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He's got 24. Clippers at 9. Today's guests, actor Corey Stoll, Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh, director and producer Ashley Underwood.

Plus, your phone calls, what's more likely, and more. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Alright, everybody. Welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show.

844-204-RICH is the number to dial here on the program. We've got not one, not two, but three in-studio guests. It's going to be a fun day. The head coach, our neighbor from across the way of the Los Angeles Chargers. It has been, I think, nine years since Jim Harbaugh physically appeared on the Rich Eisen Show in our studio. Really? It's going to happen in hour number two of this program. I know. And lots to talk about, as you know, with my coach from team 144, national champion, University of Michigan Wolverines. And then he plussed up the Chargers to 11 wins in his first season, his HC across the street. He will be here in studio hour number two.

And then because, you know, we love being all over the map. A new pickleball documentary called Dreambreaker, a pickleball story. The producer, Ashley Underwood, will be here in hour number three. She is a hoot. I've seen the documentary. It is awesome.

It's on Max. She'll be here in studio hour three. First up is the actor Corey Stoll, who's been on this program before, talking in advance of the Many Saints of Newark. Remember the... Oh, that's right.

That was the... Didn't he play Uncle Junior? He played the young Uncle June, right? In that Sopranos prequel.

He was strolling the streets of New York on the phone last time he was on this program, but he's going to be here in studio. And I can confirm, after talking with him in the back, we will rename the show The Handsome Bald Men with Gray Beard's Show. You're not in that one. We're part of the brotherhood together. Yeah. But... I don't have a gray beard.

Just at one point, the two shot, you might be confused as to who's who. I love it. I'm going to try and draft off his handsomeness. Let's go, man. That's in hour number one. Let's go.

In 20 minutes time. Good to see you over there, Christopher. How are you? Hey, Rich. You got a good what's more like to all?

What's more likely? Ready to go? You want me to say hello to everyone now? No, no. Do not waste time. No, no, no. That's fine.

You don't have to front load the hello. Okay. That's coming up in an hour's time. Good to see you over there, Jay Felley. How are you? What's up, Rich?

I'm great. Oh, shocking. We didn't get a full week of Del Tufo. Yeah. He did say that he was going to be here and that you didn't know he was going to be here.

And lo and behold, you're here at some point. We've got to stop invoking Del Tufo when Jay Felley shows up here. You know what I mean? I know. But Mike made it about him working a full week and we were like, no, you're not going to do it. You know, it's something that was never scheduled at some point.

At some point, you know, back in the 1920s, somebody had a stop. Oh, there's Wally Pips replacement. When's Wally coming back? You know what I mean?

You know what I mean? At some point, we stopped saying, when's Lou Gehrig coming? When's Lou Gehrig going to go? I'm going to check his game log. When's Wally coming back? Let's see when they stopped saying that.

No, no, no. You have to look at when Lou Gehrig started, you know, doing this. Well, 1923. I'm just going to look how he started. Hello, TJ Jefferson.

How are you? I mean, I got game seven coming. I'd love to ask you, can you tell me the name of the Los Angeles winter sports teams that still are playing right now? Having a game left in their seasons after the Los Angeles Kings got basically swept out by the Edmonton Oilers after taking a two games to none lead in their best of seven round one series. My apologies to you, Jay Felley, to bring up the bad Los Angeles Kings hockey games from last night.

I heard a little bit. I'm done with hockey. So winter sports, there's there's hockey. Yes.

And then there is the NBA. Yes. That's so Los Angeles based teams. Yes, sir. Well, that would be the Kings. Yes. And they're out. And then there's the Lakers there. Yeah. They're down the street from again. They're they're gone.

And we're still playing right now. That would leave just to this guy, the Los Angeles Clippers. What I do, baby Leonard. Or should we say more appropriately, Norm Powell? I mean, look, I was on Norm Powell yesterday. He had to show up. He was on one. He had to last night.

Everybody did. Bogdanovich showed up. The team showed up. Hardin played 46 out of the 48 minutes.

And by the end of it, he looked like he played 86 of the 48. Yeah. That's my worry going into a game seven. Stop worrying. Stop it. I have to. Stop it. I'm a Clippers fan. That's all we know is distress. OK, so we've set the table.

What it do, baby? Let's start the show with the breaking news that just came out of San Antonio via Shams Tarania's megaphone, Shams reporting for ESPN and its family of networks that Greg Popovich will no longer be the coach of the San Antonio Spurs and that he's going to go full time into the role of team president, the as he refers to him appropriately, iconic Popovich Hall of Famer, the all time winningest coach in NBA history. He is no longer going to be the coach.

And as we all know, the idea of. Greg Popovich, known belovedly in the NBA circles and Spurs circles, his pop would be the head coach. To shepherd Victor Wimber Nama into his greatness after he did such for Tim Duncan and this franchise with the admiral. In a twenty nine year stretch for Greg Popovich, it was known as. Around the NBA circles, what's meant to be right. It was meant to be, you know, obviously many other NBA franchises, what do you mean meant to be?

We would have loved to have women Yama. But when the Spurs wound up, it's just like, oh, yeah, here we go again. And who better to shepherd this brilliant, what looked to appear to be unicorn, monstrously large man who can shoot threes, bring the ball up, play defense? Who better to show the ropes of the NBA than to this young man than Popovich?

But it's only going to be one year for Greg with. Victor Wimber Nama, as we all know, the man who's been with this team since taking over as the interim in December of nineteen ninety six for Bob Hill. You remember after the Spurs won only three of their first eighteen games and went three and fifteen, let's go to the bench and give Greg Popovich the role. And everyone knew him as an assistant to Larry Brown, and then he had a brief stint under, you know, the the great coach Nelson Don Nelson with Golden State. And he took over the team in which were enough to remember when people were like, who's Popovich? He's the GM. Like, how's he? I can remember there was like pushback at that time.

Of course. And and then they wound up, as you know, not performing very well under Popovich that season to finish up and wound up with the number one overall pick and took Tim Duncan yada yada yada. Twenty two consecutive playoff seasons later, at least 50 games and 18 straight of those years and five championships. The man's in the Hall of Fame, and as we all know, he suffered a stroke that caused him to sit out this year or at least hope that he could come back at some point this year after suffering a mild stroke on November 2nd. And then, as Shams pointed out in his article on February 27th, he had an emotional meeting with the Spurs saying that he didn't think he'd be returning to the coaching role this season aiming for next season and medical incident on April 15th at a local San Antonio restaurant caused a scare, but everybody said he'd been feeling much better and and had been quite present at the team facility throughout the rest of this campaign in which the Spurs made a bold move for De'Aaron Fox at the trade deadline and have seemingly set things up for the future for Popovich to return, but it's not going to happen.

And I'll just say this. What he has meant to the Spurs franchise, what he has meant to basketball as a whole. As we know, he has been he's been the head coach of the U.S. men's national basketball team and for the Tokyo Olympics, where the U.S. won its fourth consecutive gold medal. He got a five year contract extension in twenty three, which made us all think that it was just going to continue on into a fourth decade on the bench for the San Antonio Spurs. But what he has meant in the other coaches he has set up for success and the other players that he has affected and whose lives he has changed and also his voice. The guy, as you know, suffered no fools ever. His chit chats in game with sideline reporters are the stuff of legend, but a very again from everybody who's known him, warm man, red wine lover, but a guy who will use his platform to talk about things other than basketball and talk about life, democracy, this country, what it should stand for.

And just damning all the torpedoes and running out of F's to give his voice in that role will be missed. And I do hope he is, in fact, well enough to be the full time president of this team and continue on in a capacity that does affect wins and losses more in the wins column for the San Antonio Spurs. I just wanted to say that. And wish the Spurs organization the best of luck as you know, they move into the draft lottery again. With Juan Banyama hopefully coming back healthy and then there's the idea of what they're going to do at the coaching spot. I'm sure that will be addressed sooner rather than later. Anybody in the San Antonio area, as we know, we know some people down there who call into the show.

We're happy to take your phone calls 844-204-RICH number to dial. Here on this program, as I mentioned last night, the Clippers moved on. Knicks moved on as well.

Another tight one. Hey, listen, tip the cap to the Detroit Pistons. That team is going to be very tough to deal with in the future. Yeah, that's a fun, young team. You feel like they're maybe a year or two too early. They arrived earlier than expected.

Yeah, they arrived a little bit earlier and so in a couple years they're going to be so formidable. But you know, it's funny, they had kind of a weird ending like the Bucks did the other night where ball went right through Malik Beasley's hands, he would add an open look to maybe tie the game, but obviously the story of this game was just Jalen Brunson, his awesomeness, his clutch abilities, and now the Knicks move on. Forty points, including a three, in which he dispatched his defender in a very, what, Brian Russell type way. He crossed them hard. I don't think there was much of a push, man. I don't think so.

It was a hard plant. Well, I'm just talking about, about dispatching your defender with a, with a move. But you automatically think of a push off when you, when you say that. Michael Jordan didn't push off.

How dare you? I'm not saying he did. I'm saying that's where your mind goes though.

Okay. But it did like, the defenders right there, suddenly defender is no longer within your area code and you've got a wide open shot that you jar because you are as clutch as they come. The most clutch apparently. Well, that's with Steven A on first takes that he's the most clutch shooter still remaining in the, in the playoff and the stats to back it up. Everyone forgets about Jason Tatum.

It's fine. Most clutch shooter, at least in that very moment. And it's why he has renewed my love for the Knicks.

He has very few human beings could ever make me forget about James Dolan. You were out. Oh, I was very out. You couldn't see it to the point where, you know, I'll, I'll cover my face walking into Madison square garden, just so I could not get ejected, you know, I know they do.

They facially recognize their, uh, their patrons. And you were on the list. Oh man. When I walked into the sphere, even for the U2 concert, I was nervous, you know, but I am who I am. And Brunson is who he is. And he's one of my, I mean, I never thought anybody would either a make me forget Dolan and renew my love for the New York Knicks or be even make me consider Bernard King is no longer my favorite Nick of all time.

And that's where you're at. That's where I am at, you know, and this is a guy who, if I'm not mistaken, uh, once beat the Michigan Wolverines and made me very miserable. You take that personally on a night in which I could have been the happiest Michigan Wolverine around and, um, he's something else. This kid, I, he is truly remarkable and, um, this was him after the game about his game winning shot. Just find a way to, uh, create some separation, um, shot a little earlier than I wanted to, but I mean, I mean, I saw her as just a great defender, man.

And, um, just the fact that I got them a space, I mean, I had to shoot it right there. I'm happy to borrow ball went in. He's referring to our star Thompson who who's been terrific tremendous defender. He's terrific on him, man. Those pistons have some really long, long defenders, which is, you know, uh, the secret to Oklahoma city's sauce as well.

Um, that's what you gotta do, right? Certainly in this perimeter game, you gotta have people who can defend the perimeter and then defend the rim and make clutch shots and the pistons have got all that. Yeah, it's coming from, uh, but the Knicks, uh, survived, moved on and, uh, coach Thibodeau is happy to have Jalen Brunson to say the least Jalen shot. What can you say, you know, timely, you know, he's at his best when his best is needed.

He's done it all year. And I think that's what makes them so special then, you know, we talk about, you know, the, all the intangibles that it's his makeup and oftentimes, you know, that's, that's where mistakes I think are made in the draft and things like that. And there's, it's easy to see like how many points a guy scores or what physical tools tools are.

But when you look at the mental tools, that's everything. You know, uh, obviously we're all focused on who the Mavericks let go in the past year. That one, you know, as, as you know, is left at the feet of the Mavericks front office and ownership. I mean, do you think they would wave a wand and keep Brunson like what, what, what would that sliding door look like?

They had both guys. Right. What do you think? Uh, yeah. Do you think, what would that look like right now if Brunson was still a Mav? I don't know.

Doing what he's doing right now. I don't know if it would work because. I don't know if he would have gotten the opportunity to have it.

That's what I mean because Lucas saw ball dominant, Brunson's ball dominant as well. I just don't know how that would have worked out. Obviously the Mavs would have never gotten Kyrie Irving. Of course.

Who knows if they acquire the sliding door, man. So he worked out for both teams. Not the Luca trade, worked out for both teams. This guy is the king of New York.

Yeah. I mean, if you made a top five list of most famous beloved New York athletes right now, we'd have to hit up Ben Lyons about this problem. What do you need Ben Lyons for? I'm sitting right here.

What do you need Ben Lyons for? He's in the heart of the city. He's walking them New York streets. He's feeling it. He's feeling what's going on. It's like, how dare you?

It would be like, you know what? I need someone to tell me who the best, who the most famous people in Altoona are. I don't live there no more. I don't know what's going on.

I know what happens at Christmas. Okay. Let's call some guy.

Let's call some guy who lives in New York. I don't mean to offend you by it. I'm offended by it. It wasn't my intention this time.

Too bad. You've done it. Honestly, you name a top five list of most beloved New York athletes right now.

Juan Soto, obviously. No, I mean it's complete. I mean, it's a town. Forget it. By the way, you see some more and more of Pete Alonso, Mets away jersey to the front row of game five. What's wrong with that? It's his town, first and foremost. What do you want a Mets jersey to a Knicks game for?

Why not? They literally have the same color scheme. It's just a jersey.

It's the color scheme. It works. Whatever. I don't know why that pissed you off so much. It did.

It did. I don't know why that pissed you off so much, Chris. And everything runs through Rick.

The only polar bear in Madison Square Garden is with the circus. Listen. I don't get your anger at that.

So beloved athletes, I mean, widely beloved athletes in New York City. Juan Soto. Wow. Judge clearly Aaron. Judge. Judge is number one.

Judge nationwide. Okay. Yeah. Okay. He's captain America, which means he's captain New York.

All right. Soto. Juan Soto.

Wait till Mayday hit his first home runs in Queens. Give me a break. I know they're great.

You're doing great. You got the best record in baseball. He said it's going to... Pal May. Pal.

Pal. He just... He's doing great. He just hit his first home runs in front of his home fans.

His new home fans. That was so dismissive. How you're doing great. Great.

Yeah. We got the best record. Your hatred's running deep today, man. Corey Stoll's in the green. Jalen Brunson. We're watching this.

Oh, screw it. It's Jalen Brunson and it's Aaron Judge and it's Yada and Yada and Yada. Pete Alonso's on there.

Don't trip. Pete Alonso's on there. More than Soto. Yeah. I think so. Maybe, but man... I told you. Somebody was wearing an Alonso Mets away jersey in the front row of Madison Square Garden where the Mets don't play. It's my favorite player, so... Who else?

I mean, it's not a jet or a giant right now, right? Why not? Sauce? Somebody left. Sauce is up there maybe? People love sauce. People love sauce.

Really? In New York City, I guess? That's the missing word. I don't know. The man who you spoke into existence. I don't know. Ask Ben Lyons. He would know. We'll eat neighbors.

Oh, I know. He'd probably name Sabrina Inescu. Hell, he definitely would. Chris Kreider. Rangers.

Rangers. By the way, you could put her on that list, by the way. I'm not joking.

That was dead serious. Messier, does he still play? Messier. Messier. Messier. Messier. Messier. Messier.

Do you still play? Okay. Bruno Sammartino. Bruno Sammartino.

Bruno Sammartino. All right. You guys ruined it. You just got mad over nothing. You guys just ruined it. This whole...

I was ready to bring it home and tie it up because that's what I do for a living and you just ruined it. Your hate towards Juan Soto is ruined. No hate. He ain't done nothing to you.

No, you know what? You know what would make me hate him less? If you paid me to do it because that's the currency, literally and figuratively, that he understands.

So pay me to like him. Are you doing this show for free or because... All right. Very good. Stop ruining it. All right.

Corey Stoll is sitting in our green room saying, do I really want to join this? I heard you. Liz just said he left.

Sorry. Oh my God. The Better Sister is going to premiere later on this month. Elizabeth Banks, who's in the show, is going to be appearing on later on this month as well.

Jessica Biel is in it and Corey Stoll as well. Jim Harbaugh in hour number two. We got that starter's jacket from Green Bay that Desmond's son will have Jim sign it. Love it. Yeah.

And Ashley Underwood, whose new fun documentary, Dreambreaker, A Pickleball Story, is streaming right now on Max. You still playing? I've taken a little hiatus from it, but I should play it a little bit more. All right. Now we'll take a break. Okay. Thank you very much. Corey Stoll, everybody.

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Round of applause for you. Good to see you, man. Good to see you too. Yeah, you called in the last time or the other time that you were on this program in advance of the great Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark, so it's good to actually see you here in person.

Yeah. And you were talking about this earlier, there's all these bald men with nice graying beards. Attaboy, take your hat off, Jay. I feel really comfortable here. Here you go, see? Look at us.

Safe space. All right, welcome to the Handsome Bald Men Show. Here we go. Let's take a look at The Better Sister. Again, you are playing the husband of Jessica Biel and the brother-in-law of Elizabeth Banks in this film, in this TV show, correct?

And here you are in confession, and... It's all spoilers, sorry. It's all spoilers. I can't tell you.

It's kind of crazy. It is all spoilers. The whole show is spoilers. Well, thanks for coming on, Corey. I can tell you there's a show that's going to be a great opening credit sequence.

Oh my gosh, Corey Stoll is here on The Rich Eisen Show. We just saw a clip for our radio audience that's rejoined us on the Roku side of things at The Better Sister. So I will give you the floor on what, because you just said everything is spoilers, and I don't want to step on any toes here, certainly since we're a couple weeks in advance of this appearing in everybody's spot on Prime Video, I'll give you the floor on what the show is about. Well, I think, you know, sort of how you set it up is as much as I can say. Let's see.

Where you play a husband. You're a lawyer, right? Yes. We did that.

We got that, right? And I can say that I am dead in the pilot. In the first episode, I am a bloody corpse. Okay.

I do come back. I am not just in the first episode. There are a lot of flashbacks, and everyone is a suspect. It's one of those shows where it's just so twisty. It's so compelling.

It's what, eight episodes? You're going to watch it all in a weekend. So we're binging it. We can binge it.

So it all comes out. There's no choice but to binge it. You can't not watch the next episode.

Gotta love stuff like that. It's like one of those shows, yeah. As soon as it starts ticking on the credits, you're just hitting the button. You're off to the next thing. So everybody's a suspect.

We're wondering all the way to the end. And everybody is beautiful, and it's beautifully shot in New York and out in the Hamptons. So there's that. And then, because again, it's very rare we have somebody come on and say, oh, I'm a dead man. Please watch.

That's an interesting take, Corey. It's kind of my specialty. I've died a lot. Well, I mean, Billions is a kind of a different story. I didn't die in that one. I didn't die in that one. And I talked with you about it the last time.

I mean, other than being a handsome bald man, you and I have something in common. I appeared in one episode of Billions. That was the fight episode. With Dollar Bill.

With Dollar Bill and Mafee, and Kelly O'Coin literally had his ribs broken. Am I informing you of something? Yeah, I didn't realize. I wasn't on the show yet.

This was pre- I'm surprised you didn't tell me that. There you go. That's it right there. Nice. Dan Soder, on the right, broke Kelly O'Coin's ribs in the first take of that scene.

Oh my God. That actually happened. And then he kept going. He shot the rest of it.

I mean, he's Dollar Bill, man. What a champ. What a champ, right? Yeah.

I mean, you're not going to look at, you know, Compliment and Levine and say, I'm tapping out of this scene. Certainly. I mean, it was quite ornate as well. What was that experience like for you, shooting Billions? It was, well, you know, I, I was shooting it over COVID, so it was like a very, it started off, you know, the show was as well oiled machine. I was sort of came on as the, you know, the antagonist of the season. And and then, you know, had this really great ending scene where I take over. But we had to stop that season midway and there was a whole other year before we came back after COVID. And then we were, you know, all masked up and everything like that.

So it was, there was a lot of, you know, adversity in that, in that first season and a half. But it was also, you felt so taken care of because you, you, you know, you'd get your script and it'd be like one amazing speech after it. Right. I mean, it's about to say, like when you get this, you get the words on the page from these two brilliant writers. And you can, I imagine as an actor, look at that, say, okay, I can grab a fork and a knife and dig straight into this thing.

Definitely. And I think in the first like few episodes, I thought, okay, I'll, I'll learn my lines and then sort of, you know, show up and do it. And it wasn't good enough. Like I, I, I, you need, you need to have that language deep in your bones so you can just completely throw it away. Cause it's just, you know, all this incredible dialogue. And so you, so, you know, after, after I sort of realized the sort of level of verbal dexterity that everybody on that set had, I was like, sort of up my game with that. And, and, and, and then it was such, it's, it's like doing theater where it's just, you know, you're the word so well, and you can just really, um, lean on that and, and, and let the, let the dialogue be, be front and center. Certainly since the people with whom you were acting.

I mean, Paul Giamatti, you, the two of you guys had some real corkers, man. Yeah. On that program.

And, you know, I imagine it must be one of those sort of moments where, you know, you're coming, you're coming to work and, and a, a game must be brought. Yeah. And vice versa. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I didn't, there were, I didn't get as many scenes with him as I would have, would have liked, you know, um, but it's, yeah, it's like when you're, when you're playing tennis with somebody who's better than you, you, you get better. I don't know about that. Listen, uh, I, I, I don't play too much tennis, so, you know, but I understand what you're saying. That's like the one sport that I know anything about on the show. Is that right?

No, that's fine. So you're, you're a tennis player? Uh, I mean, I, So, but you watch tennis? Yeah. Okay.

Rich as Corey. I'm about to. I think, okay, I'm, I'm, I play some tennis. So you understand this. Oh goodness. No, I'm going to do this. I've done this before. Do I understand? Oh.

I think I could get one point off of Carlos Alcaraz. Okay. Good for you. I don't.

You don't? No. How good are you?

How good are you? I couldn't either. You couldn't? No. Come on. No way.

What is it? Like 125 mile an hour serve? Yes.

So, I mean, you know, can make it sound worse with Congress. Well, you know, if I got a thousand serves and I just blindly swung, one of them might get over the back of the net, but then he would just, you know, come right over and I wouldn't be. Corey, think about it here. Think about it here.

You know what a mentally taxing game tennis is. Okay. Yeah. Right.

Where you could see some of the greats of all time have trouble closing out a set, closing out a match, right? You tell Carlos Alcaraz, doesn't matter how many women he has or whatever. You tell him you cannot lose one point today that'll get in his head and okay.

Double faults, miss hitting something. All right. One like, you know what I mean?

It's just, and it builds. Right. I could do like a crazy dance behind the baseline and start messing with, you know, we've just kind of in person here.

I wouldn't do. And then also I found out, did you know that if you hit your opponent with your serve on the fly, it's your point. Do you know that about tennis? If you hit Carlos Alcaraz hits him on the fly, it's your point.

That is a rule of tennis. I don't, I still don't think I could hit him. So if I just, if I dink and I dink and I dink and I dink on my serving, he's clearly, he will be as close right up to that, to the box as you possibly can be. And then I hit him just with a bullet.

I take my one shot. I'm just saying. You know, I think you have a point. If you manage to get this set up, I would love to take that bet. For him.

You'd bet on him. Yes. Yes.

Totally against it. $10,000. Probably to win $1. Oh my God.

Suddenly we're back at billions here. Like on Bobby Axelrod or something. Come on. So, okay. Yeah.

We're going, I've been talking about this for some time, which is why my guys are like, you're not going to go there with Corey Stoll. Are you? And the answer is yes, I just did. So you don't think you could at all? No, you don't think you could? No, I don't know.

Did you see? I mean, you know. Crazier things happen.

The double fault thing. Uh huh. That's yeah. Right? Yeah. Right. I don't think that really counts though.

Is that really getting a point against him? Yeah. Because he understands at some point I can cover, you know what I mean?

I can cover some of these. You could do a lot of things. Yeah. You could just take your pants off. That would probably distract him. I could. No.

He wouldn't think about that. It depends on how willing you are to humiliate yourself in order to humiliate him. Have you picked up what I've been putting down for the last five minutes? Whatever it takes.

Do you want to answer that question yourself right now? Fantastic. Again, everybody's going to get ready for the new show, The Better Sister. Jessica Biel, Elizabeth Banks, all eight episodes.

And you, Corey Stoll on Prime Video, Thursday, May 29th. Make a note of all of that. How did you get started in acting? How did that happen for you?

How did I get started? I didn't. I was in fifth grade. We were doing a school play and I didn't want to audition.

I thought, I thought actors were, you know, show offs. Okay. That wasn't me. I was, I was above that. You were above that? Oh yeah.

I was a writer. Cool for school. Yeah.

Okay. And, and then I did, they had everybody do like a little improvisation and I pretended I was somebody dying in the desert of thirst and got a big laugh from the whole fifth grade class. A big laugh? Big laugh. And I played up a really dramatic death.

Man, the youth of America. Really hammed it up. Okay. Yeah. And I've been hooked ever since. So what was your big break then? What was the big break for your career? I would say Midnight in Paris. Woody Allen. Yeah. How did you get on that radar screen for that? I was doing a play on Broadway, View from the Bridge that Scarlett Johansson was in.

Right. And I wanted to see her and support her. And I remember I told her, I was like, I know you'll have a lot of really cool people coming to see the show, but that's the one person I'd love to meet. And then I heard that he had come and he didn't come backstage and I was like, okay, I missed a chance.

Sort of like Guffman. You were waiting for. Exactly.

Exactly. But then like a few weeks later, I saw him again in the front row and I said, oh, that's weird. He's back. And then I got a call that he wanted me to come in and read for.

For Midnight in Paris. And then you made it there. First time I ever saw you on my screen was when I was curious about this place that I was sending my DVDs back and forth to in the mail, why Netflix was doing a television show for the first time. Right. And House of Cards, that was it.

It's kind of crazy when you think what that show did at Netflix and what Netflix is today. And I'm trying to say that you're you're a factor, Corey Stoll. I mean, well, you know, you should let Reed Hastings know that, you know, just Sarandos to let him know.

You know, just a few thousand shares. So, you know, I think I deserve a little bump. When you were when you first heard that, like, hey, we're doing Netflix is doing a TV show. You must have been like, okay, let me see what this is. Yeah. I mean, well, I mean, you know, it was the the provenance of the creators was so great.

I mean, you know, since you're writing and, you know, Spacey, it was a different time. Of course. Understood. Yeah.

No. So and you know, and Robin Wright. And so it was clearly a great project, but nobody knew if anybody was going to watch it. Did you ever see the British version? I did. Yeah. I did as well, based off of watching, you know, your version of House of Cards. That was wild. Like that British version is even darker.

One would think than the American version is saying a lot. Well, I mean, I guess nobody pushed anybody in front of a of a of a train spoiler alert. Well, I mean, I can't spoil your show, but I can spoil one from like 12 years ago or something like that. Yeah. But I mean, it's pretty amazing what what Netflix has become off of that sort of thing. You know. So before I let you go, what one last thing you want people to know about the show that's coming up on on Prime Video?

Your show? I mean, I just think I just the the two the two stars, I think Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks are just extraordinary. And that's there. They have such incredible chemistry. You know, I think that that relationship that the sisters have is is unique and and really powerful and so full of of love and history and resentment. And and I think they're really just a great pair.

And I think people are going to love seeing them together. All right. So everybody check out the Better Sister, a new original series coming to Prime Video, which you can see right here on on Roku.

That's coming up on May 29th. And you will be hearing from me, sir, when I get a point. I will. OK, when I get a point, I swear we have talked with people who can make this happen. We haven't been able to make it happen yet. And I might regret this bet.

Well, the reason why I don't think it's happened is because he doesn't want any of this smoke is what I'm saying. You know, the pressure would be on. I thought, what do I care if I lose, you know, six love?

Yeah. You know, over and over again, I would probably be a two setter. That's probably what he would want to sit there and try and win three sets of points, because why would he want to try that? I think, though, you I mean, certainly if your goal is to tire him out and to increase your chances of him double faulting, you want to do a full three sets.

Oh, I will go stamina for stamina with Carlos Alcarez any day of the week. Who knows? Maybe you go five sets. Well, I mean, that means I definitely get more points. Exactly. Who knows?

Listen, I don't know if you saw it in Ian Wells, he didn't win. So maybe it's a Southern California thing. I do it here. It's a home game. You get like a blow dart or something. That's what my guys will be there for.

He'll be like, wait a minute, geez, this guy can't serve. He just hit me on a fly. Wait a minute. I just lost everybody.

Again, check out the better sister again on Prime Video on May twenty ninth. Great to see a Corey Stoll right here on the Rich Eisen Show. We will be back with your phone calls and so much more.

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Call 562-314-4603 for details. Are you telling me the week in which the one would say rivalry and hatred building up between your character Dollar Bill Stern and that of the actor Dan Soder-McPhee happens the week that your favorite basketball team, the Blazers, plays his in the Nuggets in the playoffs? Are you saying that actually did work out between the sports and billions gods Kelly Aucoin? Shockingly, it worked out between the gods.

It's it's incredible. We've been talking about this rivalry for years and we have a bet we're going back and forth with the $20 bill and essentially it's been even just handing it back and forth. Well, I guess kind of like the fight on billions. It's a draw or a double.

Well, there can't be a double loss like there was. I mean, that scene was unbelievable to finally see pieced together after it was shot over. My God, the entire calendar day in New York City. That was unbelievable.

Kelly. It was interesting to see how it was really fun to see how they told the story because we shot for so long. Yeah. And then, you know, everyone else was talking about how funny you guys were, but we couldn't hear it. So it was just us being exhausted, you know, and me, I told you, I got my I broke my rib on the first take of the first shot of the day. I can't believe that.

Are you serious? It's crazy. We rehearsed that thing for we choreographed the hell out of it and we rehearsed it for a month. We had it down.

But then, you know, you get in front of the cameras, they're actually rolling and three hundred extras. Everyone gets going and he tagged me and I thought, that's not good. It wasn't agonizing until the next day. So, you know, I'd love to be able to say I pulled a canter and pulled through excruciating pain. It wasn't that bad until the next day because I couldn't tell at all. I mean, nobody.

Great. I couldn't tell it. Were you medicating yourself throughout the day, Kelly? I had a lot of ibuprofen and there was a medic on the set who sort of felt it. I kept, people kept telling me, Deontay Wilder, who was in my corner, was like, I don't think it's broken.

He wouldn't be able to move right now. And then afterwards I thought, well, his idea, his threshold of pain is probably a little higher than mine. But there was a medic on set who felt around and she was like, she felt this little chunking and she's like, you know, that's not good. So you asked Deontay Wilder for, you know, he doesn't play a doctor, he's not one on TV, but clearly he is somebody who might've been injured in a ring at some point in his life. You, Kelly, asked him for just a little bit of a diagnosis on the spot? I think I was just like, I don't know what's going on.

I mean, it might be broken. And he just, you know, he didn't, he didn't say, he didn't say it's not, I think he just said, nah, I don't think so. The youtube.com slash Rich Eyes and Show for our entire archive, Corey Stoll is just leaving our studio. I believe Jim Harbaugh's walking into it, which makes me delighted.

How about that? Absolutely delighted that he's back here on the program. We did a cold open with him the last time he was here. We did.

Yes. Where I have my two degrees that are in the green room of Michigan and Northwestern. We had him, we brought him out here and the original idea was he would make me take the Northwestern one off the wall and put it in a trash can, but he refused to put a college degree in a garbage can. He said that was a bad image.

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Que pasó hermanos? How's everything going down in that city, sir? Well, oh, shout out to the Maserati Mold King. Yeah. Well done.

Hey, what up Jimmy? Maserati Mold King. I think that's going to stick. That's good.

Like mold, it might stick. So that's good. Well, Adam Chudwood can confirm, yesterday I called him and told him that Pop wasn't coaching anymore.

I just had little birdies in my ear. And okay, Brockman, we talked about this before. Pop was starting to fall in that Belichick realm of being around and the town, everyone wants him healthy, but it was time to go. I think he made the right call and we can't thank him enough. Of course, it has been said for years that anyone could coach the big three of Manu, Tony and Tim and win, but Pop did it.

I don't know, I can't think of the correct adjective, not effortlessly, but he did it well. And he let the players play and reined them in when needed be. He treated everyone equally.

Nobody got treated differently. So he's a coach for the ages. I don't think anyone will ever beat his coaching record just because coaches don't last anymore. Right?

Certainly. I mean, 29 years in the role, Jimmy, 29 years. We'll never see that again. Who's going to do 22 years of consecutive playoff appearances?

I don't know. Or 18 years of 50 wins in 29. I mean, that's unheard of.

I don't think we will. I mean, how many world champion head coaches of the last five years have lost their jobs? Right? Coach Budenholzer from the Popovic coaching tree has lost, he's been fired twice. His coaching tree is very big, obviously, and he was also the first NBA coach to take off world champion on the banner for the NBA title. He didn't put world champion on any of the Spurs title banners.

People forget that. But the coaching rumors, if Sharania needs any help on getting the... No, it's Mitch Johnson. And I think they've just announced that Mitch Johnson, the interim is not going to be the full time. So he got the interim tag lifted, right? He did indeed.

Yes, sir. Well, the other two that are still in the mix, Becky Hammond is still in the mix, and the other one is Manu's name has been coming up around circles in town, that he would eventually be a coach for the Spurs if Mr. Johnson, who I think has done a phenomenal job under the circumstances, would also be thrown into the mix. So we're obviously in flux, but we have back to back rookie of the year. We've got D. Fox, and maybe Giannis would like to come down. There he goes. There he goes. Oh, you saw that coming? No, I mean, what?

And then so, just because why? You know, when Banyama and Giannis together that the Spurs can at least change the lights with two guys, you know, one on top of the other, if there's a light goes out on the roof of the dome, you know, that'd be kind of crazy. I was thinking because Giannis has been carrying the Milwaukee franchise for so long that he wouldn't mind coming down and not have him do the heavy lifting anymore. There you go. Jimmy, thanks for the Jimmy in San Antonio, the Rich Eisen show favorites and regular in San Antonio correspondent.

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Come on. He hasn't seen you since that day. Well, we ran into him at the Brady roast. Oh, that's right. He was at the Brady Roast. He was. Yeah, he was. That's right. Oh, Cage's dad is back here.

Oh, my gosh. I've got a fun top five list as well. Top five teams to turn it around.

Just like Jim Harbaugh did with the Chargers coming up. Still here on the program. I like that. Yeah. I only care about one team being on that list, but that's fine.

Spoiler alert. Your team is. Oh, wow. Some respect, finally, for a New England team.

Oh, I thought you were referring to I don't even know, I couldn't even because all your teams are so good. You still piss me off, man. And another thing.

I mean, dang, man. And another thing. And another thing. Imagine if I'm actually trying to make you mad then, you know, I'm so mad I forgot what I'm mad at you about. I was talking about the guy who had boots on the ground, who was running them New York streets.

It was eating the pretzels. And let me tell you something. I haven't spoken. I haven't spoken to Ben Lyons in a while.

That's my man. We talk all the time. I would proffer to say one way you cannot describe him is running them New York streets. See you don't know, man.

OK. I don't mean he's physically like 50, but he's in the street. He's outside. He's walking, walking, you don't get it, you know, angrily hitting that button to make the light change so he can cross Madison Avenue. See, Chris, that whole versus battle would have been different here than Madison Avenue that time. Whatever gentrified Brooklyn Street he's on. He's not gentrified, man. He's a man of the people. I've been in there with him.

Have you really? Yeah. I don't know. Walking around New York with you, you are running them New York streets with Ben Lyons in the Mets. Was it a Mets town yet or wasn't a Mets town yet? When wasn't it? To be honest with you. When wasn't it?

How about at your boy, I'll be up in Jamaica, Queens, when I go to the Clipper fan in Los Angeles telling me the Mets run New York City. I didn't tell you that one. Soto told you that, OK? Why are you staying out of it? Because he knows I'm right. You don't want to go. No, no, you won't look up. He can't even lock eyes. I have nothing to add.

What do you mean? I don't care about New York. He's a Boston guy. I'm excited about the Royals. The Royals have won nine out of ten, Nick Seltus, Bobby Witt is a 21 game hitting streak. Why are you excited about that? Because it's because it's a cool, cool story. I love the hitting streak.

I really would like to see of all the records. I like to see that. And we like Bobby.

What be really challenged? You do like Bobby, which is your favorite judge is hitting 427, which is absolutely insane. He's in.

It's May, by the way. And he plays every day. His MVP odds, it's like he's minus a thousand for AL MVP, which is a joke after one month. Who's second? Trout was second, but he's got a little dinged up again.

He's got a bone bruise in that knee where he had surgery last year, which is really a bummer. Who is? Average?

No, no, no. MVP. Bobby Witt second, Gunner and then Trout. Very good. Yeah. I appreciate that update. You got it. Not bad for second place in the town.

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