Speaker 1: Glenn Powell is the handsome, charismatic actor who has known
Speaker 1: he wanted to be in show business since the fifth grade.
Speaker 1: With roles in Top Gun, Maverick, Anyone But You, and Twister,
Speaker 1: he is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's most sought after
Speaker 1: leading men. But in addition to box office hits and
Speaker 1: magazine covers, he is also building a reputation as a
Speaker 1: writer and a producer. And on top of that, he
Speaker 1: is now venturing into an entirely new business, Smash Kitchen,
Speaker 1: offering healthier versions of pantry staples, available now in Walmart stores.
Speaker 2: Welcome to my podcast, Glenn. Thanks for having me this.
Speaker 1: And Cia told me about you first, but I had
Speaker 1: already seen you on television and hit Man.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh I love that one. Yeah, and you
Speaker 2: were so good at that.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: And I did watch you. And you're Sydney Sweeney, a
Speaker 1: rom com Thank you. And you're a handsome actor. And
Speaker 1: you have other sides of course that you're very interested
Speaker 1: in all kinds of other businesses.
Speaker 2: You're a very good writer.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: When do you just start writing?
Speaker 3: You know, I've been writing since I was a kid.
Speaker 4: You know, I think I almost watched like the behind
Speaker 4: the scenes on movies more than almost the movies themselves.
Speaker 2: Sometimes.
Speaker 3: I was always just fascinated by the process of it.
Speaker 4: And then when I took a creative writing class in
Speaker 4: high school, everybody else was kind of writing poetry and pros,
Speaker 4: and I took on screenplays. And so I wrote a
Speaker 4: bunch of screenplays in high school. And that's that's kind
Speaker 4: of actually floated the boat for me a little financially
Speaker 4: when I first moved out to LA And now it's
Speaker 4: kind of proving to be another way I.
Speaker 3: Guide my business.
Speaker 2: Are you a Texan?
Speaker 3: I am a Texas born in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, you were born there and then you live there?
Speaker 1: You moved back from LA?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How come?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: There was I mean, always the plan was to leave
Speaker 4: Los Angeles as as soon as I could, you know,
Speaker 4: get to make my way out there, and then figure
Speaker 4: out a way to move back home. But I think
Speaker 4: also there was like a moment, I think, post top
Speaker 4: Gun and you know, anyone but you that life got
Speaker 4: a little bit more chaotic than I think I anticipated.
Speaker 4: And and and Texas was a nice respite from all
Speaker 4: the storm a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a crazy place. Texas It's great.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I come from a long line
Speaker 3: of Texans. It's like seventh.
Speaker 4: Generation, I think at this point. So I feel very
Speaker 4: a part of the state. You know, I feel like
Speaker 4: that state is really much.
Speaker 1: You have rocket ships in Texas, you have cattle ranches
Speaker 1: in Texas. You have crazy windstorms and fires and all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff going on.
Speaker 3: Texas has everything.
Speaker 2: It really does. A very large state.
Speaker 4: It's a large state. It's also like a state where
Speaker 4: kind of anything's possible. There is that cowboy mentality to
Speaker 4: it all. And I don't know, I just feel like
Speaker 4: people like that's one of the reasons I loved growing
Speaker 4: up in Austin.
Speaker 3: Is like whether it's food and culture, like just all
Speaker 3: kind of.
Speaker 2: Collidon Yellowstone made in Texas.
Speaker 4: Yellowstone is made in Texas, I believe, or I believe
Speaker 4: it was originally Montana.
Speaker 1: But I think all the time, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: all the Sheridan's stuff has been made down his own ranch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have a ranch.
Speaker 3: We have. We have a family place in East Texas
Speaker 3: that we go out there.
Speaker 2: That's really where you consider it a real ranch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I would say, there's cattle on it,
Speaker 4: but they're more pet cattle.
Speaker 3: Was not like a working ranch.
Speaker 4: I'd say they're more uh, they're more family, little little
Speaker 4: furry family members.
Speaker 3: But but they're uh, they're there.
Speaker 4: And I think that's like where the love of like,
Speaker 4: you know, food and entertaining all kind of came from.
Speaker 3: As we always cook at the ranch and all that.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're pure text, and I'm sure you're hungry,
Speaker 1: and we have all this food in front of us
Speaker 1: here we have hamburgers and fries and some sauces and
Speaker 1: little square dishes, these are your new products?
Speaker 3: Yeah, these are my new products.
Speaker 2: Where'd you get the idea for this?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: You know, ever since I was.
Speaker 2: Young, it's called smash by the way.
Speaker 3: Smash kitchen, smashash kitchen. You know.
Speaker 4: As a kid, we the family members always made our
Speaker 4: own hot sauce and barbecue sauce. We'd mix different things
Speaker 4: together to kind of spice it up or make it sweeter.
Speaker 4: And then I think, you know, being out in La
Speaker 4: for a little bit, I realized that there was so
Speaker 4: much like I think I just became a little bit
Speaker 4: more aware of what was in my food, and especially
Speaker 4: when you're cooking and like, you know, entertaining people.
Speaker 3: You want to give them the best.
Speaker 4: And I think, especially when I'm having a niece and
Speaker 4: nephew and cousins and family members, that people are consuming
Speaker 4: a lot of condiments and you see like the high
Speaker 4: fructose corn syrup and all the preservatives and dies, and
Speaker 4: I was like, you know, there's got to be a
Speaker 4: way for us to have an organic, you know, condiment
Speaker 4: but that is also taste good because I wouldn't see
Speaker 4: that out there, and so I feel like creating my
Speaker 4: own was the was the way to go.
Speaker 2: Jel mustard with anything?
Speaker 3: Is that the djon?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, no, no, that's not Jon. I'm looking.
Speaker 3: I think that's the that this one is.
Speaker 2: This is the Jon.
Speaker 3: Oh this is a spicy male.
Speaker 2: Oh that's spicy may good. It's really good for French fries. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the spicy males they had.
Speaker 2: And this is the d Jon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, try fries. Creamy, are good fries.
Speaker 2: Creamy and tasty, deep deep flavor of mustard. H I
Speaker 2: like that. I love djel mustard.
Speaker 3: I love Djeon mustard. It's got a great kick.
Speaker 2: To You have partners, I do, So who's who are
Speaker 2: your partners?
Speaker 4: Samir and Sean. You know, they've been a part of
Speaker 4: the Honest Company. Casper Jinx, Hello, Bellow, really really smart
Speaker 4: guys who are as passionate about food as I am,
Speaker 4: and who are also are just family men who really
Speaker 4: love to to entertain and want something high quality. And
Speaker 4: I think that was like the big thing for me
Speaker 4: is not to make this a venture that wasn't about
Speaker 4: integrity and authenticity, you know, and all of it.
Speaker 2: Those are good guys, they're great guys, incredible companies.
Speaker 1: And that's a really great product, a really great, great
Speaker 1: past and present. Yes, Chris Gavigan, do you know him, Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's in my neighbors so he was their partner too,
Speaker 1: and a really nice nice company.
Speaker 3: They're really nice company and well run and again run
Speaker 3: with integrity.
Speaker 2: And everything has organic on the label.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in that amazing We're trying no good And that's
Speaker 4: that's one thing that we wanted people to know. It's
Speaker 4: it's not the only defining element of it. You know,
Speaker 4: obviously there's taste and you want to see all that
Speaker 4: stuff on there, but if you look at the label,
Speaker 4: everything on the back of there, you can pronounce, you
Speaker 4: recognize it's real ingredients. It's not concentrade, it's not fillers,
Speaker 4: it's not dyes in any of this.
Speaker 1: Right, And and one thing Smir told me was that
Speaker 1: he wanted everything to be recognizable. Yes, So even the
Speaker 1: shapes of the bottles are familiar shapes. They're not necessarily
Speaker 1: exactly the same as ketchup, no, but they look like ketchup.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: And yet you have your own specific ingredients, own specific
Speaker 1: recipes for these things. Now, hot honey, barbecue stars. There's
Speaker 1: is hot honey someplace.
Speaker 4: Yes, So we get the honey from Pennsylvania. And the
Speaker 4: halopen is all organic, so it's it's again made with
Speaker 4: all the all the best ingredients.
Speaker 1: And so and this is a you know, part of
Speaker 1: part of your healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's important to you.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, part of being an actor is obviously
Speaker 4: staying in shape and those sort of things, but also
Speaker 4: like not, I'm trying to do this for the long term,
Speaker 4: you know, I try to treat my my body, my
Speaker 4: body well. And I think the other thing is I'm
Speaker 4: also trying to like live a good life, like I
Speaker 4: don't like to. I don't want to just be eating
Speaker 4: boiled chicken and vegetables all the time, like you want
Speaker 4: to be like, I'm a real eater, and so it's
Speaker 4: nice to go, Okay, I can feel good about like
Speaker 4: actually enjoying my food, you know, rather than treating it
Speaker 4: just like fuel.
Speaker 1: So how did you how did you come up with
Speaker 1: the flavors? Did you have tasting tasting parties?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the family has been a big part of that.
Speaker 4: It was like, it was so funny. It was like
Speaker 4: probably about a maybe a year and a half ago,
Speaker 4: we started kind of getting these recipes together and it
Speaker 4: was so fun to put it in front of my
Speaker 4: family and get everybody's taste on it, you know. And
Speaker 4: the hot Honey I've always been I always add spice
Speaker 4: to everything, So the hot honey was like.
Speaker 2: A big is this from the hot hot Mail? I
Speaker 2: think it's the hot mayo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's good. It's got like a nice, really
Speaker 3: nice aftertaste to it. I really love it.
Speaker 1: But you mix them in big pots in the house
Speaker 1: and then serve the people and try and see what
Speaker 1: they try and.
Speaker 3: Kind of different Yeah, we kind of tried different flavors.
Speaker 4: So we put a bunch of different versions out and
Speaker 4: kind of did blind taste tests with everybody and just
Speaker 4: see what they responded to in terms of what we
Speaker 4: were pairing with. And then we kind of came back
Speaker 4: with this. The American barbecue sauce is sort of a
Speaker 4: family recipe. We always like mixed different barbecue sauces together.
Speaker 4: So it's Memphis, Carolina, Texas.
Speaker 1: And so it's like I once, I once went down
Speaker 1: to Memphis and I judged the whole hog.
Speaker 3: You judge the whole hog.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like this is a whole weekend of judging.
Speaker 1: Is the big barbecue, you know, it's the giant barbecue.
Speaker 1: And and you go and there are there are some
Speaker 1: the ribs, and there's just the legs. Then there's just
Speaker 1: the whole the whole pig and the whole the whole
Speaker 1: hog is the whole hog. And how somebody barbecues it.
Speaker 1: And I had to taste so much pork and uh
Speaker 1: and it was good. You know, Memphis does great barbecue. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean incredible and oh and.
Speaker 2: The sauces were delicious.
Speaker 1: And the one, the one who won, he had lemon
Speaker 1: in it. Do you have lemon in yours?
Speaker 3: There's some lemona you have to have lemon, absolutely.
Speaker 2: And then they didn't have any smoke in theirs.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: And so you don't you have a little a little
Speaker 1: smoking paprikas is that some smoky peprika smoky paprika.
Speaker 3: The idea was to not choose. Again, the idea.
Speaker 2: Cut the recipe out of.
Speaker 1: But I don't think we can make it at home
Speaker 1: for the price that you sell it at Walmart.
Speaker 2: No, the prices are amazing.
Speaker 4: Is it incredible? And that was always the intention. I mean,
Speaker 4: for for me. One of the things that I've realized,
Speaker 4: at least growing up in Texas is that so often
Speaker 4: people choose you have to like have have something this delicious.
Speaker 4: That's a price that people can afford, otherwise they're never
Speaker 4: going to make the change. And so I'm just really
Speaker 4: proud that we're not gouging people on like organic product.
Speaker 2: We have four products to start, we have eight products.
Speaker 2: You have eight what's the other ones?
Speaker 3: So we have.
Speaker 4: Ketchup just regular ketchup, normal ketchup, oh, hot hot honey ketchup.
Speaker 4: We have the hot Honey barbecue, the American Barbecue, dijon,
Speaker 4: and then regular mushard.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be fun. And you're selling
Speaker 1: like hotcakes at h at Walmart. Absolutely, yeah, You're your
Speaker 1: partner's told me what big orders are coming in.
Speaker 4: It's really and do you go and promote yourself? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean you know the fun your picture on the package.
Speaker 4: I mean I've seen some versions.
Speaker 2: I don't see your picture not.
Speaker 3: On the Actually I'm not going full Paul Newman on it, no.
Speaker 2: Because I will tell you. I will tell you something.
Speaker 1: Paul Newman's products are still selling beautifully. I set in
Speaker 1: on the first. I'm responsible for the salad dressing. Paul
Speaker 1: was a friend of mine, and UH and A. E. Hutchner.
Speaker 1: The three of us sat and I added stuff to
Speaker 1: the to the salad dress. Yes, I have part of
Speaker 1: the part of the original risk it was.
Speaker 2: This was for charity.
Speaker 1: It was for his Hole in the Wall gang camp
Speaker 1: for children with sufferings with terminal illnesses, cancer and horrible things.
Speaker 1: But he raised so much money from Newman's own for
Speaker 1: his charity. And I sat there with his baby blue eyes,
Speaker 1: you know, there he was tasting and saying, no, Paul,
Speaker 1: you have to add some more. You have to have
Speaker 1: real olive oil. You have to do this, you have
Speaker 1: to do that. And you know they were just having fun.
Speaker 1: But I was very series. I'm sure I wanted to
Speaker 1: taste like my vinigret not like some crummy you know,
Speaker 1: out of the out of the bottle of vinegreta, and
Speaker 1: it is a good saladdressing. And then they came up
Speaker 1: with a whole lot of other products too that I
Speaker 1: tasted and helped helped with a little bit.
Speaker 4: But you know, I think I think on sort of
Speaker 4: our next batch here we're going to be getting into
Speaker 4: We're going to be getting into all that. I think
Speaker 4: I'm coming back and having you taste, offering your ideas
Speaker 4: to give them to charity we have. We have a
Speaker 4: part of charity for no Kid Hungry.
Speaker 3: You do.
Speaker 2: That's very nice, good, you know.
Speaker 4: So one of the one of the things that I'm
Speaker 4: I'm passionate about again with my niece and nephew is that,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm trying to get Smash Kitchen into schools,
Speaker 4: you know, places where kids don't have a choice on
Speaker 4: what they consume. But the other thing is that you
Speaker 4: know a lot of these a lot of kids are
Speaker 4: going hungry, especially in the fall you're starting school, so
Speaker 4: a lot of the proceeds are going to no kids.
Speaker 1: Good congratulations, It's really nice and I think with you
Speaker 1: behind it, and you're very nice partners, so you're going
Speaker 1: to do very well. So the name Smash Kitchen comes
Speaker 1: from where.
Speaker 4: Well, after after the pals, you know, entertaining, we always say,
Speaker 4: you know, man, that was a smash and I always
Speaker 4: thought that was kind of fun. But the other thing
Speaker 4: that we were talking about when we talked about that
Speaker 4: idea is just like smashing the idea that you know,
Speaker 4: just because something's organic, it's has to be expensive, and
Speaker 4: just because because it's organic, it has to taste bad.
Speaker 4: So we were like kind of going, Okay, how can
Speaker 4: there be no compromises? And it was really the idea
Speaker 4: of smashing that idea of having to compromise on your food.
Speaker 1: I mentioned that you left left Hollywood after how many
Speaker 1: movies have you made so far?
Speaker 2: I mean, you're a young guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know's I try to say.
Speaker 2: Don't you have like five movies coming out?
Speaker 3: Got you know, we've been working. We've been working pretty hard. Yea.
Speaker 3: We have a running Man coming out this fall.
Speaker 2: And what's running Man? What's running Man?
Speaker 4: Running Man is directed by Edgar Wright. So the original
Speaker 4: Stephen King wrote the book really amazing, But I basically
Speaker 4: play a guy who my family is in kind of
Speaker 4: a bad situation. So I sign up for a game
Speaker 4: show to basically save my family, where the world is
Speaker 4: basically hunting me for thirty days.
Speaker 3: So there's a group of hunters.
Speaker 2: That's why you're running.
Speaker 3: So I'm running like I have to survive to win.
Speaker 3: I have to survive to win.
Speaker 2: And do they kill you if you don't.
Speaker 4: Survive, So they they kill you. So so, and no
Speaker 4: one's ever survived the show.
Speaker 3: So I go on there.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a zero percent success rate, and I
Speaker 4: go on the show to to basically win.
Speaker 2: You win.
Speaker 4: It's really fun. You got to see the movie.
Speaker 2: I have an idea that you survive, you get wounded.
Speaker 4: Oh it's I get my butt kicked in this movie. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is This is one of those that in real life,
Speaker 4: off off camera, it was.
Speaker 3: It was brutal.
Speaker 2: But so it's like The Great Race in a funny way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Two of my friends went on The Great Race as
Speaker 1: partners the reality show, The Amazing, Amazing Race, and they won.
Speaker 3: They want it.
Speaker 1: They won it, and they were just really smart and
Speaker 1: they outsmarted all around the world and they and they
Speaker 1: actually won it and won a whole lot of money
Speaker 1: that they bought a beautiful farm and then they started
Speaker 1: a business sort.
Speaker 2: Of like this no way, Yeah, it's so great.
Speaker 4: So my sister, my older sister, Lauren, and her husband Will,
Speaker 4: they loved the Amazing race so.
Speaker 2: Much that did they apply.
Speaker 4: No, they applied, they didn't get on, but they did
Speaker 4: an amazing race proposal. So when Will proposed to Lauren,
Speaker 4: he hit me up and he said, I want to
Speaker 4: do an amazing race proposal. So I planned all the challenges.
Speaker 4: It was all around the ranch in Texas and all
Speaker 4: around there.
Speaker 3: So we did like.
Speaker 4: Ten challenges, was all amazing race style and then at
Speaker 4: the very end, you know, it ended up on the.
Speaker 3: Dock and he proposed. But it was it was really
Speaker 3: fun that that's how big of fans they are.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so much fun.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 1: So how is it living in Austin. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: so isn't it so different from from Hollywood?
Speaker 2: It's nice. I mean where you live in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: You know, I lived when I was in Hollywood, I
Speaker 4: lived in Beechwood Canyon, so it's sort of like just
Speaker 4: above Hollywood up and the hills up there, and I
Speaker 4: really loved it. I lived up there for years and
Speaker 4: it was great. But Austin's just it's where my heart is,
Speaker 4: you know. And I'm a huge Texas football fan. I
Speaker 4: you know, I love the University of Texas. I love
Speaker 4: just the music scene.
Speaker 2: Did they do this yere in Texas?
Speaker 3: Texas? Very very well?
Speaker 1: Did?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I made you know, top four and and I feel
Speaker 4: really really good. We got arch Manning as the quarterback
Speaker 4: does Come and Fall and and I'm and I'm making
Speaker 4: a show with with Eli and Peyton Man you are.
Speaker 3: So it's really fun.
Speaker 4: It's called Chad Powers and and I play like a
Speaker 4: disgraced quarterback who is basically canceled and he has to
Speaker 4: wear prosthetics. He basically his dad works in Hollywood makeup
Speaker 4: and prosthetics. And he puts on a mask and tries
Speaker 4: out for an SEC football team that needs a quarterback
Speaker 4: and ends up becoming their starting quarterback. It's really, it's
Speaker 4: really it's like Missus fire and aesthetics. It's like facial prosthetics. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're going to cover you up. Yeah, yeah, you'll see.
Speaker 4: It's really it's wild. It's wild. It's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So who comes to your barbecues?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: I I have the one thing I'm not short on is.
Speaker 4: I've collected a lot of really wonderful friends over the years.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm sure you feel the same.
Speaker 4: Way, like dropping dropping through text, yeah, and our jobs,
Speaker 4: and especially like what's really great in Austin, you know,
Speaker 4: La anywhere it's like there's just this people are just
Speaker 4: kind of passing through. And that's kind of how I
Speaker 4: almost like maintain my friends and see people as I
Speaker 4: try to entertain and bring people over for game days
Speaker 4: or barbecues. It allows me to continue to see people
Speaker 4: because sometimes life can go by and you don't see
Speaker 4: people for a long time.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So when you have a barbecue, what do you make?
Speaker 3: I love pork ribs? Oh, yes, poor pork ribs are great.
Speaker 2: How do you cook them to keep them tender and juicy?
Speaker 4: We have a smoker that I have that I that
Speaker 4: I'm crazy about. And then obviously, you know you got
Speaker 4: wings and things like that, But yeah.
Speaker 2: What about what about the grill? Who mans it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I'm in of course.
Speaker 4: I mean obviously you have your stables, your your hamburgers,
Speaker 4: and what do you What do you drink? I'm a
Speaker 4: tequila man. Do you have a favorite drink? Martha Martha Rita's.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I have a pomegranate Martha Rita, I use.
Speaker 1: Do you know the Resinics out in the Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: They own all the pomegranate, yes farms, and all the lemons,
Speaker 1: and every they have a new seedless lemon. Did you
Speaker 1: know that they hybridized the seedless lemon? So they yesterday
Speaker 1: I just got five bags of seedless lemons from them.
Speaker 1: But every month they send me their special extract of
Speaker 1: pomegranate and I use that.
Speaker 2: And the best tequila I used, Custodracones. What kind of
Speaker 2: love is that?
Speaker 3: Your favorite?
Speaker 2: I have?
Speaker 4: I have a favorite, I have a lot of different favorites.
Speaker 3: Is in a really clean tequila?
Speaker 4: Like it doesn't have too much taste, like obviously there's
Speaker 4: like the you know a zules, you know, class azul.
Speaker 2: And I don't like it's still too like I don't like,
Speaker 2: you're not.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: I like Customercones Blanco for the margaritas, the Marthoritas and
Speaker 1: then the special custom Draconates.
Speaker 2: But it's so expensive.
Speaker 3: That's a A is a great but I gotta try
Speaker 3: the martharita.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and it has pomegranate and lime, and lemon
Speaker 1: and a salty sweet rim and it's so good.
Speaker 3: I'm going to I'm gonna hit you up next time
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you my book that has the
Speaker 1: recipe and it is okay, definitely. And another drink that
Speaker 1: I love is the Cashassa caiperina from Brazil.
Speaker 2: Do you like that?
Speaker 3: I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 1: It's just lime, juice and cashassa, which is the Brazilian rum.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't taste like rum. It tastes like nothing
Speaker 1: you've ever had. And you sugar rimed the glass with
Speaker 1: raw sugar, and you crush the lime, and then you
Speaker 1: add the cashassa liquor and then you add just ice,
Speaker 1: lots of ice, and that's it.
Speaker 2: That's the drink that is amazing. It's delicious.
Speaker 1: I serve that at parties because everybody gets happy.
Speaker 2: It's not drunk, it's not drunk, it's happy happy.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna get this book please. I have.
Speaker 4: I literally in my new house in Austin, I have uh.
Speaker 4: I wanted to set the right tone, so I literally
Speaker 4: as soon as you walk in, there's basically it's it's
Speaker 4: like a it's like a one story ranch style house.
Speaker 4: Really cool, really some great. It's it's great land up
Speaker 4: in the hills. And but I have a bar basically
Speaker 4: as soon as you walk in, it's really defining cool bar.
Speaker 4: Because that was like at the ranch in Texas, there's
Speaker 4: this bar that everybody just hangs out in and it
Speaker 4: becomes this like little social center where people are hanging,
Speaker 4: you know. And and and I was like, Okay, let's
Speaker 4: set the right vibe here. So I'm going to try
Speaker 4: out some of your cocktails.
Speaker 2: You ride horses?
Speaker 3: We r you do? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What kind of horses?
Speaker 3: Got Arabians out there? Quarter horses?
Speaker 2: I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1: And never I've never lived in a place like t Texas,
Speaker 1: but but it's it looks like it looks like a
Speaker 1: fun place. What made you interested in acting when you
Speaker 1: were five years old? What made you think that you
Speaker 1: were going to or fifth grader? I guess what made
Speaker 1: you think that you could be an actor?
Speaker 4: I was always a really shy kid, and that's what
Speaker 4: my parents always like.
Speaker 3: I was really quiet in real life.
Speaker 4: But then when I would actually perform, I'd become I
Speaker 4: felt like I could be somebody different, you know, And
Speaker 4: there was like a part of that that I just
Speaker 4: like really gravitated.
Speaker 3: Towards this idea of imagination.
Speaker 4: And I always had a really strong imagination, but it
Speaker 4: kind of came a life when I was on stage
Speaker 4: or or whatnot, and then I just was obsessed with movies.
Speaker 4: You know, no matter what I did as a reward,
Speaker 4: I would always ask my parents to go to the
Speaker 4: movie theater, and like when I was a kid, I
Speaker 4: would do movie camp, like there was this thing where that.
Speaker 2: Was your favorite movie?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I loved I mean, Indiana Jones is
Speaker 4: probably like my all time you know that that series
Speaker 4: I've watched over and over and over. And you know,
Speaker 4: as a as a kid, my dad loved John Candy
Speaker 4: and loved Schwarzenegger and we loved like it was like,
Speaker 4: you know, it's like I got to expose to some
Speaker 4: We're not like a high class art family.
Speaker 2: Were. What about Schwarzenegger's son.
Speaker 3: Oh, Patrick, he's a buddy of mine, is he?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I would have thought so, yeah, I oh he is.
Speaker 1: He's played such a crazy part.
Speaker 4: You haven't done I haven't done White Lotus. But I'm
Speaker 4: so happy for him because he's such a great all.
Speaker 1: Of a sudden there he is and handsome, that big
Speaker 1: smile that he has, and does he like it?
Speaker 4: Oh well, he's having the best time. And I'm just
Speaker 4: you know, the thing about it is Pat Patrick. He
Speaker 4: and I played brothers in Scream Queens.
Speaker 2: Oh you did?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I was like, hey, would you want to
Speaker 4: play my brother? And he was fantastic on the show.
Speaker 4: But to see his assent not only start up businessman,
Speaker 4: but like the fact that everybody's loving him and embrace it.
Speaker 3: Just makes me so happy.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we're loving him so much.
Speaker 3: I mean, everybody he's great. Everybody knows he's.
Speaker 2: A great I know in that white loaded Yeah, the worst, but.
Speaker 1: We watch it, see me watch it to see what
Speaker 1: happens to these nobody's a good those shows, no good,
Speaker 1: no good happening. You watch The Father is the worst,
Speaker 1: and he's so handsome and you don't realize you think
Speaker 1: he's awful, but he's actually a very handsome Manahan's.
Speaker 3: Also a friend of mine and Sam rock Wells.
Speaker 4: So it's like getting to watch all these all these
Speaker 4: my friends in that show has been really fun.
Speaker 2: Well, Ryan Murphy is now my neighbor.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Please get invited and come over and visit me and him. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: he is so much fun.
Speaker 3: Is he the best?
Speaker 2: Oh, he's the best.
Speaker 1: So he did Scream Queens and that's where you you
Speaker 1: worked with him?
Speaker 3: Ryan?
Speaker 2: How was it? How was it working with him?
Speaker 4: Ryan is just you know, look, his imagination is such
Speaker 4: a cool place. He's got such a great sense of
Speaker 4: style and culture and like just really has a he's
Speaker 4: got it.
Speaker 3: He's got he works at it too, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: He bought Richard Gear's old place near me, of course, Bedford.
Speaker 1: He's made it into a country estate so beautiful, and
Speaker 1: I'm jealous of his raised bed garden. He did stone
Speaker 1: raised beds. I do a lousy stood.
Speaker 2: I would raised bes. He has.
Speaker 1: He's out, He's won out me a million times. But
Speaker 1: he's a he's a lot of fun. But he told
Speaker 1: me that he works something like a horror horror first,
Speaker 1: the next movie has to be stylish, and he goes
Speaker 1: back to horror. He has a split personality, he said,
Speaker 1: and he does that.
Speaker 4: So that's what was really fun about Screen Queens is
Speaker 4: I got to watch this like stylish part of his
Speaker 4: brain where like he would dress dress people.
Speaker 3: Up and like because I basically said, hey, I told
Speaker 3: him at the.
Speaker 4: Very beginning we were my first fitting with Ryan, I said, Hey, Ryan,
Speaker 4: you know I was in a fraternity. I was like,
Speaker 4: this is not how fraternity people address. He goes, Glenn,
Speaker 4: this is my fraternity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was like, all right. Cool.
Speaker 4: And and the way, the style and the idea of
Speaker 4: what he was like making. He just has such a
Speaker 4: great vision for it, but we got to have horror
Speaker 4: and that that elegance.
Speaker 1: No, he's very he's very cool, very cool, and uh,
Speaker 1: doing anything else with him?
Speaker 4: Ryan and I have, you know, been talking about baking
Speaker 4: some stuff up. We're always we're always chatting. I see
Speaker 4: him all the time. But I'm I'm definitely gonna call
Speaker 4: him now that now that I know he's your neighbor.
Speaker 2: And tell him you're next time you're in New York,
Speaker 2: come out to Bedford.
Speaker 3: I'd love that.
Speaker 2: And uh, what about Richard link Latter?
Speaker 4: Richard Link Later and I are constantly figuring out what
Speaker 4: we're doing next. He's, uh, you know, he and I
Speaker 4: have both been on separate tracks since Hitman, but are
Speaker 4: constantly trying to figure out what we're gonna write to.
Speaker 3: We both wrote it we did.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that character is like, it's such a crazy it's
Speaker 3: a real.
Speaker 4: Guy, you know, Jerry Johnson, you know, he had this
Speaker 4: incredible career and just to do all those like characters
Speaker 4: and access and I pulled directly off the page. It
Speaker 4: was really fun and just for me, it's like one
Speaker 4: of those kind of movies that has like a really fun,
Speaker 4: exciting engine to it in terms of the thriller aspect,
Speaker 4: but it's really just about fun and identity and passion.
Speaker 1: And you know, you said you'd like to sort of
Speaker 1: dissect movies, and how do you dissect a movie like
Speaker 1: Top Gun Maverick?
Speaker 3: How do I dissect it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean that's a complex movie, isn't that a while?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know really good. I love Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1: I had dinner with him a long time ago when
Speaker 1: he was still married to the beautiful, beautiful Nicole kidman
Speaker 1: uh and he was so much fun.
Speaker 3: He's a great guy.
Speaker 2: But he's a really really good actor.
Speaker 4: Extraordinary actor. Real stuff he's doing. Next is in next Level.
Speaker 2: You're and you're working on Top Gun three?
Speaker 3: So Top Gun three is a real thing?
Speaker 2: Is it done?
Speaker 4: There's obviously are gonna going to be going to be
Speaker 4: in it whenever it happens.
Speaker 2: Who are you going to be?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be a hangman.
Speaker 4: I'll be back. I'll be back as hangman. So yeah,
Speaker 4: but I mean who knows? I mean Tom and Tom cruise.
Speaker 4: Why do you want to kill me? Please let me
Speaker 4: stick a I don't want to.
Speaker 2: You can never die. Not why you're so young and productive.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to let you talk to the writer.
Speaker 2: But so you're working actively on that, Yeah, yes.
Speaker 3: We're so.
Speaker 4: That's Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom are really the ones, you know,
Speaker 4: at the forefront of developing that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I love the stunts. The stunts are so brilliant.
Speaker 3: It was so fun to be in those planes and
Speaker 3: how you are in the plane.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we're up and we made that with the Navy,
Speaker 4: and the Navy sent us up in real f eighteens.
Speaker 2: So what have you learned working with your Tom?
Speaker 3: You know, I think really more than anything.
Speaker 4: First off, he's just like a very generous person on set,
Speaker 4: you know, the way he wants everybody to win.
Speaker 3: I think I've taken that away, which.
Speaker 4: Is just remembering it's such a team sport, you know,
Speaker 4: And that's the way I've always seen movies, and you know,
Speaker 4: every crew member.
Speaker 3: Has to show up, every actress to show up for
Speaker 3: a movie to be good.
Speaker 4: But I think just his work ethic, he is so
Speaker 4: not shy about how much he loves movies and how
Speaker 4: much he loves the work.
Speaker 3: And it's like the way I kind of live my life.
Speaker 4: It's like, but a lot of people in Hollywood try
Speaker 4: to play it cool, and I'm like, no, Like, if
Speaker 4: you love movies, you love night you know, so it's
Speaker 4: fun to it's fun to geek out, you know, on
Speaker 4: stuff like that with him.
Speaker 1: I've only been in one movie. No, I've been in
Speaker 1: a couple of movies, but little, tiny, tiny parts. But
Speaker 1: somebody just came up to me the other day and
Speaker 1: said she just saw me in Bad Moms. It was Mom,
Speaker 1: and that's like a cult movie. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: People watch it over and over again when they get
Speaker 1: on the plane. I guess they just sort of zone
Speaker 1: out and watch Bad Mom.
Speaker 3: That probably fuels your whole costage or habit for everything.
Speaker 2: With those residuals, I think they're very small.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I can see how you can get rich
Speaker 1: on residuals.
Speaker 2: They don't do residuals so much.
Speaker 4: Anymore, because you know, it's it's really hard to quantify
Speaker 4: it the same way they used to.
Speaker 2: Streaming is very different from what all.
Speaker 3: Those strikes were about. Yeah, exactly, those those jecks used
Speaker 3: to be very different.
Speaker 2: So much fun.
Speaker 1: So you have a reputation for being picky and choosing
Speaker 1: your roles. I mean you can, you can afford to
Speaker 1: be obviously, what draws you to accept certain roles and
Speaker 1: reject others.
Speaker 4: You know, I mean really it's just whether I'd want
Speaker 4: to see it in the theater, you know, like, you know,
Speaker 4: you got to like I always try to put myself
Speaker 4: in the in the seat of the audience. If I
Speaker 4: don't want to show up for this movie, why am
Speaker 4: I making it?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: And I think some actors just look at the role
Speaker 4: and I always asked the question of like, who's this
Speaker 4: for and and why spend your time slaving over it
Speaker 4: if if it's not worth an audiences, you know, hard
Speaker 4: earned money to go see it. So, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 4: pretty much it. I just kind of go buy my
Speaker 4: gut in that.
Speaker 2: So your favorite part so far?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's a great question.
Speaker 4: I Mean, they're all different but like, you know, one
Speaker 4: that was really really special to me that I got
Speaker 4: to shoot in Austin, Texas with Link later was Everybody
Speaker 4: Wants Them, which was this baseball movie.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've seen.
Speaker 2: This, I don't think. I don't know love I probably would.
Speaker 3: You would love this movie. Have you loved baseball? It's
Speaker 3: like it's it's a great sport.
Speaker 2: I just went to opening day of the Yankees, did
Speaker 2: you really?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I always go. I try to always go to.
Speaker 3: That's a that's a magical it is.
Speaker 2: It was a cold day.
Speaker 1: We sat outside and we had to wear a blanket,
Speaker 1: cover ourselves with blankets.
Speaker 3: It was so cold.
Speaker 1: But I have I have front row seats right behind
Speaker 1: home plate and just see and and that day, that day,
Speaker 1: Aaron did not hit a home run.
Speaker 3: I mean, it paid him enough money where he's got it.
Speaker 2: But the next game, look he I think he hit.
Speaker 3: Three homes He's doing great. He's a powerhouse.
Speaker 2: How do you like the new bat?
Speaker 3: I've heard about this, I haven't. I haven't tried.
Speaker 2: I looked at I.
Speaker 1: Looked at the pictures. I studied the whole bat. You
Speaker 1: studied it, Yeah, I studied. I love that you're inside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you find your seats. You can probably study
Speaker 1: the bat.
Speaker 3: You can, really, and.
Speaker 1: They showed you though, he showed me the bat, but
Speaker 1: it has a it has a totally different the same weight,
Speaker 1: but the bat goes straight instead of just gently curving
Speaker 1: out and up and straight. It gets a bulge in it.
Speaker 1: So when you hit that bulge, that's where they.
Speaker 2: Try to hit the ball. That's what sends it over.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: So it makes total sense. And it's this kid from
Speaker 1: M I. T. Who invented it.
Speaker 3: Did you know that.
Speaker 4: I wonder if it's like regularly that seems like it
Speaker 4: wouldn't be regulation to have like a bat that happened.
Speaker 1: No, but it's just I think they have to be
Speaker 1: the same length and the same weight. And then so
Speaker 1: he just had this idea. Well, I can just change
Speaker 1: it a little tiny bit.
Speaker 3: That is amazing.
Speaker 1: And the and the physics and the physics' amazing.
Speaker 2: So I love I love something.
Speaker 1: It's like a new it's like a new pair of
Speaker 1: sneaker for the runners that can make the whole difference
Speaker 1: between you know, three minute mile and a two minute.
Speaker 3: Miles hundreds of a second make it. It can be
Speaker 3: a win win.
Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1: So what do you want listeners to know about the
Speaker 1: business of movies?
Speaker 3: The business of movies. Yeah, one of the things that
Speaker 3: I'm really trying to do.
Speaker 4: One of the reasons I'm making so many movies right
Speaker 4: now is I am trying to really focus on theatrical
Speaker 4: and reminding of people why the theaters are so great
Speaker 4: and because I feel like going to the movie theater
Speaker 4: it's like a habit. When you go to the movie theater,
Speaker 4: you remember how magical it is. But like I think,
Speaker 4: like right now with TikTok and all these different things,
Speaker 4: people sometimes forget about the magic of the theater and
Speaker 4: when you go there, you're like, this is It's so
Speaker 4: much fun, it's the best and bringing groups of people,
Speaker 4: which is which is what I love to do. So
Speaker 4: I think that's for me, like.
Speaker 1: Getting people back into that's very nice because I really
Speaker 1: love going to the movie the best. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: watching movies on my iPad.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I mean I will say with Running Man
Speaker 4: this fall, we're getting to show audiences at CinemaCon tomorrow
Speaker 4: the first trailer.
Speaker 2: Are you going to have an opening in New York.
Speaker 3: It is why if you want to come, I want
Speaker 3: to get This movie is awesome.
Speaker 1: Now that sounds like my kind of like I like action. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I have a little lightning round to do with you, ma'am,
Speaker 1: which is silly, but people love listening to these lightnings.
Speaker 1: Hot dogs are Hamburgers hot riscuter ribs, ribs best side dish.
Speaker 3: Of barbecue mm hm, cool slaw.
Speaker 2: Favorite action film of all time, die Hard.
Speaker 1: A favorite filming locations, next vacation you want to take
Speaker 1: or do you? You know?
Speaker 4: I think after this next one, I'm gonna deserve some wine.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Bordeaux, Bordeaux.
Speaker 2: Wow. Thank you, Glenn.
Speaker 1: It's been very fun talking to you, and very good
Speaker 1: luck with Smash Kitchen.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I know Walmart will love you. Please put your picture up.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pull him in this thing. You have to do.
Speaker 2: You have to. Don't think you don't have to. You
Speaker 2: have to.
Speaker 1: You're too handsome and too and to appealing. And women
Speaker 1: are buying this stuff, not guys. Women are buying it
Speaker 1: and they want to see Glenn Powell take my word
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Speaker 3: Put my picture on it. Yes.
Speaker 4: Whenever we start doing salad dressings. Can I get you
Speaker 4: to can I get you.
Speaker 2: To taste it?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you very n And you can follow Glenn
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Speaker 3: Am I allowed to take the burger to go?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, please put on all your condiments. Can I have
Speaker 2: the condiments?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Please, all the conoments okay