It's Rich Eisen. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. NFL training camps are up and at them and there is so much going on and we're doing our best to try and cover it all while we're having some good times here on the Rich Eisen Show here on this busy, busy Tuesday. As soon as we're done with this third hour, we re-air on the Roku Channel. If you missed any of the first two hours with Devin McCourty talking some Patriots stuff, Marty Fish, the champion golfer of the American Century Championship in Tahoe from a couple of weekends ago was here. And he also agreed that I could get a point off of Carlos Alcaraz in a three set match that he swears he will set up here in Los Angeles, California.
This is happening. Which is basically a birthday gift for me and it's not my birthday, but it is the birthday of both Chris Brockman and T.J. Jefferson. Interesting fun Rich Eisen Show fact. That's what Cooper, my 13 year old, would call a fun fact. A fun fact?
He always comes home from me. He goes, here, dad, you want to know a fun fact? Here's a fun fact.
It's like back in the day sports center. Did you know? Did you know? And are these facts indeed fun when he brings them to you? They sometimes are. Yeah. Yeah, they're not unfun.
So it's a fun Rich Eisen Show fact. Chris Brockman, T.J. Jefferson, shared birthday. First day of Leo's. Happy birthday to all the Leo's. It's Leo season, folks. A Leo will be in this chair tomorrow. Suzie is going to be hosting the show tomorrow while I get an endoscopy.
So good for me, huh? Do I want to look that up? Because I'm 55 and that's what you do when you're 55, T.J. You tell us a lot.
Are you are you having an endoscopy? You do tell us your age a lot. Very good. I don't care because I don't care. I am who I am.
We're different people. My life is an open book like this book right here in front of me. It's open. Did you finally break out the new one? I did. Yeah, for a while. And I'm dating it now. OK, that's good. Yeah, yeah. I'm dating each day that I take notes. So it'll be easier to find.
Just listen, I'm peeling back layers here. When we put it into the Broadcast Journalist Hall of Fame, those notebooks are going to go in there. By the way, how many people from Wales have we had in this program? Not many. Cardiff, Wales?
Have we? I don't know. That's a good question. Where is Sir Davos from? I don't know, but Ewan Reon is in our green room right now.
Those about to die on Peacock set in the a drama set in the corrupt, gladiatorial competition world of ancient Rome. No, William Cunningham's from Ireland. OK. Why am I blanking on the name of the actor from the Americans who is in here? People think he looks like you. Oh yeah, people think I look like him. Matthew Rhys. Matthew Rhys.
I think he is. He's a Welshman, I believe. If I'm not mistaken. Sir Anthony Hopkins is a Welshman, I believe. Oh, OK. Then I'm wrong. At any rate, Sir Anthony Hopkins is in this show as well, which means the actors who played Hannibal Lecter and Ramsay Bolton are on the same show. In other words, they had me at hello.
I mean, dude, two of the worst SOBs in the history of screens, big and small. My goodness gracious. Bonnie Tyler is Welsh. Oh, great. It's a total non sequitur with that up on the screen. Somebody just flipped on Roku with their radio.
They're like, what the hell is Bonnie Tyler got to do with that? Stop screaming. I can feel it.
844-204-rich number to dial. I'm just looking at the famous Welshman. Now, listen, we're kind of like what we hope is your world with your friends. When you take in this program, you see us being friends and you know what? It can kind of relate.
That's the beauty of broadcast television or radio, that you feel like our group and we can feel like yours even though we don't kind of know you because we have the same dynamic essentially is what we're saying. So you guys would love to see me miserable on occasion. Why?
I find it entertaining sometimes. Let me ask you this question. Let me ask you this question directly. To me personally?
Yes. Okay, bet. Since he admitted and you're too nice a guy to admit.
Well, remember, I was the one pumping you up with your chest in Michigan. Listen, I'm not saying all the time. I'm saying on occasion there are occasions where you would like to see me miserable and that would be you would like to see Brandon Ayuk hold out for the entire 2024 season because that way I would have to, as I said on this show, into this microphone, I would have to consume any article of Mike Del Tufo's clothing of your choice. Of our choice? Del Tufo doesn't have two outfits. Yes, exactly. And that one outfit is getting eaten. Yeah, we narrow it down to the garment.
I'm pretty sure. And it would have to be an undergarment and it would have to be after Del Tufo has like an eight-hour day on his boat. Oh my God.
On the boat. Or working. Or sitting in the booth at Fox where he's just kind of- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's got it. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like hour nine of some doubleheader, of some FS3 college basketball game. That's what I'm talking about. Like Sienna versus Xavier. Yep.
After Del Taco for lunch. Okay. Yep. Guess what? It ain't going to happen. Come on. I don't know about that.
Come on, man. Ian Rapoport reporting moments ago with Garofolo, Mike Garofolo. I don't know if he was on a golf course doing this. My colleagues from the NFL media group.
We love golfing. Parts of the insiders show that you should not miss the NFL media. That Ayuk, despite requesting a trade, he's going to be in camp. He's going to report to camp. He's going to hold in.
Okay. So one way to indicate that it's not as bad as you think, or at least I'd rather him hold in than hold out as somebody who has a consuming of Mike Del Tufo's undergarments on the line here. John Lynch is slated to speak later on in this hour. And if he does, oh, he's speaking right now. So what we're doing is we're taking it to use a TV radio team.
We're taking in the sound and we'll turn it around as fast as we can. And what John Lynch will say is we love Brandon, the player, and we love him. I know he's, you know, somebody, but he's requested a trade. We have no intention of trading him. There'll be some language that people will light up somebody by saying, well, he didn't say they're definitely not trading him.
They didn't use the keywords because you never know if somebody calls him up. If Ricky Pearsall starts, if he's healthy enough and he starts balling out in training camp, and somebody comes with some wild, like we'll give you a one and a two for, for, for Ayuk and see you later. But there's no reason to trade him. They have him under contract.
If he wants to hold out, that is at his own, that is his own, that his own decision and he has every right to do it. If it was money, he's going to get fined. Well, it doesn't matter because a team can waive those. Yeah. Right? Didn't, didn't when Zeke was hanging out in Cabo, didn't the, didn't the Cowboys say, uh, here's all your money and we're not going to take money from you for, listen, these things are, it just takes time.
Sometimes they get a little ugly. Yeah. I remember that when you were talking all in, but I mean, Ayuk knows if he wants to win a ring, one of his best chances is to stay put. And I just, again, but, but again, I, I don't think we don't, we have no idea if he's asking to be above Justin Jefferson, wouldn't you, would you blame the 49ers for, for, for not giving that to him? Yeah, I wouldn't do that. Okay. So, I mean, I don't know.
And that's the issue with these sorts of things, you know, and, and what I, why I'm loath to start really going deep into is we do not know what the holdup is. I'm not saying like, I may not be asking for, like, I want to be paid better than Nick Bosa. Certainly when you know, the Niners have got to save a little piece of the pie for Brock legs, Purdy, that's common.
That's common. And he might, he might be the quarterback with a six in front of his annual salary, the first one to have it. If I was him, I'd ask for that.
Certainly if they win the Superbowl this year. Yep. Oh.
Shows up with that trophy in an empty bag. So there's that. And you know, in terms of holdouts, also, there's another one going on, the Jets reported to training camp and Hassan Rettich, who the Jets acquired from Philadelphia, and the reason why one assumes Rettich and his incredible talent at sacking quarterbacks was available in a league where that's a premium is because the Eagles didn't want to pay him. And the Jets acquired him without hammering out a contract before taking him off the Eagles' hands. And when you do that, the guy might hold out on you.
And so he's not there. My opinion on that is I will never sit here and say to somebody, you're not worth what you think you are. Go get what you think you're worth. And to be honest with you, you know, I would say it's on the Jets for acquiring somebody who clearly is at an impasse contractually with the team that you're acquiring him from, and you don't remove the impasse prior to acquiring him. Like you're not just acquiring a player, you're acquiring an impasse. Acquiring an impasse. Well, that's not a fantasy team name. What that is, that's an album.
Pretty good. That's an album. That's more album. Acquiring an impasse. Yeah. Def Leppard. Or it's the name of a tour, Acquiring an Impasse Tour.
Tickets available now. Like Nick Sorensen yesterday? Yeah. Random phrases for his door. Toilet face, what is that, toilet head? I don't know. I don't know. Come on, guys.
I mean, it's just, it's simple. Somebody wants a new contract, the other team doesn't want to give it to him, or his team doesn't want to give it to him, and then they trade him away to you, and now suddenly you're like, I'm shocked he might not show up to training camp. And all the Jets players, I'm seeing like CJ Mosley's being asked about it. What is he going to say? Hey, I wish he was here.
Of course. And you know what? You know what would be great? When this thing gets solved at some point, you know, and I guess, again, these things at the moment, they freak people out as it happens. And in the same way that the Jets could have headed it off at the pass with Rogers being in Egypt during mandatory camps and calling it an unexcused absence, they could have just had the mandatory minicamp name it a week before. You avoid all that, and all the hoo-ha that's going down, that won't matter. Right before kickoff of Monday Night Football week one, Rogers in the tunnel won't be, damn, these guys who called my absence unexcused.
Not thinking that, in the same way, Hassan Redick puts Brock Purdy on his behind week one. What were you talking about? Today? No. Nope. Nope. So, that's what the whole thing about holdouts, they get you all riled up.
But it is something to just point out, it's like, you can't be surprised the guy's going to hold out on you when the reason why you're acquiring him is he couldn't reach a contract with the team that was willing to trade him, despite how talented he is. Am I wrong? Not wrong. Thank you.
Not wrong. But are you worried that he's not there? He's good.
I like it. Paul in Syracuse, New York. Let's get him on the Rich Eisen Show before we bring out Iwan Reon here. What's going on, Paul?
Rich. Welcome back, brother. It's good to have you back. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'll be gone tomorrow. I'll be gone tomorrow.
I'm going to have the greatest nap of all time, and hopefully get the all-clear, and then I'll be back. So, what's up, Paul? Well, I got to be honest.
The turntables have turned. I was like, oh, Brandon, I used. I'm like, ha, ha, ha. Just kidding. He's going to hold that. He'll be out week one. Now, that's going to be out for us. Oh, boy. That's good.
No, I mean, hey, week one may happen with Ayuk out for the 49ers, and Redick out for the Jets. Yeah. But I...
Hot toys. Hold outs just don't... I mean, Le'Veon Bell was the outlier, right?
And then, of course, the Jets say, we'll take him, and he gained, like, four and a half yards. Yeah. I think so, yeah. Right?
You want to look that up? Was it a little over four and a half yards? I think it was less. I think he had one... I don't even go down that road.
I think Le'Veon Bell's longest run of his Jets career was, like, 12 yards. All right. What's on your mind, Paul? Yeah. Let's increase the energy, baby, and let's do that win last game.
Okay. For the New York Jets. We already had one for the Giants. Now, let's do one for the Jets. Paul in Syracuse, Monday Night Football.
What happens against the San Francisco 49ers? Redick in or Redick out. Don't matter, baby. That's what's up. That's a what? Dub. That is a Jets dub. A win. Jets dub on Monday night in San Francisco. Oh, baby.
All right. And then they're at the Tennessee Titans. Child, please. That's a win. Home for the Patriots on a Thursday night.
Sorry, Brockman. Gonna beat the holy hell out of the Patriots. That's a 3-0 start. Home for the Broncos. Zach Wilson, Jarret Stidham.
Child, please. That's another win. Could be Bo Nix. 4-0. At home, they're in Tottenham in London against the Vikings.
It could be on planet Mars. Don't matter. That's another Jets win. 5-0. Home for the Bills on a Monday night.
Josh Allen should have been the one to change his game. J-E-T-S. That's a Jets. 6-0 at the Steelers.
Oh, initiate the gag reflex. The Steelers quarterback situation sucks. That's a victory. 7-0 at the Patriots.
Pull out the brooms. That's a sweep. 8-0. Home for the Texans on a Thursday night.
Sorry, D'Amico, Ryan. Sal is the better. Bald-headed former 49er Steve Betts, a coordinator, that's a win. 9-0 at the Cardinals. That's a loss, let's be real.
Wow. I didn't expect that one. I might have pulled something on that one.
That was really hitting the reverse. 9-1. Home for the Colts. Chance for Mr. Prine's side. That's another win. 10-1 off the bye. Home for the Seahawks. Geno. Sorry, Geno.
That's another dub. 11-1 at the Dolphins. They can't beat good teams. That's an L for the fish. 12-1 at the Jaguars. Sorry, Goldilocks.
Overhyped, overpaid Trevor Lawrence. That's a W-I-N, baby. 13-1. Home for the Rams.
They're eating that W. Early Christmas gift. That's a victory. 14-1 at the Bills. Move over, Buffalo.
The window's closed. It's the Jets. 15-1. Home for the Dolphins.
That's a loss. But because we're resting our starters. Because the AFC is wrapped up in the W-I-N, baby. Paul in Syracuse says the Jets are going 9-0 to start and 15-2 overall. Super Bowl time, baby. Let's go. Alright, Paul in Syracuse.
Thank you so much. The two Jets fans that have played the win-loss game. Syracuse and Paul with a 15-2. And the famous, world famous, due to our Instagram reel of his predictions.
Anthony in Pennsylvania had the Jets 14-3. Optimism is high. I'm telling you.
Almost as high as Lenny in Tampa. Nobody's that high, Rich. Come on.
What are you smoking, bro? Give me some. Lenny was higher than the giraffes, but Lenny in Panama City was the one for whom the Gummies kicked in during the whole waiting time. Can we play that back?
That was the funniest thing ever. One of the dads at Cooper's visiting days came up to me and mentioned both win-loss games of Lenny in Panama City and Anthony in Pennsylvania. Lenny was higher than the cost of living.
Lenny. Whoa. Hey. Sorry, man.
The Gummies. Just kidding. I was like, what?
It was an all-time great. We might have to make a drop out of that. Speaking of Lenny, man, we've got to talk to our boy Lee in Santa Barbara. Lenny and Lee need to hang out growing, you know?
What are you doing, guy? Maybe Lenny is Lee's tester. We should hear from Lee because with it being his birthday, today truly is TJ-plus.
True. You're plussed up today, TJ. I mean, I wish I was. You didn't know?
I'm not. His birthday is literally— Where's Lee at? —TJ-plus.
Did we smoke out Lee? Hey. Hey. All right. Let's bring out our next guest. What a show, Those About to Die on Peacock, which is available right here on the Roku portal.
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So this show, intense, no question about it. And you are, we'll show this clip. I believe, I think we're in the dungeons underneath the Coliseum potentially. I don't know. The underbelly of the circus. I don't know.
Exactly. Here we go. This is a clip where about those about to die, an epic drama set in the gladiatorial competitive days of ancient Rome.
The way things work around here is that before you with a chariot race, you ask me nicely if you want to do it in a way that might kill the most valuable charioteer in Rome who happens to be my friend, and I say no. And I cut off your balls. Your name again?
Tenax. I heard of you. You're very powerful in your little world. The person who hired me is from a much, much bigger world.
Perhaps this person will protect you. We'll see. All right, then.
So there's that. Man oh man oh man. Again, it's available on Peacock, right on Roku, Those About to Die. The Rich Eyes and Show radio audience is back. We just saw a clip, again, of the show, Those About to Die, available now on Peacock, available right here on the Roku portal. The actor, Iwan Reyon, is here on the program, and we just saw a clip.
And I've got to be honest with you. For anybody who needs a refresher, not a comedy. No. No. So the show is about what, for those who need to know?
I guess it's in the year 79, which is the year that the Colosseum opened. So it's kind of the buildup to that being finished, and it's all about the chariot. It's a sports show, really. Yes.
There you go. It's about chariot racing and the gambling that goes behind it, the sort of inner workings of that, and of course, the gladiatorial battles. And then you have this sort of dynastic struggle at the top with the emperor and his two sons. So you kind of have a real cross section of Roman life in the year 79 AD. The year the Colosseum opened. Yeah. Pretty famous building. You know what? It's been there, and there are a handful of stadiums here in the United States where some of the architecture was taken straight from.
You could make a case, as you just pointed out, that the Colosseum is one of the first sports stadiums. Yeah. It's just the sport, there was a little bit more on the line than just who wins and who loses. Yeah. Well, it was built so that you could really see the action, get really close to the action. Yeah.
It's a sports stadium. For sure. And what we just saw from the show, Ewan, where you threatened to cut off the nether region of an individual that dared to come at you verbally. It seems to be a theme with some of the people that you play in your career here. Yeah. You know?
Yeah. I mean, that's an unfortunate clip to pick, because that's 10 acts, you know, kind of being, you know, he's being, he's playing the gangster there. He has a character that he, you know, he sort of, he can operate on many different levels. He knows how to deal with every situation, but in this particular situation, he's looking for information. So he's being intimidating and being a gangster, but he's not always like that. So he's a deeper character than say, Ramsey Bolton is what you're saying.
Yeah. He's not like a psychopath that just enjoys causing pain. And that's his hobby. No, he's, you know, he's like a smooth operator.
He's a very ambitious sort of, yeah, political maneuver. And so in this, in this show, Sir Anthony Hopkins, and what is it like being on a set with him? Well, I didn't have any scenes with him. None? No. Okay. Yeah. It was kind of, well, devastating as a Welsh actor, but yeah, he's probably the only, yeah, The Spatian's probably the only character that Tenax doesn't speak to.
And when you watch the show, you'll understand. But were you on the set with him on the scene? I went to the set to meet him. Yeah.
Cause I had to. So I was like, can I come in? How'd that go? It was great.
Yeah. It was really cool. He was lovely, but he, obviously I have Jojo and Tom who play his sons in it.
I lived vicariously through them and they, they, yeah, they had a great, he's a legend. He just came in and loved, he loves acting. So you just knock on his trailer door. Is that what you do?
I just turned up and it all been sort of arranged and then, and then I'd go just go over and say hello. Yeah. All right. And that, that, that's, he's, he's as good as they, as they come. Yeah.
I mean, it's very top. Yeah. So how did you get involved with this show?
Just, I went to meet Roland Emmerich in his house. You directed five of these episodes, correct? Yes. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
And it went from there really. Yeah. I mean, he's, he's a top notch director, obviously in film and this television show.
Well, I like it. It's his first time doing TV. And I think, you know, when you want, when you're doing a show like this, you really want to show the scale of it because, and he's the guy for that, you know, show, show Rome and it's sort of glory. I think this show shows in a very different way to anything we've seen before, especially the chariot racing and stuff.
It's just, it's really exciting and fast paced. And yeah. You won Ray on of the show, those about to die available on Peacock, which is right here on the Roku portal, right here on the Rich Eisen show. When I kind of had a little bit of fun about what your character was saying in that clip. And I, you knew exactly where I was headed about the sadism that your, that character mentioned that, that it was similar to your previous character, Ramsey Bolton from game of thrones.
I noticed you, you kind of like rolled your eyes a little bit there. Is that something that you, you're, you're, you didn't want to bring up because that your character has more of a depth in this show? Yeah, I think it's quite easy for people to sort of look at that, look at some aspects of 10 X and go, he's just doing that body thing again. But you know, I think 10 X is morally dubious and he will do some horrible things if he has to, but he does it because it's survival. So it's slightly different kind of, whereas Ramsey would just really enjoy doing this kind of thing.
It's his hobby, but yeah, so it's a very different kind of character, but obviously I understand there'll be comparison, no question about that, but just in terms of your character from game of thrones, did you know when you took the gig, what this guy was going to do all the time? No, no, I didn't. I only, well, cause I only had, well, the season, season, the third season, so my first season. So I only had all those, all those scripts really. So I had no idea what was going to come up. So yeah, I just took, just, I mean, but there's some pretty awful things going on.
Yeah. But it was great. It was fun because at the beginning he's pretending to be nice and then he kind of betrays Theon and it was cool. And the great scenes to play as an actor and you've got amazing writing.
So it was, yeah, it was great. And I understand there's a professionalism aspect of all this and you mentioned Theon Greyjoy, Alfie Allen was the actor who played that and the awful things that you did to this guy. What is it like to be around an actor after scenes like that?
Well, yeah, I think it's, I mean, it was a thankless task Alfie has, you know, he's, it was uncomfortable, tied to this cross and well, it's, everything's horrible. So I think it was really important for us to sort of, to go out and have dinner and play some pool or something afterwards and just decompress this stuff. And I think, and also as actors, you really need to like, you need to trust each other. So I think, I don't think we could have gone where we did in those scenes without having that kind of bond outside.
So he could trust me. It was all, you know, it's like, we're just playing here. This is, we're making a TV show.
This isn't real. And then, yeah, then we go and shoot some pool. So you're like, you're shooting scenes, you're disfiguring his character, essentially. And like, all right, let's, let's grab a meal. I mean like that. Yeah. Yeah.
But what else are you going to do? You gotta do it, man. It was, yes, it was just, yeah, it was a, it was a cool, well, you know, Alfie was really kind to me because I'd just joined the show and he'd been in from the start so he knew everyone and he, and he made me feel included and, and the cast would generally like that. It was a very inclusive cast. So yeah, it was, it was, it was quite chilled. No, no, you know, no doubt.
And I'll just say this, and I'm sure this is nothing that you haven't heard before, but man, did I hate your character. I'm serious. That's good. Right? That's a compliment.
Is it not? Well, yeah. And also if you didn't hate the character, then you'd be, you'd know everybody. It's more about me.
That's how we're doing to myself. Yeah. No, yeah.
I think, yeah, it's a compliment, I guess, yeah, because the function of the character was to be hated, I think. Yeah. Do you get that a lot? Like people come up to you and say, you know, think that you are this person? No, people generally know.
Well, because I think if you were really Ramsey, you'd be, you'd be in prison. Yes, you would be. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
So I think they know. Right. Yeah. But people are, are, are folks maybe not approaching you? Well, maybe some people just don't come up to me. Yeah.
Maybe they just cross the street or whatever. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.
But people are generally nice and they. Right. Yeah. So where, where, where, when did you know that your character wasn't making it on Game of Thrones? Uh, well, um, you get, you get a call from the, from the creators.
Yeah. David and Dan. Um, and they called me, I got a phone call and I was like, hi, it's David and Dan.
It's like, oh no. And they said, so congratulations, Ramsey makes it to the iron throne. And I just thought, I'm dead and I, and they were like, yeah, yeah, Ramsey's going to die, but don't worry, it's going to be a great ending to the character, which it was, and I couldn't have asked for any better. And I think, you know, um, yeah, I wanted a good death in it. Dragons would have been preferable, but, um, but yeah, it was, it was cool the way, and just to get to do that amazing episode with Miguel and, and to get to face up with Jon Snow and it was just an amazing scene. So it was just, yeah, I mean, uh, it was a lovely way to, to exit a show.
I just love how you just call it lovely, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no, but no, I understand where it's epic. Right? That's what you want. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Dragon would have been too damn quick. Yeah. Yes.
Your own dogs. He deserved it. He had a coming. Come on.
He deserved it. Right. I love it.
You on Ray on here on the Rich Eisen show. Am I pronouncing your name? Great job.
Thank you so much. Matthew Reese is officially Welsh. He is what we thought, right?
Definitely. Isn't Christian Bale Welsh also? Well, I think he was possible.
I mean, I don't know. I'm not a, I think he was born in Wales maybe, but I don't think he considers himself Welsh. I think he grew up in London or something.
I'm not a hundred percent sure. I think Welsh people claim him. We were running out in the Welsh act. Didn't Team USA play Wales in the World Cup a couple of years ago? Didn't the, or, or did Wales, did Wales play England a couple of years ago or something like that?
We played England in the Euros. Yeah. Okay. So which is your, which is your team that you, in soccer and what we call, so obviously Manchester United.
Manchester United. Yeah. It's not.
And whoever England's playing. Really? Are you? Really? Yes. Really?
Yeah. Well, it's just kind of a thing, you know, when you, when you come from a small nation, not that we're a small nation, but you know what I mean, a population and stuff, and England are sort of this, they've always lorded it over us, you kind of, you don't want them to see it. I want them to do well in the tournament because I live in England and it's good for the morale of the country, but then not too well. So you were living in London and were you rooting for Spain?
I don't want to get you in trouble here. I was very glad that you got to the final and you got to the final and Spain were the better team, you know, and in the tournament, throughout the tournament, I thought Spain were by far the best team in the tournament. No question. So I kind of thought, well, yeah, you, you know, if you're going to go out, there's pride in that. It's a lovely way to go out. Yeah, it's a lovely way to go. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, but, but I just, to dive deeper into the spike here, you, you want them to lose by penalty kicks because that is the, obviously the most hurtful way, just in general to go, but specifically England. I don't want them to be in pain.
I don't want them to be humiliated because I live, I've lived in England for a long time. So I'm not, you know, and I, and I can see, you can see the difference when, when they're doing well, morale's up, everyone's enjoying themselves. It's all, it's a lot better than, you know, and, and look, you know, no knows we all need it at the moment.
And so, but then you obviously don't want to winks and never hear the end of it. So if it's, so, okay, so, so when they get the equalizer out of nowhere and like the 70th minute or something like that, you were a little disappointed or just good game proxy as a fan. You know, I'm, it was, it was, it made the game more interesting. So we're here for sports bite on this program. We're all for sports.
And also I knew Spain. I'm going to go. I got it out. No, no, no worries. No. Okay. And also Spain playing red.
So, you know, if I squint, it feels like Wales are playing England and then we win yeah. Okay. So we got to get you maybe to, who was the, who's the actor who addressed the Wales national team? Was who? Michael Sheen did.
He did. Yeah. Okay.
What, what? I thought it was a good speech. Yeah.
It was a hell of a speech. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. He was a, yeah. He's good at speeches. He's good at that. He's very good as an actor.
Oh, he's an incredible actor. Right. For sure.
It's not about to die on Peacock available on Roku. It is straight up the alley of many people who've obviously enjoyed some of your work as well and a great cast and some great action in this show. Congratulations. Thank you very much. And thanks for coming on here. Oh, thanks for having me.
Anytime you want to come on here and get anything off your chest. Fantastic. Okay.
Well, if you don't qualify for the next tournament, I'll come back and I can pay you about it. Okay. Very good. That's for sure. So Game of Thrones, we've never played the home game of Game of Thrones, right? No.
I don't even think we've taken anything out of the box. Yeah. And many of your co-stars who have previously appeared on this program, including Kit Harington.
So it's the famous matchup right there on the box. Absolutely. Fantastic. And I appreciate it.
We have it here on the set. Yeah. Great. Fantastic. Outstanding.
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Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. By the way, for the radio audience, this guy's a great actor. Great actor, obviously, right?
Oh, man. He plays some frightening characters. He does. He does. And you could see when I brought up with him the clip that he had here. He doesn't want to be known as he's a one-note actor or anything like that.
Like, oh, they played this clip. It's just like Ramsay Bolton, but the guy's not Ramsay Bolton. He's very good at that, man. But for a Welshman who does not want to see England win on a big stage, and I asked him, oh, you're rooting for Spain, Iwan Rayon, couldn't keep that smile off his face. He broke.
He broke. Kind of was like, uh-huh, you got me there. That was funny. That was funny.
So earlier today on this program, talked about Brandon Aiyuk, according to two of my colleagues from the NFL Media Group, the outstanding Ian Rappaport and the outstanding Mike Garofalo, saying Brandon Aiyuk will indeed report to training camp. So if he's holding out, he's really holding in. Holding in is better than holding out. Holding out means I'm not coming. Not there.
Holding in is I'm going to be, I'm going to be, I'm in the jet stream. I'm part of the mix here. Okay? So John Lynch, general manager of the San Francisco 49ers, had this to say about the situation. Any understanding with him that you will continue to negotiate? We've had great communication. We started this really early. We made it a priority to try to get done. We've had excellent communication throughout. Really don't want to characterize.
We haven't been able to, and that's a shame, but Brandon's a big part of our team, and we expect that he will be this year. That's the expectation. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah. I don't know. I expect to break 80 today.
I don't know if that's going to happen. Are you playing golf today? Only nine. On your birthday? Yeah. So you're going to break 40? Yeah. Will you shoot less than your age? No.
In nine holes today? Yes, for sure. Good to know. Has nothing to do with the Ike situation, but we went down that rabbit hole.
I appreciate it. I'm just saying things you expect may not happen, right? You expect to not eat. Well, the only way that he's not going to, the expectation is for him to be there because they hold the cards, and if he doesn't, the only way he will not be there is two things. One, he holds out his services for the entire year, or B, somebody in this league who wants to pay him what Iuke wants to be paid, and I'm sure that that information can be readily available, is willing to pay the 49ers the draft capital that would cause them to send one of their Super Bowl caliber players away in a season where they could easily win the Super Bowl.
Well, let's put it this way, that they can win the Super Bowl, and it's easy for us to see it happening. Why would they do it? Makes no sense.
Right on the outset of the season, yeah, we'll just play without Iuke. Why would they do that? Now, again, that's why you're not going to glean anything from the coach or the general manager there, but they've got great lines of communication is what he's saying, so he's not going to even admit, like, yeah, we're willing to go further.
Why would he defray his negotiating position in front of a microphone and a camera? So that's the latest there. Derek in Missouri has been hanging on since jump. What's up, Derek?
Hey, Rick. First of all, Brockman, TJ, happy birthday, fellas. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. I was going to say, Rick, you know what you have to do now, it's about their birthdays.
You got to buy the fellas lunch, am I right? You're breaking up, Derek. Wow. Wow. I knew that was coming. I bet you Susie will bring us something tomorrow, though, because, you know, she knows. Well, he's not good.
He's not good tomorrow, TJ, so it's got to be the next day. Yeah, right? Yeah, yeah.
We should drink. Sure. No problem. Okay. Okay.
One other mention. I was looking out my window a minute ago, and I could have sworn I saw a whole tiny ball just fall into my house here. I know. A few minutes ago from Sunday night, so. I know, right?
But he should definitely not pitch anymore because he's hitting balls further than ever. What else you got? What's on your mind, Derek? Anything else?
No, other than that, you and me, I got to stay rich. I'm really hoping that Bo Nix is going to be the guy in Denver. Oh, he will be. He will be. I mean, honestly, you know, the only way that he wouldn't be, Derek, is if he absolutely has, you know, a lack of command in practice, in meeting rooms, you know, and absolutely poops the bed in training camp. I mean, and also preseason. I honestly think this is the guy, and thanks to the call, Derek, greatly appreciate it. The guy has, how many games did he start in college?
Over 60, right? Bo Nix started a lot in college, 300, I think. It's not as if he's been in the fray, man, and I just don't know if they're like, you know what, Jared Sidham, it's his time, or you know what, Zach Wilson, Reclamation Project starts week one.
I just, I don't see it, guys. You might as well just break the rookie in right from get-go. I think Bo Nix starts week one for the Denver Broncos. Bo Nix played 61 games in college. You know, and I think Sean Payton likes him a hell of a lot, and plus they used it to high first round draft choice on him. It was high, 12, it's no joke. Bo Nix was amazing last year, 45 touchdowns, only three picks.
Let's go. And 77% completion. And I think we, again, have a very old school way of looking at things sometimes in fandom and in media. Well, he left, he changed schools, so he couldn't have been that good if one school let him walk. He played five years.
Why was he there so long? We're going to see more and more, and Pennock's another one, but we're going to see more and more quarterback players come out of college and be drafted high who go to multiple schools. The transfer portal is real.
It is real, and NIL is real, and I think we should get used to it. And certainly this day and age where a lot of kids got an extra year because of the COVID year, we're seeing a lot of experienced players come out of college. I think Bo Nix is one of them. Here's one thing just going out the door. I want to point out that I didn't really see coming. Ryan Day spoke today on, I believe ESPN or it's Big Ten Media a week, right, going down. He's talking about how, he talked up the Michigan-Ohio State game again and said a lot of the players are coming back. A lot of players came back to make sure that they beat Michigan. And listen, you know how I feel about all this stuff, but everybody seek out Paul Feinbaum's reaction to that sound bite on ESPN.
And the fact that Paul Feinbaum has replaced the Jim Harbaugh punching bag with Ryan Day is a plot twist I didn't see coming. He said, if he doesn't beat Michigan this year, Ryan Day gets fired. And I will just push back on this.
I will push back on this. If Michigan goes into the horseshoe and beats Ohio State, okay? If that happens when nobody expects it, and that's what Feinbaum says, if he doesn't beat this team after Harbaugh leaves and all these players leave and all his players stay, then he should get bounced. My only answer to that is if Michigan does that this year, with all the house money that I mentioned that they have, it would likely be Ohio State's first loss of the season.
Maybe it's second, maybe. And they'll just be, what, a sixth seed, a seventh seed? Everybody's got to realize these regular season games aren't as big anymore. They're big, and they're huge. They're big. I mean, Texas, Michigan's a big one.
Ohio State plays Oregon this year. Right, that's going to be huge. Huge. Right.
It'll be big, and these games will be big, and they'll still be amazing to watch. But in terms of disqualifying for the ultimate goal, I don't think as much of it. That's what I'm saying. It's not going to matter. So when I say it's not going to matter as much, I don't mean in terms of pride, in terms of excitement, in terms of watchability, in terms of bigness.
Not at all. But in terms of disqualifying you from the ultimate goal, those days are over. Those days, now, if you lose multiple ones, then the last loss can potentially disqualify you. I just don't think Ohio State's going to walk into that game with more than one loss, if at all.
That's all. And then Ohio State could play Michigan two weeks later and eliminate him. These days are coming. They could play each other the following week in the Big Ten championship game. These days are coming.
You could play three times in a year, conceivably. Which is, by the way, professional football. Yeah. I mean, these days are coming.
So that's all I need to say about that. So Ryan Day could lose to Michigan, and the sky would be falling, then three weeks later he's a national champion, and he's not fired. That said, Paul Feinbaum, or as Jim once called him, I believe, Pete, replacing the Harbaugh punching bag with a Ryan Day punching bag? Okay. I didn't see that one coming.
I didn't see that one coming. But it happened today. And I'm assuming there might be more to come. Probably.
Potentially. So there's that. Happy birthday, Christopher. Hey. Thanks very much. Happy birthday, TJ. Thank you, brother.
Appreciate you. We were hoping to break your age in nine holes. Yep. So for sure you're breaking TJ's age. Oh, hey. If I don't beat TJ, we got a problem. Okay.
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