REShow: Bruce Greenwood - hour 3

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Plus, your phone calls and more. And now. It Mr. Rich Eisen. All right, number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air here on the Rich Eisen Show Radio Network, Sirius XM Channel 211, NBC Sports Audio, NBC Sports on Peacock.

Basically, there's really. Uh no way to keep his tongue. You can't stop us. You can only hope to contain us, is my friend who precedes us on Sirius XM at NBC Sports. On Peacock would say, so we've had great chats with Callaeus Campbell and Daniel Jeremiah, who said that, based on everything that he saw, Mac Jones could be a first-round quarterback, lower first-round quarterback.

He thinks that Justin Fields is not. Surpass Zach Wilson as the number two quarterback taken after Daniel, after Trevor Lawrence is taken by the Jaguars, which led me to finish the last hour in case you're wondering, walk through the jujitsu, the sort of twisting in a pretzel type yoga maneuvers that Jet fans are going to have to do to talk about how Zach Wilson is their guy learning all about Mormons and Brigham Young and learning about BYU football, which as a Jet fan from New York City, I can pretty much guarantee you pretty much every Jet fan from Queens and Long Island and New Jersey and whatever, the amount of BY football they've watched in their lives, forget about 2020, if you averaged it out and then went, you know. When And rounded down, zero would be zero percent, would be zero percent. And then, so knowing all that, and then talking about how they're excited they are for this kid, uh, and then and then um uh Darnold's gone, but hey, uh, the Jets fans will then pound the table about how much. He's worth, he's an outstanding quarterback.

You should definitely give the Jets your second-round pick for him, at least. That's all coming over the next few weeks.

So, oh, Zach Wilson's only 21 years old, huh?

So how about that? He's fine.

Okay, very good.

So that'll be great.

So the Jets will draft him second overall, and then he'll say he's got to go on his mission.

Well, I'll see you in four years. That'll be great. Oh my gosh. And so the actor Bruce Greenwood is going to be joining us shortly. President Greenwood.

He's been in a ton of movies, a ton of TV shows. He played Captain Pike and the new Star Trek movies. If you ever saw the TV show, the film 13 Days, John F. Kennedy, he plays JFK. He's a good that guy.

He's in a lot of good movies. He's from Canada. He's from north of the border.

So we'll have a great chat with him. Chris Brockman, Mike Del Tufo with their posts, as always. And Rich Osen show social media grandma, TJ Jefferson, sitting where he is. It's your boy. Good to see you over there.

Good to see you over there. Chris Brockman, do you have a news update ready to have for hour three?

Okay, sure.

Well, I mean, no, no, dude, you should talk up your ⁇ how about this? Before we get to your news update, then. Our poll questions. Oh, these are great. Original poll question today, if you were just joining us.

Chris Brockman wanted to say, out of the. These four quarterbacks, because again, we used to put our Twitter question on our website at Rich Eisenshill. But then, you know, Twitter explodes. I mean, we've been on long enough for seven years where Twitter begins to become the method of communication for many.

So we decided to put our poll questions on Twitter at Richardson. Yeah, more interaction. Right, sure, of course. And so that only allows for four options. And you normally like to fill up.

I like to figure out. You don't do the head-to-head delock. You like to go full four.

So you said four minutes ago, which divisional round quarterback would you. Prefer. Would you lead a centerback? Would you want leading the comeback? Exactly.

Four minutes to go. Who do you want under center? Down six. Who do you want? You went Mahomes, Brady Rogers, and thus the final one would have to be Drew Brees because that's if you're talking about the highest caliber quarterbacks, you go there.

No, you took Brees out and put Josh Allen in because Allen of the young quarterbacks is playing the most dynamite, most consistently great MVP quality. And you have been part of the, let's trash Drew Brees all season long because he's pushing 41 right now. That's putting it harshly. No, you were part of the post-week two loss to the Raiders. Anti-arm strength.

He couldn't throw anymore. He's done.

Okay. You were part of the people, if he had known, when he called into the show mid-season, and I asked him about that narrative weeks later after it was, saying, did any of those people watch football? Right. You are part of the people who are wondering if you watched football. He is I.

So, anyway, I said, look, we can't do that. And we compromised by going head-to-head, Josh Allen versus Breeze. I like it. Great compromise. And I hit them with retweets, which you like me to do, to give it the big old fire hose of a platform at Rich Eisen.

Thank you to the nearly 5,000 people who voted. Oh, love it. Very good. Four minutes to go. Which QB do you want leading the comeback drive?

Josh Allen, Drew Brees, right now, 52.48. For the Mandalorian?

Okay, very good.

Then we did the same question for Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes. Oh, your two MVP favorites this year. Yeah, yeah. Did you put your thumb on the scale on this one? I have yet to do that yet.

This one's also up there in votes, so thank you, everyone, who votes. Yes. Aaron Rodgers, 54.5%. That's who I voted for, by the way. Patrick Mahomes, 45.5%.

Oof. Isn't that amazing that there's something that Patrick Mahomes does not win? Oh man. Man.

So. Why four minutes, though? I was thinking this. Why not just two minutes? Why four?

Just a four-minute drive. It's a four-minute drill. It's a two-minute drill. It also means that there's a lot of. There's not a two-minute drill.

Two minutes means you're behind. Four minutes means that you might have the lead, too. You could be behind also, but four minutes means you're behind. This is why you don't put Brady on that list because all he needs is a minute and a half. He's good.

Wait, so Brady's the goat now, according to you? Which is it, Mike? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you flip-flop all the time on Brady. I love Brady now, he's not on the Patriots anymore. Oh wow.

Troll.

Okay, there you have it. Vote at Rich Eisen Show. Let me give you just another minute before your news update, Chris. David in Richmond, Virginia. Let's take his phone call.

What's up, David? Hey, Rich, listen, I'm a big Dolphin fan and listen to you almost every afternoon.

So, what do you think of this conversation about Tua that seems to be bandied about, that he's less than, and forget it. Already. What do you think about that? I think that is too early to tell. If someone if we gave up a first-rounder and maybe could get watch and gave up Tua for watching, I would consider that.

But here's the thing: the worst thing that could have happened to Tua and a lot of rookie quarterbacks, good, bad, or indifferent. Guy named Patrick Mahomes, who I love You Can't Beat the Talent. Jackson Mahomes went to a situation where he sat for almost a year, and now he has a wide receiver that's great. He's got a tight end that's great. He's got a pretty decent running back, he's got a line.

Okay. And then everybody who's coming out, the people, the faithful that have not sniffed the Super Bowl in ages, like my Miami Dolphins, are all looking for this guy the next quarterback to be another Patrick Ahoms, and they don't want to wait. They don't want to wait to see the team get built. They just think that this guy should take them to the promised land right away. I think if we could get watched, I can get watching.

I think also the fact that Utua is getting a short shift here. He doesn't have you said it before, he doesn't have a team around him. You can't tell if a quarterback's going to be good if he's walking and running I mean, he's running away all the time.

Well, and again, and thanks for the call. Appreciate it. Keep listening out there in Richmond, Virginia on our podcast, which you can, by the way, now get on Westwood One. Uh is the home of our podcast and where all podcasts are acquired. Daniel, I think DJ said it best.

It's the first, he was on a powerhouse team in Hawaii in high school. Than on a powerhouse team in Alabama. And this is the first time he's ever lined up in his life where the people on the other side of the line of scrimmage are better than the people he's got on his. Because you could make a case and the Dolphins win. Than his first career start over the Rams, perfect example.

The Dolphins on that day. The defense and special teams carried the day. Mm-hmm. And, you know. Tua.

Yeah, he was super average. for the Dolphins is the weakest unit now. When Uh at the hands uh uh of the uh The controls of Fitzmagic, it was better. It was better. But again, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and you're sitting here and go, Ryan Fitzpatrick Journeyman runs the offense better than Tua.

Yeah. Exactly. That's what happens with a lot of Rookies.

Well, why didn't it happen with Herbert. Herbert's 10 teammates. better than the other 11 in front of them. That's the way it goes.

Well, they didn't win many games.

Well, that's not Herbert's fault, is it? There was a lot going on, a lot of close games. Again, I would be very loath to say, let's see what the Dolphins do with all of these picks that they have. They still have a bounty coming. Third overall for Crying Out Loud and their own.

And their own. My gosh. They got two of the top 20, do they not? They have three and eighteen. Yeah, they got two of the top twenty.

So they could do with two, they got two of the top 20 and two. After he's gotten his beak a little bit, which is what you want. They have four of the top 50. They have the second-round pick from Houston as well. That's 36.

Look at that. Come on now. Um It's nuts. Would you trade all four of those picks for Deshaun Watson? Yes.

Yeah, you say to you because especially it's just two. Right? Yeah, that's true. No, I know you gave up Larry McTunchell and Kenny Stills, but you're just restoring the two that you got from them. They get their two back.

And you're giving up just two of yours. And you get Deshaun Watson for the rest of his career. With a contract that's already signed. Yes, I would do that. I would.

And then supplement through a little bit of free agency and the rest of your draft choices. I would do it. Wouldn't you? Would you not? I think so.

I think I would. I would. Chris Brockman's news update right here on the Rich Eisen showing a busy Tuesday. Hit it, please. Mm-hmm.

And now With a report of the day's news from the world of sports and entertainment.

Someone who is not a journalist or newsman by any definition of the word whatsoever, it's Chris Brockman. Nice. All right, some NFL notes, guys. Let's see. The Seahawks signed John Schneider to a five-year extension.

So they did.

So all that conversation about him going to Detroit, see you later. See you later. Five years through 2027. The Eagles have put in their request to interview Todd Bowles and Robert Sawa. The Jets are going to have a second interview with Robert Sawa.

The Texans, guys, have finally put in their request to. To interview Chiefs OC Eric Bianca. Oh, it's good timing.

However, because of the window closed on Sunday, they got to wait till the Chiefs are bounced to actually have that interview. All right. It might take a while.

So, great job. Great job, Houston. Saw this on Twitter today. Aaron Rawner's revealed.

So. Jeopardy is still going. Ken Jennings is filling in right now, but they are going to do a series of guest hosts in the coming months. Aaron Rodgers is going to be one of those guest hosts. Oh, fantastic.

Oh, good. That seems like a super fun opportunity. I guess he won't be taping here in Culver City much before February at the very least. Not anytime soon.

Okay. I think the PAX is going to the Super Bowl.

Some NBA notes. NBA is getting crazy right now.

So. The Celtics game tonight against Miami had been postponed yesterday already. Tomorrow's game against Orlando is now postponed while the league is kind of working through tightening some of the protocols here. Woge saying the league and the players association working through a minimum two-week window protocol tightening that includes no hugging or interacting of rival players on court previously. reducing social interaction during the games.

including tapping hands during free throws. They're trying to cut down. And you know I'm tagged during it. Uh because the COVID postponements are kind of getting out of hand.

Well, it is, and it's dangerous, and it's concerning.

So I've got. Uh a serious approach. And one that's Not so. Which one do you want first? I want the not so first.

Okay, I would love to just do away with the dapping of free throw shooting. Nobody who misses, well, anybody who misses. Oh, yeah, yeah. You miss a free throw, you're getting. I never understood that.

You express what you had to adapt, dapped, dapped, dab. To encourage them not to happen in the same reason that they should have slimed the receiver who dropped the ball in the end zone on the Nickelodeon broadcast. Yeah. I have no problem with the doing away of the tapping. And the serious one is that every league that played in a pandemic, every league that's attempted it.

Uh With the initial rush of the season. going off without a hitch because everybody is you know, COVID negative coming in and then It happens. The invariable invariably happens, the it being. COVID-19 breaking out in various franchises. We saw it in baseball, Marlins and Cardinals.

They were one of the first where it was just like, we got to cancel the season. We just got to stop. Baseball's never going to finish. They did. The NFL, as we know, an outbreak with the Titans.

Then an outbreak with the Ravens, and And then they were, what, New England? Lost Camp. Remember that? Before they were going to Kansas City. And then they did still went like the day of the game.

And we're starting to wonder how the hell, how the hell are we going to pull all this off? And then they did.

So I don't want to get too alarmist. But the NBA is going to To go through what they're going through because just like baseball tightened their protocols. And then The NFL tightened them up too. The can Five masks if you were So lucky to have one, okay? The NFL provided just a couple of weeks ago to all of us, the NFL network.

You know, you put it on, if you have any of them, you know, that there's that that that piece of metal that you can push down on your nose to make sure it's as tied on your nose and then it goes underneath your chin. Um if you remember The first week of the season, Belichick wore that upside down. Like it looked like a beak. Yep. You know, like he was one of those Fidelio characters from Eyes Wide Shut, you know, walking around, right?

That's nice. But by like week five, Bill knew how to put it on. You are in? Week one and two, a bunch of coaches were just running around with their, with their, their masks down or their, you know, everything down, and they, you know, yelling at refs through that. By week four, week five, that was done.

A $100,000 fine. I know. But what I'm saying is there's an adjustment. Had a remarkable finish to their previous season. Because they were in a bubble.

They are not in a bubble now. And they are going to go through some rough stretches, and it's going to make us all think like it's not going to happen. But hopefully they will Figure out what needs to be done to get it less so, less than, right? We'll take a break. We'll finish up Chris Brockman's other news item so we're on time for our next guest.

He's played the president twice. He's in the resident now. From Fox, the resident Bruce Greenwood. Look forward to chatting with this man next. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance.

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Big word alert. I have a lot of confidence in Coach Coach Bougano. All right, let's move to a little bit more of an omnibus portion of our conversation here, Coach Matt Nagy. First things first, pass interference now being challenging.

Now you can review this stuff, but... Let's do this! A grind Mike! Look it up! Omnibus, an adjective pertaining to, including, or dealing with numerous objects or items at one time.

Omnibus. Shopping for my big Sunday dinner, I had an omnibus grocery list. I bade you it.

Okay. Big word alert. Big word alert. I would love nothing more. than to ask him like normal, really pointed.

Questions is a Knicks fan that I want answers to. to try and have a rapprochement between him and Oakley. And have and bring them together so I can feel comfortable about going back to the garden. I'm more than happy to have him sit in this chair. I wouldn't badge the witness.

As far as the Knicks are, as far as I'm concerned with the sports teams. Let him go. Get him out of there. I'm telling the shareholders of MSG, you don't want this guy making decisions, so let him go play with this harmonica. Let him go.

But you need him. Unless they're saying for him to pay that much money, at the very give himself that much money, at the very least, he needs to put down the harmonica.

So I understand if you're a shareholder and you're like, that's an absurd amount of money. But. Oh my god. Rapprochement, a noun meaning the establishment or re-establishment of harmonious relations. Rapprochma.

After my crazy ex-wife threw one of my Emmys at me, I knew there was no chance for rapprochement between us. Mike, I'm proud of you. That was a big moment. Thanks. That's a big moment.

Appreciate it. And that's it for today's Big Word Alerts. You're welcome. Mm-hmm. This is so fun.

Yeah. Alright, so I use big words. I don't understand. I mean, is it tough that I give sports takes? that are always correct and also make you smarter.

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Hey, everybody, we're back here on The Rich Eisen Show as one big happy simulcast family here on NBC Sports on Peacock, NBC Sports Audio Sirius XM Channel 211, and the Rich Eisen Show, The Growing. Burgeoning. Is that a big word or alert right there?

Well, burgeoning franchising show. You know what it is? What does it mean? Getting bigger. Like on the precipice.

No, no, no, no, no. Burgeoning means expanding, not on the precipice. Progress. You know what on the precipice? You know how you could say on the precipice?

Yeah. On the precipice. Yeah. Give us a big word. Just do this a lot.

Like, oh my goodness. It works. People understand.

Meanwhile, TJ Jefferson is just not even paying attention whatsoever. He checked out here in the Big Word alert. Bordeler. I'm in here with you. Very good.

We're excited here on the Rich Islands Show. I've enjoyed this man's work for many a moon. He's played the President of the United States twice. He played the president of the United States in 13 days and also in Kingsman. The Golden Circle.

So, the man who's played The President twice, amongst many other characters in so many other great movies and television shows. He's also played Captain Pike in the new Star Trek films. He is in now season four of The Resident, which premieres tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on Fox. He is Bruce Greenwood.

How are you, sir? I'm good. How are you, Rich? I'm doing fine. To what do you miss the?

I'm sorry, I missed the big word thing. I love big words. Do you want so, yeah? I mean, my guys here make fun of me, Bruce, because I. I just sort of dialed in on precipice and I was like, ooh, is that, do I get half a word or is that the big word they're talking about?

That is a big, that is, it's, it is, it is, it is my way of talking. You know what I mean? Like, so I know I'm a sports guy, a pop culture guy, but I, I. Yeah, I've got a vocab vocabulary, I'd like to use it. You know what I mean?

Yes. Thank you. Go for it. I appreciate that.

Well, I mean, I've also played the president. Count him three times. Three times. Hey! I am, uh, I am, uh, I am, I am sorry, uh, Mr.

President. National Treasure. You should. Oh, that's my God. How did I forget that one?

God knows. Especially the tunnel. The tunnel. I mean, to what do you owe this, Bruce? Three times.

What do you owe this to?

Well, I think probably the only people that are qualified to be president now are Canadians. Yeah. That's right.

Okay, there's that. But uh you got some qualities that I guess so when when when you get a a script calling for to play the president, do you say again? Like you've been there, done that? Or w what do you how do you react to that? Yeah, the last one was the Kingsman and I kind of went, you know what, this is the way to go out playing a president with, you know, his hair on fire and then and a knit width.

So uh So I think I've retired the presidents. The thing for the most part.

Okay. So unless I get offered a job. No, well, I mean, hold on a second. I mean, has anybody ever created your face on an actual U.S. Treasury note?

Has anybody ever done that for you? Put that on the wall like you're a president, like an actual president? I've been trying to pass those off for years. You've got it.

Well, I don't want to get you in trouble. You've got a printing press in your basement is basically what you're saying.

Okay. Very, very good. But I've been around long enough that I'm beginning to look like Washington. There you go. Bruce Greenwood here on the Rich Eisen Show.

So you are from Canada. I always feel stupid when I say this, but I'll say it anyway. The risk of being stupid. Does that mandate you having played hockey, being a hockey fan, Bruce? Anything like that?

No, no, I was a rugby player, a rugby player and a skier.

So I I was uh I wanted to lose my teeth playing rugby, not hockey.

So, you never laced him up, not in a slew, not in a rink, that never happens? Oh, no, I've laced him up and panted around the ring, but yeah, I'm one of those guys who can only skate in one direction. Oh, I see what you're saying.

So, you were in a grinder? Were you a grinder? What were you when you did play hockey at any point in time? Oh no, I never really played. I just you know, I've I played a couple of pickup games and, you know, the grinder would be exalting what I was capable of.

Okay, I love it.

So a skier, is that pretty much? You said uh that's that's your deeply, deeply into skiing. I thought I could actually make a living at it for Oh wow. And um, like literally, you thought you thought like literally, like literally, I thought I could be a competitive skier, but um I got way too broken way too many times, so I had to find something else to do.

Okay. Is there any sports team that you're a fan of? Any particular team that you you call your own, Bruce Greenwood, in any way, shape or form? You know, I mean, I've I've Not really, to be perfectly frank. I mean, you can line me up against a bunch of guys who know nothing about sports, and I'll be the guy whose hand never goes up.

Okay. I love that. No kidding.

Well, very good. I might as well cop to it rather than pretend. No, no, no. That was amazing. That was fucking amazing.

You know what you should have said? Because if you had said you're a fan of the Quebec Nordiques, I'd have just moved on. I'll be honest with you. You know? Like you're a big, you're one of those diehard Nordique fans, and I'd have drawn a complete blank, and I'd have moved on.

You could just do that. Yeah, look, I'm going to file that away for future. You should for future. That's your safe words whenever you're in a position like that. Just blurt out Quebec Nordiques, and then that'll be it.

When I'm a little bit in pain and afraid, I'll just go Nordiques. Fantastic. Uh Oh, fantastic.

So, so what is the film or TV show, Bruce Green, that you get when pre-pandemic, when you're out and about in a restaurant or wherever? What would be the one that you would get? The recognizable factor thing, where you came from? Yeah. Yeah, mostly uh probably Star Trek and double jeopardy, 13 days, that kind of thing.

But once the residents started airing, it was sort of It was surprising that, hey, yeah, you're the evil Dr. Bell. Oh, you're the nice Dr. Bell. What happened?

Right. Um, Yeah. Yeah. So it's the res the resonant has been sort of surprisingly resonant. I like that.

Look, now that's a big word alert. There you go. There you go. Bruce Greenwood. If you start using words like resonant, my guys across the way here are just going to have to mentally check out.

You want to look that one up, Chris? It means it means deep clear continuing to sound or ring. There you go. Very good. Oh, the human thesaurus.

We got that all set up.

So is there Bruce Greenwood here on the Rich Eisen show?

So when you mention of the other ones, Star Trek. How quickly did you learn that the people who are fans of this? This pop culture, this iconic pop culture, film and television, they're very serious. Like that, you need to button yourself up in a way that you know everything about everything about the history of Star Trek and that you have to play your character appropriately. Did you learn that one?

Instantly. Instantly. Right. Yeah. How so?

Like it was like somebody, you know, put an IV in me and I got got the message really quick. Yeah, that you better know it all. I just had the cops just saying, look, I know what I know, and I'm not going to pretend to know more than I know. You know, and these are all parallel universes and and iterations of You know, different iterations of the same thing, and you gotta roll with it. I don't know if Quebec Nordique's would work there either, Bruce.

I'll be honest with you. I don't know if there were any Klingons on the Quebec Nordiques. I don't know if that would have helped. Oh, I hear they're pretty tough, so I imagine there probably are a couple.

Okay. Fantastic. So, what about the resonant do you think makes it so resonant against season four is tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on Fox? What about that, Peter?

Yeah, I think what separates it from the pack is the that we really try to highlight the tension between care and commerce. and medicine and money. and the and that the two are in constant conflict. you know, to give good care requires serious money and serious money requires not making the profit maybe they would like. And uh and that's and so you and you know, in real life situations run up against this all the time and all kinds of in all kinds of disciplines, but it's especially critical in when you're talking about medical care.

And so we try and yank back the curtain on that a little bit. And this year, of course, we were. We're trying to you know, trying to illustrate the the the tidal wave of that that that landed on the frontline workers.

so incredibly quickly and took such a massive toll and continues to. we speak to that early in the season. And then and then get back into the nuts and bolts of trying to solve This This medical issue or that medical issue, along with the personal things. The show's been on the air long enough now that people are invested in the characters personally.

So you know Nick and Nick and Conrad are getting married. you know, all the all the stuff that makes people's It warms people's hearts is alive and well on the show. But again, it does touch on COVID and the relentless grip that it is seeming to have on hospitals right now. The proverbial, if you will, ripped straight from the headlines as part of the season, correct? Oh yeah, that's that's how it be it begins with that sort of those moments that we all remember in March.

when all of a sudden you were just being you know, it was like you'd fallen off the board and you were being pounded into the sand, you know, it was just Um of un unspeakable deli of of case after case after case and mystery after mystery. And then so And that takes has serious repercussions on the characters and the characters' families and And exhaustion is a factor, and all that, and things and people make mistakes, and people react well, people react poorly. you know, humanizing this impossibly difficult time. And um and then They were writing this in the summer, so they had to sort of say to themselves: what's the world going to look like in January? Mm-hmm.

And they thought, well, You know, if maybe we'll be able to pull our way through it.

So what we're going to do is We're going to have Spend the first episode of the season speaking to what happened in the beginning of the epidemic, the pandemic. and then and then take our masks off.

So, because you know, nobody wants to come home from work. Yeah, right. I guess you would go come home from work and see people on television with masks on, just go, God, give me a break, give me a minute, give me a minute, let me just kick back on the couch and watch these people I care about.

So, um So we after the second difference is second episode we take off the masks. And that is, again, it premieres tonight, season four of The Resident on Fox at 8 Eastern Time. You know, you're right.

So many people want escapism and things of that nature. That's why a show like this one talking about sports and pop culture.

Well, on occasion, you know, real world does come crashing in. That a lot of people just want to.

Well, yeah, the only escapism that we're, the only bit of escapism is the fact that we're not wearing masks. The rest of it is. is Trying to reflect real world stuff. Sure. Absolutely.

Bruce Greenwood here on The Rich Island Show.

Okay, before I let you go, do you got a good Nicholas Cage story? Come on, give me a good one. You got one from uh From National Treasure? Yeah. What do you got for me?

Of course. What do you got for me? I mean, who works with Nicholas Cage without a good Nicholas Cage story?

Okay. I don't know if you have the time. Oh, but just. A long time ago. When I was uh at the Yeah.

A guy friend of mine came up to me and said, Look, the Lamborghini newsletter man, look, there's a guy. Apparently, he has to leave the States. He's been chased by Uncle Sam. He's got a Lamborghini Mira, 69, Lambo Orange. Twenty grand, man, twenty grand.

And I had twenty-one grand in the bank. And I w and I Took it all out, I put it in the paper bag, and I drove it down to this guy who was racing back to Greece because the. Because Uncle Sam was chasing him. I bought the Lambo. It was 12 cylinders sideways, right?

It's like running on eight cylinders. I put it on a flatbed. I take it to a shop. And uh and three months later, my my wife says, You're not working we're broke. Sell the car.

So I so I sell the car. I sell it for twenty-four grand. Yeah. And uh like You know, three ten years later, I'm riding to work in the sky. I noticed in the Lambo newsletter on the on the cover of the of the card is taken of the Jan is taking me to work and I go, Yeah, I used to have used to have a Lambo.

And he goes, You used to? What'd you have? I go, Well, I I have Lamborghini here at 69. What color? And I go, yeah, it was harsh, but did you sell it?

I go, yeah, I saw it. I made a little money. When did you sell it? What did you sell it for? I said well.

But I'm I fill it to twenty-four grand. I made I made a few thousand dollars now, like two, three grand, man. And uh it goes. Put on the back page. And I look on the back page.

Rich guess. what they were selling for like four years later after Enzo Ferrari died, and there was lots of speculation in exotic farm cars. I can't even. 300 grand. Oh, oh, oh.

Three hundred grand, man, and I was broke. Ugh.

So So somehow this story comes up when I'm living with Nicholas Gage. And um Uh, 'cause we're he was because he likes n nice cars, right? Yeah. So and somehow the story comes up and he goes, That is so weird, man. That is so weird.

I was just looking at a Lambo now. They brought one onto the lot. We check out. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I was looking at Lambert today, man. Oh no, Okay. These different worlds, man.

So he's just looking at a Lambo and it's just 300 grand because he's Nicholas Cage. Oh, no, by then they were a billion dollars. Oh, my God. Oh, jeez. Oh, no.

No, no, no, yeah, sorry. Could have prefaced it with by then they were a million bucks.

Well, National Treasure was good to him, huh? I mean. Yeah, yeah. So I guess it's not really a Nick Case story. No, it's more of a, yeah, it's more of a.

If you could only have kept on, hold on to your Lambo. I guess that is the moral of the story, is that if you're. Hold on to your Lambo. Thanks for the call, Bruce Greenwood. It doesn't matter what your wife says.

No, that's, well, you know what? I don't want to get you in trouble. What are you doing? I'm holding onto my Lambo. That's right.

Stop that. That's right.

Quebec Norgeeks. That's the way it goes.

Quebec Nord Geeks, Nor Geeks.

Well, at least we left you with that one. Hey, Bruce, thank you for the call. Congrats on the resident being as successful. And thanks for all the good times watching you in movies and TV. That was great.

Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. At official Bruce Greenwood on Instagram. There you go.

That's the moral of the story. You know what I saw also today? I saw an article the New York Times wrote an article. That Um there are people There was a guy in this article. who has a bunch of Bitcoin.

in what's called an iron wallet. Right? 200 million. That's what?

Somebody has 200 million.

Somebody's got it was 22 million. Oh, okay.

Sorry. He's got 22 million in Bitcoin in an iron wallet, and he forgot his password. And he's on. Uh attempt nine of ten. Oh.

And if he does not get the next two correct. It's done. All of his Bitcoin is adios. No, there's another person that has 200 million. And it's an article about a bunch of people who forgot their passwords.

Oh my gosh. That they have all of the, that they bought Bitcoin, they stuck with it, they hung with it, it's made a fortune. But the piece of paper that he wrote down his password on, and he's tried all of his regular passwords and they're all incorrect, and there's two more to go. I mean, and he's, it's about like, it was. Basically Like reading an article about someone with insomnia.

Like, I don't want to, like, you know, read, it's just. I don't want to If I read that, then I'll start forgetting all of my passwords. It's just such a horrible feeling. What a feeling. Could you imagine?

You're sitting there and you're like. You got two more shots at it. Apparently, there's like some. Company that helps people try to remember their passwords. I don't even know.

Trust me, I just, it was a wild. Read. I gotta find that. That just made me think about that. That story that he's just, you know, that he gave all this up, that he could have had opportunity if he had held on to it.

But at any rate, somebody's. I read that. That flipped me out today. No, no, Mike, you're right. 220 million, Rich.

Yeah. So it was the same article, yeah. 220 million. I was like sitting there going, I said two guesses sent it to Brockman. Two guesses left.

Like. You know what? He should like televise that. Would you tune in to somebody guessing their password? 100%.

Yes. And 100%. And talking it out like it's a millionaire. And they get, you know, they get to phone somebody up. TJ, what do you think my password is?

And so, so if, if, if they win, if they win. I know where you're. I knew we were talking with the T, P, and C all capitalized. And. One.

You know what I mean? Like, televise it. No, only we televise it, Rich. Brockman, have them bet on it. Like, degenerates like him would actually bet on the fact that he get it?

The win is he gets his Bitcoin. The loss is he doesn't get it, and his identity is stolen by the end of the show. Like, how sponsored by Life Flock, sponsored by Life Flock. Quick story: my brother, who passed away 10 years ago, when he passed away, he had a serious XM. for life.

Membership for two radios, meaning you pay nothing, but it's a lifetime membership. Not worth 220 million bucks, but I understand. Still enough that I could put two radios. Sure. I had I think three guesses on the password.

We didn't know the password for the account.

Okay. In order to change the radio server, I got to know the password. Me and my mother. Rest in peace are sitting in her house. Password number one doesn't work.

Password number two doesn't work. I turn to my mother and I go, Mom, it's gotta be his like he loved his dog. Uh-huh.

So it's got to be his dog, but he's got to have a number. We're trying to figure out the number, and we're going crazy. And we finally, like somewhere in the world, my mother goes. I'll bet you He's a Grateful Dead fan.

So then we started doing this. The amount of speakers the Grateful Dead had. In their wall. Get out of here. And the name of his dog was Owsley, the guy that developed the wall of sound.

Okay. So I said, let me try Owsley and... Whatever the number was, pops up, and I got in. Oh, what? You should call it a Bitcoin guy.

Called a Bitcoin guy. It was like, Alright, call the Bitcoin guy. Whatever the number is. I cracked the code. I cracked the code.

My mother goes, Oh my god. And we were like. I'm in. And my mother and I looked at each other and go, I cannot believe we just figured out.

So, your mother, rest in peace, she knew who Jerry Garcia was. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We knew my brother was a big. I knew he was the dog.

You said your mom, I need a miracle. I need a miracle. You got the miracle. We would have fights, and I'm like, mom, it's got to be something with the. And I just guessed.

I looked at speakers and went. But hold on a second. Hold on a second. Did you just hear on NBC Sports Audio Sirius XM Channel 211 just cough up the fact that you're using your brother's accounts? Yeah, whoops.

How punk changed the channel? Did you change that password like the passwords changed? Oh, wow. What a story. That was, yeah, Bitcoin guy.

Coleman, but he's got two left. I would be oh my god. He should have a contest where, like, if you guess the correct password, you get a piece. Get away. Do you wet your beak a little bit?

I'll make 220.

Something for the effort.

Something for the experts. How do you forget it? Forget it. How do you forget it? And how do you not write it down on multiple pieces of paper?

This is like Memento 2. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's tough to, it was a tough read. Wow. Flipped me out like it hit me in my gut reading this.

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We have kind of, you know, messed up the place as best we can because the man on my right, Michael Rappaport, good to see you again, sir. Glad to be here. I mean, I'm sort of here against my will.

Well, you're just here so you won't get fined.

Well, no, no, actually, I'm here against my will because I did lose a bet. All's fair and fun and fantasy. And you said you would clean the studio, and now it's time to do that. And this is your janitor suit to wear for the next hour. Ain't the first time I wore it with the Rich Eyes and Show logo on it.

Ointment spray bottles. Ajax. Traditional Ajax. Sweeping. No problem.

Oh my God. You're just dropping candy on the floor to sweep up.

Okay. Is that to eat? Yeah, I am. This is a five-second one. It's kind of gross.

Just up there. We haven't showed it up.

Okay, no problem. I don't think that's probably been dusted since we started here in October of 2014. No problem. You can't even put the broom in the cart. Sir, sir, please let me do my job.

Sir, please let me do my job.

Okay. Anybody. Oh, he's now spitting on stuff.

Well, just spit polishing. This is great. Did we not even swiffer him? Yeah, listen, there's paper towels, there's lots of cleaning materials. You want to do it, or do you want to let a professional dream?

This is pathetic. This is humiliating. Michael Rappaport spraying things willy-nilly, and whatever you sprayed over there, Rappaport, has wafted over here and it's coating my throat. Oh, what the hell is that? What we did?

We did some country day, but we have some neutral cleaning concentrated floor cleaner. We're gonna get to you over there, my friend. What stinks in here? I honestly feel like I am trapped in a New York City cab right now with whatever was hanging from. From the rearview mirror.

Right now, yeah. This is what live TV has come to, huh? Oh, go ahead and call two up pick up the glass. I think this puck is jammed up. What?

I think the puppy got jammed out. What kind of machine is this, man? You are the worst jetter. Industrial strength clean. This place is down.

I mean, this is like. Come on, man. Oh, there you go. That's working, buddy. There we go.

People Manual labor, they should be treated with respect because this little half-ass spit-shine cleaning I did wore me out. Do me a favor before you leave, clean up the mess. Oh, no problem. It's still a mess on the floor. No, no problem.

All right. Good old Michael Rapper fortune. Oh, that's funny. All the times here on the Rich Isen Show here in the studio. Over the years.

Back here on the Rich Islands and show with our radio networks here, 844-204-RICH. To finish up, it was a wild conversation with Bruce Greenwood right there. I didn't know where he was going with the whole Lambert community thing. I'm like, how is he tying Nick Cage into it? Paid off.

Oh, my gosh. All that stuff.

So um so tonight there's just um NBA games, huh? Oops tonight. That's it, huh? You got Lakers Rockets tonight. When does hockey drop the puck?

This week, right? Yeah, they're coming. When the hockey drop the puck this week. Yeah, you're right. Hockey drops puck.

One second. I'll tell you. Oh, you know what? It's tonight. Michigan, Wisconsin at Big Ten College Basketball.

I'm going to start checking into that. You guys are like fourth. Dude, we're looking good. Michigan's good. Michigan looks really good.

Jawan Howard, I knew it. I knew I knew it. I was not quite. Did I question that move or I pounded the table for that move? No, that was a great move.

That's a great move. Oh yeah, he's never done it before. What are they doing? What are they thinking? Hockey starts tomorrow.

Yeah, Hockey drops puck tomorrow. I could just. By the way, I'm sure all the executives with NBC Sports involved in hockey loved having one of their people on NBC Sports. What is hockey?

Sorry, I mean, I'm so locked in. Did you see the ratings for the playoff games were down? Did you see that? For NFL? They were down.

Nickelodeon got 2 million viewers. I saw that, yeah. I mean, that's got to be more than the usual episode of SpongeBob, I would imagine. Two million. And no.

Yeah. Square pants. You know, 28 million watched on CBS. Right there. And so, um That was a big number for CBS, but in general, down.

I was on, I taped Peter King's podcast. Prior to today's show, as you know, watching me sit here and do all that. And I guess it'll be posted soon. Peter was saying. He thinks that next year they'll have one triple header day.

one double-header day and one Monday night football game.

Okay, sign me up. I know, but that would go against the national championship game. In regular years, like this year, last night. Unless they moved the championship game to Tuesday. I mean.

I guess they could. It's really, both games would be on ESPN. Yeah. So ESPN wouldn't have had the Sunday afternoon game, Titans, Ravens. Right.

which turned out to be a pretty good game.

Well the Give me a better game on the weekend. I think Bill's cult was tight, it was intense. The thing about Titans Ravens is that had a really high total number. That was 54 and only. What do you mean?

I don't know what you mean. Was really high, and they only scored a combined, what, 37? You know how we do at the end of hour one on NFL game day morning every Sunday, we do uh hurry-up offense where we put 60 seconds on the clock, and then I ask rapid-fire questions of all three guys, and they get about three questions in each, so it's about nine questions I get out, right? And all of them are like both teams have combined for 44 points. Do they combine for as many today?

And you know, Julio Jones, eight catches or more? I know, right? Like, and and and it was the one, this one was. This one was Browns have won by a number like seven points last couple wins. Will they win by six tonight?

And I just decided to say on television, that's an oddly specific number. Yeah. I thought of you. Thanks, man. You're welcome.

Wish I had the Browns money line though. But yeah, and just one more thing, too. Congrats to the Eagle family. Ian calling. Colts And Bills with Charles Davis.

What a delightful listen they are. They are awesome together, not surprising. Great team. And then his son Noah calling the Bears. And Saints in front of 2 million folks.

On Nickelodeon. And he did an excellent job. Noah will be up there with all of them.

Well, Noah does Clippers Radio. Yeah. He's like 22 years old. Yeah. He'll be up there.

Yeah. I mean, and then I texted Ayan. I should, whatever, I don't care. Bring it. I texted Ayron, like, congrats, you must be going nuts.

And he's like, I'm not watching. And he texted me a photograph. He was courtside of the Nets game, calling that.

Next day. Wow. He works. Like, what if the family, you know, workers? He's just family.

Rich hockey starts tomorrow. Bad a boy. It should be noted: NBCSN has a triple header. Triple header, just like this past weekend. Penguins Flyers 5:30 Eastern and Blackhawks Lightning.

You're defending Stanley Cup champion Tambay Lightning. Yes. 8 Eastern, and then 10:30 Eastern, Blues, Avalanche. Let's go, Pens. By the way.

Tampa Sports Let's not forget the lightning, obviously. And the Rays making the World Series. Oh, if they get the. And the Bucs are in the Final Eight. Like, what the hell's happening to?

Like. Should we get ticky on top of it? Should we get ticky on the phone again?

Something in the water down there. Should we get him on the phone again?

Okay. It could be a Friday out the door. Why not? A Friday Out the Door. Let's get Dick on there and say, hey, Dickie V.

Brady Breeze, here we go. Not surprising, we got from NFL Network Research. A Brady Breeze divisional playoff game packet. Oh, yeah. Seven pages long.

Wow. That's all the records they have. I told you. I mean. There will never be a quarterback match.

Honestly, there will have to be. Mm-mm. One of the 2018 quarterbacks that's in the mix right now. Right? Would have to be the breeze to Brady's Mahomes.

With a kid like. Because Breeze was a year after Mahomes.

So. Like, who got drafted the year after Mahomes? We could do Mahomes and Lamar Jackson in the year 2039 going at it, hopefully. That's going to be Allen. Oh, but no, hold on a second.

Here's the unique part about Brady and Brees. They have never played in a playoff game team.

So it's going to choose somebody in the NFC right now. Who just because they will never face Mahomes in a Super Bowl, just name one. Dak Prescott. Kyler Murray. Ah!

Kyler Murray. Let's go, Dak. Kyler Murray. Well, Kyler is much younger. Yeah, he's younger.

Honestly, from his homes, I don't know. It would have to be from. All right, 'cause we're we're up against it, as they say, in the radio and television business. Let's put a pin in this and look at the draft class after Mahomes and see who would be that person. to make it happen.

'Cause, you know, it was was Mahomes was 2017? Yeah, he was 2017. Yeah, 2017 in Philadelphia.

So choose any of these guys from 2018. But they have to be in the NFC. Right. Man.

It's so rare, it's amazing. All right, I want to thank Calais Campbell, Daniel Jeremiah, and Bruce Greenwood for this, for appearing on this episode of The Rich Eisen Show. More on Peacock in a second, but on the radio. We'll see you Wednesday.