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Plus, your phone calls, what's more likely, and more. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hi, everybody. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Ashley Underwood, the producer and director of a fun documentary that's available on Max, which is available on Roku and is also coming to the Roku channel as well. It's called Dream Maker, Dream Breaker, a pickleball story. It's a fun documentary. We're going to have a lot of fun talking about it because there's going to be a slight reveal when Ashley comes out here.
844-204 Rich, the number to dial. I wouldn't miss that, let's put it that way. And let me tell you this. Susie and I witnessed something incredibly special yesterday, and I wanted to bring it here to you guys. I haven't talked about it with you yet. I was going to bring it up here on the program. And I'm a little hesitant to talk about it because there were some somewhat private things said in what we witnessed on the campus of USC yesterday.
But the other hesitancy is, man, do I really want to do this justice and bring it justice? Because it was truly one of the most amazing two hours I've spent in quite some time. And Susie said to me earlier in the week, somebody who she's friends with, and I've gotten to know through her, like pretty much everybody else important in my life, right? Teaching a class at USC and has been for all year. And it's the last class. And do we want to go and watch him speak?
Sure, I'll go. And I really didn't know what to expect. The class is called The Game is Life. And Susie's friend, our friend, teaches it with the, in the Marshall School of Business, teaches it along with the Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life, because this person's mantra and way of going about life does have quite a bit of cross section with some spiritual beliefs and the way that some religions teach about connecting with your inner self. And what is being taught, was being taught to these students, lucky enough to be in this class, is being true to oneself, learning who you are as a person, being empathetic and sympathetic, and being open and sharing with others about your world, your mindset, and your abilities to connect with yourself and show emotion, be emotional, and being comfortable with knowing who you are.
And if that is who you are as a person, it can be a powerful way to connect with other people and create a team environment. And the way these students spoke about their experiences in this class brought me to tears. And same thing with Susie and brought some of these students to tears as well. I'm telling you guys, the way these students spoke about their experiences in this class for the year, the way that they said that they have had their lives changed by the professor's abilities to talk with them about connecting with themselves, was mind blowing. One student said that he had, I'll just share it, that he had an accident.
A car ran over his head twice and he thought he should be dead. And he was wondering how to reconnect with the world and himself and who he is as a person after this traumatic experience. This class changed his life. Another person said he was a musical major and had lost his love for music throughout being a major.
And there's all seniors in this room. And that learning about who he is as a person made him understand why he had lost his love for music, but refound it. And now all the music he's going to make is with all of his classmates in mind. And he's dedicating all the music he makes the rest of his life to his fellow students.
They all clapped. I'm getting goosebumps talking about it because it was not only a life lesson for these kids, but a realization for me and Suzy to see these kids are about to graduate. For many of them in the room, it was their last class in the history of their college career. And they were all realizing what they have learned about themselves, what they've learned about how to relate to other people, what they've learned about what the world is like that they're entering and how they can change it. And this coat of armor that was being provided by the professor is going to get them going for the rest of their life. And they're going to be friends forever.
And they got up and hung out after the class for half an hour, crying and hugging and took a group photograph. And we're going to zoom into the professor who's been doing it for years. His name is Pete Carroll. Wow. And I have never witnessed in two hours what I witnessed in Pete Carroll's class.
The game is life. Along with, I hope I'm pronouncing his name correct. Varun Soni, the dean of religious and spiritual life who is wearing a Raiders cap next to Pete.
And then that's David Belasco, the adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at USC. There was a, an author in the room and I told him afterwards, cause he's been there for 16 weeks. The kids referred to him as a fourth professor. I said to him, I don't know when I first was showing up in the room and I knew there was an author in the room. What book is going to come out of this? And now I said, by the end of it, I can't wait to read about this book because this book started with, Oh, a coach who's been a long time coach in the NFL or the hall of fame resume. You know, certainly if he wins one more, if he gets another chance, gets fired and he's decided to go back to campus, like what Thornton Mellon, right?
And teach a class. And by the end of the class coaches hired somewhere else, but the book is now about the kids whose lives have been changed. I'm telling you, Chris and Jay and TJ, they were all giving testimonials to Pete, who probably doesn't want this to be said about him, that they, he has changed their lives and just bringing it to you. And I know we're talking, you know, on, on Raiders nation radio in Las Vegas, Nevada. I sat there and thought to myself, if the Raiders are buying what Pete is selling, like these kids in the class, because here's a man, which all we're talking about is how old he is. I can tell you, he related to a group of 20, 21, 22 year olds, like nobody else. He was a peer of theirs and they have his, because he was talking about how they have helped him learn more about his mantra about the game is life. They were a connective body. I can't recall the last time I was in a room where there was over a hundred people and we were all connected. Susie and I, other people who was, was the first time in the class, these people in the class, the entire time, they were handpicked for their stories and their, their abilities to connect by their stories. They were handpicked. One of them, there were some several athletes in the room. I was told after the class, one of the students who was there for much of the year, but not over the last few weeks because of what's happened to her was Juju Watkins was in this class.
And I can't recall another time that people have been connected. And like I said, if I'm sitting, if I'm an owner and I'm sitting there and Pete Carroll's bringing this to my interview, you are hired. It's certainly, you know, Max Crosby's just playing for one guy after another, after another, he's looking for a North star. All the other Raiders who have been there through the churning have been looking for somebody to sell them something worth buying.
And they know it's going to be lad, it's going to last. And if you want a culture changer, which the Raiders were in desperate need of, I saw it. I saw God. And yes, I noticed recording. It was Gotham Chopra, who, as you know, is with religion of sports, who is, you know, the parent of that company. One of them is, yes, Tom Brady, who I was told did, in fact, zoom in as a guest lecturer over the last year, two times Pete couldn't make it to be there in person.
One of them was last week because there was something called the NFL draft, but he zoomed in. These kids love him. They will never forget who their classmates are and they will never forget who their professors were. This is something they will take with them in every day of the rest of their lives. And it was awesome to see.
That's really cool. And you think about the last few years in Seattle, Pete really was just, you know, kind of the ambassador of vibes. And that just kind of tracks with what you're saying and the experience that you just retold. And I think about what did what did the Raiders really need in the last few years, him an adult in the room and positive, good vibes and energy. And that's what Pete is and brings everywhere he goes.
And I saw it. And again, I know all we're going to be talking about with him is how old he is, his age and whatever. That wasn't a number in the room. The number in the room was one hundred percent attention, interest, love, respect, compassion, and taking a sense into the world of everybody you want to meet in the world.
Good vibes, good intentions, good thoughts, connectivity, empathy, sympathy, compassion with a sense of competition. These people want to dominate their professions, whatever they choose. And I'm telling you, man, if that's what he's selling to the Raiders, look out. Now, obviously, there's a roster. There's football to be played. I get it.
But the rest of this stuff, the Raiders have checked the box. And, you know, it was awesome. I was meeting some of the kids afterwards and some other people who I'd never met before. We were hugging it out.
We're hugging it out. It was contagious. It was unreal. His energy. Spectacular. That's pretty cool.
And I wanted to share it with you guys and ladies. And it brings me to my top five. Oh, top five team set for a turnaround next year in the NFL presented by Hyundai. All righty, then here we go. Top five NFL teams set for a turnaround next year presented by Hyundai.
Number five on the list is it's the lowest of the low hanging fruit. Last year, a lot of people were saying it. I needed to see it, to believe it. But this time I kind of believe it a little bit more because I trust the head coach a little bit more. And the way that they have also built around their young quarterback, I'm putting the Chicago Bears on this list. Five wins last year. Let's put it this way. They're going to have more than I think one win from October 1st on. All right.
I would expect so. So I understand I'm exaggerating was the middle of October on, but I'll take the Bears here that they're they're set for a turnaround number four on this list. You know what? I'm going to believe that they they they I adored the head coach that they had. The new one that they have is also an offensive minded guy, but he's potentially more of a contemporary of the kids in the room that he's now coaching.
And that includes also a unicorn. I'm putting the Jacksonville Jaguars at four. I'm putting the Jaguars and Travis Hunter. I can't wait to see what he does and what he's going to do is on offense, take some pressure off of Brian Thomas Jr. and the quarterback, right? And on defense, maybe take half the field away and just show everybody how it's done. And Liam Cohen with the rest of this team and their draft, I think was definitely a significant one for him. And I love their move.
I know I'm I'm in the minority of saying that I don't care. They gave up a twenty twenty six. Travis Hunter's worth it. That's four in the list. Number three on the list. Chris, you kind of got these thoughts rolling during our overreaction Monday pod when you said this team's going to win their division next year. I'm putting the Carolina Panthers here and I know I just went a little higher register.
I know I just went a little higher register here. Let him keep let him keep overlooking the way they finished. You always take a look at the way a team finishes and how it can how it can roll into the following year. Absolutely.
I saw it with my own two eyes in Munich. That's where it all started with Bryce Young starting to put some games together. Dave Canales, the head coach, everything I just said about Pete Carroll, he comes from the Pete Carroll tree and he what he said in our pre-production meeting of that game, he said that they know they're going to start getting more success when he sees everyone's personalities come out on the field. And you started to see Bryce Young's personality come out on the field and Lee get, you know, and and I liked their draft and we'll see what it looks like in Carolina, but I think they've got a chance for a nice comeback season. Yeah, getting Ted McMillan, just Lee get and Ted.
Yeah. You have Bryce Young and that running back room looks like Cleveland's quarterback room. A lot of good backs, right? And so they're number three. Number two, Chris, I'm giving you what you want.
I I'm I'm in. Everybody is given the Patriots the kudos for their off season. And that starts with Vrabel showing up. Yeah. Big time. Now, everyone's going to think, you know, like he's just Belichick 2.0. I mean, he's his own man.
But what he does bring is connective tissue to the Patriot way. He does in a way that, again, with all due respect to Gerard Mayo, who played for New England and was the Patriot way on Bill's staff. Everybody thinks Vrabel's a Belichick coaching tree guy. He's just a Belichick player tree guy.
He's on Bill O'Brien's staff in Houston. And we saw what he did in Tennessee. And what he does is he just brings a mindset. You know what it's going to be. And you know how he's going to, he's going to conduct his business in a way that's coach of the year. He's got one of those in his, in his back pocket and the way that they have drafted and Drake May could take a major step up. Josh McDaniel's showing up is one of those things that if I'm going to give the bears their due on that front of having a comeback season because they got the head coach right. Boy, they got the OC back.
I like what you're cooking. Yeah. Just be competitive. Like winning the division, obviously not going to happen. Making the playoffs, probably not going to happen.
Never know. Be competitive. Look like you're progressing and improving week to week. And that's all you want to see.
And number one on the list is I'm just going to be consistent. What I saw at this man's class with Suze yesterday at USC and how he has a mindset, his always compete way. He did read his always compete poem to the class and started crying in the middle of it. And I looked at the class and they were crying too. I'm telling you, I know a hundred USC students about to graduate and looking at their own end of their college experience and they wrote ahead of them and how daunting it is, but how exciting it can be based on what they learned in Pete's class, that that they're crying and connecting to Pete in the classroom is not the same as the NFL, unless it's just changed the proper names, that all you got to do is have a way about it.
Sell it. People buy it and there's a halo effect and they have a better quarterback and they have a better way about themselves. And they have a North star and a head coach that's going to have them believing. And I'll say the Raiders and the number one team in the NFL right now set for a turnaround.
And I'm giving you the red meat you're looking for over there. Jay Felley being the Raider fan of this household here, Ashton Gente to this mix. I mean, Brock Bowers year two, I know they're gonna have to protect up front. I know there's a lot of football stuff that I'm not zeroing in on. I'm zeroing in on more of the spiritual and the Zen and the mantra and the mindset, but that's much of the battle in the NFL. When you got a locker room and everyone needed a row in the same direction and buying what is being sold from the top. Sixteen at home, man.
I don't know about that, but they are number one on the list of my top five teams set for a turnaround next year. One more. I did not.
One more. I did not. It's the visual of it too. You got to see him when he was like, oh, we told him like, this is what you do.
And that was his verbal way of your, your acting out. I did not know. Oh man.
One more. I did not know. It's it's the Browns. I'll throw it out there guys. The Browns draft, the top four picks that they made all starters, said Daniel Jeremiah and all good starters.
Mayock said the same thing. Get the quarterback situation, right? Hold on to the ball, get some yards.
I would also say this sign Nick Chubb hearing that that might not happen, but Chicago on the board, you know what? Um, Stefanski's a two time coach of the year. Two years ago, they made the playoffs. I mean, Mason Graham is now on the same line as Miles Garrett.
They got players, man. Let's go. I mean, just remove all the other stuff that we're talking around. That's a lot of stuff to remove. That's a big F I get it, but that's my top five teams set for a turnaround next year presented by Hyundai. Hyundai helps protect you and your family on the road. We put your safety first and everything else second. Okay. Nice fun way to start our number one, let's roll on new documentary out. It's a lot of fun. Dream breaker, a pickleball story.
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Director, producer. How are you? Good. Good. Thanks for having me. I am psyched for this because I've known about this for quite some time. You have your one of the insiders.
I am an insulin. So Susie is the ultimate insider, but you know that already. Yes. Um, and uh, well let's take a look at a clip and then we'll get, we'll just dig right into it.
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What gives you that light bulb over your head to begin with? Yeah, well believe it or not, when we first started filming this two and a half years ago, it wasn't the explosive, you know, sport that it is now. We, we were, we were kind of like early, early into wanting to document like something about pickle ball. Now there's, you know, there's a lot of content, a lot of stuff, but, um, I, I played, I was a fan of the sport. Um, but what I really wanted to do was find like an insider story kind of happening in the world of pickle ball, not just like an overview of a phenomenon.
So, um, I met my producing partner, Craig Coyne. He had written an article for Vanity Fair, which is one of the first articles that came out about pickle ball. And it was kind of like the celebrities that were playing like, you know, it was like Leo DiCaprio. I think he mentioned Larry in there, like, and we had a pickle ball group at Riviera. So I didn't really want to do like the celebrity angle. I was looking for an angle. And what I discovered through talking with Craig who done a lot of research for this article was that there were these tour wars happening to start professional pickle ball leagues.
Yes. By the way, this is all true. Cause again, there's a pickle ball sort of naysayer over there. And Chris, I don't mean to introduce you to Ashley that way. I know, I understand that. No, no, no.
Um, that's not aggressive. It's, it's, it's, it's a fact, you know, where, uh, I would say I play pickle ball. I've met a few, I've met a few naysayers along the way as well, but there are competing like a series and that's, that's, that's, uh, one of the main, um, lanes of your, of your film is this massive war going on between competing leagues, right. Of pickle ball professional outfits. Yes. Because there's a, you know, there's, I guess a limited number of star pickle ballers that you can have and sort of like an AFL NFL type, you know, tug of war from back in the day that's happening in the pickle ball world.
Yeah. It was really interesting to chronicle like the birth of a professional sport because there are only like a handful of, I mean, the top players, let's say they're like 10 or 15 top players. They are really, they re they're athletes that it doesn't look like the game, you know, the recreational game, but then you had three leagues at one point, they were all fighting for, you know, the top 15 players and they were kind of dispersed. It's hard to put a league together. It's hard to get TV deals, you know, and build something if you can't say, Oh, all these top players are going to be, you know, you're going to see them, they're going to be finding the money to pay them.
Exactly. And the sponsorships, et cetera. So these, I mean, there were three competing leagues. There were two pickle ball halls of fame at one point. So you had a merge halls of fame. They were at war with each other.
And then I think they finally came together and decided to call a truce. But, uh, it was just interesting because when we showed up two and a half years ago, like at the first major league pickle ball tournament, and this is before LeBron and Brady and all these guys that bought a team, you know, it had this really folksy, like community vibe to it. People were excited that a camera crew was even there. Um, and then cut to like a year later, um, you know, they're like, Oh, you know, you got to call my agent if you want to get an interview with me. And I was like, really?
Like, you know, like I did her at your house, like, you know, it just, it really exploded. It became this gold rush. Um, I think a clear marker in the sport that, you know, made everything change that legitimize it in a way is when LeBron bought a team. And then you had this influx of, you know, other celebrity team owners.
I mean, you had like, there was Tom Brady, Michael Phelps bought a team, Larry Fitzgerald, Eva Longoria, Drew Brees, very involved as a team owner. Like, um, so you have, and I think just yesterday or day before yesterday, you know, Andre Agassi is out playing, uh, his doubles partner. He's playing with Annalee Waters, who's like this, you know, the number one player in the world, arguably. Um, so you had McEnroe in your documentary as well, because I know McEnroe is not a fan. He's not, I mean, this just in McEnroe appears in this and, uh, is laugh out loud, funny. And, and, and that's also part of this documentary too is there, there's a certain mirthful tongue in cheek aspect of it because, you know, again, it is serious to everybody that's playing, but from the outside in somebody, you, you know, it is sort of a world, uh, filled with some, uh, kooky people, you know, and, and yes, tell, tell everybody here about the individual. You found a pickleball guy living in a yurt or something like that throughout this entire documentary. Who's my favorite character in this film.
I'm a big fan of being able to tell like a complicated story, but with like levity and humor, or maybe get somebody really funny and interesting to, you know, explain what acronym the acronyms mean. Um, but I found this guy, he had a YouTube channel. Um, it was called the senior pickleball report and his name is Mike Sliva, but he goes by sleeves, just one name. And he had a couple hundred followers. Um, but I just thought he was, he, he and his wife had been former history teachers and they had quit their jobs and they decided to live off grid, like below the poverty line, you know, in a yurt community in like near cliff, New Mexico, just really super off grid. Um, but he had been a history teacher.
He was incredibly articulate, clearly intelligent and a diehard pro pickleball fan. And he knew what was going on before I even knew. So he would give me breaking news.
He would just call me and he'd be like, you won't believe what happened today. You know? And I was like, I think we're the only two people in the world that are like discussing, but like it's so inside baseball and yeah. And um, so, so in order, like with our budget, because this story unfolded while we were filming, it's not a retrospective story, which it would be easier to tell, but we never knew something was changing in the sport every double world is fluid Ashley. So I was like getting a whiplash from, I was like, wait, you know, something just changed every day and I didn't have the money to go out and film and be there for every, every time there was a drama. So sleeves was, uh, you know, on the cutting edge. Hopefully you're laughing with me. So, um, so he, he knew what was going on and I just said, Hey, can you make these like video diaries for me?
Just send me some stories so that when I, you know, want to cut some stuff together, I'll, I'll have a record of what had happened. And then in the end, we just thought he's such a great narrator. He looks like the dude from the big Lebowski. He has like the similar cadence and he's amazing.
He's a fan favorite. Every time I've screened it, people, my first question is like, where did you find the narrator? So I found him on YouTube, but then I flew out to New Mexico with a crew and he, and we went to the yurt.
I like lived in the yurt community for a couple of days. Uh, and he warned me, he was like, this is really off grid. Um, but I was like, you know, we got to have it for the documentary, you know? And, um, and so I imagine you did not have to go through his agent, right? I did not have to go through his agent person to person contact with sleeves person to person contact. But one of the funniest things was when we were doing the credits at the end of the film and we were loading them, like, I guess there's like an IMDB thing where, you know, sleeves already had an IMDB page.
He had like, he had an IMDB page and he had been, I didn't even know any, I had, I had no idea that he had a history in entertainment that he had like lived in like Hollywood at one point and been in some things. So this was the first, uh, sleeves credit as himself is what you're saying? Yes. Okay.
Another nugget about dream breaker, a pickleball story to make you, honestly, it's so much fun to watch this, uh, streaming on max available on Roku and it's coming soon to Roku. Um, and it's going to be awesome for you to check out. So Ashley, you were mentioning some names earlier and you mentioned the name Larry. Um, it happens. Okay. Now, you know, I know you mentioned that for, for those who don't know, Larry is Larry David. Yes.
Who is, who is your husband. Thank you. Okay. So now I bring this up.
I walked through this door, uh, only because, um, you know, LD is a massive favorite of ours on this program. You already know. Yes, I know. He told a story when he was here last time that, um, you know, caught our attention that, uh, he needs to, when he orders an Uber, ask either his, um, offspring or his wife for help.
Now, I think it's just me. It's so frequent. I can't imagine there are other people in the mix. So you can confirm that he cannot order an Uber on his own to reach out to you. He can't order Postmates grub hub.
He doesn't know how they work. He's okay. Very good. But it's really, I, I, I, it's so crazy because I've been in, I've been at work, I've been in different countries, different time zones.
Um, I've been, you know, like just, I don't know, running through an airport or, um, just having a crazy work experience. And I'll get a text from Larry and he'll be like, could you order me like some spaghetti from a meatier? Stop what I'm doing.
Confirmed. Oh my gosh. Fantastic. You know, I know he's capable because he has learned how to work all the remote controls in the house.
I feel like if you can learn to operate a remote control, you can learn how to order Uber eats. Oh my gosh. Fantastic. Well, I mean, you just need to make sure that you had the extra 30 minutes or 60 minutes to the end of a, something that you're, you're recording that you're going to watch back later. You know, um, that's, that's an important, should I tell that story or should I not tell that story?
You can tell any story you want. Okay. You're looking at me like I just want to make sure. I don't know what I just did, but you remember what happened when watching a, a Yankees Cleveland guardians game.
No, give me. Yeah. Yeah.
Remember that where we're, we're out to dinner. Yes. And we were going to watch the final game of the Yankees guardians, uh, American league championship series. And he recorded it. Yes. And we went through sports blackout. Yes.
He won anybody to say anything. Exactly. And we go and we watch it. He forgot to add the extra time. He did add the extra time, but not the extra extra time. And it, uh, went out just before Juan Soto hit the game winning home run.
So we've waited the entire night. Wow. That's real Larry. Look, that kind of stuff happens.
I had to go to our apps anyway. It was fantastic. What type of expletives were uttered or screamed when it went all of a sudden the screen freezes and you realize it's one of those things where you watch the time run down and you know, there's, you know, unless it's happening in the next 30 seconds, we're going to have, we're going to have, we're not going to assume tape anymore. I hear Larry screaming like at another end of the house, this happens all the time screaming. And I, I, I think something's really wrong. I'm like, something's happened, you know, and I run upstairs and like, you know, something's happened in a sports game or he's just on the phone with Susie Essman. Um, it's never, and then I said, we're going to have to have a safety word.
Like you're going to have to yell emergency so that I, I know the difference between, you know, your team is losing versus like an actual emergency. But I know you guys do play pickleball, right? We do. We play pickleball. We did. We did play pickleball together and we were having a great time. We had a nice group of Riviera, um, during COVID and then Larry got a knee injury and I kept waiting for the injury to get better.
It's been like over a year now, so he hasn't played in a while, but then I pressed him on it and he finally said, you know, he's like, I like pickleball. It's really fun, but I'm saving my injuries for golf. All right. Listen, um, that I, you know, I can totally relate to that. Cause I did, you know, I played it, um, quite frequently and I know I'm walking into this.
Okay. But it is physically demanding. It really, really is.
And the thing about it is the reaction that you have to have when the ball's coming straight at you or to your right or to your left, you have to, if you're not physically positioned right or core set, you can really throw something on like seriously. Our orthosurgeon friends love pickleball. Oh my God. This is great.
That and Barry's bootcamp. If you asked, if you asked people who work on people for a living or surgically repair people for a living, they will tell you pickleball has really upped business for them. Totally unbelievable. It really is fun Ashley and everybody should check this out.
Dream breaker, a pickleball story. And you've been, you've been all about it. Like you have been making sure that everyone knows about it.
I don't give up easy. No, you're a force. You're, you're absolutely are. And you know, and that's why I think you and Sue's get along. And um, you know, and when she heard about it, she's just like, yeah, she's been a real champion. We got to get this thing done, you know, and all.
And you, you've been awesome. And this is just fun. Everyone should check it out. It's, it's, it's a fun, quick watch. And I imagine, you know, full of characters full of quirky characters. Even if you don't like pickleball, it's like, I couldn't tell from that clip where naked senior citizens being digitized out.
I'm kind of intrigued just for that new meaning to the word flop shot. That was in Florida. I guess that goes without saying it wasn't worthy of a multiple choice.
Florida's God's gift to documentary filmmakers. That's fun. So at any rate, congrats on, on this and I'm sure that you can update it. This thing is, I know I was having fun that it's fluid. It really is. This thing's changing day by day. Yeah.
Yeah. That could be a dream breaker too. It could be a dream breaker to have me on again.
Anytime you know that pick a dream breaker, a pickleball story available now for streaming on max available on Roku through max and soon Roku itself soon to be streaming there. So keep an eye out for all of that. Ashley, thanks again for coming in.
Thank you so much, Ashley Underwood, everybody, Pete McCarthy with this sports update. Okay. This is not a drill. Get ready because mission impossible. The final reckoning hits theaters, may 23rd.
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You are the judge and jury as to what is done. Okay. First one is destination weddings. Okay.
It's already funny. Destination weddings. I say to my wife, we're going to a destination wedding. We should not give a present because my presence is my present.
What do you say, Larry? First of all, where is the wedding? How far is it?
Another country. Okay. You don't even go. You don't go. You don't go.
It's a close family friend. I don't care. I am not flying 14 hours on a plane to somebody's wedding.
I'm not going to do that. Even if it's a nice destination where it's a nice hotel and you're set up. No, 14 hours on a plane. You can't even breathe. Come on.
So what would be the distance from your house that you would have by car? That's it. No plane that you didn't. Okay.
You don't get on planes for weddings. Right. Okay. Out of the question. Here's social situation.
Number two for you, Larry. You're going over to somebody's house. Okay. All right. For let's say the fight, the Mayweather McGregor fight.
This happened to one of our producers. Okay. They brought desserts, fight ends. Nobody's touched the desserts. They liked these desserts. Is it okay to take the desserts home?
Well, we did this on Seinfeld. You did. Yeah. The marble rye.
Well, the marble. Okay. Here's the thing.
Yes. You bring it over. Do they know you brought it over?
Yes, they do. Well, they know you brought it over, then you can't take it. But what if nobody's tried it? You know, it's not like a bottle of wine. A bottle of wine could be savored later on. It's still, you're bring it to the host, right?
That's true. The host saw it. It's different if the host didn't see it, then you could sneak out.
So if the host never saw it on the table and there's no note. Yeah. That's when you could take it.
If you think if you think you're not going to get caught. Yeah. Then you could take it. The problem is, though, Larry, is you never know what was looking the eye in the sky.
Well, that's that's that's the camera. Yeah. But if the host sees it, you can't take it. All right.
The last one for you, Larry. LD shoes off on a plane. Do you have a problem with somebody on a plane?
I have a big problem with it. Yeah. Yeah.
Keep them on. Okay. You know, don't make yourself. It's not your house.
All right. You're outside. You're in public. I don't want to. I don't want to see your socks.
And God forbid you have a little odor down there. Who needs that? Right.
And I don't even want to know if you do have it. Exactly. It's close quarters. Come on. Take a couple of minutes. Keep your shoes on.
So those who take their shoes off with shorts on and then put their socks feet up on the bulkhead. Oh God almighty. No. Oh God. That is out. Yes. Ah, yes. Everybody. Here we go.
YouTube.com slash rich eyes and show. Larry David. There's many, many appearances on this program. Hopefully not the last because I talked about fight club. You were given the green light. It's all good. I don't know.
Who knows? But it's just fun. Fun story time. Um, we got one thing we got to talk about before you leave. And here we go.
Um, I'm serious. Apparently, uh, now we'll get to this in a second. Sorry about your Kings. Felling.
Oh, sorry. Yeah, that was rough. Good start. And then was there five goals in the first period yesterday?
Well, they started and then they had a tie and then they went up and they had a tie and then they lost the lead and never got it back. Yep. Connor Mcdavis. So good though. So good. I mean, cage and I went the other day. It was just very fun back on the rich eyes and show everybody. Hyundai is there to make sure that every single lane splitting bike or creeping up beside you or truck drifting towards your lane is something that you will know about because every Hyundai offers available class exclusive advanced safety features that can alert you to potential dangers around you.
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Okay. And as a matter of fact, that was one of my sports center calls back in the day. I might've said that sitting next to him years ago, whenever there's a fight in a game or a highlight, I would go in there playing in the feud. So what I would say, and, um, little did I know that was foreshadowed Dan's already out the gate talking crap. I mean, every single time I've heard about been talking about, first of all, I didn't know that we could talk about it yet because we're recording it soon and it's not airing for, for, for months. Apparently Dan doesn't follow family.
So he touches the trophy without gloves. Yeah. And plus, you know, I guess I'm in my 30th year of being hazed by. Yeah. You got to stop letting them little brother you Joe, you know what I mean?
Well, I mean, if the top seven or top eight answers are on the board and we got the question and I, and I win control of the board, we're not giving it up. No, no. And it doesn't matter how, how many years Dan has been my senior last night.
I was practicing. Oh, but every single time he's been talking about it, we hear, are they, are they giving us crap for playing with Jay Felly? Are they, are they slagging on Jason Feller? That's what I'm hearing. What's the Felly slander about?
What is it? Basically? Who's that guy? Who's that guy?
Yeah. Who's going to be their fifth. They don't have a fifth guy. Well, you're, you're on more than Del Tufo. Del Tufo is on their show. Jason's worked on their show for them.
I was right here at the board the last time they were in this studio. Now they might just consider you then a behind the scenes guy and that's fine. So that's maybe why they're saying, so are they, are they accusing us of, of finding a ringer or something? Are they thinking that you're, you're like a family feud ringer?
I guess so. Huh? I don't like that. I don't like that at all. So, I mean, it's, is it going to get personal by the time we show up? Once I found this out this morning, I thought about it for a minute and I'm like, Oh, I don't like that. Cause it's okay with me and Brockman talk trash to Feller. You ain't stepping in our house. The one segment that somebody sent me of them talking about our upcoming feuding is that Seton O'Connor is nervous.
Should be. And I think we should send, I mean, if we're at, how does this work where we come up with our five and they come up with like the rider cup or like, is there a pairings like a dude, Dan and I set the pairings Steve Harvey's people just go, you're here. You're we don't know any of this. And we don't know any of this. Dan said that he got a list of things. Cause Marvin was asking like, what are we going to wear?
And Dan, Dan, Dan said he got a list of what's appropriate and what's not allowed. Oh, I got to get that. Okay. I haven't gotten any time out.
Time out. Dan's getting this before you. Does it matter? Yeah, it does kind of in the big scheme of things. It does kind of matter. Well, there's enough time. You know what I'm saying?
Chris, it doesn't matter. You're going to take three bags to Atlanta. Anyway, you're going to check a bag for an overnight flight. So you can have multiple shoe options.
You gotta go correct. Should we all, should we have like a team shoe team shoe? You don't see our shoes. Well, you walk out, you might see their shoes after we think it guys just show up focused to play the few and ready and come out with one of the top answers on the board. I was watching the last question, but I'm thinking if we compare it out, I want you against Seaton. I want my guy with the most game show experience to go against the guy who's nervous to be on a game.
I ain't never scared. Yes. I'm saying that that's the matchup I'm looking for. And then it's gotta be Del Tufo versus Fritzi because that's what America needs. Just so they can come up with none of the answers on the board. Right. And then it was crazy answers.
And then, and then it'll be, it'll be you versus Paul Pabst. Right. Right. That kind of makes sense.
Makes sense. And then Jay Feli, you versus Marvin. So we could say, oh, it's, it's McLovin's replacement.
Who's Marvin. There you go. That's so disrespectful. I'm with it. That's what's up. Let's do it.
Let's send the guys back to Connecticut with party gifts. It's personal. Now it's personal. Let's go.
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