Our first guest tonight wakes up at 3:00 a.m., works out twice, starts a new business, works out one more time, and then makes a movie. His latest directed by Peter Fairley is the action comedy balls up. Santos and the rest of the esteemed Brazilian travel ministry Ira Brad Louis. But you call me Brad from sales. I understand you guys just heard from Champ Condoms. Tough act to follow. But where Regal Blue can't match Champ in size and scale, they cannot match us in passion.

Balls Up premieres Wednesday on Prime Video. Please welcome Mark Wahlberg. Welcome. How are you, sir? I'm good. How are you? What time do you actually wake up in the morning? Is it still Are you still doing that crazy thing? I actually was just backstage saying I just came in from the East Coast. I woke up this morning at 2:30 in Aken, South Carolina.

Okay. Went to work out. Had went to a person's house. There was a cold plunge in their garage. Took a cold plunge. Went to the gym. Went to Augusta, Georgia. Played golf there. played 18 holes the Monday morning after the Masters, right? And then I flew here to see you. Unbelievable. Yeah. So, I just took a 20-minute nap and I'm I'm ready for bed. You are you're a napper in general? You take a nap every day? No, but uh way past my bedtime.

Do you ever just go to like wake up at 9:00? You know, the thing is this is what people don't understand. Like yesterday, I went to bed at 6:30 in the afternoon on the East Coast. All right. I always get eight hours. You know, the idea of me not getting any sleep is ridiculous. You're like a morning radio DJ, but you don't have a radio show. Exactly. You posted this uh video earlier this month. Uh you were visiting your daughter in college and Yeah. She's a senior at Clemson. And while you were there, cuz you have to you work out every day, right?

Yeah. You went not every day, but five days a week. Worked out with the football team. Yes. Is that fun for you? It's a lot of fun. I've been able to work out with the football team at Clemson a couple times. Dabo, uh, who's the coach, Davo Sweeney, and his brother Tracy are very kind. They let me go in there four o'clock in the morning, work out. The team's in there early working out and, uh, the energy in there is absolutely crazy.

Is anyone there when is anyone working out when you get there at 4:00? I usually get ahead I'll get a little bit ahead of the guys, but they're in there about 5:00, 4:30, 5:00. And you then participated in the college activities, including bartending at a party. I was bartending at Roar. Uh, yeah. selling uh Fletcher's little tequila. We had an event there and uh my daughter had me behind the bar working uh at the big uh party spot called the Roar. She's not embarrassed that her dad's there working the bar. It depends. I could be very embarrassing at times, but uh I think it was free tequila that night, so they tolerated me.

They were actually appreciative. Do you ever Did you ever tell the kids like what you were up to when you were their age? I try not to. We cuz we dug this up and this is for you were 20 years old here. This is 1991. It's one of those MTV rocking jock events to do Will Smith and your brother. Uhhuh. Playing basketball. Do you remember this?

I do actually. I think that was like one of the first times I had ever been I've been known for, you know, pulling my pants down at a performance. It was one of those things where I did it once and then it was like basically mandatory. If I didn't do it during a performance, people would actually boo me. So, I was like, "Okay, we did that." And I was also in the dunk contest that year. But Oh, yeah. We have a video of you in the duck contest. Yeah. Let's take a look. Here it is. The younger Wahberg took a dunk on the wild side, crushing the competition and confirming his brother's The pants already falling down.

Believe me, cuz I taught him how to do all that. Oh, that's beautiful. Did you That you won the dunk competition, right? I did, but nothing worse than hearing that accent. That accent go is very intense. Yeah, very thick. And I spent 20 I spent a good long time trying to get rid of the Boston accent only to then go and do movies like The Fighter, Perfect Storm, The Departed, all these movies. It's funny because Matt and I were talking at your He's not your friend. I guess you don't like the guy.

Definitely not my friend. But anyway, well, he and I worked together and he and I were the only ones actually from Boston, but we were kind of looking at each other like I think people are going to think that we have the fake Boston accents and we're going to stick out like a sore thumb because uh you know I don't think uh but no, that's you have a very real Boston accent which you've had to suppress. It's it's taken a long time to get rid of it. You were in this movie with uh that's directed by Peter Fairley from the Fairley brothers, Balls Up. Tell everybody what the U movie is about because it's a very funny idea. Okay.

So, the movie is about during the World Cup. Uh, even when the World Cup was in Qatar, they sell more condoms during the World Cup than any time during the year. So, we created a condom that covers your penis and your testicles finally. And Paul Walter Hower's character is the inventor and I'm the salesman. And we actually win the bid. But then, of course, we go out with uh actually uh Benjamin Brad plays the delegate from Brazil. We take him out. He's been sober for nine years. Next thing you know, he's on the dance floor smoking crack. Pulls his pants down, puts a condom on. We lose the deal, but we got free tickets to go to the World Cup in Brazil. So, we end up going there and

then we ruin the game for Brazil and everybody across in a very funny way. Yes. And so, we're now being chased all over Brazil. Uh, we run into Sasha Baron Cohen's character and just crazy. Sasha Baron Cohen is very funny in the movie. Do you know him? Is he a guy like he actually came I got a call from Ari Emanuel. He says hey Sasha Baron Cohen the real Ari from Entourage. Sasha Baron Cohen wants to come play basketball at your house. And we used to have this basketball game at my house every weekend. That's kind of where we started Entourage in my backyard. And Leo and Toby those guys would come with their team and we had our team. We'd

play every weekend. Then we'd have a barbecue. Sasha came but he didn't tell us that he'd never played basketball before. Oh right. Yeah. He's a farmer. He's only 66. you know, he's just flailing elbows around. I'm like, dude, we had to basically kick him out of the game. Did he think that he was going to be good just because he was tall? I think he just wanted to kind of see what was going on over there.

Did he not see what happened at MTV Rockin Shock in 1971? He must have missed it, but he came and he was flailing elbows and I was like, "Dude, you're out." Yeah, he's one of the funniest guys there is. So funny. I remember, you know, one of the first times uh that I saw him as an actor, I saw Borat 9:00. It was 11 o'clock, first showing in uh Brentwood right at UCLA. I was by myself Friday morning. It was one of the most amazing cinematic exper laughing through that whole movie.

Now, we talked about you and your accent and the Boston stuff. I imagine people come up to you all the time when they're from Boston. They let you know. Yeah. Okay. Do you think you could spot somebody from Boston without hearing their voice? I think there's a good chance. Now, there are very, very different and specific types. There's quite a few different types of Boston, folks, but I think I could do as good as anybody else. Well, we're going to put that to the test when we come back.

All right, let's Mark Wahberg is here. His movie is called Balls Up. We'll be right back with Mark. We are back with Mark Wahlberg, one of the most boss Americans ever to walk the planet Earth. We asked Mark, I asked Mark if he can identify his fellow Bostononians and we're going to find out if he can. It's time to play where you from. And Lou is out on the boulevard. Lou is not from Boston, right Lou? So this No, you are not. Lou, you've assembled a group of three pedestrians. Oh my god, these Now we've got we got some groups for you and um only one of these people is from Boston. You have to guess which one. Oh my god.

They're not allowed to speak cuz the accent might give it away, but you can ask yes or no questions and they can nod or shake their head or whatever. Yes. All right. Have you ever been drunk on a duck boat? All right. I told you he's from Glston. You think it's You want to guess right away? Yeah. Dave, is it Dave? Dave, are you from Boston?

I used to take the commuter rail from Foxboro. There you go. Very well done. All right. Sophie, where are you from? I'm from Norway. Wow. And Rod, you? I'm from Alabama. Okay. All right. Well, thank you. I believe Lou has a prize for you. Lou, what do you have for them? I got three bags of clams. All right. Thank you, contestants.

Let's meet our next pedestrians now. You're one for one so far. All right. Oh my god. All right. Well, come on. You got to be I think they were white. I wasn't going to get one. All right. Which color clam chowder is better? Red or white? Oh, raise your uh right hand for red, left hand for white. Okay, they Oh, we have two reds and one white. And he's in the Dunkin Donuts.

Yeah. All right. PJ, where you from? Spucky. East Boston. Exactly. And PJ, where are your clothes from? PJ Duncan Shop. Where else? Those are available for purchase. Sold out. Sorry. You got another gift? You got another gift for him? I do. I've got a coupon for a free small fry with any purchase at Walber. Lovely, lovely gift.

Look at that. Julie, where are you from? Where are you from, Julie? New York. and Thomas Oregon. All right. Yeah, I would have guessed that. You are two for two. That was kind of a gimme, but you got it. And we have I think they were worried I wasn't going to get the other one. And here is our third group. We've got Matt Taylor and Scott. Okay. This one looks I know that guy Matt. You know Matt? I know him from Scott.

Is that the It's not the Matt you were talking about earlier, is it? It's the other mad. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Let me ask you guys a question. All right. If someone yells, "Go Yankees," what hand gesture would you make? All right. Oh, Matt's cheering. Okay. Trying to throw us off. Taylor the right gesture. I know this guy.

Excuse my language. Is he from Boston? All right. Uh, put up a one if it's Michael Jordan or a two if it's Larry Bird. Okay. I think we You know what? We narrowed it down to Scott and Taylor. I think I don't know. Oh, they could both be from Boston. Well, all right. Have you ever had a fist fight with a relative? Taylor and Scott might be both from Boston. It's possible they've answered. All right, we're going to go with Taylor.

You're going with Taylor. Taylor, are you from Boston? I am. I'm from Beverly. Oh, I listen to that accent. Wow. Pretty. You got all of them. Guess what, baby? Matt. Yeah. Matt, why does he know you? One of my children, one of his children. Yeah, they went to school together. And Scott, where are you from? Sorry, buddy. G, Ontario up in Canada.

A Canadian in our midst. It's a newie. We do have a um a parting gift for you, Lou. What do we have? It's a Red Sox cab filled with baked beans. Oh, all right. There you go, Taylor. Sorry, Taylor. MATT, PUT THAT ON. WHAT? PUT IT ON. YEAH, PUT THAT ON. YANKEE, come on now. Oh, I close UP MY YANKEES LOST FIVE IN A ROW.

All I have to say and the Knicks. Oh, Knicks. They're going down. There we go. All right, that's a sport. There you go. Yeah, I knew it from I knew. Well done. Three for three. Very solid. Balls up is the movie. It premieres Wednesday on Prime Video. Mark Wahberg, everybody. Thank you, Mark. Pleasure. We'll be back with Henry Winkler.