Hour 3: NFL Power Rankings for Week 15, plus ‘Anaconda’ Star Paul Rudd In-Studio

23:07Rich Eisen:I don't know what the standings are. I know I'm not. Yeah, your Pauly Jukes is way back right now. I think we're in third. You guys are in third. You're in third, but I'm up top, and I'm up by 12. Who am I going back and forth with? I don't know. It's a guy named Peter. Is it the guy that takes eight hours to draft? Well, I mean, we went back and forth on that front. I stepped into a buzzsaw of complaining about that. The worst part about those drafts is, and I have such stress, if I go to sleep or if I'm going to sleep, I stay up for hours in case it gets to me. And then I wake up every hour on the hour.

23:38I'm like, check my phone because I don't want to keep people waiting.

23:42Rich Eisen:I thought you were in London when we were doing this. Yes. You were actually like 19 hours ahead of it. Why don't everybody watch how it works? You're in sixth, Paul. You get eight hours per place. I'm in sixth place. Best ball, yeah. Yeah. Right ahead, just ahead, seven points ahead of Jon Hamm. All right. Well, that's okay. That's good. As long as you beat Hamm. Yeah. You know. Paul Rudd here again. Anaconda is available in theaters nationwide December 25th. You know what's popping up, and I know you're not on Instagram or social media or anything like that. Yeah. But what's popping up on my timeline over and over again are Anchorman moments where you can't keep it together.

24:17Rich Eisen:Pretty much. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, is it the one where Will is blind? that's one of them right or there's all of them like where it just seems to me where you're or you can't keep it together when you're trying to throw lines out there right there they're where they they make you go over and over and over again with whatever pops in your head right and then it makes will laugh and i can't yeah yeah there's well there was the one there was ones where literally a scene none of us could get through the other guys aren't weren't on camera And it was Steve Carell started laughing first, but it was when he was talking about Pompeii.

24:54That's all I'll say. And it destroyed me. Will Ferrell is the funniest. He's, I mean, it's always, he is just, kills me. There's another one that goes around that sometimes people send me to, Melissa McCarthy in This Is 40, where she is just a comedy assassin.

25:16Rich Eisen:Where she'll do what? Just keep throwing? Leslie Mann and I were in the principal's office, and she just started ripping into us. And I've never seen anyone decimate an entire room like Melissa McCarthy in that scene. Yes. We were in a room, and there's about the crew, like 20 people behind the cameras. You know, you have a boom operator and a stills photographer. Yes. There's 20-something people. by the time she started by the time she finished that scene there were six people left people just had to keep leaving because they were they were trying not to laugh because it would ruin the take right um which was pointless i was crying throughout the whole thing but um she's she's incredible yeah i mean the will ferrell line about pompeii it's now why now i'm reading the transcript you can't you can't nothing can be repeated you can't that's right yeah nothing can be repeated at all yeah but i mean there's also was there one in anchorman 2 where you're in a car or something like that and you guys couldn't keep it together it was like where um who was it where where uh kechner was talking about being in love with all of you guys or something am i that might have been in the first one is that in the first one was that in the first one was that where we talk about how we live with roger staubach refresh our memories i don't know literally Literally, that just popped in my head for the first time in about 15 years.

26:42I don't even remember if that was what it was. I remember Champ talking about Roger Staubach. Oh, my God.

26:50Rich Eisen:Holy cow. Yeah, these keep popping. And it's glorious. And obviously, I watch one, and then I'll share it. And then it'll then just start feeding it to you. My favorite thing to do is just to watch bloopers and watching people laugh. I can, that's it. I'll go on YouTube and I'll watch news bloopers or whatever it is. And three hours goes by and I'm just still. Well, it's Caril that strikes me as he'd be the toughest to break though, right? He's really, really good at keeping it together. But he was the first one to break it. Well, this is interesting. That scene where, yeah, Will was blind. When he started doing it, I was actually weirdly the one who did keep it together, which seldom happens.

27:30Steve started laughing first, which he never does. and um but the clip that's online is just me yeah that's god i would but the heat also i mean god who's corral is it just another comedy what's

27:48Rich Eisen:the fit what's your favorite snl skit that you did that you've done in all of the times that you've hosted so you got one one that you loved the most that i think i don't know if there's well one that i i don't know if there was one that i loved the most but i did really like the I hosted once and One Direction was the musical guest and we did a sketch where I was with all of these young kids and I just happened to be a huge One Direction fan and know everything about the band and really get in the face of these kids that don't get their trivia right. Oh, I think I remember that where the band is coming off stage or something like that.

28:27I'm just a really overzealous One Direction fan but I don't, you know.

28:31Rich Eisen:yeah and that's that's the stuff that gets pitched to you during the week and you're like i'm in that was the only one i went in i had an idea for a sketch oh you had you had the idea yes and i remember pitching it in uh i think it was chris kelly um was one of the writers right but they wrote it um but uh no i had this idea that like be fun to be a grown-up because they were just enormous at the time right and so being a grown-up and and just being way way big one direction fan fantastic um so you know one of the guys in our guillotine league that's really cooper uh my youngest son is in the guillotine league and he's survived to this point as well and it's truly for him it's like the biggest moment of his young life right now every week he thinks every play is going to chop him yeah and every play that gets him off the guillotine is something that he didn't see coming and the person who loves to give him the most grief in the text chain which is the best part about this is have a text yeah sure it's vinnie pasquantino of kansas city royal oh have you have you yeah you know vinnie right have you i mean i'm a fan for sure you would love him and he would love you as well and yeah he goes non-stop at my son about this sort of thing it's just so vinnie's still alive no he's not but he's still taking time to oh yes he's cooper Well, here's what's so great about guillotine leagues is sentences like this.

29:54Rich Eisen:So Cooper needed Hunter Henry to get one more catch on Monday Night Football. And Vinny was on the guillotine if Hunter got one catch. And he didn't have a catch from the second quarter. He didn't have one in the third quarter. Ended the fourth quarter. And Vinny is just like locking in on Cooper like, are you nervous? Like sending texts, are you nervous? Nervous? You're nervous? and Cooper was nervous. Hunter Henry gets one catch in the fourth quarter of that Monday night game against the Giants. A celebration breaks out in our living room to the point where it's like, you know, the Yankees win the World Series.

30:30Rich Eisen:And he immediately sends a gif to Vinny of the moment where Vinny hit a home run but thought he had lost the ball somewhere. And he sends that to Vinny Pasquantino. And I couldn't have been more proud of my son to basically clap back at a Kansas City Royale. Way to go. By the way, I just squeaked by in guillotine this week because I thought it was done. I went in. I played Mahomes as my quarterback, and he had the worst outing of his career. And I was going up. The guy behind me only needed like three points, and he was playing Hertz. Oh, my God. Lost by one point. Oh, no way. Because of the turnovers.

31:13Rich Eisen:All those turnovers. So we were looking for this from this past game you're talking about. Yeah. We've been looking for somebody who was helped by Hurts turning over the ball. I was. It's the same. The reason I'm still in a guillotine league is because of Jalen Hurts. That's amazing. So you're sitting there going, wait a minute. You were probably like everyone else. Like, wait, does he lose? I didn't watch the game. I went to sleep. I'm like, I'm out of it this year. I'm not going to watch. And I was, I was, I fell asleep at like 830 at night at night. I think on Monday. Yeah. And so I didn't see anything.

31:45Oh, my God. And I woke up at like 4 a.m. You checked your phone? I looked at my phone. Well, I just saw it. And it was John Trader texted me. Yes. And he said, I can't believe it. That's how I read it. Then I woke up. I'm like, what? And I looked, and I never went back to sleep. It's like a jolt of coffee. It's like your morning coffee. How did this happen? I love it. And I thought for sure the score is going to recalibrate in the morning, and I won't.

32:10Rich Eisen:Oh, my gosh. Wow. Awesome. All right. So you're heading off onto Anaconda Press Tourville. That's what you're doing. That's exactly right. Okay. Yeah. And then are you done for the year working or that's it? After this? Yeah, yeah. You're done, right? Or no? Yeah. Well, there's not much more of the year left. Oh, that's right. Duh. All right. No, no. But that seemed fresh of me. I didn't mean to condemn you. True, though. It's a stupid thing for me to say. I just said I'm doing my New Year's Eve one-man show. In Branson? That's right. That's how you do it. Branson, that's exactly right. That's where I do it every year.

32:45Every year. I have magic, fiddle playing, and... It's the little slick. It's the little slick. That's what you got. Yep.

32:53Rich Eisen:All right. And Big Slick has been dated, correct? We got a spot for next year. It's going to be, yeah. Late May, beginning of June, right around there. What you do for Children's Mercy Hospital. I really appreciate what you do. And all you guys like... No, man, please. I think we're going to finally try and pull this off. I know that's one of those things said so conditionally, is to do our show from the big slick again. We haven't done that in a long time. When we did it from the K. Well, it's even bigger now, so you are welcome. Anytime, I've got to be thrilling to have you. Yeah, you and, let's get this right, Keckner, Riggles, Stone Street, Sudeikis.

33:33Rich Eisen:I'm not leaving anybody out. Heidi Gardner. Heidi Gardner has now been added to the mix, right, over in recent years. Yep. All you folks from Kansas City, and I don't mean to call you all you folks, but for Children's Mercy Hospital. That's right. Which is just a place on earth that needs to exist, which is terrible but also great at the same time. Yeah. And how much money have you guys raised for that? Well, thus far, this will be going into our 17th year. We've raised over$30 million. Last year was$4.5 million. Congratulations on all of that. Oh, thank you. And Anaconda, again, is in theaters nationwide December 25th.

34:07Rich Eisen:I appreciate you stopping by here. Oh, we've got one more thing to show you. We have a gag around here where if we try to help a coach make a decision or a quarterback make a decision or fans call in and say, can you help me with this fantasy decision or what should I do about that? We call it RES Consulting, Rich Eisen Show Consulting. And that's the photograph that we use where Brockman is you right there. And Del Tufo is Steve Carell. I guess I'm the anchorman. Champ TJ right there. That's great. That's it right there. RAS Consultant. We should sing Afternoon Delight. We should sing Afternoon Delight.

34:46I would imagine you're getting, yeah.

34:49Rich Eisen:We can't harmonize Afternoon Delight as well as you guys. All right, last one. Screw it. How did that scene come up, Afternoon Delight? What's the back story? Okay, so the story was it was never in the scene. Okay. But we were sitting at the news desk as they were doing a lighting setup. I'd been playing, I think, 70s music at base camp or something early that morning. Anyway, Steve Carell and I were sitting there, and we were just talking, and that song came up. It had been playing earlier in the day. And the idea was, oh, we should learn that song in four-part harmony because when this movie comes out and we ever have to go on Conan or do some show or something, we could sing it.

35:25It was never supposed to be the movie. It was kind of a throwaway idea. But we mentioned it to Adam McKay. and then a week later we were doing that scene and Adam says, you guys should do Afternoon Delight in this scene. I'm like, what? We were only going to do it for press. He's like, no, no, it would work. And so, well, we don't know it. He said, well, take 20 minutes. So we went to the side and we were trying to figure out our parts

35:54and we sang it in the scene. We had like a little, you know, like a little CD play or something in the corner was playing really low because we didn't have earwigs or click track or anything so we were just uh winging it we had to take about 20 minutes and then and that's how that came about and you did that was just one take that's it we might have done it a couple times but we didn't do many times no and we didn't read we didn't re-record it cut print yeah cut print well then there's a long pause right and then you guys are have some conversation and then it's like afternoon. Oh yeah. That's right.

36:32You're right. It might have and I wonder if it was playing really softly if we knew when that was coming in or that was the one part we just could just instinctually know to come in with afternoon, daylight. I don't know. And then everybody walks away.

36:48Rich Eisen:Thank God. Outstanding. Anaconda available in theaters nationwide December 25th. You the man, man. Rich, you're the best. Love you, Paul Rudd. You too. By the way, we're here on The Rich Eisen Show presented by Progressive Insurance. Make sure, again, that you take the next step forward in your career with great benefits and an award-winning workplace. Apply at careers.progressive.com. You are off on the rest of your press tour, sir. May it go smooth sailing for you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Paul Rudd right here on The Rich Eisen Show. Again, Anaconda on Christmas Day. Go see it.

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39:50Always good to see when native New Yorkers are back in town.

39:53Rich Eisen:Hey, man. I appreciate that. Mike Del Tufo was adjacent. New Jersey adjacent. Shout out to Del Tufo. Thank you, absolutely. Just wanted to say this whole Philip Rivers thing is just wild to me. It's like very Twilight Zone-ish. I can't believe he's actually probably going to start on Sunday. And, you know, actually it's like Rocky IV when Apollo Creed is getting ready to fight Ivan Drago again. I'm just wondering, is this what we're about to see? No, no, no. Come on now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on a second. What happened to Apollo Creed? Spoiler alert before you say anything else.

40:34Rich Eisen:My goodness gracious. Wow. I mean, I'm concerned about his, you know, well-being, but my goodness. Steichen going to throw in the towel?

40:46Rich Eisen:The Seahawks defense has been making people think that. And I want the Disney story. That's why I want to know if you think this is true. If Rivers somehow goes on this miracle run, gets into the AFC championship game, he's the MVP. If he gets in there, he's the NFL MVP. Well, the issue is it's a regular season award. so we would not be we would have to vote on him over his final four games and that'll be a tough stretch but I appreciate the call sir and your appreciativeness of our presence here in New York City and you say we now because you get a vote no it's a royal we yeah listen Philip Rivers is one to root for this just in and in terms of stories He's a guy sitting at home or wherever he was, whatever he's doing on Sunday.

41:42Rich Eisen:And no idea, no idea that a phone would be ringing later on that day from a former team asking him to come back and that the opportunity would be so great that he'd have to take advantage of it. And, you know, he spoke today and I had our crew back home cut a couple sound bites. This is on him playing for a team that he thought he was retiring from and with a coach that he never thought he'd play for again. Shane Steichen was on the Chargers staff with Phillip in his final days with the Chargers, and he had this to say on that. As simple as can be as a coach that I love and an organization that I really enjoyed being with, you know Mr.

42:34Ursa believing in me in that year in 2020 when it didn't go so good in 2019 and shoot the teammates that I was able to were able to play with shoot 14 of them are still here training room's the same PR guys are the same equipment room's the same

42:53and they wanted me and you know I try to keep it as simple as that and you know a game I love to play a game that I thought I was done playing. Certainly, I wasn't really hanging on any hope of playing again. I kind of thought that ship had sailed. But something about it excited me. And it's kind of one of those deals, the door opens and you can either walk through it and find out if you can do it or run from it. And I know that there's risk involved, obviously, of what may or may not happen. But the only way to find out is going for it and uh i just felt almost like it was a gift another opportunity to to play and cut it loose with your guys and the game you love to play and the dream that you got to live you're getting you may get some bonus time so i really kept it as kept it as simple as that in my mind and uh

43:45Rich Eisen:and uh here i stand and here i stand sounded emotional well i mean and and and it reads on the page again i got these sound bites sent to me from the nfl network uh desk uh it reads that way on the page i'm like i can't wait to hear how it sounds um here's another one uh whether he's physically ready i mean this is the ultimate question right yeah mentally we keep saying neck up he's good got it uh hit it yeah we're gonna find out that too um you know i think so i really i mean i know uh again i i know it's it is tough and i know five years is a long time Believe me, that weighed on me a lot, it being so long.

44:23But it also is a game I've played a long time and stayed in over the last five years. And I know high school ball is different, but staying involved in the game. And I watch the Colts and the Chargers every Sunday about every snap, and I watch about every game there is. And I know that's not NFL preparing, playing quarterback. I know that's a far stretch from that. But it's not like I just kind of shut football down and I'm trying to pick it back up. I've been pretty – still been very into it since I've been gone. But, yeah, no, it is a physical game, and it's fast. And dudes are big and fast, just like they were.

44:59And so I'm just – you shoot, take it a day at a time. And I do feel good. There's something about being back in this building that feels right. And I'm just thankful and, shoot, like I said, really just taking it one meeting at a time, one lift at a time, and really embracing it and going after it.

45:20Rich Eisen:right i mean i'm sold at at a few of the uh vegas spots where you know i might play some waitress oh my god philip rivers is anywhere from 15 20 to 1 for comeback player of the year well i mean if he goes four no he's gonna get it other than that right around in other places um that are being talked about this is being talked about everywhere i mean i asked cam Hayward about it. Kyle Shanahan in his press conference today, it did confirm that when Garoppolo broke his foot and there was only Brock Purdy to turn to, they did think about Rivers and did contact him, but then figured that they were ready to go with Purdy.

46:06Rich Eisen:Stuck with him. Wow. And Kevin O 'Connell was asked about it as well. And this is funny. He's not surprised about Villa Rivers coming out of retirement. Quote, I know for a fact he's got a full-scale practice field at his house, and he's got enough folks in his family to form a team if he needs to. We said yesterday, running 11 on 11, you could totally run a drill. That's Kevin O 'Connell's reaction. It's amazing. It's amazing. It's a story. Now again, comeback player of the year isn't coming back from your couch. I know Joe Flacco won it, and I believe I need to look this up in the bylaws now.

46:49You've been instructed.

46:51Rich Eisen:That's not what this award is for. It's about being injured and coming back and rehabbing and doing that. But Phillip Rivers coming out of retirement, out of nowhere, had no idea this was even an opportunity because who knew Daniel Jones' Achilles was going to give way. And the fact that he is potentially getting ready to start for the Colts against the Seahawks in a crucial game for both is one of those you can't make it up NFL moments. 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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