July 7, 2026 • 62 mins
Kevin Hart warned us. Will Ferrell is one of the funniest people alive and he confirmed it on ALL THE SMOKE. Matt & Stak got into all of it with Will: Anchorman, Old School, Talladega Nights, Semi-Pro, plus his new series "The Hawk," where he plays Lonnie Hawkins, a pro golfer chasing his magic late in his career. And because Will is a diehard Lakers fan, he told us about the time he "ejected" Shaq from a game. We could try to explain the rest, but we were laughing too hard to take notes. Just watch or listen. After years of calling Stak "Ron Burgundy" for reading anything that hits the screen, this one has been a long time coming.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to all the smoke. Jack, Welcome back to
to Cali. Yes, sir, happy to be back.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I followed your plan. You had a great plan. It
didn't play. I fucked it up. Man, we didn't really
fuck it up. It's just I didn't try. I wasn't
I didn't do my due diligence. We're gonna wear tuxtedos today,
and you so listen. I got up this morning because
I was gonna go golf early. So I'm up at
five thirty in the morning and I'm trying all my
(00:24):
ship on and I had a huge hole in the
crotch on my uh and my tux pants.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm like, fuck, did you have a tux He's still ready,
ready to go, Ready to go, Yeah, crotch.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's not normally my game. But I foiled your plan,
and I apologized.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm still here.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I think the I think the lesson here is try
your tuxedo on a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Right, Come on, man, do your due diligence. I mean,
be ahead, plan ahead. But anyway, man, one of the
greatest actors of his generation, one of our favorite actor
comedy and absolute legend, and like you said, this is
a year in the making, right, Welcome to the show,
Will Ferrell, Hey, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We shid it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So we ran into each other at jes sweet like
this time last year, a year year ago, seven right right,
and section seven is this weekend, literally literally this weekend.
And I saw me. I was with CP Chris Paul
and when we saw Will and I'm just like, man,
a big fan, got to come on the show. You know,
I'm really busy, but we'll make some time work. And
then literally a year later we're here.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
That's what That's the way it goes. Sticks about a
year to track me down. I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I respect it, but but but no, that was Yeah,
that was super fun to get to hang a little
bit there and then to be here now. And then
also obviously we're going to get into the hawk. But
we have the same golf instructor and you made it for.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
For well technical I mean yes, I tried working out
with him once and I fired him. Oh he didn't
work bad attitude.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, uh, James.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
He was one of the consultants on our show or
helped out on the Poet project.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, so I was trying to schedule times. He's like,
I got to do this stuff with Will, Like Will,
who's that Will Fairro He's like he's doing a golf
golf shop. Really, so I had a hard time scheduling.
But and someone I got a chance to see the
new show. I'm like, oh, Ship, there's James exactly first
episode and graduations welcome James, go ahead that yeah, new
show Netflix is dropping July sixteenth.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The Hawk right right here.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
This hilarious.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It just kills me how you have no passion for
your best friend after he dies and you just want
to go on with life.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But talk about it. Talk about it.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, Lonnie, Lonnie Hawkins, the aka the Hawk is h
he's very much you know, he's he's a pro golfer
who who can't give it up, which you guys probably
can relate to where you have that point in your
career where you're like cold, I still play. I think
I can, but but and then you probably you know,
(03:14):
hits like a ton of bricks of life.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
You can still get out there.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
And that's Lonnie. He's he's bounced around on the corn
Ferry Tour and uh, he's still hoping to win his final,
you know, get the Grand Slam. He's he's won three majors. Uh.
He's competing with his son, who's the next best thing
on the PGA tour yep, played by Jimmy tatrou And
uh and yeah, so Lonnie's just kind of this a
(03:46):
character I've wanted to play for a long time, very
much a narcissist who's you know at one point, like
you said, I mean spoiler alert, his longtime caddie. Uh,
he's had for years. Ah, there's a change that's made, right,
(04:09):
this is weird. This is the first time I talked
about the show, so I don't know whether to give
away stuff, but uh, Lonnie, Lonnie just wants to keep
playing on the golf course. And but that's kind of
what fuels him. But then he later he feels bad.
So he's not a bad guy, but he's just he
can't shut down that drive. Uh and uh and he
makes a lot of bad decisions in his life. And
(04:32):
but but uh, this was a blast. We got to
shoot all in l at this great cast with Mollie
Shannon from this she plays my my ex wife who's
still my wife, who because I won't sign the divorce papers. Uh.
We have Chris Parnell, Luke Wilson plays one of my rivals,
and uh, yeah, it's just a it was it was
(04:55):
really fun to do a show that's just kind of
comedy forward and uh it's kind of back to some
of the older things I've done.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
You gotta think for sports movies, Tatadlegga Knights, Blaze of Glory,
semi pro kicking and screaming. This to come from having
an athletic background. Are you just acting the movies because
you was trash in sports?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No, you're looking at the captain of the university high
school basketball. Oh, the captain, the captain the mean streets
of Irvine, California average because it was hard defense, rebound.
(05:40):
There you go, use all five fouls, Okay, old school,
I could set a mean screen. You need those guys.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah right, you can't take your fouls home. You might
as well use them.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I used them. I used them.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
But no, I I mean, I was a kid who
just went from whatever the season was. I played in
the sport and and I loved I loved team sports.
I loved you know, kind of that thing where you know,
I had as much fun scoring a basket, it is
much fun giving it you know, like a great assist
(06:17):
a scorn in a basket, and that that translated to
working in on film, which is which is a team
and ensemble comedy. That's what drew me to a place
where here in La called the Groundlings, whereas where I
kind of did all my training, which was sketch comedy,
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and and my dream was always to be on SATA
Night Live. And I loved that ensemble. And I think
it all comes from team sports. And that's why a
lot of the comedies that have worked for me have
been big casts. We love casting our friends, funny people,
people who you know, also maybe weren't shown that they
could do, you know, com You know, a guy like
(07:01):
Mark Wahlberg really didn't have it started, and then we
thought of them for the other guys and and things
kind of took off for him in in a totally
different direction. Sou But yeah, I think I think a
lot of that points back to sports.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What do you say to people who feel comedy really
isn't the same as at what once was. You guys
kind of set the standard. A group of guys set
the standard in the in the two thousands, and to me,
it hasn't necessarily been the same. It hasn't really translated
on the big screen or streaming or whatever, however people
watch their movies these days.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, you know, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I don't really get in to the weeds of of
comedy analysis too much. You know, it's always a thing
that's gonna ebb and flow in terms of people's taste
and what people want to create, and I just kind
of do you do my thing, and hopefully you like it.
(08:00):
I don't know what to tell you. It worked out
for good, so you know a lot of times that
that's what still strikes me today is the weird stuff
that comes out of my brain. Somehow, A majority of
people thought it was funny for the most part. There
are definitely some things that that didn't work, which is
(08:21):
the nature of the beast. But you know that that's
why I think being on something like Saturday Night Live,
where we every week you had to come up with
something new and you just had to throw it against
the wall, and you couldn't you couldn't get wrapped up in,
you know, judging it too too intensely because you just
(08:41):
had to move on to the next thing. So it
created this muscle of like just try it, don't judge
it too much, trust your instincts and and kind of
move on. So I don't know, I'm still trying to
do that.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I think the people that go on Stata in my
Live like you and just stand out. That's the comedians
that separates themselves like Eddie did it when he went
on Saturday Live. When you, when you went on Saturday
Live like you stood out, Like It's very few people
and a lot of people have come through Saturday Time
and I watched them all.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
There's very few that stand down and command everything.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You've always been a fan of comp Yes, yeah, my
whole life. Yeah, Matt, not so much.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
No, I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I love it. I'm just listening.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'm excited to have you here. So I'm listening to
the stories.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
He's a joker, trust me, don't he's warming up, trust me.
It's a whole bunch of shots of comings you get
ready to do.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But that's what that's what I love about talking to
athletes people in music like like they're drawn to comedy
as another thing, like to take your brain off of.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
What you do. You'd definitely a get away, right, definitely
get away?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, and it goes good with camps.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, yes, start.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
On cannabis sativa.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, that in the mornings, absolutely, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I can't do it if you need it.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The show, obviously my legs talking about it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Us to start Them was in Austin.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Austin Power's debut in the movie How was that with
Austin Powers?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It was big for everybody.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I actually didn't like it at first.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, a lot of people didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I didn't like it at first, but they had to
grow up. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, No, I remember when the movie I'd heard about,
you know, uh, I'd heard that Mike Myers made the
Spy movie and they said it wasn't you know, industry term,
it wasn't tracking well, people didn't know what to make
of it. Yeah, and it became this cult like the
audience kind of slowly caught up to what was going on.
But yeah, that was that was you know, I was.
(10:38):
That was kind of the first big film set I
was on, and uh yeah, pretty scary. Uh yeah, a
lot of improv and uh but you know, I don't know,
I I I was very lucky and looking back to
having some of these small campmeo roles early in my
(11:02):
career to where I didn't have to worry about having
a whole movie right on my shoulders, And it was
a way to just kind of get out and leave
them wanted more and so and yeah, so I I
really owe Mike and Jay Roach a lot for cast.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Me in that go down memory lane and and and
talk about some of your best work and play a
game called fact or fiction. Oh, okay, is it true
you performed stand up for the O J. Simpson jury?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Not stand up, but we did. We did sketches. Okay,
So this place I'd mentioned in LA called the Groundlings,
we were doing our sketch show at the time, which
was when the o J. Jury was sequestered, and we
felt so bad for you know, this group of people
that just went from their hotel to the courtroom that
(11:54):
we performed right in the comedy in the courtroom, not
in the courtroom, but a court room. And uh yeah,
very surreal experience, but a very sweet group of people
who just were like, you know, there we were in
our wigs and funny costumes, trying to get him to
(12:15):
laugh in a badly fluorescent lit court.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh factor fiction, you have a you got a fake
pair of balls from step brothers in the trophy case.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Fact, yes, guess how much they caught.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
More like ten thousand, yeah five per ball five that
was the going rate early, Yeah, two thousand and six,
that's the going rate for ball. Probably we're twenty Yeah,
probably we're twenty now.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Inflation's crazy, but they are very, very realistically. I should
have brought them today. Should we should have gave you
a heads up. That's our fault. Oh semi pro factor fishing.
The bear that you wrestled in the movie later killed its.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Trainer, not because of that movie, but yes, yeah I did.
It did even though I didn't wrestle the real real bear.
We we switched, I got I wasn't about to. Yeah,
but yeah, that's nuts.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You would pretty much do anything for that team, though
Jackie would do anything, anything for anything.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, ship.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Was the jive turkey line.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I think that bear is out of the business when
you kill your trainer.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I wonder if that eliminates us for one K thought, Yeah,
it's still getting should something just leave hanging? Is the
jive turkey line improvised or in the script?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Oh jive jive turkey was was a scene we showed
later and that's all scripted.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay. Yeah, Coffee Black character played Boy one hundred three thousand.
What was it like working this is Not Nothing A
Factor fiction? What was it like working with Andre?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Was about?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
He he's probably like the you know, whether it's intentional
or not, the coolest human being just the way life. Yeah,
coolest guy ever, the hell of a title to half Yeah,
and I don't even think he tried to be cool,
but he was just always cool. Yeah, and yeah, I
(14:33):
think I mean, he's only done a couple of movies,
isn't But he was just so charismatic when we auditioned him, and.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yeah, he became Coffee Black. He's real picky about what
he does and what he attaches his stuff to. Sure,
fact to fiction in old School. In the streaking scene,
you actually ran naked by a public gym and freadmills
up against the window.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Fact, Yeah, that's right out here. And uh, Montrose, anyone
live in Montrose's out?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Through the quad?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
That was we were just it's it's kind of this
little town up near Pasadena. The street that that looks
like like has kind of an East Coast look to it,
And we were rehearsing. We were waiting for the sun
to go down, so we were just kind of rehearsing
the camera move for for that scene. And uh, and
(15:35):
I noticed there's like a restaurant, there's all these shops,
and there was this gym with with with all all
these treadmills and all these housewives jogging on the treadmill.
And I said to one of the crew people, like,
do these people know what's about to be filmed here?
Because I'm in a robe and there, and someone was like, oh,
(15:56):
I don't know anyway, action and then I start running
and we're doing the scene and I can literally hear
off camera whoa, And then we do. By the third take,
the gym was cleared out. Everyone had left. They didn't
(16:16):
They weren't excited to see me run naked.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No heads up, huh.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
What's the backstore? You gotta fucking dart and your nick.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
See that was just it was just in the script,
and I just remember thinking, oh, this is funny. I
didn't know that when I saw it when the audience,
that it would play that that crazy. And but it
was my idea to like, once I'm hit with a tranquilizer,
(16:46):
dart and we knew I was gonna fall in the pool.
I was like, can we get some can we get
like a stunt kid? We have like a kid who
I can shove to the ground. And they're like we
actually we were hoping we have this kid's a stunt kid.
You can throw down, you can do whatever you want.
So that's why that's why I'm like ship knocking everyone through.
But yeah, that was That was Todd phillips whole plan
(17:07):
of like the juxtaposition of a guy hit with a
trank dart walking through a kid's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yeah, back to fiction and wedding crashes doing the right
The camera actually shakes because the camera man laughs so hard.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Oh, I don't know. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Okay, maybe we did too good at research on this. Really. Yeah,
they didn't even let you know about it.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah that's how good we all here, but we see
the cameras.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
But that was that was a lot of that stuff.
The whole meat loft thing was all I just that
was all improvised.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I know what she's doing back there.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah, that was all because I because it was making
me laugh at this this. I could hear her back
there the actress, what's up? But I know that in
I know that in Talladega Knights when we're doing the
the baby Jesus scene and then we're we're having the
(18:10):
debate about and the kids were like making fun of
the grandfather, like I'll come out you chip, like the
exactly we kept feeding them where the camera guy he
was like hugely shaking so far he was and he
kept apologizing. He's like, I'm so sorry, I can't stop laughing.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Those kids are sucking animals. Yeah, they were, Well, you
find the.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Kids funny ship.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Anchorman is the movie that's near and dear to your heart.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Factor fiction, I would say fact. I think that that
is uh uh, that was you know it. It's it's
a cliche Hollywood story you hear about movies where you know,
no no one wanted to make them, no one really understood,
And that was kind of our version of that.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It was.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I think when we first we were going out to
studios and finance, I think over the course of a
two week period of time, I think we had twenty
rejections of like I said, either people with financing or
studios themselves who just didn't get why that would be funny,
(19:29):
and we were trying to use the Austin Powers model
of you know, well, no one thought a spy genre
would be translate to comedy. This is the same for like,
you know a bunch of news people who you know,
and it's not trust me, it's these characters are going
to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
It's not a you know, a narrative about the news.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And so that was.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
When we finally got to it's funny. The one student
you where it was at Old School came out and
that was at the same that was at dream Works
and Anchorman was just sitting on the shelf. So then
Old School came out became a big hit, and they're like, wait,
we always liked Anchorman, but but that was you know,
(20:23):
I was really you talk about Stephen, you're talking about
leaving Saturn Night Live, and it's not necessarily I think
people view it as like an automatic launching pad to
a career, and it's not necessarily the case. It's it's uh,
it is harder than you think to leave that show
and find success afterwards. So and when I left the show,
(20:45):
I really didn't have it just felt like the right
time to go and test the waters. But but I
got lucky in that the first three projects after Saturday
Night Live were Old School Elf and Anchorman, So it's.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A nice three piece.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
You have a massive heart.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Fleets funny too when we first started.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
By the way, that the hard on was not ten
thousand dollars. That was just literally a the end of
a paper towel roll in my pants, So fact not fiction,
pure fact, pure fact. Depletes did accentuate it's deplete.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
He caught it at the right angle. Yeah, when we
first started doing this, Jack would literally read anything on
the prompter, so his nickname. For the longest time with
ron Berg, we were horrible doing ads. When we first started,
Jack would just fucking read anything on for the heads.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
San Diego.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
When we were when we were writing the script, we
were like, Okay, this guy has to be such an
idiot that he and then we were like, what could
be the worst thing he could say that would ruin
his career And we're like, Oh, tell an entire city
to go fucking and go fuck yourself, San Diego, and
then deny that he said it.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I just want to punch you in the face that
those Taladiga Knights did. Sasha Baron Cone true factor fiction
really improve the kiss at the end.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I think that was scripted.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Oh, you guys just weren't in the moment in the
kind of justs.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I mean, he does have gorgeous eyes. Uh no, that
was Yeah, that was in the script.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
John c Riley, you guys have some amazing on screen chemistry.
How did all that map out? And how did the
NASCAR feel about that movie?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Uh, John and I met, Uh, John and I met
through Molly Shannon. I was still on Certain I Live.
She had just done a movie. FIMS like you need
to meet this guy, John cy Riley. I'm like, oh,
I'm a huge fan. And and and we started, you know,
seeing each other here and there, and ah, we originally
(23:11):
wanted wanted him to be an anchorman, but he was
uh he was too busy shooting Gangs of New York
with Scorsese. Uh so he was unavailable. And but but
we kept uh uh Danny d Lewis great movie. And
(23:32):
then we just kept we just kept thinking, God, John
would just be great because he he always was very
comedic in a lot of the Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
And and so when we started thinking of of a
NASCAR movie. We thought, oh, John would be perfect to play,
so we got we got him to play Coununt Junior
(23:54):
and he's, you know, arguably one of the best things
in that movie. And then it was John. It was
John who really pushed us to do Step Brothers as well,
because he was like, look, we this doesn't happen, this
kind of chemistry, this kind of we both think the
same things are funny, and like we gotta like, let's
(24:16):
run it back. And and that's when we were kicking
around ideas. And that's when Adam McKay came up with
the idea of like, what if you're just two guys
in their forties who still live at home with their parents. Yeah,
and we're like, that's it. But in terms of Nascar,
they they were they couldn't have been cool. They were like, Okay,
(24:42):
we're into it. Just make sure the driving looks realistic.
Were like done, we want that. And and they were
afraid about the title Talladega Knights at first. They didn't
want it because they thought they thought the movie was
going to be about Talladega Motor Speedway, which is the
only it's the only racetrack in NASCAR that has its
(25:04):
own jail. Yeah, and people when they go that they party,
they party hard, and they were afraid it was about
the culture of how crazy it gets there. We're like,
oh no, no, we just we didn't even know all that.
Thank you for letting us know. No, we were just like,
we just loved that title and and they were like,
(25:24):
they were like, go do your thing and gave us
amazing access. And but I think the combination of our comedy,
our silliness with how real and how but that movie
is so interesting because NASCAR fans are like they I've
(25:46):
never been a part of a movie where two sides
of the comedy spectrum. You had people who said, how'd
you get away with making that movie? It's so funny
what you did. You're making fun of Nascar, and NASCAR
farans were like, thank you for being true to the sport.
So we somehow like threaded that needle and both both
(26:11):
audiences loved it. So that's great.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, going back to step Bus when he came in
the house and he was like, why are you sweating?
Watch the cops? Do you know that?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I was That's that's one of That's one of my
favorite stories of uh. I like to tell about because
I'll have people who come up and repeat lines from
movies and I forget that I've said them, and they
get really mad at me. And I was I was
somewhere once and I was in my car and this
(26:46):
this woman pulled up and she was like, hey, Will,
and she's like, why are you so sweaty? And I
literally had just i'd been on a bike riding like, oh,
because I was riding on my bike. She's like, no,
from step Brothers. She got so mad at me. You
were watching Cops. I'm like, oh, that's right, Yeah, never mind.
(27:11):
I lost a fan there. But people own the ownership
of these movies, which is amazing, is sometimes intense, and
they get really mad if I don't know the line
right away. But now I know that one. If you
if anyone who comes up and says, I'll say.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Old Milwaukee Beer, you were once the face helped helped Okay, yeah,
some people say those commercials, you know, kind of helped
save the company maybe for like a.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Half a second. No, we were pitched. We were pitched
by Old Millon whatever. The parent company was like, we're
about to get rid of this brand, and if you
want to just go shoot crazy commercials. We'll give you
percentage of the sales. And so we went and gorillas
I shot these crazy old old school commercials. That that
makes it even better that Uh, let's just say I
(28:07):
got a check for five thousand dollars Old Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yes, it sounds like it's a terrible, terrible Yes, I'm
sorry anyone.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I don't even know if it still exists.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I doubt it. I doubt it.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
It's no PBR.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Characters have iconic names. Do you personally name them your stuff?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
A lot of times we would start, we wouldn't write
until we thought of the name.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Ricky Bobby yep, Ricky Bobby, ron Ron Burgundy, Jackie Moon,
Jackie Moon.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, break the take. Nope, I didn't come up with that,
you take. I came up with Gator Gater, we don't play. Yeah,
we came up with uh Dale and Brennan.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, that's such perfect name.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
But Yeah, for some reason, I don't know why. It's
almost like if you come up with the name, it automatically,
you've already started thinking about the background and the structure
of who that person is. I don't know why the
name sets it off.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But it starts.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
It starts the storytelling and uh and then you could
you begin writing from there?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Is there anybody.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Lonnie Hawk, Lonnie Hawkins? We started kicking names around. They
were like, oh, Lonnie, what about something Hawkins? Lonnie Hawkins. Oh,
and he's got to call himself the Hawk and that
that also just set the attitude, you know, and that's
in the show. I'm I'm hardly eighty percent of the show.
I wear this this visor, yea to remind you because
(29:41):
he's a guy who's so afraid that you're not going
to know who he is, so he always wears his visor,
which is so dirty too, and it's.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Very I broke.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I brought the clean one, I can tell I was,
but yeah, I wear this, Yeah, that dirty visor the
whole show. But it just started making us laugh. A
guy who's so insecure, who plays cocky, but he's so
insecure that he has to wear a visor with his
nickname on it all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Is there a chance that before you leave today you
can give me a jack of nickname? Absolutely awesome, Just
think about that, No pressure. Okay, what do you like
about playing the villain? Zoolanders? Bound Down Lego Movies he's
bounding down. Holy shit, I binge watched that a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Ashley Schaeffer Ashley Shaffer bmw uh, I mean everyone like
a villain. Villains are fun, you know, because they you
know it. I don't know it gets to to get
to be mean, even though I my villains are always comedic.
You're never you're never really afraid of funny.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, but it's just a it's just a different a
different kind of move. It's fun to play.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Not a social media guy, know, no good thing. Yeah,
he stepped away. I was on I was on Twitter
for four days.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You retire?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, yeah, they said you hung it up. Just not something.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
It just kind of it kind of just made my
head explode in a way that it uh, it couldn't.
I just knew it was a thing that if I
was going to be a part of it, I wanted
to contribute to it and control.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
It and.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
You know it, even though I know you can be
on social as much or as little as you want,
but I didn't want the burden of having.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
To keep up, keep up. So that's safe to say
you don't have any burner accounts.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I don't have any burner accounts.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
He's not on there, guys.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's not too disappointing.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
We have a person like I feel like there's a.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Pall in the room. Yeah, you got to be a person, right,
Even though I do have thoughts that so oh that'd
be funny on social media, but I would I would
probably turn it into such something so annoying just to
mess with people Like I just take a picture of
a sandwich every day. That's it. That's all you get.
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Tune a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
But somehow that ship would be funny and jelly find
a way to be funny.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I would just drive I would drive people crazy that
so I'd use it more as a punishment. Now I'm
feeling like I maybe I should get on social media, right,
we can.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Work it out.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I got off the wall question for you sat in
my life. Let's get with you and Eddie Murphy and Keenan.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh yeah did you do?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Was all you?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
I told Keenan, like, I'm what, what do you want
me to do? He's like, just go for it. Be
just whatever you want to do. I'm like, okay, but
that that is like that's on the hype breakat Eddie Murphy.
Laugh is like I could retire right there. It was
very like that is like one of the highest achievements
(33:08):
ever for me, And that was like a thrill. That
was amazing. Yeah, and Eddie, Eddie. It's funny because Eddie
he's like he's game face, you know, when we're rehearsing,
he's like he's It was fascinating to watch him work
because he is so precise, so he really wanted to know,
(33:32):
now where do you want me at this line? And
walking like very serious about his comedy, which I totally
respect because I sometimes get in the same way and
then of course when the camera goes on, it's the
best of all time. But yeah, to get to be
in that sketch and to get him to laugh forget it,
that was That's one of my favorite one too.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Has will Ferer ever dealt with self doubt?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Well, right now, I'm I have a lot of self
doubt as to whether I should have done this podcast
or not because we don't have enough cameras exet it
from the beginning.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Uh No, Yeah, of course, that's that's always Uh that's
always part of any sort of journey, whether it's creative
or whether it's you know, pursuing athletics.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
What like, I mean, you guys probably felt faced self doubt.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I don't know, maybe though a little healthy fear, little
health right, or maybe you guys were you just had
that thing where you're like, no, I know I'm going
to succeed being cut as crazy, right, even you're in
the NBA, you're still getting cut, like like yet you're
a the height of what anyone could do in that profession.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
And then you're still like, wait, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Because some getting there is just not some people's goal, right,
Some people go be successful to stay in there, have
a career at it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Yeah, but I you know I had I think I
had like the best thing to happen to me in
my first show. On my first show, my first season
of Satura at Live, these reviews came out and they
were they were pretty scathing towards I had won some
(35:35):
some magazine or whatever that wrote like they were analyzing
this new cast because we were pretty much a brand
new cast and they singled me out by name. You know,
that was a good news. The bad news was like
most annoying newcomer. Yeah, right away after my first show.
So I'm like looking at this, and I thought, well,
(35:58):
you know, this is I'm already at a crossroads right
out of the gate. So I can either listen to it,
sit and cry. And so what I did was, I mean,
I you know, you talk about bulletin board materia. I
just put it up on the on the wall my
office and just clipped it out, and I was like, Okay,
(36:20):
you want to see annoying, I'm going to be I'm
going to be even more annoying. And that's you know,
I had always kind of made a commitment to because
there's so many you know, there's so many funny people
out there. I was like, I'm going to see people
that I know are funnier than I am, but I'm not.
(36:40):
They're not going to out commit me. I'm going to
be the guy who streaks in old school. I'm going
to be the guy who goes gives like one hundred
and ten percent wall. Yeah, in terms of my commitment,
So I thought, that's what I'm going to lean into
and that will get me through and you'll find me
annoying maybe, but but if I break through that then
(37:03):
I'll be fine. So so yeah, I just use it
as a motivation belongs you being you you yeah, yeah, right,
and then and then and then if it still doesn't work,
then you know you tried it on your terms, right,
And because you know a lot of people would try
to like approach things as to what what joke will
(37:26):
work as opposed to what do you think is funny?
And and so I don't, I don't. I wouldn't know
how to do it any other way.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
When are you at your most most creative spot, like
when you come up with your best ideas.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Probably in the bathtub with my fake testicles. I just
looked deeply into their eyes, and I just get hit
with divine inspiration.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
You know, if they help you, they definitely got to be,
got to be way more than ten than you.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Got to have the value I dream, I dream, I
dream about him.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
What did they say? They talk to you, They say,
how are you?
Speaker 4 (38:07):
If you had a good sandwich lately, you should get it.
You should get back on social media.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
So they're not lying to you, they're not. They tell
you the truth.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
They also tell me what stocks to invest in. Yeah, yeah,
uh so there's that. I mean, it's usually when I'm
doing when I'm not trying to think of anything, when
I'm just organically right.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
What is the secret of being able to make people
of all backgrounds land?
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Well, actually, I don't know. I mean, that's kind of
That's that's why a lot of times I sit back
and go, oh, this is kind of crazy that I've
a lot of these movies have hit kind of a
wide spectrum of people, because it's not like like I
set out to, Oh, this, this will be something that
everyone will like h or or a wide audience.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
So you had to know everybody was going to dig
that gator ship.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
No, I had no idea. We just thought it was
a weird move. Like, we're like, this guy should have
a crazy background. What's the crazy Okay, he was a pimp.
He was a pimp in college. Yeah, but he doesn't
realize that's.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
What he was.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
He's like, No, I wasn't a pimp. Yeah yeah, yeah,
it's like, no, what you're describing is a pimp. But no,
we I don't know. We just we just would follow,
you know. I think I think maybe some of that
success is is just what is something that people haven't
seen in a comedy before, and and and being authentic
(39:50):
to that has led.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
To everybody a good reaction yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Big Laker fan. The best Staples Center memory when they
change it to crypto, that's why I love. I was like,
why is it called stables? I wish it was called
Can I slightly change for However, my best Laker memory
(40:17):
is actually a forum. Get back a little bit because
in junior high I went with a buddy and we
were at the initial game where Magic.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
And Bird played each other as late as rookies in
their rookie year. So we sat way up in the noseblee.
And to be at the forum watching these two like,
you could feel that, oh, basketball is about to change.
And even sitting in the at thirteen, way up at
(40:50):
the top, you could see these two players move differently.
They they not only shoot the ball, but they passed
the ball there there. They just have a different flow
and I've never seen anything like it, and and so
that that was huge. You remember, I don't yeah, I'm
(41:12):
gonna say laters, but yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
Yeah, could you could you imagine me and you sitting
here being on the Hawks podcast and him on us?
Speaker 8 (41:22):
Awesome? Pretty awesome? What made you decide to do an
A B A movie in Sydney.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Bro, There's this amazing book called uh not a joke
title Loose Balls. I think it's called loose Balls anyway.
It chronicles the A, B A and and it's a
fascinating book about this fledging league that was trying to
go up, go up against the NBA and all the
(41:57):
the the personality character you know, all the different characters,
all the all the different type of gimmicks they were
trying to do, which later the NBA incorporated. You know,
like the the Showtime Lakers that was all taken from
(42:17):
ABA teams who had cheerleaders and did shows. The three
point line that's taken from the ABA.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
They had a lot of talent, and they.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Had a ton of talent. Amazing all these players who
first probably had five, six, seven years with the ABA,
you know, like you know, everyone from doctor j to
artists Fillmore, all these guys who by the time they
got the NBA, they I mean, if they had NBA numbers,
yeah yeah, but how they let that style of play
(42:50):
was more creative, But it just became it was it
was more about so many of these teams were living
on like a shoe string budget, and and so it
just it was like, God, this could be a funny
place for a comedy of a player, owner, coach who
is scrambling to keep his team alive in Flint, Michigan.
(43:14):
And and of course they're the Tropics, which makes no sense,
but what makes sense in an A B A world?
And uh, we just thought, oh, it's it's such a
it's such a cool world to have a fun different
array of characters. And and you know, there's only four
(43:37):
teams that are A B A teams that made in
the NBA.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
They are.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
You guys, Oh, you guys missed the Murders San Antonio.
Speaker 4 (43:45):
You play you played on one, you played for one
of them.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I wish you did a no no, the former Abas.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Oh he played for two pacers, Ah didn't. The other
two are Denver Nuggets and uh nuts.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
But the fact that the Tropics are trying to make
it and then they the.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Tropics, and that it is training like a basketball training
where you should move.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Yeah, we had we had an whole training camp and
I'm open, I'm open everything.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Camp.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Whole training camp it was, which was the most fun
part we had played in those terrible old school shows.
We played on a floor we played that that was
just literally wood on concrete. So there was no, it
was bad. But I just remember like, wait, why is
Pouh Richardson here? And uh, He's like, oh, he's gonna
(44:50):
play He's going to play on one of the teams.
So he played on the Spurs in the movie, and
we had we had a couple x like a lot
of ex college players and anyway, it was. It was
the most fun movie to shoot because we got to
play ball almost every day.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
And then sometimes those movies are tricky because again, how
NASCAR wanted it to appear real, You want basketball to
appear real. But yeah, you guys made that work. Yeah, yeah,
probably because you're playing center here. But we couldn't selfish.
We could unselfish center. Yeah, and that was my real
hair too. They're Alone was wondering fact.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
Back.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Tough one but it was.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
But but like the ABA we had, we had trouble
getting enough extra background people to be in the crowd scenes,
so we had to move them around the arena. Okay,
now everyone move over here, Now change your your now
your fans of this team.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
And so that was what city did you guys shooting?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
We shot it.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
We shot it all here. We shot three or four
days in Flint.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Okay, that's basically what they're doing in arcade games. Everybody
gotta make it work. You got these Shack and Kobe
memories or stories being court sided.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
Actually that's one of my favorite Staples memories. Okay, So
I had friends of mine who got we would always
get ourselves joke gifts for birthday. Got me a full
Staples Center security that's outfit. I remember that the Reds
when they used to wear the red jackets. In fact,
(46:32):
I should have worn that today. You imagine if you
guys had your tuxedos. I address is full Staples.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
It would have been over. We just take pictures all day.
We probably woudn't even talk.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
And guess what my name is. They got my name
as a security person, Ted Vagina that was on Sports
Center and everything.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
How long ago was that because I remember it was
that like this ten years ago, seven years ago.
Speaker 4 (46:53):
Yeah, And so I snuck it in and then during
one of the breaks, I stood up next to and
pretended to be security, and it it became like this
bier people in the crowd started but I kept a
serious face and I just because you know how they
just stand there like you have no expression. Next thing,
you know, I sat back down. People started. I get
a tap on the shoulder. There's a guy's like, you know,
(47:16):
Shack's here. He's he's on the baseline, just down over there.
I'm with Shack. He's like, he thinks it's do you
want to throw him out of the game because he's
about to leave. It's like in the fourth court he's
gonna probably leave. And I'm like yes, So I get
back at my stuff. I stand up during the commercial
break and I start looking on them and I'm like, hey,
(47:38):
cut it out. And he's like what. I'm like, stop
it you. I'm just like motioning, and then he's going what.
I'm like, that's it. So I throw him out of
the game. And it gets this big round of applause.
But it was all Shack's idea.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
It's always saxcited.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Then he's got good idea he does, and then he
was People were just laughing and and he was like,
I'm proud of you, man. I'm like, for what, no,
just where your career is done, I'm proud of you.
And I'm like, this is one of the funniest things
(48:18):
I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
He stands memes at least two memes a day.
Speaker 4 (48:21):
To my phone really yes, Yeah, he's just a big
old kid. Yeah right, And then we did we did
a sketch one. He came on Saturday Night Live once,
not as the host, but as like a just sketch,
you know, shacks around. He wants to be in sketches,
and they wrote a sketch that was so funny that
got cut, but I think you can still find it
online where I'm like dressed in like little kids booty
(48:44):
pajamas and the cast is pick picking on me, they're
making fun of me, and then Shaq shows up. He's like,
what's going on? Like, I'm like shack, the cast is
making fun of me. He's like, come over here, and
he picks me up in his arms like a baby,
and he proceeds to sing a song called no One's
Gone to Hurt my little Man, and we sing a
(49:05):
duet together about how no One's gonna hurt while I'm
in his arm yes, and I'm six three spelt two
d and twenty pounds and he picked me up no problem,
and we sang and I was like, you're funny, You're
that's hilarious. But he had a funnier show than the host.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
At least he had clothes on, because he does it
like that sometimes while he's naked. Oh he really.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
Anyway, that's why we get along.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
There you go. Yeah, you guys, you guys chest here
can touch Yeah. Usc USC basketball is in good hands
right now with Juju returning from injury. A friend of
a program, Elijah or renas, do you get a chance
to catch SD sports at all?
Speaker 4 (49:56):
Aby or I've I've gone to a couple the women's game,
not as much as I I thought. I go to
USC football games here and there, but I like to
go to more of the basketball all.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Right before quick hitters? H Dad, How important is you
to be present kids? Family? A thriving career? This lasted
a very long time. How important is you to be
present for your family and your kids? In particular?
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Children are overrated. I'm annoyed by that. I don't even
know why we had kids. They eat your food, they're
they're money and time stuck. Piss all exactly, piss them
for that. They don't empty the dishwasher, take out the trash,
or do anything.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
No.
Speaker 4 (50:37):
I've always tried. I've I've always tried to as much
as I've worked, I've always tried to set a big
chunk of time, usually in the summer, for us to
just be a family and uh, and we've always kind
of talked about we've always kind of tried to impart
(50:59):
with our boys that like, Okay, you're going to grow
up in Hollywood, You're going to grow up in la
and that's just a part of it. But you know,
you don't just try. You can't come off as as
you know, you have to say please and thank you
have to look people in the eye, you have to
shake their hand and exactly and that everything I've achieved,
(51:21):
like it's always you know, it's a really thin margin
between everything can go away really quickly because a lot
of it is chance and luck and opportunity. And so
you just have to you can't take anything for granted
and and use that approach in your day to day life.
(51:41):
And people will be surprised and impressed that you're, you know,
not some kid who just stares at his phone, and
that you're actually present and engaged. And so that's all
we've ever talked about.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
You had kids to play sports, you ever attempted the
cuss refs out or yell at rests or you just
kind of sit back.
Speaker 4 (51:59):
No, I'm I leave the refs alone.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
As my own experience as a as a volunteer referee,
mostly in soccer, okay, watching parents lose their minds, right, I'm.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
A coach and yeah he lost his mind?
Speaker 4 (52:18):
Have you as a parent or as a coach. Both
my kids are on the coach so so I'm curious
about that. When yeah, when you where their moment are
you usually like, guy, why did I do that? Or
you're like, no, they deserved it.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Probably more on the that they deserved the side because
that's coming from a good place. Yeah, it's coming from
a genuine place. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting because I
coach my kids. I have twin boys, and I feel
like sometimes like when I first started coaching kids, we
get the our team would get the bad end the
stick because of who their dad was, you know what
I mean. So they'd been trying to show out or
not trying to show so, you know, sometimes I just
(52:57):
had to throw a few polite words their way just
to make them know they were here and right right
right stop.
Speaker 4 (53:01):
But you're an ex NBA player, I don't feel like
I can yell a run.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
A movie star though, I don't much rather hear you
yelled than me.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:09):
Oh and so I've been to I've been too polite
this whole time, all time.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Definitely, you still got time.
Speaker 4 (53:16):
That was a terrible call. Do you know how much
my movies have made? There we go, there we go,
we combined? You call that a travel?
Speaker 2 (53:30):
That was a go with that wash?
Speaker 1 (53:32):
That's a no.
Speaker 4 (53:34):
I'm I'm always like because I just see we see
these videos of parents losing their minds against and yes,
you sports referee, it's gonna be very inconsistent.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
Paid twenty dollars a game.
Speaker 4 (53:48):
Yeah, so yeah, I usually lay back.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Is that Willie Nelson's line?
Speaker 4 (53:54):
Uh No, this is a but it is a It
is a company in text us based out of Austin, Okay.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Cricket?
Speaker 4 (54:05):
Yeah that's yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
Has Willy been? Has Willy been?
Speaker 5 (54:10):
Have not?
Speaker 1 (54:11):
We'd love to you got to track Willie down When
I want to burn one with.
Speaker 4 (54:15):
You, You're gonna have to. You have to go on
the road. Probably, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
Willy.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
Are you watching this?
Speaker 2 (54:23):
These guys.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
Will when when when's the next tour, Scott, They'll go
to you.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
Yeah, yeah, they'll they'll get you infuse drinks. Infuse drinks.
Speaker 4 (54:36):
Yea, man, they'll come on your bus. They probably, they
probably won't leave, and.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
We'll find down Nelson, which is making a big old
pow wow.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
Oh, good old Donnie.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
First thing to come to mind. Let us know a
movie you see in theaters recently that you loved. Do
you go to theaters?
Speaker 4 (54:55):
When was the last time I was in a theater?
I shouldn't say that you have to go the theater.
Support support movies in theaters, please.
Speaker 2 (55:07):
Michael Jackson? Was the last time was last night? Really?
Speaker 1 (55:10):
I haven't seen Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4 (55:11):
And that's that's a that's a movie you have to
see in the theater.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
Yes, you have to.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
I saw Goat with the kids.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
You have a munchy snack, probably.
Speaker 5 (55:23):
Popcorn? Sorry that flame? Yeah you could have kept that
all right, that's the worst heard he puts the honey
bun and some ship ding dongs skittles.
Speaker 4 (55:40):
Yeah, how about like Swedish fish?
Speaker 2 (55:46):
You gross?
Speaker 4 (55:49):
Gross, no sugar, but there's sure there are no sugar.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
You're not. You're not.
Speaker 4 (55:57):
I need to get you some good Sweedish fish.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (56:01):
I don't know where you're getting your fish?
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Right? Yeah? I don't know where you get your fish from.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
Yeah, how do you unwind other than time with your
fake testicles?
Speaker 4 (56:16):
Let's see? Probably I just uh, you know what, I
really love lighting a fire in my backyard, not like
a you know, in a fireplace. I'm not crazy person.
Speaker 6 (56:30):
Uh and yeah, sunset relaxing, Yeah, exactly, a glass of
wine exactly.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
Okay, you're not the only one that get caught staring
at the fireplace. Oh I do. I'll do that.
Speaker 4 (56:45):
It's mesmerizing.
Speaker 1 (56:46):
But you're on drug.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
Yeah, I'm definitely when I Yeah. One album you can
listen to and repeat Kenny log Probably.
Speaker 1 (56:55):
Log is probably you know Kenny Logs is.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
Kidding?
Speaker 1 (57:00):
Is here?
Speaker 2 (57:02):
This is it?
Speaker 4 (57:03):
Magus one of them I could listen to on repeat.
Speaker 2 (57:16):
He was straight to the note to He was straight
to the note.
Speaker 4 (57:19):
About peaches Nerds.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
You go.
Speaker 1 (57:26):
Five dinner guests, dead are alive? You plus five? I
was trying to pull I was trying to pull this off,
but couldn't. They couldn't come to U U plus five
dead or alive dinner dinner dinner. Guess Matt Barnes, you're
(57:47):
probably the second person is invited to dinner. So thank
you and we asked that question like three times. So
thank you.
Speaker 4 (57:52):
Kenny Loggins. Hey, Peaches and herb and we're and we're
on Willingnesson's tour bus at six.
Speaker 2 (58:05):
That's nice. That's nice. That's nice. I like that Shahood Crush.
Speaker 4 (58:10):
Well, I'm like, I'm like a kid of seventies TV.
So fair yeah, fair face. Uh, Christie Tigu's I really
like Julie McCoy on the Love Boat.
Speaker 1 (58:29):
Okay, these were all in your bank bank.
Speaker 4 (58:33):
Sank bank probably yeah, probably?
Speaker 1 (58:40):
Uh? Who else?
Speaker 4 (58:43):
Oh no, not quite?
Speaker 2 (58:45):
I like her.
Speaker 4 (58:50):
Who is who? I kind of like the other threes company. Yeah,
like the other woman.
Speaker 9 (58:58):
No, no, no, jam it's more of a Janet, really
interesting Janet, not so much some weird ladies.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
Right, yeah, all right, I'm giving you, gonna give you
three players. Put them in your order. Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron,
James Wrinkham.
Speaker 4 (59:19):
Well, okay, it's got to be and and whoever's third?
Speaker 2 (59:24):
Still great.
Speaker 4 (59:25):
They're so mad, but they're they're they're still great.
Speaker 1 (59:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (59:31):
And I have this argument all the time with my kids.
There you go that it's got to be Michael, uh,
because everyone forgets he was always all defensive NBA First
Team in addition to what he did offensively nine times,
nine times. And then I think, I think I'll have
(59:57):
to just as a Laker fan, go Kobe second, Lebron third.
Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Wrong with that, That's how that's how I look at it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
I agree, But but you can have anyone.
Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
But do you know who are the most satisfied Olympic
medal winners? When they did a survey, mm hmm, So
they interviewed gold medal, silver, bronze. Who's the happiest of
the three. Yes, because they didn't expect to win, So
(01:00:31):
Lebron be happy with bronze. He's going to be so happy.
It's good reasoning because the gold medal winners there was
so much pressure. They were like, thank god, I just
want because they probably expected to win the silver. They're
mad they thought. The Brons are like, I don't even
I didn't even plan to come to the party.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Yes, this last minute, if you could see one guest
on our show, who could it be?
Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
But you have to help us get your answer on
the show.
Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
We I don't know how to help, but it sounds
like you need to get Willy on the show.
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
I have to be a part of this, you have
to say shut your mouth.
Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
Oh oh, pan pan pan Panda, shut your mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
That was good, That was good. Well, thank you very much, man,
it was an honor with you you guys coming out
on Netflix sixteenth. Make sure you catch my birthday is
around my birthday, you know what, I don't almost spoil
it in their mind. Okay, thank your honor. That's all right.
(01:01:55):
Well you cast us on all the Smoke Production YouTube
and the draft king nets work. Coming out on Netflix
July sixteenth.
Speaker 4 (01:02:03):
H Jeda Christian Oh
Welcome back to all the smoke. Jack, Welcome back to
to Cali. Yes, sir, happy to be back.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I followed your plan. You had a great plan. It
didn't play. I fucked it up. Man, we didn't really
fuck it up. It's just I didn't try. I wasn't
I didn't do my due diligence. We're gonna wear tuxtedos today,
and you so listen. I got up this morning because
I was gonna go golf early. So I'm up at
five thirty in the morning and I'm trying all my
(00:24):
ship on and I had a huge hole in the
crotch on my uh and my tux pants.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm like, fuck, did you have a tux He's still ready,
ready to go, Ready to go, Yeah, crotch.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's not normally my game. But I foiled your plan,
and I apologized.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm still here.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I think the I think the lesson here is try
your tuxedo on a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Right, Come on, man, do your due diligence. I mean,
be ahead, plan ahead. But anyway, man, one of the
greatest actors of his generation, one of our favorite actor
comedy and absolute legend, and like you said, this is
a year in the making, right, Welcome to the show,
Will Ferrell, Hey, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We shid it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So we ran into each other at jes sweet like
this time last year, a year year ago, seven right right,
and section seven is this weekend, literally literally this weekend.
And I saw me. I was with CP Chris Paul
and when we saw Will and I'm just like, man,
a big fan, got to come on the show. You know,
I'm really busy, but we'll make some time work. And
then literally a year later we're here.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
That's what That's the way it goes. Sticks about a
year to track me down. I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I respect it, but but but no, that was Yeah,
that was super fun to get to hang a little
bit there and then to be here now. And then
also obviously we're going to get into the hawk. But
we have the same golf instructor and you made it for.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
For well technical I mean yes, I tried working out
with him once and I fired him. Oh he didn't
work bad attitude.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, uh, James.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
He was one of the consultants on our show or
helped out on the Poet project.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, so I was trying to schedule times. He's like,
I got to do this stuff with Will, Like Will,
who's that Will Fairro He's like he's doing a golf
golf shop. Really, so I had a hard time scheduling.
But and someone I got a chance to see the
new show. I'm like, oh, Ship, there's James exactly first
episode and graduations welcome James, go ahead that yeah, new
show Netflix is dropping July sixteenth.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The Hawk right right here.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
This hilarious.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It just kills me how you have no passion for
your best friend after he dies and you just want
to go on with life.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But talk about it. Talk about it.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, Lonnie, Lonnie Hawkins, the aka the Hawk is h
he's very much you know, he's he's a pro golfer
who who can't give it up, which you guys probably
can relate to where you have that point in your
career where you're like cold, I still play. I think
I can, but but and then you probably you know,
(03:14):
hits like a ton of bricks of life.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
You can still get out there.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
And that's Lonnie. He's he's bounced around on the corn
Ferry Tour and uh, he's still hoping to win his final,
you know, get the Grand Slam. He's he's won three majors. Uh.
He's competing with his son, who's the next best thing
on the PGA tour yep, played by Jimmy tatrou And
uh and yeah, so Lonnie's just kind of this a
(03:46):
character I've wanted to play for a long time, very
much a narcissist who's you know at one point, like
you said, I mean spoiler alert, his longtime caddie. Uh,
he's had for years. Ah, there's a change that's made, right,
(04:09):
this is weird. This is the first time I talked
about the show, so I don't know whether to give
away stuff, but uh, Lonnie, Lonnie just wants to keep
playing on the golf course. And but that's kind of
what fuels him. But then he later he feels bad.
So he's not a bad guy, but he's just he
can't shut down that drive. Uh and uh and he
makes a lot of bad decisions in his life. And
(04:32):
but but uh, this was a blast. We got to
shoot all in l at this great cast with Mollie
Shannon from this she plays my my ex wife who's
still my wife, who because I won't sign the divorce papers. Uh.
We have Chris Parnell, Luke Wilson plays one of my rivals,
and uh, yeah, it's just a it was it was
(04:55):
really fun to do a show that's just kind of
comedy forward and uh it's kind of back to some
of the older things I've done.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
You gotta think for sports movies, Tatadlegga Knights, Blaze of Glory,
semi pro kicking and screaming. This to come from having
an athletic background. Are you just acting the movies because
you was trash in sports?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No, you're looking at the captain of the university high
school basketball. Oh, the captain, the captain the mean streets
of Irvine, California average because it was hard defense, rebound.
(05:40):
There you go, use all five fouls, Okay, old school,
I could set a mean screen. You need those guys.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah right, you can't take your fouls home. You might
as well use them.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I used them. I used them.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
But no, I I mean, I was a kid who
just went from whatever the season was. I played in
the sport and and I loved I loved team sports.
I loved you know, kind of that thing where you know,
I had as much fun scoring a basket, it is
much fun giving it you know, like a great assist
(06:17):
a scorn in a basket, and that that translated to
working in on film, which is which is a team
and ensemble comedy. That's what drew me to a place
where here in La called the Groundlings, whereas where I
kind of did all my training, which was sketch comedy,
(06:38):
and and my dream was always to be on SATA
Night Live. And I loved that ensemble. And I think
it all comes from team sports. And that's why a
lot of the comedies that have worked for me have
been big casts. We love casting our friends, funny people,
people who you know, also maybe weren't shown that they
could do, you know, com You know, a guy like
(07:01):
Mark Wahlberg really didn't have it started, and then we
thought of them for the other guys and and things
kind of took off for him in in a totally
different direction. Sou But yeah, I think I think a
lot of that points back to sports.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
What do you say to people who feel comedy really
isn't the same as at what once was. You guys
kind of set the standard. A group of guys set
the standard in the in the two thousands, and to me,
it hasn't necessarily been the same. It hasn't really translated
on the big screen or streaming or whatever, however people
watch their movies these days.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, you know, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I don't really get in to the weeds of of
comedy analysis too much. You know, it's always a thing
that's gonna ebb and flow in terms of people's taste
and what people want to create, and I just kind
of do you do my thing, and hopefully you like it.
(08:00):
I don't know what to tell you. It worked out
for good, so you know a lot of times that
that's what still strikes me today is the weird stuff
that comes out of my brain. Somehow, A majority of
people thought it was funny for the most part. There
are definitely some things that that didn't work, which is
(08:21):
the nature of the beast. But you know that that's
why I think being on something like Saturday Night Live,
where we every week you had to come up with
something new and you just had to throw it against
the wall, and you couldn't you couldn't get wrapped up in,
you know, judging it too too intensely because you just
(08:41):
had to move on to the next thing. So it
created this muscle of like just try it, don't judge
it too much, trust your instincts and and kind of
move on. So I don't know, I'm still trying to
do that.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I think the people that go on Stata in my
Live like you and just stand out. That's the comedians
that separates themselves like Eddie did it when he went
on Saturday Live. When you, when you went on Saturday
Live like you stood out, Like It's very few people
and a lot of people have come through Saturday Time
and I watched them all.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
There's very few that stand down and command everything.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You've always been a fan of comp Yes, yeah, my
whole life. Yeah, Matt, not so much.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
No, I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I love it. I'm just listening.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'm excited to have you here. So I'm listening to
the stories.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
He's a joker, trust me, don't he's warming up, trust me.
It's a whole bunch of shots of comings you get
ready to do.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But that's what that's what I love about talking to
athletes people in music like like they're drawn to comedy
as another thing, like to take your brain off of.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
What you do. You'd definitely a get away, right, definitely
get away?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, and it goes good with camps.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, yes, start.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
On cannabis sativa.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, that in the mornings, absolutely, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I can't do it if you need it.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The show, obviously my legs talking about it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Us to start Them was in Austin.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Austin Power's debut in the movie How was that with
Austin Powers?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It was big for everybody.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I actually didn't like it at first.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, a lot of people didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I didn't like it at first, but they had to
grow up. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, No, I remember when the movie I'd heard about,
you know, uh, I'd heard that Mike Myers made the
Spy movie and they said it wasn't you know, industry term,
it wasn't tracking well, people didn't know what to make
of it. Yeah, and it became this cult like the
audience kind of slowly caught up to what was going on.
But yeah, that was that was you know, I was.
(10:38):
That was kind of the first big film set I
was on, and uh yeah, pretty scary. Uh yeah, a
lot of improv and uh but you know, I don't know,
I I I was very lucky and looking back to
having some of these small campmeo roles early in my
(11:02):
career to where I didn't have to worry about having
a whole movie right on my shoulders, And it was
a way to just kind of get out and leave
them wanted more and so and yeah, so I I
really owe Mike and Jay Roach a lot for cast.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Me in that go down memory lane and and and
talk about some of your best work and play a
game called fact or fiction. Oh, okay, is it true
you performed stand up for the O J. Simpson jury?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Not stand up, but we did. We did sketches. Okay,
So this place I'd mentioned in LA called the Groundlings,
we were doing our sketch show at the time, which
was when the o J. Jury was sequestered, and we
felt so bad for you know, this group of people
that just went from their hotel to the courtroom that
(11:54):
we performed right in the comedy in the courtroom, not
in the courtroom, but a court room. And uh yeah,
very surreal experience, but a very sweet group of people
who just were like, you know, there we were in
our wigs and funny costumes, trying to get him to
(12:15):
laugh in a badly fluorescent lit court.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh factor fiction, you have a you got a fake
pair of balls from step brothers in the trophy case.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Fact, yes, guess how much they caught.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
More like ten thousand, yeah five per ball five that
was the going rate early, Yeah, two thousand and six,
that's the going rate for ball. Probably we're twenty Yeah,
probably we're twenty now.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Inflation's crazy, but they are very, very realistically. I should
have brought them today. Should we should have gave you
a heads up. That's our fault. Oh semi pro factor fishing.
The bear that you wrestled in the movie later killed its.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Trainer, not because of that movie, but yes, yeah I did.
It did even though I didn't wrestle the real real bear.
We we switched, I got I wasn't about to. Yeah,
but yeah, that's nuts.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You would pretty much do anything for that team, though
Jackie would do anything, anything for anything.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, ship.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Was the jive turkey line.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I think that bear is out of the business when
you kill your trainer.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I wonder if that eliminates us for one K thought, Yeah,
it's still getting should something just leave hanging? Is the
jive turkey line improvised or in the script?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Oh jive jive turkey was was a scene we showed
later and that's all scripted.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay. Yeah, Coffee Black character played Boy one hundred three thousand.
What was it like working this is Not Nothing A
Factor fiction? What was it like working with Andre?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Was about?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
He he's probably like the you know, whether it's intentional
or not, the coolest human being just the way life. Yeah,
coolest guy ever, the hell of a title to half Yeah,
and I don't even think he tried to be cool,
but he was just always cool. Yeah, and yeah, I
(14:33):
think I mean, he's only done a couple of movies,
isn't But he was just so charismatic when we auditioned him, and.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yeah, he became Coffee Black. He's real picky about what
he does and what he attaches his stuff to. Sure,
fact to fiction in old School. In the streaking scene,
you actually ran naked by a public gym and freadmills
up against the window.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Fact, Yeah, that's right out here. And uh, Montrose, anyone
live in Montrose's out?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Through the quad?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
That?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
That was we were just it's it's kind of this
little town up near Pasadena. The street that that looks
like like has kind of an East Coast look to it,
And we were rehearsing. We were waiting for the sun
to go down, so we were just kind of rehearsing
the camera move for for that scene. And uh, and
(15:35):
I noticed there's like a restaurant, there's all these shops,
and there was this gym with with with all all
these treadmills and all these housewives jogging on the treadmill.
And I said to one of the crew people, like,
do these people know what's about to be filmed here?
Because I'm in a robe and there, and someone was like, oh,
(15:56):
I don't know anyway, action and then I start running
and we're doing the scene and I can literally hear
off camera whoa, And then we do. By the third take,
the gym was cleared out. Everyone had left. They didn't
(16:16):
They weren't excited to see me run naked.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No heads up, huh.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
What's the backstore? You gotta fucking dart and your nick.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
See that was just it was just in the script,
and I just remember thinking, oh, this is funny. I
didn't know that when I saw it when the audience,
that it would play that that crazy. And but it
was my idea to like, once I'm hit with a tranquilizer,
(16:46):
dart and we knew I was gonna fall in the pool.
I was like, can we get some can we get
like a stunt kid? We have like a kid who
I can shove to the ground. And they're like we
actually we were hoping we have this kid's a stunt kid.
You can throw down, you can do whatever you want.
So that's why that's why I'm like ship knocking everyone through.
But yeah, that was That was Todd phillips whole plan
(17:07):
of like the juxtaposition of a guy hit with a
trank dart walking through a kid's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yeah, back to fiction and wedding crashes doing the right
The camera actually shakes because the camera man laughs so hard.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Oh, I don't know. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Okay, maybe we did too good at research on this. Really. Yeah,
they didn't even let you know about it.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah that's how good we all here, but we see
the cameras.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
But that was that was a lot of that stuff.
The whole meat loft thing was all I just that
was all improvised.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I know what she's doing back there.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah, that was all because I because it was making
me laugh at this this. I could hear her back
there the actress, what's up? But I know that in
I know that in Talladega Knights when we're doing the
the baby Jesus scene and then we're we're having the
(18:10):
debate about and the kids were like making fun of
the grandfather, like I'll come out you chip, like the
exactly we kept feeding them where the camera guy he
was like hugely shaking so far he was and he
kept apologizing. He's like, I'm so sorry, I can't stop laughing.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Those kids are sucking animals. Yeah, they were, Well, you
find the.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Kids funny ship.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Anchorman is the movie that's near and dear to your heart.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Factor fiction, I would say fact. I think that that
is uh uh, that was you know it. It's it's
a cliche Hollywood story you hear about movies where you know,
no no one wanted to make them, no one really understood,
And that was kind of our version of that.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It was.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I think when we first we were going out to
studios and finance, I think over the course of a
two week period of time, I think we had twenty
rejections of like I said, either people with financing or
studios themselves who just didn't get why that would be funny,
(19:29):
and we were trying to use the Austin Powers model
of you know, well, no one thought a spy genre
would be translate to comedy. This is the same for like,
you know a bunch of news people who you know,
and it's not trust me, it's these characters are going
to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
It's not a you know, a narrative about the news.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And so that was.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
When we finally got to it's funny. The one student
you where it was at Old School came out and
that was at the same that was at dream Works
and Anchorman was just sitting on the shelf. So then
Old School came out became a big hit, and they're like, wait,
we always liked Anchorman, but but that was you know,
(20:23):
I was really you talk about Stephen, you're talking about
leaving Saturn Night Live, and it's not necessarily I think
people view it as like an automatic launching pad to
a career, and it's not necessarily the case. It's it's uh,
it is harder than you think to leave that show
and find success afterwards. So and when I left the show,
(20:45):
I really didn't have it just felt like the right
time to go and test the waters. But but I
got lucky in that the first three projects after Saturday
Night Live were Old School Elf and Anchorman, So it's.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A nice three piece.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
You have a massive heart.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Fleets funny too when we first started.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
By the way, that the hard on was not ten
thousand dollars. That was just literally a the end of
a paper towel roll in my pants, So fact not fiction,
pure fact, pure fact. Depletes did accentuate it's deplete.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
He caught it at the right angle. Yeah, when we
first started doing this, Jack would literally read anything on
the prompter, so his nickname. For the longest time with
ron Berg, we were horrible doing ads. When we first started,
Jack would just fucking read anything on for the heads.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
San Diego.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
When we were when we were writing the script, we
were like, Okay, this guy has to be such an
idiot that he and then we were like, what could
be the worst thing he could say that would ruin
his career And we're like, Oh, tell an entire city
to go fucking and go fuck yourself, San Diego, and
then deny that he said it.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I just want to punch you in the face that
those Taladiga Knights did. Sasha Baron Cone true factor fiction
really improve the kiss at the end.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I think that was scripted.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Oh, you guys just weren't in the moment in the
kind of justs.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I mean, he does have gorgeous eyes. Uh no, that
was Yeah, that was in the script.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
John c Riley, you guys have some amazing on screen chemistry.
How did all that map out? And how did the
NASCAR feel about that movie?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Uh, John and I met, Uh, John and I met
through Molly Shannon. I was still on Certain I Live.
She had just done a movie. FIMS like you need
to meet this guy, John cy Riley. I'm like, oh,
I'm a huge fan. And and and we started, you know,
seeing each other here and there, and ah, we originally
(23:11):
wanted wanted him to be an anchorman, but he was
uh he was too busy shooting Gangs of New York
with Scorsese. Uh so he was unavailable. And but but
we kept uh uh Danny d Lewis great movie. And
(23:32):
then we just kept we just kept thinking, God, John
would just be great because he he always was very
comedic in a lot of the Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
And and so when we started thinking of of a
NASCAR movie. We thought, oh, John would be perfect to play,
so we got we got him to play Coununt Junior
(23:54):
and he's, you know, arguably one of the best things
in that movie. And then it was John. It was
John who really pushed us to do Step Brothers as well,
because he was like, look, we this doesn't happen, this
kind of chemistry, this kind of we both think the
same things are funny, and like we gotta like, let's
(24:16):
run it back. And and that's when we were kicking
around ideas. And that's when Adam McKay came up with
the idea of like, what if you're just two guys
in their forties who still live at home with their parents. Yeah,
and we're like, that's it. But in terms of Nascar,
they they were they couldn't have been cool. They were like, Okay,
(24:42):
we're into it. Just make sure the driving looks realistic.
Were like done, we want that. And and they were
afraid about the title Talladega Knights at first. They didn't
want it because they thought they thought the movie was
going to be about Talladega Motor Speedway, which is the
only it's the only racetrack in NASCAR that has its
(25:04):
own jail. Yeah, and people when they go that they party,
they party hard, and they were afraid it was about
the culture of how crazy it gets there. We're like,
oh no, no, we just we didn't even know all that.
Thank you for letting us know. No, we were just like,
we just loved that title and and they were like,
(25:24):
they were like, go do your thing and gave us
amazing access. And but I think the combination of our comedy,
our silliness with how real and how but that movie
is so interesting because NASCAR fans are like they I've
(25:46):
never been a part of a movie where two sides
of the comedy spectrum. You had people who said, how'd
you get away with making that movie? It's so funny
what you did. You're making fun of Nascar, and NASCAR
farans were like, thank you for being true to the sport.
So we somehow like threaded that needle and both both
(26:11):
audiences loved it. So that's great.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, going back to step Bus when he came in
the house and he was like, why are you sweating?
Watch the cops? Do you know that?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I was That's that's one of That's one of my
favorite stories of uh. I like to tell about because
I'll have people who come up and repeat lines from
movies and I forget that I've said them, and they
get really mad at me. And I was I was
somewhere once and I was in my car and this
(26:46):
this woman pulled up and she was like, hey, Will,
and she's like, why are you so sweaty? And I
literally had just i'd been on a bike riding like, oh,
because I was riding on my bike. She's like, no,
from step Brothers. She got so mad at me. You
were watching Cops. I'm like, oh, that's right, Yeah, never mind.
(27:11):
I lost a fan there. But people own the ownership
of these movies, which is amazing, is sometimes intense, and
they get really mad if I don't know the line
right away. But now I know that one. If you
if anyone who comes up and says, I'll say.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Old Milwaukee Beer, you were once the face helped helped Okay, yeah,
some people say those commercials, you know, kind of helped
save the company maybe for like a.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Half a second. No, we were pitched. We were pitched
by Old Millon whatever. The parent company was like, we're
about to get rid of this brand, and if you
want to just go shoot crazy commercials. We'll give you
percentage of the sales. And so we went and gorillas
I shot these crazy old old school commercials. That that
makes it even better that Uh, let's just say I
(28:07):
got a check for five thousand dollars Old Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yes, it sounds like it's a terrible, terrible Yes, I'm
sorry anyone.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I don't even know if it still exists.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I doubt it. I doubt it.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
It's no PBR.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Characters have iconic names. Do you personally name them your stuff?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
A lot of times we would start, we wouldn't write
until we thought of the name.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Ricky Bobby yep, Ricky Bobby, ron Ron Burgundy, Jackie Moon,
Jackie Moon.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, break the take. Nope, I didn't come up with that,
you take. I came up with Gator Gater, we don't play. Yeah,
we came up with uh Dale and Brennan.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, that's such perfect name.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
But Yeah, for some reason, I don't know why. It's
almost like if you come up with the name, it automatically,
you've already started thinking about the background and the structure
of who that person is. I don't know why the
name sets it off.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But it starts.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
It starts the storytelling and uh and then you could
you begin writing from there?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Is there anybody.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Lonnie Hawk, Lonnie Hawkins? We started kicking names around. They
were like, oh, Lonnie, what about something Hawkins? Lonnie Hawkins. Oh,
and he's got to call himself the Hawk and that
that also just set the attitude, you know, and that's
in the show. I'm I'm hardly eighty percent of the show.
I wear this this visor, yea to remind you because
(29:41):
he's a guy who's so afraid that you're not going
to know who he is, so he always wears his visor,
which is so dirty too, and it's.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Very I broke.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I brought the clean one, I can tell I was,
but yeah, I wear this, Yeah, that dirty visor the
whole show. But it just started making us laugh. A
guy who's so insecure, who plays cocky, but he's so
insecure that he has to wear a visor with his
nickname on it all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Is there a chance that before you leave today you
can give me a jack of nickname? Absolutely awesome, Just
think about that, No pressure. Okay, what do you like
about playing the villain? Zoolanders? Bound Down Lego Movies he's
bounding down. Holy shit, I binge watched that a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Ashley Schaeffer Ashley Shaffer bmw uh, I mean everyone like
a villain. Villains are fun, you know, because they you
know it. I don't know it gets to to get
to be mean, even though I my villains are always comedic.
You're never you're never really afraid of funny.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, but it's just a it's just a different a
different kind of move. It's fun to play.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Not a social media guy, know, no good thing. Yeah,
he stepped away. I was on I was on Twitter
for four days.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You retire?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, yeah, they said you hung it up. Just not something.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
It just kind of it kind of just made my
head explode in a way that it uh, it couldn't.
I just knew it was a thing that if I
was going to be a part of it, I wanted
to contribute to it and control.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
It and.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
You know it, even though I know you can be
on social as much or as little as you want,
but I didn't want the burden of having.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
To keep up, keep up. So that's safe to say
you don't have any burner accounts.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I don't have any burner accounts.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
He's not on there, guys.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's not too disappointing.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
We have a person like I feel like there's a.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Pall in the room. Yeah, you got to be a person, right,
Even though I do have thoughts that so oh that'd
be funny on social media, but I would I would
probably turn it into such something so annoying just to
mess with people Like I just take a picture of
a sandwich every day. That's it. That's all you get.
(32:16):
Tune a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
But somehow that ship would be funny and jelly find
a way to be funny.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I would just drive I would drive people crazy that
so I'd use it more as a punishment. Now I'm
feeling like I maybe I should get on social media, right,
we can.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Work it out.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I got off the wall question for you sat in
my life. Let's get with you and Eddie Murphy and Keenan.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh yeah did you do?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Was all you?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
I told Keenan, like, I'm what, what do you want
me to do? He's like, just go for it. Be
just whatever you want to do. I'm like, okay, but
that that is like that's on the hype breakat Eddie Murphy.
Laugh is like I could retire right there. It was
very like that is like one of the highest achievements
(33:08):
ever for me, And that was like a thrill. That
was amazing. Yeah, and Eddie, Eddie. It's funny because Eddie
he's like he's game face, you know, when we're rehearsing,
he's like he's It was fascinating to watch him work
because he is so precise, so he really wanted to know,
(33:32):
now where do you want me at this line? And
walking like very serious about his comedy, which I totally
respect because I sometimes get in the same way and
then of course when the camera goes on, it's the
best of all time. But yeah, to get to be
in that sketch and to get him to laugh forget it,
that was That's one of my favorite one too.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Has will Ferer ever dealt with self doubt?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Well, right now, I'm I have a lot of self
doubt as to whether I should have done this podcast
or not because we don't have enough cameras exet it
from the beginning.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Uh No, Yeah, of course, that's that's always Uh that's
always part of any sort of journey, whether it's creative
or whether it's you know, pursuing athletics.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
What like, I mean, you guys probably felt faced self doubt.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I don't know, maybe though a little healthy fear, little
health right, or maybe you guys were you just had
that thing where you're like, no, I know I'm going
to succeed being cut as crazy, right, even you're in
the NBA, you're still getting cut, like like yet you're
a the height of what anyone could do in that profession.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
And then you're still like, wait, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Because some getting there is just not some people's goal, right,
Some people go be successful to stay in there, have
a career at it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Yeah, but I you know I had I think I
had like the best thing to happen to me in
my first show. On my first show, my first season
of Satura at Live, these reviews came out and they
were they were pretty scathing towards I had won some
(35:35):
some magazine or whatever that wrote like they were analyzing
this new cast because we were pretty much a brand
new cast and they singled me out by name. You know,
that was a good news. The bad news was like
most annoying newcomer. Yeah, right away after my first show.
So I'm like looking at this, and I thought, well,
(35:58):
you know, this is I'm already at a crossroads right
out of the gate. So I can either listen to it,
sit and cry. And so what I did was, I mean,
I you know, you talk about bulletin board materia. I
just put it up on the on the wall my
office and just clipped it out, and I was like, Okay,
(36:20):
you want to see annoying, I'm going to be I'm
going to be even more annoying. And that's you know,
I had always kind of made a commitment to because
there's so many you know, there's so many funny people
out there. I was like, I'm going to see people
that I know are funnier than I am, but I'm not.
(36:40):
They're not going to out commit me. I'm going to
be the guy who streaks in old school. I'm going
to be the guy who goes gives like one hundred
and ten percent wall. Yeah, in terms of my commitment,
So I thought, that's what I'm going to lean into
and that will get me through and you'll find me
annoying maybe, but but if I break through that then
(37:03):
I'll be fine. So so yeah, I just use it
as a motivation belongs you being you you yeah, yeah, right,
and then and then and then if it still doesn't work,
then you know you tried it on your terms, right,
And because you know a lot of people would try
to like approach things as to what what joke will
(37:26):
work as opposed to what do you think is funny?
And and so I don't, I don't. I wouldn't know
how to do it any other way.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
When are you at your most most creative spot, like
when you come up with your best ideas.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Probably in the bathtub with my fake testicles. I just
looked deeply into their eyes, and I just get hit
with divine inspiration.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
You know, if they help you, they definitely got to be,
got to be way more than ten than you.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Got to have the value I dream, I dream, I
dream about him.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
What did they say? They talk to you, They say,
how are you?
Speaker 4 (38:07):
If you had a good sandwich lately, you should get it.
You should get back on social media.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
So they're not lying to you, they're not. They tell
you the truth.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
They also tell me what stocks to invest in. Yeah, yeah,
uh so there's that. I mean, it's usually when I'm
doing when I'm not trying to think of anything, when
I'm just organically right.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
What is the secret of being able to make people
of all backgrounds land?
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Well, actually, I don't know. I mean, that's kind of
That's that's why a lot of times I sit back
and go, oh, this is kind of crazy that I've
a lot of these movies have hit kind of a
wide spectrum of people, because it's not like like I
set out to, Oh, this, this will be something that
everyone will like h or or a wide audience.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
So you had to know everybody was going to dig
that gator ship.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
No, I had no idea. We just thought it was
a weird move. Like, we're like, this guy should have
a crazy background. What's the crazy Okay, he was a pimp.
He was a pimp in college. Yeah, but he doesn't
realize that's.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
What he was.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
He's like, No, I wasn't a pimp. Yeah yeah, yeah,
it's like, no, what you're describing is a pimp. But no,
we I don't know. We just we just would follow,
you know. I think I think maybe some of that
success is is just what is something that people haven't
seen in a comedy before, and and and being authentic
(39:50):
to that has led.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
To everybody a good reaction yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Big Laker fan. The best Staples Center memory when they
change it to crypto, that's why I love. I was like,
why is it called stables? I wish it was called
Can I slightly change for However, my best Laker memory
(40:17):
is actually a forum. Get back a little bit because
in junior high I went with a buddy and we
were at the initial game where Magic.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
And Bird played each other as late as rookies in
their rookie year. So we sat way up in the noseblee.
And to be at the forum watching these two like,
you could feel that, oh, basketball is about to change.
And even sitting in the at thirteen, way up at
(40:50):
the top, you could see these two players move differently.
They they not only shoot the ball, but they passed
the ball there there. They just have a different flow
and I've never seen anything like it, and and so
that that was huge. You remember, I don't yeah, I'm
(41:12):
gonna say laters, but yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
Yeah, could you could you imagine me and you sitting
here being on the Hawks podcast and him on us?
Speaker 8 (41:22):
Awesome? Pretty awesome? What made you decide to do an
A B A movie in Sydney.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Bro, There's this amazing book called uh not a joke
title Loose Balls. I think it's called loose Balls anyway.
It chronicles the A, B A and and it's a
fascinating book about this fledging league that was trying to
go up, go up against the NBA and all the
(41:57):
the the personality character you know, all the different characters,
all the all the different type of gimmicks they were
trying to do, which later the NBA incorporated. You know,
like the the Showtime Lakers that was all taken from
(42:17):
ABA teams who had cheerleaders and did shows. The three
point line that's taken from the ABA.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
They had a lot of talent, and they.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Had a ton of talent. Amazing all these players who
first probably had five, six, seven years with the ABA,
you know, like you know, everyone from doctor j to
artists Fillmore, all these guys who by the time they
got the NBA, they I mean, if they had NBA numbers,
yeah yeah, but how they let that style of play
(42:50):
was more creative, But it just became it was it
was more about so many of these teams were living
on like a shoe string budget, and and so it
just it was like, God, this could be a funny
place for a comedy of a player, owner, coach who
is scrambling to keep his team alive in Flint, Michigan.
(43:14):
And and of course they're the Tropics, which makes no sense,
but what makes sense in an A B A world?
And uh, we just thought, oh, it's it's such a
it's such a cool world to have a fun different
array of characters. And and you know, there's only four
(43:37):
teams that are A B A teams that made in
the NBA.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
They are.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
You guys, Oh, you guys missed the Murders San Antonio.
Speaker 4 (43:45):
You play you played on one, you played for one
of them.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I wish you did a no no, the former Abas.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Oh he played for two pacers, Ah didn't. The other
two are Denver Nuggets and uh nuts.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
But the fact that the Tropics are trying to make
it and then they the.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Tropics, and that it is training like a basketball training
where you should move.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Yeah, we had we had an whole training camp and
I'm open, I'm open everything.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Camp.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Whole training camp it was, which was the most fun
part we had played in those terrible old school shows.
We played on a floor we played that that was
just literally wood on concrete. So there was no, it
was bad. But I just remember like, wait, why is
Pouh Richardson here? And uh, He's like, oh, he's gonna
(44:50):
play He's going to play on one of the teams.
So he played on the Spurs in the movie, and
we had we had a couple x like a lot
of ex college players and anyway, it was. It was
the most fun movie to shoot because we got to
play ball almost every day.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
And then sometimes those movies are tricky because again, how
NASCAR wanted it to appear real, You want basketball to
appear real. But yeah, you guys made that work. Yeah, yeah,
probably because you're playing center here. But we couldn't selfish.
We could unselfish center. Yeah, and that was my real
hair too. They're Alone was wondering fact.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
Back.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Tough one but it was.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
But but like the ABA we had, we had trouble
getting enough extra background people to be in the crowd scenes,
so we had to move them around the arena. Okay,
now everyone move over here, Now change your your now
your fans of this team.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
And so that was what city did you guys shooting?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
We shot it.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
We shot it all here. We shot three or four
days in Flint.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Okay, that's basically what they're doing in arcade games. Everybody
gotta make it work. You got these Shack and Kobe
memories or stories being court sided.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
Actually that's one of my favorite Staples memories. Okay, So
I had friends of mine who got we would always
get ourselves joke gifts for birthday. Got me a full
Staples Center security that's outfit. I remember that the Reds
when they used to wear the red jackets. In fact,
(46:32):
I should have worn that today. You imagine if you
guys had your tuxedos. I address is full Staples.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
It would have been over. We just take pictures all day.
We probably woudn't even talk.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
And guess what my name is. They got my name
as a security person, Ted Vagina that was on Sports
Center and everything.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
How long ago was that because I remember it was
that like this ten years ago, seven years ago.
Speaker 4 (46:53):
Yeah, And so I snuck it in and then during
one of the breaks, I stood up next to and
pretended to be security, and it it became like this
bier people in the crowd started but I kept a
serious face and I just because you know how they
just stand there like you have no expression. Next thing,
you know, I sat back down. People started. I get
a tap on the shoulder. There's a guy's like, you know,
(47:16):
Shack's here. He's he's on the baseline, just down over there.
I'm with Shack. He's like, he thinks it's do you
want to throw him out of the game because he's
about to leave. It's like in the fourth court he's
gonna probably leave. And I'm like yes, So I get
back at my stuff. I stand up during the commercial
break and I start looking on them and I'm like, hey,
(47:38):
cut it out. And he's like what. I'm like, stop
it you. I'm just like motioning, and then he's going what.
I'm like, that's it. So I throw him out of
the game. And it gets this big round of applause.
But it was all Shack's idea.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
It's always saxcited.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Then he's got good idea he does, and then he
was People were just laughing and and he was like,
I'm proud of you, man. I'm like, for what, no,
just where your career is done, I'm proud of you.
And I'm like, this is one of the funniest things
(48:18):
I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
He stands memes at least two memes a day.
Speaker 4 (48:21):
To my phone really yes, Yeah, he's just a big
old kid. Yeah right, And then we did we did
a sketch one. He came on Saturday Night Live once,
not as the host, but as like a just sketch,
you know, shacks around. He wants to be in sketches,
and they wrote a sketch that was so funny that
got cut, but I think you can still find it
online where I'm like dressed in like little kids booty
(48:44):
pajamas and the cast is pick picking on me, they're
making fun of me, and then Shaq shows up. He's like,
what's going on? Like, I'm like shack, the cast is
making fun of me. He's like, come over here, and
he picks me up in his arms like a baby,
and he proceeds to sing a song called no One's
Gone to Hurt my little Man, and we sing a
(49:05):
duet together about how no One's gonna hurt while I'm
in his arm yes, and I'm six three spelt two
d and twenty pounds and he picked me up no problem,
and we sang and I was like, you're funny, You're
that's hilarious. But he had a funnier show than the host.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
At least he had clothes on, because he does it
like that sometimes while he's naked. Oh he really.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
Anyway, that's why we get along.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
There you go. Yeah, you guys, you guys chest here
can touch Yeah. Usc USC basketball is in good hands
right now with Juju returning from injury. A friend of
a program, Elijah or renas, do you get a chance
to catch SD sports at all?
Speaker 4 (49:56):
Aby or I've I've gone to a couple the women's game,
not as much as I I thought. I go to
USC football games here and there, but I like to
go to more of the basketball all.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Right before quick hitters? H Dad, How important is you
to be present kids? Family? A thriving career? This lasted
a very long time. How important is you to be
present for your family and your kids? In particular?
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Children are overrated. I'm annoyed by that. I don't even
know why we had kids. They eat your food, they're
they're money and time stuck. Piss all exactly, piss them
for that. They don't empty the dishwasher, take out the trash,
or do anything.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
No.
Speaker 4 (50:37):
I've always tried. I've I've always tried to as much
as I've worked, I've always tried to set a big
chunk of time, usually in the summer, for us to
just be a family and uh, and we've always kind
of talked about we've always kind of tried to impart
(50:59):
with our boys that like, Okay, you're going to grow
up in Hollywood, You're going to grow up in la
and that's just a part of it. But you know,
you don't just try. You can't come off as as
you know, you have to say please and thank you
have to look people in the eye, you have to
shake their hand and exactly and that everything I've achieved,
(51:21):
like it's always you know, it's a really thin margin
between everything can go away really quickly because a lot
of it is chance and luck and opportunity. And so
you just have to you can't take anything for granted
and and use that approach in your day to day life.
(51:41):
And people will be surprised and impressed that you're, you know,
not some kid who just stares at his phone, and
that you're actually present and engaged. And so that's all
we've ever talked about.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
You had kids to play sports, you ever attempted the
cuss refs out or yell at rests or you just
kind of sit back.
Speaker 4 (51:59):
No, I'm I leave the refs alone.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
As my own experience as a as a volunteer referee,
mostly in soccer, okay, watching parents lose their minds, right, I'm.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
A coach and yeah he lost his mind?
Speaker 4 (52:18):
Have you as a parent or as a coach. Both
my kids are on the coach so so I'm curious
about that. When yeah, when you where their moment are
you usually like, guy, why did I do that? Or
you're like, no, they deserved it.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Probably more on the that they deserved the side because
that's coming from a good place. Yeah, it's coming from
a genuine place. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting because I
coach my kids. I have twin boys, and I feel
like sometimes like when I first started coaching kids, we
get the our team would get the bad end the
stick because of who their dad was, you know what
I mean. So they'd been trying to show out or
not trying to show so, you know, sometimes I just
(52:57):
had to throw a few polite words their way just
to make them know they were here and right right
right stop.
Speaker 4 (53:01):
But you're an ex NBA player, I don't feel like
I can yell a run.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
A movie star though, I don't much rather hear you
yelled than me.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:09):
Oh and so I've been to I've been too polite
this whole time, all time.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Definitely, you still got time.
Speaker 4 (53:16):
That was a terrible call. Do you know how much
my movies have made? There we go, there we go,
we combined? You call that a travel?
Speaker 2 (53:30):
That was a go with that wash?
Speaker 1 (53:32):
That's a no.
Speaker 4 (53:34):
I'm I'm always like because I just see we see
these videos of parents losing their minds against and yes,
you sports referee, it's gonna be very inconsistent.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
Paid twenty dollars a game.
Speaker 4 (53:48):
Yeah, so yeah, I usually lay back.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Is that Willie Nelson's line?
Speaker 4 (53:54):
Uh No, this is a but it is a It
is a company in text us based out of Austin, Okay.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Cricket?
Speaker 4 (54:05):
Yeah that's yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
Has Willy been? Has Willy been?
Speaker 5 (54:10):
Have not?
Speaker 1 (54:11):
We'd love to you got to track Willie down When
I want to burn one with.
Speaker 4 (54:15):
You, You're gonna have to. You have to go on
the road. Probably, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
Willy.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
Are you watching this?
Speaker 2 (54:23):
These guys.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
Will when when when's the next tour, Scott, They'll go
to you.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
Yeah, yeah, they'll they'll get you infuse drinks. Infuse drinks.
Speaker 4 (54:36):
Yea, man, they'll come on your bus. They probably, they
probably won't leave, and.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
We'll find down Nelson, which is making a big old
pow wow.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
Oh, good old Donnie.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
First thing to come to mind. Let us know a
movie you see in theaters recently that you loved. Do
you go to theaters?
Speaker 4 (54:55):
When was the last time I was in a theater?
I shouldn't say that you have to go the theater.
Support support movies in theaters, please.
Speaker 2 (55:07):
Michael Jackson? Was the last time was last night? Really?
Speaker 1 (55:10):
I haven't seen Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4 (55:11):
And that's that's a that's a movie you have to
see in the theater.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
Yes, you have to.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
I saw Goat with the kids.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
You have a munchy snack, probably.
Speaker 5 (55:23):
Popcorn? Sorry that flame? Yeah you could have kept that
all right, that's the worst heard he puts the honey
bun and some ship ding dongs skittles.
Speaker 4 (55:40):
Yeah, how about like Swedish fish?
Speaker 2 (55:46):
You gross?
Speaker 4 (55:49):
Gross, no sugar, but there's sure there are no sugar.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
You're not. You're not.
Speaker 4 (55:57):
I need to get you some good Sweedish fish.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (56:01):
I don't know where you're getting your fish?
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Right? Yeah? I don't know where you get your fish from.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
Yeah, how do you unwind other than time with your
fake testicles?
Speaker 4 (56:16):
Let's see? Probably I just uh, you know what, I
really love lighting a fire in my backyard, not like
a you know, in a fireplace. I'm not crazy person.
Speaker 6 (56:30):
Uh and yeah, sunset relaxing, Yeah, exactly, a glass of
wine exactly.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
Okay, you're not the only one that get caught staring
at the fireplace. Oh I do. I'll do that.
Speaker 4 (56:45):
It's mesmerizing.
Speaker 1 (56:46):
But you're on drug.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
Yeah, I'm definitely when I Yeah. One album you can
listen to and repeat Kenny log Probably.
Speaker 1 (56:55):
Log is probably you know Kenny Logs is.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
Kidding?
Speaker 1 (57:00):
Is here?
Speaker 2 (57:02):
This is it?
Speaker 4 (57:03):
Magus one of them I could listen to on repeat.
Speaker 2 (57:16):
He was straight to the note to He was straight
to the note.
Speaker 4 (57:19):
About peaches Nerds.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
You go.
Speaker 1 (57:26):
Five dinner guests, dead are alive? You plus five? I
was trying to pull I was trying to pull this off,
but couldn't. They couldn't come to U U plus five
dead or alive dinner dinner dinner. Guess Matt Barnes, you're
(57:47):
probably the second person is invited to dinner. So thank
you and we asked that question like three times. So
thank you.
Speaker 4 (57:52):
Kenny Loggins. Hey, Peaches and herb and we're and we're
on Willingnesson's tour bus at six.
Speaker 2 (58:05):
That's nice. That's nice. That's nice. I like that Shahood Crush.
Speaker 4 (58:10):
Well, I'm like, I'm like a kid of seventies TV.
So fair yeah, fair face. Uh, Christie Tigu's I really
like Julie McCoy on the Love Boat.
Speaker 1 (58:29):
Okay, these were all in your bank bank.
Speaker 4 (58:33):
Sank bank probably yeah, probably?
Speaker 1 (58:40):
Uh? Who else?
Speaker 4 (58:43):
Oh no, not quite?
Speaker 2 (58:45):
I like her.
Speaker 4 (58:50):
Who is who? I kind of like the other threes company. Yeah,
like the other woman.
Speaker 9 (58:58):
No, no, no, jam it's more of a Janet, really
interesting Janet, not so much some weird ladies.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
Right, yeah, all right, I'm giving you, gonna give you
three players. Put them in your order. Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron,
James Wrinkham.
Speaker 4 (59:19):
Well, okay, it's got to be and and whoever's third?
Speaker 2 (59:24):
Still great.
Speaker 4 (59:25):
They're so mad, but they're they're they're still great.
Speaker 1 (59:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (59:31):
And I have this argument all the time with my kids.
There you go that it's got to be Michael, uh,
because everyone forgets he was always all defensive NBA First
Team in addition to what he did offensively nine times,
nine times. And then I think, I think I'll have
(59:57):
to just as a Laker fan, go Kobe second, Lebron third.
Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Wrong with that, That's how that's how I look at it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
I agree, But but you can have anyone.
Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
But do you know who are the most satisfied Olympic
medal winners? When they did a survey, mm hmm, So
they interviewed gold medal, silver, bronze. Who's the happiest of
the three. Yes, because they didn't expect to win, So
(01:00:31):
Lebron be happy with bronze. He's going to be so happy.
It's good reasoning because the gold medal winners there was
so much pressure. They were like, thank god, I just
want because they probably expected to win the silver. They're
mad they thought. The Brons are like, I don't even
I didn't even plan to come to the party.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Yes, this last minute, if you could see one guest
on our show, who could it be?
Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
But you have to help us get your answer on
the show.
Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
We I don't know how to help, but it sounds
like you need to get Willy on the show.
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
I have to be a part of this, you have
to say shut your mouth.
Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
Oh oh, pan pan pan Panda, shut your mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
That was good, That was good. Well, thank you very much, man,
it was an honor with you you guys coming out
on Netflix sixteenth. Make sure you catch my birthday is
around my birthday, you know what, I don't almost spoil
it in their mind. Okay, thank your honor. That's all right.
(01:01:55):
Well you cast us on all the Smoke Production YouTube
and the draft king nets work. Coming out on Netflix
July sixteenth.
Speaker 4 (01:02:03):
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