idris elba is so handsome huh
yeah you're gonna make fun of how i look
but yeah is there more of that no
no
sorry patrick usually we're pitted
against each other like two people in
the ring um no like a lot of stuff i
think has changed over the last couple
years but between you and idris elba who
do you think is more handsome this is
literally what i was saying get up and
stand up and put him in his stupid long
hair
freaking long hair look down at him so i
can see him when he looked at him like a
little child
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well we said if it happened again it
would happen again and it's happening
again
uh there's a sonic 2 it's coming out uh
it's starring ben schwartz as sonic the
hedgehog and we're here to do a second
take of the fastest interview ever ben
first question how are you doing i'm
doing very very well uh i just want to
say that today i stretched out a little
bit out of bed really stretched out my
arms a little bit above my head you know
what i mean
funny little dance um
did my funny little dance and then got
right to my computer because i knew
today was patrick i knew today was
absolutely polygon time and i'm excited
so put her there my man one tip of my
pinky to your one tip of your pinky
please and let's have a great interview
thanks for having me thank you you're
really taking to the body double that we
hired for you
um it's it seems like you're at home
seems like you're at peace in here i am
i'm home virtually and i am at peace
within my person uh can you catch us up
on sonic's story so far sonic story as
if you have not seen the first film yeah
oh my goodness it'd be my absolute
pleasure first of all i got a big itch
on my back give me one second
thank you ah
how long until this gets not funny i say
20 more seconds this is what happened in
sonic 1.
you meet sonic this little blue blur
wonderful wonderful little blue blur and
what he is he's obviously a hedgehog
right with powers some some people have
been calling him a superhero patrick
would you call it sonic a superhero or
no no i think he's a regular hero um i
think superhero you're going to find out
you're wrong i'm going to stop there's a
button press them all as hard as you
can simon
the end of one he has found his friends
he's found his family he has defeated
robotnik robotnik is on the mushroom
planet and two we see what happens when
it's like time for him to be like i want
to kind of be like this batman type
superhero that's great uh how do you
feel about their reaction to the last
one
i loved it what did you think about the
movie i was so excited oh sorry i was
talking about the last interview we did
yeah so was i what kind of training did
you do to get back in shape to play
sonic the training that i kind of did is
i want to get in the mind of a very fast
uh being so i've been hitting the track
a lot i've been and this is going to
sound insane so in the movie i have two
villains uh um and if you if you played
the video games you understand that
knuckles listen when knuckles is
introduced into this game he is not on
sonic's side
so i uh poke pictures of you all around
my house i'm trying to look at something
and feel the acidity in my stomach i'm
trying to feel my muscles get tense i'm
trying to sweat because when i do my
lines towards idris character knuckles
and towards a jim carrey's character
robotic i want to hate it so i basically
picture you as all the villains in this
movie
ryan let's take a drink
i got it from here
hey you sing a lot in after party your
new apple tv show uh what's what is your
go-to karaoke pick oh there's this song
that i your are you weird outfit i love
weirdo
i love red hell as well grew up on weird
out dare to be stupid was fantastic i
think i'm a little bit older than you so
my albums coming in were probably
different you probably started with
running with scissors or something like
an absolute rookie anyway
um so what i do is i take popular songs
and i put your name in it like um
um what's a very popular song that's out
right now is billy eilish still number
one oh she is number one fairly often
but i don't think she's gotten got
anything any new stuff on the radio
right now it's uh right tara
glass animals
west animal sounds like a band that
you're in okay so uh when you're at
karaoke you like to put people's names
into a popular song sorry i like to put
your name into a popular song uh and
it's usually like you know the who can
make the sunshine the candy man can you
i turn that into correct but mine is
called the garbage man can and it's
about you but not [ __ ] on the idea
of the industry of garbage man i'm
talking about you're an actual piece of
floating trash you're as if the movie
parse was that floating feather but it
was like a dirty a dirty diaper hey
sonic can run fast can you think
fast ah what the hell man that hit my
clavicle that literally just hit my
clavicle how would you like it if i
threw it to the left of you it didn't
hurt you at all
segment supersonic segment is this an
echidna fact or am i a kidding around
with you echidnas lay eggs true or false
yes of course come on don't be silly
next question great work echidnas
primarily eat berries and fruit
that's true
nope they eat termites and ants
and finally echidnas have two penises
there's no way there's no way in the
real lore of canon of sonic there's been
anywhere that proves this so i'm gonna
say that's false uh it is false they
have four
no that's not true there's no way don't
let this be canon will we see sonic's
bare hands in this film
what is that what is your obsession with
sonic's bare hands you're the one that's
brought up
hands no you yeah i'm the one i'd like
to rewind the tape right now and show
everybody that i'm absolutely not the
one what color do you think sonic's arms
should be the real question patrick and
i'm going to ask you this what color of
sonic's hands i know what color they are
really yeah or can you tell us yes i can
gotta check out our next interview on
polygon.com you are the person that
always wanted to see sonic's hands and
it's honestly disgusting press the
button you said that you've seen that
where did tails get the money for that
airplane
you haven't seen the movie you don't
know if he bought the airplane you think
that we have a scene a transactional
scene of a little fox buying an airplane
from someone are you making a movie
where you don't ground things in reality
i remember the last time we talked to
like i wish i could see all the
characters go to the bathroom because in
reality all these characters are going
to bathroom all the time you don't see
that in movies that's not something that
we need to show well i mean then what
are people supposed to assume that
nobody goes to the bathroom right we're
done with this can you buy happiness no
i think happiness comes from within i
think that you know love and things like
that can provide happiness what do you
think
yeah i mean yeah i think there's a
threshold to which you can buy happiness
then i think above that you're just
present
jesus christ
makes knuckles a good foil for sonic
oh this is a great question and maybe
the first one out of the whole uh
segment so far so i appreciate your time
um so i think that what basically what
sonic leads with is heart comedy and he
wants to make friends knuckles on the
other hand doesn't get a lot of the
references and comes through with brute
force and strength so it's almost you
know very opposite in the way that they
attack the situation but maybe if they
spend enough time together they could be
what would knuckle sound like if you had
voiced him i i've got some some knuckles
lines for you here to read if you
wouldn't mind reading these for us and
knuckles of course uh um all right are
you gonna say anything back you just
want to read these lines with knuckles
uh i'll i will set you up for these i
gotta protect the chaos emeralds
you're doing more of a roger craig
impersonation if you could do my
impersonation that would be uh nice if
you don't mind okay yeah i gotta protect
the chaos emeralds that's amazing now
you're doing jason so you gotta get to
the movie song have you seen the movie
version of sonic or no yeah yeah no i
saw it i saw it uh read it i gotta
protect the chaos emeralds
that's jaleel white you've done every
you've literally done every incarnation
of sonic except and by the way all
wonderful
voice artists it's it's like uh hey i
gotta protect the chaos emerald that's
like here let's get into it i do the
voice i do the voice patrick that's my
it's my thing
okay ready
uh-oh who's this guy he looks like
treble
all right scott put it down you're not
you're not helping it you're not doing
it right and you're not helping it ryan
can you do a perfect sonic impression
real quick
i'm trying to get the chaos emerald
that's actually pretty great and
compared to what patrick was doing it's
pretty embarrassing so ryan i'll do the
scene with you i'm trying to find the
chaos emerald
i'm gonna get you sonic
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what makes tails a good friend for sonic
i think tail is a great friend for sonic
because it's the first time you're
seeing someone from his home planet come
right so you get he comes to this planet
and the other one he's a sycophant
you've never seen anybody actually
idolize sonic through the tales i like
the sonic so it's a great foil for the
second movie hey tell me about uh
colleen
o'shaughnessy oh okay her name is
colleen by the way
colleen she's incredible imagine being
able to uh
do scenes with someone who's played
tales for that long in such a beautiful
way and i have been doing voiceover
since 2005 or six
so i'm always very excited when um you
know someone who's done voiceover for
television for a while gets to jump into
a movie all that stuff is very very
exciting for me so it's very very fun
uh-oh what are you about to do you're
reaching for something do you think
colleen could catch this ball
what the hell man
i didn't say choke him i just said get
him ryan
all right that was like in all those
movies like a.i
this movie has some
sorry oh hey what are you playing right
now
video game-wise yeah
i just beat metroid red um uh which was
very fun playing a lot of oculus uh
walkabout golf my friends amir and jesse
and i play three person because i'm on
i'm doing a movie in new orleans right
now and it's a really fun way for us to
be able to talk and chat but i've also
played games like celeste and and all
sorts of things like that don't don't
know i actually like in our previous
interview you referred to a level in
sonic as a board which is either a
regional thing or just old guy talk uh
that's all the guys talk yeah i also
call your thing good thing that you're
wearing dungarees
out of curiosity what do you call these
objects
wait let's do this real that's a
controller that's a genesis controller
okay you don't call that a paddle dude
that's a paddle you call it a paddle no
no no just some some people like you
call this a paddle that's uh that's a
broom room automobile yeah
that's a television set
set okay cool
that's uh
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it is yeah
they're cool looking animals segment how
much are you like sonic question one how
do you feel about chili dogs oh i love a
hot dog chili dog is a lot it gets all
over the place and it's it's a lot but
i'll eat it
uh do you own any red shoes look
holy sh
nikes
there's only five of these uh a guy
named the shoe surgeon made them for the
first movie and um i got to keep it
that looks so cool okay uh how small can
you make yourself can you turn into a
ball
ready go count down i'm doing it right
now three two one
oh oh my god look how little he got
that's really good have you ever kissed
a human woman you and i both know what
it's like to kiss a woman um
oh totally yeah well first of all we
know you [ __ ] her up gotta [ __ ] her up
like so here can you
with me if you don't want to meet sure
[ __ ] her up
first [ __ ] her up then you'll [ __ ] her
yeah hug her up and then you lean in
real close and try to kiss it okay and
then we whisper yourself in the sweet we
whisper something real sweet hey uh
patrick this has been really nice thanks
for having me today
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last time we talked you mentioned the
pressure of living up to the
expectations of sonic fans how do you
feel like you did sure oh man well i
guess you're you're a real live sonic
fan ryan do you are you a sonic fan
before the film yes
and what did you guys think this is i'll
leave it up to you i thought you did
great yeah i think you're as much sonic
as anybody who has ever been sonic that
is so
nice and kind ryan
yeah i agree you're up there in the
pantheon of great sonics
this is a great interview guys give him
a kiss give him a kiss on his knee give
him a quick kiss on his knee quick
smackaroo
how is the character of sonic grown and
changed between films sure so i think
after the first one he actually does
this thing where he he does save uh
green hills right and and essentially if
he hadn't done that moment something far
worse would happen so now he has the
feeling of like i want to do this i want
to take everything on by myself but what
i feel like the second movie really does
is he learns that he needs to ask and be
able to accept help and be able to find
his group of friends
to find a support system because he
can't do everything by himself i think
that's a big part of what the second
movie is about how do you think you've
grown and changed since the last sonic
film
this is insane i've grown seven inches
uh since the last sonic movie i am i
mean look how tall i am yeah i'm a tall
man now um i'm wearing the same sneakers
those very underwear very similar
sneakers i'm going to sit down now but
right on the arm of the chair is it cool
i'm a cool dude you know what actually
ryan flip that chair around an ac slater
it do you know that reference this is
great yeah now put your knees on it put
your knees on it and like a little like
a little excited boy yeah let's do the
rest
it'll be impossible to edit it together
patrick but let's see what happened
i mean that was actually the last
question uh except like what do the
chaos emeralds taste like well this is
insane have you ever had uh gushers
they taste like those they taste like
mushrooms well that's it that's
everything uh tell us about uh sonic the
hedgehog 2 where we can see it sonic
hedgehog 2 is coming to movie theaters
uh on april 8th right here in the united
states of america are you gonna come to
one of the screenings do you think we'll
meet uh in person again or no no i gotta
think that day you don't even know when
the premiere is uh i i i'm pretty you
said it was
uh i haven't said it yet all right well
i got a thing
i like to end this interview like i like
to enter an interview by doing the
famous dance from single ladies
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i love you thanks for all the support we
love you lilith he wanted to do this