November 21, 2025 • 50 mins
Sky Sports F1 commentator David Croft shares how F1 spread across different U.S. cities and breaks down how the sport has thrived in new markets. Legendary actor/producer Michael Douglas discusses his love of F1 and shares a story of a movie stunt that almost went horribly wrong. Comedian/impressionist Matt Friend performs some of his best impersonations and shares how he has risen to be among the best in the comedy world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
David Croft, Sky Sports Formula one commentator joining us on
the program, and Formula one fans in the UK and
Ireland can watch this race unfolded Vegas the Vegas Grand
Prix live on Sky Sports. And now, David, good to
see you. Good to see you, say crafty as they
like to call you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm good, I'm good. So explain this how this exploded
in the United States? When and how did Formula one
all of a sudden become important in our lives.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I'll take you back to two thousand and five, June
the nineteenth, two thousand and five, my birthday, which is
why I remember this day, and it was one of
the worst days in Formula one history because that was
when we raced at Indianapolis with only six cars if
you remember, the cars withdrew on the formation lap because
the tires, the mission and tires weren't holding out and
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we hit a new low. And since then, Formula one
has been right. How do we give back to the
America and public and actually make this sport a bit
more accessible in such a great country. So, first and foremost,
liberty media when they got the Commercial Rise, decided we
needed more races in the States and we needed to
move away through it from Indianapolis, which is great and
(01:15):
the Indy five hundred, it is a marvelous event. But
let's have another track, and let's have a track that
we can really call our own KTA Circuit of the Americas.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
In Austin.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I know, if you guys have ever been to Austin,
you look like you've partied in Austin just a.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Couple of times. Not yourself, Dan, You know you've got
to bed early.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, you're in charge, right, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So we go and party in Austin, and everyone comes
to Austin because it's a racist track.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's a brilliant circuit.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
The fans love it, and we pack out and take
over Austin for the US Grand Prix.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
But that's not enough.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We need glamour, we need a bit of sex appeal.
We go to Miami where all the cool people hang out. Yeah, yeah,
where Marvin hangs out, right, But not yourself, Dan, because
you go to bed early. And then we think, right, okay,
that's good. We've got East Coast sorted out, We've got
Texas sorted out.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
We've probably need another race.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And where would you want to go and race in
the States if you've already.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Got the best of the best.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Where you go to the Las Vegas right where we
know you come a pasty And that's why you're here
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And we're not going to be you know, don't know,
there's too much to.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Me and Pitbull. We're not going to bed, just letting
you know.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Okay, do we all get an invite to that one?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You've got tickets for everyone Friday night?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Friday night?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, Pitbull, yeah, yeah, yeah, and me and the boys
yeah done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Before then, of course we're going qualifying.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And you see the cars racing down the strip and
it's absolutely amazing under the lights in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
The sphere looks fantastic.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The strip looks all lit up, and it just shows
off f one to be the biggest and the best
motor sport out there, which I think it is. Now
couple with that, we've got drive to survive. We've sold
the soap opera. You know, we used to say come
for the live sport and stay around for the soap opera.
Now here's the soap opera hanging around for the live sport,
and the soap opera is often as good as the
(03:01):
live sport.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But for that really, I think the Drive to survive
that feeling of because I didn't know how much drama
there was behind. Yeah, what money changing teams, girlfriends, wives,
somebody's a star, somebody's no longer a star.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You take the most extreme competition and a lot of
money and the most competitive people on the planet, and
you're going to have a soap opera that rivals Days
of Our Lives, Dynasty, Dallas. I don't know what other
soap operas are around these days, but you know, it
all comes together and it's real as well. And Drive
to Survives has brought in a new audience, a younger audience,
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and one of the reasons I think it's taking off
of the States is that is that now you can
see a lot more races in your time zone over here.
But now more female fans are coming to the sport,
more younger fans are coming to the sport as well,
and personally it's been great. I've gone from arriving for
Groen Pries in the past of the States, when no
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one has known what f one is, let alone who
we are to now be called out by the guy
at Passport Controls saying hey, crafty, how are you doing, which.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Is just fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You know, I love this and thank you very much
to the Dallas customs officers.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Any any issues with celebrities when you're working the races.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well, issues with celebrities, would you mean?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I don't know, somebody difficult, doesn't want to be talked
to leave?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh yeah, all the time, to be fair.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
But Martin Brundle, the man who stands alongside me and
who does the most magnificent grid walks, he's the guy
that gets rejected by the celebrities or he bumps into
Machine Gun Kelly, who doesn't quite know what day of
the week it is, let alone, who is meant.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
To be talking to in that respect.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's a real shame because I'm a big fan of
Machine Gun Kelly and gave Martin.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
A whole load of questions.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
And I think the celebrities that come on the Grid
by and large are very good to be honest, and
they give freely of their time to have a chat.
Martin was once told Daniel Craig, James Bond is on
the grid. Don't talk to James Bond. He doesn't want
to talk. So Martin being Martin, went straight up to
James Bond and had a chat, and James Bond went.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Hey, Martin, how are you doing in that? Because Martin Brundle.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Is bigger than James Bond, way more real. Really, yeah, seriously,
he knows everybody in this sport.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, if I'm Martin, i walk up to Daniel Craig
and say, hey, I'm not supposed to talk to you.
I'm Martin brun Like. That's yeah exactly, And Dan, you're seven,
I'm all eight.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And they both drove an Aston Marta at that time.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is it how much is the car? How much of
it is the driver?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I don't know how much? How much is you Dan?
And how much is your team?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Probably sixty forty?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What in their favor?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, okay, that's that's very nes You see why he's
such a good boss.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
God, I like this.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I would say, you can have the best driver on
the planet, but if you if you give him a donkey,
he's not going to go and win. So you need
a massive technical team to produce something that allows the
drivers to show off their superhuman skills. You're not gonna
super Bowl if you've got the best quarterback, you're going
to need the best defense to go with it as well.
(06:04):
On that subject, come on the Bears. I am a
big Chicago Bears fan, and I just want to say
seven to three?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Who saw that? I wait, why are you a Bears fan?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Because I'm old?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Right?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Is this the eighties here?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
When I first started watching, Yeah, we go, When I
first started watching American football, the fridge was his prime.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
So PAULI is from Chicago. Yeah, Yeah, Paul's from Chicago.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Everyone I meet from brit Great Britain. They watched the
Bears in the eighties on BBC and then it went away,
and so you only really knew the Bears and a
few other teams.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, and I still only know the Bears are a
couple of other teams.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Do you know what I want? This is one of
the highlights of my career.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I'm going to go off script here when I got
asked to commentate on the Super Bowl and I had
to miss a race when my eldest son was born,
and my bosses when I worked for the BBC said, right,
if you're going to miss a race, you either take
a pay cup or go and do the super Bowl
instead of a race. I'm like, yeah, I'll do the
super Bowl, thank very much. And it was the Miami
Super Bowl when Prince played the halftime show, I went, Devin.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Hester return the kickoff.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, and I went absolutely ballistic.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And that was your highlight was that was as poorly.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And I remember it didn't get any better on that
and my co commentated said, yeah, crafty, that's really good.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But we've got four hours of this. Maybe you might
want to pace yourself a little bit. That was fabulous,
but no, you have you.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Have teams upwards of one thousand people back at base
designing a car, building a car, simulating that car, even
going so far as to getting bits of tarmac from
the tracks and putting it on a machine backup Base,
and then running tires on that machine so they can
simulate how the interaction between the tire and the tarmac goes.
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To give them a chance when they come to Vegas,
that's the level that they go to. They build engines
as well, with the marketing, the commercial thousands of people
involved in making two cars go as fast as they
can from A to B and then the drivers get
all the credit at the end of the year. But
some people follow teams. Some people follow you know, drivers.
If you follow a team, that team is always going
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to be there for you. If you follow a driver,
they can move. You could be a big Mercedes fan
and now having to go and buy some red for Ferrari.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You know, if you're if you want to go and
cheer on Lewis.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hamilton, he's David craft Crafty Sky Sports Formula one commentator.
You know, you look in the cockpit of these cars
and I was curious the heights. I think there's a
driver might be five three, Ali Burman, might be six two.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, what are you six three?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah? I used to be, so I'm not. I'm kind
of Oli Burman.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah you are.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You could just about fit in. You're kind of skulting up. Yeah, yeah,
you could do it poorly, I think. Yeah, not a
bad size.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Marvin.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, what about Fritzy, Fritzy, you're with me, Fritz.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
On the sidelines, Seaton, see I think.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
About five or eleven yeah, with downforce, with downforce, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
So I actually drove three laps once in the Formula
one car. It's one of the best experiences of my life.
How first I went one hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And seventy five down the straight.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But what are they going to do here in Vegas?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Top speed top speed qualifying two to twenty one miles
an hour down the straight and then but it's the
stopping distance that first gets you. So they'll hit the
brakes at one hundred meters before the corner at the
T sixteen, and they will scrub off two twenty one
down to about seventy, so one hundred and fifty miles
an hour in one hundred meters, And you feel that
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when you're strapped into the cockpit. And then your cornering
speed as well, where you'll go through a corner like
a fast right hander at a one hundred and eighty
miles an hour and the car just sticks to the
road and it's just phenomenal. It's one of the most
glorious experiences. But I remember sitting in the car and
they kind of they strapped me in. They said, right, okay, Crafty,
can it you just go a bit lower for us? Yeah, okay,
(10:00):
go a bit low.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, we need to go a bit lower, Crafty, Crafty.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
We need to go a little bit lower than that's guys,
I'm going to be singing boy soprano for the rest
of my life if I go any lower, because you've
got the belts between the between your legs and stuff.
And it was kind of it was like if you're
on a roller coaster at New York, New York, you know,
and he's trapped in beforehand and you just can't move.
But when when you get going, you just feel free
and you feel part of the car, and it's just
(10:26):
a phenomenal experience.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
If you ever get the chance, do say yes.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Be a Formula one movie with Brad Pitt. You're in it?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, okay, type cast.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
But did you know that's a stretch, did you Okay?
This is where you know, if we have a football
movie or a basketball you know, we we're always going, well,
could they really play you know, like white men can't
jump with Wesley Snipes and we're like, I don't know.
How did Formula one view the Formula one movie with
(10:57):
Brad Pitt?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Well, Formula one opened the doors and said, right, we'll
give you the biggest access, the best access, come and
make a movie about our sport that.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Sells our sport.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It's another factor in the growth of the sport that
people have seen this and now want to watch it live.
And they made as real a Formula one movie as
they possibly could, with a little bit of Hollywood sprinkled
in to that. Martin and myself we did nineteen hours
a voiceover and commentary for this, and I remember having
(11:27):
a chat to Joe Kazinski, the director, who's a fabulous
director to work for. Whatever you do is always brilliant,
and then he gets you to do it his way.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That was perfect. Now do it again exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, and we'll do it again and again until you
do it my way and you'll still think it's your way,
but that he just brought the best of out and
martyr them myself.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Did you meet Brad Pitt eventually?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yes, So I went through the whole filming process not
meeting Brad Pitt at all, and then saw him on
the red carpet in New York. Now your time square,
you know, thousands of fans and all the displays have
got the f M movie around it, and I'm still
talking to Lewis Hamilton, two boys from Stevenage, going oh.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
This is just insane.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So you're from the same hometown as Lewis Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I am the second fastest man from Stevenage and always
will and this one and he's he can have that
on it because he's the greatest we've ever seen in
this sport.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Lewis Hamilton's greatest driver of all time.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
For me, Yeah, he's a seven time world champion, should
be an eight time world champion.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Abba Dabby twere starving. Can't catch him in your mind
for staffing? Could this is Jordan versus Lebron?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I think if Max Forstappen has a car that can
give him a championship challenge, he is more than good
enough to get to seven, eight or nine. You know,
he is an exceptional talent. Lewis has gone and done.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It and so you're blaming the car here this year, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
This year Max has driven superbly well and has not
always got the results he deserved because the car has
just not been there for him. He finished a minute
off the pace in Hungary and for he's down in eighth.
And then Red Bull kind of got their act together
a little bit after the summer break and he started
winning again, by which time, sadly, you know, the championship
I think it is a bit too far away from him.
But Lewis, to me, it is the greatest, not just
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for what he's done on the track, but for the
way he has used his platform to highlight issues that
need highlighting. That we are Formula one, so we compete
and we interact as one, and we allow everybody from
all corners of the globe, whoever they are, race, creed, color,
you know, sex, religion, whatever, if you're good enough, come
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to Formula one. And he has used this platform for that,
and that has been brilliant to see how he has
gone from a young man with an exceptional talent to
a more mature man, still with an exceptional talent, but
with a social conscience that I'd like to see more
of our star athletes around the world have, you know,
and not just our star athletes, you have politicians and
celebrities as well. You know, we've all got a voice
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and we should use it for good. But to go
back to Brad Pitt, who by the way, is one
of the nicest men on the planet as well. We
met up on the red carpet and I've still re Martin.
I said, come on, we're gonna go and get selfie
with Brad Pitt. Why, I said, because I haven't met
him yet.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And you have. He said, he's busy. I said, don't care.
We're in the film and movie stars. This is the
only chance I'm ever going to get to do this.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So we walked up to Brad and I went, hey, Brad, Sorry,
I'm crafty, sorry to bother your Hey, crafty man, how
you doing. I'm like, Brad, No, so this is great man.
You legitimize everything we do. I said, well, that's very nice.
I've no idea what it means, but it sounds good.
And we had a selfie and it was really lovely.
Fast forward and this was the best bit about being
in the movie. Fast forward a week and I'm on
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the red carpet now at the London premiere and I
took my son, My youngest study was sixteen. He just
finished his exams. Said, come on, you've done really well.
Here's a little praizy. We're going to go to the premiere.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
So we were in the red cup. We met Tate McCray,
which was really nice. He was ever the sweet and
did a little video for our daughter. We were going
to go and see in con that the next day
with to see Saint mccrane. We saw some actors in
the movie, and I said, right, okay, we're going to
go in, but do you want to see anyone else?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You said, who else?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Can?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We say?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Brad's over there. I see Brad if you want. And
he's like, you don't know Brad Pitt. Of course I
know Brad Pitt. I'm going a movie with him. Son,
you don't know Brad Pitt, you've never met. I said, right,
We're gonna go and see Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
He's a mate. I'm thinking I've met Brad once.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Here.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
This could go horribly wrong, right, So he walks over
and it just finished an in and.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I said, Brad, how's it going? And he spun righting
it crafty? Oh man, what did you think of the film?
At which point my son.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Now thinks, yeah, Dad knows Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So we have a bit of a chat. So one,
by the way, says my son, this is James, Brad. Brad,
James a crafty junior, can't give us a hug.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
And so James, my son is now hugging Brad Pitt, right,
And I have got more Dad points out of that
than anything I've ever done in my career.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
That that was just Megan.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
So you're all in favor of F one two.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, well F two it should be called F two.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, the sequel should be.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
And I've already told Joe because it's good this So
if it comes up, you heard it here first or second,
it should be fast forward eighteen years and Brad and Kerry.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I've had the relationship.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I've had a daughter, and the daughter is excelling in
carts and junior formula and is now ready for Formula one.
And we'll see, you know, Brad and Kerry's daughter go
and tackle Formula one and see what happens. That would
be my sequel. Pleasure to meet you, and you my friend.
Thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's been great.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Don't screw up this weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Okay, do you know what I got? I got hairs
on my arm? Stood up when he said that because
he meant it, didn't he? Yeah, absolutely meant that.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He's David Kraft.
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Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yesterday, Michael Douglas, we saw him in the hotel and
I said, you want to stop, buy and talk some
Formula one And he came by after the show and
we talked about when he was on the show the
last time, and he was in a car club and
he was in high school. So I asked him if
there was ever a point early in his career where
he thought more about being a race car driver than
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an actor.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
There was a brief well in my young career, yes,
I mean it breaks up in high school. I was
a member of a hot rod club, down Shifters, and
so I was into We had a we had jackets,
the down Shifters, the West Sport, and we had a
sea dragster. We had a little sea dragsterer that our
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club raced. I didn't drive, but we used to go
up to Rhode Island of the war.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Where could we erase that?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
And that was when I was in a public school
and high school. And then I went to a boarding school.
And I went to this boarding school, all boys, boarding school,
and they knew nothing about drag racing. They were all
into sports Formula one, Sterling Moss at the time and
all that. So that was when I got my first
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intro into the more sophisticated side of car racing. And then,
as I said on your show a few years ago,
one of my first movies that I did, I had
Steve McQueen as a producer on the movie. And you know,
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he knew I like car And in this movie I
drove a nine to eleven Porsche Target in the movie
that tangerine orangerine, yes tandurine orange color they had in
the movie. I got paid in nineteen sixty nine and
I got paid three thousand dollars for the whole movie.
And the last day of shooting, Steve showed up, thank
(19:20):
you so much for the good job, and he had
these keys he held up. He said, here you go, buddy,
and he gave me the Porsche, you know, which is
more money than my father.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
I made the whole movie.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And also at that time Steve was preparing for the
movie Lemon, So he was going on on weekends out
to the desert, out in desert of the Willow Springs
Racetrack and he was racing. Richie Gintherro had a nine
oweight Porsche, a really hot Porshe and he was racing, practicing.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Not getting ready for Laman.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
And Steve McQueen was a great driver, both motorcycles and cars.
And the Nina eight had this had a little plastic
second seat. I guess to fulfill his class, you know,
he had a major races.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
He was a little plastic seat. And I asked if I.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Could go do a couple of laps with him, and
he asked people, he got permission, and Dan, all I
can tell you is those couple of laps out there
a Willow Springs and there's this large swooping turn that
he could take it about one hundred and fifty miles
an hour and you hud a level with the desert.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
And I was stoked.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
And so after those experiences with Steve, there was also
the Jim Russell Driving School which was out at Willows
Springs and you could race Fourmula F's little Lotus Ford's
open wheels. So I got in and did that and
that was the beginning of my racing career, which promptly
about three races in to the season, We're at river
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Side Racetrack and under a yellow flag, which means yellow
flag has slow down. I took a turn too fast,
spun the car around and went into a wall under
a yellow flag, which is a.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Real no no.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
And that was sort of what I realized, you know
what I mean, like a weekend hero here, but these
guys that are driving are pretty serious that I'm gonna
get myself in trouble. So that was the extent at
the end of my my my racing career.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Where is that Porsche that Steve McQueen gave you.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
That's a very good question. I thought the same thing
that I don't know. I lost this somewhere along the line.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Where did you ever talk to Paul Newman about trying
to balance and be you know, because he was so
involved in racing and a Westport guy he was, I
didn't I.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Saw him a few times. He was an interesting guy,
so talented, nice, but removed he was. I'm never quite
innested what it was exactly. I know he lost his son,
which I thought might have been the thing, but there
(22:14):
was something slightly removed. But I was such an admirer
of him, not only for his racing, but for his
charity work. The whole of the Wall Gang. I was
extraordinary with all those products. I can't believe him. The
figures that he raised is really phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Where's the best place you've ever seen a race?
Speaker 9 (22:36):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
One.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I mean, Monico is tough to be I did one
race in Monico where I had to pick pass and
there's a big, long tunnel it goes through and I
was able during the race, during the race to walk
through the tunnel, and it was it was just it
just an extraordinary experience. So I'd have to say Monico
(23:04):
is probably the most colorful. Although it's a limited race,
it's very tough to pass. There's a lot of talk about,
even though it's long history, that with the cars the
way they're.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Going and they may move on.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But didn't you do a ride along with the King
of Monaco.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
No, I did a ride along with the King of Spain. Oh,
I was in I was at the Barcelona F one
and before the race, they asked me if do you
want to go with the King of Spain around the
track in the what are they called the starter's car,
(23:43):
the pace car.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
So I said, yeah, sure. So I got in the
car with you with.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
His Highness, and I didn't realize that there was a
camera on the dashboard right that had both of us
in full bloom, and so King Juan Carlos took off
and he took off like a bansheet and we went
down on him. I hope he goes he's doing because
the thing about race cars, with all.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Their speed, it's the breaking you can't believe.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
So they go into attorney say there's no way, they're
not going to stop in time. It's just no way.
And the g force on breaking your neck and your
neck is unbelievable. This is why they have all those exercises.
So anyway, we go into the first turn and I'm going,
oh smoking, and I didn't realize I'm on screen.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
I'm looking at it and I'm looking at the King.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I said, you know what you're doing, You show you
know he shot what you're doing.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
The whole way around the track. So that was in Barcelona,
but that was just a warm up. We're talking about
Michael Douglas actor producing. I don't need to say what
should people say when they introduce you?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
What do you want people to A nice guy?
Speaker 9 (25:01):
Is really nice guy?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (25:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I'm very happy I'm an accurate producer. Yeah, and I'm
also a messenger of piece for the United Nations, which
I'd like to spend a lot of time on.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I think there was always this debate about our you know,
these Formula one or NASCAR guys and athletes, and I
would always you know, I would talk to Dale Earnhardt
Junior and he'd say, Hey, sit in that car for
four hours, hand eye coordination, you're losing seven to ten pounds.
You know, everything that goes and if you make a mistake,
(25:36):
it can be But how do you view the athletes
behind the wheel?
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Well, being pretty familiar with F one, in the fact
that I had some.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Friends or a bit owners missus.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
How I got interested in why I'm here in Las Vegas,
this beautiful Fatt hotel for the for the race is
I was friends with the guy that owned the McLaren team.
One of the owners of mclarenty months or o J
before she passed away a couple of years ago. And
I'm now a good friend of a mutual friend of
(26:14):
Monster her Mind's Lawrence Stroll.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Who owns the Alpha the Aston.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Martin team, So I've been able to see close up.
And Lawrence's son Lance drives for Asid Martin. So as
a family friend, I mean, I see the amount of
training that goes in and it's it's staggering. So yes,
the discipline. The thing gets me with NASCAR is they
(26:44):
how close they are, I mean how close they are
for lap after lap.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
I mean in Formula one, you'll have those moments, you.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Know when you have a good but they just they
sit there just I mean just, let's be bumper's touching
at two hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
So there, I mean both both.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
The both races I did need tremendous physical shape to
be in.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Did you do a race car movie?
Speaker 9 (27:11):
No? No, never have, although.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
The Streets of San Francisco, which was soon after my
race car experience, and I was sort of the police
driver of the car with Carl Malden's my partner, and
I always tell this story the very first day of shooting,
the very first day of shooting this which ended up
(27:36):
being one hundred and four hours and four years.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
We're at the.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Top of nob Hill in San Francisco, and then my
trailer and also this is a knocked on the doors.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
You come on, let's go.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
We gotta go fast. The lights, Goull, we're losing the light.
We just need you not to scene. We just need
you to drive around the top of nob Hill, past
the Fairmount Hotel and then this go down the hill
and Carl, you take the red red light. You'd smash
it up on the on the light and we go.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
So, being my first day and not having had a
lot of experience, but very cocky about my driving, I
get in and they go at action.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I take it.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
I go around knob Hell and go past the Fairmount
and then there's a major hill. All I can tell
you is I went off that hill and I was
airborne enough time. But I turned to Carl. Carl looked
at me, and about two seconds.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
Later, badly crash did.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Thank goodness, the wheels were straight right. The car comes
to a stop.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Oh my god, Carl gets up.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
That's not drivers I'm gonna be fired my first day
of the pictures.
Speaker 9 (28:53):
In this first he gets up. That's not driving, that's
just movie driving. That's not driving all the time. I'm
going back to my trailer and change my underwear.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Exactly how many episodes did you do?
Speaker 9 (29:06):
I did one hundred and four hours?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Wow? Did they use that clip in the show?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Do you click cars?
Speaker 9 (29:18):
I used to, but no I don't. I kept down
to adult war.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I love cars, of reading car magazines and all that.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
But that's that's one vice I'm trying to.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Can you fix a car?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Not anymore. I used to be able to fix flatheads,
you know, the older kind of engines and everything. The
new sophisticated ones.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
But you can't sneak a car into the garage with
your wife and have her say where did this come from? Hunh? No,
that's that's the point.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
We can't.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Well, you know I got kids now who are driving
age and Catherine?
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Is that see? Really?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You know?
Speaker 9 (29:54):
I mean how many cars did you fit?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Then you start getting into garage space, right, and that's
not cheap.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
I mean if you how many portions do you have?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I have a few?
Speaker 9 (30:03):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Come on?
Speaker 9 (30:06):
Be honest.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I five that stop your bad I know, but my
wife always says you need another one, and I say no, right,
but I say it, I still want it. And if
you have a garage like you got to fill it up?
You have like a spider, you have like I have
a three fifty six fifteen nineteen fifty nine, three fifty
six A wow, I got an eighty nine G body.
(30:29):
I got a couple of GT threes.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And I have a one speed yellow turbo.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
And what do you drive around?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I have a pickup truck.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Where do you live?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
You live in Connecticut?
Speaker 7 (30:43):
In Connecticut, yeah, yeah, not too far from Westford, Milford, Milford, I.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
Know, Milford.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah yeah. So if you're ever there and you want
to take out one of my cars, thank you. I'd
be more happy to let you. You could take the
G T three out if you want it.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
That said nice, But that your hyde space is cheaper
in Milford than it is a.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Lot about Well, I bought the building where so it's
not cheaper. But I do have a lot of space. Yeah,
but I'm not. I'm not doing any well. Actually, I'm
looking at a seventy three. So I already have my
eyes on.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Have you ever seen Jay letters collection?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, not not in person. But you know what, when
you lose track of how many cars you have, then
you have too many cars.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And Jay, I'm sure doesn't know how many cars he has.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Oh I bet he does.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Oh I think j Letterman sold all of his Yeah,
he had a lot, he had quite a collection. Yeah.
I met his mechanic and uh he works on Miles
Davis's former Ferrari.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
A friend of mine has Miles Davis's Ferrari. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Well well that's say. Yeah, you gotta be a little.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But if I gave you, I said, get one car
for the garage, you tell catherineh I got this car.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
Wow, and it would have to be Oh, let me
see you. Well. I know I'm being a little bit promotional,
but the.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
New as Martin is awfully nice and new DV four
kind of combination is particularly nice.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I feel like you're getting one after this appearance. So
well done, well done. It's great to see you. Thanks
for taking time, and I hope you have a great
weekend here.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
You two have a lovely weekend. Dad. Always great to
see you. Thank you, Michael, guys, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 2 (32:54):
Oh, how do you? How do you introduce him? Stand
up comedian? Impression? This actor? Commented voice actor. You can
check out Matt Friend upcoming shows in North America. You
can go to Atmattfriend dot com. I'm looking at some
of the voices here, So Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Jeff Goldbloom,
Timothy Shalomet, Stanley Tucci, Mitch McConnell, King, Charles Michael Boublay,
(33:19):
Bill Maher, Howard Stern, Matthew McConaughey, Andy Cohen, Sebastian Manusconco,
who was the first impersonation?
Speaker 10 (33:28):
Well, first of all, can I just say that when
I was four years old and I looked in the mirror,
I said, I don't want to host the Oscars. I
don't want to be on TV. My dream is to
appear on talk shows in the middle of a casino,
and I think of great American comedians, you know, Robin Williams,
Jerry Seinfeld going on Johnny Carson. This to me is
(33:48):
my big break getting up with Dan Patrick in front
of the blackjack table. This is it is surreal to
be with you. Thank you for having me. I feel
like you could be my dad. We do have kind
of a vibe going here. You have an ability to
look like every Republican congressman and one person. Why aren't
you at the Cheney funeral right now? I feel like
you should be sitting there with Kamala passing a mint
(34:09):
to somebody. I sent my condolences now, I'm thrilled to
be here. And which was my favorite voice? You said
the first one? My first one was Austin Powers. So
that was the one that got me into comedy. I
fell in love with that movie Doctor REvil, gold member
of Fat Bastard.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Why are you five years old at the time? I
was four?
Speaker 10 (34:25):
Yeah, I'm twenty seven now, okay, So that's the one
that got me hooked. And how'd it sound? I can't
really do it anymore? I know I do, doctor REvil.
Speaker 11 (34:34):
I didn't spend six years in evil medical school to
be called mister Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
When did an adult tell you that you had something?
Speaker 10 (34:44):
I think I was always just making people laugh like
I for me?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I like I said when I was a kid.
Speaker 10 (34:49):
I just wanted to make my parents laugh and their
friends laugh, and then my teachers laugh. And then I
was a precocious kid, like quoting you know old I
loved Johnny Carr to that old era of show business.
For whatever reason, I was very drawn to like Jonathan
Winters and Richard Pryor in that period.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
So I was quoting those.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Guys, and I think just I got laughed as a kid,
and then it happened.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
But you do your impersonations in front of the people often, Yeah, okay,
when does it go bad when you do an impersonation
in front of it has yet too, It has yet
to go. I think it's all the way you approach that.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
Like anything in life, you want to be kind of
respectful and have like a likability factor. But I used
to run into people on the street and then I
would do it like it started with me meeting Andy
Cohen on the sidewalk, which is how ninety five percent
of gay hookup stories begin. Just meeting Andy Cohen on
the sidewalk and Andy looks at me, he goes, wait
a minute, you're like the guy who does me right
(35:46):
like you do. But I thought that's definite not the
first time Andy Cohen has said that to.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
A guy on the sidewalk. You guys look like you're
about to.
Speaker 10 (35:53):
Get your shoes signed in an airport right now, sitting there.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
But this is amazing. I love this. Uh.
Speaker 10 (36:00):
And then I was doing Sebastian Man of Skelk.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I ran into amount a restaurant.
Speaker 11 (36:05):
What's so everybody, it's I'm so happy to.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Be here with Dan Patrick. Look at this.
Speaker 11 (36:11):
I did a talk showing a casino, go to his
booking dish, and.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
Then a lot of the political stuff has taken over.
I performed at the Correspondence dinner last year, and I
mean this interesting position where it's kind of bipartisan, where
I'm trying to make Republican audiences and Democratic audiences laugh
and kind of get everybody because let me tell you something, Dan,
when you're a star, you could do anything in gram
by the gram by the Patrick.
Speaker 11 (36:36):
You can do anything you want. And let me just say,
it's great to be am. I looking at this camera.
You can look at any cameras. Ryet Hey, Quiet, Piggy,
Quiet piggy. Okay, quiet, look at that. That's a good well,
he says, Quiet, Piggy, Is that disgusting, he says piggy
to the reporter, which I think was a terrible thing.
But you have Charles Leclerk. You have f one, which
is a great I love F one. That's a great
(36:57):
thing too. And you're really getting me started, because if
you want to talk, there's a black guy.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
That's a great one.
Speaker 11 (37:02):
I love a black African Americans are great people. That's
my favorite African American right there, he's sitting there. He's fantastic.
I would say his.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Name is Morgan. Well, I didn't ask his name. I
just hears the black guy.
Speaker 11 (37:15):
But I do like Marvin a lot of Actually his
stuff is well, I know him very well.
Speaker 10 (37:19):
And thank you, thank you, thank you for your service.
I'm in character now. I don't know what to tell you.
Thank you, Marvin. Who's your favorite? Who's the go to
impression sexually?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Okay? Got it?
Speaker 10 (37:33):
This is this interview is taking a turn. I go
to impression? Uh well, right now, I'm working on myself.
So I'm doing my first hour of stand up and
then i'll be next year my first special.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
And uh, it's.
Speaker 10 (37:45):
This is not the question the answer to the question
you wanted. The voices like a monkey boy I Howard Steren.
We're doing the radio, so this has got to be it. Right, then,
let me ask you a question. Okay, you're a legendary broadcaster.
I want to know this.
Speaker 9 (37:58):
You must have.
Speaker 10 (37:59):
Gotten so much is back in the day, who is
the hottest chick you ever banged? You must have banged
some hot chick. Who's the hottest chick, Dan Patrick, you
ever banged?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Here was Joy Behart, Joy Bayhart, Jesus talk about that view. Hello.
But when you're gonna do the stand up, Yeah, how
much is gonna be with impressions?
Speaker 10 (38:21):
Yeah, I would say it's probably like thirty percent woven in.
And I'm very excited about it. Like I love like
Eddie Murphy raw and that's a big blueprint for me
and Jim Carrey's stuff and Robin Williams stuff, and the
way that those guys would seamlessly weave in impressions through
the material. For me, like, the content has to lead it. Obviously,
I'm doing these voices, but I think a separating factor
(38:43):
that I hope to achieve is you need to have
actual content. You need to have actual jokes and substance
behind what you're doing. It's not enough in my mind.
I started doing voices on stage and I would.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Go, hello, it's ste Griffin. Great to be here, it's fantastic.
Speaker 9 (38:57):
You know.
Speaker 10 (38:57):
I get away with doing the voices, but now as
a comedian, I want to really like have substance behind
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yeah, I was talking to Frank Kelly Indol about it.
Amazing is to have that context or point of view
that it has to lead to something absolutely because everybody
and they probably come up to you and you go, hey,
let me do an impersonation for you, but then it doesn't.
All it does is sound like like I can do
Ronald Reagan. Well, yeah, that's timely, I know. So then
(39:24):
that's that's what gets all the twenty seven year olds around,
but it doesn't lead anywhere right now, Fritzi Fritzy does
Marge Simpson. Oh really, it's.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
Really great to meet you. Thanks for being here on
the show.
Speaker 10 (39:37):
Well there goes my boner. But anyways, that was that
was amazing. That that was actually that was awesome and
hek and some actors get paid millions of dollars to
do that a year.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Hank is arian exactly. That was awesome. That was great,
But I'm sure people come up to you and you go, hey,
no for sure.
Speaker 10 (39:52):
Like now I'm at an interesting point like where I'm
still very much coming out, but there is the occasional
time where people will yell at Howard Stern, Jeff oh bloom,
you know, and I say, hello, O, very good to
see you. Thank you Jeff goblum g ld you'd be
l you am yes, yes, So I do love to
satisfy the people that come up to me and and
(40:13):
ask for that.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
When did you feel that it changed when you kind
of hit social media, because it I think it exploded
a little bit.
Speaker 10 (40:21):
Yeah, It's just it was a big explosion. It's all
just been incremental, like I you know, I have to
take a step back off and then think how crazy,
Like it's crazy being here with you. I'm such a
fan and every day something kind of wild happens, you know,
And I'm having these opportunities at a pretty young age,
I would say, but it just feels very incrementally. I'm
(40:43):
hustling kind of like a maniac, and I'm trying to
do as much as possible and entertain different audiences and.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Do it a different way.
Speaker 10 (40:49):
But I'm using traditional media and social media and it's
been a grind, but I love it.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
He's a Matt Friend and you can go to atmetfriend
dot com.
Speaker 10 (40:59):
Find me on truth so on. OnlyFans huge with the ault.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Right were you? Were you a class clown?
Speaker 10 (41:06):
I like I definitely was making noises like George Carlin
the Class Cloud album. Like I was definitely making noises
and trying to make people laugh in class. I don't
think I was too crazy, but yes there was an
I'm the youngest child too, so there's an element of
I need the attention and I do like to make
people laugh absolutely, But is.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
There a darkness? It feels like every comedian they talk
about you know, there's a downside. I don't have that.
Speaker 10 (41:30):
Like I read mel Brooks's autobiography and I related a
lot to that. I think, like Nick Kroll has talked
about it, I just wanted to make people laugh as
a kid, and uh, you know, for that's kind of
the reason my dad did trap me in a closet
for ten years. But other than that, but no, I
just I loved making like I just like the silly things.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
We're such a divided time.
Speaker 10 (41:53):
Now and I want to make people laugh, like the
one the number one impression I think that can make
people laugh is actually the impression that I do to
seduce women on the road. And many of your you're
all looking at thinking, oh, you seduce women, that's surprising.
But I do this impression because I'm going to warn you,
every woman wants to have sex with this person, so
I do it. The Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. Something about
(42:21):
the way he looks like he's holding him an intense
amount of diarrhea at all times.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
It's seductive.
Speaker 10 (42:30):
But I have to say, he didn't do that impression
for him, did you. I don't know if he would remember,
but I did. I didn't do it for him now,
but I'd say it's crazy being here because this is
a full circle because I hosted the NHL Awards here
a year ago, so the National Hockey League had an
award show. Is the worst audience you can possibly fathom.
You know how athletes are, There's nothing like performing in
(42:52):
a room full of brain damaged one tooth. To Yugoslavian
hockey players, they're like.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Very funny, do you boy, what's next? This is my pression,
This is my best impression. It's a silent depression.
Speaker 10 (43:02):
I think Charlie Chaplin, this is every NHL player reacting.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
To one of my jokes. This is it. They look
like they wanted to.
Speaker 10 (43:14):
It was like performing at the Kremlin for Man's Like
they were all named put Bobrovski.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
I'm like, what is going on here? Have you been
asked to host the SPS?
Speaker 10 (43:22):
I haven't yet, but I love Norm McDonald and his
was like the the top, but that these are the
That's what I would love.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
To do one day. That would be amazing having been
there when Norm, when I was at the mother's chair. Yes,
how is that it? If you wanted to have a
bomb go off and have athletes go what is going
on here? And he didn't like he was going after people.
He wanted fire you know what.
Speaker 10 (43:51):
You know, he would shake hands with people after he
would bomb.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Like at the end of a show.
Speaker 10 (43:55):
Norm would go to the end of the club and
shake hands with every person.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
That was there.
Speaker 10 (44:00):
Like I think Jeff Ross has talked about this, but
I think it wasn't bombing Norm McDonald. I think he
was just so smart that people weren't really getting the jokes.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 10 (44:11):
Different than having a bad material in bombing.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yeah, like Andy Kaufman knew what he was doing. You
weren't going to get it. Yeah, but Norm, if you
got it, great, but he wasn't going to slow down
to catch up.
Speaker 9 (44:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Yeah, whenever you talk to Okay, I'm playing golf in Vegas, yes,
at Shadow Creek, yep, And all of a sudden, I
see Norm and Kato Kaylin Okay, this was last week, right, yea,
And so we're outside having drinks and all of a
sudden Norm comes up with Kato and sits down and
(44:43):
just just riffs for thirty minutes. He seemed like he
was the best. It was. It was great. You're talking
about Kato, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, he was funny. The
judge from the OJ trial. Where do you want to
be in ten years? Aside from in a casino?
Speaker 10 (44:57):
Yeah, now, he hoped to be doing the talk show
because circuit in ten years maybe, who knows, maybe I'll
do be interviewed by Oprah on an escalator. This is
uh now, this is I want to be. That's a
great question. Well, first of all, I just wanted to
say it is surreal being with you. I'm a huge
fan of the show. In a view, and thank you
for having me. I want to be. The big goal
(45:18):
is like, I want to be my generation's version of
like Kim moll And hosting the Oscars and having my
like kind of a whatever the next incarnation of a
late night show is is what I is what I
aspire to do, and that's definitely more acting. And I'm
gonna do my first special next year. But I'm at
this kind of interesting point in my career now where
I built a following and now it's kind of taking
(45:39):
it to the next place. But I definitely want to
I love like Johnny Carson and again like kind of
a throwback to that era. But I love the intersection
of politics and news and pop culture, and I hope
to be at the center of it.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Pauli, you have the name for this stand up special?
Speaker 6 (45:53):
Yeah, his first Dana special friendly Fire.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Friendly Fire? Oh my god, where am I shooting this?
The Palisades? Jesus. I thought it was going to be
fought his friend Fox and Friend Fox and Matt Friends. Yeah,
I've been going on that show, which has been very fun. Actually, Yeah,
like Vivica A. Fox could be on with Fox and Friends.
Speaker 10 (46:10):
Yes, or me and Jamie Fox do a special together.
And then it's Fox and Friend.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
I like that. Yes, you can go to at mattfriend
dot com.
Speaker 10 (46:19):
Yes, yeah, at at mattfriend dot com, Instagram, the Matt
Friend follow me. There a bunch of shows I have
Tempe Arizona coming up.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Very excited and uh.
Speaker 10 (46:28):
I'll talk about this memory of doing the Dan Patrick
show in in in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Do you pick up on my voice? Yeah? You do.
You have a great you have resting broadcaster voice. Right.
Speaker 10 (46:39):
I can't really do it Dan quite yet, but can you?
How do I do you give me? Give me some insight.
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I don't know. I don't know. Oh I don't know.
I don't know. Oh I know, Oh I know, I know.
You don't know. Well, am I just say? Can we
just talk about what do we have? Any we have time? Okay?
Is this all gonna get cut? It's fine? Might it's okay? Yeah?
I mean the whole thing. We're not even recording this
so fantastic.
Speaker 10 (47:04):
I want to ask you about Brockmeyer, by the way, okay,
because so Hank was my dad's college roommate. Okay, and
I'm none of my whole life. He's like the best
and I love when you collaborate with him. Can you
tell me that about the first time you collaborated with
Hank and Brockmeyer.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
I don't even remember. Fantastic, No, Like I remember doing it,
but I like, you're not doing it in real time right, right,
Like I did the Simpsons, but I'm not doing it
with any other characters, right, I'm just the broadcaster doing
Homer Simpsons skipping Rocks. So that was I just played
the announcer guy, you remember, Paul.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
A little bit before Brockmeer ever happened, Hank was on
our show and he started doing like a fake sportscaster call.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
And I don't know if that.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Was a precursor of that or not, but he was
doing this like mocking sportscaster calls like famous ones in history.
And then like three years later he kind of stumbled
into Brockmeyer. But I remember him.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
He's the best.
Speaker 9 (47:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
But I even said to him, I said, you should
think about doing a like a.
Speaker 10 (48:04):
Show off this character. I've never seen my dad laugh
as hard as that first original four minute broadcam sure,
And it's just it was so great.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
I love that show.
Speaker 10 (48:16):
And also I love him because, like you, we have
this like resting broadcaster voice where people think I'm telling
a joke all the time, but I'm just talking regularly,
like I'm not trying to do a bit right now,
This is just how I sound.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Yeah you have any seven?
Speaker 10 (48:29):
Yeah, yeah, yes, Seth MacFarlane said, even Helen Keller could
hear my voice, which was a nice compliment.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Okay, so thank you to Seth. Too soon though for
that too soon rest in peace at Matt friend, this
is amazing.
Speaker 10 (48:45):
You could smell the you can smell the defeat while
doing this talk show.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
I've never dine a talk showhere.
Speaker 10 (48:50):
I could literally hear regret as I'm trying to form
a joke.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Imagine doing a talk show. You just see nine strippers
walk by. It's in the morning. God, this is a
Dan Patrick. Just remember us, Matt. You know, when you're
a big deal and then I see you and then
you whisk right You think I would do that? Yes?
Why do you say that? What is it about me
that makes you think that?
Speaker 1 (49:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
I just got a feeling of the future last night
when I saw you whisk right by me.
Speaker 10 (49:17):
First of all, let's add some context. I didn't know
you guys were there I was on my way to dinner.
I was wearing AirPods.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I should have because you didn't want to be bothered.
Lastic move.
Speaker 10 (49:25):
Absolutely not. I'm the opposite of that. No matter what
level I ever achieved. I love doing the content. I'm
not going to be like, you know, having an Alec
Baldwin throwing a fit at a paparazzi moment. I mean,
I love Alec Baldwin, but I love it. The people,
the fans are what's making me.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Come on. Okay, we didn't feel except for Dan Patrick
because last night we're like, what a prick? And is
that really how you felt?
Speaker 1 (49:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (49:50):
No, I didn't you whisk right by me? Damn you
whisk right by me. I wish I had known it
was you, And and my my guy who's the director.
He said, Oh, that's man Matt friend and I go
and I'm with I'm I'm with my best friend, my
best guy who does impersonation. Yeah, I know the amazing
you guys said.
Speaker 10 (50:10):
If I had known that was you, I would have
stopped because I would have tried to book myself.
Speaker 11 (50:13):
On the show.
Speaker 10 (50:13):
And then I got lucky because you have a genius
producer who asked if I would do it.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Yes, so well, we were. I'm happy that we ran
into that.
Speaker 10 (50:20):
I'm so happy that we did this, and and thank
you for having me.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
This was awesome. F one tomorrow, all right, Mad mad Friend,
yes at madfriend dot com.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
David Croft, Sky Sports Formula one commentator joining us on
the program, and Formula one fans in the UK and
Ireland can watch this race unfolded Vegas the Vegas Grand
Prix live on Sky Sports. And now, David, good to
see you. Good to see you, say crafty as they
like to call you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm good, I'm good. So explain this how this exploded
in the United States? When and how did Formula one
all of a sudden become important in our lives.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I'll take you back to two thousand and five, June
the nineteenth, two thousand and five, my birthday, which is
why I remember this day, and it was one of
the worst days in Formula one history because that was
when we raced at Indianapolis with only six cars if
you remember, the cars withdrew on the formation lap because
the tires, the mission and tires weren't holding out and
(00:53):
we hit a new low. And since then, Formula one
has been right. How do we give back to the
America and public and actually make this sport a bit
more accessible in such a great country. So, first and foremost,
liberty media when they got the Commercial Rise, decided we
needed more races in the States and we needed to
move away through it from Indianapolis, which is great and
(01:15):
the Indy five hundred, it is a marvelous event. But
let's have another track, and let's have a track that
we can really call our own KTA Circuit of the Americas.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
In Austin.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I know, if you guys have ever been to Austin,
you look like you've partied in Austin just a.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Couple of times. Not yourself, Dan, You know you've got
to bed early.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, you're in charge, right, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So we go and party in Austin, and everyone comes
to Austin because it's a racist track.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's a brilliant circuit.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
The fans love it, and we pack out and take
over Austin for the US Grand Prix.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
But that's not enough.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We need glamour, we need a bit of sex appeal.
We go to Miami where all the cool people hang out. Yeah, yeah,
where Marvin hangs out, right, But not yourself, Dan, because
you go to bed early. And then we think, right, okay,
that's good. We've got East Coast sorted out, We've got
Texas sorted out.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
We've probably need another race.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And where would you want to go and race in
the States if you've already.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Got the best of the best.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Where you go to the Las Vegas right where we
know you come a pasty And that's why you're here
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And we're not going to be you know, don't know,
there's too much to.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Me and Pitbull. We're not going to bed, just letting
you know.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Okay, do we all get an invite to that one?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You've got tickets for everyone Friday night?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Friday night?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, Pitbull, yeah, yeah, yeah, and me and the boys
yeah done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Before then, of course we're going qualifying.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And you see the cars racing down the strip and
it's absolutely amazing under the lights in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
The sphere looks fantastic.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The strip looks all lit up, and it just shows
off f one to be the biggest and the best
motor sport out there, which I think it is. Now
couple with that, we've got drive to survive. We've sold
the soap opera. You know, we used to say come
for the live sport and stay around for the soap opera.
Now here's the soap opera hanging around for the live sport,
and the soap opera is often as good as the
(03:01):
live sport.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But for that really, I think the Drive to survive
that feeling of because I didn't know how much drama
there was behind. Yeah, what money changing teams, girlfriends, wives,
somebody's a star, somebody's no longer a star.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You take the most extreme competition and a lot of
money and the most competitive people on the planet, and
you're going to have a soap opera that rivals Days
of Our Lives, Dynasty, Dallas. I don't know what other
soap operas are around these days, but you know, it
all comes together and it's real as well. And Drive
to Survives has brought in a new audience, a younger audience,
(03:40):
and one of the reasons I think it's taking off
of the States is that is that now you can
see a lot more races in your time zone over here.
But now more female fans are coming to the sport,
more younger fans are coming to the sport as well,
and personally it's been great. I've gone from arriving for
Groen Pries in the past of the States, when no
(04:00):
one has known what f one is, let alone who
we are to now be called out by the guy
at Passport Controls saying hey, crafty, how are you doing, which.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Is just fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You know, I love this and thank you very much
to the Dallas customs officers.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Any any issues with celebrities when you're working the races.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well, issues with celebrities, would you mean?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I don't know, somebody difficult, doesn't want to be talked
to leave?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh yeah, all the time, to be fair.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
But Martin Brundle, the man who stands alongside me and
who does the most magnificent grid walks, he's the guy
that gets rejected by the celebrities or he bumps into
Machine Gun Kelly, who doesn't quite know what day of
the week it is, let alone, who is meant.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
To be talking to in that respect.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's a real shame because I'm a big fan of
Machine Gun Kelly and gave Martin.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
A whole load of questions.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
And I think the celebrities that come on the Grid
by and large are very good to be honest, and
they give freely of their time to have a chat.
Martin was once told Daniel Craig, James Bond is on
the grid. Don't talk to James Bond. He doesn't want
to talk. So Martin being Martin, went straight up to
James Bond and had a chat, and James Bond went.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Hey, Martin, how are you doing in that? Because Martin Brundle.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Is bigger than James Bond, way more real. Really, yeah, seriously,
he knows everybody in this sport.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, if I'm Martin, i walk up to Daniel Craig
and say, hey, I'm not supposed to talk to you.
I'm Martin brun Like. That's yeah exactly, And Dan, you're seven,
I'm all eight.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And they both drove an Aston Marta at that time.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is it how much is the car? How much of
it is the driver?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I don't know how much? How much is you Dan?
And how much is your team?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Probably sixty forty?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What in their favor?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, okay, that's that's very nes You see why he's
such a good boss.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
God, I like this.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I would say, you can have the best driver on
the planet, but if you if you give him a donkey,
he's not going to go and win. So you need
a massive technical team to produce something that allows the
drivers to show off their superhuman skills. You're not gonna
super Bowl if you've got the best quarterback, you're going
to need the best defense to go with it as well.
(06:04):
On that subject, come on the Bears. I am a
big Chicago Bears fan, and I just want to say
seven to three?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Who saw that? I wait, why are you a Bears fan?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Because I'm old?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Right?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Is this the eighties here?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
When I first started watching, Yeah, we go, When I
first started watching American football, the fridge was his prime.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
So PAULI is from Chicago. Yeah, Yeah, Paul's from Chicago.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Everyone I meet from brit Great Britain. They watched the
Bears in the eighties on BBC and then it went away,
and so you only really knew the Bears and a
few other teams.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, and I still only know the Bears are a
couple of other teams.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Do you know what I want? This is one of
the highlights of my career.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I'm going to go off script here when I got
asked to commentate on the Super Bowl and I had
to miss a race when my eldest son was born,
and my bosses when I worked for the BBC said, right,
if you're going to miss a race, you either take
a pay cup or go and do the super Bowl
instead of a race. I'm like, yeah, I'll do the
super Bowl, thank very much. And it was the Miami
Super Bowl when Prince played the halftime show, I went, Devin.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Hester return the kickoff.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, and I went absolutely ballistic.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And that was your highlight was that was as poorly.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And I remember it didn't get any better on that
and my co commentated said, yeah, crafty, that's really good.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But we've got four hours of this. Maybe you might
want to pace yourself a little bit. That was fabulous,
but no, you have you.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Have teams upwards of one thousand people back at base
designing a car, building a car, simulating that car, even
going so far as to getting bits of tarmac from
the tracks and putting it on a machine backup Base,
and then running tires on that machine so they can
simulate how the interaction between the tire and the tarmac goes.
(07:48):
To give them a chance when they come to Vegas,
that's the level that they go to. They build engines
as well, with the marketing, the commercial thousands of people
involved in making two cars go as fast as they
can from A to B and then the drivers get
all the credit at the end of the year. But
some people follow teams. Some people follow you know, drivers.
If you follow a team, that team is always going
(08:10):
to be there for you. If you follow a driver,
they can move. You could be a big Mercedes fan
and now having to go and buy some red for Ferrari.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You know, if you're if you want to go and
cheer on Lewis.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hamilton, he's David craft Crafty Sky Sports Formula one commentator.
You know, you look in the cockpit of these cars
and I was curious the heights. I think there's a
driver might be five three, Ali Burman, might be six two.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, what are you six three?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah? I used to be, so I'm not. I'm kind
of Oli Burman.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah you are.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You could just about fit in. You're kind of skulting up. Yeah, yeah,
you could do it poorly, I think. Yeah, not a
bad size.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Marvin.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, what about Fritzy, Fritzy, you're with me, Fritz.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
On the sidelines, Seaton, see I think.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
About five or eleven yeah, with downforce, with downforce, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
So I actually drove three laps once in the Formula
one car. It's one of the best experiences of my life.
How first I went one hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And seventy five down the straight.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But what are they going to do here in Vegas?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Top speed top speed qualifying two to twenty one miles
an hour down the straight and then but it's the
stopping distance that first gets you. So they'll hit the
brakes at one hundred meters before the corner at the
T sixteen, and they will scrub off two twenty one
down to about seventy, so one hundred and fifty miles
an hour in one hundred meters, And you feel that
(09:39):
when you're strapped into the cockpit. And then your cornering
speed as well, where you'll go through a corner like
a fast right hander at a one hundred and eighty
miles an hour and the car just sticks to the
road and it's just phenomenal. It's one of the most
glorious experiences. But I remember sitting in the car and
they kind of they strapped me in. They said, right, okay, Crafty,
can it you just go a bit lower for us? Yeah, okay,
(10:00):
go a bit low.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, we need to go a bit lower, Crafty, Crafty.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
We need to go a little bit lower than that's guys,
I'm going to be singing boy soprano for the rest
of my life if I go any lower, because you've
got the belts between the between your legs and stuff.
And it was kind of it was like if you're
on a roller coaster at New York, New York, you know,
and he's trapped in beforehand and you just can't move.
But when when you get going, you just feel free
and you feel part of the car, and it's just
(10:26):
a phenomenal experience.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
If you ever get the chance, do say yes.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Be a Formula one movie with Brad Pitt. You're in it?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, okay, type cast.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
But did you know that's a stretch, did you Okay?
This is where you know, if we have a football
movie or a basketball you know, we we're always going, well,
could they really play you know, like white men can't
jump with Wesley Snipes and we're like, I don't know.
How did Formula one view the Formula one movie with
(10:57):
Brad Pitt?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Well, Formula one opened the doors and said, right, we'll
give you the biggest access, the best access, come and
make a movie about our sport that.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Sells our sport.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It's another factor in the growth of the sport that
people have seen this and now want to watch it live.
And they made as real a Formula one movie as
they possibly could, with a little bit of Hollywood sprinkled
in to that. Martin and myself we did nineteen hours
a voiceover and commentary for this, and I remember having
(11:27):
a chat to Joe Kazinski, the director, who's a fabulous
director to work for. Whatever you do is always brilliant,
and then he gets you to do it his way.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That was perfect. Now do it again exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, and we'll do it again and again until you
do it my way and you'll still think it's your way,
but that he just brought the best of out and
martyr them myself.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Did you meet Brad Pitt eventually?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yes, So I went through the whole filming process not
meeting Brad Pitt at all, and then saw him on
the red carpet in New York. Now your time square,
you know, thousands of fans and all the displays have
got the f M movie around it, and I'm still
talking to Lewis Hamilton, two boys from Stevenage, going oh.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
This is just insane.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So you're from the same hometown as Lewis Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I am the second fastest man from Stevenage and always
will and this one and he's he can have that
on it because he's the greatest we've ever seen in
this sport.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Lewis Hamilton's greatest driver of all time.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
For me, Yeah, he's a seven time world champion, should
be an eight time world champion.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Abba Dabby twere starving. Can't catch him in your mind
for staffing? Could this is Jordan versus Lebron?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I think if Max Forstappen has a car that can
give him a championship challenge, he is more than good
enough to get to seven, eight or nine. You know,
he is an exceptional talent. Lewis has gone and done.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It and so you're blaming the car here this year, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
This year Max has driven superbly well and has not
always got the results he deserved because the car has
just not been there for him. He finished a minute
off the pace in Hungary and for he's down in eighth.
And then Red Bull kind of got their act together
a little bit after the summer break and he started
winning again, by which time, sadly, you know, the championship
I think it is a bit too far away from him.
But Lewis, to me, it is the greatest, not just
(13:13):
for what he's done on the track, but for the
way he has used his platform to highlight issues that
need highlighting. That we are Formula one, so we compete
and we interact as one, and we allow everybody from
all corners of the globe, whoever they are, race, creed, color,
you know, sex, religion, whatever, if you're good enough, come
(13:35):
to Formula one. And he has used this platform for that,
and that has been brilliant to see how he has
gone from a young man with an exceptional talent to
a more mature man, still with an exceptional talent, but
with a social conscience that I'd like to see more
of our star athletes around the world have, you know,
and not just our star athletes, you have politicians and
celebrities as well. You know, we've all got a voice
(13:57):
and we should use it for good. But to go
back to Brad Pitt, who by the way, is one
of the nicest men on the planet as well. We
met up on the red carpet and I've still re Martin.
I said, come on, we're gonna go and get selfie
with Brad Pitt. Why, I said, because I haven't met
him yet.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And you have. He said, he's busy. I said, don't care.
We're in the film and movie stars. This is the
only chance I'm ever going to get to do this.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So we walked up to Brad and I went, hey, Brad, Sorry,
I'm crafty, sorry to bother your Hey, crafty man, how
you doing. I'm like, Brad, No, so this is great man.
You legitimize everything we do. I said, well, that's very nice.
I've no idea what it means, but it sounds good.
And we had a selfie and it was really lovely.
Fast forward and this was the best bit about being
in the movie. Fast forward a week and I'm on
(14:41):
the red carpet now at the London premiere and I
took my son, My youngest study was sixteen. He just
finished his exams. Said, come on, you've done really well.
Here's a little praizy. We're going to go to the premiere.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
So we were in the red cup. We met Tate McCray,
which was really nice. He was ever the sweet and
did a little video for our daughter. We were going
to go and see in con that the next day
with to see Saint mccrane. We saw some actors in
the movie, and I said, right, okay, we're going to
go in, but do you want to see anyone else?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You said, who else?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Can?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We say?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Brad's over there. I see Brad if you want. And
he's like, you don't know Brad Pitt. Of course I
know Brad Pitt. I'm going a movie with him. Son,
you don't know Brad Pitt, you've never met. I said, right,
We're gonna go and see Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
He's a mate. I'm thinking I've met Brad once.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Here.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
This could go horribly wrong, right, So he walks over
and it just finished an in and.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I said, Brad, how's it going? And he spun righting
it crafty? Oh man, what did you think of the film?
At which point my son.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Now thinks, yeah, Dad knows Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So we have a bit of a chat. So one,
by the way, says my son, this is James, Brad. Brad,
James a crafty junior, can't give us a hug.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
And so James, my son is now hugging Brad Pitt, right,
And I have got more Dad points out of that
than anything I've ever done in my career.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
That that was just Megan.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
So you're all in favor of F one two.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, well F two it should be called F two.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, the sequel should be.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
And I've already told Joe because it's good this So
if it comes up, you heard it here first or second,
it should be fast forward eighteen years and Brad and Kerry.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I've had the relationship.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I've had a daughter, and the daughter is excelling in
carts and junior formula and is now ready for Formula one.
And we'll see, you know, Brad and Kerry's daughter go
and tackle Formula one and see what happens. That would
be my sequel. Pleasure to meet you, and you my friend.
Thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's been great.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Don't screw up this weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Okay, do you know what I got? I got hairs
on my arm? Stood up when he said that because
he meant it, didn't he? Yeah, absolutely meant that.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He's David Kraft.
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Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yesterday, Michael Douglas, we saw him in the hotel and
I said, you want to stop, buy and talk some
Formula one And he came by after the show and
we talked about when he was on the show the
last time, and he was in a car club and
he was in high school. So I asked him if
there was ever a point early in his career where
he thought more about being a race car driver than
(17:46):
an actor.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
There was a brief well in my young career, yes,
I mean it breaks up in high school. I was
a member of a hot rod club, down Shifters, and
so I was into We had a we had jackets,
the down Shifters, the West Sport, and we had a
sea dragster. We had a little sea dragsterer that our
(18:10):
club raced. I didn't drive, but we used to go
up to Rhode Island of the war.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Where could we erase that?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
And that was when I was in a public school
and high school. And then I went to a boarding school.
And I went to this boarding school, all boys, boarding school,
and they knew nothing about drag racing. They were all
into sports Formula one, Sterling Moss at the time and
all that. So that was when I got my first
(18:38):
intro into the more sophisticated side of car racing. And then,
as I said on your show a few years ago,
one of my first movies that I did, I had
Steve McQueen as a producer on the movie. And you know,
(18:58):
he knew I like car And in this movie I
drove a nine to eleven Porsche Target in the movie
that tangerine orangerine, yes tandurine orange color they had in
the movie. I got paid in nineteen sixty nine and
I got paid three thousand dollars for the whole movie.
And the last day of shooting, Steve showed up, thank
(19:20):
you so much for the good job, and he had
these keys he held up. He said, here you go, buddy,
and he gave me the Porsche, you know, which is
more money than my father.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
I made the whole movie.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And also at that time Steve was preparing for the
movie Lemon, So he was going on on weekends out
to the desert, out in desert of the Willow Springs
Racetrack and he was racing. Richie Gintherro had a nine
oweight Porsche, a really hot Porshe and he was racing, practicing.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Not getting ready for Laman.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
And Steve McQueen was a great driver, both motorcycles and cars.
And the Nina eight had this had a little plastic
second seat. I guess to fulfill his class, you know,
he had a major races.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
He was a little plastic seat. And I asked if I.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Could go do a couple of laps with him, and
he asked people, he got permission, and Dan, all I
can tell you is those couple of laps out there
a Willow Springs and there's this large swooping turn that
he could take it about one hundred and fifty miles
an hour and you hud a level with the desert.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
And I was stoked.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
And so after those experiences with Steve, there was also
the Jim Russell Driving School which was out at Willows
Springs and you could race Fourmula F's little Lotus Ford's
open wheels. So I got in and did that and
that was the beginning of my racing career, which promptly
about three races in to the season, We're at river
(21:00):
Side Racetrack and under a yellow flag, which means yellow
flag has slow down. I took a turn too fast,
spun the car around and went into a wall under
a yellow flag, which is a.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Real no no.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
And that was sort of what I realized, you know
what I mean, like a weekend hero here, but these
guys that are driving are pretty serious that I'm gonna
get myself in trouble. So that was the extent at
the end of my my my racing career.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Where is that Porsche that Steve McQueen gave you.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
That's a very good question. I thought the same thing
that I don't know. I lost this somewhere along the line.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Where did you ever talk to Paul Newman about trying
to balance and be you know, because he was so
involved in racing and a Westport guy he was, I
didn't I.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Saw him a few times. He was an interesting guy,
so talented, nice, but removed he was. I'm never quite
innested what it was exactly. I know he lost his son,
which I thought might have been the thing, but there
(22:14):
was something slightly removed. But I was such an admirer
of him, not only for his racing, but for his
charity work. The whole of the Wall Gang. I was
extraordinary with all those products. I can't believe him. The
figures that he raised is really phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Where's the best place you've ever seen a race?
Speaker 9 (22:36):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
One.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I mean, Monico is tough to be I did one
race in Monico where I had to pick pass and
there's a big, long tunnel it goes through and I
was able during the race, during the race to walk
through the tunnel, and it was it was just it
just an extraordinary experience. So I'd have to say Monico
(23:04):
is probably the most colorful. Although it's a limited race,
it's very tough to pass. There's a lot of talk about,
even though it's long history, that with the cars the
way they're.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Going and they may move on.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But didn't you do a ride along with the King
of Monaco.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
No, I did a ride along with the King of Spain. Oh,
I was in I was at the Barcelona F one
and before the race, they asked me if do you
want to go with the King of Spain around the
track in the what are they called the starter's car,
(23:43):
the pace car.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
So I said, yeah, sure. So I got in the
car with you with.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
His Highness, and I didn't realize that there was a
camera on the dashboard right that had both of us
in full bloom, and so King Juan Carlos took off
and he took off like a bansheet and we went
down on him. I hope he goes he's doing because
the thing about race cars, with all.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Their speed, it's the breaking you can't believe.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
So they go into attorney say there's no way, they're
not going to stop in time. It's just no way.
And the g force on breaking your neck and your
neck is unbelievable. This is why they have all those exercises.
So anyway, we go into the first turn and I'm going,
oh smoking, and I didn't realize I'm on screen.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
I'm looking at it and I'm looking at the King.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I said, you know what you're doing, You show you
know he shot what you're doing.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
The whole way around the track. So that was in Barcelona,
but that was just a warm up. We're talking about
Michael Douglas actor producing. I don't need to say what
should people say when they introduce you?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
What do you want people to A nice guy?
Speaker 9 (25:01):
Is really nice guy?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (25:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I'm very happy I'm an accurate producer. Yeah, and I'm
also a messenger of piece for the United Nations, which
I'd like to spend a lot of time on.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I think there was always this debate about our you know,
these Formula one or NASCAR guys and athletes, and I
would always you know, I would talk to Dale Earnhardt
Junior and he'd say, Hey, sit in that car for
four hours, hand eye coordination, you're losing seven to ten pounds.
You know, everything that goes and if you make a mistake,
(25:36):
it can be But how do you view the athletes
behind the wheel?
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Well, being pretty familiar with F one, in the fact
that I had some.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Friends or a bit owners missus.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
How I got interested in why I'm here in Las Vegas,
this beautiful Fatt hotel for the for the race is
I was friends with the guy that owned the McLaren team.
One of the owners of mclarenty months or o J
before she passed away a couple of years ago. And
I'm now a good friend of a mutual friend of
(26:14):
Monster her Mind's Lawrence Stroll.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Who owns the Alpha the Aston.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Martin team, So I've been able to see close up.
And Lawrence's son Lance drives for Asid Martin. So as
a family friend, I mean, I see the amount of
training that goes in and it's it's staggering. So yes,
the discipline. The thing gets me with NASCAR is they
(26:44):
how close they are, I mean how close they are
for lap after lap.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
I mean in Formula one, you'll have those moments, you.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Know when you have a good but they just they
sit there just I mean just, let's be bumper's touching
at two hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
So there, I mean both both.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
The both races I did need tremendous physical shape to
be in.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Did you do a race car movie?
Speaker 9 (27:11):
No? No, never have, although.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
The Streets of San Francisco, which was soon after my
race car experience, and I was sort of the police
driver of the car with Carl Malden's my partner, and
I always tell this story the very first day of shooting,
the very first day of shooting this which ended up
(27:36):
being one hundred and four hours and four years.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
We're at the.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Top of nob Hill in San Francisco, and then my
trailer and also this is a knocked on the doors.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
You come on, let's go.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
We gotta go fast. The lights, Goull, we're losing the light.
We just need you not to scene. We just need
you to drive around the top of nob Hill, past
the Fairmount Hotel and then this go down the hill
and Carl, you take the red red light. You'd smash
it up on the on the light and we go.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
So, being my first day and not having had a
lot of experience, but very cocky about my driving, I
get in and they go at action.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I take it.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
I go around knob Hell and go past the Fairmount
and then there's a major hill. All I can tell
you is I went off that hill and I was
airborne enough time. But I turned to Carl. Carl looked
at me, and about two seconds.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
Later, badly crash did.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Thank goodness, the wheels were straight right. The car comes
to a stop.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Oh my god, Carl gets up.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
That's not drivers I'm gonna be fired my first day
of the pictures.
Speaker 9 (28:53):
In this first he gets up. That's not driving, that's
just movie driving. That's not driving all the time. I'm
going back to my trailer and change my underwear.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Exactly how many episodes did you do?
Speaker 9 (29:06):
I did one hundred and four hours?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Wow? Did they use that clip in the show?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Do you click cars?
Speaker 9 (29:18):
I used to, but no I don't. I kept down
to adult war.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I love cars, of reading car magazines and all that.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
But that's that's one vice I'm trying to.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Can you fix a car?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Not anymore. I used to be able to fix flatheads,
you know, the older kind of engines and everything. The
new sophisticated ones.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
But you can't sneak a car into the garage with
your wife and have her say where did this come from? Hunh? No,
that's that's the point.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
We can't.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Well, you know I got kids now who are driving
age and Catherine?
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Is that see? Really?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You know?
Speaker 9 (29:54):
I mean how many cars did you fit?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Then you start getting into garage space, right, and that's
not cheap.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
I mean if you how many portions do you have?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I have a few?
Speaker 9 (30:03):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Come on?
Speaker 9 (30:06):
Be honest.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I five that stop your bad I know, but my
wife always says you need another one, and I say no, right,
but I say it, I still want it. And if
you have a garage like you got to fill it up?
You have like a spider, you have like I have
a three fifty six fifteen nineteen fifty nine, three fifty
six A wow, I got an eighty nine G body.
(30:29):
I got a couple of GT threes.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And I have a one speed yellow turbo.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
And what do you drive around?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I have a pickup truck.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Where do you live?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
You live in Connecticut?
Speaker 7 (30:43):
In Connecticut, yeah, yeah, not too far from Westford, Milford, Milford, I.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
Know, Milford.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah yeah. So if you're ever there and you want
to take out one of my cars, thank you. I'd
be more happy to let you. You could take the
G T three out if you want it.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
That said nice, But that your hyde space is cheaper
in Milford than it is a.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Lot about Well, I bought the building where so it's
not cheaper. But I do have a lot of space. Yeah,
but I'm not. I'm not doing any well. Actually, I'm
looking at a seventy three. So I already have my
eyes on.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Have you ever seen Jay letters collection?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, not not in person. But you know what, when
you lose track of how many cars you have, then
you have too many cars.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And Jay, I'm sure doesn't know how many cars he has.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Oh I bet he does.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Oh I think j Letterman sold all of his Yeah,
he had a lot, he had quite a collection. Yeah.
I met his mechanic and uh he works on Miles
Davis's former Ferrari.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
A friend of mine has Miles Davis's Ferrari. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Well well that's say. Yeah, you gotta be a little.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But if I gave you, I said, get one car
for the garage, you tell catherineh I got this car.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
Wow, and it would have to be Oh, let me
see you. Well. I know I'm being a little bit promotional,
but the.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
New as Martin is awfully nice and new DV four
kind of combination is particularly nice.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I feel like you're getting one after this appearance. So
well done, well done. It's great to see you. Thanks
for taking time, and I hope you have a great
weekend here.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
You two have a lovely weekend. Dad. Always great to
see you. Thank you, Michael, guys, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 2 (32:54):
Oh, how do you? How do you introduce him? Stand
up comedian? Impression? This actor? Commented voice actor. You can
check out Matt Friend upcoming shows in North America. You
can go to Atmattfriend dot com. I'm looking at some
of the voices here, So Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Jeff Goldbloom,
Timothy Shalomet, Stanley Tucci, Mitch McConnell, King, Charles Michael Boublay,
(33:19):
Bill Maher, Howard Stern, Matthew McConaughey, Andy Cohen, Sebastian Manusconco,
who was the first impersonation?
Speaker 10 (33:28):
Well, first of all, can I just say that when
I was four years old and I looked in the mirror,
I said, I don't want to host the Oscars. I
don't want to be on TV. My dream is to
appear on talk shows in the middle of a casino,
and I think of great American comedians, you know, Robin Williams,
Jerry Seinfeld going on Johnny Carson. This to me is
(33:48):
my big break getting up with Dan Patrick in front
of the blackjack table. This is it is surreal to
be with you. Thank you for having me. I feel
like you could be my dad. We do have kind
of a vibe going here. You have an ability to
look like every Republican congressman and one person. Why aren't
you at the Cheney funeral right now? I feel like
you should be sitting there with Kamala passing a mint
(34:09):
to somebody. I sent my condolences now, I'm thrilled to
be here. And which was my favorite voice? You said
the first one? My first one was Austin Powers. So
that was the one that got me into comedy. I
fell in love with that movie Doctor REvil, gold member
of Fat Bastard.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Why are you five years old at the time? I
was four?
Speaker 10 (34:25):
Yeah, I'm twenty seven now, okay, So that's the one
that got me hooked. And how'd it sound? I can't
really do it anymore? I know I do, doctor REvil.
Speaker 11 (34:34):
I didn't spend six years in evil medical school to
be called mister Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
When did an adult tell you that you had something?
Speaker 10 (34:44):
I think I was always just making people laugh like
I for me?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I like I said when I was a kid.
Speaker 10 (34:49):
I just wanted to make my parents laugh and their
friends laugh, and then my teachers laugh. And then I
was a precocious kid, like quoting you know old I
loved Johnny Carr to that old era of show business.
For whatever reason, I was very drawn to like Jonathan
Winters and Richard Pryor in that period.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
So I was quoting those.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Guys, and I think just I got laughed as a kid,
and then it happened.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
But you do your impersonations in front of the people often, Yeah, okay,
when does it go bad when you do an impersonation
in front of it has yet too, It has yet
to go. I think it's all the way you approach that.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
Like anything in life, you want to be kind of
respectful and have like a likability factor. But I used
to run into people on the street and then I
would do it like it started with me meeting Andy
Cohen on the sidewalk, which is how ninety five percent
of gay hookup stories begin. Just meeting Andy Cohen on
the sidewalk and Andy looks at me, he goes, wait
a minute, you're like the guy who does me right
(35:46):
like you do. But I thought that's definite not the
first time Andy Cohen has said that to.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
A guy on the sidewalk. You guys look like you're
about to.
Speaker 10 (35:53):
Get your shoes signed in an airport right now, sitting there.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
But this is amazing. I love this. Uh.
Speaker 10 (36:00):
And then I was doing Sebastian Man of Skelk.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I ran into amount a restaurant.
Speaker 11 (36:05):
What's so everybody, it's I'm so happy to.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Be here with Dan Patrick. Look at this.
Speaker 11 (36:11):
I did a talk showing a casino, go to his
booking dish, and.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
Then a lot of the political stuff has taken over.
I performed at the Correspondence dinner last year, and I
mean this interesting position where it's kind of bipartisan, where
I'm trying to make Republican audiences and Democratic audiences laugh
and kind of get everybody because let me tell you something, Dan,
when you're a star, you could do anything in gram
by the gram by the Patrick.
Speaker 11 (36:36):
You can do anything you want. And let me just say,
it's great to be am. I looking at this camera.
You can look at any cameras. Ryet Hey, Quiet, Piggy,
Quiet piggy. Okay, quiet, look at that. That's a good well,
he says, Quiet, Piggy, Is that disgusting, he says piggy
to the reporter, which I think was a terrible thing.
But you have Charles Leclerk. You have f one, which
is a great I love F one. That's a great
(36:57):
thing too. And you're really getting me started, because if
you want to talk, there's a black guy.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
That's a great one.
Speaker 11 (37:02):
I love a black African Americans are great people. That's
my favorite African American right there, he's sitting there. He's fantastic.
I would say his.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Name is Morgan. Well, I didn't ask his name. I
just hears the black guy.
Speaker 11 (37:15):
But I do like Marvin a lot of Actually his
stuff is well, I know him very well.
Speaker 10 (37:19):
And thank you, thank you, thank you for your service.
I'm in character now. I don't know what to tell you.
Thank you, Marvin. Who's your favorite? Who's the go to
impression sexually?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Okay? Got it?
Speaker 10 (37:33):
This is this interview is taking a turn. I go
to impression? Uh well, right now, I'm working on myself.
So I'm doing my first hour of stand up and
then i'll be next year my first special.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
And uh, it's.
Speaker 10 (37:45):
This is not the question the answer to the question
you wanted. The voices like a monkey boy I Howard Steren.
We're doing the radio, so this has got to be it. Right, then,
let me ask you a question. Okay, you're a legendary broadcaster.
I want to know this.
Speaker 9 (37:58):
You must have.
Speaker 10 (37:59):
Gotten so much is back in the day, who is
the hottest chick you ever banged? You must have banged
some hot chick. Who's the hottest chick, Dan Patrick, you
ever banged?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Here was Joy Behart, Joy Bayhart, Jesus talk about that view. Hello.
But when you're gonna do the stand up, Yeah, how
much is gonna be with impressions?
Speaker 10 (38:21):
Yeah, I would say it's probably like thirty percent woven in.
And I'm very excited about it. Like I love like
Eddie Murphy raw and that's a big blueprint for me
and Jim Carrey's stuff and Robin Williams stuff, and the
way that those guys would seamlessly weave in impressions through
the material. For me, like, the content has to lead it. Obviously,
I'm doing these voices, but I think a separating factor
(38:43):
that I hope to achieve is you need to have
actual content. You need to have actual jokes and substance
behind what you're doing. It's not enough in my mind.
I started doing voices on stage and I would.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Go, hello, it's ste Griffin. Great to be here, it's fantastic.
Speaker 9 (38:57):
You know.
Speaker 10 (38:57):
I get away with doing the voices, but now as
a comedian, I want to really like have substance behind
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yeah, I was talking to Frank Kelly Indol about it.
Amazing is to have that context or point of view
that it has to lead to something absolutely because everybody
and they probably come up to you and you go, hey,
let me do an impersonation for you, but then it doesn't.
All it does is sound like like I can do
Ronald Reagan. Well, yeah, that's timely, I know. So then
(39:24):
that's that's what gets all the twenty seven year olds around,
but it doesn't lead anywhere right now, Fritzi Fritzy does
Marge Simpson. Oh really, it's.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
Really great to meet you. Thanks for being here on
the show.
Speaker 10 (39:37):
Well there goes my boner. But anyways, that was that
was amazing. That that was actually that was awesome and
hek and some actors get paid millions of dollars to
do that a year.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Hank is arian exactly. That was awesome. That was great,
But I'm sure people come up to you and you go, hey,
no for sure.
Speaker 10 (39:52):
Like now I'm at an interesting point like where I'm
still very much coming out, but there is the occasional
time where people will yell at Howard Stern, Jeff oh bloom,
you know, and I say, hello, O, very good to
see you. Thank you Jeff goblum g ld you'd be
l you am yes, yes, So I do love to
satisfy the people that come up to me and and
(40:13):
ask for that.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
When did you feel that it changed when you kind
of hit social media, because it I think it exploded
a little bit.
Speaker 10 (40:21):
Yeah, It's just it was a big explosion. It's all
just been incremental, like I you know, I have to
take a step back off and then think how crazy,
Like it's crazy being here with you. I'm such a
fan and every day something kind of wild happens, you know,
And I'm having these opportunities at a pretty young age,
I would say, but it just feels very incrementally. I'm
(40:43):
hustling kind of like a maniac, and I'm trying to
do as much as possible and entertain different audiences and.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Do it a different way.
Speaker 10 (40:49):
But I'm using traditional media and social media and it's
been a grind, but I love it.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
He's a Matt Friend and you can go to atmetfriend
dot com.
Speaker 10 (40:59):
Find me on truth so on. OnlyFans huge with the ault.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Right were you? Were you a class clown?
Speaker 10 (41:06):
I like I definitely was making noises like George Carlin
the Class Cloud album. Like I was definitely making noises
and trying to make people laugh in class. I don't
think I was too crazy, but yes there was an
I'm the youngest child too, so there's an element of
I need the attention and I do like to make
people laugh absolutely, But is.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
There a darkness? It feels like every comedian they talk
about you know, there's a downside. I don't have that.
Speaker 10 (41:30):
Like I read mel Brooks's autobiography and I related a
lot to that. I think, like Nick Kroll has talked
about it, I just wanted to make people laugh as
a kid, and uh, you know, for that's kind of
the reason my dad did trap me in a closet
for ten years. But other than that, but no, I
just I loved making like I just like the silly things.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
We're such a divided time.
Speaker 10 (41:53):
Now and I want to make people laugh, like the
one the number one impression I think that can make
people laugh is actually the impression that I do to
seduce women on the road. And many of your you're
all looking at thinking, oh, you seduce women, that's surprising.
But I do this impression because I'm going to warn you,
every woman wants to have sex with this person, so
I do it. The Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. Something about
(42:21):
the way he looks like he's holding him an intense
amount of diarrhea at all times.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
It's seductive.
Speaker 10 (42:30):
But I have to say, he didn't do that impression
for him, did you. I don't know if he would remember,
but I did. I didn't do it for him now,
but I'd say it's crazy being here because this is
a full circle because I hosted the NHL Awards here
a year ago, so the National Hockey League had an
award show. Is the worst audience you can possibly fathom.
You know how athletes are, There's nothing like performing in
(42:52):
a room full of brain damaged one tooth. To Yugoslavian
hockey players, they're like.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Very funny, do you boy, what's next? This is my pression,
This is my best impression. It's a silent depression.
Speaker 10 (43:02):
I think Charlie Chaplin, this is every NHL player reacting.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
To one of my jokes. This is it. They look
like they wanted to.
Speaker 10 (43:14):
It was like performing at the Kremlin for Man's Like
they were all named put Bobrovski.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
I'm like, what is going on here? Have you been
asked to host the SPS?
Speaker 10 (43:22):
I haven't yet, but I love Norm McDonald and his
was like the the top, but that these are the
That's what I would love.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
To do one day. That would be amazing having been
there when Norm, when I was at the mother's chair. Yes,
how is that it? If you wanted to have a
bomb go off and have athletes go what is going
on here? And he didn't like he was going after people.
He wanted fire you know what.
Speaker 10 (43:51):
You know, he would shake hands with people after he
would bomb.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Like at the end of a show.
Speaker 10 (43:55):
Norm would go to the end of the club and
shake hands with every person.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
That was there.
Speaker 10 (44:00):
Like I think Jeff Ross has talked about this, but
I think it wasn't bombing Norm McDonald. I think he
was just so smart that people weren't really getting the jokes.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 10 (44:11):
Different than having a bad material in bombing.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yeah, like Andy Kaufman knew what he was doing. You
weren't going to get it. Yeah, but Norm, if you
got it, great, but he wasn't going to slow down
to catch up.
Speaker 9 (44:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Yeah, whenever you talk to Okay, I'm playing golf in Vegas, yes,
at Shadow Creek, yep, And all of a sudden, I
see Norm and Kato Kaylin Okay, this was last week, right, yea,
And so we're outside having drinks and all of a
sudden Norm comes up with Kato and sits down and
(44:43):
just just riffs for thirty minutes. He seemed like he
was the best. It was. It was great. You're talking
about Kato, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, he was funny. The
judge from the OJ trial. Where do you want to
be in ten years? Aside from in a casino?
Speaker 10 (44:57):
Yeah, now, he hoped to be doing the talk show
because circuit in ten years maybe, who knows, maybe I'll
do be interviewed by Oprah on an escalator. This is
uh now, this is I want to be. That's a
great question. Well, first of all, I just wanted to
say it is surreal being with you. I'm a huge
fan of the show. In a view, and thank you
for having me. I want to be. The big goal
(45:18):
is like, I want to be my generation's version of
like Kim moll And hosting the Oscars and having my
like kind of a whatever the next incarnation of a
late night show is is what I is what I
aspire to do, and that's definitely more acting. And I'm
gonna do my first special next year. But I'm at
this kind of interesting point in my career now where
I built a following and now it's kind of taking
(45:39):
it to the next place. But I definitely want to
I love like Johnny Carson and again like kind of
a throwback to that era. But I love the intersection
of politics and news and pop culture, and I hope
to be at the center of it.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Pauli, you have the name for this stand up special?
Speaker 6 (45:53):
Yeah, his first Dana special friendly Fire.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Friendly Fire? Oh my god, where am I shooting this?
The Palisades? Jesus. I thought it was going to be
fought his friend Fox and Friend Fox and Matt Friends. Yeah,
I've been going on that show, which has been very fun. Actually, Yeah,
like Vivica A. Fox could be on with Fox and Friends.
Speaker 10 (46:10):
Yes, or me and Jamie Fox do a special together.
And then it's Fox and Friend.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
I like that. Yes, you can go to at mattfriend
dot com.
Speaker 10 (46:19):
Yes, yeah, at at mattfriend dot com, Instagram, the Matt
Friend follow me. There a bunch of shows I have
Tempe Arizona coming up.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Very excited and uh.
Speaker 10 (46:28):
I'll talk about this memory of doing the Dan Patrick
show in in in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Do you pick up on my voice? Yeah? You do.
You have a great you have resting broadcaster voice. Right.
Speaker 10 (46:39):
I can't really do it Dan quite yet, but can you?
How do I do you give me? Give me some insight.
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I don't know. I don't know. Oh I don't know.
I don't know. Oh I know, Oh I know, I know.
You don't know. Well, am I just say? Can we
just talk about what do we have? Any we have time? Okay?
Is this all gonna get cut? It's fine? Might it's okay? Yeah?
I mean the whole thing. We're not even recording this
so fantastic.
Speaker 10 (47:04):
I want to ask you about Brockmeyer, by the way, okay,
because so Hank was my dad's college roommate. Okay, and
I'm none of my whole life. He's like the best
and I love when you collaborate with him. Can you
tell me that about the first time you collaborated with
Hank and Brockmeyer.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
I don't even remember. Fantastic, No, Like I remember doing it,
but I like, you're not doing it in real time right, right,
Like I did the Simpsons, but I'm not doing it
with any other characters, right, I'm just the broadcaster doing
Homer Simpsons skipping Rocks. So that was I just played
the announcer guy, you remember, Paul.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
A little bit before Brockmeer ever happened, Hank was on
our show and he started doing like a fake sportscaster call.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
And I don't know if that.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Was a precursor of that or not, but he was
doing this like mocking sportscaster calls like famous ones in history.
And then like three years later he kind of stumbled
into Brockmeyer. But I remember him.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
He's the best.
Speaker 9 (47:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
But I even said to him, I said, you should
think about doing a like a.
Speaker 10 (48:04):
Show off this character. I've never seen my dad laugh
as hard as that first original four minute broadcam sure,
And it's just it was so great.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
I love that show.
Speaker 10 (48:16):
And also I love him because, like you, we have
this like resting broadcaster voice where people think I'm telling
a joke all the time, but I'm just talking regularly,
like I'm not trying to do a bit right now,
This is just how I sound.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Yeah you have any seven?
Speaker 10 (48:29):
Yeah, yeah, yes, Seth MacFarlane said, even Helen Keller could
hear my voice, which was a nice compliment.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Okay, so thank you to Seth. Too soon though for
that too soon rest in peace at Matt friend, this
is amazing.
Speaker 10 (48:45):
You could smell the you can smell the defeat while
doing this talk show.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
I've never dine a talk showhere.
Speaker 10 (48:50):
I could literally hear regret as I'm trying to form
a joke.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Imagine doing a talk show. You just see nine strippers
walk by. It's in the morning. God, this is a
Dan Patrick. Just remember us, Matt. You know, when you're
a big deal and then I see you and then
you whisk right You think I would do that? Yes?
Why do you say that? What is it about me
that makes you think that?
Speaker 1 (49:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
I just got a feeling of the future last night
when I saw you whisk right by me.
Speaker 10 (49:17):
First of all, let's add some context. I didn't know
you guys were there I was on my way to dinner.
I was wearing AirPods.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I should have because you didn't want to be bothered.
Lastic move.
Speaker 10 (49:25):
Absolutely not. I'm the opposite of that. No matter what
level I ever achieved. I love doing the content. I'm
not going to be like, you know, having an Alec
Baldwin throwing a fit at a paparazzi moment. I mean,
I love Alec Baldwin, but I love it. The people,
the fans are what's making me.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Come on. Okay, we didn't feel except for Dan Patrick
because last night we're like, what a prick? And is
that really how you felt?
Speaker 1 (49:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (49:50):
No, I didn't you whisk right by me? Damn you
whisk right by me. I wish I had known it
was you, And and my my guy who's the director.
He said, Oh, that's man Matt friend and I go
and I'm with I'm I'm with my best friend, my
best guy who does impersonation. Yeah, I know the amazing
you guys said.
Speaker 10 (50:10):
If I had known that was you, I would have
stopped because I would have tried to book myself.
Speaker 11 (50:13):
On the show.
Speaker 10 (50:13):
And then I got lucky because you have a genius
producer who asked if I would do it.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Yes, so well, we were. I'm happy that we ran
into that.
Speaker 10 (50:20):
I'm so happy that we did this, and and thank
you for having me.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
This was awesome. F one tomorrow, all right, Mad mad Friend,
yes at madfriend dot com.
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Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
Paul Pabst
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