seen anything like this. So we've only had these in paintings or in museums. So nothing has ever existed like this.

• 13:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I know nothing about.

• 13:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, so it's just like wanting to make something about King Kamehameha and just like our people and all the different things that were happening. But I needed something that would encompass a lot of things that were going on. It's like telling Abraham Lincoln's story and you're like, that's why Spielberg did Gettysburg. You know, it's just, it's just the little moments of his life. But it's like, how do I encompass this whole area of Hawaii? And this character like helped me do that.

• 14:16Jason Bateman?

  How was, what, what was it, what was it, was this, the settlement, the settling of Hawaii? Uh, like when the white man came over, was it, was it a, uh, was it like a war? Was it contentious? Was it smooth? Was it?

• 14:31Speaker 02

  I mean, I think when, I think when Cook first came, they were, you know, kind of blown away. And what happened is, I think, um, you know, he, he left. They, they, they kind of snuck onto the ship and maybe took a couple of things. And then they executed one of them, I think.

• 14:48Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 14:48Speaker 02

  And, uh, that pissed everybody off. And so they left and when they got stuck in a storm, they came back and that's when all hell broke loose. And so that's when Cook died on the big island.

• 14:57Jason Bateman?

  Wait, who was Cook again?

• 14:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, so Captain, when Captain Cook died in Hawaii.

• 15:01Jason Bateman?

  Oh.

• 15:02Speaker 02

  So, um, but this is after Cook, so, um.

• 15:07Speaker 02

  But it's it's it's a it's just a really beautiful story. It's it's very much like an uh Arthurian kind of, you know, the the Guinevere, uh Sir Lancelot, King Arthur story between you have this love story. At the same time, you have us, a character that leaves Hawaii, he goes to China, he goes to the Philippines, he goes to Alaska and he comes back and that's what he brings back all the weapons and he sees the outside world and he sees what's coming.

• 15:28Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 15:29Speaker 02

  And you get to see what's happening uh in Hawaii at the time. So it's it's a very huge, huge show.

• 15:35Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 15:36Speaker 02

  And wow, that dude is so cool. That's really great.

• 15:38Will Arnett?

  As a guy who's-

• 15:39Speaker 02

  Coming out on my birthday, guys, August 1st.

• 15:41Will Arnett?

  August 1st, oh wait, happy birthday.

• 15:44Speaker 02

  Happy birthday.

• 15:45Will Arnett?

  Wait, so so going to do that and coming being being, you know, uh uh being Hawaiian and and coming home and doing this story that obviously means a lot to you, was it uh, I imagine there must have been a a bunch of moments you had where it was like almost spiritual or you just like felt like the the fact that you got to do this and tell this story must have been pretty rad.

• 16:06Speaker 02

  I mean, I don't think there's anything bigger that I'll do, because I mean, it's not like I'm playing a superhero or something like that. I'm playing my ancestors. I'm actually like, hmm, you know.

• 16:15Will Arnett?

  Was there pressure in that? Did you feel like kind of-

• 16:17Speaker 02

  Oh my god, yeah. I mean, like, I'm putting on, I'm putting on outfits that you're not even allowed to, I mean, they're just in museums. So the things that we're wearing, I wouldn't even be allowed to wear. You know what I mean? Like, so it's uh, e- even extras were wearing it. So it it was a huge thing. And at the same time, it's like, you know, the movies we had were from like El Teatro, they're from New Zealand, like Once Were Warriors or like Whale Rider, like there's all these Polynesian stories, but there hasn't been something from Hawaii. So it really kind of united Polynesia because there's not really, everyone comes to Hawaii, they make movies there, but they don't make Hawaiian movies. They don't make movies about us. Movies about us. So, you know, we're a part of America, but just no one really knows our story. And so I feel like-

• 17:00Speaker 02

  This, this thing is something that's never happened before. And at the same time, we didn't, we didn't really have the resources. And so it's really united Polynesia because we got Tongan, Samoan, Fijian, Tahitian, Maori, all these different cultures helping us tell this story. And so it's been really wonderful.

• 17:19Jason Bateman?

  How, how old were you when you, how long did you grow up before you left?

• 17:23Speaker 02

  I, my parents got divorced when I was six months old, so it was pretty shitty. I left at a very young age, but I was raised in Iowa, which is really, most people think is great. I think it's really great. I grew up in the Midwest, which is, if you're, if you grew up in the Midwest, you kind of know that's, it's a pretty spectacular place. You grow up with like,

• 17:41Jason Bateman?

  I agree.

• 17:41Speaker 02

  I mean, my work ethic, family values, like it's just, it's a very strong place. Having said that, I grew up, where Bridges of Madison County was made. So I grew up like literally like not a race. So I'd go from literally a small country town to going to like kind of the reservation of the Hawaiian side. So basically where I'm from is, is all local side. And it's not really being accepted there or being accepted there. So it was a bit of a, it's a bit of like trying to figure it out. But I would spend my summers with my father and, you know, and then I would, you know, go to school with my mother.

• 18:18Jason Bateman?

  So you were born in Hawaii, then went to Iowa, then went back to Hawaii?

• 18:21Speaker 02

  Yeah. So when I was in college, I went out to Colorado and that's where I was going. And then I kind of, my, my family, I come from one of the biggest surf families in, in Hawaii. My great uncles, like Buffalo Kialana, I come from a long list of amazing watermen. So I kind of went over there to like really sink in with my family, get to know my father better. And I was 19 and then a TV show came and I ended up, I was just folding t-shirts at the family surf shop. And then I ended up getting a lead role in this really horrible show that just fucking killed me.

• 18:54Jason Bateman?

  Right, right.

• 18:54Speaker 02

  But I found acting.

• 18:56Jason Bateman?

  You've been acting, but you,

• 18:57Speaker 02

  You know what I'm talking about, baby.

• 18:58Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

• 19:01Jason Bateman?

  So you were working in a surf shop.

• 19:02Speaker 02

  All the fucking holes we gotta dig ourselves out.

• 19:04Jason Bateman?

  That's right. Were you, what were you doing? So in Hawaii, so you're working at the family surf shop. Were you surfing? How did you, did you, did you get on a board?

• 19:12Speaker 02

  Towing in big waves, like this, this movie came out called In God's Hands. And my, my cousin, Brian Kialana, he was the, the one who was towing in with Laird and all this stuff. And so I was like, what am I doing? I can go.

• 19:23Speaker 02

  Surf these big waves with my, my family. So I took the summer off and I went over there. And then the moment I was supposed to go back to school, I got the lead role. So I was just like,

• 19:31Jason Bateman?

  Wait, wait, wait. On the surfing part, did you, have you been towed into waves? Like, do you surf those?

• 19:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah. I towed in, I towed in like a 20 foot wave with, uh, out of Makua.

• 19:40Jason Bateman?

  Jesus. This is a real man, you guys. I mean, come on. Let's tighten that today, okay?

• 19:47Will Arnett?

  You got, you got once towed to the service, to the BMW stage, didn't you? They towed you.

• 19:52Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, well, actually, it was only on a flatbed. My, my car, because of the front fairing, you couldn't tow it. So you gotta put it up on a flatbed. But, um, I did ride up front with the guy.

• 20:01Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 20:02Will Arnett?

  No way, up front with the guy?

• 20:05Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, up front with the guy.

• 20:06Sean Hayes?

  Mama, tell me, wait, you almost drowned for real?

• 20:10Speaker 02

  Yeah. I, uh, I was, we're doing this paddle. We, we, we went in at Jaws.

• 20:16Will Arnett?

  Oh, my God. Jaws is the real deal.

• 20:18Speaker 02

  And we, and we did like a 14, it was maybe like a 13 mile paddle with, uh, from, I was with Dave Kalama, my friend Joe Flanagan and, uh, and, uh, Larry Hamilton. We paddled like 13 miles down the coast. And you're kind of almost a mile offshore. And then my leash snapped. And I was about, and I was, uh, we're about seven miles into it and my leash snapped and the, you're, it's so windy on Maui. And so the board just went, I couldn't even see anymore.

• 20:43Will Arnett?

  Yeah. Sean, you were gonna say your leash snapped once too, but it was cool. You didn't have to pay the guy, right?

• 20:48Jason Bateman?

  Because it's like, you snap it that hard on me, it's gonna break. I told you.

• 20:53Sean Hayes?

  I know. And you know what I did tell him?

• 20:55Will Arnett?

  It ended up being free.

• 20:56Jason Bateman?

  Don't yank on it so hard. It'll fucking break.

• 20:59Sean Hayes?

  And then we ended up getting married 20 years later. Hey, listen, Jason.

• 21:04Jason Bateman?

  And we will be right back.

• 21:08Jason Bateman?

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• 24:43Sean Hayes?

  And now, back to the show.

• 24:46Sean Hayes?

  Wait, so tell me, when you're in that position of almost drowning, what is your brain like?

• 24:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's so scary.

• 24:51Sean Hayes?

  So you know it's happening. Do you have a protocol of what to do in that moment? Are you even thinking clearly enough to know how to save yourself?

• 24:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, I was trained pretty well, so it was fine. So I was just, I took quite a few on the head. They're pretty big, like 10-foot, 10-foot Hawaiian waves, but

• 25:08Sean Hayes?

  Unbelievable.

• 25:09Speaker 02

  You're, I'm literally probably a half mile at that point offshore. And it was just, I was, it's actually, this place is called Shit Fucks. And it's literally because there's all this water that pulls out and there's a channel there.

• 25:21Sean Hayes?

  Dollar drinks on Thursdays.

• 25:23Speaker 02

  And it just, it just, it pulls you out and you just get hit with these waves. So I was stuck in this crazy spot, which is probably the Outer Reef. And unknown to me, I was really on the Outer Reef. And they couldn't see me. And I had my paddle and I was waving it and they couldn't see me. And the waves were so big, it was basically, it took my shorts off, it was so fucking big.

• 25:45Sean Hayes?

  Hang on.

• 25:46Speaker 02

  I reached down, put my shorts back on.

• 25:48Sean Hayes?

  Shorts off at Shit Fucks? I'm pretty sure that's in the village.

• 25:51Speaker 02

  I looked in. Shorts were off and shit, folks. I looked in, I looked in, I was just like, uh, my daughter, my daughter at that time was three months old. And, uh, I was, I just, I lost it. I was like, oh shit. I couldn't, uh.

• 26:06Sean Hayes?

  And who ended up saving you?

• 26:08Speaker 02

  Well, what ended up happening, I was out there for a while and then, uh, I, I just couldn't see anyone coming to get me and I couldn't move anymore. And my arms and my legs gave up after, you know, I was out there for a while, but Laird had to go in. And then go all the way around me and paddle up behind me. So like, cause it's a coastal paddle. So it goes with the trade winds. So you're going down the coast. And then he, uh, came from behind and I had already given up. My body stopped, like I couldn't move my arms anymore and, uh, I bubbled down and then my, my toe. Hit the outer reef, like I, I literally gave up. And I'm screaming inside and my foot just hits the outer reef.

• 26:51Speaker 02

  And I don't know if it was a fucking whale or, uh, like just could be one rock, but I just reached down, grab it. I jump up. I get hit by another wave and I dig my feet into the coral and I'm literally in the middle of the ocean. And I'm just, I could barely put my lips above just to breathe and get a break, but I had already given up. So it's like. You've already given up and died and have a second chance at it. And, and then I still stayed out there for like 10 minutes. I was hanging on the side of this reef and, um, and then I hear Laird come from behind and he's on my board, towing his board. And I get on and he's like, you're right. And I'm like, no. And I get back on the board.

• 27:31Speaker 02

  And we start paddling. He's like, you gotta go out, out. And so we just keep paddling out and I just keep trying to go over every wave. I lose the board, he loses the board. It's just a shit fucking, it is brutal getting out of the spot. And so we end up getting out really far on the, like pretty much on the shelf of Maui. And I have seven more miles to paddle. My feet are covered in blood and I'm just literally like when my ancestors just paddling the rest of this way, head down. And, uh. We get out and I, and I mean, I could have been trolling. There could be sharks everywhere, but I'm just like trolling this whole fucking coast.

• 28:06Jason Bateman?

  All this blood you're dropping too.

• 28:08Speaker 02

  And we get in and that's, I, I used to smoke and I used to smoke like two, three packs a day. I'd roll the pouch. I couldn't stop for my kids, couldn't stop for my, my ex. I couldn't, I couldn't stop smoking. And the moment I came out, I never smoked again. Like I just died, just died. I got tried and tried, but like I couldn't do it again. Cause I just, I gave up. Like I, I gave up my life.

• 28:29Jason Bateman?

  Do you remember the moment you felt that you were saved, that you, that he actually, that you actually got through it? Do you remember that moment?

• 28:35Speaker 02

  I remember seeing him, but I was like, uh, but you know, I was 10 minutes dead already, you know? That would have been 10 minutes. Had there not been the Outer Reef, like had there not been some, you know, and I do believe my ancestors. I do believe my, you know, I prayed to my grandmother, my grandfather. I mean, I was, I was, I was reaching and I was in a bad position. And, uh, you're stuck out there in that kind of waves, no board, you're fucked. And there's no way to swim in. It's just not, I don't have that. You're, you're, so it was, it was a bad spot to be in.

• 29:03Will Arnett?

  But I imagine that, that gives you like a, a, it's a pretty sharp contrast and gives you some perspective to, like you said, you quit smoking and that going forward from that moment, you're like, all right, I've been through some shit and everything else is kind of gravy. Did you have a little bit of that?

• 29:21Speaker 02

  You know, I, I did a little harder run. I think, you know, I have qualities that are, could, I don't know. Uh, I, I was pretty hard on myself that night. I did a lot of stupid shit and I just really was like pissed at myself for the position I was in. And probably tortured myself even more for the stupid shit that I did. So I don't know. It was a bit of a hard learning curve, but I feel like I've always had that where it's just like, my learning curves are pretty hard on me. So.

• 29:47Jason Bateman?

  You know, I was, I was, I was thinking about that the other day about, um, how, you know, I find myself in a completely different life than I was having in my, in my twenties. I mean, as, as everyone does, you sort of, you go through these stages and. How are you, how are you finding your life now as a fully functioning, you know, professional that's able to write and direct and produce and star and like, you know, take all these sort of adult meetings and like all this kind of shit that it doesn't sound like you were doing at all in your, in your earlier sexual life, like, like, like

• 30:31Jason Bateman?

  me too, just being a, you know, a dickhead.

• 30:33Speaker 02

  I think if you have, yeah, I think there's a potential that you, you have needs to come out and I just, until I met the people that actually like, until I met my partners, until I met the people that actually made me get those things out, I was just bashing myself with addiction and drugs and like.

• 30:49Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 30:49Speaker 02

  It's another level of like things that you're just burning, yeah.

• 30:52Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you go through that stage, you gotta get it out.

• 30:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, there's so much.

• 30:56Jason Bateman?

  Cause now's, now's not a good time to do it. So it like, it sounds like we were doing that stuff at a time when you were supposed to, but you do that really well, such that you can now do this really well. And, and are you, are you enjoying that? And do you have that kind of clarity and perspective? Like that was a version of Jason Momoa and now this is a version of Jason. And they're both, they're both me and, and I'm just going through it.

• 31:19Speaker 02

  A hundred percent. Yeah. I mean, they're great. They're great. All the things that we did when we were younger, I'm glad I, you know, it wasn't handed out. It was a very hard road to get where I'm at. So.

• 31:30Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 31:31Speaker 02

  Having said, I've been, you know, I've been directing for the last almost 12 years now. I like that process. I love producing. I love not being just an actor. I love being able to, if, if someone's going to judge me on something like I took this choice. I made all these choices instead of just being an actor. It's nice just to go to the trailer and be an actor, but I also love, I mean, this is the way my brain works. I want to have a hundred things going on. And I just love working. I love, I just love being responsible for those things. So.

• 32:00Will Arnett?

  Well, you also, you also appreciate it because of all the things, Jason, like you were just saying, and I think I'm finding, I'm going through it right now to say I'm, I'm 55.

• 32:11Will Arnett?

  Sorry, I was waiting for you guys to go, "No way."

• 32:13Sean Hayes?

  Oh, yeah. It's really late. There's a delay.

• 32:16Will Arnett?

  And, uh, I, I, you know, I, I've just recently, truly, the last, I don't know, almost couple of weeks, I, I finally had this moment where I was like, I feel this kind of shift happening and this sort of cloud lifting and this thing happening in my life where I feel like I'm okay, I'm cool with who I am today. Uh, and it took me going through a lot of different shit, and it's different from any other period of my life. It's really, it's really rad, rad and really profound.

• 32:47Sean Hayes?

  It's one of the gifts of getting older, right?

• 32:48Will Arnett?

  Right, yeah.

• 32:50Jason Bateman?

  You start to care a little less about, um, what other people perceive you as and the artifice and the efforts you make to sort of convince those that you might be X, Y, or Z. And it's like, no, I'm just A, B, or C, you know, like, this is just me, and if you see it, great. If you don't, that's okay too. It's more, most important is that number one understands who number one is and that I'm okay with that. There's only one of me and I hope you guys dig it. If you don't, there's other people to talk to.

• 33:19Sean Hayes?

  A little bit. Yeah, totally.

• 33:20Will Arnett?

  I think there, I think there's truth in that. Um, wait, so, Momo, you were talking about, you did this shitty show, but like, uh, uh, your fir-, I guess that was your first acting gig, right? The thing you were talking about that you did in Hawaii?

• 33:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, you know what's kind of cool about it? I mean, like, listen, I fell in love with acting. I, cause I was a, I was a biology major. I was a science major and that's what I wanted to do. And so I, um, you know, Baywatch, Hawaii came and whatever. I was 19 years old. You gotta make a hundred dollars being a extra and I was folding T-shirts for 16 and you gotta meet a bunch of hot chicks and I was 19 years old and like, yeah, I'm gonna go on.

• 33:54Jason Bateman?

  Perfect.

• 33:54Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 33:55Speaker 02

  So like 1300 people showed up down there and we went in and I ended up, you know, I was, ended up getting the lead role. I was supposed to go back to college and my mom's like, "What are you doing?" I'm like, "I'm on Baywatch, Hawaii." And she's like, "What?" And so, I mean, like, it just, you know, I didn't know a fucking thing about it and, but I fell in love with acting. I basically watched tons of movies and every movie I'd watch, I'd just play that character into the next day. You know, if I watched Fifth Element, I was Gary Oldman that day. If I, if I watched Fight Club, I was fucking Tyler Girdon in that episode. And so, I mean, I literally just, it was practice and doing all that and I just,

• 34:27Sean Hayes?

  That's great.

• 34:27Speaker 02

  Didn't give a shit and I, I, I, but I fell in love with it. And having said that, Every grip and like from catering to the grip makeup, everyone uh they're on my show. You know, I'm forty seven, forty six on August first and they're all did Chief of War with me. And I'm coming home telling our peoples movie and you know, I've dug myself out of massive, massive holes like. You know, I learned my, I went through college doing, you know, Stargate Atlantis and Hiding in Canada and making a sci fi show and. But I learned how to do everything. I was like, listen, I'm gonna shoot this myself. So I started at that point, I could write, direct, do all the stuff on my own. Cause I was like twenty two episodes, nine months of my life.

• 35:10Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 35:10Speaker 02

  You know, it's just like banging out stuff and you're like, no, that was my college. And then I had an accident and took some time off, but I, you know, got married, had some kids and then Game of Thrones came out and then no one knew what the fuck to do with that guy.

• 35:24Sean Hayes?

  Right, right, right.

• 35:25Speaker 02

  Kind of stuck in that jail of like until you get to the fourth season of it. And I was like, while we did Game of Thrones, I did, I wrote, you know, co-wrote my first movie and I did Road to Paloma and, and, and I was just like, fuck this. I made Pride of Gypsies, which is a bunch of actors, a group of friends and we just made movies together. And uh, you know, some of us were hold, we'd all hold the boom, we'd all do this, we'd all shoot and so. We all came from that thing where it's just, we did the work, we edited, we shot it. And that's how we kind of built the, you know, I'm not gonna wait for anything. So we just kind of went about it that way. Cause I was like, no one's gonna give me this shit. You gotta go, you gotta go get it. So we, we wrote all our own stuff.

• 36:04Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, that's cool. You know, I remember seeing you in Game of Thrones and I was like. You're just, you're the character and the size of you. I was just like, my God, this guy's such a incredibly. You know, fit human being and, and the size of you, I was like, and then I, what, cause your entrance, you're like, oh my God, who's this guy? And then you start acting, you're like, oh wow, he's like a brilliant actor, like.

• 36:28Will Arnett?

  And you have presence. He has such, you have such presence apart from your physical, but you just have presence as a person. Uh, that's really magnetic and I wonder, right, Sean, like, like.

• 36:39Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I was just so surprised that like, that, that, I know what you mean by what, well, what do we do with this guy? But I was like, well, he's a great actor. That's what you do with him. You just, you plug him into any role.

• 36:50Will Arnett?

  Was Game of Thrones, was, was that the first?

• 36:53Jason Bateman?

  Was that the, was that a turning point? It must have been.

• 36:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, that was, that was a turning point, you gotta respect. But it was, it's, it didn't like, cause he didn't say much and even though I played like a really good character, played it and did my job well, but it was, uh, I mean, it's a, it's a thing where it's like, I, I, I'm a huge SNL fan, like I love comedy, I just wanna do comedy. That was the year I grew up with SNL, it's all I wanted to do.

• 37:15Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, same.

• 37:16Speaker 02

  And.

• 37:17Jason Bateman?

  And you hosted twice.

• 37:18Speaker 02

  No one, no one fucking knows me that way, so I didn't know, then they just, you know, and they just used me as action, or I don't say much, and so it's, it's a very weird thing to kinda live in that action and you're, you're this and that, cause my mom, my mom and my dad are both painters, right? My mom, you know, I was raised watching Rear Window and like Gone with the Wind and Streetcar Named Desire. I was raised as a single mother that worked four jobs in Iowa, so it's like, I, I didn't grow up, even though I grew up into this body, I'm like, I'm a total art, like an art nerd. I grew up in a different way, you're just kinda like, uh, this isn't really me, this is more me.

• 37:53Jason Bateman?

  Right, it's difficult, it's like you, you're this, you're this huge presence, you've, you're, you're, you're in this, you're in this, this big, beautiful god frame, you're, you're a very good looking man too, and inside of that is somebody who not only wants to do comedy, but can also do very subtle, nuanced, dramatic acting as well, and so, how do you like, you know, you, you obviously have to account for how you come across, and so, they can only put you in those types of characters, and those characters aren't historically super funny or super sensitive, you know, so it's like.

• 38:26Speaker 02

  I just, I mean, until you get to know me, and like, I think we've had a little bit of time with each other, so, but it's like, I just, you know, it's my first time doing a comedy, doing, doing Minecraft finally with Jack Black, and I'm like, Jesus Christ, finally, and like, or just getting into SNL, like that's, that's all that matters to me, is like, just all I wanna do.

• 38:44Sean Hayes?

  You killed it on SNL, that was so funny.

• 38:47Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, now you've got the juice where I'm sure you can go to your team and say, hey, so I'd like to do parts like X, Y, or Z, can you go out there and see? Or create, by the way, I mean, like you created. While you're busy doing your job, they can do theirs, trying to bring you options in those areas, cause you've got the juice to, where like, a part is written not for a guy with your physical type, but it, it, you've got enough juice now where they can actually change what that actor might be, what that character might look like, uh, without changing any of the dialogue, you know?

• 39:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 39:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, you should tell.

• 39:22Will Arnett?

  Yes, he agrees with you.

• 39:25Will Arnett?

  But, but, uh, but, but, yes, they can, they can search it out. But I wonder, do you have like, um, cause you mentioned Road to Platinum, the, the movie that you wrote and directed, which, what was, by the way, when you first started directing, and this is a Jason question, did you love that shift to directing?

• 39:41Speaker 02

  I love it. I mean, I don't want to actually be in front. I'd rather be behind the camera. Like, I love every aspect.

• 39:48Will Arnett?

  You're like JB. JB's the same.

• 39:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, like, that's, that's where it's at.

• 39:52Jason Bateman?

  I mean, there's top and bottom jokes there. Um, you say you don't want to be in front, you want to be in the, but I don't, I don't have it fully written right now, but just come back to me on that. Check your texts, check your texts. I'm working on checking the texts.

• 40:03Speaker 02

  David, you love being behind the camera, right?

• 40:05Jason Bateman?

  Oh, God, yeah, I would, I'd stay back there and, and never, never act again. Although I do like acting and I also, acting in something that I'm directing, I really, I really love just because, as you said, I love being overwhelmed with the amount of work and responsibility as opposed to just hiding in the trailer. You know, like, I, I'm a glutton for that stuff, so.

• 40:26Speaker 02

  But you drop it in like I'm smoking aces and shit like that, that's hilarious. Like, you gotta, like, that stuff is like, you know, when you have little roles that come in, you're like, I want to support this and come in and do something.

• 40:35Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I love that stuff.

• 40:36Speaker 02

  Of course, I love if I can add and get the budget up, whatever they need to do. But, but I'd rather not have all the, I don't need to be the lead of this. I'd, I'd rather make my movies and I like them small and they, I don't want to direct like a massive, this is probably the biggest it'll ever be. Like, when I directed Chief of War, I directed four or five units. The, the finale is on the lava field. Dude, here's a crazy story. So, you might have asked this earlier, Will, like a crazy story about Chief of War. When we first wrote it, the whole finale is about these, uh, two cousins fighting over the big island. And the volcano goes off in history and it's literally snowing ash and the volcano's coming down.

• 41:20Speaker 02

  And the volcano, it's, it's kind of like, let's just say it's 50,000 versus 10,000. And the volcano comes down and wipes out the persons who lives in that territory. And that's how Kamehameha won in history. So, when we wrote this, I, I literally saw on the calendar in the production meeting, I go, boom, volcano's gonna go off. And everyone's laughing at me like, no, no, no, it's not gonna go off. We cut to, we're there the night before, we're driving between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. And I tell my partner, I'm like, bro, it's gonna go off, I know it. And about four hours later, production calls, Mauna Loa goes off, which is probably ten plus years since it went off.

• 41:59Jason Bateman?

  Wow.

• 41:59Speaker 02

  Mauna Loa goes off. We obviously break, because we don't, no one's worked during a volcano, so we're checking, you know, air, air quality and all those kind of things. And they're like, yeah, we're good to go. So the next day, we go, Killaway goes off. That's the first time in human written history that both volcanoes went off. I go and I shoot eight days. I wanted to shoot the fight, so it was like, we're in the daytime and it goes into night. I want to see the night, I want to shift into blue light, I want to, I want to go through the sunset, I want to go into blue light. So I had to shoot the whole fight in reverse. So we show up at four o'clock in the morning. You're ushering in three hundred extras, a hundred something, and you're, you're massive fucking battle, dude.

• 42:43Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 42:44Speaker 02

  On lava fields. So any, anyone falls, gets hurt, where do you put the powder potties, how do you hide this? I mean, just all the schematics of like, how do you shoot this massive epic piece in the area where it happened?

• 42:55Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 42:56Speaker 02

  So we shoot it there. Um, I got about four to five units I'm directing at the same time, where I built it, where I can shoot simultaneously. So they can be used as extras in the background as I'm shooting this one, as I'm shooting that. So I kind of designed the whole fucking thing where I can, and the A D's just like, what, what, what? And I'm sitting in the production meeting, and I have it all balanced out. And, uh, yeah, dude, the fucking volcanoes, this thing went off on the eighth day, we end, and the volcano stops. The day we end, both volcanoes end.

• 43:28Jason Bateman?

  That's crazy. So were you getting the, the sort of the production value of those volcanoes going off?

• 43:33Speaker 02

  We sent the people up to go shoot some stuff, yeah.

• 43:35Jason Bateman?

  But did you have ash coming down on your shots and stuff?

• 43:37Speaker 02

  No, no, we, we didn't have ash coming down on our scene, otherwise we wouldn't have been working, because that would have been pretty bad for our health. But we had ash and all that stuff coming down. So it's a huge, massive scene where we shot it in reverse. So we can shoot all our key characters in the same light. But it's all, yeah, it's completely in reverse. Wow. It was meant to be. It's a massive feat. So the finale is like, that's my, that was like, I'm shooting the finale. And everyone's like, there's no way we'll pull this off. I'm like.

• 44:05Sean Hayes?

  I can't wait to see this. I've seen some of the posters around town. It looks awesome.

• 44:08Speaker 02

  And it's all in our language. It's all in Olelo, Hawaii. So you're like, you're gonna, like, it's such a beautiful language. It's the most beautiful language. It's so rad. I mean. You're gonna love it. Yeah, I can't wait to see it.

• 44:20Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

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• 46:18Sean Hayes?

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• 46:59Sean Hayes?

  And back to the show.

• 47:02Will Arnett?

  You were talking about shooting that, that's pretty rad, that scene on the lava field and shooting that. And you've done a lot of kind of big epic scenes like that. You've acted in a lot of them. Was it like Aquaman? Like, didn't you have like underwater fight scenes, basically?

• 47:17Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 47:18Will Arnett?

  Like, how'd you pull all that kind of stuff? What was that process like?

• 47:23Speaker 02

  Lots of stuntmen. I don't want to.

• 47:26Speaker 02

  It's brutal, man. It's brutal. It's, it's, that stuff's hard. I mean, fighting in a suit, that, putting that suit on. I mean, I would, the best superhero in the world is Lego Batman.

• 47:37Will Arnett?

  Come on.

• 47:38Speaker 02

  Come on. Black. Dude, my son. Dude, you're the best, you're the greatest Batman in the world.

• 47:43Will Arnett?

  The greatest, Will.

• 47:45Speaker 02

  I mean, you're the fucking best in the world, right?

• 47:47Will Arnett?

  Come on, Will.

• 47:48Speaker 02

  You are Batman.

• 47:49Will Arnett?

  Thanks. Tell me more.

• 47:55Will Arnett?

  That's a good impression. And sometimes very, very dark gray.

• 48:01Will Arnett?

  Listen, that's very kind of you, but I mean, you've, you know, you're fucking, you're Aquaman, dude. And you had, you had to do, you know, wear all the, put all that shit on. Do you like having to do that stuff? Like, put all the fucking suit on?

• 48:15Speaker 02

  No, man, no, I don't.

• 48:15Will Arnett?

  No.

• 48:16Speaker 02

  But you do it.

• 48:18Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 48:19Speaker 02

  The tattoos, it's all hard, bro. Sorry.

• 48:22Will Arnett?

  It's all hard, but then you go and do stuff. But in the same time, you do like, like the, like Dune, like going to working with Denis. I mean, it must be.

• 48:30Speaker 02

  Denis is amazing.

• 48:30Will Arnett?

  I love those movies so much. I love those movies.

• 48:32Speaker 02

  Did you guys hear what happened right now?

• 48:33Will Arnett?

  No. No.

• 48:36Speaker 02

  Check this story out. So I'm in, I'm in Japan with my, my son's dream is to go to Japan. So his 16th birthday, we go with the whole family. And I, I'm with him and I'm like, gosh, he, he, he's trained martial arts his whole life. He always wants to act. I'm like, you're never acting. There's no way I'm not, I'm not letting him act. He does like school plays in Topanga, right? That's it. That's the extension of like his acting skills. Yeah, yeah. You know, um, but I'm just like, I don't want my kid to act. I don't want you in this business, blah, blah, blah. You know, obviously the mother's been through it like, no, you're not, you're not, you're not doing it. Look at baby. So, yeah, it's just like, no. Conscious detail, sure. Um, but he grew up with his dad being this thing. He, he just loves it, but he loves martial arts.

• 49:19Speaker 02

  So cut to, I'm like, he's 16. I really want, it's time for my son to be with me and travel. Um, and maybe he can do school abroad. So I asked the mother and we're like, yeah, Wolfie can come with me. I would like him to come to Dune because if he wants, really wants to learn acting, I'm like, we're gonna be with Shalameh, we're gonna be with Denis, we're gonna be with Zendaya. He should be watching his father like day in, day out. I want his work ethic to be like mine of the Midwest. I want him to see how hard it is getting up at this time, doing this. Like it's, it's, it's, it's hard, you know what I mean? It's not digging ditches, but it's fucking hard. And when you have to do something over and over, if you're doing a fight scene all day long, like, no, you go 10 rounds, 12 rounds, but like this is all day. And you're in a suit that weighs 40 pounds and you're like, it's brutal.

• 50:04Speaker 02

  And so I want him to like, understand the business. So he's begging me to learn all this stuff. So I was, all right, fine. Well, let's send Uncle Kale. Kale did my, I did Minecraft with, I did Dune with, he's a producer. I'm sure you guys know him and so Kale. Kale Boyter. Yeah, Kale Boyter. And I was just like, he's a dear friend. I was like, listen, we'll send him a stunt reel. So we taped something for, for Wolf. We sent it in and Kale's like, what the fuck dude? Your son does, because he's been doing it his whole life and he's like, wow, he does this? I'm like, yeah, he's pretty, pretty good at it. Do you think we can give him like a, a Fremen role and he can do some fight scenes and I, and let him be on set? And he goes, dude, we're casting for the kids, for Shalamar and Zendaya's. Uh, the basically like, I guess it's like Skywalker and Leia.

• 50:49Speaker 02

  And it's Children of Dune, so it's the two kids. And I was like, alright, well, uh, he doesn't, does he act? I'm like, eh, you know, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's community theater. And anyways, they send, they send it, I'm in New Zealand, the mother's with him, he does the scene. Yeah, you know, we, and I, I, we don't want, I don't want to coach him at all. I don't, I don't know how to teach acting. I don't have a fucking style. It's just through sucking, you know, it's through sucking that I. Sucking a little less each year. Yes, every time, like, I've had twenty seven years of fucking sucking that I figured it out. So I'm like, I don't really have a style.

• 51:30Speaker 02

  So I'm not gonna, I don't know how to teach it. So, uh, my dear friend Cliff Curtis, who I looked up to, and he was in the, in the show with me. I was like, can you talk to my son a little bit about acting? And so we talked to him a little bit. Wolf does the scene, we tape it, we send it in, and they fucking love it. And I'm like, holy shit. Uh, he's like, we want him to come to, to London and test. Oh, my god. Dude, what? And I had to fly from New Zealand to London. And my son goes into a room with Denis Villeneuve and has to test with five girls. And it's three and a half hours long. I'm so fucking stressed out. Yeah, and like. Way more stress than you would be for yourself.

• 52:13Speaker 02

  I mean, bro, like, I don't even have, like, I'm fine. No, I'm freaking out because my son is just wild. He's so wild and amazing. And but he just, he, I guess he was beautiful, like, uh, you know, Mary Perrin was texting me. He's like, he's killing, he's doing great. But he had to, he had to do like a really hard scene that even if I had to do that scene, there's no way I could pull that off. And to do that for the first time, and this kid killed it. And he did it on his own, I didn't help him at all. How about that? And I'm doing fucking Dune with my son right now. That's amazing, I didn't know that. I literally just, we, we just went to the premiere, bro, the premiere of, of Chief of War. We flew to Hawaii, we did the premiere, I think, on the eighteenth. We got on a plane that night. We landed on the nineteenth.

• 52:58Speaker 02

  My daughter's eighteenth was the twentieth. We flew out the twenty first. We landed in Budapest on the twenty second. He went to work on the twenty third. Jesus. His first goddamn scene. No way. Shooting my pants. Going like he's with Zendaya. He's like, he's in it. And I'm like, my baby. Yeah. Sixteen years old. And he just killed it. I'm, I was crying. I was a fucking wreck. I was so proud of him.

• 53:22Sean Hayes?

  And did he ever, did he go, Dad, you were right? Did he say, you're right? That I, this is really fucking hard?

• 53:27Speaker 02

  He's so hard. He's like, it's so hard. It's so much. He's like, Papa, I have so much respect for you now. And he, and he understands every person that works with me now. It's going like, yeah, I need help. I need help. These are the people that help me. You don't have any scenes with him, do you? I don't this, but in the, in the future. But I'm like, I'm just there and I'm watching him. And, and you know, Denny, who I fucking love dearly. And he's just like, he's, he's just, he loves Wolf. And he's just doing a great job. And so I'm like, it's the craziest feeling. How incredible.

• 53:54Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 53:55Speaker 02

  And I'm like, God damn it, dude. I just didn't want him to do it. But he's, I'm not gonna lie to you. Like, he's so good.

• 54:01Sean Hayes?

  Well, I'm not surprised. Look at his parents.

• 54:03Will Arnett?

  I'm not surprised either. And I also think like you.

• 54:05Speaker 02

  You want your kids to just be better than you. And I'm like, this motherfucker's gonna be, like, he's gonna blow me away.

• 54:10Sean Hayes?

  Nice.

• 54:11Speaker 02

  He's so goddamn present.

• 54:12Will Arnett?

  Two things I want to say. One is you've paved the way because you're a great dude. And, and it's no surprise to me that he's great because you're great. And it's no surprise to me that you deserve it in this time. Think about the year you've had that you're doing. You've got Chief of War, this thing that is really personal to you and about your family. And now you have your immediate family, your son, coming and working with you. It must, what an incredible feeling you must have in your heart this year about where you're at. Just, just in that, just think about that. It's pretty rad, man.

• 54:41Speaker 02

  I start June, I start August first and this comes out. So I start June, August first. I went and watched my son.

• 54:47Sean Hayes?

  Okay, yeah, it's great.

• 54:48Will Arnett?

  On the day.

• 54:49Speaker 02

  It's, yeah, dude.

• 54:50Sean Hayes?

  Well, you put in a lot of hard work.

• 54:52Will Arnett?

  I tell you, you know what, Jason? I'll tell you something that my son said to me recently, my son Abel. A friend of ours, uh, whom we all know, had, had something happen in their life. And it was public and, uh, you know, it was like sort of shocking. So my son Abel comes to me and he says, hey, I heard about that thing. Is so and so okay? And I said, yeah, yeah, they're fine. It all worked out fine. And he goes, you know, I was just thinking. Man, thank God we're not as famous as them.

• 55:19Jason Bateman?

  Nice work, Dad.

• 55:20Will Arnett?

  And I go, first of all, you're not famous at all, A. And B, fuck you, man.

• 55:29Jason Bateman?

  That's great.

• 55:30Will Arnett?

  Isn't that hilarious, man? And he meant it, too. He was just like, ah, thank God we're not as famous.

• 55:35Speaker 02

  Thank God we're not so famous.

• 55:37Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, how about that, Jason? Because you can't really hide. Can you? How was it?

• 55:42Speaker 02

  I can't hide at all.

• 55:43Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and so how are you with that? With fan interaction and taking photos and things like that?

• 55:49Speaker 02

  I really, I, I'm really good when it's like set for that time.

• 55:53Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 55:53Speaker 02

  If it's like really, here's the hard thing. It's like when I'm, I mean, we're all human. So I'm like, I'm down. But if I'm with my kids, don't even, it just, people don't have really respect or they don't really think.

• 56:05Jason Bateman?

  It just makes the kids so uncomfortable.

• 56:06Speaker 02

  But if I'm with my kids, I'm like, don't, yeah, but I'm like, if, I'm like, you're never gonna get, I can't take my attention away from these beautiful things that I barely get to see.

• 56:16Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 56:17Speaker 02

  So I'm like, it's a very challenging thing to navigate, but at the same time.

• 56:21Jason Bateman?

  You don't want to say no.

• 56:22Speaker 02

  Time to do it, or if I'm, if I'm by myself, I'm like, yeah, hell, yeah. But the cool thing is, is like, I love it when it's kids. Because it's like Minecraft, like right now, they're like, it went from Aquaman, and then it went into like, I'm garbage man now. I know you guys probably haven't seen Minecraft, but Minecraft, I'm like the garbage man now. And so it's fucking cute as shit. So all these little kids are like, garbage man! I'm like, yeah, what's up? So I'll take it to the kids, but when it's a grown ass man?

• 56:49Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 56:49Speaker 02

  I'm like, just, just buy me a beer.

• 56:51Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, right.

• 56:53Speaker 02

  And try not to be weird about it. Just like, let's just hang out.

• 56:55Jason Bateman?

  I would imagine, I would imagine the sequel to that is probably brewing, right? When do you, when do you guys start that?

• 57:01Speaker 02

  Oh dude, we're right into it. Probably, it's like, I mean, I'm into this motherfucker in March, maybe.

• 57:06Jason Bateman?

  Look at you, Johnny franchise. I love it.

• 57:09Speaker 02

  Oh, tell me about it, man. I got fucking fast and barking down the door. Hopefully Chief goes again.

• 57:14Jason Bateman?

  Really?

• 57:15Speaker 02

  I, I moved everything to New Zealand, too. I'm like, New Zealand and Hawaii, I'm building studios down there with Cliff and Ty.

• 57:21Jason Bateman?

  No way.

• 57:21Speaker 02

  So we're trying, we're trying to like.

• 57:22Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 57:23Speaker 02

  Yeah, so I just want to be, boom, boom, boom.

• 57:26Jason Bateman?

  That's great.

• 57:27Speaker 02

  Have you ever been to New Zealand?

• 57:28Will Arnett?

  I've never.

• 57:29Jason Bateman?

  When I was a little kid, I'd love to go back. Are you, is that where home is?

• 57:32Speaker 02

  Home is now Montana. In the States and New Zealand. So, and Hawaii still I have it, but it's like I'm basically trying to build studios between Hawaii and New Zealand.

• 57:44Will Arnett?

  That's amazing.

• 57:45Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 57:45Speaker 02

  Shoot everything there. It's just, you get to a certain place where I'm like, the quality of life, where do I want to be? Who do I want to be with? You know, I don't want to, like, it is, it's still tax incentives and I'm like, this is where I want to be. And so like, if everyone can come down here, we made Minecraft in New Zealand. We made Chief of War down there. I made Wrecking Crew, which is coming out. Like, I just made everything in New Zealand, or it's gonna go to Hawaii.

• 58:07Sean Hayes?

  That's great. What's your favorite thing to do with your, I was gonna ask you, what, you work so much, it sounds like, like, what, what do you do in your downtime? But like, obviously to spend time with family, what's your favorite thing to do with your kids or with family when you're not working?

• 58:18Speaker 02

  I mean, we rock climb, so it's like, I tell my kids how to rock climb their whole life, so we rock climb and like, that just keeps us in the outdoors. And rock climbing, surfing, or-

• 58:27Will Arnett?

  This is a real man, Jason. You should be ashamed of yourself.

• 58:30Jason Bateman?

  I really am. You know, I used to rock climb when I was a little kid, but now my, it hurts my hands too much as I get older. It's just, the rock, there's nothing soft about a rock. It's just scratchy. It's scratchy.

• 58:43Speaker 02

  It's like, I like my hands to be strong and tough.

• 58:45Jason Bateman?

  I know. I see you got a Band-Aid on the one finger and I'm like, that would just, I'd have to cancel the podcast if I had a Band-Aid on my finger. You just, you push right through it, don't you?

• 58:54Speaker 02

  And then music, and then music, man. I started playing my kids my toddlers sing, so I started playing music. And they kind of moved me into bass because they both started doing everything else and I, I just love playing music with them, so.

• 59:06Sean Hayes?

  It's like a family band?

• 59:07Speaker 02

  Well, it's not a family band. I started making a, I started, I started doing, I have a, I have a vodka company, so I, I'm in Montana.

• 59:14Jason Bateman?

  It's called Halif Relief?

• 59:16Speaker 02

  It's called Maely.

• 59:18Jason Bateman?

  Maely.

• 59:19Sean Hayes?

  Relief. That's actually a good name for a vodka.

• 59:21Jason Bateman?

  Trying to look at the hat of trying to see, it looks like, no.

• 59:25Speaker 02

  Maely.

• 59:26Jason Bateman?

  Maely.

• 59:26Speaker 02

  Maely, yeah. So, we have a vodka company out in Montana, and so it's been nice to like, have these gatherings where you get together with everyone. And we play music and we play our favorite songs. We play Zeppelin and Sabbath and Chili Peppers and Prance and- Zombie.

• 59:41Jason Bateman?

  All great for the bass. All those, all those groups have a, John Paul Jones. Incredible.

• 59:47Will Arnett?

  You've got a vodka company, you're building a studio between New Zealand and Hawaii, you're directing movies, you're writing series and acting in series and acting in like eight franchises.

• 59:57Jason Bateman?

  And you seem so like chill about it all.

• 59:59Will Arnett?

  Really happy.

• 1:00:01Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and like, yeah, I mean, what pisses you off? Like, you seem like, yeah, sure, whatever. Well, you have some, are we late? That's cool. I'll just wait.

• 1:00:09Speaker 02

  I'm pretty pissed I gotta lose a bunch of weight that I'm gonna get ready for this role, you know what I mean? Like, you know, that's about it.

• 1:00:15Jason Bateman?

  All right.

• 1:00:15Speaker 02

  But that's everyone's thing. I gotta do a little extra. I gotta take care of myself.

• 1:00:18Jason Bateman?

  How do you, uh, what's your favorite?

• 1:00:20Speaker 02

  How's it going with you guys? Like, uh, listen, I'm 46. You guys are, you know, you said you're 55.

• 1:00:25Will Arnett?

  We got 10 years on you.

• 1:00:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, 10 years on me. I'm like.

• 1:00:28Jason Bateman?

  What's your favorite way of dropping, dropping pounds?

• 1:00:31Speaker 02

  You know, I.

• 1:00:32Jason Bateman?

  No, not eating or exercise?

• 1:00:34Speaker 02

  So I don't exercise and I don't, and I, and I eat whatever I want. I, and I eat whatever I want. So, and I, and I drink. But basically, when I stop drinking and I eat smart and I exercise, I lose weight.

• 1:00:48Jason Bateman?

  Okay, gotcha.

• 1:00:49Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah, your body must go in a shot.

• 1:00:51Speaker 02

  Generally, I just keep it like, I don't, I don't do it until I have to.

• 1:00:53Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:54Speaker 02

  But I, my problem is like with all the things that you're taking off, like, oh, you do this, do this. The thing that I don't do is I don't take care of myself.

• 1:01:01Jason Bateman?

  Well, you will. You will. You still got time.

• 1:01:03Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, so you got time. See, like, you gotta go like, uh, this is the point where you take care of yourself.

• 1:01:07Jason Bateman?

  One, one kidney stone, you'll change your life. Oh.

• 1:01:11Speaker 02

  Haven't had one yet.

• 1:01:13Will Arnett?

  Okay, well, thanks, granddad. Uh, listen, I think, but, but how many people are listening right now going, fucking, Momo doesn't even work out and he looks like, I'm gonna fucking throw myself up a cliff.

• 1:01:24Jason Bateman?

  There must have been a time, there must have been a time when you were a gym rat and you put on all that size on that plank.

• 1:01:29Speaker 02

  No, it's only when you, it's only when I, I was like, you know, I grew up skateboarding. I was a skateboarder and rock climber. So when I did Conan, they made me put all that, they, they made me train and learn all that stuff. I mean, you do it for roles.

• 1:01:41Jason Bateman?

  Sure.

• 1:01:42Speaker 02

  And, uh, and you, and that's what's great about acting, they teach all these new things. And so, you know, you learn that. And then obviously for Aquaman, I had to train and, you know, you're with all these best trainers, but. I I don't want to live like that and I I don't find like I so whoa what I did is I I would build rock climbing gyms in our training facilities because I don't want to do sit ups and I don't want to I I would just rock climb.

• 1:02:04Sean Hayes?

  One of the greatest joys in the world is food.

• 1:02:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, but I would just rock climb to do those to like kind of like the things that you love to do.

• 1:02:11Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and and yeah, you think you're in shape till you try a pull up and that's that's a lot of rock climbing, right? It's just like.

• 1:02:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's just I just try I just want to have fun doing things I like to do. So I mean, like I I say physical, doing things I love to do, I just uh like I think I probably get hurt more lifting weights. If I do lift weights, it's very light now or I do like kettlebells, which has really helped like just for like my like legs, but I do pretty pretty lightweight.

• 1:02:36Jason Bateman?

  Avoid injury by just lifting chopsticks like Sean, you know?

• 1:02:39Sean Hayes?

  Into sodium.

• 1:02:41Will Arnett?

  I'm just thinking here's we got two guys who both don't work out and eat whatever they want and one is Jason Momoa and one's Sean Hayes, so.

• 1:02:50Jason Bateman?

  I'd love to see a just just a Speedo shot side by side, the two of you.

• 1:02:55Will Arnett?

  It'd be so good. Although JB, you were talking about you were lifting really light weights recently and you were saying how hard it was.

• 1:03:00Jason Bateman?

  That lasted three days.

• 1:03:02Will Arnett?

  Did it really?

• 1:03:02Jason Bateman?

  It did, yeah. I'll get back at it though.

• 1:03:05Sean Hayes?

  I've had a burger every day for the last three days.

• 1:03:08Will Arnett?

  Really?

• 1:03:09Speaker 02

  Great.

• 1:03:10Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:10Speaker 02

  Babe, do you work out?

• 1:03:12Jason Bateman?

  Uh, no, not not real. I mean, I I do cardio, but I I don't lift weight and I should.

• 1:03:17Speaker 02

  Like when you're directing, it's so hard. The the hard thing for me is like I'm such a I come from such an artist mentality where it's like it's really hard to balance the physicality when I'm like I'm giving everything to.

• 1:03:29Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 1:03:29Speaker 02

  These things that you're doing.

• 1:03:30Jason Bateman?

  You're up too early too to to work out.

• 1:03:32Speaker 02

  And the thing is like I don't sleep much anyways, which is fine. It's just I don't if I if I if I burn out doing this to for just I just don't take care of myself.

• 1:03:41Jason Bateman?

  Keep doing whatever you're doing, whatever you're doing, just keep it up. You're killing it, just don't worry about it.

• 1:03:45Will Arnett?

  My favorite thing one time Momoa, you and I were in Vegas, we were at for like Cinema Con or something, we were on it, remember we were on a shuttle bus?

• 1:03:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:03:51Will Arnett?

  And we're going we were going back to the airport and he had like he had like a rucksack, like a roughly hewn rucksack and it was just filled with loose beers.

• 1:04:02Will Arnett?

  It was the greatest. I'm like, he's got a bag with him. And I was like, oh, it's a cooler.

• 1:04:10Jason Bateman?

  So smart.

• 1:04:10Will Arnett?

  I know. So jealous.

• 1:04:12Jason Bateman?

  All right, what are you gonna do the rest of the day today, Jason? You got, you got, you got the evening.

• 1:04:16Speaker 02

  I'm gonna go have dinner with my lady.

• 1:04:18Jason Bateman?

  All right.

• 1:04:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm gonna go just have a nice romantic dinner with my lady.

• 1:04:22Jason Bateman?

  Who's your lady? I should know. Should we?

• 1:04:24Speaker 02

  Andrea, Andrea Arjona.

• 1:04:27Jason Bateman?

  Andrea Arjona?

• 1:04:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, she's doing a movie. Yeah, she's, she's, uh, she's doing a movie, Thomas Crown Affair, right now.

• 1:04:35Jason Bateman?

  Oh, wow.

• 1:04:35Speaker 02

  So we're gonna go have a nice dinner and then I go back to Budapest to go back to do, do.

• 1:04:39Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. That's believable. I can't wait.

• 1:04:42Speaker 02

  The kids are in, the kids are in Budapest, so we're gonna be together and Wolfie's working and my daughter Lola's there, so her friends are coming over and we're just celebrating, because I get them in the summer, so we're gonna go do fun stuff, have my birthday here in a couple of days, so big party.

• 1:04:57Jason Bateman?

  Well, yeah, you got, do you have plans for your birthday?

• 1:05:00Speaker 02

  I think I was gonna stay at the house, maybe get a DJ and just like eat.

• 1:05:03Jason Bateman?

  You're gonna stay at the house with a, with a DJ?

• 1:05:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:05:06Jason Bateman?

  A DJ at the house and just eat?

• 1:05:07Speaker 02

  I don't know, just have someone play.

• 1:05:08Will Arnett?

  Get Scotty. Scotty, I snuggle.

• 1:05:10Sean Hayes?

  My husband DJs sometimes.

• 1:05:11Jason Bateman?

  Sure he does.

• 1:05:12Will Arnett?

  Send him over. He's in London. He'll go, he'll do the, listen, we'll, we'll make a deal here.

• 1:05:16Jason Bateman?

  Momo, you're gonna have to wait till, what, 50 for, for the big one, right? I mean, I feel like that's, that's, when you get to our age, you gotta wait for like 50, 60, 70, 80 for the big ones. You can't do it every year, right?

• 1:05:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:28Speaker 02

  Yeah. No, I just think being, I'm like, I'm with some really cool friends that I haven't seen in a long time, so.

• 1:05:33Jason Bateman?

  How long's it, you haven't seen us for a long time?

• 1:05:35Will Arnett?

  Can we get an invite?

• 1:05:36Jason Bateman?

  Jesus.

• 1:05:36Speaker 02

  I would love for you guys to come.

• 1:05:38Jason Bateman?

  We like to party.

• 1:05:38Speaker 02

  But it's Budapest, so it's like, it's pretty far.

• 1:05:41Jason Bateman?

  We got mileage.

• 1:05:42Speaker 02

  But you're always invited.

• 1:05:43Will Arnett?

  Uh, listen, dude, uh, continued success, one of the all-time great dudes, and you deserve all of it, honestly. And I'm so happy for you and you seem, you look so great and you seem so happy and just continued, I'm so psyched that you and your son get to do this, just all of it is great. You're a ray of sunshine, dude.

• 1:05:59Sean Hayes?

  I'm a huge Dune fan. I can't wait for the Dune.

• 1:06:01Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, go get it.

• 1:06:02Speaker 02

  I can't wait for you guys to see this, yeah.

• 1:06:04Will Arnett?

  Chief of War, Apple TV on August 1st as well. I mean, just, just all of it, all of it's so rad.

• 1:06:09Jason Bateman?

  Congratulations, buddy. Keep it up. Keep going.

• 1:06:12Speaker 02

  Thanks, man. All right, guys.

• 1:06:13Jason Bateman?

  All right, man. Good to see you.

• 1:06:15Will Arnett?

  See you, pal.

• 1:06:15Jason Bateman?

  Bye, pal. Nice going.

• 1:06:17Speaker 02

  Big hug soon.

• 1:06:18Will Arnett?

  Good to see you.

• 1:06:18Speaker 02

  Hello.

• 1:06:19Jason Bateman?

  Bye, pal. He slammed it. He's a slammer. I love it.

• 1:06:24Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:24Jason Bateman?

  Nice call. Well, you know, I thought it might have been Barack Obama. I was pleasantly surprised it was Jason Momoa. You know?

• 1:06:30Will Arnett?

  Those are the two Hawaiians that you know.

• 1:06:32Jason Bateman?

  That's it. That and King Kamehameha, but he's gone. So.

• 1:06:35Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that was great. I've never met him.

• 1:06:37Jason Bateman?

  This is great.

• 1:06:37Will Arnett?

  Oh, he's such a warm, the warmest guy.

• 1:06:40Jason Bateman?

  Really fun.

• 1:06:40Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, just so cool and down to earth.

• 1:06:42Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:43Will Arnett?

  So, so good.

• 1:06:44Sean Hayes?

  I love that his pants came down at Shitfuck. Is that what it's called?

• 1:06:49Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:49Sean Hayes?

  Shitfuck?

• 1:06:50Jason Bateman?

  At Shitfuck's, he got taken from behind with his shorts down. Kind of was just the net result of all that.

• 1:06:59Sean Hayes?

  That's when I perked up.

• 1:07:00Will Arnett?

  We might, we might want to revisit the transcript on that, JB.

• 1:07:06Will Arnett?

  You know what I mean? And also, you want to fall on the wrong side of Momoa? I mean.

• 1:07:10Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 1:07:11Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:11Jason Bateman?

  But you truly thought Shitfuck's was in Chelsea, is it not?

• 1:07:17Sean Hayes?

  I thought, but wait, you know what's great about him is like, I had no idea he was that prolific in this business. Like, I had no idea.

• 1:07:24Jason Bateman?

  He's a busy man.

• 1:07:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:26Will Arnett?

  He's just doing it all.

• 1:07:27Jason Bateman?

  Big huge star.

• 1:07:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, turns out.

• 1:07:29Jason Bateman?

  Just a guy trying to mind his own business.

• 1:07:31Will Arnett?

  And then you're like, you're like complaining about tech rehearsals.

• 1:07:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I know.

• 1:07:35Jason Bateman?

  Hey, yeah, when do you, when do you go, when do you go up, Shawnee? It's gotta be close.

• 1:07:39Sean Hayes?

  In two days, three days.

• 1:07:40Jason Bateman?

  In two, oh my god.

• 1:07:40Will Arnett?

  I can't wait to see you.

• 1:07:41Jason Bateman?

  Oh my god.

• 1:07:42Sean Hayes?

  I don't normally have my, wear my hair like this.

• 1:07:44Jason Bateman?

  Well, we're not talking about the hair right now. We're talking about the show.

• 1:07:47Sean Hayes?

  I know, but I meant like.

• 1:07:48Will Arnett?

  Three days.

• 1:07:49Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:49Will Arnett?

  JB, you're not going over, right JB? We're gonna go over and see him.

• 1:07:52Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, no, I saw it. It's good. Yeah, it's fine.

• 1:07:57Jason Bateman?

  I saw it in New York, okay? And plus, I was just there in London, staying with him, okay? Walking the fucking stairs.

• 1:08:04Will Arnett?

  I liked it the first time.

• 1:08:06Jason Bateman?

  I preferred it in the States.

• 1:08:10Will Arnett?

  I'm a fan of the original.

• 1:08:15Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, no, I'm excited.

• 1:08:16Will Arnett?

  He got so beleaguered, the guy. Yeah, go ahead.

• 1:08:18Sean Hayes?

  No, I was just gonna do a bye.

• 1:08:20Jason Bateman?

  Oh.

• 1:08:20Will Arnett?

  No, we know. We saw you look out the window.

• 1:08:23Sean Hayes?

  Well, no, I was thinking, I was like, you know, I didn't, I knew, I didn't know he was from Hawaii. I thought he was like, like. But you know, aloha not only means hello in Hawaiian.

• 1:08:34Will Arnett?

  Sure.

• 1:08:35Jason Bateman?

  What else does it mean?

• 1:08:35Will Arnett?

  Aloha, what does it mean?

• 1:08:36Sean Hayes?

  No. Something like. Bye!

• 1:08:41Jason Bateman?

  Oh my god!

• 1:08:42Will Arnett?

  Aloha!

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