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Looking for shoulder care. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. Earlier on the show, actor Zach Galifanakis. NFL Network insider Tom Pellisero. Steelers defensive tackle Cam Hayward.
Coming up. Two-time Academy Award winner Peter Farrelling. And now, it's Rich Eisen. And show is on the air. Great chat in hour one with Zach Gallifanakis, hour two.
Hit the football really hard. Tom Pellisero and Cam Hayward, an hour or two, just had a nice chat in the green room with a. Back in the day, frequent guests, he and his brother Bobby, I think, came on on a On a on a Once upon a time, we had them all together on remote on the flight or something like that, five, right? We put them all together. Or they were here, right?
We had five calling or something. Yeah, maybe that's it. Anyway, we go back in the day with Peter Farrelly. Um and he's since won an Oscar. And he's joining us again for Mm-hmm.
I mean, how to describe balls up? I think you just did. I don't. It's available for streaming now on Prime Video. Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser, who is laugh out loud, hilarious.
Um they pitch a I'll use the phrase here. A bold full-coverage condom sponsorship with World Cup. And by full coverage, it doesn't mean. The actual coverage of a business deal.
Well, maybe it does. At any rate, it's wild, and Peter Farrell is going to join us shortly to talk about it. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial on the program. Will Anderson has signed a three year contract extension for a hundred and fifty million dollars.
So that whole business of a fifth year um a a fifth year Option being picked up. I imagine this is an extension after that?
So they'll play it out, and then this three-year contract extension to keep it going: 50 million bucks a year on average. It is the highest. Salary On an annual basis, of anybody who doesn't play quarterback in the National Football League, this is a. New threshold being set by the Houston Texans, fifty million bucks. The next one after that.
It was not a quarterback Micah Parsons forty six and a half million. That was a quaint moment in time just for one year for him to be leading this pack. Aiden Hutchinson is Third with 45 million bucks. Fourth is the recently pizzaed Jackson, Smith, and Jigba. At 42 and One five million.
TJ Watt, $41 million. Jamar Chase, $40.25 million. I bring all this up for. The point of saying the following. First of all, deserves it.
He's really, really freaking good. Two. This is now The floor for CJ Stroud. That's it. The idea of like, you know what, I'm going to do a little bit of this, a little bit of that, it'll be less than 50 million bucks.
Yeah. Why? Because you're not paying your quarterback less than your non-quarterback. That is happening. He's not their best player.
I'm telling you. what's going to happen Is there is this is the floor? This is the floor. Doesn't have to be a power. And then I know it doesn't have to be.
I know what your point is about how quarterbacks don't have to be paid market value just because it's their time. And will the Texans go into the season? with Will Anderson having his future secured in their quarterback Nott. I think not. I think not.
But getting Will Anderson done. three years, fifty million per You heard Cam Hayward say in hour two when we brought this up to him. About CJ Stroud, the longer you wait, the more it's going to cost, and they didn't wait for Will Anderson to see someone else set another market. For them. And another person who's sitting somewhere, I can't, I'm wondering what he's thinking.
And his name is Miles Garrett. Forty million a year. When he in Will Anderson's making 50. And TJ Watts makin' forty one. and Micah Parsons is making forty six and a half.
I'm Miles Garrett. I'm thinking. Huh? Mm-hmm. Huh.
Really? Hmm. Old S and L's getting sketched. Really? Really?
That's what I'm sitting there. Yeah. If I'm Miles Garrick. The Browns are going to have to do something. Yeah.
Like what? Pay him? More? Yes. No.
Okay. You trade him. I understand. They'll have to do something, is what I said. You said, pay him.
I said, yes. Or trade him. I'm not stirring anything up. By saying it, I'm sorry, I don't think I am. That guy the unanimous defensive player of the year.
I mean, it wasn't even a question who was the best defensive player this year. There's not even a question. First Battle Hall of Famer. I'm wondering if he's what he's sitting there thinking. It could be nothing.
Like, sure, I'll play for 40, whatever. Bad seems to be. I can't imagine. Yeah. He's now 10 off.
10 off. Two wide receivers. Make more than him. He said the free pass rush. Make more than him.
Okay. Just turned thirty.
So, those are my two cents about Will Anderson signing. Oh, I was going to say the other thing that stood out to me: three-year deal. This seems to be the new norm for big time extensions. Maybe so. He also has a no-trade clause, which is rare.
They gave him they gave him a lot. And um Three years, but it's also his fourth year and then his fifth year option, then the three years kick in.
So It's fi they have five years of contractual control on him. It'll be 25 when he's going to be able to do that. Again, this doesn't replace anything. This is a contract extension. Yeah, he's getting absolutely pizza.
So, uh but I'm sure there's guaranteed money. There's Uh 130 in change and some sort of signing bonus that enriches him at the uh at present. But good for the Houston Texans. And the third overall pick of that draft is currently being paid more than the second overall pick, and he's not the quarterback. Just saying.
844-204, rich number to dollar.
So, what's more likely Friday? It's time to hit it. Please. What? What's more likely?
Never say never, but never. What's more likely, presented by Pello Windows Endures, has arrived. You've got the floor, Christopher. Hey guys, happy Friday. Good to see you.
Let's get right to it. We got the draft next week. Thinking about guys who might be on the move, Rich Eisen. How about this one? What's more likely?
A player currently. Not available. To be on a new team in week one. Devin A. Chan or AJ Brown?
AJ Brown. Devin A. Chan's not going anywhere. Yeah, they keep telling me that. I know that, but he's younger.
That means they haven't gotten to the bottom of the business. And he won't be as expensive as A.J. Brown. At the end of the day, he plays a position. I'm sure his agent is saying, Yeah, let's talk all-purpose yards, not about what position he plays.
Let's talk about percentage of yards. Let's talk about percentage of touches. Let's talk about what the role is, not what his position is. I'm sure that's being a part of the conversation. Because if I was Devin A.
Chan's representative, that's exactly what I would be talking about. He's younger than A.J. Brown. and he's going to be paid less than A.J. Brown.
That's why he'll be kept. Not A. J. Brown. In terms of age and in terms of salary.
That's why Brown is more likely to be gone. All right, there you go. What else? Guy's more likely to be drafted. First.
Uh-huh. Not first overall, just first. Who will be first off the board? First Thursday. There you go.
First off the board. Thank you, Rich Eisen. You're welcome. I'm here. I'm a wordsmith.
Jeremiah Love or Sonny Stiles? Mm-hmm. Oh interesting. This is a good one. I like it.
Two of them may be best athletes, best quote-unquote players in the craft. Yes. Yeah. Oh, good one. I'm going to.
Because the range for these guys seems to be a lot of fun. I know 3-8, 3-8, 3-8. Yeah. 3-8. 3-8, 3-11.
Who wants the running back? Yeah, who wants them? Who wants someone like Sonny Styles? Yeah. Oh man, at the end of the day, I will say Styles goes off the board first.
Really? Yeah. And you're feeling colleague shot. What? Where he goes?
Yeah. Number. What do you got? Does someone trade up to get 'em or do they stick and pick? Giants, five?
No, I I Again, I keep hearing, you know, look elsewhere for him. But who knows? Mm. Fun. Fun.
I don't know. Tennessee. Tennessee. I don't know. Tennessee This Cleveland goal for him.
Well, if they trade Mal Scared, they need a war. Good one. Yeah. I'll just go styles just because I think at the end of the day, people are like running backs that high, I can't do it. And I made that noise because I don't agree with it.
That's why I said it derisively. I mocked it. It's like something your son would do. Rich, let's do it again. More likely to go off the board first next week.
Ty Simpson. or a second running back. I'll go Ty Simpson. The second running back, you could name him. We know it's going to be.
It's going to be Jadarian Price. It's going to be. The teammate of Jeremiah Love. I will give him the respect of calling him Jeremiah Love's teammate rather than the other. Notre Dame.
Right, yeah. I don't want to shortchange our game. You know what I mean? Jonah Coleman. You know what I mean?
Like, pork gets denigrated as the other, other white meat. Interesting. You know what I mean? I hear you. I'm trying to get pork respect by saying it's just another pork is delicious.
You know, it's just another non-red meat food stuff. It's a long way of saying. to Darian Price The running back teammate of Jeremiah Love. Will not go higher. But you're going Simpson.
Yeah, great.
Okay. I want on a record that I wrote this last night before any of this news broke out. More likely to be the Cardinals' QB1 this season. Jacoby Prissette, Gardner Minshew, or The Field. QB1 meaning week one starter?
Yeah. It'll be Jacoby Roussette. Really? Yeah, yeah. Because it seems like he doesn't want to be there now.
He does want to be there. He just doesn't want to, he doesn't want to be there making backup money if he's going to be the guy starting 18 games. Is he the guy? We'll talk about it in a few. Daniel Jeremiah tweeted out Ty Simpson or the Cardinals seems inevitable.
Yeah, that's. Right. No.
You know Yeah, we'll talk about it a little bit.
Okay, we haven't unpacked it yet. I don't wish to do it within here. For sure. What's more likely? But I'll go to Jacobi Brissette as well, yes, sir.
A few more. Week one starter, right? Week one starter. Sure. Yeah.
QB1, week one, correct. Whatever. No, but it's no, it's different. QB1 could be like at the end of the day, who has the most starts for the Cardinals? At quarterback.
Okay, who will that be? I would go the field.
Okay. More likely, team with new uniforms. It's new uniform season. Yeah, I saw that. Rams.
To win more games is Rams. Rams or ravens? I'll go Rams. Oh, not a ravens believer now. Oh, stop it.
Uh Come on. I believe in The Ravens. Not as much as the Rams. I believe in. Jesse Minter and what you can believe.
But come on, dude. Also, I guess. I can't tell the difference. I don't see what the difference is. I don't see the difference in it.
I don't get it. Those are the new ones? Yeah. They just look pretty damn clean, man. I think that's what the clean now.
Let me ask you this question, Chris. Am I going to buy a new one for my son? Yes. Okay. No, not just that.
Oh. But. And that's why they create new units. I get it. It works.
Removing the toggery from the equation. Oh, big word a word. The what? The toggery, the clothing, the garments. Yeah.
Who's going to have a better season next year, the Rams or the Ravens? Who's more likely to have a better season than that? Who's in a tougher division? What else you got over there? Yeah.
What's more likely to be the higher number, guys? First round trades. Or Mike Trout home runs at Yankee Stadium this week. I would go Mike Trout home runs at Yankee Stadium. That's five.
Just reminding you. You live in a glass house, pal. I would move on if I were you. I would move on. But I'm just asking a question.
Okay. I'm happy to talk baseball with you at any point in time. Sure. It's April.
Okay. But yeah, they will not be able to do it. six first round draft trades. They will not. Hmm.
I'll put that number at three right now. Really? Just in the top ten or overall first round? Overall first round. Interesting.
Yep. Guys, more he's not here. We didn't remove the flag. The cowboy flag is still there. That's the way he wanted his chair represented without him in it.
And I love this. He's counter-programming us right now, and I don't like it. More likely, team TJ stops rooting for first. The Cowboys, Mets, or Clippers. Oh, he said he was out on the Mets just the other day, wasn't he?
Didn't he say that? He said that and the Clippers. But you never know what is real. He's not tapping out on any of his teams. He will never do that in the history of this program.
Really? He will never. Not even the Clippers. He will never. Tap out on him.
You forget that the Mets at least made a World Series recently and then won one in his lifetime. What have the Clippers ever given him? I understand that. An outlet? To watch basketball out here.
I just find it interesting that he chooses, like, I'm moving from Pennsylvania. To Los Angeles. I'm a diehard Sixer fan. I need another team. I just find that compelling.
Right. Like, you don't need another team. You don't. You definitely don't. You could just, you can go to some Clipper games and say, you know, you have a.
You have an interest. Even in a day and age where you can keep up on your East Coast team, no problem. You want to keep talking about him without him being here? Yeah, since he's not here, dude's got a Dodger jersey over there. What?
Under his desk, just pointing that out. What is happening? You sure you didn't plant it there? No, it's been there. You're like taking over this place, and I don't quite appreciate it.
No more hats for Deltufa. No more. Jeez.
Alright, give it to me. We got it. What? One more? Oh, Jay.
Oh, what else do you want? What else do you want to know? All right, we'll get one more. Guys, it's the 15th anniversary. Of the Game of Thrones premiere.
That's right. 2000, and it's Sean Bean's birthday. Oh, I didn't know that. Ned Stark. More likely Game of Thrones character that you would take number one overall in this year's draft.
Hodor. Jon Snow? The hound? The Night King or Hodor or Hodor. I need offensive line-out.
Who in the world is going to get around Hodor? I don't care about Jon Snow strikes me as the Fernando Mendoza of this draft.
Well, the Night King could immediately end the competition with just one wave of his hand.
Well, is it snow games? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, by the way, the Night King doesn't play in a dome. The Night King does not play in a Dome.
No, no, no. Buffalo, Green Bay. I mean, the Hound is very, very loyal. Edge Rusher. Like, you know, he'll re-sign.
Yeah. The Miles Garrett of maybe. And Jon Snow, you know, when you think he's out of a game, he'll just come right back. He's right back. But hold or Hodor seems like a center.
Are you kidding me? Hodor could play whatever he wants on the line. He's the whole line. Who's going to block? Who's going to be blocking Hodg?
Who's blocking Hodor? I don't know. You can run a trap play with him. I'm glad that you sniffed the Hodor out. By the way, I said it before any other options.
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Well, you remember something about Mary they were passing out hair gel to everybody at the time. Dead serious. I got to tell you, and I guess we'll start here. Peter Farrelly is here on the Rich Eisen Show. Balls up, streaming on Prime Video right now.
It's hilarious. Everybody should go check it out.
Something about Mary. I was on SportsCenter when this came out. Let me get this year right, 98.
So I was on Sports Center for two years. And again, Sports Center was, you know, really in a Valhalla day, like back then in the 90s. And yeah. And and it had hit a certain status. But When the line in something about Mary pops up, and Mary says that she wants to go and watch Sports Center.
Yeah. It was like an electric jolt sent through our newsroom. Seriously. Like, we were just like, oh my God. Yeah.
It it it put it on a different well it was part of our making her the perfect woman and we thought what would she do? And among many things, she'd wanna watch Sports Center, which is you know. What we wanted to do. And by the way, I can't believe you were only out of Sports Center for two years. At that point in time.
Oh, okay. I was there for seven.
Okay. I was going to say, that's hard to tell. And it also gave me a different sense of myself that didn't actually match reality because any single time, and I was a single man at the time, you know Susie now, but I was a single man at the time. I would go to a bar and somebody would put a drink right in front of me and say that somebody bought me a drink for the bar. And I would look for, you know, Cameron Diaz.
And instead, it was just some dude who looks, you know, like 500 times ago. Like, hey, man, let's go talk. I'm like, no, thank you. Yeah. But you were like Led Zeppelin for guys.
You know, like you guys would go, you got it. It was the, you know, nothing was cooler than Sports Center at that time. It was a whole new thing. You know, up to then, remember, pretty much, well, a little before that, but it used to be five minutes of sports, and all of a sudden, you got these guys for, you know, half hour to hour. Is it true that Steve Young was a choice before Farve?
Yeah. It was supposed to be Steve Young. We sent him the script for something about Mary, and he was kind enough to call. He said, this is hysterical. He goes, but I can't.
And I can't do it. He goes, I'm Mormon, and I know if I do it, all the kids are gonna be sneaking into the theaters, and that's not right. And I said, Oh man, well, thanks. I appreciate it. And then we and then we went to actually the second was the Patriots quarterback.
Bledsoe. And then, but he had a little, he had the mosh pit incident where, you know, he was, he wanted to do it, and then he was out of the club and he jumped in a mosh pit, and somebody got hurt, and it was a big, you know, everyone was upset about it in Boston.
So he said, I can't go off and do a movie now because they're going to kill me. And then we went to Brett. But, I mean, he was fantastic. He's great. I mean, the fact that he referred to him as Brett the entire movie and then he shows up and then Ben Stiller couldn't pronounce his name.
Favreau is still his greatest. That was an ad-lib, by the way. That was by By Still. Oh, yeah, by Ben. Ben.
Benges came, you know, Brett Farvra, we were, you know, watching. Which, by the way, is a lot in this movie. Sasha Baron Cohen. Oh, great. He kills in this movie.
He's so good. And he basically pulled like a Bill Murray on us in Kingfin, where he just took the words, you know, the lines, and he's like, Yeah, okay, I'm going to do something else. And they're like, huh? And he just made up all his own stuff, only it was way better, way better than written. And so we cross-shot.
We had to crush because he kept changing his lines.
So camera on him, but also camera on Mark and on Paul Walter Hauser.
So when you see their reaction to what he's saying, that's the first time they've heard it. They didn't see that. There's no script.
So it was really fun.
So Sasha Baron Cohen's like, I got this. Yeah. There's only a couple of guys who'd want to do that. You know, Bill Murray, Sasha Bern Cohen, Jim Carey. Yeah.
You know, just, yeah, go nuts. Whatever you want. And that's my job: just don't yell cut. Stay out of their way. Let them do what they want to do.
So let's get into Bill Murray a little bit, Kevin. Big Aaron McCracken. Yeah. All right. The choices here.
The comb over. Yeah. Where did we get that one? We had had a comb over on Woody Harrelson. We'd already done that.
And then when Bill showed up, because he didn't come in till like three weeks into shooting, and he said, I was thinking of having a como.
Well, we already have one with Woody. And I said, whoa, wait a second. This is good. Let's, yeah, let's try that.
So it was all his idea. He suggested the como. Oh, yeah. As well as every single line in there. Was his line.
He just, again, he would look at the dailies, I mean, the sides, you know, the nut pages you give them at the beginning of the day, and he'd just throw them aside and he'd just make everything up, you know, biscuit, you know, gravy train with biscuit wheels. We're like, what is it? You know, just. killed but it was uh it was just I just remember thinking, don't yell cut. Because I remember once I yelled cut after the end of the scene and he did more, and I just don't yell cut until he's just exhausted.
It's just film, just let it roll. Yeah. Yeah. And the fake commercial as well, where he's he's. I guess you must have come up with this idea, and then he just came up with the lines for it where he's supporting all the fathers out there with hot mothers.
Yeah. No, I think we might have actually written that. He did the lines there. But yeah, for the, yeah, that was fun. I wake up and he's already there.
Oh, my God. No, he was just. I love Kingpin. I'll be honest with you. I mean, Dumb and Dumber is outstanding.
Something about Mary is kind of, you know, what. In a way, grounded it all together amongst all your films. But Kingpin was first, right? No, Dumb and Dumber was first. And then Kingpin.
But the thing about Kingpin that makes it close to my heart is it didn't do well when it came out. It bombed. And it did like $5 million, and it just seemed like a disaster. And when it came out on video. Right.
Then people started seeing it, it became what it is. But also, the great thing about Kingpin is Woody used to be my roommate, Woody Harrelson. When I first moved to LA, he moved to LA. We were roommates for four years before he got on cheers, or actually, just when we started becoming roommates, he got cheers. And so, for us to suddenly be working together, it was like, this is nuts.
How did this happen? Did you have to? How did it happen? Since Dumb and Dumber was first, yeah. Do you have problems selling it?
Giving an idea of what it was? You know, after we wrote Dumb and Dumber with Bennett Yellen, my brother Bobby and I wrote it with Bennett Yellen. But everybody saw it as a Jim Carrey movie, which it was, and Jeff Daniels, you know, Jeff's God in that movie. But I think we weren't given enough credit, so it was hard to get the next movie made. Yeah, it wasn't easy.
It wasn't like people were, yeah, go do it. Right. So we had to convince, you know, it was hard to get it going. And then, yeah. But Dumb and Dumber.
We had Jeff Daniels here. Do you have to convince the actor from terms of endearment at the very beginning and what he was doing on Broadway to convince him to. To be the guy on the toilet and things like that? No, he was game. He was game.
He was, you know, I had seen Something Wild, which one of my all-time favorite movies. Yeah, great.
And he was so good in that. I wanted him from the beginning. And we really fought for him because the studio was like, No, you want it like a comedic actor. I was like, Are you kidding me? Jeff Daniels is one of the best actors alive.
He'll do comedy, drama, anything. And he did. And, you know, Purple Rose of Cairo still holds up. That's right. It's a that is a classic.
I've seen it recently. It's unbelievable. But no, he came on and he goes, Hey, I know what you're asking for. I'm game. It's all good.
Don't worry about it. All right. And by the way, when we did the toilet scene, it was the first day our parents were ever on the set. They walked in and Bobby and I had been out in LA for nine years trying to get things done. They were like, What are you doing?
How are you making a living? We were selling scripts and getting by.
So we finally said, We got a movie. Come on out. And they came out and it was in Utah and they walk on the set and there's Jeff like sitting on the The toilet. And I remember my father holding on to my mother, like, what kind of movie is this? And oh, yeah, it's, you know, you'll see.
Yeah, they didn't know. That was your folks' introduction to your first thing they ever was Jeff Daniels on the toilet. On the toilet, yeah. It's dumb and dumb. And they were like, they didn't know what kind of movie it was.
They were. Yeah. But they're still proud. They're still proud. When it came out, they got proud.
Okay, and it hit it. Is there one construct that you came up with? in your films these uh of this era that you're the most proud of like You love the line, the scene. It could be anything. It could be hilarious.
It could be poignant. Whatever it is.
Well,. It's hard to beat the hair gel and Mary.
Something about Mary, the whole setup. You know, the idea that you know that the the you know, the the A guy is going on a date and he's nervous, so he takes the pressure off, you know, and it ends up on his ear. And I remember Bobby and I coming up with it. We're driving in the car, and I'd been thinking, you know, we'd done some stuff for Seinfeld, too. And I thought, you know, it's a great Seinfeld thing.
What if one of them, you know, masturbated and lost the product? And Bobby's like, it's hysterical. I said, yeah, but what do you do with it? He goes, yeah, but where is it? I said, I don't know.
He goes, well, that's the funny part. Where'd it end up? I don't know. And then a few minutes later, we're like, what if it ended up on his ear? And then we're laughing about it.
And then we're thinking, whoa.
So it's on his ear.
So then what? Say he goes out or somebody comes to his house and then. You know, we're laughing about that, that somebody would see it. And then, this is originally intended for sign film?
Well, the idea was.
Okay. And then we, and then we had, and then we were laughing. This takes place over like a half-hour drive. And they would say, wait a second, if someone comes in, maybe they. And they see it, what would they, say it's a woman, what would they say it is?
What would he say it is? It'd say hair gel. And they were laughing just at that. And then the idea that. She would take it and put it in her hair, and then that it would harden.
You know, the whole process. I remember we were just howling, but we thought, yeah, that's very funny, but how you can never do it. On network television. No.
And then when we were making this movie, we said, let's try it. And, you know, of course, the studios, they can't do that. It's NC17 or X. Right. I was like, no, no, no, no.
If it's for laughs, it's R. If it's for titillation, it's NC17. This is clearly a laughter thing. But it was, you know, it was. It was Unprecedented, we'll say, to do that in a movie.
And so, you know, yeah. Proud of that. I mean, it was one of the biggest laughs ever. That's a nice thing. Certainly, we remember it.
Peter Farrelly here on the Rich Eisen show. Mark Wahlberg is just as funny. Wahlberg shocked me. Paul Walter Hauser, first of all, is a god. You know, if you don't know Paul Walter Hauser, he's been here.
He's been in this chair before. Funny funny. A god. Very, very funny. But I don't know if there's a better straight man in the last 20 years than Mark Wahlberg.
Like, he's underrated. And I had met him once or twice. Like, hi, how you doing? But I didn't know him until we were on this thing. And I was stunned at how good that guy is.
And then I started looking back at all his movies. First of all, Boogie Nice, he should have won Best Actor. I agree. That was the best performance of the year. He was spectacular.
He didn't get nominated. He got nothing. You go back and watch that today. That is one of the funniest movies. I mean, funniest performances of all time and just perfectly done.
But anyway, I was blown away by him. And, you know, Sasha Barron Cohen. And Molly Shannon. Molly Shannon, she's Hall of Famer. I agree.
Yeah. I mean, you got some comedy. Yeah, but I mean and and Larry David's in there. He's got a little Larry tiny little piece. L D just a little.
How did you meet him? Pitching sign phone. Yeah, we went in and pitched him, but we became friends after that. Um When I met him, I met him, you know, actually, we met him through golf and we played some golf.
Okay. Yeah. All right. So what else did you invent? We just went in and pitched a bunch of, but the Virgin episode, you know, when he goes out with the Virgin?
Yeah. Yeah, that was ours. But we didn't write it. We sold it. We got story credit.
Got it. You know, we sold a couple other things to him. But yeah, we were never on staff. Right. But we were always thinking, how can we get on staff?
Right. So we were, you know, trying to. But you're talking about Wahlberg for sure. Like Boogie Knights is one. Obviously, the Departed, he was spectacular.
And then I think he was actually Oscar nominated for the. He should have been. He was Oscar nominated as best supporting for that one, right? Yeah. Obviously, what he did with Ted was laugh out loud, funny, less, you know, straight man.
The Will Farrell movies that he's done. He's as funny as they come. He is. And like I said, I hadn't met him before. What an awesome guy.
Just like a pro. Shows up, does his thing, open to anything, no attitude. He's, you know, He's a huge star, and he's got none of that. He doesn't feel like it. I know you're a golfer, too, for sure.
I think I met your brother first at the Billy Andrade, who's Brad Faxon in Rhode Island. Right, yeah. You know, a charity tournament there. Yeah. And, you know, and Faxon and Andrade are in the opening scene of Kingpin, right?
Yeah. They're in the disco bowling. Disco bowling. Yeah. Yeah, they come in.
How do you even come up with an idea of kingpin? Like, that is so outrageous from beginning to end. Yeah, we didn't have the idea. It was an old script, and then we came in and rewrote it. But yeah, it wasn't ours.
And then the other photograph, you had put it up as well, that we had to digitize it out from Balls Up. We just, you know, because they're holding up the product. I think this is what the marketing group sent to me, asking me to post this thing in support of the problem. I mean, that's the prototype on which. That's right.
Is that correct? I guess so. I can't remember what he's holding there. He's holding.
Okay, yeah. He's holding something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we can't talk about. And you're also on the campus here at DirecTV Loudermilk was a terrific show that you did.
We love that. Ron Livingston, terrific. Yeah, we're still trying to get that back. Yeah, we did three years on the audience network, and then they went broke. I know, trust me, we were on it.
Yeah. Went down too. Yeah. And then we ended up on Netflix and it kind of blew up. It did.
It did really well there. And then we got busy doing other stuff, but we want to come back because actually, you know, we did three years, but we. The fourth and fifth years are the best years. We already have them all planned out, so we want to get back into that. I can see how it works.
And your next film called I Play Rocky? Yeah. Is about what? It's about the making of Rocky. And it's basically Stallone's story.
And it's, you know, a lot of people don't know. He was homeless. You know, he was living in Penn Station. And he was, he, he was, you know, he was down and out. He was doing softcore porn, you know.
And then he wrote that script and he gave it to the studio. And they're like, this is fantastic. And we'll, we'll, and he says, great, but I play Rocky. And they're like, what does that mean? He goes, I play Rocky.
And they said, What are you saying? He goes, I'm in the movie. And they're like, no, you're not in the movie. It's going to be like, you know, Burt Reynolds or Ryan O'Neill or Clint Eastwood, not you. And he goes, then I'm not.
then you can't have it. And it's that story about him holding out To B. What became one of the all-time great movies, a movie that broke. The mold changed cinema. Who plays Stalin?
A guy named Anthony Ippolito, a new guy.
Okay. Superstar. Superstar. So you had a cast Burgess Meredith in the film? Yeah.
Yeah. Who'd you get for that? Oh, fuck. No, no, sorry. I don't mean to give a gun with these names.
Come on. Can we back this up? It's okay. No, it's all right. But you got Burgess Meredith.
I'm sorry, I'm blanking. Kalya Shire. Yeah, we've got them all. Carl Weathers. Yeah.
One of my favorite things. Yeah, Stephon James plays Carl Weathers. He's super. A guy named Robert Morgan plays Robert Morgan. Yeah, can we back that up?
I'm good, man. No, I'm putting on spots with names and stuff on the show.
Okay, Robert Morgan plays Burgess Meredith. Yeah. Yeah, that's lightning and cracking. He's fantastic. I'm a little ditzy today.
It's all good. Zurley. Yeah, Stephen James plays Carl Weathers. Yeah. Stephon James, yeah, he's sensational.
I can't wait for this. One of my favorite TV shows of the last few years watching was The Offer about the making of The Godfather. And this sounds like what you're talking about. Yeah, but this was a movie and that was streaming. I know that was a limited series.
Do you remember the guy who played Al Pacino? In that, okay, not the young guy. Is that the fellow we were talking about? That's Anthony Ipolito. Oh, amazing, going full circle, and I had no idea.
Yeah, that's Anthony Ippolito. That's the only thing that you would know about. There you go, and here I am mentioning it. And again, I know it's two different endeavors, but I'm just talking about the similarity of like a backstage of an ICC. I love these movie and how it gets made, and what movie executives are saying, and how close it wasn't to be getting made.
And then when they finally said, okay. We'll do it with you. They said the budget's a million dollars, you got four weeks. And if you fall one day behind schedule, we can replace you. He had to sign on that.
And then Basically, everything that could go wrong could, uh, did. And I'm not saying that they planned it that way, but like when the meat came, you know, the punching frozen solid. It was like hitting granite. He broke both hands hitting that meat. In real life?
Yes. When he was shooting the movie. And he ate that Rocky punch. Yeah. And he said, wait, whoa, I can't hit this.
This is like icicle. And they're like, well, we could thought out how. We got blow dryers. Take an hour and a half. He's like, let's just do it because he couldn't fall behind.
This is amazing. Yeah, it's an unbelievable story. It's coming out this fall? Yeah. It comes out the 50th anniversary of the original Rocky in November.
Peter Fair. But don't forget it balls up. Of course, no, I understand it. But you also mentioned the name of an actor in my ear.
Now you had me at hello. Go ahead. Tracy Letz is in this. Tracy Letz is in this too? Tracy Letz is so good in this.
He's good in everything. No, no. You have no idea. He's the studio head. Oh, perfect.
And he is, he kills. You know, absolutely kills. I mean, I knew he was funny when we were doing it, but when we tested it. Through the roof. This guy Just kills.
He was here a few months ago, and I fanboyed him the entire night. Yeah. He's great in absolutely everything. Yeah. You know, Ford versus Ferrari, he plays a member of the Ford family.
That's a similar vein of who he might be. He's also a Pulitzer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Sage County. Yeah. Yeah.
He's a real deal.
So are you, sir? Thank you. And that's later on this fall. But Balls Up is available right now, streaming on Prime Video. Benjamin Bratt is in it as well.
Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention that. Dude, you'll never see Benjamin Bratt in a better role for him. He kills. Then, just in time for the actual World Cup.
Yeah. Fantastic. Great to see you, man. Great to see you. Anytime.
Thanks for having me. I love being here. I just love this. Love this room. Yeah, you got it.
We got to get something from your filmography in here. Where is the Rose bowling ball?
Okay, can I? It's an interesting story. Are we still going? How about we take a break and we finish up? Let's do it.
Great. Look at us. That's next. This is The Rich Eisen Show right here with Peter Farrell. Thanks.
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I'll just call them right on it. When is it? And they go, Well, we'll get a time.
So give me the time right now. I'll lock it in. And they're like, We're gonna do it. And this is a late-at-night conversation when people have had a few things. That's the biggest lie in the South.
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There was a backup ball in case we lose one. You always have to have another one. And I Have the original. Oh, yes. Yes, I took it home and I lent it to my friend Patrick Lyons.
He has a bowling alley in downtown Boston, a really good one. And they have a whole kingpin wall and the balls there and a couple of the wooden pins from when he was a kid.
Okay. They're in there. But About a year ago, I see that the other rose ball is going up for sale. It's being auctioned off. How much you think it went for?
Six figures. More than that. $350,000. $350,000. What?
It went for more than the whip in Indiana Jones, more than the hatchet in the Shining, more than the dress that she wore in Titanic. Get out of here. That's Bill Murray. That's how much people love Bill Murray. Bill Murray affected it.
The idea that he held this thing.
Well, Harrison Ford held the whip. I know, but. Wow. Yeah. I mean, the ball is iconic.
My wife immediately said, get the ball back right now. Get it right back. I was like, well, it's okay. Baxies, right? That's what we used to call it back in camp.
I call Baxis. I'll take it back. Yeah. Really? Wow.
Is there a a specific baseball from Mary or did you use any specific baseball? Yeah, no, I never got that. I don't have a lot of stuff, but my big one is, well, we had the mutt cut ve cars. There were two of those. My brother got one and I got one.
Okay. Yeah. That car existed? Yes. Oh, yeah.
The mutt cut vehicles. And I picked my daughter up once in high school. In it. And she was humiliated. She was so like all the kids were running over and looking at it.
She was like a freshman. The last thing she wants is any kind of attention. And I had just gotten it fixed and it was taken to my house.
So I went, I was picking her up. I thought this would be funny. She didn't find it funny at all. She's still mad at me about it. But it's an iconic film.
I know. Yeah. I end up, I gave that to my friend Tom Kartsotis because he's, do you know, you know, anyway, Tom, Tom's a good friend of mine, and he started Shinola. Oh, wow. You love it right now.
I'm wearing one. Did you get one fixed? Did you get watch fix? I did get my watch fixed. Yeah, I got one.
Great watch. But he was a good friend, and he is a good friend.
So he has it. I think he put it in his house. Parked it in the basement somehow. That's what happens when you create Shinola. The movie is called Balls Up, available now for streaming on Prime Video.
Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter, Hauser. Molly Shannon, Benjamin Bratt, Sasha Baron Cohen, directed by this man, Peter Farrell. Thank you for coming. Thanks for having me. I love it.
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