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Titans, the longest touchdown pass of the year. Live from the richest. And show studio in Los Angeles. This one made no sense to me. Will Levis is having season-ending shoulder surgery.
Earlier on the show, longtime Cowboys Insider Clarence Hill hosted Pro Football Talk Mike Florio. Coming up, actor Paul Walterhauser. Plus, latest news and more. And now. And Mr.
Rich Eisen. All right, everybody. Hour number three of the Rich Eising Show is on the air. Paul Walter Hauser is moving in here. I just saw him in our green room.
He's about to come out and appear on this show. He was on Note Contest Wrestling in this studio yesterday. A couple hours ago. I mean, his t-shirt, wait till you see it. It's a classic.
Um and so is The Naked Gun. And uh that's uh that film is in theaters. on uh Friday and uh first of August so that's next Friday A week from this Friday. We had Danny Houston on the program yesterday.
So you got Paul Walterhauser on today. And it'll all be good in this hood. We started the program talking about the Dallas Cowboys. Uh Jerry Jones. Um Season opening press conference and all that good stuff.
That's what it was.
So we started the show with that. And in that respect, let's go to Chris in Texas. Let's take his phone call to kick off hour number three here on an Overreaction Tuesday that's coming up shortly. What's up, Chris? Oh, the heat down here in Texas.
Okay, good to know it. On the ones. Just kidding. What's going on? Nice.
Yes.
Now, that's not a metaphor for anything, right? You're actually delivering mail, Chris? Yes.
Okay, good. Yeah, that's my nickname's the People's Mailman. The People's Mailman? I love it. Can we just say that one?
I don't want to give extra work, but we can handle this. Should we, because we're graphically supporting you being on the phone, should we say the People's Mailman in Texas? Or Chris? How should we say? People's Mailman.
Okay, People's Mailman in Texas. I don't know if Hoskins, if you can handle that. I'm sure you can. There it is. He's done it.
You're now on the screen as the People's Mailman in Texas. What's up? What's on your mind? Uh Well, personally, I like the Jack Jerry Jones. Oh, no.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa. We don't like him. I wish he would step aside and let Steven take over or do something. We ain't gonna win nothing until that guy stepped aside.
Look at you delivering right now, like the people's mailman. And I have been a Cowboys fan. Since Roger Stahl back in Tony Dorset.
So I'm almost your age, Rich.
So, you would like five in September.
So, then listen, people's mailman. Or should I just call you mailman? What's the you tell me? Lo uh Uh The more these things happen, I understand. Dax.
Top notch. C D Lamb's top notch. The addition of George Pickens can be top-notch. Micah Parsons is top-notch. Top notch.
That offensive line is a notch above.
Okay. You know what I mean?
So they're. And we sometimes forget. You know how many stars there are on this team with the star on the side of their helmet. Um That said though, you have no confidence, zero confidence, return to sender. Postage due.
That's what you're saying. Pretty much.
Okay. I'd rather drive down to Austin and watch the Longhorns butt. Then watch go to Dallas and see the Cowboys lose. All right.
Well, thank you. That makes sense too, because Arch is there. Hook him.
Okay. Thanks for the call, People's Mailman. Call back. Don't lose our number, please. There you go.
If you smell what the People's Mailman is cooking, there you go. He just gave the elbow, didn't he? He did to Jerry. People's Mailman.
Do you think? Uh-oh. If this season, let's say this season goes terrible for Dallas, right? And they have the number one pick in the draft. Arch.
Do you think Jerry would draft Arc? Yes.
Yes.
No. And push Dak out. Yes.
No. Why no? Because I don't know the finances of it. I don't know the Salary cap ramifications of it. I can only assume.
Trading that contract. Oh, yeah, that's true. I think it would close the Cowboys for business, wouldn't it? I can't even imagine what the hit would be. to trade him.
He probably has a no-trade as well. Yeah, absolutely.
Okay. His agents were. This is it. They're hitched. This is it.
But then Dak gets to go to a much better situation, and then you got Arch on a rookie deal.
So then Micah gets pushed, and now you can sign him and free up the cash there.
Meanwhile, Mike Florio joined us and said there was a middle finger Jerry flipped during his press conference. Apparently, It occurred. When uh he was asked about being snubbed. By the Emmy voters for best uh Guest role or guest appearance in a drama in Landman. We were talking about that was worthy, right?
That was that one scene. Roll it. I didn't know they'd had to vote. I'm teasing. I am teasing.
No. No. No. No, not at well, no. Let's be real clear about that right there, because I have no idea what qualifies you in that particular area.
But my best scene Was when I was talking to what's his name, laying up here in the bed, I said, the good news is that they say you're going to live. And so, don't make me have to come up here and visit with my rubber glove and get you out of that bed.
Now, they took that out, and I thought it was the best scene in the whole thing.
So he put up the middle thing when he's referring to the rubber glove. I mean, is that Moon River? Is that Rotorio? By the way, the fact that he refers to John Hamm as that, what's his name? What's his name?
Right? What's his name in the bed? That's his name in the bed. I cannot wait to text old what's his name later on. Wow.
But this, the fact that if they cut out the rubber glove comment. It confirms That this Whole scene. Everyone was saying that's Jerry Jones to a core. He's being himself. He says these things all the time and he means it.
The fact that he used rubber glove. It confirms it as well because, as you know, he once upon a time, I think this was during the COVID days when he was talking about the. Medical restrictions and how the cowboys were following them stringently. I think it's one of our favorite drugs, right? Oh, Dr.
Jones with my rubber glove is going to make sure every one of you are safe. Here we go.
So we can't confirm he was truly being himself on Landman.
Now, I just don't know as. When he was delivering that line on his local radio spot, was he flipping the bird to his phone or, you know? This is guy, man. It's marvelous. It's marvelous.
Delicious. Yeah. Yes.
His favorite squirrel. What? Yeah. swirl. Mm-hmm.
Okay. It's just, you get it. You understand how he does it. You say he's a bad businessman, Chris. I say he's a great businessman.
You can see he's very charming. He's very disarming. I can see him going to a room on a business deal and just taking it over. The business of the Dallas Cowboys is not conducted. You wouldn't say, well.
Listen, it's just everything outside of the football field is conducted extremely well. Let me explain this. Let me explain this. Let me just explain this as succinctly as I can possibly say without botching the word. Please do.
When you see a manager in Major League Baseball, Yeah. Not show any emotion and they lose. It's just like This guy's got no fire. And the team wins, and you're like. Oh, they're taking their cue.
They're nice and calm because the manager's calm. If you are seeing somebody with their behavior, being unconventional and the team loses. It's the fault of the unconventional behavior. If they win, they're winning because you know what? They're allowed to be unconventional.
If Jerry Jones and the Cowboys Go to the NFC Championship game this year. Ah, it's just Jerry being Jerry. But because they haven't had the results, you have somebody like the People's Mailman calling saying he wants to slap them around. All they're going to do is win, is all I'm saying. Is the ultimate deodorant in sports winning?
Factual. We also have Dan Patrick talking about us. That's later on. I mean, we've got lots of business to get to. including Paul Walter Hauser, gonna join us shortly, but first.
Because the Overreaction Monday podcast came out Monday, we have Overreaction Monday. on a Tuesday. That was terrible. That was crap. That was garbage.
That's why it sucks. Overreaction. Mondays. Mondays. On a Tuesday.
Alright, Christopher. What's up everybody? You guys good? What's up, Chief? Sure.
Great to see you, Chay. You too. We've been talking a lot about... Micah and Dallas and we're going to talk a little bit more. If Micah Parsons doesn't get a new deal before week one, he should demand a trade.
Hmm. Get out of Dodge. Hmm. Let me follow up with this. What's the next step?
He demands a trade, and they say no. Then what? He stays home. Stay tuned. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know. You want to keep doing this? You heard what Mike said. They're just going to lowball him, and then he's going to sign for... $35 million a year?
Yeah, right. Let the Eagles curb stomp them. Right. Start 0-4? How's that gonna go?
Hold on a minute. That ain't gonna happen. And then, no, let's say he follows the Emmet. Let's take this to the limit. See I just used them eagles.
That's the kick it to the line. And then the giants. Uh yeah. New looks at the middle of the middle. Giants would be happy.
Russell Wilson would love not having a C number. And Mark where number 11 is Priest Nap. Guys, let me explain something to you. Elite Neighbors goes down. The Dallas Cowboys in the last 15 games against the Giants are 14-1.
None of us had Russell Wilson at quarterback. It does not matter.
So you're saying the Giants will still lose to the Michaelis Cowboys. Yes.
Okay. You know what? Just because he said that I'm going to say this is not an overreaction. Thank you. Although I think that's a road to nowhere for him.
I mean, you better, I mean, that's like thumb and Louise. You just grab the hand of your agent, and you're revving this over the cliff, and that's it. I don't know. This is going to get done. Move on.
What else we got? What else you got? Although Florio said that he thinks they're going to force him to play on his uh on his uh option. And then franchise tag him. That is insane.
We knew this was coming two years ago. It's going to happen. Everybody, go back to your homes. There's nothing to see here. Get out.
What else? Thinking about NFL MVP Josh Allen won last year for the first time. I heard that story. Lamar Jackson has a couple of these things. Sure.
This year's NFL MVP, players never won it before. We're going back-to-back first-time winners. You look at the favorites, and it's Mahomes, it's Allen, it's Lamar. Right. Uh-uh.
It could be like Burrow. Think about Burrow Dak, maybe? With no Micah Parsons out there, he's got to carry the team himself. Jalen Hurts. Jalen Earth says a running back does Derrick Henry go for 2000 again.
Your guy, Justin Herbert. I put that down. Did you really put it down? When did you say you put it down? Where's the down that you put it?
I wrote down Burrow Henry Dak Herbert for the graphic. Put it down is like a fifth grade term. Like, did you put it down on that piece of paper? Put it down. By the way, that's like Del 24E's.
Oh, there's down the bullbook.
Okay, my bad. Pardon me. Pardon me. Pardon me. Excuse me.
I'll back down. Put it down. Oh, sure. I'll buy this. I'll buy this.
I'll buy it. I'll buy it. I like it. The LB will be a player who has never won it. I like it before.
I'll take it. That's not an overreach. I'll take it. Won before. Interesting.
I'll absolutely could be Drake May. But we know it's going to be a quarterback, so we can eliminate anyone who doesn't play that position and go from there. Keep going. What else you got, Chris? All right, we're going to switch it up now.
Dude, the football's back, and we just get two. We got eight yesterday.
Okay. Oh, but I'm sorry. I didn't know that you're a stone without out of blood. I had no idea.
Okay. Well, there's other sports.
Okay. We've been talking about other sports for months. The ball's back!
Sorry, I didn't mean to complain about the methodology here. And another thing, Vonnegut. Baseball season has been awesome. He's the Vonnegut. All right, yes.
I know you're not in first anymore. No, very much not. At least three teams are going to win 100 games this year, Major League Baseball. Tigers are the first to 60. Tigers are the first to be 60.
The first case feels it seems like they've won 60 of the last 61. They're right there. They have 69. And Dodgers will do it. At the end of the day, it's not 58.
Phillies and Mets have 57. I'm going to say six. Cubs have 59. There's a lot of teams that are.
Okay. Top of the top. Hey, by the way, congratulations to Paul Skeens actually getting some run support. I know he actually got enough run support. I looked down at the fantasy.
I went, well, the win next to Paul Skines. Sure, I'll see by this too. You know, that's not great for baseball. That means those losses are going to have to come from somewhere amassed. I'm going to double your number, Chris.
Six? Six. Call your shad, who are they? Uh those three. The Met.
Matt's already winning. Matt's going to win 100 games? They're not winning 100 games. The Astras. They're not.
They're not winning on new games. Did you have the brewers up there? By the way, the Mets are not winning 100 games. Out of all the teams that I just heard, the ones that are going to be the least 100 games are the Mets.
Okay, yeah. You also said one solder wasn't good at baseball, but I was quiet about it. I just loved it. You were a lot of chatter, but you've been mad quiet lately. All right, I had this one last week.
We didn't get to it. We're going to run it back right now. Run it back. Cooper Flag is going to win an NBA title for the Mavericks before Luca wins one for the Lakers. Woo!
Period. Yeah. When you say he's gonna win an NBA title. For the Mavs, you are implying he will be the Main thrust/slash engine behind that championship run. Nice.
As your interpretation, he's implying he's going to win the ring. Flag will win the title with the Mavs. He's not going to be a bystander. When you say four, That means he's going to be the main engine, like the key, the most key cog. I mean, if there's five guys out there on the court, and he's not saying this year, he's at some point, right?
Now I'm going to say that's an overreaction. I don't like it. I don't like his tone. I don't like the fact that Maka Smots going that way. I do not like Maka's Smot in the way.
Why? White makes him a little bit better. What's the problem? Because it makes them better. We don't want that.
I like it. Have you seen Marcus Smart play lately? Oh, wow. Don't turn against Marcus. You love us.
Tim Sudden. That was your guy, bro. All of us. Tim Sudden. He also, the worst shot selection in the history of the market.
Oh, my God. You love Marcus. Is that it? Are you done? Last one.
Okay. Scotty Scheffler is now one win away from completing the Grand Slam. He's going to do it next year. And Moyorawai.
Next year's Sunday of the U.S. Open is on his birthday. Oh, and it's probably Father's Day, too. And so we'll be able to measure his son's height next to another trophy. It's like we're, by the way, in case anybody's wondering, Bennett is taller than the claret jug.
I think he was the clarit jug came up to his waist, if I'm not mistaken. The Wanamakers. The Wanamaker's your biggest. Right, there's not going to be a 10-year wait for Scott. He's going to do it immediately next year.
Next year, but they're going to wonder what he's doing it for and what's it all meant. No, that's only him. Yeah. That's all him. What are we doing all this for?
I don't know. If he wins it, then the next day Brockman's going to come on and be like, is Scotty going to win the next big tournament? And he's going to be like, can I just celebrate? By the way, way to come up with the overreaction Mondays that we'll have to wait a year or if not the rest of our lifetimes to figure out if I'm right or wrong or you're right or wrong. Trust me, Chris is going to keep track of this for you.
We talk about runway. My goodness gracious. All right.
Can play at him, really? I am. Facts. That's a fact. That's a fact.
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So you know we love talking movies around here. You know we love talking comedy around here. We also love talking about classics around here.
So, you know what I'm all about. That said. All of that said. You know how I must have felt when I was sitting in the movie theater like I was the other day watching the previews, and up came a preview. for the naked gun.
with Liam Neeson as Frank Greben, junior. That Preview had me at hello. I loved police squad back in the day. I loved the naked gun back in the day. And here comes the naked gun once again with yes, Liam Neeson as Frank Drebbin Jr.
Come on now, son of the celebrated police squad, Lieutenant Frank Drebbin from the original movie, Paul Walter Hauser's in this movie, also Pamela Anderson. Guess who also makes an appearance? WWE superstar. Cody Rhodes and the producer of the movie is Seth McFarlane, the creator of The Family Guy. Come on now.
This is going to be so much fun. I'm excited to see The Naked Gun in theaters on August 1st.
So. What do you do on August 1st? Of course, you're going to a theater near you and you're seeing the naked gun. I might even be there. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show, radio audience will return.
This man is an incredibly talented actor. Uh Why else would I say that for somebody who plays Sean Eric Eckhart? Richard Jewell and the son of George Kennedy. Only one man can pull that off. His name is Paul Walker House.
Thank you. Ed Hawkins Jr. We've been here um Coming up on our 11th season of this show, and just a few years with our podcast. I think you're the first person to appear in this studio on back-to-back days as a guest. I don't think we've ever had that before.
Just me and the custodians. We are the only. Let us know. Do you want anything? Anything that's missing?
Anything as a guest to come here? You got a mug? The fact that you, this sits in my home. I have the original mug from the first chat. It's kind of like a thing where I'm like, Today, I'm going to have my eyes in the mug.
I feel like maybe I'm going to make some deals to you. Because look at this guy. If health is wealth, you're Bezos, baby. What can I tell you, man? Look at you.
I have my own rocket ship that looks like Dr. Evil's. Leo pretends he's not at your wedding. That's exactly going to put the hat down. They won't know it's me.
I just look exactly like me. Nobody has a camera here in Venice. I can't be spotted. I was at a mall with Sebastian Stan while we were shooting Itania. We're at the Lennox Mall, this famed local Atlanta mall.
And he was wearing all black. And he's like, you know, sometimes I dress like this. Like, it's the black hat with no logo and the black clothes. To look boring, like no one's going to stop me or recognize me. And I go, you realize that.
You look like Michael Fassbender in the Hitman movie that Fincher made. You draw more attention by wearing a solid color like you are Grimace post-weight loss. Like you look insane. You should wear a shirt with a logo on it that draws attention to the shirt so they don't look at your face. See, this is next level material.
This is chapter eight of my book. Hiding in plain sight. Is that the name of the title? I can't stop going to Bittown. I don't know what's wrong with me.
I just want to play around. I love Bittown. This is the anti-Ray Liotta interview. Liota, you got some gold out of me. I'm just ticking around.
But that is, you know, you could say the 83 minutes of Naked Gun is exactly that. Bittown, man. Naked Gun is definitely a film that takes its responsibility seriously. But of course, after that, nothing is taken seriously. I love that you call it responsibility because it is.
I mean, this is iconic. You know what I mean?
It's like when Dorito's in the 90s used to release new flavors. You'd be like, oh, you guys must have done a lot of like private chef stuff to put this on.
Nowadays, it's just they're spitting out ideas. It's like, this is an old boot, Dorito. It tastes like an old Carhartt boot. But like, we do have that responsibility of trying. Trying to be harmonious and bring back the feeling of the original Naked Guns.
And thank God we just had smart people working on it. Like Akiva Schaffer, who everybody knows from Saturday Night Live and movies like Popstar and then Seth McFarland being a comedy legend and Liam Neeson coming in and doing the Leslie Nielsen shtick, faithfully committed. Yes.
You saw it. I mean, it's, I think we just succeed because we had the right team, you know? Did you channel your inner George Kennedy? Paul Walterhauser? Yeah.
Yes, absolutely. We had no idea it existed, right? Second breakfast, a fistular surgery. He and I just, we really, he and I were very in sync. Did you just imagine yourself starring next to Shelly Winters in some sort of a movie?
Yes, absolutely. You know what I mean?
Another family that won't talk to me, the Winters and the Grangers. They really, the Winters have iced me out, if you will. That is great. The Winters iced you out. It was cool watching the original movies because I was like, oh man, George Kennedy does quite.
Quietly support Leslie very well. Like there's something he's doing. He's not doing much, but what he is doing is very cognizant and appropriate, if that makes sense. For sure. I've got Paul Walterhauser here on the Rich Eisen show.
The Naked Gun. We had Danny Houston here yesterday. I mean, and I was telling him he was the Ricardo Montebon of this film. You know what I mean?
Yes, very much so. He nails it. That Cheshire smile. You know what's great is I love when comedy is done really well by people who are a little less suspecting. You know, if you look at his filmography, you don't necessarily assume that he would nail that, but like it's so fun to see him playing it straight.
And every time he says Pamela Anderson's, you know, fake incognito name with such regularity and comfort, it's like, it makes you giggle. It is, it is laugh out loud, funny. And the original Naked Gun, I mean, the way it ends also. There's some conversation that you could include the naked gun. The original as a sports movie because of the way it ends.
Yes, sir. In Dodger Stadium, although it's not technically Dodger Stadium, right? I think the Angels were the home team on that day. Is that what the wheelchair gang?
Well, that's OJ going out at the top, but Reggie Jackson trying to assassinate the queen. The Manchurian right, and it's a whole send-up on baseball from start to finish. Oh, that's good. You know, where he's Enrico Palazzo, the umpire, who also was the guy who sang the national anthem. And that last half hour is just like on a baseball diamond.
Oh, I love it. In that movie, yeah. It's a very atmospheric film in that way. Yeah, I know, for sure. And so, again, everybody, check it out Friday, August 1st.
Please do. Yes, please, please do. My friend. What sports do you enjoy? Basketball?
You're a fan of the hoops? Are you? Or no? I'm one of those occasional watchers, casual watchers, where like I. Adore watching Major League Baseball.
I adore watching NBA.
Okay. Especially live. Like, I will just. Go to games. Yeah.
And I'm not one of those, like. Public figures who can just get free tickets all the time. I will go on SeatGeek or Game Time or something and go spend my $500 on random seats and go watch a game. And I very much, I just have something romantic where when I was a kid, going to the ballpark was such an experience. Where'd you grow up?
I grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. Uh so we go to some Tiger games and of course some um Brewers games where a lot of my dad's family is from Milwaukee and and then be but being at Wrigley Field or being I was courtside once at a um at MSG for a Knicks game and it's like there's something so I don't know. It just gets in your DNA a little bit. It's jarring, though, man, because you're watching more than just the game when you're sitting in those seats. You know what I mean?
You're just watching everything around you, like your head's on a swivel. It was, yeah, it was definitely like the lame thing of like in LA, like you go to the Soho house and everyone's talking to you, but looking around like who else is here? It's so pathetic. It's like a very San Vicente bungalow vibe. But having said that, it was fun looking down and it's like McEnroe, John C.
McGinley, Michael Che, and to my left, it's like Spike Lee's looking at me like on a timeout he had the basketball. Yeah. It rolled over and he goes, Paul. And I look over and he goes. And just rolls it to me like, but like he did it, like, I know that this is cool for you.
Like, he knew I was nerding out. It was cute.
Well, he's, you know, he's Spike Lee. He's, he's, he's rolled the basketballs out quite a bit. Yeah, he's like, I've done this 1800 times. You can do a kid.
Well, obviously, and you were in a Black Klansman of his film. Black Klansman and the Five Bloods. Yeah, I got to work with him twice, and it was the dream. It was so dreamy. Yeah.
What's it like being directed by Spike Lee? I just didn't know how generous he would be. Like, some of these guys and gals, you just assume they're so prolific and brilliant that maybe you kind of have to be on a leash when you're around them. Yes.
But quite the opposite. Spike and Clint Eastwood and Craig Gillespie and Doug Lyman, all these cool directors I've worked with. Even Scott Coopero, I just did the Springsteen movie with. All these guys, like they let you improvise and play and ask questions and you don't feel like you're on that leash. Please tell me more about this Springsteen movie.
Oh, dude. Jeremy Allen White is Springsteen.
So for reference, though, I grew up a Billy Joel guy. That was like what was in my house. Have you seen the new dock yet? Not yet. I'm very much into it.
By the way, you got to plan a night. The first part's two hours and 27 minutes. I wouldn't have it any other way. I love long-ass documentaries.
Well, this one's good for you then. Like Bogdanovich did that Tom Petty dock. It was like 17 hours. I was like, thank God. But Billy Joel was like my thing growing up.
And then in my like late 20s, I just happened upon. Bruce, outside of his like number one hits, and listened to front to back his albums. And I was like, Oh, I feel like I get these more now that I'm older. I appreciate them more now.
So, Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce. Bruce is a producer and was very involved in like a welcome fashion, not like the guy looking over everybody's, you know, you feel like their presence is a shadow. It was more like his presence was so additive and he was so accessible to everybody. And I play Mike Batlin, one of uh, one of Bruce's guitar techs who became his like short-time, you know, uh, engineer on the Nebraska album.
So, you got to meet Bruce. You have to like hang out with them. There are moments where I'm like. sitting for twenty minutes talking to him and Warren, the guy who wrote the book. Just talking about artistry and faith and family.
And like, well, what's crazy is I moved into. Oh, what is the address? If you guys can look it up, I think it's what was Springsteen's address in Laurel Canyon? I lived at his old house without knowing it. What?
So my wife and I, we got divorced, and then I got sober and went into therapy, and we got remarried. I didn't know how selfish and stupid I was, and I picked up the pieces. We got remarried. And in the remarriage, as we moved back to LA, I was like. I really can't screw this up.
I gotta like prove to this woman I know what I'm doing now.
So I found the nicest house I could in my, vaguely in my price range, but not. And it was at this fair, what was it, Fairholm Drive? Can I get a crush? Yeah, yeah, 7965 Fairholm Drive. 7965 Fairholm Drive.
I lived there for six months. And in my first week of being there, my brother-in-law, Joe Shaver, he hits me up and he's like, you know that. Springsteen owned that home for like 25 years, right? I was like, what? And then we find out all this history about the place.
And you didn't leave anything behind? Bruce, didn't you? You didn't like discover maybe some ghosts, man, because I'm not even being funny where the speaker system in the home randomly played Born in the USA and none of us had it on our Spotify or Apple Music room. Come on, not kidding. Come on.
Not kidding. And then we smelled burning at one point, and we were like, what is that weird smell? And we look up the house and we find out a woman. There was a house fire there in the early 20th century where, like, some young starlet was being put up by some like rich guy, and she had a cigarette lit and died. She was pregnant, and she died in the home.
So, gnarly, weird stuff going down. But the happy stuff is that we conceived our second child in Bruce's old bedroom.
So, when I met Bruce, I said, I used to live in your old house. He goes, I heard what? And I was like, I conceived a child in your old bedroom. He goes, So did I. I'm like, We're locational Eskimo brothers.
And we hugged it out. It was insane. It was the funniest, like, first conversation to have with an icon. We have a new fantasy team name. Write it down: locational branchers.
That's your aim. That Bruce brings to you and call him a locational Eskimo brother. That's got to be like a bucket list. You check that off, baby. The left elevator at Sunset Tower.
Me too. Yeah. No, no, we had such a fun time. He would sit behind the monitor eating fun-sized candy bars and just telling stories to whoever would listen, telling old stories and being very generous with his time. And I'm a fan of alternative comedy.
I love Monty Python, Tim Robinson, all these idiotic things. And so I would go up to him and just mess with him all the time. I'd walk up and go like.
So Bruce, sir, and he could just tell by how I was acting as I walked up. He's like, Paul's doing a bit. I'd walk up and go, so listen, we're going to do a bit, a scene where we've added you to the hallway.
So as Jeremy's walking in the hallway, he bumps into you and he goes, excuse me, sorry, sir. And you're going to turn to him, sunglasses on. You go, you look familiar, kid. And he's going to look at you and say, yeah, you look kind of familiar too. And then you're going to go, enjoy the ride.
And then you're going to mimic a steering column, steering wheel, and you're going to drive away from him down the hallway. And people are around him just dying laughing. Is he laughing? Yeah, yeah. He's like, but no, he's playing back.
He's doing the bit where he's like, I can do that. Yeah, I love that. That's great. Dude, you're doing bits with Bruce. Yeah, it was fun.
You're conceiving in the same room he's conceived in. It was silly. But like, this is the dreamy, stupid stuff we get to do. Like, I'm working with Liam Neeson on Naked Gun, doing bits, doing bits with Springsteen, and working with the brilliant Jeremy Allen White and Scott Cooper. I just did Fantastic Four and got to live in that Marvel world.
World for a minute. Congratulations on that. Were you on the premiere last night for that? I was. Yeah, yeah.
It was very overwhelming. There were like a billion people there. I was like, I mean, this is a fantastic four. Yeah, it was not. It was nuts.
It was gnarly. And then this new movie I have coming out, I have to make mention of is it's called Americana. Lionsgate's putting it out August 15th, and it's myself and Sidney Sweeney, Simon Rex, Eric Dane, and Halsey, and Zahn McLernon. And it is. Quite literally, it might be like my favorite film I've ever made.
No kidding. Or been a part of. Wow. Which is saying a lot. I love Richard Jewell.
I love it. You're in a great movie. You've been in some great movies, man. But, dude, it is this new guy, Tony Toast. He's been around for a minute, but nobody knows him as much.
And this is his directorial debut, and he wrote the script. And it's like a modern-day Western vibe where it kind of has Cohen brother humor with Tarantino violence. It's crazy. And it opens nationwide August 15th. And great cast.
I just, every name you mentioned got lost after you said Sidney Sweeney. I'm sorry. That's okay. I'm also straight. All right.
I'm a committed married man, but I'm also not blind. Me too. I mean, I got best data earlier. You have three kids now. I've got three kids.
Oh, God. Honestly, like, you mentioned the cast, and after saying Sidney Sweeney, you sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher. Just all the things. It's all done. No, she, you know.
She doesn't get enough credit though. I think this new movie, she plays a boxer in this movie that's going to be at TIFF, Toronto Film Festival. And I think this role is really going to turn some heads. Kind of the way Itanya made Margo go from just like. Got it.
Beautiful woman to like Starlette, who's knocking you out with her performance. But Sydney, in this movie, we have a lot of scenes together, and a car broke down at one point while we were driving this old Corvette or something. And she knew how to drive a stick and knew how to fix the car. It was like the engine was flooded, and she's like, Grabs the walkie. She's like, I got it.
We're good. I don't need help. And then, like, did a bunch of stuff and got the car going again and backed out of a ditch. And I'm like, this woman is so capable. It's scary.
She's really talented. There are people listening to us right now on our Infinity Sports Network on the Rich Eisen Show Radio Network who are purposely breaking their cars down on the side of the road, thinking that this could happen for them. All men, women, and studio executives who are waiting for her to stop and help. Guys, she's busy. She's busy.
It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. The dance card's full. Fantastic. I'm not going to say what I'm going to say.
I'm sorry. There's a lot of jokes I'm not making. I want Rich to like me still. No, no, I've got a lot of jokes in my head right now. Last night on the red carpet for Fantastic Four, I made like two Trump references, and my poor PR team, they're just like, oh, I forgot it.
Please just get off. No, the tech companies love him. That's how they survived. It's now called the Fantastic Three. I wonder why.
It's called the Fantastic Four and no Moment. I don't know why they put that in parent thought. Dude, you're killing it right now. Fantastic Four. It's crazy.
God is good, man. It's been fun. It's been fun. Americana. Oh, Luckiest Man in America.
That's a movie I did with Walt Goggins and David Switzerland. It's on streaming. And I think Delta's got him on all their flights. I've been seeing a bunch of friends sending me snapshots of little headrests with my scary face on them. First of all, many, two amazing actors.
You call them Dave. Dave, right? Other people known him as David, right? I know him as Dave. D-Strace.
Deast D-Strace? Only when we're doing pills, he was a little bit more. Eight Men Out is one of my favorite baseball movies. That's a very much baseball movie. He's in that.
He plays Eddie Seacott in that film. Yeah. Unfortunate name. And Walton Goggins, he was on the show a few years ago. He's like one of the most interesting men in the world, that guy, man.
Well, you know what? I think he's a passionate man. He's like masculine, but he's got this like airy, airy, sweet poetics thing going. He's like a feather floating to the earth that can also poke your eye up. There's something special about him.
Vivid imagery all over the place.
So The Naked Gun, available in theaters nationwide Friday, August 1st. Fantastic Four, available in theaters this Friday. Americana will be in theaters nationwide starring on August 15th, starring you and Sidney Sweeney and some other people. I don't know why you said it was such a veneer of stain. Did you have something against Simon Rex?
Do you not like Scary Movie 4? I heard Eric Dane in there. I heard that. Eric Dane, the wonderful Eric Dane. Anatomy, Euphoria.
That guy is. My fantasy football league. That's it. He's amazing. Dude, let's do this more often.
Thanks for coming. Can I plug wrestling for two seconds? Go for it. I'm working with this. Be doing it on the podcast.
That wasn't enough. The hour I had with him wasn't enough. No, I had a blast with O'Shane TJ. That was fun. But I work with this company called Major League Wrestling, MLW, and I went from being on the roster to now being an executive producer.
And so I hope people check us out. They have a YouTube page where the majority of their content, they're just putting pay-per-views up for free.
So you can watch and get familiar with that and watch me get a hematoma on my butt cheek when I do an elbow drop off a seven-foot ladder onto concrete.
Well, there it is. Oh, that's Southern Honor. That's a match I have August 8th in Georgia. Yeah, look at. You versus Zicky Dice?
Ziki Dice. And then August 25th, I'll be in London at the Electric Ballroom, a very storied venue for wrestling. And I'll be putting my Proteus title on the line. And shout out to QT Marshall of AEW and ROH. I still want to kick your ass.
Okay. What's a lovely? I like it. You know, we have a, what would we call this a wrestling artifact, TJ, that we have? Yeah.
Right over on my Pulkan over there? No. Nice. That's the neck brace that was worn by. By Tony Khan.
During the draft? During the draft. He was the recipient of what? John Buck says, you know, they hit him with a vicious TK driver. Yeah, the TK driver.
He was formerly the Meltzer driver. Yeah. They darn near broke his neck. It was more of a precautionary neck brace. I was just concerned that the Jaguars would not draft at all because of what was going on with Tony and the fact that he was braving the draft with a neck brace on.
Oh, it's commitment. He brought it here, he autographed it, and he donated it to our studio and then donated $100,000 to St. Hugh Children's Research Hospital on top of it with that. Wonderful. And he just dropped the same amount last time he was here, too.
What a men. He is exactly that. I love when people are generous to whom much is given, much is expected. Brother, thanks for coming here. This is wonderful to see you.
Let's do this more often. Come anytime you want, dude. I would love to. Please, anytime you want. Maybe I'll come crash when one of my cast members is doing it.
Don't tell him.
Well, one thing is: you definitely know your way here. I do. You know. Twice in 24 hours. It's unbelievable.
This man is committed. There he is. He's got a home on Monday. With O Shea Jackson and TJ. Paul Walter Hauser.
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Not available in all states. You see stuff that's on the walls here when you walk in. There's a Goodfellas poster that I've had for. ever. Really?
Yes.
Where'd you get it? I got it at a charity auction. Huh. And And it's on the wall. And you signed it, you signed it.
Rafi! What do you mean? It's not my wall.
Okay, our stage manager, come in. That's it. You've taken it off the wall. Yeah, it's not my signature. What do you mean it's not your signature?
This is not my signature, buddy. Down there, you got ripped off. No, I did not. I don't do a frou frou L like that, and I don't cross it.
So that is not yours? Because it's signed by you, De Niro, and Pesci, and I spent at least four figures on this thing. Get out of here. Yes? You're a sucker.
No, that's that's.
Now you're you're being serious. That is definitely not your signature. Yeah, I'm I'm. Score says, it says score saves you, sign it down there too. Look at that, underneath.
That's his. That is? I'm not sure that Bob's. Because I could only remember signing really like five that was complete. And there was never like one of those signings where you all lay there.
I mean, I could sign it for real. Yeah, at least I could double it. Do what you wish. Do you know if that's Pesci's? Do you know if that's Joe's?
No, that's him. No, I know that's him. I'm not addicted. To leave it alone. Oh.
Okay. Do you know if that's his signature? I don't know Joe's signature.
Okay. Rich, you show that's how it walks in here. Yeah, absolutely.
This is hanging, so every guest that walks in here, this is one of the first things that they see in the hallway. You sure we'll we'll take care of it later, Robbie. Yeah, what do you got? Oh no! He's got an axe!
Are you serious? Do you want the real? Yeah. But it's going to hurt the oh no, it doesn't.
Okay. It's not me. Yeah, you just banged yourself, you just cracked the glass.
So we could take it out. Smash the glass. I mean, you got that display. No, it's not master. It's not really glass.
It's like a plexi. But we'll do it. We'll fix it.
Okay. But you got ripped off. Yeah. Wow my gosh. How are you feeling now, Rich?
He's holding onto the X. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh, you okay, you put the axe down.
This is fantastic. I'm sort of, I don't even know where to go with this because that has been one of my most prized possessions for some time. And you are the real McCoy's thing that is not your signature. Yeah, no, it's not. I'm thinking, oh my gosh, I really hurt my head there.
It's a crack. Of all the places for you to smash it, it was directly in the forehead of you and the movie poster right there. But it's all good because we're going to take that thing apart. If that's not your signature, I need your actual John Hancock on that. That's over 10 years ago guys.
That's a 10 year old clip. Wow. It's before we were using radio mics. for a radio television show. I held out on that one for a while.
I don't miss those lobs. You don't, I bet not, right? No. Those are a pain in the ass. Putting two on your tie or lapel every day.
One for radio, one for. Needed as a backup. Right. Not fun, though. Yeah, the DirecTV people were after me.
You got to do radio mics. I finally relented. It worked out. It did. You know?
Is there an update? Didn't we send the picture to De Niro? De Niro, yeah, we haven't gotten back. We haven't gotten it back yet. And I can't call up and hey, Bobby, where's my thing?
Yeah, hey, WTO. May I call you, Bobby? You mind if I call you, Bobby? Bob? Hey, Bob, where's my friggin' poster?
Yeah, I can't do that. In the two minutes we have left here, but I got to it. I guess Dan spoke about us. Saying that Fritz Repeated an answer. didn't get the immediate X like the family feud people.
Said would actually happen with an X. He got another bite at the apple, got an answer right. They wound up going to the fast money. Is there anything wrong with what I just said? Is it or is it infactual?
Of what I just said. It was the one before. It was game three. Yada, yada, yada, yada, ya, regular. All right, this is what Dan had to say.
Go for it. They got humiliated. And they're trying to save face by saying that Fritzie got a little bit of help. This is not cheating. We didn't purposely do something.
That's true. That maybe if somebody made a mistake, how do we know you had the answer? You guys didn't have any answers the entire show, and now you're coming up with an answer? Yeah. Light them up.
Hey, you've accused us of cheating. No, that's true. No, we didn't. We didn't cheat. No, we didn't.
We did what we were told to do, and Steve said, go again. Fritzy went again and got the answer. But I can't count on those guys to say that they had the right answer because they had some stupid answers. But there's no rematch. My wife was a great answer.
I mean, they're trying to save face. Hmm. Mm. Seems like we touched a nerve. Yeah, a little bit.
We had that answer. You and I. We did have that answer. Yes, 1,000%. You said, all right, I'll say that.
And then he said it. Then he said it. Yeah. Then we got to go back to the drawing board. Right.
Hey, it's one of those things, too, is that if you're awarded first base for a hit-by-pitch and the pitch didn't hit you, you take first. You're not going to say, we didn't. Right, exactly. I understand that. Yeah.
Yeah. I think we're all being honest and truthful. That's all. I think we are being truthful. Yes.
Yeah, we are honest actors in this. Yeah, I mean, ask anyone. I told everyone we got lumped. Here we go.
We got jettisoned. That's. I mean, I look great. I play great. It's a good picture.
Jim Rome takes on sports. Why? Because you're not playing me. With rapid fire takes. And a lot to get to, and I'm not sure you're gonna like all of it.
Honestly, I don't even care if you like all of it or not. I have a job to do. Scorching debates. On any given week, you have lots to beef about. Take advantage of it.
Get up in here. He's the Spitfire of Sports Smack. Which is not my fault. We will get to all of that. The Jim Rome Show podcast.
Get up in here. And we'll beef later on. What's your beef? Follow and listen on your favorite platform. You've been warned.
Yeah.
