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Now, on with the show. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Rich Eisen Show. I told you guys it's all ball. Why did Baker Mayfield and the Bucs not come to a long-term resolution? From the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles.
Baker wanted this done earlier rather than later. Earlier on the show. Prime Video NFL analyst Andrew Whitworth. Legendary broadcaster Bob Costas. Coming up.
Actor LaMonica Garrett. And now, it's Rich Eisen. All right, everybody. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Season three of Lioness premiered last night on Paramount Plus.
Susie and I watch it. You see it yet, Christopher? Do you see it? I have not dove in yet. It's awesome.
It's intense. Cannot wait. Taylor Sheridan is back, created and executive produced by Taylor Sheridan. He's the showrunner. He also wrote episode one, and he's in episode one himself.
Shown off the guns, literally and figuratively. By the way, season two, he was on everyone. Lamonica Garrett has been in this in 1883.
So he's worked in the Taylor Sheridan universe. Chris, and also, I'm sorry to keep turning to you, but you've been with the show the longest, although you've been working faders as well, Chris. Mike. Have we ever had somebody from Slamball on this program? This would be a first.
Okay. Yeah. Because La Monica was a slam ball guy.
So we got that going.
So many questions. Which is nice. How are you over there with TK Jefferson? Aaron, number three of the program. Good to see you.
I'm great. I'm a big fan of lines as well. Two of my friends are in the middle. You watch it last night? I didn't get to it last time to watch it today.
Who are your two friends that are in the night?
Well, I'm friends with Zoe Saldana. Her husband and I especially are tight. And Jill Wagner. She's an old friend of mine. She plays Bobby.
You know what? We go back like a little bit. Where's Zoe then? You know, this chair is open for anybody that's. Zoe is always working somewhere.
All right.
Well, so. This guy, man, he's got connections all over the place, and I got to learn this on live television. On radio. I got to keep you guessing. That's the way it goes.
844-204-Rich, number to dial. Hour one, Andrew Whitworth, says he believes Aaron Donald's coming back. I don't think I'm. Telling any tales out of school. No, have you talked to someone yet who said, Nah, I think he's staying home.
Yeah, I mean, he kind of. He he feels that he's kicking the tires to make sure he's going to physically be able to get through everything. Um And so the latest edition of Is He Back Yet, we did that in hour number one with Andrew. An hour or two with Bob Costas. If you missed any of it, there's our Disney Plus channel that you can go to.
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Be a true blue, if you will, Rich Eisen Show fan. We always appreciate that. Nick in Irvine, California, just down the road. What's up, Nick? Hey, Rich, such a pleasure.
Thank you, sir. What's going on? What's on your mind there? a living legend who is right up there on maybe the Mount Rushmore of American broadcasters of the last fifty years. Listen, Rich, first thing I just want to say this, I You know, I I know we disagree, but uh, Dave Roberts, if he didn't beat the Yankees, he was gone.
I watch him coach every single game. I watch every single game that he's ever coached. And he is the Chauncey Gardener of Professional Managers. Oh, wow. Yes.
Because he's just being there. Is that what you're saying? I mean, I don't know about that. Being there of managers. Trust me on this, Rich.
I've seen the man manage.
Now, is he Don Mattingly level of long-term incompetency? No. And Dodger fans know what I'm talking about. And I know Don's riding high right now, so but no, just trust me on that. But I want to go into the what I wanted to call about was the baseball situation.
The reserve clause was people don't know or remember, but the reserve clause was like a slave chain around the necks. Of the old players. It lasted for seventy years, and it said when your contract expires, we have our own unilateral option. Owner option to release you or to keep you at the same salary.
So that's why old players used to always stay on the same team.
Now what has happened to our national pastime since the Reserve Clause was abolished and free agency was established? Since season one, as you remember, Rich, since season one, when Reggie went to the Baltimore Orioles, It has been a spend a spend fest. A free-for-all.
Okay, and the And it's been nothing but good for the players and the owners, expanding the love of the game and expanding the value of the franchises. And if you're saying that other teams cannot compete, Just look at what has happened in the last five, ten years I mean, rich. The Blue Jays were in the series last year, and they had 27 at-bats over two games to win the World Series and couldn't get it done. I know.
Okay. And then the Diamondbacks and the Rangers in 23 played each other. Small Houston in 23, small market Atlanta and Houston again, Atlanta one. But this is also before Nick, and I appreciate what you're saying. And trust me, I'm with you.
That teams that don't have the resources did start winning the World Series quite a bit. And I appreciate the call, Nick. Thank you. That's Nick in Irvine, California. But then Otani showed up on the Dodgers.
You know, to add to Betts and Freeman. You know? That helps. Certainly, when he's like, I'll take $680 million later on, please.
So I I kind of don't I was kind of cutting around the edges of what Nick's point was there. I will just push back on this. Phil Jackson always got the, well, he had Jordan and Pippin, and he just rolled the basketballs out. Then he had Jack and Kobe, and he just rolled the basketballs out. You still need a coach who can figure it all out with these guys.
And I'll just, again, I will never forget. He's like, why is Dave Roberts putting Andy Paz in the field in the middle of game seven out of nowhere? Why is he doing that? To win the game. Honestly, I think it's unfair.
You've got 162 games. That's why they're called managers. They have to manage egos. They've got to manage injuries. They've got to manage relationships.
They've got to manage. Um Arguments It's not all hunky-door personalities. Right. You got to manage the media. He's perfect for this.
Roll. Perfect.
Okay. Perfect.
Was he really gone if he didn't beat the Yankees? But guess what happened? They beat the Yankees. They beat the Yankees. And certainly, you know what helped is Aaron Boone saying, I'm going to go instead of my left-handed reliever, I'm going to go with my left-handed starter who hasn't pitched in a month.
and throw him against Freddie Freeman in the uh extra innings. Yada, yada, yada. I was the first out of the parking lot with Cooper. while Dodger fans celebrated a grand slam to win it. And they're still talking about that as Gibby part two.
Got it. All right, listen, moving on. Um. I went down that road. I shouldn't have done it.
I won't send Dave Roberts, though. Am I wrong? Am I wrong? Barbara Roberts is going to the Hall of Fame. You know what you need around stars, like these stars?
Again, I'm not in the clubhouse. You need somebody who's like, I wasn't a star. I've been around stars. Right. I wasn't one.
I had to fight for every ad bat. And then every opportunity I try to make the most of, like the one where we beat the Yankees. That's got to count for something. I agree. That's got to inform many of his decisions.
You know what all managers have to do? They've got to tell the front office with all their analytics. To back up a little bit. Back up, or I'm going to do this, or listen to them and have to roll the dice and play it. and then go out and take the hit in the media.
I'm like, yeah, no, that was my decision, even though it might have been the front office decision three days before. 844-204 rich number to dial. Let me get to four downs. My four downs today is on the Atlanta Falcons, the ATL, everybody. Um.
The once-upon-a-time dirty birds of the NFC South is today's four downs. Hit it. Four downs with Ridge. Here we go. Why did he suck?
All right, ready? The Atlanta Falcons. Four-down style, everybody there, 2026. Season preview begins with this number one question: first down. First down.
Forget about Offensive Player of the Year. Can Bijan be the NFL MVP? I think that's a fair question. Can he be the entire... Leagues.
Most valuable player. He could be the most valuable quarterback. I know that.
Sometimes it isn't. Yeah, it's been a while. It's been a while. You know, Adrian Peterson or LT's got to pop through. Offensive player of the year, absolutely.
Can he be like the 2026 LT? Touchdown after touchdown after touchdown. I mean, when Saquon and McCaffrey didn't win it, I get it. But I hear you. But I.
Let's put it this way: will he be a finalist and a legitimate shot for it? Yes, should be. Because what he did last year. on um you know Less than 300 touches. Mm-hmm.
He's nice. Running the ball.
Okay. So that's for like, and the vulture's gone. The vulture is gone. What? Algiers in Arizona now.
Yeah, the vulture Jeremiah Love. Jeremiah Love, yeah.
Okay, another top 10 running back drafted. You just went to second down right here for the Atlanta Falcons. Second down. Stop me if you've heard this before. But who's rushing the passer for the Falcons?
James Pierce arrested. Who knows if he could be, he's back with the team. But who knows if he's going to be suspended? That guy they by the way the reason Why Kai Simpson is in Los Angeles, and we had this whole conversation about the Rams not doing enough with their first round draft choice. In this year's draft, was because the Falcons traded that draft choice the year before for James Pierce, who did perform very well.
Double-digit sax. as a rookie. But then got in trouble. I don't know. And This is the annual question about the Falcons.
And it seemed like they finally checked the box. Same doggon. But we'll see what happens. That's second down. Third down for the Atlanta Falcons.
What does Kevin Stefansky bring to the equation? What's he gonna bring? To this offense that had a breakout season for Pitts and Bijan and London.
Now here comes the two-time coach of the year from Cleveland with an offensive system that is when clicking an envy. of a lot of the league. What's he gonna do? How is he going to run the locker room? How is he going to run this team?
What happens when, you know, Mr. Blank's on line one? What's going down?
So, what does Kevin Stefansky bring to the equation? Is you know Matt Ryan when he's not a camperm in an emergency situation right now? He is a team president. This is a whole different top-down way of the Falcons running their organization. And this man is the avatar and choice to be the on-field.
different way of running things. What does that mean? I do not know. Got an inkling. But that's a big question about the Atlanta Falcons this year overall.
And then the final question is the obvious one. Who wins the quarterback competition? Who's it going to be? Because that's another Stefansky choice. He wasn't there when Pennic got drafted.
You know what's not there anymore? The GM who drafted him. New GM, new president, new way of doing things. Panics is a good kid. Let's see what happens.
But Tua. In the same way, We were talking last week, TJ, about how Kyla Murray's on the cheap, and you said on the cheap. I said, How about let's call him inexpensive? Inexpensive. The same thing is to a.
Indoors, in the stadium. Where he made one throw to Devontae Smith and changed everything for his life. and course of his career. He's in that stadium. Indoors, on the turf.
Do me a favor. You know what you covet what you see every day? Can you look this up? I should have done this before. What was Tua's game in Atlanta last year?
For the Miami Dolphins. Remember, he's throwing interceptions all over the place, and it seems like the Dolphins season was. One big you know what in the punch bowl. Yeah. Tua had a massive game.
against the Atlanta Falcons. Let's see. At Atlanta, yeah, 20 for 26, 205, four touchdowns. They won 34-10. By the way, in 2001, they played him.
He also had four touchdowns in that game. 2012. 2010. 2011. I'm saying this.
He's comfortable in that stadium. I kind of have a feeling they're going to see. all health even being equal. They're going to see what they got in him before going to Pennix. In the same way, That J.J.
McCarthy's going to sit there and see His franchise, see what they have in Kyler. I don't know. I think JJ and Kyler is far closer competition from what I hear than with this. We shall find out, won't we? We shall find out.
That's the major question about the Atlanta Falcons fourth down: who wins the quarterback competition. A lot of offensive mindset here, but so is their coach. In a division that the Falcons closed out very well and almost won the damn thing last year. If they'd only. not swooned in the middle of the season.
They could have easily gotten that thing done last year. Maybe Raheem Morris is still there, who knows? 844-204-Rich is the number to dial. If you're on hold, stay on hold. We will take your phone calls before we get out of Dodge right here on this program.
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Lioness came back last night for season three. La Monica Garrett was also in 1883, one of my favorite limited series ever. Great chat coming up next. Please. Rich Eisen here for Gusto.
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The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. It was open for everybody, the whole cast, but it would end up being me, Tim, and Taylor in there. Say we had to be at work at like 6 in the morning, we're in there at 4:30. Getting after it. But it was the same three every time.
And even in Fort Worth during 18 or during Lion S, Taylor's in the gym. Every morning. Oh, that's no surprise. With the rest of the cast. He boxes early and then he hits the weights.
La Monica Garrett here on The Rich Eisen Show. You play the role of Tucker in Lioness that premiered again for season three last night. Susie and I watch it. I highly recommend it. Go back if you haven't watched a single episode of it, back to season one, seasons one and two.
Heck of a cast. Michael Kelly, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldania, just to name four, and including you as well. We just saw that clip. uh from the premier And again, you're in Lioness, you were in 1883. There's about four other of your fellow actors in that scene that were either in.
Yellowstone, or Landman, or obviously Lioness. It seems like there's a certain cast. that Taylor Sheridan trusts for the material, and you're part of it. Thankfully. What is that like?
What is that like? When you look around, like a lot of the best filmmakers kind of recycle their same guys. Christopher Nolan does it, Scorsese does it, Judd Apatau, the Farley brothers, like you see the same faces all around. They know what they're getting. They know the temperament of the actor, they know the work ethic of the actor, and they know the talent.
So Taylor, he writes for certain people.
So he won't just cast you or write some stuff and then cast, you know, cast you later. He'll ask you, hey, would you want to do this? And when you say, yeah, it's Taylor Sheridan words, I'm on board. Yes. He'll write for you.
So it's like, you know, he has his... We call it at Taylor's Ranch. All the different shows, he'll have events at his ranch where we all go and hang out, and it's like we all went to the same high school, just different years. You know what I mean? Because it's like a small community, like this last.
Maybe a few months ago we did a cutting event for a charity in Fort Worth. And all the actors from all his different shows were on horses in front of a big arena in Fort Worth. Cutting horses. Huh. Yeah.
No kidding. Cowboys.
So, um, for when did you first come across Taylor Sheridan or did he come across you? 1883. I maybe sent in 10 audition tapes. And over the course of four months, it was a gruel of, you know, that process. And when I got it, Uh that changed my career.
Set me on a different trajectory, but uh, yeah, it was a long process. But now he just writes for you now, and it's great. That show. Is One of the most remarkable limited series I've ever seen. Because again, it was.
done at the height of Yellowstone's Excellence and ascension, let's put it that way. And for Taylor Sheridan to basically stop and go, I'm going to go back. You know, 100 plus years and start from scratch, and also start filling in some of the lush history of the things we're learning from the characters in Yellowstone. But the The humanity that was on display and the difficulty. of these people to go across the country and start their journeys.
It was Mind-blowing. Just my Yeah, no, that show, as hard as it was to see what they went through back then, wasn't as hard for us, but as the actor, that was the hardest job I've ever had. And it probably will be the hardest job I'll ever have for a multitude of reasons. But uh Yeah, Taylor, it just felt so real. Like, even when we were filming it.
For the first month of shooting, none of the actors could eat any modern-day food. It was 1800s food, so biscuits. you know gravy beef If you're a vegetarian on that set, it felt bad for you. You know what I mean? Like, it was time-appropriate food from Cowboy Camp on through the first month of filming.
Cowboy Camp. Walk me through that. Wow. Cowboy Camp. You get there, if you haven't ridden a horse before, you got to figure it out.
Tim and Faith, they ride pretty well, especially Tim. There were a couple of other actors that were pretty good on horses. I wasn't one of them.
So every day you're waking up at 6 a.m. Four or five hours straight, you're writing. You go have lunch, you do wagon training, you know, the wagons, you don't see those anymore. Yeah, those went out of style a little while ago. Other than the shopping cart, right, with that balky wheel?
Right. Oh, right, sure. The roping, just cowboy stuff. We did that for two weeks. And more so, it was bonding for the cast.
So now that the cast were doing this every morning, we're eating together, we're living on a ranch together. It was during COVID, was another reason why it was so challenging and difficult to film. We couldn't go anywhere.
So we were on this ranch. And any outlet we had came maybe Saturday nights where we'd have karaoke night or something with Tim and Faith. And I learned the hard way: don't go behind Tim and Faith. Karaoke Night. What?
And it's like, you know, it's me getting to know everybody. And it's like, it's all country music. And I love country now. I wasn't a big fan beforehand.
So, you know, it was karaoke night. I did some Red Man and Methaman. I brought some hip-hop to the ranch. And then, you know, On my take, the speakers just happened to go out. Oh, I said, okay, I see what I'm dealing with here.
This is a no hip-hop zone. All right, I get it. I adapt it. Tell me, Sam Elliott sang karaoke night. He did not, but come on.
Yeah, all he has to do is talk. Just introduce the next person. Coming up to the stage. Yeah, that barrel. That's my brother, man.
Was Sam in the gym? Did he get in the makeshift gym? No. Jim on wheels. He had just had surgery.
Okay. So he was just trying to get better and get, you know, get back in the hit. He hadn't been on a horse in 20 years. Before we started shooting that, and then you know, you're in Fort Worth, it's 110 degrees, you got wool jackets, you got layers, leather chaps, you got all this stuff going on. It's easy to start complaining.
Getting up at five in the morning, you're working six days a week, even if you're Big scenes or not, if you don't have a big scene, you're still showing up to work. You're eating 1,800 food. You're eating 1,800 foods.
So when you think about complaining and you look over at Sam Elliott, he's the first one on his horse at the crack of dawn. He set the tone. He's just, he's that guy. You got a good story about Sam Elliott? I got a lot of them.
I'll share one. Please. I'll share one. Okay, it's like I said, it's hot, 110 degrees. It's the full wagon train, 26 wagons.
There's maybe 300 extras, background players. We're all miserable. We're sitting like I'm sitting on the ground. Sam's sitting on an Apple box. We're just there in it.
And one of the PAs comes over and gives Sam, you know, those misters, the fans that, you know. and Sam looked around and he said Do you have one of these for a Everyone here? And they said no. Said, well, when you get one of these for everyone, you come back and give it to me last because we're all in this together. I said, man, look at you.
How about that? You're Samuel Elliott, man. Like, and that was early in filming, and it just set the tone for the, because it was a grueling rough shoot. I imagine so. And I would just imagine you're the you're you're the PA.
Giving Sam Elliott a Mr. Fan, and he goes, You have more hopes for everybody else. You do a good Sam. Oh, come on, man. Did I tell Sam to watch this one?
You do a good Elliott. Got fans for everybody. The PA probably just like what? Yeah, so I'll go back to base camp. That's what we're doing.
Oh, so he was circling the wagons. Why not? Again, just that. Was so good. It's as great as anything Taylor Sheridan's ever done.
Anything that you, the cast was amazing. You were great in it. Everybody was great in it. The realism, and the realism comes through. I imagine for Lioness, LaMonica Garrett here on the Rich Eisen Show.
Are you embedded anywhere? Do you do anything with the actual folks that you are? Trying to bring the life on camera here? We have there's different events and different like some of the cast is going on a USO tour. With the you know, with the troops.
I'll go to different naval bases and different bases and talk to the troops. My dad, Vietnam, bronze medal, my brother, sister-in-law, my cousins, Gulf War. I come from a military background, so it's important that we tell this as truthfully as possible. And we have a lot of special forces guys on set with us just telling us stories. And, you know, are we doing this right?
Are we. It's It's personal, it's a fictional show, but these are real stories for a lot of people.
So, it's important that we get it right.
So, we, yeah, we're in that community and just trying to make them proud. That's the thing, again, that Susie and I, my wife and I, watch all the Taylor Sheridan shows. You know, we're watching Landman. Like, how does he know about the nuances of oil sale and oil wells and that business? And then we watch Lioness.
And you not only have to know what your world is of special forces, but you also have to know the world of politics and inside the National Security Council, an alliance, and Secretary of State. You have to know that. Yellow, you know, 1883. And then you'll go to Madison and it's like a novel. And it's completely different than other stuff that you're doing.
It's like this dude, like this stuff that's in his head. Yeah. And he's writing the new Call of Duty movie right now. Like, he wrote Sicario and Hella High Water. Like, he's.
There's those talents that come around, generational talents is what they call them. He's prolific. And we're just, I'm glad to be a part of that universe. Lamonica Garrett here on the Rich Isaac Show. Let's talk about you a little bit here.
You're from the San Francisco area, correct? San Francisco Bay Area.
Now, does that mean Niners? Niner.
Okay. Niner Faithful, yeah. You are a Niner Faithful. I'm a Niner Faithful.
Okay. We grew up right behind Candlestick in South City.
Okay, so right there in that South City, like right off the, you know, 101, Tampa Ann Theater, Oyster Point, all that.
Okay. Yeah. So you grow up in Candlestick? You go to those games? That's all I saw.
Our son's name is Montana. That's that's that's that's that's where that's who that's who's in this chair right now. Amazing. That said, though, I don't know what's true on the internet or not. We usually have a segment called Celebrity True or False.
So just a little bit on this front. Is it true, though, your name is La Monica after Death? Carol Lamonica? Mad Bomber. That is true.
Yeah, my parents, my dad got back from Vietnam. Went to Mississippi, grabbed my mom, moved to the Bay, and Daryl LaMonica was like Tom Brady back then. He was that dude. Then I came around and Yeah. But he wasn't a Niner, though.
No, it was just it was a Bay Area kind of thing. And then we were living in Hunters Point at the time, and then we moved to South City.
Okay. And then that's where the, yeah, the Roger Craig and the Jerry Rice and the Ronnie Lott and all the Ray Worshing, the, you know. Roger Craig's about to finally get his due. It's about to back end. Yeah.
Thousand yards rushing, thousand receiving, first dude to do it. Yep, overdue. Why is it? Yeah, yeah, it's a true story. Right.
Okay, so, but the irony that you're a Die Hard Niner fan and grew up behind Candlestick, but you're named after Daryl Lamonic. Yeah, that's the rub. But you, you, you made up for it by, so you're, so there's a Montana Garrett? There's a Montana Garrett. And it was like, that was my, my parents' favorite player back then.
So my favorite player still, he's the GOAT. Yes. Favorite quarterback is Montana. Favorite receiver is Rice. Favorite safety is Ronnie Lott.
Like, it was that team. Ronnie Lott could be in a Taylor Sheridan show. He could. Just take off the Nether Finger. We got him lying in his season three premiere or something similar to that.
It was a lot. A lot going on in that premiere. I know, for sure.
Okay, so what do you think about your Niners this. If we stay healthy, we go back to the big dance. We just got to stay healthy. It's not starting off good with Pierce Hall. I heard he had said, yes.
Yeah. But Debo's back now. Debo's back and Stribling, the rookie we got, he's having a hell of a camp. Yep. Uh yeah, we got I like our room.
I like what's going on. We got help from McCaffrey. Right. Purdy's Purdy. Uh linebackers are back.
We got Greenlaw back. I'm excited about that.
Okay. Good, man. We just got to stay healthy. Okay. And so, Warriors, too?
Yeah. Warriors, Giants.
Okay. For the 49ers, I'm the voice in the playoffs when you go to the games, the hype videos. And the same for the Warriors as well. I'll do the hype video. How psyched are you for that?
Well, local kid made good. You know, like, you know, you tell me that, like, I don't need money. Like, just where are we doing this? We've come a long way from Slam Ball, have you? Yeah, Slam Ball.
Now, you are, I believe, in our 14-year history of three years podcast, 11 years of a daily three-hour TV, radio, simulcast. I think you're the first slam baller we were. First slam baller. Hey, man, that was a look at you right there. The machine.
You still had a little bit of hair. Who called you the machine? That was my, they, one of the, someone like gave me that name. It was like, I have a relentless motor and I just like hitting people. That was the football side of me.
You know, like, I played college football and worked out in the pros, and that didn't happen.
Okay. So shortly after that, I moved to LA to become, you know, turn into acting. And this came around. I thought it was a TV show. I was in acting class, and you get there, and you're like, no, this is a new sport they're trying to do.
And I'm like, well, I still got the bug in me. Like, let's, you know, let's do it. And oddly enough, my first TV show that I've ever got was One Tree Hill because One Tree Hill had like a two or three episode arc of Slam Ball on the show. And they were going to audition actors and teach them to play Slam Ball to go opposite Joe Manganello and John Lafferty.
Okay. And I'm like, no, no, no, no. Like, I already play Slam Ball. This is why I'm here. Let me audition.
I did. I got the part. And when I was on set, I'm like, this is why I moved back to LA. Like, this is. Never played Slam Ball again, and from One Tree Hill on, I slowly started building a career.
Did you dunk on Manganella? Did you dunk on Mill? I did. And I, yeah, I put him in the class as well. I was a bruiser.
I was in for, I played linebacker, so that's. You were the machine. I was the machine. I'm just, I still the machine. Once the machine, always the machine.
You should ask Burt Kreischer for royalties. Right, the machine. Right? There's many machines, right? Bob Maka now.
Shelly, the machine, right? From Glen Gary, Glenn Ross. There's a machine there, but you are the machine from Slam Ball. OG machine.
Okay. So is that how you got your acting start? Yeah. Through Slam Ball, One Tree Hill, and then off you go. Yeah, when I first moved out to LA, I was FedEx driver.
Deliver slang boxes. It was delivering FedEx. The Warner Brothers lot.
So I would deliver to everybody who loves Raymond, ER, Friends, like all these shows. Had my headshots in the back just in case. It never turned out that way. But I'm on all these shows, and I'm, you know, everyone loves the FedEx guy. I'm bringing all the props.
I'm bringing, oh, you're here. Great. We need you. And I'm like, man, one day, like, so cut to years later when I'm on the Warner Brothers lot working, a lot of the security guys were the same guys. And it's like, man, you did it.
And it was like, you know, so I've been kicking around for a while, but, you know. It worked out. Awesome. And then at one point, you know, Ray Romano comes up to you, asks where his package is or something. That's what happened.
I thought he was going to say, hey, you got a perfect look. You want to do a scene real quick? Never went that way, but I was ready. Hey, you gotta stay ready to be ready, as they say. This was sugar-free, so okay, fantastic.
This is just a delight to meet you. Big fan. Honestly, you're awesome in this show. And 1883 is something, again, that. That it just lives in, it lives on.
I think about it all the time. My wife and I think about it all the time, about how difficult it was for people to do. What they were doing then, and the storytelling is spectacular. Yeah, small things then. Like, we're huge things now.
Like, just as far as going to the store to get some milk, nature's trying to kill you. You know, bandits are trying, like, everything is trying to kill you. Like, just making it back home back then was a whole different story. And just finding any piece of humanity amidst all of it was truly just some of the more remarkable moments of that show. I don't want to give away what happens in the end, but there is a scene towards the end.
I was a puddle. Crying. Just an absolute puddle. Over that. And again, Sam Elliott is as good as it gets, and the fact that you get to be in these scenes with him.
Grown men from around the country would reach out to me on social media like. Gruff, burly. I'm not a crier, bro. You know, I don't, it said, but that show, man, like the ending of that show, it did something to me. And it's like, If you ask Taylor, he'll tell you that was one of his favorite projects that he's ever done, regardless of film, television, whatever.
But it resonated with a lot of people for a lot of different reasons. And I had a lot of black cowboys would come up to me over the span of the last five years telling me thank you because it's something that we didn't see. A lot growing up, and I grew up with Westerns, love westerns, and it was just a good representation of that, that they really existed. One in every four were black cowboys back then, and it was just something that. Taylor created that.
It's like, thank you, man. Thank you for allowing me to be the vehicle to tell the truth for a lot of people. And thank you for being here. Greatly appreciate meeting you. Thanks for having me.
I love watching what you do. And hopefully come back anytime. I'll be back. Oh, that sounded very imposing. Lamonica Garrett here on The Rich Eisen Show.
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Correct? Am I not? And that's where it was. What's up, Dan? Yeah, I can't speak on that, Rich.
I'm a 45-year-old male. I haven't watched SummerSlam in 30 years. That's a little dust for a while. That's a 45-year-old guy male right across the way. That was great.
All good. All good. Hey, man, I uh A couple of things you said earlier.
Now, I'll preface this by saying, though I live in Minneapolis, I am from. The OC, I am a Dodger fan, so if they never implement a salary cap, I'm happy to keep winning every year. But I do not see how anyone can. reasonably and objectively make an argument that it's good for the sport to have seventy five percentish of the markets have tepid interest because they don't feel like they can compete. I mean, I kind of feel like That's how the MBA was ten, fifteen years ago before they started implementing changes.
And I don't think anybody in New York or Boston or LA is any less interested in the MBA now, even though they don't run the show every single year. Um And then my other thing is Nothing's binary. And the counterpoint that a lot of my Dodger brethren like to say about parody and all the brewers and the raise and stuff, it's like, okay, the brewers and the raise. are phenomenally run organizations, like they are an anomaly. I mean, they make zero mistakes running their organization, and they still don't sniff anything in the playoffs.
I mean, we absolutely drubbed them last year. They were amazing in the regular season. Because their farm system, I mean, everybody turns into a phenomenal professional player, and we still. Just kick the ever-loving you know what out of them last year. It'll probably happen this year, too.
So that's not really like an argument to me saying, like, oh, like, there are some competitive teams out there that come from small markets. It's like, that's kind of like almost a convenient lawyer speak to me. And then you had mentioned earlier, anybody could have had school for what fundamentally and objectively, yeah, that is true. But no No team whose lifeblood, such as the Brewers, are going to trade for him when that's their only chance is developing their own guys. I don't know, Dan.
Dan, I appreciate your call and your passion clearly on all this, but the Brewers did it with C.C. Zabathia years ago. Same thing, left-handed. Sion? Let's get them for a few weeks and see what happens.
Why couldn't they do that again? The Padres did it with Juan Soto a few years ago. I mean, it happens all the time. Rentals happen all the time in Major League Baseball. It's just who wanted them for 9 million bucks?
and three prospects. Again, I don't know the apples to apples on someone's prospects compared to the ones that the Tigers accepted here. And I don't know the apples to apples to what everyone else offered in terms of paying off every penny of Schubler's contract for the Tigers, because clearly they didn't want to pay him anymore. You know? So That's the issue.
In the same way that we're saying the Dodgers are destroying baseball by getting Tarek Schubel, they haven't paid him $400 million yet. We're just assuming that's coming. But at this point in time, they did what anybody else had the right to do. If they wanted to give up three prospects. of this caliber, And Pay nine million bucks.
Which is Trump change in this day and age. And if the Yankees had a chance to do it, And didn't do it. For other people Then they're going to hear about it from their fans. I mean, School is the fact that he went to the Dodgers is no skin off a Yankee fan's nose when they already have Cole and Schlittler and Freed. And Radon.
You don't need to add another $400 million player to a lineup like a staff like that. As a matter of fact, if the Yankees can get any of their hitting back, and they have a a pitching staff like that. They can go to battle against the Dodgers and good luck. Good luck. They can do that.
But they need more help in the bullpen and hitting. And the issue is, they've got a team that is the hottest team in baseball for over a month, that happens to be there. Diehard rival that just went ahead and grabbed a three-time all-star switch hit and catcher in Adley Rutchman. Yeah, that deal is official now.
So the Red Sox have now done that. Yep. And as of this conversation, the Yankees have added. Luis Garcia Jr., who is a terrific hitter from the Washington. Nationals for four prospects.
Lead the NL and Seven. Three prospects, and Jake Bird, who the Yankees got in last year's trade deadline and hardly did anything of. Yeah. Significance with all due respect. Garcia has been awesome this year.
He's been great. The only problem is he is a left-handed slugger. who yes plays second, but You already have a left-handed slugger who plays second in Jazz Chisholm. You already have a left-hander who is playing first base in Ben Rice. And when, heaven forbid, Stanton gets healthy again.
Where does Rice play? They already said he's not going to catch. Rice is going to have to play. I mean, the roster does not appear to be. In the proper shape.
to go on a run.
So we'll see what Brian Cashman does in the next hour. To have a conversation about what they'll do. Yeah, there's a lot of moves popping right now. The Dodgers just traded for Chris Bubick from the Royals. The Padres traded for Robbie Ray from the Giants.
That's a significant he's a former Cy Young. Yeah, you mentioned Adley to Boston as a done deal. And Reid Detmers to the Cubs. Who also added Gaussman?
So a bunch of teams are loading up. We'll see what the Yankees do in the next hour.
Okay. Must be nice. But right now, again, Dodgers destroying baseball. Maybe in the long run. If owners blow up the sport.
Because they can't figure out how to get their own house in order before turning to the players, as opposed to saying, We can't figure out our own house, so you figure it out for us. We'll lock you out in the meantime. Dodgers did what anybody else could do: nine million bucks. Three prospects. They were the only ones who had the chance and the Cojones and the.
Ability to do it. You have to figure out what everyone else is doing. We'll talk about it with Jeff Passon on tomorrow's program. The Golicks will be here, senior and junior. As they are now preceding this show on the ESPN Radio Network.
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