Speaker 1: Welcome back to all the smoke. Jack, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: to Cali. Yes, sir, happy to be back.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I followed your plan. You had a great plan. It
Speaker 1: didn't play. I fucked it up. Man, we didn't really
Speaker 1: fuck it up. It's just I didn't try. I wasn't
Speaker 1: I didn't do my due diligence. We're gonna wear tuxtedos today,
Speaker 1: and you so listen. I got up this morning because
Speaker 1: I was gonna go golf early. So I'm up at
Speaker 1: five thirty in the morning and I'm trying all my
Speaker 1: ship on and I had a huge hole in the
Speaker 1: crotch on my uh and my tux pants.
Speaker 3: I'm like, fuck, did you have a tux He's still ready,
Speaker 3: ready to go, Ready to go, Yeah, crotch.
Speaker 1: That's not normally my game. But I foiled your plan,
Speaker 1: and I apologized.
Speaker 2: I'm still here.
Speaker 4: I think the I think the lesson here is try
Speaker 4: your tuxedo on a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Right, Come on, man, do your due diligence. I mean,
Speaker 1: be ahead, plan ahead. But anyway, man, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest actors of his generation, one of our favorite actor
Speaker 1: comedy and absolute legend, and like you said, this is
Speaker 1: a year in the making, right, Welcome to the show,
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell, Hey, thank you.
Speaker 2: We shid it.
Speaker 1: So we ran into each other at jes sweet like
Speaker 1: this time last year, a year year ago, seven right right,
Speaker 1: and section seven is this weekend, literally literally this weekend.
Speaker 1: And I saw me. I was with CP Chris Paul
Speaker 1: and when we saw Will and I'm just like, man,
Speaker 1: a big fan, got to come on the show. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm really busy, but we'll make some time work. And
Speaker 1: then literally a year later we're here.
Speaker 4: That's what That's the way it goes. Sticks about a
Speaker 4: year to track me down. I get it.
Speaker 1: I respect it, but but but no, that was Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was super fun to get to hang a little
Speaker 1: bit there and then to be here now. And then
Speaker 1: also obviously we're going to get into the hawk. But
Speaker 1: we have the same golf instructor and you made it for.
Speaker 4: For well technical I mean yes, I tried working out
Speaker 4: with him once and I fired him. Oh he didn't
Speaker 4: work bad attitude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, James.
Speaker 4: He was one of the consultants on our show or
Speaker 4: helped out on the Poet project.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was trying to schedule times. He's like,
Speaker 1: I got to do this stuff with Will, Like Will,
Speaker 1: who's that Will Fairro He's like he's doing a golf
Speaker 1: golf shop. Really, so I had a hard time scheduling.
Speaker 1: But and someone I got a chance to see the
Speaker 1: new show. I'm like, oh, Ship, there's James exactly first
Speaker 1: episode and graduations welcome James, go ahead that yeah, new
Speaker 1: show Netflix is dropping July sixteenth.
Speaker 4: The Hawk right right here.
Speaker 2: This hilarious.
Speaker 5: It just kills me how you have no passion for
Speaker 5: your best friend after he dies and you just want
Speaker 5: to go on with life.
Speaker 2: But talk about it. Talk about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Lonnie, Lonnie Hawkins, the aka the Hawk is h
Speaker 4: he's very much you know, he's he's a pro golfer
Speaker 4: who who can't give it up, which you guys probably
Speaker 4: can relate to where you have that point in your
Speaker 4: career where you're like cold, I still play. I think
Speaker 4: I can, but but and then you probably you know,
Speaker 4: hits like a ton of bricks of life.
Speaker 5: You can still get out there.
Speaker 4: And that's Lonnie. He's he's bounced around on the corn
Speaker 4: Ferry Tour and uh, he's still hoping to win his final,
Speaker 4: you know, get the Grand Slam. He's he's won three majors. Uh.
Speaker 4: He's competing with his son, who's the next best thing
Speaker 4: on the PGA tour yep, played by Jimmy tatrou And
Speaker 4: uh and yeah, so Lonnie's just kind of this a
Speaker 4: character I've wanted to play for a long time, very
Speaker 4: much a narcissist who's you know at one point, like
Speaker 4: you said, I mean spoiler alert, his longtime caddie. Uh,
Speaker 4: he's had for years. Ah, there's a change that's made, right,
Speaker 4: this is weird. This is the first time I talked
Speaker 4: about the show, so I don't know whether to give
Speaker 4: away stuff, but uh, Lonnie, Lonnie just wants to keep
Speaker 4: playing on the golf course. And but that's kind of
Speaker 4: what fuels him. But then he later he feels bad.
Speaker 4: So he's not a bad guy, but he's just he
Speaker 4: can't shut down that drive. Uh and uh and he
Speaker 4: makes a lot of bad decisions in his life. And
Speaker 4: but but uh, this was a blast. We got to
Speaker 4: shoot all in l at this great cast with Mollie
Speaker 4: Shannon from this she plays my my ex wife who's
Speaker 4: still my wife, who because I won't sign the divorce papers. Uh.
Speaker 4: We have Chris Parnell, Luke Wilson plays one of my rivals,
Speaker 4: and uh, yeah, it's just a it was it was
Speaker 4: really fun to do a show that's just kind of
Speaker 4: comedy forward and uh it's kind of back to some
Speaker 4: of the older things I've done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 5: You gotta think for sports movies, Tatadlegga Knights, Blaze of Glory,
Speaker 5: semi pro kicking and screaming. This to come from having
Speaker 5: an athletic background. Are you just acting the movies because
Speaker 5: you was trash in sports?
Speaker 4: No, you're looking at the captain of the university high
Speaker 4: school basketball. Oh, the captain, the captain the mean streets
Speaker 4: of Irvine, California average because it was hard defense, rebound.
Speaker 4: There you go, use all five fouls, Okay, old school,
Speaker 4: I could set a mean screen. You need those guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, you can't take your fouls home. You might
Speaker 1: as well use them.
Speaker 2: I used them. I used them.
Speaker 4: But no, I I mean, I was a kid who
Speaker 4: just went from whatever the season was. I played in
Speaker 4: the sport and and I loved I loved team sports.
Speaker 4: I loved you know, kind of that thing where you know,
Speaker 4: I had as much fun scoring a basket, it is
Speaker 4: much fun giving it you know, like a great assist
Speaker 4: a scorn in a basket, and that that translated to
Speaker 4: working in on film, which is which is a team
Speaker 4: and ensemble comedy. That's what drew me to a place
Speaker 4: where here in La called the Groundlings, whereas where I
Speaker 4: kind of did all my training, which was sketch comedy,
Speaker 4: and and my dream was always to be on SATA
Speaker 4: Night Live. And I loved that ensemble. And I think
Speaker 4: it all comes from team sports. And that's why a
Speaker 4: lot of the comedies that have worked for me have
Speaker 4: been big casts. We love casting our friends, funny people,
Speaker 4: people who you know, also maybe weren't shown that they
Speaker 4: could do, you know, com You know, a guy like
Speaker 4: Mark Wahlberg really didn't have it started, and then we
Speaker 4: thought of them for the other guys and and things
Speaker 4: kind of took off for him in in a totally
Speaker 4: different direction. Sou But yeah, I think I think a
Speaker 4: lot of that points back to sports.
Speaker 1: What do you say to people who feel comedy really
Speaker 1: isn't the same as at what once was. You guys
Speaker 1: kind of set the standard. A group of guys set
Speaker 1: the standard in the in the two thousands, and to me,
Speaker 1: it hasn't necessarily been the same. It hasn't really translated
Speaker 1: on the big screen or streaming or whatever, however people
Speaker 1: watch their movies these days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't really get in to the weeds of of
Speaker 4: comedy analysis too much. You know, it's always a thing
Speaker 4: that's gonna ebb and flow in terms of people's taste
Speaker 4: and what people want to create, and I just kind
Speaker 4: of do you do my thing, and hopefully you like it.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to tell you. It worked out
Speaker 4: for good, so you know a lot of times that
Speaker 4: that's what still strikes me today is the weird stuff
Speaker 4: that comes out of my brain. Somehow, A majority of
Speaker 4: people thought it was funny for the most part. There
Speaker 4: are definitely some things that that didn't work, which is
Speaker 4: the nature of the beast. But you know that that's
Speaker 4: why I think being on something like Saturday Night Live,
Speaker 4: where we every week you had to come up with
Speaker 4: something new and you just had to throw it against
Speaker 4: the wall, and you couldn't you couldn't get wrapped up in,
Speaker 4: you know, judging it too too intensely because you just
Speaker 4: had to move on to the next thing. So it
Speaker 4: created this muscle of like just try it, don't judge
Speaker 4: it too much, trust your instincts and and kind of
Speaker 4: move on. So I don't know, I'm still trying to
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 5: I think the people that go on Stata in my
Speaker 5: Live like you and just stand out. That's the comedians
Speaker 5: that separates themselves like Eddie did it when he went
Speaker 5: on Saturday Live. When you, when you went on Saturday
Speaker 5: Live like you stood out, Like It's very few people
Speaker 5: and a lot of people have come through Saturday Time
Speaker 5: and I watched them all.
Speaker 2: There's very few that stand down and command everything.
Speaker 4: You've always been a fan of comp Yes, yeah, my
Speaker 4: whole life. Yeah, Matt, not so much.
Speaker 1: No, I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. I'm just listening.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to have you here. So I'm listening to
Speaker 1: the stories.
Speaker 5: He's a joker, trust me, don't he's warming up, trust me.
Speaker 5: It's a whole bunch of shots of comings you get
Speaker 5: ready to do.
Speaker 4: But that's what that's what I love about talking to
Speaker 4: athletes people in music like like they're drawn to comedy
Speaker 4: as another thing, like to take your brain off of.
Speaker 2: What you do. You'd definitely a get away, right, definitely
Speaker 2: get away?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it goes good with camps.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, start.
Speaker 4: On cannabis sativa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that in the mornings, absolutely, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: I can't do it if you need it.
Speaker 1: The show, obviously my legs talking about it.
Speaker 2: Us to start Them was in Austin.
Speaker 5: Austin Power's debut in the movie How was that with
Speaker 5: Austin Powers?
Speaker 2: It was big for everybody.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I actually didn't like it at first.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of people didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it at first, but they had to
Speaker 1: grow up. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I remember when the movie I'd heard about,
Speaker 4: you know, uh, I'd heard that Mike Myers made the
Speaker 4: Spy movie and they said it wasn't you know, industry term,
Speaker 4: it wasn't tracking well, people didn't know what to make
Speaker 4: of it. Yeah, and it became this cult like the
Speaker 4: audience kind of slowly caught up to what was going on.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was that was you know, I was.
Speaker 4: That was kind of the first big film set I
Speaker 4: was on, and uh yeah, pretty scary. Uh yeah, a
Speaker 4: lot of improv and uh but you know, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I I I was very lucky and looking back to
Speaker 4: having some of these small campmeo roles early in my
Speaker 4: career to where I didn't have to worry about having
Speaker 4: a whole movie right on my shoulders, And it was
Speaker 4: a way to just kind of get out and leave
Speaker 4: them wanted more and so and yeah, so I I
Speaker 4: really owe Mike and Jay Roach a lot for cast.
Speaker 1: Me in that go down memory lane and and and
Speaker 1: talk about some of your best work and play a
Speaker 1: game called fact or fiction. Oh, okay, is it true
Speaker 1: you performed stand up for the O J. Simpson jury?
Speaker 4: Not stand up, but we did. We did sketches. Okay,
Speaker 4: So this place I'd mentioned in LA called the Groundlings,
Speaker 4: we were doing our sketch show at the time, which
Speaker 4: was when the o J. Jury was sequestered, and we
Speaker 4: felt so bad for you know, this group of people
Speaker 4: that just went from their hotel to the courtroom that
Speaker 4: we performed right in the comedy in the courtroom, not
Speaker 4: in the courtroom, but a court room. And uh yeah,
Speaker 4: very surreal experience, but a very sweet group of people
Speaker 4: who just were like, you know, there we were in
Speaker 4: our wigs and funny costumes, trying to get him to
Speaker 4: laugh in a badly fluorescent lit court.
Speaker 1: Oh factor fiction, you have a you got a fake
Speaker 1: pair of balls from step brothers in the trophy case.
Speaker 4: Fact, yes, guess how much they caught.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 4: More like ten thousand, yeah five per ball five that
Speaker 4: was the going rate early, Yeah, two thousand and six,
Speaker 4: that's the going rate for ball. Probably we're twenty Yeah,
Speaker 4: probably we're twenty now.
Speaker 1: Inflation's crazy, but they are very, very realistically. I should
Speaker 1: have brought them today. Should we should have gave you
Speaker 1: a heads up. That's our fault. Oh semi pro factor fishing.
Speaker 1: The bear that you wrestled in the movie later killed its.
Speaker 4: Trainer, not because of that movie, but yes, yeah I did.
Speaker 4: It did even though I didn't wrestle the real real bear.
Speaker 4: We we switched, I got I wasn't about to. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but yeah, that's nuts.
Speaker 1: You would pretty much do anything for that team, though
Speaker 1: Jackie would do anything, anything for anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ship.
Speaker 1: Was the jive turkey line.
Speaker 4: I think that bear is out of the business when
Speaker 4: you kill your trainer.
Speaker 1: I wonder if that eliminates us for one K thought, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's still getting should something just leave hanging? Is the
Speaker 1: jive turkey line improvised or in the script?
Speaker 4: Oh jive jive turkey was was a scene we showed
Speaker 4: later and that's all scripted.
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, Coffee Black character played Boy one hundred three thousand.
Speaker 1: What was it like working this is Not Nothing A
Speaker 1: Factor fiction? What was it like working with Andre?
Speaker 2: Was about?
Speaker 4: He he's probably like the you know, whether it's intentional
Speaker 4: or not, the coolest human being just the way life. Yeah,
Speaker 4: coolest guy ever, the hell of a title to half Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I don't even think he tried to be cool,
Speaker 4: but he was just always cool. Yeah, and yeah, I
Speaker 4: think I mean, he's only done a couple of movies,
Speaker 4: isn't But he was just so charismatic when we auditioned him, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he became Coffee Black. He's real picky about what
Speaker 5: he does and what he attaches his stuff to. Sure,
Speaker 5: fact to fiction in old School. In the streaking scene,
Speaker 5: you actually ran naked by a public gym and freadmills
Speaker 5: up against the window.
Speaker 4: Fact, Yeah, that's right out here. And uh, Montrose, anyone
Speaker 4: live in Montrose's out?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 2: Through the quad?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: That was we were just it's it's kind of this
Speaker 4: little town up near Pasadena. The street that that looks
Speaker 4: like like has kind of an East Coast look to it,
Speaker 4: And we were rehearsing. We were waiting for the sun
Speaker 4: to go down, so we were just kind of rehearsing
Speaker 4: the camera move for for that scene. And uh, and
Speaker 4: I noticed there's like a restaurant, there's all these shops,
Speaker 4: and there was this gym with with with all all
Speaker 4: these treadmills and all these housewives jogging on the treadmill.
Speaker 4: And I said to one of the crew people, like,
Speaker 4: do these people know what's about to be filmed here?
Speaker 4: Because I'm in a robe and there, and someone was like, oh,
Speaker 4: I don't know anyway, action and then I start running
Speaker 4: and we're doing the scene and I can literally hear
Speaker 4: off camera whoa, And then we do. By the third take,
Speaker 4: the gym was cleared out. Everyone had left. They didn't
Speaker 4: They weren't excited to see me run naked.
Speaker 1: No heads up, huh.
Speaker 2: What's the backstore? You gotta fucking dart and your nick.
Speaker 4: See that was just it was just in the script,
Speaker 4: and I just remember thinking, oh, this is funny. I
Speaker 4: didn't know that when I saw it when the audience,
Speaker 4: that it would play that that crazy. And but it
Speaker 4: was my idea to like, once I'm hit with a tranquilizer,
Speaker 4: dart and we knew I was gonna fall in the pool.
Speaker 4: I was like, can we get some can we get
Speaker 4: like a stunt kid? We have like a kid who
Speaker 4: I can shove to the ground. And they're like we
Speaker 4: actually we were hoping we have this kid's a stunt kid.
Speaker 4: You can throw down, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 4: So that's why that's why I'm like ship knocking everyone through.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was That was Todd phillips whole plan
Speaker 4: of like the juxtaposition of a guy hit with a
Speaker 4: trank dart walking through a kid's birthday party.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, back to fiction and wedding crashes doing the right
Speaker 5: The camera actually shakes because the camera man laughs so hard.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe we did too good at research on this. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't even let you know about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's how good we all here, but we see
Speaker 2: the cameras.
Speaker 4: But that was that was a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 4: The whole meat loft thing was all I just that
Speaker 4: was all improvised.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what she's doing back there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was all because I because it was making
Speaker 4: me laugh at this this. I could hear her back
Speaker 4: there the actress, what's up? But I know that in
Speaker 4: I know that in Talladega Knights when we're doing the
Speaker 4: the baby Jesus scene and then we're we're having the
Speaker 4: debate about and the kids were like making fun of
Speaker 4: the grandfather, like I'll come out you chip, like the
Speaker 4: exactly we kept feeding them where the camera guy he
Speaker 4: was like hugely shaking so far he was and he
Speaker 4: kept apologizing. He's like, I'm so sorry, I can't stop laughing.
Speaker 1: Those kids are sucking animals. Yeah, they were, Well, you
Speaker 1: find the.
Speaker 2: Kids funny ship.
Speaker 1: Anchorman is the movie that's near and dear to your heart.
Speaker 4: Factor fiction, I would say fact. I think that that
Speaker 4: is uh uh, that was you know it. It's it's
Speaker 4: a cliche Hollywood story you hear about movies where you know,
Speaker 4: no no one wanted to make them, no one really understood,
Speaker 4: And that was kind of our version of that.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: I think when we first we were going out to
Speaker 4: studios and finance, I think over the course of a
Speaker 4: two week period of time, I think we had twenty
Speaker 4: rejections of like I said, either people with financing or
Speaker 4: studios themselves who just didn't get why that would be funny,
Speaker 4: and we were trying to use the Austin Powers model
Speaker 4: of you know, well, no one thought a spy genre
Speaker 4: would be translate to comedy. This is the same for like,
Speaker 4: you know a bunch of news people who you know,
Speaker 4: and it's not trust me, it's these characters are going
Speaker 4: to be crazy.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 4: It's not a you know, a narrative about the news.
Speaker 2: And so that was.
Speaker 4: When we finally got to it's funny. The one student
Speaker 4: you where it was at Old School came out and
Speaker 4: that was at the same that was at dream Works
Speaker 4: and Anchorman was just sitting on the shelf. So then
Speaker 4: Old School came out became a big hit, and they're like, wait,
Speaker 4: we always liked Anchorman, but but that was you know,
Speaker 4: I was really you talk about Stephen, you're talking about
Speaker 4: leaving Saturn Night Live, and it's not necessarily I think
Speaker 4: people view it as like an automatic launching pad to
Speaker 4: a career, and it's not necessarily the case. It's it's uh,
Speaker 4: it is harder than you think to leave that show
Speaker 4: and find success afterwards. So and when I left the show,
Speaker 4: I really didn't have it just felt like the right
Speaker 4: time to go and test the waters. But but I
Speaker 4: got lucky in that the first three projects after Saturday
Speaker 4: Night Live were Old School Elf and Anchorman, So it's.
Speaker 1: A nice three piece.
Speaker 2: You have a massive heart.
Speaker 1: Fleets funny too when we first started.
Speaker 4: By the way, that the hard on was not ten
Speaker 4: thousand dollars. That was just literally a the end of
Speaker 4: a paper towel roll in my pants, So fact not fiction,
Speaker 4: pure fact, pure fact. Depletes did accentuate it's deplete.
Speaker 1: He caught it at the right angle. Yeah, when we
Speaker 1: first started doing this, Jack would literally read anything on
Speaker 1: the prompter, so his nickname. For the longest time with
Speaker 1: ron Berg, we were horrible doing ads. When we first started,
Speaker 1: Jack would just fucking read anything on for the heads.
Speaker 2: San Diego.
Speaker 4: When we were when we were writing the script, we
Speaker 4: were like, Okay, this guy has to be such an
Speaker 4: idiot that he and then we were like, what could
Speaker 4: be the worst thing he could say that would ruin
Speaker 4: his career And we're like, Oh, tell an entire city
Speaker 4: to go fucking and go fuck yourself, San Diego, and
Speaker 4: then deny that he said it.
Speaker 1: I just want to punch you in the face that
Speaker 1: those Taladiga Knights did. Sasha Baron Cone true factor fiction
Speaker 1: really improve the kiss at the end.
Speaker 4: I think that was scripted.
Speaker 1: Oh, you guys just weren't in the moment in the
Speaker 1: kind of justs.
Speaker 4: I mean, he does have gorgeous eyes. Uh no, that
Speaker 4: was Yeah, that was in the script.
Speaker 1: John c Riley, you guys have some amazing on screen chemistry.
Speaker 1: How did all that map out? And how did the
Speaker 1: NASCAR feel about that movie?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Uh, John and I met, Uh, John and I met
Speaker 4: through Molly Shannon. I was still on Certain I Live.
Speaker 4: She had just done a movie. FIMS like you need
Speaker 4: to meet this guy, John cy Riley. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm a huge fan. And and and we started, you know,
Speaker 4: seeing each other here and there, and ah, we originally
Speaker 4: wanted wanted him to be an anchorman, but he was
Speaker 4: uh he was too busy shooting Gangs of New York
Speaker 4: with Scorsese. Uh so he was unavailable. And but but
Speaker 4: we kept uh uh Danny d Lewis great movie. And
Speaker 4: then we just kept we just kept thinking, God, John
Speaker 4: would just be great because he he always was very
Speaker 4: comedic in a lot of the Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
Speaker 4: And and so when we started thinking of of a
Speaker 4: NASCAR movie. We thought, oh, John would be perfect to play,
Speaker 4: so we got we got him to play Coununt Junior
Speaker 4: and he's, you know, arguably one of the best things
Speaker 4: in that movie. And then it was John. It was
Speaker 4: John who really pushed us to do Step Brothers as well,
Speaker 4: because he was like, look, we this doesn't happen, this
Speaker 4: kind of chemistry, this kind of we both think the
Speaker 4: same things are funny, and like we gotta like, let's
Speaker 4: run it back. And and that's when we were kicking
Speaker 4: around ideas. And that's when Adam McKay came up with
Speaker 4: the idea of like, what if you're just two guys
Speaker 4: in their forties who still live at home with their parents. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and we're like, that's it. But in terms of Nascar,
Speaker 4: they they were they couldn't have been cool. They were like, Okay,
Speaker 4: we're into it. Just make sure the driving looks realistic.
Speaker 4: Were like done, we want that. And and they were
Speaker 4: afraid about the title Talladega Knights at first. They didn't
Speaker 4: want it because they thought they thought the movie was
Speaker 4: going to be about Talladega Motor Speedway, which is the
Speaker 4: only it's the only racetrack in NASCAR that has its
Speaker 4: own jail. Yeah, and people when they go that they party,
Speaker 4: they party hard, and they were afraid it was about
Speaker 4: the culture of how crazy it gets there. We're like,
Speaker 4: oh no, no, we just we didn't even know all that.
Speaker 4: Thank you for letting us know. No, we were just like,
Speaker 4: we just loved that title and and they were like,
Speaker 4: they were like, go do your thing and gave us
Speaker 4: amazing access. And but I think the combination of our comedy,
Speaker 4: our silliness with how real and how but that movie
Speaker 4: is so interesting because NASCAR fans are like they I've
Speaker 4: never been a part of a movie where two sides
Speaker 4: of the comedy spectrum. You had people who said, how'd
Speaker 4: you get away with making that movie? It's so funny
Speaker 4: what you did. You're making fun of Nascar, and NASCAR
Speaker 4: farans were like, thank you for being true to the sport.
Speaker 4: So we somehow like threaded that needle and both both
Speaker 4: audiences loved it. So that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, going back to step Bus when he came in
Speaker 2: the house and he was like, why are you sweating?
Speaker 2: Watch the cops? Do you know that?
Speaker 4: I was That's that's one of That's one of my
Speaker 4: favorite stories of uh. I like to tell about because
Speaker 4: I'll have people who come up and repeat lines from
Speaker 4: movies and I forget that I've said them, and they
Speaker 4: get really mad at me. And I was I was
Speaker 4: somewhere once and I was in my car and this
Speaker 4: this woman pulled up and she was like, hey, Will,
Speaker 4: and she's like, why are you so sweaty? And I
Speaker 4: literally had just i'd been on a bike riding like, oh,
Speaker 4: because I was riding on my bike. She's like, no,
Speaker 4: from step Brothers. She got so mad at me. You
Speaker 4: were watching Cops. I'm like, oh, that's right, Yeah, never mind.
Speaker 4: I lost a fan there. But people own the ownership
Speaker 4: of these movies, which is amazing, is sometimes intense, and
Speaker 4: they get really mad if I don't know the line
Speaker 4: right away. But now I know that one. If you
Speaker 4: if anyone who comes up and says, I'll say.
Speaker 1: Old Milwaukee Beer, you were once the face helped helped Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: some people say those commercials, you know, kind of helped
Speaker 1: save the company maybe for like a.
Speaker 4: Half a second. No, we were pitched. We were pitched
Speaker 4: by Old Millon whatever. The parent company was like, we're
Speaker 4: about to get rid of this brand, and if you
Speaker 4: want to just go shoot crazy commercials. We'll give you
Speaker 4: percentage of the sales. And so we went and gorillas
Speaker 4: I shot these crazy old old school commercials. That that
Speaker 4: makes it even better that Uh, let's just say I
Speaker 4: got a check for five thousand dollars Old Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Yes, it sounds like it's a terrible, terrible Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry anyone.
Speaker 4: I don't even know if it still exists.
Speaker 2: I doubt it. I doubt it.
Speaker 4: It's no PBR.
Speaker 2: Characters have iconic names. Do you personally name them your stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of them.
Speaker 4: A lot of times we would start, we wouldn't write
Speaker 4: until we thought of the name.
Speaker 6: Ricky Bobby yep, Ricky Bobby, ron Ron Burgundy, Jackie Moon,
Speaker 6: Jackie Moon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, break the take. Nope, I didn't come up with that,
Speaker 4: you take. I came up with Gator Gater, we don't play. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we came up with uh Dale and Brennan.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's such perfect name.
Speaker 4: But Yeah, for some reason, I don't know why. It's
Speaker 4: almost like if you come up with the name, it automatically,
Speaker 4: you've already started thinking about the background and the structure
Speaker 4: of who that person is. I don't know why the
Speaker 4: name sets it off.
Speaker 2: But it starts.
Speaker 4: It starts the storytelling and uh and then you could
Speaker 4: you begin writing from there?
Speaker 1: Is there anybody.
Speaker 4: Lonnie Hawk, Lonnie Hawkins? We started kicking names around. They
Speaker 4: were like, oh, Lonnie, what about something Hawkins? Lonnie Hawkins. Oh,
Speaker 4: and he's got to call himself the Hawk and that
Speaker 4: that also just set the attitude, you know, and that's
Speaker 4: in the show. I'm I'm hardly eighty percent of the show.
Speaker 4: I wear this this visor, yea to remind you because
Speaker 4: he's a guy who's so afraid that you're not going
Speaker 4: to know who he is, so he always wears his visor,
Speaker 4: which is so dirty too, and it's.
Speaker 2: Very I broke.
Speaker 4: I brought the clean one, I can tell I was,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I wear this, Yeah, that dirty visor the
Speaker 4: whole show. But it just started making us laugh. A
Speaker 4: guy who's so insecure, who plays cocky, but he's so
Speaker 4: insecure that he has to wear a visor with his
Speaker 4: nickname on it all the time.
Speaker 1: Is there a chance that before you leave today you
Speaker 1: can give me a jack of nickname? Absolutely awesome, Just
Speaker 1: think about that, No pressure. Okay, what do you like
Speaker 1: about playing the villain? Zoolanders? Bound Down Lego Movies he's
Speaker 1: bounding down. Holy shit, I binge watched that a lot.
Speaker 4: Ashley Schaeffer Ashley Shaffer bmw uh, I mean everyone like
Speaker 4: a villain. Villains are fun, you know, because they you
Speaker 4: know it. I don't know it gets to to get
Speaker 4: to be mean, even though I my villains are always comedic.
Speaker 4: You're never you're never really afraid of funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's just a it's just a different a
Speaker 4: different kind of move. It's fun to play.
Speaker 1: Not a social media guy, know, no good thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he stepped away. I was on I was on Twitter
Speaker 1: for four days.
Speaker 2: You retire?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they said you hung it up. Just not something.
Speaker 4: It just kind of it kind of just made my
Speaker 4: head explode in a way that it uh, it couldn't.
Speaker 4: I just knew it was a thing that if I
Speaker 4: was going to be a part of it, I wanted
Speaker 4: to contribute to it and control.
Speaker 2: It and.
Speaker 4: You know it, even though I know you can be
Speaker 4: on social as much or as little as you want,
Speaker 4: but I didn't want the burden of having.
Speaker 1: To keep up, keep up. So that's safe to say
Speaker 1: you don't have any burner accounts.
Speaker 4: I don't have any burner accounts.
Speaker 1: He's not on there, guys.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's not too disappointing.
Speaker 1: We have a person like I feel like there's a.
Speaker 4: Pall in the room. Yeah, you got to be a person, right,
Speaker 4: Even though I do have thoughts that so oh that'd
Speaker 4: be funny on social media, but I would I would
Speaker 4: probably turn it into such something so annoying just to
Speaker 4: mess with people Like I just take a picture of
Speaker 4: a sandwich every day. That's it. That's all you get.
Speaker 4: Tune a sandwich.
Speaker 1: But somehow that ship would be funny and jelly find
Speaker 1: a way to be funny.
Speaker 4: I would just drive I would drive people crazy that
Speaker 4: so I'd use it more as a punishment. Now I'm
Speaker 4: feeling like I maybe I should get on social media, right,
Speaker 4: we can.
Speaker 2: Work it out.
Speaker 5: I got off the wall question for you sat in
Speaker 5: my life. Let's get with you and Eddie Murphy and Keenan.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah did you do?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Was all you?
Speaker 4: I told Keenan, like, I'm what, what do you want
Speaker 4: me to do? He's like, just go for it. Be
Speaker 4: just whatever you want to do. I'm like, okay, but
Speaker 4: that that is like that's on the hype breakat Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 4: Laugh is like I could retire right there. It was
Speaker 4: very like that is like one of the highest achievements
Speaker 4: ever for me, And that was like a thrill. That
Speaker 4: was amazing. Yeah, and Eddie, Eddie. It's funny because Eddie
Speaker 4: he's like he's game face, you know, when we're rehearsing,
Speaker 4: he's like he's It was fascinating to watch him work
Speaker 4: because he is so precise, so he really wanted to know,
Speaker 4: now where do you want me at this line? And
Speaker 4: walking like very serious about his comedy, which I totally
Speaker 4: respect because I sometimes get in the same way and
Speaker 4: then of course when the camera goes on, it's the
Speaker 4: best of all time. But yeah, to get to be
Speaker 4: in that sketch and to get him to laugh forget it,
Speaker 4: that was That's one of my favorite one too.
Speaker 2: Has will Ferer ever dealt with self doubt?
Speaker 4: Well, right now, I'm I have a lot of self
Speaker 4: doubt as to whether I should have done this podcast
Speaker 4: or not because we don't have enough cameras exet it
Speaker 4: from the beginning.
Speaker 7: Uh No, Yeah, of course, that's that's always Uh that's
Speaker 7: always part of any sort of journey, whether it's creative
Speaker 7: or whether it's you know, pursuing athletics.
Speaker 4: What like, I mean, you guys probably felt faced self doubt.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe though a little healthy fear, little
Speaker 1: health right, or maybe you guys were you just had
Speaker 1: that thing where you're like, no, I know I'm going
Speaker 1: to succeed being cut as crazy, right, even you're in
Speaker 1: the NBA, you're still getting cut, like like yet you're
Speaker 1: a the height of what anyone could do in that profession.
Speaker 4: And then you're still like, wait, what's going on?
Speaker 5: Because some getting there is just not some people's goal, right,
Speaker 5: Some people go be successful to stay in there, have
Speaker 5: a career at it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I you know I had I think I
Speaker 4: had like the best thing to happen to me in
Speaker 4: my first show. On my first show, my first season
Speaker 4: of Satura at Live, these reviews came out and they
Speaker 4: were they were pretty scathing towards I had won some
Speaker 4: some magazine or whatever that wrote like they were analyzing
Speaker 4: this new cast because we were pretty much a brand
Speaker 4: new cast and they singled me out by name. You know,
Speaker 4: that was a good news. The bad news was like
Speaker 4: most annoying newcomer. Yeah, right away after my first show.
Speaker 4: So I'm like looking at this, and I thought, well,
Speaker 4: you know, this is I'm already at a crossroads right
Speaker 4: out of the gate. So I can either listen to it,
Speaker 4: sit and cry. And so what I did was, I mean,
Speaker 4: I you know, you talk about bulletin board materia. I
Speaker 4: just put it up on the on the wall my
Speaker 4: office and just clipped it out, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: you want to see annoying, I'm going to be I'm
Speaker 4: going to be even more annoying. And that's you know,
Speaker 4: I had always kind of made a commitment to because
Speaker 4: there's so many you know, there's so many funny people
Speaker 4: out there. I was like, I'm going to see people
Speaker 4: that I know are funnier than I am, but I'm not.
Speaker 4: They're not going to out commit me. I'm going to
Speaker 4: be the guy who streaks in old school. I'm going
Speaker 4: to be the guy who goes gives like one hundred
Speaker 4: and ten percent wall. Yeah, in terms of my commitment,
Speaker 4: So I thought, that's what I'm going to lean into
Speaker 4: and that will get me through and you'll find me
Speaker 4: annoying maybe, but but if I break through that then
Speaker 4: I'll be fine. So so yeah, I just use it
Speaker 4: as a motivation belongs you being you you yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 4: and then and then and then if it still doesn't work,
Speaker 4: then you know you tried it on your terms, right,
Speaker 4: And because you know a lot of people would try
Speaker 4: to like approach things as to what what joke will
Speaker 4: work as opposed to what do you think is funny?
Speaker 4: And and so I don't, I don't. I wouldn't know
Speaker 4: how to do it any other way.
Speaker 5: When are you at your most most creative spot, like
Speaker 5: when you come up with your best ideas.
Speaker 4: Probably in the bathtub with my fake testicles. I just
Speaker 4: looked deeply into their eyes, and I just get hit
Speaker 4: with divine inspiration.
Speaker 1: You know, if they help you, they definitely got to be,
Speaker 1: got to be way more than ten than you.
Speaker 4: Got to have the value I dream, I dream, I
Speaker 4: dream about him.
Speaker 2: What did they say? They talk to you, They say,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 4: If you had a good sandwich lately, you should get it.
Speaker 4: You should get back on social media.
Speaker 1: So they're not lying to you, they're not. They tell
Speaker 1: you the truth.
Speaker 4: They also tell me what stocks to invest in. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: uh so there's that. I mean, it's usually when I'm
Speaker 4: doing when I'm not trying to think of anything, when
Speaker 4: I'm just organically right.
Speaker 5: What is the secret of being able to make people
Speaker 5: of all backgrounds land?
Speaker 4: Well, actually, I don't know. I mean, that's kind of
Speaker 4: That's that's why a lot of times I sit back
Speaker 4: and go, oh, this is kind of crazy that I've
Speaker 4: a lot of these movies have hit kind of a
Speaker 4: wide spectrum of people, because it's not like like I
Speaker 4: set out to, Oh, this, this will be something that
Speaker 4: everyone will like h or or a wide audience.
Speaker 2: So you had to know everybody was going to dig
Speaker 2: that gator ship.
Speaker 4: No, I had no idea. We just thought it was
Speaker 4: a weird move. Like, we're like, this guy should have
Speaker 4: a crazy background. What's the crazy Okay, he was a pimp.
Speaker 4: He was a pimp in college. Yeah, but he doesn't
Speaker 4: realize that's.
Speaker 2: What he was.
Speaker 4: He's like, No, I wasn't a pimp. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like, no, what you're describing is a pimp. But no,
Speaker 4: we I don't know. We just we just would follow,
Speaker 4: you know. I think I think maybe some of that
Speaker 4: success is is just what is something that people haven't
Speaker 4: seen in a comedy before, and and and being authentic
Speaker 4: to that has led.
Speaker 2: To everybody a good reaction yeah.
Speaker 1: Big Laker fan. The best Staples Center memory when they
Speaker 1: change it to crypto, that's why I love. I was like,
Speaker 1: why is it called stables? I wish it was called
Speaker 1: Can I slightly change for However, my best Laker memory
Speaker 1: is actually a forum. Get back a little bit because
Speaker 1: in junior high I went with a buddy and we
Speaker 1: were at the initial game where Magic.
Speaker 4: And Bird played each other as late as rookies in
Speaker 4: their rookie year. So we sat way up in the noseblee.
Speaker 4: And to be at the forum watching these two like,
Speaker 4: you could feel that, oh, basketball is about to change.
Speaker 4: And even sitting in the at thirteen, way up at
Speaker 4: the top, you could see these two players move differently.
Speaker 4: They they not only shoot the ball, but they passed
Speaker 4: the ball there there. They just have a different flow
Speaker 4: and I've never seen anything like it, and and so
Speaker 4: that that was huge. You remember, I don't yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna say laters, but yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, could you could you imagine me and you sitting
Speaker 5: here being on the Hawks podcast and him on us?
Speaker 8: Awesome? Pretty awesome? What made you decide to do an
Speaker 8: A B A movie in Sydney.
Speaker 4: Bro, There's this amazing book called uh not a joke
Speaker 4: title Loose Balls. I think it's called loose Balls anyway.
Speaker 4: It chronicles the A, B A and and it's a
Speaker 4: fascinating book about this fledging league that was trying to
Speaker 4: go up, go up against the NBA and all the
Speaker 4: the the personality character you know, all the different characters,
Speaker 4: all the all the different type of gimmicks they were
Speaker 4: trying to do, which later the NBA incorporated. You know,
Speaker 4: like the the Showtime Lakers that was all taken from
Speaker 4: ABA teams who had cheerleaders and did shows. The three
Speaker 4: point line that's taken from the ABA.
Speaker 1: They had a lot of talent, and they.
Speaker 4: Had a ton of talent. Amazing all these players who
Speaker 4: first probably had five, six, seven years with the ABA,
Speaker 4: you know, like you know, everyone from doctor j to
Speaker 4: artists Fillmore, all these guys who by the time they
Speaker 4: got the NBA, they I mean, if they had NBA numbers,
Speaker 4: yeah yeah, but how they let that style of play
Speaker 4: was more creative, But it just became it was it
Speaker 4: was more about so many of these teams were living
Speaker 4: on like a shoe string budget, and and so it
Speaker 4: just it was like, God, this could be a funny
Speaker 4: place for a comedy of a player, owner, coach who
Speaker 4: is scrambling to keep his team alive in Flint, Michigan.
Speaker 4: And and of course they're the Tropics, which makes no sense,
Speaker 4: but what makes sense in an A B A world?
Speaker 4: And uh, we just thought, oh, it's it's such a
Speaker 4: it's such a cool world to have a fun different
Speaker 4: array of characters. And and you know, there's only four
Speaker 4: teams that are A B A teams that made in
Speaker 4: the NBA.
Speaker 2: They are.
Speaker 1: You guys, Oh, you guys missed the Murders San Antonio.
Speaker 4: You play you played on one, you played for one
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 1: I wish you did a no no, the former Abas.
Speaker 4: Oh he played for two pacers, Ah didn't. The other
Speaker 4: two are Denver Nuggets and uh nuts.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: But the fact that the Tropics are trying to make
Speaker 4: it and then they the.
Speaker 2: Tropics, and that it is training like a basketball training
Speaker 2: where you should move.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had we had an whole training camp and
Speaker 4: I'm open, I'm open everything.
Speaker 2: Camp.
Speaker 4: Whole training camp it was, which was the most fun
Speaker 4: part we had played in those terrible old school shows.
Speaker 4: We played on a floor we played that that was
Speaker 4: just literally wood on concrete. So there was no, it
Speaker 4: was bad. But I just remember like, wait, why is
Speaker 4: Pouh Richardson here? And uh, He's like, oh, he's gonna
Speaker 4: play He's going to play on one of the teams.
Speaker 4: So he played on the Spurs in the movie, and
Speaker 4: we had we had a couple x like a lot
Speaker 4: of ex college players and anyway, it was. It was
Speaker 4: the most fun movie to shoot because we got to
Speaker 4: play ball almost every day.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes those movies are tricky because again, how
Speaker 1: NASCAR wanted it to appear real, You want basketball to
Speaker 1: appear real. But yeah, you guys made that work. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: probably because you're playing center here. But we couldn't selfish.
Speaker 1: We could unselfish center. Yeah, and that was my real
Speaker 1: hair too. They're Alone was wondering fact.
Speaker 2: Back.
Speaker 1: Tough one but it was.
Speaker 4: But but like the ABA we had, we had trouble
Speaker 4: getting enough extra background people to be in the crowd scenes,
Speaker 4: so we had to move them around the arena. Okay,
Speaker 4: now everyone move over here, Now change your your now
Speaker 4: your fans of this team.
Speaker 1: And so that was what city did you guys shooting?
Speaker 2: We shot it.
Speaker 4: We shot it all here. We shot three or four
Speaker 4: days in Flint.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's basically what they're doing in arcade games. Everybody
Speaker 1: gotta make it work. You got these Shack and Kobe
Speaker 1: memories or stories being court sided.
Speaker 4: Actually that's one of my favorite Staples memories. Okay, So
Speaker 4: I had friends of mine who got we would always
Speaker 4: get ourselves joke gifts for birthday. Got me a full
Speaker 4: Staples Center security that's outfit. I remember that the Reds
Speaker 4: when they used to wear the red jackets. In fact,
Speaker 4: I should have worn that today. You imagine if you
Speaker 4: guys had your tuxedos. I address is full Staples.
Speaker 1: It would have been over. We just take pictures all day.
Speaker 1: We probably woudn't even talk.
Speaker 4: And guess what my name is. They got my name
Speaker 4: as a security person, Ted Vagina that was on Sports
Speaker 4: Center and everything.
Speaker 1: How long ago was that because I remember it was
Speaker 1: that like this ten years ago, seven years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so I snuck it in and then during
Speaker 4: one of the breaks, I stood up next to and
Speaker 4: pretended to be security, and it it became like this
Speaker 4: bier people in the crowd started but I kept a
Speaker 4: serious face and I just because you know how they
Speaker 4: just stand there like you have no expression. Next thing,
Speaker 4: you know, I sat back down. People started. I get
Speaker 4: a tap on the shoulder. There's a guy's like, you know,
Speaker 4: Shack's here. He's he's on the baseline, just down over there.
Speaker 4: I'm with Shack. He's like, he thinks it's do you
Speaker 4: want to throw him out of the game because he's
Speaker 4: about to leave. It's like in the fourth court he's
Speaker 4: gonna probably leave. And I'm like yes, So I get
Speaker 4: back at my stuff. I stand up during the commercial
Speaker 4: break and I start looking on them and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 4: cut it out. And he's like what. I'm like, stop
Speaker 4: it you. I'm just like motioning, and then he's going what.
Speaker 4: I'm like, that's it. So I throw him out of
Speaker 4: the game. And it gets this big round of applause.
Speaker 4: But it was all Shack's idea.
Speaker 1: It's always saxcited.
Speaker 4: Then he's got good idea he does, and then he
Speaker 4: was People were just laughing and and he was like,
Speaker 4: I'm proud of you, man. I'm like, for what, no,
Speaker 4: just where your career is done, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, this is one of the funniest things
Speaker 4: I've ever done.
Speaker 2: He stands memes at least two memes a day.
Speaker 4: To my phone really yes, Yeah, he's just a big
Speaker 4: old kid. Yeah right, And then we did we did
Speaker 4: a sketch one. He came on Saturday Night Live once,
Speaker 4: not as the host, but as like a just sketch,
Speaker 4: you know, shacks around. He wants to be in sketches,
Speaker 4: and they wrote a sketch that was so funny that
Speaker 4: got cut, but I think you can still find it
Speaker 4: online where I'm like dressed in like little kids booty
Speaker 4: pajamas and the cast is pick picking on me, they're
Speaker 4: making fun of me, and then Shaq shows up. He's like,
Speaker 4: what's going on? Like, I'm like shack, the cast is
Speaker 4: making fun of me. He's like, come over here, and
Speaker 4: he picks me up in his arms like a baby,
Speaker 4: and he proceeds to sing a song called no One's
Speaker 4: Gone to Hurt my little Man, and we sing a
Speaker 4: duet together about how no One's gonna hurt while I'm
Speaker 4: in his arm yes, and I'm six three spelt two
Speaker 4: d and twenty pounds and he picked me up no problem,
Speaker 4: and we sang and I was like, you're funny, You're
Speaker 4: that's hilarious. But he had a funnier show than the host.
Speaker 1: At least he had clothes on, because he does it
Speaker 1: like that sometimes while he's naked. Oh he really.
Speaker 4: Anyway, that's why we get along.
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, you guys, you guys chest here
Speaker 1: can touch Yeah. Usc USC basketball is in good hands
Speaker 1: right now with Juju returning from injury. A friend of
Speaker 1: a program, Elijah or renas, do you get a chance
Speaker 1: to catch SD sports at all?
Speaker 4: Aby or I've I've gone to a couple the women's game,
Speaker 4: not as much as I I thought. I go to
Speaker 4: USC football games here and there, but I like to
Speaker 4: go to more of the basketball all.
Speaker 1: Right before quick hitters? H Dad, How important is you
Speaker 1: to be present kids? Family? A thriving career? This lasted
Speaker 1: a very long time. How important is you to be
Speaker 1: present for your family and your kids? In particular?
Speaker 4: Children are overrated. I'm annoyed by that. I don't even
Speaker 4: know why we had kids. They eat your food, they're
Speaker 4: they're money and time stuck. Piss all exactly, piss them
Speaker 4: for that. They don't empty the dishwasher, take out the trash,
Speaker 4: or do anything.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: I've always tried. I've I've always tried to as much
Speaker 4: as I've worked, I've always tried to set a big
Speaker 4: chunk of time, usually in the summer, for us to
Speaker 4: just be a family and uh, and we've always kind
Speaker 4: of talked about we've always kind of tried to impart
Speaker 4: with our boys that like, Okay, you're going to grow
Speaker 4: up in Hollywood, You're going to grow up in la
Speaker 4: and that's just a part of it. But you know,
Speaker 4: you don't just try. You can't come off as as
Speaker 4: you know, you have to say please and thank you
Speaker 4: have to look people in the eye, you have to
Speaker 4: shake their hand and exactly and that everything I've achieved,
Speaker 4: like it's always you know, it's a really thin margin
Speaker 4: between everything can go away really quickly because a lot
Speaker 4: of it is chance and luck and opportunity. And so
Speaker 4: you just have to you can't take anything for granted
Speaker 4: and and use that approach in your day to day life.
Speaker 4: And people will be surprised and impressed that you're, you know,
Speaker 4: not some kid who just stares at his phone, and
Speaker 4: that you're actually present and engaged. And so that's all
Speaker 4: we've ever talked about.
Speaker 1: You had kids to play sports, you ever attempted the
Speaker 1: cuss refs out or yell at rests or you just
Speaker 1: kind of sit back.
Speaker 4: No, I'm I leave the refs alone.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: As my own experience as a as a volunteer referee,
Speaker 4: mostly in soccer, okay, watching parents lose their minds, right, I'm.
Speaker 1: A coach and yeah he lost his mind?
Speaker 4: Have you as a parent or as a coach. Both
Speaker 4: my kids are on the coach so so I'm curious
Speaker 4: about that. When yeah, when you where their moment are
Speaker 4: you usually like, guy, why did I do that? Or
Speaker 4: you're like, no, they deserved it.
Speaker 1: Probably more on the that they deserved the side because
Speaker 1: that's coming from a good place. Yeah, it's coming from
Speaker 1: a genuine place. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting because I
Speaker 1: coach my kids. I have twin boys, and I feel
Speaker 1: like sometimes like when I first started coaching kids, we
Speaker 1: get the our team would get the bad end the
Speaker 1: stick because of who their dad was, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So they'd been trying to show out or
Speaker 1: not trying to show so, you know, sometimes I just
Speaker 1: had to throw a few polite words their way just
Speaker 1: to make them know they were here and right right
Speaker 1: right stop.
Speaker 4: But you're an ex NBA player, I don't feel like
Speaker 4: I can yell a run.
Speaker 1: A movie star though, I don't much rather hear you
Speaker 1: yelled than me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh and so I've been to I've been too polite
Speaker 4: this whole time, all time.
Speaker 1: Definitely, you still got time.
Speaker 4: That was a terrible call. Do you know how much
Speaker 4: my movies have made? There we go, there we go,
Speaker 4: we combined? You call that a travel?
Speaker 2: That was a go with that wash?
Speaker 1: That's a no.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm always like because I just see we see
Speaker 4: these videos of parents losing their minds against and yes,
Speaker 4: you sports referee, it's gonna be very inconsistent.
Speaker 1: Paid twenty dollars a game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, I usually lay back.
Speaker 2: Is that Willie Nelson's line?
Speaker 4: Uh No, this is a but it is a It
Speaker 4: is a company in text us based out of Austin, Okay.
Speaker 2: Cricket?
Speaker 4: Yeah that's yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Has Willy been? Has Willy been?
Speaker 5: Have not?
Speaker 1: We'd love to you got to track Willie down When
Speaker 1: I want to burn one with.
Speaker 4: You, You're gonna have to. You have to go on
Speaker 4: the road. Probably, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: Willy.
Speaker 4: Are you watching this?
Speaker 2: These guys.
Speaker 4: Will when when when's the next tour, Scott, They'll go
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they'll they'll get you infuse drinks. Infuse drinks.
Speaker 4: Yea, man, they'll come on your bus. They probably, they
Speaker 4: probably won't leave, and.
Speaker 2: We'll find down Nelson, which is making a big old
Speaker 2: pow wow.
Speaker 4: Oh, good old Donnie.
Speaker 1: First thing to come to mind. Let us know a
Speaker 1: movie you see in theaters recently that you loved. Do
Speaker 1: you go to theaters?
Speaker 4: When was the last time I was in a theater?
Speaker 4: I shouldn't say that you have to go the theater.
Speaker 4: Support support movies in theaters, please.
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson? Was the last time was last night? Really?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4: And that's that's a that's a movie you have to
Speaker 4: see in the theater.
Speaker 2: Yes, you have to.
Speaker 1: I saw Goat with the kids.
Speaker 2: You have a munchy snack, probably.
Speaker 5: Popcorn? Sorry that flame? Yeah you could have kept that
Speaker 5: all right, that's the worst heard he puts the honey
Speaker 5: bun and some ship ding dongs skittles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how about like Swedish fish?
Speaker 2: You gross?
Speaker 4: Gross, no sugar, but there's sure there are no sugar.
Speaker 2: You're not. You're not.
Speaker 4: I need to get you some good Sweedish fish.
Speaker 1: You're not.
Speaker 4: I don't know where you're getting your fish?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? I don't know where you get your fish from.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you unwind other than time with your
Speaker 1: fake testicles?
Speaker 4: Let's see? Probably I just uh, you know what, I
Speaker 4: really love lighting a fire in my backyard, not like
Speaker 4: a you know, in a fireplace. I'm not crazy person.
Speaker 6: Uh and yeah, sunset relaxing, Yeah, exactly, a glass of
Speaker 6: wine exactly.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're not the only one that get caught staring
Speaker 2: at the fireplace. Oh I do. I'll do that.
Speaker 4: It's mesmerizing.
Speaker 1: But you're on drug.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm definitely when I Yeah. One album you can
Speaker 2: listen to and repeat Kenny log Probably.
Speaker 1: Log is probably you know Kenny Logs is.
Speaker 2: Kidding?
Speaker 1: Is here?
Speaker 2: This is it?
Speaker 4: Magus one of them I could listen to on repeat.
Speaker 2: He was straight to the note to He was straight
Speaker 2: to the note.
Speaker 4: About peaches Nerds.
Speaker 2: You go.
Speaker 1: Five dinner guests, dead are alive? You plus five? I
Speaker 1: was trying to pull I was trying to pull this off,
Speaker 1: but couldn't. They couldn't come to U U plus five
Speaker 1: dead or alive dinner dinner dinner. Guess Matt Barnes, you're
Speaker 1: probably the second person is invited to dinner. So thank
Speaker 1: you and we asked that question like three times. So
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 4: Kenny Loggins. Hey, Peaches and herb and we're and we're
Speaker 4: on Willingnesson's tour bus at six.
Speaker 2: That's nice. That's nice. That's nice. I like that Shahood Crush.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm like, I'm like a kid of seventies TV.
Speaker 4: So fair yeah, fair face. Uh, Christie Tigu's I really
Speaker 4: like Julie McCoy on the Love Boat.
Speaker 1: Okay, these were all in your bank bank.
Speaker 4: Sank bank probably yeah, probably?
Speaker 1: Uh? Who else?
Speaker 4: Oh no, not quite?
Speaker 2: I like her.
Speaker 4: Who is who? I kind of like the other threes company. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like the other woman.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, jam it's more of a Janet, really
Speaker 9: interesting Janet, not so much some weird ladies.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, all right, I'm giving you, gonna give you
Speaker 1: three players. Put them in your order. Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron,
Speaker 1: James Wrinkham.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, it's got to be and and whoever's third?
Speaker 2: Still great.
Speaker 4: They're so mad, but they're they're they're still great.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I have this argument all the time with my kids.
Speaker 4: There you go that it's got to be Michael, uh,
Speaker 4: because everyone forgets he was always all defensive NBA First
Speaker 4: Team in addition to what he did offensively nine times,
Speaker 4: nine times. And then I think, I think I'll have
Speaker 4: to just as a Laker fan, go Kobe second, Lebron third.
Speaker 2: Wrong with that, That's how that's how I look at it.
Speaker 1: I agree, But but you can have anyone.
Speaker 4: But do you know who are the most satisfied Olympic
Speaker 4: medal winners? When they did a survey, mm hmm, So
Speaker 4: they interviewed gold medal, silver, bronze. Who's the happiest of
Speaker 4: the three. Yes, because they didn't expect to win, So
Speaker 4: Lebron be happy with bronze. He's going to be so happy.
Speaker 4: It's good reasoning because the gold medal winners there was
Speaker 4: so much pressure. They were like, thank god, I just
Speaker 4: want because they probably expected to win the silver. They're
Speaker 4: mad they thought. The Brons are like, I don't even
Speaker 4: I didn't even plan to come to the party.
Speaker 1: Yes, this last minute, if you could see one guest
Speaker 1: on our show, who could it be?
Speaker 2: But you have to help us get your answer on
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 4: We I don't know how to help, but it sounds
Speaker 4: like you need to get Willy on the show.
Speaker 2: I have to.
Speaker 1: I have to be a part of this, you have
Speaker 1: to say shut your mouth.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, pan pan pan Panda, shut your mouth.
Speaker 1: That was good, That was good. Well, thank you very much, man,
Speaker 1: it was an honor with you you guys coming out
Speaker 1: on Netflix sixteenth. Make sure you catch my birthday is
Speaker 1: around my birthday, you know what, I don't almost spoil
Speaker 1: it in their mind. Okay, thank your honor. That's all right.
Speaker 1: Well you cast us on all the Smoke Production YouTube
Speaker 1: and the draft king nets work. Coming out on Netflix
Speaker 1: July sixteenth.
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