1
00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,520
Speaker 1: Honor to have intern John your morning show, the legendary

2
00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:04,440
Speaker 1: Jeremy Piven.

3
00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,119
Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, Good morning to you dude.

4
00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,120
Speaker 1: First of all, two Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards. Where

5
00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:12,639
Speaker 1: do you keep the actual trophies?

6
00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,320
Speaker 3: I strapped them to the front of my car, and uh,

7
00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,280
Speaker 3: just just it's very subtle. Yeah, you know, I think,

8
00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,040
Speaker 3: you know, I just need to take a victory lap

9
00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,440
Speaker 3: every waking moment for sure. No, it's a great it's

10
00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,280
Speaker 3: a it's a great question. It's uh I I actually

11
00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,000
Speaker 3: just moved and I thought where am I going to

12
00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:39,159
Speaker 3: put these at the moment, you know, they're on shelves.

13
00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,080
Speaker 3: And it was an incredible honor. And uh I love

14
00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:47,760
Speaker 3: touring doing stand up and and just unpacking stories and

15
00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,040
Speaker 3: doing impressions. And you know a lot of people don't

16
00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,120
Speaker 3: know I do stand up, but it's I've been on

17
00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,040
Speaker 3: stage since I was a child, really, so I love it.

18
00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:57,920
Speaker 1: I was gonna bring up. So, first of all, you

19
00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,760
Speaker 1: have four shows this weekend Areington's Draft House, Arlington, VA.

20
00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,800
Speaker 1: Seven thirty. The seven o'clock shows is sold out, nine

21
00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,039
Speaker 1: to thirty shows still open. I'll say this about the

22
00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,080
Speaker 1: Draft House. If you've never been in general great for

23
00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,120
Speaker 1: date night. The food's amazing, the drink's amazing, plus a

24
00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,479
Speaker 1: great show. But so you have like actual training in theater, right,

25
00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:19,319
Speaker 1: Like that's a background in theater.

26
00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, unlike the rock I've taken an acting class.

27
00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:29,760
Speaker 3: It's strange. Yeah, these are jokes. These are jokes.

28
00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:30,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

29
00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,600
Speaker 3: Man, I grew up on the stage and I've been

30
00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,479
Speaker 3: I've been doing it my whole life and I love it.

31
00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,400
Speaker 1: Well, it's gotta be a fun thing too. I've done

32
00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,520
Speaker 1: a little uh stand up in my day. I do

33
00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,680
Speaker 1: think there is something about comedy. It seems like it's

34
00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,240
Speaker 1: kind of coming through like a reassurance of reassurance now

35
00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,200
Speaker 1: where it's like life is tough for everybody, and so

36
00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,480
Speaker 1: if you can distract folks for a little bit and

37
00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,400
Speaker 1: then you make them laugh, it's one of the greatest

38
00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:57,760
Speaker 1: I think highs of all time.

39
00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it completely is.

40
00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,400
Speaker 3: I mean there's by the way, yes, distract them, but

41
00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,440
Speaker 3: also unpack things, like you know, because we're all looking

42
00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,919
Speaker 3: at this stuff going wait, what is going on? And

43
00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,760
Speaker 3: and so you get to get up there and rant

44
00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,600
Speaker 3: and connect with an audience and have a shared laugh

45
00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,760
Speaker 3: and yeah, there is nothing like that. You know, coming

46
00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,000
Speaker 3: up with something that you think is funny and then

47
00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,720
Speaker 3: you share it with them and we all do. It's

48
00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,920
Speaker 3: a high that, you know, I've been chasing since the

49
00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,920
Speaker 3: first time I got up on stage and bombed.

50
00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,920
Speaker 1: Sure, well it's funny. There's all these kind of like

51
00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,839
Speaker 1: the talk that sometimes I think that the acting folk

52
00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,960
Speaker 1: because they don't go on the road and see people

53
00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,120
Speaker 1: they're making stuff for, or eye touch with reality. I

54
00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,840
Speaker 1: want to bring this up. Obviously you two where have

55
00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,360
Speaker 1: been two and for a long time. Ermez just announced

56
00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,880
Speaker 1: this week they're releasing a two hundred and sixty thousand

57
00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,680
Speaker 1: dollars pool table. Doesn't come with the queues. Those are

58
00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,920
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars extra. I would love to know if

59
00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,440
Speaker 1: you wouldn't mind sharing what's the most eye touched thing.

60
00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,880
Speaker 1: Maybe you've seen somebody from Hollywood have that. You go like,

61
00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,000
Speaker 1: the rest of the country has no idea what this

62
00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:07,600
Speaker 1: even is.

63
00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,880
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're.

64
00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:21,760
Speaker 3: When I did Entourage, it's really was was about the

65
00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,000
Speaker 3: backstage life of Hollywood, and I think that if we

66
00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,480
Speaker 3: didn't get it right, we would have heard about it. So,

67
00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,280
Speaker 3: you know, we're we're very lucky and privileged to be

68
00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,560
Speaker 3: working actors, sure, you know, and to be able to

69
00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,000
Speaker 3: tell stories and get up there and do our thing.

70
00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,600
Speaker 3: By the way, there's nothing about this interview that's funny,

71
00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,680
Speaker 3: and so I apologize. I'm asking people to come see

72
00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,000
Speaker 3: me do stand up. And it's like that guy wasn't funny.

73
00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:55,400
Speaker 3: He was viciously mediocre. And I'm traveling the country and

74
00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,080
Speaker 3: I'm getting older, man, and it's no joke. I this

75
00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,760
Speaker 3: is how you know you're getting older. I used to

76
00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,000
Speaker 3: look at a woman in a short skirt and I

77
00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,720
Speaker 3: would go, God, she's hot, right, yeah, And now I

78
00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,360
Speaker 3: look at her and go, I wonder if she's cold.

79
00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,840
Speaker 3: That's what happens. See, I just had to slip a joke. Okay, No,

80
00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,240
Speaker 3: that's got jokes. The draft the rusty chuckle bucket at

81
00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,440
Speaker 3: the draft House and see him. No, by the way,

82
00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,720
Speaker 3: tickets are they're inexpensive, guys, I don't even know what

83
00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,919
Speaker 3: I'm Jewish. I should have made them more expensive. Well

84
00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:27,719
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

85
00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:28,840
Speaker 2: I go back to too.

86
00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,279
Speaker 1: I think the Draft House, whether it's date night, girls night, whatever,

87
00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,120
Speaker 1: like it is a full experience like dinner or show.

88
00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,840
Speaker 1: I think is something everybody does need. So again, Arlington

89
00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,560
Speaker 1: Draft House Dot conference tickets I did. I'd be remiss

90
00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,200
Speaker 1: if I didn't bring up Ari Gold obviously one of

91
00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,599
Speaker 1: the most legendary characters of all time. Where I think

92
00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,159
Speaker 1: was so brilliant about Ari. I'm sure you've heard this

93
00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,960
Speaker 1: bazillion times, but the fact in the first episode of

94
00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,600
Speaker 1: Ari's Big Powerful whatever, but the scene where missus Ari

95
00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,520
Speaker 1: takes the keys and he kind of bows down. I

96
00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,440
Speaker 1: had heard that was your idea that like they powerful

97
00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,720
Speaker 1: Asian but still like the wife runs the household. And

98
00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,240
Speaker 1: I think without that, I don't think he's as lovable

99
00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:06,720
Speaker 1: as he is.

100
00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, You're absolutely right. It's funny.

101
00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,400
Speaker 3: You're taking me back, by god to that first episode.

102
00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,599
Speaker 3: Perry Reeves, who plays missus Auri, was so brilliant and

103
00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,039
Speaker 3: she and I were friends leading up to that, so

104
00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:25,240
Speaker 3: it was so easy to you know, to work with her,

105
00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,359
Speaker 3: and we had we had a great relationship, and no,

106
00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,159
Speaker 3: I just there were little things that I slipped in there.

107
00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:36,560
Speaker 3: You know, Doug Ellen wrote the show so brilliantly, but

108
00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,480
Speaker 3: you know there was you know, my line was, you

109
00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,599
Speaker 3: know that I was gonna ta, you know, take the keys,

110
00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,960
Speaker 3: and then I would say, there's a cab stand on Wiltshire,

111
00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,760
Speaker 3: and then I said instead, I said, there's a cab

112
00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,680
Speaker 3: stand on Yuka. I just thought the word Yuka, which

113
00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,279
Speaker 3: is so ridiculous and funny, and then yeah, I thought

114
00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,080
Speaker 3: it would be great if if she took the keys

115
00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,040
Speaker 3: and she wears the pants, and that ari is you know,

116
00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:07,719
Speaker 3: it is uh blustery and abrasive and over the top

117
00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:12,479
Speaker 3: and offensive and an equal opportunity offender. But but the

118
00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,400
Speaker 3: wife at the end of the day calls the shots.

119
00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,960
Speaker 3: And I think that was a really fun duality. You

120
00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,599
Speaker 3: think he's a pig, but he's really monogamous to her.

121
00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,840
Speaker 3: I just there was a there was a lot for

122
00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,159
Speaker 3: me to hang my hat on with that character that

123
00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,600
Speaker 3: I loved, and it was it was juicy, and I

124
00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:31,320
Speaker 3: actually unpacked that on stage because selfishly, I want to

125
00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,520
Speaker 3: I want people to know who I am, of course,

126
00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,080
Speaker 3: and that I come I come from an acting family,

127
00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:41,200
Speaker 3: a theater family, and and I would I everything that

128
00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,120
Speaker 3: I said is our gold, I said to my mom's face,

129
00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,920
Speaker 3: because I would run. I would do lines with her.

130
00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,960
Speaker 3: I mean I would run lines. Don't do lines of her, mom,

131
00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:51,640
Speaker 3: don't do lines of the kids.

132
00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:52,920
Speaker 2: Don't do it.

133
00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,359
Speaker 3: No, run, I would run lines with with my mother

134
00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,640
Speaker 3: and and she was a total pro so everything I

135
00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,800
Speaker 3: would say, you know, and I'll unpack that on stage,

136
00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,680
Speaker 3: you know, while I have respect for you, so I

137
00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:07,360
Speaker 3: can't go on a tirade right now.

138
00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're actually gold yeah and swearing.

139
00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,280
Speaker 1: The SCC so again Arlington Draft House this weekend, the

140
00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:19,240
Speaker 1: nine nine thirty show today, nine PM show tomorrow. One

141
00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:21,880
Speaker 1: last question Arlington Draft House. The one thing folks don't know.

142
00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,880
Speaker 1: No bathroom backstage? So what do you do? Do you

143
00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:26,600
Speaker 1: sneak to the Chinese restaurant?

144
00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,640
Speaker 2: Next story? You go to seven to eleven? Where do

145
00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:29,280
Speaker 2: you Where do you go?

146
00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,600
Speaker 3: That's a that's a horrifying question, you know what I mean?

147
00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,120
Speaker 3: And I don't exactly know how to answer that. I'm now,

148
00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,600
Speaker 3: I'm not fully terrified that there is no bathroom backstage.

149
00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:44,560
Speaker 3: I don't know what to tell you.

150
00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is character building.

151
00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,520
Speaker 3: There's sixteen things going through my head and I can

152
00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,280
Speaker 3: say none of them. Yep, which is interesting, fair, but

153
00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,640
Speaker 3: but yeah, listen, man, we we all have challenges in

154
00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,640
Speaker 3: this life, and that's going to be one of them.

155
00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,720
Speaker 1: You cross a bear, absolute absolutely yes, Jeremy Piven A

156
00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,680
Speaker 1: pleasure again, Arlington Draft House this weekend Tonight nine thirty

157
00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,280
Speaker 1: tomorrow at nine pm Arlington draft House dot com.

158
00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,040
Speaker 2: Thank you, Sir has An absolutely honored to have you.

159
00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,640
Speaker 2: Thank you, brother. I'll see you this weekend. Intern John

160
00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,520
Speaker 2: in your morning show sure a Ieartradio