REShow: Kenny Smith - Hour 3 (5-9-2023)

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There's our YouTube page, as well as YouTube.com slash Rich Eisen Show. If you're just joining us, a shocking conclusion to our number two, where, you know, and I apologize to all the fans who are fans of NBA teams that missed the playoffs or already bounced that there are two guys water skiing behind the Sixers and Celtics yachts tonight who are afraid to watch game five. I'm almost embarrassed right now. Why? Because your team has no shot?

It's got nothing. Why would you even? What do you mean my team has no shot? First of all, as you know, I'm a casual Knicks fan. So you've been all in this year.

No, I have been because Jalen Brunson has been terrific and I enjoy watching him play. But honestly, like TJ and I are living and dying with each jumper and the way this roller coaster season and series is gone, it's like it's hard to watch. You're living and dying, right? Living. So you're alive. Your team's alive.

It is when they do dumb things. I'm dying. A piece of me dies. You know, the number of times that I sat in my living room watching Michigan play Ohio State and watching this thing go so poorly for me year after year after year, the the number of times Susie would just walk in the room and see me prone on the floor, depressed and then wanted to just leave me alone and then came back five minutes later and the score was 14 points worse than five minutes before.

And I would get the, oh honey, the number of times that I would turn away from a game while leaving it on as it's just going encircling the drain and I would then throw myself into the love of my children and just play games with them on the floor. I'm so happy now that Michigan has flipped the script in a way, even though those games give me intense feelings of anxiety. You don't have to watch. I'm alive though. It is a number of times when I was getting, Michigan was getting its ass kicked and I'm like, man, Alabama fans don't go through this. Georgia fans don't go through this.

I mean, there are anxious moments, but it's just like you don't you don't have these moments where you're totally depressed and you're wondering when it's going to change. And man, instead of living and dying with the action, you're like, uh, Hey, do you want to play another game of war with this deck of cards? Hey kiddo, do you want to play a little monopoly?

Huh? No, you're alive tonight. The alternative is you're eliminated. You don't make it.

You're gone. Bucks fans. Would they like to be involved tonight? Do you think? Yeah. Do you think, uh, hold on a minute.

I just doesn't think it was a disappointment. You think, Oh, please. You think Memphis, you think the Memphis Grizzlies want to be part of tonight's action? What do you think?

Probably don't you think that's where they are. Speaking of watch tonight, the game's going to be played and the result is going to be what the result is. I have no fact.

I do not factor in the outcome. It's speaking of toilets. I've already had one team whose whole season went down the toilet. I had to go through this, this roller coaster of emotion.

Now I got to do it again. But this is why you have multiple teams, TJs. Cause you got most people listening to this don't have options. That's true. You have options cause you have options.

You're so smart. He's got 19 teams. He's got 19 teams. 19 teams.

They're not 19 folks. I'm already bald. I have no hair to rip out. I could save myself a little anxiety tonight by not watching. You're watching. You're not only watching, you're clearing the room.

Get out of here, man. I got a game up. You know what?

You really want to talk about anxiety. Cooper's got a his little league playoffs begin tonight. What time? We might come to that. Come on by. Come on down. I think we're coming first pitch right when there's tip off between the Celtics and the six. And I'd rather I'm happy to and I don't have to watch.

I'm happy to counter program your anxiety by having you come and watch mine. You guys should see this guy at the game. I can already tell. Come on, man. I can already tell. Should we live stream watching the game today?

No, we shouldn't. It's Instagram live. Excuse me. Now you've opened the can. Is Coop pitching? No. Okay.

At least it's not scheduled. I don't know. We haven't found out yet, but I don't think so. Okay.

But does he have pitching knowledge or something? Excuse me. Shift focus off of me.

You now must you now must you now must explain. I'm not like yelling at arms or other parents when you say when you say stuff like that. And it's a youth sport that my son is playing and my child is playing.

Okay. I just mean now rich has the super nervous energy. Like I give him grief in the morning. He's a he's a pacer on the telephone. He's pacing watching Little League. I don't I can't sit on. He doesn't sit. I stand behind the home plate. I stand. And then he goes around. He nervously eats peanut.

I do. I went to a whole bag of peanuts. Well, you know, sunflower seeds tonight. Coop was I don't do sunflower seeds. You know what? Really? You're a peanut guy. Yeah, I do shell and I eat.

Yeah. And then I go in again. You put them right on the ground until the bag is done.

Put them right on the ground. I go in and get garbage him. So I'm happy. I'm happy to counter program your anxiety by displaying mine.

Please come by. As you know, my children always appreciate Cage Brockman time. Always. Although last time he was was he heckling the home plate umpire or the catcher? He was very into the catchers. He likes the mask and the equipment.

Yeah, very good. He was heckling the catcher. How is he heckling the catcher? He was just like, Hey, catcher. He's screaming.

Some poor 12 year old kid who's got on the tools. It's just like, what is that high pitched voice of what's going on? Hey, catcher. Seriously, would you rat? Would you really come to this game and not watch the Celtic Sixers game five? Come on. I understand.

Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna be home. This is it. Toss up.

I don't know. Literally, it's truly as tip off happens. That's where I'll be. So we're a dumb team, and I just can't keep watching it. Okay, enjoy it. Give me a break.

It's not. Do you think I enjoy watching these games? You must. Here's the deal, right?

I was telling him you have to. I felt so I was so tense watching that Sixers, Celtics last game, and then the Nugget Suns came on, and it was a great game. And the feeling I had watching that was just like, I love basketball. I'm just watching game.

I was not tense. It was so much more fun to watch that game. Yes, but imagine, imagine the alternative is that your team is so bad. You know what?

It has to be. I remember I used to root for the Rangers before, you know, Dolan beat that out of me too. And so I just remember, I remember one year, I forget what year it was. So I'm on Sports Center, and I wanted to call baseball games. I kept knocking on the door of everybody there. So just let me do this. And you know, I was in a position of being considered too valuable on Sports Center to be let off the desk to do assignments I wanted. And I understood that. And I'm like, I'm totally appreciative of you saying that I can't be let out. But after a while, you know, the 150th 2 a.m. Sports Center of the year isn't as important to me as maybe cutting my teeth on calling baseball games, which I always wanted to do as a kid.

So the options I would have were few and far between. And one time it came down, Rich, we need you to call a baseball game if, if there's a game seven in a certain playoff series, I forget it involved the Avalanche, and that if there is a game seven, we will need to move this game to here and we'll air a game on ESPN2 that you're going to call if the hockey results go a certain way. And I then turned into the hockey game and rooted for the result I needed. And I hadn't been emotionally invested in a hockey game in forever.

And I would I missed it. You know, I missed being emotionally invested. I'm like, wow, this is great to be emotionally invested in a playoff hockey game that, by the way, went to overtime.

And as you know, there's nothing more exhilarating than a Stanley Cup playoff game going overtime. So I forgot about just so, you know, I just counsel you to I understand that when the result, you know, you put you through the ringer, you're just alive. You're alive, baby. You're alive.

Go Jimmy V. You know, you like your your your toes are in the grass. You're laughing. You're crying. That's a day.

You know, like the alternative. You know, ask a Sacramento King fan. That's why they were lighting the beam like crazy after 17 years. Tell me, would I like to be emotionally invested in an NFL playoff game? It's been a while. Literally, my child has been born in Bar Mitzvahed. On the other axis, my youngest had been born and yet to be bar Mitzvahed. And I haven't seen a Jets play.

Isn't that a playoff game? Bat Mitzvah is for my daughter. Oh, she's your youngest as well.

No, my youngest son. Gotcha. That's why I said Bar Mitzvah. It's OK. I'm sorry. I'm just trying to learn.

Everyone should just keep up with my Judaism. So, you know, come on, guys. This is not going to be fun tonight.

Yes, it is. So what's fun rocking chair experience that you're up by 10 and you don't relinquish a double digit lead the entire time? That's what you're rooting for tonight.

Yeah. Blowout either. By the way, blowout either way. I want to blow out win or we blow out loss. Are we getting into this argument again? Are we really getting into this? Well, in this in this particular point, like if we're down to rather your team get blown out so you don't have to be emotionally invested and have that gut wrenching loss that it takes for an entire 24 hour period to get over 24. Rich, I know I understand that your teams are never in the playoffs. You don't have a ceiling guy, but this guy, this is what it's like. This this is what it's like. Guy.

Last place. Plus, my baseball team stinks. What do you want? What I want is for you to enjoy tonight's game. Enjoy something enjoyable about this. Nothing enjoyable tonight.

Nothing. I got to live and die on whether James Harden made a stop in Vegas before he got to Boston or not. That's what I got to live and die with tonight. And I got to worry about my center's knee. The ligament just snap in which he hits the ground 85 times a game. And it's just like he's questionable tonight. I'll stop it. This he's got the Kawhi Leonard PTSD from Game three.

I do. Where the guy plays two dynamite games in Phoenix to start his playoff series. And then all of a sudden we found this meniscus is torn. So say he's gone.

That's what I'm saying. I've already gone through this emotion once. I really wouldn't have to go through it again. All right. I'm glad I'm glad we got this out of our system because we have a bona fide top notch NBA television analyst and former NBA champion coming on this program, yet who, by the way, will be no doubt psyched to be in the building tonight in Turner in Atlanta. You got it out of your system? Yeah, I'm good. Let's take a break, then we come back.

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Well, they're all the analysts are nominated on inside the NBA. The great Kenny Smith is back here on the Rich Eisen Show. What's up, Jett? How you doing? Well, I'm doing great, man. Things are going well. Can't get played.

Like you said, late nights, early mornings, but it's all good. It's NBA basketball at its best. Take me behind the scenes.

What are you doing watching these games? What's it like? Are you sitting on the set? Is it the four of you sitting on your actual set? Do you go to another room, green room, something? Oh, no, no, no. We have a green room in the back that becomes the kids' clubhouse.

Okay. And everything and anything is talked about as the games are going on as well. So it's multiple TVs on. Sometimes Charles is Charles is a big hockey fan, so we got the hockey guys there.

Plus, he's there. They're watching hockey and basketball simultaneously. And then on certain Tuesdays when the baseball games are going on, then it's a madhouse. Is there like a signed seating to Shaq have a seat that nobody sits in or Charles or Charles? There's a seat that I've sat in for 21 years. Charles has sat in for 18.

And Shaq has sat in for 12. But no one and everyone knows never to sit in. And we always play around when someone new comes in, we're like, if one of us are missing, oh, yeah, you can sit there. You can sit there. The other person has to make that person move. That's my follow up. That was my last follow up question on this before we get to the actual NBA action is like, has there ever been a newbie?

Like when I guess Gretzky came in or something like that? And he just sits down. Any guest that comes in, you know, the seats are like super comfortable.

So they are. Oh, I'm going to sit here. And and if someone's sitting at Charles's seat and I'm there already in my seat because we're right next to each other.

Yes. He looks at me. He doesn't look at the person.

He looks at me like it's my fault that I let him do it. And it's vice versa. So we play games with that. But yes, it is a side seating. You cannot sit in certain seats. But I understand that, Kenny, because, you know, if you know that's Charles's seat and Charles isn't in there, you could save him the trouble of being the a-hole. You're making him the a-hole.

You could save him. But isn't that the purpose of life? That is true. That is my purpose in life.

It's to make Charles the a-hole. I get it. Very good. Yeah. That's why your show's so good for as long as it's been, Kenny.

So great. All right. So let's jump in before we get to your book here about how in trouble are the defending champion warriors now that they're down three games to one? Well, yeah, I mean, there's a 95 percent rate that they won't make it out of it, you know.

So, you know, super trouble. However, I was blessed to be on one of those five percent teams that came back from 3-1. The one thing that they could point to is game five is at home. So when game five is at home, our rationale was sitting on the team playing and we go, well, they're not going to beat us in game five at home. It's like, no, they're not coming and beat us 4-1 at home. Oh, then all we have to do is win game six because there's no way they're going to win a game seven on our court.

So you have to have a delusion of grandeur. Yes. But at the same time, you do have two out of the three games at home, which is an advantage. That's why you play for that. And so it does move the needle slightly where you may not be, you know, feeling the same way about game five as a team if you were going into Los Angeles.

Yeah. And then obviously game three was a washout. Game four, they kind of had the Lakers where they wanted them until Lonnie Walker, the fourth, took over that game. And we'll hit that in a second. But lingering on the Warriors, as you know, you said you you can point to the fact that they have two or three at home.

Well, we're in the media, Kenny, so we point at things and the finger at what? I mean, what is the missing part of the team that had the chip last year? What do you got for me on that with the Warriors? What's missing? Well, I don't I think that the smaller this year, the Warriors and then they have been in the past.

So they don't have the same. I would say the same ability to kind of just. Dominate physically at times when Draymond was playing the floor.

Why am I going blank? My Aussie center when they first started out, you know, when they first started their championship run, they had size. Bogut is it? Yes, exactly. And then they would just go small. But now they play small the whole game. So that is a difference.

There's no transition from start to finish. And so what happens there are more close games. And when you're more close games, it's like if you drive a car, you know, 30 hours, you know, if you drive a car 20 hours a day, you're going to have a fender bender.

I mean, this is natural. And so they have a lot of fender benders because they only play small when they're at their best now. And now the Lakers just have could could you say the Lakers have a deeper team?

I don't know. I mean, obviously they've got a big three with with Golden State and LeBron and Anthony Davis, the supporting cast for the Lakers. Last night, it was Lonnie Walker, the fourth who came through. Do you do you have any sense of of how deep the Lakers are for a deep run that they appear to be making? I mean, that's right. That line was probably the best, you know, in basketball. You know, when you pick up who they picked up from hot tomorrow all the way down to the Angelo Russell. And when they started making those moves, you know, it really propelled their roster. Their roster was pretty light. But Golden State, you know, roster is not bad. But we haven't seen the Jordan pool that we've seen last year or the year before. The guy has kind of been missing an action in terms of being able to create his own shot, create havoc for the defense and give playing and stuff. You know, rest on the offensive end at times.

You know, people are saying, well, do we do they need? Klay Thompson last year. They're like, oh, I don't know if they need him. And that was that was a big draw. Now you're like, it's impossible to play basketball. I go to state without Klay Thompson. Well, and then comes the issue at pool before we move on here.

Kenny is the way that the season began with Draymond hitting him with a right cross. And and, you know, and how the Warriors may or may not truly have put that to bed. Is there a conversation you guys have off camera or even on camera a little bit about this? Do you do you think this is lingering?

Do you guys talk about that? I mean, I think I think I think that we all like think they could linger. But I think as a professional, you say it should not because we're now 82 games later. You know, we're not in the same scenario that we were in before. And, you know, I would think that there still could be some animosity. But in fact, affecting his individual play to the level that it has, I think at times, I wouldn't think that that's the reason. Because as an individual, you're still doing your own workout.

You're still doing, you know, you're saying drills that you do to get ready for a basketball game. And at times, he just doesn't seem ready for the moments that they're expecting to him to have. Like he has a he has a bigger role than he's had prior to that.

And I think defense is that now he becomes a primary target on the scouting port. I think that has just as much to do with it than just I got in a fight with a teammate publicly. Emmy nominated Kenny Smith, an author of talk of champion stories of the people who made me, which is available today, wherever you get your books calling into the rich eyes and show a few minutes left with him. If you put your marker on any of the remaining eight teams, obviously, it would be tough to put your marker on the teams down 3-1 in the Warriors in the Knicks. But you got two other series tied at two apiece. Who do you put your marker on right now to win it all?

Kenny? Well, I still think that, you know, the Denver Nuggets are still in the mix of everything. You know, to me, they from top to bottom, when you watch them play, they have every piece in every game. They're a team that when you look at them, you go, what holes do they have? And you go, do they have a great center? Do they have a great point guard? Do they have a great bench? Do they have good coaching? They have everything that would mark a champion.

They just have to deliver now because I think they are the best team in basketball. OK, we're taking bets right now, Kenny. Are you at an ATM or filling your car with gas? What are you doing right now? What I'm doing right now is I was stopping to fill my car with gas and I said no. And I waited because I had to stop. And I was like, man, I'll stop and drive and see and stop on the side because I got to talk to my man.

OK, that's OK. I'm never going to talk and drive. Well, you're going to go high octane, right?

The highest octane possible. No, it's a running car, brother. Come on, Kenny, you're putting it on the turn of time. What does it matter? What do you care? Oh, baby, it still gets the cheap gas, man. You never you never pull a rental car.

You don't treat a rental car like you treat yours. OK, all right. I just understand.

I just want to get this whole thing settled. Kenny Smith here on the Rich Isaac show. Why did you write the book? Talk of champions, the stories of the people who made me.

Well, for me, it was it was more about it happened, actually, after all the social unrest was happening that we hadn't seen, at least in my lifetime, the way it was when George Floyd. And then I walked off the set. I don't remember that. I said, I'm going to join this march and walk off the set of the show. A week later, a literary arranger, she calls me and she goes, can you have a book?

I always thought I could write like an article about my life, but not a book. And then I said, I said, why do you think that? She said, why did you walk off?

I said, I really walked off because of all of the people that make. And there was I was like, it wasn't one moment. It was Dean Smith talks. It was Bill Russell. It was Shaq. It was Michael Jordan. All of the people that I was like, wow, there's other things about them that I look and take into my daily life that if I knew at twenty one all the things that were going on.

Man, I would I should just share this information because I think when you read it, you will feel better about yourself because you'll start to understand why you do things and why. Why did that work? Because, you know, honestly, I used to take for granted the people around me, meaning I thought everyone had Bill Russell or Dean Smith or Michael Jordan or Shaq. So, Charles, I thought that was commonplace in business. You know, one of my good friends in college was David Kohler from the Kohler family, you know, the largest plumbing company in the world. I slept on my couch in a summer school.

Guy Oseri, who manages Sting and Madonna and the biggest names in business. I slept on my couch for like 45 days. I thought this was normal to have people like that around you. And then I realized that everybody I knew had a book written about them.

I was like, they're not normal. You know, and I need to tell the stories of what I see that makes them great and story the champions. Well, and again, I don't want you to give away too much of the book here in the few minutes we have left. So of all the names that you just mentioned, I'll pull on the Bill Russell string. You got you got a story you want to tell about Russell, what you learned from him, where you met him, anything about that?

Well, the biggest thing I learned from him was in a casual moment, you know, he drafted me and he was my coach, my first coach. And so we're sitting on the plane and he's looking at like a sheet with all of these European players that they possibly could drive. So my job, he said, I always had to sit next to him every plane ride and every bus ride because I was a rookie. So I'm looking at the notes and he's got these guys from Yugoslavia and I was like, coach, you tell me there's no guy in Alabama.

That's just as good like you got to fly all the way over there. And he looked at his stop. He said, Kenny, as an African-American, you can never not want inclusion.

And so he took a moment that was so jokingly half serious about basketball and taught me a life lesson that I move daily by like inclusion. And how do we include everyone, even when I'm already included? That is the difference. You know that when you're included, the test is, can you include someone else that isn't? That's what the test is. And so for me, there's millions of stories like that with Bill and I.

When you read the book, you'll see some more. So again, I don't know if it's like the NFL where you're on draft day and get a phone call and it's the coach or the GM or the owner of the team saying welcome to the team. Did you get a call from Bill Russell on draft day?

Is that what you're saying? Yeah, he was the general manager, president of the and the coach of the team at the time. And so, yeah, he's like, hey, Kenny, we're drafting you. And which was interesting because they never brought me in for an interview. So I was like, oh, that Sacramento is not going to draft me.

And so he calls me and he's like, well, Kenny, we draft we draft. I said, well, I was surprised because you guys didn't bring me in. He said, that's why we didn't bring you in. We didn't want anyone to take you out of that. It's like, OK, so Bill, I mean, that but that had to be. And again, I know you're around Dean Smith and you had a lot going on and you were around big time basketball.

But for a kid from Queens to look down at the phone or just or obviously at the time there's no call waiting. You pick up the phone and we didn't have we didn't know. Yeah, I know.

So we grew up in that era. I know. I just caught myself. I just caught myself.

I could have been a busy signal. Right. I was, you know, in awe for sure. I mean, we both were old enough to understand who Bill Russell was.

Not even from a basketball standpoint, but social justice from a cultural standpoint. We understand who he was and to have him call you and be the person who drafts you into the NBA. And then, you know, even years later, which I wrote in the book, you know, 20 years later, when he had his statue put up in the Boston in front of the Boston Garden, he called me again and asked me to emcee it. I mean, could you imagine? No, that call? No. He's like, Kenny, I want you to do it.

I want you to emcee it. You know, when you come out. And so I always had him in such high regard over the years and we talked. But it just assured me that he felt a way about me as well. You know, I still keep in touch with his wife to this day. I talked to her last week. You know, he is a figure that has always been influential in my life. That's like getting a call from the president of the United States, Kenny.

It's better for a basketball player. Well, tell the gang and everybody there at Turner. I said hi. Say hi to Ernie, Shaq, Charles, the rest of the crew there. Love watching you. I will be watching tonight. Couple game fives. That's all you got. I mean, my gosh, so much on the line tonight. You got any any quick thoughts on that before I say goodbye to you here on this Tuesday? Game five is the pivotal that does the momentum shifters. But I always thought the series start only when a team is faced with elimination.

That's how we felt in Houston, which is a little delusional, but that's how you got to be. And so game five, it's still got more left in Boston and in Denver. Take care, Kenny. Congrats on the book.

Maybe we'll see at the Emmys in a couple Mondays. Thanks. Appreciate that, brother. You see you soon.

That's Kenny Smith inside the NBA NBA on TNT. But talk of champions. The stories of the people who made me available today wherever you get your books. Do you agree with not putting high octane gas and rent a car? Yeah. Not my car.

But it doesn't matter, right? If you. I guess it's money out of your pocket, but even you're going to even though you're going to you're going to you're going to expense it.

What about you? It all depends on who's paying for it. Well, I'm one of those guys who's paying for it. Let's say Turner's paying for Ted Turner. He's paid for it is what it is. Whatever is there, it's in. It's 92.

It's 92. I kind of feel like I'd feel bad for the person that buys the car used that you didn't take care of the car. But at the same time, you're buying a used rental car.

You get what you get teaching. I mean, I'm probably renting the Chevy Volt, so I put. Oh, you're using the you're you're you're electric. Now you guys know what I. Yeah, I'm not putting the high end gas in whatever car. No, I step it up and rent it. He's written like a Lambo or something. Yeah.

So I got to put 92. What do you mean you're renting? Are you what I mean? You know what?

I drove to the Super Bowl. I don't. It's like I rent if I rent a car, it's got to be like I got to be. He's V.I.P. that you read is his. No, stop. It's just excuse me.

Stop. Spoken like a man with no children. I have no children. I'm getting rid of it both. And eventually I'm going to retire.

What are you going to get? I'm going to get rid of the boat when I retired. I don't bet I'm just going to be out there.

But it's not the point to have. No, no, no, no, no. What? No, I'm in a bigger boat when I retire.

Oh, God. So you're not really getting rid of it. I'm not going to be land based one side of the car. We'll talk about that. I'm not going to be. I want to be able to move.

I do not. I'm buying a big catamaran, like a 60 foot catamaran, four bedrooms, three bathrooms. You ain't going to see me again by sale. The thing is, you're not going to ever stop working. That's the problem. So I'll have this boat forever now.

You're you're addicted to working. Great planning. It's PPP.

This is great planning. In my case. OK. My whole life. It's still got. Exactly. We'll take a break and preview tonight's game fives for you. And we have to. Yeah.

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Just search BLEAV podcast wherever you listen. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show, eight four four two oh four rich number to dial. Man, oh man. So it doesn't look like Chris Paul is going to play tonight. All right. That's why the odds are moving a little bit. I don't know. Moving what? But why would that affect anything?

Landry Shammet only lit up the sky. So what else? Oh, really? The guy's got a hell of an outside shot. Yeah.

I mean, Lonnie Walker, the fourth. Oh, that won't happen again, right? These guys sitting on the bench, not getting any runs. You've got to give them. They are ready. Give them the shot.

They're professionals. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And you said earlier about me not liking the Laker thing, which you're more than. Yeah, you're right. But I got to admit, when I see a guy like that, you know, you work hard, work hard. Come off the bench and play like that as a basketball fan. You do kind of love to see someone like Lonnie and Landry Shammet in the same way of it. In the same way of waiting a very long time for your shot. There's the king of England now.

You like that switch? You got there. You did wait a really long time. A long time. He's 76.

He's way too long. That's for a shot at the title. Yeah.

And top the championship crown. And so we were going to do the segment yesterday, but Kevin Pollock told too many great stories. Yeah. So my phone line, my phone, the Twitter accounts, whenever I popped on over the weekend. Well, I don't understand the affixation with the royal family, with all due respect. I even know what's going on, Rich. It's the last pomp and circumstance in the world. They have no power. Exactly. They're like that. We always say it's like you're like the queen of England.

Rest in peace. There he is with the with the crown. You know, the crown jewels. I would I would love to do that. I would do this.

Is that the holy hand grenade? I would love to be the king. It'd be fun. No kidding. You'd like to be the king of England?

Of course you would. You got nothing. What is he doing?

That'd be incredible if Mike Del Tufa becomes. What are you? What what line are you in?

Like what? What's more? What's what's what's more likely? He becomes the king of England or the the owner of the Green Bay Packers with his one with one. He technically is the owner of the Packers.

I mean, I already have. But he is he is at least like in the mix on these on a list for the Packers. Who's closer to to being in the in the in the lineage in the line of succession, him or Landry Shammett? The guys who are waiting a long time for their shot. So we decided, you know, you know what? And we did this before we came up with the idea for this, you know, before Lonnie Walker the fourth went off. And we were inspired by Landry Shammett and the king of England waiting a long time for their shot and making their shots.

Right. So we have decided to come up with three sports figures. Each one of us, you, TJ and you, Chris, have come up with one. I've come up with one as well of who we're going to coronate. And it's been their long time waiting that they're going to get crowned.

If you want to crown them, they've crowned her ass. That's straight. That's straight from this weekend's ceremonies, I believe. Very strange. There's no English accent.

There's no British accent there. So give me music. There you go. Thank you.

Had to do me. Who goes first here? I'm going first. I got to see.

I got to see where you're going to take this. Oh, this is easy. This guy's been waiting a long time. He's got one before, but it's been a while, long, while. Everybody thinks he's got no shot. Oh, yeah. Well, if he's already got one.

Why is it predictable? He's already been crowned. So what?

So what? Sir Aaron of Rogers is going to be coronated and bring the Jets to the throne, to the seat of power in the National Football League. And he is going to lead them to the promised land. Been waiting, you know, in football years, as long as Prince Charles waited to become king.

I had a bad experience on this ride once before. Thank you very much. Not he has won before and he's about to be coronated once again. I believe Aaron Rodgers will wear the crown if you want to crowd him.

The crowd. Thank you very much. Wow. Chris, we have. OK. Now, this guy, the all American, I'm going baseball, all American. I can't hear you over whatever the hell he's saying. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. He's the modern day Mickey Mantle. Oh, boy. And then he's been the target of, you know, some of my slings and arrows in the past in the castle. All of his your storm in the castle, his his twelve career postseason at bats.

But you know what? I think this is the year. The route wins a playoff series.

I want to play. I'm talking about being crowned. He's going to be crowned. Triple crowned to win a playoff series.

If you want to crowd him, the crowd. So crown him what? To get out of the first round of the playoffs. I mean, that would be a big accomplishment.

What the hell? You guys already won. That's not given. That's like giving Prince Charles, you know, a house in the countryside with the corgis. You get that with my trust and get that little egg. You get Balmoral. A little golden baseball.

I'm saying he's going to the Buckingham Palace, man. All right, TJ, what do you got over there? Well, I'll just say this. King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Bless we.

Beseech what is happening. Vee this crown. And so sanctify thy servant James Harden upon whose head this day thou does place. James Harden. I need to see the beard get crowned.

All right. His career. Chris, as you know, MVP scoring titles. But he's always been held back by that by that theory, that thought that he can't get it done when it counts.

I need James Harden this year to prove all thy naysayers wrong and lead his team to a championship, upon which a crown shall be placed upon a crown on his head. Now, I guess he didn't say they're getting out of the second round. I mean, that would be a big accomplishment for my guy. You went ahead and gave him the whole enchilada. Yes, as I did as well.

He's he's going as far as trout skin on a playoff series. Indeed. OK. And it's everything we need one more. Oh, all right. You have one. Oh, well, you know, I do have one more. I do have one more. I'm just going to say this really quick.

Are you doing one per team? I'm going to say this real quick. There is another man who I've known for many years. He came into the public's eye.

Sounds like you're doing a B96. OK, and he was part of a legendary duo that brought forth news and entertainment for the masses. And yet year after year after year, this man has been denied his rightful place at the table. So I say this on this day. May Sir Richard Seth Eisen of Long Island be crowned. Whatever status, law, whatever, whatever it takes with an Emmy win and have that crown placed upon his beautiful dome.

Rich, I want to see you get your crown. Thank you very much. Yes, good. I appreciate your sentiments. Thank you. Yes. Staten Island, Long Island, whatever.

Whatever it takes. Some island and they're not the same, but it's good stuff. Well, Chris will say that Long Island is actually part of Manhattan. That's what he would say.

Hey, thanks for having me on. That's my response to that segment. But according to you, you know, I'm not winning. You know, if if if I'm getting the Mike Trout treatment from this segment, I'm not winning the Emmy. I'm just getting out of the first hour of the ceremony.

I think for us to be sitting there and make it out of the first hour, we all win. Rich Eisen has lost the baby with a cap to lose. It was a very strange part of the coronation over the weekend.

Did you watch the coronation, any part of the coronation? It was very strange when when they made this announcement that Matt Leinart would be next. And I'm like, wait a minute, he's not in the he's not in the line of succession, is he? You know, I didn't know Mark Dalton had a position that high.

If you want to crown him, then crown her ass. And then it's a Matt Leinart will be next. It's very strange because I don't think he's next. It's it's William. Right. William is next. Yeah. And then and then hell has to freeze over. And then Harry. Right. That's the way it works.

Am I up on my royal now? William's son. That's very strange that he's five minutes away. It's like, wait a minute. Charles has been waiting 76 years.

You've given him five minutes. Very strange part of the coronation. Prince George is next.

Ah, after that's William's oldest son. Yeah. Got it. Thank you.

He'd be crowned with your gracious favor. Thank you. By the way, great job writing it out. Yeah.

Yeah. I appreciate that. So I want to thank you. I want to thank Terry Fontenot.

I'm going in order of people who are excited to be on the program. Terry Fontenot was really excited. Terry Fontenot had questions to start. And then there's Kenny the Jetsmith, who was multitasking, trying to pump gas and promoting his book, calling the program and pumping gas. And then Tom Telesco, who gave us tons of information, and then I lingered too long. Hey, thanks for having me on.

And then that's why I forced him to say that after 22 minutes of talk. And I want to thank the AT&T operator who tried, tried her hardest to get our phone lines back on during this. Are we going to be back tomorrow?

Of course we are. No, the phone line. I don't know.

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