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Christopher, you want to go first? Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. Duke over St. John's in the final. Rock shock. I got Kansas over Auburn. You got Kansas?

I'm taking Florida over Duke. Earlier on the show. NFL draft analyst for the ringer, Todd McShea, ESPN senior NFL writer Jeremy Fowler. Coming up, WWE superstar Seth Rollins. And now it's Rich Eisen.

Oh, yeah, that's correct. Welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show. Rich Eisen Show, hour number three. Seth Rollins, I think he's zooming in from Europe, from what I understand. I think you're right. He's doing good morning football on Monday in studio for NFL Network and then, of course, on the Roku channel that precedes this program.

844-204-rich is the number to dial. We've got shortly and I'm going to just tap dance for a split second because there's a tip. There we go. We've got four games going on in March Madness. Houston and SIU Edwardsville is rolling right now. And High Point is within two possessions of Purdue, 44-39. Louisville's hoping against hope that they can make some sort of crazy run. But the Crayton's been just, you know, stomping the proverbial hole of mud in them all day long. Five minutes to go in this one. Crayton's up by 12.

Wisconsin's up on Montana by seven. And that's your March Madness update right here on the Rich Eisen Show. SIU is Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville.

Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville. That's a mouthful. So that's why they go SIU Edwardsville and the one seed Houston's down 2-0 and they've already missed a shot. Oh, it's over. Is it?

SIU is TJ's favorite team because their nickname is the Cougars. I know. And another thing, Monica. What? Thank you, Jason. Sometimes you just got to sit there and laugh.

I had no come back to that because I don't hate it. Well, although seriously, do you have your bracket printed out? Of course I do. OK. Do you have BYU advancing? Let's see where I have BYU at. Is BYU advancing? The opposite of Cougars, Brigham Young? No. Actually, what's their nickname? The Cougars.

No, but. I do have BYU advancing all the way to the Sweet 16. I got VCU beating BYU in the first round. Sweet 16, by the way. I have VCU in the Sweet 16. OK. By the way, Sweet 16, exact opposite of Cougars.

That's what I'm saying. Oh, you guys. Guys, come on. Houston's down 2-0, guys.

And we're 90 seconds in. No, it's 4-2, Rich. It's 4-10.

It's 4-10. I'm behind. OK. I'm behind. I'll just be quiet. OK. I've got a top five to kick off hour three.

Yeah, you do. I've got a top five to kick off hour three. And it's presented by Hyundai. Top five winners of the offseason so far. High five. One, two, three, four, five. Rich's top five. OK, my top five winners of the offseason so far. And I understand it's kind of stupid to do this. I mean, right?

I mean, I don't know what you're going to do, so I can't really confirm. It's March 20th, but the new league year is pretty much done with its splashiness, right? And we're still waiting on Rodgers, and I don't have Rodgers signing with the Giants or Steelers putting either of them on my top five list, so I kind of feel comfortable right now giving you my top five winners of the offseason so far. Just cut the one and say the contest. Presented by Hyundai.

No, spoiler alert. Cowboys are not on the list. Oh, this list is fugazi.

They didn't make it. Number five is the Raiders. And the reason why I'm putting the Raiders here also is because they hired Pete Carroll, and I kind of like it.

I like it. The fact that they also got Geno Smith and Pete, it's just like, OK, we're bringing a sense of stability here. We're bringing a sense of who we are and the competition level, and we're done with the revolving door, and we're done with wondering who the quarterback is. We're going to go and get a young guy in John Spytek to be our general manager, to go team up with Pete here.

And who cares about Pete's age? What we have is experience, not old. And what we've got here is a sense of calm, but excitement. And with that, and Geno comes signing Crosby. You don't have any silliness happening with your best player. And you got some interesting additions. Jeremy Chin, I mentioned, is one of the more underrated pickups of the free agent season.

You got Alex Kappa, add him to your line. Raheem Mostert. I understand Dolphins fans will be like, good luck, have him, but you're getting some stability here. The nonsense of the four wins and three wins I think are over.

I really do. And then we'll see what they do with the sixth overall pick. You throw Ashton Gente in the equation. Yeah, now we're talking.

Right. Gente and Mostert with Geno and Bowers and Jacoby Myers. You're going to win more games than you lose with a formula like that.

And then you could build from there. I kind of like what the Raiders have done. Number four, the Los Angeles Rams. You got Stafford Dunn.

OK, that was that was 90 hours of crazy. And when you lose Cooper Cup, I understand that for season ticket holders like you guys over there, it's jarring for a lot of Rams fans. But you replace them with Davante Adams. And you're like, oh, you know, and Pukas like, oh, I'll give you 17.

I always wanted 12 anyway. And, you know, they resigned to two at well and. Poona Ford to the defensive line, they they kept the Kella Witherspoon. They they resigned Alaric Jackson for their tackle. They made themselves better and they were the best team in the West and everybody else is kind of falling off a little bit here as they've been reshuffling the deck. I love what the Rams have done.

And therefore, in the list, number three on the list, everyone's been talking about them and for good reason, because they just said, you know what? We're just going to hit the heck out of the offensive line. And and and enough. Enough is enough.

Enough is enough. And we're going to get Jonah Jackson and Joe Tooney and we're going to figure out what the rest of the offensive line is going to look like. Drew Dalman at center.

The Bears are three. Grady Jarrett to the defensive line. Devin DuVernay and Zaccheaus. You know, Zaccheaus was coming on strong at the end last year.

Add him to the wide receiver room. Tenth overall. Maybe they're going to go ahead and and add more to the line a tenth overall if Gente's already taken. And, you know, if I'm going to say the Raiders are on the list because of who they hired to coach, I'm going to do the same thing for the Bears. They made the splashiest hire. They got they got the splashiest hire. They got Ben Johnson out of Detroit to say yes to a head coaching job. And the fact that they have done this well in free agency by getting the coach and getting them what he needs and figuring out what their strengths were and keep on their weaknesses were and make it a strength to keep on hitting it.

All you need to do is just listen to I'm on Ross St. Brown and the Lions react to it. Money is crazy. It's tough.

I just signed a new for like 40, 50 million dollars. Money is this. I mean, the cat face is right.

They probably have high cat face. Got me hot. Ben just making moves left and right. I'm like, OK, I don't know if anybody's realized yet, but we're going to play that sound bite gratuitously as much as possible. Yep. If there's any way that we could try and that still work in the sound bite and this screen grab of Amman Roth throwing his palm on his head, we're going to do it, you know, and I'm just going to talk about the Bears, maybe sometimes to do it right.

Just giving people a heads up. Number two on my list of top five winners of the offseason parenthetically so far are the Vikings. And you've got to give it up.

You've got to give it up to what they have done. They added Jonathan Allen and Javon Hargrave to their defensive line. Their back end. They they re-signed Byron Murphy and then they hit three more corners, including Jeff Acuda, by the way. If the guy can stay healthy, they re-signed Harrison Smith.

Will Freeze. Five years, eighty eight million dollars to their line. They re-signed Aaron Jones. They get Jordan Mason as the backup and.

Oh, sure. Oh, they re-signed their punter. I'll throw them in there, too. And Ryan Wright. But I think they made the right decision by saying we're going to go with J.J. McCarthy and trust the coach of the year to coach him up and take this 14 win team from last year and may go even further in the postseason. Number one on the list. I think I've been talking about them enough to give you an idea that you know where I'm going on this.

But if you are going to. Trade for Laramie, Tunsil and Debo Samuel and protect and give another weapon to your unicorn. And Jaden Daniels, if you're going to do that and all it costs you is draft capital and cap space that you have in abundance.

What a what a brilliant march for the Washington commanders, you know? And then the offseason began where they keep their offensive coordinator. They re-signed Noah Brown, Mariota as the backup. So they keep the quarterback room the same for the kid.

My goodness. You know, just keep it on track for Jaden Daniels and add more track re-signed Zach Ertz. You add Cleland Farrell at the edge. I know that again, they lost. Signed Michael Gallup. They saw. OK, I know they lost. You know, Jonathan, they caught him. Javon Kinlaw.

They signed him, re-signed Bobby Wagner. It's just it's really great. You got the cap space and you look around and see distressed teams on the cap front and see terrific players that they're willing to part with for draft capital. And you just, you know, go ahead and do it. Well done. That's my top five list for the winners of the offseason so far. Do you think we need one more? All right, we'll get one more. I've got two more. But the one more is the Philadelphia Eagles, because I think we need one more.

OK, well, all right, we'll get one more. The Philadelphia Eagles are our winners of the offseason because other than the commanders and, you know, I guess the Rams, who's I guess the Vikings, too. But are they appreciably closer to the Philadelphia Eagles?

I guess we'll find out, won't we? And they enriched Barkley when they didn't really have to. And they re-signed Zach Bond. And, you know, the latest one that flipped people out for the Giants was getting Aziz Ojilary for a one year deal. Josh Uche, you know, you know, he'll be in the next Zach Bond, right? A Dory Jackson to take over for Slay.

Lane Johnson's got a one year contract essentially through 2027 because Howie does things before. A.J. Dillon with Saquon Barkley. Ken Tullo, you know what he's nicknamed them? The Quad Squad. That's not a bad nickname for the running back room. Quad City. Quad City is not a bad one, but the Quad Squad, you know.

DTR for Kenny Pickett. OK. No one's appreciably closer. I mean, there's some that have done well. I know I had the number one team, the commanders, and I'm like, let's throw the Eagles in there because no one's appreciably closer.

Maybe they're closer than giving up 55 in the NFC Championship game. And then the one more of the one more is all the agents out there. All those hardworking agents who were named by the information men and women in their tweets and posts about the signings that started with sources. And sort of the information community allowing each agent and agency to have their names attached to the reports.

Sort of like a painting that has the artist sign it in the corner. Kudos to them. Those are the winners of the offseason so far. And that's presented by Hyundai. The Hyundai Getaway Sales Event is going on now. But it almost feels wrong. But don't wait.

Visit your local Hyundai dealer today. Interesting list. I mean, I didn't put the Patriots in there yet. Disrespect is real.

The disrespect is real, huh? Best coach available. Best corner available. The Broncos killed it, too.

Best defensive player available. All went to New England. It's interesting.

The Broncos did kill it, too. I should have named them when I'm looking at it. Weird list. Dude, I'm just writing down. Hold on.

March 20th. OK, great. Great, Chris. You had a ton of cap space. You're fourth overall on the clock. You spent it. We'll see if it works.

20, 25. I'd say something, but my team just... Come on, dude. Everybody's made moves. You could make an argument that the Broncos should be on this instead of the Raiders. I gotta agree.

I don't think... The difference is, though, is the Raiders found a coach who I like. But adding Evan Ingram, Dre Greenlaw, and Hufanga. Those are good moves, man. Let me tell you what, man. Tell you what, man. All right, I'm just going to sign this, and I'm going to put this on the... Can I just say, why doesn't Steph Diggs do what I predicted he was going to do three years ago and just go play with his brother?

Hey, you've been talking about that forever. Because you don't want to pay him. You don't want to pay him. Well, maybe he'll give us a little discount. You're not going to pay him.

That's it. You could say that he'll be lucky to get Cooper Cupp's deal, but the Patriots have money coming out of their you-know-whats right now. Yeah, you can't pay a guy 31 off an injury like that, though. You could find millions in an ashtray and an armrest there. That's true. Hopefully, that's going to be spent on some Wi-Fi, finally.

Yeah, maybe I need to upgrade that plane a little bit. Let's go to Justin in Washington. You're here on the Rich Island Show. What's up, Justin? Hey, Rich, I'm a huge fan.

I'd fuck that quick hello to the boys in the studio. Hello, Rich. Hello, Sarah. A Sarah-like entrance. A very Tommy Pike entrance.

A quick evidence for the twist switch to the honorable judge Rich Eisen, if that's okay, real quick. What are we doing here, Justin? You're very muffled. Where are you calling from right now? Where are you? I'm in my house. I'm sorry, can you hear me? Yeah, you got it. Are you on some sort of head device of some sort?

What are you on? Yeah, yeah, I'm here. I can switch. Yes, please do.

Please do. Justin's going to switch, and I bet you it's going to be a million boys, a million boys out there. It's about questions. Hold on a minute. Uh-oh.

Did we lose you, Justin? What sort of apparatus is this? It might be a gaming headset.

Is that what it is? I'm sorry, Rich. Can you hear me? Oh! We can hear you now.

Justin! Okay. Sorry, I get back.

I'll go to the party, pal. Quick evidence for the tush push. I'm really salty that it's getting banned, and I have a couple quick points I want to talk about that nobody's talking about. All right. First of all, the injury thing, there's no data for it, and when I hear Sean McDermott get up on the podium and say, injury, what I hear is that Josh Allen gets hurt.

You know, we're up a creek, you know, and the evidence is that the real truth of that is with the Eagles, I love Jalen Hurts, and we'd be worse without him, but it's true that if he goes down, whoever comes in for him is still handing the ball to Saquon and still throwing 70-30 balls to AJ Brown, and we're probably, you know, we're not as good, but we have a real chance, and that's because of Howie. That's because of building. You don't want to build your whole team. You want to put all your eggs in one basket.

That sounds like a you problem, you know, it's not a us problem. Yeah, okay. I got it. I'm with you, Justin. I don't know if you saw yesterday's show that, you know, when we have the paperwork from the league about what the rule that the Packers are putting in front of the membership from the competition committee on voting the tush push out, and you have to include in it the reason why you're putting the rule out there. We have a Rich Eisen show exclusive. The paperwork originally submitted by Green Bay was the reason is because we can't stop it, you know, and so like that is that is and if that and thank you for the call.

Greatly appreciate it. And call back, Justin, without the headset, you know, again, if that's why this is trying to be if that's why this is trying to be banned, I'm you don't have my vote. We're out. So all right, let's take a break, because I do believe Seth Rollins is joining us from a car in Europe. And I believe that is, in fact, going to be the case when we come back. Let's see if I'm right. But absolutely one of the best of the best of the best.

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I'm serious. So someone's coming off the screen, the rules of basketball. Someone's coming off a screen. They grab the ball, take two steps, stop at the top of the key, they survey, then they start dribbling. Is that not a double dribble? Is that not a travel of what do you call it? It's a travel travel. Yeah. There are videos all over Instagram about they don't call walks anymore.

They don't call travel ever, ever. I'm watching Taylor's Allstar games. They are, she got, one of her teammates got called for carry last night. Carry? And I just like thought to myself, when was the last time I saw that anywhere in a basketball game? Allen Iverson. Does it happen?

A carry. These are fifth graders? The ref went like this and I thought to myself, is he saying he's 50-50 on the call? I mean, I think he touched him. Because I've not seen it and I almost went up to the referee and kind of wanted to hug him saying, you know, thank you for teaching these 11 and 12-year-old girls that you cannot take the ball from this palm of your hand and then flip it over. You cannot do that. It's kind of diabolical to call that on 11-year-olds. No, but is that not the rule?

You cannot do this. Oh, you're happy they called it? Yeah. Oh, interesting. That's the rule, learn the rules, but it's not going to be called when they're older. Many times.

Exactly. Have we seen someone come off of a screen, take two steps and stop? And I thought, okay, now that now they've given up, nope, now we're going to dribble and you're going to now the place allowed to begin. How many times have you seen Boston Celtics take three steps and then shoot from mid court? I do a buzzer all the time.

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You didn't get a chance to answer. No, no, no, but I'm just letting you know. He's going to be here in Los Angeles, big moment for us because we've only had him on at Super Bowls. I don't think he's physically been here.

Has he been here before? He only hangs out with us during big games. Which is fine. I don't mind it.

I don't mind it. But so am I. I get it. I get it. I get it. You get it.

I get it. So why are we going to maybe have him on right now? Because not only is he WWE superstar Seth Rollins, but the last time we saw him, I told him I was going to foster his sports broadcasting career if he so chose.

You manifested that. And look who's joining us right now in advance of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday's appearance as a co-host of Good Morning Football in Los Angeles, but Seth Rollins. We're starting on this beautiful journey into sports broadcasting.

Thank you guys always for helping me out a little platform. Come on. And giving me the love. Come on.

So first of all, we have to start like, are you shooting a Bourne movie? Like, what are you doing right now? What is happening right now? I am in Bologna, Italy, right now in the back of a car. On the way to a dinner. I just got in.

We have Smackdown here tomorrow night. And this is me. So if I'm making you sick, if I'm making you dizzy with this, I apologize. It's chaos. First of all, I know the way Italians drive, okay? So I get it.

That it could be shaky. It's probably somebody tailgating you in a little Fiat going like 100 kilometers an hour right now. I get it. But dude, Bologna. I mean, you're going to a dinner in Bologna. Must be nice. I know. Isn't it great? We're living life is what we're doing. You have to take pictures of all the food.

Chris hates it when I do this. Whenever I'm in Italy on vacation, I take photographs of all the food like it's the Colosseum. Because it is. It's like the culinary Colosseum in Italy. This is amazing. I'm jealous. I'm very excited. I'm very excited for this meal.

It's going to be a good one. I'm in and out. Obviously, I'm going to be back in LA on Monday. So I'm flying back Saturday after the show.

So I have very, very little time. So this is my one major experience that I'm going to get is this, this dining experience tonight. I'm going to ask a silly question, but I mean, massive, you know, wrestling WWE fans in Italy, I imagine, right? How, how, how often have you performed, performed in Italy?

Seth? Oh, many, many, many times. Okay.

Many, many times. Yeah. This, so we're doing something really wacky right now for these three weeks, kind of. We're doing TV show, all of our TV shows in Europe, like in the lead up to WrestleMania. Uh, we come back in April, but I mean, we were in Brussels on Monday, Barcelona last Friday. Um, you know, London next week, it's a crazy idea, but it's working. I mean, the crowd in Brussels was absolutely bonkers.

They would barely let me get two words out of my mouth. I imagine Bologna is going to be, uh, similar on Friday night. So it's going to be good.

It's going to be good. Dude. You know, you're talking to someone who's been broadcasting games, as you know, and I'm in Munich and Frankfurt and all over Europe. And you know, a lot of folks are wondering like, why would the NFL do that? Because you're meeting the fans where they are, man. You're meeting them where they are. Exactly. You know? For sure.

Yeah. It's a unique experience, man. I mean, they don't get the opportunity to be a part of it is so foreign to them and so unique and so special. I mean, they give it everything they've got. It's really, it's something to behold.

It really is. Uh, do you speak Italian, Seth? Not, not a lick, not a lick.

Well, the beautiful thing is, you know, uh, there's a lot of English speaking there and they all assume that all you got to do is just like open your mouth and you're obviously American. They'll, they'll, they'll hopefully cut you some slack. Who knows? Um, but all right. So you're doing good morning football on Monday. This is exciting.

Yeah. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We're doing it, man. We're doing it big time.

The whole shift. I'm going to be there. I'm running. Okay.

And you know, that's on, uh, on Roku right afterwards as well. So you're doing, are you, how many, so you're doing the four hours. Is that what you're doing? You're doing the whole thing. Seth, you're doing the whole shebang? As far as I know.

And unless they kick me off. Yeah. Okay. Do you have any questions for me? How can I help you?

Seth Rollins. What's your one tip? What's your one tip of advice to anybody who's just dipping their toe in right now?

What's your one, one thing? Well, first things first, um, you'll be sleep deprived, um, because it's an early morning wake up, but you already will be anyway. You'll be jet lagged and you'll be whatever, but you know, obviously just be yourself. That's it. But I don't think you, you have any problems doing that. You've never had a problem. That is the one thing I can do. I may not know a lick of, of what I'm talking about, but I can be myself.

So hopefully that translates, but it doesn't matter. Everyone wants you to see you talk football and just see you talk your, you know, whatever you want to. And it's just, it's a great crack staff. So they're going to set things up, you know, for you, uh, probably like, uh, what's the biggest heel turn in the NFL. What would you say is the biggest heel turn in the NFL, TJ Jefferson, what would you say right now? I don't think, I don't think we have a heel turn right now. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm just trying to come up with ideas of trying to mix the wrestling world with the NFL. That's my thing to do that, but I'm trying to think who, who switched teams, Brockman that the quarterbacks of switch teams, anytime you go from to the Raiders as a new quarterback, they're kind of the bad guys of the NFL and in a weird way, um, talking about Gino Smith, uh, Justin Fields, is that kind of a heel turn going to the New York? No, I'm trying to, it could be just anything in, in, I don't know, let's think about players.

None of those moves. All right, screw that idea. Seth, let's come up with another one for Seth Rollins.

It's an ideas meeting, but you know, he's like a sweetheart and they started winning too much. Oh no. I just, say that one more, say that one more time, Seth, you went through a bad Bologna stretch there.

Give me that one more time. Oh, sorry. I said the chiefs, the chiefs are a big heel turn over the past few years, you know, they were America's sweethearts forever. And then, and now, now everybody hates them. That's a great, interesting.

Okay. Give me, give me the wrestler or wrestling scenario of chiefs fatigue, where people got tired of seeing somebody winning and winning and winning. So they got, they got sick of seeing that. Is that John, John Cena is the perfect example of that. Perfect example of that. He's a guy who just recently turned heel for the first time in a long time. But John, John, he's a perfect example. He would win so much.

They would just boo him. They know we want Cena. Cena sucks. You know? And, and so that, there you go, Cena fatigue, Cena fatigue, we just came up with a segment right there.

Yeah. All right, Seth. Well, listen, man, you know, the reception's kind of spotty or whatever, but here's what I want you to do. I just want you to, you got to get your rest. You gotta, you gotta make sure you hydrate. We don't want you cramping up in the middle of like, you know, hour two and you know, you go crush it for the Italians on Saturday, you go do a good morning football and then you come here and we'll, you know, we'll, we'll help iron out any kinks.

I don't think there's going to be, just be yourself. You know, Kyle Brent will be there. You and him can chop up a wrestling in the bears. You know, you can do all of that and it'll be great.

You know, it's going to be a great time. I really appreciate it, Rich. I mean, I'm sorry for the, the chaos and the signal. Don't worry about it, but I'm a, I'm all over the place. It's all good.

Literally. Thank you guys so much for having me. I'm looking forward to, uh, to sitting with you guys in studio on Monday, exactly.

We will dive further into everything when you're not driving in the back of a car. I'm so jealous pasta, what do we got? What are you going to have the pasta tonight? What do we got? Chicken dish? Do we know what the dinner is?

Do we know what's on the menu? We're going to have it all, baby. We're going to have it all. No, sir. I'm going to, I'm going to figure it out when I get there, we're going to do everything I can, anything I can put in my belly. It's going to go.

I want pictures. Are there, can we ask who you're going to dinner with? Great one.

Great one. Who's who's going to be there? Drop some names. Who's there? Just me. I'm solo, man. I'm going to have a solo dinner date with myself right now. Are you serious?

That's right. Do you, do you have like, do you have like a glass of, do you have a glass of red or anything like that, or we don't do that sort of thing or what, what do we do? Of course. I'm definitely going to have some wine. Absolutely going to have a wine. If there's a wine tasting, I'm going to taste some of it.

It's going to be a great time. I appreciate that so much. Dining alone.

That's incredible. You know, I pretty much always dine alone. So I appreciate someone who has options being like, no, I'm going to go out by myself and just enjoy dinner, man. It's a beautiful dinner.

Beautiful. Well, go crush it, Seth. Yeah, man, my, my wife is back there in LA with you guys, so I I'm going to be by myself and do my own thing.

You know, she, she, if she was with me, she was on the road, she'd be my companion, my, my wine sampling partner, but today I'm by myself, so I'll take pictures and bring them, bring them all. Oh my God. Brockman, you won't complain.

I will not complain. I want to actually, Seth, I'm thinking about taking my son out of school so he can come hang out with us. He has done your song as his walk-up song for a little league this year, and he's very psyched.

I love it. I'd love to meet him. Bring him. Okay. He's out. He's out. He's out. Well, actually, will you sign the, uh, the notice to his teacher, Seth?

If we created a notice, excusing him. Absolutely. Okay. Let's do it. Absolutely. We'll put on Rich Ives and show stationery. That's right. Okay. Dear so-and-so, you could fill in the teacher's name and then sign Seth Rollins.

And then we got Feli's notary. There's a segment right there. Take care of yourself, man. Enjoy dinner. See you guys. Thank you. You got Seth Rollins.

WWE superstar. Boom. He's, he's not going to school and then we'll, we'll, we'll have an official on our, on our stationery. Yeah. Right. Excused absence. Right.

Excused absence. Sign Seth Rollins. You'll copy it. Take that.

And we'll keep the original and put it like frame it done. That's too funny. Cage's note to his teacher. Excused absence. Please.

Excuse. How'd it go? Hang out with Seth Rollins today.

He had to hang out with no have to hang out with me, WWE superstar, Seth Rollins signed WWE superstar, Seth Rollins. That's it. It's going to happen. And you'll have in cage. We'll have that forever.

We'll have that result. What were you going to say? Mikey? I was going to say, let's say the teacher doesn't know Seth Rollins. Oh, like I would be like, well then it's on them. We got to hope that they, you know, you agree with that. John Cena fatigue is the same thing as she is fatigue.

Yeah. I mean, he just recently turned Hill, but I know that there had been fatigue years prior to him actually doing it. I know who the biggest Hill turn is. The final bus for you.

I don't know Juan Soto. How was that a Hill turn? He left the dark side and he came to the light. That's what he did.

That's the biggest Hill turn there. Chris. How can I be wrong with that? I'm not wrong with that. You're very wrong. Hmm.

You notice he's not answering. Juan Soto, biggest Hill turn in sports. Not even close. Not even close. What are you talking about?

Not close. How's that a Hill turn? Because he left you after being there for one year and then he's talking about it being a Mets town.

I'm going to the spot because I'm going to the spot like it has nothing to do with money. If anything, he's turned baby face because the Yankees are the evil empire. You're the bad guys.

No we're not. Like I said, he came from the darkness. So he went to the bad guys on a one year tour and then now he's been de-programmed from the, from the, from the, from the, he's been de-severed.

The evil empire? Yeah. And by the way, Chris, didn't the Yankees trade for him? Yeah, the Yankees traded for him. So it wasn't like he had a choice in the matter. He didn't have a choice. Oh, okay.

I was just making sure. Give me the, give me the Hill turn. Give me a Hill turn. I think the Chiefs one is pretty good. But the thing is, it's not pretty good because the Chiefs really haven't turned Hill, it's people turning on them. You got to become a bad guy.

I don't know. Yeah, Juan Soto's a bad guy as far as I'm concerned. Only to you. You're literally the only person who thinks it. And Cooper.

I have no opinion. Oh, Cooper is, Cooper is just not a happy camper. He just plays on the team. But you'll take him to fantasy, right?

Or are you going to take a stand? Nah, we'll show him, we won't take him to fantasy. We won't take him in his 35, 40 home runs.

40 bombs. We had a choice of Rafael Devers. We went with someone else. We would have, we would have taken Bregman. He got upset when I took Duran.

I took him. Well, Duran's a beast, so. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm like, he just doesn't want to, he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to, so we, we cleansed the pallet with Jazz Chisholm, you know? So we did that.

Duran will be better. But his friend Ryan snagged Max Freed before we could. Yeah.

Which sucked. But what do you care? You're a Dodger fan anyway. Yeah, shut up, Mike. We're good.

We're good. Well, he didn't say a word. You tell him to shut up. Hey, just a hack.

I gotta sit next to him. Such a hack over there. Hack.

I'm a winner. Jeez. Okay. We'll take a break. When we come back, phone calls and some excellent news to report on, on our show front here with, uh, with what's gone down in the studio and what's on Roku women's sports now. It's awesome.

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Let me show you. It's a biggie. Oh, we got biggie.

We got biggie. Good one. And then question.

I'm assuming. Do you normally do your face ID? I do not. You don't do face ID.

You know, this man's wasting hours of his life every day. Is it a six digit code or four digits? The unlock this for four.

That's not that secure. All right. You know what?

You know what? I was going to the ATM, but I like the challenge right here. Okay. Before I come over there. You got to rub the fingerprints off.

Haters always tell me later fingerprints got to be fingerprints. I'm coming over for a second. Oh, Oh my goodness. Can I get in the shot?

I might swing. What is happening? Careful. All right.

All right. Can we see biggie? Can we get a close up shot? Let's see.

Is the gym. Somebody's getting tight. Tight. There we go. I got it. I go here. It's locked.

He wasn't lying. Hold out your finger. Think of the first number. Of my code. Yeah. Not my code.

Unless you're a mentalist. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, zero. Okay. I thought of it.

No, I know you did. I'm trying to figure it out. Think of the next number. Does it get bigger? Does it get smaller?

Same. Does it move over? Right? Look at you. Not moving. Look at you. Not flinching. Think of the second number.

Third number. Okay. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up.

This is just like in the movies. You see somebody trying to crack a lock. Pick a lock. Okay.

Open your eyes. They weren't closed. TJ.

Are they supposed to be closed? TJ, no. You're good.

You're good. You gave it away with your eyes. I can see in your soul. I think he likes to get in and out of the phone quick. You have a four digit code? You got to type this in a million times.

It ain't no face ID. You're doing a code that you can do quick. Do you care if they find out your code?

I'll change it if they do. All right. If you don't mind, I'm going to show them. The first number's a one. Can we get tighter just so we can see this? Let's get in there. There it is.

The next number is a six. Kidding. Look at his face. Look at that. You went back to the one.

Can you see me close? That's the two. That's the two. We're inside. Oh. Do not pack up. Do not pack up. He's gone. Do not pack up. Come on.

TJ. You're not going to see him again today, folks. Sorry. He's out. He's out. He ran the wheel route. Oh.

So good. TJ, you and Kenny Smith apparently now have something in common? Kenny Smith got got today on the pregame show for Turner by Oze. He did Kenny's ATM code. His ATM code? Yeah.

But this was even more ridiculous than my phone. Kenny's was so dumb. Kenny's number was 3030, his own number twice. For his ATM? Yes. Does he want to be robbed? That's what Chuck said. Chuck was like, this is the stupidest code I've ever heard.

I love that Charles and I had the same reaction. You must want to lose all your money. Right. Pretty good. Oh, my gosh. God. Yeah.

Thanks, Oze. You were absolutely freaked. Well, you didn't want to do it ahead of time. You thought he was a warlock? He is a warlock. You thought he was a witch? He's a demon.

The wizard man. Now I got to type six numbers into my phone. It's your face. I don't like doing that. Why?

A lot of people don't like the face. By the way, I'm the worst. I have no code. Oh, yeah. That's bad.

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It's a great day for a new Hyundai. All right. Perdue is on top of High Point, 6958, yeah.

Wisconsin's on top of Montana at the half, 5447. You remember when SIU Edwardsville was up two nothing on Houston? Yeah. That's a lot different. Not anymore. Not anymore? Nah, that's a lot different.

Night, night. It's 4624. I mean, it's still the first. They got time. Yeah. And Creighton ended up winning by 14, 8975. They shut the lights out from three.

Okay. That's my guy. 11 of 24 for three from Creighton.

Ashworth. Speaking of a new day. Yes, it is. There's a new day around here on Roku, and of course, this production company that was born five years ago out of being told we're done now by our previous- I'm glad we can laugh now about it. We can laugh now about it.

Yeah. We were like, whew. Once upon a time, it was too soon. You called me in Europe. Rich, I'm sorry. You called me in Europe. I thought I was moving back to Altoona.

Well, but everybody around here believed, and I appreciate that. And we are ride or die because of it, and thankfully, it's ride or live. And part of our relationship with Roku, which we love, has blossomed into another show that I'm producing along with Susie, and Hello Sunshine, Reese Witherspoon's production company for Roku, and the sponsor Miller Lite has been just terrific, and put it all together, and it's the first weekly show on women's sports, one hour long, called Women's Sports Now. In case anybody's wondering, it's not Women's Sports Later. It's Women's Sports Now, everybody, and Susie is one of the hosts, along with Renee Montgomery, NCAA champion, WNBA champion, and part owner of the Atlanta Dream. Speaking of dreams, there is Sarah Tiana to bring her blend of humor and diehard sports fandom. Diehard. I never thought I would meet more of a hard-headed sports fan than you, Chris, but you met one. I did.

You've made a child with one. Sarah is that. She's got a lot of opinions on sports, and they're unshakable, and then one of my favorites from NFL Network, and yours, TJ. By the way, we record Wednesdays when Colleen Wolfe is here, in case you're wondering. Thanks.

You're welcome. And all four of them together, instant chemistry, it's awesome, and the first episode is right here on Roku for you to take in of Women's Sports Now, recorded here in our studios on Wednesday, and Shaquille O'Neal was the first guest in a Zoom, and the first in-studio guest, Corey Close, the head coach of the number one overall seated UCLA Bruins of the women's tournament that begins this very weekend, including UCLA on Friday night here in Los Angeles. Coach Close was kind enough to just hop in a car, come down the 405, and be the first ever in-studio guest for this show. That's dope. Dude, it really was great. It is great. Not was.

It is great, and I'll give you a little taste here. Susie zoomed with Shaq. That's her guy, man.

I mean, that's another ride or die, right? I mean, they met. No doubt. It was a quarter century ago, if I may date it. You know, Shaq yelled at me once because he thought I interrupted Susie during an interview. He's like, you don't interrupt, and I shut up.

Don't do that. Yeah. And Shaquille O'Neal would always look at the diamond ring I gave to Susie when we got engaged. He's like, oh, let me take a look at that. He didn't know that I had enough class.

That's my ring. And he always did that, and you know how Shaq would sometimes dance behind some of the female reporters when they're doing their thing. Susie, once upon a time, told me, if you do that to me, I will basic. I think she might have said she would knee him in the nuts. Yeah. I remember you or her told me that story.

So they go way back, like the proverbial car seat. Here's a great exchange with her and Shaquille O'Neal and then Renee Montgomery's reaction to what he had to say about lowering the rims in the WNBA so there could be dunking. How about the WNBA? Love the way they play, a lot of great girls, you know, this rival things our Angels team won yesterday that actually gave them some extra momentum. I gave them a solution on how they can make similar money.

Nobody seems to like my solution, which is understandable, but let me tell you my theory behind my solution. The only difference between their game and our game is the dunk. We have guys with great handles. They have got females with great handles. We have guys that are great shooters.

They have great shooters. Only thing that's missing is the dunk. So I think if you lower the rim, I'm not saying lower it to, you know, like nine five or nine foot because in women's volleyball, the nets were different and you see women's beach volleyball is just as popular as men's beach volleyball. So I think if you lower it a half an inch and listen, Kansas is going to hear this. All the women are going to hear this are going to get mad, but I think that will add much more excitement to the game. He mentioned he said it out loud about the rims and lowering the rim Shaq White and he knew it too. He said Candace and all the other female athletes are going to be upset. It's like I'm not upset, but it's also I think the product is good as is like and even right now as the NBA is struggling when it comes to viewership, I think there's a lot of suggestions about what to do with women's sports and especially women's basketball. But I think if you look at college basketball, there's no problem with the numbers like lowering the rim.

I mean that you would have to change your shot and Shaq would know that if he ever made a jumper. Oh, that is so cool. I'm trying to get him to come in the studio when you're throwing some shavings. Get him in here. Let's go. By the way, yeah, women's basketball NCAA rankings are the highest they've ever been.

So that's doing just great. Eighteen million people watched the women's final four last year. Fourteen million people watched the men's final four last year. I'm assuming that there were more dunks in the men's and women's. Your honor, I rest my case.

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I agree. You can't lower the rim. Just have dunking. But he said not to nine five, like what would it be, nine eight? Like what are we going to do?

First of all, how many? I mean, there's not a whole lot of women that's still going to ten. That's still pretty high to be able to dunk and then you're going to throw off everyone's jumpers. Like we watch a lot of these women because their jump shots are, you know, now Kaitlin Clark's going to have to adjust her jumper because of the rims lower.

I'll shoot you straight. I enjoy watching the women's game for the competition. They are getting after it. And it's sometimes it feels personal. And it doesn't feel that way with the NBA sometimes where it doesn't feel personal. Like they are getting after it. And I think what it's only a matter of time until somebody dunks with regularity. I mean people have, yeah, dunks happen. I mean, you know, like posterizing. That's yet to happen.

At any rate, when it does, Women's Sports Now will be all over it. Again, it's awesome. And thanks to everyone at Roku and Publicis and of course Hello Sunshine and all the hard working people here at Rich Eisen Productions that make this thing go off without a hitch yesterday, which is great when you launch something.

Said it looked great too, man. And I appreciate you and No Contest Wrestling moving to Mondays to accommodate all that. Hey, ladies first. We get it. Hey. Well, actually, you're first in the rundown of the week, but I understand what you're saying.