 Hi, how's everybody doing today? This is your host Rich here and we have a Rich TV Live with our very special guest. It is Pooch Hall. How you doing today Pooch Hall? Hey yo, Big Rich, what's up bro, I'm good man, I'm good. Thank you for having me. Hey, thank you for joining us. Now you have been doing so much and I'm super excited to have you on the show and you've been known for the game now on Netflix and your role as Daryl on the Emmy award winning show Ray Donovan. Pooch, tell us a little bit about your path from Brockton, Massachusetts to Hollywood. Wow, first and foremost man, I hope everyone out there is safe and you know, maintaining their sanity the best that they can because it's been a crazy 2020 so I want to make sure I send a huge shout out to all the peoples out there in the fight, health workers, you know, law enforcement and people trying to get equality. So it's love going out to everyone out there man, it's just like it's time to come together, you know, so and I come from a tough, I come from a tough city called Brockton Massachusetts. I mean, for the people who don't know Brockton, Massachusetts, if you're familiar with boxing, it's the home of Rocky Marciano and marvelous Marvin Hagler. Wow. Yeah, so two champions, two tough cats and our model in Brockton is the city of champions so I'm very proud to be a part of that. So therefore, growing up in Brockton, you had to have a fighter's mentality and not only a fighter's mentality, you had the will to work to win and become a champion like, you know, like Marvin and Rocky. So Massachusetts itself is a great state but I'm super proud to be a product of Brockton and from the east side born and raised. The Brockton is a place where, you know, it's blue collar and you got to put that work in to get what you want and, you know, you go after it like one of the models of the New England Patriots is like, do your job, you know what I mean? And everyone on the Patriots, they just got the acquisition of Cam Newton. But even when Tom Brady was there, just do your job and we'll win, you know, and that was something that I, you know, I put into my work ethic was to go after what I wanted but to work hard, you know what I mean, and do my job and, you know, when I boxed, you know, my dad used to say, you don't play with boxing, you know what I mean? You can get hurt and get really, really hurt in there and I felt like I wanted to be someone from Brockton other than Rocky or Marvin to do something big, you know? And I found Hollywood in a sense. So I was always doing things from, you know, whether I was boxing, playing football, rapping, making people laugh. Like I went to Brockton High and I got class clown my senior year. So a lot of people like all my friends back home, they're like, it makes sense that you're in Hollywood doing your thing. So you enjoyed making people laugh. Bro, I love to entertain, man. Yeah. I love to entertain and for me, you know, laughter is like the best medicine and even now in our situation in 2020, having all the things that's going on is like a lot of people are in tough spots to where laughter can take you out of that for a second and bring some good energy, man, because there's nothing like laughing and, you know, and that feel good, you know, release of that energy, man. So like being from Brockton, knowing how it's a tough town and what you got to do to make it like I was determined and, you know, they don't call us this, you know, city of champions for nothing. And so for me, like I feel like a champion, like being on the game, like I really felt like I made it as a pro football player and then being a boxer on Ray Donovan, I was like, man, I'm getting the best of both worlds, but a lot of it had to do with being from Brockton and my work ethic and, you know, not taking no for an answer. But I put that work in, man, and it's gotten me here to where, you know, a lot of people know my name now and, you know, I'm very, very flattered and fortunate to have a huge fan base and I really, really appreciate the fans and the support that I get. Well, you get everything you deserve, my friend, and I'm super proud of you. And I know that this is just the beginning. Now we've got this incredible app. What drew you to the WinQuick app? First and foremost, what drew me to the WinQuick app was the simplicity of possibly winning money where you, based off of whatever your knowledge is about life and about the world, the WinQuick app. It's a simple way to play a game, to put your trivia wisdom to the test and really, really see how smart you are, you know what I'm saying? So like, I feel the design of it and how it came to be was one of those situations where you say, man, I wish we can come up with an app that kind of does the huge thing but doesn't really take all that much to like create. And I think it's with our app here, man, like, I can't wait till we launch because it's going to be so much traffic based off of people saying like, you know, when we kind of drop a hand as far as like, okay, categories dogs or categories movies, categories science fiction, categories music, how many people are going to jump on because everyone wherever they are, think they're the king or the queen in some category that we're going to announce, you know what I'm saying? And when, you know what I'm saying? So when you have an opportunity to win money, like, bro, why not? You know what I'm saying? So I've been telling these guys, you guys got to get a stock show. I'm telling you want to see a show that everybody will get on stocks, bro. You got the right here, man. Think about it. Think about it, Rich. Whenever there's like, whenever, thank God, we have a sports season and just back when football came back, all my friends, everyone was like, yo, they started talking about sports betting and, you know, who, who you pick in and all this down to third. Now that's just forced. Now you have a lot of people who aren't sports, but then a lot of people who may know everything about dogs. That's right. Movie buffs, like myself, which, you know, as a host, I can't wait to be involved because like, you know, when I was approached, you know, and I had the opportunity to, you know, help create and offer some insight based off of certain topics, like I was getting excited to where I was like, man, I want to be, I wouldn't never mind a host. I want to be, I want to be a participant. Yeah. Because just the competitive edge that it brings, Rich, is that, you know, it makes it, it makes it competitive and we all want to compete and the, the, to compete in itself is a rush and a thrill, but then the win, there's nothing like winning. I mean, I mean, I mean, how many times have you watched the world series of poker and even though they're all cool and they win, they pot of money, you know, they outside in the parking lot, going nuts. Oh yeah. Here's a hundred. So we're going to be, we're going to be doing a, an app that you get to compete with other people, but it's really competing with yourself on how smart you are and how much do you really know? Because a lot of people will think they know stuff, but it's like, no, that's not quite it. Because you know how, you know, I mean, have you watched Jeopardy and learn someone's real confident and they got the answer and it's wrong. Nope. I'm sorry. It was in Italy, you know, whatever. I'm a mess, bro. My favorite show growing up is Family Feud, man. I still watch the reruns. Bro. I love Family Feud, man. But that's, that's what's great about that and what, what I, what's great about Hollywood and being in, being an entertainer and an actor and an athlete, you know, is that competitive edge. We all have some competitiveness in us. Okay. So when you have that, where it's like, we have an opportunity to go on a show and compete and what have you, having this right in the palm of your hand is genius. It's genius. You know what I'm saying? And so I'm really, really excited to be a part of like something that I feel is going to take off, man, because, you know, having my cell phone and my fan base and the other, and the other hosts that are also involved, we're going to like really get the word out there quick. Oh yeah. It's worse. I'm saying, so when people start to kind of catch on and then all of a sudden they're like, you know, Mike's telling John and John's telling Steve and Steve's telling Nancy and Nancy's telling Amy. It's like, oh my God, I want X amount of dollars on like when the WinQuick app, you know, I was just like, yo, this is a go. I couldn't say, I couldn't say yes, fast enough. Which now I've had other WinQuick hosts join me here on Rich TV live. And you might be the most versatile out of all of them. So if I'm, am I correct if I'm saying that your initial shows will quiz your viewers on at least five different topics ranging from movie quotes to Star Wars to lyrics. And if so, how can it be an expert in so many genres and why those genres? Well, here's the thing. There's, there's so many, there's so many different, you know, races, cultures, people with certain likes, people who have special likes and things that they have a special interest in. And I feel one of the things about our app is it speaks to everyone. Okay. Now. My dad growing up. He didn't like baseball. I didn't really care for basketball too much, but he loved boxing. He loved football. He was great with cars. He was also in the military. So when you can relate to a person, then they also, that when, when, when you can relate to a person, it automatically makes them feel included. You see what I'm saying? Absolutely. So, you feel what I'm saying? So when, when, when you can relate to a person, they've been included to where really, really pushes them to say, I want to be involved. And then when you, then when you offer a category that they can relate to and then they, that happens when a person wins something, they get excited. They want to talk about it when it's a, it's a, it's a voter confidence in a little bit of like, you know, a little bit of like that little gravitas, like, yeah, man, yeah, I won. You want to show your trophy off. So in a way, it's almost like, Hey, I played this new app, you know, you know, this win quick app. And I, I made X amount of, that was now a lot of people don't get rewarded for being the smartest in the room sometimes, or you know everything about baseball, you know, everything about plants, you know, everything about sneakers. And when you give that to them, right? So when you give that to them, and all of a sudden it's just like, holy crap, they're having a contest or trivia game on Star Wars, that it's not just like, you know, a Disney like game, like a little funny game where you win like some tickets to go to Disney and go, you know, toward the, uh, toward the, the, the Star Wars planet, which would go, I haven't been yet, but an actual trivia game on a category that you love. So imagine, imagine, now you know, I'm not sure if you're familiar rich, but when you, when it's me, was it when May, May 4th, May the 4th, May 4th, when May 4th hits, all right. When May 4th hits, all you see across Twitter and Instagram is Star Wars, May the 4th be with you. Oh, I didn't know that. See, so I believe it's May, I believe it's May 4th, like it's like May the 4th, May the 4th. May the 4th, yeah, yeah, it makes sense. But the point that I'm trying to make, so I'll be on my Instagram or Twitter, that's all you see, right? Now imagine you do just a category on that, on how many people Star Wars fans will be on that. Okay. Huge. Even with my, my, my producer and friend Amber was like, I didn't even understand or know that there are plant people who are like really into plants that like, we just found a whole new species of plant that can talk that that's not like, you know, a little shop, you know, not much like that, but so many things that are there that we didn't know. So, so even us as hosts and as producers that what we, we're finding out new stuff, we're finding out new stuff. So when you have that rich, it leads to other categories of greatness of things that we can talk about. What the, one of the things that I love about this app is what it's going to do as far as bringing people together. Now, sports is one of the things that, that does that. You know, so as movies, like people go to the movie theater everywhere together, right? Whatever someone can, wherever they can find entertainment. And like I said, being able to relate and connect. But all of a sudden, people forget their problems. People forget that, you know, hey, I got, I got, I got mashed potatoes on the stove and they burn it up. People come together and say, Hey, you know what, let's, let's do this. So this app wears a few different hats. It's a place where you can, you can get your competitive edge going. And second, it can, it can bring people together. Okay. And then you can walk away having more knowledge than you did before in case like there's certain things you didn't know, and then you learn today. And then you can, you can win some money for the future, whether Christmas gifts or I want to put my kids in the college or I want to buy, I want to buy that new iPhone, you know what I mean? And I think that, you know, this, this app's going to be one of those things that people are going to be talking about. And us as hosts, you know, whether our followers or whatever projects we're working on, we can also share. And I look forward to connecting to a lot of my fans who, whether, you know, we, we set up special prizes or special, uh, the special things that are, I think will evolve as this app becomes bigger. And, um, where hopefully, depending on what project I'm on, you know, one of the prizes could be, you know, a set visit. Oh, wow. That visit. Those are things that we would do on charities where, um, you know, come to the set, meet, meet the cast, you know, have lunch with the cast, you know, tour the lot depending on where we're, where we're shooting. And it's just, there's, there's so much potential here, Rich. And, and, and it's endless where we can go. Um, and it was just something that I just, I had to be a part of and I wanted to jump at. Now I think that, uh, Greg Clem was on the show and he said, you guys are already casting new shows and expanding programming. Will you venture into other categories or host different shows? Um, well, yeah, I think, I feel that's the idea. You've seen him saying, because, um, as we, as we, as we start to learn as hosts and as we're developing different, um, categories and different, um, just different aspects of the game. It's like when you're collaborating and you're coming up with things, new ideas will pop up. So it's like, okay, then we can do this or we can swap out and host different genres that we're not familiar like that. I may not be familiar with and vice versa. You know what I mean? Just to keep it fresh and keep it like, you know, new and, and entertaining. You see what I'm saying? I feel, I feel me personally, I've done a lot. I've done a lot where, um, widening our, uh, categories and I'll reach the end of goal really, really far because I feel this thing has like a, like a, uh, Twitter or a tip talk or Instagram, it can go international. You see what I'm saying? And when, let me think about it, man, Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, those things are, those things are global. All right. Winning money just isn't here in this country. It's global. Totally. Okay, knowledge, knowledge is constantly a thing that is acquired. I mean, we're learning every day. So I think with this app, not only I'm going to be at an education and offering certain education, but being able to reach other places and, um, you know, and seeing, seeing, seeing where we can go, man. I mean, there was one, there was talk, there was talk of possibly having a kids division, you know, I mean, think about it, man. We're having based off of this year being so crazy and a lot of the kids, because I have kids, a lot of the kids are doing school from home. You've seen him saying, um, and me having kids, you know, some of the other hosts and producers have children. We do something for the kids and where we offer, in a sense, some, some trivia and stuff to where they can challenge themselves to win. Let's say stuff for school or, you know, maintenanceable, um, monies or awards or grants or something towards education from the college and, and so forth. Um, I think that's really, really important because it starts there. You know what I mean? And if we can offer it in a game setting, but like a game to where you're challenging yourself, it's not just like a mindless game. This is going to do this. This, this app is going to require you to use your noggin. You say the same, really going to have to really, really, really use your noggin and, and dig deep. You see him saying, and, you know, and the more you play, the better you're going to get at that. That's just how I feel. You know what I mean? Yeah, I love it. I'm really excited about seeing where this is going to go. And when the app launches this fall, whose game show will you play first other than your own? Um, I would definitely, uh, that's a good question. I, okay. I would have to say, I would have to save a hawk. I would have to say, I would have to say, I would want to play Michael hawks game because here's the thing growing up. I was a boy scout. Okay. I know a little bit about survival. I am rich. My father also was a green beret, uh, Sergeant first class. Um, he was stationed in, he was stationed at Fort Devons. And, you know, my dad, my dad taught me so much. And, you know, Mike or Mr. Hawke, I, you know, that's, I just want to make sure I know how I'm addressing him as a sergeant hawk. I don't know. Colonel Hawke, I don't know, but, uh, uh, Mike, uh, that category is so cool, but what I know, what I know, what else is so cool about his category, bro, is it's always good to learn how to make it out there in the world without a cell phone, without certain resources that you're used to. And what ends up happening because as a boy scout, there was a lot of stuff that I did that you had to become really in tune with yourself on knowing how to survive and how to move out, out there in the world with, you know, let's just say maybe just a knife or, you know, uh, how to, you know, how to make a fire or how to stay warm and whatever. And also one of my best friends growing up, uh, Chris Melberg is also in the Special Forces, which I'm hoping that he will be on it. I mean, I'm like, when this all happens, you can follow each other on Twitter, when this all happens, I'm sure he's going to jump in there, um, because it's important now and one of the things about, um, when the pandemic first hit, a lot of people made jokes or comments about, oh, it's about to become like the walking dead and, uh, we got to learn how to survive and everyone's buying up all the stuff out of the grocery stores. And my boy, my boy Chris was like, you know what, whether that's true or not, it's, it's time for me to really, really teach my boys the environment. And if God forbid, if any craziness were to happen to know how to survive, but also to know how to help people who may not know how to survive. So we're, we're so, we're so blessed. What, one of the things rich about the, our app and our host is we have, we have, we have a dope writer, our head writer, his name is Jamie Kaplan. And I mean, he worked on who wants to be a millionaire, Jeopardy, uh, CBS Sportsnet. So he knows how to make sure that we have the language that connects to the people going forward with an app like this and the global potential in which you can have, you got to make sure you cover all bases. And, and as a host, like just the different people that we're going to be working with and whoever else that we can like possibly invite. I mean, I would love to have a celebrity trivia. Uh, well, they always do like a celebrity or sports like athletes or teachers, specific categories for specific types, as far as like maybe like special occasions or something. Um, you know, kind of how the other game shows do usually we'll have like, you'll have like athletes, each other and so forth. And it's always fun, you know, raising money for charity. Yeah. Like celebrity family feud. They only have celebrities on stuff like that. Yeah. I think that's a great idea. That's stuff. Wait, that stuff is so, that stuff is so key. And the success, the success of this app, man. And so, I mean, you know, you can go to my Instagram, I am Poo Chaw and my Twitter, I am underscore Poo Chaw because before we launched, I'm going to be blasting as a, as a, as a celebrity and as an actor and as a person of color and a connection to the people. Like I'm going to be putting this out there because there's so much potential for people to win in all types of categories and areas. And, you know, and, and that connection with the people and the people to feel like they're being heard or what have you, because there's no telling where it can go, you see what I'm saying. And I think, I think that's, that's important. That's important that, you know, we have that connection with the people to where they're having fun, they're having fun. And also, if they feel like they have, they also have suggestions, I mean, I would love to hear what the people think. And, you know, even when we launch my, my Instagram is I am Poo Chaw and my Twitter is I am underscore Poo Chaw. I would love, love, love to hear people's thoughts and suggestions, which, you know, it's how you get better. And I think this, this situation here is about everyone getting better. You see what I'm saying, getting better with knowledge, getting better with a, a, a look towards a positive and fun 2021. Because sometimes people will be like, you know what, I just don't like sports. Okay. Well, what do you like? Um, I don't know. I like power tools. I like cars. And then when you have those options, they kind of, it, it settles a person and excites them at the same time. You know what I mean? And then it's just our jobs. It's our job as hosts to really drive it home and make sure that we make it fun and entertaining and people, uh, the, the, the tune in, you know what I mean? So I'm so, so, so excited to be a part of this man. And you know what, I can tell, and that's what I think is going to really drive this app. You know, I've been interviewing so many celebrities from clickstream and the WinQuick app, super excited to have you on the show today. Super excited to be able to watch you evolve as a celebrity, as an actor and as a host on the WinQuick app. And I'm very excited to see this launch go off and see how everything is going to come together. I think it's going to be a huge success. Our entire community all over the world will be watching. If you guys are watching all over the world from home, smash the like button, subscribe and go and follow pooch hall all over social media and make sure that you guys go and download and get this app when it launches. It's going to be one of the hottest things out there. Pooch Hall is involved. Rich TV Live is involved. So many other celebrities are involved. Stay tuned. This is Rich from Rich TV Live with our special guest, Pooch Hall. Thank you for joining us today, Pooch. Big Rich, I appreciate you, man. Hit me up anytime, my guy, and make sure I'm following you as well. So Rich, thank you so much for having us to give you a rundown real quick of the hosts that are going to be involved again. Josh Dobbs, he's doing outer space, space, space, space. Jordan Nadino, Food and Hollywood. And with Theo Harris, my girl, she's doing Bible toys, Greek mythology, Casino games and comics. Brian Bollinger, sports movies, travel, football, Howie Schwab, sports. There you have the rundown. This is your boy, Pooch Hall, saying peace. See you when I see you. Peace.