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- 0:00Speaker 1: What a shift.
- 0:01Speaker 2: This is Bobby Cannavale.
- 0:03Speaker 1: He lives in the neighborhood. He's gonna say hi.
- 0:06Speaker 3: Bobby!
- 0:07Speaker 2: Hey!
- 0:08Speaker 1: Hey!
- 0:09Speaker 3: Oh, look at that.
- 0:09Speaker 1: What are you doing?
- 0:11Speaker 3: In the neighborhood?
- 0:11Speaker 1: I just got my new favorite pizza place in the neighborhood.
- 0:14Speaker 3: It's my place.
- 0:14Speaker 4: It's yours?
- 0:15Speaker 1: Yeah. Really?
- 0:16Speaker 3: I got pizza, bitch.
- 0:17Speaker 1: You hungry? Yeah, I'm hungry. All right.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Come on, the kids are eating.
- 0:20Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I was gonna eat, but you know what?
- 0:22Speaker 3: I've been eating all day.
- 0:23Speaker 1: All right.
- 0:24Speaker 4: You guys all right?
- 0:25Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 0:26Speaker 3: That's your son?
- 0:27Speaker 4: That's Rafa, yeah. Rafa.
- 0:29Speaker 3: All right, buddy. Don't ever give me that left hand.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you gotta use the right hand. Right hand.
- 0:37Speaker 2: So it's okay?
- 0:38Speaker 1: Crunch.
- 0:38Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 0:39Speaker 3: Want a little red pepper?
- 0:40Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Garlic?
- 0:41Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
- 0:41Speaker 2: I'm gonna steal the pepperoni.
- 0:45Speaker 4: Yeah. Rafa, you want a pepperoni? They're really good. Crispy.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Try it.
- 0:52Speaker 4: Nice. Good?
- 0:55Speaker 1: How old are you, buddy?
- 0:56Speaker 4: Eight?
- 0:58Speaker 1: Go to school?
- 0:59Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:00Speaker 1: It's true.
- 1:01Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Good for you.
- 1:07Speaker 3: So you live in this neighborhood, Bob?
- 1:08Speaker 4: Yes, I live in the neighborhood.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Wow.
- 1:10Speaker 4: I don't want to say exactly where.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all right.
- 1:13Speaker 1: This is your place now? Yeah. You know what I mean?
- 1:15Speaker 4: It's a very popular pizza neighborhood, you know?
- 1:18Speaker 2: Listen, well, you know, you need it, we'll deliver it
- 1:20Speaker 2: to you, unless you want to come over. If you
- 1:21Speaker 2: don't want to come over, you know, just bring it
- 1:24Speaker 2: up the street, whatever.
- 1:25Speaker 4: Good, man. Very famous, you know?
- 1:27Speaker 1: Yeah. You all have all the napkins over there?
- 1:30Speaker 4: What are you even eating? Oh, no.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Are you a pizza guy?
- 1:34Speaker 4: It's my favorite food.
- 1:35Speaker 1: It's your favorite?
- 1:36Speaker 4: It's always been my favorite food.
- 1:37Speaker 2: Since growing up?
- 1:38Speaker 4: Since growing up.
- 1:40Speaker 1: I always, yeah, it's my favorite food. Like, if there
- 1:42Speaker 1: was only one thing left to eat, it would be,
- 1:43Speaker 1: for me, pizza. Right.
- 1:45Speaker 4: I couldn't imagine life without pizza. No matter where I go,
- 1:47Speaker 4: I try it.
- 1:48Speaker 1: You always?
- 1:49Speaker 4: No.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Yeah. You like it always with pepperoni? I'm doing a
- 1:51Speaker 1: job now in Nashville, in Tennessee. And I haven't found
- 1:55Speaker 1: good pizza, but I'm looking.
- 1:57Speaker 3: We're going to open one in Nashville.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Really?
- 1:59Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, that would be good. I think they could
- 2:01Speaker 4: use it.
- 2:02Speaker 1: New Jersey, too.
- 2:03Speaker 2: We're going to open New Jersey.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Oh, yeah?
- 2:05Speaker 4: Yeah. Good pizza in New Jersey.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Can't sleep on a pizza there. There's a place in
- 2:11Speaker 1: Jersey City, Randazzo's.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Something like that, yeah.
- 2:14Speaker 1: I've never been to it.
- 2:14Speaker 2: It's very famous.
- 2:16Speaker 4: Oh, my God. So that's not what it's called, Ragazzo's?
- 2:18Speaker 4: Not Ragazzo's.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Something with an R.
- 2:21Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very good.
- 2:22Speaker 1: I know.
- 2:22Speaker 4: Oh, it's very good.
- 2:23Speaker 3: But I'm with Prince Street, so, you know, I can't
- 2:24Speaker 3: be repping other pizza.
- 2:25Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
- 2:27Speaker 4: Sorry.
- 2:28Speaker 1: It doesn't look good.
- 2:29Speaker 4: You're going to beat my.
- 2:30Speaker 1: You're going to.
- 2:31Speaker 4: Did I say the name?
- 2:33Speaker 1: Yeah. You got a nice hat.
- 2:35Speaker 4: I love pizza, though.
- 2:36Speaker 3: Where'd you get the hat with the 42?
- 2:38Speaker 4: That's the latest.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Oh, that's the latest? Yeah.
- 2:40Speaker 3: It just came out with that?
- 2:41Speaker 4: On the inside, yeah. With the 42 on it. Wow.
- 2:43Speaker 4: It's good, right?
- 2:44Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:45Speaker 4: And Jackie Robinson right there.
- 2:46Speaker 2: And Jackie Robinson. Oh, so it's not dedicated to Mariano?
- 2:49Speaker 4: No. I know, no.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Wow.
- 2:51Speaker 1: No, but remember Mariano was like one of the last
- 2:54Speaker 1: to wear the number.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Last guy.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Last?
- 2:56Speaker 3: He was the last guy to wear 42.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Mo Vaughn also wore 42. But I think Mariano was
- 3:03Speaker 1: the last one. I think Mo retired before Mo.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Right.
- 3:06Speaker 3: But I mean Mariano, like he wore the number like.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Beautifully.
- 3:10Speaker 2: I think he took the number to another level. Because sometimes,
- 3:15Speaker 2: you know, you think about numbers and you're like, if
- 3:17Speaker 2: you say a guy's number, like, are you a big
- 3:19Speaker 2: baseball fan or basketball? Which one?
- 3:20Speaker 4: Baseball.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Baseball.
- 3:21Speaker 4: I mean, I love basketball, especially right now.
- 3:23Speaker 2: But if you say a number, like, the first guy
- 3:25Speaker 2: that comes to mind, like if I said 25, what
- 3:29Speaker 2: Yankee or whatever, who comes to mind for you?
- 3:32Speaker 1: 25? Yeah.
- 3:32Speaker 4: I guess that, I think of, what's his name, first baseman. Teixeira? Teixeira.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:38Speaker 4: Texas. Right.
- 3:39Speaker 1: If you say 23, I don't think Michael Jordan, I
- 3:41Speaker 1: think Don Mattingly. Good for you.
- 3:43Speaker 4: He's my favorite athlete of all time. That's your favorite athlete.
- 3:46Speaker 4: I love Michael Jordan.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Right.
- 3:47Speaker 4: I love Don Mattingly.
- 3:48Speaker 1: He's the GOAT, right?
- 3:49Speaker 4: He's the GOAT, in my opinion.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Right. And he's never, unfortunately, he's probably not going to
- 3:53Speaker 1: get into the Hall of Fame, but I can make
- 3:54Speaker 1: an argument. I can too.
- 3:55Speaker 4: I can make a good argument.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:57Speaker 4: Because.
- 3:58Speaker 3: I know.
- 3:58Speaker 1: It's a shame, really. It's a shame, because they won
- 4:00Speaker 1: it the next year. He retired, and then they won
- 4:02Speaker 1: it with that fucking Wade Boggs. I know.
- 4:04Speaker 3: He just, he just was unlucky.
- 4:07Speaker 2: In my book, you know? And then he hurt his back,
- 4:09Speaker 2: so his stats... He had to hurt back his whole,
- 4:11Speaker 2: most of his career. Yeah, for half of his career,
- 4:13Speaker 2: but for five years, he arguably maybe was one of
- 4:16Speaker 2: the best, if not the best player in the game.
- 4:18Speaker 3: Oh, bro.
- 4:18Speaker 4: He could do it all defensively. He played on all
- 4:20Speaker 4: those bad teams. Oh, man. Yeah, all those bad teams
- 4:22Speaker 4: he had to play on.
- 4:23Speaker 1: In the 80s? Oh, no, in the 80s? Yeah, 80s, 84.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Late 80s.
- 4:27Speaker 1: He came up 84. Yeah, but... You know what gave
- 4:29Speaker 1: him his chance? Those late 80s teams, Mel Hall and
- 4:31Speaker 1: Jesse Barfield.
- 4:32Speaker 4: Oh, my God. And Al Leiter and Rafael Santana. You
- 4:35Speaker 4: brought up Mel Hall. Remember Mel Hall?
- 4:37Speaker 3: You've got to watch this doc.
- 4:38Speaker 4: That just came out.
- 4:39Speaker 1: He had a gun.
- 4:40Speaker 4: He had a gun from right field. He could nail
- 4:42Speaker 4: you the whole thing. Yeah, he was a bad guy.
- 4:44Speaker 4: He was a pedophile. He was? Yeah. I didn't know that.
- 4:48Speaker 2: You've got to watch this doc that just came out
- 4:50Speaker 2: on Peacock. It's called the Bronx Zoo 90. It's when
- 4:54Speaker 2: the Yankees bottomed out. They crashed out. And Steinbrenner got interrogated,
- 4:59Speaker 2: got in trouble for hiring Howard Spira. The Yankees were
- 5:03Speaker 2: so bad, they lost like 100 games. Mel Hall was
- 5:06Speaker 2: dating a high school girl.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Really?
- 5:09Speaker 3: Went to like senior prom.
- 5:11Speaker 4: I never knew that.
- 5:12Speaker 3: You'll see it in the documentary.
- 5:13Speaker 2: And I guess he got in trouble later on with
- 5:18Speaker 2: other young girls. He's like in prison now. I didn't
- 5:20Speaker 2: even realize that.
- 5:21Speaker 4: Yeah, Mel Hall, he's not the one with the gun.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Jesse Barfield.
- 5:25Speaker 2: You mean cannon arm?
- 5:26Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh my God.
- 5:27Speaker 3: But that's a good doc. But anyway, in the 80s,
- 5:30Speaker 3: they had good teams, but no pitching.
- 5:32Speaker 1: 84, 85, 86.
- 5:33Speaker 2: They had a lot of hitting. They had Mattingly, they
- 5:36Speaker 2: had Winfield, they had Ricky Henderson.
- 5:38Speaker 4: The first game I ever went to at Yankee Stadium
- 5:43Speaker 4: was a no-hitter. In the 80s. No, it was Dan Rigetti.
- 5:48Speaker 4: Fourth of July.
- 5:48Speaker 1: You know what the last out was?
- 5:51Speaker 3: The last out was Boggs.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Yeah. Boggs.
- 5:56Speaker 4: That was, what a great game. I'll never forget it.
- 5:58Speaker 4: What a memory. It was hot, 4th of July.
- 6:00Speaker 3: Boggs is a, he's a Red Sox, deep down.
- 6:03Speaker 2: Right?
- 6:04Speaker 3: I mean, I know he was on on 90, but
- 6:05Speaker 3: he's a, deep down, like, when you think of Boggs.
- 6:07Speaker 1: I'm sure he's a nice guy, but for me, I
- 6:10Speaker 1: grew up hating the guy. I hated those teams. I
- 6:12Speaker 1: hated the Red Sox.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Clemens, the another guy you hate?
- 6:15Speaker 1: Yes, of course.
- 6:16Speaker 4: Yeah, I hated him. I hate him.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Really nothing about them, really. It's just that they were
- 6:19Speaker 1: on the wrong team. And then, of course, I hated
- 6:21Speaker 1: Boggs because, you know, It was the year after Mattingly retired.
- 6:25Speaker 1: You know, Mattingly leaves, Boggs comes in, and then he's
- 6:28Speaker 1: on the fucking horse riding around the stadium.
- 6:30Speaker 4: And it's like he owns the place. Right.
- 6:32Speaker 2: Of all people, Wade Boggs gets to celebrate with it,
- 6:35Speaker 2: and Don Mattingly is home. You know, in 95, he
- 6:38Speaker 2: had a great series against the Mariners, that classic series.
- 6:41Speaker 2: And it was a heartbreaking series. But that was, in
- 6:45Speaker 2: a way, that was the Yankees were coming. They were coming,
- 6:47Speaker 2: and then Buck Showalter exited, and then Joe Torre had it.
- 6:50Speaker 1: The very next year. They won the World Series the
- 6:53Speaker 1: next year.
- 6:53Speaker 2: He happened to be the right guy at the right
- 6:56Speaker 2: time for that team.
- 6:58Speaker 1: He was like a father figure.
- 7:00Speaker 4: Why am I forgetting who was on first base?
- 7:01Speaker 2: What do you mean?
- 7:03Speaker 1: In 96? Yeah.
- 7:03Speaker 4: Oh, Tino. Oh, Tino.
- 7:04Speaker 2: They brought in Tino.
- 7:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 7:06Speaker 2: And Tino had a rough time because people were like,
- 7:09Speaker 2: you know, they loved Mattingly and they.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Gave Tino a hug. Until he didn't. Until they loved him. Yeah.
- 7:13Speaker 3: They love you until they don't. Exactly.
- 7:15Speaker 2: But that's Yankee fans.
- 7:16Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
- 7:17Speaker 1: Yankee fans.
- 7:18Speaker 4: Right now, it's funny. On my way here. This guy,
- 7:22Speaker 4: I don't know his name, but he's from the neighborhood.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Yo, Bobby, take the hat off. We're stuck right now.
- 7:27Speaker 4: And I was like, fuck.
- 7:28Speaker 1: It's like a tiny little slump.
- 7:30Speaker 4: And it's May.
- 7:31Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
- 7:34Speaker 1: The same guy, the same people who after the Knicks
- 7:37Speaker 1: lost those first two games against Atlanta. Right.
- 7:39Speaker 2: And I was one of them. You were one of them?
- 7:41Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like, why did we get rid of Tibbs?
- 7:42Speaker 1: This guy's terrible.
- 7:44Speaker 4: Nine games in a row later. Nine wins in a row.
- 7:47Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, it's funny.
- 7:49Speaker 4: In New York, right?
- 7:50Speaker 2: I was here. And I was with John, we did
- 7:53Speaker 2: like an interview at his house, and then he meets
- 7:55Speaker 2: us at Marco Polo, he comes half time.
- 7:57Speaker 3: You know, John, that's his sport.
- 7:59Speaker 2: And so.
- 8:00Speaker 4: Basketball.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Yeah, and he watched half the game standing in the
- 8:03Speaker 2: Marco Polo restaurant. And the Knicks won that game, they
- 8:06Speaker 2: were down two to one. Since that game, he's not lost,
- 8:09Speaker 2: we've not lost a game. So I set him on
- 8:12Speaker 2: a winning streak. I don't know if he'll give me credit,
- 8:14Speaker 2: but I set him right.
- 8:17Speaker 4: I felt like the other night when they were down
- 8:19Speaker 4: by 20. You don't go?
- 8:20Speaker 3: I don't see you at Celebrity Row.
- 8:22Speaker 4: Where are you? I've been invited, and every time I'm
- 8:24Speaker 4: on a plane, I'm doing this. I'm watching all these
- 8:27Speaker 4: games in.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Nashville, because that's where I'm working right now. So every
- 8:30Speaker 1: time I get invited to go, they're home, and I've
- 8:32Speaker 1: got to be down there.
- 8:33Speaker 4: So it really sucks to watch it in Tennessee.
- 8:36Speaker 3: I know. I mean, I think they're going to win
- 8:38Speaker 3: this series, but have you seen the other teams?
- 8:39Speaker 1: They're, like, lethal.
- 8:41Speaker 4: The Western Conference teams?
- 8:42Speaker 1: Yeah, at least.
- 8:43Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
- 8:43Speaker 1: But I feel like nobody's giving us the props that
- 8:46Speaker 1: we really deserve. Like, nobody's out there going, hey, the
- 8:49Speaker 1: Knicks are unstoppable.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Right.
- 8:50Speaker 4: They're unstoppable.
- 8:52Speaker 1: It's a nine-game winning streak in the playoffs. It's, you know,
- 8:56Speaker 1: it's been done, but not very often.
- 8:59Speaker 2: Right.
- 9:00Speaker 4: Do teams win nine in a row? Mm-hmm.
- 9:02Speaker 3: Man, the Knicks, there's some magic going on right now.
- 9:06Speaker 4: They're deep.
- 9:06Speaker 1: The team, the bench is playing great. Clarkson's playing great.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Even Alvarado's, you know, doing his thing.
- 9:13Speaker 4: Deuce is playing great. They're awesome.
- 9:14Speaker 1: They're passing the ball.
- 9:15Speaker 3: They're not just one, you know, spreading out.
- 9:17Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not just doing like last year where they
- 9:19Speaker 1: don't run any plays.
- 9:20Speaker 4: You know?
- 9:20Speaker 1: That doesn't work, Bob. It doesn't work.
- 9:22Speaker 2: I mean, no, but that's why I didn't see you.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Sometimes I see you at the Yankee games.
- 9:26Speaker 1: I see you sometimes. I go to the Knicks games sometimes.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Do you ever go with John? I went once with John.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Took you?
- 9:33Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. Sometimes I go with Chris Rock. Go with Chris Rock?
- 9:36Speaker 1: Right. My buddy Randy's got season tickets, but they're a
- 9:39Speaker 1: little further back, so I don't like to go with him. Right.
- 9:44Speaker 3: When did you become a Yankee fan?
- 9:46Speaker 4: You remember?
- 9:46Speaker 1: Oh, as a kid.
- 9:47Speaker 4: As a kid? As a kid, I loved the Yankee.
- 9:49Speaker 4: I loved Reggie. I loved those 70s teams. I remember.
- 9:51Speaker 1: 78?
- 9:52Speaker 2: You went 78?
- 9:53Speaker 4: 78. I mean, no, the first time I went to
- 9:55Speaker 4: a Yankee game, I was 13. I was old.
- 9:59Speaker 1: That's that game, that Fort DeJoy game. But I always
- 10:01Speaker 1: watched them on Channel 11.
- 10:03Speaker 4: You know.
- 10:03Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're younger than me.
- 10:04Speaker 4: I think a little bit, right? Yeah.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Yeah, I got eight years on you.
- 10:08Speaker 4: Oh, that many? Yeah. Wow, really?
- 10:10Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:10Speaker 4: Fuck, I forget how old your brother is.
- 10:12Speaker 1: I know.
- 10:12Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
- 10:13Speaker 2: I can't believe he's that old.
- 10:14Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
- 10:14Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm that old. I didn't think I'd
- 10:16Speaker 2: live that long.
- 10:16Speaker 4: I can't believe you're that old either. I know. You
- 10:18Speaker 4: just got here, Nick.
- 10:20Speaker 2: Feels that way. Because maybe I was a baby brother
- 10:22Speaker 2: or whatever. Always the Nicholas, Nicholas. I never thought I
- 10:24Speaker 2: was ever going to, you know, ever get old. It
- 10:27Speaker 2: was always like, you know, when you're the baby, you
- 10:29Speaker 2: feel that way.
- 10:30Speaker 4: I'm the oldest of three, but I don't know. I
- 10:33Speaker 4: don't feel my age. Do you?
- 10:36Speaker 2: Physically a little bit.
- 10:37Speaker 4: Sometimes.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:38Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I'm not the same guy, but
- 10:41Speaker 2: I still feel like I got a lot of youth
- 10:43Speaker 2: in me, you know?
- 10:44Speaker 1: Well, I got little kids, so I did it twice, right?
- 10:46Speaker 1: I'd have my Son Jake is 31.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Right. And then 20 years later, I had these guys.
- 10:51Speaker 2: Right.
- 10:51Speaker 1: So I feel like they keep me feeling young.
- 10:55Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm just like, I'm just tired all the time. Tired?
- 10:59Speaker 4: I'm just fucking tired. Just because they're exhausting. I mean,
- 11:02Speaker 4: the questions alone.
- 11:04Speaker 1: How old are the little ones?
- 11:06Speaker 4: Tilt.
- 11:06Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:07Speaker 4: The little ones are eight?
- 11:08Speaker 1: Eight and one.
- 11:09Speaker 4: And ten.
- 11:09Speaker 2: And ten?
- 11:10Speaker 4: Yeah. Do you have a question?
- 11:13Speaker 1: Dad, can I have another piece of pepperoni? It's really good.
- 11:15Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sure.
- 11:17Speaker 1: You a Jet fan? Yeah.
- 11:19Speaker 4: Well, come on. Because my dad. Because my dad.
- 11:22Speaker 2: No, no, I feel young because I hung out with
- 11:25Speaker 2: all his high school buddies, and I drank with them,
- 11:27Speaker 2: and I used to do the mosh pit.
- 11:30Speaker 3: I was a little wild with the kids.
- 11:32Speaker 4: But you were younger then, too.
- 11:34Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a little younger.
- 11:35Speaker 4: You were a lot younger.
- 11:37Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You see me in the mosh pit, tell Bobby.
- 11:40Speaker 2: A few times I thought I was going to get like, oh, smashing.
- 11:43Speaker 1: That shit's crazy.
- 11:44Speaker 4: I know. Have you ever been in one of those? Yeah,
- 11:46Speaker 4: I have.
- 11:47Speaker 1: My oldest, he's a heavy metal, you know, he's an actor,
- 11:50Speaker 1: but he's got a grindcore band.
- 11:51Speaker 4: So he's a heavy metal singer. He always was.
- 11:54Speaker 1: And I've been to some of these concerts with him.
- 11:55Speaker 1: I went with him one time to see Soulfly. You
- 11:58Speaker 1: know those guys? Like Brazilian metal act. And that was
- 12:01Speaker 1: the first time I saw like a mosh pit like that.
- 12:03Speaker 1: I was worried for him. He was like 14 or 15.
- 12:06Speaker 1: So I went like to... to be there because he
- 12:09Speaker 1: was just a teenager.
- 12:10Speaker 4: And he couldn't believe.
- 12:12Speaker 1: How crazy it was. I was worried for him. He
- 12:17Speaker 1: was not worried at all. So then I got worried
- 12:20Speaker 1: for myself. I kept thinking someone was going to hyperextend
- 12:22Speaker 1: my knee, fall into my knee.
- 12:25Speaker 4: Those are the things you.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Worry about when you're older in that environment.
- 12:29Speaker 3: That no-hitter was what, 83?
- 12:31Speaker 4: 83.
- 12:32Speaker 2: I always go back to that.
- 12:33Speaker 3: I'm fucking 80-day.
- 12:33Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 12:35Speaker 4: I get it. I get it.
- 12:35Speaker 3: I jump around.
- 12:36Speaker 4: Yeah, 83.
- 12:37Speaker 2: The first time I met Bobby was, I thought I
- 12:40Speaker 2: was going to make this movie.
- 12:42Speaker 3: I still think I'm going to make it. Who knows?
- 12:43Speaker 3: Maybe fucking Bobby will star in it.
- 12:45Speaker 4: You were on the show at the time.
- 12:46Speaker 3: I was on the show, and I had optioned this
- 12:47Speaker 3: book called Bless Me Father.
- 12:49Speaker 4: NYPD Blue.
- 12:50Speaker 2: Right, NYPD Blue. And this guy Mark Krieger wrote the book,
- 12:53Speaker 2: and then some guy gave me a little money, some
- 12:56Speaker 2: guy named Fat Richie.
- 12:57Speaker 4: Really? Yeah.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, sometimes it be like that.
- 13:02Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:02Speaker 2: And I had hired Sheila Jaffe and we were casting.
- 13:06Speaker 4: Right.
- 13:06Speaker 2: And they said, we got this great young actor and
- 13:10Speaker 2: I think you were on Third.
- 13:11Speaker 3: Watch or something. And he came in and I think
- 13:14Speaker 3: he read the book.
- 13:15Speaker 1: And he was like, I like.
- 13:15Speaker 2: The book, bro.
- 13:17Speaker 4: And then he came in and I think he.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Read like Father Vinny or something. I was like, wow,
- 13:20Speaker 1: this guy's good.
- 13:22Speaker 2: He was like, man, if you need any help, bro,
- 13:24Speaker 2: let me know.
- 13:24Speaker 1: I hadn't really done much, though. I hadn't done anything.
- 13:27Speaker 1: I'd really only done Third Watch and I hadn't done
- 13:29Speaker 1: a movie yet.
- 13:30Speaker 4: No?
- 13:30Speaker 1: No, that was going to be my first movie. And
- 13:33Speaker 1: I loved it because I read that book. Because Mark Kriegel,
- 13:36Speaker 1: I was such a fan of his sports writing.
- 13:38Speaker 3: From the Daily News?
- 13:39Speaker 4: From the Daily News.
- 13:40Speaker 1: But not only that, but his thing was that he
- 13:42Speaker 1: was young.
- 13:43Speaker 2: Remember?
- 13:44Speaker 4: And all those guys were old. And they were great.
- 13:46Speaker 4: Pete Hamill was still writing for the newspaper. His brother
- 13:49Speaker 4: was writing for the newspaper.
- 13:51Speaker 1: And all these guys, they were just older. And Kriegel
- 13:54Speaker 1: was young. He might have been the youngest guy to
- 13:56Speaker 1: have a byline in the Daily News or something. So
- 13:58Speaker 1: he was cool. He wrote, he wrote, he just was
- 14:01Speaker 1: a great writer. And then he wrote this book. He
- 14:02Speaker 1: was a Manhattan guy. I bought it. Yeah.
- 14:04Speaker 4: So I bought that book.
- 14:05Speaker 1: And I was like, it was a total coincidence that
- 14:07Speaker 1: I got a call to read that script. Yeah.
- 14:10Speaker 4: I couldn't believe they were trying. So I was really
- 14:12Speaker 4: gung-ho about it.
- 14:13Speaker 3: Yeah, you were jazzed.
- 14:14Speaker 2: And I was like, damn.
- 14:15Speaker 3: I was like, you know, then when we did a
- 14:17Speaker 3: reading years later.
- 14:17Speaker 4: Who's going to interview Mark Fiegel?
- 14:18Speaker 1: Why don't you have him on the show?
- 14:20Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we're going to have him.
- 14:22Speaker 1: Busy schedule.
- 14:23Speaker 4: Yeah. Who?
- 14:23Speaker 2: Him?
- 14:24Speaker 3: Big shot now.
- 14:25Speaker 1: No, no, we'll have him on.
- 14:27Speaker 2: He wants to come on. He wants to come on.
- 14:30Speaker 4: Who better to talk about sports with?
- 14:32Speaker 1: Oh, I know.
- 14:33Speaker 3: Well, we have a funny, you know, we have a.
- 14:35Speaker 1: You wrote a great book about Joe Namath.
- 14:36Speaker 4: He did. The definitive book on Joe Namath. I'm a
- 14:39Speaker 4: Jets fan. Wouldn't that be funny if in the end
- 14:41Speaker 4: we just ended up doing that movie?
- 14:42Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:43Speaker 4: Playing the old guys.
- 14:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:45Speaker 4: You and me.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it could work.
- 14:49Speaker 2: I mean, there's still great young guys in it. You
- 14:52Speaker 2: don't have to play it.
- 14:52Speaker 3: You play the old guy.
- 14:53Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to play the old guy.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Yeah, you play the old guy. I mean, you know.
- 14:57Speaker 2: I mean, I think.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 15:01Speaker 4: One second, they want you to take your shirt off.
- 15:03Speaker 4: And the next.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Right.
- 15:04Speaker 4: They want you to keep it on.
- 15:05Speaker 1: For sure. You like taking your shirt off?
- 15:07Speaker 4: I don't.
- 15:08Speaker 1: No.
- 15:08Speaker 4: Not anymore.
- 15:08Speaker 3: John does.
- 15:10Speaker 4: John loves taking his shirt off.
- 15:11Speaker 2: Nice to get naked.
- 15:11Speaker 4: He loves it, John.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 15:12Speaker 4: You know I made that movie with him.
- 15:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I heard there was some... You know
- 15:17Speaker 1: how like on the phone or the iPad pictures pop
- 15:20Speaker 1: up and it's like this day and six years ago.
- 15:22Speaker 1: Did you see it on stage? Every now and then
- 15:25Speaker 1: something pops up from that movie and I'm like, the kids,
- 15:27Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm going to get the kids.
- 15:28Speaker 4: Out of the room. Yeah. Like me and him like naked.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Were you in bed together?
- 15:32Speaker 4: Yeah, me and him and Audrey tattooed. Did you feel
- 15:34Speaker 4: a little weird in that room? Not while we were
- 15:35Speaker 4: doing it, you know.
- 15:36Speaker 1: No.
- 15:36Speaker 4: No, because John's a sensual guy. Yeah.
- 15:38Speaker 2: Yeah, he's sensual.
- 15:39Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 15:41Speaker 2: He's like, but he's very proud of his body, you know,
- 15:44Speaker 2: and even his midsection. He did it on stage, and
- 15:47Speaker 2: he's like, Nick, it's just art.
- 15:48Speaker 1: Did you see the thing he just did where he
- 15:49Speaker 1: got totally naked at the end with the flag? I
- 15:51Speaker 1: saw it.
- 15:52Speaker 4: That was so good.
- 15:53Speaker 3: Yeah, it was good, but I didn't need to see that.
- 15:55Speaker 4: No.
- 15:55Speaker 2: I mean, I don't need to see his body parts,
- 15:57Speaker 2: but I mean, he's my brother.
- 15:59Speaker 1: No, but he's so confident, you know? He's like somebody, like,
- 16:04Speaker 1: he looks like a natural nudist.
- 16:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:06Speaker 4: He carries it well.
- 16:07Speaker 1: Would you do it?
- 16:08Speaker 4: I'm not a natural nudist. I don't like, I'm not
- 16:10Speaker 4: like somebody.
- 16:11Speaker 1: You like to be nude? Like my brother, my little brother.
- 16:13Speaker 1: My little brother and my son, they love walking around
- 16:15Speaker 1: with no shirt. I'll FaceTime my brother, my son. He's
- 16:18Speaker 1: got no shirt on in the house. And I'm going,
- 16:19Speaker 1: what are you doing?
- 16:19Speaker 3: Always in his underwear. I said, put some clothes on.
- 16:23Speaker 4: I always, I gotta have clothes on.
- 16:25Speaker 1: I don't mind.
- 16:25Speaker 3: Like, I like to sleep naked.
- 16:27Speaker 1: My wife don't.
- 16:27Speaker 4: I don't either. I don't like to sleep naked.
- 16:29Speaker 1: I like to be.
- 16:29Speaker 2: Balls-ass naked sometimes.
- 16:31Speaker 4: I don't.
- 16:31Speaker 2: I don't.
- 16:32Speaker 1: I'm always in case of emergency.
- 16:33Speaker 3: Yeah, in case?
- 16:34Speaker 1: In case of emergency, I got to be dressed. It's true.
- 16:39Speaker 3: It's a good point.
- 16:40Speaker 1: It's true.
- 16:40Speaker 4: I don't want to get up and have to get
- 16:42Speaker 4: the bat out and be naked. You know what I mean?
- 16:44Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:45Speaker 4: I got to be dressed.
- 16:46Speaker 2: You like pajamas?
- 16:47Speaker 4: Do you sleep with a stick next to the bed? No.
- 16:49Speaker 4: You don't? No.
- 16:53Speaker 1: I do.
- 16:55Speaker 2: With a stick?
- 16:55Speaker 1: A bat. I got a bat.
- 16:57Speaker 3: A bat.
- 16:57Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a bat next to the bed. That's funny.
- 17:00Speaker 2: I mean, even though, you know, that could have been
- 17:02Speaker 2: your first movie, you've done like over 50 movies, 40, 50, a.
- 17:07Speaker 3: Lot that I love. I mean, I have my favorites.
- 17:09Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how many you've done, but
- 17:10Speaker 3: we were looking at you.
- 17:10Speaker 4: Tell me the ones you don't like so much. That'd
- 17:14Speaker 4: be a good show. You interview actors and you talk
- 17:17Speaker 4: about the movies.
- 17:18Speaker 1: You don't like. I tell you the ones I love.
- 17:19Speaker 1: I love Win-Win.
- 17:20Speaker 3: I love you in Win-Win so much. I love the
- 17:22Speaker 3: movie and I love you in it.
- 17:23Speaker 4: I love that movie too.
- 17:24Speaker 3: He's great in it, right?
- 17:26Speaker 1: So funny.
- 17:27Speaker 2: So funny when he's like, you know, watching his house.
- 17:30Speaker 2: She's in the house.
- 17:30Speaker 3: She's in the house.
- 17:31Speaker 2: That's my house.
- 17:32Speaker 3: Freaking gal is hilarious. What's going on, coach?
- 17:35Speaker 2: When he shows up.
- 17:36Speaker 1: He's having a panic attack. Oh my. He's on top
- 17:39Speaker 1: of him. Oh yeah.
- 17:40Speaker 3: When he's on top of him with the tights on
- 17:42Speaker 3: and shit.
- 17:42Speaker 4: Very funny.
- 17:44Speaker 1: Very funny.
- 17:45Speaker 4: Tom McCartney. He lives in the neighborhood.
- 17:47Speaker 1: And you were brilliant, I thought, in Boardwalk.
- 17:50Speaker 3: I mean, wow.
- 17:52Speaker 2: The other guys, funny as hell.
- 17:55Speaker 1: The chief of the arts!
- 17:58Speaker 2: Was that funny? No.
- 17:59Speaker 1: The other guys were one of those movies that I'd
- 18:01Speaker 1: never done that.
- 18:04Speaker 4: Much improv.
- 18:05Speaker 1: I didn't go to school, so I never took a
- 18:07Speaker 1: class or anything like that. You never took an acting class?
- 18:09Speaker 1: I took one acting class. So you weren't classically trained
- 18:14Speaker 1: at all? No, I just, I took one class at a,
- 18:21Speaker 1: I won't name the school, because I just, I'm still
- 18:26Speaker 1: this way. I don't like being in like group, organized
- 18:30Speaker 1: group situations.
- 18:32Speaker 4: I was like a, I was out of control in school.
- 18:34Speaker 4: I was not a good student.
- 18:36Speaker 1: I just didn't, I didn't like the conformities.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Right.
- 18:40Speaker 4: So I went to this acting school.
- 18:41Speaker 1: How old were you when you took the class? 20s?
- 18:43Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like 19.
- 18:44Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 18:44Speaker 4: 19, 20, and it was the same feeling.
- 18:47Speaker 1: I was like in a classroom.
- 18:48Speaker 2: Were you thinking about it?
- 18:50Speaker 4: What, acting?
- 18:50Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 18:51Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I always did plays in school
- 18:53Speaker 4: and all that.
- 18:53Speaker 1: And then, but I was like a backstage kid.
- 18:57Speaker 4: You know, I would get backstage. Remember that magazine?
- 18:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 18:59Speaker 4: And I would go to open calls. And I would
- 19:01Speaker 4: get cast.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Where'd you live?
- 19:02Speaker 2: In Manhattan?
- 19:03Speaker 4: I lived in Union City, New Jersey. That's where I'm from.
- 19:06Speaker 4: It's right across the river. It's like next to Hoboken.
- 19:08Speaker 3: Yeah, but you don't have a New Jersey accent.
- 19:10Speaker 4: I've been here for 30 years now. 35 years. Yeah.
- 19:12Speaker 2: 35 years, yeah.
- 19:13Speaker 4: I've been living here since I'm 21. Why? You should
- 19:17Speaker 4: tell them when you.
- 19:18Speaker 2: Were younger, when, remember, they got the piece of wood
- 19:22Speaker 2: and they said, put holes in it, and they.
- 19:25Speaker 4: Hit your butt with it.
- 19:26Speaker 1: Okay.
- 19:27Speaker 4: We don't have to talk about that. That was a
- 19:32Speaker 4: different time. Remember that? Did that ever hit you in school?
- 19:35Speaker 2: Yes, with a paddle.
- 19:36Speaker 4: That's what he's talking about.
- 19:37Speaker 1: Yes.
- 19:37Speaker 4: They put holes in it.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I had one guy who had to
- 19:40Speaker 1: put a hole in it so that the bat would.
- 19:42Speaker 4: Go faster, hit your ass faster. Oh, wow. They don't
- 19:45Speaker 4: do that anymore. I don't think they do that anymore
- 19:46Speaker 4: in America.
- 19:47Speaker 1: I went to Catholic school We had nuns. Yes, me too.
- 19:49Speaker 4: I went to Catholic school.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Yeah, my brothers didn't go.
- 19:52Speaker 3: Only me.
- 19:53Speaker 2: They didn't want to go to Catholic school.
- 19:55Speaker 1: It was good for me. Actually, yeah, you know, Catholic school, interesting.
- 20:00Speaker 1: I went there until the seventh grade. Then I got
- 20:01Speaker 1: expelled in the middle of the seventh grade.
- 20:04Speaker 4: Really?
- 20:05Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 20:06Speaker 4: Yeah, I put my hands on a nun and they
- 20:08Speaker 4: kicked me out.
- 20:09Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
- 20:10Speaker 2: You grabbed her?
- 20:11Speaker 4: Yeah, I grabbed her in the coat closet. Remember the
- 20:13Speaker 4: coat closet? Yeah. I don't have those anymore.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Yeah, she dragged me out of my desk by the
- 20:23Speaker 1: ear into the coat closet. And she wouldn't let go
- 20:28Speaker 1: of my ear.
- 20:28Speaker 4: And I had enough. I had enough with assistant Joanna.
- 20:32Speaker 1: Sister Joanna was the kindergarten teacher. And they skipped me
- 20:38Speaker 1: because I could read. Because I was always a big reader.
- 20:41Speaker 1: I'm still a big reader. But I could read and
- 20:43Speaker 1: they skipped me. And she didn't like that. She was pissed.
- 20:46Speaker 1: And so when Sister Catherine retired, Sister Joanna became the principal.
- 20:50Speaker 4: And she just fucking hated me.
- 20:52Speaker 1: Hated me. Just always gave me problems. I was always
- 20:55Speaker 1: in her office. And she was always hitting me with
- 20:57Speaker 1: a ruler or pulling me by the ear. And then
- 20:59Speaker 1: I couldn't take it anymore. Seventh grade, she pulled me
- 21:02Speaker 1: by my ear one too many times, and.
- 21:03Speaker 4: I turned around.
- 21:05Speaker 1: I grabbed her like that, and it was over.
- 21:08Speaker 4: I was expelled.
- 21:09Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, but that can happen when
- 21:11Speaker 2: you have a, you know, you have an episode like
- 21:14Speaker 2: that where, you know, you lose it, but the fact
- 21:16Speaker 2: that you put your hands on her, she's a nun.
- 21:19Speaker 4: I know, but they were really, they were loose with
- 21:21Speaker 4: their hands, man. Oh, they were? They were loose with
- 21:23Speaker 4: the sticks and the things, and they would just hit you.
- 21:25Speaker 2: I had a guy, this guy, Medico, He picked me
- 21:30Speaker 2: up in the air and he said, pack all your books.
- 21:34Speaker 3: He lifted me off the ground. I was like shaking,
- 21:37Speaker 3: but we let it go.
- 21:38Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like things like that, we
- 21:40Speaker 1: let go. My mother certainly didn't care. I'd be like,
- 21:44Speaker 1: Joanna hit me. She'd be like, what'd you do? Right?
- 21:46Speaker 4: Can you imagine? Today, you'd be like, who hit you?
- 21:49Speaker 4: Your kid came home and told you that.
- 21:50Speaker 1: I know, forget it. It's a different world today. When
- 21:53Speaker 1: I was a kid, in that particular church, I wouldn't
- 21:58Speaker 1: be an actor if I didn't go to that Catholic school.
- 22:00Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 22:01Speaker 4: Because the priests were like my lifesavers. They were the best.
- 22:06Speaker 1: And I was like, I was always like a kid
- 22:09Speaker 1: who wanted attention, you know? Yeah. So I think I
- 22:12Speaker 1: always wanted to be an actor, you know? And so
- 22:13Speaker 1: I was like an altar boy. I was in the choir.
- 22:16Speaker 4: I was like, you know.
- 22:17Speaker 1: Did anybody ever tell you, Bobby, you're an actor? You
- 22:21Speaker 1: don't know you're an actor, but you're an actor.
- 22:22Speaker 4: Yes.
- 22:23Speaker 1: I bet you somebody told you that. So in the church,
- 22:25Speaker 1: in the church, we had a guy. His name was
- 22:26Speaker 1: Joe Neglia. I'll never forget his name. Joe Neglia was like,
- 22:30Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't a priest, but he was, you know,
- 22:33Speaker 1: a neighborhood guy who did everything in the church, right?
- 22:36Speaker 1: He was like, he led the chorus. He was in
- 22:39Speaker 1: charge of the altar boys. He's one of those good
- 22:41Speaker 1: guys who had like a big family and they were
- 22:44Speaker 1: all involved in the church. They were parishioners, you know,
- 22:46Speaker 1: and every Sunday he led the choir. He was the
- 22:49Speaker 1: choir master and they had a theater group. And he
- 22:51Speaker 1: was like a You know, like a closeted actor, I guess.
- 22:56Speaker 1: So he was the lead in all these plays. And
- 22:59Speaker 1: he put me in my first play, which was Guys
- 23:03Speaker 1: and Dolls. Oh, like me. He put me in Guys
- 23:05Speaker 1: and Dolls.
- 23:05Speaker 2: I did it in high school.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Who did you play? Well, check it out. So I
- 23:07Speaker 1: was a kid. I was 10. And he was like,
- 23:10Speaker 1: you're going to play a grown-up. You're not playing a kid.
- 23:14Speaker 1: You're going to play one of the gangsters.
- 23:16Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 23:17Speaker 1: I think I was Harry the horse.
- 23:19Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 23:19Speaker 1: It was Harry the horse.
- 23:20Speaker 4: And you know, I had like two lines, but he
- 23:22Speaker 4: was like, you're not a kid. You're a grownup. I'll
- 23:26Speaker 4: never forget that.
- 23:27Speaker 1: He didn't treat me like a kid and he didn't
- 23:29Speaker 1: want me to play a kid.
- 23:30Speaker 4: He wanted me to like.
- 23:31Speaker 1: Be like a man. Be a man. But you were tall, right?
- 23:33Speaker 1: And I'd get a laugh because I was tall.
- 23:35Speaker 4: Because you were a kid. But I was a kid, yeah.
- 23:37Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 23:39Speaker 4: And I did like five plays with him. I did that.
- 23:41Speaker 1: I did Flowers for Algernon. I did The Music Man.
- 23:43Speaker 1: I did Men of La Mancha and Fiddler on the Roof.
- 23:45Speaker 1: So you did.
- 23:46Speaker 3: And how old were you?
- 23:46Speaker 1: 10 to 14. Oh, so you got a taste of
- 23:49Speaker 1: the theater.
- 23:50Speaker 4: Yeah. All there at St. Michael's. And they were very,
- 23:54Speaker 4: very encouraging. They were just very encouraging. Yeah.
- 23:57Speaker 1: And it was like night and day, though, because I
- 24:00Speaker 1: wasn't allowed to go anywhere. Single mom, you know. So
- 24:03Speaker 1: she wouldn't let me go anywhere. So the only place
- 24:05Speaker 1: I was allowed to go was school and then the church.
- 24:08Speaker 1: So there was always something going on after school with
- 24:11Speaker 1: the church. And, you know, I played basketball, CYO.
- 24:14Speaker 4: Remember CYO?
- 24:14Speaker 1: Yeah, I played CYO. So I played CYO. So I
- 24:16Speaker 1: could do CYO. And that was like the school would
- 24:19Speaker 1: be here, and then the gym was here, and then
- 24:22Speaker 1: the church was here. So that was my zone. I
- 24:25Speaker 1: wasn't allowed to go out of that zone. Right.
- 24:27Speaker 4: And there's a library there. I could go to the library.
- 24:30Speaker 1: But I would go to the.
- 24:30Speaker 4: Church after school if I didn't have basketball. Yeah, I'll
- 24:37Speaker 4: tell him about Dominic DiPinto.
- 24:39Speaker 1: It's good.
- 24:40Speaker 3: He knows your story.
- 24:41Speaker 4: He's my bully.
- 24:42Speaker 1: He's good. So I would go to the church.
- 24:47Speaker 4: Afterwards.
- 24:49Speaker 1: If you look across Manhattan, if you look.
- 24:50Speaker 4: Across the river....
- 25:02Speaker 1: On like 28th Street, you see three domes.
- 25:05Speaker 4: It's a church, the monastery.
- 25:07Speaker 1: That's the church I was christened in, and I did
- 25:09Speaker 1: my first communion, and my first confession, and my confirmation
- 25:11Speaker 1: was all in that church.
- 25:12Speaker 4: St. Michael's?
- 25:13Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's landmarked. They can't knock it down, but
- 25:16Speaker 1: it's not a church anymore. But it's, you know, it
- 25:19Speaker 1: looks like the Vatican. They used to make these huge churches,
- 25:23Speaker 1: you know? And so the rectory was connected to that church.
- 25:28Speaker 1: So I would go, bro. I would go after school,
- 25:30Speaker 1: walk to the church, to the rectory, and I'd do
- 25:32Speaker 1: whatever they wanted me to do. I'd iron cassocks and surpluses.
- 25:36Speaker 1: I would bring the hosts. You know, like, I used to,
- 25:41Speaker 1: you know, like, the hosts before they were blessed was
- 25:44Speaker 1: just wafers, right?
- 25:46Speaker 4: Right, right.
- 25:46Speaker 1: You know, when you're a kid, you know, then that's
- 25:48Speaker 1: not the body of Christ until the priest says it is.
- 25:50Speaker 4: Right. Until he does his magic.
- 25:54Speaker 1: But I would like put them, I would take them
- 25:57Speaker 1: out of like this box because it would get delivered.
- 25:59Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:00Speaker 1: And I would take them out of the box and
- 26:01Speaker 1: put them in like a chalice that.
- 26:03Speaker 4: The priest would then deal with later. Right. And I
- 26:06Speaker 4: would polish the chalices.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Oh, you'd do all that?
- 26:08Speaker 4: I would do all that.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Wow.
- 26:10Speaker 4: It was like theater. Yeah.
- 26:11Speaker 1: And then, you know, it was a massive church with
- 26:13Speaker 1: a pipe organ. And I would, like, clean up and
- 26:16Speaker 1: I would, like, shine the silver and, you know, like
- 26:19Speaker 1: the plates.
- 26:21Speaker 4: Remember the plates?
- 26:21Speaker 1: Were you an altar boy?
- 26:23Speaker 3: I went to Catalyst.
- 26:25Speaker 1: So, you know, you'd get First Communion. You'd get First Communion.
- 26:28Speaker 1: And I don't even know if they do this anymore. And, like,
- 26:31Speaker 1: the altar boy would hold this, like, a silver plate.
- 26:34Speaker 4: A plate? Like this big with a handle.
- 26:38Speaker 1: And when people would come to take communion, now everybody
- 26:40Speaker 1: takes communion like this.
- 26:42Speaker 4: But it used to be.
- 26:45Speaker 1: This started like in the 80s. But you used to
- 26:47Speaker 1: stick your tongue out. And the plate was to catch
- 26:50Speaker 1: the body of Christ.
- 26:52Speaker 4: In case it fell.
- 26:53Speaker 1: In case it fell?
- 26:54Speaker 4: Yes. We would hold it. Oh, they would hold that? Crazy.
- 26:57Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
- 26:57Speaker 4: It's crazy.
- 26:58Speaker 1: It's so old school.
- 26:59Speaker 4: Yes. I don't even know if they do that anymore.
- 27:01Speaker 4: I don't.
- 27:02Speaker 2: You don't?
- 27:03Speaker 1: No.
- 27:04Speaker 2: When was the last time you went?
- 27:05Speaker 4: Good question. I don't know. Probably when, probably when we
- 27:10Speaker 4: moved to Florida, you know, when I was like 14.
- 27:12Speaker 4: Why'd you stop going?
- 27:12Speaker 1: Because we moved, and we just stopped. My mother stopped going,
- 27:17Speaker 1: and yeah, I don't know, we just stopped.
- 27:19Speaker 4: You still go?
- 27:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I go.
- 27:22Speaker 4: Sundays?
- 27:23Speaker 2: I go Sundays with my wife, and I even been
- 27:26Speaker 2: to confession a few years ago.
- 27:27Speaker 3: I hadn't gone in years.
- 27:29Speaker 2: I had to go.
- 27:30Speaker 4: How long were you in the pew after that? A
- 27:33Speaker 4: good hour doing penance? I was in private confession.
- 27:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.
- 27:35Speaker 4: But you did penance, right?
- 27:37Speaker 3: Yeah, I did penance.
- 27:38Speaker 4: Long time.
- 27:39Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 27:41Speaker 4: 40, 50, how many? I was.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Deeper than that.
- 27:46Speaker 4: Really?
- 27:46Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I just, you know, had to go for
- 27:48Speaker 3: a lot of reasons.
- 27:49Speaker 1: Felt good, but.
- 27:50Speaker 4: Just yesterday I was shooting a scene in which I
- 27:53Speaker 4: was praying.
- 27:54Speaker 1: You were what? Praying, I had to pray.
- 27:55Speaker 2: Oh, you were praying.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Yeah, I was shooting a scene in the hospital, somebody's sick,
- 27:58Speaker 1: and this guy comes over, he's not a priest really,
- 28:01Speaker 1: but he's like, He's like, would you like to pray
- 28:03Speaker 1: together like they do in the waiting room in hospitals sometimes?
- 28:06Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah. And I hadn't, I didn't really,
- 28:10Speaker 1: I mean, it says in the script, you know, Pete
- 28:14Speaker 1: prays silently. And it was crazy, bro.
- 28:17Speaker 4: I remembered all the prayers.
- 28:20Speaker 1: I hadn't done it in years.
- 28:23Speaker 4: I did the Our Father, I did the Hail Mary.
- 28:24Speaker 1: Did it come back?
- 28:26Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I didn't have to Google
- 28:27Speaker 4: it or anything. I knew the whole thing.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 28:30Speaker 4: Crazy. I can remember hymns.
- 28:32Speaker 1: Hymns? Yeah.
- 28:33Speaker 4: Do you remember the hymns? Like Bomb and Gilead?
- 28:36Speaker 1: No.
- 28:37Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. I remember the words from those hymns like
- 28:41Speaker 4: it was yesterday.
- 28:42Speaker 3: Must be ingrained in you.
- 28:44Speaker 4: Catholic, right?
- 28:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 28:45Speaker 3: My brother has an expression now.
- 28:48Speaker 2: Like sometimes I asked him one time when he was
- 28:51Speaker 2: doing this hard dialogue in Rome and I said, how
- 28:53Speaker 2: are you remembering this stuff?
- 28:55Speaker 3: And he goes, it's in my body, Nick.
- 28:58Speaker 2: Nicholas, it's in my body. And I was like, oh.
- 29:01Speaker 1: It's in your body. He's right.
- 29:02Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I thought about it and I said, oh,
- 29:05Speaker 2: he's right.
- 29:06Speaker 3: He's right because I guess he's been living with it
- 29:08Speaker 3: for a long time.
- 29:09Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 29:10Speaker 3: It's no longer in your head.
- 29:11Speaker 4: No, it's a part of you.
- 29:12Speaker 2: It's now, it's a part of you.
- 29:13Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened yesterday.
- 29:15Speaker 2: Yeah, like sometimes, you know, you remember things and then
- 29:17Speaker 2: it pops in and pops out.
- 29:19Speaker 3: So you haven't lived with it long enough or whatever.
- 29:21Speaker 1: Or if somebody asks you to remember something, it's hard
- 29:25Speaker 1: on the spot. Yeah.
- 29:26Speaker 4: But if I'm in a situation....
- 29:30Speaker 1: That calls for me having to recall something. And without
- 29:34Speaker 1: even thinking about it, it just organically just comes out.
- 29:37Speaker 4: It's in my body.
- 29:38Speaker 2: Yeah, it's in your body.
- 29:39Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 29:40Speaker 2: That's when you've been living with it for a while.
- 29:42Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's what he meant. Because I
- 29:44Speaker 2: was like, you know, he was doing this dialogue that
- 29:46Speaker 2: was so hard. He was making it look so wonderful.
- 29:49Speaker 2: I was just like, oh, my God.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 29:52Speaker 2: I was having anxiety watching him. And I was like, oh,
- 29:54Speaker 2: my God, he's making it. But I guess it makes sense.
- 29:57Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.
- 29:58Speaker 2: I mean... I don't feel that way about a lot
- 30:00Speaker 2: of things other than, like, baseball history or moments. I
- 30:06Speaker 2: remember details.
- 30:07Speaker 1: Do you remember dates?
- 30:08Speaker 4: Because I don't remember dates. Dates?
- 30:10Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, some people... You mean, like, the actual date? Yeah, like,
- 30:12Speaker 1: some people will be like, oh, remember that 92 series,
- 30:15Speaker 1: game six?
- 30:15Speaker 4: And I can't remember.
- 30:16Speaker 3: No, I remember that.
- 30:17Speaker 4: I don't remember that. I always wish I had that.
- 30:19Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. Like, 90s.
- 30:21Speaker 2: I can tell you every World Series.
- 30:23Speaker 3: I can tell you moments, the inning, the pitcher.
- 30:26Speaker 4: Yeah, huh? I can't. I mean, a few things.
- 30:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:29Speaker 4: I was at that game six in 96 when we won.
- 30:31Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:32Speaker 3: I was at that game.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:33Speaker 4: I was so high up. You were high up? Oh, yeah.
- 30:36Speaker 1: I was high up.
- 30:36Speaker 4: I was sitting low.
- 30:37Speaker 1: Oh, whatever.
- 30:38Speaker 2: We were shooting exteriors at NYPD Blue that week, so
- 30:40Speaker 2: it was a surreal week.
- 30:41Speaker 1: The Yankees lost the first two.
- 30:44Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:44Speaker 2: And then they won three in Atlanta, but the fourth
- 30:47Speaker 2: game was a miraculous comeback.
- 30:49Speaker 4: Yes.
- 30:49Speaker 3: And it was 6-6. They were down 6-0.
- 30:51Speaker 1: Yes. I was in the Regency Hotel. I lost it.
- 30:54Speaker 1: And then it was 6-6.
- 30:56Speaker 2: And then they took the lead on a.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Walk by all people.
- 31:00Speaker 4: You were just losing it.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Who was the guy that walked? You remember the guy
- 31:03Speaker 2: that came back game four? The Luritz game where Luritz
- 31:06Speaker 2: hit the home run to tie it?
- 31:07Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 31:08Speaker 3: 6-6. And then they had the base. They had second
- 31:11Speaker 3: and third.
- 31:11Speaker 2: And Bobby Cox walked Bernie Williams to load the bases,
- 31:16Speaker 2: which is a. A risk, because if you load the bases,
- 31:19Speaker 2: wild pitch, a walk, anything.
- 31:21Speaker 4: Was it precious?
- 31:22Speaker 3: And then this guy walked. You were talking about him before.
- 31:25Speaker 2: It's so funny.
- 31:28Speaker 4: Wade Boggs.
- 31:29Speaker 1: Yeah. Boggs walked.
- 31:31Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
- 31:31Speaker 1: He was like 0-2 on the count.
- 31:32Speaker 4: But he was a great, but he was like, he
- 31:34Speaker 4: was like, he had one of the greatest eyes.
- 31:36Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:36Speaker 4: But he had one of the greatest eyes.
- 31:37Speaker 1: He was 0-2.
- 31:38Speaker 4: Best two-strike hitter in the game. Remember, they always say that.
- 31:41Speaker 1: I thought he was going to strike out.
- 31:43Speaker 2: It was 0-2, 1-2, he got it to 2-2, and
- 31:45Speaker 2: then 3, and then eventually he walked. And I was like, wow.
- 31:49Speaker 2: I mean, I knew they were going to win that
- 31:50Speaker 2: series after they won that game. And they won the
- 31:53Speaker 2: next game.
- 31:53Speaker 1: Can you imagine what that must have felt like for him? Who, Boggs?
- 31:57Speaker 4: Yeah, to play on all those Red Sox teams.
- 31:59Speaker 1: And never to win?
- 32:00Speaker 4: Win it, and then win it for the Yankees. Yeah.
- 32:02Speaker 4: I mean, that was hard for me.
- 32:04Speaker 2: Yes. I wonder what it must.
- 32:05Speaker 4: Have felt like for him.
- 32:06Speaker 1: I've never really seen him.
- 32:07Speaker 4: Pretty quiet guy, right? Yeah.
- 32:09Speaker 1: You never really see him interviewed?
- 32:12Speaker 3: I did a commercial with him that year.
- 32:14Speaker 4: Oh, yeah?
- 32:14Speaker 3: Yeah, I did these commercials for ESPN, and one of
- 32:17Speaker 3: them was with Boggs.
- 32:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 32:19Speaker 3: And then I got him on the.
- 32:21Speaker 2: They brought me on the field, and I was like
- 32:24Speaker 2: interviewing him for a Westchester.
- 32:26Speaker 4: When he was with the Yankees?
- 32:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like interviewing him, and he was like,
- 32:29Speaker 3: you know, I said.
- 32:30Speaker 2: How specific when you were interviewing him?
- 32:32Speaker 1: 96.
- 32:32Speaker 3: No, but I'd say I was interviewing him after the
- 32:35Speaker 3: World Series.
- 32:35Speaker 1: You're not being clear.
- 32:36Speaker 2: I was interviewing him during the World Series in 96,
- 32:41Speaker 2: right after they won and they celebrated. And he was like,
- 32:43Speaker 2: I said, you didn't think about you were a jinx
- 32:46Speaker 2: or anything like that? He goes, no, no, no, I
- 32:47Speaker 2: was on the good side. I was on the good
- 32:49Speaker 2: side this time, he goes. But you remember that image
- 32:51Speaker 2: of him in 86? He was crying in the dugout
- 32:54Speaker 2: when the Mets made that miraculous comeback. I mean, the
- 32:57Speaker 2: Mets were, I'm not a Met fan, but they were
- 32:59Speaker 2: an incredible team that year.
- 33:02Speaker 1: I'm not a Mets fan either, but I don't mind
- 33:04Speaker 1: the Mets. I don't dislike them as much as I
- 33:08Speaker 1: dislike the Red Sox.
- 33:10Speaker 3: Right, right.
- 33:10Speaker 1: You know, when we played that Subway series, it just
- 33:14Speaker 1: changed my whole perspective because I was like, I could
- 33:17Speaker 1: do this every year.
- 33:18Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know. But we couldn't lose to them. Like,
- 33:21Speaker 2: if we had lost to them, it would have been
- 33:23Speaker 2: a bad look. But game one, we almost could have lost.
- 33:27Speaker 2: That was a tight, tight game. That turned the whole series.
- 33:30Speaker 1: There was another weird one, though, because you had to
- 33:32Speaker 1: root for Clemens.
- 33:33Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was a bad guy.
- 33:36Speaker 4: He was so bad.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Yeah, because he was a prick with, you know, throwing
- 33:40Speaker 2: the ball at Piazza. And then the stick. I think
- 33:42Speaker 2: he was all roided up or something. How do you
- 33:44Speaker 2: do that to the guy? I mean, that wasn't nice.
- 33:47Speaker 4: He broke the bat, right?
- 33:48Speaker 1: I mean, Piazza broke the bat.
- 33:49Speaker 2: He broke the bat. He took the bat, and he
- 33:51Speaker 2: threw it right in his... It's like... A splintery bat
- 33:55Speaker 2: could have injured the guy, could have hit him in
- 33:56Speaker 2: his throat.
- 33:57Speaker 1: I mean... It's still hard to believe he's not in
- 33:59Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame.
- 34:00Speaker 3: Who, Clemens?
- 34:01Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 34:01Speaker 3: He belongs in the Hall of Fame.
- 34:02Speaker 4: It's still hard to believe, right?
- 34:03Speaker 2: He's a Hall of Famer. You know, HGH or whatever.
- 34:07Speaker 2: You know Hall of Famers. Now they're putting in guys
- 34:09Speaker 2: that are very good. The greats need to go in.
- 34:12Speaker 2: They never clarified that error with the juice. You know,
- 34:16Speaker 2: and they never really, you know, came to a clear, like,
- 34:20Speaker 2: a lot of guys were doing it.
- 34:21Speaker 3: This was the steroid era.
- 34:23Speaker 1: Are the stats inflated? Yeah.
- 34:25Speaker 2: But was he great before then? Like, Skinny Barry Bonds
- 34:28Speaker 2: was great, even though his head grew.
- 34:30Speaker 1: I was going to say, you know, like, some of
- 34:31Speaker 1: these guys, though, that did it, like, they were great
- 34:35Speaker 1: hitters their whole career.
- 34:36Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Great pitchers their whole career. Yeah.
- 34:38Speaker 2: I was at the game in 78 where Reggie stuck his.
- 34:41Speaker 3: Reggie stuck his ass out. They got away with it.
- 34:43Speaker 2: And he goes, the next day, I go, you got
- 34:45Speaker 2: blown out. He goes, but we were exhausted because it
- 34:47Speaker 2: was a night game, Nick.
- 34:48Speaker 3: And I said, no, it wasn't. I said, it was
- 34:51Speaker 3: a late day game.
- 34:52Speaker 2: He goes, no, it wasn't.
- 34:54Speaker 3: I said, no.
- 34:54Speaker 1: I said, you're wrong.
- 34:55Speaker 2: He goes, I played in the game.
- 34:56Speaker 3: I said, yeah, I watched the game. I said, look
- 34:58Speaker 3: it up. Look it up.
- 35:00Speaker 1: I said, oh, yeah. He was all pissed off.
- 35:02Speaker 3: He was like, how did.
- 35:03Speaker 2: I not remember that?
- 35:05Speaker 1: You didn't remember. You know what's funny, bro?
- 35:07Speaker 3: You played in the game.
- 35:08Speaker 1: It's different.
- 35:08Speaker 3: I'm watching the game.
- 35:09Speaker 4: It's funny.
- 35:10Speaker 1: You know, athletes, I find athletes to be very protective of...
- 35:14Speaker 1: their own, and the game.
- 35:17Speaker 4: Like, nothing's worse.
- 35:19Speaker 1: How about when you see, like, you know, there's so
- 35:21Speaker 1: many professional athletes now as pundits on these shows, right?
- 35:24Speaker 1: And when they have a guy who's never played the
- 35:26Speaker 1: game on, they treat him a little different. If they
- 35:29Speaker 1: get a little too opinionated, you ever see that? They'll
- 35:31Speaker 1: be like, well, you didn't play the game. Right.
- 35:33Speaker 4: That kind of attitude.
- 35:34Speaker 1: Yeah, they kind of dismiss you. They dismiss you, yeah. Like,
- 35:37Speaker 1: I was at a Jets game recently, and it was terrible.
- 35:40Speaker 1: It was like, It's the Cowboys. I'm in the box,
- 35:44Speaker 1: the owner's box. And, you know, we were just god-awful. Like,
- 35:47Speaker 1: we were just terrible. We didn't do anything right in
- 35:50Speaker 1: that game. And the one time, like, the whole momentum
- 35:55Speaker 1: shifted on a fumble, like a goal-line fumble. Brees Hall
- 35:59Speaker 1: fumbled the ball after, like, a long run, and then
- 36:01Speaker 1: he fumbled it on, like, the two-yard line. And the
- 36:03Speaker 1: game turned on that. They never did anything after that.
- 36:06Speaker 4: So I'm up there. I'm in the box.
- 36:09Speaker 1: Curtis Martin comes in after halftime. And I'm like, holy shit,
- 36:13Speaker 1: Curtis Martin. I'm like, hey, man, big fan. He was like, oh, thanks, man.
- 36:16Speaker 1: I like your work, too.
- 36:17Speaker 4: I was like, oh, shit, cool.
- 36:19Speaker 1: Curtis Martin knows me. And then I'm like, he's like,
- 36:21Speaker 1: you Jets fan? Long time ago. Yeah, man, you're one
- 36:23Speaker 1: of the all-time greats, man. He's like, oh, thanks, buddy.
- 36:25Speaker 4: Thanks. And I was like, just fucking Jets. Same old Jets, though, right?
- 36:29Speaker 4: And he was like, what do you mean?
- 36:30Speaker 1: And I should have stopped there when he said, what
- 36:32Speaker 1: do you mean? What do you mean? And I was like,
- 36:34Speaker 1: I mean, like, what the fuck, man? The whole thing
- 36:38Speaker 1: turned on the, he goes, what, the fumble? I go, yeah,
- 36:41Speaker 1: the fumble.
- 36:42Speaker 4: Yeah, the fumble. And now I'm getting worked up. And
- 36:45Speaker 4: he goes, well, you know, sometimes that happens.
- 36:48Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, but it's not
- 36:52Speaker 1: supposed to happen. It's not supposed to happen. You're not
- 36:54Speaker 1: supposed to fumble the ball inside the five-yard line. And
- 36:57Speaker 1: he was like, uh-huh. And I could tell he didn't
- 37:00Speaker 1: want anything to do with me anymore. He didn't like
- 37:02Speaker 1: me talking shit. Yeah, because all of.
- 37:04Speaker 3: A sudden he's taking a stance against you.
- 37:07Speaker 4: Yeah, because I don't play the game.
- 37:09Speaker 1: I don't know what it's like out there.
- 37:10Speaker 4: I don't know if you got a cramp or, you know.
- 37:13Speaker 2: Listen, you're entitled to feel the way you want to
- 37:16Speaker 2: feel as a fan.
- 37:16Speaker 4: Yeah, bro. You know what I mean?
- 37:17Speaker 1: You know nothing about.
- 37:18Speaker 4: I got free tickets to that game.
- 37:20Speaker 1: I got free tickets and free parking. You know what
- 37:24Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah. I'm a real fan.
- 37:26Speaker 2: It's just like a lot of these people like, you know,
- 37:28Speaker 2: like with baseball now, I've gone like... There's some people
- 37:32Speaker 2: that don't like some of the rhetoric and social media.
- 37:35Speaker 1: I do, but the thing is.
- 37:36Speaker 2: I watch the games and I know what I'm talking about.
- 37:39Speaker 1: And, you know, I'm not doing it just to do it.
- 37:43Speaker 3: I do it just because it's my passion.
- 37:45Speaker 2: But they don't know me.
- 37:46Speaker 3: It's social media.
- 37:47Speaker 1: Yeah. And plus, you know, like they're playing at the
- 37:50Speaker 1: highest possible level. Exactly. Like, you know, like they're putting
- 37:55Speaker 1: on a show that the fans pay to see. So
- 37:59Speaker 1: on some level they have no obligations.
- 38:02Speaker 4: Sort of. You know what I mean? They do, right?
- 38:04Speaker 1: If they're playing on that higher level and people are
- 38:07Speaker 1: buying their jerseys and they're buying.
- 38:09Speaker 4: The hats and they're paying for tickets.
- 38:11Speaker 1: And they're spending their time. Yeah, it's like a communion
- 38:13Speaker 1: they've got with the fan base.
- 38:15Speaker 4: And the fans have a right to their opinions.
- 38:17Speaker 1: Yeah. Right? I guess not so much if you're in
- 38:20Speaker 1: the private box and you've got the free tickets. Yeah.
- 38:22Speaker 4: And you're eating the shrimp. That's a little different. Yeah.
- 38:26Speaker 2: But yeah, we're entitled, just like anything else, like even
- 38:29Speaker 2: a movie.
- 38:30Speaker 3: It's like, some guy might like it, some guy might not.
- 38:32Speaker 3: I mean, like, your taste is different than mine. Hey,
- 38:34Speaker 3: that was a great movie.
- 38:35Speaker 2: The other person's like, no, and like, you didn't know
- 38:38Speaker 2: that was a great movie? I've had arguments with people
- 38:40Speaker 2: about movies that are like great, and they're like, no.
- 38:42Speaker 2: I go, well, then you don't know what you're looking at.
- 38:45Speaker 2: But that's just my opinion.
- 38:46Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 38:47Speaker 1: I try not, I've learned not to get worked up
- 38:50Speaker 1: about that because I've had people come to me and go,
- 38:52Speaker 1: you were in that thing, right?
- 38:53Speaker 4: And I'm going to go, yeah, I don't like that.
- 38:55Speaker 4: They'll tell me I didn't like that.
- 38:56Speaker 2: Okay.
- 38:57Speaker 4: So I got to go.
- 38:57Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 38:58Speaker 4: All right. Thanks. Thanks for telling me. Yeah.
- 39:01Speaker 2: Now, you've worked with a lot of your favorites and
- 39:06Speaker 2: your idols. And who's your favorite? Do you have a favorite?
- 39:09Speaker 2: I mean, you've worked with Al and worked with Bob.
- 39:11Speaker 4: It's hard to say. Your brother. I love your brother.
- 39:14Speaker 4: He loves you. I love your brother a lot. Did
- 39:16Speaker 4: you ever see that thing we did about hair?
- 39:18Speaker 1: Did you ever see that short film we made for
- 39:20Speaker 1: Rag and Bone where we're getting our hair done? You
- 39:24Speaker 1: ever see that?
- 39:24Speaker 2: It's excellent.
- 39:26Speaker 4: Oh, you've got to see it. It's so good. Your
- 39:27Speaker 4: brother wrote it. It's very, very good. We mostly riffed.
- 39:30Speaker 4: But anyway, your brother. Did I see that?
- 39:32Speaker 3: Yeah, it is really good, right?
- 39:34Speaker 4: I love Al. I love Al. Al was my favorite
- 39:36Speaker 4: actor growing up. He's great, right?
- 39:38Speaker 1: So, you know, that's just a great story for me
- 39:41Speaker 1: because he was my favorite actor growing up.
- 39:44Speaker 3: And then you're playing his son?
- 39:45Speaker 1: Well, then, you know, then I'm on Broadway in this play.
- 39:49Speaker 1: And I got nominated for the Tony. And Al's nominated
- 39:52Speaker 1: in the same category. And they seat us next to
- 39:54Speaker 1: each other at the Tonys. And that's the first time
- 39:57Speaker 1: I ever met him. And I was still doing my play.
- 39:59Speaker 1: I was still on Broadway. His play was done. And
- 40:02Speaker 1: I just went for it. I just turned to him.
- 40:04Speaker 1: You know, he had the fucking, he had the headband on.
- 40:06Speaker 1: He had the thin headband with the tuxedo.
- 40:09Speaker 3: Right.
- 40:10Speaker 4: And I was like, Mr. Pacino, I just wanted to say,
- 40:15Speaker 4: I'm such a massive fan of yours. Oh, thank you,
- 40:17Speaker 4: thank you.
- 40:18Speaker 1: I said, uh, I'm in this play right now, I said,
- 40:21Speaker 1: and I think you would like the play, is the truth.
- 40:24Speaker 1: The play was called The Motherfucker with the Hat. And
- 40:26Speaker 1: I knew he would like that play. And I was like,
- 40:28Speaker 1: I just think you'll like this play.
- 40:29Speaker 4: He goes, oh, I've heard of it. I'm coming, I'm coming.
- 40:31Speaker 4: I go, oh, I'll invite you. I'll invite you.
- 40:35Speaker 1: He goes, I'm going to come and I'm going to
- 40:36Speaker 1: come and say hello afterwards. He came three days later. Wow.
- 40:40Speaker 1: And he came upstairs to my room and he stayed
- 40:42Speaker 1: for like, they had to kick us out.
- 40:45Speaker 4: Like two hours.
- 40:46Speaker 3: What were you guys talking about?
- 40:49Speaker 1: He loved the play so much. He asked me, what
- 40:52Speaker 1: did you do here? Did you spend time with addicts?
- 40:55Speaker 1: Did you go to meetings? Tell me about this writer.
- 40:59Speaker 1: Just everything, about acting, about the play itself. And then
- 41:02Speaker 1: he said, I'm going to call you because I have
- 41:04Speaker 1: this idea.
- 41:06Speaker 4: I'll call you. And he gave me his phone number,
- 41:07Speaker 4: and I gave him my phone number.
- 41:09Speaker 1: And like a month later, they called me to see
- 41:11Speaker 1: if I would be interested in doing Gary Glenn Ross
- 41:13Speaker 1: on Broadway with him.
- 41:15Speaker 4: And that's what we did next.
- 41:16Speaker 1: Oh, wow. I played Ricky Roma and he played Shelly Levine.
- 41:20Speaker 1: We did that for four months on Broadway. That was
- 41:22Speaker 1: a great experience. And then when that was over, he said,
- 41:25Speaker 1: I'm going to call you. I got another thing. And
- 41:27Speaker 1: then I played my father.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Is that the movie?
- 41:29Speaker 4: Danny Collins?
- 41:30Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 41:30Speaker 2: So you wound up doing Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross.
- 41:34Speaker 4: Yeah. And then Danny Collins and Yeah. It was awesome.
- 41:39Speaker 4: Now we're great friends. Yeah. I just love him.
- 41:41Speaker 2: And that's a terrific little movie.
- 41:43Speaker 4: I love it. That's a good movie, yeah.
- 41:44Speaker 1: I like that movie. That's that guy Dan Fogelman.
- 41:46Speaker 4: That's the guy who created that show This Is Us,
- 41:49Speaker 4: that big show.
- 41:50Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
- 41:51Speaker 4: Good guy. He wrote that and directed that movie. You know,
- 41:54Speaker 4: Al plays a singer in that movie.
- 41:56Speaker 1: Talk about, like, that guy. That guy just, you don't care, bro.
- 41:59Speaker 4: Well, he loves music.
- 42:00Speaker 1: He loves to dance.
- 42:01Speaker 2: He likes to dance.
- 42:02Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 42:03Speaker 1: And he never played a singer. So he was like, oh,
- 42:05Speaker 1: I want to play a singer. He was like 75.
- 42:07Speaker 4: Yeah. And he played, like, a famous singer. Yeah.
- 42:10Speaker 1: And it was amazing, dude. You know, we shot a scene.
- 42:13Speaker 1: We shot him singing on stage at the Greek Theater
- 42:17Speaker 1: with the Chicago audience. You know Chicago, the group?
- 42:20Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 42:20Speaker 1: Yeah. They were going to perform. So it was their audience. Right, right.
- 42:24Speaker 1: And Al came out and we shot him singing to, like,
- 42:26Speaker 1: big Chicago fans with the.
- 42:29Speaker 4: Band behind him. It was amazing, dude.
- 42:32Speaker 1: It was amazing. And then Al, and then we stayed
- 42:34Speaker 1: for the Chicago concert and we, like, we went on
- 42:37Speaker 1: stage together and, you know, we sang back up on
- 42:40Speaker 1: Saturday in the park, me and him, with singing into
- 42:43Speaker 1: the mic. It was amazing.
- 42:44Speaker 3: Maybe you were like a son to him.
- 42:46Speaker 2: I mean.
- 42:47Speaker 3: In a way.
- 42:47Speaker 4: He treats me very, very, very well.
- 42:50Speaker 3: He's just lovable, right?
- 42:51Speaker 4: Yeah, he's very warm.
- 42:53Speaker 3: Warm guy.
- 42:54Speaker 4: Very warm guy, Al. He's a beautiful human being.
- 42:56Speaker 1: How's De Niro?
- 42:57Speaker 4: Beautiful, too. Different. They're just different guys. But he played
- 43:01Speaker 4: my father, too.
- 43:02Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that.
- 43:04Speaker 4: That was good, too. You were funny in The Irishman.
- 43:07Speaker 4: In The Irishman, we did it together, yeah.
- 43:09Speaker 2: That's the thing about you, what I like. It separates,
- 43:12Speaker 2: you know, you're terrific, dramatic, but you're also funny. fucking
- 43:15Speaker 2: funny as hell. You just are funny. We love that
- 43:18Speaker 2: when you go, I do. Yes, I do. Can I
- 43:22Speaker 2: get your steak?
- 43:23Speaker 3: He goes, you like steak?
- 43:24Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I do. I do.
- 43:28Speaker 4: I love that scene because I ate so many steaks.
- 43:31Speaker 4: I love to eat on camera.
- 43:33Speaker 1: Do you? I love it.
- 43:34Speaker 2: There's a knack to eating on camera.
- 43:36Speaker 1: I love it. I love eating and talking at the
- 43:38Speaker 1: same time. It's good.
- 43:41Speaker 4: It's very real.
- 43:41Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
- 43:42Speaker 4: You know, and... I try to do it whenever I can.
- 43:45Speaker 1: Yeah. I did a movie many years ago. One of
- 43:48Speaker 1: my first movies with a very famous actor.
- 43:50Speaker 4: I won't mention him. But he said to me, we
- 43:53Speaker 4: were shooting a scene in the diner.
- 43:54Speaker 1: And it was like maybe one of the first three
- 43:56Speaker 1: movies I was ever in. And I had to eat
- 44:00Speaker 1: grilled cheese.
- 44:01Speaker 4: We're in a diner.
- 44:02Speaker 1: And I'm fucking eating.
- 44:03Speaker 4: And I'm licking my fingers. And I'm talking. And after
- 44:07Speaker 4: like the second take.
- 44:08Speaker 1: He goes, you know... You're going to get, you're going
- 44:11Speaker 1: to feel sick if you keep eating it. Right. I said,
- 44:14Speaker 1: I know, but I don't know any other way to
- 44:16Speaker 1: do it. He goes, well, here's what you do.
- 44:18Speaker 4: You take one bite.
- 44:19Speaker 3: One bite.
- 44:19Speaker 4: You put it down. And that's all you have to do. Right.
- 44:23Speaker 1: And I immediately decided that's bullshit.
- 44:25Speaker 4: Right. And so I can't do that.
- 44:30Speaker 1: So I eat 12 hot dogs if I got to
- 44:31Speaker 1: eat 12 hot dogs.
- 44:32Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 44:32Speaker 1: I ate like seven steaks in that.
- 44:34Speaker 3: You ate like seven steaks?
- 44:35Speaker 4: I had like seven steaks. Marty couldn't believe it.
- 44:38Speaker 2: I know I was just doing a little something with
- 44:40Speaker 2: Travolta and I was eating a lot of hot dogs
- 44:43Speaker 2: and he's such a sweet guy.
- 44:45Speaker 3: Great guy. He's wonderful. He's wonderful.
- 44:49Speaker 2: He called me baby. But anyway. But I love him.
- 44:54Speaker 1: I don't care.
- 44:54Speaker 2: John Travolta.
- 44:56Speaker 3: Yeah, he's from New Jersey.
- 45:01Speaker 4: Oh, he is.
- 45:01Speaker 3: I think he's from New Jersey, and, you know, he
- 45:03Speaker 3: was a theater guy, musical theater.
- 45:05Speaker 4: I know, Grease, the original cast of Grease.
- 45:06Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and he's just like, you know, you watch him,
- 45:09Speaker 2: and you're like, here's that guy I saw on Saturday
- 45:11Speaker 2: Night Fever on the screen, and you catch yourself.
- 45:14Speaker 3: Watching somebody like that, and you're like, but he's.
- 45:17Speaker 1: A good actor, too.
- 45:18Speaker 4: He's a really good actor. I feel like John Travolta also.
- 45:22Speaker 1: Remember, they always talked about his comeback, remember? But I'm
- 45:24Speaker 1: always like, what? comeback. What comeback? I feel like he
- 45:27Speaker 1: was always a huge star. Yeah, he was. Right? Remember
- 45:30Speaker 1: when they came back in Pulp Fiction, they were like,
- 45:33Speaker 1: it's the comeback. Yeah, it's the comeback.
- 45:34Speaker 4: And I was like, but he.
- 45:35Speaker 1: Was just in Get Shorty.
- 45:37Speaker 2: Right.
- 45:37Speaker 4: And he was great in Get Shorty. Remember Chili Palmer?
- 45:39Speaker 1: And that wasn't that far from Pulp Fiction. I just
- 45:42Speaker 1: feel like he's a great movie star.
- 45:45Speaker 3: He is a great movie star. I watched him sing
- 45:47Speaker 3: and dance in this one scene.
- 45:48Speaker 1: And I was like, wow. And he was out of breath.
- 45:51Speaker 2: And I just went right over to him and I
- 45:54Speaker 2: was like, that was wonderful. He goes, thank you so much.
- 45:58Speaker 2: He's so humble, too. He's definitely a team player, too.
- 46:04Speaker 2: He's on the side of the actor, too. If you
- 46:06Speaker 2: have an idea, he'll be like, I think what he's
- 46:08Speaker 2: trying to say.
- 46:09Speaker 1: And if you're a certain age, like us, he's just like.
- 46:15Speaker 4: I just loved Welcome Back Cotter when I.
- 46:16Speaker 1: Was a kid.
- 46:17Speaker 4: Yeah. I loved it so much.
- 46:18Speaker 3: I mean, shit, he was a movie star.
- 46:21Speaker 4: Bro, but that was before, right?
- 46:24Speaker 2: He was.
- 46:25Speaker 1: He.
- 46:25Speaker 3: Welcome Back Cotter was before Saturday Night Fever.
- 46:27Speaker 1: Right before. Like, that's what got him Saturday Night Fever
- 46:30Speaker 1: was Vinnie Barbarino.
- 46:31Speaker 2: Yeah, but no one knew that he was going to be, like,
- 46:34Speaker 2: from a television star... that he was going to transition
- 46:38Speaker 2: like that on the big screen.
- 46:39Speaker 4: But you could tell, though.
- 46:40Speaker 1: When he came out, you knew right away. On Welcome Back, Connor,
- 46:43Speaker 1: you're like, that guy's got it. Yeah, he popped more
- 46:46Speaker 1: than almost anybody.
- 46:47Speaker 4: What?
- 46:48Speaker 1: Yeah. What? Yeah.
- 46:49Speaker 2: He played like the.
- 46:50Speaker 4: What? What?
- 46:51Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 46:53Speaker 3: Joe Pepitone. He should play Joe Pepitone. I always tell
- 46:56Speaker 3: him that.
- 46:56Speaker 4: Joe Pepitone's dad.
- 46:58Speaker 2: Dad.