Paul Walter Hauser

Because that was how you started, right? Yeah, when I was 16, I started writing screenplays and started doing stand-up comedy. Oh, wow. That was like the year it got really aggressive where I was like, I'm going full throttle, full bore.

And my last few years of high school, I did three plays a year, wrote for the school newspaper, did choir, was in barbershop quartet, was class president one year, was writing scripts and doing stand-up. So it was like I was trying to do the John Cena, Dwayne Johnson schedule before I was actually able to do that type of schedule. I was nuts.

and uh and yeah i i thought stand-up or screenwriting might be a way to break in i didn't know how to break into hollywood i thought well they say you can climb the wall you can break through the wall you can pay someone to get you through the wall what's my way i'll just try all the things um and uh what i would find out is that stand-up is incredibly hard to break into even if you're decent and i think i was i don't think i was good i think i was decent

And I think I got away from stand-up because I just didn't want that lifestyle of... You're in a depressing atmosphere. You have to wind your wheel up on your back and make these people laugh. And you're constantly having to prove yourself. Whereas I could go into an audition and two minutes into the audition, they're like, you got the job. You're the guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It's so much easier than stand up in my opinion. Yeah. And you get treated exponentially better.

I think I was telling somebody, I think like the show kingdom that I did about the MMA fighters of Frank Grillo and Matt Loria, uh, Jonathan Tucker, Nick Jonas, that show was sort of my like associates degree and me breaking in. I Tanya was like the end of the associates degree where it's like, you're getting your bachelors. Now people know your face, but not your name.

And then Richard Jewell was like sort of the last year of the bachelor's degree where it's like, Hey, you are,

you are uh people now are starting to know your name and they're starting to think of you in a different light because you're not just a silly idiot you can you can act too and uh and i think blackbird is like the start of of trying to gain a master's degree yeah i'm trying to do that right now the next four years is me trying to get the master's degree and in my early 40s hopefully i'm

I'm mastering this stuff. And, and, you know, you look at a quarterback that's about the age early forties is like, okay, you've put in your time and now you are, that's your legacy right now. We know Tom Brady is Tom Brady or Aaron Rogers is Aaron Rogers.

From your mouth to my business manager's ears. You should be.

Oh, yeah. Damon was like, I'm going to hit Hauser up about that. I'm like, he never hit me up. He didn't hit you up? Where's my Andy Reid phone? No, I am developing a movie with Ben and Matt, though. something that I'm going to act in and produce and I co-wrote. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. Wait, are you a Jets fan? Did I read that right? So here's the story on that.

I two years ago, got an email to two and a half years ago saying the jets organization would like to invite you to get two to four VIP passes and sit in the owner's suite. Okay. And I was like, not in New York at the time. And I was a lifelong Packer fan was like, I, I, This is weird. Like, I wonder what propelled them to do that. They're recruiting fans. Yeah. Who knows?

And then I got this movie, this Springsteen movie I'm doing right now in Jersey. And I was like, I wonder if that offer is still on the table. I literally went to my Google emails. and was like looking up jets in the search engine of my past emails, found the email and emailed my PR people and was like, Hey, I know it's too, it's like an enormous Donald voice. Yeah. Yeah.

They were like,

probably worry about it and then there I was two days ago was it what day is today Monday yeah yesterday yesterday I was at the Jets game with my buddy Darren and we're sitting with you know the owner or co-owner Chris Johnson and his wife Doris and they could not have been sweeter and nicer and more down to earth and

were noshing on lobster rolls and eclairs and watching the game surrounded by all these wealthy people that I felt very out of place with.

It's not going well. It's a, it's rough cause all the talents there, but not everything's connecting, you know? And, uh, And it's – you know, it's tough, too. Like, not everybody can stay – you can be talented but not have the sharp or crispness that you once had. And it doesn't mean you're not good. It just means you're a 42-year-old quarterback or a 44-year-old quarterback, right?

And I think actors are like that, too. To bring it back to acting, it's like some actors – and I won't say their name as to not be rude, but when they get older, they're just not as sharp. Right. And it doesn't mean you don't enjoy them. It just means – They don't have that Christmas.

And then there are some that stand the test of time and are giving psychotically good performances in their 80s and 90s. And that class of actor is like a Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Anthony Hopkins can still be as good as he was in Silence of the Lambs tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. And that's a very rare thing. And I think, you know, Rogers, the best days are probably behind, but I loved watching them and I met him at the ESPYs. We did a comedy skit together and he could not have been cooler. We had a lot of fun talking to each other.