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We appreciate all of our relationships, including those with you. 844-204-Rich is the number to dial here on the program. Let's go to Joey in Pensacola, Florida, to kick things off. What's up, Joey? Hey, Rich, how's it going?
I just want to talk about what your previous caller talked about: bringing a buddy to a game. Yeah, just to bring everyone up to speed here, you know, Chris Brockman and I think, you know. Would you give your plus one to a good great friend of yours? When they're rooting for the team that's trying to beat yours. And in a high-stakes game, like the World Series.
And we say no. And what do you say, Joey? By the way, I just put that up as a poll question. Yeah.
Okay, great. No, absolutely, I would. I took a buddy. to a Yankees game as Yankees Astros And it wasn't like a high stakes game, like a postseason game or a World Series game, but uh through the Yankees Astros game, Astros were crushing the whole game, dominating. Kyle Tucker robbed a home run in right, and then Yankees brought it back.
Isaiah Kyner-Faleppa got thrown out at second in the ninth. and then went into extras. Aaron Judge walked it off, of course. And uh my buddy who's Astros fan was wearing his Astros gear. And was getting just absolute death threats walking out of the state.
No, that's not good. And after a after that ex after that experience, I would bring him back to another Yankee Passroast game. Just to see the look on his face.
Well, I'm not a New York fan talking him.
Well, you know, that's not the way it should go. Joey's a real guy. Again, it's just one of those things. It's just like, I don't need you rooting. In front of my face when my team's fortunes and my emotions are on the line.
I mean, it's just that's. He was extremely happy for. you know, until the Yankees tied it up and then Aaron Judge walked it off and I I'll take those eight and a half innings of misery. Again, just so I could see a look on his face of Aaron Judge walking it off. Joey in Pensacola, appreciate it.
Jimmy in San Antonio, where my nude. Favorite, Victor Wembonyama, plays basketball. What's up, Jimmy? Mm-hmm. All right, it's the first day of my vacation.
Mexico just beat Paraguay in the under-17 Women's World Cup, so you can assume how I'm doing.
Okay. Crazy. Good to know, Jimmy. You're doing well, yeah.
So tonight the Spurs go for 5-0 for the first time. ever. That kind of shocked me. I never thought that we never went 5-0 throughout the era that we did. I agree.
I'm with you. I'm kind of surprised to hear that as well, sir.
Okay, about this plus one business. TJ, you were so rude. If I had the NFC Championship, Eagles, Cowboys, Colleen Wolfe, is obviously my plus job. This is not what we're talking about, Jimmy. Not what we're talking about.
Jimmy, we're not talking about that sort of stuff. Not talking about that.
Okay, Jimmy? Then all right, let me bring this up. I have a start bench. regards to if it was a World Series, if it was Uh, Dodgers met DJ, you're my starter. There is no bench, it's you and me.
We go to the game and We see who cries at the end.
Okay. Dodgers Red Sox. Brockman, you got benched because obviously we all know I'm taking Susan. Yeah, I mean, obviously. That's right.
This guy. And then the Hawkers Yankee. The dude I'm taking has an eye in his first name and it's Mike. Nope. He's not a yanking fan.
That's the thing. I love you, Jimmy. But I already have a pass. Excuse me. No, no, excuse me.
Do you have a hitch fan? Your Shmoey hat. What's your Shmoey hat? Could you imagine if you went to the Yankee World Series last year in Dodger Stadium like this? Yeah.
Everybody would be beating him up. Everybody. He would be the most hated man in the building. That would be the thing that I'd be the most popular. People would be like...
Absurd. I'd be the most popular person. That's absurd. The dumbest guess. You're like both these teams?
You get peanuts. That's the greatest thing you ever do. He was not. That's an absolute hat. Jimmy in San Antonio bringing the noise and the funk as he always does.
Thanks, Jimmy. Thanks, Jimmy. So, how about that? Jimmy in San Antonio saying Victor Wembunyama is trying to get the Spurs to 500 for the first time ever. Is that true?
I haven't taken it. The Admiral never started that way. The Big Fundamental never started that way. That's unbelievable. That's wow.
So, you know, Wembanyama is a perfect leaping-off point here. Because he is an absolute, as we know, physical freak, a unicorn. We've never seen anything or anyone built like him doing things with the basketball that he is doing. And as we all know, when we first heard of him, the general sense was: imagine Giannis Ateta Kumpo, taller and more agile, right? And you're like, what?
Yeah.
Really? That guy's. And can shoot. Right. You know what I mean?
Like, he's. He's that. And then you see Victor do what he's done. You're like, okay, now I get it. And so What I'm pointing out is the NBA is now getting physically freakier year in and year out, right?
That's true. And what's happening now Because of that, and it's not just tall guys Who can handle? It's just a bunch of other. big men and also Other guys who are smaller in stature doing things with the basketball with their handle that. we haven't seen before.
And with that, you are now seeing A massive traveling problem. in the NBA if they care to fix it. And last night, Giannis. On the NBC coverage. Against the Knicks.
did something with a basketball. That you can't even call traveling. I mean, the Euro step. with what he did lasted so long he wound up in Asia. Bad.
And It's Stupid. And I Put it out on threads because, as you know, I'm not posting on X and I haven't for a while because it's a. I wrote it down here. A Hellscape. That's it, right there.
And so. Um I posted on it's one of the most responded to one of the most responded to posts I've ever put. I just put the the sequence up on the the On threads, were just, come on, man, is all I wrote. Like, come on, man, really? And here's the thing.
The responses I got back. pointing out This is a legal play. Because you get Apparently. To gather the basketball and then get two steps.
So after you pick up your dribble, the two steps begin after you gather. And what we're seeing now are such physically. Freaky athletes. Able to take so many steps. While gathering, and then get steps after the gather, you can go.
from the logo. to the rim. One dribble. Right, one dribble. One dribble.
You can go from the logo to the rim. They're watching it right now. It's absurd. He takes five steps. And.
And he takes two steps after the gather. But he takes four steps while gathering. And so I saw that and I thought to myself. This looks exactly like Des Bryant catching a football in Green Bay. Where he was so physically freaky.
That he's able to make a football move while still catching the ball. Over a 10-yard span of just two or three steps. He was that amazing. Ah. the catch process that he was able to make a physical Move.
While catching and go to the ground. To the point where the NFL had to come up with a new rule on what a catch was. And I think that's what's happening with traveling. In the NBA. Are we really going to say that you get two steps after a gather.
And then I don't I can't sit here and say. When the gather happens. Or you are so amazing like Giannis that you could take four steps while gathering. And then get two steps.
So you're now taking five to six steps after you picked up your dribble and get away with it. Can't happen. Don't want it. Fans don't want it. You should be able to challenge this.
And so, what, but if you challenged it by rule. This is technically legal. Because he did Take two steps after he finally put both hands to gather the basketball. But his hands are so big, he can gather the ball with one hand. I'm saying to you, this is why you need to change the rule.
And as far as I'm concerned, as you know at RES Consulting, we don't just complain about it, we do something. Which is why I want to be on every competition committee in all major sports. I mean, here's the rule. Here's a rule. After you pick up your drill, and this is radical.
After you pick up your dribble, you get two steps. That's it. After you just screw the gather. I don't want to talk about gathering anymore. Gather this, if you will.
Magic, the gathering. That's it. You pick up your dribble, you get two steps. That's it. I don't want you about the gather.
Oh, wait, wait a minute. You're dribbling with one hand, so you now get to put your hands on it with both hands. That's the gather. And then you're allowed two steps. Is that what I understand?
Because if that's the rule, it's absurd. It's just like what the NFL decided. If 100 people in a bar say that's a catch, it should be a catch.
So come up with a rule that matches what 100 people in the bar are seeing. A hundred people in a bar watching that last night say that's a travel. Right. So come up with a rule where a hundred people in the bar All right. That's it.
I'm saying, are we making too big of a deal of this because this is just one play? I don't see it. This is all the time all the time. Guys, not to this effect. I mean, it happens.
This was particularly absurd. This was like, this is absurd. And if you really look, I'll give him the gather. But he still took three steps. While gathering.
No, it was after the gathering. Oh, well.
So he at least took three. And I know, I mean, yeah, we're seeing some sensationally egregious. Like, it has to be fair. Just said egregious, but not everyone is doing this. This is a more and more people are having the physical ability to do it.
I feel like this happens a couple times a week. Dude, if I'm Rembunyama, I'm working on getting my gather down with three, four steps, because I can then. On a fast break, start my gather from half court. Yeah.
Cause I'm that big. And I have that much of a wingspan and that much of a step span. Gotta fix it. Gotta fix it. I'll do something about it.
844-204-Rich, number to dial. Let's finish up with the Harbaugh files. And then we'll, after Keegan, Michael Key, if you don't mind, Mike Hoskins, everybody. Oh, Joe Alts returning. Is that where you want to do this right now?
We'll do it right now. Joe, this is one of our favorite. Uh one of our favorite segments and then we'll bring out Keegan Michael Key. Because he loves Jim Harbaugh, too. Who doesn't?
Joe Alt's return, as you know. significantly solidified that line. And nobody loves offensive linemen. like Jim Harbo, who calls them weapons, right? Hardball files, hit it.
Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple, but they didn't. The Harbaugh file. Joe specifically How would you describe the impact that he has from a leadership standpoint, just his presence on the field, his presence on the sideline, and what that did for you guys and meetings? Yeah, presence in the training environment, presence in the meeting room. But especially you know, in the in the game.
There was I ain't my kids. Yeah.
Boy Dad Joe Alt really made a made a big difference. I mean, it's just it's just that obvious You know how uh how good of a player he is. He didn't get rolled up on. Uh we've already seen. But Anko, did he come out of the game?
Okay. Oh, wisely. Yeah, he'll be out there today. And talking to him, he know worse for where. It was pretty heavily.
Heavily uh wrapped and compressed and and guarded. Taped.
Well it's uh It's a wonderful thing, but compression can do. It's a warm hug. The Harba files. Wow. I mean a warm hug is that's the thing.
Olaf likes compression. Oh my god. That's the best. That's the thing. That's frozen three.
That's frozen three where Olaf tapes up his twig. Right. Yeah.
He likes warm hugs. Get back out there to protect Elsa, who in this case, as we all know, is Madison Beer. All right. Hey, now. Let's take a break here.
That's a hardball files. Everybody, let's get to Keegan Michael Keith for crying out loud. This is going to be awesome. It always is. Talking only murders in the building and more coming up next.
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And Steve Martin is just Steve Martin and Martin Short is Martin Short. I did notice Keegan Michael Key is here on the Rich Eisen Show. Our radio audience on ESPN Radio just rejoined. We just saw a clip on the TV side of things of only murders in the building, in which Keegan has appeared this season with a very big plot point that just was revealed this very week. Check it out on Hulu and streaming now also on Hulu on Disney Plus.
I did notice you called him Marty. I think I picked up on that. He actually almost insists on people calling him Marty. He's very gregarious and very warm. He's Canadian.
He's Canadian. And I mean, he's warm for a Canadian. Yes, I can. You know what I mean? And they're like, could you, you can't be even more friendly.
Yes. How can you be friendly? On the friendly infinity loop. Like, he couldn't be. How can you be friendlier than other Canadians?
You know what I mean? Lots of pleases and thank yous. Yeah.
That was a great take. You were owed a sight there on that one. That was fantastic. I feel like you're back on the setup, Fargo, for a second. But he, but they're, I mean, consummate professionals as you would expect them to be.
Yes. And watching Steve also, Steve, because he's one of the co-creators of the show, is very active on set. He's rewriting as you go. Oh, my God.
So it's amazing because he'll rewrite as you go and he'll say, I need this to, oh, here's an idea. It could be this or it could be that. Or I would just like to suggest maybe saying the line this way. Yes. Inevitably, better.
Always better. It's everything he does is value added. Yeah.
And who's the easiest to crack up? On that set. Or nobody does. Most people don't crack up on the set, but the crew are having the time of their life. And mostly because of something Steve suggests.
But it'll happen off-camera, like between setups. Like I said, he's just thinking all the time. And sometimes Marty would be like, Steve, you want to take a break? Just want to relax a little bit. And he's like, well, I do.
I just wanted to say this one more thing. And the crew just giggles and giggles and giggles all day. It's a very, very warm set.
Well, you kind of pick it up from watching the show, you know? Yeah, the show has the same thing. John Hoffman, the showrunner, he actually describes the show as cozy murder mystery. It's like he calls it cozy murder mystery.
Well, I assume they got a green lit before you start using that term because I imagine you're pitching.
Okay, so I got this cozy murder mystery. I'm thinking cozy murder mystery. What do you guys think? No, guys, don't leave. No, I'm not done with the pitch.
Sita. Wait a minute. It's with Steve Martyr and Martin Short. I'm not Selena Gomez. Wait a minute.
I'm sorry. Did you say Selena Gomez? You sold. You know what's showing up on my, well, you don't know, but I'll tell you. I know it's a weird way to start something.
What's showing up on my Instagram algorithm a lot lately is that moment when you and Brian Cranston. are in a scene together and he cannot Hold it together. And then suddenly, all you had to do was just. look at him or appear in the screen and he starts going. What was that like from your perspective?
What? First of all, the movie's called Why Him. That's right. Starring Brian Cranston and James Franco and Megan Malali's in it, and Zoe Deutsch. It's really a fantastic fun family comedy.
But what happened was we started to become. over almost overly defiant to a point where we're being Abjectly stubborn.
So you can hear the director from a room away go, Do you guys want to cut? No! We're good. Don't cut it, John. We're gonna dethrow it.
We're gonna get through it. And that's me. But all but that Brian, double that. Oh, really? You're not cutting!
Do not catch! I've got this! Very next take, he burns it. He breaks it.
So then I go.
So, bitch, I go to ADR. Yes. I go to ADR.
So, for everybody in the audience, ADR is where you have to loop the words if there was a sound mistake. And first of all, the card, you know, they use cards, we don't always film anymore, right? Cards are about 24 minutes long. Yes. Full card, full card, two usable minutes of footage.
24 minutes. Yeah.
Minutes of footage. I'm in the ADR. I've got my things on. I'm trying to do the vocal stuff. And I'm watching the point in the scene.
It's that scene. I go. Oh, what look? Look at this. How the hell did you do this?
Yeah.
And they said, You see that scene down the middle of the wall? I go, Yeah. He goes, We used one, it's a composite. We used one side of the take where Brian isn't laughing, and one side of the take where you're not, you're not laughing. It's the only way we could get you in the movie.
We never got more than 20 seconds of usable footage without cracking up. It was unbelievable. And Brian would just go, stop, stop. Nope. Got it.
Start again. Start again. And then I'd start. My favorite one is you, because you just start moving down, because he's sitting on the toilet. He's sitting on the toilet.
Which is even better. And he's looking ahead, and then you come down and he sees you peripherally. You just motioning down got him going.
Well, it's unbelievable. And nobody was helping. The cinematographer wasn't helping. And he's like, kick it, kick it. Get even closer to his face.
I mean, people need to, anybody's watching. They gotta see. It's great.
Okay, so I'm Brian. You're Brian. You're on the toilet. It's one thing, if you're, and I'm trying to fix the toilet, it's one of those Japanese toilets. Yes.
I'm trying to fix the toilet.
So I kind of go like. Exactly. And I'm going over the sixth story. And then the cinematographer is encouraging you to get closer. Just That one is just gonna crack.
Yeah.
I can't win. He's a sitting duck. You don't have a chance. The man's got a gajillion Emmys and Oscar noms and whatever. This breaking bad.
This was not. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Why hell? Oh, my God.
I love that. I'm so glad I got that backstory because it shows up all the time. We had so much fun. I mean, clearly, we had fun making the scene, but we had a lot of fun making the movie. Keegan Michael Key is here on the Rich Isen Show again.
Only Murders in the Building, just renewed for season six. It's heading to London. Yes. That has been announced. And, you know, fans of this show.
Um, ecstatic, and and if you're not uh watching it, you should. Um, so. Can we, and I'm going to say we now because we are together in this and it is the whole we are thing. Can we get a win over Ohio State this weekend or what? Can we do this for Pence?
Can we do this?
Okay. Not looking good for a win. Took over the number one team in college football. I am. You got to be beside yourself.
I'm beside myself, Rich. I am really. I've been dealing with bouts of depression for the last couple of weeks.
Well, disillusionment more than anything else because I can't put my finger on what's happening. We have We have denied Dennis Sutton. We have Zane Durant. I know we lost our best linebacker. I didn't think that was going to make as much of a difference as it did.
We have some. Elite men in our defensive lines. You are Penn State. You are Penn State. And it's just unraveled.
And I feel really bad for Terry Allen, the guy who's the interim coach. Don't we always feel bad for an interim coach? They're just trying to pick up the pieces. And then the game in Iowa, last week, our game versus Iowa, K Tron Allen. Had 145 yards rushing, and we couldn't win the game.
It's we're we're just in a will, I don't know how the ship is going to get righted. We're in a bit of a tailspin. We'll write the ship at some point in time. Just not this weekend? Just not this weekend.
And I understand what you're saying by weed, being a Michigan grab. Please being a Penn State grab. Oh, please. This one, this hurts. I mean, my kids are aware that we root for two teams: Michigan and whoever's playing Ohio State State State State State and whoever's playing Ohio State.
Yeah, and this weekend it is Penn State. Oh, Jeepers. We are. It would be the The biggest upset of the season since full on, full stop. Oh, what a good idea.
Could you imagine? Yeah, but I can. Exactly the horseshoe. I know you. Oh.
Is that the horse show? You have no idea. I'll be rooting. I appreciate it. I'll be pom-poms.
Maybe the less said about this subject than that. We can move on. Moving on. Lions are coming off their bottom. Coming off our bots.
Hutchinson just broke the bank. Everybody's feeling good. $141 guaranteed. A million dollars. Yes.
A million dollars. Yes, indeed. 141 guaranteed. And I think they still own 19.8 on the rookie deal. That's correct.
So he's got a little valet money. That's scratch in the packet, if you will. He does indeed. He's doing okay to buy another Bronco.
Now this of course means any hopes of us getting Trey Hendrickson are dashed. Because we know about that. I mean, really? No, I mean, because this is an extension. You know what I mean?
Like, this is not money that you have to pay out right now.
Well, that's true. It's amortized, right? His extension won't kick in until after he makes this.
So this doesn't affect what you can spend on Trey Hunter. That's true. That's true. We could make a little tiny splash. And salary cap is, listen, it's not like I can sit here and explain it to you.
All I know is that there's always a way around it. There's always something you can do. There's always some change we can move around. There's always some change. Yeah, this is the Ford family for crying out loud.
We can figure something out. We should be able to figure something out. Yeah, and it's just so much fun watching this team. Jameer Gibbs, the head coach, who's. Who I know has this way about him, you judge the book on that cover, but it's a deep, deep book, man.
I love this guy. He's a lot of profound chapters in that book. I mean, he is. Yeah, yeah. I mean, nice leather-bound cover.
Yes. I know, rugged cover. But yeah, he's actually quite a. Considered thinker. He's a very thoughtful guy.
I agree. For someone who looks like he's going to give you a rat tail in the end. Exactly right. Or get off the mechanical bowl and go, I did it again. Skip those cows in the corral.
I mean, he grew up, you know, like roping cows. I'm sure he did. But he has such a. He has such a command for the nuance of the game, especially on the offensive side of the ball, which, surprisingly for me, I find this interesting. As a tight end, no less.
It's not like he was a quarterback. He thinks like a quarterback. Even though he played on the line, he really is quite. It's quite amazing that that would have been the position he made his hay playing, but he has this kind of fantastic global view of how an offense works. It's really terrific.
Well, and the idea that this season would be a lost one because you lost both coordinators, and then the first game against the Packers only seemed to potentially cement that narrative. That narrative, yeah. And then ever since then, it's just been, how do you like me now? How do you like me now? Pretty much.
Speaking of coordinators, I just heard this yesterday because I'm always scrolling on YouTube and I'm watching all of my Detroit Lions content. Very good. And one of the guys was saying that there may, there may be some interest in Kelvin Shepard. For the head coaching job at LSU. And I think that that hopefully that's a bit of a reach.
I hope it's a reach because he's doing phenomenal work for the team. They're buying in. He's just enhancing, I think, what Aaron Glenn's, he's enhancing Aaron Glenn's infrastructure, what he's put into place. Correct. And the fact that we're playing man defense this well with now this pressure.
Having Aiden healthy makes all the difference in the world. Doesn't it, though? And we're going to get Marcus to admin Poard back. It's really... I'm very, as you can see, and I start singing sentences.
This is great. I must be in a good mood. You must. I'm feeling good. I love it.
About our prospects. Keegan Michael Key here on the Rich Eisen Show. First time you were here, way back in the day when you were promoting Predator that you were in, we did start bench cut with you. We've got a few more startbench cuts.
Some startbench cuts. Yes, we will. And Mike Del Tufo will work the audio very well. For this one, unlike the last time you were here. All right, Michael Walsh of audio is at the end of the day.
You're locked in, right, Michael? He's locked in. Here we go. All right, here we go. Let's do a start bench cut.
Keegan and Michael Key. Hit it, please. Just sit down and be quiet. Or cut. All right, here we go.
Start bench cut. We've got three of them for you right here. Keegan, Michael, Key, Startbench Cut. Again, only murders in the building, season five, just completed. Check it all out right now on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus.
All right, first up, the team you most want to win a championship: Penn State Football. The Tigers or the Lions? You got to start bench cut it. Oh, oh, so I'm definitely going to start the Lions. I want the Lions to win a Super Bowl more than anything.
Then I think. Given recent developments, now Penn State is going to be in the bench.
Okay. And We've, let me see. 06, we went. 84, we won.
So, Tigers, yeah, that's okay. We're good. Yes. I mean, we'll see if. If Scoobel sticks around, but we'll But yes, I'm going to go lions, nitney lions, tigers.
I love it. I have to stick with the big cats. I really only root for big cats. Lions, nitney lions, tigers. Start bench cut.
All right. Next up, start bench cut, Keegan Michael Key. If you've suddenly faced with a zombie apocalypse, this is the person you would most want by your side: Dan Campbell. Panay Sewell Aidan Hutchinson. Start bench cut.
I'm going to zombie apocalypse.
Okay, I'm starting Penay.
Okay. I need Panay. I mean he cause like right he can He can block. Yes. The zombies.
They're not, listen, they're not very adroit. They're not very flexible. I mean, Pinay just goes, SCIE! And them down after we just and I just use them as my lead blocker, right? I like it.
Then you're gonna, then you're gonna. Bench Dan, I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're benching Dan because I might need him to come off the bench. With strategy, we're going to stay in this building for five weeks. Then we're going to skedel over to this building. We're just going to make our way through the metro area until we get to a prairie.
Yes. Right. And then, and then... I can't believe I'm seeing the word cut in Aiden Hutchinson in the same sentence. I know.
But yeah, you know what I mean? I know Aiden's powerful, but I need that blocking pop. I need that blocking profile from Panay. We're going Panay. Dan Aiden, sorry Aiden.
Okay, understood. Pussy has his money too. He can just buy a a uh a harborcraft. And just go live in the middle of a body of water.
Okay, last one. Last one. Yes. This is good. The best King and Peel sketch.
Oof. Oh. Michael Benchcutter. M.J. Halloween, East West College Bowl, Luther the Obama anger translator.
Okay, all right.
Okay, I'm going to go in almost in reverse order here. NJ Halloween is my favorite scene to have performed.
Okay. But I'm putting it in the cut.
Okay. I'm putting it in the cut.
Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna bench I'm gonna bench. I'm going to bench East-West Bowl. And I'm going to start Luther Obama. Luther Obama, for sheer cultural significance, should go first.
And it's what. Jordan and I like to call a peas in the pod scene, where the two characters have the same point of view. We love doing scenes where the two characters have the same point of view, as opposed to MJ Halloween, which is what we call a Laurel and Hardy scene, which is where one guy's antagonizing the other guy.
So that's it.
So I go, Luther Obama. East-West MJ Halloween. How did the, by the way, love it. How did the Luther character come about? How do we land on this?
The origin of the Luther character is when we were writing The Pilot, we were trying to figure out the pilot. Oh, The Pilot. The Pilot. It's in The Pilot. The first sketch is in The Pilot.
And it was right after, I believe, if my memory serves me correctly. Uh Obama had given a State of the Union address and he had made a comment.
Some guy in the chamber screamed out, Liar! I like to lie. Remember that? Right, of course. And Obama just went, He just very calmly put his hand up, paused, and continued.
And Jordan and I were both like, Jordan was like, But do you understand the amount of rage or anger that must have been inside of him for someone to make a comment like that, to someone to take a liberty like that during such an august proceeding? Yes. Wouldn't it be great? And what gave Jordan the idea was Garrett Morris Original SNL when he, when, when Chevy Chase used to do the news and go, and now a message from the Society of the Deaf. Francisco Franco, and then you have that little box if you go, you know, I really old Francisco Franco, but it's still dead.
It's still. That's where the idea came from. And he said, What if we had like a guy who's like screaming for Obama? And I don't remember which one of us said it, but I was like, an anger translation, like he translates the anger, and that's where it came from.
So we have Garrett Morris to thank to thank for it. Wow. Yeah.
So good. I r we on occasion here will have a coach with a sound bite. and the coach is just giving you coach speak. And then we have You know, a segment called What Were They Really Thinking? What were they really thinking?
And I'll give voice. I had no idea that I was kind of taking it from that.
Sort of, that's amazing. I mean, it's a pretty great concept. It's just a simple, elegant concept. Sure. And then last time you were here, when we asked you to read off some football player names, it's Mr.
Garvey, the substitute teacher. That thing went a little viral for us. That went a little viral. And, you know, we have some of the names that we use as drops every now and then. The D D, Mekon K, G Regs, the Really.
Which was who's that? That was not actually mine. I have to give credit where credit was due.
Somebody in this room came up with the D D McConkey. Our producer did. Our producer Ken Chin. Kenchulo. Ken did this.
Yeah.
And so. I don't know if you're aware, but the Chargers started to refer to him as LaDidi behind the scenes. La Dee Mekonke?
So, what? Where was La Dee Mekon K?
Well,. Here he is. We tried to get him to zoom in while you were here, but their practice schedule just down the street prevented it. But here we have a message for Mr. Garvey.
What's up, Mr. Garvey? It's Ladidi McConake here. I just want to let you know that I'm on the assignment with the Chargers, so I appreciate you asking about me. Can I get the haul pass?
Get it off! Yeah.
I like that he got he did extra credit. Put in an extra syllable. He did. McConkey K. McConka K.
McConkey. La Diddy. McConkey K. That is fantastic. Lidini.
That kid is tearing. It's up. Harbaugh's a happy man because of Ladini. Ladini. Ladini.
Did you see him? Did you see John Harbaugh at a press conference? I feel that uh Yeah. You know, LaDidi had a pretty soft taste. Harvard said La Didi.
I know. Oh my God, you fell along. We just wanted to. Give you that little shout out from Ladidi. I'm trying to work on some new ones.
I mean, we have to talk about. Um Uh Danielle, Danielle Jonas. Dannie L. Jonas is good. I like Danny.
I love for the Colts. He's been doing well. I love Danielle. Danielle. Where's Danielle Jonas at?
Keep throwing the ball, dog. What happened? My poor wife. What? Well, we've loved Daniel Jones.
Oh, I know for Giants fans. I know. Oh, God. And this is what we do every weekend.
So we watch the Giants and we watch Lions. I mean, not week 12. We can't on week 12 because they play each other.
So we'll be in separate rooms. But we sit there crestfallen. Because, you know, by marriage, I'm a Giants fan. And so now I've committed and I've fallen in love and I'm invested in the Giants. Of course.
And we're sad about Scatterboo and we're sad about Joe. Exactly. As soon as Jackson Dart shows up and you can have nice things, down goes neighbors and then Scatterboo. As soon as we can have nice things, and then you just go, and then we just, every weekend, it's like we're crestfallen. You just watch Indianapolis has scored 737 points.
Daniel Jones has seven touchdowns, 650 yards rushing. It's like, what happened? What? Daniel. I think Daniel Jonas.
And Cam Scatitibo. Skidibo, Scatiboo Boo, Scatitibo, Scatiti Bo. Oh shit. Skip, just give me that before we go. Give me, do you want to go to war, Skin?
Do you want to go out? Hold on, give me that before we go. taking two. Don't cut. Hey, Tammy Ron.
Kevin Ross, Katie T. Ball. You wanna go to war? Rick, I'm gonna watch the TT ball as soon as you. We got a war.
Cause I ain't playing with you, Kelly Ron. Y'all think I'm playing? Mikke? Which Tris over here. That's right.
Look at this dude over in the corner. What you doing? Playing pool? Get off the damn pool table. Fuck us up!
Oh my god, Chalking a stick. Shouldn't be one in the camera. Shocking the stock. Jigging my hands. Not a euphemism.
Not a euphemism. God bless it. I love when you come here, man. Right back at you. Richie Eisen, buddy.
Ladies and gentlemen. Richard. Oh, we have. I think you got that as a drop, too, right? My favorite show to ever do is Richard Ison.
Richard Ezon. Richard Ezon from the last time. Only murders in the building against season five of this man Michael Key now streaming on Hulu and then Hulu on Disney Plus. And congrats to the whole crew on season six for the renewal. You're the man.
Thanks for coming, everybody. Always happy to be here. Another great clap.
Soccer clap. Oh, and let's all clap for the horseshoe and what's going to happen there. Let's go. I'm just so upset as we're going to be. We are.
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Because Jake Browning continued to lose football games and throw it around to the point where they in Cincinnati were like, we got to go get the guy. Um who the Browns started the season with and then benched. We got to get Joe Flacco. And then Flacco went 1-2 with a massive win on Thursday night against the Steelers at home, in which he threw it around like he was 20 again. And then last week, a second loss.
Uh just Stubbing his toe, if you will, against the Jets. or not just stabbing his toe, but Hurting his shoulder with an A-sprained AC joint. That is a nasty thing. It is an awful thing. It's a painful thing.
So it's possible that the Bengals coming back this week. at home against the Cincinnati Bengals or against the Chicago Bears. It may be Jake Browning time. Again, here was Zach Taylor moments ago at the podium. Uh we'll see what we can potentially get out of him tomorrow.
So we'll just work through the week. I I think right now it's probably on a fifty-fifty on on What I'll end up on something. This you need The reps at all. I mean, you've seen what he's done. Sure.
Came in, played on a Thursday, you know, after three days of practice.
So I think if anybody in this league can get by with men and women reps right now, it's Tim. Yeah.
So listen, Bears fans, no offense. This is nothing against you. If Jake Browning comes in and makes me right after all, that would be amazing. It's set up. I just didn't say.
I said Jake Browning would save the season. And you doubled down on it.
Well, no, I said the season would be just fine after Joe got hurt. Maybe it was his second Joe. Oh, I mean, okay. I didn't tell you it's Joe. That's how I'm going to do it.
I didn't tell you it's Joe he was going to help out with. I didn't tell you it's Joe. Yeah, but you did say Jake, though. That was I did say Jake, and it turned out to be another Joe, but now maybe this Jake after this Joe. Uh maybe I'll be right.
We're going to keep trying. Yeah.
I'm going down with it. Certainly, if Browning is going to get the start, I think Matt Ryan would tell you that. Yeah, just got to move on. Got to move on. Gotta move on.
Got to take steps like Giannis, right?
So many steps.
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Fun stuff right there. Dan Lanning, the Oregon head coach, is on tomorrow's program.
So is Daniel Jeremiah and the actor Gabriel Luna. Nice. Friday's guests. Scheduled to appear. Shaquille O'Neal And Morgan Freeman.
Whoa, that's Friday's show. But this Wednesday show, thank you for taking it in. We might uh sneak in one more phone call before we get to out of dodge. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eisen Show Podcast. You can watch and listen to the Rich Eisen Show live weekdays from noon to 3 Eastern on ESPN Radio, Disney Plus, and on the ESPN app.
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