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Comedian Jim Gaffigan. Fox Sports NFL analyst Mark Schlerin. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number two of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air, and it's always a great hour in the history of our show when Jim Gaffigan's sitting in our green room. Uh kindly um cooling his heels, get ready to come out here.
He might ask us to drink some bourbon with him. Oh, twist my arm.
Well, I mean, you've already had a massive slice of pumpkin pie and whipped cream that I saw you. I've had half a pie. Oh, my goodness. Toronto will finish one by himself, which is fine. It's Thanksgiving week.
What do you want from me? What's Mariuchi level of morning eating? What do you want from me? That's impressive. Chris, I need you to slow down because I'm going to need you tomorrow to be on the show.
Well, I bought two pies for today, hoping maybe you guys could finish them and then I can get two new ones to get to the next one. Don't make me go full Dan Hurley. I mean, talk about how I need you to stay off the Thanksgiving thing. Oh, I'll be taking a nap for the third hour. We've got games to play here.
There's a couch right there. I could take a nap. What is the truck doing back behind me? We know what's going on.
Well, I think it's leftover from the water pipe leakage in the last couple weeks. Yeah, there's the bathrooms here. For those listening on ESPN Radio, presented by Progressive Insurance or SiriusXM Channel 80 or our podcast, there's a truck parked in just the one spot that it takes up the entire background. Of our sex. I don't know.
Why does that bother me so much? I don't know why that bothers me. Because you don't like people in your shop. Yeah. Like the guy just walked out in the shop.
You know, you don't like people in your shop. I don't know. I think they're just a control freak. It's like okay. And you can't tell.
Is that what Trayvon Merrick was saying to uh Jawan Jennings last night? I don't like you in my shot. Yeah, you have shoulder on the truck. You have shoulder on it. What's up, Travis?
I like it. Let's go to Travis in the hometown of Aaron Rodgers, Chico, California. What's up, Travis? Chico's Belbonds. What's up, Travis?
Mike, I mean, it's Travis. Oh, hold on. I don't want to say hello to you, but hold on a minute. What's up, Trevor? What's going on?
Trevor. How are you, sir? Travis, Travis. Oh, it's Travis. Oh, so totally good, because you know.
I photographed Travis Trevor and I've gotten mixed up. I get called all the teas.
Okay, very good. What's on your mind, Travis? Sun is up.
Well, my mind is, as a Raider fan from Northern California, where we had the great Rich Eisen for two years at ARCR News Channel Sullivan. That's true. I don't know if you remember that, Rich. Dude, do I remember it? Spirit of the North State?
Are you kidding me? I've spent a lot of my time behind the wheel of the car. The white news cars that had the station emblazoned on the sign. I love the North State. It's a beautiful part of the country.
And my dad has a great story where he just told me one day, I'm watching New Shannon 7 and my guy. Rich items. Doing my sports and then next day I turn on By guys on ESPN. That's true. That happened.
That happened. I was very, very fortunate. What's on your mind? What's on my mind is, as I'm watching this Raider game this past weekend, and I'm watching it and thinking Well, you both teams really are struggling. Bye.
With the connections with uh you know, Brady and everyone.
So just how the Raiders pass. On Sanders, as he fell through the draft, and just as I'm looking at it, we passed on him. Seven times. Fabbit. And You know, you get a quarterback.
What did Sanders do? He came in as a rookie and he flashed. You don't need him to. tear up the world, but he flashed. He gave that team some hope.
And we just don't have that. And I'm just thinking, are these guys in the front office I know you're a Pete Carroll guy, like are they kicking themselves for nothing? No, Travis, uh, listen, uh, you cannot find a bigger Sanders fan, Sanders family fan. Than yours truly, okay? For many reasons.
I love Dion. um with every fiber of my being for so many reasons. I've been with him in quiet times, I've been with him in tough times, I've been with him in fun times, I've been with him all over the place. And I met this young man that's on the screen right here, showing a shot of Shador winning in Vegas. I met him as a kid.
So it was a big moment to watch him do what he did. But it's one game, man. And it's one game against an opponent that. Again, has had trouble putting together four winning quarters all season long. We do need to see him do it again.
I cannot imagine the Raiders are sitting there kicking themselves that they passed on Shador. There's so many other things that they're kicking themselves about. That is so far down the list. of you know self football flagellation, to be honest with you, Travis.
So I can't I can't we we do need to keep seeing it. And there's a big test obviously coming up this week to see how he can improve. uh with the San Francisco Forty Niners coming to town because the Forty Niners are a stout team. But as we saw on Monday night, they you can get your defense to get the cage of the quarterback rattled enough. Um Certainly pick him off.
Certainly, sack him and make last night. I mean, Purdy sat back. And wasn't sacked a single time. As a matter of fact, the Panthers failed to record a sack for the fifth time this year. Um and You know Here comes Miles Garrett.
So it's possible, and thanks for the call. You know, it's entirely possible. that the Browns can do enough defensively to get the Niners off their mark and then The Niners don't sack. people enough And Shador can make enough plays. They could repeat what they just did against Pete.
That formula. But to sit here and say the Raiders or anybody else that passed on Shador is kicking themselves, we're far away from that being a conversation. But one game in, good enough. Kudos to Stefanski for saying, let's see what he's got, or whoever was in the organization telling Stefanski, you need to see what we have. I'm glad to see it.
It makes Browns and Niners that much more. Um Must see, gotta watch it. I will. I'll be having my eyes peeled. And, you know, anybody who knows the Niners You know that they've Wasn't that the spot where Trey Lance started and there was a rainstorm or something like that?
Didn't just Sean Kaiser beat them one year? Just like weird stuff happens. Yeah. You know, the DeBardolo family's from Ohio. It's big when they do go back to the state.
I don't know why. I'm just spitballing here because I don't know for a fact. But San Francisco at Cleveland has happened before. And the Browns have pulled it off before. Mm-hmm.
844-204-RICH is the number to dial right here on the program. Overreaction Monday is sitting in your RSS feeds podcast-wise, or sitting on the Rich Eisen Show YouTube channel for you to watch. Chris Brockman and I recorded it before Monday show. It is still quite relevant. if I may say so.
Evergreen at this point in time. But it also does lead to a uh the popular edition. Called Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. That was horrible. That was crap.
That was garbage. This place sucks. Overreaction Mondays. Monday. On a Tuesday.
It's been a while since I stepped on that drop for a while, right? I'm just. Oh, yeah. You've been good. Thanks, Mike.
I was fishing there. I know. Really need some positive reinforcement today, don't you? It's this week. Entirely.
Entirely. Are you kidding me? You know, there's pumpkin pie over there. I can get some comfort. I'm not really a pumpkin pie, guys, but whipped cream.
I got two different kinds of whipped cream. What's going on over there? All right, here's the deal. What's up, guys? I'm doing good.
It's Tuesday, Mike. Great to see you. What's up, Trevor? All right, so here's the deal.
So here's my take after watching last night's game for Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. Teams are going to stop giving quarterbacks $50 million contracts because it's their turn. These are not aging well. Trevor Lawrence, Tua.
Now, Brock Purdy and what he's done so far being outplayed by Mac Jones this season. Teams are going to stop doing this. I don't think so. It's going to go on forever. Yeah, you think the Texans are going to give CJ Stroud $250 million because it's his turn after Davis Mills is 3-0?
Hmm. Interesting. Keep going. Keep making your case.
Well, I have one about Bryce Young later on, but. You think Bryce Young's getting a second contract with Carolina? Hmm. I just still think it's going to, at the end of the day, you think the Chargers have any Herbert regret? Joe Burrow can't finish a season.
I don't think the Chargers have a single ounce of Herbert regret. single ounce of it. Not a single scintilla of that. I'm sure Mike Brown's thinking about it. An interesting case.
As you know, I still think it will always happen because it keeps happening. But I understand your point. I'll call it an overreaction and is m You keep tilting at this windmill, bud. You keep howling at this moon.
Well, let's see if you're that broken clock at some point. I've been proven right more than twice a day, I think, on this.
Okay. I appreciate you continuing on these analogies. You're talking about the Browns, how you're excited to watch them in action this week in this weekend. And I think there's, you know, depending on your viewpoint, I think there's one very important and good reason to keep watching the Browns. It's because Miles Garrett's going to get 30 sacks this year.
I don't think that's an overreaction, Runyo. He needs to have to a game the rest of the year. To a game. Or Or another three seconds or another four seconds. I think he's thinking 30 right now.
I don't think he's thinking it right. This record is getting shattered. I bet you he's thinking about it right now. And you look at some of the guys he's got coming up the rest of the season. They are very sackable quarterbacks.
Brock Purdy this weekend. Let's do this. And then it's Cam Ward. Then it's Caleb. I don't know about that.
Josh Allen just got sacked 10 times. How many times? Eight times. Eight against. And then it's Aaron Rodgers, who's not mobile, and a guy coming off a toe injury who also can't move.
Who, as we know, has been lack of protection. I honestly don't think this is an overreaction. And you know how it is an outrageous number, but it's within reach. And we just name the different Teams, I mean, you'd have to say, out of everybody we just mentioned, Purdy was enough sacked last night. He's elusive.
You'd say Caleb, right? Because Caleb is Caleb kind of runs around and twirls around in the backfield. You got a rookie quarterback behind, you know, they're arguably the worst team in the league. Josh Allen just got pretty brutalized against the Texans. And don't you think?
Rogers is not mobile. Don't you think, guys, he's thinking about that round number in his head right now at some point? I don't know because 30 seems so absurd. I know. Like, who would ever think?
Well, he's got 18 right now. He's already got 18 through 20. I know, but I'm just saying, like, 12 weeks through it. You think that, like, I'm sitting there like, there's no way. And then I'm like, well, I guess there is a way.
I thought of this the other day, and I'm like, could he really do this? And then you look at who he's playing, and yeah, he probably could. I mean, 10 fewer sacks than the 40 million he signed for. Look, Strahan already gave it up, so he's already conceding.
So I don't know. It's possible. And again, I know people are like, you know, hey, he took the bag, and it's too bad that he. He's playing in games that aren't meaningful. I'll push back and say this past week was pretty damn meaningful.
We'll find out how many more games Shador starts and performs well that And the games that he's performing in right now are pretty damn meaningful for the quarterback. And if the quarterback doesn't prove, then maybe for the franchise. We'll see. But I don't think that's an overreaction. Pretty fun one.
Uh watching the fourth quarter on Sunday of this team play, and you think, huh. Yeah, don't let them in the tournament because the Chiefs might be the most dangerous seven-seed in NFL history. Steve, what do you think? Who are you talking to right now? Who are you talking to?
You think they're going to be the seventh seed or better? No, I think they'll probably be the seventh seed. Not better. Probably not. Hmm.
I think it's unlikely that they go undefeated to finish the season. Can you show me the AFC standings, please, before I could push back here? They are 11 and 6, and they'll probably be the seventh season. They'll be the most dangerous team. If you believe that they're not going to win the division, they're the most dangerous team of any team that's a wild card team.
Asking them to win the division right now is a pretty tall. I understand that. I understand that. Um but The Bills and Steelers play each other this week. Chiefs and Texans play each other this week.
So let's just say the Steelers Win this game against Buffalo. I know the Buffalo fans don't want to hear that, but it's at Pittsburgh. Let's say that they do that. Steelers have been playing better at home. They beat the Colts there a couple weeks ago, right?
And then they just took care of the Bengals there as well.
So let's just say that all happens. Um then the Chiefs leapfrog the Texans. There's a three-way tie, Bills, Chiefs, and Steelers. That's the way that... You know, the Jaguars and the Chargers are also 7-4.
Chiefs are only a game behind them. They can improve. But they're definitely gonna be like don't let them in the tournament. I think it goes without saying I'm calling my shot they're gonna be the seventh.
Okay. I say that's an overreaction, but The rest of it, uh, you know. You had me at hello. What else? Over there.
Well, don't worry. I'll bring you back down to earth with this one. The Bills have to make the AFC title game for Sean McDermott to keep his job. I don't know about that. Hoskins, you want to chime in here?
I'll repeat your answer that you're the coordinating producer of the Rich Isen Show and. Representative of the Bills Mafia. Do you want to chime in here? His seat is toasty. Would you agree with this?
Yeah, I'm sorry. He does not agree. He thinks that's an overreaction. He's a very optimistic Bills fan. I don't know about that.
I mean, you want to put up the standard. Find that the record of the team from week 12 on. over the last six seasons. The best team in the league with the best record of the Chiefs. The Packers are second.
Now let's do Super Bowl wins. And then the Bills are third.
Now let's do Super Bowl appearance. I understand that. I understand that. But you got to, like, what do you want to do? You want to.
At some point, something has to change. You can't keep doing the same thing over and over again with the same results. There's a reason why they've won 76% of their games from week 12 and on, which is exactly when you want to win them. Because that's usually your division games. What about February on?
Okay. Uh w what are we measuring then? There's very few teams that have an opportunity to play in February.
Well, they think that they're one of them. Maybe they need a move to get over the hump. I hear you.
Okay. I just don't think that'll happen, but... Maybe I'm got to make the eight.
So they make the divisional round. They win a playoff game. They make the divisional round and then they lose. Let's start from scratch, new coach, new everything for the new stadium. I think that's a good idea.
I'll call that an overreaction. And I have the Rich Eyes and Show member Bills Mafia backing me up. to the patriot nation over there trying to divide and conquer. You guys had your window. He wants them to go back and start from scratch.
She does. You had your five-year window and you blew it. That was significant. That would benefit his team. Don't blame me, because I'm just the messenger.
I do like blaming you, though. I understand that. Uh-huh. Offensive player of the year, guys. JSN's to lose.
He's too good. I don't know about that. He's going to get 2,000 yards. I don't know about that. I hear you.
McCaffrey has got to be in this equation, and so does Jonathan Taylor. I just told you, McCaffrey's numbers. They're absurd. They are positively absurd. He's a running back.
He gets twice as many looks as JSN each game. I I I understand what that means, but You know, as I mentioned to you, I want to make sure I'm backing this up here. John Taylor is the betting favorite, slightly over Jason. You know, there's two 1,000-yard receivers in the NFL right now. JSN is one you wanna guess who the other one is?
Crazy. Crazy. It's George Pickens. Oh, yeah. He's the second 1,000-yard receiver in the league.
Puka's got 947. And he missed a game. But in terms of receptions in the NFL, the leader is Christian McCaffrey. 81 of them. His average depth of target is two yards.
Who cares? JSN's is 12. That matters. I'm not saying there's no argument for him to be offensive player of the year, but you're saying it's for him for his deliberate. We haven't even mentioned the name Jonathan Taylor.
You know?
So, alright. Overreaction. All right, two more. We're going to see him on Thanksgiving night. Kinda don't think we should.
Joe Burrows shouldn't play again this season. I don't think that's an overreaction, but that's just, you tell me. You'd be the one to tell him. I get it, but what is he playing for? Their season is over.
Himself, his teammates, trying to win. His coach. I don't know. I'm. Pride?
No idea. You don't just tweet a photograph of yourself wearing your LeBron gamer that looks like, I think, when he was a kid, right? Younger. Maybe a high school player. It looks like from back in the day saying, I'm back.
You're not telling that guy, yeah, we're so far out. Why do you want to come back? We don't, we're saving you. They saved him for Sunday so he could play Thursday. This does not look like a guy who wants to sit.
They're not making the playoffs. That looks like him in high school, doesn't it? Adam. I can't tell. That does not look recent, that photo.
I don't know if I believe anything with AI. Like, Del Tuvo showed me a picture of his. On his V, though. Del Tuvo showed me a picture of his brother's dog fighting a bear in his backyard. I don't know what's real.
That was real. That's a high school photo, I think.
Okay. Yeah, you tell him. What else you got off? All right, last one. Also, again, piggybacking off watching last night.
Multiple teams. Multiple. you don't expect will be in the market for a new quarterback in 2026. Things that you don't expect. That you don't expect.
Are the Dolphins in that? Carolina, Minnesota, Arizona, maybe Miami. Uh it always happens, so I I I think that that is um That's not out of the realm. Wouldn't Shot Carolina beat in the market for a quarterback? I don't know.
I mean, Brightsham had a 400-yard game just a couple weeks ago. I mean, that throw, he threw a dime to Tet McMillan. One off.
Okay. No, but I'll buy it just because it, you know, crazier things have happened. Yeah, true. And it's also part and parcel of, you know, your bookending, you're saying all these contracts are going to finally. lead to uh behavior that is off the wall.
or out of the ordinary, and that would be that would be one of them. Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. Good job, sir. Overreaction Monday podcast, wherever you get your podcast in our YouTube channel. Let's bring out Jim Gaffigan, everybody.
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That's good. That is good. That warms the gullet, sir. Yeah. Wow.
And you know, the first hit might have a little edge, but that's confirmed. That'll bring you into a pleasantry. Like, there is, first of all, I cannot articulate how much I love the bourbon and whiskey world. Like there is something about the bourbon community and how men come together. Men need it.
Because men are dumb. Men are we are dumb creatures. I can prove it. Like let's let's think of a hypothetical Predominantly male occupation, let's say football coach, right? Let's say NFL legendary football coach.
Let's say our hypothetical football coach, I don't know, won five Super Bowls. Let's say there was like a coach who won five Super Bowls. And then to prove that he's dumb, let's say that that guy was, his legacy was destroyed by a 24-year-old social media manager. That could only happen to a man. That could only happen to a man.
Now, you may sit there and go, hey, well, maybe they're in love. They could be in love. She's 24, he's 73. You know, some people have a problem with that. Just picking ages out of the air.
And, you know, like people that have an issue with that, they're called women. You know what I mean? Because guys hear that age difference, and they're like, you know, well, you know, hey, love is love, right? Love is love. My point is, she is not evil.
He's dumb. And even though he's a defensive mastermind, Yes, he's dumb because he's a man. Bringing it all full circle with the bourbon. I understand. Do you think that plays anything into it?
I would love an NFL films recap. Yeah. The Bill Belichick of the last two years. Dun dun, dun, dun, dun. Bill Belichick.
with cut off sleeves and curt demeanour. Could he stand up to a gold digger? Absolutely not. He doesn't have one friend. He doesn't have one friend that's like Bill.
Listen. You might need another finger there. The subject matter will turn a host of drinking. Can I honestly? Oh, that's going down strong.
Here's how I know. This Tank and this Berkeley. Here's how I know that Bill Belichick is still someone that I respect.
Okay. I say those jokes with a little amount of fear. Like, I wouldn't want to run into him. I laugh at these jokes with the same amount of fear. To be honest with you, Jim.
When you see him talk, you're like, am I in trouble? Did I do something wrong? But yet? The weakness. The weakness.
We all, men are dumb. We need that. Father Time Bourbon. The everything is wonderful. Tour dates as well are out there.
JimGaffican.com for tickets and more dates. And again, I can perfectly attest right now that Father Time Bourbon is going down. It's good, right? The second tug is a little bit easier than the first one. It's a shock.
It's kind of like the first child. You're like, what am I doing? And then the second child, you're like, I don't know what I'm doing. And then by the fifth, you're like, I don't care what I'm doing. By the fifth, you're like, what is this?
This is bourbon. All right. Ah. Where are you doing Thanksgiving? Where are we doing?
We are doing African Thanksgiving. We are doing it at home. And my eldest is cooking Thanksgiving with her boyfriend. It's going to be chaotic. I love my daughter.
She's a terrific cook, but her timing is not. You know, like we might be eating at 9 p.m. You know what I mean? And I think there's going to be some kind of diplomatic, you know, there's some diplomacy that's going to occur because my wife is giving up some of the authority. I was about to ask you as a follow-up question: is there some control seeding issues that might be resting in your world that you are now part and parcel to having to potentially referee at any point in time?
But you know, I feel like once your kids become teenagers, you are in an ongoing diplomatic mission, right? Because teenagers are mentally ill, and you don't know what kind of diplomatic mission you'll be in.
Sometimes some teenagers are like Russia, just hostile for no reason at all.
Some teenagers are like China, emerging superpowers, and some teenagers are like North Korea. You're just, what do I have to? Give you to not blow up this world, right? That's what these teenagers are like, right? And so it'll be fun as long as they don't drink my bourbon.
Well, that's all I got. I was about to say, with two teenagers at home and another one about to cheers. Cheers. Good to see you. Oh, my God.
That's again. I don't know what's more uncomfortable for me to laugh at. The Belichick, Jordan jokes or the teenager jokes right now. Because then I'm living in that world right now. And they are all over YouTube right now.
They see everything that's going on right now. Yeah, now I there's a certain amount. By the way, here's the thing about history. Is normally written by the victors. But as a parent, you have to understand your children will write the history.
And you will most likely be portrayed as an evil dictator who was drunk with power and sometimes just drunk.
So you might as well have a bourbon. Do you tap out during this entire, do you contribute to the table setting, the cooking, the planning, or you're just filming it? There's going to be a lot of chaos, but I will definitely not partake in any drinking until much later in the day in case I have to go to the store and buy an entire turkey dinner. You know what I mean? That's what these delivery apps are for, though.
Yeah, but you could sit at home and drink. Those delivery apps, they never deliver what you ask for. You ask for like a ham and they show up with a bag of apples and you're like, I didn't ask for this. This is all they had. And you're like, all right.
Right? They're not reliable enough. No. You got to stay sober. That's how unreliable these apps are.
Go to the grocery store and you feel like, am I the only, am I the last person shopping for groceries? you can tell the other people there are just like I don't know about you, but I find maybe this is a me thing. I'll share. I find shopping for groceries for the family incredibly pressure-filled. Really?
Yeah, because I know I'm going to get the wrong thing. And you come home, it's like, no, like, that is not what we needed. You know, like, oh, no, this, you know, the way what the kids normally have. When the kids look at dad, you know, that's not the ketchup. Oh, that's true.
If you don't get Heinz, you're mentally ill. I mean, listen, I'm with you. Are you a Hunts guy? Do you compare? I'm not a cat-sup guy.
How dare you? I've never been more offended in my entire life. Cats up. No, sir. But no, I feel like there's a pressure on me that I just rather stay at home and drink and roll the dice with a delivery app.
There is. And that's why Father Time Bourbon is called Father Time Bourbon. I think there's a diminishing respect towards fathers that is just, I don't, you know, and we can't rise up because, you know, the patriarchy, like, that's a bad thing. Clip that and use that. Jim Gaffigan's a monster.
No, but like, that's why Father Time is kind of. Yeah. this you know Homage or this debt, I'm debt, it's dedicated to fathers because I think we. We kind of suck it up a lot. Yeah.
I got to be honest with you, right now. I don't think I could go shopping having just three sips of this thing right now. No. Do you want anything, Chris? I know you're a brother.
I mean, I'll wait till the commercial breaks. Why? Just come up. It's all good. Yeah, but Jim's going to head out.
I like how the top button is buttoned. Thanks. I'm a classy. No, he's a classic guy. He always does the Rainman look.
I know that. But bring a glass over here. You got to have some with Jim Gaffick. This is where he's like, I've been 20 years sober, and then Rich made me drink. I'm a great.
I'm running a terrible shop here, man. There's actual items all over the place, right? Rich Eisen made you drink? Yeah, I had told him for 15 years that I don't drink. And then we're on the show, and he's like, all right, drink now.
Well, I don't know if this is a sign of this type of shop that I run, but. Chris is in charge of human resources already. There you go. He's loud. Here, here we go.
Bring it over. Just walk in. It doesn't matter. All right. There you go.
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Let's all be quiet. Hold on a minute.
Let me do this. Ready? Rich. Take it. You know what I love?
Oh, that was incredible. There's some weight to that cork, right? Oh, yes.
Some weight to the topper. That's important stuff. For the nerd thing, you know, you got to. Do you QC the cork weight? I literally.
I mean, well, it was pitched to me, but I really cared about it. I mean, there's. Just wait a minute. You took pitches on the weight of the cork for Father Time Burke? Yeah, I mean, Father Time was just me and a college buddy, and he was like, I want to do this.
What about this? Yeah, no, you got to nerd out on all this because I was so obsessed with it not being mediocre. Do you want some? Yeah, you know what? I will, but I can't get up right now.
Okay. He's too busy working. The first hit is just so good. Am I wrong? It goes right down.
Oh, it's so good. Is Disney rethinking their choice to give us a long-term contract? Do you think right now? I don't think so. I'm part of the Disney family.
I did a Hulu special.
So it's all part under the mouse. We're covered. We're covered. It's all good. I'm just wondering, just doing a list of the most offended parties over the last 15 minutes.
My teenagers, Bill Belichick, or Disney? Yes. Start bench cut. And by the way, I should point out, I forced all of this about discussing bourbon, bringing the bourbon, having people drink. It was all my idea.
Rich was against it. You're an enabler. That's what you are right now, man. I play the victim. It's not bad.
That's part of fatherhood as well. I think so. You know, I had the joke: being a father is like being the backup quarterback on the NFL. You're on the team, but you're not the star. You know what I mean?
And every now and then you're brought into the game, and people are worried. They're like, when's that starter coming back? When's Aaron Rodgers coming back? I don't know. Honestly, I do walk in.
To the house, and one of my kids will greet me by saying, Where's mom? Yes. And I'm like, I'm here. Like, what? Like, it's not hi.
How's the day? Like, what's going on? Oh, yeah. Before I even say, like, where's mom? And it's just like, What the hell?
Yeah. I've been out of town, and my wife has been home with. My son, and my son has called me. I've been in like Philadelphia, and he's like, Where's mama? I'm like, I think she's in the house with you.
And he's like, Can you ask her something? I'm like, Oh my gosh. Oh, by the way, okay, that's a great idea. Uh, my uh coordinating producer, Mike Hoskins, just got in my ear. Uh, Dan Hurley, the uh, head coach of UConn basketball, yes, um, had this to say about he wants his team to uh celebrate Thanksgiving Wednesday and not Thursday because they have a game Friday.
And this is the way he phrased it from his podium. We're going to celebrate our Thanksgiving on Wednesday as a team. We're going to eat the What's in the turkey, Bobby? No, no, no, no. What makes people sleepy?
tryptophan.
So we're not going to eat the tryptophan on Wen on Thursday and and be sluggish as shit on Friday.
So we're going to eat the tryptophan, the turkey and everything, on Wednesday so that uh all the tryptophan is out of our system by the time we get to MSG. Here we go. Is that an inspiration? I think that is. What do you think?
I just, it's so interesting. I never thought of MSG, Madison Square Garden, like I now I'm like, oh, is there MSG and MSG? That's true. But that is an interesting tactic, but we've also, it's an ongoing thing. professional and college athletes have to perform On these holidays.
For us.
So we don't get, so we don't have to talk to people. Yeah. It's like, you know, Nier's guy. It's a day, you know, or like. That's true.
You know, there's going to be a bunch of games on Christmas, basketball and football, right?
So it's like, that's brutal. Right. But I think that's a smart idea. Let's do it the day before. I think they shouldn't be able to I wouldn't want my players Even hanging around their family the day before the game, right?
It's like, Coach Cappany, that's what you're doing. I mean, it's like, because you get home at Thanksgiving, and you, I come from, I'm the youngest of six kids, and you will immediately. Fit into this role, right?
So, what if you spent all season building up the confidence? Of a player, and then they went home and they're like, oh, yeah, that's right. In my family, I'm considered the mess up. You don't want them to deal with that. And then they have to go out and get you 20 points and 10 rebounds.
No, thank you. Exactly. See, that's next level stuff right there. That's the bourbon. But what a speech right there.
What a note in Tryptophan. I love how he doesn't know that Tryptophan is part of Turkey. He just didn't know the specific. He knew there's something in Turkey that's going to make it specific. But isn't he considered a genius?
He is. He's considered a genius. Not, you know, hey, I don't come across as a brilliant man either. But like that press conference, I was like, I don't know if this guy. Like, I don't know if I want him teaching any classes.
Like, stick to basketball. Do you think he's tapping out at home too while everything else is being done for him or around him? Or I shouldn't say that for him or around him. And maybe he was like, I don't want it maybe well, the thing about Turkey, Turkey is. You know, forget about it making you sleepy.
Like, it's no one's favorite. No, like, when you go out to dinner, you're like, you know, what are you getting? I'm getting a steak. I'm going to get the turkey. No one gets the turkey, right?
It's just a weird, it's like, it's a weird choice. It's a good sandwich meat, but like, it's like they might as well have made egg salad the main dish on Thanksgiving. It's a little weird, right? But your daughter's in charge of the turkey. She is.
And she's going to do great.
Okay. Did okay. I mean, it's is that the bourbon? By the way, it's there is something of like all family gatherings, there's a certain you have to be prepared for disaster. Like every family trip, I don't know what the thinking is behind.
It's like, hey, you know how we bicker and argue? Let's take this on the road. It's just bizarre that we go into these things. You need a disaster plan for vacations. You have to be realistic.
You have to be aware that things are going to go sideways. Oh, my gosh. Oh, man.
Well, this has been a blast. The everything is wonderful tour coming to Denver, Colorado, January 22nd through the 24th, last two days of January in St. Louis, Missouri, and then February 20th and 21st in Chicago, Illinois. Jimgaffigan.com for tickets and more dates. Father Tom Bourbon.
Well, it's an American spirit, as we all know. And it's a Kentucky bourbon, which is why you went to the Old Forester for the bourbon set that's available now on YouTube. Be part of the million plus that have already viewed it. And you're an anytime guest, Jimmy. Thank you so much.
Certainly great to be back. Certainly, if you're going to enable us and bring us this alcohol. TJ, you're not a drinker, which is why I didn't really offer you any, unless you were up for bourbon. Are you up for some bourbon? Here's what you don't know.
Uh-oh. The last time Jim came, he bought a bottle. I've been sipping on this in his tea for like the last nine months. Oh my god. That's why all of this gone around.
That's pacing. He never even knew, Jim. That's a brave, smart man. What a great shop I'm running here. Yeah, it is awesome.
As head of HR, I approve all of this. Oh, my God. That's why we're in charge. Cheers. I mean, charge.
But yeah, I'm going to get some of that.
Okay. Oh, fantastic. Yeah, I'm going to go to the house. You didn't offer me any while it was. I thought you were not a drinker.
No, Jim Gaffigan's in the house. You got to do it. He has 25 years sober, and now he's drinking. Susie's here. You partake.
Oh, that's true. Susie comes here. When my wife sits in here, she brings mimosas for everybody. Oh, she does. She does.
This is great. Disney is now rethinking its choices. They're thinking, why did he do it? Blame me. It wasn't rich.
That's correct. JimGaffigan.com, Father Time Bourbon, is also something that you should have around the hall. It pairs well with Turkey, right? It's in the F and Tripta fashion. It's called the turkey blend at Jim Gaffigan on Instagram.
Everybody, check out all things, Jim Gaffigan. Have a safe journey, sir, back home for Thanksgiving. Thank you so much for having me. All right, we're back with more in a moment. And I don't mean more bourbon.
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So much fun with Jim Gaffigan. Oh, my God. That guy just makes me laugh every single time. Sure, does. And it's not the bourbon.
Dylan in Wisconsin, you're here on the Rich Eisen Show. What's up, Dylan? Hey, first of all, everyone in the studio, have a safe and happy Thanksgiving week. Thank you. Thank you.
Appreciate it. Thank you. Do you think the Packers, if Jordan Love and the wide receivers start to get it together, they're a Super Bowl contender? Why not? Why not?
You know, I know a lot of people have written them off. But listen, this is what you need to have. This is what you need to have in the National Football League. And thanks for the call, Dylan. I'm now speaking to Packers fans.
This is what you need to have, right? You need to have. to win a championship. You need to have a running game and a defense. Two things.
Packers have a run game. They didn't play Josh Jacobs this week, I think, because they wanted to the same way Burrow didn't play on Sunday. They got two games in five days, and they got six more games to go, including the one in five days on Thanksgiving. It is a massive game against the Lions. In Detroit.
You can sweep Detroit and basically say to them, even though we got a tie, In our Uh, record, we've now swept you. And They would go at that point in time. Eight, three, and one.
So you need to also have a great base of operations from which to make a run. Correct? In order to is special. And we've seen teams go from, you know, last Uh Last spot in the wild card to winning it all. We've seen all of that.
All you need to do is just to have a ticket. You also need to have a coach who knows how to win in these games. And I understand they haven't played. In a Super Bowl. You say all that you want about Matt LaFleur.
Put up that. bored again about week twelve and beyond. 30 and 9. And the Bills are 29 and 9. And I know, Christopher, you are giving voice to a lot of people saying that I'm not going to be able to get in January.
That's right, there's only one team with rings, and that's Mahomes. That's the difference here. The Bills have Allen, and the Packers have Jordan Love, who has now gone three out of four games. Struggling after having that 370 against Rodgers in. Pittsburgh.
Can Jordan Love put it together? Have we seen it before? You bet we have, and we've seen it start in Detroit on Thanksgiving.
Well you've seen it. They went and they arrived earlier than expected with Jordan Love a couple years ago. And we're trying, we're waiting to see how much further they can go with Josh Jacobs now. Last year, one and done in Philadelphia, no bueno. I understand that.
But to sit here and say they're not Super Bowl contenders I don't think you can say that. Micah is coming for you. Defensively, they've been lights out. It starts in Detroit on Thanksgiving. We've seen it before.
And then Jordan Love took it all the way to the final four of a conference. Get him bounced in the divisional round in San Francisco, where he made one of the worst throws of his entire second half of the season. Unfortunately, it was poorly timed, but. Let's see what happens. Why not, the Green Bay Packers?
Absolutely, why not indeed? Hour three coming up with Mark Schlerith. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. Mm-hmm.
