Celebrity True Or False With Denis Leary

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Not available in all states. The Rich Eisen Show. Earlier on the show, actor Josh Gad, Steelers Radio Network host Jerry Dulak. Still to come, actor Dennis Leary. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Our number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Dennis Leary is in our green room, and that will end shortly. Bring him on out here. It's going to be awesome.

His show, Going Dutch, the season finale of it, airs tonight on FOX, and then you can catch it tomorrow on Hulu, right here on the Roku platform. Josh Gad was in studio on hour number one. I'm not going to hold his book up again. I'm just going to hold up the photograph in his book jacket. I'm jealous, man.

I'm jealous. I should have brought this up to him when he was here. I mean, look at the... Is this the blue steel Josh Gad that we got going on right here? I mean, take a look. You could see that. You see him right there?

It's very cool. He's just staring at you. Into your soul. You know what I mean?

Staring through you. Who wrote the foreword for your book, Rich? Steve Sable. Excellent.

Steve Sable. Was he the only one you asked? Yeah. Okay. And he sent it to me within 48 hours, and it was perfect. That tracks. As you might imagine. Yeah.

It was absolutely perfect, so that was great. I wear that as a badge of honor. And that was in 2007. If I asked him later on, he would have totally been disappointed by me by then.

He would never have done it. But I came out the gate impressively at NFL Network. May he rest in peace, the great Steve Sable. And that's one of my favorite parts about hosting any event for NFL Network that's big enough to require what's known in television business as the hallmark, which is when you come on the air. The following is a presentation. Right. And the NFL Network uses Steve Sable's voiceover to this day. And we'll hear it next for the draft, which is coming up in six Thursdays.

But who's counting? Wow. Yeah. That deserves a wow. Gonna be here fast.

Gonna be here fast. It'll be the night where everybody that drafts, either Cam Ward or Chidor Sanders or Jackson Dart or, as you heard, Jerry Dulock said in hour number two that Steelers really like Will Howard, as he said, even though the way he looked at the combine. You know what? I appreciate when guys spin it at the combine, but I don't want to hear that, the way he looked at the combine, then that's the way people don't spin it at the combine. You compete, you're thrown to a bunch of receivers that you've never thrown to. He could have had a bunch of receivers that he knew how to throw to, but virtually every one of his draftable receivers is like, I'm not working out.

Teddy Bridgewater famously had a bad pro day, right? Oh, I think so. Right. With the two gloves. Teddy, two gloves.

Worked out. But at any rate, everyone's hoping that the quarterback that they draft is the one that drops into their lap from the football gods. You know, God bless Cam Ward if he's drafted second overall because the last two second overall picks are CJ Stroud two years ago and last year Jayden Daniels. So good luck to whoever's drafted second overall. I guess the only other spot that's the most pressure filled is if you're drafted 199th overall as a quarterback. Good luck because we already know you're the second best to ever be drafted in that position.

Right? Everyone's hoping that they turn into the next generation. And you know, one way to, I understand every single time the Holmes does anything against the Bills, everybody brings up the fact that the Chiefs traded up with the Bills and you know, the Bills took a first round pick from the Chiefs in the next year's draft and used that on Tremaine Edmonds. But they had another draft choice in that draft and they used that one on Josh Allen. And as Sam Darnold is now on team number four being drafted third overall, having the contract mimicking the latest contract for the first overall selection in that draft, Baker Mayfield, who's finally found a home in Tampa. And hopefully for Sam, his home in Seattle is as seemingly permanent as Baker's is in Tampa. Josh Allen's the one that just hit it from jump. And he's now on his second monster contract.

And believe it or not, the NFL appears to be the world in which you could sign for $330 million overall. And I have imagined he's going to see all of that and he asked if you gave money back to the team by signing such a contract by not taking more millions of dollars. And this was Josh Allen's answer to that. He was asked in his press conference, his Zoom, in which he spoke for the first time since hitting it. I think is this the first time he's spoken since winning the MVP as well, I believe, since his speech. I don't recall him having any other press availabilities.

And I was tap dancing to hear back from Mike Hoskins, who knows everything about Buffalo Bills. He said quite possibly this is his first since the MVP. At any rate, he was asked about giving millions of dollars, if not $5 million back by not signing for more. It didn't seem like in my perspective I was taking a whole lot less. But the way that I make sense of it, when you start getting these fairly big numbers throughout the entire league, it's weird to say this, but what's five more going to do for my life that I can't already do right now? It's not that crazy to me. I live a pretty good life. I've got a house, I've got a car, we're good.

But I wasn't looking to absolutely kill them at every chance that I could. I told my agent that if this has any impact on the pack, or impact on the cap, let's figure out a way to not do that. Love it.

Sounds great. And you know what I thought when I saw that? That's a quarterback who's under the most pressure entering 2025.

Here you go. I figured Dennis Leary coming out is not going to stir things up enough. Bro, seriously. You think that guy's under the most pressure in 2025? That's the guy who didn't sign for enough and he's just like, I've got a house, I've got a car, I'm okay, we're good. Anything that he just had to say, love Josh Allen. It has nothing to do with division rival or anything. How does that translate to on the field?

What's going to happen between September and February? I don't even put him, how about this? Don't say it, don't say it, because you're wrong. I don't even put him in the top five quarterbacks under the most pressure in 2025. I don't even put him in the top five. I don't even put him in the top five. Let me say that again. Let me stress a different word. I don't even put him in the top five.

Well, you're wrong. How about this? Okay.

Let's do it. We already know if we're going to do it list, we already know it was number one, so start at two and go from there. Number one, Dak is in the top five. Then why is Josh Allen not in the top five if Dak Prescott is?

No one thinks the Cowboys are going to win the Super Bowl. Brock Purdy is entirely in the top five. Brock Purdy already went to a Super Bowl. Brock Purdy is entirely in the top five. He's going to get paid, guys. Okay, then what is the difference between Purdy and Josh Allen? Because Purdy might not get another. But he's already been there.

And he might not be on the 49ers in a couple of years. Again, who cares? What do you mean who cares? He cares. That's pretty big, Chris.

That'll be pretty huge. So Josh Allen doesn't care about winning or beating the Chiefs finally in the playoffs? Of course he cares. Of course he cares.

But he's going to have another run at it into the next year and the year after that and the year after that. How do we know that? I bet Dan Marino thought that. I know he thought that. Okay.

Brock Purdy's on that list. I wasn't planning on doing this. This may take some time.

That's fine. We got time. Aaron Rodgers wherever he shows up because he's got only a few minutes left potentially in his career. Few minutes when he obviously an entire career. Couple seasons left.

Russell, wherever he shows up. That's another one. He might not have another opportunity. That's pressure. No one thinks wherever Russell Wilson goes, they're Super Bowl contenders.

Nobody thinks that. Same thing with Rodgers. This is about guys who've never been there, who have won awards and have got the big money, finally winning and getting to the Super Bowl.

This is our difference. Lamar Jackson. This is Josh Allen.

Justin Herbert. Your view of pressure is what other people are going to say about them. And my view of pressure is life and opportunity no longer being a, possibly guaranteed or b, being there at all. That's pressure. Their career is over.

Russ and Aaron Rodgers have won Super Bowls. What if one of these guys turns on the TV the day after their season's over and sees the topic bar all about them in half of our industry yelling about him? That's not the way I view pressure.

That's the world that we live in right now. I view pressure as will they get another opportunity? Which is why maybe I take Dak off the list after all. I mean, you're talking legacy.

You're talking having a job. Well, I'm also talking legacy when it comes to Rodgers and Wilson too. So I'm not saying legacy is not at all part of it. I'm just saying you're like, oh my God, people are just going to say he's one of the worst or he's not this and he's not that, which might have part of legacy because legacy is in fact written by those who talk about it because those people are eventually going to be the selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame or they're deemed not compromised enough by the Associated Press in their wacky way of deciding who gets to vote for MVP. If Josh Allen never makes a Super Bowl, never wins a Super Bowl, his career is a complete flop. But he still has more time to get that Super Bowl and an organization that is functional enough to create the opportunities for him over and over again. That's why I'm saying it's not as much pressure to do it. I'm talking about time running out on a career or maybe getting something for the first time that, yes, the outside conversation will add to some form of pressure, but they might not get another opportunity to do it. But they've already been there. I mean, like if you've already got a ring, how much pressure are you true? I mean, like you, you did it.

Well, if Rogers wants to keep playing and he wants to be talked about, like a certain caliber of quarterback that walks into the Hall of Fame first ballot with multiple rings, then yeah. So I've come up with three. I need two more. Hmm. Drake May.

I don't know why you're making fun of me, man. Justin Fields. That's another one. Kid's going to be in New York City and he's got a two year, 20 million dollar deal. And this might be the last time he gets a contract like that. That's a lot of pressure. That's big time pressure.

You know, that's a lot of longtime listeners, first time callers to tune out. But that's the same boat that Allen's in. No, it's not. I think we all kind of have different definitions. I think Chris and my definition kind of lie a little bit closer.

It's when you have the Lamars, the Josh Allens, guys who've won the MVPs and who are taught as generational talents and they haven't been able to take that next step and win the championship. I feel like when you say life yet, no one has pressure. They're all paid. They're all doing well.

But as an athlete on the football field, there's some pressure for you to be listed amongst those greats. Who's a fifth quarterback here? Who do we got?

You want to put Tua on there? Kirk Cousins? Well, Tua's got more runway left on his career. Cousins might be one if he gets an opportunity. Does he?

What? Does Tua have more runway on his career? If he gets injured again or another concussion, that might be it. I'm just saying he's got more. If he's not hurt, he's got more runway on his contract. Maybe in a year or two.

Him and Trevor Lawrence. That's the sort of thing. That's what. So, you know, you're coming to see the way I'm seeing it right now. No, no, no, absolutely not. You're seeing it under the mat. You're giving me names through the prism.

I'm trying to get the dentistry now. I think he's giving those names to try to. All right. No, I see what you're saying. Let's just say Daniel Jones would be done with it. No one thinks Daniel Jones is going to do anything. Okay.

So then but then again, you're you're using the prism prism. Here's the deal. Joe Burrow is under a lot of pressure. No, he's not. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. He's got 10 more years left of his of his and he might show up somewhere else instead of Cincinnati.

He might one Joe Burrow is on the Dan Marino path and that is not a path you want to be on. Okay. I couldn't come up with a fifth because, you know, there isn't one. Well, there's going to be one.

I just didn't want to come up with one. And he's right. Dennis Leary is in our green room and hasn't been for seven years. So let's bring him out. Let's end this eight for four, two or four. I know it sounds unsatisfying, but it's Jared Goff.

It's under a lot of pressure next year. Yeah, that one. I think that works for both views. All right. All right.

All right. Just for, you know, what's in giggles, bring out Dennis Leary, Jared Goff. You just brought it to an end and seen Dennis Leary going Dutch season finale tonight on Fox. Dennis Leary back on the Rich Ozzens show.

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Back again. My daughter is played by an actress named Taylor Michiac. She used to be on Dave on FX. She is fantastic. I can't say enough about her or the rest of the cast because we also, we do a lot of improvisation.

Yes. And most of the time on this show I end up in scenes sometimes when the improvisation is happening. I'm just trying not to laugh.

Not to laugh until you're going to break up. The writer is a brilliant guy named Joel Church-Cooper. He did Brockmire. Oh, we know Joel. Do we know Joel? Joel is a brilliant writer. Oh, he's fantastic. And he's on set and he wants to shoot the pages, which are really funny, but then he also wants to play around immediately after we get the pages. So you have to be able to improvise. So this, I'm telling you Taylor, all of them are great, but Taylor and I have some, it's just, I love working with her because their relationship is so fraught.

It's the worst dad ever, as opposed to the best dad ever. And so she's just constantly like throwing stuff at me. And I, you saw me stumble a couple of times in that conversation.

She's throwing stuff out at me, you know? And it was great. I mean, it's, it's such a fun show again. The season finale is tonight on Fox. You can watch it the next day on Hulu, right here on Roku.

Benji on Hulu. Today. Well just not right now. Not now. Right, exactly. Not now, but just make a note. Not while I'm here for the first time in seven years. That is correct.

You have to make a mental note of doing that. And you were telling me back stage, I had no idea. You shoot this in Ireland? You shoot a significant of it in Ireland? It's set in the Netherlands. It's based on a real army base that was closed down because in the Netherlands, prostitution is legal and so are drugs. And this base, it was a real base. It has no weapons, no tanks, no, no fighter jets. It did the laundry and delivered the wine and cheese for the other 32 NATO bases.

Right. But because it was in the Netherlands and there was prostitution and drugs, they inevitably made their way into the, there was a black market situation on the base. So that's the premise of the show is my daughter is in charge of this base and I get sent there because they want me to retire because I'm like general patent.

I'm a battle guy. And I insulted the joint chiefs of staff in a big meeting and they, they forced me to go to this base. So it's just, it drives me crazy because it's like, it's just all laundry and wine and cheese and drugs and there's, there's no weapons.

There's not a gun on the base. And you're going Dutch because you're going to the Netherlands, but you're splitting the power with your daughter. He's so smart. See, he's not just the best dad ever.

He's the smartest dad ever. You know what? I'm just, I, I get it is what I'm saying. I get it and I get you, Dennis Leary.

How are you, man? It's been too long. I love this show. I don't know why it took me so long to come back.

I appreciate you saying that and would love having you on it. Remember when I was last time I was here, I think I took over and hosted. You did in fact to do that. You also I do believe this was back in the day when we used to preview who was coming up next by having you appear on camera on our green.

Yes. And you started firing golf balls, Texas wedge style. I tried to hit you. Balls were like flying like I know, but I couldn't, I couldn't hit you because I suck at golf. I literally, and by the way, my short game was the only, it was actually the best part of my game. I threw the clubs away.

I threw the clubs away. Finally. Yeah. I just, I used to have my own charity golf tournament for my Leary firefighters foundation. And that only worked because I was, they wanted me to drive around the hole to hold the play with everybody. Yeah.

Yeah. But that is the, you know, I played hockey, I still play hockey. You know, I boxed, I, I, uh, you know, I played baseball. The hardest thing I've ever done in sports is try to play golf.

The ball not moving. Was it a problem for me from the get the holes? Forget the Zen thing. Are you crazy? Like I, I'm not built for it because I'm, I'm cursing screaming in between shots.

Yeah. You kind of need more of a even keel patient manner when it didn't work for me. The last time I played, my son's a great golfer and he said, come on, dad, come on, try it.

You know, it's been a while. So I went out and the first shot I hit, there was a, there was a Marshall shed over here and uh, shooting this way. And I hit a line drive into the Marshall and I started laughing and my son got pissed at me. He's like, what are you laughing about?

I was like, there's no point. What am I doing? And then I played the second hole and then I just drove around with them cause I just, it's it. That's as much fun as you can have. It's over.

Never playing again. What did you think of the four nations stuff? Loved it. Were you locked in? Yeah, totally locked in.

It's great. I'm pissed that we lost Charlie McAvoy. I'm a Bruins fan.

That's right. Um, like Chuck getting hurt. I mean, but they put it on the line.

I know, but it's such, it's so intense. There's nothing like that Olympics or, or international competition like that to get, I mean, it's the, in, in, it's the, it's the best, it's not the same in basketball in, you know, when we go out and play in the Olympics and basically, well, the, the final of a Thursday night final in Boston, you know, in TD garden, you know, where they brought out, uh, you know, they, they brought out a Ruzioni beforehand and it was apparently the toughest ticket in the history of, oh yeah, no, it was, it was, it was tough to, it was going to be tough anyways, but once the heat built up, Oh yeah, like a Ruzioni baby, Michael Ruzioni. And it was two days before the miracle on ice, 45th anniversary.

It was, it was great. It was just a skate against Mike in, uh, East Boston. That's where he's from.

Yeah. What do you mean you used to skate? I skated against him in the men's league when, uh, I didn't play against him in high school, but I played, um, in a men's league and we, uh, we played, I can't remember the name of his team pre Olympics for him or no, no, no.

This is like when we were adults. Uh, so a Ruzioni is out there, you know, Mr. Gold medal himself. He's, you know, he's a, he's a rink rat.

I don't know if he is anymore. I was in Boston. Uh, I think I was making a movie or something in Boston and yeah, you know, we went out and skated. Uh, I, I, my whole family's up there and I used to play up there in men's league. So my, my men's league team was still playing there. Do you want to come out?

I was like, yeah, I'll come out and play. Yeah. And a Ruzioni is on the right. Yeah.

He's a rink rat. Yeah. Fantastic.

I know. How many shifts can you give me right now at Dennis Leary? How many shifts? I play like three times a week during the winter especially.

What's your, what are you in? You're a defenseman. I went from being a rushing scoring to my speed was the only thing I had in my favor in hockey, right? My speed and my anger. It's a great sport for rage.

Um, and my speed is now gone. And one of the, one of the, one of the leagues I play in is all ages, right? And a lot of the daughters and the sons of the guys play. But you know, these are like really like we have girls who play in the professional hockey league.

Right. So I now I'm literally, I'm a, I'm a stay at home defenseman and I tell kids in advance, if you're going around me, I am going to clutch, grab and trip you because they're so fast now. They're unbelievably fast. I just, I do a lot of tripping, you know, a lot of cross checking, a lot of clutch and grab. I mean, I can't cover them anymore. So is there anybody, anybody reffing this thing?

Anybody? No, no, no, no. I mean, so there's no, so why not do it if there's no penalty? Exactly. Exactly. I play in a league that's my guy, you know, my, I think the beginning age is like 45 and, and up through, uh, I'm 68 this year up into the seventies and that leagues, I'm still fast in that league.

I think I'm moving into the 70 and up league soon just cause then I'll be really fast. But you got to keep playing. Listen, man, that the four nations, again, that it was one of ESPN's greatest broadcast in terms of numbers in the history of there or, or almost any sport that they put on. That was great.

It was great. Those three fights at the beginning of that game. That one is what set my, my, my phone off.

Yeah. Like I'm, I wasn't, I wasn't watching the beginning of it and my phone starts buzzing like crazy, you know, three dropping of that game. I was, I had everything set up, you know, in, I have my own room, my own television. I told my wife, I'm watching this game. I don't want any interruptions, but I, I was getting my snack ready. I was still in the kitchen, the other room, get my, and I had the, I could hear it. I was getting my snack ready cause I figured that, well, the puck drop and then I'll, and I, I, I hear the fight starts.

So I go in and I'm like, and then I go to get my, no, no, no, no, no. That was awesome. By the way, I have to say, even though they play, uh, their rivals of the Bruins, the Kachuk brothers, man, their father, you know, who's from Massachusetts was a great player and deserves to be in the hall of fame.

And that's a campaign that needs to be spoken about more publicly. So, uh, you know, Keith Kachuk needs to be in the hall of fame. He was a great player, but those two kids are amazing hockey players. Yeah. Amazing. And they're great representatives of, of, of the USA, right? Fantastic. Absolutely.

Dennis Leary here on the rich eyes and show again, the season finale of going Dutch airs tonight on Fox the next day on Hulu. Uh, we haven't done this in a while with you. Celebrity true or false parts of your career that we've heard about that. I want to know if it's true or not. Okay.

Dennis Leary hit it a lot of pressure. The thing shouldn't, it shouldn't be just true or false. It should be, does he remember? I don't know if that's going to happen or not. We're going to test it. We're going to test it right here. Did you do this with Kevin Costner? We did. I can't remember.

I watched this with Larry David. Uh, no. What we do with Larry is we give him social situations. Yes. Ask him what's right to do or not. Yeah.

You know, that's what we do with Larry man to ask for that. You know, like, you know, stuff like a destination weddings and things like that. Do you bring a gift if you go to a destination wedding? Don't start. My son just got engaged. We just had the destination wedding conversation in my house like less than a week ago. So, uh, so I touched a third rail here.

I don't mean to do it. There's a third rail. There is a third rail. How old are your kids now? Uh, 16, 14 and 11. So you're not there yet. Well, where's the destination? This is the thing that drives me nuts. Okay.

This is the thing that drives me nuts. Right. So I'm just going to give you an example. Sure. Last summer.

Yes. My, uh, I think it was last summer. One of my nieces got married and she decided to do a destination wedding in Vermont. We, I live in New York, which is drivable.

It's dry. Her, you know, her mom is, uh, from, um, uh, Boston, the Boston area. So it's like a lot of the people in both families are going to be able to drive, right?

Some people are going to have to fly in. It was great. It was four days. I'm just going to stop here and just say, even though I love my niece and I was glad to go and we, it was beautiful.

It was fantastic. The there's four days. So you get there on Thursday, there's a dinner on the thing and a third and Friday there's some activities and there's another dinner on Friday. And then Saturday there's a thing of the man and the wedding is Sunday. Yes, we had a, it was beautiful. It was a beautiful wedding, but here's the other one, right?

Which is a, Oh, my daughter's getting married in, you know, we're going to, they're doing it in the Caribbean. It's like, well, so wait a minute. You want people because you're, you're paying for your own hotel rooms and your flights, right? You want, you're so important. Your love is so big that you're good, right? Cause I've done those. I've done those with, with nieces and nephews and then they're divorced. We're the kid watching the kid, the kid from the Caribbean wedding thing that didn't work out that I spent all the money for.

Why am I spending money? So that's my thing. I said to my son and his, his girlfriend and they haven't exactly decided, but I think we've convinced them that they live in Brooklyn to do it in New York, in the city, this beautiful bah, bah, bah, bah, bing, right? And they were just at a destination wedding someplace like Aruba or something like a couple of weeks ago. Right. And that was a pain in the ass.

They had a fly pay, bah, bah, bah. Right. So I'm like, do it in Brooklyn, do it in Manhattan. Right. That's a destination for some people too, by the way.

People from California. So we're to be determined. Is that what you're saying?

I think we're going to be in Brooklyn. So I just don't, how I'm with you just so you're aware. Don't charge people.

What I'm saying is four days. So the argument that I've said with my wife and that I brought up to Larry is that you should not be required to give a present if you go to a destination wedding. My presence is my present. No present. Larry basically said that for, if you're invited to a destination wedding, you don't even go.

And I said to him, what is the, uh, Larry's presence of them is him not showing up. I said, what, what is the distance from your house that you'd consider for a wedding, for a wedding? He said an hour and a half by car. That's more than I would.

Interesting. I would've guessed. He would've said 20 minutes by car. And he basically said, when you get, no, just, just, just to go, I guess, yeah, an hour and a half by car each way. And he basically, I didn't ask him if that was a round trip.

I should do that the next time. And he basically said that when you get an invitation, you should just write in the RSVP too far. So true or false. You refuse to wear a glove with Mickey mantle signature on it for the movie, the Sandlot.

True. So you're, and by the way, it was my first movie. Yeah. So you had, this is your first movie. And I, and I love the script. I mean, I w I'm no genius and I was brand new to the movie business, but I was like, you know, I, I, you know, I love sports movies and I love baseball movies. I was like, I really think this, this is one of those ones.

If they do it right, this could be like a thing that kids will watch forever. Um, and so I was totally in and, and, and you were right, by the way, we show it to my kids. Yeah. But I was like, dude, I got to tell you, I cannot, my, my character and me are both telling you, I cannot, you know, and I love Mickey mantle, right? You want to talk Yankees.

I mean, and baseball grades, but I'm not wearing, I'm not wearing a Mickey man. So is it true they had to get you a Red Sox one? Yeah.

And what four of you use it? Yeah. Really? Yeah. And you didn't think you were involved in other movies where they've said like, you know, I read it in the script and he walks in wearing a Yankee cap and go, I'm not wearing a Yankee cap. Now they know they did.

They just don't worry about that Yankee captain. We're going to take that out. I'm like, well, good. Cause you know, um, yeah, no, I just, it's like, Oh my God. It's like, uh, you know, I'm so, I'm such a, I'm not even a lapsed Catholic. I'm so out of that church. It's like when I go to like, when there's a funeral or a wedding, you know, in my family, that's, that takes place in a Catholic church. The priest will always make some kind of like, huh, nice to have you here. You know, cause they, you can feel like the candles melting extra fast when I walk in, you know what I mean?

So a Yankee cap on my head is like Satan-esque to me. So there was no, like that you weren't afraid it would filter back to James Earl Jones that you were a diva about your glove or anything like that? I didn't care. I just, I don't care.

Red Sox blood, the Bruins blood, they run deep. Did you meet James Earl Jones on the set? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Do you have a good story about that at all or no? Well, God, he was, you know, I'm such a historically such a fan of him as an actor that when I was, I was a kid, I remember seeing the great white hope. I don't know if you ever saw that movie. And you know, he was an amazing theatrical actor as well. So I had seen him as a young acting student. I saw him on Broadway. I can't remember the play now, but I was, so the, forget the movie work and the field of dreams, which was, you know, that was one of those movies. I literally was crying in the theater with Jeff Garlin from Curb Your Enthusiasm. I saw that with Jeff. We were unknown guys at the time, obviously, and we're two huge baseball fans. We both went to that movie, literally crying and grown men crying in the movie theater. So I was, I was, of course I wanted to ask him a million questions about acting, you know, and about the great white and stuff, but you know, we're on set. He had a million lines. I have, you know, so it was just to be in his presence was amazing. That's pretty cool, man.

I love it to be in a movie with him. And by the way, you're not wrong that, that the Sandlot lives forever. Yes, it does. Great movie. True or false.

Dennis Leary. You were invited to be an REM shiny, happy people music video after they saw you rant about them in an MTV sketch. No, that is false.

False. I'll tell you what is true is I did a rant about, I did an MTV spot about shiny, happy people and some other stuff I hated. And, and I, you know, there was real anger and rage. And then I was in a restaurant in Los Angeles with Sean Penn, an old friend of mine. And we, and it was kind of empty. We were having an early dinner and it was, it was an outdoor patio.

So you could smoke. So we're just sitting there two angry Irish guys smoking and, and, and, and Penn on my back was to the door and Penn goes, Hey, Hey, Hey Michael Stipes on his way over here. I go, what? He goes, Michael Stipes walking over. And I was like, and I turned Michael Stipe. So I don't know.

Right. When you piss people off, you know, you know, and he walked up and he, he hands me a little matchbook and walks away. It doesn't say anything. And I opened the match book cover, you know, it's the old matches.

And and it says I hate shiny, happy people too. And he's at a table and he's smiling. So Sean and I go, and we went over and we sat with him and he was the greatest guy.

He had a great sense of humor about himself. We knew mutual people, musicians. So it was, it was really, you know, he's, and then I, I did a fashion rocks charity event for the the King of England now, but at the time he was the Prince, the Prince's trust. I hosted it in, it was like 17 fashion designers and 17 rock stars. And Michael was singing with somebody. I can't remember who, Brian Adams or something at that gig.

And he was still great. He was, you know, he was a really nice guy about it. I imagine he didn't perform shiny, happy people because he hates it. Odd is great. I got a couple more.

They did some great songs, but shiny, happy people was not clearly that has been stipulated by you. True or false. You were offered Mark Wahlberg's role in the departed, but had to turn it down because of scheduling conflicts with rescue me. Yes. Now let me be clear about this one. Okay. I can't, I think I was offered Alec Baldwin's role first. Okay. I know Scorsese.

I knew him then I was rescue me was such a monster because I was also writing that show. And so, and it took us, you were in almost every scene too. Yeah.

Yeah. So it was like, it would take us, you know, uh, four or five months to shoot the show. And then it took us a couple of months in advance to, to start writing it. And then we would write as we went.

So it was a monster schedule. So I would know I would have like maybe two months off total and sometimes only a month off, um, you know, at the end of the season and scores Aziz, uh, producer called me and said, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, Oh my God. And I said, I only have, I had, I think I had like three and a half weeks and they said, we can do it with, we'll stick you in. And I said, but you're going to be shooting while I'm shooting the beginning of the next season to rescue me. And they said, well, we'll shoot you on the weekends.

You could shoot rescue me Monday through Friday. I'm like, that's crazy. And I, so I couldn't do the Alec, the Mark Wahlberg role.

Then they thought about the Baldwin role. And then I realized like, I don't want to do this because it's not going to be fair to him. And it's not going to be fair to rescue me. Right. More importantly, my one time I'm going to, you know, first work with Scorsese, you know, I thought there'd be more, right?

Like, I don't want it to be like, I'm tired and exhausted and just flew up from New York, you know? So I turned him down and thinking I was going to, you know, be in one of his movies. What a moron.

Here I am. What a moron. Oh my gosh. So that is true. So I'm still hopeful Marty. You never know. Yeah. Hey man. There's still, there's still old Irish gangster.

This true false. Dennis Leary last week. I can't wait to see you all throw nights where De Niro plays two gangsters. No doubt. Oh, De Niro, man. Great.

Last one for you. Dennis Leary true or false. You got acting tips from Bill Belichick for your role as coach Penn in draft day.

I did. I mean, he's probably, I kept it quiet for a long time because I promised him I would. I, I, I love the script. I think I told you, might've said this to you before, but like somebody called me, my agent called me and he said, Hey, Kevin Costner is doing a football movie with Ivan Reitman. And he, and he's about to say something and I went, I'm in. He goes, well, no, no.

Well, let me know. I said, no, no, I'm in. He's like, don't you want to know who you're playing? I said, I don't care who I'm playing a sports movie with Kevin Costner.

I could not be a big and bigger Costner fan. No doubt. Yeah. I mean all of those movies and also there's Westerns and the greatest Western he ever did, which doesn't get enough credit. Open range. You ever see that movie? Open range is the best Western he ever did. It's with him and Robert Duvall. He directed and wrote it. Okay.

Amazing movie has the greatest shootout in the history of Westerns. Anyways, I told Kevin that. Anyways, so I got the script, I talked to the writers, I talked to Kevin briefly and then I said to Bill, like, would you, can I send you this and you look through it and tell me what's real, what's not real, blah, blah, blah. You sent him the draft day script. I sent him the script.

He read it and we got on the phone and went through it and he gave me some great pointers about this, that. Anything that you're, you can remember one of the things that you, if you saw the movie, you know, they put the thing where they have the, the, um, um, the player, uh, look at the playbook. They can tell it.

He looked at the playbook by putting a, um, um, $20 bill in it. Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Yeah. So Belicheck said, that's mine. You know, I, I invented that. And I was like, I told the writers, I said, and they went, Oh, we didn't know that we just heard it from this guy that used to work for the jets. I'm like, well, I mean, he is a genius. He's a psychological genius when it comes to everything. So he's reading the script and he goes, that's my movie. That was my, so he was really helpful.

Um, and, and I had a blast making that movie, man. I just Costner is such a pro. So such an amazing guy, but also as, as an act as such a generous, his concern every day was everybody else was really good. Cause he knows as a team player, like in order for the thing to work, we all have to be good.

Right. And God, he was good. Every time the draft comes up, I hear about it. You know, I, I I'm in it as well, just as a brief bit. Um, and I'll never forget. We were shooting in, in New York city at radio city music hall and um, you know, Frank Langella played the owner and he was great. He came up like Frank Langella.

I mean, my God, he's so I'm, I'm sitting there in between nights one and two of the draft. And I figured I'll have the script right here in front of me. I didn't look at it there.

I didn't care. Like I'm going to do it for sure. And he comes walking up to me in radio city music hall, Frank Langella, Frank Langella, one of the greatest actors of all time agreed. And he looks at me, he goes, would you like to run lines? And I'm like, Oh, I haven't looked at the script yet. And I'm like, just give me a minute. Mr. Langella went up there and he sat down and I looked at my script. I hope he didn't mind me just looking at my script. And we went, Oh, I, I have run lines with Franklin.

I got to tell you something. Frank Langella, first of all, he's been a great actor for so long in the theater. He did Frost Nixon, the play Frost Nixon, but I saw it on, on the stage. Ah, it's one of those things where you go like, why am I acting? Why do I think I can do this job after you see some performers, you played Nixon.

It's so insane. And on, um, draft day, I started, I peppered him. I just peppered him. He's one of those guys that will tell you the stories. Like I was like, listen, I know you, you performed and then, uh, for the Kennedys and then were invited to Hyannis port. So he told me that story about being with JFK and Jackie and, and then I asked him about, I mean, I asked him about, and he'll tell you all the stories. He's spilling the tea, man.

He's a great actor. It's been great having you here. You're the best dude. Well, yeah, unless you want to stick around for one more segment. Yeah, I'll stick around for one more segment.

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Follow and listen on your favorite platform. We've done this before with you. Yeah. Um, I've got three social situations.

You are the judge and jury as to what is done. Okay. First one is destination weddings. Okay.

It's already funny. Destination wedding. I say to my wife, we're going to a destination wedding. We should not give a present because my presence is my present.

What do you say, Larry? First of all, where is the wedding? How far is it?

Another country. Okay. You don't even go. You don't go. You don't go, but it's a close family friend. I don't care. I am not flying 14 hours on a plane to somebody's wedding.

I'm not going to do that. Even if it's a nice destination where it's a nice hotel and you're set up. No, 14 hours on a plane. You can't even breathe. Come on.

So what would be the, what the distance from your house that you have an hour and a half by car. That's it. No plane that you didn't. Okay.

You don't get on planes for weddings. Right. Okay. Out of the question. Here's social situation. Number two for you, Larry.

You're going over to somebody's house. Okay. All right.

For let's say the fight, the Mayweather McGregor fight has happened to one of our producers. Okay. They brought desserts, fight ends. Nobody's touched the desserts. They like these desserts. Is it okay to take the desserts home?

Well, we did this on Seinfeld. You did. Yeah. The marble rye.

Well, the marble. Okay. Here's the thing.

Yes. You bring it over. Do they know you brought it over?

Yes, they do. Well, if they know you brought it over, then you can't take it. But what if nobody's tried it? You know, it's not like a bottle of wine.

A bottle of wine could be savored later on. It's still, you're bringing it to the host, right? That's true. The host saw it.

It's different. The host can see it. Then you could sneak out.

So if the host never saw it on the table and there's no note. Yeah. That's when you could take it.

If you think, if you think you're not going to get caught. Yeah. Then you could take it. The problem is though, Larry, is you never know what was looking the eye in the sky. That's, that's the, that's the gamble. Yeah. But if the host sees it, you can't take it. All right.

The last one for you, Larry, LD shoes off on a plane. Do you have a problem with somebody on a plane? I have a big problem with it. Yeah. Yeah. Keep them on. Okay.

You know, don't make yourself, it's not your house. All right. You're outside. You're in public.

I don't want to say, I don't want to see your socks and God forbid you have a little odor down there. Who needs that? Right.

And I don't even want to know if you do have it. Exactly. It's close quarters. Come on. Take a couple of minutes. Keep your shoes on.

So those who take their shoes off with shorts on and then put their sock feet up on the bulkhead. Oh God almighty. No. Oh God. That is out. Yes.

Oh man. Of course. We're going to run that after Dennis Leary giving us his two cents on destination weddings.

Didn't think we were going to get that today, by the way. Uh, I'm sorry. Um, I'm going to end up repeating this when the radio audience returns as soon as Dennis Leary said, absolutely.

I'll stay to the end. Um, uh, his people, if you will, I reminded him, he's got a, to appear on Jennifer Hudson's program and it's going to take a bit. I imagine, does she shoot in, uh, the Valley? I imagine probably in one of those.

Got to imagine the Burbank situation. So, and we don't provide helicopter service, so you got to go yet. Yet. I like the cut of your jib, sir. Cause can you imagine one day because we have a little, we can land. Oh, is that right?

There's a bird in the road. Let's get right on that. Back on the Rich Eisen show radio network. I'm sitting at the Rich Eisen show desk furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Grainger has the right product for you.

Call click ranger.com or just stop by. Uh, Dennis Leary had to go actually as soon as he said, sure, I'll stay. Um, he was told he had an appearance on Jennifer Hudson's program, except we won't make him dance down the hallway. It's nice that Dennis, you know, he's been here at seven years. It's nice that he's calmed down.

Oh, that's right. Same guy, man. Right as rain. Same frigging guy. The best. Truly. I really enjoy his company and everybody should watch going Dutch season finale tonight on Fox, or you watch it tomorrow when it shows up on Hulu.

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Can't believe we've, we started the show and we're ending it. Aaron Rogers hasn't made any news. Cooper cup. Hasn't made any news. Nothing. Cooper flag.

Is he back alley-ooping now or flag x-rays negative. And so John Shire said, just going to see how he feels in the next week. Okay.

Sounds good. And, uh, and, and they did in fact win. Correct.

They did. Okay. Moving on. All right. And another show that you can watch right here on the Roku portal is the green and white Lotus. There he is. He's shooting it right now in Southern California. Beautiful destination back to wrap this show up on the Roku channel in a moment.