EPISODE 459 - RYAN BADER TALKS SMASHING MACHINE
My Mom's Basement
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Ryan Bader joins Robbie to discuss his role in #TheSmashingMachine, acting alongside The Rock, being directed by Benny Safdie, and more! **************************************** My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike! Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basement
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, |
| 0:05.7 | and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement and a very special interview edition of My Mom's Basement |
| 0:14.3 | with Ryan Bader, MMA Fighter and co-star of The Smashing Machine. |
| 0:19.4 | In theaters now, this was a very cool opportunity to talk to Ryan Bader, Ryan Darth Bader, as he goes by in the cage, very my mom's basement-centric. |
| 0:28.1 | But The Smashing Machine is obviously the newest Dwayne the Rock Johnson movie. |
| 0:32.4 | He is very much a lead player in this, Ryan Bader, that is. |
| 0:36.9 | He's on screen with Emily Blunt, Dwayne Johnson. |
| 0:39.6 | It's crazy to see him side by side with The Rock as a first-time actor, The Rock, giving |
| 0:44.3 | a career best performance. And Ryan Bader is hanging with him. And we talk about all of that. |
| 0:49.9 | We talk about getting hired by Benny Safdi or Sadfi sad fee i'm sorry benny i always get that wrong |
| 0:55.8 | but it's just a good interview i wanted to do a quick intro for it let you know that it's |
| 1:00.2 | going to be an interview edition of the show and we'll be back on friday with a peacemaker finale |
| 1:05.5 | edition of the show so thank you for listening let's get into this ryan bader interview |
| 1:10.6 | all right welcome back to my mom's basement. Ladies and gentlemen, I am here with Ryan, Darth Bader, and we're here talking about the smashing machine out October 3rd. I was lucky enough to see it early. I was just telling you, I thought your performance in this was great. I don't know how big a role you would have, but it's a very big role in this movie. So how did this all come about? How did you meet Benny? How did the role get pitched to you? |
| 1:31.5 | What was... I don't know how big a role you would have, but it's a very big role in this movie. So how did this all come about? |
| 1:28.6 | How did you meet Benny? |
| 1:29.7 | How did the role get pitched to you? |
| 1:31.4 | What was all that like? |
| 1:32.7 | Yeah, I appreciate it. |
| 1:34.4 | Apparently, Benny Safdi was trying to reach out to me for a while. |
| 1:38.4 | And I actually got it from my Brazilian training partner that doesn't speak English. |
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