April 3, 2025 • 8 mins
We had Paul Walter Hauser, star of "The Luckiest Man in America" on the phone today!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are pretty excited for several different reasons to have
on our next guest. He is starring in a new
movie which looks amazing, called The Luckiest Man in America.
It's opening in theaters tomorrow. Joining us right now is
Emmy Award winner Paul Walter Howser.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How's it going, Paul, Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning. This is not only the morning Show, this
is the show in San Diego, and I'm talking with
Eddie Sky, Emily and Thor. How you doing that is correct?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Paul, You nailed that, absolutely true. Paul.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Listen, There's a million things I want to talk to
you about, because really, honestly, everything that you start in
I am a fan of I think it is fantastic
and I can't wait to talk to you about this
new movie. But we got to talk first because me
and Thor here on the show, we love wrestling. Oh yeah,
and you are a big wrestling guy too, and so
much so that you're like you get involved in wrestling.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I wrestle, bro I do it now. It's it's the
most fun thing in the world. I make my my
actual living from acting. But on the side, I've been
wrestling and I took some classes with the XWWE RWAHS
guy named Paul London.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh yeah, I remember him.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I've been getting in the ring and it's been fun.
I'm not like producing segments and working with a couple
of different companies, but primarily I work with Major League
Wrestling MLW. They have a very storied history and these people,
they're a video library. They have matches from CM Punk,
Terry Funk, Dusty Rhodes, guys like legends. You've never seen
some of these matches. So we're looking to get a
(01:39):
TV media rights deal and people can watch MLW and
see the library of content.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That's so wow.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Now, no worry, no fear that you know, you're risking
injury or anything like that, Like you do you wrestle
in while you're working acting wise, like do people freak out?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know, it's more on the side. Yeah. I try
to time it out to where it doesn't worry anybody.
But I think of it attestilated risk. You know, people
die on escalators, you know, like it can happen with anybody.
So I just kind of try to play it safe,
play it cool, and do the things that I actually
know that I can accomplish. Kind of like acting, it's like,
(02:17):
sometimes it can be a risk, but usually you sign
on the stuff you feel you know you can do.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That's fantastic. We love that stuff. Man, that's great.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So Paul, tell me about the Luckiest Man in America
because this movie is is this based on a true story?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It sure is. We can't. We came pretty darn accurate.
Back in nineteen eighty four, this game show Press Your
Luck was at the height of his popularity. Oh yeah,
the guy, Yeah, yeah, noamies under dollars or whatever. Yeah,
I got my Michael Larson. He's a bit of a
(02:55):
grifter and a con man, and he went on the
show and he had memorized the algorithm, the pattern of
the board because he had watched it and taken notes
for probably months on end. The guy goes on the
show and takes CBS for over one hundred thousand dollars,
And at first they're happy for him, They're like, whoa,
he just got further than most of the contestants. But
(03:16):
eventually it's like it's a little ridiculous. His odds are
insane that he has to land on a wamie and
he's up to seventy eighty ninety thousand dollars. So these
people are just like induced with nausea and panic and
they're trying to figure out, you know, is this guy
is this guy who he says he is.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's crazy. I didn't I wasn't aware of that story.
But the guy broke the code to press your luck.
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Apparently they only had five patterns. There's a pretty simple
algorithm and this guy figured it out.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Wow. I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
But I'm also like, he's not cheating. No, no, I mean,
he's just it's like it's like card counting. It's technically
not cheating, right, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
A thousand percent, it's not like card counting. I believe
you get kicked out of you don't like Taylor anything.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, you can't get arrested for it. They just kick
you out. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
We are talking to Emmy winning actor Paul Walter Houser
this morning. And Paul, you've been in a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I I don't normally tweet at celebrities or anything like that.
I did tweet at you one time and you liked it,
which I appreciated about that. Your character from Cobra, Kai
Stingray is my favorite character. Maybe ever on TV. I
freaking love that character, dude, it is fantastic. I'm so
sad the series is over. Any talk of a Stingray spinoff.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yo, we we pitched sing Ray movie to Sony and
they needed Netflix to come in with some money. I
don't think Netflix was interested, but they don't get it.
But yeah, no, we pitched a sing Ray movie. I
would still love to do it. That character is like
you really caught on with people where if I'm in
a in an airport, occasionally a kittabal tug on their
(05:00):
mother's drafts and their dad shirt and kind of pointed
me in Whitford and it's it kind of looks like
those little kids, you know when they see Santa Claus
and Miracle on thirty fourth Streets. The guy you know,
and it's like, for me, they're nothing cooler than making
some kids day. And he's gonna tell that story to
his classmates and the.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Next week, you know, for me, the airport.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yes, Paul, Honestly, your characters, whenever you're in a movie
or TV show, a lot of the times your characters
seem unintentionally funny. Like Steamwray. I mean, he's it's funny,
but I don't know. Is it is it designed that
way to be unintentionally funny.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It depends, you know. I think I think in the
writing itself, they do a good job of making them
so earnest that it is funny. Yes, you know, I
watch the Christopher Gats documentaries like that's in show. Yeah
it might be. Well, what's great about those movies is,
you know, these people take themselves really seriously, even though
what they're doing might be a little silly, and so
it's very funny to see them, you know, in all
(06:12):
their earnestness, try to compete there, try to do what
they do. And I think sting Ray's kind of like
one of those people. I try to view it with comedy.
I try to make it funny and think of what
would Jack Black do? Will Chris Harley do? And try to,
you know, make it a really physical fun character.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Now, Paul, if you, me and Eddie watched Dark Side
of the Ring, we know all the wrestling stories. If
there's a wrestling story or character or person you could
do a movie about.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Who would it be?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh Man, I would love to play Mick Foley in
a biopic.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
That would be great.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
He's that'd be amazing. But other than that, I think,
you know, I think there should be a Lex Luger movie.
That guy as a crazy story about how he wrote
the same and was a very big deal and then
got addicted to drugs and alcohol and all these things.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Miss Elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, girlfriend passed away and then he was wheelchair and
now Diamond Dallas Page is doing yoga with him to
get him out of the wheelchair. He's about to be
inducted into the WW Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, Now, Paul, you did play a real life character.
You played Richard Jewel, the guy that was accused of
the Olympic bombing, and you know that was a great movie,
great character. But did you ever have like surreal moments
when you looked over and went, holy crap, that's Clint Eastwood?
Who is my director?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Dude. I tell people all the time. I would show
up at seven am, you know, to go into hair
and makeup, and I would be something my chests hard
with my fifth listening to like Hill Sung worship music
or like Kendrick Klamar and dugging. I'd be shugging a
colber from Starbucks with my sunglasses. I'm just mean mugging
(08:05):
the mirror in the car because I just I like,
you have to believe that you're worthy of starring in
a movie, and that it's a forty million dollars biopick,
and that you're surrounded by Eastwood, Cassy Base and Sam Rockwell,
not to mention Olivia Wilde and John Hamm.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Like that was surreal, Dude. I had to show up
and just and just be that guy, even if I
didn't feel like it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That is great.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, listen, we're looking forward to checking out the movie.
It's in theaters tomorrow. It's called The Luckiest Man in America.
Can't wait to see it. Really good at time. Pleasure
talking to you, Paul. Thanks for your time this morning.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, God bless you guys. Go see the movie.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
We will, dude. Thanks bro. There you go, Paul, super
interesting guy. Yeah,
We are pretty excited for several different reasons to have
on our next guest. He is starring in a new
movie which looks amazing, called The Luckiest Man in America.
It's opening in theaters tomorrow. Joining us right now is
Emmy Award winner Paul Walter Howser.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How's it going, Paul, Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning. This is not only the morning Show, this
is the show in San Diego, and I'm talking with
Eddie Sky, Emily and Thor. How you doing that is correct?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Paul, You nailed that, absolutely true. Paul.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Listen, There's a million things I want to talk to
you about, because really, honestly, everything that you start in
I am a fan of I think it is fantastic
and I can't wait to talk to you about this
new movie. But we got to talk first because me
and Thor here on the show, we love wrestling. Oh yeah,
and you are a big wrestling guy too, and so
much so that you're like you get involved in wrestling.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I wrestle, bro I do it now. It's it's the
most fun thing in the world. I make my my
actual living from acting. But on the side, I've been
wrestling and I took some classes with the XWWE RWAHS
guy named Paul London.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh yeah, I remember him.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I've been getting in the ring and it's been fun.
I'm not like producing segments and working with a couple
of different companies, but primarily I work with Major League
Wrestling MLW. They have a very storied history and these people,
they're a video library. They have matches from CM Punk,
Terry Funk, Dusty Rhodes, guys like legends. You've never seen
some of these matches. So we're looking to get a
(01:39):
TV media rights deal and people can watch MLW and
see the library of content.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That's so wow.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Now, no worry, no fear that you know, you're risking
injury or anything like that, Like you do you wrestle
in while you're working acting wise, like do people freak out?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know, it's more on the side. Yeah. I try
to time it out to where it doesn't worry anybody.
But I think of it attestilated risk. You know, people
die on escalators, you know, like it can happen with anybody.
So I just kind of try to play it safe,
play it cool, and do the things that I actually
know that I can accomplish. Kind of like acting, it's like,
(02:17):
sometimes it can be a risk, but usually you sign
on the stuff you feel you know you can do.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That's fantastic. We love that stuff. Man, that's great.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So Paul, tell me about the Luckiest Man in America
because this movie is is this based on a true story?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It sure is. We can't. We came pretty darn accurate.
Back in nineteen eighty four, this game show Press Your
Luck was at the height of his popularity. Oh yeah,
the guy, Yeah, yeah, noamies under dollars or whatever. Yeah,
I got my Michael Larson. He's a bit of a
(02:55):
grifter and a con man, and he went on the
show and he had memorized the algorithm, the pattern of
the board because he had watched it and taken notes
for probably months on end. The guy goes on the
show and takes CBS for over one hundred thousand dollars,
And at first they're happy for him, They're like, whoa,
he just got further than most of the contestants. But
(03:16):
eventually it's like it's a little ridiculous. His odds are
insane that he has to land on a wamie and
he's up to seventy eighty ninety thousand dollars. So these
people are just like induced with nausea and panic and
they're trying to figure out, you know, is this guy
is this guy who he says he is.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's crazy. I didn't I wasn't aware of that story.
But the guy broke the code to press your luck.
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Apparently they only had five patterns. There's a pretty simple
algorithm and this guy figured it out.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Wow. I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
But I'm also like, he's not cheating. No, no, I mean,
he's just it's like it's like card counting. It's technically
not cheating, right, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
A thousand percent, it's not like card counting. I believe
you get kicked out of you don't like Taylor anything.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, you can't get arrested for it. They just kick
you out. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
We are talking to Emmy winning actor Paul Walter Houser
this morning. And Paul, you've been in a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I I don't normally tweet at celebrities or anything like that.
I did tweet at you one time and you liked it,
which I appreciated about that. Your character from Cobra, Kai
Stingray is my favorite character. Maybe ever on TV. I
freaking love that character, dude, it is fantastic. I'm so
sad the series is over. Any talk of a Stingray spinoff.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yo, we we pitched sing Ray movie to Sony and
they needed Netflix to come in with some money. I
don't think Netflix was interested, but they don't get it.
But yeah, no, we pitched a sing Ray movie. I
would still love to do it. That character is like
you really caught on with people where if I'm in
a in an airport, occasionally a kittabal tug on their
(05:00):
mother's drafts and their dad shirt and kind of pointed
me in Whitford and it's it kind of looks like
those little kids, you know when they see Santa Claus
and Miracle on thirty fourth Streets. The guy you know,
and it's like, for me, they're nothing cooler than making
some kids day. And he's gonna tell that story to
his classmates and the.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Next week, you know, for me, the airport.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yes, Paul, Honestly, your characters, whenever you're in a movie
or TV show, a lot of the times your characters
seem unintentionally funny. Like Steamwray. I mean, he's it's funny,
but I don't know. Is it is it designed that
way to be unintentionally funny.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It depends, you know. I think I think in the
writing itself, they do a good job of making them
so earnest that it is funny. Yes, you know, I
watch the Christopher Gats documentaries like that's in show. Yeah
it might be. Well, what's great about those movies is,
you know, these people take themselves really seriously, even though
what they're doing might be a little silly, and so
it's very funny to see them, you know, in all
(06:12):
their earnestness, try to compete there, try to do what
they do. And I think sting Ray's kind of like
one of those people. I try to view it with comedy.
I try to make it funny and think of what
would Jack Black do? Will Chris Harley do? And try to,
you know, make it a really physical fun character.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Now, Paul, if you, me and Eddie watched Dark Side
of the Ring, we know all the wrestling stories. If
there's a wrestling story or character or person you could
do a movie about.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Who would it be?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh Man, I would love to play Mick Foley in
a biopic.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
That would be great.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
He's that'd be amazing. But other than that, I think,
you know, I think there should be a Lex Luger movie.
That guy as a crazy story about how he wrote
the same and was a very big deal and then
got addicted to drugs and alcohol and all these things.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Miss Elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, girlfriend passed away and then he was wheelchair and
now Diamond Dallas Page is doing yoga with him to
get him out of the wheelchair. He's about to be
inducted into the WW Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, Now, Paul, you did play a real life character.
You played Richard Jewel, the guy that was accused of
the Olympic bombing, and you know that was a great movie,
great character. But did you ever have like surreal moments
when you looked over and went, holy crap, that's Clint Eastwood?
Who is my director?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Dude. I tell people all the time. I would show
up at seven am, you know, to go into hair
and makeup, and I would be something my chests hard
with my fifth listening to like Hill Sung worship music
or like Kendrick Klamar and dugging. I'd be shugging a
colber from Starbucks with my sunglasses. I'm just mean mugging
(08:05):
the mirror in the car because I just I like,
you have to believe that you're worthy of starring in
a movie, and that it's a forty million dollars biopick,
and that you're surrounded by Eastwood, Cassy Base and Sam Rockwell,
not to mention Olivia Wilde and John Hamm.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Like that was surreal, Dude. I had to show up
and just and just be that guy, even if I
didn't feel like it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That is great.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, listen, we're looking forward to checking out the movie.
It's in theaters tomorrow. It's called The Luckiest Man in America.
Can't wait to see it. Really good at time. Pleasure
talking to you, Paul. Thanks for your time this morning.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, God bless you guys. Go see the movie.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
We will, dude. Thanks bro. There you go, Paul, super
interesting guy. Yeah,
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