Matt Damon says his daughter refuses to call one of his movies by its real name because “there’s nothing great about that movie.”
“My daughter Isabella said, ‘Dad, I’m proud of you.’ Now this is a kid who I made a movie called The Great Wall once, and she calls it The Wall.”
“We have friends over for dinner. She keeps talking about this movie, The Wall. And I’m like, ‘Isabella, it’s called The Great Wall.’ And she’s like, ‘Dad, there’s nothing great about that movie. It’s called The Wall.’ So she is a very tough critic.”
Matt Damon says he doesn’t really know martial arts, he just fakes it well on camera, and when Anne Hathaway told him how good he looked in the fight scenes, he gave all the credit to Spider-Man star Tom Holland.
Anne Hathaway: “I do think you’re selling yourself short a little bit. I saw you move and I was blown away. I remember running up to you going, ‘Oh my god, Matt, do you have a background in martial arts? You’re just so good at this.’ And you just went, ‘No, I’ve just done a lot of fake karate.’”
Matt Damon: “It helps when the other person’s reacting exactly the right way. I have to defer to the best among us at fake karate. Tom is unbelievable at this stuff.”
Tom Holland: “Doing the Spider-Man stuff, I think if I jumped and landed in a deep squat in my armor, you probably would have been like, ‘What are you doing?’”
Barack Obama says Andrew Johnson was one of the worst presidents in U.S. history, calling him “a drunk” who was petty and small-minded, while Gladwell jokes the competition for worst has gotten stiffer lately.
Gladwell: “We should briefly pause on what a disaster Andrew Johnson was.
Obama: “He’s terrible.”
Gladwell: It’s really hard to find someone as bad as that. And there’s some stiff competition of late.”
Obama: “But he’s terrible. He’s petty, he’s small minded, he’s a drunk. He is not particularly deft in handling his own party or the other party. So he’s a disaster.”
MrBeast says over a million kids work in illegal child labor on the cacao farms that make most of the world’s chocolate, and the big chocolate companies know and don’t care.
“Do you know there’s over a million kids that work in illegal child labor on cacao farms? In West Africa. Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, which is where the majority of the world’s cacao comes from.”
“I went to all the biggest distributors and everyone that does the sourcing for cacao, and I was like, is there any way I can pay a premium and not have little kids work on my farms? And it literally didn’t exist.”
“You have no issue making billions of dollars in profit on little kids working on the farms.”
“Seven months ago there was around 550 kids in illegal child labor in those communities. We were able to get a 90% reduction, get it to where there’s only around 50 still in child labor.”
Barack Obama says when he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, he was the only Black person out of 100 senators, more than a century after Reconstruction first put Black politicians in office.
Gladwell: “Part of the Reconstruction project was to populate politics with Black people. And 100-some-odd years later, you’re the only Black person in the Senate when you’re first elected.”
Obama: “In 2004, I was the only African American out of 100 senators.”
MrBeast says 850 million different people watched his main YouTube channel in the last 90 days, a number no show could have reached 20 years ago.
“In the last 90 days, on just our main channel, around 850 million unique people have watched a video.”
“We’re doing around four billion views a month. We did around 12 billion views in the last 90 days on just the main channel.”
“Twenty years ago, 850 million people didn’t use the same platform. You wouldn’t have even been able to reach that many people even if you were the biggest in anything.”
MrBeast says 850 million different people watched his main YouTube channel in the last 90 days, a number no show could have reached 20 years ago.
“In the last 90 days, on just our main channel, around 850 million unique people have watched a video.”
“We’re doing around four billion views a month. We did around 12 billion views in the last 90 days on just the main channel.”
“Twenty years ago, 850 million people didn’t use the same platform. You wouldn’t have even been able to reach that many people even if you were the biggest in anything.”