437: Neal McDonough—Clear the Mechanism

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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437: Neal McDonough—Clear the Mechanism

The perennial character actor villain turned leading man drops by to talk about the first film where he finally gets to kiss the girl at the end, The Last Rodeo—and that girl is played by his wife, Ruvé. Coincidence? Not a chance. That’s the only way Neal would do it. Neal also discusses how he secured a return to Taylor Sheridan’s Tulsa Kings, why he thought Sylvester Stallone might deck him on set, and the greatest career advice Clint Eastwood gave him.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, friends. It's Mike Rowe. It's the way I heard it. This is going to be a quick preamble because I'm so excited to share the conversation you're about to hear with you that I don't want to take up any unnecessary time with a bunch of needless blather, Chuck. And I don't mean any of this personally, but you and me at the top of these things, blathering needlessly is the very
0:21.0	definition of needless blather. So in other words, you want to get to it right away. I do. I think
0:26.1	the conversation was that good. It was excellent, yeah, and very little blather to be had in it.
0:32.8	My guest is Neil McDonough, who I'm now going to describe to you as my friend, Neil McDonough.
0:38.5	We got along great the first time he came in here about a year ago, and he's back.
0:43.8	If his publicist were here, he would say, well, he's back because he has a new film, and it's
0:47.9	great, by the way.
0:49.5	It's called The Last Rodeo.
0:51.1	But I like to think he was here, Chuck, just because he enjoys spending time.
0:54.3	He likes to hang out and chat, Mike. He's a very chatty guy. He gives good conversation,
0:59.2	and he's an interesting guy, very interesting. He's a deep well. You know him, of course.
1:04.3	If you don't, well, you're about to meet him, but you know him. It's impossible not to have
1:08.6	seen this guy. So many films, over 150 films, movies,
1:12.3	TV shows. He's carved out a really interesting relationship with Angel Studios, whom I also know.
1:20.8	I've got a show over there and maybe another one coming soon. We'll see. I don't want to get into it
1:25.8	because it's not about me but well it is
1:29.1	about me and neil mcdonna all right take it easy uh and he makes it about his wife a lot too he
1:33.4	does mention his wife man he loves that he loves his wife i love that i love it's a family man
1:38.4	yeah he's an open book i mean a lot of people watched our first conversation yeah and i think
1:43.6	the reason people love this guy so much is because, yes, he is an open book.
1:48.4	He's having a great time.
1:50.8	He knows what matters to him.
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