Ocean's 11: Everything You Didn't Know
04/20/22 • 54 min
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Jordan and Alex go deep on Steven Soderbergh’s remake of the classic 1960 Rat Pack heist film. Listen and learn why Brad Pitt ate 40 shrimp, Don Cheadle refused to be credited, and why the original Rat Packers hated this movie. You’ll also learn how the most famous scene was improvised, The Royal Tenenbaums’s made casting a nightmare, and all the ways George Clooney pranked just about everybody.
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Jordan and Alex go deep on Steven Soderbergh’s remake of the classic 1960 Rat Pack heist film. Listen and learn why Brad Pitt ate 40 shrimp, Don Cheadle refused to be credited, and why the original Rat Packers hated this movie. You’ll also learn how the most famous scene was improvised, The Royal Tenenbaums’s made casting a nightmare, and all the ways George Clooney pranked just about everybody.
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Too Much Information - Ocean's 11: Everything You Didn't Know
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Speaker 1Hello everyone, and welcome to Too Much Information, the show that brings you the secret history and little known fascinating facts about your favorite music, movies, TV shows, and more. We're two guys with too much free time on our hands. My name is Jordan run Tog and I'm alexael. I love your intros for yourself. Have like a tenth of my c
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