Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson - Going Dutch with Denis Leary

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

The Siblings have done it again! Kate and Oliver serve up a can't miss episode with actor and comedian, Denis Leary.The 'Rescue Me' star takes us back to his Boston roots, and talks about the famous face whoturned out to be his long-lost Irish relative. Plus, Denis dishes on working with his son in the new series "Going Dutch," while Kate confesses why she didn't approach Denis on a recent flight!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Hi, I'm Kate Hudson. And my name is Oliver Hudson. We wanted to do something that highlighted our relationship. And what it's like to be siblings. We are a sibling rivalry. No, no. Sibling rivalry.

Don't do that with your mouth. Sibling, revelry. That's good. I just put beef tallow on my face. Oh, that's really good. No, I know. And Aaron has it. No, this is, I like this.

I just, I love the way it feels. You hate the way it smells. It smells like a fucking cow on my head. I can give you stuff that's good. I do the tallow sunscreen because I think it's better than regular sunscreen. I just don't wear sunscreen. Well, then you should do the tallow. Yeah.

But there's got to, there has to be flavored tallow. I am so excited about this person that we have coming on today because it feels like a, it feels to me like someone I grew up with. Oh, yeah. Because he, he was, you know, we have Dennis Leary coming on. And I feel like when we were kids, he was like, like that you know he was like the yeah well when he was doing comedy it was that sort of aggressive yeah he was that 80s like punk yeah yeah it was like it was that punk comedy punk comedy

he just created that he was a punk comic I guess let's see if let's see what he thinks he was he actually says punk comedy I'm getting seriously doubt that no but but the thing is is I was on the plane with him and I I know you didn't even I did I didn't say anything because I knew he's coming on the podcast and then I'll bring this up with him, but I'm sitting in first class. I come on the plane. I actually saw Lawrence Fishburn, who we call Fish, who I hadn't seen in a really long time. And Danny was just like fanning out because he's such a Lawrence Fishprint. And then we were up at 32,000 feet and I see this back of this man's head going to the restroom. And I'm like, I really recognize that person. And I recognize the back of his head. He has like the side. He has like the side. of his. Yeah, he's a very distinguished back of the head. He was a head with the thing. And then when he was walking back, I was like, oh, it's Dennis Larry.

And then I wanted to say hi, but then I felt weird. It felt weird. Because he didn't want to say, you're going to be on the podcast. Yeah, and he didn't want to ruin a conversation. And I didn't know if he was that kind of guy, you know. I think he is. I'm assuming he's a nice person. But I'm going to see if he had the same feeling right now.

I was like, do I say hello? What if he didn't even recognize? What if he didn't know? he might have not even known. Well, this will be the first question. Bring him on. Let's have this. When we were getting off the plane, that's when I saw you and your daughter.

Yeah. And I was like, and then we both went out down the stairs. And I was like, I'm not going to fucking interrupt her and her kid. We were dancing. Yeah, I know. I'm like, I'm like, oh, hey, another celebrity. That's how I felt. But I saw you going to the bathroom.

And then I actually recognize you from kind of like a three quarter. I was like, oh, my God, we're on the same flight. And we're going to talk in a couple days. And then I was like, I'm not going to say anything because I didn't know. You know, some people are weird like that. Well, it seems like celebrities, there's this sort of thing where if you see another celebrity, whether you, if you don't know them, it's sort of okay to approach them, right? But I wonder if that's tiered out, meaning if only A-listers can talk to A-listers or if you, can you mix C and A?

Can see you talk to the air. Here's the, so the weird thing. Larry Fishburn was on that same flavor. Who I've known. Yes. So I've known Larry forever. So we talked because when we were first getting on, he fucked up his foot. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. So we were talking about that and I hadn't seen him in a long time. Well, that's what happened when I saw him. And he's like, hey, Kate. I was like, oh, my God. And he's the best. Yes, he is. But then what happened to his foot?

I don't like to bother celebrities that I don't know. especially when they're with their kids. Yeah. So I was like, I'm not going to fucking bother. Yeah, but is there, is there one who you would, you know, whether it's like a, you know, a hockey player or someone who you admired tremendously who you don't know, would you actually go up to that person? I think at this point, I have too much.

If they have, don't have a kid with them, it's more likely that I might say, hey, Oliver, right. What's going on? Right. I do that more with sports people. Like if it's a sports person, I probably, and I don't know them, I would, I, like, I went up to, um, Mookie Bats. Mookie Bats.

Oh, Mookie Bats. And I, and I'm from Boston. Yeah, I know, I know. But I saw him at a, at a Rams game and I was like, I have to, I have to say hello. And, and of course, he had no idea who I, who I was. Oh, really? I didn't think so because he was sort of just, like, you know, there was no, it was no real connection. You do run that risk.

I was fine with it. I just had to meet him. Yeah. I do run that risk. But I don't like, if people have kids with him, I think it's kind of like, my unwritten rule is, because I know my kids when they were small, like it was fucking a pain in the ass when you're trying to grab the kid or get someplace off the plane or whatever. You don't want some fucking other celebrity coming up like, hey, you know, so anyway. I feel like the person that is. the most intimidating like that is actually our dad.

Because Kurt is just doesn't care about any of it. No. I want to say one thing about your dad. Okay. I've been a fan of your dad for a, your dad is a fucking great actor. Yeah. I've been a fan of your dad for a long time.

And I'm a huge hockey fan. Yeah. That fucking, your dad playing her brooks. Yeah. Because I don't know if you guys, you probably are aware of it, but he fucking nailed her. It's crazy. It's crazy.

Crazy. Oh my God. And I know people talk about the speech, God damn it, every moment that, when he shows up in that movie, you go, anyways, I did. Well, we're on a, you know, like there's a family thread and there's all these fucking text threads everywhere. So on sort of the dude, it's called the Olympians, right, it's our thread.

When USA was playing Canada, I was working in Toronto, so I was there, you know, I was in Canada, you know, when it was all going down. But I was imagining if Kurt, when they were in Boston playing in the garden, came out, you know, before the game. Oh, my God. It would have been mayhem. It would have been crazy. It would have been mayhem.

Mayhem. But I was talking about that just recently. And that's such a, you know, the performance is so insane. And it's underappreciated. Like, there's no reason why he shouldn't have been nominated for something with that. I'm like, he wasn't nominated for that. It's fucking crazy. The movie was, you know, the movie, as you could tell from the first time I saw it,

and the director is a friend of mine. But I knew what he was doing because he was. as he was starting it he was like he wasn't casting stars really the only fucking star in the movie and I was like fucking Kurt Russell's playing her Brooks and he at the time I had a conversation with him once they started shooting

and he's like fucking Kurt Russell is fucking nailing this anyway I just I've seen it so many times and I've seen your dad do a million fucking things and I am a fan of his but yeah it's it's one of the when I was doing all the press for

the show I that I have out right now on Netflix, I get asked all the time, like, what's your favorite sports movie? And I'm always like, yeah, a miracle. Miracle. I only saw the first two episodes of your show, but it's fucking hilarious. Oh, thanks. Thoreau doesn't, I mean, I know this is unfair, but he doesn't count because he's supposed to be great. Yeah. Like, I didn't, I wasn't aware enough of Brenda's song. I literally wasn't paying enough attention because I was like, holy fuck, this girl's great. The brothers are all fantastic. The guy who's losing his hair.

Oh, yeah. Scott, MacArthur. He's so funny. You know, he's in the camp. He's in the whole Danny McBride camp. So he was on righteous gems. He writes on righteous gemstones. And you know what's...

Yeah. Well, we're like all best friend. Our kids go to school together. I've known Scotty forever. So it's a... Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like it's turned into family.

By the way, just real quick, going back to the miracle. I actually auditioned for that because I played hockey for eight years, right? So I was like, I want to be in this fucking movie. But I went through the whole process, of course, the reading part, but I went through the process of, in the hockey, the skating. And these are all ex-pros, you know, me, they were, they were, they were, you know, national champions. I mean, it was crazy. And I'm this, like, scrawny little dude doing, doing corner drills where I'm going to get fucking murdered. I can skate, but I was so scary. Really? When they would throw the puck into the corner, it's like, blow the whistle. And you're like,

Oh, I'm going to get fucking killed right now. And I was doing everything I can't, I could not to. Two fights. Did you state your whole life? Yeah. And my brother, why, you know, played professional. I know. Was it a great goalie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I dated professional hockey players. Many of them. Here's the thing. I just thought hockey players were cute and I would. Harry O's was the spot in Manhattan Beach where all the hockey players went. My sister was there in like a leopard print. Tight dress, with completely blown out hair, cruising in her white convertible wrangler.

It was a sob. It was a 1989 sob that didn't work. But it did, the top did go down. Yes, I definitely hockey players, I liked their energy. I was like, when all my friends were going to clubs in Hollywood, I was like, I'd much prefer to hang out with people in Manhattan Beach who, like, grew up in Canada. Well, hockey players, listen, hockey players are the best. They're the best.

Oh, the best. You all know that. Yes. They're the best. And I think they also, like, come from, like, great families and any family that is, I mean, all of them are, but there's something about, like, the hockey 4 a.m. wake-up calls, parents who are taking their kids to the rank that early. They are so committed.

White kids played hockey when they were grown up, so. Yeah. Dennis, can I ask you a question? if you were to say what kind of comedian you are like like when you started doing stand-up we were kind of trying to like talk about like what does someone when they say like what kind of how are you classified like how do you classify your comic because you had a really unique style that was well so different from a lot of other comics i was considered um uh you know like edgy and rebellion like i didn't i never did my i i didn't do it to i came from the theater you know I was studied I was in a college studying writing and acting so you know I went into it because you know Stephen Wright the comedian yeah yeah so we went to college together and Stephen was just a writer you know and he made little short films and I he was the shyest guy in

the world and he lived around the corner once we graduated he lived around the corner from me a couple buildings away and then my girlfriend at the time was, went to a comic, a nightclub, which was really a Chinese restaurant. And she came back to the next day and she goes, hey, Stephen Wright got up at this talent show and did jokes last night. And I was like, what fuck are you talking about? What is that? I know, right?

He was such a brilliant comedian anyways. If you know his act, yeah, yeah, his jokes were like haiku. Yeah. Anyway, so I went over to see Stephen. I was like, did you fucking, are you. doing jokes at a at a talent show he's like yeah so i went to see him and i was like he literally i know this it's this is like the story of my life i was like fuck it if he can do it i could and so that's how i got into it but i never wanted to do talk shows like i wanted to um you know my my um

the guys i loved were uh richard pryor and george carlin yeah yeah i i saw this interview with prior like in 1979 and he said yeah my I the reason I changed my act because he used to work like on the Ed Sullivan show and stuff was because he said I wanted to start talking to the crowd the way I talked to my friends in my

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That's not what you wanted to do. Or was it? No, I wanted to be an actor. And I wanted to be a hockey player, but I flunked off the fucking team my freshman year and a night. The nun stuck me in a musical, and I was like, oh, there's cool here. And so that was like, I literally, this nun was like, I want you to come after, after class, the next to last class.

Like, you got to skip one class. And she's like, I need, I need boys to lift up the girls when they're dancing. So I go to this fucking thing. And I'm like, all the hottest girls in school. And the nun's like, grab her by under the bosom. The rump, lift the rift. And I'm like, you want me to grab me this girl? I was in the show business starting.

Yeah, that's amazing. They're telling you to do something where, you know, maybe Jesus would frown upon, but I guess. I stayed friends with that, none, because she got me my scholarship. She got me the audition that got me the scholarship to go to Emerson College. And that changed my life.

I mean, that was just like, it was all. Were you a good student? No, not in regular school. Like the first 12 years, I went to the same neighborhood school, all the same nuns. We all, all my brothers, my sisters, all my cousins. And, you know, it was the 70s. So it was like, we didn't buy any of the bullshit. We had to go to that school because that's where our parents made us go.

So school was great because it was girls and, you know, lots of other stuff. Yeah. So you were in school, like, 70s so it was like I was good at the stuff I liked but I wasn't math and so I knew I wasn't good at that that shit I didn't it didn't yeah really thing was like fuck you yeah but none putting me in the musical that was huge and then when I got to college I I loved college because it was all acting and writing it was all like how many how many kids how many kids do you have I have two kids how old are they my son is turning 35 and my daughter

daughter just turned 33 so yeah my son actually uh is a producer he developed the show i'm doing on fox and hulu right now yeah we want to talk about that you know i have a that was interesting like yeah i was a tv writer um so i want to go i want to go back into your life for a second but i just have a question like the fact just the way that you raised your kids as far as education goes knowing that you were not strong in sort of, you know, maybe math and some of these sciences. Did you have, did you take that into account when your kids were going through school? Were they good students and were you, were you hard on them, you know, as far as their education goes, knowing that you do what you do?

I think my wife and I, you know, we both were supposedly raised Catholic. So we both had that experience, right? But at the same time, we were also aware of like, like my wife loved the things that she loved when she was in school. So we were aware of that with the kids, even though I remember a teacher at their school saying to us, I think Jack was probably in the fifth grade at that point, or maybe the sixth. And there was this very progressive teacher who said, you know, we should be changing the way we teach kids. it's very apparent by the time they get to fifth or sixth grade what they're good at naturally and we should let the kids focus on the stuff they're good at instead of forcing

them to I don't know if you guys were good at math yeah no no I was like why am I learning this shit yeah yeah yeah I'm gonna do anything weirdly I was good at math really yeah really like I once I understand six 48 oh pretty good okay you win no but It was really... That's it. The thing is, like, it all went out the window, right? But, like, if you gave me an equation, like, as long as I knew the system, I could do it. Not me.

See, here's the thing, right? If you gave me... If math was reciting hockey and baseball and football and basketball stats, I would have been fucking great at it. But it wasn't. There's, like, all these weird... Like, once they got to long division, I'm like, fuck you. I'm like... Yeah.

What am I? I'm going to use it. Yeah. That's how you sound like my middle, my middle son. Well, my daughter, I just dropped off at school. And she's like, Dad, I have a math test today. And I don't know. I was like, just do your best.

And I was like, what if, what if I don't, you know, I'm like, who cares? I was like, you just do your best. I have three. Kate is three as well. We are both. We have three, both two same thing, two boys older. And then the, the babies are girls. Yeah.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. what everyone's going to do. They all want to be in this business one way or another. Yeah, it's so interesting that when you grow, you know, like, I mean, you know, when I was, I was doing an interview with Jeannie Bess, who's the president of the Lakers, and she said, you know, statistically, most kids get into the family business. Like, it's like an 80% or something crazy.

Yeah. Yeah. Which, well, that's why this whole, like, you know, I know it's sort of not here anymore, this whole like sort of nepo baby wave that kind of crashed over everything it was so focused on hollywood because it's it's something that's out there people know who we are but that nepotism exists in every fucking industry oh my god forget about we're probably the least nepo business is our a hundred percent restaurant business oh yeah the painting business landscaping fucking you know garages mechanics i mean my dad was a mechanic by trade you know

by the way my parents were immigrants from Ireland like the idea that my parents when I said I remember the conversation with my dad and I say he's like what do you think you want to do once cocky was definitely not happening I think I want to do this acting thing this is when I was in high school and he was like oh that's interesting and he never bat he he he never batted an eye about wow he was like yeah we don't have the money to send you to college but if you can get a scholarship and then he would come every show I did in college him and my mom came to I mean I was

I was going to college in Boston they lived in Worcester yeah so it was like he came to every fucking show yeah wow I like this I really love that part that guy's great she's terrific like wow I feel like the Irish are very creative though

I mean I I've spent some time in Ireland when I was younger and it's such an artistic country Like, I feel like every family has an artist and the family, you know, whether it's music, painting, writing. Well, my dad was also a good musician, so he could do that and feed a family in America, but he could basically play any instrument he wanted to play. He played in bands on the weekends, like at weddings and stuff like that. So I think for him, he never said this to me, but I always thought he was like, oh, there's at least one that's going to go into it.

Well, let's go into that. Right. You grew up in Worcester, Wistamass. Worcester Mass. I played a character. I did it. I did Dawson's Creek for a year. And my character was Eddie Doling from Worcester. Oh, really? Is it from Worcester? Yeah. And then my in-laws, you know, they're all, they're from Brockton.

So my, fuck, I didn't know that. Yeah, my in-laws are from Brockton. Thick, thick, thick accents. They live in Falmouth. They live in Falmouth now. And so I'm there for about a month every summer. Yeah. Isn't your dad, wasn't your dad born in fucking, uh, Springfield or some shit? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so my, my wife and I, they grew up in Long Meadow.

I mean, eventually they moved to Long Meadow, which is, of course, next door to Springfield. And I guess something like, you know, Kurt's great uncle, like discovered Springfield or something crazy. Oh, really? There's always something. I don't know. There's always something. Yeah. So just so you guys probably, maybe you've heard.

But the Massachusetts fucking, you know, the way the system worked is Boston, of course, is, you know, Boston. And they look down on Boston, on Worcester, but we look down on Springfield, and we all look down on Brockton and Lowell. Right. By the way, like us looking down on other people in Worcester, it's fucking. You know what I mean? So your parents, so they immigrated, how old were they when they immigrated from Ireland to the United? dad came in 1950 so i or 49 so he was like he would have been like in his early 20s and then my parents come from the same village in calarney so he came to america to new york to make enough

money to send to pay for her boat they came by boat so that she could come by boat and then uh and they came to she came to new york but then they ended up in uh in in Worcester because there was a job up there. Were they already married? They got married here in America. It's crazy, right? Do you have your Irish passport? I do, and my kids have Irish passport.

My son's about to get his, Bing. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, because he's his dad's Irish. His dad's English, but from Ireland, like the family. Really, it's a great thing for kids because they can work over their European Union, you know, it's fantastic. Yeah, for sure. We've got to get our Italian ones.

We're in the process of looking into our Italian. We are our dad's Sicilian. I had no idea you guys were Sicilian. Yeah. Well, I, Ollie looks Italian. I got kind of the Hungarian side, I think, more. Although, I just looked at a picture of my grandmother. I saw that, Ellie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's crazy. I actually looked like Ellie. I just saw that. It was like weirded me out. Yeah, someone, like, on. Marr. Yeah, and Sarah.

Sarah posted it, yeah. Yeah, so we're half. Weird, right? Yeah, it's so weird. And I saw that picture and I was like, oh, my God, it looks so much like my grandma. Now we're getting in touch with our half siblings and our cousins and things are sort of coming together. That's a weird dynamic for you. I mean, it's amazing that you guys grew up, you know, actually like with Kurt as your dad.

Yeah. We were very lucky. I had this, you know, after Jean Helms. Hackman died, there was this thing of him going around on the actor's studio talking about when his dad left. And every once in a while, like, I saw that. Yeah. Every time, you know, and he really got, it got him, you know, in the, and everyone's

while I'll see something like that. And it does, I get that, like, it just never goes away that, like, that little thing of abandonment. You saw him get, you saw him sort of, like, sort of leap, fall into that feeling in that interview. because it's it's like your foundation you know and it's a really it really got me when i was looking at that because it was like god you know people listen i'm not judging anybody once you have kids i just can't imagine yeah ever yes yeah i mean fuck i mean god damn like now i can have more understanding now that we're reconnecting with our father you know because it's complicated

Well, there's the patterns. Guys, are you connecting with your dad now? Yeah, yeah. There's patterns, right? And our grandfather left our dad, you know, and then showed up later on in his life. And then, you know, dad obviously didn't have the tools to deal with that trauma and that pain, you know, in the 50s. And so he sort of repeated that pattern. I remember as a young boy thinking, I'm going to have kids, can wait to have kids.

And there's no world where I will leave my children. So you can either continue down that road and sort of, you know, that pattern exists or you can try to break the cycle. And I think that Katie and I were definitely, we broke that cycle. I have attempted abandoning my kids a couple of things. Well, you've, that's how you, you just go away for months and time. She's trying to run away. I'm sorry. I really try.

I just give me some fucking peace and quiet I just don't want to deal with it anymore We're like walking through the airport I see like Air France Right And I'm just like I just book it

I just book it What happened to mom? I don't know We were walking in the airport And she got on an Air France flight I've never seen her yet No but you know It's interesting because it's

it is you know you I get every I guess everybody's capacity is just different based on how they grew up and now that like we're reconnecting it's just sort of you know I guess I have more empathy or sort of understanding weirdly you know forgiveness I know this stuff listen I'm not I'm you know no expert by any means but you know this generational trauma thing is true right they very specific events like that like you're talking about an event where the guy just takes off um you know there's other things that that get passed in through our DNA right generationally so it's like that that makes sense but that an external event like that a decision yeah yeah yeah yeah well it's that nature nurture thing you know how much of that is just a part of our DNA and how much of it is completely learned behavior you know It's probably both, right? Yeah, it has to be.

With your mother and your father that you were with, right? Yeah. And the family you're with, like you learned the good side, right? Yeah. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time, as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians.

I would be the first immigrant mayor in generations. but 40% of New Yorkers were born outside of this country. Artists and activists, I mean, do you ever feel demoralized? I might personally lose hope. This individual might lose the faith. But there's an institution that doesn't lose faith. And that's what I believe in. To bring you depth and analysis from a unique Latino perspective.

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let's go back to your family and and enough about our abandonment yeah talk about your problems did anyone beat you what's going on there's got to be something i was going on the nuns could still fucking hit you yeah oh god really were you were you one that did get hit often uh well listen i was a terror i was no fucking at the beach yeah so every time i got hit i probably had a But I did some amazing fucking things that are very famous in my family. Like I was a, it was a great thing that I don't know if you guys know this, but if you're an altar boy, you get paid in cash for doing funeral masses and wedding masses. Wow. So, yeah, it's like they give the money to the priest and the priest, you know, tips out to the, you know, it's like it's like the.

it's like the mafia yeah it sounds like yeah it's on the table you you're cut yeah um so i got into the altar was my brother was my brother's three years older than me my um my brother we share a room together growing up all the time how many siblings four okay so uh my brother and i always had a we in the we lived in an apartment first and we were in the attic of the it was a three decker it's actually a two and a half decker my brother and i were in the attic and then when we moved my brother and i were in the basement so we were always together and we you know went to school together and everything um all the same friends and brothers of like all his best friends their my best friends were their brothers right so anyways my brother got me in the altar boys

which was fucking great me he's a cat yeah um anyways this fucking priest was late one day from one of the masses and me and this polish kid uh the the other priest came and put out the holy wine, which normally the priest that's saying the mass would take that out at the last second. He took it out and left it. He said, Father Dunning was going to be late. He would be in about 15. Just hang on.

We're standing there. There's the holy wine. I'm telling you, this has made so much sense at the time. Stralevich goes, John Stralevich was his name. He goes, you know, don't they say if you drink the holy wine, right? it it cleanses your soul and by the way two sinners stalking right that's right you take like a sip of that everything we've done wrong you know is I was like let's go so we go in and then we're like guys can barely doesn't even taste like alcohol boom but you know

next thing we got to fucking fill up the thing we drank so much now 15 minutes later the priest's coming for shit face. We started walking up. I was holding the crucifix. And when I got to the front, it was a funeral mass. And when I got to the front, you know, the bodies laid out in a coffin in the center out with an Irish flag on it. I got up there and I went to put the thing in the crucifix and the holder, which is right

by the pew facing the audience. And it missed. And all of a sudden, I felt drunk. and I let it go, and it hit one of the big candles that was next Oh, my God. And the candle hit the flag. Oh, no.

No fucking way. And at that moment, the priest went over and grabbed it. Right when he was grabbing the candle, and I was feeling like, ooh, I think I'm wrong. Strelovich, who's carrying the host. The host up on the altar.

This is like a scene in a movie. It was. fucking, I always wanted to put it in a movie. So we barely made it through the math. He excommunicated us after the mat. And people of him were drunk, I was like, can't excommunicate it. So, anyway, my relationship with the Catholic Church was. Were your parents super religious, or was it just kind of what you did?

Because they were, they were, except I got in so much trouble for that that I got to see behind the curtain a little bit because my dad was like listen he can't excommunicate you that's fucking bullshit yeah to have a meeting with the mons senior and i'll never forget this because the munt senior goes to i'd never been in the in in these offices at the directory it's like going in behind the curtain at the wizard of u yeah and the mons senior said to my dad in front of me he goes this was this was a lot of money at the time he goes if you give me 200 dollars in cash i'll wipe his I wiped this point. It is the mafia.

My dad turned to me and he said, get up. And I thought like, I'm really in trouble now. And he grabbed my hand and we left. And he said, I'm not paying him $200. You know, just forget about it. And he said, listen, he said to me, we were walking home. He was a few blocks. And he goes, listen, there's a lot of bullshit that goes with this church.

Yeah. And this is, you just saw some of it. So don't worry about it. You know, I'm not going to pay the $200. We'll find something else. Yeah. Yeah. So then they put me in the choir board.

Right. And that's, right. I get kicked out for smoking. Right. Oh, God. I could, I wish, I wish I could just, like, see a, like, a shortened documentary version of you as a kid in Boston going, because I could just see it. Did you, did all your, did all the siblings get on? guys close enough in age to have that real kind of sibling, either rivalry or community?

My older brother, we all, we all my cousins in America, we all lived in the same neighbor. We all went to that school. So there was like 17 of us or something. Yeah. So, uh, I mean, that's crazy. Yeah. I mean, everybody like my brother is married to his high school sweetheart. My sister who's right behind me, my Aunt Marie, she's two years behind me. She married my best friend. Wow. So, and they've been. married like this entire time. Now we have one sister, my sister Betty, who's way behind the rest of us. Yeah.

It's like a, you know, she's probably, I guess, about 14 years behind me. So she's kind of a surprise to us. Oh, my God. We were like living in a three-decker and there was like me and my brother in the attic. You know, it's like there was no space. And they're like, yeah, so we're going to have another kid. We're like, how are we going to do that? have you ever been to the tenement museum in new york yes so i just went there with my kids it's awesome

because you and i did the so my my my um my mother-in-law is irish my son is i like there's a lot of irish with my kids um so we went and did the ireland it's kind of the famine they do the basically what you do is it's a real it's a it's a historic building and they kept it very very very much the way it was back in like the 1800s when these Irish families came over and basically lived in this big building. There was an Irish family, a German family, mostly Germans, but you go deep into the family of the Moore family. And it was, you know, when you think about the Irish and the Italians coming over into America, very much second class citizens, like the way they were depicted in the, in the, you know, propaganda. And the way that the Irish were sort of seen in America, it's fascinating. And it's crazy.

And these kids, these families, for eight, sometimes eight kids in these tiny little apartments living in New York, you know, coming over from America. I was like you, you, you, and like we're saying generationally, you sort of the Irish, I mean, it made sense that your parents would be like, no, we're going to have another one. Listen, that was nothing. There were two families in my neighborhood that, you know, we all went to the same school. Like I said, there was an Italian family. I think they had 17 kids.

And then there was an Irish family that had, I think, 14, right? And some of those married. And there was another family of Sullivan's, too, that. And the family started inter, the kids started marrying each other. But can you, like, wow. That's weird. My empathy for the nuns in that school. Oh, my God.

Literally, like, every time you walked in from the grammar school into the high school, they were like, oh, another lyric. Oh, my God, another school. Oh, my God. Like, they knew there must have been torture for that. Well, and you just found out that you're like cousins with Conan, which I, Conan O'Brien. Crazy. Which is hilarious.

Actually cousins, right? Actual third cousins or something. Years ago in the 90s, right, when I first got famous and he got. the show my uh i think it was my uncle patrick my uncle patrick was still alive my dad's oldest brother in ireland and he they'd gotten him a satellite just so he could watch you know all kinds of television and he saw me on conan he said to one of his kids he's like that that kid that's talking to dennis he reminds me of somebody and so my uncle jerry from america came over to visit shortly thereafter. He said, didn't you guys when you first went to Worcester get a job

from somebody and then you were living in a three-decker that was rented out to the floor was rented out to you by this Irish woman? And he said, yeah, we did. He said, that was that guy's mother or his granddad, as granddad, that's what it was. So anyway, I get this phone call from my uncle Jerry and he had written everything down and he shows it to me. I had to go on Conan like a month later for something. So I went on Conan and I said, listen, blah, blah, blah, but he went, oh my God, my aunt did

live, my grand-a-lawed in Worcester in, in that neighborhood. And I was like, then if you look at us, I mean, he's all legs, I'm all legs. Think about it. When you see, when you see it, he's got a bigger head than me.

But look at it, this is all, it's all It's so, yeah, it really is so, it's really wild. No, I know. Did you have family in the mafia and the Irish mafia? Not that I know. Did you ever meet Whitey? No, but I knew some guys that worked for Whitey back in the day, yeah. I'm Jorge Ramos.

And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it It means to live through a time as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians. I would be the first immigrant mayor in generations, but 40% of New Yorkers were born outside of this country. Artists and activists, I mean, do you ever feel demoralized? I might personally lose hope.

This individual might lose the faith. But there's an institution that doesn't lose faith. And that's what I believe in. To bring you death and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. There's not a single day that Paola and I don't call or text each other, sharing news and thoughts about what's happening in the country. This new podcast will be a way to make that ongoing intergenerational conversation public. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos as part of the MyCultura podcast network on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney.

the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeney and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all, childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles, and more and found the shrimp to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer.

Yes, he was a confidential informant, but he wasn't shot on the street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network.

Tune in on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Hi, I'm Jenna Lopez, and in the new season of the Overcomfit podcast, I'm taking you on an exciting journey of self-reflection. Am I ready to enter this new part of my life? Like, am I ready to be in a relationship? Am I ready to have kids and to really just devote myself and my time? I wanted to be successful on my own, not just because of who my mom is. Like, I felt like I needed to be better. or work twice as hard as she did.

Join me for conversations about healing and growth. Life is freaking hard. And growth doesn't happen in comfort. It happened in motion, even when you're hurting. All from one of my favorite spaces, The Kitchen. Honestly, these are going to come out so freaking amazing. Be a part of my new chapter and listen to the new season of the Overcumper podcast as part of the MyCultura podcast network on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcast. Your entire identity has been fabricated. Your beloved brother goes missing without a trace. You discover the depths of your mother's illness the way it has echoed and reverberated throughout your life, impacting your very legacy. Hi, I'm Danny Shapiro. And these are just a few of the profound and powerful stories

I'll be mining on our 12th season of Family Secrets. With over 37 million downloads, we continue to be moved and inspired by our guests and their courageously told stories. I can't wait to share 10 powerful new episodes with you, stories of tangled up identities, concealed truths, and the way in which family secrets almost always need to be told. I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for this new season of Family Secrets. Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hola, it's Honey German, and my podcast, Grasas, come again, is back.

This season, we're going even deeper into the world of music and entertainment, with raw and honest conversations with some of your favorite Latin artists and celebrities. You didn't have to audition? No, I didn't audition. I haven't audition in, like, over 25 years. Oh, wow. That's a real G-talk right there. Oh, yeah.

We've got some of the biggest actors, musicians, content creators, and culture shifters, sharing their real stories of failure and success. I feel like this is my destiny. You were destined to be a start. We talk all about what's viral and trending with a little bit of chisement, a lot of laughs, and those amazing vivas you've come to expect. And of course, we'll explore deeper topics

dealing with identity, struggles, and all the issues affecting our Latin community. You feel like you get a little whitewash because you have to do the code switching? I won't say whitewash because at the end of the day, you know what I mean? Yeah. But the whole. pretending and, you know, it takes a toll on you.

Listen to the new season of Grasas Has Come Again as part of my Cultura podcast network on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Now when you look at your career, I had this when I was in COVID where I was like, looked kind of reflecting on career, like, and all the things that I want to do and haven't done yet. But you've done a lot. And I wonder, like, where do you? I know of you guys. But I mean, where do you, where, where, where, what is your heart in the most?

Like, where are you happiest when you're working and being creative? Is it in stand up? Is it in acting? Is it in writing? Is it in store? So you guys might be able to relate to this. I also want to take this moment to say, I just remembered this when you were saying that. I saw the episode of the Jimmy Fallon, uh, music show.

That's my. Oh, right. Oh, yeah. I saw the one that you guys were on where you sang. he gave you it was that's one of the funniest fucking things i've ever seen it was uh barry white or barry gib and you have to sing right back to voice that was like actually i mean not only was it funny but that was really fucking amazing what you did and you had to do ariana grande as uh as a doer yes anyway i just remembered that so for me uh and you guys might relate to this because you

both sing, right? For me, I do two stand-up concerts a year. They're both for charity. One is at the TD Garden in Boston. It's a big gig, like, you know, 15,000 people. And I have my band there. I have to do the asshole song, otherwise people. But I bring some famous friends of mine, comedians on stage. But that's every November. And right after that, I do one for the Michael J. Fox Foundation in New York, right? They're like a week away from each other every year. That thing of 8 o'clock, the show starts. And boom, because I opened the show, both shows, right?

That thing of coming out and fucking, the crowd is there. Like, that, and I never do old material except for the asshole song. Like, I do all new stuff. Like, that excitement is still the greatest fucking hive. Yeah. Yeah. singing the asshole song with my band and you know people spelling the asshole word out at the I mean that's just I mean look we know a lot of we know a lot of comedians you know and it just

seems like no matter how successful they hit in the other aspects of this business they're always going to go back on the road I mean we're great friends with Sandler right Sandler doesn't need to go on the fucking road but he does and by the way his special was amazing and um yeah Zafty directed it and it was just so different cool but anyway you know it's just i think you can't beat that as a comedian you probably listen i love i love acting and i love i mean you know especially you guys know this when you're working with people that you're having a fucking blast yeah it's the best you're working fast yeah move set and there's some improv yeah i fucking love it's the best right but it's not the same as you know fucking

the lights come on and we're happy to see you and but you got to fucking deliver from eight to until 11. It's so fun. Are you doing, are you shooting Dutch in Ireland? Yes. Oh, fine. It's actually in Ireland. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, because I have a production deal at Fox. We're in the second year of our deal. And so I know Cheryl and everyone very well. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I know all about what you guys have been doing because they've been going back and forth. They've been in Ireland, this and that.

Yeah. And by the one, I have to say, I mean, how is that? It's great. Well, it's great because my family, I have some million cousins, so they get to come visit it set. Yeah. The first thing I've done that my son produced, which is really interesting.

Yeah, I want to talk about that, too, working with your kid. Yeah. He's on set. The writer is this guy, Joel Church Cooper, who did Brockmeier with Hank Azari, which I so I love. So he's a brilliant writer. He has a brilliant staff. And so he writes the pages, and we do the. pages but he's on set and he wants the actors to have input we shoot fast so we get the page or the pages and then we fucking improvise front within that not not just jerking off yeah yeah you know like

character driven you know scene driven we do improv almost every scene so fun it's really electric and he's in the other room at the monitor with the other writers and jack and they we do something they come up with an idea so it's really like electric you go to work all fucking day yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah what about it i love it i fucking love how did you get to shoot in ireland i mean was that well because it's set in it's based on a real army base that um that was in the netherlands that got shut down yeah because because of what the show's about yeah market stuff and prostitution and whatever anyways um uh because all that stuff's legal there so We, we, you know, we wanted to look like the Netherlands, but shooting there, I've shot a movie there.

And, you know, it's, it's great, but it's not the same as shooting in Ireland, which is a little bit faster and overall better. And it looks the same. It's all the same plane in terms of plan. So the greens are the same, the colors of the same, the weather is the same. and Ireland has just got great facilities. It's so beautiful. I just did a film with Hugh Jackman, but he is now in Ireland shooting

and sends me these photographs that are just insane. It's so beautiful. Yeah, the part where my parents are from, which is the Southwest, I know I'm prejudiced, but it's just... Yeah. It's unbelievable.

Yeah. You know? Well, so working with your son, Like, what is that? Do you, is it, is it challenging? Does he ever challenge you? Yes. So it was interesting because we've been, we've been developing and working together.

You know, he's running one of my companies. So creatively, I, you know, I've been involved with him on stuff. But I haven't acted in something that we've done together yet. So this was, and I knew this was going to be because Joel, Church Cooper, the creator, he likes to be on set and he like I said he wanted him he wanted input so I knew it was going to be kind of electric my son you know he would come in and like as a producer with Joel and have an idea or you and sometimes he would go hey let me talk to you Dennis does he call you Dennis on set yes he did so he'd make me and he'd go listen the that thing is not

working let's let's get rid of that try this yeah and I go you know my son's very tall so I'd be like okay try it and he would be right or sometimes he would come in and go that was great Dennis that was okay um that's his job right yeah the first like couple of episodes I was like this is interesting and then after a while I was like you know he's he's basically right every time he told me I'm wrong yeah that's but you have that playful rapport where you fuck with each other though you know is that is it playful a little bit but not a lot because it's We were shooting so fast. Yeah.

And, but, you know, he, listen, man, he's, he was doing the job, too. Like, I'm, I'm a producer, but I'm, when I'm in the scene, I'm just an actor. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody, like, Joel would tell me, you like, Dennis, that sucks. That's terrible. Let's go in the other direction on an improv thing, right? Yeah.

You know, or even on a blocking thing. They might go, ah, try this. Yeah. Now, do you guys, do you guys live near each other? Do you live together? You know, like, off the same. set he's your son so do you guys hang out do you go to dinners or is it i didn't really sometimes but he really you know we didn't have a lot of time to hang out yeah that's so bad like i i got to direct

i got to direct my dad in a short curt and oh so much fun but he gave me so much like just for just fun like he would sit behind me he wouldn't leave so even if i was if i was direct you know he could go home he just wanted to stay and watch me direct so he'd sit behind me at video village and he would he would just fuck with me the whole time he'd be like you sure you don't want to get a cut away of that ash chair just in case you know in the editing room i'm like pa no i don't need it every time yeah that's funny because i'm sure you don't want to come in from the window and i never thought about the like i directed pa in that pilot presentation as well like you directed pa he was awesome to direct yeah yeah i have just so you call him pa yeah yeah yeah

yeah he didn't want to be called dad because we had a dad and he didn't want to be called Kurt because he was more than just Kurt so we came up with Pa that's yeah can we just can I just say I love that your commitment like you you do your charity you're talking about your charity gigs but you've been working with firefighters and supporting firefighters since like 2000 and how did that come about for you was it the show the show well the show came after My cousin Jerry Lucy wanted to be a firefighter, you know, that was the thing he wanted to do. And first he was driving trucks, but he eventually took the fire test and was on the waiting list and became a firefighter in Worcester for the Worcester Fire Department, which is a very busy, you know, urban department. And of all the guys we grew up with, like literally, like probably 35 guys between my class and my sister's and Marie's class,

and my brother's class in high school, 35 of those guys became firefighters. So that whole department was full of people we knew. So there was a huge famous fire that killed six guys in December of 99. It was a precursor almost to 9-11 because it was a huge warehouse downtown that imploded. And my cousin, Jerry, and his partner were the guys that were initially trapped. They were looking for a homeless couple that, they heard were living in the building. But the homeless couple had left the building.

They didn't know that. Anyways, the four other guys that went into fine and were led by this guy, Tommy Spencer, who also grew up with us and went to school with us. He was in my class. We started the foundation to help the Lerry Firefighters Foundation to help those families because there was, I forget how many kids were left behind of those six guys. And then my cousin was like an adamant guy about funding. for the Worcester Fire Department because they were getting their budget slashed all the time.

So we were just going to help that department. And then I had a couple of really close friends in the New York department. And they had come up to help look for the bodies in Worcester because it was the building collapsed in on itself. So when 9-11 happened, you know, they, a couple of my friends survived. And this one guy, Terry Quinn, said, you need to bring the foundation here because we're going to have to help this department and these families. So that's how we kind of opened up. And then we've just been helping departments ever since this year. I mean, it's crazy, by the way, because we started 25 years ago and the idea was we'd go

out of business, but they keep cutting fire departments. I mean, even in the wildfires out here. Yeah, look what happened, right? Yeah, where I live in the Palisades and. Yeah. So it's, this department has been underfunded out here for years. There are vehicles sitting unused, unfixed, because there's no mechanics to fix. So water is one issue, but the, it's, it's big departments like the FDNY and the LAFD,

the Boston, they all have their budgets cut, but it's also small, tiny little departments, yeah, volunteer department. So we haven't got out of business. We're giving out more money every year. It's crazy. It's amazing. That's great. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment,

a new podcast about what it means to live through a time, as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians. I would be the first immigrant mayor in generations, but 40% of New Yorkers were born outside of this country. Artists and activists, I mean, do you ever feel demoralized? I might personally lose hope.

This individual might lose the faith, but there's an institution that doesn't lose faith. And that's what I believe in. To bring you depth and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. There's not a single day that Paola and I don't call or text each other, sharing news and thoughts about what's happening in the country. This new podcast will be a way to make that ongoing intergenerational conversation public. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos as part of the My Culture podcast network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeney, and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all. trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles, and more, and found the stream to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer.

Yes, he was a confidential informant, but he wasn't shot on a street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house unarmed. Pretty private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Hola, it's Honey German, and my podcast, Grasias Come Again, is back.

This season, we're going even deeper into the world of music and entertainment, with raw and honest conversations with some of your favorite Latin artists and celebrities. You didn't have to audition? No, I didn't audition. I haven't auditioned in, like, over 25 years. Oh, wow. That's a real G-talk right there. Oh, yeah.

We've got some of the biggest actors, musicians, content creators, and culture shifters, sharing their real stories of failure and success. I feel like this is my destiny. You were destined to be a start. We talk all about what's viral and trending with a little bit of chisement, a lot of laughs,

and those amazing vivras you've come to expect. And of course, we'll explore deeper topics dealing with identity, struggles, and all the issues affecting our Latin community. You feel like you get a little whitewash because you have to do the code switching? I won't say whitewash because at the end of the day, you know, I'm me. Yeah. But the whole pretending and code, you know, it takes a toll on you.

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Podcast Network available On the IHeartRadio app Apple Podcast Or wherever you get your podcast I want you to come back with your son Yeah, that would be fun That would be awesome Yeah, yeah, I just, I just did a movie in, in Toronto, and I just got back, but my son was in it.

Oh, really? Your son's an actor? He is now. Yeah, he is now. He auditioned, and he did five times, and it was a real part. I worked 19 days. The kid worked 22 days. So he was in the fucking movie. And it was really a special experience for me, you know, to have him up there as a 17-year-old kid living together. You know, I had this, and then we'll go. But I had this. vision, you know, of like a montage where he's going to, we're going to live together. We're going to have a couple beers and we're going to cuddle and he's going to watch movies with me. He's going to turn back into a 10-year-old essentially. You're going to like, oh my God, this is going to be amazing. We're going to bond. This is

going to be the greatest moment of his life and my life. And we get there. We get to the house. I overspent on a house because I wanted to make it perfect for him. And he goes to his fucking room and the door closes. I'm like, we're back in fucking L.A. again. I'm like, what is going on? I was like, what happened to the cuddles, man. And I invite him like, come in my room. Let's watch a movie together. And he's just like, no, I'm okay.

I'm good, God. I'm a team. What the fuck? I don't want to hang out with you. No, I know, but I had this vision that he was away from his friends. How was he on set? Was he nervous? Yeah, he was a little nervous, but it was really amazing to watch from day one until the last day,

how he had gotten comfortable and just more in his skin a little bit and less afraid. Because this was, he went from zero to six. He did an acting class He had an audition And then Dutt got the gig And bang, he's on set And everyone was great That was me and Alicia Silverstone

And she was amazing with him And it was fucking rad Yeah he was a little nervous But it was really amazing to watch From day one till the last day How he had gotten comfortable And just more in his skin a little bit And less afraid

Because this was He went from zero to 60 He did an acting class he had an audition and then that got the gig and bang he's on set and uh everyone was great it was me and alicia silverstone and she was amazing with him and it was fucking rad my son on the other i'm afraid to improv my son on the other hand is at n yu at tish wants you know is an actor and um is like in school and was and and is like just you know more debt more debt and then Wilder gets this job and he's like, are you fucking kidding me right now?

I was like, I'm just like, I'm like, he gets a job. Like, I need money. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. But it was a beautiful, amazing experience to have, you know, for sure, you know, working with your kid. Yeah. It's so fun.

We're so lucky to do to be in a creative business and actually like have work. We are lucky, but you also, like you guys know. he'll find out right you have to not only be good yeah and know your craft you have to get better yeah yeah right that's what i say to my son all the time i'm like it never it never changes you're constantly constantly learning new things and you're always trying to be better than the last time like it's just and then as far as the nepotism shit goes too where i love why you said we're the least because yes the foot can get in the door there's no doubt about that but there's no other business where you actually have to prove yourself to actually make it, meaning yeah, you know,

Kate's son, my son, they can have the opportunity, but they still have to be good. No one's going to hire someone. You can't force someone to like your art. Right. You can't force them to do it. By the way, you know, like when I like talking about that, when my dad was a mechanic, right, by trade, but his second job was like a handyman for a real estate company. So he painted apartments and, you know, did almost everything, plumbing, electrical. So my dad taught me how to paint apartments and I worked for him in the summer when I was in high school. right and he taught me how to paint departments and scrape and all the so basically he was telling me like listen this is something if you do this the right way

which i'm going to make you do this is something you can use you can always paint there's always and so he was teaching me a craft right that he knew and he taught me the right way and by the way i fucking did that when i was in college my my uh work study job was painting the dorms when they were empty during the summertime yeah i was i was really good at it so like you teach your kids what you know well thank you so much for coming on you guys get picked up yet for your yes we did we got picked up last week yeah we're so excited yeah finish that show it's really good you have a great cast thanks they just they entered the front door is throw in all of all the way through in and out yeah he's in and out of the show yeah this shit the fucking the thing that made me

the last so hard when he first gives you the team and everybody else leaves the room and you're little speech like, I don't give a shit about it. The fucking brothers are really funny. I know. Get to each other. It's really fun. It's the best. Good, good show.