JJ McCarthy Is A Winner

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That's the truth. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial. We've got Robert De Niro joining us in hour number three. We're going to play Celebrity True or False with one of the greats of all time. He's coming on in support of his new film, The Alto Knights, where he's not playing just one but two mob characters. And it's going to be great.

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And boy, are they a vogue pick to be upset in a 5-12 game. I can't wait to chat with Dusty May. And Mikey Day is joining us in advance of March Madness and a giveaway. And we'll talk about that with the SNL regular and cast member and writer. He's written a couple of skits that we'll have to ask him about. We asked about Nate Bergetse when he was in George Washington. He wrote that sketch, co-wrote that sketch. Nate told us that, so I can't wait to ask Mikey about that.

And the Beavis and Butthead sketch with Ryan Gosling. So we're going to have a lot of laughs. We're going to talk some sports.

We got Chris Brockman. Good to see you over there. What's going on? Good to see you. Jay Felley, how are you? Hi, Rich.

Doing great. I would normally say if you snooze, you lose. But I guess if you work faders for Dodgers and Cubs in the middle of the night, like Mike Del Tufo was apparently doing, you lose because, I mean, De Niro is on the program and he's not here to be part of it. I did set the alarm. Did you really? Did you call him and say, it's time for... That was the plan.

When it went off, I went to my phone and said, wait for it. That's a shame. That's a shame. That's a good one. Speaking of another great guest that we've had in recent days. Good to see you over there, TJ Jefferson. How are you? I'm great. Awesome. How are you? I'm doing very well. Jason, Christopher. Honestly, as I mentioned, Robert De Niro is on this program and can't wait to chat with him.

That's an hour three. I've also got a great power rankings on that front. Also ahead, the language that is now out, that the Packers tush push banning rule proposal, the actual verbiage is out and we'll review all that later on.

We've got our final four picks. But we start thanks to our buddy, Tom Posero. Tommy P. Tommy P. Our good buddy, Tommy P, who's on this show every single Friday. He got some news as we're all waiting to find out how the chess pieces are on the board for Aaron Rogers and the teams and how they're playing it and gaming the system for Aaron or Aaron is gaming the system and trying to get somewhere. Tom basically is saying the door's closed in Minnesota. It's not going to happen and that it's JJ McCarthy's gig. And Tom's tweet says post today that the team has rejected multiple trade calls on JJ McCarthy telling other teams they're moving forward with him as their quarterback. The team plans to add a veteran, but they're not pursuing Aaron Rogers up there. The three words at this time and that is McCarthy now enters the off season as QB one. Now again, Tom's going to be on Friday and news and information.

Men and women always choose their words carefully. That's why they put at this time because right now Aaron Rogers could be on the phone right now at the Vikings closing a, you know, a three year deal. Who the heck knows? You know, things change, plans change, ideas change. McCarthy could suddenly take the wrong step in his home and then boom, something's happening.

You know, I know, but I'm just pointing out how things can change. Like last year, it was a full on competition between JJ McCarthy and Sam Darnold. JJ lit it up in the preseason game and it sure looked like he had a shot to be one of those first round picks that gets starting right out of gate and Sam Darnold's there as a backup. It is one of those guys with a little bit more experience to say, Hey JJ, let's look at this. Let's look at that in a similar situation to the guy with more experience in Atlanta with Kirk Cousins and another top draft choice in the top 10 of last year's draft in Michael Pennix Jr.

Things can change, but as it is right now, let's take it one at a time for the Minnesota Vikings and their fans who might be sitting there going, Oh, okay, so we're going to go with the rookie from last year and he's basically a rookie because he hasn't had a single snap other than preseason football and training camp before his knee needed season ending repairs. And you might be sitting there going, okay, we went 14 wins last year and maybe this isn't the right move. I'm biased. I'm completely biased. Obviously we all know my institution of higher learning and the team that I adore and how he made my life better. Life complete. Life complete. And I say this as a well-rounded man with a tremendous family.

Great jobs. Made my life complete. He completed me. And the way he, the way he's gone about his business, he is beyond his years. He is truly beyond his years. We've interviewed him on this program. You guys have seen him. He met him at the draft last year with him. He's great. He's beyond his years.

Okay. And he sold, he's a, he's a guy who understands that, you know, he meditates, he, he, he talks openly about his, his what'd he say? His OCD.

Is that what he said he had? And and so he, he is open and an open book and somebody who totally understands what his role will be and how he is a 22 year old is going to have to look at people like Harrison Smith and say, follow me. I will lead. He understands that. And he's got a coach who's going to coach him up.

He's had a year in the room with Sam Darnold and Josh McCown is his quarterback's coach. And you've got the right system around. And then you've got the right people to evaluate him. And you're going to go into the season.

Yes. You need to add a veteran. I don't know who that veteran's going to be. Could it be Flacco sitting out there? Winston is, is, is making the rounds right now. I guess he was with the giants this week. Who else could be available in that regard?

You've got, I mean, the numbers are dwindling right now in that regard. Sure. Russell Wilson could be somebody that you bring in. Now he's somebody that's going to want to be a starter somewhere. But if he's left without a chair, if the giants and the Steelers don't sign him, Carson Wentz, Wentz could be a guy.

Sure. Lance. Well, Trey, isn't he your guy now? Because Cooper Rush just hit it big brother to be the backup to Lamar Jackson. We didn't even discuss that yesterday. So Cooper Rush season won't ever be available to you anymore.

And those were good seasons, man. He did his thing. He held it down as well as he could, but he's not. So I don't think Trey Lance is going anywhere. So again, I it's, it's some point you were going to move on and at some point you were going to move on to him. And it's that moment appears to be here now.

And in case anybody might be wondering, does he have it? You know, are the Vikings somehow misreading the situation? If you put up Tom Pellicero's tweet and post one more time for me, it starts with how the Vikings rejected multiple trade calls on JJ McCarthy. It's because other teams value him.

And it makes sense. He is a winner. He lost one game in college, one, and it was a national semifinal game against TCU.

That's it. He didn't, he didn't lose in conference. He didn't lose in his last year.

And he is tough. And a kid from the Midwest, it's a win. It's a win. And I think 14 wins.

I don't know. I have no idea how the ups and downs are going to go, but it's going to be exciting. It's going to be exciting for me personally. I am now going to have my eye completely trained on Minnesota Vikings football and rooting for a kid who I adore and is one to root for with a coach who knows exactly what the hell he's doing. What a terrific spot for JJ McCarthy to be in. I wonder if these trade offers were coming when Sam Darnold's future was unknown. Remember? Because we had thrown that out a bunch.

Keep Sam, trade JJ, get an asset back for a guy you're not going to need because Darnold had such a good year last year. Put a pin in that because we have the guy who might have the answers on Friday's show. Let's ask that of Tom when he joins us.

After, of course, we waste a few seconds of him saying hello to you and you say hello back. I don't look at that as a waste to be honest with you. A waste? What? Did I say waste?

Human interaction, Rick. Did I say waste? Yeah, you did. Into the microphone.

I let him every Friday. Okay. But ask him.

I don't know if it matters, you know? They're not getting trade. I mean, obviously they would turn down trade offers after Sam left. That's what I'm saying. Unless they're like, let's get the capital.

We don't believe in him. Let's sign Aaron Rogers and then we'll go back into the quarterback market two years from now or next year. Let's get some draft capital.

We'll trade up. I would hope they're a little bit smarter than that. Well, this is what they're doing.

This is what they're doing. So now you have to turn to what Rogers's options are. Now I'm going to assume this and, you know, assuming anything that has to do with Aaron Rogers makes him able to call you an ass. And I'm going to assume that Rogers has known the doors closed in Minnesota for more than just, he didn't learn about it by reading about it from Pelissero. And this may have been out there for a while and Tom caught wind of it or something. I, I'm not going to source it. I'm not going to try and give you the timeline here.

I'm just assuming anytime we know something, Rogers may have known about it. So now it, it, again, he can, he can, he has got three options. One is to retire, be done.

The other is to say, I'm going to be a stealer or a giant. That's the options. One would think, I don't know if there's any other current option for him. And the third option is to wait it out, run the risk that the Steelers and the giants move on and say, we're, we're, we're no longer interested. We can't be interested. We're no longer interested. And that leaves them with option, Russ option, Mason or Kirk cousins.

You guys didn't like that one. Well, we've seen the movie before in Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh would have basically if Rogers says, no, I'm going to wait. And they move on there. Pittsburgh has seen both movies before the Mason Rudolph movie, which led to the Russ movie. And I don't know if they want to buy that ticket and the Steelers can wait. The giants can wait too. I mean, they could sign Russ. They could sign, you know, Flacco still wait. They could wait and see if how the rest of the draft order shakes out.

Giants can move up. Steelers really can't move up far enough to get somebody that they might want. They could stay put and draft one. If they don't draft one, then Rogers would be sitting out on the West coast, watching the draft, you know, two fingers into a drink and say, all right, now, now do you want me?

Now do you want me? Which may all play into the fact that we haven't seen a trade yet of anybody moving into the first round, moving up into the first round or moving out of the first round. We haven't seen any draft trades yet involving a first round draft choice. And I think Schefter posted something this week saying that's the latest we've seen zero first round draft movement since the chiefs traded for Montana five days before the, that draft to get Joe out of San Francisco and bring them to Kansas city.

And so everybody, you know, this is all just holding everything up. And the fact that there's no Vikings option for Rogers, Rogers might be saying, well, there's at this time, let's see how things play out. He could pull a full farve and wait to the summer and see who might need him at the last minute. And he can go traveling the world, keeping us talking about it nonstop, which by the way, I don't believe is his end goal.

His end goal is I don't know what it is other than the fact that he's thinking it out. Oh, young, oh, young, naive Rich Eisen. No, I am not. I'm a mid fifties man who is not a complete setting thanks to Miles Garrett just yet.

Oh, rich. You know, this is something we've seen before. You've already been through this before with farves.

So you don't want to do this again, this movie before. And we've also seen it with Rogers before as well, you know, but this appears to be the second time in three years that an NFC North team has told Rogers, we're choosing the young kid. You know, it's time for us to turn the page to our first round draft choice.

We traded up to go get, it's the same story, just fill in the blanks, different, proper names and locations and player names. And Rogers has got to wonder like, you know, where, where do I have a best chance? Listen, if he's got two years to play, it's Pittsburgh, to be very honest. And that's with all due respect to the giants and the people there that I appreciate and, and root for. It's, it's the Steelers. There's no doubt about it. They're more ready-made and they also have a, a more solid foundation in their front office and coaching staff. And I know John Marrow would basically say, you know, I kept the team intact.

I kept that team intact. So why would you say something like that? But we all know that they're one more losing season away from blowing it up. And I don't know if Rogers wants to be part of that anymore. And he might have PTSD since he's, it's the same stadium, same state, same setup. He may not want to do that. Well, each passing day, it looks like this is going to go up to the draft if not beyond.

Certainly the fact that the Vikings, according to Pelosero, have closed the door at this time. 844-204, Rich is the number to dial. So much going on on this program. But when we come back, let's talk March Madness and have a few laughs with Mikey Day of SNL. Live from El Segundo, it's the Rich Eisen Show on this busy Wednesday with Robert DeNiro lurking on our rundown.

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Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois. Mikey Day going to join us in two minutes time. I'm looking at the 19 page printout that the league sent everybody in the club world and the league office world of the playing rule proposals that have come out of the competition committee that are going to be forwarded to the committee to vote on to place in front of ownership. Now some get polled because they've realized it just makes no sense. The owners aren't going to vote for it later on this month and some get advanced. And I'm looking at the one from Green Bay that's going to try and ban the tush push. We'll talk about it later on in this show. It is interesting how they have put it into words and how they've put it into a proposal.

That is what we call a tease of it because they're, they're interesting that they're using, it appears an end around on a tush push ban and that's not a metaphor for anything. All right. So there's that. There's also a one from the lions we need to talk about. They want, they want to, they want to ditch the, um, they want to ditch the automatic first down for defensive holding and illegal contact. I wonder why that is.

It is a, it is, it is pretty tough though. Isn't it? Do you want me to tell you why that they're, they are the ones that are proposing this? No, let's, let's hold on that. Put a pin in that.

Put a pin in that. I can't wait to hear. Um, I will tell you why. Okay.

This is, um, this is all a tease. Yeah. Okay. You know why I do know or you're just being a mess. All about it.

I mean, you might think that I'm being a mess, but my reason is definitely the reason. Okay. Good to know. Thank you. But that's Tinkle sprinkled in there.

A lot of his reasoning. Well, I'd rather be a sprinkle than a Tinkle just to be, you know, straightforward back on the rich eyes and show radio network. I'm sitting at the rich eyes and show desk furnished by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Granger has the right product for you.

Call click ranger.com or just stop by. Uh, some folks outside of the sports world connect with the sports world and big moments, uh, to, uh, promote a giveaway or a rebate of some kind. And, uh, I couldn't have been more excited to see this man's name, uh, on the list. Um, courtesy of great clips, which has got, uh, an interesting, uh, I guess, uh, promotion around March madness and courtesy of great clips is one of my favorites from SNL from Saturday night live, ladies and gentlemen, Mikey day here on the rich guys. How are you doing Mikey? I'm fantastic. It is an honor to talk to you, sir. I am a massive fan, so I'm in the presence of greatness. I want you to know I'm aware of that. Mikey day. I greatly appreciate you being so kind to say that.

Uh, and to start this interview, I I'm asking a question, uh, for my children to start, uh, cause I'm the best dad ever. This, this, this mug that's here. Quick question. Is it cake? Is it cake? Is it cake?

Maybe not that you have. So you have young children. I do because children love that show. They are crazy about it. I'm approached on the street by young children who are like, you're the cake man.

I'm like, that sounds a little odd, but so I can tell whenever someone has little kids, they'll be like, Hey, uh, can I get a picture dude? Uh, it is the truth. Uh, but, uh, not to be a stickler. I need an answer. Is it cake? Mikey is this cake? I'm trying to see.

I mean the camera can zoom in, right? No. Hold on.

I mean it is lean forward to right there. There you go. Okay. I'm trying to look at the handle. I don't know.

It's moving around. I'll say no. If it is, it is not cake. Mikey.

I don't have that. So I was like, this isn't no way. There's no way he made a mug out of cake for my interview. Maybe a huge star.

Maybe. No, no. Like I said, that's this isn't network television.

I don't have that kind of budget, Mike. Um, but Hey, it's great to meet you. Uh, I am a big fan of you and you and what you do. And I've got tons of questions about all that, but, but I definitely want to get to the great clips and what you're you're doing here. Yes, sir.

And the NCAA tournament. What is, what is this all about? How can we get involved? I went and shot with great clips and I shot with, um, Mr. Hunter Dickinson, Kansas. Yes. A seven foot two wonderful friendly giant.

Yes. He was such a sweetheart. So nice. And we went down and great clips gave us haircuts and we were just, um, promoting, um, you go to great clips.com slash 10 off, you can get a $10 haircut in March madness. And I think that's the real story of this year's March madness is that I got a haircut from great clips. It's not Auburn being the top seat overall.

It's not like the cities that might happen between the five and 12 seats. It's your hair. Unfortunately, Mr. Eisen. No, it's my haircut from great clips, but they gave Hunter and I cool, really cool clips under of course looked way cooler than me, but, um, it was, it was a blast and everyone there was super cool. And so it's going on through April 4th.

Okay. All the way through all through the entire madness. That's the, that's the first offset of March madness is that your haircut is the top story of the tournament. The glass slipper fits for Mikey day in his barber at great clips, breaking news, uh, breaking news.

We interrupt this story about Russia and Ukraine. Mikey day digs his haircut and we have, and we have a montage, one shining haircut. Here it is. No, I don't have the budget for that either. Mikey I don't, uh, no cake mugs, no montage.

I don't have it. Um, so do you fill out a shot? Do you do such a thing?

Mikey? You know what? I'm, this is going to come as a shot. Okay. I'm not the biggest sports dude. Okay.

So, um, and I know my physicality would say otherwise, but that's all good. So is there an SNL tournament pool though? Is there a way to get an email? Okay.

I did get an email about it, but I don't know enough to like go in on it. You know what I'm saying? It doesn't matter. I am.

It doesn't matter. You just, you just kind of throw it all in, but I am all in on, can I'm all in on Kansas because of my one and only basketball friend, Hunter. Well, I mean, you saw him all in, but you're a Bruin, right? UCLA. Did you not go to Pauley pavilion?

Did you not? Oh, I went to Pauley pavilion. I'm a UCLA fan.

Okay. Um, so I mean, is, is UCLA in there? I don't know how good you're a seven seed, just like Kansas.

So I would suggest if you do get in the SNL pool, you, you, you maybe aim higher. Um, that's what I was going to say. That UCLA seven seed. Right. Right. Right.

Mikey. That's the key is when you get into a pool and NCAA tournament pool folks like yourself who aren't experts at it, we're all throwing darts. We're all throwing darts. We don't know. Nobody knows.

Absolutely nobody knows, but you winning it. The fact that you could walk around, you know, uh, you're the entire art deco. Yeah.

The art deco hallowed halls of 30 rock Mikey. Yes. Yes. The fact that you could walk around, you know, to use an SNL phrase, cock and a lock, you know, and just walk around man and say, I won the pool.

That's what it's all about. You should do it. I will kick open the door to Lauren Michael's office and say, I won the March madness bracket. Put all my sketches on, please. Oh, absolutely. Sure. Yeah.

That would be fantastic. Mikey day here on the rich eyes and show. I want to ask you about some of the sketches, man, um, that, that I love. We had Nate Burgett see here just a few weeks ago and he told us about the, the George Washington sketch. And is it true? You wrote, you're a part of the writing staff that wrote this sketch for Nate. Yes, that is correct.

Along with Streeter Seidel, um, we wrote the first one and then the second one, we had some help from, uh, Mike DeCenzo at the show. There he is. There's president Washington. He is the perfect George Washington.

It's unbelievable. You would never think when he first came on that he would just fit the role so well, but there's like a stoic nature. So like Nate sometimes, and then like all the imagery of Washington, he's just kind of like Dylan with a great face.

So the two just merged so well, you would never think they, they would mesh so well, but he was perfect. What led to the idea of doing something like that to begin with Mikey? My colleague Streeter loves is obsessed with history and is always obsessed with weight are America's weird weight weights and measurements. So that's what burned the idea.

And then we kind of tried to think of the, the, the most stakes and kind of most like dramatic environment to place this conversation. And then it eventually led to George Washington telling his troops, this is why we're fighting. This is what America is going to be all about having, we're going to use yards and miles and everyone else is going to use kilometers. It is insane when you think about it, when you really kind of like start to think about it for more than five minutes, you're like, why? It's just the meter, the metric system is so easy and simple yet.

We're, we're like, Nope, Pete yards to the, to the point where there has to be two of everything like kilometers and miles per hour or so. And then Nate just absolutely crushed it. It was just one of those cool SNL things where kind of you can't really plan it.

There's just some weird alchemy in the air where the right host and the right material and it just kind of comes alive. We did not expect the response. We really liked the sketch and throughout the week it didn't feel like it was, it felt fine. But then when Nate got in front of an audience, it just kind of came alive. Yeah. He said that he was, he was not expecting it to maybe make the show even. And that in dress rehearsal, it crushed so significantly that it was a no brainer. It was going to make it is what he told us. Yeah.

Yeah. It was, it felt like it was on thin ice and cause on its face, the blocking is just literally Nate crossing back and forth. So it just felt like, I hope this works. So doing it in kind of a, I mean, the crew's always nice and laugh, but you know, at rehearsals without an audience, you're like, we'll see. And then felt kind of shaky and then yeah, dress rehearsal. And it was like late in the show too. It was like, I believe I want to say after the second music, anything after second music, they're like, we'll see where the experimental stuff goes. And we're like, Ooh, second to laugh.

Yikes. Not the best placement, but then, um, yeah, it went really well in it rose. It was a big come up, a big glow up. That was amazing.

Mikey, no doubt about it. Another sketch that went completely viral was the one of Beavis and butthead with Ryan Gosling. Another, another scene, another sketch where Keenan Thompson is just so hilarious in it.

And so what, um, what, uh, what led to this one and obviously Ryan Gosling not being able to keep it together and the rest of the cast not being able to keep it together was fantastic. Hilarious. It's so fun when Ryan feels like, I mean, that is ridiculous.

That is ridiculous. He still kind of looks like good looking. You know what I mean? His base layer is so gorgeous that it shines through and whenever he hosts, it feels like the cool popular kid is hanging out with the drama nerds. You know what I mean? He's always really nice, but there's this, everyone's giddy.

Like Ryan's so nice. We had to add that idea again, Streeter by Seidel and I for a long time and it's so dumb and we had tried it years ago, but the, the through line and that one, it's a conversation about AI, but the original interview that were in the background of was like kind of a Scott Peterson, like a man who's suspected of killing his wife and being interviewed about it. And he's like, I'm sorry, there's, there's a man who looks like in the background, but I think that was ultimately too dark. You know what I mean? Like AI is a little more palpable. I guess, you know, there's some dark aspects to AI, what some people prognosticate for its future, but like talking about, I did not murder my wife as a little, I think it ice people out a little bit.

So, and then like years later it was always, it's always been on my desktop, the file, the script file for business and butthead, like maybe I've all, we always wanted to bring it back and then we're, we thought if anyone could push it over the top, it would be Gosling and sure enough it did. And he's always kind of giggly, but I feel like you're, you're so on board with it. You know what I mean? You're just like, yeah, it doesn't feel forced. You know, he's just having a really good time. Well, I imagine that's another one of those where, you know, you do it around a table and it's one thing, but then you put on the makeup and he puts on the makeup and the costume and now you just must've looked at each other. Yes. Cause like I didn't, cause the host is always running around during the show, like from one sketch to the next.

So you don't really get a chance. I didn't get a chance to see him before. And I mean 99% of that is Louis Zakarian and Jody Mancuso who do the hair and makeup because I mean they crushed it and my lip. It was just a weird mouthpiece that like pushed my gum up. It was like fake teeth and braces, but that is like Indiana Jones. That's that mouthpiece.

It like made it. And then I think that, yeah, that picture I think is from dress cause they ultimately I think moved the hair back a little bit and gave me even more head. And then when Heidi looked back and saw my monstrosity and pulled it together, it was, again, one of those special fun moments, you know, man, you can't plan. Mikey, uh, I could go on and on, but the, the great clips people have other people for you to chat with and I'd love to just invite you back on and we'll just, uh, chop it up, man. It would be amazing.

I would love it. Well, thank you again. I am not blowing smoke. I'm a legit fan and I've, I always like it when you have someone affiliated with a few good men and you're like, what was Nicholson like? I'm like, yes, he asks the questions.

I want to know. Thank you Mikey. I'm a legit, I am a legit fan, so thank you for having me on.

I really appreciate it. And right back at you, Mikey. Um, I, I love watching you in SNL.

We watch it as a family. Um, and uh, the same thing as, is it cake as well? And, um, I, like I said, I'd love to have you back on and talk about the 50th and so much more. So let's do it. If you don't mind.

I would love to. That's it. Uh, that's wild. Oh wow.

That's going back. I would love to chat about wild now. Maybe you have some rap battles. Let's do it. We will absolutely do it. Um, so everybody check out the great clips, $10 off haircut offer from a great clips in terms of March madness, great clips.com slash March madness, Mikey day, the future winner of the SNL NCAA tournament pool right here on the rich eyes and show what a blast, man. See you later, Mikey.

There he goes. Very fun. Fantastic. Um, it was good stuff. I love it when I know they they're told not to, uh, break, right? Oh yeah. Not to break, but when they do, I think it's understood.

Yeah. I I'm dating myself cause they, you know, I, I know you didn't, you were born after, uh, the caliber net show when I was a kid, they broke all the time. And that was funny. Like the, the, the, uh, cast members and their skits, they would break and laugh all the time when Harvey Korman and would always break it with Tim Conway was doing, and they would always break it. It was great. And I think, and I think SNL came into being just a few years later and like, we're not going to break.

Like this is not, but when they do, it's kind of great. Like they, they broke a couple in Fallon broke during the, uh, the cowbell sketch a couple of times. He's always broke. Like he, he broke all the time.

Stefan, like he couldn't. Right. But during the Californians and that's what made the, the Beavis and butthead moment that much funnier because Ryan Gosling was giggling from the start. Right. Right. And then when Christian Shaw turned around and saw them both, yeah, Heidi Gardner, my bad. Sorry. Heidi Gardner, uh, turned around and, and broke from the start. Hey Beavis.

Gosh, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. All right. Uh, we will take a break.

Come back. We've got the, we've got the play of the week and, uh, the Detroit lions are just on fire right now with their rule proposals. They've just been up to something and the Eagles just made a rule proposal.

And later on the, the motherload, the Packers trying to get, uh, the tush push out. And the reason why I'm mentioning all this is I have the paperwork. We now have the actual language. We actually, uh, have the verbiage. And that's the most important thing because that's what, whether a rule gets voted up or down, you can say, this is what we want, but you actually have to put it into words. And I've got them right here. And the Eagles just came up with an overtime rule proposal.

I want to hit. And the lions came up with a playoff seating proposal that will hit. And, but of course the, uh, the big one is what the Packers are up to. Uh, we've got the play of the week as well coming up. It's a fascinating one.

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That came from two things. John Mulaney wrote that with me and John, I think deserves a lot of credit for Stefan because he wrote so much of the rhythm of that and the specifics of it. And clearly I found it funny because I laughed every time we did it.

I don't think we ever did it where I didn't laugh. John will put in different things or he'll tell me as I'm walking out and it's just like throwing stuff at me. And when I hosted last, John came out as shy, his lawyer, who's also a piss artist. And he came in and this is all John and John whispered it and he comes out and I thought he was going to do it kind of like in the Stefan voice like, Hey, Stefan or whatever. And he goes, hello, Stefan. He goes, hello, Stefan.

Hello everyone. And he started laughing and then he whispered in my ear. He goes, I have something to tell you. And he just whispers in my ear, my girlfriend works at Yoshinoya beef ball. And I just started laughing just to like, it was just punching me in the face. He's like, Hey, by the way, if you watch it, I'll tell you, I know you're not supposed to laugh at this stuff and break in the middle of a scene, but that's, I broke every time.

Yeah. The first time was we had a club promoter named amnesia, burned Bernstein, and it didn't really get anything. And then he goes, amnesia.

Bernstein didn't really get anything. And he goes, I'll change it to something else. And then as I was walking out, he goes, I changed him. He should Bernstein to gay Leota. And I started laughing.

So the minute I roll out, I'm like, all right. The other one was sorry. The other one that made me laugh was he said, he'll change a little things. We had a, we had, we had written a, uh, uh, also at the club was, um, a two year old ultimate fighter, Julie lips Jackson. He's got fists like empanadas and he's addicted to ecstasy.

That's what we wrote. And then he wrote, so it was like two year old, two year old, two year old ultimate fighter, Julie lips, Jackson. Uh, he's got fence, like he's got fists like empanadas and they turn the cue card and he said, and he's my best friend, he's my best friend.

And I lost it. I was like, John, I'm behind the cue cards passing. I could see him in Sandburg up against the wall, just watching me laughing. Like dude, I mean, every single time I watched that back, I think to myself, just hearing it, listening to it, it's like, you know, um, is it that funny that we're breaking so hard, but just the way he was telling it and the way he was laughing and the way he was crying, laughing, and the way that he can't laugh on the air on SNL and his buddies, you know, who are insanely famous and now insanely famous and very successful in their own rights. And John Mulaney and Andy Samberg are sitting there like, we got him. It's as funny as it gets, man. And he's my best friend.

He's my best friend. Gets me every time. It does. It is so funny.

It's pretty great. Julius Lips Jackson. Oh my goodness gracious, right? Amnesia Bernstein.

Amnesia Bernstein. By the way, do we bring up the Ray Leota? We got it.

We're going to end up bringing the Ray Leota stuff up to, uh, back on the Rich Eisen show, radio network, everybody. The Hyundai event that's going on right now, you need to go and get your new Hyundai or SUV that you've been dreaming about and have always wanted. It's called the Hyundai getaway sales event. And it comes every single Hyundai with America's best warranty, three years or 36,000 miles of limited complimentary maintenance too.

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What's going on? How are you? I'm doing well.

I'm assuming Chris, TJ and Jason is there. Good morning to y'all. Nice to meet you.

Nice to hear from y'all. Um, I have two things. Okay. So first I'm wondering if Aaron Rogers is trying to be petty because I watched his draft day and how he had to sit and wait for teams to pick him.

Okay. Or if he is trying to contemplate, if he wants to go back to the code to play, cause he is getting older. New York, they're playing the code.

Listen, Adobe, let me just say two things. One is anybody can want to play in a dome, young or old and it's, it's obviously a better spot. You don't have to worry about any of the elements. Half your schedule is in that situation. It's loud.

You've got a home field advantage. And I will say this, you can have whatever issues you have with Rogers, but the way he was drafted into this league was tough for absolutely anybody. He definitely isn't petty when it comes to that.

It was a long ass day for him and it was really shocking. Um, and then obviously the way that everybody's careers played out, um, um, definitely, uh, Rogers was right to figure out that he was pissed that Alex Smith goes first overall. And by the way, to the hometown team, he's from Chico, California. So watching the Niners go and take Alex Smith and then he drops all the way down to green Bay, which is like, sure, we'll take him to start behind the guy who never misses a start.

I mean, he's gotta be sitting there staring into the abyss wondering what's going on. Uh, but, but that's, and you can't, I mean, are you a Viking fan Adobe? I, yeah, I am. I tend to be a fan of where I live. So I was born in New York, so I'm a Giants fan.

I went to Temple University, so I'm a Eagles fan and now live in Minnesota. Well, listen, you may get Rogers on the Giants instead. Um, but thanks for the call.

Call back again, Adobe, you can't blame Rogers for wanting to try and engineer his way to the Vikings. It's easily the best situation. 14 wins indoors.

You playing in a division that you played in your whole entire life. You get to run it back one or two more times within your division before you, you go into your next part of your life. It makes complete sense, but the door does appear to be closed.

It appears to be closed right now. Sleep number brings you the play of the week and the play of the week comes all the way from Japan. You may have missed it because it happened in the middle of the night here on the West coast. All you Dodger fans, Hey, how exciting is this for you? Uh, celebrate the world series win. Can't wait for Dodger baseball.

And this I think probably happened around 5.00 AM our time. Cause it's the fifth inning. Well, I mean games today, right? Fifth inning today. Game's already over, uh, against the Cubs. Two two pitch Dodgers up five, two Shohei Ohtani at the plate is the sleep number play of the week. There's an absolute take right center field.

It is off the wall. To second goes Ohtani. To home goes Ohtani. It was a home run. After review, the call on the field stands. Home run.

Yeah, like I said, an absolute take. Ohtani's got his first home run of the season and it comes in Tokyo. The great Joe Davis with the call on Sportsnet Los Angeles. One of our favorite new guests here on the program.

We'll get Joe back here when he's uh, back on a terra firm in the United States. And um, that's the play of the week. So Dodgers now two and oh, only 160 more to go before your overreaction Monday on a Tuesday that they're going to go 162 and oh is correct. Doing pretty good about that prediction. The Dodgers already have a winning streak.

Now they've got the next 10 days off, right? That's cool. Okay. Trying to be positive, more positive in 2025.

That's the play of the week. Sleep better together. Sleep numbers.

Smart beds started only $999 exclusively at a sleep number store prices higher in Alaska and Hawaii. What do you think? 49 49 more to go. It's 50 home run season for him.

Without question. Again, again, I don't think he's going to pitch that much. So yeah, you bet 50 bombs I think is a lock. You bet he will. Oh, he's going to pitch. He's going to pitch.

I don't need them. They, they will absolutely pitch him. Dude.

Unbelievable. It's going to be Yamamoto, Sasaki, glass now, Oh, Tony. That's the, that's their first four.

And I didn't even mention half of their other starters who could be the one or the two on so many other teams. So then why do you need Oh, Tony to pitch because he's two reasons. One he can. And if you have a unicorn who can do both, you have the unicorn do both, especially if you are going to be giving him the greatest 401k in the history of fours ones and zeros.

Okay. What are they paying him? $700 million for that to go to Japan, sell out two days, hit bombs that probably wasn't a bomb.

And then go, go to an, Oh, that's what you're paying them for. Jeffrey Mayer was proud of that fan interference. I'm just saying Yoshinobu mayor. Like, come on. He doesn't need to pitch. Hey, listen, the Dodgers got him to pitch and hit. That's why they're paying them all that money. It's not like the Mets just paying some mercenary to hit bombs.

You know what I mean? It's not just that Mets paid somebody to just hit bombs and butcher fly balls in right field. More home runs this year, Soto or Ohtani.

Ohtani. You pray that. I'm not praying that I'm talking. I'm not even looking at him. I'm looking at this way.

All right. The Mets paid this guy, all that money to just hit and, and be one scissor hands in right field and come up with the worst takes. Like it's a Mets town. So that's what they're paying him to do. Dodgers are playing to do two things. People, guys know that he's gonna pitch and so we'll go hit. Yes, he will.

And be paid handsomely for it because that's all he's about is money. Okay. Our teams are going to be good TJ. And then there's the, Hey, Rick, speaking of stealing, Rodney, Pete is in the stands at these games and apparently he stole a foul ball from Max Muncie that he was trying to get. Rodney Pete is in Japan.

Yes. And Max Muncie is trying to catch a foul ball. He leans over the, well, he's over the first two rows and the netting and Rodney Pete just kind of sticks his glove out and snags it. And apparently Muncie was not happy. Rodney Pete, one of my favorite folks.

Right. With a glove at the game. With his lovely wife. And Holly Robinson is with him. Is Holly Robinson, is she, is she? I'm pretty sure that's her.

So we got to get her back in studio. Remember she came by here years ago? Years ago.

That's funny. Rodney Pete. Yeah. Fantastic.

Still foul balls. Was, was, was Rogan with him as well? Joe? Yeah. Or Fred. Oh.

Star bitch. Joe Seth Fred. Well, Fred cut me years ago. So, so you could spend, no, he blocked me on Twitter years ago.

Oh, that's right. You did say you guys haven't cleared that beef yet. I have no idea what beef I ever had with him. I love one way beefs. One way beefs. That's not a fantasy team name. That's an album title.

It's an album title. One way beefs. It was a meatloaf. I was going to go, I don't know.

What is that? Is that a Kenny Chesney? Should we tell Kenny to make a one way beef song? One way beef. Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney when they go back on tour together. That should be one way beef. Hey Kenny, I'll hit them up later. Hey Kenny, listen, we got a new idea for you. It's a song about somebody who just goes about their business and finds out that somebody else has got a problem with them and you have no idea why. And it's called a one way beef.

And what do you do? That's it. And then just hand that to him and say, make the song. Yeah. And then we get writing credit of course.

Or we get, we get eliminated on the one way beef tour. Is that better than bundle Ruski of hate? That's a great name.

What did I come up with? Oh, that's right. Because everybody had chiefs fatigue and we called it, I called it a bundle Ruski of hate because they hate my homes. They hate the chiefs. They hate the fact that Taylor Swift is Kelsey's boyfriend. A girlfriend was your favorite word for a few weeks.

And I was saying that it was a bundle Ruski of hate. I'm very proud of that one. A lot of good ones. Very proud of that one. Hour two coming up. Dusty May, my coach coming up. One way beef coming up in the city near you.