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24:57Rich Eisen:Yeah, yes, absolutely. No existed second breakfast a fistula surgery. He and I just we really he and I were very in sync Did you just start to you imagine yourself starring next to Shelley Winters in some sort of a movie? Yes, absolutely. I mean another family that won't talk to me the Winters and the Grangers The winters have iced me out, if you will. That is great. The winters iced you out, huh? The winters. No, it was cool watching the original movies because I was like, oh, man, George Kennedy does quietly support Leslie very well. Like, there's something he's doing. He's not doing much, but what he is doing is very cognizant and appropriate, if that makes sense.

25:38For sure.

25:39Rich Eisen:I've got Paul Walter Hauser here on the Rich Eisen Show. The Naked Gun, we had Danny Houston here yesterday. Oh, I love Danny. I mean, and I was telling him he was the Ricardo Montalban of this film. You know what I mean? Yes, very much so. He nails it. That Cheshire smile. You know what's great is I love when comedy is done really well by people who are a little less suspecting. You know, if you look at his filmography, you don't necessarily assume that he would nail that. But like, it's so fun to see him playing it straight. and every time he says pamela anderson's you know fake incognito name right with such like regularity and comfort it's like it makes you giggle it is it is laugh out loud funny and the original naked gun i mean the way it ends also um there there's some conversation that you could include the naked gun the original as a sports movie because of the way it ends yes in dodger stadium although it's not technically dodger stadium right it's i think the angels were the home team on that day is that what the wheelchair gag well that's oj going out the at the top but reggie jackson trying to assassinate the queen the manchurian right and it's a whole it's a whole send-up on baseball from start to finish oh that's good you know where he's he's enrico palazzo the umpire who also was the the guy who sang the national anthem and that last half hour is just like on a baseball diamond oh i love it in that movie yeah it's uh it's it's a very atmospheric film in that way yeah for sure uh and so again uh everybody check it out friday august 1st please do yes please please do my friend i know you are uh what what sports do you enjoy basketball you're a fan of the hoops are you or no i'm one of those occasional watcher casual watchers where like i I adore watching Major League Baseball.

27:29I adore watching NBA. Okay. Especially live. Like, I will just...

27:33Rich Eisen:Go to games. Yeah, and I'm not one of those, like, public figures who can just get free tickets all the time. I will go on SeatGeek or GameTime or something and go spend my$500 in random seats and go watch a game. And I very much... I just have something romantic where when I was a kid, going to the ballpark was such an experience. Where'd you grow up? I grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. So we go to some Tiger games and, of course, some Brewers games where a lot of my dad's family is from Milwaukee. And then – but being at Wrigley Field or being – I was courtside once at MSG for a Knicks game, and it's like there's something so – I don't know.

28:12It just gets in your DNA a little bit.

28:14Rich Eisen:It's jarring, though, man, because you're watching more than just the game when you're sitting in those seats. You know what I mean? You're just watching everything around you. Like your head's on a swivel. Yeah, it was definitely like the lame thing of, like, in LA like you go to the soul house and everyone's talking to you but looking around like who else is here it's so pathetic it's like a very San Vicente bungalow vibe but um but uh but having said that it was fun looking down and it's like McEnroe John C McGinley Michael Che and to my left it's like Spike Lee's looking at me like on a timeout he had the basketball yeah he rolled over and he goes Paul I look over and he goes and just rolls it to me like he rolled you the basketball But he did it like, I know that this is cool for you.

28:56He knew I was nerding out.

28:58Rich Eisen:It was cute. Well, he's Spike Lee. He's rolled the basketballs out quite a bit. Yeah, he's like, I've done this 1 ,800 times. You can do it, kid. Well, obviously, and you were in Black Klansman of his film. Black Klansman and Defy Bloods. Yeah, I got to work with him twice, and it was a dream. It was so dreamy. Yeah? What's it like being directed by Spike Lee? I just didn't know how generous he would be. Some of these guys and gals, you just assume they're so prolific prolific and brilliant that maybe you kind of have to be on a leash when you're around them yes but uh quite the opposite uh spike and clint eastwood and craig gillespie and doug lyman all these cool directors i've worked with even scott cooper i just did the springsteen movie with all these guys like they let you improvise and play and ask questions and you don't feel like you're on that leash please tell me more about this springsteen movie oh dude jeremy allen white is springsteen so for reference So I grew up a Billy Joel guy.

29:52That was like what was in my house.

29:53Rich Eisen:Have you seen the new doc yet? Not yet. I'm very much. By the way, by the way, you got to spend, you got to plan a night. It's the first parts, two hours and 27. I wouldn't have it any other way. I love long ass documentary stuff. This one's good for you then. Like Bogdanovich did that Tom Petty doc. It was like 17 hours. I was like, thank God. I, but Billy Joel was like my thing growing up. And then in my like late twenties, I just happened upon Bruce outside of his like number one hits and listen to front to back his albums and i was like oh i feel like i get these more now that i'm older i appreciate them more now right so jeremy allen white plays bruce bruce is a producer and was very involved in like a welcome fashion not like the guy looking over everybody's you know you feel like their presence is a shadow it was more like his presence was so additive and he was so accessible to everybody and i play mike batlin one of uh one of bruce's guitar techs who became his like short time uh you know uh engineer on the nebraska album so you got to meet bruce you got to like hang out with him oh come on there are moments where i'm like sitting for 20 minutes talking to him and warren the guy who wrote the book yeah just talking about artistry and faith and family and like oh what's crazy is i i moved into oh what is the address if you guys can look it up i think it's what was springsteen's address in laurel canyon i lived did his old house without knowing it what so my so my wife and i we got divorced and then i got sober and went into therapy and we got remarried i didn't know how selfish and stupid i was and i i picked up the pieces we got remarried and in the remarriage as we moved back to la i was like i really can't screw this up i gotta like prove to this woman i know what i'm doing now so i found the nicest house I could in my vaguely in my price range, but not.

31:46And it was, um, it was at this fair, what was it? Fair home drive. Yeah.

31:52Rich Eisen:Yeah. Seven, nine, six, five fair home, nine, 65 fair home drive. I lived there for six months. And in my first week of being there, my brother-in-law, Joe Shaver, he hits me up and he's like, you know, that Springsteen owned that home for like 25 years, right? I was like, what? And then we find out all this history about the place and um you didn't leave anything behind bruce didn't you didn't you didn't like discover maybe some ghosts man because i'm not even being funny where the the speaker system in the home yeah randomly played born in the usa and none of us had it on our spotify or apple music come on not kidding come on not kidding and then we smelled burning at one point and we were like what is that weird smell and we look up the house and we find out a woman uh there was a house fire there in the early 20th century where like some young starlet was being put up by some like rich guy and she had a cigarette lit and died she was pregnant and she died in the home so gnarly weird stuff going down but the the happy stuff is that we had our we conceived our second child in bruce's old bedroom so when i met bruce i said i used to live in your old house he goes i heard what and i was like i conceived a child in your old bedroom he goes so live i'm like we're locational eskimo brothers and we hugged it out it was insane it was the funniest like first conversation to have with an icon we have a new fantasy team name write it down location eskimo brothers the fact that you're able to call him a locational eskimo brother that's got to be like a bucket list you check that off baby the left elevator at sunset tower you me too yeah no uh no we we had such a fun time he would sit behind the monitor eating fun-sized candy bars and just telling stories to whoever listened telling old stories and and being very generous with his time.

33:51I'm a fan of alternative comedy. I love Monty Python, Tim Robinson, all these idiotic things. And so I would go up to him and just mess with him all the time. I'd walk up and go like, so Bruce, sir, and he could just tell by how I was acting as I walked up. He's like, Paul's doing a bit. I'd walk up and go, so listen, we're going to do a bit, a scene where we've added you to the hallway. So as Jeremy's walking in the hallway, he bumps into you and he goes, excuse me, sorry, sir. And you're going to turn to him, sunglasses is on you go you look familiar kid and he's gonna look at you and say yeah you look kind of familiar too and then you're gonna go enjoy the ride and then you're gonna mimic a steering column steering wheel and you're gonna drive away from him down the hall and people are around him just dying

34:34Rich Eisen:laughing yeah yeah he's like okay but no he's playing back he's doing the bit where he's like i can do that yeah i love that that's great dude you're doing bits with bruce yeah it was fun you're conceiving in the same room he's conceived it was silly but like this is the dreamy stupid stuff we get to do like i'm working with liam neeson on naked gun doing bits doing bits of springsteen and working with the brilliant jeremy allen white and scott cooper uh just did fantastic four and got to live in that marvel world for a minute congratulations on that we'd say were you on the the uh at the premiere last night for that i was yeah yeah it was very overwhelming there were like a billion people there i was like i mean this is a fantastic four yeah it was not it was not so it's gnarly and then this new movie i've come and i have to make mention mention of is um it's called americana lions gates putting it out august 15th and it's myself and sydney sweeney simon rex eric dane and halsey and and zon mcclernand and it is quite literally it might be like my favorite film i've ever made no kidding or been a part of which is saying a lot i love richard jewell i love it some great movies man dude it is this new guy tony toast he's been around for a minute but nobody knows him as much and uh this is his directorial debut and he wrote the script and it's like a modern day western vibe where it kind of has cohen brother humor with tarantino violence it's crazy uh and it opens uh nationwide august 15th um and a great cast i just every name you mentioned uh got uh lost after you said sydney sweeney i'm sorry that's okay i'm also straight you know yeah all right i'm a committed married man but also i'm not blind me too i mean i got best dad ever here you have three you have three kids now i've got three kids oh god honestly like you you mentioned the cast and after saying sydney sweeney the you sounded like charlie brown's teacher just all the things it's all yeah it's all it's all gone yeah it's all no she um you know she doesn't get enough credit though i think this new movie she plays a boxer in this movie that's going to be at tiff toronto film festival and um i think this role is really going to turn some heads uh kind of the way like i tanya made margo go from just like got it beautiful woman to like starlet who's knocking you out with her performance but um but sydney in this movie we we uh have a lot of scenes together and a car broke down at one point while we were driving this old corvette or something and she like knew how to drive a stick and knew how to fix the car it It was like the engine was flooded and she's like, grabs the walkie.

37:03She's like, I got it. We're good. I don't need help. And then like did a bunch of stuff and got the car going again and backed out of a ditch. And I'm like, this woman is so capable. It's scary.

37:13Rich Eisen:She's really talented. There are people listening to us right now on our Infinity Sports Network on the Rich Eisen Show Radio Network who are purposely breaking their cars down to the side of the road, thinking that this could happen for them. To all men, women, and studio executives who are waiting for her to stop and help. Guys, she's busy. She's busy. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. The dance card's full.

37:42Rich Eisen:Fantastic. I was going to... I'm not going to say what I'm going to say. There's a lot of jokes I'm not making. I want Rich to like me still. No, no, no. No, no. I've got a lot of jokes in my head right now. Last night on the red carpet for Fantastic Four, I made like two Trump references, and my poor PR team, they're just like, oh, God, please just, no. Just get off. No, the tech companies love him. It's how they survive. It's be nice. It's now called the Fantastic Three. I wonder why. It's called the Fantastic Four, and no mole, man. I don't know why they put that in parentheticals. Dude, you're killing it right now.

38:17Rich Eisen:Fantastic Four. It's crazy. God is good. Naked Gun, Americana. Oh, Luckiest Man in America. That's a movie I did with Walt Goggins and David Strathairn. It's on streaming, and I think Delta's got them on all their flights. I've been seeing a bunch of friends are sending me snapshots of little headrests with my scary face on them. First of all, two amazing actors. You called him Dave, right? Other people know him as David, right? I know him as D-Straith. D-Straith? Only when we're doing pills. Me and D-Straith. eight men out is one of my favorite baseball movies that's a very much he's in that he plays eddie seacott in that film yeah um unfortunate name walt and walt walton goggins uh he he was on the show a few years ago he's like one of the most interesting men in the world that guy man well you know what i think he's a passionate man he's like masculine but he's got this like airy airy sweet poetic thing going he's like he's like uh he's like a feather floating to the earth that can also poke your eye out you know there's something special about him vivid imagery all over the place uh so um the naked gun available in theaters nationwide friday august 1st fantastic four available in theaters this friday americana will be in theaters nationwide starring um on August 15th starring you and Sidney Sweeney and some other people.

39:44Rich Eisen:I don't know why you said it was such a there was a veneer of disdain. Do you have something against Simon Rex? Do you not like Scary Movie 4? I heard Eric Dane in there. I heard that. Eric Dane. The wonderful Eric Dane. The wonderful Eric Dane. Crazy anatomy euphoria. That guy is... My fantasy football league. That's it. He's amazing. Dude, let's do this more often. Thanks for coming back. Can you plug wrestling for two seconds? Please, go for it. I'm working with this. You've been doing it on the pods. That wasn't enough. The hour I had with him wasn't enough. No, I had a blast with O'Shane TJ.

40:13That was fun. But I work with this company called Major League Wrestling, MLW. And I went from being on the roster to now being an executive producer. And so I hope people check us out. They have a YouTube page where the majority of their content, they're just putting pay-per-views up for free. So you can watch and get familiar with that and watch me get a hematoma on my butt cheek when I do an elbow drop off a seven-foot ladder on the concrete. Well, there it is. Oh, that's Southern Honor. That's a match I have August 8th in Georgia.

40:42Rich Eisen:Look at you versus Zicky Dice. Zicky Dice. And then August 25th, I'll be in London at the Electric Ballroom, a very storied venue for wrestling, and I'll be putting my Proteus title on the line. And shout-out to QT Marshall of AEW and ROH. I still want to kick your ass. Okay. Let's set it up. I like it. You know, we have a, what would we call this a wrestling artifact, TJ, that we have? Yeah. Right over on my bust. Hulk Hogan's over there? No. Nice. That's the neck brace that was worn by Tony Khan. During the draft? During the draft. What did he, he was a recipient of what, TJ? The Young Bucks, as you know, they hit him with a vicious TK driver.

41:30Rich Eisen:Yeah, the TK driver. They almost killed Tony Khan. Formerly the Meltzer driver, yeah. Yeah, yeah. they darn near broke his neck it was more of a precautionary neck brace i was just concerned that the jaguars would not draft at all because of what was going on with tony and the fact that he was braving the draft with a neck brace on he well it's commitment he um he brought it here he autographed it um and he donated it to our studio and then donated a hundred thousand dollars to st you children's research hospital on top of it with that wonderful he's a yeah and he just dropped the same amount uh you know last time he was here too what a man she is exactly that i um i uh i love when people are uh generous to uh to whom much is given much is uh expected brother thanks for coming here yeah wonderful to see let's do this more often you come i wish i would love to please anytime you want maybe i'll uh come crash when one of my cast members is doing it don't tell him well one thing is uh you definitely know your way here i do you know twice in 24 hours It's unbelievable.

42:30Rich Eisen:This man is committed. There he is. He's got a home on Monday. With O'Shea Jackson and TJ. Paul Walter Hauser. Check out the naked gun.

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43:47Rich Eisen:You see stuff that's on the walls here when you walk in. There's a Goodfellas poster that I've had forever. Really? Yes. Where'd you get it? I got it at a charity auction. Huh. And it's on the wall, and you signed it. You signed it. Rafi! What do you mean? It's not a... Off! Okay, our stage manager coming. You've taken it off the wall. Yeah, it's not my signature. What do you mean it's not your signature? This is not my signature, buddy. Down there? You got ripped off. No, I did not. Yeah, I don't do a Foo-Foo L like that, and I don't cross it. So that is not your signature. It's signed by you, De Niro, and Pesci, and I spent at least four figures on this thing.

44:27Rich Eisen:Get out of here. Yes. You're a sucker.

44:33Rich Eisen:No, that's... No, you're being serious. That is definitely not your signature. Yeah, I'm... Scorsese, it says Scorsese signed it down there too. Look at that underneath. That's his. That is? I'm not sure that Bob's. I can only remember signing really like five. That was complete. And there was never like one of those signings where you all lay there. I mean, I could sign it for real. Yeah. At least I could double it. Do what you wish. Do you know if that's Pesci's? Do you know if that's Joe's? No, that's him. No, I know that's him. I know, I know. Do you know if that's his signature? I don't know Joe's signature.

45:14Rich Eisen:Okay. Rich, you show that to every guest that walks in here. Yeah. This is hanging. So every guest that walks in here, This is one of the first things that they see in the hallway. You sure? We'll take care of it later. Rafi. Yeah. What do you got? He's got an axe. Are you serious? Do you want the real? Yeah, sure. But, you know, I mean. It's going to hurt the, hurt the. Okay. Oh, no, it doesn't. Oh, that's me. Oh, my God. I gave myself a heart attack. We'll do it later. Okay. That's not me. Yeah, you just banged yourself. You just cracked the glass. So we can take it out. Smash the glass. I mean, you got that at this point.

45:52Rich Eisen:It's not glass, though. It's not really glass. It's like a plexi. But we'll do it. We'll fix it. Okay. But you got ripped off. Wow. Oh, my gosh. How are you feeling now, Rich? I'll keep telling this. He's holding on to the axe. All right, so ask me a question.

46:09Rich Eisen:Oh, my gosh. Okay, you put the axe down. This is fantastic. I'm sort of, I don't even know where to go with this because that has been one of my most prized possessions for some time, and you are the real McCoy thing that is not your signature. Yeah, no, it's not. I'm thinking, oh my gosh, I really hurt my head there. It's cracked. Of all the places for you to smash it, it was directly in the forehead of you and the movie poster right there. But it's all good because we're going to take that thing apart if that's not your signature. I need your actual John Hancock on that. It's over 10 years ago, guys.

46:38Rich Eisen:That's a 10-year-old clip. Wow. That's before we were using radio mics for a radio television show. I held out on that one for a while. I don't miss those lobs. You don't? I bet not, right? No. Those are a pain in the ass. Two on your tie or lapel every day. One for radio, one for needed as a backup. It was just a backup in case something happened. Right. Not fun, though. Yeah, the DirecTV people were after me. You got to do radio mics. I finally relented. It worked out. It did. You know? Is there an update? Didn't we send the picture to De Niro? Yeah, we haven't gotten back yet. And I can't call up, hey, Bobby, where's my thing?

47:19Rich Eisen:Yeah, hey, WTF. May I call you Bobby? You mind if I call you Bobby? Bob? Hey, Bob, where's my friggin' poster? I can't do that. In the two minutes we have left here, I guess Dan spoke about us saying that Fritz repeated an answer, didn't get the immediate ex like the family feud people said would actually happen with an ex he got another bite at the apple got an answer right they wound up going to the fast money is anything wrong with what i just said is or is it infactual of what i just said it was the one before it was it was game three yada yada yada all right this is what dan had to say go for it humiliated and they're trying to save face by saying that fritzy got a little bit of help this is not cheating we didn't purposely do something that's true that maybe if somebody made a mistake how do we know you had the answer you guys didn't have any answers the entire show and now you're coming up with an answer damn damn light them up hey you've you've accused us of cheating yes that's right no we didn't we didn't cheat no we did we did you know what we were told to do and uh steve said go again fritzy went again and got the answer but i can't count on those guys to say that they had the right answer.

48:40Rich Eisen:They had some stupid answers. But there's no rematch here. My wife was a great answer. They're trying to save face. Seems like we touched a nerve. Yeah, a little bit. We had that answer. We did have that answer. You said, all right, I'll say that. And then he said it. Then he said it. Then we had to go back to the drawing board. Right. Hey, it's one of those things, too, is that if you're awarded first base for a hit-by-pitch and the pitch didn't hit you, you take first. You're not going to say we didn't. Right. Exactly. I understand that. Yeah. Yeah. I think we're all being honest and truthful.

49:15Rich Eisen:That's all. I think we are being truthful. Yes. Yeah. We are honest actors in this. Yeah. I mean, ask anyone. I told everyone we got lumped. We got Justin. I mean, I played great. I played great. We look good doing it. That's a good picture. Have no fear. Chosen Foods is here to defend your favorite foods from the forces of seedy oils and sketchy ingredients. With cooking oils, salad dressings, and mayo, all powered by the good fats from 100 % pure avocado oil and simple, delicious ingredients. Chosen Foods.