"Jake Gyllenhaal"

25 Mar 2024 · 58 min

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Episode Title

"Jake Gyllenhaal"

Hosts

Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett

Episode Overview In this episode, the hosts engage in a lively and humorous conversation with actor Jake Gyllenhaal, covering a plethora of topics ranging from his upbringing and family history to his fitness interests and recent projects. The laid-back and comedic atmosphere of the podcast allows for an organic dialogue filled with anecdotes and laughter.

Key Themes and Discussions

  1. Jake's Background and Family
  2. Jake Gyllenhaal comes from an artistic family with his father being a director and his mother a writer.
  3. He revealed that he has roots in Swedish nobility, which sparked some humorous discussions among the hosts.
  4. He shared a touching story about celebrating his 13th birthday at a homeless shelter as part of his parents’ values instilled in him, emphasizing kindness and social responsibility.
  1. Fitness and Cycling
  2. The conversation shifted to fitness, where Jake discussed his passion for cycling, including his experiences biking in New York and abroad.
  3. The hosts shared their own experiences with fitness and exercise, creating a comical exchange about their childhoods and athletic pursuits.
  4. Jake mentioned his rigorous training for his roles, particularly for his upcoming movie "Roadhouse," which has garnered significant attention for its physical demands.
  1. Jake's Acting Career
  2. Jake reflected on his journey in the film industry, starting from a young age, and the influence of his family's artistic background on his career.
  3. The hosts reminisced about popular movies like "Donnie Darko" and "Nightcrawler," praising Jake's performances and the impact of those films.
  4. They discussed Jake's new project, a remake of "Roadhouse," and how it felt to step into a role associated with a classic film, expressing both excitement and nervousness.
  1. Cooking and Personal Interests
  2. The episode also touched on Jake's love for cooking, with humorous exchanges about food preferences and cooking experiences.
  3. Jake mentioned his recent interest in making ice cream and his fondness for baking, linking back to his childhood experiences and family values surrounding food.
  1. Personal Anecdotes and Humor
  2. The hosts maintained a playful banter throughout the episode, sharing personal anecdotes and joking about their past experiences, including embarrassing moments and physical challenges.
  3. There were several humorous exchanges about cycling gear, workout routines, and the struggles of maintaining a fitness regimen.

Key Takeaways

  • Family Values and Upbringing: Gyllenhaal's success can be traced back to his supportive family environment that encouraged creativity and kindness.
  • Passion for Fitness: Jake’s commitment to fitness not only relates to his roles but also to his personal interests, highlighting the importance of physical health.
  • Humor in Conversations: The comedic dynamic between the hosts and their guest adds a relatable and enjoyable layer to the discussions, making the podcast engaging for listeners.

Conclusion The episode featuring Jake Gyllenhaal blends humor with personal insights, providing listeners with a deeper understanding of both the actor and the hosts. Through their light-hearted dialogue, they explore themes of family, fitness, and the entertainment industry while keeping the tone casual and entertaining.

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0:05Hi, I'm here. I'm here in the room. Just, I'm just being as quiet as I can. Um, I'm so excited to be on the show. So excited. Oh my god. Welcome to Smart List.

0:31Smart. Less. So Will's got a different background because he's out of the country. Specifically, our northern brother or sister. Yeah. We may have talked about this before, but when you go home, do you sleep in this year old room? Your parents' bed. I sleep with my parents. Because it always gave me comfort to get in between them. Mommy, daddy, cuddles? Yeah. No, I don't stay here. I don't stay here. Settle me. Could you ever live there again? In Toronto? Yeah. Yeah. By the way, I could. Will, do you have a second piece of gum you could put in your mouth for the record? Just to get it in stereo?

1:13This is actually, too. I know. I just realized. That'd be great. Let's go ahead. Thank you. So we're recording now, you're saying? Yeah, it's an audio medium. It is an audio. Okay, got it. You know, Toronto is very, it's a great city, and I could live here. and there's so much stuff I love about it. The problem is it's very gray from like November to June. It's Chicago. That's basically Chicago. I think it's grayer. I think you get more gray days. It's just where it sits between the Great Lakes, et cetera. We don't want to get into Ontario weather patterns, but it is gray. Otherwise, it's awesome.

1:47So you think that that would make you somewhat blue, kind of like what people talk about in England and stuff like that? I don't know. Yeah, I think. I like it. Yeah, I do too. I think it's so cozy, right? But you know, in England, it rains and stuff, but you do get sunny days. It's not even that it gets a lot of rain. It's that it gets a lot of cloud cover specifically. And I think at a certain point, you just, you know, it's reminding me once I had this dream. You do have the maple leaves there, though. So doesn't that offset it a bit? I do have the maple leaves here. I'm really excited. You're in town for some hockey, right?

2:20I'm in town. Yeah, this is going to come out way after, but I'm in town for the All-Star game. I had a great night dinner last night with some of the boys from a hockey podcast called Spittin' Chicklets with Biz and Ryan Whitney and the boys Spittin' Chicklets and it was so super fun, interesting dudes, really really funny we had a lot of big laughs that's going to be fun for you taking part in that All-Star weekend aren't you managing a team with Connor McDavid? I am, I'm like the celebrity co-captain Yeah. Guys, I can't wait to talk to our guest today. I can't wait for you to talk to our guest today.

2:58He's considered one of the finest actors of his generation. Way to shoehorn that in, Sean. I can't fucking listen. Listener, he's holding up a shoehorn. Okay, don't worry. My dad's got two on his desk. Smell them. Why two? He's, by the way. Sorry, I'm sorry. I cut it. Why do you have those? Can't you just use your finger? How many times have you said that? Ask my dad. I'll get my dad in here. He's got two. All right, sorry. Sorry, guest. We go. Listen. I'm not trying to highlight whatever his stuff is on his desk. Nice. Guys, I'm like, look at your top. He's so giddy that he's at home. He turns small.

3:33I know. He just feels comfortable. Still holding his teddy bear. I do. Anyway, here we go. Let's not keep him waiting any longer. He's very busy, and he's a huge major global star. And he's much younger than us. He's not just a Hollywood royal, but he legitimately comes from, and I did not know this, real Swedish nobility. It's true. Oh, whoa, whoa. A man of many talents. He's fluent in French, like Will. He's musically inclined, like me, and loves to cook, not like Jason. He even made an appearance once making pasta with Mario Batali on Food Network's Molta Mario. It's my favorite, just on screen, homosexual.

4:10The brilliant Jake Gyllenhaal. Jake Gyllenhaal. Bravo! Hello, Jake. Hi. Oh, it's been a long time. Jekula Gyllenhaal. There he is. Oh, you have the whole name. I don't know if... Is it really? Is Jekula the long version? It's Jekula, yeah. No. Count Jekula? You know, Jake, you've probably heard this before, but I have so much trouble spelling your name that in the Google search, I just put G-Y and it comes up. Yeah, they're like, we got it. It's easy like that. Well, Jake, wait, are you still... Do we still live near each other? Where are you at? We don't. I mean, I moved to New York. Ah, you lucky man.

4:54Oh. You lucky man. Didn't we go up, what was the name of that dog, Runyon? Yeah. Jake is a world-class bicyclist. Are you really? Which comes as no surprise to anyone who's seen his silhouette. Yeah, have you guys known each other because you both grew up here? No, how did we get to know one another? I mean, we did live near one another. We had some mutual friends. We hung out for a bit. We did some bike riding for a bit. and then I gassed. Jake kept going. And I think... You're one of the best descenders that I've ever... I could get into a tuck. That is the world's greatest backhanded compliment I've ever heard.

5:37Nobody goes down a hill like you. There are circles where that's a very positive thing. We're not in one. That's really funny. Jake, I will never forget that. I will never forget that. Are you able to bike in New York? No, there's not as many bike riding opportunities, right? You're doing something different. Yeah. Everybody bikes in New York. Yeah, you can ride bikes in New York. You can ride along the West Side Highway and then up the West Side Highway pretty far. I'd be scared to, though, because of the traffic and people driving like crazy. And the potholes, right? The roads are all torn to shit for the weather.

6:11I always rode my bike. That's how we go around New York. No, but not these kinds of bikes. These kinds of bikes are like, you know. Oh, no, no, no. I rode it. Sports car level performance tires. And you go over one little bump and they'll pop. Well, there's sometimes where, like, we would, my friends would go in the Central Park, right? And you'd take the West Side Highway and then you'd have to cut in. And when you cut in, that's when you have to deal with about probably, I don't know, 15 blocks of pretty heavy traffic because it's the center of Manhattan. And then you get into Central Park and you do the loops.

6:40It's still crazy there, too, because they're, depending on the time, there's all these people walking, crossing, and all that stuff. Yeah, people try to. Circles and wagons and stuff. Even on the weekend, yeah, when they shut down the roads and stuff, you got like a million ding-dongs and everybody's like tripping on acid for the first time in their life. They're like, let's go trip on acid in Central Park. People like me, that's where I did it. I'd give anything to hang out with a million ding-dongs. Yeah. I know you would. Oh, Sean, let's take a minute. Just like a ball pit. Well, Sean, if you could fill a ball pit with any snack, what would it be?

7:09Oh, my God. If you could fill a ball pit with any snack, what would it be? Just ask the Great Descender. Spaghetti. Spaghetti. Old snacky descender wants to know what you'd fill your ball pit with. What, what, um, Jake, what I was going to ask you was, because we're talking about cycling like high level, like not just, yeah, I used to ride my bike, but I like how to beat up piece of shit and not doing it for like necessarily to get in shape. And it occurs to me, obviously I've seen so many promos for your new movie where you look like you're going to fucking beat the whole world up, uh, roadhouse.

7:41And it's unbelievable. Amazing. It's unbelievable. That's not the first time he's been fucking stacked. He keeps himself tight. I've seen you in shape before in other things. And every time I have like nothing but envy, I'm like, this motherfucker looks so good. And then what occurs to me is like, and now we're talking about cycling, have you always been into fitness your whole life? Forget getting in shape for the movie and being a super ripped fighter and crazy. Have you always been into exercising, staying mobile, playing sports, doing that shit? Yeah, always. I mean, my dad. Really? Yeah, my dad was super athletic.

8:14He still is. He would wake me up in the morning doing yoga in front of my bed. Oh, boy. And then he'd be like, let's go for a run. Hey, dad, can you turn the down dog just 180 for me when I get up, please? I don't want to be bulldogged, right, when I get out of bed. Bulldogged. It's a technique of waking one up. Yeah. But, like, it was definitely, it was.

8:42it was always perpendicular let's just it was never he's a kind guy i didn't have a lot of space in the front of the bed front of my room as growing up so he he used what he had but he he he would wake me up and we would run and he was always very physical and he always sort of would like i remember we do like maybe a mile and a half run when i was a kid and he was always so encouraging and then by the time we got to the end of the last block he would always be like you got this hurts me. You got to run. You got to sprint. Like sprint this last block. And we'd run and then we'd run up the driveway.

9:11Remember the driveway, we'd just like, I'd be dying. We'd be like, go, go, go. He'd always let me win. And so. Nice. Interesting. Yeah. We have this a lot at Sean. I guess that Sean's dad was really good at running too. He'd just try to do it before Sean got up and it would be in a car. It was just one direction. It was just one direction. It would be descending. Yeah. He'd call for when he got to. Running away. sorry um no that's interesting i used to run with my dad every single morning too and then i got did you really yeah that he'd wake me up every single morning and then i got old enough where i'm an old kid yeah and i'd start to sort of like complain when he'd wake me up and start to say no i'm gonna sleep in this morning and i was old enough where he'd say well all right goodbye and then so it stopped for a while but then like everything you learn from your parents you end up revisiting it and absorbing it when you're when you're older like now i run every day and i listen to classical music every day and i'm becoming my father which is great that's so interesting you know i i my brother my oldest brother because what's the opposite of interesting i was gonna actually say that's sort of like a preface to what i was gonna say but then i just stopped and then when it stopped was like oh that sounded like yeah it's boring it was definitely not interesting i got the boring handle i got you because i was gonna say it's interesting because my dad loves classical music and likes to exercise too.

10:31So there you go. We should hook them up. We should. That's wild. We absolutely should. Sorry, I asked that just not related at all to what we're talking about. No. Go ahead, Sean. You had a question. No, I was just going to say, my brother used to wake me up at like four in the morning just to work on my legs because I was so skinny. Yeah. So Jake. Like squats and stuff? Yeah. Wait. Just legs. Wait, wait, wait. At four in the morning. Wait, just legs? I'm sorry. Yeah, just legs. Every morning, just legs? Can we get another shot at that sentence? Can we just start again? Can we? It's true. It's true.

10:59It's true. That's like not okay. I know. I was exhausted. Every day. What do you mean? It's just legs. Okay, so. What are you talking about? I want to know this thing. By the way, I'm going to ask all the boring. Yeah, you have him do squats in the middle of the night. By the way, have you seen Sean's biceps lately? I mean, this is honest. I gave his little arm a squeeze, what, Sunday. Will, it's almost as big as yours. He's stacked. Sean is like crazy built. I worked out a ton. That's interesting. People cut me, because I'm in the Gyllenhaal category. A lot of people refer to me, they call me JG on the side.

11:39But Sean, are you fucking, are you lifting? No, I worked out for 20 years, like really hard. And then I was just, now I'm exhausted. Now I just eat. Look, I have a bunch of questions for Jake Gyllenhaal. Okay, sorry. Sorry you don't want to talk about your physique. No, so Jake, I'm going to ask you boring questions that I'm sure you've answered all the time. But I did not know this thing about the noble, like nobility Swedish thing. What's going on with that? I don't really know. I don't know. It's a pretty convoluted story that I've been told to and that I've heard. I do, I'm a descendant from some form of Swedish nobility.

12:20Yeah, that's about all. Your great-great-grandfather was like... Did you find this out doing one of the heritage tests? No, I've known it. We have like a coat of arms, you know? What? Yeah, we have like a coat of arms. That's cool. But I don't think he was really, I've done a little bit of digging. For a long time I thought that he was like a king, you know, like a descendant, I was descended from like that kind of royalty. Right. But more and more as I did research I realized that it was, he actually was like a cataloger and collector of beetles, and he worked for it. Really? Yeah, I think so.

12:53I don't, I, look, I may be. Oh, boy. Like a hoarder or? Yeah, sort of a form of hoarder. No, I mean, he collected them. He pinned them, you know. He was like, you know, he, you know, those, those beautiful, you know, those, those things that they do. But he was a scientist, I guess. And then he was like knighted for his scientific work. Yeah. And then I think, I think that time. Now, how much time have you spent there in, in, in Sweden? Anything at all? I have never been to Sweden. Excellent. What? I have never been to Sweden. Do you have any desire to? It's great. I do. I'd want to go there for Christmas.

13:27I've been a few times. And it's amazing, right? It's amazing. It's amazing. It's incredible. Do you have family there, Jake? I have extended family there, but I don't know them. There was a man named Herman Gyllenhaal who actually I met who came over from Sweden that was in contact with my dad. This is not the bug man. It's not the bug man, but he is a descendant of the bug. Yeah. And he came and visited us. And he was the one who tried to bring us all together, Americans and Swedish in Chilenhals. I have some distant family in England that I haven't seen since I was a tiny, tiny kid and others that I've never even met.

14:06And I feel guilty about that, I think. But then it's also like there would be, if you went down that lane, there would be hundreds potentially of people that you are somewhat related to that you have not yet met. How do you guys feel about that? Well, I was going to say, and I want you to take this the right way, Here it comes. No, I do. But if you think about it, if you think about it, you're a person who's in the public eye, and so obviously they probably know who you are, especially if they share your name. They could get in touch with you if they wanted to. Oh, and they have it. I have to agree with that.

14:43So it's on them. Thank you. Transferring guilt. Yeah. Sean, moving forward. Sean, real question, real question. What do you think your dad's new name is? Can we talk about what a great descender Jason is for a second? Because I feel like we've moved off that. And I really feel like we should go back to that. Yeah. I just want to, I just want to, I actually do have a compliment here. And it's actually, I want to say that like, I was so, it is scary to go down a hill really fast. It really is when you're on a bike. It's not like, it's not for the faint of heart. I can't put him back to the bike.

15:12And I realize what a badass he is. Yeah. I just don't think I've ever fallen before. I think I just need to fall once and I'll be riding the brakes. I was like, this guy's nuts. Like, you were going so fast. I remember just being like, whoa, he's gone. Like, no concept of speed. Are you going down, like, Loma Vista? Are you going down Cold War? No, like, Mulholland. We went down Mulholland. I remember there were cars. It was crazy. You were just like, see you later. Oh, that's right. Right by the Hollywood Bowl. Yeah. Right. I was like, it was crazy. It was so fast. It was so dangerous. And I was deeply impressed.

15:40I really was. You know what's scary? I know a few boys, a few guys. I bet you do. I sound like Sean. I know a few guys who got really into cycling, including my brother-in-law, Eddie, and a couple other guys I know who got severely injured doing that kind of super. Well, and that's why, Jay, correct me if I'm wrong. That's why one shaves their legs, right? In the anticipation of the inevitability. How does that stop your head from getting crushed? You mean generally that's why anyone shaves their legs? Or you mean for? No, bicyclists, because you are going to fall. That's an interesting theory.

16:15You're going to fall and you're going to slide across the asphalt. And if you don't have any hair on your legs or arms, the skin does not ball up as much. And cleaning it becomes less painful. That's correct, right? I've heard a lot of things. I think that's true. I also think like, I mean, being aerodynamic, which is sort of a weird thing. But I think there's like, there are a lot of superstitions. Like I've heard superstitions from cyclists who are like, they are allowed to eat cheese, but it can't be melted because it has like more calories or something. I don't know. There's all these weird things.

16:47So I don't know. I mean, but I do think also if you're going to wear spandex that tight, like, you know, you don't want to have like hair pants. You know what I mean? Oh, you mean the hair coming through the spandex? Yeah, not a good look. And also just like hair pants. Like it's just like spandex and hair. You know what I mean? Maybe that's something, you know. But yes, the scab thing is true. I thought it was excessive, Jay, because I remember you talking when you first got it, but I thought it was excessive when you started getting Brazilians as well because I was like, how is this helping?

17:12And I saw that when you were descending, and I was like, that was not necessary. I can go ahead and ride the saddle. Yeah, I don't need to arch and offer. I saw that. Right as you sped off into literally warp speed, I was like, what? You don't know how you're going to land. You don't know what's going to hit the pavement first. And who's going to see what. Right. Needless to say, I'm no longer on the bike. I've sold the bike, Jake. I'm embarrassed to say. but I still have a huge drawer full of the funny outfits that I'm happy to sell to you on a very, very fair rate. Jake, I want to know about you growing up.

17:51Jake, are you the right size? Would you fit into an old man's extra small? I did invite Jason just this year to a bike trip, actually. I reached out to you and invited you to a bike trip. It sounded very, very, very good. Can you say where you went? This was overseas, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I went to the Alps. Yeah, I went to the... I was in the Pyrenees. Yeah, we climbed like, climbed the Alpe d 'Oise, we climbed the Glubier, we climbed Mont Ventoux, we did this crazy six-day trip. This guy's a specimen, you guys. Wait, wait, wait, you went to the Pyrenees. You didn't go to Andorra, did you?

18:22It's the one place I want to go is Andorra. Yeah, I know, it was, we were in like, we crossed over the Pyrenees and we were in Provence and then we climbed, the last climb we did was Mont Ventoux, which is like, I think it's about 2 ,100 kilometers and then it's like 11 % incline the whole time, which was one of the most physically challenging things I've ever done and also such an incredible experience. And really, like, it was, yeah, it's sort of inexplicable. Speaking of, like, tripping, you just, by the end, you're just pushing to the... Euphoria. Yeah. And did you make it okay, like, comfortably?

18:58Did you throw up afterwards? Was your saddle aching? I, the first one we did, the Alpe d 'Huez, I've ridden before, once before. uh i wrote it like maybe 15 years ago and i i had been working so i hadn't been riding my bike a whole lot but i had assumed that i'd be like okay i kind of know and one of the things one of the things that i think is really important is is more mental like how much pain can you handle really that like and so i was like okay i'll be fine right and um when i arrived we had like guides we had two guys ex-pros they were great guys and then my good friend was with me and he had been training like secretly and i had been trying to get on a peloton like for right i just been like desperately trying i hadn't been on a bike i was just like for a week i was like i'm just gonna go really hard on peloton i'll be fine not a flick when i arrived off the train in france the two ex pros looked at my friend they're like well you're ready and i was like wait what and i and and so the albdues we got up there and i i bonked halfway up the albdues like you mean you just ran out of gas i just ran out of gas because yeah you can't like what happens is is your body just can't You just run out of glucose.

20:05Oh. And we will be right back. And now back to the show. Have you ever ridden with Lance Armstrong? Yes. And how'd you do? Did you keep up? No, I did not. No. I mean, like when he wanted to let me keep up, I kept up. Right. I watched one of those doc series about the guys climbing the Alps that was on one of the streaming services last year. yeah you told me i watched that too yeah and i think like sort of 20 minutes less into the first when i was like mother fuck this is hard like the one thing i don't understand jake is why why can't the seat be more comfortable why does it have to be so hard yeah you know because like you do lose you lose circulation it's so hard and things just go numb and it's not comfortable like if it could Just be a little pad or maybe like a shearling top, you know, like a sheepskin.

21:03You can do that. You can do anything you want. There's no, like, rules. Jay, you should do a collab with Uggs. You should do a collab with Uggs, baby. Sort of a backrest, maybe even. They have those too, man. Like, you can do anything. There's no, like, you're not, like, riding in the Tour de France. I'm a soft guy, you know. Yeah, or even, like, something with an engine or, like, you know, two seats and passengers. Or a rope that's connected to an engine. An engine. Like that flies in the sky and takes you places fast. Speaking of which, what about those e-bikes? Do you have one yet? Are we going to talk for an hour about bikes?

21:42Until we're done with all of it. No, no, no. I have a thousand questions. I know. Sean's like, I can see his face. He's like, oh my God, I asked one question about his Swedish noble. Enough of the bikes. Did I buy an e-bike? I have bought an e-bike. Yes. And you know, there are e-bikes. like if you want to come on the trip any of you guys want to come you're not doing i could have come on trip if you want to come on the trip no for real like if you want to come if you want to ride regularly you can ride like just without but they also have e-bikes that are attached to like a heart rate so you can choose your heart rate that you want to get to so if you want like and then stay at and the bike will keep you at that place what do you do about all you just wear headphones to to mute out the ridicule you're getting from the other riders like i i am just desperately i really want people to get on this trip and come because it's fun but they don't believe it you know no one believes that they're i believe that where is it where is the trip well they change like we're trying to find new cool places to not hancock park sean okay i'm sorry you won't be there all right sean let's hear some of these bitching questions finally jake welcome to the show jake has done a lot of theater so jake hold on hold on let me just hold on okay reveal yourself it's the sean hayes show go ahead so i want to know about growing up and with your because i think it's fascinating that you come from a family your dad's a director your mom is this incredible writer your sister is also like it's all you're all killing it so it's like by the way i had um dinner with your mom at a mutual lawyer friend's house a million years ago, and I was much younger then, and I hadn't really written anything yet, and I expressed to your mom, God, you know, I wish I was a better writer.

23:27It's just so overwhelming to me. And I remember this. I'll never forget it. She said, the hardest part of writing is starting. And your mom said that to me, and I still remember it. Not that we hear that all the time, but that was the first time I ever heard anybody say it was from your mom. And so I took that, and I started writing. And I wrote scripts and whatever. But that was because of your mom. Holy shit. Jesus Christ. Wow. You're going to lead with that. My mom will be actually so flattered by that. Yeah, what a memory. So it's just starting is the hard part? Is that? Fuck. I was just going to ask, Sean.

24:03But I hadn't heard that before. Sean, I was going to ask, every time you start everything, you think about my mom? Yeah. I mean, you could really apply it to anything, I think. Weird question, Sean. No, it wasn't. He didn't even have a question mark on it. No question. This is how bad the Sean hates. show is i want to thank you for listening to the sean we just started and we ended yeah thank you naomi phoner no you know what i will say i will say that's my mom's name by the way i don't yeah wait what's your mom's name naomi phoner yeah no um so she think about that i will say to sean's credit uh it is interesting to have something like that happen and that something that sticks with you and now you're on with the person JB.

24:47Yes. That's crazy to me. It is mildly interesting. However, the way Sean said it was so fucking boring. So, I... It could have been interesting. Will you come on the bike cycle? We'll talk so much shit about Sean. I'll talk shit about anybody. You don't have to go on a bike ride. You just listen to this. But Sean, get us back on the rails. We're sorry. I want to know what it was like. I know, it's so hard. I want to know what it was like. I mean, again, I say this all the time on the podcast i grew up in chicago with you know looking at hollywood like this thing that was unachievable so i came here with so what is it like growing up and i know you get asked this all the time but i don't know the answer growing up around it and and and and then is did you find that that's all you're talking about around the dinner table when your kids is is is the business and how do you escape talking about other things and you know jason do you want to take this in tandem so to speak it is i was so curious to hear what your answer is going to be because i've got my um yeah yeah what what was it what was it it's it's better right gives you even more stuff to talk about around the dinner table i think it's a double-edged sword yeah it's a double-edged sword you know i think in a way it's it's amazing because i you know speaking of my mom like you know i i like she she's taught she taught me so much about all this stuff you know like and and how to find stuff that's good and what's good and when the dialogue's good and and then same you know when I was a kid my dad would I'd play around I'd joke I'd you know I was performing like when I was real little just joking around and then he sort of would really encourage it and under like kind of understood me and that performance stuff so there was outside of the kind of idea of like the advice and stuff and watching their careers and then saying oh you could go this way or that way you know oh don't do this try that which is a bit of a head start yeah well how much of your own because a lot of people grow up with her and we take on uh points of view sometimes our point of view is colored by our upbringing and our parents and what we were you know sometimes well a lot of them when you go into the same but certainly when you vocationally when you go into the same thing that your your parents did do you now do you look back and go like oh i I see the influence of my mom or my dad speaking to me while I, when I look at a script, when I think about doing something, when I'm making a choice as, as an artist, if you will, do you, do you recognize that?

27:13I try to both good and bad, you know, I really do. I try in as best as I can, you know, to, to, I mean, what I, what I do think is a lot of those things as we get to be a certain age, become a night, an unconscious thing, right? Yeah. You, you put them into experience and then you do things, and you're lucky enough to make things and you keep doing it and then you try them out and then we get a tool belt and then we're using it. And so they are a mix of that. I can't differentiate anymore really from what I've learned from them and what I've learned from other people because I've been doing it from such a young age.

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27:46Do they still give you input when you work on something? Yeah, particularly with writing and even in development of things and things like that. My sister wrote her first screenplay and wrote and directed it and to great success. Yeah. And then she just wrote another one and she's directing it. It's this amazing thing. And my mom is a big part of it. You know, my sister sends me the script. She sends my mom the script. My mom and her will talk through things. You know, she's a real mentor. And that is a massive thing to have in your back pocket. Yeah. And do you find like, I think naturally any child is always looking to impress their parents when they're tiny.

28:29And then as you grow older, you start to meet other adults. You become an adult yourself. But since you started with the entertainment industry and your parents were in it, do you find that they still occupy the major sort of North Star? you kind of point your efforts towards and look for their approval and their review of things. Do you know what I mean? I certainly do. I'm still sort of a small boy kind of looking for dad's approval because that's where it all started there. He taught me how to act. He taught me how to direct. And I like that. I like that I'm not over that. Aren't we all? I mean, yeah, in one way or another, definitely.

29:11I think also, though, there's a sense of just for me now, you know, because there's all that stuff. like work is so it becomes like a big thing, you know, with all of our families, you know, if our parents are working, like you hear about their work, right? It's just inevitable, right? The vocabulary becomes part of it. To me and me and my sister in particular, and my family more and more as, as all that stuff gets into your life, and you're doing that, we tend to now try and just work on the family stuff, you know, because that's just like, to me, that's where that's what I've grown to care about most you know I I in the end no matter what we all do and what we create like it all comes down to them being there no matter what right they'll be there yeah and and do you have other siblings is it just you and Maggie I have a little half-brother um I mean he's a half-brother he's he's also little my my dad had another uh child and so yeah and so but he's my half-brother is my sister's half-brother and but my sister and I you know grew up together just think yeah and then what about like you you and maggie've had uh i'm i'm assuming a very positive experience of being in this business and you've been able to to to i mean transition from from child actor into adult actor and incredibly successful both of you um do you imagine that you would be supportive of your children going into this because i get this question all the time How do you – My answer is always, yeah.

30:38I mean I can't be hypocritical. I've had a great experience and it's been challenging, but it hasn't been detrimental or damaging. I would just make sure that I would condition my child or explain to my child what to look out for and what to not and what it is and what it isn't and just manage their expectations and then after that let them make their own decision. But, I mean, at 10 years old, which I was, and I think you were right around the same age, can you really assess all of the pitfalls such that you make a good decision i don't know i don't i mean i think i would my parents did a very smart thing which is they were like you need to get an education you know they were very early on they were like i was like i just want to do this thing you know and they were like okay cool great you can keep doing that but you don't need to do it in like the deep end right yeah or in lieu of yeah yeah exactly and you know socializing you know is was a huge thing you know go be amongst kids you know who are tough on you you know what i mean not just in an adult world yeah if you can balance it if you can handle it go for it yeah exactly and then the yeah no go ahead no no i just to me like that's what i would do i think you know it you know we can be admit it's it's not a normal life you know in that way you know and so it's just important to to get perspective you know the the and and i read that you when you were a kid, you also used to volunteer at a homeless shelter and you celebrated your 13th birthday at one?

32:01Wow. Is that true? My mother's Jewish, my father's Christian. And so, you know, they're not practicing very heavily, but they, and so my, they had a bit of a dilemma in my, you know, bar mitzvah moment, you know, quinceanera sort of situation. They didn't know really how to celebrate. You had a combo bar mitzvah quinceanera? No. At a homeless shelter, so you got a deal on the venue. Basically. A deal, a real deal. Everybody showed up, too. Yeah. No, but it was, yeah. And so one of the things was they were like, you know, my father was very big about passages, you know, and that's what it was. They agreed that there was like a passage of time and you were walking through this space and these are the qualities that, you know, they wanted me to understand.

32:51And so they decided instead of something more formal, like we do all these different things. And one of them was, yeah, we went to a homeless shelter on my birthday and fed the homeless, yeah. Wow. So it sounds like they started you out with just a great set of values, a great guide in which to sort of be a decent person. And you seem to have really held on to that. I mean, you know, you're just a really kind person and you've managed to acquire a great deal of success. is it is it you know we're in such a permissive culture and atmosphere with what we do is it a constant how much of a struggle is it for you to not take advantage of all the sort of latitude of people like yourself are given on set off of set do you know what i mean because it's it's i don't know did they raise you well enough where it's not that much of a battle I mean, I'm obsessed with my work.

33:53I love my work, right? And I dig into characters that I do, do you know? And so that's sort of where I, like, to me inside that, learning it has been, that's, like, learning how to be an actor is a different thing, right? Like, I don't think my parents were, they were not actors, right? So it's a completely different scenario. They were teaching you how to be a good person, not a good actor, yeah? Right, I mean, they were sort of teaching, I mean, they were, you know, they were like, learn, read great plays, you know, try and perform them so you can understand. Prepping you for life in the arts.

34:24Yeah, kind of. I mean, for whatever I wanted, really, whatever I felt they were down for. But I think like, you know, yeah, I think that's always the question, right? Like we grow up in it. And when we grow up in it, it's a different thing. There are people who come into the business and they're, you know, they've experienced life and they experience success at a different age. And it's very interesting to watch people experience success at different ages. And I was so grateful to experience very early, but at the same time, it came with its own kind of growing up throughout the whole process.

34:57I just watched City Slickers the other night. I swear to God, I just watched it. And I was like, is that Jake Gyllenhaal? You were like five? How old were you in that? I was 11. And you can totally tell it's you. I never noticed that before. I was like, oh my God, Jake Gyllenhaal. Were you look like Billy Crystal's son? I was Billy Crystal's son. No way, really. And really Billy, like, yeah, he, like, found me. And he was like, there's something about this kid. I mean, I have a poster that still says, he signed a poster for me, for City Slickers poster, and it says, thanks for letting me be in your first movie.

35:33Like, he literally wrote that. That's cool. It was so cool. It's the best poster ever. And he is the fucking best. Yeah, he's such a nice man. Oh, such a nice man. And, like, I worship him. Like, I, it is very interesting. Who directed that? was that um ron underwood oh right yeah yeah yeah ron underwood who is who's ron underwood i don't know that good directed city slickers and then i love this you were cast in mighty ducks but you couldn't take it right or your parents didn't let you take it you know like when people ask you guys like oh did you you got that part but you didn't do that part like and then you're like why am i someone else did it it's theirs this is weird but uh and that's the story that it's like we all have i almost did the part that i'm never gonna do and you're and someone else did better than me so i Why are we doing?

36:18But I, yeah, I auditioned for it. And my parents would let me audition for things. And so without being like, oh, sweet Jake, he wants to go audition for something. Cool. And then I auditioned and I got it pretty much. And they were like, oh, shit. Right. You have to go to school. And I was like, no, I want to learn hockey, you know? Yeah, by the way, Will, we have a lot to talk about that because you should talk to my parents. I wanted to learn how to play hockey. Oh, it's the best. Where's your hockey passion now? Do you still have a hockey passion? No, I wasn't allowed it. I didn't do Mighty Ducks.

36:51But yeah, that was a thing. But a lot of the times, a lot of the roles, like Jar had, God, you're so fucking good on that. You've just done so many great movies. Yeah, and all these, you know, last year. I just got to say, I wish you had done fucking Mighty Ducks. Sorry, I was just thinking what could have been. I just thinking what could have been. I messed up. I messed up. But these roles in these big, huge movies that just seem to me, I could never do the things you do, they just seem like colossal undertakings as an actor. And the physicality that you take on is just remarkable. Like we were talking about at the beginning.

37:29You're brilliant, Sean. Thank you. I was waiting for that. We got it. He said it. But we do prefer a nice sitcom routine. It's six hours a day. You and I have sung together, by the way. I know. Wait, where? Where did you guys sing? Where? A whole new world. A whole new world, yeah. No way. It was an arranged marriage, wasn't it? Do you have theater stories? God, if you have a theater story right now, Jake. Jake, my favorite thing is medical stories and theater stories. I gotta say, I listen to you guys, and I just want to say that I have a great losing a contact story. Here we go. What the fuck?

38:02That was my fucking story. Yeah, yeah. Sean, get Scotty in here. This is bullshit. Like, yeah, I thought, oh. That's my part. She stole my part, you know? we'll be right back

38:19and now back to the show so there you are you're on stage what happened I'm on stage and so I did this show with Ruth Wilson called Constellations which is this amazing show two-hander it's 75 scenes in 90 minutes basically like and the changes of scenes it's about a couple and it's a bit like sliding doors-ish but it's about there are basically five scenes that happen over a couple's relationship. And within the five scenes, there are like eight scenes of the different potential things that could happen, right? So first they meet and then one of them's not into the other and the other one is.

38:54And then boom, the lights change and then the other one who wasn't into the other is into the other, you know. So it switches. Then they're both into each other. The next one, then neither of them are into each other. And then it moves forward, right? And so subsequently, actually, there gets to him asking her to marry him. and I had in tech, you know, like... The final rehearsals, right? The final rehearsals. For Tracy, yeah, it's the final rehearsals. I had said basically like, okay, we had one prop in the whole show. It's just two people on stage. We never left this platform, right? It was 90 minutes, never left.

39:27There was one prop and the prop was a ring in my pocket that I kept and you had to prebble stuff and I said to the stage manager, I said, can I just put some contact lenses under the stage in the back? because I just, I really am legal. I'm legally blind without contact lenses. Come on. No, no, I am legally blind. Like I cannot, I can't like function. Your contact's in right now? No, but you guys look great. I, so I, yeah. I would be deeply offended if we were making love right now and I found out you didn't have your contacts in. He didn't even bother. Okay. He didn't even bother putting his fucking contact lenses for us.

40:05He's like, oh, no, no, no. You know, like, so I just like, you know, actually, at the same time, I like, I had gotten into a little thing with Ruth early on because my brother-in-law, who's an amazing actor, by the way, he came to see me in previews and he gave me notes. And he gave me two notes. One note was he was like, still, there's power in stillness. Because I think I was moving around a lot and trying to get a lot of attention. And the next note was, don't let her upstage you. Is what he said. She kept walking upstage, huh? No, I mean, I think he actually meant like she's just a better actor than you.

40:38So just try harder and figure it out because she is a better actor than me. I learned that over the course of the run. Because Tracy, if an actor walks upstage, it forces you to turn your back to the audience to talk to that person. And now the audience can't see your face. They can only see the person upstage's face. And she does. She's just magical. Like she's just the type of actor that like I'd always talk about this. Like when Saturday nights, you know, you know, it's like the energy is so much more intense. Yeah. And Saturday nights, like, she would ride that energy like a wave. And I'd be like, oh, it's so intense.

41:10You know, like, oh. And she'd be like, see ya. You know, and they'd be like, the roof is incredible. You know. So he was like, just don't, try not to let her do that. Like, try and surf. Don't be afraid. You know. Yeah. And so we had gotten into a thing where, like, I was like, I was like, I feel like you're upstaging me. And she was like, oh, I'm not. I'm just like, you know, the actor bullshit. She's like, I'm not. What are you talking about? And I'm like, but like, can we just try and stay on the same line? Like, you know, like, cause this is about us, you know? And it was like, hold on. So anyway, the light changes, by the way, these big pops in the show.

41:43So you have about like a second and a quarter to kind of change. Right. And at the same time that I, in the, it's very hard to explain because I would put my hand in my pocket in the scene before I'm supposed to ask her to marry me because I pull out the ring and no one's seen a prop. And so they go, Oh, how'd you get that ring? Right. Right. But I put my hands in my pockets and the ring was not in my pockets. Jake. So I was like, it's the only prop. By the way, in tech, I was like, what if we, okay, I have contact lenses up there, but what if like I don't have the problem? They're like, dude, this is Broadway.

42:16We have a prop master who usually deals with a thousand props. He has one prop. Okay. So don't worry. You're going to have your prop. Okay. Don't worry. And I was like, I know, but like if like, they're like just, and I was like, can I just plead? They're like crazy. Sure. And they put it there. so I rub my eye contact lens falls out in the scene I put my hand into my pocket I can't find the fucking ring and I'm like oh my god I can't see anything and then Ruth and then I start to move up stage because I remember there's a contact lens in there and the ring is over there and Ruth starts looking at me like oh you motherfucker I know what you're doing you're going up stage you asshole you know it's on I was like, no, I can't see anything inside of her trying to communicate.

43:06And she thinks you're just winking at her constantly. Yeah, that's hysterical. I know what's up. And then as soon as I like, boom, lights pop, I run over, grab the contact lenses, grab the thing. And I put the contact lens in my eye because I can do it because I've been putting contact lens in my eye since I was a kid, like really, really young. Yeah. And then she's like, oh, oh, my God. Like she realized in the moment. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, that's funny. I used to do this thing and promises promises that there's this guy, his name's... Thank you so much. By the way, beautiful, beautiful. Incredible.

43:37His name's Ryan, and we would give each other horrible, horrible shit, like right before we'd enter the stage. It's kind of like the three of us do, just like scathing, right? And he goes, I'm actually dead serious before. Tonight, can you make sure that during this one dance sequence, because you're blocking, you're just blocking me just every so i go ryan i'm gonna stop you i never look behind me on stage

44:09now jake if you're not acting if you're not um you know exercising being physical um what else are you doing to fill your time what is what you don't have any like are you a reader are you a TV watcher? Are you a painter? Do you love to knit? Speaking of knitting, I'm going to get my mom in here in a second because she's mad that you guys still haven't sent her a picture with the fucking sweaters. I did. Tell her to check a junk file. I collect shoehorns, actually. What? Dude. Yeah, that's a big pass-time I find. Oh my god. Hey, it's Sweden. Oh my god, so am I. Oh my god. Oh my god. You have no odd a hobby?

44:55I cook a lot. I cook a lot. I cook major. Yeah, I want to talk about cooking. I didn't know you cook. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you're not cooking fatty shit. You're good at cooking like veggie stuff or macrobiotic or something. I mean... I cook everything. I love to cook. I love to shop for food. So then you eat what you want. You just make sure that you exercise a lot. No, I mean, no. I've actually, you know, I've tried all different things. I'm down with intermittent fasting. I really like that as an idea. because I tend to go like, I'm going to just overeat, you know? So instead I just go, we're just not going to eat today for a while.

45:28It's all or nothing. Are you sweet tooth or salty? What's your... Ultimately, I think I'm a sweet tooth, yeah. I just like, I'm a cake. I like cake. I have massive sweet tooth. I love cake. I'm a pie guy. Do you guys know Yossi Arefi, by the way? No. Her cookbooks? Uh-uh. She has this book called, I'm like, this is a shameless plug on her book, but it is incredible. It's called snacking cakes. Snacking cakes. Yeah, and there's also this lemon cake that she makes that has pieces, the recipe has pieces of the lemon in it. Right, so it's like, I don't know if you like a lemon cake. Love. I do, I don't wanna eat a piece of lemon though.

46:09No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You chop, it's small, it's in little pieces, but you get like this sort of burst of citrus, so to speak. A little zest. And like, you really do, no, it's like, I'm a sucker for glazes like that. Yeah. Would you be into that, Sean? You think you might be into a cake? I love like a lemon pound cake. Garbage can. No, I love that though. I got an ice cream maker for Christmas. I like baking. Well, you wanted to cut out the middleman. It was too much with the fucking sire to driving to the ice cream shop. Get out of the store. I'd rather just cry and make it while I cry, you know?

46:43Like I just... By this time next year, he's going to figure out how to make ice cream in his mouth. Yeah.

46:52Okay, wait. Wait a minute. I want to talk about Roadhouse because it comes out March 21st. I'm prime. Fuck. Which is really exciting. Wait, were you nervous to remake such a classic film because, you know, Patrick Swayze, we all love Patrick Swayze. I'm sure you're going to kill it, but were you nervous? I mean, I knew Patrick Swayze was in Donnie Darko, this film that I did. Oh, that's right. That's right. Oh, yeah. Oh, fuck. That's right. Dude, Donnie Darko. No. Donnie Darko. Can I also just say before you get, Nightcrawler, I don't know why. It just occurred to me. I just remembered how much I fucking loved that movie, dude.

47:24All your movies. He was so great. It was such a good movie. So good. Didn't Bob Elswit shoot that? He did, yeah. He's a buddy of yours. The one time I've ever been in a room with him was at your house at a birthday party that you had, and I saw him walking around. I was like, what the fuck is going on? I know. He's a cinematographer, everybody, and he's a god. That movie's a fucking masterpiece. So anyway, so you're doing... I love that movie, too, but Roadhouse. So you worked with Swayze. we worked with Swayze and he was just the sweetest most generous kindest man I was like when we worked together and I Point Break was a movie that I watched maybe like maybe I've watched that movie more than any movie I've ever watched if I'm honest because I racked in so many hours from like nine years old to like admittedly 43 that I just love that movie so I you know and I love a lot of his movies and Roadhouse I remember these faint memories of the poster and I don't know where I remember seeing it.

48:21And then I also remember watching clips of it or it was on TV and being like, what is this? Like, it's like ingrained in my unconsciousness, this movie. And so like Doug Liman, who's a good friend of mine, we've been friends for 20 years. Brilliant, right, right, right. Brilliant. And he was like, we've been trying to find a movie for a long time to do together. And he was like, we were talking one night because we were talking about one other movie that he had sent me. We were talking about it. Oh man, that's interesting. And then he's like, you know, I do have this other idea. they just sent me this script of roadhouse it's like a reimagining of it and i was like i'm fucking in i literally i literally was i literally he said and i like i it was like the whoever saw those clips whoever it just came out of me like yeah i'm in wow and uh and so um i mean you you you filmed you filmed an actual fight with a live audience i went to the ufc to film Yeah, we went to the UFC and I filmed in the Octagon.

49:16What? It was crazy. Yeah, it was so fun. It was so incredible. It was incredible. They let us film there. The UFC was amazing. We, like, it was nuts. I was, like, high from it for four days after. Would you say that you got into the best sort of cardiovascular shape you've ever been in through grappling? Because, like, I mean, you think you're in shape until you start wrestling with someone. Like, it's like, it's crazy how tired you get, right? Try wrestling with Conor McGregor. I was just going to say, I can't believe, is this his first acting gig? Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's his first acting. I mean, it depends on how much you consider the performance pre-fight, but yes, this is his first acting gig professionally.

49:57Wow, that's pretty wild. How was that process shooting in front of those crowds? I got to say, like, that mixed martial arts makes me nervous sometimes. Not just the crowds, it's a little... Yeah, they want blood. It's very dangerous. Yeah, it's like the Coliseum back in the old days. Yeah, it's like a little bit of Coliseum, but it's just like, it always makes me nervous because there's bloodlust, right? Like people are out there to really... Literally. You get on the canvas and like, you know, we were right before, you know, the main cards, right? One of the prelims? Yeah, so it was like post-prelims, it was pre-pay-per-view.

50:32Then we were told we were going to either get like 45 seconds or seven minutes. We didn't know because depending on how the earlier fights went, if they went all the way, if they finished in the first 30 seconds, like, that would accumulate our time, right? So they wouldn't guarantee us anything. But by the time we got there, there had been some really, really intense fights. And I walked up onto the canvas, and there was just so much blood on the mat. Are you kidding me? No, there's just blood all over the canvas. They don't clean it? No, it's canvas. Could you wear slippers during the... Oh, yeah, don't worry.

51:02I wore... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Feed condoms. There we go. No, I, I, it was, it's really, it's actually. Fateman's going to go wash his hands just to show you that story. One of the things they don't tell you about, Jason, is that, you know, in grappling in particular and mixed martial arts, you know, staff is like a big thing. And, and so, because like, they're just, everybody's grappling on these mats. Right. And actually when we were shooting, when we were shooting Roadhouse, I got staff. Yeah. We were shooting and my arm like blew up and I was like, what is this? I didn't know what it was. And I, here we go, Sean, here's a medical story.

51:34Yeah. I love it. And I thought it was because there's a big final fight between me and Conor McGregor in it. And Conor is amazing. I mean, he's amazing. And he coached me through a lot of our fights, right? He was like, he came in, he was like, I'm a white belt in this movie world, it's acting world. I'm here to learn from you. I was like, it was such humility. I said, well, I'm obviously less than a white belt in your world. So like, you tell me what you need me to do. Yeah, no, every time we'd have to say to Conor, like, they'd be like, we're rolling. okay marker and then it'd be like i'd have to say remember even two months into shooting remember don't hit me in the face like remember that and he'd be like oh yeah oh yeah right right right right right right it was that every time before every take yeah money maker money maker now so was the crowd aware that you guys were shooting a movie and were told to like just kind of cheer this fight on like you would no not all of them because some people were like well what they started to do is they picked up on us filming and then they realized that there was like kind of a good guy and a bad guy in the fight and then they started cheering when like i would throw a punch and they'd be like they'd be like yeah and then it was like 15 000 people oh nice cheering for this thing and that was accurate for the story like you were the good guy they had no idea yeah they had no idea wow where was it we were in vegas it was 285 i didn't i was supposed to do 283 and then I got the night before got COVID and we had the whole crew ready to go.

53:02And so we had to wait. What's 285? The number of fights. Oh, wow. Wow. And did you get hurt at all? During the filming? Yeah. The staph infection, right? All the time. Well, yeah. Yeah, but I mean. The staph infection in the end, I didn't know it was staph infection and I woke up and I was like, my elbow feels weird. I thought it was just because I had grabbed Connor like 30 times in this one moment. And I thought, oh, he was just. throwing this arm down on me and I was grabbing it so hard that I thought it just hurt my elbow. So I woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn't touch my elbow to the bed sheet.

53:34You're so lucky you didn't get hurt. You so easily could have just like something pop out, you know? Yeah. I mean, Sean, you said one time at work, right? Didn't you say that you sprained your ankle when you'd come out for curtain call on Will and Grace? By the way, sprained ankle is a real pain in the ass. It is. It's the worst. You tripped on Shimada's camera as you were coming out. Wait, Jake, you don't have to take those roles. Yeah, you don't have to take those roles. Why don't you get a nice sitcom or something? That's what I'm saying. Like, what is the draw? What is the wish? What's the matter with you?

54:10I would love to do a sitcom. No one thinks I'm funny. I would love to do a sitcom. Everyone's like, he's so serious. This guy's so serious. He thinks he's so serious. No, no, no. He, like, does all this stuff. Like, you know, I would love to do that. I'm doing this because this is what I got, guys. No other options. Nowhere else to go. No, I just love, I love that, like, I love the idea. Well, you're great at it. Yeah, well, you're so brilliant, you can do anything. You can just play anything. They came to me about Roadhouse 2, by the way. I didn't want to say anything because we were talking about roles we didn't do.

54:40It was different. It was more about eating. Don't even try Roadhouse 2. If I knew that you would have been in that movie, we would have had you in that movie. I was up for roadkill. But anyway, Jake, this is wonderful that we took up way too much of your time. You're so sweet to come by. You're very nice to be with us. Thank you, buddy. I'm so psyched to be here. So fun. I love your show. I am such a huge fan. I obviously adore you all from afar and close up. I invite you places you don't come. Will, I've literally invited you now, so if you don't come, then you're the same. I'm coming with the e-bike option.

55:19Do a test to my heart? Are you kidding me? I'm fucking stoked. And Jake, you'll come over. I'll make ice cream and we'll sing. Yes, by the way. Can we please do that? Yeah, I'd love to watch that. Please, Sean. Really? I would totally love to do that. Okay. Jake, thank you, buddy. All right, I love you, Jake. Thanks, guys. Love you guys. Bye, pal. Bye. Bye. That was nice to revisit with my old friend. I love him so much. She should have been my guest. He should have been your guest. It's so weird how that always works on our show, right? It's like oftentimes the person, the guest, the person who knows the guest the best usually is not the host.

55:56That's right. It's odd how that works. I don't know. Did you know him, Will, before? Not really. We've hung out once or twice just briefly and such a nice guy. But I don't really know him. And I knew, I'm just doing this because I like all the different apps. I knew. It's a computer, Jason. it's not going to work oh really it's got to be a phone you're on the phone will no i'm on my computer oh wait what it doesn't update you didn't update your computer obviously um but anyway uh so nice i didn't know jb i didn't know that you guys knew each other that way we we hung out we hung out for a bit uh there we got into sort of that bike riding routine for a while and then he got a job or i got a job and we just drifted and never got back on back on the bike um but he He is just a very, very normal, normal guy.

56:47And I think he's gotten younger since I saw him last. Yeah, I know. He looks super young. He looks amazing. Yeah. How old do we think he is? I would have a good time hanging out with him. Well, cool it. He's 43, I'd say. Is he? Oh, wait. He said that, didn't he? Yeah, I think he said 43. Yeah. So he is already that year. I think he's 10 years our junior. I mean, can you believe all he's accomplished in 43 years? It's crazy. Yeah. It's amazing. He's made so many movies. he just goes like, yeah, when I did Donnie Darko, and you're like, oh yeah, Donnie Darko which is a fucking great movie that he just, you know to be able to throw out, like, yeah, I remember doing Donnie, like, that's like, oh yeah, I remember when I was doing this amazing, you know Zodiac, and then fucking Nightcrawler is incredible, if you haven't seen it, yeah, what have we done with our lives, we're just sitting here fucking shit, I know I'm back at home, I've gone full circle, I'm about to get My mom's about to give me shit about the holes in my jeans or something.

57:44You know what I mean? Speaking of going full circle, remember the very beginning of this podcast today? We were talking about Sean's biceps. Bye. We used that one last time. Two in a row with biceps. Bye. Two in a row with biceps. We did biceps last month. They're not going to order in that row. Smart. Smart.

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