Rickey Smiley: My #1 Dream Was to Play Football for Alabama

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Power number two of our program on the air Tuesday after Memorial day, talking to NBA playoffs, Knicks and Pacers game four tonight in front of the Turner cameras. You could see that on Roku and also in front of shallow mic who is becoming a, uh, is he like the Jack Nicholson of, of the Knicks right now? I mean, like I know Ben Stiller's, uh, this bent, you know, in Spike Lee travels no spike travels.

You know what I mean? Spike is the Jack. I understand that, but the new Jack, I guess Jack city, Jack swings, shallow me, shallow me, shallow me. It's like the gen Z, you know, Jack he's, it's, it's funny. I was watching game three. Um, Zan was sitting next to me. Um, and, uh, Zan was watching, Zan was watching that he was watching. And, and so, um, he's sitting next to me two minutes to go. He says to me, like in the old Dan Patrick line, he goes, dad, you nervous?

But he was being legit. And I'm like, yes, Zander, I am nervous very much. So I'm like, the season is essentially on the line here.

So yeah, I, I am in fact nervous. And he says, at one point, I think it might've been the Brunson shot or whatever, right before it, he says, dad, is that Timothy Shalamy in the front row? And I'm like, I don't know. It's, it's possible.

I don't know if he travels with the team. And he says, would you mind, you know, racking it back? And I said, yes, yes, I would mind doing that.

I can't, I can't do that right now. Brunson made the shot and then cut away. And I'm like, Oh, there it is in front of Shalamy. Oh yeah.

God country, we're missing out on a good t-shirt. I can't believe the Knicks came back in that one. Yeah.

Yeah. That was pretty, that was a good, that thing was like, I, I, that was the season though. That season was on the line, on the line and Carl Anthony towns, let's talk about 20 point fourth quarter for the New York Knickerbockers. Just when they needed it, it was like cat decided, I'm not losing this game. Like unreal became a massive problem for miles Turner and Siakam and the rest of them, 20 point fourth quarter. I, at one point, you know, I was looking, you know, to see if Brunson was hurt and we just hadn't gotten an update.

He was just sitting there. Dusch McBride was playing and, and you know, Thibodeau was like hot handing it. Carl Anthony towns, getting it done for the New York Knicks and the Knicks are alive and they are trying to even the series tonight. This is what he had to say after the game over the weekend. So an opportunity, some opportunity to utilize all those hours I put into the gym and game wasn't looking great for me as well, but for all of us, and I just wanted to do whatever it takes to help put us in a position to win. And like I said, it's just, it's a testament to my teammates, you know, having trusted me and giving me, you know, putting me in spots where I could succeed and utilize my talent. So it's just testing, you know, shout out to the guys in the locker room, you know, this is a great team win, but we got it. We know we gotta be better than we were tonight if we expect to find a way to get another one. I mean, three of their wins in the playoffs coming back from 20 points down. First time in the history of the playoffs, the team has three wins within a playoff season in which they trail by 20 in each.

Two against Boston, we know games one and two, and now this game three, that was, um, must have. Rich, so the Knicks just start the game down 0-20? No, no, I wouldn't want that. Nor would Chalamet. Chalamet would say no. Chalamet's there for the fight, though.

Dude. I mean, is Chalamet going steak and shaking afterwards? Is that what he's going there in Indianapolis? I don't know if that's on his, maybe he's trying to beef up for the next dune that's coming out or something, but I don't know if that's on the diet for Chalamet normally. Chalamet's like a New York diner kitten, man, so yeah, he's probably down for something.

Yeah, maybe. Let me tell you something, dude, uh, the Knicks are just, they are resilient, but they are just on a tightrope, and if it wasn't for that fourth quarter, man. Wasn't it the Willandas?

The Flying Willandas. Yeah, they're like one of those guys with no net. With no net.

They're just out there. And, you know, without, it 100% looked like game two and the first three quarters of game three, they were still hung over from that game one loss. You know, from that game one loss, and I'm just, I'm wondering if that game three win is going to wipe out that game one loss. The only way to do it, though, is to go back to Madison Square Garden for game five Thursday night, make it pivotal rather than potentially decisive, which is to even this series of two apiece.

That is a tall order in that building. Kneesmith not being healthy is a blow. Yeah. Yeah, it sounds like he's game time tonight.

A blow. And, but the Pacers have a deep bench and they got a terrific coach, man. Rick Carlisle. He's the guy. Terzo in Iowa. Let's take his call.

All rise. What's up, Terzo? What's up, Terzo? How are you, sir? What's up, Rich?

Chris. Hey, Rich, first thing, that was a great interview that you had with Rich Paul last week. Never really heard him kind of go through how he met LeBron. That was just, that was fun to listen to and get some of that insight from him. And he seems like he's a pretty cool guy. And I would, I would love to hang out with him and have a beer and watch basketball. Hey, man. I'm glad you liked it.

I appreciate that. How I Met LeBron is a new CBS comedy, I believe. It's coming this fall.

It's coming this fall. How I Met LeBron. So, um, that's kind of like winning the lottery right there. Yeah.

There you go. What's on your mind? Hey, so Rich, I had, uh, I had a good pretty penny on the Knicks when they come back, and I was pretty happy with, with that. So I was stressed out.

Not as much as you, but I was, I was sweating some bullets there in the third, fourth quarter. I appreciate that update from the heartland. Good to know. Good to know.

Um, stacks are fatter. This is, uh, this is a, this is a funny, uh, stat though. So the Knicks are six and one on the road in these playoffs and four and five at home. So it might be better that they were playing in Indy tonight to even up the series. I don't know about that, man. The Mecca is supposed to be that for the Knicks, but it's always one of those things, man, where the Knicks just play.

I don't get it. I would love to see one of these games at home where they just put you in a rocket chair. Uh, maybe, I guess that was the one we saw in Atlanta, right? Uh, TJ, when we were sitting in the bar post celebrity family feud, yes. Watching the wrap up of the Boston Celtics. I just don't see it. Indiana's too damn deep and good with a bunch of, you know, guys who are just so frigging clutch.

And, uh, that includes obviously Halliburton and, and Siakam had damn near 40 point game in game two over the weekend. We didn't discuss that, but thanks for the call Terzo. Greatly appreciate it. Congratulations on having fatter stacks there.

Daddy fat snacks. Uh, it's a Tuesday. That's just an overreaction. Monday is sitting in your RSS feed. If you listen to podcasts, it's sitting there on the YouTube channel, the rich odds and show to watch overreaction Monday, but it's Tuesday. So it's time for overreaction Monday on a Tuesday.

Hit it, please. That was crap. That was garbage. Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. Very good.

I haven't stepped on that line in some time. I'm just giving myself praise. Congratulations. Very good.

I didn't mean to hijack your everybody good moment by giving myself praise. I'm good. Yes. You're good.

Yeah. Well, I mean, I gave myself great Memorial day. Everybody good TJ. How are you? Great to see you, Mike. I know you had a good weekend. Oh my goodness.

Yeah. I had a great weekend. You know, who's doing great right now. The Eagles and Saquon Barkley. You already said last week. I think Saquon is right. Last year's Eagles team top five, all time Superbowl team.

Well, I mean, what does, what does that mean? The top five team to win the Superbowl or top five team having a performance in the Superbowl? Of all the Superbowl of all the winners of the Superbowl. Okay.

All those teams. Yes. So there's been 58 of them. Yes. Or 59, whatever.

Superbowl 60. They're in the top five. Okay. Okay. Oh, I don't know.

I mean, let's find out how many of these guys make the hall of fame. Wouldn't you say that's symmetric as well? Oh, interesting. Is it? I don't know. I mean, who's going to the hall of fame on these Eagles? Saquon's going to the hall of fame. He's on the path.

The one that just won because obviously Kelsey's going to the hall of fame, but he's not there. Lane Johnson's going to the hall of fame. I think so. Brandon Graham's got an outside shot-ish, right? Ish.

Okay. Jalen Hurts on that path. Jalen Hurts on a path. He's on a path.

A.J. Brown on a path. He's, he's on a path.

I mean, anybody on defense? The coach is on the path. Coach is on a path.

You mean the former, the one they beat? No, Nick Sirianni's on the path. Oh, is that right? He went from having no clue to now he's on a path?

I think in your first four years, if you make two, win one and win 75% of your games. Yeah. That's a path. Okay. That's a path.

That's a gold jacket path. I'm just going to call this an overreaction for the moment. I'll call an overreaction for the moment because we're talking about his triplets. We're talking about 49ers. We're talking about the Broncos, the Elway back to backers. We're talking about the Steelers. Let's not forget, I mean, Saquon wasn't born for the steel curtain.

This Eagles would have beat every Super Bowl team through the eighties, probably. This guy. Oh, okay. Okay. Is Mel Blount allowed to hit people?

Does me and Joe Green not exist? We're playing today's rules. Okay.

Well, that kind of limits also in the... Look at you. We didn't even mention your Patriots, dude. That goes without saying. Onward.

Okay. Thinking about our new buddy from the Green Bay draft, Matthew Golden, newest Packers receiver. He's going to be the best Packers receiver this year.

Come on, dude. I love meeting him. I know that you're high on him. That's a neat one. I appreciate you throwing this in my direction, but not to give you a fantasy football infused answer, but I'll give you one.

Which now allows me to do it because I said not to do it, but now I'm going to do it. Sort of like with all due respect, with all due respect to Matthew Golden, you tell me like you have a Packers wide receiver in fantasy football. Do you have any idea which one is going to have the day?

It's week to week with this team, man. Do you have any idea which one is going to have the day? You know how all social media accounts, the NFL, the teams have a day, fill in the blank with the stats, right?

You have a day. You have no idea which one is going to have the day. I think it's whoever has the best matchup. Well, exactly. And that's who Jordan's going to go to. I mean, that's the way they have their... The one that you know every week is going to have the day or it's opportunity to have the days is Josh Jacobs. So they're run first. You know he's going to get the opportunity to have the day more than anyone else.

And then it's just like, take your pick. Watson and Dobbs can't stay healthy. Okay.

Dontavian Wicks has the dropsies. So he is, you know, a little bit less reliable. I think Golden has the opportunity to come in here and be the guy immediately.

Sure. I mean, just in the mere fact that you don't know what it looks like when the Packers draft a wide receiver in the first round. You just don't know what that looks like in the following season. It's literally happened twice in like 50 years. Well, this century, right? You just don't know who's the one that's going to fill up their cup.

The thing is, this team has a lot of talent. You just don't know, right? Who's going to be the one who's going to fill up their cup? The only one that you know is going to fill up their cup is the coach because he's all about hydration. And he knows it.

We told him to his face. He stays hydrated. Now it's his first round pick. His hydration. So maybe you're right. Maybe Matthew Golden is going to fill up his cup. Maybe the coach thinks he's hydration.

His water is wet. Still an overreaction. All right. All right.

Anytime I get a chance to put that up on the screen, I will take it. Thank you Hoskins for having that ready. One of the big stories last week coming out of the owner's meetings.

Yes. Flag football coming to the Olympics. As we know, NFL players will be eligible to be on the team now. I got some crap for not taking my home sports. There's been a lot of talk now that the actual guys who do participate in these international flag football, they're upset.

They're a little, they're a little heated. Justifiably. Deuce the quarterback out there is talking his smack, says he wants a chance to compete. Now, Bill Barnwell, I want to give him a shout out.

Bill Barnwell had this idea of, I think he's nailed it. Flag football stars against the NFL players in a qualifier to represent USA in the Olympics. Sold.

Sold. Wait a second. Two teams play and the winner gets to guess. So you got the international flag guys that always play.

They play against the handpicked, whatever select NFL players. I understand that. And so it's sort of like the miracle on grass. It's a qualifier. That's what you're saying?

The miracle on. You know, they have Olympic trials for track and field and every other sport. It doesn't have the same ring to it. We have a trials for the flag football. The NFL will never, and part of the reason why they did this and allowed NFL players to be out of training camp to participate in it is to put the NFL and its stars on an international stage, period.

End of story. They're not going to say, we'll throw it off to a bunch of people that you've never really, with all due respect, have heard of. But Roger Goodell has said that happening, that this is not happening, but, but, but to get it out there and maybe get some names up to say these cats who do this for a living, um, have a shot to crack the lineup then and put it on the pro bowl stage sold on that, you know, just let's see it. Let's, let's see the best of the NFL against the best of flag football right now in a flag football game. Let's go in the, I agree.

I love it in the pro bowl. Yeah. For sure. At least one of them like that, right?

Yeah. Cause I get it like these guys are to work. They are, you know, they they're the ones who are forwarding this fan of flag game. Fortunately, they're going to get the short end of the stick, but a matchup in the pro bowl. Why not? Because any outcome is fascinating. The NFL players who just happened to come together for the fact that the NFL envisions Mahomes holding the American flag, leading the delegation in Los Angeles, got a beat deuce out in the same way that we've seen tennis stars do it in NBA stars, the NFL is wants to see the face of its sport or one of holding the American flag dressed to Ralph Lauren or whatever, leading the delegation in the opening ceremonies. That's the point of it. A large point of it.

So then maybe Chris, what we do is we do sign that the Cleveland Browns or another team like the Browns do have a slot in their quarterback right still. Right. What else do you got over there? All right.

A couple of NBA items here. This Thunder Wolf series kind of cooling the jets on the ant is the face of the NBA talk. No question. Yeah.

Hasn't played that great. But in his defense, remember when Susie was here, he's on record as saying he didn't want to be the face of it. Well, it's not your choice. Well, it is kind of because you've got to say yes to the commercials.

You've got to say yes to all that stuff that you don't have to. I don't blame him. I don't blame him for saying all that sort of stuff. And he's not saying I am the face of the NBA.

Pay attention to me. He is incredibly talented. He has moments on offense and defense where he does look like Michael Jordan. But Jordan would rip out the Oklahoma City Thunder's heart and show it to them, pumping in front of everybody wearing the same shirt and quiet them and Jimmy Goldstein and Jimmy Goldstein. That's what he would do. He would go in in Game five and just score score and defend and erase the MVP from the planet and say, SGA, here's your Canadian heart pumping and I'm going to eat it with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

That's what Jordan would do back in the day. So with the ultimate of respect, the kid is incredible. He is excellent.

He's amazing. But the Timberwolves would not be down three games to one if Michael Jordan was standing out there. And it's an unfair comparison. And you can't say I didn't get enough shots. You have the opportunity to take any shot you want. Just the NBA.

Just take them, guys. We all know where the face of the NBA is. It's still LeBron. Yeah.

As long as he is still playing in this association, LeBron James is the face of the association around the globe. Period. And the story. What else? Last one, Knicks Pacers not going to make it to Game seven.

Either the Knicks win four straight or Indiana wins to the next. That is an overreaction. That's overreacting. You think this is seven? No doubt. I think so.

It doesn't have it written all over it. It has weird happening in the series. It'll be down to the last possession. It'll be a Madison Square Garden in front of God, Country and Chalamet. And it's going to be insane. You and I both know it. Double overtime. Is Scott Foster revering tonight?

Oh, great question. I love this guy. He's like, Scott Foster is a series extender. And then Scott Foster, I believe. Was he not on the court for the Knicks and the Celtics Game five? He was. I think he was.

Did Scott Foster get hit in the face? Yeah, Game five and the Celtics won Game five. Just saying. No, the Celtics didn't win Game five. No, no. Game six. Pardon me.

It was on the court in Game six. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My bad. No, John.

John Goebbels, the crew chief tonight. OK, great. OK, all right. OK, good stuff, Christopher. Thank you.

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Availability, amount of discounts and savings, and eligibility vary by state. He is a two-time winner of the Marconi. He is also the host of the syndicated hit show, The Ricky Smiley Morning Show, and his new comedy special, first in over a decade, Foolish, is available on Hulu. Ladies and gentlemen, Ricky Smiley is on the program. Good to see you. What's up? How are you? Yeah, why are you introducing my Marconi Awards, your Marconi Award in there with a light shining? Oh yeah. Ricky, we've just met.

I have a presentation value that comes with everything. Be careful talking to this man in an airport. They'll tell you the whole life story, man.

Oh God, that ADHD kick in, you haven't had an Adderall, like come on. That was recorded in your hometown in Birmingham? Birmingham at the Lyric Theater, and I used to work at a clothing store right next door to that theater and write jokes doing open mic night. That theater was closed. They re-did the theater and it was available.

It's a nice little 1200 seater. And I just went in there and shot a special. Congratulations on all of that.

Foolish is available on Hulu, which means it's available right here on Roku. I've got Ricky Smiley right here on the Rich Eisen Show, and it's a pleasure to have you here. Thank you for having me. You got it.

You got it. So you're from Alabama, which means you must be... You have to say roll tide. The interstate of Alabama. Okay, roll tide. Come on. Well, I mean, there are some people... Yeah, God, Jesus, and Nick Saban. Well, there's some that once upon a time said those two before Gus Malzahn, you know what I mean? So you're never obviously Auburn being from Birmingham, right? No, Auburn's like our little brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And before Nick Saban, we had Paul Bear Bryant. Yes, sir.

Now I should have bought a picture of me sitting on coach Bryant's knee when I was eight. Did you really? Yes, I have it. I'll show it to you.

It's in my phone, but I'll show it to you. Okay. Oh yeah. I got a picture with the bear. They took our little league football team to Tuscaloosa. We were up for the little state championship, which we won. And they took us to watch Alabama practice. EJ Jr. was there.

EJ Jr. Oh yeah, they were all they were all at Alabama. We almost got ran over by some players. We were on the sideline.

Coach Bryant came out of the tower and told us to take a knee and had a good conversation with us. And we went back. Jack O'Rear, former Alabama quarterback, drove us down in his cutlass because his brother was on my team, Chris O'Rear. And we went to Tuscaloosa in two cutlasses, two 79 cutlass Supremes. And we were all squeezing. You see, back then it was no law to wear seat belts. So we were piled in the car.

Remember? And then somebody had a pickup truck. So you remember the pickup truck? You kind of sit on the back of the truck on the highway with no seat belts.

Can't do that now. And we went to Tuscaloosa to watch Alabama practice. And I've been a fan ever since. Did you have dreams of maybe playing? That was my number one dream was to play football for Alabama.

So how good were you back? I played little league football. I played quarterback and receiver quarterback. I still have an arm this day. I also have a video at the age of 56, putting the ball in somebody's chest. They ran a post corner and dropped. And I had this guy run a slant and dropped it right to him.

The steel, my accuracy is still on point. Oh, so you still have, you still have the, the mechanics right now, right now. I had to, uh, I went on a club, Shayshae. Everybody thinks that a comic only did comedy, right?

Nobody thought, you think that we had a life before we started telling jokes. Well, you know, I played football. I had three college athletes to come out of my house. That's what we do. My house looked like this studio.

Well, you know what? We wanted you to feel at home. And now you were on Shaq's pod recently. I was. Okay. Now you and Shaq share a love of the Dallas Cowboys, if I'm not mistaken.

Oh yeah. We love, love the Dallas Cowboys. I'm old Cowboys. I'm like your Robert Newhouse, your Tony Dorsett. Hollywood Henderson. Come on, man. Yes, sir. Randy White linebacker, man. I was the baddest, baddest white dude linebacker ever.

The offensive line would stand up and then get down for, for star back at Danny White. Yeah. Too tall, too tall back in those days. Yeah. Okay.

Old Cowboys. Okay. You know, because, because elementary school, you had a Pittsburgh Steelers lunchbox or a Dallas Cowboys lunchbox or Scooby Doo. Well, if I may, if I may, if I may. Okay.

We are the same age. I did not have a Steelers lunchbox. I did not have a Cowboys lunchbox. I had a Hong Kong food. He was the number one super guy. That's right.

He was voiced by Scott. I went to PS 54 every day with peanut butter and jelly sandwich inside my Hong Kong food lunchbox. Come on.

And that is the, one would say the brick and mortar of my life. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

Having lunch by back in the days was awesome, but we had a thermos inside. Yes. And you take the top off. That's right. They don't know. And it was still cold.

It was still cold. So you blessed that able to have a lunchbox because everybody else had, was on the free lunch program too. And so, you know, they would give you that food in prison trade. And yeah.

You remember the lunch ticket and then you punch a hole in your lunch ticket. Come on, man. I had the same thing. This whole comedy specialist about everything that we're talking about. Yeah. All the old school stuff. We had the best toys. We had the best toys for Christmas. Big wheel.

Yeah. My kids, my twins have two big wheels now in my garage right now. And I just, yesterday I put together two green machines.

What is it? Is it wheel drive or something? It's made out of iron now. It's not plastic anymore. So they have a real, you can Google the brand new green machine. It's on Amazon.

$130 or $200. I'm getting too excited. I'm going to buy one of these right now. Is it like the DeLorean from back to the future? It's like plutonium. It's $200. That's crazy. It's real. This green machine is nasty.

This thing looks dope. Yeah. You're going to spend on that, man.

You're going to spend. I have identical twin daughters, man. We love that. I had to go test it. We were listening to my daughter and I, we were listening to Billy Joel yesterday.

Cause I'm from New York city. The song Vienna came on and there's a, there's a line in the song where it says, take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while. And I had to explain to her. I'm like, phones used to be on a hook. You know what I mean? Like you have to tell somebody who is 11 years old in 2025, what a fuck. Yeah. Your grandma had that phone on their kitchen wall with a cord that will go all the way across the street. You could be on the phone cutting your grass.

That's why we're tough, man. We didn't have, we didn't have to wear seatbelt. We drank water out of the hose. I have videos on Tik TOK right now with my twins drinking water out of the hole. I'm not giving you a bottle of water. Nobody knows who the water belongs to.

Not just a hose, just pull up to a house. I said, you have to give it a minute. Give it a minute. I got it. You know, I got my best dad ever sign.

That's right here. I should put it in front of you at the water. You're drinking your kids drinking out of the hose, man. I still drink water out of the hose pipe. Come on, man. Never get sick.

Yeah. We didn't have, did we have showers? We did not have showers back then. If you had a shower back then, you're rich.

You're rich. You know the closest thing to a shower we had the pink orange bag hanging up over the bathtub, but you didn't know what it was. So you put, you put water in it. Right. Right.

You put water in it. You was washing your face. Yeah. We didn't know. We didn't know what that was for. We're dating ourselves, man. We're dating ourselves. A lot of my generation.

Yeah. We had the best. Remember summertime you leave the house at like 10, wouldn't come back till six. No one knew where you were riding all over town. And when the streetlight came on, if you're not in the house, when the streetlight come on.

I don't know though, because I think that's certain of us. Cause I had friends who didn't have the street law rules. So like I knew when that thing started flickering, I had to just put my friends in the rules. So like I knew when that thing started flickering, my friends were like, where are you going? I'm like, you ain't going to be home.

They were white. And I'm like, what are you doing? I'm like this light comes on. That's a heck of a side right there.

Black people didn't play when that streetlight came on. You better be on your way home. Your grandma be standing on the porch. Right. Come on, man. This whole conversation started with a Scooby-Doo lunchbox. This is what we do, Ricky.

You just, just throw, throw the pebble in the pond and we'd just ripple it. These kids want an iPad, right? We had the first iPad, but it had two knobs on it. And we called it the Etch A Sketch.

We had the best childhood. If you wrote your name on the Etch A Sketch, you was a genius. Oh my gosh.

Now you shake an iPad, just erase it. Oh my gosh. Then you get the green army man. That did nothing.

Absolutely nothing. But you had those favorites. You had that one with the pistol and the one right.

Sure. One with the bazooka. But that damn sniper was the one. That sniper.

That was the parachute man. You had, you had it. I'm sure you had it. You know, my parents were New York City public school educators.

So like we were lucky to have the, uh, the, the Evil Knievel is like the one. I was very jealous. You ever tried to put your sister naked Barbie doll on the back? I did used to hang my sister's cabbage patch kids when my parents weren't around.

Like I tie a string around the neck. We were out of, we were probably in high school when the cabbage patch kids came out. It was just, it was just Barbie and GI Joe and Evil Knievel. Cabbage patch. I never got into the cabbage patch.

No, I could not. I was, I was, I was, it came with like a birth certificate. When there were, you know, a new Atari game would come out. And the game that came with the Atari was a shooting gallery.

We have a knock them, sock them robots over there. Come on, stop playing. It's autographed by Oscar De La Hoya. Really? Yes.

Does the next meal pop up when you get it? Well, I played it with him and beat Oscar De La Hoya. I knocked his robot out, which is one of my greatest athletic achievements of my life. And I call it an athletic achievement. It's a football game.

It takes 12 minutes to set up, uh, to set up the offense versus the defense. That little vibrating game. I heard last night that there's people pitching in this town trying to make a movie out of that. Really? Electric football? Yes. Wow.

That is actually an idea in this town right now. That little sponge football that, that was, we had the best childhood of all time. It was a little small.

Nobody completed a pass with that thing ever in the history of that. So your, your new specials about all this sort of stuff is why? Cause you're going back to your hometown and you're talking about your upbringing or no?

I mentioned my hometown, but it just basically talking about upbringing and how times have changed and how much fun we had. And I lay out all of this stuff, you know, and it's just funny. I mean, the audience is just sitting there screaming while I'm talking about all of the old stuff. So it's a great show. So it, it, the new generation, it's telling the story of how we grew up or whatever, but it's celebrating our childhood.

And that's right now available on Hulu, which is available right here on, on Roku. So you're, you're, you're following Alabama sports and the Cowboys, any, any, any NBA 2 cents right now? Or not really, cause you're busy. I like the Mavs. The Mavs is my team, man. They, they, they made a big trade this year. That was so disappointing. That was so disappointing to let, let Luca go.

They make a lot of bad decisions in the office. What's my man that played for the, the New York Knicks. Brunson.

Brunson was there with the Mavs. With Luca. Yeah.

Imagine that they would have just. Do you see what Luca looks like now? Did you see? He's lost.

Yeah, there it is. What do you think? Oh, wait, he's ready. What do you think? Yeah, he's ready.

I mean, he's shopping at the Gap. Yeah, but they gonna. Is that what it is? They're gonna have to put some players around him in order for them to compete, because you can't win the NBA finals without a bench.

I talk about that on my radio show every day. Whoever have the best bench wins the NBA finals. That just, that's just me.

Cause you can't, LeBron and all of the stars on the team, they're going to have to get adequate rest or whatever. So that means it's going to be Oklahoma City versus Indiana. Cause I think, I think that on my radio show this morning, it's very morning.

Yes, sir. That's the way it looks right now. I mean, obviously they're both up in there.

It's just not a very long limb to be going out on, but for us to say that, but we'll see. I mean that, that is that. And Shaq, what did you guys talk about on his pod?

Some of the same stuff. Shaq, I love Shaq. Shaq is my fraternity brother.

We're all Omegas. Shaq was stuck on one character that I did in 97 on BET. What is that? And he won't let it go. It's Lil Darrel.

It's wrong. And, and cancel culture won't allow us to do Lil Darrel jokes anymore. Lil Darrel was a special needs adult that had an Easter speech.

And I imitated the Easter speech in 97. And Shaq won't let it go. And Shaq won't let it go. Oh man.

And so Shaq did put the glasses on and started doing Lil Darrel. And it about wiped me out because I had to stop doing it because I didn't want to get protested on. Sure.

I got you. I had to stop talking about little people. Somebody had got offended because you can't say the M word anymore. You got to say little people. And I did a show where I was... To Shaq, everyone's a little person. But little people are like babies to Shaq, like a baby Darrel. And I was telling him that I went to a funeral where a little person had died.

And I was talking about how he had one pall barrel. They didn't have to go around and view the body that was passing them around. Just handed them down the pew. They didn't have a hearse.

They had a PT cruiser. This is what you were saying with Shaq or this is part of your... Okay, fantastic. He was gone. He was quiet. But my message was I wanted to get it out to families that if you have a little person in your family and something happened to them to get a regular size coffin if something happens. So it would look right. But then I went to a funeral like that. And when they opened the casket for viewing, he wasn't there. And what happened was when they took the casket up the steps to take it into the main sanctuary, he had slid to the bottom. So we always recommend Velcro.

TJ cannot control himself. Is this how you got two Marcones? That's where the second one came from. I'm going to shine a light through mine because my Marcona, you have a light shining right now. It's like a rainbow with a prism. The top is like a prism.

It just comes straight through. Oh, that's on purpose. I saw you. I kept my eyes on it the whole time. You're going to sit right there in front of me to get me to work harder. I worked hard for that.

It's going to be like Roy G. Biv all over the place, man. I was there. I think I was 23. Yeah.

What'd you say? What year? Oh yeah, it was just two years ago.

This is recent. I was there. You were there? Yeah, I was there.

Well, I mean, you weren't 21. I have that right down here. So, okay. Yeah, man. Congratulations. Thank you so much.

When you go back, just say hi to it for me. I will. Okay. Fantastic.

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What do you think? They have a shot at trying to even win this one against Philadelphia this weekend? Well, I got a bet against John GK, so I know they'll definitely win this one.

Okay. I don't know if they still have a shot to make the playoffs or not. Do they still have a shot?

Well, yeah. I mean, all they have to do is just try and win one of the next two without Tony and then he comes back and no one's running away with this league. No one's running away with this division right now.

You know what? I guarantee we'll win one of the next two without Tony. Okay. And I'm guaranteed we'll make the playoffs. Okay. I will write that down right now.

Shaquille O'Neal. When we don't make the playoffs, I'll come with a Dallas cowgirl suit on your show with some pom poms for 10 seconds. Oh my gosh. Wow. Okay.

So now you're gonna actually follow through on that bet if it doesn't hit. Of course. I will come. I will walk out for 10 seconds and everybody take pictures and make fun. Then I gotta leave 10 seconds. That's all you get. Not 11 seconds. Not 12.

You get 10 seconds on the skirt and a blonde ponytail wig. So that's if again, the Dallas Cowboys, they don't make the playoffs at all in the season. Okay. Now what are you going to do if they make the playoffs? Oh my gosh. Yeah.

So I think they're making the play. I'll do it with you Shaq. How about that? Deal.

I'll do it with you. It is now September the first of the following year and joining me here on the Rich Eisen show a week before he goes into the place that he deserves to be enshrined for the rest of his life and forevermore Shaquille O'Neal future basketball hall of famer joining me here on the Rich Eisen show. How are you Shaq? First of all, it's not my fault. You need to blame it on the Dallas shops.

I've been downtown Dallas looking for some big booty cheerleader shorts. They don't have anything. So you're blaming it. It's an inventory issue? Yes.

There's inventory issues. I know you don't want me to come on your show with my eyes all hanging out. That's not a good look for me or your show Rich. Okay. So yes, I will matter my word.

I guess I will come there one day for you least expect it and fulfill my bet. Well, but the thing is I have to do it with you Shaq. So I do need probably a little bit of a heads up, you know, but you know what?

I don't want you to do it with me because you know what? You waited long enough. Okay.

You know, you're at the point to where you don't think I'm gonna believe this. So just to prove it to you, I want you to be front and center. Okay. And I'm gonna give you 12 seconds. This is the best possible scenario Shaq. You've extended it two seconds and absolved me from having to do it.

Exactly. I just want you to sit there and watch. That's two vines Rich. Come on Shaq.

Don't let them off the hook. No, I like Rich. I like Rich.

Okay. Didn't Ernie Johnson tell us that Shaq was famous for making wagers like that and then just never, never, ever seeing them to its conclusion? Didn't he tell us that when he was on our show in Atlanta? He was gonna make them pay up. You know, that's.

Well, I mean, they can do anything. You know? Yeah. My gosh, that was so funny.

Shaq back in the day, you Dallas Cowboy fans. We're the best. Sure. I agree with you. Irv is one of my favorite people. You're one of my favorite people. I am. You are.

Hey. But you knew that. Sometimes I'm not short, so I like to hear it. I don't understand why you say that. I like to hear it.

It's so silly. It's just positive, you know. What are you looking for? I can come over. You want me to give you a hug?

No, definitely not. We're good. We're good. Hugs? Free hugs?

I had no idea. You like warm hugs. I know that. I like warm hugs. I'm a big warm-up guy.

I'm aware of all of that. Ricky Smiley has just said hello to my Marconi on the way out the door. Matt Mayoko, who is gonna just, we're always interested in what's going on with the Niners.

Certainly when they're signed, who they signed to be their quarterback for the long term. He'll join us in our number three phone calls. 844-204 rich number to dial throughout all of that. You know what I did yesterday? I saw Mission, the new Mission Impossible.

Oh, no way. Really? I did indeed. You guys are talking about seeing it after. Haven't gone, I have a couple days maybe this week that could work. Gonna try to go after the show.

Yeah, I saw it with Xan Coop and one of Coop's friends, Jackson. And? I will say this to you. It's long, right? Yeah, but I mean. That's to be expected. What about three hours? It's like two forty five minutes long.

Here's the headline. Awesome. And it's better than the, I thought it was better than the part one. Okay. I thought it was better. Okay. Okay. And I'm not gonna spoil anything.

Please don't. I spoil nothing here. But I'll just tell you, do you know how you go to a concert and the band or the singer catches a great riff? Springsteen's known for that, right?

Uh, any fans of the Grateful Dead know that the Deadheads will know that there's a riff and they play the heck out of it and do it for over and over and over again. That's what this Mission movie is. It's basically Tom Cruise and the rest of his crew talking about how what they're about to do is impossible. And then they lay out just how impossible it is. Then somebody in his crew will say to him, this is impossible.

And he will essentially say, is there any other choice? And then they map out what they're going to do and then cut to the mission. And it starts with some remarkable sweeping shot of the Vista, wherever they are, wherever they are. And then you watch it unfold.

Spoiler alert. He survives. And then they're all excited that the mission portion is completed. But now that just leads to another situation where the mission is impossible. He explains why it's impossible. Then somebody says, that's not possible. And then he says, this is how we're going to do it. And then beautiful sweeping crane shot of whatever shot drone shot, whatever.

Do it again and then do it again. And then halfway through the movie, you're like, oh, the credits are about to hit. And then you look down your phone, you're looking on your phone, you're watching an hour left. Oh, it's another hour and a half. And they do it again and again. Well, and again, sign me up.

And I can't wait. It's cardio. Like you do your cardio watching this and you can't believe he is doing all he's doing. He does all the stunts. He doesn't. Yeah. The clips.

And they include these shots. It's just like, he's hanging off a plane. He's doing it.

He's doing that by the way. I need to mimic his running style. He's 62.

I understand that I'm in my mid fifties. He runs in a suit. I run in a suit.

Although I'll say, Tom, you know, again, if you're out there watching, it doesn't, it's usually open neck tied. Yeah. It's not the same. So I'm understanding about how I go about missions that are impossible. You're 40. That's the way it goes.

Black suit, black tie. I think I've just given you, did I spoil anything? Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. It's like two hours and 40 minutes. Oh yeah, so long. Can't wait.

One after another, after another, after another. And the shots are incredible and the scenes are incredible and they tie a lot of the missions past and present together. Oh good. I think you'll dig it. I can't wait.

There's a special message to start it. Oh yeah, Tom, until you posted something today, like thanking everyone in the movie industry and all the crew and the people who work at the theaters. Yeah, he's big and I mean, he, look, he's the greatest movie star of all time. Yeah. Without question. You'll say that? Yeah.

Of all time? No doubt. No doubt.

Really? Yeah, no doubt. Action star for sure.

No doubt. I mean, movie star. He is, he is that. He is a movie star. Yeah.

I'm trying to think who would even be close. Apparently the next thing is on his list is Les Grossman. I saw that today too. Yeah. From Tropic Thunder. Gotta bring that back.

I'm all in on that. He said they're close. They're working on it. You know, it's not attached anywhere yet.

One of the previews was for the new police squad. Oh, William Neeson. Yeah. And there's a, again, if you see it, there's a moment and it made me laugh out loud, but I am nervous about that one. Oh. I'm just nervous. Yeah.

I think Neeson is a good choice. I'm not saying, I'm just, I'm just nervous. In general. Well, I mean, cause you know, that, that, that, that, that means a lot to me, Lieutenant Frank Drebin. But he plays Frank Drebin's kid. Yeah. It's like everybody's kid. Dude.

I'm just telling you. Like OJ's kid. And I forget the, his partners.

Yeah. George Kennedy. George Kennedy.

Paul Walter Houser. You saw, you saw the. I saw that trailer eclipse again. That made me laugh out loud. Yeah. But again, it's just like, there's a mission. It's impossible. They talk about just how impossible it is. Tom cruise comes up with the way in which it is possible. This Kevin Carr sounds totally impossible. He's told it's impossible.

He's like, but do we have any other choice? No music sweeping shot. Here we go. It's like a riff over and over and over for two hours and 40 minutes. It's like a Springsteen concert. Does Kevin Garnett pop up at any time?

Yo, anything's possible. I don't want to spoil anything. No spoilers in there, but that's my movie review. Mission impossible recommend former MLB all-stars Sean Casey, AKA the mayor keeps hitting it out of the park. Take my 30 years of experience, take the wisdom and knowledge I've learned from the failures. When I got sent down my rookie year, all the injuries I had to overcome your mind is the most important tool you have in life. Be relentless, keep charging. It matters how you talk to yourself, how you look at the world that matters. We talk about that. I don't know. I'm fired up baseball's back and it's going to be incredible. I love it. The mayor's office with Sean Casey from believe follow and listen on your favorite platform.