Celebrity True Or False With Robert De Niro

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Why wouldn't they want to take him? Earlier on the show, Saturday Night Live cast member Mikey Day, Michigan men's basketball head coach Dusty May. Coming up, two-time Academy Award winning actor Robert De Niro. And now, it's Rich Eisen.

That's right. Robert De Niro is joining us in 20 minutes. And we've got a celebrity true or false and an extra... I've split the celebrity true or false up into two, which is just the normal celebrity true or false. And then I've got an extra true or false about what movie lines that just stand out for me in his career were ad-libbed or not. Because he's known for just being Robert De Niro. And so my two hopes, that he does this interview and he A, enjoys it and B, enjoys it so much that I get to call him Bob.

That is what all his buddies call him. That's what I've heard for years. And Feli had an idea, as you said, because we always do the Bryan Cranston line of best ideal wins. If you didn't say this, I would have told you. We would have blanked. So we have a screen grab of De Niro's autograph on the Goodfellas poster that may be completely fake of all the autographs of Scorsese, De Niro, Pesci, and Ray Liotta that I bought at a charity golf auction 20 something years ago for a thousand bucks, like four figures, that Ray Liotta, when he was here on the show almost 10 years ago, he's like, yeah, my autograph's fake.

And he resigned it. So we have a screen grab. If we have time at the end of the interview with De Niro where I'm actually going to show him his autograph and ask him if it's real.

Would that be like a double or nothing for you? I don't know. I don't know. How about this?

I can't handle the answer either way. I hope you get to ask. Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it. In the meantime, whenever you talk about rule proposals in the NFL, how many times here when you're like, this is what they should do in the NFL. And I say to you, how do you word it? A lot.

Yeah. Cause you have to word it very specific. You must word it in order for it to get passed by ownership or as they refer to it inside the, the organization membership inside the league, you need to have it passed by membership because in order for it to get passed by membership, they have to say, what is it about? Why are you presenting this?

What is your point? And how does it fit in the rule book as it's currently written? And so today is one of the few days in the NFL calendar where we celebrate paperwork. Another one is the schedule coming out. We're celebrating paperwork. Hey, and the draft is paperwork. Uh, I guess there are, there are, um, you know, manners in which things must be processed, I guess.

But part of this process is to see it in writing. And today, uh, the league sent out to all of its clubs and members and staff, the actual proposals, rule proposals and how they're written. And some of them are a little bit, um, you know, deep in the weeds, like, you know, they're trying to change the number of, um, scouts that can go to games and back to back days and weeks. And they're also changing the way kicking balls are handled and whatever, but I've got three rule proposals that jump out at you, uh, for actually, um, the first one's from the Philadelphia Eagles. They want to change overtime rules to make the regular season like postseason, where everybody gets to touch the ball. Um, even if somebody scores a touchdown to start, you know, in the postseason if somebody scores a touchdown to start, you get a chance to match. And in regular season, you score a touchdown and game's over. And the problem is, is in order to assure that the way that the overtime rules are set up in the regular season, there's not enough time maybe to give somebody another shot at scoring a touchdown. If somebody scored a touchdown because somebody takes seven, eight of the 10 minutes up, the Eagles say, make it a 15 minute overtime in regular season, make it the length of a regular quarter, not 10 minutes as it currently is. What about player safety? Well, I mean, cause you must put in the effect when you submit your proposal, you must also put in what the effect of your rule is like, cause they want to know what, what are we not thinking about here? And then the reason the effect of this rule change is it aligns the post season and regular season overtime rules by granting both teams an opportunity to possess the ball, regardless of the outcome of the first possession subject to a 15 minute overtime period in the regular season.

And the reason is competitive equity. I dig it. I would, I would vote yes on that. It's another five minutes. Let's do it.

Let's do it. And for, cause I always come from, as you know, if I'm on the competition committee, I think of it as a fan point of view. So fans like, wait a minute, in the regular season, it wasn't this. And now they're putting, you got to know the difference of the two things.

Make it easy. Rules in the regular season stays alike or before. Again, and we've had this debate before, like the team going second has the advantage because they know they have to go for it on fourth down.

I understand that, but at least you're giving a team to match a touchdown is again, I'll never, I'll never get simple, simple, simple, simple. The Detroit lions have come up with a couple of playing rule proposals. One is, um, you take illegal contact down the field and within five yards and all of the illegal contact penalties and defensive holding penalties and say that automatic first down that comes to them. See ya out the effect eliminates an automatic first down as a penalty imposed for defensive holding and illegal contact. And the reason why competitive equity current penalty enforcement is too punitive for the defense.

What are you laughing about? More rules to favor the offense. Well, no, that's what these that's the point is they're saying that.

And like I said, the reason why Detroit wants to do this, do you want to know why Detroit's doing this? But you, you just, I don't understand why you said what you just said, because what this rule is, is it makes it the defense holds and it's not an automatic first down. It's just, it's just distance. I see what you mean. All right. I'm wrong.

It's just distance. So why are the lions doing this? Oh, the lions are doing this guys. In case you're wondering, according to Warren Sharp since 2023, do you know who commits the most defensive holding and illegal contact penalties? The Detroit lions have 26 of these. If we're talking about just teams in the NFC North, that is 10 more than the Green Bay Packers. So your point is if he can't coach it change the rules. Bingo.

It worked for the Colts. Well, I'll tell you what, um, you know, who will know this, the rest of the membership voting on it. Don't know those numbers. Yeah.

Don't know it. Minnesota, the least called team for this only six in the last two years. Here's one Detroit's put out there that I think you'll agree with though. Christopher they want to change the way that the playoffs are seated playoffs. As you know, right now, uh, the Minnesota Vikings this past year, for instance, 14 wins didn't win the division. So they had to go on the road to start the playoffs, no home playoff for them in the first week. A little ridiculous because they didn't win the division. So division winners get the home playoff spots over wildcard teams that may have more wins because they've won the division.

They say do away with it. The division champion with the best record is number one seed and everyone else after the one seed gets seeded by their record. And it doesn't matter if you've won the division. The only way that the division does matter is if you have the same record in the tie break, the first tie break between you and a wildcard team with the same record. If you haven't played one another and it's not head to head, we're not going to anything else. Did you win the division?

Yes. You're seated higher. That should be the number one tiebreaker, right? That is the number one in this right now in this way, you'd be seated higher if you've won the division, but not given the, if you have the same record as the wildcard team, the wildcard team has more wins than you. It doesn't matter if they didn't win the division, they would be seated higher with you and maybe get a home playoff game. And so how does that look? Let's take a look based on last season.

Okay. This is what last season, the NFL network research staff put this together, pop it up. If you don't mind, the NFC is first since Minnesota, Minnesota would be the three seed instead of the five seed Packers were the seven seed. They'd be the five seed, the Rams that were the four seed. They're the seven seed.

The lines would be right where they were. And the Eagles would win the, the strength of victory tiebreaker over Minnesota. Cause they, but the Eagles would have won the division. Anyway, seated higher than the Vikings and the Buccaneers higher than the Rams.

Cause that's the tiebreak better conference record. So the Rams got a home game against the Vikings. Now the Vikings would get a home game against the bucks instead of the bucks getting a home game in the first round of the playoffs. So we would have still got the commanders. We would have still got Eagles Rams, but around earlier, right?

Right. Viking bucks at Vikings. And it still would have been a big finish of the season. Cause the lines would have not had the bye week. They'd have been in the Viking spot three. Had they lost that game instead of five, let's take a look at the AFC under the rule proposal. The chiefs would have still lived in the same bills and the Ravens would have the same difference with the charges would have hosted the Texans. How about that?

So not much of a difference in the AFC side of things, but the charges would have hosted the Texans. And it's like, okay, I kind of, would I vote for this? I'd have to think about it. I probably not.

It sounds cool. I don't think I would vote. I would vote against the first, the first down penalty for defense. I'm sorry. Just don't hold.

And secondly, you know, secondly, I don't, I I'd think about that receding there now than the motherload. Yeah. We have the language on the actual rule proposal of the tush push ban from the Green Bay Packers.

And it's simple. No offensive player may immediately at the snap push or throw his body against a teammate who was lined up directly behind the snapper and received the snap to aid him in an attempt to gain in yardage. That's describing the tush push baby.

It's just like the guy who's getting the ball snapped to him. Nobody who's lined up directly behind the snapper can be pushed in an attempt to gain yardage. That is as, as plain as day to ban the tush push as you possibly can get. There's no way around it. There's no loophole. The kudos to the legal department of, of the Packers because they probably came up with this language. And here's the interesting thing though, because it's not just a rule proposal to just ban the tush push. You put it up on the screen, Mike Hoskins, it's actually part of a larger rule proposal about assisting the runner and interlocking interference. So the first order of business in this rule proposal is you can't pull a runner in any direction at any time. You can't pull somebody while you're an offensive player may not pull a runner in any direction at any time.

That's sort of a rule, right? You can't pull off a pile. Well, you can't pull a runner. Like if somebody's running and they need to be pulled away or you're an offensive player and you pull somebody at your teammate to, to, to pull somebody.

Okay. It's not like we're begging for this rule change, to be honest with you. And I don't know, interlocking interference. You can't grasp a teammate by using his hands or arms to encircle the body of your teammate in an effort to block an opponent. So you can't use somebody to shield, to block somebody by using your opponent to block somebody who's clamoring for that. Anybody?

Nope. It's just odd that they would use that. No offensive player may see push or throw his body against the teammate to aid him in an attempt to an obstruct, obstruct an opponent or to recover a loose ball. Now that's interesting because you know, the ball's loose. Sometimes you're, you're yanking someone away to go get the, the fumble. That would be now a 10 yard penalty.

So would the tush bush. There it is. Now it's article D. Wow. It's article D. So they've dressed it amongst other concerns that I don't know if anyone else has.

And I'm wondering if the reason why they put those A, B and C in there is because again, you must put an effect and a reason behind your rule proposal. And the Packers reason for banning the tush push in this entirety is for player safety and pace of play, pace of play. And I'm like, okay, did they put the other items in here so they could have that fig leaf of pace of play and player safety? Because I've never heard somebody that's a dangerous play that tush push play, unless you're talking about the safety and, and the guards, right? The defensive tackle. Jason Kelce has said it's literally only hurts the center.

Yeah. So the reason why I would vote against the tush push to ban it is exactly what Mark Schlereth told Susie when she was talking with him from this chair a couple of weeks ago when she was hosting the show and Schlereth's like, Hey, defensive players aren't allowed to push somebody into the pile or they're not allowed to push like against the tush push. No one can go behind Chris Jones and push him.

That's illegal. So why are they allowed to do it on offense? That's one way I would say, you got my vote, get rid of the tush push. But the reason why I wouldn't vote for this is because I do believe the Rich Eisen Show exclusive, the original text of the reason the Packers gave for their rule is I think we have it right here. There it is.

Because we can't stop it. Oh, wait a minute. The original draft. That's the original draft because we can't stop it. And I think that's the reason why this rule is being put into place.

Why else are we seeing A, B, and C? That's kind of dangerous when you're pulling somebody away from a loose ball or when was the last time you saw an offensive player pull another teammate, you know, to get a first down? I mean, sometimes you see the shove for a first down. You do see an offensive player maybe yanking his teammate across the first down line. Will they do it on the goal line too, kind of?

If there's a running back, I don't know. If this is because you can't stop it, then I'm... That's kind of lame. Then your vote, my vote's against it.

But if you're talking about Schlereth, let's make it simple and easy, where defense can't do it, offense can't do it either, you may influence me. That's our exclusive. Let's take a break because Robert De Niro is about to join us. Words I never thought I would say, but we're psyched because this is the Rich Eisen Show and that's Robert De Niro and we're going to hang out when we come back.

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The Academy Award winner, Robert De Niro here on the Rich Eisen Show. How are you, sir? I'm okay. Thank you. I just got over a virus, 24-hour virus, but my little baby had it and then everybody else in the household's getting it.

My other children, my other kid, my girlfriend, everybody. Well, that's what normally happens. You had no idea the antidote is to appear on the Rich Eisen Show. You had no idea. There you go. I would have done it earlier. Yes, exactly right.

There is a medicinal quality to appearing on this program. Sounds good. Okay. And so let me jump right into it here. When did you first take on this project knowing that you would play not one, but two characters and not just anybody, but Frank Costello and Vito Genovese?

Robert? Well, Irwin Winkler had called me and said, I'm going to send you a script and it's written by Nick Pileggi and Barry Levins is going to direct it. And so I said, well, you know, good.

I'll read it right away. And I read it and we talked and we all met and talked and we talked about the Costello character thinking that's probably the one I would play. But then Irwin said, well, you know, maybe what about thinking about playing the two parts? And I said, let me think about that a little bit.

Yes. And I took a couple of days and and said, yeah, why not? It will justify my doing another, justify even more my doing a gangster movie again, because after the The Irishman, I didn't think I'd ever do another one. But then and also I probably would have done it either way with with Barry Levinson and Nick and Irwin. But anyway, so that's how it started. Yeah, I'm sure you I mean, you go back obviously way back with Nick Pileggi and his material and Irwin Winkler as well.

And Barry Levinson is as great as they they come. We just showed a clip of you on screen with yourself. Is that is that even a first for you in your career?

Robert? Well, I'm not I'm not sure there's certain things about myself that I don't agree with. So I have to straighten those out myself. And then I finally figured it won't be playing a part because it's a part.

So we've got that worked out. And well, what was the real Have you been in a scene, you know, with yourself? Obviously, you know, that that I was wondering, so you're shaking your head. That's never been the case for you. No, I haven't done that. I was concerned about concern, but I said, Look, I haven't done it.

Let me try it. And these characters are sort of mythological. And there was enough material on them, video and stuff like that film on them stuff like that books and this and that. That we had stuff to work with.

Visually, they look different enough and so on. So I thought, you know, let me do it. And it is terrific. And everybody should go see it. You Deborah Messing, Michael Rispoli, you two times over.

And, and Barry Levinson, the director, the alto nights is in again theaters nationwide this coming Friday. Go see it. It is definitely worth your time. You know, Robert, I've got a segment that is popular on this program called celebrity true or false. And I have a bunch of questions about your career that I'm wondering if are true or not, not just because they're on the internet.

And I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind answering some of these questions for me right now. Thank you so much. And there's also some top notch production quality to it that we're very proud of here on the rich eyes and show, please roll it for Robert De Niro.

Celebrity true or false. There you go. That's the setup.

That's our production value, Robert, right there. What do you think? Okay, good. I'm glad we're through it.

Okay. First up true or false, Robert De Niro, you prepped for taxi driver by working an overnight shift as a cab driver and got recognized because you had just won your first Oscar in Godfather part two. Is that true? There was one time while I was working in the cab for about two weeks, I, I looked through the mirror, the rear view mirror and the passenger. I could tell, you know, that he said, do I know that person or something? And so that was the only time actually no one looks at the driver or a cab driver. Usually they don't, you know, you're just a driver.

So it was pretty, pretty anonymous. And, but the, the story that I had read again on the internet, which means normally it's true, is that somebody was sitting in the back of this cab and said, yes, you know, aren't you the guy who just won for the Godfather part two. And is this so bad that you can't get any work that you're a cab driver?

Is that true? That's a good story, but that's not what that, you did it for two weeks. You were a cab driver overnight for two weeks in 1975. Yeah, it was about, I think it was about two weeks.

I think it was. Did you make any money off of it? Like did you actually, I made a few dollars. What did you pick up from that?

Driving a cab? It's interesting. I didn't pick up any crazy people or anything. It was pretty, pretty civilized, the whole thing. I drove all over the city and it was good. I took my cab, my cab, my license, got my hack license and all that stuff.

And it was good. You didn't have the Mohawk cut though, right? Driving? No, the more. Okay. So did you, because that would have been a different vibe in your cab, right? Had you had the Mohawk in the middle of the night in 1975? It would have been, but you know, it's New York, so people, all the more reason to ignore you because they say, oh, let him just drive me where I need to go. I don't want to know anymore.

Okay. Next up, true or false, Robert De Niro, you actually broke one of Joe Pesci's ribs in Raging Bull and Martin Scorsese kept that shot in the movie. Is that true?

That could be true. I didn't know it. I mean, I was holding my punches, but Joe, apparently I did crack his ribs because I was very careful. And he kept it in the film, Scorsese? Yeah, he did. I think you wouldn't notice.

I mean, he might've winced more or something. I'm forgetting. But if Marty says he did, he did. Is it true you met Scorsese as a teenager because you grew up in the same Lower East Side neighborhood?

Is that true? Yeah. We didn't hang out together, but we knew each other's group. And now we had a mutual friend who actually was in the movie named Robert Aracola.

He sadly passed away a few months ago. I was doing a documentary and he used to go between my group and his. And, you know, we would talk and he'd tell me that Marty's going to NYU and he's directing this and so on and this or that.

And so I did a, I was part of a documentary about Scorsese that I don't know when it'll come out, but with Rebecca Miller, Arthur Miller's daughter. And we had a kind of a reunion meeting in the Cafe Roma in Little Italy. And with these two guys that I know, Marty knows, Frank Piccarello and Robert Arcola and Marty. And we were talking, reminiscing. And then I said to Barry Levinson after we had, we were just starting to do the casting. I said, Barry, I have two friends, old friends that, you know, they might be good for this.

And they'll add a lot of real texture and they'd be good. I think, you know, you mind meeting him? He said, no, no, I'll meet him. And he met them. And then he read with them. I read with them and he used them both. One play, Frank plays Boyardo and, and Robert played Tony Bender and he was very happy with them.

They did a terrific job. Yeah. So that was, I forget why I'm saying that.

No, no. Cause you had met Martin Scorsese back in the day and that kind of does. Yeah, Marty, I knew, and this kid was, he used to go between us and now we were doing a documentary and over the years I'd see him here and there, but you know, not that long. It leads me perfectly into my next item for you, Robert De Niro. True or false Scorsese wanted to put regular people in good fellows roles. So he cast your Tribeca landlord as Maury the wig man. Is that true?

That's true. Chuck Loeb. Yeah. He was your landlord? He was my landlord. I introduced him to Maury. He was a real, he also has been not with us for a while, but he was a real character. And I introduced him to some other directors.

They all liked him a lot. They used him in their movies in the mission. He played Cabeza. Roland Joffe liked him well enough to use him in a good part. And then so Maury used him in goodfellas.

I forget which came first, the goodfellas or the mission. But anyway, he was so, and so he was, did he, did he have a wig in real life, Robert? It was sort of balding. But he was a character. He was, he was, I can see why anybody would want to use him in the movie. And we used him in, in King of Comedy too. He was terrific in that. What was he in King of Comedy? Who was he in that one?

Well, I think a lot of it was cut out, but it was great stuff. He, he, he, he was sort of hitting on my girlfriend. And there was a scene in the phone booth where he's making a call. And I think somehow he gets her number. He calls her.

He's waving to her through the phone booth. But there was a lot of great stuff. I wish it had been kept in the movie, but it was just too long, I guess.

But he was terrific. Yeah. Well, maybe that, you know, the fact that you knew him is the reason why you spared him for a brief bit in goodfellas, right, Robert? Just a little bit.

Just a little bit. Next up, Robert De Niro, my favorite comedy of all time is Midnight Run. And I'm honored to be able to tell that to you here on this show. It's actually a big moment for me personally, to be able to tell you that. True or false, you took the role of Jack Walsh in Midnight Run because a scheduling conflict kept you from taking the lead role in Big.

Is that true? No, it just didn't work out in Big. I was working a lot with Penny on it, and it was just a negotiation thing. But it was fine. It was okay. It wasn't a scheduling thing.

Okay. But you were in line to take the lead role in Big, and whatever happened led you to Midnight Run? No, it didn't lead me to Midnight Run. I would have done Midnight Run.

There was no scheduling problem that I remember. Midnight Run is just a beautiful movie, Robert. Thank you. Honestly, it makes you laugh. It makes you cry. And I can't get enough of it. And I'm wondering what your memory of this film was 35 years ago now, by the way. Yeah, it was a terrific script. George Gallo wrote it, and Marty Bresch directed it. I had a lot of fun doing it.

I really wanted to do the film, and so I was glad that I was able to when I read the script. But in real life, you are not unpopular with the Chicago Police Department, right, Robert? No. Okay, very good. I want to make sure on that.

I got two more for you here in the True or False. True or False, your diner scene with Al Pacino and Heat was shot at 1 a.m. with no rehearsals? Well, there was no blocking necessary. We were both sitting in seats facing each other at a table. So we started late for some reason. The dark was needed.

It was night. And I guess we did start shooting around one of the movies. That's one of my favorite scenes of the movie. When I read it, I said, this is a great scene.

Why? It was just the dynamic between these two characters. It all sort of came together in that scene.

So I really wanted to do my best in it. Were you aware that it was the first on-screen time you've ever had with Pacino in your careers? Were you guys aware of that when you sat down in that diner in Los Angeles? He thought about it. Yeah, I suppose.

I realized that obviously, yeah, somewhere. Okay, last one for you, Robert De Niro and Celebrity True or False. True or False, Don Rickles needled you with no mercy throughout the entire shoot of Casino.

Is that true? Don was a very sweet, lovely guy who always, that was his thing to give you a hard time, but it was always nice. It was never mean or anything like that. Everybody who knew him knew that. But he delivered. He was good. He was very funny. So well-known stories about him doing certain things to people, but always with a good feeling.

I love it. Okay, before I let you go, I have a couple of quick ones here. Because again, I've been studying your career forever and I'm wondering if it's true or false. Just if you ad lib these lines or not. Yes or no.

Taxi driver, you talking to me? Was that an ad lib? It was. Yeah, I think it was.

It just came off your dome? You talking to me? You were looking in the mirror and so on doing this. It seemed right to do what I think, but Marty would be the better person to tell you.

He remembers everything. It was. We had all the other stuff in the scene was there, but the actual you talking to me was just something that I came up with while we were doing, shooting the scene. True or False, Scorsese in the backseat of your cab.

Do you see the woman in the window? Was that ad libbed by him? It might have been. We were supposed to use another actor named George Memoli, but George had an accident working on another movie so he couldn't shoot. So, Marty had to do it.

And Marty's good. So, I forget. He might have ad libbed.

Okay, next up. True or False, the breakdown in the jail in Raging Bull where you say, I'm not an animal and you're punching the wall and you're hitting your head against the wall. Was that ad libbed by you? Some of it might have been.

The basic idea of it, the thrust of it, making the points had always had to be there. Yeah. And we made a wall that was made of kind of a hard rubber knowing that I would do that. That was my follow-up question. If you hurt yourself doing that, Robert? No. Okay. Very good. Next up, an untouchables railing at Elliot Ness at the end when you're being put in jail.

Nothing but talking a badge. Was that ad libbed by you, Ben? I think, you know, Mamet is a great writer of dialogues, especially. So, in his case, I would always, you know, respect that because I couldn't say it any better than the way he wrote it. Yeah, because, I mean, Costner's been on this show and he said at one point that he really thought you were going to get out him. Like, one split second in his mind during the scene, he thought you were going to break loose and actually hurt him, is what he thought, Robert. Well, in acting, that's what you're supposed to feel in order so that it could be real and the audience can believe it. Okay.

I got three more here. True or false ad lib, Charles Grodin, entire lit misconfiguration scene in Midnight Run was an ad lib. I don't know which one that was. He went in the bar, he asked for $20 bills, the red was the guy behind the counter, he asked for $20s, he stole the money, you were the one actually getting the pencil and rubbing the eraser on it, the lit misconfiguration scene.

He might have, you know, he made the points, he might have made them with ad libbing, I don't remember. Okay. But it all felt right.

Okay. Any line in the lie detector scene in Meet the Parents, was any of that an ad lib by you at all? I don't remember. I think it was pretty much the way it was scripted. There could have been a line here and there that we throw in and threw in.

Okay. And then the last one, and I'm particularly curious about this, the entire dinner scene at the house of Tommy's mother, played by Scorsese's own mom, Catherine in Goodfellas, was that an ad lib scene? Yeah, well, ad libs there, of course, you know, talking with her, this and that, and the food and all that stuff, sure. So you got in there and you just acted just like how you... Yeah, we just like how you were sitting around and just... And the same thing with the picture of the guy and the dog, one dog goes one way, one dog goes the other way, and this guy says, what do you want from me? That was Pesci's line. Was that an ad lib? That could have been something that was there, but Joe probably ad libbed it. Fantastic.

Could be wrong. Robert, I appreciate you asking, answering all these questions for me, man. I could go on and on.

The limited series Zero Day is currently available for streaming now on Netflix. I'd love to give you the floor on that and what you enjoyed about that series that people could start binging right here on Roku as soon as we're done. Well, it was a long shoot. It was like doing three features back to back. There was a lot of information that had to be gotten out, exposition that I was concerned about. So I was always trying to keep up with what we had to do each day with the dialogue and so on. Like I always say, I felt like I was swimming the English Channel toward England, looking back at France and not seeing it, looking toward England, not seeing it.

I just had to keep swimming to make it to the other side. But it was all worth it. It was a different way of working for me. Leslie Liggett Glaude was terrific as the director and Eric Rubin as the showrunner. I had one director because sometimes they bring in different ones than that. I was a little concerned about it. I didn't want to have to do that.

So Leslie did all six episodes. Robert, I really appreciate the time here. It is an honor to have you on. You bet. And if you will indulge me in just one more minute here, I have yes, I have a Goodfellas poster in my green room that I bought at a golf auction years ago. Ray Liotta was a guest on this program long before his passing. He saw the autographed poster in my green room. This is him busting it open with an axe. OK, because he said the autograph on it that was supposedly his was fake. Oh, that's oh, wow. And so now this is a big moment for me.

I need to ask you if yours is fake, too, because that would freak me out. Is that your real autograph, Robert De Niro? Can I see the full the full? Yes, sir.

Yes, we can. I think we have a do we have a full picture for Robert to see? OK, that's that's all we got for you to see. I see the last name.

I don't see the front. That's all there is. That's all there is, actually. Then I don't know, because I especially then I would write my full name and the end looks a little like if they copied it. OK, but the front is important and not just the last name.

I signed my full name. So that's all there is. It's not like we've done. That's weird. That's weird. So you think it's fake?

You think I won't. OK, I won't go so far as to say that, but I if I looked at if I looked at the whole poster and saw the way it was, I might be able to give you a better idea. OK, well, again, that's all there is of your autograph on the poster. That's strange.

That's weird. OK, so I have been so I'll sign one for you next time. I will take it. I appreciate I will.

I will do that because Ray Ray did, in fact, bust the thing open and like a check, he crossed it out and initialed the cross out and then signed it himself again. If you send me that one, I'll do the same thing if I don't think it's fine and I'll write it out again. Thank you. I greatly appreciate it.

Accept it. Look for look for my my missive soon enough. And thank you again. I will do that.

I will do that. Like I said, I have been a fan forever. And this has been this has been an honor to have you. And I'm thrilled to help in any way support the Alto Knights and Zero Day and anything else if you ever want.

I'm happy to to be here and chat with you because I barely scratched the surface. Well, thank you. Thank you, Rich. I appreciate that. That's Robert DeNiro.

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Follow and listen on your favorite platform. You see stuff that's on the walls here when you walk in. There's a Goodfellas poster that I've had for ever. Really?

Yes. Where'd you get it? I got it at a charity auction.

Huh. And it's on the wall. And you signed it. You signed it.

Rafi. What do you mean? It's off.

OK, our stage manager coming. That's it. You've taken it off the wall. It's not my signature. What do you mean it's not your signature? This is not my signature, buddy.

Down there. You got ripped off. No, I did not. Yeah. I don't do a fufu L like that. I don't cross it. So that is not yours because it's signed by you, De Niro and Pesci.

And I spent at least four figures on this thing. Get out of here. Yes. You're a sucker. No, that's that's.

Now you're you're being serious. That is definitely not your signature. Yeah. Scorsese. It says Scorsese sign it down there, too.

Look at that underneath. That's his. That is.

I'm not sure that Bob's. I can only remember signing really like five. That was complete.

And there was never like one of those signings where you all lay there. I mean, I could sign it for real. Yeah. At least I could double it. Do it.

Do what you wish. Do you know if that's Pesci's? Do you know if that's Joe's? No, that's him. No, I know that's him. I do. Do you know if that's his signature?

I don't I don't know Joe's signature. OK, Rick, you show that rocks in his. Yeah, this is hanging.

So every guest that walks in here, this is one of the first things that they see in the hallway. You know, we'll we'll take care of it later. Rafi. Yeah. What do you got?

He's got an ax. Are you serious? Do you want it?

Do you want the real? Yeah, sure. But, you know, it's going to hurt that hurt that. OK, you're. Oh, no, it doesn't.

Oh, that's very good. You smacked it. I guess we'll do it later.

OK, it's not me. Yeah. You just banged yourself. You just cracked the glass so we can take it out.

Smash the glass. I mean, you got that at this point. It's not really like a plexi, but we'll do it. We'll fix it. OK, well, you got ripped off. Wow. Oh, my gosh.

Is there a feeling now, right? You're telling me he's holding on to the ax to ask me a question. Oh, my gosh. OK, you put the ax down. This is fantastic. I'm sort of I don't even know where to go with this because that has been one of my most prized possessions for some time. And you are the real McCoy saying that it's not your sake.

Yeah, it's not. I'm thinking, oh, my gosh, I really hurt my head there. It's a crack of all the places for you to smash it. It was directly in the forehead of you in the movie poster right there.

But it's all good because we're going to take that thing apart. If that's not your signature, I need your actual John Hancock on that. And now it will be removed almost 10 years later again so we can send it across the country to Robert De Niro to sign.

You have the hold up the hold up that. So this is the boxing glove from whatever boxing movie not match. It was not. It's not that we know has been authenticated. That is his autograph.

We know this is his. You got half of it. And it is not. But even the half, it's not because I just looked at it and we it's my fault.

I zoomed in a little too tight. There is a slight bit of a first name, but it doesn't look like that. It just doesn't look like that. It doesn't look like that. It's not it's not his autograph. It's not his signature.

So now we're going to send that across. Are we blaming 99 for this? It was at his it was at his golf tournament. You know, when you hire someone in your golf tournament, it's not like he authenticates everything. Don't blame Warren Sapp for anything. How did my God, what do you want me to get in trouble?

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I know. Well, you're the executive producer of women's sports now. I assume you approve of the chairs that you have on the set. We have the greatest chairs because I picked them out with our awesome set design. Guys, I feel really excited about this. I'm not going to lie.

Congrats. It's a huge set. We have a gorgeous set.

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