Podcasts

Maybe Ben Affleck needs to turn off his proximity chat ... because he gets in fights with kids when he's gaming.

Ben admitted to Jason and Travis Kelce on their "New Heights" podcast that he often gets badly beaten by the youth when he's playing video games online.

The actor explained he thought he could hold his own in first-person shooters ... until a 12-year-old rolls up and takes him out.

WWE Superstar LA Knight has spent 20 years in professional wrestling ... but he still hasn't captured a WWE world championship, and he admits Saturday's match against Roman Reigns could potentially be his last shot.

Knight joined TMZ’s “Inside the Ring” Podcast ahead of "WWE Money in the Bank" ... and told us even he’s wondered what happens if he comes up short again.

“I’ve probably kind of framed it that way a little bit because it just feels like ... is it my last one ever? I don’t know,” Knight said. “It could be, who knows?”

Nick Young wanted to beat D'Angelo Russell's ass ... and that's exactly what he said he would've done if security hadn't blocked him from getting to the young Lakers star!

"I tried to get to the arena, they had security and everything. They stopped me at the door, told me I couldn't come in, 'take a couple of days off,'" Swaggy P told Shannon Sharpe on his "Club Shay Shay" podcast.

"I had the whole gang with me. It was about to go crazy."

Why? Young explained it like this.

"I ain't never been in a situation like that where my teammate just snitched on me. I was like they're gonna call me a punk in the media, and I'm mad for real, I gotta do something. I gotta show him. I know he's young, 19, 18 or whatever, but still you don't do nothing like that."

Sunny Hostin says the Wicked Witch of the West had some positive feedback amid all the backlash on her comments about the Cornell frat bros accused of rape ... with Cynthia Erivo encouraging her to lead with empathy in the future.

The co-host of "The View" revealed her conversation with the actress and singer during an episode of the "Behind the Table" podcast ... saying Cynthia told her many people who originally saw her talk about the alleged gang rape couldn't really take in what she was saying -- because she led with the law.

Cynthia encouraged her to lead with empathy in the future ... to make her legal point more palatable.

The New York Attorney General is now investigating allegations of gang rape at Cornell University, which means some fraternity brothers could become rape defendants ... so based on what we know now, who would win at trial?

Harvey and Mark Geragos have reviewed some of the most salient evidence based on transcripts of the police investigation and other evidence that has surfaced.

They spend half their time on the latest edition of the "2 Angry Men" podcast making the best case for prosecutors, and the other half on how the defendants would try to poke holes in the prosecution's case.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard dove into her life and what a possible future wedding to Ken Urker might look like on our "TMZ Podcast" ... just months before his sudden death.

The social media star sat down with Charlie Neff back in May ... and the two discussed marriage -- with Charlie specifically asking if Gypsy felt pressured to tie the knot with Ken.

Gypsy said Ken wasn't putting any pressure on her ... but she certainly felt like the world was -- even though she said she could see a future where they stay together but never marry, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell style.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard's ex-husband Ryan Anderson is speaking out about the sudden death of her ex-fiancé Ken Urker.

Ryan broke his silence to podcaster Sarah Fraser, saying that while he and Ken "never really saw eye-to-eye," he was still shocked to hear he'd passed.

He says they'd never actually met in person, and their phone exchanges never started or ended well ... but he says in spite of that, "you still hate to hear that somebody passed away."

Ben Affleck just revealed a pretty wild story ... saying when he was a teen he was held at knifepoint by another kid ... who eventually went on to kill someone else with a knife.

The actor opened up about the scary situation to Kerry Washington on her podcast Wednesday, when she asked him if he'd ever been robbed growing up in Cambridge, MA.

Ben recalled ... "I remember I was walking home from high school, I was 14 maybe, and I saw these two kids in like literal hoods on the other side of the street. And, you know, it’s kind of one of those things where you’re like, 'All right.'"

Ruby Rose says she was accused of killing a 4-year-old child when she was a teenager ... with her peers even referring to her as "Baby Killer."

The actress told the shocking story on an episode of Kaitlyn Bristowe's "Off the Vine" podcast -- released Tuesday ... telling "The Bachelorette" star she snuck off from a party to smoke her first cigarette with a pal when she was 15, and they spotted an odd shape in the bushes at a playground.

Ruby says she and the friend went to investigate ... and found a badly injured 4-year-old boy lying in the bushes with "blood coming out of his ear, nose, mouth."

Actress Christy Carlson Romano isn't biting her tongue about her former costar, Shia LaBeouf ... looking back on their time on Disney's "Even Stevens," she says they mixed like "oil and water."

Christy sat down for an interview with Amanda Hirsch on Amanda's podcast, "Not Skinny But Not Fat," and, at one point, their convo turned to Shia and Christy's interactions on the "Even Stevens" set. 

At the time, Romano was 14, and Shia was 12 ... and she says he had a "very chaotic and very scary lifestyle, and he was very young to be having that.”

Sophie Rain is NOT happy with the way her podcast with Bryce Crawford went down ... telling us he was "religion-baiting" her.

The OnlyFans model tells TMZ ... she thought she and the Christian podcaster were going to have an "honest conversation," but she walked away feeling like he was just trying to set her up.

She tells us ... "Watching it back, I felt like my religion was being used to put me on trial. He kept coming back to whether my work was a sin, even after I'd answered him."

Tom Cruise doesn't have to deal with the everyday nuisances us normies are forced to navigate ... Bert Kreischer says Tom's team has his life calculated down to a T.

The comedian talked to Rob Lowe on his "2 Bears, 1 Cave" podcast in an episode published Monday ... and the conversation turned to Tom -- who Rob costarred with in "The Outsiders" way back in the early 1980s.

Bert says he's been told by people in the know that Tom has a guy who edits commercials out of the sporting events he watches when he's working out ... so he only sees the best part of F1 races and soccer matches.

"Liar Liar" actor Justin Cooper is opening up how his mom looked out for him as a child star ... even protecting the "Little Rascals" actor from letters sent from prisoners.

In a recent interview on "The Not So Little Rascals," Justin admitted ... "My mom did a really good job of kind of shielding me from stuff."

Justin said that his mother later spilled the beans when he was old enough about the prison mail he had gotten.

Michael Fishman is responding to Roseanne Barr's profanity-laced tirade about him ... though it seems he's decided not to fight fire with fire -- at least not yet.

The actor shared a video on social media addressing Roseanne's recent comments deriding him ... thanking Roseanne for telling people the truth -- that he reached out to her in 2018 after she posted a racist tweet about one of former president Barack Obama's advisers.

Michael says he reached out to give her a chance to clear up why she posted ... even though he vehemently disagrees with what she posted.

John Hinckley Jr. says his music career keeps hitting the same sour note ... venues book him, fans buy up the tickets, and then the whole thing gets canceled.

And, well ... it's not exactly hard to figure out why.

The man who shot then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981 opened up about his trouble getting onstage in Episode 2 of "The John Hinckley Podcast," telling guest Lola Pepper that clubs and music venues repeatedly pull the plug because of "who I am."

Roseanne Barr held absolutely nothing back when asked about her former TV son Michael Fishman ... unloading on him in a profanity-laced tirade.

Roseanne appeared on the "Can't Be Censored" podcast, where the host brought up Fishman's recent comments defending his stance on the 2018 "Roseanne" controversy.

She calls him a "bigot," an "ignoramus," and a "little f***ing worm" ... telling him to "go and f*** yourself and stay f***ed till the day you die."