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People are going to comment under here and be like,
I can't believe she picked Coach Carter over Love and Basketball
because Love and Basketball is like, you can't say one bad thing about it
or the basketball community comes for you.
What'd you get me into here, bro?
People are going to hate on me because I've never seen basketball movies.
How many times did I get myself canceled today on one podcast, bro?
What's up, you guys? I'm Rachel Demita and welcome to the Courtside Club.
Today, I'm super excited to sit down with one of the masterminds
behind some of the most notable television shows.
He's a producer, a writer, director, Rob Weiss.
Thank you for joining us.
Thanks for having me.
Am I supposed to say something else now?
No, we can go right into the conversation.
Is this your intro or is this my intro?
Can you take us back to day one of Entourage?
Honestly, probably not if my life depended on it.
You know what I mean? Day one for me or day one?
The first time I went-
When did it become idea to like, oh, this is actually happening?
So Doug, Steve Levinson, and Mark Wahlberg sold it, and Ari Emanuel sold it to HBO.
I'd been around while Doug was writing.
I think I've read incarnations of it, little pieces of it.
They had a real process, like a two-year process of development.
I visited set one time when they were up at Entourage Mansion,
had dinner with all of them, watched them shooting.
Then the show got picked up, and Doug was like,
hey, man, I'm going to need to hire some writers.
You should come in and watch a pilot and talk to Lev and Larry Charles
about coming on with us.
I was not on a career high at that time.
My career was catastrophic.
I had a lot of debt.
It was pretty messy.
My girlfriend was like, what is wrong with you?
Go take this job.
So I kept her down, and then I was like, no, bro.
Because I had come from making an indie movie a bunch of years before,
and I was like, I just want to go back and do that again.
And Doug was like, all right, all right.
So I kind of dipped out.
Girlfriend was devastated.
You could have at least asked your agent.
So I called my agent at UTA, Lizzie Baskin.
I was like, you know, show on Entourage.
She's like, yeah, of course, HBO, blah, blah, blah.
I said, well, they wanted me to come on or at least come in and talk about it.
And this was before episode one had even aired or anything.
This was before anything.
It was like the crazy.
Crewing up, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Trying to figure out what season one is and who were going to be the people to do that.
And then she just was like, look, man, your career is like ice cold right now.
Like, this is only going to help you make movies and do all the things you want to do.
And I was like, uh-oh.
So I made a bad mistake, basically.
You know, she's like, you better make that phone call.
Everybody's like so crazy.
So I called Doug back.
I'm like, all right, bro, I'll do it.
And he's like, I was there an hour ago.
You want to go make the Great American Indie?
And then you're like trying to get the job, you know?
Like the job you didn't even want a week ago.
But, you know, obviously it worked out.
And we wrote season one, me, Doug, and Larry Charles, and Steve Levinson.
And then, you know, we grew the show.
But the entire time, I was like, this is humiliating.
Like, who's going to watch this?
Who's going to like this?
You know what I mean?
Like, I had no foresight whatsoever.
And I remember we were like out that summer and it started airing.
And I think like one or two episodes it aired.
And, you know, my girlfriend at the time, same girlfriend, was like, oh, this is going
to change everything for you.
It's going to change your career.
I was like, I don't really see that happening.
And somebody like tapped my back and I turned around.
I'm not going to say who it was because I don't want to put them on blast.
But it's a pretty substantial player in this, like in the entertainment world and, you know,
tech world, everything.
And I hadn't really connected with him since I was hot as a film director.
Like six years before.
And he was just like, hey, man, what's up?
And I was like, oh, people are actually going to like this show.
They're actually, he's like, I saw the show.
I'm like, oh, all right.
So that's when I kind of knew that it was, you know, that it was tapping into something,
at least in our community of LA.
I mean, the show was iconic for not only people in LA.
But it was something where you get this kind of inside look.
And maybe it was the first show.
It was the first show that did that.
I think even it coming out at the perfect time, it made sense for like where we were.
Well, you couldn't really make that show now, you know, and not be truthful to the way it
You know what I mean?
I mean, obviously the town's changed a lot.
So at that time it was perfect.
And I don't care what anybody says.
It was 100% authentic to the lifestyle because I had lived that lifestyle.
At least to a degree of it and been around it.
It had a lot of impact.
I don't think people realize that, you know, the bulk of the impact was in, you know, big
like kind of metropolitan areas, more like New York, Chicago, Miami, LA because-
It's a little more relatable, I think.
It's just like when the movie was tracking, I was like, how's the tracking?
And word came back, it wasn't tracking that well.
And I was like, oh, really?
And they were like, well, how many viewers do you think we had on a TV show?
I was like, I don't know, three and a half million.
And they were like, yeah, that's what it's tracking at.
So when you really think about the scope, and again, I'm not trying to knock the show.
I'm super proud of what we did.
But when you think of the scope of what, how many people were watching Friends, right?
You're talking about 30 some odd million people.
And then you think about three million without that.
It's just a very small niche kind of show.
Well, I heard you though say in another interview that you didn't feel successful.
Well, now I really don't feel successful, man, you know.
I don't get that though.
Where do you think that that stems from?
Because I think somebody-
We could turn this into a psych show right now.
No, but somebody looking at-
We could go deep for like two hours.
But let me tell you something.
If you unlayer the onion, we got to stick around until we get to the core.
So you're going to have to keep these guys on overtime.
But do you think that that's something, like, do you see that more in your industry?
I love the fact that there are people, like I'm not going to say fans of mine, but I love
the fact there are fans of projects that I have been in.
That have been a contributing factor in bringing it to fruition, right?
It's an amazing feeling.
It's an amazing kind of, you know, it's just an amazing feeling to have that engagement
with people, whether it's in person or over social, right?
And that definitely makes you go like, yeah, I was successful at inspiring or influencing
or just providing entertainment to somebody.
And maybe it was somebody that had to go to a job the next day.
So that's a great thing.
Success for me is kind of like about how great an output I have.
So like my output is kind of like stop, start, you know, the last three years I haven't had
a show because of the pandemic, right?
Then the town was kind of going crazy with what it wants to do.
So now I'm getting ready to take out a slew of stuff.
But if I'm working consistently and the career continues to just go up, up, up, I'll feel
more successful because of the stability of it.
But when you're going like this.
So you're measuring it.
It's not really something like, because from the outside in, I'm looking at you like, oh,
you contributed to Entourage, you wrote, directed, produced all the things.
And then also Ballers, which is a massive television show.
And the show that people go most crazy about to me, Entourage probably the most, but How
to Make It in America, I did also in New York and people love that.
For whatever reason, it was a short run.
So big name shows.
And so from the outside looking, I'm like, wow, this is someone.
He was really successful in the industry.
So when I heard you in the other interview be like, I don't feel successful.
I didn't even feel successful throughout Entourage.
It was, but I can get that.
And that's maybe even.
I felt most successful.
The most successful I felt was in Ballers.
And I think the reason I felt successful is because I was engaged in a process from
the beginning to the end.
And by that, I mean, I sat there with Lev.
The last few seasons were predominantly me, Lev.
Couple writers, but we would break it, we would write it, I would prep it, I would
direct it, I would post it, and it would get released.
And that was a complete experience for me.
And those episodes made me feel like, all right, I'm doing what I'm supposed to do.
When I write something and I just hand it off and I don't know what's coming back, I
just feel like a little more of a cog in the machine.
You know what I mean?
So it's not about control.
It's just about output.
I want to get back to Ballers and Entourage a little bit because of all of the cameos
and how many athletes were in those shows.
We're on the court side club, so we love to tie into sports when we can.
I need to know what athlete you think has the best acting chops that you've worked with.
Yo, the sickest is, I mentioned it before.
Take the rock out of here, though.
We can't use that.
Yeah, but I don't really look at Dwayne like an athlete.
I mean, he is obviously.
I know he's especially played football.
I know he's an athlete.
I really liked him for that.
Like, can you smell what the rock is cooking?
Yeah, I look at Dwayne as like a global brand.
You know what I mean?
I have a hard time going like, he's an athlete.
But Alvin Kamara was the craziest thing because we were there, me, Alvin, Omar Benson Miller
getting ready to shoot the scene.
And I was like, yo, does somebody have mini sides for Alvin?
And he was like, nah, I don't need them.
And I was like, he's like, I'm off book.
And I thought he was kidding.
I thought he was kidding.
And I was like, he's like, man, I don't show up on a Sunday.
For a game without knowing the playbook.
And he knew every line.
And he crushed it.
But like, even the guys we had in the writer's room, Sean Mendenhall, who played for the
Steelers, Terrell Suggs, Ravens, you know, I mean, Edelman was in an episode with Danny
That was pretty cool.
Yeah, those guys.
Is there any athlete that is popular now that you would love to see in a film or maybe?
Like, work on one of your projects with you?
Any that stand out for you?
I'm really, I'm really, so my thing is really the fight game, right?
Like, I'm not like, like, I'll watch any sport for like marquee games, right?
But for me, like MMA, first and foremost, and then boxing.
So, you know, and I have a lot of relationships.
Yeah, I have a ton of relationships with guys in UFC.
And I always like, oh, yeah, don't worry, I'm gonna stick you in this.
Like, even like Nick Diaz.
It's like, I put Nick, I put, so Nick was in Vegas, happened to be in Vegas when we
were shooting the Vegas episode of Ballers.
I got him to sit down at like a poker table, right?
And I was doing the shot with Steve Guttenberg.
I'm like, yo, Nick, just sit there.
And like, Steve Guttenberg's walking past.
He's on the other, he's on the B side of the phone call with Dwayne.
And he's like, hey, Nick, what's up?
And it was so funny during how people live tweet.
Dude, but who the **** are you sitting, you see Nick Diaz?
You see Nick Diaz?
Because I tried, and the best thing was so, my buddy Frankie's with me.
And Dwayne comes over.
The three of us are talking, and Dwayne's just like, how do you guys know each other?
And I said, well, I know Frankie from Nick Diaz.
And he's like, you know, you know Nick Diaz?
I was like, yeah, I'm friendly with Nick and Nate.
Dwayne didn't know him.
He's like, he's like, you know those guys?
And I go, you know those guys?
He goes, he goes, I love those guys.
I love the way those guys fight.
I go, well, Nick was just here, like an hour ago.
He goes, Nick Diaz was here?
I've never seen Dwayne like that.
Which was pretty epic.
Like him fanboying the way like I would fan.
Like the first time I met Dwayne, I'm like, oh, this guy's really big.
Can I get a picture?
It was like the table read.
I'm like accosting like the leader of the show for like a selfie.
I'm like, hey, bro.
Can I just get a shot?
But yeah, he's the, it's interesting because I'd met a lot of people that Dwayne would
have like relationships with, you know what I mean?
Like rappers, hip hop guys.
Fighters, you know?
And they'd be like, hey, pass this message.
Dwayne back, forth, south.
But there's like, you know, for me, like I feel like there's, you know, there's got
to be life after sports, right?
You know what I mean?
My brother played for the twins in the minors.
We obviously have different moms, you know?
And he got cut during the pandemic.
They cut the whole season.
Second season, they clipped like 2,000, 3,000 players out of the minors.
So he got clipped.
And now he's at Rawlings, like running some like marketing divisions.
But, you know, I think watching that process is like a super interesting thing when you
consider that, you know, these guys are out so young.
What do you do with the rest of it?
I want to get into a little bit of your tie-in to combat sports, but I would like to take
a halftime break.
That's what we do on the Courtside Club.
And I have a quick game of start bench cut for you.
Have you played that before?
You have to repeat what you said.
You lost me at cut, start, bench.
So you're going to start a movie, you're going to bench a movie, and you're going to cut
Because we're on Courtside Club and you-
But that means by start means like I like it, cut it?
That's the best one.
Bench it like I just passed?
Start, that's like you're Michael Jordan.
You know, bench, that's like your role player.
Well, let's do one slow.
I was going to say-
Let's do one in slow motion so I can understand the game.
Let's do start bench cut.
This is a practice round.
Coffee, tea, water.
For what I drink?
Coffee, obviously.
So you would start-
So I would coffee-
Coffee, tea, and water.
So I start the coffee.
What's the third one?
No, I cut the tea and I bench the water.
This is going to take an hour to play this game.
People are going to be watching this.
People are going, what is wrong with this guy?
How did this guy write anything?
I have movies and television shows, but they're all sports related.
I'm sure you've seen them.
Never heard of it.
Remember the Titans, Friday Night Lights, and The Blind Side.
I got to be honest with you.
I've seen some of Friday Night Lights.
You're talking about the movie?
The movie I love.
The Pete Burr movie.
So I'll start that.
Remember the Titans is that?
Remember the Titans?
Remember the Titans.
No, it was good, but who is it?
That's not the...
Blind Side is Sandra Bullock, right?
I like the big kid in it.
He was really cool.
My friend managed him.
It's a touching story, yeah.
So I'm going to put that.
I'm going to put that one on like just on the bench right now.
But I'm going to have to cut Remember the Titans, even though I know it was like a Boaz
It was like some real...
Well, I'm a Denzel fan, so I'll bench that.
Even though I don't remember the movie, I'll bench that, and I'm going to cut the
But even though that's probably the one that won like nine Oscars, people are like, you're
But I love Friday Night Lights.
I like the show too.
So you're starting.
I got a relationship with Pete Berg.
He directed the pilot on Boaz, and I like Pete.
I'd never cut a Pete Berg film.
So we're starting Friday Night Lights, benching Remember the Titans, cutting the Blind Side.
Football-related movie, start, bench, cut.
The Longest Yard.
Oh, it's the greatest movie of all time.
Are you talking about Adam Sandler's The Longest Yard?
You're not talking about that.
You're talking about Burt Reynolds' The Longest Yard, right?
We'll go with that one.
Let's go with that one.
You didn't even know Burt Reynolds made A Longest Yard, did you?
No, that's the older one.
You're asking cinema questions, and you have no clue about this.
Okay, keep going.
I have seen the Adam Sandler Longest Yard, but when I was...
I've never seen the Adam Sandler one.
There's only one Longest Yard.
So, go with the one that you are familiar with.
Okay, and I'm going to talk about it.
Longest Yard, Water Boy, and Any Given Sunday.
Also a great movie.
So, I am going to start The Longest Yard, the Burt Reynolds version.
Which I probably watched 10,000 times when I was like 14 years old.
To the point where I didn't even understand half the stuff that was going on there.
It's part of a way bigger conversation, but when you watch those 70s Burt Reynolds movies,
you understand why a lot of guys in my generation, you know, seem like a different kind of guy
than some of the new generation guys.
Meaning like, Burt Reynolds was like the guy's guy, you know?
He was like a Steve McQueen.
Anyway, it's a brilliant movie.
That Longest Yard is awesome.
So, we're starting on...
And then I would say Any Given Sunday.
We could bench that.
I think it's great.
L.L. and Jamie Foxx.
Yeah, that's a good one.
You like the star power in the movies.
I mean, but I had a relationship with Oliver Stone, too, since I got out here.
So, I mean, there was a lot I liked about it.
There was good stuff.
But we're cutting Gatorade.
Yeah, we're definitely cutting the Adam Sandler.
I love the Waterboy.
I never watched it.
Yeah, I gotta tell you, I watched the Adam Sandler movie that's out now.
I couldn't believe how good it was.
But I haven't seen that many Adam Sandler movies.
Waterboy is like-
But I like when he elevates, you know?
There's just so many.
I guess I, though, love those Adam Sandler movies that are just so ridiculous and silly.
Well, you're like, but you're like, that's your generation, you know?
We have like the Napoleon Dynamite.
Like, if I want to watch like a 50-year-old dude like doing stupid stuff, I just look
at myself, you know what I mean?
Yeah, just go to the bathroom.
Yeah, like I don't need Adam Sandler.
Like, you know what I mean?
I just look at my life and I go, damn, man.
Next up, basketball movies.
I might come down hard on you for this one.
I'm starting Hoosiers.
So, Love and Basketball, Coach Carter, and Hoosiers.
Hoosiers is starting.
So, I filmed at their gym before.
It was pretty cool.
Dude, the End of Usions?
And I was there with Chris Mullen.
One of the best shooters I've ever filmed with.
And I filmed with Steph Curry.
But Chris Mullen was like lights out.
At their gym in Indiana?
Yeah, at the Hoosiers gym, yeah.
That was an awesome, awesome film.
That was awesome.
They have the memorabilia still up as well.
And you can go in the locker room and they have different photos and jerseys and stuff.
Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Awesome, awesome movie.
So, we're starting Hoosiers.
What about Love and Basketball?
Is that like Regina King or something?
I don't know the actors, but I've seen the movie plenty of times.
What are the next two?
It's Love and Basketball.
Love and Basketball and Coach Carter.
I know that you're...
You're more into this movie and television space than me, but if you have not seen Coach
No, I never saw it.
Yo, I don't watch movies.
I don't watch movies.
I don't watch TV shows.
That's the best basketball movie ever is Coach Carter.
I guess it's a toss up for you because Love and Basketball...
Yeah, because I haven't seen those, but you're giving me a lot of things I have to go watch
And people are going to comment under here and be like, I can't believe she picked Coach
Carter over Love and Basketball because Love and Basketball is like, you can't say one
bad thing about her.
The basketball community comes for you.
And there's so many lines.
And different scenes from that movie that people still reference.
What'd you get me into here, bro?
What, is people going to hate on me because I've never seen basketball movies?
How many times did I get myself canceled today on one podcast, bro?
But your son, how old is he again?
He might be a little young, but I feel like Coach Carter, maybe middle school, early high
school, just watch it together.
Well, he watched some of Hussey.
He's really into basketball.
He thinks he's the best basketball player.
He's the best basketball player alive.
And there's the kind of stuff he says, like, I'm the best basketball player around.
I'm like, you can't even dribble yet.
I mean, he's only six years old, but he watched some of Hustle with me because I had to watch
it in two parts and he was, he was digging it.
And then, uh, but then he decided to go back to his iPad.
So I didn't stick with it, but yeah, I'll show him Coach Carter at some point.
Another, another basketball, Space Jam, white man can't jump and he got game.
Well, again, like I've only seen, I never saw Space Jam.
Because I didn't have a kid at the time, but that's perfect movie to have a kid watch,
Well, there's a new Space Jam.
Have you seen Michael Jordan?
No, I haven't seen it because at the time I didn't have a child.
So I just, I don't recognize her.
She's in Space Jam.
That's Lola Bunny.
You know, but now that I have a kid, I've gotten to see a lot.
I haven't seen Space Jam yet, but I've gotten to see a lot of things like Moana, like Moana.
I made them like, and I watched Moana.
I watched Moana after I worked with Dwayne or I would have made him sing that song to
I would have been like, oh, please, just one time, one time, just sing it.
Because I watched it after we wrapped Ballers and I'm like, yo, this is good.
And every time me and my kid would be like, you know, watching a movie, I'm like, Moana?
And he'd be like, nah, man, no more Moana.
And I'm just like, oh, I want to watch it one more time, you know?
But yeah, I haven't seen that yet.
So, but the other two, obviously I've seen, I liked White Men Can't Jump and, you know,
they're remaking that with Jack Harlow, right?
Yeah, it's like Jack Harlow and who else is doing it?
Did you see him in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game?
Did he hit a big shot?
Yeah, he, I've talked about it before on my podcast.
Listen, he scored a lot, but from somebody who played basketball their whole life and
then also played Division One.
Oh, he was a D1 player?
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I know that about you.
No, so watching him, it's like, I can tell maybe he didn't play at all.
At the high level, you know what I mean?
Yeah, I don't even know if he raps at a high level, you know what I mean?
I mean, I love his music.
I'm only kidding.
I think he's like a great entertainer.
There was just like a couple layups in the NBA All-Star.
Yeah, I was like, that's a, you know.
I got to, I think it takes.
Could be a little better.
Listen, but I think it takes like, you got to have like some moxie to get out there and
play in that game, you know what I mean?
I played in that game.
Yeah, but you were a D1 player.
I was leading scorer of my team.
Yeah, but he wasn't a player.
Yeah, but he's a big time celebrity.
Well, don't you think that's even riskier to be a big time?
What about these big time celebrities?
Absolutely, it is.
Who can't even throw an opening game pitch to the, and reach the plate.
Right, I think that they shouldn't do that.
I think it's hysterical.
Guys, you know, that's the big thing.
And I think we're going to do that story.
Was it like 50 cents?
Did we do that on Outdoor Rush?
Because I know we talked about doing it on Outdoor Rush.
Where like, you know, do not bounce the ball.
Whatever you do, do not bounce the ball.
Like guys can't make it to the plate.
And it's just like, oh man, he bounced the ball.
It's such a like big deal.
But I know we were talking about doing it.
I don't know if we ever did it though.
It's one of those things I feel like, you know, as a basketball player,
obviously I'm going to critique any basketball that I see.
In entertainment.
And I know that, you know, if you're a boxer,
you're going to critique that in any of the fight movies, you know?
So that's just me being critical.
You know, high school musical is one of the most hilarious situations
because none of them can hoop.
What is it in high school?
High school musical.
They play basketball in high school musical?
They sing and play basketball at the same time.
They're like, get your head in the game.
And they're, you know, dribbling.
But they dribble with like a flat hand.
And so you just, that's not it, you know?
I don't even know how they find people to do half the s***.
First off, every actor in the history of the world lies on their resume.
It's like every s*** resume I've ever looked at, somebody's like,
you know, like a professional level horseback rider,
like an equestrian rider, or they're like a martial artist,
It's like martial arts, yes.
It's like a checklist, you know?
And then you get out there and like,
this s*** is not a dribble at all, you know?
But when they get to it, so I've done campaigns for Adidas.
And when I tell you the audition process,
and this was younger before I was even in hosting.
But the audition process to be in an Adidas campaign is really intense.
Well, it's a sports brand.
You know what I mean?
You're talking about basically Glee meets like a basketball movie.
I mean, it's like the director's probably never even been to a basketball game.
He's probably like a choreographer guy or a song guy, you know?
Honestly, it doesn't take away completely like from the film,
but just if you're an athlete, you know?
It pulled you out of it.
It pulled you out of it a little bit.
I mean, I still watched it, but I was just like cringing at parts when, you know.
Anyway, I got two more for you if you're down.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
So this one's a mix.
We have Major League.
Happy Gilmore and The Sandlot.
Well, you know, The Sandlot's like a sentimental favorite,
but you're not asking me about maybe one of the greatest baseball movies ever made.
No, that's not it.
I liked Major League.
Is that your greatest baseball movie ever made?
I could give you 10 that I think are genius right now.
Eight Men Out is great, but The Natural.
So you're more in the know of baseball movies because I was –
The Sandlot and Major League.
Major League are the only two that I've seen.
The best baseball movie in the history of the world.
Again, I'll get crucified for saying it.
Where do you think I'm going with this?
That is – you know what?
I'm going to – that is the best baseball movie.
That's not what I was going to say.
What I was going to say was the original Walter Matthau, Bad News Bears, with Tatum O'Neill,
my man back there doing the sound.
He's like, hey, don't identify me by name.
But, like, it is so –
It's so off-color now.
Again, it's another movie that you'd be like, what the f**k are these kids saying?
The f**k they say in that movie is mind-blowing.
But I grew up with that.
So for me, that's a sentimental favorite.
Like, all my, like, Police Boys Club baseball teams, we'd always be called the Bad News Bears
because my dad would coach them.
But he would try to get every kid he thought needed mentorship that was kind of troubled
or – you know what I mean?
And it was kind of like a mishmash of, like, misfits to a degree, all of us, with me being
a misfit as well, you know?
And so we would always be, like, our Bad News Bears kind of thing.
But we could go to yours.
We could go back to your game.
We could play the game.
No, I'm just kidding.
Or I could answer your question by just talking about whatever I want to talk about.
And turn it into my own thing, you know?
But honestly, if you don't feel tied to those, I have one more that's in television.
cheer last is that last chance you and ballers i've never even heard of the first two really
yeah what's cheer it's obviously it's about cheerleaders it is and i will tell it's it's
like a docu series type of drama i will say if you have a chance and this is this is no cap this
is like a very well-made television show right it's really good it's on netflix right but it's
a doc it's a docu series yeah it is so they follow around but it's not scripted it's unscripted
yeah yeah yeah but it's the storylines is like i don't know how they didn't write this because
they're insane right and it's something even if you don't like cheerleading i feel like you can
appreciate it i was not on the cheer squad so for me i don't have like uh you know real connection
to that yeah but i i respect it okay so last chance you was about football and then ballers
is your show ballers obviously so we're starting ballers i would have to say and again this is a
my unbiased opinion having been about it ballers is easily the greatest sports show ever made if
not one of just the best half-hour shows in the history of television i'm kidding obviously but
why why would you be kidding i'm joking man i mean come on man that's a pretty big stretch but
it's a listen it was a fun half-hour show and it was fun to make and it was definitely um
that was it was a great experience to be able to do all the things i did on it and with with
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i want to talk about your um recent ventures in jujitsu yeah hard
time saying that jujitsu yeah so how long have you been doing that i don't know i feel it felt
like probably four or five years and the question is like how long you've been doing it and how are
you progressing how are you progressing i would say very slowly okay um when i got into jujitsu
it's funny because a lot of my friends had gotten into it my buddy Bulgarian's muscle farm i'm gonna
to throw him a plug if that's okay. Ryan Drexler, right? He's a black belt. And he was like, yo,
you should come do jujitsu. And I had wrestled in like junior high and in the beginning of high
school. And I was kind of like, for some reason, I was just like, man, I just don't want to roll
around on mats right now. I just didn't want to do it. So him and a bunch of my other friends
all evolved. I, on the other hand, was like, oh, I'm going to just go box. So I was a wild card
and fortunes and like these other kinds of gyms. And, you know, as time went on, my skill set
diminished, right? You know what I mean? Obviously I was never going to be a pro fighter. It was just
for training. And then now I really only want to do it once a week because it's just, it's hard
on the body. You know what I mean? And like, I didn't start it like a ripe young age, you know
what I mean? I'm kind of going in an age where I still need to not get totally up. Listen, I've
been blessed, man. I've gotten to train with some amazing, amazing, uh,
MMA cats like over the years and whether it was boxing with Buddy McGird or, you know,
Yves Edwards doing Muay Thai with me or Paolo Costa throwing me around and dropping me on my
face. And, you know, these guys like just legends just, you know, playing with me like I'm a rag
doll. It's dope, man. If you're going to get beat up, you might get, might as well get beat up by a
legend, right? Yeah, but not really beating me up. They're just like, I mean, you know, Paolo
Costa is like, the guy's a middleweight, but he's probably the biggest middleweight on the
planet. I mean, I have videos of it. It's so disturbing. It's like, you know, like, I just
like, I mean, like some kind of like, I don't even know what the hell it was. I got to look at it
again. But like, I thought he snapped my shoulder off my body. I was like, holy shit, you know?
All right. Well, we have gotten to the end of the game. So I have some buzzers.
That was part of the game?
Well, I kind of call my whole show a game in a way. We're in the courtside club. So
we're here for a game. But at the end of the game, there's buzzer beaters, right?
Okay. What are those?
So I have some, I have some quick,
quick questions for you. Fortunately enough, you will not need a buzzer.
So it's not really a buzzer beater game. I mean, if you don't have a buzzer,
you can't call it a buzzer beater game.
Okay. So the writer is calling me out of what I title my segments on the show.
I'm very myopic. And I like to stick to things on the court.
Okay. What is the best game you've ever sat courtside for?
I was a courtside, but I was one seat behind courtside when we shot
Entourage at the Lakers game.
Mostly the best seats I've ever been in, like up in boxes.
Who was on the team there when you were at that game?
That's all you really needed. Yeah. That's dope.
Have you met Kobe? Did you meet Kobe?
No, I never met Kobe. No.
He's an incredible guy.
The only Laker I have a relationship with was Rick Fox, who's a homie of mine.
And Metta World Peace was up. Was he on the Lakers too?
Ronald Test. He was cool. I've hung out with Ron. I like Ron.
He's a big character.
I've hung out with him.
All right. So who's one person dead or alive that you would love to sit courtside with?
I mean, I don't know. Tupac.
Oh, that'd be cool. That'd be really cool.
Like, well, where am I? Am I back East or am I in LA?
This is your buzzer, BD. You get to choose.
If I'm in New York, I want to sit courtside with Big E. If I'm in LA, I want to sit courtside with Park.
That'd be pretty dope. You just take the red eye, hit the New York game.
All right. And last question. What is one event in history could be sporting or otherwise
would you have loved to have been courtside for?
Wow, man. That's a big one. You couldn't give me a little tip off on this this morning in the
locker room, bro. So a whole bunch of small talk. You couldn't just say, hey, she's going to hit you
with this zinger. No, there's a lot. You know what I mean? Like, what am I supposed to say?
Like, you know what I mean? D-Day. I would love it. Like, that would have been awesome. Like,
I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of events in here. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of events in history. You know what I mean?
No, I've had them across the board. Like, I've had like, oh, I want to be there at the 96 game,
Michael Jordan, the shot.
But no, you're asking me about games. You said one event in history.
But yes. No, I know. I said it could be sporting or otherwise. So I've had games as the answer,
or I've had when David Hasselhoff was singing while the Berlin Wall was falling. Like,
that was an answer.
Yeah. I think Pink Floyd might have done something with the wall too. That would
have been pretty cool to be at. I don't know, man. It might have been something like that.
It might have been one of those old Tyson or Riddick Bowe or Holyfield fights I would like
to have been at. But like, in terms of like some historical event, I'm like, man, most of them just
seem so dark. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I wouldn't be the kid of the assassination. I
would have been sick to like, look at myself in the background of the Zapruder film. You know what
I mean? It's like, I don't know. What historical thing? Do we even have like great, like memorable
historical things? Yeah. Like, like, you know, like, like spaceship stuff.
Yes. That's it. When you really think about historical that goes on in the world,
the percentage of them are just so dour and bad.
But I said one event in history that could literally be yesterday. You know, history is-
That's modern history. You know what I mean? That's modern history. You're talking about
historic. This is what you do.
When you say history, you're talking like history, man. Like, I think of history, like
European history, you know? Like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel while I was
I was drinking a Red Bull, you know? Like handing him Red Bulls while he's painting.
That's like, you know, that's like, yeah, maybe something like that. I don't know.
I'm going to think about this. If you guys ever invite me back, I'll have more answers.
Okay. So when you do come back, you have to have had watched
I love him in basketball. Coach Carter.
Space Jam for sure.
And then your event next week.
I'm going to watch, I'm going to watch both Space Jams.
Yeah. Let me know which one you like better.
I'm not even going to watch them with my camera.
I'm not even going to watch them with my kid either.
I'm just going to watch them by myself.
Yeah. He can go watch Moana. I'm just kidding.
Anyway, Rob, thank you so much for coming on the Courtside Club. Where can everybody find you?
Do you want to shout out your social medias or?
Well, I live up in the hills. Like.
Like, oh, like where do I live?
You mean my social media stuff?
Or your social security.
It's just at Rob Weiss, at Rob Weiss on Instagram. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And up in the hills.
And you have a new show that you're developing right now.
I'm developing like 10 things. If I'm unemployed a year from now, I will no longer be in this
business. I will be doing something else with my life. I don't know what that will be, but I
will try to answer that at the same time I come up with what historical event I would
have liked to have been at. But no, I'm going out with a lot of stuff for real.
Yeah. Hopefully there'll be a new show, you know?
Yeah. We'll be on the lookout.
You know what I'm saying? Baby got to eat. So, yeah.
Thanks for joining us.
By baby, I mean me. So, yeah.
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