REShow: Utkarsh Ambudkar - Hour 3

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Coming up from Disney Plus' world best actor Utkarshan Butkar. And now it's Rich Eisen. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show on the air. If you missed hours number one and two you missed a great chat with Lewis Riddick from ESPN.

Giving us the AFC and NFC teams that we're not talking about, that we should be talking about because of exactly how good they are. And great conversation there. And then we had Kyle Juszczak on an hour number two the fullback, Pro Bowl fullback of the 49ers. And just when I asked him about the quarterback competition, if there really is a quarterback competition in camp this year, if they really do not know who their starting quarterback is on September 10th in Pittsburgh for week one, that's when George Kittle hopped on the phone. That was fantastic. He said he texted me like surprising me. Isn't that nice? That's nice.

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So many different ways you cannot avoid us. Had a nice quick chat during the commercial break with Utkarsh Mbutkar, the co-writer and actor of World's Best which is in Disney Plus. It is a hip-hop musical adventure. We are going to go down two different wormholes. The Washington Bullets wormhole and the Lin-Manuel Miranda wormhole.

No. Because he's very well versed in both. And of course he's also on the hit show Ghosts on America's Most Watched Network. CBS. And you TJ Jefferson later on will finish up this show with a power ranking of your favorite all-time ghosts. Yeah is that right? That's that's that's the idea. To the post? Is that is that one of the ghosts?

To the postman? Uh no. But you know. Didn't we do shots with Dave Casper once or or or or we were at a bar we were at the hotel at the hall of fame and Dave Casper was one of those straight laced old school hall of famers looking at us like what are you doing? It seems more likely.

I forget which one it was. At any rate. By the way Rich.

It's gonna be a fun third hour is basically what I'm saying. Ghost is uh created in show run by another one of Altoona's finest my buddy Joe Port he uh show runs. By the way we haven't even brought this up.

The other day Patrick Renna who is here talking about the sandlot. The hambino. The hambino and then he turns to you and yeah like you've known each other and I literally thought you would put him up to like making it seem like you knew each other because I always say like you're the Forrest Gump of this program that you float through life and meet everybody. Did you see us greet each other when he came in? I know it's just another person like we're we all look at each other like T.J. knows everybody.

I want to walk a red carpet with T.J. because literally he'd be like oh yeah hey we would he'd know everybody on the red carpet. Yeah. Speaking of our guest Upkarsh like he probably will he might remember this about 2011 we did kind of a yo mama remix.

Okay. Where we tried to bring yo mama back it was a big trash talking competition and yeah he got selected to be the host of the show something that Wilmer was producing. Why wouldn't he remember that? I wouldn't remember me but I'm saying you might remember that particular endeavor it was one of his first things and it's been cool watching him kind of his career just kind of blow up ever since he did that. Do you remember it's it's one of it's dicey to bring that up to say to some bar hey do you remember me from yo mama?

Wait a minute what? Now back in summer camp days that's fight words. Speaking of summer camp uh got a got a letter from Coop from camp. Hey. It's a good one uh Coop is amazing um he said this morning in the shack I did the I did the good morning call which I think is you know on the PA on the PA okay and he wrote and dad I saw that Domingo Herman pitched a perfect game versus the A's did you pick him up dad? Did you? No. Why?

Because we're crushing it without him we don't need him in our fantasy league and plus he gave up eight runs to the Mariners the week before. Yeah what's more likely? Right? I can't by the way uh I I told you that story right once that I once did the morning call at uh trails end camp and oh gosh this is this is a good story real quick.

Just one time you did it? What's more likely yes okay one time where you know they they they they play Reveille and then you get on yeah yeah yeah wake up the camp and then you'd read the scores and I did it and I was so excited to do it because you know I was uh always wanting to do what I do for a living I'm blessed so um this was back probably god what year would this be 1980 81 82 so I'm reading the box scores and who Homer earlier in the day but one of the great third baseman in the history of major league baseball from the Philadelphia Phillies Mike Schmidt except I was talking too fast oh god and I left out the M in his last name like creek you know and they thought the camp thought I did that on purpose I think he did it because I was just fooling around let me say the s-bomb to the camp over the power over the PA system you had the mic one and done that's it you never got another chance didn't get another shot they shut it down curtain comes right down but I was talking too fast all right let the M that the M hit the floor guys let's speak the truth between us now you did it on purpose I didn't of course I didn't dude I was like treating it like I was Marv Albert like I was water wolf like this is my moment let's go out there in pigs lake Pennsylvania for trails and camp like I was going to crush it my career was going to be launched right from there and because of what happened my entire career comeback story come back story it's basically a cautionary tale but also I think inspirational all you kids out there when you speak to your camp and you mistakenly inadvertently drop an s-bomb and they think in the camp management thinks that you are just fooling around and they try and squelch your dream don't take that for an answer yeah just keep on no don't just curse at him no I didn't mean to do it and now I'm hearing my son's doing it now I wonder if he cursed yes he did not oh hey you don't know no coops wondering he as he's reading the scores he's like oh man did you pick him up and fantasy done no because we're 11 and one at the end of this week through 12 major league baseball weeks no thank you all right uh let's get to our Friday staple right here on the Rich Island show it's time for what's more likely hit it please hit it what what's more likely never say never but never never the latest edition of what's more likely in my comeback story of a career what's up guys everybody good what's up Chris heading into the fourth weekend yes indeed let's have some fun uh who's more likely to lead the NFL and receiving yards this year see Justin Jefferson or Jamar chase or the field one of those two guys in the field I'm gonna go the field I'm going the field that's where I'm going I see Justin Jefferson and I see Jamar chase I'm going the field how about this I'll give you one that is way out way out Garrett Wilson no come on I'm not I'm not chill no I'm not gonna do that I'm not gonna do that I'll give you one that that that is reasonable right I'll give you one that is reasonable okay and I'll give you one that is way out there or you consider being way out there okay reasonable what about Stefan Diggs what about Josh and Josh down like for which team I'll feed you on Buffalo I'll feed you or or or how about I'll give you one that's that might be out there how about Jalen Waddle I was actually thinking him that's kind of a long shot but a reasonable long shot right um who else could be out there hmm how about this one this is my one that you're you you don't think is at all possible I'm a Cooper cup huh what do you mean what's that what's that laugh for what's that laugh for he's been injured a lot lately and his quarterback we don't know can throw last time they both were healthy what happened I think they uh they won a big game and what did Cooper cup do he won an he won an award he won the triple crown yeah yeah same guy I bet yeah most touchdowns you know what the price of gas was back then the field still like 450 higher higher than what it is now gas prices are down everybody yeah this just in go joe somebody's angry right just walked off the set what else all right uh let's stay in the uh NFC west that's her 2022 hit quarterback to come back down to earth this year can I can I tell you what one of them is gino smith or that's all right there brock purdy what a downer what a downer why can't you give me one that's more upbeat because he won't stop talking about these guys like they weren't one-hit wonders didn't you hear what louis riddick said I have to choose one I don't want to choose one I think it's I I think that's terrible I think you're putting me in a position I don't appreciate it wow but I have to choose one I mean I would like you to all right I'll choose oh my gosh answer this rich even that fan base is angry at you whatever answer no they're angry at me don't you read the comments that is like how did probably come up with this they'll get the premise of the game I am rich's meat shield on youtube I'll go I'll go I'll go I'll go purdy because he's got the less of a um resume resume and he's coming off of a significant injury by the way you know that he was it was a six-month timetable to return he had surgery on March 10th do you know when the first week of the NFL season is for the San Francisco 49ers in Pittsburgh is September 10th six months to the day what else chris uh a couple of big rookies joining their respective leagues number one overall picks actually Bryce Young and Victor women Yana who do you like to have the better rookie season crown vic or Bryce Young oh I'll I'll go with uh when banyama I'll go with him it's tough to do it in the NFL pal it's tough to do it and uh it's interesting they're two number one overall picks where their size was most discussed one being for being so huge and what he's able to do and one for being not tall enough and being able to what he's been able to do um Alabama is kind of like Tuscaloosa is kind of like the Paris of Alabama right uh what other what other what other uh what other analogies what other analogies may I be able to bring to bear uh Greg Popovich and Frank have beards I think I think when banyama is you know one of the most can't miss prospects so I'll go there over Bryce Young good one though that's is that is that the all over the map type stuff like literally all over the map you went to France now we're still going we got a lot let's rip through these uh how about this one future hall of fame guards career you'd rather have okay Harden? Harden or Chris Paul? Harden or Chris Paul? I know which beard I'd want that's easy I'd take Chris Paul's beard I don't know how Harden lives with that thing anyway these guys at the end of their career just bouncing around from team to team it's kind of interesting they're both going to hall of fame I'll take Chris Paul I'll take Chris Paul I'll take Chris Paul do I have to give a reason I'll take Chris Paul or I'll take James Harden because you know what I'll go Harden you know why I'll go Harden he would have went to the beer Olympics here's here's here's why here's why I'll go Harden I'll go Harden because because he's so incredibly successful in uh in this league and not having to really pay that much attention to his body you know I kind of respect that but he is though you look that good without paying attention all right what's more likely uh Shohei Ohtani stays with the Angels or ends up elsewhere in 2024 come on elsewhere come on elsewhere these stripes are gonna look good are you Queens is in the house represent represent where what if he's the same elsewhere the Dame Willard of Major League Baseball okay I understand what do your analogy is that he likes where he is and he's not going to demand anything and he's just going to see how it plays out and he's going to be chill Chris what if he takes the Tony Guin route that's what I mean just stays in one spot Tony Guin made a world series Tony Guin hit one off the uh the fair pole in Yankee Stadium in game one and scared the crap out of me until for whatever reason Mark Langston threw one right down the middle of the plate on Tino Martinez it's called a ball and then he had a grand slam home run and the rest of that world series turned on that dime I was there that was a blowout Mark Langston threw strike three to Tino Martinez at any rate elsewhere what else Chris all right the Tour de France starts tomorrow oh my god where are we going with this which one do I like you know 10 speed or five speed or e-bike beach cruiser you're not going to see where this is going okay uh Tour de France starts tomorrow guys sort of France and in a few days we have our most famous uh competition which summer event would you rather compete in the Tour de France or the hot dog eating contest oh my god what are you talking about a test of endurance I don't know if I'd be able to last which the question is which one would you be able to last in the least no last longest is I don't I couldn't imagine the Tour de France like I would be I'd be I need training wheels yeah there's a reason they're all on steroids oh my god how dare you talk about that wait about Joey Chestnut how many hot dogs do you think we could eat competitively combined yes like if we all by the way combined could we beat Joey Chestnut how about this what's more likely what's beat Joey Chestnut you know what's more likely a competitive ear performing well at the Tour de France or a cyclist performing well at the competitive cycle cyclist you think yeah for sure could he I mean I had Joey Chestnut could last like 10 miles without vomiting without vomiting without vomiting cyclists don't vomit oh I once I once showed the kids the Joey Chestnut uh July 4th they found it disgusting they like turn it off I thought they'd find it funny it's great Susie's like it was it was a bad moment it was a bad moment Susie's like what are you doing and I'm like I think they'll like it I think it's terrible this was outside so there was no influencing the kids didn't hear her opinion so it's not like mom put her thumb on the scale they were aghast they were horrified I mean that like it is hard it's horrifying to watch last night but did you dip it in water and then open your maw and jam it in like hole and I had him from Earls and Crenshaw and I could probably do four max so that's all you're going to get out of me all right yesterday was the anniversary of Trading Places yes it was yes you can only watch one Eddie Murphy movie the rest of your life no it was Coming to America I screwed it up doesn't matter we're going Trading Places only one Eddie Murphy movie the rest of your life Trading Places or Beverly Hills Cop 48 hours Mike not playing the game I know I know I'm sorry I'm being like people so it was the anniversary of Coming to America movie I know it's all right you take it out of the mix and it's either Trading Places or Beverly Hills Cop for the rest of your life only one Trading Places Beverly Hills Cop I watch Trading Places if I don't go out for New Year's Eve which I don't anymore I watch Trading Places every year on New Year's so it's Trading Places three words three words three words Jamie Lee and Curtis end of story get out of here three yesterday Indiana Jones released the new one the legendary Harrison Ford character you'd rather be Indiana Jones or Han Solo Han Solo I don't want anything to do with snakes or or or he always comes out it's fine it doesn't matter I don't need to be around them Han Solo's just floating through space flying through space I'm tethered I'm flying through space he got frozen in that hanging out with Princess Leia he was frozen for years he got frozen in that by the way by the way do me a favor freeze me in carbonite okay right thank you because if you freeze me in carbonite what a nap I can only imagine one of the greatest naps of all time honestly no no no no I would be sleeping oh my god what a nap my right eye is twitching as I'm saying that by the way I said that to you before this show Chris I just said it to you Hunter good stuff you were really all over the map yeah without a doubt Han Solo what are you what are you kidding me I don't know indie man he was a living it was a coxman what did I say that right yeah that's what it's a yeah what are you's rowing in a boat yes he could do that cocks oh my god let's take a break stop it he's a die-hard oriole fam so why is he wearing a Ricky Henderson gamer on uh on our screen going to break I don't understand get an inside look at Hollywood with Michael Rosenbaum actress Kristin Ritter your parents let you travel by yourself it was a different time they just put you on a train as a 15 year old girl you went to New York I went on a bus and I did get picked up at Port Authority they thought I was a runaway what would they do they detain you and like get people on the phone and then they finally let you go to your modeling job how many times did it happen once or twice it just seems like it wouldn't happen it happens yeah inside of you with Michael Rosenbaum wherever you listen for decades Rolling Stone has set the bar for entertainment publications today Rolling Stone music now takes over in podcast form songwriter and producer Jamie Hartman reacts to the Ed Sheeran verdict you need to create something new and of course you're going to use traditional paths to get there are you going to sue the Rolling Stones for making a samba out of sympathy for the devil you can sue Elvis Prezi for writing bots and over it's like saying you're not allowed to use a pencil to create a piece of art Rolling Stone music now wherever you listen we're back here on the Rich Eisen Show radio network uh we just saw a clip of World's Best available now for streaming on Disney Plus which is available right here on Roku the star of that film and also Ghosts Utkarsh and Budkar here on the Rich Eisen Show and you co-wrote the songs in this film as well huh we just had a chance to do everything Sean Bailey at Disney gave me uh the keys to the kingdom preferably the metaphorical Disney kingdom he was like meet Mickey and welcome me in and uh I got to work with all my childhood friends Jamie King and I wrote the script together Charlie Wilder and I wrote the music together Roshan Sethi who's an incredible director uh directed the film and oh cool poster yeah it is and then um Tommy Kale who I've been working with since I was 20 he directed Hamilton and produced the film for the Disney Plus he made the movie with me and we just had like a blast we went up to Toronto saw it uh watched a lot of Blue Jays games from my hotel room which looked down onto the stadium so the whatever they call Rogers Center now you were in that hotel that looks out yes I did that too when I turned 21 it was my friends we road tripped from New York City yeah all the way there uh got there um watched the Yankees get blown out by the Blue Jays uh drove 20 hours just to watch them uh give up I think five runs in the first inning and Pat Henkin shut them out the rest of the way just fantastic oh those Blue Jays Joe Carter baby that was back in the day man no doubt about that yeah and so uh just lingering a little uh a while here on your on your film right right the movie well how'd you come up with the idea here of a 12 year old kid loses his dad learns he's a rapper what do you got for me right here I was doing this movie for Disney Plus called Godmother and I was sitting in video village with Alison Ehrlichman the producer who produced it with me and I was like so what are we gonna do together jokingly and she's like what do you got and I was like well it's Disney so you need a dead parent let's be real I'm not lying by the way I know what it is um and Bambi's mom and just on down the line frozen I mean they go down with the ship we teach the kids loss that's what we do baby it's the truth um and how to deal with it and um apparently I'd be a single parent but um so I was like you got a dead dad I know you want me to rap so that that dead dad's a ghost who knows how to rap kids in math because I'm Indian and I was bussed to high schools for math when I was 13 years old which was a life experience that you know we need hours to unpack yes but I'm like what does it mean when you're in a community and you're not a part of and you find out that there's hope in the form of a parent your hero who you've never met who might give you the chance to be something different to find a new identity and for me you know that was theater it was music it was art while both my parents were PhDs and you know they were doing their best to be like education science math like this is how we succeed this is what got us to this American dream and I'm like that's what got you the American dream so that I could f around and rap I was like and thank you god bless you both um and then I just sort of like chipped away I got a chance to rap at the Oscars and add an after party which is like the only time I've ever and ever will be at an Oscars after party who knows who knows knock wood right Sean Bailey over at Disney was like hey I saw you in freestyle love supreme on Broadway I love your work and we have a lot of connections and I'd love to meet with you and so I sort of plucked this sort of joke idea that had been born on set and fleshed it out with Jamie and put some sketches together for some songs and went and chatted with Sean and thank you Sean so much for the opportunity and now here we are we went into production it all just kind of came together really harmoniously and what you have is a beautiful Disney film a coming-of-age story about this boy Prem played by Manny Magnus who's one of those diamond in the rough kind of finds this the this young man he's like six and a half feet tall now but he's like so good rap sings acts dances his mother's his number one supporter he's truly like a special performer and we got to tell this story of the first sort of South Asian nuclear family to be on a Disney network of any kind so I'm super proud of it and it's there in perpetuity until streaming falls apart and it's lost forever and knock on wood he's certainly here on the Roku channel Disney and where Disney plus is available on Roku streaming is not falling apart yeah it's called world best world's best and it's available now for streaming on Disney plus Utkarsh and Budkar here on the Rich Eisen show so how did you meet Lin-Manuel Miranda how did you cross paths with him for the first time I was 19 or 20 years old and I walked into a room where they were holding auditions for this group called Freestyle Love Supreme which for those who don't know it's an improvisational rap group and there are a bunch of busted mics it was called Ultrastown Studios on between 7th and 8th on 32nd street in Manhattan and there was this little Puerto Rican dude with a goatee and he looked at me and I looked at him and it was like two pups from the same litter we kind of sniffed each other's butts so to speak picked up our dented mics and started rapping together and it was just synergy it just Lin has always been somebody who has raised the bar and for me and vice versa and we're always so happy to see the other person be better because it just it means we're constantly growing he's he's a good friend I just saw him a couple weeks ago I stayed at his house before we did the Tony's together of course he sat in the front row front and center and I sat in the front row all the way on the right so with the cameraman well but you're at least two rows in front of Aaron Rodgers right oh maybe so yeah but I still had everybody's butts in my face it was just cameraman cracked all up in my grill for three hours well you know is it true though that you did you originate the role of Aaron Burr in the developmental readings of Hamilton yeah Lin did if you listen to the original demos Lin is doing his version of what he thinks I sound like when I rap okay so it's all like how does a bastard oh that's sad he thinks uh that's how he thinks I sound a little bit like Marlon Brando um and he brought it he included all of us myself Chris Jackson um Alex Lacamoire sort of his family Tommy Kale yes and we did a few of the readings and through a series of fortunate events I've come to learn that opportunity sort of passed me by and uh other ones came up and we still made it on Broadway together in the Tony award-winning production of Freestyle Love Supreme um but yeah Aaron Burr was I was the first one to rap those words other than Lin and it's it's brilliant uh oh there we are there you guys are hey look at you guys right those are my buddies they are indeed as talented as uh as all get out for sure we all have that tattoo that fls tattoo on our body somewhere okay fantastic um so let's get into what you're wearing today sir for our radio audience is that a washington bullets uh and look at this I got the billy hoyles baby you get the billy hoyles on those are nice not the jack harlos these are the woody harrelson don't get it twisted the original ones come on so who was your favorite uh washington boulet what you got for free on that my favorite washington bullet back in the day oh I mean back in the day did you go to land over Maryland oh yeah yeah yeah yeah I grew up in Maryland okay my favorite of all time is just the hibachi for sure Agent Zero he was a wizard but my gosh Gilbert Arenas I uh I still think that somebody picked him up on a 10-day contract he'd cook he would cook let the man do his work um yeah he's better than Dylan Brooks but um my favorite bullet I mean by default probably Juwan Howard okay he was sort of our claim to fame but okay the bullets are the place where all great players go to die right sure um Moses Malone Bernard King Mitch Richmond Air Jordan um Russell Westbrook and I know like now we're tanking the year before a year after wimby dude what so I know that when wimby is like 36 and he'll be coming oh he is gonna be a washington wizard gonna be a dynamite wizard 100 we had Chris Paul for a hot second Russell Westbrook we just end careers man it's just what we do yeah we're just known for taking hall of fame careers and making them just a little less special but that's a pretty special starters jacket you got on right now yeah I'm super proud of this one oh yeah I bet I had the warm-up suit too I was thinking about the whole thing you thought you were gonna come in the whole thing warm-ups and everything from the same bullets year well we've never had somebody come out like and appear on the show and then snap off the pants and then sit down in the interview chair yeah I was thinking about maybe I mean you know this is not your only rodeo here next time and I'm not saying goodbye to you right now I'm just coming up with the idea I would I would love that and we've had so many close calls like there was one year that we got we got Mark Price we had got about that we had Mark Price for like eight games Chris Webber Juwan Howard Murison Cheney we were ready to go we took those 96 Bulls yeah I mean we lost that first round series by a total of like nine points I might have done some of the highlights on SportsCenter back in and the spring of 96 and fall of summer 96 that's when I first got there dude when Cal Ripken broke the record yeah it was probably you I was I was on the SportsCenter set I remember when he was running around the the um the perimeter of Camden Yards yeah that was high five on everybody oh my god amazing that was the biggest probably sports moment that I witnessed in my life were you there or you just mean just like on a television I got it right sure it was like that the last shot by Jordan Kobe's last game probably like when Andre Agassi won Wimbledon the first time sure what was like what was the biggest thing that you were there for biggest thing I was there for um I guess it just in terms of the NFL I was um in the 20 years with the NFL network I was there for the helmet catch uh I was there pretty much name any sport uh Super Bowl moment the last 20 years I was fortunate to be there for uh when I was on ESPN unfortunately you know for you being an Oriole fan you know that was when the Yankees were just taking care of business against you know the against the Orioles thanks to Jeter and Jeffrey Mayer um you know in one particular instance and a fan that's what that's Jeffrey Mayer oh Jeffrey yeah that fan that's when I stopped being in or like that's when I stopped following baseball they beat it out of you I quit Richie Garcia the umpire who called that a home run he beat it out of you done finished out I remember that moment I was like I think I'm done here no more no more for me it hurts so bad when you're young and you see something that unfair go down yes you're just like I can't do this man tapped out no couldn't do it and I think the Orioles are for the first time since then pretty damn good yeah they're worth watching again I need to dive back in I know I do yeah my guy uh Brandon Scott Jones from ghosts is also from Baltimore he's a huge Orioles fan yeah so he's been like come on man get back in we got to go back to Boog Powell's we need some of that barbecue baby yes I remember thinking a signed ball from Boog Powell was like a very big deal yes it's not no he gives them out I mean those are easy to come by but thank you Mr. Powell thank you so much Brooks Robinson back in the day third base right oh yeah man yeah oh yeah he's one of the sweetest men I've ever met for sure um do you want to stick around for one more segment you up for that yeah absolutely TJ Jefferson who you know or or you may hi TJ TJ do you remember yo mama the or the uh the the show that he was producing yeah back in the day that was a big break for me I remember were you the one who gave Utkarsh his first uh his big break you know I can't take credit for for giving him the hosting job I can only take credit I what we did was it was kind of like a sweet 16 of trash talking comics so I went out I went on Twitter and YouTube and I kind of collected all these comics to have you know this this battle and he he was our host for this okay and I don't we shot the pilot and then I don't think anything ever happened with it no I failed you TJ you did not you didn't know such thing I'm sorry DJ your career was definitely destined for much greater things and that's why I agree to disagree now well TJ has a top 10 list of your favorite ghosts of all time just top ghosts of all time okay I don't know if he was able to fit in uh your current character it was it was an honor from either your tv show on cbs or your film that's currently on disney plus that's okay TJ but if it's all right um you'd be here and you help us um I guess judges work if you don't mind let's hear it buddy all right let's take a break right here on the Rich Eisen show but first a break that's right but first we'll be right back right here on the Rich Eisen show on a fun busy Friday are you currently enjoying the show on the stitcher app then you need to know stitcher is going away on august 29th yep going away as in kaput gone dead rest in peace stitcher and thanks for 15 years of service to the podcast community so switch to another podcast app and follow this show there apple spotify or wherever you listen lose lose for a song back here on the Rich Eisen show radio network I'm sitting at the Rich Eisen show desk furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry Grainger is the right product for you call click Grainger.com or just stop by Utkarsh I'm Budkar here on the Rich Eisen show uh you and I have something in common um we have both worked with the legendary uh voice of the booth Jim Brockmire oh yeah we have oh man yes that's so cool you worked with Jim Brockmire I think do we take credit in a way of bringing Jim Brockmire's career back from the abyss don't you think I would say that I would say you have unequivocally yeah that's so cool yeah Jim sat in that very chair dude and cursed out cursed out Brent Musburger from that very chair hey he's got some strong opinions he does yeah we had a we had a very um fevered fevered competition yes you did I think we both won ultimately we had different priorities but uh my goodness that man is a force to be reckoned with he is a force to be reckoned with you know and he's he only he only knows one speed good old Jim Brockmire yeah one speed inebriated Jim Brockmire everybody what do you call he called uh Jim Brockmire called Pete Carroll the world's uh oldest teenager the world's oldest teenager now that uh Dick Clark is no longer oh that's right now that Dick Clark's no longer with us uh what did he say what was what was his line about Tebow what was that line about the fiery rage and then competition of Ray Lewis and the throwing ability of Ray Lewis that's right such a joy like that was I mean in three years three years with him uh no we did uh I just got to come in as for a guest that was it huh yeah it was and it was okay but it was full and really fun and we're still Brockmire and I still talk to this day on a regular basis Brockmire appeared on Levittard show just yesterday yeah yeah he's been doing some stuff I'm just thrilled that he's still around I'm happy for him I think he's made some great life changes he sort of distanced himself from his past some decisions he may have made I think he can't escape it though no no but you never shut the door on it yeah no I can't I can't stop playing the straight man to Jim Brockmire even if he's not here and you know it doesn't exist it's just always a lot of fun he's our favorite imaginary person yeah who's in real life also in all of our hearts good old Hank Hank is the best Hank I love you man but uh I'll call you later and tell you about this so you're not surprised um he I think he uh Hank Hank watches the show quite a bit on our YouTube stream so it's all good we gotta get Hank back here uh at any rate um let's let's um let's talk about ghosts a little bit in the success of that show season three right season three coming up if we can take care of some of the things going on in our industry I know yeah okay yeah we're all there's nothing it's June what is it June 30th it is that it's today's the day I think if I'm not mistaken yeah we gotta figure out what's going on guys okay that's why I'm here on the Rich Eisen show uh again uh Disney Plus is how you can stream World's Best you do play a ghost in that film and in the ghost and the ghost you're in ghosts even though you're not a ghost correct in ghosts there are a lot of ghosts correct you're not one of them correct um season three is coming soon on CBS uh but coming much sooner TJ Jefferson we figured we'd have Utkarsh stick around here uh since you go back like a car seat right uh you know a little bit anyway okay uh at any rate um you have your you have a is it a power ranking is what you know based upon you know Utkarsh being here and World's Best and Ghost it kind of like I was drawn to just making a list of my favorite ghosts so I'm gonna power rank these and I'm gonna grab bag these it's gonna be a combination all right so what in the world is in that bag what you got in that bag well so hold on I was here before you start um what what did you think of that rapping right then and there just an original song by you tj I don't think so no that was great that was excellent production value I'll take credit okay here we go go for it tj well so like I said we're gonna power rank these ghosts and we're gonna give you a 10 through 6 power ranking so real quick coming at number 10 of my favorite ghosts I got ghost rider you know Nicolas Cage movie Johnny Blaze okay if you're into the comic book come to number nine we got ghost from power a recent visitor of ours let me tell you something yes every halloween yes boom berry would come out and everybody knows me knows I would grab up like five six boxes of blueberry and I would stack them I'd stash them like a squirrel for the whole year like I don't need cereal anymore but man I used to love blueberry I had to put it in there at number eight and number seven we got the ghost from pac-man and miss pac-man we're talking inky binky pinky kite and if you're talking miss pac-man you gotta throw sue in there that's number seven and at six we got you know Slimer from ghost the first ghost they successfully captured we had to put it in at number six okay hold on let's just pause before you move on uh Utkarsh you have any you have any uh two cents you want to throw in yours somebody I think there's an argument to be made for ghost rider being ranked much higher much okay okay that's a really good one uh maybe we put all video game ghosts in because what about like Castlevania that was where there was like video would come pop up I mean there's a lot of ghosts you know what I'm saying that's true but I hope Casper is on this list well there's five more to come yeah but but I do appreciate the use of the uh the uh the use of cereal here so far was the most delicious I don't know about that I was kind of a frankenberry guy but that's that's pedestrian that was too much you know what's the difference between count chocolate and say like cocoa crisps yeah pebbles if you want to do crisper pedal you know crisps what are we just chocolate chip cookies and you put milk to me oh I meant cocoa crispies I'm sorry cocoa crisper actually yes but blueberry is a uh blueberry is a deep cut that would come out right around halloween time and I just stack up boxes of those things okay sorry teach it now now now we just might have saved the film industry and boo berry in the same episode that's what I'm here general mills are very appreciative back blueberry movie is that what I just heard wow blueberry movie guys look writers we need them to write this movie strikes over let's go all right very good uh what else you got over there tj top five number five we got jacob marley and the ghosts of christmas past present and yet did george c scott version any version really but that was the most popular one the former business partner of ever needs a scrooge he wanders the earth he's weighed down by chains and money boxes and he's like look scrooge you better change your ways or you're gonna end up like me he's scary visited by the ghosts and they try to help and believe the better himself okay that's why I thought you know what let's put them in there and number five coming in at number four we've got dr malcolm crow from the sixth sense look he's a child psychologist he's a child psychologist man he knows how to talk to his patients in a fun and serious way comfortable and then you know he meets up with his little kid and the kid tells him i see dead people he sees me together hey that's all you if you haven't figured that out yet next we got my man sam wheat played by patrick yeah of course okay sam you know he's an office worker in new york living with his longtime girlfriend molly who makes pottery as we all know yeah the emily brothers sam's in the bank you know he works in the bank and they see some accounts they're a little too bad okay so he decides to say something next you know the president makes him in the street and uh yes the president's doing some shady stuff sam was like yo let's get to the bottom of this and then he goes to carl who he thought was his boy he's the president the car was in the car car was down with it so what's he do he sends willie lopez to wet him up and then next thing you know sam realizes i'm a ghost i gotta talk to molly play wide the grade to me and more because she's so fine i gotta let her know she's in danger molly you in danger girl and you know that was it we got two minutes coming in at number two casper the friendly how did you be scared of casper he's number one he's pleasant and now i'm trying to think he's number one number one i'm just gonna say it like this it's my man beetlejuice okay he's the best i want to hang out with the most thing you can do is say his name of three times he'll pop up he'll get don't say it another time you've said it twice careful maybe i want him to show up but anyway beetle that's it that's my number one and you know as always i like to hear whatever well done all right hold on that's great karsh what do you think of that did tj took all the time up so i'll just say great job i think slimer should be higher but uh that was great and i like the casper version where he has legs because he didn't always have legs oh yeah sometimes he just would have that like floaty little nightgown yeah that was a little creepy there we go okay yeah that's right look at him because that means casper is not anatomically correct and when he got legs is that what happens when you become a ghost you lose it i don't know who karsh uh possibly that's not the disney plus version that's disney minus i'm gonna send the text to joe port right now oh my gosh and by the way kid goes by the way it's way too depressing no we do no kid goes on our show well could you imagine you're like you know what i got july 4th weekend coming up and you know i got time down and i'm you know what i'm gonna watch uh uh i'm gonna watch a movie and uh i'm gonna watch the rich eisen show first but um and then i haven't seen the movie i still haven't seen the sixth sense so that's on you guys at this point bruce willis has great hair in that movie sure he does he looks good for a ghost oh shout out bruce at utk the inc is that what i was saying yeah inc yeah i mean who doesn't it's a poor choice conspiracy theories paranormal ufos science teacher andrew greenwood stated that a child ran into his classroom and was hysterically screaming and talking about the flying saucer outside hundreds of children ran out of their classrooms to go outside and see this unidentified flying object that was just above the school just imagine a bunch of kids running out of school most of them probably just ran home theories of the third kind on youtube or wherever you listen