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Coming up. Comedian Ron Taylor. Former Sports Center and Late Late Show host Craig Kilbourne. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number two of the Rich Hudson Show is on the air here on Disney Plus, the ESPN app.
Craig Kilbourne's going to be in studio hour number three in 20 minutes time. Ron Taylor, the winner of the contest show, Funny AF with Kevin Hart, is going to be here to lighten our day. 844-204-Rich, number to dial, right here on the program. Chris, you got in my ear during the commercial break. Say there's breaking news out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Baby, let's go, Rich Isaac. Here it comes. And Maria is seats. Breaking news. What do we see?
Rich, we've been waiting for this news since the season ended, honestly. I mean, we've all been on the edge of our seats here. This is set up. In Pittsburgh, I feel like this is our long national nightmare is over. We have a signing.
What do we have? The Steelers have agreed to terms with Chris Boswell on a four-year $28 million. Loki doke. Yeah. Boswell now locked in through 2030.
Is that the cold-blooded assassin, right? According to my cold-blooded assassin. Remember that? It's a serial killer, I think. Serial killer.
Super necessary. Serial killer. Yeah. Not the news you were thinking, really. Again, listen, I understand, you know, expected to, and that's why this is why the information men and women of the National Football League or in any sport always couch their Reporting with words like plans to, expects to, because you never know until it's done, it's not done, and you know, things might take longer and whatever.
But Aaron Rodgers going to Pittsburgh. To what? Get real estate, buy property, go for dinner? I don't know. I don't like see a show here.
Apparently, he went to Pittsburgh, but didn't see anyone from the Steelers to stop by, but that's that strains. Credulity that just so odd. But in the meantime, it just hasn't happened yet, but it's going to happen. Was he playing Oakmont? Maybe he was golfing.
Could be. I don't know. I don't know. No one knows. Who knows?
Nobody knows. Don't know. Or he was just like gonna do it, but just because somebody Ian reported it, I'll show him. I'll just go, we'll get some dinner, see a show. No, that's a level of petty right there.
I don't know. Like I was going to do something, but an insider leaked it.
So now I'm not going to do it. Or he was never in Pittsburgh at all, and he's not going to sign there, or he will. We geotag Rogers. I'm sure he's got a crib there, right? Maybe he was just going to the crib.
Maybe he left something. If we, yeah, maybe he left something. He's going to go. Open it up. Open it back.
Maybe he left his passport. He went out to the coast. Had a few laughs. I don't know. And a t-shirt.
It's not so wild. It's a spring. He has to open up the windows and stuff. That's insane. Like, what?
Well, I mean. He could be Airbnb.
So we're wondering what's where Aaron Rodgers is, and if if he is geotagged, we can only assume. The fact that we don't know is he's been geotagged by the Philadelphia 76ers. Let me ask you this question. What is more porous than? Come on.
The Philadelphia 76ers geotagging ticket program. Or their perimeter defense on the three-point line. I mean, the Treya Palooza from Deuce McBride to start the game. The Knicks rain in 11-3s in the first quarter, 11-14 from three-point range, and it was only 11 of 14 because Landry Shamet tried to throw one in from 35 feet with no time left. Does that count?
That should have counted. It did. Come on. Look, they had 18 in the first half, right? We've all seen games like this.
It doesn't matter if defense you're going to play. It's over. It's written. It's already done. There's nothing you can.
Oh, my goodness. The only starter for the Knicks that didn't have a plus-minus above 30 was Carl Anthony Towns with a plus 23. I mean, my goodness gracious Just a crushing, crushing Sweep Victory for the New York Knickerbockers. 144 to 114 was the final. That's the most points in a playoff game in franchise history, breaking the record from earlier this month.
That's how they're rolling into the NBA Eastern Conference finals, sitting back, chilling like the villains that they are in Philadelphia. My favorite moment was Jalen Brunson crossing over getting to the basket, going up and under, underneath of Joel and beat who wait for it. This is going to drive you crazy because it's so wound up on the floor. Oh, come on, no way. Wound up on the floor.
And uh and then Quick turnover. Brunson was hardly running up the court Spotted up for three and Jam that one down, and then you could just see all the Nick fans in the background just going absolutely nuts. In that building. That program of geotagging. We are not selling our tickets to anybody unless you have a Philadelphia address.
And I just, based on this photograph right here, everybody in the front row. Just staring into the abyss of an offseason. Looks like they live in Philadelphia. Um and everybody, you know, from the second row on back, looks like they don't. No.
Jeez at New York Crap. It's I mean, it just was. Wow. Did you see the, you know, Mitchell Robinson posterizing Joelle Embiid? A bunch of Nick fans showed up with that on a.
A piece of paper and holding that up to try and get MB distracted while he's shooting threes in his home building. Didn't work. The geotagging program, back to the old drawing board, sort of like the Philadelphia 76ers season. Oh, this is so much fun. I sent you guys in the uh Rich Eisen Show Guillotine League text chain.
That includes my son, whose Celtics got eliminated by the Sixers team that couldn't even get a win against the Knicks. A local report from a. Philadelphia news station filled with Philadelphia 76er fan tiers. Knicks aren't going anywhere. Hopefully, they enjoy this.
They're not going to do anything after this.
Okay. Listen. Uh it was tough to hear them over the Nick fans chanting in the background. Mike Brown had this to say afterwards. I got a lot of lot of respect for you Nick fans.
I'm gonna applaud them too. Let's go Nicks. Great job. Um but I got a lot of respect for 'em and the more you obviously you're around, that's the more you appreciate and understand um why they are like that. But more than anything else, they're knowledgeable.
It's a knowledgeable group or knowledgeable fan base, and y you respect that just as much as their their their passion shows. And I love Mike Brown for saying that. I will say this as he's holding up what looks like the Donnie baseball sign that I did years ago.
Okay, be careful. Be very, very, very careful. Because as Charles Barkley, I think, accurately pointed out on Inside the NBA, just two weeks ago, that every single one of those Knicks fans that showed up wanted him. Fired. What are you doing?
Why do we bounce Thibodeau? We're down to one of the hawks. And that can happen, you know, starting next week. You know, one week from today. That's what it could start for Mike Brown.
Can change in a New York minute, is what it's referred to. Great song by tough to even cape for my fellow. New York, New Jersey, Nick Fan brethren, because, and sisters, if you will. Because They act like the series is s season's over and there's a parade coming and We're raising a banner to raise a banner for sweeping the 76ers and showing up in full force, but Josh Hart. Loves it too.
One of the Nova Nicks. Were you even a little surprised at how how many Nick fans were here tonight? Nah, man, because everybody was begging for that for Philly to not sell their tickets and all that stuff, so man. Yeah, it's I used to think Philly was a sports town. Oh, how huge it is anymore.
Ooh. Oh, that's a shot. I hadn't heard that sound bite. Oh, that's a shock. Oh, wow.
Oh! Woohoo! Oh I mean, it's like you're staring at me like you want me to have some type of reaction. I've never lived in Philly. I never.
No, no, no, no. But I'm sorry. Look, it's yeah, it was a basketball team I like. That's my only connection.
So he says, with the fuck that shot up again. It's Dr. J behind you, man. Yeah, okay. That's Dr.
J. Dr. J. He played for the Sixers years ago. I believe today's the anniversary of that famous underneath.
Up and under? Up and under, I think. Today might be. That's sick. Yeah, I have no Tyrese taxi, man.
He's feeling it. This is one of those young Turks there in Philadelphia that's supposed to be reversing all of this. And um he seemed like a very beaten young individual. It's hard, it's definitely difficult, you know what I'm saying? And it's only one way to put a stop to it, and it's we have to go out there and win these games.
We will Just being completely honest, we were better when we played them in the garden this entire season. Like, I know we lost game two and one, but like, game two was better. Regular season was better. Here, we were, you know, I was telling them it just felt louder here for them than it did in the garden. And it's like, um, But we gotta put a stop to it as a team.
Like, winning these games, that's what's gonna make, you know, our fans like louder than theirs or whatever. I don't know how to keep them out. I don't know the logistics of it. But, um, you know, it does suck. I I can't even lie.
It definitely does suck. Yeah. Chris. How much do you enjoy beating teams in Philadelphia? Oh, it's it's up there.
Normally you feel the same way in football. Yeah, professional football. Carl Anthony Towns, I mean, if you take a Venn diagram, one circle here is Eagles fans, one circle here is the Philadelphia 76ers fans, it's a large Venn diagram. Yeah. He's making a lot of his own fellow Eagles fans very upset right now.
Probably. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. Hmm. Nick's get a week off. Potentially.
Weak. The thing is, for me, I got a lot of my boys are Knicks fans.
So, yeah, the Sixers got stomped, but I got a lot of friends who are Knicks fans, and I know they're going crazy. I'll tell you why. I don't want a week off. Do you want a week off? No.
Well, with OGN and Obi out, I do. You bet I do. Yeah, but you've got so much money. I got it. I got it.
I hear you. I got it. They also had half a week off after dispatching the. The hawks? That's true.
And it didn't. And the Sixers, that's all I heard after that first game, is it'll be better in game two because we're just, you know, we were tired. No, take the week off, enjoy it. And this is why it feels different. This Knicks team is deeper.
Very deep. That's true. This Knicks team is deeper. They're playing Jordan Clarkson. They're playing Jose Alvarado.
They're playing Landry Shamet. Shamet? Yeah. I'm Gumby, Shammet. They're playing, you know what I mean?
Mitchell Robinson, they're nine deep. Nine. Yeah. When were they ever nine deep with Thibodeau? Oh, never.
Right? Never. Every single Nick. All not a single starter. Not a single player played over 30 minutes.
In this game, and then they're going to get a week off. If we're going to have a game one conversation in Detroit or in Madison Square Garden against Cleveland, oh, they were rusty.
So be it. I can't. I'd rather it be that than banged up and tired. Just like last year, when they ran completely out of gas in the Eastern Conference finals against the Indiana Pacers, completely. Gagging in the final moments of games.
This doesn't look like that team at all. Not at all. That's a fact.
So, Nick fans have every reason to be very excited this time around, prior to any other. There's a problem, there's three words that's a problem, massive problem. And those three words are Oklahoma City Thunder. You got to get to them. But I think you got to get to them.
And then I understand San Antonio Spurs are still sitting there. There's the Minnesota Timberwolves. I get it. I understand it. But long story short, halfway home, halfway home, having won seven.
Playoff basketball games in a row, boat race style for Damn near all of them. The only other team winning seven in a row right now in the playoffs is the aforementioned Oklahoma City Thunder.
So there's all of that, man. All of that. 844-204-Rich is the number to dial here on the program. Who's that online to? The name has disappeared from my.
Nick in Alaska.
Okay. Nick. It's always sunny in Alaska right now. What's up, Nick? Yeah.
I mean, I've just been hearing all this crazy talk about How Philly's not a sports town and all that. That was that was real real quick, Nick. That's Josh Hart, who played in Villanova, you know, and he knows what he's doing. He knows he was just saying that. He knows that that that's just a troll job, but I understand for you to be pissed about that.
Anyway, I just had a question. Um, who do you think's worse? Knicks fans? or Eagles fans. And then also Yeah, the way we went out was rough.
I was so high after that after that win over the Celtics. I mean, I love beating Boston. Um any sport? But Yeah. I mean, I think we're trending up Men Eh, I mean, I kind of just went higher register there.
You did. We were just saying that off camera, Nick. You couldn't see us, but we did notice you went higher register, and I appreciate you. pointing that out, but Listen, Edgecombe and Maxie are two tremendously, you know. Young, terrific players, terrific, terrific stars of the game, right?
Um and MB just Can He's just He can't stay healthy, he can't stay off the damn floor. It's absurd. It's positively absurd. And in terms of this, real quick, and you before you answer, Nick, thanks for the call. I'm not going to sit here and say who's worse, Knicks fans, Eagles fans.
They're both insanely passionate fan bases that live in the Northeast Corridor, which means we're obnoxious. That's just the only way to put it. It's true. Not going to lie. You too in Boston.
Yeah, obnoxious. For sure. New York fans love beating Philadelphia teams and Boston teams. Boston teams love beating New York teams and Philadelphia teams. And Philadelphia teams love beating New York teams and Boston teams or Dallas teams.
You know what I mean? Yeah. You don't have to riot after every win, though. Yeah. Huh?
Knicks fans. You don't have to go absolutely. I mean, they didn't riot in Philadelphia. They just were loud and they were obnoxious and they were in everybody's faces because the Philadelphia 76ers try to cut it off at the pass by saying, we're not going to sell you tickets. You know, if they tried it.
Well, we didn't work. They tried. I mean, I don't hate them for trying. I guess you want your own fans in your building.
Sorry, you were saying about MB? No, I mean, look, since you put me in this spot back in 2020, I've always been saying about MB that. He's too big to constantly be fallen like the way he does. It's frustrating to watch as a fan of his. It's frustrating to watch as a Sixers fan.
It's like literally every play, it seems like he's on the ground more than he's up. And it's How are you that big and you're constantly and I don't even think it's I don't even know if it's flopping, and I don't even know what that is. Neither do I. I just watched that whole series, man. I just watch, man.
Um Yeah, like I there were definitely Parts of me that, again, and I say this all the time: if I had that paper in front of me, It probably would have gotten signed. The Sixers, you're done? Oh, yes. Is that because the Clippers got the fifth overall selection? I was that too?
Very much so. That was pretty much. I was already on my way out there, too, to be honest with you. Like, look, the. Steam is where they're at.
They will embed 180 million over the next three years. You can't get rid of them. You. I just don't see where this team. Yeah, they came back three from down through one to Boston.
Right. That was awesome. That was probably the highlight of the basketball season. But am I ever going to sit here and tell you with confidence without joking that the Sixers are a championship contender? No, not going to SpaceX.
I hate this team. How the hell did they beat your team three games in a row? Do you want to put the three-point shooting percentage? Is that what it is? I mean, as simple as that?
Yeah, simple as that. If they decide we're not going to shoot 43s, we're going to attack the basket and shoot mid-range jumpers. They beat. Which is why Brad Stevens said in his postgame, post mor you know, postseason mortem that they have to get better around the rim. He mentioned dunks several times.
Well, talk to your coach about that, right? Yeah, well. He's kind of a beautiful psycho. He believes what he believes. But Knicks fans.
Just Watching the Celtics get eliminated by the Sixers, who they sweep, it really is just a delicious turn of events. Yeah. When you thought. They were years ago toast. Brunson shows up, dropped in the laps of Nick fans by the basketball gods, turning into what he has turned into when all they were trying to do was find any All-star to take the Dolan money in free agency to the point where they put, remember, they put Durant's face on a season ticket?
email and he wasn't even free yet and it was pathetic. And then they bounce Thibodeau and they start going sh coach shopping in other people's houses, and it was pathetic. And now here they are. Seven wins in a row, just crushing opponents. They just sweep the Sixers after the Sixers try to sweep them out of their ticket.
Campaign Try to sweep them out of their stadium and their arena, and they show up even more. Oof. Even louder. with a broom. For a team that got the Celtics out of the way in advance, and they're wondering what's going on in their world.
Oh, this is unbelievable.
So, yeah, now you're wondering why Nick fans are out of their skulls right now. out of their skulls. But they're not in the finals yet. And then when they get to the finals, look out.
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So, how was the roast last night? Man, the roast was a. It was wonderful. I've seen many roasts before. Yes, sir.
Obviously, I've never been up there on the dais and whatnot. I didn't know where the camera was. Yep.
So I didn't know how much I was on screen, but it was a. It was pretty intense, man. Like, it's one thing to hear those jokes on TV at home. It's another thing to be there. And they were throwing some shots, brother.
They were going crazy. But, uh,. One of the best sets of that night. Cheryl Underwood, of course. She killed it.
Yeah. Destroyed. And I've seen her stand up for years. I didn't know that she had all of that. And that was fun.
Tony Hinchcliffe, good friend of mine, he killed it. Shane Gillis killed it. It was a blast. Tony also took it, too, man. He really got both barrels from Chelsea Handler.
Well, just to name one. I'll tell you what, he deserves it. Yeah, that's true. You know, he got it.
So, all right, so if you want to rank your top five, because that's what we do around here.
Okay. So rank your top five sets that you heard last night from the ghost of having Cheryl Underwood. I see.
Now it gets harder. It's. It's less in order at this point.
Okay. I'm going to go. I grew up Kevin Hart actually. He had a lot of time. He is Kevin Hart.
Yes, he is. He kind of went crazy. Mm-hmm. Then I'm gonna say Naimlin.
Okay. Naimlin, he is very good. That's three. Hmm. You know what?
The Rock did pretty good, man. You think so? I think so.
Okay. Maybe I was just fanboying out up there, but I didn't know he was going to come. There was fire behind me. I thought my Afro was going to burn up like Michael Jackson, you know. But The Rock, he was good.
He was at four. Yep.
And he got one more. How about Cat Williams? I forgot he was there. I feel like I blacked out when he Cheryl Underwood, Cat Williams, everybody else.
Okay, yeah, you just popped him up to table. There we go. There we go. I forgot he was there. Oh, yeah, they were crazy.
Well, I mean, Kevin buried the hatchet. I don't know if he feels like their beef is settled, you know, but that was a big moment when he came out. I mean, what a line that he said that he basically. Pointed out how Kevin, you know, is so unpopular in a way that they asked him to show up, but I hate Kevin. They said, Can you still come anyway?
Yeah, it was funny. Yeah, they really funny. They brought an enemy of Kevin. They said, You didn't have any more friends. You had to get an enemy, you had to get an op.
And, you know, I don't think they ever really were beefing. It's just easy and fun to make fun of each other. They're both small, they're both talented, they're both rich. You know, what is there to beef about? I don't think either one of them has missed a meal.
Well, I'll tell you, you know, because I was at the roast of Brady in that building a couple of years ago. Um and when Nikki Glazer did her set and the the the joke she did about Gronk with crypto where she made him sound like a caveman, like you know, that not real money, um, that w I I that had laughter from the Rafters that cascaded down and then bounced back up, back and forth. Was there a moment? Was there a joke last night? that you think killed it like that, where it just came from the rafters and just Yeah, down Miss Cheryl Underwood.
No kidding. Yeah, talking about how Shane Gillis would have loved to have taken her home that night.
Okay. Yeah. That was it. That, that, that. I mean, everything she said was just.
It was just crazy. I love it. I didn't even know it could sound like that until she went up. Yeah. And it was all very, very, very raunchy stuff, but it was hilarious.
You know, it was gross. Let's talk about you, Ron Taylor. Again, you just won Funny AF with Kevin Hart. You're going to get your own Netflix special. We'll talk about that in a minute.
When did you first start doing stand-up? 2010. In Detroit, where you're from? In Detroit.
Okay. That's right. That's right. I decided I wanted to do stand-up when I was in high school. Who was the person who inspired you to do that?
Dave Chappelle. I gotta tell you, you sound a little bit like him. Yeah, I've heard that. You've got a similar sort of cadence, and your voice sounds like you. You know, you were born to do this.
Yeah. Yeah, I've heard that, you know, it takes a while to develop your own voice, you know, and it takes quite a few years to mature in comedy.
So, you know, people can still hear some of my influences. My voice right now, I have festival voice. I've been yelling a lot.
Okay, festival. Festival voice. Yeah. It's like Super Bowl voice for us. But okay.
Okay, yeah. Yeah, sure.
Okay. Right. Normally, I'm not this melodious, but you know, Kev Kevin Hart, Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle, just all those guys. There was a A um Well, James Lipton, not James Lipton, inside Actor Studios?
James Lipton?
Okay, so James Benton was on that show. Right. And on that show, he said he was reading a Time magazine with Bill Cosby. And he said when he read that article that he understood that being funny was a marketable skill. When he said that sentence, that's when I realized, oh, being funny is a marketable skill.
How about that? And that's when I decided to get in the stand-up.
Okay. But you have your own voice now. You're obviously not Chappelle because you haven't locked my cell phone up. I have it right here.
So you did that for Al. And then when did you move out here? I came out here about 2016.
Okay. Yeah. I did a show at a college in Michigan.
Okay. And I got, I think, $1,000. And then I went on BT and I won. Apollo Live, or I won like some contest of Apollo Live. I got another $1,000.
That's $2,000. $2,000, I bought a van. In that with that van, I just drove to LA.
So, with your winnings, you bought wheels that you used to get you to this town. I just drove. I just went there. I said, I'll live in this van. 35.
Was it down by the LA River?
Okay. You know?
Sorry about that reference. It's a little bit everywhere.
Okay. So. And then, how did you get onto stages here? Is it true you worked the door of the comedy store here in Delhi? Yep, yep, yep.
I was a door guy. And the reason I was in a van is because I didn't want to have to really pay for anything. Sure. And so some friends of mine were like, hey, you should try to get a job at the store. I said, I don't want to work there.
I didn't know about the lineage of being a door guy there. And so I relented and I ended up being a door guy, and it was wonderful. It was one of the. One of the best jobs I ever had.
Well, that's a marketable job, too, right? I mean, who else has gone from door to stage there? Bobby Lee, Mark Maron. I don't know if Robin Williams was a door guy, but it goes back, you know. Ari Shafir, Tony Hinchcliffe, you know, there's a lot of really funny people who were door guys there.
How does it feel to now be in that conversation? conversation. or set yourself up to be in this conversation. You know what? It feels like uh It feels like finally.
You know, if this happened, I don't know six years ago, maybe I'd be excited. But now it's like, all right, fine.
Now I'm going to show you all. What I can do.
So, you know, hopefully I can meet the bar. That's the hope. That's the wish. Right. But, you know, it's been a long time coming.
Okay. What's your favorite joke? Of mine.
Well, I tell I'm not going to burn more material, but I'll tell you. Here's one of the 30 you just burned. By the way, I love the mind of a comic. Yeah. That, like, It's okay.
I mean, you can't repeat jokes like it's one and done every single time it comes out of your mouth. Is that your standard, Ron? No, the reality truly is that the audience now knows. They know that these are jokes, these are things that we've sat down, we've wrote out, we've crafted.
So it's a little bit more forgiving. Before, it was like, you know, it was kind of like Kfabe, and people thought we were all making it up. On the spot, which is not the case. But like my favorite type of jokes, one of the ones I did do on the competition is about non-binary people, which is like, you can be whatever you wanna be, but you gotta pick a role. You don't have to, you don't have to.
You don't have to be any gender, but you gotta have a job. Are you going to cook? Are you going to fix tires? Yeah. I don't care what you do.
Right. But you got to help out the community.
So I don't think anybody can be offended at that type of stuff, but it feels offensive.
So those are my favorite types of stuff.
Okay. And you've got obviously a great team. They were laughing at your stuff. I've already heard it before. Yeah.
I can hear them off camera right now.
Well, those are nervous laughs. Why are they nervous? They shouldn't be nervous. You're not nervous. Me, no, but they're like, okay, he's going to cuss at some point.
But uh-oh. Disney Plus, right? There it is. And you said you want a Disney Plus account. Like, that's one way to not get one, is appear on Disney Plus and curse on it.
That is true. Disney, I love you all. I would love a subscription. All the shows are very wonderful. Big Marvel fan, right here.
Yeah. So, help me out. There we go. That's another way to get on in a Marvel movie as well.
So, what are your plans for your Netflix special? Where are we on that right now?
So, what we're going to do is we're going to go out on the road. Yeah. Right. And we're going to tour as much. Hopefully, there's a new audience because of the competition.
That's right. And with that new audience and those new people, I can craft some new jokes. I'll have some new experiences. Yes, sir. And then, I don't know, maybe six months, a year, whatever the timeframe is that we agree on.
We'll do the next hour.
Okay. Where do you want to do the hour? Detroit? Do you want to go back home? Hmm.
Do you get to choose the venue? You know what? Detroit would be nice, but I can imagine it being filled with my family and them just yelling, going, That's not true.
So I don't know if that's the wisest decision, but Detroit would be wonderful. Where? Yeah, I mean, let's do it. Let's figure this out. Where are we going?
Yeah, Fox Theater. Fox Theater. Yeah. That's the one. You go to the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan.
I've been there. Believe it or not, I went there in college. I saw the Jeffersons live. The Jeffersons? Yes, sir.
The TV show? The cast of the Jeffersons did two episodes in the Fox Theater Live: Sherman Helmsley and Oliver. All of them. What year was this? 1988.
Oh, wow. You want to look it up? I was like, negative 10. Yes, you are. I'm older than you, Ron.
We can establish that just by looking at the camera right now, looking on the screen. But yeah, and I just remember going there and I just remember seeing that theater. Yeah. You know, and that is a jewel. That is a jewel in downtown Detroit.
Yeah, they say it's haunted, but haunted. I think any place that's been around for like a hundred years is haunted. Yeah. Somebody's died there at some point. If you've been a structure for 100 years, someone's died there.
Someone's got a grudge. You know, so they're not mean spirits. I embrace them. But Fox Theater is a beautiful place.
Okay. That would be. I don't know, man. I might feel like retiring at that point. No, you're just getting started, though.
You're just getting started. Wouldn't that be great, though, in all seriousness? Your family, your friends, they go see you. You've won this contest. You're on Netflix.
You're in the Fox Theater in Detroit. Let's go. Yeah, that'd be great. Fingers crossed. Which Detroit sports star?
Would you want to appear with you? Like maybe introduce you? Let's go, let's get that going.
Someone from the Pistons, maybe?
Someone from the pistons of your youth, Richard Hamilton, we're gonna get ripped. That'd be nice. Here's Ron Taylor. You know what? What do we got?
Chauncey Billops is a bit tied up right now. Or he's available, either one. I don't know. I think he's a bit tied up. Uh Rasheed Wallace would be wonderful, but I know he hangs out in Portland a lot.
Hmm. You know what? Jimmy Cade. He's doing well right now. Dave Cunningham would come out, by the way.
People would go nuts. Yeah. But Rashid, you could potentially get like a streak in your hair. You could. You could pay homage to him a little bit right now.
Yeah, I'll get a little patch. See, we could do that. I remember that. He was the patch man. He was.
He was. Indeed, I love him. I know. What year was the Jeff? It was 1993.
So I went back to school for that? No chance. Really? It was, yeah.
So the show went off the air in 85, and then they kind of reunited. Not all of the cast, but it was April of 93.
Sorry to use your time in this manner, but that was the last time apparently I was in the Fox Theater. That's all right. 93.
Now I was two. That makes sense. I can deal with that. We're getting closer. Yeah.
The present day.
Okay, so Cade Cunningham introducing you. At your first Netflix special in the Fox Theater in Detroit on Netflix. Yeah. Let's do it. And I'm going to need Kate to apologize to me.
Why?
Okay, so. They were out in LA, right? The Pistons. And I did a show. at the improv.
and they were tight. They were not laughing.
So they were there. The Pistons went to a comedy show? Yeah. And you're on the stage? Yeah.
They had a bunch of Detroiters, myself, CP, comedian CP. And they did not want to laugh. And it was crazy. And finally, I just went up there and I said, Hey, you guys are not laughing like you all are doing well. We're doing fine.
You guys are sucking right now. It'd be different if you all were the Warriors. Y'all should be chuckling it up right now. Uh-oh. But you know what?
They're doing fine now. They're doing great.
So I'm sure there'd be a better audience.
So, yes, Brother Cade, I need you to apologize to me for being tight with your laughs back then. And I want you to bring me out at the Fox. Instead of apologizing, he owes you. How does that sound? Let's position it that way.
That sounds right because that really hurt my feelings. I've worked hard on those jokes. You guys should have given it up. Like I've given it up to you all. I was at the games, but it'd be nice.
Okay, very good. And then we'll work our way up to the palace at Auburn Hills. We'll just keep on going until you're playing arenas. How does that sound? If I'm not mistaken, that place might be closed now.
Oh, is that right? Did I go? Did I go? Now I'm back in the 1990s. Yeah.
Wow. You've really been around. Oh, man. Little Caesar's Arena. That's it now.
That's it now. Congratulations on everything happening with you. Good brother. And I appreciate you coming on here and sharing your experiences from last night and before and future. We just got we see we workshopped something.
Let's yeah, let's work definitely. Your management team is here, they're no longer nervously laughing. I think they're now into it. Yeah, yeah. Sadly, it's now time for this segment to end.
At comedian Ron T, right? That is correct. That's comedian Ron T. I almost went comedian ron. Yeah, but I heard that.
That's on Instagram. The winner of Funny AF with Kevin Hart, Ron Taylor, is here. Keep an eye out for his future Netflix special. Thanks for coming on. Good brother.
Appreciate it. You bet. We're back on the Rich Eisen show in just a moment. Mm-hmm. The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.
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So I you told you w we did Mother's Day, we had brunch and then we went and watched uh Susie co-coach and get tech teed up. Oh, she did uh I asked her about the tea. I did. She uh this is what she said. Uh-oh.
I wrote a Mother's Day technical foul. Right. Face palm emoji. I was right. Look out.
And then I laughed, and she goes, It was fun. I was pissed, but my tech spurred a 140 run. It did. Oh, it did. Closed it it did close the four the the game on a 14-0 run.
I wrote coaching. She's a factor. I wrote coaching. She's a factor. What did you guys do?
Morning, breakfast, all that fun stuff. And then Sarah went to do the Sparks game, filming a segment for Women's Sports Net this week.
So she did go to the Sparks game. Yeah, so she was. She said it was amazing, had a great time, kind of lost her voice a little bit with some of the bits she was doing.
Okay. But she was out of the house from like 11 till 6. Wow. So K and I got some golfing. Oh, you got some golfing on Mother's Day?
Yeah. I mean, I got a last-second offer from a friend, so the two of us went. Nice. Let me ask you what's rarer. What's rarer that you get to play golf on Mother's Day?
I was stunned that it went down that way. Or you watch your wife pick up a technical foul, which is what I did. Both are equal off the board. I don't think that's on anybody's bingo card for Mother's Day. Oh, my God.
Well, the LA Sparks got, um LA spanked. You know, by the Las Vegas Aces starting back-to-back. They got their rings and got spanked by the Phoenix Mercury, who they swept in last year's finals. The Indiana Fever in Dallas Wayne played a highly entertaining game on Saturday. Watch that whole game.
It was highly entertaining. It was intense. I think I saw the stats, the first ever. season opener for the WNBA or season opening weekend Open where both teams scored over 100 points. And Kalia Boston balled out, and Paige Beckers balled out.
And Caitlin Clark had a three, a wide open look.
Well, from about 30 feet. Right. But from her range, I gotta say, thought it was going in.
So did I. Look great off the bus. That would have forced overtime. And then AZ Fudd was nowhere to be found. She didn't get off the bench.
I don't know if you saw any of this. She only played 18 minutes. That's it. And the coach is like, well, we got all these backcourt players. And number one pick in the draft, though, man.
Well, the number two pick in the draft, Olivia Miles, bawled out or kind of fed the narrative that maybe they didn't need AZ Fudd at number one overall, but. It sure did. And this is great, right? Like, these are narratives that are already being. um established and talked about and questions about You know Draft decisions and coaching decisions and watching them play.
It was very entertaining. Yeah, very fun game. I enjoyed it immensely. Caitlin had, what, three offensive fouls at one point? Yeah, she shuffed me.
And she was talking about barking at somebody for flopping. Yeah, there was flopping. It was really intense. It was. You know, Asia Wilson showed up like she was in the Met Gala.
Tom Brady was wearing like a red jumpsuit on the ring ceremony. He looked like he was Michael Jackson in bad. I gotta say, those rings were pretty awesome because it came apart and it became a smaller ring that you could actually wear out. Right. And Mark Davis, is he beginning to fashion his hair a little bit?
Does it look like it's longer in the back? It looks like, you know, it's still, you know, it's still got the line almost like a bolt. It's the line across. Yeah, he's still, he hasn't done with the front. The front is still, you know, business, but there looks like there's a party in there.
Can I say the Brady influence, perhaps? Oh, please. Oh, yeah. See that? What that red leather jacket?
What was that? Then he showed up at the roast last year. He was with like a million-dollar watch. Did you see the watch he had on? Stupid crazy.
I thought Brady did a good job on the roast. Yep.
Hey, listen, he loves roasts. That's why he subjected himself to it the last time. Yeah, I mean, he's an executive producer. We did watch some of that over the weekend with the kids. The Brady Roast?
Yeah. Really? Wow. How was it on the rewatch? It was great.
It was odd. I mean, Nikki Glazer's set is still. Our daughter saw Nikki Glazer's set, and we're just like, okay. 12-year-old and Zan immediately watched her Hulu special on the spot.
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