ENTOURAGE REUNION! Kevin Connolly & Kevin Dillon Reminisce Being On-Set, Favorite Cameos & Reboot? - Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara

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Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara: Episode Summary

Title: ENTOURAGE REUNION! Kevin Connolly & Kevin Dillon Reminisce Being On-Set, Favorite Cameos & Reboot?

Release Date: February 20, 2025

In this special episode of Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara, hosts Matt Leinart and Jerry Ferrara delve deep into the nostalgic world of the iconic TV series Entourage. Joining them are longtime friends and cast members Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon, who share behind-the-scenes stories, memorable moments, and discuss the tantalizing possibility of an Entourage reboot. The conversation seamlessly weaves through personal anecdotes, professional experiences, and reflections on the show's enduring legacy.

1. Entourage Reunion and Nostalgia

[00:28] The episode kicks off with Jerry and Matt expressing their excitement for "Entourage week," a tribute to the beloved series. Jerry introduces Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon, highlighting their tight-knit friendship and shared history from the early 2000s.

[02:02] Matt Leinart: "It was really fun just throwing it back because it, because, you know, it's one of my favorite shows in that time."

The hosts reminisce about their close connections, with Matt emphasizing the seamless chemistry between the cast members and how their interactions have remained consistent over the years.

[04:40] Matt Leinart: "Championship teams and sport are all about personalities and getting different personalities to mesh. The same with making a show."

2. On-Set Anecdotes and Injury Stories

The conversation shifts to some of the more intense and humorous moments from filming Entourage. Kevin Dillon shares his experience of breaking his leg during a shoot:

[24:35] Kevin Connolly: "So now it's starting to get compared. Now Connoll switch. Connolly's on offense. They... I forget whatever route you drove."

[25:12] Kevin Dillon: "I think it's coming from a killer shot. Like cortisone. It just in."

Kevin Dillon recounts how he played through a compound fracture to meet the demands of the photo shoot the very next day.

[25:35] Kevin Connolly: "We went at the same time at the photo shoot despite the surgery, just like a relentless athlete."

These stories highlight the dedication and resilience of the cast, drawing parallels between their commitment on the show and that of professional athletes.

3. Discussing an Entourage Reboot

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to pondering the future of Entourage. The hosts and guests discuss the feasibility and potential challenges of rebooting the series in today's entertainment landscape.

[05:05] Jerry Ferrara: "I never thought it would ever happen and it probably still won't. But for the first time for me, I could say I see it now."

Despite initial skepticism, there's an evident enthusiasm among the cast for the idea, with Matt even advocating for it:

[06:06] Matt Leinart: "I think a reboot, I think something would... it would still translate in today's world almost even better."

However, Jerry raises concerns about cultural shifts and the evolving nature of humor and relationships portrayed in the original series.

[07:07] Jerry Ferrara: "We had a certain brand of humor that was acceptable. At some point wasn't acceptable anymore."

The discussion touches on the complexities of revisiting beloved characters and the importance of maintaining the show's original spirit while adapting to contemporary sensibilities.

4. Favorite Athlete Cameos: Throwback Three

One of the highlights of the episode is the "Throwback Three" segment, where Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon share their favorite athlete cameos from Entourage. These interactions not only brought star power to the show but also showcased genuine camaraderie between athletes and actors.

a. Tom Brady

[75:47] Kevin Dillon: "Tom was awesome. Crew loved him. I hit his club in the scene, and during our lunch break, he invited me to play golf."

Tom Brady's cameo is fondly remembered for his laid-back attitude and engaging presence both on and off the set.

b. Phil Mickelson

[76:41] Kevin Dillon: "I ran into him at a golf course. He was trying to avoid recognition at first, but we eventually connected over a mutual appreciation for the game."

Phil Mickelson's appearance was marked by a humorous exchange about Matt Dillon's father's artwork, adding a personal touch to his cameo.

c. Drew Brees

[79:02] Kevin Dillon: "Drew is the coolest, nicest guy. We collaborated on a fundraising scene, and his genuine nature made the interaction seamless."

Drew Brees brought a sense of authenticity and warmth to his appearance, enhancing the show's reputation for integrating real-life personalities naturally.

5. Behind-the-Scenes Stories and Challenges

Beyond the main topics, the episode is peppered with various behind-the-scenes tales and challenges faced during the making of Entourage. From unexpected injuries to quirky incidents, Connolly and Dillon provide a candid look into the realities of working on a hit TV show.

[72:51] Kevin Dillon: "We are injury pro. We play through. We're tough."

These stories not only entertain but also underscore the physical and emotional demands of television production, drawing interesting parallels to the rigors faced by professional athletes.

6. The Chemistry and Legacy of Entourage

As the episode progresses, the conversation circles back to the core theme of chemistry among the cast members. The hosts and guests reflect on how the natural bonds and mutual respect among the actors contributed to the show's success and enduring legacy.

[36:14] Kevin Dillon: "We're all from New York, and that shared background helped our chemistry."

This genuine connection is cited as a key factor in why Entourage resonated with audiences and why its revival could potentially reignite that same magic.

7. Concluding Thoughts and Future Plans

In wrapping up, the hosts express their gratitude towards their guests and reflect on the timeless appeal of Entourage. There's a playful nod to potential future collaborations and continued camaraderie among the friends.

[86:22] Jerry Ferrara: "And again, if you want to go to our YouTube or on any of our social media at Throwbacks..."

The episode concludes on a high note, leaving listeners eagerly anticipating future discussions and hoping for an official reboot.

Notable Quotes

Matt Leinart ([00:40]): "Entourage week, the best week of the year."
Jerry Ferrara ([04:40]): "It's like that magic in a bottle, I think."
Kevin Connolly ([07:07]): "It's that magic in a bottle, I think."
Kevin Dillon ([24:35]): "We are injury pro. We played through."

Conclusion

This episode of Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara serves as a heartfelt homage to Entourage, celebrating its impact and the enduring friendships forged during its creation. Through engaging stories, reflective discussions, and shared laughter, Matt, Jerry, Kevin Connolly, and Kevin Dillon offer fans both old and new a rich tapestry of memories and insights, all while keeping the door open for future possibilities.

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[00:00]
Jerry Ferrara
Us in the bathroom at the Golden Globe story.
[00:03]
Kevin Dillon
I'm at the urinal.
[00:04]
Jerry Ferrara
James Cameron was in the Crazy People.
[00:07]
Kevin Connolly
Or like Johnny Dep Scott or somebody only comes walking.
[00:10]
Kevin Dillon
What do I say?
[00:10]
Kevin Connolly
All right, cover up, gentlemen. We got a peeker in here.
[00:13]
Kevin Dillon
You can see everyone goes too.
[00:28]
Jerry Ferrara
I thought we were gonna maybe play a little Jane's Addiction superhero. Being that it's officially Entourage week. What's up, Matt? How you doing today?
[00:37]
Matt Leinart
Entourage week, the best week of the year. I'm good, buddy. How are you?
[00:40]
Jerry Ferrara
I love that it's Entourage week. And yes, we have a real. It's the show that a lot of you on Twitter have been saying to me. What, I mean, you guys posted about it in November. What happened?
[00:50]
Matt Leinart
We just, we're just keeping them on their toes. But it is finally here.
[00:53]
Jerry Ferrara
It's here.
[00:55]
Matt Leinart
I'm fired up.
[00:56]
Jerry Ferrara
Got to sit down with Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon, two of my dear friends who shock. Like, I know we even talked about it, I think in the actual interview, which we'll get to. But you and Connolly definitely were around each other in the. Yeah, 2000s, for sure.
[01:11]
Matt Leinart
Yeah, we, we had a couple, A couple interesting Hollywood run ins. So I like, I mean, I've known him forever as, I mean, I'm probably as long as you as far as just like running in his circle for a little bit. Dylan I had never met, which was awesome to hang out with him. He was, he was exactly how you described, like, the best. A little crazy, a little off the wall, but like just the best man. Like, he was just awesome. Like, I felt like, I felt like we were best friends, honestly. But it was fun. It was. For me, it was really fun just throwing it back because it, because, you know, it's one of my favorite shows in that time. Just to see the three of you reminisce, the memories, the moments, just, it brought back so much and it was just fun. Those guys, it just, it was like, you guys have never, like, haven't missed a beat, just ribbing each other jokes and all that. It was awesome.
[02:02]
Jerry Ferrara
It's, it's always something where even I, I, I remember this from the last time you were all together. I think it was like this past September when we're all together. It's just different, I guess in the sports world. It's almost like, you know, back in the day, if you saw Kobe and Sha, obviously be excited to see Kobe. I'm not comparing us to the Lakers, by the way. Everyone calm down. But like, when you see people who are known for A thing together in their real life outside of that thing thing. It confuses people, and I think it's pretty cool. So, yeah, they jump on. It's really. Now we're prepared for 10,000 reboot questions, which honestly have been happening ever since early. Early last year. But you. You fit right in. If you haven't seen Matt's audition, by the way, we put you through the ringer.
[02:50]
Matt Leinart
It was funny while we were doing it, but I was like, I was trying to lock. I was trying to lock in. And you took it serious. I did. And after watching, it was actually really. It was just maybe. Dylan's just so funny. Man, that was great. I want to ask you just really quick, like. Like, I know you guys don't get together very often. I'm sure you're on a text chat. I'm sure all those things and like that. But what. What is it like for you just when you're back with those guys? I. When I was sitting there with you, and again, this was a couple months ago, but I. But honestly, when I was sitting there with you and getting to know you now, over the last, I saw, I saw like a different. Not even a different side of you, but I saw, like, I saw a side of you that's like. Those are like. That was. That was a big, big part of your life. You know what I mean? Like, it was. It was really cool to see the interaction between you guys. I thought it was pretty neat to.
[03:44]
Jerry Ferrara
See we have such a shorthand together, you know, like, everything is a memory. Every story that pops up, it really. And that's how I think you could really tell the test of any friendship, whether it's a former teammate or a friend from high school, where time will go by because, you know, they all have kids. I have kids, you have kids. We're all busy. Time will go by. But it's that friend where wherever. Whether it's a phone call or you see him out or you're together for something, and it's like no time has passed. And that has always been what it's like. I've gone a couple of years even without seeing Grenier, and then when I see Adrian, I've. I felt like he's been in my life this entire time. And I think that really is what the show always tried to do, was capture that fun friendship part. And I just think we always had that. And I don't think it's something you can cast similar with the team. I don't think it's something you can Draft you hope it happens. It's like that magic in a bottle, I think.
[04:40]
Matt Leinart
I think champ, championship teams and sport are all about personalities and getting different personalities to mesh. And also. And just you play for one common goal, right? That's just to win a championship. The same with making a show. You want to put out the best show and you guys got a mesh and all that. And it's. It is there. It was very cool to see. I'm gon you now and you just mentioned reboot. What is the latest with an Entourage reboot and will we ever see one?
[05:05]
Jerry Ferrara
So in my opinion, I, I never thought it would ever happen and it probably still won't. But for the first time for me, I could say I see it now. I have not seen it since the movie came out. And the movie did like, and just did okay. It wasn't as good as we hoped it would be. But a lot of other things were going on then. Like culture was changing and we, we, for a while after the movie became like, people forgot and tried to claim like Entourage wasn't really a thing. We talked horrible to each other and we can't do that stuff again now. Did we say awful things to each other on the show? Absolutely. Did it come from a weird place of love? Absolutely. And I do think there will be a show, whether it's an Entourage reboot or some other show that does go back and capture that male adult friendship bromance that I just don't think you have on TV right now. Is there one? Can you find one?
[06:07]
Matt Leinart
Right now there's not. And your show, your show just stands the test of time. You could turn that show on right now. Cole, my 18 year old son, college kids now high school pro. Like, they could watch that and relate and that's what makes the show so great. And you always talk about this, how, you know, athletes always recognize you, they rack, they. They were with you at the, at the fanatics party last week. Like, they just like, like Turtle from Entourage is an iconic figure. That's an iconic show. I think. Gosh, I just think a reboot, I think something would. It would, it would. It would still translate in today's world almost even better in today's world because of just access and social. And now I just feel like with. Especially with college kids getting paid, there you have their entree. There's just so many different things now that were different 20 years ago. I'm all in. I'm petitioning now. I know that you've, you've educated me on the process. I know there's a lot of hoops to get through and financial stuff and people signing on all these things, but my God, dude, that thing. Would. It would. To see you guys in your old age as dad.
[07:08]
Jerry Ferrara
Like, I really do think, though, Matt, like I said, I didn't see it even like two, three years ago. Number one, I had a hard time seeing what these characters would be doing now and then. Also, like we said it not trying to even have a big cancel culture conversation, but we had a certain brand of humor that was acceptable. That at some point wasn't acceptable anymore.
[07:32]
Matt Leinart
Yeah. But I think it's. I think one. It's coming back. We're seeing that in. In all the standup shows now. A lot of comics were getting censored. Now they're just like, that we don't care.
[07:40]
Kevin Connolly
And.
[07:40]
Matt Leinart
Right. I. I feel like there's a corner being turned with. You can just like, those are the shows especially on streaming services and Netflix and all that. Like, pretty much do whatever you want, I would imagine. But yeah, I mean, let's do it, dude. I know your guys.
[07:54]
Jerry Ferrara
I feel like. I know. And we pitch. We actually.
[07:57]
Matt Leinart
Yeah.
[07:57]
Jerry Ferrara
We had the conversation a few of like, fun. But for the first time, I think in a very long time, probably since the movie, I could actually. I think I know what these characters are up to right now. Now, obviously, to figure that out.
[08:12]
Matt Leinart
You're filthy rich.
[08:13]
Jerry Ferrara
Am I?
[08:14]
Matt Leinart
Somehow, some way nobody knows or I. I know your whole thing is you blow your money. I. I don't like that. I. I want to keep you rich.
[08:20]
Jerry Ferrara
We'll keep eternal rich.
[08:22]
Matt Leinart
I love your wife Brie. You probably marry some A list actress in the show. You know, Connolly. I don't know.
[08:29]
Jerry Ferrara
Maybe like Alba in terms.
[08:31]
Matt Leinart
Speaking of really quick, I do want to get Emmanuel on. I know that.
[08:38]
Jerry Ferrara
Manuel, Shrieky.
[08:39]
Matt Leinart
I want to get. Yeah. Who played Sloan. I want to get her on just because I'm a fan and I think she's amazing. But I think especially after this episode airs and all that, I think let's. We got to get her on and just talk shop because we could do that. I would love to get. I would love to get her perspective as kind of the lead kind of female in that show as far as just all that, because I know you guys are all really tight with her.
[09:01]
Jerry Ferrara
Well, you know, also, plus, my brother.
[09:03]
Matt Leinart
Is like one of my entourage didn't.
[09:05]
Jerry Ferrara
Have strong female characters, according to what the criticisms were after the show was off the air. And then when I look around, it was Emmanuel Shriky, Constance Zimmer, Debbie Mazar, Beverly D'Angelo, Perry Reeves. It's like these are all regular parts of the show.
[09:20]
Matt Leinart
Ari Piven's wife's. What was her name?
[09:23]
Jerry Ferrara
Perry reeve. She played Mrs. Ari.
[09:25]
Matt Leinart
Yeah, she was great.
[09:26]
Jerry Ferrara
People actually got mad, like, we didn't even give her a name. It was a joke for seven years that her name didn't cut. Like, that was the whole point.
[09:32]
Matt Leinart
There you go. I didn't even know her name.
[09:33]
Jerry Ferrara
The whole point. Her real name was Melissa on the show. So anyway, I think without further. Well, you know what? We have a little business to do before we get to the entourage, guys. We gotta hear from our good people at Wendy's. I think I know what you're going to want to talk about today, which I'm fired up about. So it's time for fresh moves of the week, brought to you by Wendy's. Go to Wendy's. Taste the difference in a hamburger. Matt, what is our fresh move of the week?
[09:56]
Matt Leinart
Well, first of all, it's actually a nice little pivot because your boy Connolly is a diehard hockey fan, right?
[10:03]
Jerry Ferrara
Massive hockey basketball. Massive hockey fan.
[10:07]
Matt Leinart
So die hard hockey fan. We're going to dive into this episode in a second with the entourage, guys, but before this. This Hockey4Nations face off is awesome. It is must see TV and basically what it is. I was just looking this up. There's not an all star game this weekend for the. Or this past weekend for the NHL. So instead of that, they did this Four nations face off. Four teams. It's Canada, Finland, Sweden, us. Little round robin tournament. The finals, whatever. The final. The finals are on tonight. Usa, Canada. But before we dig into that for a second, did you see last weekend, three seconds in the. Just full brawl to start.
[10:47]
Jerry Ferrara
It was so wild. It almost. I want, like, if I didn't know better, the conspiracy part of me was like, oh, they planned that for the ratings. They just wanted, by the way. No, they didn't. No, I think they planned in advance to fight because they don't like each other. That's what it was. They really. There's no love loss there.
[11:03]
Matt Leinart
Well, and that. And so the whole conversation last weekend was NBA All Star game. Right? And all the negativity. And how do you get ratings? How do you get eyeballs? Well, you just look at. And this is the difference. I'm not going to dive into NBA, but the hockey. Just three seconds in USA maybe is. I mean, is it fair to say maybe, little brother to Canada and hockey just. I think maybe it's their national sport now. We've gotten a lot better. Obviously, we're very good, but just, you know, we're. We're behind in the US in hockey traditionally over the past whatever, 40, 50 years. They hate each other. And you see the stars playing, which is awesome. Right.
[11:44]
Jerry Ferrara
Getting injured left and right guys getting Going down.
[11:47]
Matt Leinart
David and Crosby are playing for. I mean the who's who are playing. Drew Doughty, who's a bit. I'm a big fan of your. Doughty plays for the Kings. And three seconds in, they just start. The Chuck brothers, they just start brawling and it gets people fired up. People want to see. And now what they've done is not the fact they're back in the finals tonight. Later on tonight, it's going to. Millions of people are going to watch that.
[12:10]
Jerry Ferrara
Must Watch because it's a. It has.
[12:12]
Matt Leinart
It has the Olympic feel and I think that's the cool.
[12:14]
Kevin Connolly
It's.
[12:14]
Matt Leinart
It's. It's about your country. I think NHL hit a slam dunk doing this thing. It is unbelievable to.
[12:19]
Jerry Ferrara
To make a Wendy's reference. The NHL to the NBA said, hold my burger. Watch this.
[12:25]
Matt Leinart
Yes, they did.
[12:26]
Jerry Ferrara
They. And let me tell you, it worked. They cat. You're right. They captured every. And it's Must Watch tomorrow. Oh, tonight is Must Watch.
[12:33]
Matt Leinart
I'll be. Are you gonna watch it? I'll be watching.
[12:34]
Jerry Ferrara
Are you kidding? Words I never thought I'd say unless the Stanley cup were on and the Rangers were in Must Watch.
[12:40]
Matt Leinart
Do you think there will be another? I. I think there could be a fight. I don't think there'll be a fight to. To start the game.
[12:47]
Jerry Ferrara
I don't think it'll be the start the game, but I think if. If it's one. One or two. Two in, you know, mid third period and it's getting chippy and guys are getting hit left and right. Yeah, I think we're seeing a fight for sure.
[13:00]
Matt Leinart
Shout out. Shout out to the NHL. Man, this. No. By the way, instead of an all Star weekend, we're just going to have a four nations world tournament, which has been the best thing.
[13:10]
Jerry Ferrara
They weren't afraid to break the tradition. Oh, this is what we.
[13:14]
Matt Leinart
The problem is you need your best players to buy in. And yeah, that ship has sailed with the NBA.
[13:20]
Jerry Ferrara
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[13:41]
Matt Leinart
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[14:02]
Jerry Ferrara
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[14:19]
Matt Leinart
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[14:25]
Jerry Ferrara
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[14:42]
Kevin Dillon
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[14:44]
Jerry Ferrara
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[14:46]
Kevin Dillon
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[14:55]
Kevin Connolly
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[14:58]
Jerry Ferrara
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[15:19]
Kevin Connolly
It's GNC, baby.
[15:21]
Jerry Ferrara
Visit your GNC or GNC.com should we settle today?
[15:28]
Kevin Dillon
We know this in front of the whole crew. They are exactly the same height.
[15:32]
Jerry Ferrara
Whatever.
[15:34]
Matt Leinart
We're recording.
[15:34]
Jerry Ferrara
Are we recording?
[15:35]
Matt Leinart
Yeah, we're live.
[15:35]
Kevin Connolly
Jerry's going to get fitted golf clubs and I said, just get two pairs. Just get two of the exact same clubhead.
[15:42]
Kevin Dillon
Speed to la, right?
[15:43]
Kevin Connolly
Well, I didn't even know that.
[15:44]
Matt Leinart
I never thought we'd start this episode with doing a height check, but we got to do a high check.
[15:48]
Jerry Ferrara
Do you want to do it?
[15:48]
Kevin Connolly
I mean, do you want to do it?
[15:49]
Kevin Dillon
And then we're doing a sweat. Okay, we're gonna have to get you senior shafts.
[15:53]
Jerry Ferrara
Kevin, now I Don't care about being short. I've been short my whole life, so it's not a big shock when people are like, oh, you're so short. I'm like, yeah, I know, Dick. I've been short.
[16:02]
Kevin Connolly
Well, that's what I was saying. I was like, I'm just waiting for somebody to acknowledge that you.
[16:05]
Kevin Dillon
This is the needless point. We have gotten these guys back to back so many times on the show in front of the whole crew. They're exactly. You do exactly the same height.
[16:15]
Kevin Connolly
Somebody. Somebody spoofed us. I remember they did it. And. And I was. I was a girl. A girl played me, and someone played. They're like, how do you feel about playing a girl? I'm like, I'm just happy that they finally acknowledged that I'm taller. I'm glad somebody got.
[16:29]
Jerry Ferrara
Do you remember my response to you every time you'd say you were half inch tall? What do I always say? Do you remember?
[16:33]
Kevin Connolly
What is it?
[16:33]
Jerry Ferrara
I say? Yeah, but I just look.
[16:34]
Kevin Connolly
Oh, yeah, yeah. I just.
[16:35]
Jerry Ferrara
I just.
[16:35]
Kevin Connolly
I just feel. I just. Bigger and taller than you.
[16:38]
Jerry Ferrara
Do you want to do this right now?
[16:39]
Matt Leinart
Look, by the way, I will say bigger than him.
[16:41]
Jerry Ferrara
I 100 have shrunk in the last 10 years. Years.
[16:44]
Kevin Dillon
I think Connolly's a little older than you. He might. May have shrunk more, though.
[16:48]
Matt Leinart
Well, I got to stand up and see.
[16:49]
Kevin Dillon
There could be shrinkage. Let's. Let's take a look at this.
[16:52]
Jerry Ferrara
This is really close.
[16:54]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, I mean, I. We've done this a million times. These guys are identical.
[16:59]
Jerry Ferrara
Who's got it?
[17:01]
Matt Leinart
You know, I would say Conor's got a little hair.
[17:06]
Kevin Connolly
He's saying, I've used bigger product.
[17:08]
Jerry Ferrara
So can we find just the.
[17:09]
Matt Leinart
See, you're splitting hairs, but I would say Connolly, probably by a hair.
[17:16]
Jerry Ferrara
Well, I tried calling you last week because, Matt, on the podcast, we're talking about the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight, and he asked me a question that really, I'm like, oh, Connelly would love this question. You would, too. Matt asked, all right, if Jake Paul calls you and Connolly or even me and you, but let's use me and you, because now we're the same size, right? And they're like, hey, million apiece.
[17:34]
Kevin Connolly
Fight him at the same time.
[17:35]
Jerry Ferrara
You and Jerry get in the ring on the undercard of Tyson.
[17:38]
Kevin Connolly
Oh, oh, I thought you were saying, let's fight him at the same time. No, I wouldn' Can I rest? Sounds at least.
[17:43]
Kevin Dillon
Can I be the ref?
[17:43]
Matt Leinart
How about this? Is there someone that you would want that you Would you hate so much you dislike. I asked Jared this, like, that you would actually do, like, I want to go in a boxing match and beat out of him.
[17:54]
Kevin Connolly
I'd rather fight, like, in a bar or something.
[17:56]
Matt Leinart
Yeah. Who's it in the bar?
[17:58]
Kevin Connolly
Not in a bar, but I don't.
[17:59]
Matt Leinart
Know, like, this week, like, who is your arch nemesis?
[18:03]
Jerry Ferrara
Did I have one?
[18:04]
Matt Leinart
Seth Green.
[18:04]
Jerry Ferrara
Oh, you know what characters?
[18:07]
Kevin Dillon
Two days ago, I got. I saw Seth.
[18:10]
Jerry Ferrara
You ran into him.
[18:10]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, I got a Starbucks. He still.
[18:13]
Jerry Ferrara
He's still leans into the.
[18:14]
Kevin Dillon
Oh, he loves it.
[18:15]
Jerry Ferrara
Chase. And the chase.
[18:16]
Kevin Dillon
He's the best man. He's such a good.
[18:18]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, he's. Well, no, he's.
[18:19]
Jerry Ferrara
He's.
[18:19]
Kevin Dillon
He was telling me he could whip both of you guys.
[18:21]
Kevin Connolly
Remember? Well, remember the fight scene? We had to do the fight scene in Vegas? Do you remember that story?
[18:26]
Jerry Ferrara
I was trying, and you were just.
[18:27]
Kevin Dillon
Like, I just can't be whooped by Seth. That's that. I don't care what happens. I just.
[18:31]
Jerry Ferrara
So we all agree, no actor wants to get their ass kicked on, right? We should have.
[18:35]
Kevin Connolly
We should have thought about it.
[18:36]
Jerry Ferrara
So you.
[18:37]
Kevin Connolly
The way it works, you show up and there's a rehearsal, right? So the first thing is a stunt rehearsal. So we're all sitting there. Remember this?
[18:43]
Jerry Ferrara
I do.
[18:43]
Kevin Connolly
We're at Body English in the Hard Rock. We have our coffees.
[18:47]
Jerry Ferrara
We're shooting there.
[18:50]
Matt Leinart
I remember that.
[18:50]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, we're like. We're, like, sitting there and like, all right, all right, rehearsals up. And then the stuntmen go through the thing. I see this dude get launched over the balcony. I was like, whoa, who's that guy? And he's like, oh, yeah, that's you. I go, never happened. That's. I said, are you guys serious? What, I'm just gonna get bounced off every wall in the place on my own show? No chance. No chance. It's just like, why it.
[19:12]
Jerry Ferrara
I'm like, I.
[19:12]
Kevin Connolly
You could argue I'm doing you guys a favor. I don't know that I should get back, Right?
[19:16]
Jerry Ferrara
Why you going to make the cameo? Get his ass kicked.
[19:18]
Kevin Connolly
Then Seth says, let's just see what happens. Yes. Turning into a nightmare.
[19:23]
Jerry Ferrara
Seth said, well, let's just roll and see what happens.
[19:25]
Matt Leinart
So did you fight him?
[19:27]
Kevin Connolly
Well, we. We. We rolled for half a take. And then I said, yeah, let's see what happens.
[19:31]
Matt Leinart
So when you roll and you see what happens, you're just obviously.
[19:33]
Kevin Connolly
Well, I'm thinking, like, you know, Seth is one of those guys that could easily be like a double jiu jitsu black Belt true. He's like.
[19:39]
Matt Leinart
So you were like, damn, I might get my ass. You might actually take this serious. Yeah, right?
[19:42]
Jerry Ferrara
And remember, too, like, Adrian for a second was like, what do I do? We're like, you do nothing. You stand up, drift back to the bar, and you do. You do. Absolutely.
[19:51]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[19:51]
Jerry Ferrara
No actor wants to get beat up. Have you done scenes where you had to lose a fight because Johnny Drama was a. Was like a one shot dude.
[19:59]
Kevin Dillon
Johnny always won. He was the hero of that scene, too. I stepped in. Like, you were.
[20:04]
Kevin Connolly
Well, you solved the Seth Green event.
[20:05]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah. I'm always there for you guys, but.
[20:07]
Jerry Ferrara
You'Ve had to take a couple of.
[20:08]
Kevin Connolly
Baby, I've been a movie, got smacked.
[20:11]
Kevin Dillon
Where I had to lose. Yeah, it sucks.
[20:14]
Kevin Connolly
Remember?
[20:15]
Matt Leinart
Are you. Are you like, that was right. Are you. So you don't do. So there's no stunt doubles for those right there, are there?
[20:22]
Jerry Ferrara
Are.
[20:23]
Matt Leinart
You guys aren't doing like these big crazy action scenes, but on that one, there wasn't. You lose. Are you. Are you like, hey, hit me a little bit here or slap me or something? Like.
[20:30]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, sometimes I'll say, yeah, let's not do it a million times, but let's get one good one for the camera where you could really give me a.
[20:36]
Matt Leinart
Good, like, Tyson slap. Jake Paul, like, that was a real slap.
[20:39]
Jerry Ferrara
You guys on the victory podcast, did you ever tell the Klitschko fight story? Yeah, so, yeah, yeah, so we could talk about it real quick. All right. So one of the first live event things we ever shot out, I think even before the Laker game, because it was like episode three. It was the first we shot. You know, HBO did the fights. We shot at a Klitschko fight. Right. And it was the first time we were doing this sort of thing. It's funny because I was at Staples center two weeks ago, and we did that exact walk we do after, and we're all sitting together in a row, and then Luke Wilson is doing a cameo, doing us a solid real quick when we couldn't get cameos at all with us. So he's with us at the fight and we see him later. But we're doing the fight part. And I want to say, was it all of, like, Klitschko's family in front Klitschko? Do you remember it clearly? Because.
[21:21]
Kevin Connolly
No, I just remember we were. They were. There's a row of big guys.
[21:24]
Jerry Ferrara
Giants. Yeah, Ukraine, whatever dudes.
[21:27]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[21:28]
Jerry Ferrara
So at one point, I feel like they were just standing up a lot during the fight, and Luke was Like, hey, like, down in front. Like, no, am I wrong?
[21:36]
Kevin Dillon
Kevin Connolly took a piece of paper, crumpled it up, and threw it at. I said, hey, sit down. He threw a piece of paper and hit one of the guys.
[21:44]
Jerry Ferrara
No, no, no. Do you remember who it hit?
[21:46]
Kevin Connolly
I threw Lennox Lewis.
[21:47]
Jerry Ferrara
Lennox Lewis.
[21:49]
Matt Leinart
You did that as part of the show or just.
[21:51]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[21:55]
Kevin Dillon
He did that on his own.
[21:56]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[21:56]
Kevin Dillon
He went wrong.
[21:57]
Kevin Connolly
We were supposed to be rowdy and.
[21:59]
Matt Leinart
I'll be around Queens.
[22:00]
Kevin Dillon
Like, he meant to hit Lennox. I mean, he was going for someone.
[22:03]
Kevin Connolly
Else, but we were on.
[22:04]
Matt Leinart
Why those guys know that you were filming behind you?
[22:07]
Jerry Ferrara
That's.
[22:08]
Kevin Dillon
Knew.
[22:08]
Jerry Ferrara
No one knew but us. And he slapped, at some point, one of the giant. I don't know if he was a Klitschko relative or not. Just turned around, open hand smacks Luke Wilson in the face, and we all punk. We all kind of, like, snap into action for a minute, and then you just look at the size of the whole row.
[22:27]
Kevin Connolly
I was like, we're gonna get slaughtered.
[22:30]
Jerry Ferrara
Talk about getting beat up on your own show. That would have been.
[22:33]
Kevin Dillon
Does any of that make.
[22:34]
Matt Leinart
Make the. Did that make.
[22:35]
Jerry Ferrara
There's video of it. It did not make the cut, but that's on film.
[22:38]
Matt Leinart
Film. In that episode, you can see some of that happening. Like the.
[22:42]
Kevin Connolly
Oh, yeah.
[22:42]
Kevin Dillon
No, not really. No.
[22:43]
Kevin Connolly
I mean, I don't think. I don't think you feel the tension, but you could probably ID those dudes.
[22:47]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah, right?
[22:47]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[22:48]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[22:49]
Jerry Ferrara
And then we.
[22:49]
Kevin Dillon
Good idea.
[22:50]
Kevin Connolly
That was a good one.
[22:51]
Jerry Ferrara
Would you say we were, like, a competitive group, the four of. Well, the three of us, I should say. Within each other, of course. Right.
[22:57]
Matt Leinart
Three of us. You just leave out Adrian.
[22:58]
Jerry Ferrara
Adrian's not a competitive guy.
[23:00]
Kevin Dillon
Any sport. If. If we're playing basketball, we're throwing snowballs at each other. It's anything.
[23:06]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah. I talk about this with. With Matt, and Matt's been in some movies. He's been on sets. We're gonna. We're gonna get you later with something. But I think, you know, actors don't always get reputations of being, like, tough or whatever you two have. And I say this to my dying day. I would put what you guys did up with any NFL injury, any. Anything, because you saved a photo shoot. That was not going to happen. Happen. We finally got. This is like season four. We got excited because we got the Entertainment Weekly cover, which is a big deal at the time.
[23:40]
Kevin Connolly
I don't even think it was that, bro.
[23:41]
Kevin Dillon
I think it was our first cover.
[23:42]
Kevin Connolly
I think it was like. No, it was something Bigger than that.
[23:44]
Jerry Ferrara
It was like Vanity Fair. Or Vanity Fair. Yeah. I thought it was entertainment inside. We were the COVID story. Inside part. And, you know, you find out weeks in advance. And then I know you guys have maybe told it the night before, maybe it was two days before the night before. We're shooting a scene where. And it was like a nothing scene. Connolly's character pulls up. We're just shooting around in, like, the driveway. And Adrian and Dylan in character, just like shooting around. Playing a little one on one almost, but not like half speed, right?
[24:15]
Kevin Connolly
Make some moves like you try to do like a shake and like, you know.
[24:18]
Kevin Dillon
And Adrian was trying to play a little too much defense at that stage.
[24:22]
Jerry Ferrara
Dangling everywhere.
[24:23]
Kevin Connolly
He's not going to be playing any offense anyway.
[24:25]
Kevin Dillon
I landed on his. His foot. Yeah, my arm. My hand landed between the pavers. They put the basketball hoop in a terrible spot because it looked good for the shot.
[24:35]
Kevin Connolly
It was uneven.
[24:37]
Kevin Dillon
My hand landed in between the pavers. I had a compound fracture in my arm, popped out.
[24:42]
Jerry Ferrara
I remember Dylan falls and with his arm down, and he just starts going, broken arm, broken arm, broken arm. And we're like, okay, dude. And then there, where we shot, there was a fountain. And his instinct was he took off. He put his arm in the fountain. He was looking for something, anything cold.
[24:58]
Kevin Dillon
And then we looked up here.
[25:00]
Jerry Ferrara
I was like, get me a van.
[25:02]
Kevin Connolly
Immediately. Gut wrenching.
[25:03]
Jerry Ferrara
We called Doug. Didn't you call Doug Allen? You're like, show's over, bro. Oh, we shut down.
[25:09]
Matt Leinart
The next day is what? The photo.
[25:10]
Jerry Ferrara
The next morning is the photo shoot.
[25:13]
Kevin Dillon
I had a. Yeah, I. I went to Cedar Sinai and I had a. They. They operated on me. They put a plate in there and a bunch of screws.
[25:19]
Jerry Ferrara
We all think, all right, we're clearly not doing the photo shoot. We're concerned about him. So it's like, all right, maybe we'll get the photo shoot down there. And then like, Rocky Balboa, it's like, no, bro, I'll be at that photo shoot. I think next morning.
[25:35]
Kevin Dillon
We gotta make.
[25:35]
Kevin Connolly
You got hurt on Friday. You got the surgery on Saturday, and you were at the photo shoot on Sunday.
[25:39]
Jerry Ferrara
And if you look, they put.
[25:41]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, it's the next day.
[25:42]
Jerry Ferrara
I think it was the next day.
[25:43]
Kevin Dillon
The next day. It was Saturday.
[25:45]
Jerry Ferrara
We'll show these photos.
[25:47]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, no, it was the very.
[25:48]
Matt Leinart
You have you broken surgery and photo shoot the same day? We'll just tell that.
[25:51]
Jerry Ferrara
We'll show the photos now.
[25:53]
Kevin Dillon
Even better.
[25:53]
Kevin Connolly
And he's.
[25:54]
Kevin Dillon
But you know what? I'll tell you what. If you see, if you see the COVID I look so bloated because I was on an iv, so I look really puffy.
[26:01]
Jerry Ferrara
And we hid your hand.
[26:04]
Kevin Dillon
Hide my arm behind some of the other guys.
[26:06]
Jerry Ferrara
And is there still metal in your arm from that?
[26:08]
Kevin Dillon
Oh, yeah. I still got a plate and I.
[26:09]
Kevin Connolly
Got screws and his is gnarly, bro.
[26:12]
Jerry Ferrara
And so that to me is iron man. So I'm sticking up for our actors. And then Connolly speaking about our time.
[26:17]
Matt Leinart
The hardest hit I ever got hit in the NFL after this.
[26:20]
Jerry Ferrara
Well, Connolly and I are competitive, I think, in a healthy way. Right. We talk to each other. He breaks my balls. 20 and 10. We'll get to that. Don't worry.
[26:31]
Matt Leinart
These celebrity all star games he played.
[26:35]
Kevin Connolly
Average 20 and 10 in high school.
[26:37]
Jerry Ferrara
Average 2010 in high school.
[26:41]
Kevin Connolly
Would have went to Duke. What are you talking. I started with the new Blue Devils.
[26:46]
Matt Leinart
Five foot six.
[26:47]
Kevin Connolly
Was it 12 and 10? 10. And you were double. Double average.
[26:50]
Jerry Ferrara
I said four games. I put. I went on a run where he.
[26:54]
Kevin Connolly
Actually pulled out an article too. He did pull out a blurb. He did pull out.
[26:58]
Jerry Ferrara
I'll be at somewhere I'll hear from across an event. 2010. I'm like, oh, Connolly's here. That's fantastic.
[27:04]
Kevin Connolly
I just think it's an egregious stat.
[27:07]
Kevin Dillon
You did have a great. That super bowl flag football game. Jerry was unstoppable. He was unbelievable. I'm sure you heard about that.
[27:16]
Jerry Ferrara
Well, this is why we got to get Matt back.
[27:17]
Kevin Connolly
But he was like, he's a very ungracious in his mvp. Have you seen this footage?
[27:22]
Jerry Ferrara
No, he was. I took on the heel character. Like the late, great Tony Saragusa was doing the sideline. Right.
[27:29]
Matt Leinart
The beach.
[27:29]
Jerry Ferrara
This is the direct TV beach ball. So. But it's good on tv.
[27:33]
Kevin Connolly
It looks organized on tv. It looks like a real.
[27:35]
Jerry Ferrara
I caught a TD and a. And a two point conversion. And Sarah Gusa grabs me. He's like, Jerry Garden. And he grabs me, by the way, hurt. He's like such a big guy. And he's like, jerry, your team's down, but you're playing really well. What would you say to the rest of your team? I just went, play like me.
[27:48]
Kevin Connolly
Believe this. I said, congratulations. And. And I can't believe that you would be sore. Winner.
[27:55]
Jerry Ferrara
You were pissed.
[27:56]
Kevin Connolly
Wildly unlikable Jerry. Wildly unlikeable.
[27:59]
Jerry Ferrara
Well, speaking.
[27:59]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, play like me, he says. And then you had a couple. Didn't you do like a weird.
[28:02]
Jerry Ferrara
I did a sand angel, scored a.
[28:05]
Kevin Connolly
Touchdown and did a sand angel on the desk.
[28:07]
Jerry Ferrara
All right, now you tell me what you think of this though. So when we're shooting the movie, right? And we had, for whatever reason, we had a lot of NFL players, everyone. Matt, you should have been there, by the way. But we had Russell Wilson, Clay Matthews, Gronk, Edelman. You remember this, Dylan.
[28:20]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, all these guys there was like.
[28:22]
Jerry Ferrara
200 and we had a. It was on the beach. And they're like, you know what's a great idea, Russ? Why don't you throw Connolly and Jerry some routes? All right. So we immediately get competitive. I run. No, no, no. Russ tells me, he tells me to run an out route, I think, right, Okay. I run a little five yard out and Connolly drops his shoulder and lays me out on the beach.
[28:46]
Kevin Connolly
I wrap my arms on him like, Jerry, I love you. I had no choice. I had no choice. The camera was rolling.
[28:51]
Jerry Ferrara
So now it's starting to get compared. Now Connoll switch. Conley's on offense. They. I forget whatever route you drove.
[28:56]
Kevin Connolly
Air mailed me, Russ.
[28:58]
Jerry Ferrara
Well, Russ threw a high one, but you catch it, right?
[29:01]
Kevin Connolly
No, no, no.
[29:02]
Jerry Ferrara
He.
[29:02]
Kevin Connolly
He didn't want me. He didn't want me to go out like. Cuz there's the cliff. Oh, I want to go deep and out into the court. He's like, no, no, no, cut in. I was like, no. He's like, we run the play and he air mails it. Threw the ball off the ledge.
[29:14]
Jerry Ferrara
That's not when you got the injury.
[29:15]
Kevin Connolly
No. Then I said, all right, I'll go in.
[29:16]
Jerry Ferrara
Then they. Yes.
[29:17]
Kevin Connolly
Then I came in and Jerry lined me up. Up and broke.
[29:19]
Jerry Ferrara
I lined. Well, I lined him up, I wrapped him up, I have him. And then this starts extending for the end zone.
[29:27]
Matt Leinart
Break the plane.
[29:28]
Jerry Ferrara
I was gonna let go, but now he's trying to break the plane. So I grabbed tight and then he like dies for it. And I slid down his body and we just heard like. It was like chopsticks. Do you remember what I said to you?
[29:39]
Kevin Connolly
The first words was that.
[29:40]
Jerry Ferrara
I said, what was that? He's like, that's my leg, my leg.
[29:43]
Kevin Dillon
Oh my God.
[29:44]
Kevin Connolly
I was. And by the way, it was. First of all was there was a four day thing and this is like 10:30 in the morning on day one. I'm like, dude, I knew. I was like, I mean, I up. Really? But are we allowed to curse? Yeah, yeah, I knew I that one up, right?
[29:54]
Jerry Ferrara
But do you remember the first attendant on the scene who came up and diagnosed you?
[29:58]
Kevin Connolly
Edelman.
[29:59]
Jerry Ferrara
It was.
[29:59]
Kevin Connolly
Edelman goes, you're fine, bro. It's a high ankle sprain, right?
[30:03]
Kevin Dillon
I was like, I don't remember what I said. I said, that's broken.
[30:06]
Jerry Ferrara
Dylan was the only one who thought it was broke.
[30:08]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, Yeah. I said, that's broken. Works a whole day bending it.
[30:11]
Jerry Ferrara
He works a whole day with a high ankle sprain. Gron's telling him, just tie your shoes tight at the end of the day.
[30:17]
Kevin Connolly
Don't take your shoes off.
[30:19]
Jerry Ferrara
Keep them on at the end of the day. I just remember looking at Kevin. He's like, guys, I. I really think I need to go to the hospital. Like, all right, let's. We finished the day. Let's get him the hospitals. How many breaks did you have?
[30:28]
Kevin Connolly
No, I. When I did. No, we did the third. On the end of the third day, I was like, I can't. I had, like, tears streaming down my face, but I had sunglasses on.
[30:35]
Kevin Dillon
Do you remember what we did? You. We had to hit a mark. And he couldn't barely walk.
[30:39]
Kevin Connolly
So I barely walk in this scene.
[30:40]
Kevin Dillon
You can see this in the scene. I basically. I put my arm around you grab.
[30:44]
Kevin Connolly
Me by my belt, right?
[30:45]
Kevin Dillon
I thought I got under. I grabbed you by the belt.
[30:48]
Kevin Connolly
And I couldn't hit five or six feet away. It looks natural movie, though.
[30:53]
Matt Leinart
But if you know it, this is the movie.
[30:55]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, he grabbed me by the.
[30:57]
Kevin Dillon
I was like, we're going to hit that mark no matter what it looked like.
[31:00]
Kevin Connolly
I was just, like, gliding across.
[31:01]
Kevin Dillon
I get my wedgie and put him on his mark.
[31:03]
Matt Leinart
That was bad, by the way. Just. Actors are tough, man. I just changed all my.
[31:06]
Jerry Ferrara
Do you have a different imperson impression now of us?
[31:09]
Matt Leinart
Not at all.
[31:09]
Kevin Dillon
Oh, these three are. They're not all tough.
[31:12]
Kevin Connolly
You know, in the. In the movie, remember when there's the shot where we're driving the Lincoln through the sound stage back lot? That was only because that was us walking. And then when my. I broke my leg, they're like, let's just put them in the link. And it ended up driving.
[31:25]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah. Yeah.
[31:26]
Jerry Ferrara
So your leg break got us. What's your hardest hit?
[31:30]
Matt Leinart
So the worst week of my life. So I'm playing. It's 2007. We're playing Pittsburgh at home. And I basically. This is James Harrison Palomalu. Intimidates.
[31:43]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[31:43]
Matt Leinart
And so I go bootleg roll out. And James Harrison just comes free. And James Harrison's about 5, 10, 250 pounds. He's just mean. And I'm just like. And I immediately. My thought to get out. I see him and I. My thought is just to kind of jump and just throw a jump ball over him to the flat and just, like, take the hit. That's just what happened in real time. Time that happens. He picks me up, like, by my waist and just pile drives me straight down.
[32:13]
Kevin Dillon
That was back when you were allowed.
[32:14]
Matt Leinart
To do that, right?
[32:15]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[32:15]
Matt Leinart
No, he literally pile drives me and.
[32:17]
Kevin Dillon
Wow.
[32:18]
Matt Leinart
So. So, like, I took a lot of. Guys take a lot of pride, like, if you get hit to get. Just get back up, get back.
[32:24]
Jerry Ferrara
Don't show them.
[32:25]
Matt Leinart
I did it. Like, I did it when I broke my collarbone. I got back up, and I could feel it. I was just like, oh. And I just, like, in my mind, I was like, it's not over. It's not over. And then I'm like, I called timeout. I was like, it's over. This was. Was in Houston. So I'm on the ground and I'm like, this. And I'm like, oh, I can't move. I couldn't move my back. I wasn't. I could move everything. I was just like. So it's the only time in my career where I was out. I was down. Like, the trainers came out and they're like, you're all right. I said, yeah, I think whatever. So I sat out of play. I finished the game.
[32:52]
Jerry Ferrara
You finished the game?
[32:54]
Matt Leinart
Got a little tord. All shot. Finished the game.
[32:57]
Kevin Dillon
What kind of shot?
[32:58]
Matt Leinart
All right. In the ass. You can't do that anymore.
[33:01]
Kevin Connolly
What does it do? It just buys you.
[33:02]
Matt Leinart
It's basically instant. Yeah, it's basically instant. Like cortisone. It just in.
[33:06]
Jerry Ferrara
Boom.
[33:06]
Matt Leinart
You have three hours. You feel like Superman.
[33:09]
Kevin Dillon
Wow.
[33:09]
Matt Leinart
So they. They.
[33:10]
Jerry Ferrara
But after that three hours is up, then.
[33:11]
Matt Leinart
Well, I was like. I basically had a back contusion. My whole lower back, my right butt cheek all the way down to my hamstring was the color of my pants. You couldn't. It was black and purple.
[33:24]
Kevin Dillon
Oh, my God.
[33:25]
Matt Leinart
So I got all this treatment for three days, four days. I missed practice. I couldn't move. I played the next Sunday. So Sunday to Sunday broke my collarbone. That next week against the Rams. And that was. That's. And that's. We had Kurt Warner. We had Kurt Warner on.
[33:39]
Jerry Ferrara
Oh, yeah.
[33:40]
Matt Leinart
And that was like, when he took over, and then he ended up taking the job. But it was the worst seven days.
[33:45]
Kevin Dillon
It was, wow.
[33:46]
Matt Leinart
James, Harrison, we are tough, but that.
[33:48]
Jerry Ferrara
Sounds like one of them.
[33:52]
Kevin Dillon
Did you.
[33:52]
Matt Leinart
Back contusion.
[33:53]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[33:54]
Kevin Connolly
It's like getting hit by it.
[33:55]
Matt Leinart
But, like, when you're getting tackled and you just feel. You feel the. You feel Your bone crack. You're like, yeah, like. You're like, oh. Like. And it doesn't hurt right away. All of a sudden, it's like, oh, God. Like, afterward, the.
[34:08]
Kevin Connolly
The one time I was doing this movie in Puerto Rico and I got the flu, and it was the only time that I could not answer the bell, man.
[34:15]
Jerry Ferrara
You couldn't work.
[34:15]
Kevin Connolly
I didn't have any dialogue. They're like, all you have to do is stand there. I said, I know. I'm looking at. I know what I got. I can't.
[34:20]
Kevin Dillon
Should have showed up, bro.
[34:21]
Kevin Connolly
I can't stand up. I tried, bro. I tried. It was awful.
[34:24]
Kevin Dillon
You know what's another crazy thing was when I broke.
[34:26]
Matt Leinart
Broke.
[34:26]
Kevin Dillon
When I broke my wrist, I got the guy in the van taking me to Cedar Sinai. He's looking at my arm, so it's my right arm, by the way. I broke them both. That's why you were. But I'm holding up my. It had an S shape in the arm. And he's looking at it the whole time, like, trying to throw up. He gets to Cedar Sinai, pulls up the ramp, runs around to get the door for me, forgets to put it in drive and park, leaves it in drive, and the thing starts rolling down the hill. So now I had to reach over.
[34:55]
Jerry Ferrara
Someone's trying to kill Dylan today.
[34:58]
Kevin Connolly
Like, straddled over the things I had.
[35:01]
Kevin Dillon
To put the brake on.
[35:03]
Kevin Connolly
That was wild.
[35:04]
Matt Leinart
I was. I was asking Jerry this. When you guys, like, going back to the beginning, when you're auditioning for this show and obviously iconic show and the chemistry you guys had. What. What was it like when you first auditioned and you're all getting to know each other? Because I asked. Jerry was like, did you, like, were you and Connelly Boys or like, you guys obviously have a competitive relationship. What were. What were those relationships like early on? Was it like, synergy right away?
[35:26]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah.
[35:27]
Kevin Dillon
Right.
[35:27]
Kevin Connolly
I mean, we had a lot in common, all of us.
[35:29]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah. We're all New York.
[35:30]
Jerry Ferrara
And we. We didn't know each other. Everyone automatically assumes, oh, you guys must have known each other a little bit. Right. And I had never met. I was. I. I really hadn't worked all that much at that point. I'd done, like, little things here and there, but obviously I'm like, I know Dylan from Platoon and the Doors and Connolly. I've been. I was watching his sitcom when I was a kid. So I know these guys. Right. I know of them, and. But I always say it's the thing that you and I think it's Similar with sports. We're talking to Flaherty about it, too. It's like you can't cast chemistry. It either kind of happens or it doesn't. Now, sometimes you cannot have chemistry in a movie or show. Could still be good, but it helps to have the chemistry. And I do think that we just had it early on. I can't point to why, other than maybe it's because we're all from New York and.
[36:15]
Kevin Dillon
Well, I remember when we first met was at the audition. You were sitting out there, you had a Giants jersey.
[36:20]
Jerry Ferrara
I did have a Giant jersey.
[36:21]
Kevin Connolly
How many jerseys They've changed?
[36:22]
Kevin Dillon
It might have been L10, J. LT.
[36:24]
Jerry Ferrara
I think it was Seahorn. I want to say this goes back.
[36:28]
Kevin Dillon
To my job as a Giants fan. I'm like, hey, what's up? Me too. I'm like, hey, you got another smoke?
[36:34]
Matt Leinart
He was.
[36:37]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah, big Giant Giants fan.
[36:38]
Kevin Dillon
I must have mooched, like five cigarettes off you. Like, sorry about that. Then I see him at another audition. Once again, I got no smokes.
[36:45]
Jerry Ferrara
I think I did New Jersey.
[36:46]
Kevin Dillon
You got another smoke, bro.
[36:48]
Matt Leinart
This wasn't an audition.
[36:50]
Kevin Dillon
This was like, earlier on, I guess we did about six. There's a lot of four auditions. And then the screen test all heads up again.
[37:01]
Jerry Ferrara
Final day, where it's like, cut day. It's the test right where the net, HBO is there, all the producers. And then you're in the waiting room and you have like, there's like three actors for Turtle. I could see the other Turtles. You could see the other. There was no other dramas. They have to.
[37:15]
Kevin Dillon
I didn't know there was no other drama.
[37:17]
Jerry Ferrara
I tried no other drama.
[37:18]
Kevin Dillon
I tried to tell you a couple guys.
[37:20]
Matt Leinart
Was there ever, like. So you were auditioning for Turtle with other guys. Did some of the other guys, did they ever become, like, big time actors? Yeah, there's like, missed out. You know, you always hear that, like, oh, they could have had that role, but they missed out.
[37:32]
Kevin Connolly
It's not missing out. It's not. You're either the guy or you're not.
[37:35]
Matt Leinart
Who. Who were they?
[37:36]
Jerry Ferrara
Like, well, I know what you. You an actor named Dash who was on Ray Donovan for years. He's been in a million thing. Never stop.
[37:43]
Kevin Connolly
More than anybody.
[37:44]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah, but I know I almost didn't get it because everyone's concern was always like, like, me and Dylan, like, there's like, not that big of an age gap, but these guys are supposed to be in high school together. And I get like, that's why they made me. I. That's why Turtle always had a beard. I couldn't even grow a beard back then. And they put me in these, like, baggy jerseys because they were trying to make me look older. And basically they told me, like, if you don't. If you're not going to get. It's because you're too young. You're 23, and you look like you're 12.
[38:09]
Kevin Connolly
No, the deep dives on the show, nobody ever said.
[38:12]
Jerry Ferrara
Ever mentioned, like, there's no way Turtle and Johnny Drama went to height. Never was a thing, right?
[38:16]
Kevin Connolly
Not one time.
[38:16]
Jerry Ferrara
No one ever mentioned. Mentioned it. But yeah, like, the.
[38:19]
Kevin Dillon
They also made. Like, I was let back a couple years later.
[38:24]
Jerry Ferrara
But I will say, too. Do you think what Wahlberg did helped with. But we shot the pilot, and then when we got picked up, there's a big time gap in between shooting the pilot and when HBO makes the decision, like, all right, we're gonna go with your show. Once we got word, we're gonna start shooting in, like, three weeks. Wahlberg says, all right, I'm gonna take you guys on a private plane. Now, me, I've never flown. I've flown three times in my life.
[38:48]
Kevin Connolly
Let alone PJ Maloofs.
[38:50]
Jerry Ferrara
Right? We're gonna go to Vegas. We're gonna go to an HBO fight. We're gonna roll together. We're like, research. We'll do some research. And I remember rolling up to the Burbank airport, like, I got a tail number. I thought meeting Mark Wahlberg, they're like, get the out. That's awesome.
[39:04]
Kevin Connolly
Do you remember what fight that was?
[39:05]
Jerry Ferrara
It was Roy Jones Tarver. No, wasn't it Corrales?
[39:10]
Kevin Connolly
Wasn't it, like, something crazy?
[39:11]
Jerry Ferrara
Or maybe it was like one of the Coralis.
[39:13]
Kevin Connolly
Coralis fight.
[39:14]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah. It was an insane fight.
[39:16]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[39:16]
Jerry Ferrara
But we go on a private plane to Vegas, the four of us, with Mark and, like, three of his boys, and we just had an amazing weekend, right. And came back, and it was very evident at that moment, like, okay, we got the. We got the chemistry. We really do.
[39:30]
Kevin Connolly
It was fun.
[39:30]
Jerry Ferrara
I guess it's kind of like that in sports, too, right? You can't. You don't know coming in, like, hey, me and Larry Fitzgerald are going to have this amazing. You just don't know. It either happens or it doesn't.
[39:39]
Kevin Connolly
I actually have a theory as well. Like, we were never any competition for each other.
[39:43]
Matt Leinart
Right.
[39:44]
Kevin Connolly
You know, like, Kevin and Jeremy were a little bit more experienced and a little bit older roles.
[39:49]
Matt Leinart
Yeah.
[39:49]
Kevin Connolly
It wasn't like, you know, Jerry, you know, Adrian was, you know, In a band as well. And like the Honey Brothers, there's never any real direct competition.
[39:58]
Kevin Dillon
The tricky part was the. The screen test was knowing who's who. You know, I remember the times I was calling ue and I'm like, oh, wait, he's. He. Okay, I gotta figure out who's who.
[40:08]
Jerry Ferrara
I did. I did have a surreal Wahlberg moment at the test. You remember, like, what they do is. Was. It's almost like the Olympics. You're gonna do your individual read, and then we're gonna pair you up. I go in for my individual read, and it was like, I thought it was okay. I was just doing what I normally thought I was doing. I come back out to that awful waiting room where everyone's nervous, and Wahlberg comes out. I'd never met Wahlberg at this point, and he's, like, pointing at someone, and he's, like, motioning. I'm like, he's motioning for me. So I walk over, and he puts his arm around me. He's like, listen, that was fine, what you did in there. But like. Like, you know that moment everyone talks about, like, this is your moment. This your moment. You're like, kind of it up. Like, I don't care. He said to me, I don't care about the script. I don't care. Just go do what you've been do. Be yourself. Stop being nervous.
[40:50]
Matt Leinart
This is already after. This was.
[40:53]
Jerry Ferrara
I didn't get the part. I made it to the final three. It's like the final three. We're dueling to the day.
[40:58]
Matt Leinart
So he wanted you. He was like, I want this kid to.
[41:01]
Jerry Ferrara
I think in their mind, like, maybe I was the leader in the clubhouse, but by saw, he said, I've seen your take tapes. I know it. Like, I don't know if, like, he even sound like, be me. Be more New York. Like, just have more attitude. And it was like the greatest cup of coffee, you know? I remember walking back, like, holy, I gotta step it up. And then what Gets real nerve wracking. They send people home.
[41:22]
Matt Leinart
Yeah.
[41:22]
Jerry Ferrara
They're like, okay, you can go, Kevin. And in the very end, it was like, kevin, Kevin, Jerry. And I think it was a different Adrian. You four stay. Come on in. And we read together, and you just walk home, and you still don't know. You still don't know when you leave.
[41:36]
Kevin Connolly
Leave. They couldn't get Adrian out of. Out of Mexico. Out of Mexico.
[41:40]
Jerry Ferrara
Adrian was like, Vince was hiding in Mexico. Adrian wasn't at the test.
[41:45]
Kevin Connolly
So they.
[41:45]
Matt Leinart
Why was he hiding in Mexico?
[41:47]
Kevin Connolly
God, Only knows.
[41:48]
Jerry Ferrara
I just don't even think that he. At that point, he was like, living on the. Yeah, he. I don't think he cared much if he got it or not. I didn't think he knows. Knew how much he was up for.
[41:58]
Kevin Connolly
The role, but he put himself on tape and someone in the office cut my audition and his audition together.
[42:04]
Matt Leinart
I mean, that's his biggest role. I mean, that's.
[42:06]
Jerry Ferrara
Well, yeah.
[42:07]
Matt Leinart
Yeah.
[42:07]
Jerry Ferrara
I mean, I don't think he knew even at the time.
[42:10]
Kevin Connolly
And hindsight is 20.
[42:11]
Jerry Ferrara
Of course, I do remember, the president of HBO at the time was like, you guys have no Vince, so you have no show. Show's not getting made. We didn't have Vince at that. We had. We were locked in. Vince was not cast. And then that editor made that tape of Connolly's audition. He cut it with Adrian's audition tape. And Chris Albrecht watched it and went. Went, okay, you guys could go make the pilot.
[42:29]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[42:29]
Jerry Ferrara
And that was it.
[42:30]
Kevin Connolly
So remember the opening scene, the reach, the change of the scene? We shot? We shot the original opening of the pilot, which is like a three or four page scene.
[42:39]
Jerry Ferrara
I heard it wasn't great. It was us at Tom Bergens, wasn't it?
[42:44]
Matt Leinart
Tom Bergens. Tom Bergens had a couple nights in Tom Bergens.
[42:47]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[42:47]
Jerry Ferrara
You've definitely had a couple of nights at Tom. I mean, so we're doing this.04. You're at USC. Were you guys, like, watching Entourage?
[42:54]
Matt Leinart
Me and we ran into each other.
[42:57]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah.
[42:57]
Matt Leinart
Far too often. I never, never ran into you. Yeah, we were like, talking, like, man, we were in LA at the same time, and I was like, yeah, I used to run into Connolly all the time. Like, we were like. Like, when we saw each other, boys, like, whatever, knew a lot of the people in the same circle.
[43:12]
Jerry Ferrara
We.
[43:12]
Matt Leinart
Yeah, Entourage was number one for. For all of us. And it was like, I. I got labeled, like, going into NFL, like, labeled the Hollywood guy.
[43:22]
Jerry Ferrara
That was like what they would say on espn and. Right. Hollywood quarterback.
[43:26]
Matt Leinart
I was telling Jim, so I'm in. I'm in OTAs or summer Arizona rookie year. And there's this middle linebacker, like, eight years in. And he was my boy, but he's like, this isn't a play. We're going like, you know, whatever. Vinnie Chase. Vinnie Chase is in. Boys, like, literally, like, I could not escape it. And so I was.
[43:45]
Jerry Ferrara
He.
[43:46]
Matt Leinart
Literally, to this day, if I saw him right now, he'd be like, what's up, Vinnie? He was. I was just to him.
[43:50]
Kevin Dillon
Wow.
[43:50]
Matt Leinart
And then I never said this before. So I was. Was in the. At the NFL combine. And in the combine, you basically do like. Like, speed dating. At one point, you just go around with every coach, whoever wants to meet with you, five minutes, whatever. And then there's about four or five teams who are interested in seeing where, like, hey, we could draft him here. They'll grill you for, like, a 20. Like, a room like this. You're. You're in front of eight gms, all this stuff, and they just grill you. And mine was Sean Payton, and he was with the Saints because they were picking two, and I was. Yeah, Sean's awesome.
[44:22]
Kevin Dillon
So great.
[44:23]
Matt Leinart
I'm in this. And I had visited out there. Like, it was a real thing. I ended up taking Reggie, my teammate, but it's a real thing for them to possibly draft me. And the whole session was about entourage and Holly.
[44:35]
Jerry Ferrara
Serious.
[44:36]
Matt Leinart
Swear to God.
[44:37]
Jerry Ferrara
He.
[44:37]
Matt Leinart
He referenced. He's like, yeah, he was referencing Entourage and, like, that.
[44:42]
Jerry Ferrara
I'm part of the combine. This is great.
[44:44]
Matt Leinart
No, and I was a part of it, like, because. Right, Because I. Because I was just. I had this label, like.
[44:48]
Kevin Connolly
Like, as a concern. Like a concern.
[44:50]
Matt Leinart
Like, yeah, because they're gonna be a problem. Exactly. They're about to invest millions of dollars just like, hey, what's. What's up? Entre. You know, we have this Entourage thing. Like, everyone. That was the whole thing.
[44:59]
Jerry Ferrara
Wow.
[44:59]
Matt Leinart
It was maybe five minutes of football, and I. I could, like, talk football, right? So it was like. The other one was like, who are these people? Why do you have so many people around you? And it was just like, you always.
[45:08]
Kevin Connolly
Friends.
[45:09]
Jerry Ferrara
Stop hating on entourages, bro.
[45:11]
Matt Leinart
No, he always says, like, how he gets, like, the parallels of athletes having an entourage and how that.
[45:15]
Jerry Ferrara
So strange.
[45:16]
Matt Leinart
Like, your show is really, like, honestly, looking back, like, I lived that with my entourage of my boys, and I had good ones. I had guys that you just kind of weed out as you get older, you know, because they take advantage.
[45:27]
Kevin Connolly
Well, they weed themselves out or they weed them.
[45:29]
Matt Leinart
So that's why the show is so great, because it still stands the test of time. Like, it's still. Like, you said Zion. Zion came up to you.
[45:35]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah. After a Knicks game one time, I. I'm getting ready to leave, and I just, like, this giant clap on my shoulder, and I look inside. I literally flinched. I was like, holy Zion Williamson with up. He's like, hey, man. When I was injured last year, I binged entourage. I'd never seen it before, and it. It got me through. And he literally looked at me, and he went, I I just wish I had like a turtle or a drama. And like, almost. Not that I felt bad for him, almost like, man, I hope you got people. And I'm sure he does have good people around him, but he really looked at me. I just wish I had like, kind of like what we had on the.
[46:07]
Kevin Dillon
Show more than just binge on entourage.
[46:08]
Jerry Ferrara
He. Yeah.
[46:09]
Kevin Dillon
Packed on a couple pounds.
[46:11]
Jerry Ferrara
Well. But now he's in great shape. Now he's in great shape. He's in really, really good shape.
[46:15]
Kevin Dillon
For years wanted imagine.
[46:16]
Matt Leinart
I mean, it's different. But how. For how you guys are living in that time, like, that's. You're consuming your life. You're living it like off camera in real life. I know we used to run each other in Hollywood and stuff. Like, how is there. Does it relate to any of you guys? And you're off or you're just like, this is work. You go to. You go to work every day. You get home, you go to your families or whatever. Was there, like, were you living that in reality too? To some degree?
[46:38]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[46:38]
Kevin Dillon
Kevin was. I was not. I was living in Malibu.
[46:43]
Matt Leinart
I mean, you're like.
[46:44]
Kevin Dillon
Had a small child at home.
[46:46]
Kevin Connolly
You know, this is ridiculous.
[46:49]
Kevin Dillon
No, but I was a party. I was in a nightclubs.
[46:51]
Kevin Connolly
Like you were. You were a little bit.
[46:53]
Matt Leinart
A little bit.
[46:53]
Kevin Connolly
You're on a bar stool. You're on a bar stool. I was just in a different. It's just a different format, Dylan. It's the same thing at the end of the day. No, no, I listen to a certain extent, like, it just kind of. Yeah, I mean, I guess it was what it was. I remember. Do you remember the first. I have I first time at the Playboy Mansion? You remember that? Jerry and I went to the Playboy Mansion. It was. I mean, it was that kind of stuff. But it's just also a different time then too. People now are just, you know, you're gun shy, right? Nobody. It's just like everything's on. You're always on.
[47:22]
Jerry Ferrara
I feel like Adrian spoke about this too. I think for him, I got a little blurry at times. Like I'm playing this, right? Larger than life movie star. And then he's, you know, in a healthy way, he's going out, living his life, having fun. I think he has talked later saying, like, yeah, it got real blurry, right. For me, I was always was afraid to like get fired or something because I always thought I was the most experienced on the show. I mean, you know, you say you've been. I mean, when'd you Start acting.
[47:48]
Kevin Connolly
I mean, I. I've been doing it right, you know, Like, Dylan was.
[47:51]
Kevin Dillon
Dylan was commercial.
[47:53]
Kevin Connolly
Dylan was in two best Picture.
[47:54]
Jerry Ferrara
Dylan was in two best pictures with.
[47:56]
Kevin Connolly
The greatest hair in the history.
[47:58]
Jerry Ferrara
So for me, I was always like a good mullet. I would go out here or there, but I just was always afraid, like, you're gonna this up.
[48:04]
Kevin Connolly
I would try to beat you out once in a while. You get him out.
[48:07]
Jerry Ferrara
I was. I was a bad had. Like, I never saw.
[48:09]
Matt Leinart
I never saw you out one time.
[48:11]
Jerry Ferrara
Go out a lot. I was always in relationships.
[48:13]
Kevin Connolly
Later on.
[48:13]
Jerry Ferrara
Later on, I had my moment of, like, all right, I'm just gonna enjoy this a little more. I moved to West Hollywood.
[48:19]
Kevin Connolly
We had a sleepover. We had slept over.
[48:21]
Matt Leinart
Jerry.
[48:21]
Kevin Dillon
Let's call it like it is. Connolly and Adrian were partying a lot. Kevin would walk. He would show up in the morning with red eyes. Like, he looked like he had been maced. He's like, give me some of those blue drops. You put these blue Visine drops in there.
[48:36]
Jerry Ferrara
Do you guys remember our first year at the Golden Globes? And I bring it up. Yeah.
[48:41]
Kevin Dillon
When we busted each other's jobs.
[48:44]
Kevin Connolly
By the way, you really ran with that one, so.
[48:47]
Jerry Ferrara
All right, I'm going Golden Globes for a minute. Because one, we didn't really expect to get nominated for a Golden Globe. Yeah. It was shocking. And we go and it was the first and only time. And it just timed out this way. Our first day of shooting season two was the Monday morning after the Sunday party. And all I really remember was we went to all the parties, had this great night. And I remember getting back to my apartment, putting my head on the pillow. And then my alarm basically went right to work. And we went right. No sleep. Right to work. It was a rough hair and makeup trail.
[49:17]
Kevin Connolly
And it was like. But it was. It was just like a shot. We just had to get in there. We were out by, like, 10, but we had to go in there. And it was just like. Just pull it together.
[49:24]
Jerry Ferrara
Just pull. We just gotta make it through this.
[49:27]
Kevin Connolly
Rally and get through the next 12 minutes. And you'll be in your car on the way home.
[49:32]
Jerry Ferrara
Now, I might have butchered this story. You have a good memory with this. I tried to tell the us in the bathroom at the Golden Globe stories. I might have had details incorrect. I want to make sure I got. I think this is the funniest thing.
[49:45]
Kevin Dillon
You want to tell a cab or you want me to.
[49:47]
Jerry Ferrara
Just make sure I said it right? Do you remember it?
[49:49]
Kevin Connolly
Well, so listen The Golden Globes. The fun thing about the Golden Globes, the best part, that you were at a table. You're not in. Like, you're not in the auditorium.
[49:55]
Jerry Ferrara
You can have some drinks.
[49:58]
Kevin Dillon
We got to kind of start this off on what happened at the red carpet.
[50:01]
Jerry Ferrara
What happened?
[50:01]
Kevin Dillon
We've been going off on each other the whole time.
[50:03]
Kevin Connolly
Well, you. We called. I. I declared war when you said.
[50:06]
Kevin Dillon
One of those luxury suites, you know, where they give you free stuff. And there. There was a spray tan thing, like, come on, come in and get a free spray tan. So I was like, all right, let me get a spray. You got a spray T. I got a spray tan.
[50:18]
Kevin Connolly
He got a whole.
[50:19]
Kevin Dillon
The whole way on the carpet. He had to tell everyone, busted my balls.
[50:22]
Kevin Connolly
All you saw is a pair of white eyes. I was going to say, you probably could tell it was bad.
[50:26]
Kevin Dillon
I wish I had done it, you know?
[50:28]
Matt Leinart
But, yeah, bad choice.
[50:29]
Jerry Ferrara
So, wait, was that the first shot?
[50:31]
Kevin Dillon
That was the first shot.
[50:32]
Kevin Connolly
I didn't know. I didn't know I cut him that deep.
[50:34]
Jerry Ferrara
All right, let's go.
[50:35]
Kevin Dillon
Here we go.
[50:36]
Jerry Ferrara
We go on, like, cnn.
[50:37]
Kevin Dillon
His chop's about. Oh, my God.
[50:39]
Kevin Connolly
He said. He said it on cnn. I was like, dylan, that's. You just started a war. And he's like, all right, relax. Let's talk about. I'm willing to call a truce if you're willing.
[50:48]
Matt Leinart
This is on the red carpet.
[50:51]
Kevin Connolly
Connolly came in last week looking like he'd been maced the night before. I was like, dylan, you're dead. You're a dead man walking. And the next time we're on here, I'm going to carve you to shed, like. All right, all right, relax. I'm willing to walk away if you're willing to walk away.
[51:05]
Kevin Dillon
We had to call a truce. Ceasefire. Ceasefire.
[51:07]
Kevin Connolly
There's a ceasefire. But.
[51:08]
Jerry Ferrara
But it happened.
[51:10]
Kevin Dillon
But it was still. It was still active at this stage, right? So he had just busted my chops about this spray tan. And we're in the bathroom. I. At the urinals.
[51:18]
Kevin Connolly
Well, we're at the table, but we left separately. But we ended up.
[51:21]
Jerry Ferrara
Who else is in the bathroom?
[51:23]
Kevin Dillon
Let's remember, Pierce Brosn, up to. It wasn't Cameron I knew from Malibu. I used to run into him.
[51:29]
Kevin Connolly
It was the craziest lineup at the back.
[51:32]
Jerry Ferrara
Cameron was in there. James Cameron was in the bar.
[51:35]
Kevin Connolly
Crazy. Or like some massive Johnny Scott or something.
[51:39]
Kevin Dillon
No, Johnny was not there.
[51:40]
Kevin Connolly
The place was. Was packed.
[51:42]
Jerry Ferrara
And it's quiet.
[51:42]
Kevin Connolly
It's quiet. It's very tense also, it's Like a.
[51:45]
Kevin Dillon
Commercial, you know, I'm at the urinal.
[51:50]
Kevin Connolly
Prostate is the.
[51:51]
Kevin Dillon
I'll let you finish the story. Connolly comes walking. What do I say?
[51:54]
Kevin Connolly
All right, cover up, gentlemen. We got a peer in here.
[51:57]
Jerry Ferrara
Pierce Bron.
[51:59]
Kevin Dillon
You can see. Everyone goes, too. They look at Connolly.
[52:03]
Kevin Connolly
They all. I was just like. I threw my hands up.
[52:06]
Kevin Dillon
I'm like, classic.
[52:08]
Kevin Connolly
Classic Peter Gazer. You got to tell the story about. So we're out. Out on the back patio, and I remember. I remember Kevin Bacon was there. Remember Kevin Bacon there to meet Dillon 1 Kevin Bacon. We're smoking a cigarette, having a drink, shooting the. This guy walks up to Kevin and is like, hey, how you doing, man? You know, we went to high school together. Dill's like, hope I didn't beat you up too bad. He's like. And he did say, no, no, no. You're always very nice to me. You're always very nice to me. And Dylan's like, oh, yeah? What are you doing here? He's like, oh, you know. You know, I made. Directed. Made a movie. He's like, really? What movie? He's like, capote.
[52:42]
Jerry Ferrara
Same director as Moneyball.
[52:45]
Kevin Connolly
Stone's like. You know, I was like, you, right, bro?
[52:48]
Kevin Dillon
This is true, too.
[52:49]
Kevin Connolly
I'm, like, sitting there. I'm going. And Kevin Bacon goes, no, you. You're. You heard it. I know you're asking if that really happened, and I'm here to confirm that. He just said that it was. It was unreal. But Bennett, I knew him well.
[53:01]
Kevin Dillon
He was a great. Yeah, great guy.
[53:03]
Kevin Connolly
Great guy.
[53:04]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, great guy. I mean, he had grown a couple feet, so it looked completely different.
[53:07]
Kevin Connolly
Couple. Couple Oscar nominations.
[53:10]
Kevin Dillon
I still haven't gotten a call.
[53:12]
Kevin Connolly
Dylan, you were box catcher.
[53:13]
Jerry Ferrara
We were just together shooting something. Right.
[53:15]
Kevin Dillon
And so fun.
[53:16]
Jerry Ferrara
And we're gonna talk reboot stuff. Only because I had a realization after shooting this moment, and it's been on Instagram now, where, you know, you come over to me, you take your glasses off, you deliver your line. I'm like, this guy still got his fastball, man. He's just throwing heat still. But you said something in between takes. We were talking about, like, when you were growing up and the Bennett Miller years. We'll call him. And you had mentioned, too, like, one once. Once. Your brother Matt kind of went off, like, dude, there's a lot of hatred, like, hating on Matt. And dudes would show up.
[53:44]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[53:44]
Jerry Ferrara
Looking to like, where's Matt? And then you'd have to, like, step out and roll with these.
[53:48]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah. He was such a big teen idol. Yeah, Stage. And you had a kind of girls had his poster and they. They all loved him.
[53:55]
Kevin Connolly
You remember guys all this time, right?
[53:57]
Kevin Dillon
All the guys hated him. From others.
[53:59]
Jerry Ferrara
Jealousy.
[54:00]
Kevin Dillon
They come to our school looking to beat Matt up, which they probably wouldn't be able to do.
[54:07]
Jerry Ferrara
But then they come.
[54:10]
Kevin Dillon
You know, end up fighting these.
[54:12]
Kevin Connolly
And you were in the.
[54:14]
Matt Leinart
Came after you too.
[54:15]
Kevin Connolly
He was also.
[54:15]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, they would come after us.
[54:16]
Kevin Connolly
So he wasn't on the football team? In the marching band? No. Yes, you were.
[54:21]
Kevin Dillon
I did a little. I. I played the drums a little bit, but I actually never marched.
[54:25]
Matt Leinart
You.
[54:25]
Kevin Connolly
You were not in the marching band.
[54:27]
Jerry Ferrara
But then you, you.
[54:29]
Kevin Dillon
No, I know my paradiddles. I knew your paradiddles. Yeah, that's a drumming thing.
[54:34]
Jerry Ferrara
He doesn't speak the language.
[54:35]
Kevin Dillon
He doesn't understand me. Music. The language of music.
[54:38]
Jerry Ferrara
And then how old were you when you left for platoon? You were still like. You were like. Yeah, just out of high school.
[54:43]
Kevin Dillon
I was probably 17 when I left.
[54:45]
Jerry Ferrara
Damn.
[54:45]
Kevin Dillon
I was 18 when I was there. Me and Charlie were the two youngest guys.
[54:50]
Jerry Ferrara
You 17, 18. Charlie Sheen was like the same age.
[54:53]
Kevin Dillon
Same age, yeah.
[54:54]
Matt Leinart
Did you run around with Charlie back in the day?
[54:56]
Kevin Dillon
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[54:57]
Jerry Ferrara
He's a good.
[54:58]
Kevin Dillon
Well, especially in the Philippines. We had a great time.
[55:00]
Matt Leinart
I bet.
[55:01]
Kevin Dillon
And, you know, we. We glad I missed it each other a lot.
[55:04]
Jerry Ferrara
You're still alive.
[55:05]
Kevin Connolly
Life.
[55:06]
Kevin Dillon
You know, we've. We're going to do this. Another platoon reunion.
[55:09]
Jerry Ferrara
Oh, really?
[55:10]
Kevin Connolly
That's awesome.
[55:10]
Kevin Dillon
Texting with Charlie again.
[55:12]
Matt Leinart
Awesome.
[55:13]
Kevin Dillon
Unfortunately, we lost one of our platoon brothers, Tony Todd.
[55:17]
Matt Leinart
I don't know.
[55:18]
Kevin Connolly
Sorry to hear that.
[55:19]
Kevin Dillon
Great actor, really great guy. And it was kind of heartbreaking because I just saw him recently, but yeah, he was going to be coming to this great reunion too. You know, we're really tight this, this platoon group.
[55:31]
Matt Leinart
Amazing.
[55:31]
Kevin Connolly
How often do you guys get.
[55:32]
Kevin Dillon
We shot that in 86.
[55:33]
Kevin Connolly
Would you rather hang out with them?
[55:34]
Kevin Dillon
Probably every. Oh, damn. Well, I love you guys too, man. But yeah, so it'll be great about it. Every eight years, maybe we get together, it seems.
[55:44]
Matt Leinart
That's cool.
[55:44]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[55:45]
Kevin Connolly
Give or take.
[55:46]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[55:47]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah. I just think about. I. I just don't know at such a young age to go off to the Philippines and do a movie like that.
[55:54]
Kevin Dillon
That's. Well, my parents didn't want me to go because there was a. A revolution right. In the Philippines. They just ousted Marcos. There were tanks in the streets. They. They're like, we don't want you to go. But no, you know what? I had just turned 18. I was like, I'm 18 y. I'll.
[56:08]
Kevin Connolly
Do whatever I want. Do whatever I want.
[56:10]
Kevin Dillon
I'm going. So I said. But a lot of guys actually dropped out and, you know, regret it to this day.
[56:15]
Kevin Connolly
Yes, they regret it. And imagine.
[56:17]
Kevin Dillon
Imagine doing that.
[56:18]
Jerry Ferrara
Here's.
[56:19]
Kevin Dillon
I'm not going to do that.
[56:19]
Kevin Connolly
Here's the other thing, too. Platoon, for all intents and purposes, was. Was an independent film. Right. This was no big studio film, like, budget.
[56:27]
Kevin Dillon
I think the total budget was. Was like 5 million, 6 million. Somewhere around there.
[56:32]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah.
[56:32]
Kevin Connolly
So, you know, that would be, you.
[56:34]
Kevin Dillon
Know, $6 million went a longer way back then. And in the Philippines, you can get a lot for your money, you know, but you're sick.
[56:43]
Matt Leinart
What's your guy's favorite scene? All time. Entourage or like, Mo. It can be like an improv or anything.
[56:51]
Kevin Dillon
Just. Oh, man, there's so many good ones.
[56:53]
Matt Leinart
There's so many good.
[56:54]
Kevin Dillon
I. One of my favorites is the walk and talk or we. We leave the restaurant. They basically followed us from the restaurant, out the door, across. It was the Jess man line. But it's. It's the whole thing. We had to keep finding the camera. I love the walking talks. It's one of my favorite shots of. Of.
[57:14]
Kevin Connolly
One of my favorites was the hardest.
[57:15]
Kevin Dillon
The line was great.
[57:16]
Kevin Connolly
The. The. The desert thing.
[57:18]
Jerry Ferrara
Oh, Joshua Tree.
[57:19]
Kevin Connolly
It's great to watch, but in hindsight, man, it was. Look, I'm Irish. We. We're not built for that heat. It's hot out there, bro.
[57:25]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[57:26]
Kevin Connolly
Nowhere to go.
[57:26]
Jerry Ferrara
We shot the episode in Josh Tree where we take mushrooms and we're looking for these answers. And we really went out to the desert and like, Conley said, it looks amazing and you're there, but it was so hot. Like, the dog that played Arnold. The dog that played Arnold stormed offset.
[57:40]
Kevin Connolly
They had to bring it.
[57:40]
Jerry Ferrara
Like, the dog just started running off, and the dog just never came back.
[57:45]
Kevin Dillon
While there's black and he's like, I'm out.
[57:49]
Kevin Connolly
I am done for the day. Thank you very much.
[57:51]
Jerry Ferrara
I look back at the earlier episodes because, like, we just didn't know.
[57:55]
Kevin Connolly
Right.
[57:56]
Jerry Ferrara
We knew what we were doing, but. And I. I look back at. We were even talking, like, the boxing stuff. I love when we shot at Laker games.
[58:02]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[58:02]
Jerry Ferrara
We told our. The. The Kobe story. Do you remember? Tell it to you.
[58:07]
Kevin Dillon
Oh, that was amazing.
[58:08]
Jerry Ferrara
So I don't know if it was the first time we're shooting at Staples center courtside. Kobe was hurt. I mentioned. We went twice. He was always hurt.
[58:16]
Kevin Dillon
He was out his Achilles, right.
[58:18]
Jerry Ferrara
He had A leg injury, the boot on. So we get the Staples center at like 4pm to. They. They barely want us there at this point. They're giving us very minimal cameras or whatever, but they're giving. We have four amazing court side seats. So we're there rehearsing at 4pm Just.
[58:32]
Kevin Connolly
To say, like, where the camera's gonna be Here, Here. Giving us a rundown.
[58:36]
Jerry Ferrara
Kobe comes out from the back in, like, just sweats. And he's gonna get some shots off. He's on one leg, just him and us. He's shooting. Now, of course, we all stop what we're doing. Like Kobe Bryant. And I'm sure he kind of comes over. He's like, what do you guys do? Who are like, season two? No one. We. We didn't really pop yet. And we were like, oh, Entourage is like, okay. And it's ignored us. Just went back.
[58:58]
Kevin Dillon
What a sick athlete he is. He's still practicing.
[59:01]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah. Like one leg.
[59:02]
Kevin Dillon
One leg and he's still practicing.
[59:03]
Jerry Ferrara
He comes out to half court. We're wrapping up. He's like, hey, with 100 bucks a shot from half court, my left hand.
[59:10]
Kevin Connolly
One foot with one foot.
[59:12]
Jerry Ferrara
Left hand off my right, off my back, off my good leg. Left handed with one foot, like, done. Either way, we're gonna. It's gonna be great. First, we took it all. First shot, it misses, but not by much. He's like, another one.
[59:25]
Kevin Connolly
Spins right, Another one.
[59:27]
Kevin Dillon
Every one of them scared.
[59:28]
Jerry Ferrara
The bash misses, but it's like he's all over it. He's dialed in.
[59:31]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[59:31]
Jerry Ferrara
Third, fourth, fifth shot.
[59:34]
Matt Leinart
Never makes it.
[59:34]
Jerry Ferrara
Never makes it. And not only does he not make it, just leaves. Doesn't say, like, that was fun. Doesn't give us any money. So we're like, either way, stuff us with the money. But it's still a great story. Now we're filming. Okay. Kobe's not playing shows. At some point in a timeout, an athletic trainer comes up to the five of us and peels off 100 bills. This in the middle of the game. This is from Kobe. And breaks us off. 100.
[60:00]
Kevin Connolly
I had that tucked in.
[60:01]
Jerry Ferrara
And you had the hundred dollar bill still.
[60:03]
Kevin Connolly
I had it tucked into.
[60:04]
Jerry Ferrara
Is it gone?
[60:04]
Kevin Connolly
Rainy day, some, you know, emergency fund?
[60:06]
Matt Leinart
Like, did he ever make. He never made this.
[60:08]
Jerry Ferrara
So he was supposed to. It's ironic. Kobe was supposed to have a cameo, which he didn't do because I think he was in season. Season. And then we ended up getting someone who would. It's become one of the most iconic memes from the show. Kobe was supposed to do the 50 Cent cameo. My character, I'm having like this crisis of oh, I'm not doing anything with my life. Vince buys me a Ferrari, Jamie Lynn buys me a Porsche. I'm driving around the Ferrari Beverly. 50 cent rolls up to me and is like. And it's a famous meme because he smiles and just drives off. It's on the Internet every day. But that was initially written for Kobe, but I think he was in season and he was like, I in C. I have the script still where it says Kobe Bryant pulls out the title. That's cool. But Kobe in season, you're just not getting to him like that. And. And it worked out because the 50 meme is one of my favorite.
[60:57]
Kevin Connolly
I also remember, you know, we have the director of this episode, this was Julian. I remember this. And he, you know he's English, right? So. And he's a fanatical soccer football fan.
[61:07]
Jerry Ferrara
Fanatical, but doesn't know anything about.
[61:09]
Kevin Connolly
But he. And he's like, hey mates. Like, like. Cuz we're just not looking at him, he's like telling us all this stuff and we're just all looking through him and I'm like, buddy, this is like, you know that I'm trying to come up.
[61:20]
Jerry Ferrara
Michael Jordan, anyone named Beckham, whoever it.
[61:25]
Kevin Connolly
Was at the time, I was like trying to come up with an analogy out of the way. This is a big one.
[61:29]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah. He was trying to get us refocused. Like, no, no, no, we're not shooting till Kobe's done.
[61:34]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, yeah.
[61:34]
Jerry Ferrara
With whatever he's doing.
[61:36]
Matt Leinart
Did you guys know it would be a hit at any point? Like I know you early on.
[61:40]
Kevin Dillon
I did.
[61:41]
Jerry Ferrara
Dylan was the only one you for.
[61:43]
Matt Leinart
Like you knew at a moment you're.
[61:44]
Kevin Dillon
Like, like this is going to be there. Were. Everyone's worried. You know, you shoot the pilot and then you hope it gets picked up. Right? It gets. It get. Then it did get picked up. I knew it was going to get picked up because I thought the pilot was great. I told these guys, relax, it's getting picked up. Then you hope that it's going to get picked up for another season.
[62:01]
Matt Leinart
Multiple seasons.
[62:02]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah, they hang every year.
[62:05]
Kevin Connolly
It's like, okay, you're on a one.
[62:07]
Matt Leinart
Year contract every year, every season. It's just like we have deals.
[62:11]
Kevin Dillon
And I knew it was going to keep going because it was just a brilliant show, a great idea. The chemistry was there.
[62:17]
Kevin Connolly
We knew we were going to run the course.
[62:18]
Jerry Ferrara
But it is like, think of it like an athlete. Like a Football contract. None of it's get. We have five year deals, none of it's guaranteed. At any point they could say, no, we're going to, we're going to go a different direction and it's over. They don't pay us out for the five years or whatever our deal is.
[62:33]
Matt Leinart
You guys are still working like you're, you're doing to see you're still doing movies, other stuff in between.
[62:37]
Jerry Ferrara
But I mean, you know, it does take a lot of time to make the show and then, you know, you break and you take a little down time and you know, getting a movie, whatever, like sometimes you get offers, sometimes you gotta chase it for a while, right?
[62:50]
Kevin Connolly
But like there's like, there's a window.
[62:52]
Jerry Ferrara
There's a window. You have a very specific window when you can go do other stuff and you know, you can't just go off, be like, I'm go do this movie for six months. It's like, well, because you're going to start shooting Entourage again, but you kind.
[63:02]
Kevin Dillon
Of want to take the time off too, right? Just a bit of a grind, you know, when you.
[63:06]
Matt Leinart
Those days are TV show. I mean I've dabbled, but it's like 14 hour days.
[63:11]
Jerry Ferrara
Oh, you definitely.
[63:12]
Kevin Connolly
The later we got on the beginning it was.
[63:16]
Matt Leinart
There's so much down time too though.
[63:18]
Kevin Connolly
It's like you just, it's like where you go crazy. That's where you have to keep. That's the hard part.
[63:28]
Jerry Ferrara
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[64:51]
Matt Leinart
I wasn't allowed.
[64:52]
Jerry Ferrara
You're not allowed to do it because there was no nil.
[64:54]
Matt Leinart
I. Did I tell you, the Judging Amy thing. You were on Judging Amy ever acting extra. Was on Judging Amy.
[65:00]
Kevin Connolly
Oh, you're just an extra.
[65:01]
Matt Leinart
It was an extra because the director was a USC alum or whatever. I think it was right after I graduated, so I was allowed to do it. I think I might have got paid 100 bucks or whatever, but I was like, this is. And I had to pantomime. And I was like, what the is pantomime? I felt so uncomfortable. I was, like, talking like this. Like, I was talking. I think that's what they call. Is that pantomime?
[65:22]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah.
[65:22]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[65:23]
Jerry Ferrara
So really?
[65:23]
Matt Leinart
Like a fish out of water. I was like, what in.
[65:25]
Jerry Ferrara
In thinking once seeing that Dylan still has his Johnny Drama fastball and cracking me up on set, I'm like, all right. I know everyone always talks about reboot. It's been 20 years. And then I tried to think of just some fun. All right. If we ever were going to do a reboot, what on earth are these characters doing today? Right?
[65:44]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[65:44]
Jerry Ferrara
I'm going to pitch you a couple things. By the way, I thought about this for five minutes, and, Doug, if you're watching, I'm not trying to write any. I know you're going to prob. Say, leave it to the writers. You're right.
[65:53]
Kevin Connolly
Leave it to the writers.
[65:54]
Jerry Ferrara
Agreed. But we just have some fun. Dylan, I'm gonna start with you. When last we left Johnny Drama, he wins a Golden Globe award, right? And we love Johnny Drama, but we also love him when he's fighting. Right? When he's like, yeah, I like a struggling underdog.
[66:09]
Kevin Dillon
I don't want to see him on top of the world. I think somehow he's struggling to get a job again. He's.
[66:16]
Jerry Ferrara
Let me pitch you this down and.
[66:17]
Kevin Dillon
Out a little bit.
[66:18]
Jerry Ferrara
Do you think maybe Johnny Drama is on a show again? Like, maybe he's on the Netflix. Whatever he's on a show.
[66:22]
Kevin Connolly
A lot of network, a lot of streamers.
[66:24]
Jerry Ferrara
They are going to, for the first time say, you know what? We actually think we could do his part with A.I. jesus. We're going to replace him.
[66:31]
Kevin Connolly
Johnny Dr. We're going to replace Him.
[66:34]
Jerry Ferrara
You're in an A.I. crisis. Johnny Drama's fighting the first A.I. acting crisis. I think it'll be great. By the way, I'd have to go.
[66:42]
Kevin Dillon
To my SAG rep and what the.
[66:44]
Jerry Ferrara
Hell'S going on here?
[66:45]
Kevin Connolly
Dylan loves his sag.
[66:46]
Jerry Ferrara
We could write this. We could write. Write that scene.
[66:48]
Kevin Connolly
That's a great idea.
[66:50]
Kevin Dillon
Great idea.
[66:51]
Matt Leinart
It's not bad.
[66:52]
Jerry Ferrara
I feel like for me, for Turtle, when last we left, you were loaded. 100 million or more.
[66:57]
Kevin Dillon
Yes.
[66:57]
Jerry Ferrara
We haven't put an actual number. Say he was worth 100 million. My pitch would be because I also love Turtle when he's down. He for sure got finagled in a crypto scheme.
[67:08]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, you're a bitcoin.
[67:09]
Jerry Ferrara
Some nft. No, not bitcoin. Because bitcoin would have worked out. He bought an NFT ape. You bought a board A. He bought a board ape for 18 million and now he's just flat.
[67:21]
Kevin Connolly
That's right.
[67:23]
Jerry Ferrara
Lost it all back. Living with Vince for sure we're all desperados again. Exactly.
[67:27]
Kevin Dillon
He's gone through a divorce. She's kicked him out of the house.
[67:32]
Jerry Ferrara
The only thing I figured for E is I feel like you and Sloan, you have a baby in the movie. So I think you have five more kids.
[67:38]
Kevin Connolly
A lot of kids.
[67:38]
Jerry Ferrara
Irish twins, a whole bunch.
[67:40]
Kevin Connolly
You have five kids running unscripted at Bravo.
[67:45]
Jerry Ferrara
So like, did he create Love is Blind or something?
[67:48]
Kevin Connolly
Love is blind.
[67:49]
Jerry Ferrara
Your reality guy.
[67:50]
Kevin Connolly
Just like, no unscripted. Big difference. Running the unscripted department.
[67:57]
Kevin Dillon
So what about Vince?
[67:59]
Jerry Ferrara
This to me is the hardest one. Right? Because he's still got to do well. The Vince character, we got nowhere to go. It was always the engine of like, all right, here's the business story that we're gonna then do something. Me and Dylan will go do side quests. I used to call them. Get it?
[68:14]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, yeah. B Story.
[68:15]
Jerry Ferrara
Don't know. Because like. And I'm open to pitches. Movies. Not many people are going to the movies anymore. Is he? Is he. Did he. Do they bring him back for Aquaman 3?
[68:24]
Kevin Connolly
He is a Netflix darling.
[68:26]
Jerry Ferrara
He's a Netflix darling. He's on Netflix.
[68:29]
Kevin Connolly
You can find him in the trending in the top 10 once every. Maybe he's moved back, floating around the eight or nine spots.
[68:34]
Jerry Ferrara
Or maybe he's back in Mexico.
[68:36]
Kevin Dillon
Moved back to Mexico.
[68:38]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah. Do they try to lure him off.
[68:41]
Kevin Dillon
For Johnny Drama apart. But he's gotta have his brother in there. So I got. We got to go to Mexico to get Vince back.
[68:47]
Kevin Connolly
Vince is on a multi picture.
[68:48]
Matt Leinart
Is there a world where this like you guys could like a reboot or like you could redo this whole thing is that. I mean.
[68:55]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[68:56]
Matt Leinart
So much time has passed, but it.
[68:57]
Jerry Ferrara
Could so reboots to me like you.
[68:59]
Matt Leinart
Guys get together and like dude, let's. Let's try to pitch something to.
[69:02]
Jerry Ferrara
I really doesn't work that way.
[69:04]
Kevin Dillon
We would all do it.
[69:04]
Matt Leinart
It's not that easy, right?
[69:05]
Kevin Dillon
As a matter of fact, everyone will do it. It's just the. It's. It's the money.
[69:10]
Kevin Connolly
It's not as easy.
[69:10]
Kevin Dillon
It's writers. It's an important hbo.
[69:13]
Kevin Connolly
And yeah, there's an existing property and it's existing ip. You don't just get to decide, hey.
[69:18]
Jerry Ferrara
Let'S run it back. Because a lot of people have to decide to do it cast.
[69:22]
Kevin Connolly
But like, hey, let's keep it going again. Let's do another season. Whatever.
[69:25]
Jerry Ferrara
I mean like I never say that. Anytime I always say like I actually didn't think the movie was gonna happen. Anytime I ever say never, it.
[69:31]
Matt Leinart
It actually movie you have more control, right? Or no.
[69:36]
Jerry Ferrara
Yes and no. And I always thought like I. The movie always felt like a big episode, right. For like the fans. So I think going back and doing it as a series again would be the move.
[69:48]
Kevin Connolly
I mean it would be a great, you know, a great call to get. But I.
[69:51]
Jerry Ferrara
Do you think we need to have like. Because you say reboot, obviously you gotta like Cobra Kai.
[69:58]
Kevin Connolly
They can reboot it without us as well, right?
[70:00]
Jerry Ferrara
Cobra Kai did a good job of like it's Daniel LaRusso's kids, but Daniel LaRusso's still on. They're still in it. They're just now the Ryan Murphy. So do we have like one of these nine kids?
[70:12]
Matt Leinart
That's a good pitch.
[70:13]
Jerry Ferrara
You know, maybe we have to bring or. Or a chase cousin you didn't know you had is now I want to be an actor too. Uncle. Uncle Johnny, you know?
[70:20]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[70:21]
Jerry Ferrara
I don't know. You gotta crack that. And well, that's the other thing too.
[70:25]
Kevin Connolly
It would be. And one thing I think everybody is on the same page that you wouldn't just, you know, you want it to be good, right? You have to be. Because your initial thought would be like an eye roller. So you'd have to like Blow that out of the water and have it be awesome. Which would require, you know, something extreme, I guess.
[70:41]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah.
[70:41]
Matt Leinart
But you guys still got it.
[70:43]
Jerry Ferrara
You still listen. No doubt, brother. I. I thought. But even me, when we were shooting that spot for Cash App, I'm like, I haven't done this with this character in a minute. Like, I've changed so much. I. I didn't have kids.
[70:54]
Kevin Dillon
Great, didn't it?
[70:55]
Jerry Ferrara
I didn't have kids back then.
[70:56]
Kevin Dillon
How'd it feel?
[70:57]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah, I would. Not that I was nervous. We do the rehearsal once we figured out, all right, Dylan's gonna come here, you're gonna go. This is what we're after the first take. And especially with him. Like, we. Just. Because we did so many side quest story lines together, I'm like, oh, we could.
[71:11]
Kevin Connolly
You know, I never really thought about that actual part of it. Like the character part.
[71:15]
Kevin Dillon
Like.
[71:16]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah.
[71:16]
Kevin Connolly
Alrighty. I don't know, man.
[71:18]
Jerry Ferrara
It's not. Just show up and do it.
[71:19]
Kevin Connolly
Of course you could do it, but I mean. Yeah, it would be weird.
[71:21]
Jerry Ferrara
You got to do a live. I got to call R Re stuff going again.
[71:25]
Kevin Connolly
Oh, that's what I was gonna say. One of the things.
[71:29]
Kevin Dillon
Do you remember still fits.
[71:30]
Kevin Connolly
Do you remember when, you know, every year we would, like. We'd be shooting. It would be. We were a summer show every year.
[71:35]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[71:36]
Kevin Connolly
So we had to be ready to go in the summer, but we'd be shooting in, like, March or April. Do you remember when they would bring in the new phones? Oh, and they'd have, like. You know, all of a sudden, it's like a skinny version of the, like.
[71:46]
Jerry Ferrara
First BlackBerry next to razor. They were coming.
[71:48]
Kevin Connolly
The guy would. Basically.
[71:49]
Kevin Dillon
Everyone wanted that razor.
[71:51]
Kevin Connolly
And then after. After the take. After the take, he be like, all right, hand it over.
[71:54]
Jerry Ferrara
Come on, man.
[71:55]
Kevin Connolly
You look at it. Yeah, they would. They would bring on.
[71:57]
Kevin Dillon
Of course, Piven destroyed all his props. He was always. It was unscripted. And he would, like, smash his phone against. Oh, man.
[72:05]
Kevin Connolly
Throw him off the cliff.
[72:06]
Kevin Dillon
That was the only one we had.
[72:07]
Jerry Ferrara
He probably went through a lot.
[72:09]
Kevin Connolly
Remember when Piven pulled the hamstring in the desert?
[72:11]
Jerry Ferrara
Oh.
[72:12]
Kevin Connolly
Came up lame. Flying around the corner.
[72:15]
Jerry Ferrara
You get upset with me that I pulled. I pulled my quad playing football ball. We're shooting in the de. We're out in the middle of nowhere.
[72:21]
Kevin Connolly
Freezing cold at night, 112 during the day.
[72:24]
Jerry Ferrara
And. And Piven. Ari has to come running around.
[72:28]
Kevin Connolly
He's on mushrooms.
[72:28]
Jerry Ferrara
He's with the dog. And you see it. He just reached for the hamstring.
[72:32]
Kevin Connolly
Right away, came around that corner. He pulled up lame.
[72:35]
Jerry Ferrara
Like, what am I gonna do now?
[72:38]
Matt Leinart
He stayed in character.
[72:40]
Jerry Ferrara
He tried.
[72:40]
Kevin Connolly
Oh, no, not that take.
[72:41]
Jerry Ferrara
He was hurt.
[72:42]
Kevin Connolly
Cut.
[72:43]
Matt Leinart
Dude, a hammy hurts, man.
[72:44]
Jerry Ferrara
I'll tell you.
[72:45]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah. By the way, he pulled it. He pulled it.
[72:46]
Jerry Ferrara
I think. Guess you could say one thing about the entourage, guys. We are injury pro.
[72:51]
Kevin Dillon
Played through.
[72:52]
Jerry Ferrara
We play. We're tough. We played through.
[72:54]
Matt Leinart
Did you ever get hurt?
[72:56]
Jerry Ferrara
No, I got sick a lot.
[72:59]
Kevin Connolly
We battled a lot of illnesses.
[73:01]
Kevin Dillon
You had. You had a flu. We were in that pool scene.
[73:04]
Kevin Connolly
You look at Jerry.
[73:05]
Kevin Dillon
You were really in bad.
[73:05]
Jerry Ferrara
When we shot the pilot episode, we have to get in this indoor outdoor pool in the Mansion, which they didn't think to heat days before. And it was Jan. It was November in la, so it's not freezing, but we're shooting at midnight night. The pool's freezing. I have either a stomach virus or the flu. I'm green. I'm throwing up. In between.
[73:23]
Kevin Dillon
Had to make out.
[73:24]
Jerry Ferrara
And that's the poor girl that you.
[73:25]
Kevin Connolly
Had to make out.
[73:26]
Jerry Ferrara
Poor girl. I'm literally just going, I'm so sorry. So sorry. I'm shivering like this. In between takes, they're wrapping me with towels. They're giving me, like, iv. I just keep going.
[73:36]
Kevin Connolly
He's wrapped in a heated blanket between.
[73:38]
Jerry Ferrara
So I think her name was Courtney. I'm. I'm so sorry. I hope you don't get sick. And I was sick a lot.
[73:43]
Kevin Connolly
Lot.
[73:43]
Kevin Dillon
But I mean, listen, the other.
[73:46]
Kevin Connolly
The other thing too is like, you know, the eight seasons is over 10 years. I mean, at a certain point, we saw like, a lot of each other with regard. You know, at a certain point, everybody was sick, and at a certain point, everybody was hurt. Certain point, everybody was going through a breakup. At a certain point, everybody was going through, like.
[74:01]
Jerry Ferrara
I definitely got to watch times. I. I went through a few on the show. Let me tell you.
[74:07]
Kevin Connolly
First thing, I'm like, just come on, on sleep over, Jerry. Let's go out.
[74:10]
Jerry Ferrara
I was man down for a bit. Connelly definitely helped rebuild my confidence. And all I want to say is, if you're going, this is the guy you want out there. This is the guy you go to if you get a little heartbreak. He. He.
[74:23]
Matt Leinart
So you're dealing with real heartbreak. You're coming.
[74:25]
Jerry Ferrara
He kind of did, like, come up to the house, hang with me for a little bit. We're not going to do nothing the first night. Second night, we're going to watch a movie. We'll watch a movie, order a slow second night. We'll go. We'll go get dinner, we'll have a drink. But by the third night, we're going out.
[74:41]
Matt Leinart
Yeah.
[74:41]
Jerry Ferrara
And you're just gonna do what I say.
[74:43]
Kevin Connolly
You're pitching that reality show man camp.
[74:46]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah.
[74:46]
Matt Leinart
You gotta get.
[74:47]
Jerry Ferrara
And it worked.
[74:48]
Matt Leinart
What a great wingman.
[74:50]
Kevin Dillon
That's cool.
[74:51]
Jerry Ferrara
And yeah, the next dude that the girl date, Connolly will put spells on him if you want. They'll do all that. So, I mean.
[74:57]
Kevin Connolly
Oh, yeah. You wonder what? Yeah, yeah. A couple good off air stories about that.
[75:03]
Jerry Ferrara
All right, we're gonna.
[75:05]
Kevin Connolly
This guy being a world champion, if I'm being honest. Yeah, it's a girl. Dude. Started dating one of Jerry's exes. He was like, I don't need this guy winning the ring right now.
[75:18]
Jerry Ferrara
Is that bad that I didn't want the next person after me to win a ring? Is that terrible? I got no rings.
[75:25]
Kevin Connolly
Not right now. It's way too soon for a ring. It was right after, too.
[75:28]
Jerry Ferrara
Yes. All right, so we're gonna do our throwback three, we're gonna talk our favorite athlete cameos, because for whatever reason, you professional athletes loved Entourage so good. And we had a lot over the years, and again, there's no wrong answers. Just throw out one. So throwback three, we'll do our favorite Entourage athlete cameos. Okay, Dylan, you want to lead us off? You got.
[75:47]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got three.
[75:49]
Jerry Ferrara
Let's hear it.
[75:50]
Kevin Dillon
Of course, I got to say Tom Brady, because Tom was awesome.
[75:53]
Kevin Connolly
Really going out on a limb there.
[75:55]
Kevin Dillon
I mean, I mean, he's number one.
[75:56]
Jerry Ferrara
Yes.
[75:57]
Kevin Dillon
Everyone loved him. He signed every, every time, whatever you want. Took a picture.
[76:01]
Jerry Ferrara
He was great with the crew.
[76:02]
Kevin Dillon
Crew. The crew loved him. And of course, I break his club in the scene and all that, but during our lunch break, you know, I had already hit like 200 golf balls on the range and for doing the shot, but he was like, hey, hey, Dylan, you want to go hit some golf balls? I'm like, yeah, I can't say no to that. Played about 12 holes and, you know, he had a great swing.
[76:24]
Jerry Ferrara
He was hitting it good.
[76:25]
Kevin Dillon
He was hitting the ball really well.
[76:26]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah, he was coming off the torn knee too, so no one had seen him. Yeah, he hadn't played football in a year.
[76:31]
Kevin Dillon
Great dude. Great dude. So I'm going to say number one there. Number two, I'm going to go with Phil Mickelson, who. I actually got that cameo. I ran into him in a golf course at San Diego.
[76:42]
Jerry Ferrara
I was the bridges.
[76:43]
Kevin Dillon
I was.
[76:43]
Jerry Ferrara
I was. That's right, you were There I watched this happen in front of my eyes.
[76:47]
Kevin Dillon
So I was going out, for some reason, I was going out towards my car and I saw Phil carrying his own bag. And he saw me kind of spot him and he put his head down low, like, I don't want to be recognized. Not right away. Way. So he's just like, oh, I don't want to be recognized by this guy. This guy noticed.
[77:04]
Kevin Connolly
He's like, this guy's a real.
[77:06]
Kevin Dillon
Like, I can't let him keep my head down. Like, no, no. Hey, Phil. Phil, I just got to say, what's up? Then he recognizes. He goes, oh, my God. Johnny Drama. So he was a fan of the show. I was like, yeah. I go, you know, my dad. My dad painted you. My dad's a port.
[77:19]
Jerry Ferrara
Oh, it's a good story.
[77:20]
Kevin Dillon
My. My dad. But he. My dad had. Had painted him. He goes, oh, I love Paul.
[77:24]
Kevin Connolly
He was like high end.
[77:26]
Kevin Dillon
And he told me a story about my dad that I had never, never heard before. How he painted. He painted Phil with a right handed club. They just grabbed a club and they took a picture together. My dad painted that.
[77:39]
Kevin Connolly
Oh, he painted.
[77:39]
Kevin Dillon
And then when my dad recognized. When my dad saw the picture, he goes, oh, my God, Phil, I painted you with the right handed club. I'll fix it. I'll just paint a left handed club. He goes, no, no, Paul, I. I like it just like that conversation. So he was great. Then me and Jerry ended up having lunch with him. I asked him if he. He would want to do the show. No, you didn't get the call.
[77:59]
Matt Leinart
You. You.
[78:00]
Kevin Dillon
You were a hack. I. You said, spend some time at the driving range and we'll see if we can fit you in next time. But. So he said, yeah, I would love to do a cameo. We called Doug Allen right there on the spot, said, hey, Doug, say hi to Phil Mickelson.
[78:14]
Matt Leinart
That's it.
[78:15]
Kevin Dillon
And then Doug figured out a way to get him on the show, which was.
[78:17]
Jerry Ferrara
There's a tiny. There's a tiny piece that we're leaving out. We had a line on the show the year before where we kind of throw him under the bus.
[78:25]
Kevin Dillon
Yes.
[78:25]
Jerry Ferrara
Ari has a line where he goes, the guy's melting down like Phil Mickelson at Wingfoot.
[78:30]
Kevin Connolly
Melting down like Mickelson.
[78:31]
Kevin Dillon
By the way, that was the next episode, right.
[78:34]
Jerry Ferrara
It hadn't aired yet. Oh, it hadn't aired yet.
[78:36]
Kevin Dillon
He just said, yes, I'll do the show.
[78:38]
Jerry Ferrara
And then we crush.
[78:39]
Kevin Dillon
That aired that week.
[78:40]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah.
[78:41]
Kevin Dillon
And.
[78:41]
Jerry Ferrara
But he still did it.
[78:42]
Kevin Connolly
Well, he said, he said, you know, I'm just saying, my wife watching my favorite show on a Sunday with a.
[78:49]
Kevin Dillon
Right hand, like, I'm about to cross show. These guys are great.
[78:52]
Jerry Ferrara
And that's a good one.
[78:54]
Kevin Dillon
Thank God. He's got a great sense of humor.
[78:56]
Jerry Ferrara
And he was awesome in the show. He was awesome in the show.
[78:58]
Kevin Dillon
And then I would say, number three, I'm gonna go with Drew Brees.
[79:02]
Kevin Connolly
Drew Brees.
[79:03]
Kevin Dillon
I actually. I never came in on my days off for cameos. Right. But I was on my way out, and I was. Went into the makeup trailer to take my makeup off, and I run into Drew Brees.
[79:12]
Kevin Connolly
Couldn't be a nicer guy.
[79:13]
Kevin Dillon
He's coolest, nicest guy.
[79:16]
Matt Leinart
Remember him on.
[79:17]
Kevin Dillon
He did something with one of your.
[79:19]
Jerry Ferrara
So my character, when I was trying to raise money for Tequila, I'm calling all these ath. I don't know how Turtle always knew all these athletes, but I call Drew, and we did his side of the call, and he. But we did it all. He was like, in the other room when we did it, and he was.
[79:32]
Kevin Dillon
Just really cool in the trailer. He had just won the Super Bowl. New Orleans just got hit by that horrible hurricane. So it was just like, what a great guy. And so he was number three for me.
[79:43]
Jerry Ferrara
That's Matt's most accurate quarterback. We do like this thing. Build your perfect quarterback. Arm strength, accuracy.
[79:50]
Matt Leinart
He's great, man.
[79:51]
Kevin Dillon
Whose arm strength would you go with?
[79:53]
Jerry Ferrara
What you do? You did current? Yeah. Well, who.
[79:56]
Matt Leinart
Yeah, current. I go, Josh Allen.
[79:58]
Jerry Ferrara
Josh Allen. Current.
[79:59]
Matt Leinart
I think former. We did a lot of far. Elway.
[80:01]
Jerry Ferrara
I think I did. Elway was mine. For former.
[80:04]
Kevin Dillon
How about scramble abilities? Did you.
[80:06]
Jerry Ferrara
I went. Michael Vic. Like, athleticism. A lot of people go, lamar, who's yours?
[80:10]
Kevin Dillon
Maybe Josh Allen. Man, I just like the way he. He hits hard. He'll dive over you. He just.
[80:16]
Jerry Ferrara
All right, Con.
[80:17]
Kevin Connolly
I have. I have a different. I'm going with a different.
[80:19]
Jerry Ferrara
Just because.
[80:20]
Kevin Connolly
You know.
[80:20]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah.
[80:22]
Kevin Connolly
You know what I mean? So I'm gonna go try to mix up a bit. The first one was Michael Phelps one, because that was cool. We were shooting in New York. It was the last day of the season.
[80:31]
Jerry Ferrara
Yes.
[80:32]
Kevin Connolly
Like, it was wrapping up last shot, and we're, like, shooting live and, like, in. In the. In the. You know, the crosswalk on the middle of 7th Avenue in the middle of Manhattan, and somebody spots him walking.
[80:43]
Jerry Ferrara
He's going to the NBC building. He's doing interviews because he just got back from the Olympics.
[80:46]
Kevin Connolly
He just. I mean, it was like a days after he won all those medals.
[80:50]
Kevin Dillon
It was. Nobody called him. They ran into him, said, hey, will you do a cameo?
[80:55]
Matt Leinart
Right.
[80:55]
Kevin Connolly
Somebody grabbed him. And it's like they set him up on the one side of the street and I was set up on the other. And also, you know, it's like a big dude, right? So it's like.
[81:03]
Kevin Dillon
It was like staying alive when Travolta and Stallone kind of bump into each other.
[81:08]
Kevin Connolly
I had to. I had to bump. Bump into him, you know, And I. I figured I'm like, you know, he probably hasn't done this. I gotta, you know, I gotta lead this one to him. So it was like, a little challenging. And it was. I mean, it honestly, like, people were looking at him.
[81:19]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah, he's the biggest.
[81:20]
Kevin Connolly
And he was like. It was a different kind of wow factor right after that. And then I thought an underrated acting performance was Steve Nash.
[81:30]
Jerry Ferrara
That's right. Thought he was.
[81:32]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, Nash did a good job.
[81:34]
Kevin Connolly
Was. Did not, like, seem. Did not seem like it was his first rodeo.
[81:37]
Jerry Ferrara
Acted.
[81:37]
Kevin Connolly
I thought he was pretty.
[81:38]
Jerry Ferrara
You liked his performance?
[81:39]
Kevin Connolly
I enjoyed his performance because I think they pretty much just dropped it on him. Yeah, I don't think that was, like a big setup thing. It was like he was there. I mean, they pulled him out of the third row. They pulled him out of the bleachers and said. Said, get in the game. Put a mic on him and said, get in the game. And we kind of ran through this scene. So I was impressed with him.
[81:57]
Jerry Ferrara
That's a good one.
[81:58]
Kevin Connolly
And then, you know, I liked, you know, the Tyson thing was always.
[82:03]
Jerry Ferrara
Oh, that's right. Tyson was on. How do I.
[82:05]
Kevin Dillon
That was cool.
[82:06]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, that was fun.
[82:07]
Jerry Ferrara
How do I forget about. Yes.
[82:09]
Kevin Connolly
I mean, there. There was so many. There was so many of those. And of course, you know, Gron, you know, was. Was amazing.
[82:14]
Kevin Dillon
Oh, the Gronk. We worked at late night. This was during the movie. Yeah, we worked until, like 3:00, 2:00 in the morning. And there was like, they called second meal or third meal, whatever. And it was just really soup. It was like a chunky soup. He was.
[82:28]
Jerry Ferrara
I think he just, like, feeding people.
[82:30]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, he was, you know, feeding your bowl. You go, come up with your bowl.
[82:33]
Jerry Ferrara
And Gro, he was like a little kid, man.
[82:36]
Matt Leinart
Awesome, dude.
[82:37]
Kevin Connolly
The day I broke my. The day I broke my leg later in the day, remember Jerry had to do the scene where you and Rhonda walk in on me and Connolly has a.
[82:44]
Jerry Ferrara
So Connolly breaks his leg and then has a love scene later. Right.
[82:47]
Kevin Dillon
Like.
[82:47]
Kevin Connolly
And me And Rhonda around my ankles. I'm like, my. It hurt to have my pants.
[82:52]
Jerry Ferrara
What did Gronk say? Didn't Gronk say.
[82:53]
Kevin Connolly
I was like joking with him. I was like, man, I got the scene after lunch, man.
[82:56]
Kevin Dillon
I gotta.
[82:57]
Kevin Connolly
I gotta. What's that? I go, what's that shot called? And he's like, you don't want a shot if you can have sex, Brock. Hopefully I'm not the one breaking this team, but we don't really do that.
[83:07]
Kevin Dillon
You know, he's called filming.
[83:10]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, exactly. Oh, no, we're not really having sex.
[83:12]
Jerry Ferrara
He was worried about your performance in the bedroom if you take the shot.
[83:16]
Kevin Dillon
That's typical Gro dude, by the way.
[83:18]
Kevin Connolly
It was so funny. But even Rhonda was a great one.
[83:21]
Jerry Ferrara
So Rhonda makes the list for me.
[83:22]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah, right. Because also Rhonda was our around.
[83:25]
Kevin Dillon
You had your three. Let's go, Rhonda one.
[83:28]
Jerry Ferrara
I go with Rhonda. And what was crazy too, is then I got to meet her before we shot and then we film. But then she goes on the fight. And I never really got to know a fighter personally on that level. And I can't even imagine what it's like for fighters families, because I'm like watching her fight on pay per view at home and I'm nervous and I only know her for like a year.
[83:46]
Matt Leinart
Right?
[83:47]
Jerry Ferrara
So Rhonda, for me, for sure. I think a good sneaky one.
[83:51]
Kevin Connolly
Cameo.
[83:51]
Jerry Ferrara
Yes.
[83:52]
Kevin Connolly
We really got to spend time.
[83:53]
Jerry Ferrara
It's barely a cameo. She had like a part. But a sneaky one that I didn't even really work with him that much, but I've now become friendly with him. But you, Kevin Love, no one even knows he was in When Vince gets beat up by Eminem. Words I never thought I'd say. Johnny Drama, we know who has that one shot. Johnny Drama could put you on your ass. One shot. But Kevin Love grabs him in a bear hug and weren't you really like, yo, that's one of the strongest, dude.
[84:17]
Kevin Dillon
Yeah, I mean, he got me.
[84:19]
Jerry Ferrara
And this is like, not skinny.
[84:21]
Kevin Dillon
He got my. Just my rib cage such a big. And he started squeezing as hard as he could.
[84:26]
Kevin Connolly
Little ribs.
[84:28]
Kevin Dillon
I was afraid he was going to.
[84:29]
Kevin Connolly
Collapse my rib like a.
[84:31]
Kevin Dillon
You know, I mean, he's a big strong guy. And I had to say, hey, dude, go a little easy.
[84:36]
Jerry Ferrara
Chill, man.
[84:36]
Kevin Dillon
I'm afraid you're going to break my, you know, totally clap. Collapse my rip Very well. I'm sorry, dude, I. I get. I get carried away. Really, really cool. Guy, man.
[84:45]
Kevin Connolly
He's also in the. In the scene where I confront Scott Khan about.
[84:49]
Jerry Ferrara
Yes. He has so many weird. Like Caleb is just in there a couple. And the. Not to be more like obvious, but you gotta give tip to cap to LeBron.
[84:59]
Kevin Dillon
Oh, no doubt.
[85:00]
Jerry Ferrara
That was when I came to set for a cameo. I never really did it much either. I came from Mickelson and I came for LeBron. And I remember too was right after on PTI, remember, you know, pardon the interruption. Something came. They were talking about LeBron and Maverick and his crew and they did something in the news or. And Kornheiser goes Wilbon. It is exactly what Vince and E would do. Lebron and Mav. And he comes on the show the next week and it was. That was a bananas day. Was LeBron, Matt Damon.
[85:30]
Kevin Connolly
I also remember like le. Because you know, people say that like, oh, you want to come and set him? Like, let me tell you something, you're going to last about six minutes, right? Okay. Because you're going to be bored senseless. You're going to move too slow and you're going to want to leave. I would have friends that say, well, don't be extras. I'm like, yo, you want to. You don't want to be an extra. Once that first shot on, you're in. You're in.
[85:49]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah. Wow. So that's a Throwback three right there.
[85:52]
Matt Leinart
That's.
[85:52]
Kevin Connolly
Yeah.
[85:52]
Matt Leinart
Good job, fellas.
[85:54]
Jerry Ferrara
That's Ender. Podcast is over. Shout out. It's over. All right. That was it. The boys. The boys were back. We gotta get Grenier next. We gotta get Grenier.
[86:03]
Matt Leinart
Won't be a heavy sports conversation according to you. That might be a tough one to get on.
[86:08]
Jerry Ferrara
He's not.
[86:09]
Matt Leinart
No one knows where he is.
[86:10]
Jerry Ferrara
Yeah, yeah, he's. He's. He could be pretty remote for a lack of a word, but we'll get. We'll get him on. Who knows, maybe we'll even get. We'll get Emmanuel.
[86:18]
Matt Leinart
We'll get Emmanuel on. Yeah, let's do it, man. That was fun.
[86:22]
Jerry Ferrara
And again, if you want go to our YouTube or on any of our social media at Throwbacks. Matt's audition with Connolly and Dylan basically directing him for draft day is on there. And our three point shootout, the score was settled, unfortunately for one of us is up there right now. Thanks to the boys and listen to Victory. If you can give those boys a download too, I'll be jumping on there soon. And we'll be back next week, right? Match.
[86:46]
Matt Leinart
Yes.
[86:47]
Jerry Ferrara
Go usa, go.
[86:48]
Matt Leinart
I wore red, white and blue today.
[86:49]
Jerry Ferrara
It says go.
[86:52]
Kevin Connolly
We out.