July 8, 2025 • 6 mins
In this laugh-packed segment, the gang dives into the newly updated list of the highest-grossing actors of all time—and the results are as surprising as they are entertaining. From wild guesses like Gene Hackman and Yoda (yes, Yoda) to a passionate defense of Vin Diesel’s box office dominance, the crew’s banter is fast, funny, and full of unexpected turns.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hot God, every stay on the top in.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sho we have a new number one highest grossing actor.
I think the way they do this, though, is they
look at how their movie did and they just add
those up.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, so we have a new number one.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now I've got the whole list in front of me,
so your guesses can all can all be fine.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
But you're bringing this up now, which makes me think
that somebody just had a big movie come out and
it toppled them to the top of the list. So
you have to think, who would It's not going to
be Jack Black. It's your guy, dude, Tommy.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, and the reason is, huh Jack Black number twenty eight?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I mean, is Steve Martin on there?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What is the most recent movie Jurassic World Park? Right,
but also also three Bird There's no star, I mean
not not that would be in the top grossing hold on, though,
I want to make sure we is this in America
or worldwide?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I don't know. Let's let's get the story audited. Worldwide.
Worldwide is different than America. Prestige worldwide.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Okay, I bet it's I bet it's Ben's guy, and
I think that's why there's a change.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Do you guys, remember who it used to be. No,
it used to be Samuel L. Jackson. Oh, okay, and
it and what.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It is is because of the number of movies that
he's in, and you it's gross. It's all revenue. And
so you add he ended up being in those Star
Wars movies. Right, So it's not like he It doesn't
even have to be a leading man. No, he could
be a role player that's been on a million teams.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Right, So who's your guests? You each get one official guess.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Okay, I don't want to If Ben wants to take time,
I won't take him.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I'm gonna take my best friend, Tom cru all right,
as you should.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I mean, I'm thinking of a guy, but I don't
think he's old enough, and he hasn't had any recent movies.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Peene Hackman, No, he's he's old, okay. Timothy shallow May
Timothy No, yeah, no, he didn't say no to me though. Yeah.
Tom Cruise is up there. Oh skin Does it have
to be a person? Could I take Yoda? Nope?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I will go with the man who has been in
so many amazing Jurassic Park movies.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Jeff Goldbloom. Jeff Goldbloom I.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Would like some honorary mentioned votes. Oh, I'd like to
throw Vin Diesel up there.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh that's good. Oh my god, I'm going with the
Rock in the Rock.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Vin Diesel was at the F one race over the weekend,
and yes he has been.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So yeah, those two guys are in everything and Vin Diesel. Yeah,
there's been thirty seven of those movies. Okay, but Ben,
I think you kneled he said the Rock because not
only has Vind's that Rock been in a bunch of those,
but he's in those movies where he's a paraplegic that
jumps from building to building.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It's a great movie Skyscraper, wasn't he?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And uh, you know Jamon G's and all that stuff.
I bet it's The Rock or Kevin Hart. Okay, let
me just tell you or Kevin Bacon. Denzel Washington is
number seventy six on this list. Yeah, he's made too
many good movies. No, no, man, he's making a bunch
of trash right now.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Is tell you that?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
He said he's like a seventy four year old geriatric
action guy.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Jim Carrey is fifty first on this list. Oh dude,
where's Harrison Ford? Twenty first Brad Pitt. Whooa, I bet bad.
I was gonna say forty nine.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So number ten is Chris Evans, Okay, Cat Maer yep.
Number nine Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Number eight, Vin the
Diagram Diesel.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Ok about Robert Downey Jr. Seven Chris Hemsworth. That new
Marvel must be nuts all of these there. Number six
Tomas Cruz, Oh, I know who it is?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Is it actor? There's no actresses? I didn't say that,
all right, Scarlet Johansson.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Number five, Christopher Pratt, Number four, Zoe Saldana, Oh what
who's that? Three Guardians of the Galaxy movies in a
little bit. Number three Robert Downey Junior.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Let's go. Let's just say that he came into the day.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Number two before he was overpat by Scarlett Johansson.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Number two Samuel L. Jackson. We're about to find out
why this is on KT's radar.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And number one snel tie it is Scarlett Johanses.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Okay, think of her as SNL. She's never been in
the cast.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Have you guys ever heard of a movie called Staten
Island Summer? No never knew it existed until last night
at eleven o'clock when I'm looking at the cat at
and it's Bobby moynihan, Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon, and then
suddenly there's an appearance from Colin Jost and then suddenly
(05:11):
Fred Armison is in it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It is like the most third rate, low grade mixture
of meatballs and super bad I've ever seen. And it
was written and directed by some SNL rider named Rise
Thompson or something. You know that Will Forte is hilarious there.
It is so bad except for except for two minutes
(05:37):
with Will Forte and two minutes with Fred Armison. But man, yeah,
all those people could not save the garbage that it was. Okay,
So she Scarlett Johansson once she's in Marvel, she's doing those,
She's doing those movies and those that list is mostly
comprised of all those people.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
She've appeared in three, four, five, six, seven, eight, Is
that Avengers movies?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Is she black widow in those? Black widow? Yeah? Okays,
just a small role in some of these.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
In Jurassic Part yeah, but look at Samuel Jackson, he's
number two.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Scarlett passed him in eighteen films and he has fifty
six films.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Samuel Jackson was in Jurassic Park two.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, and he was Indian like Agent of Shield or
one of those things like any against.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Captain Marvel and the Avengers Avengers in Game. He's in
all those movies too.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, all right, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
The new highest grossing actor of all time is Scarlett Johansson.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Coming up next, we'll go around the sports. We have
a new injury that is concerning us on the local
sports scene, and maybe a future star who might come
to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's all coming your way next
Hot God, every stay on the top in.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sho we have a new number one highest grossing actor.
I think the way they do this, though, is they
look at how their movie did and they just add
those up.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, so we have a new number one.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now I've got the whole list in front of me,
so your guesses can all can all be fine.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
But you're bringing this up now, which makes me think
that somebody just had a big movie come out and
it toppled them to the top of the list. So
you have to think, who would It's not going to
be Jack Black. It's your guy, dude, Tommy.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, and the reason is, huh Jack Black number twenty eight?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I mean, is Steve Martin on there?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What is the most recent movie Jurassic World Park? Right,
but also also three Bird There's no star, I mean
not not that would be in the top grossing hold on, though,
I want to make sure we is this in America
or worldwide?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I don't know. Let's let's get the story audited. Worldwide.
Worldwide is different than America. Prestige worldwide.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Okay, I bet it's I bet it's Ben's guy, and
I think that's why there's a change.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Do you guys, remember who it used to be. No,
it used to be Samuel L. Jackson. Oh, okay, and
it and what.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It is is because of the number of movies that
he's in, and you it's gross. It's all revenue. And
so you add he ended up being in those Star
Wars movies. Right, So it's not like he It doesn't
even have to be a leading man. No, he could
be a role player that's been on a million teams.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Right, So who's your guests? You each get one official guess.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Okay, I don't want to If Ben wants to take time,
I won't take him.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I'm gonna take my best friend, Tom cru all right,
as you should.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I mean, I'm thinking of a guy, but I don't
think he's old enough, and he hasn't had any recent movies.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Peene Hackman, No, he's he's old, okay. Timothy shallow May
Timothy No, yeah, no, he didn't say no to me though. Yeah.
Tom Cruise is up there. Oh skin Does it have
to be a person? Could I take Yoda? Nope?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I will go with the man who has been in
so many amazing Jurassic Park movies.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Jeff Goldbloom. Jeff Goldbloom I.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Would like some honorary mentioned votes. Oh, I'd like to
throw Vin Diesel up there.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh that's good. Oh my god, I'm going with the
Rock in the Rock.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Vin Diesel was at the F one race over the weekend,
and yes he has been.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So yeah, those two guys are in everything and Vin Diesel. Yeah,
there's been thirty seven of those movies. Okay, but Ben,
I think you kneled he said the Rock because not
only has Vind's that Rock been in a bunch of those,
but he's in those movies where he's a paraplegic that
jumps from building to building.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It's a great movie Skyscraper, wasn't he?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And uh, you know Jamon G's and all that stuff.
I bet it's The Rock or Kevin Hart. Okay, let
me just tell you or Kevin Bacon. Denzel Washington is
number seventy six on this list. Yeah, he's made too
many good movies. No, no, man, he's making a bunch
of trash right now.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Is tell you that?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
He said he's like a seventy four year old geriatric
action guy.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Jim Carrey is fifty first on this list. Oh dude,
where's Harrison Ford? Twenty first Brad Pitt. Whooa, I bet bad.
I was gonna say forty nine.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So number ten is Chris Evans, Okay, Cat Maer yep.
Number nine Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Number eight, Vin the
Diagram Diesel.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Ok about Robert Downey Jr. Seven Chris Hemsworth. That new
Marvel must be nuts all of these there. Number six
Tomas Cruz, Oh, I know who it is?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Is it actor? There's no actresses? I didn't say that,
all right, Scarlet Johansson.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Number five, Christopher Pratt, Number four, Zoe Saldana, Oh what
who's that? Three Guardians of the Galaxy movies in a
little bit. Number three Robert Downey Junior.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Let's go. Let's just say that he came into the day.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Number two before he was overpat by Scarlett Johansson.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Number two Samuel L. Jackson. We're about to find out
why this is on KT's radar.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And number one snel tie it is Scarlett Johanses.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Okay, think of her as SNL. She's never been in
the cast.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Have you guys ever heard of a movie called Staten
Island Summer? No never knew it existed until last night
at eleven o'clock when I'm looking at the cat at
and it's Bobby moynihan, Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon, and then
suddenly there's an appearance from Colin Jost and then suddenly
(05:11):
Fred Armison is in it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It is like the most third rate, low grade mixture
of meatballs and super bad I've ever seen. And it
was written and directed by some SNL rider named Rise
Thompson or something. You know that Will Forte is hilarious there.
It is so bad except for except for two minutes
(05:37):
with Will Forte and two minutes with Fred Armison. But man, yeah,
all those people could not save the garbage that it was. Okay,
So she Scarlett Johansson once she's in Marvel, she's doing those,
She's doing those movies and those that list is mostly
comprised of all those people.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
She've appeared in three, four, five, six, seven, eight, Is
that Avengers movies?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Is she black widow in those? Black widow? Yeah? Okays,
just a small role in some of these.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
In Jurassic Part yeah, but look at Samuel Jackson, he's
number two.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Scarlett passed him in eighteen films and he has fifty
six films.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Samuel Jackson was in Jurassic Park two.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, and he was Indian like Agent of Shield or
one of those things like any against.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Captain Marvel and the Avengers Avengers in Game. He's in
all those movies too.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, all right, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
The new highest grossing actor of all time is Scarlett Johansson.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Coming up next, we'll go around the sports. We have
a new injury that is concerning us on the local
sports scene, and maybe a future star who might come
to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's all coming your way next
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