The Worst Idea Of All Time - 07: Christchurch Boys w Vinnie Bennett

Episode Date: February 8, 2023

Vinnie Bennett (F9's young Dom Toretto) joins the fellaz to swap stories about Ōtautahi Christchurch and his experience meeting Vin Diesel precisely one time only during shooting Fast & Furious 9, despite playing the younger version of the film's star and Producer. He also gets into what it's like to get on the beers with your British co-star (portraying a young John Cena) immediately before shooting a scene and lifts the lid on some appalling Hollywood practices around getting contracts signed.Video episodes available on Substack: twioat.substack.comShow links: linktr.ee/twioatpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey everybody. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Hey everybody, welcome to episode number 7 of season 6 Correct The worst idea of all time Surprise everyone, we've got a pretty fucking special guest in this episode Vinnie Bennett is here from uh 2012's fantail yeah yeah thanks for coming in thank you for having me also more recently for those of you who somehow missed fantail at the cinema uh 2021's f9. That's true also, yes. Yes.

Vinny, we got you. Quite an unlikely turn of events, but we've got young Dominic Toretto and we just watched the film together. Yes, yes we did. What number for you is it that you've seen this movie? I think that was my seventh. Yeah.

Wow. I don't actually know, maybe six. Six or seven. I can't believe know. Maybe six. Six or seven. So we're kind of on par. I can't believe we're either outpacing or keeping pace with one of the fit young stars of the Fast and the Furious franchise. I've got to say, having you in the room, really elevated the viewing experience.

And I've both enjoyed and not enjoyed the movie so far but the fresh energy and your incredible um you know information pertaining to some of the uh the moments in the movie really you know it really brought the noise for me today so thank you so much for joining us oh it's a pleasure done us a service do you mind if we hit you with uh some questions please because like that's the thing man we're in the whole so we've been doing this podcast for like eight years now we've never had someone from one of the movies we've watched on as a guest so this is a real treat so um from what i understand like the the the scenes that you shot pretty separate to like Vin Diesel, for example,

you didn't spend like a ton of time with the great man. No, one day. Is that right? One day on set and it was by accident that we like met. We were supposed to do a scene kind of together, but I didn't think that we would actually meet that day. I knew that i was supposed to walk past the mirror in the mirror scene yeah know it well was it yeah saying and that day it

was our last day and because it's not at the end of the movie they put it in the middle so that could be confusing for some people but they should that when you're working on movies it's all out of order they do shoot a lot of the stuff out of order that's right it's hard and I've worked on films where I've had to I've had to shoot the last scene on the first day

that must fuck with your head that would be hard it's awful it's awful how do you keep track of that like that's crazy you're just like you're

we've had a we've had a camera down a technical but not for those of you just listening I'll fix it how do you get your head around that I mean I guess just like

you know knowing the script and where you are and you know the story reminding yourself for other projects not fast but I would do like a timeline and then mark it out with the script and be like, put little post-it notes on different parts

as to where it's supposed to be. So these things have happened to me and this is how I'd feel about those. That's what you're carrying into the... Yeah. And not that I ever refer back to it, but mapping that out makes me feel like I've done work. Yeah.

You know why you're behaving the way you are yeah yeah so in this instance hold on that's so smart yeah i would never do that that's so smart were you good at school because that feels like a real like english yeah i was good at english not maths not science i wish I always wanted to be good at science but that breaking down thing feels like a real like I knew how to kind of crush an essay nah or actually I did you could do the essays essays yeah I was I was pretty good at essays but um what was your crowning um Glory as an essayist That would probably be The film Study On The Day After Tomorrow Oh wow

Those are based on the John Marsden books Is it? Oh The Young Australians No that's Tomorrow When The War Begins Oh

Is it? Yes you're right You did right Yeah I loved those books No The Day After Tomorrow Is just like a Nuclear war thing Like nuclear holocaust The world ends Yes, you're right. You did right. Yeah. I loved those books. No, The After Tomorrow is just like a...

Nuclear war thing? Like nuclear holocaust thing? The world ends. The world ends somehow. Right. I don't remember how. But you wrote a mean essay about it. Yeah.

That's what's important. I feel like I was kind of fed the answers as well, but maybe I just had the best memory of what the teacher... Hey, that's in CEA, isn't it? Because we're three Christchurch lads here. I know. We're here to last. Absolutely. Can I ask what high school you

can ask the most Christchurch of questions Vinny? That is the most Christchurch of questions. What high school did you go to? I went to Central New Brighton Oh high school sorry no that's a primary. But again you know if you think about that in sorry no that's a primary high school but again you know if you think about that

in movie terms that's like you feeding a little bit more information so people can follow your character journey yeah

so Central New Brighton incredible to think yeah and then I went to that's the sort of detailed research you're famous for yeah

I'm itching to know I'm out here just I'm trying to keep information on you um so i went actually went to unlimited which is like an alternative learning do you guys ever did i know about haggley and i it's kind of similar to haggley right like yeah it was in the city they They moved after the earthquake but I went there for a year and

it was cool but it wasn't much structure and I don't think it's like the school you want to go Unlimited? Yeah Is it based on the Bradley Cooper movie is it? Is that Limitless? It's Limitless. Same meaning Swing and a miss there guys. Pretty similar

Unlimited and Limitless? It's the same thing. Sure but it's quite a miss there, guys. Pretty similar. Unlimited and limitless? It's the same thing. Sure, but it's quite a broad concept. It comes up every now and then. Limitless. Just the concept of infinity. It comes up. If it was named the same as the movie,

then we'd really be cooking. Then we'd have something. Oh, it's pretty warm. I reckon if you went on thesaurus.com, they'd be under the same tab. Yeah, you're right about that. No one's disputing that. Well went on the source.com they'd be under the same tab yeah you're right about that no one's disputing that well that's great different words so the school you're at unlimited yeah I'm there for maybe six months is there the death tomorrow I crush and you say no so all of a sudden I'm on set

with Steele there was there was that was prior to the to the essay writing

era glory days no but I just I it was a cool school but yeah there was no structure in it

and I think I needed structure at that age you know some someone they're pretty like loose i could yeah not go to class and i'll just be wandering around town and then i'll see one of the teachers and they'll be like oh what are you doing vinnie and i'm like um going i'm wagging this way we'll see you when you're back you know kind of thing yeah yeah kids need structure right yeah yeah at that age i think and so then i went to i don't know your high school which is where lots of my friends went and i there i got into even more trouble i had an ex-girlfriend who went to

i don't know a little bit about its uh illustrious reputation yeah it does have a reputation yeah it definitely does um and i yeah i was a little shit really and then my mom and grandma and auntie on my dad's family all like decided i should go to shirley boys oh true boys you got shipped off shipped off it's like the Christchurch equivalent of military camp yeah pretty much and while I was there I actually while I was at Shirley I did the Burnham military camp for a week twice over two years the first year I was like what like basic training or like the precursor to basic training? Yeah, I guess it's like an introductory thing. Yeah, a one-week kind of intensive thing. You live in the barracks and you have to make your bed.

Yeah, are you good at making your bed? I don't know. No, but I'll tell you, the second time I came back from one of those weeks, I used to have this creek running through the back of my house in St. Albans. this creek running through the back of my house in St. Albans and I got home that afternoon and the creek had flooded there was like branches that had just kind of dammed up and it was just kind of flooding over and I I put my bag down and just hopped in the flooded creek with all my clothes on and just like pulled all the branches out just ripped them all out just because i was so like i don't know i made up yeah yeah yeah and um that's what i've always said military school works yeah yeah i mean i could have i could have used maybe another week or so,

but I enjoyed it. It was fun. You unclogged the damned river. Yeah. That's a very, that's a Toretto thing to do, man. You reckon? I reckon. Yeah.

So if we could circle back, accelerate through the tertiary education. Oh, you're just fucking in and out a little bit. Just be careful with that. Oh, yeah? Yeah. And so we're not quite in the present day, but we're on the set of Fast Nine.

Yes. And you're not even meant to, you know, you're not even meant to run into Vin Diesel. No. But it's the last day of shooting. And I do, yeah. So that day, the night before, I think we were doing night shoots for the race

and we must have finished at maybe 5 a.m. And the AD comes up to Finn and I. She's like, hey, guys. So tomorrow we're supposed to have you guys on set at maybe like 8 p.m. But we're thinking maybe if we can get you guys in at 4, we know that will be breaking your turnaround and stuff. But, you know, you'll get paid for it.

So, like, oh, yeah, okay. We don't have much choice. He's like, yeah, thank you. I appreciate it. But it's just because Vin tends to be late and he's got a scene before you guys so in case he is late then we'll put you guys in oh we can bang your one yeah smash that out okay that's fine and so we get there that that day four o'clock so tired and he's already there they're like no it's fine he's shooting but you guys are already here now so you might as well get into makeup.

My makeup would take maybe two hours. Yeah. And why is that? Tattoo coverage. Yeah. So this is interesting. Yeah. They did it practical.

They didn't do it. Oh, they had to do your chest as well as your arms. Yeah. So it's like, grab that mic, Benny. You tell us into the mic.

They would They would They would Like Just do it in the shape of like a singlet So they wouldn't cover it all the way Or they Actually, no, they would on the shoulder bits

But here On my chest And is it just like industrial foundation effectively? They like paint over it with red And then I can't even remember, then they like flick it. They find your skin tone with the paint, the cover-up paint. Oh, true.

And then they kind of just get the brush and they flick little spots over it so you don't see any stroke marks. Oh, so it's like textured. Yeah, they just keep flicking away for so long. It's fucking movie magic. This is why we need to get more guests on who've been in the movies. Yeah, yep.

And are you gas bagging? Pardon? Are you gas bagging? Are you talking over storm? Yeah, but there's only so many things you can talk about. And you're tired. I imagine you're exhausted,

getting ready to shoot a big scene. Yeah, but you looked after pretty well. Kind of food and coffees and stuff. Yeah. There's worse places to be than that craft service. I was excited to be there. But so yeah, this day, Finn and I, we arrived early. Now who's Finn?

Finn Coldplay's younger Jacob. Young John Cena. Young John Cena. Yep. And we're sitting by our trailers. We're now already in makeup. I've had my tattoos covered. makeup I've had my you know tattoos covered and well okay well we've got like three hours before we actually do any work it's our last day maybe we

should you know get some beers or ask if we can get some beers some Coronas obviously and um he's like yeah yeah no sounds good and so I like oh see I go on to um Postmates like Uber Eats and you can get you know liquor and so I got two 12 boxes of Corona and you've still got it to show you're saying yeah yeah yeah you want to make sure everyone can get on its way and then i'm and then the ad runs up to us and she's like hey so vin wants to know if he's on he's just finishing up his mirror stuff but he wants to know if you can do some like epk things with him which is like electronic press kit which is like behind the scenes press stuff yeah yeah it was only for his like personal kind of thing because i've never seen these videos ever

but right i've essentially went in to go and just like be like hey we're here this i've seen these packages because i've looked them up on previous movies that we've done in this podcast and you just have to go down to camera like deliver down to camera just a bunch of random shit and then different networks cut it up and use it for their own exactly yeah that's right that's right so i was asked to go peter dante that was the one we watched and grown ups too sorry he just had a really crazy one where it's for some reason some of them get leaked on youtube unedited and it's just like it seems psychotic yeah it's just someone the worst part trying to generate some answers from nothing yeah that's right and they always somebody like kind of people that you only meet down on set every now and then and the

super friendly they're just like come on come on down we'll just get you so that's great how do you feel about the movie so far i'm like you, fuck. It's been sweating all day and shit. I don't feel ready for this at all. And they just pull you kind of away from set just to do it quickly and smash it out. Where were we? You got two dozen beers on the way. Got two dozen beers on the way.

Suddenly they're like, we need you on set to go and do this EPK. And so I go, fuck, i've just ordered some beers can you take my idea if they'll even work or just give them yours when they arrive and take my phone as well here's the password and just you know receive these beers when they come they're like 10 minutes away someone's gonna get on those beers and uh so i go and do that and vin's not there and so i'm just doing it by myself i come back i was like oh no vin and finn was like oh you know gutted because i told him that i was looking forward to meeting him in that one but thankfully the coronas are there now and so we just start just pounding them back i would say we maybe got to maybe four five maybe six and we're listening to music from the cell phone and we're just like having a good time both of our trailers are next to each other yeah and then finn kind of taps me and he's just like look i turn and there's been sitting in his little golf cart you know the things that

they drive around sets does he drive the golf cart he's driving it yeah and of course such a strong mentor his daughter is sitting in the passenger uh yeah the passenger seat. And she's maybe, I don't know, nine years old. She got a shaved head as well? No. No, she doesn't. That would be hilarious. And he's got this massive bodyguard slash videographer sitting in the back. You know, the back's like kind of facing out facing outward so he's right got his back to us and he pinpoints him out we kind of lean in he turns

and sees us and we're just like hello and he's like oh there you are come over here so we walk over thank you thank you thank you so much he's like oh no i've heard good things about you guys we're like yeah yeah we're so grateful you know and he's like yeah yeah um this is my daughter we're like yeah hi nice to meet you he's like okay and she just starts singing to us what's she singing i don't know it's like some julep song or something i don't actually know how the song goes but it was some modern pop see this is we've been talking a lot about los angeles you know during the during this movie playing i feel like this is, we've been talking a lot about Los Angeles, you know, during this movie playing. I feel like this is a very classic culture clash kind of thing.

The Americans, man, they do that. They're just like, hey, you want to see me do something? Yeah. Kiwis would never do that. Check those out. Yeah. I also like it's, you know, you have no agency. Like, Vindy, you're on the set of Fast and the Furious movie.

Yeah. And Vindy's like, you want to hear my daughter sing? More than anything in the world, Mr. Diesel. I've not been able to sleep for the thought of what the sonorous tones of your angelic daughter sound like. So she sings. She sings. While she's singing, Finn and I are just kind of like... You guys are lightly buzzed at this point.

Yeah, totally. We're tipsy. We're wild tipsy. And then his seven-foot-tall bodyguard slash videographer gets up starts filming us listening to her sing and so we're kind of like a bit more

enthused by it, it's just painful and then then she finishes it's an awkward beat and then he's like you wanna sing another one? Oh, my God.

True story. And she's like, um, yeah. She goes again. She goes for it. Another song. Another similar 2019 pop hit that I don't remember. Right. it just goes again it just goes for it another song another similar 2019 pop hit that I don't remember

right um and you're just in it yeah you and Finn are just in it okay so Finn's American

right no he's British oh so he's like us I feel like yeah you know we feel similar

about the whole thing yeah similar level of um awkwardness I would think. It's crazy. I mean, it's not, of course, but, you know, you'd think, in my imagination, Vindys would be so much more hands-on with who plays his protege or the younger version of himself.

You'd have to send a body cast. You know, you guys would be exchanging handwritten notes with sketches for cool things that your character could be doing. Yeah, 100%. Like a boot camp. I expected a boot camp. I expected to, like, go and be invited to his house at least once. Yeah.

And hang out with him and observe him. Hear his daughter sing. Yeah, listen to his daughter sing or whoever sing. But no, it was, he was. It's all siloed off yeah so you just got thrown in just and like you've obviously you've been you've been acting professionally for a while you've been in movies before but this is the first big hollywood one right yeah oh yeah the scale is very different were you freaking out a little bit i was well at point, I had felt like I had kind of hit a stride with filming,

you know, because that was the last day of, I'd say, maybe 20. Obviously, you're feeling pretty confident. Yeah. You're drinking six Coronas. Exactly. Exactly. I've ordered them to sit and lift them for the AD to handle I've got to put this on the record though

You're fucking good in the movie man Really good It's good acting What did we figure out his name was? What's his name sorry? The baddie The guy who you beat the shit out of and got in jail What's the actor's name?

Oh, the actor's name. Sue? Tui. No, that's Otto. Oh, Otto's Tui. You're talking about Kenny Linda. Yeah, Kenny Linda. Who's Jim Parrick. Now, Kenny Linda, in the world of the movie,

does young Dom Toretto, is that manslaughter? Does he kill the guy or does he just hurt him? No, he beats him so bad that he's never able to race again and he just works as a janitor. Dom talks about that moment in the very first movie. Oh, shit. Because we have been debating whether or not you killed him. No.

Okay. No, but he beats him so bad that he's banned from the track. Dom's banned from racing for life after that. And that's when he turns to the streets. The streets. The streets. The streets. With a Z.

With a Z. East LA is a tough enough place to grow up. But it's the shadow that you cast which turned Jacob into this. It sounds like guys had a stroke, but he's quoting charlize theron's cypher character i mean you you deliver consistently some of my favorite line reads in the movie um i think leave is a simple word i always look forward to that yeah uh was that and you were because it was and i apologize so i was saying i love this line read to you while I was watching the movie with you. It's a very weird behaviour.

But you were pointing out which audition scenes. Yeah, that was one. That scene. That was one, yeah. And when you lay down a take before you get cast in a Fast and the Furious movie, are you like, I got it? No. No, no.

Not at all. I had the first audition maybe three months, maybe two months before the callback. And the callback, I had a handle on that scene. I felt fairly confident with it because it was only then that I learned what the character was. The first audition, they changed the name to Derek. fairly confident with it because it was only then that i learned what the character was the first audition they changed the name to derrick oh i had no idea who derrick was so you didn't even know what the project was i knew it was fast and furious okay true didn't know who derrick was

they described the opening race scene did that then for the callback they're like it's dom torretto so i was like oh okay i how to, I know how to look now. I had like long curly hair. Oh, you're going to get a haircut to not match what I had in the movie, but it was closer to, yeah. Buzz.

The voice that did it for me, man. Yeah. Cause I was able to kind of like practice in between. Cause you've got a very good in the movie, like a kind of, it feels to me like a neutral american accent you know like it's not too regional and also it's also down like an

octave or two also that the the actor or the character who you're modeling your performance on it's like so neutral yeah yeah it's a challenging thing to emu you know the temptation would be to do something more but you're like he just walks around like clenching his fists and saying things real serious if he emotes he loses this is a game that's right and that was hard I found that really

hard to do because naturally you want to give more you know you want to give more because he's not you could have imbued the character. He could have been a flamboyant youth. You could have been like, I feel like he's like this. That's right.

And I had that freedom, I feel like, to kind of choose what he was like before the crash that changed. Yeah, true, true. The course of everything. And then, you know, the prison. And then, you know, the shift between how we met him before the crash then after then after prison like you know that was kind of made up with jacob where you're in that cool leather jacket that's the turn that's the turn that's like

do you get a jacket no no usually i feel like you just steal them you gotta steal i just i was too scared because i feel like things aren't missed when they're taken. Or people don't find out. Wardrobe never finds out who took it. No. They wouldn't have found out. Vin Diesel, he's running, he does the spreadsheets for these. He's looking over the accounts.

He's going, where's the leather jacket? I don't know. You come in and so hot being like, fucking just come in in blast half a dozen coronas shoot a scene steal a jacket yeah bounce so you're not in communicate with him at all so how do you you know do you go um method do you start you know walking around as vin diesel you shave your head head well before the movie and start wearing singlets and platform boots

and telling everyone it's all about family. No, no, none of that. None of that, really. I just, because the three biggest scenes, I guess, in that film were audition scenes. And so I had gone over those so many times so once i booked it i was like okay i just need to see where those are placed in the whole story yeah you know when i read the whole script and when i did i remember um i remember when i got to the part

where ludacris and tyree's go to outer space and they say like we're in outer space i was like what the i thought i totally missed something and i went back turned back so many pages because reading through action is yeah it's so exhausting you know like dialogue's fine because it's you know punchy back and forth for sure and this movie is punchy as all hell the The zip and zingers left, right and center. When Tyrese and Ludacris are on the screen, you can barely move for the vibrations of laughter. Yeah. Yeah.

And yeah, it was... Wait, I forgot what I was talking about. You were talking about your research for the role in Radio Scrooge. Yeah. And so, yeah, I just had to place what I was talking about. You were talking about your research for the role and reading the script. Yeah, and so I just had to place where I was, kind of where my scenes were. And I mean, that was kind of it. I got the script maybe six months before shooting. And so I had it. I would go over it every now and then

when i was home alone i would practice because i guess you can you can overcook this stuff as well right yeah yeah and i didn't i didn't want to but i wanted to make it like a i don't know not copy him exactly yeah nice like a yeah Make it your own little bit. Yeah. So you could edit down the flashbacks and you've got yourself a pretty tidy bit of storytelling there. A beautiful short film. Like even just the one that got, like if we just got the one that got released.

Vin put out a short film, didn't he? He did. Have you seen that? No. Oh, no, not. What's that? It's like, is it about, is it like attached to this in some way but not?

It's just like him and letty get away to the dominican republic what and have like a little trist hot romantic time when's it set i think it's like before after fast maybe this after too fast too furious ah was he maybe was he were him and Michelle Rodriguez dating because I read when I was on his IMDB

or Wikipedia or something that they had a a brief romance in the real world which might explain why they struggle to generate any semblance

of romance in the in the prison day because they did and killed it pulled the pin that's that's what happens

showmance right yeah showmance you can't you can't hook up until after you've rapped yeah and you get so horny for each other Pull the pin. That's done. That's what happens, man. Showmans, right? Yeah, showmans. You can't hook up until after you've rapped. Yeah. And you get so horny for each other. Yeah, that's right. Builds all that tension. It feels weird to me that we would see no chemistry from them, considering, like, it feels like, you know, that candle's always a little lit.

You know, if we watch the first, or when we do watch the first movie, in seven, yeah, eight movies time or whatever, there probably will be electric chemistry. Well, maybe. Wheeling out the same sort of tired storyline. I don't know if it's going to change that much. It will because they won't have had sex in real life yet. And you'll be watching the meat on camera. And the chemistry will read as electric.

We're watching like a divorced couple now. Yeah. Yeah. We're at like a divorced couple now. Yeah. Yeah. We're at the end of the falling in love montage. Yeah, that's true. You can't notice that in the first movie. There you go. Oh, that's something to look forward to.

That's fucking good news. That's such good news. We've got a mountain of work to get through and even watching it with you because you were familiar with the franchise, but for homework, did you say you watched everything? I watched everything. I started...

And did you watch them backwards? No. What order did you watch them in? Just the normal one, two. Before the second audition, I watched the first one three or four times. Three times, maybe. And that's it. Before the second audition, I watched the first one three or four times. Three times, maybe. And that's it.

Because that was kind of... Good movie? Yes. Yeah, it is. Number one's like... Trying to get this guy in trouble? No. Come on, man. I'm trying to get excited.

No, number one... I'm trying to have something to fucking look forward to. Number one is iconic. It's the 2001 style. I genuinely can't remember if I've seen it or not. No. I can't quite recall. 2001. It would be closer.

Oh, you go ahead. I was just going to say I was young. Yeah, weren't we all? Yeah. I remember in September of 2001, I turned 13. But what I was going to say is that in action, the first movie I feel like would be a lot closer to what you filmed and you were creating.

Was all your shit on film or did they just put like a Valencia lens over it did all of our stuff was on 35 mil 35 you can tell by the grain it looks it's part of what makes it feel better it looks gorgeous yeah the acting's good you notice the universal yeah it makes you get excited that's all i think about i'm always like i can't wait for this and then fast nine starts i'm like I'm also looking forward to this it seems a little trite but you know I think we could do with more films and film these days everything's a little bit clean it does guy and I saw Avatar 2 last night yeah yes it's a bit clean is it clean it's well you know it's that digital is that hyper everything's too sharp so it's a bloody it's like a it's that digital, it's that hyper, everything's too sharp. It's a bloody, it's like a, it's made a whole universe to film a nature documentary.

Yeah, we saw it in 3D too, so the nature is really coming at you. Yeah, you have to see it. And then he fell asleep for an hour. I did, with the glasses on. Yep. So you couldn't tell? Do you know, what was it? Because I only found out because I like Albert, you to make some snacky comment. You were fully like eyes totally shut, mouth agape.

I was like, this man's alcohol. I was so tired. I got to watch the set up. I missed the training sequence. You were the only one in our group of friends who fell asleep as well. A few people fell asleep in the cinema. Good movie, though. Anyway.

It was all tidy. I've got to say, you obviously, I feel like there was a splinter crew. You've got all the old guys. How many days do you reckon, let's say, Helen Mirren did on this movie? A day. A day. Charlize Theron? Two days. Yeah. Yeah. mirren did on this movie are they a day charlie's they're on two days yeah yeah who are the other stars john cena had a full workload foolish yeah what is it like how many shoot days did you do

i would say maybe like from 15 to about 15 that's a lot yeah you're peppered throughout the whole damn thing yeah but you don't but like I was

you didn't get to you didn't get to hang out with Ludacris no because all of the flashback stuff was shot at the end off so you're like a splinter crew yeah

the new crew. Yeah, we just kind of finished it off. And I remember Justin saying, you know, how excited he was to be starting that part because it was just like doing a whole separate movie. Yeah. For him. I read that way.

Yeah. Is he a cool dude? He's lovely. Awesome. Yeah, he is lovely. R.I.P. He didn't die, but he's been removed. From the franchise.

From that. No, he left with his own free will. The Fast universe. He's still producing now, but who knows how much say he'll have and where the direction goes. True that. Oh, so he's still producing in Fast. He's just not directing.

This one, yeah, the one that he was removed from. FX. Is there a name? Do you know yet to 10? Oh, don't tell us if you're not allowed to. I don't. I don't know anything about it. I'm not.

You're not being coy. You're in it. You're in it. It's all about you. It's young Dom. I can't do it. I'm not in it. I'm not in it either.

If it makes you feel any better. I'll put my cards on the table. I'm not in Fast 10 either. Tim Bat doesn't appear in this one, unfortunately. But more bullshit from the big wigs in the studio. That's right. Cowardly suits. I'm not in Fast 10 either Tim Bat doesn't appear In this one unfortunately But More bullshit From the big wigs In the studio

That's right Cowardly suits Fucking afraid To take a risk For once in their God damn life We got our boy Vinny in And that's what's important

In F9 You could play A great Otto type character That's so kind You'd be a good foil To Dominic To Rat O You'd have to get braces

I think first For three years Like Tom Cruise Got as an adult And then I'd be ready For the big screen Tom Cruise so kind to dominic to rat oh you have to get braces i think first for three years like tom crew's got as an adult and then i'll be ready for the big screen braces and that'll yeah tom crew's got them when he was like 38 or something yeah i think he was married to nicole kipman at the time which is so baller i think that's why they got divorced you got braces he couldn't eat apples she kept playing apples just like they're gonna go off and he's braces he couldn't eat apples she kept playing apples she's like

they're gonna go off and he's like no I can't can we juice them she's like you gotta eat them all Tom so tell me tell me about Finn

tell me about young John Cena Finn good kid yeah he was yeah he was good kid cause he was

maybe what couple years younger than I was John Cena oh yeah he's a lot younger of years younger than I was. John Cena. Oh, yeah. He's a lot younger than John Cena. He looks less like John Cena than you look like Vin Diesel.

Yeah. It's because no one looks like John Cena. John Cena's face is... Vin Diesel's a pretty tough guy to look like as well. Eh, not as much. I thought the guy who I was kind of going up against, I think we were the final two for consideration for that part. I thought he

looked much more like Vin Diesel than I did. Was that Vern Troyer? Pardon? Vern Troyer? Mini me? Yeah, that's his most famous role. Didn't he die a few years ago? Yeah, when he didn't get the role in Fast 9, I think the heartbreak

killed him. I'm still alive, Guy Montgomery. My word. I didn't know that was his name. You made such an elaborate Vin Diesel's awkward about his height joke and it just got so dark It's not that dark But we're having fun

We're having a lot of laughs Making a lot of memories It's true So would you Was it like Because You were both living in Los Do you bond over this

And start hanging out outside of the movie? We hung out One night during filming I think So does he talk like this kind of yeah kind of more like it's more like just kind it's kind of london but it's not it's not really kind of that it's not um what do they call them chav it's not yeah right it's crazy that they got in for these two very american blockbuster roles they got a guy from the uk and a guy from new zealand yeah yeah the common go commonwealth they're fucking rocks yeah i think we did you think when you got cast did you think oh this is this is a wind up someone's winding me up or were you like i got this it's like that would have been

crazy a crazy phone call oh yeah no i i was waiting i was waiting to find out because it'd been two weeks since two weeks of waiting yeah so the callback was another that's when i found out that it was vin diesel then maybe a week or two after that my agent calls me and he's like so it's between you and another guy and I'm like sick they want to test you in the studio both of you

so they're going to fly you over to the UK next week to test I'm like great you need to sign the contract first so for a test deal you know both of us had to sign the contract so then we go on and do the well the contract for if you get it yeah and so no if they pick you yeah so if they pick you then your contract's already signed you know there's no further negotiation uh yeah so you have to sign prior that's usually what you have to do for like

um you know tv series they'll like really they'll get you down to that stage and then they'll be like okay time to negotiate and i'll be like we're gonna sign you on for seven seasons off the show you have to accept an agreement before you do the final audition while you're competing for the part yeah that seems illegal this is so fucking common practice yeah it's holy it is quite though yeah does that all kind of get fixed if you're in the screen actors guild or something it feels like a union could sort this out usually this you know this will your agent and manager you know they make sure that you're not getting screwed for sure but there's only so much like if you're in that position you don't want to ruffle too many feathers no that's right and and you don't want to push back either

kind of they kind of offered me you know a certain amount yeah and then my agent was like okay i'm going to push back a little bit yeah but i'm not going to push too hard just saying no no we'll just take that and he's like no no don't worry we'll just take that. And he's like, no, no, no, don't worry. We'll be sensible about it. Yeah, we'll be sensible. Because we don't need to get into numbers, obviously. But I have heard that a lot with people who, like it's often surprising you get in a big franchise

or a big movie. And it can be quite surprising if you're not a big known actor. Oh, yeah, no. Like the numbers, actually. No, I can guarantee that it would cost them more to have an NWA song for 10 seconds right was to pay me like the whole for the whole we go to the rap game boys that's what I'm taking away from the story yeah yeah or just the game of being a star in a franchise that's had almost 10. Or not value money that much.

Chase dreams, not cash. What's Vin Diesel's Instagram like? Does he upload the stuff as videographer films? Out the gate, yeah. He handles his own Instagram. He definitely doesn't he definitely doesn't have like a guy assist fuck for that he sings hey oh yeah yeah that i've seen just like a couple years ago i remember was it him singing rihanna it was yeah it's that clip

that's beautiful yeah it is it is beautiful it wasn wasn't, it's not bad, it's just quite surprising. I know, because he's so self-serious in these movies, there's no suggestion that there's any, but that's part of it, like he's a serious artist,

you know? Yeah, he's got a few songs on Spotify as well. Man. They're fucking rocks, because you know he doesn't have that.

Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce, oh actually, Bruce Willis did sing. Did he? Yeah. He was sort of like, do you know about Hudson Hawk?

No. It's a very old movie where he's a bank robber and he times all his plots to music and so he sings the songs to keep time. That's cool. Yeah. That is cool.

Does Vin Diesel sound like Ja Rule when he sings? No. No, he sounds... Is it like smooth? It's more of a sonata. I wouldn't describe it as smooth. Yeah, we could do that. I can probably...

Oh, yeah, check us that. Search him up on Spotify. Okay. We'll get one of his original songs. I think that's important. One of his original songs I think that's important One of his songs You've got quite a Vin Diesel verified

There it is You've got quite a deep voice Vinny But you like You do a good young Vin Diesel I think in this Thanks yeah You consciously were dropping an octave or two To meet him where

he is yeah yeah i wanted to get that you know that gravel yeah i wanted to get it as close as i could but like i said without copying him exactly because he's younger and first time i watched this movie i didn't know that you were a new zealander really and i was like this guy's hot to trot yeah and then i found you in new And I was like, this guy's hot to trot. Yeah. And then I found you a New Zealander and I thought, this guy's even more hot to trot. We lost our minds when we found out. Although, how does that work? Because when did you,

because you kind of got this connection happening. Did that happen after the first episode? It was after. After the cinema, hidden cinema episodes. That's right. There's a bunch, as our listeners know, there's a tranche of unreleased Fast 9 episodes from when we went to the movies before a big lockdown in the year 2021.

With a raft of Kiwi comedians, but you'll never hear them. This one's had seven and a half million hits. It's called Feel Like I Do. Take it away, Vin Diesel. Oh, it's a dance hit. It's just what music sounds like yeah I guess

that's about right right yeah wow when you want but all I want I'm just freezing All of the time you try to find someone living like you

And I'm not the type who likes to push you I'm not a bad singer but that's quite a vulnerable thing for a guy in his position to do. Bro, he sung Rihanna. You need to see that clip because that's vulnerability

right there for him. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's a must there. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's a must see. It is. Oh, I'll look forward to that. I mean,

we're definitely getting a copyright strike for that, but the Rihanna, I think we'll definitely get sued into oblivion. I'm jumping on his Instagram after this, just to catch up with the guy. Oh yeah. You'll be in for a great time. Keep scrolling as well.

Keep going. Keep going. Dig. Yeah, dig. What, whose life is so interesting it demands a videographer? That's like Will Smith did that, right? Yeah.

Classically infallible entertainer. He had a writer's room for his Instagram. Yeah. And it showed. Yeah, it was so zippy. I feel like it's all gone now. And it was so complicated. There was always these's all gone now and it was so complicated there was always these crazy i i feel like vin was trying to capture a little bit of that magic

where you just have a huge elaborate team making these crazy videos get the hits um it's interesting isn't it think about vin diesel the man and vinny i you know i i don't want to get you in any any trouble by our random ponderings or anything. None of this is particularly negative. It's just the guy is so hooked into Fast and the Furious. And I, as a person, I'm so averse to putting all my eggs in one basket. That kind of shit terrifies me.

And I feel like Vin maybe hasn't done that on purpose perhaps he had a couple of great franchises he had Pitch Black Triple X it's so cool Triple Y some funny games on the pod but now like you know what is he early 50s

we'd say Vin Diesel I think we looked it up early 50s that's crazy he doesn't look a day over 49 and he's he's fast and furious now how long do you reckon he has in makeup i feel like he's wearing a lot of foundation he is i think i'm pretty sure you can see it yeah yeah you can do there's no way someone is all just that one tone off. Yeah. Just a singular. It's been going for so long just through my peripheral vision

that I'm like, maybe that is just how he looks. Maybe he is all just one tone. Everywhere. I wonder what his nipples are like, you know? Same colour. Everything's monotone. And it's like, it's copywritten as well. That shade is called Vin Diesel.

That's actually, that's the colour that the rest of the foundation, the rest of the body's moulded off the nipple colour. They went nipple first. They started with the nipple and they went, all right, we can replicate this. It's all going to match this. I want it all to look like this. Okay. Not the areola, the tip.

I don't know about that. Well, I kind of do. It might be what happened. I don't know about that. Well, I kind of do. It might be what happened. I don't know. And so do you get the sense, because I just feel like the younger crew on this Fast 9, you guys probably had the chance a bit more fun. Once the pressure was released,

it's a very exciting time in an actor's career and it's exciting for all of you to be on such a big project. Is there still that camaraderie, do you know, amongst the more senior figures who are all acting against each other or are they punching into an office job oh yeah i'd probably go with the latter yeah i didn't even know how many of them still like each other part of that yeah um they still work incredibly well together you know if the dynamic is there well they're all on screen together i'm willing

to go there and guess what they saved the fucking day what did you you sat on your ass you watched them do it again you did it with a single finger this is a top international crime fighting crew you put me in an impossible position to the video guy it's the viewer of a movie failing to enter into the universe that's been constructed and help out yeah very difficult for me to help bring forward every weekly piece of shit very tricky stuff for tim it's the same thing as people watching a game of sports do how is doing the um the press junket for this was that a ball like or was it fun or was it both uh i don't know i I would usually get pulled out to do them, you know, in the middle of like big scene days.

Yeah. Oh, what? I'm talking about after when it like came out and stuff. Did you get to do kind of carpety, red carpety kind of? Yeah, to do a red carpet little event thing. Is it fun? It's got to be pretty thrilling pretty nervous i was pretty nervous i was real tired because i just so i had like the premiere new zealand premiere here because it

came out here first really yeah yeah like f pos yeah did what just f pos came out here first but for our american listeners guys talking about the concept of a debit card it sort of started in new zealand they test these ideas that you're doing because we've got the right population size and density but we're tiny so if they it up it's like we're like a control for the rest of the world that's oh f plus is a big one i know they were doing that for fast nine as well what's it doing premiering here? Datelines. It was just like the New Zealand premiere. Was that a big night? It was a big night but I also

knew that in the morning I had to fly to LA so I kind of was like watching myself. I still got real drunk though. And I had some of my friends come up from Christchurch a couple of them fell asleep during it one of them was so drunk that he was mumbling to himself and would kind of go back to sleep and then wake up and then kind of

repeat some of the lines mumble again and then fall back asleep real funny proud of you yeah yeah I love you bro proud of you what did you say the chick is in I'm back to sleep it was a fun night

and then yeah obviously the next morning I had to pack all my stuff down for the person coming over to sublet

my room oh true living the Hollywood dream take yeah I can't think of a worse thing to do when hung over than have to like pick up your shit all the time but isn't it like the perfect you know distillation of what the experience of working on something like this is you know as a working like it's like the the biggest thing that you've achieved so far in

the next day it's just like the fucking yeah yeah it's not there's nothing kind of crazy about it no one does it for you either at that point it's still like you sort of yeah go there and do that shit and in the morning actually before i packed up i had to do i had to go to nzme and do the rounds of the radio stations they treat you good? yeah yeah they were nice

they were kind did you do Mike Hosking? no good I wanted to though did you? he wouldn't give a fuck though nah he doesn't really care

about anything he doesn't care about family no he doesn't he doesn't care about family he does care about the Vodafone New Zealand Warriors he's a huge Warriors guy they're dead about The Vodafone New Zealand Warriors He's a huge Warriors guy They're dead

Is he? Well the one New Zealand Warriors One New Zealand Warriors For our international listeners Vodafone have rebranded New Zealand as one It's one of the most The one Warriors Yeah

It's It was an insane manoeuvre everybody And no one can quite understand it The one are Warriors So then you go off to LA manoeuvre everybody and no one can quite understand it. The one R warriors. So then you go off to LA. Then I'm in LA. I land immediately fitted for a suit.

Straight from the airport. Do you get to keep the suit? Oh, that's a story as well. Best suit I've ever had. Sounds like you don't have it anymore. I don't and it got stolen oh fuck out of my friends car that I was using in LA

they stole the shoes the suit couple hats oh bro and it was tailored one Chuck Taylor shoe I forgot it still got the other one though because it's red and I have a blue one sometimes.

Take that, Rafa. You piece of shit. You missed one. But there's one thing they can't steal from us. My left Chuck Taylor. And my family. Yeah, but great suit. Stolen.

I was fitted for that and then I went and met up with a friend in Hollywood and we had some beers stayed up probably till 3am knowing that I had the

US premiere the next afternoon and it's a long movie yeah it's a long it's a long movie woke up that day ate some fruit made me feel better about it like that's key heals forgives all hard out fresh fruit fresh fruit in a swim you see you're right yeah i didn't even go for a swim cold shower though good as just as good yeah um and then

i was getting ready for the premiere and then I was straight to the red carpet and did a series of interviews. But yeah, that stuff's hard. I find that hard. I would like, do you know why that's hard? Because the people they put on to ask you questions, ask the hardest questions, like they're not helping.

I want to be a red carpet interviewer because i feel like you have some better questions i could make it fun for the people yeah you know because it's always like who are you wearing yeah if you're not a fashion person it's like i don't fucking know it's more if you are a fashion person it's like here's the name and then where does the conversation go from there that's awards shows so they wouldn't they wouldn't ask you what you're wearing at that weather that'd be like i think i'm thinking of this because i watched um i can't remember what it was but it was a new zealand like a new zealand film premiere and there's like one company that does it in new zealand it does red carpet interview things and they're like you hire this company and then i think they found the footage out but like because it's new zealand no one quite knows like how to conduct it

so this woman just comes and she's like who are you wearing but it's new zealand so it's like farmers oh yeah exactly it's like oh there's a t-shirt but that oh i think it was at the maybe the music awards the new zealand music awards that just happened recently and uh everyone was just like i borrowed this off my auntie oh this from an op shop it's like yeah what find a better question and there's a musos like there's questions you can ask you'd be great if you could camera you should be camouflaged there should be a segment where you're at the end of a red carpet and you're totally camouflaged on the carpet and everyone thinks they're done with questions and then you pop up and you've got a perfect question for everyone.

That's a great idea. There's no need to be camouflaged. You have to be camouflaged. The whole thing hinges on you being camouflaged. There's the carpet. You have any questions? Oh my god.

Yeah, I'll do that. Well, I don't want to be exclusionary but i am curious to you tim as to how you found this viewing experience i mean we've now watched the movie seven times vinny i'm so grateful for you being here and it's quite a thrill you know having one of the stars of the movie stars around like i know it sounds like we're just saying this but you can listen back to the first episodes. I don't even know you're a Kiwi. I'm like, this fucking dude's got it. And those scenes, man, those flashback scenes,

they're the thing carrying me through these multiple watches of F9. Because, like, you watch F9 once. It's the kind of movie, it's an action movie. It's like seeing a horror movie where once you know the twists and stuff and you know who the killer is, it's quite hard to watch it again because it's the juice yeah with these action movies once you see the big set pieces and you know how they land it's kind of like okay seeing it twice i can do seeing it three times it's a bit of a test but the flashbacks they're carrying me through yeah thank you for your performance oh man thank you for those lovely words

and I look forward to you being in more fast universe stuff I'm holding out hope we'll see man we'll see can you say anything on that no there was I mean there were maybes

about you know a possible TV series but those kind of chats have kind of gone away for now with the departure of Justin Lin that was his kind of idea right unless they work it out

do you think they could patch it up? yeah I hope so you know I've heard that Vin and The Rock have patched things up so I don't see why yeah well The Rock's going to be the president so he'd do you know like you'd want to heard that Vin and The Rock have patched things up. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, The Rock's going to be the president, so you'd want to patch things up with The Rock. That's good. You're right on the grapevine.

I haven't heard anything about, you know, I'm always reaching out to The Rock to see if he's patched things up with Vin. I haven't heard a damn thing. No? Doesn't return your texts, eh? Doesn't return a single fricking thing I send him. That's some bullshit um i mean yeah i i also you know you didn't ask but i also thought it was a pretty enjoyable screening experience and i've got to say it was elevated by having one of these stars of the stage and screen

in our company and if i might could i share a shining line oh my god i'd love it my favorite moment of the movie and it will sound it will sound silly but it's actually um i always notice it and i've never mentioned it before but when roman tyrese gibson's character has he's in that army tank and they're driving over the polygrominus and what does that mean, Tim? Danger. Landmines. Pelagrolinus means landmines. That's Ramsey. Danger landmines. Yeah, you're right.

I'm wrong. Is that an actual line in it? Yeah. Oh. Have you not read the script? Yeah. I study it in between screenings. I should send you the script.

I would love that, actually. It's probably illegal, but no. Surely not anymore. It's been released. I don't know. I will send it to you Read up your contracts first man I don't want to cost you any sweet Hollywood job I'd love to perform the whole movie

It's too late to get cast But just to put it out there Shining light focus my man Okay He's in an army truck It explodes And it like gets wedged between these two rocks And it's slowly dropping down towards the slam mine

It's a lead up to what you highlighted And both of you agreed is one of the funniest moments in the film but before that as you're watching it go down on the front right part of the bonnet there's an axe yes like just part of the car it's just like an axe on the outside and it's like you know in case you need an axe there's always an axe on this part of the car and every time i see it i'm like i don't know the situation where he's going to need that axe but i love that it's like, you know, in case you need an axe, there's always an axe on this part of the car. And every time I see it, I'm like, I don't know the situation where he's going to need that axe, but I love that it's there. I think that's a standard fitting

when you've got those kind of all-terrain... Just an axe. There's always an axe. On the outside of the car. On the outside front right part of the car. That seems crazy. I would think it'd be on the inside. To put a weapon on the outside of the car?

That would literally help you break into the vehicle? Yeah, that's true. It's probably got a lock or something. I just see the axe. It looks like, I mean, I don't know a lot about axes. It looks nice. It looks like a nice handle. It looks like a good blade.

Nice axe. It's, you know, every time that it gets to that, I always look inside the cab. I'm like, where's that axe? And then it's always at the same place I left it last screening. It's out on the bonnet. Stop looking at the cab, guys. where's that X and then it's always it same place I left the last screening it's out on the bonnet so shining light is just when we say our favorite bit of the movie screening but before I do mine because I want to ask you Vinnie because you're here do you because I've never we've never had the opportunity to ask someone from the film this Guy my treatment of how we're sort of like

consuming these films does it feel disrespectful to you as an actor in the movie how we're doing it not at all no I think it's it's such a compliment

excellent it's flattering that you guys could you know sit through that that many times without knowing anything else as well anything else about the Fast and the Furious franchise

well you know you know some based on what you've seen but just like where it's placed in it all like I worry about the yeah i am excited for you guys but also the references that are in f9 like i just wonder how it's gonna feel in reverse it's gonna i reckon it'll be tremendous the original moments will be a little bit yeah yeah

yeah all of the all of these moments which to you know, like it's an incredible way to live. We're like Benjamin Buttoning Fast and the Furious. The curious case of the Fast and the Furious. There's what F10's called. Do you want to do your Shining Light? Shining Light. Your favourite bit Favourite bit of your watch of this film

No I'm throwing you under the bus Because I don't have one yet I don't have one yet I've got another one Wait I got you to write something down What was it? No you didn't

You didn't ask me to write a single fucking thing down No you didn't Yeah I did You didn't It was quite It was in the first third of the movie. Oh. Oh, hold on. This might be my shining light.

It's pointing out the... I'm kind of hijacking what you've asked to write down. No, go. It's pointing out the continuity with the chain. Oh. That was... And that you guys didn't notice after all those watches

yeah so tell us about tell the listener we've got one listener they're libertarian and they haven't seen F9 so what happens there's a scene I'm about to it's a standoff between Kenny Linda the guy who crashed into my dad

I'm pissed off about to fuck him up with a wrench. And if you look at the chain, the iconic Toretto chain that I'm wearing, it goes from outside my T-shirt to inside to tucked in to the T-shirt. Back and forth. It's a lot of back and forth. Oh, yeah. Maybe there's probably four five changes and it's a tight shot yeah and it's maybe like 10 seconds long yeah 20 uh and yeah it's someone pointed that out on um on reddit oh true you didn't know until um you'd

seen the and those instances I like to think that the character in between the shot is tucking the necklace back in and taking it out it's the story you're

telling yourself that's oh I thought about what the justification I was doing that day yeah and I'm like I've boiled it down

to oh it was costume should have been watching that you know dude someone absolutely should have been on continuity for that dude someone absolutely should have been on continuity for that

yeah and I didn't you know I didn't I'm pretty sure I wasn't tucking it back in I just think it would like come out

after I'd like punch him maybe it was originally in or but it's interesting like stuff like that you'd expect someone to be across also you're saying

in the drag scene against young Jacob that the button your NOS button yeah wasn't even a button you could push down it wasn't a button it was just a that's fucked in the drag scene against young Jacob that the button your NOS button yeah wasn't even a button you could push down it wasn't a button

it was just a that's fucked that's an outrage that should be a button that actually does piss me off I want to feel a little click

under my thumb yeah you know not just hard it's a testament to you as an actor I've always thought it was a button

I don't read the eyes of a pissed off guy being like it's not a fucking button and also you know during that race scene

the NOS you know the kickback it's all me just making it up yeah they're like are you on a car on like a rig

at all yeah that shit is like a rig that's like got these inflatable it's like it's magic it's like a rig that's i got these inflatable so this magic it's like a inflatable it's like a hovercraft system that they've got underneath the car and they've got the car on ropes and the green screen and they just pull it backwards and forwards kind of like

in sync with each other when they're shooting like you know two shot of finn and i kind of like in sync with each other when they're shooting like two shot of Finn and I racing each other. They've got a shell of a car, you're in the car and they've basically got big ass fans that are pushing it off the ground

to act as a hovercraft. And you're in front of a green screen. It's like big balloons almost, you know, like they're under. And then for the, yeah, again again green screen and and for like the big skid that I do yeah after the race when you win yeah the middle distance yep that's a big look thank you it's a great shot you

feel like you got that one out the screws when you yeah yeah I felt it you know cuz they they put in they made me slide on that thing they they're like pulled it like okay so they're just shouting at you while you're sitting in there the whole front where the engine is is gone they've got a camera in there now just like facing you and on the side and okay now you're just passing him now look over to your left okay more determined you know he's getting ahead of you now you're passing him again and now you've just won okay oh no and then they're like and

ready hand down on the trigger 3 2 1 and nitrous and so I'm I have to go i see i bought it as you've just said too soon yes yeah too soon i always think you're doing like a get you know when someone does a joke that is offensive and they go too soon i always think you're doing that right right yeah but you're not you're talking about the car race Yeah the car race Yeah yeah

That's crazy isn't it Just these little details I think you might say that In the first one Don't Don't quote me on that He says too soon Yeah

Oh so that's a lovely Potential callback to the This is It feels to me like this movie Is absolutely jam packed With callbacks Yeah You guys are in for it

The whole thing is like It's just a movie The universe collapsing on itself. And just so we can take it off my shining light is Letty's

cool white leather jacket. Oh yeah. I don't fuck with their jackets man. They're all too busy for me. You're crazy. That first one's all good.

It's not. We're not going to get into this. There's too much going on. We're actually going to wrap things up because we've been talking for over an hour. Well what do you expect?

We've got one of the stars of stage and screen. They're great. I've loved every second of it. Finny Bennett. But does anyone want to say, does anyone want to get anything on the record before we kind of land this plane? I've been reading a lot about jet fuel lately.

What a cannon can't melt. And? Steel beams. Okay. It's not on the list. All right. Good to know. It can melt. It can't melt. Hey, Vin beams. Okay. It's not on the list. All right. Good to know. It can melt.

Can't melt. Hey Vinny, I'd highly advise you not to ask him any more questions. Oh no, I think I know where this is going. It's reputational quicksand. We don't need it on the record. We don't need to pull another person into this. It's just a lot of forums. Have you guys been on the internet?

It's massive. So Vinny Bennett, the legend, the man, the myth, the legend. Thank you so much for coming on the internet? It's massive So Vinny Bennett The legend The man, the myth, the legend Thank you so much for coming on the pod man It's been a great time Thanks for coming over to my house And watching F9 with us bro Thanks for the Coronas

Hey Three bags of Coffee Keto Soda and vinegar chip Shout out Coffee Keto Shout out We do anything for family around here and um do you want to shout anything out some socials some uh upcoming projects anything oh just living your life just hanging

out with my dog love that nothing nothing else merry christmas everyone what's the dog's name his name is puku sick this will probably come out in February, I reckon. I hope everyone had a good Christmas. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Or, you know, for those of us who start countdowns in February, looking forward to Christmas this year. All right. Thanks, listener.

Take care of yourself. We'll see you in the next viewing of F9. For us, number? Eight. Eight. Two more. Two more to go. Two more to go.

They should call the next one The Fate of the Furious. They did. They did. Yeah, I know. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.