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Corey in Baltimore has been waiting for a while to talk with us. What's up, Corey in Baltimore? What's going on? Hi, how you doing today, Greg? What's going on?
I'm calling to do a wing loss tradition for my Ravens. Oh, is that what you're doing?
Okay, have we had that yet, gents? Anybody? Ravens. I don't believe we've had that yet. Baltimore Ravens, let me get my paperwork ready.
I believe our control room has gotten the Baltimore Ravens schedule ready. Are you ready, Jason? Yes, sir. All right, Corey in Baltimore. This is the first one that I've had for a Ravens fan calling in the win-loss game.
What happens when the Ravens open up in Indianapolis in week one? But that's a win. What happens when the saints visit in week two? Oh, that's a win. All right.
What happens down in Rio de Janeiro? Late window on CBS Tony Romo going against the Cowboys. What happens? Cowboy sucked that's over in whoa Whoa, was that Portuguese? It was gibberish, but it was the Titans visit Baltimore in week four.
That's a loss.
So, you're going to beat the Cowboys in Rio, but come home and lose to the Titans? Is that what you're saying? I'm looking at previous history. When the Titans come to Baltimore, we have never beaten them. Ah, I'm about to bet.
And George is not walking through that door. Oh, good enough. All right, 3-1 at the Falcons on a Sunday night. Oh, that's a win. 4-1 at the Browns.
Oh, that's a win. Five and one, home for the Bengals. Oh. That's a loss.
Five and two at the bills. I'll say that's a loss also. Five and three, home for the Jaguars on a Thursday night. Yeah. That's a win.
Home for the Chargers on a Monday night. Uh I'll say that's a win. 7-3 at the Panthers. Oh, this is a tricky one. Oh, God.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. What do you got? I'll say that's a loss. Seven and four at the Texans.
So that's a win. Eight and four off the bye, home for the Bucs. Oh, careful. Pigs. I'll say that's an overtime win.
All right, squeeze one out, in other words. Um at the Steelers. Oh god. Oh no. Let's go.
Tyler Lupa venges his mistake. That's a win. All right, three wins in a row. Home for the Browns. Oh, that's a win.
11 and 4 at the Bengals on a Thursday night. Oh, and that's New Year's Eve. Oh, um, that we're splitting that. That's a win. And then ho uh home for the Steelers.
Oh, that's a win. 13-4 says Corey in Baltimore. Thanks for the call, Corey. You're welcome. I think that's a bit and I'm I'm high on on I'm high on the Ravens.
Thirteen and four I think is uh is a bit pie in the sky, don't you think? It's a little high. Will anybody win the division with more than 11 wins? I would say a twelve and five. I don't think so.
How does that sound? That's tough. This is a tough division who's going to beat each other up and and I think someone gets to 12. That's the match. And that will get the win.
I think 12 wins this division. You know, AJ is A. J. Brown a diehard Patriot fan in the same way Kyrie Irving always rooted for the Nets? Stop it.
Probably. Oh no, Akari was from New Jersey, though. Stop it. Kyrie was from New Jersey. Yeah, does he have pictures of himself in Netsgear?
How do I know that's a real picture? He does picture. AI is amazing. I watched Mr. T just beat up Johnny Lawrence from Cobra Kai on a video 10 minutes ago.
He took pictures of pictures. Look, man. What does that mean? They could do that too. Pictures of pictures.
It means there was no digital copy. Oh, okay. It was a picture from a photo album. No, he's been doing that for years. Like, before uh artificial intelligence, don't you remember you Vrabel said he was showing that those pictures to him when they was in Tennessee of him wearing old jerseys.
No? I never remember that. Why would I remember? Stop being a hater.
Well, he says he can't stop pinching himself, that he's. Mm-hmm. Now a patriot and he's he's already starting to practice with him. Just talking to my mom and I was like, man, I'm still in an awe. You know, I'm uh trying to adjust and, you know, walking up the hill.
With the uniform on, I was like, man, this is real. you know and um Caught myself one point in the practice, wasn't paying attention because I was like, dang, I'm a patriot, you know, you know, and uh just trying to take it all in as much as I can, you know. Obviously, you know, you know, I got back to work quickly, but He just it's lovers to it and I'm like I said, I'm enjoying it. Obviously I know this ain't heaven, but you know it's close to it. Close to heaven.
Oh. It's like fill the dreams. Yeah. Is this heaven? No, it's Foxborough.
Did you hear that Julian Adelman gave him the blessing to wear 11? I did hear that. And he said, no, he's going to start his own. Tradition wearing number one Ring number one. Who was the last one?
Was Cam Newton the last one? Jalen Polk were number one. Ah, so. Yeah. Nowhere to go but up here.
Didn't work out much for Look at him, one hand grabbing and number one. All the videos yesterday were. Arousing. Yeah. No.
Well, if part of the reason why he's not in Philadelphia anymore is because he had a falling out with the quarterback and they weren't on the same page and they weren't on the same page. Personally, his. How much they used to be same paging personally, and you know, obviously, I am purposefully using same page for a guy who famously read a book on the sideline. 'Cause I'm weaving tapestries. Of course.
I'll just make points.
So, if that was part of the reason why he's now in New England, how is he vibing with Drake? Drake May May? Everything, man. You know, I was watching him today. You know, obviously, you know, I'm learning the plays and getting out there with him.
You know, he can make any throw. He's very poised. Like today in the meeting, I would say. He kind of took over the meme. You know, Josh was speaking, and he, you know, kind of cut Josh off, not in a rude way, but you know, he just kind of took over.
You know, and that's it, says so much from a young guy, you know, to know what he's talking about, number one, and to lead, you know, and to be the voice of this team.
So And when I heard that, I was like, wow. That was impressive. Obviously, I heard great things about him, but that part alone tells me a lot about him and how much he loves his job and he studies and everything. Yeah. Okay.
Couldn't be more. Is this as good as it's going to get? No.
Okay. No.
Is this as good as it's going to get? Probably not. But he's so first blush, excited to be there and his quarterback are finally. What happens around week eight when things aren't going his way, right? When he hasn't gotten the ball 10 times a game, when they're winning games, but the offense isn't running through him, then that's when you're going to see.
Guess what? If the offense isn't running through him, we're not winning games. You won games last year without him. You went to the Super Bowl. What are you talking about?
What does that mean? Come on now. Last year. If the offense isn't running through a wide receiver, if he's not getting the ball and if he's to a point where he's disgruntled, they're not going to be winning games in spite of that.
Okay, he's there to be a major part of the offense. And to electrify and stretch the field and be the man. Let me tell you something.
So they're not going to win games with him not doing that. The offense is going to run through the quarterback.
Now, this just happens everywhere. But the offense, if it's going to run through any, you know who's going to run through? I'll tell you who's going to run through. Trayvion Henderson, that's who's going to run through. Whatever the heck last year was, where it took some time to ramp up, and they kept going back to Ramondre.
Two-headed monstre. Ramondre will be out there unless Matt Reif takes him out in the softball game. What the hell was he thinking? Wasn't it? Hey, comedians in softball games, don't try and be funny in the base paths.
Did you see that video? My heart was in my throat when I saw that. But anyway, I shouldn't go all in on Pete. He's. I don't know.
You're playing softball, you lose your head, I guess. But listen. But, and by the way, Patriots running backs athletically here and stuff in charity events. Let's stop that. You know what I mean?
Yeah. I had, honestly, I flipped out when I saw that. But Traymeon Henderson. He's going to take this thing over. Your two for him is going to be something.
So. It's going to run from the run game. Let's make sure the kid holds on to it, though. Your quarterback. Your quarterback.
I have zero worries and concerns. You should have taken me. I get it. Take me. A.J.
Brown being there as a 1,200-yard receiver. I'm all in. But the offense running through him. Come on now. No, TJ was saying we're going to be winning games with him having two catches.
That isn't going to happen. There will not be a game. What if Cabinet matches six and seven? He was going to be thinking too. Romeo Dobbs is on this team, man.
And and Pop Douglas. He doesn't have to do it himself. This isn't like you had your cupboard was bare to begin with. That throw that he dropped into booty against the Texans. Not a great wide receiver room.
Okay. Drake May made those guys look so good last year. I don't think we really understand that.
Okay. And now they fully upgrade with A.J. Brown and Romeo Dobbs, in addition to all those guys. Kayshawn Booty's going to get traded. Week 8 is at Dolphins, by the way.
You think so? Kayshawn Booty's going to get traded? Yeah, I think so. Suddenly, they're such a bumper crop that they could just send down their receivers elsewhere. A.J.
Brown market corrects what Kayshawn Booty does.
Okay. Good to know. I'm happy for you. I'm happy for you, especially since, you know. And especially since I know in the baseball world, there's an owner who's trying to figure things out.
So there's that.
Well, when you score two runs, you're not going to win a lot of games. No, I bet they're working on it, they're figuring things out. You may not know.
Some people don't understand how deep a man and caring John Henry is. I just listened to Big Poppy. You know This guy, he's on it. I love Big Pompy. I don't know how much he's on it.
Big Pompy says this guy's on it. And you don't understand him. You should understand him better, Chris. Take some time to understand John Henry better. Will you please?
I would love a face-to-face with John Henry. What would you say to him? Sell the team. He's not gonna. That's the advice.
He's not gonna. That I would give. Don't say that. How about this one? Let's go.
Open your checkbook.
Okay. Now that's better. Stop being cheap. Stop letting Hall of Fame players now enter the Hall of Fame with other teams.
Okay. See, that's better than sell the team. He's not selling the team. Tom Werner's not going to walk out that door. This is part of a crown jewel of their building conglomerate of all.
Actually, not international. Actually, not. They care more about the soccer team and the golf stuff now. But Big Poppy says otherwise. You don't believe him?
You know, I don't. Got it. That's the. Got it. By the way, I am going to continue to do this.
Heads up. I get it. Anytime you get really overly excited about the New England Patriots and A.J. Brown and everything else, I'm going to remind you that Big Poppy says that the guy that you really think doesn't care about your team is somebody you just don't understand or take the time to understand. Yeah, we lost to the Orioles again, so.
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Talking about T and Scotch, which is the new comedy special of Patton Oswald, who's here on the Rich Eisen Show, to talk about it. It's the Guerrilla Comedy Plus and is going to premiere on the 800-pound Guerrillas YouTube channel June 9th here on the program. What was the first comedy special you ever put together? The first one I ever did was a half hour for HBO in 97. It was a half hour.
uh comedies when they would get pick like six comedians. I got to do one of those. And then Uh w an hour for Comedy Central, an hour for Showtime, hour for Epics, four more for um I haven't heard that EPIX doesn't is it Epics or Stars that has a really good show on right now, like uh Amadeus? I think it might be stars. Sure.
Yeah. With a Z for those scoring. Stars with a Z, and Epics with an X. Yes, indeed. Because we're in showbiz, right, Rich?
The business of showbiz. Yeah. That's Rich with a Q, by the way. It's an odd spelling, but. And then four more for Netflix, and now I'm doing this new platform, Guerrilla Plus.
Yeah. And they. Put out amazing comedians, Beth Stelling and David Cross. Oh, we had David Cross here a couple months ago. Oh, you did?
He is so damn funny, man. Yeah. He's so who are you who are you were your comedians that you were, you know, cutting your teeth with back in the day? Before I started, it was anyone my age, before I ever set foot on stage, it was people like Carlin Pryor, Steve Martin. Like, those were my guidelines.
Worth stars? Yes. And then once I started, it was my circle of friends.
So it was Blaine Capach, David Cross, Brian Possane. Um Karen Kilgariff, Sarah Silverman. You know, people like that. Sure. It was, hang on.
I need, there's no cough button on TV, is there? Go ahead. Just do what you need to do. Ladies and gentlemen. You know what?
When I'm hit with a bad cough, I reach for Rich Eisenhow water. It's super refreshing. It has an extra hydrogen molecule in it. for extra refreshment. I'm with you, man.
There's something going on in the air anyway. Yeah, there is stuff in the air.
So you were saying Sarah Silverman for a while, too. Oh, yeah. I mean, it was always that people, that circle of people around me, Zach Alifanakis and Tenacious D. We were all coming up through like Largo back in the day. Sure.
And it was really, really helpful to have people around me that were so much funnier than me because you would always be Trying to get better and work better rather than. There's nothing worse than being the funniest person in your circle because you just don't grow.
So I always had people around me, Andy Kindler, and you know, that were just so quick and funny, Todd Glass. Todd Glass, who's a force of nature.
So, you know, always having those kinds of people around me. Made me so much funnier. You know, and getting ready for your interview because I'm a lead pipe building professional patent is I was going down some memory lane. Were you going through the microfiche files? The microfiche again.
You sent someone down to the clip files to bring the clip files. No, but I saw you on Seinfeld where you were working the video store. When George is coming up trying to get breakfast at Tiffany's, he's trying to rent it and he's not there and you walked away from the computer screen. Yep. And he'd try to sneak the what the address of where it was?
He wanted to go to the person's house. To watch it because they had rented it. By the way, isn't it weird that anyone, what we're talking about now, is, hey, I watched you on this old sitcom, and there's a generation like a sitcom, a what? And there's like, and in the scene, you're working in a video store. A what?
Where are you working? I know. And so, yeah, it was. It's a scene where Jason Alexander doesn't want to read the book for his book club, wants to rent the movie. The movie's rented out, and he's bothering me to go tell me who rented the thing out.
And then he sneaks their address and then goes to their house and tries to talk his way into their apartment and watch breakfast at Tiffany's with his family. It's the weirdest. It's so, it's again, that show was amazing. And so, this was around the time where you were doing this stand-up that we're referring to. Yeah, this was in 94.
I was kind of doing little rooms like the Largo and the Diamond Club and the MBAR, and I just was starting to get seen by people because that was the new kind of scene bubbling up. But that ought to be huge for you to be on a show Jerry Seinfeld is putting on the air, man. Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, and I'm in this scene with Jason Alexander. And this is 1994 when being on a sitcom, like you didn't have 9,000 entertainment options. And it was like the sixth season of Seinfeld.
People were watching it. Like it was, oh, we saw you last night. Like the next day, people. I saw you last night. Yeah.
I was on TV. Right. I remember, by the way, did you ever work retail when you were young? Absolutely, of course.
Okay. I got the job on Seinfeld because of my work. Retail experience. What do you mean?
Well, when I was doing the audition, And Sir Larry David is playing the George character, and he's bugging me: like, hey, is there someone? Can I, can you tell me the address I can do it? And I didn't realize I did this. He goes, he told me later, he goes, you unconsciously did this. Looked around, like, what other employee can I give this guy to?
Which is what you do in retail when there's someone bad at the counter, and you're like, Yeah, sir, let me, you know, who can help you with that? You know, because you don't want to. And I, I didn't even realize I did it. It wasn't an acting choice. It was my, it was my panic instinct from my years in retail of get rid of this guy and hand him to someone else.
And that, and it made them both laugh in the room, and that's how I got the job. Is that somebody who was looking for a pair of pants that you didn't have them? And they were like, you know, let me go to the house and ask for the pants back. Same exact thing, huh? Pretty much.
Oh, my God. Yeah, that is kind of what he's. Oh, they already sold their. Let me go to their house, give me their address, and I will convince them to give me the pants. What a wild scenario.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. To actually do that. And I imagine that's the first time you meet Larry David. Is that. And you stayed in touch or we all you know he was he was this legendary stand-up that the other comedians when he was doing stand-up He was legendary for not only having awful sets, But he would have the kind of awful sets where when he went on stage, every other comedian ran into the room to see like what is he going to do?
He's going to do something so He's going to torpedo this in such an epic way that it'll be talked about.
So every comedian worshipped him. And so we were aware of each other. And then I guess over the years, and also, you know, I still am friends with Jeff Garland and a lot of the people that work on the Larry David show.
So they brought me in to do an episode of that, which was where you played his CPA and CPA. And I'm trying to, I have lied my way in a very George Costanza-like way. I have lied my way into the good graces of a very beautiful woman who thinks that I'm a competitive eater. And I convinced her that I'm in a hot dog eating contest, and she really wants to see me in the hot dog eating contest. And so I somehow through again through a series of Horrible mistakes.
I pull Larry into the contest.
Now he has to do it. And the last shot is us shoving. Hot dogs into our face. If I had told that kid on Seinfeld, one day you're going to be jamming hot dogs down your gullet next to Larry David. You only have a line this time.
But. You just wait. 24 years, you will be sitting next to the creator of this show, shoving hot dogs into your mouth, multiple takes. My favorite scenes from Kerb back in the day were Larry behind his desk, somebody comes into his office and they have a conversation. And I'm always wondering what's real and what's on the page and what isn't.
You know, you had one of them and a very classic scene. Yes. I mean, it was he again, you have the basic outline of the scene, and then he, what's so amazing about. Larry David is because a lot of times when people are doing improv, they're trying to win the scene with the funniest line. And he is.
if anything, setting you up to be even funnier and in doing so, He ends up being even because what he's saying is like So you got her to She bought the because he gives me this really stupid story to say that I'm a competitive eater, and she buys the story. She goes. She bought that lie. That was the stupidest thing. I'm like, I know, like, that was like a, that's like a Goebbels level lie.
No, no, I go, I go, who's the guy who said the bigger the lie, the more people believe it? He goes, Goebbels. I go, well, you gave me a Goebbels level lie. And he goes, well, Goebbels is the goat of lying. Like, I got a Gerbles.
Like, he's so, it isn't even in his head that he's talking about a Nazi. Just like, I'm really good at lying. Like, and he's so, and that becomes the funniest thing in the scene. He's so delighted with himself that he's like, you, you don't, you realize you're talking about a Nazi. Like.
He and he always does that in these scenes. Like he will set up the other people and he brings in really I mean, Richard Kind and and Vince Vaughan and these just amazing improvisers. And he is just so good at And a lot of times, because he also understands it's the straight guy that always it's the guy that's incredulous. It's like, what are you talking? You know, that JB Smooth.
I mean, half the times, half those scenes with JB Smooth, it's just Larry cannot believe what's coming out of James. He's like, wait, what? And it's so hilarious. I also love the scenes when he's out in public. And he's having what should be the most inconsequential Um exchange with a person and you can see him, he can't Help, but make it worse.
And I just feel like that's happened a lot in his life where he's like, just. Take your number and go get your food and he has to then Is it Necessary, like, and then he can't, and then he causes a huge. And I just feel like that has happened so much in his life, and the fact that he has the wherewithal to step back and go, actually, this is comedic, even though I'm burning my life to the ground. I love it. I can't get enough.
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Dink is a movie I've been hearing about. This is a Ben Stiller pickleball vehicle. Ben Stiller Pickleball Vehicle. That is coming out on July 24th on Apple TV. And I cannot wait for that.
So, this is a pickleball movie. Pickleball movie with. Oh my God, why am I blanking on his name? Jake Johnson. Jake Johnson.
Ten Stiller. Sylvia. Mary Steen Burgess. Mary Steen Burgess. She was here talking about that.
Oh, she was talking about that movie. She was talking a little bit. I mean, when she was here with Ted Danson. Yes. I'm dropping names now.
But yeah, I'm looking forward to this because is this. For the lack of a better phrase, like a little bit of dodgeball being brought to it's a little bit, it is a it is very much the director, um, Josh. Green bomb? Mm-hmm. God, I'm blanking on.
He did that amazing documentary with Will Farrell and Will's transgender friend.
Okay. Will and. My mind this morning. Anyway, they went on a road trip. Yeah, right.
Incredible director.
So he really does a great thing where it's that classic snobs versus the slobs. It's the tennis players at this country club versus the pickleball. And the pickleball guys. And then he just works all these weird variations on that theme, including he does such a great. take on the classic Big showdown at the end where our hero has to redeem, you know, the outcasts and bring and he really has fun with kind of making fun of.
It's still a very satisfying ending, but also really funny that the rips he dings off it. And the villain in the movie is Ed Harris. He's the guy, he's the head of the country club who wants. Only wants tennis.
Okay. And. There were a couple of scenes I did with him. Where I'm being this, because I'm like one of the big pickleball advocates. At a boy.
And I'm a. I am I do all this dialogue at him, and there's one scene, one take. I don't know if they use it because I haven't seen the whole movie yet. I've seen scenes of it where he just, instead of saying his line back to me, he just stares at me. And an Ed Harris stare is.
Just Earth scorching. Like you just want to die when he's just staring at you. And so he does all these great things. It's like Tommy Lee Jones and Men in Black, where he's just. cannot believe the idiocy around him.
He's so funny. Ed Harris, you do realize he's acting, though, right? When he's staring a hole through you. I mean, yes, but it's Ed Harris. You've seen that face, those eyes.
Dude. You know what I mean? I'd love that. He is just intense. Did you play your own pickleball scenes, sir?
I played my own pickleball scenes. We had pickleball warm-up scenes, and we. But then there's a scene at the end with this big match, and they brought in these projects. Professional tennis players who, the director was like, okay, I need the ball to come in, curve like it's going to go to the left, but then land on the right. It goes, okay, and he would exactly hit it.
It was like these aces that just, you know, they come in and they do all of the. Get everything to land where they want to land. It was fascinating to watch. But people who see Dink. And watch you On the screen, that's you really playing pickleball.
There are scenes of me playing pickleball. There are scenes. Where Jake is playing against, I'm not going to say who he plays against, but. There are scenes where Jake was really, really playing, as was the other guy. But then there were some very specialty shots.
They brought in some ringers to go, we need this to hit this way. And that was like even crew members would gather around and go, Is he actually going to do this? And he would. Yeah. How about that?
So I'm just wondering how competitive it was on the set.
Well, there were a couple of times we were warming up. Um Where it did, even though we were trying to act like, hey, we're just playing pickleball, it did get to be a little because pickleball isn't about. prowess and power. It's all strategy and trying to This movie is not called Smash, it's called Dink for a reason, bro. And Dink is a devastating.
Move you can pull on somebody. That's how you can win a point. Exactly. Listen, these guys around here don't understand pickleball. They, because they, you know, why?
I'll tell you why. Because they want the big he-man, you smash, and that's how you win. It, it is so, and that's what the movie deals with that. It deals with the Jake Johnson, the tennis player, struggling with the, wait, I can win just by, yes, just do that. It's counterintuitive.
Yeah. Wins the day. Listen, I know the way you. Feel about pickleball, Chris. I know we feel TJ, you two.
It's a wiffle ball, it's a small racket, it's a little court, it's like a mini court, sure, and thus it's not uh, it's not a sport. Yeah, I'm here to say. And between every point, you put on a frilly dress and sip tea. I know that that's a but that is part of the game. Like that is what gets you in the mindset.
If you would just let go of all that, maybe I need to. Please. Have you ever yet to do it yet? No, never mind. He's afraid he's going to tear his killer.
I'm also not a man of a certain age. Uh So he just went there too. Wow. He's in his 40s, but he's. He just went there too.
I would save that clip. Yes. And just keep it. Keep it in the holster. In the pocket, yeah.
Wait about five years. Yeah. Then I will be. And when he's suddenly playing pickleball, you're like, oh, that's weird because what was that thing you said? Yeah.
I'm not a man of a certainty. Pickleball keeps certain positions in this town in business. And it is not easy to do. It's a full-on workout. It's the real.
Okay, let's go. It is a game, not a physicality, not only of physicality, but of the mind and strategy and cunning. That's why this makes it a bit more. There's a chess element to it, baby. Everybody.
Yeah. Dink. Dink. Dink. Ben Stiller, Mary.
Dink it up. I am looking forward to it. Listen, what camera's on me right now? There, you're on it, right? Ready?
July 14th. Think dink. Ladies and gentlemen, by the way, I think it's July 24th. You want to do that again? God damn it.
Ready? Here we go. Don't lose the other one. I want people to know you can still come back from adversity. Here we go.
Ready? July 24th. Think dink. There you go. There's your trailer.
Yeah, you were a second-serve guy. I was a second-serve guy. That was a let. That was a let. There you go.
Thank you. Very good. Patton Oswalt, T and Scotch, available now, right now on Guerrilla. Plus, correct? Roll Plus comedy and streaming.
Very good. And streaming on 800-pound Gorillas YouTube on June 9th. June 9th. Right around the corner. Great to see you, man.
Thanks for having me in. Anytime. Yeah. Anytime. Anytime.
And we'll make sure the water's the right room temperature as part of your contract. This is fantastic. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Matt and Oswald, everybody, right here in the show. We'll wrap things up.
Your phone calls in order. Think, tink, think, tink. Yay! Oh. The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.
Bing-bong, look who's here for no contest wrestling. It's ladies and gentlemen, O.J. Jackson Jr. Hey, hello, neighbors. Or should I say.
Thank you. General Issimo Issimo. I'm not sure. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Mm-hmm.
That's right. By the way, that's very nice. Your neck's not that far away from your shoulder. I wasn't there to pose. I wasn't there to pose.
Look at this. It's a Mike Glennon situation. It's a Mike Glennon. Yeah. You know?
The Davis Mills, the Davis Mills of the Reds, Davis Mills, Burton Hanks, Burton Hanks, he'd be long beckoning. Seriously, your head's much closer to your torso than this. And much larger. You do have a big head, that's true. Thanks, man.
It's a lot of thoughts in here. Thank you, John. We found out last week. Yeah, man. I took care of everybody while you were gone.
I want to take this phone call first. Tim in Arizona, you're here on the Rich Islands. Tim's got a question a lot of people ask me some. I don't want to get it. I would feel.
Here we go. What's up, Tim? First of all, I have to say, rest in peace. Larry Fitzgerald and Raymond Berry. No doubt.
Two great, great, great people. Yeah, Larry Fitzgerald Sr. passed away as well.
So Brad could mention. Thank you, Tim. Yeah, I'm sorry, senior. And Shea killed it, killed it last week. Everybody killed it last week.
Thank you. Thank you. Now, thank you to O'Shea and Susie being here and the guests as well. I appreciate it. Uh what's on your mind, Tim?
Well, actually, I'd like to ask you this question. I actually am a Pacer fan, and I really enjoyed last year's series, even though we didn't win. It was such a great series, okay? And uh I know you're a Jet fan. And I know you're a Knicks fan.
And I actually, I hate this term because I actually have a daughter named Sophie. But I'd like to ask you a Sergei's choice question.
Okay. Rich? Yeah. And it's Knicks are the Jets. If you had to choose between the two, Would you choose the Jets Super Bowl?
Are the Knicks winning? the championship, which they can. I can only choose one. You can only choose one, of course. One is a lot closer.
One is only four wins away right now, huh? He's not talking about recency bias, though. He's saying which one would I I'll go next. I'll go down. Really?
Yeah. Wow. That would. I'm a Ramsay. He's been out on the Jets a while.
It's been a while. I didn't expect that, Chris.
Well, yeah, I've seen the tide turn recently. He's tied the tide turned recently. But the Knicks have technically won a championship in your lifetime and the Jets. I don't recall either one though, man. The Jets the Jets were ba just as I was being born, and the Knicks were when I was four.
So I don't remember that. And I've been to more Knicks games and Jets games and things of that nature.
So thanks for the call, Tim. Greatly appreciated. It's Tim in Arizona. Time. What a guy that, Tim.
All right, you wanna. You want to make a prediction in the finals? We're all about to do it.
Okay. I want a prediction of the finals and I want a prediction as to who's the M V P. And This is why Knicks fans are are nervous. And why after they beat The Calves in game one coming back from twenty-two down and you're You're sending a text bing-bong to our phones, our voice text. Yeah.
Um. They were chanting We Want Wemby. On the streets, and I'm like, careful. Yep. Sports guys don't like stuff like that, bro.
Well, it's not just that, it's because we are in the process of potentially witnessing rather than watching. You know what I mean? Yeah. Wemby saying this. When was this?
Right after the finals, right? After game seven. Him saying this? is exactly Feeling what I felt when that buzzer went off again and again and again. And even more.
I'm really, it's you you work all these hours we put in. It's for these type of emotions. Like I I want that I want to win so bad. It's like my life depends on it. True.
Yeah. Do you get 22-year-olds talking that way? He sounds like he's been waiting 20 years for this moment. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I haven't. Haven't heard one like that since Kobe Bryant or LeBron James. You know, and it's hard not to root for them, but I'm going to do a very good job. Bing-bong. Do you want to go first then?
No, no, no. Please, I'm a guest this time. Chris, you go for it. Spurs and six, and because I'm financially invested, Stefan Castle, MVP. Stephan Castle MVP is nuts.
Man, what's up? TJ. What me now?
Okay. You.
Well, I made this declaration a couple of weeks ago, so I got a stick with it. Mitzel Plicks, pickup sticks, Nixon six. That's bottom. That's bad. And You know, MVP, I got to go with my guy, the guy who's brought me a lot of torture and torment, but it's all done and good fun.
I'm going to go with the big bodega. The big cat, Carl Anthony downtown. Oh, man. Uh, I think you want to go next? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, my tag team partner spitting rhymes like he usually does. You know, that's how we do at NCW, and NCW right now is a New York City win. All right, so right now, we're going Nixon six. OG ananobia. I don't think It I wouldn't take the field.
If the Spurs win it, it's going to be Wembunyama. If the Knicks win it, it's Brunson. I don't think we need to reinvent the wheel. Yeah, but that's easy. And it may be easy, but it's also.
You know, but I want to be accurate. I'm not just going to be. I mean, you are Rich Eisen. Zagging she says pardon me, everyone's zigging. Uh I'm I'm gonna go.
I'm going Nixon six two. Yeah. It's crazy. To sound so good. That's my heart.
My head says it's going to be Spurs in seven. This thing's going to go deep. I honestly don't care who wins for the first time. I'm deserved to watch and enjoy. But my heart says Knicks in six, you know, and Josh Hart in actual figurative heart.
This is the best Knicks team of my life. And I've seen them, you know. In the Pat Riley era, I saw them you know, in the Van Gundy era, I saw them with Ewing. I've seen them with Bernard King. This team, you take a look at the 99 finals and see who started.
For the Knicks, obviously Ewing was hurt, but the rest of the team, too, with all due respect to those legends that show up. This team is deeper and better. Yeah. I think. I just think it's one of those series that the X Factor, you know, the player that says, like, okay, these guys are going to do their thing or get clamped.
What am I going to do? And I believe in OG like that. And I think Castle could be that guy, and I think Cat could be that guy. It's just, you know, you got Stockholm syndrome. You just love your captor.
Carl Anthony Townsend. Big bug man, don't you? All right, we'll hit game one on Thursday's show. NCW is going. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eisen Show podcast.
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