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Now, on with the show. This is the Rich Eisen Show with guest host, O'Shea Jackson Jr. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. If Aaron Donald's back, that's a problem, dude. Earlier on the show.
Big three basketball star Montrez Harrell. Fantasy football analyst Matthew Berry. Coming up. WWE superstar Tiffany Stratton. And now, sitting in for Rich, it's O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Hey there. See you again. been wild. You know guys I've been thinking. Uh oh, which is usually an issue.
You know, they don't pay me to think. They just pay me to smile and wave. You know, have these gorgeous, welcoming eyes, this soothing voice, and ooze charisma. I get it. And just so much humility, too.
Yeah, humility. Let's turn it down a little bit. You know, we get it. Like, you're humble. Anyway, I give Seth Rollins so much crap.
You do. And he deserves every bit of it. But that Colby Lopez. What a guy. What a guy.
What a guy. What a guy. And I just wanted to, you know, let you guys know that when I was in New York, courtesy of Paul Heyman, because I got it like that. But while I was in New York. I saw Seth.
Spoke to him, and he spoke very highly of you guys. Of us? Oh, yeah. I told you guys this yesterday. Whoa.
Yeah, he said, you know, he. He said uh you guys are Good guys, and I made sure that I told him your full names. I made sure it was you. But yeah, he called you guys good guys. He loves coming here, he loves doing this.
And I'm so happy that. That you guys get to do work with your friend. You all get to just do work because this is Seth Rollins' country, huh? I mean, aren't we doing that right now? Yeah, by the way, we're friends with you.
Could have fooled me. We're friends with you. Yeah. Yeah. And you're here.
You know what? You're right. Love you, Chris. Thanks. Love you too, man.
Love you, Dell 24. Love you too, O'Shea. TJ, love you, man. You know, guys, Tiffany Stratton's about to come up, and I can't wait. This is going to be awesome.
If you've never seen Tiffany, if you're not familiar with her, it's going to be a good time. It's tip. Happy time soon. Yeah. The disrespect.
I love you, Shay. Love you too, Chris. Yeah. Mike, love Matt. I love you.
I love everyone. I love everyone. DJ, I love you, bro. Yeah, I love you all. You know what's amazing to me is the fact that Matthew Berry basically credited me with the start of the fantasy football boom, and that was pretty cool, though.
Boy, time champions. You didn't start the cake pointer like me. The fatigue they be talking about is messed up. Telling you it's real. It's real.
TJ needed more hugs, man.
Well, you mentioned Seth Rollins. He's going to be here tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow and Friday. He's going to be hosting tomorrow and Friday. We get it.
Here's something funny. You know, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, obviously, two of the biggest names in the last 14 years of pro wrestling. But what Seth told us, I don't remember if this was off-camera or not, so I don't feel like I'm. You know, some kind of line. But he said he he was kind of worried that maybe people wouldn't be that much into here and Roman because they didn't have a huge b Quick build up.
I'm like, Seth, you've had a fourteen year build up. Like, people are gonna care. And I think he he said he was like shocked that he was a little worried that people wouldn't care, but come on now. Yeah, he's one of those names that you could drop in anywhere and people are gonna have interest. Kinda like And the file.
Once again, I get to use this, but looking at my Gucci. It's about that time. What time is it? I think it's. I think it's uh Tiffy time.
Hey guys, Tiffany Stratton, welcome to the Ridge Lisa Show. We've had her on no contest before. A couple times.
Now we're on the big show. Yeah, I'm hosting a big show.
So obviously, we had to have you to show some love to SummerSlam. SummerSlam on two nights. Live from Minnesota. I mean, nights, two nights. Saturday, August 1st.
Sunday, August 2nd. It will be double that SummerSlam. And yeah, you got a pretty important match coming up. That ladder match for the interim. Women's title over there at WWE.
How are you feeling having the home turf and also with so much on the line? Oh, I am so excited. You guys have no idea. And also, I'm pretty well versed, I feel like, when it comes to stipulation match, to ladder matches, especially. I had a ladder match back in NXT.
I also had a ladder match at Money in the Bank. And that's where I became Miss Money in the Bank. And that's kind of where my career took off, if you will.
So I'm super excited. I'm walking in very confident. I mean, she's already got some hardware. She does. You know, you're walking in there already.
Ah, there it is. Ironic! The champ is here! United States of Stratton out here. How about that?
United States of Stratton. That's a good one. Hey, put it on a t-shirt. Come on now. Birch Brendan, baby.
So, you know, you're going in, so far, we only know. It's you and Jay Cargan.
Now, I am a fan of when you two go at it. It seems like, you know, that first of that run you guys had, it was like three or four matches where it was just like. banger after banger. And then you guys just recently went at it. You guys got, you know, I know it's not always seeing the same way, but you guys got chemistry.
Can you talk about what it's like to have somebody like Jay that you know, like, all right, they're going to bring it, so you know, you got to bring it as well? Yeah, I completely agree. I feel like me and Jade are kind of Like wrestling soulmates, almost. I feel like we have such good chemistry, and every time we get together, we have these banger matches. I feel like people kind of don't expect it.
I don't know why, but we've had a couple of really good matches.
So, when people are like, Oh, you know, they're wrestling again, it's like, guys, chill out, you're gonna get a good match out of us.
So, um, I'm really proud of those couple of matches I've had with Jade. I'm proud of the storyline.
So, yeah, going up against Shade Cargill, she obviously is a force to be reckoned with, and I'm gonna be seeing her again in this latter match.
So, um, maybe we'll do some some crazy spots together. You'll have to wait and see. Yeah, there's gotta be some sort of security as a performer to know that you're with somebody who can. You know, Jade for sure can do more power spots than most people. You know, you're going to be caught, you know, a lot of times.
Like, that's got to be some sort of security, you know? I mean, we've all seen the video of me diving off the ladder back in NXT and, you know, not really getting caught.
So maybe if I were to do that again, maybe I could do it onto Jade Cargill. And, you know, she's strong.
So maybe she can she can actually catch me this time. Say it. See, TJ, that goes back to our conversation. We're like, I gotta know somebody can, you know, take care of me. You know?
It really helps, you know, if I know that, like, I don't have to worry about too much, you know? Like, exactly.
Now, Minnesota. Minnesota. Minnesota. Talk to us a little bit about what it feels like to have a. One of the big four.
PLEs there and what it means to you. Yeah, so This is kind of my first. Big like hometown moment. I feel like I've had one other match in Minnesota. It was in the tournament for the U.S.
Championship. It was when the championship was first introduced. And I was in the tournament for it, but I won, but then I think I lost the next match. But I remember wrestling in front of Minnesota and the crowd was just so insane. And there's so much wrestling history in Minnesota.
And I believe I'm the only female that comes out of Minnesota, which is really cool.
So to kind of have a full circle moment, I feel like with you know, not getting that U.S. championship, but being there for the tournament, and now I'm walking in with the U.S. Championship, getting the opportunity to fight for the WWE Women's Championship. It's such a surreal moment. And to have that in Minnesota, it's just.
It's such a perfect. It's like a perfect moment for me. It's a perfect time in my career. I feel like I'm so developed. I feel like I have such a big resume now.
So, you know, everyone understands the character.
So, to have it be in SummerSlam, have it be during this time in my career while I also have another title. It's going to be so surreal. I'm going to walk out as Tiffy Two Belts, Tiffy Two Titles. I'm going to walk out as the WW Women's Champion and the U.S. Women's Champion.
And we're going to get Tiffy Two titles on a t-shirt. Oh, absolutely. Stay tuned. Absolutely. You know, everybody, TJ, everybody's talking about, you know, Brock Lesnar in Minnesota.
They start talking about Tiffy in Minnesota. She's a hometown hero as well. Right. Yeah. Some of the best wrestlers of all time come from Minnesota.
So that's right, Tiff, for you to be the first female that comes up on that list. That is something because we're talking the Lesnars, the Rick Rudes, the Mr. Perfects, the Vern Gong, people like that. And she is the first. Yeah, my man Chad Gable as well.
Gable as well. He's coming home too. Yeah. That's really dope. Minnesota's all cute stacked.
It is. I feel like Minnesota's kind of slept on in that regard. Yeah, like me, all I know from Minnesota are the T-Wolves, Target, Prince, and Kirby Puckett. 3M. You know, like, what are some other, like, what are some things about Minnesota that people need to respect out there?
Well, we've got the Mall of America. Right, right. All right. Obviously, the biggest mall in the entire nation. Famous episode of WCW Nitro took place there.
Right, right. Oh, wow. That's cool. What else? You know, there isn't really much.
We've got the Vikings. Right. Oh, yeah. Randy Moss, you know? Yeah, the couple things that we have here in Minnesota, we're proud of.
So, obviously, our Vikings, that's a big one that we're proud of. The Minnesota Twins as well. Yes. And, like you said, the Timberwolves.
So, Sea Wolves are looking nice right now, by the way. Just a little side note. Just a little side note. One of the most exciting players in the world. Yeah, going to be very interesting to watch.
Shout out to Lamello Ball and, of course, Anthony Edwards.
Now, you are going into a ladder match. You know, you've had some success. But for us, mere mortals who will be watching on the couch, and all the commenters who will be picking potato chips out of their beards, please let us know what goes through your mind in something so chaotic because it's not just one-on-one. You got to watch bodies. You got to not only are you keeping yourself safe, but you're trying to make sure the chaos doesn't get too crazy for everybody else involved.
So, what goes through your mind when you know you're going into a match like that?
Well, in the moment, I can tell you nothing is going through my head. You cannot think about spots that. Thing because you psych yourself out. Can you guys hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It got a little bit. It froze a little bit. Yeah, it froze a little bit, but we could still hear you. I don't know if you can hear me now. All right, there you go.
Okay. And obviously, I've had, you know, the couple of ladder matches in my career already.
So I just refer back to those and I use those as inspiration or, you know, as confidence boosters because I feel like not a lot of people have had multiple ladder matches within their careers. And this is going to be my third one.
So that already kind of gives me a leg up from everyone.
So I'm super excited. Absolutely. We still, you know, as fans don't know how this list is going to fill out. You know, we still have to wait and see how stacked this match is going to get. You and Jade being in it alone already stacks it.
But Something that I have a gripe with, TJ, as a WWE fan, is that it's interim. I don't like any of them. I don't like that. You know, if I'm going out there, my body on the line, and entertaining at SummerSlams. And what what are you you're telling me that I'm just a a temp?
Rhea's going to have to win whoever wins this.
So, as you're going into the match, are you thinking of. You know, if once I get this. I know that Ripley's got to come take it from me.
Well, I don't think I'm just going to give it back to her. That's not how that works. No, no, no, no, no, no. She's going to have to fight me in order to get that title back. I will give her a match.
However, I will not just be giving her that title back. I won that fair and square.
So if she wants to take a stab at it and wrestle me one-on-one, then I will totally give that to her. But that's up to her.
Well, that's definitely gonna happen. Are you kidding? No. She's gonna want what she thinks is hers back. I really need this Tiffy 2 Bells to happen, TJ.
You don't know how much I need it, too. Yeah, walking around with the U.S. title and the women's. That's never been done before. Never been done.
I love it. History maker. Let's make some history out here. I like history.
Some Tiff Street. Oh, some Tiff Street. Del Tufo, write it down. I love it. Tiffs.
I got to introduce Mike Del Tufo. Tiffany, there's a big supporter right here. Oh, man, Mike Del Tufo. Love you, Tiff. Love you.
Mike Del Tufo is near and dear to my heart, but he is all about Tiffany. Oh, yeah. Sports year. Hi. Thank you.
We put him on you when we interviewed you first for no contest. He does our audio, and he just became a Tiffany Stratford. Big fan, big fan. All the best. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Always. Absolutely. So Tiff, y you know, for people who might not be familiar with you, you are a former gymnast, right?
So can you just share with people how that helped your transition to becoming a WWE superstar? Yeah, so we have so many girls that are former gymnasts as well. We have Sol Rucco, we have Kalani Jordan done in NXT.
So I feel like gymnastics helps so much just because gymnastics teaches you body control, it teaches you rolling, it teaches you how to flip, obviously.
So a lot of that has to do with the foundation of wrestling, the basics. When you first get into a wrestling ring and you take your pro-wrestling classes, the first thing you do is a forward roll. And that's like the foundation of everything in wrestling and also in gymnastics.
So I felt like I already knew the foundation of wrestling going into it because of gymnastics. And then obviously a lot of the moves that I do within the ring, my entire moveset, is a lot of the things I used to do in gymnastics.
So I've kind of just found a way to take my gymnastics background and completely transform it into my moveset within the ring. And my moon slot actually is something I used to do every single day. Every single competition in my compulsory routine, it was a move that you had to do.
So I can do my finisher in my sleep. And that's because of gymnastics. And like I said, we have so many former gymnasts that are excelling at pro wrestling. And gymnastics just does that for you. It sets you up for not only wrestling, but I think any sport, truly.
So, Tiff, let them know the name of the move for those people who aren't familiar. Tell them, because it's a great name.
So, my moon slot is called the prettiest moon slot ever because obviously I do it prettier than everybody. And the reason I do it prettier than everybody is because we got judged on how I did it in gymnastics on the trampoline.
So, I had to have my toes pointed, my legs perfectly straight, my fingers perfectly straight. My arm's perfectly straight.
So that's why I do it so perfect is because. I used to do it every single day in gymnastics. T. I. Me, pretty smooth salt ever.
Yeah, pretty smooth salt ever, man.
Now Tiffany, I I got My nine-year-old daughter. who loves you know, she's into just flipping and falling and Or anything to stress me out. And, you know, she's really kind of like. tested the idea of gymnastics and like she just knows I think the most dangerous words my daughter tells me are: Daddy, watch this. She says that, it's like, oh, please don't hurt yourself on my watch, please.
Um, do I just gotta just suck it up and just let her hit the foam pit? What's the way to go? Like, get a trampoline. You know, she's trying to get her handstand down right now. She's got the cartwheel down.
But, like, she's trying to work on her handstand. Help me out. What are some things I got to get her?
Well, it changed in massex classes. She's She likes to test the waters, but she's nervous about it. But like, everything you do is gymnastics. You're jumping off stuff, you're tumbling. Like, she's got it down, but she's just from YouTube.
So, like. What are I what are the steps I gotta take? I love a a DIY queen. I could take her. I would take her to an open gym at a gymnastics school and just kind of let her flip around and do her thing.
I think that's the best bet. And sometimes, too, they'll have coaches like kind of walking around so they can come and help her and kind of teach her some things. And sometimes they'll like recruit them over to classes and stuff like that. But I definitely think that's your safest bet, especially if they have a foam pit. I wouldn't say they put her in wrestling classes just yet because I don't think they got any s soft mats in those wrestling rings.
So yeah, gymnastics open gym. If you can find a foam pit, please do that. Yeah, when she was five, we were watching. She saw Bianca, she saw Alexa Bliss. And she goes.
Daddy, I want to do that. And as a wrestling fan, I like you know, you start to like Get the sweats, they're like, Yo, are you serious? Like, are you for real? And she got behind the curtain in the living room. We played her music.
She came out. She got on her little karaoke machine. She can't cut a promo quite yet. But we were working on that. She was five.
She's nine now. We're going to go back to it. And yeah, she whooped my sisters behind for about half an hour. It was a great match.
So, like, that on top of the gymnastics thing, you know, I just want to ease her into it. I never want to put that pressure of like, please do this. And I just, I don't want my baby to get hurt, Tiffany. You know, it's hard. But it's going to happen.
You know, it's a lot of tumbling, dude. Yeah, it sounds like she's ready. She sounds like you're building the perfect WWE superstar, really. Yeah, but I'm not ready. You're not ready for her to be on top of a ladder with Tiffany and have Tiffany push you off the tables.
I get that. You started here. I'm not ready. All right. You know, something that is in the news right now.
Mm-hmm. is uh once again unreal is back And Everybody's mad that they know. a little bit too much and or you know, just information that they probably shouldn't have, but you watched it.
So like, you know, why are you watching it? How do you feel about the Unreal series and people kind of learning what goes into making this event that we all love? Yeah, I I really enjoy it. I like Unreal. I think it gives fans a different perspective on everything that kind of goes on and it kind of gives them a new respect for the business because I don't think people understand how much truly goes on behind the scenes and how much you do kind of have to go with the go with the flow or go off the cuff and, you know, stuff like that.
And I feel like having it be on Netflix and having it say Unreal and having WWE superstars on it, like, I just feel like it draws. A different kind of fan or a different kind of person that maybe isn't a wrestling fan into it, and then they can watch it and hopefully become a wrestling fan from that. But yeah, like I said, or like you said, you know, the people that are crying about it online are the people that are also sitting down and watching it.
So it doesn't really check out. Hurting yourself. Yeah. But if you don't like it, don't watch it. Exactly.
It is it's I dig it because, you know, from an actor's point of view, the thing that you guys do to be able to not only have a character, but no cuts, no redos, having to do it live, also your own stunts. And also, you have to add to your character every week. It's, I like to call it Broadway with violence. And so, with people being able to finally see and appreciate it, the newer fans I'm talking about, I think it's a cool thing. And it kind of lets you know what you're watching.
You know, people have their own tropes about wrestling, but the more you can get them to appreciate the details, I think the better. But that's just me. You know. That was my soapbox moment. Welcome to my TID Talk, Father.
Welcome to my TID Talk.
So, Tiffy, tell the people why they need to be behind you going into SummerSlam live from Minnesota as you go for the title.
Well, obviously, we all want Tippy Two titles to happen.
So hopefully you guys have seen all the hard work that I put in for the past five years. I know I've seen it. I've been going through it for the past five years.
So I'm walking in as the U.S. champion, and hopefully, I'm going to walk out as Tippy Two Titles with the W Women's Championship and in my hometown to make it even better and in front of my family and family that has never even seen me wrestle before.
So I'm super excited. I hope. I hope they're super excited to see this latter match. Hopefully, it's stacked thus far. I believe it is stacked.
You know, you have me and Jade Cargill, a former WWE Women's Champion as well.
So I think it's going to be one of the more interesting matches out of the entire weekend. I can't wait to perform in front of Minnesota, and hopefully, it's one that's memorable. That is Saturday, August 1st to Sunday, August 2nd. MWE SummerSlam live from Minnesota. Y'all gave it up for Tiffany Stratford.
Woo! My goodness. Thank you so much for your time, Tiffany, and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you, you guys as well. Stay safe.
All right. You too, guys. Bye, Tiff. Great job. That was cool.
Great job. What a great job, dude. It's just, you know, I get to talk to people that I'm interested in and I like and just ask them whatever I want. And they pay me like human money. Human money.
Human money. Yeah. I think that's really dope. She said it. She's been doing this about five years.
That's not very long, man. And for her to be. Top of the heap, but as a women's champion, also United States champion, what she did in NXT. It's like, man. And you're giving a gymnastics.
You're setting the bar high, man. What's that? You're giving somebody from gymnastics a ladder. This is going to be exciting. Yes, it is.
This is going down and it's going up. All together. Brockman, are you happy for Raw? You excited for Raw? Yeah, yeah.
Raw's coming to LA on Monday. Me and Cage are going to be there. Woo! Can't wait. I gotta get my dad to go.
By the way, dad, I gotta get you to go. I know you I know you're watching. I'll see you. Beautiful TV. Voice in my head.
Are we going to break? We are going. 5-4. We'll be back with more Rich Isaac show. Woo!
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You know, 1996 is one of the most important years ever. Oh, why? You know, music-wise, it was great. Yeah, like Olympics. 30 years, the original Daily Show.
When I hear 1996, I immediately think Kobe. Immediately I think Alan Iverson. Number one pick in the draft. Yeah. Probably should have picked the kid from Philly.
But I die. Grass, Bill Acres. It is a Spice Girls 1996. For those who were unaware about what I was talking about during the Tiffany Stratton. uh interview, I discussed with my buddies that me personally, Small personal preference.
But I like to make sure that I have a lady. Who could save the day? if need be. If I gotta throw her the ball, Yeah. She could save the day.
Now that might mean There's a fire in the house. Yep. Maybe Shay gets incapacitated due to smoke or something trying to help things out, and I'm knocked out. Yep. I need a woman to come save me.
All right. like Sigourney Weaver. I need you to come lift me up, get me out of there. It don't have to be a fireman's carry. You can roll me onto a rug, drag me out of your house.
But I need you to know, I need to have, at least be strong enough to get this door down. Yeah. To be honest, I don't think many think that way, though. Yeah, we're probably thinking we're the ones that want to knock the door down to be saved. Everybody envisions the perfect scenario.
Yeah, you always got a plan until you get punched in the face. It's true, right? You get punched in the face. I need that insurance, baby, that little emergency. If it does go down this way, Shay's gonna be all right.
If not, I gotta g rent my will. Get my affairs in order. That should already be done. What happened to Shea?
Well, he died from the smoke, not even the fire. He was dead before the flames got to him. Ha ha ha ha. Who wants to hear that?
So That's what that was about. It's a method to my man. All right. Is there? Yes.
Okay. And the more I host, the more America will figure out their black franchise.
Well, we got to hope there's more times after this. Oh, my God. Wow. Yeah, man. Been having a great time, but I want to talk to uh Some phone calls, man.
Got one in DC that's been waiting for a while. Kenye. Kenya, how you doing, brother? Yo, what up, JR with the hard R? How are you doing, boys?
See what you did? See what you need. That's fine. Big tuna. That's what I'm saying.
So you needed something. What's going on, Kenya? How are you doing? Congratulations on the man. Yo, thanks, Kenya.
Appreciate you, man. Yeah, look at that. And last but not least, my favorite cowgirl, Big Tuno, but I play there you cowgirl. Like, we gotta come up with something. Because he's DC.
That's true. They don't know no better. He's Eagles. Settle down. Either way, either way.
Thank you for giving us that gem of a nickname because I didn't call him Big Tuna a few times and he be crying. He don't like it. He'd be lying, man. He only don't like it because they keep misspelling it. Yeah, it's not the fish.
It's T-O-O-N-A. Respect tuna. Respect the spot where Luigi went. You know how we hard R's do, man. When you put your hand in the hood, you just gotta run with it.
You can't dislike it because then everybody's gonna keep calling you that name. Yeah, we know. We know. Yeah, what's the call about, brother? What you need?
No, man. The call is about. That last time we spoke, we talked about how the Eagles are going to decimate the Rams on October the 4th, right? Yep, and that was before what?
So, no. That was before what?
So, how do you feel about the Miles Garrett, you know, getting, and do you feel. that uh Donald is going to return. I want to know how you feel about it, brother. Because the last time I talked to you was before I got to the house. Hold on, dawg.
Last time I talked to you was before I had miles. That's right. And it was still on site.
So you You still sounding confident over there in your little nest. I mean, come on, man. We got Lame Johnson. We got Mulata. We got people that can handle them boys.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I hear what you're saying, but go back to your question. Yes, I feel that Aaron Donald. Body. Buddy old pal, Super Bowl champion.
Brought the brought the brought LA another ring. The last time we had a Super Bowl ring was the Raiders. Thank you, Aaron Donald. I need you. To give me this season, please.
You know, the Super Bowl is back in LA because they have to give us two teams and everything. But the Super Bowl, I do know that. The Super Bowl is back in LA.
So I need Aaron Donnell, at least for Madden. At least for Madden. To come back and be next to Miles Garrett because I need full-on fear from the rest of this league. you know, Eagles and Cowboys and who's its and what's its galore. I need that fear that Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett would bring.
And a lot of people want to talk about, you know, Aaron Donald not being full-on Aaron Donald. Here's Miles Garrett. He could be 85% Aaron Donald, and it'll still look like regular Aaron Donald because he got Miles Garrett to worry about, too. And for anybody to act like it's not a big deal, you're lying to me. It's my first fantasy season.
So, what knowledge could you give me, man, like for a first-time fantasy player, man? Because I don't know a shit about it. Whoa, whoa, Kenny. Oh, Kenny. Easy.
With Disney Plus, baby. But so we got to think about what type of league are you in? Is it a PPR league? Is it a standard league? No, I don't know.
Just one of my homeboys made one and he asked me if I could play. And I'm like, yeah, sure.
Okay. We're going to. Yeah, yeah. Is it a? I mean, how many people are in the league?
What are we looking at? 10 man? Yeah, roughly about ten, eight to ten. I mean, eight to ten, you should no matter what, you're going to have a stacked team. The free agency is going to be there.
So I would get your draft board, look at your rankings. You know, find people that you consider your must-haves, and then you should be pretty all right. You know, when you get to the deeper leagues, like you know, 14, 16 men, that's when you really have to watch what you do. But the advice I will give you. is watch that waiver wire because in in football In fantasy football, your league is won through the waivers, not through the draft.
But. It's a car crash every week. People are going to get hurt. But in a 10-minute, you should be able to have some fun. Um, yeah, I I'm I'm more of a running back guy.
You know, if I got my backs wides change a lot, I'll, you know, they have off games more to me than backs do. But I would think you're going to be fine in a 10-man. You're having fun out there. All right, I appreciate that, old shit, man. You stay blessed, brother.
Thank you, man. I hope the Eagles don't win again. All right, that was Kenya, everybody. I got the last word. Another thing I can agree on today.
Huh? That's another thing we agree on today. Yeah, bro. Them yard bro. Boo, Eagles, boo.
Is that your well, who is your most I guess it would be the 49ers, right? Your most hated NFC team? Yeah. By the way, how dumb of a name is that? 49er.
Gross. Yeah, we're like, who cares?
Okay, not me. You know, there's no rams around here, though, right? Yeah, I don't know if you've seen them, but they're like 15 minutes away. All right, by the way. Probably the most football mascot there is.
I stood all day, baby. By the way, that was my noise of Rams hitting. If you want to hear it again, yeah, man, go ramps. La Ramellia. La Romelia.
La Romelia. La Romelia. I love the mariachi band at Rams games. Oh, it's a la Romelia, bro.
So, because you are so LA to the bone, right? And they got here at the same time, what made you choose the Rams over the Chargers, even though they're both now rep in L.A.? I mean, they got here because the Rams were here before. First, okay. Yeah.
I. I've told this story before on the NFL network. Because you could very well be Chargers to the business, too. 100%. And I was a Charger fan for most of my NFL fandom career.
Oh, word.
Okay. I grew up a Raider fan. Go Raiders all day. I was born of the autumn wind. It's true.
And the autumn wind. is a writer but When that Super Bowl happened, You know which one I'm talking about. Against Tampa Bay. You know, watching that defeat story against Happa Bay with Gruden. Raiders Bucks, yeah.
Yeah, Raiders Bucks. Yeah, Raiders Bucks against Gruden in San Diego, which was already a curse right there. Yeah. But. That next day at school, After the Raiders lost the Super Bowl, I made sure I wore Raider gear head to toe for my dad.
You know, just so my dad knows, like, you know, this is what it is. And I. I don't know if you guys understand how vicious sixth, seventh, and eighth graders are. Very. I mean, I have a vague recollection.
The things I was called that whole day from eight to three oh eight Was insane, dude. Insane. If I wasn't one of the popular kids, I probably would have had my jacket ripped up. And You know, one day I I I just asked my mom, I was like, Mom, why do we go for Oakland? Why?
She goes, well. Raiders used to be in LA and yada yada. But my mom has always taught me. That Eoster is a rooster. That don't crow no more.
She's gonna hate that I'm telling that because the parents love when you use your sayings against them. But so I'm like, all right, well, what's closer, San Diego or Oakland? She's like, hold on, you're playing a dangerous game here. But San Diego. From there, I was a San Diego Chargers fan, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.
LaDamian Thomas, Tony O'Case, Lorenzo Neo. Like, bro, it was crazy. And 2016 happens. And, you know, there's talk about the Raiders, Rams, and Chargers moving to LA. I went on the NFL network in my LA Raiders sweatshirt.
Talking about, man, you know, I'd really love. If the Raiders came to LA, what it would mean to the city, what it would mean to my father, just, I campaigned. But I said, Whichever team comes here first. I will give my all to. And Rams got here first.
I cheered for Jeff Fisher for a little bit. I mean, it was rough. Yeah, first couple. The first couple of years were rough. But then.
It turned out to be really great. The Rams have treated me well since they got here. You know, they had me host the party to introduce the team to the city. And the Rams have taken care of me. My father is still the president of Rado Nation.
But round here? It's a lot of Amelia, baby. You know what it is. Who's house? It's Ram's house, baby.
The coolest thing is that you got to do the schedule release. Yeah. Chris Tucker's son and did a Friday, which made everybody think the movie was coming, or, you know, another movie was coming. Is another movie coming? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
So, I guess that's my way of asking. Oh, it's coming. It's coming. He's still chopping away at it, but it's more and more every day. Oh, oh, yeah, so yeah.
Friday is on the way. That whole video was really dope. And then my my only stipulation with that, and I appreciate the Rams for it. I said, no AI, like, don't have any type of like, you know, AI of my dad or anything like that because that is just, it's just not what I want. And Don't we're not making fun of Friday.
Yeah, dude. You know, that's part of my family's legacy. And they were like, absolutely. And, you know, they sent me the script ahead of time and everything like that. But it was just like, you know, I know my dad is a Raider fan, but I don't want anything in here that is poking fun at that.
You know, like. Let's just keep it about us and let's pay homage. And they're like, absolutely. You know, we wouldn't even think to do it, but you never know.
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I like, I get it. I have my judge, and this is my own fault because. I will still say Baseball is boring as hell. It just is, okay? It is some of the best chamomile tea that money could buy, okay?
But I've been watching the Dodgers for a lot. My favorite Dodger was Mike Piazza. You know, my first game was at Shea Stadium, watching Mike Piazza crack one on the Dodgers. That's a horrible memory. But, like, I was here for the Aegon teams, you know, Manny Wood.
Uh and just every single Clayton Kershaw joke there ever was. You know? And so that is why this super villain Dodger team It's everything. that I could have hoped for. Get ready to learn Japanese, everybody.
It is like, man.
So it is. I love the Dodgers. Right now, the Dodgers give me fuel to be a jerk. And that's all I ask for. And so when I say to the Phillies, Wow.
What a way to lose that game, huh? I mean I don't like baseball. I know that you probably shouldn't be running to second base right now. That was crazy. You don't love the Phillies, do you?
No, I hate the Phillies. Yeah, so you know, what a Philly way to lose that one, eh? They're on our side, coach. Don't you worry. That was the best.
Yeah, in case anybody missed it, it was a. The guy from the Phillies had second and third with one out. Yeah. Grounder to third. The guy runs home, and then it was a 5-2.
Six, four double play to end the game. Was those the launch codes? What does that mean? Explain that. Oh, uh third uh if you're keeping score, third baseman's five.
Okay. He throws it to home, the catcher, that's two.
Okay. I assume the shortstop was covering third, so he tags out the guy in the rundown there. And then the guy running back to second base instead of just Continuing to go to third. Yeah. That's six to four.
Tag game over. See that? Save for Tennis Scott. That is what my man Brockman is here for.
Sounded like a bunch of Sudoku to me. Today's Wordle is five six four two one. Yeah, real bonehead move. That's not even Elite Little League. That's bad news bears type stuff.
Oh, yeah. What's the third? base coach doing right in that situation. Unclear? Choking on sunflower seeds, okay.
That was another thing about baseball. It's like you can eat while playing. Did you play baseball growing up? God, no. Oh.
I mean, I mean, not to act, you know, that was a little. little crass. You know, that was a little mean. My b older brother Daryl played shortstop. Number eleven.
He didn't know I knew that about him. But yeah, it is uh you know, I respect the game, especially now because There's nothing like October. Right. No. It's nothing like October.
And Dodgers are seem to be always there. TJ, you're still not watching baseball? Yes? I mean, it's tough, man, when you when your team stinks. Baseball, it's a long season as it is, right?
Yeah. Your team is absolute Basora. I want to enjoy my summer, right? I don't want to sit there for two and a half hours and watch bad baseball.
So I watch from a distance. I'm not allowing myself to get emotionally attached because I'll just be mad every day. I ain't trying to be mad every day. Carlos Beltron, Hall of Fame, this weekend. Yeah, true.
True, so. Speaking of watching from a distance. Toronto Blue Jays fans. Uh oh. What's going on down there?
It's so crazy for somebody who had the better team.
So crazy. Insane. Insane. Yeah, this is how you know it's the end of the show because I'm just going nuts. Cat shoes, baby.
Red Sox up 6'2, looking for 15 straight? That's enough Boston propaganda out of you. What was that? No, the Red Sox is alarmingly hot. They can't lose.
Mets down 3-1 at the bottom of the second. That's not shocking. Hardbreakers. Yes. DJ, I feel bad.
Shout out to Michael Cole, my second favorite Mets fan, Emery. You know, WWE. There's a lot of us out there, man. Yeah. Good to have you, brother.
Yeah. O'Shea, a lot of fun. Job today? A lot of fun. Thank you, man.
That was fun, dude. I always played. I missed the last few you were here. Pinch hitting, another baseball term. Backing me go.
Our day's not over, though. We got our second job or third job for you coming up in a few minutes. No contest wrestling. Then, right after that, I get on a plane, go do the big three. Woo!
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