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You can check it out on Disney Plus also. There's a Women's Sports Now page there. We're very excited about that show. No contest wrestling is actually. Counter-programming this show in hour number three on ESPN2.
That's just how many tentacles the Rich Eisen Productions world is getting into the Disney field. We're getting our hooks in. We stay winning. As a matter of fact, TJ Jefferson. There it is.
By the way, did he leave the flag like that? I guess so. The Cowboys flag is over a sea. We're not. I'm not going to stand for it.
You know what that looks like? That looks like the how the Raiders used to tarp the upper deck. Upper deck? You know, with the Raiders logo. Cover the seas to make it look like it was more filled.
That's what that is over there.
So TJ's left a Cowboys flag over his chair. He and O'Shea Jackson Jr. are at WrestleMania. Love it. 42.
So.
Now we're number three of this program when Peter Farrelly. The uh the director strolls in here. He will be on the air with O'Shea Jackson Jr. talking about WrestleMania 42. Good to see you, Chris Brockman.
How are you? Hey, man, happy Friday. Good to see you, Jason Taylor. Let's love it. There are three of us here today.
I love it. I know. A bald is beautiful Friday. It is a bald is beautiful Friday. I should have shaved my head.
Zach Alifanakis is in our green room. I am so excited. I am too. I know. Just like smiling.
I am too. It's going to be a lot of smiles on today's show because he's got a new program on Netflix called This is a Gardening Show. And if you're wondering what it is, it's a gardening show. And, you know, sometimes you just hit the nail on that and just call it what it is. This is a gardening show.
The title doesn't always. And it's delightful, and he's here. And of course, we're going to go down a pop culture wormhole with Zach Galifanakis. And then Peter Farrell is. This new movie is all wrong.
It's called Balls Up. It is exactly what you think it is. Except you really don't know what it is, but it's worth your time. Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser are starring, and it's good old-fashioned silliness from Peter Farrell. Cam Hayward's on this program.
We're heading to Pittsburgh next week for the draft. And so that's going down. Tom Pellicero, anything about the NFL draft that you're curious about? We hope to get out of him. Our first guest next week for draft week.
Is Fernando Mendoza. Oh, that's where we roll. I've heard of that guy. That's on Monday. That's how we kick off our draft week.
We're going to be in Pittsburgh Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week. There's you, 844-204-Rich, number to dial. I'm curious to hear who you want your team to take. I'm happy to have these conversations with you if you think. Um I you know I might have some insight.
Uh I'll I'll I'll lend it to you because The rumors are flying. I know. We've made it. That's how we know draft season is here. I mean, it's lying season, obviously, but the rumors are going nuts, and I'm here for it.
You know. Uh I'm I'm hearing a lot. of what's true and what's not. I I have no idea. No clue uh about it, but you know, I'm I'm I'm hearing, you know, um that players that you're Yeah, I don't want a rumor monger or anything like that.
I know you like it when you get it. But players that you see ascribe to certain teams in all these mock drafts, and then you hear like, no, they don't want him. They have no part in wanting him. And then you'll see on draft night. Um New York Giants select Sonny Styles after all.
Yeah, New York. I thought they I'm dropping some breadcrumbs here. I have no idea what the Giants are going to do. And you're hearing all sorts of crazy rumors. Who the hell knows?
Yeah. But um General managers still have to talk because they're having press conferences. uh Adam Peters uh of the Washington Commanders. Sitting seventh overall, for instance. You're seeing in mock drafts They stick and pick.
You've seen in mock drafts, they're trade no. This is the spot where. Um not only Daniel Jeremiah, but Todd McShea. Of the NFL Media Group and the Ringer, or NFL Network, I should say, the NFL Media Group we are no longer employed by. 23 years, I got to get out of that habit.
But Disney's Daniel Jeremiah. And And the Ringers, Todd McShay, both have Carnell Tate. Going to the Jets here because the Jets trade up. and the commanders trade back. And they trade all the way from 7 to 16.
That's a large drop. But they get another second-round selection. For it. or they'd get a second round selection for it. Because I don't believe they have one.
At any rate, Adam Peters was asked about Or what What are the odds of them trading back, or do you think you're going to stick and pick? That's what they asked. Are you going to just stay at seven? I would say more likely than not that would happen, but you never know. You never know who's, you know, it'll depend on who's on the board.
If. if a team wants to move up, you know, and then we have to decide If we want to do that, but I would say more likely than not we'd stay in pick. But, you know, I don't foresee us moving up, but I, you know, moving back just depends on the circumstances. But we're not like. I don't want to say we're not actively trying to move back.
We're always assessing our options and making sure we're ready and then understanding who's going to be there at certain positions and certain spots towards the the middle to the later part of the first round. But um and just being prepared for that, but um not really actively trying to get out of that at all. Because you'd have to think, why wouldn't they take Carnell Tate themselves? Why wouldn't they take Jeremiah Love themselves? Why wouldn't they do such a thing for.
Jaden Daniels coming back from his highly disappointing injury marched second season. Why wouldn't they do that? Why wouldn't they in the same way that the Jets fans are dreaming of having a Buckeye? Receiver room with Garrett Wilson and Carnell Tate, why wouldn't you take the youngest one to date? The newest one And Pair him with the OG of it all and Terry McLaurin.
Why wouldn't you do that? Why wouldn't you do Jerem Jeremiah love? Drafting. Why won't you do that? Why would you trade back?
They need a running back. I don't know. It's so funny. It seems like half the teams want to load up on picks for next year, and then the other half are thinking about moving up in this year's draft. It's really interesting.
Well, the reason why you would not You know I I understand that everybody's trying to um Maybe some are trying to move back. But I don't understand why they would. Because if you're in the top 10, that's where the ultimate value in this draft is. The only thing is, it's not a positional value. We're not taking a safety that high.
We're not taking an off-the-ball linebacker that high. We're not taking a hybrid linebacker that high. We're not. Fill in the blank. How about we just take awesome players and fake them?
That's the idea. That's why I don't understand why the commanders do not have a second-round selection. They've got a 3-5. Two sixes and a seven. That's another reason to want to trade back, though.
And if you feel that there is value in the second round, third round, then you do that. I mean, every year there's lots of starters who come out of the second. Correct. But we love somebody that we think we can take in the middle of the first round anyway. Very helpful.
We love the kid. We think we could just trade back and get more picks. That's one way to do it. That's a way to tell the commanders you can trade back. But if Jeremiah Love's sitting there or Carnell Tate's sitting there, really, you're going to do that?
I don't know how you say no to those guys. And then the guy in front of them is, you know, that's where Domino would fall. That's Andrew Berry of the Browns, who gave a masterclass answer to Mary Kay Cabot of saying absolutely nothing when asked about his draft strategy. Get it? Our mindset you know, going into The draft with our most valuable asset isn't about Hey.
Just Trade it away or trade it. It's maximizing the asset. And that can at different times take different forms. It can be selecting a player, it could be trading it for a veteran, it could be trading down, it could be trading up. And so we will continue to work through all those possibilities.
Up until early, we get on the clock on Thursday night. But I'd say, Mary Kay, like, you know, we're working through a number of different scenarios at this point. Brilliant. I mean, it's brilliant.
Well done. That's well done. We could move up, we could move down. We're going to maximize the assets. We've got all sorts of options.
Maximizing the assets. Listen, and then, you know, Andrew Berry, I can't wait for the Browns draft. You know, because then there'll be like moments like last year with Dylan Gabriel and Shador Sanders. Like, what the hell are they? What is he doing?
What is he thinking? But in retrospect, how does Fannin Judkins. Mason Graham, son of you. From one single draft class. And you also traded out.
You got a new, you got another pick this year because you let somebody take Travis Hunter. Who, you know, Browns had a really good draft. That's what I'm just saying. Really good draft.
So, what do they do at six? Yeah. Carnell Tate sitting there like, no, we don't need him. Or do they trade out? Or what do they do?
Do they take another offensive lineman? Is that what they do? Would they take Jeremiah Love? You know, if he's the best player in the draft. on your draft board and he's sitting there at six and I know you just got Quinn Sean Judkins.
Take them. Why not? Yeah, I don't know. Why not? You know?
I like good players. Let's just stockpile them. Correct. Just keep on doing that. The Browns did that last year.
We'll see what Todd Monken will do in that regard. The one team, though, that I really like what they have done. And I know this is kind of a bit of a hot take because they traded away their top wide receiver just as they went ahead and hired a new quarterback who's never done it before. At the level that they're going to have him do it. And Malik Willis.
I love the, I just kind of dig what the Dolphins have done. Hmm. Ever since Stephen Ross made that un Conventional move of waiting three days after you would normally fire your coach, you don't have any faith in, and walk in the middle of a An exit meeting between player and coach, and say to the player, I need a minute with our coach because he's not going to be your coach anymore. And that wasn't the way I would normally handle business. But after that, bringing Troy Aikman in and basically say, we'll take the two guys from Green Bay and let them go.
John Eric Sullivan was asked about his first draft. Coming up. And does he need to run everything by Stephen Ross? And this is an outstanding answer while giving an answer. Got it.
How will the draft process work as far as who has the final word? Is it you? Is it Steve Ross? Do you have to run the first-round picks by Steve? Every pick by Steve?
How is that going to work? Yeah, I mean, Steven is. as as supportive of an owner as you can be. Um, and obviously, you know, he's the owner of the team, and that speaks for itself. Um It's my call.
Let's go. It's my call. Can we get that as a new drop? It's my call. Just the way he said it too.
But you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna give this answer. I'm going to. Uh Lord. I will complement My owner.
I will pay respect to the man who signs the check, sir. Smart move. But. It's my call. Who we are drafting here.
At the Miami Dolphins organization. And I just, you know. Aikman's apparently going to be in the draft room, but apparently he says he will not offer any. advice on what player there is going to be in picking. By the way, and I heard some pushback on that.
Like, yeah, he's not going to say anything. No, because he's the one who said we should hire these guys. Right. Can you imagine? He's now going to give two cents on You know, don't take that, Claire.
They're going to come to look at Troy real quick and he's going to go. Let him go. I don't know. I doubt it. But I I I think it's just In the same way that you're like, let's get really good players here and just keep amassing them.
Let's get really smart people who you trust their football acumen. And let's keep adding them to our roster. Yeah, let's team build around all these smart people. And the Dolphins are going to replace. The loss of Jalen Waddell, which was with a rookie who is not going to be Require to be paid the manner in which Jalen Waddell's being paid at wide receiver.
And you're going to start and hook him up with your new quarterback. and go to work with Devin Han. That's the guy. Smart to keep him. You're going to pay him.
He's the home run hitter. Yeah, and if everyone says this is such a good wide receiver draft, yeah, it makes perfect sense. Exactly. I kind of dig what the Dolphins are doing. You might be on an island with one.
Oh, okay, great. One week from tonight. One week from now, we'll be in Pittsburgh. We'll be one segment in, knowing what happened the night before, getting the answers to all these questions about. How many trades are there going to be?
Who wants to trade down because there's no longer enough premium players at? a so-called premium position. How many are going to say screw it and draft a positional player? in a spot you normally wouldn't draft that player. How many quarterbacks are going to go?
All those questions are going to be answered by this point.
Next week when we're in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But if the Dolphins go ahead and get with the 11th overall pick and the thirtieth overall pick.
Some really terrific football players that Phil and Eve will be coming on the air saying. They've checked the box.
Now we'll see what they do in night two and in day three. And I think they're going to get the right ones. I know. It's kind of crazy if the Dolphins out there together. Yeah, it is.
It'd be a different change of pace for them. Let's take a break. What do you think? 844-204-Rich is the number to dial right here on the program. This is a Gardening Show.
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Foraging. Foraging. How does one learn? What should I learn about foraging?
Well, this is how we used to get our food as humans, right?
So the show also has a history. There's kind of a history lesson in each episode as well. But foraging in Canada, at least within the The French Canadians, I think that tradition still is there. And foraging is basically going into the woods and looking for food.
So When you think about it, that's early humans, that's what we d we we did. We would just go in and look for our food. But now there's sections of food in a place that you can go and buy them. That is correct. But there is a real um Lost Connection, I think, we have to food.
Because of that, we all have this convenient thing, which is wonderful. Don't get me wrong, but My family and I will go out and look for mushrooms together. And it's really. Kind of an amazing event to just go get your own food. And then we cook them up, and there's something about that.
I feel like we're losing that more and more. And I hope this show kind of reminds us that we need to stay connected to our food. Yes, indeed. And you root vegetables. We learned about composting as well.
Composting is very important. Let me just stress. That composting is, I would say that's the most important thing when you're starting a garden. Is to try just to collect your kitchen scraps. Is anyone still listening?
Hello? I would imagine a lot of people have turned off by now. Not at all.
Okay, good. I want to hear about Zach Galifanakis. Me too. Tell me what I should do with my banana peel. You put it right in a compost and you put everything in your kitchen scraps.
I don't, I put fish sometimes, but I don't put heavy meats in there. You can put dairy. And then at the end of it, Rich, is what you get is a soil or a compost that I can now, after a year, take that compost, put it in my wheelbarrow. Yes. Literally throw seeds on it.
Just throw seeds. In the wheelbarrow. And the plants will start to grow. Sure. Look at you.
Yeah, and these are the kind of things that I've always find fascinating. I mean, you know, the idea of a little seed that can grow into a gigantic pumpkin, you know. Elon Musk can't do that. How could he even think about doing such a thing? I don't think he has.
No, he's not foraging for. He can't do that, no. He's probably not. No. But you are going to look so people can watch this and learn.
You also have kids involved in this as well?
Well, I wanted it to be kind of a. family thing a little bit. The kids don't know anything. Our children don't know anything.
So, I think, you know, I think it's really important for the next generation to know this stuff.
So, there's no composting TikTok page, is what you're saying? I don't know how to TikTok. You're filling that void right now? I guess. I mean, I don't know anything about it.
I don't know. Yeah. All right.
Well, I guess we'll Google that. Zach Alifanak is here on The Rich Eisen Show.
So when. When was the last between two ferns that you put together? When was it such a gosh? The last time I did, I don't know. The last one I did.
It's been a few years, and I don't remember who we did last time. When can we get you to do that again as a human race, Zach? Rich? Yes. I feel like we're kind of living in meaner times right now.
And I'm not sure. That that Tonally might work at this moment. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like people are kind of in on the the gag at this point.
I guess so, yeah. Maybe that maybe that is the reason to do one. Right. And that people who you have sitting in between the ferns kind of making fun of themselves. because you're asking the questions in the manner in which you're doing it.
And then also, when I do need a laugh, I will. Call up the bloopers repeats. From your show. And it's every time, and I know pretty much all of them by heart by now, and it does not matter. The bloopers are, I have seen those bloopers.
I always say my career is a blooper, but those bloopers are joyous because. I did want to bring, I did, I've never been interested in pranking anyone. Yes. I always wanted to be a joint effort, but I never wanted the audience to think that. Right.
Right. So then when we showed the bloopers, we kind of gave that up a little bit. Right. I mean, you let you pull back the curve. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah. But still. Yeah. I have a couple questions for you on these. Brad Pitts spitting the gum at you.
Was that expected or was that? I asked him to do that. You did? Mm-hmm. And he said, No problem.
I'll I think he just put my gum in his mouth and spit it. It was my gum. He took it. He took, I think he took it out of my, I can't remember. Right.
But, yep, that's how that went down.
Okay. Is there anybody that you had to twist their arm and they needed a minute before they did what you asked of them? Or they all went with the flow. Everybody was pretty game. You know, they don't really get the questions ahead of time.
They don't? No, no, no, no. I mean,. I think with President Obama, they did because we didn't have that much time with them. And then.
But yeah, I don't I don't want to give them the questions at all. Because that takes away the element of surprise, that you need that honest reaction from them. But yeah, he was a he's it's like Obama's from like Second City. He's really good at comedy. He was really good at comedy.
Yeah, yeah, very good at it. Right. Were you nervous about that? That when I was incredibly nervous, I was. I was because we were in the White House and we were.
Oh, you went to him? Yeah, we went to him. And I uh I'm not a cool cat. And he is.
So I feel like, you know. But he was great and he called me after it came out. He called my cell phone.
So you're just walking around. I'll never forget. I was at a construction site. Yeah, I was at a construction site. And this is just a dumb thing.
He calls me with traffic cones and. I it he calls me and we chat. And then I hang up, I'm alone, and I had no, and I just took a picture of the chair I was sitting in. There was no one to share. There's an empty chair.
I have a picture of an empty chair next to two traffic codes to commemorate the call I got from Obama. But that was thrilling. I actually got nervous when he called me because I. I didn't expect that. He didn't have to call me.
Right. And this truck's backing up or whatever. Yeah, exactly. And we've become really close friends since then.
So I'm managing. Are we going to talk sports? You want to? I don't know. I mean, I love sports.
I'm happy to do that, but I have a couple more questions.
Okay, keep going. Please. If you don't mind. No, I don't. Did the White House provide the ferns, or did you bring the ferns?
That is a great question. Man, I don't know. I bet we've. Presidential plan. There would have had to have been a security check.
If we had to check the soil, right? I mean, yeah, the pH balance. Exactly. I have to say, that is a fantastic question. I do not know.
Okay. I don't know. We got to look into that. Yeah. How do you look into that?
Who are you going to call? If I don't know, look it up in Obama's new library. Yes, maybe. Oh, by the way, they called me to see if I would give them permission. To put something in the new library without so I'm in the presidential library, I think.
Yeah, isn't that really cool that you've done ferns show? See, you gotta keep doing it. Yeah. I'm also in the Spiro Agnew library. It's right.
I don't know where that one is. Where is that? We'll look that Google. Where is the Spiro Agnew Library? By the way, outstanding vice presidential poll rights.
Oh, really? I like that one. Thank you.
Well, you know, speaking of vice president, I stumped President Obama because no one ever knows this.
Okay. And I asked him before we filmed this. I said, President Obama, can you tell me who Gerald Ford's vice president was? No one remembers. He didn't remember.
No, do you remember? I.
So he's like a replacement vice president, pretty much. Who is it? Rockefeller. Nelson Rockefeller was? I don't were you going to go have to first names?
I don't know what his first name. Right, I'm right about that. Rockefeller. Look it up. Google it.
And no one ever. My father-in-law is the only one that's ever gotten that question. Nelson Rockefeller. Right. Talking composting and Spiro Agnew with Zach Gallifanakis here.
Well, Agnew was Greek. He was Greek. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's why you, that's we all know each other. Yeah.
That's your type, right? That's my type. No, you're tight. Yeah, we're tight. You're tight, yeah.
You're a Vardalos. Yeah, I do know her.
Okay. This is a gardening show is available for streaming next week exclusively on Netflix. I'd love to talk hangover with you, if I may, sir.
Okay. I'm in that movie. I am aware of that, and you are fantastic in it. Thank you.
And the scene in which you were tased. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm. Was it in the script that you were going to get tased in the face?
No, I asked. I said I've seen tased on the body before. And I suggested, kidding, you tased me in the face. That was after I realized.
So the director wanted to really tase us. Todd Phillips. Yes. And With real electricity. Yes.
I'm like, well, then don't hire actors. Then just don't so anyway, the face thing was uh that was uh that was that came up on the spot.
Okay. So it tased me in the face. Yep. And then Reggle Came out with the in the face script. In the face.
Okay. And I think he calls me Fat Jesus. That was not scripted. Which is blasphemous. That was not scripted.
That's a joke I've had that he stole from me years before. All right.
What about the part where you're still walking? You've been tased once. You need one more to finally put you down. Was that in the script, or was that just a thing? I do know that we wanted like a more of a Frankenstein moment there where the tasing wasn't working because of the size of me, I guess.
Which is another fat joke in the hangover. But I don't remember how that went down. That part. That's good. Just the sheer fear on the boy's face after tasing you in the face.
And that's down. That's one of the crew's kids. A lot of the kids in the movie, that's from the children of the crew are in that scene with us. Fantastic. Yeah.
I love that. Because we've had Ken Jong here before. Who's that?
Okay. And oh, yes, I remember him from that very artful show, The Mask Scene. That one, yes. That one, he is from the mast singer. Yes, sir.
It's funny, you mentioned Obama before as well. My kids, when they were much younger watching it, they thought every single singer in The Mass Singer was somebody way more famous than would ever be in The Mass Singer.
So they kept guessing over and over and over again that uh Obama was gonna so I made a deal with them that they would all get a crisp $100 bill. If a mask came off and it was any Obama, oh, that's Barack, Michelle, Sasha, Malia, any Obama. That's not going to happen. That's correct. But Ken, Ken Jung is one of my, I love that man.
I love him. Sweetheart. Yes, he is. And I've known him before we were even in the hangover together. We used to do stand-up together on stage.
No kidding. Yep. Where? Here in town? A little coffee house in Culver City.
Okay. I love it. He said it was his idea to be completely buck naked in the trunk of the car. And that when he came up with the idea, Tom Phillips not only Said you don't have to ask me twice. But Put it in writing, and he had to sign a waiver that he couldn't go back on the idea.
Did you know that he was naked when he jumped out of the car? Or did you see it for the first time when the camera was rolling? First of all, of course it would be only Ken that came up with the idea. Who else is going to request that, Rich? What focus group got together and said, we got to see that guy.
I don't recall if I knew he was nude or not.
Okay. So that probably means I didn't know.
Okay. So he probably, that was a surprise.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah, he's uh he's brave, that guy. I mean, I don't know if that's brave. Yeah, he's brave.
Oh, yeah. I mean, to be buck naked with only just brandishing a tire iron. You know? Yep. He went for it.
He went for it. Okay. And it did. I couldn't. I mean, I've done a lot of things that are embarrassing, but that one is hard to do.
Jimmy Kimmel asked me to be naked at the Oscars. Which one? Uh Mm-hmm. I don't know. Okay.
The one that he hosted recently.
Okay. I was like. What was the idea behind that?
Well, John Cena ended up doing it. Oh, that's right. Right, right, right.
Okay. He's the one that should do it. Yeah, that was for costumes. I mean, that was for costumes. Body wash.
Yeah, I can't do that stuff anymore.
Okay. And did you got a Tyson story from the set? Anything? Related? Tyson related?
Well, I mean, the thing that I remember the most about.
Well, first of all, Mike Tyson's an interesting dude. We talk to a lot of comedy, he's very knowledgeable about stand-up. No kidding. Yes. And like Ernie Kovacs, like he's really, really, yes.
Come on. I promise you. It's very interesting that way. But I guess the thing I remember the most is how many takes we did when he punched me. Because.
When he punched me. And I I'm not I don't think I'm exaggerating. We I think we did thirty. I every time I felt his fist just graze my hair And finally, I went up to Todd and I said, I think how many times 'Cause if he if he had made a connection, you know That's it. Finally, I have an excuse for plastic surgery.
So I do remember that. You know, having that that weapon come at you. uh thirty times and he was going full on It, you know, that I do remember that part. That part was very. Um I was nervous.
So, you might be the only one he's ever pulled a punch on it his entire life. He pulled about 30 punches on it. But just a grazing. And I felt it every time. No, my beard was a little longer than it is now.
I don't think that could be. But it was a thing. It was a thing.
So, do you want to talk sports? Yeah. Okay. I mean, let's try it.
Well, my dad was a football player. My dad played it, he was a scholarship football player at North Carolina State. Like, he was a real great athlete.
Okay. But that's really all I have to offer.
Okay, great. Oh, I got a soccer scholarship. What where? I did. You know, I think I may have made this up in my mind.
I really do. I can't tell yet because I'm 56 now. I'm like, I've been telling this story. I've been telling this story for years, which is this. I think I got two offers.
I wasn't even good, but I got two soccer scholarships. And I remember. One of the schools, I think the mascot was a pickle. Yeah. And I'm like, I can't go play for the pickles.
I just, I can't.
So, okay.
So.
This is easily findable. Nope, oh, oh, yeah, that might you could find. I think. I think the college was Mount Olive. Mount Olive?
Mount Olive and the other college was Coastal Carolina. Oh, well, yeah. That that is in Myrtle Beach, I think it is. And North Carolina School of the Arts is their mascot. Their mascot is the fighting pickles.
Who is? North Carolina School of the Arts. Yeah, they're North Carolina. They're the fighting.
Well, I wanted my mom wanted me to go to school there. Maybe I'm getting so Mount Olive College, which is Mount Olive Pickles. Pickles are from Mount Olive. There's there's a brand.
Okay. They, I feel like, were called the pickles. Mount Olive are the Trojans.
Okay. Well, they might have changed their name. They may have changed their name. That's what I'm thinking. Or this story is completely made up.
By the way, it's amazing. But why would I make that story up? Great question. Yeah, I don't think I've got yourself some My archive. We're interested in you coming.
You're a soccer team. Yep. What did you play? Were you left-wing striker?
So you could. But I'm right-footed. I mean, that's how we were that. I mean, we were a bunch of hillbillies. I mean You're a right-footed left-winger.
But I think Mount Olive, which might not be the pickles for a soccer scholarship that may never have existed. I don't think it did. This whole thing is good. It's the greatest sports story we've ever heard in the history of this program. Yeah, it's good.
I think I was just trying to compete with my father. My dad didn't know anything about soccer. Oh, this is a fun. This is a fun thing. Maybe it's a fun thing, huh?
No, I don't know. I love my dad's. That's good. Yeah, I did. He's a good man.
That's good. Really good man. What's the Audacity that you're involved with right now? New episodes are airing on AMC and AMC. The Audacity is a really, really.
It's really nice to say this because I don't think I've ever had a chance. It's a really important show. I don't think I've ever had a need to say that.
Okay. So this is about. the Silicon Valley and uh the people that are designing all the things that we touch.
Okay. And uh what kind of personalities they are and um where we're headed with all this craziness.
So it really is kind of a uh kind of a dark Comedy about that world.
Okay. So the world of the audacity, you're involved with technology and the future. And then for this is a gardening show, You're going back to foraging, composting. Yeah. Like there was no such thing as a screen, ever.
Well, I prefer that world. The garden world is more my thing here. I'm not really. technological I don't I mean, to watch me get on a Wi-Fi thing is really sad. It's like I'm 80.
What do you mean? And when I text someone, it looks like a serial number. What's the difficulty with getting on Wi-Fi?
Well, first of all, I think we're living in a time of over-communication. I just do. I think. Did you say you were 56? I am your age, yes.
So I think when you're this age, you know the life beforehand, before all this crap, and then now. Correct. And so. I'm of the age where I can tell the difference between the past and now. And I just think where we're headed with technology scares me.
Yes. It just does a little bit because there's no guardrails. I agree. There's no law. I'm with you.
I'm with you. And all these weirdos up in Northern California are making and we there's no What are we to do? Right. It kind of freaks me out a little bit. Yeah.
You should really go there. When somebody who is like, I've created some AI, which is going to be very helpful for so many people, unless it gets a mind of its own and starts killing all of us. We need to be careful. And they're like, we need to be careful about that. I'm like, well, who's the ones who need to be careful about it?
Yeah, I go to the doctor two days ago. And I'm asking the doctor, how is AI improved? And he said, well, you know what's interesting. Chat GPT can hallucinate. That's what he said to me.
He can hallucinate. Like what? And it even can it it can even start fi forming your opinions the way you see fit. Yeah, so wa and there's no guardrails here at all.
So where w what is all this?
So I guess the show is trying to highlight you know that world and and and maybe where we're where we're Where we're headed.
So it does scare me, I'll be honest. And maybe it's a good idea to learn how to forage, then, based on what you're saying. This is a gardening show available for streaming next week exclusively on Netflix starting on Earth Day itself, April 22nd. And again, I'm a huge fan. I really appreciate you coming on here.
And I request more between two ferns. Thank you, Rich. Thanks for watching. I think I'm speaking that on behalf of a lot of people, and I understand what you're saying about a diff, you know, that times are. Meaner and nastier, and the construct of the show is you are asking mean and nasty questions of people, but it's funny.
All right.
And I need to laugh that way.
Okay. If I may. All right.
I appreciate that. And I will take that into consideration.
Okay. And next time you come on here, we will get to the bottom of this soccer. Story. Please don't get to the bottom of it because the bottom of it is going to be: it never existed. And who provided the ferns at the White House?
That one we need to know.
Okay, we'll dive into that. Thanks for coming on. Thank you.
Zach Galifonakis here, ladies and gentlemen, back on the Rich Eisen Show to keep moving on in this first of a Friday show. Um Rich Eisen here. I've traveled all over for some of the biggest NFL moments you can imagine. Conference championships, Super Bowls, draft weekends, and everywhere I go, the city just feels different. It's buzzing, packed, electric.
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That was just so much fun right there. Per exact gallophanakis. Um Let's go to the phone lines. Jimmy in San Antonio. How you been, Jimmy?
Hey, I'm just over here, you know, composting. That was fun. That was just a fun chat with Zach Galifanakis, man. He doesn't do a lot of shows. He needs to come back more often.
I agree. That was very cool. That was great. I agree. I've got a what's more likely, but first, I need to tell you all how nervous I am for the Spurs and the playoffs that are upcoming.
Okay, why are you nervous?
Okay, here's why I'm nervous, and it's not Portland. We have OKC's number. OKC has Denver's number. Denver has our number. I don't know what's going to happen and who's going to come out of the West.
You're not alone. No, I hear you, but you've got as great a chance as anybody. And that's the thing, is like for the first time the Spurs are making the the playoffs. When was the last time they made the playoffs where you're thinking they they could be as good as anybody and win at all? Right.
But before Kawhi left for Toronto? Like, how long ago?
Well, I'm more verbal than mathematical, like you. I don't remember. Jimmy, second best final odds. Yeah, you're right, though. They were second in my car rankings just above the Pistons and the Knicks.
This guy. Yeah, one. No, but don't don't so Jimmy, you know, uh pour yourself one and and enjoy it. Yeah, buddy. Don't get nervous.
Like, this is finally you finally made it. Yeah. You know, and and this may be the last time you're the two seed. In all honesty.
Okay, that's true. You mean to get myself one like I haven't already? I know that. Aaron Fox, this is why you got him. This is why you got him last year.
That's why you got him last year when nothing was. really at stake and you're building for this moment, it's time to hit it. Let's go. Let's go. Okay.
All right.
I trust you. Are you ready for the what's more likely that the whole room? Yeah, sure. All right.
What's more likely? Susie would have hyphenated Schuster Silverman or just taken Rabbi Silverman's last name? Good one. That actually happened. Johnny Silverman's dad, Rabbi Silverman, one of the greatest rabbis in the history of rabbi in the United States of America for sure.
He married. Maybe a fantasy football name, Silverman's stepmom. That's it, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, he signed the wrong line. He signed the wrong line in the marriage license.
Susie will tell the story. The thick New York accent.
Somebody called her up and said, you got to get down here because you're married to your rabbi. Hilarious. Thanks for the call, Jimmy. Thank you.
Thank you.
Bye, guys. And I got a chance to tell that to Andrew McCarthy. Life is amazing. Life is amazing. Um This news just broke.
I'm sort of broken up by it. Garrett Anderson, one of the best angels of this century. Um he's he died? At the age of 52? Is that really?
Do we know what the Angels just posted a statement? Yeah, less than an hour. Deeply saddened to announce the passing of Angels Hall for Garrett Anderson. No real details on what. Listen, I mean, those championship angels.
Okay. I mean, they they want it, as we all know. the World Series. But they they were making runs with Socha and Ersted and Tim Salmon. But Garrett Anderson was a straw, man.
Dude, man. And he could hit. He went a home run derby. He could hit. He got those thundersticks.
You know Clapping. Oh, man. I'm so sorry to hear that. Yeah, the year they won in 2002, he was fourth in MVP voting. He was amazing.
He was spectacular. Lead the league in doubles. Everybody needs, every championship team needs somebody like Garrett Anderson, where he may not be the first name mentioned, but. He might be the The last word from the batter's box. My condolences to him and the Angel's family.
Wow. That one is saddening and shocking. We're back here on ESPN Radio, coast to coast, in a moment. Still here on The Rich Heisen Show Podcast. Mm-hmm.
