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And he's intercepted. Today's guests from Paramount Plus's Landman, actor Jon Hamm, college football playoff committee chair Ward Manual, plus latest news and more. And now it's Rich Eisen. Welcome to our number two, the Rich Eisen Show. If you're just joining us right now, where were you?
Is that aggressive? We've been on the air for an hour talking about some of the best games from the NFL. We've been doing this for 10 years. Let me switch it up a little bit here. You're in luck if you're just joining us. Jon Hamm's about to come out here, Landman, on Paramount Plus, the latest Taylor Sheridan program that is awesome. The cast is through the roof. The acting is terrific.
The writing is, you know, Taylor Sheridan. And Jon Hamm is in it and it's awesome. Susie and I are watching it. You should too.
It's on Paramount Plus through the Roku portal. Jon's about to come out here. He's also a big time baseball fan and he's playing some fantasy football. We're in that best ball league with him right now, right? I think I'm in DFL.
That's what happens when you draft Christian McCaffrey and you only get him for like a game and a half. I want to point out that Brockman and I also watch Landman. Okay. You know, you met, you didn't.
Okay, sorry. Yeah, we're here too. Listen, TJ.
We can do shows. This guy over there. You know, Holmes is saying, Brockman made me watch it too. He was like, have you watched it for like two weeks? I'm like, not literally like my children. I mentioned one family member and they're like, what about me? Well, you only mentioned yourself. Yeah.
And Susie, you know what I mean? It's fine. Well, I'm talking about, okay, we're all watching it. Thank you.
We all love it. Right. Thank you. See how easy that was?
No, it wasn't. You gotta pull it out of me. Overreaction Monday, Chris Brockman and I already recorded it. It's out there for you to take in.
We'd greatly appreciate it. I'm surprised you said you didn't do that show yourself. I didn't. I can feel it. Good one. Everybody's in a mood. Just because I compared these dynastic chiefs to his Patriots. He's been, he's been in a mood ever since.
He's not happy, but the facts are the facts. I'll tell you what, their half is good. Well, maybe this is why, this is maybe why Chris and I are in a mood. Do we have to do this? We do. We do. We do. We do. No, no, no, no. It's okay. It's okay. We can. The reality is the reality of it. And that Juan Soto, after getting offers from at least five known teams in one of the most highly anticipated free agent tours in recent memory since, since, well, last year when Shoyo Ohtani went on one. Right. And I knew the way this was going to go.
I knew the way this was going to go. I, cause I knew it that if Juan Soto signed with the Yankees, and I think I speak for you as well, Chris had Juan Soto signed with the Red Sox, it would have been, this is amazing. He's generationally brilliant.
He's one of the best hitters I've ever seen. And it's not my money. Right. And my team's ownership is shelling out because they appreciate me as a fan. And they appreciate what this guy does for my level of enjoyment and also our team's ability to succeed. That would have been my approach had he signed with the Yankees or you with the Red Sox. Okay. So let me copy and paste that now that he is not only not signed with my team, but he's signed with the Mets.
I will say this. I'm glad he's not on the Yankees for all that money. He can't even field.
Oh, I can't do none of that. You see him butchering all those balls in right field. All those times where he just let glaber Taurus try and backtrack to try and catch one that he should have just come in and grabbed from right field.
You ever see that batting stance? Well, he just gets honestly, bro, who is this guy? You know what he is? He's a mercenary. He just wants to go for the highest bid. I don't want that culture.
I don't know. We don't need him. Who needs him?
Why would you get out of here? It's like Luke Cage hero for hire. That's what I'm saying.
Now that I didn't get him, when we hook you up on that machine, that sodium pen, hold on a minute, hold on a minute, hold on a minute, hold on a minute. I'm hearing lies. And my reaction as well as yours, Chris, I believe will be tempered based on what my team and or your team does with the amount of money that they clearly cleared for Juan Soto. At least, you know, there's money in the Fenway banana stand that hadn't existed in quite some time, except for Devers.
Everybody else can go move to Southern California for as old as the ownership group cares. Right? Exactly.
Okay. And, and I knew there's money in the Bronx banana stand that I know for a fact. The question is, is, you know, was those Steinbrenner dollars only there for Juan?
What are they going to only willing to spend X amount of the 700 and apparently 60 they put on the table over 17 million? That will help temper my opinion. But the fact that I'm now looking at a back page from the daily news that says, sorry, Yanks, because you don't have to deal with this, Chris, this is what Yankee fans have to deal with. You don't have to deal with it because Juan Soto says, New York's fine with him. It's just not the Yankees that he's going to be fine with across them. He's happy to cross down. He's happy to go to Queens.
Queens is happy to go. He's happy to go to city field. He's happy to go to a spot where there isn't a monument park out there in center field.
There's just a hat with an apple that comes up. He's happy to go look at the Mets fans and say, I will continue the legacy of Mackie Sasser. He was a catcher. I will continue the legacy of a franchise that's won a couple of times in the last 50 years.
Okay, I'll go and do that. It's for Yankee fans. We've got a process that growing up watching Hal's dad do what Steve Cohen just did, which is spend, and spend, and spend, and the rest of the league can't keep up. And all during that time, when Steinbrenner was doing that, and Larry David was playing him on Seinfeld, and the white Dickie was standing up in front of the press and doing all of that, all of that, we would always be able to count on in New York City that the Mets would never amount to anything because they could never keep up with the Yankees in terms of spending. And now, those days are officially over. We could take those days and just huck to a right on them.
Yeah, you got to get off that, man. Because now, it's on the Mets to win with Juan Soto. And I guess Juan looked at the reigning MVP of the American League and the World Series appearance that he was able to make this year and say, I'll just go and maybe hit in front of Lindor or behind Lindor and see what else they can come up with there in New York to build out the roster. Maybe the Mets got them just to get some information on how Clay Holmes is just going to light the whole damn thing on fire anyway. Yeah, you tried to disparage Severino at the beginning of last season, too. That turned out pretty well.
Sounds good. Now, Severino, just like Soto, went where the dollars are. Except he's happy to go live in Sacramento like he's in the family of eight is enough. He wants the free happy meal. He's going to light the beam in a minor league ballpark because they paid him the most money, which the Mets were able to do with Soto. So I say to you, congratulations to my brother, to my buddy Steve, who's one of the worst trolls I've ever met.
And I've known him since the first friggin' grave. To all you Mets fans, congratulations. Go win it.
Thank you. Go win it. Go win it. Go win it. And in terms of Yankee fans and Red Sox fans, and by the way, the Blue Jays, they keep on taking this, congrats to them, they keep on taking their swings. But unfortunately, O'Tonya and now Soto have said thanks, but no thanks. And to Yankee fans, we've got it.
We now, okay, now let's see who you spend this on. Personally, I like Bregman. Alex Bregman. Didn't he come here and say that his dad was a Yankee fan?
I love him. I know he's a right-handed hitter. You want lefties in Yankee Stadium. You know, Bellinger's out there. You want to take Clay's son.
Clay played for the Yanks in the championship years. You want to take Cody, what Christian Walker's out there. Corbin Burns is out there. I want to see $760 million of free agent money spent amongst others. That's what I'm looking forward to seeing. Because that will temper my reaction to losing Soto to the crosstown Mets.
Man, it feels good. I just hope Steve's doing okay. Net worth currently $21.3 billion minus the $7.6. He's down to $20.5 billion. I just hope he's all right.
I just think it's great that he got wags off the pole to get Soto to sign. Let's hope everybody's okay. Bobby Axelrod. And I think, though, we can all agree just to put a button on this. Oh, no button yet? No, no, no. Just to put a button on this, my opinion here.
Oh, okay. I think we can all agree. And I think even the Cardinals fan that's about to come out here and Jon Hamm can agree here. You can agree, TJ? I can agree. You can agree, Chris.
You can agree, Mike. Yes. On this one cold-hearted fact, at least the Dodgers didn't get him. Yes. Thank God. I'm not a Dodger hater.
Yes. Well, you will be soon, pal, because $760 million for the next 15 years, you're going to be going against the team that defers a billion dollars so they can afford more sodas. I get it. They got to beat him. You're going to hate the Dodgers real quick.
PDQ, sir. The Mets and Red Sox lived that forever. Look, Mets fans were like the Migos right now. We ain't never had no old money.
Got a whole lot of new money, though. So you know what? Let's go. So what's the order looking like? What's he looking at?
Donovan Mitchell last night. I have it here. Look at that mercenary. Look at him. Just follow the follow the money. Look at that mercenary. A mercenary just want to provide for his family.
American dream. No, I hope taking the shorter years and the more money rather than the more years and a little less money to play for the Mets will work out for him. I mean, 15 and 16. He's going to be in his 40s.
I'm going to be playing. Dude, Cooper came to me last night because he was talking about it with his friend Ryan. He's the one who broke the news to me because, you know, he's been refreshing his phone nonstop. He goes, Dad, he's 13. He goes, Dad, I'm going to be 29 when the contract's over. And then he started doing the math on how old I'm going to be. And it flipped me out.
Oh, it's great. More than Soto signing with the Mets. Yeah. Contract details too. No deferments. See what I'm saying?
Yeah. He can opt out. Give me the money now. He can get 51 million a year. He can opt out after the fifth year, 2029 or or receive a $4 million raise per season from 51 to 55 for the remainder of the contract.
Age 51 to 55. That's what it sounds like to me, doesn't it? So he can opt out in five years, huh? Yeah. Oh, great. So it'll be on the Bronx by, in no time. We'll be back.
Sure. Juan Valdez, I remember more than I remember Juan Soto at this point. Juan Valdez is making a coffee with Bean reference. That's the only Juan I know is Juan Valdez. Is it Juan Cohen or is it Steve Soto? Like who's... I told the Steinbrenners to just adopt him. I told them that in May. Juan Cohen kind of slaps.
All right. Gotta beat the Dodgers. Can we bring Jon Hamm out here now so I can stop talking about this?
You know, you know how Facebook has a, on this day thing, Jon Hamm would probably be interested in this. I wrote 13 years ago today, two World Series titles and three MVPs probably deserved at least three more. Plus he saved you 200 million. Not sure what St. Louis fans could have wanted out of pool hosts anymore. So I guess this is the anniversary of pool hosts. Leaving?
Leaving. Why would Jon Hamm want to talk about that? Because he saved, he got saved $200 million by that. But he wanted pool hosts. He wanted to keep your superstar. But my point being, look what pool hosts brought to these fans.
I have some Cardinals fans. Actually what I prefer to talk about is what pool hosts brought to the Angels. Which is what I hope is more than what Soto is going to bring to you, sir. Which is a bunch of nothing.
He did more for the Dodgers in that one year with them. I mean, that's true. Look, you guys aren't going to bring me down.
Don't be, you know what I mean? Mets or Cowboys, who wins a title first? Mets.
Absolutely. The Mets will win a championship before the Cowboys. Mets are all in.
The Mets are actually all in. That's exactly it. Somebody could fold their hand in five years. Yeah. Well, so, okay. He does. And then we're off the hook for that contract.
So I don't think it's going to happen. Chris, you know what we think we can say on this day? We don't need him.
I'm actually glad. I'm glad you take him. You take him. You take him.
Enjoy him. I just loved reading Twitter last night. Just everyone who looking at tweets from last week.
We don't need them. I learned about a whole bunch of Yankee fans I did not know existed. Assume that they were out there with their videos for Juan Soto. There was one dude in front of Citi Field shots across the street. He went out to Citi Field to make the video to tell Sutter to go F himself.
And then he got sent to me by four different people today. He called Boris Scott Morris. I mean, by the way, Scott Morris, what he doesn't know is the Mets have a plan to just redesign and take over all of that.
That's a new t-shirt. F you, Scott Morris. All right. Let's get Jon Hamm out here.
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Good to see you. Jon Hamm. Let's get, yeah, and your scenes with Demi Moore as well. Demi Moore plays my wife. I was like, this is, yes. I just said yes.
I was like, sure, I'm in. Exactly. And nobody is as red hot than Taylor Sheridan. Taylor Sheridan.
I mean, yeah, like I said, I literally lost count of how many shows he has on the air. The list goes on and on and they're all good. Lioness is great. Tulsa King's great. All the Yellowstone.
How many Yellowstone's can you have? So it's fantastic. He's a great guy to work for and with.
And yeah, I'm stoked to be in this version of the next iteration of his universe, so to speak. So did you have a meeting with him? Like, is that how it works? Yeah, you go down.
He has this massive ranch down in West Texas in Weatherford, just west of Fort Worth. And you go down there and he goes, this is what I'm thinking. This is what I want to do.
What do you think? And you go, great. Yeah, I want to do that. Okay.
That's it. It's the greatest audition process ever. You don't have to sit in the room and wait somewhere in Studio City and look at nine guys that look like you.
He just goes, I want you. Come down here. Let's meet. Let's talk about it. And then we'll do the show.
Right. And Billy Bob Thornton again. Billy Bob's in.
Demi's in. Andy Garcia comes in later in the show. It's fantastic. It's a great group.
Right. And you had mentioned, because again, I swear when I heard that you were doing this with Billy Bob Thornton, the thing I thought in my head is you're both Cardinals fans. I really did think that because I know he's been here before and he talks about his love for the Cardinals. He loves the Cardinals and so do I. One of the last times I'd seen him was at the All-Star Game in St. Louis.
And he was getting ready. See, when you're a Cardinal fan and you get the opportunity to do this, we're getting ready to play in the celebrity softball nonsense. So they rally up all the Cardinal folks and it's me and it's Billy Bob and Nelly. And that's kind of it.
I think Ellie Kemper was there and Annie Wersching from 24. But of the guys, it's like me, Billy Bob, Nelly. That's a wrap. But we're in the clubhouse getting ready with Whitey Herzog and Vince Coleman and Ozzie Smith and all these guys. And I'm like, come on, man. Am I here? I'm actually here?
This is unbelievable. So did you protect Nelly in the lineup? I think Nelly went long. I actually had to play third base next to Ozzie Smith because I wasn't going to play shortstop when Ozzie Smith's on the field.
You had time to move over? Yeah, no, I wasn't going to be like, scooch. But when you play third base in a softball game, you are in the firing line. It's not the hot corner. It's like the nuclear corner. So I was playing a very shallow left, really. But I did make a hot stop there that Ozzie Smith laughed at me because I fully had my eyes closed when I made it. And I barely made the throw across the field. That is amazing.
It exists somewhere. That's like lifetime stuff. Yeah, for sure. Literally, I was like, I'm good. I can go home now.
I'm done. So did you chit chat with Billy Bob in between takes and things like that? We did. We had some great conversations about baseball. The Cardinals, not their year this year, not their year the last couple of years. But I also want to bring up a little, I had a little problem with one of your callers and the guy from Chicago.
Because my God, what a complaint. It's so hard to be a Chicago fan. What? I mean, let's start with the Bears' dominance in the eighties. That's fine.
That's a long time ago. Then you move into the Bulls. Then you move into the Blackhawks two cups within two years.
Then you get to the Cubs breaking the curtain. This is in this guy's lifetime, I'm sure. Come on, man. Is Chicago running up against Boston as the worst fan base of her insufferability?
Because it might be. Spoken like a true man from St. Louis right here. Aren't you the guy? Let's talk about a city, a fan base that's lost to franchises in the course of my lifetime. Not to mention lost to a couple of World Series, to the Red Sox. Oh, I can't hear it from the Chicago people. Aren't you the guy who once upon a time, did you take a Cubs hat off of Bill Murray's head or something like that?
No, Bill Murray took a Cardinals hat off my head after the Cubs won game five of the World Series, which I predicted. And he threw it over the, we were at, what's that bar in the behind Wrigley and Wrigleyville there, whatever it's called, Mothers or something like that. And there's a little back place. And everyone from Chicago is out there, so it's all the Murrays. And a couple of Blackhawks, Chelios, I think, was there and a bunch of people. And it's a dance party because they won.
They won game five and it's looking good. And I was wearing a vintage St. Louis Cardinal hat as my own little nod to what I thought about the franchise. In the middle of a Cubs World Series, just reminding them. The Murray family dance party with Chris Chelios. I think it was Murphy's bar.
Murphy's, yeah, Murphy's bar. And you're wearing a Cardinals hat then? I wore it for the whole series. Yes, thank you very much.
I just wanted to remind them that some franchises have success over the course of their 100 years on the planet. But Billy saw it and did not take kindly to it and took it and threw it over the wall into the alley, thinking that's the end of that hat. And I looked and I said, well, there's a door right here. I opened the door and saw the other side of the wall. I picked up my hat and I put it back on my head and we continued our dance party.
It was fine. He made his point. I made my point. The end of that story is that I auctioned that hat off in Chicago to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and they raised $15,000.
So it all came down. Your bitterness led to happiness for somebody. There's no bitterness.
I'm just proving a point. I love it. That sounds like Michigan planting a flag in the middle of Ohio State after winning that. Sounds a lot like that. Don't you think?
It's a similar sensibility. Just reminding them. You have to. You have to.
Guys. I'm with you, Jon Hamm. I'm with you 100%.
I love it. How are your fantasy teams doing right now? All of the ones that don't have Saquon Barkley on them are doing terribly.
The two that I have Saquon on are doing quite good. One of the greatest fantasy years in the history of fantasy football. Also, we were talking about it a little bit off-camera, but what a weekend. What a crazy NFL weekend. That Rams-Bills game was out of control. Somebody in one of my leagues, I think, put up 250 points.
It makes sense. They had Allen. They had whatever receiver went off, Nakua, I think. If you had Addison, Nakua.
Addison, Nakua, and Allen. I think that alone was 160 points, and that was without the rest of his team. He put up 250.
You could do that. I mean, I'm going against Allen this week, against actually the director of this segment right now. Fair enough. The second 60-point performance I've had to endure, the man over your right shoulder has Saquon Barkley, TJ Jefferson. That was another one. How about Jerry Jeudy last week? Exploding.
That's another one. Maybe if you toss in a little Charbonnet on top of it, you've got a 250-point performance. It's unreal. And I feel like fantasy this year has been that. It's feast or famine.
Because some of these guys either throw up a huge number or just disappear. What leagues are you in? Just old school.
I know you've got buddies from way back in the day that you're still very tight with. That's kind of the one I've been in the longest. That's the one you want to win the most, right?
Listen, I've at least won almost every one of these that I've been in. The best ball thing I can't get my head on. I don't understand it.
I don't get it. Wait, Jon, are you still in the Bill Simmons one where they kick someone out at the draft? Yes, I'm still in that.
I'm in the playoffs in that. What if they kick someone out? It's kind of the greatest rule. The reason I got in was because they initiated this rule. Yes. That the winner of the league shall, on the day of the draft, decide that one person is out of the league for the year.
So they have an odd number of people. Yes. And I was the new guy to come in. So they kicked whoever out the first year. I came in.
Wow. And it's the day of the draft. So you have to get all your stuff ready and ready to go. And it's evolved into this elaborate survivor style. There are games involved. It's recorded and put out on the internet on the various people who are in this league's podcasts and websites and whatnot.
It's a very elaborate thing now. I've been on the receiving end of the kicking out. Famously, I came directly from the set of Mad Men to the draft, which was at some bar in Hollywood. And I'm rushing there. I'll be there in a minute. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry we ran late. I get there and I put my bag down and I take my laptop out and I get a beer and I go, okay. And then we go and they go, hey, I'm here out. And I go, okay.
And I finish my beer and I put it back in and I put my backpack and away I go. Were you dressed as Don Draper at the time? I had the hair still for sure. I mean, I was definitely, that stuff takes a while to wash out, but, uh, but yeah, also don't, don't throw up a clip from 2017 before I come out. I was like, my God, I looked, my hair was dark. I looked, uh, I looked seven years younger. Listen, don't you don't, don't worry. I'm no matter what I will look worse in those clips.
I can guarantee you that anything from 2017 does not bode well for me. So in your vast career of working with a large number of people, comedies and dramas, who is the one that I wouldn't expect to be a fantasy footballer that is a fantasy footballer? Like, would, like Kristen Wiig be in a fantasy league?
Wiig is not on, on that train. Okay. I'm trying to, I'm trying to give you an example. I'm trying to think of who, yeah, I'm trying to think of who, who is a surprise because most people, you know, Rudd and Seth Meyers, like guys like that, they're all, they're heavy into it, which you know. Um, man, that's a good question.
If there's nobody, I will accept that answer as well. I can't, I can't come off of somebody off the top of my head. Yeah. Like we had Jodie Foster here and she was like talking about how Jodie Nelson got her into fantasy football and she's a diehard fantasy football player.
We would never, we would never expected that. Like she's, she's cool. I ran into her, uh, this summer.
I was in New York working on a new TV show this summer and, and literally like walk, she was going to the post office with literally with a letter in her hand, walking her dog to the post office. And I go, Hey, and we, we, we'd met each other a couple of times at various, various things. I said, Jodie, Hey, how you doing? She goes, Hey, how's it going?
We had a nice conversation. I go, where are you going? She goes, post office. I mail a letter.
They're just like us. I know. I'll say, first of all, who mails a letter?
Just text someone. That's your reaction. You mailing something to me?
You are in New York, right? I mean, I'm going way back with that reference. John, you might not know, Demi actually used to play fantasy. That's what I was going to, I was going to say anybody for a few years, I would be, she would be the one I would think like might be an outside chance, but we didn't talk about it. But she was, she, you can confirm she is a fantasy football player.
She used to, she was in my league for, I think like three years. Okay. All right. She's having a good year.
She wanted to do your off the fantasy roles. I know that. Well, I mean, this show is awesome, man. John, John Ham here in support of land, man. It really is. It's just, it's so terrific here on the Rich Eisen show. What, why you mentioned Don Draper, what is your favorite line from Mad Men that you said, I mean, the number of times that I got, I get stuck in my algorithm.
I know you're not on, on social media, but every now and then I will get a scene that you are just peeling the paint off the wall. You're crushing it as Don Draper. What, what line of yours? There's a couple, I mean, look, I did that show for nine, for eight seasons over, over nine and a half years, basically throughout the entirety of, of my late thirties and early forties. It's, it's a great show. I'm super proud of to have it in my, in my history and in my life. And there's so many good lines though. There's two that I think I could focus on. One is very famously a scene where the focus of it is that's what the money is for because someone is complaining about not getting thanked.
A lot like a Chicago fan complaining about not winning enough championships. Right. I think it was Elizabeth Moth's character saying she was, she was angry, perturbed that she hadn't been thanked enough.
And the response was, that's what the money is for. But there's another great scene where I'm in the, in the elevator with, with Vincent Karthas's character, Pete Campbell. No, no, no, no. I take it back. It wasn't Pete.
It was Ginsburg. And he says, you know, I, I feel sorry for you. And I look at him and I go, I don't think about you at all. Savage. And it was, it's such a good, it's such a great take down and, and it was shot in a great way and he's kind of like eviscerated and it was, it was a fun day. Yeah. I mean, again, you, when you see stuff like that on a script, you just know, like you're, you're going to stick the landing on something like that.
Yeah. It's fun. That stuff is, that's, that's what the money is for, so to speak.
But that's why we get into this gig is to, is to have those moments and, and, and, and, and, you know, show those things. It's, it's, it's great. I haven't, I haven't gone back and watched Mad Men.
I have to do that at some point. Cause I, I, I do remember liking the show. Well, I mean, please. I mean, it was as great as any TV show that's ever been made. I mean, I didn't say it. Well, I, I just did.
And it was by the way, an absolute delight to see you back in the role in Seinfeld's movie recently on Netflix, man. Like, yeah. Yeah. That was a little fun, little Easter egg. I got to, I got to, I got to, it's funny when you get, you know, you get a thing on your phone and it's an unknown number or whatever. You're like, no, thanks.
And then you get the voicemail, it's Jerry Seinfeld. You're like, that's weird. But yeah, he, this was, this was during heavy COVID too. So we were all masked up and it was very hush-hush and surprise. But, but it, it was great. It was super fun. I said, I'll do it if Slattery does it.
Slattery said, I'll do it if Ham does it. So we both showed up on the day and it was super fun. And you got back into character and it was, I mean, that movie had tons of cameos. That, that one was the one where I racked it back and I'm like, wow, that was amazing.
Very, very funny. Jerry, I now know, was a very big fan of, of the show. And that was his little, his little wink and a nod. Right. Which it was great.
And just seeing you and Slattery back in those roles were, but he's the one who personally called you and left you a voicemail message. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, I hope this is John Ham. It was Jerry Seinfeld. I was like, okay, wow. That's how it started. That's how the voice was. Yeah.
I don't have an outgoing message. He's like, well, I'm good. We'll see. That is absolutely funny. So let me just throw this one out there as well. Cause the comedies that you have been in are just absolutely frigging classic Bridesmaids. When that one showed up on your doorstep, I got that, that one came to me because I had hosted Saturday Night Live three times in two years.
Right. And, and Kristen was on in the cast for all three of them. And we did so many sketches together. We became, we became really good friends. And she's, she came to me at some point when I was, one of the times I was hosting and said, I, we're making this movie and Jon Apatow is going to produce it. And I'm writing it with my best friend, Annie. And I just really want you to be in it.
Would you, would you consider being in it? And I was like, well, I'd love to, but I, I, I have a day job, you know, Mad Men was like, is April through August or whatever it was, or March through August. I said, so it's, it's, my schedule's tricky.
And that's exactly the time that they're not, that Saturday Night Live is not on. So it was kind of like, I knew it would have to be a summertime thing. I said, but I'll, I'll, I'll happily, she goes, well, okay, we wanted you to be for the lead, but we know you can't do that, but maybe you can, there's this other part we really want you to do. I said, okay. And she goes, we haven't really written it yet.
So there's nothing to see. I go, whatever, I'll do it. And I ended up doing that, that movie uncredited. I'm not in the credits of that movie. You're not.
No, for whatever reason. It's very Bill Murray-esque by the way. So, so she ended up writing this thing and then the whole first thing is us basically, you know, bouncing around on top of each other. I was like, Kristen, okay, I guess this is what we're doing. But we shot it the last day of shooting. It was the only day I had free and that, and that they could fit it in. And so literally all that stuff in the beginning, when we're doing all the crazy sex stuff is, is the last day of shooting when literally the crew is like, can you guys wrap this up, please, with your nonsense?
And we couldn't keep a straight face. It was so many dumb things. It was, it was such a fun experience.
And Kristen remains to this day, a very dear friend. So I was super happy with all the success. Which is, which is the comedy where you did the most ad-libbing.
That one for sure. Yeah, it was because it was encouraged. The part, as I mentioned, was kind of, hadn't really been written out other than he's a bad boyfriend and, and then kind of go with that. So all this stuff with Kristen and I in the car and I'm like, want to take a little, a little lap nap. You want to, that was all, we just came up with it. Cause we're driving a car and we're just basically riffing and talking. It's like, there's no, you know, there's no action or cut.
We're just driving as much as we can. And who are the, who are the musical acts when you did SNL? Do you remember? I had, my first time was Coldplay and they had to play an extra song because that was the weekend that Amy Poehler had her baby.
Wow. She had her baby at four o'clock on Saturday. So she was technically unavailable for the show. Well, good thing you had the right band for an extra song. They had, they had one ready to go.
It turns out they're prolific. And and then, then the second time I had Buble and then the third time I had Rihanna. Oh, damn man.
I had a solid, I had a solid, you know, swath of the music industry. We had Michael Buble in that chair two months ago. And what a delightful, he's a great guy. Holy cow. What a delightful human being.
Vancouver's best. Yeah. He's, he couldn't have been nicer. And I told him about that.
I'm a big karaoke guy. And I asked him about what it feels like to have a band behind you while you're just nailing Sinatra. And he offered to have me actually do it with him. And did you take him up on it?
It's one of those things where again, you know, he doesn't strike me as one of those LA types. So just says it just to say it totally, but he'll totally do it. Right. And so I guess you got to come correct. I got to, I got to follow up.
You better, you better start warming up now. No, Rich is good. I don't doubt it. He's got a voice like, you know, spun sugar.
Are you kidding me? He's got a professional broadcaster. He does a great Sinatra. Thank you, Mike. I appreciate you caping.
You have in my back right here before I let you go. You got any thoughts on Soto? What do you think? You know, I was listening to you guys talk about it. It's a funny thing when you spend that much money on one guy on a team that has, by law has to field nine guys. It's what he's, you know, you go, okay, cool. I think the fielding liability is funny and going to be a little bit of a wild card, but that's why they have the DH in the thing. You know, if I was, if I'm Edgar Ramirez right now, I'm kind of Edgar Martinez.
I'm really wishing I lived in a different generation. Can you imagine? You know what I mean? But he is one of the greatest theaters I've ever seen.
All time, all time. Anybody that works in professional baseball would say that too. Cause he's just the dude raked.
But yeah, he could have been a billion dollar guy. I don't know. I think it's great. I think it certainly changes the game in the National League East.
We'll see. Well, I didn't speak inappropriately for you, John, when I was giving my, a take on it earlier that on behalf of a Red Sox fan, a Yankee fan or anyone else, and I mentioned you, at least the Dodgers didn't get them. At least the Dodgers didn't get them.
Sure. Cause that would have been just like, you just fold up, fold up major league baseball. Well, no offense.
It would have looked a lot like the Yankees in the, in the nineties. No offense taken. No offense taken. Again, if I hear another God damn Yankee fan complain about who's getting who and how much they spent. The pool holes take was correct by the way too, because the, the, the I was sad to see him go, but we got a, we got a lot of value for our time with Albert. No question about it. Yeah.
And he's a, he remains one of the great Cardinals and one of the great people on the planet. Tell me about your friends and neighbors starting next April on Apple TV. On Apple TV. It's Apple TV Plus, I think. I don't know.
There's always a plus. It's a, it's my new show. It's a, it's very exciting. Written by a guy named Jonathan Tropper who, sharp-eyed viewers might, might recognize from some of the other shows out there. It's about, it's a very cool show. I haven't really seen it like a tone like it.
I play a guy who kind of comes across a hard luck in his job and starts stealing from his wealthy friends and neighbors to make ends meet. So yeah, it's a, it's an interesting, it's a very interesting setup and it's a very cool looking show. And I'm excited for people to see it.
It's myself, Olivia Munn, Amanda Peet, others. Fantastic. And it starts on Apple TV Plus.
On Apple in April. And we're going to start shooting the second season as well. We already got picked up. Yes, indeed. Come on now. Executive, executive produced by you as well.
By me. And Landman, dude, you're awesome in it. The show is just fantastic. Thank you so much. Absolutely taken in and can't wait to see how it all turns out by the end. And you could check that out right here on the Roku portal on Paramount Plus.
Landman releases on Sunday nights exclusively on Paramount Plus. You're the man. Thanks for coming in. Thanks, Rich. Thanks for having me, buddy. The one and only Jon Hamm here on the Rich Eisen Show.
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How Jason proposed. And she was like, he brought in a bunch of bagels. I was like, I have to stop. I will punch you in the throat. If you ever tell this story again and call it a bagel. But now when I tell the story, I go, he went and got breakfast. There you go bagels.
Watch what Lala is talking about on YouTube or search for Give Them Lala wherever you listen. What is your best sports memorabilia that you have that you're you're most proud of or something that you love? Oh, it's I've got a bunch of things that I love, but the one that I would have to say is that is the coolest simply because it's not because I was a baseball player. So baseball stuff means a lot to me. One year, a girlfriend of mine said, if you could have anything for Christmas this year, what would it be? And I said an autographed baseball glove from Brooks Robinson because Brooks was from Arkansas. He grew up in Little Rock, North Little Rock. And I just loved him when he played with the Orioles.
And so I thought that's never going to happen. But if I could have anything, that's what it would be. And she chased him down. She got all the publicists and everybody else on the case. And Christmas morning I opened it up and there was an autograph book, a Brooks Robinson glove. And it said, and of course, the glove from him, that's the thing because of his fielding, you know, and it said from a huge fan, Brooks Robinson, I'm like, Brooks Robinson knows who I am. I'm done.
This is all fine. Did you ever put on the Brooks Robinson glove? Like literally put your hand in it? Oh, I put it on, but boy, do I protect it. I finally put it in plexiglass because it's, you know, the name might rub off, you know.
Yeah, you don't want to do that. Boy, that's a, that's a real dandy thing. McGuire also gave me a bat right after he broke it, you know. Right after he broke the Marist? No, no, after he broke his bat.
He ground it out to third. No, you should say it was home run number 67, home run 62. But it was that year.
Okay. It was that year. And yeah, he ground it out to third against the Dodgers and he gave me the bat and his batting glove, which had dirt all over it and everything. So I've got that. And yeah, I got some good stuff over the years.
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Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. The man in charge of the college football playoff committee, the University of Michigan athletic director, Ward Manuel, will be joining us in about 10 minutes time. And he did say to ESPN after the final bracket was put out before conference championship weekend, that nobody participating in conference championship weekend would be penalized by the loss or participating in it at all that are already in. And to his word, SMU made it. And it knocked Alabama out. Alabama was in. And when SMU lost to Clemson, making sure that Clemson had to be in this final 12, that was the decision essentially is do you keep SMU in?
Because they were in a bi-week spot. And if you're going to say you're not supposed to be penalized by participating in the conference championship weekend, you're going to knock SMU out and keep Alabama in when they didn't do anything except sit on their campus. And so they kept SMU in and knocked Alabama out. And by putting SMU in, that upgraded Indiana to the 10th spot. And Notre Dame got downgraded to seven when Texas and Penn State lost their conference championships.
They were now five and six. And that put Notre Dame down to seven. And Indiana got upgraded to 10. And there's that matchup that I said I wanted to see. I wanted to see. Yeah, you mentioned that.
That's great. Indiana at Notre Dame for the battle of Indiana. So I think the battle of Indiana game, there's one Friday and three. Well, I don't know what I think that is, you know, and so that's going to be absolutely lit. That game's going to be lit. And, you know, we I mentioned that possibility to Marcus Freeman.
You're right, Mike. That is the Friday. That's the Friday night game. It's going to be the first college football playoff game. And so right at the 20th under the lights in Notre Dame. And, and, and I mentioned, we mentioned that to Marcus Freeman last week as a possibility. He said he wanted to use the home field advantage for a team that wasn't used to cold weather. Well, I mean, Kurt Signet, he's bringing Indiana into Notre Dame.
Please put it back up again, if you don't mind just breaking it all down. The four seeds are Oregon, winner of the big 10. Georgia, which beat Texas in overtime in an exhilarating SEC championship game. Boise State took care of UNLV on Friday night. They're the three seed in Arizona State is four. They went from 12 up to four. Clemson went from out to 12 after beating SMU in the big 12 champ, the ACC championship game. And look at that. What an incredible first foray into the big 10 and the big 12 for Oregon and Arizona State.
Let me just say this. Oregon and Arizona State winning the big 10 and big 12 respectively in their first years to make up half the first ever bi-week quartet field in the first ever 12 team college football playoffs is the most PAC 12 thing ever, ever. PAC 12 dissolves. Oregon goes to the big 10 and wins it. Arizona State goes to the big 12 and wins it. And the PAC 12 is sitting at where, you know, disintegrated in the dustbin of history.
Most PAC 12 thing ever. And then, you know, Ohio State fans are complaining because that's what they do because they have a tough opponent in Tennessee and Penn State, which Ohio State beat. Penn State has a home game against SMU. And if they win it, they take on Boise State. While Ohio State's got a much tougher week one opponent in Tennessee, arguably. You know, and if they win, they got to take on Oregon.
And all I have to say is that two cents, just to be as blunt as possible. If you want an easier path, okay, if you want to have a lesser, in your mind, opponent come into your house, don't step on your scarlet and gray Johnson in front of the entire college football universe against a five loss Michigan team. Don't do it. Go to the big 10 championship game and play Oregon there.
And if you think you could have won that, well, beat Tennessee and you got your shot. That's all. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know. I can't put it any more blunt than that. Penn State went to the big 10 championship game, thanks to you stepping on your scarlet and gray Johnson and came within a touchdown of Oregon in a final score. So maybe that's why they get that path, even though they lost to Ohio State in the regular season. Ward-Manuel coming up to talk about it.
So that's my assessment. Yeah, reports have Carson Beck having a UCL injury to his right throwing elbow. So it wasn't one of those things where it was just stunned for the day and he gets his feeling back.
So it hasn't been anything official, but that's kind of being the word, the rumor mill right now, which means it'd be Gunnar Stockton's show. Well, I mean, that kid performed very well in a tough spot. And how about that game going to overtime and the first snap of overtime is taken by Arch Manning for Texas. I thought, I see you didn't play the overtime.
Are we seeing it to a moment here? And then of course, you know, Quinn Uris came back out. And then Gunnar gets blown up on the run, no targeting call. And then Beck with his arm hanging, takes the final snap on the handoff. And the winner of Indiana Notre Dame plays Georgia, not just visit. And winner of Clemson, Texas takes on Arizona state. And if Clemson beats Texas, then, um, Texas could just ex communicate Quinn Uris to Syracuse. Cause that's what all Ohio state quarterbacks do right after they lose. I can't, I can't, I can't tell you how I just love to continue to dine out on all of this and hate Buckeye fans, feel free to have your team actually win these games and shut folks like me up. Cause a lot of folks are like, well, where's Michigan ranked in this partnership?
But we're not, but we're currently the defending champs for at least the next couple of weeks. Good luck in matching that. My world with Jeff Jarrett takes wrestling fans behind the scenes along with King of the mountain Conrad Thompson. I wanted to ask you about what, you know, if anything on the new WWE ID program, where they're apparently going to be working with some independent wrestlers, my encouragement to any independent wrestler out there, build your value and then understand your average. There's no substitute for hard work and getting over my world with Jeff Jarrett, wherever you listen.
