The Reel Rejects - RATATOUILLE (2007) MOVIE REVIEW – DIDN’T EXPECT TO BE THIS EMOTIONAL! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

ANYONE CAN COOK!! Ratatouille Full Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Start your online business with a $1 per-month trial when you visit https://www.shopify.com/rejects! Gift Someone (Or Yourself) An RR Tee! https://shorturl.at/hekk2 Greg, Coy, & Jon check out one of Pixar's ALL-TIME Greatest, giving their Ratatouille Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Spoiler Review! Greg Alba, Coy Jandreau, & Jon Maturan react to Ratatouille (2007), Pixar’s beloved culinary fairy tale directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol). Set against the romantic backdrop of Paris, the film celebrates creativity, passion, and the idea that greatness can come from anywhere—even a kitchen rat with a dream. Patton Oswalt (The King of Queens, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) voices Remy, a food-obsessed rat with an extraordinary sense of taste and smell who longs to become a chef. His unlikely partnership with garbage boy Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano – Cars, Monsters, Inc.) leads to some of the film’s most iconic moments, including the ingenious hair-pulling cooking sequences and the frantic kitchen chaos as Remy secretly runs the restaurant from above. The cast is rounded out by Ian Holm (The Lord of the Rings, Alien) as culinary idol Chef Gusteau, Janeane Garofalo (The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Wet Hot American Summer) as the tough but talented Colette Tatou, and Peter O’Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, Troy) as the feared critic Anton Ego. Follow Jon Maturan: https://www.instagram.com/jonmaturan/?hl=en Follow Coy Jandreau:  Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh, my God. I don't, that was like a first time watch for M1. I only remember. I remembered one scene. It was the scene of him taking a bite. Because when you guys asked what I remembered, it was the feeling of like lost love and how that applied to the present. like whatever I said in the beginning, it was from that one bite.

So it's really funny that this whole movie was like a blank slate. And then a bite. And the visuals were so strong. It seared into my mind. So I was like, how do we get to that guy for taking a bite? And then it hit. I was like,

oh my God. Wow. So yeah, effectively a first time watch. That was 99% new. That was awesome. That was an awesome time. If you guys might do the full reaction watch long,

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Is it something to do with overcoming beliefs? I guess. I don't know. I didn't expect this, like, reaction. I mean, kind of, but not really, but I don't know. I can't articulate right now because it's freaking, I'm like flowing through with emotion right now. Sorry, I don't know. Don't be sorry.

That's actually like the perfect sentiment for what we just experienced it. The whole point is to feel. I mean, yeah, I was, I was like yesterday, I'm like, oh, yeah, Koi and I and you were watching Rattitude. And I want this movie to break me. And I was like, joking. Yeah, yeah, we were literally wouldn't like that. I don't think it's that kind of movie. And yeah, I, yeah, give me a second, you know, process.

Yeah, we can be quiet for a little bit, man, we can give you some space. Yeah, I mean, I mean, you guys seem like to enjoy it. That's good. I mean, I'm happy that you guys enjoyed it. Greg, you want to, uh, we just sit here for a little bit, honestly. I don't have to like just chit-chat. Just be quiet for a little bit. Um, yeah, I'm trying to gather, like, all my, all my thoughts.

Um, I'm, like, sweating, too. Your whole body's like, I have felt and I will feel. Um, I mean, yeah, going into it, I knew, like, Pixar movies are moving. Um, I think every Pixar movie that I have seen, there's some that I haven't. I've teared up and, like, you know, experience. some movement of emotion but

I think it hit I remember the one scene that got me choked up immediately and I was like damn already was when Remy first made the soup

and then the female critic in the very beginning tastes it the reason why I got emotional there was like there was a recognition of of like potential that you don't see yourself

until someone else recognizes it. And it's it hits home to a certain degree. I don't want to go like a deep psychoanalysis because we can be here for hours. I mean, that's what movies do. Might as well. I think that was...

It won't stop. Like, I don't know why. It's like a faucet. Oh, my brother. Oh, man. No. But yeah, I think that's one way I can articulate at this point. I mean, yeah, you've known...

It's like I'm also sweating. So it's like my shirt is wet. But yeah, just growing up with the low self-esteem and like, yeah, this... Again, there's a sense of recognizing something that you don't see in yourself. and like yeah it just felt really profound to see that in anything whether it be a movie

television or whatever so yeah I'm over consumed with emotion right now and like I didn't expect it to have kick in so so much like in the beginning I was like all right cool I'm feeling that's good and then the end

I don't know what trigger that I'm trying to figure out the seed that triggered it all at the end Jesus Christ You are very wet You are like It's just anything we can see it's right Yeah All of you experienced it

It's not just your eyes crying Whatever the opposite intellectualized You're forehead's crying You got like some sweat beans rolling down here Yeah this is weird I didn't I didn't expect to sweat too My arms are wet that's so weird No, yeah, I think that was...

Who needs the sauna when you got ready to? That's so weird. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think it definitely is just that sentiment. I'm trying to think what else triggered it. Any other talking points you guys can't? I'm trying to figure, like, again, articulating is difficult at the moment, but... Well, I mean, from what's touching you, I would say that, like, yeah, The idea of usually something like love or belief is the kind of thing that moves me too,

because I do know what it's like to have limiting beliefs and then have it to overcome that and know what you're kind of labeled as is the thing that people expect you to be. And then they set like a limitation on you. And then with that limitation, it only takes you who can overcome it. But sometimes it takes the support of someone believing in you where you could overcome this thing. and I respect you a lot for showing your heart for this moment because that's the whole point of something like this movie's about art. This movie is about creation. And if the whole point of it is to follow your heart with it all, then I think feeling that feeling and learning how to run with it in your own real life is kind of the thing that you have to do.

So if you're being moved this much, that means there's something like you can logically compute a lot of this stuff. but if your heart is like actually feeling it. Sure. Receiving that and moving with it in life in some ways. Something you don't want to like forget. You want to feel that and keep going in a lot of ways, you know? Oh yeah, I agree. I'm still sweating too.

How are you feeling, Coy? You know, I love, I really love Pixar films for being celebrations of art, and they do it in really interesting ways. I personally like Toy Story and, well, Toy Story always lines up with like a phase in my life. in a very interesting way. Like that series has always kind of hit right at the age where it like feels like a must. And then the nature of Pixar starting their whole journey there. Like I was nine, I think, when Toy Story came out.

And I remember that being like the exact right age to be really connected. And then Toy Story 2 was two years later. And it was them growing up by a couple years. And I just think of Pixar as this entity that's always felt important. I think Pixar is like how I think other people perceive like Disney as a whole. whole like I I love Aladdin I love Lion King I love Emperor's New Groove but the Disney obsession like the people that have tattoos the people that go to Disney world every day like the there's like this cult of Disney and Pixar in its heyday I

definitely think of as like the closest emotional connection I had to animation to that scale where it's like all encompassing so I say all that to say expectations were high because I watched this in a very emotionally vulnerable time and it's interesting what I remembered. So I was curious about going into this at a new phase in my life. I was a year out of high school and now I'm 20 years out of high school.

And when I rewatch Pixar it is always a marker of that time in my life for me because I emotionally connect to the time and the experience. So I found it really interesting. What I remembered from this is that one bite, that one scene. And

now I think the thing that hit me most is the critic saying like, we don't create. Who the fuck are we to judge stuff? Like, we're not making risks. That's something I say all the time. I literally say I don't want to review things I didn't enjoy because I can't make even the worst

movie. Who am I to call it bad if I didn't risk putting myself out there? And it's so interesting, I didn't remember that element of that bite. I didn't have any context for that. So it's interesting, you know, I was a year out of high school and I was about a year away from moving to L.A. to be an actor. And I was

already sag at 2007. I was already working. I was already an actor. And that's something I didn't succeed at. And I became this, whatever this job is. And it is something that I judge. Like, I judge this job because I don't like people that profit off people ripping art

apart. I don't enjoy the fact that I'm put in that category of that. And it was interesting to see a movie where that's the antagonist and also jealousy is such a factor because I'm a person I experienced jealous. but I am especially juxtaposing John's experience fascinated by like how like I felt my walls like I

am really aware that I'm in a place where I'm like very protecting myself and I like felt moments where I like identified with other characters and was like not today Satan like I just like um and and full disclosure uh this is the first like we watched Wonder Man. And this is the first full new thing. We've watched since I lost my cat. And like seeing a little animal would be cute. I think it made me be like,

like I think the walls were like as soon as we saw like a little big eyed adorable creature that was furry. Every part of me was like, you. So I think I just like shelled up. So my review is I'll always remember where Pixar hits me and always remember revisiting it because of the emotional connection, I really enjoyed the

connectivity I had to the critic, and I find it really interesting that my brain while protecting itself and my emotions was like, you can only connect with the villain today. That's interesting. And fascinating. That's crazy. That's my psychoanalysis of myself in Ratatouille.

The movie itself, exceptional. We'll get more into that, but that was my first thought was like, what an interesting thing to watch myself watch. Well, Well, what if there was, here's the conceit of when people do reactions. Some people want reactions videos where it's like they want the people on the camera to completely freak. It's like, of course, everyone who films a reaction, I don't care who the hell you watch.

They're aware that there is a camera there. In some capacity, you're going to be slightly, you're going to be aware. Whether, and if some, the closest you come to that, lack of awareness is when you're alone. you know when you're alone and you're like oh yeah there's a camera here um so my question is then if there i know that's one of the like jokes you've had a lot of because i've i've heard coy cry for the first time a few times in the past uh week and the my my question i'm capable if there was yeah what if there wasn't this would do you think you would have watched it differently yeah yeah um look

Because it resonated emotionally like I was eating a steak with a comment on my tongue. Like, it was like, like, like, that a comment feels like feelings. Like the awareness of fucking. Making this kid's movie movie so hard to them. I try to make a little mental markers in my head. What time step are we? I don't want to mute this exactly. I'm trying to think of like a better metaphor.

There's like a, there's an awareness of me that is aware of a, of a, of a, of a, of a, of a, barrier, a disconnect, a separation. Like, it was still a pleasant experience, but I was very aware of, like, a, um, like, I put myself in like a kitty pool. Like, I put myself in like a, in like, like, the, like, I didn't let myself wade into the full

experience. I was very aware that I was staying where it was safe. Oh, yeah. So, like, I think that was an interesting experience of, like, this definitely was emotionally affecting, but it was like, watching it through sunglasses. Like, I was very aware of, like, a distance. Uh, that's the piece. G cut you can use that

yeah through sunglasses well yeah you're does that make sense well you mean you're at a point where you're more selective too I think with like when or who to show those sides of you two if you're feeling a certain way right so like you're in a room with like us you don't really know John

it doesn't stop John I know but I love that emotional availability though like I think it's really beautiful in a film that is so much about emotion and connecting and letting walls down and being yourself that and like I I got to watch myself not and I like that I was able to market because I yeah what what you just asked about was this different experience was clearly a different experience

because I noticed I never noticed before like when when we and I would talk about like films and emotional resonation and and how much it like can break you or not I never felt myself being like easy and and I think since I've been so emotional lately it's a new thing that I think I'll be able to tear the walls down now that I can see them it's like blind spotting Like, I'm able to see what I was avoiding now, as opposed to before. I was just like, ugh. So, this was a very positive experience for me. It was just very interesting, because I've never felt like tiptoeing about my own head.

Yeah. I mean, the self-awareness, I think, is something of maturity. So it's fascinating to even hear, like, the extreme self-awareness that you're going through, which is, I, again, I commend and I actually would, I'm kind of jealous that there is this self-awareness. is this self-awareness where you can kind of control your emotions and then you know I'm over here like sweating bullets and also crying but there's like 70 people watching this review like

what I'm sure there's a ton that are like oh this is interesting and I love getting to know these people but there's a whole chunk going like ratatooie I mean that's the whole thing it's all it's all a subjective

experience though you take who you are into a view and that's the interesting part about having a critic here when you criticize art like and they're breaking down the barriers here with the cooking the cooking just represents art you know being creative and oftentimes criticism seems to take it not from a subjective standpoint but acting like it's an objective standpoint that this is this is that this is this right and as you can see here like with having i'm in between like two very different ways of how to receive this movie right now which is a very artistic film and both of you

are two different places in your life right now like two completely different places or two different prior experiences and where you are in terms of like guarded up or walls down that's going to come in the form of when you watch something so it is always kind of weird like doing one of these like reaction videos

because people usually come in with the next fans usually come to watch the reaction videos and they expect something out of it to just mainly validate the experience of what I've noticed. But what we have here is something there were like, no, we have to just be honest. Like, here's what I think now. And maybe like in 10 years from now when I watch the, I can guarantee you when I saw this 20 years ago, everything I thought about this movie, even though I don't remember this movie, I'm like, I certainly would not have had any of the 99%

of the thoughts that I had with, there's not, I didn't read into art like that. Right. It's probably all like flew over my head. I used to like listen to shit back then. And I would, Then I got into like studying in my 20s because I so much of this stuff would just fly over my head. Even if it was like right in my face, I wouldn't be able to like thematically understand stuff. And I felt like limited and stupid. So to be able to watch it now, I totally watch it with a very different lens. And back then I was like secretly, I was like not living at home and living at other people's homes all the time and secretly living places a lot of the time. I was like on my own a lot.

You know, so I was a very different person. And so who I watched then would would. receive it very different now. And I thought the movie was just fine. I don't know what you guys are guys. Because they're all been out of shape over nothing. It's a rat making food movie. Yeah, it's pretty simple guys.

Anyone can cook. All right, five minutes in, I get the movie. Let's wrap it up. As an actual film dissection, though, I do want to say I think it's really beautiful that the film made sure to respect the character's journeys to the point where it felt like you got validation

in ways that surprised you. Like the structure was the villain didn't go out in the third act in the traditional way. It was like the late second act. So we got to have different expectations. You know, the Remy's arc, I thought was just going to be about like acceptance. And it was beyond acceptance. It was validation. So like the arc structure was really interesting because it could have ended in the second act and had villain get disbarred, him take over the restaurant, and Ratatoui get respect, he's a chef, he's cooking. But the last bit was like the extra sauce and like the extra spice, the extra flavor, like the extra thing that makes it special.

Like you can make a really good dish and you can make it taste good and you can go back to that restaurant. But eventually you will tire of it. That variety, that spontaneity, that thing that the movie's about is the third act. So I like that a traditional film's act could have just been ending with acceptance. And instead, this was ending with validation. And I think that was really wonderful for a film about art because so often artists don't get validation. Even artists that find some success often don't find any sort of like, oh, this is what I fought for.

They either die before they get world famous and that causes it or worse yet, they don't ever feel that validation. And there's validation all around them. That's why I find it so interesting with like my own personal experience is I love panels and cons because that's a chance to actually meet people. right like this job is fascinating because it's three people looking at a camera and so like there are thousands of you but like i just have a lens so for me like the art validation doesn't happen until like i go out into the world and i meet people that talk about that experience so it's a really disconnected validation but at a con or a panel you know i've hosted hall eight three times there's six thousand five hundred people that's 13 000 eyeballs that are just like telling you like speak more and it just there's there's no feeling like it but you're chasing that. And so, like, I get how artists, and I'm going to keep this PG for the edit, I get how artists fall into things

and get addicted to stuff. Because you're chasing a high. Like, you're chasing this validation. So it's really beautiful in a movie where validation is the thing an artist seeks that it's given in such a wholesome way. Like, that addiction in art of, like, feeling seen was the third act that could,

This movie wouldn't have worked if the rat was just accepted. This movie couldn't have worked if Gustose lived on. It had to be the Ratatouille opening. It had to be him being accepted not just by the people, but also by his marionette. Like, all of those things are why this movie is exceptional, not just good. And I think that's really important for people that don't make art to know that it's not about acceptance. It's beyond that. And I think that's really special that this film clearly made by and for artists got to tell that story.

Definitely. I agree. that's beautiful it's a beautiful sentiment the other the the into to further that point uh i love exploring when it came to the family his his his rat family because of how pixar and disney movies have kind of been lately where like one of the jokes is that you know your parents you don't need to listen to them and stuff which is like actually a point that i feel like i understand why this generation writes movies like that now yeah You know, it makes a lot of sense.

And especially for a movie that is commenting on that, that just because you're born into this doesn't mean you have to live by this, this identity. Like, you can form your own identity and you have your own choices. I did really like how the family at the end, there is a gray to it. Yes. They weren't just bad guys.

And he didn't just ignore his family. His dad accepted him. Not he accepted he wasn't part of them. Yeah, yeah. And then managed to find. that way to become the bridge to it all. That's, again, that's validation versus except. Instead of accepting he's different,

he was validated by his father. Right. Yeah. It's kind of, it is kind of, in a meta sense, that is funny how that actually happens in life a lot. It's like, usually a movie might portray it like, oh, that father never approves, but a lot of the time though in life, when you, when they finally find success, they're like,

you know what, actually? Well, I think once they understand it, like, and once they feel like it's big enough for their, I think the big thing about being a parent is the dream is so, hard to understand until it's big enough that you feel like it's worth your kid. Like I often like I'm gonna, I want to have kids in the next few years and I often think like if my kid got into this job, I would be like, don't do that. But if my kid suddenly had a show on HBO, I would, I would like, I would understand.

Like I would be able to be like, oh, you can actually eat. I'm not worried anymore. I'm not stressed anymore. I think it's all coming generally. I'm optimistic. I think it's all coming from a place of love. And it's the point where it seems real enough that you're not scared for your kids. that you can finally, but I think that side of things isn't shown often.

Yeah. And I do love the, especially the illustration with the brothers, because one, it goes to that old saying, whatever, there's like a billion different scenes of it, but they're both from the same family. They're not the same like they're close in age. And just for some reason, they ended up two completely different people. Yeah. There's like void in a little apathetic of emotion.

And the other one is just full of vitality and passion. And it feels like they have to push it down. And they only find that life and energy in them when they are on. the pursuit of creation. It's been like kind of a big theme. It's weird to watch this movie and to because a big theme in my life lately has been about like I have not really been creating. I've kind of just been going through the motions and I feel like empty and I want to do more creation and things out of love and contribution. And so I've like made it a discipline for the past like two weeks to write for at least 30 minutes a day. Usually in the morning. I even did it today. And I do feel like I feel

different. I feel like I'm more positive. I feel like I'm more aware. I'm more emotionally attuned. And it makes me enjoy this more because I'm able to do the creative creation side. And then I come here to do this other side. And I feel like I even receive better now. So yeah, there's like so many more benefits to it because he's a rat. He's not pursuing fame. He's not pursuing money. He's not pursuing any. He's just doing it for the love of it. So I appreciated this movie on many, many many a deep level. And yes, it's beautiful. It's very cinematic. It is, I love the color palette to it. You don't see a lot of brown and gold movies. When you pointed that out, it really

hit and I was like, yeah, that's not a color palette. That's common. Well, I felt like brown is a bit of like that earthy tone and often them in the dirt of like, oh, they're the poor street guys. And then they would have like a little bit more of an opulence whenever they were like in the romanticized

version of Paris and the cooking and everything like that. So it was like finding that middle, so you make the rat blue, you know? It's really cool. It was really, really beautiful film. That's it for today. John cried. Coya identifies with the critic.

Do we have a question? Oh my God, I forgot all about that. I forgot about people who support us. Yeah. Those guys. We'll answer a few of them. Let's go through it. Considering how unorthodox of a review this

We probably What do you mean? It was very at all Probably didn't answer A lot of awesome Joe movie reviews I never really understood how the pulling of the hair

controlled him how to cook Yeah Do you guys have a better Understand as how that works Or is it just a gimmick For the movie to play out I mean it's a joke on like The nerves system

Like you touch a nerves But interesting Yeah like when you hit the knee And your knee kicks out Yeah I mean the movie's so heightened Yeah A rat can cook

And read We have to suspend our death Yeah Yeah All the things in the movie that one didn't monitor. Like that's the thing. I'm like,

I accept that. If I accept these 82 other things. The part's where I'm a question. Like, can that Rett really carried that spatula? Yeah. Looks a little heavy for that. Right.

And it was when I said, when we said that, I was like, I don't know why I'm questioning the logic of this movie here. The Ratt can read and make food. That answers that. These are questions for our patrons, by the way.

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Nicky Sunrisa asks this film is so beautifully animated and the story is so compelling. Question, what do you think about the fan theory that Ego's childhood home is the same house that Remy and his family lived in at the beginning of the film? if true what do you think this says or shadows about the future relationship between him and Remy? Whoa. What? What a fury? So the grandma we met in the beginning

might be his mother if that's the house. What a trip. That would be a connection between them for life. I don't know how long rats live. Right. So I don't know if that is possible, but logic!

No, we're trying to laugh. Oh, no, you're right. Narratively, I love the idea because I love a long-term rivalry that they didn't even know they had for the other. Like, he's trying to escape the very thing

that ego is trying to escape. He's trying to appreciate just as ego appreciates. Like, they are both parallel appreciators of food and art, but they took different paths because of the same woman. What do you think?

Good point. Yeah, I would like that that's a cool narrative, like Koi said, like a device, but I just, it's hard to believe just because of,

I mean, not to put logic into, like, the A. But, yeah, I think that's a cool little, you know, plot device. That'd be cool. That'd be, yeah. Also, it saved the animators a lot of time. Yeah. The house was already made. I mean, I like the thematic resonance of it where it seems like this ego critic.

It's like, his name ego, it's like the death of his ego and the start. And he represents death. Yeah. Like, everything around of his death. It's a start of Remy's new life. So to have it, like, a bit of a full circle would be cool. if that is actually true. There's like thematic resonance

I could see happening. That's true. Yeah. Patricia Carrillo, John, read it. Patricia Carrillo says, excited to see you guys reacting to this one and crossing fingers the sequel

won't be far behind. There's a recaltoe? Yeah. Do they call it ratatooey? Directed. Yeah. In the same vein as this movie, what's a witness protection

in unconventional setting idea you'd find amusing? Oh, that's funny. That's a funny way to look at it. Witness protection in conventional setting. Oh. man.

Yeah, it's hard to. You're asking us to be creative. Yeah, we just talked about how we're not. We just consume all we guys consume. I would like to see a movie where a member of the IRA is in the south

of Ireland and has to become like a folk singer on the street and sing folk songs that are pro Ireland instead of songs about the north of Ireland during the troubles. So someone that is welcomed via music and heart and home,

that begins to understand that we're all brothers and the troubles are something instructed by the British who aren't people. No, but it's constructed in order to allow music, song, and story to bring them back into the culture because we're all one people, but using the power of Irish storytelling and Irish music, which is really

thematically resonant, but that'd be like witness protection from just a border that's manmade is cool. I would like to see the world's biggest homophobic be thrusted in to gayland and that's where they have to hide out where they eventually learn that being homophobic might be the right way no you're describing so many 90s comedies where like people act gay and then they're like well well you know phobic is the wrong way to go um i do have a script

idea. That is this? No, no, no, no, no. Answering the question. It has to do the 90s riots and then like, I won't give away too much because I want to do a write it eventually. Something to do with like a black person stuck in a

Korean-owned convenience store. Whoa. Yeah. That sounds wild. Yeah. I'm not going to go into too much of it, but I guess I don't know if I'm answering your question correctly, but like, yeah. No, we'll talk after. Okay.

Take out my life savings. Fun Johnson. Black person in Korean convenience store movie. Of just a long line that's actually made. What? Does we call it what? Jesus Christ.

And let's answer a couple of fun ones here. Captain Fernandez, are there any foods that evoke strong memories of your past like what ego experienced. Damn. There's a few for me. Oh my God. Yeah, what? What would you have?

Go for it. My dad, so like, there's like an Oreo crust and he would melt peanut butter and coat the bottom and then make chocolate pudding in that so you'd cut into like

chocolate peanut butter Oreo and anytime I have any of those flavors it makes me think of that one flavor and then that reminds me in my childhood. Like it's like a, it's like a turd duck and a flame like it's like a domino falls and i'm like oh my god and it's like a full sensory experience that's cool i like that almost every time i have a pizza because i grew up going to a place

called pizza guy every sunday after catholic mass and we would go there was like a child at home in fact where i live now is down the street from there and after 30 something years of going there uh it for some reason shut down a year ago now that i lived down the street from there it and shut down. And so, yeah, pizza is very nostalgic for me, just in general. Hence, I abstain from it as much as I can because I could lead down a bad road. Fair.

Man, this is hard. I grew up around food a lot. My mom is a cook and my grandparents owned a restaurant. This might explain. Thanks for me spend a little bit more. Dang, man. You could have opened out some facts of your life. Oh, why you think this is a hitky?

So I lived it. surprisingly enough, it's hard to even answer this question because, like, I don't know what, like a specific dish that would remind me. That's tough. This is going to be stupid. Have you guys tried Napoleon cake? No.

It's a layered. No, no, no. That's Neapolitan. Oh, they sound similar. Napoleon cake is like a layered type of, I think it's French. Hopefully. I would assume so.

He was. Yeah, right, right. That just, the reason why, it has nothing to do with my family, to be honest. I had, like, I did a product demonstration. This is like 2015 or something. And like, the hosts of the house just like, hey, let's feed you after you sold us some products. And, like, I ate it and I was like, oh, my God, I've never tried this. And then eventually I had it for my birthday.

But it was just this welcoming, like, again, foreign to what I'm used to, Armenian family, but having this French dish. The reason why it was kind of, there's a memory tied to it, is because I walked into that product demonstration being judged. They were like, oh, you're not going to sell us anything. And by the end of it, they bought a lot of product. And then they fed me and they gave me a form of hospitality that I, didn't expect so I guess that it was cool it's not strong memory but you know heartwarming

it's positive yeah yeah yeah yeah there's a whole connection to that that's yeah i like that answer shay pull hey coy hey so this movie's about passions what are some of you you guys good question monetize so many of them but they faded enjoy um i don't make a living doing your passion Yeah, because they don't stay passions. What do I still love? They stay passions, especially if you're so successful that you have, like, when you're an actor who's so rich, when you're like Ben Affleck and Mad Dame, or you can do whatever you want, whatever movie, then I think it can remain a passion.

I look forward to being Ben Affleck Rich off of YouTube. So I can know that joy. Let's see. I am very passionate about, I really fucking love foliage. Like when I see like leaves changing it elicits so much memory and like I can smell things from my childhood and it makes me want to like hike and get outside and like it I like a I used to hate the cold but I like a chill in the air because it reminds me of like my favorite seasons and like oh cool. Yeah. So I'm like really passionate about foliage which is the oldest man answer I think possible. I really love working out three weeks into working out.

I hate the first three weeks. and I'm always sore and I'm always cranky and I think I hate it. And then something happens like day 20 where all of a sudden like everything I eat is based on games and everything I think is based on like how sore and like I love when I'm in the rhythm of working out. Like being being in shape and working out is my absolute favorite thing next to comics and movies. Nice. I know one of yours. What you want to share? I just should I?

It's the obvious one. Yeah, go for it. Okay. They don't know the obvious. I don't know when I'm out here. I mean, uh, passions,

uh, this is a trivial fact about me. I'm a competitive break dancer. Oh, that's awesome. I've been doing it for 23 years since I was 13. Um, and I do it,

I still do it competitively. I think I'm going to compete next Saturday. I don't know. Um, I'll, and for the sake of it, I'll rock a reject shirt. Good.

Good. That's cool, man. Yeah, yeah. Good. Tell them you're underpaid. until we got that Ben Affleck money. Come on, Greg. Why are you paying me like a 90s movie star?

Oscar winner, Oscar winning director. Come on. That's awesome. I cannot fathom dancing, much less that. That is so cool. Thank you, man. It's awesome. I've seen them.

It's pretty great. Oh, I love to write, and I'm passionate about animals. That's true. Yes. They're very big. That's my passion's right there for sure. And, um, let's, uh, this is,

This is just a nice one. Nick and Knight at saying, hey, triple threat rejects. This movie is really great, in my opinion. Good example for kids to expand their food plate. Like there's so many different lunchebles out there. They got the burgers one from the past, the hot dogs one, the ham and cheese one, the pizza one. Lunchables, that's where it's at. A lot of great food is showcased here, but what would you say has been the worst meal you ever had? Oh, my gosh.

Thank you for all your hard work, rejects. Oh, I like this question. Worst meal? Gosh. I had Springbok, and it was pretty gross. I think, yeah, I think Springbok pizza, which is like a, it's like a deer kind of animal in Western Australia, and it was really gamey and salt.

Oh, no, it was crocodile springbok pizza. And I remember the crocodile was really salty, and the springbok was really gamey, and it made the pizza feel like I was eating jerky and cheese, and I was so nauseous. So, yeah, Springbok crocodile pizza. Yikes. that sounds normal

I was like I'll try something new took two bites I was like what have I done I'm so American this is the worst all right I'll tell this story Olivia's grandma

my wife's grandma who I really do consider my grandma we've been to get her for like 10 years Olivia and I and the first time I went out to visit Olivia's family we were only like two months into dating and I was already head over heels for her

now Olivia's grandma's like Olivia's mom and I love her 93 year old woman right now and my first, I was staying in her home. And she was trying a new thing called tomato pie. That's exactly what it sounds like. Pie made a tomatoes.

Now, everyone else around her was willing to be honest. I, the new boyfriend, staying at her home. It's like, I'll have another. This woman's in the late 80s. She would accept you. And she knew. I really didn't like that buy, but I would not. Fess up.

And every time I see her to this day, 10 years later, just so recently, I make sure to interject some joke about that tomato pie. And I have never told her. I just never say the words how much I did not like that tomato pie. I love that answer so much because it's ongoing. Yeah. It is one of the gross things I remember. Everyone else had a bite.

It was like, no. Also, some people call pizza tomato pie. So I love your answers are like bookends on your pizza. You're like, what's in the nostalgia food? I think that she thought. Maybe she had that thought. Because tomato pie is like a... It's just like...

It's like... Cheezless pizza? It's pie with paint of like... It's not good. Yeah. Not good. Yeah. Mm.

Yeah. Worst meal? I don't know. I have that... The apology. You apologize. I think liver. I've had liver.

I've never done that. Yeah, I don't like the texture and the taste. General liver. Yeah, just generally, human. Yeah. No, whatever, yeah, whatever. I can't think of it. Have you guys had durian, the fruit?

No. It's an exotic fruit from Southeast Asia or something, and it smells like gasoline. Like, it smells really bad. And like I tried it. It was nasty. I guess the Filipino. Ballouet.

I've tried that. Sorry. No. You're supposed to represent Philippine. I know. I'm sorry. That's why you're here. Edit this out.

Get to get the Filipino. Let's get quite a try it. It's crazy. No, I just, yeah. If you want to see me cross the camera, you can't give me this gasoline fruit. That's the trick. Weeping.

Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. At work, we did a competition called Steak versus Sistroming. And we would do this four-week contest of like sales comparison, right? Numbers. So winners would eat steak. And then losers would eat something called Serstroming, which is a Scandinavian fermented fish. To the point where if you like you have to buy it, like,

elsewhere. And so the post office received it and they were like, what the hell is this? And there was some sort of like, you know, like emergency. But anyways, there is videos on YouTube. Like people trying to strasforming and even the smell,

it smells like sewer or like think of a porta potty at a very used port of potty. It's just, yeah, it's grotesque. And like, popping the can you'll see people reacting to like it just smells so bad people are like

vomiting even before even trying it not a healthy work environment there's like a lot about the sales very dark time that's our first video together and I've learned a lot of trauma I've learned I've seen trauma I've seen like this is fine

super emotional why is this hitting me so hard I grew up in a restaurant my mom's chef crazy couldn't possibly be related it's unexpected just so worried about everything

about John's past we got one last one on the agenda Jay Rushden what can the rejects actually cook and cannot really cook want to say condolences to Koi for the loss of Spiker again thank you man

that's really nice I can cook eggs and a really good type of potato actually. Oh, or not really good. I usually, I'm fortunate enough to know how to cook. I don't know how to describe it,

but whenever people are eating potatoes at a potluck or whatever, and I happen to make mine, people are usually like, who made the potatoes? Nice. I'm fortunate enough to, I don't know what it was that I figured out with that. I don't even know where I got it from.

I used to actually, my first main job was a, there was a hot, It was exactly what sounds like. It was a hot dog restaurant. Everything was grilled in Charbono. It was like 40 different types of hot dogs. Wow. And I learned how to cook there.

So, like, I was cooking all kinds of meats and chicken and everything like that on the grill and the charbroil. So I actually know how to cook pretty well. That's why he's vegetarian now. He worked at a hot dog. That's not what happens. The smells you must have smelled. Oh, I used to get free food. I loved it there, man.

I eat there all the time. That was delicious food. Wow. Yeah. You know what to cook? You know what cook? That's good. I make a really good taco salad.

I make really good. I do pasta medleys. I grill a really good pizza, which a lot of people don't do. Nice. Interesting. I grill good steak, good fish, salmon and tilapia, sometimes cod. I make really good protein ice cream as well as protein shakes. Oh, my God.

Yeah. Can you make me like non-dairy ones? Dude, 100%. That's amazing. I got a creamy now so I can make like a nice. I've been for a year that I've never plugged in. so hard to. Once you learn, it's great, but the learning curve is impossible. Overwhelming. Yeah.

The learning curve is insane, but once you learn, you're like, holy shit, I'm never eating out again. Yeah. Yeah, I like, I'm really good at, uh, I'm not good at Thai food, which is one of my favorite kinds of food. That's the thing I've tried and failed that most. Uh, like Padkey Mao is my jam, but I can't make it. Um, if you had Padky Mao? I think so. It's like a drunken noodle kind of dish. It's like a fat noodle, a chicken. Oh, thicker noodle. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's usually chicken, sometimes steak or fish. So yeah, I cook, like, a little bit of everything. Hell, yeah. I want to learn how to make Box D. That's my new goal. Nice. Cool. Box D is a three types of potatoes, Irish dish. I didn't know how to do all that. That's impressive.

I try. I want to be a good husband. I'm here you are eating out a lot. What about you, Josh? I don't know how to cook at all, unfortunately. I can make quinoa because I know how to... I have to eat it for when being strict, so... I'm used to it, but I don't know how to grill a steak. You know how to make eggs? Like, I'm jealous.

Like, I don't know how to cook at all, unfortunately. I need to learn. Do you cook your quinoa and bone broth? No, I just, normal water, yeah. Dude, bone broth, quinole? And, yeah, it would add protein. It triples your protein and also the fiber digest differently because the enzymes in the bone broth. Okay, good to know.

Have you, um, did you get an air fryer? No, my parents have an air friday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get some sweet potato frozen fries. Chef. Throw them in there. Yeah, chef. Those are the potatoes I was telling you.

Hey, okay. You're like I make a really good air fried potato. Throw a raw potato in there. Don't even like poke a hole in it. Okay. I have 45 minutes of gone by. Krispy. Hopefully cook the inside.

People are like, who made this shit? And that's why they're asking me. Who made these potatoes? Oh, yeah. I might have pitched a different tone. Who made this potato? Oh. All right, guys.

Well, that's it for today. I'm sure you will find many reviews of RatatooE exactly like this one on the internet. I cannot wait to read these comments because what? I hope. I hope people will get to the review. That's what I hope. We had a very traditional reaction. Yeah.

It was very traditional reaction. The most unconventional overview. Thank you guys for being here. Appreciate everyone for bearing their souls today. We'll see you guys soon. Rejects.