The Press Box - Ben Affleck’s Back (and Ben Affleck’s Back) | Tea Time

Episode Date: March 15, 2019

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are courting jail time thanks to Operation Varsity Blues, but was USC worth it? (4:15) J.Lo and A-Rod are finally engaged, but her ring is smaller than his (13:40). 'Triple Frontier' lived up to expectations (21:30), and the 'Aladdin' movie may be better than we thought (28:45). Hosts: Amelia Wedemeyer, Kate Halliwell, and Liz Kelly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer podcast network. With NFL free agency in full swing, the ringers football crew is covering all the major offseason moves on the Ringer NFL show and on the Ringer.com. Also coming this week, we're introducing our new sports rewatchables podcasts running across the network where we break down the most rewatchable games in football, basketball, baseball, and wrestling. Already up on the Bill Simmons podcast feed, you can hear Chris Ryan, Joe House, and Bill Simmons discuss game six of the 2016-16, Western Conference Finals between OKC and the Golden State Warriors.

You can check these out on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, guys, and welcome to Tea Time. This is a weekly pop culture podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm Wes Kelly. I'm Kate Hallow. And I'm Amelia Weddemeier. And today we're going to talk about the J-Rod engagement. And we're going to touch on Operation Varsity Blues.

And then we're going to give a thorough review of Triple Frontier. Every time you hear the bell, we have to change topics. no matter what. And now let's spill the tea. Okay. And before we get into our first category, this is an explicit language warning for nobody but my mom who has... Fine too. We can include her too. Okay. She tells me she's offended and appalled by my language on this podcast. So this is a warning for you, mom. Sorry, Mrs. Kelly. Okay. First category is tea time checks in with. The most important person on tea time is our producer, Kaya McMullen. Kate, we're checking in with her first. We are. Kaya is on a beach in Hawaii.

She's tragically not here. So in case you were listening and you were sensing, like, a sinister presence this week, it's because there's a man in the room, unfortunately. Craig Horlebeck is filling in. Hello. So if this is terrible and the bell cuts us off every three seconds or, you know, anything that goes wrong, we're just going to attribute it to Craig. You're also going to have to sit through a lot of Triple Frontier talk about the male cast.

So I'm sorry about that. Okay. I watched Triple Frontier. Okay. So he's set. Perfect. We miss you so much. We do. Right, next person.

Not quite as good as Kaya, but close. Bree Larson. We talked about her friendship or not friendship with Emma Stone a while back. That's a non-franchure. Now that Captain Marvel's out, we're checking back in with her. She may not have Emma Stone, but her movie made a ton of money. Literally so much money. She showed up at a theater in this Juicy Gatured jumpsuit.

It's custom. It looks like her Captain Marvel jumpsuit. She was like, had a huge thing of popcorn. was like drinking this drink, just strolled in to like all these people. And I just, her movie got so much hate online from so much like bullshit men. Yeah. That I just love to see her like living her best life. Honestly, I would do this too.

If I was a star of a Marvel movie, I too would come up in a sweatsuit, eat popcorn, go to like local movie theaters and just like flex on everybody. Be like, yeah, enjoy my, you know, award winning, whatever, blockbuster. Right. Exactly. All right. Last person we're checking in with. Chrissy Teagan got a hamster and she is struggling.

I know. It's named peanut butter and she loses it like every other day. And she's just, her Twitter feed is just constant, like, peanut butter updates. She's like, we got it. John hates it. And then she's like, we lost her again. We found her again. We lost her again.

She doesn't know how to drink. Is she going to die? It's like this constant, like, feed of hamster struggles. Honestly, the hamster is cute as shit. Have you seen it? Ew, no. It's way too small. I was anti-camster originally.

And now I think it's really cute. I was thinking it was more of a guinea pig size. When I saw it, it was really small. It was really small. Two tweets I want to highlight that were so funny. me. One is I just bought her a two-story glass condo with a hammock, so please stop yelling at me. It's good to be Chrissy Teacan's hamster. And the other one was, they told us we can feed her anything. And my mom said, rice. And they go, no, not rice. Which highlights that the people at

Petco or whoever, like pet store salesmen don't know what the fuck that they're doing. Especially with animals like hamsters. She goes, we are doing your peanut butter on a plate trick to find peanut butter when obviously we're missing again. And she goes, I swear to God, if other critters come out of the woodwork for it, John will vomit and die. John Legend, he deals with so much in that house. I feel like, yeah. It's a struggle. Craig!

He got it. Nice. He's on it. Second category. This is Tea Time Investigates. This is big news, people. This is a juicy story for all the right reasons. Like, nobody got hurt besides, I guess, the American public that's applying to college, they got hurt.

It's the perfect celebrity scandal. It's the one that we needed after this Michael Jackson. Yeah. All the ones that were really horrible. Jesse Smollet. Yeah. This is Operation Varsity Blues. Amelia, do you want to start at a high level what happened?

Okay, so they, you know what, they recap it really well on damage control. Yeah, they like really went into it on damage control as week. You should listen to that. But pretty much what happened was that there was like this fake, well, actually was real, I guess, college admissions thing. And it's called like the key club where this guy pretty much helps the children of the rich and famous get into. Apparently USC is a top college. Not that it wasn't, but they pay money so this person can either Photoshop their head onto pictures of athletes and bribe the coaches of these top schools or they literally pay someone like the person administering the test of like the entity or SOT. Yeah, the proctors. Yeah, they bribe them to, what was it, like just give them more time and correct the tests for them.

They gave the whole system for their idiotic, rich children, not to be too mean. But the people that have gone down as Felicity Hoffman, which is hilarious. And not William H. Macy, which I have questions about. Because he's listened in. Right. So I read that the reason, so he was on the phone calls with her, but he wasn't actually, like, involved in the transaction. So, like, they didn't have enough, apparently they didn't have enough, like, paperwork evidence, like, tying him to the actual transaction. He was just, like, aware of it happening and, like, on the phone, which is some bullshit, if you asked me.

Yeah. And Lori Lachlan is the other one Who paid for her daughter Instagram influencer Olivia Jade Who's been publicly like I hate school Yeah My parents are making me go to college

For the parties and the game days Yeah girl we know I know And she goes to USC which again UC is actually a great school I could not I could not get into USC But I'm just saying if you're going to pay a lot of money Why not shoot for the stars

Go for Harvard, Stanford You know Do I dig Yeah yeah it's that's baffling to me honestly Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of juicy details here. The photoshopping is wild. The fact that all these many 18-year-olds are also Instagram influencers,

this girl is losing sponsors by Sephora and Amazon. She has a lose the Sephora? Sephora, yeah. It's in the words. It's done. Oh, my God. That's incredible. And her dad is the Mossimo Target guy.

Yeah, Mossimo Supply Co. Shout out from half my closet. If you've ever bought like a black sweater from Target, It's probably Any T-shirt from Target Yeah, I can't wait to see how this unfolds Incredible. The other thing I need to investigate

is country music as a genre. Yes. Where to begin? Where to begin? For background, I went to school in the South. I spent all four years hating country music. Like, it came on at every single party

I was at. I refused to listen to it. Something weird has happened now where country music is very good and it started with Casey Musgraves. A friend introduced me to the album, Golden Hour. That entire album is amazing.

It's so good. And then I was on a long drive and someone played My Church by Marin Morris. That song is so good. Marin Morris is great. Amazing. But do you see the key here? It's the women. Right. I mean, true. And it's I think it's like country pop. Yeah. Right. Kind of. You know, it's not like twang-y. Like I'm going to... That is true. It's like country pop-up. Yeah. It's true. It's new album is extremely good. Have you listened to it? It's so good. Oh, I listened to a girl, which is a new single that came out. Yeah. The less Blake Shelton, the better. I'm all for all the female... Bring it. Yeah. Also, you have here the last. that Leighton Meester is working on a country album? Oh yeah. She was on the April cover of shape. And she said, she was like, it's a labor of love. It's like a slow process. But she is working on the Star of Country Strong. I know big times. Can't go a single episode that I'm talking about Country Strong. Absolutely not. I know it's in her. She's a great country artist. So I'm excited for that. Great stuff. Nice work. Okay. Okay. This is this week in social media. Kate, start us off.

Chris Evans, you know, always doing the most on Twitter. Usually with good results. There's this chip ranking that's going around where these, it's actually extremely funny. These guys posted this video of like those, those individual like chip packages where it's like lays, Cool Ranch, Doritos, Fritos, Barbicue Lays where it's like a party pack. And they ranked all of them. And it's like this two minute video where they're just going back and forth. So Chris Evans, as he, you know, tends to do and he had to weigh in. And so he ranked the chips. He says the correct answer is number one, Cool Ranch, which really just tested by loyalty right there. But we'll come back to that. Number one, Cool Ranch, number two, Cheetos,

Doritos. The fact that he describes them that way is also offensive to me. They're just regular Doritos. Number four, Fritos, number five, barbecue lays. Number six, original lays. First of all, Chris Evans, there is a Captain America version of Cool Ranch Doritos that was like circled around a while back. So he was technically involved in that campaign, and so I'm wondering if that's why he put Cool Ranch first like he had to do it, and he doesn't really feel that way. The only thing he got right was putting original lays as dead last. I strongly disagree with that. You like those original A's tips?

What did you put it on your list? Okay, I have my ranking. I think regular Doritos are first. Then I had original lays. Then I had barbecue lays. Cheetos, Fritos, cool ranch. Fritos is so low. Wow.

That's an abomination. Fritos is my favorite. Are you broke? Oh, my God. I'm going to walk out of this room. No taste whatsoever. Fritos are low-key game changers. They're so good.

Okay, I'll tell you and my grandpa, both of whom love Fritos. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay. Also, what's happening on social media is Miley Cyrus has been on an absolute tear. She's been throwing back tons of photos. It started on International Women's Day on her Instagram. She's posting photo, like old, like at awards and stuff like that.

Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Emma Roberts, Ashley Tisdale. Katie Perry and her I kissed her girl phase. And originally this scared me because the last time she really did this on social media, She, like, was on a lot of drugs and she shaved her head. But it seems to so she's just having a lot of fun now with her, like, 80-some million Instagram followers. People are loving it, including her ex-Nex Jonas, which she also posted about. I'm really, really, really here for it. It's really fun.

She's, like, really playing into, like, kind of like, what people want and, like, all of her followers want. What I specifically want. What Liz Kelly specifically wants? Yeah. She tweeted, like, My Generation Equals Seven Things, which is her song, Seven Things I Hate About You. And then your Generation Seven Rings, the Ariana Grande song. And it struck me right in the heart. My generation is seven things

I hate a video. I really is. I love that song. Okay. Also on Instagram, this is less exciting for me to talk about. There's been an insane amount

of romance on that app since it started, but like I feel like in the last year as part of like movie campaigns and like press tours. They're leveraging the bromance for money. It's got to stop. What came up this week was

I forgot that they were Scream Queen co-stars. This is Nick Jonas and John Stamos. They're going back and forth like basically I think John Stamos wore a Jonas Brothers t-shirt at the American Music Awards. And then now, you know, when you take a photo and then you print that photo and it gets smaller and smaller. It's a very popular bromance trick. Yes, it is. Yeah.

I'm not here for it. I'm also not here for any other bromance that's happening on Instagram, which is like Ryan Reynolds and everybody. Absolutely not. Yeah. The person and I know I'm going to get shit for this, the only good bromance I find is John Mullaney and Pete Davidson. Because they're good influences on each other. They are. I find.

But yeah, terrible bromances on Instagram. Plus, Domilini and Pete Davidson are just doing it to be funny because, like, they clearly think they're really funny. Whereas all these other ones

are being, like, leveraged for, like, campaigns. Like, Amelia mentioned the Marvel bromances. The whole entire Marvel romance. It's all just a campaign now. They just want, like, oh, like they're tweeting back forth

at each other. And like, Jake Dillon-Hall and Tom Holland, you mentioned. Jake Dillan-Hall literally on Instagram for Spider-Man, which they're now promoting. Yeah, exactly. It's just for Spider-Man.

Yeah. It's crazy. I, you know, I love Chris Evans, but his whole thing with Robert Downey Jr. I'm just like, all right, makes he so mad. It happens on Twitter more with the Marvel PDAs. And they loop in literally everyone. Like they're like, Mark Ruffalo, sure. They did it with the chips thing, too.

He was tweeting a Don Cheeto about it. I'm like, okay, fucking, it's just chips. And you get like 52,000 retouches. Right, because the staff are crazy. I know. And they're just like, oh my God. Maybe when they're wrong. Maybe 52,000 plus people are like like these things, but I refuse.

Well, it's just so fake. I mean, I guess they're good at, you know, marketing. Planning the narrative. Yeah, around this. But it's just like, read between the lines, it's fake. Also, I feel strongly that this is, it's Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake's fault. That's who got us here. You're right.

And it's because they originally did the thing where they were like taking pictures of each other holding their mugs with their face on it. That was like years ago. Like in like 2015, like their bromance was like the thing. It's their fault. It was like this huge thing people could not get enough of their romance. And now everyone else is trying to do that too. We've solved it. Yeah. Okay. This is T-Times' biggest relationship news ever. I feel like sometimes we're really grasping for straws in this category. Nope. Two legitimately large things happen. An embarrassment of riches, honestly. Absolutely. The first thing, J-Lo and A-Rod got engaged.

Yeah. Congrats. Finally. Yeah. A-Rod proposed to J-Low over the weekend in the Bahamas. There on some lavish vacation. They recently celebrated their second anniversary. I feel like they've been together for so much more. I want to talk about the ring. The ring is beautiful. It's the size of what? Like a small country.

It's huge. And I'm confused. I've been reading a lot about this for this tea time podcast and no other reason. And there are so many different reports on how much this ring cost. There's some that say it's worth $1.4 million. And then there's some that are saying it's five. And Kate and I were talking about this before the recording. How can no one know?

Why can't someone fucking figure it out? It's like one single diamond. Right. It's one big ass diamond. Right. This one's so, it's not Katie Perry's like flower engagement ring with like seven different stones shaped like a flower, different colors. Oh, we can't even tell what color it is. Right.

I'm like, this is literally one diamond is. Someone figured out. I don't know why this is so confusing to people. Although it's possible that they were blinded by Arod's ring when he was proposing because he wore his World Series ring, which is some bullshit. Who does that? That's like Arod. Yeah, literally of all people, it would be him. It's so obvious in the pictures.

You cannot like tear your eyes away from it. I'm like, you know your hands. are going to be right there. And, like, you're just casually wearing that on a beach. Oh, no. Yeah. Come on. Do you think she was pissed that her hair was pulled back in, like, a low bun?

I was wondering that, too. Because you're obviously in some evening stroll. They're on the beach, which your hair gets all messed up when you're on the beach. And she's got long hair at the moment. True. I'm wondering, because you know it's J-Lo. Like, she wants everything to be absolutely perfect. She wasn't, you're right.

She wasn't, like, coiffed enough where I was like, oh, she knew. Right, right. And she was in, like, flat sandals. I don't know. I feel like she's too casual. But I have a new theory about J-Lo because of her Joanna Gaines relationship. I think she wants to create a lifestyle brand. A rebrand.

Yes. And I think, you know, with the Ben Affle— Not to bring up Ben-athlet again, but, like, when they were together— You'll get your time later. Okay, thank you. Like, Jenny from the block, but now she's like a big star. And now she's like, she wants to go back to, like, I'm, you know, a homemaker. I'm relatable.

I'm relatable. I'm BFF with Joanna Gaines. Like, I love Driftwood and. I'm very, like, rustic. on the ocean, right? So now she's like embracing that. Yeah. And we're going to see her lifestyle brand like come to Target or something within the next like 18 months.

This is genius. I love it. I think, yeah, less Maria Carrie, she's trying to. Yes. Which she was getting close to that data status. That's a smart. That's a smart pivot. Absolutely.

All right. Other big relationship news is that Chance the Rapper got married to his longtime girlfriend, Kristen Corley in Newport Beach. Looked so beautiful. It's like very traditional wedding. Very traditional. Famous people were there. Dave Chappelle was there.

I'm more famous or more notorious was Kim, Kay, and Kanye. They showed up so late that they were not allowed to sit in on the ceremony. That's good. They had to stand 50 yards back with the ushers and the party planners. They're so far back. If it wasn't for the helicopters that were hovering around this event, we would not have even seen them. 50 yards, first of all, is so far away. They're not even close.

They're not even like behind the back row. They're like fully like another, like the length of the chairs. Like so far back. And you know that Kim and Connie were fighting that entire car ride from Calabasas to Newport Beach. Oh my God. You made me like your hair took forever, blah, blah. This is a huge fight. Did they stay in the back from the dress?

Yes, they had to. They stood next like this big ass bouncer looking guy looking super pissed. I am surprised they didn't just leave. Yeah. Yeah, that actually makes more sense. Because they came after the bride. They started. They came after the ceremony actually started.

Like, what do you expect? I know. That's so bad. The other cute thing is that Chance Expe is. fully how these two met. It's so sweet. He said that they met originally when they were nine years old. His dad, his parents took them to an office, like one of their office parties.

And then like another child, like girl group, like sang a Destiny's Child song and danced to Destiny's Child song. And he like locked eyes with this like other nine-year-old girl and was like, I'm going to marry this girl. Oh, my God. That's like love actually. I know. And it was too nervous when he was a child to come up and introduce her.

And they only put all these things together like years later when they actually met. What? I know. That's crazy. That's real. Okay, congrats to them. Okay, one of my favorite categories is not worth the tea. This is a good one this week. Amelia, start us off.

Okay, so this is kind of old. It's like a week old. Farah Abraham from teen mom. She now has, I guess, like a guest column on Penthouse magazine. They're kind of a brand penthouse. Yeah, so why not Farah? Anyway, she called Joan Didion a... gin-drinking boar who writes convoluted books.

Damn! And she wrote this entire article just to drag Joan Didion. And Fair Abraham, for those who are unfamiliar, I hope everyone is. I hope she falls into obscurity. Even I am. It is a teen mom, right, graduate that now is just like gotten so much plastic surgery. She's unrecognitioned. It's insane. But I just want to say that my favorite part of this is she, at the end, she

name drops her own book. I was like, you should read my book instead. Jesus Christ. Pray for Fair Abraham. Other things not worth the tea is Zach Ephron's Panini Beard. No. So his movie Beach Bonn with Matthew McConaughey debuted a couple days ago at South by Southwest. And the reason this came up is because they're answering questions.

And you guys have got to see this picture. Look it up. We really can't do it justice. It's horrific. And it was, he has a beard that is, I don't know what you say, shaved in a... It's like shaved in like horizontal lines. Like he looks like grill marks on his taste. Like someone took a Panini maker twice and just pressed on it.

It's, okay, do you remember back in like 2008 when those sunglasses that Kanye wore? They were like the blinds. It looks like someone took those sunglasses and just like slap them on his face and then cut around it. His hair also looks insane because he's got like some blonde, orangey top and then the dark greeners on the body. He looks like that riffraff rapper. Yeah. It's horrible. Everything about it is bad.

And I don't want to know. I don't know. If anything is rap is, anyway, continue. Okay, other things not worth the tea. Okay, this next one, you guys, I was 24 pages deep into just jarred.com looking for fucking info for this podcast. And I stumbled upon Joey Fatome's new tattoo. It's absolutely horrible. He went on the Masked Singer and dressed as a big, giant, scary rabbit.

And he tattooed on his entire back calf, this rabbit looks so bad. He also had to shave his legs. It just looks so weird. And why would you commemorate? I don't know why that was such a pivotal moment for Joey Faton. That was on the mass singer. Yeah. And like didn't win.

I need answers. This is also unanswerable. Just for the record, Liz and I both found this independent of each other and both put it in the dock and then realized it was in there twice. It has to be discussed. You guys need to look this too. He also Instagrammed it and said... It's horrifying. At this tattoo artist Zoe Taylor did a killer job on the rabbit.

She's deaf one of the best. Oh, my God. You guys. Okay, moving on. Last thing, not worth the tea. Kate. Extremely not worth the tea. Scarlett Johansson is on the cover of the Vogue Global Issue this week.

There are two covers. It's like different actions from all over the world. but she's representing the U.S. on a cover with two Asian actresses, Dunabay and Deepika Paducon. And it's just like, think about that for two seconds about having Scarlett Johansson represent the U.S. in the middle of a cover with two other Asian actresses.

Her entire thing is that she takes away representation from other people. And the thing is that they're actresses transcending borders. Oh. You're like, yes, Scarlett Johansson is perfect. Who thought about that? If only like Emma Stone was photoshopped on that. Right. Oh, my God.

I'm like, those are the two that you don't do for that. this. Like anyone else. People's lack of common sense is absolutely astounding to me. All it had to be was an American actress. Yeah, absolutely. Just stupid. Okay, we've been waiting for this all episode.

I'm really proud of us for holding out. Amelia, you briefly mentioned Ben Affleck, but we've held it together. Okay, where you need to do a spoiler warning real quick. Oh, yes, yes, yes. We're going to review Triple Frontier. We preview it last week. But if anyone hasn't watched it, we cannot discuss it without discussing a certain pivotal scene.

Right. So if you haven't watched Triple Frontier yet, go do that immediately, and then just like skip to the end of this podcast because it's got to get in, like, very in depth. Yeah. Okay. All three of us watch it. Craig, you watch it too, right? I did, yeah.

Okay. Give it a rating out of 10 first. I say it's a four. Savage. In terms, like, I didn't expect. It was exactly what I expected. Like, it literally was exactly what I expected to be. Okay.

I thought it was better than what I was just like, this is just going to be like. Okay. So we have like the full spectrum here of reactions. I enjoyed it. I had a good time. I watched it in a group full of like screaming girls. And first of all, no one knew what Triple Frontier was and heard of it. And they're like, oh my God, movie night.

Come over, turn it on. They were so upset for the first like 45 minutes. Why? Because it's like, you know, the first half of the movie is like really just like rugged action. Did you watch the trailer? Nobody did. I did. I also forgot.

I thought it was going to be like a little bit more. I thought those scenes were well, Corey Brown. They told us exactly what to expect from this movie. I don't know. You were surprised, then you weren't paying attention. I ignored it. I ignored it. Okay, so one thing that we didn't know

what to expect from this movie is something that happens about two-thirds of the way through. Amelia, just say it, just get it out there. Freaking A, Ben Affleck dies. He gets shot in the fucking face. And they linger on the face. It's not, it's bad.

And then for the next 40 minutes to the remaining of the movie, he is drag-dribed in a body bag. And they just occasionally just like, shoot the body bag itself, just like laying there. It's like a camel body bag. like just they're like

it was a savage man to die I was also not expecting that in anyway I thought Charlie Hunnam was gonna die because he also was shot early in the movie I thought Garrett Headlin was going to die

because they didn't give him a nickname Oh yeah that would have been tough Also he was just like really like happy the whole time Yeah We knew somebody was gonna die I don't think any of us thought it was gonna be absolutely not

I was shocked and honestly thrilled That's rude That's a personal attack He literally gets like at close range In the fucking face He does and you see it coming and you're like, and then it just fucking happens.

And then they're like, hold him and like look at him for a really long time and his eyes are open. Oh my God, his eyes like roll back in his head and you're like, oh God. I liked a little time they did spend

on like the actual morning of him. I feel like Oscar Isaac did one like, no! And then he just completely moved on, wrapped him up and then kept going. The only person who was like actually sad was like Garrett Headland. Yeah, she was like rocking him a little bit.

He was like, thinking of getting shot, my biggest problem with this movie, Kate and we're discussing earlier, Charlie Hottom gets shot in the stomach And he still does not take off his shirt. He keeps his vest on and his t-shirt and it's like 10 other layers. We don't get one single ab.

We don't get like a side ab. No. He shot literally in the stomach. You can't show us one single inch of his stomach. Whose decision was that? Was there not one female? I was like, just lifted up a little bit. It's a little bit.

You have to bandage it up. Yeah. Exactly. It's unsanitary is what it is. Yeah. Garrett Henlin was briefly shirtless though. So we did. Chris Ryan told us.

Chris Ryan said no one was going to be shirtless. So that was a nice surprise. But I will say this. You should work out a little more. Think about what you're about to say about Ben Affleck and consider. Ben Affleck was easily $250 that movie. Gary Bedlin looked amazing. Jen Affleck's dad bod is in the peak performance.

It's a grandpa bought Amelia. He's got the tucked in polo at one point. I described him as like the hottest guy working at a Best Buy. Like maybe true. Like the assistant manager at a Best Buy. I'm so into it. Like, maybe. Okay, who are the actors that, this is what we call, like, actors who went and screamed

at their agents on the phone being like, why the fuck wasn't I put up for this role? Who are these actors? Well, the person who inspired this, this debate. Chris Pratt. Chris fucking Pratt. Because he was wearing, what, an America. An America jacket. It was an America hat the other day.

He was probably doing it out of, like, protest. Yes. You didn't cast me. Like, look what you could have had. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he definitely wishes he was in this movie. What role would he have been, though? I was thinking about that.

Charlie Hunnam? would have won't, he thinks he was Charlie Henneman. Right, yeah, exactly, exactly. I personally think Scott Eastwood and Glenn Powell were also pissed. Those are great. They could have both either been like Charlie Hennam or probably Garrett Hedlin, probably Garrett Hedlin's character, and they're both pissed. Yeah.

Like they've done like a bunch of... I like him too, but he was in like Expendables 3 or something. Was he really? I also think Tom Hardy and like John Krasinski's new body would have been over in this movie. I don't want John Krasinski as an action star though. No, I'm actually against that as well. But you know he was pissed. Yeah, he was pissed, too.

And also, last thing that we have to do, Andrew Gradaara wrote an extremely funny which triple friend to your character are, you blog. And so I said that we have to, we have to decide because it was honestly very in depth. It's kind of like one of those BuzzFeed quizzes, but like good. And so the only thing that I know in this world is that Amelia is Ben Affleck's character. No question. I wrote down some reasoning. Okay.

Go for it. So on Andrew's blog, these are. were the things that he said you were if you identify as Redfly, which is Ben Affleck's character. Immune to reason. True. Heavy breathing. Check. Which Amelia always runs into the room from a meeting or something.

It's always like, okay. And then like opens her laptop. So I was like, that feels right. Very open to cold-blooded murder, which, you know, just some of the things you say on this podcast. Every now and then, like, there's a scene in Triple Frontier where Ben Affleck's like, oh, like, we can fit all the money on the helicopter. her, but then he's like, ooh, but the 100-pound girl, like, I don't know about her. And I was like, that's the same energy, you know? It's the same energy.

Thank you. And then, you know, he just sighs a lot and groans a lot in this movie. I realize that I do that a lot. You do. A lot of, like, pause, and then you're like, oh. Yeah. You know? I do.

It's a lot of, like, gutter-roll. If you need a reminder, go to our Triple Frontier preview from last week. Amelia's just like, oh, like you do the whole episode. There's a lot of that. And then Liz and I were kind of stuck. I thought Liz was Charlie Hunton's character. you follow rules you're very organized Andrew's blog said that he's the most honorable one on the team

which I feel like is right for you I see myself being this only because I would definitely be the first person to get shot I was him an easy target feels right they also he also said are you without a doubt the best looking member of your group no comment on that but I feel like we can agree

and then are you constantly keeping tabs on your bro's belongings making sure they don't leave anything behind that's Liz for sure and also she's usually low key but she can be volatile when provoked. Like Charlie Honey Honeymo maybe like chokes someone out in a grocery store. And anytime we go after Pete Davidson,

you never know who's going to come over that table. Who are you, Kate? Did you diagnose yourself? You know, I struggled. I thought maybe Oscar Isaac, I have bad knees. I make suggestions that sometimes I'm like, maybe that wasn't the way to go. Also on Oscar Isaac's description

and says, have you ever convinced yourself that a plan is going to work despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary? And I feel like me and you convince ourselves a lot that things are going to work out and they're not. And they don't. Not. Yeah, I can see that for you. Living in denial. Yeah, go watch the movie. Okay, our last category is T-Times' most unanswerable question of the week.

Amelia straight us off. Okay, so the Aladdin trailer dropped. It was like a full trailer. We got to see, you know, Will Smith and all his blue body. Creepy. And I actually thought he didn't look as bad, like in motion maybe. Yeah. Honestly, like, I was in everything except him I thought looked good in this trailer. Like, I'm going to go see this movie. Yeah, no. It's like colorful, fun. It's got songs. Like, that's all it takes for me. Love a good song.

Yeah. Which is why I listen. I'm so easily pleased, okay? I just, and I was listening to it and I was like, oh my gosh, I remember a whole new world. I love that song. So my question is, and this is for everyone listening, obviously, which Disney song is the best song? You're a Disney snob, so I want to hear your thoughts first. Amelia briefly worked for Disney.

So you need to. It was like nearly three years of turmoil, but... Just kidding. Kidding. Well, see, I don't... No, I can't decide. It's hard. You have too many.

That's why it's unanswerable? You have too many? I've like, yeah. Interesting. If you were going to listen to one right now. Well, now I want to listen to a whole new world because we were just talking about it. It's a classic. It's really good.

It's really good. It's an Oscar winner. I feel like that one in the circle of life are like the two that everyone thinks are the best. Oh, yes. Sure. I personally think I'll make a man out of you from Milan is the best Disney song. That's good. that's unfair because it's such a good scene too. Yeah, it's like a training montage.

I know. But also like, it's so good. It's so catchy. I like, I won't say I'm in love in Hercules. That's a great one. Because those women in court, like, choir is so great. The muses. Yeah.

Well, and I just shout out to Alan Mankin, who is the composer. He is an icon. He's incredible. He's won like eight Oscars. As he should. Because he's so talented. As he should. Good for you, Alan.

Yeah. Okay. My unanswerable question is, what? higher power has failed us so severely that we did not get a Stevie Nicks cameo in Game of Thrones. Honestly. We get Ed Shearing, but not Stevie Nix. So the context for this is on Wednesday night, Flewwood Mac, they're on a big tour right now. They performed in Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center. And Stevie Nix, every time before she plays landslide, she dedicates it to somebody in the audience.

And every time there's some gigantic famous person there. So she didn't name this person, like she didn't identify this person, but she dedicated to a special member of the audience, but didn't want to call him out so that like the mobs, like, didn't go after him. But she said she toasted to her favorite dragon king. And then she said, they really should have cast me as his mother. And then was like, oh, well, too late. The fact that Stevie Nix could have been Kit Harrington's mother in Game of Thrones was such a missed opportunity. It was.

It would have been picturing her. She's like so a wreathry, like, witchy, kind of like. But she would have just like given birth to him and died in a bed. Oh, damn. Oh, which character should she should be? Yeah, I knew you didn't know when you put this on here. Which character should she be? Oh, the Redhead Girl, the mom of all of the people?

No, well, I mean, she could have done that. The article that Euling says she would have been a great Melisandra, which I agree with, like enchantress, you know, wearing a lot of cloaks. True. That's what I want from Stevie Nix. True. Also, my other question was, do you think Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie, who was with him, know what New Jersey is? Like, how did they end up in New Jersey? They're touring all across the country and all over the world.

Maybe they're just like Jersey? We know Jersey. Why did they end up there? What were they doing in New Jersey? I mean, granted, yeah. The easy answer is that they were in New York City and then travel because the dates lined up. I don't accept that. I believe they're in New Jersey for a specific reason.

I just don't know why. I think they got, well, because New Jersey is like from Jersey in Britain. They just thought it would be like, oh, this is a cute little fake town. Okay. Okay. So it's like how people go to like the Cotswolds in England. Like you want like a cute little authentic. Yeah.

Like that's not London. Do you think they liked New Jersey? I have no idea. I've actually never been, have you? We'll do Tea Time Investigates next week. the Newark Airport. Okay. Interesting.

If any of you guys have questions, I mean, answers to these questions, please let us know. All right. Craig. Oh, I ding.

He's asleep on the desk. It's the last thing. The episode is over. So I ding and then, okay. Yeah. Wow, we almost made it all the way through

that of Craig, back up. Craig, that was the last category. I didn't know there was a ding at the end because you're not moving on. God. If only you listen to T-Time. Honestly,

you clearly does. All right. Anyway, this has been T-Time with Al-Qaeda Mick Mullen with Craig Whirlbeck instead. Thank you for listening. I'm Ms. Kelly. I'm Kate Howell and I'm Amelia Wattuck. Kai, we miss you.