Rental Family 🇯🇵
On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben
Audio Always
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Colson is picking this weeks film, its Rental Family, Brendan Fraser plays an American actor in Tokyo struggling to find purpose lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. He rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the beauty of human connection.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to on the sofa with me, Colson. |
| 0:13.4 | He's eating nuts. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Ben. He's Jack. |
| 0:16.5 | So we got the nuts from the co-op, original salty peanuts. |
| 0:20.9 | You add some. |
| 0:21.8 | I had some. |
| 0:22.7 | We've run out of tea. |
| 0:23.9 | And your tongue nearly fell out. |
| 0:28.7 | Never had anything drier? |
| 0:30.9 | That is so dry. |
| 0:32.3 | So we're both sat here now with no water in our mouths. |
| 0:36.7 | Feels like you're in the desert. |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.1 | I've never been a nut guy. |
| 0:42.9 | Have you not? |
| 0:44.1 | Do you know what? |
| 0:44.8 | No, like, there we go. |
| 0:46.2 | I can only do salted nuts or dry roasted. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm kind of beige like that. |
| 0:51.9 | I don't do any of the almonds or the... |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, they're nice. |
| 0:56.8 | Pistachios? |
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