Olivia Munn + A Shot of Box Office Optimism
I'm Having an Episode
The Hollywood Reporter
4.6 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Mikey O'Connell. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm a redder and editor at The Hollywood Reporter, and this is I'm Having an episode, |
| 0:10.8 | an entertainment podcast with conversations and interviews, and interviews that are really |
| 0:15.3 | just conversations. |
| 0:16.5 | My guest this week is actress Olivia Munn. |
| 0:19.0 | She stars in Your friends and neighbors alongside John |
| 0:21.6 | Ham, which is back for its second season on Apple TV. We talk about how being an actress can be |
| 0:26.9 | very, very weird, and she tells me something I did not know about 30 Rock, arguably my favorite |
| 0:33.3 | series of all time. A little housekeeping. This week's episode was recorded on the early side. |
| 0:38.5 | So if we're missing some big news or if I say something that is retroactively insensitive, |
| 0:44.0 | I do apologize. I watched a new Netflix series early on the screener, screener app or whatever, |
| 0:51.2 | called something very bad is going to happen. And I cannot predict what the algorithm will force into the zeitgeist. So by the time this comes out, I suspect it |
| 0:59.6 | will either be a huge hit or something that no one is talking about. I don't see any in between. |
| 1:05.3 | We'll just find out. What else? A woman I do not know continues to send me Amazon gift cards. They are real. It is not a scam. It's not fishing. Her name is Carrie, spelled like the Irish butter, not the Stephen King book. And she affectionately refers to me as chicken butt. I have no way of contacting her. Her last name is also O'Connell. I mean, I'm not, |
| 1:29.1 | I'm not doxing this woman. There are a lot of Kerry O'Connell's in the world. Amazon will not |
| 1:34.1 | relay this message to her that she is sending them to the wrong person, clearly a family member, |
| 1:40.0 | so they just keep coming. I'm not using them, but I don't know what the moral thing to do is. |
| 1:45.9 | Send your ideas to episode at thr.com. |
| 1:50.2 | Someone who could probably use a little extra funds right now is AMC Theaters. |
| 1:54.6 | Their stock has been hovering around a dollar a share for the better part of the last month, |
| 1:59.3 | which, if you don't know, that's quite bad. |
| 2:02.5 | And that is when we have a true hit. |
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