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My memory lane stroll with Chris Fowler has been out there for a few days. It will finish up on Friday with Craig Kilbourne. It being the first season of this with Sports Center. There's just many ways for you to check out our show when you don't. Uh see it live.
Um and uh I just had a chat with uh Outstanding Human, one of our favorites. Joe Letrulio, the actor, is in the studio in hour number three. We'll bring him out. Ah, he's a Met Jet. Fan.
And his new film, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, is in theaters on Friday, July 10th. It's basically the people who helped create Wet Hot American Summer all getting together and acting. And there's a bunch of people from that film in this movie. And the celebrity sex pass in question is John Hamm, who's in the film. And I'm wondering if Joe Letrulio is telling him to draft faster in our best ball league because he's the one who holds up the draft more than anybody else.
And I want it this year, despite all that.
So. There's lots to talk about with Joe. And weave me into the story. True. Yes.
You do you won this year?
Okay. Um so Uh Two explosions, if you will, in the state of sports explosions. How many? Two. In the state of Texas.
One, during the conversation with Bon Winter. John, uh pardon me. While we're talking about with Brian Windhorst, Japan scored first in the knockout round against Brazil. If Japan holds on to beat Brazil in the second half of this knockout round match of the World Cup. OMG is all I have to say.
That would be. A on a massive Massive result. in the round of 32. Certainly In the southern hemisphere of this planet. Wow.
So there's that going on. And the winner of this match takes on the winner of Norway and the Ivory Coast. And I'll just say this, man. The World Cup Pool play. The if you will First round.
Group stage, Rich. The group stages matches. Mike, appreciate that. Mike's no soccer. This is how much World Cup is so great that you're actually paying attention to what you're working the fate of.
You're going to have something. The number of times you're like, I don't know which game I'm doing tonight. And now you're like, it's group stage, Rich. Showing you up. You know?
It's kind of amazing. You're like telling me what offsides mean. This is a first-round matchup, by the way. Brazil, fifth in the world rankings right now, Japan, 15. That's a.
It's a terrific first round. It's called Knockout Round.
So. Um but The First Group stage. Mm-hmm. I guess days. On which, and you were on it the day it happened, Chris, the first time it happened.
where Mbappe Messi and Holland were all playing on the same day. and watching one guy top the other or cascade into the other. Awesome. Awesome. Just spectacular.
And Norway not playing Holland in their third. group stage match was just like, whoa. What are we doing here? Yeah.
Well, they were already through. I understand we were already through. Chances of beating France uh you know, unlikely anyway. But then the US put Pulisic out there at the end. You know, like you're seeing Messi comes out and scores for a seventh straight World Cup.
Match, will we ever see that again? On our lifetimes, in the history of this, that somebody. Steps onto a pitch in the World Cup seven straight times and scores each. Time. At least once.
We'll see if Vinny can score for Brazil here because he's been spectacular so far.
So here we go. Just great stuff. And that's happening in Houston.
So that's one sports explosion. The other is Alan Dallas calling in about the Mets. Al, you there? Let's take Al's phone call here on the Rich Island Show. Are you there?
Listen, listen. Mets fans live by a mantra. What is it? We didn't give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. Thanks.
Thank you. I mean, listen, there's plenty of time left. For what? To succeed some of the success. Oh, wait a minute.
We haven't won since 86, so that's only 40 years. I don't know. Yeah, you know, listen, go ahead. Go anywhere but the Yankees. Please, anywhere.
What do you mean? But he lives in the New York metropolitan area, it seems Al. Who else is there to root for? This is 2026. Tickets are too expensive anyway.
Go root for another team. Change sports. Who cares? Baseball's over. Terrible.
I'm chirping a lot too, by the way, if you get swept by the Red Sox. Listen, I guess you've been all the way back to the bank. He's been chirping all year, Alation. Al, we've got a short stop in left field.
Okay, we've got the Martian in right. Come on now. Let's get Judge back. Let's get Stanton back. Let's get the team healthy.
Get Grisham in center field again. Let's get this rotation in the mix. Freed's back. Let's get them. All five of them getting going.
Still going to be. Come on, Al. The team that the Red Sox just swept is not even close to the team, hopefully, that's going to be playing in healthy in October. That's very true. Come on.
Very true. We're marathoning, Al. We're not sprinting or we're not dancing behind a reporter going through the sober aspect of a team firing, departing their manager. Richard, have you ever seen an organization look so foolish? I mean, it's just it's they they can't get out of their own way.
They gotta You know, Stearns has got to go. You know, it's. Cohen's just gotta snap out of it. It's just that's unwatchable. We deserve better.
You know what, TJ? We deserve better. And I should just sign the sheet and become a Dodger. Who's we? Mets fan.
Oh, I see. You're going to join the Dodgers. It's the only thing he can't eye on. I was just making sure you weren't referring to New York sports fans because this is a Mets town. No, I don't live in New York.
Thank you. It's a Mets town. Neither do you. It's a Mets town, guys. Like, forget the Knicks didn't shoot.
They just showed up. They just crashed the party. It's actually a Mets party. It's a Knicks town, first and foremost. We all know.
It's not even a Yankees town.
Okay. I guess you guys are all waiting for the big wedding that's coming up, right? You know, and. And do you You're talking about Kelsey and Taylor Swift, Kelsey Swift this weekend. I thought you were talking about Brockman and Tian.
Oh, I'm talking about Brockman. I'm talking about my man. Who's performing? I heard the Red Red Staple here. Great question.
Who's performing? Do you want to grab the mic and can sing? Don't ask. Don't ask unless you intend, sir. Daddy Juices.
A couple daddy juices.
Okay. Don't ask unless you intend. Because Rich was on threads asking Michael Boble if he could grab the mic from him. I saw that, yeah. Oh, is Boobla gonna invited me to perform with his orchestra?
I've yet to follow up on that. I also have to get ready for the American Century Championship. You need to work on your short game town where Sinatra was at the sands. I mean, come on now, dude. Be careful.
The short game is more important than your a cappella skills.
Okay, so let's. Because, you know, you are under. It's not pressure. I wouldn't say pressure because pressure creates diamond. But you really, we're all looking forward to you stepping up the American Century.
You know, you've had. Kids are getting older, requirements are less. You got more time to work on your golf games. This is it's your time, Richard. I got nothing going on in my life.
You're right, Al. I should just go hit a button. It's just true. You got nothing going on. Alan Dallas every day.
All right, Al. Great performance and appearance here. Over Action Monday. Let's hit it. Hit it.
Hit it. Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap. That was garbage.
That's why it sucks. Overreaction. Mondays. Mondays. Mondays.
On a Monday. On Monday. On the actual day. It's not like we're observing. It's on the actual day.
It's great. Great to see everyone, man. Whoa, the band's back together. Yeah.
There's four of us here. It's fantastic. Yes. Like the four. Guys, fresh off a four-game sweep of the Yankees, the Red Sox are going to make the playoffs.
All right. Yeah.
That's absurd. You know it too. You know it too. Hey, listen, like I said, Yanks gave you six. Unearned runs with our best pitcher on the mound.
Yeah, could you explain what happened in the ninth inning and extra seven? Yeah, that was terrible, man. Like, William Brayer is a gold glover. No, you're four and you got a leapfrog of five teams, four and a half out. Listen.
Well, the point is: the American League is terrible, so anything's possible. You're right. And the game. Three teams with a winning record in the American League. That's it.
And the Yanks don't you know they're that's all they gotta do is just Stay in hopefully the top seed position while Judge and everybody gets. Better, but this is about the Red Sox. You know what? I'll say this is not an overreaction. Thank you.
Just to give you hope, because again, I really appreciate you, Chris. Hope's a dangerous thing. Uh-huh. Do you even believe that? We're the worst team.
You just said we are the worst team in baseball.
Okay. That can't be because we exist. Ah. You know what I mean? This is so delightful.
What a great season, this has been. What else? All right, all right. After getting swept by the Red Sox, it's clear it'll be another ringless season for the Yankees. All right.
All right. Look at this. Look at this. That's a proper reaction. All the days I got to come back.
That's a proper reaction. I mean, talk to your team. That was embarrassing. You can't lose to us. We're terrible.
I know. Listen, the current state of the team right now, not great. But they're not this bad either. Um, and I'll just say this. We're doing pitched good yesterday.
No, again, I will just say this, Chris. Like, if somebody went to um You know, back in January, February of this year, it's going to be another ringless year for the Knicks. You know? The Knicks have shown the way. You never know.
The only way you say never is when it's the mess. That's departed. Fruit is so low-hanging and gay. That's departed as well. I mean, it tastes best.
That's totally departed. It tastes best though. No, but again, it's just, it doesn't look great. But again, Max Fried is hurt. Let's get him back.
Garrett Cole. who didn't have a great performance this weekend either. Schlittler. Radone. Coal.
Freed in a four-game in a four-game series. Cole can't pitch against Boston. In a four-game series. With Judge Stanton. And the rest of that You know, roster back, and you have to figure there'll be some move that Cashman makes for the bullpen.
Um and Who knows? Maybe you can have another Canyon of Heroes parade that nobody saw coming.
So this is an overreaction. How dare you? After I gave you hope as well. I know. And then he comes in over the top off the top rope.
Fine. Had to do it. All right, not a lot of football news. Not a lot of football news going on. I understand that.
But I did see this, and this guy just can't stop posting videos and weird stuff. Brandon Ayuk. Yeah.
Brendan Ayuk. The more I think about it, he's not going to play it down for anybody this year. This sounds like. A sensible thing to say, but talent over everything in this league still. We don't even know.
I mean, Tom was here. We don't know if he's healthy. Has he been doing his rehab or not? I just will never say never when it's somebody. who a couple years ago showed this sort of talent.
And I don't know. He's certainly not helping his case. The Niners hold the cards. It's just like, hey. Just The you know Mm.
Jeff. Yeah, the Jonah Hill. The Jonah Hill Jeff. No, don't don't do that. Stop.
Very simple. Yeah.
Very simple, but I'll just say it doesn't look good right now. But it's also Not yet training camp, and it's not like rubber meeting road, and it's not like somebody needs a wide receiver. You know? Like, I I'll I'll just say doesn't look good right now, but Overreaction. What else, Chris?
Still tune. All right, TJ, big wrestling over the weekend. That was great to see. I mean, our man, Seth Rollins, is going to be here this week. Big win over Bron.
He's hosting Thursday. Yeah, can't wait to see that. But what's he going to lie about this time? Great question. Great, great question.
Is he coming healthy at least? Because, again, I missed this weekend. Yeah, he's coming in healthy. As healthy as he would be after having a good time, he wasn't a steel cage. Isn't he on tonight?
He could get something could happen tonight at Raw. Man, we got to. I will be crossing my fingers. Just look out for a text from me like I did last time. Yeah.
As soon as I got that one.
Okay, so I say that I bring up wrestling because did you see this photo of Sean McVay from over the weekend on his vacation? Sean McVay would win an NFL head coach Royal Rumble. My man is shredded. Yeah.
Good for him. How many abs are in that picture? One, two, three, four. Those are eight. There's eight.
Listen, it is great. And, you know, his lovely wife as well. I will just say this. Because, again, it's difficult to say this sort of stuff, but that's a mother of two as well. The McVays are eating right.
They're too far. No in and out. There's no cheat days. Oh, that's a French flag there. No Randy's Donuts.
Yeah, that's not even that. There's no baguettes on that boat, I imagine. Nope. Chase. Yeah, they're in Flores Riviera there.
Is that where they are? That's about the only football stories going on.
Well, I don't know. I don't know. Is there a free agent there that they're just going to run into? Yeah, it just happened. What does it just happen to?
Hey, look who's the new Los Angeles Ramp. You never know. Yeah.
Interesting. Pepe LePue just joined the team. Jamar Chase, good to see you. Very good. Is that it?
No. All right. Let's keep it moving.
Okay. World Cup. Dialed into the World Cup. It's so awesome. Every game has been spectacular, but.
Although, I just got to explain as well, while we're in the middle of all of this, it's still 1-0, but the way that Japan just kept Brazil out of the net is. Insane. Feels like nuts. There were feet, heads, unreal. But it was all still for naught.
What else you got? Superstars, Galore, but guys, this tournament is about one guy and one guy only. It's messy in Argentina's World Cup to lose. I can't imagine there's a. I don't know though, um, from my untrained eye.
France looks pretty damn good, man. They do. But Dembele scored three goals in the span of 30 minutes, like one every he averaged one goal every 10 minutes. And Mbappe didn't score. He's got four already, right?
France looks pretty damn good, but that could be the final, right? France and Argentina. They are set up on that. They are set up for that crash collision course in New York, where, by the way, fascinatingly enough, whether it's football or football, nobody likes the turf, whether it's grass or not. You know, England said the turf's not that bad.
Like, that's the best thing anybody said about the Met Life. Yeah, pardon me. New York, New Jersey pitch. Oh, Brazil just tied it up. We are all square.
All right. Equalizer. All right, here we go. All right, a couple more. LeBron's going to be playing somewhere else.
I'm going to wait to see if the flag's up or not. Who the hell knows anymore? But what else you got, Chris? LeBron will be playing somewhere other than Los Angeles, Nick's. That's an overreaction right now.
You just heard, again, in our number two. That, yes, Draymond Green just opted out of a player option that gives the. Warriors more optionality to get LeBron and Anthony Davis. But this could be all just in a way with Anthony Davis and LeBron. Um Just to play for everybody gets more money where they want to stay.
I don't know. Yeah.
You never know. This is an overreaction right now. How about as we are a day before? Free agency. And Wemby says that LeBron has not made himself available.
To talk with the Lakers in their exclusive negotiating window. Very interesting words there. Yeah, that's. That's an issue right now. How about this one?
These two guys are being talked about a lot, and one guy's already been moved. Either Kawhi or Jalen Brown will win a title before Giannis. Um Interesting.
Well, since he said Giannis and the Miami's a a year away. Oh, he said that before. We informed him of what his colleague Shams is reporting that Andrew Wiggins had signed a three-year deal. Um Hmm. Sure.
I'll give that one to you. Sure. I'll give that one to you. The goal does stand in Houston. 1-1 Brazil, Japan.
What else, Chris? Do you think we need one more? Oh, my goodness. All right, we'll get one more before we get back to the chulio. Look at you.
MLB should adopt a new rule, guys. If a team gets swept in a four-game series, they should be ineligible for postseason play. All right. Okay. One last troll job of the Red Sox sweepers.
You brought it on yourself. You guys good with that? What did I bring on myself? You talking trash about my team. How does that bring up anything?
Because you could have been quiet. You couldn't have said anything. It's great. It's great that the Yankees. It's the only thing I have to root for.
It's all you thought right now. It's great for you. It's like an orange wedge. We gave you an orange wedge. Oh, I got it.
Capri son. Come on. Did you wake up, Corval? Yeah, okay. You can't play anything.
You are a total turncoat, man. You're an absolute total turncoat. I don't want to hear it. Good job. All right, that's over Reaction Monday, everybody.
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Rich Eisen here. And summer's here too. And that means it's travel season. My favorite summer trip last year was to Sao Paulo, Brazil. With so many fans traveling for the Los Angeles against Kansas City game, they got to see how lively the city is.
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Fun movie right here where Zoe Deutsch plays a woman whose husband to be taking advantage of his celebrity pass. Hall Pass. Yeah.
And she's like, I'm going to take my Hall Pass. Right. Which is John Hamm. John Hamm, ladies and gentlemen. She goes to Hollywood looking for John Hamm.
That's where you find him. That's where you find him. That's where he is. Right here in Hollywood. All the stars are here.
It's interesting. I looked so. High and far for John Hamm. Yeah.
Last. August when we were drafting in our best ball Celebrity League. That's right. And he just, you know, because you give everybody as the commissioner, how many hours do you get? You have eight hours.
Eight hours. You have eight hours. And somebody takes all eight. And his name. Don Am.
Listen, I thought about this. And you know, he was suffering from Don Draperism, which is he's calculating. And he's struggling to find an identity. And he doesn't know which player is going to give him that on his team. And then and you you then Tell him that there's a cash prize involved, and that's what the money is for.
That's what the money is for. That's right. Still doesn't spur action. No, I'll send an email because I'm that guy. You're that guy.
You are that guy. By the way, you came out the commission hard. What are we doing here? Well, I mean, not you. I just came at kind of everybody, and then everybody came back at me very hard.
It's got a little dicey though. It did get dicey. Look, we're all trying to be the best and have our best ball and foot forward. Can we cut that time down a little bit this year, Jim? Can we make it like six hours a day?
We could. The trouble is whether or not we want to risk someone sleeping through their pick. Right. So that's why you have that because it just never stops. Yeah.
However, Ant-Man is doing his work in London. There's different time zones. You're right. You know. Yeah, Paul was out of the country.
Yeah.
By the way, that's what he was doing. I believe the endgame film that's coming out. Oh, that's what he was doing. And you know what? His best ball team suffered.
It got minuscule. It got no tiny. It was not a player. Yeah.
So it was either Phantos? And he's a good fantasy player. That one I was. You w you won? All right.
You did. You did. I can't believe it. You did. Wire to wire.
You're the king, the champion. Yeah, I overcame John Hamm's sleepiness. See, you should remember that next time. It's a fun movie concept. This Reno is as funny as it gets to.
I love him. He's his. He's funny. David Wayne, who was at Big Slick as well. You know, we were all just hanging out.
Really, really a great group of people, and the kids. Zoe and Miles Guterres-Riley and Ben Wang, you know, our younger rotation for these ensemble movies, do a great job. They really handle the tone of the movie well. And as always, with these movies, just super fun to make. It's super silly.
Please go in there knowing this is a ridiculous movie. Yes, sir. Lean into it, and you'll have a good time. I'll say this movie. Yes, sir.
Touched upon a couple of big sporting events in my life. Calling me interested.
So the first is the NFC Championship. This movie premieres at Sundance on January 25th. When the Rams and Seahawks are playing.
Now, it literally the game is starting when the movie is playing in the Eccles Eccles Theater. Sure. 1200-seater. I'm going to sit in the I'm going to stand in the back. I'm no longer going to I hadn't seen the movie yet, so I'm kind of double-screen viewing.
Woolen has the taunting penalty. I look down, and next thing I know, Puka's bringing in that touchdown, and I almost scream and ruin the movie from the back of the house. They pull me up for the QA. Two minutes before the movie's over.
So, the entire QA, I don't know what's going on. And of course, I can't really, it's not a sports crowd at Sundance in Park City. They don't care about this. And that's fine because we're honored to be in the largest theater at Sundance, and I want to support the movie. But I had to kind of walk off and find out the depressing news.
Now, flash forward to this June, a few weeks ago, where the movie. Is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. On game four. Of the Knicks, so we go. It's the movie starts at eight o'clock, and it is not looking good.
Where I'm sitting through the movie. I'm checking the score. There's a QA. Still not doing well. I'm with Ken, who's an enormous Knicks fan, before the QA.
And he's like, Look, I don't run the Knicks. It's not my fault. Look, hey, I'm not on the team. If this is how they want to go, this is how they want to go. I'm like, I'm with you.
We go out, Q ⁇ A. QA ends, we go to the party afterwards. It's at halftime.
So at the party, there is a TV screen. And little by little, I don't know how you guys can fill in the blanks, the crowd starts to get around that screen. And the most momentous, joyous New York experience I've had in a very long time is at that tip. And it just explodes.
Now, I didn't know that this day was going to. Who's going to trip off a four-day incredible sports adventure for me?
So that happens. on Wednesday night. The next day I go to The Mets matinee against the cards, the matinee, day game against the cards. Which they win, which this season you have an under 500 chance of catching a win. I get that win.
Yes. I fly back to LA the morning of the 12th to take my son and I to the U.S. Parwy game. Dude, it's an incredible, incredible game. I've got World Cup fever.
I think Brazil knotted it up. They did. You can call it an equalizer. An equalizer. They leveled.
And so now I see that game, and then the next day. I'm with my son on Saturday to watch the Knicks after 53 years. Bring home. I'm at my house jumping around with my son to bring that in. It was an incredible four days of sports for me.
And you got a highly successful, fun movie. And this movie kind of kicked off back in January, brought it here.
Now, where did this level of excitement rank with the moment I shared with you in Big Slick? Heading to Kaufman Stadium for the festivities that were being held that night. Are you aware of what happened on the ride over? Did I tell you what happened on the ride over? You did not.
Rich and I were in a Mad Max Fury Road moment on the way over. How many people were in this vehicle? Do you think that? 20? 20?
Yeah, it's a sprinter van. There's a ruckus that we start to notice.
Well, I'm on the left side. I'm on the left side of the bus. Rich has got a good. And all of a sudden, I hear a thump. On the left side.
Of the vehicle, and that thump. is the outstretched palm of an individual writing Was it a chopper? It was a chopper. Again, not to go full pulp fiction here. You know, is it a chopper?
Is it a bike? It's been Zed.
Okay, it could have been Zed.
Well, actually, it couldn't have been Zed. Could have been Zed. Spoiler. Zed is dead.
Okay. Zed is dead, baby. All right. But this guy was so angry with our driver. Who was, by the way, going the speed limit straight down the freeway.
And mind you, we're in a convoy of sprinters. We're not alone. Five of us, it's the big slick heading to. And we're heading to Victoria. Yeah.
I'm Coffin Australia, Coffin Stadium. Yeah, right, right. We're not going to Queens. Never right. We were going, but we're going.
And all of a sudden. This guy then gets in front of the sprinter van and starts screaming at the van. Full-on rotor. He's doing this. The van is what are you going to do?
And we're like, what? He's going to take on the sprinter van? Exactly. By the way, Kechner. Oh, look.
Jake Kechner was ready to go. He would have fucked up. Pull over. Pull over. He has no idea that Champ is in this van.
And Tapper. Jake Tapper's in this Tapper. He could have been behind us. Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm like, this man remembers everything. You better be careful. Oh, my cheeks.
So, I mean, we lied for a little bit. He finally came up. When did he relent? How long did it take? Oh, that was several miles.
Yes. Yes. Everyone lost us because he was slowing down the van. He wouldn't get out of the way, screaming, took his phone out and started like while he's driving down the way, like turning around and taking pictures of him or video. For who?
I don't know. Like, I don't know what he was going to do. Submit this to I have no, yeah, who? Harvey Levin? Yeah.
Some weird red Harvey Levin of Kansas City? Like, what are we doing? Right. What are we doing here? It was wild.
Oh, it was something. Very exciting way to go into the stadium.
So I didn't have to do that. But we raised a poop ton of money for children in the hospital, another $4 million. That's amazing. And there were so many great moments of the final Saturday night affair in downtown Kansas City. Wonderful.
So many great performances. One that I will never forget, though, is one you were part of. With Richard Kind. Can you walk us through The genesis of Yeah. Singing I Want It That Way.
but including Richard Kine. In this sort of the refrain. Yes, we were, myself and Taryn, Killium, and Willforte and Zach Lee went to, we're volunteering to be the big slick boys, the backstreet boys, a version of, and we needed an elder statement. Every one of these groups has like an older brother figure, and Andy Richter was supposed to be ours, but he bowed out at the last. Oh, is that right?
This was a joke. This was part of the joke. No, he said he was going to promote his new album, his solo album, which I called, you know, 10 on the Richter scale. And so. Anyway, so we needed an older brother, statesman, and we got Mr.
Richard Kine to come in.
So you had the four of us singing. Singing this song and Rich coming in going, I want it that way, and just really kind of tell me why. Tell me why. He would just bark it, bellow it into the mic. Tell me why.
Yeah.
Oh my God. Wow.
Fantastic. He's just. But he knew he was because the way you played it off, you made it look like you were roping him in. The magic of improv. We did a magic of a lot of that in the magic.
Funny people being funny. Go figure that. A lot of magic. Improv magic. Yeah, he was great.
That was a blast. That whole bit. Yeah.
And then Mahomes being there, too. Mahomes being there. Stephen Wilson Jr., incredible, incredible musician. I hadn't either. And he was dynamite.
Just a lot of your lovely wife, Sarah, incredible. What a set. What a set she had. Adam Ray had a great set, too. It was a great night.
Yeah, a really great night. Beautiful thing they do over there. Dude, that was a lot of fun. I'm glad that we were able to see it Saturday night. Yeah.
After our escapade. Yeah, after our escapade, exactly. We were alive to see it. Have you ever been involved in a road rage incident? Ever?
Because that happened, and it was wild. Do you think uh oh, Mike, Mike, I should have got it have you been in? Yeah, I had a guy chase me around Santa Monica for probably 25 Santa Monica, yes, through the lake for yoga, yes, true. You had to get to yoga. He was like, What are you doing to me?
I gotta go to yoga. That's why I go to yoga. This guy would not stop. And I'm like, I'm trying to go to my place. I just wanna go to my place.
Oh, Mike's done everything. Did you know he created the K-Corner? No! There is a New York Times article with my and my friend's name, Mike Deltu, folks, because we got interviewed because we were friends with the guys that did it, the original guy, a couple of the original guys. And the old shape.
They left goodness pitching. The guy comes up and goes, Who does the K-Corner? And he goes, These guys. No. Me and my friend John.
So I have the New York, I have it clipped on my wall.
So the New York Times shows up after the original guy who created the K-Corner left. Oh, okay. Mike was there administering the K's for his friend, took the credit. We took the credit. And the New York Times.
The guy said, he goes, You guys got to run it now. This guy. Was it the original guy that was after you in Santa Monica? Maybe he heard about this? Yes.
Coming after me, chasing me for 25 minutes. Do you think that you think the guy on the motorcycle thought that his pass was in there or his wife's pass? Yeah, look at you bringing it back. Oh, yeah. I'm just saying.
Look at you. I like that. This movie's really funny. Go see it. A lot of really, really fun people.
Silly, super silly. That's so good. A lot of big shots. Battery 2. I sat next to him on a plane once, and I just bent his ear.
I just bent his ear. He's a giant fan. He's a class. He's a New York Giant fan. Oh, is he?
He is. He is such a class act, that guy. And has he been on the show? I would love to. He is not.
He did the old podcast, one of the specials. That's right. After I ran into him on the plane and I roped him at NFL Network. And he crushes in this movie. I mean, he's great in everything, but it's really fun when you find someone that is not afraid to take the piss out of themselves.
And any person that does that is high on my book. And he's one of them. And he's really great in the movie. He's a surfer. You know, he surfs?
Did not know that. Yeah.
Roger Sterling surfs. Yes. Roger Sterling surfs. Yes. Charlie don't, but Roger Sterling does.
Is there any chance on planet Earth Brooklyn 99 gets back together? Oh, gosh. I love every person in that show. I love that show, but it's really tough. I mean, we're missing the king.
We're missing Andre. And, you know, it's tough to kind of do anything without him. I never say never, but I'm also not the scribes, and I'm not high enough on that cast list. But in a heartbeat, I would be all over. It's a special show, and it still has legs.
Well, I mean, and I know how you felt about it doing it and how everybody felt about it together. Yeah.
Don't you think. In all honesty, most everybody who's on that program would feel the same way as you? Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, you know, we all, what was great about that show was that everyone on it really knew how.
Had some modicum of success already and kind of knew how special this was. There were no egos, no one's attitude. We were like, this is really cool. And the crew is amazing, and our producers are great, and everyone's. And so we treasure it.
It's one of the greatest shows we've ever done. What's your favorite thing you did? In that show? Yes, sir. I mean, there's a lot of them.
There's an episode where Andy and I, Jake and Charles, have a stakeout, and we're just kind of getting on each other's nerves. And it's a really sweet, it's one in the earlier seasons. And it's one of the episodes that I'd known Andy before the show, but we had a lot of time in that episode to know each other. What, in a car you're talking about? No, no, no, we were in an apartment across the street.
So, you know, we're kind of just writing different stuff on the wall. And we have a little basketball that we're kind of doing slant, nerf, nerf basketball that we're slamming. And we're just kind of living together. We're basically a married couple. And it's a fun episode.
Well, maybe Mike Scherr can write something in October. He's got nothing to do, right? Yeah, he's not a busy guy. You know, the Red Sox will be out of it. Oh, right.
That's right. I like that. You know, the Celtic season will just get started, and it's a Knicks world. You guys were close. Orange and Blue Skies were no hitter, weren't you?
Orange and Blue Skies. Ask him how many games in a row he just won over. That's fine. It doesn't matter. It's June.
It doesn't matter. I'm just talking about Sher was not writing this potential. TJ, what are we going to do about our Mets? Give up? What are we going to do?
Well, I mean, were you in the Mr. Met uniform promoting your new movie behind? Did you see this, Joe? The New York Steve Gelves, who reports on the Mets? No.
We can't show the video.
Okay. But we've got a whole bunch of stills. He's going through Carlos Mendoza being fired and what's wrong with the Mets. Mr. Met is dancing behind him.
The entire time. Like, and he's full on, Joe. He's full on putting on a performance and he's trying to give away some bad news. Bad news. He's locked in.
If only Beau Bachette was his locked-in. I see. Or Luis. Ah, Robert. Yeah, either of them.
Yeah.
Sorry. They should just cancel baseball for you. The Yankees should be your celebrity hall. No. Oh, by the way, I know we're.
It was hard enough to divorce the Jets, and now you want. Come on. Will you stick around for one more segment? Sure. Let's do this.
Love it here. All right. Joe Letrulio's here on the program. Nothing's just going to talk trash about the Jets. Suze did say something that I need to address.
Okay. I did pick up on something that I made a mental note to return, and now we're out of time for this segment. About a celebrity pass? Definitely not. Oh, okay.
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Joe Letrulio here. We kept him after class. Yeah.
I like for this conversation. I'm in the principal's office, and I like. You're not in the principal's office at all. Everybody else is. You were talking about your story about being at the.
Sundance Film Festival, very, very, very famous film festival where they're watching films. And not having an NFC championship game watch party. Yeah, it's not a watch party. You just told a story about. Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, which, by the way, is in theaters near you, Friday, July 10th.
You're watching it for the first time, but only as. You're double screening. I'm double screening. I've got my phone in one hand at the back of the theater, and then the. Because you're watching the Rams and the Seahawks, and you talked about how.
The end result disappointed you greatly. It did.
So you are a Jet fan who has now become a Rams fan. Correct. If not, the Rams being sort of your. Football methadone gets you off of a bad habit. Oh, yes.
Well, I mean, the analogy I use is, it's just, it's, I've divorced the Jets. The Jets are my ex. I can never quit because, you know, we've all seen that viral video of the kid saying, you know, I'll always be a Jet fan. And I'm always going to keep track of my ex. I'm always going to see how, you know, she's looking.
And, you know, but I need to move on to a healthier relationship. Yes. You know, and the Rams provide that for me. It's a reciprocal relationship. I feel like my needs are met.
My complaints are heard. Yes. And there is an attempt for both parties to enjoy the fruits of the relationship. Echo those sentiments here. And I get so much grief from that guy over there, Patriot fan over there.
I get it. My son, who's also a Patriot fan, Cooper, my youngest son, calls me derisively a passionate Rams fan. Uh-huh. Not a compliment. Yeah.
Yeah.
That's why I said derisively. Not a compliment. You know, he calls me a passionate Rams fan. And I'm like, well, wait a minute. Um there's many reasons to root for the Rams and like them.
A lot. That's right. There is. There is. But you know, you know, when you make yourself better, when you take care of a problem, when you're no longer an alcoholic, a lot of your friends that still drink, they give you crap for not going to the party.
But they drinking around you. Yeah, yeah, they drinking around you. But you know what? You just stay on course day by day. Yes.
And one foot in front of the other. We have an incredible team this year, the Rams. Basically, if the Rams don't go 17 and oh, pardon me, wait a minute. Uh they've got to go twenty-one and all. Or 20-0, because if they're 17-0, they skip a g they skip a playoff.
They skip a playoff. 20-0. But, you know, I just want to say, it's also very difficult to lose Jared Vurse. Of course, the great trade, but that guy. Come on now.
No, no, no, no. I'm not saying it shouldn't have been done, but I don't know. No, no, no, I know. I'm just saying, like, you know, I'm with you. Jared verse is spectacular and young, but you can get Miles Garrett at this age at the same time and that salary.
Absolutely. But I think. You want to potentially bring Donald out of retirement? Yeah.
But can I give a hot take that you're going to yell at? I've got about 30 seconds.
Okay. The Verse and the new quarterback that the Cleveland Browns, whoever they pick, the Cleveland Browns will be in the AFC title game in four years. This guy over here. Mark it down. Cool.
They're going to be in the title game. Gail Daughtry and the celebrity Sex Pass available in theaters on Friday, July 10th. This man's Pass is called the Los Angeles Rams. Everybody, check this movie out with Joe Letrulio and more. That wraps up this edition of The Rich Eisen Show here on this Monday.
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