KFC Radio - Quickie: The Sandlot's Ham Porter (Patrick Renna)

Episode Date: July 30, 2018

Patrick Renna from The Sandlot and now Netflix's GLOW comes by to talk about royalties from The Sandlot and if he will fight Goldberg from The Mighty Ducks at Rough N RowdyYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/kfcr

Hey, KFC Radio listeners, you can find every episode of KFC Radio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. All right, welcome to KFC Radio. We got a very special guest who's near and dear to everybody's heart, if you're in our age group and in our demo. We got Patrick Renna live in studio with us. You affectionately know him as ham porter from the sandlot he is now a cupcake in glow and uh you know we all grew up on you man so it's wild to have you here in the flesh talking with us well thanks for having me yeah uh i feel like you guys have been doing a

sandlot 25th reunion for like five years i feel like i've been seeing it like it's almost here they're about to do something then they're doing it now we're recapping it so i feel like you've been kind of hanging out with the guys. They're about to do something, and then they're doing it. Now we're recapping it. So I feel like you've been kind of hanging out with the guys for a little while now. We're stringing it out as long as we can. As you should. As you should. Yeah, you know, we did something for the 20th, so it has been about five years. You nailed it, buddy.

That's how it works. We do know how to do math. But, yeah, we've, you know, we didn't, all of us didn't get together on the 20th, and now on the 25th, eight of us are getting together. We're missing one, so it's a lot bigger this year. Was it this year that you did the Dodgers? You sold out Dodgers Stadium, right? Yeah, we did it a month or two ago,

and they put us in the jerseys and had our character names on it. They did a special showing after? Yeah, they did. And that's where the movie was filmed at the end of Sandlot. The Jet steals home at Dodger Stadium. And he's a Dodger. So it kind of made it even more special. Was Benny the Jet the cool guy on set the way he was in the movie?

100%. Yeah, he was the coolest guy. That wasn't acting. No, he was the oldest. He was the boss, you know. I mean, Chauncey, who plays Squints, and Brandon Adams were kind of the cool guys. Like, they were the – Brandon plays DeNunez, the pitcher. But Mike was definitely the boss.

He was the leader. And I was – you know, we kind of were all our parts. I was the loudmouth ham. It was perfect. Do you get – with all the ham stuff – yeah it was perfect do you get with all the ham stuff so i feel like i just stopped walking on the street yesterday so i put a t-shirt with the ham ham on it doing the babe point right and then i think on an instagram ad all the time with like a hawaiian style shirt with ham on it yeah uh what do you get on royalties for those you know

unfortunately they're uh they're stiffening me on those ones. A lot of them are bootlegged, but Aaron Judge was wearing that shirt. Right, right, right. The Roosevelt's made. The Roosevelt's and Urban Outfitters are the two that actually got the rights, I think. Everyone else is bootlegging it. I think we might be. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm pretty sure we've done that before. Yeah, you know, haven't we all?

How about the royalties from the Sandlot in general? I feel like I can't, every time I turn on the TV, I'm catching that. Yeah, you know, you still make money on movies over the years for rentals and things like that. But, you know, it's nothing to write home about. Money's money. Cashless checks, man. Exactly. That was like Adam Schefter used to always tweet out his royalties check for Longest Yard.

Yeah. One cent. Yeah, it was. i think it was 43 cents for chef he'd get it annually because he had like just a tiny little roll and i'm sure yours is it's much uh growthier than than chef well they did it they did a sequel to the sandlot unfortunately i guess you could say but yeah i was gonna ask you i haven't seen it yeah but i just found out that because i get these checks in the mail these like five dollar checks for sandlot 2 and i was like i wasn't in this thing but apparently they did a flashback in sandlot 2 footage and used all of us for like a second but there you go so if you're

if you're in a movie for even a second they gotta send free coffee that day yeah exactly was there any like fuck sandlot 2 no not at all i you know i i it might it might have been i don't know if it was two or three i you know i think the director of sandlot the original sandlot did one of them and that one is better i mean whatever they i think they were still cute and for kids but yeah it's it's not like the first one you know i mean that's something nothing's like the first one in my in my opinion uh the best baseball movie of all time. Wow. Well, you know, I think it's also because its competition is probably like The Natural and Bull Durham.

But Sandlot is for kids, too. Yeah, but it's like a children's movie, but it's not because it's like as an older person, you can remember being a young boy playing baseball. 100%. So it's very relatable. But a 10-year-old can love it, and his relatable but a 10 year old can love it and his 30 year old dad can love it and there's not much like that so no it's very it's a very cool movie uh you you personally have i mean some of the most memorable moments in the movie uh what would you say is your you know best scene best line or just favorite stick-out moment of the Sandlot?

Well, I think you can't really argue with your killing me smalls. That's sort of been the one. I don't know. I mean, I can't argue. You want to argue? We can argue about it. Well, yeah, you go. What's your favorite? Bacon like a toasted cheeser.

You mix wheeze with your mama's toe jam. Toe jam is a good one even just like the whole s'mores scene you play ball like a girl scene you know you can make some arguments just like there's really no dialogue or lines to it

but everybody puking on the ride throwing in chews you kind of answered it there well I think my favorite to film was you know that the the big argument scene with the other team the you play ball like a girl scene I was actually written for Benny and we were all we were halfway through the movie or two-thirds through the movie and like you guys knew right off the bat benny was like the legend already and i think the director went this isn't the right scene for him because he's gonna be the heartthrob he's gonna be too cool too smooth he's too smooth he wouldn't do this so the day of i

got a knock on my room and he said you're doing it great audible great right and uh not so that was kind of fun yeah and then the following scene that that leads into, which wasn't shot on the same day, was always supposed to be my scene, but where I'm talking trash behind the plate. And that was all improv'd. The director had a bullhorn. It wasn't improv'd by me.

It was improv'd by him. He was in the dugout, and he just rolled camera and just started yelling out insults at me and you know he'd be like uh is that your sister out there in left field she's naked you know and then i'd hear the director the adult say this i'd start cracking up a little bit while we're rolling film which wasn't cheap in 1992 because it wasn't digital and then i'd you know okay come on come on come on okay okay okay is that your sister out there you know so it was probably a 20 minute shot that cost fox who knows how much money but it was the best for me to film that was my favorite

to film are you a fan of the like similar movies of the same type of genre 100 one of my favorite movies of all times goonies yeah yeah i mean i guess it's sort of similar genre i was gonna say that wouldn't be what i thought of. I first of all, I've never seen Goonies. So that's probably, it gets lumped in with the other sports movies. Yeah. And it gets compared to Sam a lot.

A lot. I think when you got those tip jars at coffee shop, like boys being boys type of thing. I think it was like Mighty Ducks, big green. See, I, for me,

I don't compare Sam a lot to those because Sam, that's not really about baseball. I mean, it is, but it isn't. You know what I mean? Like, it's got baseball, but it's about growing up and friendship. And, you know, it's about the Mighty Ducks. I was going to say, let's not slander the Mighty Ducks. Don't put them in a box, sir.

You're right. You're right. But Mighty Ducks is more of a sports movie. And you think of the family, friends. Yeah, I guess I've always just thought of it. I think of Sandlot as a baseball film, but I guess the sport of baseball is almost not a sport. I agree with that. You know what I mean?

It's more than a sport. Yeah, baseball fans to me, like football, we say is once a week on Sunday. You get wings, get some beer, you hang out. It's more of a social event. Baseball is like a way of life. Baseball is. Dads take their sons and their daughters, and the families all go, and they go season tickets. You hear countless stories about him going with grandpa.

I fucking heard this one 17 times, Dad. I don't need it again. Yeah, nobody says I took him to Madison Square Gardens. Watch the Knicks game. I mean, and I love basketball, but it's not the same you are you're a boston guy right i am yeah are you familiar with barstool at all were you like growing up in boston or being in boston yeah is it in boston it was originated in boston you know when they sent me this over i was like that sounds really familiar so i wasn't i didn't put it together but okay we're all here now uh but so big red

socks contingency here great i'm a mets fan myself uh and i feel like there's always that that met socks like yeah we're good we're good with that kindred spirit yeah as long as bad things happen to the yankees we'll be good common enemy get that hurt brooks you need a common enemy i mean to me what's going on right now it thank God for your Red Sox. Because if I had to, I mean, the Yankees would be cruising right about now if it wasn't for the Red Sox. I mean, between the Red Sox and the Yankees, the Yankees are almost the second best team in baseball.

And they're six games out. I know. I mean, I was looking through the standings, and I think, who has them beat? Maybe Houston. Yeah, that's basically the three-headed monster right there. But does the hate for the Yankees run deep for you? I mean, to me, it controls my life.

It doesn't. You know, I've never been a – I left Boston at 13 and I moved to L.A. So I grew up watching Kobe and Shaq, you know. But – It went Hollywood soft. No, first you make the no first first you didn't even hesitate you know no no no give me a kobe jersey what i'm saying burns a ted williams one no no no i would never i would never not wear a celtics jersey i'm just saying when you grow up

in your teens and you're surrounded by that if i i wasn't going to be a 13 year old going you know f the lakers at the lakers so of course i still have my roots in boston and those are my teams but i don't have hatred for la i don't i i don't have it either yeah i'm not i'm not a huge hate the yankees i i'm coming back to it this year but it died in 2004 it did it was it will it'll never be the same it's coming back yeah playoffs this year you'll hate them yeah yeah no doubt it take it always takes a little postseason head-to-head it did there will never be anything like also when jeter retired probably because yeah that whole by the time jeter retired it was kind of like payton leaving the colts when he gave it where it's like i look i respect you now that's the

thing about the hatred is you it's hatred for the best and the greatest of all time so bird magic there was hatred with kobe and the celtics team you know the the uh big three a couple years you know when they were going off there was hatred now you're like what's like there's really no you're not gonna hate with lebron because he's a four-year i mean you know yeah no it's it's different it's not gonna be oh i think lebron's i think i think he's actually one of the few that you can carry the hate for. I don't personally because I don't really follow basketball that closely. But I would understand someone being like, look, I still hate LeBron. I fucking love him.

We know it. Yeah, we know well he has a lot of LeBron haters in this house. Yeah. So, you know, we'll see. It depends on, obviously, if they are in contention too. That's what I mean. I don't know if the Lakers are going to do it. The Celtics are, though. My it. The Celtics are though.

My God. The Celtics are looking they are set for the future. Dude, after LeBron went to the Lakers my favorite tweet

was the Lil Uzi Vert where it's just like Celtics in the East right now. Now I do what I want. It's just doors wide open

for them, man. So, you're now also on GLOW. Yeah. You're playing Cupcake real real creepy son of a bitch on oh thank you yeah i try to do it well um glow i feel like is you know every other day i'm like hey i need a recommendation on netflix what should i watch tonight and it's glow yeah it's great yeah people we were just out in la they had the billboards for everywhere like the four-year

consideration and in new y, it's everywhere. Yeah, there's a ton of them. But in L.A., it was the four-year consideration stuff. Oh, right, right, right. Yeah, there's a bunch of, like, advertisements around here. But there it was, like, hey, this is a fucking awesome show. This is the real deal. You should be watching this.

Yeah, I think just the cast, the ensemble cast is so talented. And, I mean, all the girls are incredible. Alison Brie. And then you have Marc Maron, who's hysterical. And it's just, you know. Mar the girls are incredible. Allison Brie and then you have Mark Maron who's hysterical. Maron's fucking hilarious. Allison Brie's the best. And then the second lead got nominated for an Emmy.

Really? Were you a wrestling guy growing up? A little bit. I didn't pay attention to the glow though. That's more of a niche wrestling. Yeah, I was older and a little more when you get really deep into the wrestling world. But to me, it was like, it's Sandlot. It was Little League Baseball, and it was wrestling for me.

Like, those are my two childhood things. So really, you're just, your career right now is me. And Ham becomes a wrestler at the end of Sandlot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go, right? You're real creepy in in glow you're uh basically stalking this girl look you got the shirt with her face on it and all that uh what would you say is the most uh let's say romantic thing you've ever done in pursuit of a girl most romantic yeah you know like if we're calling showing up with cupcakes yeah the cupcake move was was not his head it was romantic yeah but a

little creepy yeah maybe what's the most aggressive way you've ever gone after oh wait the most aggressive now yeah yeah yeah oh man i don't know uh you know i mean i i think with my wife i you know we were together. We got together and then we're married 11 months later. Oh, wow. I proposed to her four months after we were together. So that's probably the most romantic. How many fights has it led to you seeing random people on the street and them coming up and yelling lines to you?

How many fights? Because I've had girlfriends who have yelled, who have had guys yell at me. I think you had a story back when you were dating and it was it was you were you were fighting with your girlfriend oh this is the worst she was very upset about the website and some you know exposure something i a joke i had made and uh she was kind of yeah i think she was saying like you only care about like the readers you don't care about me and i was like no no no. And as we're walking down the street on the Upper East Side, some dude's like, yo, what's up, KFC? What's up, man?

I'm a big fan. I was like, not right now. Thank you. Thank you. But not right now. Yeah. Yeah. I would imagine it's a lot of pictures.

And you play ball like a girl. Yeah. My wife's pretty good about it, though. She's, you know, she's mostly, though, it's never bad. It's, you know, people coming up and saying, like, what you said, like, oh, you were my childhood. I grew up on you. But even that, even things that aren't bad can get annoying. For the person you're with.

For the person you're with. Where they're like, I'm so sick of this. When those $5 royalty checks keep rolling in, man. That's right. What are you going to do? You've got to own it and you've got to love it. As long as the check clears. No, I think as long as people are cool.

The only time maybe it gets a little hairy is if you're out drinking. And then people have had a little bit too much to drink and their strength radar is not quite there and they get a little push happy. Really? Not like a hug happy. they get a little push happy. Really? Not like hug happy. It's a little too strong of a hug. Like, oh, man, you're sweaty, I'm sweaty.

I don't want a sweaty hug right now. Who wins in a fight? You versus Goldberg from the Mighty Ducks. Catcher versus goalie. Kind of like the quarterback of each team. No question. Both positions kind of have the stereotypes along with them i feel like you guys kind of represent each like when i think of like a catcher and a and a goalie as like in in children's sports like

it's you two guys well does he have a hockey stick and i have a bat yeah let's say you got your respective weapons i was thinking bare knuckle bro we can turn this into a weapon you know i mean the only problem is a hockey stick's got more reach so he might you thought about this i have i've slept i've fallen asleep thinking about goldberg uh you know i uh i probably would win i probably oh you said that so nonchalantly i don't want to be cocky but obviously everyone agrees here come on all right well we'll have to get goldberg in here and ask him and see what he thinks actually I don't want to be cocky, but it was me. Obviously, everyone agrees here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on. All right. Well, we'll have to get Goldberg in here and ask him and see what he thinks.

Actually, make sure I'm not here when you do that. We have a, it's called Rough and Rowdy. It's like an amateur boxing, like kind of, we're throwing a pay-per-view in August, and we always try to get grudge matches and pit each other against them. So if you ever want to box Goldberg on a live pay-per-view. Like actually fight. Actually, yeah. Three one-minute rounds.

Where's Goldberg from? That's a good question. Why? Like, what if... I don't know. If he's from New York, you're from... Oh, he's from New York, you can't back down. You're a Boston guy.

That would be better. If he's a New York guy, we could do a little Boston, New York. He definitely might be a New York guy. I mean, yeah, he kind of has that, like... I think he's a New York guy. I ran into him over the years a couple times. And he's actually one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. I don't know if you've met him.

You just want to beat his head on the baseball bat. Yeah, he's so nice. You just kind of want to clock him right in the dome. All right, man. We appreciate you coming through. Thanks for all the memories with Sandlot. And go check him out in Glow. He is one creepy son of a bitch.

Thank you very much. I take that with the, you know, that's just beautiful. CT is an incredible actor. For your consideration. There you go. Top cake. Best guest star. Appreciate it, man.