S15 Ep802: Mission: Impossible III (with Ben Worcester)

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Tv & Film, Comedy

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

“He’s at the height of his Lost powers here” - Ben on J.J. Abrams

On this week’s episode, we welcome Ben Worcester onto the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza to chat about the super-fun action sequel, Mission: Impossible III! How great is this engagement party scene with Ethan working the room? Has there been a better M:I villain than the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman’s portrayal of Owen Davian? Is this the M:I flick with the most Ving? And how lucky is Ethan to have Aaron Paul for a brother-in-law? PLUS: Does Ethan Hunt have the same bartending skills as Brian Flanagan?

Mission: Impossible III stars Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg, Eddie Marsan, Laurence Fishburne, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Owen Davian; directed by J.J. Abrams.

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0:00.0	Folks, it is nearly summer out there.
0:02.5	Everybody is getting ready for days at the beach, cookouts in the yard with the family,
0:07.4	and most importantly, seeing WHM live, both inside your house and out in the big wide world.
0:14.5	First up, we've got our show on Richard Donner's Superman to a worldwide digital experience on June 20th, 2025 at 9 p.m. EST. Sharpish. Go to moment.com
0:27.1	slash we hate movies for tickets on this one. It's going to be a great time. Of course,
0:30.8	we're going to be talking all things Superman. We've got Steve Sadek, the comic book expert,
0:36.2	coming in to help us. And for all the very normal people who have been asking, yes, we will be talking about both cuts of the motion picture.
0:43.6	That's moment.co slash we hate movies for tickets on that one.
0:47.5	But then we will be going out, very out, out to the United Kingdom for W.HM's residency at the Oxford Comedy Festival,
0:56.4	July 18th, 19th, and 20th, with two shows each day, an early show and a late show.
1:02.6	Tickets have sold out for Quantum of Solace and the Hellraiser shows.
1:07.5	Those are our late shows on the 18th and the 19th.
1:10.6	We have tickets for the rest of the shows.
1:13.0	That's right. On the 18th, the day show will be animation damnation. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
1:19.2	elementary, my dear turtle. I do believe this has been requested before in listener request month.
1:25.4	On the 19th, we will be dealing with the big man we're going to be doing
1:28.8	the gleepe glossary on doth vader eric has been working night and day to get this thing ready
1:35.2	i'm sure there will be many sources and this may go a whole five hours i do not know probably not
1:42.6	though because we do have a show that night. And then finally,
1:45.2	on the 20th, during the day, we are going to be doing a live nexus on the next generation episode,
1:52.4	Sub Rosa. This gets requested all the time during listener request month. I believe it's because
1:57.8	it is a Beverly Crusher episode, an erotic episode about her and a ghost, I believe.
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