Marky? Mark!

 Jen and Dagda dive deep into Mark Wahlberg's incredible career, from his early days as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch and Calvin Klein model to his breakout film roles in Fear (1996), Boogie Nights, Three Kings, and The Departed. They explore his impressive range across action (Shooter, Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day), comedy (Daddy's Home, Ted, The Other Guys), and biopics (The Perfect Storm, Pain and Gain, Instant Family, Joe Bell).

Jen raves about Mark's latest thriller Flight Risk, where he plays a terrifying bisexual hitman with a cold sack wig, and compares it to his psycho performance in Fear. They discuss his 11 siblings (including Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block and Dreamcatcher), his bizarre Sega CD video game, and why he's Hollywood's grittiest leading man.

The conversation spirals into Halloween Ends spoilers (Michael Myers ground into fertilizer), Jamie Lee Curtis as Hollywood royalty, Don Cheadle and Kevin Hart's age debate, and Mr. T's name change to demand respect. Plus: Starship Troopers, Ben Affleck's worst line in Armageddon, George Clooney's early career, and why Mark Wahlberg ages gracefully.

It's part career retrospective, part horror movie tangent, part Hollywood history lesson—classic Conversations Over Coffee.

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Transcript

Welcome

SPEAKER_03 0:03

Welcome to Everyday Life. Thank you for joining our podcast, Conversations Over Coffee. My name is Jen. And I'm Dagda. And we're gonna hit you with the explicit content warning right off the bat. This podcast does include adult situations and adult language from time to time.

SPEAKER_01 0:22

I'm an angel. I never fucking cuss.

SPEAKER_03 0:25

Okay. Anyways, you ready to go?

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:29

Alright, let's go. Three copies of each. No, no. I had thousands of books to choose from.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

What fucking bookstore, first of all?

SPEAKER_03 0:48

I didn't mean to say bookstore, I meant to say library. I was trying to make fun of you. Huh? Cow tipping. I didn't say cow tipping. I said petting sheep.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:58

There's your big difference. I didn't say other things. I didn't say hook your boots with the boots. I didn't say that. What is that? How how do you how do you know they're a real farmer? They know to put the feet in the boots. That's how you know. Uh it's something that was a meme online. Something about how do you know they're a real goat farmer or sheep farmer? They put their the animal's feet in their boots so they can't get away.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:22

Yeah. Hmm. I didn't really. I mean, obviously now that it's been months and I've like, oh, I get what that joke's about. Anyways, dick. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 1:33

I'm doing all right. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 1:35

Doing I'm doing fine as long as you stop giving me that disgusted look because I didn't know the reference.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

You'll be all right.

SPEAKER_03 1:42

I didn't care for the movie. I did not care for that movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

Um it was just very the movie was kind of a caricature, and it was that was intentional. Um, because I think if I remember correctly, the dude I don't know why they do this, but the director, I believe, didn't like the book.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

And so he kind of wanted to satirize the book, which the book is already kind of a satirization of politics.

SPEAKER_03 2:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

But anyway.

SPEAKER_03 2:13

No offense to him, but Caster Van Diem. Like I think I think that's what his name is.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

Casper. Yeah, his name's Casper.

SPEAKER_03 2:19

Yeah, Casper Van Diem. He's the main star in that movie.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

And he's just kind of like, uh I mean, every time I think about watching Star Troop Starship Troopers again, I think about the worst benaphole scene I've ever seen, which is in uh every movie he's ever been in. Stop. It's in Armageddon, where he's like, a bomb.

The Wahlberg Family

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:51

Anyways. So you've been good?

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Yeah, I've been pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

Yeah. I mean, obviously, we've been busy. We don't get to get together as much. I do feel like the nerds from Weird Science. Matter matter of fact, I I checked in with you the other day and somebody's like, what are you guys doing? And it was like, Jeez, relax. Did you see that look she gave us? Like, bitch going.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

I don't pay attention to most people.

SPEAKER_03 3:18

So I know. I know. I'm just lucky enough. I have a shrill enough voice, I hit the right frequency, and you're like, oh God, if I ignore her, she won't go away. But if I just address her really quick, she'll go away. Something like that.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

Something like that. So we'd actually recorded an episode last week, and it's not that it didn't sit well with me. I was just very confused how the subject had come up. And I think it had come up because I was just like, oh, I saw this new movie. I and I just kind of my brain kind of squirreled and spiraled. So I'd said to you, I was just like it doesn't happen.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 3:53

I never squirrel. I never have brain farts. I I don't know what you're speaking about. I know, right? Although, um side note, uh I don't know what my partner was listening to, but I heard the turkey call.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:13

Can you do it?

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Right.

SPEAKER_03 4:17

Okay. I heard that and I about peed myself laughing yesterday. I don't know what he was watching. I just heard it and I was just like, hey, that's a turkey call. Bubba does that. Yep. Only different names. Right. So, anyways, squirrel. That's my squirrel for the day. Hopefully, my only squirrel for the day.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:36

Are we counting on that? No.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

No.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

So, anyways. Don't bet on it. Right. I always bet on squirrel. Yeah. Um, so I actually did do a little research on the infamous Mark Wahlberg.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

And I was telling you my research when I was doing it because some of it cracked me up. So that all sparked because I'd seen an advertisement for a movie on redacted streaming service. And I was just like, I don't know. That's kind of uh it's been a long time since he's been that kind of character. And I watched it.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

And I and I watched it and it was fantastic. So I thought we should talk about a Marky Mark today, because I do love him so much.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

I like Mark Wahlberg.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

I enjoy him a lot. And there's some interesting things that I found out today, so which is really cool. So, first of all, he's one of nine children.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 5:32

I here's the crazy thing. He's one of nine children by his biological mother and father. Plus, he has three half siblings from his father from before he was even born.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

So he legit has 11 siblings.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

And they're all older than him. He's the baby at 50, almost 50.

SPEAKER_01 5:54

He's the youngest of all.

SPEAKER_03 5:55

He's the youngest of all these children. He was born in June of 71. So he will be 55 this year. Officially, according to McDonald's, he's a senior citizen. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. But I'm like, I read that and I went, wait, what? He's the youngest of all these children. So from his father, so his so his dad has a total of 12 children.

SPEAKER_01 6:19

They're not cheaper by the dozen, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 6:21

They are not. Just uh that is just factually incorrect. Um, well, unless you're like John and Kate plus eight, where you know they're like close enough, anyways.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Um getting the government or somebody else to subsidize you.

SPEAKER_03 6:36

Yeah, I mean, unless you're doing an octo mom, you know.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:42

No.

unknown 6:43

No.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

Put that thing away.

SPEAKER_03 6:45

Nobody wants to see that thing. Put that thing away. Um, anyways, so if I read it correctly, and I'm pretty sure I did, his father had eight boys and four girls, which means he's got uh three full-blooded sisters and five full-blooded brothers, two half-brothers and a half sister. So, anyways, but he's the youngest, he's the baby. Okay, he is the baby, he doesn't know baby. And I honestly, what's really interesting about it is he's the most successful of all of them, which is actually kind of funny. It it is literally like you know, like we should, you know, they tell us when we're younger, look at your siblings, look at your cousins, look at whoever's around you in your age ground, look at at the successful thing they're doing, see how they're doing that, and they're applying themselves and they're and they're doing all this stuff. You need to do something like that. So it's almost like he went, oh, okay, and one upped them.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

I mean, it is, I I I would assume, from my observation, it's fairly common that the oldest and the youngest are the ones that are the most um successful. Um the oldest is usually this isn't always the case, but usually the most intelligent one. Yeah, and it has to do with your mother and how her body is when she's pregnant. Um so it has the most resources for the first baby. Yeah. And then after that, it has less of a buildup of resources.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

Yeah. And therefore the children tend to not be as I mean, I mean, uh I would imagine by the time it got to baby four or after, mom's just looking at the belly going, hurry the fuck up and get out. Just get out.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Well, also, there's a lot more um parents tend to care a lot more with their first child.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Partially because they're not parents, and so they're worried about all kinds of stuff.

SPEAKER_03 8:47

Which is a little different for his situation because his dad already had three children's children's. His his dad was older than his mom. His dad was a Korean War veteran. Okay, you know, and he wasn't born until the 80s. So food, you know, or not the 80s, the 70s.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:01

So, you know, he was he was born, you know, years after his dad had been out of Korea.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:06

And uh like I said, he's got three, he's got 11 older siblings, and only one of them has passed away that I could find in a news report. But there could be more than that. But I do know when we look at the hierarchy of them, like if you look at just his full blood siblings, Donnie is the most intelligent of them.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Like, he's like and he's the one that was in sync or whatever, backdoor boys, whatever.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. New kids on the block.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Yeah, yeah, whatever. Oh, those are all three the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 9:38

No, they're not, because New Kids on the Block put out a single that did pretty still just kids, and it's it's done really good. It's got millions of views on the YouTube, and they just had another successful tour recently.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

So no no, is he the oldest?

SPEAKER_03 9:53

He's the oldest of the biological siblings because he is he is Donald Wahlberg Jr. Um, and I love Mison Donnie Wahlberg. Uh, he's the bad boy extraordinaire. Um, he is a chameleon, which which I think that's the interesting thing between Donnie and Mark because they're both entertainers. So let's let's put it past what they're both known for. And and to literally it's just following suit. This one is musician first. He's Donnie D. He's a little bit of a rapper musician singer, Marky Mark. So, and then but brother gets into acting. Well, I'm gonna do the same thing. So it's one following after the other. It's an emul emulation that for 80% of it is so much better.

unknown 10:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:38

But what's interesting about Donnie Wahlberg is that he's such a chameleon because every time people don't know the fun fact about Dreamcatcher, the movie, and I'm like, you know, that's Donnie Wahlberg, right? It floors their mind. No, yes. Donnie Wahlberg plays uh he's the alien. He's the alien, yes. Slash special person, yes, special needs person, exactly. I don't remember his name right this minute because it's been probably about a year and a half since I've what rewatched the movie.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Yeah, I've only seen it once and it was a while ago, you know.

SPEAKER_03 11:10

But he uh his wife, Donnie's wife, Jenny McCarthy, is also in the Brainiac Club, too. Which is I mean, like she's she's she's actually very on the scale, she's got a very high level of intelligence. And you know, you might not see her so much in the news media anymore, other than Donnie Wahlberg's wife and uh host uh or not host, but a judge on the mask singer. But she's actually really smart too because she works with autism foundations and she's done a lot of things. And so Donnie Wahlberg's really smart. And he's really he's a real comedic chameleon chameleon. Okay, but you got Mark Wahlberg, he's pretty much a chameleon too. So I posed to you the last time we talked about this. I said, Well, it was the first movie you remember seeing Mark Wahlberg and almost everybody knows that's at least age 30,

The First Movies

SPEAKER_03 12:00

because of when the music came out and how long it tends to stand on radio. Um so most people know that he started out as Marky Mark and the Funky Bun. She was also a model. He did he did CK Underpants. Yeah, and I and I honestly couldn't figure out what came first. It might have been the modeling when he was 16 or 18. I I'm not sure, but it was all around that same time. So, what was the first movie you remember seeing him in?

SPEAKER_01 12:22

Um, yeah, it was the big hit, I want to say. The big hit and then like three kings, three kings, yeah. Um, although he had been in movies prior to that, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

But but those were your first ones, yeah. So so I actually looked it up, his very first movie, and you've probably seen this movie and didn't realize because I think we kind of talked about this before, Renaissance Man.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:45

Have you seen that?

SPEAKER_01 12:46

Yeah, I've seen it.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

So you might not have seen that before the other ones, but that's Mark Wahlberg's very first movie is Renaissance Man.

SPEAKER_01 12:52

No, I I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_03 12:55

Um, it was in 19 uh 952, 95, yeah, in that range. Because his first three movies were uh Renaissance Man, then the basketball diaries, and then one of my favorite Wahlberg movies, Fear as David McCall. Uh yes.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:16

I I showed you the scene. I went to UT when I showed you the scene with him smiling and beating on the door. Open the fucking door.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

Just let nature take its course.

SPEAKER_03 13:28

Come on, dad. Actually, he calls him by his first name, but it has one of my favorite actors in it as well, which is William Peterson, who plays the dad in that movie, who also um played Graham in uh uh Manhunter, the very first of what we see for the Hannibal Lecter series.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

Never seen that movie? I've only seen The Silence of the Lamps. That's literally the only one of those movies that I've seen. Didn't they also have a television show too or something?

SPEAKER_03 13:57

Yes, and it is oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Not seen that either.

SPEAKER_03 14:00

Hannibal, the TV show, three seasons. It's got uh Hugh Dancy, which is Claire Dane's husband. So it's got not that that matters here or there, but anyways, it's got Hugh Dancy, who plays uh Will Graham. Okay, so the main inspector guy, and then it's got uh Mads Milkins Milkinson. Okay, he played Caeselius in uh Doctor Strange. He played the guy that wanted to change the entire world with the sparklies around his eyes. He plays Cayselius. So yeah, yes, so Mads. He honestly, they couldn't have had a better person to do Hannibal Lecter.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

Yeah, I was gonna say, didn't he play Hannibal Lecter?

SPEAKER_03 14:42

In the TV show, yes, not in the movies, yeah, yeah. Um, so anyways, um you jerk. Now I forget. So, anyways, so fear, love fear, right? Showed you that. Yeah, sorry, that's a squirrel thing, you just don't understand. Um, damn it, how did we scroll off of that onto Hannibal?

SPEAKER_01 15:01

Because you were talking about the actors, yes, William Peterson.

SPEAKER_03 15:04

There we go. Yeah, who's who okay? So a lot of people might not know who William Peterson is. Okay, so CSI, the original CSI, he's the gray-haired guy, William Peterson, ha, is all I can say. I as long as I can remember, so at least the last I think I first saw Mindhunter and the very early or Manhunter. He's the leader of the The CSI when they start the original CSI show.

SPEAKER_01 15:29

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 15:30

Yeah, so uh that's that that's that's Will Peterson. That's William Peterson, and uh the minute I saw him shirtless, I was just like, hello, sir. My first older man crush when I was young, like literally old man crush. Because like at my age now, he's like he's got a good 20 years on me or so.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

But, anyways, uh, so so yeah, fear loved it. It was so good, and it's of course it's got Reath with Reese Witherspoon in it. Yeah, when she was like super young, and you don't think she's not that young. The movie uh was 30 or 32 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

Sounds about right. Yeah, it's should have been in the early 90s, mid-90s.

SPEAKER_03 16:11

Yeah, yeah. So, you know, great movie. Um, but what's interesting is where some other people, if they didn't follow along with Mark Wahlberg's career, most there's a good portion of people who be like, Oh, wasn't he the guy who played the big dick guy? Yes, he was. So Boogie Knights. Uh yeah, Boogie Nights came out in between Fear and Three Kings. Now, now think about that in your mind. Fear, which is a thriller.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:38

And then you've got Boogie Knights, which is it's semi-biographical.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Yeah, sort of biographical.

SPEAKER_03 16:44

It's it's it's based off of a real person, it's inspired by biographical events.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:49

And then you've got three kings, which is also inspired by, you know, rumors of the day. I don't know. But anyways, if you look at those three different, just those three different characters, what a huge range he started showing when he was younger.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Yeah, it's also kind of funny. Three kings has one really good actor and then two rappers in it.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

Uh who are actually pretty much it had it had Mark Wahlberg, uh Ice Cube, Ice Cube, and then who was the other one? Uh Clooney.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

George.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

Nice. And George Clooney at that time, by the time you're getting to the mid mid-90s, at that time he'd been acting long enough that they were like Swooney Cooney is what they used to call him when I was a kid. Have you think Sony Cooney? He's so hot. I mean, I remember seeing him on The Facts of Life.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Was it he was on some hospital soap opera too?

SPEAKER_03 17:44

Uh was it Gray's Anatomy or something like that? Or Chicago 911, or I don't know. He did, yeah, he did some, he was a doctor. Yeah, he played a doctor. Because you have Dr. Heartthrob and Dr. McSteamy. I think it was Gray's Anatomy, but I don't know. Don't quote me because this isn't about George Clooney.

SPEAKER_00 17:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:59

Uh you know, anyways, um, so what other movies do you remember Mark Wahlberg from?

SPEAKER_01 18:05

So after that, it was Shooter.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Very good movie.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Very good movie, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:11

So good.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

And then um The Departed is a fucking amazing movie. He does an amazing job in there.

SPEAKER_03 18:19

I've only seen part of it.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

There's a bunch of fantastic actors in that movie.

SPEAKER_03 18:24

DiCaprio, Nicholson, Nicholson.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

Okay, then I have seen it, yeah. And then they're all fucking great performances from all of them. Yeah, it's a fucking fantastic movie. Now, if you're not into like thrillers or psychological thrillers or um mob violence, then it's not a movie for you. Definitely not.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

Right.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

Okay. Because it's uh Scorsese, I think.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

Um that's also I think the first movie that he actually won a fucking what was it, an Oscar or something like that for. And like a bunch of people were mad because he hadn't won one, like other actors or other directors. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Um, yeah, because he everybody was really shocked when he didn't win stuff for any of the godfathers.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:10

Like, how do you not give him this? Was so brilliantly done. But it also goes to show you if you look at When The Godfather was made, right? Which is a million percent mafia mob type movie, yeah, in the 70s, late 70s. And then you look at The Departed, which is a mob, mafia type movie, yeah, it wins. But you can see that 20-year cycle where it's like all of a sudden it's like it's not so taboo to talk about the mafia anymore. Yeah. Because there's a lot of times where anything to do with the music or entertainment, you know, like any industry awards for entertainers and stuff, it's very touchy subject. Like when awards come through, like, oh, like, you know, you can't you can't give an award, and this is just realistically based when we look at it. You can't give an award to a mafia mob movie when they're trying to in the when they're in the middle of the heightened battle against the mafia in the late 70s to late 80s to get the mafia under control. But you know, you got the mafia under control, or they think they do like that.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

So a lot of during that time, a lot of mafia groups were whitewashing their businesses. So they were moving into more legitimate businesses.

SPEAKER_03 20:25

Yeah, and they had a they uh, you know, and we know, we know from history being spoken about that uh, you know, the business they ended up primarily breaking into a lot harder to make people understand it was legit. It left um a stink on there, going, nah, you're just using it for money laundering, even though that's not what it was.

The Breakout Films

SPEAKER_03 20:45

It was yeah, like anyways, okay. So the departed, and then what else do you remember from Mark?

SPEAKER_01 20:51

Um uh what it was at the other guys or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

Oh, a comedy movie.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Okay, yeah. Um yeah, I haven't seen like I haven't seen a lot of his movies, uh-huh, even though I do like him as an actor. He's great.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Um, it's kind of weird because every once in a while I'll just be like, oh man, I really want to watch uh uh man, I really I I I've always enjoyed Mark Wahlberg movies. I want to see a Mark Wahlberg movie. I'll go do a search at whatever streaming service and I'll type the actor's name in and I'll see what choices I get.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

So that's why I've probably seen Shooter like a dozen times.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Didn't he do something like Daddy's Home or some shit like that?

SPEAKER_03 21:29

Daddy's Home and Daddy's Home 2 is super hilarious. He plays Dusty, the dad of Will Farrell's stepkids. It's so hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

And then didn't he do like uh Ted or something like that?

SPEAKER_03 21:42

He did Ted and Ted too.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

Yes. Yeah, I've not seen any of those.

SPEAKER_03 21:46

Yeah, well, if you're not going to comedy as much as you are, you know, like sci fi and everything else, like you know, that's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

But that kind of shows he's got a fantastic range of what he can do. Also, it has to be what you're willing to do too.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

Um but yeah, from from being a fucking psychopath and fear to being a fucking uh goofy ass fucking detective and fucking the other guys and everything in between there.

SPEAKER_03 22:20

Yeah. And it's it's and it is crazy because I think he's covered every genre there is out there. He's done, you know, obviously he's not done a fantasy movie yet.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

The DD movie definitely would have been improved with a mark Mark Walk.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

It would have been way improved. Okay, let's just look. I just watched Into the Woods with Chris Pine again, and I'm like, oh, that's exactly why they picked you for that character. There is, and I loved watching his dad as an actor. Robert Pine is Chris Pine's dad. I loved him. He was in chips. He was like the watch sergeant in chips, the white guy with the bad comb over.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

Okay. Yeah, I yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

You didn't watch chips, whatever. Oh, that's right. Lawrence Welk was on, my bad. Anyways, uh so Mark World, you're right, he's done everything. So what's interesting about Mark Wahlberg is that roughly 20% of the movies he's done has either been biopsy so biopics or you know, biographies, okay, based on true happenings, or it has been a biography inspired. Okay. It's so it's like, you know, maybe they stretch the truth a little bit, Lone Survivor, but who knows? But that there is about 20% because he's done somewhere in the realm, it depends on how you look at it, but he's done roughly different, uh, 60 different TV and film movies and appearances. And I mean on TV he did some work in entourage, and of course, he was in a several episodes of Wahlburgers, which is about their their family restaurant.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

And then, of course, and I've actually seen this. I've actually seen most of it. It was called Wall Street. He had uh two seasons of it, and it was all about how he was planning for the future because he was talking about how it's really difficult back in the early uh 2020s, 2021, I think. So 2021, 21, 22. Um, so right after COVID, around and after COVID, he was talking about like, hey, I got four kids that are getting ready to go off to college and I still got to support them. So I have to expand my investments. So it the whole show, uh Wall Street was all about how he invested and diversified his portfolio and how he invested in not just entertainment, but other ventures that were going to garner a reasonable return for him. So he's very fucking smart. Okay, but that's that's his whole family's like that. Like I said, his old his older brother Donnie's like he's un I yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

You you you don't a lot of people don't give these people enough credit, but then you get famous for one thing, and then that people think that's all you do or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 25:04

Yeah, exactly. And I think that was kind of the really neat thing about Mark Wahlberg reinventing himself because he did the the Calvin Klein underwear model ads,

The Funny Ones

SPEAKER_03 25:15

he did the Maki Mock and the Funky Bunch, he did the music career, only two albums doesn't say why they uh they broke up, but you know that's fine, that's neither here nor there. Um, but he was so famous as a musician for such a short period of time. He actually made a video game after him. So it was a video game. It was called Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Make my video. It was done by Digital Pictures in 1992, exclusively for the Sega CD.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Well, there's fucking happy problem right there.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

Anyway, well, first of all, I remember the Sega, Sega Genesis, and the same of Dreamcast. Sega! Sega! But you know, Sonic the Hedgehog, but I don't ever remember hearing of a thing called a Sega CD. Ever.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_03 26:03

Yeah, sometimes sucks. Here's the here's the craziest thing. So this make my video line, they had three musician stars to it. They had Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, they had Chris Caw, uh Chriss Cross, the Mac Daddy make you jump, jump.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Okay, yeah, there's half the other problem, and then in XS. They had Inks, Inks.

SPEAKER_03 26:24

Yeah, it took me a long time to ever say that name, right? Because I was like, What's inks? What's inks? What it's in XS. Oh, I get it. And of course, Michael Hutchinson, R.I.P. Yeah, you know, mental health is a huge thing that we all have to watch out for. But, anyways, yeah, um, so it was really crazy because when I looked at it, I'm like looking at these titles, and I was like, that movie was okay. Mark Barber did really good in it, but I didn't understand why they were doing a movie. So he does a lot of things, and he'll be producer of a lot of things that like inspire him personally, and or things that he finds like incredible or whatever or interesting or whatever. Yes. So the very first biopic style film that he did that was loosely based on anybody real in existence and any situation they were in was Boogie Nights. And of course, he played, he did a replication, he was Dirk Diggler, which honestly, you know, also when I first heard that name, I'm like, that is a fucking phenomenal porn name. Why didn't anybody think of that before? Yeah, you know, like Dirk Diggler, Dirk Dig Em Down. I mean Dirk Dirty Dick, I mean something.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

There was a show called Dirk Gently. And yeah, every time I hear that, I'm like, is this a porn? It's not, it's like some uh investigation, kind of like a Sherlock Holmes type thing, I want to say. I don't know, I've never watched it.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

Like the only Dirk I know of is a country singer named Dirk Bentley. It's the only other Dirk I know about.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

Dirk, Dirka, Dirka, Dirka. Sorry, that's from South Park. Um, and then the next one he did was The Perfect Storm, which is about the fishermen that were out the sea when like the perfect storm came.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

Yeah, I saw that one too. That is that movie. Fucking sad ass movie.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

It is a sad ass movie, but it is so it is so awesome to know that they did everything they could to come home, you know, and they like were they were just a great group of guys, honestly. So yeah, it was so sad, but it's so good. And it's George Clooney in that one too. Yes, I think so. He's done a couple of movies with Clooney, yeah. Um, and then he did uh Invincible, which was about the football player who uh the kid who played football and then went back when he was in his 30s. He ended up getting on a pro team for like one or two seasons. Uh, I don't remember the guy's name. I just because I only saw half of it once.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

This one's for the Gipper.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

Uh of course, departer, shooter, those aren't uh biops, but pain and gain is, and we talked about this before. So pain and gain is based off of a news article down in Florida on these weight lifters who held a whole held the guy hostage and all that kind of stuff, thinking he had a whole shitload of money and he didn't. Uh so it's more funny. Um, and then I will not say disparaging things, I will say lone survivor. Okay, lone survivor is based off of what happened during Operation Red Wing to Mike Murphy

The True Stories

SPEAKER_03 29:30

and uh uh Matthew Axelson, and of course uh Danny Diego were that was a SEAL team, right? Yeah, it was yeah, it was SEAL team three or something, and of course they were trying to rescue some Rangers or something like that. They were trying to gather intel. Okay, and uh they were yeah, so anyways, and I'm not gonna get into it other than it was fantastically done. And the and no offense to Mark Wahlberg whatsoever, but the very there was two out fucking standing performances in that movie, and that there was three really good ones, but two very much outstanding. And one of them was Taylor Kish as uh Michael Murphy, who literally gave his life to get the SAT phone to a position where he could call out so they could find him. Yes, he was their leader, he was the main guy. So Taylor Kish just did fantastic with that, but more than that was Matthew Axelson, who was played by the phenomenal uh Ben Foster, who literally based on the details and the autopsies of Axel, you know, Axelson uh he did he did it perfect, like amazing, outstanding performances. Um, anyways, so R.I.P. to those guys because they they definitely a thousand percent, you know, you know, you never wish that on anybody. And especially obviously we're Americans. Uh so you know, you don't wish that on your service members whatsoever. It's it's a terrible thing. But great performances, good story, uh, all of that. Uh so, anyways, Deep Water Horizon was based on the uh the oil tanker, the Deepwater Horizon that uh they basically the executives ignored all the warning signs and kept pushing, and it led to this massive explosion and deterioration of this oil tanker out in the out in the ocean. And so it lost some lives there, but it was a good story, and it has one of my favorite actors in it besides Mark Wahlberg, and that was Dylan O'Brien. Oh, this is very cool. Uh Patriots Day. Uh so that was about the um the the bombers on the Boston Marathon.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

Yep. And then you've got something called All the Money in the World. I have no idea. I've never heard of it, um, but it's a true story. It's based off of a true story. Uh, and then uh a really good film I thought was like uh instant family. Uh, and that one is based off of one of the writers' true experiences of being like an adopted kid or whatever. So it's pretty interesting. It's funny, it's a lot of funny things, and it and it's funny when you know we think about stuff in our childhood, how we can see the same events at the time was so traumatic to us. It was, oh my god, my sibling kicked my doll down the street and got it dirty. Oh, it's the end of the world. And then we're adult, we're like, you were such a bitch. You just kicked my doll and made it dirty, it made me so mad, and you laugh.

SPEAKER_00 32:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:42

So it's kind of it's kind of that perspective where it's like it probably wasn't all fun and games when they were kids, but it's something that they they took a very shocking situation and found the humor in it. So that's pretty cool. Um, and then uh Joe Bell and Father Stew are a couple other, but it it's but Father Stew is is, you know, I I didn't watch it because I'm not Catholic and I don't care. Um, but Joe Bell is a story of a dad with a I don't remember if their son was gay or trans or kind of a mixture of both, but his son, it's a true story. Joe Bell's son actually committed suicide after being bullied for his own beliefs. This guy, Joe Bell, walks across America in honor of his son. And and and it's it's an amazing story. Um so, but he he did it. I did see part of that, and he did phenomenal in that because I, you know, I mean, who else are you gonna get to do some something like that other than Tom Hanks? And we've seen I love Tom Hanks, yeah. Love me some Tom Hanks, but I think that guy's been in like a hundred and something movies. I don't know. Yeah, and Mark Wahlberg, I you know, I like Mark Wahlberg the same way I like Jeremy Renner. He's actually not like this hot, hot guy. He's like a gritty looking guy. Like he's the guy, ladies. You know what I'm talking about, girls, ladies, you know what I'm talking about. He's that guy you want to see, you know, with a little bit of pudge on his belly underneath your car, changing a tire or something with sweat and dirt on his face. They're kind of gritty, kind of like them like that. That video game thing, though. I can't get over. Yeah. I think I laughed for ten. I laughed so hard I almost peed myself, like, what is this? It's just amazing to me. Um, yeah, and that's and it's crazy because when he was an uh when he was a singer, they uh Marky American the Punky Munch only did two albums, but they had five hit singles off of it and only did four music videos. And yeah, and you'd think it'd be more, but they're a very short-lived group.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

And especially like I'm go I'm assuming here. I'm assuming that the whole reason he got a record deal was because of his brother, right? And they even had like uh interaction between the two bands. I want to say one of their first videos or one of their first albums, it was a kind of a crossover. The two of them weren't interacting together.

SPEAKER_03 35:14

So uh Donnie Wahlberg, uh he actually did uh he he he was producer, I believe. Um, because he actually did a little bit of the hook on good vibrations, which I believe it's Donnie who's and didn't they have Mark rapping on one of their albums?

SPEAKER_01 35:34

I think so.

SPEAKER_03 35:34

I know that he danced on some of their stuff too, because I mean, yeah, like here's the thing, and Mark Wahlberg would probably just be like, oh, shook about it. You know, because a lot of people are like, you know, but uh he's a well-rounded entertainer. Yeah, he's very athletic, he's highly danceable. He's got he had good highly danceable, he had a good dance move. He had he had a damn good dance move when he would a kid. He did good dance, he did good dance. Um, but I know that I think they might have been on tour or visited each other on tour a couple times. I mean, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch was very short-lived. Yeah, and I think that's because it's a it's like look, let's be honest about it, ladies and gentlemen. It was a gimmick and a stick to get his foot into the entertainment industry door.

SPEAKER_00 36:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:19

Because, like I said, I particularly like his gritty good looks. I don't think he's as good looking as Jeremy Renner, but he would definitely not make the five sexiest men in the world by because so many people will look at aesthetics so differently.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:35

I don't like the I like the boys, the men's, not the boys, I don't like boys. I like men's, I like men who have that life experience look on them. They have, you know, they have like a little bit of scars, that maybe they got some wrinkles, you know. And the older I get, the more I think, the more I think salt and pepper hair is kind of sexy. But you know, I don't know. So, anyways, Mark Wahlberg. So this all came about because I told you that I had seen this ad for this movie for him, and where he was like not playing your traditional. And the last time I remember him being like that was the movie Fear, where he's like psycho. So it's called Flight Plan, and it's with him and Topher Grace and some lady, I don't even know, like, in no offense to her, she did her job. She did her job just fine. She was not memorable for me.

SPEAKER_01 37:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 37:30

She just the actress herself was not memorable for me in the sense of like, you didn't. So her character was coming off of being stuck in the office working because her witness that she'd been protecting got killed or something prior. You know, so she didn't come off as somebody who had these heavy amounts of remorse, this heavy uh sadness or guilt or anything. She just came across, she really honestly and truly just came across as somebody who's like, I don't give a shit about nothing except for getting you back alive to prove I can keep people alive. Woo. And with that level of excitement, that's exactly what I mean her performance was.

SPEAKER_00 38:09

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 38:09

Now, that's probably how she was told to perform, doesn't matter. Taufer Grace as a big pussy chicken. Oh my god, he did so good to be in a big old wuss. It was great. It was like Eric Foreman grew up and he was still a big old chicken about everything. It's so great. But Mark Wahlberg, so he plays the pilot in this, and then of course, you know, you find out that he's not really the pilot, he's a hitman. Here's the creepy thing about it. When you watch the movie, at first you think, wait, is he a gay hitman? And then you go, Oh, wait, is he just psychologically fucking with Tophur Briggs? He is a bisexual hitman because he lays it out for him like, You ever been to prison? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

Like, we're wrestling, we're using prison rules.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

But but you know what is so funny? Here's the only here's the worst part about the here's the bad part about the movie. So the it's all filmed in this little tiny, like almost all of it, like 80, 90% of it, it's in this little Cessna plane. So they did a really good job with limited room, right? Um, there was a couple of things they caught on camera that were off sequence from what they should have been, like when he was trying to get out of the handcuffs. Uh they they show it immediately, you see it immediately in the background, and it's but he's supposed to be knocked

Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch

SPEAKER_03 39:30

out.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 39:31

Because most people, when they get knocked out, don't come right back in 10 seconds. When you're legit knocked out. I mean, listen, if somebody conks me on the back of the head with a fucking fire extinguisher, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stay knocked the fuck out for more than 10 seconds. Maybe. So, you know, but here's the greatest thing. So, as this pilot, he wears a hat, and underneath this hat, he's got a cul-de-sac.

unknown 39:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 39:58

Mark Wahlberg is not naturally cul-de-sac, okay? Okay, but one of two things had to have happened. Either one, he had to have shaved his head down to create this cul-de-sac, or two, he cut his hair short and they gave him a wig that has a cul-de-sac because you can actually see his natural hair underneath this like balling spot.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

It's so hilarious because maybe that's part of the hitman's disguise.

SPEAKER_03 40:29

Maybe, but it was so funny. It was like, oh, this is a serious movie. And here I'm laughing at this guy while he's talking about all the gory, disgusting, sexually aggressive things he's gonna do to everybody. And I'm laughing, going, dude, that is such a bad job with your hair. But it was but it was good. I mean, it was good. He he plays psycho so well, so well, nature take its course. Yeah, that's pretty much what he said in the play, too. Was like, it's gonna happen. You know it's gonna happen. You just just uncuff me now and accept it, and then we can get started. I mean, it's just so psycho of him. It's great, but anyway, I want you.

SPEAKER_01 41:09

I want you that's literally what he says.

SPEAKER_03 41:13

I really like you, I can't wait to play with you. Like, I'm like, oh my god. So, anyways, it he's got more movies coming out, too. And so it's interesting. No, I mean, it's so crazy. He's only it's so funny. Like, his most successful movies did happen, um, like pretty much a lot of the stuff he's been in since 2006. So it took him 10 years of acting to really kind of get the process down the right way. Uh, but yeah, 2006 to now, I mean, he's done a lot of really good high-making films. Obviously, he's not the highest collector ever. I mean, you know, yeah, highest grossing person ever, but he he does a good job. I likes him. I likes him a lot. I would recommend flight plan or yeah, flight risk, flight risk, not flight plan. Yeah, it's it's flight risk, it's it's a short movie, it's only like an hour and a half long. But for what it is, it's it's pretty good for what it is. Like I said, the female actress, nothing against her. I don't think maybe she's ever acted in a role like that. And then other people who've maybe seen her before might be like, oh, this is so phenomenal. I'm not trying to take anything away from her. I just wasn't impressed with her. Like, I think if you had had Rose Byrne or maybe like Emily Blunt in that same position, I think you would have seen a lot better emoting of the situation versus I'm not gonna like it's it's it's a really good movie until the last five minutes, and then it turns campy. The last five minutes are like, oh, why wouldn't this happen to the bad guy? Why wouldn't that um miraculously happen to you? Oh, of course that's gonna happen. You know, but it it's just like, but at the same time, you're like, oh yeah, he was a dick. I'm glad he's you know that happened to him. I don't know. It's it's kind of like um I told you that I watched Halloween Ends, what's supposed to be the very last of the Jamie Lee Curtis lines of the Halloween movies. And you know, they really put an emphasis on Michael Myers is dead, like a real emphasis on it.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

However, he's been dead so many times, it's fucking not relevant.

SPEAKER_03 43:23

Well, so this is a spoiler alert because it's I know you're not gonna watch it unless you are ultra bored and there's nothing else on ever one day, like 50 years in the future. So Halloween ends, it's it's of course it's the follow follow up to the one where her daughter actually dies. Her daughter sacrifices herself to save Grand Arter. Spoiler alert, right? Look, the movie came out four years ago. So if you're a horror fan and you haven't seen it yet, that's not my problem. You're not a real horror fan if you didn't watch it. True. It's facts. Like you should all if a horror Horror movie, if you're into horror movies, you should watch them within two years of release. Just saying. Yeah. That's what's going on. Crazy people. Any right. So, so one, there is one scene in there where it kind of conveys that Michael

A Little bit of Psycho

SPEAKER_03 44:15

can impart part of his personality, part of who he is on another person. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

So there's that.

SPEAKER_03 44:23

And in this movie, he imparts part of himself on this other guy. And this other guy is having sex with Jamie Lee Curtis's granddaughter. So, you know, they could bring it back with her having given birth to the new Michael Myers. The new Michael Myers. So they could do that, right? Um, but not right now because the movie's only four years old, so that's disgusting.

SPEAKER_01 44:43

The seed.

SPEAKER_03 44:44

The seed of the seed of Halloween, the seed of Michael Myers. Okay, so in this movie, we get to the very end of it. I'm like, yeah, sure, Michael's dead. Nope, they really prove Michael's dead. They take his body and they parade it around on top of the police car through town, through Hiddleford, or or whatever the name of the town is, Hidleford or Hiddleston or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 45:05

Anyways, pumpkin.

SPEAKER_03 45:07

So they parade his body through the streets, everybody sees it, and everybody, you know, they're like the picket, the pitchfork riders.

SPEAKER_00 45:15

Michael, fuck you.

SPEAKER_03 45:17

So then the crowd tears him apart piece by piece, right? So you got that. And then the piece de resistance, they throw his body into a grinder. Not a wood chipper, but a metal grinder, and grind him up into fertilizer. So I think the original Michael Myers might be dead. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 45:39

That makes me think of one of the lit RPG books. Um in this one scene, the the main character, his little village that he's starting, gets attacked by um trolls.

SPEAKER_03 45:54

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 45:55

And they manage to kill the trolls, but the trolls bleed all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 46:01

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

And apparently the troll blood is really good fertilizer. And the guy's like, oh, this is amazing. We should find some more trolls and fucking kill them in our fields. Oh my god. And his um like assistant or whatever, he's like, That's a fucking terrible idea. He's like, why? He's like, because apparently, if you get enough troll blood on the ground, it will fucking spawn new trolls. Oh shit. So it's one of the ways that they kind of they can reproduce. Like if you cut off their arm, potentially a whole nother troll can grow in the arm. Um so same thing can happen from their blood. You just get enough of their blood on something and it will fucking grow a new troll.

unknown 46:42

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

So maybe if you spread Michael Myers out on the cabbage patch or whatever, you can have fucking he'll be reborn as a new pumpkin head.

SPEAKER_03 46:50

Who knows?

SPEAKER_01 46:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:51

Uh you know, honestly, uh it it it the movie itself was fine. Like I said, there's a couple campy spots. Uh uh, you know, it's it's for me, I love me some Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeah, I think she's a wonderful actress. I I think she's great. Uh of course, I absolutely loved her in True Lies.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_03 47:12

I think everybody loved her in true lies. Oh, yeah. Uh many times over and then some. Uh, you know, so we'll have to do one about Jamie Curtis because you know, her parents are Janet Lee uh from the original Psycho, and then of course her dad's uh Tony Lee Curtis. So, you know, anyways, uh so maybe we'll have to do one on Jamie Curtis.

SPEAKER_01 47:33

Um she's Hollywood royalty, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:37

But I you know, she's she's been married to the same dude for like a really long time, and like she doesn't do all of these filler things, she doesn't do all this plastic surgery, or she hasn't yet. And she she very much is like, I'm gonna age, it's gonna happen. She wanted to live her life authentically, and I think she's done it very well. Yeah, and that's kind of the same thing. I think that's one of the things right I like Mike, Mike, Mark Wahlberg, too, is because he's just himself. He works out and he's just like, I have to pay, like literally on on that down that Wall Street show, he's just like, everything's I got all these great genetics. Nope. He goes, Nope. I'm more like my brother Robert if I don't pay attention. So I have to pay attention to what I eat. I have to exercise. I've got to stay in my mind, I have to keep my mind going all the time. He goes, he goes, I can't be stagnant. He goes, or I'm never gonna get anywhere. I've got four kids, you know, I gotta pay attention to. I gotta stay hot for my wife, you know. And it's kind of interesting. He's like, you know, because he's just like, there's all, you know, like all these people out there who are doing things. He goes, I have to do it authentically. It's the only way that works for me.

SPEAKER_01 48:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:47

And I love that about him because, like, um, I think it's a way to show aging gracefully.

SPEAKER_01 48:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:55

You know, he's like, he's like, I know, he's like, I know some palent times people don't know how old I am. He's just like, but trust me, when I get up in the morning, my back's just like, you're X amount of years old. I know how old I am.

SPEAKER_01 49:05

Yeah. That makes me think of that fucking um Kevin Hart and Don Cheadle.

SPEAKER_03 49:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 49:14

Um, Don Cheadle said how old he was, and Kevin Hart was like, damn. And Don is looking at him like, what the fuck, dude? And Kevin tries to play it off. He's like, oh no, I was like, damn.

SPEAKER_03 49:27

And he's like, You look good for your age, brother.

SPEAKER_01 49:29

That's not the that's not the damn that you said. Anyway, um, Mark Wahlberg called Kevin Hart out on it when he was doing an interview with him. Uh-huh. And he's like, It's not like he's that much older than you, dude.

SPEAKER_03 49:42

Yeah. And it and it's crazy because if you put him in order, it really is Don Cheadle, then Mark Wahlberg, then Kevin Hart. Yeah. Because Kevin Kevin Hart's a little bit closer to our age.

SPEAKER_00 49:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:52

And you know, Mark Wahlberg's a little bit older than us. Yeah. And uh, but yeah, Don Cheadle's like early mid-60s or something like that. Something like that.

SPEAKER_01 49:59

He still looks fucking good.

SPEAKER_03 50:01

I think he looks great.

SPEAKER_01 50:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:02

You know, but you know, black don't crack. Jesus Christ. I literally had a woman say that to me on Saturday at work. I'm like, oh my God, your skin. And I don't mean like it was, I wasn't being complimentary just to do. I mean she caught my eye because she was smiling very brightly. She her teeth were perfectly straight. But I was just like, oh my God, your skin is like flawless. She wasn't wearing any fucking makeup, bro. And I was just like, you have the most smooth skin I've ever seen. And that's exactly. She goes, Do you know how old I am? I was like, if you tell me how old I am, I'll tell you how older. I knew how old she was. Because I'm fairly good at guessing that, but I'm very respectful. I knew she was almost 40, but I was just like, You're probably early 30s. And she's like, Oh, girl, thank you. She goes, You know, black don't crack. And I was just like, Now tell me how old I am. And she goes, You're probably a little bit older than me, just by a couple years. And I looked at her somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 50:59

Redacted.

SPEAKER_03 51:00

What? I don't look it, don't care. But uh, but she was just like, Oh my god. Yeah, she was 39. She's getting, she's gonna have her 40th birthday in a couple months. And it's really, it's really interesting because um I'm not gonna show everybody my driver's license and be like, no, really, this is my birthday. Yeah, you know, it's just a lot easier to say, well, you know, me and Mr. T were born on the same day, just different years, different decades. I actually did not realize it and this squirreled me because this reminded me. So Mr. T was born in 1952. Do you know why he has made his name legally Mr. T?

SPEAKER_01 51:44

No idea.

SPEAKER_03 51:45

So when he was growing up, he remembers seeing his father, who was a military veteran, and his grandfather, uh, he remembers people saying to these great men in his life that had fought for the country, who'd done all these things, who worked in very respect. His father was a minister, his grandfather was a veteran. Um, and he remembers growing up how everybody would say to his his father and his grandfather and his brother, boy, how they would be called boy a lot. Hey boy, what are you doing? Hey boy, how you been? And he found it very disrespectful because that was kind of like back then it was a backward slant like racist thing. Yeah, so he legally changed his name to Mr. T. The reason he did it is he said, I didn't like how people addressed my father, my grandfather, my brother, and my uncles and all that. He goes, I didn't like it, it was very disrespectful. He goes, and I wanted people to respect me for who I was, which we will do a Mr. T episode because he is fascinating.

SPEAKER_01 52:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:50

But is he still alive? Yes. Okay, he's alive.

SPEAKER_01 52:55

I saw him a while back and he looked kind of bad, but I think he had cancer

Until Next Time!

SPEAKER_01 53:00

or something.

SPEAKER_03 53:01

Yes. We'll do we'll do a Mr. T episode.

SPEAKER_01 53:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:04

Um, but what I found interesting about it is he changed his name to Mr. T legally because he wanted people to address him as a man, because it shouldn't matter that he was black. What mattered is he should be respected as a man because he gives that respect. So that is why he went from using his like people don't know his first name, they only know so his legal last name is literally just the letter T.

SPEAKER_01 53:27

Mr.

SPEAKER_03 53:27

T only needs one letter. That's right. And he quit wearing all of his gold jewelry after Hurricane Katrina because um he is a reformed Christian and or born a green Christian, anyways, and he quit wearing it because he said he felt so awful about displaying what he'd earned when everybody else, all these people during Hurricane Katrina, had lost everything and had nothing. And here he was flouncing around with these hundreds of thousands of dollars of of gold.

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Yeah.

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And it and like I would have thought the story would have been better if he'd have been like, I gave a gold chain out to each family I could help. That'd have been better. But anyways, he's fascinating. I'll I'll do a I'll do more research on him. I because I just randomly looked him up. So, anyways, Mark Wahlberg, high recommend. Flight risk, high recommend. I'm interested to see what he's going to do. Um, if he's gonna pull a Clooney, because you know, Clooney's had this really long career and he has done some amazing movies. Clooney's done some very amazing movies. Um, the one he just recently did that I watched has him as a scientist dying of cancer. Like basically he ends up being the last man on earth, and his daughter is out in space, and she's on this voyage, and she's supposed to be coming home. There's nothing to come home to on earth because it's a you can't be outside, there's not breathable air, and all this kind of stuff. And I don't remember the name right offhand because we're running out of time. Uh, but yeah, it's fantastic, it's a good movie. So, anyways, Mark Wahlberg, flight risk, high recommend. Good job. I I love Mark Wahlberg, I could probably talk about him for another three hours, but I don't think we have that kind of time today. No, but it's been a fun day. Yes, and if you don't like him for any other reason, but you like robots, just watch him in any of the Transformer movies he did.

SPEAKER_01 55:22

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03 55:23

Yeah, Transformer, Age of Extinction, all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 55:26

Yay.

SPEAKER_03 55:28

Did you ever watch the first Transformer?

SPEAKER_01 55:30

I watched the first one because I was bored and it was fucking playing on TV.

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I I loved it.

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It was okay.

SPEAKER_03 55:37

I loved it. I I actually loved the independent uh Bumblebee movie. Because you know, Dylan O'Brien was the voice of Bobby. So, anyways, you guys have a great day. Later. Bye.

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