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Just had a delightful chat with Tony Hale in the green room, and there's only one reason for it, because he is delightful. Toy Story 5, soon to be in theaters near you on Friday, June 19th. And it's just a few days before that, we're going to have right here on the program. Kurt Signetti is going to be on the show. Dang.
Because we've been after him since he's won his national championship. And then finally, we were able to nail down a date. This was back in May. It's like June 16th. I go, all right.
But there's one person that doesn't have to wait that long. And he's kind enough to join us right here on the show to make heads or tails of the Brendan Saresby News, the host of Josh Pate's College Football Show, ladies and gentlemen. The aforementioned Josh Pate. Good to see you, Josh. How are you?
You know that I have long had a dream that you and I could just live in a world where we talk about. Toy Story 19 and college football year-round. That's it. And we've got one, kind of, and we've got the other, sort of. This is just not how I envisioned it.
This is not my path for talking college football year-round. I hear you. I hear you. And we were just sitting here before the show, like, who can we get to come on to make heads or tails of all this? And you were the first name, and you were kind enough to say yes on short notice.
What do you make of the Brendan Swordsby news that he's allowed to play this year in an injunction granted by a Lubbock judge, Josh? It's unbelievable. I was in Lubbock last week. The vibe there was not hopeful. And so it's unbelievable.
I don't know how often you can. Really say that in college athletics because there's a varying degree of insanity every day.
So, very few things are unbelievable, but this headline slapped me in the face to the point where I was on a meeting this morning when the news broke, and I thought it was one of the satire accounts because there are a lot of those out there.
So, I didn't even think it was real, Rich. That's how godsmacked I was.
So, my first thought was. How foolish do you feel? If you're a coach, an athletic director, a university president, a player, what have you. That ever just voluntarily succumbed to NFL or NCAA sanctions, a few self-reported violations in recent history. How foolish do you feel?
The NCAA, you know, has been on a certain trajectory for a while, but this is the wood chipper moment. This is tossing it in, and the rest of it just sprays out because there have been really, really big picture issues in the past, large-scale societal issues, domestic and sexual abuse in the past. They were matters that were huge, but they seemed so weighty and extended so far beyond sports that I almost looked at those and said, I kind of understand how this feels out of the NCAA's purview. Like, why would the NCAA of all entities be the governing or investigatory body for this? This feels better suited for someone else.
I've said that a lot about matters that in the grand scheme of things are more important than betting on sports while you're an active player.
However, the Rubicon. That one red line that you always looked at as a participant or a coach or a fan was betting on the sports as you're an active participant. Because, Rich, that feels like the one area where the matter is really weighty and consequential, but two, It feels like it's in the NCAA's lane. It feels like it's in the lane of any governing body. And to me, that's the ultimate test.
If you cannot govern the matters that are in your lane, you don't exist. You're just four letters. The NCAA is just kind of four letters now. Maybe it always was, and it was a poodle that barked in the microphone and convinced everyone it was a Doberman for a long time, but it's done. It's over.
And it's crazy we find this headline in the middle of. You know, this bigger mushroom cloud about Senate bills and who should and shouldn't have autonomy over college football. It's just kind of another log on the fire this week, I guess.
Well, I mean, the attorney, Jeffrey Kessler, who has been very front and center for player rights and certainly in the NFL players' association world from back in the day, He he was the lead attorney here. And he's quoted as saying, Brendan gets to devote himself to his team and the education of athletes on the dangers of gambling addiction. He will continue his treatment, miss two games. There's no injury to the competitive integrity of the NCAA. It's what we proposed and what the NCAA should have accepted had it been true to its promises to prioritize the welfare.
Of athletes. The judge himself, a retired Tarrant County judge named Ken Curry, who does, by the way, not hold any degrees from Texas Tech. Lubbock is 300 miles from Where Texas Tech is located, said that Soursby's attorney demonstrated a probable right to the relief they're seeking for breach of contract, breach of duty, of good faith. and fair dealing and breach of fiduciary duty in their case against the NCAA. I know you're not a lawyer.
But that's the Reasoning here I'll give you the floor after hearing all of that. Josh? Again, unbelievable. And since I've got that. Injunction order pulled up here.
You want to know what. The most I don't know, fascinating, dumbfounding paragraph in all this was. It's the paragraph that I'm looking at that says. The athlete or the applicant rather demonstrated he'll suffer probable, imminent, and irreparable injury if the court does not grant a temporary injunction. He won't benefit from coaching.
He won't benefit from being able to play. Oh. Rich, up until five minutes ago, those were called consequences of making bad decisions or breaking rules. And now, apparently, it's justification for. AstroTurfing everything.
And by that logic, I'm left as a non-lawyer to ask: what was the threshold here? If your argument is, well, yeah, he bet on games, but I mean, if we rule him ineligible, he's going to miss the season. If that's your logic, Well, what could he have done that would have tilted the seesaw the other direction? Like, how egregious would the offenses have to have been? Because, I mean, the guy could have looked at the spider cam and hit go on a bet, and this would still apply.
This logic would still apply.
So, I just really, maybe there is no logic here, or maybe it extends well beyond just us with racehorse blinders on looking at one matter, and maybe it does extend to overall governance or lack thereof that the NCAA has. And I know Jeffrey Kessler has his hands on multiple ongoing cases that relate to that. This, again, I use the log on the fire analogy again because this just feels like another one. Yeah, it feels like if one of. Uh do you do you have kids, Josh?
I do not.
Okay.
So they're speaking as a dad here. It's like if one of the kids that Susie and I have And does something, and we take their phone away, right, as punishment. And they'll just go to a judge and say, you know, this Denies me the right to scroll on Instagram. And it denies me the right to text my friends just when we're actually having to.
something to do on the weekend, and I will have ir irreparable harm if I don't hang with my friends. You know what I mean? That's what it sounds like. It sounds absurd. But we're not but we're not we're not legal experts in that regard, but I As you pointed out, that That um Uh that that reasoning Would still apply if he just made a bet on the spider cam on his phone.
I mean, you couldn't have crystallized it anymore.
So, what's the fix? Charlie Baker says Congress needs to be targeted. in passing some new law. Josh, that smacks of unhelpful at the end of the day, unless you know a little bit more about whatever. Um legislation Charlie Baker is referring to.
Josh.
Well Congruent to all this, Has been the ongoing bill that is coming out of the Senate. And just, I mean, To 30-second synopsis, all this for people who haven't been in the weeds on this for a long time. The people who run college athletics, up to and including the NCAA, but also conference commissioners and presidents and chancellors, they have yelled a couple of things. They have yelled, Help us. We've got rules we can't enforce because we keep getting sued.
And that was called the SCORE Act. And it kept crashing and burning because you could not get bipartisan consensus on it because there was no revenue piece. It looked like you were just bailing out a bunch of people who screwed the ecosystem up, but that's all you were doing was bailing them out and with no revenue piece to speak of. And so then comes along the idea to amend the Sports Broadcasting Act, which provides theoretically the ability to pool media rights into a collective like the NFL's done, which in theory provides the revenue. And what has struck me as very ironic, Rich, before this news broke today is over the past week, The biggest Story item in our world has been the very people who yelled for governance and that they were going broke have been pushing back on a bill from the Senate that provides governance and revenue mechanisms because, really, at the end of the day, it takes a little autonomy away from them.
And this is a world where I think the adults in the room that screwed up for so long and turned a blind eye to the obvious for so long keep waiting on a perfect solution. And to them, the perfect solution is. We want Everything that we want and anything short of that, we're pushing back on. And that is long gone as a concept. And so now this happens.
And so now it'll be just a fresh wave of people yelling towards Washington, D.C., help us out. They're telling us our rules are illegal. College athletics, they have a much greater societal importance, which by the way, I'm on board with conceptually. But you guys can't keep looking and saying, we screwed it up for so long. for which we take full responsibility.
We still want to be in charge. We want to get our way on everything. We just want you to back us up, but we don't want to concede anything. Does that sound good? Why not?
And in a way, it kind of makes them sound like a whinier version of the child that they feel just kind of got their way in this legal decision. Yeah, that's the problem I also have with you know Charlie Baker's statement is that leaves the NCAA still in charge.
So what is the fix? Josh Pate, I now I now give you a wand. You may wave it. What's the fix? What do you think?
What does it look like? How is it constructed? And I know that I only have a few minutes left with you to fix college. football and athletics, but go for it. Yeah, two or three minutes.
That's all we've ever really needed. That's all we've ever really asked for. We don't have central authority in college athletics. They do in major professional sports, and they have for a long time. And we are way, way down the road in college athletics.
And short of. Powerful institutions voluntarily ceding a little bit of their autonomy, Rich. I don't know that we ever have that central authority, which means I'm not so sure that anyone is ever able to hold that magic wand. And so then the alternative path. There is one, they don't want anything to do with it, is a world that involves collective bargaining with the athletes and labeling them employees, which we've kind of done anyway, except we haven't.
Put the white stick of athletic tape and written in Sharpie employee on their helmet. But in every other walk of college athletics, they kind of are that. They don't want to go down that road, they being, you know, the current powers that be.
So you keep on, this right here keeps on happening.
So the idea, the theory of a commissioner in college football or college athletics has existed for a long time and they've fought it. And I just look at it and say, okay, if that's the problem, if that doesn't work, do you guys have any alternative solution that does work? Because what you can't do is just yell into the void, but then also shoot down any possible solution that someone has. Because what it makes it look like is you're just trying to run out the clock. To some kind of inevitability, and a lot of people theorize that's what's happening right now.
So the big boys can just take their ball and go do their own thing. Mm-hmm. Brother, I appreciate the time. I knew I said I'd get you out right around now because you've got stuff going on, and I appreciate you. joining in advance of whatever you got going on.
Joshua, sir. You be well. Thanks again, Josh. Yes, sir. That's Josh Pate, everybody.
Voice of reason. He's got to go. Hmm. Damn it. Cheese.
This is the thing right here.
Okay.
Let me get this part of the story. This is Pete Thammel. In a two-hour, if you're wondering what was the argument, right? In a two-hour hearing in Lubbock County District Court last week, Jeffrey Kessler argued that the NCAA ignored its own rules. by not considering Sorby's well being when it ruled him ineligible, Describing his gambling history as a mental health issue that the NCAA is obligated to support and not punish.
NCAA Attorney Taylor Askew said in the hearing that the organization did consider his mental health in its process of deeming him permanently ineligible, and that those challenges do not excuse the consequences of his actions.
Soursby is acknowledged, placing at least 2,900 bets totaling more than $30,000 during his two years at Indiana and at least 165 bets. Totaling at least $38,000 during his two years at the starting quarterback, as starting quarterback. at Cincinnati. He continued his sports betting after transferring to Texas Tech in January and is acknowledged sending more than $65,000 to friends to cover his bets made on behalf during his college career.
Now that is his sickness. I mean, that is 100% a sickness. I'm just wondering, should Pete Rose have done that? Except there is a Poster, placard, sign in every clubhouse in Major League Baseball saying you do it, you're finished. Does the NCAA not have that on their walls?
Is that what it is? It's just, it's kind of crazy. I'm not saying that the kids should be. Um, I I guess y if you apply the rule that you're permanently banned from college football, let them go to the pros and let the pros handle it next. I thought that was going to be the path that he was going to go.
I thought the NCAA would go, yeah, you're done here. I'm glad that at least whatever happened here caused you to go and get the counseling that you need. Clearly need. And And then the NFL would be just like, Yeah, we're just not going to draft him. and figure that out from there.
Talent over everything. I heard this kid's got a professional career waiting for him. Mm-hmm. So I hope he did figure it out. But it's just are are we going to be in a world where it's just like your honor This young man clearly has got a sickness, and the NCAA should help him.
Even though his actions have clearly Called the integrity of the games that he in which he plays or the schools in which he plays into question. Which is damaging to the sport and damaging to everything else. that we try to accomplish here. Yeah.
Okay.
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Actually, did Chris, did you have a toy growing up that you absolutely loved? Sure, I still have it. No, you don't, really? Hold on a minute. Breaking news.
What? In advance of Toy Story 5, you still have a toy from your childhood that you have. I have two stuffed animals. I still have. Oh, this is the story of Toy Story 6.
I'm just letting you know. Let me write this down. First of all, what are they and what are their names? It's a tiny raccoon called Rocco. Oh.
Rocco the raccoon. When I was three, I've had that since I was three. Oh. Then I have a stuffed dog. Named Sparky.
Sparky, the stuffed dog. That I've had since I was six. Where are deer? Do you sleep with them? No.
They're near. I don't sleep with them anymore. I'm an adult. This explains a lot. I want your, oh man, I want to see a picture of you just cuddling everything.
You're nearby. Have you passed? Do you have kids? Yes. Have you passed them down, or are they just kind of like no touch because they're.
Nope, no touch, old, fragile. Don't want them to fall apart and break. But yes, I see. Rocco and Spark are like a glass case. Close.
Close by, yeah. Yeah.
So these are 42-year-old stuffies. Yeah.
Oh, that man, your parents really held on to them for you. Or you held on to them. No, I've carried them. You carried them for yourself. I took him to I took him to college.
Did you honor him?
Sorry, Tony. This is all I want to talk about. Into an interview of Raw, I think I turned the interview. You did? Yes, yes, yes.
You did that. This is my interview. You brought them to college? You went to the college dorm, you're in Syracuse, and you brought your stuffed animals with you. I wasn't sleeping with them, but it was like a reminder of home.
Yeah, I get it. Oh, are you kidding? It's a comfort. Yeah.
It's a pacifier that can kind of stay with you and you're not maybe shamed for it until today. Gracious. Thank you, Tony. Appreciate you. Do you still have any childhood toys?
No, I mean, I used to way back in the day when I was a kid. Remember winning the poo? Yeah.
Remember Tigger?
So I used to have like Tigger dolls. That's why when Calvin and Hobbs came out, I really resonated because I was a kid who had this wild imagination with this stuffed tiger. And then Calvin and Hobbes was the same thing.
So I don't know what ever happened to it, but for years I used to carry that. What do you, Tony? Do you have childhood toys still, Tony? I don't still have them, but I was a fan of the Muppets. And I had, my favorite was Scooter.
Do you remember Scooter? He had the glasses. And I also had glasses as a kid. And I was convinced Scooter had asthma.
So I would put my inhaler in his hand and I'd be like, you're one of me. Represent. Wow.
Okay.
And Beaker. Beaker. I love Beaker. Beaker. Because he reminded me actually of my character in Veep because he also did not speak.
And Gary was not allowed to speak. He would just stand behind her and be like, I'll be honest with you. I would think Buster Bluth would be a little bit more dangerous. And Buster Bluth had a little beaker. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because the hands would go back and did Beaker ever have a hook for a couple seconds on the muscles? He should have. He should have. I'll put a hook in his arm like I did the inhaler with Scooter. Did you have one?
I did have a Mickey Mouse.
Okay.
Stuffed animal. Great. And my dad was a French teacher.
So he would occasionally take his French class abroad for the first school. Which would leave me to um Be move into my aunt and uncle's house for a couple days because they would look after me and my brother while my parents were out of. Yeah.
I can't believe I'm telling the story on the air. I can't. My cousins, who were older than me, wanted to haze their younger cousin. Sure.
So once upon a time, I did find Mickey Mouse hanging from a chinning. Yikes. Yep. It's dark. And that was, you know, quite the moment in my life across my mind.
As you should have. That's full PTSD. He's formative, right? That is. That reminds me.
My stories never? Is that the one? That will never happen. That reminds me of my when I saw Nightmare Elm Street. My brother took Freddie's hand from a Halloween shop or something and hid under my bed.
Oh, wow. And pulled that hand out. And I have not seen a horror movie since. It's so traumatized me. It was absolutely terrifying.
Wow.
Let's talk about the polar opposite. Story five years near you, right? Absolutely. On Friday, June 19th. I love the concept of this.
Yes. Yes. This version. It's toys versus Screencon. Yeah.
Tech. Toys versus tech. Because The toys of the Toy Story days. Yeah.
Are losing out to kids sitting there on their iPads and tech. Yeah.
And it's so I mean, the g the thing I love about Pixar is they wouldn't have told another story if they didn't have a story to tell. Right. And look at our world. You know, technology is not going away. They don't bash technology.
But I think a beautiful message that comes out of this is Technology is great, but it's never going to replace true connection. You know, true connection is where it's at. And it's just, I mean, it's done so beautifully. It's really good. It's really good.
Not to get too deep here, but of all the toys. To have a true connection with that is far afield from. Technologies you can get, a plastic spork would be it. Because there are times when you've got, you know. Um when You know, Cage was younger, my kids were younger.
And you're in a car ride, and there was no tech. No. We would just basically give them a plastic bottle to just squeeze and play with. Oh, yeah, on Amazon. That would get them through like an hour-long ride, you know?
And a spork would be like, here, kid, here's a spork. Let's just draw some face on it, and off we go. And how creative she was when she made it. She's like, Yeah, let's take this and let's put a rainbow sticker on its foot and let's get the pipe cleaner for the arms. She's the one who came up with the whole thing.
And that's what this is all about. And that's and well, that's that creative, but it's the you know, getting away from the technology and opening your mind up. That's when those ideas really spark. Right, but we just saw a clip where Woody's got a worn. Yeah, Woody's got a little worn bald spot.
And did I see a little stomach too? He's got a little tummy. He does suck it back in like I do every day. But he, yeah. But I just love how they, you know, just the traditions and they've been through a lot.
And I was asked this at a question recently about the longevity of Toyster, like what keeps people coming back. And you see these toys having each other's back. They stay together, they root for each other. You know, they're always coming back the community of it. And that's what we all, it's all that power of relationship.
Do you guys all record separately? Or there's never any group session. There's no like we are the world moment with you, Tom Hanks, you know, and the rest of the cast. Orky's pipe clean. No, there's none of that.
And I didn't, I didn't, I didn't meet after Toy Story 4, I did not meet them until we were doing press. No kidding. You had never met Tom Hanks before. I take that back. I think I met him at something because he was a big fan of Veep, and he was very kind, said something to us once.
Right. But no, not to the rest of the cast. And this time during press, I got to meet Joan Cusack, who does Jesse. Yes. And this is very much Jesse's story.
So I got to meet her. And it's like Greta Lee who's in this. And, you know, that's we meet each other during press. Yeah.
I met Tim Allen once. In college, there was a stand-up comedian at the University of Michigan University Club. And there were student comedians who opened up for real live comedians. Yeah, yeah. Tim Allen was from the state of Michigan.
He was the headliner. Oh, wow. Yeah.
Yeah.
And I opened for Tim Allen one. Oh, dude. That actually happened. Did you tell him this later, or was that the only time you met? I've never, I'd love to have him on here.
I mean, I'm going to see him tomorrow. I'll tell him. Tell him I said hi, and that, you know. What was the, what were the, can you remember the main topic of your stand-up that you would talk about? Yes.
I used to read the penthouse forums and Howard Coachell's voice. Oh. Okay.
Now, I'm dating myself. There's probably a bunch of kids who are playing with sporks right now or saying, Who the hell is Howard Kosell? What's Penthouse? And, well, that is the follow-up. Yes, I would think.
Damn it, I should have led with that. But yeah, I did that. That's fun. And Tim told me that if I wanted to succeed, I needed to work less blue.
So I could appear on shows like The Tonight Show. The fact that Tim Allen would give me advice on how to get on Johnny Carson at the time was great. And then I turned on like his HBO special. And he was as blue as anybody else. I'm like, what the hell is that?
You know, but he was kind enough to like pull me aside and say something to me. Did you continue it at all after that, or did you just kind of for three years at Michigan and then I tried to continue it once and then I just realized I wasn't cut out for it. And then I made it on ESPN and I tried it one more time. Susie, who you know very well, was in the audience. I bombed and she's like, you're never doing that again.
One of these days, I would love for just one of these shows just to be one of your sets. Oh, just for you just to like let go of the sports for a day and just do a set of your standards. I could try that. I don't know if the Rich Eisen show would survive that, but we'll try. I was bad.
I was bad because I became, you know, like, I wasn't as. Polished or is you got to really do that on the regular in order to oh my gosh. I mean, it's a very it's a muscle. It is.
Okay.
Well, that's pretty cool that you get to work and do all this sort of stuff and and Toy Story. Is still in action, man. It is.
Friday, June 19th, here on the Rich Eisen Show. You know what you got coming in next week is Henry Winkler. Coming in next week. Right. He's the best.
He, you know, I think I've told you this. He was an example when I moved to Hollywood and I was overwhelmed. This was back in 2003. And I just had some experiences where just a lot of I met some different folks in different areas that I was just not crazy about. And I was like, gosh, is this what Hollywood's gonna be?
Just kind of cutthroat and ego and all this kind of stuff. And And I met Henry, and he was so gracious and so kind and so like giving. And I was like, oh, he's been in it for so long. This is possible. No kidding.
Yeah.
And he really has been just an example of character and integrity in this business. Did your character on Arrested ever cross paths with his?
Sometimes, because he played our lawyer. Yes. Very bad lawyer. Barry Zuckerberg. Was that Scott Bee's?
He was a lawyer, too, right? No, he was Bob Loblaw.
Okay.
That's right. But Zuckerkorn was just the worst lawyer ever. And I think I'm sure he had runs in with Buster a lot. Hmm. Yeah, because my daughter Taylor has watched all of the arrested.
She has, she has, yes, and so is my older son, Xander. Two of my three have gone through soup to nuts the entire arrested development. And we're proud, Susie and I are proud of that. Of course. Although, on occasion, not so great.
I know. But, you know, she, especially, you know, when Barry is trolling at night in the car, you know, explain what that's all about. But she did, he was, Henry was at an event one time. Yeah.
That Taylor kind of crossed paths, and she was. Dad, that's Barry Zucker. And I'm like, well, let me tell you about Fonzi. I will say, like, those jokes, yeah, Fonzie. I mean, that was our years.
Like, he was an icon. Yep. But the jokes of arrested I'm still getting today. There's still so many jokes that I missed. Like you got one in Fergie.
I mean, I think I might have shared this last time, but when the doctor's in the hospital, And he says, Buster's going to be. I said Buster's going to be okay when actually he lost an arm. And then somebody in the audience or someone says, No, no, he said he's going to be all right. Meaning, he just has a right arm because my hand was eaten up by a seal. But I didn't get that joke till 15 years later.
Come on. I'm not kidding. That is one of the funniest scenes of all time where you've lost your arm and you've lost your left arm. And the doctor says he's going to be right. He's going to be all right.
And they're like, what? And he's like, no, I mean, he just has a right arm. And then he comes out and he's basically saying the same thing all over again. And my favorite is. is I forget who's the one who was I I believe it was Job Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
Wheeler net. Yeah, the great wheel our net screen. What is wrong with you? It's that joke, and my other favorite joke is when Tobias joins the Blue Man group, thinking it's a support group for depressed men. We just had David Cross on a couple months ago brought that up, and he said he legitimately wore that blue paint.
Yeah.
And it was. Absolutely a nightmare to take off. Did he tell the story of then later meeting somebody who just put a blue suit on and they just had to do the and he was like, Where was that? He said Jeffrey Tambour did it, you know, a couple of season later, and all he did was just put on a mask or something. He's like, What the hell?
How come I wasn't afforded this? At one point, he had to put like uh silver glitter all over his body because he was totally like, There he is. Oh, bless his heart, man. Did you see the blue paint on the wall? He was, and those, and just those little hidden jokes all over.
I recently saw Mitch Hurwitz, and I just. He's a wonderful man, and I just have a lot of admiration for his writing. Was there ever something that was required for you to do and you said, I don't know if I could do that? Was there ever anyone? I'm trying to think if oh, if it was just too much?
Too much. Were you just like, really? I kind of went along with most of it. I'm trying to think. I don't remember anything specific.
Um so then what was the most out there thing that you did do?
Well I had I mean, there was, oh my gosh, everything was. I mean, I got to make out with Liza Minelli, which was a dream. And then I also, and she's wonderful. Like, I loved hanging out with her. And then I got to.
Gosh, I did. I mean, I remember I had that army outfit I wore, and people thought I was a prostitute at some point. I mean, just so many things. And the thing is, you'd have these ideas. I'd have these ideas to Mitch that I would give him, and I'd be like, what do you think about this idea?
And he'd be like, yeah, that's funny, but I think I'm going to have a seal bite off your hand. And I was like, well, that tops it. We're going to go with that. Did you ever think you'd have making out with Liza Minelli on your career, Bingo Carter? No, because they had mentioned I was going to have a girlfriend.
I was like, oh, that's fun. Like, who is it? And then they said, Liza Minelli, and I was like, What and it was so it was so perfect because her name was also Lucille, the name of my mother on the show. It was two Lucilles.
So he was just going from one Lucille to the next. He was just in a he just wanted another mom. 'Cause his his mom was so awful. Oh my God. And then you know the whole thing of like a seal bite off his ha hand was a loose seal.
Mm-hmm. Did you know that? No, I didn't never put that together. Yeah, so there's a whole loose feel. What?
You said, and you were like, I didn't get jokes until 15 years later. That one just are. Yeah.
So there was a whole mother issue with Busto that even the seal that bit off his hand was a loose seal. Isn't that amazing? It's like the money in the banana stand. There's always something there. There's always stuff to discover on this show.
Oh, my God. God.
So we have an idea for Toy Story 6. I don't know if you saw this. Oh, you're serious? Yeah, no, I'm serious.
Okay, great. I don't know if you saw this. Is Rocco and Sparky in it? No, in the Olympics. I don't know if you saw this in the Olympics.
But in the Olympics, For whatever reason, I do not know why. They did this in the Olympics this past year. but they gave out to the silver medallists. To the people who finished and who didn't get the gold. They gave them like a stuffed animal.
And this is the Canadian hockey team just losing to the Americans in overtime. They get a silver medal and then they get this toy. What is the animal? Was it a stuffed lion or a tiger? I have no idea.
Oh, that's kind of. But basically, like, maybe it's all the toys that were not accepted in an Olympics.
Well, you know, Buster went to the Army and came back and said it was holding stuffed animals and said, These are my awards, Mother, from Army. Maybe that was the inspiration for the Olympic committee. That was a very Buster-influenced. I couldn't, we didn't know. None of this computed.
Hey, look at his face. I know he's just like your entire life. You're dreaming of this moment. I'd like to see them walking on just throwing those stuffed animals into the trash. Toy Story 6.
What happens to them? I mean, they all come together and they find love amongst each other. They have each other's backs. That's true. You know what I mean?
A hockey theme. Or any theme. Yeah.
Choose your sport. Choose your sport. Whatever you want. You know? Oh, I love it.
Run that up the flagpole. Is the premiere tonight? Is that what's going on? Tomorrow night. Ah.
Yeah, that'll be really nice. My son says there's a rumor there's going to be a certain. Performer at the oh, I mean, I have because you know, you know, I'm, you know, I'm all you don't know this, but I'm genuinely the last person to find out anything. You don't know what to be at at Toy Story Farm? Not at all.
I mean, I know she's doing a song. I know, it's big, but I have by the way, the song is amazing, it's a very good song. But I'll be doing some kind of something, a show or something, and someone be like, Oh, I heard that your show got picked up, right? And I'm like, Sorry? And it's like all everything everybody here is before me.
But I know she's doing a song.
Well, my daughter is a huge are your kids big fans? My oldest son, Xander, is the biggest Swifty. I don't think he compares to my daughter because she Hilla Swift has meant so much to her. My son, too. And her library of music is like.
I am well aware. Like, literally, he will. Give me a full dissertation about this song meaning this and that song meaning that, and that song is now actually going to reveal what the next song is and what her next album is as relation to the next album. And the Easter eggs, all that kind of stuff. Oh, yeah.
And supposedly, there was a lot of Easter eggs of her old music leading up to this situation. I don't know. That's like, maybe not. I don't know. But it's like she, my daughter fills me in on all of this.
Okay.
I mean, she's a an incredible businesswoman. She is not.
So hopefully if she's there. Xander says hi. Will you please do that for me? Remember?
So I will tell Xander she says hello, and then I will tell Tim. Mm-hmm. That I opened for him at the University of Michigan. Yep. Yep, yep, yep.
He told you you were too blue. I was too blue to be, if I wanted to succeed, I needed to get on like late night shows and that penthouse forum stuff wasn't going to work. Yeah, I can see that.
So it made sense. It made complete sense.
So there's that. And is there a Veep revival? Oh, I wish. I wish I loved those people so much. And you know what's great about Veep?
So many things are great about Veep. But, you know, when you're watching the news now, it's y you want to laugh, but you feel bad about laughing 'cause you don't want to laugh. It's just too too much. Veep gave you the opportunity to laugh about politics. You know, when you laughed at that show, you didn't feel bad 'cause you know it wasn't ha that wasn't happening.
Yes. Now you really can't laugh at the news 'cause it's happening. My algorithm pops up with a Veep. Like once a day. Really?
It is.
It's so great. That's a great show. Yeah, the one that happened the other day was Selena getting. um upset with each passing bullet point of the reason why that the autopsy of the previous election every single bullet point was because she was either too mean or didn't accept any responsibility. Everything that she said out of her mouth just Absolutely backed up what the ops host be is all about.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
And she may say, well, that's not true. That's their fault. Won't accept responsibility. Like, that's not my fault. Really?
Brilliant. Congrats on everything going on with you. Thanks, man. It's always so fun coming back. Thank you for being here.
Toy Story 5 in theaters near you Friday, June 19th. Toys versus tech. I'm rooting for the toys, everybody. Yes. Specifically, one plastic spork.
Oh, yes. Delightful. Yes. And I will be the first in the first row when you're doing your set on the Rich Eisen show. That'll be great.
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Let's go. Bears win-loss.
Okay, Dave. Council Bluff. What's going on, Dave? How are you, Rich? Yeah, what's going on?
I'm just listening to your show.
Okay, thank you. What do you want to do here, Dave? Council Bluffside. All right, Bears win loss. Give me the numbers.
Give me the music, please. Here we go. Chicago Bears win loss. For Dave and Council Blov. I guess it's him and Seth Rollins in the state of Iowa, looking at the Chicago Bears.
All right. What happens when the Bears open up at Carolina, sir? W. All right, what happens when the Bears host the Vikings? W.
What happens when the Bears host the Eagles on a Monday night? Mikkel. What happens when the Bears host the Jets? W. 3-1 at the Packers.
Uh, that's an L. Oh, three and two. At the Falcons. Yeah, but that's a good question. 4-2, home for the Patriots on a Thursday night.
Big W. Five and two at the Seahawks on a Monday night. That's an L It's now five and three, hosting the Bucs. W Six and three off the bye hosting the Saints. W.
Seven and three, Thanksgiving at the Lions. L Seven and four hosting the Jaguars. W. Eight and four at the Dolphins. W nine and four at the Bills.
L. Nine and five, hosting the Packers on Christmas Day. That's a W. 10-5 hosting the Lions. That's a W 11 and 5 at the Vikings Yeah.
Alright. I think that's a very fair. Level-headed win-loss game from Dave in Council Bluffs, Iowa. We don't get too much. My grandson is an Eagles fan.
Okay.
So I will be watching that game with him, you know. Hoping they win, but not, you know, Philadelphia's got Saquon Barkley. That he's the difference. How old is your grandson? Sixteen.
Okay.
And uh, is he the uh son of your son or daughter? He is the son of my daughter, who is a Bears fan. I raised all three of my girls to be Bears fans.
So, is your son-in-law an Eagles fan?
Okay.
I finally boiled it down.
Okay.
Again, you sound like a very level-headed, open-minded individual from Council Bluffs, Iowa. 11 and 6. Thanks for the call, Dave. Eleven and six, I think, is a very fair Bears record. 12 and 5 would be a step up.
Clearly, 11-6 makes the playoffs. I think 11-6 makes the playoffs in the NFC, and I think the Bears are a playoff team. 11-6 win the NFC North. Yay or nay? Yay or nay.
I say nay. Nay, agree. Yeah.
Right? Not that we win it. Not going to win it.
Okay.
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