THE MCDONELL-DOUGLAS SHOW
ESPN Radio 710
2005
Transcribed by Gen

[Didn't get the start of the program on tape, so the part about Freddie getting out of his deathbed and the guys introducing him as co-host is omitted]

Joe [McDonnell]: ...Freddie Prinze, Jr. How you doin' Freddie?
Freddie: How you doin' guys, thanks for having me back.
J: Hey, thanks for coming back, and uh, boy you've, you've had it, huh?
F: Yeah, I got the, the little uh, Westside water contamination... Betto called it the, the Westside Virus *laughs*
J: Yeah
F: So uh, so that's what I have
Doug[las Krikorian]: Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Betto calls it Tijuana Virus...
F: Oh, my god. I almost, I almost called a priest, I really did. I just, I, I thought I was done. I thought that was it. But I'm here today, and I'm properly blocked up, so *laughs* hopefully, hopefully we'll be good.
J: Yeah, there you go. I saw you eating bananas and everything else to make sure, yeah...
F: Oh, god.
J: That's cool. Since you were last in here which I think was in July, toward the end of July or...
F: Yeah, I think so yeah, yeah
J: Or maybe early August, uh, you've been busy. A couple of movies, couple of TV shows, you've got your own TV show coming up
F: Yeah, we uh
J: Tell us about everything
F: We sold a show to ABC and Warner Bros. – a half-hour sitcom which should keep me in L.A. so I don't have to miss if the Dodgers go to the playoffs AGAIN. Uh, which made me sick to my stomach, uh, last season
D: Paul Lo Duca
F: But uh, but yeah, Paul Lo Duca. But yeah, so I'm, it'll be nice to finally be home.
J: Yup. And joining us right now somebody that uh, you've always wanted to talk to
F: Yeah, one of my first interviews
J: Yeah and uh, one of a, one of the best anchors out there, Stuart Scott. How you doin', Stu?
Stuart Scott: What's up fellas, what's up Mr. Prinze
F: What's up, big cat, how are ya?
SS: How's it goin', man. Good talkin' to you again.
F: Yeah, you too, how are ya?

[They talk about Stuart Scott getting back from the Super Bowl, the cold weather in Jacksonville, FL., and Scott playing his facsimile of golf]

D: Stuart, is it your ambition in life to be in one of Freddie's movies? That's what I've been told.
F: *laughs*
SS: I don't want... Yeah, but, BUT, with a cameo.
F: *laughs*
SS: I don't wanna play myself. Like I've done all this stuff and I've played myself in these shows, and like... I wanna act, man.
F: You wanna stretch your wings, right?
SS: I wanna, I wanna spread my wings and be diverse. I wanna be, I've done like, maybe 10-12 things. Like between sitcoms and I've done some stuff with uh, Boris Kodjoe in Soul Food and good stuff and stuff that I could actually act--but I did an episode of She Spies and I played a doctor.
F: Nice, man
[J, D, SS talk over one another]
F: Yo, and that's three girls you wanna play doctor with
SS: I'm just sayin'
J: Yeah, you know, you guys see Natasha Henstridge? Hello
F: *laughs* Good lord
SS: So yeah, like, Freddie I wanna work with you but I wanna be somebody else.
F: No I hear you man, we'll find somebody else for you to be.
J: Hey you're in one of my favorite movies, Drumline.
SS: Very good movie
F: Yeah man, that's a tight movie
J: I love that movie, great movie
SS: Charles Stone directed that, very talented guy. He also directed Mr. 3000
F: Oh did he really?
SS: Yeah
J: I just, I haven't seen that, I just got it on DVD
F: I think uh, their costume designer from, from that movie is gonna do our, do our sitcom
J: Yeah, Freddie's got a sitcom coming up, Stuart
F: Yeah man, be on the sitcom! And you won't. be. Stuart Scott.
SS: See, that's what I'm say--and wait a sec, it's ABC right?
F: ABC, yeah baby
SS: Well, hey, that's family
F: Yeah, see
SS: Freddie, we're family man!
F: ABC faaamily
J: That's right, we're all in the family, we're all cast members
F: Hey man, how are your Tar Heels gonna do?

[They discuss Scott's UNC Tar Heels and Jose Canseco's upcoming book in which he claims to have done steroids with several top baseball players]

[Commercial break]

J: Joining Joe and Doug in-studio, Freddie Prinze, Jr.
F: Hello there
J: We're gonna get into more of uh, his movies coming out, tell you what it's about, tell you about the sitcom he's got coming out. Uh, will it be on the fall line-up, Freddie?
F: Yeah, it’ll be next fall on ABC, yeah
J: Well there you go, won't be too long
F: They're working us though, man. I go straight over there to get back to work as soon as we finish this *laughs*
J: Do you really?
F: Yeah, they work us like dogs
D: How long does it take you to do an episode?
F: Um, well, to shoot it, uh, is a week, but they still have us like, doing writing and notes and all that fun stuff
D: I see
J: How much do you rehearse?
F: A lot. It's pretty much all rehearsal and then one day of shooting
J: Wow
D: Who's doing it with you now?
F: Uh, right now, it's me.
J+D: Wow
F: So, and then we shoot our pilot and we cast it this month and next month, shoot our pilot April, and then we start shooting in the fall.
D: Wonderful
J: There you go. Well, if you ever need sports talk show hosts in your show
F: There we go
J: We'll get pimped just like Stuart Scott
F: Yeeeah
D: We were on Arliss; we had our prominent roles on Arliss. Of course Joe didn't show up the day he's supposed to...
F: Thatta boy
J: I hurt my back, yeah
F: He's responsible
J: I wanted to go, believe me
F: *laughs*
J: Anyway, joining us right now, a never man who never misses an opportunity to show up and pick up a save, "Game Over" Eric Gangne. How you doin', Eric?
Eric Gagne: Good, how you guys doin'?
J: Hey we're doin' good.
F: Good big man
J Freddie Prinze, Jr. is here
F: How you doin'?
EG: Pretty good, pretty good. Hangin' in there
F: Yeah?
EG: Oh yeah
F: Good, good, good. Getting ready for spring training?

[They discuss spring training, Gangne's opinion on the new Jose Canseco book, and the new baseball season]

J: All right, we're gonna take a break, and uh, come back and discuss some of the other things going on. Norm Chow leaving uh, USC
D: I wonder what Freddie has to say about that, that's interesting
J: Yeah well, we'll find out
F: About Big Norm?
J: Anyway, we'll do that when we return. It's McDonnell-Douglas and Freddie Prinze, Jr. right here on ESPN Radio 710

[Commercial break]

[Returns from commercial break, resumes talking about the Dodgers and the new baseball season, then a 360° on topics:]

J: Hey what's it like to see your name in the tabloids, when it's not true? How do you react to that?
F: You know I don't, I've only seen it a few times. I'm, I've been fortunate enough to stay out of 'em 'cause I don't really leave my house ever. *laughs*
J+D: *laughs*
F: Except for baseball season. Um, so, but it's, it's weird. The only time it's hard is when like, your grandmother calls you or something and says "Is this true?" And you're like, that's my grandma calling, you know what I mean? It's like, it's hard 'cause they don't know, they think it's the news, you know what I mean? What's that Mike Myers movie where she's like, "Here's the Scottish family," like Married to an Ax...Murderer
J: Yeah, So I Married an Ax Murderer
F: And she's like, "This, this is the news!" and she's like trying to tell them that the alien baby was... Like a lot of people genuinely believe that that stuff is, is the news
D: Let us in on it, was Freddie featured in one of the tabloids? *laughs*
J: No, I'm just asking. You know, I mean, he's married to an actress, you know, you gotta figure something's gotta be written sometimes
F: Sometimes they do. They often say Sarah's pregnant and that we're having kids, and I was like, "Uh...noooo" *laughs* But thank you
J: *laughs* Yeah, thank--Gee, I'm the last to know, thank you for telling me
F: Yeah, no we're not, but thanks
D: Tell us about that movie you said with Vig--Ving Rhames
F: Oooh man. I made this, I've been trying to get this movie made forever, this pool hustling movie, and uh, me and,
D: What's it called again?
F: It's called Pool Hall Prophets. Um, we've been trying to get it made for years and, another director had heard about it and had another script written and they like, stole my director's idea and made this really bad version of it--which nobody saw, thank god; karma worked out for once. And then as we finally got it made with uh, Ving Rhames and myself, this pool hustling movie, it's great. It's so legitimate, and so what the pool hustling world is all about. So, we finished it, and we shot it in New Orleans, it takes place in New Orleans; there's great pool players down there. This former uh, trick shot champion named Spike was uh, was my coach and he makes some unbelievable shots in there too. And I made some pretty nasty shots, you guys would be impressed.
J: Yeah see, that's gonna be a fun movie. That's gonna be like Summer Catch, you get to play pool all day.
F: Bro, I shot pool 12 hours a day
J: There you go
D: Did you get pretty good at it? That's a tough game, I used to play it when I was a kid.
F: Yeah, yeah I got pretty good at it
D: Did you really
F: 'Cause you can't help it, man. And we had real hustlers in the movie and I'm playing pool with them all the time and they're just workin' it.
D: What kind of guy is Ving Rhames?
F: He's a good guy, man. He's local, he lives here in L.A. He's a really good guy, man. Works so hard, real knowledgeable sports guy as well, but just, his work ethic is unbelievable.
J: Yeah. That's funny, I played a lot of pool when I was younger and uh, one spring I went to uh, Dodgertown, Vero Beach and I,
F: Oh the pool table, in the bar, is that what you're talking about?
J: Uh no, we were playing in one of the recreation rooms, not in the bar. We uh, things have changed down there since I'd been there so yeah, it might be in the bar now
D: You didn't run the table, Big Nasty?
J: I did, actually
F: Yeeeah, baby

[They talk more about Joe playing pool in Vero Beach and how he hustled a bunch of guys who thought he couldn't play, how it's a great game, etc.]

J: Anyway, we're gonna break for this hour. Next hour we're gonna take some phone calls so if you wanna talk to Freddie Prinze, Jr. you are more than welcome to call in, 877... We'll also talk to Freddie about his experience with Boston Legal and his guy, William Shatner
F: My man
J: And uh, we'll do that when we return too.

[Mentions Winky Wright coming up in the 6 o'clock hour before taking a break, also mentions his upcoming match with Tito Trinidad, how he is the official M-D Show boxer because they were the first to support him, etc.]

J: Anyway, lines are open if you wanna talk to Freddie. Joe, Doug, Freddie -- McDonnell-Douglas, ESPN Radio 710.

[Commercial break]

J: Hi everybody, welcome back to the program. Pleasure to have Freddie Prinze, Jr. in-studio with us. And he's got some movies coming out, uh,
D: Can't we be Freddie Prinze one day, Joe? You and I *laughs*
J: Do what?
D: One day, we can be Freddie Prinze
J: Oh I thought you said beat him. I was like, what?! He's our guest!
F: *laughs* Uhh
D: No, be him!
F: Uuh, okay I guess *laughs*
J: *laughs*
D: You weren't here Joe, every girl in the building's coming to see him
J: [not getting off the subject of beating Freddie] Yes this is the "Beat Freddie Prinze" segment
F: Right
J: And uh, Freddie, up against the wall
F: Call in, call in and flog me over the phone *laughs*
J: Yeah, flog Freddie. Yeah, "Flog Freddie" that'll be our new segment
F: *laughs* Perfect
D: "Be", I'll enunciate better, "be" Freddie Prinze for one day
J: Hey, yeah... (can't decipher what he's saying here, he mumbles and trails off)
F: Aaah, it's, it's not as much fun as you may think..
D: Of course, the women do pursue Big Nasty, you'll be,
F: They do. They've all been coming in and talking to him more than me!
D: He's a lady killer
J: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, like I said... Anyway, um, Pool Hall Hust--or Pool Hall--
F: Pool Hall Prophets, a pool hustler movie
J: And you've got the other movie, um
F: The New York one, Nailed Right In
J: Yeah, what's that, tell us about that movie
F: That was, do you guys watch The Sopranos?
J: Always
F: All right, the executive producer, the head writer is this guy named Terry Winter--or sorry, he's an Emmy Award winner so now it's Terrence Winter
J+D: *laughs*
J: Oh, well, of course
D: They always formalize their first name, yeah
F: But uh, we call him, yeah. In Brooklyn they still call him [Brooklyn-ish accent] "Teeeerry" But uh, he wrote this script about, I think maybe six years ago, and it's sort of, it's semi-autobiographical. And uh, this Brooklyn story that takes place in uh, in the 1980s about these three boys who grow up in a Catholic church and they all kinda go different directions: one wants to be a lawyer, one wants to be uh, sort of halfway into the mob, and the other is sort of finding out what he wants to be. And uh,
J: Sounds like Sleepers
F: It's a great movie, a similar type of feel, great movie. So well written in the same vain of this like--all three episodes that were nominated for "Best Drama", he wrote all three of them
J+D: Wow
F: Including the one named that wasn't his--he rewrote it from page one so it's basically his, but because of Union rules you can't have your name on it. So sorry to whoever the guy is who wrote that...but he got fired anyway
J+D: *laughs*
F: But uh, but anyway, he's such a great writer. And our director, Michael Corrente, who uh, directed this independent called Federal Hill and American Buffalo and uh, a lot of cool movies. We just had this great cast: me and Scott Caan and Jerry Ferrara and Alec Baldwin and Mena Suvari
J+D: Oh wow
F: It was really great, and we shot it 100% in Brooklyn
D: How many days, or months, I should say
F: Uh, we were there, we were there 2 months and a week
D: OK
J: Was it an independent film? Or
F: Sorta, yeah
J: Oh, cool
F: We, we worked on pulling all the finances together and things like that, but it was, it was a fairly big production for what, for what we did.
J: Have you watched Entourage?
F: Yeah, my man Jerry Ferrara who plays Turtle
J: Oh!
F: The guy who's in the movie with us, he's the one who plays Turtle, Jerry Ferrara, yeah
J: I love that show, what do you think of that show?
F: It's a great show
J: Isn't it a great show
F: It's really funny, really funny
J: Yeah, they do some great stuff
F: Yeah, my buddy uh, Jerry, he plays the one--everyone's all "Turtle! Turtle!" We took him to a Dodger game and they're like "Hey Tur-tle!" They're all like, yelling at him *laughs*
J: Now before you met Sarah, was that kinda your life?
F: Uuuum...a little bit. I mean, to an extent I mean, it still is now. You'd be surprised how many people don't care if, if you're married. Like, guys will yell at Sarah, girls will yell at me.
J: Really
F: They just, they don't, they don't care. They're just, they're taking a swing, man. A swing and a pitch and just seeing if they can make contact.
J: Yeah. Well, you know, in all seriousness though, that's gotta be tough on a marriage. And I mean, I know, you know, however close you are,
F: Eeh
J: If you, if you hear that so many times, you know, do--is it ever like, do you ever stop and hesitate like, "Sarah, wait a minute..."
F: It, honestly, it--from people that I don't know, it's very hard for that to affect me
J: Uh-huh
F: You know what I mean? But if someone I know, like, *laughs*
J: *laughs*
F: If my, if my best friend was like, "Bro, your wife's lookin' reeeeaal good," then there would be a problem!
J: *laughs* And you're an ex-boxer, so fighting wouldn't be too much of a problem
F: *laughs* Yeah. Yeah, but, but you know, that doesn't bother me. She's hot! I mean, I, that's why I married her. You know what I mean?
J: There you go
F: [in a more serious tone] She's, also, 'cause she's got a good heart.
D: One last question...
J: Just don't ever watch Cruel Intentions *laughs*
F: *laughs* Yeah, don't *mumbles*, yeah. She's a very evil person and that's why... [mumbles something I can't quite make out]
J: Great movie
D: Freddie, you're a passionate sports fan
F: Yeah
D: And of course there's been a big development in Los Angeles, Norm Chow,
F: Huuge!
D: the celebrated offence coordinator is gone, Tennessee cut. What is your opinion on that?

[Freddie gives his opinion on Norm Chow leaving college football to coach an NFL team, the TN Titans, and how it is in desperate need of an offensive coordinator, and the effects his departure will have on USC's team. Then a discussion about the L.A. Lakers and Clippers]

J: Anyway, let's take a couple of calls for Freddie, 877... Lines are open this whole hour, if you have a question you wanna ask Freddie, uh, you know, about his movies or just talk sports with him, 'cause I'll tell you what, frankly, he knows more than Doug and I do.
D: No doubt about it
F: Noo, no, no
J: Yeah, oh yeah
D: He knows everything!
J: You'd be a great interview, or a great interview-ER. You really do, 'cause you're real, you're real casual with your questions, and that's uh, that's a great way to uh
D: Yeah you are
F: Oh, thank you
J: Some guys in this business are coming in like, "Oh, well, would you like to do *makes an incoherent sound*" You know, you just ask what's on your mind like a real sports fan
F: *laughs* I'm gonna do that voice. I'm gonna do that voice to whoever this first caller is.
J: Yeah. Oh, he's got a great question, too. Tom in Bakersfield, where I know it's boring, that's why you came up with this question
D: Bakersfield?
Caller: Oh yeah, I'm driving along 99 here and I'm bored out of my mind
J: There you go. How you doin', Tom?
Caller: Good, how are you? Is this Freddie?
F: Yeah, no, this is Freddie here, how are ya?
Caller: Great. Hey, it's an honor to talk to ya, man. You're one of those young actors that is believable in a sports acting role nowadays.
F: Aw, thanks man, I appreciate that a lot, boss.
Caller: Yeah um, you know, besides your wife, my question is not sports related. I was wondering,

[The guys start laughing and hooting at this point]

D: Get ready for this one, Freddie!
F: Hit me man, hit me
Caller: I mean, you've had, you've had uh, you've been fortunate enough to, you know, be with, you know, act with a lot of young ladies. Who has the sweeter kiss, Jessica Biel,
J: Ha! Told ya
Caller: or Rachel Leigh Cook?
F: Or Rachel, oh, wow
D: Don't be politically correct now, Freddie!
F: You're gonna get me...
Caller: Besides your, you know, your wife is #1, of course.
F: Of course, of course! We're putting, we're putting the wife as #1. So we're saying besides the wife, um, you're gonna get me in trouble with this one
D: Don't be wishy-washy!
F: I'm not gonna be wishy-washy! I'm never wishy-washy
J: Pay attention, National Enquirer!
F: Yeah, thanks, thanks a lot. I'm gonna say, it's gotta be ...

F: Yeah, thanks, thanks a lot. I'm gonna say, it's, it's gotta be Jessica. It's gotta be, it's gotta be Jessica.

[Guys resonate in full agreement]

J: [says something I can't make out, something about Blade Trinity]
F: *laughs* That's the only reason!
J: Well we had Triple H on and I said, "Tripe H, I'm gonna go see the movie, not to see you, to see Jessica Biel"
F: Jessica Biel, yeah
J: And he says, "Yeah, that's what everybody says"
F: Yeah. Yeah, it's gotta be Jessica. I, Rachel's gonna be...pissed, but, whatever. She'll be aiite...she's married now, it's okay.
Caller: Looking forward to seeing your billiards movie, good luck with all.
F: Hey, thanks brother, thanks a lot.
Caller: See ya
F: Peace
J: Thanks for the call, Tom. All right, we're going to take a break, come back with more phone calls for Freddie
D: Even the nudist wants to talk to him, can you believe that Joe?
F: *laughs*
D: You've heard of the famous Jeff from Tarzana, I know you've heard of Jeff *laughs*
F: Yees, yes, yes
J: Yeep. All right we've got one line open—
F: *laughs* Ooh, boy
D: Everyone’s heard of Jeffrey—
J: One line open if you wanna join us and talk to Freddie Prinze, Jr., 877… It’s The McDonnell-Douglas Show, our special in-studio guest, and guest host actually, Freddie Prinze right here on ESPN Radio 710

[Commercial break]

J: Hi everybody, welcome back—5:23. It’s The McDonnell-Douglas Show on ESPN Radio 710, our special guest in-studio for the entire show, Freddie Prinze Jr., coming off making a couple of movies and Boston Legal—
F: Yeeah, man
J: —with William Shatner and, my love, Monica Potter
F: *laughs* Oh, she’s, I, she’s uh, married now, so
J: Oh is she?
F: Yeah, now she’s off the, she’s off the block
J: See, now I don’t have a chance anymore!
F: [jokes] I’ll try to split them up, and we’ll see what happens
J: Yeah, there you go! Well, you know, she’s married, doesn’t matter, it’s Hollywood
F: *laughs*
J: But uh, you did a great movie with her and you know, we were just talking about during—Head Over Heels, I thought it was a great movie
F: Thanks, man
J: It was fun; it was a lot of fun to watch
F: Not enough, not enough people saw that movie and it—
J: It was like a mystery comedy
F: Yeah, sorta, sorta.
J: Yeah
F: It was like; they tried to like, uh, sort of, a funny version of like, a Rear Window kind of thing, yeah
J: Yeah, no, it was, it was great. The bathroom scene was hilarious
F: Yeah, it’s always good to have models…choking over…foul stench
J: Yeah, but, no no, I loved the, I loved the line though, the one the girl says: “If he hadn’t washed his hands this investigation’s over”
D: *laughs*
F: Yeah that’s Shalom, Shalom Harlow. She’s a good girl
J: Yeah, great
D: How many movies have you done, Freddie? In your career
F: I don’t know, like uh, 10 years… [sounds unsure] maybe f—uh, fif-fifteen. Fifteen…I don’t know
D: Do you ever want to direct?
F: Nooo…I don’t know any, I don’t know many happy directors *laughs*
J+D: *laughs*
D: You don’t wanna go like Eastwood has done, later—later in your career
F: No…uhh, maybe then, I have no idea. As far as today…
J: Dude he’s 27, he can’t even see 70 yet
F: Noo, I’m 28 now man
J: [sarcastically, because like one year makes a whole lotta difference] Oooh, yeah okay, wow
F: Almost 29, almost 29. I’m catching up to Eastwood
J: Yeeeeah
F: *laughs*
J: But uh
D: Oh god I marvel at his age, Joe
F: *laughs*
D: Why can’t I be that age again??
J: Yeah, no kiddin’…
D: Don’t say it Joe, you’ve been pretty nice to me, be nice
F: Nah, 29, 28; 28 has got its own problems, too
J: Hey, every age has its problems in this society, that’s for sure
F: Yeah
J: All right, let’s go back to the phone for Freddie. Out to Jude on a cell, you’re on ESPN Radio 710. What’s up, Jude?
Caller: Hey what’s up Joe, what’s up Doug, how you guys doin’?
J: Goood
F: What’s up, man
Caller: Hey I have a question for Freddie, man. Hey is that movie you guys are making about the, the Poll Hall Prophets, you said?
F: Yeah
Caller: The, the one, the movie that got stolen or, from you guys, was that Pool Hall Junkies?
F: Yeeah, that’s the one, man. Well remembered
J: Oh you’re the guy that saw it
F: *laughs*
C: Hey if, if your movie’s half-way decent, like half as good as that one man, I’ll go see it, because I thought that was a pretty good flick. I hope yours is better
F: You’ll—you’ll dig it, man. It’s much, much better. They took a very early draft of our script and just sort of reworked it and then uh, and threw that on the screen and didn’t care much about the final product. They just put cool actors in it.
J: Well that’s nice, steal your script
F: It wasn’t mine, it was, it was the dire—writer/director’s
J: Well, what ever, yeah
F: But yeah. They, they tried to get one over on him, but yeah. Pool—you’ll, Jude, you’ll dig it, I promise
J: Thanks, Jude. Jeff in Tarzana, you’re on ESPN Radio 710
D: Yeeee
F: Here we gooo, here we gooo
D: You’ve heard of Jeff from Tarzana, you’ve actually heard of him, Freddie?
F: Who, has not??
D: *laughs* You’re famous everywhere you, you famous nudist, you
Caller: Hey Do—Doug, don’t. Hey Freddie, don’t believe anything Doug says ‘cause his age, he’s got Alzheimer's disease F+D: *laughs*
F: They got pictures of you up in here, man
D: I know, that’s, we have you—
C: I got uh, two questions for ya
F: Hit me
C: How did you like working with Rhona Mitra, who plays Tara on Boston Legal? I think she is sexy as hell
F: Oh, she’s, she is gorgeous. You know I, I only worked with her in the first episode, we didn’t have much to do, but um, she was super cool; she’s very, very funny. She would like, sorta, crack jokes right before they’d say action and then see if you could keep a straight face. She was very funny.
Caller: Ok, the other thing is all of, all the actors and actresses that you have not worked with, uh, who would you like to work with that you haven’t yet?
F: Oh, wow. Uuum…
D: Good question, Jeff
Caller: Thanks, Doug
F: That is a good question. There’s a lot, I mean, there’s a lot out there but I would probably have to say my—My favorite movie of all time is, is God—well Godfather 1 and 2, and so I’ll probably say, I gotta say Al Pacino. I know probably a lot of guys say that but it’s just, that’s my favorite
D: And if he were living, Brando. Probably Brando, every actor wanted to work with
F: Yeah, but
J: *laughs* Oh I thought you were gonna say if Pacino was living
F: *laughs* Yeah, if Pacino was still alive…
D: No, I meant—
F: No um, yeah. I mean, I, I love Marlon Brando, but Al Pacino’s sort of always been, always been my favorite actor. Even when he’s crazy and out of his mind, I still love him
J: Devil’s Advocate is one of my favorites
F: Yeah, he’s great, I mean, he’s just,
J: Ooh man
F: he’s the devil
D: Well, Scarface, is my all-time favorite
F: Scarface is great. I mean, I still love him as, as Michael Corleone…
J: I haven’t seen it yet
D: Joe!
F: [bewildered] You haven’t seen Scarface?
D: Sheesh!
J: No, I bought the DVD,
D: Great
J: I just haven’t watched it yet
F: All right, not only am I replacing your Angel bobbleheads with Dodger bobbleheads, I’m also gonna bring in Scarface so you can finally watch it
D: Oh Joe will—yeah, do it, next time
J: Yeah, yeah
F: I saw your collection in there! You got like 600 DVDs, you don’t have Scarface in there?
J: Oh I do man. I have, I have so many DVDs at home it’s ridiculous
D: He’s never seen [?]
F: Really?!
D: No, he’s never seen [?]
J: Look, when I grew up, honestly, I mean, I went to the movies—
F: You haven’t grown up yet, stop lying
J: Well that’s true. When I, when I was a young child…
D: You’re still a kid!
F: *laughs*
J: I used to, I mean sports was my life. I nev—I mean I’d go to the movies once in a while, but if I could go to a game, or watch a game, or play a game—I didn’t care about the movies; I didn’t care about anything.
D: Scarface
F: You, you need to see Scarface. You of all people would love,
D: He would love it!
F: LOVE it
J: Yeah see you know my type of thing
F: LOVE it
D: Trust me, Joe
J: Well you know I was disappointed, I saw Reservoir Dogs the other night ‘cause I’m kind of on a Michael Madsen kick now, since we had him on the show
F: Right
J: And I’m seeing all his movies, and he was great as Mr. Blonde, I mean, he was good, but I was disappointed in the movie. I, you know, I had heard so much build-up about how great of a movie it was
F: Well that’s why you were disappointed
J: Yeah. Pulp Fiction was, you know, I thought,
D: Yeeah, it was much better
J: it was the same type of movie, but Pulp Fiction was way better.
D: Yeah
F: Well, yeah, but he had, he had a better opportunity with a better script to, sort of—They gave him more money, they gave him more opportunity to direct..
D: Yeah, that was shot in a Santa Monica garage, I believe, the whole movie
F: Literally. And he had like six bucks to make that, so
J: For Reservoir Dogs?
D: Yeah
F: Yeah, Reservoir Dogs? They gave him like 3 dollars. They said, “Here you go, make a movie.”
J: See that’s why I don’t ever read reviews in movies, and if I read a bad review, I usually know I’m gonna like the movie
F: *laughs*
J: Really, seriously, I, I—
F: That’s what it’s come down to, yeah
J: Yeah, it is, because everybody’s looking, you know—you know on the internet, you see all these sites and everybody’s looking to nitpick every movie. It’s like, why do you nitpick a movie, because you’re, you’re there to be entertained
F: Yeah
J: I mean, if it’s a, you know, “it stretches reality,” well that’s a freakin’ movie!
F: *laughs*
J: I mean, give me a break! That’s so dumb
D: Intellectual snobbery, by the, they’re all writing for each other
F: You guys, you, you should have a segment where you, you critique the people that critique, and that’ll be your whole segment.
J: We should do a McDonnell-Douglas movie critique every week, that’s what we should do
F: *laughs* Yeah, that’s what you should do, that’s what you should do
D: Joe, it’s intellectual snobbery. They’re, they’re writing for each other
F: Yeah, pretty much
D: You understand, there’s a lot of writers, who write for each other
F: Sure

D: And they don’t realize they’re not writing for the masses
F: Yeah, abs—
J: Yeah, that’s the problem
[Doug and Freddie talk over one another, agreeing]
F: Yeah, no no no, they haven’t tried to represent, sort of um, a, a public opinion in quite some time
D: Yeah
F: But uh
D: Did you ever see the Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Keitel?
F: Hell yeah, man
D: Great little movie
F: Yeah. I’ve seen every Keitel movie
J: Have you seen Leon – The Professional?
F: Yea—Léon? Yeah
J: Yeah, Léon with Jean Reno
F: Yeah, yeah
J: I saw that the other night for the first time
F: Great movie
J: Oh my god! I couldn’t believe how good it—it was phenomenal
F: Great movie
J: I could watch that movie ten times in a row, it was that good
F: Great movie
J: It was such a different kind of movie. And you know the, the cut—the one that opened in the United States—I was listening to the documentary they did on the second half of the CD - or the DVD - they cut out the scene where he and Natalie Portman were kinda…
F: Well American audiences…
J: Right
F: …wouldn’t be…cool with that
J: But it’s on the DVD
F: In the Bible Belt, they’d be like, Luc Besson would be butchered alive *laughs* in the streets of Georgia
J: Well you know this whole story, it’s kinda like the Luc Besson’s relationship with, who is it, Maïwenn, his girlfriend or whatever. He met her when she was 13
F: 13-years-old?
J: Yeah
F: Ooh…that’s scary
J: She was on the documentary talking about it. They’ve been together ever since. They do things differently in France
F: Yeah, they sure do. They sure do.
D: That’s why I like it so much over there, Big Nasty
F: Yeah, we need to have a show in France
J: Yeah, oui oui. Let’s go to Herald in L.A., you’re on ESPN Radio 710 with Freddie Prinze, hi
Caller: Hey, bonjour guys
J: Yeah
F: Hey bonjour, man
Caller: Two quick questions: Freddie, why’d you do Wing Commander?
F: *laughs*
Caller: And two, is it by chance that you work with um, Matthew Lillard a lot, or is it, or do you pick him or does he pick you to do, to do movies?
F: Uuh, first question. Uuh, I hadn’t had much experience at all with film and uh, was an actor who wanted to work and... Here’s the absolute true story to Wing Commander: Read the script, thought it was a great script,
J: What movie is that?
F: Wing Commander. It’s the worst, rated the worst sci-fi movie ever made on the, on the science fiction website and they’re right.
J: No, it couldn’t be. Ed Wood made the worst science fiction—
F: No, no, no, no, no
J: This was made worse than that, that From Planet 9 or whatever?
F: Oh this is so much, SO MUCH, worse; so much worse.
J: Oh my god
D: Did you know it was going to be that bad when you were making it?
F: Uuh, at a certain point
D: *laughs* Oh you did
F: When we—we shot the film in Luxemburg—when we landed all of a sudden we were given a new script, because they didn’t have the budget to shoot the original script, and we were all contracted to make the movie, so, that’s why I made Wing Commander.
J+D: *laughs*
F: The second question, um, I met Matt Lillard on Wing Commander and uh, we just got along great, and the only thing that I enjoyed in that movie was the chemistry between him and I, and Saffron and I
[Simultaneously] F: And, Caller: Because,
F: Go ahead, go ahead
Caller: …when you buy um, you know, a new DVD player, they give you free DVDs
J: Oh no
F: *laughs* No, bur-burn it. Burn it.
J: Oh I gotta get this movie now
F: No, you don’t wanna see it
J: Thanks Herald
F: It is so—the aliens in it look like Garfield the cat. Like there’s, they’re not even, they’re not even scary.
J: It, well, now what was Ed Wood’s movie that was voted the worse of all time? It was Planet uh, something From Planet 9 or something
F: It wasn’t, it wasn’t this. This is worse
D: *laughs*
F: This is worse. This is—it’s worse, I promise.
J: What is it, uh
F: Wing Commander. You know what,
J: Oh, Plan 9 from Outer Space
F: with the Scarface, with the Scarface package, you’re also gonna get Wing Commander *laughs*
J: Oh, thank you! Look Guy, he’s giving me gifts to come on our show, this is great!
F: *laughs* I’ll get you the criteria to [ditch/diss?] it
J: *laughs* With the extras on it, right?
F: Yeah, yeah, the DVD extras *laughs*
J: *laughs* Yeah, I’m sure there is. Let’s to go Austin in West Hollywood, you’re on ESPN Radio 710. Hi Austin
Caller: What’s up, kids
F: What’s up
Caller: Uh, Big Joe, uh, congratulations, sir. I’m a physician actually, over at UCLA, and uh,
J: Oh cool
Caller: I’ve been following your progress and I think uh, you’ve done great man
J: Thank you
F: He looks great, he looks great
Caller: You know, kudos
D: Doesn’t he look great?
F: He does, he looks absolutely great
Caller: Yeah that’s what I hear, I mean, that’s unbelievable. Um, and uh, my best—
D: Plus his cheeks today look rosy
Caller: My best to both of your respective parents, I know they’re both not doing so hot, so,
J: Thank you
Caller: Anyway, but uh, I don’t know, you guys got me thinking about some movies. I got one that’s a little off the wall; most people have seen it but…

[Side B of my first tape runs out at this point. I had to switch over to another deck so a few seconds of the show is omitted here]

[They’re talking about the movie ‘Run, Lola, Run’ and its Simpsons parody]

Caller: …all over Springfield, trying to take care of business.
F: *laughs* No I haven’t seen it
C: …Look up and see this, it’s so funny. You’ll totally recognize it as Lola Run Loa Run
J: Would you ever see The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster?
F: The Swimmer…
D: Yeah, I saw it
J: He swam, he swam his way through, he just would join everybody’s backyard and swim in their swimming pool
D: It was terrible, because it was just—
F: *laughs* Wh-what?
Caller: Wow
J: *laughs* Just one of the most—you think your Wing Commander was bad

[Guys crack up]

J: Oh geeez
F: Naah, I, I took a pass on this one *laughs*
Caller: You guys were talking a little about Tarentino. I think he had a little production role in a movie with Eric Stoltz. Great flick called Killing Zoe, awesome flick
F: Ooh yeah, the uh, well that was his old writing partner, Killing Zoe. Kil—
Caller: Wh-uh-really?
F: Yeah, that’s his old writing partner
J: Eric Stoltz?
F: Noo, no, no, the guy who uh, wrote and directed that, I’m trying to remember his name
Caller: Yeah, I can’t either, but the, the opening to that flick where they’re cruising, they got like a camera on the front of a car…
F: It’s uh, like a bank robbery, a bank robbery type movie…
Caller: Exactly, but it’s also this other, this other… [Freddie talks over him]
F: …he meets this, he meets a prostitute that he kinda falls in love with
Caller: …scene, you know, going on. Uh, wild flick. But anyways, just wanted to bounce a couple off you. But look out for that Simpsons, it’ll crack you up. You got Maggie running all through Springfield with this…German, you know, like techno music in the background *laughs*
F: That’s hysterical, that’s good stuff man
J: Hey thanks for the call, we appreciate it
Caller: Take it easy guys
F: Thanks Doc, take it easy
J: OK Austin, take it easy. That’s funny, he was saying it was, falling in love with a prostitute. It’s like Doug with every prostitute he falls in love with
F: Well yeah, but
D: Oh Joe, please don’t revea—
F: [jokes] How can you resist them!
D: Don’t reveal my dark side, Joe
F: Don’t fight it, don’t—Just accept, it’s acceptance. It’s about acceptance.
D: I’m running out of money here though, Freddie
F: *laughs*
J: Yeeah
D: If it wasn’t for you, I’d never have the money, Big Nasty
J: Yeeah, yeah that’s true. Uh, he did a good job in Wing Commander
D: Yeah
J: We had to get to that call back *laughs*
D: Yeah, oh yeah
F: *groans* Oooh, no
J: There we go
F: You don’t wanna—
J: See this is a whole new thing for me, I’d never even heard of the movie before
F: Yeah, it’s probably Matt Lillard who called *laughs*
J: *laughs*
F: [imitating Matt] “I thought I was great, and so were you Freddie”
J: Ooh, that’s funny
D: I tell ya, the men love Freddie, too. Look at all the guys calling, it’s unbelievable
J: Yes, well, the women are too busy—
D: Well we know the women love him *laughs*
J: The women, they’re too busy right now to call
F+D: *laughs*
J: Anyway, we’re gonna come back, it’s the McDonnell-Douglas Show, Freddie Prinze, Jr. in-studio with us on ESPN Radio 710

[Commercial break]

J: …5:43, that’s the great Everlast. Now that’s one guy I would love to interview, what an interesting dude he is
F: Right
J: Yeah, do you know anything about him?
F: I, well I know, this uh, rapper named Guru, or Gangstarr other people know him as, and he knows him very well. But to go from one end of, sort of, the rap scene all the way to where he ended up, is just,
J: Yeah
F: that’s crazy. I don’t know anyone else that’s done it.
J: No. He was the front guy for the House of Pain
F: Yeah
J: And then he’s, he’s had a couples uh, um, solo albums, they’re both great albums. One’s Whitey Ford Sings the Blues and the other one’s uh, White Trash Beautiful, which is what this song is from. And that dude, you know, he was—he’s had a stroke, he’s had a heart attack, uh, done drugs, done everything, and he’s lasted for two decades
F: Yeah
J: Doing the stuff that he does
F: Well, Whitey Ford, that record went platinum I think
J: Yeeah, that’s a great, that’s a great CD
F: Yeah, yeah, did well
J: He had that great song “Ends”
F: Yeah
J: That made it biig time
F: Yeah
D: Freddie, I wanna ask you one question before we go to the callers. Do you feel uncomfortable watching yourself on the big screen? In other words, when it comes time for the premiere,
J: I know I do
D: Yeah, same with me, Joe
J: ‘Cause I’d fill up the big screen, that’s why I… [drifts off] *laughs*
D: No, the couple times I made movies, I, I couldn’t, I, it’s weird
F: I don’t, I don’t watch. I don’t watch.
D: You don’t watch eith—OK
F: No, I never do
D: Yeah, it’s just weird
F: Never do. Like if something’s on TV,
D: Yeah

F: and it like brings back a good, a good memory of like a, uh, you know, “Aaaah I was 22 then! That was great,” then maybe I’ll watch it. But as far as seeing it on the big screen, I’d, I was there, I know what happens at the end, so
D: You feel uncomfortable, OK
J: I got to admit, after you were in the last time I went on a Freddie Prinze, Jr. CD buying spree. I bought about seven of your movies
F: *laughs*
D: Oh you prove me, Joe
J: I was gonna buy—no, I was gonna buy Summer Catch, anyway. You know why I was gonna buy it? Every time it was on cable, I never caught the whole movie
F: Mmm
J: I always missed the beginning, like the first 15 or 20 minutes, I would always miss it
F: Oh there’s a little bit of cool baseball stuff in the beginning
J: Yeah, so, so I got the,
F: The tryouts
J: I got the CD, yeah, I got that. And uh, I bought some of your movies which I thought— So, I loved the one you did with Henry Winkler, when you guys were the chefs
F: Down to You, that was a fun time
J: Yeah
F: That was my, my first real experience in New York
D: What’s your favorite?
J: Was that the one with Julia Stiles?
F: That’s the one with Jules, yeah
J: Yeah
F: That’s the one with Jules. The favorite one?
D: Yeah, your favorite all-time movie that you’ve done, that you liked, that you…
F: Uuuh…that’s been, that’s been out? Is uh, this independent film that I did called The House of Yes, which was, sort of what put me on the map. Uum, the same director who directed Head Over Heels directed uh, that one, his name’s Mark Waters. Um, he’s done a bunch of movies since then. His brother Daniel Waters, uh, wrote Heathers, Bat-uh-Batman Returns—or half of Batman Returns—um, a bunch of like, really cool scripts and uh, it’s sort of in their genes. But that would probably be my favorite
J: You’d be a good Batman
F: Naaah, leave that for the big buff guys
J: Like Christian Bale?
F: Yeah. Well he got big for that
J: Yeeah, he did
F: I’m—I’m long and lanky, and I’ll be—
J: Well Michael Keaton, for crying out loud!
F: *laughs* Aaall right, I’ll be Batman, all right
J: He’s a midget and he’s uh, he’s a great actor though
F: I’ll be Batman
J: There you go. All right I’m, I wanna be your agent
F: *laughs*
J: Uuh, let’s go to Lee in West L.A., you’re on ESPN Radio 710. Hi Lee
Caller: Mr. Prinze, how you doin’ sir
F: I’m good sir, how are you?
Caller: Your dad, was so phenomenal. Your dad was the Mexican Lenny Bruce
F: *laughs* Thank you very much
Caller: All, all jokes aside, your dad was so phenomenal it’s not even funny. And this is what, this is what I don’t— First of all, if I was you, once a week—once a week, at least—I would have my agent remind George Lopez the only reason he got a job in L.A. was ‘cause of my dad

[Guys laugh]

J: Geeez!
F: Fir—First, first thing—first things first, Lee, just so you know, George Lopez gives so much respect, credit, and love to my father it’s not even funny.
Caller: Your dad was the shiznic
J: Word
F: *laughs* Thank you so much, man
Caller: Your dad was the shiznic, without a doubt
J: He was
F: He was the best man, he was the best
Caller: This is what I don’t understand, why haven’t you and Tony, that’s Mr. Orlando, got together and show the world just how phenomenal your dad was in for feature films or a mini-series, to show the world how phenomenal your dad was?
F: This, this business was very hesitant for, for a long time to, to show anything of my father and it took people like George Lopez and my father’s manager—my uncle—Ron DiBlasio, and myself. Took about 15-20 years just to get his na—his name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so,
J+D: Wow
F: a movie is a long way’s away. People seem to only focus on the negative stuff for, for quite some time but we’re working on it, brother, I promise you, we’re working on it.
J: You know what, that would be, I think a Man on the Moon about Andy Kaufman, it could be the same type of movie but a better movie because I think your dad had a lot more, uh, social relevance,
D: Oh yeah
K: than Andy Kaufman.
D: Very innovative guy
F: He just, he did so much at such, at such an early time. I mean, you have to remember this was a Puerto Rican who was portraying a Mexican, so, they, I mean they protested. The Mexican community protested when they found out that they hired a Puerto Rican to play Chico, outside the NBC Studios. And when the show came out, and he treated it with so much respect and he won all these critics over, and he won his fans over even more, people showed him so much love. I’ve never met anyone who went, you know, “Your old man was a bum,” except one time in the 4th grade and that kid got knocked out
J+D: *laughs*
F: And, other than that, like when I—when I walk down the streets in, in Los Angeles, and, and I see like, anyone that’s Latino—anybody—they come up, they all say the same things. In New York, during the Puerto Rican Day Parade, a Puerto Rican cop stopped the parade to help me get to an audition just because my father made him laugh, and I was gonna be late. Like, that, the people have always supported him, but, this business that he chose to be in and I’ve chosen to be in has always been very hesitant to reveal that, you know, there’s a lot of drugs and things like that that go on and, they sort of used my father to remind people like, “This is what happens.” It’s like, you know what, use somebody else for a change,
J: Yeah
F: and give him some of the credit that he deserves. So we finally got a star just last month and um, on the Walk of Fame, and uh, which was a huge day for, for my family, and that was a lot to do because of, 90% to do because of George Lopez lobbying as hard as he does.
D: Wonderful
J: That’s great. I’ll tell you what, your dad was phenomenal and, and you know that’s, that’s a series I would like to see come out on DVD. You know,
F: They—
J: putting all the old TV shows out, why not put that one out
F: I would love for them to do that
D: They don’t have it on the—
F: It’s, you know,
J: Chico and the Man, by the way is the name for you people who don’t know,
F: Yeah
J: and Freddie Prinze was the actor. Uh, if you saw this, it would still hold up today, just like All in the Family does, just like Sanford and Son does. Uh, you know, just a great comedy and a, and a phenomenal talent. I’ll tell you Freddie, I’ve told you this off the air before, I was working my first radio station when the news came in about your dad and it was, it was just like, there was a pall cast over everything. You know,
F: Yeah
J: that, that day and you know, waiting to see what happened and if he would live or not and everything else, and it was just, you know. I remember everybody in the newsroom was just like, “Oh my god”
F: Nah, I mean, it was, it was, it broke a lot of people’s hearts. He just had, you know, he was very much full of life and, and he just threw every ounce of his soul, you know, out to the camera every time he went out. And in the clubs, in the stand up clubs where, where he would, you know, go and, and do his thing and that’s sort of where his heart and soul always was, and he wouldn’t, he refused to quit on that, but… But he influenced a lot of people, I remember at the end of John Leguizamo’s show he always said, you know, “This is for my man Freddie Prinze who didn’t make it.” At the end of George Lopez’s show he said, you know, there’s three Lations that have ever headlined, you know, a television show—Desi Arnez, Freddie Prinze, and him. You know what I mean? And it’s like, and it’s a big deal; in the history of, of this business, only three Latinos? That’s far too few.
J: Well yeah, and you got, I mean yeah. And I mean, you know, Paul Rodriguez is out there, and, but after that, I mean there just aren’t a lot of venues for Latino comics
F: Yeah
J: It just doesn’t seem there has been over the years. I mean black comics have been around forever when Richard Pryor and, you know, other people have taken over and, you know, obviously white guys are out there and the women, but it just doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of Latino, uh, comedians
F: There’s—there’s more
J: Maybe now there is
F: There’s more than you think,
J: Yeah
F: especially nowadays. Television wise they should start getting much more of an opportunity these days and I, and I think, all of a sudden it’s being “cool” to be Latino. I remember when I first started to embrace my heritage, people, they wouldn’t wanna see me for certain roles and, I… The very first audition I went—here’s when I figured out, like, what the business was all about. The casting director said, “He’s too ethnic.” The second audition I went on, the casting director said, “He’s not ethnic enough.” And, at that moment I went, “Oh okay, it’s all nonsense.” It doesn’t, they just, they don’t really know what they’re looking for. And, but, it’s now cool to be Latino, so you see a lot more of us working.
J: Yup, so you got a good heritage to carry
D: And our, our very own Joe Betto Horga, a future comic star
F: There you go
J: No, his ability to produce is comical
D: *laughs* Oh, Joe
F: *laughs*
J: Let’s go to Barron in Long Beach, you’re on ESPN Radio 710. What’s up Barron?
Caller: What’s up, guys. By the way, Wing Commander came out a little bit after Starship Troopers. I picked it up, watched it, the movie is…incredible. It was the worst movie I ever saw, but—

[Guys crack up]

F: Told you
D: Incredibly entertaining
F: I told you
J: Oh I gotta have this
Caller: But what Freddie did to his character—I knew he was gonna die—but this, he—
J: Well thank you! Thanks a lot Barron!
F: *laughs*
Caller: Well no, no, no. He did, he did that thing about “I’m-the-nice-crazy-kinda-guy” He did it wonderfully. That was the only thing that kept me goin’, ‘cause I said I know what’s going go happen, I gotta see how it goes down. Good, you know, bad movie, good job.
J: Well I’ll tell you what
F: It’s a garbage movie
J: The worse movie I’ve ever seen—ever, without a question—is a movie that Al Pacino was in, believe it or not, called Bobby Deerfield.
Caller: Oh, yeah. Well yeah, yeah
J: The biggest piece of garbage ever put on celluloid
Caller: But let me te—
J: Awful
F: That’s blasphemy, don’t ever say anything bad about Al Pacino *laughs*
J: I, I know. And no, and here’s the thing: I wouldn’t leave the theater because I said, “Al Pacino’s in this movie, it’s got to get better.”
D: What was it about?
J: He was a race car driver and from what I remember they went in balloons—Oh, it was awful
F: You should have gone twice; you should have seen it twice
J: Well I did that with Nashville, and I thought Nashville was horrible
Caller: Let me check in over something with Freddie though, what he’s brought
F: Huh?
Caller: I got a lot of friends that work small time, real small time, in the movie industry that you can find on a set. They say this man treats him just like they’re stars. He treats everybody the same, and they say he talks to us, comes around, eats off of our catering trucks after he works, and that’s, everybody don’t do that in the business as you know. And my last thing Freddie, now I gotta criticize you
F: Criticize me, hit me
F: All right, the Dodgers man, now they won. Say something good about ‘em
F: *laughs*
J: He’s been saying good stuff about them
F: I’m, I’m trying to say good stuff
D: You were happy they were in the playoffs
F: I was happy they were in the playoffs; I was frustrated they didn’t start Lima. Uh, he was the only one who won in St. Louis when a month before he gave up a three, a three run—he gave up only three runs and one of them was unearned because Grabowski had an error, and that was just a month before they went to the post-season and they gave Odalis two shots. But so that, that was frustrating to me. I will say, I, you know, Weaver was very consistent and I wasn’t 100% on Weaver, I was very nervous, but I thought Colburn worked great things with him. I’m not, I ‘m not 100% sold yet on, on Derek Lowe, I’m not sold on, just, the team in general. I don’t like taking the names off the jerseys, just take if off—
J: And Brad. The Nerve. Penny.
F: And Brad “The Nerve” Penny. I don’t like the way we’re, we’re—
D: I’m gonna kick your posterior, Joe
F: —we’re run, you know what I mean? It’s, I, I like my Dodgers from last year, and hardly any of those guys are back *laughs* So, it’s a whole new team, man. I’m trying to find good things though, I promise.

[They continue to discuss the Dodgers, the trade-offs, etc.]

J: Anyway we’re gonna come back, Freddie Prinze, Jr. with us one more hour. Winky Wright gonna join us and more of your phone calls so hang in there everybody. Uh, we got some lines open, 877… McDonnell-Douglas on ESPN Radio 710.

[Commercial Break]

J: All right everybody, welcome back. It’s 6:07, McDonnell-Douglas, and how do you like it, the Boston Celtics are within one of the Clippers after they were down by, like, 20. They’re pulling a Lakers in reverse
F: *chuckles non-too-happily* Ooh
J: Unbelievable. Joe and Doug here with you until 7 o’clock tonight, Freddie Prinze, Jr., our in-studio guest for the whole show and uh, we appreciate you uh, coming in, Freddie. Absolutely.
F: Maah pleasure
J: It’s great and uh, anyway, Freddie’s got a couple of uh—we, we never talked about it, when is the release date for your movies?
F: Uum, I don’t, they’re going to all the festivals with them first. Like the New York one’s gonna air, thank God, in the New York Film Festival. So uh, and I think Lion’s Gate has the other one, so it’s up to them when they wanna, when they wanna distribute it.
J: And your sitcom, do you have a name for it yet?
F: Uh yeah, it’s called “The Untitled Freddie Prinze, Jr. Show” *laughs*
J: Yeah, there we go. OK yeah, The Freddie Prinze, Jr. Show.
D: Have you ever been to Cannes?
J: Uh, so, that’ll be in the fall right?
F: What’s that?
D: Have you ever been to Cannes?
F: It—what’s that?
J: Has he ever been to the can?
F: [jokes] Yeah, I just took a leak earlier….no
D: *laughs* The can
J: What are you talking about?
D: The Cannes Film Festival
F: No, I haven’t been to Cannes. No, no, never been
J: Yeah…Doug likes to point out that he goes to France every year
F: Hey easy French master
D: No I didn’t, Joe. I didn’t say anything. I was curious if he’s ever been to Cannes
F: You were saying earlier you’re the master of France
D: Oh, I love France
F: And now you’re denying it
D: I love it, I go to Paris every year, I do
J: Yeah, tsh, to hunt young boys
F: *laughs*
J: Anyway…
D: I finally found—
J: Not denying, not denying it, aah
D: I finally found one right here in L.A.
F: Yeah, you didn’t hear him deny it, oooh no
J: I didn’t hear a denial, Douglas
F: Oooh no
J: Hey did you hear about that guy yesterday, that Rugby fan, who cut off his [Let’s euphemize it: his junk] …because his team won?
F: *sighs* Oh, Rugby…See you can’t let Europeans be fans of sports, they—Or South Americans for that matter—they either kill their goalie, or they cut off their…their junk
D: Or kill their referee
J: The greatest story I’ve ever heard about South American sports, a friend of mine who’s a sports writer for uh, La Opinión [?], Manalo Hernandez Duen. You know Manalo? He’s a great guy. He’s from Venezuela and he was telling me stories about winter league baseball and—we’re gonna get to Winky Wright in a second—one day, before the start of a game, a guy dropped dead in a seat behind the dugout. They didn’t call—they called the doctor in to pronounce him dead. The doctor walked away—and he swears to God that this is a true story—they picked him up and passed him to the top of the stadium and dropped him over the sides so that nobody had to be uh, you know, disturbed, moved. I mean and, and apparently—
F: *laughs in disbelief*
D: No discomfort
J: —in Venezuela they, like, there’s guards in the fields with guns during winter league, and everybody who’s played there says it’s the crazies place in the world to play.
F: Huh, if Winky’s listening—don’t fight in Venezuela
J: He is. Nah, he’s gonna be under the bright lights of Sin City come March 14. Winky Wright, the official boxer of the McDonnell-Douglas Show, how you doin’ Winky?
Winky Wright: What’s going on? I already fought in Venezuela
J: Ooh, oh you did
D: He’s fought everywhere
J: So you already know it’s nuts, huh
F: [jokes] Winky’s the one that threw the guy out, out the stadium
J: Yeah. Winky, Freddie Prinze, Jr. here, big fan of yours
F: How you doin’, Winky
J: Hey what’s goin’ on, buddy
F: Yo, I saw that fight years ago where you fought Fernando up North…

[They continue to talk to Winky Wright about his upcoming match, etc.]

J: All right, we’re gonna come back, it’s McDonnell-Douglas. Uh, your phone calls, if you wanna talk to Freddie Prinze, uh,
whatever’s on your mind about sports; Norm Chow leaving, the Lakers, the Clippers blowing another game, looks like it
D: Or Freddie’s career
F: And uh,
F: Or the women he’s kissed!
J: Anything else you wanna talk abou— *laughs*
F: *laughs* You—don’t…
J: 877… McDonnell-Douglas on ESPN Radio 710

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[They come back talking about Winky Wright’s match in Vegas. Joe mentions they’re going to do shows up there and it leads to a discussion about Freddie loathing the Anaheim Angels]

J: …and then Friday night we’re gonna tape a show that’s gonna be on after Angel baseball. Or maybe we’ll get lucky and the Angels will get rained out and we’ll be on line
D: He’s gonna make some serious money for this match, Joe
J: Yeah he is, good for him. He’s such a good guy
F: [interjects] I think most Angels games should get rained out
J: Cooome on!
D: Don’t say that!
F: *laughs*
J: Freddie hates the Angels
D: Bob Coonts just crashed on the 405, geez
F: *laughs*
J: Freddie does not like the Angels
F: And I know you guys gotta show ‘em support and all that, but come on, it’s still the freakin’ Angels
J: Let me see, the Dodgers won a World Championship in ’88—
F: ’88. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
J: —Angels won one in 2002, ooohh
F: Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ooh yeah
J: I see, yeeah
F: How many World Series do the Angels have? Oh! That’s right! Ooone.
D: Freddie, you’re not get—you’re not earning brownie points with the Big Nasty
F: I knoow, I know
J: No, you know, Angels were the first team—
F: Angels this, Angels this
J: —I ever rooted for, so I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for ‘em
F: God Bless your Angels, how’s that?
J: Yeeah, it’s all right. I was a Dodger fan too; I am a Dodger fan. Except I hate their owner and they’re—well I don’t hate their owner, I just think their owner is a cheapskate and their general manager is a dope
F: I’m gonna try to buy them for you, I promise
J: Yeah, there you go
F: I got my Dodger fund, man. Every check I get, I put a little away for my Dodger fund. One day…
J: We can just be like McBankrupt, don’t use any of your own money to buy it, just get all your pals to chip in, put in their money
F: *laughs*
D: Whatever, whatever happened to the McDonnell-Douglas fund for [?] Remember that? We got, we made—
J: We made 50 dollars
D: 50 bucks
F: 50 bucks?
J: Yeah
D: We were at the Holiday Inn across the street from the uh,
F: Let me, let me get—let me get half of it. Let me get half of it
D: Staples Center
J: No, 50 bucks went to help Jerry Bus buy free agents
D: *laughs* I know
F: You didn’t spend it?
J: We ended up, we ended up donating it to Make-A-Wish, because—
D: People actually came to donate
F: Yeah, you drank it, what are you talking about
J: Yeah, that would be illegal…
F: *laughs*
J: [mumbles] Well, I’m not gonna—
F: Yeah
D: Don’t say it, Big Nasty
J: I’m not gonna say anything. Anyway uh, Freddie—
D: I have a disease Joe, you know that
F: *laughs* Empathize
J: Yeah, yeah. Yeah so Freddie, I was looking at your website earlier, there’s a really nice picture of you when you were about, like, 3-years-old
F: Hah. Hah.
J: Very cute
F: This is why—
J: Little, little bowl haircut there
F: Look—
J: Very nice *laughs*
F: Look man, look. This is why actors never give real photos to studios when they go, “We need pictures of you when you were a kid for the movie.” You know why? ‘Cause they get released on the damn internet *laughs* And then someone goes, “Yeah, nice bowl haircut”
J: Well how ‘bout, how ‘bout with no hair at the top?
F: No hair at the to—?
J: Where’s that from?
F: I, I think I had my head shaved
J: Yeah
F: Yeah
J: That must—
F: That was the—at least, at least I was an adult
J: I was gonna say, that must drive you crazy too
F: Seeing the baby pictures up there, that’s some uh…
J: Well, no, that, you know, you know the girls love this
F: *laughs*
J: [imitates a swooning girl] “Oooh Freddie you’re so cute”
F: [does the same] “Oooh he’s so cute”
J: But I’m just saying, when you see stuff out on the internet, we talked about tabloids earlier, the internet’s way worse
F: Yo, the internet’s crazy, man
J: God
F: You can get everything
J: I read stuff about myself on the internet and I’m nobody!
F: Yeah. I got your social security, everything. I got all your info on there man
J: I ain’t got no money so I ain’t worried about it
F: Not anymore! *laughs*
J: Yeah, you got—you can go ahead and take what ever I got. Beelieve me.
F: *laughs*
J: Anyway, we’re uh, talking to Freddie Prinze, Jr. if you’re in stu—or if you’re listening and he’s in-studio and he’s got a, a sitcom coming out this fall on the ABC line-up, so Freddie’s now officially a cast member, just like the rest of us.
F: Part of the family
J: Yep. You’ll get your bi-quarterly e-mail from Michael Eisner,
F: *laughs*
J: telling you about the profits of the company.
F: Fantastic
J: Yeeah. All right let’s go back to the phones and uh, if you wanna join us, there’s a couple of lines open, 877… Let’s go to Victor in Lakewood, you’re on ESPN Radio 710. What’s up, Victor?
Caller: Hey, good, how you guys doin’?
J: Good
Caller: Hey I wanna, I have a question for uh, for Freddie. Freddie, you starred in a movie with uh, Peter Falk and uh, and um
F: Yeah
Caller: And Timothy Hutton called Vig—
F: Yeah
Caller: —where you played the, the heavy. Do you ever consider doing more of those roles because… [Side A of Tape 2 cuts off] F: [picks up] …I’m only allowed to do the roles that this business lets me do, and at a certain point it’s, you know, I can only try so hard. So I finally got an opportunity again, uh, over the fall, right after the first time I worked with, with these b_______ in here

[Guys laugh]

F: And uh *laughs*
J: There’s our promo!
D: There’s our promo, Joe!
J: There’s our promo
F: I went to New York and did a, and did a similar feel; just a guy who takes far lass crap than uh, than most of the romantic characters are allowed to take. So I, I appreciate the question and the answer is I would love to. I’m only allowed to do the roles the, you know, the studios let me do, so I got away from the studios and did a couple of independents and, I think the next two moves you see from me uh, will be much closer to Vig—which uh, which I loved doing that movie, and I loved playing that role, by the way.
J: Do you have your—like so many other actors—do you have your own production company and stuff like that yet? Or…

F: Well…yeah. I never wanted to do one because like, everyone has one. You go, “Oh what did you produce?” “Oh…well..nothing…” or “We’re gonna…”
J: *laughs*
F: You know what I mean? And I didn’t wanna be that guy, so when somebody asks the question I could actually answer. So yeah, we just started one, my partner and I.
J: Oh, with the sitcom?
F: We’re producing the sitcom and we sold uh, we sold two screenplays last year for features. So we uh, we’ve been working very hard on that, but it, it took—it was a long time coming
D: Do you have to put up your own money?
F: No, we actually, we uh, we worked our way sort of around it and found uh, cool ways to finance films and things like that, so, it was good. Without them giving us “notes.”
J: Yeah. Do you do a lot of writing?
F: Yeah, I do, I do. We’re writing this pilot for the show along with my partner and our two, our two executive producers—the four of us are writing the pilot together. But um, all the features that we sold I’ve written all of them so far, so
J: How hard is it to collaborate with somebody? ‘Cause if you got four minds working on the same project, is it tough? Or…
F: Nah, it, I think it could go either way. I haven’t had it bad yet, but it’s just—you know, you guys work well together so it’s not hard. If you guys hated each other it would be, you know what I mean?
J: Well we do, actually
F: OK, so I take it back
J: *laughs*
F: When you hate each other it’s great
D: Joe hates me, I love him
F: Right, okay. So, but, for us it’s easy. We’re all working on like, the same, we all have like the same goal in mind and so we’re working very well together. However, I know situations where it does not work and people like to write alone and I can understand and appreciate that, that’s just not our situation.
J: Yeah. All right let’s take another call here. Uh, David in West L.A. you’re on ESPN Radio 710, hi David
Caller: Priiinze in the house
F: *laughs* What’s up man
Caller: Spirit in the house
F: *laughs*
Caller: I gotta say your old man was just a very funny and talented guy
F: Ah, I appreciate it a lot, yes he was
Caller: And uh, there was a little TV movie about him there. That got, he was in the—
F: They tried to, yeah
Caller: It was In the White Shadow, uh, Ira something or other. Uh, but
J: I was gonna say not Ken Howard
F: *laughs* No, no. They tried to—
J: That would be a stretch!
F: —in like 70, I think it was like ’79 they tried, they tried to do it. But it wasn’t uh, it wasn’t really received all that well
Caller: Yeah, I mean, there were some very personal intimate touches in there which I thought was pretty amazing for uh, for a TV movie. But, you know, if you were doing it man, I just think you’d show a lot more about what he was like privately and who would know him better, you know?
F: Yeah, I mean that’s, if, I think when family’s involved it, you always get a better side of the story and that was sort of, executives that were involved and still trying to sorta cash in on, on the Freddie Prinze name. So some of the things were inaccurate, some of the things were right. But uh, but they tried that, you know, years ago and I think the people that would be able to see it today—hopefully—wouldn’t even, wouldn’t even remember that. Besides you, sir
Caller: They may not even know who he was, I mean, it would be, you know, like a revelation, that sort of thing. Also uh, you know I have my pet peeves with the critics there, and you know, everybody’s going “Oh Million Dollar Baby’s so great, it’s so—“ This is the single most depressing movie I have seen in, gotta be like 10-15 years, and I’m, I’m just—
J: You never saw Wing Commander, huh

[Guys crack up]

F: *laughs* Oh, it’s on! It’s so on!
Caller: Somebody’s not letting go of that one
F: Ooh it’s on
J: And I haven’t even seen it yet
D: You’re relentless in your criticism of Freddie Prinze, Jr.
F: Oh yeah, it’s on man
J: Well he just called me a b______! What can I say
F: You said you were gonna BEAT me! It was, you were gonna have a whole segment
J: No that was Doug who was gonna beat you—
F: You agreed to it
J: —I was gonna flog you
F: Yeah
J: Yeah that’s true
Caller: Well I was kinda wondering what everybody else, what everybody thought of uh, Million Dollar Baby
J: I haven’t seen it, what’s new
F: I uh, I enjoy it when Clint Eastwood directs a film and I like the DP that he works with a lot. He uh, he used to be a gaffer and uh, just sorta got promoted and did an unbelievable job, so I like the look of the film. It’s not my kind of movie as far as the kind of movie that entertains me to watch, but I definitely have respect for it. I’m much more, sort of, the action film kinda guy and that’s just not the movie
D: Did you see The Punisher?
F: I did see The Punisher, I did see The Punisher
D: Tom Nowicki
F: Great movie
D: I love him
F: I like superhero movies, I loved Hellboy, like that’s—
J: Oh Hellboy was awesome
F: That’s, that’s my kinda thing. But I had respect for what they tried to do, but it’s an extremely depressing film if you’re not familiar with the subject matter
J: What, Hellboy?
F: *laughs* Noo, no, Million Dollar Baby
J: Oh
D: Hellboy, starring Joe McDonnell
F: *laughs*
J: No I was gonna say when is Hilary Swank gonna portray a woman?
F: Ooh stop it, stop it
D: Oh Joe
J: No she’s a great actress, she really is
F: She portrays beautiful women, stop it
J: I know, she is beautiful; when she’s made up, she’s awesome
F: Oh, yeah
D: Do you know her?
J: Is she still married to Chad Lowe?
F: I met her. She uh, but she’s a gorgeous girl and she does portray women. If you’d seen a movie besides something from 1986, which was the last time you saw a flick…
D: *laughs*
J: No she won the Academy Award. In the theater, you know the last movie I saw in the theater, honest to god, was American Beauty
D: Oh Joe
J: That was 5 years ago
F: [F?] that,
J: No, this is true
F: he saw the last half of it. The last movie you saw start to finish was Howard the Duck
D: Yeah, go see The Punisher, Joe. That’s a great movie
J: No I think it was, I think it was Howard the Bee—what was that movie? Howie the Volkswagen, something like that F: Oh Herbie the Love Bug? *laughs*
J: Herbie the Love Bug, yeah. *laughs* I was close
F: *laughs* Yeah, I gave you too much credit, sorry
J: All right we’re gonna come back, one more segment—
F: [mocks] Howie the Beetle…
J: —with Freddie *laughs*
F: Howie the Beetle *laughs, mockingly*
D: *laughs* Now you’re ripping Big Nasty
J: I love it. All right this is McDonnell-Douglas on ESPN Radio 710

[Commercial Break]

J: Bob Seger, rabble’n’gabblin’ man. Welcome back to the program, final segment, McDonnell-Douglas on ESPN Radio 710. And gracious enough to be in-studio with us for 3 hours—you may be the only person on Earth who could put up with us for 3 hours
D: *laughs*
F: Yeeah, baby
J: I’m very impressed. Freddie Prinze, Jr. Let’s take a couple more uh, phone calls for Freddie before we wrap it up. Adam on a cell, you’re on ESPN Radio 710. What’s up, Adam?
Caller: Hey guys, first time caller
J: Thank you
F: Thanks for calling
Caller: Hey Freddie, I wanna throw two movies at ya—Chopper and City of God, what do you think?
F: Uh, City of God was un-be-lieevable. That was, that’s another movie you should see, it’s all subtitles, but you should see it. And Chopper’s a movie a lot of people don’t know about, I’m glad you men—It’s Eric Bana, uh, one of his first movies, an Australian film, and uh, he looks completely different in the film, but that’s a really hard core film as well. Those are both good movies, good call.
J: All right, thank you for the call. Let’s go to Corey in West L.A., you’re on ESPN Radio 710
Caller: How you doin’ guys
J: Hey
Caller: Hey Freddie uh, nice to uh, that you’re the real deal, not a coat tail act. Uh, your father was great but you’re, you got your own deal going and uh, congratulations to you
F: Ah, I appreciate that a lot brother, thank you

[Caller continues on and states that Joe and Doug know a lot of steamy details about sports figures and questions if they’d ever pull a Jose Canseco. Segues into another Canseco discussion about his book, his “ratting out”, and the issue of whether it’s ethical to use steroids to enhance performance out on the professional baseball field—illegal or not—and the abuse these players are ultimately putting their bodies through.

Freddie’s opinion: “I think that if somebody wants to take something that could potentially shorten their life, then it’s on them.”]

J: …and we’ll be back next time with the “Flog Freddie” segment
F+D: *laughs*
J: Anyway that’s gonna do it. Thanks to our guests today, Stuart Scott, Eric Gagne, Winky Wright. Thanks to Jackson Limousine at 800… for all your transportation needs. And most of all, thanks to Freddie Prinze, Jr. It’s been a blast as always
F: Thank you guys for having me, I appreciate it
J: And you got [?], anytime you wanna come in
D: You definitely are gonna come back during the baseball season
F: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
J: Yeah, definitely
F: Good or bad
J: All right, coming up next, Bruin Confidential. Have a great night everybody, see ya!
F: Bye!

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