Hour 3: Keegan-Michael Key In-Studio, plus the NBA’s Big Travelling Problem

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0:42Rich Eisen:This is the Rich Eisen Show. Hey, everybody. Can't get enough of the Rich Eisen Show? You're in luck. You can find us everywhere. Watch us weekdays on Disney Plus from noon to 3 Eastern. Miss the show? We've got a podcast so you can listen anytime. But here's the best part. Our YouTube channel. Subscribe at youtube.com slash Rich Eisen Show and you'll never miss a moment. Now, on with the show. Ladies and gentlemen. This is the Rich Eisen Show. Here they are. The Rich Eisen Show. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. puts them in the lead with a two-run shot. From the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. Earlier on the show, Pro Football Hall of Famer, Kirk Warner.

1:30ESPN MLB announcer, Boog Shambi. Coming up, actor Keegan-Michael Key. And now, it's Rich Eisen.

1:42Rich Eisen:Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Here on Disney +, the ESPN app, which is available everywhere. And also, guess what? ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance. The man who's calling the World Series on ESPN Radio. Boog Shambi was just here. He just left. We had some nice guest convergence in our green room for a split moment between him and Keegan Michael Key, who is one of our favorites. There are a few shows on TV as red hot as this one with casts like this one. You want to be on only murders in the building if you are somebody like Keegan Michael Key and he can play around with some of the best, like say Martin Short, Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, Meryl Streep, Nathan Lane, Bobby Cannavale, Christoph Waltz.

2:28Rich Eisen:This season was awesome. Divine Joy Randolph, Renee Zellweger, and Keegan-Michael Key who's going to join us. We have a fun clip. We also have some fun stuff in store for him and it's always going to be great when he joins us here on the program as he will in just less than 20 minutes time. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial. We also had Kurt Warner on in our number one. If you missed any of this show, guess what? We have our app. Pardon me. We used to have an app. I don't know where that one came from. What we have is our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Rich Eisen Show, our pod, which is the three-letter word I was going to say.

3:03Rich Eisen:All three hours available for your ear gate through the Rich Eisen Podcast Network, now fueled by the ESPN Pod Center. We appreciate all of our relationships, including those with you. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial. Here on the program, Let's go to Joey in Pensacola, Florida to kick things off. What's up, Joey? Hey, Rich, how's it going? I just want to talk about what your previous caller talked about, bringing a buddy to a game. Yeah, just to bring everyone up to speed here, Chris Brockman and I think, would you give your plus one to a great friend of yours when they're rooting for the team that's trying to beat yours in a high-stakes game like the World Series?

3:44Rich Eisen:And we say no, and what do you say, Joey? By the way, I just put that up as a poll question. Yeah. Okay, great. Yeah, absolutely I would. I took a buddy to a Yankees game as Yankees-Astros. And it wasn't like a high-stakes game, like a postseason game or a World Series game. But I took him a Yankees-Astros game. Astros were crushing the whole game, dominating. Kyle Tucker robbed a home run in right. And then Yankees brought it back. Isaiah Kain of Falefa got thrown out at second in the ninth. And then went into extras. because Aaron Judge walked it off, of course. And my buddy, who's Astros fan, was wearing his Astros gear and was getting just absolute death threats walking out of the stadium.

4:26Rich Eisen:Oh, that's not good. And after that experience, I would bring him back to another Yankees-Astros game just to see the look on his face. Well, it's... Classy New York fans talking to him. Well, you know, that's not the way it should go. Joey's a real one. But, again, it's just one of those things. is just like, I don't need you rooting happy in front of my face when my team's fortunes and my emotions are on the line. I mean, it's just that simple. He was extremely happy for about eight and a half innings until the Yankees tied it up, and then Aaron Judge walked it off. And I'll take those eight and a half innings of misery again just so I can see a look on his face of Aaron Judge walking it off.

5:08Rich Eisen:Joey in Pensacola, appreciate it. Jimmy in San Antonio, where my new favorite, Victor Wambanyama, plays basketball. What's up, Jimmy? All right. It's the first day of my vacation. Mexico just beat Paraguay in the under-17 Women's World Cup, so you can assume how I'm doing. Okay. Great. Good to know Jimmy. He's doing well. Yeah. So tonight the Spurs go for 5-0 for the first time ever. That kind of shocked me. I never thought that we never went 5-0 throughout the era that we did. I agree. I'm with you. I'm kind of surprised to hear that as well, sir. Okay, about this plus one business, TJ, you're so rude.

5:55If I had the NFC Championship, Eagles, Cowboys, Colleen Wolfe is obviously my plus one.

6:03Rich Eisen:This is not what we're talking about, Jimmy. Not what we're talking about. Jimmy, we're not talking about that sort of stuff. Okay, Jimmy? Okay, then, all right, let me bring this up. I have a start bench regards to if it was a World Series. If it was Dodgers, Mets, TJ, you're my starter. There is no bench. It's you and me. We go to the game, and we see who cries at the end. Okay. Dodgers, Red Sox. Brockman, you got benched because, obviously, we all know I'm taking Susan. Yeah, I mean, obviously. Okay, this guy. And then Dodgers Yankee. The dude I'm taking has an eye in his first name, and it's Mike.

6:45Rich Eisen:He's not a Yankee fan. I love you, Jimmy, but I already have a pass, so I'm good. No, no, excuse me. You're not a Yankee fan. Do you have your schmoey hat? Where's your schmoey hat? Could you imagine if you went to the World Series last year in Dodger Stadium like this? Yeah. Everybody would be beating him up. Everybody. He would be the most hated man in the building. that would be the thing that would be the most popular people be like absurd i'd be the most popular person absurd as dumb as it gets you like both these things you get peanuts this is the greatest thing you ever was not that's an abomination jimmy and san antonio bringing the noise and the funk as he always does thanks jimmy thanks jimmy so uh how about that jimmy in san antonio saying victor wimbunyama uh is trying to get the spurs to five enough for the first time ever is that true i would take his word the admiral never started that way the big fundamental never started that way that's unbelievable um so you know when bonnama is a perfect uh leaping off point here because he is an absolute as we know physical freak a unicorn we've never seen anything or anyone built like him doing things with the basketball that he is doing and as we all know um when we first heard of him the general sense was imagine yannis atetokounmpo taller and more agile right and you're like what yeah really that guy's and can shoot right you know what i mean like he's he's he's that and you're then you see victor do what he's done you're like okay now i get it and so what i'm pointing out is the nba is now getting physically freakier year in and year out right true and what's happening now because of that and it's not just tall guys who can handle it's just a bunch of other big men and also other guys who are smaller in stature doing things with the basketball with their handle that we haven't seen before and with that you are now seeing a massive traveling problem in the NBA if they care to fix it and last night Giannis on the NBC coverage against the Knicks did something with a basketball that you can't even call traveling I mean the euro step with what he did lasted so long he wound up in Asia and it's awful and i put it out on threads because as you know i'm i'm not posting on x and i haven't for a while because it's a i'm ready wrote it down here a hellscape that's right there mixed in and so um i posted on it's one of the most responded to by the way one of the most responded to posts i've ever put i just put the the the sequence up on the on on threads were just come on man is all i wrote like come on man really and here's the thing the responses i got back pointing out this is a legal play because you get apparently to gather the basketball and then get two steps so insane after you pick up your dribble the two steps begin after you gather and what we're seeing now are such physically freaky athletes able to take so many steps while gathering and then get steps after the gather you can go from the logo to the rim one dribble in the right one dribble you can go from the logo to the rim i'm watching it right now it's absurd he takes five steps and and he takes two steps after the gather but he takes four steps while gathering right and so i saw that and i thought to myself so this looks exactly like des bryant catching a football in green bay where he was so physically freaky that he's able to make a football move while still catching the ball over a 10-yard span of just two or three steps.

10:58Rich Eisen:He was that amazing at the catch process that he was able to make a physical move while catching and go to the ground to the point where the NFL had to come up with a new rule on what a catch was. and i think that's what's happening with traveling in the nba are we really going to say that you get two steps after a gather and then i don't i i can't sit here and say when the gather happens or you are so amazing like yannis that you could take four steps while gathering and then get two steps so you're now taking five to six steps after you've picked up your dribble and get away with it can't have it don't want it fans don't want it you should be able to challenge this and so what but if you challenged it by rule this is technically legal because he did take two steps after he finally put both hands to gather the basketball his hands are so big he can gather the ball with one hand i'm saying to you this is why you need to change the rule and as far as i'm concerned as you know at res consulting we don't just complain about it we do something all right which is why i i want to be on every competition committee in all major sports i mean how about this how about this how about this here's the rule here's the rule after you pick up your dribble this is radical after you pick up your dribble you get two steps That's it.

12:37Rich Eisen:After you, screw the gather. I don't want to talk about gathering anymore. Gather this, if you will. Magic, the gathering. That's it. You pick up your dribble, you get two steps. That's it. I don't want to hear about the gather. Oh, wait a minute. You're dribbling with one hand, so you now get to put your hands on it with both hands. That's the gather. And then you're allowed two steps. Is that what I understand? Because if that's the rule, it's absurd. It's just like what the NFL decided. If 100 people in a bar say that's a catch, it should be a catch. So come up with a rule that matches what 100 people in the bar are seeing.

13:16Rich Eisen:100 people in a bar watching that last night say that's a travel. Right. So come up with a rule where 100 people in the bar are right.

13:28That's it.

13:28Rich Eisen:I'm saying, are we making too big of a deal of this because this is one play? I don't see it's happening all the time. This happens all the time. Guys, not to this effect. I mean, it happens. This was particularly absurd. This was like, this is absurd. And if you really look, I'll give him, all right, the gather. But he still took three steps at that. While gathering? No, it was after the gathering. Oh, well, I mean. So he at least took three. And I don't, I mean, yeah, we're seeing some looks. We're not seeing. It's so sensationally egregious. Like it has to be fixed. I really just said egregious.

14:00Rich Eisen:But not everyone is doing this. What I'm saying is more and more people are having the physical ability to do it. I feel like this happens a couple times a week. Dude, if I'm on Monyama, I'm working on getting my gather down with three, four steps. Because I can then, on a fast break, start my gather from half court. Yeah. Because I'm that big, and I have that much of a wingspan and that much of a step span. Got to fix it. Got to fix it. I'm just talking about it. 844-204-RICH number to dial let's finish up with the Harbaugh files and then we'll after Keegan-Michael Key if you don't mind Mike Hoskins Joe Alt's returning is that where you want to do this right now?

14:43Rich Eisen:we'll do it right now this is one of our favorite segments and then we'll bring out Keegan-Michael Key because he loves Jim Harbaugh too who doesn't? Joe Alt's return as you know significantly solidified that line. And nobody loves offensive linemen like Jim Harbaugh, who calls them weapons, right? Harbaugh Files hit it. Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple, but they didn't. The Harbaugh Files. Joe, specifically, how would you describe the impact that he has from a leadership standpoint, just his presence on the field, his presence on the sideline, and what that did for you as a team?

15:26Rich Eisen:Yeah, presence in the training environment, presence in the meeting room. But especially in the game, there was – I hate my kids. Boy, Dad, Joe really made a big difference. I mean, it's just that obvious how good of a player he is. He did get rolled up on, I believe, on the same ankle. Did he come out of the game okay? Yeah, he'll be out there today. And talking to him, no worse for wear. It was pretty heavily wrapped and compressed and guarded and taped. It's a wonderful thing what compression can do. It's like a warm hug. The Harbaugh Files. Wow. I mean, a warm hug is... That's a thing. Olaf likes compression.

16:31Rich Eisen:Oh, my God. Who's the best? That's Frozen 3. That's Frozen 3, where Olaf tapes up his twig. He likes warm hug. Let's get back out there to protect Elsa, who, in this case, as we all know, is Madison Beer. All right. Hey, now. Let's take a break here. That's the Harbaugh Files, everybody. let's get to Keegan-Michael Key for crying out loud. This is going to be awesome. It always is. Talking only murders in the building and more coming up next.

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18:53Rich Eisen:Our radio audience on ESPN Radio just rejoined. We just saw a clip on the TV side of things of only murders in the building in which Keegan has appeared this season with a very big plot point that just was revealed in this very week. Check it out on Hulu and streaming now also on Hulu on Disney+. I did notice you called him Marty. I picked up on that. He actually almost insists on people calling him Marty. Is that right? He's very gregarious and very warm. He's Canadian. He's good. He's Canadian. And I mean, he's warm for a Canadian. Yes, indeed. I mean, it's like, you know what I mean? You're like, could you?

19:30It's like, you can't be even more friendly. Yes. How can you be friendly? He's like, on the friendly infinity loop. Like, you couldn't be. How can you be friendlier than other Canadians? You know what I mean? Lots of pleases and thank yous. Yeah. That was a great take. oh you were owed a sight there on that one that was fantastic and you're back on the set of Fargo for a second but he I mean consummate professionals as you would expect them to be yes and watching Steve also Steve because he's one of the co-creators of the show yes is very active on set he's rewriting as you go oh my goodness it's amazing because he'll rewrite as you go and he'll say I need this to oh here's an idea it could be it could be this or it could be that or I would just like to suggest maybe saying the line this way and inevitably better always better

20:19Rich Eisen:it's everything he does is value-added yeah and and who's the easiest to crack up on that set or nobody does you most people don't crack up on the set but the the crew yes are having the time of their life and mostly because of something Steve suggests but it'll it'll happen off it'll happen off camera like between setups yes like I said he's just thinking all the time right and sometimes Marty would be like, Steve, you want to take a break? Just want to relax a little bit. And he's like, well, I do. I just wanted to say this one more thing. And the crew just giggles and giggles and giggles all day.

20:50It's a very, very warm set. Well, you kind of pick it up from watching the show, you know? The show has the same thing. John Hoffman, the showrunner, he actually describes the show as cozy murder mystery. It's like, he calls it cozy murder mystery.

21:06Rich Eisen:Well, I assume they got it greenlit before you start using that term, because I imagine you're pitching. so okay so i got this cozy murder mystery crazy murder mystery what you guys think no guys don't leave no i'm not done with the pitch

21:24i'm sorry did you say selena gilmaz been sold

21:27Rich Eisen:you know what's showing up on my uh well you don't know but i'll tell you uh that's a weird way to start something what's showing up on my my instagram algorithm a lot lately is that moment when you and Bryan Cranston are in a scene together and he cannot hold it together. And then suddenly all you had to do was just look at him or appear in the screen and he starts going. What was that like from your perspective? First of all, the movie is called Why Him? That's right. Starring Bryan Cranston and James Franco and Megan Mullally is in it and Zoe Deutsch, it's really fantastic, fun family comedy.

22:10But what happened was we started to become almost overly defiant to a point where we're being abjectly stubborn. So you can hear the director from a room away go, do you guys want to cut? No! We're gonna get, don't cut it John, we're gonna get through it. We're gonna get through it. And that's me, but Brian, double that. Oh really? Do not cut it! Do not cut! I got this! Very next take, he breaks it. So then I go, so Mitch, I go to ADR. I go to ADR, so for everybody in the audience, ADR is when you have to loop the words if there was a sound mistake. Yes. And first of all, the card, you know, they use cards, we don't always film anymore, right?

22:52Yeah. Cards are about 24 minutes long. Yes. Full card. Yeah. Full card, two usable minutes of footage. 24 minutes, two usable minutes of footage. I'm in the ADR I've got my things that I'm trying to do the book stuff and I'm watching the point in the scene It's that scene I go. Oh what look Look at this How the hell did you do this? Yeah, and they said you see that seam down the middle of the wall? I go Yeah, he goes we used one. It's a composite We used one side of the take where Brian isn't laughing and once I don't take where you're not you're not It's the only way we could get you seen in the movie we never got more than 20 seconds of usable usable footage without cracking up it was unbelievable and brian would just go stop stop no got it start again start again

23:41Rich Eisen:and then and then i'd start my favorite one is you because you just you just start moving down because he's sitting on the toilet which is even better yeah and he and he's looking ahead and then and you come down, and he sees you peripherally, you just motioning down got him going. That's unbelievable. And nobody was helping. The cinematographer wasn't helping. He was like, kick it, kick it. Get even closer to his face. I mean, people need to, anybody's watching. They've got to see. This is great. Okay, so I'm Brian. You're Brian. It's one thing if you're, and I'm trying to fix, it's one of those Japanese toilets.

24:16I'm trying to fix the toilet. So I kind of go like this, and I'm going over the toilet, And then the cinematographer is encouraging me to get closer. And I was just... I mean, Ryan, he was just... I can't live. He was just a sitting duck.

24:37Rich Eisen:He didn't have a chance. The man's got a gajillion Emmys and Oscar noms and whatever. This Breaking Bad, this was not. You know what I mean? Yeah. Why him? Oh, my gosh. I love that. I'm so glad I get that backstory because it shows up all the time. Yeah, we had so much fun. I mean, clearly we had fun making the scene, but we had a lot of fun making the movie. Keegan-Michael Key is here on The Rich Eisen Show again. Only Murders in the Building. Just renewed for season six. It's heading to London. Yes. That has been announced. And, you know, fans of this show, ecstatic. And if you're not watching it, you should.

25:13Rich Eisen:So can we, and I'm going to say we now, because we are together in this, and it is the whole we are thing. Can we get a win over Ohio State this weekend or what? Can we do this for Penn State? We are not looking good for a win over the number one team in college football. I am. You got to be beside yourself. I'm beside myself, Rich. I am really, I've been dealing with bouts of depression for the last couple of weeks. We're disillusionment more than anything else because I can't put my finger on what's happening. Yes. We have denied Dennis Sutton. We have Zane Durant. I know we lost our best linebacker.