Hour 3: ESPN’s Taylor Twellman Talks World Cup, plus Actor Colin Hanks In-Studio

23:57Yes, sir. And then going from those tournaments directly into this tournament. It's just a sports. It's like, what a time to be alive.

24:04Rich Eisen:We were just talking about it. You were probably making your way here to the studio that when Canada played South Africa on Sunday and that was the only game, I'm like, where's the next one? I was like, where's the next one? Where's the next one? And I'm like, I had to go on to the ESPN app where I'm checking the scores. And I'm like, what is the only one? I'm Googling what channel Telemundo is to see if maybe I've missed something. So you watched a telenova instead of it? You know, I mean, when nothing else was on, I just got to have some noise in the background. I don't care if it's in a language I don't understand.

24:43Rich Eisen:And we were just, again, talking about it. I don't know if it's because it's a perfect time zone for us, obviously, that there's not matches in the middle of the night, that we're seeing all of them. It's the fact that we're seeing all of them. But a buddy of mine texted me last night because we were talking about the results last night. And he posed the question, he says, is every World Cup the best World Cup ever? And it really kind of feels that way. There's never like a World Cup that was like the Super Bowl last year. We were just kind of like, well, that was boring. Every match, there's something in, you know, in like the storytelling of each match that is exciting.

25:24You don't need to know the players. You don't even know how to pronounce the country. um i'm looking at you gronk um uh but like there's just something i mean watch him try and pronounce bosnia herzegovina that's right it's pretty you know what it's

25:42Rich Eisen:pretty don't forget the and you know by the way taylor kept calling it bosnia yeah when we were talking to taylor twelman he's like like don't forget the herzegovina that's not herzegovina or Herzegovina? What is it? Well, see, I like to make fun of the way people mispronounce things by possibly mispronouncing things. That's just how I roll. And it also covers it that if you mispronounce it, you were just joking. Yeah. Look at you next level right there, Matt. Exactly. See? So we were just seeing... Hold on, time out. Ladies and gentlemen, he's taking a sip of water now. Hydration breaks. Hydra.

26:15Rich Eisen:All the rage. They're all the rage. Water, water, water. I don't want you cramping up in the middle of this. No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I don't even need to do the extra coaching and stuff that happens during the hydration breaks. Look, here's the thing. I have a few observations. Of the World Cup? Yes. Okay. People don't like these hydration breaks. You want to know what? You run for 45 minutes. Yeah, right. And then run for another 45 minutes. Yeah, you're right. And then maybe run for another 30 minutes. Yeah. Good luck with that. But you can take a sip of water at some point. I mean, a dude went through four jerseys last night because it was so hot and muggy down in Monterey.

26:55I mean, four jerseys. You lived in the East Coast. I know for a fact at one point you walked into your apartment after walking, I don't know how many blocks. Three. Took off all of your clothes and stood in front of the air conditioner. Okay? That is a rite of passage. That is what you do.

27:11Rich Eisen:Exactly. That's the way you work some of these games for Fox, right, Mike? Yeah. Shirts off. My job is like the play. You can't leave the room as you're mixing the match. Yeah. Do you need a hydration break? I don't get to leave the room during the hydration break. So I'm still. Oh, so you need you need a bath. That gets into. Yes. What about that? Would that be would that be more amenable? Well, look, I mean, I know that you have a very heavy stretching regiment for every every event. I run around. I run around the audio. So, you know, he's prepared. He's prepared in a way. Also, the hands up thing.

27:43Yeah. yeah the hands up thing it's it look in football they say hike yes it's the agreement that we're all going to start the play that we've come up with right the corner kick that's what it is

27:57Rich Eisen:it's basically i'm gonna go now right i'm gonna go now um which is again what you say when you need your bathroom break you raise your hand and i go i gotta go now announce it to the entire Fox. I really have to go now, but I can't go. But it's just, they're all raising their hands. Like, the ball was not off me. It was off of the other guy. Yeah, well, yeah, with the corner kicks and all that sort of stuff. I mean, the throw-ins. I mean, soccer's played in such a huge stadium. Yes. You really got to over act in order to get any kind of attention. Were you pleased with this year's Stanley Cup?

28:37I was. I thought the entire playoffs were great. I was really surprised that Colorado got bounced. I did not see that coming. And, you know, all of the games I thought were fantastic. And, again, the storylines. I mean, that's what I love about sports.

28:52Rich Eisen:Were you – I thought of you when Montreal got bounced. Yes. Are you still pleased that the curse of Marty McSorley's stick is still in effect in 2020? I am still pleased in a very, you know, I feel bad. But there is something I just find so enticing about the fact that no Canadian team has won since 1990. Ever since they checked Marty McSorley's stick. They shouldn't have done it. Do you believe in this, really? I like to. It's fun. It's fun. You know what I mean? Like, deep down, it truly is. This is the curse. this is a curse man i mean i want to make a documentary about it so i know you do so i'm i've still got i got another shot congrats on the john candy thanks man thank you very much you know what a what a great great documentary that was yeah and you know looking back on it like what did you find in that documentary that you did not know and you're so excited that you threw in there you know i think more than anything else uh just the fact that john was exactly the kind of person that we all thought he was.

30:06Yes. He was a delight. He was a good person. He was a good human being. He cared for everyone, whether you owned the building or whether you just opened the door to the building.

30:15Rich Eisen:Right. He treated everybody the same. And the more and more stories I heard from people, the more and more that was just reinforced. And honestly, I just related to him so much more, not only as a human being, human being, but also as an actor. You know, the fact that he was truly a performer. He wasn't just a comedian. Right. He was a performer. And even in the broadest of movies, you know, well, you know, even in films like The Great Outdoors, he was still able to inject humanity and inject a little bit of his own history and his own human experience into those roles. Did you interview your dad for I did, yeah.

31:00You did. Yeah. Easiest one I did.

31:01Rich Eisen:Is that the first time you've ever? First time I had done that, yeah. Yeah. It was the easiest one to do because I didn't really care if I made him uncomfortable. Had you already heard the stories, though? Or did you? No, I was not prepared for a lot of the stuff that he had spoken to. You sort of go into every interview and you sort of have a broad sort of framework of what you hope the interview subject will speak on. Yes. But I wasn't really sure exactly what kind of stories he was going to tell. Did you do all the interviews? I did all that I could. There were some that I was unavailable for.

31:41Steve Martin? Steve Martin I did.

31:43Rich Eisen:The moment where, in this documentary, where he found a script of planes, trains, and automobiles. So that's the Steve Martin documentary. That's the Steve Martin documentary. Yeah, which is interesting. I apologize. No, no, no, no, no. It's okay. No, but what's interesting about that is, you know, I had heard about this infamous monologue that John's character gives in the train station at the end of the film. Um, and we were able to actually track down the scene and it's, it's an incredible performance. Like it's really a beautiful performance. And yet at the same time, I know exactly why they cut it.

32:27You know, the, you know, there, there was, there was no reason to include that big of a weight when it was so much more efficient to just, you know, cut right to the chase, and have the scene be the way it is in the final product. So that was a real treat. And getting all of the old improv. Well, the SCTV stuff was amazing. Just discovering a bunch of stuff that I had not seen. I had not seen the Yellow Belly sketch where John Candy shoots a kid in the back. um uh but you know we also tracked down uh some improv uh that john did with katherine o 'hara during uh home alone uh which was which was pretty incredible as well which a little bit of that made

33:20Rich Eisen:uh made the the final cut of our movie and it's called john candy i like me available now for streaming on prime video i hope you get all the uh nominations and awards that you deserve for this i know this is a labor of love for you you've been on this long time caper for quite some time um speaking of capers that you've been on for a while you've been on this show what now for 11 years and oh yeah you're one of our yeah and the old show as well so um but you did this came out of like nowhere the first time you came on a tradition in your household yes of watching nfl games or who knows even cfl games with your dad oh i'm sure yeah there's probably been well told a story about going to a cfl game with martin short right yes yeah a gray cup match yeah this is regina saskatchewan ladies and gentlemen um so what's the genesis that go for it tell the genesis of this is i was sitting around one day with my dad we were watching a football game and um my dad took one look at the head coach i believe the head coach was um uh charlie weiss was the first one so he was actually it was a college game college game notre dame yeah and he said i wonder what he's like as a stepdad and then we sort of ripped on that for a bit and then there was another game that we watched not too long after that and tom coughlin came on oh boy and then the tradition was born and now you've brought it here to this program and i brought it to this program i i try to bring it every single time i'm here it bring i want to just say it brings me so much joy yes that we have this and i have gratitude every time you ask because it really is truly fun to be part of a tradition here and it's at the rich island actually and it's funny yesterday i just texted you i'm like do you want to run it back with and you then texted me uh a gif uh of uh tradition from fiddler on the roof yes and i had no idea there was any fiddler on the roof you know there ifs out there at all gifts for everything topled gifts words i've never said before all right zero mostel all right um so we've got six um individuals yes that we were wondering who they are like uh as a stepdad yes colin hanks first up is the head coach the uh the irascible and sometimes very I guess prickly prickly head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles Nick Sirianni okay Nick Sirianni can we get a photo of Nick Sirianni there we go now this is a little bit photo specific so forgive you know forgive me radio listeners at home but in this photograph he's got his arms up and uh and it's it's if he's saying this but I feel that this is what he would say all the time as a stepfather what are we doing what are we doing and it could be accusatory like what what are we doing here yeah right what are we doing or you got some friends over he comes in says hey buddies what are we doing okay and i'll tell you what we're doing stepdad we're playing settlers of katan and i don't know what you're doing but you can you can just get out of my room i do have a feeling that if i had to choose one or the other it would be the sort of like what are we doing What are we doing here?

36:43Rich Eisen:What are we doing? This is a waste of time. What are we doing? Now we're going to go to the other side of the state where Mike McCarthy is now the head coach of the Steelers. What do you make of him? Well, Mike, you know, it's funny that he's a head coach because I think as a stepfather, he would say, well, that's not up to me. which is not the same as like go ask your mother like bitterly like go ask your mother he's just saying he's accepted like that's not up to me hey are we eating italian tonight oh that's not up to me hey are we all going in the same car oh that's not up to me okay is that what you're wearing to the press conference is the uh of the announce to be the head coach of the steelers well that's not it doesn't look like that was up to him that's not no it doesn't look wearing the steelers which is odd because he's a head coach you think he makes all the decisions correct uh all right next up is the head coach of the chicago bears ben johnson what would he be like ben johnson okay this this photo fascinates me because this is all about the intonation of what it is that he's saying okay yes okay now in this photograph he has got his headset on he's got his hat on and he's got his arms crossed right and it looks like he's saying and

38:09and and you expect me to pay for that and and you thought that was a good idea but his face says the same thing but just a little bit softer and and that that hurt your feelings didn't it you you felt bad after you did that didn't you buddy yeah so it's this very sort of leading the witness kind of stance both the negative and the

38:35Rich Eisen:oh my gosh fantastic oh my that is oh my oh my yeah because he he uh he had an interesting press conference moment the other day all right our last three um we're kind of veering out of the usual yeah with the last three um because this one is of a shirtless sean mcveigh with his wife um and uh they're on vacation it looks like they're in the it looks like they're on the french riviera to me look what what does this say to you this one's challenging because just by the mere premise of what it is that we're talking about you are then implying that that's my mom which yes i honestly don't know how to respond so i'm just gonna leave that one as is i'm just gonna leave that out there but sean who we've covered before but we have done this before but never shirtless but never shirtless like this i think sean's the kind of stepfather that uh Whatever you ask them, whatever the response is always, 100%.

39:41100%. Hey, are we going out on the boat today? 100%. 100%. You having a good time? 100%. Hey, can you pick me up from camp today? 100%, buddy. Gotcha. 100%. 100%. And in a moment of crisis, would probably resort to Hundo P as a response as well.

40:08Rich Eisen:last two um it since this whole endeavor was inspired by a college head coach from the state of indiana we're going with indiana national champion head coach kurt signetti okay what's he like this one is what this one is actually my favorite okay this one is my favorite because based on this photo he's looking off his his eyebrows raised a little bit which is one of my favorite moves and i think he's the kind of father that just is always constantly going when when when are the stewards coming over and wait when do you want me to go pick up the chinese food hey honey honey what time do you want me to start the grill when he's just never sure of what he when he's supposed to do whatever it is he's agreed to do so he just wants the confirmation when oh okay yeah sure on occasion he'll bristle at not getting the when on well yeah of course well look if you want if you want me to do something you got to tell me when you expect it to be done and we've never gone into the ownership suite before ever no and then we finish up the what's this individual like as a stepdad one thomas edward brady i mean In this photograph where he's dressed up like, you know, I give you the floor on this one.

41:28I mean, this one is multipurpose. It could be used in so many different cases. In this particular photo, I think as a stepfather, he'd just say, so what? So what? Yeah, I'm wearing a leather jacket. I'm your stepdad. So what? What are you going to do about it? Do your job. You know, because he's just. Yes, I like it. Same thing. He does look like he's in a Sprockets outfit right there. So what are you going to do about it? Ladies and gentlemen. So what?

41:57Rich Eisen:Ladies and gentlemen, Colin Hanks with another rousing edition of. Those were fun ones. I think our best yet. I think it's the best yet. It keeps getting better every time. Silo, what should we know? What do you want us to know about this before? It's a tremendous show. I absolutely love this show. The third season is fantastic. uh and um you know i this show more than any other is such a great little mystery box of how these characters have ended up where they've ended up and and and one of the reasons why and uh my character is well one of the reasons why okay i think good to know let's not spoil anything yeah um and it premieres this week friday july 3rd on apple tv john candy i like me is a must watch doc uh available now for streaming on prime video love you brother thanks for coming love you too buddy that's colin hanks everybody right here on the show uh before we we jump uh right here on the program um actually we'll do that should we do this uh next okay we'll do it next right here on the rich eyes let's take a break we're back on the rich eyes show the rich eisen show the podcast

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45:17Rich Eisen:Because he just tapped it with his left foot. He literally just like, deek. Okay. And that came in like, what, the 89th minute or something? 86. It was late. Okay. Late and full time. So Ivory Coast furiously trying to tie, get the equalizer. Seven minutes of extra time. And there's a bunch of extra time. LeBron has responded to the Lakers note from Jeannie Buss saying thank you to LeBron. He wrote, no, thank you. Truly an honor to wear. And he uses the heart symbols of purple and gold while trying to continue the greatness and legacies that came before me. Hope I made a few proud during my stint.

45:53Rich Eisen:Good thing there's a comma there. Okay. Oh, listen. What did you... Well, if it was just, no, thank you, it would have been like, oh, he was mad. I know. The comma was important. A heavy lift from the comma right there. Thank you. So, it's over. Okay, all good. He's moving on, yeah. Now, where is he going to go? And the whole idea of maybe playing with Steph Curry before he retires. Hey, Warriors, big favorites. Well, we cut the sound. What podcast was this on? Mind the Game. Oh, yeah, his pod with Steve Nash and Steph Curry, a guest in the subject matter. Bro, it's one of the best experiences.

46:37Rich Eisen:It was everything. People ask me all the time, like, you know, finally got an opportunity to play with Steph. What was it? It was like everything and more. It was perfect. First person I text. Exactly. Somebody say that moment. First person I text when I was trying to assemble the team, whatever. First person I've said, I said, bro, he said, good willing. Injuries, I'm good injury wise. That's the plan. I said, say no more. Say no more. All right. So if he wants to just do professionally what they did olympically, it's there. Yeah. Ramona Shelburne just tweeting LeBron James and or his reps will talk to a few teams once free agency opens in a couple hours.

47:24Uh, no rush to make a decision.

47:27Rich Eisen:I think it's, we've got a new decision. We'll talk about it on Wednesday's show. That's for sure. Thanks for listening to the rich Eisen show podcast. You can watch and listen to the rich Eisen show live weekdays from noon to three Eastern on ESPN radio, Disney plus, and on the ESPN app, the rich Eisen show, the podcast.

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