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24:05Rich Eisen:Whatever is going on with that, I don't know. We're in the town with acupuncturists and chiropractors and osteos. We got it all. We got it all. He brought the wagon up with the oxygen chamber and the whole deal he's got going on. But they are being a little cagey with it right now, right, and what's going on. Yeah, you heard McVeigh soundbite saying we're taking it day by day, and then he mentioned the word week, and he just tossed the word week in there. Like, no, we don't want to hear week. That's what you're referring to. Right, right. It's kind of a little vague. It's like one week he's saying, oh, yeah, he'll be ready to go.

24:42Well, if he, I think he said this like a couple weeks ago, if we had to play today, he would play. Right. And then he walked that back and said, well, we're not sure. It's kind of day-to-day, as you mentioned. So we will see. But at his age, and you think about the back, because he's not going to get hit until week one. Right. Right? And that's when you're really going to know how it's going to respond is after he gets hit and has to get up time and time again, then we'll find out. But if he's healthy, he's as good as it gets. and I don't think he gets enough credit for how talented he is with the other guys.

25:16Hall of Famer, right, would you say? I would say, yeah. You know, after they won that Super Bowl, I think he's got to be in there. His numbers speak for it, too.

25:22Rich Eisen:Right, and if anybody knows about the Detroit of it all, you know, you too. I mean, he arrived, you know, obviously after you departed, but I mean, you did have, you know, Barry's there. Yeah, I was lucky to turn around and hand it off to him oftentimes, But I certainly understood what he was going through in Detroit and getting beat up. I mean, the guy took a beating in Detroit for 12 years. And to be able to come back and still be playing, that's a credit in itself. I've got Rodney Peete here on the Rich Eisen Show. And again, we'll talk a little bit more about Kings Court in a second. Tell me a story about your son, RJ, please, here in Los Angeles, where he is a mainstay in the Dodgers organization.

26:08Rich Eisen:Would you mind telling this story that I think is important, neat in so many different ways? I appreciate you mention that. Yeah, RJ is, he's 27 now. And at three years old, RJ was diagnosed with autism. And he has a twin sister. And yet he struggled after that diagnosis. And, you know, we didn't know much about it at that time. And it wasn't really out there mainstream like it is now. and so we would fight to try to figure out what we do with him and schools in and out of schools in and out of treatment you know fast forward he started to get better and better and better and after high school we were like is he in a position to go to college we weren't sure and and we said let's just go see if he can just find a summer job and called around we went to different places and then finally um Lon Rosen who works at the Dodgers and Magic had just been a part of the ownership and we're good friends with him and said just come over and say hello and we went over there and he met the folks over there met Dave Roberts and met the guys in the clubhouse and said come on you want to you and he goes you know how to wash clothes and we're Holly and I were looking at you know wash clothes at home right but he said yes and uh here we are 10 years later man he's been with the Dodgers for 10 years now in the clubhouse and I'm almost gonna get teared up because they treat him like family they treat him like a little brother over there the guys that have been through there Justin Turner and Jock Peterson when he first got there and now Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts they all treat him with love and he is it has changed his life and it's changed ours as well it's opened him up I mean you think the experience what just the responsibility of the role or or just feeling comfortable and finding people who love him for who he is I'm I'm because there's so many people as you know out there who have children who are autistic yeah and who have family members who are autistic and trying to figure out you know obviously the the symbol uh the puzzle piece is an apt symbol for for fighting autism or or at trying to find a cure for it or ways of dealing with it obviously um what do you think well listen everyone has a worth right everyone has a gift and and that doesn't matter if you're a child with special needs or an adult with special needs we all have a gift and it's about i think it's on us as society to kind of reach our hand out and try to find out what that gift is and you talk about it changed his life yes because rg was not a big social person but being around the dodgers forced him to be social and smile and interact with people and talk and engage and that respect it has changed his life also we used to have to drag him out of bed to go somewhere to get up to go to school or go anywhere he gets up on his own whether it's at five in the morning or he's got to go meet the team at midnight, he is up and he's doing his job and he's responsible.

29:18And it's given him something to look forward to. And it's really cool. And in that respect, it's really changed not only his life, the people around him, but certainly our life. It's a family.

29:29Rich Eisen:It's too bad the team's not winning. I know. I know. I know. My gosh. I know. Well, they're getting back into it. Hold on a second. Who cares about the regular season anyway, Rich? Let the Yankee fan in for a second. Is RJ deferring his salary to 50 years from now? Is that what he's doing? Is everybody the Dodgers do that? Don't hate. Don't hate. Well, my youngest son, you know, Susie Bean from New England, you know, he is a Celtic Patriot Yankee fan. How does that work? Well, I mean, I had to put my thumb on a scale here. First of all, when Tom Brady's winning all the championships for the Patriots, right, like I'm going to be, no, no, no.

30:14Rich Eisen:You need to stick with Dad watching Jet football. That didn't work. You know what I mean? That didn't work. You know what, I care about my kids. Rodney, that's why I got best dad ever right here on the desk. Case in point. You know, in the Celtics, when Charles Oakley was dragged out of Madison Square Garden, I'm like, I'm done with this team. Go root for the Celtics, fine. But with the Yankees, it's a different story. I mean, his older brother, Xander, was not that much into sports. So never a Red Sox? The Red Sox didn't bleed into it? Again, Cooper's my youngest son. My older son, my oldest son, is not that much into sports.

30:54Rich Eisen:But that said, when he was a baby, he was the firstborn. All the Red Sox onesies that came from her side of the family, they wound up somewhere else. And so the reason why I'm telling you all this is I brought Cooper, my youngest son, to game one of the World Series last year. Oh, really? And the only good thing about it at the end of the day is we got in our car fastest than pretty much 53 ,000 other people. The two of us and the rest of the Yankee fans were out the game. But you saw it. You saw it. Well, actually, we were down the right field line. The ball went right across our sight line. I cursed and I said, I think we should leave.

31:33Rich Eisen:This is what I said. But obviously the Dodgers are crushing it right now. And now the Lakers and the Dodgers are kind of... Yeah, they're family right now. They're family. How about that? How about that? Unbelievable. Rodney Peet here on the Rich Eisen Show. Tell me about Kings Court. How did you and Holly Robinson Peet get involved in all this? What about it? Well, Rich, like you and Susie, we've been lucky to be married for such a long time. We just celebrated our 30th anniversary. Yeah, thank you. Did you meet on Sesame Street? Or no? I'm that young. That's for her. Her dad worked there for...

32:08Rich Eisen:Her dad, yeah. She literally can't tell us how to get to Sesame Street. Yes, she can. Her wife, yes. Her dad introduced Big Bird and Oscar to the world, yes. The original Gordon on Sesame Street. That is correct. Yeah, so, yeah, no, they... Will Packer, who created the show. Oh, I know Will. Yeah. He's great people. Yeah, great, great, great people. It's too bad he's not as successful as the Dodgers. I know, I know. Too bad he doesn't work too hard, right? My gosh. Okay, so this is a Will Packer production. He came calling and said, you guys have been married, and we're creating this show. about started out with Queens Court.

32:38So three women and 24 guys would get together and they would try to figure out and find love. And it wasn't, you know, the thing about it was appealing for Holly and I, it wasn't the 21 year old that is on an island and it's all about, you know, whatever it's all about. We know it's about Ronnie.

33:01Rich Eisen:Survival. Yes, survival. That's what it's about. This is more about mature folks who either had been married before or hadn't been married, but in their 30s and 40s. And so really at that point in their life, they're looking for love and they know what they want. So it was appealing for us. And lucky enough, we were able to do it. And we did Queens for two years. And now the Kings are doing it. And it's a lot of fun. Yeah, bravo. Six o 'clock out in the West and nine out East. I mean, you can't tell me that Tyson Beckford needs help. Right? Tyson needs a lot of help. Rich. Why? How? Yeah, what's up?

33:36Because it's Tyson. He's gone through it, right? He's gone through the model phase where he had everything he wants. Yes. And from afar, you think that's what every man wants. I'll be honest. Up close, it seems like that would be the way I would look at it, too.

33:48Rich Eisen:I've never been up close, but I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt. Go on. I cannot confirm or deny that Tyson and I had several stories off camera. Okay. I cannot confirm that or deny that, Rich. Okay, I like it. But yeah, you would think that. He doesn't need any help with that, but he agreed to come on the show because it wasn't working for him. And he was going in and out of relationships and wanted to see, I guess, what was out there and what he was doing wrong and try to figure that out. And once, and you know this, once you're there for a week or so, you kind of forget about the cameras being around.

34:25You forget about being mic'd up and you say things. And unfortunately, we can't air all of it. But you say things and do things, you're like, does he know that the camera's on? Does he know that this is all being filmed? But it becomes real. It becomes real at some point, and that's the cool part about it. I love it.

34:43Rich Eisen:Rodney Pete here on The Rich Asks. Man, so many different questions to just ask you in our remaining time. Just go ahead and hit it. But what is it like to hand it off to Barry Sanders and have that as a front row seat and watch him go in the other direction? What is that like? Man, it was unbelievable. I will say it without hesitation, the best running back I've ever seen. You played for USC. I did. You've been around for a long time. I go through all of those, the Marcus Allens, even going back to the OJs and Ricky Bells and all those guys that I saw. Barry did things that would, first of all, would translate today, but were so unbelievable in a small area of space within the offensive and defensive line that he would do for a two-yard gain or a three-yard gain.

35:33You'd go, unbelievable. And then he would break one off. I used to pride myself on being a great deceptor as a quarterback and being able to fake and carry out my fakes. But handing off to Barry, I became the worst faking quarterback in the league because I would hand off and just turn around and watch him. And I'd get yelled at in the film session the next day. It's like, how are we going to ever run a bootleg or anything like that if you don't carry out the fake after you hand off? It's like, have you seen the guy run? Is that what your response would be? Oh, yeah, I got a front row seat. I'm not going to miss this.

36:08And he was absolutely unbelievable. Never said more than five words and never. I mean, it was so humble you thought it was an act. Right. You know, they never want to take credit. Obviously, you know, he never spiked it, always gave it to the ref. To this day, he's the same. To the point where we would take up collections for Barry to do something in the end zone when he scored. What? And he wouldn't take it. It got up to$10 ,000 at one point. Come on. Oh, yeah. The team would do what? The team would take up collections to give to Barry if he did a dance or did something demonstrative in the end zone.

36:49Did anybody make a suggestion for him? Everybody did. Everybody did. They wanted him to do the Billy White shoes. They wanted anything. You know, do a high knee Elmo Wright back in the day. I mean, just do something other than hand it to the ref, and he wouldn't take the bait. Not once.

37:07Rich Eisen:Not one time. And it got up to five figures at one point. Unbelievable. Which in today's money is six figures. Hey, I'll do whatever you want me to do. Give me that. We weren't making what they're making right now, Ritz, So$10 ,000 at that point was good. I'm going to bring you down to my level before I let you go, Rodney. And so you're going to do your radio show? I am. Okay. Fred Rogan, local Fred Rogan in town. And I've been around some time, and I've met Fred on multiple occasions. So you know. You know what I've got to go through on a regular basis. Well, I kind of used to know. I don't know anymore.

37:40Rich Eisen:Yeah, you know. This is something that maybe you can talk about later on. Chris Brockman doesn't even want to look up right now because he knows what's coming. Oh, he does what's coming. Because years ago, I'm going to the Super Bowl, and I saw Fred. And, you know, I saw him, and I just thought, you know, what's Fred, you know, said recently? And I'll come up, and I'll give him some crap, right, for it, you know, because we were at the same gate going to the same Super Bowl. So I call up his Twitter feed, and look at the bottom right there. Fred Rogan has blocked you. What? And that was years ago.

38:21Rich Eisen:And I had everybody here check it out today. It still stands to this day. I do not know what I did or said. Oh. I have no idea what's up with Fred. So I don't know what's up with Fred because he's blocked me, Rodney. Rich. Is he a freebie of people? There are many gifts, and they don't always come on Christmas, Rich. This is a gift for me. I love this. I'm giving you a topic of conversation for today's program. We might do three hours on this today. I don't know. I mean, is Fred a frequent blocker of people? This is the first time. No, I know Fred's got some people that he's rubbed the wrong way over the years.

39:04I have no beef. And people have rubbed him. I'm a Chris, TJ, Mike.

39:08Rich Eisen:Am I? Do I have beef or am I on personal? I will. I have no beef. Only Ohio State. That's the only. Oh, that's true. That's it. That's it, though. That's some other. That's natural, though. That's a natural thing. Yeah. That's understandable. This can have an explanation. This one, I don't get it. I'm going to have to get to the bottom of this. I'm giving you something that's called content, which we all need in the world. You know what they say? Pass a baton. You just did that. I love that. I love that. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It's a relay right now. I know. I mean, I got the Heisman from Fred Rogan.

39:44Rich Eisen:And you got it from Barry Sanders. it's our lives this is great okay so it's a mystery there's not like there's never been a moment in a commercial break no my name's come up for whatever reason and fred's like man can't stand that guy i blocked him no okay all right all right now should i ambush it okay this is no this is your handy i will not tell you how to prepare him for it i want a real organic answer Well, again, it's fine because he won't know because he's blocked me. At this point, this is one big, shadowy conversation. I think it's something like you're coming out of a break and you're just like, so I was on the Rich Eisen show this morning.

40:28Rich Eisen:And then you see where the conversation takes you. I can't stand that. And then he says in response. Caused me to take my thumb and hit a button. Right. I don't know. You know what I mean? I like that. You put Mutombo on me. I have no idea. Okay, see. It's still a mystery as I send Rob to Pete out the door with some fat content for today's program. Good to see you, sir. You too. Say hi to Holly, please, for sure. King's Court airs Sundays, 9 p.m. on Bravo, the next day on Peacock, which means you can see it right here on Roku.

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42:16Rich Eisen:I always like to think that I'm His most favorite person in the room But when the Vince Lombardi trophy Is sitting between the two of us I think I lose out Michael Irvin, right? I think I lose out to this baby, right? It's so funny you start with this Because I'm going to tell you something, man When I was playing I made a pact that I would never go to a Super Bowl Until I play in the Super Bowl Every guest that comes here, they're going to get Super Bowl questions. That's why I always say I would never go to a Super Bowl until after I play in a Super Bowl, so I would not have people like Rich Eisen asking me questions that I cannot answer.

42:54Now, what do you want to ask, Rich? Because I've prepared to answer since I won three of these things.

42:59Rich Eisen:So what was it like picking this trophy up for the first time? It was the greatest thing, and it really was, Rich. It really was the greatest thing. Do you remember the circumstances? Oh, my God, man. First of all, you got to go back and think about, like, we were 1-15. We were 3-13, 1-15. When you're 3-13 and 1-15 Cleveland Browns, I know you don't think there's any chance that you will ever lay a hold of something like this. So to go from those days to coming in 92 and winning that Super Bowl and actually somebody handing you that trophy, the most incredible thing, most incredible feeling in the world.

43:36Rich Eisen:Did you ever step in when you heard that Jimmy and Jerry were not doing well? Or your station wasn't that in life at that point in time? I just didn't think anything would happen, Rich. I really didn't. I was like, are you joking? You know how hard it is doing Super Bowls. And you have a formula that's working. And then when it happened, it was like, oh, my God. Like, you know, I should have done this. Maybe I should have talked to him. I should have tried this. I should have tried that. Jerry Jones, I'm telling you, that's the one thing. I'll never forget Jerry Jones telling me that when I was negotiating with him.

44:05and I was saying, you know, I'll go to Cincinnati. And I was just talking, trying to get my monies up. I said, I'll go to Cincinnati. You can get car pickings over here and let's see what happens. And Jerry said to me then, Jerry said, Michael, you know, when I see you, I see Michael Irvin and the Dallas Cowboys. He said, I kind of see it like Magic Johnson and the Lakers. He said, what is magic without the Lakers?

44:27Rich Eisen:And what are the Lakers without the magic? He said, you guys, they belong together, just like you and the Cowboys. He said, Michael, the best way I can tell you, if a bomb hit Valley Ranch today, that's where we practice. And blew everything up. Everybody, everything. When the smoke clears, baby, me and you, we going to still be here. So we might as well work this deal out right now. That's what he said to you? I promise y 'all. This dude is a fool. This dude is a fool. He had me laughing as he was telling me no about my money.

45:01Rich Eisen:That's why you're in the Hall of Fame together.

45:07Rich Eisen:I miss Irv. We just saw him last week. It was good. It was great seeing him. Oh, at the Cowboys premiere. The Netflix premiere, yeah. I love that. That's awesome. I miss him. Well, you say it like you can't call him. Well, he doesn't answer his phone. That's true. Then try to leave a message. It's like your voicemail box is full. You try to reach Michael Irvin. I'll call him right now. Well, you need to be crazy. Call him right now. In all honesty, the number of times where I've needed to reach him, and it's been impossible to get him, and then Susie reaches out and he answers the phone right away.

45:48Rich Eisen:Nowhere you stand. Well, I mean, he did sit on her side of the wedding. That is true. That is true. On a day where, God bless it, I didn't have a job, so thank God I got married. Yeah. What an asshole. Rich, good job. Welcome back to the Rich Eisen Show Radio Network. I just worked blue in time. Just in time. That's why I'm a professional. I'm a professional. Right before we got back on the radio. Yep, you got it. Right before I became your Marshawn Lynch nightmare. I can't believe you called me that. I'm back on the Rich Eisen Show Radio Network. I can't believe you said Rich is talking about not having a job on the matter.

46:24Rich Eisen:On your wedding day, Susie, you should call in right now so I can ask why did you go through it? That actually was a good question. It was a terrible question. Stop it. Thank you, Mike. The one expert on relationships in this room. Rich, I'm with you. That was out of pocket. Out of pocket? I can tell you all about bad relationships. Out of pocket? Like Steve Young on a scrum. Fran Tarkenton on a scrum. I was trying to prove a point about how strong your love was. All right. Everybody calm down. Can I say something, though, with Rodney Pete being here? Yes, sir. That was cool for me because he was a reason a kid, you guys always crack on me about the number of teams I like, but he's the reason a kid from the middle of Pennsylvania start paying attention to USC back in the late 80s.

47:11We didn't have ES, you know, back then. We didn't have anything but Sports Illustrated.

47:15Rich Eisen:And I saw a black quarterback on the cover. He went to USC and I was like, oh, OJ went there, Marcus Allen. So start paying attention to USC after that. But like, so that was really cool. And, of course, the story about his son working with the Dodgers. That's amazing. Yeah. Thanks to Sean Mitchell for keying us in on all that stuff. You know, Sean's got a big heart, but anytime we could talk about his Dodgers, I'm sure he's very happy about that. You mean our Dodgers. Oh, my God. You know what? I knew that was coming. How come? Because, again, I saw – excuse me. I was sitting in Spain watching the reel created by Jake Culp of the Rich Eisen Show.

47:58Rich Eisen:Jake, shout out. Let's give Jake a shout out. He's the one who puts all the reels together from the Venon agency. What's up, Brendan? I'm shouting everyone out. It doesn't matter. Fred Rogan won't know. Come on, man.

48:17Rich Eisen:But I'm watching this reel of O'Shea Jackson Jr. sitting in this chair. Uh-huh. Okay. And Cube on the program. And I thought to myself, the first face I'm seeing asking a question isn't O'Shea Jackson Jr., which is the point of making this real. And I was thinking of making a note talking to Jake about it. The first person I see is this Jamal. No, no, actually, he gave... No, excuse me, stop. You didn't see the real. I'm talking about the real on Instagram. I reposted it. You're the first person who's asking a question of Cube. Okay, you. I mean, it should be. And I saw that, and my first thought is like, why is that happening?

48:58Rich Eisen:And then I heard him talking about I was the Yankee fan there, watching you rehearse, you know, doing the Del Tufo passive-aggressive, I'm a guy who's behind the scenes. I'm a places. I'm a Fox guy. It's the World Series. I ain't making this stuff up. That's the soap text. I'm going to hit the button. Get the assumption. Don't deny it. Oh, I see you in rehearsal. I can get you selfies with Lady Gaga, all that sort of guy. And I was just outraged that you didn't call him out on being a Yankee fan. He did. He actually did. You smirked. No, we did. He smirked. He got cut. It didn't make the real.

49:37Rich Eisen:It was unethical. It wasn't right. It was wrong. We were giving him lots of grief. What the hell? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we each got our own moment to chop it up with Q. The Hyundai Getaway Sales event is going on right now. Get deals so right it almost feels wrong. Don't miss out. Visit your local Hyundai dealer today. That wraps up our number one of our radio program. Steve Tasker is coming up shortly. We're still here on Roku, which means now I can curse you out, too. Stop. Come on. I'm just going down the line. I'm shouting people out and I'm cursing them out, depending on how I feel. And I feel great these days.

50:12Rich Eisen:You should.

50:17Do we both hit that same time? You guys are like, you guys do the same. Check this out.

50:21Rich Eisen:Check this out. There you go. Austin Karp, who writes for Sports Business Journal. Apparently, this Rich Eisen guy is a future if he wants to host SportsCenter. My Monday night, post-Monday night football SportsCenter. My first one in 20 years. Moved the needle a little bit here. Well, speaking of that, 67 % above this from year to year. Last time I was SportsCenter, was this much, was this viewed? was two months ago, and then, thank goodness I beat myself from 22 years ago. Well, that would have been a little bit bad. Do we want to talk about what Front Office Sports is reporting? What are you talking about?

50:56Rich Eisen:You're going to headline periodic special editions of SportsCenter? Okay. According to an ESPN spokesman? Front Office Sports is breaking news to me. Okay. I'll do more. I just don't know when the next time we're going to do it. No, I've got a lot of jobs. I understand. I mean, I understand. Is that what they're reporting? Yeah. Okay. From an ESPN spokesman. Okay. You're in. The company's saying it. Okay. I guess I'm doing it. Rich, come on. You definitely are. This is great. I bet on it. I'm kidding. Although somebody sent me this link because you know I'm not on X. Marchand saying, oh, it's after a Monday night football game.

51:38Rich Eisen:I get it, Andrew. It's great. And it has nothing to do with anything else going on. And by the way, that fourth quarter was so scintillating. I'm sure it gave me a big fat audience. I mean, with Joe. They're literally breaking down headlines of preseason week two. I know. During the fourth quarter. They were talking about Micah. And that was my question. I was going to ask Troy. I'm like, well, now I'm not gonna. Literally just headlines. Come on, Andrew. Don't hate. Just congratulate. Just one little bit, man. Yeah, Burke Magnus, Rich. Oh, Burke. And he was thrilled by the widespread acclaim.

52:11Rich Eisen:Oh. Quote, that was pretty cool. I woke up to a bushel of text messages and emails. A bushel. A bushel. Now, would you look that up? That's more than solid in terms of an amount. Oh, a bushel. Yeah. It's better than a handful. How many is a bushel? Don't you think? I mean, just if you're talking about how many texts there are. Well, according to the metrics here, one bushel is 9.3 liquid gallons. Of texts? That's a lot of texts. I think that's a lot. How many pounds in a bushel? Pounds, baby. Pounds. A bushel of wheat is 60 pounds. That's wild. I mean, just the amount of text, that would be. feels like a lot.

52:46Rich Eisen:What's up, Berk? You got it. We got it. We got it. Let's keep doing it. All right, I'll do it live.

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