REP: Adam Carolla, Maurice Jones-Drew and Ivan Reitman

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Could not be more pleased to have back on the
Rich Eyes and podcast Matt Damon's are you one of
those Patriot fans that takes flee in the jets and
the butt fumbling? I made the Liberati movie this year,
so that's fine. Fumbling in that movie. Just a wee
little bit. Larry David could deceive you, sir. I think
a lot of writers can be offensive coordinators. What's harder?
If I could write stories, why would I be able

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to draw up a play? He is none other than
Broadway Joe name it if mark word to get the nod?
And if he played decently? If if? What a big words?
Only two letters? Huh, Bobby kind of vall told you
about Derek Jeter story Yankees Atlanta the World series, screaming, screaming, screaming, nothing, nothing, nothing.

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He doesn't even look at me. Finally, last at that
a Thinnings Jeter comes up. Just turn around, man, just
turn around. Finally he like, don't he does the thing
with the way he's about to go up. He turns around,
he looks at me, goes bro, I hear you, however,
and thanks for joining us. I'm Richard Haysen. I don't

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download many podcasts, but when I do, I prefer Rich
Eyes and Podcast. Is your host, Rich Everybody, Welcome to
the latest edition oh the Rich Eyes and Podcast. We
are in April of two thousand and fourteen, the first
podcast of April, first week of one month from now.

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We will be on the eve the cusp of Draft
Night two thousand and fourteen, the one in which Jadeveon
Clowney may go number one overall to the Houston Texans,
as he said at his pro day this past week,
that he should go, that he should be the number
one overall pick. That's the sort of talk I want
to hear out of Jadeveon Clowney. Not like anybody else

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really cares about it, but that's the sort of thing
that I want to hear from him. I want a
little bit of a that quarterback hunter in him on
his sleeve, a little bit. Good to see you, Chris law,
Good to see you Rich. Welcome back from vacation. Chris
Brockman here in the flesh as well. Great to have
the band back together. We got a good show. Two
in studio guests, I'm excited about Adam Carolla will be

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here in studios. Fans, of this podcast regular listeners of
the show. No, he has been advocating for the raising
the extension of the uprights on the goal post in
the National Football League, because, as he says, how in
the world can to six year old men with cataracts
standing underneath the uprights just look up as the ball

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sales passed them and know whether it's really gone over
the top of an upright to the left or the
right of an upright when it's so close in the
ball is so high up in the air. As these
shore footed kickers are becoming a little bit more strong
legged each in every year, why not raise the uprights?
Be honest, when you heard that rule past, wasn't corolla

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the first thing you thought of? Well, when I heard
it was being presented that it was even up for discussion,
was there some misunderstanding because I misunderstood? I think I
thought they wanted to raise the crossbar three or five
I thought that too. But then when I heard that
they were banning the dunking of the of the goal
of the ball over the uprights, Uh, go crossbar? They

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did that the day before. At least Dean Blandino let
that cat out of the bag. The day before and
when he went on DP show, Um but didn't me.
That just shows you against Sometimes the NFL just does
not care if it's going to get slings and arrow
sent its way. They should have just waited to the
next day and say, listen, In addition to raising the uprights,
we're now banning the dunking of the ball over the

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crossbar because you saw what Jimmy Graham did with these uprights.
Now being five ft taller, if it might be more
top heavy of a of a construct and thus easier
to rip down with one paw of the hand, we
put a man on the moon rich we could keep
that sucker up. So maybe so, I don't know, but
it would have It would have prevented the whole no

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fun league. Slings an Arrow says, you accuse me of
to get off my law and mentality. But any rate,
Adam Carolla is going to be here in the flesh
and we are going to celebrate with him the passage
of this. It is a big moment for him, and
we're gonna try and have a Patriot luminary call in.

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We're gonna try. We can't promise, you don't know, but
we're gonna try and have a patriot luminary calling somebody
that may not have been influential. Correct this person, this
person definitely was influential if he calls him. We're hoping,
you know, as you know, trains sometimes don't run on
time and schedules change. We're gonna try and make this happen.

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Keep an ear out when Corolla comes on the program.
And then Ivan Reitmann speaking of Draft day, the director
of the movie Drafted that's coming out on April eleven.
He is on the show in studio as well as
the director of that movie, his latest in I mean
you look at his filmography of a producer and a director.
Look at the producer because he produced Animal House, you

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didn't directed. He directed Three in a Row, Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters. Okay,
let's get that. Then he did all those movies with Schwarzenegger. Right, yep,
he's done those. He did Howard Stern's Private Parts, as
a producer, as a producer, his son will look at
what his son's done too, and what he's passed on

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through that Up in the air is so directed up
in the Jason Rightman, So Ivan Rightman is going to
be here and we'll talk about the movie Draft Day,
which I saw on Monday of this week, and it's
it's really good. Yeah. I went to the NFL screening
that they had a couple of weeks ago and missing.
I'm seeing it early next year. It is so good.
It's so good. It is. It's got a great center

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to it. That's a heartbeat, because when you know something
and you see it is tough. There are there are
constructs of the film that you have to knowing what
we know about Draft Day and the process that generalman
edges in war rooms go through, you have to suspend
your disbelief a small slight bit, okay, because there are

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trades or trades discussed or that are pulled off in
this movie that you would think would never be able
to go without having already watched the film thoroughly on
the player that they're going to acquire. Just put it
that way. When you see that, it's fair, right, but
everything even with that totally believable scenarios. Yeah, but yeah,

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get past that and it's just totally fun. And seeing
Kevin Costner in a sports movie. He's coming on next week. Yeah,
he'll be in the studio next week, and I mean
him back in a sports movie about the NFL man
and Dennis Leary's the coach, Jennifer Garner's the capeologist. But uh,

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Ellen Burst didn't plays you know, um, Kevin Costner's mother,
Sam Elliott plays the coach of the University of Wisconsin. Uh,
frankl Angella plays the owner of the Browns. I'm going
a scene with frankl Angella skeletor childhood. So this is

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what we're gonna have on the show. Um, the NFL
News to discuss the Clowney pro day again. I don't
I don't know. Um, he looked good. He looked good.
What to make of pro days anymore? The Browns. The
Browns didn't even send representatives to to the Clowney or
Manzel pro days. But they're gonna have Manzellen for a

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private workout and Clowney for a private workout as well.
It's not like they're ignoring the guys. They already worked
out Blake Bortles this week. But it's just like, we
have we reached the point we're working out at the
combine and your pro day is unnecessary? Have we reached
that point? Well, it's just funny to me that people
think it matters more than the game names of college

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that you have on to Here's the deal. If if
JaMarcus Russell had a pro day tomorrow, he might be
number one on everyone's board. I mean, it's unreal that Well,
if you go back that, if you go back that far,
he had a great protect back. One said it was
the greatest pro phenomenal. He also his Bowl game against
Notre Dame also elevated his stock tremendously that year. You
just don't know that. The only if I'm an owner

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in the NFL, I want to know is this kid.
What's this kid gonna be like when the chips are
down in university hits, because that's that's that's what happened.
It's funny, and you mentioned that in Draft Day, Costner
goes around and he asks all these questions and those
are the kind of stories that about And the only
way you could do that is to see the tape
or have the kid in in front of you and
look him in the eye and kick the tires in

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that regard. And so I just don't know if the
Browns are like, Okay, we've seen him at the combine.
We don't need to see him at his pro day, um,
you know, and then and then you hear Zimmer coach Zimmer,
Mike Zimmer of the Vikings saying calling Man'zell's pro day
sideshow smoke screen a little to Hollywood. No way, it's

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smoke screen. I think that's just he's just an old schooled,
hard nosed guy. Somebody wrote that column, and I guess
it's an interesting theory. If you're really buying into the conspiracy,
it is tough to kind of dog a guy publicly
and then bring him in and be like, no, you're
a guy all along. He's just dogging, he's just saying
that he's trying to cool the scent for other people.
So maybe Manzell slips the number eight. There's no way
he slips the number. And there's no chance he slips

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the number. There's no way he's going past three. There's
no way he slips that far he's past. Could he
join our other guest on today's show up in uh Oakland? Potentially,
that's right, Maurice Jones drews on this program. He's calling
it in a matter of moments? Is he not calling
in very shortly? M J freaking day, Johnny f I
think so. But he's got shop already up there, and

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m j D said that he's a super Bowl caliber quarterback.
We'll find out about that. That's what Maurice said on
on Wednesday. Mcgloyn would beat them all out, so it
doesn't matter. Huh. Sandusky's wife has to stop talking. Come on,
come on, I'm potting down my mic for this. Now
we're gonna go down that route. She's gotta stop talking. Rich,

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somebody's got to get to our intelligence. I haven't read
a single article on it. I'm i gotta catch a
bigger issue. Is this, Rich, Have you recovered from Michigan's
devastating loss in the use Oh gosh, um, it's just
the second straight year that we played a monumental basketball
game that the whole country was tuned into and enjoying
haymakers being thrown left and right, and we got We

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got beat by an incredible shot made a great shot.
Could have done. Yeah. Well McGarry who was sitting there
in his in his in his now uh uniform, or
at least he was last week without playing, But at
any rate, I wish they would still be playing. But
it was great and I'm still able to troll Albert Preyer,

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well to a bigger, bigger point, Rich Michigan Basketball's back,
which yes, there's no question, there's no question excited about that.
Um and what else, Shaun Jackson's a redskin about that
and all that stuff about dang ties and and what
you know. I kind of look not I don't think

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any of us truly know. But the Eagles by not
saying anything when those reports kind of surface from NJ
dot com, Um, it made them look good to their
fan base for saying an understanding of why you would
let this guy go. But if you really didn't have
that those kind of facts or anything to back it up,
a common Eagles fending. I know, I think it's the

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wrong way to treat a player, the wrong way to
do it. Now, if there's some validity to it that
we don't know yet, you would have think the Redskins
would have vetted that. But um, it's I don't know.
It's a little jp of me if it's just a
money issue and you don't want to pay the guy
for the contract you signed him to and you're releasing him,
and then to let the allegations of gang affiliations to
a guy that look, I watched that documentary he was

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in he had people were saying, well, if the Chiefs
aren't gonna take him and Andy re drafted him, then
you know that he's trouble and he has problems. Well,
when Andy Reid drafted him, he got on the phone
and said he started talking to him about his father
and saying, I don't want your father any the distractions.
So that relationship was severed from day one. So it's
not like he's gonna go to Kansas City and signed

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with Read and it all be good. But um, I
don't know. I I signed on the the player in
the in this instance, and unless there's something that well,
certainly the Redskins have the resources to find out if
there's anything there. And they went ahead and they signed
him to a twenty four million dollar contract over three
years and sticking him out there beyond the numbers with

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the with the numbers that he's put up the most
of what touchdowns of thirty and more yards uh of
anyone in the league since he's coming the league Redskins
did you work on Total Access yesterday? On Monday? They
did a mind blowing stat I think the Redskins under
Snyder I think have signed twenty nine like high high
priced free agents. One has made the Pro Bowl and
that was h Hall, D'Angel Hall. Well, I don't know

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if Deshaun is going to make the Pro Bowl, but um,
you know, he does have two games against Philadelphia, which means, um,
he's going to have some motivation in that regard. You know,
do you kind of see this as a as a
big moment for Robert Griffin next year with all these weapons.
I know is that thankfully he's healthy for this part
of the of the of the season, because that was

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the plan. That was the best part of free agent
Frenzy when you went on that that was the plan
was to make sure that he's healthy right now. That's
why they sat him for the last three games last year.
Wasn't any other reason, right, I mean, that's what I
believe what I hear from podiums in the NFL. It
was like, you gotta keep him healthy for this part
and right now he is healthy to go work out
on his own with DeShawn Jackson, and that is going

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to help the Redskins because he's healthy right now. Yeah,
he's healthy. So that's all I know right now is
he's healthy, and DeShawn Jackson's there with Pierre Garson. That's
bring could units to have at your disposal. Jordan Reid
coming back off a big year, and the butler in
the backfield they're set. I mean, Gruten's got some toys

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to play with. So and the Redskin Eagles games are
musty television. Um, so that's interesting in that regard. Um.
So those are those are those are the things going
on in the National Football League and we're just we're
let's be honest, we're just counting the days to the draft.
We're just trying to get there. And it's later this year.

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I mean we would be three weeks away normally, instead
we're five for the end of this show. Yeah, the
housekeeping part of this program we have we're going to
close the show. It opens, It opens, The old open
is still at the top of this show and will
be next week as well. Because we have yet to

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hear what you have chosen as the ten best. I've
narrowed it down to ten. I might slide the leventh
in and then you guys will then narrow it down
to five based off and folks vote on it, and
we'll vote on Rich Eyes and dot NFL dot com. Okay,
and that new open will be the new opened for
ever till you make another one, till till I make it,

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till the start of the till the start of the
playing season. All right. So there's lots to get to.
We've got Adam Corolla in studio. We've got Ivan Rightman,
the director of Draft Dance Studio. But let's go to
an old friend on the phone, please to have back
on the Rich Eyes and Podcast. A long time friend
of the program but appearing for the very first time
as a freshly minted Oakland Raider, Maurice Jones Drew. How

(15:34):
are you, m j D. I'm doing I'm doing great.
I'm doing great. Just h heading to work out now
get with Are you going to work out with the
Super Bowl ready quarterback Matt Shob You're going already to
work out with him, m Mat Matt Sob isn't in
town just yet when he gets back, so you know
we definitely will hit it hard and get ready. You know,

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you raised an eyebrower two by saying he was And
I want to be completely honest in this situation, Matt Sob.
Before last year around this time, everyone said that he
was a Super Bowl quarterback? What was he not? That
was many people did have the Houston Texans as just say.
I'm just saying, and so I just feel like, you know,

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he had it. He had it down year, which everyone does.
Everyone had it down year here too, and uh, he
had a down year. But you know, after talking with
the staff and talking with people about him, I know
he's gonna bounce back. And you know, I don't know
when or what's going on. I just know that he
has the ability to lead us there. Now, when you
went through the process with Reggie mackenzie and uh, with

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the rest of the brass in Oakland, as you were
making your your business, making your rounds, did they tell
you Shop was the starter? Did they tell you he
was going to compete? What did they tell you about
his Uh? You know, it really didn't. We didn't really
talk about that. Um. What was stated to me was that,
you know, we brought Shop in. We know he's a
cable quarterback, but he's gonna I'm assuming he's gonna compete

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with the young kid from Penn State. Yeah, mclogan and
then uh, same with me. I'm gonna come in. Everybody's
coming in to compete. And he brought in guys like myself,
Justin Tuck, Lamar Woodley and Tonio Smith, Carlos Rogers, Terrell Brown, obviously,
Donald Ken, Austin Howard, guys that come in and compete, compete,

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and and with the culture they're they're bringing in as
a competing culture with with veterans and young guys. And
we don't see how it turns out, but I'm very
excited about it now. I I don't know if you
were doing that to mess with me, because you know
I'm a Michigan man. You left out a future Hall
of Famer, perhaps the best two way player in the
history of Michigan football. Child was already there. He was,

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I mean, he was there and just resigned more free agent.
You know, I try not to uh well that that
that further lets me as you're a Raiders fan though, now,
so now you see, I'm gonna see you and ticket
in the black hole. You could be the new out
Davis because because I'm a Jewish guy from Brooklyn. Is
that what it is in that way? So I don't

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know how Davis is. He was born in Brooklyn, born
in Brooklyn, and I have a just win baby mentality
as well. I have this. I'm I've committed to well,
you know, I'm committed to excellence. You know that. I
know you are. You know that to begin with. So
I'm excited, but I'm excited for you because this is

(18:28):
your just your hometown. I mean you're born speaking of
being born in a place, you were born in Oakland.
So did you grow up a Raiders fan? Grew up
a die hard Raiders fan? Uh? My senior year, rich Gannon,
it took the Raiders to the Super Bowl in San Diego.
I mean, it was, it was. It was some good times. Obviously,

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you know things have been going that way, but I
feel like the organization is going in the right direction.
What what the moves have been made and the and
the players they have there now, and like I said,
we just you know, we're talking with some of the
guy the guy who can't wait to get back and
play and compete, and that's all you really want at
the end of the day. You know, we were going
in We're going into a tough n C West Division.
But I think with some of these moves we've made,

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we you know, on paper, it looks the right way,
but we can we can fix that by working hard
and getting the camarader in, the chemistry together and turn
this thing around. I didn't even say we have James Joe,
another Bay Area guy. He's good. He's a good player, man, right,
But it's so funny that I say that. It's crazy

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how people can jump on and off the bandwagon in
one year. You know, Uh, I remember before the Super Bowl,
there's no way the Seahawks are gonna beat Peyton Manning
and the Broncos. Russell Wilson. It's too big for him.
And you know now it's Russell Wilson is the best
quarterback in you know us in the paparazzi, Yeah, you
know how it is. And so I mean, I I

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definitely after seeing match, uh for eight years, the way
he competes, the way he plays, the way he you know,
when he had so much press on from Houston in
that first playoff game and performed this at a high
level that year when they beat Cincinnati at home, I
mean that was you know, that's the guy that I know.
And obviously, you know, we don't, like I said most
of us last you didn't have the best year, but

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I know he's ready to bounce back. And make plays
and and I'm just excited to work with them. Well,
it's funny, as you mentioned also at the NFL, how
things changed so quickly. The last time I saw you
was after you had a stellar performance on Thursday Night
football beating Houston, which turned to Matt shob in that game,
and now here you are just a few months later,
teammates in Oakland. And when you came on to our

(20:42):
set after that game, we asked you about your future
in Jacksonville, and you seemed pretty positive about it. You
seem very optimistic, uh, and heard similar or expressed that
you had heard similarly from Brass in Jacksonville. I guess,
for the lack of a better question, what did happen eventually? Really,
I do not know. Um. I just think they wanted

(21:04):
to go in a different direction. Obviously, there's no ties
to me. There, no one drafted me. Um. And so yeah,
I understand the business. I understand that I didn't have
my best year. They probably thought I was done playing ball,
like most teams did in the NFL, and you know,
they wanted to kind of go in a different direction,
which to me is perfectly fine. I get an opportunity

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here with the Hoakland Raiders. They can give me a
chance to compete, and that's all I asked at the
end of the day, and they were they were the
only team that was gonna give me a chance to
do that. So uh, with that being said, I appreciate,
you know, everything that I've had and done with the
Jaguars and their organization. But now playing with the Raiders organization,
you know, it's it's new and that you know, it's

(21:46):
gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun to show how
much I have the left that most of your family
here on the Left coast, everybody. And that was another thing.
I mean, I was three thousand miles away from every
my grandmother. I get to you know, even though only
in for two weeks a year, I can eat that
dumble that shall make uh. Just because I'm on a
strict regiment right now, I have a chef, so really

(22:08):
I do all the proper things so I could play
at a high level. Uh. But I will get that
home cooking Thanksgiving. I'll get it one one good time,
you know, Christmas will get it. I might be able
to send you a place or something. Some hog mags,
some college greens piece absolutely I'm all over that. I'm

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a soulfuled guy, are you? Oh? Yes, absolutely, you didn't.
You didn't know that about me, did you? I didn't
look the things you find out on the Rich Eyes
of podcast. I don't know how many children do you have?
You've got three, right, have three, three crazies, but they're
all ridiculous like me, ridiculously young. Correct. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well,

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my oldest one turns six here in a couple of months.
My daughter just turned four, and my youngest son turns
three and about I want to say, sixteen days. I'm
going I'm going crazy, m j D. I've got a
I've got a my my oldest is turning six in
three months or five months, parton me, five months. I've

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got one to just turned three and seven months old,
and I'm just do you how do you sleep at night?
How do you how do you get your rest? Similar
to the NFL, I have a contract with my wife,
and so the contracts dates during training in football hours
I get to sleep and then other hours. You know,

(23:37):
I'll tend to deal with it, but it's it's tough
at that stage. I'm not gonna lie. It's tough. It's tough.
You have to be you have to have strongly and
be strong minded. You have to stand your ground because
sometimes you know, my wife was like, can you get
in this time? I was like, the contracts states in
paragraph five, he says, and I know first the fine print.

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The kids don't usually read the fine print, to be
very honest. You know, that's that's the issue when it
comes down to it. But you know what, even though
it's hard, now, once they get potty trained and they're
able to talk, that's when I have a ball with
them because now I know what they want and I
don't have to, you know, clean up after them anymore.
That the best and they can watch Daddy run the

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football um on Thursdays and Saturdays and Sundays. It's pretty
cool that you're able to share that with your kids
as well. M j D. And now you've got your
family out here, it's it's it's all set up for
you to have a Maurice Jones drew good time in
the in the black Hole. And I know there you
like giving. You're a giver and you like giving to

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the listeners of this podcast. You like giving to to
me what we all want, which is a special shout
out once you hit the end zone. And this podcast
has a large international following. You as a member of
the Oakland Raiders are playing in Wembley Stadium later on
this fall. That's going to happen, Maurice. I want to

(25:11):
come up with a special touchdown celebration for for the
international listeners and for the Brits in the UK. Just
throwing that out at you right now. What I will
get I will get together with my people and since
I'm back home now, it's more face to face and
no phone calls. No, we'll get something going on. You know.

(25:35):
Obviously I gotta get back to that celebrating because that
that was what made football that much better. So we'll
see how it goes. Yeah, you know, Gronk once did
the uh did did the guards at Buckingham Palace? But
I think he did, But he did call them that
those nutcracker guys um, which is you know, not that there.

(25:57):
You know, the Queen's guard are usually don't crack nuts.
So we've got to make sure that you you've got
it down right. So when you do the dance and
you're asked, but the British tabloids and the paparazzi. The
paps follow you around out there that you're you're taking
care of. So that's how I will. I want to
work with you on this if that's okay, but we

(26:19):
can let's let's definitely do that. I'm you know, That's
why I'm working out today so I can find that
end zone as many times as possible for the Wraiters
and and do as much as I can for you
and thank you and obviously your fans. I appreciate that
it's about you. Well, there is an eye in Maurice,
but there's not one in Jones Drew. So you are

(26:41):
a team player when it comes down to me too.
Do you like that? I like that one, Maurice. I'm
so happy for you because I know what it means
for you to go home, uh, be around your family
and play football for the Raiders and be part of
something that, hopefully for the franchise is going to be

(27:02):
a renaissance and turn around. And so I wish you'd
best to luck in that. As always, I appreciate it,
and we got to get you out to warn of
these games. I know, I know NFL Network was nothing
without you that at the bottom started at the bottom
and now they're here and it truly was nothing without me, Maurice,

(27:22):
because it didn't. I was there the first day. You
know what I mean, have been here everything, That's what
I'm saying. And now you take them to the next level.
And you know we need to let them. Let you
have a Sunday off or something. Okay, can come be
a special guest of the game, or maybe we get
to wear a suit and tie. You can wear like
some Raiders gear. Hey, we've been to the black Hole
on Thursday night football. You know we've done that. We've

(27:43):
been there. They stick us in the corner working. I
don't want you to work. I want you to enjoy.
Here's what I'll do is I'll ask for the week
off and drive up from l A with the Violator,
which he does. He drives up to each of one
of those games from Los Angeles, uh, and I'll face pain.
I'll put on the map Max stuff, and I'll do it.
I think, just for you, that would be amazing. Are

(28:06):
you weren't thirty two? I don't know yet. I haven't
even got a chance to sit down and talk about
that yet. I'll definitely call or text you and let
you know though, when number I do kids, you still
have the same phone, right, I mean because you change
phones like underwear. Yes, sir, I have a problem with
losing phones. I have a pride isn't lose them. It's crazy.

(28:32):
One day they're there, the next day, I don't know
where it went. So I'm assuming my kids get in
and they throw in the toilet. But you know, I
don't know. You gotta put that in the fine print, Maurice,
put that in the next contract, well, the next one.
I think it will be more for her and less
for me. I'm taking more on this front end. On
the front end, all right, Maurice, you take care of yourself.

(28:55):
We'll speak down the line, Okay, alright, I appreciate it.
You bet. That's Maurice Jones Drew of the Oakland Raiders
joining the podcast. I mean, this is one way to
build a team in Oakland is to make your smart
signings and free agency for guys who are gonna be
there long term. And also, if you want to go

(29:16):
the free agent route, get some guys who have chips
on their shoulders who want to prove that they've still
have a lot of football left in him. And three
off the top of my head, or m j D.
Woodley and Tuck I forgot they got tucked to okay,
and James Jones, well, James Jones is not like one

(29:36):
of those guys like I'm going to prove I still
have football left in me. He's got some billonies from
California and he's going home like m j D. In
that regard. I mean, wood Woodson is on his fourth
year of I still have football left in me. But
you put all those together, I just don't know if
shop is you know, if you go ahead of the
third overall and take a quarterback, you're starting them, You're

(30:00):
starting him. I don't know if you're your boy mcglowy
maybe third on the depth chart with don't I don't
think he knew his first damp here. I may not
need to. Because again, if if if Manzel is somehow
sitting there at three, which is possible five partners right

(30:20):
Jacks at three, if they're gonna take somebody at five,
they're gonna one of the people, like one of those
three guys is gonna be there at five unless somebody
trades up with the Rams. If Clowney goes first, Johnny
goes first, the Rams will I think the Rams should
use the pick because you know, there's there's the tackles

(30:41):
out there they could use. There's Watkins that could be
sitting there too, you know. I mean there are some
players that they could plug in and use this fall.
If you're worried about the health of Sam Bradford, certainly
taking Jake Matthews would make sense at number two. And
Jenny kept saying when he talked to mackenzie, it was
all about compete, compete. We're bringing in guys who want
to compete. He's gonna be competing with Darren McFadden for

(31:01):
some playing time if McFadden stays on that roster. Man,
I mean, m JD's a proven back in the league.
Fadden is the Michael Vick of running backs. Yeah, he
can't stay healthy there sit there at your spot on
the depth chart, you're gonna get your shot. Is what
you've seen out of Darren McFadden. He was very dynamic.

(31:22):
And you want to talk about a change of pace
back from Darren McFadden, I mean Bryce June's Drew is
the mother of all change of pace guys. If you
want to think about it, He's I don't even think
of him as a change of pace guy. He's the guy.
He's a bell cow and he's twenty nine. He's got
something to prove. I mean, that's some. That's got some.
That's that team has done some interesting things over the

(31:42):
past few weeks, as it's always been for them since
they've went to the Super Bowl with rich Gannon, Who's
gonna throw the ball, who's gonna lead that team? And
those questions are still there. We'll see if Shop can
answer him. I don't know, man, but he makes a
good point this point. Last year. Everyone was like Shop
could take him to the super Bowl, but then we
saw what Shop did. Clearly it was more than just Matt.

(32:03):
Matt Schob is not the sole reason why the Texans
lost their last fourteen games. Shob's got a little uh
like a little David Duval, you know, he just lost
his swing and and couldn't get it back, and then
it becomes a head game. He's still talented. How Shobby
got his groove back, That's what two thousand fourteen Raiders
season hopefully he's gonna be about. Uh So that's m

(32:23):
J D. Good good on him. Uh Corolla walking through
the Doorman has come, Yes, thrilled to have on the
Richies and Podcast once again, a man who clearly has vision,
a man who clearly understands what the greatest game that
we as Americans can export and enjoy, what what this

(32:46):
game truly needs, and that is extended goal posts. They
called him crazy, they called him a dreamer. Well, they
called Galileo crazy. They did do that. They called mid
Jelling crazy, they did. They called Jesus crazy. And I'm
not saying I'm above any of those guys. I'm I'm saying.

(33:07):
I'm saying we're even. You know what I mean. I
never put my seers your peer in the same peer group. Yeah,
I'm not gonna put it's a it's a Brady Manning thing.
But I'm not calling myself, uh, Bradshaw. You know, I'm
not saying I have all those rings. I'm saying I'm
I'm in that conversation. You are in the conversation. You
can't have a Magellan, Jesus um Jalileo conversation without Corolla

(33:34):
being woven into it. I agree, Otherwise it's not a
valid conversation. Good to see you, Adam Corolla. Good to
see my friend, I agreed, it's not otherwise not a
valid conversation. And it was what was it two years ago? Now?
Was it two years ago? Chris Laud? Was it three
years ago? Many years forts started being brought up. Two
thousand eleven was when we went and kicked the Adam
pole with Marshall holding that is true. There's a history here.

(33:56):
There's a history here now there is, and I'd like
to talk about the kick, but you know, with depending
lawsuits and everything, everything, boys can't discuss it. But we
will discuss that. I'm scared to tie my shoes. I'm
scared to stretch in the morning. I'm every time my
children come up behind me. I win, and it's still

(34:17):
in a lot of pain. You know, I leave my
mark frequently in what I do. I didn't mean to
do it. They're do guys have lower back pain? I
have upper sack and that's because but again, because it's
not the only depending suit, I just can't I understand.
And we'll talk about that pending suit because I definitely
want to talk about that with you. But but first
order of business is the extended goal posts. You you

(34:41):
said that they should just go to home depot and
just slap some some extra plastic on top. They're not
going to do that. They're gonna actually put goal posts
five ft up higher. No, I said thin wall, five
in circumference steel or wide steel. Just literally five ft.
I was saying five ft six ft. We wouldn't take

(35:05):
thirty ft, just five or six ft and just a
scissor lift and a welder and just literally extended. Now
I'm sure they'll just replace the whole pole, but either
way extended. What we didn't get into I don't believe
is it all started in six seven with the Drive.

(35:25):
What people don't realize is Rich Carlos for the Denver
Broncos kicked that That was overtime for Denver. People just went, oh,
that drive went down and beat the Browns and won
the game, the same way that the the Bill Buckner
play won the World Series for the mess And that
was just a game six. There was actually more to come, right, well,
the more to come if you guys want to take

(35:47):
a look at that six. Rich Carlos kicked an o
t field goal that won it for Denver. But that
ball went right over the top of the up right. Now,
that was a full thirty years ago or twenty eight
years ago. It was driving me. Not happened on Monday night.
Last year, it happened on a Sunday night game, and
it happened all It was driving me insane that it
was so insanely obvious. And the other part that drove

(36:09):
me insane is every time I would bring it up,
someone would pause and go, what if they used lasers
and then put a beacon in the ball? And I
was like, or they could extend And then they would
pause and go, what if they capped it and put
one over the top and then put a center one
down them? And I went, or they could extend the pull.

(36:32):
I couldn't figure it out. Finally, my dreams have been answered. Yes,
your dreams have been answered. And and interestingly enough, you know,
uh your lockstep with Bill Belichick because he had the
same issues clearly. Well, if you see the Ravens game
where I don't know, game number two of the season
or whatever it is, was it was, it was not
this past season, was the year before the year before, right,

(36:54):
but either way where he's grabbing the guy's arm as
they run off the field. By the way, young folks
that are looking to get into coaching, who are thinking
about accosting officials as they're running for the tunnel. Never
in the history of the game has the accosted official
turned back around, run up to the fifty yard line
and waved off. It's never happened. So all you're gonna

(37:20):
get is fined. And you know, there's zero upside with
you know, it's right up there with messing with a
cops horse. It's just there's it's never worked. There's no
upside with a huge potential downside. And so um they
went to the owners meeting this year and threw that
out there, and I thought of you immediately, you know,

(37:42):
I thought, for as did most of my Twitter feed.
When when when you first heard that this was actually
going to be placed in front of the membership of
the National Football League? What do you feel? A sense
of pride? Would you feel? I I remember my seven
year old son came in the room and said, what's wrong, Papa?
And I said this with tears of joy, and we

(38:03):
we embraced, and uh, I cried, I sobbed, and he
started sobbing, and uh, you'll never forget. I just said,
I won't forget that moment. Yeah, call him son. He
called me father and for the first time, the first time, Yeah,
he'd been calling me Rick before. That was just like
even know where that came from. I said, look, it's

(38:24):
either Adam or Dad. Where's Rick coming? But he called
me father and I called him son and then that
that was it. The goalposts put it all together at
all put it made our family hole again, and everyone
tweeted me a thousand tweets like it. And I've got
to say, you know, I, you know, my crusades extend
well past the NFL playing field. I was screaming at

(38:48):
the City of Los Angeles for the stupid big electric
freeway signs that said click it or ticket, because every
time you get in your car, you ever do that
move where you don't put your belt on and you're
just backing down the driveway and the car starts going
off like a pinball machine because you're not. I said,
why do we need big freeway signs explaining to us

(39:12):
what is already going on inside of our cars. It
does seem to be misplaced. Right. Meanwhile, I've passed a
whole bunch of guys on you know, the four or
five and the one ten worst traffic in the world.
The people that get into the little fender benders, but
their cars are fine, and they're standing in the middle

(39:32):
lane outside of the car, drawing a chalk outline around
the car, and the c s I guys are coming
repelling down from Huey's and you're like, pull your car
over to the shoulder and then exchange information. Is not
a crime scene. Well, as I traveled, I started passing
all these signs in other cities. To be driving through

(39:53):
Denver and you'd see a freeway sign and it would
say if it's steers, it clears, meaning if you trade
a little paint someone, get off the freeway and then
exchange the insurance information. Or if you're in Los Angeles,
try to run down the illegal, get him in a headlock,
which my parents had to do once, by the way,

(40:13):
on the four oh five. Right, That's what I'm saying,
So either way, do it from the shoulder, don't do
it from the third lane. And I kept saying, but
why clicking or ticket because everyone already knows that. And
sure enough I got into UH Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom's ear,
and I got into UH Eric Garcetti's ear, the mayor,

(40:35):
the mayor of Los Angeles. Now if you drive, it says,
in a case of a minor accident, pull off to
the side, there's no more clicking or ticket. You are
truly a factor, I mean a factors office. I really
should you. Got things done, man, get things done. You're
a visionary and not only that, though you act on it.

(40:57):
That's right, you're in execution, man, you execute. Yeah, no,
it's it. It'd be easy just to you know, sit
with you and the rest of the folks and the
front of the bus with the air conditioning going and
showing our bottled waters, watching our flat panel televisions. But
I gotta roll up my sleeves, get out there, and

(41:17):
you know you're well, we knew you were a man
of the people to begin with. And so um what
what what next? Then? I mean, what next for you
after the I mean, because the goal it's over the
goal posts. It's done. They passed it, they went ahead.
It's gonna go down. We're gonna see new goal posts
in the National Football League. To the point where I

(41:38):
think that it's part of the reason why that you
can't dunk over the goal post now because it's now hot.
There might be some sort of physics involved here that
if you if you put force on the sure on
the crossbar. Yeah, well, now that Tony Gonzales is retired,
we don't have to worry. Well, Jimmy Graham was the one.
Graham has been doing a lot of it. They had

(41:59):
by they busted, They stopped the game for for bringing
out a ladder and some guy runs out with the
ladder and a right level on it. Put a level
on it. Yeah, they had the level on it, right.
They put the level with the with the you know,
the water because last time he was on he said that,
and you brought up the analogy of when you're in

(42:20):
the playground and you're you're down fifteen, you have no
chance at winning, and you say, if I sink this
next shot, we're tied. You just do that. And it's
such a great It would never happen in professional sports,
but in some mannerism it does need. Yeah, kind of
like rocket Jack the basket. Yeah, no, I I do
like that. I think we all and we would all

(42:40):
as far as the competition committee. It's something that would
keep you tuned in because when your team is down,
or their team or any team is down by twenty
one points and there's a minute twenty eight seconds left
in the game. You tend to tune out. There's not
it's not winnable. But if they had that sent or
pole that if the guy kicked it and that was

(43:02):
twenty five points or whatever it is, it would it
would definitely you know, you know what the rules should be.
And maybe I'm just repeating myself, but that center pole
we talked about hitting that should just bring you to
a tie whatever whatever, however you're down, whatever, whether it's
whatever you are, it's gonna bring it. If you're down
less than if you're down more than three points, it

(43:24):
brings you to a time. So if you're down by
twenty three and there's no hope, and there's no hope,
there's still the Santikowski setting up from fifty one to
try to tie it and hit that center close. You
lose your next game. Though if you miss it something
I don't know. The downside is you lose the game
that you're in. You're gonna lose anyway you're down. So now,

(43:47):
wait a minute, do you do you does the poll
come up from from the bottom of the from the ground,
just for that moment you have to call for the
middle pole or the middle pole is always there like
so it's like a fork. It's like a trident, and
the upright is now like an NFL trident. I think
you get one call for for the middle pole. It

(44:08):
comes out like a dog's unit. If you know what
I'm saying. He's quite nice because it's because it is
excitement and it's it's exciting, okay, right out from the
from the middle riddle. And you can call for it
one time and one time per season or yeah, I'd

(44:28):
say one time per season, one time per season where
you bring it out. It's like weeks sixteen and you
need to make the playoffs, but you're getting blown out
at home and you call for the pole to time
call for the pole, and you probably have a special guy,
like a specialist, the backup tight end with the squared

(44:49):
off shoe who doesn't do the sidewinder, you know, it
just goes straight out like Markley Mosley style, who's just
used to booting that things straight away, straight away, Like
that's that's the straight ahead guy. It's like a fifty
third man on the roster. Right, does he come up
from the ground too? We used we keep him well,

(45:10):
you know, my replay can replace him him back there.
You know about the replay gamp, Right, guys about this
that that there's somebody who has not seen any part
of the game at all. He doesn't know what football,
doesn't even know just and and he's dressed like the gamp,
kept in a in as of the stadium. Yeah, and

(45:33):
in the trunk. And then you bust out the replay gamp.
Who who is with the Well, he has a wrangler
like the Buffalo Colorado when they runs out on the field.
But they're flogging him the whole time, you know, but
they're running him out there, and he just puts he
goes under the thing, and you know, was his foot in?
Was his foot out the ball? It's either thumbs upper,

(45:53):
thumbs down. He doesn't he doesn't even know what he's
looking at. And then it's back to the back to
the bals of the stadium, right. So, and that's where
the specialists should be kept, next to the game. And
then the reason for the gimp. And by the way,
we're not cruel their holes in the trunk, obou this
is and we feed him through for the whole You

(46:14):
cut up a banana, right, you can get it through
the hole. The point is this the replay gimp. What
drives me insane is not enough evidence to overturn the
erroneous call that was previously made. The ruling on the fields,
uh stands right? Confirmed means that we've seen enough evidence.
If it stands as called. That's their ways basically going, well, yeah,

(46:37):
I mean we all we all have seen a few.
There's always a few calls every year where you go.
We know it was a bad initial call, but they
just didn't have the camera angle to overturn it. And
my thing is is I don't want the initial call
factored in. I just want to go under the hood
with the gimp. You make the call, that's the call.

(46:57):
We don't need to know in advance. Oh here's the call.
Is there enough to overturn it? That to me is
not That's not you making a call. That's a call
that's already been made. And you go and there quite enough,
you know, it's if he right, So the gimp would
remove that gray hair absolutely, because the gimp, the gimp
as whatever the gimp says stands. You know, he can't talk,

(47:21):
can do okay? Yeah, And then of course the zipper
in the leather hood he's wearing. But to me last
question for you, is there a sponsorship on the on
the gimp? Is you get like a specially the gimp
is brought to you by Yeah, there's a lot of
smokeless tobacco companies have already been a that I think

(47:44):
that he fits their demographic perfectly perfectly, and I'm getting specifics,
but I'm in touch with Well, obviously it's an opportunity.
And then because ultimately it's in it's it's about entertainment.
If he does the call that goes against the hometown,
that's when the wrangler really just starts building him with

(48:05):
that cat of nine tails as they run him back
into the trunk much to the crowd. Yeah, I mean
they're they're smarting over the call, but just seeing the
gimp being punished that way that that allows them. It's
a release. It's a release, you know. And there's a
thing too where you never know who your town's gimp is.

(48:29):
If you watch uh top Gear out of the UK,
they have the stick. He does all the test driving
for all the cars, but they protect his identity. See
it's sort of a superman thing. You don't know, you
can think is that guy some f one driver who's
doing this but you don't know who he is. Is
the GIMP's identity ever revealed? No, it's never ever. Yeah, sure, ever,

(48:53):
once in a while you're just walking through town and
you lock eyes with a shorter, stout guy who's got
some lash wounds, you know. Yeah, obviously, yeah we haven't.
We have each one as a stadium and he goes.
But hell, it's just like every stadium has its own
replay official this time, so the replay is there still

(49:14):
a replay official. We don't need him out. The replay
gamp is the one who's brought in. Of course, as
you know, now the home office of the National Football
League has contact with the replay official and they were
in the referee. That was also passed a new rule
with your extension of the goal post upright. That so
now the gimp, we're gimp is now part of management

(49:36):
in a way. I don't know if that's gonna be
a tough sell. That's gonna be a tough sell. They
said that about extending the goal pubs, the click and
the clickt and ticket. They said the same thing about
that today. They said it to Rosa Parks once she
moved to the front of the bus. But that doesn't
mean and I'm not saying I'm above her. I'm saying
just another have a conversation. Obviously my name Well, But

(50:03):
like I said, it helps certainly because I've been I've
been in that meeting room at the owner's meeting. I've
been in that meeting room of the owners meeting. And
you need to have some serious clout behind your ideas
and at least with your extension of the goal post
upright concept. To have somebody as influential as Robert Kraft

(50:24):
raise his hand and say my team will go and
be behind that idea. You need that. You need the
man who has hired the modern day Belichick to do that,
and he is on the phone right now to celebrate
with you, Adam. Mr Kraft, are you there, sir? Hi?
How are you rich? How are you Adam? Good? Good
to hear from you. Well, we like we always like

(50:45):
to speak with influential opinion makers who can change things
that are important to the culture of America. You know,
first of all, we have a mutual pal and Howard Stern.
He always has said, how what a great comedian you are. Well,
God bless him. I I was. I was over at

(51:07):
Jimmy Kimmel's house a couple of days ago, and he
told me that Howard. Somebody posed the question Howard, who
could take his place? And he said, well, maybe Adam could.
And I was profoundly so. The only thing I gotta
put a little pin in your tush and say, why
didn't you start? You should have gone on Howard and
start working the room quicker on the goal post. And

(51:30):
then maybe that game we had with the Baltimore with
the Ravens, that's right, Yeah, the one where my favorite
coach try to chout with a rep at the end.
But you know, it's pretty cool. We we actually wanted
to get these goal posts to be higher, but the

(51:53):
word around our room was that Adam Carolla said, it's
okay if they're five ft. Well eight five percent of
those kicks fall under the five ft limit, you know,
like the one in Baltimore, I mean against the Ravens
that was I don't know, two ft above that, way
above it. I didn't go way above it. I mean
that one and and was it more than five ft

(52:15):
above it? I think it looked at do you think,
Mr Craft, if if the uprights were extended that night,
it would have it would have been more certainly would
have been an easier time. I'm not sure I should
be chatting on this issue. I'm gonna let you guys mama,
but animal just be very cool. Because Rich only has

(52:36):
the highest grade talent on his podcast. I just wanted
to call and thank you help him to improve this
to you, that's a great moment my life and Mr
Kraft before we hang up, can I tell you a
quick story? Sure it might involve a small pin in

(52:57):
your took us. I was back stage during the finals
of Celebrity Apprentice, and I was hanging out with Penjialette
and I think de Schneider and uh George Decai and
Polly from uh Orange County Choppers, and we're all standing

(53:18):
back there and um Trump came back and he said,
I'm gonna bring you in my dear friend Bob Kraft,
and you guys are gonna get to meet the Bob Craft.
And he turned around and walked out of the room.
And I was looking at the biker guy, the magic guy,
the Star Wars guy, and the gay guy and the rocker,

(53:39):
and I realized none of them knew I knew Robert Christ.
They didn't know Bob. He did the Bob craft. And
I said, I'm the only guy in the room who's
excited because I know there's gonna be a guy with
two tone shirt, collar and cuffs coming in here and
a matter of seconds to give me a Patriots pin.
And I was partially his fault because he called you Bob.

(54:00):
He should have called you Robert Kraft. I know you
was Robert Kraft. We'll have to um get him straightened out.
On frum. It's always Robert Kraft. Okay, well, um whatever,
as long as it's positive. Whatever you want to call me,

(54:21):
let me ask you because I get I get you know,
I'm I believe in tradition, roots and we have a
pretty good winning record when I wear that blue shirt
with white collar, and but I get rags. Sometimes people say, geez,
the guy's got only owns one shirt. So what do
I do? Can I do I keep it going, keep tradition,

(54:43):
or do I mix it up. I'll tell you what
my answer would beat anyone who said that. I would say, yes,
it's true, I only own one shirt, but I own
three airplanes. The shirt. You're a very accurate reporter. Thank you. Hey, listen,

(55:03):
you guys be well, thank you for calling in. Mr Kraft, well,
and thank you for making Adam's dream come he Pats fan,
of course. Way do I tell Bill Simmons, the sports
guy that I spoke to you. That's right. Otherwere yeah, well,
thanks for your influence. You'd be well take care of. Thanks.

(55:24):
Mr Kraft, that is Robert Kraft, the owner of the
New England Patriots, calling in. Yeah. Well, you know, my
honest thing with the with the with the Patriots was
I always wanted them to win because they're always just
a fun team to watch, you know, back of the
day with Grogan and company. I like their uniforms, their
old school uniforms with the Patriot on their helmets. They

(55:48):
play the Bills in Orchard Park and the Bills are
in their throwbacks. It's the best. Yeah, the Bills, Pats
and the Pats had something going which was the belt,
like the black belt going through the pants, you know,
the you could see through there. And I always loved him.
And then they never stopped. Then a certain part they
came came time where they've never stopped losing or winning.

(56:08):
They would never they just won everything and then I
was like, screw those Paths, and then they lost a
couple of games, and I was like, back with it,
back with the Paths, right, I mean, and I appreciate
you hiding your your RAMS roots a little bit there,
because I mean, obviously, you know, the the the Brady
Belichick dynasty began by beating the Rams back in the day.

(56:30):
So you know, I appreciate you do it because he's
very I mean that that is that is, in my mind,
the most influential owner in the National Football League. Yeah,
you know, I mean, you could say Mr Jones, you
could go other ones as well, but Robert Kraft is
the man i owner in the National Football because the
Rooney's obviously, you can throw them all out there, but

(56:52):
I tend to think that they they're probably the best
franchise in the NFL of the last decade for sure. Well,
we're talking about this past week Johnny Manzel and um
and also Bordles has been brought in for a Bridgewater.
They're gonna bring him both quarterbacks to take a look
at for their pro debt for for private workouts, and

(57:12):
everyone's wondering why in the world would they do that?
And my thought on that is because they want to
kick the tires on these guys because it may have
to play them. So you'll see him up close and personally,
if you have the chance, and if you haven't, if
you and if you have an owner who's like, Okay,
I know I'm paying Tom Brady a billion dollars and
I know you know this process cost money. You gotta
send tickets, you gotta put them up. I mean it's

(57:34):
money that some owners might go, I don't know why
you bringing them in. If we're paying Brady all this money,
Bob Crafts or Robert Craft r kk mr Craft bring
him in. I mean he's just like he's he's throwing
his weight behind him, you know. So what's Brady going
into or something? Well, Brady is gonna be Brady is

(57:55):
I believe thirty six. And but you're not gonna draft
to get Manzell or Bridgewater. You'd have to give up
the farm to get up from from where they are,
which I believe is drafting to go all the way
up to go get him. You'd have to give up
the absolute farm to get him. So if you're draft,
you're not gonna sit him behind Tom Brady for four

(58:15):
or five years. It makes no sense to bring these
guys in unless you want to kick the tires on him.
I have not to know what they're gonna be, like,
I gotta be honest, rich Yes, sir Richard, Yes, I've
been you know, kind of not you know, following the
game very close and mostly focused on this click at
or ticket thing. And that's upright, but not the actual
players understood like that. So um, if I'm the Patriots,

(58:38):
you know, I say trade Aaron Hernandez, give up a
couple of notches in the trash, get a shot at Manzille.
I had to tell you his his his value has
taken a little bit of a hit. Still a Pro
Bowl as far as I know. I mean, obviously he's
got some value. I am saying trade up. I'm glad you.
I'm glad you waited to posit that theory after Mr

(59:00):
crafts hung up has been injury injury free for the
last few years. You gotta you gott a pro bowler,
tight end and chronic already. Again, I've not been following
the rosters closely. Yeah, you've understood. And I do drink some,
you know, on Sundays, So I'm not it's not always blackout.
A little blackout on you, that's the blackout, Sunday blackout. Okay,

(59:23):
I'm at home. I'm not driving to understood, Skiploader. I'm
just at home wondering five twins or triplets? You know?
You know what I'm saying. I see three people. I
know they're only two. I hugged the one in the middle.
Maybe that's why I calls your rick. You know what
could be something you could do that I don't want to,
you know, get too deep in this. You know what
I mean. It's what it's it's your business. No, no, no,

(59:44):
I keep in my business. It's very private. But yeah,
I thought that would be cool to have you tell
Simmons that have Simmons try and get him on his podcast.
A man's bob grabs it? What tell them all? So?
What is going on with this lawsuit? I know you
want to talk about this, You want to talk about this,
you can talk about it. If you don't want to
talk about to talk about um um this entire medium.

(01:00:08):
Correct it does? It threatens me and you and everyone
else who's doing a potter u um. We were sued
my podcast by Patentrolls and they the thumbnail sketch of patentrols.
Are they their conglomeration of lawyers and bankers and sort

(01:00:29):
of rich whitey at his worst, people who have money
to spend on this sort of guy as you wear
shirts with different color kind a minute, Yeah, now you
know what I'm saying. They buy up patents that that
are either not being used or have no real application
or anything, and then they figure out ways to apply
them to existing businesses and then they call up you know, Google,

(01:00:52):
and they go, hey, man, you're using our technology. And
they go what They go, We're now we're suing you
and or you know, give us ten million bucks and
we'll leave you alone. And I sort of heard about
it and and understood it. But they're going after Google and
iTunes and you know big you know, big conglomerations that
have lawyers and billions of dollars and stuff like that.

(01:01:14):
Well they decided to come after us. I think they
sat around and if you really think about it, how
long was the man going to sit on the sidelines
that's a football menas and watch what's going on on

(01:01:34):
the internet with patents and your voice and consumers and
sponsors and things like that, and not wet their beak,
like not get in on it. I mean there's traditionally
a group of guys who don't do anything. They just
get in between people that are doing something and where's
our cuts. So essentially, these patentrols that you're referring to,
uh said, they came up with the the technology for

(01:01:57):
a podcast, what they're saying, and therefore there they're saying,
you're using a part of our technology for your podcasting.
And in this case, it's a sequencer, it's it's a playlist. Yeah,
it's your Your podcast on a Monday is on a Monday,

(01:02:18):
and Tuesday is underneath it, and Wednesday's underneath that. And
if you go online you see rich the rich eyes
and podcasts, you see one to they're all down the
line and they're saying, that's our technology. And you know, obviously,
if that's up for grabs, everything on the internet's up
for grabs. I mean, everything that has a series, everything

(01:02:38):
on YouTube, you know, everything. So we now, usually what
they want you to do is just pay them off
and they'll go away, because the threat of litigation is
so expensive and so time consuming that you just go
take money, go please leave us alone. Um we realize

(01:02:59):
that if we do that, then they're just gonna go
on iTunes, find the top couple hundred podcasts and just
start going down the line. Yeah, why Mark Maron's next nurdiced,
They're all, They're all, why wouldn't you Because that's what
you do for a living by patents, you make money
and if I paid you, why not get rich eyes
and to pay you. So what we're doing is we're
fighting it. The problem with that is it costs a

(01:03:23):
million to one to one point five million dollars worth
of lawyer and defend yourself against these folks that have
just slop frivolous law. So what happens like your agent
or you received this in the mail one day all
of a sudden and you're like, what in the hell
is this? That basically what it was. Yeah, I mean
it's you, NBC and ABC. Is that what it is?

(01:03:46):
They're going after a few entities, but they've they've pushed
me into that mix, and they filed and the court
dates in October and it's in Texas and I read
that it's in tex This in a very friendly court
for their end of the argument from basically from what
I read is that that that patent arguments in that

(01:04:10):
district are what six out of ten or seven out
of ten going the favor of whoever's suing you, whereas
in others it's not nearly as favorable. Correct, Right, So
they hung again. You know, people say, oh, aren't you
piste off? Like, No, it's business for them. It's nothing personal.
It's that they hang their shingle up in a town
in eastern Texas. That's good for them. Again, it's business.

(01:04:35):
They don't come to Los Angeles and do it where
my business is. And then they sue and they're not
gonna win. Everybody with any kind of legal background whatsoever
who's taken a look at the actual case is said, oh,
there's there's no way, but it's gonna cost one point
three million dollars to find out that we won to

(01:04:57):
get to that point of the no way get to
that no way point. And so what we're saying is
is look all podcasting and all the communities, and you
know your fans might not listen to me or Mark
Marin or the nerd whatever it is, whoever it is.
Mobilize your fan base, go to fund anything dot com.

(01:05:18):
We're doing a crowd sourcing thing, give to the Legal
Defense Fund. We're none of that money's going going to me,
you know, a little bit up my nose. But that's
just that's I'm putting in some long hours. We're gonna
fight these guys and we're gonna we're gonna beat them
with with this war chest that we're going to build
through reaching out to the podcast community. Fund anything dot com, Yeah,

(01:05:43):
or you can go to ankral dot com and it's
yea and so so far ward, I think we're about
three we've raised. Yeah, it's interesting because this this podcast
is done through NFL media. You're doing it through your
own entity, through your own Is that why they that?
And you're you're your number one? That's why you were

(01:06:05):
number one on the on the hit list? Do you
think is is your number one on the iTunes? And
I imagine, and I this is all speculation, but I
imagine they just went to iTunes and they want who's
nearer at the top of the list, and they went,
let's go after them first and then we'll work our
way down down the line. And that's what I imagine.

(01:06:26):
I I don't know. If they don't, you know, they'll
sue Google and they'll sue me. And so to me,
that means everyone falls somewhere in between Google and me.
And uh, anyway, so that means NFL network that it
just means everything, NBC, whatever, it's going to fall somewhere
in between Google and me. So everything's up for graphs,

(01:06:49):
well fund anything, dot com. You gotta go to it,
because that's this sounds um horrifying. It's it's sort of
it's sort of the opposite of America, you know what
I mean, Like it's it's it's it's very American to
go out and start your own business and have your
employees and build your stuff up and build yourself a

(01:07:10):
small business. And then this is the man, you know,
coming in and doing it in a way that's very
you know Cyberry and twenty one century and you know
Buck Roger c E. But this is a this is
essentially something that is going to be illegal in five years.

(01:07:31):
But to me, it's like them finding the cure to
your particular cancer three years after you've been in the ground.
You know, like that that's nice, but I gotta try
to beat it. Now. If people have questions, they can
go to They can send an email to Legal Defense
at Adam Crula dot com. Let's do that. Yeah, let's

(01:07:52):
do that before they come here. They have no idea.
They're messing with the man who came up with the
replay game and um and got the gold post Phraise
ticket with the wrong Yeah. Wrong. They're just kicking the
wrong rock right there. Yeah, that's that's I. I have
sort of said that it's gonna be bad pr for

(01:08:14):
them because they go after people that don't have a voice,
so to speak, and we have a platform, we have
a pulpit, and they go after big companies. But the
big companies just have a floor of lawyers that they
have to deal with. But they don't have a microphone,
and they're gonna drum up. And I've done plenty of
interviews about this, and of course I'm you know, making

(01:08:36):
the making the rounds. But this should turn into a
story of who these guys are, because I don't you know,
this was a calculated mistake I believe on their part
because their deal is fly under the radar, make a
bunch of money. But now they're shining a light on
who they are because I'm out going everywhere talking about

(01:08:58):
the people writing articles of out at Capitol Hill, and
Obama's talking about it, and now they should have kind
of stayed in the shadows and collect hammered those checks
rather than going after people that were loud and had
a voice. Yeah, a serious platform before I let you go, sir,

(01:09:19):
catch a contractor Sundays a ten on Spike TV. You're
catching contractors, Yeah, doing the wrong thing, right? Yeah, that
that shows going very well. I'm I'm not surprised, but
it's it's weird that I I sort of I forgot
that I've been off TV for a decade. I mean,
you know, well, no, no, as my as my agent

(01:09:43):
pointed out to me, when I said to James, baby Doll,
Dicks and Cheese, I was I was in the shower,
he said to say Hi. I wasn't. I was in
a tong going the right and I said, say, hi,
Rich a good guy man. I said, Uh. I said, uh, Jesus,
baby Doll, I think it's been a decade since I've
been on TV. He went, Baby, No, No, I mean
since you've had a hit. Yeah, but yeah, that's kind

(01:10:07):
of what I meant. James, James, he's got quite uh
the roster roster, So you're busting contractors, Yeah, yeah, baby
doll has Jon Stewart and Colbert and Kimmel and Carson
Daley and all all the good ones. Is there anybody else?
He's got Simmons to right, Oh yeah, sure, yeah Simmons. Yeah.

(01:10:27):
Is that it? Am I missing any money? Or that's it?
He's got a swell, he's got he's got a couple
of guys. He's got a couple of riders and a
couple of you know, second tier guys. Because I could
always tell when I call him, if he's talking to
Jimmy's cousin Sal who's one of his guys, he'll go,
you know, hold on, baby, let me get rid of somebody.
But if he's talking to Jon Stewart, he'll go, baby,

(01:10:49):
let me call you back. I can always tell. You,
always tell where you're at. Right last weekend, I'm sure
he was on with Colbert almost every two minutes with
all that crazy on. Well, my, you know, my, I've
always said I'm in love with this, which is you
know when you call somebody and uh, they go, hold on,

(01:11:12):
I'm on with somebody, you know, especially your agent. Baby,
I'm on with somebody and they don't say who I'm
on with. Somebody let me call you back, and you
hang up, and you think, all right, he's talking to
some client that is above me in the pecking order,
and uh so you're like, okay, um, I always said
this if I was an agent, and and even not,

(01:11:33):
you should just do this. Every time somebody calls you
on your cell phone. You should just pick up Rich.
You you call me on my cell phone, Rich, Hey, Rich,
Oh yeah, hey, good, yeah, hold on, let me get
rid of somebody. And then I just put it on
hold for like five Mississippi, even though you're not, even
though I'm not, the phone has just been sitting on

(01:11:54):
my lap, and then I just come back Rich, Yes, sorry,
I had to get rid of someone who wasn't you anyway?
What's called? Now you're thinking maybe he's talking to his dad,
his mom, maybe was Cobert Do. But I'm important that
he got rid of somebody. I like it. You'll never ask,
you'll never go who'd you get rid? Of course not.
All you know is that you're important enough for me

(01:12:17):
to get rid of whoever I was speaking to before you.
And now I hold you in higher regard, and you
hold you in higher regard. I do I feel better
about myself and about you. I'm telling you that these
patentrols have no idea who they are. No, there you go,
there you go, there's a there's your time code right there.
You got that. Every now and then here at NFL Media,

(01:12:39):
we have to bleep that stuff and um every now
and then the show posts and I get like, oh,
you're guy, missed one. It goes goes five hole every
now and then. Let me just say, how do I handle?
Let it fly? How do I handle it? Adam? You
tell me, well, look, you're the top of the iTunes chart.
You are an unbrided old stallion. And there's a song

(01:13:04):
called Wildfire that was written about you. It's about a
horse that broke down its stall and it just can't
be contained. And and the thing about when you sign
up for rich Eisen, you get all of rich Eisen.
You don't get the rated G or PG or PG
thirteen rich Eisen. You signed up for the whole rich
eyes That's right, Well, you get it all, and a

(01:13:28):
lot of that is is greatness. And every once in
a while that very dark rich Eyesen pokes its head up. Hey,
but that's the entire package, and you can't say I
want seven eights of rich eyesen. You don't do it
that way. You get the entire thing you order. The
Mexican dish comes with the rice and the beans. You

(01:13:49):
know what, eat the beans. That's your business. It's coming
with rice and beans. And recently look out, wow, look out. Yeah,
I was trying to cut my enchilada and I was like,
this is not Oh I thought you're talking about me.
I'm like, wait a minute, you're talking about what When
I say ordering Mexican food, that's code code. Yeah, so

(01:14:12):
what how so so your actually chicken ball? Yeah, like
a real chicken ball. Okay, Wow, that's no good. So
to recap um we uh we got Bob Craft on
the horn to celebrate with you. Um we are going
to propose um a once a season, uh call for a.

(01:14:33):
We'll call it the We call it the equalizer pole
because because we just changing the name, well, I mean,
is it the atom pole or or it kind of
has to be branded. It's called the rick pole. Then.
So the rick pole comes up and it equalizes the game.
It gets you of how far back you are. It's
a forty point blowout, but it's basically even the last

(01:14:56):
two minutes of a game. Though yes, it's it's based
in the third quarters, you wouldn't want to. It's it's
basically you saying you can try a half court metal
lark type hook shot at the end of a basketball
game to get too tied up and and and that
kick is done by an added fifty third man on

(01:15:17):
the roster or you know, if you're sidewinder wants to
do it, you can do it whoever is the best
on the team, and that person is located next to
a replay gimp within the bowels of the stadium. That's right, Okay,
that's that comes out to replay. Exciting would it be
with one seconds left in the game and your team

(01:15:37):
down by thirty seven points at that the crowd and
thirty seven yards and the guys setting up. She's throwing
a little grass in the artisy which way the wind
is right? I mean, that's just you're there and there's
no tune out factor because you know that pole is

(01:16:00):
coming and could at any moment. I love it that
all is there. Um fund Anything dot Com to go
and save podcasts and catch a contractor on Spike Television
UH is on Sunday nights at ten pm. And of
course there's always the Adam Carolla podcast, the Adam Corolla
Show on on iTunes and Adam Rola dot com. You're

(01:16:21):
the best. Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming in.
Adam Carolla here in studio, the man, the Galileo himself
here on the program. I am pumped for this one. Um,
this man. Uh, very few people have directed me in
my lifetime. Certainly well, I mean that's my wife we're
talking about on a daily basis. I'm talking about on

(01:16:42):
the silver screen. And um, I'm I was honored to
be in this film, honored to be um here in
the same studio with the director and producer. Also of
Draft Day that you can see in theaters near you
on April eleven, Ivan Rykman, good to see you, sir.
Right to be here. How are you. I'm feeling good,
you know, nervous. We're just about to open. Yeah, it's coming. Yeah.

(01:17:05):
I feel good because people seem to love it. I
feel good because even you know, we knew that sports
fans would probably dig this. But um, um, you know,
we do a lot of early early marketing stuff, and uh,
from the early screenings that we've had, we've learned that
people who know nothing about football of you know, loving

(01:17:26):
the movie as much as people have watched well. And
the reason why the movie works from my point of view, um,
is because of of exactly what you're bringing up right there, Ivan,
is that people who might not be hardcore football people
are enjoying it because draft days that we have been
a part of now for eleven to samor eleventh NFL

(01:17:47):
draft that we're covering on NFL Network, it's filled with
narratives and stories and dramas within families and dreams coming
true and also, um peak, kids who fall down draft boards.
It's not all hunky Dorrian is right, no, but it's
all stories though all of them are stories, and that

(01:18:09):
some of them have fathers sons stories, and some of
them are mothers sons stories, and some our grandmother and
son's stories. And we've seen kids breakdown and cry when
they're drafted, and and this movie, this film hits every
single one of those buttons, Iman, and and I think
that's what you're referring to why people maybe who aren't

(01:18:29):
football fans are enjoying it in that regard. Yeah, it's
it done against the clock, much like the draft works.
I mean the we tell the whole story, and I
think the chronology is about fourteen hours. It starts at
six o'clock in the morning and goes until midnight after
the first round, and a awful lot of stuff happens
in that day. And you really it's almost like a

(01:18:51):
sports event in itself. And that was sort of the
focus um of the telling of the story. How can
we do a movie that has a kind of a
down passed at the last second of the game without
ever going on the field. And it's because it's it's
an interesting I always enjoyed the draft um being a

(01:19:11):
host of it for many reasons. And and I always wonder,
what why is it so interesting? Right? Because all it
is is it just names being ticked off every ten minutes,
where when we started with every fifteen minutes. And and
it's also if you think about and all the stuff
that we do here Ivan Thursday night football and also
Super Bowls and combine coverage and the Hall of Fame,

(01:19:33):
it's the only event where the newsmakers the general managers
are not in the building. They're not physically there. I know.
That's the remarkable thing. Most people think where they watched
the draft, that all the people are. It's it's the
it's the action that the tables, but the tables are
only reflecting what's going on in thirty two war rooms

(01:19:54):
across the country. I think I thought that was amazing.
I mean the hard part for me is a film
director us Okay, so that's a lot of phone calls
because it's all this negotiation and trading and and uh
asking of questions and how do you do that and
make it look make it a movie not just a
radio show and um um. So we started developing the

(01:20:16):
split screen idea. That was great, by the way, and
how but and when folks see this too, it's the
split screen idea is not just two people on either
side or normal split screen, they sort of walk through
the other ones. Yeah, it's not Rock Hutson, you know
from the nine fifties. I said, wow, I gotta come
up with something that's a little different. And with digital technology,

(01:20:39):
we can manipulate a character right out of his background
and pull him into somewhere else. And I just wanted
the people to be feel like, you know, in a
phone call, you really think you're with that person. It's
in your head. You can close your eyes and you
can imagine what that's like in a movie. You know,
we're used to a two shot, we're used to singles

(01:21:00):
as well, and of course that's easy. But I didn't
want to edit those scenes without the main characters being
together in some way on the screen and and in
a more effective way that it's being done in the past.
So we just played with technology to make it really
dynamic and it it works. And the cast that you
got for this film, how lucky is that. I'd like

(01:21:23):
to get into this process here, because I mean, getting
Kevin Costner to do another sports movie, I'd imagine you
weren't the first one to knock on his door. Between
now and I guess as we discussed, uh, for love
of the game, which is what he did his own
right construct in the late nineties, I think it was
that he did it. I mean, you couldn't have been

(01:21:44):
the first one to say, hey, let's do a sports movie. Yeah.
I read the script. In fact, I read the script
in the middle of the night once I I couldn't sleep.
The draft day script. The draft Day script was the
first one. It was the next one for me to read,
and um, it just caught me by surprise. I was
looking to do a football movie or even a sports movie. Exactly.
I was just looking to a good movie and I

(01:22:06):
just couldn't put it down. I read it in less
than an hour, and I knew I was going to
direct it before I finished it. I kid, Yeah, there
was just and that's never happened before. I mean, usually
work over a script for years and it usually comes
out of an idea that you know, I've either brought
up or a friend that I'm working with is brought up.
And this just came in and it was and it

(01:22:27):
was no surprise to me to find that it won
this sort of Blacklist award, which is um it's an
award given to US unproduced screenplays of that year, the
best of them, and they're voted on by industry professionals
whatever that means. It's about two or three thousand. It
was like the top one for two years in a row, right, well,
I think it was. It's only in the one year.

(01:22:48):
But it was not only um, you know, not only one.
It won by like a landslide of sixty odd votes.
I mean usually they win by two or three votes. Whoever,
that top film, anything in the top five, is it
like an amazing this was it. I didn't know it
happened after we had bought it already, but so I

(01:23:09):
felt good about the choice. I said, God, um and
I heard a voice when I was reading it, And um,
I said, who was that guy? That was written for?
Like a thirty five year old general manager? And it's
not too many of those guys? And um, and but
I kept hearing somebody and I couldn't. I said, I
know who this is, and I couldn't picture him, and

(01:23:32):
I realized, Oh, it's Costner. Damn it, that's who I
was thinking about. Yeah, he's in his fifties, but that's
actually more right for this. And we just reworked it
for Costner. I sent it to him. I went to
visit him in Aspen, and so we we hung out
for twenty four hours. And we each have a fairly
extensive histories. We've been around, and the nicest thing that

(01:23:57):
happened is that we sort of liked each other and
ended up trusting each other. Yeah, and we got there
pretty quickly, and he had really smart things to say
about the script. I think he improved the script he had.
You know, he's a big You must know this from
speaking to him alone. He just knows a lot about sports,
really the kind of the emotional side of sports that um,

(01:24:19):
and he helped he had some good ideas. Um, you
know that we kept doing and I added stuff. We
worked on it for six months and started shooting. And
when did you get the NFL involved? Because that's that
is as crucial a component as anything else, because it
makes it incredibly believable when there was no way to

(01:24:42):
make this movie without it, right, I mean, we hadn't
made a deal. We said, look, we're not gonna do
this unless we get them, and the studio was not
interested in making it without the NFL. And then fortunately,
you know, I think Tracy Pelman from the NFL was
the first person to read it and she loved it.
She called me up and she said, you know, you
have no idea how many scripts we get every day.

(01:25:02):
I'm sure they must get one every I know they get.
Everyone wants to use the NFL as a as a backdrop,
and it was such a pleasure to read something that
sort of emotionally caught what we're all about. And um,
and so that started the process of getting NFL approval,
and you know, it was not easy. I mean, they

(01:25:24):
had lots to say, but it wasn't about like you
gotta change this, you gotta change that. It was it
was interesting stuff. It was like, hey, you know, you
can't the general manager can't drive at Toyota. You know,
we were with where with the GMC is our our bronsorship,
we're branding. So it wasn't about even they didn't mind

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if somebody drove a Toyota. And in the movie it's
just look, our start can't do that, and we can't
do that to our brands. You know, you must get
that right here at the NFL Networks. We've heard that before.
We've heard about NFL branding before, and so I mean
there was particularly you know, there's a lot of phones
in this film, and particularly so we got you know,

(01:26:09):
I mean right now what we now? I think it's
Sam suck right see, I'm behind the times. Even Cisco
in the office Samsung on I should speak to you
first time, and I didn't know, well, first yes you are.
You know, there was lots to talk about language, but
finally they'll let it go um almost at least. I what.

(01:26:34):
That's one of the things I was most impressed with
with this film that it isn't if you think it's
an NFL sponsored whitewash that you're not going to see
sort of uh, what's the word for it, ribbled? I mean,
I don't know what it's as I meant, you're you're
gonna see some red ass. You're gonna see some people

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talk like you would imagine when the clock is coming
down in the pressure of making the right pick or
the right trade, or the right move. This is the
way people you would imagine would talk. And the NFL
letting that go and letting you, I've and do your
job and let anyone else do their job. I thought
was spectacular. I was so pleased to see that. You know,

(01:27:17):
you're nodding your head to Chris, you saw the film Law.
You're gonna see it later this week. I've seen it
looking forward to later, And I mean, I was really
I was really pleased to see that. I just kept asking,
and everybody involved in professional football, does this make sense?
Please read the script? Tell me what I think. I
asked you, Richard, very early on, to read the the

(01:27:39):
draft of when you had kindly agreed to come up
come into the movie. I said, look, just read and
tell me if we're wrong anywhere. I mean, you know
as much about the draft is virtually anybody out there,
and just you know, so we talked to coaches, to
team owners, to players, and then of course we talked
to the NFL, all those technical guys who basically run

(01:28:00):
how the draft opera. Well, you put him in the movie.
We saw Joel Busser pops Sammy CHOI gets a little
bit of a pope, I mean, and we we were
you know who are there and doing an amazing job. Actually,
like I never understood how the trade thing work. You
know how when two teams make a trade and they
it's happened in two different cities, how everyone hears about

(01:28:22):
it and and clears it at radio city and it's
we try and as soon as I heard, you know
what really goes on that each team calls in and
as a team, you know that there's the officials table.
Joel Busser, that's if his phone rings. I tell this
on our broadcast. I'm like that guy. If you see
that guy in the background picking up the phone, it
is not to order pizza. He's getting something. Yes, exactly.

(01:28:47):
Was great, and I said, well we got to show that,
you know it wasn't necessarily in the script at the
at the beginning, so we started adding all these details.
When I think it was Russ Brandon, what's the guy? Yes,
he's in It is actually the movie. So when I
went to visit them, because we were originally gonna set
this in Buffalo, but it costs too much and we
ended up shooting it in Cleveland. But Rust started talking

(01:29:11):
about the draft party that they have at the end
of the first round, uh, right in their own field house.
And I said, you have a party at the end
of the first round. Yeah, and we bring in the guy.
You know, if we got a top top pick, we
usually try to fly him down in time for the
ending of the party and introduce him. I said, wow,
what a cool idea. Let's called up the writers. I said,
we gotta write this new sequence where we bring in

(01:29:33):
all the pics you know that they managed to get
in that first round and um, and it turns out
to be this kind of a nice summary of something
because these guys have never been together, and you know,
with Kevin Costner in the film, so it was a
nice way to at least bring everybody together. And it's
just stuff, you know, as we researched the veracity of

(01:29:55):
what we were trying to do. We would just pick
up new stuff that we could add and and everything.
And you know, I mean, you know that the Frank
Langella as the owner, some great lines that he has
as well, you know, like I'm not gonna give away
too much, but you know it's the line he said
to him at the end at the amusement park, at
the end of that at the end of about making

(01:30:16):
a splash, right, people pay to get wet. I mean,
that's a really great line. I mean, he he was
great and um, Ellen Burston, Sam Elliott, you nothing about football.
By of all the people involved in this movie, he
probably knew the least. Frank right, Frank Langella, I mean,
he's seventy five years old, He's been nominated for god
knows how many Academy awards, Tony's and Tony's right, So

(01:30:40):
he shows up at the draft that he is because
he's in our film. You know, the owner makes a
because you know, usually, of course, no general managers are
at the draft, as you guys all know, and uh,
but an owner will occasionally come if he's got the
first pick. Because I interviewed Bob McNair the year he
was number one overall and they took Mario Williams instead

(01:31:03):
of Reggie Bush and he came on our show Live
to talk about it. So when you sent me pages,
which I've never thought I would ever say to Ivan, rightman,
it would be true. When you sent me pages saying
I want you to be in the scene with Frank Langella,
I'm this is I've done this before, this has been
this has happened before. After the owner has an M

(01:31:25):
one overall pick, it does happen. I did it. So,
I mean there's this very you know, natural thing where
he's in the commissioner's lounge and we were fortunate enough
to have Goodell himself, you know, play our commissioner and
uh Goods uh you know, he gave me five minutes
for the scene. And I remember Langelis, so who is
this guy? Said be really nice to him. He's very important.

(01:31:51):
He's important to us. Yes he does, but he doesn't
really naturally he's got the scene with him. And then
Ray Lewis walked in just by accident, and uh um,
David Dunn, who's his agent who's also in the movie,
said hey, you guys, wanna put Ray Lewis in the movie.
I said, sure, you'd be backstage in the green room,
so let's break him in. And I said, lunch. So

(01:32:13):
here's the conversation you have to have. And I had
to explain this whole thing who Ray Lewis was to
Legella and and and ray was so lovely and he
was actually very effective. I mean, uh, and he he
works just fine in the picture of the way we
use them, and um, it just felt like a real moment.
You know that a guy like that would have gone

(01:32:34):
there's no question, there's no doubt, There's no doubt about it.
And you know, also with um, with Langella, I told
you this when he showed up on the set. And
this was the Friday, uh after Thursday night when you
had to shoot our our scenes for the film. And
I'm I'm sure you did the same thing with Burman

(01:32:56):
and the ESPN crew on that Friday also, right, So
Angela comes on the set and I've never met him before.
I'm a fan of his work. I mean, my lord,
it's a frank freaking Langella that that's the worst possible
role of to bring up. Please please, Dracula Oh my god,
he was right Dracula, I think he was. I think

(01:33:17):
he played Amadeus on Broadway, right right, Okay, so that's
what you say to Ivan, rightman, Okay, you don't bring
up Skeletorp and he'll remake Okay, Well, anyway, long story short, uh,
he says to me, because I you know, I mean,
Thursday night was crazy. Friday is a long day. As

(01:33:38):
you know. I don't need to tell you. You were
physically there. You saw what we do for living an
NFL network, everybody in the trucks and a lot. So
I mean I've taken a look, like a slight look
at the lines before and just figured I'll have the
pages in front of me, you know, I'll just do
what I have to do. I'm playing myself for crying
out loud. You could do that, right exactly. I figured
I could do that. So he walks up to me

(01:33:58):
and he shakes my hand and he says, nice to
meet you, rich and I'm like, nice to meet you,
Mr el Angel and he goes, um, would you like
to run through our lines? And I'm like, hoh, I carefully,
this is happening number one? And what do I say
to him? Like, well, you know what I mean, I didn't.
I didn't really look frank. But so you're gonna be

(01:34:19):
in this scene with a total amateur, you know. But
you guys started a living together, and that's when it
really sounded right, because that's the way it really is. Yeah,
and I always try to do that. Look, I started
my career directing Bill Murray. I mean, you learned to
be nimble because he he often almost always has something

(01:34:40):
better to say than what was written, and you'll have
a great idea. I mean, I remember working with him
in Meatballs is the first That was the first one, right,
the first one, and I produced Animal House just before it,
and I had worked with Bill on a show called
The National Lampoon Show, which was an off Broadway review
sketch comedy. And it wasn't just Bill. It was John Belushi,

(01:35:00):
Gilda Radner, Harold Ramos, Joe Flaherty, um all in this
amazing stage show. This is before Saturday Night Live, It's
before Stout say. It's a mix of two of the
greatest yeah shows of that genre, right st s. Yeah,
it was all these guys, and it's what changed my life.

(01:35:21):
I got to produce this show and uh, and so
I had a real good sense of what these guys
could do. And I finally talked I had just on
Animal House. I was hoping to direct it. They wouldn't
let me direct it because all I had done it
to this moment is this a little twelve thousand dollar
comedy horror movie called Cannibal Girls, which had actually Eugene
Leaving and Andrew martintv before any of these people were known.

(01:35:44):
And uh, and so that was my credit. Now. Then
I had the National lamp Puncho and I had oddly
enough The Magic Show, which was a big Broadway hit
with Doug Henny. And so I will work on the
script of Animal House with Harold Ramos and all the
other writers for about two years, and we finally talked

(01:36:04):
Universal in to making it because for two years they
didn't want to make Animal House. It's it's too raunchy,
too raunchy, it's too crappy, and it's not funny. They
would argue, it's not funny. I remember walking with Doug Kenny,
who was also one of the great writers and one
of the founders of the National Lampoon, and he'd be
reading the script, his own script that he curbed and

(01:36:25):
he would turn him and he'd say, isn't this like
I just read it again, and isn't this like one
of the funniest scripts you've ever read? And I said,
yeah it is. It's two guys who have never done
anything without a pot to piss in, and we were
absolutely confident that we had this great screenplay. And so
Animal House they say, I'm sorry, I haven't all you've
got his Cannibal girls. I don't think you can interact this.

(01:36:49):
We found Atlantis, who would at least done a couple
of features that they had heard of, and uh, he
did a great job. But I realized, oh, I have
to direct, and so I called my friends up who
I had in the school with, and we wrote Meatballs,
this camp comedy, and I called up Bill Murray. I said, look,
I'm gonna shoot in Canada and it's and if it's
no good, no one's gonna see it. And if it's good, hey,

(01:37:12):
you didn't waste your summer. And he was getting ready
to go on to Saturday Night Live. He had never
been on, so nobody knew who he was. He said,
now I think I'm gonna play softball and golf all summer,
and I said, come on, Bill, you gotta help me,
and finally talked him into doing the film. And what
I realized, and this is my first real movie with

(01:37:34):
a big crew and all that kind of stuff. We
had a four or five hundred thousand dollar budget, and
by then I was co financing it with some friends
because of of my earnings from the Magic Show. And uh,
this before Animal House had come out. I mean, I
squeezed it in really quick because I wanted to be
a director. And he, um, you know, first day, he

(01:37:58):
looks at his pages for his first scene, he says,
scrap it, just throw us up. He said, whoa, whoa, whoa.
We got this shot all set up and everything. He said,
just yeah, we'll just do the shot and I'm going
to just change the lines a little bit. I said, okay,
And you know, he goes through it. It's when he's
introduced to IF for those of you who remember Meatballs,

(01:38:20):
he's being introduced to the counselors and training for the
very first town and he just runs his own lines
and all the other guys just say the lines that
were written. But I turned to the guy who's producing
with me, an old friend who also wrote it. I said, God,
thank god this guy showed up, because he didn't show
up until the second day of shooting. I didn't know

(01:38:41):
I had him until the day before we started shooting.
I refused to cast anyone else. It was like, it
was a moment of total insanity. What did you see
in him that I guess that he because he had
not been on Saturday Night Live yet, No, but I
had worked with him on this show, um, on this
stage show, and you know, he was just this too
remarkable presence, as was Belushi, as was Gilda Radner, as

(01:39:04):
was Harold and um, and they were they were the
best I had ever seen anywhere, and so I was,
and I couldn't find anybody. I mean, it's not like
I did not audition anybody else because I didn't want
to actually go into shooting without and without the star
of the movie. But I actually started shooting uh without

(01:39:25):
him actually on the set, and I had only found
out that day that I had him. Oh my lord,
that's first crack at directing, well, technically my second after
Cannibal Girl. But we actually had sort of a script
on this one. So one of the things I learned,
one of the great things I learned from Cannibal Girls. Oh, scripts,
scripts are good to have shooting a movie. We sort

(01:39:48):
of decided it would be an improv film, you know,
so Bill Murray just kind of wing the whole movie. No,
he didn't, you know, And that was the kind of uh,
you know, I was talking about being nimble. When I
learned is I had to get involved, you know. I
had to make sure that what he was doing made
sense in the course of the story, in the story

(01:40:08):
that we were already telling. But whenever he had a
good idea, which was almost every day and often, I
had to be fast enough and smart enough to take
what's best about what he was pitching and doing and
work it into what was good about the original script
and sort of hold it all together. So when did

(01:40:29):
she went from that into Stripes? From that directly into Stripes? Yeah.
The great thing about Stripes is I knew I had
him two weeks before I started shooting, So that was
a real improvement. But and and and putting Harold Ramos
in the film as well as opposed to again again,
I knew Harold was as good as these guys. I
had seen him on stage and he held his own

(01:40:50):
with John Belushi and and with the rest of them.
So even though he was a total unknown, um it
had never really been in any thing other than other
stage shows. Um, I had absolute confidence. And and so
did Bill, by the way, because Bill had worked with
him on the stage show, so he saw him as

(01:41:10):
an equal and that was very useful. And and they
were equals, and they're great in that movie together. Well,
it is obviously incredible. I mean, it's it's seminal. And
what from the film? Is there anything that that that
we would recall as the I guess quintessential lines in

(01:41:32):
the film that we're ad libbed. Is there anything from
that film that or how much? Was a ton of
stuff that you know, got that had a very very
good script written by Dan Goldberg and Lynn Bloom and
Harold Ramos, you know, they all sort of had worked
on the draft, and then you'd have to add, um,
you know, you you'd have to ask add Bill's name

(01:41:53):
to that, even though he didn't officially get writing credit
because he does so much. Um. You know, my favorite
sequence is that mark that famous sort of marching thing
where they all sort of marched together and do boom
boom chuck, you know, and that's the it ends with.
That's the fact Jack. Now that that whole group, half

(01:42:16):
of whom we were actors and half of whom were
real soldiers. We picked up at Fort Knox because that's
where I was filming. You know, they trained for two
weeks to get that drill right. I kept going to
build him, Bill, Please, you gotta practice this. You've got
you know, you're gonna lead it, and it's gonna be
it's gonna be the best thing. You know, it's you know,

(01:42:37):
it's the climax of the second act, and we gotta
go from there. He says, yeah, I got it, and uh.
And I sort of saw him talk to one of
the guys one evening or just a little bit before
we were shooting it, and I could see him getting
it down. In other words, he wouldn't practice publicly who

(01:42:58):
with everybody else, but he he saw the moves and
he's really so um a droid and so quick. He
just got it right away, and um it was one
of the first times I've ever used this. I think
it was shot with a steadicam, which was a camera
that has a a special jib or something on it

(01:43:20):
that it makes it very smooth. Was invented literally about
six months before that sequence, and I had the inventor
actually operating, and we shot that whole sequence, including the
running up and all the things that you remember about
that day, all in all in one day. And it's
because the drill team was really well drilled and Bill

(01:43:44):
just sort of was the kind of conductor on top
of it, and he basically said, just repeat whatever I say.
You know, they had their moves, they had all that
stuff down. But but in terms of the kind of
back and forth thing and um and I just shot
at you know, like a ballet, and it just worked

(01:44:06):
out a classic, an absolutence in classic. And I don't
know if I told you too, Chris, is this story
because you know Ivan in in draft day, it's me
Mayok and Dion representing the NFL Network desk and Gruden
and and Kuyper and ESPN desk. So Mayok, as you
guys know, when during the draft, there's no there is

(01:44:27):
no throwing him off his game. I mean, this is it.
This is his super Bowl. And he's grinding his tape
and he's looking at he's calling up generalman. He's doing
his job. So they get him to do anything, but
his job during those days and hours leading up to
the draft is monumental. So to tell him, hey, we
want to shoot a movie and have you in it

(01:44:52):
and take you away from that stuff, no matter how
cool it might sound. He was a little bit Mayakian
about it. It's the only way to put it. You
guys know exactly what I'm talking about. So he goes
to me, is we're getting set to meet Ivan. He
says to me, So, what are we gonna do right now?
I'm like, we're going to meet the director of Draft Day.
And I just knew Mayok, who is so into this

(01:45:13):
football world. There's only a handful of pop culture references
that he understands, and Stripes is one of them. Yeah,
that's right, thank you. So I said to him, I'm like,
he's a director of uh note to say the least,
you're in great hands. And he directed Stripes. That was

(01:45:35):
it for him. He's like, where is he? I want
to meet him? And he came. I mean, he was like,
he's like the bizar. He doesn't know anything about fighting
up Frances. He knows all of that. He knew he
could recite that scene verbatim. But Mayok in his ultimate
way because he must evaluate everything in his life. Says

(01:45:57):
when he met you. Don't if you remember what he
said when you at you I and he goes, I
love stripes right up until you go to Europe, which
is the scene I was just which is what he said,
right up until you go to your mike, Mike not
everything needs to be evaluated and it doesn't need to
be broken down. I'm like, what are you doing on

(01:46:17):
top of everything else. I don't know if you remember this,
but I should do. We were with Arian Foster in
the green room and he had to catch a plane.
I thought I had him the next day, and then
I was told literally that morning, look he's getting on
a plane because he's got his own charitable thing that
he's got to get to. And you've got to get
all his scenes in for the movie. And so I
was just running around trying to get as many shots,

(01:46:40):
and I remember Alie Bell, our producer, comes up to
me and said, look, rich Eyes is getting piste. You
guys are you guys are late. You said you're gonna
be there at eleven o'clock. This is what we needed. Ivan,
Thank you for this information. You guys, you were supposed
to be down there at the NFL desk at eleven
o'clock and it's already fine after I said, I gotta

(01:47:03):
get just one more take. If I don't get one
more take, I don't have this. Like really, you know
what he says, I'm a brown. I'm a brown. Uh
So I'm trying to get all this stuff done. And I,
um was I a Premia Donna on the you're a
little You guys are in the middle of you're you're
just preparing for the second round. You didn't work until
God knows what stuff to do. You guys are like

(01:47:26):
busy and I and I finally got I got that
there about five, but you guys are there was like
thirty seconds where I said, oh my god, everyone's annoyed.
I gotta I got the coolest event. It happened very quickly.
We're gonna ask, you know, Burman Rich, who was more
difficult to work with, but it sounds like we might

(01:47:47):
have gotten Burman had his own idiot secrecy. Okay. My
favorite was when he opened up the suitcase and the
drinks came out. You know, the different has different kinds
of like sodas. Oh, I thought it's all Die Coke.
It was mostly it was he wasn't he's a die
or at least he always was. Maybe it was all

(01:48:08):
full of die Coakes. I wasn't sure. But he had
like a suitcase, you know, instead of with papers and drinks.
But I think I remember you said to Mayok when
he said that to you, that you ran out of
money for the movie. Is that Is that true or no?
Because I don't think I would have said that. That's
what he said that you said to him. No about

(01:48:28):
about stripes that you when you shot it? Okay, it
was actually technically my first studio movie done with Colombia
and came in right on budget. It's good. Yeah, No,
it was. We always thought there had to be a
war if it was gonna be a war movie, so
we created one with Czecho Slovakia, which is where you're
which exactly. It was just you know, an internal thing. Okay.

(01:48:49):
I have a question. You mentioned Arian Foster. I haven't
seen the film yet. These guys have How big is
his rolling? What it's kind of like? I think ray
Allen Jesus shuttles Worth like from He Got Game? Does
he have a big role in this? Yes? And part
you know, it's not I mean it's a significant part.
He's got about four scenes and he had to do dialogue,
I mean real dialogue, and you have to walk and talk,
which is not that easy. You just try to talking

(01:49:12):
and talking. I'll tell you that's that's the toughest part
of my job. But he's very no, he's very good
in it. Yeah, he's very very good. But uh, you know,
Chadwick Boseman crushes his role. He's awesome. He I mean,
he was absolutely There will definitely be people who maybe
haven't seen forty two yet and I won't have seen him.

(01:49:34):
He's about to blow up as James Brown that's coming
to this summer that perhaps think that he is an
actual NFL player in the world. I mean he looks
at and he you know, he he uh contained it.
You know, he just, um, I think this is like
one of the big stars of I mean he's kind

(01:49:54):
of a big star already, correct, But I think he
he's gonna be one of those guys that's really at
the most upper of all of things. He can do
so much, he's so attractive and um, and he's he
can be funny, he can be really serious and he's
a really really fine actor and uh and he really
um um he buys into it. He buys into his

(01:50:16):
roles in a very really good, wonderful serious way that
makes he is excellent. In the time I have left
with you, I have to hit you on Ghostbusters? How
did that come about? What was the idea of having
him Bill Murray and how Ramos and ackroyd together well
as ghost Fight of you know, Ghostbusters? How did that

(01:50:37):
come up? Then wrote this really wonderfully brilliant and odd
treatment for he and Belushi um, and I think it
was an It was set in the future. I think
a lot of it was set off off Earth somewhere
where there were groups of ghostbusting teams fighting each other.

(01:50:57):
But it had this brilliant idea in it, which is,
here are these guys who function much like Fireman, and
but they catch ghosts and they've got this cool equipment
and they they were right and there was just good
stuff there. And um Belushi died and it sat um
unmade for a number of years, and I just finished

(01:51:19):
working with Bill a couple of times, and I think
he spoke to Bill about whether he would be interested
in doing it. And Bill had said yes. Uh, and
he said they sent it to me, and I pitched,
sort of, let's set this in New York today. You know,
you guys are at university and and you get kicked
out and you go into business together. I already structured

(01:51:40):
it as a going into business movie, but it's an
odd business that then was really profitable, and um, we
just it all came together really quickly. It was we
met I think in April or May. I pitched at
the Columbia who had just done stripes with and they
said yes. In the room, they said, how m you
know I I pitched the movie in about as much

(01:52:02):
time as I just described it, and um, they said, wow,
that sounds like it would be great. And it's with
Bill and and Uh. I said, yeah, Bill, Harold and
Danny and I said, okay, well we'll do it. How
much do you think it will cost? I said, and
I just picked the number out of my app It
was the thirty million dollars. His stripes had cost ten
at that time, so I figured, you know, three times

(01:52:24):
as much. I think I can handle it. And I said, okay,
you got thirty million. And then they said, um, but
you have to have it ready by June tenth four,
and this is I think it's the beginning of mayor
the end of April night three, so I had thirteen
months uh to have it ready. We didn't actually have
a script, We just had his treatment and sort of

(01:52:46):
my reconstruction of it. We had no effects company, because
there was only one great effects company then, which was
called I L. M. Still is Spielberg Luca's company that
Spielberg was already using to do a second Indiana Jones
or it was called Indiana Jones and UM. So we
had to create our own special effects company. We had

(01:53:08):
to get a script written, then we had to cast
and do all the other things that you do to
make a movie. A complicated movie. But it was really
one of the great experiences of my life, you know,
shooting in New York, um at a time when people
were no one had ever seen a movie quite like that,
at the combination of of comedy with you know, big

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special effects things that scared you. I think that was
the one ful surprise of the movie is I remember
the very first screening we had, people would scream when
that librarian changed into that horrible figure, and they would scream,
and then they would start to laugh their asses off.
It was the kind of combination of things that I
think that made it a kind of a powerful event. Well,

(01:53:50):
you want to talk cultural touchdownes from the film too,
I mean Ray Parker Jr's song too. I mean that
that's still going through my head right now. I mean,
how did that come? How do you find him? We
kept on looking. I knew I needed a song for
a montage, so we kept um, you know, auditioning different people,
and he finally came in and there and it was

(01:54:12):
we were already mixing the movie by the time that
song came in. The only bad news about that damn
song is that Elmer Bernstein wrote this brilliant score. And
I think when you see the movie again after all
these years, you realize how important his film score, you know,
is to that film and holding it together and giving
it a kind of scale and breadth um and a

(01:54:37):
classicism you know that makes that film, and that the
people forget that he did this. I'll you know, lost
in eye and Afraid of No ghosts. That's what you're saying,
is a beautiful score that helps the movie be what
it is. For sure. Um, A couple more questions, just here.

(01:54:57):
And this may be a silly question, but I'll ask
it anyway. Just hearing again the DNA of of of
your films from this era for sure, Um with Murray
and Uh, Harold ramos Um and with SNL folks, how
did how are you not part of Caddyshack? Were you?
How did you? How did that? Well? I think Harold

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hit your desk. I now worked with Harold four or
five times, and he wanted to be a director. He
wanted to run his own shop. You know, he was um,
and so he sort of started writing Caddyshack, and he
he wanted to direct it and produced it himself. And
he I totally understood that. He basically set up his

(01:55:39):
own uh film at that time. I mean I admired it.
I can tell you that he had a great movie. Um,
it's a great loss. I mean I think his I
went to his funeral. He just passed away just a
few weeks ago, just a few weeks ago, And it
had a real prof his his his death really had

(01:56:00):
a profound effect on me. And and I've been working
on another Ghostbusters with the studio at him and Danny
Uh for about the last four years, and we started
all that together, and and he got sick about three
and a half years ago, and we all thought, you know,
it's just gonna be nothing. I think it was diverticulitis.

(01:56:22):
I mean, nobody wants that, but it's usually solved quite easily.
But I think something happened in the hospital and it
just got worse and he got a stroke from it,
and then he fought his way back for a while.
And I kept sort of in touch with him and
with his wife because I wanted to make sure he
could be in this last one, even if it was

(01:56:43):
going to be a small role. And literally two months
I was gonna go visit him, about three months ago,
because I kept hearing that he was I kept hearing
first that he was better, and then I comparing rumors
that he wasn't. And I wanted to see with my
own eyes where he was, how he was, how I
could sort of direct him, and what was the situation

(01:57:05):
for real. And literally the day before I was supposed
to visit, his wife called me and said, I don't
think you should come just now. I think things have
turned for the worst. And in fact, he had had
another stroke at that point, and he died three months after.
Oh my gosh, and and now you're not gonna be
part of the came back to the studio and I said,

(01:57:26):
you know, look, I've directed the first to UM and
I just don't you know, Bill never wanted to be
part of this. Um. He just has had a whole
career shift in the last in his last yeah, what
he was doing. And look, God bless him. He should
do whatever he wants to do. And I think he

(01:57:46):
just it wasn't really Uh, he had never actually I
don't think he's ever read any drafts of the script,
or he might have read ten or fifteen pages. Um,
he just never wanted to engage. I couldn't get him
on the phone to even talk about it. And so
with with with him, doubtful and with and by the way,
I never had I never sort of ruled him ever

(01:58:09):
out because really, in all the great movies we did together,
he never showed up until the last minute anyway. So
for me, it was like business as usual. And for uh,
but it was with Harold's loss, I said, you know,
this is really an era that's shifting, and that's really
the story of of the New Ghostbusters anyway, And UM,

(01:58:30):
I'd probably better off just producing it, which I've been
doing a lot of and and finding someone really good
and appropriate and you know, who brings something new to
it and and um, I've look forward to that and
then Draft Day through all of this, here here it comes,
and you're in the directest chair for that one. And

(01:58:52):
and I love I love that experience. I love doing
something a little more dramatic, which Draft Day is. I mean,
there's funny stuff in it, but it's basically, um, you know,
a roller coaster ride. And uh and I just uh,
I like doing that and I want to find something
like that again for you. Can we ask about Arnold?

(01:59:14):
What's uh, what's what's what's it like to work with Arnold? Oh? Gosh, yeah,
go ahead, you guys got a question. I love you know,
I love the guy. I think he's um. I've done
three movies with him, you know, Twins, Kindergarten, Coppin Jr.
In many ways, Junior is my favorite, and it's the
one of the three that didn't do as well. And um,
I just had its time. Well. I think people just, uh,

(01:59:37):
particularly his fans, didn't want to see him. They felt
somehow it was demeaning for him to be pregnant the
but and I love I love doing Kindergarten cocause it's
actually an action movie and I don't do too many
of those. I've never actually really done a pure action film.
And I love the sort of first quarter of that,
which is almost a pure action movie. And so uh,

(02:00:01):
and I love working putting the veto with Classic. There's
no doubt about that. And that is lumpy, right, That's
the line from and Dave too, Can you tell cool
Kevin Klein's story? Well, um, I just love that script. Again,
it's the probably the closest movie to Draft Day that

(02:00:22):
I've done. It's it's basically why would you say that?
I think there's a has a kind of a more
serious center. You know, there's a um to it, and
there's something about the tone of it, even though once
about politics and Draft Days certainly about UM sports, but

(02:00:42):
I don't know, there's something resident about both those movies
that feel the same to me. Kevin Klein's just one
of those great UM actors. My UM my favorite moment,
you know, he's a great UM. He's like a na
or bat really and I it's a silly moment, but

(02:01:04):
it's it's one of those nice things. When I said
the first time he was in the trying out the
President's chair in the Oval office, he was swinging it
back and forth, just sort of at I use improvisation
a little bit, even in a movie that's as perfectly
scripted as that is. Um and the even draft, they
we used some improvisation, you know, just to get the

(02:01:26):
rhythms more naturally as you sort of experienced yourself. And
you know, he was swinging back and forth in his chair,
and I said, Okay, on the next tay, just to
really go for it and just um, just flip over
and or do whatever you think it comes and he
and it's it's really it's in the movie. And he
just he goes whoa and he flips over backwards and um.

(02:01:51):
And then he just jumps up and he says, it's nothing.
It's nothing because the Secret Service guide really runs into
the room. And those kinds of little human comedic moments
are everything to me. I mean, it's sort of what
makes um my job the most of you. When they
were at the point and he's got those hands, things
like the fish story, Yeah he made that up. That

(02:02:13):
was a we did have the Louis Louis and we
even had the rights to do that with the big
piece of equipment, but and he learned how to how
to use it, and he just it just ad libbed
that moment. You didn't direct it, but you produced it
private parts with Howard Stern. And it's really the only
film he's ever done. Is there any talk of working

(02:02:34):
together on something else. Yeah, we talked, you know a
few times a year, and I love the guy and
he's I really worked intensely on that film, on the
screenplay and and on producing that. And I probably should
have directed it. I was I was busy. I was
doing actually, um two films at the same time, already
Space Jam, which I sort of was directing, you know,

(02:02:57):
I wasn't officially the director. I did most of it,
and um, so that was um kind of my other
sports movie. There's even word there's even word of Lebron
not really believe or not on that front, but there's
I'm not sure I really believe he's actually ever going
to do that, but he'd be I think Lebron would

(02:03:18):
actually be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think because there's
this wonderfully goofy, charming thing that yeah, he has he's
very likable outside of you know, leaving Cleveland. But other
than that, um, and what was the other filming Father's
Day with uh Billy Crystal and jeez, that's I've been

(02:03:39):
doing this, You've been doing were doing those films. And
I said, you know what, let's get somebody else to
direct that. And I should have directed it myself because
I love the movie, and I think Benny Thomas, who
did directly, did a great job. And I love the
way that movie turned out. Yeah, he's a great propaganda
film for him. I think it actually, uh was a

(02:04:02):
big shift in his the way he was always like that,
but people now suddenly perceived the family outside who who
he actually is. I think people know that much more now.
And also as the first time I ever saw Paul
Jamadi on the screen and he was killer spectacular in

(02:04:22):
that film. Should have been nominated for that, I thought,
I mean, and he's since gone on to do some
incredible We could go on and on here. I thank
you for remembering all these freaks. Of course, it makes
me feel great. And that's what It's just so awesome
that you're the director of Draft Day, Ivan and and

(02:04:42):
and and again this is for I'm not just saying
it because you know an NFL guy. It really it
nails Draft Day right on the head and it's it's
real and and um, you got some incredible actors in
this Costner doing a sports move again. It's nice to
see him. It was great to see it was it

(02:05:03):
really was like the great star that he always was,
you know, but it hasn't had the opportunity, for whatever reason,
to sort of show his stuff in the last five
or six years. And it felt it felt great just
as a fan to see that. And and again as
somebody who who lives and breathes the NFL, that puts
a roof over my head to see him as the
general manager of the Browns. Uh as he's going to

(02:05:25):
be on this show next week. He I think at
one point I had more tenure as the actual general
manager of the Browns. He had been Sonny Weaver Jr.
For longer than the actual last two Browns general managers.
I felt really bad because we've got to know these guys.
And I think the Lombardies are really great. We love them,
great and awesome. Joe Banner made the movie. He's still

(02:05:48):
in the movie. There's there's sons of the stuff that
fans are gonna see and they're gonna love these cameos,
these these things that that pop up in the on
the screen. Ivan, thank you so much for coming on.
This is this is pleasure, pleasure. I'll see I'll see
you with the premier. Yes, I love saying that stuff
out loud. I've been rightman, go see Draft Day April
eleven and tell your friends right here on the Rich

(02:06:09):
Eyes and podcast a legend. He is a legend. I've
been right. Oh, no question, Rich I mean, did you
think about the seminal comedic moments? Uh comedy films of
the last twenty five years has had a hand and
do yourself a favor and just I m DPM and
just look at the list of producer credits and director.

(02:06:31):
It's amazing. If you don't, Yeah, I mean that was
great and Corolla back to back, those were good in studios.
He was a little smitten there with Bob Kraft, cal
how can you not be Yeah, that's r k K.
That's Robert Kraft for crying out loud. That was awesome,
calling in saying Howard Stern gives you, gives you nor Marks. Now,

(02:06:53):
now come on, Robert Kraft says, Howard Stern gives you
high marks. How are you not giddy upon your in
Now it's awesome. Now, kudos to you for for organizing that.
Do you want to tell the people how you got
similar to the Aaron Rodgers of Oh no, it's just
the usual drill of just you know, we just wanted
to come come on and celebrate with Corolla. And if

(02:07:16):
we asked him about anything else, he is full right
to hang up on me, full right to hang up
on me. That's how we booked Aaron Rodgers for a
Game of Thrones. We're not gonna talk. I'm not going
to talk about it. Does on Sunday the Calisi is
back with the dragons and I refer to flying animals
when I save her dragons. He's back with the dragons.

(02:07:39):
That was fun. Thanks so Stacy James and the Patriots
for having Bob Kraft calling on having all the fun
and um, Corolla Ivan rightman, m j D. Now let's
close the show with opens yes. Um, they so all
came about from several fans tweeting me and at Chris
Law and um, I'm sure you saw some of it. Brockman,

(02:08:02):
that the Open is ancient that this is a show
that is that that that is proudly we're proud of
the fact that we're weekly. We're sometimes twice a week
if we can do it, and we're once a week.
There's stuff that happens each week. It's stuff that we're
proud to say is fun and and memorable and lasting

(02:08:23):
and and and Thus, if we had somebody who was dedicated,
if there was their job dedicated to doing it, we
could have a kick ass open every week that was
based on what we heard the previous week, or even
once every two weeks it was based on the previous
two weeks. That would be good. That is part of
Chris laws job description or job responsibility. But you have

(02:08:53):
your your You do more than just this podcast for
the NFL media conglomerate. You are a jack of many trades,
wear many hats, and you're a latex salesman, not five
point nine eight hats, which we'll talk about that later,
but you're a latex sales don't forget hill Billy rich.
All of that together equals and open. That was last

(02:09:14):
changed When when was the last time? I believe it
was around week six, so October of two thousand thirteen.
It is now April third in there of two thousand
and fourteen. Yeah, so when you were gone on a
site survey. Another reason why these these opens linger in
the inbox or your to do list. We threw it

(02:09:38):
out there saying to fans, why don't you give it
a try? And that spawned because I emailed law saying
that him and I should have a contest, or we
should open it up to the listeners, which he blatantly ignored.
So now we opened it up, and you have how
many entries? Uh? Ten and with a potential eleventh? Actually,
what do you mean potential? Um? There was some we

(02:09:59):
had a dead and set, some people got in after
some people didn't follow rules. Well, one of them's four
and a half minutes long, so that they can't. I mean,
it's not in a gota davida for crying out, but
it's an open. So here's what you guys, here's what
you guys used to be longer than the podcast. Here's
what I'm thinking. You guys, each get out a piece
of paper pen you'll just rank them in order of

(02:10:21):
which ones you think are best, and then we'll we'll
play all of them. And then we'll narrow it down
to five. We'll throw up those five on the blog
with the odd How do we how do we turn them?
Number open one, open one. I'm gonna then give the
shout out to the person's name or Twitter's just put
the person's name up there. Okay, so this is open
number one is open number one. These were submitted to

(02:10:41):
our new email account, the Eisen Podcast at gmail dot com,
which was started and cleared. They cleared, clear, cleared the
legal hurdles. We probably never Let's be honest. No, it's fine, Yeah,
it's sure. Um okay, so let's go. Is from at

(02:11:03):
Reject c K Underscore c k y. He's a big
listener of the podcast Reject Underscore, which is original. Actually
shout out to him. He's getting married this weekend Reject
Underscore c K. Well, don't let that sway the voting now.
And I know Brockman used to have an underscore, so
that might have. I was talking more about the wedding.
You want to go underscore? Okay, here we go. Here

(02:11:25):
it is the open from Reject c k Y. Don't
forget the underscore. The quartet from Anchorman to Will Ferrell,
Steve Carell, Dave kept Paul Rock. Good to see Richard
my La Morgan would say when the kids would what

(02:11:46):
I was going, don't be afraid to laugh. Bable Houston
oilers number one. It is like this, this whole thing.
That's the new record. By the way, for just Y.
My mother is Joel mccaln. What do you think of
our parking lot here at the NFL network, Gillian Jacobs.

(02:12:11):
You know he's had a lot of concussions, Joel McHale.
Perhaps nine concussions. Nine is nothing you've heard of. The
next guest, Johnny Knoxville. Oh my god, the broken penis
I'd be more current. Bruce Dern, fabulous to be here.
Jack young Blood is now joining us right now. Jack,
meet Bruce Dern. You need to write a book. I
wrote one of us out six years ago. Where were you, Brick?

(02:12:33):
Why didn't you buy him? Hell? Every one in all right? Okay?
So how long is that? That one was eight seconds? Right,
that's a good length. That's a good length. Um, here's
what I liked about it, the Dern line. That's the
that is the classic Wrey called um John Brick. Okay, well,

(02:12:56):
that's good. Getting Gillian Jacobs in is is a plus
because she's she's one of these, she's a favorite of
the show. And the Olil phant Um stuff is great.
It is a little blue though, that's my concern a
lot of beliefs. It's really blue to open the show.
And and I'm just gonna say it's great having the
anchorman group in there. That wasn't my favorite moments from

(02:13:17):
the anchor man. I'll kill that together though. I like
the length. I like some of the selections. Are we
gonna go dancing with the stars? And I just did that?
I just did that. Fine, let's keep going. You could
preserve Okay, I'm just wondering. I think we you can
certainly do that. Do it for everyone. Let's go ahead.
Next at Jim in Palo Alto submits this, Jim, listen here,

(02:13:41):
Okay from the NFC champion San Francisco forty Niners, Michael Crabtree,
are you gonna ask to see An Kwon's Super Bowl ring?
I wish I would have this photograph right now. So
look you're getting from Michael Craft, the most famous news
team that's around um currently and obviously back to seven,
we're of the Houston Oilers. Houston Oilers Houston Oilers number.

(02:14:07):
He is the Deputy U. S. Marshall himself, Raylan Gibbons.
It is Timothy All offense. That's a new record, by
the way, for believing he just beat Bobby, that's the
new record. Right there is the creator and mind who

(02:14:33):
put this thing. This is fantastic artistic drama on television.
And he is now sitting here in studio weeks later,
Vince Gilligan, good to see you. He's traveling through the
desert and he finds this, uh statue. This is what
formerly enormous statue Egyptian type thing. And now, alright, I'm

(02:14:54):
gonna put that one down because a couple of issues
with that one. No underscore music, I mean, which we
not going to discount that for some people because they
might not have been to play it. Actually how long
was that? That was long? Too? Was a minute? And uh,
a little bit of editing not very smooth. They're a
little more. I don't want this to become a little

(02:15:15):
caddy because you're you feel the do you hear the
footsteps coming? I think we're just judging on content right. Well,
that makes it two for two and Oliphant and and
two for two in the Houston Oilers number one, which
was really another another next one, long time listener here,
he's he's on Twitter at Gooney since eighty five, which

(02:15:38):
what I love the Goonies at Goonies Gooney since eighty five,
Gooney since five. Okay, I need to make sure I
play the correct one because he's submitted to how long
is this one? Hello everyone, and thanks for joining us.
I'm Richard has pleased to have back on the Rich
Eyes and podcast. Joel McHale. I'm going to the rich

(02:16:00):
Shoys and uh ridges and works here right, uh than what?
Dick Dan Patrick, I'd look to you for pat of
the back sometimes sometimes we all need one before the season.
I picked San Francisco and Denver to go to the
super Bowl. Okay, man, that's good pick. They're rich. Thank you.

(02:16:21):
I want to command you for a great year at
the NFL network. Youre Seth Marers. How are you? Seth?
You're the smartest guy in uh in sports business, I'd
like to think so. I appreciate that. Will Ferrell, Steve Carrell,
Dave Keckner, Paul I have here actual Super Bowl rings.
Where's your think? Um? Where's it? Where's it? Nothing? Nothing? Happened.

(02:16:43):
We're just talking about football. See now does does law Ever?
I was just gonna say he got right in up
the guests showed up Houston Oilers number one. All right,
I'd like the Richard eisen stuff at the top the beginning.
Normally that's what closes the the open. Correct. Yes, that's

(02:17:04):
an interesting choice. Uh. Joe McHale was Yes, and work here.
That's a theme throughout two. We got a lot of this.
It's good coming up. It's an odd and odd DP choice.
I like working in for um Seth Meyers talking about
how I'm the smartest guy. I like that. Um okay,

(02:17:24):
if you guys got them ranks. Still, let's go on.
Let's move this along. How long was that one? That
one was a minute? We we told everyone a minute.
So I'm gonna cut these offered about a minute anyway
if they're not if they go beyond that. Now, this
guy was a profession long as you're open, you're all opens.
Over a minute, it's about forty eight seconds. I have
extended it to a minute. Now. Now that's at the
record when the record skips or scratches. But it takes

(02:17:46):
really long for the world's the most interesting man to
come in. I mean you opens a longer than a minute.
We're never gonna get through this. If we keep this
is we're getting the proper amount of time to this
number four, our first international all the way Spain. This
guy was a professional. He he worked at ESPN for
a brief pa back in. They included in the email,

(02:18:09):
this is uh Charles, no Twitter handle associated. This is
Charles Twitter list Charles from Spain. From Spain. Here you go,
Carlos rain Wilson here on the Rich Eyes and Podcast.
You know you know what my Microsoft reminder is. Paul
Allen breaking calls me on the phone on a mind

(02:18:31):
back on the Rich Eyes and Podcast, Dennis Miller. This
has become to the four because of the welcerd punt
that wasn't fielded and obviously the muff that led to
the field goal. Is that that's called the Peter play
Free Love Days, Peter and Muff on the same s.
The Joel mccale is going to be on this show.
I'm both to be in studio and I'm not. I'm

(02:18:51):
in my car. I'm going to the Rich Guy then
Ridge Eyes to work here, right, Johnny Knoxvielle you know Jared,
but yeah, I love Jared Allen. The idea was to
catch a pass over the middle and him just run
at me. And uh, he really hits harder. He used
to be joined by the cast of Anchorman. Too good
to see you, Richard, I have your actual Super Bowl ring.

(02:19:13):
You're very delicate. Yeah, they are. And I think this
one as a chuckle center. Don't be a friend to laugh.
Tell everyone and thanks for joining us. I like that one.
That one was good. I think we have a clubhouse
leader right now, Carlos from Spain, who really wants to
be known as Charles the worldwide. They're in sports. Second,
Joel mccale has made it into every one of them

(02:19:35):
so far. He's the only the Anchorman crew and the
Acorn career. I have this all written down. Who's in everyone? Okay,
let's roll number five? This guy? Uh, this guy submitted
five intros and then once we wrote it down to one,
he re submitted. He's pretty hardcore. He's from Montreal or second,
uh international submission. This is uh Luise Philippe from Louis
Philippe from Montreal. Louis Philippe from Montreal. Here we Roulet

(02:20:01):
the always hilarious. Frank Kelly and these three friends are
on their way to the super Bowl. That's where they
found happiness. Nothing is better than Morgan Freeman saying happiness.
The batter when he steps into the batter's box gets
to choose what is essentially his theme using you step
into the batter's box and then you lock eyes with
the picture your lip sync. I saw you with another man.

(02:20:23):
You're beautiful. You start doing that four pitch balls. He
wants you out of his hair. He just get him
out of my way. Maybe puts one in your ear.
Either way, you're standing on first base. Savvy Timothy Old
the fame, what do you think name is was thinking
at that moment handed him the coin, and I agree
with Rich, I would to speculate. I think he was thinking, yeah,
I'm this cool. Let's get to the anchorman to the

(02:20:46):
oilers y. It was similar to a fruit roll up.
Brow said. He's like, don't make a great then, and
I won't eat it. That's one of those famous NFL
films moments. I think here for him too, that they
caught that moment. I told the guy, don't make it great.
Hell everyone, that's one of my favorites there. Um, I'm

(02:21:07):
gonna tread lightly here because we love this man, right,
love love him. But maybe maybe you know, because the
French and Montreal is French Canadian, they love Jerry Lewis.
Maybe Damnaschek is the Jerry Lewis of football, right, they
love Damna in Montreal, we have a we have a

(02:21:30):
large following that listened to our podcast Damn TL so right,
you know, they're blending everything. And but as you put it,
I've tried to be artful and delicate about it. You
just like Damnas not making the other I knew where
you were going with it. There was no need to
try like I did, like getting Caliendo and but was
that was That was the email He's been pushing for

(02:21:51):
that one for for a while. That is that Louis
Philippe on the phone right now at all International calling
plans at okay, number six, All right, number six. This
one comes from Paul and I'll see if Paul has
a Twitter handle. He does not, but he's from the
Great Keystone State in Harrisburg. This is Paul's in Trails

(02:22:11):
where I was born. Nice, You're all over the map
the cast of Anchorman to the similar to a fruit roll.
Stop eating your people. Made a big deal out of
Mark Sanchez. We had that hot dogs. Pleased to have
back on the Rich Eyes and Pond host of Late
Night with Seth Meyers. How are you, Seth? I'm good,
it's glad. Why did be back on the show? Yeah,
Pet Manning was he the best? I always say he

(02:22:32):
was the only host who had a like a color
coded binder. No, he did not. He did the best.
He was the best. There's no question, right, he was
the best on the show. Barkley was the best to
send a week with the magical Van Pez himself. Sometimes
we get bumped for re runs, okay, strong man competitions
or something. I probably have seen over two hundred episodes. Staggering,

(02:22:54):
staggering collection of nim wits. We are Jerry Seinfeld, good
to see you see. It's just like always like the giants,
like I think it's very tough for a green team
to win. Is that right? Yeah, if your team is
a green, very tough. It's just two mild. It's just
kind of mild. As an accident collar. Fine, I'm stunned

(02:23:15):
it took six to get Seinfeld in there. Yeah, yeah,
s VP. That was cool and s V one the
nim Wit lines funny. All right, let's go to number seven. Okay,
number seven, This is Matisse, another international submission from Hamburg
Gym in Matisse Matisse. Um, okay, straight straight out of
the Impressionist era. What do you got an operator error?

(02:23:38):
We got a full situation. Okay, we go to have
on the Rich Eyes and Podcast winner the con Film
Festival for Best Actor, rut Dern. By the time I
sit down through the door comes Mr Hitch. Well, Hitch
was so wide he couldn't get an ordinary chair. So
when he sit down in it and it had arms
like this. When he got up, the whole chair don't

(02:24:00):
win it. And he would always turn to me and
he said a hand, please, Bruce, And I'd have to
pull the legs off his butt so that Jack could
go back down. Jack young Blood is now joining us
right now. You I did. I wrote one. It was
out six years ago. Where were you, Brick? Why didn't
you buy it? Producer Chris law here, along with fellow
producer Chris Brockman. Richard is always like, oh, it's your

(02:24:22):
humble host here. I feel like we're equally as humble.
I feel like our humbleness is underrated, Timothy old fans.
The straight talk is about to get straighter. This whole thing,
get me that off, sucker construct the new record from
my mother, Raise hell, everyone in, thanks, all right, I
like that one. It's a little blue, it's a lot

(02:24:45):
of dern. It doesn't mix a lot of stuff in.
Only three guests, knuckle heads. Okay, all right, all right,
let's uh, let's roll on. We've got eight, nine, ten,
and eleven. We need we need more club leaders here long.
I'm gonna be honest with you here. Okay. I'm touched
that so many people did. This one comes in from

(02:25:07):
Gregory h no last name or no Twitter handle associated
with it, and here you go. Pleased to have back
on the Rich Eyes and Podcast. Joel McHale. I was
spos to meet in video and I'm not. I'm in
my call. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk
as you pull up into the drive play. I'm going
to the rich guys then, uh, Rich Eyes and work

(02:25:27):
here right, Uh Pat McAfee in the freaking flesh, what's
going on? Let's talk about this car you rolled up
in today, Bright Candy Apple red convertible Corvette convertible Core
roped down. I don't know how to put the top down, Rich,
I couldn't turn it off, so I parked it in
front of my friend's apartment lot for two hours with

(02:25:48):
it on. It's Timothy old offant, good to see you.
How are you? I actually made football jerseys for all
the pas on the show one season, and on the
front it said Deadwood Football and on the back they
would say who will head or it would say construct
that's the new record, by the way, for just beat
Y's the new record right there? Hell? Everyone, all right,

(02:26:13):
that's it. Let's let's can you close your Microsoft outlook
for the next five minutes? Would you mind meeting no
such surveys. There's a backstory. Rich personally tell Mark Brady

(02:26:33):
to stop email. Are you? That's what it takes. Actually,
this is even better. You're gonna like this when you
were when you were on vacation last week when Law
and I hosted and we we played the sound bed
so everyone would have the clean sound bed. He got
an email during it's probably going to be on most
of these It's all right, have you closed your outlook please?

(02:26:56):
It's it's not open that's playing under everyone because when
we played for them to use there was one went off,
the ultimate latex moment. So in every single I'm still bad.
Rich It couldn't have happened any better. I'm not gonna lie.
All right. Here's Keith. This one's from Keith in East Kilbride, Scotland.
His submission Big Giants Fans. Rain Wilson here on the

(02:27:18):
Rich Eyes and Podcast. So, Pancake, what can we promote
about this? What can we do about this? Nothing? There's
nothing you can do. We don't need your help. We're
doing fine response to anything I've ever attempted to promote
on the three plus year history of this show. Eric
stone Street, Ye, Eric, you have a tight end with

(02:27:39):
the last name. But I was on the sidelines and
I'm like, but it's all over it. Tolin Hanks, good
to see you, sir. Whenever they cut to the coach,
we talk about what kind of stepfather that head coach is.
Bike Shanahan is the father as the stepfather just calls

(02:28:02):
you a turk and he just makes he makes fun
of it. Yeah that's Shanahan. Charles Barkley, how are you? Charles?
Getema with palace? Can all run it down just so
kind of deal. But I wouldn't put it in the
NBA game. All right, that there's gonna do some new blood.
It's new blood. You've got Colin Hanks, who I I

(02:28:22):
personally love. Stone Street is a good one. I like
that one. It doesn't finish. It's not the best line
from Barkley that we could have. All Right, we got
two more, let's go to it. I can't believe only
one Seinfeld has been used. Yeah, okay, so this one
is from His name is Hurts, and I'm assuming it
comes from an internationalists. Let's hope his first name isn't Dick.

(02:28:45):
Come on the three year old and me just how
to say that? Pleased to have on the Rich Eyes
and Super Bowl Special from New York City. Jerry Seinfeld.
One time I saw my daughter watching an episode. I said,
are you watching this because you like the show? Just
because your dad? Is it? Right? And she said, I
don't know. Colin Haks, good to see you, sir, Jim

(02:29:06):
Harbaugh step dead. He's taught me, hey man, what's up?
What you doing? No note, not saying thinking about it?
You're what? Please to have back on The Rich Eyes
and Podcast the Emmy Award winning actor Eric Stone Street
tragic sign and they moved him across the street and
I read the comments under it that well, at least
by kicking him over to the other side of the
treaty game ten yards. Hell everyone, all right, that was short,

(02:29:30):
short and short. Little context on the stone shoot one
would help. It's still true, short but sweet. Good job hurts.
That was number ten. This is number one. This is
Pat from Pat from Syracuse. There was one that I
got I thought was excellent. We're not including it here.
Remember that it hasn't It just didn't go to the
Gmail address I got tweeted it. Uh, well, maybe you

(02:29:53):
can send it to me or I was tweeted to
me it sounded great. All right, let's go. This is uh,
this is Pat from Syracuse. It's Pat McAfee on the
Rich Eyes and Podcast. This is such an incredible honor.
I'm marking this down on the calendar as day of
my life. So it's your birthday like it was Trindon

(02:30:13):
Holiday's birthday, and that's what let's say. This will be
a little holiday in my life. Being on the Rich
Eyes and Podcast. You're just you're just full of a
Pat Dennis Miller returning to the program. What does Thanksgiving
look like in the Dennis Miller housel, Well, we have
tur duck and tea, which is a turkey inside a
duck inside a chicken inside New Jersey Governor Chris Christ,
lovely and talented Ms. Aisha Tyler, and the White Guys,

(02:30:38):
Emmy Award winning actor from the Emmy Award winning comedy
Modern Fam Eric stone Street return to the program. You
know what I love about having Amy read as as
as the head coach of kids, is that I have
an all time perment Halloween custome hell, every one in alkay,
one more late, one in, Hold on a minute, Hold

(02:30:59):
on a minute. I'm gonna say this right now. I'm
We're gonna keep this contest open another week. People have
heard what what we're looking for here at I don't
think we gave enough direction. Let me let me don't
think you gave enough to a Here's what I'm gonna
give it, a little bit of direct. Didn't listen to
Brockman a nice podcast because we gave direction. No, you

(02:31:21):
gave direction. But now hearing it straight from from the top,
if I may, if I may use that phrase, Okay,
in the final three minutes of this show. I like Dern,
I like all the fan Joel McHale stuff is good.
I gotta have I have just I have to have

(02:31:42):
Seinfeld in this open. I have to just of what
it what it meant for him to sit down on
this show, super Bowl Week, Who I Am, where I'm from,
my d n A, and the amount of time it
took to book that three years. I mean, it was

(02:32:07):
it required. And it's not like he was difficult, it
just required. Yeah, it was great many many so. I
like Colin Hanks too, But we can't have anything over
a minute right that. You have a meeting. I was
gonna play meeting is it? Tell me the meeting. Tell

(02:32:27):
me the meeting. Tell me the meeting. I want the meeting.
I want the meeting, and I want the location, and
I want the time duration of the meeting. I want
all of that information right now. I don't care if
we don't close the show properly because we don't have
enough time left. I want all of it. It's actually
a reminder. It's a reminder. Reminder. It's not like you're
late for anything. For the podcast closed to to make
sure we worked in the guest things because we thought

(02:32:49):
we were going a little later. Was that what that was?
You don't have a meeting? So this was actually podcast
related past. Okay, all right, so let's let's let's keep
it open because I also got a I didn't know
thought for some reason that whoever was tweeting me these
links would send it to. So it's got to show
up at the Gmail. So all of you folks out
there who tweeted me opens. I got some really good

(02:33:11):
ones sent like by some like dream cloud or wherever
the heck it is SoundCloud? All right, send it to
what's the address, uh, the Eisen Podcast at gmail dot com. Okay,
we're gonna keep this competition open, but we I have
marked down my sheet here of what I liked. Some
of them, I liked some. There wasn't one that I
just like. Said that's there's that's not true. I mean,

(02:33:34):
there's there's so many that I have no problem opening
the show. But let's let's keep it open another week. Well,
and the show with with with my open, which is alright,
what do you mean I didn't open too? Oh yeah,
it took this for you to actually get done with you.
I'm not gonna lie. When I heard a couple of these,
they demotivated me. I'm like, God, these are good enough.

(02:33:55):
I don't need to do one. But then I was
like I should do one, but I didn't want to
do the same thing and motivated. Okay, go ahead, last
last one here so you can get out of here.
This is yours, Chris Laws. The quartet from Anchorman to
Will Ferrell, Steve Carrell, Dave Kepner, Paul Rudd, Oilers under one,

(02:34:18):
Rain Wilson here on the Rich Eyes and Podcast? Is
that is that the twelfth Man? Have you been in
that stadium? Your ears literally believe they should hand out
like ear tampons at LT Underscore two one? Do you
follow me on Twitter? I know you're known for your

(02:34:42):
lateral movement, but don't you leave just yet. When you
spoke to the commissioner, Roger, Roger the good good, when
he comes down the whole everyone goes here comes there
comes a good comes good. He is Vince Vaughn. How
are you events? I gotta tell you I did take
David Wilson early in my fantasy draft. Who else join
your fantasy team? I'm an if you sold little Seahawks

(02:35:06):
colored your tampons at the gates. He would make up
Fortune NFL completely. Let's go to yourself where Jerry Jones.
Jerry Jones did its oilers number one? Hell everyone, all right,
that's over a minute. That was that was a minute ten.

(02:35:26):
Guess you know, Rich, I'm throwing my hat in the ring.
I'm I'm gonna have an open next week. So here's
what we're here's what I want. I want more opens laws.
I I gotta tell you your tampon two mentions of
it at the top of a program. Yeah, you know,
look that was up against it. He's feeling the pressure,
he is feeling sweating. I'm gonna make it. Thank you though,

(02:35:49):
And and what's the send out the email addressing the
Eisen podcast at gmail dot com. Here's the Twitter account,
but just at gmail. Very good. I'm pleased about that.
So much fun. Thanks again to UM to uh the
good folks of the New England Patriots forgetting Bob Kraft.
Thanks to Adam Carolla, Maurice Jones Drew. Also thanks to

(02:36:09):
Ivan Reitman, Uh Chip Nammius being the man to to
go ahead and doing that and all that Chip name
is um. One more thing, UM we got a golf
tournament coming up Monday here in in the Los Angeles
area to help raise funds for the local Red Cross.
You guys are gonna play in this with me? Correct? Correct?
You guys were in it. And here's what I'd like

(02:36:32):
for for for folks to do if you want to
take part in this and you want to have fun
or um hosting the inaugural American Red Cross Celebrity Classic
this Monday at the Good Folks of Lakeside Country Club
in Burbank. It supports the Red Cross US disaster relief
response to approximately seventy thousand disasters in the US every year.
The Red Cross does ranging from home fires that affects

(02:36:53):
single family um to UH hurricanes that affect tens of thousands.
For more information, go to donate to the Red Cross
dot org. Okay, yep, we'll tweet out some stuff about
it too, when people can doing it also doing all
that good stuff. Thanks Rich at, Chris law at Chris Brockman.
I'm at Rich Eyes and for at the Eyes and
podcast peace Out. I want new opens and I want

(02:37:15):
Seinfeld in at People stay listening

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