Hour 3: ‘Overreaction Tuesday,’ plus ‘Coyote vs Acme’ Star Will Forte Plays ‘Celebrity True or False’

23:38Rich Eisen:The challenge? Finding that person without sorting through resumes. That's where LinkedIn Hiring Pro comes in. It screens candidates so you can focus on conversations with qualified talent. With Hiring Pro, you can hire with confidence and build the team you need. Join the 2.7 million small businesses using LinkedIn to hire. Get started by posting your job for free at linkedin.com slash eisen. Terms and conditions apply. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. Will Forte is here. We just saw a clip of Coyote vs. Acme in theaters nationwide this Friday, August 28th. 18th john cena was already on in support of this a few weeks ago and it's the live action the animation and just everything it looks amazing it looks so great to see this on the screen and of course so many folks of you know our generation will remember roger rabbit and things like that and it kind of has a similar feel to that yeah big shoes to fill obviously like that you know that's at the top of the heap when it comes to the mixture of live action and animation And so that, you know, we were just trying to do something that, you know, was that lived up to these wonderful Looney Tunes characters that we grew up loving.

24:53And, you know, the whole thing was just made with such love and respect for Looney Tunes. So we're really excited by how it turned out. OK, yeah. And Cena is just a great human. He's so good. And he is. It's really fun to watch him work. He just is, he's got these really long chunks of dialogue, and I've never seen him chunk anything. No kidding. He's so prepared, and then he's also a really gifted improviser, so he can slip in some incredibly funny dialogue seamlessly into this written word and get right back into the next thing he's supposed to say, and I don't have that talent. Like I can maybe every once in a while think of something funny to say, but then I'll chunk it when I'm trying to get right back into the prepared dialogue.

25:37Rich Eisen:Man, he's veering into your lane and you say he has skill set that. Oh, he's amazing. I actually learned a lot from him. What about wrestling? Can you get in his lane? He knows that. Yeah, that I'm very, very strong and powerful. I have. Yeah. Wiley moves. Pun intended. Yeah. Look at you, man. Yeah. Obviously. Thank God we're in a different weight class. Right. otherwise you'd have to teach him a lesson exactly understood and just acting with not like how did you do this like we just saw you holding up like an acme rocket in your hands yeah and an evidence box that was looked real that was put on the table by you know wile e coyote how did you pull this sort of stuff off a lot of that stuff is pretty easy like the rocket skates you're just holding a pair of blades or something right okay so they can just animate over it but there are some some very intricate things like there's a scene in here where an animated piano falls onto a car an actual car and and smashes the car so you just seeing how they implode the car and you have to do so many different takes and then they composite the shots and you can actually see there on the day how it's going to work and it's it was so fun but like actually when we're talking to a character yes it's a different story because like there's a traditional thing where you just hold a tennis ball on the end of a stick so you know where the character's eyes are yes well dave green the director had this really smart thing he he took this guy this iconic puppeteer yes dave barclay who like did jabba the hut and yoda and and like uh all the fraggle rock characters just a ton of stuff and he had a wile coyote puppet so during rehearsals we would move around with that puppet and he would be able to be as expressive as Wiley is and by the time we got to shooting the scene with the tennis ball you really kind of knew what Wiley was going to do.

27:33Rich Eisen:Someone else is holding the stick with the tennis ball obviously while you're acting. Yes. Yeah. Or sometimes it's just like a little pole with a tennis ball on it. Dude. Just when you thought oh it's so high tech and all that. It's just a tennis ball. Oh yeah. At the end of the day. Sometimes it's as simple as that. Coyote vs. Acme available in theaters nationwide this Friday, August 28th. It's been a while since you've been here. Are you still a fan of the Raiders? Are we still in on this? I am. I mean, I'll be honest. I was a little upset by them moving to Las Vegas. I was born in Oakland. You know, my A's have done it too.

28:09So it's tough to take, but they're still my team. I haven't like moved off of them, but it's just a little different not having them be in Oakland. And that's how I felt when they went to Los Angeles too, back in the day, back in the 80s. It just felt so right when they came back home. So you spent time in the black hole in your life? Oh, yeah. I got to go hang out with Phil Villapiano in the black hole. Like, I got to hang out with him and Franco Harris together. Dude. Like, pretty, you know, right before Franco passed away. I think it was, like, within that next year. Yeah. He had come because it was some anniversary of the Immaculate Reception.

28:53Uh-huh. And so it was really fun to be down there because you're with all these people dressed up and Raiders stuff. Yes. And they just had such respect for Franco Harris. It was really fun to see how they embraced him. Yes. And, yeah, Phil Villapiano is just an amazing guy. They didn't drop a— Meet Dave Casper through him and just— Dude, yeah. It was, you know, like royalty.

29:17Rich Eisen:They didn't drop a Phil Villapiano on a car, right? No, they did not. This is a regular piano. Thank you for the clarification. There would have to be a stunt Villapiano for something like that. Understood. All right. I've got a list of celebrity true or false aspects about your career. I want to know what's true and what's not. Okay. Okay. And we have, as always, great production value to kick it off. Please hit it. Celebrity true or false. You can't handle the truth. all right that's all that's also a harbinger jack nicholson's voice right there true um celebrity true or false with will forté true or false first up you roomed with val kilmer and the two of you actually considered competing on the america the amazing race together that's true all right what all right let's start from the beginning you and val kilmer are so we were in Gruber together.

30:10He had a place in New Mexico that he had to sell and he was living in a rented place in Malibu and he was going to find a new place in Malibu. So he asked me, would it be okay if he stayed with me for what I thought was a couple of days while he was locking down a new place in Malibu. It ended up being like two and a half, three months and it was a blast. So I would watch Amazing Race every week and he would come in and say, this stuff is going to rot your mind. What are you doing watching this reality crap? And I said, it's pretty good. You should watch it. It's a reality competition. It's not just reality.

30:50It's a reality competition. Exactly. I loved it. So he sat down and by the end of the first time watching it, he's like, oh, this is pretty good. So every Sunday, it was Sunday, right? We would watch it together. And at a certain point, a couple of weeks in, we just looked at each other. We're like, we got to do the amazing race and we called our reps the next day and they were like no way no what are you what are you doing and we're so we kind of just let it go and then when he just sadly passed away recently um i called them all up and i reminded them like oh remember we wanted to do the amazing race and they're like oh man you should have done that you were the people who told us not to

31:33Rich Eisen:what was he like as a roommate Messi it was the coolest experience there was a time I mean we were both kind of Oscars in a way and both kind of Felix's also in a way but I just will always remember there was this one time when we were both doing something at the kitchen table and a Doris song came on and we just started singing a Doors song together. And it just made me remember back when the Doors movie was coming out. Never in a million years would have thought that I'd even get a chance to shake Val Kilmer's hand. And now he's my roommate that I want to move out of my house because I'm so...

32:17It was so fun.

32:18Rich Eisen:That's so great. I love that. He was a magical dude. Second one for you here. Speaking of MacGruber, true or false, you owned the Mazda Miata that he drove in the film. I did. so that was your car i didn't own it we you owned we used it uh-huh and then i i just asked as production was ending oh what are you doing with the car and they said we're just going to sell it and i said how much and they said a thousand bucks so me and john and yorma who made the movie together we we said uh let's do it was a great deal for them because they didn't put in any of the money i bought it but right three of us owned it and it was just like sitting in my garage for i don't know 15 13 years so finally i i sold it for charity okay this wonderful guy mike bought it for like 55 grand oh he let us sell it again the next year for charity the same charity again bought it to keep it for 55 grand again and then we sold it a third time and now somebody else has it um up in canada somewhere so is it any point in time here was it here in southern california that you oh yeah okay so you could be did you drive around like somebody could like be at a red light and turn and there's will forte and the mazda miata from i didn't from mcgruber i didn't drive it because we had to go straight from the set in albuquerque where we shot mcgruber yeah to the whole season in snl so by the time i got back and and the the car was in my garage the battery was dead and the tires were flat and so so it wasn't till we made the mcgruber TV series in 2021 that they came and loaded it onto a flatbed and used it for the TV series too.

34:03Love it. Next up, True or False. But I did then when I was getting it ready to be auctioned off I did drive it down to the place I had to try to get it smogged and stuff like that. And I did smog testing the Miata from MacGruber. Well, because it's not just this Miata it's also like in the tv series we drew a bunch of like nasty sayings on the car so like i'm driving around with pictures of i think there's a picture of a penis on it and you know stuff like that

34:36Rich Eisen:um safe for driving but not safe for work yeah got it all right uh next up let's talk about nebraska true or false you attended a screening party for nebraska thrown by bruce dern's friend Jack Nicholson and Mickey Rooney and Peter Fonda were also there. Is that true? That's true. Dude. That is true. It was. Where was the. I forced Jack Nicholson to take a picture with me. And? I mean, he was very cool about it. He said, yeah, I don't really do pictures because if you want a picture, everybody's going to want a picture. And I said, but you like are throwing this screening for us. And I was just like up there, one of the main guys in the, like, just, I think people will understand.

35:16So I just really quickly snapped a couple. He was really great about it. Yeah? Yeah. And Mickey Rooney was there? Mickey Rooney was there. I got a picture with him. It was nuts. Like this, being in Nebraska was something that just came out of nowhere. Like I never in a million years would have thought I'd get to be a part of a movie like that, especially because I had never done any acting like that. And then to get to work with Bruce was already enough for me. But then he's just friends with all these legends that I just got to be a fly on the wall and watch him interact with them.

35:56Rich Eisen:It was really sweet. Well, the second one, is it true or false? Your car scenes with Bruce Dern in Nebraska lasted so long that Dern said, quote, we found out what bottles are for. Is that true? He's not a stranger to being in a bottle. None of us are. No. We're not judging. I wouldn't say we do it daily, but every once in a while, we are gifted with the ability to do it in a pinch. Right. And I don't overuse it, but I know it's there if I need it. But so did at any point in time you turn to your right, and there's Bruce going number one in a bottle? Did that happen? You know, some things you keep secret.

36:36Rich Eisen:What happens in Nebraska stays there. Exactly. Got it. We had him on the show multiple times. And he's a diehard football fan. He would tell stories about gambling and watching Super Bowls. And then, of course, he was in Black Sunday, you know? No, it was funny because every once in a while, he would make a phone call, and I think he would put some bets in every once in a while. I wouldn't know what he was doing. And he'd just go like, two, four, three, five, six, nine, four, two, one, two, four, five, over, two, six, under, you know, stuff like that. Oh, my God. That makes so much sense. Just a delightful guy.

37:22And, like, the character he plays in Nebraska, very soft-spoken. And then the minute that they cut, he just is the most talkative, wonderful person with these insane stories of legends, like hanging out with Marilyn Monroe and stuff like that. What a wonderful guy. And he taught me so much. I love him.

37:45Rich Eisen:Last one. True or false. You have to take six people out to yogurt twice a year for the rest of your life. False. It's two people. Two people. And I've been very behind. I owe them like$20. What do you mean? Is this a charity event? Great guy, Eric Schmidt. I owe you a bunch of yogurts. Yogurts? And yeah, so this was another MacGruber-related thing. We put out, this was for the Boys and Girls Club. We auctioned off the chance to watch the MacGruber TV series, the first couple episodes, before or anybody else could watch it, me and Ryan Phillippe would host this screening. Yes. So this guy bought it, but we had a bunch of tiers, like special things you could get if it reached a certain level.

38:32And this person reached this level I never thought anybody would reach where I just said, I will take you for yogurt twice a year for the rest of my life. And Forte's living to their 90s. So I really have dropped the ball. And so Eric, just know I'm thinking about you.

38:49Rich Eisen:And I and I know last one for you outside of true or false. That sketch on SNL where you're dancing with Peyton Manning in a locker room. Where the hell did that come from? Was that your idea to write that sketch? This was a combo idea. John Lutz, you know, he's a was on 30 Rock as the writer Lutz. He was also an SNL writer. And so he came to me. We had a little writing date and he had that song that we danced to. And he said, I want to do something with this. And I said, oh, I've always had this idea where a coach motivates his team with some stupid song. So we write this whole sketch. And at the last second, as we're going to turn it in for the table read, he said, why don't you do a dance or something while the song is playing?

39:40We weren't even going to that wasn't even going to be part of the sketch. Yeah. It was just going to be me listening to that for a long time because it was so goofy. And thank God he made that suggestion because that's, I think, my favorite sketch I ever got to be a part of. It's brilliant.

39:57Rich Eisen:And Peyton's so good at it. Well, that's my question is you being pitched to do a silly dance, you're all over it. Peyton Manning being pitched that, did that need to be an arm twist for Peyton? Not at all. He was game for anything. Love it. He was one of my favorite hosts for sure. Well, he's got a great sense of comic timing. And I guess if he's going to throw footballs at kids to make fun of a United Way commercial, he's open for anything. Oh, yeah. That was one of my favorite episodes the whole time I was there. And certainly the favorite sketch that I got to be a part of. And I just love watching everybody try not to break behind you.

40:35Well, it was not a choreographed dance. So there were a lot of things that were hitting them for the first time. Are you serious? Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't know what. I just go out there and kind of see what happens. So I just lucked out that the best version of that dancing happened on the live show. Because it doesn't always happen like that. Usually you do the best version during the dress rehearsal show that nobody sees, and then you chunk it on air. So I just got really lucky that that was the one that came out when it was supposed to. It's brilliant. I mean, Bill Hader is in the background covering his face because he doesn't want to look at you because he will just lose it.

41:15Rich Eisen:He can't handle it. Yeah. That's what I love watching. And then you doing that and then Peyton being into it. He's so good. He almost, I mean, he's so tall that when he lifts up my leg to play it as a guitar, I swear I almost like, it almost ripped my body in two. I just, you know, even then I was just turning 40 and I don't stretch very much. Bless that you are limber and you're talented and you're just awesome. Thank you for coming on. You're awesome. Thanks for having me on. at you will forte everybody check out coyote versus acme this coming friday get your tickets now because everybody's going to want to get in to see this awesome movie bring the kids and so much more will forte right here on the rich eyes and show back to wrap it in a sec

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44:11Rich Eisen:Yeah, we go down. That's an 0-1 start, and then you're out here against the Rams the following Monday night. That's a loss. That's an 0-2 start with a home game against the Titans. That's a win. What happens with the Cardinals next week? Yeah, we beat them up. All right, so now 2-2 at the Commanders. That's a win, Rich. We're back, 3-2, home for the Saints. Yeah, we ain't doing that again. and we'll win that one. That's a four-game win streak into Houston. Going to be a close game, but we're going to get the dub there. Five straight wins now into Philadelphia after a bye, I might add. That's a loss.

44:51Rich Eisen:Five and three home against the Commanders on a Thursday night. Sweep. That's a sweep. You got six and three now home for the Jaguars. That's a win. Seven and three at the Colts. Daniel Jones. Yeah, we're going to beat him up, man. 8-3, home for the Niners. Close game. I think we win that one. 9-3 at the Seahawks. That's a loss. 9-4, home for the Browns. Win. 10-4 at the Lions on a Monday night. That's a loss. 10-5 at the Cowboys. Yeah, sorry, TJ. I got you there. Oh, my gosh. 11-5. Home for the Eagles. Yeah, our ninth home game, we're going to roll them. We got that one. 12-5. Wow. I mean. Chris in Cooperstown.

45:49Rich Eisen:My goodness. Okay. I mean. I guess to use the phrase of your town, that's a grand slam home run. Touching them all. Right on. Thanks for the call, Chris. Giants go 12-5. I mean, John Harbaugh's coach of the year, don't you think? I do think, yes. Certainly start 0-2, finish 12-5. That's like the Bears last year. Right. Pretty much winning the division, maybe. Right. 12-5 win the East? They would be 4-2 in division. He's got them sweeping the commanders and splitting with the Eagles and Cowboys. They might have a tiebreaker. That might be tight. Yeah. Giants go 12-5. It would be pretty surprising.

46:33Rich Eisen:A massive turnaround. Listen, you were asking me yesterday, who's got the chance to have a Patriots-type turnaround? Right. Nobody sees him coming. Right. You know, second-year quarterback is a starter. Sure. Taken off. New coach. New coach. Who's done it before and been a coach of the year. I imagine, I think John's been a coach of the year before. Right. I choose the Giants for that. I don't know if it's going to happen, but 12-5 would be it. That wraps up this show. Well, Adam Ray's on. All right. As himself, by the way. Oh, okay. Back to wrapping on Disney+. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eisen Show podcast.

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