Baltimore Ravens Could Start The Season 1-4

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He is in our green room and it is awesome. The Bear season three. And I am such a die-hard fan of the show. I cannot wait to start binge watching it. Coming up this weekend and next week. Just been doing a lot of other things.

Getting kids ready for camp and things of that nature to be able to get to it just this week. But he is outstanding in this show. The show is outstanding.

And I'm a fan of it to the point where I've got a Bear t-shirt. I'm going to switch in the middle of the commercial break to where just for that. I've never done that before. You're doing a wardrobe change? I'm doing a wardrobe change. I'm like J-Lo.

Of all people you just... I'm a wardrobe change. Don't worry, it's just a t-shirt. Okay.

It's not a lot. It won't take too much time. It'll be like a pit stop. So it's not like an Elton John thing where you got to get like... Oh no. I won't have to get zipped in. Gotcha. You know? I'll be fine.

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All three hours acquired where all podcasts can be acquired. We're playing win-loss games. I love when people just want to call in and do that.

The phone lines are lit. We'll get to that. As well, what's more likely? About to hit here on the program. But congratulations to you, Chris Brockman. Oh man.

You pissed off another fan base. Yes! You're really good at that. All right. You're expert at that. Thank you, sir.

You really are expert at that. Thank you. Yesterday when we corrected the record on behalf of Jeffrey Simmons when he said that Derrick Henry had been wearing a purple tutu. Yeah. And we thought he was referring to the Ravens uniform as a ballet outfit.

Of course. He was actually saying tutu is the number on that purple jersey 22. That's how I read it when he said it. I did not. I did not either.

You were the only one who read it that way. Well, me and Jeffrey, I'd get him. So Bobby Trossett. I'm sorry if it's Trosset. Or maybe he's like Guy Hebert. He was Trosset in high school and now he's Trosset. Guy Herbert. Guy Herbert in high school.

Now he's Guy Hebert. Joe Theismann. Then he starts running with Heismann. But anyway, Bobby picked that up in Baltimore and then Jeffrey Simmons corrected the record as far as he was saying.

And then we came on top of that by backing his play because that's what we do for our guests. And then we took a look at the schedule, the Ravens schedule. And Chris, you look at how difficult that schedule was. Tough start. And you said potentially one and four. I was like, oh man, they could start one and four. I pissed off people in Baltimore.

Everyone's so sensitive. I mean, it's June. You look at the tough games. Look, at Kansas City, at Dallas. They could easily lose those.

But Chris, I also asked you. At Cincinnati. There's a home game against the Vegas Raiders. You know, a one o'clock Eastern game, Vegas Raiders.

And I was pointing out that the Raiders probably want to hit them in the mouth. They probably want to sweep the Harbaughs to start their season. They're at Jim in week one and then they're at John in week two. Then they're at Dallas. Baltimore is with the Bills coming in for a Sunday nighter.

So NBC puts the Ravens on TV twice in the first month. And you think at Cincinnati after that, they could go one and four. You're giving them the Raiders as the one?

Yeah, that was going to be the one. But if they should start one and four, I would expect them to beat the Raiders. Do you think they're going to start one and four?

Like honestly? Yes, that's what I'm saying. You said they could. I'm now saying give it your best guess. I said they could. It seems unlikely. I'm not saying that's what's going to happen.

But worst case scenario, they're one and four in the first five weeks. Here's what I'm going to do for you. Everyone needs to relax.

Here's what I'm going to do for you. Last week, the week before, it was the Jaguars people that you pissed off. And then, like I already told you, you don't upset cat people. Don't upset cat people. Now he's upsetting bird people, though.

Cats and birds. There's only one thing we can do for you, Chris. OK? What's that, man? Because you can't say for sure. We don't know for sure. We don't have a crystal ball. I don't have a crystal ball, man. You know what I mean?

Ah, even better. Magic 8 ball. So what do you want me to do? What am I asking the Magic 8 ball to help you out? Ask the Magic 8 ball. Will the Ravens start 1 and 4?

Will the Ravens start 1 and 4? All right. I'm not shaking up too much, because every time I do that, the bubbles obscure the result. I've shaken it up enough.

Just a light shake. Here we go. Drum roll. You may rely on it. Oh, no.

That's a shame. Good job. Please clip. Please clip.

I've already had to mute a bunch of people. The Magic 8 ball backs your play about the Ravens starting 1 and 4. Do we know what these people are saying about you? An awful announcing post that. Magic 8 ball backs analysts' play. Rich, what are the Ravens' fan base saying about him? Oh, they don't like him. They're blogging, they're podcasts, and they're pissed.

You're making blogs? I think yes. Hold on. Let me see what this guy actually said. Oh, wow. He goes, Rich Eisen's co-host suggests Ravens could start this upcoming season going 1 and 4.

And then a lot of comments after that. Hold on a second. The only thing more offended, the only person more offended than a Ravens fan by that is me, referring to him as a co-host. What am I? I know what I am. I got my title. I'm color commentary. I'm the show's color commentary. No, I'm not. I'm very happy.

You're the co-host. I'm very happy we're being heard. Please. In the engagement farming industry? Oh, we are farming lots of engagement right now.

We want to be heard more than anything else. Here we go. These clowns, we got called clowns by one guy. Some guy, Trent, called us a clown. Trent, that's wrong, bro. Let's see.

I thought I was on fire today. All right. Two people call us a clown, man. All of us collectively or just you? Guys, get your act together. Collectively. Get your act together. Get your act together, everybody.

All right. We're all face front. We're face front individuals here on this program. Co-hosts in the same boat. Focus.

That's why the windshield's bigger than the rear view. You know what I'm saying? We'll pull it together. And certainly later on in this hour, Chris, you have, in honor of Oliver Platt, of the bear being here, your power ranking of top bears. I have a bear power ranking. Okay. Not the bear, just any bear.

Any bear. Fantastic. Stay tuned for it. You'll win them back with that one. But in the meantime, it's time for What's More Likely presented by T. Rowe Price. What? What's more likely?

Never say never, but never. All right, Chris, what do you have over there? Hey, guys. Happy Friday. Good to see you. What's up, bro? Okay, the Ravens. No, I'm just kidding. Nice.

More likely breakout wide receiver to repeat their monster 2023 season. Now they play each other week one, Pooka Nakua or Ahmaan Ra, St. Brown. How dare you do this to me? Cuts like a knife. How dare you? Two of our favorites. How dare you? I know. Sorry. They're two favorite Rich Island show favorites right there.

How dare you? I'm going with Pooka Nakua. Oh, really? Yeah, I'm going with Pooka.

I'm going with Pooka. Interesting. You know why? I don't know why.

Where's the Cooper cup in the equation for Ahmaan Ra, St. Brown? I mean, Javis and Williams breakout coming. Okay. I can see it. Well, Porta. Really, if I'm being honest.

So now I said my answer and now you're pushing back. I mean, what do you think is more likely? What's more likely?

What's more likely? That is actually in the co-host duties. I'm asking the questions here. Sub hosts do that. I have the co-host duties right here, as a matter of fact, printed out. Wow.

I don't know. I'll go Pooka Nakua. True story.

Do it, man. I think they both could probably repeat, to be honest. But I push back on calling that a breakout season for Ahmaan Ra, St. Brown.

I think he was already broken out. He goes from 1,100 to 1,600 yards. It's a pretty big breakout. Yeah, 1,600 yards is a lot.

That's a lot of yards. I'm going with Pooka Nakua. What else? All right. More likely, head coach in a new spot to most plus up their new team.

Ooh, plus up. We talked about this the other day. How dare you? Jim Harbaugh, Dan Quinn. How dare you even give me a question like that? I know what Rich is going to say.

He's going to say Dan Quinn. No, I'm not. Oh. Come on. One guy has a history of plus and up.

OK? I don't know what the Falcons were in Dan Quinn's first year. I doubt it was plus seven. They were 28-3 in the Super Bowl.

Whatever. And one guy has Justin Herbert, and the other guy's got a rookie quarterback. Just that alone. Rookie quarterback?

He's got... OK. Got a rookie quarterback. All right. All right. Let's get there. Rank 31 in your powerless rankings.

I mean, I had the Chargers in that bottom ten also. OK. Jim Harbaugh. Please. Not a happy photo. What else? Not a happy photo.

How about this one, Rich? This is just for you. The Jets possibly have two of the best players in fantasy football this coming year. Breeze Hall and?

The Jets start to lead the team in yards and touchdowns. Breeze or Garrett Wilson? With all due respect to Garrett Wilson. With all due respect to him. I feel some disrespect.

There's no disrespect here. He is a ball dependent player. He has to get the ball thrown to him. The other one gets it handed to him. The other one gets it handed to him by the backup. Last year, Breeze Hall had a tremendous season with there being... I mean, it's an affront to Bermuda and triangles to call last year's Jets quarterback situation a Bermuda triangle. And Breeze Hall still put up numbers. Garrett Wilson still at 1,000 yards, 95 catches.

Sir, I'm going with the guy who can run it and throw it and get it thrown to him over the guy who just gets it thrown to him. That's why I said with all due respect, which allows me to say whatever I want to afterwards. I go Breeze Hall. That's a good point.

I go Breeze Hall. OK. All right. Did you see the...

I would say both, but you won't allow me to say such things. Yeah. Well, they're not going to tie in touchdowns. Thank you. Did you see the Al Michaels AI news? I heard this.

This week. Kind of interesting. Al gave his blessing. So we're down with it. That Peacock and NBC is using his AI voice to... For Olympic highlights on mobile. Sure. How about the AI broadcast team you'd most want to watch do a game?

Howard Cosell and the old minority football team or Summerall and Madden? Oh, wow. This is not a what's more likely at all. Yes, it is. It's more likely for me to want to listen to him?

Is that the way? OK. Now. OK. Holy cow, man. I'll go. I mean, listen, Howard Cosell is why I'm in this business.

Truly an awesome spectacle. How have we not done this yet, by the way? Because I believe the same reason why the Monday Night Football Archives are nowhere to be found anywhere, because I believe the Cosell family prevents it from happening. Oh, interesting. I didn't know. Or I shouldn't say that.

They're not into the idea. Where are the Monday Night Football Archives on NFL Network? It should be all over the place. Imagine AI Cosell right now? Sure. That would be pretty wild.

So I'll go there. What else? Rich, Aaron Judge just keeps hitting home runs. That's true. Yankees can't win.

They can't do anything, though. They went from one of the best teams to one of the worst guys in baseball. Really slumping. I know. And Judge hit 63-plus home runs this year, or four teams finished with over 100 wins. Oh, man, now you're making me call up the standings. So right now there's five with over 50.

Well, I know that. Yankees are one of them, and they can't even suddenly drive 55. They're stuck on 52. The team nobody's talking about, the Cleveland Guardians, have the best record in baseball percentage-wise. They just lost to the Chicago White Sox last night. That was the Braves. Oh, it was the Braves. Braves lost. That's right. My bad.

They just lost to the Kansas City Royals last night. Yeah. There we go. Sure, I'll say Judge hit 63 just because I need to smile today. All right.

Thank you. What else? Judge is so good. More like going to make it back to the NBA Finals. Mavericks or Celtics?

Celtics. Come on, dude. Why are you just... You just want me to come over there and just pat you on the back?

Like seriously, you want... No, you've been talking all week about how the Knicks are now the team to beat the East side. No, I have not. I have not. I just thought you might want to back your play. You asked me, fake news, fake narrative, whatever you want to say right now.

I will sit here and moderate and call you out on your lie. Hold on, I'm freezing. Listen, buddy. I'll say this to you. I've been sitting here and saying to you this entire week that every single move that the Knicks made isn't good enough.

I'm actually wondering if it's good enough. We done? Last one for TJ. How about the coast where Paul George will be playing basketball this year? East or West? East or West? Well, to quote the great Notorious B.I.G., if I got to choose a coast, I got to choose the East.

I live out there, but don't go there. From out there... You know he chooses the Sixers over the Clippers any day of the week. If Peter's paying Paul, he would pay Paul to go to Philadelphia, okay?

I feel like this. I feel Steve Ballmer, he's got a lot of scratch, right? He's opening up a new home, which is about 15 minutes that way from us, and he's got to have stars to fill this place. I got a feeling that he's going to make a nice little offer to make Paul George stay.

Look at this guy. He roots for teams owned by Steve Ballmer and Steve Cohen. He's got the two richest Steve's in sports, and I still ain't got nothing to show for it. That's What's More Likely presented by T. Rowe Price. When you invest directly with T. Rowe Price, you get an experienced partner who empowers you to invest your way so you can meet your financial goals.

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What do you mean? I said it was, I'd been working on a Chicago Med for seven years happily and it was the only job I needed, the only job I wanted, all the kids were doing like, you know, what's my hiatus movie going to be? I'm like, my hiatus movie is, you know, on a beach in Maine, right?

It's called, it's called The Beach in Maine. But eventually I was, all of a sudden I had this panic one day like I were on season seven, I was like, man, I need to like, I got to go to the gym, right? I need to remind, I'm a freelancer, I never played one role for seven years.

It's unnatural, right? And so I just let my agents know that I would, you know, maybe be, you know, and this is the first thing that I was sent. The bear was the first thing you were sent when you became open to getting some other ideas. Yeah.

And what was especially magical about it is that it shot also in Chicago, not just in Chicago, but on the same fricking lot. Are you serious? Yeah. Yeah. And so you must have the Chicago accent down pat just because of that alone, right? You know, without knowing it, I'd sort of, I think I've been absorbing it, you know?

Right. The wonderful guys that like, that drive us to work, you know, they come from a lot of these neighborhoods. They've become my good friends and you know, I'm a talker and we talk going to work and coming back and, and, and I think I just sort of, you know, I must've absorbed it somehow. It just feels when I'm watching you play uncle Jimmy in this Oliver, that it just rolls off the tongue that the way it's written, it's, it, it, it, it's something that you, you can get right away and then add your own special twist to it.

It's the way it feels like to me when I'm watching it at home. I mean, you know, it's, it's, I always say it's just the writing, the writing, the writing, but, but the amazing thing about Chris, I remember the first time I called him and say hello, I didn't want to just show up on the set without having even said hello to the guy. Chris store.

Chris store. As I called him up and I, and I sort of just say, Hey man, how you doing? And I, I don't know, I kind of maybe manufactured a question about, you know, a speech that I had or something. And I was like, Hey, you know, I wanted to ask you about the, you know, it goes, Oh, can you say, can we swear on this show?

Go ahead. He said, say whatever you want. I'm like, what? I'm like, I said, I can say what's written too. Right. If I want. Right. You know, I mean, he, so he's very, he really understands the kind of fluidity of the medium and he's an encourages, he, he, he loves it when people mess around, you know, and it's just ironic.

Cause a lot of the time you're not being encouraged to mess around with, with stuff that you wish you could. Sure. And again, your, your character is just funny.

I mean, just funny without intending to be funny, but intentionally trying to be funny. It's it, it, it's really just great to watch you do your work for this show that is serious and funny at the same time. It is beautiful. It moves you.

So moving. I mean, and, and he sucker punches you, you know what I mean? All the time. Yes. Sucker punches you.

No doubt. And it's about one episode in particular and, and I think you're probably going to guess which one it is. It's the Christmas episode from season two fishes fishes fishes.

Okay. And the cast that's in this, um, the regulars and then, uh, John Mulaney, Bob Odenkirk, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Paulson, just to name a few. What was that like on the set that day? Those that week were weeks that you shot that episode. It was one of the most, we shot in this little house in Evanston, right?

Which is a Northern suburb of Chicago, Northwestern is right. Yeah. It was a little house and, and, and, and then there was like a house across the street where the actors hung out and I don't know what to tell you, but it was like, it was like summer camp. I know a couple of those people had worked with him, but you know, honestly, you know, I talked with a member of the cast and, and, and, you know, like stunt casting, right? Like in other words, having really famous people, uh, played small, smaller roles than they might. It's the, what gives it a bad name, but it can take people out, out of the, out of the show. Cause all of a sudden you're going, Oh my God, that's, and you've, you know, Chris was, first of all, he's brilliant at casting. So like these people are all perfectly cast, right? But he was also really, really deft at sort of, he would introduce them and then they'd go away to let people get used to the idea. And then, and then when, by the time things really kicked in gear in that episode, you were like also because all these people are again, so talented.

Uh, but it was, um, you know, one of the things that Chris is really brilliant at is creating a, uh, wonderful atmosphere to work in, you know, and, and it's playful. It's productive. It's, it's straight.

Doesn't do a lot of takes. So you're, you have your bags packed. You know what I mean? Like you need to, you know, your fricking lines. Um, and, and, uh, but it's thrilling, you know, and it's just fun.

The scene around the dinner table when Bob Odenkirk, one of the uncles tells John Bernthal who plays, you know, Carmie's brother or soon to be late brother that starts the whole reason for the bear. Right. When he tells him to not, you know, throw another fork right at him and he proceeds to do it.

I'm sitting at home thinking, Oh my God, this is going to be something. What are you, what is it like if you just mentioned that you're not taking multiple takes when you're sitting around a table takes, but like, but long takes too. He loves the long take, you know, uh, as was sort of, um, as, as he, and he tipped his hand on that with that incredible episode, this episode seven of the first season, which is like one take in the kitchen when everything goes to hell. Right. Right. So, but the great thing about that is that it really, cause you know, narrative tension is what you're talking about. Right.

And that's what we all are seeking. So certainly as viewers, right. And, and we're all sitting around the table and listen, shooting scenes around tables can be a nightmare because you do it over and over again because you've got to get all these different angles.

But, but, but Chris had, you know, incredible, uh, Drew is direct director of photography. They have a camera set up and you know, these were the first piece was from when we basically kind of after we sat down a little bit after we sat down until Jamie enters. I mean, it's like, it's like, it's about, I don't know, it was seven or eight minutes that that's a long, long time. So in other words, the tension got to build. We were, you're sitting there around the table and, and, and, and just, and first of all, it makes you incredible.

It makes it very easy for you to do your job because you're just reacting in real time. Oh, absolutely. Not like, Oh God. Like there's a lot of this stuff that came out of my, because my mouth was, was cause as, as, as if you will, the, the closest thing to a patriarch around that table, which I was watching it get out of hand, I said, I said to Chris between next thing to do it, I got to, I wouldn't let this happen. I got to get in there. He said, get in there, get in there. And so that's when I started like yelling at people and, and, and, uh, trying to keep the peace. Well, sort of trying to try to, cause I didn't want there to be, I didn't want it.

Nobody wanted to throw that fork, you know, nobody wanted to throw that fork of course. And, uh, but as an actor, it's just, it's kind of Nirvana, right? Because you're, you're the biggest enemy of, of acting for the screen anyway, is just all is, is, is all the time between takes and in cutting the camera, you, you often do very, very short pieces, right? And I love it.

I love crafting these little things, but, but this was a, this is a kind of a, you almost like you're in a little bit of a play. I felt, I was literally going to tell that to you, Oliver, that it felt like I was watching a live performance, that scene and how it was ratcheting up and how intense it was. And the best compliment I can even remotely pay is, um, I was late to streaming the season for various reasons. And I heard about the Christmas episode, you've got to see the Christmas episode.

It's it's unlike any other, and there's a bunch of cameos in it and I try to try to stay away from it. And it was better than I expected again, the expectation level for me was raised. So high, rich, when I read that episode, I was really like, I think that might be the best episode of television I've ever read.

No kidding. And, and, but, but by the way, just cause something awesome on the page doesn't always necessarily, but you know, in this case, a lot, there was, I think there was, I mean, I certainly read a lot of the episode, got a lot of attention. We're talking about it right now.

And but you want to know what's ironic. You know, what is actually my favorite episode of that season is the next one, which ironically is called forks. It's the one where Richie goes to the restaurant. It's beautiful. It's I was, I was like recovering from, uh, I had an ankle thing going on. And so I like you, I didn't stream it right away because I, cause I learned from the, like, I, I went to have a lot of time cause I knew that it was just going to be, I was going to go boom, boom, boom, boom. You just want to keep on watching. Right.

Yes. And I was so grateful that I was alone in the, in the, in the basement of my house watching that episode because I started to like make all, I just found deeply moving. It's beautiful. I started to like moo like a cow, make all these sort of weird animal noises that I'm just so grateful nobody else was in the house to hear me. Do you know what I mean? Um, it was, I would have been, it was deeply embarrassing, even alone, you know, I was embarrassed myself alone, um, but, but, um, no, I think it's confusing is that episode is called forks. Whereas the fishes is actually about forks.

I know that you think that it would be called forks, but it's about fishes because of always messing with our head. Well, I mean, and, and, and again, because then that's one of the many things about the bear that I do love is there's a lot of characters to root for and Richie, you root for him and you're just waiting for him for all these episodes to turn a corner, right. To turn a corner and I don't want to give too much away, but just that episode is beautiful to watch him seat, like locate a corner, like to actually know one exists.

And the way that it was all laid out was kind of a surprise, um, and, and it beautiful to watch develop. It's a great man, but it's also, you know, I think one of the things that Chris also is a real facility for is working with time and flashbacks fishes as a flashback, right? If it's, it happens five years before Mike, he's still alive, but happens five years before sort of the general chronological area of what we call, what you call the present in the bear. Right. And what's, what makes it that it's so heartbreaking is it like we've see Richie and Tiffany, who we know from the rest of the, from, from the, the, with the show we've already watched it, the relationship doesn't last, you know what I mean? I mean, one of my favorite scenes in that, one of my favorite love scenes ever is when Richie goes upstairs, you know, Tiffany's pregnant, she's got morning sickness, he goes up there to check on her and they just have this wonderful conversation and, and it, it's so affectionate and so real, you know, and that makes what happens in forks so devastating, right? Because, because, you know, we, it, but it's also devastating just to watch that bit so sad because we know that relationship is not going to last. Right.

We know that marriage is not going to last. And then at the beginning of Forks, she calls him to tell him, is it the widow thrower, but spoil spoil. I mean, everybody's seen. Go ahead. Are you worried about your audience not having seen the bear? Yeah. Okay, well. No, go ahead.

Just keep going. Too late, man. It's all your fault. It's my fault. I'm the one wearing the shirt.

I'm rolling now. No, it's, it's. No, no, but, but, but we, we, when she calls him to, to tell him that she's getting married, remarried because you don't, doesn't want him to hear it from anybody else. And we know that she's trying to be casual, but we know she's heartbroken because she's still, you know, loves the guy and he's outside that restaurant where he doesn't want to polish the Forks. Right.

And, and, and it just sets up, I just, the thing about Forks, it's so amazing. I don't think I've ever, we watched what you want to have happen in a narrative is for a character to change. Yes. That's why you watch stories, right?

Do we see, what does the story do to this person? How do they change? I have never seen a character change more to undergo a transformation in whatever that episode of 40, 50 minutes in, in, in my life. And again, it's all, the setup is there, but.

It's beautiful. And by the way, just to put a button on it, uh, your character, I never want to see change. I want you to just be the same, the same dude that you are every damn episode.

Yeah. Trying to remember that Rich. Never change Oliver Platt. Never change. Don't ever change.

Don't ever change. Uh, all right. So we have a celebrity true or false that we'd love to play with. Okay. Here we go.

The delivery of FX is the bear available for streaming right now, exclusively on Hulu. It's time for celebrity. True or false with Oliver Platt and this is don't be blown away too much by our production value. Okay. Hit it. Hit it, please. Celebrity true or false.

You can't handle the truth. That's it. That's our, that's our production.

That is a great segment, man. Thank you. That's fine. We haven't even spoken.

Very economical. Thank you. Hey, listen, it's shoestring around here, brother. I don't think so, man. Look at this place. First up, uh, true or false.

Your first paying TV gig was on an episode of the equalizer followed by an episode of Miami vice. True. How about them apples? True. So you should, you, your first Oliver Platt showing up all, all rosy cheeked on the episode of the equalizer. Yeah. My, my, my, my manager, what really wanted me to, and he was very smart too because I came up on the stage and he wanted me to worry in front of the camera.

And let me tell you something, it's a really disorienting, it's such an eccentric weird way. He was just smart. He wanted me to spend some time figuring that stuff out. And that's you, by the way, on, uh, on Miami vice, Miami vice, were you the only guy to ever wear a bow tie in the history of Miami vice? You know that guy, he was an arms dealer.

Is that right? His name was speed styles and, and they, and, and they, and they wanted him to be like a, excuse me, like a, you know, a, a classic. I said, let's turn them into a preppy. Let's make him like a preppy. This was your twist to the wardrobe and the glasses and stuff.

And the wardrobe person's like, what's a bow tie for Miami vice. It was like season 18. I think they were just like thrilled to have somebody be interested, you know, by the way, legendary television show. No, no, no, no, no, no.

But I was thrilled, you know, I was bummed out. I didn't get to work with Crockett and tubs. You did not.

Were they Crockett and tubs? Yes. That's it. That's it. I know. I was being stung undercover by one of the cops.

What about Edward Woodward? Did you work with the legendary equalizer? I did.

Oh dude. I was a thug. And the equalizer, I literally, I didn't have any lines. I was a thug. I was like staring into an aquarium. Well, well, you know, my, my cohorts were doing evil in an apartment, literally. But let me tell you something.

I was so glad that, that the, you know, cause working in front of a camera is really real. So when you first do it, it's just weird, man. It's weird. They do a little pieces over and over again.

And where do I look and where do I not look? Well, they've worked out for you. Well, you know.

You're off and running. Uh, second one, Oliver Platt, true or false, you were the second cousin once removed of Princess Diana. It's kind of the truth. What do you mean? My, my, my, my mother has English relatives. Okay. Uh, my mom's, I can't remember, but, but literally it's like, she was a second cousin, so I'm once removed. But I think there, my mom's grandmother and her grandfather were brother and sister. I never met her. Oh, you never, okay.

That was the follow up question. No, no, no. I never met her.

You never went to some Royal, you weren't at the, you were invited to the Royal wedding? Actually, check this out. Check this out. Okay. We were invited to the, to the, to the wedding.

Okay. By her, her, her, oh, by this cousin who, my mom was one of her favorites, an important cousin who was able to, and when her mom found out, you're having these like loser Americans, we can't, that's Elton John seat. And no, so we were literally, now listen, hold on. I was, I was in college and I was, I actually kind of regret this cause they had such a ball, but I was like, we're just all jumping up and down because you know, like we don't really know these people.

And what are we doing? You were too cool for school to go. I was too cool. Oh, and by the way, by the way, the English cousins were so embarrassed about the, we were literally disinvited, but they were so bad, they were like, please come, please come over. So they ended up like, they went and had like tea with the queen mother. They had like, they, they had most amazing seat.

They had, they had an absolute ball. Come on me. I was too cool for school, man. Oh wow.

You should have gone just to see what the hors d'oeuvre set up was, man. You know, I was a college student, you know, that it's a specific breed. Too young to know. Yeah. Too young to know.

All right. Speaking of college, two more to go. Oliver Platt, celebrity, true or false. You became a Red Sox fan in college. You went to Emerson college, right? Tufts, Tufts University. Tufts, Tufts. Okay.

Tufts University. Pardon me. A Red Sox fan. And then you went from hating George Steinbrenner to respecting him after you played George in the Bronx is Burning. You know, you can't, one of the reasons I wanted to play George Steinbrenner was because as a Red Sox fan, I detested him and it's a really important, it was a great role. It was in this, it was, it was, it's like twisted love triangle between, you know, Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson and Steinbrenner was sort of the, we're talking about dysfunctional, you know, craziness, but it was like, it's a, you, as an actor, you cannot judge any character that you're going to play.

You can't. It's like, you know, I had an acting teacher said, like, if you're playing like a, we one of the great villains of history, you need to act like you are standing in front of the pearly gates arguing with God, why you should be let in. So you've got to get in. You have to see the, you know, you got to see the, the, the world from their point of view, right? Yeah.

I mean, awful, awful people thought that they were helping by doing what they did. Right. So, um, I don't want to mention his name, but you know, like, so, so no, nobody thinks they're a villain. George Steinbrenner. And by the way, it's in the process of researching him, I actually became incredibly impressed by all of the stuff that he actually, you know, he brought like, you tell me if I'm wrong.

You wouldn't know better than me. He brought like showbiz to, you know, to, to the game from Ohio. He was a ship builder. He was like, this is an entertainment.

All those big, you know, people, mascots with big fuzzy hats on and you know, people doing dance routines. It didn't Steinbrenner started all that stuff. Well, he wanted nothing to do with anything but winning.

That's all he wanted. And so you, you know, portraying Steinbrenner and John Turturro as Billy Martin, holy cow, by the way, his brother, John Nick, Nick Turturro is a crazy ass Yankee fan is the only way to put it. But again, just you playing George, do you still have the jacket? You got the George jacket, the Dickie, did you, did you wear the white Dickie? Did you get that thing going?

We got it all going. Another reason it was terrifying to me is I never play one. It's really scary to play a real person that people can go, Oh, I actually know that real person.

Now, let me see how he's doing. And you've got to be very careful. You can't, you can't do an, you can't do an impression. You know, like our friend Hank, his area is so good at, he doesn't, he never does that for, for, for this stuff. So you have to sort of try and capture the essence, but it was, I don't know, it was just a real challenge. I had to dye my hair red, you know, I didn't even know he was a redhead.

Last one for you. You were cast in the married to the mob film after Bill Murray saw you in a small off off Broadway play. And you, he recommended you to Jonathan Demme. True.

It's true. I was doing this little, my very first thing that I did on stage in New York was this little one act play festival. Yeah. And, uh, you know, my, my, my, my beloved dear departed cousin, Frankie was his neighbor in the Pacific palace AIDS. Was Bill Murray's neighbor? And she said, you got to come to my Christmas party, meet Bill.

And I went, I was going to go to the Christmas party anyway. And I was, you know, and there was bill and bill was lovely. We had the wonderful conversation and I was never a natural networker. And so the end of the conversation, bill says, Hey, well, is there something that I can see you in? And I'm like, you know what, as a matter of fact, there is, I didn't, I never thought that he would come, you know, but the, it was the last, it was the day we were closing the last matinee.

I was in this little one act play after the intermission in the intermission and the guy that owned the place comes back and he's like, face is white and he's like, this is a little hole in the wall off our faraway theater. He's like, bill, bill, bill, bill, bill Murray's here. And he says, here to see you, I'm not actually the thing you want to tell an actor right before he goes on, but this was the end of the thing and I was pretty confident what I was doing anyway. So I went out and had a nice chat and, and, um, you know, somebody dropped out of that movie.

Married to the mob. Yep. And on the same day, the casting director for his movie and bill said this weird name to him, which Oliver Platt, and it was like, what? And so we went and had lunch together and, and, um, and the rest is history.

Yeah, there you go. You with Matthew Modine right there. Oh my God. That jacket.

No doubt. I remember you two in, um, in, um, working girl. Cause I'm a Staten Islander. That was a big movie for all of us in Staten Island that you take the ferry to come, uh, the big city and then suddenly took over, you know, and became big and big business.

And I remember that move. Do you ever go to Harrison Ford story where you're on the set with him at anything like that for working? I had, I had a little, that was just a couple of little things. I had this sort of, uh, I never got to know, man.

You don't get, you don't always get to work with the, you know, with your heroes with the big, uh, when, when, when you're, when you're, when you're starting out and then when you do, it's terrifying. Well, you are now, man, uh, I'd like I said, uh, I'm, I'm clearly, you know, wearing this t-shirt, a huge fan of, uh, of the bear and you in it, and this is awesome that you're out here and you get to take some time to come down here. You're so kind.

You really are. I appreciate it. Oh, awesome. Awesome.

And anything you want, we should know about season three at all. You know, we're under. We're under wraps. Okay. I mean, it's out. Literally.

They got you. Well, right. But I mean, let's. Okay. I'm literally terrified. Like that. The FX death drone, it's going to come here and like inject me with some sort of serum.

If I say the wrong thing. We don't need that then. Yeah. So let's just keep it. Let's just, I got a, I got a big day ahead of me.

I don't need no drone injected me right now. What's the future of it? What are, how many, how many more seasons do you think we got here for the bear? Do you have a guess? What do you think? I mean, that literally I haven't been, I happen to know the answer to that question.

I'm too terrified to tell you. Is that right? Yeah.

Is there a finite end date? Do we know? No. Oh my goodness. All right. Chef. I appreciate that.

Maybe, you know, I look forward to it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. It was so much fun. Oliver Platt. You were the man.

Uh, everyone again, check out season three of FX is the bear available for streaming right now, exclusively on Hulu. And you can obviously see that right here on the Roku portal. We will be back on the rich eyes and show in a moment. Ryan Reynolds here from mint mobile with the price of just about everything going up during inflation. We thought we'd bring our prices down.

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Just go to linkedin.com slash direct and get started. Philadelphia Eagles. We have that to talk about too. Yes. Yes. As I'm draped. You are Eagles paraphernalia.

Now that's, that's like your gut. So you got the green hoodie. Yeah. You got the green hoodie.

And then I went satin black jacket, black Eagle on it. This is subtle. This is subtle.

I didn't want to, I didn't want to come here and be, you know, blatant with it. This is a subtle. Yeah. I didn't notice it.

It's sort of like a watermark sort of situation that you have right there. You get up close and you're like, Whoa, he really is an Eagles fan. He's got a lot. Yes. Got a lot of Eagle stuff. I'm wearing a Jersey to the Superbowl with the Jerome Brown patch. That's what you're going to do. Yes.

Okay. Random Cunningham Jersey. The Jerome Brown patch. What will it say on the back? Will it say heart? Will it say her name?

No, it's going to say Cunningham. It's a real Jersey. Okay. I can't make it say heart. I'm no longer authentic.

If I make it say heart. It's gotta be a real Jersey. This is a real moment. I understand. It's a big moment for me, man.

This is it. It's a big game. What do you think?

What do you mean what I think? The score's going to be 80, 83 to six. I called it. I put my prediction out there a long time ago. Okay. I had a dream.

I saw it. And how many touchdowns then for Nick Foles then out of that? Nick Foles is going to throw for 32 touchdowns.

32. It's going to be a grinding game and Foles is going into this game with so much confidence. After the last game, he's got so much confidence.

I don't care what you say. You can't beat confidence. You know how much confidence I have? You can't beat my confidence.

I don't care what you tell me. I'm so confident. I'm so confident. Foles has confidence. Our defense has confidence. We are here. This is what we said we will be in the beginning of the season and we got here. That's confidence.

They're used to being here. That's cocky. That's just a little nonchalant shoulder shrug.

Yeah, we'll do it again. It's not the same type of confidence. It's not the same type of hunger. It's a different level of hunger and these dogs got to eat. Get it?

Because they was calling us underdogs. Yes. I know.

Kevin Hart not too far off on the offensive output. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show Radio Network, sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry, Grainger has the right product for you. Call clickrainger.com or just stop by. If you're on Holds Down, hold hour threes for that as well as Akbar, Baja, Biamila in studio and Will Anderson on a Zoom. But Chris Brockman, you've been inspired by the bear. Back on FX is the bear.

Back on Hulu right here on the Roku platform if you want to watch it here. What do you have over there? I got a top 10 Bears power ranking. Ah, hit it. Let's go. Do we have something?

No. We're getting nothing. What do we got?

We're getting right to it. Number 10. Yeah. That bear in Anchorman. Remember when Veronica Corningstone fell in and there was a bear and it saved everything? The bear in Anchorman, TJ, you know what I mean? Saved the day. Saved the day.

That's up on the screen. That bear in Anchorman. I don't think I really had a name. Okay. That bear in Anchorman. Good. Oh, yeah.

And Brick was like coming around the bear in Anchorman. Number nine. The Swirsky brothers. The whole Da Bears skit from Saturday Night Live back in the day. That's number nine. That's just absolutely legendary.

Very good. The Bears. Recently brought back to life at the Big Slick. Mike Myers and Chris Farley, God rest his soul. Joe Mantegna. Yeah, Joe Mantegna.

And who am I blanking on? Oh, Robert Smigel. Robert Smigel.

Mike Myers. Okay. Number nine. Number eight. Number eight.

Been reading a lot of these books with Cage lately. He loves them. Very, very classic. Berenstain Bear. Berenstain Bear. Okay. Very good. Berenstain Bears. It's like 50, 60 of these books. Okay.

So good. Number seven. A proud cow. He's number seven.

You're going to realize in a second because that's what number jersey he wears. Yes. Jaylen Brown. Proud cow bear.

Jaylen Brown. NBA Finals champion. Come on. MVP. Come on. Cow bear.

Come on. Jaylen Brown wore number seven for the Celtics. He is number seven. Thank God he didn't wear number one. He would have been number one.

How about zero? He absolutely would have been. That's so disrespectful. Number six. He's foul mouthed, but you love him. Ted. Ted.

Oh, okay. Number six. The teddy bear, Ted. Thunder Buddies. Thunder Buddies with Mark Wahlberg.

A great movie with Seth MacFarlane and the Sulk. Number six is Ted. Top five. Bears. Top five. Bears power rankings. Bears power rankings of all time.

Number five. Bear Bryant. The legendary Alabama head coach. Alrighty. But I actually screwed this up because I wanted to do the Bear Bryant from the Forrest Gump movie.

That guy was way cooler probably than the actual Bear Bryant. Number four, classic Winnie the Pooh. Number four.

Alright. For the kids. For the kids. For the kids.

For the kids. An all time great bear Winnie the Pooh. Tender and piglet. Number three.

Bring it home. You may know him as the Golden Bear Jack Nicklaus. The second greatest golfer of all time. Jack Nicklaus. The Golden Bear. Alright. So Arnold Palmer being number one. Number two.

Take it with you. Number two. The Bear TV show. Obviously.

Number two. The Bear TV show. Oh okay. Alright. This is such a great quality program. I really hope you're all watching.

You should be. Oliver Platt. Everybody on the show. It's great. And number one.

It is? It's obvious. Walter Payton people. It's obvious. Walter Payton sweetness.

The greatest bear of all time. Number 34. Okay. Do you think we need one more?

Oh. Sure. Alright. We'll get one more. You got one more Chris? I'll do it.

Since I'm the only one that can do it. Rich you handle this one. Here's the one more. Donny Donowitz. From Inglourious Basterds.

AKA The Bear Jew. Yeah. Okay. I'm the only one who can do that. Well.

Here I'll. You know. You actually. You know what?

You Jay Felley are the Rich Eisen Show Bear Jew. That was my Halloween costume one year. Wait. Really? Yeah.

Nobody knew what it was. I imagine. It's like a hillbilly with a bat. Hopefully you didn't take anybody out with the bat.

Unless they were Nazis. I'm the only one who can do this. There you go. And you're like. Well.

Well you are the Rich. Bear Jew of the Rich Eisen Show. We've got lots of bats. That means a lot to me.

Yeah. There's lots of Jews from it. Lots of Jews. Good job Chris. Well done everybody. Good job. Top 10 bears. Who knew we needed that?

Back here on the Roku channel still. Well done. A lot of bears when you look through history. I thought you were putting cocaine bear in there somewhere. Cocaine bear. You couldn't do that when you put your son's favorite bear. Right.

That's what I mean. I wanted to put the bears in there. And then you put Winnie the Pooh in there. I didn't want Disney the cocaine bear at all.

And I wanted the Coca Cola polar bears. Also honorable mention. What else? I wanted to somehow sneak in Devin Hester.

But not a top 20. I think Walter Payton covered it. The gratuitous mention of a cow bear. I mean you could have put Aaron Rodgers in there. Cow bear.

Why would I do that? I don't know. He has the same number of championships as Jalen Brown. He's definitely going to the Hall of Fame. Jalen Brown's on a path. And of all the cow bears for you to choose.

Well, one of them actually could be president someday. Who's that? Jalen Brown? Yeah. Okay. My godson bear. We could have put him in there because he's a star on the flag football field.

Right. A lot of bears. Great list. You did a good job, man. You could have done a top 20 bears, I think.

I mean, sure. You could have just named a whole bunch of Chicago Bears. Richard Dent.

Steve Mongo. Good job. Fridge. Fridge.

We're just making chicken salad on the Rich Eisen Show this week, huh? With my power rankings of all things French, followed up with your power rankings of all things bears. Bears.

Bear. Good job. June 28th. Sadly, we're out of time. Power rankings. This week in June, as well as this hour.

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