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Let me get this out of the way before Paul Rudd joins us right here on this busy Wednesday. Hit it, please. There are many. Ah, yes, these are my week 15 power rankings presented by Sonos. I've got a new team.
I've got a team that's back on the list. I've got four teams that stay like before. And I got the music. Felly's back in Los Angeles. Get the drops ready.
Number 10 on the list. I'm not knocking him off the list here. Your Cowboys are off the list. I'll just tell you that right now. See you later.
Okay, good. I didn't even read that movie. I didn't even. No, no, no. They're off the list.
My day hasn't been bad enough. Down five spots, I'm not taking the Bears off the list. I still am putting the Chicago Bears at 10. They. They did enough to maybe win that football game in Green Bay.
They just couldn't finish. Cole Komet was open. Cole Komet was open. So was DJ Moore. You know, but Caleb and the Bears, I think, acquitted themselves well enough.
For us to sit here and say we've seen enough to say that, yes, that win streak that took them from 0-2 to 9-3, that's now a 9-4 record. There's enough real there. There's enough there. And they do have the Cleveland Browns at home next. I think they're going to be a 10-win team welcoming the Packers into their house to try and even up that.
Series and give them a shot to win the division, if not the conference. At the end of the day, the Bears are still a top 10 team. They're minus five, though, based on last week's ranking of five. All right. I'm putting this team on the list finally.
And I hope they don't make me want to pull the car over and have a talk. They say that they're not respected. They say they'll never be respected. I'm putting the Jacksonville Jaguars on this list at nine. I see what you're doing.
I see what I saw in London where they were just shooting themselves in the foot over and over again. And I saw what they did in Houston where they were up by 19 and then Lost that game, and the Texans have gone on a win streak. That is significant. And I know you're going to be upset. by the rest of these rankings, but I'm respecting you enough To put you right where I'm putting you at 9-4, and they're going to be a 10-win team, the Jacksonville Jaguars, after they take care of the Jets at home, before they go to Denver and then try to sweep the Indianapolis Colts and Phillip Rivers, maybe in his third start for the team in week 17.
and then have an easy one at home, if you will. They're never easy, but Tennessee coming in. This could be an 11-year-old. I know I'm going high-register. He did, yeah.
You did, Rich. In advance of tomorrow.
So I just went. This could be an 11-win team easily. and maybe a 12-win team. And that could be a team that not only wins a division, But for has an outside shot? They got threatening somebody for a one seat.
I don't know. This is a team that is running the football well, playing good defense, and they've eliminated a lot of these shooting themselves and the foot mistakes they're nine.
Now I know why they're going to be upset. Because I'm putting a team with a worse record than them and the Texans above them.
Now, the Texans have beaten them. And this win streak that they've been on five in a row started with the Texans coming back from 19 down at home to the Jaguars. Hey, man, the Texans just beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Arrowhead on a Sunday night in a cold night. And they beat him up. I mean, they just absolutely beat them up.
They took every mistake that the Chiefs made and stuck it where the sun doesn't shine.
So they're eighth on this list. And even though they did not play, the way that I'm seeing everybody else play in the National Football League, the way that I'm seeing their level of play, Two date. Despite being on a buy, I'm popping the Niners up two spots to seven. This is as high, and they did win the buy. This is as high as I put them all year long, pretty much.
They're seventh on this list. The Niners up two spots and back on the list from off the list to sixth. I'm putting the Bills right here. The Bills at nine and four. Stop the run.
Run it down your throat. And have Josh Allen go ahead and beat you. If this team in Buffalo could start playing some better third-down defense, get off the field. The Buffalo Bills have a true chance to make a nice little run here and go into New England starting this weekend and say, guess what? Nice little 10-game win streak you had there.
You beat us in game two of that 10-win streak, 10-game win streak in our house. We're going to come and return the favor to you. We're going to come and return the favor to you. We're going to play some opportunistic defense, and Josh Allen is going to show Drake May what an MVP quarterback looks like in a Chilly night. or chilly afternoon.
In Foxborough. That's on the line this week, and I'm putting the Bills back at six. Not in my top five. Up one spot, the Green Bay Packers. This is where the Bears were, so I figured it's fitting to put the Packers right here.
The Packers have the Denver Broncos this week. That is a sneaky, huge game.
Well, I mean, my buddy Gus Ramsey, I should mention what he texted me in one of these commercial breaks. He's the diehard Denver Broncos fan. Um I think the Broncos qualify as a trap game this week. Packers playing us in between two games against the Bears, even though Denver has won 10 in a row and hasn't lost at home this year. Green Bay is favored.
Sounds like a trap game to me. Interesting. Is what the Broncos fans. I don't know if Matt LaFleur is going to be treating this like a trap game. This is a real deal measuring stick for everybody.
And I have the Packers at five up one spot. And Jordan Love with back-to-back three touchdown games and back-to-back touchdown games for Christian Watson. And Micah Parsons is beginning to come out even stronger. Number four on the list, starting the streams of no changes stays like before. The Seattle Seahawks are there at four.
Uh, they're just taking care of teams before halftime more often than not. I'm putting the Denver Broncos at three, they're staying like before. The Denver Broncos sitting there. At three, because they're what are they gonna be left at for? I'm thinking about who's left, and I'm just wondering.
The Patriots are a two, okay. And even though they didn't play, and I took knocked one team up by two. I raised the Niners by two on their bye week. I'm knocking the Patriots down one on their bye week because I think the Rams are the best team in football again. Ooh.
That's what I think. I think that was just a blip on the radar in Carolina. And I'm putting the Rams as the best team in football because I think they would pretty much beat everybody else from here on out. I think the Panthers got the Rams for the last time. And I'm saying that with them hosting the lines this week and going to Seattle the next week.
I'm putting it all on the line here. Maybe I'll reshuffle the power rankings. But, Chris, all I got to say to you is. I apologize. Patriots were on a buy, I knocked them down by one.
Noted. And the Niners are on a buy. I raised them up by two. They're in a lower rent district than the high-rent district in which I'm putting the Patriots. Plus.
Complain about the committee. It's part for the course this week. And the committee of one, right? Committee. That's right.
So that's it. Yeah, not too many issues with it. Cowboys and Eagles out. And the Eagles are out for the first time in quite some time. I couldn't even keep them in there anymore.
Just couldn't. What am I going to knock the Bears out just because they lost in Green Bay in a hotly contested game and I'm knocking the Eagles? Keep the Eagles who have the Bears beat? As part of their three-game losing streak, I just couldn't do it. Yeah, maybe.
And look, I know you like to kind of look over the steering wheel with some of these too. And you look at the schedule, Bears, harder schedule. Eagles, maybe not so much. You could have kept them at 10. My power rankings are brought to you by Sonos.
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Back on the Rich Eisen Show on ESPN Radio, presented by Progressive Insurance. On the TV side, we just saw a clip of Anaconda in theaters nationwide, December 25th. Jack Black and Paul Rudd here on that movie's post poster Outstanding. That gives you an idea there that this is a reimagining of Anaconda. I hope so.
Yeah, I mean, I think you look at that and think. You're looking sh they're you're looking scared and shocked at the same time, right there. Yeah. Right.
Well, we're wrapped up with one. I mean, look at that thing. Hopefully, we'll survive that photo shoot. How is Jack Black, man? The best, right?
He is. He is just the best person on the planet. I love him. How often have you worked, done anything with him?
So. The first time well, we were both he was an anchor ma'am, although we didn't have a scene together, but he was riding the motorcycle and he got, I think Will Farrell threw a burrito in his face. And then he and I played. He and I played Lennon and McCartney. Which makes no sense.
Uh in Walk Hard. With Jot C. Riley. Forever. Right.
And obviously, like everyone else, just a huge fan of the guy. But this was the first time that we actually really got to do a full kind of like movie together. Full to-do. And how did this idea come about? Like, it, it, where, like, let's reimagine Anaconda, but it's a comedy.
Right.
Well, it's a very clever, it was a very clever script, I thought. Yeah. And. The guys who wrote it and um The guy who's directing it, they did a movie called The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent with Nicholas Cage playing himself and Pedro Pascal. Yes, yes.
And I saw that movie four times, and I loved that movie.
So I thought it was really clever and funny. And so when I read this, I knew what they had done. And the same thing with this, I thought, oh my God, this is such a funny, smart, interesting way to kind of. Do tell this story. Right.
And um. Yeah, and that and that's how it happened. And then it's again, it's in theaters nationwide on December 25th. On the day that the here's how I'm going to bring it home here. The Chiefs will be taking on the Denver Broncos in a game that You're hoping means something.
I can't believe I'm saying these words right now. I don't think any of us can believe what you're saying. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.
How is this season landing in the Rudd household? Right now.
Well, I mean, there have been better times, but, you know, it's. Look, this is a very difficult sport. Ha ha. There are a lot of really good teams and a lot of really good players. A lot of circumstances determine outcomes of games and.
You know, if it is, sometimes it's not your year. And if it isn't their year, we can't say for sure yet, although a lot of people seem to be saying so, and understandably. Then so be it. And I'm Happy for whoever it is. But would you like some hope?
I've got some hope for you. Sure. Bring it on. See, I just wanted you to come here. and get some hope.
I hopium, if you will, and jump some hopium into your Chiefs' system. Let's plug it right there. There we go. Here we go. We're about to involve.
Here is the way the Chiefs can make the playoffs. This is a scenario that I think is possible that's up on the screen right now. Paul Rudd. They have to win out, have the Chargers lose two of their last three because winning out means you beat the Chargers this week. One of their last three losses has to be at Denver.
Don't ask me why, it just is. And the other two games in which they'd have to lose one also is at Dallas and home for Houston. Those are losable, possible games. Certainly, to use a Marvel phrase, you see the infinity glove that Justin Herbert is wearing in his left-hand right now. The Colts have to lose twice.
Okay. And the Ravens and Dolphins can't win out. And you're the one who's this, does fill me with a little bit of hopium. Honestly, I see that and I think, okay. It's not impossible.
And it's more than a dumb and dumber chance here. You know what I mean? So you're telling me there's a chance. You're telling me there's more than a chance right now. All right.
But the toughest part is they got to win out, and it just seems like they can't. Put consistent drives or quarters together. And if Mahomes is working and the receivers might not be in the other way around. Yeah, it's a little bit of a patchwork offensive line. And then Andy Reid, his decision this past week, it was just like that blew up on that fourth down.
Yeah. You know, so that's the tough part, is the winning out part, which never used to be the toughest part. Yeah, well, they'll certainly be motivated, but again, sometimes it's not your year. Hopefully it will be, but whatever. Do you have more hope now?
Did I accomplish that mission? You've really turned me around here, Richard. How are your fantasy teams doing? Where are we? You know, pretty good, actually.
Oh, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, pretty good. Which one's got a chance? They all do.
They all do. Yeah. I mean, I'm not in like 20 of them. No, but I mean, you're, but hey, I'm in three of them and they're all gone. I mean, yeah, it's history.
It's gone. Like the, you know, like the goodfellas. He's gone and there's nothing you can do about it.
So there's one that I kind of squeaked into the playoffs.
Okay. Two other ones I've um I've had a fairly strong showing. But here's the thing about fantasy: you get in the playoffs, it's anybody's. It doesn't, you could have the greatest team, and it just, and you could have been undefeated. Yeah.
You get one weird, yeah, one weird weekend, and you're done. You could lose to an eight. That's the thing about playoffs, one and done. I should write that down. Honestly, yeah.
Yeah, let me hold on. I got my pen here. This is how it works. I don't know if you guys know this. Profile.
No, if you lose in it, here's the thing: if you lose in the playoffs, there's a really good chance your season's over. I had no idea. When you put it that way, it's really final. What are the team names of the teams that are going? What do we got?
Oh, God. What do you have? Um. What do you got? Is one of them might be a Garden of Kisses?
Okay. That's good. I love your fantasy team names. Garden of Kisses. Where did that?
Is that at a lyric or is that something you saw in a magazine or something? I don't even remember. I think it was just, I think I heard the phrase once. You know this, Rich. We've talked about this.
I hear phrases and I hate them so much that I actually put them in my notes section in my phone. I'm like, I'll name my team that this year. Which that's like a floral moment. That's right.
A floral moment. Was and I told you that I saw on one of those. You know. Interior designer giving a tour of a house for sale, and this was like an alcove. This is a wonderful space for a floral moment and And I watched that on TV and screamed, you mean flowers?
So then you reach for your phone. Like, I hate that guy. I hate this show. I hate everything. This is going to be the name of my fantasy team.
A championship fantasy team? Was there a talk to? Garden of Kisses is a Garden of Kisses. This is in the Valley in L.A.
Okay, that might be it. Apparently, that's what we're being told, yeah. Garden of Kisses. Yeah. Is that what?
Oh, wow. Maybe that's where. What kind of place is it? That's right.
It is a fact of being a fact of Kissinger. It's a florist, yeah. Yeah, it's not like a place where you can get your. Nails done. Yeah.
You know, or anything like that.
So many things I want to say, but you know, so what's your team name is you donkeys. You donkeys. Because of the aforementioned story that Hank told in the last hour. Another one is because you named it Finger Gunned by Costa. Finger Gunned by Costa.
Well, you actually rejected that one, and I used that one. Which is the one that he used to tub one? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
So you didn't use the one that I picked. No, we did use the one that you picked.
Now it escapes me now. Blanking, yeah. Hold on, we're blanking. Yeah, that one.
Someone took it.
Someone else used it. That did not work for us. Hold on, Big Dom's lockbox. Big Dom's lockbox. Oh, right.
That's right.
Yeah. Yeah. That's right.
Big Dom's lockbox started like the Ravens one and five and then made a run like the Ravens and is now missing the playoffs, most likely. You don't want to have your fantasy team mimic the story of the 2025 Ravens right now. By the way, have you been in a guillotine league? Have you tried that? Yeah.
It's amazing.
So it's the greatest. I'm still alive in one. You are. And by the way, this is what I mean with any week. Like, I was crushing in the other one.
And it had Jonathan Taylor. It had a bunch of like, and then one week, just over. But one, I'm still alive. Oh my God. We're doing it this year.
It's really fun. It is the greatest fantasy game that could possibly be created. And I also really like best ball only because it's really fun to draft, and then you don't have to think about it. I think you're doing very well. I am winning our best ball right now.
Yeah, where are we? I know I'm not. Yeah, Paulie Jukes is way back right now. I think we're in third. You guys are in third, but I'm up top and I'm up by 12.
Who am I going back and forth with? I don't know. It's a guy named Peterson. Is that the guy that takes eight hours to draft?
Well, I mean, we went back and forth on that front. I stepped into a buzzsaw of complaining about that. The worst part about those drafts is, and I have such stress, if I go to sleep. Or if I'm going to sleep, I stay up for hours in case it gets to me. And then I wake up every hour on the hour.
I'm like, check my phone because I don't want to keep people waiting. You were in London when we were doing that. Yes. I'm like 19 hours ahead of me. Everybody works how it works.
You're in sixth ball. I'm in sixth place. Right ahead of, just ahead, seven points ahead of John Hamm. All right, well, that's okay. That's good.
As long as you beat him. Yeah. Paul Rudd here again. Anaconda is available in theaters nationwide December 25th. You know what's popping up, and I know you're not on Instagram or social media or anything like that, but what's popping up on my timeline over and over again are anchorman moments where you can't keep it together.
Pretty much. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, is it the one where Will is blind? That's one of them, right?
Or there's all of them, like, where it just seems to me where it. You can't keep it together when you're trying to throw lines out there, right? Where they make you go over and over and over again with whatever pops in your head. Right.
And then it makes Will laugh. And I can't. Yeah. Yeah. There's.
Well, there was the one, there was one where literally a scene none of us could get through. The other guys weren't on camera. And it was Steve Corell started laughing first, but it was when he was talking about. Um Pompeii. That's all I'll say because I mean.
And it just, and it and it destroyed me. Will Farrell is the funniest. He's, I mean, it's. Always, he is just. Kills me.
There's another one that goes around that sometimes. People send me to Melissa McCarthy. Uh in This is 40 where she Is just a comedy assassin. Where she'll do what? Just keep throwing she was sitting, and Leslie Mann and I were in the principal's office, and she just started.
Ripping into us, and I've never seen anyone Decimated an entire room like Melissa McCarthy in that scene. Yes. We were in a room, and there's about the crew, like 20 people behind the cameras, you know, the boom operator and the stills photographer. And there were 20-something people. By the time she started, by the time she finished.
That scene, there were six people left. People just had to keep leaving because they were trying not to laugh. 'Cause it would ruin the take. Right.
Um which was pointless. I was crying throughout the whole thing. But um She's incredible. Yeah, I mean, the Will Farrell line about Pompeii, it's now in my head. Why now I'm reading the transcript?
Nothing can be repeated. You can't repeat it at all. But I mean, there's also, was there one in Anchorman 2 where you're in a car or something like that, and you guys couldn't keep it together? It was like. Where um Who was it?
Where Kechner was talking about being in love with all of you guys or something? That might have been in the first one. Was that in the first one? Was that in the first one? Was that one where he was talking about how he lived with Roger Stauback?
Refresh our memories? I don't know. Literally, that just popped in my head for the first time in about 15 years. I don't even remember if that was what it was, but I remember he, I remember Champ talking about Roger Stauback. Oh, my God.
Holy cow. Yeah, these keep popping. And it's glorious. And obviously, I watch one and then I'll share it, and then it'll then just start feeding it. Nothing.
My favorite thing to do is just to watch bloopers and watching people laugh. I can. That's it. I'll go on YouTube and I'll watch news bloopers or whatever it is, and three hours go by and I'm just still.
Well, it's Corrilla that strikes me as he'd be the one toughest to break, though, right? He's really, really good at keeping it together. But he was the first one to break it.
Well, this is interesting. That scene where, yeah, Will was blind. When he started doing it, I was actually weirdly the one who did keep it together, which seldom happens. Steve started laughing first. which he never does And um But the clip that's online is just me Yeah.
Yeah. That's God. I wouldn't but he also, I mean, God, who's Corel? Is it just another comedy? What's your favorite SNL skit that you did that you've done?
and all of the times that you've hosted. Do you got one? Uh The one that you love the most that you did. I don't know if there was one that I loved the most, but I did really like the I hosted once in One Direction was the musical guest. And we did a sketch where I was.
With all of these young kids, and I just happen to be a huge One Direction fan and know everything about the band and really get in the face of these kids that don't get their trivia right. Oh, I think I remember that where the band is coming off stage or something. I'm just a really overzealous One Direction fan, but I don't, you know. And that's the stuff that gets pitched to you during the week, and you're like, I'm in on that. I was the only one I went in and I had an idea for a sketch.
Oh, you had the idea. Yes, and I remember pitching it in, I think it was Chris Kelly, was one of the writers. Right.
But they wrote it. But no, I had this idea that. Like Be fun to be a grown-up. Because they were just enormous at the time. Right.
And so being a grown-up and just a big one-direction fan. Fantastic.
So one of the guys in our guillotine league that's really Cooper, my youngest son, is in the guillotine league, and he's survived to this point as well. And it's truly for him, it's like the biggest moment of his young life right now. Every week he thinks every play is going to chop him, and every play that gets him off the guillotine is something that he didn't see coming. And the person who loves to give him the most grief in the text chain, which is the best part about this, is to have a text chain is Vinnie Pasquentino of Kansas City Royal. You know Vinny, right?
I mean, I'm a fan for sure. You would love him, and he would love you as well. Yeah, he goes. nonstop at my son about this sort of thing. It's just so Vinny's still alive.
Vinny still alive. No how not. But he's still taking time to seize Cooper.
Well, it was here. And here's what's so great about guillotine leagues: sentences like this.
So Cooper needed Hunter Henry to get one more catch on Monday night football. And Vinny was on the guillotine. And if Hunter got one catch. And he didn't have a catch from the second quarter. He didn't have one in the third quarter, and in the fourth quarter.
And Vinny is just like. Locking in on Cooper, like, are you nervous? Like, sending text, are you nervous? Are you nervous? You're nervous.
And Cooper was nervous. Sure. Hunter Henry gets one catch in the fourth quarter of that Monday night game against the Giants. A celebration breaks out in our living room to the point where it's like, you know, the Yankees win the World Series. And he immediately sends a gif to Vinny of the moment where Vinny.
Hit a home run but thought he had lost the ball somewhere. And he sends that to Vinnie Pasquino. And I couldn't have been more proud of my son to basically back at a Kansas City Royal. Way to go.
So far. Yeah, I know. By the way, I just squeaked by and guillotined this week because I thought it was done. I went in, I had. I played Mahomes as my quarterback, and he had the worst.
outing of his career. And I was going up I was The guy behind me only needed like three points, and he was playing Hertz. Oh my god. lost by one point. All those turnovers.
This is from this past game you're talking about. We've been looking for somebody who was helped by Hurts turning over the ball to place in the same time. The reason I'm still in a guillotine league is because of Jalen Hurts. That's amazing.
So you're sitting there going, wait a minute, you were probably like everyone else. Like, wait, does he lose? I didn't watch the game. I went to sleep. I'm like, I'm out of it this year.
I'm not going to watch it. And I fell asleep at like 8.30 at night at night, I think on Monday. Yeah. And so I didn't see anything. And I woke up.
I woke up at like 4 a.m. You checked your phone? I look at my phone.
Well, I just saw it, and it was John Trader text me. Yes. And he said, I can't believe it. That's how I read it. Then I woke up.
I'm like, what? And I looked and I never went back to sleep. It's like a jolt of coffee. It's like your morning coffee. I'm like, how did this happen?
I love it. And I thought for sure that the score is going to recalibrate in the morning and I won't. Gosh. Wow. Awesome.
All right. So you're heading off onto Anaconda Press Tourville. That's what you're doing. That's exactly right.
Okay. Yeah. And then are you done for the year working or you're finished? Or that's it? After this?
Yeah, yeah, you're done, right? Or no? Yeah. Well, there's not much more of the year left. Oh, that's been like dumb.
All right. Okay. That seemed fresh of me. I didn't mean to condemn you. It's a stupid thing for me to say.
I just said I'm doing my New Year's Eve one-man show. And Branson? That's right.
So you do? Branson. That's exactly right.
That's where I do it every year. Every year. I have magic, fiddle playing, and it's the little slick. It's the little slick. That's what you got from me.
Yep. All right. And Big Slick has been dated, correct? We got a spot for next year. It's going to be late May, beginning of June, right around there.
What you do for Children's Mercy Hospital. I really appreciate what you do. You guys like to do it. No, Malad, please. I think we're going to finally.
Try and pull this off. I know that's one of those things said so conditionally: is to do our show from the big slick again. We haven't done that in a long time. Oh, it's when we did it from the day, from the you know, from well, it's even bigger now, so uh, you are welcome anytime. I got to be thrilling to have you.
Yeah, you and uh, let's get this right: Kechner, Regal, Stone Street, Sudakis. I'm not leaving anybody out of it. Heidi Gardner. Heidi Gardner has now been added to the mix right in recent years. Yep.
All you folks from Kansas City, and I mean to call you all you folks, but for Children's Mercy Hospital, which is just a Place on earth that needs to exist, which is terrible, but also great at the same time. And how much money have you guys raised for that?
Well, thus far, we've been going, this will be going into our 17th year. We've raised over $30 million. Last year was $4.5 million. Congratulations on all of that. Oh, thank you.
And Anaconda, again, is in theaters nationwide December 25th. I appreciate you stopping by here. Oh, we got one more thing to show you. We have a gag around here where if we try to help a coach make a decision or a quarterback make a decision or fans call in and say, Can you help me with this fantasy decision or what should I do about that? We call it RES consulting, Rich Eisen Show Consulting.
And that's the photograph that we use where Brockman is you right there. Yep. And Del Tufo is. Steve Carrill, I guess I'm the anchor man. Champ TJ right there.
That's great. Sit right there. R.E.S. Consultant. We should sing afternoon.
We're busy. We should sing afternoon delivery. I would imagine you're getting, yeah. We j uh we can't harmonize afternoon to light as well as you guys. All right, last one, screw it.
How did that scene come up, Afternoon Delight? What's the book?
Okay, so the story was it was never in the scene.
Okay. But we were sitting at the news desk because they were doing a lighting setup. Might have been playing, I think, 70s music at base camp or something early that morning. Anyway, Steve Carell and I were sitting there and we were just talking, and that song came up. It had been playing earlier in the day.
And the idea was, oh, we should learn that song in four-part harmony because when this movie comes out and we ever have to go on Conan or do some show or something, we could sing it. It was never supposed to be the movie. It was kind of a throwaway idea. But we mentioned it to Adam McKay. And then.
Uh a week later. We were doing that scene, and Adam says, You guys should do Afternoon Delight in this scene. I'm like, what? We're only going to do it for press. He's like, no, no, it would work.
And so, well, we don't know it. He said, Well, take 20 minutes.
So we went to the side and we were trying to figure out our parts. And we sang it in the scene. We had like a little, you know, like a little CD play or something in the corner. It was playing really low because we didn't have. Earwigs or click track or anything.
So we were just uh Winging it. We had to take about 20 minutes and then and that's how that came about. And you did that was just one take? That's it? We might have done it a couple of times, but we didn't do it many times, no.
And we didn't read we didn't re-record it.
Something cut print. Cut print.
Well, then there's a long pause, right? And then you guys have some conversation, and then it's like, afternoon. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's right. You're right. It might have. And I wonder if it was playing really softly, if we knew when that was coming in, or that was the one part we just. Could just instinctually know to come in with afternoon, daylight.
I don't know. And then everybody walks away. And every walk away. Thank God. Yeah.
Outstanding. Anaconda, available in theaters nationwide, December 25th. You're the man, man. Rich, the best. Love you, Paul Rudd.
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Paul Rodd and Hank Azaria, the last two guests over the last couple of hours, have been quite something. Let's sneak in a phone call here before we get out of Dodge on this day. Let's go. To, what are we going to do here?
Okay, let's go to Ramy here in New York City. What's up, Rami? They get that right or New York City. How are you? Hey, Rich, how are you doing?
Just want to say first and foremost, a big fan of the show. I love you guys, and I'm glad that you're back home. It's in New York City. Always good to see when native New Yorkers are back in town. Hey, man.
I am Matt. I appreciate that. Mike Del Tufo is adjacent. New Jersey adjacent. Just wanted to say, this whole Phillip Rivers thing is just wild to me.
It's like very Twilight Zone-ish. I can't believe he's actually probably going to start on Sunday. And, you know, actually, it's like Rocky IV when Apollo Creed is getting ready to fight Ivan Drago again. I'm just wondering, is this What we're about to see. No, no, no, no, come on, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hold on a second.
What happened to Apollo Creed? Spoiler alert, before you say anything. Oh, my goodness gracious. Wow. I mean, I'm concerned about his.
You know, well-being, but Mike is. Is Dykin gonna throw in the towel? The Seahawks defense has been making people think about it. I want the Disney story. That's why I want to know which you think this is true.
If Rivers somehow goes on this miracle run, gets into the AFC championship game, is the MVP. If he gets him there, he's the NFL MVP.
Well, the issue is it's a regular season award.
So we would not be. We would have to vote on him over his final four games, and that'll be a tough stretch. But I appreciate the call, sir, and your. Appreciativeness of our presence here in New York City. And you say we now because you get a vote.
No, it's a royal we. Yeah. Yes. Oh, yeah, that's what we're talking about. Yeah.
Listen. Phillip Rivers is one to root for, or this just in. And in terms of stories, the guy sitting at home or wherever he was whatever he was doing on Sunday. And no idea, no idea that a phone would be ringing later on that day from a former team asking him to come back, and that. Um the opportunity would be so great that he'd have to t take advantage of it.
And you know He spoke today and And I had our crew back home. uh cut a couple sound bites This is uh on on him playing for A team that he thought he was retiring from, and with a coach that he never thought he'd play for again. Shane Steichen was on the Charger staff with Philip. in his final days with the Chargers, and he had this to say on that. As simple as as can be as a coach that I love.
and an organization that I really enjoyed being with. You know, Mr. Ursay believing in me in that year in 2020 when it didn't go so good in 2019. Shoot the teammates that I were able to play with, shoot 14 of them, we're still here. Um Training rooms are the same, PR guys are the same, equipment rooms the same.
Uh they wanted me. And You know, I try to keep it as simple as that. And you know, a game I love to play, a game that I thought I was done playing. Certainly, I wasn't really hanging on to any hope of playing again. I'd kind of thought that ship had sailed.
But something about it excited me. And it's kind of one of those deals: the door opens, and you can either walk through it and find out if you can do it. Or uh or run from it. And um I know that there's risk involved, obviously, of what may or may not happen, but the only way to find out is going for it. I just felt almost like it was a a gift, another opportunity to play and cut it loose with your guys and the game you love to play and the dream that you got to live, you may get some bonus time.
So I really kept it as it kept it as simple as that in my mind. And And uh here I stand. And here I stand.
Sounded emotional. Wow, I mean, and it reads on the page again. I got these sound bites sent to me from the NFL network. Desk. It reads that way on the page.
I'm like, I can't wait to hear how it sounds. Here's another one: whether he's physically ready. I mean, this is the ultimate question, right? Because mentally, we keep saying neck up, he's good. Got it.
Hit it. Yeah, we're going to find out that too. You know, I think so. I mean, I know, again, I know it is tough, and I know five years is a long time. Believe me, that weighed on me a lot.
It being so long. But it also is a game I've played a long time and stayed in over the last five years. And I know high school ball is different, but staying involved in the game. And I watch, shoot, I watch the Colts and the Chargers every Sunday, about every snap, and I watch about every game there is. And I know that's not NFL preparing playing quarterback.
I know that's a far stretch from that, but it's not like I just kind of shut football down and I'm trying to pick it back up. I've been pretty still been very into it since I've been gone. But yeah, no, it is a physical game and it's fast and dudes are big and fast, just like they were. And so I'm just shooting taking a day at a time and I do feel good. There's something about being back in this building that feels right.
And I'm just thankful and shoot, like I said, really just taking it one meeting at a time, one lift at a time, and really embracing it and going after it. Right.
I mean. I'm sold. At a few of the Vegas spots where I might play some waitresses. Oh, my God. Philip Rivers is anywhere from 15 to 20 to 1 for comeback player of the year.
Woo!
Well, I mean, if he goes 4-0, he's going to get it. Other than that, around in other places. That are being talked about. This is being talked about everywhere. I mean, I asked Cam Hayward about it.
Kyle Shanahan in his press conference today. It did confirm that when Garoppolo broke his foot. And there was only Brock Purdy to turn to, they did think about Rivers and did contact him. but then figured that they were Ready to go with Purdy. Yeah.
Stuck with him. Wow. Um and Kevin O'Connell. Was asked about it as well. And this is funny.
He's not surprised about Philip Rivers coming out of retirement. I know for a fact he's got a full-scale practice field at his house, and he's got enough folks in his family to form a team if he needs to. We said yesterday. Run an 11 on 11 and he could totally run a drill. That's Kevin O'Connell's reaction.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
It's too much. It's a story. I love it. Now, again, comeback player of the year isn't coming back from your couch. No.
I know Joe Flacco. won it and I believe I need to look this up in the bylaws. You've been instructed that that's not what this award is for. It's about being injured and coming back and rehabbing and And doing that. But Philip Rivers, coming out of retirement out of nowhere, had no idea this was even an opportunity because who knew Daniel Jones' Achilles was going to give way?
And the fact that he is potentially getting ready to start for the Colts against the Seahawks in a crucial game for both. is one of those you can't make it up NFL moments. 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, The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.
