Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara

Grammy nominee and breakout star of the legendary HBO series The Wire Tristan “Mack” Wilds joins the show to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the critically acclaimed fourth season of the series. Mack talks his casting on the show, and the way the cast of legends like Wood Harris and Michael K. Williams embraced and mentored him, and his iconic character Michael’s arc from innocence to Omar’s successor. Plus, Mack picks his favorite season of the show, gives his Mount Rushmore of Wire characters and performances, and tells the guys what it was like when he learned about THAT scene with Snoop. Finally, Matt asks Tristan about his time on 90210 and Jerry wonders if the crew of young actors on The Wire had the same camaraderie as the boys on Entourage.

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00:00 Show open

02:00 Wendy’s Greatest Beefs of All-Time: Actor Beefs

08:30 Tristan Mack Wilds Joins

9:30 The casting process joining Season 4 of The Wire

14:00 The roller coaster of getting The Wire renewed year by year

18:20 Behind the scenes of the Snoop and Michael scene (Spoilers)

25:40 Lil Wayne wanted a Wire cameo and Jim Jones got one instead

28:35 Could The Wire have a reboot or return?

29:50 Are “The Boys of Summer” still tight?

31:32 Tristan’s relationship with Michael K. Williams

36:02 How he found out Michael was becoming the new Omar

39:50 Mount Rushmore The Wire characters and performances

42:45 Tristan Wilds’ favorite Wire scenes

46:35 Transitioning from The Wire to 90210

53:00 Best Hitman, Kingpin and Detective on The Wire

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Pro Bowler and Head Coach of the Delaware State Hornets Desean Jackson joins the show and Matt Leinart declares him “the one that got away” from USC. Desean discusses his new Prime Video documentary Go Deep: The Desean Jackson story, a film 30 years in the making. The superstar wideout remembers his time at Long Beach Poly as he and Matt reminisce over some of the greatest talents to ever come out of California high school football. Desean reveals why he chose to go to Cal for college instead of USC and how Pete Carroll and the Trojans recruited him. Plus, Jerry tells Desean he was one of the most feared Eagles of all-time as Desean retells the story of the Miracle at the Meadowlands 2 and reveals what it was like to catch a deep ball from Michael Vick.

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00:00 Show open

02:24 Wendy’s Greatest Beefs of All-Time: USC vs. Oregon

07:22 Desean Jackson joins the show

07:50 Why Desean was “one of the few that got away” from USC

10:00 Go Deep: The Desean Jackson story was 30 years in the making

12:35 What does Desean hope people get out of his new doc?

16:23 Jerry’s Bet MGM Pick of the Week

19:08 How did Long Beach Poly shape Desean as a young man?

20:54 Matt and Desean remember some Los Angeles high school greats

22:33 Texas vs. Florida vs. California: Best high school football?

23:30 Did Desean really run a 10.5 100m in high school?

24:34 Could Desean have made the MLB?

25:25 When USC recruited Desean in high school

27:23 Desean goal was to go to Cal and beat USC

31:21 Reliving NFL Draft trouble with Andy Reid and Jeff Tedford

33:32 Desean’s decision to enter the NFL Draft early

34:50 Giants fans hate Desean

35:45 Desean relives The Miracle at the Meadowlands 2

38:48 Would Desean rather return a punt for a TD or catch a deep ball?

39:29 The famous Michael Vick pass

40:18 Desean says the new era of collegiate athletes is entitled

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NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens joins the show and per usual he has a lot to say. TO has a new Amp Sports podcast, Get TO The Point, and he reveals the show’s origin story, what a TO podcast would have looked like in his playing days and how he would have been the NFL’s version of Draymond Green. Owens sings Jerry Rice’s praises and tells the guys how the GOAT got him in trouble at a 49ers walkthrough early in his career. Plus, Terrell tells the stories behind some of his greatest celebrations ever, discusses how he was able to play in Super Bowl XXIX with a broken leg and gives an update on his greatest Beef Ever: Donovan McNabb. Finally Terrell reveals his dream podcast guest, Rachel McAdams, the star of his favorite movie ever The Notebook.

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College Football Hall of Famer and National Champion Vince Young joins Throwbacks with Matt Leinart and Jerry Ferrara, talking all things Texas Longhorns and his new Netflix documentary Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young. To kick things off Vince details his thoughts when learning his former head coach Jeff Fisher would be participating in the doc, why he felt now was the time to tell his story and more. Plus, Vince and Matt recap their legendary 2006 Rose Bowl for the National Championship, Vince admits his knee was down on the infamous lateral play and explains how impressed he was by Matt’s USC team. Vince chooses his Mount Rushmore for Longhorns football players, reveals what happened when the NCAA tried to give him Reggie Bush’s Heisman Trophy, Matt names Vince the GOAT college football quarterback and much more in this special Season 3 premiere.

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For Throwbacks there is only one way to celebrate Mamba Day: by throwing back to the greatest Kobe stories ever told on the show. Whether it’s from players who had to guard him or hidden behind the scenes moments where Kobe let his guard down and was just a bro, we have heard every type of Kobe story imaginable on Throwbacks. Jerry remembers the time Kobe bet the Entourage cast on halfcourt shots and paid his debt in the most epic way possible. Or for Matt, there was the time they were just two retired dads chilling in LA. Plus stories from Bonzi Wells, Michael Redd, Micah Nori, Raymond Felton and more on the man, the myth, the legend, The Black Mamba, Kobe Bryant.

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00:00 Show open

02:21 Matt got to know Kobe

04:01 Kobe’s Entourage cameo that never happened

06:40 Matt’s Kobe the Dad story

09:20 Kobe shot halfcourt shots with the Entourage cast for money

12:55 Michael Redd on what made Kobe great

14:36 Micah Nori on coaching against Kobe’s 81 point game

22:45 Matt remembers where he was when Kobe scored 81

25:25 Bonzi Wells on playing against Kobe

30:25 Raymond Felton on Kobe in the GOAT conversation

32:43 NHTSA Game Changing Decisions

38:13 Kobe and Shaq are the Greatest Lakers duo ever

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