August 5, 2026 • 8 mins
He recently opened for Nick Jonas, went viral in New Zealand on the Morning Shift's podcast, and happens to be Will Ferrell's musical son - Magnus Ferrell talked to Clint and Caitlin about his new music, being friends with the Jonas Brothers, and his love of New Zealand.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dad, MS, Brill and Clint Pop Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's our radio show, but wrapped up in a neat
little package just for you. It's Dad, ms, bri and
Clint Podcast. Our next guest is the son of one
of the one of the funniest actors in history, and
now he's achieving incredible success in his own right as
a musician. Please welcome to the show, the son of
Will Farrell. It's Magnus Farrell. Hello, Hello, how bizarre to
(00:29):
have you on the show, But welcome Magnus.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's crazy. I don't know this whole process that has
been so crazy.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yes, are you ready to zeran? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
J Ze, are you ready to stop being Will Farrell's son?
Just be Magnets.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean I can be both. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
He's my dad, so I'm happy to be called that.
It's no problem. We can we can split the names.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Oh lost, this fact you're super so talented. That song's amazing.
Asleep talking. It just puts you in the right vibe
for anything.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Okay, Wow, don't don't take this the wrong way. I
don't mean this to be offensive it at all because
it's a great song. It is not the type of
music I expected to come out of the son of
Will Ferrell. Does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh no, no, yeah, yeah, that makes completely sense, like
completely perfect sense.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And I take that as a compliment. So yeah, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's very sixy and it's not silly, you know, like
it's did you did you have a moment where you
had to like say to your dad, go dead. I'm
really sorry to have to tell you this, but my
music's not funny.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean I never really had that conversation with him.
I just knew.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Whenever the spotlight happened, whenever that would be, I just
needed to make music and I had one opportunity to
make music that would be undeniably good, and so I
just knew I couldn't put out anything that would even
suggest it to be funny in any form.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So that was my mindset.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I guess you couldn't do Stip Brothers the musical. It
just which wouldn't fly.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I mean, maybe maybe that's a great idea. I'd have
to take that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You blew up here in New Zealand. Last week you
were featured on a podcast called The Morning Shift. It's
a couple of and they do such a great job.
We love those guys, and then they play this clip
of you. That's actually how I found out about you
megnus before that and before this clip of you them
playing your song on their podcast went viral. Had you
(02:39):
even thought about New Zealand as a country before?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh my god, I mean I didn't even know it
was real.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
No, I'm kidding, I I yeah, No, of course, New
Zealand is actually a place I've always wanted to be
because or go to, because I was a.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Big leg Lord of the Rings fan going up and
all of that was shot out there.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yes, and no, I'm just like every New Zealander I've
ever met, which is very few, have been the funniest, kindest,
like awesome, just most amazing human beings ever.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So it was so cool, super cool to have that happened.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Which which New Zealanders have you met? We probably know them?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh, just like I.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Mean, I don't know, like a few along the way.
I have a I have a buddy, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Are you guys? Are were of Jack Gray by any chance?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
We love?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He's Jack. Yeah, No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
He's just a very good close friend mine. As I've
met a few New Zealanders through him.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, we watched this club, which it's just bizarre to
even think that this would happen, But we watched a
clip of your dad playing your music to Michelle Obama.
Sounds like a real sentence. How do you process that?
What did you think when it happened? Did he tell
you that he was going to play your music off
(03:53):
YouTube on his phone to Michelle Obama?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, well he did, but then I forgot.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And we were up visiting some friends in Oregon, so
like in the middle of the woods nowhere no cell service,
so we only had like a little bit of internet
back at our cabins. So like one of the days
I get back and that was one of the first
things I see, and yeah, it was just like I
was freaking out a little.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Bit, and.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It's it's still such a surreal video to watch. I
kind of can't believe it's real to see the former
first Lady of the United States react to a song
that I'm that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's just crazy to me, I think.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
The chat, Yeah, yes, crazy, that guy.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He's so talented.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
That's like one of my idols growing up, and and
someone that I hear on the radio all the time,
like on the way to school and whatnot, when everyone
still listened to radio.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So dad's a famous actor, you're on your way to
becoming a very famous musician. You have two younger brothers,
is that right? Yes, brothers, Magnus.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Two younger brothers. Sorry, say that one more time.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What's their superpower? What are they going to be famous for?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
My middle younger brother is a very talented actor, and
my youngest brother is he's gonna I swear.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
To god, he's going to the NBA.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
He's so well, okay, huge, he's just quick that I can't.
I'm like, I train him. I try and train him
when I can. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I'm excited being the least successful.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I know. Yeah, I actually.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Are you friends with the Jonahs brothers.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'm I'm I'm I'm familiar with the Jonahs brothers.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
We're good buddies.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You too, it with Necks your favorite?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I mean, how can you are you kidding me? How
can I single out of Jonah's brothers.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
They're like, they're all.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, and that's a very wise response. You tell Magnus
your Jonas brother's story.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh well, I actually meet them walking in New York.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
I just walked past the cafe and they were there
and it was just Nick and Joe, and so I
asked to have a photo with him. They were really
kind and they did it, and then they put it
up on Instagram and I said that I asked Kevin
to take the photo, and then I got so much hate.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I actually got death threats from canceled.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Wait, why I'm so confused, because.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Like I was singling out that Kevin, like I got
Kevin to take the photo so that he wasn't in.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The Kevin's amazing. What do you mean.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You already have an audience here, so plans to come
down and do a show in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Oh my god, I've been thinking.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I've been, yeah, fantasying about the show that's going to
happen when we come to New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's going to be when are you saying?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
When?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Not?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
If is there? Because can you give us an exclusive?
Is there something in the po?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
No, nothing planned, but it's gonna happen, and it's gonna happen.
We can't, we can't not skip New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Come on, we're like four months out from summer and
that's when the festivals are and we could slightly ride
it into a rhythm and alps or something like that.
I think we I think we need.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I forgot because summer is backwards. Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh, we're gonna would pay you a dream artist to
tour with.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Like are we talking dead or alive or our live?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Okay, all right, you can do you can do one
deed one? Why can't I know? But I'm keen to
know who they did.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I know.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But that's like, that's like the that's like the heartache,
that's the pain. It's like if I you know, shoot,
I'd love the tour with Silk Sonic. That would be
really cool and not around anymore. Michael Jackson would have
been incredible.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But you know, I thought you were either going to
say Michael or Prince. That's a good choice.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Prince either. It doesn't even Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Magnus, congrats on everything so far. We're excited to see
what comes near and maybe a visit to New Zealand.
Thanks for the chat, good to talk.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Thank you guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Magnus Farrel, everybody, thank you. Play ZiT ms bringing Clint
on Insta, Facebook, TikTok
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And live weekdays from three on Zidim
Dad, MS, Brill and Clint Pop Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's our radio show, but wrapped up in a neat
little package just for you. It's Dad, ms, bri and
Clint Podcast. Our next guest is the son of one
of the one of the funniest actors in history, and
now he's achieving incredible success in his own right as
a musician. Please welcome to the show, the son of
Will Farrell. It's Magnus Farrell. Hello, Hello, how bizarre to
(00:29):
have you on the show, But welcome Magnus.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's crazy. I don't know this whole process that has
been so crazy.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yes, are you ready to zeran? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
J Ze, are you ready to stop being Will Farrell's son?
Just be Magnets.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean I can be both. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
He's my dad, so I'm happy to be called that.
It's no problem. We can we can split the names.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Oh lost, this fact you're super so talented. That song's amazing.
Asleep talking. It just puts you in the right vibe
for anything.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Okay, Wow, don't don't take this the wrong way. I
don't mean this to be offensive it at all because
it's a great song. It is not the type of
music I expected to come out of the son of
Will Ferrell. Does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh no, no, yeah, yeah, that makes completely sense, like
completely perfect sense.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And I take that as a compliment. So yeah, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's very sixy and it's not silly, you know, like
it's did you did you have a moment where you
had to like say to your dad, go dead. I'm
really sorry to have to tell you this, but my
music's not funny.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean I never really had that conversation with him.
I just knew.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Whenever the spotlight happened, whenever that would be, I just
needed to make music and I had one opportunity to
make music that would be undeniably good, and so I
just knew I couldn't put out anything that would even
suggest it to be funny in any form.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So that was my mindset.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I guess you couldn't do Stip Brothers the musical. It
just which wouldn't fly.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I mean, maybe maybe that's a great idea. I'd have
to take that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You blew up here in New Zealand. Last week you
were featured on a podcast called The Morning Shift. It's
a couple of and they do such a great job.
We love those guys, and then they play this clip
of you. That's actually how I found out about you
megnus before that and before this clip of you them
playing your song on their podcast went viral. Had you
(02:39):
even thought about New Zealand as a country before?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh my god, I mean I didn't even know it
was real.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
No, I'm kidding, I I yeah, No, of course, New
Zealand is actually a place I've always wanted to be
because or go to, because I was a.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Big leg Lord of the Rings fan going up and
all of that was shot out there.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yes, and no, I'm just like every New Zealander I've
ever met, which is very few, have been the funniest, kindest,
like awesome, just most amazing human beings ever.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So it was so cool, super cool to have that happened.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Which which New Zealanders have you met? We probably know them?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh, just like I.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Mean, I don't know, like a few along the way.
I have a I have a buddy, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Are you guys? Are were of Jack Gray by any chance?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
We love?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He's Jack. Yeah, No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
He's just a very good close friend mine. As I've
met a few New Zealanders through him.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, we watched this club, which it's just bizarre to
even think that this would happen, But we watched a
clip of your dad playing your music to Michelle Obama.
Sounds like a real sentence. How do you process that?
What did you think when it happened? Did he tell
you that he was going to play your music off
(03:53):
YouTube on his phone to Michelle Obama?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, well he did, but then I forgot.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And we were up visiting some friends in Oregon, so
like in the middle of the woods nowhere no cell service,
so we only had like a little bit of internet
back at our cabins. So like one of the days
I get back and that was one of the first
things I see, and yeah, it was just like I
was freaking out a little.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Bit, and.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It's it's still such a surreal video to watch. I
kind of can't believe it's real to see the former
first Lady of the United States react to a song
that I'm that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's just crazy to me, I think.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
The chat, Yeah, yes, crazy, that guy.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He's so talented.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
That's like one of my idols growing up, and and
someone that I hear on the radio all the time,
like on the way to school and whatnot, when everyone
still listened to radio.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So dad's a famous actor, you're on your way to
becoming a very famous musician. You have two younger brothers,
is that right? Yes, brothers, Magnus.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Two younger brothers. Sorry, say that one more time.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What's their superpower? What are they going to be famous for?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
My middle younger brother is a very talented actor, and
my youngest brother is he's gonna I swear.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
To god, he's going to the NBA.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
He's so well, okay, huge, he's just quick that I can't.
I'm like, I train him. I try and train him
when I can. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I'm excited being the least successful.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I know. Yeah, I actually.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Are you friends with the Jonahs brothers.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'm I'm I'm I'm familiar with the Jonahs brothers.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
We're good buddies.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You too, it with Necks your favorite?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I mean, how can you are you kidding me? How
can I single out of Jonah's brothers.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
They're like, they're all.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, and that's a very wise response. You tell Magnus
your Jonas brother's story.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh well, I actually meet them walking in New York.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
I just walked past the cafe and they were there
and it was just Nick and Joe, and so I
asked to have a photo with him. They were really
kind and they did it, and then they put it
up on Instagram and I said that I asked Kevin
to take the photo, and then I got so much hate.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I actually got death threats from canceled.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Wait, why I'm so confused, because.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Like I was singling out that Kevin, like I got
Kevin to take the photo so that he wasn't in.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The Kevin's amazing. What do you mean.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You already have an audience here, so plans to come
down and do a show in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Oh my god, I've been thinking.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I've been, yeah, fantasying about the show that's going to
happen when we come to New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's going to be when are you saying?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
When?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Not?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
If is there? Because can you give us an exclusive?
Is there something in the po?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
No, nothing planned, but it's gonna happen, and it's gonna happen.
We can't, we can't not skip New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Come on, we're like four months out from summer and
that's when the festivals are and we could slightly ride
it into a rhythm and alps or something like that.
I think we I think we need.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I forgot because summer is backwards. Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh, we're gonna would pay you a dream artist to
tour with.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Like are we talking dead or alive or our live?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Okay, all right, you can do you can do one
deed one? Why can't I know? But I'm keen to
know who they did.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I know.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But that's like, that's like the that's like the heartache,
that's the pain. It's like if I you know, shoot,
I'd love the tour with Silk Sonic. That would be
really cool and not around anymore. Michael Jackson would have
been incredible.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But you know, I thought you were either going to
say Michael or Prince. That's a good choice.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Prince either. It doesn't even Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Magnus, congrats on everything so far. We're excited to see
what comes near and maybe a visit to New Zealand.
Thanks for the chat, good to talk.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Thank you guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Magnus Farrel, everybody, thank you. Play ZiT ms bringing Clint
on Insta, Facebook, TikTok
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And live weekdays from three on Zidim
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