Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

Got a great one for you and a little bit of a wild one this week with Jason Mamoa.

I actually just got done talking to him about an hour ago, a little restaurant in New York City.

Man, I enjoyed the conversation. I think partly because he's the kind of guy who makes you feel like you've

known him your whole life. He just sits down, no filter, no pretense, no nothing, just two guys

sitting at a table talking through his life and career. We sat down to talk about his new movie.

It's called The Wrecking

Crew. It's on prime video. It stars him and Dave Battista, who was a former W.W.E. wrestler,

who's now had this amazing acting career as well. They are estranged brothers who get together

to sort out the murder of their father in Hawaii.

Incredible, truly incredible action sequences, like violence in the fight scenes that is just creative, if that makes sense.

Like, oh, I never thought to kill a bad guy that way, and they do it.

Just amazing, but also hilarious. And Jason Mamo is the

comedy of it. He's loose, uh, you know, kind of down on his luck a little bit. Can't nail down a

life for himself. Always has a beer in his hand. He's very funny. The action's really good, good

story. So we talk a lot about that. And then his

career, you know, he was born in Hawaii, moved me. He was six months or so old with his mother when

his parents split grew up in the Midwest in Iowa. And then in his middle school and teenage years

started going back in the summers to Hawaii and getting in touch with his father and with his Hawaiian roots,

which is so much a part of who he is now.

So the movie is set in Hawaii.

He's just coming off this massive show, The Chief of War, that was on Apple TV Plus, this epic movie that gets into the history of Hawaii and the colonialism of Hawaii.

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