Speaker 1: It's brooken Jeffrey in the morning. And every so often
Speaker 1: we hear about Hollywood gossip stories that are so bizarre
Speaker 1: and crazy that you just think they can't be real, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like remember when there were rumors that Beyonce was faking
Speaker 1: her first pregnancy with Blue Ivy. Yes, and there's that
Speaker 1: video of her stomach collapsing in on itself. There was like, ah,
Speaker 1: they thought it was a fake baby bump and she
Speaker 1: was actually using a surrogate the whole time. Why I
Speaker 1: never understood why would she do that? Why wouldn't she
Speaker 1: just say, like, I'm Beyonce, I got a surrogate, Like
Speaker 1: who cares? And there was also that weird rumor that
Speaker 1: mister Rogers actually killed one hundred and fifty people as
Speaker 1: a sniper in Vietnam. That was a rumor, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: he served in the army for a while. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'd never heard that rumor. The Army had to come
Speaker 1: out and be like, no, that didn't happen. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: of course there's the infamous rumor about the Taco Bell
Speaker 1: Chihuahua impregnating five other dogs out of Wedlock. Oh Wall
Speaker 1: filming his last run for the Border commercial that one
Speaker 1: turned out to be real, didn't it. Well, the dog
Speaker 1: Fratorney tests were in conclusion. But a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: there was another unbelievable story that came out of the
Speaker 1: Hollywood rumor mill, and it was about none other than
Speaker 1: heartthrob turned billionaire Larry the Cable Guy. What George Clooney.
Speaker 1: I always get those two confused. I could see that resemblance.
Speaker 1: It came out one night George supposedly held a secret
Speaker 1: dinner party for some of his closest friends at his house,
Speaker 1: and at that party, he gave each of them a
Speaker 1: briefcase filled with one million dollars cash just because I
Speaker 1: remember this rumor. And like, one of the people at
Speaker 1: the party is the one that outed him, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: one of the friends there came out with the story
Speaker 1: this happened a few years ago. We talked about it
Speaker 1: on the show, and everybody thought, yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: could be true. I could see that happening. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: there was also people saying, no, this is just something
Speaker 1: that got blown out out of proportion. Another bit of
Speaker 1: Hollywood urban legend. Right, Oh, great urban legend, especially if
Speaker 1: you're a friend of George Clooney's. Yeah, and after that,
Speaker 1: George never confirmed or denied the story, which makes you
Speaker 1: feel like it was probably fake, like so far out
Speaker 1: of there that he's not even going to waste his
Speaker 1: time talking about exactly, And he never talked about it
Speaker 1: until now because in a recent interview with GQ, George
Speaker 1: said it is one hundred percent true. Why did that? Yep,
Speaker 1: he finally gave the details of what happened leading up
Speaker 1: to that whole thing. So this all occurred back in
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, after he met his future wife a Mall,
Speaker 1: but before they started dating. Okay, so when he thought
Speaker 1: he had all the money to spend in the world
Speaker 1: and wasn't going to spend it on kids. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: a single bachelor with tons of money wanted to thank
Speaker 1: all the people who helped get him to where he was,
Speaker 1: which is somewhere all rich people too, you know, Like,
Speaker 1: is George Clooney hanging out with somebody that has a
Speaker 1: studio apartment? I doubt it. I don't know they we
Speaker 1: need that million dollars. Your world can turn upside down
Speaker 1: in Hollywood in an instant. That's a good point. They're
Speaker 1: one lawsuit away. Yeah, he invited fourteen of his closest friends,
Speaker 1: people that were mostly older than him. Okay, these are
Speaker 1: all individuals who'd helped him along in his path to
Speaker 1: success when he wasn't doing so hot. I love that,
Speaker 1: you know, Like they would let him sleep on their couch,
Speaker 1: they loaned him money when he was broke, and they've
Speaker 1: helped him in a lot of other ways over the
Speaker 1: past thirty five years. I think we all have friends
Speaker 1: that were picturing right now in our head that have
Speaker 1: done that for us. Sure, and it just proves, like
Speaker 1: you know, George Clooney, is that's a stand up thing
Speaker 1: to do. Like that's pretty rad. You know. You say
Speaker 1: that you'll help your friends out when you make it
Speaker 1: to the top, but rarely two people actually follow the throne.
Speaker 1: According to George, he said, quote without them, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have any of this. And if I get hit by
Speaker 1: a bus, yeah, they're all in the will. So why
Speaker 1: am I waiting to get hit by a bus? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna give it while he's alive. I love this,
Speaker 1: you know. And my grandma started to do this on
Speaker 1: a completely different level. We're talking like one hundred bucks
Speaker 1: here and there. Yeah, she started sending money to everybody
Speaker 1: going you know what. I want to see you guys
Speaker 1: enjoy it. The biggest problem though, was how was he
Speaker 1: going to get his hands on fourteen million dollars in cash? Right?
Speaker 1: Because you're checking account, they don't have it and they
Speaker 1: don't carry that at a bank. Now are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Go to Wells Fargo and they're like, hey, so I'm
Speaker 1: would glad to make a withdrawal. Here's in twenties and
Speaker 1: fifties and a couple hundreds there. It's like one poor
Speaker 1: bank teller, still county eight years later in the back.
Speaker 1: So George did some research and he found there's an
Speaker 1: undisclosed location in downtown LA that has a giant palette
Speaker 1: of cash. And that's when this starts to sound a
Speaker 1: little bit like a heist movie. George rented an old
Speaker 1: beat up van that said forrest on the side of it, right,
Speaker 1: because you want to be inconspicuous if you're going to
Speaker 1: be carried around fourteen million dollars in cash. When the
Speaker 1: van drove to the location, got into a freight elevator
Speaker 1: with the van and it took them down several stories
Speaker 1: into an underground vault where they loaded it up with cash.
Speaker 1: What okay? Even if you're doing this totally on the
Speaker 1: up and up, you still feel like it's illegal. Yeah, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: The only people that he told was his main assistant
Speaker 1: and a couple of security guys, and George said they
Speaker 1: were all soiling their shorts over the plan, thinking something
Speaker 1: was gonna go round. You know. One of them showed
Speaker 1: up with a ski mask on. They're like, you don't
Speaker 1: need to wear that. You're not actually stealing anything. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, but he pulled it off without a hitch.
Speaker 1: There's no twist or evil villain in this real life movie.
Speaker 1: He got the money back to his place, divided the
Speaker 1: loot into fourteen stacks, and then put them each into briefcases.
Speaker 1: Do you think before he divided it up, he put
Speaker 1: it in one big pile and jumped in it. I mean,
Speaker 1: just to do it, yeah, I mean what you have to,
Speaker 1: you have to, Scooge mcduckett. Just once. He says, it
Speaker 1: wasn't as heavy as you might think. But at the dinner,
Speaker 1: he had a giant map of the entire world on
Speaker 1: his dining room wall, and he pointed to all the
Speaker 1: different places that he got to go and all the
Speaker 1: things that he's gotten to do thanks to their help.
Speaker 1: Oh it makes me And then he gave them one
Speaker 1: million dollars each. Crazy. So if you're fine, I'm allowing
Speaker 1: all friends to now couch surf, just in case they
Speaker 1: turned into a billionaire. So I was gonna ask, Brooke,
Speaker 1: are you going to be inviting all of us over
Speaker 1: for a dinner party anytime soon? You know what? As
Speaker 1: soon as I'm in the Billy goat, you got it. Okay,
Speaker 1: it won't ever happen. I just want you to remember
Speaker 1: back in twenty fourteen, there was that day where I
Speaker 1: bought you that dip cup of hummus and the smart water,
Speaker 1: and I brought it to you from the breakroom. Without that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: would you be where you are today? She wouldn't have
Speaker 1: the nutrients. I probably it would be fine. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You need to think about that before you invite me over.
Speaker 1: Would I give you a Jimmy Jones gift card? Okay?
Speaker 1: Does that work? I love it? Your phone taps coming
Speaker 1: up right after this