C&R...BEST OF THE WEEK

Here are some of the greatest moments from Covino & Rich this past week, including Labor Day, filling in for the great Dan Patrick! Plus, the Kawhi drama, NFL kick-off, & more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo, it's Danny G. Executive producer of Covino and Rich.
Thank you for being down with us.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
There's never been a radio show more to patico with
me ever than you guys.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
It was another fun week on the show. Enjoy some
of the greatest moments from the past few days.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Enjoy your day off. Hope you're enjoying your extended weekend.
Hope all your team's won. Congrats against to Lee Chorus
on an amazing career. Congrats to Ohio State and their defense.
And congrats to Tony ferguson he beat a YouTube influencer
in a boxing match.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Congrats to Miami and to Florida State.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Florida State, don't take away you.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Know it's their QB is so fun to watch.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Sometimes, you know it is Danny G. Sometimes when someone loses,
you don't really give credit to the winner. You just
mock the loser, Like I feel like the narrative is like,
oh man Alabama. Oh and congrats Flaria State just also
played well like you. Oh yeah, that happens so often.
Congrats to Ryan Day's nipples. I don't know if you
saw them. They went viral over the weekend. One of

(01:06):
them did one of them did. And there's an update.
By the way, if you're not familiar with Nipplegate, his
nipples all over social media over the week. Janet Jackson,
that's a new nipple gate because I mean it was real,
like eraser tip Jesus. But they looked like there was
two one prominent piercings sticking out, like you had a
little barbell in there or something. I don't know what
you even call that. Rich, you would know, you're the expert.

(01:28):
What is Rich? Davis and Ryan they have in common
pierce nipples? You think I have a pig. Get out
of here. But look, the update is that we were
all duped. It was like a fake photo that went
viral of somebody. Yeah, totally fakes. So you can never
believe anything that being said. We're Cavino and Rich. We're
gonna tuckle insanity. But first we have a game to play,

(01:49):
all right, This is a game.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Bill Belichick has some things in common.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Bill Belichick's the man.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
They both have younger girlfriends named Jordan, the man that
was my daughter, the bag boat have a powerful presence
in the sports world.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
What harder? So you can do that when you're seventy
two you tell us, is.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
It Steve Camino or build sell Check.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm not mad at him at all. I want to
know what it is.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:18):
What started from Rich's late night edible mind has turned
into a fun on air game I put together from
time to time. What better day to play than on
Belichick's debut for UNC versus TCU tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Dude, what a cool week? Right, you got NFL start
and you got this game tonight, like so much look
forward to baseball heating up. I heard some buffoons talking about, like,
what are they gonna show Jordan tonight on the sidelines.
I was like, Yeah, Bill Belichick's Jordan. If she's there,
why would they not show her? She's part of the

(02:50):
Bill Belichick story at UNC like to not show Well,
he's the storyline. She's definitely part of it. But he's
the storyline.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
All right, We're gonna get our tested on the studio
line and then I'll explain the game real quick. You
know what, Coveno, I'll use you for this, since you're
the man in the moment, would you love to travel too?
Beautiful Gainesville, Florida, Medford, Oregon, Las Vegas, Nevada, Memphis, Tennessee,
or Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh, kitty Hawk. Huh hm, you know what, I'm working
on my Gaines. So I want to go to Gainesville,
that's Mike, Yeah, Gainesville, Mike in Florida.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
Mike Yeah, some good choice guys.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
This morning, Happy Labor Day. What do you do for
a living there in Florida.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
Well, I'm a retired school teacher of thirty five years.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Oh nice, All right, here's no go for it.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
I don't want to ask did the kid give him
that hat to sign or would he just have a
bunch of hats there and miss sign.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
That's a great question. I think he had hats. He
was signing right, so.

Speaker 6 (03:52):
But it's still that that man knew the kid. He
was stepping in front of the kid and grabbing the hat.
You know, I can't, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
It was a bad look for sure, And and how
aggressively he snagged the hat that us open story.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh anyway, mikey, here's how the game works. Covino or Belichick.
I've done extensive research on both Coach and Covino and
their young girlfriends. Rich and I are going to trade
off reading a fun factor. Then you've got to tell
us is it Steve Covino or Bill Belichick? You have
five chances to get too correct and then you win
a cnar nerve football.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Okay it is, we have been read it.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
We don't know, I mean, we don't know one of
the other.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Okay, Rich is going to read the first fun.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
All right, now, is this Covino or Belichick? His Jordan
simultaneously enrolled in cosmetology school and commuted daily while balancing
her academics. Covino, No, sorry, that's Belichick. Jordan.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
That's one Jordan Huts.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
However, my Jordan has become a certified pilate's instructor in
the past like months. Oh so you guys are almost Mike.
You know how I came up with this game, truth
be told. I was on a little vacation with my wife,
Grandma had the kids. I was on the beach and
I had an edible and I happened to be scrolling
on Instagram and I saw Covino on the beach with

(05:16):
his girlfriend doing something ridiculous, and the next roll was
Belichick on the beach doing like pilates on the beach
or something. I'm like, oh my god, Covino and Belichick.
The same guy. Yeah, except where not. We just date
women named Jordan. Who's the guy, same guy? But yeah, no,
different beach. But think about that. He's like, yeah, big
game tonight, you know a lot of press, and she's like,

(05:38):
I got cosmetology school later.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
A contrast, right, Danny got number two? Yeah, I'm gonna
read the second fun fact here. His Jordan has gotten
the couple's dog booked for several national ad campaigns. Covino
or Belichick.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yes, that's right, my dog, my dog, theo brings home
more money than anybody in the house. Are not even joking.
He's like a little circus dog and he's actually got
several national gigs where he's like a little dog model actor.
It's so funny. Covino is like a stage He's a
stage dog. Dad is crazy. All right, I even care.

(06:17):
I'm not making that up.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Mike is halfway to a CNR prize. Rich back to
you for the third fun fact.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
All right, is a Cavino or Belichick his job?

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Third one?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah? Oh oh, this is not always just about Jordan. No, okay,
like you've never played Casino or Belichick. Okay. He first
met John bon Jovi while working in New York Cavino
or Belichick. Cavina, No, yeah, I've worked in rock. I'm

(06:51):
not sure I ever met John bon Jovi.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yeah, that's why I thought it.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Too.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
I would have got that one wrong from Jersey. Never
met the guy.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
All right, well, you have two more chances to get
one correct to be a winner, Mike. Here's the fourth
fun fact. He was fired from a job in nineteen
ninety five, but it did not deter him from his dream.
Covino or Belichick.

Speaker 6 (07:15):
I got sick it look it looks like Belichick, but
our Brian wrong Belichick.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Belichick, Yes, right in your winner.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Congratulations God is too correct.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
That means you win a CNR prize.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Just like that.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
We have IOUs which are just as good as money.
So we've had bribery balls before, Nerve footballs, then Swiggy
stain of steel water bottles. Now we're heading into football
season again, so we got brand new Nerve Football's inventories
coming in, so we owe you one. We're throwing some
koozies and all that stuff. Again, just trying to brib
people to listen to our show. So thank you, Mike. Congrats,
We appreciate you, Mike.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
But then again, you know, I think that could have
been either one of you. Did you get fired from
Bennigan's in nineteen ninety five or I was never there,
fired from Bennigan's. Never I did work at Benagans. You
get fired, you ever get fired. I was let go
because of COVID if you count that firing, but like
fired like not like well you're like like Vincecvan, like

(08:14):
Vince rick Van or Donald Trump, like you're fired. Never
No U now again, grew up New Jersey, never met
bon Jovi. We built our careers in New York. Rich
Davis worked at Z one hundred. I was driving the
van at k Rock New York and just trying to
get on the air and was doing weekends and all
that stuff. We joined forces years ago and in the

(08:38):
early two thousands, Rich, you and I were doing the
Cavino and Rich Show. Serious just the time at the time,
but it was not even x Semi had just serious
satellite radio, and we were working with Maxim Radio. Remember
when magazines were a thing, Maxim, So we were doing
Maxim New.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Year two thousd.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Man, what do you know exactly what year this was? No,
but you were wearing boot cut jeans. I'm sure you
were probably wearing some Affliction T shirt buttoned down from
Men's Express or Structure. I'm not sure what it was
at that time. I think it was Men's Express. You
were rocking a suite Affliction graphic Tea or something. Maybe

(09:18):
it wasn't that long ago, because I'm looking twenty twelve,
I feel like it was before that.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
It started on February fourth, twenty twelve.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Wow, really feels it felt like the Middle Way. But
I'm sure Rich was still rocking that and Insanity began
and we were in New York for it, So please
trust our perspective. Yeah, when you know, when you think
of the Knicks, I feel like, as a kid, if
you grew up in the eighties and nineties, it was
about Ewing and Starks and Anthony Mason and in that

(09:46):
cast of amazing characters. Then there you know, Latrell Spree,
well you had your different you would say, like iteration
of the Knicks and eras. Now, there was a point
where there wasn't really that much to cheer for with
the New York Knicks, and I just remember when Jeremy

(10:07):
Lynn made his debut and Linsanity took over New York.
It's hard to explain. And I remember the backstory he
was living on his friend's couch and all that. Everything
from the backstory to insanity itself was unbelievable. It's very
hard to like Minshew MANI when Gardner Minshew wasn't. That

(10:28):
was like a hot minute where this guy's doing way
better than they thought. It's hard to compare someone coming
out of nowhere the way Jeremy Lyn did well. It was,
you know when they talk about the zone being in
the zone in sports, it was a guy playing at
the true height of his potential because he just was
in the zone. Is when your confidence just reaches it's

(10:49):
total peak. As the kids would say, you're just peaking
at the best time, your total peak. It was two years,
two weeks out of nine years that he played in
the NBA, two weeks of high level insanity. Insanity basketball
where we saw him going head to head with your
boy Kobe Bryant, Like this was no fluke.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
He kept out in order to average twenty five points.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
And the point is like, yeah, it was short lived,
but not really. He still had a nice career. He
want to ring with Toronto and everything. He had nice
a solid career. I think he averaged almost ten points
per game when you look back at his stats nine
years in the league. That two weeks was the most legitimate,
you could say, Fluke I've ever seen because it was real.

(11:38):
We lived it. The hype, I'll tell you this, The
hype was real. It was excitement at the garden like
we hadn't seen in years. Rich is right about that.
All your friends were talking about it. You couldn't escape
the highlights on Sports Center. And I just want to say,
like being there in the city for that buzz and
that excitement and just people walking down the street looking

(11:59):
at each other like are you watching this? Like we
all knew that we were experiencing something together. And I'll
never forget it. And even though it may seem like
a flash in the pan, he played nine years and
it was legitimate. It was awesome to witness. And I
tip my Yankee hat to the insanity. Yet we got
to experience It's Uh, It's definitely worth mentioning lin sanity

(12:19):
on the day he officially retires from the NBA. He
retired officially this week this weekend. Jeremy Lynn, thank you
for a couple of weeks of insanity that was like
a pop culture phenomenon, and then again won an NBA title.
Didn't play, but won an NBA title with It's like
when people criticize one hit wonders, It's like, yeah, they
may have had one hit, but they had a great
career and one hit more than you'll ever sniff. So

(12:44):
it's like you try to dump on that moment. It's like, yo,
yeah he had a moment. He also had a nine
year career, So that's like you don't want to minimize
and undermine that. Let me can never do that again.
But how many people play a career and never have that?
Let me insane? Let me plouse a question for you. Sure,
I'm sorry it was lind saying, let me pose a question.
We could wrap with all four sports. Oh we could

(13:09):
add a hot dog geedy okay, already, fager sport, any
sport you want to bring up, I'm fine with. They
could be a fighter because I feel like maybe maybe
either a I happen to just root for teams who
have these stories or you only can remember the ones
on your teams. I'm talking about the player that sort

(13:33):
of came out of nowhere and way exceeded expectations, like
Jeremy Lynn, like he said, sleeping on his friend's couch.
And no one ever thought Jeremy Lynn would turn out
to this because I have two examples and they both
happen to be teams I root for, So again, it
might be one of those you remember them more when
they're your team. But Jacob de Gram was a spot starter.

(13:54):
He played shortstop in college and early minor league days.
Jacob de Gram was not supposed to be a multi
cy Young Award winner, one of the greatest pitchers of
the last twenty years. That was not what we thought.
And as a Niners fan, the Niners whiffed on Trey
Lance Brock perty was mister irrelevant And now he's making

(14:17):
fifty million dollars a year. Can you think of anyone
else that You're like, well, that wasn't so sad, But
Jeremy Lynn's story even more specials It was not expect
it was unassuming. He's like, what Jeremy Lynn is this dude,
this guy he's schooling Kobe Bryant here in this moment again,
retired at thirty seven, and you're thinking, again, I haven't

(14:38):
seen him playing years. He stopped in twenty nineteen with
the Raptors when they won that championship with the quadruple doink.
I mean the only other person made in the PLG
last year to Taiwanese professional that accounts, but it doesn't.
So yeah, you know what this is like short but
impactful runs. I thought of besides de gram Or, like

(15:01):
I said, Purdy, like wow, that guy that came out
of nowhere. I mean, he was good, but you can't
imagine that anyone that roots for the Twins. When they
let David Ortiz go, they never thought he'd turned into
a big poppy for Boston because he played for Minnesota
and was like, right.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
How about players like Nick Foles? Nobody expected that calls
won a Super Bowl? And yeah, and for my favorite team,
the Raiders, Darren Waller was a practice squad player for
the Ravens and then turned out to be one of
the best tight ends in all of football.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
And here's my point, at least that I want to
leave with is all of these moments are great, and
we all have our own memories of them, but I
think the beacon of all of them was Insanity because
he really took the world by storm. We had never
seen anything like it. You can't discredit the fact that
it was unassuming, Like we've never seen an Asian dude

(15:53):
light it up like that in the NBA.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
That was all part of it, right, Covid was like
he was channeling Michael Jordan for a ten game.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Stress without It was like he was playing outside of himself,
right outside of his own body, out of body experience,
Like even he didn't know what was going on, but
he was just in such a zone that it was.
It took the world by stim not just New York,
but we were there to witness it in New York
and we say, congrats on a solid career, nine years,
but that impactful, those impactful two weeks. It's so funny

(16:22):
how we look back, it was only two weeks. It
was only two weeks. Just like when you look back,
you're like, wait, Notorious Big only had two albums. Yeah,
he only had two albums, but they were impactful. Yeah,
Nirvana was only around for a couple of years. Those
only were around for how many years? Impactful? Impactful? That
a nine year career, but those two weeks defined everything

(16:44):
for that dude, And props to him, your boy, Hunter Renfro,
I say your boy. Because you guys have things in common.
What do we have in common? You both have nose
picking kids. That is true, We do both have nose
picking kids. Facts. This is a story about Hunter Renfro
that I finally both make lame excuses up when you're

(17:05):
not around for important phone calls. That's busy. Rich is
the guy. I don't know if everybody has a guy
like this. He's one of two things. He's a guy
that calls you with something that could have been texted,
Like that's what he called me for. He could a
text to me that. That's always a weird feeling. But
he's also the guy that calls you and calls you
and calls you right. Let's say you missed a call,

(17:28):
you call him back, and then he rushes you off
the phone. It's like you're the one calling me. Now
you're rushing me off the phone. True story. It's the
weirdest thing about Have you noticed that? It's a weird, weird,
noticeable personality trait. It's like, why you rushed me off
the phone? Were you the one that called me up?
Probably called you when I had like a you know,
a question or reason to call you? Not anymore? Well,

(17:51):
Hunter Renfro in the news because he missed an important
phone call. No, not one, ten important phone calls. Yeah,
the story goes like this, Hunter Renfro, as you know,
he got cut by the Carolina Panthers. He did trying
to make a big comeback. He missed all of last year.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
There was an injury though that led to them bringing
him back.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
So I'm not even there yet. This is a guy
that was a star for your Raiders, Danny g and
then things just sort of went not so great for
Hunter Renfro last year ulcers I believe in other ailments yep.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
And before that he ran into Josh McDaniels unfortunately was
in that doghouse, had a couple of concussions, so tough
road for him the past few years.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Tried to make his comeback and actually got cut by
the Panthers, but injuries have now led to them saying
we're just kidding, come on back. But the whole come
on back thing happened via a phone call that he
was not receiving. He kept getting calls, in fact, from
his agent, from Carolina Panthers' front office people. But guess

(18:54):
what his kids were on his phone watching Bluwie. By
the way, great show.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Hey mom, Yeah, kid kept swiping Ignore dad.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
What are you doing kid? Am I getting calls?

Speaker 4 (19:13):
No?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Stop it? Then go So his kid ignored the call
ten times. That's the story. Panthers brass calling them up
and they're like, yeah, no, Bluie sorry, and that was
the reason he missed these calls from his agent and
from the Panthers. Have you ever missed an important email,

(19:34):
an important call, an important message. Maybe it got thrown
to a wrong mailbox or well, that happens all the time.
I mean, but if it's that important, you're looking for it, right.
But there's a lot of messages that get lost in
like some random folder or just like a message. As
a host, sometimes I'll get a lot of feedback and
it ends up in a folder that I never check

(19:56):
and I'll get that like two months later. I feel bad.
I feel Sometimes it'll be like Instagram or Facebook or
something and it'll be under almost like a requested folder. Yeah, yeah,
that's not important, but I did want to explain that happens.
It'll be like months old, like hey, love your show,
and I'm like, yeah, dude, guy, I promise you I'm
not a jerk, thank you, But I didn't get this message, Danny.

(20:17):
He said, you have a story about a missed email
a la hunter renfro.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Well, you got to bring up old stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
I was talking to this big time, big shot program
director in Portland. It was like two thousand and nine,
twenty ten, and we were in talks about me joining
as his assistant program director and I was going to
be doing afternoon drive. So we were trying to agree
on the money. We were going back and forth and
he told me I'll email you with my final offer,

(20:44):
and I'm like, all right. So I had a couple
other offers things going on at the time. I never
got that email from him, so I thought he just couldn't,
you know, meet my asking price. And I guess that's
dead in the water. A couple of years ago, I
was clearing out my spam folder and my yaha, there's
an email in there where he's giving me his final offer.
He was able to match the money, and he said,

(21:06):
and I need you to call me in the next
twenty four hours so I can get this done through
the general manager.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Let's go. I felt so stupid looking at that.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
There's a different timeline where you moved to Portland. Yeah, yeah,
but you'd be like a sandal and sock guy. He'd
be like, yeah, did you be a hippie yeah? Voodoo donuts? Yeah? No,
I like you better this way, Danny G. But yeah,
that's important. That's bad. So has there been a moment
where maybe your kid ruined it for you because they

(21:34):
didn't accept the call or it was lost in the
spam folder like Rich said eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox, Because I mean that's pretty important. I mean,
it all worked out, but think about it. Hunter Renfro,
his agents is probably feverishly calling him, like, we got
the offer, we got the offer, there was an injury.
You're back on. You're a Carolina Panther. The Panther's front

(21:55):
office is calling Renfro and again his kids are watching
Blui and Bingo. Are we still hot right now? Because
you always talk about that demon hunter thing? Now, well
that's for younger I think demon hunters. My daughter's eight,
that's more for younger girls. But we still as hot
as it were. We still popping for the young kids.
Legit about cocoa melon, is that still popping? That's popping
for the youngsters.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Shark.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Our kids still rocking to this, Rachel, I think that's
still a thing to things. Yeah, no, because when my
kid was little, she's a teenage paint of the ass
were now Yo, Gabba Gabba was all the buzz in,
all the rage and kayu and fresh beet beer and
those things go so quick.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
So you know, I know one Rich on Netflix, have
your kids watched Buba Buba?

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Not set your Blues and your bubas that meme. I
love that meme. It's like every generation has their blue
dog to get them through tough times. It's like cockleberry
hound bluey uh, the Blues Clues dog and a Snoop DOGG.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, we had Snoop DOGG.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Now I have a story that's you can imagine a
little more scandalous. And Cavino I believe was part of
the subsupressy he doesn't remember this one. Missed phone calls
are missed opportunities back in the day, though, take it
back on a Tuesday. Do you remember like the crazy
responsibility that would be on you as a kid if

(23:18):
you got a phone call and it was important for
your parents, you had to write it down. Do you
remember that feeling this is important. You need to write
it down. You're writing down a message for mom and
dad because they weren't there. You're like, I'm not the
answering machine. But you had to do that. I mean
not to be. That's something your kids would never never know.
I probably unlocked a memory, but you had to do that.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Wait.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Hold, you relay some weird message to your dad about
some guy wanting money or whatever, and you know for
a fact you didn't write down enough. I remember in
college not to be too inside radio.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
You can't.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
You wrote the number down wrong, and it's all your fault. Now.
Not to hit you with another radio story, Danny, but
I didn't miss out on a job. But I remember
my college roommate got the call from a big time
program director at iHeart when I was a youngster on
the come up, and he's like, I don't know some
dude and he kept saying his name wrong. It was
Kid Kelly out of Z one hundred in New York,

(24:09):
which is a big deal for a college kid. A
guy at a New York radio station was getting back
to a college kid about his demo tape and he's like,
got him know some dude called I'm like Oh, he's
that guy. What a stupid name, you know, like like
kid McGee or something like who. I'm like, he almost
messed this up. So that whole idea of taking a
message for someone, but I have a better one. Cavino

(24:30):
and I back in our single days, we were always
good wing men to each other because the girl's usually
not gonna like me and Cavino because it was either
like she likes the Latino guy or the white guy.
Like we were good wing men to each other in
that way. They were these girls at were like, we
want to hang with you guys. We'll call you later.
Oh I remember this, and we were like, oh, dude,
they're gonna call us later. We were single and twenty

(24:54):
something and dumb. We were partying in Hoboken. I remember
the bar and ever you were at the Cadillac Bar
in Hoboken, New Jersey. Were Jersey and it was earlier
in the night, and these girls like, at the end
of the night, let's all meet up. And they were
pretty without saying it, they were pretty much like, hey, us,
two hot girls want to totally get naked with you guys.
I remember, Covino and I were like, yo, I think
these two hot girls want to hang late tonight. Our

(25:17):
buddy Nico, who you know, was like, yo, in the meantime,
you guys want to go have another drink at my apartment.
We go to Nico's for a drink. The night passes
and these are the days of flip phones, these aren't
We don't have iPhones. The night passes were like, oh man,
we got stood up. Those girls never called us. That sucks.

(25:39):
We leave Nicos, go into the parking garage. He was
getting a bad signal. All of a sudden, bloo bloop,
bloo bloop. These girls like we're waiting for you. We're
really like, we're really how do I say this? Horned up? Essentially,
we're already. The more you make us wait, the more
we want you. And oh my god, you're blowing us
off like we weren't going anybody. And then it turned

(26:00):
it's like we'll forget you. Guys like no, and honestly
didn't realize that we had no signal, the whole no signal.
And then by the time we called them back, they
were like, yeah, the banks, so yeah, missed opportunities for sure.
You couldn't see the bars on your phone. Really a
different come on, little bars the two thousands. It was
really two thousands, man, I didn't know that was the
deal at the time, I guess, but Hunter Renfro, pretty

(26:23):
funny story. So if you want to share some times
where you missed out on an opportunity or again, can
we know makes a good point if it's really important,
ninety nine percent of the time you're rechecking. Like I'll
be honest, if I emailed the bosson it's something important,
I will even check my spam folder to make sure
it didn't go in there. So and Google Mail has
everything categorized now like purchases, transactions, promos, have your actual mail,

(26:48):
your important mail, like yeah, Like you gotta check those
things all the time because it could get lost in
the mix. You don't want to you don't want to
pull Danny g or a Renfro here. It is hard
to miss something important nowadays. Let's do this. It's time
showtime Mahomes trivia.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
The mostly lovable Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Truth is, I want everybody to love me, not just
the reps.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
It's time for some NFL trivia. I'm here, I'm here, Yes,
we know you're here.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
All right, Patrick Mahomes here to play Showtime Homes Trivia.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
All right, FSR security walking out broke Patrick into the
main studio.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
There is there is busy man loves going on this week.
Let's make this snappy.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
But uh, first you all packed your your flight tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
I'm already I'll tell you all about it. I got
two words. First, bell at Cheeks. I've been working on
this all week, bell at Cheeks. I had that in
my pocket all day. Belly cheeks. You said he might
be asked bell at cheeks. That's the new name. I'm
sticking sticking with it. By the way, speaking of cheeks,
already trademarked it. I'll be heading to Brazil tomorrow. So yeah,

(27:59):
cheeks and chargers, let's go. That's a weekend baby, cheeks
and chargers. Some cheeks down in Brazil. You better willave it.
I think a lot of people have been charged for cheeks.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Let's meet the contestants. Twenty four time winner Rich Davis
right over.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
There here, I am here, I am.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
What's one time champion Dan Bayer in the house.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Hello, dance here to play? You know who else is playing?
I heard Agie Harris is playing in Dan's update. I
got two words, short hair don't care. That's that's fourwards.
That's four wards. I still don't care.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
All right?

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Nine time winner Spotty Boys back with us. Let's peak
at number ten.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Hey, here we.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Go and looking to win a ce anur prize on
the studio lines by er.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
I'll use you for this.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Would you love to travel to beautiful Pillmore, California, Waco, Texas, Denver, Colorado,
El Dorado, California, or Rochester, New York. Let's go to Waco, Waco.
That is Mike, Hey, Mike, Hey, what's up?

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Hey Mike? What do you do for a living there
in Texas?

Speaker 7 (28:57):
Electrician Union?

Speaker 4 (28:58):
Electrician nice man? Hey?

Speaker 3 (29:00):
You ever see Joanna Gaines out there?

Speaker 4 (29:02):
Stop?

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Tell her? I So hello?

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Here are the rules for Showtime Mahomes NFL Trivia. So
first contestant with two correct answers is the champ. If
there's a tie, we have a tie breaker question. Your
name is your buzzer, but you do have to wait
until all three possible answers are read. If there's two
wrong answers in a row, we move on to the
next question. Are you ready? I'm ready, let's go. Let's
get it out, all right?

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Ready, Patrick Mahomes. I'm here big week, two days actually
three days away from me, and I wish I could
have had this legend in my backfield. In nineteen sixty five,
Jail Sayers set a record for the most touchdowns scored
in a rookie season. How many total touchdowns does Sayers
have that year? A? Nineteen B twenty two or C

(29:44):
twenty five?

Speaker 4 (29:46):
Mike, Mike beat yes twenty two.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Damn oh bam, Mike ringing the heat halfway to us,
halfway to seeing our prize.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
As we move on to round two, All.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Right, round two? What was I once quoted? What was
I once quoted saying about winning? Don't be bell at
cheeks is what I said? Hey, winning takes every person
in our entire organization. B If you want to win
games in this league, got to be efficient. Or see

(30:20):
my boy Travis used to be all about winning until
he met John Mayer's X. WHOA What did I once say?

Speaker 5 (30:28):
Whoa rich rich a?

Speaker 4 (30:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Oh, Mike trying to get an easy one here me
boom locks off.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
I've always said it, if you want to win games
in this league, you have to be efficient, and that's
the plan in Brazil again taking off tomorrow like a
thirteen hour flight, Is that right, Danny? Thirteen hour flight
and let's go, Chiefs charters can't wait. Luck to you
and wait football back baby, Patrickholmes.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Out and Mike and Waco, congratulations you are a winner today.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Oh Mike, say what's up to Chip Gaines for me? Okay,
all right later, guys, Bella chieks Bella cheeks cheeks for weeks.
Thanks Firkpatrick, Thanks Mike, and Patrick is all hiked up
about it. Also, little known, fat guys, Steve Martin was
born in Waco, Texas. Really the Gaines family you brought
up the well Patrick brought up the games could be done? Well,
aren't you? Aren't you believer that Chip is the actual prize.

(31:30):
You know, I've always said that Joanne Joanna, Joanna. Joanna's
beautiful and talented and all that, But the real treasure
is Chip Gaines money. Go buy their stuff at Target
while you're at it. I Mike, what's up? Iowa?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Sam? What up?

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Danny g what up? Dan Byer?

Speaker 4 (31:47):
What up?

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Fox Sports Radio Nation? Hope your day's better than Kawhi
and Steve Bomber's day. Before we get into midweek Major
and all the fun today. That is the hottest story going.
And you and I were doing our Patreon show earlier
today as it was developing this Pablo Tory man and
he closed the book on Belichick and jeorde On Hudson.
He's like, ooh, my next fascination is Kawhi Leonard and Balmer. Well,

(32:10):
he's doing some reporting, right, but he's sorry to lean
into certain things pretty hard. The jeorde Don Hudson thing,
the Belichick thing. You referenced that who was on that
harder than him? Now he's unveiled this Kawhi Leonard story
where he reportedly was paid twenty eight million dollars for

(32:30):
a no show job. That's the headline. You're like, what
does that mean? A no show job with the Clippers, right,
didn't Ren don't get that same contract with the Angels. Yeah,
but it was yeah wow, But this was a way
to get around the NBA salary cap. Now we're gonna
make this clear. We might use the word loophole, but
it wasn't a loophole at all. This is not legal
in the NBA. It's not like some crafty way to

(32:53):
get paid. It's not like deferring your payment like Shohyo Tani.
This is not like a college donor decided to do
something right right.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
No, there's a fine of up to four point five
million dollars for a first offense.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
This was a way to circumvent. That's the fancy word
to go around the NBA salary cap. You wrote that
word down because big mic'sat it, because I wrote it
down to I got to hear in the article all
over the place, guys, it's circumventing. Tory laid out the
alleged scandal. Scandal. Isn't that your old hairdresser? Yeah, scandal
scandal used to have rich a nice feathered haircut. He

(33:27):
laid out to scandal on his program Toylet finds that scandal,
and it says that he has direct quotes from legal
documents that made the argument that Leonard was paid twenty
eight million through a company owned by Balmer, who owns
the Clippers. If you don't know, to essentially do nothing, Now,
that's a pretty sweet deal, except it's not allowed in

(33:48):
the NBA. Balmber's accused of using the agreement as a
way to pay Leonard more than his contract would allow, which,
if true, is a violation of the NBA rules. Now
My understanding is it was for some like made up
bunk company where Kawi Leonard never didate like a tree.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
Plan tree planting, tree planting.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah, you tell me you couldn't get Kawhi in front
of a green screen just to say one time, like, hey,
it's me a Kawhi Leonard. So I was planning the
tree follow right, like, hey, there's a salary cap in
the NBA. But look, I want Cowhi Leonard so bad.
I'm gonna figure out a way to get him on
the team. Give him as much money as possible, but
pay him an extra twenty eight million dollars to solidify
his time and place with the Clippers through a company

(34:31):
that doesn't even really matter or exists. And the ramification
was if he's only on the Clippers, right, and Pabloty's
all over this, And like Danny g just said, if
this is true, major finds suspensions like.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
That's not a lass of one first round pick and
the possibility of avoiding contracts that are involved in any circumvention.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
How do you view this? Do you view this as hey,
he's just a rule breaker. Good for him, he got
what he wanted. He there's a few draft picks. He's
still got Kawhi, how do you used something like this?
I'm a There's two types of people, oh, players and haters.
Thank you, Taylor Shift. No, you've said that before. Rule breakers,

(35:13):
people that are like, you know, rules are you know,
a mild suggestion, and then other people that are like,
I'm a rules guy. I thought you're gonna say pink
or red starburst guys. Pink, by the way, both are
good blue cheese or or ranch both are good blue cheese.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Blood.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
There's two types. Oh, I'm not answering. There are two
cards of love that you want to know. There are
cads love. There's two we do that. We do that
in Philadelphia outside of garbage one once in a while.
There's two types of people, and those people are as
rich said rules people, rules people, twizzlers people or red vice. No,

(35:56):
there's two types of people, Keith Nandez or domatically rule
or rule breakers. I'm a rules follower. I am I
believe in rules. I believe in structure. I believe that
there's a set of rules in play to keep idiots
in line. I may like Steve Momber, I'm gonna push
the rules until you tell me why Pushing the rules

(36:17):
is not rule breaking. You push the rules, you dance
on the line a little bit. This is stomping over
the line. This is just straight up you pay a
guy twenty million dollars extra to guarantee that he's on
your team. I have a question when in fact there's
a salary cap for a reason, when someone is guilty
of such an offense, are you guys going to respect it?

(36:41):
More of Bomber and Choir like, got him, got us?
Here's the thing they would have won if they win,
then you're like, yeah, it was worth it. Who cares?
He made it happen?

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:51):
That really? That's winning solves everything. What they say, right,
that would happen here too. Yeah, I'm saying, do you
admire the Yeah I did it? It could be you know,
performance enhancing drugs. It could be Remember the dude a
couple of years back, was it Juicy Smalley. Yeah, but
the guy's still denying it. He's I saw the documentary
on Netflix. He's innocent, he says, still denies all his actions.

(37:15):
You know what, it reminds me down on a brand
new documentary, he's actually worth the watch. Let me, can
I just say something yeah, I never gave a deadly
squat about Juicy Smalley. I really didn't. I was like,
what a pathetic story, what a loser. The documentary where
he doubles down, the new one that just came out,
it's actually pretty good. So it does make you think
that he was bamboozled by the media.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
A little bit.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
A guy like Juicy Smaley doubles down on lives.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
I know it's a weird analogy, but you and I
both watch Love Is Blind. There was a dude that
went on that show and he had like girlfriends at home,
and he he came to the reunion and he's like, yeah,
I don't know what you want to tell you. I lied,
I got the otches like he was like straight up, like, YO, caught.
So I ask you, when someone's caught, athlete, musician, politician,
whatever they the case may be, do you admire the fourthright, like, Hey,

(38:06):
I tried to get away with it and I got caught.
Or do you think Balmer Kawhi are gonna try to
b es their way out of this and make us
feel stupid. It's it's case by case, man. Because speaking
of documentaries, if you watch America's team. Jerry Jones seemed
to break all the rules in the NFL, but he
just paved a new path. He's like, yeah, rules are
for fools. Watch me show everybody how to make real

(38:27):
money in this league. And he changed the league forever.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
The short sighted.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
People were very short sighted. He's like, I'm a businessman.
He changed how the game worked and how they made money.
He changed the league.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
This is different than that.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
It is it is, but he did break the rules.
So that's what I'm saying. It's case by case. That
was for the greater good of everybody. It seemed to
benefit everybody. I don't see how this benefits anyone but
Kawhi Leonard and his pocket. It's not even benefiting the Clippers.
They're not winning with him, you know, he's not even
playing all that often. And if they really wanted to

(39:00):
create a loophole, rich is right, where was Kawhi with
his fake bootleg local feeling advertisement of Kawhi Leonard? And
these are the trees that I'm playing more attention to it.
There should be something in his back pocket. We're like, no,
here he is. We have the proof right here. He's

(39:22):
a spokesman. They gotta have to ye.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
But once they found out Bomber owned that supposed company.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
I wonder what tipped off Pablo Tory to like further
investigate this. It was the janitor from Billy Madison.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Now, seriously, someone had to have a scoop and they
fed him this scoop. Unless he just somehow came across
these documents or he had a hunch, I don't know.
Good for him, though, it's a it's a big story.
Is becoming the uh Ernie anastas. Now there's a lack

(39:54):
of actual investigative reporting in thea's world, right, So you
got to give him credit for that. And and as
this story develops, it may benefit the NBA in the
future because if anyone else is up to this, it'll
put a stop. I'm sure there's a lot of people
shaking in their boots right now, like, oh, man, I
hope I'm not next, because maybe he's just the first

(40:15):
of many.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
Don't know that. The fake company, by the way, is
called Aspiration.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Oh it's beautiful, you know. I'm ass operation. I'm with
I grab a lot of asspirations. I'm always fascinated, but
in trees, I'm always fascinated. How we tend to give
more credit to people than they deserve. Sometimes, like Cavino,
you always say your dad will say things like, yeah,

(40:42):
I heard on the radio, gotta be true, and you're like, Dad,
I'm on the radio. He still does that, Yeah, I
heard on the radio. Dad. Again, Buffoon's like me, are
on the radio. Guy's no more credible than your goofy son.
And I think it's interesting Sometimes there's an investigation and
you're like, was it really a good instigation if they
never got to the bottom of it. I always think

(41:02):
about Mantiteo and how until one reporter or so decided, like,
you know, let me even look this kokooy girl up,
he ran with that and everyone just sort of kooy.
He wasn't the boogeyman. Wasn't it a liney kokooi or something?
That is that the name?

Speaker 8 (41:25):
And he didn't know at first, and then he found
out he just didn't.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
I always felt so bad for Mantiitao because he feels
like just a really genuine guy that couldn't believe someone
would trick him. But there was a time period where
it's like, Wow, if anyone did any investigating at all,
this would have blown up way sooner. But it seems
like that's a weird story to really press and investigate,
even though it became a big story, right, Yeah, like

(41:52):
someone had to really have a what's the expression? Give
me another expression besides besides the one I I keep. Yeah,
I keep wanting to say, they got a real blank
on for that real stiffy No, a real hankering. No,
they got a real, real, real joy, a real joy
of getting to the bottom of this. This one is
like it's cheating kind of, right, It's it's just kind

(42:15):
of Is that how you look at it, is that
that's just cheating. I mean, there's no greater it's not
kind of it's not like, Yo, did I cheat? I
kept my socks on?

Speaker 1 (42:24):
And the more you find out too it says here.
Tory's investigation also uncovered that Leonard was supposed to be
paid seven million by Aspire, a company that lists Leonard
as its manager.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Damn manager of what he manages? Manager?

Speaker 4 (42:38):
What is he?

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Bobby the brain? Heaton? So I think that's the difference here, Like, yeah,
we see a lot of these random stories uncovered. I
don't know the motive behind a lot of these stories,
just I guess investigative journalism and breaking a story is
fun in that world and in that game. But this
is just straight up cheating. This is the NBA. You know,
you have to nip it in the butt. This is
one of importance and significance. And man, I bet your

(43:01):
Kawhi Leonard's playing real dumb right now. Here's a guy
who never talks as it is, He's definitely keeping his
mouth shut about this. I'll be honest. My instinct is like,
who cares to go that deep into But you know
when people do, I'm always fascinated. I'll be honest. The
documentary is the story's breaking. You're great. I lest not.
I watched the one you guys recommended about the catfish

(43:22):
unknown number, unknown number, the high School Catfish. You gotta
start thinking, if no one really dove into it, you
would never find out, And then when you do find out,
you're like, man, people are wild. Now, Kauwhi has been
a Clipper for years now. So if Papulo Tory or
someone didn't say this seems a little odd, dig a
little deeper it, you know what? It also reminds me

(43:46):
too rich, like how would have got to wait? Yeah,
what you could find if you're digging deep enough, you know.
And now I'm not saying everyone has skeletons, but as
my as my dad always said, you know, if you're looking,
if if you look hard enough, you'll find something on everybody. Yeah,
you know. It's then you wonder why I keep my
phone private, because if you look far enough, you'll probably

(44:08):
see something that's a little sketchy.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
The crazy part is someone runs for office. It could
be a local politician or big time you know, national figure.
They have done stuff in their past that would never
have even been touched. But the minute you're under the microscope,
someone is there waiting to try to find some dirt
on you. Yeah, and Danny G's right. The difference here

(44:32):
and these other salacious stories that we're bringing up is
that this is actually cheating in the NBA. This is
doing everything you can because you're a rich guy with
deep pockets to get that superstar you had your eye on,
and you thought you found a loophole. But it's not
a loophole. You just went around the salary cap, which
is not legal in the NBA, and you just cheated.
So I honestly, I think repercussions should be stronger than that,

(44:55):
Danny g to set a precedence. Dare I say, and
I'm not a again I said, I'm not a big
rules guy. But I think this is If this is true,
and it's straight up a careless I even feel, you
know what, I'm assulted about the first of many You
know what I'm insulted by it. I think Bomber's the
only guy who's who's used to getting what he wants.
I'm insult find a way by how simplistic it is,

(45:17):
like really like a half made up tree company twenty
eight million dollars, like try harder, convince me more, make
a product, to make them the spokesperson like Spier. It
just seems like it seems so halfast done that I
almost feel like suspensions should be in place.

Speaker 8 (45:32):
Do you think they got there, tried to get it
passed because he's a clipper. They were like, okay, we
could do hairstylist or or something with trees. Yeah, I'm
a clipper trees for twenty eight million dollars, he's the
best that there is around and nobody will notice.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
I just think it was so half aass, Like if
you were to be like rich, try to hide twenty
eight million dollars for this player. I feel like if
you put a team of marketing people in the case,
they could have easily figured it out to manipulate. They
could have been that a million dollars to make it
look completely real and coved and gave it. Got twenty
seven to.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Clear up the two names of the companies, because what
they did here, it's two companies funneling money together. So
the KL two Aspire, that's a company that Leonard was
supposedly the manager of. Aspiration is the supposed tree company
from Clippers owner Steve Bima.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Are they maybe the spelling of the company tipped off
Tory ass and her.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Yeah, like the the similarities between the names of the
two companies.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
To me, guys, I'm even more fascinated by again the
simple fact that it seems like the effort level put
in for this cover up, because I feel like they
could be really they could be irs implications, tax implications.
I mean, you talk about companies that are sort of
faking money to a guy like, I'm sure this keeps
going deeper.

Speaker 8 (46:47):
I think their best excuse is that Kawhi was hurt.
That's why he couldn't show up for work like at all.
That's why he did nothing because he was all in
the court actually wanted him to do work, but he
was always hurt and there was nothing that we could
do a.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Tree management man.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
So uh, Pablo Torri and get no Christmas card from
Kawhi Leonard, I can tell you that so interesting story.
But again, much like like I don't know is a
random example that just popped in my head when Derrick
Cole got in trouble for Spider Tank, right yeah, He's like, look,
hey man, I'm the guy everybody's coming down on, but
everybody knows that this is what goes on in the league.

(47:27):
I'm not the only guy. I really believe these rich
dudes there's more than one rich dude pulling shady moves
like this to get who they want. I bet you
there's a lot of other players in these situations like, oh, snap,
you know it's about to drop.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
As you see, it's hard to hide these sort of shenanikis.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Well, I mean they hit it this long, but you're right.
But I think this is the first of many. So
I think I think Tory exposed or blew the lid
on something that's about to explode.

Speaker 8 (47:55):
I have a question because if this were the lakers
of the Celtics, I think we'd be losing our mind.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Mind.

Speaker 8 (48:01):
Do we look at the Clippers as they have nots
of always being the Clippers, or do we look at them.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (48:07):
It's almost like they can't even get this right.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Yeah, that's yeah, right, that's pretty Yeah, that's accurate.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Like these Clippers they can't they go, they go out
of their way, cheat, try to manipulate the system, and
they still can't even make a playoff front. No, you're right, Dan,
it doesn't matter who it is, because if it was
like Oklahoma City or Celtics or the scene that's won
in the past few years, you'd be like whoa. And
you know what, look at at football. I think if

(48:35):
the flight gate is not Tom Brady the Patriots, if
it was like if Tyler Murray and the Cardinals were
doing the flate gate, I think they'd be like, come on, man,
fix the next story. Like it's it's who does it?
And hold on, you're right off, you're right on. By
the way. As far as uh, it can't be the
only guy it's I doubt it. It's like if you

(48:55):
see guy.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
First.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
You know, when you see some guy getting caught throughing
some scandal stuff in Vegas or something, you think he's
the only guy. He just the guy that got caught.
He's the guy that got caught and they're going to
do further investigations now to put a stop to that.
It is cheating and man, as far as a business man,
I can't criticize Steve Palmer. Right, I'm Steve Cavino barely

(49:17):
a thousand eire paying child support. But to pay twenty
eight million dollars for that dude and extra Like, I'm like, why, why? Why?
Kawhi Leonard? He was he was great at the time,
quadruple doink when Jeremy Lynn was still playing in the
NBA before he retired now six years ago.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
By why the reason is you think back to the
major announcement and the uncovering of him finally deciding to
go to the Clippers. So many teams wanted him and
it came down to the Lakers and the Clippers.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
In retrospect, he got ripped off. Well, that's what I
think about it. You forget Spurs Championship, wait to the
Raptor Championship. Why hasn't been the same. And then remember it,
it was a battle of what LA team. You're lucky
if he's playing. Bomber got the raw deal here, twenty
eight million dollars. Hi got to do nothing.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Kwah, what was it?

Speaker 3 (50:12):
He was supposed to be out planting trees he was.
It was just a I can't say loophole because it
wasn't loopholes, just straight up wrong. It's just breaking the rules.
It was just a made up thing where they used
that as a reason to give him twenty eight million
extra dollars. Where do trees come into play?

Speaker 4 (50:28):
Though?

Speaker 3 (50:29):
That's a tree company.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Because the company that Bomber funded was a tree planting company.

Speaker 9 (50:34):
Let me just say that you'll never find twenty eight
million dollars in a tree planting company. Okay, you get
what you pay for when you hire landscapers and people.
I've worked in that industry, and it's you're not going
to be like, oh, this is a one million dollar tree.
You're planning the trees that cost, you know, a couple
hundred bucks, maybe one thousand US.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
I just had a tree pulled out of my yard,
an old dead tree. Yeah, a couple hundred bucks. Yeah,
it's not a lucrative business. It's a hard at work
business to make tree is lucrative. Though cree burial pods.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
That Tory Tory found out that Bomber funded fifty million
dollars into this tree planting company.

Speaker 9 (51:08):
Was money growing on these trees. Apparently that was even
trying to be a joke. Sam, You know what, Usually
I mock your jokes.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Welcome, Hey, your thoughts on Kawhi, your thoughts on Bomber.
Go to expresspros dot com to find the location near you.
That's expresspros dot com. I'm Steve Cavino, that is Rich Davis.
Hey Express, I'm looking for a face from my plea
tree planting company. About twenty eight million dollars must be nice,

(51:41):
Must be nice, Steve Bomber on yours. One of the
Clippers said, ny gs have the Clippers of comment.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
They told the La Times in a statement, neither mister
Bomber nor the Clippers circumvented the salary cap were engaged
in any misconduct related to Aspiration. Any contrary assertion is
the team ended its relationship with Aspiration years ago during
the twenty two to twenty three season, when Aspiration defaulted
on its obligations follow the money Bamber's company, though, it

(52:11):
says this is how this came out. It says a
former Aspiration Finance department employee had his voice heard on
Torre's podcast and that's when it started being investigated.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Okay, so this is a breaking and developing story from
Pablo Torre's podcast about Kawhi Letter and Steve Bomber. And
again it's not something that's allowed in the NBA. So
as of now, it's all alleged. Let's keep that in mind.
But well, these are big accusations. You know, you and
Danny G were here. You know, there's got to be

(52:44):
He said, he saw the documents. You and Danny G
were having some good conversation off the air. Why don't
you tell everyone what you guys were talking about. You
were making some analogies with the sopranos, and I thought
it was actually a really clever and elok it's really
hard to explain. It was the story of Artie Buco
and how he called out Tony for sort of sopranoing
him as a friend, and Tony's like, well, what do

(53:05):
you mean. Basically, Tony was thinking way ahead of Arti Buco.
He's a businessman, so he knew that if Arti Buco's
restaurant deal fell through and the money didn't come through,
that hey he had Buco in his back pocket and
he ate for free at his restaurant the rest of
his life. The point is Tony Soprano was always thinking

(53:26):
a step ahead, and we got to give credit to
businessman like Steve Bomber for always thinking a step ahead.
There might be a reason that the story came out,
and there might be a reason he did it. And
that step ahead is, Hey, if I ever get caught,
I guess slapped on the wrist, who cares? And maybe
I get out of this deal. In the NBA, unless

(53:47):
it's the NBA, winners are not built on draft picks.
You could argue with me, but it's really based on
free agency, right, who gets what? Big guy? I think
Steve Bomber and the Clippers were thinking getting Kawi in
that mo. Yeah, it didn't work out, but think about
in that moment when it was like, all right, it's
us versus the Lakers. How are we going to make
a splash in Los Angeles? We have a new arena coming.

(54:08):
The Clippers may have a little momentum make it happen
at all costs. We need a star player. We need
to get this done. And the whole tony soprano thing
we were talking about off the hair is people are
in that power position for a reason. They see the again,
not loopholes. They see the ways to circumvent. They see
the step ahead. They see things that you're not thinking about,

(54:29):
and they could envision these things and how they pan
out if God forbid things go wrong. And Steve Bomber
knew probably way in advance that this is what would happen,
and he was okay with that. And you know what,
I know, I'm speaking of fiction, but think of any
movie or drama you watch, what do they always do
with It's like the plot line of everything, Follow the money,

(54:51):
and they always, you know, they'll always call up some
you know, foreign accounts or something like and it links
to a company and that's how they find the bad guy.
So I mean, follow the money. Steve Bomber's connected.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Shocking by the way that former Aspiration finance department employee
said other celebrities were paid to endorse Aspiration and its
supposed tree planning operation. Robert Downey Junior, Leonardo DiCaprio and Drake.
He says, every other celebrity endorsement, though combined, would have
not met even a quarter of Kawhi Leonard's endorsement.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Do you think those were done for other things like
maybe a concert, maybe an appearance, maybe something like dude,
rich people find ways, and maybe that's his weird way
of laundering money to people. I mean, that's you know,
you got to assume that rich people try to stay
within the legal loopholes and not accusing Bomber or doing
anything illegal. But hey, man, it's like, if you don't

(55:43):
think he's thinking a step ahead of guys like you
and I, you don't become a billionaire by being a Putts.
That was the point and the Soprano's analogy was when
Artie Buco realized, Man, Tony Soprano was just thinking one
step ahead of me. He realized, well, that's why he's
Tone Soprano, and this is why he's Steve Bomber. So
I'm not saying he's a mafia guy, but I'm saying

(56:06):
he's a businessman. And whether or not this is true
or confirmed down the line, it's an interesting story. Doug,
You're on Maryland what's up buddy.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Hey guys, Yeah, but there's no salary caps for actors. Okay, Yeah,
well this is a quinn essential example of ribery. Okay,
And I told Danny g that more than likely because
I'm assuming that the commissioner hasn't completed his investigation yet.
This is this is Daniel Schnyder territory.

Speaker 6 (56:34):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
I honestly believe that after everything's done, and if this
is all true, then he's going to be forced to
sell that team.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
Yeah, there could be bigger I think repercussions.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Here, and I don't think the NBA would go that far.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Maybe not that far because he's got deep pockets and
he's also, like is an unlikable guy. Bomber is a
likable guy. You know, this factors.

Speaker 8 (56:56):
There's also the point of I think that there's equity,
and I know that the NBA isn't always on the
up and out. But when he bought the Clippers of
the whole that they were in one of them so
bad that he extremely paid way more than market value
so he could get them, but that name was so
tainted that Yeah, this may but there's I don't think
there's anyway I would be beyond shock me too if

(57:19):
they were to remove you know why because even though
this seems scandalous, Bomber, for the most part's reputation is solid, right,
liked to compare to the Dan Snyder who people hated
in Washington. And as you guys have been saying, like,
they have penalties in place for this, so it's not
like this is what do we do here? This is unfounded,
Like there are fines for this, There are things that

(57:41):
happen if you violate these sort of things. I don't
think it's enough for removal of team.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
Ok.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
Great, thank you for the phone call. Thank you, Dan
Byer the numbers eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
That's the big story of the day and we'll keep
you posted as it develops.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
You guys do think the penalty should be greater though?
Was it again a draft pack up to five point
five million dollars in fines? I think it said one
first round pick and then you could they could void
the contract that's involved.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
We're talking about like billionaires for the most he has
to wear crucks for a week. Oh mention that, Yeah,
that's pretty steep.

Speaker 8 (58:19):
CBS Sports did an article off of this and they
pointed to in the mid nineteen nineties, the Knicks, we're
trying to get Michael Jordan, and we're going to try
to do a sort of deal to give him money
through Sheridan the hotel and pay him that way. Now,
ultimately NBA rules the Bulls could pay him whatever they
wanted to pay him, and could pay more than anybody else.

(58:40):
But that was a way that the Knicks, who had
a certain amount of money to pay, we're going to
maybe try to work around.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
Yeah, Michael Jordan, could they have if that was let's
say it was legit, though, that wouldn't be any breaking
of the rules, right if the Knicks were to work
a deal with the Sheridan, but it really did come
from the Sheridan, would that be okay? If it was
just contingent on him signing with the Knicks.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Well, I think it's.

Speaker 8 (59:05):
I mean, I I don't want to say we're getting
into a gray area, but I thought, yeah, to the
to the point of I'm just I'm trying to think
of a company that is a Coca Cola in Atlanta. Okay,
let's just say that way, like if you were to
sign with the Hawks and Coca Cola is like, all right,
we're going to sign you to an endorsement deal.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
You know.

Speaker 8 (59:26):
Is that Are you like not going to get a
Coca Cola deal if you signed with the Hornets or
is it? I just, I just I don't think that
that would necessarily be illegal as opposed to what this
sounds like is just a fraud of a.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Company, because I believe that probably happens all the time, Like, yeah,
you're going to get this deal, but it's contingent when
you sign with this this.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Is the city to come to. You can get sponsored
by the companies that are here.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
Yes, yes, And that's something we don't think about that often.
And this story again is a it's a BS tree company.
Was there any validity to the actual company though, But
don't realize Michael Parsons has a cheese Kurds deal in place.
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
That's what people are trying to find out is if
there's any validity at all to this tree planting company.
Tore says he investigated and can't find any evidence that
it was a real thing, this deal with Kawhi. So
that's what we're hearing so far. But I'm sure more
is going to come out in the next few days.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
You know, I don't want to sound like gossipy little schoolgirls,
but it's an interesting story, really cool, interesting story. We'll
keep you posted. And that being said, speaking of updates,
let's go to our guy Dan.

Speaker 8 (01:00:39):
But and just add a little bit more context. The
Knicks and Sheridan were owned by the same company at
the time. Okay, so there's where some of that would
have been a little not on the up and up.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
Root that.

Speaker 8 (01:00:50):
Hey, you know, advertise this Times Square Sheridan if you will,
Michael Jordan.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Anyway.

Speaker 8 (01:00:56):
In other NBA news, Dallas, Mavericks and forward PJ. Washington
agreed to a for your extension. Now onto the NFL,
speaking of Micah Parsons. The Packers edge rusher limited in
practice today in advance of their showdown with the Lions
on Sunday to open up the season. Tomorrow, it's the
Cowboys and Eagles. Trayvon digs Off. The injury report for
Dallas has his tackle Tyler Geiton, both expected to start

(01:01:17):
tomorrow in Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
Now we do this every Thursday. Look at the time.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
If there's a certain ya, what we gonna do is
go back.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Back into time.

Speaker 5 (01:01:33):
Throwing it back for a Thursday. Old School won fifty
hits at fifty after CNR give you the time capsule
topic and we reminisce together.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Yeah, we get you involved together, like you said eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox at Covino and Rich at
Fox Sports Radio. But hey, give us a call. We
appreciate it. Now we're celebrating some birthdays today, Rich, you
love giving birthday shoutouts on Pop two K it's your
girl Beonce's birthday. She's forty four, queen me. Reggie Jackson style,

(01:02:07):
who do you think of forty four? Forty four? Definitely
rech and well, forty four. I went to Syracuse. That's
the number given to all the greats, so I would
say forty four. I think of Syracuse, I think of Reggie,
and we'll see if they got forty four. That's why
I think Tom Rathman on the forty nine ers. Well,
she's Dallas for the Colts. Now, say, Bonce, what city

(01:02:28):
do you think goo to me, that's an easy one.
Houston right now. It's also Mike Piazza's birthday, by the way,
is a shocker to me. I mean, it makes sense,
but it's like, damn he's fifty seven. He looks great too.
I interviewed him, like, I don't know, a year and
a half, two years ago, looks fantastic. I met the
whole Piazza family, the Piazza brothers. You know how long

(01:02:51):
ago that's been, hello, five plus years since I met him. Yeah,
how do you know? I know for a fact because
you and I were supposed to host an event together.
Would he have to do with the price of bana?
I was giving him a compliment. Oh, you and I
were supposed to host an event together. I couldn't go
because my son was being born. And You're like, bro,
you missed out. I'm hanging with Piazza. I'm having lunch.
And I was like, I was jealous. Hey, well he

(01:03:12):
looked great.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
Like his family owns like car company. I guess car
dealship too when I met him. Yeah, his family comes
from a long line of car dealers. I with the
whole family. But Mike Piazza, gracious, dude, when you think
of Piazza, you may think of two cities. Is he
a New York guy or an LA guy. He had
some giant moments with the Mets after nine to eleven,

(01:03:33):
but he was possibly offensively better as a doctor.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Yeah, he was a favorite here in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
So based on Beyonce's birthday and Piazza's birthday, Beyonce represents Houston,
Piazza represents I mean, we could fight over a La
or New York, but he's synonymous with both. When you
think back to your childhood, what athletes represent, what city
in your mind? Or celebrities doesn't have to be athlete.
Like I'll give you the obvious example. Rich I think

(01:03:59):
you and I I'll both agree when you think of
Kansas City back in the day. It might be different now,
but I think George Brett, he was part of the
welcoming committee when we were there for the first time.
You know, there's certain athletes, certain faces, certain celebrities that
you just associate with that city period. So we open
it up to you. George Brett is a great example

(01:04:21):
because you're right at the minute. I think if you
say Kansas City, yeah, people are gonna think, oh, Mahomes
and Kelsey and barbecue. And this had a familiar change.
My first thought is Sam's love for Paul Rudd and
a right probably George Brett. Yeah, so again it's gonna
be different generationally, but for the most part, like George
Brett is in our wheelhouse of growing up. That's why

(01:04:42):
I think of as a kid, who do you associate
with a particular city like they are the king of
that city? Eight seven seven ninety nine On Fox, we
go to you and we'll go over some week one
matchups NFL is happening, and we'll get to all that next.
Right here, Fox Sports Radio could be known rich.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
You think Beyonce, you think Houston, couple Piazza, you could
think New York, you could think La But the best
way to think about this is to think of a
city and what celebrity do you think of first? That's
really who runs? And I'm sure there's multiple answers and
that's fine, and generationally people are gonna have different opinions.
But like if I say, if I say Miami, Florida,

(01:05:26):
I'm like, da, that's pit Bull territory, man. But you
may think someone else. You may think of football player, right,
but that's mister three h five. I think Dwayne Wade.
Like it's not only doesn't have to be one person,
But you say Miami, know what I immediately think? I
think Dwayne Wade. I think pit Bull. I think Gloria Stefan. Yeah,
see what I mean. So it's a fun debate who

(01:05:48):
really runs that city? You know, Danny g and I
were a debate in Atlanta earlier, but we turn a
few me. I also think Anonymous Cheeks, Oh yeah, everyday,
buteto on South Beach or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
I was going to just throw a city up to
you guys. What about Chicago?

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
You know, it's really funny. Michael Jordan will be an answer,
but I don't go basketball first. In my mind, I
think the late Ryan Samburg comes to mind. I know
that's the shows that I'm a kid of the eighties.
But you say Chicago, I think like Ryan Samberg pops
in my head or Andre Dawson. But yeah, like that.
You know what's a weird answer. The first thing I
came to mind from me was Abe Frohman. I don't know.
I think he's the sausage King of Chicago, the sausage

(01:06:31):
cut pops in your head.

Speaker 8 (01:06:34):
Eighty five Bears TV like his little kids. I think
Walter Page. I think there are a lot of sports
figures that we could go to. But outside of sports,
I thought Bill Murray.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
Yes, as far as just from yes see, that's why
that might be the answer, because who's more Chicago than that?

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Sure? Right?

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
Like that's really what we're getting to the chora Like
if I say Seattle, you might think Griffy, but I
also think nineties rock. I think a lot of So
who would be the king like Chris corn Now or something?
And know what's interesting about the thought, Danny Gene, I
really like this Just because a guy played in that
city doesn't mean like he's synonymous with that city. I'll explain,
like Don Manningly, no one was a greater Yankee than

(01:07:12):
Don Manningly, but he's like an Indiana guy. He's not
like a he's not a New York City guy. Just
New Yorkers loved him, right, so he wouldn't be a
good answer. Same with your Louisiana lightning Ron Guidry as
a kid, like it's.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Like a Larry Bird obviously from the Sticks? Do you
think of him for Boston?

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
Who for Boston like Donnie Wahlberg or something? Right, like
someone like who's really Boston? Like someone like the addition
is someone really Boston Mark Wahlberg or something? It's funny
would say that because I think if you say Philly,
there's so many athletes. But I think boys to men,
boys to medicine.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
First, I thought Will Smith, Will Smith.

Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
I would say Mike Schmidt, Schmitty.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Yeah, Schmitty's what I thought of before. That's a good one.
I do. I do think that. And you know what
another instinct level of the thought is, we may think that,
but people from Philly might not think that, right, but
we think that outside looking in, because I imagine that people
think I'm from Jersey. They're like, yo, man bon Jovi,

(01:08:12):
and I'm like, yeah, I guess that's a popular answer,
but that's not what I think. That's not how I feel.
I don't know, but outside looking in you might think that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
How many people would think stallone with Philly?

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Oh, you know what?

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
That's right?

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
But I know like that just because because of Rocky,
I think stallone. I pictured driving down the one O
one and seeing Balboa, which is how he got the name.
So he was driving down the one oh one where
we drive every day. He saw the street sign Balboa. Yeah,
it sounds like a good.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
Rocky White Oak just didn't have the same right, Yeah,
subult Rocky Culvio.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
Think of the city, think of the state. Who runs it?

Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
Hit us up.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
Now we turn it to Fox Sports Radio Nation on
Beyonce's forty fourth Piazza's fifty seventh. They represent their city
is pretty strong. Let's go to you. I'll give you one.
While the Lions, we couple of us picked them to
go all the way, maybe not win the Super Bowl.
But if you say Detroit, I think Eminem, Yeah, yeah,
because he represents it so hard.

Speaker 4 (01:09:05):
Eminem and then Barry Barry Sanders.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
Arry, I think. I think Eminem and Ellen Trammel.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
I was gonna say in a weird, funky way, not
above Motown, but tom Selleck just because of the hats cool.

Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
They just did that Tom Selleck day at the stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
You might say Jetson. Think of Kevin Arnold from the
other years. He doesn't run it all right. Uh, you
know what, Let's go to Andy in Reno. What's up, buddy? Andy?

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
Got turn your radio down?

Speaker 9 (01:09:37):
Andy?

Speaker 10 (01:09:38):
Andy, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
Somebody?

Speaker 10 (01:09:42):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
You're going on? You are going on it anyway?

Speaker 10 (01:09:48):
And Nevada I am, I am been here from nineteen
eighty four. I picked through a live generations I see
Nick Burleton play for Nevada, fight for nap Oh, we
have Mills Lane here, I know, and.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
He still didn't turn his He in Las Vegas, I
think at Danny Gans. Remember he used to run he
passed also, yeah, but he used to run that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
I also think of Mills Lane.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
No, I'm kidding.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
If you say, if you say Vegas, that's interesting because
I will think some acts like I think of a
carra top. Do you think of maybe Elvis even though
he's not a Vegas guy, but Vava or do you
think of That's I'm sorry to wait to go ahead
and think, but Elvis could be Memphis and Las Vegas?

Speaker 1 (01:10:39):
Like like how many people can claim too is? I
mean that's special territory.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
It's a cool thought. So, yeah, who runs that city?
Who's the face? Let's let's say you have uh and Hawaii.
Dan's face represents.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
It, Old school Sammy Davis Junior for Old Vegas, Old
school Vegas. Yeah, the rat pack. I guess your phone call.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Let's uh, let's say ahead to our buddy in Vegas. Trip,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:11:03):
Trip?

Speaker 11 (01:11:04):
Hey, great day guys. I had a quick question after
tomorrow's show. Uh, Rich, do you think we can get
you a shot on the mascot with the Capitol One.
You need to do the commercial.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Let me tell you tomorrow, I'm gonna be a mascot
tomorrow morning. And I think it's uh. I think I
think I'm gonna do the soda pop dance like I'm
uh Djokovic at the US helping. I think I think
I'm really going to lean into it. I don't know
it was Capital one reference, but hey, for me anyway,

(01:11:34):
I don't.

Speaker 12 (01:11:34):
Watch college commercials, right, Yeah, so for here obviously probably
Floyd Mayweather because he's just known for gambling and then
being from Columbia, South Carolina.

Speaker 11 (01:11:45):
George Rogers is uh the statue at Southside the Stadium
our only Heisman winner.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
You know when you say Travis Kelcey and his brother Jason, right,
do you think Ohio. They've done so much for their
their town and city that when people say Ohio, you
are thinking New Heights Kelsey bros Or No, what are
you still thinking even though he's not there? Lebron James
is Lebron James.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
Yeah, him screaming Cleveland at the top of his lungs
will always go down in history.

Speaker 8 (01:12:12):
Yeah, OHI is also tricky because there's three significant cities
in there, so it's tough to pick like one guy,
especially if they're just from from Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (01:12:22):
I think of Dave Chappelle too.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
You know, you think of Cleveland sports. Now this is
a dumb thought, but I almost feel like I think
fictional Cleveland Indians just as much as regular Like I
thought of like we sent when you were thinking Cleveland sports,
I'm like, well, you got a wild thing, Rick Vaughan,
you got Jake Taylor, you got wait oh, those are
not real guys. Yeah, that doesn't count.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
I think Jack Nicholas when it comes to Ohio.

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
But these are these are good faces and off the air.
I alluded to this before. Danny's like, what about Atlanta,
And I'm like, well, I mean, growing up outside looking in,
I'm on the East Coast. I'm in New Jersey. We
had TBS, and I always associated Atlanta with Dale Murphy
and that's generational. That's I played RBI Baseball as a kid.

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He had forty four home runs on that video game.
He was the dude that I knew that represented Atlanta.
So that's where I go to. But generation someone else,
Jermaine dupri Jermainelris right, like Outcash. Yeah, so it depends
which generation you live in. But that's what makes us
fun and we'll try to figure it out. Who else
do we got? Got to be a pretty cool feeling

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to think those guys represent Oh yes, that's great, you
know to so many. I mean, that's why it's cool
to put your city or state on the map, Like
that's that's part of the fun of making it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
What about New Orleans?

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
You know, I think of Drew Brees a little bit,
but but he's so anti what everything other thought I
have in New Orleans, Like every other thought of New
Orleans is the music, the culture and everything. And Drew
Brees is so funny because that's exactly who I think
of too.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
I thought Harry Conneck Junior because he always does those
voiceovers for any.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
And when Katrina happened, who was there to support the city,
it was him raising money. He's that guy. So yeah,
that's that He's probably the real or right answer there
for our generation. But I did think Drew Brees, Yeah,
that's who I thought.

Speaker 8 (01:14:14):
I think a Chef Emerald too, Yeah, I think that's
a good answer.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Stop laughing at him.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
Remember remember he welcomed Drew Brees into the city by
cooking for him.

Speaker 4 (01:14:26):
It's the food background. I'm totally yes.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
All right, back to the phones A seven seven ninety
nine on Fox Brian in New York, Bright.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Hey, the ultimate has got to be Broadway Joe, Joe Namath.

Speaker 13 (01:14:40):
I mean his nickname is Broadway Joe.

Speaker 5 (01:14:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
I mean, see, now you're from New York, right, generationally,
I can't argue that, right. So in his day probably,
and of course I know the legend of Joe Namath
and the swag he brings to New York and football
and how he predicted they'd win it and they did.
But for me, I don't know, Like, I don't think

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Joe name it growing up.

Speaker 8 (01:15:06):
I think it's a good argument just because of what
he said. But it's also Nameath as a guy who
was born in Pennsylvania, went to school in Alabama and
took New York by storm. So there's not even like
a roots thing with Nameath, which is I tells you
how big of a deal he was at the time.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Right for them, you know that's a good one. I mean, sure,
who do you think of it? I'm sure it's I'm
glad you said, because I know all local cities and
probably radio or TV stations do their list of Like
we recently saw one that s n Y New York
put out. It was your current top ten New York athletes.
And I think ever since, and I hate to say this,
being that I don't like the Yankees since Jeter left,

(01:15:45):
I don't know if there's like a clear number one
if you're in New Yorker right now, Well, who's the answer,
lindor Aaron Judge, like Brunson, Like is there like who's Brunton?

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
Was Tom? I remember?

Speaker 7 (01:15:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
But I remember who's Like, who's who represents New York
sports right now? You know, maybe Jackson Darton five years
if things.

Speaker 8 (01:16:02):
Go well, yeah, and if it was college. Rick Patino's
even got a you know, maybe not player wise, but yeah, yeah, popularity.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Very New York. But certain celebrities just represent that city
so hard. We go back to your calls A seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. Uh, say hi to Rory
in Washington State.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
Hey, Rory, Hey, what's up?

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Guys?

Speaker 4 (01:16:24):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (01:16:25):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (01:16:26):
Uh so, yeah, I was just gonna say what one
he already said it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
But Griffy and Seattle, Uh you know he's you.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
You always hear those stories that you know Griffy kept
baseball in Seattle. Well, if they didn't win in ninety five,
they said they were done there right now, they just
by winning a playoff series that sort of kept the
vibe alive. I usually think of a Jay Buner and
Ken Phelps, But if you want to go Griffy, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Rich When I say San Francisco, do you think of
your Niners?

Speaker 4 (01:16:56):
You think Montana right away? You know, I think Harry Ponds.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
I still I think Uh, I think Montana and Bonds
are too you know, and race Arone and Dirty here
a lifetime supplying I mean is Steph Curry? I mean,
is Golden State? Is the Bay Area?

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
That I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
Is Steph Curry?

Speaker 4 (01:17:13):
Good one?

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
You go to that part of the country and I
bet you see a hell of a lot of Steph
Curry jerseys on kids right. Brought some glory. Man. This
is tougher than I thought. Danny g to really pinpoint
who runs it because we.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Could argue about LA for a half hour. I mean,
I think ice Cube because of the beginning of the
World Series, the Dodgers bring him out as the face
of La.

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
La Sports right now, Lebron James, No.

Speaker 4 (01:17:40):
No, I wouldn't call him the face of LA.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
I like the ice cube. Really, that performance did solidify
his importance to LA and the culture out here.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
I wouldn't have known it was that strong, but I
saw it in my own eyes. I was there for that.
That was wild. And don't even dare say fat Joe
for New York. Get out of here with that. So
I want no part of New York. Joe, that New York.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
I think rock Kim run DMC, big e.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
JD, that rap scene. But who's the king biggest Spike
Lee as a super fan, just I you know, but
you know what speaking of kidding, right, who'd you say
but king of New York? The Coney photo shoot, Biggie
Smalls with the crown, that that iconic hip hop photos?
What Dean tim the King of Brooklyn, the King of
New York? And if you follow hip hop, you know

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that there was none better. We we live in LA,
but none of us except Danny g are true Los
Angeles sports fans. Yeah, what do you think?

Speaker 6 (01:18:32):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
We live here? And I'm like, is it Freddy Freemann?
Is it like you? If you would have put together like, hey,
the local top the biggest LA sports names.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
Right now is SAWNI.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Right now I would say, oh Tani, Yeah, yeah, biggest
sports name. I agree, biggest sports a langue. There's a
language barrier and I'm not getting that. I'm not getting
in that conversation like how could he be? Remember that
conversation like how can you be the face of a
game when you But I'm just saying I feel like
Freddy that kids love Freddy Freeman, but they don't think
no chance. I love Freddy Freeman. He's a great guy.

Speaker 9 (01:19:05):
Oh tanis from southern California originally, so.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
Yeah, that helps. I think that helps the debate here,
right he's oh he's a California kid.

Speaker 9 (01:19:15):
Someone represents a city because they played there for like
eight years like that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
I think it really adds to the argument. If you're
from there, you know you could represent.

Speaker 9 (01:19:25):
Like Lebron's the ultimate Ohio like from Akron played for
the Calves, won a championship there.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
That's why I say some are more definitive and obvious.
I get mister three h five Lebron, but again, you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
Don't have to be from there. Where's Piazza from that's
that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
I don't even know where. Oh, he asked, he wasn't
his family from Lesorta so Italy. Hold on, let me
look that up for you. Yeah, I like him because
he's a die eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
the King the face of the particular state or city,
you know, whichever you discussed.

Speaker 8 (01:19:59):
I think I have a city that we will all
say the same person. Okay, and I'll do I'll say
the city and then think of and then I'll give
you a countdown.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
I'll say it at the same time. Okay, I love
this spot. You too, Sam, you too? Ireland, Dublin, Minneapolis
one two three, Wow, Prince Prince, I said, Prince lived

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in Minneapolis right like year round, like that was his
home basement from there bottom embarrassed for them.

Speaker 8 (01:20:39):
Actually, yeah, I'm a little like I thought, I you know,
like I thought, I knew you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
Is a great answer, There's no question about that. But
Puckett came to mind. But where's Puckett from? So Prince
may get the edge right because he's actually from there,
where the hell from?

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
And cove Piazza grew up in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
Okay, in Minneapolis one two three, Gary Anderson, I'm sorry,
Kirby Chicago.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
He's from Chicago, Forever Forever, synonymous with the Twin.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
He won two championships eighty seven and ninety one.

Speaker 4 (01:21:16):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Yeah, so all right, it's it's a really interesting question
and it's a fun debate that you could bring to
your uh football party tonight. Uh, Steven Louis, Yeah, you
know what it is. It's really a fun game if
you think you know the people you with. It could
almost be like a game show, like if you were
partners on a game show, like who would they say? Cincinnati?

Speaker 4 (01:21:36):
Like you have to have to match with your partner,
Like what will I.

Speaker 3 (01:21:40):
Think Cavino says Cincinnati? Is he gonna say Icky Woods
or Joe Burrow? Wait? Or is he gonna see was
he gonna say Chris Sabo's goggle?

Speaker 4 (01:21:46):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
I mean, like it's a funda. I think it's a
fun game to see if you can match your buddy Danny.
Maybe we craft the game one day. We we could
do a little sports match game. I would think Paul
O'Neil had to run that city. He kicked the baseball
in from outfield in Cincidtai from Louisiana. I think Louisiana
Lightning the Gator, Ron Gidrey, but he may think something
completely different. What's up, shack, yell, shit, what do you

(01:22:08):
got man? Hey, Steve, what's going on? Bro?

Speaker 14 (01:22:11):
So I love to show I'm from Louisiana, but I'm
from I was born in Baltimore, So I kind of
got an obvious answer. I think a one a one beat.
I gotta go with Ray Lewis and advance and then
rip cal ripping the iron man, Bro.

Speaker 3 (01:22:23):
You know, I mean, honestly, that's you just defined the
sense defined he that was. Those are great answers, right, Yeah,
but then it does make you think, well, what about
the guys that are actually from that city. Yeah, they
won in that city and they're synonymous with that city,
and that's part of the conversation. I get it. But

(01:22:44):
Ron Guidry's from Louisiana. I think that if you could
make the city forget you're not from there, that means
you must be a guest star, because you're right, there's
there's players on big teams and you're like, yeah, he's
not from there. Like there's guys on the METSA Yankees
that you could tell like they're not New Yorkers. They're
big stars, but they're not New Yorkers. Just just really

(01:23:07):
thinking about it. We're probably thinking too hard about it,
but that's what makes it fun. So appreciate all the
feedback and phone calls. A lot of people chiming into
eight seven seven ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
On fine phones are melting.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
I think what we're getting to is like, you really
don't have to be from the city to represent that city,
especially in sports and entertainment. But you know, there's a
lot of people from that city that are proud to
be from that city need represent like Eminem, right, Eminem's
from Detroit. That's what makes it an obvious answer. So
what else comes to mind? I'm from New Jersey and

(01:23:39):
I couldn't tell you. Do you think Frank Sinatra? Do
you think Bruce Springsteen bon Jovi? Like, I'm from Jersey
and I don't even feel that way to be.

Speaker 9 (01:23:49):
I don't feel of Sinatra with Jersey, like Tony Soprano
more than I feel in Jersey or Sinatra. He kind
of splits both those cities.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
Yeah, and outside looking in, you're gonna have a different opinion, right,
So it's kind of cool. But uh, I think what
happens is you get your friends together and whatever you
agree on, that is the answer moving forward, because generationally
it's going to be different for everybody. The Minnesota one
is a good one too, though, fran Tarkenton, Minnesota. I
like the game too. Just name a city one two three,

(01:24:18):
I love it. We'll do one already, San Diego, Oh
one two three.

Speaker 4 (01:24:25):
Toms, Tony Gwin.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
That's the answer, I say, Steve Garvey, Tony Gwinn for sure.
I don't know how I didn't think of that again, Chicken,
you know what, that's what's Tony Gwynn not getting the
credit he deserves, and he absolutely deserves it. All right,
how did we get here? Guys again? Because it's Beyonce's birthday,
she's synonymous with Houston and Piazza's birthday. He's synonymous with

(01:24:51):
two cities. He's not even from, you know, I got
I got New York and La I got one. Only
guess it's a mid level market. My wife is from
New Bramfels, Texas, right outside of San Antonio. Do you
think Coach Pop is more of the answer than any
of the guys that played on his teams, because He's
just such a staple and such a great guy for
that community. Do you think when you say san Antonio,

(01:25:13):
do you think Tim Duncan Because he wasn't remember he
he didn't have that charisma that other stars had.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
I would think Duncan.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
Duncan though, he's still your answer, Timmy, He's the guy
I would think of.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
Yeah, I got one for you guys, Dallas in three
two one, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
I said Dirk.

Speaker 5 (01:25:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
I don't know why I got n b A. I
should have said EMMITTT should be the answer, Emmitt or Aikman.
Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
I don't know. Did somebody say Jerry Jones?

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
I said Jing from answer?

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
Oh really, Wow, that's a pretty good answer, Dallas. That's
a good answer. Spot and I are like, that's a
really good answer.

Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
Close to each other.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Time for the tire IRAQ Play of the day, fireworks
in Philly even before the first snap, This.

Speaker 15 (01:26:06):
Dam couldn't have started worse. Unsportsmanlike conduct on the Eagles.
Unsportsmanlike conduct on the Eagles, in particular on Jalen Harder,
and even worse Carter, one of the eagles most packful players,
because he ejected it from the game on the very
first before the very first play from the Spurmot.

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
Now again, if you just joined us, I said, I understood,
But that doesn't mean I'm making excuses for this guy.
It's a pathetic move. That's Jalen Carter ejected. And that's
our Fox Sports Radio tire rack play of the day,
barrel reef. He's got a stuffed up balls. I was saying,

(01:26:48):
me and me and Ryan Bersching, who's in the back.

Speaker 4 (01:26:49):
We have a joke. We always do the Meryl recent impression.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
Somebodys an old school handkerchief that's a ninety four wip.
Now we want to go to your phone at eighty seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. A lot of people chiming
in about the game last night. It's just great to
have football back. So pumped about the weekend. So before
we get into your solar power parlay and all that
fun stuff, which want to take these calls? Yeah, it's
going to Marshall in the burg. What's up, Pittsburgh?

Speaker 4 (01:27:14):
Hey, how you doing?

Speaker 6 (01:27:15):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
Buddy?

Speaker 7 (01:27:17):
So I'm a Steelers fan, so nobody has more disdain
for the Cowboys than I do. And I'm a Georgia
Bulldog graduate so nobody likes bulldog players more than I do.
There's no way in the world that Jaalen Carter could
have perceived that Dak Carter that Dak Prescott was spitting
at him.

Speaker 4 (01:27:35):
It just wasn't that way. He wasn't.

Speaker 7 (01:27:37):
He may have said something to him, and I don't
doubt that, but there's no way he could have perceived
that Dak was spitting at him. It was just an
uncouth thing to do, and you can understand it. I
don't uh, and I'm glad he got suspended.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
Did you see the footage? I mean, I think it's vile,
and I think he's wrong, and it's horrible to do,
and it's selfish and all that, But how do you
not see that Beak was spitting in his direction and
antagonizing him. I'm not saying that that did anything wrong.
I'm not if anything, da did everything right. He pissed
that guy off and got him kicked down, So I
don't know. The footage is pretty clear to me that

(01:28:12):
it's in his direction. I think that what he was doing,
it's just like it's it's a it's a stretch Zach
and Arizona. I don't see it is that stretch at all.
I'm hold on, I'm not saying they're the same thing.
What Carter did was atrocious. You and I are about
six street for me yea, and my toward my fee.

(01:28:33):
It's still disrespectful. It was like a dribble spit out
of his mouth and then you walk up to me
and spin on my chest. I watched hold on, no, no, no, no,
I never said that changing the conversation. I never said
what Dak did was at the same level as what
Carter did at all. But you don't see how Dak

(01:28:56):
baited him into that. You don't see how that's possible.
It's given you are.

Speaker 9 (01:29:00):
I doing in these to someone and they're not expecting
it and then they freak out?

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
It's like that's what it is? Was it Romeo and Juliet?
It's like you thumb your your tooth, your thumb at me, sir.
Whatever it is, what Carter there was way worse. There's
no probka right, I haven't sorry, I haven't looked at
Shakespeare in a once. You're such a Thespian. All right,
let's go to Zach in Arizona. Hey, Zach, what's going on?

Speaker 15 (01:29:20):
Boys?

Speaker 3 (01:29:20):
How y'all doing we're good man with your thoughts.

Speaker 13 (01:29:23):
And I couldn't help but ask myself the question of
if is Cam Newton's assessment of Jayla Hurts being a
game manager right? Because after looking at the throwing chart
and where he was completing his passes, I can't help
but think he was a game manager. Not saying that's
a bad thing, but he may be the most ultimate
game manager we've ever seen based on his talvin and
skill set. But I don't think he's a dynamic down

(01:29:46):
the field thrower.

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
Quarter I mean agreed. He he got that first down
in the fourth quarter on that final drive win needed.
He scrambled, used his legs. Great, great line still but Danny,
you hit us up with the uh there were memes
going around last night. Yeah. His passing chart, Yeah, yeah,
we get this real people out there calling this man
a top five quarterback. Good night, and it's Hurts nineteen

(01:30:07):
for twenty three, one hundred and fifty two yards. He
did rush for two touddies.

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
But most of the passes were eight ten yards one
one down the field like an intermediate throw. But other
than that, but hey, he gets the job done and
he wins.

Speaker 3 (01:30:21):
Yeah, dude, I'm more about the first game of this.
I'm more about winning, man. I know that you know,
Mahomes is a great example of a guy whose numbers
are not even close to what they were. Oh yeah,
a couple of years back, five years ago, Mahomes has
put up circus numbers. Now what does Mahomes do? Now?
He just wins. You know, what do you rather do?
Did you rather have your quarterback throw for one point
eighty no turnovers and win? What do you want your

(01:30:43):
guy putting up four hundred yards but he's three touchdowns,
two interceptions. I just think winning takes precedence. Let's not
be wrapped up in fantasy numbers. Winning winning. He was
in the news today, by the way, whole other story dudes.
So trip, make a snappy trip in Vegas.

Speaker 4 (01:31:01):
Trip.

Speaker 11 (01:31:02):
Hey guys, real quick watching you. I was disappointed that
Rich is not wearing a mascot outfit today.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
I did this morning. I did this morning at my
kid's school. Let me tell you, I'm so good at it.
I oh, mascot, I thought you were wearing an ascot.

Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
My bad.

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
I want to go. I want to do this in
an NBA game and going to trampoline and slam dunk
I Rich if you know, if you missed it, Rich
was the mascot at his kids school today at my
kid's school assembly, and yeah, it was fun, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:31:29):
Those things are hot line of circus performance. Danny.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
It's one hundred degrees in LA. I'll be honest, someone
else may have passed out in that thing, because I
almost did. I'm like, so, yes, probably smells like Fredo's inside.
That sounds like ass. You know. I'll post a picture
at Covin on a rich ibout that trip.

Speaker 11 (01:31:44):
Hey, thank you. And then Carter can't do that. He's
a leader. He's not like Big Mike. If y'all lost him,
I don't know what he does are on that place.
And then the final thing was this, I wish you
guys were in the casino last night with me. Everybody
had the over forty one points at halftime and the
game went under. They were all screaming six oh.

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
Yeah, I bet yeah. That was That was even like
the Mitoorrico collins Worth assessment, like, yeah, this game was popping.
Then all of a sudden it was like this defense
three points in the second half total. It was just
the Eagles of one field goals twenty one twenty at
half time.

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
Wasn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
Correct, Amunda. So hey, we got the first game in
chiefs Chargers tonight and more feedback and phone calls. Next,
we got your solar power parlay, Rich cool and uh
you know what my mother interest tonight Go Blue Jays,
get at it. Wait in your Yanks our first solar
power parlay of the year. Oh, I'm ready, let's go.

Speaker 5 (01:32:40):
It's time to parlay into your weekend. Rich Davis loves parlay.
I never making money and he loves his new solar panels.
Solar boy, my solar power parlay. Ah, raight lose, you're
making money money.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
Hey, before we get into a rich, can you give
us an update on your solar panels. You know I
mentioned it like one time two years ago when I
got make freg about it all the time and talk
to everybody who was willing to listen.

Speaker 4 (01:33:07):
It wasn't one time, more like one hundred times.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
Yeah, maybe one time on the air, but we had
to hear about it every day. My electric fill went
way down, guys, did it really?

Speaker 7 (01:33:15):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
It's zero, but I had to pay for the solar panels.
Are you still paying with my winnings from all these
great parlays. So I got one parlay that I love.
I don't like it. Rich ESEs his solar panels just
to power up one little light.

Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
In his front lawn.

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
You know, I was My new thing is the solar
panel might be able to heat my pool? Oh really,
how about That's pretty sweet? Alright, so all right, let's
do this one. Really, I'm confident in this one now
that I know that my boy, Christian McCaffrey's he's ready
to play. He's a dad. Now he's got to be
like baby girl. Dad's got to make that bacon. Olivia
Culpo will be watching with the baby in arms, right,

(01:33:55):
watching McCaffrey run for what one oh eight? You go, McCaffrey.
I'll be watching Olivia Copple.

Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
Okay, good.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
Forty nine ers are at the Seahawks. Dan Byer will
not agree. He is a Seahawks guy. I don't expect
him to. It's a divisional battle. Both teams have weakass
schedules the NFC West, as they're all, they play a
lot of easy opponents this year. But this is a
game the Niners. If they win on the road to
start the season. It's a good omen. It's a good
sign the series. The first game, you really want to

(01:34:24):
push McCaffrey if he's if anyone thinks he's questionable, wouldn't
it be bestages Maybe rest the week you acquired a
pretty solid backup, which is a listen. If you start
McCaffrey and the Niners are up, I don't know, seventeen
to seven something where there's a little cushion, little breathing room.
I don't think it's crazy to limit McCaffrey, okay's fair,

(01:34:45):
but not sitting them up just feels like a week
ass start when you saw what it did to the
Niners last year right from row. Just because all right,
So Niners are one and a half point favorites on
the road, road dogs. I'm feeling it. I just think
see how is a very tough place to play. I
just think the forty nine Ers are a better team,
and I think you win this game on the road
to prove a point that your windows not closed. It's

(01:35:07):
not over. You still got Kittle, you still got Juan
Jennings and Rock Purdy, and you still got Fred Warner,
and you still got some young talent. Niners minus one
and a half and you're gonna I don't know if
you'll like this one because you might say, really, you're
gonna believe in this guy. I believe in Aaron Rodgers.
I believe in Aaron Rodgers, especially when he's playing the Jets.

(01:35:27):
Do you believe in the thing called love?

Speaker 2 (01:35:29):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
No, no, rhythm of hood? Do you believe in life
after love? I believe in all these things. Do you
believe in miracles? I believe since you came along, you
sexy thing. I believe that the Steelers will go to
MetLife and they'll win by two and a half. They're
two and a half point favorites over the Jets in Jersey. Listen.
I don't think the Jets are awful, but I just

(01:35:51):
think that this is the game Aaron Rodgers wins. They
he has weapons. I want to see my dude DK
Metcalf go off.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
I don't think it's much of a rivalry other than
Aaron Rodgers played there and like it probably wants to
whoop their ass, right, that's what makes it fun. Yeah,
And I don't know. I just think I thought the
point spread would be like three and a half, maybe
four or something. So the fact that it's two to
two and a half. I just like that. I think
that's very nice for the Steelers. So Steelers minus two
and a half forty nine Ers minus one and a

(01:36:20):
half locked that in that a is a parlay, my friends,
that you gotta jump on if you want to jump.
I'm not telling you what to bet, but that's what
I'm doing, and I'll give you one more straight bet
for now. I talked about this on our bonus podcast
over Promised. We're so used to Cincinnati really starting out week.
It's it's a trend, and I know it's almost like

(01:36:42):
laughable at this point that what has it been like
three years in a row now where Cincinnati takes a
second to get goings, Burrows, injuries, lack of preseason that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
And everyone in this studio, I believe except one of us,
may have picked the Cleveland Browns to be the worst
team in the NFL, correct by the Saints, damn bias
of the Saints, but I'm sure Cleveland will be in
far down on his list. The Browns are not good
and a lot of people, including myself, think Burrow could
be an MVP candidate this year. The game's in Cleveland
not the most crazy home field advantage. Cincinnati by five

(01:37:14):
and a half. I think Cincinnati wins by six or more.
I think Cincinnati wins by double digit. So I just
love that, straight up bet. I like Cincinnati given the points. Again,
when you look at what Vegas is doing week one,
if you told me that was seven and a half
or eight and a half, then I would have said
maybe a backdoor cover. But five and a half, I

(01:37:35):
think that's a no brainer. I love that pound Cincinnati,
hart That's what she said. So Cincinnati, straight bet, you're
parlay Niners, Steelers. Lock it in there, you go. I
want me to throw my wanting to give everyone since
it's week one, should I give everyone my my teaser
bet that I went over on over Promise as well. No,

(01:37:55):
let him watch over Promised. If you want to hear
the greatest teas of all time Over Promised episode one
oh seven, it's on our new YouTube page, Copino and
Rich FSR. That's like a tease tease. Yeah, man, I
thought it was the greatest or teas I had ever
heard ever of all time, The greatest teaz of all

(01:38:15):
that's on our show, Over promised. You guys could check
it out later. Don't miss out. Now you heard Rich's
Solar Power part line. By the way, great first so
the season. I feel good about him Pista for Solar
Power parre they of the season. I do want anyone
in the room to tell me if they feel like

(01:38:37):
part of that stinks?

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
Is there?

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
Is there a part of Is there part of that?
Sam Danny g that you're like, oh, I don't like that.
I know Dan Meyer's down played the storyline of of
Justin Fields and Aaron Rodgers a little bit. I like
that storyline. I think Andrews wants to come in there
and show him that he still got the juice.

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
I'm nervous for you and your forty nine ers.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
Rich, That's that's the most homer of my picks. I agree,
that's that's the one where you're like, well, in Seattle,
that's that's a tough game. I could see where you'd say, Rich,
you're being a little bit of a homer there.

Speaker 1 (01:39:05):
I think that we could pick apart anybody's picks.

Speaker 8 (01:39:08):
So in saying that, I do question Cincinnati's offensive line,
and I feel that the Browns defensive line is a
little better than with Miles Garrett obviously, you know I
drafted Mason Graham with a first round pick, but so
I think that that could be a spot as well.
Plus I do like Joe Flacco throwing the football, so
I think they'll be able to score some points better than.

Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
It's a high scoring affair that stays a little closer
than you might think.

Speaker 8 (01:39:28):
Well, we could do this with every single pick, Like
you could pick the Browns. We would have said Joe
Burrows got all these weapons. So so exactly, yes, ride
with them.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
I see.

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
I just like, is there any accountability if you're wrong
about it on Monday, because that's what we're talking about now. Yeah,
you know, but I'm wrong. I'm the first to admit
it because the reality and I keep you in the
nards live on the air for every time you're wrong.
That's good, that's good radio, right, Danny Jet those get
those YouTube numbers up.

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
The amount of kicks which would not be able to
have a third.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
Child, I'd be helping him out. I don't think you
could handled a third that's a way to get a vasectomy.
So the reason I say that is because we've seen
some weak ass takes from I don't know this, Ryan
Clark fella. And I say that because I never met
him and we worked at ESPN. Yeah, and I'm a fan.
I watch all the time. He seems really mad about something,

(01:40:20):
always mad. It's sports. It's fun. And I'm not talking
like Stephen A. Smith mad where you're just animated and
you know blasphemos like mad Dog Russo. Who it's yeah,
it's like it's almost stick. It's a little stick. And
I know it's passion. And I get all that. Ryan
Clark seems mad about stuff. It's football. I get the

(01:40:42):
feeling he doesn't like Justin Herbert based on some of
the things I heard to be to be honest, when
Steven A or Mad Dog Russo or Colin or some
of the some of the pros get mad or go off,
I feel like it's uh, they're they're passionate broadcasters. When
Ryan Clark is mad, I feel like, right before the
camera went on, someone's like, yo, later today, you've got

(01:41:03):
to go to the DMV and you got a flat
tire and you got that like like someone has dumped
bad news. I got sixteen thousand dollars in condition condition fees.
I ain't that mad, right, but maybe he knows things
from a personal level. Again, what do I know about
his true feelings? I don't know, so let's be fair

(01:41:23):
with that. However, he says some things. It's like, man, dude,
what was the latest that he said that that that
got this conversation and he said, who wasn't in a
generational quarterback? Oh? He says, And that's the story, like
that's calling for his head and people are saying, you know,
he needs to be fired. I'm not saying that at all.
I'm saying, well, there should be accountability, not just for him,

(01:41:44):
for guys like us, for everybody. But we don't say
things like that, right, We don't claim that Brady Breeze
and Manning aren't generational talents.

Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
And that was the he's tucking Peyton the way. Oh yeah, Peyton, Manny.

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
That was the statement today that got social media buzz
and like, yo, come on now, you can have your
opinions and feelings, but be real about it. But Manning
aren't generational talents? Are we falling into the hall like
he says it, knowing will react and we're the fools.
It's like our own It's like one of our best

(01:42:22):
budds here at Fox Sports Radio there are times Rob
Parker says something like you can't believe that?

Speaker 4 (01:42:27):
Is it just this scary part is Parker believes most
of the.

Speaker 3 (01:42:32):
Robill says something I'm like. Rob's also says it. He's
very passionate, but he also says it with in a
playful smile.

Speaker 4 (01:42:42):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
You know, Rob's a great journalist. Rob's background is he's
a great journalist. So part of me sometimes like, is
he doing that because he's a great journalist? And I
wonder is Ryan Clark meanness?

Speaker 8 (01:42:53):
I felt he was over compensating because people felt he
was being too hard on Arch. So let's bring in
the biggest names and say that they're also susceptible to
the same criticism. But guys, I don't remember a time
in the four years that Peyton Manning was at the Tennessee,
because I think that was another name that he mentioned
that we didn't think that he was a generational talent

(01:43:15):
and in fact would have been the first overall pick
the year prior, but he decided to stay in school,
so then he was the first overall pick the next year.
And I'll even say this because I said this on
Labor Day when we were in when Montcy and I
weren't for you guys, because there was this criticism. It
was after that game. Arch would have been the first
overall pick in last year's draft if he would have

(01:43:35):
been in the draft. So like, you can pick up
a part and do whatever, but the fact that teams
would want him or want that sort of player is
something that you cannot argue.

Speaker 3 (01:43:44):
Yeah, all right, it's time we do it. Every Friday.
Get into the weekend with some hobnobbin for the weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:43:52):
You're winning bets for talking points. If you get stuck socializing,
you ever done anything dangerous?

Speaker 1 (01:43:57):
You ever dance with the devil in the pale line?

Speaker 5 (01:44:00):
Friday brings us weekend hob No.

Speaker 3 (01:44:05):
All right, so you got a UFC fight night Maniana,
Emma Bob versus Burrallo? Is that hey say his name?
Probably not, but forgive me there? And St. Dennis versus Roofie.
So you got some good UFC Manyana, if you want
to check that out. In the world of documentaries or

(01:44:26):
as I like to call it, documentaries, no, it's all
the buzz this week. You heard us talking about it.
If you haven't made time, you have to watch Unknown Number.
If anything, it'll make you feel like the greatest parent
of all time. Unknown Number, the high School Catfish story
about the worst mom that ever was. Put it that way. Yeah,

(01:44:47):
no debating that. No, that's on Netflix. So definitely check
it out and report back to us. It's going to
make you want to vomit. Unknown Number on Netflix. Now.
It's also a big weekend of baseball. Of course we
talked about Trent Grisham. I'll be watching Yankees Blue Jays
today and throughout the weekend. It's a big series. Remember
the next few series for the Yankees are key not

(01:45:09):
only to their season, but to our bet. Rich and
I have a thousand dollars bet that would be the
Yankees and the Mets mess. Nimo just had a home
run rob but it was It was a sac fly two.
Nothing hurts, but old man, what a play. Now we
got some great football this weekend, and man, I'm trying
to pick one game that is a must watch. I
don't want to take anyone else's answer, but it's got

(01:45:30):
to be Ravens Bills, right. Ravens at Bill's is the game,
So tune into that. And of course, our bonus pod
over promised episode one oh seven. It now streams on
our new YouTube page, which is Covino and Rich FSR.
On YouTube Covino and ch FSR, we talk about players, teams, shows, styles,

(01:45:52):
anything that might be ass a new segment called they
Might Be Based, which is Arch Manning and Bill Belichick.
This past week, we also talk about Red Zone, which
I'll be watching this weekend, but it might be asked
because that's commercials now. So we talk about red Zone.
Your thoughts on that? Are we over hyping the impact

(01:46:12):
commercials will have? And we talk Rich's picks his teaser
pick on over promised episode one oh seven. Check it
out right here on our YouTube page. So NFL, you
mentioned Ravens Bills. Two other games that I think are
going to get a lot of a lot of love.
It'll be your primetime late game Lions at Packers. That's
that to me is a telling game. Will it be close,
Sammy sweetheart, big Apple Sam? Maybe your Packers deliver lionsta

(01:46:39):
lines looking to dominate that division. And I think the
early game that I'm interested in just because I think
it's it's fun. Steelers Jets, Like you said Aaron Rodgers
on his third team now Fields and justin Fields is
is he a guy with talent that we overlooked in
the Chicago Stinks, right, we don't go in against their
former teams. I mean, it's a fun storyline. So I'm
sort of down with Steelers Jets in that early game.

(01:47:02):
And you're right, a lot of great documentaries. I'm still
wrapping up that Jerry Jones Cowboys one, and I think
it's a great little taste as you get into the
football season. And there's another there's another show. It's called
Love con Revenge. Have you seen this one? Romantic scams
and people try to recover their lives after the tender Swindler,

(01:47:24):
So it's like a dating documentary. So I don't know,
I may watch something stupid like that. What do you got, Danny?

Speaker 4 (01:47:31):
If you're a parent?

Speaker 1 (01:47:32):
The live action version of Leelo and Stitch is now
available on Disney Plus and College Football Week two must
watch games number eleven Illinois at Duke Iowa at number
sixteen Iowa State.

Speaker 4 (01:47:44):
Someone in here is excited about.

Speaker 1 (01:47:45):
That, Syhawking Oklahoma State at number six Oregon, Kansas at Missouri,
and number fifteen Michigan at number eighteen Oklahoma, And then
of course for me Sunday at early game Raiders at
Patriots excited to see what Gino Smith and Afrigan, chen
Ze Thornton and that offense can do. And then hopefully
there's not too many holes on that Raiders defense is

(01:48:06):
the rate is.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
Also, if you want to go to the movie theater
is Jaws film theaters. Hamilton is in theaters. Oh that right,
if you're a theater guy or Gal Hamilton, you get
to see that on the big screen. But sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:48:21):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
I was gonna say, if you like horror movies, I
like dumb horror movies. You know what's on HBO Max
right now. The latest Final Destination that was just in theaters.
It's on HBO Max already. So I caught myself watch
all those stupid Final Destination, Final Destination, blood Line.

Speaker 4 (01:48:35):
Blood Lines.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
Yeah, that's that's fall on HBO Max now. Also, I
was gonna say, if you're going to the theaters and
you do like spooky movies, which is I thought this
was where you were going Conjuring the Conjuring Last Rites.
I believe it's the last one in the series. Is
that too creepy for you? Those It's they're a bit
much like I like horror movies. But the ones where
it's like especially during like it's you know, it's all
based off Annabelle and and there wasn't there a racing

(01:48:58):
story about that in real life? For the doll kill someone,
I don't want it. I tell you how they thought that. Yeah,
they thought that was So that's a little weekend hob nobbin.
What to get into this weekend? I was, Sam, what
do you doing this weekend? I'll have to know.

Speaker 9 (01:49:11):
I know, I'll have to be up early tomorrow for
that Sihawk game Iowa traveling to Iowa State. I'll be
watching a lot of college football in NFL. Iowa Iowa State,
rivalry in your hometown or who you're rooting for. You
you're in Iowa, guy all the way I would. Yeah,
I'm from Iowa City, that's black and gold. I'm from
I went to Iowa so yeah, heck yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
Well look it's a weekend that's gonna be all about
football for the most part. So enjoy your NFL and
then come Monday, we get right back into our old
routine week one of things that made you go hmm,
So make some observations and get involved with us on
Monday as we break down everything we observed from football
and life. Do that on Monday, and the Mets last

(01:49:51):
one standard, and the Mets can put the Reds out
of their misery this weekend. They're one of the closest
teams for that third wild card. So put them away,
get them, get them out of the rearview. We'll see
you there, you baby, see you in the promised Land,
right adrear football, My god, h