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It's available on Roku. He's outstanding. I know him personally, and he's a diehard Chicago sports fan. His daughter and Taylor play on the same youth basketball league and have played on the same team before. So Ike can also talk about girls youth basketball coach Susie Schuster. It's going to be a fun conversation when Ike comes in here.
Let me just tell you all of that good stuff. He also is one of the writers of Running Point. It's going to be great. And he's joining us first up on this program. And hour number three of the show, Tom Pelosero, and the latest going on in the National Football League. And then in hour two, somebody is going to help us unpack what we're about to start the show with in the reinstatement of Pete Rose.
Posturements Lee, as well as Shoeless Joe Jackson, Don Van Natta, the ESPN who broke the story yesterday is going to join us in a matter of moments. Good to see you over there, Chris Brockman. How are you, sir? What's up, man?
I'm great. Jay Felly is going to be joining us later for another Family Feud conversation. Mike Del Tufo will do the first two hours and three quarters of this program from his position. Good to see you over there.
Jay, Mike, and he's nuts. Good to see you, TJ Jefferson. How are you doing, sir? Is the candle lit? Is the candle lit?
I mean, yeah, it just went out. I need a new candle, but I'm good. OK, how you guys doing? Are you all right over there?
You seem to be a little off. You go. You're good. We're good. Fully focused again. I'm telling you, man, I watched an hour and a half of Family Feud highlights.
Well, I was in Benny Blades chair last night. All right. You ready? I'm ready.
OK, very good. The Pacers eliminated the Cavs. The Nuggets looked like they had game five right there in Oklahoma City until the Thunder took over in the final few minutes of that game. They are on the verge of closing out the Nuggets the next time they play. The Knicks can close out the Celtics tonight. The Timberwolves can close out the Celtic, the Warriors as well. That's what's going on right now in the world of the NBA playoffs.
We'll hit that later on. Listen, ever since I can remember, we've been talking about Pete Rose and his career turn from Schuen in the Baseball Hall of Fame as the greatest hitter of all time and manager of the Cincinnati Reds to outcast to a man that will never get into the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum because he was busted betting on the sport and he was busted for wagering on 52 Cincinnati Reds games and hundreds of other baseball games in 1987 when he served as Cincinnati's manager. And then on August 23rd, 1989, he and Bart Giamatti signed the same document that banned Pete Rose permanently from Baseball for Life, which is the sign on the wall. Anybody who's ever been in a Major League Baseball stadium or in a Major League Baseball dugout, as a matter of fact, I think you can see it in this photograph on the wall of number 14 on the phone, potentially to the bullpen as what looks like player manager of the Reds right there. Bullpen, in quotes. Is that what he's on the phone? Is that, is that on the wall, the sign from the baseball commissioner?
You can't bet on the sport. It's in the clubhouse. It's in the clubhouses.
It's everywhere. It's 100 percent explicit. Can't do it. Doesn't matter if you bet on your team to win. Doesn't matter on your bet on a team to lose. And as a matter of fact, you bet on your team to win. You're still making moves potentially that you wouldn't ordinarily make if you don't have your own money on the game. Bringing in relievers that you shouldn't be bringing in, bringing in players that you know need the day off.
I mean, these are facts of the matter. Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of many players permanently banned for life as well from the 1919 Black Sox team, as it's known, because he was, along with seven other White Sox, banned by the first commissioner of baseball, Kenosha Mountain Landis. Kenosha Mountain Landis in 1921 sent eight Chicago White Sox to the permanent baseball Hooskal, fixing the 1919 World Series. Anybody who's seen the film, the brilliant John Sayles film in 1988, Eight Men Out.
Also, the books about it knows the story there. Well, yesterday, our friend Don Van Natta of ESPN was going to be joining this program in just two hours. About an hour and a half from now, he got the leak that Major League Baseball's current commissioner, Rob Manfred, was going to reinstate everybody on the banned list who's passed away, that the ban from baseball is not eternal, it's just a lifetime ban. As the commissioner of Major League Baseball said, obviously a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game. Moreover, it is hard to conceive of a penalty that has more deterrent effect than one that lasts a lifetime with no reprieve. Therefore, I have concluded that permanent ineligibility ends upon the passing of the disciplined individual, and Mr. Rose will be removed from the permanently ineligible list. Pete Rose passed away last September at the age of 83. So he's eligible to go into the Hall of Fame, and the Hall of Fame should put him in immediately. They will not.
There is a process, as is everything. There is, based on the newish rules of enshrinement for the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in beautiful Cooperstown, New York, a historical overview committee that develops the ballot of eight names for the Classic Baseball Era Committee to vote on when it next meets in December of 2027. Rose and Jackson and everybody else who's just been reinstalled would need 12 of 16 votes to win induction, and they should get the 16, all of them. We all know Pete's accomplishments.
Let me just give it just in case for kids out there who may not know. Lifetime batting average of.303, Major League Baseball's current career leader in hits, games played at bats, singles and outs, three-time World Series champion twice with the Reds, once with the Phillies. Rose said, and I guess you can't, stats experts have not really figured this out, he won 1,972 regular season games. Yeah, played in the most winning games ever.
That's the most ever. Three batting titles, two Gold Glove Awards, a Most Valuable Player award. He was Rookie of the Year as well.
And you want to talk about Chewless Joe Jackson, he should get in right away as well. He had a career batting average of.356, fourth highest in Major League Baseball history. And he took $5,000 in gamblers cash to throw the 1919 World Series.
He should get in the Hall of Fame just because he's the worst tanker in history. He's fixing the World Series. He batted.375 in the World Series. He crushed in those games. Didn't make an error and hit the World Series only home run.
Only home run was hit by Chewless Joe Jackson, that's him tanking. All right, imagine had he tried. So the question isn't should Manfred have done it? I guess the only person who might put anybody here disagree that he should have done this. Anybody? This should have been done a long time ago. I disagree with that, but we'll get to that in a second.
Who's it hurting? I guess the only person who might push back on this is the guy who investigated Pete Rose. John Dowd, the investigator, former Justice Department attorney who investigated Rose for Major League Baseball. He told ESPN in 2020 that he believes Jackson should be in the Hall, but not Rose. Quote, There is no difference with him being dead.
It's about behavior, conduct and reputation. That's a quote from yesterday. That is a quote from 2020 John Dowd. So that's a five year old belief. I can't imagine anything's happened in the last five years. Anything that we've learned in the last five years wouldn't help Rose. And that refers to some other off the field news regarding him. I just didn't know if he said that after Rose passed in the fall.
No, you said that in 2020. I don't know why it would matter for John Dowd to change his opinion. He's the one that knows where all the receipts came from. And he's the one who collected them and not all of them. I imagine in his mind, listen, I have said over and over and over again that if you think Rose should be in the Hall of Fame, you do, right?
Everybody does that. The only way I would have him in the Hall of Fame while he was still alive is if you put on his plaque, what happened? Because it's a museum. Exactly.
It's also part of his story. And they have a plaque. OK, that when you go in, you get a plaque and on it is text. In the Pro Football Hall of Fame, all you do is you get a bust and it's on a plexiglass shelf and the only information that's there is your name and the teams that you played in the years that you played for those teams.
That's it. And baseball is a story. The story should include what Rose did and that he was banned for the rest of his days after being investigated and found guilty of gambling in 1989.
That seems fair. And now it's time to put him in and we should have baseball just say, listen, we're going to make an exception for the all time hits king. And you could even throw Shoeless Joe Jackson in there as well. And the rest of the Black Sox that just got reinstated.
You know, some of the names are familiar. If you remember eight men out, Buck Weaver, right? And Eddie Seacott, the pitcher. I don't know, but certainly for Rose, you want to throw Shoeless Joe Jackson in there as well, let's just get him in.
Let's just let's just expedite for the all time hits leader. And that would be maybe a gift to all the Rose fans who thought Pete's been wronged. I didn't think Pete was wronged. As a matter of fact, all he had to do was just admit, just admit what he did. And I think baseball was ready to just throw him in the Hall of Fame, man. He never did it.
I said it all the time, I'll repeat one more time here, what I've said over and over again, just in case this is your first time hearing it. When Mickey Mantle died before he passed away, he was talking about his battle of alcoholism and how it ruined his family relations and many of his relationships in life, and he went on a tour to basically say, don't be like me. If Pete Rose did that about gambling, I thought he would have been in the Hall of Fame. If he even did that for his book that came out in 2015, just admit it. This is what you did.
This is what I did. Gambling ruins families. Instead, he's like, I still gamble on sports.
I live in Las Vegas. I will not stop doing it. And baseball at the time with Bud Seelig was like, OK, and we're not there's nothing to talk about here then. So I don't think. Pete Rose being banned for life was wrong, certainly the way in which he was completely.
Stubborn about admitting what he had done, what he signed a document saying that he had done. And. Now it's time to put him in the hall and Manfred is open the door and the hall is basically saying, yeah, we're going to meet in two and a half years. You are all right.
It should have died in nineteen fifty one. You know. Come on. Like, can we just can we can we expedite and just say we're going to make a one time exception that the only time we're going to make this exception is when the commissioner of baseball removes nine names from the list, including. The all time hits game at the same time, if that ever happens again, we'll do this again, unless it doesn't happen.
We're not expediting for anybody. And you make the rules. I mean, that's again, Manfred is saying what what what Bart Giamatti said before his passing, it's up to the hall. It's their rules. You know, it's their rules, so you make it up, make these up.
Make it up, put them in, do it this summer. Put on the plaque, what he did, you want to come up with the number of words that you can put on the plaque. Two sentences about it, one sentence about it, put on the plaque.
It's part of it's part of what happens. It's part of why he didn't get in. You can't tell the story of baseball.
You can't. Hey, mom and dad, if Pete Rose did all this, why did it take? Well, look at the asterisk, you know, 30 something years from to get in the hall.
Well, read the plaque. End of story. Why the commissioner did this now and with a back story, Don Van Natta's got that. We'll talk about the Cavs, 68 wins. The Oklahoma City Thunderhead, they're on the verge. Sixty four wins for the Cavs, they're out. We'll talk about the Cavs being eliminated. We'll talk about what's going on in the NBA, the NFL with Tom Pelissero. But this is going to be so much fun.
Ike Barenholtz from the studio, so Saperstein, Saul, Sal Saperstein, Sal Saperstein is here next on The Rich Eisen Show. OK, this is not a drill. Get ready because Mission Impossible, the final reckoning hits theaters May twenty third and I'm counting down the days, this is it, the biggest practical action movie ever made. Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie are back pushing the limits of what action cinema can do. We're talking real stunts, real danger and real edge of your seat.
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Yes. And one of the stars of the studio. New episode available today on Apple TV. The season finale is Wednesday.
Next week, season two has already been picked up. Ladies and gentlemen, Oc Barron Holtz. Thank you. Thank you, guys. This was a loud clap. Sometimes the guys don't get the loud clap. Thank you, guys.
That was the appropriate decibel level. Just showed a clip of the studio available again. So today on Apple TV, you could see it right here on Roku.
It's already been picked up for season two. What an incredible cast. Ike Barron Holtz is here and we'll give him another round of applause. Seriously, man, thank you. You are so very good in this show, dude. Oh, my friend, you choose the scenery you are having. And the one thing that we get here that I like to hear is it looks like we're having fun here. Yes.
Yes. And every single minute I'm watching the show, I can only imagine how much fun you're having shooting this program. It's always that balance of like, how much fun did you have and how good it is.
Right. Because I remember when I saw, like, the Ocean's 12. They were like, we had the best time.
And I was like, you should have worked harder in the movie. But this was one like this show where it's like, it's fun. People, the vibes are good. And I think the quality is good, too.
Oh, my gosh. I mean, when you and again, though, the shot, the shooting where you did, you know, when you first got, you know, a call, a script or the gig that this is going to be tons of one long takes, you know, sort of score. And it's interesting that Scorsese was in the first episode. It's kind of an homage to a lot of the way these these films are shot. Well, I said to Marty, I go, how do you like this?
You know, it's great. One camera, you know, it's very French new wave. That's how they did it.
And they had one camera. And I was like, what's your favorite French new wave movie is the 400 blows. He goes, no, no, no, it's Jules at Jim.
Jules at Jim. I remember seeing it in the theaters. I thought if I could make a whole movie that was just the first 20 minutes of that and that's how I came up with Goodfellas and I was just like cartoonishly my tongue hit the ground. I was like, oh, but I had no idea. This is how they were going to shoot it at first.
When Seth first told me he didn't mention this. And I think they first started kind of they wrote that episode. That was I think the second episode is all about them interrupting a oner.
Yeah. So we'll shoot the whole episode as a oner. And then they were like, let's just make the whole show.
Every scene is a oner. So it sounded very ambitious and cool. I didn't think it was going to work just because I thought they would bail and just kind of shoot it like the league. You know what I mean?
Conventionally. And no, they really made a commitment to it. And their cinematographer, Adam Newport Barrow, is incredible.
And he figured out a way to make it work. And it really looks different. It doesn't look like a lot of other comedies out there.
And that's it's nice to have different, you know, looks for stuff. But the way I'm looking at it, I'm like, you're in the middle of a scene with some again, you're with Catherine O'Hara, Catherine Hahn. I mean, two brilliantly funny women, Seth Rogen.
We all know about just to name three, right? Catherine O'Hara is incredible, man. I remember like one day we were talking about Canada and I was like, I asked her a question about it. She goes, Oh, I'm actually not sure. And I'm like, aren't you on the money there?
And she goes, No, I am on a stamp. That sounds just like her, right? That sounds just like straight out of Waiting for Guffman, right?
Right out of Schitt's Creek. I know exactly right. And so but but you're you're minutes on end into a scene. Yeah, sometimes. Yes. And Cranston's in it, too.
Oh, my God. But all of these moments, you're minutes into a scene. I can only imagine that the pressure is on to stick the landing once you're so deep into a scene because everybody has nailed everything.
All the shots have been nailed. And there's there were a couple of times where I was the guy that screwed it up. Oh, and that's a bummer. When like you just fluff your line and and all of a sudden camera, the very strong camera operator, kind of just quite a low camera.
And Seth kind of just chuckles and is like, Let's try it again. And you're like, I'm really bummed right now. But but everyone had their opportunity to screw up a take or two.
I think I was on the lower end of that spectrum. That's good for the. Yeah, but it's awesome.
Congratulations on it. It's fun. And I'm so excited. We're going to come back and tell more stories and dig deeper into season two and see who we can get. In all seriousness, though, I know you were telling a story about Scorsese and that's that had to be wild for you to be in scenes with Martin Scorsese on a set with Martin Scorsese, the equivalent of, you know, playing a pickup game with Michael Jordan.
It's like he's the goat. And it I was very nervous, but he's such a sweet, old, lovely man that it was just absolutely a dream to be there with him. So did you just talk about French films with him or did you? We talked about French films, we talked about we I wanted to be respectful. I didn't want to like over, you know, overdo it.
So I would ask just a question. And at one point I did screw up because Buscemi is in that scene, too. Steve Buscemi. And I was like, I'm so dumb. I was like, have you worked with Steve before? He's like, of course I directed and produced Boardwalk Empire. And I was like, damn it. Sorry, Marty.
I'll be I'm going to take a lap. But yeah, he's he's wonderful. And just a he started following me on Instagram. Oh, which was very nerve wracking because I was like, I really hope he likes pictures of chicken cutlets.
That's mostly what my content is. So I haven't got any likes from him. So, Marty, if you're watching this, hit that hit that like button. Yeah, man. I mean, let's get Martin Scorsese liking on Instagram.
Words I've never said before into a microphone. Let alone a hint of irony. Like you really want to like from Scorsese on his social media presence, though, is actually incredibly blessed. His daughter, his daughter's daughter, Francesca, who's so cool and funny and smart. And she kind of just does stuff with him. And it is it is like the perfect fusion of old and new media.
It's pretty wonderful. Well, Susie, who you know very well, my wife, right? She was there in London when we were out to dinner at the Children's Firehouse with dear friends. Yeah. And the table next to us was just this massive 10, 12 person table.
It was empty and then started filling up. And it was clear that the this was the post premiere party in London for the Irishman. Oh, as name it, name them. They all showed up. They were all there. Scorsese, De Niro, everybody but Pesci showed up at that table. De Niro showed up. Was he did they de age him like they did in the film? Did not. He was showing up as Robert De Niro.
And then Springsteen sat down. Oh, my God. Stupid. And the reason why I bring it up is we talked about it on this show as well, that if you could only take a shot at talking to one of them, you can't go up to all of them.
Right. Oh, who would you pick? And I chose Scorsese. I would pick Scorsese. It's either Scorsese or Bruce because De Niro, I love him, but he's he's an actor.
He's not going to want to talk to you. Scorsese, I think, is probably the best conversationalist out of all of them. He's very excited. I could see Bruce being like, great to meet you.
I'm going to order my calamari now. Whereas Marty will like, I think, talk to you and engage. And if you just talk to him about movies, that's what he wants to talk about. Well, he but he was at dinner. And so what I so I had a plan. OK. OK. Where I went.
Oh, come on now. I had a plan. You're not going to let this pass. Hell no.
No, no, no. So I had a plan. So I I went to the men's room. Yeah. Past their table.
OK. I mean, I could have chosen a different route, but I chose this route. Went up to Scorsese.
Just talk to him and just say I'm from Staten Island. I gave that sort of thing because I think there's some good. I think the Goodfella scene where Joe Pesci got got. Spoiler alert.
Shot inside. Yes, yes, yes. I led with that. Very good. Then told him that he he's transformed the way that I watch movies. He basically said, thank you very much.
Yes. At which point I then went to go pee. So then when he got up later on after the dinner, I figured this my shot pushed my chair out, stopped him from leaving. At which point, several, I imagine, personally hired as well as children, firehouse hired members of the security staff, swooped in to stop me from engaging.
At which point, because maybe I'm from Staten Island or I was an engaging young man myself, he goes, it's OK. And we took this selfie. We took a shot. And there it is. Come on.
There is. Come on. He he he was not happy, I don't think. He looks thrilled. What are you talking about?
I've never seen someone look more happy to not go home. There's all of that. That's my Scorsese story. Yours was making small talk about Buscemi and French movies. And I blocked him from going to his courtesy car for a selfie. This all happened. Well, we're all friends now, so that's all that matters. There you go.
And it's a brave new world we're living in. Ike Baron holds here on The Rich Eyes and Show because the the pope is a Chicago White Sox fan. And you're a Chicago guy. Is it true your wife is a White Sox fan? My wife is a White Sox fan. I'm I lean more cubs, although I have a lot of love for the Sox.
But I grew up really close to Wrigley Field. Last week, when it got announced, I was in the writers room with my partner, Dave Stassen, big Chicago guy. Now, is this for season two of Running Point?
Season two of Running Point starring Rich Eisen. Yes, that's what it stars. Thank you for that. We we found out and it was I'm Jewish. I don't know. Is that a spoiler alert? The spoiler alert everyone. Ike Baron holds, ladies and gentlemen. Ike Baron comma Jew was shocked and excited that the pope now is a Chicago boy.
This is insane. The fact that for 2000 years, we've had popes that are like someone that part of the scene that we're going to bless you. And now we have a pope who's like, well, my my Italian beef preference, I like it mildly dipped, not too wet. The fact that we have a pope who knows about Italian beef, the fact that we know he's a Bulls fan, the pope could tell you like, well, uh, I think Will Perdue did a great job for the Bulls.
I think Wenington kind of took the plant. It's like it's incredible. Judge Bushler talk from Vatican City had to have the pope turn to a cardinal and be like, you know, without Judge Bushler, they're not they're not going to be. Utah is is too it's too much to take guys.
It's too much. I was good. I was going to go. He is the first pope who could talk about Maglia Ordonez. You know, I mean, with with Paul Konarko.
Right. And the video of him in the crowd of the World Series that Fox found out was my first date with my now wife. We watched that game at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas.
And we're watching this. And now I'm like, oh, my God, the pope was at that game. It's insane that we have a pope now who he has a take on Ozzie Guillen. Like, you know what I mean? He's like, yeah, no, he was funny, but it was too much with his son in the end.
So they had to let him go. That's the pope saying, oh, my God. So what's more surprising? I'm going to ask the group here. OK, this is a group question for for the group. What is more surprising that the pope is a White Sox fan or somebody had a first date watching a World Series game at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas? Yes.
Yes. And then wound up getting married, having beautiful, beautiful children, you know, lovely wives together that I personally witnessed. I can attest you love your wife. She loves you.
You got a beautiful family, beautiful family. I asked the group, what is what's more surprising watching the game? OK, the watching the game.
All right. Oh, the pope. The pope.
What are we doing? It's been thousands of years of old Italian men. Now we got a guy, Chicago guy. Now he likes tavern style pizza more than deep dish. Come on. She has the he's the first pope to ever talk back at Ed De Bevix and get away with it. The Wiener Circle.
I don't know if he's ever been there, but he might have been at the Wiener Circle. That would be amazing. Yeah.
Sign up already. That's like the pope's been here. Their sign work is strong. Oh my gosh.
Incredible. I thought the first sign that the the pope would be able to affect the Chicago sports scene is that the bulls would win Cooper flags. Listen, lottery had it had been us instead of Dallas.
I'm converting to Catholicism next day. Unfortunately, that didn't happen, which is very interesting that Dallas got that pick. That's all I'm going to say. Right. But yeah, we'll figure it out. The bulls will figure it out.
Maybe get Giannis, maybe. I don't know. I think about that. I don't know about.
Well, that's a big mystery. Can I make an appeal to Mr. Mr. Otsuzemko? Yes, you may. We have in Chicago, my friend, a Greek town that will rival anywhere in Greece. All right. Santorini, Greek islands. There's all these other amazing restaurants.
I can name other ones, but please come to the bulls and you could have span a culprit. A lot that any night, as good as anywhere in Greece, my friend. So keep an eye on the keep an eye on social media to see if he is now declared he wants out of Milwaukee because he saw Ike Barinholtz talk about Santorini, Chicago and Santorini.
Giannis, our Greek town is part none. Do they die the water in Santorini green every March? Do they do that? It's a sister city to Chicago. So yeah, they die it green.
They die the Mediterranean. And now he's like, huh, wherever he is right now, it's like, oh, we'll do that to us. So it's amazing.
I love him. Please come. Let's talk a little bit more basketball, but something nearer and dear to our house.
Yes, my friend. And that is our daughters play basketball together frequently against each other this past Sunday. A mother's day game. I know. Can we talk about this game?
Sure. It was a true barn burner high game with a minute left. And on my daughter's team, shout out to Eve. She hit four free throws. Yes, with a minute left banked them all off the hard bank, hard bank.
But four for four under pressure. A 12 year old girl. That is impressive.
Well, I also need to add to break that tie. The person who created the tie by switching to free throws was one Taylor Isen. I'm obsessed with Taylor Isen.
Thank you. Taylor Isen plays with the tenacity of like Alan Iverson and like ninety nine, like just hungry, going after the ball unfazed out there. She's awesome. And her coach, who you know very well, the coach you have some issues with. Yeah, OK. Susie will frequently it's interesting.
You equate our daughter to Alan Iverson. Susie's frequent desire to have her practice. Yes. Is met with similar resistance on occasion. Practice. Practice. Pretty much about practice.
That sounds that I mean, and Taylor doesn't go full, you know, AI there. But the one thing that I do want to bring up here is I don't know how many banners your name is on anywhere in the United States on the wall of a gymnasium. Like, but I can test them.
I don't have a single one. And the one that features my daughter and your daughter's name in Pan Pacific Park, they are right on top of each other. So cool with Morgan. So it's like amazing. Look at that coach. Al getting it done. Foster Barenholtz and Taylor Isen on the same banner. It's in the same gym for for time immemorial.
It'll stand there. It's amazing. Coach Al's great. Susie's also just like the coolest coach. Your wife is the coolest person.
His wife, we all know Susie. She's so cool. She's so smart.
She's a smoke show. We go to dinner. She turns to the waiter and busts out perfect Italian. Yeah, I'm like, what? Well, it was an Italian restaurant. But still, I go to a Mexican restaurant. I'm like, hello.
Can I please have the burrito platter? Yeah, it was very cool. She is alpha.
She likes to take the the Italian car out of the garage. You know, and then very cool. But one last thing to bring up with you before we send you on with the rest of your Wednesday. You, sir, if I am not mistaken, have dominated not one, but two game shows, correct? Yes, that is true.
That is true. Celebrity, celebrity, jeopardy. I won the tournament of champions. And then I went on the regular tournament of champions and I made it to the quarterfinals. And then I went on who wants to be a millionaire? Celebrity wants to be a millionaire with my dad.
And we won a million dollars. You did. Wow. Yes.
So the reason why we bring this up is any tips for this group that is after tomorrow's show, flying to Atlanta to on Friday, record an episode of Celebrity Family Feud against the Dan Patrick show. Oh, my God. This is happening. Oh, with Steve Harvey, with Steve. Oh, my God. The full deal, the full complete deal, as we would say.
Yes. Now, TJ has appeared on The Price is Right. He he left with a ping pong table and a popcorn machine. Not bad after making it out of contestants row. OK, to the showcase showdown. Wow.
Having an opportunity to win not just his showcase, but potentially both because the other person went over double over. Unfortunately, there is the shot, actually, that we this is not mocked in any way. Oh, and then we'll find this camera. You find it perfectly, my friend. Thank you. So TJ has game show experience. I've been I've been on Sports Jeopardy. Right.
I beat two Penn Staters. OK, that's true. Pretty good. Any any advice?
Any thoughts here? I mean, it's so tough because it's family feud and it's all like service. We we talked to 100 people.
Yes. Any advice for family feud? I think be nice and loose. OK. Have fun.
I went into the tournament champions on Jeopardy thinking it was like a fait accompli that I was going to lose. OK. And so I just kind of went with the attitude of I'm just going to have fun. House money.
House money, man. Let's just do this. Have some fun. We'll make some jokes.
And I won. So I would say going with the attitude of like, let's just have fun. If Dan Patrick wins, who cares? Wrong attitude. The mentality we're on will win and Dan Patrick will lose, which we all want to see.
So I think go in light. But in your mind, be hard. OK, be hard, guys. TJ, you know, spent too much time trying to entertain on the prices, right? I mean, they were laughing like, what am I supposed to do?
He knows he knows the deal, right? Maybe if you can make Steve laugh, that would be really good. That's a good one. Make him laugh. This is not the advice I was looking for.
I'm ready for this. And not the advice I was looking for, to be honest. On Family Feud, you don't want to go too sexual. Like a lot of people make like double entendre puns and they're always wrong. As a writer, you know, the writing of the games and the clues are trying to funnel you in that direction.
They're trying to. But there I feel like whenever I watch Family Feud and people be like things you forget at home and somebody like my wife's underwear and it's like, no, you're just trying to be funny. Like that's not on the board. So that's where you don't want to entertain.
You don't want to be funny, but but be loose and funny when you're talking. Don't be too too wound up. OK, and then go to a South City kitchen afterwards or Holman and Fitch. If you're in Atlanta, those are two amazing restaurants. Great burgers.
Shoot. Now, notice he didn't mention any Greek restaurants because he doesn't want Giannis to go to Atlanta. My friend, you're you're going to be making Greek food at home. If you come to Chicago, there is a whole neighborhood where it is restaurant after restaurant filled with Greek delights.
In fact, there might be a restaurant called Greek Delights. Please come to the polls, please. This is embarrassing.
I'm asking twice now. I could get a Pope and Giannis, the Pope and Giannis in the same spot. Come on, guys. It would be like this is it. It's like that for Obama and Jordan. Who know the Pope and Giannis? That's it. That's how we do it now. Shied down by the way. That sounds like a really bad buddy buddy cop show. The Pope and Giannis.
His last name is Pope, but they call him the Pope. And Giannis is just playing himself. We're pitching now. Let's pitch this man. Call UTA.
That's right. Let's set it up. Let's set this up. The Pope and Giannis coming soon. Coming this fall.
Oh, my God. A new episode of the studio is available today on Apple TV. And the season one finale is Wednesday.
Next week's already been renewed for season two. It is awesome. God, it is so funny.
It is a dynamite watch. It is it is anxiety ridden frequently. Yeah, it's not like super comforting. It's but it is fun because it's shot that way, too.
Right. And the music and the way that you guys act, they want you to be as stressed out as Seth Rokin is. And he is just perpetual flop sweat and goes, Oh, no. Oh, my God. And they want you to kind of feel like that. So I just laughed the whole time about it.
I don't get stressed. Yeah, my wife, when she watches, it's just like, Oh, no, no, no. And that's what I'm on. And then running point available now for streaming on Netflix.
We're renewed for season two. You're in the writer's room for that. Rich Eisen, star of Running Point.
It goes Rich Eisen, Kate Hudson and then Justin Theroux. And then there's the call sheet. That's right. That's the way it is on the call. That's right.
It's the call, which is that was you requesting that. And we made it happen. I told you this off camera.
I'll tell it to you here. The number of people that I got text from on that, it rivals anything that I've ever done. It tops anything I've ever done by far.
Like having a hit show on Netflix, a lot of people watch it. Like, hey, we went to school together in second grade. We haven't talked in 40 years. Congrats. It's great. I thought the same thing.
And I was only on a couple of these episodes, man. It's wild. I do. I do it again. Well, we got to get Susie. We have we were making it a Eisen joint. OK, yeah.
Just have her have her character speak Italian. Oh, my God. Let's do it again. The studio renewed for season two. Check it out tonight.
Right away, right here on the Roku platform through Apple TV, obviously. One of my favorite guests, and I'm not just saying that because you're sitting right here. I think you are. What do you want, steroids or something? I'm actually on steroids.
Bryan Cranston, last flag flying in select theaters. Now we're going to have to disqualify this show because of your steroid use. You know what? I thought about that before taking that steroid. Now, wouldn't it be disheartening if you took the steroid and you had the best show ever? Then you go, oh, my God, I have to take more steroids.
How can you go off the steroids? I guess that is the conundrum that every good thing that it wasn't a great show. So good for you. Actually, it's it's been a great show. Since you and I last spoke here on the show, your Dodgers went to the World Series. There was that five hour game that went in. That was insane. It was insane. And I am proud to say I stuck around to extra innings for that night.
It was because I did see some people in this town, people that you would know, people that we have all seen on television. Call them out. I can't do it. Do it. I can't. You're on steroids. What the hell do you care?
I do have that as a fallback position. Do I not? Well, I would never do that to you. Your honor, I was on steroids at the time when I made that comment. When somebody from Arrested Development got up. Yes. Oh, Jason Bateman, you've been had in your face, Jason. There's a lot of people. I'm disappointed, Jason. Will Arnett. Wow.
But it wasn't. Better call Saul now. OK, we're getting to the part. We're getting there where where it moves. It's more we're moving slower, moving like Tortuga.
We're moving that slowly. OK, but we're getting to the part where Walter White could show up. Are we seeing Walter White anytime soon? Well, I'll tell you this as an exclusive on the Rich Eisen Show.
Nice putting the bug on there without the mug. There it is. There's the exclusive. It just amazes me seeing in Better Call Saul the number of characters whose demise eventually is met because of your character. Is it me? I know exactly.
It is remarkable how each and every one of them. Yeah. Eventually has to be undone. I unfortunately have that association. If I spend any amount of time with someone, they end up dying, surprisingly. So I would suggest you get life insurance. You know, you want to protect your family and everything. Everything you do that.
OK, sorry. Oh, boy. All of the brilliant Brian Cranston appearances in the history of this show are available on our YouTube channel. YouTube.com slash Rich Eisen Show.
Again, he is so good in in the studio, not in it quite a bit, at least from what I've seen already so far. Catherine Hahn is as funny as they come. My gosh, Catherine O'Hara to it. Ike and Seth Rogen, just to name five.
You're going to be in three. OK, there's an episode that's going to come up with Ice Cube in it. OK, and let me tell you something. I was just describing this to Brockman. It's about the Kool-Aid movie. Well, sure.
Yeah, that's that's the construct is that it is, bro. And I tell you, this episode is like you just have to take it for this and just laugh at it like is that the studio that that just put Seth Rogen in charge. Cranston is the man who did that.
They have the rights to the Kool-Aid character. And now off we go. That was so much fun with Ike Barenholtz.
So good, so funny. And we did not I mean, we didn't even dive into his TV and movie career for. We will do that the next time he comes on on this program. We didn't we. So here's how we're going to map out the rest of the show. We've got ourselves. Next hour, Don Van Natta Jr. He's the one who broke the story that baseball was going to reinstate Pete Rose, Shoeless, Joe Jackson and seven others. We were also going to take phone calls.
844-204-RICH, No. Natal, Tom Pellicero, our number three. We have yet to discuss the Cooper Flag acquisition by the Dallas Mavericks. Thanks to the lottery. They have the opportunity to select Cooper Flag. OK, we will discuss that coming up. The end of the road for the Cleveland Cavaliers. The situation that we've got brewing in our number three, which is the final time because Chris will not be here tomorrow because he's too busy being a celebrity in Duval County. Correct.
Florida for. Correct. Actor John Rom's celebrity golf tournament. Kevin Rom. Kevin Rom. It's not John Rom? John Rom's not going to be there. John Rom's a little busy this weekend. Kevin Rom. Kevin Rom. Oh, OK. John Rom's. I thought Kevin was going to be in the PGA.
He was at Crayola Hollow. No, it would be great if they swap places. Swap Roms?
Honestly. Swap Roms. I don't know if John Rom will want to do that, but it'll be respect to Kevin.
Swap Roms. Kevin Rom. Susie will be in your spot tomorrow, but she'll be here in advance of women's sports now for all five of us. Feli's coming and we got one last run through is the five. We got to do it.
Let's go for family. Tighten the screws, boys. That's coming up. Lock in.
I can't entertain. Lock in, Mike. Tom Pelissaro with everything going on in the NFL. And there's always something going on. The schedule releases tonight. We'll discuss that coming up in hours two and three. Still here on our. So all these games are getting leaked right now, Rich.
What happened to the mission critical situation there for those people? Can I just explain what it is? Because I've I've I've been doing this for 22 years. The NFL can only do what it can do with its own direct employees, which is to give it out in very small amounts to people who are only, as they refer to it, mission critical, which I kind of love because it makes me sound like either Tom Cruise or in the case of our wonderful crack staff. Is this a smidge creation from last year or is this you Hoskins?
Oh, Hoskins made it mission critical. He won't break his NDA. I signed it on the air yesterday.
That's all they can do is basically threaten us with the word of NFL gods that we cannot give out a single portion of its screen rabbit or tell anybody to anybody what's going on. I haven't even gotten it yet. You don't have the schedule. I don't have it yet.
You don't have it yet? I don't. I'm going to go to work right after this.
As soon as I walk in, they're going to give it to me and I'm going to have like three hours to take it in. Whatever. It is what it is. I've done this before. Yeah.
Although I've never gotten it this late. So the NFL is really serious about tightening tightening it up. There's so many games.
Excuse me. The NFL is serious about tightening it up with their own employees every year. Teams in the NFL Yeah.
Leak it. The teams do it. And I would sit here and say, you know who you are, but you know who they are. There's all 32 of them. Yeah.
And I love them. It's my job to make sure all 32 teams are talked about and their fan bases are as up to speed, up to date, entertained as possible. It's their league. But every year, I bet you, is it coming from local beat reporters? Mostly this is what's going on. They feed it to them. Somebody feeds it to them.
So make all 32 teams sign an MDA. Because they're as mission critical as everyone else. Actually, you know what it's doing? It's making my mission less critical. I like being called mission critical. So we should change that to mission less critical?
No, no, no. It should be I'm mission critical and you are too. Stop leaking it. Because, you know, my mission is critical. And I like being known as mission critical and you are threatening it. It's pissing me off.
I just like seeing what the teams do. How it gets released. There's one mission. Let's focus. Because it's critical. Former MLB All-Star Sean Casey, a.k.a.
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