Hour 3:  Guest Host O’Shea Jackson Jr, plus Actor Utkarsh Ambudkar In-Studio

18:58O’Shea Jackson Jr.:A.J. Brown? Nothing can replace the greatness we did. And that was it. He took his eyebrows and left. That was over. I mean, the Eagles are, you know, anytime I bet on them, number one. Why would you ever do that? Because, I mean, when I had the number fifth pick in the draft and I thought I was looking at certain people and Saquon Barkley fell in my lap, I had to get him. And then you've got to get Jalen because of the tush push. You've got to protect yourself. And it just never works out for me. So I just, you know, A.J. Brown, I'm surprised that things haven't worked out over there. But, you know, they got Saquon.

19:42O’Shea Jackson Jr.:It's a lot more run heavy. And, yeah, I'd be fine with him going to the Patriots. Thank you. Just so you can be happy. I appreciate that. Cake, May. Cake, May. Yeah, it's looking thick over there in New England. Whoa, man. If A.J. Brown goes there, yeah, that's a pretty good team, bro. Thank you. Oh, you thought I meant thick with two Cs? No. Definitely not. No, absolutely not. That's the news? That's the news. Fantastic. Well, folks, it's time for me to read again. Is the right voice in my head? Yes. Okay, okay. In a world in need of a hero, one man rises to the challenge in style. He is just driving the kids to soccer practice.

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23:54on Fox. There you go. Look at us in profile. Very strong jawline still. You see it. So we're very excited to share it with people. It was such a beautiful experience.

24:07O’Shea Jackson Jr.:We are here on the Rich Eisen show talking to Udkar. Here we are, ladies and gentlemen. Here she goes. Thursday afternoon. 8 o 'clock. 8-7 central. On television. It's a real TV movie. We're like going back to the old school style of like when you sit around the tv that's what ghosts is about family gets to sit and enjoy something i'm really there i'm bringing back white american television as you should thank you thank you now yeah talk to me about ghosts all right because my assistant loves this show so much and i have to hear about it now that i've had the conversation with you and we are continue to have some i'm gonna check it out but i need you to sell it to me because now she's just like you need to watch it you need to watch you listen man i've watched den of thieves one and two that's all named pantera for no reason yeah i've watched obi-wan kenobi's oh i was talking about that earlier i've seen the straight out of comptons yeah that's i've seen all your bro oh stuff stuff stuff yeah stuff so you gotta at least watch we're five seasons in.

25:23That's 90-something episodes. Give me one cold open. Just watch the first one episode. Please. Sam and Jay move into a house that Sam has gotten from her mom or her family. Sam falls down the stairs, played by Rose McIver. She wakes up. She can see and hear the ghosts in the house. That's trouble. I'm the husband. I can't see or hear them, but I sure do love my wife.

25:47O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yeah, that's a fun role though, to be the one that's like, alright, you know, you see ghosts. That's it. And he's fully supportive. And somehow the fans have latched onto it. Thank God. Love you guys. Thank you for watching Ghosts. And we're going into our sixth season. We're starting two months. Six? Yeah. Man, I'm behind. Slightly behind. And I'm only asking you for... Under a rock. I'm asking you for three minutes. I've seen Pantera two times. Two times. Yes. Okay. And Shea, one of the creators, showrunners of Ghosts, Joe Port, take a guess where he's from. What you gonna tell me, punked? Oh, like city?

26:26O’Shea Jackson Jr.:City. Altoona? How do you know Altoona? I thought you were gonna say city of Compton. That's the big tuna. Oh, that is the big tuna. I'm not the big tuna. That's the big tuna DJ Jefferson out here. Ghosts has more Altoona references than any television show should. Let's put it that way. It's every episode. Yeah. Bro, you've been holding out on me. But we're going strong. We love our fans. The crew up in Montreal treats us real well. they turned me into a Montreal Canadiens fan they got whomped last night but hopefully there's a comeback in them young team, good team let's see what they can do I shot a movie out in Montreal Long Shot it was me, Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron oh I auditioned for that movie I was going to tell I auditioned for the Ravi Patel role just a second so we go we're going out to Montreal y 'all and i asked my brother daryl was like you know go ahead and uh what's the weather like out there he was like six yeah six six it's cold never seen that in my life bro i would never that's the only thing where people are like what's it like and i'm like it's great until october and then it gets dark and everyone gets angry man it is wild and the hotel which hotel were you in hold on.

27:45Saint-Soupis? I think so.

27:47O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yeah. I think, bro, I really think so because we had a bad dream every night. It's either Saint-Soupis or Place de Arms. Both of which I would say are haunted. I'll check my old emails, but like I'm pretty sure it had Saint in there. Okay. Well, yeah, the pillows, super light, your head sinks through and you have nightmares every night. And the room service at some restaurant. Yes! Yeah, that's it, dude. I'm telling you. Like a sushi restaurant, right? Yeah, I'm telling you. haunting man me and O'Shea guys here on the Rich Eisen show just kicking it I wanted to talk to you about the fact that me and you haven't worked together but we are destined to work together I'm such a big fan of yours that I would love to do that that would be so cool you have been in right along two it says barbershop the next cut with your father who didn't remember that I was with him in Ride Along 2.

28:46We have this whole scene together.

28:47O’Shea Jackson Jr.:And he told me about Ride Along and then didn't tell me about Barbershop. That's crazy because I went to him and I was like, Mr. Cube, sir, do you remember that we worked together in Ride Along 2? This is like four weeks into shooting Barbershop. And he just goes, nah, man. But I told you guys earlier, a million things. All right. He's also thinking right now, I just want to bring it up. The big three is happening June 20th. Yep. Into it, don't. I was going to wear my ghost ballers hoodie, but my wife said it was corny if I did that. It was also a little bit dirty, but that's more why. And then I only have one framed autograph in my house, and it's a note from Ice Cube.

29:29And it's just like, hey, man, you're super funny. Glad we gave you a chance. Ice Cube. And Naomi, my wife, was also like, you know, you could just be cool. you don't have to take this to this man's son that's amazing but i want you to know that he's been very supportive of me in my career and i owe him a lot glad we gave you a chance chance to shine i was like yes man he's everybody he's the man

30:01O’Shea Jackson Jr.:he is the man but yeah we're destined because you got you got two ice cube films and two films that I auditioned for it, but didn't get it. Uh-oh. Which ones? Oh, I'm going to guess one. Free Guy. Free Guy. Yep. And I might have turned down Broken Hearts Gallery. I can't remember if I auditioned for that, but Broken Hearts Gallery as well. I don't know, man. I got the offer, but it was probably after you. Broken Hearts Gallery was a great experience. Yeah. That character, if it was the same character, bit of a thankless character because ends up kind of being the bad guy in the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, with her existence.

30:35Yeah. Yeah, and the script, but Geraldine Biswanathan and Dacre Montgomery and Natalie, who directed that, like, great team. But I think for what we do well, it didn't really fit, like, in our wheelhouse. Free Guy, though, you dropped a bag. Yeah. That was real fun.

30:53O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Oh, 100%. Ryan Reynolds is, like, my bestie, bro. I think they gave it to, what was it, Rel? Oh, that was Rel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rel, you would have been great in that role. I love Rel. I thought so, too. Rel has got such a great smile, lights up a screen. But, yeah, it would have been different if it had been you for sure. So happy for the brother. He's not doing Pantera. He's not doing Gerard Butler world, like, continent-hopping heist movies. Yeah, and I have fun doing those films, but they are just taxing on the body. Oh, I'm sure. You know, it's rough. We are talking about parking. Remember when they punched you in the stomach and you start throwing up in the first one?

31:34O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yeah. And you puked and it was like, dang, that was a hard punch. Remember that? Yeah. That was a good actor. Or when Pablo Shriver puts a gun in my eye. Oh, I remember that too. I was like, okay, I thought we were playing pretend for money. I will just say for the first, I hate when people do that, when they're like, I'm really in it. You're like, nah, dude. I'm wondering what kind of donuts they have at Crafty. Get that out of my face. that movie was so tense and so well made and then they all just died so quick and I love that your whole crew just got pop pop pop pop 50 Cent is like a tough guy and the next thing you know you're like he's just staring yeah you shouldn't have left the garage bro if you have a child going to prom maybe don't do this yeah fire fire advice that film and they were when we were doing that film number one it's my third movie ever third movie ever okay and we're doing weapons training and like we got this dude from uk special forces like giving us weapons classes and like we're waking up early in the morning to go shoot guns and i'm like yeah i don't have a gun in the movie why am i getting up bro early because you gotta be tough guy dude yeah and so like pablo schreiber just because i asked this question now i'm getting made fun of by the crew you know because like oh we're up too early for you shay this is what this is toxic masculinity guys yes so i would ask the question y 'all jackson jr doesn't need this ship from you wait the crew is giving you grief well not the crew but like the guy other actors and 50 and like they're all you know cracking their jokes gerard cracking their jokes and i'm like man y 'all ain't y 'all supposed to die yeah like and very easily by the way for all that build-up you got they died so quick that's why i like the sequel what's this is this kobe yours right here?

33:43O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Oh, no, no. My man, RJ. It's a hostile takeover. So, you know, they all got their cool memorabilia around there. So I brought in my Matthew Stafford signed football. RJ was like, oh, man, you need the Kobe rookie over here. So he brought the Kobe rookie. And then I brought a picture of myself. I love that. Yeah, because there's no pictures. I've been a guest on this show more than any celebrity. O'Shea Bonaparte. I like it. And there was no picture of me in all the years that I've been here. So I brought one. That's good. We're going to hang this up. You look good. Thank you. It's nice. Somebody.

34:20You guys are animals, man. I love that photo for you. That's great. I'm going to get my own. You really should, man. Of yourself or of O'Shea? Of O'Shea. So I'm going to find a place to hang this. Well, we have to do something together. It would be really fun. We'd have a good time. We might have to ride it. I would love to do that. we'd have a good time for sure yeah so this film

34:46O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Rachel Lee Cook Ryan Hansen I know you can't give out too much but what can people take away from it and what should they expect tonight there's a lot of love it's got a great soundtrack I mean it's good I hope people soundtrack i hope people watch it it is a movie that deserves to be loved it's it's loosely based on rachel's real life so i know it means a lot to her and i we produced it together we built it from the ground up anybody who's made something from scratch knows how hard it is so if you get eyes on it tonight it would be greatly appreciated i'm proud of the movie i think rachel and i had a great time doing it together we brought a bunch of crew together in upstate new york and uh they're all great and we had a nice time in wherever we shot it because it was two years ago but we had a good time other than that i'm just trying to like there's probably also an nba playoff game tonight though right there is game six so i'm gonna have to be jumping back and forth between spurs thunder and and you this movie yeah which i've already seen how you feel about okc and san antonio and i also want you to give a shout out to your wizards oh yeah my wizards got the number one pick so we'll see we'll see i think we got to trade ad for somebody though oh my we got ad for what maybe 40 and i love yo ad if you watch this because it's your boy you know i love you we did barbershop i hugged you i laid my head on your chest like i know you but i only get 45 games of healthy ad a year and when you are healthy you're transcendent but then you said a bunch bunch of stuff about money in D.C., and that's going to rub people the wrong way.

36:34If I can flip you right now for three first-rounders and maybe, like, another top-ten pick in this year's draft, I got to do it, bro. I got to send you to Memphis or somewhere. Oh, my goodness. I think you're Memphis-bound, bro. Everybody, every wizard goes to Memphis to end their career. Gilbert Arenas did it. I mean, you don't want to stay in Washington. Let Trey and A.J. and Saar and our boys do what they got to do. Tonight I want Wemby, though. I want Wemby to win.

37:03O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yeah, absolutely. I cannot stand the Thunder right now. Not because they beat the Lakers, but just because they're the Thunder. Wemby just needs to – he gets tired. He's young and he gets tired. So you see him going right on that free throw line, and he's throwing up that floater, and he's like, I'm okay because I'm big enough. I'll get the rebound. But you're tired. So instead, all you got to do is stop on a dime, shoot that 15-footer. Just stop moving. your Hartenstein can't guard you he's going to keep moving you stop, you're butter from 15 don't do that gazelle floater thing where you throw it off the backboard you're tired conserve your energy, shoot the jumper that's all I got to say Vic that's a good thought process for that, we were talking about him losing his legs earlier than that yeah, he's tired man I brought a bunch of cards I want to show you my collection because last time we were here we talked about how we were all, were you guys there when we were talking about collecting stuff?

38:05I got a bunch of stuff. How are you going to see these? Where do I put them? That's my Wemby Gold Panini 1-in-1 PSA 10. Hey now! That's just for tonight. I don't know if you want to just be walking around with those. Without security. Without security. I got Ice Cube on speed dial. Then this is like, these two, these will never leave my collection. These are two, our two boys, Shaq and Kobe, Nebula Autos, one of ones, not a Spectra. My man. These are my boys. These are our Lakers. These are the only two in existence, and I own them both. Wow, that was such a nerdy thing to say. This is me. I can just hear Naomi, my wife, being like, bro, really?

38:55No, this is very cool.

38:56O’Shea Jackson Jr.:This is. Yeah. Oh, man. We got to get photos of these. I had to throw some Steph in there because I know everybody needs a Steph. This is a Steph Curry signed Timeless Moment from 2223. I know you got them card things, but what are we going to do? I'll just keep it. I don't know. You're a Star Wars guy. I tried to get yours, honestly. Oh, I'll get you one. I got outbid on your red auto on eBay. It really pissed me off. I just signed that. Yeah, I was outbid badly. Wow. I literally just signed those. But this is a Star Wars Super Fractor of like a global poster. I don't know what it is. I just thought it looked cool in Japanese.

39:35Then, speaking of ghosts, I'm going through them fast because we don't have much time. Speaking of ghosts, I collect my friends' cards. This is Rebecca Wisaki who plays Hetty. This is her Star Trek signed card. She's a freaking babe and super talented. So we got Rebecca. That's why I wanted to bring you your card. I got my boy Randall Park, the best rapper in Hollywood. This is his one-on-one, Sapphire. Nice. Jimmy Woo. This is Return of the Jedi, by the way. Thank you, Return of the Jedi. And then here are, like, the big boys. This is a triple auto, Jordan, Kobe, and Garnett. Wow. 9-10. Oh, my gosh.

40:17Out of 10. Again, I'm not sure you should just be walking around with these. This is a sports nerd's dream. I do. My six-year-old taught me karate. This one is the only one card with AI and Kobe both signed on the same card. This is an Immaculate. It is an authentic auto 10. I hit this. Thank you, Jags at Blez, you sweet, sweet man. Oh, Blez, nice. This will never leave my collection. And then I'm a big Marvel guy. I could have brought thousands of them. But this is a one-of-one Super Fractor of Spider-Man from 2025 in the claw. My God, my wife has just got her hands.

40:59O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Yo, this is this. You're so cool to us right now. I know. This is incredible. And then this is my perk here. You could. This is the most beautiful one that I have. I love this card so much, bro. Because AI is all of our spirit animal. But this is my number one card. Kobe and AI. This is the number one card in my collection. It is a Jean-Claude Van Damme. Oh. I'm dead ass. I love you, Jean-Claude. Let's you, me, and O'Shea Jr. do something together. Something. Let's bring back frickin' that double team movie that you did with Dennis Rodman. I'll be whatever you want, Jean-Claude. It's a one of eight leaf pearl, Jean-Claude Van Damme auto.

41:40And I know that's probably, you know, it's a goofy one, but I love it. I love collecting people that I love. That's awesome. Those are a few of the cards I brought. Shout out. That was sick. What? I asked. They were like, you want to talk about There She Goes? And I was like, hell no. I want to talk about my cards.

41:57O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Wow. Liz was like, yeah, he's really emphatic about this card. I was like, oh, man, he's come to the right place. I don't want to rap. I don't want to talk about acting. I want to talk about basketball cards. Yeah. Listen, we got to go to a quick break. Make sure you guys are still here. Utkarsh. Bro, please, please be here for the end of this. Thank you for being here on The Rich Eisen Show. Yeah. The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.

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43:34O’Shea Jackson Jr.:All right. We got, we got to get Brett. I know some people that could get us Brett and we're working on it, but we want him in studio. Oh yeah. CM Punk said he'd come in and have a nice conversation between the two of them. That would be sick. Bret Hart talking about the Montreal screw job. I'm sure he's so tired of talking about it. He might not be though. I don't know. It's a great story. Hold on. I got a story for you. From our friends over at SoFi. A SoFi person alone is here to help you achieve something once thought impossible. Overcoming high interest credit card debt. Walk the tightrope of your finances with one low fixed rate monthly payment, no fees required, and as soon as the same day funding.

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44:59O’Shea Jackson Jr.:You know? Oh, man. Dude, you shut it down. Yeah, right? Well, this is my passion. I love this stuff. I'm a big collector. There was a few more Jordans. I had to hit up Kimberly, who's sitting over there. I hit up her boyfriend, Paul, and was like, which one should I bring? There was a triple auto with Jordan, Kobe, and Julius Irving I could have brought. Wow. And then there's a— We're all there together. Oh, no, we go. Well, I only collect Jordan from the Wizards. I don't collect—if you see, like, I don't collect any Bulls, Jordan. I'm not interested at all. It doesn't exist. Don't care. I want Michael Jordan in the 23 from the Wizards years.

45:41That's it. I'm a Washington Wizards fan. I like seeing Jordan in that blue, gold, and whatever, teal.

45:47O’Shea Jackson Jr.:What was that like when he made that move over there? You knew it wasn't going to go well. I mean, you had hope. But the truth is, is like D.C., God bless us, but the Wizards are a place where legends go to sort of fall apart. Yeah. Bernard King, Michael Jordan, Dwight Howard, Anthony Davis has now entered that phase of his career. Russell Westbrook on down the line or where players go to start and then go be famous somewhere else. Chris Webber. You know what I'm saying? Tom Gugliotta. Oh, my goodness. There's a lot of guys who start year one, year two and then, you know, go to nothing. right but not go to nothing go to great success on other teams is what i meant yeah dude but uh i mean i feel that i only want laker lebron stuff but lebron won a championship here laker lebron yeah dude a lebron auto out of this year of tops in a lakers jersey would be clutch you should get one yeah i might find i'll find a way to get it but dude you killed it um you you You got There She Goes tonight.

46:59O’Shea Jackson Jr.:Movie. You got NBA playoffs tonight. It's a movie. It's not a television show. It is a motion picture. Ghosts is still on the air. For all the people in the comments terrified that Ghosts got canceled, don't worry. We do multiple jobs. This is a romantic comedy motion picture. Fox television. Yeah. Tonight. Dude, tonight. Guys, I feel like it is an honor. Ud Khashan Bhutthar. Bro, you're a monster. Come back anytime. We're going to hang out away from the show. I would love that. Pantera 3 coming out. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eisen Show podcast. You can watch and listen to the Rich Eisen Show live weekdays from noon to 3 Eastern on ESPN Radio, Disney Plus, and on the ESPN app.

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