Paul Walter Hauser
Appearances
Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast
Paul Walter Hauser!
I don't know. He's not only a notable alum. Yeah. He's the only notable alum.
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It's not, you know. It's understood. It's not discussed. Mind your business. Mind your business is a key part of living in a black life. Mind your business will keep you alive a long time. Wow, I wish white people did that. Right?
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Yeah, dude, mind your business.
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Terry Crews, what up? Clear. Kyle Kuzma. Los Angeles Laker, Kyle Kuzma.
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Yeah. Oh yeah.
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You're grabbing a dick. What are you, pee with your hands on the wall?
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Super cool, dude.
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Don't yuck my yum, dude. Don't yuck my yum. Yeah, and so like, the way that I look at it is, What I do, I get redos. I get takes. It's not going to be in the movie until it's perfect. They have to do what I do in front of a live crowd every week and add to the character every week. Yeah. Or they're done. It's Broadway with violence.
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And if you don't think that's cool, I don't know what to tell you, man. Oh, buddy.
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100%, yeah. Really? Not the biggest Hulk Hogan fan.
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That's all you, my dog.
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He's fine. He don't need me at all. Dude is straight. He hasn't had me his whole life. He don't need me right now. I very much appreciate it. Okay, okay, okay. Wait, who's your guy? Who's your guy? All right, so obviously The Rock has always been my favorite guy. You know, The Rock taught me as a kid to always have something to say, never let them back you into a corner when it comes to words.
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But now in my adult life... You about that dog.
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My tribal chief, bro. Really? My tribal chief, bro. Roman Reigns. Just because of how box office he is. Knowing his story and everything that he had to go through to continue to wrestle as well because he had to deal with... Leukemia. Leukemia. And the dude bounced back not once, but twice.
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And so, you know, the dude and the way that he uplifts his family, brought his family into it, put them on a pedestal to where now we're getting, you know, Jey Uso and Ed Mania going for the title.
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We won't look at you, Dale. Do you cook? Hell yeah. The pandemic is really where I started to cook. You know, we're all just at home. Yeah. And I was watching Gordon Ramsay like every day. I had never seen Hell's Kitchen.
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So I watched Hell's Kitchen like every season. No, chops is the shit.
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Done. But so I was watching Hill's Kitchen, and I started to get pissed at the people on the show. I'm like, I can do that. Like, dude, what the fuck is wrong with me? So then I bought everything I saw on that fucking show. Any food processor, fucking cast irons, everything that I could fucking get. And then from there, like, bro, I fell in love with cooking.
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And now, like, when I get down, I get down.
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I would say my signature is probably pan-seared rainbow trout. But my favorite fish is- Pan-seared? I didn't see that coming.
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Pan-seared rainbow trout, bro. Every white woman just went, interesting. Yeah, my honey roasted carrots, fire. Oh, I love Honey Rub Security. Fire, dude. But my favorite fish, though, Chilean sea bass. Oh, no. The fucking best goddamn fish out there. Ever. The Patagonian toothfish, if you're nasty.
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And I love a branzino. Yeah, branzino. Of course, bro. Branzino, though, if you want to use the oven and be all fancy, put all your shit in the filet and all that.
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With my fish, though, like, whenever I'm cooking fish, I'm going light, so I'll make myself, like, something simple like a Capri salad or something like that. Okay. I don't hate that. You're gonna love this salad.
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Honestly, dude, you know, and black people will understand this. Growing up in a black house, I didn't really start venturing out with food until I started taking Hollywood meetings.
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I'm not doing that shit. Like, you know, like, my mom's specialties are my mom's specialties. That's what I'm eating. And so, like, when my, like, we're out for whatever family event, and, like, we're all at a restaurant, and they're like, Shay's about to get this fancy shit. And I'm like, yeah, man, because it tastes good. You know, so, like, also, we got to stop eating steak. Well done, guys.
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Who are we talking to? Everyone?
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Who eats steak well done?
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A lot of people in the black community will eat a steak well done, and I just can't do the hockey puns no more, dude.
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Oh, no. I got it. I got it.
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No, I'm cool. I'm a medium, man. That took a lot to get there, bro. Really? That took generations.
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Because you're just bloody as hell.
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My whole life, my dad taught me, well done. Whenever you order your meat, well done, well done. Make sure it's cooked through. And then, like, I started, you know, during the pandemic especially, and going out to these meetings and, you know, seeing other people eat. Shout out to Seth Rogen.
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Seth Rogen was one of the first people that, you know, going out to eat with him and, like, trying different things.
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I forget what hotel we were at, but he was like, yo, let's get something to eat downstairs. I was like, all right. And then... I was like, were you like charging to the room? And he was like, of course, dude. What the fuck? The studio's paying for this. And I was like, hell yeah. So that's how I learned that trick. And then from there on. That's what the studio loves to hear.
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That's how I learned that trick. That's how I learned that trick, bro. Yeah, the studio's paying for it. They don't even look at their Um, but yeah, just, um, I can't, I can't even remember what the meal was, but it was some shit that I wouldn't normally eat. You know, that's like carpaccio and like things like that.
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And also, I found out that some chefs take offense when you ask for it well done.
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Insane. I mean, obviously, my first one would be Dub C. Dub C is his partner in crime. I've known Dub forever. Snoop is everybody's uncle. Snoop's my daughter's uncle. Yeah, my daughter's uncle. Snoop's everybody's uncle. But my favorite is my auntie Queen Latifah. Every time I see Queen Latifah, I get so happy to see Queen Latifah. The equalizer. She is. Yeah, Queen Latifah, bro.
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It's that you went to the trouble of going to one. This is the weirdest co-sign for Indian food I've ever heard. I don't know if they like this.
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It's a medical emergency, all right?
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I'm going to have a number five at the White House. My ex used to get on me because I don't give a fuck about going on a plane. I'm never seeing these people again. Are you kidding me? Bro, I'm about to lift it up.
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Bro, I get in there and kick my shoes off. Fine. All right?
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Kick your shoes off. I get comfortable, dude. I'm fucking lactose intolerant. When I get home, I'm going to have to put a seatbelt on the toilet. All right? It's going to be real aggressive. You have to go to the bathroom. Go to the bathroom.
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She's just always so nice. And just, like, the history of everything that she did music-wise and then going into acting, she's just a beast. She paved the way for a lot of people, too.
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I got to tell you guys about my first and only time at a strip club.
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Straight out of Compton. It's probably two, maybe three months away from coming out. And I'm with my boys, Chris and Roman. We're like, you know, let's just do it. We, at this point, yeah, never did a Vegas trip. Let's just hit Vegas before it gets to the point where it's gonna be hard for me to just do a Vegas trip with you guys. So we go to Vegas and I have a rule when I go to Vegas.
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And this like determines the whole trip. It's probably not a smart rule, but like. No condoms? No, no.
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So as soon as we hit Vegas, first thing I do is I go to roulette immediately. Okay. I put half the money I brought on black.
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They did that in Entourage. Yeah. Half the money I have on black. And if this shit hits, I just go upstairs. I can't, like, don't stay there, bro. Just go. You're up. You're up. You won for the weekend. You won for the weekend. Yeah, exactly. And if it doesn't, that really, like, the budget is full. And we understand. We got a lot of work to do this weekend. So, so.
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I go, we hit, everything's good. Go upstairs, life is great. Yeah, yeah, we're, you know, we're going to dinners and, you know, they're playing blackjack and shit like that. Life is good. And then they're like, yo, have you ever been to a strip club? I'm like, no. They're like, this is probably your only time that you can go to a strip club. Like, and it not be like a big thing.
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Like, you can be incognito. Just so you know, you can get by. Yeah, I'm like, what's up? Keep going, keep going. I'm like, all right, you know, whatever. Where do we go? So we're looking, I'm saying, we go to the fucking Spearmint Rhino, okay?
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Well, we're going to the Spearman Rhino. Now, I'm only dressed for, you know, gambling. Yeah. I didn't bring strip club attire. So hold on. Define strip club attire. Not sweats. Motherfucker hitting that bitch with gray sweats on. You were? Yeah. The dude at the door goes, uh... Keep going, keep going. I wore my nice necklaces. So he's like, this motherfucker gotta have some money.
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All right, man, come on, you're good. So we go in there and it's packed in that bitch. And we walking around the stage and we looking and there's like no place to sit. So we're doing this weird, like constantly like looking for a place to sit. We do like three loops of this place. Yeah.
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finally get a place to sit so we're in there we're talking and you know we're looking for girls yeah yeah uh this one girl starts talking to my friend roman her heel gets caught in the carpet she falls in my lap this is like a veteran move she did great because obviously now i'm a paying customer so i'm getting a dance and then she smells like butter chicken
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So then I keep seeing on my peripheral these two dudes that are doing the fucking creepy guy loop that we were just doing, right? So we got two chairs in our spot. We know the struggle that these guys just went through. So I'm like, you know, it's whatever. Tell them they can sit over there. They do their thing. We do our thing. These two dudes sit. Big, big white dude named Bob.
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Shout out to Bob, you fucking monster. So Bob and his friend are there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On my peripheral, I see my friend Chris get up with a girl, disappears. Like, don't know where he is. I'm like, I got the girl. I'm looking at Roman. Chris. He's like, I don't know, dude. So I was like, all right.
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Now I'm in full defense mode because, like, black people don't really like going out because naturally we're just defensive about everything. Everything is sketch. We think everybody's getting kidnapped.
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I get it. I don't get it, but I get it. When something goes different, it's fucked up immediately, all right? So I'm like, all right, find Chris, dude. Find Chris. So then my girl goes, do you want to go to the VIP section? And I'm thinking, like, this is a ruse. I'm down. Like, let's go. You know, so we go upstairs to the VIP room, right? And in the corner of the room is fucking Chris.
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I'm like, you fucking dick. Like, give us a heads up. I was worried. So I sit, you know, sit on a chair, you know, talk to the girl, whatever the dancing keeps going on. Yeah. Then, in the room, the big dude, Bob, comes in, all right? He's got this pretty black girl with him. And I was thinking, all right, Bob.
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Doji's a beast.
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Yeah, you down for this one. All right, see you, bro. So then, this motherfucker sits, like, pretty much where that pan is. And I'm like, I'm in my zone. You shouldn't be over here. He fucking tells this girl, trying to, like, be joking and shit, like, yo, if I see this fucker Shay one more time, just, like, just being funny, right?
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And then so, you know, we laugh or whatever, do a point, and then I'll go back to minding my business. Then all of a sudden I see a flash of yellow and orange. This motherfucker Bob took matches that were in there and set the trash can on fire in the fucking VIP room. So now it's a commotion. Girls are getting up and leaving. Security comes in.
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Because he said my name, they think I'm with him and we all got kicked out. That was the last time I ever been in a strip club.
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The security comes up, kicks us out because he told that girl, if I see this fucker shake one more time and saw us do the point. I don't know him.
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Yeah. Fuck yes. Oh, it got greenlit? I don't know yet. I just know that Lionsgate posted it. Lionsgate posted it. That's a good sign. Fuck yes. That's a good sign. I watched that and I watched ATL.
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Yeah, I can't help it. Really? It's like, yeah, like, I got my little shit that I'll hit while I'm on set because... I can't smoke and be on camera. It kills me, because all I'm doing is looking in my eyes the entire time, like, look at you, fucking high. Like, you fucking monster. I'm so sorry to anybody who doesn't know this. So we were doing straight out of our company.
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I was super on edge, super just wanting to do great, yada, yada. And then after a while, we got our feet wet, right? Like, you know, I'm comfortable.
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Big boy, underrated villain. Underrated villain.
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I smoked one time and it's in the trailer and every time I look in my eyes I'm like you fucking idiot yeah like you fucking you dumbass but like nobody knows and I've gotten a lot of compliments on that scene but like in me I'm like never again never again so I can't do it but it's fucking boring on a movie set dude
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I get it. Really? I'm just playing, I'm just playing. Oh my God. I get it, huh? It's like a little kid who used to rap. Lil Romeo.
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No, no. Whenever, like, I forget what year it was, but one year. You're so wrong. What do you mean? Natural Born Killers? I'll give you a story about Natural Born Killers. Not even the top 12. Yeah, I know. My favorite song, not America's. My favorite song with my dad is Natural Born Killers. Like, I love that song. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
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It's called cultural appropriation now. That's hard. I gotta tell you, bro, I need you to be focused tomorrow, okay? You got a big fucking game tomorrow. I do? Yeah, dude. You got therapy tomorrow. I need you to win that shit, bro. Thursday therapy, bro. I need you to bring this fucking W home, bro. I need you to fucking lock in, dude. Bring this shit home. I saw you on Twitter.
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Did you want to do this as a kid? No, no, no, no. I wasn't going to play for the Lakers until I was about 17, Bert. A lot of us had that realization. That's when I realized. I was like, you know what? This isn't going to work for me. Wait, wait. Did you have serious moments where you were like, this is it. I played basketball my whole life. Did you have access to get you anywhere? Yeah, I know.
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Yeah, bro. I need you to lock in. I got you. All right. Thank you, bro.
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Detroit Red Wings jersey, red bandana.
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Hey, that's the trick. I started watching The Sopranos. His therapist would be drinking all the time.
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You don't be asking me if I drink a lot. That's a little invasive. Yeah. What are you, a therapist?
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I had no, like, no, what do you want to be when you grow up? A Laker. 100%, you know? Some kids want to be a dinosaur.
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But, like, you... Have you been on Law & Order? No. Or CSI? No. Thank goodness.
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There's a band of actors that have all been on that, and I just missed that boat.
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It didn't hit the same. But then, I mean, that was the first thing I did. Like, I couldn't ask for, you know, a better opportunity. You know, playing my dad, it means everything. You know, like, there's a big... thing when it comes to second generation people where the people on the outside try to make you feel bad for having cool parents that help you.
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And, you know, I had a, when I was 17, I was in homeschool from 7th grade to 11th grade. Really? And I had a teacher one day. I was a big daydreamer, dude. Like, you know, school was boring as shit. Totally. So, you know, I had a teacher put a notebook in front of me, shout out to Hernan. And he said, listen, bro, you're not here right now.
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They try to get in your head and tell you things like you're living in a shadow or that you got this mountain to climb. And that shit is an illusion. That is an outside person's perspective.
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It's nothing but the name. How far, like, I look at it like a physical thing. Like, the Jackson name is a physical thing. My dad has pushed it this far. And it is up to me to push it further, whether that be this much or this much. It's just about pushing the name further down the road. And, like, dude, I love my dad, dude. I love my dad. Yeah, like, they make shirts with your dad.
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You rock shirts with your dad. It's your dad. Yo, let's make my dad's shirts.
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I've been trying to do just shit where the little kid version of me would be like, no fucking way. That's the compass. When I got the role for Godzilla, I just thought of all the times as a little kid I watched Godzilla, and little did I know I could go back and tell that dude, dude, we're going to fucking be in Godzilla, dude.
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All the times I watched Star Wars, and I'm sitting with fucking Ewan McGregor,
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And I just think about those times. And even now, I started a podcast with my buddy T.J. Jefferson.
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TJ did, too. Yo, I'm so sorry, TJ. So we had just got done smoking. So then, like, we got to do the pot. And so we're doing the pot. And my best friend, Roman, he hit me. And in the middle of talking, I see, dude, what the fuck? And I'm like, oh, no. And he said, we got Luca. And so that's why I turned my head. I said, yeah, that says Luca.
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And so I turned and like, yeah, TJ thought something happened to somebody. He was like, oh, fuck. And he's trying to keep cool. If you look at him, he's like, I don't know. He's looking at something. And like, he's nervous as shit. Our producer, Don Bowie, is on his couch in the hotel. TJ has headphones on. So Don is like... And so it all unraveled right then and there. But no contest wrestling.
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When we started that, we're not even 30 episodes in, and we've been taken care of so much by WWE giving us people. I've gotten to meet a lot of great people, went to the Queen of the Ring premiere, hung out with a bunch of the AEW guys. It's just weird, you know? And the more that I do things that make little kid Shay happy, I'll be happy at the end of the day.
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So whatever's in your head, just write it down and then promise me you'll come back to me. I was like, all right. So I just started writing. And then that led to a story for me. And he would give me 30 minutes in class every day to finish my story. Next thing I know, I have 120 page handwritten story in this notebook.
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Love you too, man. Funny as shit. Absolutely. Are we getting tattoos?
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And he reads it every day, and he's like, have you ever thought about writing scripts? I'm like, no. He's like, it's literally what your dad does. You've never thought about it at all? I'm like, no. So then he hooked me up with Bill Rubenstein, who taught me how to break a story into script form. From there, the goal then became to be a writer, go to USC, went to SC.
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And in the middle, I was being a screenwriter. And obviously, kids want to write movies and shows. I wanted to write scripts for video games. Oh, that's cool as shit. In my mind, I was like, I can make you pay $16 a ticket or I can make you pay $60 a game.
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So I was like, I'm going to write for video games. Holy shit.
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That's what I wanted to do. And then in the middle of my second year, dude, I'm at the house, and, you know, my dad comes down and goes, you know, they're taking this NWA movie serious. And I'm like, oh, man, that's good, Dad. I'm happy for you. He's like, no, no, no. In a perfect world, I would want you to play me. And so I'm like...
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okay yeah well can i ask what your what was your initial reaction to that is it is it like an honor is it cool is it overwhelming what is that it's for sure overwhelming i did not want to do it yeah and it's only because at the time it was like wasn't a lot of really good rap biopics like that that's a touch and go one because we have our story with that band yeah that band was pivotal
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And it's that mindset that kind of...
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pushed me towards saying yes in the moment because it was an in the moment thing of just like he's standing right there asking if i want to do it no you can dodge dude i'll get back to you i'll think about it but no it was um at the end of the day i was like dude my dad's never asked me for shit like he's never asked me for anything besides like take out the trash so like i gotta step up for my guy so i was like yeah i'll do it i was scared to death i was like yeah you're right
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Huh? That's not how I sound. Yeah. So after that, he was like, you got to audition. And I was like, please make me audition. Because if I audition and I'm not good, that's my excuse. I'm just not good. I don't know what to tell you.
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No, no. I'm like, I'm going to do my best.
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Where's the gefilte fish? So from there, I got my acting coach, Aaron Spicer. I worked on that role for two years, convinced him to let me leave school. And then so I'm auditioning for two years. I left in my second year of college. I'm watching all my friends graduate on Instagram. Without me. And they're all like, so what's up with the movie? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm fucked.
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So I'm universal.
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So shut up. So then it comes down to a like a screen test where they get, you know, a bunch of guys going for the role and they test them out on camera to kind of, you know, see where the chemistry is and who's going to get the part. So I walk into the place like us. No, no, not at all.
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So from there, I walk in. I see a guy with a jerry curl. Now, I know I'm going for ice cream, so this has to be easy. So I walk up to him. I'm like, how you doing? You going for easy? He goes, no, I'm going for cube. So I was like, damn, like this, like I'm really in here with the competition. So from there on, bro, I'm frowning the whole time. You just mean I'm locked in.
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I got the eyebrows flaring.
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So like America's most wanted fucking kid.
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cover whole day i'm like peeping everybody i'm like how you doing oh shake jackson jr nice to meet you bro and so i'm in everybody's head end up getting apart and now i'm just trying to make it work bro i love how you used it absolutely you used the energy that that was in that room and it was like okay well now i'm gonna turn it on yeah like i gotta shake them yeah to do that sometimes though i wait did you all who i'm dying another the casting room for richard jewel
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After Compton, I didn't get work for a year, and I was like, dude... But you had to turn some stuff down, right? I mean, one, you know, no disrespect to the horror community, but they gave me one horror film, and I was just like, you know, I don't really think this is for me. And that was it. And then after everything else, I...
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You know, I got nervous, you know, I'm thinking it's going to be completely different and not getting to work for a year and leaving school. And so, you know, I really got hard on myself. And then I ran into Aubrey Plaza and me and Aubrey did Ingrid Goes West.
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Ingrid Goes West put new eyes on me because it was, you know, the indie, you know, yeah, it's cool. a new audience watches you. And then from there, it really started to roll. People started to think that I'm, you know, he's taking acting serious. And I told my team, every film that we do has to be completely different from the last thing we did. So like, yeah, we did Strider Compton.
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University of Southern California, bro. I drink.
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Then we go the indie route with Angry Girls West. The next thing was Den of Thieves. After Den of Thieves, we went and did Godzilla. And then after Godzilla, it was Long Shot. So it has to be different from the last thing we did. So they can't put me in that box. Well, also, I don't know.
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Is that the one with the bears on it? Yeah.
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75.
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Sure, yeah. No, I had done a wrestling show for charity that this guy, Sammy Callahan, put on. Him and Jon Moxley were trying to raise some money for the wildfire relief in Hawaii. This was November of last year.
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and uh it went from me like showing up to sign some autographs or do free selfies or whatever it turned into hey do you want to have a wrestling match and that was secretly always a desire of mine to try it and i had been taking little classes here and there learning from other wrestlers and so i did this 10-minute match with a guy named matthew palmer and
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it went really well and i had a lot of fun and there was sort of an adrenaline spike unlike anything i'd ever felt before and i i played like junior high sports and i've done stand-up comedy in front of 1,500 people, nothing I've ever done felt as good as that. Really?
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I continued to pursue it and kind of doggedly got these other bookings and wrestled other reputable guys, and you learn a lot from them when you're working with them. And I'm now telling people that through MLW and a couple other companies, I'm doing like a reverse Dwayne Johnson. That's awesome. I love that.
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Oh, man. The biggest pop I've gotten was probably in my first match when I did the crane kick and the six-inch punch as a finisher. It was very theatrical, and I think people were wondering what my move style was going to be like. And obviously, I'm not doing backflips off stuff or anything, but I'm doing body slams and suplexes, and then I pulled out the...
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Cobra Kai style, you know, crane kick and people went pretty ape. That was a good pop.
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Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of different loves from an occupational standpoint. My heroes are guys like Rob Reiner and Kendrick Lamar and Sting, who wrestled famously for WCW during the Attitude Era. And I just want to partake in those worlds whenever it makes sense or whenever I think I can do it. And I haven't directed a film yet, but I intend to. I write a lot of movies.
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I've made some music, and now I'm trying this – wrestling thing out. And I think a lot of people, a lot of haters online who don't like it and think it's like super lame. But at the same time, I think there's a place for everybody in wrestling. There's there's different types of people the same way in hip hop. You have Earl Sweatshirt and you have Action Bronson and you have Drake.
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These are different styles within the form. Yeah. And so I'm just one of those many styles in that form. I think I think if you're having fun doing it, people appreciate it. They'll see the passion.
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And I'm just trying to put it over in the mainstream too of like if I could someday get nominated for an Oscar or a Tony Award but I'm also doing an independent wrestling show in front of 800 people I think that's kind of awesome. I like the idea of
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Like if it were reversed and I'm just watching somebody do it, if a random character actor like John C. Reilly or Paul Giamatti showed up at a wrestling show and wrestled and they were actually decent, I'd be very entertained by that. Yeah. I'd find it fascinating. Yeah.
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Yeah. Or U.S. champ or or open weight champion in MLW. We'll see. I'll see how far I can take it.
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Thanks, man. Yeah, somebody sent me that clip the day it came out. A couple people that I didn't know were like diehard PMT fans. They were all hitting me up and sending me that clip. It was very humbly and sweet. I think anyone can win an Oscar, but it's not even about...
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acumen, like they're so great they're going to win an Oscar, it's usually about the marriage of the role with the performer, right? So, you know, there are people who back in the day in 93, 94... They looked at Brendan Fraser and Jamie Foxx, and they were like, oh, the guy from Encino Man? Oh, the guy from In Living Color? And then they won Oscars for The Whale and Ray.
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So, you know, it's really just about that right marriage of role. I think I've had a couple roles that could have been nominated based on what they were and me showing up and doing the job, but... But yeah, I'm still looking for that thing where I get to really pop in a great movie and have some form of impact.
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Oh, that's awesome, man. Yeah, no, I think that's a... There's a couple movies I've gotten to do that I just think will stand the test of time. And I think, luckily, I'm in that Eastwood ether where whether he's alive or in 20 years when he's gone, it'll be the kind of thing where people will revisit that because it was Eastwood. And I think that's the same with Black Klansman. Yeah.
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It's Spike Lee. It's Adam Driver. It's this big film that did well. And I think I, Tonya, too, with being... such a time capsule piece for the 1990s and being a Margot Robbie thing where I felt like that and Wolf of Wall Street and Suicide Squad were the things that said, this is like someone to pay attention to. This is someone who's crushing it. Yeah. It's fun to be in those movies.
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I mean, you're never guaranteed that, but like when they come across your proverbial desk, it's like, oh, sick. I get to work with Craig Gillespie or Spike Lee or Clint Eastwood.
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I, I listen, I'm hoping, I'm hoping 20 years from now I put the stash on and I can play the, uh, I can play the, um, uh, gymnast coach for, uh, what's, what's the name of that girl? Bella Carolli, right? Bella Carolli. Carrie Strug. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Carrie Strug. I got to play Carrie Strug's, um, gymnast coach. Yeah. Gymnast coach in like 20, 30 years. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
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It's so weird, dude. It's so weird that like, it's so weird that I'm playing Chris Farley in this biopic next year because Farley famously played Sean Eckhart, my character and I Tanya in the, the monologue sketch with, um, Nancy Kerrigan when she hosted. Yeah, that is crazy. And, uh, uh,
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They famously Jay Leno famously said when the Richard Jewell thing happened, like this guy kind of looks like the guy that whacked Nancy Kerrigan. Right. It was like a famous late night joke that he referenced these two people together. And then Farley also was on SNL and Richard Jewell ended up being on SNL. Yeah. After the whole debacle.
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So it's like there's just some weird incestuous creative thing going on with these roles. I don't know what it is.
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Well, you know, even before I got the role, and we haven't shot it yet. We're going to shoot it next year at some point, probably later in the year. But... I knew so much about Chris going in because I was just a fan. So I kind of was reading up on him and ingesting Chris Farley stuff the way you would if you were preparing for a role. And I kind of knew most everything about him.
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What I found interesting is, you know, he... He had this very highly intellectual side where him and Tim Meadows used to go to foreign films when they were doing Second City in Chicago. And Chris had these really deep conversations with his female friends that sometimes he couldn't have with his male friends. And there was just a very intellectual, sensitive side that not everybody got to see.
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Um, especially if they were like a newer friend when he had already been very famous.
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I think, I think, you know, in, in telling that story, we hope to show the duality of him as there's a duality to, to many of us. Yeah.
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I think I love Chris so much that I'm incapable of letting Chris... I mean, I'm not incapable of letting his fans down. Somebody can order a steak and you give them exactly the filet they ordered and they're still not happy. Right. And they send it back to the kitchen. Some people are impossible. But I love Chris so much that I'm not worried about...
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keeping his memory alive in a, in an authentic and loving way. Yeah. I know I'm going to do that. Um, and that's not cockiness. That's once again, knowing what you're capable of too.
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And knowing that there are certain things you are just meant to do in some way, you know, like I, like I, I met up with John Farley a couple of years ago to talk about this being a possibility, his brother, John, and I gave him my phone number and he goes, why is your number already in my phone? My number was already in John Farley's phone and we had never met. Huh?
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It said Paul Hauser when he typed in the number. Weird things like that have been happening for a while. And I think some people are just supposed to play certain people. I think Jamie Foxx.
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god his parents like there's something in the ether that knew he was going to play that role and i think this is one of those things that i was supposed to play uh jeff bridges when he got his first role he has a story about how he told the director like i don't think i'm doing a good job i think this is a mistake you should fire me and the director just said no i chose you you're right for the role you couldn't screw this up if you wanted to you're the guy
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And I think sometimes you're just the guy, you know?
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Wow.
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Well, I haven't done it yet. I've only starred or co-starred in three or four things. I think Jewel. Blackbird, this thing I did with Mark Wahlberg, he and I were, it was like a two hander. We're both in all the scenes. We've only done it like four or five times maybe. So I, starring in something is way more taxing than I, Tonya or Black Klansman.
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I, Tonya or Black Klansman, I get to show up, I'm doing my finger guns and I walk out. Uh, but starring in something is, is exhausting, um, in a way that I kind of didn't know until I did it. Um, So my hope is that I can do my homework to a degree of precision and aggression that when I'm on set, I can be very calm and not in character. Yeah.
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That's my hope is that I do the homework enough to still be emotionally available to the crew and the cast. Because you don't want to alienate people. Even if you are doing a job, it's like... it's too important to me to be social with people and to be on the level to alienate them.
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So when I watched the Jim Carrey documentary about him and Andy Kaufman, I saw that Jim had kind of alienated a lot of people in his process. Jim Carrey, who I adore, by the way. But that process of kind of like alienating people or pushing them away, I sort of decided I'm not going to do that.
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It depends on everyone's process, but it was not fun for me. I can tell you that much. I was not in a good place personally when I shot that mentally, emotionally was not a good place, spiritually not a good place and was definitely ingesting a lot of marijuana and alcohol when I wasn't on set.
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and uh and and also we shot in new orleans that's a pretty spiritually thick place you can kind of feel the air a little bit there sometimes um and and i would say that the way i played the character my process was i have to think the thoughts i can't just say the lines and hope that it seems real i had to kind of get into the icky of it um and so
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Having to think the thoughts, to have it register in the eyes when you say lines of dialogue, you feel very guilty when you rap at the end of the day. You feel gross. Yeah. And, you know, I only did it because of the damn character, but it's also a little mentally exhausting and you feel really gross. So, yeah, no, that character was hard to play. That wasn't easy and it wasn't fun.
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What was fun was the fact that the writing was good. And I was getting paid decent, and I was working with brilliant actors like Greg Kinnear and Taron Egerton.
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Yeah, and I didn't cleanse myself well. Like I was saying, I would grab a sandwich from Turkey and the Wolf, and I'd get stoned, and I'd sip a cocktail. But a lot of self-medicating. But the sort of PG things that I was partaking in were – Me and my buddy Anthony Pettix would go shoot hoops at a local court in somebody's neighborhood in New Orleans.
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We'd play Super Nintendo or watch Curb Your Enthusiasm. There were things that were pressure releases. And yeah, Larry David was very influential to me, being able to laugh at the end of a...
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a dark awkward day yeah yeah so you you've done drama you've done comedy is there one that you prefer more than the other at this point in your career i think i prefer drama because there's just a complexity to it that has more of a variance and a diversity comedy is sort of can feel redundant sometimes, and that's also why even your favorite comedians make comedy movies that you don't like.
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You know, Leo, every time Leo or Denzel do Leo or Denzel, in a drama where I'll just like, boom, another one.
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Right. But like comedy, there are brilliant people who do comedy and we're like, that movie sucked. Why isn't it as good as the one they made eight years ago? Right. And it's like, well, comedy can get very redundant. And after a while you learn somebody stick, whereas like drama, you're living in different worlds and different moods and you can keep them guessing a little bit better.
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So I think I, I enjoy watching and doing drama more. But at the same time, my roots are entirely stand-up and sketch comedy. I grew up on Jim Gaffigan and Monty Python and, you know, Chris Farley and Eddie Murphy and everything.
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Because that was how you started, right? Yeah, when I was 16, I started writing screenplays and started doing stand-up comedy. Oh, wow. That was like the year it got really aggressive where I was like, I'm going full throttle, full bore.
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And my last few years of high school, I did three plays a year, wrote for the school newspaper, did choir, was in barbershop quartet, was class president one year, was writing scripts and doing stand-up. So it was like I was trying to do the John Cena, Dwayne Johnson schedule before I was actually able to do that type of schedule. I was nuts.
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and uh and yeah i i thought stand-up or screenwriting might be a way to break in i didn't know how to break into hollywood i thought well they say you can climb the wall you can break through the wall you can pay someone to get you through the wall what's my way i'll just try all the things um and uh what i would find out is that stand-up is incredibly hard to break into even if you're decent and i think i was i don't think i was good i think i was decent
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And I think I got away from stand-up because I just didn't want that lifestyle of... You're in a depressing atmosphere. You have to wind your wheel up on your back and make these people laugh. And you're constantly having to prove yourself. Whereas I could go into an audition and two minutes into the audition, they're like, you got the job. You're the guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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It's so much easier than stand up in my opinion. Yeah. And you get treated exponentially better.
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I think I was telling somebody, I think like the show kingdom that I did about the MMA fighters of Frank Grillo and Matt Loria, uh, Jonathan Tucker, Nick Jonas, that show was sort of my like associates degree and me breaking in. I Tanya was like the end of the associates degree where it's like, you're getting your bachelors. Now people know your face, but not your name.
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And then Richard Jewell was like sort of the last year of the bachelor's degree where it's like, Hey, you are,
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you are uh people now are starting to know your name and they're starting to think of you in a different light because you're not just a silly idiot you can you can act too and uh and i think blackbird is like the start of of trying to gain a master's degree yeah i'm trying to do that right now the next four years is me trying to get the master's degree and in my early 40s hopefully i'm
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I'm mastering this stuff. And, and, you know, you look at a quarterback that's about the age early forties is like, okay, you've put in your time and now you are, that's your legacy right now. We know Tom Brady is Tom Brady or Aaron Rogers is Aaron Rogers.
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From your mouth to my business manager's ears. You should be.
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Oh, yeah. Damon was like, I'm going to hit Hauser up about that. I'm like, he never hit me up. He didn't hit you up? Where's my Andy Reid phone? No, I am developing a movie with Ben and Matt, though. something that I'm going to act in and produce and I co-wrote. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. Wait, are you a Jets fan? Did I read that right? So here's the story on that.
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I two years ago, got an email to two and a half years ago saying the jets organization would like to invite you to get two to four VIP passes and sit in the owner's suite. Okay. And I was like, not in New York at the time. And I was a lifelong Packer fan was like, I, I, This is weird. Like, I wonder what propelled them to do that. They're recruiting fans. Yeah. Who knows?
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And then I got this movie, this Springsteen movie I'm doing right now in Jersey. And I was like, I wonder if that offer is still on the table. I literally went to my Google emails. and was like looking up jets in the search engine of my past emails, found the email and emailed my PR people and was like, Hey, I know it's too, it's like an enormous Donald voice. Yeah. Yeah.
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They were like,
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probably worry about it and then there I was two days ago was it what day is today Monday yeah yesterday yesterday I was at the Jets game with my buddy Darren and we're sitting with you know the owner or co-owner Chris Johnson and his wife Doris and they could not have been sweeter and nicer and more down to earth and
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were noshing on lobster rolls and eclairs and watching the game surrounded by all these wealthy people that I felt very out of place with.
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It's not going well. It's a, it's rough cause all the talents there, but not everything's connecting, you know? And, uh, And it's – you know, it's tough, too. Like, not everybody can stay – you can be talented but not have the sharp or crispness that you once had. And it doesn't mean you're not good. It just means you're a 42-year-old quarterback or a 44-year-old quarterback, right?
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And I think actors are like that, too. To bring it back to acting, it's like some actors – and I won't say their name as to not be rude, but when they get older, they're just not as sharp. Right. And it doesn't mean you don't enjoy them. It just means – They don't have that Christmas.
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And then there are some that stand the test of time and are giving psychotically good performances in their 80s and 90s. And that class of actor is like a Sir Anthony Hopkins.
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Anthony Hopkins can still be as good as he was in Silence of the Lambs tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. And that's a very rare thing. And I think, you know, Rogers, the best days are probably behind, but I loved watching them and I met him at the ESPYs. We did a comedy skit together and he could not have been cooler. We had a lot of fun talking to each other.
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I don't worry about that so much because I also know I'm fiercely competitive and I'm not fully mentally well. So I know that when I'm 60, I'll still be getting weird and doing different stuff. It doesn't mean I'm better than so-and-so. It just means that's how I'm built, I think. I may be proven wrong in 30 years. Who knows?
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But my hope is that when I'm 60 and maybe have a couple more nominations or something under my belt, And some people are like, that's a classy actor. That's a real actor, that guy. I hope I'm still showing up and doing shows like I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. I hope I'm still showing up at WrestleMania and someone's putting me through a table. I hope MLW is still having me back.
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These are the things I do think about is never take away your self-amusement and your competitive spirit and your sense of play.
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and i don't think that'll happen to you you know what's it like being competitive as an actor dude people don't even think about the way i think about it i'm i'm a weirdo like i i'm way too insecure and in my head with competitive nature i i don't think guys like paul dano and adam driver think the way i think i think they're very content focused and they probably don't think about it as much i i very much think about the guys in my bracket
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And I'm, you know, Aaron Paul said to me very early in my career, I did a movie with him that few people saw. And Aaron Paul gave me advice. He said, you got to beat the town. Who are you the next of? Who are you up against? Who are the guys you see at all your auditions? You got to beat those guys out. And I kept a list of like 30, 40 guys that I was slowly trying to get all the jobs.
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And then eventually I, there were like me and four or five other guys in the top bracket. And I was like, damn, okay. And now I'm at the point where if these three people pass, they come to me. So it's like, I'm still in my head. I'm still like, I still have this dogged obsession of, I want to, I want to be the guy that gets the offer before them.
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But you know, that also never stops because Christian Bale says that about DiCaprio. He has been very vocal about saying like, if DiCaprio passes, I get the offer. And it's like, so maybe that happens forever, you know?
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Oh, no, no, no. Never that. It's all support. It's all love. It's just me trying to make me the best, not to anyone else's detriment or put down. It's just... me trying to show my teeth every time I open my mouth. That's all. But I love the guys coming up. I love Will Poulter, Fred Hechinger, Joseph Quinn, Chalamet is great. There's a lot of guys coming up that are great, I think.
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What happened with that? It's all fake news. It's... Tarantino and I have never had a meeting. He's never contacted me. Some random blog site said that I was in contention or was overheard.
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i had been offered the lead in the movie critic and it was news to me and me and my manager were freaking out i remember i was sitting on the toilet on my cell phone i'm like texting and suddenly i my phone blows up and i go on twitter and it was just like and all these people are talking about it i was like what the hell is going on and you know for us we thought maybe it was true and we just hadn't
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been given the offer maybe somebody internally spilled the beans at a luncheon at the san vicente bungalows and somebody texted somebody and they put it online you know you never know yeah but uh but it turned out that i guess bill maher had tarantino on his show the basement show that looks like everybody's a prisoner to bill oh yeah the one where he like smokes weed in front of hawk to a girl and everybody looks like a kept woman while he drinks and gets high yeah but yeah he
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he and tarantino very briefly talked about me and mar was kind of putting me over saying like he was in richard jewell he was good and tarantino was like yeah he's been in a few things but whatever i think people just thought i was gonna cast him because you know he looks like he could be a movie critic and i was like oh like it totally was like uh like a kidney shot from a boxer i had to i had to take a knee and be like oh that hurt yeah oh i wish i wasn't contention but also like
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know there's a real world out there where wars are being fought if i'm not a tarantino movie i think i'll be okay but yeah i i do i do love the guy i love his work and you know i'd love to be a fly on that wall and and do anything in one of his movies yeah and also i think if you're if you're having your name thrown around in baseless rumors for a quentin tarantino movie but they're believable enough where people like i could see that happen that's probably a good thing too right
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Certainly. Yeah, it certainly brings a smirk to your face that people can believe that. And, you know, I've had I've had meetings with big name directors who were thinking about using me for something. And for whatever reason, they went another way. And and if anything, that is just fodder for encouragement. Like, hey, you you never know. You could wake up and.
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You could wake up and I could be doing a recurring guest star on a sitcom or I could be in a Spielberg movie. And that's kind of a fun, exciting way to live your life, you know, to sort of feel the pendulum swinging back and forth. And the key is to just have fun and honor every commitment.
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Treat a scrimmage like the Super Bowl is what I always tell young actors because you never know who's watching and you want to honor everyone. the fact that anyone gives a crap about you and gave you a role because they could cast somebody else. Yeah.
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No, but I'm a fan. I love his brief but impactful performance in Can't Hardly Wait. And I've certainly been a fan of his from Stand By Me. And he seems like a nice guy. Yeah.
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I think it'd be a little shallow to just say that he's got a hot wife and did the now cult classic Kangaroo Jack, right? I was trying to go for deeper cuts.
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Is it Rebecca Romaine? Yes. Oh, you pervert. You're a pervert.
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Yeah. It's not like I know how to spell her last name. Capital R-O-M-I-J-N. Exactly. That would be crazy. I would like to see you and Jerry in a movie together. I feel like that would be good. Yeah, you and Jerry. Jerry's a good actor. Or maybe that's the next hit sitcom is he's my stepdad and I'm like, we're trying to help each other out and we're both total messes or something.
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And Stacy's mom has got it going on.
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Yeah, that happens on occasion. I'm trying to think when it's happened for me. I don't think it was... I think I remember breaking... I broke Tom Lennon once or twice on Reno, and that was a big feather in the cap. Yeah. And I broke... I broke a couple of the sunny people once or twice, and that was a big feather in the cap because I love those shows so much.
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They're two of my favorite shows of all time. So for me, that's... Those moments mean as much as winning an actor trophy, you know? Like, those are your own trophies that you get to ponder whenever you're having a bad day.
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Dude, it was nuts. I was dropping out of college in Oak Park River Forest, this place called Concordia University, I was basically dropping out, partying my face off, ballooning up in weight, and writing a movie script for Key & Peele because Mad TV had just gotten canceled and my manager at the time repped them. He's like, you want to write a movie for these guys?
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They're looking for something to do together. So I'm writing a script for Key & Peele before they have the hit show. and I'm dropping out of college and most of my days were spent watching dirty work and Wet Hot American Summer and episodes of It's Always Sunny. And so a year later to be in the room auditioning for the show was crazy.
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And then stepping into the bar, I vividly remember I brought my friend to set which was such a thing. Like I had a weird flex back in the day where I just didn't ask permission for anything. I would just bring one of my buddies to set and he'd be hanging out with me all day without asking anybody.
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So like my buddy, Peter and I, Peter Hens, this really funny dude, he and I walked into the set of it's always sunny and walking into that bar and seeing everything. It was like, it was like the Wizard of Oz or something. We could not believe we were in the bar of It's Always Sunny. Yeah. That's so awesome.
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I wouldn't say it never happens. I mean, there's a famous clip on YouTube of somebody, I think it might've been Phil Hartman or somebody had a fart machine in the elevator and a scene in the master, the PT Anderson film. Uh huh. That's pretty serious film or at least an intense film. And like, and like there, they had a moment where everybody broke and it was like over a fart joke.
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So like it can happen, but I would say most of the time on Blackbird, 98% of the time we were both locked in, you know, deathly serious about the work. But I will say you have to keep stuff light outside of it.
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And I think there were a day or two, not that he ever truly showed it, but there had to be a day or two where I annoyed the crap out of Taron in between takes or in between setups where I'd be doing an accent or a celebrity impression or dancing or being stupid. And for me, it was therapeutic. But for him, at some point, I'm sure it proved distractionary. But you got to break up the...
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intensity somehow you gotta stay sane and for me nowadays if i'm having a rough rough day for whatever reason i just watch a couple clips from um i think you should leave on netflix and and i'm out of it or i'll watch a really good wrestling match from mlw or another organization on youtube and it makes me feel better you know who is your favorite wrestler growing up Sting was my number one.
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Still is.
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Still is. Well, he retired, but you know what it is. Everybody's got their Mount Rushmore. He's the top of mind. And I think I just admired the fact that he was second fiddled to Hulk Hogan in that good guy era. But Hogan was, like, never really selling for other people. He was always saying, like, I'm the dude. You can't get one over on me. And Sting would sell for people.
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Sting, you could beat the crap out of Sting, but he would still come back.
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And I feel like I saw that more than I saw with Hogan. I admired that.
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loved the flair and pizzazz of the guy going from surfer sting to the crow sting and he got all dark and serious and fought the nwo with just a baseball bat and a silent face like there was something so cool about that and uh and he stood the test of time and just recently you know uh had his final match back in the spring of this year in greensboro north carolina and i got to be there and
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Tony Khan allowed me to sit ringside with some dear friends. One of my oldest friends, Ryan Kunitzer, who, you know, I've known the guy 30 something years. Sting was like our guy and we're standing there, you know, nearly emotional as he has his final match. It was amazing. That's incredible.
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So there's two types of Rushmores, right? There's the one where you're trying to objectively give the top four from the worldly perspective, and then there's personal Rushmore. Which one do you want? I want personal.
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Personal Rushmore is Sting, Bret Hart. I think Ric Flair. Ric Flair. and Chris Jericho. Oh, okay. I think those are the four. But Jericho's tough, too. He just sneaks in there past...
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just sneaks in there past a couple other guys like like ricky steamboat or randy savage yeah randy savage he was the best yeah i missed that guy macho man yeah i think my top 10 has a bunch of random guys too like they're not who you'd think i i don't go for the low-hanging fruit of the undertaker under the giant and sean michaels like i i like guys who are impactful in different ways i love dustin rhodes aka gold dust ray mysterio mick foley
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Kurt Angle, not all the people that get put at the top.
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I'm a very dumb person. Serve it up, bro.
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Depends on the role. Depends on the role. There are certain things, like Richard Jewell, I would learn my lines a week, like five to seven days in advance. And I'd be very overly familiar with them, and it could kind of fall out of me a lot easier. And then there's other things. If I'm doing a comedy, there's just less of a stress of learning the lines. It just feels like... I don't know.
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It's like Bam Margero the skateboard. It's not like he's in shape and skateboards all the time, but he can still jump on a skateboard and do whatever because he's Bam. That's kind of how I feel about comedy. But I think that's actually a really dangerous way to... It's a dangerous attitudinal stance because you can then sometimes give 85% when you should be giving 100%. Yeah. So it depends.
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But yeah, my whole thing is I learn one page at a time. So I'll always know the first page of dialogue better than the last. But for me, that's just my process. I learn one page at a time. The biggest audition I ever had page-wise, I think I learned... I think I, Tanya was 13 pages. I memorized and I think scream for, I memorized like 15 pages. Jeez.
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Yeah. If I have to, if I have to like feel the words and, and,
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say them in a way where it you don't feel the timidity in the character because like i've i've met some weird racist ass dudes at dive bars or you know one of those low-key racist guys who's like putting the bait out and seeing if you'll if you'll touch the the pole line yeah see if you're friend or foe yeah the yeah the uber driver who's like talking politics and then it's like
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Yeah, you know how these people are. Then they're looking at you in the rear view and you're like, I want to freaking die right now. I don't want to be in this guy's car. I've met enough of them that you can't have timidity. It's got to be, if you were born with that ideological stance, it has to be as normal as, well, yeah, we always have pork chops on Thursdays. Yeah, right.
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It just has to be normal to you. So you don't say it because you're like, look at me, I'm saying the rap lyrics behind closed doors. You're doing it because you have to make sure it's right. But I would say what's harder is when you improvise with a bad character.
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There were lines that I said in Black Bird and Black Klansman that I improvised that you feel very guilty about because afterwards you go, well, that wasn't in the script and you still got there. So how'd you get there? That's tough. That's acting.
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It's also acting. Yeah. It's also sometimes good acting. You're like, oh, that is a really good line. Unfortunately, it's devastatingly awful, but that's who you're playing on the day.
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Yeah. I had a disgusting moment where I felt so bad. I'm doing a scene with John David Washington, who's about as likable and sweet of a person as you can get on a movie set. And I did something where I stuck my mouth out to look like a ape or a primate with my tongue, uh, to, to piss him off in the scene.
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Now, Spike gave me the direction of you're up in his grill, do something that could provoke him, but he won't be provoked. So like, that's what I thought of for that character. But the moment after it was done, I went up to John David. I go, Hey man, I just want to say, and he goes, I know, I know like very much said it. Like I know where you're going with it.
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And I like, we were on the same page here. Don't, don't take your foot off the pedal just because you're uncomfortable.
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And I really admired his grace and professionalism with that. And there have been moments like that in other projects. And sometimes you just got to be able to have a conversation preliminarily too. Sometimes I won't do something because I'm like, I don't want to get... I don't want someone to create a story of me being a bad person because I made a creative choice.
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So let me run this by them first to make sure they're comfortable. And 90% of the time, the other actor's like, oh, you shouldn't have even told me. You should have just done it.
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Yeah. That too. I'm always asking wrestlers, you know, like... These guys at MLW, that's their locker room. I'm a guest in their locker room. I'm new to the roster, and I really respect those guys and gals, and it's always about finding out what are we doing and how do we do it the best way that doesn't complicate something or hurt anybody long-term.
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If they gave me that ultimatum and something weird happened where, say, in 2026, I undergo the Chris Pratt style transformation. Yeah. And MLW is taking off and they got a show on TV and they want to put a belt on me and we're doing the whole thing. If that opportunity presented itself, I would just hold my ground and say, you have to let me do both.
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I don't think I would take the deal because at the end of the day, I love acting. It would hurt my feelings. It would hurt my spirit to not get to act in some capacity. And you got to ask my wife. My wife, Amy, is such a patient, grace-driven woman. She knows that when I go three, four, five months without acting... I'm not that fun to be around.
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I'm like starved for attention and I'm like hell bent on making my jokes. And suddenly I'm in the kitchen and I'm trying to turn into Anthony Bourdain or Guy Fieri. Like, it's like, it's a very, you know, we're sick people actors. Yeah. So it's like, I think it would hurt the soul and the brain too much if I didn't do it. But I do think that there's a way to do both. And I'm trying to prove that.
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And the other thing to anyone listening, like know your value. If you're good at what you do,
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It nourishes your spirit to do these things you love. And I really believe in, you know, not to, not to be too preaching. My, my dad's literally a retired minister, but I believe that God put us all on earth to do different things, to, to embody something that can benefit other people. You guys do it yourselves. You entertain and educate people on topics they're interested in.
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And you give people a reprieve from a dark, twisted, difficult world. And, uh, and, I think I do the same. And like, you know, it's when you feel that inside yourself and you go, man, I feel thirsty for this thing. That's God's way of telling you you're meant to do that. Yeah.
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So I would I would encourage people follow the breadcrumbs, you know, follow the the trail of of passion because it's it's there for a reason. Yeah.
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No, we did. Well, you educate them on other people, right? We did.
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Listen, you guys were the first people to say the Andy Reid thing, so if that happens, we can go back and be like, these guys educated us. That's true. Yeah. They were prophetic. Yeah. They knew this was happening.
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Yeah. At the end of the day, I'm looking to work with anybody who's kind, who treats people well, and wants to work hard and tell a good story, whatever that looks like. It could be a sitcom. It could be a little indie foreign film. It could be anything. But at the end of the day, you hope to do something that you're proud of.
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And I never want to be that actor who just takes a bad movie for a lot of money. I have two children who are going to be in private school. And life is not cheap. It can be very difficult sometimes. So I'm sure there's going to be that temptation, too. But I try to make things that I would want to pay my hard-earned money to go see at the AMC Theater or the Regal Cinema.
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Good question. Yeah. I'll leave you with this. I have three roles. I really want to inhabit, uh, in the next five years. Um, I want to play Teddy Roosevelt. Oh, Oscar. Oscar. There you go.
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And that's another one where I know I can play him. I'm not even worried about it. I just have to convince other people to want to do it. The other one is a father who knows how to be present and not on his phone all the time. Okay, good role. That's a role I really need to inhabit and get better at because I can be. Yeah, it's a fantasy. This is a genre.
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And as a father, I mean, I want to inhabit that. The third role is I want to kick somebody's ass in MLW, and I'm going to be doing that Thursday night at the Melrose Ballroom in Long Island City. And I hope you check it out in person if you can't make it in person. Kurt Bauer, in all his benevolence, is providing these pay-per-view style cards for free on YouTube, so check it out.
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Manifesting. I got some money coming through. Travis Hunter for Heisman. Love to you guys. And let's do this again in like a year or two here. Yeah. Love it. Thanks so much, man.