Anyway, speaking of Washington, Drew Bledsoe went to Washington State and where I was going by bringing up my dad is that he’s a Patriots fan.
Bobby: God bless, him.
And obviously you guys are sports fans — you made Fever Pitch, Brett Favre cameoed in There’s Something About Mary — but you keep sticking it to Drew Bledsoe —
Peter: Really? How’s that?
Bobby: I don’t know that we’re sticking it to him. We like Drew.
Well, he was supposed to be in There’s Something About Mary in the part that became Brett’s, you have Jim Carrey fawning over Tom Brady in Dumb and Dumber To —
Bobby & Peter: Oooooh!!! [laugh] That’s right.
Bobby: Maybe we need to put Drew in a movie.
Peter: We’re big fans of Drew. No seriously.
Bobby: We should work him in later on.
Peter: Redeem him. He couldn’t do it because of the mosh pit incident.
The “mosh pit incident?”
Peter: Yeah. During the season he went out — it was like a Tuesday night — and they had the night off. He was a single guy, he went out to a concert with a couple of guys —
Bobby: Max Layne was another.
Peter: They got lit up and Drew dove from the stage into the mosh pit and some girl got her neck hurt. She was fine, but they took her out on a stretcher. It was in all the papers that Drew Bledsoe dove into the mosh pit and hurt a girl and people were livid. “During the regular season, Drew? Really, you’re out partying?”
Bobby: They lost the next game —
Peter: And everyone was like “concentrate on football.”
Do you know what band was playing?
Peter: I don’t know. It was a punk crowd. [Note: it was an Everclear concert in 1997] Drew was already set to be in (There’s Something About Mary) and he was like, “I can’t. If the press finds out I’m down in Miami shooting a scene in a movie after the mosh pit they’re going to run me out of town.”
The second guy we went to was actually (San Francisco 49ers QB) Steve Young. He was very cool, he called us and said, “Guys, I read this, it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read in my life, but I can’t do it because it’s rated R and all the Mormon kids are going to sneak in” [Young is a practicing Mormon]. So then we went to Brett [imitates Ben Stiller pronouncing his name] “Fav-re”.
[laughs] Which is great because you get that other joke, pronouncing his name. But watching it again, now, after he texted those pictures (of his genitals, to a female New York Jets employee)… You get an extra creepy joke.
Peter: He’d already gotten in trouble back then I think, because his wife was keeping an eye on him.
Bobby: I saw when Peyton Manning just broke Favre’s record for most touchdown passes, Favre sent out a tweet saying “Congratulations!” and I was started laughing because I just pictured him with his dick in a photo mockingly saying, “Congratulations, Peyton!”
Peter: That’s hilarious! [to me] Did you go Boise State?
No, I actually went to the University of Tennessee, to Peyton Manning’s house.
Bobby: In Knoxville? We’re so on point!
Peter: Were you the only Idaho guy there?
I don’t know. The only one I knew. I’ve gone back to Tennessee a number of times and even though I don’t have family there, I always say I’m going home because it feels like where I came from. And how people greet me.
Peter: I could live in Nashville. We went to Bonnaroo this year. I like the vibe.
You’re very curious about my origins.
Peter: Yeah, we like to know who we’re talking to and everyone is from somewhere.
Well, I was born in Montana and we also livde a little while in Florida and I lived in Washington (state) for a few years.
Bobby: You’ve covered a lot of America.
Actually, I re-watched the first Dumb and Dumber yesterday. And something that I’ve always loved about that film is the road trip. Because growing up we took a lot of road trips and most of it was through nothing until you got to more mountains. You have to entertain yourselves in the car. I’ve always loved road movies. I kinda forgot that a portion of that one, and well, now both them, is a road movie. Did you guys take a lot of road trips growing up?
Peter & Bobby: We’d go to Florida.
Peter: Growing up in Rhode Island you go to Cape Cod in the summer. But when Bobby and I got in high school and then college, we started driving down to Florida. We’d drive straight down and it’d take about 24 hours. Some of my best memories growing up are driving down to Florida.
Bobby: I hitchhiked there one spring break. There and back. It rained both ways.
Peter: I took a bus once, which was the worst thing I ever did. It took 36 hours. You can’t sleep and every hour of the way there’s this annoying voice saying, “next stop: Wilmington!” But I love road trips.
