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was absolutely incredible. I mean it really was you three pete, not once, not twice, but three times, and they did that twice, three pet How hard is it to three pete? Davo. I mean, it's got to be one of the most difficult things in sports. It never happens. It's like three seasons of like writing unicorns and uh, you know it might have been even a longer run head Uh Michael Jordan not taking some time off to play bassba go play baseball, which is just the most like O G

gangster move in the history of sports. One championships here on board, let me go prove I can do it over here. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Well, speaking of three peets, I think it's a good time to bring in our our third and it's he's our just realized the power of three. We're talking about three peets. He's our third guest. All right, well let's I think it's time Davoyes. Okay, So our next guest is from Chicago.

He is one of the most iconic actors of our generation, from movies like Old School, Gross point Blank, and my favorite Serendipity Day. Feel free to make fun of me. You like a good rom com? I do love a good rom com to TV shows like Mr Selfridge and his amazing portrayal of Ari on Entourage. Please welcome the talented Jeremy Piven. Yes, Jeremy, how are you doing? Thank you?

One of Chicago's favorite sons as well. And not only h is he all those things, but he's also in doably talented theater actor, and he's been doing stand up comedy all over the country up until the pandemic. Unfortunately, but he was playing you were doing how many gigs a year? Jarre Um between two and uh fifty And the last show I was doing was as the pandemic was was going down in Dallas, and and we were sold out every single night, and they were just like,

we don't care about rowing up. They're like, we'll shoot Sank. I'll shoot him in the Sorry, my am. I breaking all the equipment. That's what I do. That's what I did. By the way, is this a visual medium. I know it's a podcast. It's just we're just gonna do audio

for now. Oh good thing that I spent all the time working on the background see talented and by and by the way, I'm from I'm born and raised in in Lists and he just nailed that on the head of what it what it's like down there, and everybody being like, fun Corona, We're still going. Yes, it's pretty incredible. You know. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was going to be an empty room, but it was packed. It was crazy and we had a good time. And uh,

and then ever since then, I've been locked in my house. Um. Well, Jeremy Dave and I were just talking at the top of the show about the Last Dance, Uh, the Chicago Bulls documentary on ESPN and the fact of three peting and how hard it is to three p uh. I find it insanely impressive and a very rare feet. We should have looked up the stats on how many other actors have done this, but you you won three three Dave, not not two three three Emmys in a row. Yeah,

which is just absolutely insanity. And so on this show, what we like to do is we kind of like to ask a hybrid of questions and put you know, actors and athletes shoes and athletes and actors shoes. And our question at the top for you is you have three pet What do you think is harder to do an actor to three pet or a professional team to three pete. Well, all actors want to be athletes, so I would I would say that it's probably harder. God,

that's a that's a great question. Um, you would probably you know that you'd probably have to look up the stats. The stats are? You know, I have no idea. I know that there's you know, Brian Cranston did it. Um, there are a couple of actors that have done it, and I don't know how many athletes have done it. I mean, you mentioned the last dance and being from Chicago, I couldn't be more proud of my bulls. And you know,

that they doubled down on their three pete. UM would probably be, uh, you know, an accomplishment that everyone's chasing. And it's really cool for us to see what I grew up watching, which is, you know, I believe a feat that I don't know if we will ever be even anyone will come close to um, which is what

the Bulls did and what Michael Jordan did. You guys are able to see in real time right now what he accomplished in the nineties, because you know he was he was a guy that came in there and as a rookie was averaging twenty eight points a game, and then he put he put sixty three points up against Larry Bird and the Celtics while they were yeah, when they were when they were crushing it, and you know, he was a guy we have guys now, and no

disrespect to anyone in the game right now. But I bet if you even asked Michael Jordan's what load management means, he would probably think you were talking about something dirty, you know, low what is load? Load management is when you get paid and you don't have to show up, And that's for him. You saw how frustrated he was. They were limiting his minutes and he was ready to kill someone because he said, what's the point of playing

if we're not allowed to win? And you know, at one point they gave a temperance, that chance that he could ruin his career, and he said, you know, let me at them. And he was just a really rare

bird that we were. We were lucky to have. The clip that was amazing is when they showed how they pulled him from the game with like fourteen seconds left because he had played his fourteen minutes and he wanted to get back in there and they wouldn't let him because they were trying to get better seating for the draft. And then Paxson hit that one game winner to get

them in the playoffs, and it was amazing. That was when they ended up going and playing the somethings then, as amazing as the action that he had and how angry he was, he was just he was just a

different breed. Um. Well, I actually think that, Um, just to circle back to the question, my opinion is, I actually think he would be harder for for an actor to three p And the reason I say that is because Dave made a great point earlier is that it's it's a voting process, right, so these athletes can somewhat

control it. But I feel like for somebody like, you know, we'll we'll take you Jeremy as as an example, and it's like, after you get it once and you get it twice, I feel like there's gonna be a lot of skew. I mean, you did three p but there's a lot of people that are like, let's just give it to somebody else, even though he deserves it, Let's give it to somebody else. And athletes they don't do that. They want to They want to win every single year

and cut your throat. You know, it's not being voted on. They control what happens. An actor in that situation can't control it. So it's just an incredible accomplishment. No, you're you're You're absolutely right. Um. They control their destiny at all costs. And Paul Newman even was frustrated. I think he went over seven or something at the Oscars and he that's why he went into racing. He was like, I want to win something that I can control, you know.

So yeah, he which is which is absolutely incredible. But yeah, man, I have so many great bulls stories because you know, I was growing up watching them. Remember one year, UM, when they were going for their six title UM, I was hosting the Chicago Film Critics Awards and I got a press pass and I went backstage. Backstage, I went into the locker room and everyone was surrounding Jordan's and they all asked. You know, it was just incredible to

be a part of that. And you know, the wave of questions came, a hundred and sixteen questions at once, and then I just waited and I went right before everyone and I said, have you let the healing process begin since you were snubbed at the Oscars for Space Jam and he was He was like, oh, man, oh I know you you're a clown. Man. I was like, oh, Michael Jordan knows who I am. It was amazing was

that that was the first time you met him. I'm trying you know what that was the first time I met him because I knew the crew UM and every you know, every time I went out, they would always say, oh, man, you just missed m j UM. So I got really frustrated with that. But the world works out because UM. One time there was the opening of the Atlantis Hotel

and Dave. I didn't know you then, but it was Stevie Wonder's birthday and MJ was there and I connected with him and it was incredible, and he invited me on his boat and I just couldn't believe it. So I'm at the hotel and I jumped in one of the cars from the hotel and it was like it was a little stranger. Was a minivan and you know, driving with the guy and he was it was a Sunday and he was blasting, you know, some church service and I'm Jewish and it was interesting because he had it.

He had it cranked up to eleven right, and it was really loud. And then we get we get to the boat and I can see m J and U and I was like, thanks so much, man, and he goes you on me twenty and I was like, oh, I don't have I I was in my board shorts, you know, I was gonna hang out the boys and the but I was like, I don't have any money.

I thought it was part of the hotel. He goes, no man now, and he grabbed a whole to me and he and he started calling the police and and he locked the doors and he wouldn't let me go, and I can see m J, I can see Spike, Lee and Ramadra shot on the boat and I'm late and I'm like, what am I gonna do? And a bus passes by us and I waved to them and they're all pointing. They go, oh my god, they screamed, and I get out of the car and I waved them down and some people knew who I was, and

I asked for twenty. They gave me a twenty. I gave the dude to twenty, ran to the boat, spent the entire day with m J and Spike and we all we did all day long was fire questions at m J and asked him what that run was like. And I got it all. So I feel like I'm I'm totally prepped for the last dance. No, I mean it was. It was. And you know the reaction that you said that he had when he was like, I

know you, I know you. It's cool to see the human side of him because I remember, I think when you introduced me to him at the NBA All Star Game in New York. I remember I brought Chuck Ladell that night, and I remember how funny it was to see him geek out over Chuck Ladell. I don't know if you remember, he was like rubbing his head. He like he couldn't believe he's like the Iceman, the iceman, Like he couldn't believe that this this fighter that he revered,

you know, was it just in his presence? It was really cool? Yeah, man, it's I'm sure that was probably felt really good for Chuck to get that kind of love from the goat. All right, Jeremy, we're gonna take a quick break and we will be right back with more Hate Pal podcast. So now you know, I'm a Sixer fan. Unfortunately, so I haven't had I haven't had a lot of good times, neither of you Mavericks. You got one championship, So what was the the energy in

the city like when that was going on. I mean, to be part of that city, the way that you are, the way that your family is, you guys are synonymous with Chicago. What was that like? I mean, what a what a run? Yeah? You know what, I will say

a little not your Sixers. I don't know if you know this, but the only way they got that footage and the only way it's on the air right now is that MJ agreed to be filmed and they could have they can have access, but if they agreed that he could control the footage and say whenever, if ever,

the footage gets out. And when they approached him finally the group that said let us please produce this and put it out, he MJ was combing over their credentials and he saw that he had done Alan Iverson's documentary and he said, you do this documentary and they were like they didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing, and they were like yeah, and he was like, I saw that three times. Man, I cried.

So that's that's like the reason why one of the reasons one of the variables as to why he gave him the rights, why we even see the last dance. So so props to your boy, Allen Iverson. Yeah that's awesome, he said, I love that little dude. That sounds about right, No,

but yeah, it was, you know, this incredible energy. We just we knew how lucky we were to be to be able to go to the stadium which turned into the United Center and and to watch MJ live and Chicago to this day is an incredible sports town, and and we love them and we revered them, and um, we're very loyal fans. And the energy you know, I mean they're still running off that energy from that from that time. I mean, I don't know if the Bulls

have ever been the same. You know, we keep, we keep, we keep wanting them to be in hoping so so so if I told you that you could own one Chicago team right now, two thousand and twenty, and you will own that team for the next however many years, Chicago Bears, You're gonna own the Chicago Bears, absolute hands town. Yeah wow. And how come how can you pick the Bears over over Cubs, the Bulls, the Socks, the Blackhawks.

You know, I it's such a great tie to them, just because growing up watching them, Um, watching Walter Payton arguably the greatest football player of all time, and their legacy and you know what they did in eighty five and their history and Papa very Hallis and and all those great players over the years and the tradition that those guys have have had and and they really care and they're trying to have a great team and um, they just got your boy from Philly at quarterback. Yeah,

I was about that was my next question. I was about to say, so if Jeremy Piven, what were the owner, who who would you who would you vote for? I mean, I know that ultimately comes from probably the head coach, but the owner has a huge say. But who would you tell the head coach you'd want to start this year? Robinsky or or Fulls? Right? Yeah, yeah, Well that's that's what I mean. They've obviously invested in Traubinsky, and and

he's been injured and we haven't seen him. He played thirteen games in college, so basically, if you were to add the games he's playing now, he's like a rookie UM, and he was injured. Lot of variables, and he's a really tough kid. And that's one of the great things. I love that you're asking that question because I want to be an owner. Um, because I'm I'm a frustrated athlete. And I was a very viciously mediocre player in high school.

But the reason I was because I was only one of the only white boys on my team and I was in the backfield. But then they took me out because I didn't have a chance, and they put me on the line, you know, and you know, in a hundred and seventy eight pounds to play offensive guard was brutal. But I played all four years and you know, and you know what, there's nothing in this life like failure.

I I highly suggested for everyone. No, no, I mean that because you know, it gets to you get a sense of who you are, and you know, that wasn't right for me and feeling like I could contribute and I had speed and I love playing that position and I wasn't allowed to play that in and so it was just a lot of failure for me. And it's one of the things that fuel me as an actor, um was was knowing what that what that defeat was like, and knowing what it was like to not be able

to contribute. And so you know, I'm as an actor, you know, always leave my shield on the field, you know, overprepared everything I got. I'm to this day playing like you know, I got something to prove. And um, so that was an invaluable experience for me. But to answer your question, what I would do is I would I would have a very intense uh camp and I would just see, you know, what these guys are like, what

kind of shape they're in? Who wants it more, who works better with that system, who's going to buy into that system and let them battle it out. You know, Travisky has got that number one spot and he knows the offense, and then like who's gonna bring it every day and who wants it and just think it's a It's a great way for those two guys two And you couldn't have picked a better quarterback because that guy was second team, his number was called the won the

Super Bowl. In my opinion, there's no better guy to be in that position for the Bears than Nick Foleth. Well, man, I should be I should be running things. You should um But you know another uh, I think another thing that's important is who the team is going to rally around. You know, there's certain quarterbacks that for whatever reason, the team will just rally around them as opposed to as another quarterback. As he's saying, as the owner, he would

he would throw this intense camp. And in the intense camp, obviously you're going to see the other the other players and who they're gravitating towards and who they're not. You know, yeah, they know Jared. I have a question in terms of you know, being a performer and comparing it to sports, What for you is personally is a bigger high. Having an incredible kick ass scene on a film set, having an incredible performance on a theater stage, or knocking him

dead with a stand up comedy routine. What what for you is a bigger high? What do you get from? Well, the thing about stand up is it's immediate, and you know if a joke is landing, you know, in real time, right there in front of you, So that that that high is incredible and that's something that you've worked on on your own and you think it's funny, but do

these people think it's funny? And so for that to land is incredible and um, so that you know, for the past few years has been an insane journey and I love it. Um And yet you can't take anything away from being on a film or TV set because there's nothing like that, because you know that you're documenting it and and and all these people are gonna see it, so they're they're all very different. But you know, there's nothing like having a joke land with a large audience.

And it was probably cool because you had never seen me do stand up and you know, I've been trying to get you to come and to be honest with you, I was kind of like holding off until I figured it out. Not that I haven't figured it out. I'm still trying to figure it out. But it was cool to have you come to the laugh Factory and just see because you know me as an actor, but you

never know. Someone could be funny in different roles or off camera or whatever, but you don't know if they're gonna be able to pull it off in front of an audience. So it was cool to have you in the house. Now. It was awesome, and well, I know he was an actor, and I knew he was a great storyteller. You tell great stories, so you know, to be able to see you the timing UH doing stand up was really was really awesome. It was really cool. Now now that we're talking about stand up, I have

a question for you. If you were to create a starting five basketball team made up of five stand up comics, who would you're starting five B Who's who's your point guard, your guard, your forward, your center, your power forward. That's a great question. I think I think bringing up the ball, uh would be I think the backcourt would be Uh. Richard Pryor and Chappelle. You know right, Um, I think

uh in the paint would be Sam Kinison. Wow, just pounding, pounding the paint, relentlessly, amped up, amped up on coke, with a with a with a background as a preacher, just ripping it up right at power forward would probably be Bill Burr, right, and then the other forward might be Eliza Sleshinger. And I don't mean to butcher her name, but she is a brilliant talk about a storyteller. She she is uh meticulous, has tons of energy, totally invests in her stories and uh so there there you have it.

Do you have Do you have a couple that you would you would throw out there on your team? Um? I mean I think, uh, Richard Pryor is is for me. He's gotta be on everybody's comic Mount Rushmore. You know, I think he was just on a on another level. Um, I would love You know who I would love to see battle in the paint is uh Sam Kinison and Robin Williams. That's a great one. That would be a battle down low on the post for sure. But I really can't think of a better backcourt than Prior and Chappelle.

Though pretty good. He nailed. How can that go wrong?

I'd go I'd go Robin Williams in the middle. And by the by the way, it's so interesting you say Robin Williams because I'm editing this documentary that I I shot about the backstage life of attempting to be a stand up comic, and when you interviewed everyone, and when when you talk about actors who have transitioned into being stand up stand up comics, everyone goes blank, and Robin Williams is the lone name because you have to remember Robin's background as a Juilliard and he was an actor

and you know, wasn't really getting it getting roles and needed to perform so desperately after Julliard got up on stage as a stand up and his is one of the few guys that broke the sound barrier and robins stand up it wasn't traditional and I am inspired by him because he would tell stories entering the characters. It wasn't necessarily traditional stand up. So I love that you

named him. Yeah, no, he was great, and I would like I was saying, a man, imagine the battle between Kinnison and Robin Williams and the paint Jeremy, No, it was I think I think their hearts would explode. I have to agree with you. No, I like that one Dave I had on my on my you know, we're calling it the starting I rounded up because I'm missing a couple. I put Whoopi Goldberg in there and on the team. That's what I only named. That's four. Okay,

keep going here. But you know what, I don't know if you've ever seen Sarah Silverman, she made she made crush as hard as anyone I've ever seen. Um Bob Saget had this charity and the whole cast from Enterage showed up and she got up on stage, and I

don't think I've ever seen anything like it. And by the way, you know, she's a woman in her forties and you know, I'm not outing her, but she's she's literally been doing stand up for close to thirty years and she is straight up brilliant and yeah, and she just explores and has no fear, you know, into into the idea of that. At one point, she was just exploring her father taking a shower and the fact that she came from off her father's balls, and it was

just madness. She she was just crushing it. That's a great one. That's that's a great one. And then my last one would be uh, he was kind of he would like to consider himself a member of the rat Pack. The Frank Snatra crew would be Don Rickles. Yeah, I think Don Rickles. I've watched his interview show some a little bits. Yeah, that would be That would be my

fifth guy I had. He would be sorry, sorry, I think Don Rickles would probably be the m v P of crowd work, because no one worked the crowd better than that guy. Yeah. Yeah, he'd be like when Rodman would come into the game Chicago and the crowd would go crazy. Imagine Don Rickles coming in. Yeah. Yeah, I had Chappelle. I actually had Eddie Murphy on my startup five, and then oh my god, I forgot Eddie Murphy, Chappelle, Robin Williams as well as you guys. And then I

had Joe Coy, who I absolutely love. I think this guy is incredible. And then I had to put Nick Swartzon on there. I just love I love Schwartzon. Yes, no, he's very funny. All right, Jeremy, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back. Um, Jeremy, I wanted to ask you. Okay, So, so oftentimes you have given these I don't know where where they pull from, and we can get to that in a second. But um, you have given these insanely amazing motivational uh speeches in

your shows or movies. You've done in Entourage and getting the troops going, and then you did it in of course we go back to the beginning my favorite movie, Serendipity and not letting cusack, you know, really give up on on going after the girl, and you gave that great, you know speech about you and your relationship and it

motivated him. So if it were halftime of a game, okay, any game, I don't care what game it is, but a professional sports it is halftime, and the guys are in the locker room, and Jeremy Piven has a chance to put any coach in that locker room for a motivational speech, living or dead, past, future present. Who's Jeremy Piven putting in that locker room to motivate the guys for the second half? Another great question, by the way, Well,

I mean, look the the obvious. The first person that came to mind is Phil Jackson of course, but but you know that's the obvious choice because the reality is he has eleven rings. Let let me, let me let that sink in eleven rings. I just was watching an interview with Steve Kurrny. What Steve Kerr said was they would be in film sessions for so long before a practice, sometimes two and a half hours before they started practicing.

And he said he was honest with every player, including m j um and so you know, he didn't pick favorites. He gave it to you straight. And I had some really interesting talks with Phil and you know, he had to manage a lot of egos. Imagine navigating Kobe God rest his soul and and Shack. You know. Um, he dealt with a lot of guys and motivated them. So listen, I wasn't lucky enough because I have the vertical of

Stephen Hawking. Um, but not no, not Stephen Hawking now, Stephen Hawking like when he was rolling around you know, in his then, not now when he's under the ground. There's a difference. I hope you're using that stand up, by the way, that's incredible. Now. In my in my stand up, I I said that I have the vertical of Chris Christie. But I thought that was weird, but then I thought I was fact saming, so I changed it up. By the way, by the way, we're so

starved for sports. I literally just fought the ups guy and filmed it amazing. Yeah, all right, Now, you're also a huge UFC fight fan. You're a big UFC guy. You love it. Um you personally, would you rather be a UFC champion or a super Bowl champion? You know, there's so many variables, because I mean, being a UFC champion means that you're the baddest man on the planet, and there's something kind of undeniable about that. At the same time, you know, you know, these guys take so

much punishment. You just wonder, you know, you feel for these guys. I mean there's a reason why not everyone wants to be locked in the cage with Chuck Liddell. I mean it takes its toll, you know. Um, so I I you know that's a big variable. You know, how much what's the tax on being a UFC fighter? You know how many elbows has John Jones you know

doled out? You know, um, and I have a background in football, so I would gravitate towards football, and I think having that Super Bowl ring, you know, might but then you look at you look at NFL players, some of them can't walk upstairs. So I don't know. Um, I think, you know, I think, I think because I love I love them both. That's a that's a tough one. Yeah,

that's that's that's that's that's a tough one, man. Um. But I think, you know, ultimately, let's let's be honest, you guys, those UFC guys, no one trains harder and no one gets compensated less for their sacrifice. Yeah, that's very true. Well, now that you brought up training, now I'm trying to imagine what Michael Jordan would have been like is a UFC fighter since he played everything else practically, Um, you know, yeah, he would have been like John Jones. Yeah,

I think so. I I gotta agree with you. Um. Now, one of your other skill sets is you're a great musician. You love drums, and I want to know, is there one moment you've you've drummed with some amazing people. You know, we had that little jam session with Joe Perry and Johnny Depp in Florida, which was awesome. Um, and you've done You've done a lot of little jam sessions like that. Is there one that stands out more than the others?

That was insane? Um? You know. I looked over and I'm playing with Joe Perry, and by the way, I am, I've been playing the drums my whole life. But I'm limited. I'm not a professional musician. So Joe Perry looks at me and he goes, you know, just give me a shuffle and we'll break into and I couldn't quite hear him. I'm like, I can't and like, I know my limitation, you know. I'm like, and the shuffle is a very specific beat that I can't do, and I know, I know I can't do it. I can't do it well.

So I don't know if you've noticed, but I looked at Miguel, who was a brilliant musician, and I just said, I'm gonna get into a funky pocket. Backed me up, because that's a pocket that I know and understand. So I just started hitting like a two and a four and getting funky, and then they kind of went okay,

and they followed my lead. Thank god, because I'll be honest with you had I attempted a shuffle and they jumped into you know anything, it would the joke would have been on me and they would have taken the sticks away from me, and I would have I would have cried like a grandmother. Well yeah, I know that was That was such an awesome moment. It was Johnny Depp, Joe Perry, Miguel and Jeremy on drums. It was really

really cool. That is but I played listen, I I played with I played with Kid Rock, Kid Rock, and then direct this. So this is insane. So I'm already to play cowboy because he's a cowboy. Got god, I'm ready. I'm ready with my beat. I don't have any in the ears. We're at the House of Blues and this happens, and I'm not making it up. We're it's being filmed for like Music Cares. All the money is going to charity. And I get on the kid and Kid kid Rock looks at the audience and he goes, oh, you're not

gonna believe that. You guys. We have the remaining members of Leonard Skinner come up on stage. You guys, and the guys, the remaining members of Leonard Skinner get up on stage and they go, okay, let's play a Zeppelin cover. Okay, let's play rock and roll. Count it off. And I'm like, un count it off? You know what I mean? I don't even know. I can't hear anything because I have no in ears. I've got nothing. So I just go one, two, three, four, been alone times and you know, been alone towns, and

I can't. I don't have my in ears, so i can't hear the remaining members of of Leonard Skinner or kid Rock or anything. I'm just trying desperately to keep up. Kid Rock looks at me and screams, what do you do with He was so angry at me. Man. Afterwards, he's like, bro, do you need a metronome? Click? Click click, And I was like, well, I didn't know that I was going to be playing that song that I've never played with guys that I've never seen him. But thank

you for allowing me to play kid Rock. So I don't think I'll ever be allowed on one of his cruises. That's awesome. I love that. Hey, so you played an agent on TV. As we we talked about earlier, Mr back to back to back yes three times and this is our third episode, so it's it's the number three. So you played an agent on TV. So what we want to know is if you were an agent in real life, Mr Jeremy Piven, Who are a couple of actors or who is going to be Jeremy Piven's first sign?

Who are you going after first in the industry to get on your roster? Actors are athletes? Sorry, I want to do whatever whatever you want, so you can. You can give me a medley if you want. You can mix them up. Well, the first I athlete I would probably sign is is Kevin Durant because he's got a chip on his shoulder right now, he's coming off of injury. Everyone's like, oh, you went to Golden State. You you took the easy way out. But people don't realize the

Slim Reaper is is like no other you guys. I mean that guy. You know, he's got handles like he's five nine, but he by the way, he's probably seven ft. I think they listen him at six ten or something. Don't get it twisted. There's almost no one like him. He will if he's healthy, he's gonna he's gonna grab some rings. Except for Dirk and whiskey. Right, you said there's nobody like him, but except for Dirk. Yeah, Dirk

Is is brilliant. You don't. He's a man. You don't have to be nice, No, Dirk Dirk Is, Dirk Is is one for the ages for sure. And and his shot is incredible. You know, I don't know if he has all the hand thals that k d has uh I would probably sign, is it shila la la booth that he's Julian Edelman actually is a big shy. We were talking about that. That that is I think that is an excellent sign. Did you did you see both

the Peanut Butter Falcon and Honey Boy? By chance, I've seen honey Boy, I haven't seen uh uh, peanut butter fal It's a real it's a real thing. It's a real thing. No, I haven't seen it, but I can't wait to see it. Um. What is it called again? It's called yeah, it's no, that's right. It's called peanut butter Falcon peut literally, and it's the guys that it's the guys that produced mud Bound um and which actually are our producer that you just said hi to Kyle,

who's my partner in production. He spent seven years of his life on mud Bound. Um we did. We did not produce Peanut Butter Falcon, but Tim, Tim and Tim and Chris did and uh yeah, so we got to see it early on. We got to see what is special heartbeat as and Shaya is. Uh, he's absolutely wonderful

in it. It's it's it's an incredible film. It's really great. Well, yeah, he's one of those guys who you know you're you're in for something special when you watch him in something, because he puts every fiber of his being into the character. Um and he goes all in. You know, we're we're

talking about Jordans. There are certain people that you know, like Russell Wilson said to me one time he was sounds like a name dropping, but he was, you know, he was one of the cameos an Entourage, and he said to me he was he stuck around and was watching some of my scenes and he said, let me ask you, man, when you when you act, is it each take? Is it like regular season playoffs for the super Bowl? And I said it's the super Bowl and

he goes, yeah, man, me too. And I don't know any other way but to put everything I possibly have into it. And I'm not equating myself with Shia or Michael m j or any of these people, or Russell or any of them. You're all give it, You're all, but yeah, and until there's nothing left for real. And Shy is one of those guys. And you know, Shy has been misunderstood, and I know what it's like to be misunderstood, believe me, um for a long time. And I just think that he's, uh, he's brilliant and you

can't go wrong with that guy. So I would I changed myself to a desk for him if I was his agent. That's that's awesome. I love it. Those are two great picks. That's Katie and Shyloff. Ye. All right, well let's lighten it up a little bit. We're gonna do a little segment right now called the Spelling Bee, the Hey Pal spelling Bee. Um, I'm gonna ask you to spell a word, and I'm gonna ask Jared to

spell the same word and we'll see who gets it right. Okay, Can I just say I'd like to play any other game? You know What's funny? Before we started, I said I'm probably not gonna ask Jeremy this, but but I got one that I feel very confident about. So just trust me on this. Okay, here we go with your faith. The spelling be the word for Jared issom. Oh, so I get to go first. You're going first, Okay, hit me with it. The word for Jared isom and I can use it in a sentence if necessary. Or locker

as in Brian or locker, Brian or locker. The word is er locker. Do I have to spell Brian or just r locker? The word is er locker. Okay, Um, I would like to have it used in the sentence, please. Um. The greatest linebacker post Mike Singletary, is Brian Erlacker. Excellent a linebacker fur the Chicago Bears. Yes, that's it. Er locker or locker or locker. You're not gonna get it right you You are l A C h e O.

There is that. By the way, Brian Bryan is another one of those guys who was so insanely competitive, you know, and you know, being from Chicago love and you know all Chicago teams. I've known Brian for years and he saw me listed on some sheet it's something at five ten and he goes bro, give me a break. Man, You're not five ten and I'm five nine. They gave me, they gave me an inch, but I'm like, you're six five. You've been the best player on every field you've ever

walked onto. Give me this, give me one, give one inch of fame, alright, And with that, I think we're gonna take one more ad break, and then when we come back, we're gonna put Mr Piven in the penalty box. It's time. M M. All right, you go penalty box. So, last, but not least, we're gonna go into hay Pal penalty box and ask you a series of questions just to answer the first thing that comes to mind, super simple. Chicago has some great sports stadiums and fields. What's your

favorite Chicago stadium of all time? Past, present or future? Pastor present? Soldier Field? Soldier Field, Okay, all right, just because you know it's so iconic. It's been there forever um and they weren't a team that moved elsewhere, and they kept the bones of the real stadium and they built on it. You know, some some boxes and you know, luxury boxes and whatnot, but it's it's been the same since Papa Bear House was there and the Bears back in the day. It's a it's a pretty special place.

I want to ask you, what was the difference. Did you like watching basketball at the old Chicago Basketball Arena or at the United Center better? I mean, they're both so great because you know, the Bear the Bulls one in both of them. And the United Center was a little bigger and more cavernous, but the mad House on Madison was more intimate and uh old school. Yeah, okay, um, I know you eat healthy, but if you had to pick,

what's the best pizza spot in Chicago, uh, Pizzeria Juno. Okay, good call Jared old school or Serendipity old school because it's just so insanely funny. Um. You know, I mean once a romantic comedy wants a flat out comedy that will stand the test of time. And you know, working with guys like Will Ferrell, who his background is in sketch as well, Um, you can't break him because he's used to, you know, doing live television, so he's kind of unstoppable. Um. And he's another guy that goes all in.

You know, when he was saying, you know, let's go streaking. Hey, Snoop with your boy Snoop, you know, you know, everyone on set is looking and Will you know just had a sock, a tube sock, you know, basically on just he covered his situation with a tube sock. And if you look at Snoop's face, he didn't know what was happening. And will Is is just not afraid to commit completely. And so there's so many great lines from that. I'll tell you my audition story with that. I went in

for Todd Phillips. I shouldn't tell the story, but I'm going to anyway, Hey, pal, exclusive there you go. So I read the script and I'm not just saying this, but I just went, this is a classic. This is straight up classic. I have to go in on this. And they're like, well, a lot of the roles have been cast up. Only can I just meet Todd Phillips. Yeah, you can go in there. I went and met him and he was really cool, and I go, you know what's left? And he goes, well, the only thing left?

I go, you know, you know what about And they're like, now that's Vince, what about Nana, that's Luke Wilson, what about not's Will Ferrell? Well what do you have left? Well, we have the nerdy dean that they lock at a dumpster. That's the only role left. And I was like, um, okay, man, I'll play that. And he goes, no, you can't play that, but how could you do that? And I go, what do you mean? He goes, you look like one of Vince's like buddies. You you seem to have that swagger

like and he said you're built like a gymnast. And I was like, I don't even know what that means, but but thank you. You know, I don't know what that has to do with anything, you know, but thanks man? And uh, he goes, how could you play this role? I go, I'll tell you what. Can I audition? He goes sure? So I went out and I found some very nerdy glasses and I got a sweater vest and I did a call. I called my I did a comb over and I just played this nerdy character and

I did one take and he goes, that was great. Uh, And I just want what do you expect? And he goes what. I go, I'd like to go again? Can I go again? Sure? And I said, what did you expect? Without even thinking do you know what? I mean, and it came off so cocky. I didn't mean to say that, so I corrected myself and I went again, and luckily I got the role and it was incredible and an amazing experience. And he's a genius. And that movie is you know, something you could put on today and you're

still gonna laugh. It's not like it's dated or it didn't hold up. No, it's it's awesome. Um all right, where is a place that you want to travel? I know you love traveling. The place that you've never been that you want to go to a lot of good questions, you guys. I I did a travel show and I went to India and did a you know, a bunch of stuff. I did a travel show. I did one episode I did. It was just like a special. I'd

love to do that again. Um Man. You know what's crazy is I've I've never been to Australia, if you can believe it. Um And you know what's funny is like whenever I hear someone with an Australian accent, I know that that that they're going to come over to me. I sort of got to hear it, and I just know that entourage was huge in Australia for whatever reason. I know that they're very much like the UK and they love taking the piss and that's all Ari Gold

did with bust people's walls. So, um, I'd like to go do some stand up there and I'd love to go travel over there. Awesome, We're gonna do that. And last question, uh, favorite childhood cartoon when you were a youngster man. There's there's so many, right, Um, what about you guys? Why don't you guys go first? I know you have them. Um. My favorite cartoon was probably I was a big super Friends guy. I like the super Friends, the League of Justice, that whole thing, and they'd sit

around the table. I like that. Yeah, how about Justice League? That's still on? Isn't it? Just? Is it? I don't know. All I know is that I did a voice on Justice League. I played the Elongated Man. No one. I don't even know what that means. You have to send me. You gotta send me that Cliff, You gotta send me that the elongated Man. I know it sounds like a pornough, right, the Elongated Man. That's amazing? All right, Jared, you don't

have one. I didn't watch cartoons grow you didn't watch cartdoons? No, I never. I never saw a court. I don't even think I was care bears, counsels, care bears, care bears. Did you ever hear do you ever hear of Chrapel's care bear joke? I'm not gonna say it. I won't do it, but job, oh wait, no I have, I haven't. It's brilliant. He's right, Yeah, we can't say it, but it's awesome. So here's here's my my last story about cartoons. I love cartoons so much that I would come home

from school. Um, when I was eight is when I started. I started, you know, on stage as an actor. So I was on stage, but before then, I would come home and one time the TV is there, the everything else has got the furniture is missing, and I run, I run outside. I run to my mom and we've been robbed. And she goes, no, no, no, Jeremy, we're using all of our furniture for the set of our the new check off play that we're doing Three Sisters. And I was like, what are you guys doing? Why?

Why can't you get real jobs? Why can't why do you have to be actors so stupid? Why can't dad be a mover, like move things like do something useful, like literally. My first reference for acting was you're gonna steal the couch, you know. So I can't watch cartoons, so that was very surreal. I loved I loved everything every cartoon you could possibly watch. But you know, those quick road Runners always hysterical. They were quick hits and I love them. Awesome. All right, well, Jared, I can't

thank you enough, brother. I love you. It's so great to see you and to talk to you. Listen. I can't wait for this pandemic to be over so we can all hug it out. Bit. Yes later, buddy, Thank you so much, cheers by, thank you, wow dav Oh, yeah, that was awesome. That is my pal. That is your pal, Jeremy Piven. Just can I call him my pal, mince, you can call him your pal. Just a great great talent um and uh a great guy and what an

awesome little Uh. That was an R Gold shout out at the end, right, that was an R Gold shout out. We might hug it out. We might have to use that as like a sound bite. In addition to all that great Piven stuff, he has his own podcast, coming out called how You Live in JP Piven, so check that out soon. It's a cool title. I like it. Dave. Yeah, just calling our pals and hanging out. Just calling our pals and hanging out. Well, thanks for tuning in and

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