- Blink twice for me, Tyrese,
if you're going into space
in the new Fast and Furious movie.
- He's either frozen--
(man exclaims)
(man laughs)
(upbeat music)
Hey, guys welcome to Stir Crazy.
My guest today is the only man in history
to have starred in films with transformers,
Vin Diesel and now Santa Claus.
It's Tyrese Gibson.
(man laughs)
- How ya doin', man?
- I'm doin' good.
It's good to see a friendly face.
I feel like if you're gonna be cooped up in one place,
your house is the place to be cooped up in
'cause you've got it all tricked out.
- The running joke around here is you knew, you knew,
you must've knew that somethin' was gonna happen.
'Cause why did you...
Why do you have the grove in your back yard?
- Yeah only you knew.
Wait I need my own Starbucks just
in case of a global pandemic.
- That's it.
(man chuckles)
That's it.
Benihana's, Boston Market, yes, everything.
- You have a Boston market now too? (laughs)
- Yeah.
- This is the legend for those that don't know.
I mean, it's worth repeating.
You've got your own Starbucks.
Here's my question on the Starbucks.
Do you have to give your name
to the barista when you order
or do they know by now it's for you?
- They know.
They know my order.
We have a really famous tea
that you could only get from here.
It's called Gibson Tea.
I remember Jamie Fox drank five cups of this tea.
And then for like a week straight
he called me begging too.
He's like, "Yo, what's the ingredients?"
I said, "Bro, I can't give you that."
I said, "This tea might be the only reason
"you come back over here."
- You have still the giant bumblebee,
the giant Optimus Prime in the house?
- He just wanted to come in
and say hello really quick.
So this is...
You know they're just here.
- You're living every kid's dream.
I see the Thunder Cats behind you.
I see some kind of Egyptian.
What's the next big addition?
What's the new-- - Well, this is actually
my latest addition here.
- [Josh] Is that an Oscar?
- Yes.
I went online
and found an exact replica of the Oscar.
(man chuckles)
Because you know
you have to do it before you do it.
So this is a stand-in.
Ready for the real one to come.
- [Josh] Yeah.
- But I gotta earn it, you know?
I gotta earn it.
It is in my yard though,
but I do have to earn it.
- Just do me a favor.
When you do accept the Oscar,
wear the same exact outfit and the Santa hat.
- I don't really know if I can commit to that.
(men laugh)
- You've known him for a long time.
Are you guys...
You guys are obviously close,
but are you competitive?
Are you competitive with Vin?
- I'm not competitive with Vin.
We're each other's support system.
He calls me Ty Boogie.
Ty Boogie.
I need you to blah, blah, blah, blah.
It was one thing for him to call me Ty Boogie.
It was another thing for everybody
in the cast started to call on me that
and I was just like, "Okay,
"so now this ain't cool no more."
Now I gave him a hall pass.
(man chuckles)
Ain't goin' be no Ty in the Boogie.
- If anybody couldn't tell you're in the Christmas spirit,
you're starring in this cool new Netflix movie,
"The Christmas Chronicles Volume Two."
I've got a challenge for you, man
if you'll indulge me.
There are some iconic Christmas songs out there.
I want to see if I can figure out
what Christmas song you're trying to sing
or say to me with no sound.
(triumphant music)
♪ I'm gonna get to know ♪
I literally can't get one word.
♪ Hang all the mistletoe ♪
"Have Yourself a Merry Christmas"?
♪ Please greet ♪
Fill your heart with glee, Rudolf?
(buzzer dings)
What was it, Tyrese?
- It was Donny Hathaway's version of "This Christmas."
♪ This Christmas ♪
- Do you wanna play Santa one day?
Now that Kurt Russell...
I mean Kurt Russell's arguably the sexiest Santa
we've ever had on screen.
What do you think about Tyrese Santa?
Do you think it's in your wheelhouse?
- I've already figured that out.
I gotta new movie called "Blanta".
The black Santa.
(man chuckles)
- I see it.
I can see it.
I see the wardrobe right now.
It's in front of me.
(men laugh)
- Blanta.
- In 2021, we're finally gonna see F9
and the word on the street,
the rumor is as you well know,
you guys are goin' into outer space.
Blink twice for me, Tyrese,
if you're going into space
in the new Fast and Furious movie.
He's either frozen--
(man exclaims)
(man laughs)
- I'll blink once somebody call me.
- Interesting,
I don't know what to make of that.
Okay we've been talking about this for years.
The spinoff that has not happened
for you for Roman Pearce has to happen.
I want to will it into existence, Tyrese.
I've got some pitches for you.
Some ideas for the spin-off movie.
(triumphant music)
We're goin' horror.
We call this the Roman Omen.
You get possessed by devil.
- No.
(buzzer dings)
(man chuckles)
- What's wrong with it?
- No I don't do well with the devil.
- Okay. (laughs)
I think I opened a can of worms.
Okay next one.
How about this?
This is much lighter.
I call this Roman Holiday.
It has nothing to do with the Audrey Hepburn movie.
It's kind of like your "Eat, Pray, Love."
You go to Italy.
You fall in love.
You eat a lot of pasta.
Was that a yes or no?
- No.
(buzzer dings) - No?
Okay no that's fair.
RVP.
We're combined...
It's Roman versus Predator.
It's Sci-Fi, it's action.
I don't know what the rights issues are,
but would you be interested
in Roman going up against the Predator?
- No.
(buzzer dings)
(man chuckles)
You know, here's the thing.
And I actually said this about the Rock.
And me and the Rock peaced up, by the way.
We talked for like four hours. - Oh yeah?
- About three weeks ago.
- Oh this is breakin' news.
You guys are good again.
- Yeah, we talked.
- Good.
- We talked
We did at least four hours.
It was great.
What's interesting about The Fast and the Furious is
it's not about any of us individually.
See we're like the UN at this point.
- Yeah (chuckles).
- We kinda...
Everyone gets to go to the theater
and say, "He and she looks like me."
I did it with Tej.
And then who are we going to play off of?
But I just could not make it about me.
I just could not.
It's been really strange.
- I hear you.
Hey you've got enough money
for your own personal transformer.
I mean, you're good.
So you might as well follow your heart,
follow your creativity.
You're good.
- That's right and I got money for California chicken too.
It's crazy.
Everything.
Things are great.
(man laughs) Hold on one sec.
- Yeah, sure.
No you're good.
Can I ask you about a longstanding story about you
that I'm always fascinated by?
- I'm listenin'.
- What's up with you and owls?
Is that a real thing?
Are you really terrified of owls?
- I just seen one last night
and it freaked me out.
Just last night it freaked me out.
- Why?
- I wanted to throw my whole house away
because it flew over my house.
I'm here at the fire pit hangin' out
and I'm sittin' there talking and tellin' this story.
And then, you know, for whatever reason,
I just went like this and it was like this big 'ol owl.
(man swishes)
And you know, when he flew by,
I felt like...
You felt the wind from his feathers.
- [Host] Right.
- And it was big.
It was such a big owl.
It was bad.
I was just like,
why did this happen now to me?
And then I said,
"Yo did y'all see that?"
Nobody seen it but me.
It was just a lot.
- It's always an adventure catching up with you, my friend.
Congratulations on the "Christmas Chronicles Volume Two."
And on the Oscar.
We've made that happen today.
- That's right.
- And I look forward to my invite to Chez Gibson
because I need to see all this stuff in person, man.
I need to be there.
- Gibsyhana. - (sighs) Thanks.
- I wish I would've had your information, man.
I would've definitely invited you over.
It was like 10 of the fellas.
We had a cigar night.
It was cigar and rum.
- I'll bring the cigars and no owl.
I promise.
- Please, man, no owls.
Please.
(man chuckles)
(upbeat music)