Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara - Mark Wahlberg on Balls Up, Celtics vs. Knicks, Patriots Super Bowl Run, and The Masters

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg joins the show to talk his new Prime Video comedy Balls Up. Wahlberg discusses his golf game and what it’s like to play with his son, costars of comedies like Balls Up and The Other Guys breaking him on set, and his infamous 4 am workouts. Of course Mark had to talk about the recent success of his Boston Celtics and New England Patriots and give Jerry a hard time about his favorite New York teams.   Then Matt and Jerry pick their favorite Mark Wahlberg movies before Jerry addresses those Entourage reboot rumors.   New episodes of Throwbacks drop every Thursday. Make sure you’re subscribed on YouTube and following on all podcast platforms. Also, make sure you’re locked in on social @ThrowbacksShow on all platforms for highlight moments, bonus content, and to engage with the guys & the Throwbacks community. (http://throwbacksshow.com/)      A big thank you to our sponsors:    Ka’Chava: Go to https://kachava.com and use code THROWBACKS for 15% off your first order.  NHTSA: Put the Phone Away or Pay. Paid by NHTSA.  www.nhtsa.gov/distraction  00:00 Show open  3:30 What was Mark Wahlberg like as Entourage Producer  07:45 Mark Wahlberg Joins  11:10 What’s golf like with your son?   14:30 What were the outtakes like on Balls Up?  19:30 Mark Wahlberg on making a Pete Rose biopic   20:54 Did Mark take real hits when filming Invincible?  22:50 Thoughts on The Masters  24:00 Mark on Celtics, Patriots and Boston vs. New York sports  29:30 Mark takes Jerry on a private jet to Vegas  30:54 Favorite Wahlberg Movies all-time  37:35 Jerry on the Entourage reboot talk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the next one last year, they had their parade and all the celebration early. They didn't realize they still had to play the Pacers and they still had to make it to the finals. But look, you guys are the inner league champions. Get that banner up. He's such a salty New York fan. No, no, no, Mark. See, you got the league championship banner up and call it day. You got the Liberty.

What's the problem? Liberty just want a title. Look how he lights up just going off on New York Sports. All right. Welcome to another episode of Throwbacks. Matt, you know what? If we were like a radio show, would we be Ferrara and Linert or Linert and Ferrar?

If it wasn't like throwbacks, it was like... The only problem, the problem, your last name is not easy to say. You know what? Brie says that all the time. Yeah, it's not like a... So I would have to say Liner and Ferrar. Or Matt and Jerry. I mean, Matt and Jerry's...

So many of those like radio dudes use their last name. I don't think we could do it. You're right. Liner and Ferrar. It's a mouthful. And also, Jerry is unique enough. There's not a ton of Jerry's. in the world that are, you know, like

dying, and actors. You're a 1580s dying. It's me in Seinfeld. And Jerry Rice. Well, fortunately, we're our throwbacks. So go give us a follow,

like and subscribe at Throwback Show on YouTube, all the Instagram, you know, dude, we've had some bangers on social recently. Shout out to the social team. It's been a lot of fun. We've been making the news lately, dude. I mean, just from Jersey,

Retirements to entourage. I mean, I don't know about it. We're just making the news. Well, our guest this week, he might get asked some entourage stuff. Maybe I don't know when he's doing press, but either way. Our guest, friend of mine, my former boss, you might say, but all of you know who this person is. It is the Mark Wahlberg joining us on throwbacks today. We've been circling each other for like a year.

Busy guy, not going to lie. He's got a lot going on. He's got a lot of movies. He's got kids. working out at 4 a.m. I feel like you're excited to ask him about you you I feel like you would be a 4 a.m. workout guy. Dude, I would love I mean, I'd love to get in on a grind with him in the 4 a.m. club, dude, I'm trying on all sorts of shit right now. He's just like, dude, he's one of the hardest working guys I feel like in showbiz, but also like, you know, really kind of leads his

private life and does his thing and has his kids and golfs and all that. But dude, the dude's a legend, man. I'm a huge fan of his um, all the way back from obviously. obviously just entourage and what you are part of him in. And then all the movies he's done, dude. He's, what a great dude, man. Well, after our interview with Mark, we're going to stick around because we're going to do our favorite Mark Wahlberg movies. And if you go back into the library, by the way,

it's not something you can easily just fire up because there's a lot, a lot, a lot. I'm going to be curious of what people say, because you can go from, like, dramatic, intense. If you can go all the way back to the day, you can go. He had the comedic run. Dude, he's had a great. comedic run. You could do sports movies. Like, you could do all sorts of stuff. He's, he's definitely, like, hit every kind of lane. I'm going to be interested to see what your, your top three are, too, but

I always get asked to, you know, what was, especially in the early years I entourage, like, what was Mark like as a producer. And, look, he was very much, like, around in the beginning, you know, I think the entourage is one of the first things he really produced, and then he's produced a hundred things since. And I always say like it was just like this amazing resource of like an ace in the hole. Like, you know, probably helped out early with the cameos too. Because again, like I always say no one knew who we were in the beginning. But I always say, too, the best example was I think when we lost Eli and Peyton Manning for the golf episode, right? They were supposed to do it.

And then something happened. And then Walberg stepped in to play one of, you know, to be one of the roles. And he was like, I'll just call Tom. And we're like, what? He's like, I'll call. See Brady will do. And he, like, steps outside, like, calls Brady. He's like, Tom's in.

He'll be here in two weeks when we shoot. That's, like, the best example of, like, having him as one of your producers. And that's so many people's favorite episode. Okay, it's time for Stay Ready, presented by NHTSA. One glance at your phone while driving can cost you a ticket or a crash. Put the phone away or pay. Paid for by NHTSA. I always tell this story when I was auditioning for the pilot.

But, you know, the final step, Matt, when you get cast is, you know, you test in front of the network, right? And that's a stressful crazy day. It's like tryouts and guys are getting cut and sent home. And I remember I went in for like my first run where it was just me. They weren't pairing people up. And it was like, it went okay. And I went outside in the room, there's 40 people. I always remember Kevin Dillon was the only one there for Johnny Drama.

He stood up. He was like, who else is here for Johnny Drama? Everyone's like, no way. Played it. You got the part. And then Walberg came out. And he like pointed at me. I'd never met him before at this point.

And I'm like, nervous now. I walk over. He kind of throws an arm around me. And he's like, listen, what you did in there was fine. But that's not what you've been doing on all your tapes. Like, I've watched your tapes. You know that moment everyone talks about where it's like, this is the time? This is the time.

He's like, you need to like snap up and go. This is the moment that people ask for, the shot. So what would be from a non-actor? What were you doing? The tapes is obviously. little less stressful. I get that. And you're kind of like, you're probably free flowing a little bit. What was the difference for you? I think with that, right? It's like, where you go in an environment, and I differ than an audition when you're like in a bright room with like casting directors

stuff. You go in, it's like a theater. It's like a black box theater. You're on a stage. There's light shining on you. You can't really see who's in the audience, but you know there's like 15 people in there. It's network executive. So you get past that. I just think the first few, the first run I was like low energy, right? I think I was. I think I was. was playing it a little safe. Like, let's get through this. And also I thought I was going to get it. But, man, it was like the greatest cup of coffee, bro.

He snapped me back in. And I went in for that next one. I think they paired me up with another character, not Connolly, for E. And I kind of destroyed this dude. I went in. I was a monster. So that always sticks out. And then number 10, when I got the part, I got a call from someone in Mark's world

who was like, Mark wants you. Because we all didn't know each other. He's like, he wants to, like, take you out. So you guys meet, it was Josephs. Remember, were you too young to remember Josephs? That's where I met. We talked maybe with Josh Richmond. Yeah. Nick, Nick Lachey and our,

Nick Lachey and mine, friendship started at Joseph. I just remember, like, and I'm, dude, I'm 22 years old. I'd been to, like, clubs, but, like, I had no juice. I knew no one. So I just remember, like, yeah, just get there, tell him you're with Mark and all good. So I show up to Joseph's, bro. I drove. I, like, parked across the street.

I stood across the street for, like, a half hour, because there was a line around the block to get in. It was like the big night in L.A. to go out. I'm like, am I really going to walk up to these giant bouncers and be like, hey, I'm here. I'm meeting up with Mark. So I finally got the courage and I went up to the bouncers. I'm like, hey, I said it real low.

I was like, I'm meeting Mark. They're like, what? Mark. Like, who? I'm like, Walberg. Everyone turns around and looks at me. And the ropes just opened up, man. And they took me in.

And, you know, he's been a really cool person in my life over the year. years. Great dude. So we got a great interview coming up with them. And then stick around after that. We're going to talk. We're going to get in deep in the weeds with some Walberg, Wahlberg movies. All right, Mark, first of all, it's good to see you. I don't get to see you as much these days. We're all scattered, but good to see you. Thanks for doing this. And I was figuring you might have a tea time, so we're going to get you out of here quick. But let's start real quick with how's the golf game these days? Ask me last week, phenomenal. You know, just those peaks and valleys, man.

I was like, I'm now kind of, I've been working with this guy, Lucas Wald, I'm now back to trying to hit at 3.30 and getting, you know, 170 plus ball speed. And it's just, you know, it's a lot. I mean, I go out, I'd get up this morning at three, I worked out at four. Usually we'd be already probably on nine by now because every other day that the first seat time is eight o'clock. So we like to fly around. Everybody's got their own cart. But, but I don't know.

I just hopefully I'll, I'll, peak because I'm going to go play some some golf this weekend coming up and, you know, I was I was playing good and, you know, it's just golf, man, you know, I'm probably playing at about a five right now. Oh, five, five. That's five. That's five. It's good.

You know, I told Matt, because Matt's starting to pick it up and I'm hoping you get. My goal is to, like, get Matt, like you were saying even about your son has the bug. I'm trying to get Matt to get the bug. But I always say the few times we've ever played back in the day, I've never met. to this day, someone who plays a faster 18 than you. I tell people about this. Like, there's no way Walberg plays 18 in like under three hours. I'm like, I've seen it with my own eyes, guys.

Are you still keeping that place? We're playing number two hours. Yeah. I mean, I'm not trying to rush right now because my son's been coming out there with me every day. And, you know, I want him to kind of work on the swing. You know, usually gets like anybody, you know, you hit a bad shot and you get frustrated. You know, I just like we're not keeping score. We're just playing, you know, hitting shots.

you know, trying to get him to, uh, to just focus on what he's got to do to put the time in to get better. So, you know, but yeah, I like it, a perfect world. I'll play in an hour and 40 minutes or so, you know, it was usually me and one other person. We got two calls. We just hit it. Ready golf. Just ready golf. Yeah. And like the next shot. And, you know, we're not running. We're not rushing. You know, it's funny because I've played with people where they're like, you know, somebody else usually, if they have the first tea time or, you know, they think they go faster and they're trying to keep up and then I look behind me. I see guys running from the calls of the keybox, running from

the green to the cart. I'm like, what is going on here? I got a fast cart, but I just hit it and go. I mean, I, you know, I used to, there was a point where I was running on the golf course. Like, I'd hit the ball. I'd throw my club to the caddy. I'd sprint down to the shot, hit the next shot. We'd have two caddies. So he'd be there, give me the number, give me the club. But I was just doing that to try to, you know, lose weight. And, but no, I like to play. I don't like to play too long. I don't want to, I did the whole grinding and playing, you know, celebrity tournaments and all that stuff. And, you know, it's, I don't like six hour rounds walking and all that stuff. I get my exercise before I golf. I like to go out there, kind of get away from everything first

thing in the morning. If I got two hours to myself before the phone starts going crazy, it's a, it's a great way to kind of, you know, either get away from everything or kind of just, you know, focus on something that I'm passionate about. How are, how are you, my, my, my, oldest son, I got a 19-year-old, he's at SMU playing college ball and kind of falling, you know, kind of falling in the footsteps of court, but how are you, what's your dynamic like when you're playing with your son? Are you hard on him? Are you talking? Are you just, no, I mean, you know, I think it's going to be, uh, in the very near future, he's going to be beating me. He's going to be out driving me. Uh, and I, I look forward to that, you know, I look forward

to it, you know, I don't, I think I used to be a little bit more, I wouldn't say that I was competitive with them, but I would push them a little bit more. And I realize, you know, they've got to be into it on their own, you know, and I don't want to spoil the fun of it all. Mark, there was a point in my life. My son's like six, four. He's a big kid. And we were playing in the backyard basketball. And I used to always, you know, just the old dad strength, as you know. And I think he was 16 and I finally like, I couldn't move him. And I'm like, oh shit. And I was like, it finally happened. And that's a sad day. But yeah, like, I want my kids to be able to, outdo me in everything that they're doing.

Absolutely. And, you know, look, they're all kind of into different things. You know, Mikey's training in M.MA. He's doing jujitsu and Muay Thai and Brennan's been playing a lot of golf. Gracie's an equestrian. Ella's a senior at Clemson. I just, you know, the biggest victory is always when somebody comes up and talks about how nice they are. Yep.

How polite they are. You know, how humble they are versus, you know, oh, your kid's great at this or your kids great at that, which is fantastic. but no doubt. The ultimate compliment is when people say that they're just really nice young people. It's so wild to hear Ella's name because I remember like when you first had her. I remember like, oh, Mark named his daughter Ella. I was like, you were like the first person who was close to my age that had a kid.

My kids always ask me because I didn't have kids until in my 40s. I literally got my six-year-old son going, Dad, in like five years, are you going to be able to still play me? Like, he's already on the like, hey, old man, you better stay in shape, which I think I, It brings me to like, joking, like we joke around like the 4 a.m. stuff. And when I used to see you grinding on those workouts, I'd be like, man, that's just so early. I don't think I could ever do that. But now having kids, I'm at the point where that's the, I think that's the only time in the day. I could actually get that.

Was that part of it for you? You just were an up early guy. No, that was part of it. I was, you know, you're either worn out by the time you get them to bed. Right. You're going to be like, okay, now we can have some quality time, you know, you're in your spouse. or you're like, well, shit, I'm tired. I've had a long day.

Let me go and get some rest. But yeah, I'm up early. I always, rest is the most important thing, especially at my age and when training and trying to recover. So I got to get my eight hours. But, you know, I don't know. I just like getting up. It's quiet.

I can kind of call whoever I got a call on the East Coast. I can call whoever I got a call in Europe. And, you know, I've got three or four hours. Like today I had four hours. Aside from Gracie leaving for a horse show or 5 a.m. I had four hours of, you know, complete quiet and utter silence. So pretty cool. That sounds so good.

That sounds so good. I'm so far away from that, but I'm going to start doing it. I'm working on my script. And, yeah, look, the kids now, you know, Easter was yesterday. And normally it would be like kids getting up crazy. They want their Easter egg hunt. You know, it was like hard to wrangle them to go to brunch at one o'clock, you know, waiting for them to come down.

Everybody wants to do their own thing, which I completely got. So one of my favorite things that always pops up. up on like my Instagram or Twitter or whatever is, you on the set of the other guys with Will where you're like breaking. I love watching you break in a movie and just start laughing on outtakes, bro. I don't know why. That one particularly is like my favorite one. And Matt and I both got to watch Balls Up.

I looked at it. I'm like, are we about to get another movie where Mark is on social media breaking? Because it looked like you guys were throwing heat. Those first two pitch scenes where you guys are pitching your business. it's hard to make anyone laugh these days. You guys genuinely had me laughing out loud. Are we going to see some outtakes from this one? This looks like a good outtake movie too.

There's some good ones with me and Paul and Sasha Brandon Cohen. You know, it's like, I don't know, it's like, like Will. You know, he's just such a nice guy and he just, you know, I had never done comedy, like a straight comedy until I worked with Will. And it was like, you know, there were comedic elements to performances, but usually just playing it straight and absurdity of the situation would maybe go or a few laughs. But working with him, it was just like when I met him,

it was like, okay, he's just a really sweet guy. He just enjoys making people laugh. And, you know, between him and Adam McKay, it was like it was hard to keep a straight face because Adam is yelling shit off camera. That is just so absurd and crazy. But, yeah, and Peter Farrelly. I mean, he's just, you know, a lot of opportunity

to improvise and play. It was a lot of fun. I love Paul. I met him a while before we even talked about working together. We became friends. So I've always thought he was just so funny. So, yeah, there's some good ones in there. I was going to ask you, how much, I mean, I was dying.

How much is it scripted versus improv and you kind of mention it? But do you get a lot of freedom to kind of go where you want? Yeah, yeah. I mean, look, like Peter, you know, he's also very specific, but, you know, you got to have your own kind of take on the character itself, the moment, the individual moments within the scenes. You know, sometimes he kind of reel you back in and sometimes he just let you go crazy.

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Level up your business with FedEx, the new power move. Peter Farrell is one of my favorite directors. He has always dabbled with even like sports and movies. Like I remember like something about Mary, the Brett Farr of cameo was such a left-hand turn. Obviously there's a soccer theme in this movie. But then when I look at you, we're a big sports movie guy, right? So, you know, you've done, you know, basketball diaries, obviously invincible, you know, the fighter. So you kind of tackled basketball, football, boxing, soccer in here.

What's left for? Hockey player and four brothers. Hockey, that's right. That's right. Dude, well, you have too many movies. Like, there's, like, sports always in all your movies. Like, at so point. Well, I certainly will try.

I mean, anytime I can, you know, live vicarcy through these characters that fulfill my childhood dreams of being a professional athlete, you know, we're going to jump at the opportunity. Well, that's how to ask, is there one, is there a sport genre that you really haven't hit yet that you or something left. The sport that I played the most growing up, and that I think I probably had the best chance of actually maybe having a career was baseball.

I grew up playing baseball. I played all these traveling teams played all over the country, played in Williamsport as a kid. Oh, wow. So Pete Rose, we're talking about doing Pete Rose right now. You know, as Pete Rose, as he was older when he became a man with here, and he was back to Cincinnati, and he was kind of chasing that record. Um, we've been actively developing that right now and speaking to filmmaker.

So we got a script. Um, and that, you know, that's something else that I would be very excited. That would be insane. I hope that gets done. When Pete, when Pete was, uh, because I'm at Foxmark and Pete was when he was doing MLB playoffs before we were on the road, it would be our crew with, it was Pete, it was Frank Thomas. This was right when A-Rod got there. So for me, I was a baseball kid growing up.

I'm thinking like, holy shit, dude, this is like, I'm just like a, fly on the wall. Pete, God bless him, man. Pete would be telling stories and be like, hey, liner, this is, this is what, three or four years ago. Liner, man, back in 2001, remember that game against Fresno State? I had the fucking under on that and you fucking lost me money. He would call out, because obviously he was a better, he was a gambler, but he would call out shit from 25 years ago, man, but he was the best. When you did Invincible, is it true that you were taking like real hits? Did you do a real training camp? Yeah.

How was that? Took a lot of hits. Took a lot of hits. You know, we had ex-NFL guys and guys who were currently playing in the Arena League. And, you know, no matter how many barbecues I threw after rap or, you know, at parties we had. What you got in between the lines, you know, in order to make it real, you know, you had to take some licks.

And, you know, anytime those guys got a chance to hit me, they were definitely taking advantage of that. And I remember every day I would drive home on my scooter from Pennier. university. I bought a little scooter in Philly and there was no helmet loss. So I had to just have ice everywhere. The physios would just wrap me up on ice and I'd just be driving home trying to get a little breeze because we shot in the summer. It was like, you know, 120 on the field, you know, with that turf. But the biggest hit I took, I kind of when I got earhold on the sideline. And I remember the coach was like, oh my God, all right, that's it. That's enough. You know what I mean? And I was actually fixed my back and my neck because I was

You got an adjustment. Yeah. I was like, he was got to let me out. So I was like, okay, we're going to go play golf, you know, at the A center. You know, we're going to go to cricket club. You know, we're in Philly where's some of the greatest golf. So I left the rest of that day. They let me off the hook that day.

Yeah, it was fun. And, you know, Vince was there. And, you know, so you had to kind of get out there and get into it. But it was a lot of fun. Wow. You know, you mentioned, again, you're saying go play golf. we got the masters coming up now we're still team windham clark right is windham still a municipal guy absolutely windom is a municipal guy we got kirk kiddiama uh is is is playing fantastic

uh patrick rogers is really starting to get some momentum so you know we got we got a great team but yeah i think uh when's my pick he's my pick for the man i i got him he's my pick and i was going to pitch to you if he does get that green jacket we need some kind of municipal collab with the, maybe not a green jacket, but something to commemorate because I think he's got a real shot this weekend. Listen, I wouldn't kind of mount, you know, U.S. Open winner. But, yeah, we'll do more than that for sure. I know, obviously you've probably played, have you played Augusta?

Yeah. Outside of Augusta, is there, like, your top three golf courses that you've ever played or want to play? Oh, my God. There's so many. You know, you've got outside the U.S., I mean, you've got a Dare Manor, you've got, you know, the Green Monkey and Barbados, which I go on holiday and play there. Pine Valley, Cyprus, Pebble.

I mean, there's so many, so many. I mean, you go, you know, but you go to a place like Boston Golf from, I remember, when you go play that course, it's a walker only, that'll give you all the, the biggest challenge you've ever had in your golf career for sure. Well, we're going to wrap up and let you get to your tea time. But real quick, I'm still so annoyed at Boston Sports. You guys just made the Super Bowl. Now you got Tatum back.

Like, is this again, we'll be back to these peak times? We got the next on Thursday. Yes, I know. I've been talking to my guy Rashid every single day. He told me he had guaranteed that the next were going to win 55 games and take the number two seat. That's not happening. No, it's not. Guaranteed to win against OKC.

He guaranteed a win against Charlotte. He guaranteed a win. against Houston and he's guaranteeing a win on Thursday. I mean, I don't like that, she'd? Listen, after the next, after the next one last year, they had their parade

and all the celebration earlier, they didn't realize they still had to play the Pacers and they still had to make it to the finals. But look, you guys are the inner league champions, but get that banner up. He's such a salty, fucking New York fan. No, no, no, Mark. See, the next year league championship banner

up and call it day. You got the Liberty. What's the problem? This is, here, here's the problem. Here's the, here's why I take issue to all this. Here's why I take issue to all this, because I'm 46 years old, right?

You haven't seen it. You haven't seen it. I, but like, I'm such a tortured. Yankees. They can't beat my Dodgers. No way. That's what I got. Listen, my Otani.

Oh my God, listen. I got, and the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays are a big problem for the Yankees too. Yeah. Look how he lights up just, just going off on New York sports. I got two people. people that I can rule. I'm telling you, Rashida and I, we talk at least three times a day.

And we're talking about the Knicks. He's already pivoted to the Angis. Yeah, he's got 160 games left till anything really happened. I just feel like, I just feel like, look, no, actually, you know what? I've got so many friends from New York. If they won, I'd be fine with it. I mean, we've, we've won so much. But look, they're playing, they're playing really good right now. I mean, look, the Patriots back to the Super Bowl. That's so annoying. That was so quick. I know everybody hated that. And then, look, Southics are on fire. Yankees, I mean, we, we, that's the big problem for me, the Yankees. Well, yeah.

You get to playoff time, but. But I feel like, too, like the Red Sox, I'm getting off to such bad starts, but there's so many games. It's like everyone's freaking out. It's like you start counting teams out in like April. Listen, if not, we just always go back to 04. I mean, it's all good. He just go back to 04.

I watched that documentary, the, comeback on that. I made myself sit through it because I'm like, you know what? But here's, before we let you go, here's why I get so frustrated with the Nick stuff. It's because all these younger Nick fans, even like my nephew who's 18 years old, like, they expect to win.

I'm like, guys, we cannot because they've been good for five years, right? Like, they've been, I'm just happy to make the playoffs still. Like, I was beating Boston. It's not a banner. But yes, last year, it's a successful year. It was huge for me. It was a big deal. I mean, blowing those 20-point

leads and then coming back and then winning two in a row in Boston. Were you add any of that? Did you go to any or no? No, I didn't. I went to, last time I went to a game, I actually went to game one, the finals when we won, we won when we beat Dallas. That's a good one to go to. It's a game one.

Well, buddy, it's good to see you. We're going to let you get to you next time. You know what I always tell my friends. I said, look, at the end of the day, as you know, the next, the red side, they don't pay your bills. You know, you get a little bit of joy out of it. It's fantastic. A lot of fun, especially between the Boston New York rivalry.

But at the end of the day, you know, we're parents now. We focus on the kids and what's most important. Well, I blame you for some of this, too, because Boston sports has exploded. Boston movies have exploded. Like, you're part of this whole thing that I take offense to what you've done to New York, man. You're part of it. Well, I apologize. My apologies and my condolences to the next this year in advance.

I got to listen to this shit every week, Mark, with Jerry about New York. so. Thanks for coming on, man. Thank you, brother. Good luck on the course. I hope your kid doesn't beat you up too much out there. I hope so. Matt, did you see how he came to life

the minute he got the chance to talk shit about Boston? He came right to life. That was the best part about the interview is him just completely fucking just ignoring the New York and just saying you guys, basically belittling you guys. That's all he did for like five straight minutes. I love that. I love it.

And I do mean it. He is part of this whole Boston thing. It is rough to be a New York fan, though, right? I mean, you had a good run, dude. I mean, you had Yankees 20 years ago. You've been, you had a good Giants run for a little bit. That's about it. But yeah, dude.

I mean, but you know your baby, the New York Knicks, man. You just, I don't know. Well, I will say, I don't know where I saw this on Twitter, but this is like the best Eli Manning Hall of Fame case. Did you see someone released? I don't know what their metrics are of how they measured this, but the two hardest paths to winning a suit, the hardest path rankings of Super Bowl wins.

And the Giants, both seasons, 07 and 11, ranked one and two hardest path to the Super Bowl and winning the Super Bowl. So that's his Hall of Fame case right there. He's just basically saying, I won the two hardest Super Bowls to win. Let's not shortchange the victory. I said it in the beginning, like,

Eli dropped out, my Giants quarterback pulled out of the entourage episode, and he calls Brady. So he even made that into a Boston episode. That episode was good because of the Boston contingent. I love it, dude. Boston sports fans are fucking nuts. And Walbur's no different, which I love. Something else, we're going to do our favorite Walberg movies now.

But something else I forgot to mention to him, he won't remember this too. But after we did the pilot entourage, we had some time off until we got picked up, right? So an act to make us get to know each other better? There was another moment where I didn't know how to handle this. He invited us to Vegas with him and some friends to an HBO fight on a private plane. Now, to this point, Matt, I had only flown whatever the worst airline was at the time. I said this was your... Cherry popped on a private plane.

It might have been like the real E. Like Eric Weinstein E might have called me to give me like the tail number, which I didn't know what that meant. And again, I drive up to like Burbank Airport. I'm like, where's the big parking lot? They're like, oh, no, no, we'll take your car. I'm like, okay. What's your tail number? I give them the tail number.

I'm walking in. And then I just see all these private jets everywhere. And they escort me and take my bags. And then I remember first I walk in. I'm the first one there, of course. And then someone says, though, you just don't want to sit wherever. Whoever's paying for the plane, you just don't want to sit in where they want to sit. So I'm like, where I took the work.

I went all the way in the back and sat by the bathroom. I'm like, no one's going to want to sit by the bathroom. Or facing rear. A lot of people don't like to face rear. I didn't know that was like an unwritten rule. He or she who. pays for the jet gets to sit, wherever the hell they want. So I learned a lesson. But, yeah, that was wild for a 23-year-old meathead. All right. Favorite Walberg movies, Matt, you can go

any genre, any generation, any time period, anything you want. We're going to do, what, three is a good number, right? Yeah. Dude, this was hard, man, because I'm, I'm such a Walberg fan. I just, I just, he just, he's, as you heard, he's just a dude, fucking love sports, does all these great movies. So I did narrow it down for me personally. So my my third and he talked about it was invincible. And I am just, I'm a sucker for the feel good football movie, dude. Like Rudy is one of my favorite movies of all time. Remember the time. I love good football movies. So obviously too, based on somewhat, I think a true story. And then he talked about a little bit of how he took some absolute shots in that movie. So then it makes you kind of respect what he did more. So invincible.

my second one, which might be a shocker, and no one's going to know this, but our age group is fear. Oh, do I remember fear? I mean, I know. Shout out to our boy, Ryan Rusilla. Ryan Rusillow, a big fear guy. Reese Witherspoon,

there's a couple scenes in that movie, like the roller coaster scene that stuck out as a 16th. I think was playing the song. Yeah, as like a 15-year-old kid in me getting to watch that movie, which I probably wasn't even allowed to watch at the time. He still had like the hint of the boss,

Me and my buddy, my old roommate would always redo the, you know, when he goes up to the door when he's, like, losing his mind. And he's banging on it. And he's talking to the dad, his boss, he's like, could have been different, Mr. Walker. Yeah. Could have been all different? Go watch that movie if you haven't seen it. And then my number one, dude, you're probably going to laugh at me.

And I fucking love this movie. Anytime it's on TV, I'll watch the whole thing is Shooter. Shooter. I love Shooter, dude. I love so many Mark movies. but Shooter is the one I've watched I've probably watched Shooter 25 times. It's a great movie.

It's always on TV. I'm a sucker for like sniper movies and that type of stuff. I just love it. And he's great in it, dude. So Shooter is probably my favorite Mark Wahlberg movie. I think I have a lot of comedy in there. He's done some great comedy movies, but...

I mean, other guys is stellar. Other guys is stellar. Yeah, other guys is amazing. Ted was fucking hilarious. Ted. But those would be, my three. Okay. What do you got? Well, also, too, I mean, I'm interested in this. I don't know, I don't know which

way you're going in this. So, I'm going to go back. Number three, I'm going to bring it back to the early years of Walbur. Three Kings. Have you ever seen Three Kings? Spike George Clooney, Ice Cube. Three Kings is a crazy. Again, my favorites. I haven't seen it in a while. I actually might fire that up to rewatch, but I remember back in the DVD generation, I must have rented that thing from the video store when I was younger, like a thousand times. I might have even, That might even been one of those movies I just didn't return and got billed like $200 for because I didn't want to do.

All right. Number two for me is a selfish one. Now, people might say, oh, you picked it because you're in it. That is not why I'm picking this movie. I just think this is one for me. If it's on, I got a, I'm in.

Loan Survivor, man. Lone survivor. Pete Berg directed, who I got got a chance to know. Big Giants fan. You know Pete Berg. but like as far, you mentioned you love like the sniping stuff, but I love like military movies and seal stuff, but that movie's so damn realistic that it gets me every time.

And I was fortunate enough to be in it. And I know Mark probably had a hand and put it in the good word for me there. And, you know, weren't you, were you a comms guy? You were on the phone, right? So I was a comms guy. Now remember that story, I got my manager, Lev, who also represents Walberg, was like, you got to meet Pete Berg. He's doing some good stuff.

I don't even know if Pete wanted to meet me, but I think maybe they made him meet me. But they were both giant fans. We kind of hit it off. He puts me in battleship, right? That's right. So I'm in Louisiana. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with Rihanna.

For like a month and a half, I have like four scenes, right? And I have all the scenes like, left, miss, all that battleship stuff. But then he starts telling me about lone survivor and like all the work he put into writing the script. I finally get the script. And I tried hard to go.

after like, I think it was like Emil Hirsch's role. I really wanted to be one of the guys. And obviously I didn't get it. And the meal Hirsch was great. But Pete offered me something smaller. It's like got this guy. It's great.

I was like, you know what? First time ever met that, because actors are so used to taking whatever you are willing to offer. Not that I said no like a dick, but I'm like, Pete, thank you. But, you know, it's a couple of lines. Like, you know, that feels like someone

either give it to like a real military guy or maybe someone who like needs a sad card. Yeah. He kind of like, really? Okay, whatever. And then he comes back to me a few weeks later. I was like, you know what? I combined a few roles. I dare you to read it now and tell me like, oh, you don't want to do it.

And I read it and I was a commons guy, but what he combined was, I'm the guy who takes the very fateful phone call when Mike Murphy climbs the ridge. Yeah. So that movie was crime. That's set. It's a great movie, dude. Everyone's walking around with beards and the opposite. the other guys, right? So selfishly for me, but again, if you haven't seen Lone Survivor,

that movie... It's another one. When it's on TV, you always watch it. Crazy story. Yeah. Okay. And then look, I mean, that's just number one. It's just a no doubt. I think you might have left this one on the table for me. I appreciate you. No? Departed? No. Boogie Knights. Oh, Boogie Knights.

Boogie Knights, man. Come on. That might be one of my favorite, like, all time. Not even just Walberg movies. It's iconic. Yeah, it's iconic. But Mark does have a lot of those movies. And again, we don't catch anything anymore. Oh, it's on TV.

I got to watch it. But Mark's career, like, he has a lot of those movies. If you were just flipping around and it popped on, you're like, oh, I'm in for this one. I got to finish this one out. Yeah, dude, he's, what a legend, man. The list goes on and on. And Balls Up is good.

R-rated comedic. We should do R-rated comedies one day. That should be like our next one. Balls up is fucking hysterical. You prepared before because you watched it before I did. You prepared for the opening scenes. He described it perfectly some of the scenes, like the outtakes, man. I can't wait to watch the outtakes of this because some of the scenes and just the context and the content of what it is, it's like, oh, my God, dude.

I can imagine sitting in those scenes and just, like, losing it, dude. Oh, that's good. Well, I guess before we wrap, too, we should address. Yeah, you made a lot of, it was a lot of, uh, a lot of entrepreneurs. Talk this past week. Okay. You know, you're such a good partner and co-hosts because you're throwing it on me. So April Fool's...

I'm just tired of the Entourage reboot talk. Can we just do it or not? Like, what are we waiting on? What are we waiting on, Jerry? People want to know. Clearly the fans want to know. Because we had the April Fool's joke. Yeah, I didn't expect that April Fool's joke to go that viral.

Yeah. Shout out Jocely Liner, too. And everybody was like in the comments like, oh, you just ruined my day. Oh, I'm like, can we, everybody wants it? Let's give the people what they want. So the one who has to want it the most is the person who's going to pay for the movie or the show. See, I'm also a firm believer. If we ever did bring it back, obviously, I don't think it should be a movie. I think it should be an extended, like, season again, right? Like, that show always plays well in a show context. I'm not a big fan of the April Fool stuff. I've always said it. I, on social media,

it annoys me to tears. So I was pitched the idea of doing an entourage April Fool's post. And I immediately you saw it. I was like, I don't want no part of it. But of course it was a good idea. And I reposted it. And I did not expect to get 2 million views on Twitter and 2.5 million views on Instagram. And media outlets calling me asking me if it's true.

I'm like, guys, check the date. It's April Fool. Like, why is that one the one that you all believe? Bro, people love it, dude. they want to see it back. Well, the thing that it made me think of too was like what would... And then everyone's asking me

what would the storylines be? I knew it was bad like when my mom was like, wait, is that true? I even got like my poor mom got fooled so that wasn't cool. I do think now as I think about what the movie would be, I think it actually,

like we'd have to lean into how old we all are. And it has to be a younger generation in it that's like paralleling us. You know? They just, there would be a great scene. where it's just like Vinny gets all you guys

and you guys just basically boys we still got it and you go somewhere and you're walking around and they're like it just you could just see it dude the fucking slow-mo walk out of the out of the fucking uh well I always say I have the Johnny Drama storyline Johnny Drama is like the first

legitimate actor getting replaced by AI like he's get his own likeness is replacing him they're like rebooting Viking Quest and they're replacing him with his AI version of itself I think an interesting thing though would be because, you know, Vince is the movie start, like, you know, how hard is it to get people in theaters to see a movie?

That would be a really interesting storyline if the guys had like a movie that wasn't a Marvel movie. Like, how are we going to get? And the whole story arc is like, we got to do something crazy to get these people to the movies. How do we do it? Let's make it happen, dude. You hire Timothy Shalameh is what you do.

All right. We're bad. We got a loaded week coming up too. We have a little sit down coming, I think, next week. week with maybe Bonzi Wells. So stick around with us, like and subscribe, all that stuff. And that's it. Mark Wahlberg, folks. Peace.