Mathew Modine & D.B. Sweeney: Tell all on Weinstein & Kubrick | History Hyenas

Summary

History Hyenas with Chris Distefano & Yannis Pappas

Episode: Mathew Modine & D.B. Sweeney: Tell All on Weinstein & Kubrick

Date: March 12, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of History Hyenas welcomes celebrated actors Matthew Modine and D.B. Sweeney to discuss their new film "The Protector" while riffing on everything from changes in the movie industry to Hollywood’s dark corners and New York sports. Chris and Yannis blend serious insight with irreverent humor, guiding the conversation across chunky topics like Weinstein, Kubrick, internet culture, art's future, and the essence of collaboration. From wild anecdotes to unexpectedly deep moments, this is a lively, honest, and memorable sit-down with two industry veterans.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Economics and Culture of Modern Movies

• Industry Challenges:
  • Getting a movie into theaters is a huge win amid a changing landscape.
    • "It is a win to get inside the movie theater." – Matthew Modine (02:57)
  • The costs (tickets, popcorn, snacks) make theatergoing almost prohibitive for regular audiences.
    • "By the time you’re… You went to see Protector—you’re in it for, like, 70 bucks." – D.B. Sweeney (03:26)
• The Internet & Art:
  • The democratization of moviemaking and content through social media.
  • Younger generations less interested in movies, more in influencers like MrBeast (04:00–05:02).
  • The hosts riff on putting movies on OnlyFans for extra engagement (04:44).

2. Transforming the Theater Experience

• Phones & Attention
  • Sweeney discusses putting phones in Yondr bags (as comedy shows do):
    • “If you put your phone in a Yondr bag, you get a $3 discount on the Milk Duds.” – D.B. Sweeney (06:08)

3. Hollywood Friendships & Their Film Histories

• Memphis Belle Reunion
  • Modine & Sweeney reminisce about meeting on "Memphis Belle" (1989):
    • Real planes, pre-CGI, ensemble cast (07:01–08:10).
  • Joking about Billy Zane’s wig, and youthful looks ("Look at Matthew Modine, looks like lesbian—Katie Lang?" – Chrissy D. 08:41)
• Cutting Edge, SNL, and Nostalgia:
  • Praise for “The Cutting Edge” (figure skating cult classic) and the enduring legacy of SNL, despite ongoing criticism in the internet age (22:23–30:18).

4. Changing Hollywood: Blockbusters, Streaming, and Relevance

• Blockbuster Discussion:
  • Fewer big box office movies now, Oppenheimer and the Dark Knight as rare billion-dollar exceptions (10:24–10:41).
  • Sweeney and Modine debate if theaters can return to glory and how nostalgia plays a role.
  • Modine on the "analog world" of the past and why "Stranger Things" resonates—pre-internet, real human contact (11:09–11:52).
    • “Perhaps the secret sauce… is a time before computers and cell phones… a low-tech analog world that we’re missing…” – Matthew Modine (11:09)

5. Political & Personal Differences: Respect and Commonality

• Finding Connection Across Divides
  • Chris and Yannis highlight Modine and Sweeney’s political differences yet deep friendship.
    • “You could tell there’s a genuine love… that is the world… you got to do that.” – Chrissy D. (14:16)
  • Sharing stories of their families crossing divide (Yannis’s Republican dad, Democrat mom, and his brother, a “proper liberal” and a “homosexual”—18:03).

6. Sports, New York Culture & Loyalty

• Deep-dive on Knicks, Rangers, and New York sports (19:08–22:03).
• Riffing on the Brooklyn Nets and what makes true fandom (20:56–21:46).

7. Parenting, Family Structure & Social Outcomes

• Sweeney on two-parent households:
  • “You can be super poor, you can be super rich… two parents married, you’re less likely to produce a degenerate criminal.” – D.B. Sweeney (34:26)
• Why long marriages are so rare in entertainment; Modine’s 45-year marriage as an outlier (33:48).

8. Hollywood Scandals: Weinstein and the ‘Me Too’ Reckoning

• Modine’s direct experiences with Harvey Weinstein:
  • “Harvey… It wasn’t about penetration. It was about… ‘Yeah, I just fucked you.’ And power.” (49:48)
  • Story of being manhandled for the sake of Weinstein’s image, then dropped when someone more famous arrived (49:57–50:21).
  • Sweeney’s observations:
    • “Harvey would promise the same role to 40 actresses and have 39 dissatisfied customers who all fucked him willingly…” (50:53)
  • “The crime really was those people that represented those actresses and saying, ‘Oh that's just Harvey being Harvey. You want the job, don’t you?’” – Matthew Modine (51:43)

9. Stanley Kubrick & ‘Full Metal Jacket’ Insights

• Modine describes working with Kubrick and recommends his own “Full Metal Jacket Diary” (56:15).
• Turning down "Top Gun" for moral reasons:
  • “If that’s what it takes in order to be successful… I don’t want to have anything to do with it.” – Matthew Modine (58:09)
  • The personal ethics of choosing roles and distancing from jingoistic violence.

10. Eyes Wide Shut: Theories & Kubrick’s Obsessions

• Internet conspiracy: Was "Eyes Wide Shut" Kubrick’s exposé of Hollywood?
  • "I mean, that's what Nicole Kidman thinks..." – Matthew Modine (66:24)
  • Modine provides a nuanced take: Kubrick’s fixation on sexual jealousy and his wife’s honesty (68:00).
• Insights on how films reflect their directors' unresolved psychological dilemmas.

11. Anecdotes, Hollywood Legends & Personal Stories

• Hilarious story: Modine describes being "violated by a chimpanzee" on set (Funky Monkey) and draws a metaphor to Weinstein (48:00).
• D.B. Sweeney’s accidental phone call with Stanley Kubrick (65:05).
• Tales of Martin Short and John Candy yucking it up on a flight (63:20).

12. Reflections on Art, Collaboration & Forgiveness

• Modine on the importance of every crew member on set and humility in filmmaking:
  • “Everybody that’s on the set is your scene partner…” (54:10)
  • The power of grace and forgiveness in religious and creative life (55:12).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Movie Economics:
  • “Throw me a bone… If I buy the popcorn for 12, combo me a little bit.” – D.B. Sweeney (03:14)
• On Modern Audiences:
  • “My kids, and I’m like—they just don’t care. Like, we care.” – Chrissy D. (04:50)
• On Weinstein’s Power Moves:
  • “He grabbed me and pulled me down into his booth—‘You need to be seen with me.’… it was him needing to be seen with me.” – Matthew Modine (49:57)
• On Taking Personal Stands:
  • “If that’s what it takes in order to be successful in the business, I don’t want to have anything to do with it.” – Matthew Modine, on turning down Top Gun (58:09)
• On Collaboration On Set:
  • “Everybody’s your scene partner… The guy holding the boom mic is not your enemy.” – Matthew Modine (54:10)
• Insight on Kubrick's “Eyes Wide Shut”:
  • “Nicole’s dressed in Christiana’s [Kubrick’s wife’s] clothing… He wasn’t at peace with his thoughts… That’s why that book meant so much to him.” – Matthew Modine (67:54–69:42)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Movie theater economics & the new release (“The Protector”): 02:06–04:44
• Internet, nostalgia, and OnlyFans riff: 04:44–05:36
• Phones/Yondr bag discussion: 05:46–06:20
• Memphis Belle stories & 80s/90s movie camaraderie: 06:57–09:00
• Art, blockbusters, and Oppenheimer: 10:15–11:09
• Stranger Things & the analog world: 11:09–11:52
• Political differences & finding connection: 14:16–15:17, 18:03–18:05
• Marriage and parenting in show business: 33:40–34:28
• Weinstein, Me Too, and Hollywood’s power dynamics: 47:41–52:21
• Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket diary, & career choices: 56:15–59:21
• Turning down Top Gun, choosing roles on principle: 58:09
• Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” and director psychology: 66:07–70:34
• Forgiveness and respect on set: 55:12–56:07

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Tone & Language

• Conversational, brash, and relentlessly funny but also reflective and personal.
• No topic is off-limits—Hollywood’s darker corners, personal politics, and wild, sometimes R-rated, reminiscences.
• Guests switch easily between cheeky banter and earnest insight.

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Concluding Segment

The episode concludes on a high note—thanking the guests, plugging the new movie (“The Protector”), and joking about post-show massage parlors and Knicks games, all wrapped up in typical History Hyenas fashion (73:04).

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Listen If:

• You want thoughtful Hollywood stories with zero pretense.
• You’re intrigued by the unseen struggles of making movies today.
• You love when famous guests are allowed (and willing) to get real and weird in equal measure.

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Go see “The Protector” and check out Matthew Modine’s Full Metal Jacket Diary for more behind-the-scenes gold.

Transcript

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[Yanni P.]

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[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Matthew Modine and D.B. sweeney. You're gonna love it.

[Chrissy D.]

You're like the odd couple.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, it's. It was really turned out to be one of the funnest ones we've ever done. Catch me in Boston, April 17th and 18th. West Nyack, New York. Levity Live, April 24th, 26th. And then catch me at Emmaus, Pennsylvania, May 2nd.

[Chrissy D.]

I got nothing.

[Yanni P.]

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[Chrissy D.]

What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of History Hyenas. I'm Chrissy D. This is Yanni P. Today we got two cuties in the studio with us. Matthew Modine, D.B. sweeney. They got a new movie out right now called the Protector. And let me tell you some right now, I feel like we're alter. I feel like, you know, like when Bill and Ted. You ever see that movie, Bill and Ted. Excellent adventure. When they see the alternate versions of themselves, that's this.

[Yanni P.]

This is us.

[Chrissy D.]

This is us. If we were actors, this is who we.

[Yanni P.]

If we had any serious talent.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. If we had any serious talent. But it said we're just idiots on pods.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah. Welcome. We heard the movie came out this week. That came out this week. And first off, we really are interested in talking about the movie business because he came in, like, told me the numbers or whatever.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

But I was like, that's. It's like we said, it's a win to get in movie theaters.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Right?

[Yanni P.]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

It is a win to get inside the movie theater, Right? Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah. I think they got to rethink the whole model. I mean, you can't. Like, our movie's okay, right? It's not Kane. But you're asking people, you know, 16 bucks a ticket, 15 bucks for popcorn. The outrage of all outrages is 6 bucks for milk Duds. I mean, sure, throw me a bone.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

If I buy the popcorn for 12, combo me a little bit. They don't do that. So. So by the time you're, you know, you get out of there. You went to see Protector with, you know, TB Idiot and. And Mila Hottie. Once upon a time.

[Chrissy D.]

Sure.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And.

[Chrissy D.]

And.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And all of a sudden, you know, you're. You're in it for, like, 70 bucks.

[Chrissy D.]

I like it.

[D.B. Sweeney]

You're in it for 70 bucks.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. And it's the guy from Stranger Things. You seen it?

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

That's the only reason to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Yanni P.]

That's. That's the way you promote it.

[Chrissy D.]

That's the way you promote it. And you know what's great is we were planning to do 20 minutes with you guys, but I don't think we need it because we got the clip. But thanks, guys. That's what this is about. This is the Internet now. D.B. sweeney. Remember the name.

[Yanni P.]

We brought you in for a clip. Citizen Kate. She used to be hot. What do you want me to do?

[Chrissy D.]

Right. Right. No, it's just. Listen, here's the thing. I think that. I think that we're living in a time right now where it's just the Internet. I mean, as you. We all know, I've just taken over, and it's like, art is still art. I love the movies. I love TV shows. I appreciate it. But I look at my kids, and I'm like, there's just. They just don't care. Like, we care. They just don't. They care about Mr. Beast and the shit. Everybody. Everybody's now a fricking movie director because they have phones. I mean, the cameras inside our phones are better than the cameras Stanley Kubrick had when you did Full Metal Jacket. And it's just. It sucks, but it's just. It's just the world. So I think, though, you know, I think your idea of having somebody making the theater an experience where it's like, the actual actors are there, you get a meet and greet with them, all that stuff. I think that's the way it will go. And I think that's where it should go. Or just put everything. Every movie you do, just also do it on OnlyFans, where you see the movie and then you can also have an AI version of you guys just fucking eating ass on OnlyFans for $5 a month. I'd like to see that, Mr. Modine.

[Matthew Modine]

Oh, my.

[Chrissy D.]

Not the real you, just the air. You say, what room have I walked into? You walk us.

[Yanni P.]

Safe space.

[Chrissy D.]

You've walked into. You walk into the Internet. Welcome to the Internet. This is.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah. Stream.

[Chrissy D.]

This is not.

[Yanni P.]

This is not on a big screen. It's a small screen.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

And like we were saying, it's almost like screens have become what seeing someone live used to be. It's so common now that almost the live experience seems like it's going to become the rare experience. But movies. I also think maybe that it's going through a transition. We may be just going through a transition.

[Chrissy D.]

So is Nick right? Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Where it's like this is happening. But then I think movies will get popular. I think it's just. I think it's just people will want to go back to the.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I think I got to take the phones. I think that. I don't know whose idea was, but when you go to a comedy show, you know, they take your phone, they stick it in the yonder bag.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And. And I think everybody's secret.

[Yanni P.]

Dave Chappelle started that. He didn't want anyone.

[Chrissy D.]

That's what.

[Yanni P.]

He's so smart.

[Chrissy D.]

And it's very smart. Well, I thought Allah gave him the idea.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Their act, you know, developing their act so they can have a special before everybody knows their joke.

[Yanni P.]

But I think people are relieved.

[D.B. Sweeney]

It's like, oh, I get to. I'm allowed. I'm forced. But I'm allowed to put the phone down for two hours. Maybe that's the answer for movie theaters too, is right. You gotta. You know, if you. If you put your phone in a yonder bag, you get a $3 discount on the Milk Duds.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes. Seriously. I mean, something like that.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

I mean, dude. And it's also, you know, it's nostalgia. Like, I loved the figure skating movie Cutting Edge that you guys did. That's why I'm wearing this jacket. That's why I put on the women's US Figure skating jacket.

[Yanni P.]

I thought that was for Jack Hughes.

[Chrissy D.]

No, dude. This is the official female figure skating jacket of the Milan Olympics. And I wore it for you, Mr. Sweeney.

[D.B. Sweeney]

That is so strong. Thank you.

[Chrissy D.]

Thank you. That's what it.

[Yanni P.]

You guys.

[Chrissy D.]

And Matthew, I have in a butt plug for You.

[Matthew Modine]

I was thinking maybe you had a

[D.B. Sweeney]

singlet on, so the bustier is for both of us.

[Yanni P.]

Were you guys friends before? Like, have you known each other for a long time?

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah, we met on Memphis Bell, 1989, right?

[Chrissy D.]

What's Memphis Bell? Is it a porn?

[D.B. Sweeney]

That's. It's World War II B17 movie. Yeah, if it's World War II. So it's. It's a true story based on a

[Matthew Modine]

true story about guys in leather jackets and boots.

[Chrissy D.]

Oh, really? I like it, dude. I'm definitely a Nick get. Can somebody get Nick a wet wipe?

[D.B. Sweeney]

This was the first. First B17 that achieved 25 missions. And at that time, it was, you know, guys were getting shot out of the air by 11 missions.

[Chrissy D.]

So B17 is a plane. Yeah, Peptides. Yeah, but he's talking about Peptides now.

[D.B. Sweeney]

So these guys, we were part of the crew, the first crew that got. They're flying their last mission. If they can survive, they get to go home. Yeah, 25th and 25th mission. So Matthew was the captain. I was a navigator. And we go over to England, and it's a really cool movie because it's just before CGI happened. So we had six real B17 bombers, 12 fighter planes.

[Chrissy D.]

Who is it? Is it.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Is it camera planes?

[Matthew Modine]

Liam Neeson.

[D.B. Sweeney]

But it's a fun movie because it's. We're really in these planes, you know, and it's. It's. It's cool. And. But Sean Austin's in it and Eric Stolz and Harry Connick, guys.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, that's what I'm into, dude.

[Matthew Modine]

Eric Stoltz.

[Chrissy D.]

Eric stole.

[Matthew Modine]

Eric stole Billy Zayn.

[Chrissy D.]

Billy Zayn. Oh, with hair or did he have the shaved head?

[Matthew Modine]

No, he had a.

[D.B. Sweeney]

He had a wig.

[Chrissy D.]

He had a wig on?

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Is he. Does he not have hair?

[Yanni P.]

Oh, he's bald.

[Chrissy D.]

Oh, but I thought he shaved it. He has got a hair loss disease.

[Yanni P.]

No, it's not a hair loss.

[Matthew Modine]

Not a disease.

[Yanni P.]

It's just got.

[Chrissy D.]

He shaves his head.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

It's not a disease.

[Yanni P.]

So does. So does Pitbull the rapper. I mean, you know, but you don't

[Chrissy D.]

want to go around. I didn't know if he had alopecia. Jesus Christ, DB look what you used to look like.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Oh, how about that, huh?

[Chrissy D.]

Holy Matthew. Look at Matthew Modi look like lesbian. Is there Katie Lang?

[Yanni P.]

No, you're too cute, kids.

[Chrissy D.]

No, you are. These two. Here's the. I look at these two guys and I say, these are the type of guys my mom wants to have sex with.

[Yanni P.]

Absolutely.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

And to me, I'm big fan. I was big fans of both you guys.

[Chrissy D.]

I still am.

[Yanni P.]

Both you guys, big fans of the acting. Big fans.

[Chrissy D.]

I saw you sitting outside having breakfast, a friend of the farmer. But I didn't come up and say hello. I let you enjoy your meal, but,

[Yanni P.]

you know, it's wild.

[Matthew Modine]

I said, hi.

[Chrissy D.]

No, I want. I. Dude. Because I would. I was so caught up in the weather.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

That I would have come over and I would have sat down with you and said, hi, my name is Chris, and we'll be doing the podcast later on. And if you said, hi, my name is Matthew, I would have went in for a kiss on the lip. So I said, you know what? Let me just stay back this way. We got DB in between us, because I know what a guy like DB he's from Long Island. He doesn't play that gay shit. So that's what I know about DB So I just figured, I'm in a safe space with D.B.

[Yanni P.]

yeah, yeah, yeah. Because D.B. came in, he was like, can I speak in here? And they just dropped. And I said, you're. You're. You're in a safe space. You didn't say a word like that beat.

[Chrissy D.]

And I like these from Long island,

[D.B. Sweeney]

but I said it in a French context. I meant. I meant late. I meant late.

[Yanni P.]

You didn't mean, like, literal.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah. Matty. Mo, let me ask you a question.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Okay. You've been in some big. I mean, dude, come on. Full Metal Jacket, Stranger Things. I mean, some of the biggest blockbusters ever. Where do you see the business going and how do you feel about things? Because now we're in this movie, the Protector, which is a fantastic movie. Is it? But it's independent film, isn't. Isn't it? Or is it not independent?

[Yanni P.]

Forgot about the Dark Knight, too.

[Chrissy D.]

Oh, and he's in the Dark Night. Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Dark Knight.

[Chrissy D.]

Because those movies are just happening less and less now. So. Like, what? What? You know, what do you think? How do you feel?

[Matthew Modine]

Oppenheimer made a billion dollars.

[Chrissy D.]

That's what I'm saying. Look, how many blockbusters are, right?

[Matthew Modine]

Dark Knight. Also a billion.

[Chrissy D.]

That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. But. But they're happening, like, less and less. I mean, there's. They're still happening, but there used to be so many of these movies, but now there's only, like, one a year. So you can't get in every single

[Yanni P.]

one of them, because the rocks in them.

[Chrissy D.]

All the rocks in them.

[Yanni P.]

All. Yeah, yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Did.

[Matthew Modine]

Did anybody really imagine that Oppenheimer would make a billion dollars?

[Chrissy D.]

I mean, dude, I.

[Yanni P.]

Well, they did a. They did a Barbenheimer.

[Chrissy D.]

The way they Barbie and Oppenheimer market it.

[Yanni P.]

Like, if you're stupid, you go to this one.

[Chrissy D.]

Smart.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

If you went to college, you go to that one.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah. You got to be able to see. You got to see people talk about it.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, very smart.

[Matthew Modine]

Got to eat your meat and potatoes before you get your cake. Yes.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

It was sort of like.

[Matthew Modine]

I mean, I don't have a crystal ball to be able to tell you what the, what the future is going to look like. It looks pretty grim, right? All the wars going on, people. But perhaps the, the secret sauce, the secret secret of the success of Stranger Things is what DB Was alluding to before. It's a time before computers and cell phones and video games, people were playing game Dungeons and Dragons. You know, if you wanted to see your friend, you had to get on a bicycle and ride and go see them. So that this kind of low tech analog world that we're missing right now, I think maybe the world slides back into a more reasonable place where there's people talking to one another.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes, yes. That's what I try. So every time I'm watching Stranger things, because my 10 year old and 15 year old love Stranger Things. Watch. You know, it came out in the. Even that last episode came out in the theaters. It was such a big event in my family and I always tell them similarly. I'm like, this was the time when, like mommy and daddy grew up in this time where like all we did was talk to each other, ride bikes and we didn't have any major real fears. The only fear we had was like, you know, is who's getting aids? AIDS was the big thing. Yeah, yeah, Everybody. Not aids.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

And that was like, you know, I tell her, like, that was like our demogorgon.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I don't think anybody on Long island got aids.

[Chrissy D.]

No, right. Yeah, you know, pretty much.

[D.B. Sweeney]

You Brooklyn guys.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, we all got. Well, he def. I mean, he came close.

[Yanni P.]

Well, I came close. But my. You know, the funny thing is like, we all thought we were gonna get aids. It was like the media made a sure. And then you went to your doctor because you thought you had AIDS all the time.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

And then your doctor told. Told you the politically incorrect truth, right?

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. Well, the thing was like having sex with.

[Yanni P.]

He was behind that one too. Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[Yanni P.]

He was like, you shoot needles in your penis heart. You're fine. Yeah, fine. Don't worry.

[Matthew Modine]

Why didn't JFK get it then?

[Chrissy D.]

Right, exactly.

[Yanni P.]

Before. It was before aids.

[Matthew Modine]

Heroin is testicles.

[Chrissy D.]

He was the. Yes.

[Matthew Modine]

I never saw it.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Senior or Junior?

[Yanni P.]

No, no, the original.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

No.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Wow.

[Yanni P.]

Are you talking about Junior Kennedy?

[Matthew Modine]

Junior Was.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Shooting it into his penis hole.

[Matthew Modine]

Heroin into his testicles. Was he on a bed?

[Chrissy D.]

Well, R. Junior. Google it.

[Matthew Modine]

Just did. RFK Jr. Well, look, that's a weekend, right.

[Yanni P.]

Kennedy boys. They did.

[Chrissy D.]

They are wild boys. His voice. His voice. You know, I know he says he has a neurological condition, but I know just from, you know, he's. That's. You get that from eating ass. He was eating ass at a level that I think you haven't seen, in a way.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

That. And then you just. Your voice is going to wind up like that. So actually, that is what's stopped me from eating as much ass as my kid.

[Matthew Modine]

It might be if your uncle and your father were assassinated when you got up to publicly speak. That little bit of tension, a little

[D.B. Sweeney]

short, nervous thing, this red thing on my forehead.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Yanni P.]

That's a good point. You get a little nervous.

[Chrissy D.]

Says there's no credible evidence that RFK injected drugs into his penis. But he looks like the guy that would. And I. And I, you know, he had fun. He did.

[Matthew Modine]

I think they got it wrong. It's not penis. It was testicles.

[Chrissy D.]

Testicles.

[Matthew Modine]

Testicles, yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

It's crazy, though, people attacking this guy. Like, he's saying, like, let's have less vaccines and let's eat better food, and it's like he's Hitler.

[Chrissy D.]

Right?

[D.B. Sweeney]

It's like. I mean, really?

[Yanni P.]

You guys must have some interesting political comments.

[Chrissy D.]

Let me just tell you something right now. This is what I actually love about this, and this is what I hope the kids at home are watching. They are opposite sides of the spectrum politically. You could tell by their faces. You could just. You can tell that they don't agree on one thing politically at all. But here they are getting along friends, promoting the movie and that. You could tell there's a genuine love. I mean, and it's just. That is the world. That's life. It's like, you got to do that.

[Matthew Modine]

Okay. To disagree.

[Chrissy D.]

They're great.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I admire this guy.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes. Great actor.

[Yanni P.]

Yes, Great actor. You're a great actor. Yes.

[Chrissy D.]

That's what I'm saying. You have commonalities. Like, so what if you're on different sides of the, you know, spectrum? It's okay.

[D.B. Sweeney]

The bigger challenge for us is that I. I eat meat and he doesn't eat Meat. So when we try to pick a restaurant, he's got to have veto power. But again, you can get past everything.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, past everything.

[Matthew Modine]

There's always something you can eat.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, Always something you can eat.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

There's sound. Yeah. So I like that.

[Matthew Modine]

Right.

[Yanni P.]

Are you vegetarian for moral reasons, health reasons?

[Matthew Modine]

No. I grew up in the 60s, everybody, when it was difficult to be vegetarian. And then my wife, in trying to eliminate, Trying to find things that were making her ill, she didn't know what it was, so she started eliminating things in her diet. Once she eliminated animal products from her diet, she. Her health increased dramatically. And so, you know, as the wife goes, so does the household.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, Smart.

[Matthew Modine]

So the house became vegan.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, Healthy, dude. I mean, your cholesterol must be unbelievable. What are the numbers? Tell us the numbers.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, I don't. I don't even. I don't have a doctor.

[Yanni P.]

Really?

[Chrissy D.]

No. Interesting.

[Yanni P.]

Jesse. Jesse doesn't go to the doctor.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, they do. They give you bad news.

[D.B. Sweeney]

That's what people are.

[Chrissy D.]

That's what DB wants to inject you with. Methylene blue. Is that all right? That's what db.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Just do it by outside the elevator.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

DB wants RFK to take a look at you.

[Yanni P.]

DB looks like he was partying last.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Db. DB definitely eats me. DB does not watch his. What he eats, I'll tell you that.

[Yanni P.]

You know, DB might go first.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, that's right.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

He had a good time.

[Chrissy D.]

DB's a fun. Both, both, Both fun guys for diff. In different ways.

[Yanni P.]

In different ways. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. With db, you could, you know, you want to, you want to do a, a bump of coke, you go to DB's house.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Yanni P.]

If you want to get a nice quinoa salad with beans that supplement your protein, you go.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah. It's what it is.

[Yanni P.]

You have a nice matcha Te infused. Yeah. It's a different time. It's a good time both ways.

[Chrissy D.]

And it's just. And it's just beautiful. Come together. You know what I mean? It's a nice come together moment. It's kind of like, you know, different. I like that there's, you know, this is the older generation where you just hang out, you just hang out and you find a commonality between each other and.

[Yanni P.]

My dad was a Republican. My mom was a Democrat. Back in divorce, they got divorced, but they got divorced for different reasons. My mom had fumes.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Yanni P.]

But.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

So that mom had fumes.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. Don't. Well, we'll get into it on the Patreon.

[Yanni P.]

My dad was a Korean War vet. Sometimes he would say some inappropriate.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, his dad. His dad was a Korean War vet. And he did. You know, he denies it, but we are pretty confident that he did have sex with the Korean prostitute.

[Yanni P.]

No, he definitely did. Yeah, he definitely.

[Chrissy D.]

And the mom. His mom found out and.

[Matthew Modine]

What can you do?

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, you're trying to survive, honey.

[Yanni P.]

He definitely did. And he announced it to a waiter once in his later years. You know, you get older, you become a little bit more unbridled.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Bring me some more kimchi. And I banged the prostitute.

[Chrissy D.]

That's what it is.

[Yanni P.]

Well, yes, I was with my brother, who's a very proper. He actually is, you know, very liberal guy. My brother.

[Chrissy D.]

He's a homosexual.

[Yanni P.]

So we were sitting having.

[Chrissy D.]

Not because he's liberal. No. Just because he had sex with men.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

No, it's a true story.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, it's a true story.

[Chrissy D.]

No, he's a proper term homosexual.

[Yanni P.]

But he act. He is liberal, too.

[Chrissy D.]

Right?

[Yanni P.]

He's both.

[Chrissy D.]

Right. He is liberal, but being liberal doesn't make you homosexual.

[Yanni P.]

Double stuffed Oreo.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, right, right.

[Yanni P.]

He's both liberal and homosexual.

[Chrissy D.]

He's a three dollar bill. But not because it was politics, because he likes. You know what I mean? He had sex with men. Butt. Yeah, we respect that and we love that. So we also love liberals. And we're not. Liberals are gay. DB Might have said that, but we didn't say that.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I just want to draw a hard line between Long island and Queens and Brooklyn.

[Yanni P.]

Hard barrier.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

So me and my brother was sitting there with my father. He must have been, you know, in his 80s at the time. And as the waitress came over, he just said, korean whores got tight pussies. Out of nowhere. Yeah, out of nowhere. He must have just been back there.

[Chrissy D.]

Back there. Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

It happens.

[Yanni P.]

And that's just what he said. Just what he did.

[Chrissy D.]

Now, Matt, that'll change the evening.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, it was my brother. My brother was mortified. I was cracking up. And we chose different career paths.

[Matthew Modine]

Yes. You're trying to transition, like, get out.

[Chrissy D.]

Well, I'm trying to. Well, I was gonna.

[Matthew Modine]

No.

[Chrissy D.]

I could talk about Korea all day, but I know we only have a few more minutes. I want to talk about the Knicks. You and I, big time New York Knicks fans. You said. Where do I know you from? Obviously, Giannis made the joke. Grinder. We thought about it. That's not it. But it was. It's the Knicks games.

[Matthew Modine]

We got spanked last night.

[Chrissy D.]

We did get spanked.

[Matthew Modine]

We did yesterday. Not last night.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, Yesterday at the Lakers. But I do feel, don't you feel that even though we're having a little bit of bumps in the road now, DB Calm down. No bumps. No bumps on the table. I, I, I think that this more than any other year in recent memory, we have a real chance to win the NBA championship. What do you think? What do you say?

[Matthew Modine]

I mean, I don't, it's like holding your breath.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

You know, I, I feel like I'm going to pass out. That I'm so excited that they could, they could, you know, reach the definitely

[Chrissy D.]

east, east coast finals, Eastern Conference finals. For sure.

[Matthew Modine]

For sure.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

You saw Jalen came back from Boston. He's back.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Jason Tatum.

[Matthew Modine]

Jason Tatum.

[Chrissy D.]

Jason Tatum. Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

Jason Tatum.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

And he looked good.

[Chrissy D.]

He did look. But my feeling is beat them last year with him at full strength, so why couldn't he do it this year? And people talk about the spurs and Knicks, beat them by 30. So, like, I personally think if we just gotta get hot at. I'm saying we, I'm not on the team. Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

But I, but it's okay that we're slumping right now.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[Matthew Modine]

I think this is the time to slump.

[Chrissy D.]

I think it's good. If you're gonna slump, you do it now, and then you get a nice little surge.

[Matthew Modine]

And I. Brunson's been playing terribly.

[Chrissy D.]

He's been playing terribly. But let him get it out now.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, let him get it out.

[Chrissy D.]

I really, I really think this is a time. New York sports. I'm a big St. John's basketball.

[D.B. Sweeney]

The dominant tenet at MSG is the Rangers, you know.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[D.B. Sweeney]

They're going to go 17 and one now since they kept trocheck.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

They're going to make the playoffs. They're going to win the Cup.

[Chrissy D.]

So do you think that.

[Yanni P.]

Oh, dude.

[Chrissy D.]

Crazy.

[D.B. Sweeney]

17 and 1.

[Chrissy D.]

The Islanders, all New York sports teams playing good. Buffalo. Buffalo. Besides the Brooklyn Nets. But they're not a real team. Can we just be honest, Matt? Now you've told us you're a New Yorker. You know, DB New Yorker. You've been here straight.

[Matthew Modine]

Still the New Jersey Nets.

[Chrissy D.]

Here's the truth about, here's the truth about the Brooklyn Nets. And let's just, just back me up on this. Ok? Okay. The Brooklyn Nets, if you're a fan, if you're an adult of the Brooklyn Nets, if you're an adult fan of the Brooklyn Nets, either you don't know sports, you're on the spectrum of your Hasidic Jew. It's one of those things.

[Yanni P.]

And the stadium sucks.

[Chrissy D.]

It's a terrible center. Sucks. It's like you got. If you're a little kid, if you're under the age of 15, I'll allow you to be a broken Nets fan. You grow up here, but you can't be an adult and tell me you like the Nets. You know what I mean? It just doesn't make any sense. So anybody tells me that they like the Brooklyn Nets or if you're from New Jersey, if you're from New Jersey, I'll allow it. But if you're from New York and you like the Nets, I really don't have anything in common with you. Because. Because you're not a guy who likes sports, and I'm a guy who likes sports. And you're also most likely Hasidic Jew.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, they do.

[Matthew Modine]

Mets or Yankees?

[Chrissy D.]

I'm actually the. I like the Mets, but I also don't hate the Yankees, and I never have. I'm a bisexual baseball fan because I'm all about New York first. So I like the Mets and the Yankees, and a lot of people get mad at me and what I say to them.

[Matthew Modine]

Same with Jets, Giants.

[Chrissy D.]

Well, I don't like the Jets. I only like the Giants. But the only reason why I like the Mets is because I grew up Yankees fan. My father from the Bronx. Whatever. I was born and raised in Queens, so my mother always wanted me to be a Mets fan, but I'm going with my pops. But then the Mets owner, Steve Cohen, his son is a comedy fan, and we start to get to know each other. And then I got to know the owner of the Mets, Steve Cony. He's the nicest guy ever. And his family, so, so nice. And they, like, roll out the red carpet for me and my family.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Where like, you know the Yankees.

[Matthew Modine]

Steve K. No.

[Yanni P.]

He's a billionaire owner of the Met. So right. Right off the bat.

[Chrissy D.]

What? He's out. He's a billionaire. A billionaire. So he's out. Oh, yeah. But. But then. But he's also. But he's also Jewish, so we have to love and support our Jewish brothers and sisters.

[Yanni P.]

It depends. It depends.

[D.B. Sweeney]

But it is fun to watch.

[Yanni P.]

It's irrelevant. I think it's irrelevant.

[Chrissy D.]

Relevant to.

[Matthew Modine]

Is Mundani going after him?

[Chrissy D.]

I don't think Mom Donnie can get. I think. I don't think he's too big. The billionaires. I don't think Mom Donnie. Yeah. I think all Mom Donnie could really do to Steve Cohn has hit him with a snowball. I don't think that's really. Can't really stop Steve.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Too much money.

[Yanni P.]

Not gonna be able to get him with impromptu nail bomb. No, no.

[Matthew Modine]

Like the snowball thing in Washington Square.

[Chrissy D.]

No, I didn't think about. Yeah, See, it's wrong. It's wrong.

[Matthew Modine]

Wrong. They're police officers. And. And by the way, if a snowball fight is when we engage and we're both throwing snowballs.

[Yanni P.]

Right. Yes.

[Matthew Modine]

This policeman. We're not throwing snowballs.

[Yanni P.]

That's a great point.

[Matthew Modine]

And had they thrown snowballs, it would have. It could have escalated into something really horrific.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[Yanni P.]

Now, you know, we live in an era where someone could take that clip.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

And turn you into a MAGA Republican. Just that clip.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Cause even though I'm trying to be a skinny mini, one thing I love is chubbies.

[Yanni P.]

I. Are you talking to me?

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

I love chubbies.

[Yanni P.]

You love me at 220.

[Chrissy D.]

Cause.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

You like me. You like, like. You like to make me. You like to fat me up in your basement.

[Chrissy D.]

And what I like about you too, is I like that just like a girl. When you posted the picture of us at the wedding, you cropped from the waist up.

[Yanni P.]

You have to do that because my gut is fat. Fat.

[Chrissy D.]

But Chubby's is actually. They have its clothing company and they got the best shorts. Summer's coming up. I love their shorts. They were founded in 2011 by a group of friends who wanted to redefine proper length shorts. And they definitely named the company after one of their fat friends. They just used to call Chubby men's shorts. They said they were losing their personality, they didn't look as good, and they were right. And that's why this year marks 15 years of Chubby's, where they're celebrating by bringing back the originals, the OGs, the shorts that started all. They got the same iconic inseam options, same comfortable fit, and the same easygoing vibe that looks good and feels even better.

[Yanni P.]

With over 2.6 million customers, Chubby's clearly knows how to keep thighs happy and vibes happy. You know, you got to get the right mcev. You don't want it too saggy. Chubby's just does it right there. Great shorts. Summer's coming up. Go take a peek at the website and go buy yourself some Chubby's. For a limited time, Chubby's is giving our listeners 20% off with the code [e-mail] that's 20% off your order with the code hyenas. Give your thighs the VIP treatment they deserve with chubbies. Support the history hyenas and tell them that we sent you over there.

[Chrissy D.]

Cause factor I've been using factor. I've been cooking my home meals. I've been trying to get skinny mini and cute for summer. And factor has been helping because they got no refined sugars, no artificial sweeteners, no refined seed oils, just good food and meals that fit your goals and schedule. I got, I'm eating healthier, I'm managing my calories and I'm getting the number one thing that we need, protein.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, I'm using factor now because I need to lose a little weight, I need to eat healthy and my wife

[Chrissy D.]

can't go cook for well because I'm using factor. And then when I told you about it, you forgot the letter C and you're using fatter. So you just are@fatter meals.com 100 rotating

[Yanni P.]

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[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, I like a salad. We're going to go get some pizza today, but I'm going to get a salad instead.

[Yanni P.]

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[Chrissy D.]

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[Yanni P.]

You guys are older. You remember when people weren't so crazy? Do you think the world's gotten a little crazy, a little too extreme on both sides? Everything filtered through politics.

[Matthew Modine]

I mean, thousands of years ago when Confucius was walking the earth, he said when words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom. And we're living in a time where there's so many opinions. You know, we were talking before about the movie business and not only is can anybody make a movie, but anybody can have an opinion about a movie and depending on the platform that they have, how, how loudly they can yell and destroy something that is rather fragile. Art and storytelling, you know, it's easy to you, but it used to be that way too. Frank Rich, the movie crew, the theater critic for the New York Times, could close a play overnight. The. I don't know if you ever went to Joe Allen's restaurant. Joe Allen's restaurant. The walls were lined with plays that opened and closed on the opening night.

[Chrissy D.]

Wow.

[Matthew Modine]

And I used to think he was making fun of those plays, you know, like, haha, they open and close. But he was celebrating the fact that how much effort it took in order to be able to get that play up. Look at the people that were involved. The famous director, the famous actors, the famous playwright, the famous composers that were involved with the creation that opened and closed in one night. So he wasn't making fun of it, he was celebrating the effort.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[Matthew Modine]

And. And that's what we don't really do anymore is you don't get an E for effort anymore. It's like you win or you're a loser.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

That's a quaint time. Like New York Times is on 43rd street and then Joe Allen's on 46th Street. And opening night of a Broadway play, the New York Times would come out for the next day at like 11 o'. Clock. So the play ends at like 10. People would be huddled in the restaurant. Somebody would be right on 43rd street trying to get the first copy.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And they'd all read the review. And it's like you learn your fate.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

You know, and we're hit. Or was done.

[Yanni P.]

Was it really? Did he have that one?

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah, that power in the 80s and certainly in the early 90s.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. It became. When the Internet started to get big with comedy, like I'm talking about over the last like 10 years, it became a big thing amongst comedians. Like you would hear it at the different clubs. Like people started really crapping on like snl. Oh, it's not funny anymore. And the people from, you know, the 90s were funnier and all these things and, and you know, I had never been there. I never, you know, wasn't a part of snl. So I would hear what they were saying and I was like, yeah, but this shows like an institution. So like, what could it be? And then you would hear people really go in SNL sucks. Nobody's a starring all these things. And then I went, I went. One of our friends was on, on the show and he invited me to go to the show to watch him on it and the after party. And then I went and watched. Like I was there watching how it all goes and I was like blown away by the spec. What Those people do every single week to make that show and how complicated it is and how they have to do everything and put out sketches and deal with the Internet now and all that stuff. And I was just the kind of like, I just love the show so much now, even if I don't laugh at it as much or I can hear people say, okay, subjectively, it's not funny, but kind of the admiration I have for what goes into it. And it's very similar to a play like, like you can. It's easy now. Everybody judges everything. They got these watch videos on Instagram and they like to shit on things. And then it's like, if you tried it, like, go try. Like now when I hear anybody crap on snl, I'm like, go try it. Go see if you could come up within a week of all those sketches and tell me how funny you think you could be. Like, tell me. Go try a Broadway play. See if you can honestly do it. Most people can't.

[Yanni P.]

That's why it's the Teddy Roosevelt speech. The best.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

The man in the arena.

[Chrissy D.]

That's it.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, it's.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

I don't think everybody should get a participation medal. I think we have to celebrate excellence. You know, that there's, that there's one person that wins the prize, but

[D.B. Sweeney]

sounding very conservative.

[Chrissy D.]

Dude, I was just going to say, dude, you sound like my dad.

[Yanni P.]

Or he's just sounding like a good old. What they used call, you know, good old Clinton Democrat.

[Chrissy D.]

No. Well, that's, that's. Yeah, just, you know, I think we're all, I think we're all in here, right? Old school.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Democrats. We're all, you know, even the way that we are, you know, the way we are now, just being in the middle a lot of, you know, because people have gotten so crazy, like you're a Republican. It's like, no, dude, I grew up mostly Democrat. Like everybody else in New York.

[D.B. Sweeney]

The.

[Matthew Modine]

But that I got that I didn't finish the thought. Is that. But you say you have two children.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, three. Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

When they had first started walking, you didn't discourage them. When they fell down, you say, oh, what a loser.

[Chrissy D.]

No, let me get another kid that will learn how to walk right away.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

You, you keep encouraging.

[Chrissy D.]

You sure.

[Matthew Modine]

Helping.

[Yanni P.]

Not me, me. I. As soon as my kid fell, I said, you deserve to fall.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

You're pale skinned. You deserve it. You're privileged.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

You shouldn't be walking. You know, all the other people who didn't walk.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

You know what, what kind of conquering your ancestors did exactly. Even though we didn't. We're Greek. We've been conquered for a long time. But I let her know she was privileged. That was the most important thing.

[Chrissy D.]

No, you're walking or you got to tell your kids. Now. Like, now I get mad at my kids if they don't know Mandarin. I'm like, you better learn freaking Chinese. Yeah, okay. The hell are you doing? Who cares if you could do it in English?

[Yanni P.]

Do you think this movie can make some money in China? Because that seems to be the way.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Protector.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah. Why not?

[Matthew Modine]

The movie that we came here to

[D.B. Sweeney]

chat about, Protector, it's kind of designed to be international because it's, you know, it's kind of a knockoff.

[Chrissy D.]

I was gonna say it's taken with a woman. That's what I thought.

[Matthew Modine]

It was more Rambo.

[D.B. Sweeney]

First Blood, right?

[Chrissy D.]

Okay, yeah, yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

First Blood. Your character.

[Chrissy D.]

My character is.

[Matthew Modine]

We're definitely lifted.

[D.B. Sweeney]

But Mila, I think her character is more like Liam Neeson as a chick. And. But, yeah, those movies tend to do better international because, you know, a punch doesn't need a subtitle.

[Yanni P.]

That's right.

[Chrissy D.]

Where did you guys film the movie? Was it in us?

[D.B. Sweeney]

Las Cruces, New Mexico.

[Chrissy D.]

New Mexico, Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Which is, you know, if you like burritos.

[Yanni P.]

Right.

[Chrissy D.]

See, that's the part. Another part about acting. I always think about now. You know, we. We travel with stand up and all that. And I never really considered until I got into, you know, entertainment a little bit. You know, you guys got to be away from your families for months filming these movies. Like, how do you.

[Matthew Modine]

It used to be worse. Used to be four months. Five months. Months. Full Metal Jacket was almost two years. I was in England, but I was with my wife.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah. My son.

[D.B. Sweeney]

They used to take care of you in those days? Yeah, yeah. Now they try to get you to say, well, bring you to England for a movie, but you have to be an English citizen. Like, pretend you're an English person. Pay your own hotel, you know.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Whoa.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah, so that's how they. They call it. Local hire. So, like, I got offered something last week where they said, okay, we're gonna shoot in Columbus, Ohio. But you got to be a local hire, so that. So, like, I got to pay the hotel and the airplane, and so deduct that from whatever money they're giving you. But when we did Memphis Belle, we were there, like, five months, and they put us up in a nice place. Yeah, but.

[Chrissy D.]

But. But if you. If you had a wife and kids at that at that point and you. There's plenty of actors that can't bring their family with them.

[Matthew Modine]

Once they started going to school, that was the end of it.

[Chrissy D.]

You didn't see them for.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah. Then you were gone for three, four months.

[Yanni P.]

Wow.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. See, that's, that's like the dilemma because sometimes we are like, you know, we'll only go be gone Thursday to Sunday and we're like, we can't do this. I miss my family. But. But you guys, it's a different thing.

[Matthew Modine]

It is awful. And.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah. You know, it's why there's so many crash and burn marriages in the entertainment.

[Chrissy D.]

That's what it is.

[Yanni P.]

You're still.

[Chrissy D.]

But you made it.

[Yanni P.]

You're still on.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah. 45 years.

[Chrissy D.]

Whoa. Congratulations. You made it.

[Yanni P.]

20 plus 23. Yeah, that's. That's a win.

[Chrissy D.]

That's awesome.

[Yanni P.]

I think at 23, you can leave. I think you should be able to leave.

[Chrissy D.]

I think you should say, have an option.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Have a clause.

[Yanni P.]

I think success, it's the same success for me.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Well, I think the treasury, the government should every. Every 10 years you make. The government should send you a check. Check. Because you've made society better.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Like, you know what I mean?

[Yanni P.]

Great point.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Because if you look at all the statistics on crime.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

It doesn't matter if you're rich or you're poor. If you have two parents. Yeah. You're like one eighth less likely to just go back.

[Yanni P.]

Really? Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

It's just ridiculous whether they're divorced or not. You're saying just two parents.

[D.B. Sweeney]

No.

[Chrissy D.]

Two parents married, two married parents.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Okay, it does. But the thing that's great is it doesn't. It doesn't have any correlation to finances. You can be super poor, you can be super rich. Like a divorce billionaire family has just as much chance of producing a degenerate criminal.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

As a family making no money.

[Chrissy D.]

Right, right.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Maybe not just as much, but comparably, it's definitely.

[Yanni P.]

It definitely helps Reiner.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, you're saying what Rob Reiner did you say?

[Yanni P.]

Yeah. As a counterpoint. I think he's bringing it up.

[Chrissy D.]

Oh, as a counterpoint. Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

There. You wouldn't think that Rob Reiner's child

[Chrissy D.]

would all do that.

[Yanni P.]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

Do something so heinous.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. Right. But then. But that was a mental illness. Right.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Multiple marriages, too.

[Chrissy D.]

Really?

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

It wasn't his first wife.

[Yanni P.]

Oh.

[Chrissy D.]

Oh.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I don't know.

[Chrissy D.]

I don't. That. I didn't know.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I don't know.

[Matthew Modine]

I guess the point I think that's trying to make. Was that. No. It exists across the spectrum of sure of craziness.

[Yanni P.]

Humans are compl. We're complicated. Yeah. Yeah. That's why we need movies. We need art. You know what I miss? I miss feeling. I miss watching something and feelings.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

The way they make movies now, it's like either excitement or plot twist. I miss the feeling when you watch Eight Men Out. When you watched Ethan Hawke.

[Chrissy D.]

He loves Ethan. He's a big Ethan Hawke. Like. Like we get it in his lap. I try to get videos of Ethan Hawke for his birthday. I mean, he watches every Ethan Hawke movie. He loves Ethan.

[Yanni P.]

Ethan Hawke.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Midget. You got Blue Moon, right?

[Chrissy D.]

You guys, I love Link Letter.

[Yanni P.]

I love Link Letter.

[Chrissy D.]

You boys know Ethan Hawkeye?

[Yanni P.]

Hawk?

[Matthew Modine]

I know Ethan.

[Yanni P.]

Can you get him on?

[Chrissy D.]

What can we do? Get him.

[Matthew Modine]

I'll hook him up.

[Chrissy D.]

What can we do? Because I'm telling you, if you want to make someone. If you want to make a fellow liberal man happy.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Ethan. What you could do. Ethan Hawke is the gift. I can't explain to you what Ethan Hawke.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Would mean to Giannis. He loves Ethan Hawke. It would be okay.

[Yanni P.]

You send in a dying kid, you know their favorite sports star, Right. Steph Curry show up for some kid who's dying a cancer. Bay Area.

[Matthew Modine]

Didn't the Greeks invent liberal democracy? Sure.

[Chrissy D.]

And then they abandoned it for a thousand years. No.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Didn't they?

[Chrissy D.]

No, they did democracy and then they didn't have it for a while.

[Yanni P.]

That's the Roman Empire.

[Chrissy D.]

Sorry.

[Matthew Modine]

Stoicism.

[Yanni P.]

Stoicism.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah. We do kind of everything. The Bible.

[D.B. Sweeney]

We wouldn't have the Bible for what happened.

[Chrissy D.]

What happened?

[Yanni P.]

Well, conquered we got.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

And you know, a bunch of people didn't understand that. Guys just want to sit around, chat.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Talk philosophy and have a little butt sex.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. That's all it is.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

There's always little boys, you freaks.

[Matthew Modine]

Naked. Naked Wrestling.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes. Olive oil.

[Yanni P.]

The Olympics.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Wow.

[Chrissy D.]

Because we're gonna get Ethan Hawke for you.

[Yanni P.]

If you could just tell him you

[Chrissy D.]

had a good time and if I

[Matthew Modine]

got John Kennedy in your. In your side.

[Chrissy D.]

That's it. Jfk.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Some fans put us.

[Matthew Modine]

Who's the gray headed guy?

[Chrissy D.]

That's the. The. The driver. Clinton Black?

[D.B. Sweeney]

No, that's John Connolly.

[Chrissy D.]

Oh, that's John Connolly. I thought it was the driver.

[Matthew Modine]

That's supposed to be the. The back of the.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, we're in the back of the convertible. You know, drinking smoothies. That's the thing. We do cuties with smoothies.

[Matthew Modine]

So DB Is sitting about where the grassy knoll is.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yes.

[Chrissy D.]

DB Was the shooter.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Oh, Woody Harrelson's father.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. That's what they say, right? Yeah. Well, you know what's interesting? Here's what's happened.

[D.B. Sweeney]

You never heard it. Woody Harrelson's father, I don't think he died, but he murdered a life sentence for murdering a federal judge. And the rumor is that Oliver Stone put him in true crime or whatever that one true Roman. Because he. He wanted to get the true story about jfk.

[Matthew Modine]

Right.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And that's why. But. Yeah, but that part is not disputed. The part that's alleged is that he was one of the. The guys in the grassy Noble.

[Yanni P.]

I go, he's definitely more than one.

[Chrissy D.]

Well, yeah, because.

[Yanni P.]

Because you watch him get shot.

[Matthew Modine]

Have you been there?

[Yanni P.]

Huh?

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[Matthew Modine]

When you stand there in that spot. Yeah. You look where the book depository is and where the grassy knoll is.

[Chrissy D.]

You're like, there's no way.

[Matthew Modine]

There's no way. How fast is the car going? 20 miles an hour. I. I go single action bulk.

[Yanni P.]

And also a guy. No assassin ever goes, I didn't do it. They want the credit. You know, they want. And they're doing it because they want people to know that they killed the tyrant.

[Matthew Modine]

They're a patsy. Right.

[D.B. Sweeney]

So he start unraveling that thing, though. You go right through Gerald Ford on the Warren Commission and.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Only unelected president, history of the country. We're gonna get rid of Nixon over, like, nothing.

[Chrissy D.]

Nothing. Yeah, I know. I think we'll find out. I think. I think now it's. We've re. There's enough time has went by because I. The gauge for me is my mom. My mom is very Catholic, Irish Catholic lady from New York City. Like your believes everything. Believes in the church, she's in the government.

[Yanni P.]

So holy. She could maybe get you in as a plus one.

[Chrissy D.]

She could get you into a plus one. Even though you've been divorced.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Even though you've been divorced. She talks and get you. My mom. My mom's got a. You know, like, I need her info. The lightning lane at Disney World. My mom's got lightning lane passes to get into heaven. Because she's. She's a very Catholic, by the book lady. I was an author.

[Yanni P.]

Boy, I put some hours in.

[Chrissy D.]

So she's. Yeah, she's even gonna get Giannis in. And she said she possibly could even get in his gay brother, but that's gonna be hard. So. So. But she said it's possible she's gonna talk to Jesus when she gets up. But even my mother has said, even my mother has said two things have radically changed for her. She now has been asking me, christopher, do you really think the government killed jfk? Is that possible? And I said, I don't know if it's the government, mom, but I don't think it was Lee Harvey Oswald. And she's like, yeah, I kind of agree. I think the government may have lied to us. And I'm like, I would say. And then the other thing is, again, being devout religious, a week ago, she's like, christopher, do you, you know anybody in your podcast? You have anybody in your podcast come and talk about aliens? I think they're real.

[Yanni P.]

Whoa.

[Chrissy D.]

And I said, mom, what?

[Matthew Modine]

Whoa?

[Chrissy D.]

Jesus made us in seven days. What are you talking about? Jesus.

[Yanni P.]

She's accepting aliens, but she still denies the pedophilia. The systematic pedophile Catholic Church.

[Chrissy D.]

That's what it is with Mom. She doesn't. Yeah, that didn't happen. My mom is. Here's who my mom is. I'm 16. When I, when the pedophilia Catholic church stuff came out, I was 16 years old. 16 years old. I mean, prime time, right? I'm. This is. My brain's forming. And then she. I was in Catholic high school. This whole scandal get rocks the Catholic Church. And she goes, you're gonna every. In my high school, they had a camp called Usopus. It was a town upstate. And you would go with the, you know, boys, all boy Catholic high school. The priests were there and like it was sleep away summer camp. And so this scandal's happening and she's like, you're gonna go to utpis this year. I said, mom, you want me to be in the woods with priests? What about all this stuff? She's like, oh, don't believe that bullshit. I was like, oh, okay. Don't believe that bullshit. Why do you think I fucking waddled out of church? You know?

[Yanni P.]

And then he blacked out for his whole 16th year. Yeah, doesn't remember.

[Chrissy D.]

Doesn't remember it. But my, even my mom is like, now she's starting to come around to all these conspiracies that are not really. We're finding out, not really conspiracy. I know you've been a believer for a long time. We've seen each other at the meetings. But Matthew is now even believing that, you know, it's not.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Here's one way to say this. I think there's just as much pedophilia in travel, sports, in the New York City, public school system. In every place there's single parents dropping their kids off and having them driven back by the coach. And I think the Catholic Church certainly, great crimes, great cover ups, everybody should be killed, thrown back. But I think it was highlighted for an agenda to discredit the Catholic Church.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

So.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Because I don't think it's any more prevalent than any other place where there's kids and grownups inappropriately.

[Yanni P.]

That's probably true.

[Chrissy D.]

That's. And that's probably true. You know it's funny that's like my wife's like an old school, like Puerto Rican girl from Sunset Park, Brooklyn. So it's. She's just, you know, she's not political at all.

[Yanni P.]

You're married.

[Chrissy D.]

Is your wife Latina?

[Yanni P.]

Is Latina Hispanic or.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, I'm in the club.

[Chrissy D.]

You're in the club?

[Yanni P.]

Yes.

[Chrissy D.]

I'll see you at the meetings. Happy head day. So my. She's old school Puerto Rican girl. We live in the, in this neighborhood now, you know, moved out of the five boroughs. We live in this neighborhood. It's a little bit more, I hate to use the term woke, that's a ridiculous word. But it's kind of, it's just not like the, it's not like growing up in Brooklyn. It's just a little bit. They're a little bit more like go with the flow stuff. And one of the coaches there, daughter play sports is a big on is the type of coach. It's like, oh, parents have to leave. And so the first practice she was like, no, I'm not leaving. And he was like, no, it's just standard like. And she goes, yeah, I know, but my daughter's nine, so. So I'm not leaving. I'll sit here and just. And it's funny like when you watch like just a woman who's like, you know, pretty intimidating kind of lady. I mean she's beautiful but you know, you could tell she's got some toughness to her when she grew up in Sunset, Sunset Park, Brooklyn. When she's just like, no, I'm not. I don't care, I'm not leaving. It's very interesting how people just immediately back down. Like there's a. I live in a town where it's like I can see some of like the teachers or parents, like they almost prey on you. They hope like you back down. Cause it's very politically correct. Like, you know what, you're right. Respect your space. But like she's just not like that and she's Puerto Rican. So it's like, what are you gonna fucking do now? Now you have, now you're this white guy being like, yes, all this fucking holier than thou bullshit. Now you have this Puerto Rican lady with a tattoo on her tit saying, how about I'm not leaving? And then they're like, oh, you know what, I respect the Latinx culture. Cause I had.

[Yanni P.]

Talk to me, baby.

[Chrissy D.]

Gordon, let me tell you something right now. I had a bug issue at the house.

[Yanni P.]

Oh, you got AIDS again?

[Chrissy D.]

I got AIDS again, Yeah, I had a bug issue at the house and I said, how the hell am I going to get rid. We had a couple of ants, we had a couple of spiders and my kids got nervous. So I found this company called Pesty. Yeah, Pesty. And I called them up and I said, obviously I said, you know, I have a problem at the house. And the guy cut me off. It's a New York based company, said I just want to make sure. He said, a couple of guys been calling in. He's like, I just want, you know, Pesky doesn't work on the Chinese, so don't try to use it. It's gotta be bugs. It can't be. You can't use it on people. I said, okay, I'm not calling about that. I got an ant problem. Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

And you just want to.

[Chrissy D.]

And he said, you mean the bug, right?

[Yanni P.]

The bugs, yeah, just insects, right?

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Yanni P.]

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[Chrissy D.]

Cuz make no mistake, there's a lot of times in my life where I just like a pro.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

At Pesty, I like pro, I just

[Yanni P.]

like to pay a pro.

[Chrissy D.]

I like to pay a pro once in a while. Sometimes I just need to pay the pros.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

And Pesty has the pros.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah. Because you can make yourself a pro. With Pesky, you get started at just $35 per treatment with a customized plan based on your location, bugs and climate. With the DIY do it Yourself kit, there are no strangers in your house or appointments to make time for.

[Chrissy D.]

I have strangers in my house, but they're. I have a Puerto Rican family that's.

[Yanni P.]

You're always going to have people.

[Chrissy D.]

We're not talking about, we're talking about bugs specifically.

[Yanni P.]

That's right, yeah. Pesty gets rid of over 100 types of bugs.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

From spiders and ants to roaches and scorpions.

[Chrissy D.]

Scorpions. And I'm telling you I've tried. I've used it. Pesky also gets rid of some of those warts.

[Yanni P.]

Pest is kid and pet friendly. That's very important. That pesti is kid and yes. Friendly.

[Chrissy D.]

The kids can go around it.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah. The pesticides they ship are fully registered and have been used in hospitals and schools all over the country.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

PESDI offers a hundred percent bug free guarantee or your money back.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

If the bugs don't go away, you'll get a full refund kit includes a sprayer, mixing bag, pesticide gloves and instructions you can complete in less than 10 minutes. Chrissy, tell them where to go.

[Chrissy D.]

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[Yanni P.]

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[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

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[Chrissy D.]

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[Chrissy D.]

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[Chrissy D.]

Well, DB can't talk about it. Legally. Active lawsuit. Matthew, 45 days. He's almost out. Matthew, we know.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Ever.

[Yanni P.]

Did you ever come across Harvey? W. Is any of that like.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, and, but Harvey, he, It was never. I, I, I, I think I'm never been raped, but I, I believe.

[Chrissy D.]

Well, the day is young.

[Matthew Modine]

Well, except for by a chimpanzee.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Gave him the right water box. Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes. He'll be fine.

[D.B. Sweeney]

At five o'.

[Yanni P.]

Clock.

[Matthew Modine]

I did give, I did get violated a chimpanzee on a movie called Funky Monkey.

[Chrissy D.]

You were violated on the set of Funky Monkey?

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, the chimpanzee.

[Chrissy D.]

Me. What it is. It happens.

[Matthew Modine]

He had a diaper on.

[Chrissy D.]

Really? Yeah. But, oh my God, he sounds like our friend Nick.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, the, the frightening thing about it was, was after, you know, he pushed me over and jumped on me and I guess it's okay to say if a chimpanzee is doing it. He rabbed me.

[Chrissy D.]

Really?

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah. And, and then he looked at my face. You know, you've seen the close ups of chimpanzees.

[Chrissy D.]

Sure.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Terrifying.

[Matthew Modine]

And the thing is, the flesh around their mouth is very soft. It's very, yeah, it's like, like here on the inside of your elbow, that very soft skin. Wow. With little whiskers.

[Yanni P.]

So you got a little turned on.

[Matthew Modine]

Well, that's why I wonder is, Was it wrong if I liked it?

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

No, I don't think so. I don't think so. It was strong, that chimpanzee, right?

[Matthew Modine]

Always very strong. And that was what they kept saying was they either rip your testicles off or they tear your throat out. So the, the trainers were laughing because the chimpanzee had pushed me over and mounted me with a diaper on. There was no, there was.

[Yanni P.]

Get your diaper.

[Matthew Modine]

There was no penetration.

[Yanni P.]

How strong.

[Matthew Modine]

But it was, it was the look afterward where he looked at me, me so calmly and beautifully and, and kind of if he could have spoke, said, yeah, yeah, I just. You.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

But what was the query?

[Chrissy D.]

No, I mean, honestly, where I'd like to go deeper into this.

[Matthew Modine]

I felt like Harvey Weinstein was kind of like that chimpanzee. It wasn't, it wasn't about penetration. It was about. Yeah, I just. You right.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes.

[Matthew Modine]

And, and power. It was in business. And I remember we Were at a party once and he grabbed me and pulled me down into his booth and he said, you need to be seen with me. And it had, it had nothing to do with me needing to be seen with him. It needed. Was him needing to be seen with me.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

And, and, and as soon as somebody of greater importance or fame came in the room.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

Discarded me and, and moved to that person.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

And that's a, that's one of the, the. It's not just Hollywood in the show business. It's. That's happens all the time where you're speaking to somebody and they're always looking over your shoulder to see who more famous. The LA look.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So he was a real prick is what we're saying.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I had dinner with him a couple times. And not just me, like a big table of seven or eight. Usually like five or six beautiful actresses and me and some other idiot actor. And by an idiot. No, not you.

[Chrissy D.]

No, I'm saying it was everybody but you. Yeah. So.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah. But, but, but anyway, my experience of it, these, these actresses, they would climb over me to get next to him and, and fondle him. And so I, I think Harvey would promise the same role to 40 actresses and have 39 dissatisfied customers who all him willingly.

[Yanni P.]

Right, right.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And then they didn't get the part. And four years later, oh, he raped me.

[Matthew Modine]

Right.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And again, I don't know. I wasn't there. But it just that my experience of watching the way women were around him because he was such a kingmaker. I mean, he could, you know, you, you got a part in a, in a Miramax movie and you.

[Chrissy D.]

That was a career maker now secret.

[Yanni P.]

Right. Like everyone kn. This came out. You had like Oprah Winfrey, all these people going like, we love Harvey. Everyone kind of knew. Right. It was like they made jokes about it at the Oscars.

[Matthew Modine]

I didn't, I didn't know until everybody knew came out.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. Yeah. And now they're really.

[Matthew Modine]

But I think that the. Him coming out in the bathrobe with his dick hanging out.

[Chrissy D.]

Sure.

[Matthew Modine]

Meeting people in the hotel room, that, that, that was for sure. That was something that was happening. And the crime really was those people that represented those actresses and saying, oh, that's just Harvey being Harvey. You want the job, don't you? And dismissing it that way. That's where the, the, it gets really stinky.

[Chrissy D.]

Sure.

[Matthew Modine]

You know?

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

I mean, honestly, imagine it's your daughter with the guy comes out in the bathroom with his dick hanging out.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

You don't say oh, that's just Harvey being Harvey.

[Chrissy D.]

No way.

[Matthew Modine]

The job don't.

[Yanni P.]

No, I go and I. I beat Harvey up.

[Chrissy D.]

I beat Harvey up. And now. And nowadays there is. That kind of guy doesn't exist in TV and films. If you want to really have a career now, I mean, I'll fucking blow Mr. Beast for a retweet.

[Matthew Modine]

But there wasn't.

[Yanni P.]

There was.

[Matthew Modine]

There was an actor went and. And, like, threatened to kick his ass. I don't know if it was Brad Pitt or he did it to somebody. Girlfriend, and. And the guy, the actor went over and it was Brad Pitt.

[Chrissy D.]

There is something in the. In the movie industry that I see that again, I've only been in. I don't even think I've ever even been in a movie. Yeah. Or if I was. I was.

[Yanni P.]

You were cut out.

[Chrissy D.]

I was cut out of it. But something that I've seen where it's like, there's this power dynamic, even if it's not sexual. It's like, people are in such fear sometimes on those sets. And I know there's this famous video of Christian Bale, like, screaming at someone who was really messing him up. And I know that that's gotta be extremely frustrating as director of photography, and I know that's gotta be extremely frustrating for any actor, any person. I get that. But I watch that sometimes just as, like, you know, a guy that grew up where it was like, you know, unless you're my mom or my dad, like, I obviously would be respectful, but it's like, I'm not gonna let another man ever fucking talk to me like that. Like, I would punch anybody in the face if they ever spoke to me like that. But this guy was just allowing it to happen because, like, oh, my God, that's Christian Bale. There's like this thing sometimes where it's like, oh, but that's just a guy. He's just a guy. He's a very talented guy. And. And he had a right to be upset. But I always found that even though very little. Well, I'm just saying a right to be upset. But I'm saying, like, he screamed at somebody.

[Yanni P.]

I know. I know what happened. What was the guy doing? What was moving a light?

[Matthew Modine]

It was a night shoot. It was very late, and probably people were exhausted. I wasn't there.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

But maybe the DP was trying to bounce some light in his face to get light. And so in following him, trying to do it while he's trying to act. But the thing is, if you're smart, you learn really early on that everybody that's on the set is your scene partner. The guy holding the boom mic is not your enemy. He's trying to record your sound.

[D.B. Sweeney]

This is why you want to work with this guy. He's an anomaly. Most actors don't see it that way.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Actors. Like I'm number one on the call sheet. You, everybody be quiet.

[Matthew Modine]

You're focused and you're doing your thing and the makeup artist is just trying to get a little powder on your nose so it doesn't show shine. Everybody's your scene partner. The faster you learn it. If you're somebody that's watching this, that wants to be in, in, in the movie business, know that those people are your scene partners. They're there to. Everybody's working to try something good.

[Yanni P.]

I love it.

[Matthew Modine]

And so, yeah, maybe Christian was really exhausted and, and he, he lost his. But that cinematographer, the dp, was just trying to get some light in his eyes.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

You know, to get some sparkle in his eye. And it was inappropriate. But you know, I. One of the most amazing things that if you search all the religious texts, whether it's the Torah, the Quran, the Bible, the, the. The most beautiful thing in all of them is the concept of forgiveness.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

You know, grace and grace. Can you give me one second?

[Chrissy D.]

Can you guys shut the up over there?

[Matthew Modine]

Sorry.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I'm sorry.

[Yanni P.]

Oh, you're right. You're right.

[D.B. Sweeney]

It was bothering me.

[Yanni P.]

Guys are breathing and existing. How dare they stop bl.

[Chrissy D.]

Oh, stop blinking.

[Yanni P.]

Movies. My water's empty. Say you dress you.

[Chrissy D.]

Nothing.

[Yanni P.]

Sorry.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Oh, thank you.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes. And yeah, I knew it was on

[Yanni P.]

your mind, guy sitting there. Yeah, I, my. Our collaborators, I mean, we.

[Matthew Modine]

The people wearing the headphones right now,

[Chrissy D.]

they're like, what the hell?

[Matthew Modine]

Ears are bleeding.

[Yanni P.]

What was Stanley Kobrick like?

[Matthew Modine]

You know, the best thing for me to do is to tell you to get the Full Metal Jacket diary. It's a diary that I kept while I was making the film and photographs I took while I was on the set. It's a really fantastic deep dive into what that experience was like. The thing that's really nice about it is it's a 24 year old boy and his point of view, his vulnerability, his fears, his desires, his.

[Yanni P.]

How much he regretted turning down Top Gun.

[Matthew Modine]

No, not at all.

[Yanni P.]

I'm just kidding.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, the Top Gun thing is really important because I, I made a periodical chart of. But Full Metal Jacket Diaries where you should go to get that. I made a periodical chart because I thought, I wonder if there's a recipe to being a famous movie star. So I made a. This. I put John Wayne and Mel Gibson, the biggest stars around at the time.

[Chrissy D.]

Time.

[Matthew Modine]

And Sweeney.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. D.B. sweeney asked me for a penny. He's like, what's the recipe?

[Matthew Modine]

Henry Fonda, you know, so. And I thought, okay, these are. These are some really big movie stars. What was the movie that made John Wayne into a movie? Start. Stagecoach. Right. Stagecoach. John Arena. Henry Fonda, Grapes of Wrath, Death. Mel Gibson, Road Warrior, Mad Max. Now, is there something, you know, subcategory that you could say? Is there something that these characters that they played had in common? And there is. And it made me almost be sick. What was that? And it was justifiable homicide. You know, John Wayne was killing. They were killing savage Indians, not Native Americans. Savage Indians that were trying to threaten the Pilgrims. Henry Fonda beat a guy's head in with an ax handle. Mad Max was revenging the death of his family.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

And I thought, if that's what it takes in order to be successful in the business, I don't want to have anything to do with it. I want to. I want to try to understand why somebody would commit homicide. But justifiable homicide, that's a. That's a path. That's a roadway that leads to death and destruction for everyone. You know, that's not. Not something that I wanted to have any part of. And so when Top Gun came, it was. We were killing the ultimate enemy during the Reagan administration, which was the Soviet Union. And I've been to East Germany and I met Russian soldiers, and they were no different than my brothers or my sister that went to Vietnam. They were just kids. I smoked at the time. I gave them my American cigarettes and they gave me pins from their uniforms. They were just kids.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

And. And so when I came back, that was the script that was waiting for me. It was Top Gun, and it wasn't a good fit for me. Full Metal Jacket, on the other hand, which came about six months, seven months later. I forget. Exactly. Was a much better fit. Yeah, I get it. Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

I respect you for that, man.

[Chrissy D.]

Well, yeah, because that's what takes a lot of balls to. To say, you know what? This isn't right for me. I'm not going to do it for a moral. Most of us wouldn't. Wouldn't do that.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Because it was massive hit.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. I wouldn't.

[Yanni P.]

Money. But Stanley Cooper, I mean, it's a better.

[Chrissy D.]

But then. So Full Metal Jacket was one of

[Yanni P.]

the most iconic movies of all time.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah. Yeah. I was Also offered Back to the Future when they fired Eric.

[Yanni P.]

Really?

[Matthew Modine]

Our friend Eric Stoltz was doing it.

[Chrissy D.]

Oh, yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Cuz there. I seen the dailies where there's actually another actor.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Wow. And so you turn that down as well.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

But when you fire your agent.

[Matthew Modine]

No, it was me. When you read it, I'm 63, you know, and Marty McFly is. He's a. He's a Jack Russell. I'm like a. Like a Labrador retriever.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

I was the wrong fit. I just. I said, if I do this, it's not gonna.

[D.B. Sweeney]

You could have been Biff, though.

[Matthew Modine]

I could have been Biff.

[Chrissy D.]

That's true.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah. And people always say, oh, I loved you and Back to the Future. And I think that it's some kind of like. Why. Why do you say that? And I'm thinking that they think that I'm. I'm Michael J. Fox, but it's Christian Glover that they're. And then I get pissed off because it was like, how could you confuse me for Chris? Just because I have a nose and

[Chrissy D.]

I'm white and I have an angular

[Matthew Modine]

face, you think that I look like Crispin Glover.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

Did you ever see him on David Letterman when he goes, I'm strong.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. He's like on drugs or something.

[Matthew Modine]

Yes.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

They cut to a commercial, they come back, he's gone.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

David Letterman threw him off the show.

[Yanni P.]

Now Martin Short, it's one of my favorite characters. I mean, it's like made me laugh.

[Matthew Modine]

Jiminy Glick.

[Yanni P.]

Oh, my God. Amazing. Are you friends with him?

[Matthew Modine]

Why did he do Chrisman?

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, I mean, there is a similarity. Yeah, a little.

[Chrissy D.]

A little bit. A little bit.

[Yanni P.]

I could see it a little bit.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I'm on Team Modine.

[Chrissy D.]

I don't see it a lotine, too.

[Yanni P.]

The sharp features. I see it a little bit.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Yanni P.]

I see it a little bit. Were you friends with Marty? Is that why he. He goes. My kids. Matthew Modine and my go.

[Matthew Modine]

We were at a. At a fundraiser. Diane Keaton was a dear friend and she invited me to this thing where the. The night that they're going to execute all the dogs, like Chrissy Gnome. That's an insider joke.

[Chrissy D.]

I get it. Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I don't get it.

[Matthew Modine]

She shot her dog.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah. Her biography.

[Matthew Modine]

She couldn't train the dog, so she shot it.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Right.

[Yanni P.]

She's a real piece of now.

[Matthew Modine]

If she'd have eaten the dog, we could maybe forgive her.

[Yanni P.]

No, I mean, you know, she, you know, she did something really bad. If Trump fired her and she didn't even say anything disloyal.

[Chrissy D.]

Well, she banged out the two.

[Matthew Modine]

Two?

[Yanni P.]

Lewandowski. The 220 million. She set up a company to make

[D.B. Sweeney]

commercials about her political operative.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes, yes.

[Yanni P.]

And it was like, quarter of a billion dollars.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Wasn't there an allegation about banging Lewandowski?

[Chrissy D.]

That's what it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She said.

[Yanni P.]

I mean, don't get me wrong, she sounds like a fun hang. That's not what I'm saying. She's definitely a good hang, but, yeah. Probably not a great person.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Yanni P.]

I'm a dog person, so I'm with you on that. Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

Where were we?

[Yanni P.]

We were talking about Martin Short, because he does the whole thing.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Kids are Matthew Modine and Modi.

[Matthew Modine]

We were at a big fundraiser to Save the Dogs. The night that they're gonna go and execute all the dogs. They go in and adopt all the dogs so that they don't get killed. But now they have to find a home and they have to give food and, you know, a lot of stuff. So it was a fundraiser for that.

[D.B. Sweeney]

That.

[Matthew Modine]

And they came over to Marty and they said, marty, go up and tell some jokes. And he goes, okay, come with me. And I said, I'm not a comedian. I'm not going up there with you. He goes, no, come on. It'd be fun. And we went up and nobody in the audience paid any attention to Marty's jokes. He was dying.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

It was just like, everybody drinking and laughing and stuff, but nobody was listening to Marty's jokes. And he kept turning to me and telling me a joke about those people, which was hysterical.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

So I was peeing myself. Laughing. Laughing. And I think that that was. You know, who else was there also is the other set of twins, Morgan and Mason. So that's James Mason's son, Morgan. So it was Morgan and Mason and Matthew.

[Yanni P.]

Matthew and Modine.

[Chrissy D.]

Genius.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

I was on a plane with him. Flew to the Gray cup when Wayne Gretzky and Bruce McNall owned the Toronto Argonauts.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

To fly to the Great cup, the super bowl of Canada with John Candy and. And Marty Short. And Marty Short sat next to John Candy and just made. Made him laugh for two hours. It was the funniest two hours I've ever heard in my life. Everybody was, like, hanging over the seats.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Just trying to hear the next thing. Like, people would be dying, laughing. It would subside for a second, and then Marty Shore would say it was. I never saw anybody before.

[Yanni P.]

He's so funny, dude. So funny. He's like, one of my favorites. And that character I used, Jesse, we used to watch it together. Jimmy Glick and just die. Like, it's just. So. Wait, what?

[Chrissy D.]

Are you kidding?

[Matthew Modine]

Was he doing that before? Between the ferns.

[Yanni P.]

He was doing that around the same time. Around the same. Maybe before. Maybe a little before. Yeah. Yeah. There's galvanized.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Just a commitment to put on that makeup and be that guy.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Amazing.

[Yanni P.]

And it's just. It's just so funny.

[Chrissy D.]

What about. When is Cutting Edge 2 coming out?

[D.B. Sweeney]

It's already come out. They. They've done, like, three sequels. But Moira Kelly and I, we made a deal. We'd never do a sequel without each

[Chrissy D.]

other because we smart.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And the next movie, like, we made the Cutting edge for, like, $17 million or something in the 90s, which is like a 50 or $60 million movie. Now they wanted to make the next one for, like, 8 million. It's like, no, that's not how you do it. Yeah, everybody gets paid on the second one.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, right?

[D.B. Sweeney]

They offered us, like, like, 25 grand to come in for three days.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And we were like, yeah, go fuck yourself. It was an easy no. And then they kept making these shitty sequels, so. But I think that movie could stand a reboot 100%.

[Chrissy D.]

I love that movie. What's the most fun you've ever had on a movie set if you had to just pick one? Maybe it's not the most successful movie, or maybe it is Lonesome Dove.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Real Lonesome Dove. We got to hang out with Robert Duvall. Late, great. Departed.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. He just went.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And then. Memphis Belle.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Because actually, during Memphis Bell, Matthew had this great place in London. And I don't know if I ever told you this. I think I did, but I was waiting for him. We're gonna go get a coffee or something like that. And I came over and the phone rang. And I never would answer the phone in somebody's house, but I thought it could be Stanley Kubrick. So I actually. I answered the phone. Phone, and it was him. And I could tell it was Stanley Kubrick. And it was like. And I could tell from his voice that it was Stanley Kubrick. And he goes, hello? He kind of has a weird. Yeah, but very distinct. I can't do voices. But anyway. And he. He said, matthew. And I said, no, no, this is Matthew's friend, D.B.

[Matthew Modine]

sweeney.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And because I knew it was him, he goes. He goes, oh, okay.

[Chrissy D.]

Very well.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Please tell Matthew that Stanley called. And I was like. And he hung up and I was

[Chrissy D.]

like, I had him.

[Yanni P.]

I had. I'm available. How did you fake the moon landing?

[Chrissy D.]

What?

[Yanni P.]

Help me. Yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

And then I hung. But I never told.

[Chrissy D.]

You never told him that.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Oh, okay. Yeah, I did take your per diem too.

[Matthew Modine]

Yes.

[Chrissy D.]

Yes. Yeah, that was Matthew.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Do you think this is something the Internet is very curious about, that I've noticed. Do you think Eyes Wide Shut was about some sort of Hollywood.

[Chrissy D.]

Hollywood pedophile ring? That's. If you go on the Internet, that's all it is. That movie connected and then.

[Yanni P.]

And then they killed Stanley. Yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

I mean, that's what Nicole Kidman thinks. Yeah. I mean, I think you could Google that Nicole Kidman was. Was erased, because he did. But he wanted. He wanted to make this movie for a long, long time. And be he. He wanted Michael Hair, who. Who wrote the voiceover for Apocalypse now and maybe the best book about Vietnam called Dispatches. And so Stanley said. Michael told me this. Michael said. He came over. He wanted me to read this book, Eyes Wide Now. What's. What's the real book? It's not called Eyes Wide Shut.

[Chrissy D.]

I don't know.

[Yanni P.]

I don't know what the book's called.

[Matthew Modine]

I don't think it's called Eyes Wide Shut. And Michael said. I read it, and he said, it would have been interesting if you made this movie in the 60s when. Or the 50s, when the book came out today. We've lived through the 60s, you know, we've lived through the sexual revolution. It's not really. Really that shocking. He goes, okay, I don't want you to do this one anyway. And he gave him Short Timers, which was the book for Full. Full Metal Jacket. And so then Michael started doing that, but he wanted to make that before Full Metal Jacket. That was. It was something that was really obsessive about it. The interesting thing to me about Eyes Wide Shut, having been with Kubrick for 20 months, is that Nicole Kidman is dressed in Christiana's. Stanley's wife's clothing. She's dressed like.

[Yanni P.]

What do you mean? Like the way she dresses. Clothes like her the way she does.

[Matthew Modine]

Maybe not her actual clothes, but the style. Dressed exactly like her.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

Wearing Christiana's glasses. Christiana's paintings are on the walls.

[Chrissy D.]

Interesting.

[Matthew Modine]

Stanley Kubrick, a Jewish kid from the Bronx, used to go down to Washington Square park, play chess, you know, a little bit of a beat neck, probably smoking a little bit of weed, you know, back in the day. And he makes movie Paths of Glory. He marries Christiana, the girl at the End of the movie, who's singing to the Russian soldier? I mean, the German soldiers, remember? I don't know if you've ever seen Paths of Glory.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, long time ago.

[Matthew Modine]

That's. That's his wife, Christiana.

[Yanni P.]

Interesting. Wow.

[Matthew Modine]

So she's German. He's a Jewish kid from the Bronx. But you still have your having. No matter that he's Jewish and grew up in New York City, he still has the puritanical aspects of what it is to be an American. Right. It's kind of it. It's in the air, right. And he marries this German girl. Maybe they're smoking some weed, they're at a party and they come home and they have that conversation that Tom Cruise and Nicole have about, like, well, when I was having sex with you, did you ever imagine somebody else else and Christiana would be. I don't know if you've ever spent any time in Germany. Sex is something that's part of the culture. It's something that you do. It's something you do recreationally. It's something that provides us with children.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Right.

[Matthew Modine]

You know, it's pornography.

[Yanni P.]

They don't have the puritanic.

[Chrissy D.]

It's not as taboo.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah, it's not as taboo. So Christiana says to Stanley, I imagine in my mind, of course I have. Of course I've imagined, you know, somebody else else while I'm having sex with you. And I think this blows Stanley's mind. And that's why that book meant so much to him and why he wanted to make it for so long.

[Chrissy D.]

Interesting.

[Matthew Modine]

It was. Was the idea of. Of something that was really haunting him. Kihil Gibran, who wrote the book, the Prophet, the Lebanese. I don't know what you call him. A prophet. A living prophet.

[Yanni P.]

Braun. Yeah. I mean, sure, yeah.

[Matthew Modine]

He said, we speak when we fail to be at peace with our thoughts. And I think that most filmmakers are making the same movie over and over again, trying to understand existence, you know, who they are, what. What are their fears and desires. And I think that that Eyes Wide Shut is the big, big part of it. Is Stanley trying that he wasn't at peace with his thoughts and he wasn't at peace with the fact that this woman that he loved and married and. And lived with his whole adult life could have fantasized about having sex with somebody else while he was.

[Yanni P.]

So we can learn a lot about the director by watching the films. If you read between the lines, like Woody Allen, you're going, like, how come the female leads always 19

[Matthew Modine]

or younger

[Chrissy D.]

or younger Manhattan Yeah, it's interesting.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. I never heard it that way before.

[Matthew Modine]

It is kind of creepy to go back and look at Alan's.

[Yanni P.]

It is creepy a little bit. Yeah. And I'm a fan. I'm a fan of the movies. For me to.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, it's tough.

[Yanni P.]

I like the Cosby show, too.

[Matthew Modine]

Was that too dark and heavy for the.

[Yanni P.]

No, that was beautiful.

[Chrissy D.]

No, I like that.

[Yanni P.]

I mean, look. I mean, these are stories people have never heard before.

[Chrissy D.]

And you're very. You're very articulate, well thought out, spiritual man. You know, vegetarian.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Thank you.

[Chrissy D.]

That. Yeah. If somebody. If somebody asked me.

[D.B. Sweeney]

That's it.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

These two guys were a lot of fun.

[Chrissy D.]

They're a lot fun.

[Yanni P.]

Really?

[Chrissy D.]

I thought we're gonna do 20 minutes. Get.

[Matthew Modine]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

In an hour. Because we don't want to take, you know, your.

[Yanni P.]

He was actually saying he was going, we're gonna do 20 minutes. We'll keep it about the movie. But we actually had, like, crazy time.

[Chrissy D.]

We just kept going.

[Yanni P.]

All our fans are gonna check down to 20 minutes.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, right. Yeah, we'll cut it down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Just scale the AI.

[Chrissy D.]

Just cut tb It'll. We'll make you look like a MAGA guy. We'll say every. Everything that DB Said off camera when you were peeing, that's there.

[Yanni P.]

And.

[Chrissy D.]

And. Yeah, and we'll. Yeah. And we'll think of a wild, you know, catchy name that. Like, something our fed.

[Yanni P.]

You guys. They're gonna love you guys. Go see the movie. Go see Protector. It's in theaters right now.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Make sure you go see all the films these guys have done over the years. Two legends came in. Thanks for, like, gracing us with your presence. I appreciate it.

[Matthew Modine]

Thank you.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Thank you for having us.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, dude. I appreciate you guys doing anything else today, or is it just. Just this on the press run?

[Yanni P.]

You want to go to West Garden?

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. What do you guys want to do?

[Matthew Modine]

What's West Garden?

[Chrissy D.]

West is a. West Garden is what we call a loophole. West Garden is massage parlor, and West Garden is something. I think West Garden is a place that if you went there and got a massage, I think you would omit certain things from your diary entry about that day. This is.

[D.B. Sweeney]

This is the sponsor of the podcast.

[Chrissy D.]

West Garden does now sponsor the podcast. Yes. You're all going to be leaving with a box, a little gift basket of oils and. Yeah. Yeah. But. Yeah. So, DB I'll get you that address to West Garden. And, Matthew, I will see you in the temple Garden at the Garden. I'll see you at the Garden. I'll see. Yeah. DB at the best Garden. I'll see you at Madison Square Garden.

[Yanni P.]

Thanks, guys.

[D.B. Sweeney]

All right, all right. Thank you very much.

[Chrissy D.]

Thank you, guys. As always. Patreon.com history hyenas we have the most fun reading out the names of the newest members of the matriarchy. We would have done it in front of Matthew Modine and D.B. sweeney, but D.B. sweeney had to get to a Trump rally and Matthew Modine had to go save children in Africa. So they couldn't make. But they were great, and I hope you guys enjoyed that episode. All right, so welcome to the Patreon to the matriarchy. Harley Zeiss. Then we got Facing Mecca while I take it in the South Bank Hashtag solidarity.

[Yanni P.]

Way song.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Sheen Drexler.

[Chrissy D.]

Wow. I thought he was going to get on. No, no, no, no. You make the call.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Say it again.

[Chrissy D.]

Facing Mecca while I take it in the South Bank Hashtag solidarity.

[Yanni P.]

If we take the. You don't need the hashtag solidarity.

[Chrissy D.]

That's the thing.

[Yanni P.]

That's why it's Rexlered.

[Chrissy D.]

All right. But it is a very good name.

[Yanni P.]

It's a very good name. Shout out to you. Listen, you just didn't need the hashtag solidarity.

[Chrissy D.]

It's one of those things where every year around this time, March Madness, college time, a team that's on the bubble doesn't get in. And there's. And there's speculation about it, and there's a conversation about it. I would say this one's on the bubble. It didn't get in. And we can have a conversation about it in the comments.

[Yanni P.]

And you just came up with a new one. On the bubble.

[Chrissy D.]

On the bubble.

[Yanni P.]

On the bubble.

[Chrissy D.]

He's on the bubble. And you didn't get in. He didn't get in. He's the last four out. Then we got Carmine's leaky roof repair company quietly employing catapult candidates since 1988. Very good, very good. Then we got Liv, MF and Cerna, Brandon Tester, Chad Braun, UFC 326. Timmy no breaks versus Renee good live on Paramount plus. Okay.

[Yanni P.]

Even know that.

[Chrissy D.]

All right. Oh, well, Timmy no Breaks is a comedian. And then Renee Good is the woman who was killed in Minneapolis.

[Yanni P.]

Oh, no good.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. No good.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yep. Okay. Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Ladder 14.

[Chrissy D.]

But the kid, Timmy no Breaks is funny. Chrissy D. And Yanni P. Slapped their hold on Chrissy D. And Yanni P. Slapped their pto. Third Reich dreams. Sorry, Victim of bad read. Cheesehead monkey.

[Yanni P.]

Okay, kid, maybe he's A fan of the Packers.

[Chrissy D.]

Surprised ice agent walked into Juan.

[Yanni P.]

You gotta. You gotta 14 put it on the list.

[Chrissy D.]

Put on the list. Okay.

[Yanni P.]

I mean it's just. What can you do?

[Chrissy D.]

So that's another bubble team that made it.

[Yanni P.]

That's just you. I mean I wouldn't even call that a bubble. I would call that just got on there.

[Chrissy D.]

Then we got sniffing squeak feet moves my meat.

[Yanni P.]

Put him on the list.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. You like? He likes little feet. Yeah, it's just Nestor Matoot McTwisted. Chrissy the Hammer toed Shark. It's what it is, cuz that's funny. Hammer toe. Yeah, yeah. Hammerhead. Noah Johnson Kirby, Matthew Oswald, Chrissy D. Yanni P. Put it in me or on me. Okay. Colin Doherty, L.G. wayne. Sean Sheehan, $3 Bob. Not gay but I like fat bitches. Okay. Chris Tudor, Mr. AZT. I have cash app and I'm not black.

[Yanni P.]

Chicken finger.

[Chrissy D.]

Chicken finger.

[Yanni P.]

Chicken finger.

[Chrissy D.]

That is a rarity.

[Yanni P.]

And it's an award. Chicken finger is something. Yeah, It's a good one.

[Chrissy D.]

5 inches of snowfall expected. Or as my grinder profile would say, aided.

[Matthew Modine]

Okay.

[Chrissy D.]

K. Muzzy. Father Chris Muzzy. Father Christmas AKA Sandal Claus. You got

[Yanni P.]

sometimes you got to do the right thing.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. D.C. i think even Matthew Modine would approve.

[Yanni P.]

He might even put that one on

[Chrissy D.]

DC 2000 Italian squeak aka chicken. Okay. Wilson X. Dr. Ouch meets upgraded my subscription to know more about racism.

[Yanni P.]

It's all jokes on that level. Everything's a joke.

[Chrissy D.]

It is on the list.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, he's got to go on the list. And I would say probably a contender.

[Chrissy D.]

Contender.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. So you got to upgrade those tiers, folks.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Do real golden Chica. Josh Roberts, Louis Moreno. A lack Juan Me Mira gang banged an 80s style porno called Sixteen Ham Candles.

[Yanni P.]

Sixteen Candles.

[Chrissy D.]

Saw O's Perlman. Now I can't find my wallet.

[Yanni P.]

Okay, that happens. Yeah. What can you do?

[Chrissy D.]

Derek the Honduran.

[Yanni P.]

Derek the Honduran.

[Chrissy D.]

Welcome. One of Nick's boys.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Garrett Hawkins, Connor Durkin, Alp Karaboga Grok Cuck like Jesus Chris got the whole warts in his I don't get it done during February. I always think about what Jeffrey Dahmer did to those poor Leroy's. Hashtag black lives in battle.

[Yanni P.]

Okay, he went for it.

[Chrissy D.]

Listening at work now my glue has cemented the register closed. Okay.

[Yanni P.]

Drexler. Funny.

[Chrissy D.]

Come on in Eileen. Jesus Christ. Because Come on Eileen. This don't come on Eileen. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Disparage a family. I walked into one can't do that. Colonize my colon until the poops turn white.

[Yanni P.]

Put them on the list.

[Chrissy D.]

Okay. There we go.

[Yanni P.]

Get the catapult.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Colonize my colon until the poops turn white. I think we got what we call a contender.

[Chrissy D.]

Then we got meat needle.

[Yanni P.]

Meat needle.

[Chrissy D.]

You like that, chicken?

[Yanni P.]

Chicken finger.

[Chrissy D.]

Okay. Then we got first comes love, then comes marriage. Why is there a Leroy in my baby carriage?

[Yanni P.]

Put him on the list. What is another contender?

[Chrissy D.]

Another contender. See what happens. You have to keep listening to the list, folks, because you never know when it's really going to heat up.

[Yanni P.]

You don't know what's going to.

[Chrissy D.]

Because now we don't know who's going to win.

[Yanni P.]

No, we don't.

[Chrissy D.]

Not a squeak from the left. I vote to the right, Matt McCarthy. George Bush dodged my shoes. DJT fondled my shooter until I glued and said woo.

[Yanni P.]

He went for it.

[Chrissy D.]

Okay. Jose Cruz. Pronouns are hey, slash babe. Call me Sal. Volcanic asshole. Okay. Alexander Sharp John. Letting young Sheldon raise my daughters to be autistic lesbians so I don't have to throw hands with a real man.

[Yanni P.]

List.

[Chrissy D.]

Inventive.

[Yanni P.]

Yes, yes.

[Chrissy D.]

Letting young Sheldon raise my daughters. Also, I mean.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, usually the long ones. There's no payoff. That was a big payoff.

[Chrissy D.]

Perry Smith. Lex rated Leroy's Medicaid Pirates. Pirates Plan small. Yeah, small. Cox outbreak in the black community after Asian man runs through Carnival Cruise. Okay.

[Yanni P.]

Okay.

[Chrissy D.]

Deep Throat. Cuck Boat. Jason Hornsby. Emperor Skid. Marcus Hamroidius.

[Yanni P.]

Good one.

[Chrissy D.]

Building time machine to bankrupt Oscar Schindler. Okay.

[Yanni P.]

Wei Song. He wants to go back and prevent him from saving a few.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

Unbelievable. Inventive Walk down.

[Chrissy D.]

Okay. Andrew Huxtable. Orville made a Leroy red and back hurt. Popcorn went for it. Yep. Derek B. Mapusi. Amanarak. Dylan Burrows Kerr. Aunt Jemima's Court appointed attorney.

[Yanni P.]

Ladder 14.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

What do I do with that?

[Chrissy D.]

I mean, what do you Nick would like?

[Yanni P.]

What do I. Nick Dixon.

[Chrissy D.]

Put it on. Yeah. So Nick, Matthew Modin says to put it on. Yes. Eric Jespin, Adam Alberg. Gang bang.

[Yanni P.]

Christ.

[Chrissy D.]

Sorry. Jesse Cam. A.J. greenwald. Aton Panaria, Sakalamaru Miskal John. Make her sorry. I told you I won't read those. Epstein's Roblox account.

[Yanni P.]

Nick loved it.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah, Nick liked it. Her Epstein's Roblox account. They say he had one.

[Yanni P.]

Okay, yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Henny DeVito, Tristan Hogan, Jonathan Guzman. Andrew Og Shohei ate the bat. Now something Wong. Okay.

[Yanni P.]

Wei Xi.

[Chrissy D.]

Good.

[Yanni P.]

But it's a walked into one.

[Chrissy D.]

Yep.

[Yanni P.]

What can you do?

[Chrissy D.]

Sharp Farts chicken finger. Abigail Spanberger eats egg ass.

[Yanni P.]

That's what she does.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

I guess somebody's just calling out a friend. Fiddle faddle my roast beef saddle until I doggy paddle.

[Yanni P.]

Fiddle Faddle from the JFK's. JFK's vitamins.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah. Thomas Osborne. Big candy maple monkey insulated my igloo with my own goo.

[Yanni P.]

Very good.

[Chrissy D.]

Drake, Peeler, Squeeze and poop. Johnny. Chris, Cal. And then last but not least, I ate my dog dog's ass while having a cold sore. And now he has anal herpes. Okay, Just a fact. Sorry.

[Yanni P.]

I want to retroactively put the igloo as a Drexler, because that was that. That needed a little bit more Maple

[Chrissy D.]

monkey insulated my igloo with my own glue.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

Okay.

[Yanni P.]

Very good.

[Chrissy D.]

All right. So the list today. Tough list. We do have a tough list today. So we have. We have the contender so far. Our surprised ice agent walked into Juan. Sniffing squeak feet moves my meat. Muzzy Father Christmas, AKA Sandal Claus. Upgraded my subscription to know more about racism. Colonize my colon until the poops turn white. And then first comes love. Then comes marriage. Why is there a Leroy in my baby carriage? Okay, so, okay.

[Yanni P.]

Start from the beginning.

[Chrissy D.]

Surprised ice agent walked into one.

[Yanni P.]

We. Any other day you have been Drexlered. But it's not our fault. It's not your fault. It's. It's just way.

[Chrissy D.]

What happens. Sniffing squeak feet moves my meat again.

[Yanni P.]

It's just not that we could do Drexler. Drexler was a very good player.

[Chrissy D.]

Great hall of Fame, hall of Fame player. Original Dream Team, NBA 50 Greatest. But he played in the era of Michael Jordan.

[Yanni P.]

Just what it is.

[Chrissy D.]

Muzzy Father Christmas, AKA Sandal Claus.

[Yanni P.]

Very good. We're going to chicken finger you.

[Chrissy D.]

Yeah.

[Yanni P.]

It's how it goes.

[Chrissy D.]

Upgraded my subscription to know more about racing racism.

[Yanni P.]

We're going to Drexler.

[Chrissy D.]

It.

[Yanni P.]

It could have won. But it got followed up by two biggies. We all know what's going on.

[Chrissy D.]

Colonize my colon until the poop turns white.

[D.B. Sweeney]

We got. We got.

[Yanni P.]

We got what we call a runoff.

[Chrissy D.]

Yep. And then we got. First comes love, then comes marriage. Why is there a Leroy in my baby carriage? But then I also made a mistake. We also have Aunt Jemima's court appointed attorney.

[Yanni P.]

Yeah, we have that one.

[Chrissy D.]

Is that. Do you want to Drax? Do you want to keep that in those three? Or is Aunt Jimima's court appointed attorney not going to. Not going to make it.

[Yanni P.]

I think that's a. That's borderline walked.

[Chrissy D.]

Okay.

[Yanni P.]

So it's more of a chicken and

[Chrissy D.]

maybe and Sabrina the hyena. We can put that in the walked into one awards at the end of the year.

[Yanni P.]

That one can go into the walked into one awards.

[Chrissy D.]

So it is between first comes love, then comes marriage. Why is there a Leroy in my baby carriage?

[D.B. Sweeney]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D.]

And then colonize my colon until the poop turns white.

[Yanni P.]

I. These are two very good ones. I'm leaning heavily towards one. I'm leaning heavily towards. But again, when we have these two, we got to do do vote.

[Chrissy D.]

Right.

[Yanni P.]

But I'm leaning absolutely towards colonized till my poop.

[Chrissy D.]

See? And I'm leaning towards Leroy and the baby Carol.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Wow.

[Yanni P.]

This is what it is.

[Chrissy D.]

We got to vote off. All right, so, Jesse.

[D.B. Sweeney]

Okay, so I'm leaning.

[Chrissy D.]

I'm going with colonize my poop because it's gay and racist. So you got a double whammy.

[Yanni P.]

Double whammy.

[Chrissy D.]

Double whammy. Okay, Nick. I'm going to go with colonize. It's all true.

[Yanni P.]

Hey, three to one Makes sense.

[Chrissy D.]

And Colin. So congratulations. Colonize my colon until the poop turns white. You are the winner. It's also, I think if any of our gay fans out there, you could walk up to a guy at a bar tonight and say, I want you to colonize my colon.

[Yanni P.]

It's a very funny thing.

[Chrissy D.]

Go to history.

[Yanni P.]

Colonize my colon is a funny.

[Chrissy D.]

Until my poop turns white is.

[Matthew Modine]

Is.

[Chrissy D.]

Is a 10 out of 10. Go to. Thank you. As always. Go to history. Hyenas is back dot com. See your name up in lights. You have the ppw, the pseudo penis of the week. And we're going to continue over at patreon.com history hyenas. Dude, my knee is absolutely cooked. I feel like I'm 70. You tapping out already? Yeah, man. My knees telling me to retire, Bro, you're never gonna feel young again if you're still rocking those crusty knee sleeves from 2005. What? Incrediwear. Dude, the incrediwear knee sleeve. What the hell is that? This is what the pros use. Four of the last five NBA MVPs wore incrediwear. It's not squeeze your knee until it's numb compression. It actually increases blood flow and speeds recovery. Less pain, better healing. And the best part, Wear it all day and walk like you're not 80. Wait, so it's not just cutting off my circulation and hoping for the best?

[Matthew Modine]

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[Chrissy D.]

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