REShow: Stavros Halkias - Hour 3

This is the Rich Eisen Show live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. Their reaction was was what? Oh crap. Yeah.

No, that's your interpretation. How should Michigan have reacted to Alabama being announced as their opponent earlier on the show ESPN college football analyst Robert Griffin the third offense head coach Mike McDaniel Fox Sports College football insider Bruce Feldman. Coming up, comedian Stavros Halkias. And now it's Rich Eisen. Yes, hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Bruce Feldman just left our midst and we also had a great chat with Mike McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins head coaching staff.

He's just a staff of one. And hour number one, we had a great chat as well with Robert Griffin the third. If you missed any of that, guess what? We're about to re-air. Right here on the Rich Eisen Show on the Roku channel. 844-204-rich is the number to dial.

Have a conversation with us here on the show. Mike McDaniel was just delightful. I just love talking strategies and his coaching philosophy and he was very deep and eloquent as always about Tyree Kill and what what Tyree Kill has been doing in the last two years to raise his game and be the guy that we see.

It's not just him rolling the footballs out and just running track speed. And then Bruce Feldman was talking about how Florida State should have made it in his estimation. I know that a lot of you out there pushed back on that. He also said that if Alabama wins the Rose Bowl, then folks will say, see, Florida State shouldn't have made it. And for those who feel that Florida State being excluded is what's wrong with college football, I pointed out that means Michigan is fighting for what's right about college football and the Rose Bowl. You just let that one go.

I was trying to take that in, man. But you're a real American, right? For the rights of every man. Yes, sir. Right for what's right for your life. I think that entire last half hour was proving that on the program.

When it comes crashing down, it hurts inside. That's what I'm saying. You finally got that, Chris? No, I was going to let you.

We'll just finish it off. Stavros Halkius, the comedian, is in studio. He'll be joining us in about 18 minutes time. His new Netflix special, Fat Rascal, is available on Netflix, and it's on Roku right here. Netflix is on the Roku portal.

Yeah, it is. 844-204-rich, numbered it all. Mike McCarthy is going under the knife today in emergency appendectomy and acute appendicitis. I guess in terms of Dan Quinn was saying Mike came up to him today and was like, man, I think my stomach kind of hurts.

Went and got checked out by the docs. Boom surgery. And he's supposed to be released tonight. He thinks he's going to be coaching Sunday. Wow. So here's what we're going to do.

And I think we have a few days to do this. Once we find out again, appendicitis, this should be lickety split. He'll be fine.

And it's all all good in the hood. But we need to once we understand that he's fine, come up with which member of the sports media, if the Cowboys lose, will point out that McCarthy was a better play caller with his appendix. Who is the most likely member of the sports media to do that? Well, Skip is a Cowboys fan, so that's what he keeps for him.

He's the one seed there. Well, you got to go with the cowboy hater. Yeah, it wouldn't be a fan. It would be the guy to basically or lady to come out and say, you know what?

I don't think that's lame. McCarthy's appendix. I don't think that's ridiculous enough for Stephen to jump on. No, I don't think he would do. That's a good question. He's going to do it. We've got days to find out.

I'll be your huckleberry if you need me to say I might be looking at him. You know what I mean? I don't want you to become a troll. I don't want you to do that.

And I don't believe that either. But I mean, I will for the good of the program. It shouldn't be on this program.

This is the program that should point out that sort of nonsense. Okay, good. Good, because I don't want to do it. Well, you know, Chris wants to lean towards that type of behavior.

I don't want to do it. It feels he owes it to people. I owe it to him to do it.

Other, that sounds like Judge Smales, right? I owed it to him. I thought I owed it to him.

Looks good on you, though. Josh Dobbs is the guy, the Pastronaut. Let's go. Did you order our hats, by the way? I did not.

See, I knew it in the second orbit. By the way, you promised. You know what? Here's the thing is, Susie's always all over me about when something comes up, you know, do it that second.

Because we'll forget. Yes. Oh, I'm the same way. Yeah, yeah. You got to do it that second? I got to do it now or I won't do it. Well, I'm just going to forget about it. There's too much going on. Here's my problem. And that's what I think, you know, I think Susie's going to do the show in a couple weeks when I'm going to do the Steelers and the Colts game.

You can ask her. She should do a top five things that I do that annoy her the most. Only five? Stop. I don't want it to be a power ranking.

We only have two hours, Chris. I don't want it to be a power ranking. But, you know, I think because what I do is I know I should do it on the spot. Just don't want to. Yeah, I'll get to it.

I'll get to it. And then I forget. Uh huh. That happened last night. I forgot to turn on the crock pot with the overnight oats. And I was told, turn it on. I don't think I turned it on. Thelma's like, I don't think I turned it on. And I forgot to do it. And this morning, the kids did not have their oats. Oh, man.

Rich. That's equal, which is where this best dad ever sign is. It's, you know, it's starting to fade like back to the future. That's the color. Right. When your mom tells you to thaw out the chicken and you don't do it. Right.

She comes home. Chicken still in the freezer. So that so, yeah, I, you know, I did not order the hats. And I knew when Josh Dobbs is saying, I'll send you some hats when he was on our on our zoom and a couple of and I'm like, no, I'm like, you raise money for charity with the hats. Am I going to say, sure, I'll take we'll take four. Yeah, no, like, I'll go and get them.

And then I knew when I said that I better do that today. And here we are two weeks later, no hats, no, no hats and no cap, no cap, no oats. You capped about the cap or nothing. Yeah.

But hey, he's back as a starter. There's more time to get the hats. Rich, you got to stand on business and get those. Nice.

You know, I got to stand on business. Yeah. And then there's this news. The Jets have turned back to Zach Wilson. Hey, back in the New York. How do you how do you say, you know, bless Robert Solomon, how do you say to him, listen, listen, we were looking for a spark from Tim Boyle.

Didn't get it. We got released yesterday. That's all we know. We were looking for a spark from Tim Boyle. I'm sure Tim's a great guy.

And it didn't happen. And now we're looking for a spark from Tim Boyle. We got to turn back to you because, you know, it's kind of like that moment, an officer and a gentleman. You got nowhere else to go. You know, don't give me my DOR. Zach, you want to give us a DOR?

Like, you know, you don't want to do it. I don't blame them. You want to go out there after everybody else showed I was actually pretty damn good. To give you points, we scored points. We got first downs, man. Yeah. And and again, what if Zach's been told these are your last games with as being a jet?

Because, you know, you don't want to be here anymore. And and if we're running it back with Aaron, let next year, there is no way you're the backup. No way. No way. No way. Because they're running it back with Aaron next year, no chance they're going to just run to run it back like that.

No chance. So God bless him. You had to tell Zach you're the guy. And this is what he told the media about the decision. How did you come to say that Zach gives us our best chance to win and giving them another opportunity to prove that? How did that conversation go when you told him? He was good. He's fired up.

Like I said, on Monday, he came into my office. He wants the ball. And he's excited about getting this opportunity to finish the season strong. So is he your starter the rest of the year, no matter what? God willing.

It's a great place. He's a religious man. So hey, football gods are like saying, okay, please, Robert. Willing. We're able to see what we did to Roger's Achilles. You see what we please. Football gods ready to pounce football gods sitting there going, please, if you don't think Trevor Simeon is getting some significant action over the next five weeks, you're out of your mind.

Brett Rip and me may go to a rip. All right, now we're done on that subject matter in terms of heckling. Oh, it is that time. It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday.

I'm glad you love it. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Power rankings.

Yes, it is. Entering week 14, rubber is meeting the road. You could see you could see the light at the end of the tunnel and number 10 on this list. New to the list are the Green Bay Packers. Hey, you bet they're playing like a top tier team. You bet they've got the pass rush and the passer and the running game with AJ Dylan and let's get Aaron Jones back there. And these young kids who need name tags, who are absolutely all available in your fantasy league, you want to stream a wide receiver, roll the dice.

You want a Green Bay Packer. They're at six and six. They're at seven seed going to New York. And guess what?

Jordan Love. OK, Wink, you keep on blitzing coming off the bus. You go there on the list. And I almost made them nine because I really feel I'm into him. But number nine on my list are the Houston Texans at one spot from 10 to nine. OK, not even in the playoff picture. Here's what's happening.

Here's what's happening. A winnable game on the road. The Texans should beat the Jets.

They should. They've got the defense to disturb an offense that is points challenged. And they've got the kid. They've got a number two overall quarterback who's playing lights out. And I can't wait to see CJ Stroud in New York and see what the Houston Texans can do. They should be eight and five by the end of the weekend.

Let's see how they do it. Number eight down one spot are the Jacksonville Jaguars. I still think that they are a top tier team.

And I can only hope Trevor Lawrence comes back. And you're welcome, Florida, Duval County, because if I was the college football playoff committee, you'd be out. But I'm not.

I'm not. These are games still to be played. That is a very proud defense.

Had Brandon McManus actually not missed a field goal the minute the second that Trevor Lawrence went down and started limping off the field. They don't won that game, I believe, on Monday night. They'd be nine and three, a one seed in the AFC and way higher on my power rankings list than eight up one spot to seven. Their defense is frightening me, I'm not going to lie. But the Detroit Lions are still better than most. They still won 75 percent of their games. They still have a terrific offense that can be short circuited, unfortunately for them, and has proven to be short circuitable over the last three weeks. The defense is highly suspect and is freaking me out as somebody who's been caping for the Honolulu Blues since week one at Chicago, their last outdoor game of the year.

Everything's at either home or inside a dome elsewhere for the Lions. That should prove that should bode well for them. They're seventh on the list. Number six down two spots out of the top five. I don't know if they've been out of the top five all year long, but the Chiefs are there right now. I have put them six.

They are eight and four. They are inconsistent in ways we're not used to seeing them. Things are so crazy that Travis Kelsey is Mr. Perfectly OK. You know, I don't know what's up with him and why he's not able to spring free. You think he's hurt?

I think it's the lack of other weapons personally. Let's go, Rashid Rice, even though you're going against me in fantasy this week. Let's see you. Where's Sky Moore? Somebody. Well, I mean, you heard earlier this week that that which guest came on?

I think it was Chris Long. He's just like, he ain't it? Yeah. So the Chiefs still are a top six team in the league. That's a good spot. Number five up one spot or Mike McDaniel's dolphins.

I put the one seed is five seed is five. Disrespect is real. Maybe so. Maybe so. You know, I didn't ask McDaniel about the narrative because, you know, about who have they really beaten?

But still, I need to see it at some point. And I think, TJ, if they played your Cowboys right now, I think they'd be in trouble because that's an offense that's going point for point. And certainly if Miami is going to Dallas, I think that the Dallas Cowboys would beat them.

And that's why they're for my power ranking up one. I haven't had Cowboys this high in a while. Well, you're finally getting it right. I know. Well, I mean, we'll see what happens this week, because, you know, the only other teams that they've beaten above 500 are only one game above 500 when they saw six and five Seattle and one and oh, New York Jets. Don't feed into that. I'm just going to tell you, here comes Philadelphia and let's let's not step out of bounds. Let's get the knee on the other side of the the the the goal, you know, of the I guess one inch line there. Maybe let's not let's see our tight end get tackled before even attempts to get nine and three. Dallas can't wait for Sunday.

Here we go. Number three, no change coming off the bye. I've got the Ravens. I just I just love them.

I love what they're doing. And they are right now my highest ranked AFC team on this list. They I know they're not they're tied with the team that's got the one seed in a tie break over the Ravens right now. That would be a hell of an AFC championship game, wouldn't it? Miami and Baltimore, because you remember that was the one where last year Lamar played three great quarters. And then all of a sudden we learned that the McDaniel offense with two and Tyree can boat race people out of nowhere.

That was the first time we got a clear indication what what's being cooked in South Florida. But the Ravens are number three on the list. Number two on the list. Down one spot are the Eagles. I still can't take them any lower than that. Makes sense.

I still got them number two and then number one clear number one. I mean, clear numero uno are the San Francisco 49ers. Yeah, you're right. Come on now.

You're right. That's my boy on the screen. Look at Brock Purdy. Your youngest son is up there, like right there.

Make him proud. Keep that up with that winter cap and the ball on the top of that winter cap. And his face is so red. He looks like one of those claymation figures.

We're going to see soon in like three weeks with Burl Ives singing like silver and gold. Right. He doesn't look like that. He's an elf. Don't he look like that? He's got fangs, baby.

He just wants to be a dentist. You know, he's going to be you know what he's like. He's like a he's like a gremlin, you know, with water.

You know, it's a sweet Mogwai. Don't feed after midnight for your jugular. Careful. That's an 80s reference for all you Millennial Niner fans. Go watch Gremlins. Great movie. Yeah.

Not with the kids. Oh, San Francisco 49ers. Leave my power rankings. There you have it.

Entering week 14. I didn't hear a lot of heckling. Now it's actually a good list. I think you kind of have it.

It's a good list. You kind of have it. I don't know. I don't heckle you too much anymore.

I don't know who you could have put on there. You know what I mean? You play the nice guy really well, T.J. Well, you know, I just I got mine out early. But the Cowboys being four.

I can't I can't I don't know. Last time I met him that high culture ahead of the Texans in the playoff standings. I get it. You know, you could have had. But you had Houston last week, so I think it's a good.

Well, just call it this book Oregon and me. They got a backup in Indianapolis, so I kicked him out. Who's been playing all year? No, I understand that. But there's one guy who's the starter. You know, this team puts up points, I know, and he played for a Power five conference. Right.

You know, well, the nation in passing and Gardner got kicked out of a Power five conference to go to the one that just broke up. You know what I mean? I understand.

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That is true. I went to high school. I graduated high school there. My dad was with the American Embassy when I was a kid. We were actually in Beirut, Lebanon, and the war got evacuated from from Beirut to Athens, Greece. My dad got reassigned to the United States.

There and was there for actually six years, not seven. No kidding. So are you fluent in Greek? Are you serious legal? And then a car was that what what did you just say? I don't know.

I couldn't tell you. No, I said I speak a little Greek, but, you know, I my wife and I took our kids over there a few years ago. And I, I definitely got yelled at by a few people when I was in, you know, trying to overextend my life. And, you know, trying to overextend my command of the language.

But I could get around. Well, you know, if it doesn't matter, if it has nothing to do with Giannis these days as a sport, Tete Kumpo, we have no idea as a sport about whether you were talking Greek or not, unless we don't hear that name. And you I don't know what you're talking about.

You don't even know right now what I'm talking about. Giannis, the NBA player. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Well, yeah. Yeah. Giannis said, that's John, as you know, this is John, just so you know.

Actually, I did not know that. Yeah. Giannis is George. Giannis is John.

So he's John at Tete Kumpo. That's right. That's right.

I had no idea. So if I don't think you're telling the truth. I swear I am. Yeah, for sure. Giannis, absolutely. So should I just call him Johnny A from now on? From now on, you can. Johnny A, my guy from the Bucks, Johnny A. I'm like a Wikipedia page for you. How have you guys survived on the show all these years without me? Well, I just got to we've got to get you on more. Happy twenty ninth birthday to Johnny A.

Hey, it is Giannis's birthday today, man. Oh, man. Back on the Rich Eisen Show radio network, part of our live Roku stream. I'm sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk furnished by Grainger.

It supplies and solutions for every industry. Grainger has the right product for you. Call click Grainger dot com or just stop by. And right here on Roku, you can catch the new Netflix comedy special Fat Rascal, starring our guest in studio right here on the Rich Eisen Show, Stavy Baby himself. Yeah, Stavros Halkius. Good to see you, sir. How are you?

Thanks for having me, Rich. I'm pumped. I just need to describe for our radio audience. What color tracksuit are we wearing today? A nice maroon number, a tasteful white stripe down the sides. OK, nothing too showy.

I know. I mean, no, you're you know, you're on you're on you're on the Roku channel right right now. But so where are we right now?

Is that a 40 percent down that you've zipped? I would say we're here. No, I don't.

OK, I don't. It's I didn't know how chilly the studio was going to be. Oh, it is chilly here. It is cold in here.

I want to put I want to put another layer on. You know, I wear sometimes quarter zips. We'll call this a half-crusher. Is that what that is?

You were in a half-crusher? Well, it's Giannis' birthday. It is Giannis' birthday. I got to come out looking Greek. Crongapola, Yanni. There you go.

What did you say? Happy birthday, Johnny. OK, very good. Johnny, hey, he's the best.

So I had to Greek it up on his birthday. We hit the top five on Netflix. Everything's looking up for grass.

By the way, maybe the economy is coming back next. Congratulations on that. Appreciate it. How did you get started?

I just didn't ever want to do a real job. And I was 19 and it was like, let's just go do an open mic in a dorm and in the dorm where? UMBC, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The great 16 seed of all 16 seeds? Oh, yeah. So you're a UMBC guy? I'm a UMBC alum.

And I can't say what was the what's the team that won this year or last year, the other 16 seed? Oh, well, from Jersey. Well, yeah, St. St. Peter's. St. Peter's. Yeah, right.

Yeah, they completely stole. We had you know how sick it was to be UMBC for it was like two years where we got to be the cool 16 seed that beat Virginia. Well, I think it was the St. Peter's as a 15. Who was the 16? It was F. Fairleigh Dickinson. Yeah, Fairleigh Dickinson.

They're muscling in on your actions. Unbelievable, dude. We've got two years. Nobody knows us. We're the lesser University of Maryland.

We don't even get a real mask. Our mascot is the Chesapeake Bay Retriever. We don't even get the golden retriever.

We have a secondary retriever. We win something. And then some school from Jersey completely has to stab us in the back.

It's brutal. But we had a nice run. And Virginia, you know, beating the number one, she was awesome. But yeah, you are like it's the you're the first and you're going to be the only forever happen again. Boom.

Ridiculous. Fairleigh Dickinson muscles in on your. Yeah, sure.

Dickinson can suck eggs as far as I'm concerned. I don't blame you. That's an appropriate reaction. Yeah, it's OK.

So you're you're on UMBC. Yep. All right.

Yeah. What's what's so what seed were you that night for as the comic? I mean, I was not looking good. You were 12 seed.

You know, those can win those those scare the five seeds all the time. No, that was easy. I was in a dorm room. Everybody's, you know, nobody's everyone's stone just hanging out.

You know, it's not a very high bar. Those jokes were brutal. If I somewhere I probably have a note of those jokes. They're real. I can't couldn't say any of them on air for sure. Not clever, not good, but, you know, good enough to keep going.

Good enough to feed the delusion. And then and then I go and do a bunch of open my my second. My second, Mike was at a seafood restaurant in College Park, Maryland. All right.

So, hey, well, that's University of Maryland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, man, it's just one of those things where I never I was in college and I was like, I don't want to do this. I don't want to go to work.

I don't want to have to sure wake up or listen to anyone or do anything. Basically, that's boring. So I was like, let me just get drunk with my friends, do five minutes of jokes about my some of my shortcomings.

I won't be specific on which ones. Again, we're on the air right now, Rich. Well, I do have your calendar that you're able to give me right here. That's right. There it is. There you are. Savvy baby.

Twenty, twenty four. A calendar for a sexy new year. Those hateful nudes. I can't hold on. I can't show. Are there any other kind? I can't even say the names of the months.

Oh, no, they are puns. I can't even say the names of the months or show the photographs associated with the months I'm on. Well, here you are. I can't show what the month of Munch is. I can't say April. I can say May, but not the parenthetical after it.

May he see something. I can't say I mean, there's a horny July, I guess I can say. I'm going to say what this is. No, I don't think you can say that. Can't say I can't can't say the month of October. And no, but you guys can guess it.

Right. I can't go. I can't. Oh, my God.

No, we're in the month of December. I can't I can't show any of it. And I can barely say any of it. So getting the idea. There's a little cheek in there. That's true. That's very cheeky. Yeah, very cheeky, very cheeky.

And there's a lot of crack. That's whack. OK, that's right.

All right. So then so when did you get your big break? When did that happen? You know, I don't it's like comedy is a thing where it's like definitely this year has been crazy where it was like the last year. I don't know what happened. I just started posting, you know, everyone likes short videos. I kind of withheld from being like, you know, tick tock. I thought I was a purist, you know, I was like, I'm not going to be one of these hacks posting short crowd work clips. And then I no one would buy my special two years ago. And I was like, well, I'm going to have to put this out by myself.

Maybe these hacks are on to something. And so with this tick tock, tick tock and everything. And so I still I still I held out. I was like, no, it's just going to be material.

I'm going to write jokes and I'm going to post new jokes every every day. And then that lasted five days. And I was like, this is way too much work. And I just had a backlog of old shows I'd recorded.

Yes. I was trying to get a Comedy Central half hour at the time and didn't get that. But I had a bunch of old and in there I did a little crowd work just to, you know, just to show that I'm a human being, just to relate to not to not show that I'm not like a robot.

And I very desperately hired a friend of mine who worked at a bad media job. And I was like, you want to just look through my old shows and see if there's anything that we might be able to post and just got lucky. I mean, really, I don't know. That's the thing.

What my big break is, I wish I think hopefully it's now. Hopefully it's the special with Netflix, but just the Internet, man. Shout out to the Internet. Hey, man, I mean, Bert Kreischer told one one whole thing about the machine. Yeah. Obviously, you know, that that that that that placed accelerant on what was going on with him.

Absolutely. Stavros Hauke is here on the Rich Eisen Show. You're from Baltimore, from Baltimore. Now, tell me about your your character, Ronnie.

Ah, yes. What do you got? What's the genesis of Ronnie here?

What do we have? Well, Ronnie, have you ever spent any time in Maryland and in Baltimore? Well, it's Ballmer, isn't it? Yeah. Ballmer. Oh, yeah.

You ever been you ever been down, Ballmer? Yeah. Rich, how come the Ravens only number three? Yeah. OK, plus number one.

Yeah. Number one should have been the Ravens. Number two, Browns. Now that they signed Flacco, that's that's that's what should have been a rankings. He looked good, Rich. Oh, my God.

Flacco looked good. I feel like I should start shopping at a walla. That's just right now. Royal Farms. Oh, there was a walla in in Baltimore when I was there. No, they're encroaching. You got to be a Royal Farms guy.

Your best gas station fried chicken. So I screwed that up. All right.

So no, it's all right. Well, we'll move on. We'll bounce back. But so so obviously you're a diehard Raven. I love the Ravens.

They're so good this year. Did you go to like those games and memorials and memorials? I missed Memorial Stadium. I did. I got to play on in M&T because I was I went to Poly, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and the our big like rival was the Poly City game. And they would and you got to play your you know, it goes back like a hundred years. Yes.

And I I have been this time for me to come clean. My name was read over the loudspeakers. They said I played nose tackle. Easiest position.

You don't have to learn anything. Just push the guy in front of you. It was awesome. I was I was too dumb for plays. Right.

Even which gap. And they said my name like how kiss with the sack. And everybody was clapping. My family was proud of me. I will admit right now the guy just got the wrong number. I never I was on the field.

I was even on the field and they said my name. And I was like, nice. Oh, man. Sounds like almost like Rudy. Right.

He actually came up with this. Yeah. No, I wasn't even in the game, but yeah, it was awesome. I'm serious. You weren't even I wasn't on the field, dude. I was I was on the sidelines and I and I heard my name and people were cheering and I had to like shrink down so people wouldn't see that, you know, my friends in the stands to see that I wasn't this glory moment for football. Yes.

M&T Bank. Yes. Is when you were misidentified by the public address. Exactly. It's like a it's like a monkey Paul wish where it's like, I want to I want to have a sack on the Ravens stadium. And it's like, you think you're going to be play for the Ravens? No, you're going to be a second string defensive tackle. And the guy reading is not going to be the guy on the P.A.

is not going to be paying attention. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I love the I do love the Ravens and we're great. We're awesome this year. I mean, you're damn straight.

You are more rules. I'm so happy that he's you know, I feel like just because he got hurt, which is like this is football, everybody gets hurt. Everybody has to, you know, bounce back. But I don't think he was getting enough credit. I think he was getting looked over a lot. And it's it's great to see. And I feel like it's just starting to click because we didn't really support him.

I don't know how you feel, but it's like I don't think the Ravens in his took advantage of the rookie contract of Lamar. I don't think they put enough weapons around him. Well, what they did was is we saw what he looked like in twenty nineteen. Right. Right. And we and I think what we we thought it would just be easy to replicate it, maybe from fans, obviously, I'm sure Harvall and the rest of the staff, there's like, get out of here. Right.

But these these are absolutely the best weapons he's ever had. Yeah. You know, and and now, of course, now Mark Andrews goes down. I do hope he does come back.

I hope so, because with all of that together in this defense, Roquan Smith is exactly the type of he's like he was born to be a Raven. It was when that trade happened. It was like, yeah, I was like, this is incredible. It's this is going to change things.

On brand, it's completely on brand. We really need him. And I also feel like him being there just made Queen better, too. Like this just became an incredible today. It's like he lifted up everybody else and he's perfect.

And our secondary, you got to handle those guys who just kind of like out of nowhere, became a great unit. That was how Hamilton is is is he is a unicorn. He's incredible.

He is a unicorn. Yeah. And you know, in the making. So, yeah, I'm with you, man. Yeah, I'm totally. Yeah.

100 percent. So is there it's Baltimore Polytechnic, is that what it is? Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. So did Baltimore Polytechnic. So did you create the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute pipeline to UMBC? I don't think so. No, the reason that we could call it the Stavros pipeline directly. You know what?

Just like that sack. I'm going to take credit for that, even though I didn't do it. Yes. Rich, I did.

As a matter of fact, well done. No one had ever been on, never gone before me. So you're going to be performing at the Bell House in Brooklyn on the 17th of December. Then you're going to Dallas at the Majestic Theater, Detroit, the Fillmore in Detroit, and then Grand Rapids, Michigan, right after that in February.

That's the tail end of the tour. I got these are makeup shows. OK, I got COVID two months ago, which is so embarrassing to get it now.

It's like a late it's like being in last year's fashion. You know what I mean? Getting COVID now, but I miss those shows. So we're making those up. And then in Brooklyn, I'm performing, I'm hosting and I'm producing my friend JP McDade special. That's those dates. And so come out. Those are going to be awesome.

OK, but yeah, just the specials really go on Netflix. Watch that, whoever, if you're listening. And I'm really pumped for that.

And, you know, we got a lot of stuff. Absolutely. I'll be doing Ronnie reaction videos after every Ravens game. Is that right? Yeah.

OK, so do you want to predict? Yes. As Ronnie, can we put let's let's do the rest of the Ravens season. Oh, yeah.

OK, OK. Here's what we've got the schedule for you. Perfect. We'll put it up on the screen.

I'll go week by week. I love it. And then Ronnie will tell me how it's going to go. Yeah. OK, here we go.

Let's give him some music right here as well. All right, Ronnie from Ballmer. Hey, the home game coming off the bye against the Rams. What happens? I would say the Ravens win by 42 points and a Matthew Stafford's knees explode. OK, that's number one.

Yes. 14. So now you're 10 and three at the Jacksonville Jaguars on a Sunday Sunday night, Jacksonville Jaguars. The Ravens win by, I would say, 38 points. Trevor Lawrence retires early due to what we had the defense has done to him. OK, very good. But that means he's coming back to come back. But it means last game just only to be retired. What a sad story.

Eleven and three at the 49ers on a. By the way, this is Christmas night. OK. So Santa will be all over the place. How will you spend Christmas, Ronnie? I will be I will actually be watching the game on my phone and I will be breaking in and stealing Christmas presents from my neighbors. That's what I'll be doing while they're watching. While they're watching the game, watching the game, you are actually using the game to try and rob your neighbor.

So here's the thing, Rich. I will be having I actually logged on to my grandma's Internet and I use her sling TV. And so I will be watching the game off my cousin's phone. But I will be go.

Yes, I will be breaking in and taking your Xbox and stuff like that. And of course, so but it'll so be BNE and then a W. It will be a BNE and a W. Exactly. And Brock Purdy will also retire and he will never play football again. OK, then next up, they are now 10, 11, 12 and three taking on the Dolphins.

Yeah. So at the Dolphins, I'm actually going to sneak in at a Miami Dolphins locker room and I'm going to put poison inside of Mike McDonald's vape. And he will take a really big cloud and he will be throwing up everywhere.

He'll forget all his plays. Ravens are going to win one hundred to forty to three. OK, very good.

One hundred to three. We won't hold you to the score. It's OK. And then lastly, wow, this would be incredible to go for a 14 and three season home for the Steelers.

Right. So what's going to happen here, Rich, without question, is actually the Ravens are going to win this game so much that the Pittsburgh I call them the some Elsberg squealers. OK, they will actually be dissolved as an organization due to the beating that they take.

Kenny only throws pickets. He will retire as well. And they're the again, the Steelers will move. They will become they will move to Las Vegas.

Wow. They will become the Las Vegas gamblers. There you go. That's quite a prediction. Ronnie from Ballmer, predicting the rest of the Super Bowl, baby.

Predicting the Ravens final games. I love it. Stavros, thank you for coming on, brother. Thanks for having me, dude.

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Rich number two. Boy, we've had a journey today, huh? Stavi's calendar is it's right. It's not appropriate to say the month.

I couldn't say the month's names and I couldn't show any of the photos. Yeah, really showed this July. No, I know.

I was the only one. No horny July. Yes, that was the only one we could say. Nate in Denver, Colorado, has been hanging on for a while. What's up, Nate? Hey, Rich, how's it going? I'm fine.

You're what's on your mind? Well, I've been you all been talking a lot about the Florida State thing, which makes a lot of sense. And I don't know how I feel about it, really. I mean, you feel terrible for the players, terrible for the coaches, etcetera. But the argument that, well, what if the NFL did this right? What if the NFL had a committee and they picked who went to the playoffs and all those sort of things? Am I wrong to make the connection that, you know, on a smaller scale, they kind of do with game flexing, right? I mean, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, America's game of the week, that always seems to be in Texas.

I mean, that's the equivalent, right? A much smaller scale of the NFL and the TV partners coming together and saying, you know, maybe the Giants at Cardinals will be a fantastic game, but we doubt it. So instead, what we're going to do is we're going to put on a better game. And that is what the college football playoff committee essentially is tasked to do, right? Like, yes, maybe the Giants and the Cardinals turns into a great game.

Unlikely. So instead, what happens is they pick a better game, which is what the college football playoff has to do. Well, Nate, I love the analogy. Let's sound this out a little bit here. It's a great analogy. But I don't know if you can say you can pair flex scheduling with the college football playoff committee did, because I guess it's the mother of all flexes that they just threw on Florida State.

You know what I mean? And then the other phrase that they flex their muscles and kicking them out. The games are still played in the NFL. It's just in front of a different audience.

But I understand that you're comparing the flex scheduling of the NFL to what the college football playoff committee did, because they're both done to make sure the television audience is the most important metric that they're entertained. Right? Yeah.

I mean, I get that, right? That's the, yeah, that's the comparison that I'm making because essentially what the college football playoff was tasked to do was when, you know, to make sure that when my wife says, Hey, I want to do this on new year's day, I have a reason to say, I can't do that. Michigan's playing Florida State.

That's a tough argument. So she's going to what dude, she's going to come and she's going to throw his stuff at you about like, you know, cupcake scheduling. Well, Hey, Michigan had a cupcake schedule. So you know, take out the garbage.

Is that what you're saying? The garbage, the garbage I could do in one of the 10,000 commercial breaks is not as bad. It's easier for me to make the argument, Hey, Alabama, Michigan, honey, look at the screen. I can't leave. We can't do anything. I got to sit my ass on this couch all day. Has to watch this game. Exactly.

Nate and Denver, everybody round of applause for Nate. That's the, if we, if we, uh, if we racked people, we would rack him, rack him, rack them, put them in a calendar. I think, uh, we should do that.

I do want to do this tomorrow though. You do want to know what do you, so you, you mentioned this idea before. Yeah. So we can't do four, right? Why that's the four.

No, I know. No, I think what you do is don't you, we rank each conflict because the four in the NFC, if we, again, we now actually have to explain it to those who are now, who were not privy to our conversation earlier. You suggested we actually, we act as our own committee, NFL playoff committee, right? And the four of us make our four teams. What is, what is our 14 playoff? What is yours? What is mine?

What is Mike's? What is the NFC is simple. The NFC South team would be out and the NFC East second place team would be in Richie. It doesn't have to be by conference. We're talking four best teams in the NFL. You're now watching the conference. What is your NFL playoffs? I thought we were going to do NFC and AFC.

No, no, no, no. Who's your one seed. Who's your two seeds. What's the match up to open the show. And I said, we should just pick four teams. So no one else gets hurt.

What's Trevor Lawrence went down. Okay. So, so let's do the four. We'll do the, is it an RAS consulting production?

Is that what it is? Absolutely. Okay. So we, so we, so do we, we each do yes. And I all four of us do it. And then what we mash it together and outcomes.

I think we present it and then explain our case. And I guarantee we're going to have four different foursomes. Hmm.

Yeah. I don't know if we will. I think we will. Now excuse me. Do we do it the way that I say that the college football playoff committee rich should have done it. It's your own committee. You are your own committee.

We are not taking into account television match-ups. You, you may not. I might, Mike might, maybe, maybe TJ does it.

You're metric thing. You're the only one that really hasn't spoken out, you know, spoken out. I mean, I'm the subject matter who said we should do it.

No, no, no. Not the idea about what the college, like I already know those two Jamokes over there who sell their, their tickets to anybody who wants to root against the Rams. So they could make some money rather than actually having to fight the battle, the traffic and show up and actually support their team and let everyone knows who's house it is. So, so what's your question? You have not stated what the college football playoff committee has done. So I would understand going into tomorrow, what you might actually do when you're putting the fourteens in. So I feel like, and I've said they, I feel like they should have been in probably Bama.

Not probably. You got to make a choice. The best win of the whole season. How are you going to put them out? I mean, a team went 13 and 0 for what? What was the point?

They beat everyone in front of them. So then we'll, we'll do this tomorrow. That'll be great. In the meantime, by the way, Arias consulting unite. Are you ready to unite?

No, it depends. Ankle watch is back. Trevor Lawrence has appeared.

Trevor Lawrence has appeared at a press conference today without his walking boot. Look at that right there. It's wrapped. It's wrapped. It's wrapped, but it's open toed. I mean, there's no, there's no support.

There's no support. Look at him in sandals. I'm going sandals open toe. Well, sandals are probably more comfortable. I understand that, but don't you think you would need some sort of support on the side? If he's wobbly, some sort of sort of a rap, it's just a simple rap and an open toe sandal.

Hey, don't underestimate the power of an ACE bandage. Rich significant. That's a choice. Let's hear it from him. Let's hear guys. Let's hear, let's hear history.

Here he is. I feel a lot better. I feel really, you know, I feel a lot better than I would have thought I'd feel. Um, you know, I'm very fortunate. I'm thankful that it wasn't a worse injury, you know, than what I kind of thought it was in the field.

So I'm, I'm thankful for that, you know, just some flexibility, you know, will my guy in the, in the weight room that, that trains me and stuff is doing a good job and he's, it needs a raise or something. Yeah. I mean, I didn't know obviously what it was, but I was, yeah, I was kind of concerned, you know, I kind of felt something down in my leg and I, or my ankle and was definitely concerned about that. And then obviously trying to get up and had some, had some pain there.

So yeah, I was concerned that it was worse and thankful that it wasn't, you know, made it out cleaner than I probably should have. So yeah. And for our radio audience, he moved around, like he bent over the, the other way. So he's being able to move his weight around during that conversation. I'm feeling very confident ankle watch watchers.

This, this reminds me of my homes. Yeah. Tomorrow. We'll get video of him just hopping down off the riser. Remember that all of a sudden look at him. And by the way, he also confirmed he turned that cart down. He said, no cart for me. No, he's a, he gutted it out.

No car gutted it out. He's got no boot. He's got a wrap.

He's the only guy who's going open toed sandals. I'm feeling good. Jacksonville fans.

I'm feeling really good. The cart thing was wild. Cause you know, Florida's got a lot of those. They do. So I know they're all over the place. They're in Duval. Hey, Jaguars fans. We say thumbs up and we're the experts. You love Lala Kent on Vanderpump rules.

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