please welcome daniel ranieri. [ cheers and applause ] hey, daniel. >> hi, what's up?>> good to see you too. >> jimmy: daniel, i just told them a little bit about the story. you know, this was like one year ago, pretty much exactly, that we reached out to you. >> yeah. >> jimmy: we couldn't find you. we knew you were in brooklyn, we knew your name was daniel. somehow we figured out your mom's name was danielle. do you know how many people we called? >> i'm pretty sure it was 180 danielle r.s in brooklyn. >> jimmy: sure enough, we called them all. laura, one of our producers, insane person, found you. [ laughter ] you were on our show. and the next -- actually, that night i get an email from george clooney saying, hey, can you give me that kid's information? i might want to put him in a movie. then he put you in the movie, you're in "the tender bar" with ben affleck. [ cheers and applause ] not just in the movie briefly, and not a minor character. you are really the main character in the movie, right? >> yeah. yeah. >> jimmy: unbelievable. was it fun for you? >> of cour