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Now nobody can say anything. Earlier on the show, ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Pillis. Eagles tackle Lane Johnson. Coming up. Creator and host of Somebody Feed Phil, Phil Rosenthal.
And now. It's Rich Eisen. All right, everybody. Our number three of the Rich Eisen show is the on the area. I just had a nice chat with Phil Rosenthal, who's come back for more, actually.
Seconds, I guess to use the phrase. I like your style. He's back in support of Somebody Feed Phil, season eight. On Netflix, which means you can see it right here on the Roku portal as well. Season eight premiered last week.
It's the longest-running original Netflix unscripted series. This man knows about having a scripted series go on for a very long time. Everybody loves Raymond as something that he holds near and dear to his heart. And he'll be coming out here shortly. We got a start bench cut.
Uh coming up uh for food related. Sports and food related. Yeah, I got that start bench cut coming up right here on the program. 844-204-Rich is the number to dial. It's official.
Shams reporting in the last hour that Tyrese Halliburton did, in fact, Harry's Achilles. Listen, we saw it. We all knew it. I mean, when you go down like that, no contact, and you see the Twitch in the back, and he's already got the calf injury. I mean, we've been through this before with Kevin Durant.
Calf injury. Should he play? Should he not play? Is he going to be able to play? And then.
Just like when it went in the playoffs for him. He was dominating. It's just like, wow, he looks great. He's going to do this. Last night, Tyrese Halliburton, three threes in the first.
Quarter. Doing the Halliburton thing. And then Pop goes the Achilles. I couldn't believe when I looked at my phone and saw those texts from you guys, like that happened. I was shocked because I was still trying to log on and watch the game.
I was watching it. You could see it immediately. The way he went down, the way he was the reaction, the emotion on his face, you could tell it was over.
Somebody said they read his lips, and he said, I did it. I did it. No, I think he was saying personally, was that Carlisle who was first to him? I think he said Achilles. That's what I thought.
I didn't see it, so I'm just, yeah. I'm sure he maybe he did. He just knew it. We all did. It could have been that too.
But you know, I sent Rich and Chris, I sent you guys the super slow-mo video. Just like with Aaron Rodgers, you can see the playoffs. I didn't click on that, man. I don't need to see it. Because we've seen it so many times before.
Yeah. Including these playoffs. That makes three. Superstar players. All, by the way, who wear numbers zero.
Zero. That's even better. Cooper pointed that out on the plane to me. Miche said that to us, and I was like, Dan Lillard. Tatum.
Tyrese Halliburton. All of them. Where number two is the one. In the playoffs. Gone.
And you know, Nick Van Exel when it happened to Tatum? I think Or is it after when it happened to Lillard? It was in mid-May. He says it's because of the low riders that the players are wearing. Really?
Yeah. Go high tops, cover your ankles, is what he's saying. I've seen that being thrown out as a theory. A lot of people do. I mean, the last guy who wore high tops that I can think tore their Achilles was Dominique Wilkins.
And look how long ago that was. But you got to wonder if the Pacers knew at the time that this was the end of it, even when they. We're performing as well as they did in the rest of the first half to take a first half lead by one point into the locker room. Rick Carlisle afterwards. trying to find the proper words.
What happened with Tyrese is uh Just all of our hearts dropped. But he will be back. Um I'm not I don't have any medical information about what's what what may or may not have happened, but He'll be back. In time. And um I believe he'll make a full recovery.
He he authored One of the great individual playoff runs in the history of the NBA. With Dramatic play after dramatic play. It was just something that no one's ever seen. I don't disagree with that, right? I know we spent a segment earlier on the program talking about.
SGA's season being one of the greatest ever. But in terms of playoff run. You know, second half of the season. all the way through to the playoffs. I think I sent you guys a post that I saw somewhere on Threads.
about you know, somebody listed Bucks and bucks and four, bucks and five, bucks and six, calves and four, calves and five, calves and six, calves and seven. You know, the same thing with the Knicks and the same thing with the Thunder and the next to Thunder in seven. It pointed, you are here. And the gist of that post was. Nobody thought the Pacers would keep going.
Routinely doubted. Nobody thought the Pacers would eventually knock off the Bucs. And eventually. knock off the calves. And the person who knocked off the bucks and the person who really put the calves in trouble.
Was Halliburton. We all recall what happened with Halliburton eliminating the Bucs because it eliminated his dad from being in the arena for a couple of series. And then Beating the Cavs to go up 2-0. Winning the first two in Cleveland was the Hallibolton moment. We all know what happened in game one against The Knicks of that series.
And then, in game one of this series of the NBA Finals. Halliburton hitting that last second shot. And every single time. The Pacers came within uh three possessions or four possessions of a Of a lead that they were down far more than that in the playoffs, you thought to yourself, well, this is dual. Here we go again.
And the person who made that a possibility, with all due respect to. Yeah. Nee Smith, who made shots, and Nemhard, who made shots in that game one against the Knicks, and Siakam. I mean, it was Halliburton. It was Tyrese Halliburton.
And I think he will forever. Have this clutch moniker. Um And he earned it with these playoffs. He earned it. Yeah, it's so disrespectful to the Thunder, but I'm going to remember Halliburton most about this NBA playoffs in this.
And when I think about this season and what happened, I mean, he had so many moments. The Sam Cassell dance, the two-handed choke.
Well, he had the moments. But the. Thunder don't have that. player With that sort of edge. No, they don't.
Right, you know what I mean? And that's what makes them so great if they're not. You don't have somebody who's going to tell you. You've choked. No, as Jay pointed out, back in the day.
They do all their interviews as a group after the game. Nobody's going to take the shot if it's SGA or Williams or Dort or anybody and show off the size of their church bells. But in this day and age, that's what gets the. Clicks through the conversation, or did you see that? Like, nobody's saying that about.
you know, SGA getting his Fifth and one of a game. They're kind of a boring championship team. Did you see the report after the game that they're careful with that word? I don't know. Afterward, there were like tables full of champagne and beers to just.
On open. They weren't celebrating. They weren't going nuts. They didn't have the goggles moment that everybody does now. They're just kind of, eh, okay.
And I don't think they're gonna, if this is the only one they ever get, they're gonna be quickly forgotten. I think the biggest viral moment. Out of the celebration by the Thunder was Hartenstein having his infant and not supporting his son's head. Benny was sleeping. He was asleep and like his head was like, but his teammates, like SGA, with maybe the most important assist of game seven night, he was the one who was like, hey, man, like your son's head just needs a little support.
Did you see SGA reached his hand out to support his head? It went to commercial. They came back from commercial. He was out. It was like two minutes.
I thought you were going to say the most memorable was pregame, where the video of the buses for the parade round.
Now that's what Rick Carlisle and his pregame. press conference was saying, I just saw the video of these buses. that have already been you know, I guess wrapped with a championship Um Banner or whatever. Yeah, the decals. Yeah, the decals.
Right. And he was talking about that. And it's just like, oh, bulletin board material. And I'm sure he played that up and the. In the locker room before game one, and the Pacers certainly, I mean, before the first quarter of game seven, the Pacers certainly responded.
in a way like they were having none of it. You know, but but man. Yeah. You just knew it's just... No matter how much Resilience the Pacers were showing in the second quarter.
It's like, there's too much. There's. too much time left. For adrenaline To take you the rest of the way, it will have to come down to execution, half court, full. You know Full court 94 feet of action.
for them to pull this thing off with You know, everybody chanting OKC like every two seconds, like they didn't stop. These fans don't stop. You know, like the whole arena's got the stamina of that wall in the Clippers arena, where you're wondering who's been actually paid off to have that sort of zeal for the Clippers. You know, I'm serious. I was like, yeah, wait, wait.
I'm. Being dead on accurate here, man. When the Clipper game we went to, there were these two people. It was regular season, and they were going nuts. They got to earn their $150.
You know what I mean? You guys are hating. I did respect that. I didn't say those things. Smattering of yellow in the crowd last night.
Yeah. Big ups to those Panters fans. Including Reggie Miller. All the Knick fans that were somewhere like, you know, and I kind of was, it was my Knick fan friends. It's like the Lonzo Morning GIF.
Yeah. I respect Reggie Miller for liking his teammate. Man, he was calling the next Eastern Conference finals. That guy? He was supposed to be, you know, his son, too, is wearing a t-shirt with Reggie doing the choke on it.
Good for him, you know? Good friend. But I did feel for the Halliburtons who are now sitting there in the stands for their kid. Or they're whatever relation they are to to Halle Burton. Um When I mean that, I mean, were there, I think they were cousins or whatever, extended family.
They were all sitting in their stand in their seats. Watching Tyrese Halliburton go off in the first quarter. And this is the moment they've all been waiting for. Game seven, the whole world is watching. And now suddenly, They're no longer in their seats.
They're in the tunnel standing outside. waiting to find out information about how How intact the Achilles was, even though they knew it. It just was a killer. And then to see him on his crutches. Oof.
Welcoming the t his teammates back? After they lost. Ugh. That is not the way this series was supposed to end.
Well, I mean, again. It was supposed to end with him on the floor win or lose. Let's put it that way.
Okay. But this, I mean, that's the it's so cruel.
So cruel. And I don't want to hear it from. Bucks fans or Cavs fans or my fellow Nick fans to say, well, he's just. You know, live by the... The choke and the The church bells, you know.
The karma was coming back at the end of the day. No, no, man. Were people throwing that out there? I got your karma right here. Stop it with that.
No, it's just. Yeah, he's an entertainer. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The same way that Caitlin Clark, after she tossed that three.
on the Connecticut Sun. you know, over JC Sheldon the other day and then she's just like going like this to everybody. I guess Indiana's got sh show people. You know, um, and um. And the same from Caitlin Clark, trust me.
I did not want to see this from Tyrese Halliburton. That was an Unkind cut, especially since when he did this, there was that. Five-second interval between that moment. And the broadcast saying his foot was online. It's overtime.
I thought it was, in fact, over. Yeah, yeah. And it was 2.0. You know, he made fun of it in the post-game. You know, he made fun of that too.
Hey, it's might have jumped in. It is entertainment. Yeah. And he provided it all year. And Pacers fans should just be over the moon.
about how good this team is. You've got the right coach. You've got the right mix. They're young too, right? I mean, who's the longest in the tooth there?
Siakam and Turner? Yeah, I think Turner's like the OGE, right? How many times, by the way, was he supposed to be traded at the deadline to somebody else? He was in every rumor deal. Yeah.
Yeah, Siakam's 31. He'll be 32. He just turned 10. He's so amazing. Yeah, his stock definitely went up.
So, but you know? I think now that Halliburton's hurt. you know And the Pacers will now, like, who's going to put them out of the shot to win the Eastern Conference again next year? You just rest the heart and soul of the team. Man, is there tons of rumor that Jalen Brown could wind up with the Rockets, too?
You're hearing that because somebody's got to get a lot of rulers. Yeah, yeah. I have.
Okay, well, if that would change everything, then like.
Well, it feels like in the East now, and I'm just looking at odds right now: it's Cleveland, it's the Knicks, it's Orlando. Even Boston is right there. What are the Sixers odds? Sixers are 11 to 1. They're fifth.
Because I kind of feel like, you know, Pacers are 14 to 1. Sixers had a lot of injuries. I know no one's talking about them. A lot of injuries last year. MB luckily got the surgeries I think that he needed.
That's a solid. I think we're a solid team in the good way, not the way Rich doesn't like solid, but no one's talking about us. I don't like solid because you don't want to be solid. Let me ask you this question. Let me just one more time on this front.
Rich did the clap thing. One more time on this front about the word solid. Stopped in his tracks. That's what I said. The word solid to me is an insult.
I know, that's why we so many other people within the sound of our voice. Or watching us on Rogue. They don't agree. They use it all the time. Yeah.
As a compliment. May I ask you? To anybody out there, would you refer? to Shea Gilgis Alexander's season. and the Thunders Championship season.
as solid. That's a solid season out of them. Of course not. It's gonna make solid. Amazing, spectacular.
There are far better adjectives that mean best of the best. Like the Knicks had a solid season this year. That's good.
Solid season out of the Knicks. Are you sure? You know, that's a compliment. No, but you gotta understand. It's not a preliminary compliment, but people use solid as if it's an ultimate compliment.
Don't tell me something's solid. I think it's better than solid. Wow. Yeah, why does every complement have to be the ultimate? You know what?
We're having a more than solid. This show is more than solid.
Well, yeah. I think Okay. Your Granger desk is something bird solid. Your Granger desk is 70 things.
Solid. Yeah, see, that's going back to the people. You know what I mean? Solid. Hey, man, that's real suck.
Rich, like I said, you're more of a wordsmith than 99% of the population.
So, you know, yeah. You know what? That's an outstanding take.
So, yeah, you have a solid vocabulary. I don't see no slap extension. I don't like that. Exemplary.
Now, that's fighting words. Yeah. What's a better word that none of us are going to know real quick? Say that again? What's a better word that none of us are going to know?
Than solid? Yeah. What word would you replace it with? I teach us something. I know a lot of words are.
I don't know what you don't know. I'm not going to look at you and judge you by your cover. Yeah, but you pretty much can with him, though. That's not true at all. That just got mercy.
Wow. Let's go back to not talking. This guy drives a better car than every single one of us here. That's a fact. All right.
This guy. has a highly successful Remediation business? Inspection company. Inspection company, pardon me. I I think it's a little shaky.
Okay, as much as let me ask you this question. It's messed up, teacher. Who el outside of the host here of this program, and then by proxy, you? Chris and you, TJ, who else here has their own swag? Not even Mike Smiling Del Tufo.
He takes other people's swag.
Okay, that's what he does. You've got your own set of pens, right? I do. I'm old school. Mr.
J. Felly, I'm not going to sit here and assume you don't know. You know, things I don't know. Like, you could start using mold remediation terms. I'm totally confused.
You're holding up a pad and pen. Yeah. I I use it.
Okay. I've got one right here. Oh, no, this is from A ⁇ E. No, that's AFE. No, that's it.
AFE. Oh, AFE? This is it. Oh, are you? This is.
Don't start a lawsuit for that. Oh, my goodness. The F does look like an and now that I put my glasses on. That is a tattoo I have on me. That's my family F.
Okay. It's this one right here. F is for family, ladies and gentlemen. All right, let's take a break. Phil Rosenthal, the creator, executive producer, writer, and host of Somebody Feed Phil.
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That's O'ReillyAuto.com/slash Eisen. Phil Rosenthal is here on the Rich Eisen Show. We just saw a clip. Our radio audience just returned season eight of Somebody Feed Phil, available now, streaming exclusively on Netflix. And for those who are watching on Roku, that means you could see it right here using the Roku portal.
When did you first come up with this idea, Somebody Feed Phil? During Raymond. During Raymond. Yeah. So season one of Raymond, would you say?
In between season one and two. Really? So early on? Yeah, I say to Ray. You know, where are you going on your hiatus?
He'd never been anywhere. He said, I go to the Jersey Shore. I said, Well, that's great, but have you ever been to Europe? Because when I went to Europe, it changed my life when I was 23. Sure.
He said, nah, I said, why not? He goes, I'm not really interested in different. Ha ha ha ha. And right there, I had an idea. We got to do that episode.
I said, I told him, we're doing that episode. He goes, What do you mean? I go, We're going to do an episode where we send you to Italy as you, and you come back as me.
Someone who's excited about travel and Italy, especially, the food and Italy, the people. Yeah. And it took me three years, I think, to convince him because he was afraid of flying. Really, too.
So, this was for an episode of Raymond. Exactly.
Okay. Okay. So, now we go. Yes. And I wrote this story of Raymond doesn't want to travel.
Yes. He. fights the whole way, he's complaining the whole time, and then slowly but truly gets it. He gets it. And the best part of doing that episode is that thing that I wrote, this arc of a character that I wrote, I saw happen to my friend Ray.
Phil, have you had gelato? He was all excited, and now he goes all the time. And I thought right then and there that was. 25 years ago. Yes.
What if I could do this for other people? Ugh. And so when Raymond was over. I tried to do other sitcoms. Nobody wanted that style of sitcom anymore.
Yes. Raymond, that there wouldn't be another family sitcom. Think about it till Modern Family five years later. And that's a totally different way of shooting it. The totally different way of doing it.
Exactly.
Single camera. Exactly.
Sure. So I said, if I'm gonna knock my head against this wall in Hollywood, can't get anything on anyway, why not pick this spot or something I'd love?
Sold this travel show. And I sold the show with one line. I might have told you this before. But I told uh PBS at first. I'm exactly like Anthony Bourdain if he was afraid of everything.
And they're like, and I sold it. And we did six episodes there. We won the James Beard Award for Best Travel Show. Right. And then they couldn't afford to do it anymore.
Sure. And here comes Netflix, this startup. Yeah. And this is probably about what, eight, so eight, seven, something nine years ago, sure. Yes.
So I said, yeah, I'm happy to go. Ted Sarandos was fantastic to me. He loved the show. Right. And there I am.
There you are.
So, a couple of people. And now, look, I'm on with best dad ever. I'm with best dad ever. That's right.
So, just a couple of follow-up questions. Yes. Is it true?
So, you're saying Ray Romano coming back from Italy, you actually got him to do this. He chose gelato out of everything that he sampled in Italy. He loved the pizza. He loved the pasta. I mean, he's Italian.
So, you know, I always tell people: if you love a food, go to the source. Right. Like, do you like pasta? Of course. Have you been to Italy?
Of course. It's the greatest.
Okay. And it's.
So you're not that picky an eater?
Well, no. I mean, but it's not like I'm having anything completely out of, you know, what you would consider the lanes of Italian food. I know. You know, I'm not really a spice guy. I cannot have anything that has.
any kick to it. Which I know you're looking at me like I'm crazy. No, you're not. By the way, my parents were the exact same way. I'm opening a diner here in Hollywood, on Larchmont Boulevard.
Okay. And we're going to have a hot sauce. And the name of the diner is named after my parents. It's called Max and Helens. Mm-hmm.
We have a hot sauce, and it's literally called Max and Helen's Not For Me hot sauce. You could have one. You could have a hot sauce, too. Yeah, because normally it's not for me. Not for me.
That is so funny.
So this year in season eight, traveling to Amsterdam, Tbilisi, I think we saw, were you picnicking in Tbilisi? Did I see that? That's the country of Georgia, not the state, the country of Georgia in between Russia and Turkey. Yes. They invented wine there 7,000 years ago.
Did you know that? Was that out of just boredom? That's a guess. Hey, these grapes seem to have gone bad. Let's taste them.
Wait a minute. This is really good. It gets us drunk. But that's pre-Egyptian. That's pre-that's.
I didn't know that until we did the show. How do you decide where you're going? We get invitations actually from tourism boards and we study these and we say, it could be a good show there. And then, you know, when we started, it was just place I want to go. Right.
And I still is that. Sure. But I'm so pleasantly surprised with the world. Which is why it's always great and sweet and nice. Most people are so sweet and nice and great all over the world.
Here's a generality: most people are so much better than their governments. That's not a, you know, that's ripped straight from the headlines in so many ways here. It's a hot take for today. It's a hot take for today. Not for me.
Not for me. Exactly.
Everybody loves Raymond. Led to you meeting Raymond, or you knew him from back in the day. Even though we were both born in Queens? Yes. Are you from New York too?
I'm from Staten Island, sir. Beautiful. Yes. Great. Which is why I'm an Italian food guy.
All the best people. Yes. So. Thank you. Ray and I never met, but I saw a stand-up one night on Letterman, and it just so happened that that very night, Letterman said there should be a sitcom for that guy.
And so months later. Sitting home watching it. Yeah, and I didn't think anything about it until I got a video cassette of. This comedian and that appearance, and I put it in. I go, I remember that.
That was months ago. I saw it, I loved it, thought he was hilarious. Do you want to take a meeting with him? They're looking for somebody to create a show for him. And you're a writer, that's how it works.
Writers look for comic talent to write scripts for. Right. Comedians need. You know Comedy sitcom writers. Right.
So we meet at Arts Deli. Arts Deli here in Los Angeles. Exactly.
He flew everywhere. If I'm not mistaken, at Arts Deli, every sandwich is a work of art. Yeah. See, that's the name. That's the phrase.
Exactly.
Okay. So that's where you met. All right. He tells me about his family. He says, I got twin boys and an older daughter.
We were just talking. I don't know him. He doesn't know me, but if we were going to work on a project together, he said, Tell me about yourself. Twin boys and older daughter. My parents live close by.
They're always bothering me. My older brother lives with them, and he's a police sergeant. He's very jealous of me. He saw an award I won for comedy. He said, Never ends for Raymond.
Everybody loves Raymond. I said, Well. Doesn't seem like there's anything there we can use. No, I thought that's a good starting point. Sure.
He never acted before, so that's a good place to begin. Right. And what I didn't know about the characters in his family, I filled in with the personalities from my family.
So, the show is kind of this unhappy marriage of the two fans. Interesting. Yes. Well, we had him on the show, I believe it was last year. It could have been the year before.
And it didn't start, it didn't kill the show. No. You're still going? No, we're still going. We're still going.
He told the story about coming up with the title himself with you as well. And I'd love to get your end of the story from here. Roll it, please. Here's what it was: everybody loves Raymond. Was a sarcastic comment that my brother was a New York City police officer.
Yes. And at the time, He one day he said, Yeah, I go to work, you know, people shoot at me. Raymond goes to work. And everybody loves Raymond. That's a true quote from my brother.
So, in writing the script with Phil Rosenthal, I told him that story. He said, Well, we got to put that in. And not only that, but let's make it the title. And I said, No, no, no. He goes, It's a working title.
We'll change it. Yeah. And then that happened.
So then I came up with. My manager still has a little piece of paper with all the alternates I put in it, but some of them are absurd. You got some of them? What do you mean? It was because you have to keep Raymond in the title.
So it was that Raymond. And one of them was Um Raymond, U-M, Raymond. Um Raymond. Yes. Anyway, the CBS took, I gave them this list and they said, we'll test it.
And they test, like they do everything, they test it. Yeah. They put it in front of an audience and they said, everybody loves Raymond, test it better. And true, this is all True, 100% true. His real brother said it.
I put it in the script. Yes. My wife read the script. She was the first person to read the script. And she said That should be the title of the show.
And I just put it on there. I wasn't lying to Ray tentatively because I couldn't think of a better title. That sounds pretty good. It harkens back to I Love Lucy. Of course.
And we're doing a kind of old school type of comedy. which I happen to cherish. I love those shows. And I don't know if he told you this, but he called the president at CBS at the time. When we were going, he goes, Can we at least change the title?
And he goes, Ray, it tested well the title. Everyone likes it, so we'll leave it for now. And he goes, But I don't want to be the guy. I could see the critics already. Not everybody loves Ray, right?
And so the head of CBS goes, I'll tell you what. You become a top 10 show. You can call the show whatever you want.
Next year, we were a top 10 show. Ray couldn't wait to call the president of CBS and say, okay, can we change the title? And the guy goes, Can't change it.
Now, the top 10. He said that so that he did actually tell that story, so this happened. Absolutely true. He didn't want any part of everybody.
Someone would change it now. He can't take the pressure. That horse is out of the pocket. Yes, Raymond. Get used to it.
Everyone loves you. And I know. Everything. Whenever I see him, I say Raymond. Thanks for the good life.
Right. Right? Because Letterman was the producer. And I thank him. And his white pants were white pants.
When you see this photograph on the screen, what do you think of it? I think it's so sweet. I could cry looking at it. You know, it's nice to win awards, but. The award is just a souvenir of a great night that you got to have with your friends.
You got a good Peter Boyle story when you're right. How you've casted him or what happened? Oh, yeah.
So, also, president of CBS, it was his idea. How about Peter Boyle for the father? I'm like, Peter Boyle's available to be a sitcom dad? To me, he's a major movie star. Joe, young Frankenstein, right?
Yeah. Friends of Eddie Coyle. Taxi driver. He was in taxi driver. Incredible.
Yeah. He wants to do a sitcom? He said, I think so. You should meet him.
So I meet him, and he couldn't find us on the lot. It was a very hot day at Universal Studios, and he could get wrong directions. And for some reason, he had his wife and kids with him. I guess he was taking him to Universal, and he was going to stop off to see this guy. Yeah.
This kid. Sure. He comes and he's really mad because he couldn't find the place.
So it's not just. Joe or young Frankenstein coming in. It's angry young Frankenstein coming in. And he just scared the hell out of me. And I said, The part is yours.
And then he turns out to be a pussycat. Here's two things about him. Sure. He studied to be a monk. Mm-hmm.
Did you know that? Nope. I said, why'd you give it up? He goes, there weren't enough girls there. And then the second thing was: you know who the best man at his wedding was?
No. John Lennon. What? That's right, because his wife Lorraine, they met when she was a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine. She got an assignment: go cover this movie, Young Frankenstein.
So she goes to cover the movie and she meets Peter and they fell in love. Her best friend was Yoko. And then the four of them are hanging up. I've seen pictures of them like in a hot tub.
So John Lennon was Peter Boyle's best man. There were maybe five people at the wedding, but that's. Isn't that cool? And he was a very liberal-minded guy, not. you know, what he portrayed.
and a pussycat. Sweet. Great. Did he sing putting on the Ritz at his wedding? I don't know.
No, but we did an episode. We did a Halloween episode. We dressed him up as Frankenstein monster. And I thought that the real reason to do this is that Marie, Doris Roberts, we dress her as bride of Frankenstein. Was he all in on that?
Of course, and the audience loved it. Little inside joke. Phil Rosenthal here on the Rich Eisen Show.
Okay, before we let you go, let's. Let's do we haven't done Start Bench Cut in quite some time. Oh, this is a, well, yeah. I've heard it in a different way. You mean with Marry and Kill and stuff like that?
Yes, yes. And one more word. Yes, there is. Which is a word I say whenever anything spicy is on my plate. We've got four different iterations of food and sports related of Start Bench Cut.
Um and uh we have some uh production value. Wow, let's see. Just sit down and be quiet. Or cut. Get up.
There you go. That's Larry David for you right there as well. Really? I think was that from the moment where you got out on Curb Your Enthusiasm? That was a great idea.
That's another story. That is another story.
Okay, here we go. Phil Rosenthal, the creator, executive producer, writer, host of Somebody Feed Phil. Give us some music, if you don't mind, right here. The best NFC East Food by City. Start bench cut.
New York Pizza. Philly cheese steak. Dallas BBQ. This is three teams in the NFC East. What do you have for me right here?
Oh, I don't want to cut any of them. They're all fantastic. I've got to cut something. That's the issue with this game. You have to start one, bench one, and cut one.
This is really hard. I'm going to start by saying I don't want to cut any up. I understood. It's all right.
So I'm sorry, Philly. I'm going to cut the cheese stick.
Okay. I love it. Without. But I hate to cut it. All right.
Terrible. This is a terrible game.
So you start or bench New York Pizza? New York Pizza. And Dallas BBQ is number one. No, no, I I start New York pizza.
Okay. Pizza's my favorite food. I'm with you, fan. Good lord, maybe that's the New Yorker in us. Yes.
So you start New York pizza, bench Dallas barbecue. I don't want to bench anybody.
Next up. All right. I don't know if you don't mind. We're going to press ahead here. Go ahead.
All right. Your show. Best barbecue in an NFL locale. Ooh. Kansas City.
Carolina or the state of Texas. Cool. Best barbecue. Texas wins.
So you start Texas? Yes. You have to bench and come on. I'm sorry. What are you going to do?
Who are you benching? I don't what were the other Carolina? I haven't had Kansas City BBQ. I haven't been there yet. Oh, Phil!
Season 9. Actually, my live tour. I'm doing a national. Everybody, I'm doing a national live tour starting in August.
So I'm and I'm going to be in Kansas City.
So it'd be stupid to cut him before I had him. You mentioned Modern Family. Let Eric Stone Street take you places.
Okay, I love him. Let him do that.
Okay. I'm telling you, that'll be a great episode. Then we'll cut the other one.
Okay. Um. Startbench Cut, best Super Bowl party food. Wings, nachos. Pizza.
I think I know what you're going to start.
Well, pizza always wins.
Okay. So I'm doing that. You're benching wings or nachos. What are you doing? I get rid of nachos, cut nachos, and then do the.
Yeah, I'm not a nachos guy myself. It's okay. It's fine.
Okay. It's solid. I learned how to, somebody said, you know how they make a pile of nachos and then the cheese is just melted on it? Yes. Half the nachos don't have cheese on them.
You got a layer. Layer the cheese. You gotta lay. No, you gotta lay it out flat your nachos. Put the cheese over everything.
That way, every nacho has a cheese. Yep. See that? Yes, you learned something today. By the way, I did.
I've just learned every nacho is cheese-worthy. Right, Phil? Listen. Every nacho. You can apply that.
That's a metaphor for humans. Indeed. Yes. Last one for you. He loves Starbench Cut.
Phil Rosenthal: best sports city for food. Start bench cut Chicago, New York, New Orleans. Wow. I'm not cutting. No.
Yes it does. By the way, the game with the naughty word at least has Mary as the second. You're not benching.
Well, Bench, you never know. You saw last night, you were watching game seven. You were telling me in the green room right now. Yes, yes. TJ McConnell off the bench wound up being as good as a starter.
Phenomenal.
So Bench is not leaving him aside. He's coming right second place. And you got it. Cut as you just got to get rid of one. He was great.
He was. He was great. All right. So I love. I mean, New York.
I'm from New York, so I'm that wins.
Okay. No, I'm not playing. He's not playing. He's leaving the play. I put them both.
They're all three great.
Okay. Ladies and gentlemen. And LA, you didn't even have LA.
Well, I didn't have LA, no. Because LA, I mean. This is the best food city in America, people. You would say this. Absolutely.
Yeah, the diversity that we have. Yes. We have more people from different countries in this city than anywhere in the United States, maybe in the world. Correct. This is, and so they bring their cultures and cuisines with them.
Phenomenal.
See, he's teaching now you're teaching us something right here. and that Phil Rosenthal will never play start bench cut again. I'll never play sports either.
Well, it's a good thing you're a foodie. Naked Lunch podcast as well, currently airing new episodes right now. You and your longtime friend David Wilde of Rolling Stone. Great as well. Great.
New episodes are out right here. Can we get you on there? Anytime. You'd be good on the show. Please have me.
I would love to do any home and home. We're going to have a spicy lunch for you. Do it. My kids want me on that hot one show in the worst way, and it would. I'd need to be hospitalized.
I really would. By the way, that looks dangerous. But then, when you see someone like you see people crying and in pain, and then you see Ariana Grande come in and just like, I know, she's like, Do you have a toothpaste? Unbelievable. I know, I'm with you.
Phil Rosenthal, the longest-running original Netflix unscripted series.
Somebody feed Phil. Season eight is available right here on the Roku portal through Netflix, obviously. Great to see you, sir. Always a pleasure. Best dad ever.
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Okay. You must bench one. Uh Malcolm Butler. Oh, yeah.
Or cut one, which could be Malcolm Valmont too. All right, here we go. Do you have any stuff? Starch sit down and be quiet or cut. All right, with Al Michaels, first one up for Al Michaels in Start Bench Cut.
Do you have any music, Mike Del Tufo, please? Thank you. Cuts of steak. Ribeye Filet Mignon, New York Strip. Ribeye, Filet Mignon, New York Strip.
You must start one, bench one, and cut one. Al Michaels, New York Strip. Is in the Hall of Fame.
So that's the story. Fillet is, you know, on the bench. Ribeye is great, but the problem is it's so fatty.
So, you know, you're always watching your weights.
So I love Ribeye, but I got to cut it. You're cutting Ribeye. I'm cutting Ribeye. New York Strip is in the hall. Oh, yeah.
In the hall. That's the best. First ballot? First ballot? Yeah.
Okay. And they waived the five-year waiting period, too. And you're a medium-rare guy, right? Medium rare plus.
Okay, Redium Rare Plus. Wow, look at that. No motion.
Okay, next one up for Al Michaels. Start bench cut event to call, Super Bowl. World Series. Olympics. Mm-hmm.
Start bench new, huh? Oh boy. Oh, yeah.
Well. Super Bowl World Series Olympics. I think I got at the Super Bowl as the starter.
Okay. Bench. When am I going to bench here? It's the idea. I haven't done the World Series since 1995, so that's cut, I guess.
Okay. The Olympics. You can bench the Olympics.
Well, yeah. Yeah. But I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna put the Olympics on waivers, but then I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm going to bring it back. Very labor. Al, we got a bonus one.
You have one? Yeah, we got a bonus one.
Okay, right, Al, ready? Golf partner. Startbench Cut Golf Partner.
Okay. Doc Rivers. Pete Sampras Rich Eisen. Since I played golf with all of these guys. You know, I'll probably start Doc.
I knew that. Stock is extremely competitive. Pete's a lot of fun to play with, but you know, Pete. He's been through the competitive realm of his life.
So he's out there to have fun. And wretched, I'm sorry, but you know.
Okay. I'm cut. Let's put it this way. Neither of us would. It's fun, I'm fun.
Neither of us would make the cut. We'd be gone by Friday afternoon. Out as a crowd pleaser, you know what? That's exactly what you want to hear, Brockman. Yeah.
I love playing golf with Al. Does Al love playing golf? Yes, he does.
Well, I'm just saying, it didn't. No, I seemed to. But his point is that those other guys will be able to maybe. make up for his lack of candy. on the course.
You know? Candy. Candy. Candy is an hour, so we're probably.
Well, I'm improving. That's all we're asking for. Did you see my shot at Fnatics Fest? That's all we're asking for. Yeah, actually.
Did you see my shot at Fanatics Fest? No, did you do that? Number six on Oakmont. Yeah. It's it got a pitching wedge?
And? Threw a dart.
Okay, great. He's like, what do you think? Threw a dart.
It landed on the closest to the hole, I heard. Apparently, so. He won the whole thing. That's amazing. He's good at stuff.
Jarrell in Texas. Let's get him in before things wrap up. What's up, sir? Hey, how are you doing there, Rick? What's on your mind?
We've got about two minutes left. Thanks for holding on this whole time. I'm gearing up for this commander season. I need that WL schedule.
Okay, win-loss in Texas. Commanders, fan in Texas. Wow. 50 miles from ATT statement. I've been waiting on TJ to get his win and loss so you can procrastinate.
I agree. Maybe did I say your name properly, Jarrell? Correct? Yes, you did. All right, here we go.
What happens week one against the Giants at home? That is automatic W. Russell Wilson on it. That's automatic. We'll take that.
Jake Daniels is going to get his MVP species started off. All right. I've got about a minute and a half left.
So win or loss at the Green Bay Packers on a Thursday night. That's a W. 2-0 home for the Raiders. That's the Dubs. Easy.
3-0 out to the Falcons. We beat them last year. We're beating them again this year. 4-0 at the Chargers. I'll give us our first hell on that.
It's on the road. Home for the Bears on a Monday night. Easy win. Easy win. Five and one at the Cowboys.
They're in Texas. Oh, me and my brother Gerard be at that game with our jerseys on at the WE. Six and one at the Chiefs. On a Monday night. Man, we're going to take a loss on that Monday night.
I'm going to be honest with you. Six and two, home for the Seahawks. Easily, W, Bobby Wagoner game. We're going to win now. That's true.
Seven and two, home for the Lions. Oh, man. I think they're going to get their get back on it.
So that's going to be an L most likely. 7-3 against the Dolphins in Madrid, Spain. Oh, first game in Madrid. That's with W. Easily.
We're taking that one. Eight and three off the bye. Home for the Broncos. I got 30 seconds left. Let's whip through it.
Broncos W. At the Vikings. W. At the Giants. Mm-hmm.
Home for the Eagles on a Saturday. That's a win. I'm going to give this a win, Hogg. Home for the Cowboys on Christmas. We're sweeping the division here.
That's another W.
Sorry, TJ. And at the Eagles. I'm going to take a L on that one. I'm going to be aisle with you. 13 and 4 wraps up our show.
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